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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1920)
THE BEE : OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1920. Empress Robbed - Of $3,500 While Show Going On Bandits Bind Manager In His Office and Make Getaway With the Day's Receipts. Within calling distance of 1,800 persons who were witnessing the finale of the performance at the Em press theater at 10:30 Sunday night two masked bandits robbed W. Le doux, manager of the theater, of $1,800 in cash, the- day's receipts. Ledoux told police he took the money from the box office to his own office and was alone when two men covered him with revolvers, led him into the next room, where they bound him to a chair and then re turned to the office, where they loot ed the safe. It is believed a third man stood guard outside the door. Ledoux said he worked - himself loose while the bandits were looting he safe and entered the moving pic ture operator's room, where he in formed the operator, M. McCor miclc, of the robbery. Harry Wil son, electrician, and Louis Marcus, doqman, were then notified and at tempted to summon police. . The wires were cut. Police believe the bandits were a - trio of men who entered the theater " ahntit IflKaftrr hfintr ordered to move on by Patrolman Hans Boegh, who i.oticed them loitering near the en trance. The trio purchased .tickets for the balcony and stood in the aisley . , G. 0. P. Sure of Support Of People, Says Harding ,." (Cuntlnued From Far One.) rently was unheeded by the powers at Washington. Neglecting the acute domestic situation the administra tion suddenly conceived an interest in foreign affairs that contrasted impressively with its lack of ebneern for them in the period before we were drawn into Jhe war. '.', Lack of Leadership. ' "So, while immediate and prac tical concerns were being neglected, while reconstruction and reorgani zation of our own country wire for gotten, the administration was de voting itself to the chimera, of a world reorganization. The repub lican congress, that had been elected in the autumn of 1918, attempted to, and did, initiate measures to set us on. the right track once more. It devised a .budget system in the hope of putting an end to the treasury deficit, and bringing economy and system into our national finances. But the president vetoed that meas ure. The administration i went right cn spending vast sums in excess of our revenues, offering no construc tive inspiration or leadership, ap parently forgetting our domestic dif ferences in its engrossment with the chimera of world reconstruction. "This, in a word, is the record of the administration now aboift to re tire from power, which seeks to have its p-f'cies perpetuated. ' The coun try Ai' decline to give Us confidence and V mandate to that party or those; policies. It .remembers.. that the republican party fought the civil war and afterward restored and uni fied the nation. "It believes that the republican party is capable of re peating that .service, and, because it so believes, it 'is going to Teturn the republican patty to power. -Through With Democracy. "The nation is determined to be done "with autocracy under tfye mere guise of democratic forms; it is determined there shall be no re turn to the old , order. The plain people who, on the whole,' have been raised to a new and higher level, are not only convinced that they re Entitled to remain on this new plane, but that they must -rely upon, the lican party to keep themthere. ' It is our purpose to accomplish this. While we will opposevevery sugges tion of revolution or disintegration, we do stand fo every measure of evolution arid development that tends to carry the masses of the nation forward and upward. "During the campaign now about ending, the republican party has pro posed in its platform an developed in the utterances of its leaders, a program which contemplates equal opportunity for all. It recognizes the vices of exploitation and profi teering. It has declared for wise and practical measures looking to co operation in production and in mark eting. It recognizes that in all measures to preserve equality of op portunity, there must be a recog nition of the fact that greed and cunning must be held in check if we are to insure that true character and worth shall be given every op portunity to share in the advantages that the community can extend to its members. ."The republican party proposes in the realm of international affairs, such an association of nations as will most" effectively further the" aspir ations for world wide and perman ent peace without sacrificing any part of the independence of the American nation. It believes that America can and must bear its full part in the responsibilities of the world, but it also believes that Amer ' ica alone must decide what that part shall be. It goes to the people; assured that they will recognize its superiority as an instrumentality of administration and that in the elec tion now impending they will give it the certificate of heir confidence and trust." Funeral Services Held For Gretna Bank President t Gretna, Neb., Oct. 33 (Special) Funeral services for P. - J. Lang don. 65, president of the Bank of Gretna, who died Friday night, were held at 10 o'clock Monday morning from St. Patrick's Catholic church, the Rev. Father P. J. Moran of ficiating. Mr. Langdon had lived in Gretna all his life. He was owner of large land holdings in Sarpy county and in western Nebraska. He is sur vived by his widow and eight child ren: Mrs. Ben Patterson of Kear 'ney, Neb., and Paul, Mary, Winifred. Wallace, Katherine, Morris, ana Regina. The strength of the nationalized cotton industry in Russia is assessed at 6,900.962 ; spindles ; and 164,226 Officer and Mexican Shot in Sunday Night Gun Battle Patrolman. Wounded "in Thigh, to Recover His Opponent ' May Die. ' , Patrolman Thomas F. Quinn, 1911 Missouri avenue, who was shot in the left thigh during a gun battle Sunday night with Juan Gonzales," 4938 South Twenty-sixth street, in the Harry Nprman pool hall, 2603 N street, was reported resting com fortably yesterday. - - " Officer Qumn was removed to his home from the. South Omaha hos pital in the morning. He had been taken to the hospital Sunday night. Gonzales is believed to .be fatally wounded. Thew bullet entered his right side and emerged through the left, breast. v Burned to Death. Officer Quinn was the grandfather of thef 14-months-old baby, John Kndsm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexan der Knoski, 1913 Missouri avenue, who was burned, to death while play ing in his home,-September 28. The baby's mother, who is Offi cer Quinn's daughter, was in the home of her father, next door, when sheheard the, screams of her child,' who had fallen into a. pile of burning rubbish. Every effort was made to save the baby'. life, but the Infant succumbed to the burns the follow ing morning. Officer Quinn said he heard a shot fired in the Norman pool hall Sun day night and when he went to in vestigate, found Gonzales standing in the doorway flourishing a revol vers At sight of the patrolmarf. the Mexican fired at him point blank out missed, the officer said. . -, The Mexican then ran into the pool hall, followed by the patrolman, and in the shot? which followed, both were wounded. ' MacSwiney. Die$ in " Jail of Starvation ' (Continued From Pate One.) : of liberty, since January, 1918, and in October. 1917, secured his release from jail by hunger striking. Will Lie in State. -l As soon1 as the news of the lord mayor's death began , to spread through the city small knots of peo ple began moving toward Brixton prison. The police, however,, did r.ot allow anyone to movemto tne street leading to the prison entrance. Fears had previously been expressed that the lord mayor's death might cause a demonstration at the prison. The MacSwiney family, after the inquest, will take the body to Jit George cathedral in London, where it will lie in state until it is takerf to Dublin, where it is planned to place the body for a day or two in the Mansion house. ; . Buried Near MacCurtain. ' MacSwiney's grave will be along side that of his official predecessor. Lord Mayor Thomas MacCurtain, who was shot in his own home ii Cork on March 20. MacSwiney will be the fourth to be buried in this plot, the others being .MacCurtain; Sheamus McQuirke, whp was taken out of bed in his Galway home and shot, and Jeremiah McNesty. yvho participated in the Easter rising in Dublin, in 1916. ., ' . 'Was Forced to Eat Within the last week, when it be gan to appear that the lord mayor was ' approaching the end, he was given liquid nourishment by the prison doctors during periods of un consciousness. ... 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Quinn, who was wounded Sunday night in a gun battle with Juan Gonzales, is shown holding his 14-months-old grand child, John Knoski, 1913 Missouri avenue, who died September 28 from burns received when he tell into a pile of blazing rubbish in the rat of his home while at play. strikers occurred on Sunday, Octo ber 7, when Michael Fitzgerald, .one if. the 11 striking prisoners in "the Cork jail, succurrbed. He Jiad fasted 68 days. Several other of the Cork prisoners are declared now to be in a critical state. ' Third Striker-Dies. " : Cork, Oct.; 25. Joseph Murphy, one of the hunger strikers ' in Cork jail, died tonight. . The death of Murphy occurred, at 8:35 p. m. He was 25 years old and unmarried. v Murphy was a member of the Irish volunteers and was well known as an athlete. O Services in U. S. Sunday. New York, Oct."" 25. Diarmuid Lynch, national secretary of the Friends of the Irish Freedom, tele graphed all state and local branches of the organization calling for or ganized "manifestations of borrow" next Sunday over the "murder of Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork" and Michael Fitzgerald, who died recently after a hunger strike in Cork jail. The demonstrations are to be uni form throughout the country with funeral services in cathedrals "and principal churches. . m ' Banners are to be draped in black. No mottoes are to be carriecVand no speeches made on that day,' ac cording to the order's national ex ecutive decree, Lynch stated. Blaze Threaten School. Chadron, Neb., Ott. 25. (Special.) An early morning blaze threatened the large west ward school building, and investigation showed the coal in storage to be on fire . Men worked all day emptying the coal bunkers where the spontaneous combustion had started the blaze. School was dismissed until danger Was past and the building cleared of fumes. $950 a Year te.-r it out and mall to Bta today. , I $.... 192 1 .fjr which aend me t t. - I . it f n : Stale. : 3 Women Pinned Under Auto : Are Drowned In Ditch Driver, Blinded by Lights, Turns Off Road Near Ash land 5 Cars Pass Scene Without Stopping. Three women were (frowned be reath an upturned automobile in a drainage ditch one-half mile east anjd one-half mile north of the Ashland bridge over the Platte river Sunday night. , The dead are Mrs. Delia Miller, Ithaca, Neb.; Mrs. Leva Service and Miss Fern Hoffman, Ashland. Neb. Five automobiles filled with mof torists passed the scene of the ac cident without stopping, according to Prof. J. K. Shallenberger. Wes leyan university, who arrived shortly after the accident. He declared the lives of the women might have been saved had tHfesj motorist9 stopped. -Can't Lift Car. "Jesse E. Miller, husband of- the dead Ithaca woman, was driving the machine, en route home from Oma ha, when , he became blinded by glaring headlights of a passing car. He swerved tov.ard the ditch, into which the machine toppled, pinning the three women beneath. . Miller and George Hoffman, aged father of Miss Hoffman and fifth member of the automobile party, es caped with minor hurts. They were unable to . remove the heavy auto mobile from the drowning women. In Water An Hour. Hoffman hastened to the Chris tian church in Ashland where Professor Shallcngerger was preach ing and told of the accident. Serv ices were stopped and the jcongrega tion hastened to the scene of th: accident. Miller topped Elmer Chamber lain, sixth passing motorist, in whose car, the women's bodies were taken to Ashland. Two feet 0$ water was in the ditch which is four feet wide and- 10 feet deep. The women were submerged in the water about an hour. ' Bee want ads are business getters. mm -kV--via Women Drowned WKen Automobile Was Upset v In Ditch Near Ashland If A - Kin &&4a?:-:-v: r.4w ... nu.jf' Wm Upper? Mrs. Zella Miller, 42, of Ithaca, Neb.; lower left: Kirs. Leva Service, widow, 49; v lower right: Miss Fern Hoffman, 10, of Ashland, Neb. Ranchman to Explain "Kidnaping" In Court Harry - Tutin, Stanton, Neb., farmer, will appear in. District Judge Sears' court . today in support of his motion to set aside the decree of divoce witty $25,000 alimony grant ed his wife,' Emma, last week by Judge Sears, and to explain whether or not he kidnaped their 9-year-old daughter from the Central school in an effort to get his wife to dismiss her divorce action. Mrs. Tutin declared he kidnaped the child. Tutin later alleged that he merely took the girl, with his wife's permission, for a visit in Stan ton. . V rom S86J0 i9oo The Thompson Belcfen store f today reflects ihe .continued crowlh of an institution jlilch ha kept faith with the public tor thirty louryeary i ' The confidence f the: people, ; sf ihis c oirim unify: is ils mosi highly prized assets Merchandise f Mmformly: high pialiiyintellicni service... zrid vnvaryind iair pricej a,re the idedl ana rvles along wKicK e6,ck dy Kuinejir is patterned. - - . .. The pr&mie and assurance of complete satisfaction h&f never before been puiieso important as it is iodsy Daniels Praises Salvation Army Before Workers Josephus DanieJs, secretary of the navy, yesterday at noon at a lunch at the Hotel Rome delivered an ad dress to 300 Salvation Army work ers" who opened the campaign for $90,000 for a new rescue and mater uity home. , Secretary Daniels in his address recounted incidents where the Sal vation Army helped the soldier boys in the. trenches and told of the Army's readiness in peace times to go among the lowest and help pull the weak -and forlorn out of the mire. Many incidents cited by the southern editor in charge of the American navy came to his personal attention during trips through war devastated France T.nd Flanders. Mayer Ed P. Smith also- spoke. Others at- the speakers' table were C. E. Corey, local chairman of the drive; Judge Sutton. Robert Manley, John L. Webster, Albert S. Ritchie and Adjutant Cooke of Des Moines. The speakers stressed the fact that the Sajvation Army only makes one appeal a year to the people. The other SI yveeks the organization " is giving and not receiving. The proposed home in Omaha will serve for a dual purpose, it was ex plained. By furnishing clean rooms an wholesome surroundings to the really poor working girl the home is intended to prevent her frorn going wrong. In the event she' stray from the straight and narrow path the maternity home would protect her name and care for her and supervise her return from shame. Territories were assigned to va rious organizations: . , ' Elks' club, Sixteenth street to Mis souri . river, Fanam to Harney streets.' . 1 Lions club. Eighteenth to Mis souri river, Howard to Jackson. Rotary clu3, Eighteenth to Mis souri river, Jackson to Leavenworth. Concord club, Eighteenth to Mis souri river, Douglas to Dodge. Kiwanis club, Eighteenth to Mis rouri river, Douglas to Dod,ge. ,. Loyat Legion, Eighteenth to Twentieth, . Leavenworth . street :'to Capitol avenue. Labor unions, Eighteenth to Un ion, Dodge to Cuming. V w. .-:"-Sf'.,:....- Row Mars Meeting .e. a V Ur Humane bociety (Continued From Page One.) terest must be considered at the meeting in Omaha, said President William O. Stillman, in his annual address. Three Divisions. t' "The first would naturally con cern the needs of obr work as a whole," he said. "The second would involve the wise direction of our ef forts in behalf of child salvage. The third would concern our animal pro tection work, which is a great debt placed on our shoulders." Laws for 'the ..illegitimate, .child were proposed by Eugene Morgan, secretary of the humane society of Columbus, Ohio. They are: The legal name of the child should be that of the father. - The child should inherit frovn the father the same as though it had been born in wedlock. "In recent years," Morgan said, "there is developing a .sentiment that instead of adding to the turden of a child of such unfortunate birth, it is the duty of the state and society to sdpply certain advantages that will, jn a way, compensate for what the child lacks by such birth." Churches Given Credit. The churches were given credit for furthering tht work of humane of ficers in an :t address on "The Churches and the Humane Move ment" by J. Ralph Parker, secretary of the Animal Rescue league, of Pittsburgh.- ; There were fully 300 delegates in Omaha yesterday, the 'first day of the meeting which is to close Thurs day night. A big delegation is ex pected to arrive from New York either today or tomorrow. The first delegate to arrive at the hotel was Mrs. Edith Hooper, pres ident of the Humane society of Galet burg, 111. She was waiting to register when the secretary opened her registration book in the morning. An address of welcome was deliver ed by Mayor Ed. Smith. To Return Oregon Man. Lincoln, Oct. 25. (Special.) A requisition for the return to Port land, Ore., of . Morris H. Hutchins, was issued in the office of the gov ernor. Hutchins js wanted in the Uregon city for the theft of an auto mobile and is under arrest in Box Butte county. - . Reorganization of Guat-d Advised Guard Officers Ordered to Visit Corp Areas and v Recommend Changes ' 'Washington, Oct. 25.-immediate reorganization ; of the national fuard is deemed advisable, said an announcement today by the War de partment. The reserve and national guard officers of the general staff on duty in the department have been ordered to visit each corps area headquarters and advise with the corps area com manders and the state authorities with reference to the organization of the" guard divisions allocated to the various corps areas. The table of tentative allotments has been prepared, showing the number of troops to be organized in each state under the national defense act. A minimum enlisted strength of approximately 427,000 nien must be provided, as the peace organiza tion of the national guard. v Old-Fashioned G.Q,?. Rally Wiir Be Held at Chadron Chadron, Neb:, Oct. 25. (Special.) An old-fashioned repub lican rally, with bands, bonfires, parade and speaking, ls-the heline attraction arranged for Dawes cdun tv voters by the newly ' organized Harding-Coolidge'club for next Fri day evening, when Adam McMullen will be here to deliver' the, principal Laddress. ;' . ine naraing-v.ooiiage ciuo was nnif.rl ot an ti thtieia cf in tnifinr last night. Officers elected are; Mayor W. H, Reynolds, former state senator, president; Mrs. Bertha Gordon, 'secretary; and W.' A. Dan-ley,-treasurer. The club endorsed the national, state and county repub lican candidates, and pledged every honorable, effort to effect their elec tion November 2". Omaha Woman Speaks. Madison, Neb., . Oct ' 25. (Special.) Mrs. McKelvie of Oma ha, made a short address to Jarge 1ay evening. Mrs. McKelvie came as a partisan worker under the aus pices of the local Cox and Roosevelt club. . 1 3 War am toonu