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he Om aha ly - Bee VOL. 50 NQ. 35. Er Sctnd-CliM Mtttfi May 21. IMS. Onulti P. 0. Undw Act ! Marcn 3. 17$. OMAHA', THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1920,?' B Mall (I Marl lailda 4in Zom. Dalk ana Suaiat. Oilli Only. W Hon dv. 4, TWO OENT OIIISIPK OMAHA ASU tXil'N- en mum rivB 1'e.mh. Oulilda 4th Zom (I nuMOtllv aad Sunday.' tit: mil Only. 112 Sanday Only. U 7W Da h DEMOCRATS i FEAR PLOT REPUBLIC Insinuations Come From the ' White House and Gompers To the Effect That Men Are Laid Off to Hurt Party. PRESIDENT WILL ACT IF SUSPICIONS ARE PROVEN Chief of Labor Federation Attacks American Woolen Company for Closing Down, Mills jn Massachusetts. By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. C hit ago Tribune-Omaha Bee leased Wire. Washington, J'uly 28. Insinua tions that th woolen mill shut down and the discharge of superfluous em BY i IS ployes by the Pennsylvania railroad represent a republican move to dis credit the Wilson administration and , to promite the election of Harding were forthcoming today from both the White House and President Gompers of the American Federa tion of Labor. A White House official who di rects .administration propaganda anonymously, for President Wilson, t discoursed at some length upon man ifestations of the slowing down of industry. He hoped there was no political plot to injure the adminis tration and the democratic party in volved in the laying off of men in bhj industries bit if such should t prone to be the case he was sure th president would make good his threat of some seven years standing, t hang the s,ufprits "higher than Himan?' In perfect tune with the White House, emanation came an eflicial statement from Mr. Gompers a few hours later inquiring whether "the laying off of workers" is a "revival ,or" that old and crude policy of lay ing off men during a political cam paign for the ; purpose of driving them jn fright and necessity into a political camp." v Hear Old Cry. V. "For months w have heard the cry, dinned and dinned and dinned into our ears increase production, increase production,"-said Mr. Gom pers. "How can increased produc tion be accomplished under a policy of laying off thousands of work ers?" The federation - president then proceeded to pay his respects to the American .Woolen company ' for closing its Massachusetts mills.. He 'said the company had increased its income 316 per cent between 1914 arjd 1918, the net increase in com mon stock earnings being S31 per cent. ' ''President Wood told his stock holders that the close of the year left the company with unfilled or-de.-s sufficient to keep the machinery fully employed well into 1920 and with good prospects for full pro duction for the entire year," said Mr. Jompers. "Foreign deliveries increased ap oroximately 100 per cent during 1919. Lay Off Men. "In addition to 'this case there i'k the action of the Pennsylvania railroad in laying off approximate ly 12,000, if reports are accurate. Will this help move freight, will it (Continued on Pace. Two, Column Three.) Girl Jumps Bond of $10,000 for Appearance At TjlalTor Murder Knoxville, Tet., July 28.r-Miss Maud Moore, a "stenographer, who v ast convicted of the slaying of Le Roy D. Harth, wealthy automobile dealer here,-and sentenced to 21 years . imprisonment, but who was granted a new trial, failed to appear in court Tuesday Her bond of $10,000 was declared forfeited and a reward of $500 offered by the bondsmen for her capture. Miss Moore's mother informed I he authorities yesterday that her daughter had disappeared some time ago. Her second trial was to have started Tuesday. Puget Sound Cities Being ; . Searched for Bergdoll ' Seattle, Wash., July 28. Depart ment of Justice agents today, were searching Puget Sound ,cities for Grover Cleveland Bergdo'.l. alleged wealthy draft evader who is wanted in Philadelphia. The officers were acting on information furnished by W. B. Douglas, St. Paul, former Minnesota attorney general, who said he saw a man answering Berg- doll's description Monday on a train bound for the Puget Sound. Ambassadors Suspend Hearings Until Aug. 20 Paris', July 28. The council of ambassadors, .having suspended its :tttjs until August 20, Hugh C. Wallace, the -American ambassador, will join Mrs. Wallace at Aix-Les-Bains. , : The ambassadors' ; council before adjourning - today established the frontier dividing Teschen, between Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. , and outlined a treaty to settle the-details.. I ' v " :j:- 'f " Widely Known St. Louis Editor Dies on Coast jan Francisco, July 28. William Marion Reedyj St. Louis',- widely known editor, died here today. He - came to San Francisco to attend the democratic convention and was taken ill following its close. He was the owner of Reedy Ul irror, St. Louis weekly. Banner Wheat County Of Kansas Has Yield of $640 for Each Person Scarcity of Cars Becoming More Serious for Farmers Of Sunflower State Grain Piled on' Ground Waiting Transportation Mills Building Up Big Business, Due to Inability of Railroads to Haul. By ARTHUR-M. EVANS. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Dee Lowed Wire. Great Bend, Kan., July 28. Bar ton jCounty is the banner wheat county of Kansas this year with an estimated yield of 4,600,000 bushels, valued at $11,500,000. It has a popu lation of 18,000," which means its wheat output this year is worth $640 per capita for every man, woman and child in the county, to say nothing of the corn and other products. It has had no harvest labor shortage, much of the threshing has been fin ished and the floating labor has been filtering away toNebraska and other fields, following the ripening grain. - ' The car scarcity is great. In Bar ton county about 15 per cent of the 1919 crop still remains on hand in the farmers' bins" and in the ele vators, while a few counties west the reserve df last year's grain, still un marketed, runs as high as 20 per cent. These figures are from large farmers and bankers. Wheat Piled on Ground. The transportation breakdown is the cause. It has hit both producer and consumer. The grower has sus tained constant loss on his stored stuff, due to deterioration and bleach ing by the weather, ranging between 25 and 50 cents a bushel, accord ing to large producers, while at thH other end the white collar set ana the industrial workers in the cities have paid more for their bread. Unless the law of supply and de mand has gone out of business-en EX-NEBRASKAN DENOUNCES RULE OF N. Y, GOVERNOR '. ' Calls On State Republicans to Oust Tammany Judge Miller Nominated y For Governor. ." t ' ' : Saratoga Springs, N Y., July 28. Denouncing the democratic admin istration of Gov. Alfred E. Smith as marked ,by "quackery, opportunism and lack of vision;" Chairman Wil liam Hayward in the unofficial re publican state .convention .today called upon his party colleagues to emulate the example of the national convention at Chicago and adopt a platform and elect leaders Uiat "will command the confidence of the vot ers and insure a republican victory at the polls this fall. - "The democratic party is so di vided on national issues," Colonel Hayward said, "that it was neces sary for President Wilson and the new nominee, Governor Cox, to re sort to that 'secret diplomacy' which Mr. Wilson so abhors, and to have a closed door conference followed by cryptic statements that they are in perfect accord. This in lieu of thex 'open covenants openly arrived at' which Mr. Wilson has so long prated about." Colonel Hayward declared that in New York state the disagreement had gone even further, until "every Tammany official damns every oth er Tammany official and is damned by them in return. "And with state and nation re deemed." he added, "we propose to eject Tammany entirely from city and county government and install dignity, efficiency, n economy , and honesty in its place." Judge Nathan L. Miller of Syra cuse was nominated for governor late today. His selection came on the third ballot. Endorsement of the republican national platform, pledges of enthu siastic . support to . Harding and Coolidge, and a declaration for a league of nations "with such reserva tions as shall protect the sovereignty and independence : of the United States and always retain in congress alone the power to declare var," are contained in the platform submitted to the convention today. There is . no prohibition plank. "Prohibition is not a state issue." the document declares. Iowa Democrats Meet Today to Adopt Platf orm Cedar-RaDidsTla..'1 July 28. The democratic state convention will convene here tomorrow with three definite objects in mind. One is to adopt a state platform, one to elect a state central committee and the third is" to hold a general jubilee meeting and take action to let the state know what part the party ex nects fo olav m this fall's elections. Leaders assert there must be hax-- mony if an axe . is necessary to make it. r County delegations from Scott, Muscatine and Dubuque boldly an nounce that they are going to see that a wet plank is incorporated in the platform and Scctt county also has a state boxing bill which it thinks should receive democratic support. Every effort is being made to prevent an outbreak of the Meredith-Marsh squabble which re sulted .in San ' Francisco, when Marsh swayed Iowa votes to Cox after i the secretary , of agriculture had considered them firmly bound to McAdoo. Secretary- Meredith has announced that he will not at tend the convention. ; Berger Again Candidate. ( - Milwaukee. July ' 28. Victor L. Berger, who was twice refused his seat in congress.,' is again a candidate from the Fifth Wisconsin ) district. He will,.be opposed by. a republican. ' " , ! tirely, as was the case last year, some communities in this western wheat area expect to pile their grain on high ground after threshing, hoping that some day a freight car or two will be shoved on jthe siding and the' goods can be sent to mar ket. At Lamed, 25 miles from here, it is reported that not a car of wheat has been shipped in 10 days, and this is at the crest of the season, when normally the rails would be groaning under heavily loaded Wheat trains rushing the grain to the terminals. Milling Capacity Increasing. At Ness City one grower yester day sent a shriek for help to Hutch inson. His wheat was on the ground, no cars, and rain clouds in sight. Meanwhile one means of re lief is growing. The local milling capacity of 1 the staie is increasing. The millingin-transit rate, is en couraging the state millers, and Htuchinson, Salina, McPherson, Atchison and other cities on the eastern fringe of the western wheat belt are building up an important in dustry. Much of the flour is for export trade. Four-fifths of the Hutchinson output goes abroad. Mills and elevators of concrete are a common sight in the cities of this section. Great Bend has two. . The capacity is not enough to take care of the yield, of course, but helps, and the wheat raisers out here are now talking that the growth of lo cal mills is the best and quickest way to counteract the failure of the (Continued on Pane Two, Column One.) FEDERAL MEN TAKE HAND IN ISLAND FEUD After Dispute Among Officers; Government Agents Get Warrants to Search Island for Sillick. After newspaper men from Oma ha had crossed, the Missouri river near Calhoun yesterday , and con versed with Fred , Sillick. assailant of W, H. Vincent, residents of a 1,500-acre island in the river, fed eral officers and officials of Wash ington county te'gan an' investiga tion of the case to- determine whose duty At was to arrest Sillick. SiJ.lick declares he is willing to surrender. ., He is charged with stabbing Vincent the nightN before on the island during a heated argument about religion and politics. Vincent said. C. A.. Cook,- son-in-law of Vincent, and Mrs. Vincent saved 'he aged man from death when ihey interfered and pulled Sillick off his victim. Wounded Man Swims River. Vincent, severely wounded in the neck and back, swam 100 yards across the channel to a farmhouse from where he was brought to Oma ha. . N Meanwhile. Cook, fearing that Sillick would open fire on him and his family, rowed them across the river to the Iowa side, then him self returned tQ the island, armed with a 12-gauge repeating shotgun, in quest -of Sillick. ' Sillick, with his wife and 5-year-old son, remained awake at the door of their island home all nigiit, in anticipation of a possible attack by the Vincent faction. The Vincent and Cook families appealed to Washington county of- - (Continued on Pare TWo. Column Two.) 20 Firemen Overcome In Beef House Fire at Armours in Chicago Chicago, July 28. Twenty fire men were overcome today while fighting a fire that practically de stroyed the beef house of, Armour & Co.. a five-story structure cover ing a block at the stock yards. The flames menaced $1,000,000 worth of beef in adjoining storage.plants. Expect Call Off of Mine Strike in Indiana Soon Indianapolis, July 28. The strike of company men and dav -workers in the Indiana coal fields was expect ed by miners' officials to be called off late today. This action was fore cast following a conference of rep resentatives of the local unions of the United Mine Workers of America of district No. Upheld in Terre Haute this morning. . Home Brew Fatal to Three Mexican Farm Laborers . Sterling, Colo., July 28.' Ampleo Marmalejo, Juan Rodrequez and Yu quacio Gonzales, Mexican farm la borers, employed on the ranch of Amen brothers, northeast of Iliff. Colo., died Tuesday . after- having drunk a concoction of "home brew" which is believed to have contained wood alcohol. . . ', ; , Are. Vou Reading 1 1 WHATS WHAT? The Bee's n;w feature for ' its women readers. . It gives the latest hints ; on decorum, . dress - and "good form." On the Woman's Page! , VILLA GIVES IIMSELF UP TO FEDERALS Bandit Leader Surrenders Un conditionally After All Night Conference With Gen. Eu genio Martinez. RETURN TO PRIVATE LIFE CONDITION OF AMNESTY Much Rejoicing Throughout Mexico American Brewer Held for Ransom Said to Have Been Released. Eagle Pass, Tex, July 28. Fran cisco Villa, bandit leader, surrender ed unconditionally after an all night conference with General Eugenio Martinez, commanding the Torreon military zone, according to advices received by the Muxican consul hen soday. ' Villa will return to private life, the message added. Much rejoicing throughout Mex ico is reported with celebrations be ing'arranged. CarJ Haeglin, American president of a brewery at Sabinas, tfho had been held by Villa for ransom, has been released, the report added. What the terms of Villa's sur render were, aside from the one calling for his return to private" life,,' were unknown here today.' Women Reported Killed. Reports of the past few days were that Villa was negotiating by telegraph with President de la Huerta at Mexico City and General Martinez. The final negotiations with General Martinez were' per sonal, however, the consul's in formation stated. ' Yesterday refugees from Sabinas. which Villa recently captured, ar rived at Piedras Negras, opposite here, and reported that Villa had killed more than a score of Sabinas women after cutting off their ears, as well as killing every Sabinas po liceman. These reports lack veri fication. Reports of Villa's ngotia tionsfor his surrender included statements that he had from 300 to 3,000 men with him, and that un less he c6ud obtain satisfactory terms, would wage relentless war fare. Villa was restored to full citizen ship and will return to Chihuahua, his old home,ht was understood- He also was givert a yearly allowance by the Mexican government, the re port added,, and his men were re stored to citizenship and given farming lands. - , Business Men Pleased. 1 El Paso. Tex., July 2$. Reports of the surrender of ' Francisco Villa, Mexican bandit and revolutionist, pleased business leaders here and in Juarez, Mex., today. -Opinions freely expressed were that Villa's surren der would do much to stabilize min ing and industry in Chihuahua, the state in which Villa chiefly operated. Some of Villa's agents and friends here expressed disbejief concerning the report. Others said that if his surrender was substantiated it would be shown many of Villa's conditions for surrender had been accepted by the De La Huerta government. It was not considered improbable Villa would be given some poli powers in Chihuahua. He (repeated- (Continued on Paare Two, Column Two.) Big Story Promised To Papers by Man Whot. Fought Insane Charge Los Angeles,' Cal., July 28. De claring that he is John Armstrong Chaloner, millionaire grandson of John Jacob . Aslor, and. that he fought for 20 years to have the New York courts' pronounce him sane, a man registered at a local hotel' as JMA. Chilton, Compton, la., tele graphed New York newspapers here yesterday thajt he will release a "big story" today at 3 p. m. One year ago today, he said, he had declared a seven-year-war against "the lun acy trust." He intiniated that the "revelations" today will deal . with the progress of his fight. Des Moines, la., July: 28. The map of Iowa and the state office register do not disclose the name or location of "Compton, la., which was registered by "J. A. Chilton" at a Los Angeles hotel yesterday as his home ; town. . No information concerning Chilton, who promised an exposure of "the lunacy trust" today, is obtainable here. ' Japan Receives Protest I On Saghalin Occupation Tokio, July 28. (By The As sociated Press.) According to the Nichi Nichi, the. Japanese govern ment has received an inquiry par taking of the nature of a protest, from "a certain country" in connec tion with , Japan's intention to oc cupy Saghalin, Manchuria, station ing troops in Khabarovsk and else where. . Viscount Uclu'da, foreign minister, has submitted the inquiry to the cabinet, which later wilt go into spe cial session with the advisory coun cil to discuss the subject. Flow Prices Drop at Mills in Minneapolis Minneapolis, July, 28r-Reflecting the slump in wheat prices flour dropped today at all . large . milts here, one - of the largest mills re porting a. reduction of 70 cents a bar rel and another a 75;cent drop. To day's 'quotations were $13.50 to $13.55 a barrel, in carload lots in 98-pound cotton . sacks, for family patents. . . -.. s : . ..' . 1 he pretidtnt doomed .the league when he interlocked it " He'll have to AMUNDSEN HAS REACHED NOME ON WAY TO POLE Norwegian Explorer Touches Land for First Time Since 'Sailing From Norway In 1918. (By the ABiMwiated Pi efts.) Nome, Alaska, July 28. Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, ar rived in Nome last night from the Arctic ocean. Amundsen arrived here on a tug and said he left his; vessel, '1he Maude, at Sledge Island, not far from here, where for the last 10 days hei has been storm bound. He re ported all well-with his expedition. On his arrival here Amundsen was taken to a hotel where several hun dred people gathered to greet him. He said it was the first time in two years he had been in a place where he could "clean up " Met Up With Bear. Amundsen told of an encounter with a polar bear last winter, in which his clothing was flai from his body, one of .his arms itroken, and his back and l?gs severely lacerT ated. He is still suffering from the effects-of the enocunter. Amundsen is in Nome, il ;s thought, to outfit for an attempt o reach the North Pole According to Christiana dispatches in April, the explorer hops to lock his boat in the ice off eastern Siberia and drift across or near the pole. He plans to be gone five years. Ever since Amundsen sa'led north from Norway in 1918 he has been in the Arctic. For 19 months he was not heard from. s First word from him came in April, 1920, when mem bers of his crew arrived rt Anadir, Siberia, across the Bering sea from Nome, and reported they had come overland from the Artie where the Maude was waiting for the ice to break so she could sail south to Nome. Circumnavigates Globe. Amudsen's arrival at Nome it has been said, gives him claim to first circumnavigation of th: . globe through the waters between the Arc tic ice pack and the northern edges of Europe and America. The first leg of the journey wa3 completed in 1906 when he discovered the northwest passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific around North America. The second leg has just been com pleted by his journey rom the At lantic to the Pacific around Europe and Asia. If Amundsen reaches the North Pole he will have touched both ends cf the globe, for he is credited with the discovery of the South Pole. In going .north he hopes to confirm or refute the claims of the late Rear Admiral" Robert E. Peary to dis covery of the northern tip of the world. - '-;'' " .v Recover Body of Wealthy ' Man Drowned Last October Boise, Ida., July 28. The body of Joseph Unger, wealthy Pittsbursrer, whodisappeared thf' middle of last October on Rapid river in the sea foam country while out hunting, with a companion, Foutze by name, who lives in that tegion, was found in Float creek last Sunday morn ing by a sheepherder. The clothing was iound'in bushes near by and there. were wounJs on the scalo. Ttie bodv ws retioved to Challis. Los Angeles Has Its Daily , Earthquake This Morning Los Angeles, Cal.. July 28. A light earthquake shock was felt here at 11:26 o'clock this morning. Cartoons of the Day (topyright, 1920.' 6y 'the Chicago Tribune.) ttep carefully to avoid ttepping on eomsbody'e foe. Dry reading for th Wet: Salt Lake City Mayo Until Last Week Is Held as Embeziler Salt Lake City, Utah, July 28. Seventeen complaints charging mis appropriation of public funds have been filed against E. A. Bock, until last week mayor o? Salt Lake City, Leslie Frazer, assistant county at torney, announced today. The total of misappropriation alleged is $10,-: 082.. One complaint charging for gery in connection with, an alleged false city warrant also has been filed against Bock.' Mr. Frazer said that Mr. Bock last week had admitted, in a state ment to the city commission that he had misappr6priated the funds and hat the commission permitted him to restore the sum named and ac cepted hs res'gnation. 'An audit of the books of the auditor's office, which Bock held before becoming mayor has been under way for three weeks and is expected to be com pleted in about two weeksmore. It was whil Bock was acting as audi tor that the alleged misappropria tions Were made the complaint charges. Bock has been arraigned on two of. the complaints and admitted to bail. He has' not entered a plea. German Secretary Asks Right to Sit In J Soviet Peace Meet Berlin. July 28. That Germany should be represented in the pro posed conference between allied and soviet representatives at London was the opinion expressed to the Reichstag today & Dr. Walter Si mons, German foreign secretary. "1 am- now ciirioiis tn .spp " imp secretary declared, ."whether in theca'lel on Kent a the jail yesterday! i ... k.. ..u i j: ' 1 -: iicguiiaiiuus noon 10 Mfglll on tne eastern question between the entente and soviet Russia, the entente, again will make xthe same mistake as at Versailles, when it undertook to solve there the eas'tern European question, namely, of participating without, Germany. If that should happen, then eastern peace will be come a house of cards, much more unstable than the peate of Versailles ever can become." San Bernardino, Cal., Now Has a Population of 18,721 Washington, July 28. Westerly, R. I., 9,952. increase 1,256. or 14.4 per cent. San Bernardino. Cat., 18.721, in crease 5,942. or 46.5 per cent. Lander, Wyo 2,133. increase 321, or 17.7 per cent. Henryetta, Oki., '5,889, increase 4,218, or 252.4 per cent. - Wacross. Ga., 18.068, increase 3. 583, or 24.7 per cent. Auto Accidents In Chicago Tuesday Cause Seven Deaths Chicago, July 28. Automobile ac cidents took a toll of 10 lives in Chicago and vicinity Tuesday. Sev en met death and three serious in jury when automobiles were run down by trains on grade crossings. There have been 265 deaths since January 1 resulting from automobile accidents. , , ' The Weather , Forecast 1 ' Fair and warmer Thursday. ;, Hourly Temperatures-' S a. m. . . ( . m.. . 7 . m. . . S a. m.. . . m.. . 10 a. m... 11 a. m.. . 13 neon . . . . . . . . 0 1 p. m 2 p. m 3 p. m. 4 p. m 5 p. m p. m . .MS .. . .IW . .KS . .M . . ,.R5 ..8 . SO p. m.. .83 '.. uiith a bad treaty. THREE CHARGES AGAINST KENT IN BABIES' CASE "Assault to Commit Murder" Brought Against "Doctor" rrWho Still Maintains Innocence. -: - ' Charged with "assault to' commit murder,". "Dr." H. S. Kent, who has been held at the city jail since Sdn day as the alleged father of .the. twin babies found in an abandoned well at Thirty-third, and California streets last Saturday, yesterday was placed under r $15,000 bond, The complaint was filed. by County . At torney) Shotwell. Three counts, are embodied in the complaint. The first 'is assault with intent to murder by abandonment, the second, assault with intent to commit'murder by exposure, and the J inira, assault witn intent to ao great bodily injury. Kent, who still is held in the city jail, insists that he knows nothing about the case, insofar as it in volves Miss . Louise -' Boeke, 3041 California street,' as the mother of the children. He was interviewed yes terday by Martin ' Sugarman, attor ney for Miss Boeke, who quoted the prisoner as- saying that he would spend the rest of his life in 'the penitentiary rather, than be forced to admit that he was the father -of the babies.' " ' . Sugarman also, quoted. Miss Boeke -as saying that she was by no means convinced that 'he had given birth to the babies. She added that she would take only Kent's word for it. " -. ' ' Carl Boeke, brother of the girl, but would not. discuss his interview with the prisoner... Nonpartisan League ,. ; President Must Serve 90-Day Jail Sentence Fairmont, Minn., July 28. A. C. Townley, president of the National Nonpartisan league, and Joseph Gil bert, former league organizer, today were denied new trials on charges of ' conspiracy to encourage dis loyalty during the war. They are under 90-day jail sentence. District Judge E. C. Dean made the order. - Townley and Gilbert were convicted at Jackson, Minn., a year ago on charges growing out of speeches they made in behalf of the nonpartisan league in' Jackson coun ty. Their trial lasted three weeks. New Indictment Filed In Sugar Profiis Case Salt Lake City, July 28. Four men not named in the original com plaint filed against directors of xhi Utah-Idaho Sugar company, charged infraction of the Lever act in con nection with sals of sugar, are named in an amended complaint filed here by Isaac Blair Evans. United States district attorney, and three named Jn , the original com plaint are not" mentioned in the new document. New York Convict Murdered By Fellow Prisoners Auburn, N. Y July 28. Phillip Nissenam, .24 years old", a convict in the state prison here, was mur dered in the priion yard by fellow inmates, tonight, following a series of fights in which several convicts participated. Niiienam was stabbed through the heart with a knife. GIRL FIGURE IN MYSTERY CASE FOUND Alice Massette, Thought to Have Been Murdered, Is Married to Henry Irams and Living Near Peru, Iowa. DES MOINES REPORTED ' TELLS STORY TO BEE Finding of Woman Clears Dale Mann and Shatters-Theory Followed by Police and Attorney Grace Ballard. V Alice Massette, who wan identified as the "mystery air," whose body was found in a gulchjiorth of Flor ence several month . ago has been fuund. ( i . - . This information was iven lo The lice yesterday by a reporter for the Dis Moines Register 'and Leader v. ho investigated the case. , The finding of Miss Massette ex plodes the theories of Grace Ballard, county attorney of Washington county, and- Detective Andrew Trapp, who have worked on the case for several , months and who , had hopes of , clearing up the mystery by the arrest of Dale Mann, a suspect. Miss Massette is now Mrs. Henry Irams and lives near Peru, la., rural delivery No. 2, route 45. , . . The Des Moines reporter was giv en this information by Frank Muck, a cousin of- MrsMrams, who lives at J07 East Sixth stn-et. Des Moines. Find Girl's Mother. : , ' According to Muck, his aunt Mrs. Wililam Muck, mother ' of Mrs. Irams, who lives at Cqlfak, la.; had just returned from East Peru yes terday when she was told of the stories published by'Omaha newspa pers that, her daughter was believed to be the ''mystery girl." ' ' The reporter who talked with tnc mother of Mrs. Irams said she was very indignant over the stories pub- lished in Omaha papers and . stated , tha"t she would wire the Omaha po lice, not to worry about her daugh ter.' ,,...'. She tola the reporter ' that her daughter knew Dale Mann .about two years agoi but as far as she knew there has been no correspondence between the two for more than a yeat ! ,. 1 . ' , Tins, identification, .shatters the statement made to Detective' Trapp yesterday by Florence Rathke, 2918 " North Twenty-seventh,. str,eei.who declared in a signed statement that she positively identified the" body as that of Alice Massette'. This ' news fropi ' Des Moine" pleased Lester Dale Mann, who was traced, arrested and held in jail for. three days as a principal in the mys tery murder iase.. whidh, has .baffled ' police and state' officers. of two states , - He Tells Police. , ' Muck, cousin c Mrs. Irnn.:, first read of. the ' mystery murder ase in a Des, Moines newspaper,' he told the reporter. He telephoned the Des Moines police, accord-n..r io the Des Moines reporter. ' and told them that Alice Massette living in East, Peru and tolfl.thetn o wire the Omaht 1 police this in formation. . . ',"." Detective Travp ( and,- Charli? Whalen yesterday went to Blair to obtain additional evidence, again t Mann, they said. ac,ainst vhom,'tliev had hopes of naving jtharges- filed today. -'..'. Trapp said thi-s was the- only 'heorj- the police department, Jia-l to work on. The police 'of several Iowa and Nebrafka cities 'have hunted for mouths, for the Masscjtt woman as well aj the murderer of the slain woman whose body' was found in a ravine north of Florence Man Finds Wife and Baby Dead When He Returns From Work Burlington. Ia., .luly 28. Mr?. Al fred Mellor and her- 3:yea'r-old son today were found asphyxiated by gas. the woman's ankles and wristi bound by clothe, ,-The house had, been ransacked and there were evi dences of a struggle, i ; The bodies were found by Mellor when he returned home from work, this morning. He left the house at midnight. ; ; - i Indications were that mother and child had prepared for the night in ra guest room where the bodies were found. The gas jet was- turned on full. . .. ' . Coal Operators' Scale : ; Committee Meets Today Indianapolis,- July 28. The mine operators' scale committee of the central competitive field has been c;i!led to meet fn Chicago at 10 a. m. tomorrow, it was stated here todav. The organization will consider the request of President 'John L. Lewis of the United Miners of America for a. joint conference of miners and operators to deal with the problems arising from the strike of monthlv men and day workers in Indiana and Illinois. The call, it was stated, wa contained in a telegram from T. T. Brewster of St. Iauis, chairman of the committee. ' ' . Fuel Oil Being Rushed to Gary to Keep Up Work Gary, Ind.. July 28. Thousands of gallons of fuel oil are being rushed to Gary's steel plants today to avert paralysis of industry here, which threatens to throw many thousands of men into idleness, it was stated by officials of the com panies affected. Already the short age of coal supplies ha become .r acute that mills have closed down some departments, including a uuin ber of furnaces. . - - "" P I S.