THE OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1919.
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FALSE REPORT
IS CORRECTED
BY MAYOR SMITH
Letter Printed-In Literary
Digest Following Riot Is
' Amended In Late
. Issue.
The Literary Digest, which in
sists ea the truth and nothing but
the truth, and which was put in a
'very embarrassing light recently
through a letter from Omaha, in
which it was declared the law firm
;of Mayor Smith never defended a
negrd, charged with an offense
against a white woplan, has secured
a letter from Mayor Smith admit
ting that the statement was not
(true.
V The correctiotand letter in part
published in the last issue of the
Digest follows:
Letter From the Mayor. .
. "It will e remembered that the
mayor of Omaha was seized by the
mob in the pmaha riot of Septem
ber 28 and had been injured severely
when rescued by the police. In the
account of this incident in our issue
of Octiber 11 it was stated that "the
action of the lynchers is said to be
partly due to the fact that the law
firm of which Mayot Smith is a
member recentfy defended two ne
groes charged with crimes against
white women." This statement was
made on the authority of Omaha
newspapers and press dispatches.
While the mayo was recovering
from hit injuries Mrs. Smith wrote
" a letter branding this report as "ab
solutely untrue." At her request we
quoted these sentences from her let
ter in our issue of November 8:
" 'The firm to which Mr. Smith be
longs are to defend a colored man
that is accused of killing a colored
woman and not for any crime
against a white woman. , The mob
knew nothing about this cae and
attacked Mr. Smith because he
"would not yield to mob rule.'
Mistaken in Facta.
:"Aher it had been called to our
attention' that Omaha newspapers
had questioned the above statement
we received a letter from Mayor
Smith, now apparently recovered
from his injuries, in which he 'said
that the facts i "are substantially
these; '
., "I was elected and went into the
mayor's office in May, 1918. At that
time I was the head of the law firm
of Smith & Schall. Since my elec
tion as mayor I have given my ex
clusive time to the city's business,
and have at no time appeared in any
litisration either in the supreme or
district court of our state or in any
federal court. ' - '
.' "After my election Frank S. How
ell, formerly United States district
attorney for this district, was taken
into bur firm, and early last sum
mer was retained to defend, and last
week did defend, a colored man
charged with the crime of assault.
Mrs. Smith had no knowledge of
this at the time she wrote you and
is very much distressed to learn that
she made a mistake in her commu
nication to you.
' ' Not an Apology.
"I am not writing you for the pur
pose of apologizing in the least de
gree for the action of Mr. Howell
in defending the colored man. The
constitution of the state of Nebraska
expressly provides that no man shall
be deprived of hit life, liberty or
property without due process of
law. The , constitution of the
.United States guarantees to all of
its citizens that "no state shall deny
to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of -the law.
"I regret exceedingly that Mrs.
Smith made a mistake and conveyed
to you the erroneous impression."
Three Injured and
Score Shaken Up In
j Street Car Accident
Three men were injured and more
than a score -f passengers badly
shaken up and bruised, when a Fort
Crook street car crashed into a city
street cleaning truck at the inter
section of Railroad avenue and
Monroe street 'on' the South Side
shortly after noon, yesterday.
, XJie, street, car was loaded with
passengers and the front end of the
car was demolished. The truck was
attempting to cross the tracks. The
car was going south.
The injured: .Dan ' O'Connor,
driver of the truclc, 3637 X street,
right rib fractured and contusion of
the right thigh; Frank Nohave,
motorman of the car, 5403 South
Twentieth street, contusion of the
right thigh; Nick Nicholson, city
street department employe, 2140
Monroe street, contusion of the left
leg.
The driver of the truck and the
motorman were removed to their
homes. Nicholson was taken to the
Ford hospital. X
According to Motorman Nohave
the truck was crossing in front of
the street car, which was going
south, and when the car and truck
reached the intersection they came
irerthr Mnttav cairi hm anrt1iri
the brakes, "which locked, and the
car slid on the track, causing the
collision.
The car was loaded with passen
gers,, but nona were injured, al-
though many received a severe
shaking op. According to the mo
torman the ear was going down hill
and a slight snowfall had-rendered
the track slippery.
Rioter Pleads Guilty and
. ' Sets 90-Day Jail Sentence
. John Nalslnger, indicted October
J on i charge of unlawful assem-
riot, pleaded guilty to the charge
yesterday and was' sentenced by
District Judge Redick to the county
tail for 90 days, the sentence to date
from October 8.
The Co-Operative Wholesale so
ciety, composed of workers iu Man
chester, England, has invested $6,
000,000 in farms and land for food
production. A woolen"mill has been
started with promising results. So
prosperous is the society 4hat it
sells some of its products below
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Mourns as Body of Suicide "
Sweetheart Is Taken Away
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Youthful Lover Tenderly Places Rose at Breast of
Kenny Girl Sadly Mourns, "Just to Hearfou
- Say Once More, 'Jess. Comedo Me. "
The household of Thomai Cook,
1211 Fierce street, is filled with sor
how in the absence of pretty Laura
Kenny, 19 yeara old, who committed
suicide last Wednesday morning fol
lowing threats of her lover, "Jesse
Cook, 17 years old, that he "was go
ing away-"
As the youthful sweetheart of the
girl stood silently weeping beside
the bodv. a murmur escaped his
flips: "fust to hear you say once
more, Jess, come to me.
The girl lived at the Cook home
for the past two months.
Young Cook's last act before the
body of his sweetheart was taken
from , the undertaking . parlors
Thursday night was to Diace a rose
on the breast of one h loved
sThe body of the Kenny girl was
taken to Chillicothe, Mo., " where
relatives reside.
FRANK HAMILTON
LEFT BIG ESTATE,
INVENTORY SHOWS
Estimated Worth Between Mi-
lion and Half and Two
. , Million. .
-An inventory of the estate of the
late Frank T. Hamilton, president
of the Ojnaha & Council Bluffs
Street Railway company, and wide
ly known capitalist, filed yesterday
in county court disclosed the fact
that his estate is worth between
$1,500,000 and, $2,000,000.
Stocks and bonds in enormous
blocks, valuable downtown real es
tate in Omaha, farms in fertile parts
of Nebraska, are included in the
estate of Mr. Hamilton, who died
suddenly October 11 in his berth
in a Pullman car" while going on
a hunting trip to the western part
of Nebraska.
Sixty-two pieces of real estate are
mentioned in which he has 69-360th
interest. These include some of the
very valuable Omaha properties.
Farm land in Nebraska to the ex
tent of 2,500 acres, are included.
Owned Valuable Stock.
In the Omaha & Council Bluffs
Street Railway company hehad
$181,000 worth of bonds, $131,000
worth of preferred stock and $136,
500 worth of common stock. He
had $173,900 worth -of Merchants
National bank stock. $117,300 worth
lof Omaha Gas company stock, "$53r-
500 worth of stock in the John
Deere Plow company, $25,000 worth
of National Lead company stock,
$27,800 worth of Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway and Bridge
company stable, $10,000 worth of
Bethlehem Steel company stock and
many other blocks of stock.
, Had Russian Securities.
There is about $50,000 worth of
railroad stocks and $21,000 in cash.
Short time notes total about $37,
000. -He had $10,200 worth of Liberty
bonds; $10,000 worth of Russian
bonds; $10,000 worth of Russian
rubles; $5,000 worth of Argentine
bonds. ' ,
Mr.-Hamilton left all his estate to
hij widow, Mrs. Luisa Hamilton,
and his son and daughter, Frank T.
Hamilton, second, and Exilona Lui
sa Hamilton.
The inventory was ' filed by the
IHamilton and F. P. Hamilton. .
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The Bee's Free Shoe
rund
G. O. P. Committee to Meet
Chicago, Dec. 19. Members of
the committee on arrangements for
the republican national convention
next June have been sumnpned by
Chairman A. T. Hert to meet here
January 5, it was announced today.
The women's division of the party
also has been called to meet at that
time. ' i
MOTORIZATION
OF PdSTOFFIGE
EQUIPMENT HERE
Will Dlspjaoe Present Horse
Drawn Collection Vehicles
and Street Car Mail
Service, v
Eighteen automobile trucks and
four motorcycles with sidecars (will
be placed in service soon aa the be
ginning of the motorization of the
transportation equipment . of the
Omaha postoffice.
This equipment will displace the
present horse-drawn collection
vehicles and the street car mail
service. . . .
Parts of the motorcycles have ar
rived and the first shipment of
trucks will be received . next
month. The trucks will haul mail
to and from the postoffice, railroad
station and sub-postal stations, and
will be used also for the general col
lection of mail. The motorcycles
will be used principally for collect
ing and delivering parcel post pack
ages. -
"We have been advised that 18
trucks will be sent to-Omaha as a
starter," J. I. Woodward, assistant
postmaster, explained. "It is ex
pected 4hat the government will es
tablish a garage and shop for this
new equipment and we anticipate
that aerial mail will be hauled be
tween the postoffice and hangar in
one of these new trucks."'1
Lots of folks are going to have
happier Christmases themselves be
cause they will know they ' have
made some poor little shoeless
waif happier by a contribution
through this fund. ,
The contributions are coming in
fast. But they can't keep ahead of
the demand. At the present price
of shoes there are so many poor lit
tle ones whose widowed mothers
can't buy them shoes. t
Will y(5u do something for them?
Previously acknowledged $707 40
Neb.
H. M. R.
Kiddies' Friend, Vork,
rami
Thoma F. Godfrey
t'fertt Srliweder, Fontenelle, Neb.
Little Jack
Jay B. Kntz. Jr
K. M. I-eflungr
H. K. McDonnor.
Total
5 IKI
. 3 (Ml
1 00
5 OO
2 00
1 OO
1 OO
5 OO
5 00
$735 40
Wife of Trenmore Cone
Is Granted Divorce
On Cruelty Grounds
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Mrs. Ora Cone was granted a di
vorce from Trenmore Cone, wealthy
owner of sand dredges and formerly
member of the state legislature and
clerk of the house, by Judge Wake
ley in divorce court yesterday on
grounds of cruelty.
Mr. Cone is 49 yearSxJd; his for
mer wife 43. They lived at 4656
Douglas street. ' They ; were mar
ried about two years ago. Mrs.
Cone filed a suit last April for di
vorce, but dismissed it' when a rec
onciliation was effected and her hus
band promised to "pay more atten
tion to her."
Mr. Cone owns sand-dredging
plants at Valley, Central City .and
Columbus.
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Man Held by Police S&ys
It's Case of-Mistaken Identity
Henry Slack, arrested on a charge
of grand larceny, is still being held
by police pending further investiga
tion of the alleged th,eft of $450
from Louis Peterson, 519 North
Seventeenth street.
Slack says police have mistaken
him for a Harry MiMer who is
wanted for the alleged theft.
A brother of Henry Slack was
sentenced to the state penitentiary
last May, instead of Henry, as was
stated in The Bee, police say.
Boy Scout Council
-Will Hold Annual
Meeting Tonight
Walter W. Head, president of the
Omaha council, : Boy Scouts , of
America, has issued a call to all
members to attend the annual meet
ing at the Chamber of Commerce to
night. At this meeting a report of
the-last year's activities in all phases
of scouting will be presented, and
the treasurer will make a report on
the finances of the organization.
The present executive board will re
tire from office and 12 men will be
elected to succeed them.
The local council is made up. of
the chairman of the various group
committees and of other prominent
citizens in the community. The
present executive board . plans to
make some definite recommenda
tions concerning the development of
Camp Gifford, which .has been the
most emphasized point in scouting
in Omaha ior the last year. The
present executive board is composed
as follows:
ODr. E. C. Henry, honorary presi
dent; Walter W. Head, president;
A. B. Currie, vice president; J. W.
Welch, commissioner; W. E.
Rhoades, treasurer; A. W. Miller, R.
S. Flower, J. H. Beveridge, Dr. E.
H. Bruening, J. E. Davidson, W. C.
Fraser and W. E. Reed. v
Tn Sacramento. Cal., newspa
per printers have established a nevw
scalevwhich calls tor $45 a"week for
night work and $42 for day work,
with a seven aid one-half hour day.
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