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C1TY EDITION VOL. 54_NO 227< OMAHaT~FRIDAY> MARCH 6. 1925. *TWO CENTS10 -'
Dawes Not
Disciplined
by Senate
",'oloin \X hone Dignity \Y a*
Offended l>y New \ ire
President Change Minds
About Taming Him.
Hale Shoulders Blame
"Washington, March 5.—Angered
and resentful of the way Vice Presi
dent Dawes cut corners off Its time
honored customs, the senate set out
Today to teach its new presiding off!
cer a lesson In senatorial dignity.
There were whispered stories of
•plans for "taming him now" and
"clipping his wings before he goes
further.”
But a recess, during which some
senators cooled off and a spirit of
t easor.nbleness got In its work on
0 both sides of the chamber, resulted In
what was covertly advertised os to be
a sound spnnkipg, being reduced to1
a slap on the wrist.
It developed that the senate was
not so offended because the new vice
president In his Inaugural address
pounded his fist on the table, shook
ids finger and shouted when he de
clared for changing the rules to out
law- the one man filibuster. The feel
ing (ft dignity was particularly out
raged, it developed, first, because the
vice president had Interrupted the
ceremony of new senator* signing the
roster in the presence of their col
leagues, and, second, because he had
not returned to the senate chamber
to preside after the inauguration of
President Ooolidge outside.
Hale Explains.
The second cause for complaint was
speedily removed when Senator Hale,
Maine, one of the members of the in
augural committee, took It all on him
self and explained that he had errone
ously told the vice president it was
not necessary for him to return.
The bruise from the first blow was
assuaged by the unanimous adoption
of a resolution providing that for thin
one time only It should be considered
for the purposes of the permanent
record that the new senators signed
the roster In the fashion the senate
rules prescribe, although they do not
do so.
Dawes suggested the ceremony be
performed over again in the regular
•way, hut .Senator Curtis, the repub
dloan leader, replied that the adoption
0m of the resolution proposed by Senator
Reed, democrat, Missouri, would save
time _
The troubled waters having been
nu-h rxlmed by that time, Senator
Jleefl did not press this threat to
fore* s reeding of the journal of the
inauguration "May proceedings and
Thus disclose that the official record
have been made to show what was
supposed to have occurred rather than
what really did take place.
End Is Peaceful.
IVh.-it had threatened to be a spec
tacle with most of the 9fi senators
hazing a new presiding officer- came
to a peaceful end with a brief execu
tive session and adjournment for the
day.
Just before the senate quit, how
ever, Senator Underwood, democrat,
Alabama, reintroduced his resolution
for amendment of the senate rules
and It was referred to the rules com
mittee.
AVhen the senate assembled there
was a brand of electricity sparking
around the chamber. Galleries were
packed; privileged individuals crowd
ed in on the floor and every senator
in town was at his desk. The at
mosphere was like It must have been
on a Roman fete day, when some
body was going to he fed to the
Hons.
The filled chamber waited as the
senate clock arrived at^oon and not
before then did Vice President Dawes
come into the chamber. He stepped
quickly through the door and up on
the presiding officer's dais, save the
desk a rap with the gavel and with
W out saying a word stepped back In
favor of the senate chaplain. More
eyes were on the vice president than
were reverently rest down. The vice
president, looking quite unruffled
and unconcerned, although he knew
whnt was In the air, gave his atten
tion to the prayer.
Fireworks Begin.
Then bo called the senate to busi
ness with another short, smart rap
and the fire crackers began to snap.
Senator Hale, Maine, was recog
nized and began to explain why
Dawes had not returned to the eham
; er after the inauguration ceremo
nies outside. Senator Reed cut him
off. making the point that there was
no business before the Seriate for dis
cussion. Hale replied that he whs
sperklng to a point of'personal privi
lege, whereupon Senator Reed said
that In those circumstances he with
drew bis" objection.
We Have
With Us
Today
Watts O. Pye!
Fenrhow, China,
Missionary.
Mr. Pye went to China following
the Boxer rebellion. H# spoke to 400
Omaha ns st the First Central Congre
gational church Thureday night. He
1* a graduate of the Carleton college
and the Oberlln seminary. According
0? to Rev. Frank G. Smith of the First
Central Congregational church. Mr.
Pye ha* made an enviable record se e
missionary In his many yeare In
China "lie Is an unusually good
men." Dr- Smith ssid.
Mr. Pye leaves Omaha Friday for
Denver. He arrived from Kansas
City Thurad*;,
Stokes Relates ^eird Tales of His
Search for Ev a3M -J& /ife
-un Aiun oos
Aged Millionaire 1 ells <,.ourt -U0IS1H -J-v and j
Other Cities for Proof of P .. m\n ne Believed His
Young and Pretty Mate Possessed Before Marriage.
Hi I iii\ frsil Service.
Chicago, March R.—William E. It.
Stokes, elderly millionaire, told a
jury In criminal court here today
his many and varied experiences In
the role of detective In search of
evidence against his young and
pretty wife, Helen Ellwood Stokes.
He was testifying In defense of
himself on charges of conspiracy
to defame her.
It was a weird and Intricate tale
he narrated, and most of the fore
noon and all of the afternoon did
not provide him with sufficient
time In which to tell it all. Tomor
row he will continue if his voice,
which was getting strained and
cracked at adjournment time, per
mits.
Hlackmail Attempts.
In the story of how he combed
Chicago and other places for proof
of a past which he liud been told
Mrs. Stokes possessed, Stokes In
jected all that goes to make up an
Intriguing fiction talc. There were
assumed identities, detectives lurk
ing In the shadows, attempts to
blackmail him, stolen bags and
documents, lights that winded out
mysterious warnings that he was
In deadly peril.
The actual things that menaced
him, however, were few. A doctor
threatened to kick him out of an
office for lying to bins, a negress ac
tually did chase him from her door
step with a broom to the accom
paniment of Billingsgate.
No End to Trial.
“But 1 was determined," said
Stokes. “I wanted evidence, reli
able evidence," he thumped the rail
beside the witness chair, "that my
wife was nut a proper person to
have custody of our two children.”
Before hi mthc will-o-tlie wisp
that just around the corner waited
tlie persons that could supply him
with that evidence always lured
him on, even after he became sus
picious that those persons wiio al
ways seemed to be bobbing up out
of nowhere with hints that they
knew something really his identity
and were trying to mulct him out
of his money.
Obtained Affidavits.
Stokes presented a picture of him
self, money in one hand and pic
tures of his wife in the other, ap
proaching scores of ex-servants, ex
cah drivers, ex-this and ex-that, in
ihe underworld, asking for some
thing tangible about the Helen Tn
derwood who, l.e lias convinced, was
really ill* wife, under another name,
in tlie days before he married her.
Out of Ills investigations he got a
huge sheaf of affidavits and un
sworn statements, a lot of back
stairs gossip in New York and Chi
cago and Denver and other places
in written form which, to ills mani
fest regret, .Judge Gemmifl flatly re
fused to have read into the record.
A score of tlie most damaging of
those, some of which were used in
Ills divorce suits, were summarized
and put into tlie record by his at
torney white the jury was absent,
in order that exceptions to the rul
ing barring them might be made.
But not even these salacious tid
bits were audible to the spectators,
for by the court's orders they were
dictated to the stenographers In a
whisper.
Wilbur Probing
Case of Kennedy
»
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Naval Secretary Asks Further
Data Regarding Officer
Held as Insane Patient.
Washington, March It.—After an
examination of the medical report on
which Lieut. Frank K. Kennedy was
placed In the state hospital for the.
Insane at Napa, Cal., Secretary Wil
bur has asked the medical authorities
at Mare Island navy yard for a fur
ther report on the officer's mental
condition which may result in his
being restored to duty and immedi
ately granted leave to recover his
health.
Habeas corpus proceedings to ob
tain Lieutenant Kennedy’s release
from the asylum, Instituted by his
wife In the stale courts ijf California
ended lit a decision that the court
had no jurisdiction.
The medical report in Kennedy's
case, Secretary Wilbur said, showed
that he was suffering from hysteria
ami nervous disorders that made him
uncontrolable by the authorities at
the Mare Island hospital.
Wilbur feels, however, that It is
possible that Lieutenant Kennedy, If
restored to duty and granted leave,
would recover to a substantial degree
under the care of his wife and rela
tives nnd has requested the opinion
of the .Mare Island navy physicians
on that point.
Should the medical officers believe
It would be hopeless to attempt
restoration of the officer's mental
balance by this means, he probably
will be transferred to the government
hospital for the Insane here.
ATTRACTIVE GIRL
IS BOOTLEGGER
Chicago, March ,i.— Attractive
young women have entered the lucra
tive field of selling liquor*, prohibl
Hon ngente believed after a raid on a
downtown office, where Miss Loretta
Reynolds and a companion. George
Williams, were arresled. Seizure of
160 quarts of Canadian whiskey was
made. The prohibition agent* assert
ed they had traced Miss Reynolds to
the office after she had sold a bottle
of liquor.
FARMER DIES OF
APPENDICITIS
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bcs.
Humboldt. Neb.. March 5.—The
death of Gcoilte Snoke, "2. a farmer
living four miles north of this city,
occurred at Methodist hospital, Sf.
Joseph, at 12:30 today following an
operation fbV appendicitis. He leates
a wife and one child, two sisters and
ono brother.
I fall Meet* Ouota for
Big Meeting of Women
Ruffalo, N. Y., March 5—I tab was
the first state to meet Its quota In
the nationwide campaign for funds
to finance the sixth quinquennial
meeting of Hie International found!
of Women In Weehlngton, May 4 to
14, Mrs, Philip North Moore, presi
dent of the National Council of ilic
I’nited States, announced here todiy.
I tah’e quota ws* $2,600. Mr*. C, !S.
Williams of Salt. Lake City was winte
chairman.
Colorado, under the chairmanship
of Mrs. W. H. Klsller of Denver,
was second to report, rnachlng the
goal with $4,000. Acceptance* to at
tend the quinquennial have been re
calved from 37 foreign ‘countries.
Oage Tourney Result*.
Fatrbury, Neb., March 6. Results
In the first day’* play of the fifth
diet riel of ihe slate cage tournament
were as follow*;
Claes r>: !>*.vldn. 24 Ruakln, 1
Carleton, 18; Blue PprnUfe. 2. Court
land, li, Ctatonla, 2.
American Fears
He May Lose Life
Mexican Government Move?
1o Protect Man 1 pon
Ranch of Mrs. Evans.
■ ■ ■ ——
Dr Associated Press.
Mexico City. Mexico, March 5.—The
Mexican government is taking steps
to protect the life of George Camp,
an American, and the administrator
of the sen Pedro' Coxtocan hacienda,
near San Martin Texmelucan. State
of Puebla, it was learned today un
officially but authoritatively.
Friendly representations were made
to the foreign office yeaterday by
American Ambassador Sheffield
whereupon information, which had
been lodged with the T'nited States
embassy by Camp, was placed before
the executiv e department of tlie gov •
ernment. Tt was said President Calles
himself was taking a personal inter
est in the investigation.
Camp alleged he was forced to
nbandon ins hacienda after attempts
were made to ambush him and the
greater part of the property expro
priated in violation of the agrarian
legislation. The hacienda formerly
was owned by Mrs. iiosalle Evans, nil
American woman and widow of a
British subject who was killed last
August in an ambush near the ranch.
In addition to furnishing Camp
with guarantees of personal safety, it
was learned tlie government was
manifesting a great desire lo co-op
erative wit It the I'nlted States diplo
matic representatives to reach an
agreement setttling finally the prob
lems affecting the former Evans
ranch.
BEAUTY PARLOR
DEATH PROBED
t.os Angeles, Cot.. March S.— Tnllce
Investigation Into the death of Mrs.
Jessie Gllchrlat. Pasadena business
woman who, authorities were told,
died yesterday under an anaesthetic
while tindergoing a. facial alteration
In a Hollywood beauty parlor, was
suspended today pending a chemical
analysis of the organs of the
woman's Isxly.
Th» analysis waa ordsred when the
county autopsy surgeon announced
| that an autopsy had failed to reveal
the cause of death,
Anti-Japanese Bill Die*
in Senate of Kansas
Topeka. Kan.. March f».—-The bill
which would prohibit Japan©** from
owning or leaning land in Kan ruim
wan killed In th* *enat* thin after
noon when n motion to ntrik* out
iIt* enacting claim* wan carried. Th*
meanure hnd heen panned h\ the
hotiae.
K hm Measure Tallied.
Topaka, Kan.. March G. The hill >o
admit the Ku Khix Klan to tlie slate
without a Kansas charter became n
dead Issue In the legislature when
the house tnhied a motion for fnvot
able action.
Married in Connell Bluffs.
The follotvln* person* ohlAlnod mar
liar* Uoanoaa in Council muff* va*t*r
dny •
1C. A. I.amanwaiter. Mchuylar, Nab . *0
Eliza l;**f h Aanaa Dittrich*. Colurabua 11
I.aall* caddabark. I*§lm*r, Nab.1*
Coin* Vogt. Palmar. Vab.1ft
I>abr*|| Haaktna. Omaha . *4
Myrn Harbin. Omaha ., 2*
Corwin l.ut-aa Jon**. Royal. Nah.11
Mahal f.velvn Rnifa*. Royal, Nab. ... Ill
H. R. Hampton, Kanaas City. M#. ,. I&
llora Roach, Tula* Okla. 11
n«’ Elliott. Omaha .17
"tana Madaan Omaha .. 11
Prgd (1. Oo«hr|ng Council Rluff* . . M
Martha Rrhrlahar Council Flluffa . I*
tunica Orvllla Wright. Kama* City ”1
Wilma II. Titlmbold. T’larra. R. D.It
•Han llalo’if Madlaon. Nab, .14
Mauda MVam. MadUon. N*h .... 21
i.oul* Harrington. Council Itltjff* 19
Palphla Harbour. t'ounHI rlluffa 1*
W \t Fallr. Omaha 2*
Rhirltv 'tor#' Omaha 11
Haury M lyr«ana*n Omaha . "I
£>.». y Wil.as. Orebar4. M'uk. ... 1.
Arrest Will j
be Made in 1
Germ Death
Heir to MeClintoek Kstate
Disappears and \\ arrant
Is Issued at Once; No
Charges Filed.
Bought Typhoid Germs
Ilj l nlverbal Vrtlef.
Chicago, March 5.—The arrest of
William D. Shepherd, chief figure in
the investigation into the death of
William Nelson MeClintoek, million
aire orphan, shortly after he had
made a will In behalf of Shepherd,
was ordered by the state's attorney’s
office tonight^
No charge will lie preferred against
Shepherd immediately. This order
for his arrest followed futile efforts
to find him for the purpose of con
fronting him with the woman pro
prietor of a biological laboratory who
said his pictures resembled those of
a man to whom site sol<l typhoid
germs.
Conspiracy t barged.
Shepherd's disappearance came
hard on the heels of an attempt by
his attorney, Edwin Hedrick, to block
a threatened investigation of McClln
tock’s death by a grand jury.
"I came here to show that some
of the witnesses who have testified
at the coroner's inquest have com
mitted the rankest perjury,” said
Hedrick' after a long conference with
assistant state's attorneys. ’’There
is a damnable conspiracy in this case
and I Intend to prove it."
Hedrick protested against the
methods of questioning witnesses by
the prosecutors. He declared that
Marie Gaertner, his former Disld and
a witness to the MeClintoek will, was
In a state of collapse as the result
of the ordeal to which she had been
subjected.
Threatened With Jail.
lie said she had been threatened,
called vile names ami frightened by
hints of Jail. Formal denial was Is
sued by the slate's attorney.
Reports persist that Judge Harry
Olson, who has been the active factor
in the attempt to fasten a criminal
charge on Shepherd, has filed appli
cation with the attorney general of
the state that he take a hand, thus
removing the state's attorney of Cook
county from further handling of the
matter.
MORS LOSES FIGHT
FOR WIFE’S JEWELS
1.0* Ang'drs, Cal.. March *—Jewels
valued at S20.0U, formerly owned by
Mr*. Theresa •w. Mors, who was
found shot to dcotli la** August, and
In connection with whose death
'Kid'' McCoy, former prizefighter,
was convicted of manslaughter
sparkled in court here today when
her former husband lost a bill of *e
covery suit to Victor C. Emden, for
mer business associate of Mrs. Mors.
Albert A. Mors, the ex husband,
alleged that Emden was withholding
the Jewels which had been trusted to
him a* security on a loan that line!
been paid.
Emden testified that he bought the
jewels from Mr*. Mors for j^.MiCi
and since the purchase had been
forced to pay 12 300 duty on them to
the government, which labeled them
as smuggled good*.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN
DISCOVERED DEAD
Special Dispatch to The Dinah* lies.
Stella. Neli , \fsrch R.—The nnlderr
tified body of a man of 2* or 30. clad
In a soldier * uniform, was found to
day lying on the hank of a creek, the
dividing line of the Fell* Marts and
the Albeit Griffith farm*, near here
Th« man had apparently been dead
since ntiout February 21. Near hint
was found a revolver. One shell had
been exploded.
I'Mnton Morris, on Ms way into
Stella, walked along the creek hank
He crashed through e clump of brush
and stumbled over the body.
There was no note near the body,
no .mark of Identification In the
clothe*. Tn one pocket wna found 11
cents, Tn another a calendar with
each day checked off until February
21 had been reached.
Tha sheriff was called from Fall*
f'lty nnd the body w a* removed to
an undertaking establishment.
Lynching of Mexican
in Nevada Tail Fcarctlj
Rerrf*. Nev., March 5.—Threat* of
lynching* of A. T>eco»tn, n Mexh an |
who Miot nnd killed n deputy nherlff
at Klko oarlv Monday and who lm
nine# pleaded nelf -defoniM*, have led
75 Mexicans of Klko to form nn a*
anoint Ion to retain a lawyer for 1 )«
coat a. * Report* that the Mexicans
had formed a guard around itin iail
were denied today. It wu* on Id that
while there |* noine race feeling evi
dent., no talk of fighting or aerioii*
trouble hn* been heard.
Horgluni Returns for
Hearing in < Carolina
Vtw York. March f>. (jutznn Borg
lum, the ficiilptor, left today for
Oteenaboro, N\ f\, to appear nt a
hearing on n writ of hnben* corpua
Uaued In connection with the mail
clou* mischief charge* preferred
agnfnat him following the deatruc
tlon of tha Stone Mountain memorial
model*.
Assistant Secretary of
, Agriculture Re*i|rii'
Washington. March & l>r. K. !»
Ball, director of Mdeutlfic work In
th* t >e part meet of Agt icult ure toil
formerly aaaittant . *ecretar>. h i*
submitted hi* resignation hut Pec
rttary Igrdln* ha* not \r t artel
upon it
1
Rum Agent j
Held Up by
Armed Pair
Posses Scour Western Iowa
for llootlc^ Suspects Who
Kscaped Sunnier
J. Knox.
Bluffs Police Assist
Posses are scouring the country
side In the vicinity of Missouri Val
ley. la., in search of two men, sus
pected of being members of a ban
dit gang who yesterday forced Sum
ner J. Knox, prohibition agent, from
their automobile at the point of a
gun.
Knox was making one of periodical
< hecks of drug stores In Missouri Val
ley. As lie left a store he noticed
two men getting Into nil automobile
near tlie Missouri Valley hotel.
One of tlie men. Knox believed, lie
recognized as a man who had been
convicted of bootlegging ib Council
Bluffs. He went to tlie machine to
investigate.
Pull (sun on Him.
Noticing s suitcase in tlie ' ma
chine, he asked what it contained
slid was told that it was clothing.
He ordered the ling opened and
found that two revolvers and two
flashlights were secreted there.
Tlie men said that they were swine
buyers and were carrying tlie weap
ons as protection from robbers.
Knox had his revolver in a brief
case which be carried. He attempt
ed to extract the weapon and one
of the men, lhe younger, drew a re
volver from his pocket, pointed it at
the prohibition agent and ordered
him to “hack away."
While Knox stood against tlie ho
tel building with ids hands high In
the air the men started their ma
chine and escaped.
Two Olliers \i rested.
Sheriff Walter Milliman of Mis
souri Valley was notified of vvhgt had
happened at once. Ho organized a
Vosse and started in pursuit of the
ear.
Police st Council Bluffs were called
and they also started out to search
for tlie car.
A few mill's from Council Bluffs
the police met a machine traveling
toward them. While it was still some
hundred yards away it swerved,
plunged into the ditch and upset.
Two men leaped from the wrecked
machine and ran into the brush.
Find far Thieves.
\ search of tlie brush resulted ill
the arrest of Hubert Swanson and
Harry 1 tin'll Ivnux. upon reaching
Council Bluffs, went to the city Jail
and looked at tlie two men. They
were not the same , two who had
threatened him, lie said.
The two men. however, are said by
poljr© to have confessed to stealing
tlie automobile, which they wrecked,
in Mollne„lll. Tlie car bore Iowa li
cense plates. These, the confessions
state, were sullen in Cedar Kapids,
la.
Sheriff Milliman continued to
search for ttie men who started the
trouble in Missouri \ alley. It is
believed that tlie men doubled back
to their starting point.
EARLY TRIAL FOR
WHEELER URGED
Great Falls, Mont., March 5.— FI*
quest that the trial of United States
Senator B. K. Wheeler, under in
dictment in federal court here on a
charge of having represented a cli
ent before the Department of the
Interior after he had taken office as
s senator, he ^et os soon after March
15 as possible, was made of United
States District Judge Charles N
Pray here today by S. C. Ford of
Senator Wheeler's counsel
Judge Pray replied that the wish**
of Judge Frank Dietrich of Idaho,
who is to hear the case, would have
to he consulted The calendar is to
he get March 11, and present plans
provide for calling n trial Jury about
March 23.
Ford said United States Senator T.
J. Walsh of Montana, J. H. Baldwin.
Senator Wheelers law' partner, and
he are the only attorneys of record
for the defense.
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Security Proposal* of
Germany Arc ^ deomed
Bj Tress.
T.ondon, March 5 Austen Cham
l ei In in, foreign secretary, speaking
in the house of commons today, re
ferred to the Orman security pro
posals, saying the government wel
earned this new* move by Germany
which might have great possibili
ties for the pence and security nf the
World. It might, he amid, 1»* the
starting point f»»r t real recovery in
the KttropCMti situation.
I'lallMiioutli VIusous
In Itr Initiated in Omaha
Twcntv right candidates for the de
gree of Mont KxceHeut Master from
the NehruSkn chapter. No. 3. Royal
Arch Masons, Plattanmuth. will l*e
h* ought t«» Omaha March 1 ft to he
initiated at Scottish Bite cathedral.
Ostrander Store I,noted.
spr-lal t«* The OntsliA Bee.
Beatrice, Neb . March 5. Thieves]
cnrlv ibis morning entered the gener
n| stoir of John Ostrander In tilen
over, suburb of Beatrice and escaped
with a small amount of loot which!
they hauled off !n a car. Officers
believe the\ were frightened avvgyi
before finishing the Job.
Hiuiudary Dispute Settled.
\\ nshfngton. March ’ The .^tnte
depsrtmenl announced a process v er
hal hail been signed in which pro
petals made hv Former Sooretarv
Hughes for the settlement of the long j
standlnn houndary dispute between !
Bi tisil. t oiombu end Peru were n |
' epied.
i
English Beauty Nearly Collapses
Undere Severe Grilling in Court
Former Wife of British Colonel Confesses She Was Mistress
of Sir John Cowans for Four \ ears and 1 hat Society
W as Familiar W ith Details of I heir Liaison.
l.omlun. March 5.—Amaitlng
stories of alleged international
friendships formed by Mrs. Dorothy
Muriel Dennlstoun during visits to
Ma.illid, l.lslion and Budapest were
brought out in the packed courtroom
today, when Sir Edward Marshall
Hall, counsel tor Lieut. Col. Ian
Onslow Dennlstoun. who is being
•sued by bis former wife for money s
she says she loaned him, subjected
her to a severe cross-examination.
The small, frail-looking woman
during the 10 1-2 hours' ordeal on
the witness stand, only once showed
signs of possible collapse. At the
end of the day's session of the trial
she broke out Into passionate sols
bins, when complaining that her
divorced husband's detectives had
been following her for a year.
Mrs. Dennlstoun ndmilted that
she had been the mistress of tire
late .Sir John Steven Cowans, quar
termaster general of the British
army during the world war from
April, 1 tilt*, to 1920. She said her
liaison with Sir John was ''well
known In so-called society.' Sue
further confessed intimacy in
Switzerland with a Spaniard named
IVUn, whom she met in Barcelona,
Spain, in 1921, and who was de
scribed as being connected with the
league of nations. She added that
she became encaged to him before
he left for Smttli America, although
Almina. Lady Carnarvon, who then
was the wife of the discoverer of
the tomb of Tut-ankh-ainen but now
Is married to Lieutenant Colonel
Dennlstoun, advised her not to
marry him, owing to the disparity
in their ages.
Sir Edward Marshall Hall offered
to read a list containing the names
of many other alleged admirers of
Mrs. Jjennistoun, but Justice Mac
cardie stopped him.
Mrs. Dennistoun denied allegation
concerning herself and I’rlnce Bela
udescal* hi, who is a member of the
Hungarian branch of a famous Ho
man family, and Osca: Senhouse,
an American officer killed In the
world war, _
Omaha Committee
Seeks Company to
Replace M.E. Smith
liivic Body at Second Meet
ing Asks Immediate (Com
pletion of T. (>. Bvrne
Purehase.
T. i’. Byrne's purchase of ihe M. E.
Smith it Co. stock; fixtures, business
and good will again was the subject
uf discussion by nine members of the
Ureater Omaha committee at a meet
ing Thursday afternoon.
The same nine members of the or
ganization wtio met in W. A. Fraser's
iifilce Wednesday gathered at the
Thursday meeting.
It was decided that some definite
action must be taken at once to force
the Byrne Hammer company to pay
l lie *1,sun.000 remaining due on the
purchase price.
"This money must be paid at
once." the members decided.
£1100,000 More Paid.
"It seems as if Tom Byrne bought
ihe place on the Installment plan,"
V. a. Fraser remarked upon being
told that the purchaser of the whole
sale dry goods house had made a sec
ond payment of >300,000 late Thurs
day afternoon.
Plans were considered by the men
for bringing another wholesale dry
goods lions* to Omaha to replace the
M. E. Smith company as soon as it is
closed by the purchasers.
"We nr* going after a new prop
osition ifi a 'i*d hot' manner.,' the
committee deMared in regard to this
plan.
'"Pile industrial committee is al
leadv in communication* with several
mercha utile establishments who we
hope will locate here."
•special Meeting Today.
Then came another announcement.
A special meeting of the (.'.renter
Omaha committee has been called for
Friday noon.
At this meeting to be held in the
Braudels restaurant, the wholesale
dry goods situation of Omaha will be
considered bv tii* entire body.
Among those wire, attended the
meeting Thursday were: W. I . Bax
ter. J. E. Davidson, Walter W. Head
and Frank .ludson.
CALIFORNIA HAS
NEW LICENSE LAW
Sacramento. Cal.. March 5.—No
marriage license may be issued In
allfornla until the expiration of five
lays after the application for It has
veeii mad*, under the terms of a bill
yassed by the senate today.
The amendment proposed to the
date* marriage laws also would pro
tide that the consent for the mar
•iage of a minor given by the i>ar
“nts nr guardian must lie approved
>y the judges of the eupeilor court
if such county. Applications for a
icense would lie posted in a con
iplcuoug place in the marriage lb
■ense department and kept posted
lor at lens* three day a.
I wo ill Be llangcd for
Death of Japanese Ionian
Auburn. C’al .March 5.—Bay Ar
nold of Sacramento and E. K. Saver
of San Francisco today were *-en
tenced to death on tha gallows for
Hi* murder of Mrs. 1. Nlnltnoya. a
Japanese woman at l’enryn, last No
V‘ember. Superior Judge .1. n Landl*
fixed Folsom prison hi the place of
execution and May 15 he the execu
tlon date for Arnold and May IT. a
week later, for Saver.
Attorneys for Hi** defendants filed
notice of appeal, which autometioally
euapends execution.
Hojt Prifei Kfarli Now
Hipli* in I'hree Market*
nsas t'ltv, Maivh f». Meg prices
foV treat grades were *13.55. another
new high level for the last four yeara.
Oklahoma city March I.- lings
sold for *13.75) tjve highest prices
since 1917.
East St. 1 .outs. Ilk. March
Butcher hogs sold at a top of *1«.
which Is Hie highest since November
< 1920.
I ilsnn I* ( Imirnidii.
a*hlvi£10n, M <»vh r>. OlMt^lMA
li\f> II 1*0 n of I Vinnr ilout. t It*
!?% th* \i#*t bouM. wno
I'hain^in of th# republican i ommli
m on couunmti#
V '
Thompson and
Forbes Divide
to Seek Appeal
Contractor Ha? Obtained W rit
to Supreme Court. V> liilc
\ et Bureau Head Ha?
Hearing Saturday.
Chicago. March 5.—Col. Charles R.
Forbes, former director of the T'nlted
I St ates veterans’ bureau, and John \V.
Thompson, i'htcago and St. Louis con
tractor. have divided forces in theh
effort® to hate reversed the federal
court sentences of two years’ Impris
onment and tlO.f'OO finis each after
they were convicted on charges of
fraud In the award of veterans' bu
reau contracts here. It was learned
.today.
Thompson has already se.-ured per
mission to carry his case direct to the
I'nlted States supreme court, while
Forbes will seek a writ of error and
supersedeas in the T’nlted States cir
cuit court of appeals Saturday.
Thompson Plea Granted.
Thompson's plea was graated on
the contention that hi seizing patters
from his office which were used as
c\ '.dene*, government operatives act
ed illegally. Attorneys for Forbes
said they were unaware today nf the
separation of Thompson's attorneys
from th»lr legal forces First dis
agreement among the defer.se for es
is said to have occurred during the
trial when Lewi® urged that FoaJ.es
and Thompson take the stand In
their own defense, only to 1* over
ruled by other counsel. The prose
cution mr.de much of the fact that
ihe defendants did not testify. In
his argument T-efore Justice Suther
land of the supreme court of the
l’nited States. James Hamilton Gew
is Thompson's attorney, contended
tint his client was legally prevented
from taking tite witness stand tie
cause during or.’se examination he
would have been required to Identify
|papers obtained illegally, and thus,
according to Lewis, provide a legal
manner for their introduction into
the case.
Tint I ■ in Chicago.
Both of the principals were in Chi
cago today In preparation for the
next steps in their case, hut Thomp
son was ill and It was on this ground
that the continuance of time for
posting an appeal bond was granted.
Ralph F. Porter, special assistant at
torney general, who aided in prose u
rtion of the case, arrived here from
Washington today. He said no .le
cisi.m had keen reached as to wheth
er other indictments now pending
and charging bribery and conspiracy
to brihe. would be prosecute.1 im
mediately.
TOO YOUNG TOWED.
YOUTH HANGS SELF
Bloomfield, la., March 5.— Because
he was refused a marriage license on
account of his youth. Fred Selman,
IT, son of a farmer near here, hanged
hlmselt today.
The boy's t»ody was found by chil
dren on the way to school. It was
hanging from a tree, three quarters
of a utile from home.
M ussolini \\ ill Attend
( liamln-i Sessiou Momla>
Tlotne. March 5.—Contrary to s ate
ments appearing in the opposition
press that 1'rentier Mu«sotinl would
not participate in the reopening of
the chamber of deputies but would be
represented by Minister of the In
terior Feder/.ont, the Messaggro (fas
olsil declares positive!.' that the pre
mier will be present in the chandler
ne\t Mond.u
Ship St'i/ur«'s l phold.
New York. March - Federal Judge
t.arvln, In a decision handed down In
Brooklyn upheld the right of the
1‘tilted States to seise vessels landing
or "proposing to land" liquor on
Aniertv.m shores from any plav e on
the high seas
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Movie Folk
Threaten to
Sue Hotel
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Fonteiicllc Faces Possibility o£
$70,000 in Soils as Result
of Hoard Hill
Arrest.
Accounts Now Paid
ttv International Nrwl Service.
Dee Moines, la., March £.—Suit.*
totaling $70,000 may lie filed against
the Hotel Fontenelle of Omaha, Nab.,
hy seven of the moving picture stars
here who were arrested today on tha
hotel's complaint that they had de
frauded it out of $237.
Bryant Washburn, one member of
the company, said that Attorney Guy
Miller li.id been questioned regarding
the suit. The basis of action would
be “false arrest and the humiliation
incident thereto.’’ lie said.
Ites Moines, la.. March 5.—Four
moving picture actors and actresses
together with the managers of the
"Movie Frolic,” with which they were
connected and who were arrested
here this morning on a charge of
jumping a board biil at the Hotel
Fontenelle. Omaha, spent two hours
in the police station and were re
leased at noon after their business
manager, H. A. DeYeaux, had secured
the $227.10 due the Omaha hostelry.
The actors and at tres'-es stated
their intentions of dissolving their re-*
lations with the Cosmic Production
company and of continuing their tour
of the country as an independent and
co-operative organization without
managers.
Those who were arrested were
Anna May Wong. Cullen Landis, Ena
Gregory, Jack Daugherty, actresses
and actors, and H. L. Tighe, presi
dent of the Cosmic company. DeYeaus
and Harry Anderson, managers.
Bryant Washburn, Joe Murphy and
Buth Stonehouse. other members of
the company, were not taken into
custody.
After the arresur DeYeaux, in com
pany with his wife and defectives, se
cured tlie money f"r payment of the
hotel hill by soliciting the aid of some
°f Mrs. DeVeaux’a friends in lies
Moines, it was said.
’Warrants charging efforts to de
fraud an innkeeper w ere issued Thurs
day by Deputy County Attorney Dan
Gross against seven members of the
I famous Hollywood movie party which
i tizitled here Holiday night.
According to the complaints, the
seven members of the company are
charged with leaving Fontenelle hotel
without paying their hotel bills,
which aggregate 1237.10.
Gomplains were issued against the
following persons:
Knj Gregor}’. $6.85: Cullen Lan
dis, SI2.90; Anna May Wong. $8.15;
II. I- Tighe. $50.45; Jack Daugh
erty, $15.15; Harry Anderson.
$21.14, and D. S. Fridener, tlMJi,
According to Herbert Moore, man
ager of the hotel, the stars left earlv
Tuesday morning for Des Moines,
leave in "Style.
‘‘They had our porter and eleCc
help them into taxicab* with their
baggage, tipped the porter and left in
areat style, except they neglected ts
I>ay their bills.” said Moore.
While stopping at the h^tel. the
m irs’ bills included room rent, tele
phone calls, shoe shines beauty pal
lor. drug store, laundry, valet, restau
rant. telegram service, and.on top of
this, several of the members pai
< based rallraad tickets ard charged
them to the hotel.
borne ot 'Em Paid.
According to Moor* the following
members of tlie show paid their bills;
Bryant Washburn, Buth Stonehouse.
Joe Murphy. H V DeYau. vice presi
dent of the Cosmic Production ccm
pan.v. which is promoting the tour
Manager Moore was strong in his
denunciation of the movie stars' to
day. ( ^B
I never dreamed they would Igivt
Without paying their bill." h« rate
"If t had noticed they wr.e ier*
Ing shoe shines and beauty parlo
work on their bills. I mould have held
them here."
Bellboys at the hotel said th* si -
tire eonitumy seemed to have a good
time and was free with their tips.
Manager Moore was making plans
at noon to accept several fur coats
in payment of their bills wher. h* re
ceived word from TVs Moines that II
A. De Ysu. manager of th# tour, had
paid tc I)es Moines police the entire
bitl for the company. $237.10.
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Summary of
the Day in
Washington
TUe sen.v.e confirmed th* sennretnji.
tion of Postmaster General New
Prank It *kt'!li'^i was sworn In a*
secretary of stat* and William M.
JnitUne as secretary of agriculture
Senator Swa radii, Virginia, relntto
dttced In tho s|ieclal session of th*
senate his world court resolution.
Senator George u Slew* N*w
Hampshire, was selected as rapu'e
llcan Candida!* for* pi eeklelit pro tap .
pore of the senate.
Representatlx• Tllson, Cor.ttwUeu,,
republican floor leader waa chose t
chairman of th* republican hou«e
committee on committees.
The senate, after two session*, d«
ridel whatever was done yeatardav
In violation ,.f senate rules when Vlre
President Hawes took the chap,
should he i msldered legal and propgi
President Poolldg* returned to th*
senate the nomination of Pharl^i K,
\\ irtrrn to t«e attorney general buy
omitted th* nomination of Thonrat I
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