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VOL. XtlX-lNO. 37. m sections. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 29, 1920. 96 PACES B Mr). billy. MOO: 8u.y. 2.J0 '' A . Dally u Sua.. $7.00; oattlaa Ntb. ! antra. FIVE CENTS. Oatha P. 0. w -1 1 JV ...... PAYMASTER KILLS BOLD HIGHWAYMAN Blow Struck With "Blackjack" Fails to Down Guardian of $2,191, Who Shoots Assail ant Through Heart. PARENTS ARE UNABLE TO REALIZE SON'S CRIME Bandit Drafted in Army Day Before Armistice Has Been Employed at Odd Jobs in Packing Houses. , The bandit killed by reviver shots yesterday noon after having at tempted to hold tip James White, paymaster for the Selden-Breck Construction company, at Twenty Sixth street and Dewey avenue, was identified late in the afternoon as F.dwarfl C. Stawasz, 23 years old,' S221 L street. Identification was made through army discharge papers found in the dead man's pockets. The mother, two sisters and a brother of young Stawasz viewed the body at Gentle man's mortuary, Thirty-fourth and rarnam streets, sttortiy alter iney were notified of his death.' A .32 caliber revolver and 12 shel's were found in Stawasz's coat pocket when the body was taken to the morgue. Carried Weekly Payroll. . White shot Stawasz through the heart and back after the highwaymen struck him on the side of the head with a "blackjack" as he was emerg ing from the alleyway near Twenty sixth and Dewey avenue. White had a payroll of $2,191 which he was tak ing to the hew Lord Lister hospital, now under construction at Twenty sixth and Dewey avenue, to pay the workmen, i I The paymaster carried a loaded gun up ins sieeve tor in emergency, he "aid. The InHtaht he was struck, he gays, he whirled about and fired five shots at the1 fleeinar bandit. Only two of the shots took effect. Stawasz never Tittered a cry, but started to run. White told the police. The paymaster reeled over from the effect of the blow struck by the bandit. He was given medical at tention at Central police station. Dies la Store, The bandit ran west to Twenty eighth street. At Twenty-eighth and Farnam streets, Stawasz stag gered into the grocery store of A. (Continued o Pnee Two, Column Four,) President Provides for Conunuation of Fuel Administration s Powers Washington,' Feb. 28. Coincident with the signing of the railroad bill, President Wilson issued executive orders providing for continuation of the nowers of the fuel administra tion but dividing them between the director general of railroads and a commission of four. DirectorGen eral Hiries will retain jurisdiction over domestic distribution; while the fommission will handle bunker and export coal matters. 1 The commssion will be composed of A. W. Howe, Rembrandt 'Peale, F. M. Whittaker and J. F. Fisher. It will function through the Tide water Coal exchange, which is re stored for that purpose, having been suspended before the resignation of Dr. Garfield as fuel administrator. The order creating the commis sion is effective until April 30," next. Fire Chief Rescues Deputy From Death In Burning Building New " York, Feb. 26. Fire Chief John F. O'Hara of Brooklyn plunged into the burning .ruins of a four story brick shoe factory in Brook lyn and rescued Deputy Fire Chief Charles H. Furey, who had been buried beneath a falling wall, and was seriously injured. Fifty other fire-fighters, who were battling the flames from the roof, narrowly es caped being carried Into the blazing building. . . Expel Girls and Teachers For Making Raisin Wine Chicago, Feb. 28. Four students and two teachers at Kemper Hal!, an exclusive school for young wom ... t,- -i w: ........ -mmVA eU HI rkCIIUMI, .CIS .AVIIVU .Thursday "for flagrant violation" ol school rules, it became known. Rev. Alfred Griffin, president, would not diseuss the dismissal, but students reported the girls and teachers were found making raisin wine. Dr. Griffin declined to discuss the "moonshining" reports, but denied report the girls had been gambling with dice. , Wilson's Health Imnroves. Washington, Feb. 28. Dr. Fran cis X. Dercum, Philadelphia special ist, paid one of his occasional visits to the White House Saturday and told Rear Admiral Grayson, Presi dent Wilson's personal physician, that the president's ' condition showed a "noticeable improvement aincfc his last visit two weeks ago. V- I i V..-- ifMi ,"'; ' 'v: " .'"- Omaha is Now Real Home Of Union Pacif ic Railroad; Builders' Pream Comes True Plan for Transcontinental Carrier From Missouri River to pacific Coast Under One Management as Originated by Abraham Lincoln and ,Gen. Gren ville M. Dodge Comes True at Midnight. . Tonight at midnight Omaha be comes the real home of the Union Pacific railroad and for the first time one of the railroad dreams of Abra ham Lincoln, General Grenville M. Dodge and the congress which au thorized the building of a transcon tinental railroad haye come true. These people dreamed a continous transcontinental railroad beginning at the Missouri river at Omaha and ending at the Pacific ocean. Tonight, at midnight, that vision comes true. A transcontinental rail road, under one president, under one operating official, under one traffic official, and stretching from Omaha to the Pacific ocean comes into being. Home in Omaha. ' For the very first time, and be ginning ' at midnight tonight, the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company will have its real headquarters in Omaha. The Oregon-Washington stretches from Huntington, Ore., through to Spo kane to Portland and to Seattle, with branch lines and with boat lines radiating to all parts of the Pacific northwest. . At Huntington, it con nects with the Oregon Short Line, which, at its own eastern terminals, Ogden and Granger, connects in turn with the Union Pacific,, making one continuous line from the' Mis souri river at Omaha, through to Puget sound and the Pacific. - The system, which, after tonight, will have its nerve-center at Fif teenth and Dodge streets in Omaha, readies' from Omaha to Denver, Salt Lake, Yellowstone, Butte, Boise, Spokane, central Washington, -Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and to all points between. , In the Pacific; northwest section mnfy hundreds of miles of boat WIFE AND DOCTOR FOUND GUILTY OP KILLING HUSBAND Man and Woman lyiurderer Latter's Spouse by Admin istration of Arsenic. Macomb, III., Feb. 28. Dr. George Alverson and Mrs. Alice Clugston were found guilty of the murder of the latters husband, JLawrence Clueston. at Bushnell. 111., last July, Dr. Alverson was sentenced to life imprisonment and ' Mrs. Clugston, was sentenced to 14 years in the penitentiary. The state charged the two had caused Clugston's death by administering arsenic. When the sentence was pro nounced the defendants maintained the outward composure displayed throughout their long - imprison ment in jail, and during the three weeks of the trial. Attorneys for both defendants im mediately moved for a new trial. Suspected Foul Play. 1 The Clugston trial has been one of the most sensational in the his tory of western Illinois courts. Lawrence Clugston, the murdered man, died at his home in Bushnell under circumstances which caused his relatives and those of his wife to suspect foul play. At the instance of Mrs. Clugston's father, an investigation was begun. Analysis of the victim's viscera dis closed presence of more jfti&n nve grains of arsenic. As Dr. Alverson iwas declared to have been the only attending phy sician and Mrs. Clugston the only nurse, suspicion resulted in their as rest and indictment. Present Motives for Crime. Alleged illicit relations between the defendants and a desire to be married, the latter evidenced by love notes, exchanged while the two were prisoners, and the physician's re ported need for money to make pay ment on Texas land, which it was charged he would obtain from the victim's insurance, were presented by the state . as motives for the crime. , . The 15-year-old son of Mrs. Clugston "was a witness for the prosecution. He asserted that at one time he had found his mother and Dr. Alverson in a compromising po sition, but had not told his father when his mother Jiad threatened to leave home. , Former Soldier Is ' Seriously Burned When Stove, Explodes Leslie Gragle, 32 years of age, 2600 Avenue C, Council Bluffs, was probably fatally burned last night by the explosion of a kerosene heat ing stove in his home. His clothing was completely burned off his body and he suffered severe burns about the head and shoulders. Me was taken to Mercy hospital, where phy sicians entertain no hopes for his recovery. Mr. Gragle was a member of the American expeditionary forces in France and was recently discharged. His wife and several children es caped being burned wljen the stove exploded. . , . lines are operated or xontrolled ly the system. All of these will come under the Omaha officials. Lincoln Authorizes Road. When Abraham Lincoln author ized the building of a railroad line fro-n the Missouri river at Omaha through to the Pacific ocean, and congress provided the funds for the work, the intention was to build a line straight west from Omaha to Salt Lake, at which point the main line was to have spread ou;t like a fan, one road going to the south west to Los Angeles, a second di rect west to San Ftancisco and a third to the Puget sound country. All these lines were constructed, but by different interests so that they have never come under one ownership or management. The Union Pacific has, at times. owned or practically owned, all three jf these sections of the fan. out the officials have never had their head quarters in Omaha. 1 he United States supreme court forded the Union Pacific to dispose of its con trolling interest in the Central line to ban trancisco. ihe Los Angeies line is said today to be controlled bv the Union Pacific. t In Omaha. to Stay. A half-century has been required to bring tinder the Omaha Qitice tne iirst one of the sections of the fan. From indications, the system headquarters are now hi Omaha to stay. There may be a further in- orathd'riner of officials Of the Other Harrimair railroads, but scarcely wiU there be another scattering of them between other cities. They are in Omaha to remain. .. Twenty-three years ago E. H. (Contlnned on Pa Two, Column Tlirw.) FOUR HURT WHEN AUTOS CRASH IN SOUTH THIRTEENTH Three Occupants of Cars Un conscious in Hospital and : One May Die. Three automobiles collided at Thirteenth and Martha streets short ly after test midnight arid four men were seriously injured, one probably fatally. Witnesses testified that two big touring cars were racing south on Thirteenth street at about 60 miles an hour and a smaller car was traveling . west on Martha street at 40 miles an hour. They came to gether. Jimmie Kerns, Seventh and Burt streets, injured in the wreck, was taken home before the arrival of the police, but later taken to the Lord Lister hospital where it was found he had a deep cut in the head and a badly mangled hand and arm. Les Lamish, Soutn inir- teenth street, had rented the car go ing west and is thought to be one of two unidentified and unconscious men in St Josephs hospital. One of the unidentified men has a broken leg the other a broken jaw and concussion of the brain, according to hospital authorities. Joseph Snyder, Iwenty-thira ana Bancroft streets, is also in the hos pital suffering from internal in juries; , All of the men are unconscious and details of how the accident hap pened could not be learned. It is believed by police that at least twj men who were occupants of. the wrecked cars left the scene. A bottle that police say contained alcohdl was found in the pockets of one of the injured men. Bryan Says Prohibition Will Be Great Issue m Presidential Election Devils Lake. N. D.. Feb. )28. William J. Bryan in a telegram to J. H. Bloom, democratic state leader, received here from Miami, Fla.. declared that enforcement of prohibition would be the paramount issue in the coming presidential election. . ' . The action of the New York state democratic committee in advocating the nullification of the prohibition amendment by the state legislatures, the telegram said,- makes the en forcement of prohibition the para mount issue, until the "outlawed liquor traffic ceases to menace the homes of the land." THe Weather. Forecast. Nebraska Fair - Sunday with slowly rising temperature in west; Monday fair and warmer. Iowa Fair and continued cold Sunday; Monday fair and warmer. Hourly Temperatures. 6 a. m .....23 1 p. m ti a. to. it t p. m.... 85 T a. m..., XI S p. m t4 .8 a. m... ...... ,.0 4 p.m...: 22 0 a. m.. ........ .19 S p. m... ., 21 10 a. m...... CO p. ,.... tl It a. m, 22 V p. m... .20 W "OOP. Jt- ' -t t- . . . - 1 . OMAHA AUTO SHOW READY FOn OPENING Doors Thrown Wide at 2 P. M. Tomorrow World Invited to Feast on Sight of Magnificent .Cars in Sumptuous Setting. 15TH ANNUAL EVENT TO BE 'THE GREATEST EVER' Dances Every Day Gala Promenade Along Automo bile Row One $11,000 Car' and 284 Others. THE SHOW IV BRIEF. Itf March 1 t4 6, Inclusive. l'lace Auditorium and Annex, Mutb Of Auditorium. Ausptrra Omaha Automobile Trade assnciHtion. Manacer Clarjie G. PowtU. Opens p. mi Monday, March 1. ' Cioaeo 10:30 Saturday, March 6. Hoiirx (After Monday), 8:80 a. m. ,to 10:80 p. m. ' Music Afternoon and' evening by Olefton's orchestra. Admission 40 cents, including war tar. , -Number of Exhibits 77. Make of Can 04. Cars on Display 284. lowest Priced Truck 600.00. Highest Priced Track 7,SO0.0fl. IiOwest Priced - Passenger Car $583.70. Highest Priced Passenger Car S! 1.000. . When the doors of the Auditorium swing open at 2 tomorrow afternoon for Omaha's 15th annua) automobile show, visitors will be ushered into the presence of the greatest display of motor cars and trucks ever asj sembled in Nebraska. There will be on exhibition 284 new models" of automobiles and trucks, products of 94 American mo tor car factories. In light and heavy passenger cars and trucks for varied service the' combined display will represent the best the automobile industry has to offer as products of ingenuity and inventive ability of motor car en gineers and the artistry and orig inality of designers. Cars to be shown are valued at $1,000,000.. To Break All Records. Motor car dealers, officials of the Automobile Trade association and Clarke G. Powell, show manager, are predif ting attendance that will break all previous records for Oma ha shows. Never before, they say, has public interest been aroused so intensely in new offerings of auto mobile and truck manufacturers. The exhibit will be open from 2 (Continued on Page Three, Colnmn One.) Suspects Are Cleared Of Bluffs Holdup by ; Bandit's Confession lwo girls and two youths, ar rested in Omaha for alleged com plicity in the holdup of the pool hall of -Pete Potkonak in Council Bluffs Wednesday night were cleared by a confession, Police Captain Shaf er of Council Bluffs said he received from Clifford Barrett, who is near death in Jennie Edmundson hospital, Council Bluffs. Captain Shafer al leges that Barrett told him there were but three men in the holdup gang. ' ' i The automobile which Omaha police were led to believe was occu pied by the bandit gang is the prop erty of Captain Shafer, he says, and was being used by himself and a party of city and federal officers searching for illicit stills. He says he was near the scene of the tragedy about" five minutes before the hold up. - Barrett and James McLaughlin, alleged bandits, are near death in the hospital and reported slowly sinking. - . , , Bee's New Leased Wire Service tio Start Tonight Tonight marks the opening of The Bee's new leased' telegraph wire which connects The Bee directly with the office of the Chicago Tribune and affords it the oppor tunity to publish every foreign cable and Washington dispatch which the Tribune itself publishes in the same editions and on the same day. ' . This wire will carry also a selection of the best of the Tribune's special correspondence from all parts or the United States, the pick of its Chicago news and the "high spots" of the New York Times cable and New York city news. Included will be Charles Michaels' re- t . Jl . r- i i t ji. it tr view oi me inicago grain manteis ana ine rsew ions Times lead on thef New York markets. No other paper in Nebraska or Iowa will be per mitted to use this sfirvice. ' No Nebraska paperever paid for a single contract the sum necessary to gain this un-v equalled service fpr readers of The Bee. , The Bee continues the full report of the Associated Press. 'The Chicago Tribune features including , "The Gumps' Drr Evans' Health Talks, sport specials, short stories and women's features will be available for The , Bee shortly after March 15. . ; . ... Ji. , . '.,.V' , -',; The .... 1. . - ' $200,000 GOLF CLUB PLANNED ON WEST DODGE Pappio Club, New Organiza tion, Will Put in Links Nine Mile West of ' City. Omaha is o have a new golf club nine miles west of the city on the Dodge street road,' or Lincoln high way, at a cost of $200,000, according to men who' are interested. The Pappio club has been chosen as the name of the new links. "The new club will have one of thebest 18-hole courses in the coun try,,' said a real estate man conver sant with the plan. "The course it self will cost $100,000 and the club house $100,000. Work will begin at once. The course will be laid over 160 acres of irrigated land. The club house will be equipped with a . fine dining room, a, big open air dance floor and tiled dressing rooms and showers and will stand one-quarter of a mile off the Lincoln highway. Plans are, now being drtwn . by Omaha architects; The - company behind tne new ciud nas Deen capi talized at $200,000." It is the present intention to lay out at a later date a nine-hole aux iliary course for' women, but this will not be attempted until the 18-hole course is in steady use. Membership in the new club will cost $400. . The fairways will be irrigated in order to provide good turf the year around. Appeal Dry Law Decision. Washington, Feb. 28. Another case involving the constitutionality of the federal prohibition amendment and the enforcement act reached the supreme court with the filing of ap peals by the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse company frcrrf fed eral court decrees dismissing pro ceedings brought to enjoin enforce ment of the act in that state. ' .'. , Passing Show BLOODHOUNDS ARE TRAILING SLAYERS OF U. S.JENGINEER American Killed by Mexicans In Raid on Stores-Brother , Severely Wounded. ' Nogales," Ariz., . Feb. " 28. Deputy sheriffs from Santa Cruz county and a posse from Tucson with blood hounds, crossed the international line into Mexico tonfzht in pursuit of the bandits who killed Alexander Frasier and shot his brother, J. A. Frasier, in a raid yesterday on their store at Montana Camp. Gen. Manuel M. Dieguez, the new military commander of the state of Sonora, Mexico, accompanied by the Mexixcan consul here and Berto E. Figueroa, mayr of Nogales, So nora, called this afternoon on Fran cis J. Dyer, . American consul at Nogales, Sonora, and expressed re grets over the killing. They prom ised full co-operation with American civil and federal officers in hunting down the bandits. . The posse is on the trail of a man known as Ezequiel Lara and a' com panion, and , is headed for a point called Syric in northern Sonora. Troops from Camp! Stephen D. Litr tie have been sent io the scene of the killing. . .' The body of Alexander Frasier was brought here this afternoon. He was 58 years old and one of .the best known mining engineers lt the western part of the United States and jn Mexico. He was a member of the Institute of Mining Engineers of New' York cfty. He was part owner in the Geneva Times of Ithaca, N. Y., and with' Ki's brother had large mining interests in Santa Cruz county. ' I Manzanillo Consul Killed. ' Washington,- Feb. 28. Augustus Morrill, former American consul at Manzanillo, Mexico, was killed by vf i,.:i. i?k t" The American embassy at Mexico City has been instructed to make urgent representations to the Mex ican government looking to the ar rest and punishment of the murder ers, and the American consulate at Manzanillo has been instructed to make similar representations to the Mexican authorities. Pastor Referees Bouts In Church Basement, Then Himself Wrestles Kansas City, Feb. 28. With the pastor, the Rev. J. H. Jones, fas referee and the Sunday school sup erintendent timekeeper, the base ment of the Rosedale Congrega tional churcrr was the scene of two boxing matche.s and later an exhibi tion in which the pastor himself challenged and defeated all comers at "Indian wrestling" 1,295,826 in Porto Rico. Washington. Feb. 28. Porto Rico's population is 1,295,826, ac cording to- final returns from the 14th decennial census as eiven in a cablegram from San Juan at the cen sus bureau nere. I his is an increase of 177,814, or 15.9 per cent over 1910. Masons Get Raise. Denver, , Colo.,. Feb. 28. Union bricklayers won their strike for in crease in wages from $9 to $10 a day. Details for plans of arbitra tion of the demands of other unions in the building trades are being worked out, of 1920 JAPANESE DIET FORCED OUT ON SUFFRAGE FIGHT Emperor Dissolves Body on Request of Premier Hara, Washington Is Informed. . ' Washington, Feb. - 28. The1 fight in Japan for universal suffrage re sulted in the dissolution of the Jap anese diet last Thursday by imperial decree. The emperor's action was taken "at the request of Premisr Hara, cable advices from T6kio said. 'It followed violent scenesi in the lower house of parliament. . The first news of the seriousness of the controversy between the gov ernment and the majority parties in the diet to reach the United States was, contained in an Associate! Press dispatch from Tokio under date of February 14, received in this country last Tuesday 10 days aftei it was written. This dispatch said the opposition attarked the firovernment for OODOS- ing the universal suffrage measure and that the president was obliged to intervene. The police fought members' jn the lobby and the mili tary was called upon td restrain crowds .outside attemptingjo break into the building. The demonstra tions continued throughout , the night. '' " . Two Fires Break Out Same Night in Store v Near Film Exchanges I r ;- Two fires occurred last night at 214 South Thirteenth street. - The first blaze started on the second floor, either from a lantern or a carelessly thrown cigaret, accord ing to, firemen. .The second started in the basement of the M. Cheshin sky fruit store, near the furnae, shortly after midnight. . Mr. Cheshinsky purchased the stock two weeks ago. The damage from the fire was slight. An i un identified negro who was asleep on" the second floor was canried from the building . by firemen partially overcome by smoke. The scene of the fire is in the im mediate neighborhood where two especially large conflagrations brok4 out early Friday and k Saturday mornings in wliicn damage ot Hun dreds of thotisandsi of dollars was done. Film exchanges in ' adjoining buildings with thousands of dollars worth of highly inflammable film in stock were greatly agitated by the two fires. Fred Jackson, 2313 P street, re ported that shortly, before the ec ond fire he saw a woman leave the vicinity pi the building and hurry away in a taxicab. ' San Francisco Hotel Men ' Not Holding Up Democrats San Francisco. Feb-. 28.-Georire F. Mara, assistant to ' Homer ' 5. Cummfngs, chairman of the demo cratic national committee, in a state ment issued .says: "There is 'no truth in the rumor circulated in certain eastern cities that the hotel people in San Fran cisco are insisting on exorbitant rates during the holding of the dem ocratic national convention here in June, , . WILSON EL'DS U. S. CONTROL OF CARRIERS Signs' Bill Saturday, But Hines Will, Continue to Exercise Duties of Director ' General For Some Time Yetv ' REPLY TO BROTHERHOODS OVER WAGES PUBLISHED Deals Wholly With Settlement' Proposals and Does Not Re-' fer Directly to Memorial Re questing Veto of Bill, ' . .." ; " : ' ' Washington, Feb. . 28. President Wilson signed the railroad bill to , night on the eve of the return of' the roads to their owners and o private control. In a proclamation issued at the time the bill was signed, Mr. Wilson J ' vested in Walker D. Hines, director general of railroads, virtually all powers conferred upon the executive, by the bill. Mr. Hines will, also - -continue to exercise the duties of . director general, which continued -beyond the return of the roads to , private control at midnight Sunday, The White House also made "pnb- -lie the text of the president's reply to a recent request of represent?-; tives of the t railroad brotherhoods that he appoint a commission com- posed equally of employers' and employes' delegates to consider wage demands made by the brother- hoods. It deals wholly with the wage -demand settlement proposals and does not refer directly to the !' memorial later presented by the ' brotherhood heads asking, that he veto the railroad bill. " Action Is Unexpected. Announcement of the signing of the bill came after officials had be- come convinced Mr. Wilson did not 1 intend to act tonight, although they . were certain he wAuld. not permit the measure to become a law fcy the expiration of the 10-day limit al " lowed for presidential approval or." veto of an act of congress. There. were indication that the president's action on the bill was delayed pend ing his completion ,of his reply to -the 'brotherhood hwds. .' - ' In his letter Mr. Vilson said the 'v. passage of the railroad bill made it evident that "I could not act on your suggestions until it should have been determined whether the bill would become a law or not" "It was manifest the letter con,- t' tinued, "that if the bill-should be- 1 come a law the negotiations and consideration of the wage' matter -ought to proceed.in harmony there with. . Way Open for Action. ; "The bill havings now - become a " law, the way is open for immediate, : action on the wage matter in ac- 11 cordance , with the terms of the . biij. Section 301 of the ill evident-, ly contemplates that the carriers and employes should, as suggested s Dy you, select representatives who . will thus constitute -a bipartisan (Continued on J"e Fire,, Column Tw. Fifty-Fifty Profit Sharing . Plan Is Announced by Cash Register Company 'J . Davton, O.. Feb.28. The Na. tional Cash Register company, em ploying approximately 7D0O neonle , in its plant here.i has announced a fifty-fifty profit sharing plan for em- ployees for 1920. Only employees in the Dayton plant of the company will share in tire profits. John H. Patterson, president of the company, announced that the profits of the company will be deter mined by outside accountants and that after the net profits have been -determined, an amount equal to 6 per cent interest on the company's investment will be deducted. Tie remaining profits, the slate-, ment said, will be divided i equal shares, 5U per cent . to , the company and 50 per cent to be di vided among the employees. -? : i Profits to be distributed among the employees will be divided into xwo parts, nait to executives and foremen and half to other " em ployees. ".' No employee will receive profits unless he has been in the employ of the company for six months No Public Investigation of "Rum Revolt" in Michigan -s. Iron River, Mich., Feb. 28. J. E.", 1 Converse, assistant attorney general ' v of Michigan, announced that he had canceled plans for a-public investi gation of the Iron county prohibi- V tion squabble and would leave lor"-' Lansing at once. ' - " Woman Gets two Years. . ' Dallas, Tex., Feb. k Notice of " appeal was filed by counsel for Mrs. ," Ida..Valera Ott, whom a district-" court jury earlier in the day had found guilty of manslaughter' for ' shooting her hitcKanrl A ml,... T v ptt, here last December. The court assessed hef punishment at t years in the penitentiary. ; II ! A rjrrr