WEATHER FORECAST 1 rpjj^ yf \ T T \ \yfi kT) XT TXT ¥ 1 T~\ TA thought for the day Nebraska — Possibly showers; not I I I I 1j % W I I I I / 1 I I f I \ 1 I j, \ V J T W I J W_J Hold thy lighted Ump on high, much change In temperature. ® “ » ■*■ •“ ^ ^ Be a star In someone’s sky; He may Mve who else would die, - . - —- , i m... . — - gg==s3= Pass It on. —Henry Burton. CITY EDITION VOL. 54_NO, 2. OMAHA. TUESDAY. JUNE 17. 1924. * TWO CENTS'* °ffv*.h‘c.*.*£ VE&E** -' By Man (t Taar>: Pally aa< Sunday, It; Sunday, It.60, within the 4th eons. Out elds tha 4th So.ia U T«ar)i Balls and Sunday, IIS; louder ealy, IS. Police Shi tot Di twn Man Behind Barr* cade _tm - . ■ — High Court Stays Death of Simmons Issues Writ Which Halts Plans for Execution at State Penitentiary June 18. New Evidence Presented By International .News Service. Lincoln, June 16—Attorney Gen eral Spillman this afternoon received official notice from Washington that the United States supreme court had granted a writ of certiorari in the * appeal of Walter Ray Simmons. This will automatically suspend all further proceedings to execute June 18 until the supreme court has acted In the matter. Additional affidavits were filed with Governor Bryafi today In behalf of S’mmons, awaiting execution for the murder of Frank Pahl In Boyd county. The affidavits were presented by Hugh O'Neill of Annear, Neb., and are ex pected to lead to new and Important developments. In one affidavit, former Chief of Police Wagstatf of Bonesteel, S. D„ testified that he arrested two men on the morning after the murder of Pahl In Boyd county, Nebraska. Both men, according to Wagstaff's af fidavit, bore evidence of having been in a rough combat and were heavily intoxicated. Their automobile, the affidavit declared, was smeared with blood and hair. Dr. Kenaston of Bonesteel, testi fied in an affadavlt that he took care of one of the men, who had deep cuts In his head and sent him back to Spencer, Neb. Two residents of Herrick, S. D., presented affidavits to the effect that the murder of Pahl was known there three hours before It was heard of in Spencer. Neb., and that the reason was that a man known as Jim Her man drove Into Herrick and told citizens there of the murder, Her man Is now said to 'be serving a 17 year sentence for murder In the Wyoming penitentiary. Hugh O'Neill, who gathered the af fi fidavlts presented today, said this afternoon he hopes to get a confes sion from Herman soon. This con fession is expected to show that Her man either knew about the murder or had a part in it. Washington, June 16.—The su preme court was asked today to re view the death sentence imposed upon Walter Ray Simmons for the murder of Frank I’a 111 at Spencer, Neb. Sim mons is under sentence to die next Wednesday. Being in recess, the court cannot consider the petition until after it convenes next October. The filing of the motion was decided upon by E. P. Holmes, Joslah Coombs and Thomas P. Llttlepage, counsel for Simmons, after consultations with justices of the court. It is based upon the dis covery of new evidence and on the charge that three of the Jurors who tried Simmons were prejudiced. It is the expectation of counsel for Simmons that Governor Bryan of Ne braska will continue to grant 30-day reprieves untjl the supreme court acts on the case. The petition as serts that several farmers who did not appear at the trial will testify that Simmons was not in the automobile, when Pahl was driven down the road and murdered. Hen Mother’s Kittens. Allen, Neb., June 10.—J. VV. Black Owns a setting hen which insists on mothering several little kittens in stead of staying on its nest of eggs •^'tind hatching out Its own brood. We Have With Us Today j)f, C. H. Watson, Medical Director American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York City. The telephone operator is not at all the nervous wreck we usually think she is, according to Dr. C. 8. Watson, medical director of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, who is in Omaha, the first time in three years. The impreaelon that telephone work is nerve wreck ing Is ail wrong, he declares. The telephone girl on the contrary, is queen of her realm, lie said, and has no reason to be a victim of nerves. Hazards are less numerous in his company in comparison to factory or any other industrial position. Dr. Watson has the health of 280, 000 employes to watch over. With a corps of assistants too numerous to calculate, he controls the destiny of each employe of hla company. Medi cal examiners are under his direc tion in all branches of the company. Physical examinations are undergone by each employe so as to give ample opportunity to work, said the doctor. Dr. Watson has been director of the American Telephone and Tele graph company for eight years. Hla office Is on lower Broadway. New York ’ City. Before his work tflth this com pany, he wns In charge of clinical Work at Long Island college hospital at Brooklyn, N. Y. He also prac ticed medicine in Now York City. Dr. Watson was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. His tiome is in Westchester county. New JTork Warning Letter to Iowa Mayor Renting of Auditorium for Klan Meet Causes Furore at Atlantic, - » Atlantic, la., June 16.—Renting of the municipal auditorium to the Ku Klux Klan for a meeting Sunday afternoon has created a stir here. Mayor A. H. Mountain has received the following anonymous letter of warning: "Whoever Is responsible for per mitting the Ku Klux Klan to meet in the city auditorium had better look to their sky pieces! This Is not alone an affront to the Intelligence of the com munity, but it is a direct attack on the citizenship of Atlantic and Cass county, whom the kl.in attacks in private If not In public. It encour ages an organization which has a rec ord for criminality second to none." City officials explain that the mayor and council were a unit In permitting the klan to stage Its public meeting in the auditorium. They take the position that every conceivable cult and creed has had the use of the hall in the past and that as a matter of fairness the klan Is entitled to use it and state its case to the public. Klavern Organized at Avoca. Followers of the fiery cross assem bled at Avoca a few nights ago and organized a Ku Klux Klan klavern. As near ns can be learned about 26 candidates were initiated at an open air meeting held In a walnut grove east of town. The highway was lined with automobiles filled with specta tors. A huge crowd, that milled about the pasture adjoining the scene, was kept at a distance by robed sentry men. Eagles Meet at Beatrice in State Convention Beatrice, Neb., June 16.—Tho 20th annual convention of the Nehraska Eagles convened here today, with an address of welcome by City Attorney Dutton, with response from State President C. A. Axeb-on. The session today was devoted exclusively to busi ness. This evening. In the chamber of commerce rooms a banquet was held, (}. F. Freeman of Beatrice acting as toastmaster. About 150 delegates from various parts of the etate are here. The elec tion of officers will occur Tuesday, with an athletic program In the eve ning. Boy Burglars Sentenced. Kearney, • Neb., Juno 16.—Geno Arnot and Glenn Dunaton, found guilty of breaking Into the Odle Hell farm homo near Optic nnes Mollies. X*. ••***£* 1^ Chemist Says All Bootleg Poisonous The liquor being made today throughout the country is unfit to drink and sooner or later serious re sults are expected, according to C. J. West, federal chemist of Minneapolis. For more than a quarter of a cen tury West has been analyzing liquor. He says he has analyzed enough of the stuff “to float a battleship.” "From my analysis I find that every drop of bootleg liquor made has some form of poison in It," said West.' “The booze flooding the coun try today averages 45 per cent alcohol by volume." West is In Omaha to analyze some 200 samples obtained by Robert P. Samnrdick on his recent drive on Omaha bootleggers. Before prohibi tion days West tested on the average of 3,000 gallons of whisky a day. He operates in six states. Gallantry Brennan Shot Because He Re sented Remarks Made to Woman by Alleged As sailant, Claimed. Suspects Held for Trial New York, June 16.—William James (Bill) Brennan, heavyweight pugilist, was slain In his uptown cabaret early yesterday because he resented abusive remarks made to a woman by Joseph Pioll, one of the two men held without ball today for the killing, according to Assistant District Attorney Morgan A. Jones. The woman, whose name was not revealed, had gone to Brennan's cabaret with, a party of which Pioll was a member, according to the prosecutor. As she was leaving with Pioll, he made abusive remarks to her. Brennan Interceded for her, hit ting Pioll in ejecting him from the cabaret, the prosecutor said. "There are other ways of getting a guy thaif with your fists," Pioll Is al leged to have said. "Look out for yourself.” Brennan Drops to Floor. Pioll then left the cabaret, the prosecutor continued, and later re turned. When Brennan approached him In a hallway leading to the caba ret, a shot sounded and Brennan dropped to the floor. Four or five other men were In the hallway, Jones asserted, although It is not known whether they were compan ions of Pioll. The only other man arrested was Terrence O'Neill, a pugilist, who wag captured with Pioll goon after the shooting. The prosecutor’s statement was Is sued after the two prisoners had been grilled for hours by the police In ef forts to learn the motive for* the shooting. Both men persistently de nted firing the shot that killed Brennan. "I never shot BUI Brennan,” Pioll declared. "I never even knew him." Several thousand persons gathered outside the homicide court and jeered today as Pioll and O'Neill were taken from arraignment. Both men were held for trial without ball. Mr. Jones said the grand jury would be asked to return first degree murder Indict ments on Thursday. The prisoners were arraigned on charges of shoot ing "William Shanks," Brennan's name before he entered the ring. Friend Also Dead. James Cullen, a state trooper and friend of Brennan, also was mortally wounded when he tried to prevent the escape of the slayer. He died In a hospital today. Brennan's sister, a cabaret entertainer, known profes sionally as Shirley Sherman, was In the oafe when her brother was shot. When Pioll and O’Neill were first arrested, they described themselves as "James Hughes” and "Frank Rassl.” When arraigned they admitted giving fictitious names. O’Neill Is a pugilist and Pioll Is under Indictment for the murder In March of his brother. Santo, police said. Jack Dempsey, who was able to knock out Brennnn only In the 12th round of a bout In 1920, was among the scores of persons who sent mes sages of condolence to Brennan's widow today. 2 OMAHANS IN GRINNELL CLASS Special Itlapatch to The Omeha Bee. Orlnnell. In., June 1*.—Burdette Plotts and Miss Roberta Jeannette McKachern of Omnha were members of a class of 113 seniors who received their bachelor of arts degrees at the seventh commencement of Grlnnell college this week. f The class is the largest ever gradu ated from Grlnnell. The commence ment addresa wa« delivered by Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago. Chinch Bugs Damaging Wheat in Pawnee County Pawnee City, Neb., June 16.—Paw nee county reports large numbers of chinch bugs In the wheat and other small grain fields. The damage they will do to these crops will be large, but will not be computable until after harvest. Many farmers sre planning stepa to keep the bugs from mi grating to the cornfields after the harvest has been completed, and It Is thought that they will not damage this Important crop. Following recent rains and extreme ly warm weather, Pawnee county corn crop la growing rapidly. Nebraskans in Colorado Form Plans for Picnic Fort Morgan, Colo., June 16.—Ne hruskana of Morgan county are plan ning a Nebraska picnic to be held along the hanks of the South Platte river June 27. A prize will be given to the largest delegation from any one town or county In Nebraska. Former reeidenta of Arlington, Wash tugton county, were the Inrgest dele gallon last year, there being over 60 former residents of Arlington In Mor gan county. Gas Price Cut at Geneva. Geneva, Neb.. June 111.—By mutual agreement the Independent filling sta tlons reduced the rstall price of gas to 16 ents a gallon. Ths Standard did not follow their lead. Ths formor pries wu-^0 cent* Heiresses Touring World Each worth $15,000,000, Misses Comasita Argiiillo (right) and Emma Meza-Agua of San Salvador are in the United States on world tour. Expert Says Young Slayers Abnormal After Examination Should Not Hang, He De clares After Making Tests of Leopold and Loeb at Jail. By International »w* Service. Chicago, June 16.—Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., slayers of Robert Franks, 13, are abnormal, ac cording to preliminary reporta of the first of several experts to test the youths at the county Jail. They should not hang, Is the opinion of these experts which will be ’the groundwork on which ths defense will build. Dr. Karl Bowman, Boston psy chiatrist and ductless gland expert, probably will be the first defense witness and will present his findings from the exhaustive tests he mads on the boys at the county Jail. Instruments with as strange names as the phrases which the trial will' make current have been used in the tests, which continued today. The metabolimeter, which measures oxygen consumption through re breathing processes and determines the action of certain glands, has had its inning; today the plethysjnograph will be brought out. It measures mental disturbances as a seismograph records earth disturbances. Loeb has accepted the tests with good nature. Leopold, the egocentric, resents being made laughable in the eyes of the public. ”1 would linfer from reading the newspapers that Loeb and I are being trained like fleas to Jump through hoops, for the entertainment of the curious.” Loeb is concerned with his own fate; Leopold is concerned with what people will think of him. MOVIE SHOOTING TRIAL IS BEGUN By International News Berrien Los Angeles, Cal., June 1#.—That sensational testimony will mark the trial of Horace Greer, chauffeur for Mabel Normand, film actress, charged with shooting Courtland S. Dines. Denver millionaire, in Dines' bachelor apartments New Year’s day In the presence of Miss Normand and Edna l’urvlance, Charlie Chaplin's leading woman, was Indicated when Greer's trial opened here today. "You won't be prejudiced against this defendant because a couple of motion picture stars might have been drunk or something like that when the shooting occurred V was a ques tion asked several prospective Jurors by Greer's attorneys. The men and women In the Jury bo* were also asked if they were Interested In the two stars' morals, reputations and pictures. Without ex ception they said they were not. Tubereuloais Eradication Move Growing in Favor Clarlnda, la.. June 16.—More than 61 per cent of Page county farmers are In favor of bovine tuberculosis eradication, and are signing petitions as fast as they are presented. Amity, Colfax and Washington township* has signed up the largest portion of th6!r cattle owner*. Petitions are being circulated In Morton, Norway and Tarklo townships. Most packers are paying at thla time 10 per cent premium on all hogs hied and fed In modified accredited counties, or counties that have less than one-half of 1 per rent of bovine tuberculosis. There Is a great saving In the rattle bree ling Industry. Klooded stock In tuberculosis free counties commands a much higher rile* than such stock In infected counties. The checking of spread of the disease to poultry amounts to a very considerable each year. Several counties In Iowa are near ing the point where they will he de clared modified accredited areas With 26 more counties coming In by September, one hslf the. state will he doing systematic county area eradi cation work. County Attorney Stricken, Aurora. Neli., June 16 John .1. Reinhardt, county attorney of Ham llton county, wn* taken III lust week and on Thursday went to the home of his parents In Lincoln. Information reached hie friend* here Sunday that he had cerebral meningitis and that hla attending physician* had little hop* it kif recovery. Radio Owners Again Warned After Tragedy City Ordinance Prohibits Plac ing Aerials Near High Ten sion Wires, Says Elec trical Official. Although a warning was Issued sev eral w-eek^ ago by Irael Lovett, city electrician, to radio fans of Omaha of the dangers of stringing radio aerial wires over high tension wires, a second warning has been Issued fol lowing the death of Roy Nelson, who was electrocuted when he attempted to remove an aerial at 818 Park avenue, Sunday. In a statement sent out by A. D. Barber, president of ths Electrical Industries association of Omaha, this second warning is sent. Radio ama teurs and the public should be warn ed (Xmcerntng the danger in placing aerial wires over, under or close to high tension wires or feed wires, said Barber. Ordinance In Effect Attention la called to the fact that there is a radio ordinance which spe cifically prohibits placing radio aerials over or under highetension wires and prohibits any kind of radio wires In an unsafe or dangerous manner. The ordinance also provides that a permit must be secured from city electrician for erection of radio apparatus, and for Inspection by the city electrician. "Omaha as a center of the worst storm area in the United States, Is approaching the time when severe lightning storms will come to the vi cinity,” said Lovett In his warning on April 1. Hanger Is Great "Many long aerials have been erected without proper lightning and ground protection and many pass over electrlo light and power wires in such a way that If either one of the wires should break, the user of the radio set might he killed or badly burned and his house set on fire." Such an accident occurred when Nelson attempted to handle the radio aerial wire that was blown down. The aerial was strung over a high ten sion wire and when the aerial was blown down by the storm It came In contact with the high tension wire. TABLET UNVEILED ON LINCOLN TRACT Denison, la., June 16.—Abraham Lincoln was honored by the Daugh ters of the American Revolution of Denison by the placing of a tablet on a huge boulder upon the piece of land he once owned In this county, which came to him for services per formed in the Block Hawk war In 1823. There were appropriate exer cises, with prayer, singing, address and unveiling of the tRblet. The ad dress was made by R. Bhawvan of Denison. The land la five miles northwest of Denison In Goodrich township on the road to Sohleswig, It has been known as the "Lincoln land" for many years, but no special recognition was given it as a historical landmark until the patriotic society decided to put up the tablet, now dedicated. The boul der weighs over two tons. The tab let Is of copper and has upon It: "Lnnd Grant Mado to Abraham Lin coln for Services Rendered In the Black Hawk IVar In 1823. Marked by Denison Chapter D. A. R. 1921." Battle Spectacle Closes Legion Drive at Atlantic Atlantic, la.. June 16.—A deafening explosion of aerial bombs, detonstlon of star shells and the weird glare cast by rejl and green flares formed a spectacular setting for the American Legion production of the battle of Verdun, one of the outstanding con flicts during the wrorld war. A ton of high explosives was set off with spectacular effect. The show marked the close of the Legion mem bership drive here. ‘ Approximately r>,000 persons witnessed the spectacle. Atlantic Woman Elected Registrar of <». A. R, Ladies Atlantic, la.. June 16 Mrs. Char lotte Olson of Atlantic was elected state registrar at the recent Iowa convention of the tl. A. K. ladles. Mrs. Mary Heaton of Oreenlleld, la., another southwest Iowa woYnan, was named secretary , The AMantlo U. A. H. circle la the olOMt in lot?* Lack of Air Blamed for Naval Blast Compression to Clean Gun Barrelg Low, Officers Says; Dead Man's Hand Caused Second Firing. I. W. W. Denies Threats San Pedro, Cal., June 16.—The An ger of evidence pointed still more definitely today at lack of air pres sure in the gun mechanism as the cause, or at least one of the causes of the explosion aboard the U. 8. 8. Mississippi Thursday, when 48 men were killed. Walter C. Ebel, turret captain of turret No. 3 of the Mississippi, cor roborated the evidence Saturday of Francis Majeswki, plugman in turret No. 2, where the blast occurred, that ; the air pressure to clean out the gun barrels between shots and to close the gun breeches was weak. The result of this, according to gunnery experts, might have been to leave flaming or smouldering particles In the gun barrel, which would ignite the new charges of TNT as they were rammed home. Girl Accuses Hotel Owner Held for Vagrancy, She Blames O/wner of Hostelry for Acts. A warrant will b« issued against Izzie Fiddler, aald to be proprietor of the Havens, Plaza, Rex and Harney hotels, according to Deputy County Attorney Gordon Nicholson In municipal court Monday morning, fol lowing hearing of cases of Florence and Tracey Holmes, Rolla Pombies and Ben Robinson, charged with vagrancy. Mrs. Holmes, 22, testified that she and her husband stopped at the Havens hotel while en route to Briggs, I^aho, about a month ago and was forced to ask a loan from Fiddler. “You know there Is no necessity for being without money in any of my hotels," she testified Fiddler re marked. Mrs. Holmes said she re fused his offer. Sergeant Tom Crawford of the po lice morals squad testified be stood beside the clerk's desk at the Havens hotel and saw two girls come in and each give the clerk a dollar bill. The morals squad visited 10.hotels Saturday and Sunday in a campaign against Immoral houses. STEAMFITTER ENDS OWN LIFE By Associated Press. Grand Island, Neb., June 16.—Wil liam Windolph, a steamfitter employ ed by the Union Pacific, committed suicide early today by Shooting him self. The body was found some hour3 later In the loft of a barn. He had returned from his work at midnight. Despondency over the loss of $800 for which he went surety on another's note Is attributed as the cause. He leaves a wife and two small children. pastorTeaves $17,000 ESTATE The will of Rev. William H. Kearns, fled secretary of the northwest dis trict of the Presbyterian church, who died Tuesday, was filed In probate court Monday. It leaves an estate of $17,000 to his widow, Jennie Kearns, 104 South Fiftieth street. Maun Awarded High Honors at University of Nebraska Laurel, Neb., June 16.—Emmett V, Maun of this place has received two of the highest honors that can he given to a student at the University of Nebraska, helng chosen as a mem ber of the "Innocents" and also se lected president of the student coun cil of the university for the coming year. The "Innocents" are a hand of 13 senior men chosen at the close of their Junior year by the old society on account of their student activity, character, personality and leadership. Mr. Maun was editor of the Daily Nebraskan, the university paper, and military editor of the 1924 Oornhusker, the university annual; lie Is also a member of the Pershing Rifles. Scab bard and Bland and Kappa Sigma. Delegation From Atlantic to Attend Lions' Convenion Atlantic. la., June 16—Atlantic Lions’ club will be represented at the International convention of Lions' clubs, to he held June 33 to 36 in Omaha, by Dr. IV. U. Hammer, A. C. Fonts, Dr. R. L. Barnett and J. B. Smaller. Song Writer to Visit Iowa. Shenundoah. In , June lt>—Mr. ami Mr*. Wendall Hall will visit Iowa on thrlr honeymoon trip to t'nllfornl.< Mr. Hall, author of the song. "Is Ain't Going To Rain No Mo'," and Ida bride hnve been guests at the homo of A. A. Retry ami Ralph Huff In Clarlnda and will visit there this summer again on the way VI Call forgia. Minneapolis Federal Judge Presides Here White Ribbons t on Front Row - at Rum Trials W. C. T. U. Delegation to Sit Through Federal Court Sessions to “Change Atmosphere.” Federal Judge John T. McGee of Minneapolis, called "Ten-Year Mc Gee" for his heavy eentencea and fines of bootleggers and drug peddlers, Mon day changed some of the rules of the local federal court, where he was called to assist In disposing of some 200 cases because Judge Woodrough was busy In another case. Five women members of the Doug las county W. C. T. U. occupied seats la the front row while the defendants were being arraigned. But one de fendant, Harrison Golbert, pleaded guilty. He was given three months in JaiL Women Every Pay. The women delegation of the W. C. T. U. was made up of Mrs. W. E. Summers, Mrs. Mae Kennedy, Mrs. H. Getschler, Mrs. Morton Vienot and Mrs. Loren Banner. "We are going to he here every day Judge McGee is here,”‘said Mrs. Banner, president of the South Side organization. "No one invited us here, but we thought our presence might aid the atmosphere of the federal court.” When several defendant* failed to make their appearance to be ar raigned, Judge McGee ordered George Keyser, assistant United States dis trict attorney, to file to collect bonds within 24 hours after they are for feited. Courtroom Is Crowded. To keep fhe court grinding. Judge McGee also ordered Keyser to call 10 cases for trial Monday afternoon at 2. When attorneys protested. Judge Me Gee said, "Your case may not be reached, but you have to assume it will be, so be here with your clients and bondsmen." The courtroom and corridors were crowded with attorneys, defendants an