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HAWLEY SAYS PEOPLE
WILL TRAVEL IN AIRSHIPS.
- Atlintic City, May 2. The airship
will be. as common as the automo
bile in 10 years, Allan R. Hawley.
president of the Aero Club of
America, said in opening the sec
ond Pan-American Aeronautic con
, gress here today. Mr. Hawley pre
sided at the opening session, which
was attended by 500 delegates.
;We are all confident," he de
clared, "that the -next Pan-American
convention at Atlantic City will
see the delegates arriving from Eu
rope in luxurious aircraft and fast
flying transports from South Amer
ica When the questions before this
convention are solved there will be
still others of great magnitude aris
ing out of present achievements." .
VERNER Z. REED ESTATE
VALUED AT $25,000,000.
Denver, May 2. The will of Ver
ner Z. Reed, Denver, capitalist and
federal mediator, who died last
week at Coronado Beach, Cal., was
filed for probate today. Thefestate
is valued at $25,000,000. With the
exception , of a bequest of $50,000
made, to Clarence C. Hamlin of
Colorado Springs, the entire fortune
is left to Mrs. Zieed and three chil
dren. MANY SOLDIERS TO SEEK
"BIGGER OPPORTUNITY.
New York, May 2. Many of the
American soldiers returning from
France and who lived in big Amer
ican cities plan to migrate to the
west or go to South America "for
bigger bpportunity," J. Frank Han
ley, former governor of Indiana, de
clared today upon his arrival on the
Nieuw Amsterdam. He has been in
France as a Y. W. C. A. worker.
SHORTAGE OF LABOR
PREDICTED BY COL. WOODS.
New, York, May 2. Notwith
standing the return of the Ameri
can expeditionary force the country
will be confronted by a shortage
of labor by 1920 in the opinion ex
pressed here today by Col. Arthur
Woods, special assistant to the sec
. retary of war. Colonel Woods de
clared that employers were show
ing a disposition to give jobs to dis
charged soldiers and sailors and
that the time was approaching when
every man released from ervice
would be at work and there would
be positions unfilled. -
DENVER "OVER THE TOP"
IN V LOAN CAMPAIGN.
Denver May 2. Eleven war
planes of the Victory loan flying
circus today supplied the necessary
impetus to put Denver "over the
top" in its drive for $13,433,800. aft
er five days of active campaigning,
with total subscriptions reported to
night of $13,443,800. More than $2,
000,000 of the Denver pledges were
obtained by women workers.
FOOD HARD TO FIND
IN SALT LAKE CITY.
xSalt Lake City. Utah, May 2
Salt Lake City citizens had a diffi
cult time today finding restaurants
due to the strike of cooks and wait
ers. Only a few eating places in
the city are bieing operated. The
cooks and waiters are demanding a
straight eight-hour shift without
breaks. About 200 are said to have
quit work. ,
Unless a settlement is effected to
morrow in the controversy between
the bakers and their employers, this
city may face a bread famine. Ba
kers are demanding day work and
wage increases. ' ,
The master bakers assert ,that
night! work is compulsory in order
to furnish bread every morning.
GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL
RETIRES TO PRIVATE LIFE. '
Berlin, May 2. By Associated
'Press.) Field Marshal Von Hinden
burg has written President Ebert
announcing his intention to retire to
private life. n
"During the transitional period,
says Von Hindenburg, "I considered
it my duty to serve the fatherland,
but with the conclusion of the pre
liminary peace my task will 1 1 ful
filled and my desire to retire, in
view of my advanced age, vill be
universally understood, the more so
because it is known how hard it has
become for me in view of my opin
ions and my entire personality and
the past to continue to exercise my
office."
Herr Ebert replied assenting to
he request of the field marshal, and
expressing the "undying thanks" of
the German people for Von Hinden
burg's services and self-sacrifice.
"RAINBOW" MAJORITY
. REPLACEMENT TROOPS.
Washington. May 2. Only about
"3?per cent of the more than 22,000
men composing the Forty-second
(Rainbow) division, as it returned
from France, were members of the
original division as organized at
Camp Mills, N. Y.
Practically all of these men, it
was learned today,' have been
wounded or otherwise incapicated
diiriner th months of service. Thev
had been returned from the hos
pitals and rest camps to the divi
sion and when it received orders for
home, a special effort was made by
therdivision staff to get together all
the original Rainbow personnel who
had survived the rigors of the cam
paign. The intense activity of the divi
sion during the fighting is shown
by the number of replacement
troops which passed through its
muster rolls during that period.
This number is placed y officers
of the division at approximately
" 67,000 men, against the full war
' strength of 27.500. Toward the end
of the fighting, however, many of
the men sent forward in replace
. ments were original members of the
Rainbow division, who had recov-
ered and returned to duty.
. The last elements of the Forty
second arrived yesterday at New
port News.
FOX PELTS SCORE BIG
ADVANCE AT ST. LOUIS.
- St. Louis, May 2. Record prices
continued to be paid today at the
spring auction at the International
Fur exchange, cross, fox selling for
60 per cent more than in January,
swift fox advancing 25 per cent and
red fox 30 per cent,
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VOL. 48-NO. 274.
SPEED UP
RETURN OF
SOLDIERS
Aim of War Department Is to
Complete Withdrawal of
Expeditionary Force
by September.
Washington, M ay ,2. Determina
tion of President Wilson, indicated
in press advices from Paris, that no
American troops shall continue on
German soil for a longer period
after the signing of the peace
treaty than may be necessary to
embark them for home is borne out
by present plans of the War depart
ment, which contemplate the return
of the entire American expedi-
toinary forces by September. Be
cause of this General March, chief
of staff, is making every' effort to
speed up the demobilization in this
country.
May Move 450,000 Monthly.
An official - announcement issued
today as to the accumulation of
surplus clothing for the troops
stated the estimates were based on
''troop withdrawal to be completed
in September."
The September date . represents
estimates by embarkation officials
as to the maximum possible speed
in withdrawing the entire force in
Europe, including the troops hold
ing the Coblenz bridgehead sectoc
on the Rhine. , If anything, officers
believe, the movement will be ac
celerated rather than retarted.
The schedule has been exceeded
recently and in increasing measure
froi.i week to week, and with an in
dicated monthly movement of 450,
000 men, the best predictions of
GenVal March and his aides, bid
fair, it was said, to be more than
realized.
Reduces Camp Personnel.
General March returned today
from a personal inspection of
demobilization centers in the southeastern-
department. At each camp
the chief of staff checked up the
semi-permanent demobilization per
sonnel at the catnos in an effort to
reduce the number of men held in
the service for this work.
Officers resently returned from
France say the "two bottle necks,"
through which practically the en
tire movement must pass, the em
barkation came at Brest and the
debarkation station at Hoboken, are
now operating at a remarkable
speed.
Germans Now Getting
Enough Food to Keep
Them "Alive and Going"
;
New York, May 2. The supreme
council of supply and relief is sell
ing to Germany monthly 370,000 tons
of foodstuffs, as compared with the
Teuton demand for 440,000 rons. Dr.
Vernon L. Kellogg, representative
of Herbert. Hoover, recently re
turned from a survey of conditions
in central Europe, announced here
tonight.
. This allowance, with minor im
ports from contiguous neutral lands,
in I! Kellogg's opinion, would keep
the Germans "alive and going." It
would not provide a per sapita daily
ration of 2,400 calories, which the
German food experts declared was
necessary, he said, but war experi
ences had proved that they could
exist on less, and the demands of the
liberated countries, given first con
ideration, jenforced a limit on the
provisioning of Germany.
Dr. Kellogg said the alljed relief
organization was sending 300,000
tons of cereals and 70,000 teas of
fats into Germany every month.
Mothers' Day to B Also
, Employment Sunday
Washinc-ton. Mav 2.-Soecial aD-
peals for co-operating in securing
employment for discharged soldiers
anH sailnrs will he made bv the fed
eral employment service in connec
tion w tne oDservance oi mow
ers' day, Sunday, May 11, which is
to be known this year as "Mothers
and Sons' day." '
It was announced today tne plan
hiA Koon indorsed hv Miss Anna
'c frciiint and founder of the
j i' " f - . ,
Mothers Day international associa
tion. '
Mrs. Seward Dies.
New York, May 2. Mrs. Anna-M.
Seward, widow of Frederick W.
Seward, who narrowly escaped be
ing killed when his father, William
H. Seward, secretary of state under
President Abraham Lincoln, was at
tacked at the time President Lin
coln was assassinated, died at her
home here today. She was more
than 80 years old.
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English Rule Over Ireland
Based Upon Force and Fraud,
Assert Republic Leaders
Copy of Suppressed Declaration of Independence
Adopted by Irish Parliament Received and Made
Public by Justice Cohlan; Demands Evacuation
of Country by English Garrison.
New York, May 2. Supreme Court Justice Cohlan re
ceived today from Sean T. O'Kelly, representative of the
Irish Republic at Paris, a copy of the declaration of in
dependence adopted by the Irish republic parliament, pub
lication of which has been suppressed in Ireland. This is
the first copy to reach this country.
The text of the declaration reads':
Whereas the Irish people is by
right a free people; and,
Whereas, for 700 years the Ir
ish people has never ceased to
repudiate and has repeatedly
protested in arms against foreign
usurpation; and,
Whereas, English rule in this
country is and always has been
based upon force and fraud and
maintained by military occupa
tion against the declared will of
the people; and,
Whereas, " the Irish republic
was proclaimed in Dublin, on Eas
ter Monday, 1916, by the Irish re
publican army acting on behalf of
the Irish people; and,
Whereas, The Irish people is
resolved to secure and maintain
its complete independence in or
der to promote the common weal,
to re-establish justice, to provide
for future defense, to insure peace
at home and good will with all
nations and to constitute a na
tional polity based upon the peo
ple's will with - equal rights and
equal opportunity for every citi
zen; and,
Whereas, At the threshold of
a new era in history the Irish
electorate has, in the general
election 6f December, 1918, seized
the first occasion to declare by
an overwhelming majority, its
firm allegiance to the Irish re
public; Ratifies Republic!!
Now, therefore, we, the -elected
AMERICAN CABLE
LINES RESTORED
TO THEIR OWNERS
Mackay Will Resume Former
Position With Commercial
Company Today; Land
Lines Still Held.
Washington, May 2. American
cable lines taken over by the gov
ernment in November were restored
to private ownership and operation
at midnight tonight, by direction of
President Wilson. The turn back
was without formality.
Since December, Newcomb Carl
ton, president of the Western Union
Telegraph company, has-been di
recting head of the cable service by
appointment of the postmaster gen
eral.
Beginning tomorrow, Clarence
Mackay, president of the Commer
cial Cable company, will resume his
former duties with that company.
Mr. Mackay was removed by the
postmaster general because of his
refusal to co-operate in government
efforts to unify all trans-Atlantic
service.
Postmaster General Burleson to
day received another telegram from
Mr. Mackay requesting the return
of the Postal company's land lines
Mr. Burleson replied as follows:
"Replying to your telegrams of
yesterday and today, you are ad
vised that my telegram to you of
the first instant disposes of the mat
ter so far as the postmaster general
is concerned."
Los Angeles Mayor
Acquitted of Charge
of Accepting Bribe
Los Angeles, May 2. Mayor F.
T. Woodman, on trial here for sev
eral weeks on charges of having ac
cepted a bribe to protect vice condi
tions, was acquitted tonight , by a
jury in the superior court.
Ten Killed, Many Injured,
in Food Riot injarancon
Madrid, May 2. (Kavas.)
Ten persons were killed, 16 seriously
injured and a large number .lightly
x. ounded in disorders arising from
demonstrations of protest against
the high cost of living in Taracon,
April 28.
There were several clashes be
tween gendarmes and civfli?ns Nn
the previous day and in the evening
the governor decided to reduce the
cost of food 25 pet cent.
The following day, however, the
merchants were selling provisions
at the old prices. Crowds pillaged
the stores and were charged by gendarmes.
.It to Uncle Sam Than Lose
OMAHA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1919.
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representatives of the ancient
Irish people in national parlia
ment assembled, do in the name
of the Irish nation, ratify the esr
tablishment of the Irish republic
and pledge ourselves and our peo
ple to make ' this declaration ef
fective by every means at our
command. v
To ordain that the elected rep
resentatives of the Irish people
alone' have power to make laws
binding on the people of Ireland,
and that the Irish parliament is
the only parliament to which that
people will give its allegiance.
We solemnly declare foreign
government in Ireland to be an
invasion of our national right
which we will never tolerate, and
we demand the evacuation of our
country by the English garrison.
We claim for our national in
dependence the recognition and
support of every free nation of
the world and we proclaim the
independence to the condition pre
cedented to international peace
hereafter.
In the name of the Irish people
we humbly conimit our destiny to
Almighty God- who gave our fa
thers the courage and determina
tion to persevere through long
centuries of a ruthless tyranny,
and strong in the justice of the
cause which they have handed
down to us, we ask His divine
blessing on this, the last stage .of
the struggle which we have
pledged ourselves to carry through
to freedom.
WINTER WHEAT
GROWTH IN WEST
UNPRECEDENTED
Crop Exceeding Record Set
in 1914 Indicated by
Official Estimates;
Damage Slight.
Washington, May 2. Prediction
of the department, of Agriculture
for a wheat crop this year even
larger than the record-breaking
crop of 1914 was repeated today by
the United States Chamber of
Commerce in a report based on sta
tistics obtained from aW sections of
the country. The report stated that
an acreage never before equalled has
been planted and a yield of 900,000,
000 bushels was forecast.
"The condition of the winter
wheat is so high as to be without
precedent," the report said. "The
plant came through the winter, and
the trying month of March un
scathed and unhurt. In many sec
tions of the west and southwest it
was necessary to pasture it to live
stock to keep down its rank growth.
"Reports of damage are mostly
remarkable by their entire absence.
There are rumors of Hessian fly and
some stray predatory insects, but
that is all. Unless some climatic
catastrophe or some Eygptian-like
and unexpected plague or insects in
tervenes, the yield will probably be
900,000,000 bushels, or about 33 per
cent more than the greatest harvest
of 1914." 0
The report stated that one inter
esting tide light of the situation was
that about 25 per cent of the yield
would be south of the Mason and
Dixon line. Southern states wh:h
never before grew winter wheat,
this year have large acreages plant
ed, it was said. Reports showed
that rile seeding of spring wheat
has been delayed for 10 days to two
weeks by excessive rains and a de
crease of acreage as compared with
last year is expected.
Omaha Poles to HolrJ
Flower Day to Aid
Destitute Country
A flower day will be held Satur
day by Omaha residents of Polish
ancestry for the benefit ttf the
stricken people of Poland. Girl vol
unteers will occupy street corners
and distribute flowers to contribu
tors of the Polish cause.
The local Polish citizens' commit
tee, headed by prominent Omahans
of Polish ancestry, appeal to Omaha
residents to contribute to the relief
of destitute Poland and thus
strengthen the barrier in central
Europe against bolshevism.
Daily
T
WRAPPER
OF BOMBS
IS CLUE TO
ASSASSINS
Finger of Suspicion Points to
I. W. W. Leaders; Stock!
of Explosives Found in
"Medical Institute."
New York, May 2. Agents of
the Department of Justice, postoffice
inspectors and New York detectives
under Inspector Faurot continued
today their hunt for the anarchists
who deposited in the mails more
than a score of deadly bombs ad
dressed to proniinent men in all
parts of the country, but no arrests
have been made thus far.
Details of the program made were
not disclosed on the ground that
und:. . publicity might enable the'
reds to escape. District Attorney
Swann announced that he had re
ceiv d an anonymous communica
tion suggesting that he investigate
the ac.ivities of three men who have
been prominent in socialist and I.
W. W. activities. He intimated that
he would act on the suggestion.
Bombs Hastily Removed.
The bombs which have nojt yet
been ixamined were hastily re
moved from the postoffice today
when it was discovered the acid in
the ohials -esigned to explode ful
mi ate of mercury caps was eating
through the corks, threatening an
explosion.
Officers at work on the case be
lieve the infernal machines were
made in this city. They ex
pressed satisfaction at their suc
cessful, finding the plant which
manufactured the paper used as a
covering for the bombs. Only a
small quantity of the paper was
distributed and it may be possible
to trace the assassins by means
of it.
The paper is of fancy pale green,
basket-weaved design. xInvestiga
tcrs suggested the criminals might
have had a box maker prepare 25
or 30 boxes, and that the box maker
made use of the sample papei1 be
cause" the order was a small one.
It was said there appeared to be
no connection between the bomb
conspiracy and the finding of a
quan ity of explosives in a house in
West Forty-fifth street, raided by
government agents, seeking nar
cotics illegally held.
The house in which the explosives
were found was described by police
as a "medical institute" for the
treatment of drug addicts. The pro
prietor of the place, Charles R.
Ealdwin, was arrested charged with
violation of the drug act, a quantity
of drugs also being found.
The explosives consisted of 30
eight-ounce bottles of various ex
plosive chemicals, according to the
police. Baldwin denied knowing that
the bottles were in his quarters.
Chinese Delegation
Protests Transfer of
Kiao Chau to Japan
Paris, May 2. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) The Chinese delega
tion to the peace conference issued
a statement this afternoon with re
gard to the decision of the council
of three concerning Kiao Chau.
The statement says the decision
of the conference virtually substi
tutes Japan from Germany in Shan
Tung and adds to the Japanese rail
way rights in southern Manchuria
and gives Japan practical control of
northern China.
"The Chinese delegation cannot
but view the decision with disap
pointment and dissatisfaction," the
communication concludes.
Nurse Kills Soldier
V and Shoots Herself
Prescott, Ariz., May 2. Mrs. Ber
nice Anderson, wife of Capt. David
C. Anderson of the 158th infantry,
former Arizona national guard, to
day shot and. killed John Wilson,
recently returned from overseas, and
then turned the weapon on herself.
Though seriously wounded, the phy
sicians say she will recover.
Police investigating the -ase sta
ted that Wilson had accompanied
another woman to a dance last night
and that today Mrs. Anderson sent
him a message to come( to the sani
torium where she was employed as
a nurse. The shooting followed.
Billy's "vVWk in U. S. Ceases.
New York, May 2. Edouard D
Billy, who has been French high
commissioner in the United States,
sailed for France today. He said
the work of the commission had
virtually come to an end and its re
maining affairs had been turned over
to Maurice Casazene. " j
It to His Enemies Buy
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' FAKE RACE GAME
Wilcox Resident Visiting in
California Takes Alarm in
Time to Save Money.
Los Ajngeles, May 2. (Special
Telegram.) Fake race track swind
lers, operating at Santa Barbara,
are said to have obtained $21,000
from two victims, and to have come
near getting $10,000 from' a third
man, C. E. Marsteller of Wilcox,
Neb. i
Marsteller, who met one of the
swindlers while in Los Angeles, be
came suspicious just as the deal was
about to be closed in Santa Barbara
and telegraphed his bank in Wilcox
to honor no $10,000 check bearing
bis signature. V
The first swindler met Marstellar
in Los Angeles three weeks ago and
remained with him all that time.
He claimed to be from Wilcox,
Marsteller's home town.
Soon after Marsteller arrived at
Santa Barbara, his supposed former
townsmen met him, apparently by
chance, proposing wagers on a "sure
tip" race. Both Marsteller and his
companion decided to meet. The
next day the stranger reappeared
and sajd, "I won $20 and I was so
sure of my tip that I took a chance
and forged tne signatures of you
two gentlemeVi to checks for $10,000
each and made bets for you. There's
$20,000 for each of you at the hotel."
He then proposed that each man
turn over a good check for the
forged ones, but Marsteller refused.
The confidence man took alarm and
fled.
Bluffs Unit- K On
the Wav Home From
Newport News Base
- Newport News, Va., May 2.
(Special Telegram.) Unit lCbf Mo
bile hospital, one commanded by
Col. Donald Macrae, left here this
afternoon at 1:30 with many other
western troops for Camp Dodge.
The men of the unit leaving for
Camp Dodge comprised three offi
cers and 56 men.
The train was routed over the
Chesapeake and Ohio to Cincinnati,
Big Four to Chicago, Chicago and
Northwestern to Des Moines, and
the interurban to Camp Dodge.
Troop movements official here
say it will take about 55 hours for
the trip, and according to them, the
train should arrive about 9 o'clock
Sunday night.
All the men have been pining for
the train during the stay here at
Camp Hill and claim they have had
no opportunity to visit the city.
From their arrival till Thursday
night they were kept busy with in
spections, medical and others. Col
onel Marcrae and his staff have been
working on the unit papers and
when the train reaches Dodge, the
men will be ready for discharge im
mediately, it is said.
Clifford Wolfe of-Council Bluffs,
and son-in-law of the commanding
officer, is with the unit. He was for
many months a prisoner in a camp
in. central Germany. Wolfe was
formerly in an ambulance unit, but
after his return from Germany was
plgced with the men from his home
town.
Wolfe was in a dugout giving
first aid to wounded, when a Ger
man barrage fell behind his posi
tion. He was taken prisoner and
worked in German prison camps
during the remainder of the war.
The unit was cited more than any
other mobile hospital in France and
was also the largest unit of its kind
to treat the wounded men.
Telephone Rates Increase
Defended by Government
Washington, May 2. Increase of
intrastate telephone toll rates by
the postmaster general was de
fended in a brief filed by the gov
ernment today in the supreme court
in connection with pending appeals
from South Dakota and Massa
chusetts courts. The state authori
ties in their appeals have' contended
the increase was an undue inter
ference with their police powers.
The government also contends
that in taking over control of the
telephone systems of the country
the president "placed them in the
hands of the postmaster general
and his representative under the
broad power given him by the reso
lution to manage as he saw fit," and
they thus were in effect added to
the postal service and "became as
mucli a part of the means of con
veying news or communication as
the mail."
The government - contends that
state public - utility commissions
were never authorized when created
by the states norsince to deal with
the rates of public utilities operated
by government agencies.
Monitor Hero Dies
St. Louis, Mo. The funeral of
Lawrence F. Fay, 77 years old, be
lieved to be one of the few re
maining survivors of the battle of
the Monitor and Merrmac, who
died in Indianapolis from y heart
trouble, was 'held here recently.
Fay was an engineer on the Monitor.
The battle between the two ships
took place in the early days of the
civjl war.
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OMAHA MAN CRUSHES HIS
WIFE'S SfOJLL WITH BAT,
STABS BABY, SHOOTS SELF
George Greder Found by Eight-Year-Old Son, Hanging
to Beam In Attic; Mind Deranged by Fear That
Government Would Confiscate Land In Home State.
George Greder, 3932 North Thirty-sixth street, wealthy
retired farmer, Thursday night or early Friday morning,
after crushing hi3 wife's skull with a base ball bat, cut her
throat, almost severed the head of his 2-year-old daughter
from the body, drove the knife into his own breast and
after arranging his own neck in, a noose, blew the top of hig
head off with a shotgun, causing his body to swing lifeless
from an attic rafter. V
Greder, before killing his wife and baby, locked his 8-year-old
son, Gilbert, in his room, where the lad was held a
prisoner all yesterday. , v
The boy waited until dark; then in i
his underclothes he jumped from the
second-story window and with two
playmates, Goldie and Lewis Ar
mour, 4 and 8 years old respectively,
re-entered the house and found his
father's body dangling from a raft
er in the bathroom.
The children's screams brought a
neighbor, who called the police.
Patrol Conductor Woods discov
ered the bodies of Mrs. Greder and
her baby, lying in bed in their night
clothes.
Killed in Sleep. '
Though the right side of Mrs.
Greder's head had been beaten to
a pulp and her throat slashed from
ear to ear, a peaceful smile on her
lips and the reposeful position of
her body told that'' she had been
killed while she slept.
Police at first glance believed the
baby's body to be headless, but in
vestigation showed that the head
MUNICH FALLS
AND BAVARIAN
REDS SCATTER
Communists Take Vengeance
on Hostages as Govern
ment Troops Force Way
Into Capital.
Copenhagen, May 2. (By Asso
ciated Press.) Bavarian govern
ment troops forced their way into
Munich from the north Thursday
evening in the neighborhood of the
railway station, according to dis
patches received today. The minis
try of war residence and the Wit
telsbach palace have been occupied.
Many of the armed workmen sur
rendered their arms and discarded
their red armlets. The disintegra
tion of the red army is proceeding
apace. The majority of the popu
lace received the government troops
joyously, some firing on the red
guards from their houses. "
The Spartacan and communist
leaders took vengeance on hostages
they were holding, according to a
Bamberg dispatch to the Berlin Zei
tung Am Mittag.
The town of Rosenheim, 32 miles
southeast of Munich, failing to sur
render, was captured by volunteer
forces. The Spartacans have en
trenched themselves near Kiciber
mer. Separated Couple
Reunited; Husband's
Skull Is Fractured
Los Angeles, May 2. (Special
Telegram.) After two years' sep
aration, William G. Weinberger,
son of a wealthy rancher of Colum
bus, Neb., and former sergeant in
the fourth engineers, has effected
a reconciliation with his wife, Zella,
but it took a fractured skull and the
shadow -of death to do it.
Last night Weinberger was visit
ing friends in South Figuero. Think
ing he had heard a fire engine pass
the house, he leaned out of the win
dow, lost his balance, and fell three
stories to the pavement. At the
receiving hospital it was found that
his skull was frajtured.
Mrs. Weinberger, while on her
way home from the theater, saw a
crowd before the house after the
ambulance had taken her husband
away, and on inquiring found that
the injured man was her mate. ..
Founder of Dairy Industry
in Nebraska Dies in Chicago
Fremont, Neb., May 2. (Spe
cial Telegram.) J. Dixon Avery,
pioneer Fremonter, died in Chicago
today a,t the age of 84. Mr.' Avery
organized the first creamery com
pany in Fremont and was the or
ganizer of the Nebraska Dairymen's
association at Fremont 36 years
ago.
He was considered the founder of
the dairy in'dustry in Nebraska. For
several years he has made his home
in Pittsburgh. His widow and two
sons; Arthur and James, survive. .
Victory Notes
THE WEATHER i
Showars Saturday, much ceoUr
in west portion and at night is
east portion) Sunday cooUr, prob
ably rain in at portion.
Hourly temperature!
5 . m..
6 a. m..
7 a. m..
a a. in.,
a. m. .
10 a. m..
11 a. m.,
1 m. ..
..44
..
..41
,.4H
..SI
..IW
. .M
..81
1 t. m. W
t p. m ...M
8 p. m., ...... .54
4 p. m .....54
5 p. m ...54
p. m , .... 55
1 p. m..... .,,.55
p. m ....55
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had been folded back under the
shoulders.
Gilbert's base ball bat matted with
hair and clotted blood, lay across
the child's feet. Blood stained the
walls and every piece of furniture
in the room. ,
Greder's body was suspended
from a beam across a trap door
leading from the bath room to the
attic. His clothing was stained with
blood from a wound in his breastA
loaded shotgun and a bloody bat
cher knife whetted to a' razor edge"
lay at his feet.
When the body of Greber was cut
down by the coroner, it was (found
that the entire top of the heatd had
been blown off. Evidently he had
placed the muzzle of a "Winchester
shotgun in his mouth and pulled the
trigger with his toe, causing his body
to swing off from ' the rafter to
which the rope was attached. The
shotgun, with one shll discharged,
was found underneath the body.
Liberty. bonds--a'nd money to the
amount of several thousand dollars
were found in a trunk when detec
tives searched the premises.
Mind Deranged, f ,f
Dr. C. B. Foltz, who has been at
tending Greder for six weeks for.
nervous" disorders, . said Greder's
mind had been deranged by worry.
He said Greder brooded because Jir
was German-born and believed the
government might confiscate his
large land holdings near Buck
Grove and Denison, la.
Gilbert Greder, the son, described
without emotion what details of the
Hragedy he knew. "I was playing
with some boys Thursday evening,
he said. "About 9 o'clock I came
into the house. Father had already
gone to bed. Sister, too, was in bed,
but mother had not yet gone , up
stairs. - ' '
"My father and I slept together
in the back bedroom and my mother
and my sister slept together in the
front bedroom.
"When I crawled into bed, father
was asleep. He didn't wake up when
I got in. I woke up Friday morn
ing and papa had gotten up already.
He had taken his clothes except his
shjoes and socks. I tried to get out
of the room so I could get my
clothes and dress for school. The
door was locked and thekey was
on the outside. I couldn't hear a
sound. I called, but there was no
answer.
In Room AH Day.
"Pretty soon I saw the ifids ori
their way to school. I thought it
would be nice if I didn't have to go.
I waited there in the room all day.
I was hungry and a little frightened,
but I didn't want to call out for fear
mamma would discover I hadn't
gone to school.
"When it got dark I got scared.
I opened the window and called to
Lewis and Goldie Armour" across the
street. I dropped -out the window
and the three of us went back into
the house. The harlf door was nnrn
but the front door was locked.
Goldie went upstairs. Lwis and
I followed. She opened the bath
room door just a little and my fath
er's head peeked over the top. She
screamed, "O, look!" and ran up
the rest of the stairs. When I saw
the top of my father's head and the
rope leading up to the garret. I knew,
something awful had happened." We
ran from the house and told Lewis'
father. Mr. Armour called the po
lice." L
! Son in France. "
The Greders moved to Omaha
three years ago from Buck Grove,
la. George Greder, 23, a son by a
former marriage, is a soldier in
France. The first Mrs. , Greder died
10 years ago, Gilbert said, and Gre
der married his sister-in-law. -
Dr. Foltz said he had been treat
ing Greder for six weeks and that
he was to have given Greder his last
treatment yesterday. "When i I
called at the house at noon, then
seemed to be nobody home.; L 1
stepped into the kitchen and called
but when nobody answered I went
away." ,
Gilbert Greder is in the sixth
grade at Druid Hill school.
According to neighbors, the Gre
der family associated intimately
with no one. None of the people
in the vicinity knew where they had
come from and only a few even
knew their name. They seldom had
anything to say to anybody. They
have lived in Omaha three years.
Greder was 44 years old. He has
been retired for several years, His
little garden and his chickens Iceptj
him busy in the day time. Mrs.
Greder was 40 years old. Mrs. Kath
erine Grife, Buck Grove. Ia a
sister of Greder,- and other relative
in jduck urove were advised
night of the tragedy "
