TJiE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919.
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FIVE BANDITS
CAPTURED WITH
THEIR PLUNDER
PnliM Saw Thu Mau Ro Same
-
Gunmen Who Looted Ral
- ston Bank Near This.
City Sept. 20. ,
Sioux City, la!, Oct 23. (Spe
cia!.) Ffve ;bank -robber,, with
about $3,000 in caih and currency
Irom the bank at Westfield, la,
which they robbed in broad day
light Wednesday morning, were
halted in their dash for liberty in
a high powered automobile and
captured by tlice here without a
shot beinjr fired. ' - -
Culver Kennedy, 19 years old, son
of C. R. Kennedy, and well known
in Omaha and Council, Bluff, was
driving the car in which the rob
bers were . speeding on their way
to safety. V, They were intercepted
at the end of the Broken Kettle
pavement in the northwest section
of Sioux City. .
May Be Omaha Bandits.
Police declare that the methods
used by the Sioux City bank robbers
were remarkably like those of the
men who robbed the Ralston state
bank near Omaha on September 20
and mada their escape with $4,000.
Harry Oenson, the taxicab chauf
feur, who drove the Ralston robbers
from Omaha to the scene of the rob
bery and later was forced to drive
them at terrific apeed in their flight
, until the machine broke down near
Ashland, Neb., may be called to
Sioux City in an effort to identify
the men.
Surrender Without Fight
Young Kennedy, prominent in the
younger . sets or Omaha, Council
Bluffs and this city, stopped his
car when commanded by Captain
O'Keefe of the police force, who
covered the five men with his auto
matic' rifle. All were immediately
cowed into surrendering.
Kennedy told the' police that he
was forced to become an accomplice
of the quartet of bandits at the point
of a gun. He was driving to Sioux
City from Haywarden, he said, when
the four gunmen halted him, and
climbed into his car. One of the
n.en sat beside him and kept a re
volver pressed against his ribs dur
ing the jntire trip, y
He says he was ordered to drive
to Westfield, where the robbers di
rected him to stop in front of the
bank. He and one of the robbers
remained outside while the three
others went into the bank.
One of the robbers stepped up to
Frank Anderson, cashier, and
poked a revolver against7 his stom
ach, saying, "Put 'em up!" Ander
son complied at once and was
driven,, with his assistant, T. V. Con
verse, into the vault. The three
bandit seized a cloth Currency
sack, filled with silver, and loaded
a leather grip with stacks of silver
ana one targe Dunme comamiug
$3,000 in currency. , i
Locked in Vault V .
Then they closed the vault door
and escaped. Twenty minutes later,
Tom Haynea, anotherv bank ,em-
pioye, - appeared ana reieaseu mi
rier son and Converse front the vault
The alarm was spread and a de
scription of the men and machine
telephoned, to surrounding town
and cities. ' , ,
As soon as a report of the rob
bery reached the Sioux City police
station, three machines were sent
out by Jens Nlelseen, desk sergeant.
Captains O'Keefe and Shannon and
Chauffeur Wheelock occupied the
first machine. Chief Gus Danielson
of the detective department the sec-'
ond, while Commissioner of Police
T. B. tyann and Detective Harry
Luce were in the third car.
Captain O'Keefe Instructed his
driver to hal,t his machine across the
road at the last bridge inside the
pavement on the Broken Kettle
road. Then he stepped forward and
took his stand with a high powered
automatic rifle, .
The machine soon appeared, con
taining the five men, and O'Keefe
raised his rifle and ordered them to
surrender,; Although the bandits
carried five revolvers and quanti
ties' of ammunition, they threw up
their hands, v
They were relieved of their guns
and brought , to the station where
charge! . of Investigation were
placed against them. The robbers
gave uic names ui jauica v ivn-tt,
San .Francisco; Lee Bafrington. 922
Fourth Street, Sioux City, id; Harry
Smith, Seattle, 23, and W. Cullon,
San Francisco, 21.
The guns found in the possession
of the. men. presented a wicked ap
pearance. - Four are revolvers ot
large caliber and the1 fifth is a
heavy automatic. Two of the guns
were found on the floor of the ma
chine and the remainder were con-
Pope Comments Upon -
Virtue of Women and
The Clothes They Wear
Rome, Oct 23. "On the domes
tic hearth woman is queen," said
Pope Benedict in answering an ad
dress presented to him by the wo
men's unions.
The pontiff added that changed
times had given woman functions
and. rights she did not possess in
former ages and enlarged the field
of her activities, but that no altera
tion in man's opinion or no novelty
of things or of events could separ
ate woman, conscious of her high
mission, from the family which was
her natural center. ' ' '
Pnn Rnriirt nrifH the Arrow
ing determination of the Catholic
woman to dedicate herself to the
cHiimtinn of vnuth and the better
ment of the family schools.
"The Catholic woman," said the
pontiff, "besides feeling it her duty
to be virtuous, must feel it her
rnv tn annriv inch in the fashion
of her clothes, repudiating those ex
aggeration ot tasnions wnicn suuw
the corruption of those who de
signed them and bringing an evil
Contribution to the general corrup
tion of manners fashions contrary
to that modesty which should be
the fairest ornament of the Chris
tian woman."
The pontiff strongly urged the
formation of a league of Catholic
women to fight what he termed the
indecency of the fashion not only in
their own clothing but also of that
of persons in families who approach
them. '.' ' ;
Gompers Advises
Textile Workers,
To Move Slowly
Baltimore, Oct. 23. Samuel Gome
pers. president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, was given a tre
mnrfnie Avtinn when he aooeared
before the United Textile Workers
in convention here. Mr. uompers
urged the textile workers to pursue
their aims calmly and avoid over
reaching themselves. Referring to
the employers' group at the Wash
ington conference, while condemning
hir ,-niircp hp laid tttost of the
blame not on the actual employers
in the group, but upon their lawyers
"I am reuaDiy intormea, ne sam,
'.. J UrO C thp IjWVff 111 the CHI-
oioyer' group who advised the ma
jority -OI ine YOICS in liitl giuuy
4 Via tfit. rf thp trrnnrt in con
ference against the declarations of
labor." -
W .rmitil thai St wac impIpkS for
the labor group to continue in the
Conference after labor's declarations
had been rejected. , While the vote
nt th lahnr ffroun could have ore-
vented the views of the employer
group oeing aaoptea, u couia nave
done no more, he saia, ana it wouia
tia tipon liaplpas in stnv in thft con
ference merely to cast negative
votes. ,
A fZnmnrr annlrA snnrpnativplv
AM. - J
of the letter sent the conference by
rresiaent wnson,
Episcopal Congress
Revises Prayer Book,
But Not the Psalter
Detroit, , Oct., 23.-f he triennial
general convention: of the Protest
ant Episcopal church made rapid
progress in clearing up its heavy
program. , -. "
Because of a demand for a "more
democratic" prayer for the president
and. the nation the house 6f deputies
decided to include in the revised
prayer book both the old petition
for the president and the new one
favored by the house of bishops, the
choice- being optional with , the
clergy. Textual revision of he psal
ter was left to the revision commit
tee, which will report at the next
convention. -.
A group of business and church
men was selected to direct the nation-wide
canvass of the church
membership, to end December 7, for
the ' purpose of arousing the full
power of the church and awakening
it to its opportunities and providing
the means to the end.
There, is apparent a very strong
current in the convention against
setting womctv in the legislative
council of the church. . '
y? Woman Acquitted, y ;':
Sacramento, Cal., Oct 23. Mrs.
Ethtfl Loar McGowan, accused of
attempting to extort $500 from Gov.
William D. Stephens under threat
that the Capitol would be bombed,
was acquitted by a jury in the
superior court,
cealed about the persons of the
men. The loot from the bank was
almost half silver. The rest was cur
rency in small denominations,
ITALY NOT TIED
TO GERMANY IN
EVENTOF WAR
Hitherto Undisclosed Provi
sions of Treaty Conventions
of Triple Alliance Made
Public by Austrian,
Vienna, Oct. 23. One of the
hitherto undisclosed provisions of
the treaty conventions of the triple
alliance has been made public by
Dr. Alfred Pribram, nrofessor of
rhistory in the University of Vienna,
wno was permitted access to the
state archives.
Article 2 of the original treaty
provided that Germany and Austria
Hungary should come to Italy's aid
in the event of an unprovoked at
tack by France. Italy was to come
to Germany's assistance if it were
attacked by France, but Austria's
participation in Germany's behalf
was limited to an attack by two
powers. Italy was not expected to
assist Germany in a war with Rus
sia. Italy secured, the insertion in the
protocol of the original treaty of a
provision to the effect that the
triple alliance was not to enter upon
any anglophobe policy. In the re
newal of the triple alliance in 1887
this clause was rewritten so that
Germany would come to Italy's aid
in any war with France, even if
Italy provoked the conflict, but Aus
tria refused to accede to this. ,
Separate Agreement
A- separate agreement was then
entered into whereby Austria's par
ticipatipn in Italy's behalf was lim
ited to a war involving the Balkans
or an unprovoked attack by France.
Article 4 of the German-Italian
Convention contained an expression
by Germany of its readiness to
guarantee Italy's possessions ; at the
cost of France in the event of a
successful war. In the renewal of
1891, however, these separate con
ventions were incorporated in the
triple alliance treaty as a whole.
The Crisis of the triple alliance, it
is disclosed, came in 1896, when
Italy notified her partners that she
would not join them in any war in
which France and England Were
aligned on the same side. '
Italy Gets Free Hand. ....
The renewal of 1902 granted Italy
a free hand in Tripoli, and in the
treaty in 1912 a protocol was added
recognising ,. Italy's sovereignty in
Tripoli.
Dr. Pribram says that, contrary to
the popular belief, there were np de
fined or detailed military plans in
the treaty which merely provide
that in the event of war, three
powers should draw up a combined
plan of operations, Germany, how
ever, agreeing that in the event of
war with France, the Italian forces
should be permitted to participate
on the Rhine front.
Detailed naval plans were formu
lated in the renewal of 1900 to the
effect that the three fleets should
operate independently. . But in 1913.
this was abrogated, and provision
was made for united operations to
secure supremacy; in the Mediter
ranean and prevent the French co
lonial forces from reaching the
continent.
Printers Reject Mediation
Plan of Big Publishers
New York, Oct. 23. A proposal
made bvLeon H. Rouse, president
ofsthe "Bix Six," that a mediator
be called in to settle the printers'
strike and lockout has been rejected
by the Printers' league. William
Green, chairman of the league's
special committee on labor, an
nounced. Green asserted, however, that the
league had asked Mr. Rouse to sub
mit questions involved to arbitra
tion, and. pointed out that a medi
ator's recommendation would " not
be binding on either party.
Longshoremen Must Work
or Shipping Board Will Act
New York. Oct. 23. Unless the
unauthorized strike of longshore
men at this port is called off bs
Friday night, the United States
shipping board will undertake to'
end the tieup by loading and un
loading its ships with men who will
be quartered on ; a . vessel now
moored at one of the transatlantic
piers, according to an announcement
by board of officials here.
Soviet Convenes Deo. 1.
London, Oct. 23, A bolshevik
wireless message received from
Moscow says the soviet Parliament
will convene December I. r
Inportant (lotice To Warrant Holders
A11 persons holding city special warrants,
sucK as Street Improvement, Sewer, Sidewalk,
Grading, Paving and Widening Streets and Alleys,
also Parks and Boulevards; it is absolutely neces
sary that these warrants must be presented to the
City Treasurer for re-registration.
, i " M. L. ENDRES, City Treasurer.
Temporarily located on the 4th floor of the court house.
r, $250 will buy 5 shares ' in the beautiful ne w
- theater, stores and apartment building, to be
-erected at 24th and Ames avenue; No better
1 time no better place. We are sure of dividends
from 18 to 25. No watered or promotion
stock. Write or Call ,
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AMES REALTY CORPORATION
2404-6 Ames Avenue (Upstairs). Phone Colfax 175.
Strikers Will Carry . ;
Fight for Liberties ,
To Supreme Court
" Pittsburgh, Oct. 23. Steel strikers
will carry their fight to the supreme
court in an effort to restrain city
authorities from preventing them
holding lodge meeting in the strike
zone, W. B. Rubin, counsel for the
strikers, has announced.
Mr. Rubin informed the court that
for purposes of the present strike
the action will avail nothing, tut it
is the intention of labor leaders to
have the case determined that it may
serve as a precedent for other cases
which may arise in the future.
Counsel for the strikers was as
sured by the court that if there was
any stipulation it could consistently
make so that the matter could be
taken up by the- supreme court it
would do so.
J. M. Patterson, member of the na
tional strike committee, represent
ing railroads employed in steel
mills, has arrived in Pittsburgh to
initiate plans for taking a strke vote
of crews in the district, according to
an announcement made at strike
headquarters.
Policeman Picks Up
Boy Who Searched
Year for His Mother
Whea Police Officer George Brig
ham found 16-year-old Albert Tee
ter penniless at Fifteenth and How
ard streets . about midnight last
night he brought to a pause Teeter's
search for his mother that has ex
tended over a year. Teeter was
taken to central police station and
held for the juvenile authorities.
The lad told Police Sergeant Fer
ris of his hunt through nearly every
middle western state for his mother.
"When I was 4 years . old, my
mother and my father separated,"
the boy said. "I was left in my
home in Vernal, Utah, with my fa
ther, a brick manufacturer. My
mother came east. I know my fa
ther heard from her somewhere in
Nebraska shortly before he died, last
year, but I wasn't able to find out'
where she was. Pve hunted for her
ever since father died. I haven't
seen her since I was 4 years old,
but somehow I think if we met we'd
know one another. I'll have to go
to work-and earn, some money, I
guess, before I can go on looking
for her.".
Flood Danger Passes.
Dallas, Tex., Oct. 23.With no
heavy rains reported in Texas today
and a forecast for colder and clear
weather for Friday, danger for a
serious flood in north Texas seem
ingly had passed tonight.
Are you going to the theater or
movies tonight? If so see amuse
ment page.
CROP ESTIMATE
SHOWS POTATO
HARVEST SMALL
Early Frost Damaged Ne
braska Supply, But Aver
age Is Better. Than'
; Expected. . r
Frank"; S. Pinney of the federal
bureau of crop estimates, Council
Bluffs, was authorized by the fed
eral department to issue yesterday
a statement concerning the condi
tion of the potato crop in the entire
country on October 15. The depart
ment will issue a special commer
cial potato report o November 1
and it will contain estimates of the
crop that will be available for mar
ket, grading NoS. 1 and 2 and culls.
The estimate yesterday shows that
the general potato situation is more
unsatisfactory than it has been for
several years. In all of the . New
England states, as well as New
York, Ohio and Michigan, the crop
was nearest to normal, but bad
weather conditions in October pro
duced rot. Michigan shows the best
condition, indicating a commercial
crop of 70 per cent of normal. Car
shortage is interfering with market
ing, i ' -
Iowa is not classed as a commer
cial potato state, but the. report in
dicates that a small surplus of mar
ketable spuds may come from Mitch
ell county, the banner potato
county of the state. There will be
little stock to ship outside the state,
however. Omaha and Council Bluffs
markets will haye to depend almost
wholly on Nebraska, Minnesota, the
Dakotas, Coloado and Idaho.
The federal report for Nebraska
says:
"Temperatures of 10 to 12 degrees
above zero on October 10 are re
ported to have injured as high as
25 per cent of the potatoes in cer
tain fields that were not harvested.
Inasmuch as the large bulk of the
potatoes were harvested at that time
the total damage may not exceed 5
per cent. Harvesting is practically
complete at this time. It appears
that the yield will average better
than expected and the total ship
ments will probably exceed the Oc
tober 1 estimate of 2,574 cars, in
spite of the loss from the freeze of
October 10." , '
Governors May Confer
: on the Coal Situation
nor Harding's move to hold a con
ference of governors on the coal
cfriL-o mav rci,1t in a mtincr npinc
tailed by Governor Goodrich of
Indiana to be held at inaianapous
some time next Week.
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IT IS A GREAT FOOD
AND BEST WHEN M ADE WITH
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Omaha Names First and ,
Last in Bluffs License Book
A new marriage license record was
opened in Council Bluffs yesterday
when the last license blank in the
old book was filled. The book was
opened April 10 last and contains
624 licenses. Omaha people figure
in the first and. last license record
ed in the volume, Orville Hayter and
Anna Ward, both of Omaha, taking
the first license recorded and Timo
thy J. Walsh, Chicago, and Emma
Harrison, Omaha, taking the last
Undergoes Operation. ,
Mrs. George Parks, Twenty-fifth
and D streets, wife of former City
Commissioner Parks, was operated
on yesterday in St. Joseph hospi
tal. Physicians report her recover-
mg nicely.
$30,000 Given for Monument
. For British and U .S. Navies
London, Oct. 23. (By Associated
Press.) The United, States t ha
been offered $30,000 of the Dover
patrol fund for the erection of a me
morial to commemorate the co-operation
of the American and British
navies in the war. The money is
offered without conditions. !'
The United States Government
Bought millions of pounds of t
BAKING
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lot our troops over seas
more than all other brands
combined.
What Better Recommendation
Can You Ask For?
And the PRICE is the same
now as before the war
Ounces for
it'
National Legislatipn
of the
Meat Packing Industry
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1.7 Will not increase the amount of meat you can
buy for a dollar.
2. Will not raise ' more animals.
3. Will not produce more meat. '
4. Will not stop fluctuations in live-stock receipts
or prices. . V ::
Will not increase the output of the packing
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Will not prevent strikes.
Will not reduce transportation charges.
Will not reduce the retailer's cost of doing
ousiness.
9. Will not increase the demand for the cheaper
cuts of meat
10. Will not lessen the consumers' demand for ex
pensive delivery and credit service.
1 1 . Can not at the same time raise prices paid
. farmers for live stock, and lower prices
paid by consumers for meat
1 But the slowing up of efficiency due to' cumbersome
governmental routine will have the effect of increasing the
manufacturing charges between the Cost of live stock and the
cost of meats, thus forcing lower live-stock prices or higher
meat prices. ,
The packing industry as now conducted, is characterized by
keen competition, highest efficiency, and unusually low profits.
Let us send yoo a Swift "Dolls."
It win interest yon.
Address Swift & Company,
Union Stock Yards, ' Chicago, HI.
Swift & Company, TJ. S. A.
Omaha Local Branch, 13th ft Leavenworth Streets
F. J. Souders, Manager
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