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) V. i POPPYCOCK! IS EXPLANATION OF MYSTERY STORY County Attorney Grace Ballard . Scouts Report v of Identi fication of Omaha 'Mys tery Girl." 1 Poppycock! - This was the terse" comment of fcrrcd by Mfss Grace Ballard, county attorney of Washington county, Sat urday night regarding publication in the Counsir Bluffs Nonpariel- Satur day of a story which purported to reveal the identity of the "mystery ' girl." Inquiry into the jast records of the cawe reveals ' that Marie Don nelly, alias' Madison alias Alice Mbrissctte, whom the Council Bluffs report alleges is the murdered girl, is Alice Massette, former Omaha waitress. , ' Alice Massette Returns. The fallacy of this reoort was dis closed last February by Mrs. Harry " Wymore, who operates a restaurant - . ,at 107 South Fifteenth -street, and who is, a former 'employer of the girl. , - ,' Miss Massette visited Mrs. Wy more several weeks after the "mys tery girl's" body was found. , y 1 his visit-to Omaha of Miss Mas sette exploded thff last announced theory of the murder upon which local police worked Miss Massctte's name was brought - into the general inquiry at that time j tv rrporis 01 intimate inenas inai she was missing. Two of her former room mates identified the "mystery 'pirl" as Alice Massette." " Denies Cjiving Interview. . . V At that time they told police that a waiter, known as "Dale Mann," had threatened her life, following his marriage to Gladys Shade, who lived ... formerly at .2123 Dcuglas street, r A Kansas City, Mp. ; r - Filial confidence in this theory ''-'Was strengthened by Mann's disaj pearance irom umana. J When Miss Massette visited Mrs m v yinore in reuruary sue comment- 11 nl unnn flip nnhliritv she had.re-! . fecived through the erroneous identi- fications of the mystery Bin. vl Miss Ballard denied Saturday porter for. the Nonpariel. The city ccutor ot tne council tsiuns paper said"thev had talkedvwith her over the phone. ' ,, . . ... Has Done Duty. v- 1 Miss Ballard also stated that Washington county "had vdone its! 1t.r in t i n nntta. " nnd rui tiro tA T duty in the matter," and, reiterated that she intended to come to Oma ha fora 'conference with Police Superintendent Ringer before delving farther into the cse. ' ' "At no time have I given out to any reporter any information that I have obtained confidentially con cerning the case," Miss Ballard statpd last' night . ' . "Neither have ' I given out any names. ; . The murtler still remains a mys tery. . - Two theories remain unrolved and it is upon' these .Iowa and Nebraska authorities are working. Grand Opera Singer Asks'. Heart aim of $50,000 NevOfork, July 25. Miss Carmen Garcia Cornejo, grand opera singer of Mexico City, has filed a breach of promise suit in -the supreme court .asking .for damages of $50,000 against Hermendelzio Robles,, son qt the "Mexican oil king" of Tam pico, who died in May last The song bird, in jher complaint, savs )that when news of Mr. Robles' marriage to "another" came to her in July, ' 191, ' from) San Antonio, Tex., she wa chagrined and sur I rised. Twice the Tampico oil mil lionaire had asked her to.be his wife. She had said "yes." Their marriage was put off at -the time, she averted, so that it w'Suld not Interfere w,ith her operatic career And to give Mr. Cobles time, to look after his father s business. Boys Seeking Excitement . Turn inGeneral Fire Alarm LovA of exeftement and adven ture caused Joe Rosenberg, 10 years n. old, 205 North Twenty-second street, and Joe Nemas, 9 years olcK 2426 ' I'tnnAo strppt. to turn in a fire alarm at Eleventh and Howardl streets Saturday evening. - When Fire Chief Salter arrived, he found the boys at the box. They rang the alarm so long that a gen eral alarm was sent in. "We wanted to see the fire trucks," said Joe Nemas. Suff, Sued tor Divorce, Denies Fc!. ' :Broke Up.vHer Home Topeka, Kans., July 25-Mr.s.CEf-fic W. Main, well known Kansas voman suffragist, named some time ago as one of a number of women arrested for picketing- the White House, is defendant in, a divorce suit in the district court here, and, filed her answer today. . Her husband, William W. Main, is a truck farmer livtng near here. Mrs: Main denies that politics caused tier to neglect her home. ' ' 7 Famou$ War and Fiction Writer Attempts Suicide New fcork, vf 25. Harry C. -Witwer, lection writer and war cor respondent," attemtped suicide by swallowing poison at his home in -Vonkers. ' He was removed to a hos pital, made a notable success as a writer of light fiction, and his in come was said to be about $100,000 a year. He was Collier's corre spond entmJFjraneiurmg' the war. California Raisin Growers To Sell Fruit at Auction- Fresno, Cat., July ' 25 Between 200 and 500 cars of muscat raisins will be sold at public , auction in New York Cify by the California Associated Raisin growers. Wylie ,11. Giffen, its president, announced and prices estabttshed at the' auc tion will determine the prices to benamed by the association for the Remainder of the crcr . , vRelic From tfce LiTOa yr $f nfr Ilk' ' N ; LUSiTAN ! A L - 'SjMII LI.L . ' . . ., . ' -'' ' After five years this relic of theNjllfated Lusitania vividly recalls the most horrible tragedy in the history of thesea. Covered with seaweed, With one arm strap broken, this lifebelt from the Lusitania drifted' into the Delaware river. The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1917. The belt was found floating off the Race street pier, Philadelphi, by T.' L. Deland.a railroad detective. " , . . , Wealthy Texas Man Is v Held for Murder of Bellboy in Detroit Detroit,!-Mich., July 25, Patrick J. Rean.y, reputed to be a wealthy plumbing contractor of Dallas, Tex., was-taken into custodv following the shooting of a, bell boy, which police - : J I : D : ' 4. , .4. - said occurred in Rainy's toom at,.a hotel. Hospital-attendants said the boy may die. The" boy, Charles Watkins, was making early morningcalls when Ready is jaid to have' invited him into his room to talk with him. Watkins said he wasVtoo busy, but would return, whereupon Reany shot him in the "abdomen, according to al statement made, by -Watkins to the officers. '" ' "l. Reany was at liberty under $10,000 casH bail in connection with ' the sudden deatji of his wife at a hcjtel here last February. A coroner's jury iound her death was vdue to poison ing. - ', - , i - - - Nude Body of Man Found Floating in Small Rowboat San Diego, Ca4. July 25. The nude body of, a man believed to be an American, bearing knife wounds was found in a rowboat picked up by a Mexican patrol boat nine miles off Ensenada, Lower Califor nia, according to word -brought here by officers of the motorship, Cryme, Ensenada officials were auoted as expressing belief the man was slairtj on a ship at sea and . the body placed in the rowboat, which was cast adrift. : Form Corporation to Aid Industries in Germany Berlin,? July 25, To aid indus tries iu distress', notably those .. in the textile branch a German eco nomic corporation has been organ ized with . a capital of. 100,000,000 marks. The Reichs bank is closely identified with the new venture. The corporation will be' given the bene fit of profits earned by official war corporations which legally belong ed to the government. Albanians Attaclc Italians : Along 10-Kitometer Front London, July 25, Insurgent Al banians, numbering about 4,000, at tacked the Italians yesterday on a frorit of 10 kilometers between Ciak ccinert and the Castle of Canina, but were driven by counter attacks, ac cording 4o a semi-official 'statement as reported by Reuters' correspond ent at Rome.- Father, of "More Daylight" Plan Dies in Baltimore Cincinnati, O., I July 25 E. U. Murdock, prominent in Cincinnati business and club life, and said to be the fathef of the "more daylight" movement in America, died last night at Baltimore, a few hours after hav ing undergone an operation at the Johns Hopkins hospital there He was as years old. New' Orleans Streetcar . Mri Will Return to Work New Orleans, Julv 25. Striking street cat. men voted to return to work tomorrow under an agree ment with car officials to leave ware questions for settlement by concil iators, lhe men have been on a strike since July 1, but partial serv ice has been maintained ;Besori Hotel JBurnS. Bentonville, . Ark., "july 25, The Park Sprigs hotel . here was -de- rtroyed by tire this afternoon, entail ing a-loss of more, than $100,000. None'of the guests of the big resort were. endangered., . ' -T Airplane Pilot Killed. Cartagena. Colombia. July 25. Pilot Fratoni was-killed here in the second airplane- accident reported in lartagena, Sniping Is Restmfed . Around Kashmir Street District in Belfast Belfast, July- 25. Sniping was resumed in the Kishmir street area t !-i-i. . u : . C : Cl v J tlUK 11113 UIUIUIHK, U11C IklAil being wounded. Many arrests have been made and further news from the disturbanes-'in the Newtonards road district shows a total of 13 wounded by a volley fired from an armored car to disperse a crowd which refused to move after ( a baton charge by the police. , The center ojF " the trouble last night was St. Matthews Catholic rectory and convent, both of which were protected 'by soldiers. At tempts were made to set both build ings' on fire, but. the; police ' and military forced the crowd towards weWtonards road where it hngere1 until' dispersed by an armoftd car. Man Charged With Murder Of Wife in Vancouver Park Vancouver, B. C, July 25. W. G. Robbins, longshoreman, was charged in a coroner's jury verdict here with Having killed his wife, to whose body, cohered with leaves and roses. in a local park, he . led the police inursaay. i Police said R6bbinsv confessed he killed his wife because, he believed shewas not. taking proper care of their children and because he be lieved she had Jiim Committed to an insane asylum. - ' s While walking with hss wife. Mon day" in the park, officers quoted Rob bins as saying he shot her and then Deat her with his pistol when she promised not to "tell on him" ifr he woulcflet her live. Tuesday, he said, ne,tnougn sne might still be alive, so he went to revive heV with a wet towel. , t Oil Burning Steamer Makes , Fine Time From Liverpool New 'York,; July 25. Completing her first trip since refitting as an oil burner, the steamship1 Aquitania arrived herefrom - Liverpool." De spite an accident'off the Irish coast, where one engineer wsJcilled and a stoker injured in . a boiler valve explosion, the . steamer averaged 22.04 knots and made 576 miles on the fourth day out. ( v . Among her cabin passengers were Walter Hagen, American open-golf champion, wh " recently wonxthe French open golf championship, anl Arnaud Massey, French amateur golfer., . vn. j . Thayer County Assessment. Hebron.. Neb., July 25. (Special.) The Thayer county ' board )oi equalization has completed its work showing the assessed valuation of the personal property is $2,567,770; total improvements on land, $2,659, 725; actual- valuation : of . land and improvements averaged, net acre, $85.25; actual valuation of land averaged, per acre. . $77.83. Thayer county claims 2,266 automobiles. The real estate valuation assessed in 1920 is 491-2 per cent higher than in.' 1919. ; , . ; Notify Dry Nominee at' Ohio Home on August 11 ' Lincoln,. Nekv July 25, Aaron S.' Watkins, prohibition nominee for the presidency, will be officially notified of his nomination August 11 at his home at Germantown,,0. This was decided at the final meeting of the national committee here. Discover Bed Plot In Riga.- Washingtonj; July ' 25. A 'com munist plot to overthrow the Letvian government is reported in advices to the State Department to have been discovered at Riga. The conspira tors were arrested: . - y Choose Siogx City. $t. Louisj. July 25, Sioux City) la., was chosen the next conven tion place of the Gideons' Chris tian travelers , association. J. H. Humphris ofyHuntington,' W. Va., was elected president THE BEE: OMAHA, MOXPAY, JULY 20, 1920. GREEKS HEADY T0?IIISS DRIVE TURKS Landing of Last Detachment Of Troops at Oadegatch , Made Under Guard of Battleships. ' . " ' ' Athens,July"25. Under a , broil ing sun tempered by an Aegenic breeze .the Jast detachment of Greek troops are landing at Dede- featch. The movement lsvcovered by the Greek fleet. ' . It is exoected that the Rodosto rrtlnmn. which, is already vmakine 30 miles a day, will attack Lule Bur gas, and if aiccesstui, cut Denino. Jafar Tarier Bey, Mhe natiohallst commander at Kirk-Kilise.-and pre vent the escape of4iis regular troops Over the Bulgarian frontier. The Greeks forsee quik victory, but wish' to capture Jafar. Tarier, who, however, declares that he wfll never be takn alive. . . Another Column is proceeding to Keshan to support the frontal at tack by the main body of troops along the Maritsa river against Ad rianople. It is hardly believed that the morale nf the Turks is such as to duplicate their five months stand against the Bulgarians in 1912 when the defenses of the city built by the Germans were in good condition. Today they are partly demolished, and there is a-general lack of mu ti.tinrfc It i known, however, that the nationalist1 commander has laid in large food supplies. The Greeks do not wish to bom bard the city in which there still re mains' a large number of Greeks. While thus far there is little evidence of ill treatment of the .Greeks in Artrianonle bv. Tafar laier Bey, it is asserted that many of them have been forced to enroll as soldiers and villages have been obliged tf pay indemnities when the men were not taken as soldiers. SISTER OF OMAHA MAN PERSECUTED . BY BLOODY TURKS Local Doctor Receives Letter From Sole Survivor of Family in Near East. N Dr. John Baptist, formerly of Marsova. Turkey, but for many years a well-known resident -of Oma ha, is rejoicing over tne arrival oi a letter from his "sister, Mrs. Bal yozian, the only one of his family who has survived the Armenian massacres. - ' The letter has been long in com ing, but-it breaks an eight months' silence, ana, Dr. Baptist has at least the iovof knowing that on May 23 his sister and her family were alive. "We are alive," she writes, "but in dire need, as is everyone, of food, of clothing and of money. For two months we have been lighting day and night with the Turks', man ufacturing our ammunition and us ing everything possible as a weapl on. Had it not been for the French military aid we would all have been massacred. . It would seem that Mrs. Balyo zian had already had enough " of tragedy for one woman to endure, tor during the deportation she and her family were hidden for sven months in a camoflaged closet, in a friendly home in" Aleppo, a tefuge , . i t V , f .7 f wnicn ner nusDana, iormer proies sor of languages at the American College of Aintav, had gained by giving his entire fortune in bribes to the Turkish officers. When the success of the Hadiaz made possl ble their release and employment, the youngest son, a boy, of 14, was too far gone from starvation to sur vive, and later, when they walked 65 miles back to their home town, then in the hands of the British, they carried with, them the body of tneir son. "If we live through this awful ness, writes Mrs. Balyozian, no matter if Turkey were a heaven, we would not live here, ir escape is in any way- possible.. We have been singed by fire, we 'will flee from it if .we1 have, to walk ok to crawL1 and if -God gives us life, America will bpNjur future home. Cinders Play Havoc With Conduits, Says Electrician Israel Lovitt,'ty electrician, has an exhibit in his office which he as serts should be a warning against the practice of imbedding galvanized iron wire conduits in cinders. V RSeent xonstruction work on he too of"1he Woodmen of the World building disclosed that the action of cinders on galvanized pipe conduits caused disintegration of the pipe within a period of eight years. -The 'destruction of the pipe-cov erings causes short circuits and renders it impossible-to make installations of wires without tear ing up the reniants of the conduits. v'Mj. Lovitt recommends a cement grouting before the r cinders are placed as a filler. V "This will be of vital interest to electricians of Omaha and the entire state," asserted Mr. Lovitt," artd I will be pleased to show this exhibit to any wno are interested. Hebron Women Organize ? league QtWomen Voters Hebron, Neb., July 25. (Special.) Miss Clarissa Delano of Lincoln, Neb., is organizing women here in the interest of the League of Women Voters. Mrs. Cooper King, presi dent of the Kansas Woman's club and corresponding secretary forhe Kansas League of Women Voters, assisted a her and addressed the women !n the club rooms at the court house. Mrs. King's home is in Wichita. . . , Launch Combination Ship. Gloucester. N. J.. lulv 25. The 12,500-ton- combination passenger and cargo carrier James Otis was launched sidewise at the Pusev & Jcnes shipyard. Tftevessel is fully completed. ' Foreign , Exchange, ' . American State Bank, ' ' 13th and Farnam Sts. Adv.1 AGAINST FLATIR0NS ROUT WHITE GIRLS IN REFORMATORY RIOT Race War Breaks Qjit in New York State Institution; Several Injured. Bedford, Y., 'July 25.-Inmates of the state reformatory for women engaged in a serious race riot, today, which started in the laundry and quickly spread to all cottages at the institution. Hot ftatirons 'used by the negro girbj during the fighting in the laun dry forced, their opponents to flee, but the battle was renewed on the lawn when a score of white inmates joined the fray. The laundry was wrecked. About-150 girls took part. The negroes were outnumbered, 5 to 1, but they held off their opponents with knives and flatirons. The 'disturbance was quelled by state troopers and thf Bedford po lice. ' Three girls escaped from the re formatory tonight. A fourth, who escaped during the riot, was caught at Mount Kisco and brought back here. v Several policemen and troopers were injured slightly while quelling the disturbance. One was bitten by a girl. About a dozen girls were cut and bruised. The ringleaders of 'the riot and about ?0 participants were locked in the prison building, where they continued screaming and shouting for some time. Miss Florence Jones, superintend ent, resigned tonight as result of the trouble. Rev. Thomas Kellev. former chaplain, assisted the police in quieting the rioters. N ... borne of the girls got the impres sion they could do - just as they pleased," said Rev. Mr. Kelley. "One girl said they could get away with murder." ChamberAD.iscusSes Alleged Disrespect to Brazil Rio Jancrio, Brazil.July 25, Al leged disrespect shown Brazil dur ing the recent revolution in Bolivia by Bolivian citizens, who entered the Brazilian consulate at La Paz, and seized a Bolivian who had taken refuge there, was discussed by the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon. The chairman of the diplomatic commission of the chamber express ed the opinion -that the consul at La Paz had exceeded his duties in grant ing the Bolivian asylum, and that no disrespect had been shown Bra zilian sovereignty unless the ar chives of the consulate were in terfered with. . M FARMERS NAME COMMITTEES ON CO-OPERATION American Federation Starts Move to Eliminate Middle men In Grain x and Live Stock -Industry. Chicago, July 25, Appointment of committees to devise' plans for the co-operative marketing of grain and live stock was determined upon at the final session today of the Ameri can Farm Bureau Federation. 'The live stock proposal was unanimously approved when the ; association's committee on that industry recom mended it. This action came a few hours after, the plan of the grain committee had been received favor ably by a fiifljority of the conven tion The grain committee, which will be Announced in the near futur will be a permanent body with headquar ters in Chicago. It will investigate plans of "co-operative marketing as well as suggest new plans. Members ADVERTISEMENT V "DAN DEFINE" StopsHair Coming ,Out; ' Doubles Its Beauty. A few cents buys "Danderine." 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The federal trade committee was congratulated for "its substantial work in the east," and the support of the federation was pledged to the or ganization. Another resolution in dorsed deep waterway projects Efforts of the federation to obtain freight cars were reported by Mr. Howard. "In January the federa tion sent a delegation to Washington to learn whether we could obtain more cars," he said. "We were ad vised that there existed a shortage xf approximately 100,000 cars and that 120.000 more needed repairs. We were told that the best we could hope to obtain in the way of freight cars was about 60 per cent of normal equipment." . . Representatives of the United States, Grain Growers association and of the National Board of Farm organizations, who attended the meetings announced that a conven TheBESf White Bread Is Made With V at Lowest Possible Price m is lviaae witn iw. ! Best " ; " I 1 :R B '"' ' ' s" ' ' m H Sold By Good Grocers j THE Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. tion of those organizations would b held at Cohimbus, probably -in August. . y " Production of Bituminous . - Coal Shows Big Increase Washington, July 25, Bituminous, , coal production of 10,969,000 tons fof the -week ended July 17, announced by the geological survey, was the largest of any weeksince the first of the railroad switchmen's strike in March. ' ' This output also exceeded.that of the last previous full-time week by 413,000 tons. v , ' .Shipments of 603,808 tons to the lakes during the week showed little variation from the tonnage of. the preceding week, and total shipments trom the beginning of the season to July 17 were 5,288,000 tons, com pared with 10.300.000 tons in 1918 and 1J.S40.000 in 1919. ,' I . V ' ' V 1 v . - I . y 1 . ' - ':,