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^ The Omaha Morning Bee iii ______ Night; - — .- - - ■ —— -— — Mor, witi,()l|t dying, l.ifr. CITY EDITION VOL. 53—NO. 190. OMAHA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 24. 1924. * TWO CENTS '• TO b Cent* Llaawhara. —S*r Morria. Ry Mail (1 Tear): Daily and Sunday. »6: Sunday. $2.M\ within tha Ith tone. Out aida thn 4th Zona (1 Year); Dally and Sunday >12; Sunday only <5 ---- ---—« Bok Takes Zest Out of Peace Probe Flal Statement That His Own Money Is Belli ml Move Causes Dielianls to Lose Heart. Gaze to Teapot Dome By MARK SI I.I.1VAN. ashington, .Inn. 23.—Senator anises’ soled committee examined Miss Esther I.ape today In its effort to find out how much Mr. Bok Is spending on liis peace award. Miss I.ape Is a fine young woman of the best. American type, who lies charge of the details of Mr. Bok's enterprise. Either from her, or from the treas urer, or from l he Girard Trust com pany of Philadelphia, which pays oin Mr. Bok’s tnon*-y, the committee will prbbnbly discover that the enterprise has already coat Mr. Bok something like 1200,000 in addition to ? 100,000 for the prize. It Will probably cost a good deal more before the referendum is con cluded, because referendums on tlie* immense scale on which this one Is being conducted are inevitably ex pensive. The general Judgment of Washing ton is that Hie public will decline to be shocked at whatever amount Mr. Bok chooses to spend on what the public generally regards as a legit! bate effort to get his ideas before the country, especially as the * re turns seem to indicate that upward of four-fifths of the public believe in the plan with some enthusiasm. Bok's Money Behind Plan. The only possible chance me in o oncilable senators -had to make sny headway against Bok blew np when Bok said: "I defrayed every cent of the expense myself.” That envied all the Insinuations which some of the irreconcilable sources have been put ting out to the effect that some or all of the money was being provided by international bankers or by oth er, having an interest in the league lor nations. It was a most foolish innuendo. Kvery well-informed person knows 1 hat Bok has a very considerable for tune derived from his identity with ttie Curtis Publishing company since its beginning, and is as well able, to finance the dissemination of ideas that appeal to him as most Interna tional hankers would be. The mo ment Bok said he was receiving no financial assistance from anywhere, ail the apirit went out of the inves tigation. 1'p to that moment Senator .lint Tteed of Miasouri had been watching Bok with the attitude of a prose cuting attorney getting ready to pounce on some peculiarly odious criminal. The attitude of prosecut ing attorney is one that Tteed fre quently has toward his political op ponent!?. Senator Keed Tamed. At the beginning of the Bok hear ing, Heed glowered at Bok with an air of trying to make up ills mind whether he should merely bile his initials in Bok's neck or chew him up entirely. After Bok said the money was all his, Reed had the air of hav ing decided there was not enough In the Bok case to provide very sub stantial chewing. The audience was on Bok’s side to a degree that was a little disturbing, even though one's own sympathy might he with Bok. It gives one a little concern to see two or throe hundred obviously high minded and h- uUvated people have toward the 'um.nlttee of the Cnlted Rates sen ate a mental attitude which expressed itself in applause when Bok, In one of his answers, spoke of representing "the intelligent American public" ami then expressed itself in the beginning of hisses on the part of some when Chairman Moses sternly rapped for order. As a matter of fact, while Senator need in the beginning had ids not in frequent manner of glowering belHger nicy later on the actual questions lie asked Bok were sufficiently courteous lioth In substance and in wording. Neither could it he said that the other irreconcilable, Senator Moses, of New Hampshire, was unreasonably belli eose toward Bok when the latter said • decline to answer absolutely.” the question about how much he was spending. The real reason for the way the nudience expressed themselves Is a feeling on the part of some of the public that the senate Is standing stubbornly against those who would like to bring universal peace to the world. Woman Driver Breaks W ri't. Mrs Paul Davis, K40 South Twen ty* fourth street, suffered a broken wrist while cranking ii»r car Tues day. The Weather y,,r 74 hours »ndln» 7 o m, January ** *1 • YrmiirrH ill r*. II lKi,r-t. 26: iow«nt, 2 ni' H'i. 30; nor m»l. Total d^flul' ii. y aim «• l <nu * |V#rinUation. InrliM Mini lluiulmlllin. t»l. .0, lota! •In,‘® JmiUMi y I 0 HI 0 J 2 Ifoorlr T#*mtMTiiliir**». It *. rn .2« 1 f ' h a. in.24 2 I*, in. 7 n . ni.2'I 3 |». in. ...... 3' » • a in. .2 1 4 i- m .3i « h in.2.i * in H. ]d g to.2 6 H p in. ... 3 ij a . 27 7 p. mi.3‘ j 11 oooo .3i t p. m. MMtfii Attempt Made to Bum West Point Building ■\Vrst Point, Neb.. Jan. 23.—A prob able attempt at arson was discovered here by City Park Commissioners F. L. Royer and W. T. 8. Nellgh while they were on a tour of inspection of the properties and buildings of the park. Upon entering the structure known ns the Community building, formerly the I. C). O. F. bulfding. used by the state encampment, they found a quan tity of hay, kerosene and rags on the second floor, which is used as a hall. A hole about five feet In diameter was burned through the floor and double doors leading into the hall and adja cent to the hole in the floor, were found to be burned beyond repair. Tile fire bug. after igniting the ma terial, must have made his exit with out opening any of the windows. Tills prevented the spread of tile fire until the hole was burned through the floor, when the downward draft of air ex tinguished the flames. The building is just two years old and cost About $10,000. _ Cohagen Cave Own Cheeks as Claim on Countv So Testifies Witness in Trial of Lincoln (lonnty Commis sioner Accused of Km bezzlement. By ’••or* lilted Free*. North Platte. Neb., Jan. 23.—Trial of 'I'. M. Cohagen, Lincoln .county commissioner, on a charge of em bezzling $000, began in district court here today. A. S. Allen, first witness for the stale, told of Cohagen pre senting a batch of his personal can celed checks as claims against the county for work done upon the south river bridge at the time of the high water in June, 1921. Allen declared upon the stand that Cohagen handed him the checks, claiming to have paid for labor upon the bridge out of his account, and asked that a clal robe made against the county for $900. According to Allen, the checks were added upon a machine, ginned together anil filed as a claim, for which Cohagen after wards collected. search for the checks has failed to disclose hut one. Alien, cross-examined, declared he knew of nothing wrong in the trans action. A claim file containing the $900 item was introduced into evidence and upon it was marked "copy,” which Clerk Lowe testified he marked when Collagen declared that it did not s»em to he an exact duplicate. A number of witnesses were called by the state, whose names appeared upon the claim as having worked upon the bridge and a number of these testified that he had worked but a short time and they did not receive the amounts marked agains' them in tiie claim presented by Co hagen. Several others declared they did not work upon th bridge at any time. The state expects to rest its case Thursday noon as only minor wit nesses remain to he called. Omaha Marriage Licenses. Robert Falrrnan Clark. Omaha ....27 Margaret Plerron. Omaha .24 Revoke Oil Bill to Be Uiv»i Tailing for Action by Coolidge on Teapot Dome Deal. Z By rnlteresl Service Washington, Jan. 23,—Tin? Teapot Dome scandal will be placed square ly before President Coolidge by the senate tomorrow with a demand for aqtion. The plan evolved tonight calls for a resolution that will authorize and direct the president to at' once in stitute prosecution entirely Independ *nt of the Department of Justice for the recovery of the vast oil deposits. These, it is charged, were given away to the Sinclair and other Interests by former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. The president will also be author ized and directed to employ special counsel Independent of the Depart ment of Justice to prosecute the gov ernment suits arid bring to justice all persons found to be guilty of parti cipating in the conspiracy. Today's sensation was produced by Senator Walsh of Montana, on the floor of the senate, when he said: Independent Action I rged. “Special counsel should be em ployed and proceedings to recover the government s oil rights should be con ducted entirely independent of the Department of Justice, as the at torney general himself Is under sus picion as being Involved.’’ • This statement was made while Senator Walsh was forecasting the future plans of those who have been conducting the investigation. It came about when a demand was made by Caraway that the public lands committee b« discharged from further consideration of his resolu tion. The action proposed would direct the present executive to prosecute all who may have conspired to de fraud the governrneni Moves for Senate Action. The Teapot Dome scandal broke on the senate with all lis fury today when Senator Caraway moved to dis charge the public lands committee from further consideration of his cancellation resolution and bring It before the senate for action. Caraway spoke for more than an hour In support of his motion, his speech being a vehement attack on Fall and those Involved with him in the naval reserve leases. He was followed oy Senators I.enroot, Heflin, McKellar and Walsh, Montana. I.enroot defended the public lands committee, declaring that nearly all of the circumstances recited by Cara way had been brought to .light by tha committee. He derlmed that the com mittee was endeavoring to get all the farts and that Fall had Iveen subpoenaed before the committee. Omaha Divorce Petition*. Ethel Carton Hgainat Chari#* J. c*r «nn, rruflty charged TeUHlIt* Chard again** Cody Chard, cruelty and nonaupport charged. Vlnl*»t Evan* agalnat Robert Evans, cruelty charged. SUNNY SIDE UP Some of the sunniest things in life, especially In the lives of those of us who have crossed the half-century mark, are the recollections of youth ful days. Of course this does not apply to the boys and girls of today, for all days to them are sunny. Any one who can part the veil and show us the sunkissed paths of long dead days is a benefactor and friend. The foregoing merely as an ex ruse for indulging in some recollec tions that were called up by a recent performance. It must have appealed to many as it appealed to me -be cause it brought hack the old and familiar scenes; because It visualized them, gave us an echo of voices long stilled. How many of us oldsters saw against the battered old school desks whereon had been carved many' an initial? And how many of us caught ourselves thumbing the old Web ster’s Elementary Spelling Book, or found ourselves humped over a Kay's Third Part of Arithmetic, trying to solve the lntracnctes of fractions or interest or partial payments? We didn't laugh at < hick Sale we laughed at ourselves, and at the boys and girls we went to school with years and years ago. We laughed at the old bandman, not be cause lie was so funny, but we laughed because we knew somebody Just like him, so we laughed at. the other fellow. Recitation day! How many of you remember the Friday afternoon when ihe girls donned their best bib and linker, and the boys washed a. little bit further up on their wrists, all ready to parade their elocutionary ability before fond parents, and per haps before two or three members of ihe school hoard. Our laughs were all for the memories that Chick • Sale recalled. And that Is where h« showed his mastery of his art. If Is easy to Imagine that Mi i Sab ’s act would he a complete "flop* jbcfni. an audience made up of peoplt j w huso memories would not tnabU them tp visualize the old school house, or the familiar characters therein, or who had never enjoyed the exquisite torture of listening to the music of the old time village l»and. Mr. Sale just brings all those things back to mind, and instead of laughing at him, we laugh with him and at the recollec tions called tip. it is not a good thing for those ap proaching the eventide of life to live too much In the past, but many a gray day is made bright by a short mem or.v excursion hack to the days of childhood. An hour or two spcnl now and then In the old village school house, or around the stove In the old village grocery, or tooting tlie um pah horn In I he v Hinge hand, or listening to the menial gyrations of the village wiseacre as he translates those mental gyrations Into the spoken word—an hour or two now and then so spent will make life really worth while. Reinember the two hearts pierced by an arrow that you carved In the hark of the old tree that stood In the pasture lot find overhung the creek. The tree that had the wild grapevines running all over It and affording a pretty nifty little tilt of seclusion? And your Initials on one side, and her Initials on the other? And the stone bruised heel? And the cracked big toe, with the yarn string tied around it lo keep the dirt out of the crack? And the old hills over w hich yon trudged knee deep In snow lo the bat tered old school house? And the sup ple and seemingly unbreakable hick ory switch that adorned the black board just back of the teacher's desk? dual such a teacher, to, as Mr Hale visualizes for us! This little memory excursion has made at least one middle agile and lather portly man feel years votinge' anti far more Inclined to the dallv task. It's a good thing for any one of us to he shaken out of our coin pis cent mood now and then! to sweep a few cobwebs from the brain, and to let the sunshine of the old day In again W. M. M. / Fancy Prices Paid > at Holstein Sale ■4^ ‘rice. Neb., Jan. 23.—At the C Holstein sale here today. f>5 milk cows and a, few calves ut. fancy prices, stockmen from , arious points in Nebraska and northern Kansas being on attendance. The top was paid toy Henry l*ang of this city when lie gave $300 for a cow belonging to Kilpatrick Bros, of Beatrice. Wollert Youth Accused bv Girl Is Found Guilty Bov Maintains “Poker Face ’ When Verdict Is Given— Sentence Later—Jury Out 2 1-2 Hours. Jury lu the case of Hubert Wollert, 20, son of Mrs. Adah H. Wollert, 1118 Fifth avenue, charged by Miss Vir ginia Neligh, 12, of Grand Island, Neb., with a statutory offense, In district court' at Council Bluffs re turned a verdict of guilty at 8 last night afier two and a half hours ilc liberation. Six ballots were taken. Thera was no display of emotion when tlie verdict was given. The jury waited 20 ndnutrs for the arrival of the defendant and his mother. Miss Neligh was not in the courtroom relatltes saying that she was in a highly nervous state from testifying at the trial. She stayed at the home of her sisler. Wollert Is I aim. Robert Wollert maintained a "pok er face." aa the verdict was read. His mother stated that she was "satis fied" after the jury's report. Tli Wolierta and their attorney refused to state whether the decision would be appealed. The maximum sentence for the of fense is five years in prison. lciie for imposing sentence wa* set for January 80. Marriage of the couple or granting of a new trial would halt sentencing. Asked as to the possibilities of a marriage, relatives of the girl stated that it was too late and that they were unanimous In opposition to such a ceremony now. They Inti mated. however, that Miss Neligh still holds a sentiment for Wollert, whom they characterized as her first sweetheart. Trial in the case was begun Mon day morning before Judge Earl Peters. Four witnesses were intro duced by the state and nearly a dozen by the defense, which was conducted by W. E. Mitchell. Closing arguments were made yesterday afternoon and the case waa given to the Jury at R •‘Insinuations against the character of .Miss Nellgh have crept into this case.'' said Frank K. Northrop, coun ty attorney. In hia closing argument. "Under the law she is assumed to be of previous chaste character and the burden of proof against this Is upon the defense. They were hard pressed for evidence to stoop to sinls ter insinuations of this sort. Praise Boy's Charscter. "The letters written by both young people after Miss Nellgh returned to her home III Grand Island show plain ly that there was an understanding between them. I believe there was a mutual, sincere Reeling of love be tween Robert and Virginia until the time these charges were filed. "The whole foundation of the de fense argument is the number* of character witnesses Introduced for young Wollert. I grant you that his reputation was high and that 1 would have failed to find witnesses to tes tify to the contrary. Rut that testi mony Is as much In favor of Miss Nellgh as of Robert Wollert. "It shows I hat she wasn't as*™ I nting with a bunch of roughnecks or young men of Ill-repute. She was selecting her company carefully. And I submit that when a girl of such discrimination falls In love with a young man of Robert Wollert a chai acter. lie is the, only kind of a man who roul'l have relations with that kind of a girl.' "You juror* heard the cross-ex ainlnation of Mias Nellgh by Mr. Mitchell for the defense, and you knqw that he loft nothing to the im agination In Ills questioning. Yet, *he did not attempt to evade a single question. The 1# year old girl doesn't live, who cun sit on the witness stand for a full day under Ed Mitchell's cross examination and lie without get ting caught! *1 ntII October 28, nreordlnR to fit*' testimony, Robert Wolh«rt bail de elded to play the man and to marry this git!. Then some Minister Infill one* changed Ids mind! I don’t know what that Influence was but T do know that on that Sunday night, when he was discussing the problem with Mir* Neligh at the Swanson home, hi* sister and Janie* Malone came there and took him away!" Nearly all of the mnndng session i yesterday was devoted to the test! mony of Robert W oiler I In Ids own behalf His story of his association with Miss Neligh during J92U tallied | almost exactly with that told by th«i | girl on the witness stand, except that he denied emphatically any relations with her and also denied that he evet had admitted responsibility for het condition. Mr. M. * Titdev mil M» Mollic pick It'll g* «. n high school teacher were Introduced by the defence nr « li.'i r c ter w It nes» cm for W nil* i t y»-s irrdoy and Ham**. I M h.toe tcMfled details of mn \erftitfInn between Mci« NJehgh and tlie youth on Nnv.-mhci ... el n conf* renci arranged by Idm to 1 * I temnt •« (i I tneiu uf tie uiiitiuv*rp [ out oX cuurU If Democracy Is a Failure Whose Fault Is It ? ^■MULTIPLY BY THE .NUMBER. OP voters (M your Districty 'ATE.LU Bern WHO KAD NME BETTERj LsH ELECT .NEXT FAUI-? | ) I ‘ TegO* "I HESE'J AUST OF J«LtC.ATES,LOBKi A.U. RifrHT TO M.E -\*HAT »0 YOU SAY'j flSKONO I ! IF THtK «’ NO C8j£CTiONt ( ;me Monew I ' the chai* will proceed to > --r' NAME T>4 DElfWTEJANE> >; 1 OUUINC TwfiRIWW^^JV V>(4)4/‘1 Quick Help to Be Given Farm Banks War Finance Corporation to Set I p Branch Agency at Sioux Falls to Handle Loans'. Coolidge Calls for Aid Sioux Fall*, S. D.. Jan. :3 — After a conference with banker* hete today, KiiBcne Mejer. jr., managing director of the War Finance corporation, an nounced tonight that the corporation w ould e*tabli*h .Immediately a branch agency In >»inux Falls in order to bring Its resources and atv-istance in closer contact with the South I>akota hank situation which hHS become critical due lo numerous failure* Mr. Meyer left tonight for Min neapolis. lie said he had up in tention to visit Omaha or Grand Island in the ne»r future In connec tion with hi* Wink relief program. My \M»rlalp<| l*rr«». Washington, Jan. 23.—Flva Https for the relief r*f Hit agricultural nit nation In the nortInvent, name to 1* inken by congress, non.« by the ex ecutlve branch of the government (Turn to fair Taa, I nlumn Two.) Corey Advises Sheep Men on Financing Salt 1 «itke City, Jan. i!3.— F inancing and bunking methods »f Interest to sheep raisers were discussed itcfoie Hie annual convention of the Nations! (! row era* association he.*? today. M. I,, t’oicy, Omaha, member of the fed rial farm loan hoard at Washington, mid M. II. Howie*. Salt I*nka i'lty banker, wen* l he ptlnciiml ■ pen ken "Telling the Public A! out Meat" was the subject of It. (’. Pollock, manager of the National Livwtock and Meat board, Fhlcago, 111 President Frank J. Hagenbarth of the association admonished the wool growers to fight n gains* propaganda which he said was l^eing circulated flint meat Is not a wholesome food lb* said he referred especially to posters pm out by health food innnu* farturer* In tills eonncctlon. I Posbililv Snow I uiIhv I* W rallior Bureau Forrra*! Mosllv cloudy, possibly snow# and not mn- h change In temperalure vv.is ■ i h» offi« i;il weather f"reca«|t f• m to* day. [ ’/cro tempei ntUl es tllloiiahotlt I he Oinadlnn territory were commonl> r« poi 1« d V< -tei da v . It was announced that the coM wave predicted Tuesday for Nehnia* |ui, had twcivt^l ami pasted aatiwaid _•_ The Day in Washington — The new rum treaty with (.real Britain was signed at the State de partment. The Navy department announced tiiat four lives were lost in the wreck of the Cruiser Tacoma at j Vera Crut. A Porto Khan delegation asked President < oolirigc and congress to modify the island's organic law to permit more self-government. A bid for Muscle Shoals was made by the I nion Carbide company of New York, it including a pro|mxal to manufacture fertiliier. President Coolidge in a message | to congress outlined steps for the j relief of agriculture in the north- j west. Kepublican members of the house j ways and means committee offered i the democrats a compromise on the Mellon tax plan. The senate ratified the claims eon veutions with Mexico. The State department (oiffluded presenting evidence before the sen ate foreign relations subcommittee which is considering Kusslan recog nition. Miy bather lapr, member in charge of the poliry committee of tlie Itob peace award, testified he fore the senate committee Investi gating propaganda. Senator Caraway, democrat, Ar kansas, again attacked former Sec retary Kail and urged action on liis j resolution t<> cancel the Teapot j Dome oil lease. Senator Walsh, democrat. Mon | tana, announced lie would press for J annulment |»ris ceding* in the lease of the Wyoming naval oil reserve to the Siuelair interests and that he would ask for special couhsel to prosecute the ease, independent of the Department of Justice. Sale to the Mexican government by .American cltUcns of vessels in tended to he used for fighting pur poses, it vi as learned, would be held by the Washington government to tie contrary to flie spirit, if not the letl»r. of the naval limitation treaty. ('hi' of Ooallnla Kahl>it> \rc Di'lriliulctl in Omaha r.ii Im.iiI of rabbit*, billet) rerantly In » rabbit drive .it 1‘snlUbt. »h.t ar j rived in onmhii >e*tsrdny for dis < tnbution to cl^arltabla institutions. The recipients will Include the Old1 People’s hon^v the House of Hope Km her Kilt!1;7k mi's Bovs’ lioiiif M i «onir Home for Boys. St. Vitu*ent de Paul home eminty farm. Nebraska^ I’hlldren’s home Child Ssvlnjfs insti I lute, t *lt \ Mls^on. Solvation Arm} iml the \ «*hmtiMMv ,,f \merica Murrictl in (oiincil Muffs. Th* foMawin* ppiuonji ..hln tt.,1 mtvrrlmi ll(d>n.>oii m (‘tiumll Bluff*. viMumtay .1 .1 HuHiv vn t'.mmlj Bluff* I’htUiii I'offiustt Mmtlliin Nph. , Irr*nk Novak Omaha ....... . 21' Bata'p Ti bfk Mm* ha IA Klntrt A ' -won Wat print* \. • 111 * *1V ft 1 m|rt*tt *, Me* rliv K Nt»li 1 » |i.rct*t I- • I i ••»*, N»nla la i Lauta shun Ntola. 1* -1! s Hu Auto Theft Ring Disclosed Investigation Being Made of Organized Stealing in Bovd County. Along Dakota l ine. Eight Autos Recovered Sprvial Di.|tu|rh to 1 bo Omaha Hr*. IJnccln. Jan. 2".—Sensational ali* I'loatlrea of one ».f the largest auto theft rings In the history of Ne braska are expected to follow an investigation now being made by stale officers along the Ikikota line In Boyd county, according to an an nouncement made here today. Might cars have twen recovered to date on which motor number* have been changed and a number of ar rests have been made, although state authorities decline to state whether nr not these arrests include mem bers of the suspected ring Working with the state officers Is a special investigator, who has been sent here from Washington. Parniele Guilty of Embezzlement Former Cag> Cmiulv Bunker Must Stand Trial tm Two More Charges. II v 4*•<*<• Ir«l rrrw* PlattenioUth, Neb. Jan. C3.—O. Parttiele on trial her* charged with embezzling fl.&fto from 1* 1. Wilez, wan found guilty as charged h> a Jury In district court her* tot* to day. The jury took the case about - amt returned it* verdict at T 40. Pannele must stand trial on tw» more charges One of them to forget > ajrntnat the name of George ^ Sn>der. Sentence on lol.'tv s verdict will not W i*iw»ed until the coin pie tlon of all the cases, it to predicted Gar I G. Kricke. former secretary of the defunct l.ivlngston I .on n a Pudding company of Platt smooth, probably will go on t *1 tomorrow on a charge of emlH'Kztoiuent. FYtcke now liven at NVtoon. Ni ’ who ho to In the coal hunlness Ouako in Nevada. Ur no. New ,1.o Two dtotim! nhock* of earthquake* shook biuil nervill* and the t'arson \alle> to Douglas oiimtv. Nevada at ? this movninj? The directum w **. notch and south % • 1 thev " * f " ^> nn«h .*t|Mtt So far vs lenorted no damage o.i* dun*. Shots Lodge in Temple and Heart Jaek Eit.'b, Grain Firm Em ploye, Killed by l nidenli* tied Man Seen Follow ing \ ictim . Boys Find Body on Track Jack Eich. 62, o(*2» South Twenty fifth street, employed .it the Nebras ka-fowa Grain exchange at Gilcon, a as shot dead early last night by an unidentified oesassln who fled south on the Burlington railroad t t acks toward Gibson. The shooting occurred on the lall* i t ad tract;." at Second ami Pin* 3»rret". Kite shots 'vei. flre-*J. one ieking effect in the temple and an • flier in the heart. The other three went wild. No Eyo-\t itnessev So far as known, tlierc were no eye witnesses to the actual shooting. Sammy Bennies, 16. 306 Hickory Greet, carrier for The Omaha Bee, with Jimmie Collins, 312 Pine street, saw Eich near the Willow Springs brewery shortly before the -hots wore fired. According to the boys, Eich started to walk north or the tracks. A second man was seer walking north on th" iraeks a short distance behind, with lilt hands ix his pockets. lie quickened his pace. Then five shots rang out in rapid succession. The boys, peering around the corner of the brewery, saw the second n an running south on th< tracks toward Gibson. Revolver Drawn. They found Kb li lying on the eas. side of the tracks Kichs revolver was near his hand, as if he had drawn it in an attempt to protect him self. The boys ran to Sammies hon< where they told his mother, and po lice were eummoned. Elcb had been employed by the grain exchange intermittently for 1? or 17 years, according to W. 8. Poo1 of the exchange. H# served a tr-m in the penitentiary on a charge of ilfling the mails 25 years ago. Mr. Pool said. A daughter is said to live in Gretna. Omaha Woman Again Head ol Fraternal Body Eighty Representative* of 1 Societir* at Stato C.ongre** — Expansion Planned Next ^ ear. Mr*. Katherine Remington of tha Woodmen Circle was re-elected presi dent of the Nebraska Fraternal Con gress whir h closed it.* first antutnl one-day convention with a banquet and program at Hofei Rom* last n.ght. Mrs. Remington tins virtually the foutider of the congress ns well as its president, when t{ was formed one year ago. Secretary •reasurer Is Delia Hall of the I-tilies Macabre*. J. 4. Cassidy of Lincoln was ele ted find vi.« president. Mrs. Anna Cassidy, second vice president: Florence Owens, third vice president, and Ralph Johnson of Lincoln. Fourth 'ice president. Executive committee is Sadie Thut'bcr of Lincoln. Hessie Gall of Havelock, Dr. C. N. Rath burn of Lincoln. A. R. Sink of Omaha and Ames Henley 0 f Omaha. Richly lie leg.sics \tteml Eighty fraternities, representing socictles were host to relathes ac,l fc-’.rnds at the banquet, which clos- 1 the 1SJ4 meet last night. "All for fun—fun for all" was adopted as the slogan. Community singing was led by Mrs. A. Grace Hamer. M:*« Edna K i' » entertained with a reading. Specialty numbvrs wfte furnished by Mi-a Katherine Hamer. Song and da new numbers were given by Kloiae ac.l Elinor Seg:. S anil 4. daughters of Mr and Mi* Finest Seg:. L-\ N a Twenty fourth street. At fite morning session, invocation was given by Rev. Frank G. Struti . Iiastor of the First Central Congre gational church. Mayor James C. Dalrlman delivered an address of wel come. Florence D. Owen, grand chief Degree of Honor, responded. >t»eakers on Program, "Finding Fault With Trots Occupa tion of Fools" was the subject of an address Ivy Dr. George \\ lloglan. secretary of the American Insurance union W A. Fraser, . nr reign cout n ..nder of the Woodmen of t: » World, spoke on ‘ Legislation as Ap plied to Fraternal Sc* is ties' "Fra ternal Ethics'" weiw discussed by John C. Snyder, eupremt chief of the Tribe of Ren Hur. Mrs. Mary* A 1-a Rivca. sttpretve guardian i>f the Woodmen Circle, spoke on "A W orthy Task ' Field Problems Instruction to Deputies w.is the subject ,*f t>wen vt Wes: general field manager of the Kraterr.,1 \il Union. "Suspensions' w,:r MM I by J V iV'y -e of the hoard • ■f 111. • . w of t t . * l ' association Vn aiklre--* on Hoo- i tL Iki k 1 rid Tinm Fi atci nalism was given ' ! Ralph Johnson, supreme organic - |fi. ilic Mou ,u w , ooiven of AaMrks, %