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-_-VOL. 54.—NO - Hamuli OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1924. * TWO CENTS1" ^.“c."4. ES.nwh«i’,,u- —
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Solicitors
Given Final
Directions
'Instructions to Be Given
, Workers in Community
Che?t Drive at Big Meeting
in Hotel Fontenelle.
All Teams Organized
More than ",50(1 workers, who will
participate In canvassing the city
during the Community Chest drive,
will meet tonight at the Hotel Fnn
tenelle for the final "pep" meeting
before the opening of the campaign
Wednesday morning.
Harley Conant, general chairman,
has made every effort to make the
meeting the “peppiest" of the cam
paign. The American Legion drum
corps will play in front of the hotel,
and will lead the workers into the
ballrooms.
Opening prayer will be said by Rev.
Thomas Casadv. The opening address
will be given by Dr. Irving K. Cutter,
president of the Community Chest.
Mrs. A. H. Fetters, chairman of the
women's division of the workers, will
speak, as will W. F. Baxter, member
of the Community Chest executive
committee, and Henry Monsky, vice
chairman of the Community Chest.
Working Rians Complete.
All plans for conducting the drive
have been completed. The city has
been divided into territories and
quotas have been allotted to each ter
A rltory.
A feature of the campaign this
year will be the "Minute Men,” a
group of 120 men headed by A. C.
Scott. These men. Frank Builta,
chairman of the general team di
vision, said, will he sent out to
"clean up" each territory where the
designated quota had not been ob
tained by the regular workers.
Teams to work In the downtown dis
trict have been appointed, There are
690 men on these teams. They will
cover the 69 territories of the busl
^ ness district under the direction of
69 captains. In South Omaha 25 cap-.
1ains will direct the work of 250 so
licitors. Everett Buckingham will
have charge of the men soliciting
employes of the stockyards and pack
ing plants.
Women Workers in Residences.
Elton C Loueka is acting as chair
man of the Industrial division. In this
division 125 captains will supervise
the work of soliciting each of the
business houses which employ 50 or
more persons.
The canvass of the residential sec
tions of the city will be made by 1.500
women. Ilrs. A. H. Fetters Is to
have charge of this branch of the
work. Every home in the city will he
called upon.
I Edward White, acting as chairman
of the team for the t’nion Pacific
Railroad company, has organized the
employes of that Institution Into an
association for the furthering of the
Cumunity chest cause.
Already 2.500 employes of the com
pany, workers In the headquarters
building find in ihe shops, have ex
pressed a desire to aid.
Carl R. Oray. president of the rail
road. has taken an active interest In
the organization work.
Standard Oil Organized.
The Standard Oil company has also
begun organizing its employes. J. A.
Ha vies Is In charge of the work.
Frank Keogh, president of the Pax
tnn-Oallagher company, has asked
every employe of the Institution to
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* AGRICULTURE BODY
BEGINS ITS WORK
Washington, Nov. 17.—President
f'oolldge today put up to the commis
sion of representative farm leaders
be has appointed the problem of map
ping out a program for the perma
nent stabilization of agriculture.
Briefly welcoming the commission,
■which met In the cabinet room at the
White House for Us first session. Mr.
C'oolldge told the members of his pur
pose in naming the organization and
placed entirely in its hands the for
mulation of a workable plan of farm
a relief.
~ No statement was forthcoming from
the White House after tile meeting.
Robert D. Carey of Wyoming, chalr
man of the commission, said the in
mstigating body would meet, this
afternoon Ht I hr Department of Agri
culture to organize and discuss apian
of procedure.
Eight of the nine commissioners
were presented to the president.
Charles H. Barrett, chairman of the
national board of farm organizations
of t'nlon City, Da , the only absentee,
expected to reach Washington for the
organization meeting.
e
We Have
With Us
Today
We Have Willi I s Today
R. 15. Wallace,
Ml ( ampo, Tex,,
Ranker.
Mi . Wallace Is a native of Texas,
Mail Is proud of the dlstlnel Inn. He is
cashier of the Cmiimen lal Stale bank
\ of El Carnpo, which Is In southern
f Texas.
1 "My pari of the country Is p>r-pet
ous." aaid Mr. Wallace. "There were
good cotton snd rice crops and good
price* forsthem. The cattle business
It bad. howsvsr.’*
Mrs. Vanderbilt’s
Sister Quits Films
ryvY'v
Fired! says film head. Quit! says
Thelma Morgan Converse. At any
rate, Mrs. Converse, twin sister of
Mrs. Reggie Vanderbilt, has left the
movies flat and hereafter they will
have to get along with less blue
blood.
Body of Woman
j
Missing 10 Days
Found in Lake
Believed to Have Been Tem
porarily Deranged; No In
quest Planned lty
Authorities.
The body of Mrs. Ella Prnger, 41.
who disappeared from her home.
2532 North Nineteenth street, No
vember 8, was found floating in Car
ter lake Monday morning by George
Burris, Seventh and P streets.
W. H. Plager, hushand of the dead
woman, has been frantically petition
ing police to aid hint in locating his
wife for more than a week. He said
that he believed that she was tempo
rarily deranged mentally at the time
of her disappearance, ’
Burris had gone to Carter lake
early. As he Was standing on one of
the piers of the Illinois Central rail
road he noticed a body floating In the
waters of the lake. He managed to
get the body to the shore and secure
It, then he went for help.
No Mark of Violence.
The body had apparently been In
the water several days, and there was
no mark of violence.
Mrs. Plager's hushand first told
police of his wife's disappearance on
November 3, and the banks of Carter
lake were searched at the time in the
belief that she might have fallen In.
According to Mr. Plager, his wife
had been fond of walking near the
lake,
Prncher told police that his wife
had acted peculiarly on the Friday
when she disappeared, and he thought
that she was partially demented tem
porarily. She hail torn the linen
from the beds, be said, and refused
to remake them.
\\ andered From House.
After wandering about the house
aimlessly all morning, he said, she
left her home about 2 p. m., without
saying where she was going. A
watchman at the Hoc ust street
bridge told Plager that he had seen
a woman answering the description
of Mrs. Plager walking near the
bridge late Friday,
Watchmen for the Standard Oil
company recognized the body as that
of a woman they had seen walking
down the Illinois Central tracks Satur
day night.
The body has a deep cut. on the
chin. When found, the head was
above water.
Funeral services for Mrs. Prager
will he held Tuesday afternoon at the
Omaha Funeral home at 2.
Surviving her, besides her hus
band, are two sons, Edmund and
Floyd; one daughter, Mrs. F. G.
Penry; her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Edmund; ope sister, two
brothers, two stepsons and one step
daughter.
LOWDEN DECLINES
POST IN CABINET
llv InteriiHtionnl >>»■ Mervlee.
Atlanta, (in., Nov. 17 Frank O.
Govvden, former governor of Illinois,
who declined the republican nomina
tion for the vice presidency, last sum
mer, also has refused to sit In Presi
dent Goolidge’s cabinet ns secretary
of agriculture, it was learned here
today. C. K. Gonwell, president of
the Cotton Growers* Co-operative As
sociation of Georgia, made the an
nouncement while Introducing Low
den to members of the association in
the. hearing of the former governor,
who did not deny It. Conwell said
foolldgft had made the offer Infor
mally and that it. had been declined.
Canadian Case Dropped.
Washington, Nov. 17 -The supreme
court refuaed to advise the eighth
« Ircuit court of appeals whether the
counterfeiting of Cunadlun excl/e
stamps Is hii offense punishable mi
dec the criminal code of the United
.States. A case involving the question
was dismissed.
\dniiral (ids Hank.
Wauhlngton, Nov. 17 — The much
litigated claim of Capt. JefterMon 1
Moner, of the navy, that whan retired
he should have been given the rank
nf rear admiral, waa dlapneed of hv
tha auprama court, which hald that he
[ waa antltlad to that rank.
Farm Group
Decides on
Its Program
Coolidsre's Commission to
«•
Analyze Legislation and
Seek Co-Operation of
Farmers in Work.
Addressed by President
Washington, D. C., Nov. 17.—The
commission recently appointed by
President Coolidge to make a com
prehensive analysis and report on
farm problems with a view to arriv
ing at a program for the permanent
stabilization of agriculture derided at
its Initial meeting today to proceed
along three lines, namely, the study
of pending farm legislation, inquiry
into the administration of present
law's and plans for inculcating In the
farmer an appreciation of the value
of co-operation.
Eight of the nine members of the
commission, comprising leaders in
farm life from every agricultural sec
tion of the country, called at the
W'hite House before entering execu
tive session at the Department of
Agriculture and were welcomed by
Coolidge. The president addressed the
members briefly but his remarks
were not made public. It Is under
stood, however, that he made no rec
ommendations, instead placing the
problems entirely tip to tha commis
sion for examination and recommen
dation. at the same time giving assur
ance that the inquiry need not be
limited in scope and that the com
mission will have at all times the co
operation of all government depart
ments.
Coolidge In discussing the agrlcul
tural situation as It stands today Is
understood to have followed in gen
eral the subjects as outlined by him
in a public address last week before
the Association of J,and Grant Col
leges.
Coolidge Understands.
“It was very evident." said a state
ment issued later in the day at the
Agriculture department based on
comments of the commissioners,
“that the president had a thorough
knowledge of the agricultural situa
lion and was sincere in his efforts
that something should be done to
bring about better conditions in agri
culture and a better balance between
agriculture and other Industries."
Proposed legislation expected to
come under the commission's study,
it was believed, Includes the McNary
Haugen export corporation hill, the
Norrls-Sinclair hill and Capper-Wil
liams and Curtis-A swell measures—
all either awaiting consideration at
the coming short session of congress!
or In the course of completion in j
committees. Consideration of these
and any other measures that may be
proposed later is expected to be given
with the hope of corollating or elim
inating objectionable features and ar
riving at a plan which will suit all j
Interested parties.
Present farm laws will be gone over. !
It was said, for the purpose of de
termining whether they are being
properly enforced or are grouped tin
der the proper department or bureau
and whether it would he advisable to
transfer responsibility for their ad
ministration.
Education of the, farmer, which
President Coolidge has said must be
conducted along scientific lines if he
is to meet the conditions of the future,
when the natural increase of popu
lation and the Inevitable tendency to
industrialization will place the United
States among the nations producing
a deficit rather than a surplus of
agricultural staples, also will he dis
cussed by the commission.
Carey Presides.
Robert D. Carey of Careyhuret.
Wyo., presided over the meeting ns]
chairman, and all were in attendance j
except Charles S. Barrett, chairman
of the national board of farm organi
zations, who is In Oklahoma attend
ing the annual meeting of the Funir
era’ union.
The second meeting of the commis
sion will be held tomorrow morning,
when Its organization will tie com
plete.l and work begun on the a
sernbiugc of data for consideration.
The commission was first suggested
by /’resident Coolidge in his speech
accepting the republican nomination,
tint, at the suggestion of a number of
farm leaders, he delayed appointing
it until after the elections, that Its
work might not become involved in
polities. It will report to him. and
he is then expected to take such ac
tion as he may deem necessary or
otherwise.
Although there has been no indlca
tlon of how long the commission may
require to complete its Investigation,
It Is the general belief Hint tt can com
plete recommendations requiring
legislative action before the present
congress lapses. The president has
Indicated that he would like to have
surti legislation as may bo necc-sarv
passeil at the coming short session of
congress, which terminates March 4
(>erman Leader Dies.
Merlin, Nov. 17 I’iiinI von Ifeydr
Lrnrnl, lender of the ronnervatlve
MHrty In l Ik* day* of tin* umpire find
Known n* the "mn i owned klritf of
l’ruanta,’* died fit the /i^r of 7 4.
!>00 CliifHjin dimmeii Held.
Chicago, Nov. 17.-—Approximately
Son arrests were made over Sunday
In ths police drive against gunmen
ordered by Mayor Deven|
Confessed Member of $2,000,000 Mail
Theft Cans; Tells of Rondout Robbery
Declares, on Witness Stand, That Former Postel Inspector
Supplied Information Which Led to Holdup; Buried
His Share of Loot in Texas.
Chicago, Nov. 17.—Jesse Newton,
ono of the six confessed Rondout
mail robbei's, today told from the
witness stand the story of his part
in tha $2,000,000 holdup.
Brent Glasscock, another of the
confessed men, directed the opera
tions of the bandit band, Newton
said, and James Murray and Wil
liam J. Fahy, former postal In
spector, supplied Information con
cerning movements of the malls.
Murray, Fahy and Walter MoComb
are now on trial for complicity In
the robbery.
Newton said that Murray was the
first to suggest "some good Jobs
around Chicago," and plans were
laid to Intercept a $100,000 currency
shipment In Indianapolis. This fell
through, however, when the band
learned that its information was
erroneous. Fahy, Newton asserted,
was the person who told them the
money was to i>ass through Dan
ville, 111., ami not Indianapolis.
Then, the witness declared, Mur
ray gathered Informailon concern
ing the shipments of currency over
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. I’aul
railroad and a plan was laid to hold
up one of the more heavily laden
trains. Newton and his brothers,
Joe, Willie and Willis, and Brent,
Glasscock and Herbert Holliday, all
of whom have pleaded guilty, met
In a South Side rafe to perfect last
minute arrangement*. Willis and
Holliday rode the blind of the train
out of Chicago and the other four
drove to Rondout in two automo
biles.
Stopped Train With light.
"Glasscock stopped the train with
a flashlight," Jesse Newton Con
tlnued. "Pretty soon Ilolllday came
up to me with two men, the engi
neer and the fireman, and told me
to take them and the flagman up to
where the cats were standing. 1
let them sit on the bumper of one
of the ears.
"Pretty soon Holliday brought
Willie over to me. He was shot.
We put him In one of the cars.
Glasscock shot him, but I can't
understand why."
Immediately afterwards, the cars
loaded, the hand drove off, finally
stopping in Ottawa. 111., where Mur
ray met them an hour later. Mur
ray, Newton said, passed several
hours in going through the mail
pouches and then the party started
for Chicago, leaving one of the ears,
which contained the empty pouches
and a quantity of nonnegotiuhlg
papers at a farrti near Joliet.
Money Hidden In Jars.
After spending the day in Chi
cago, Newton declared he became
frightened upon learning of the ar
rest of his brothers, 'Willis, Joe and
Willie, and so hoarded a train for
Dallas, Tex. He said he buried
$4,000 of his share of the loot "in
four little glass jars about six
miles out of San Antonio on the
Fredericksburg road.”
At the opening of today's soesion
counsel for the defense moved that
the testimony thus far be stricken
out, contending that it had not been
proven that the securities and cur
rency taken in the holdup had been
definitely identified as that put
aboard the train in Chicago. Judge
Adarn C. Cliffe overruled the mo
tion.
Wine-Hunting Is
Costly to Youths
Strangers Lead \ isitort to
Lonely Spot; One Wounded
in Foot.
Wine-hunting with strangers turned
out to lie had business for four youths
from Fremont and Pierce, Neb., they
reported to South Omaha police Sun
day afternoon. They lost their thirst
and $17, and one of them was shot
in the foot hy the strangers.
The hapless youths were Henry
Kerstine. Mike Cregar and W. A.
Cregar of Fremont, and Robert Flair
of Pierce, Neb. ,
According to Blair, the four were
having hreakfast Sunday morning In
a restaurant at Sixteenth and Webster
streets when the two strangers ap
proached them and offered to take
them to a place where they could find
wine.
The strangers were mild-spoken
men. and the four visitors were flat
tered by the attention. When the
strangers even offered to furnish the
ear, the bargain was sealed and they
set out.
The two strangers drove them to
a lonely spot half a mile south of
Albright, and then dropped their com
pany manners and ordered them to
reach fur the clouds. The three Fre
mont men obeyed, but Blair unwisely
sought combat, lie was soon put hors
do combat when a bullet lopped off
a toe.
After the party had been searched
and robbed of $17 and a gold watch,
ihe strangers drove away, leaving the
four visitors with no wine hut a
morning after taste In their mouths.
They walked to Albright, where they
caught a car to South Omaha and
reported the robbery. Blair s Injury
Is not serious.
COOLIDGE MEETS
CHIEF OF LEGION
Washington, Nov. 17.—A universal
draft In the time of war and retire
ment of disabled emergency army of
ficer s were amontf proposals Included
in an American I^egion legislative
program presented to President
Idgo today by James A. l>rain, the
hgion s national commander.
The program was adopted hy the
last legion convention.
In the wav of a universal draft, the
legion supports the t apper lohnson
hill, providing for the drafting of
capital, labor, Industry and trans
portatinn, in addition to man power.
Lincoln Man May Pie
From Prinking Iodine
fiprrlul lh»ii*trli to The Omnlm Hee.
Lincoln. Nov, 17.—Henry L. Paul
son, BO. Is in a serious condition In
n local hospital ns n result of drink
Ing lodln hy mistnke nt noon today.
As l’.zra Wilson, a neighbor, passed
the house, Paulson rushed out, shout
ing:
‘ I've taken the wrong medicine.”
Wilson railed an ambulance and
Paulson was hurried to the hospital.
No Damage* in Panama.
Washington, Nov. 17.- Passengers
who suffer Injury In wrecks on the
Panama railroad, n government Instl
lotion, were held h\ the supreme
court t«* have no legal right to collect
damn gen.
Ohio Melon Pul.
Flmlhiy, (>., Nov. 17. The dlrerlnr*
if the Ohio cnmpanv rleclsred n .jimr
terly dividend nf 25 cent* * *h«re pity
»I>1* Dscembsr 31. 1924, to stock
holdsrs of record Novsmbtr 39. 1924.
Father and Son, 4,
Drown in Cistern
Mother Finds Bodies in Nine
Feet of Water After Long
Search.
Special Dlapatrh lo The Omaha flee.
Atlantic, la., Nov. 17.—Frank Dim
lek, 27, farmer living near Extra, la.,
and hi* ion John. 4. were drowned In
a cistern on a farm a mile east of
Extra.
The father and SQn returned late
in the evening from town and th»
former Immediately went about his
chore*.
The little boy accompanied him to
the barnyard.
When supper time came Mrs. Dim
lek lnstluted a search when the two
did not return to the house.
' Their bodies were found In the cis
tern, it Is believed the boy tumbled
In and that the frenzied father plung
ed In after him.
There were nine feet of water In
the cistern.
Ulmlck was a world war veteran.
EDUCATION WEEK
APPEAL ISSUED
Spec I® I IMupilch tu The Omnhn lire.
I.lncoln. Nov. 17.—John M. Matzen.
superintendent of public Instruction,
today Issued an appeal to the people
of Nebraska to join In making mi
tlonal education week, November 17
22, "an event worthy of this stale
which has less percentage of Illiter
acy than any state In the union."
"In Nebraska,” Matzen said, "we
can make this week the occasion of
the greatest statewide educational
rally ever known by putting on nn
Intensive campaign of salesmanship
that will really sell' education to the
people. There Is a favorable attitude
on the whole toward the schools but
It Is passive and It should be made
active.
"If we hope to enlist an active ln
ten»t we must advertise the alms
and'purposes of education and let the
public understand iho values and vir
tues of the educational structure they
are supporting,
‘ It Is the duty of all friends of ed
ucation therefore to think seriously
and work hard on I he problem of
keeping the Idea of public education
before all the people ’
CHIROPRACTORS
ELECT OFFICERS
OUpntrh to Thr Omnhn Bfr
Unhimbtis, Nob . Nov. 17. — Pr. I.er
Edward*, M. lb. Omnhn chiropractor,
has been elected provident of thr Nr
braska branch of thr Universal Chi
ropractor* a**oclatlon at thr organ
ir.ntlon's state convention hove, ac
cording to Or. Clara H. Acrni, Colum
bu*. president during the past year.
Other officer* chosen were: DrJ
Wand* J. Hoyle, Nebraska City, vice
president; Dr. (J. o Cii*t, I.lncoln,
secretary; Dr. A. .1 Uuengnlor, (Jen
evn, treasurer.
General discussion of business mat
ters relative In the Interest* of the
organ 1/.atInn, through formal a* well
a* a wide variety of forma) talk*,
and promotion of a better acquain
tance with one another through the
opportunity for nodal mixing t harm'
characterised tho session*.
Tho convention, ths fourth annual
gathering of flic Nebraska branch of
the Universal Chiropractors asoda
tlon. dosed with a banquet in the
Thurston huitl this avanlng.
First Gale
of Winter
Hits East
Snowfalls Reported From Mis
sissippi East to Coast; Storm
Rages Along Atlantic
Seaboard.
Temperature Dropping
By rnitprml Sfrvlff,
Chicago, Nov. 17.—A light snowfall
—the first of the season for Chicago
—whitened the ground today and
gave warning of winter’s approach.
The temperature was near the freez
ing point most of the day.
Snowfalls were reported from the
Mississippi river east to the Atlantic
coast.
A storm raged along tlie Atlantic
seaboard and ships arriving at New
York today were covered with snow
and ice. according to dispatches from
New York. One sailor was washed
overboard from the White Star liner
Adriatic when she encountered a 90
mile gale off the American coast.
(apt. Roy Maxwell, Canadian air
official, was lost in a blizzard that
swept the northern Oreut lakes, ac
cording to a message from Sault Ste.
Marie, Canada. Searching parties
had failed to find him up to a late
hour today.
New York had the lowest tempera
ture for many years, 18 degrees
above zero.
The weather bureau told of unset
tied conditions over the middle west
and Intimated other storms would
sweep over the country before the
end of the week.
Benton Harbor, Mich., Nov. 17.—
Snow' flurries of Sunday developed
into the first big snowstorm of the
winter today. The temperature was
18 degrees above zero at 4 p. m.
Several Inches of snow remained on
the ground.
Milwaukee. Wia.. Nov. 17—Milwau
kee and most of Wisconsin Is in the
grip of a blinding snowstorm. The
storm already has caused unt death
and numerous minor accidents. John
O. Knfahr. 6 years old, was killed by
a skidding truck. The storm prom
ises to break a 28-year record for No
vember.
JUDGE TO SPEED
GOVERNOR’S SUIT
Hy Associated Press.
Springfield, 111., Nov. 37.—Litiga
tion over state funds Governor Len
Small is alleged to have withheld
while state treasurer of Illinois, today
proceeded another step when Circuit
Judge Frank Burton. In receiving the
report of the master tn chancery that
the governor must account for
$1.000.000, declared his intention of
pushing the case before Attorney
General Edward J. Brundagee retires
from office. Oscar Carlstrom. who
was elected to succeed Brundagee,
made speeches during the campaign
in which he declared he would dis
miss the suit.
Evidence submitted in the civil suit
was of the same nature ns that pre
sented tn the criminal case tried at
Waukegan.
At a isditleal rally at his home tn
Kankakee following his election No
vernber 4, Governor Small thanked
the voters of Illinois for their confi
dence In him and vindication of the
charges, ns he Interpreted the large
vote given him.
Circuit Judge Burton announced
that his hearing of the master s re
port will open next Monday.
ESCAPED PRISONER
ACQUIRES “TITLE”
Auburn, N. Y.. Nov. 3 7.—The atom
of how an escaped Auburn prisoner
broke Into Washington, P. C., society
while representing himself as Lord
Syke. was unfolded when he was ar
raigned in court here today on a
Charge of unlawful escape
William S Cownie. the heralded
"Lord Svke," told the court that at
the time of his apprehension In
Washington lie was alioiit to confer
hit "title" upon the daughter of one
of Washington's prominent naval of
ficers nfter hating fleeced another
woman, over rieslrlous to be Ij»dy
Svke out of several thousand dollars
arid a hotel keeper out of a large
hoard bill fiSr hla luxurious apartment
which he maintained.
The hotel proprietor was respon
sible for his capture.
State Rate I \port Will
l'i(ilit (!oal Tariff Raise
Hpectnl Dlspateh tn The Omaha Itre.
Lincoln, Nov. 17.—lr. G. Powell,
rate expert for the Nebraska rati
wav commission, left for Washington
today to represent the state before
tit,* interstate commerce commission
in n cool rate case involving freight
charges from Colorado and Wyoming
mines in points In the state.
An ivintlner for the federal bo,l\
lias loommeiuled that rates from
southern Colorado mines Into Xebra*
ka tic lowered, but that those from
Wionting to territory In this state,
west from Grand Island. Hastings
and Nupelor tie raised. The rnmnds
slon Is fighting the latter part of the
recommendation of the federal ex
amlner,
Missing Girl Found
at Y. W. C. A. in Omaha
A frantic four-day search for Ger
trude Rasnick, IT, was concluded last
night when she was discovered living
at the Omaha V. W. C. A. under an
assumed name.
News of the discovery was reported
to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Rasnick. and she was at once taken
to her home.
Fremont Police
Arrest 4 Bovs on
Theft Charges
i
Youths Admit Stealing Num
erous Automobiles From
Streets During Last \ear;
Captured After Chase.
Hperial IM*pat«h to Th« Omaha Bw.
Fiemont, Xeb., Nov. 17.—With tlu
arrest of four boys, all under 17 yeari
of age, police believe they have solved
the numerous automobile thefts that
have occurred in Fremont the lap?
year. The boys are Blanchard Beem
er and Ora McQuire, on parole from
the State Industrial school. and Lyle
Fitzsimmons and Ted Lincoln.
The capture of the lads followed th'j
theft of a touring car owned by C.
J. Malmsten Sunday night. The ma
chine was taken from its parkins
place in front of a local church
Sheriff Condit and an aide, stationed
on the south edge of town, saw the
machine speeding across the Platte
river bridge and gave chase.
The rar was later found abandoned
and a net spread around that portion
of the t wn resulted in th® arrest of
Lincoln Leemer and Wtzsimmons
Their confessions implicated McQuire.
who was also brought in.
The boys admitted the theft of
other cars. Condit stated. Charges
will be filed Tuesday.
WORLD FACING
GRAIN SHORTAGE
Ottawa, Out.. Nov. 17.—The world
this year faces an estimated bread
grain shortage of 574.000.000 bushel'*
—401.000.000 of wheat and 173.000.000
of rye—it was estimated h,v T. K. Do
herty. commissioner of the interna
tional Institute of Agriculture at
Rome.
The estimate is based upon official
returns trt the institute from all im
portant countries of the world w ah
the exception of Russia, Mr. Doherty
said.
Recent forecasts of European re
quirements have ranged from 600,00?.
noo to 650.000,000 bushels of wheat,
he nsserted. He estimated that the
bread grain shortage in Europe, as
compared with production and colt
sumption last year, would be 340,
000,000 Jnishels divided 177 5 million
bushels of wheat and 167 5 million
bushels of rye.
POLICE TO PROBE
JERSEY CITY FIRE
Jersey Pity, X J . Nov. IT -Police
were working toda> to determine the
truth or falsity of a report that
pyromanfac* caused the $2.000 00"
blaze which swept several piers. In
Jured three men and menaced the en
tire waterfront in the lower section
f the city yesterday.
The fii e. Jersey Pity a second in
which millions were ! st within thro**
days, followed so closely upon the
heels of the first that police and fire
officials, unable to determine definite
Iv the cause of either, declined to
make a statement one wa> or an
other.
Solar Hrfininj: Dividend.
New York, Nov. IT—An extra divi
dend of |5 n share in addition to the
regular semi annual dividend of $
today was declared by director* of the
iSolar Heflning company.
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I More Than
One Murder
a Day There
Cleanup Following Challengt
of O’Hanion Lieutenant Nets
Police Few Heal Gun
men or Gangsters.
Politics Is Involved
By A. J. I.OKKNZ,
t'niveraal service staff Correspondent.
Chicago, Nov. 17.—Chicago began
a renewed attempt today to cut down
Its homicide average of "a murder a
day." The average, as a matter of
fact, is higher thin that, 294 for 1924
so fur, and 37 for the last month,
arid bids fair to top all exieting rec
ords or averages if reprisals are
started among gangsters over the
slaying of Dion O Banion.
man, has issued an open challenge
to the slain leader's enemies and
assassins to "name a place and shoot
it out."
To forestall what the authorities
fear may become a "wholesale duel,"
Mayor William E. Dever Issued or
ders to arrest every gangster sus
pect, disarm him and bring him to
trial if possible.
The roundup over the week-end
netter 700 men. The jails and
courts were jammed with protesting
men, but the count of "artillery"
found on them revealed eight revol
vers. a dozen razors and three long
knives.
Mayor Dissatisfied.
Few of ihe prisoners were hard
| faced and none of the popular gang
sters, those named In the annals of
|the feuds and taken in connection
j xvith almost every slaying that shows
a “gang" complex, was among them,
although they are well known char
acters.
Mayor Dever. whose strict adher
ence to the program of law enforce
ment upon which he made his cam
paign, expressed himself dissatisfied
with 1 lie outcome of the wholesale
an esls.
"What 1 want these raider* to do
is to bring in the gunmen and other
well known criminals," Mayor Dever
declared today.
“They are making nd impression
on me by jamming the police sta
tions full of men, many of whom are
more or le-ss innocent.
‘"What we want is the gunman and
the known criminal."
This brought rumors that Mayor
Dever would request the resignation
of Morgan Collins, superintendent of
.police. Mayor Dever. however, de
clared that he was satisfied with
Chief Collins’ work and would not
heed the request of other to demote
him.
Chief Collins laid the reports that
he would resign to the fact that he
had incurred the enmity of political
leaders and bootleggers through hi^
adherence to Mayor Dever's program
of law enforcement.
Political Shakeup.
"Because every fellow can't do
| "hat he wants in Chicago, they want
1 someone who will let them," Collins
declared. "If Dion O'Baion were
| alive today he would head the list of
.those asking that I 1>e removed,
"I know that I have made non*
ipt inductive Jl.OOO.i'OO worth of prop
|' rty bv the police fight on vice,
j gambling, moonshfning and bootleg
-ing. 1 1 i ye put m end to the
biggest bonanza controlled by a set
f clt rers that ever operated outside
the law."
Friends of Collins, whom Mayor
Dover raised from the ranks to head
the police f roe, s*\ that he is being
blamed for the recent democratic de
feat In Cook county. Chief Collins
war on Speeders which haa resulted
ir. the arrest of thousands of motor
ists, It is charged, cost the democrats
many votes. The police fight on pro
hibition they declared had the same
effect In many of the "net wards."
Thus the slaying of a gangster
chieftain has brought about a shake
up in Chicago's political affairs that
may halt Chicago's crime record.
3 MEN KILLED
IN CAR CRASH
Redondo Beach. Cal., Nov, 17 —
: Three Mexicans w ere killed and three
I seriously Injured teal ay when a Ft
i-ific electric interurtvin car bound
(from the beach to Do. Angeles struck
• k is ; ",c handcar on which a dozen
I or more section hands were riding.
Hank Uobltt'r ( aplurotl.
Vlbuquerque, N M. N--v i:._The
First State 1 ink at Dei v -men, N.
M , was r-obhed this morning by
a lone bandit who took $3,200.
The robber t scaped in an automoble.
but a p sso took up the trill and cap
tured him within an hour and re*
i covered the money. The prisoner re*
1 fused Is* gi'e his name. lie was
j taken to jail at Clayton,
Gillette’?- I kpoiiv's, > >.88.Y t0.
spring field, Vis* N. 1 17—it peak
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