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1' If II II maha Daily 0 Bee THE WEATHER ! Fair VOL. XLVII NO. 79. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1917.-TWELVE PAGES. SINGLE COPV TWO CENTS. JUDGE BOIES ADMITS LAUNDRY EVIDENCE IN VILLISCA CASE; KELLY SOUGHT MODEL IN NUDE Damaging Testimony, for a Time Ruled Out, Now to be Met by Defense; Minister Said to Have Told of Crime Before it Was Known; Ex pect Confession Today. By EDWARD LACK. ' .(Staff Correanondent for The Bee.) . Red Oak, la., Sept Special Telegram.) The prose cution this afternoon partially recovered lost ground in connec tion with the laundry feature of the Villisca az murder case by recalling William C. Miller, Macedonia druggist, who delivered to Re v. L. G. J. Kelly a package of laundry during the week following the murder. ' . ..'GIVE PREACHER'S RECORD. i " The prosecution hopes to prove that Jf the laundry was covered with blood stains which Kelly was unable to take . out himself. Evidence for the state today con cerned Kelly during the years 1913, 914 and 1915, when he was at Sioux , Falls, S. D, and Carroll, la. Three witnesses were from Sioux Falls, one from Winner, S. D., and six from Car roll, la. , A bit of testimony given to the grand jury, but not permitted in evi dence today, was that of Miss Beulah Callaway of Carroll, la., a 21year-old telephone . operator, who ctold the grand jury Kelly had asked her to ' pose in the nude for him. EXPECT CONFESSION TODAY. It is said the state will spring the confession Kelly made today. . Last week the testimony of Cora Marquard, laundry marker, and Mr. Miller, was stricken from the record by Judge Boies, because of incom petency of witnesses, hut by pursuing ' another course this afternoon the state was successful in getting enough of Miller's testimony in to indicate the point it is trying Jo register. v J The state" is endeavoing -Jfe show f. that a few days , after the 'murder, v.i Bluffs, laundry with no "name,; but with a slip attached, requesting that the package should be returned -to .- , Macedonia, which was done, accord. Ing to testimony of Miller, who pro duced an invoice of the laundry show ., ing that the basket containing Kelly's shirt and underwear was received back a ) - from the Bluffs on Saturday, June 15, 1912. Miller testified Kelly received the package, but did not leave ti at his place for laundry. .Near Bluffs at Time. - 1 To show that Kelly was near Coun cil Bluffs during the week after the muder, the state offered as exhibit No. 17, a postal card addressed by Kelly , at Omaha, 8:30 p. m., June 12, f 1912, the cad reading as follows: "Dear Mr. Miller; my business here' will detain me beyond 9: 18 in the mdrning, so I ywill not be home by . Carson tomorrow evening. Eldei A. M. Miller fixed up tha other, little ' deal with me and that I suppose can be counted in my.salay and be de ducted afer I get my freight bill paid and my goods out of depot at Manse. That is my duty now and I gave him receipt Rev. L. G. J. Kelly." V The significance of the postal card fin evidence, the prosecutions explains, is to establish, the probability of Kelly having delivered the laundry at Coun cil Bluffs himsef as stated by the laundry people. The judge admitted the postal card as evidence. V Prosecution Elated. The state was elated pver its suc ' "" Cess in this matter. During theday the prosecution got before the jury, in connection with the "bloody shirt" incident, testimony from various wit nesses who said Kelly told them he had sent a package to the laundry ai . the Bluffs. To one witness Kelly said his shirt had been stained by blood from his nose; to another, that the shirt was stained by blood while shaving, and another witness related v that Kelly said he stained the shirt by breaking a bottle of liquid in his valise. - Miller testified i that !h examined the , package which he delivered to Kelly and found it contained a shirt and underwear. tr " "" Attorney Mitchell ; asked ? Miller: "Have vou anv indeoe'ndent record of having sent a basket of laimdry to the Bluffs on Tuesday, Jnne 15, 19izr - "I have not," replied the witness, but in previous testimony he x . plained it had been the- custom to send a basket by express every Tiies day and receive it back on Saturday, , j . In this particular case he showed a .j laundry invoice containing the Kejly package, with date or Saturday, Tune 15,1912. - -. ' . To Admit Ticket .Records. The state expects to recover itself on another point which was ruled on adversely for them last week, namely. offering station records of Sidney, V. Ia-' to show that Mr. and Mrs. Will iam Simonds, now of Hamburg, la., traveled from Sidney to Carson, la., on a. Monday morning early in June (Continued on Page Twelve, Column One.) Daylight Saving Season. V Ends; Clocks Turned Back Amsterdam, Sept. 17. All clocks in Holland and Germany were put back an hour at 3 o'clock this morn ing. , The deyliRht saving schedule becan on April 15. "Summertime" also ended officially in England at 3 a. m. today. 4 ROSS ARB DRIVE ENEMY BACK AW Forces of New Republic United by German Menacauf PeJfoL 7 grad Protect Cjty Against ' an Invasidr&v'- (By AjaocUted PreM.) Petrograd, Sept 17. The army has taken new courage from the repub lican, government and is making a determined stand against , fierce ion-' alaughta of the Germans. ,,- . Not 'only has it been able to held Its' ground, but danger of theOine. f croiiuca4Joivtw.eea &jRUgaer rettograa Being broken is thought to have "passed. 'f1. That the encroachments of theGer. mans in their efforts to capture Petro grad influenced the'Russian leaders to get together and expel the common enemy is now a recognized fact. , Increased activity is noticeable on the various fighting fronts, especially near Kiga ana on the Isonzo. A stub born battle is in progress near the Zegevold farm, on the Riga-Pskoff road, thirty miles northeast of Riga. , wnemcr me acuon is a uerman at tempt in force or only a feint is un certain.. Petrograd, however, reports that the Russians are valiantly repell ing attacks. . Allies All Gain Ground. On the Bainsizza olateau. northeast of Gorizia, and in the region of Monte San Gabrielle, the Italians on Satur day advanced their lines on the south eastern edge. , 1 . v Italian troops gained ground yes terday along the southeast edge of the Bainsizza plateau, it' is announced officially. . More than 400 men were captured. '"'.'." Troops massed - in the Ravinica area, east ot Monte ban Oabnelle were bombarded with bout two and one-half tons of bombs by two of our aerial squadrons, says the state ment ' - In Champagne and in the Verdun region the German crown prince has made ineffectual attacks against the French lines. , Northwest of Rheims the French repulsed a strong German attack in the region of Loivre. Northeast of Verdun, on the right (Contlnoed on Pag Two, Column One) Germany Thanks Sweden; Sorry It Got In Bad London, Sept 17. Germany has sent a note to Sweden, according to the' correspondent at Stockholm of the Central JIews agency,-highly' re gretting the disagreeable issues raised on account of Sweden transmitting telegrams to Germany. ' Germany says it is obliged to the Swedish government for transmitting the messages,' but "regrets that" its representatives in Argentine should have sent the telegrams in the phrase ology they did. V Still a Chance to Enlist in State Troops Notu Training at Denting "Come -on ' in, the water's fine," writes Colonel Baehr of the. Fourth Nebraska at Deming. In a-most enthusiastic letter to Lieutenant Bruett-of the Army build ing, Colonel Baehr says the young men who didn't join the Fourth, Fifth or Sixth Nebraska are missing the time of their lives. But there is still time any one who wants to join the Nebraska brigade may apply, now at the Army building and Lieutenant Bruett will send them to Deming at once, to any company of any regi ment they desire, as there are still some vacancies. This arrangement was made when the .Nebraska boys were ordered to entrain for Deming, and the army recruiting officers in the Army build ing at Fifteenth and Dodge have re ceived permission from Washington to recruit for " the National "Cuards there, as well as for the "regulars." Colonel ', Baehr says Deming is a delightful camp, well located and con venient. ;' ' '..' , Recruiting for the army doesn't even stop over Sunday. At the Army building -yesterday twelve "men en listed for the army and were sent to Fort Logan, Colo. ; . n Once more the cavalry of the United States is open and ail who want to join this famous branch of the service will be' accepted if they pass the examinations at the army building. Owing to the large num ber who applied to Join the cavalry at the beginning of the war, it has been closed forvenlistments for some time. Orders have come to Major Frith, army reVruiting officer for Omaha, to take in, men for the cav alry " - ' . , FIFTH AND SIXTH REACH DEMING ON Nebraska . Troops Arrive at Camp Cody in Enthusiastic Spirits; Trip Has No ad Effect on Appetites. Deming, N. M, Sept 17. (Special Telegram.) The Golden Rod Spe cial, with the first, section of Compa nies A, B. D and the machine gun company, arrived at Deming at 4:30 this morning and went to Camp Cody at . daybreak. Everyone is in good shape and the morale of the troops has been excellent AH are enthu siastic about the trip and will com mence the intensive training with a zeal that will keep up the Nebraska record. The trip has been very interesting, the only disagreeable feature being the confinement The ' troops de trained at Quaynoka, Okl., Saturday noon and again at Belen, N. M., Sun day evening for fifteen minutes' ex ercise. The boys kept the cooks busy all the way, the inconvenience'of eating on the train in no way hamper ing their appetite. The thousands 'of derricks that greeted us on awakening Saturday morning in Kansas was a novel sight for .the boys, who estimated, how many billions they' were worth. The troops saw the worst part of Okla homa and Texas and spent Sunday in the desert wastes of Nqw Mexico. Late Sunday they entered the foot" hills and got a gtim,pse eie.joun tains. The boys" alljagreea that twenty acrest, Nebraska land was. worth 10,QQ$-;New Mexico acres. Thetfirst kp on the way to France is endid and the Nebraska boys are looking forward to the next Tattoo Artists Barred. Deming's city council has put the Indian. sign ont the tattoo man, who has been picking -jm money ; from some ? of the younger-toldiers here. Reports that tattooing has produced fever,? and. that some of the decora tions run to-, obscenity has induced tattooing soldiers Jnside the city lim its, "'t As " General Blocksom has put on the lid against vendors and "ar tists" of all kinds, the tattooer prob ably will have to vanish, Unescorted women news. corre spondents, solicitors and curio sellers are barred from Camp Cody by. Gen eral , Blocksom's order. No more passes will be issued to women. - One of the features pf an amuse ment zone in the town of Deming will be a huge swimming pool for sol diers, where bathing suits will be furnished. The purveyors of amuse ment in thezone must pay a S per cent tax on receipts to" the city coun cil and another 5 per cent to the rec reation committee of civijians. . . Construction will end in the big camp by Thursday, it is reported. If plans suggested by a civilian pro moter to' Major General A. P. Block som, division 'commander, and' Major C. H. Miller, quartermaster construc tor, are accepted, this training place will have a tramway running east and west along its three-mile main street to carry the men back and forth for a 5-cent fare. The power proposed is that of auto mobiles, mounted on flanged wheels, running on light rails, the trains be ing similar .to those operated at the Pacific coast expositions. Such a road would save many a long tramp through the sand when a soldier is on leave. i ,i i i i Engineer Killed in , Iowa Train Wreck Des -Moines, la., Sept. - 17. In a wreck on the Minneapolis & St Louis southbound freight train at Minburn at 4 o'clock Saturday morn ing, Engineer Sam Salverson of Des Moines was killed and. Fireman O. W. Kreinbring of Fort Dodge was probably fatally scalded. ' The engine, pulling ten cars, hit an open switch when going twenty miles an hour. Several cars piled on top of the engine and Salverson was crushed. Kreinbring was thrown clear of the wreckage, but was so badly scalded that his physicians say he cannot re cover. t Railroad officials suspicion that the switch had been tampered with. Expanding Democracy ROADS PREPARE TO MOVE NEXT ii mmmm in Back, from Cars Being Deming to Take New Na tional Army to Fort Riley, ' ' Railroad passenger agents are lining up the movement of the 40 per cent of the national army toward Fort Ri ley; The movement will-be between Wednesday and Friday of this week, with something .like 20,000 men going from , the territory , of which the: Ri ley cantonment is headquarters. It is not known' how many of the members of .the- national army will pass through Omaha, but it is certain-that there, will be several train loads aside from the men from 'Ne braska. . '. Railroads that , sent equipment to Deming carrying the Fifth and Sixth Nebraska regiments are hurrying the cars back into this territory ihat they may be available -for the mtovement this week. . , ., , . While the men" are scheduled to start Wednesday, railroad men are .of the opinion that the heavy movement will not occur before Friday or Sat urday. To Feed the Boys. A grand jollification for the;se lected soldiers for the national army, scheduled to leave for Camp, Fun ston Wednesday, will be given at the Commercial club . this ' evening by the .business men of Omaha. Plans are complete for an, evening of music and entertainment, ' without a' "fare well sob" in it Aside from a few brief remarks by H. H. .Baldrige, oratory is stricken from the program. A dratted man from each of the six districts is to make a response to Mr. Baldridge' speech in very brief form. It is expected that 550 about-to-be soldiers will be present. They wilt be in charge of the local boards of the several districts. . ... J . At Commercial Club. . ' The whole affair will take place in the big main dining- room of the Commercial club. A stage will ' be erected in the center and on this va rious kinds of entertainment will be given. A jazz band will whine out spirited tunes and melodies. The boys will be provided with little books of popular songs and will be asked to exercise their own vocal talents to the accompaniment of - the jazz band. A male quartet , and a ladies' Hawaiian quartet are on the program. A celebrated buck and ;wing dancer will shake his feet for the popular amusement, and other-good things in the vaudeville line are lined up. The "eats" , start promptly, at 6:15 and they are pronounced 'some eats." After, these have been disposed of there will be plenty of "smokes" and just a jolly good time with the "vod vil" going on upon the stage. Bomb, Destroys American ; Consulate' at Dunkirk, France Washington, Sept 17. Destruction of the American consular agency at Dunkirk, France, by a German bomb on September 7 was reported today to the State department. The consular agent, Benjamin Morel, was. uninjured and the archives of the consulate were saved. KILLS GIRL WHO I'flM'THADnVIIIM HUH I I Minim nun. ...-'. ; . , ' mmm life Frank; Faust Fires Bullet Jjnto ; ;Brain 'of School Teacher " and Retires ii De- V ' ' r stroy;Self. : k Hartington, Neb., Sept.' 17. (Spe cial Telegram.)-rMiss Cora Hintz of Coleridge, daughter of J. U: Hintz, a prominent 'farmer of that locality, wasj Shot and killed this' morning at her school seven miles southwest of this city by Frank Faust, also of Coleridge. " ' After killing the girl ,the murderer entered an i adjacent ,; corn field ' and shot himself, the shot proving instant ly fatal. " ' ' .. : ' Faust was employed on the Hintz farm and " had annoyed the , young woman whom he killed with his at tentions. , ; ; , At about 9:30 o'clock this morning he went to the school house where she. was ' teaching and, according to the stories of the pupils, called her outside He asked her to marry him. She refused.'' . ' . ' He pulled a revolver from his pock et and opened fire upon the young woman. Four shots . were fired.-one of which lodged in the. brain, killing her instantly. 'The children gave the alarm, and when neighbors arrived on the scene the body of the teacher was found on the ground in a pool of blood. .... In a short time a number of men had gathered and the search for the murderer was started, ending in the discovery of his body in a field about a quarter of a mile from the school house. ' . Miss Cora Hintz was a popular young woman and a very successful teacher. She graduated from the Col eridge High school last spring and had studied at the Wayne Normal school. , Faust had been considered 'irra tional for some time and about five years ago attempted suicide on ac count of another love affair. GEN. ALEXIEFF AT HEAD OF TROOPS ALL NEWMADERS Fighting Forces to Be Completely Reorganized Under Di rection of New Cabinet; Misunderstanding Caused' : Downfall of Korniloff ; Cossacks No Longer , Endanger Republic; New Life in Army. , IRONWORKERS GO ON STRIKE IN SHIPYARDS 25,000, Men Engaged in War '. Emergency . Work . Walk' : Out When Increase Is I ' Refused. BULLETIN. Washington, Sept 17. -Strikes In Pacific coast shipyards holding government contracts, ' have at-, umed such serious proportions that Chairman Hurley of the fed eral shipping board, ' announced late today that he was considering ; going to San Francisco late this week'in an attempt to settle the trouble. . , San Franeisco, Sept 17. Approxi mately 25,000 Iron workers jm j lyne tal trades mechanici engaged . in " war ttnergcnc'y construction in San Fran cUcd ahd the bay cities went out on strike at 9 o'clock today following ie' jectlbh ol their demands for a' 50 per cent, increase in wages. ' ' ' "'. The walkout in more than 100 plants was carried out without a hitch, it was reported. ' . . : Feverish eleventh hour efforts to avert the strike by employers and rep resentatives of the United States ship ping board failed. Propose to Arbitrate.' . Propositions to arbitrate on a ba sis of 10 per, cent increase offered had been rejected by the conference com mittee of' the Iron Trades council, composed of twenty-five unions,- on whose' authority the strike was de clared. : . "v , . f The walkout' affects more than $150,000,000 in government ship-building and engine construction contracts and, automatically tied up' other con struction works. . The Union iron works, the Moore Scott iron works, both ship-building plants, and the Pacific foundry were to close immediately. . , U. S. to Mediate. , Settlement of the strike, declared to.be San Francisco's largest, indus trial trouble, is entirely in the hands of the federal government, employ ers anhounced. " In the hope of adjusting the diffi culty further conferences between the California Metal Trades association, the organization "of employers, , and the Iron Trades council were to be held today. In addition to the walkout of the iron and metal trades, shipyard labor ers and carpenters had voted - to strike. , v No violence of any kind was re ported. The men. acting on instruc tions given at meetings of the vari ous unions yesterday, picked up their tools at 9 o clock and left idle the machines, the shipways and the lathes. They had been instructed to report for work at the usual hour 8 o clock. It was said troops would be called to guard the shipbuilding plants, as a precautionary measure, y Officials of the Union iron works, the largest of the concerns affected, in a public statement asserted that Washington. Sept. 17. -General Alexieff has been ap pointed to supreme command of the Russian armies. This will be followed by a general reorganization in which old generals will give .place to new ones. - ; YCONFIRMED AT WASHINGTON. First definite news - of the ; reor ganization was received at the Rus sian embassy in dispatches from Petrograd. Confidence of the troops is being restored by the removal of the, former generals, the dispatches said, and the situation ii rapidly clear ing. The Korniloff uprising seems to have been quelled without bloodshed and Russian officials here say that the government ' now is stronger ' than ever, ,-.,,.. -T- - -: The original trouble might - have "been avoided, Russians here feel, if .1. . ' M . 1 J mc cmissunci Irani Aomuo. ma been able to explain , the situation clearly to the government, and it it believed that a mistake was made is selecting the men to act at agents be twten Korniloff and the government Cossack Menace Removed, V The Cossack movement Is not con- sidered serious any longer, although it is not ver with. Strong discipline has been' established in the army by General Alexieff and the, spirit ot the troops is said to be excellent. ,The advices to the ' Russian ' em bassy' here -say that if the rebels had known of the conditions in Petrograd they would not have made any move in the armed rebellion. The govern ment is in good condition now, offi cials sald to quell anything in the nature-pf a counter-revolution, and can present a united front to the German foe, t.-..'.', ;.r v -j? " 1 .The military situation is said to be progressing.' satisfactorily : and . the armies are fulfilling their task of keep ing as manyv Germans as possible on' the Russian front. This is indicated by. the report that the Germans now have more troops than ever before on the. Russian lines. During, the Jast five days, the Russian troops have re gained-seven miles.- , . President Wilson Orders Investigation of Copper Mines .Washington,' Sept,' 17. Appoint ment of a commission to investigate labor conditions in Arizona copper mines, as advocated by. the American Federation of Labor, was proposed to day td President Wilson, n ' i President .Gompers of the labor fed eration, has. laid before the president charges , of- federation investigators that Industrial Workers of the World agitators were encouraged by copper producing 'interests, for the sake of discrediting the labor movement. ' iMost of the miners recently deports ed from Pisbee were- union members! and not Industrial Workers', of the' World mem and this was known-to company officials who promoted the deportations, the Federation of Labor; charges.-' . ', f '' . ' - ,r ' 7" --' Plumbers Demand;. "yy Big Wage Scale El Paso,- Tex.r - Sept. - 17. Every plumbing establishment here was af fected by a walkout today of union plumbers, who demand $8 a day. They now receive $7. : They also ask time and a half for overtime, up to mid night and double time after'- midnight. Employers said :. they would import plumbers rather than grand the de mands.'..' '. I?-:,.;?'- Suffrage Law Declared ;wV.. V Void by Indiana Judge Indianapolis, Ind., 'Sept. .17. The Indiana, woman's suffrage law. was de clared unconstitutional and void by a judge' of the - Marion' county -supe rior court today. -'v The decision' was given in a suit to test the law and arrangements are being made to appeal to the. Indiana supreme court v- " (Continued on rto Two, Coloma On) Little Son -Barred from Side of - Man on Trial for Killing Wife , John Pitloun, who shot his wife, Bessie, to death at Eighteenth arid O streets; South Side, went on trial be fore a jury in" criminal court, Judge Sears presiding, Monday morning. He is charged with first degree murder. The slaying of Mrs. Pitloun was a result of a : family squabbloover money matters. Pitloun accused his wife of squandering too much money and then. shot her. ? : .'. c i The state will ; d Aland the death penalty. Each juryman was asked if he had any objections to imposing capital punishment if "Pitloun is found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." Two answered in the affirm ative and were excused for cause. , Just i.fter Pitloun was brought into the court .room by Deputy Sheriff Hoye a woman relative of the alleged murderer, carrying one of his small sons in her arms, rushed to where the prisoner was seated. . ' j Pitloun was allowed to kiss his son, out when the woman attempted,' to thrust the boy into his arms court room attaches interfered. , The woman was" ordered back of the railing with the boy. 1 While a jury was being impaneled the alleged wife slayer turned in his chair every minute or so and smiled at the boy. The Pitlouns had two small chil dren and at the time of her death Mrs., Pitloun' was expecting another baby soon. ' Joseph L.. Padrnos' is de 'ending Pitloun, who formerly was m em ploye of a South Side packing com pany. . . - Chief. Deputy County Attorney Ab bott arid Deputy County Attorney Bednar represent the state ;,The Sunday Score ' ;:, , -; ; 'C(f: Again THE SUNDAY SCORE ! : AlvoKtiaiitflr in Tlia R.i " ' .(WarfUld Kftacjr Meuurtiawb.) , ; Gaining Right Along Sunday," Sept' .16,' 1017,' In Inches; T.Alal TsiawvTMM , '. AAA Foreign Displays, vii 164 ' V' Automobile ..;'- 642 H Classified ',,Vw.;;,yVWg. , - ( ; r. Total ,V . ... f -2,654 fa - " Same Sunday Last Year;' -Local Display. ...... , ! 767 Foreign Display...... -234 1 Automobile .. 3574 Classified ... . . .... , " 714 ": Total . . . .. J . ; XoW ' ' - GAINS 682 H: INCHES Keep Your Eye '.on The Bee IMPROVING EVERY; PAY ' A V
