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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 50 NO. 64. Eaton ft tattM-Cton lUttar May M. I9. t tonka P. 0. Utftr AM ! Mank . 1171. OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920. By Mall l Mr. laalda 4th Zaaa. Dall; SuaAv. 19; Oally Oaly. tt: Santfay. II. OuUltfa 4th Zoaa (I iur, Daily ana Sunday. Sit: Dally Oaly, 112: Suaday Oaly, IS. THREE CENTS HAYS PROVES COX CHARGES ARE UNTRUE BELFAST RIOT GUARD UNITS Dr. George L. Miller, Civic Worker and Editor, Dies Headed for a Fall FOUR KILLED , .Iff JEWED AID READINESS )r : rirT. r OKLAHOMA 0. Unionist Quarter Scene of Serious Disorders Troops Fire to Clear Streets Young Woman Wounded. CURFEW LAW WILL BE INTRODUCED TUESDAY , Disturbance More Violent Than Any Yet Experienced In City Shiovard EmDloves i Attacked on Wav to Work. Ht The AmtnelHlfd I'mi. liclfast, Aug. 30. Rioting and de struction of property was renewed in "this city early this morning, the unionist tiartrr being the scene of serious . disorders. Troops rushed to the center of the disturbance, opened fire to clear York street, a young woman, Gtace Orr, being iTitically wounded and a man in jured. Shipyard employes, who were un armed, were on their way to work at 8:30 o'clock this morning when they were attacked, it is charged by the police, by Sinn Feiners and shooting soon began. The soldiers checked the trouble. Unionist Quarter Hit. At an early hour this morning other disorders occurred in the neighborhood of Ewarts row, a un ionist quarter, wiiich was attacked by Sinn Feiners yesterday. Shops were wrecked, and to clear the ireets the troops opened fire from j ii armored car. A partv of shipyard workers, head ed by a man carrying the Union Jack, nroceeded up North street and turned into a nationalist locality. Shots were fired and the ranks of the shipyard workers were reduced by several who ' were rushed to a hospital. Woman Among Dead. There have been 135 fires since Wednesday, , Today's rioting was said by the nolice to be the worst Belfast has t seen. Uo to 1 o clock this after- on it was definitely known that our deaths had occurred as a result of the disorders. These included Grace Orr, a young woman who was sno't.vhrn troops opened fre to ckai a st. irt in the unionist Quarter. Numerous persons with bullet wounds were admitted to the Rojal Victor'a and Mater hospitals. t Many Shops Wrecked. Ahe fighting between Siin Fcin- and unionist shipyard workers tfanv shoos were wrecked in York 'and "North streets. Soldiers got be tween tii combatants in York street and kept them apart. There were numerous baton charges by the po lice. The military held York street with armored cars at midday. A girl in a green blouse headed the Sinn Fein attack in York street. Before 2 o'clock the death list was increased by the shooting of a small boy by a sniper. A curfew law will he introduced in Belfast tomorrow night, extending from 10:30 p. m. to 5 o'clock in the morning. The four persons killed today brings the total of two days' riot ing up to 15 persons, 11 having died as a result of wounds received in rioting that broke out early Sat.ur ' day evening. Nine persons were killed outright during the rioting of that night while two died later of injuries. In addition to the death list, -40 persons were injured. , 42 Steamship Lines : Indicted on Charge of Violating Trust Act New York. Aug. 30. Forty-two steamship companies and freight brokers, including virtually all the big transatlantic linei. were indi cated bv the federal grand jury here today on charges of conspiracy and I restraint of trade in violation ot tne Sherman anti-trust law. An injunction and dissolution suit .igainst the defendants named in the indictments as members of the Steamship Freight Brokers' associa tion and the Associated Freight Con ferences was ordered simultaneously. .The indictment charged and the petition in the suit alleged that the defendants, on January 1. 1917, con spired rnd have continuously violated the Sherman law by restraining in terstate trade and foreign commerce in gr.-'.in. oil, lumber, coal and other commodities-and manufactured arti cles produced throughout the United States and in foreign countries. Astor's Sons to Sell His $10,000,090 Office Building i London,- Aug. 30. Disregarding the wishes of their father, the late William Waldorf Astor, Viscount Waldorf Astor and. his brother, John Tacob Astor,1- have decided to sell the wonderful $10,000,000 Astor of fice. It was built by the father when he came to London; in the early nineties, just a plain Ameri can millionaire. He was later made a peer. . . . v ' , - ' Commissioner Ure Is Back From Lakes! of Minnesota k W. G. Ure, city" commissioner, re turned home yesterday with his family, from Minnesota, inhere be enjoyed bis annual vacation; Mr. Ure motord both ways and reports that nothing occurred to mar the pleasure of the outing. The commissioner's return assures the attendance of the city council Tuesday morning, which will be the first meeting without an absentee for two month 1. f .- J - - Dr. George L. Miller, "Father of Omaha," and the plant where his "Omaha Daily Herald" was first published. This plant was located on the second floor of the building at Thirteenth and Douglas streets, the first floor of which was occupied by a saloon. Dr. George L. Miller, 90 years old, founder of the Omaha Daily Herald in 1865. died Saturday night at the home of his niece, Mrs. Nellie Johnson, 128 North Thirty-fifth street, following an illness of more than 10 years. Funeral services will ' be held today at 2 o'clock from the home. Burial will be in Forest Lawn ceme tery. ' Dr. Miller, born in Booneville, N. Y., in 1831. came to Omaha in 1854 with his father, Col. Lorin Mil ler, who was. later mayor of the vil lage. Dr. Miller was clerk of the first territorial legislature in 1856 and was elected a member of the terri torial council. In 1861, he was ap pointed by President Lincoln as sutler at old Fort Kearney, which position he held for three years dur ing the Indian uprisings. He Was acting surgeon with General Harney in the campaigns against the Sioux and other Indian tribes. ! , ; Built First Hotel. , Dr. Miller came to ' Omaha to practice medicine, after graduating in .the east , with honor's following his revolt from an apprenticeship to a spinner at York Mills when he vasJ6 rears-. olL,; He as city physician In Syracifse N. "Y.; where he married Miss Elizabeth Dickin son, who 'accompanied, him to Omaha. Medical practice was slack here, WILSON PUTS 0. K. ON ANTHRACITE MINERS' AWARD Contract Miners Given 20 Per Cent Increase, While Com pany Men Receive 17 -Per Cent. Washington, Aug. 30. President Wilson today approved the majority report of the anthracite coal com mission increasing the -wages, of contract miners 20 per cent, over present rates. '. ' Miners employed, as company men are given an increase of 17 per cent and the same amount is given "con sideration miners" and ".miners''' la borers and monthly men. The findings,, the - report said, would fix a minimum' rate' of 52-2 cents per hour for the lower paid men in the anthracite industry. - The president struck out of the re port a provision fixing the terms of retroactive payments under ' the award which, he said, was out side the commission's jurisdiction. Thomas Kennedy, chairman of the miners' scale committee, had pro tested this feature of the award, he said. Anthracite mine workers will re ceive about $18,000,000 in back pay under the retroactive feature and the total increase awarded to the 175,000 miners will average, the com mission said, "at least $85,000,000" annually. The majority report declared that the award "offers no justification for any advance in the retail prices of coal, but on the other hand, is consistent with a decline in- prices." The minority report was signed by Commissioner Ferry. Federal Troops Guard v ' Mines at Williamsburg Williamsburg, W. Ya., Aug. 30. Federal troops today took up their station in the Mingo strike region, headquarters having been established here yesterday by Colonel ' Eurk hardt, who commanded the troops from Camp Sherman; Ohio. Prep arations were at the. same time made "to withdraw the 'state con stabulary who have been on duty the greater part of the time since the miners struck for recognition of the union. ' Rock Island Asks Authority To Issue $2,000,000 Bonds Washington.' D. G.', Aug." 30. Th Chicago,. Rock Island and , Pacific railroad applied to the Interstate Commerce commission for authority to issue general mortgage gold bond to the amount of $1,000,000 and re funding mortgage gold bonds - tor and he secured the government con tract to supply federal troops with corn. Dr. Miller, in conjunction with the late Lyman Richardson, built the old Herndon hotel, at Ninth and Farnam streets, the first to be con structed in Omaha and for many years Union Pacific headquarters. ' Dr. Miller served as editor of the Herald,, which he founded in 1865, for 17 years, with which he wielded political ' and social influence throughout the state. Won Bridge Fight. : When the location of the east ter minal of the Union ' Pacific railroad was uppermost, Dr. Miller took a leading part in the fight to secure it for Omaha, working both here and in New York. With Ezra Millard and Augustus Kountze in New York, fighting for relocation of the bridge over the Missouri to be changed back from Bellevue to Omaha and Council Bluffs, Dr. Miller was sum moned to the .conference and turned the tide through Vice President Dur ant of the Union Pacific. Dr.. Miller worked incessantly for the election of Tildcn as president of the United States in ihe cam paign of 3876 andvould fcave been secretary of the interior Vii . Tilden had not been counted out. He was mentioned for postmaster general under '..President Cleveland, but pre- ((ontindrd on Pas Two, Column Four.) AMUNDSEN WILL USE TRAILS OF FRITJOFNANSEN Will Proceed on Theory Used by Other Explorers in Pack ing Ship and Floating ' . - .With Ice. San Francisco, Aug. . 30. Trails blazed across the Arctic ice pack a quartet of a century ago by Fritjof Narisen, Norwegian, explorer, were expected to be followed, for a dis tance, by -Nan-sen's fellow country man, Capt. Roald Amundsen, discov erer of the South pole, when he left Nome, Alaska, recently on an at tempt to drift across or near the North pole. , - . 'Nansen, in 1895, -. attempting the same drift, sailed around Russia and Siberia and locked his boat, the Frafn,; in the ice off the New Sibe rian islands, which lie in the Arttic north of. Siberia, Amundsen, on leav ing Nome, said he planned to sail to the same New Siberian islands, let his boat, the Maude, freeze in the ice and then allow the winds and currents to carry him where they wished. Explorers' theories that an Arc tic ocean current starts near the New Siberian islands runs through the Polar sea, across or near the pole and finally ends at Greenland, in the Atlantic, were used by both Nansen and Amundsen as a ' base upon which they made their plans. Existence of the current has been disputed by many Arctic authorities, who claimed the wind and not the current determined the route of the ever-drifting Polar ice. Nansen, one of the first advocates of the theory, pointed to the fact that wreckage from the exploring craft, the Jeanette, destroyed near the New Siberian islands, was found !tvo years after the wreck along the I Greenland coast. A "throwing stick" used by Alaskan Eskimos was found, it has been claimed, in drift wood on a Greenland beach.' The wreckage and the stick, it was ar gued, lodged on an ice floe, Which carried . them across the Polar wastes to Greenland. Nansen .found the drift not as strong as he expected, mainly be cause the Polar basin was much deeper than he had believed. He also discovered that the wind deter mined, to a great extent, the route of the ice drifts. The Fram was car ried to within 350 miles of the pole and later cleared the .ice. near Greenland. When the drifting L'ram arrived it the 82d parallel Nansen attempt ed to reach the Pole over the ice. With one companion he left the ship and, in what has been described as the most daring sled- journey ever undertaken, proc""1'! to te 86th Aetrrre 'at ttiat-SCOllI tU. farthpet north ever r' V , maaJ.IIwre IK - . Adjutant General Takes Pre cautions Against Any Race Riots Growing Out of Lynching of Negro. ARMED NEGROES IN AUTO REPORTED AT ARCADIA Governor Orders Removal of Sheriff From Office De clares Excuses Offered by Jailors Are "Too Flimsy." Oklahoma City, Aug. 30. Di rections that all national guard units in Oklahoma City be held in readiness for duty in connection with possible race trouble growing out of the lynching of Claude Chandler, a negro, here last night, were issued today by Adjutant General C. F. Barrett. Six motor cars containing armed negroes are reported to have left Edmond, about 15 miles north of here, and three automobiles also containing negroes are reported to have left Arcadia, about 23 miles northeast of here, for Oklahoma City, according to messages received at the office of County Attorney Cargill here shortly after noon. It was said at the county attorney's of fice that Largill was arming lus deputies. A telephone message from the city marshal at Arcadia to authorities here said that three cars containing 12 negroes had stopped there for a short time and departed in the di rection of Oklahoma City. The marshal said, however, that he was unable to see any weapons and that they appeared to be in a friendly pursuit. Charging that the sheriffs of Tulsa and Oklahoma counties, were "in collusion with the leaders of the mob or else were wholly unfit by lack of physical courage to discharge the duties of their officer," Govern or Robertson sent a letter today attorney general's department today directing that immediate steps be taken to remove the sheriffs from office. Excuses offered by the jailers were characterized by the governor as being "too filmsy" and as "stock excuses." . "They should, be. trade - .tQ.,&uf fcr the consequences" the executive wrote. "They should be summarily removed from office." Reds Make Counter Offensive To Gain Brest-Litovsk City London. Aug. 30. Russian soviet forces engaged in a counter offen sive against the Poles east of Brest Litovsk have occupied four villages in that vicinity. Near Lemberg there is heavy fighting going on and in the Vlodava and Grubeshoff regions there is local fighting. This infor mation was received here this morn ing in a wireless dispatch from Mos cow containing an official statement issued there yesterday. Warsaw, Aug. 30. (By The As sociated Press) While Riga has lias been agreed upon by the Polish and Russian soviet governments a the place for future peace negotia tions, it was said at the foreign min istry late last night that no word had been received from the Letvian government regarding the Poles' re quest for permission to hold the con ference in Riga. . Gets 30 Days in Jail for , Implication in Car Theft Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 30. (Special) Kirk, who was arrested at Tecum seh by City Marshal Lytle Of Wy more, suspected of being implicated in the theft of a Ford car, was sen tenced to 30 days in the county jail, Saturday, by Judge McCandless. Russell Walters was given a simi lar sentence. Thursday, when he pleaded guilty to the theft of a bat tery from a car at Wrymore. The New Constitution (The Bee continues today its explana tions of the various amendments to the state constitution, proposed by the state constitutional convention and submitted to a vote of the people at a special elec tion to be held September II. This eloc tlon ts in many respects the most Im portant hetd in Nebraska In a feneration. An intelligent ballot can be cast only after a clear understanding, of the various proposals submitted. There are 41 pro posals and each is submitted for separate vote.) PROPOSITION NO. 13. Amends Sections 1, 2. 6, 7, 13, 19, 24 and 26 of Article V. Provides that the legislature may create exec utive officers in addition to those now elected, such officers to be ap pointed by the governor with the consent of a majority of the state senators and representatives. Pro vides that the legislature may as sign additional duties to elected pub lic officials, making them heads of new executive departments. In creases the term of the state super intendent of schools from two to four years. Provides that the gov ernor must be 30 years of age and must have resided in the state at least five years prior to his election. Amends Section 6 of Article V. Makes it the duty of the governor to see that the "affairs of the state are efficiently and economically ad ministered." Amends Section 7 of Article V. Provides that the governor shall recommend to the. state legislature a budget of all state expenditures. Prohibits appropriations in excess of the governor's recommendation unless by three-fifths vote of each LORD MAYOR OF CORK NEARING ENDJAPIDLY MacSwiney Coughing' a "Great Deal Brothers Will Stay at Bedside Until End. London, Aug. 30. Terence Mac Swiney, lord mayor of Cork, is not expected to survive the night. His brothers have received permission to remain with him until the end. Mayor MacSwiney is coughing a great deal. The hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, has progressed so far that even if he took food now it would do him no good, according to a statement .by the Brixton prison doctor to Mac Swiney's wife, who visited her hus band this morning. ; It was "the 18th day of the mayor's hunger strike. Mrs. MacSwiney remained with her husband for three hours. She said he was conscious and recog nized her, but was unable to speak. Mrs. MacSwiney was pale and bore evident signs of the terrible strain. De Valera Will Return. New York, Aug. 30. "If Mac Swiney dies, I will go back to Ire land to follow his example." This was the challenge of Eamonn De Valera, president of the Irish . . public, in a speech before a huge mass meeting held in the Lexington theater to protest against the fate of Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, dying as a result of his hun ger strike. "MacSwiney is facing only a con tingent death," De Valera said. "If he dies his death will be like a sol dier at the hands of the enemy. And I can tell you that MacSwiney will die if he docs not get his liberty. Instead of regarding him as a sui cide, I venerate such a man. If he dies, I will go back to Ireland to follow his example." Has No Alternative. "So far I have never yet coun selled a hunger strike for anyone but myself," he said. "But the new British coercion act leaves no alter native to any Irish soldier if the jails of Ireland and of Britain, arc not to be filled with, his tortured countrymen. A life spent in terms of this penal servitude in the slave gangs of Portland and elsewhere in isolation or in the company of moral degenerates, the crooks and the out casts of Britain's society, with home shattered and deir ones destitute and broken-hearted that is the al ternative which is now left to the hunger striker." Cabbages Used to Disguise Trucks Loaded With Booze Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 30. Cab bages and garlic were used to camou flage contraband liquor on. trucks seized by enforcement officers here. One truck was festooned on its sides with bunches of garlic. Nine men were detained and the liquors seized are supposed to be worth about $50,000. Canton Wall Will Be Razed For Automobile Speedway Victoria. . C. Aug. 30. "'The walls of Canton City are to hi pulled down to make way for an automo bile speedway," declared K. C. Li, one of the industrial princes of China, departing for the Far East. "China has 6,000- automobiles and Ak-Sar-Ben Dates Carnival Sept. 14 to 25 Horse Races . : Sept. 14 to 17 Kennedy Combined Shows Sept. 14 to 25 Automobile Races Sept 18 Grand Electrical Parade, Evening Sept. 22 Tercentenary Daylight Pageant Sept. 23 Coronation Ball ..y. -Sept. 24 Sarah Bernhardt In Grave Condition, Report-From Paris . By HENRY WALES. New iork Tlmea-Chlcago Tribune Cable, Copyright 1920. Paris. Aug. 30. Sarah Bernhardt's illness is reported very grave. Boy Killed by Train In Bluffs Identified By Probation Officer The body of the boy who was killed by the Rock Island passenger limited train yesterday morning at the McPherson- street crossing east of Council Bluffs was identified by Probation .Offker R. Herncr as that of Clyde Ogan. 14 years old, who has been missing from the detention home for the last five days. Young Ogan was the son of Charles' A. Ogan, boilcrmaker, 3455 Avenue B, and had been living with his grandparents in Kansas follow ing the second marriage of his fa ther until a few years ago, when he returned to Council Bluffs. Implicated in a number of petit thefts and robberies, he had been sent to the detention home. The bi cycle on which he was riding when killed Monday morning had been stolen for his second attempt to es cape from the home, police said. The boy's body had been badly mangled by the train. It was thrown under the cars to 75 feet from the track on the opposite side from which, he had approached the train. Coroner Cutler took charge of the body. Neff Leads Bailey by Big Vote in Texas Primaries Dallas, Tex., Aug. 30. Pat M. Neff of Waco led J. W. Bailey, former United States senator froiii Texas, by 77,383 votes for the demo cratic gubernatorial nomination, ac cording to the final telegraphic re port of the Texas election bureau. The figures were: Neff, 244,445; Bailey, 167.062. The figures represented partial and complete returns from 226 coun ties and an estimated 75 per cent of the total vote. For the nomination for lieutenant governor the vote stood: W. A. Johnson, incumbent, 154, 221: Lynch Davidson of Houston, 177,996, and for associate justice of the supreme court, William E. Haw kins, incumbent, 136,935, and Will iam Pierson of Greenville, 185,674. Theatrical Man Killed In Fall From His Window New York, Aug. 30. Fred Lent, a theatrical manager, was instantly killed here today when he fell from the fourth floor of the hotel where he made his home. It was said he lost his balance while using a tele phone, falling through an open win dew, i - As one of the Armstrong broth ers. Lent was formerLv: a circus per- ' ADMITS MANY DRY AGENTS ARE TAKING BRIBES Prohibition Commissioner Tells of Plan Adopted to Prevent Corrupting Of Officials. Washington, Aug. 30. Hundreds of prohibition agents in New York and other cities have been guilty of taxing Drmes irom local saloon keep ers for protection. This was admitted today at the office of Prohibition Commissioner Kramer. "We have adopted a plan of shift ing agents trom one zone to an other with great frequency in New York and other cities," said one of ficial. "In this way no agent will be in a district long enough to form dangerous affiliations. Also we have organized a 'special intelligence unit' under the Treasury department, whose duty it is to oversee "the work of Ihe agents, just as inspectors in the Postofficc department look out for dishonesty on the part of its employes. "If agents sometimes accept bribes it is worth remembering that the oest saiary we can pay mem is $1,500 a year. Our appropriation lor enforcing prohibition through out the United States is only $4,500.- 000. The police department of New York City has an appropriation of "tunnnnrui "The only solution is an appro priation big enough for the job. "The work of a prohibition agent is hard, dangerous and poorly paid. Three of our men have been killed in the moonshine districts this year. A few weeks ago an agent had both hands broken in making a 'pull' in Philadelphia. "A few days ago some of our men, unarmed, stopped a truck loaded with whisky in the Italian district of Philadelphia. In a moment they were surrounded by a threatening crowd. Some were badly beaten up before the police arrived. "Many agents have been beaten up in New York. "Since one of our agents. Stewart McMullen, shot a taxicab driver in New York last March, we have given strict orders against gun play. McMullen is in the Tombs and his family is being supported by contributions from his friends on the force. "These men are engaged in more exciting and dangerous work thin that of the average soldier. The $1,500 pay is not enough." Liverpool Newspapers Tied Up by Printers' Strike Liverpool, Aug. 30. No morning papers appeared in Liverpool today for the first time in 112 years, and no evening paper for the first time in 50 year as a consequence of a sudden strike of newspaper composi tors . here and in Manchester for more pay. The Weather Forecast. Fair and cooler Tuesday. Hourly temperatures: ni. .mi .3 1 p. m. S P. m. S p. m. . 1 a. a a. a. m. P. 5 p P. .11 .1 10 m. 11 a. afaM 1 P ittSCLlilwu. or minus 6.8 pcrepj .1 1 P Average Contributions' to G. 0. P, Fund $92,30, Com ing From Every State ir Union, Committee (s Told. REPUBLICANS NOW FACE DEFICIT OF OVER $28,000 Chairman Tells of Proposed $10,000,000 Democratig Fund and Shows Letter Ask ing for Support of "Wets." Chicago, III., Aug. 30. (Special Telegram.) Charges of Candidate Cox that the republicans are raising a great campaign fund of $15,000. 000 and raising, funds in wrongful and corrupt fashion were completely demolished by National Chairman Will H. Hays today when in his tes timony before- the senatorial investi gating committee, he brought out the fact that in the period from De cember 1. 1918. to August 26. 1920 a total of 30,904 people had con tributed to the republican campaign fund. Their average contribution! were $92.30, coming from every statf in the union. Adhere to $1,000 Limit Chairman Hays showed the $l,00t limit was being adhered to as strictly as possible, that the total campaign budget of the national committee fot the presidential campaign was $3, 079,037.20, instead of the sum allegef by Cox and branded the Cox charges one by one as false. Not content with showing that the republican campaign fund was being obtained from many thousands of small contributors and that it was not excessive, Chairman Hays took the offensive and called to the atten tion of the committee, the plans of the democratic national committee to raise a $10,000,000 fund as an nounced August 24, 1919. by W. D. Jameson, democratic director of fi nance. "Wets" Want Co. He presented an original letter irom George T. Carroll, president of the Mew Jersey Federation of Liquo Interests, calling for help of the or ganized! liquor trade toward election of Coxl whom Mr. Carroll calls a "Pronoiinccl wet" Jif charged that sent by public expense through gov ernment literature, and that federal Officeholders arc being assessed for money for the Cox campaign. By these and other revelations. Mr. Hays has created a situation which seems to make it almost imperative for the committee to call Cox to the stand and examine him under oath. . Mr. Hays emphasized that the present national committee had a budget of approximately $3,000,000 and that $1,000,000 of the total ex pected to pass through the commit tee's treasury would be ' allocated back to the states for strictly state purposes. The testimony was in the nature of a reply to charges made by Gov ernor Cox, democratic presidential nominee, that the republican cam paign fund would total $15,000,000. Mr. Hays denied this charge and also said positively that no "big money interests" had underwritten the republican expenses. Doesn't Provide for Raise. v The republican budget, Senator Kenyon brought out on cross-examination of Mr. Hays, did not pro- vide for increased railroad fares in the transportation items, nor for the increased electorate resulting from suffrage ratification. The commit- (Continued on Pace Two, Column Fire.) Man Injured in Auto Accident Asks That Girl Driver Be Freed Failure to observe an automobile caused Gust Anderson, 2015 Grace street, to receive slight injuries when he ran into an automobile driven by. Nora Condon, 3620 Pacific street, at Thirteenth and Leavenworth street at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Anderson was taken to police headquarters where an examination showed that he had suffered a dis location of the right thumb and minor body bruises. He asked po lice not to arrest Miss Condon, say ing that she was not to blame for the accident. Miss Condon is a niece of Dr. A. P. Condon and is a daughter of the late W. R. Condon, founder of the Creighton dental college, who lost his life while swimming at a Cali fornia beach about two months ago. Wilson Boards Auto Viewed by Large Throng Washington, Aug. 30. For the first time today President Wilson boaided his automobile at the rear of the White House, in full view of a large crowd. Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo. his daughter, preceded the president into the car. Usually he and Mrs. Wil son occupy the rear seats, while guests occupy the emergency seats. Today all three "squeezed" into the regular scat. Although the crowd was a consid erable distance away, it was appar- ent to them that an inclined runway had been constructed to a level with tne motor car floor. Figures Show Decrease in Fillmore County Population Washington. D. C Aug 30. (Spe cial. Telegram.) Fillmore county's population, announced today by the census bureau, was 13,671. a de crease of 1,003 over th 191Q lli T A