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Senate Reaches No Decision on f H _ Sterling Only One to Argue Against Exoneration of Montana Man in Oil Lease. Case. Washington, May 22.—For three hours more today the senate debated, hut failed to reach a vote upon the UKrtion to adopt the majority report 02 its investigating committee, exoner ating Senator Wheeler, democrat, Montana, of the charge of accepting a tee after his election to the senate to prosecute oil land matters before the Interior department. With only one or two more ad dresses In procpect, Chairman Borah expects to obtain senate action before adjournment tomorrow. Thus far in the dlscu'sior., only Senator Sterling, republican, South Dakota, has argued against senate action in advance of Senator Wheeler’s trial in Montana and the signers of the majority re port predict its adoption by an over whelming majority. During most ot the debate today Senator Sterling's minority report, Holding the grand jury was justified ip returning an indictment on the face of evidence placed before it, came under sharp fire from the democratic side. The South Dakota senator, in another address, reiterated his decla ration, but conceded in response to an inquiry from Senator Underwood, democrat, Alabama, that he did not think the evidence before the senate committee showed that Senator Wheeler was guilty. Assailing the minority report, Sen ator Caraway, democrat, Arkansas, a member of the investigation commit tee, declared It was an effective meth od of supporting Insinuations against Senator Wheeler. Both he and Sena tor Walsh, democrat, Montana, Insist ed that the senate owed It to itself to say whether Senator Wheeler was guilty, and that if It held he was not guilty it owed It to the senator to declare that fact. -- BOY IS SLAIN BY KIDNAPERS {Continued FTom l’«|e One.t plans to trace calls made to the Frank* home. The police tonight expressed the opinion that the kidnapers had also learned of the plans to trace the phone calls, and becoming frightened, killed the boy and concealed the body. At 2 thia afternoon, however. John son called Mr. Franks and told him that a taxicab would call for him at his home and that the driver would know where to take him to deliver the money. A few minutes later the taxi drew up, but the driver insisted tva had no instructions except to call for Mr. Franks. In the excitement attendant to his coming, he drove away cjgd the police tonight are try „ „ nd him through tracing the *■'*' *7*,*^ hi* ™b t, *J0 Shpvrd Into Culvert. The body of the boy was found hours before the final call was re ceived by Mr. Franks, indicating, ac cording to the police, that the kid napers Intended to collect the money even after murdering the youth. A man on his way to work saw the feet of th* boy protruding from a culvert in a swamp near One Hundred Twen ty-first street, several miles from the boyfs home. Tile body had been shoved Into the f culrert head first. An examination of yie nude body disclosed that the youtli had been struck over the head twice, possibly with a hatchet. Tfnn only means of identification wqre a gray sock belonging to the bejy, which was found several hundred feet from where the body wns dis covered, and the pair of horn rimmed spectacles. The Franks family learned of the finding of the body and Mr. Franks was shown the spec facies, but said that the body could not he that of his son, because the latter did not wear spectacles Thia fact led to a delay of several hours in. the identification. Feared to Tell Police. "I was prepared to pay over the money for the return of my son* : Mr. Franks said tonight. "For that reason I did not notify police because I feare.d that something might hap pen to him if the men who had him learned the police were working on the case I believed that as long as I kept faith with the kidnapers they would not harm my boy. Apparently | they became alarmed early in the | morning and killed him, and even I after that tried to get the money." The father formerly was connected with the Illinois Watch Case com pany and the Rockford Watch rom jt pany, but In recent years had been ; engaged in the real estate business. He is said to be worth more than 14,000,000. The family, despite Its great wealth, had lived very quietly, which has led the police to believe that the kidnapers may be persons .. known to them. There are two other children, Josephine, IT, and John, 15. Taxi Driver Found. Charles Robinson, driver of the taxi cab which came to the Franks home after the father this afternoon, was located tonight. Robinson said the call came In at his stand snd that ths person calling represented himself a* Frank*. He said he received no Instruettohs as to where to take his fare. After questioning the taxi driver, police expressed the opinion that the kidnapers were waiting In the vicinity In snofher automobile and that they intended to follow th* taxicab if Franks had agreed to get into It. Dr. Joseph Springer, coroner’s physician, mads an examination of the body tonight and at the conclusion said that ths case was still a baffling mystery. He said ths blows found on th* bead, In his opinion, were not suf ficient to cause death. Ths brain, he ■aid, was in good shape, but the atom aoh anft lungs seemed bad. He de dared, however, that drowning or auf focatlon had not caused death. An Inquest will be opened tomorrow k afternoon. i A reward of 110.000 wss offered to K night for information leading to the ■ arrest or conviction of th* hoy s I slayers. Of this amount IK,non was 1 offered by the boy s^ father and a 1 etmllar amount by a local newspaper 0 Mule Still Provides Transportation in Missouri, Trade Trippers Find By WILL M. MUTIN'. Staff Correspondent The Omaha Boo. Craig. Mo.. May 22.—Leaving Mary ville, Mo., at midnight the good will special doubled back to Clarinda, thence to Paige Center, la. Coin was the first stop of the morning and that hustling little city provided autos to take trippers over to the town, a mile away. Then came Northboro, the first Missouri stop of the day. Tarkio, where the college is located, turned out strong. Rockport sent over a big fleet of autos to convey trippers It miles overland to t#at beautiful little city. The trippers were taken in autos to Fairfax, where they again took the special train. A brief stop was made at Corning and a considerable stop at Craig. The women of Craig served lemonade to trippers and it was relished as this has been the first hot day of the trip. Big Walnut Industry. Mound City. Maitland, Quitman and Skidmore were other Missouri towns visited. No country of equal area excels this part of Missouri in agricultural and livestock production and the whole territory is immensely wealthy. Autos have failed to drive out the famous Missouri mule and this "is where the biggest and best speci mens are produced. An interesting sight to trippers was that of huge walnut logs being hauled to Rock port for shipment. Omaha gets an immense quantity of livestock from this section and is getting nlore each year. , At Fairfax, Kd Whitmore, one of the oldest cattle feeders In this sec tion said, " we have found the Omaha market best for us. I have been shipping there for years snd i advise my friends to do the same thing.” It is to this section of Missouri that Omaha is indebted for some of her foremost citizens. Among them are Thomas Byrne. Ward Burgess, Wsl ter Head. Hal McCord, the 1st* ,1. B. Kitchen, the late Frank Hanson and many others. Fruit Plentiful. in addition to being a great agri cultural and livestock country this has always been great fruit country, although right now this section Is in great need of rain. Trippers are still talking about the wonderful reception at Maryville last night. Maryville is in direct connec tion with Omaha and Omaha whole salers and manufacturers are secur ing constantly increasing patronage from this section. Much interest is manifested in the racing meet and hundreds of visitors will be in Omaha from this section. Friday will be spent in Iowa and the trippers will get back home Fri day night. OUTDOORS TAKES STAGE AT CAPITOL (Continued From !•»»*# One.) and meana for making effective the purposes of the conference and to in sure its lasting force he appealed to them to continue work after the mee‘ :ng in Washington ends on Saturday. Bird Champion Speaks. "The cause of citizen bird" was pre sented by Frank M. Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, who expressed the hope that the conterenoe would "secure for him that consideration from man which science, sport and sentiment acclaim he so well deserved." Something of the value of birds to the nation. Dr. Chapman said, could be seen even by the lawmaker and the voter, should they consider the "stomach of a single cedarbird.” Ex aminations made by the museum, he said, showed that it "contained 100 canker worms, that one cuckoo had eaten 150 tent caterpillars when dis turbed in the midst of s meal, that 454 plant lice were found in the stom ach of a chickadee, that s flicker had devoured 1,000 chinch hugs, that n scarlet tana get- was seen to devour 630 gypsy moth caterpillars in IS min utes and that a Maryland yellow-throat ate 3.500 plant lice in 40 minutes." Would Curb Killing. Speaking on the "critical situation of American game,” Dr. William T. Hornaday, director of the New York Zoological park, told the conference that "fully 6,500,000 guns are now busily at work each hunting season on our ruffled grouse, woodcock snipe, quail, shore birds and most oi the living blanket of ducks and gees* that once covered the vast area he tween the Atlantic coast and the Rocky mountains." Two "constructive measures" were placed before the conference by Dr Hornaday to save game and sport on a long-time basis, "The first and most imperative one," he, said, "is the placing of a stop order on at least 40 per rent of the annual killing, through large re ductions in bag and season limits The second is the making of thou sands of small game sanctuaries. ' Will H. Dilg. president of the Izaak Walton Lea gate of America, spoke on the outdoor aspects of our waterways. H* declared there would be no more sport if we pursue the mad policy of Indiscriminate drainage, adding that "during the last 50 years we hare drained an area equal to the five Orest Lakes snd 11,000.0?® seres more." MUSSEHL SPEAKS AT POULTRY CLUB Prof. Frank E. Mussehl. head of the poultry department of the I ni vereity of Xehraska, addressed mem bers of the Omaha Poultry association at their meeting Thursday night in the American Legion rooms, county court house. Mr. Mussehl urged the necessity of careful assortment of eggs. Eggs should be assorted with great care so as to acquire a better supply of eggs on fhe markets, said Mussehl. The association now has approxi matel.v 160 members. Poultry prob lems will be discussed at the state meet June 11 at Lincoln. Youth Reported Killed Denies That He Is Dead Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Fremont, Neb., May 22.—Ellis Mitts, 21, of Council Rlults, reported killed by a I'nion PaelSc train Tues day near Grand Island tonight vigor ously denied that he Is dead. A cap bearing a Council Bluffs label found n»nr the body of an unidenti fied youth, who had been strurk and killed, led to th# conclusion that young Mitts was the victim of the tragedy. Mitts’ cap hears the same label. He came here several days ago seek ing work and has heen staying with his uncle. FREDERICK L. COLLINS — who did not believe in astrology himself, tells the incredible details of prophecies in his own life that were fulfilled to the daij—in June (6sinopolitan Now On Sale SEE Nature’s “greatest show on earth" in Yellowstone National Park this summer! See the geysers,the mam moth hot springs, the fossil forests, the wild animals, the Grand Canyon. And don’t miss the greatest sight of all —the wonderful Cody Road through the Buffalo Bill country. “You don't see Yellowstone if you don’t see Cody Rond." Plan to cither enter or leave the Park over this marvelous highway. Without extra rail cost you may go or return via Colorado’s fascinating play land—a hundred vacation wonder spots in one, and at small extra cost, you can include Glacier National Park. Two weeks is ample time. Special Summer Tourist fare — round trip to Yellowstone, <44. Tho Burlington provides a service that anticipates your every travel wish. Thousands choose the Burlington for its superb equipment, Its hospitality and thoughtful attention to all things, big and small, that make your trip enjoyable. Burlington aervlea la at your sauMnd throughout the ant Ira Watt BURLINGTON TRAVEL BUREAU 14th and Faraam, Omaha, Nabraaha Phones Atlantia f«7S ati4 east J. W. SHARPE, City Pass. A*t., ]. B. REYNOLDS. City Tin. Agt. ■Burlington VtioNarinnBif’arkt ina -.- l Sackett Denies Need of Primary Vote on Norris State Chairman Assures Sen alor That Republican Can didates Favor His Nomination. Beatrice, Neb., May 22.—Harry E. Sackett, republican elate chairman, tonight addressed to Senator Norris a reply to the latter's recent letter suggesting a recall election. While the text of the Norris letter was given out in Washington several days ago. it was not received by Mr. Sackett tint it today and he iherefore wilhheld comment until tonight. Referring to Senalor Norris' state ment. that "self-alleged republican leaders” had demanded his (Norris) withdrawal from the ticket. Chair man Sackett declared "this was in no wise prompted by1 candidates on the state ticket, nor by the state commit tee. ’ The chairman pledged the sup port of all state ticket candidates and the organization to the senator. Supporting His Candidacy. The text of Mr. Sackett's letter fol lows: "Your letter to me of the 18th inst., given to the press at Washington for publication, has just, been tecelved, and in answer lo your request that t, as chairman of the* republican stale committee In Nebraska, call a state wide primary, lo he held in the man ner provided by law for th» holding of the regular primary, and that at such primary your recall as the re publican candidate for senalor be submitted lo the qualified electors, permit me to elate: "1 ses no reason for the calling of aueh primary nor is there any provi sion of the statutes of Nebraska pro viding therefor. None of the candi dates on the state ticket, individually or collectively, have at any time in tlmated or suggested that you with draw from the ticket. On the con trary, they are openly supporting you. The same is true with the re publican folders' denouncing you and com mittee women. “The letters which you state you have received front ‘self alleged re publican leaders, denouncing you and demanding your withdrawal from the ticket, were in no wl<e prompted by the candidates on the state ticket, nor by the republican state commit tee. letters Express Personal Opinion. “These letters, no doubt, were in tended as an expression of the per sonal opinion of the ones writing them and cannot he construed to represent the sentiment of the party's organisation in this state. "At the primary election in April, the *ame voters who took part In that primary and who gave you a pronounced majority for senator, also by their vote* nominated the candi dates on the state ticket. There is, therefore, no reason for the calling of r second primary election. “You will have the support of the republican* in this state who believe that the choice of the voter* ex* pressed at the primary shall not be nullified.'’ A Urged Auto Thief (.'aught in 24 Fours Twenty-four hours after Thomas Coulter is said to have stolen an automobile belonging to Dr. VVessley Jones, 1516 North Twenty fourth street, Detectives Buglew'iCs ami Miklas were on their wav to Kansas City, Mo , to bring him back. Coulter is alleged to have atolen the car about 9 Wednesday night. He whs arrested at 10 Thursday morning In Kansas City. The Omaha detectives left Thursday night. Army Aviators to Rest Week Before Resuming Flight World Fliers Complete Jump to Jap Naval Base—To Be Entertained at Series of Festivals. By Associated Kasumigaura, Japan, May 22.— Three American army airplanes, hav Ing flown across th« Pacific fqr the first time in the history of aviation, tonight neatlerl on the Japanac-e naval flying fields here for a week s breach ing spell, preparatory to a continu ance of iheir attempt to circumnavi gate the globe by air. Great rrowds of curious Japanes* from all parts of Japan gathered about the aviation field for a glimpse of the sturdy planes and daring air men who had piloted them from the United States. The visiting aviators arrived here at 5:40 this afternoon, having made the Jump from Hltokap pu bay, Tetorofu Island, Kuriles—720 miles—in 12 hours and GO minutes flying time. They made one atop of about two hours at Minato for lunch. The Americans and their planes were In excellent condition upon their arrival, but it has been decided to rest a week here. This will give suf ficient time for a thorough overhaul ing of the aircraft and also permit the I 7 I T nited States army officers to pay a viait to Tokio, which is only SO miles south. With the landing here today, the first and most difficult portion of the around the world Journey has ended. From Kasurnigaura the next Jump will he to Kushimoto, 850 miles south at the extremity of the main island. 1< is a small seaport situated on a rocky, irregular coast, K ushimoto is next to the list stopping place in Japan. The aviators will say farewell to Japan at Kagoshima, at the south ern end of the southern Island of Kyushu. From Kagoshima the Americans wiHstuake tiieir next long water jump of 500 miles to Shanghai. The visiting fliers will remain at Kasurnigaura tonight and tomorrow, going to Tokio Saturday, where a scries of festivals In their honor will h-> held. Ths American airmen, when thev reached here today, had covered the last part of the earth's circumference hitherto untraveled by air. From Piover field. Santa Monica, Cal., they have reeled °ff $,S75 mile* in 90 hours of flying lime. Martin Rearhes hrirtiiksn. Ketchikan, Alaska, May 22.—Mat. Frederick V. Marlin, commander of a United State* aerial squadron en circling the earth, who was missing for 10 days on the Alaska peninsula after crashing April ,11 into a moun tain loo miles north of (’liignik, Alas ka, arrived here at 2 p. ill. today aboard the Pacific American fisheries vessel I'athetlne it., and departed an hour later for Bellingham, ■JVash. Trade Body l rged to Halt tin* Pittsliurgh-PIus Plan Washington, May 22. 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