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The Om aha iDaily : Bee VOL. 50 NO. 10. (( H Skm4-CIim Mttt.r May 21, IM. it Oath P. 0. Uatftr Act of Mirth 3. 1879. v OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1920, By Mill (I r). Iiula 4th I.M. Dally . II: Dally Oaly. W: tuaday. 14. TWO CENTS !)!;TS.l,l,)fJIMUIiD.V'v,-,'J' Outildi 4th Zo. (I yaar). Dally and Sunday, IK: Dally Oaly. 112; Suaday Oaly. 15. ' VUn 1 O ,.L w KK8. Fmi ( tM nn on (ln LJ w ELVAD FIRMS IN HANDS OF RECEIVERS Chicago Companies Organized By Former Omaha Man, Now In Los Angeles, Facing Se rious Financial Difficulties. INTERLOCKING DEALS FEATURE OF BUSINESS Liabilities of Two Concerns Involved $130,000, Assets $4,500 Attorney Davis Re mains to Face Music. Echoes of the financial difficulties of Fcter Elvad during his career in Omaha, are being heard in Chicago in connection with a receivership which has been appointed for the Continental Engineering Construc tion company and the Fidelity Se curities company. Charles E. Davis, who was an at torney with Elvad during the latter's tonncction with the Bankers' Realty Investment company in this city, was president of both of the Chicago companies at the time one of the directors forced a receivership. Davis is still in Chicago, facing the music. Elvad Oeft Chicago last month and is now in Los Angeles. According to reports from Chi cago, operations of the two windy city enterprises were similar to those of the Bankers' Realty Invest ment and North American Hotel companies of Omaha. Named as Receivers. The Great Lakes Trust company. Chicago, was appointed to serve as receiver for the Continental ana Securities comcanies which have . susDended ooerations. Assets are said to amount to $4,500 and liabili ties are $130,000. Mr. Elvad left Omaha a year ago last month to engage in business in Chicago. A year previous to his departure he was instrumental " in the organization of the Continental Construction company, placing a an named Simpson in charge as 'J--.- Tin. f I. J MfVaA . 11CS1UC111. VV I1CU r.ivau n-BVtivy A - . . , , n , J Itiicago ne displaced Simpson ami Cilarles Davis was named as presi dent. Stenographer is Secretary. Davis was a member of a skele ton organization which Elvad took with him from Omaha. Others were William and Charles Johnson, brothers of Mrs. Elvad; Arthur Gross, lawyer; F. W. Fitzpatrick, architect, and Miss Florence Nash, stenographer. Miss Nash was ap pointed secretary-treasurer of the Continental company soon after sha arrived in Chicago. Investigations of the two Chicago companies have thus far disclosed that Elvad was not a officer of either, but that he furnished the brains and Davis fronted as president. One of the transactions which the receivers are endeavoring to recon cile involves a rote given by Davis for $95,000 of stock, of which $23,000 was said to have been disposed of in Nebraska. Some of this stock was exchanged for notes which were held against the Continental com pany. Interlocking Transactions. The Continental and Fidelity com panies, which were closely related, carried interlocking transactions. One company promoted bank build ing companies and the other fur nished the plans and usually ob tained the contracts. In the case of a new bank building in Havana, 111., Mr. Davis, as president of the Fidel ity company, promoted the financial deal, obtained a building contract in his own name and then sublet the contract to the Continental com pany. "When it is all over I don't be lieve Davis will have a cent left," said a former associate of Elvad in Chicago. Conducted School Here. Peter Elvad came to Omaha in 1907 or 1908 and for several years conducted an automobile training school. In 1912 he organized the .Bankers Realty Co. and was made president. Soon afterward he or ganized the North American Hotel Co., of which he was a member of the board of directors. In , May, 1919, directors of the Bankers Realty Co. became dissat isfied with Elvad's management and Elvad resigned as president, dis posed of his interests in both the realty company and the hotel com pany and went to Chicago. Estimates ot wealth. Local estimates of his wealth while a resident of Omaha vary from $50,000 to $500,000. One man who was closely associated with him in business says he does not believe Elvad was ever worth more than $40,000 or $50,00. Another Omaha business man- who .knew Elvad equally well says he was worth half a million vhen he left Omaha. While here he was married to Miss Sadie Johnson : of Kennar.l. Neb. Mrs. Elvad and their on child are reported to have left Chicago with i Elvad and it is believed they are ( now with him. For some time before leaving Omaha Elvad occupied a residence In Fairacres, which is one of the finest in the city. "He spent money freely and lived like a prince." one of his former busints associates said today Girl Who Died of Poison Two Days Before WeH Exclusive picture secured by T he Bee of Frieda Bostelmann, 19-year-old Stoddard girl, who died suddenly of convulsions last Week but two days before she was to have been married. FOUR CLEVELAND FIRMS INDICTED UNDER LEVER ACT Sharon Company Jointly Named With One of Four Concerns for Alleged . Profiteering. Cleveland. O., June 28. Four Cleveland firms and one at Sharon, Pa., and individuals connected with them were indicted by the federal grand jury here late Monday charged with profiteering in food stuffs in violation of Lever act. Among the firms indicted was the G. S. Willard company, sugar brok ers. Cleveland. The Shenngo Valet Grocery com pany, nc? of Sharon, Pa., was jointly -indicted with the Malbin Brothers company, Cleveland, com mission merchants. The Willard company is charged with selling 87,000 pounds of beet sugar at 7j$ cents a pound which cost approximately 12J4 cents. The United States supreme court recently denied the Willard com pany an injunction against the issu ance of an indictment under the Lever act pending determination of its constitutionality by the courts. Coastwise Ship Companies Ask for Rate Increase Washington, June 29. Coastwise steamship companies of the Pacific petitioned the commission today for advances in freight rates equivalent to those asked by railroads of the west and south. Western roads are seeking an increase of 24 per cent and southern roads 31 per cent. The petition presented by the Pa cific Steamship company and the San Francisco and Portland Steam ship company declares that at exist ing rates their business is conducted at a loss by reason of unprecedented expenses of operation.' No means of increasing net reve nues are available, the petition de clares except through an increase of freight rates, as passenger rates are as high as competitive conditions will permit. Quiet Prevails at Scene Of -War Over Religion Monroe, Mich., June 29. Quiet prevailed today in the districts sur rounding Robideaux corners, near here, and most of the staje police stnt there last night in anticipation cf a renewal of the disorder that re sulted in the killing of one man and wounding of another, following a religious controyersy, .had returned to their headquarters. No arrests have been made, the authorities feeing' unable thus far to fix responsibility fat the shooting. Select German Agents Berlin, June 29. Konstantin Feh renbach, German chancellor; For eign Minister Simons and Finance Minister Wirth will be Germany's representatives at the Allied-German conference at Spa- according to the Lokal Anzeigery OPERATION OF U.S. ROADS AS UNIT IS URGED BYCOLVER Commissioner Predicts Indus trial Shutdowns Next Win-, ter jf Present Situation Js Not-Relieved. Washington, June 29. Operation of the railroads of the country "as a unit" as a means of relieving the present transportation difficulties was suggested today by William B. Colver of the federal trade com mission in an address before the Washington Ad club. Mr. Colver predicted that a con tinuation of the present situation would mean "untold suffering and industriaf shutdowns next winter." Hundreds of millions of dollars are tied up now in merchandise in side tracked 'cars, he said. Only one-tenth of the needed coal for next winter's supply has been moved to the head of the lakes, Mr. Colver said, while jthe industries in New England are actually closing down now for lack of coal. Farmers also are unable to obtain cars to move the residue of ' last year's wheat crop at a time when the new crop is coming to harvest. Already, he declared, there are predictions of $25 flour and 2S-cent bread. Mr. Colver declared the roads were unable to get coal cars to the mines, with a result that this month's coal production is far below normal and miners are seeing "their families go hungry." When operated separately, Mr. Colver declared, even the largest railroad . cannot operate profitably and at reasonable rates. Announce Reduction In Price of Collars Troy, N. Y., June 29. -The price of collars will be reduced from thirty to twenty-five cents each, according to announcement made here by Cluett, Peabody and company, and George P. Ide and company. The change in price is effective immed iately. Two Chicago Papers Boost . Price to 3 Cents on Street Chicago, June 29. The price of two Chicago newspapers has ad vanced again. The Chicago American advanced its street sale price to 3 cents yester day, and the Chicago Herald-Examiner went up to 3 cents today. A Real News Policy The Be believes In the republican party as an exponent of sound prin ciples and efficient administration of government, but first of all The Bee Is a NEWSPAPER. The Bee published full reports of the republican national convention at Chicago. It Is publishing- equally full reports of the democratic national eonTentlon at San Francisco. When It comes to NEWS, The Bee Icnoirs no favorites. F NO POISON IN STOMACH OF DEAD GIRL "I Warn Every Member of This Family Not to Buck Up Against a Love Affair Again," Witness Quotes Father. JURY IS CONSIDERING 'TESTIMONY AT INQUEST Wife and Daughter. of Fred Bostlemann Attribute Death Of Frieda to Taking Too Many Headache Tablets. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Hebron, Neb., June 29. (Special.) "I warn every member of this family not to buck up against a love affair again. "You can see what this has led to." Such were the words of Fred Bos telmann of Stoddard, as he stood over the casket containing the dead body of his daughter, Frieda, 19 years old, who had mysteriously died suddenly two days before her proposed marriage, according to the closing testimony of T. J. Geisler, Chester undertaker, at the inquest "here today. With the end of. Geisler s testi mony the case was given over to the coroner's jury. Bostelmann is held in jail here in connection with his daughter's death. Evidence of Poison. Frieda Bostelmann probably died of poisoning, according to evidence given at the second day of the in quest today. Report of the' chemical analysis o: the stomach of the dead girl, made in the laboratory of the Uni versity of Nebraska college of medi cine in Omaha, received by County Attorney Harvey Hess this morning states that there was no evidence of poison in the lining of the ftomach. Poison in Contents. " However, contents of the stomach, when analyzed, showed evidences of aconitine, deadly poison, and when a portion of the contents were fed to white mice at the laboratory, the mice died within IS minutes of con vulsions similar to those suffered by the Bostelmann girl. The quantity of the poison present was so small that no definite con clusion could be drawn. Indications point to the presence of aconitine, the report says. Tension which pervaded the crowded court rbbm at the inquest yesterday was somewhat relaxed to day. Sheriff Hall denied the jail had Continued nn Pace Five, Column One. Chicago Judge Holds Women Spiritualists - Should Not Be Fined Chicago, June 29. Judge Holdom of ttje appellate court today reversed decision in two cases where women alleged to possess occult powers had been fined by judges of the municipal court. ( "Quite lately Sir Oliver Lodge, a scholarly Englishman, spoke to a laige audience in Chicago concern ing spiritualism and the possibilities of converse with the spirits of those who have passed from this tc the unseen world," said the judge, "and there was no thought by the au thorities of interfering with or pen alizing him." Twenty Million Pounds of Sugar Brought From Canada Chicago, June 29. Twenty mil lion pounds of sugar have passed through he local customs house from Canada during the past few days, and several million pounds more are en route, William H. Clare, collector of the port, an nounced today. Ten carloads, containing 60,000 bags, arrived today. The Canadian sugar, which was purchased in Cuba last year and shipped to England, then returned to Canada, is expected to relieve the shortage here. U. S. Takes No Sides in Nicaraguan Election Washington, June 29. The Amer ican government has no preference as between the candidates for the presidency of Nicaragua and its sole irtterest is that the election be "characterized by the utmost fair ness and freedom" the people of Nicaragua are informed in a state ment which the American legation at Managua has been authorized by the State department to make to the government there. Two Thousand Turks Slain In Battle With Greeks London, June 29. Two thousand Turks have been killed in battle with Greek troops east of Smyrna, according to a communique issued by Greek army headquarters at Smyrna and telegraphed here today. The Turkish losses were particularly severe in the region of Alas-Bchr. Greek cavalry inflicted severe casu alties cn Turkish nationalists' rear guards. ' Vw - - - DISPOSITIONS KAISER'S MONEY CAUSES CONCERN Wilhelm's Fortune, Valued at $60,000,000, - Should - Go To War Widows, So cialists Assert. Berlin, June 26. A great topic of discussion in parliamentary circles is the fate of the ex-kaiser's mil lions. The nationalists assert that it would indicate fear if the money were not handed over. The social ists, on the other hand, repeatedly suggest that the greater part of the cx-emperor's fortune should go to the widows and orphans of the war. "Let the Hohenzollerns earn their living by the sweat of their brow.J' they say. "Every Hohenzollern is taught a trade." Has Comfortable Fortune. A new feature is added to the dispute every day. Palaces, plate, linen, jewelry and 40 castles in the country are involved. At a recent sale property belonging to the ex kaiser realized more than $10,000,- 000, and it is estimated that the re maining property of the Hohenzol lerns in Berlin alone amounts to 200,000,000 vmarks (nominally $50, 000,000). "This belongs to me," says the ex-kaiser in effect. "It belongs to the state." thunder the socialists: and as soon as the ownership of, say, the palace linen is settled, an other little natter crops up involv ing about $500,000 worth of china. When the ex-kaiser great-grandfather, Frederich William III, died, he left not more than about $2, 000,000 a year in trust for the Hohenzollerns. During his 'liftime he managed to rub along on $1,500, 000 a year, which is considerably less than half the sum his great gfandson received as king of -Prussia. The ex"-kaiser was notoriously ex travagant. He began on a ."salary" of $4,000,000, in addition to which there was the $2,000,000 a year from the great-grandfather's trust fund. His private income amounted to $1,000,000, and shortly before the war the reichstag favored him with a further sum which brought a mil lion sterling. Want to Know Source. When the ex-kaiser's lawyers first submitted their client's claims to the reichstag the demands made were partly recognized. Since then the socialists have accused the ex-kaiser of wishing to embarrass the state, and they have raised the question of the origin of the millions of marks which the fallen ruler claims to be his. A bill is shortly to be brought up in the reichstag, but, in face of the socialist party's question: "Where do the ex-kaiser's millions come from?" its fate is in the balance. Six Injured When Autos Collide on Beatrice Street Beatrice, Neb., June 29. (Special) Six persons were cut and bruised Sunday night when automobiles owned by Chester Rock and Gail Carrithers collided at Thirteenth and Grant streets. The impact was of such force that both cars were hurled to one side of the street where they struck an electric light ' pole. Carrithers was the most seriously injured, clivers of glass from the wind shield being driven into his right kne ' It's a Sad, Sad Tail Senator Harding Is Back at Desk After Rest Over Week-End Washington, June 29. Senator Harding,, the republican oresidential nominee, was back at his office to day after a week-end rest in New jersey. He had a busy day going through the mass of correspond ence and other work and receiving callers. ' During the day the candidate also made a phonographic record on Americanism to be used for cam paign purposes and posed for the moving picture photographers. Among visitors today was Stanley H. Howe of New York, director of the national budget committee, who told the senator that the committee was preparing a bill to substitute the measure recently vetoed by Presi dent Wilson. It will provide, he said, for a reorganization of the multiplicity of governmental bu reaus. "You have a considerable job on your hands," said Senator Harding. "Economy, as you know, is a part of my program." Edward M. Martin of Woodsfield, O., official tally clerk of the repub lican national convention, presented the nominee with the original tally sheet of the 10th ballot on which the senator was nominated. Opposition to League Of Nations Crops Out Before Committee San Francisco, June 29. Opposi tion to the league of nations cropped up before the resolutions committee during its public hearings today when C. L. Olson, state senator of Utah, and a delegate from that state, appeared before the commit tee with proposals for a "progressive platform." "We are not so much concerned as to whether democrats or repub licans participate in making a peace treaty and a league of nations, Ol son said, "as we are that such a treaty shall give promise of a bet ter world instead of one which will promote hate and we believe this cannot be avoided by a league of nations constituting governments which are committed either to im perialistic ambitions or to the idea of the commercial and economic subjugation of peoples to industrial slavery which amounts to the same thing." Anson B. Cole Again Denied New Trial by High Court Lincoln, June 29. (Special) Again has the appeal of Anson B. Cole for a new trial been denied by the court, which decided adversely to the application in error coram nobis in the appeal from Howard county. 1 Two More Cases of Bubonic Plague Found In Vera Cruz Vera Ci;uz, June 29. Two deaths and two new cases of bubonic plague were reported during the last 24 hours. The Weather Forecast. Fair Wednesday; not much change in temperature. Hourly Temperatures 5 a. m CS 1 p. m ,.S0 6 a. in no 2 p. m S3 T . m S9 I 3 p. m. S3 8 a. m 72 I 4 p. m 8t a. m ...72 h p. m R3 10 a. m 7 I p. m 82 It a. m 77 I 7 p. m St 12 noon 79 I S p. m ...80 ILLINOIS JOINS EMPIRE STATE IN FIGHT ON M'ADOO Claim Made Former Secretary Will Poll But Two Votes From Sucker State Delegates in Caucus. , By E. O. PHILLIPS. Chirago Tribune-Omaha Bee, Leaard Wire. San Francisco, June '29. Illinois has entered into a combination with New York to assure, if possible, the defeat of William G. McAdoo for the presidential nomination. ' This accomplished, the purpose will be to nominate a candidate satisfactory to the democratic leaders of the states north of the Ohio river. George E. Brennan as chairman of the Illinois delegation is tonight recognized as the head of the anti McAdoo organization. He has the backing of the Illinois delegates. The midnight estimate inside the del egation is that McAdoo can expect no more than two votes from Illi nois, both of those from the Joliet district. The 58 delegates were in caucus tonight at the state headquarters at the Gift hotel. No effort was made to bind them by any caucus action and agreement was reached specifi cally that each delegate shall vote on the first and every other ballot as his own judgment dictates. The senti ment at the caucus was so 'clearly antagonistic to McAdoo that the Illinois leaders had no hesitancy in saying that 'Illinois will go the route with the McAdoo opposition in New York, led by Charles F. Murphy of Tammany hall in circumventing what they- term "the pussyfoot campaTgn" that the federal job holders are mak ing in McAdoo's behalf. Other States Line Up. It is learned from the inside that the cementing of the Illinois-New York pact was completed at an early hour this morning. Standing im mediately behind these two states is a lineup that certainly includes In diana, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio, and possibly takes in Mas' sachusetts, New Jersey and Ken tucky. "We are in with a play that en compasses not a delegate under 450," said Mr. Brennan. '"The point has been reached where we can say with positive assurance "that Illinois never will consent to the nomination of McAdoo and we never will have to because he is a dead one in this convention. No definite statement was made what Illinois will do when the time comes to pick the candidate. There is no question but that the Cox can didacy has been weakened material ly in the opinion of Illinois lead ers because of the statement of ex Governor Campbell that tended to make Governor Cox more of a dry than a wet. Such wet spokesmen as Anton J. Cermak, head of the United Societies of Chicago, , now say in the open that they are "off of Cox." 1 Realize Fortune From Sale Of Jewels of Gaby Deslys Paris, June 29. The auction sale of the jewels, of the, late Gaby Deslys, the dancer, was held today. The total amount realized was 2,303,900 francs. The money will be used for the benefit of the poor of. Marseilles, in accordance with the teems of the will NEBRASKAN SHUT OUT ON BIG ISSUES Convention Leaders Refuse tc Make Commoner Member ol Resolutions Subcommittee- Regarded as Slap in Face. militants"on7rish question start figh1 Sympathizers Stage Scene Before Committee Chiefs Hopeful of Drafting Plank Carrying Real Meaning. By GRAFTON S. WILCOX. flilciiKu Tribune-Oinnhn Rr Leaned Wire, San Francisco, June 29. Leaden of the Wilson administration, who are dominating this democratic con vention, are inclining a listening cai o the friends of Irish freedom'who are here demanding a" stronger declaration for the Irish republic than the republican party gave them ; in its declaration of principles adopt ed at Chicago. After a turbulent demonstration by the militant Irish sympathizers before the convention committee on resolutions during which one indo mitable auburn haired woman had to be ejected from the room because of her persistent heckling of representa tives of the Loyal Coalition Opposing the Irish Cause, it became known that administration leaders were seeking to evolve a plank on the issue which might lure the Irish vote next No-" vcmbcr. Although Frank P. Walsh and Senator Phelan of California in pre senting the demand from the cham pions of Ireland that the democratic paity recommend American recogni tion of the Irish republic, stated that nothing short of such a declaration wouid be acceptable, the administra tion platform builders are hopeful of drafting a plank which will mean something to the Irish people witJt out directly challenging the author ity of Great Britain in her own do minions. See Connection With League. Some of the party leaders in the confidence of the adrninistration ad mitted tonight that the political ex pediency of the situation demanded a revision of the plank on the Irish question already prepared, which would link the issue to the league of nations and offer the league as the instrument of solution for Ireland's woes. They intimated that in this issue and this alone, was there a sign of yielding ground. Just how far they would yield, the platform builders were undertaking to determine to night in a protractstl session of the Wilsonian subcommittee appointed by Chairman Glass of Virginia Mon day night. On no other issue, it was, declared, would the administration subcommit tee or the full committee on resolu tions submit to pressure of opposing forces in the convention. It was em phatically declared by men who are steering this well oiled White House machine that the platform to be sub mitted to the convention would con tain no plank on prohibition, either pro-wet or pro-dry, and that the Wil son league of nations plank pledging the party to ratification of the peace treaty and covenant without reserva tions would come through the con vention unscathed from the attacks of "cabalistic" senators. The per sistent Mr. Bryan with his demand for immediate peace'to make "Wood row Wilson the moral leader of the world" will have no effect. Militants Begin Fireworks.' Determination to give the Irih something more than the admiiiistra- tion leaders had first contemplated came before the meeting of the res olutions committee this afternoon. The militants of the Irish convention lobby brflke loose with all their fire works and turned the meeting into an uproar. It became known that conferences had been held early in the day between Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, presidential ad viser to the resolutions committee, and leaders of various big delega tions. Mr. Colby is known to have talk ed over the Irish situation with Charles F. Murphy of Tammany hall. Without the Irish vote, the New York leaders told Mr. Colby, the Empire state cannot be held by the democracy in the coming elec tion. Leaders in other states say that a good Irish plank will go a long way toward assuring victory in No vember. The door is closed, however, to Mr. Bryan on the modification of the league of nations plank or t6 a dry enforcement plank. How the convention leaders feel toward Mr. Bryan was demonstrated effectively in the refusal of the Wilson men to maake him a member of the reso lutions subcommittee.' This was a direct slap in Bryan's face from the White House hand. Bryan Relent. Mr. Bryan recognizes the slight but is saying otl.'ng. He wiU take his defeat i the opmmittee to the flor of the convet.on in all prob ability on both the VaRue and pro hibition issues. He is, certain to have (Continued ou l'e Five, Column Iw.. ' 1 Jm . ? .... .; if . ii i - - - - - - - -