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, 9 ' EDITOR KILLS VIFF, BUT FAILS AT SUICIDE TRY Charles E. Chapin Says He Was Driven to Deed by ' Desperation Over Claims ::: :'of Creditors. . New York, Sept 17. Charles E. Chapin, city editor of the New York Evening World, whose wife was found shot dead in her room at a hotel here yesterday, surrendered himself to the police today. Chapin wrote to a business asso ciate jesteMay -hinting at suicide and declaring that his wife had been "such a gotfd pal . that 1 cannot leave her alone in the world." Declaring that his mindjiad been wandering, Chapin told the police he had been unable for several days to recall his own name. Reading in (he morning newspapers actounts of his wife's death,, and his disap pearance, - the editor asserted, ,..,niut tilti tn rinrr n tliA an. H . v. , IV tbfrittcs. " "i- - Subsequently, Chapin told the po lice how he killed his wife. Smoking a cigar and continually pressing his hand- to his head, he said that he had been driven to the deed through desperation caused by the demands of his creditors.-- Approach of a policeman, the editor declared, prevented his sui cide in Prospect park, Brooklyn where he,went after shooting his wile. ' ' m Mother Asks News of Elmer Doughty Believed in Omaha , Elmer, (V. E.) Doughty, your mother is worrying about you and ' anvinua tn rpreiv a lcttrr. IV HuniWiig v - - Mayor Smith has received from L.-C. Doughty, "of Marietta, Okla., a letter in which he states that his wife wants to hear from her boy, who was in Omaha when last heard from, and is described as follows: Elmer Doughty, 19 years old, tele- fraph operator, 6 feet and 1 inch in eight, 160 pounds weight, dark hair and brown eyes. "His mother wants to hear from him," the father wrote. THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1918 CARDINAL FARLEY DIES OfPNEUMONIA (Contained from Foga One.) nection with its construction. When the cardinal found he could spare him from his work at the cathedral, he appointed Monsignor Farley pas tor of St Gabriel's-church in East 37th street. One of his first acts ,y pccamc pastor ot this " churclwas tps;rect a memorial al tar to, hts vpfecTeceJsor, Father iowry. - inn j aitar, exquisitely worked in baS'fdief, still forms one- of the chief ornaments of the thnrch.- . . Mad Archbishop in 1902. In 1886 Monsignor rarjey was Ml.de a missionary rector, and in the same yean was chosen diocesan adviser. In 1891 came his appoint ment as coadjutor" bishop of New York. In the roTlowing year he was created a domestic prelate to the pope and prothonotary apos tolic three years later. The same year he was consecrated titular bish op of Zeugma and in 1902 he suc ceeded Archbishop Corrigan as head of the archdiocese of New York. During his administration Arch bishop Farley displayed remarkable activity and energy. The number of churches increased from . Ill to 147, the number of chapels from 154 to 193 and that of the priests from 676 to 929. In 1900 there were in the city 60 parish schools for boys with 18,593 pupils and 61 for girls with 21,139 pupils. Ten years later there wereJJO schools for girls with 31,000 pupils. As archbishop of New York Arch bishop Farley was also charged with the, general supervision over the dioceses of Albany, Brooklyn, Buf falo, Ogdensburg, 'Rochester and Syracuse with more than 2,000,000 Roman Catholics. ' In 1904 Archbishop Farley re ceived additional honors by being appointed assistant at the pontifical throne. In' view of his brilliant achievements in, the past it caused but little surprise when in Novem ber, 1911, the announcement was made that - Archbishop Farley had beet) designated a member of the Sacred CollegV being one of the three distinguhfhed members of the Catholic hierarchy in tne unuea States honored with theardinalate. Gamble, in Washington .Boosting for Omaha Washington Bureau of The Bee. Washington, SeptA 17. (Special Telegram.) John W. Gamble of the executive committee of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, is in Wash ington getting things started Gate City-ward. He wants action on an increased water supply' for Fort Crook. . He had an interview today with Director General Densmore fef the Department of Labor over .the broadening scope , of labor condi tions in. Nebraska and he paid his respects to General Kenley, chief of aeronautics. Mr. Gamble comes to Washington to tell officials of every hue : that , Omaha ,. stands ready to get into the war game as a pro during center just as soon as the governmeht shows a disposition to close a contract with an Omaha firm. -'.s r ' Recommend Government ! Department of Aeronautics. - Washington, Sept 17. The sen-' ate military committee today, by a vnt tit 11 tn? sirtred favorablv re ported the bill introduced by Sena tor New of Indiana providing for the establishment of a department of aeronautic with a cabinet officer at fca heat- t - . PEACEMOYEIS . CHECKMATED BY AMERICAN REPLY (Continued from Pf One.) will be in accordance with the gen eral policy which has governed the entente powvs and America in meeting the German peace offen sives. Prompt action is regarded as the surest means of defeating the underlying purpose of the central powers to shake the allres and de velop fatal weaknesses by the en couragement of the expression of the individual aims anl views of the separate states. Foreign Min ister Balfour's comment yesterday is accepted in Washington as a suffi cient indication of the attitude of Great Britain,, andt is not doubted similar expressions will be forth coming from other entente capitals soon. Conditions Laid Down. Regarding this phase of the peace campaign as practically closed, the administration is low closely watch- in , tor the next move on the part of the enemv, for it is not believed that they wfl abandon their efforts. It has been suggested that, denied unlimited fields of secret discussion of war issues, Austria may attempt a coup by assenting to a restric tion of he discussion to the prin ciples laid down by President Wil son as the only possible basis of peace. It was said authoritatively today that such a proposition undoubtedly would be accepted. But this state ment was accompanied by a signi ficant reminder of condtions which must be met preliminary to any such discussion. These are fhat the central powers must withdraw com pletely from all occupied territory in France and Belgium, Italy, Rus sia and Serbia., The Germans must drop the subterfuge of the Brest Litovsk treaty made by Germany with Russian agents, hired to be tray their country. They must loos en their hold upon the wheat fields of Ukrainia and the oil wells of Serbia and Russia, andall of this must be done before America would consentTo talk of peace, even upon the basis of the -president's stipulation. Another Bee Man Has ' Joined the Colors of U. S. for War Service Another star will be added to the constellation which adorns The Bee flag when Glenn Brewer, compositor in the employ 'of this paper, quits his work to enter the service of Uncle Sam.' Brewer was at one time editor of the Napef, Neb., Advertiser, and ca:ne to Omaha over a year ago from Mitchell, S. D. He is married and has two children. Mr. Brewer will go to Manhattan, Kan., Thursday, where" he will be a member of the army auto mechanics corps. With Brewer's enlistment the 54th star will be added to The Bee's service flag. Rialroad Men Directed To Claim Deferred Draft Washington, Sept. 17. All rail road employes in the classes declared by the railroad administration es sential to proper operations,' were instructed today by Director Gen-J eral McAdoo to claim deferred draft classification as a patriotic duty and to furnish the district boards with the necessary informa tion in their answers to the ques tionnaires to show the basis for such classification. HEARSE LIQUOR TRANSPORT IS COSTLY TO FOX Heavy Fines Imposed on Oper ator of Ingenious Bootleg- ging Operations in Coun- oil Bluffs Court. The Weather Comparative Local Becord. IBIS 1W lilt 115 Highest yesterday ..11 It- J 82 I.oweit yntorflay . ..1 (4 43 57 Mean temperature ..Wl 75 62 70 Precipitation OS 52 Temperature and precipitation depar ture from the normal: . Normal temperature 65 Deficiency for the day 4 Total exceae alnce March 1, IBIS 706 Normal precipitation 0.10 In. Deficiency for the day 0.03 In, Total precipitation alnce Mar. lit.. 10.96 In. Deficiency since March lit, 1918 ..12.76 In. Deficiency for cor. period In 1917.. 3.58 In. Deficiency for cor. period In 1916.. 9.82 In. Report! From Station at 7 p. m. Statlona and itat Temp. High- Rain- of weather. 7 p. m. Davenport, pt. cloudy ..64' Del Moines, raining ..64 Dodge City, clear ....74 Lander, clear ........71 North Platte, clear ....70 Omaha, pt. cloudy ....60 Pueblo, clear 72 Salt Lake City, clear ..74 Santa Fe, clear 72 Sheridan, clear 64 Sioux City, pt. cloudy ..66 Valentine, pt. cloudy ..(4 "T" Indicates trace of precipitation, L. A. WELSH, Meteorologist. est. 61 70 76 74 76 8 74 71 68 66 64 fall .00 T .00 .00 .00 .08 .00 .00 .00 .01 .04 .00 A big gray automobile hearse and a new six-cylinder Cadillac car are in the L. H. Bolton garage, Council Bluffs, and when the cars were placed in tiie garage William and Al bert Fox, owners of the Fox garage at 1814 Cuming street, and John Van Meter, hearse driver at the Palace gflrage, Omaha, were taken to the county iail, the men and the cars all charged with transporting booze for bootlegging purposes. A fourth Omana man, C. D. Houston, was also detained on the same charge. The hearse was to be used to con vey the booze from Garner township six miles east of Council Bluffs on the river-to-river rbad, safely across the Douglas street bridge into Oma ha, and the casket was to be used further to camouflage the whisky. Sheriff Gronewee and Tiis depu ties, assisted by Police Officers Crum and Peterson of Council Bluffs, got the hearse, car, booze and men and then things moved along fast. Men Plead Guilty. County attorney Swanson haled the men into the Pottawattamie coiinty district court on two charges, conspiracy ajnd bootlegging, and held them for trial under $1,500 bonds. An hour later the Fox broth ers pleaded guilty to bootleggirfg and were fined .$500 each. Their wives brought checks for more than $2,000 and the fines were promptly paid, amounting to $1,080. In addition, permanent injunctions were obtained against the men, pro hibiting them from carrying even a homeopathic phial of liquor in their pockets wnen tney came into Iowa. Houston and Van Meter are still in jail. Houston and another man reacn- ed the farm of J. H. Garner late Sunday nieht in a crippled car and got permission to use the telephone to call the box garage tor neip. A service car came out and pulled them in, but upon the pretext that the car was too heavily loaded they got permission to store the con tents in a shed m -the Uarner tarm barnyard. A number of olain boxes were piledj in the shed and remained there all day Monday. Early Mon day night an Omaha truck came and took half of the load away. Somebody got suspicious and tele phoned to Sheriff Gronweg and a squad of officers waited until the hearse came, about 3 o'clock yester day morning- ' Thev watched the stuff carried to the hearse and made ready to be laid tenderly n the casket, then flushed the -game, taking the four men into custody. County Attorney Swanson is in clined to believe Van Meter's stry. He says he received a midnight call claiming to come from Hulse Riepen, Omaha undertakers," ask ing to have the hearse drven across the river for a "body." He says the Fox brothers and Houston met' him at Sixteenth and Douglas, and that he did not know where they were going until the Garner farm was reached at 3 o'clock in the morning. He claims that his first intima tion that the hearse was to be used to camouflage the booze was when the men started to put it into the coffin. For this reason there will be no attempt to hold the big fu neral car and Van Meter may not be prosecuted- Houston, however, will probably be held on the two counts, conspiracy and bootlegging. i Allied Aviators Drop Bombs on the German Positions Behind Lines With the American Army on the Lorraine Front, Sept. 17. (By As sociated Press) British airplanes can squadrens on this front' new far back of the enemy lines today and bombed airdromes at several places. Some of the long distance fliers passed over'Karlsruhe and Mainz, drpping five and a half tons of ex plosives. Eleven tons of, bombs were dropped on the au-dromes at Lon guyori", Boulay, f Marhange and Bohm. 1 French and Italian units co-operated with American squadrons in rarrvintr out nine missions, in addi tion to which patrolling and photo graphic work was successfully con ducted, London, Sept. 17. British avia tors have again bombed the railways at Metz-Sablons and Mainz and docks and siding at Karlsruhe. Sev enteen direct hits were obtained on the Karlsruhe objectives, according to the air ministry communication tonight. POST T0MT.ES corn food ought to bs and saves the wheat 1 A fact mmw mm ABOUT MME BUILDERS' ?LAft Home Builders is not a Building aTtd Loan Association nor a Savings Bank, but equally as safe and more convenient. Home Builders invests its funds in' only Gilt-Edge mortgage securities on new properties it builds, and knowing their cost never overloans their security value as may be done on ap praisement of buildings already built and in all stages of d,e , creptitude. Home Builders loans money for construction of home for heir owners who have their own money invested ahead of Home Builders' mortgage. Such a one never has occasion to abandon lis home to go elsewhere to pay rent to any other landlord and lose his equity. Home Builders loans no money to anyone to speculate in building houses to sill for profit. 6 guaranteed you on $1.00 shares. ' Home uilder INCORPORATED American Security Company, Fiscal Agents. Omaha, Neb. ' - C. C. 9HIMER, Sec G. A. ROHrBOUGH, Pre. ( Fred Hoye is Found to Be Driving Booze Car Fred H. Hoye, building inspector in the city building department, is driving a "booze car." City Commissioner Zimman ob tained for use by his department a I-ord touring car taken by the po lice from bootleggers. Mr. Hoye was riven the machine for use in fiii work. He took the auto to the shoo at the fire station, Eleventh and Jackson streets, where the dis covery was made that the car had been fitted with c inpayments suit able for the purpose fo secreting countraband liquors. Mr. Hoye believes the compart ments will be handy to carry his lunch or a thermos bottle or gro ceries. King Honors Egan. Copenhagen. Sept. 17. King Christian has bestowed the grand cross of the Order of Dannebrog on Dr. Maurice F. Egan, former Ameri can minister to Denmark. This is the highest decoration which can-be awarded a commoner. Non-Com. Surrender Jells Story Lost Morale of Huns American Headquarters in Lor raine, Sept 17. (Reuter.) During the fighting in the St. Mihiel salient it has been noted that the enemy soldiers have shown an inclination to surrender in large batches. There has been a large proportion of "non coms" among the enemy troops taken captive. An observer who has been several years at the front said today that he had never seen so many non-commissioned officers taken as during the last few days. He said: 'To tho knowing the German army this feature has special mean ing, for it tells of the declining mor ale of the enemy forces. The strength of the German army lies in its noncommissioned officers and something plainly has gone wrong. The events of the last few days have been a very serious blow to German confidence." Gas Case Put Off Until . December 3; Lambert Away Thm rnnrlemnation suit of the citv against the Omaha Gas and Light company, set for Tuesday, has been postponed ntil December 3, says Will L. Herman, attorney fsr the gas company. The case could not be heard Tuesday because W. C. Lambert, corporation counsel, is in Lincoln attending the hearing of the street railway company's peti tion to raise fares to 7 cents. Great Tidal Wave. Tokio, Sept. 17. (By Associated Press.) During an eruption of a volcano on Urup island, one of the Kurile group, there was terrific ex plosions, according to advices re ceived here. This caused a great tidal wave, which overwhelmed- a force of men at work refloating a sunken ship, drowning 29 of them. , Army Orders. Washington, Sept. 17. (Special Tele gram.) Palmer D. Sheldon, Watertown, S. D., has been appointed captain of In fantry. Captain 'Max C. Krazler, dental eorpi, li relieved from duty In the office of the attending lurgeon, . thii city, and will proceed to Camp Dodge for duty ae camp dental surgeon. ' Appointment of iurgeon!i, first class: Benjamin C. Hgyl, cchool for bakeri and cooks, ai second lieutenant; Jacob M. Sutherland as first medical corps; ler geant first class, Peter Petersen, quarter master, as lieutenant quartermaster, was announced. They will proceed to Des Moines, la. "The Allied Answer" Is Name Adopted for Electrical Parade "The Allied Answer" is the name that has been chosen for the Ak-Sar-Ben electrical parade on the evening of Wednesday, October 2. The theme of the parade and of the 17 floats which will compose the pageant is designed to represent the answer of the United States and of the entente allies to German threats of world dominion and the move for a false peace. Gus Renze has been working for weeks on the parade and it is said that the result will surpass all of his previous efforts. War Trophies fo Be Shown in Omaha for One Day Next Week A special train of three carloads of war trophies will arrive in Omaha the first part of next week and will be on exhibit here for a ' day. The exhibition will be""given in connection with the rourth Lib erty loan drive, v One car will be filled with trophies taken from captured Ger mans, many of which will tell their own stories of Hun brutality. 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