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WomenAre
Sought for
( In, Murder
Letters Found in Room of
Dead Man Draw Attention
' " To Three Friends
Pistol Discovered. -
Missing Since August 19
uns Angeles, Sept. 23 A pistol
with which the police believe Jacob
Charles Denton, Los Angeles capi
talist, was shot to death, the room
where he is believed to have been
slain, and the letter drawing atten
tion to three -women for viiom the
police are searching, were found to
day within a few hours of the time
Denton's body was discovered,
buried in a secret room in the cellar
of a house he owned here.
The date of Denton's disappear
ance was fixed definitely as August
19. last. t .
First reports to 'the police were
that Denton had bet-n missing since
early last June. Later, hqjWcver,
when his attorney looked up the
date of his last interview with the
man and other sources of informa
tion were developed, the date when
he was last seen was fixed definitely
at August 19.
!! y umc jueicrioraicj oouy.
I " Physicians reconciled their first
f 'atcmcnts that he had been dead
I I i iree mouths by saying the action
' of quicklime buried with the body,
had made determination of the in
tervening time difficult ail largely
guesswork.
Police d-itectives, called"into the
case by the private investigator' wild
had discovered the body, 'learned
that Denton had given up hfs apart
it v ii i, nil v
y time of
in the 1
I" found. .1
I found m
ment and had been occupying at the
time of his disappearance, a room
house where his body was
They searched the room and
umerous letters, a pistol and
bloodstains.
One chamber of the pistol con
tained a catridge of the wrong cali
ber. Detectives said this indicated
that the weapon had been tifed to
.hoot Denton and then the dis
charged shell 'replaced hurriedly and
carelessly with the one of the wrong
caliber. The bloodstains fixed the
room as the location of the tragedy,
they said. :
Record of Marriages.
There was a Bibjc in the room,
which bore a recbrd of twoiiiat
riages to which De-nton had been a
pa'rty, According to this, his second
wife and .an .infant, child had died
and he had divorced his first wife,
but continued friendly relations with
her, She lived in Missouri, at some
place' not yet determined ? Hi.r sec
ond wife was Dollie Mae Winters
before the marriage.
.. Little was known of the dead man.
But the police, learned that he had
been engaged in business here as a
miniqg' promoter and was 46 years
old.
Negress, 108, Said to
Be Oldest in Omaha,
Former Slave, Dies
Sally Sylvester, 108, said to have
been the oldest person in Omaha,
and a former slave, died yesterday at
(he Negro Women's Christian Home,
3029 Pinkney street.
Sally, an initiate afcfhe home for
the last 10 years, had been patiently
awaiting her death for several years.
Alone in the world s.hc died with
one prized possession one lone
tooth and she had her greatest de
sire gratified wlren "de good Lawd"
permitted her to retain it at her
death.
Born in slavery, Sally' never
learned to read or write. She died
without relatives and without funds,
but all the negro pastors of the
i ity will make an effort at next
Sunday's sermons to raise a fund
for. her proper burial. Her funeral
will be held Monday.
Gibbons Lays Corner
Stone of War Memorial
4
. Washington, Sept. 25. The foun
dation, stone of the $5,000,000 shrine
of the Immaculate Conception,
which is being erected, on t!ic Catho
lic university grounds here and
which is to be dedicated to the irem
ory of the soldiers anxl snilors who
lost' their lives nv the World war,
was laid today by Cardinal Gibbons
of Baltimore, assisted by Cardinal
O'Connell of Boston.
Attending the ceremony were
most of the archbishops and bishops
of the Catholic church in the United
States, .hundreds of priests, supe
riors of many religious orders and
prominent laymen, as well as gov
ernment officials and the dioloinatic
representatives of foreign nations.
Bishop Shahan, - rector of the ,
Catholic university, and Bishop John
P. McNicholas of Duluth, delivered
the addresses.
Prince of "Wales Reaches
Port of Said On Way Home
Port of Spain. Trinidad, Sept. 23.
The prince of Wales, who has been
visiting Georgetown, British Guiana,
returned here and will spend the day
and evening ashore. He will, leave
on Friday morning for St. George,
the seat of the government of the
Windward islands colony and the
, principal city on the Island of Gren
ada. His democratic attitude has been
very pleasing to the people, with
-whom he has conversed on many oc
casions. Mail Waon Robbed.
South Bend, Jnd., Sept. 23. Two
bandits hcld',up a screened United
States mail wagon here and escaped
in an automobile with mail valued
by J. N. Hunter, postmaster, at
from $5,000 to $20,000
ttr4 tfeoiirt-Cltti Matter
Onahk P. 0. UmUr Act tf
Man Saves $1,000 in
Six Years, Confidence
Men Here Get It All
For six long years, Joe Filao, 25,
Cedar Bluffs, Neb., toiled and
saved until he had $1,000.
He came to Omaha to spend
part of his $1,000 Wednesday at
Ak-Sar-Ben. In the course of his
wanderings about the city Tie met
two dapper youths who showed
him the beauties of Riverview park
and meantime sobbed the story of
the need of relief work among the
poor of Omaha.
Fialo has asked police to try to
get back part of his $1,000.
Millerail
V vO
Made French
President
Minister of War and Present
Premier Elevated by Parlia
ment Due to Resigna
tion of Deschanel.
Versailles, Sept. 23. (By The As
sociated Press.) Alexandre Milkr
and was today elected president of
France by the national assembly, in
session here. He succeeds Paul
Deschanel, who resigned because of
ill health. -.-
M. Millerand received 6So votes
out of a total of 892.
The complete vote was: Alexandre
Millerand, 695. . Gustav Delory (so
cialist deputy trom Lille, Department
DuNord), 69. Scattering, 20. Blank
108.
Proclaimed President
At 4:57 o'clock M. Millerapd was
proclaimed bv Leon Bourgeois, pre
siding officer of the Senate and chalr-
man oi tne assemDiy, as xne cievenin
president of France.
Alexandre Millerand has- long
been one of the foremost figures m
the political life of France, his en-
iry into i arnameni aaiing DacK xo
1885 and his cabinet experience to
1889, when he became a member of
the Waldeck-Rousseau cabinet. 'His
early affiliations were with the radi
cal socialists and he always has been
keenly interested in labor questions
and has fathered numerous meas
ures for the betterment of the work
ing world, notably the old age pen
sion act, which became opcrrtive
in 1915.
Was Minister of War.
It was M. Milierand's services t
his country during the great war,
however, as minister of war in the
Viviani cabinet and his notable con
duct of France's foreign policy as
the successor of Clemenccau in the
premiership after the "Tiger's" re
tirement last Tanuarv that raised
hinr into pre-eminent elegibility foM
the presidency, compelled his re
luctant consent to quit the premier
ship and stand as a candidate to
succeed .President Descnanel.
M. Millerand was born m Paris
February 10, 1859, and was educated
for the bar. His first ministerial
post was as minister' of commerce,
but he has served in several cabinet
positions, notably tin . minister of
public works in the Briand ministry
of 1909, minister of war in the Poin-
care cabinet of 1912 and as minister
of war in the Viviani ministry, to
which post he was appointed in Au
gust, 1914, shortly after the outbreak
of the world war. He held the war
ministry until the Viviani cabinet re
signed October 29, 1915.
Governor of Alsace.
While the peace with Germany
was being made President Poinare
in March, 1919, appointed M. Miller
and governor of Alsace-Lorraine,
France's regained provinces, and' he
served in this position until at the
request of M. Poincare in January
last he accepted the task of forming
a new cabinet, in which he took the
premiership and ministry -tsi foreign
affairs, succeeding Clemencoau.
When President Deschanel as
sumed office in the following month
Premier Millerand, as is customary
on the accession of a new chief- ex
ecutive, offered the resignation of his
ministry. This the president refused
to accept and asked M. Millerand to
remain. in office. The prime minister
consented and has since held the
premiership.
Victim of World War to
Be Buried Here Saturday
The body of J. J. Kissane. 24,
who wis drowned August 17. 1918,
near Angers, France, will arrive in
Omaha from New York Saturday
morning at 8:30. Military funeral
services will be held in the Gentle
man mortuary at 2:30 Saturday aft
ernoon. Member of the fire de
partment, of which Kissane was a
member before entering military
service, will assist in the services.
Burial will be in Holy Sepulchre
cemetery. (
Kissane is survived by his father.
Michael Kissane, two sisters" and
one brother, all of Omaha.
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Bread and Water Sentence
k Given Assailant of Girl
As a result of contributing to the
delinquency of Dorothy Gordon, 13,
1416J-2 South Fourteenth street,
David L. Reese, 32, 1138 Xnrjh Sev
enteenth street, a truck driver, was
sentenced to six months in the coun
ty jail, the last 15 days of the sen
tence to be in solitafry confinement!
on a bread and water diet, and fined
$500 by District Judge Sears yester
day morning. .
Visiting Indians to Hold
Farewell Pow-Wow at Fort
More than 200 Indians from the
reservations in Nebraska who are
in Omaha attending the Ak-Sar-Ben
fall festival staged a pow
wow at Fort Omaha last evening,
starting at 7 o'clock. Indian dances
by chiefs, squaws and just plain
Indians were on the program, be-
f?ides music. Following the celebra-
tion the Indians lt far. their homes.
The Omaha
May It, IMi, at
Mirth 9, 1(71.
Bourbons
Reiterate
Falsehood
Effort in Platform to Show
Lodge Condemned Separate
PeC: U Stands, Book
A&tuS closes.
Admits Mistake
By ARTHUR SEifcRS HENNING.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha, Bee I,eati Wire.
Washington,' Sept. 23. The "lie"
in the democratic platform, as re
publicans characterized the demo
cratic effort to make it appear that
Senator Lodge condemned a sepa
rate peace with Germany after, in
stead of before, the armistice, has
not been retracted, the democratic
campaign textbook discloses.
As adopted at San Francisco
Tuly 2, the democratic platform, re
ferrinfir to the Knox resolution de
claring peace with Germany, said
"that which Mr. Lodge in "saner
Midi WllilU lui, XVUKV. , i , jaiiLi
moments considered 'the blackest
crime,' he and his party in madness
soucht to Kive the sanctity of law;
that which 18 months ap;o was of
'everlasting dishonor' the republic--an
paity and its candidate today ac
cept as the essence of taith
The declaration made it appear
that Senator Lodge condemned
separate peace in January, 1919,
nearlv two months, after the conclu'
sion of the armistice that ended the
war. Republicans immediately pro
nounced the statement a lie, inas
much as Senator Lodge h:id uttered
the opinion referred to oh October
11. 1917, six months after the coun
try entered the war and exactly a
year before it ended. v Admitting
that there had been a misrepresen
itation. Senator Glass inserted a
change of phraseology in the next
edition of .the platforn, citing the
June,J918, number of the forum as
the source of the Lodg quotation,
but not disclosing that the Fortun
article, as the Forum stated in an
editorial note, was a reprint of the
Lodge speech of October 11, Jyi.
Retraction Omitted.
Even this partial retraction has
been omitted from the official texf
of the platform.
Senator Lodge made the address
before the Massachusetts Historical
society, of which he is president, and
it was first published in the Octo
ber, 1917, proceedings of that body.
Iif" ttrar address, he said.:
"The-'governmeiif, congress and
the president, mean to carry the war
through. ' Yet we ' see the newspa
pers filled with talk about peace,
which all comes dirctly or indirect
ly from the enemy; it cither cman-
yjtecorii Germany or 'is accidental
llv very lite Ttfthe' Germans- are
suggesting. We have had a note
fronj the pope, we have had resolu
tions in congress, and we hav had a
great deal of general ifresponsibletalk
about peace. . This talk all proceeds
with slight 'variations' on the basis
of the status quo ante,bellum. To
my mind and I hope this is the
view of the administration every
man, the president, who delivered
the war message and congress, who
voted for war, would be guilty of
the blackest of crimes if they were
willing to make a peace on the status
quo ante bellum and recreate the
situation which existed before the
war.
Intention Crime. '
"If we send our armies and our
young men abroad to be .killed and
wounded in northern France and in
Flanders with no result but this,
our entrance into war with such an
intention, was a crime which nothing
can, justify. The intent of congress
and the intent of the president,
which I saw he reiterated only day
before yesterday, was that there
could be no peace until we' could
creatf a situation where no such war
as this could recur. To make peace
on the basis of the status auo ante
bellum, simply meaijs that Germany
will have a breathing spell and the
whole horror will come again. We
must have peace with victory, com
plete victory; no other will stand or
be worth having.
"The president in his letter to the
pope, stated what is the absolute
truth thnt we have no one now we
can negotiate with. We cannot
negotiate with a government which
has declared that treaties are scraps
of paper to be torn up when it feels
like it. ' There may be no writteu
conventions or treaties, but it would
brand us with everlasting dishonor
and bring ruin to us also, if' we un
dertook to make a separate peace.
Therefore, there is only one alterna
tive and that is to b-iiig Germany
to her knees and forcfe upon her, a
peace which .we shall dictate .and
which wilt make tile world safe
not merely for 'democracy, but safe
for all the allied free countries to
pursue their own way in security
and work out their own salvation."
Hungarian Socialists
Plot Government Downfall
' Vienna. Sept. 23. A -sensational
secret report.- vouched for as f au
thentic, is published by the Arbciter
Zeitung. showing that the Hunga
rian delegation is expending large
sums for propaganda for the down
fall of the. socialist goycrnment,
with the object of the fusion of Aus
tria and Hungary. An official is
quoted 'as asserting that the Aus
trian 'government fears that Hun
gary! is, seeking a pretext for mili
tary occupation in order to obtain
needed arms.
16-Year-Old Youth Found
Unconscious by Police
Oscar Brackbyi, 16, 1502 South
Twenty-second street, was found
unconscious .at Eighteenth """and
Marcy streets by Policeman Earl
Risk at 2 p. ni. yesterday. Police
surgeons who attended him said he
had the appearance of having been
drugged. He regained consciousness
last night but his mother said he had
no knowledge f what happened, to
him, i -I : 'J
OMAHA, FRIDAY,
Evening Dress Worn
By Attorneys Before
Jury of Women
Danville, 111.. Sept. 23. Attor
neys at Rockvillc, Ind., near here,
solved a question of etiquette
caused by the impanelling of 12
women for jury dutyFwhen they
appeared in the, Parke county
cpurt in full evening dress.
Interest Lags
In Condition of
Mayor of Cork
Newspapers and People Gen
erally Become Apathetic
as MacSwiney Enters'
42d Day of East. v
London, Sept. 23. Lord Mayor
MacSwiney of Cork had a few hours
of restful sleep last night, but was
suffering severe pains in his head
and was very w" ak tru's morning, ac
cording to a bulletin issued by the
Irish self-determination, league at
Brixton prison. " 1
Reports to the home office by the
, . , . . , , , ,
Priso physician stated there was no
apparent change in the condition of
MacSwiney.
This is the 42d day of the lord
mayor's hunger strike.
Still Conscious.
He is suffering severe pains in the
head but is still conscious. The
prison physicians advised his rela-J
lives noi ro spean to mm or 10 oiner
wise cause him the slightest exer-
ktion.
With the city marveling at the fact
that he is alive afttr being so long
without food, there was a continu
ance of insinuation today that he is
taking nourishment in some form. -
The mayor approached the clos
of the forty-second day of his strike
amid a complete indifference on the
part of the public in-remarkable con
trast to the situation of a fortnight
ago when his name was on every
one's tongue and practically the sole
topic ot conversation was the effect
his death would have on the Irish
problem.
Interest is Lagging
The London papers carried only
brief bulletins on the condition of
his health.
When he started his hunger strike
the government was condmened for
its attitude from all quarters and
from every station of political in
fluences excepting only the reaction
aries. The situation is now marked by an
increasing apathy. There is-a de
crease in tension on the part of the
governmnt and a growing confidence
among the members of the cabinet.
They feel that their position is being
strengthened every day.
Two weeks ago 300 special police
guarded every approach to the prison
and , put ... down demonstrations.'
Scores of newspapers maintained a
death watch. Hundreds of sympa
thizers and other hundreds of curi
ous kept constant vigil. Tonight the
neighborhood is deserted except for
an occasional pair of bored police
men.
Live Bomb Is Found
On Platform of New
York Elevated Line
Ity The Associated Press.
New, York, Sept. 23. While in
vestigators were still seeking to
solve the mystery of the Wall street
explosion a week ago, police head
quarters announced a package con
taining dynamite 1iad been found to
day on the platform of the Kecd
avenue elevated station in Brooklyn.
At the same time announcement
came from police headquarters that
tag found in Wall street near
where the horse and death cart had
stood, had been identified as one is
sued by the health department in
1918 to the Keid Ice Cream com
pany of Brooklyn, certying that
the horse was not afflicatcd with
glanders Detectives left immediate
ly to question company officials as
to whether the hbjse had been sold
within the last two years.
The bureau of combustibles at po
lice headquarters announced that the
dynamite package was a bomb with
fuse attached and burning when a
patrolman found it nd "put it out."
Unidentified Woman
Found Dead Near Auto
Houston, Tex., Sept. 23. The
body of a young woman, 24, or 25
years old, was found on a road 12
miles from Houston this morning.
She had been shot through the
head Near the body was an auto
mobile overturned. The young
woman had been dead several hours.
The police are investigating.
School Boy Seriously
Illirt in Auto Accident
Robert Anderson, 13. 2117 Slier
man avenue, a pupil at the Lake
school, was seriously injured yes
terday when the bicycle he was rid
ing was struck by an automobile
driven by Ben Kennedy, 2335 North
Sixty-first street. Kennedy " was
turning a corner whcif the accident
occurred. Anderson's thigh
was !
fractured and his head badly cut. He
vvas taken to the Ford hospital.
Kennedy was arrested charged with
leckless driving.
Theresa Rovolo, 4, 1406 North
Twentieth street, was badly bruised
when struck bv an automobile
driven by W. J. McCoy, 2858 Willctt
street, Florence, at Twenty-second
and Grace streets.
U. S.-Argentine Treaty Is
Now Held Up by One Clause
Buenos Aires, Sept. 23. Negotia
tions for a treaty between the Lnited
States and Argentina which would
govern reciprocal rights of commer
cial travelers in each country have
encountered difficulties. Argentina,
it was, learned today, has refused to
accept the favored nation clause
asked by the United State
:Baily bee
SEPTEMBER 24, 1920.
Train Bandit Is
; Held by Victims
Passengers on Sanla Fe Over
, power Highwayman md
Rcpover Valuables.
Denver. Colo., Sept. 23. Passen
gers on Santa Fe train. No.' 5 were
robbed early this morning by a
single masked bandit, between Las
Animas and La Junta, v Colo and
then captured the ' robber and de
livered him ' to police at La Junta
after recovering nearly all their
valuables, according to reports re
ceived here. ' .
It was reported that the robber
was supposed to have boarded the
train at Las A'nimas. He proceeded
through the train, collecting the pas
sengers' valuables.. C. A. O'Brien,
the conductor, dropped a message
out of a window at some little stav
tion, describing the robber.
The telegraph operator saw it and
sent a warning to La Junta. As the
train neared- that place the conductor
ied the passengers in a rush upon
the bandit as he entered a vestibule.
He was overpowered and held until
the train reached the La Jimta sta
tion, where local officers, took him in
charge. ,
The man is said to have obtained
about $400, of which all except $70
was recovered. He told the woman
passengers that they need not be
alarmed.
He gave the name of John Morgan.
U. S. Will Be Asked to
Name Board to Settle
: "Japanese Problems
Tokio, Sept. 23. (By The Asso
ciated, Press.) The Washington
government will be asked to appoint
a commission to effect a solution
of Japanese-American problems and
in the event of the passage of the
California antirjapancse legislation
the. Japanese government will ar
lange for a lawsuit against the Cali
fornia legislature on the ground that
the bill is unconstitutional and a vio
lation of the treaty rights of the
Japanese, according' to the leading
newspapers today.
The newsuaoers sav the above
program was defined at, meetings of
the cabinet aud tne, diplomatic ad
visory council.
Republicans in Third
District Arc "Broke"
Norfolk, Neb., Scpt. 23. (Special
Telegram.) At - a conference of
county and city repttblican party of
ficers, it was announced that the
committee is financially insolvent
aud if a campaign is to be continued,
money will have to be forthcoming
trom individual local workers. Airs.
Jean Whitney, a member, is the state
executive committee and manager of
woman's work hi the third district,
announced that in answer to her re
quest for funds to carry on the work,
the state chairman announced that
there are no funds on hand and that
some of the workers on salaries have
not been paid for several weeks.
Wilson to Make Campaign
Speeches From Own Porch
New York, Sept. 23. George
White, chairman of the democratic
national committee, indicated at
ptirty headquarters that President
Wilson's participation in the presi
dential campaign would consist of
making a few speeches from the
White House and issuing statements
from time to time
By Mall (I !. Mtloe 4th Zom. Dally ad Sunday. W: P'11' '.""l'- !f
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Prophecies of Another Wreck
gaai " .
Parade Sidelights
'"Wht time does the parade
start?" a womai; asked over the tele
phone yesterday afternoon of Miss
Helen Weeks, secretary to Secre
tary Gardner of Ak-Sar-Bcn.
Miss Weeks told her. t
"But they will probably', start
late?" the woman inquired.
Miss Veeks said they nrght.
"The reason I called up," con
tinued the wonu'n, "is that J Want
to let our twins sleep just as long
as possible before I woke them to
take them to the parade. Thank
you, so much."
j ..
A man came into tbVs Ak-Sar-Ben
headquarters yesterday to buy a
ticket for. the Ak-Sar-Jkn ball.
"We don't sell tickets,'" 'Secretary
Gardner told him. "They are free
to Ak-Sar-Ben members, but not
for sale to others at any price!"
"Well, can't I get a membership
card?" the man asked.
"You can for the yar.. 1920. just
closing," said Gardner.
. "Gimme one." said the man, lay
ing down a $10 bill. "Now I'm a
member and I want a ticket to the
ball." ,
VThe ticket is yours," said. Mr.
Gardner; "and it costs you nothing."
An impromptu coin scramble
among boys and girls offered much
amusement yesterday afternoon for
the scat holders in the reviewing
stands in front of the court house
and the city hall The crowd grew
weary waiting for the parade, so
somebody thought of the ' idea of
starting a little fun among the Boy
Scouts who were standing in the'
street with their poles. The idea
cfyickly spread and within a few
nfinutes other boys and some girls
joined in the scramble. The duties
of two or three rushing for the same
coin aroused considerable merriment
and prompted others to throw coins
to keep the fun going. ,
"I got seven," proudly yelled one"
boy.
One little-towhead 'was all serious
ness as he listened for a coin to drop
near him. One cf the methods used
was to . first step on a coin before
picking it up.
The mot;e active youngsters picked
up quite a few coins which were
pennies, nickels and dimes.
Two Ak-Sar-Ben governors had
narrow escapes from injury in the
electrical parade Wednesday night.
The prancing steeds upon which
Governors Louis Nash and John W.
Gamble rode, slipped on the wet
wooden block pavement and fell.
Mr. Nash, "pulled" his sensational
tumble in front of the Burgess-Nash
Co. store and his friends were jolly
ing him about it yesterday, declar
ing they knew lit had done it for an
advertisement.
Mr. Gamble's horse took a slide
soon after that of Mr. Nasli, but the
vice president of the First National
bank did a nimble Douglas Fair
banks leap ' and saved himself,
mounting the steed again as srjon as
it had regained its feet.
Autumn Shoe Styles to
- Show Class, Say Experts
'Lynn, Mass., Sept. 23. Manufac
turers here, who specialize in
women's footwear, declare the au
tumn styles are going to show real
"class." They will run strongly to
colors, centering on blue, brown and
gray, with cutwork effects showing
swastika, fleur dc lis anU Arabic
(geometrical) patterns.
Gresham Store Robbed. .
York, Neb., Sept. 23. (Special
Telegram.) Linstrom's store at
Gresham was robbed of $2,000 worth
of coats and silks. The robbers re
moved the grate on the sidewalk to
the basement, ' ,
Farmers Plan to
Pool Wool Crop
Growers of 13 Middle West
States Will Attempt Co-Operative
Marketing Scheme.
CbirBKn Triliunc-Oinnha Bee leased Win.
1 Manhattan, Kan., Sept. 23t An at
tempt will be made .to market the
30.000,000 pounds of the. 1920 wool
clip pooled by 13 different middle
west state farm bureau federations
through one selling agency direct to
manufacturers. Presidents and iec
rctaries of state farm bureaus, meet
ing here,. asked the American Farm
Bureau federation to include in their
wool committee one man from each
wool-growing state to immediately
make definite plans for one selling
agency. This will be the first at
tempt of the farmers o market co
operatively in a national way the
whole commodity. -
J. F. Walker of Ohio, chairman of
the American Farm bureau wool
committee, said the price of wool
must be determined on world supply
and demand, plus the cost of intro
duction into this country. The state
wool pools are competing against
each other and buyers are using that
as a leverage to cut prices, said Mr.
Walker. The principle of the state
wool pool to warehouse together.
sort into market grades and sell di
rect to manuiacturers is economically
iigm. mis operation nas oeeu aone
at a saving of 10 to IS cents a pound
to farmers over the cost, not at the
expenseNof the consumer, but by ef
ficiently doing, the work of the man
between the farmer and the manu
facturer.
Five Bandits Said
To Be Surrounded by
Posse in Thick Wood
Rtgina, Sask., Sept. 23.1 Five men
believed to be the bandits who held
tip and robbed employes of the Red
Deer Lumber company at Yarrows
Junction, Sask., last week and es
caped with a laTge sum of money,
are at bay in the woods near Ros
coe, Sask., surrounded,- by a posse,
according to advices received here
early today. The men were sighted
near Roscoe yesterday and in a run
ning gun fight nine members of the
possee were wounded. A reward of
$500 (is offered for the leader, dead
or alive.
Pickpockets Get Purses
Of Ak-Sar-Ben Visitors
John Blantou, Valentine. Neb.,
was relieved of $16 and Franklin
Carlson. Norfolk, Neb., reported the
loss of. $65 as the result of the oper
ations of pickpockets "Wednesday
night. Other thefts reported to the
police for that night were the tailor
shop of H. Smith, 603 South Sev
enteenth street, two suits of cloth
ing; A. Sisk, 113 South Twenty-fifth
avenue, $150 worth of iewclry; W
E. Bell, 2909 North Twenty-fifth
street, a pair of opera glasses, two
pins and $1..
The Weather
Forecast.
Friday: Fair; not much change in
temperature. '
Hourly Temperatures.
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. .65
1 p. ni.. . .
S p. m. . . .
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s p. m 79
4 p. m ...85
5 p. m 79
6 p. m.. 79
7 p. m , 7
8 p. m.,..,M,,78
i a. m 65
8 a. m........t..67
li, a. m S9
11 a. m 73
13 noun .75
THREE CENTS
New Rulers
Of Quivera
Big Secret
Omaha Society" Anxiously
Awaits Placing of Royal
Crowns on King and ;
Queen at Ball. ,
Throngs Enjoy Parade
Now comes the most royal of all
royal Ak-SarjBen days, the day o!
days in the land of Cjuivera. For
the royal crown will be placed on
the royal head of King Ak-Sar-Beri
XXVI and he will place a royal
crown on the royal head of tin
queen and the tw;o shall !e the hoiw
ored and mighty rulers of the king
dom of Quivera.
It will all happen tonight in th
royal Den, which- has been trans
formed into a throne room of sirrw
pie beauty. Gus Renzc, chief arti
ficer to his majesry, ordered .,n
arched ceiling painted blue and
lined with electric lights. He or
dered pillars supporting- the outir
rim of the arch capped with red,
yellow and green lights that the
official colors may shine on the
scene of spleijdor tonight. And it
has been done.
The Big Question.
Time before the crowning ha!
narrowed to hours and yet the great
secret of the identity of the king
and aueen has been so closely kept
that not a whisper of a hint or who
has been chosen las been heard
and all Omaha society is awaiting
eagerly the coronation tonight when
the selection will be revealed.
The, coronation ceremonies are to
start at 8 o'clock with a fanfare
bv th,e' heralds and trumpeters.
There will be the proclamation and
then 'will enter His Majesty's
knights. Next will come the pagej
and then everybody will hold his
breath, for the king will come forth
and be crowned. The maids of the
queen, will enter and the queen will
come forth to be crowned by the
kinf.
Grand Ball Tonight.
The grand ball will follow the cor
onation transforming the Den intd
a scene of gayety and bringing the
Ak-Sar-Ben festmd to a triumphant
climax.
A sunlit sky yesterday afternoon
greeted the great parade held in
celebration of the 300th anniversarj
of the landing of the Pilgrims a; ,
Plymouth Rock, i Thousands
thronged the sidewalks al?ng the
downtown streets to see the march
ers and watch the 23 floats unfold
the story of the Pilgrims and the
high lights in the history of thf
founding of the nation. , .-
Floats Were Striking.
The floats showed striking inci
dents in the life of the Pilgrinu
from the time they left England for
Holland in 1608 to escape the per
secution of King James through theit .
early history. The floats depicted
the departure from Southampton;
England, on the Mayflower in 1620,
their 65-day voyage to Cape Cod,
thence to Plymouth, their landing
on Plymouth Rock, their encounters
with the Indians, Miles Standish
courtship of Priscilla, the pillories,
the customs of the Pilgrims, etc.
These were followed by floats show;
ing the "Boston tea party," the sign
ing of the Declaration of Independ
ence, the surrender of Cornwallu ttf
General Washington, the Goddess of
Liberty and other floats.
Ten bands were scattered through
the parade. The. American Legion
and other ex-service men, including
soldiers, sailors and marines were in
the line. The rear was brought up
by regular army troops.
Indians in Evidence.
Omaha Indians were among the
marchers and also took the part of
Indian characters on the floats.
Chief of Police Marshall Eber
stein led a squad of mounted police
at the head of the parade. Follow
' the police came the Knights of
Ak-Sar-Ben board of governors.
The throngs along the sidewalks
were generous with applause and
cheered lustily,-when particularly
striking floats or groups of march
ers filed by.
In Reviewing Stand. ..'
John Lee Webster, director gen
eral of the pageant,- sat in the re-:
viewing stand in front of the Doug
las county court house with General
Bundy and other army officers. He
received many congratulations for
the success of the parade.
Mayor Ed P. Smith was in the re
viewing stand in front of the city
hall.
Everybody in Omaha at liberty
and some who were not seemed to
be iii the crowds which watched the
parade. Among the onlookers wer
prisoners in the county jail on th
top floor of the Douglas county
court house, who peered through the
bars at the marchers filing through
the gay throngs belowi
Along with all the other big
events of the festival the midway
contimies to pile up each day record
attendance of merrymakers.
JVewberry and Associates
Take Case to High Court
Washington, Sept. 23. The ap
peals of Senator New berry of Michi
gan and 16 otlur defendants con
victed last March at Grand Ranid
on charges of corruption -in connec
tion witn tne jyis Michigan sena
torial election, was filed in the Su
preme court.
The aonlicants attacked th vilirt.
ity of the federal corrupt practice act
and also asked, the court to pass on
the authority of congress to fix the
amount that candidates may expend
iur camnaiKii fitirnoscs.
Slum Force RediiVpii
Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 2.. DuIIe-
tins posted at the Monon railroad "
shops, announced a 5 per cent reduc
tion in the working force, hegininng
September 28. The office force and
traffic emplpyes .will not be affected
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