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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 50 NO. 125. Cutira SkohHCIim Mttttr Mty 21, 1906. ( ObiIM P. 0. Vllu Act at March 3. 179. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1920. ! & Rv Mall (I Hitl, mild 4th toH. Dally and Sunday. 19; Dally Only. M: Sunday. 14 Oulilll4th loot (I voail. Dally and Sunday. 116: Dull Only. 112: Sunday Only. 15 THREE CENTS Kent Alibi Eni? Reds Kill Red Cross W or k e r s Duchess Divorced From Ducal Husband in London Xhere Is No Place Like -! Is Offered By Defense FlecrC INOW Under Fire Youths Testify That "Doctor' Remained in Store Night That Babes Were Found In the Well. Corruption and Graft in Pur chasing Supplies v Charged Against Officers of Cor r : i (f y -fr . Captaiu Kilpatrick, Represen tative in South Russia, and Two Nurses Reported Slain In London Dispatch. Last Seen on October 30 poration. s 1 1 b (If Miss Boeke Not Called . Six witnesses testified yesterday afternoon that "Dr." H .S. Kent, charged with attempting to kill two babies found in a well near Twenty third and California .treets on July 24, was in his confectionery and cigar store from 6:20 that evening until late at nigh. This testimony introduced in Dis Irirf Judge Troup's division of the tli.vtrict court fanned the ground work for the defense of "Doc" Kent, an alibi lor him duringthc time the second baby was placed in the wclt. The defense began its testimony about 3, after the prosecution An nounced the conclusion of its testi mony. Until the very last, women and a few men who crowded the court room looked forward hope fully to the appearance of Louise Cocke, accused of being the mother ' :if the twins. She had been sub pocned for the prosecution. Miss Boeke Not Called. , In fact, it was not until after the noon recess that the prosccu 'tion decided not to call Miss Boeke to the stand. The fact that Miss Cocke had never consented to nuikc a signed starcment, refused stead fastly to state in advance what her testimony would be and the uncer tainty of as to what she would testify finally caused the prosecution- to keep her olr me witness stanu. Testimony of two detectives, who Asserted they found unmistakable' evidence of a childbirth buried in Ue rear of the Boeke home at 3014 California street on July 24, ended the prosecution's side of the case. When the prosecution ended, Eugene O'Sullivan, attorney for the defense, asked the court to dismiss the de fendant, stating that sufficient evi dence had not been introduced to prove the state charges that Kent placed the babes in the well with murderous intent. Judge Troup over ruled the motion. Defense Opened. Then O'Sullivan launched into his defense. Kent, who had remained toical and philosophically kept his eves cast heavenward, excepting " when he. sought cuspidor or-took a chew, changed instantly. He was nlert, constantly conferring with O'Sullivan and time after time fol lowing the conferences, O'Sullivan recalled a witness and questioned him further. Louise Boeke and her mother re mained in the court room. The young woman remained quiet and apparent ly was not disturbed by any of the testimony, excepting that in the morning when her alleged delicate (Conduce! on Va Two, Column One.) Newly Elected Lord Mayor of London Is"" Installed in Office London, Nov. 9. The historic procession of the newly elected lord mayor of London, participated in by the dignitaries of the municipal corporation, wended its way through the streets of the metropolis today, following the formal . induction of Alderman James Roll into the of lice yesterday. The procession started from the Guildhall with the lord mayor occu pying the antiquated, gilded coach of state, attended by gorgeously liveried servants and preceded by uniformed trumpeters. At the law courts the customary official reception by the judges was held. Tonight will be held the custom ary banquet at te Guildhall, where in accordance with time-honored usage, the cabinet ministers will be ;Njiie chief gursts. Premier ' Lloyd 'tfeorge will deliver an address, and may follow precedent by using the occasion for making important min isterial statements. Magistrate Admits Sale of Licenses for Gun Toting . New York, Nov. 9. Frank P. Sea man, police justice of Mineola, ad mitted today before Judge Wadhams in general sessions, whither he had been called on a subpoena, that he had issued a large number of permits to carry revolver s iu the last six months and that many of them had been signed without the "name of the . applicant being filled in. They were peddled at the station of the Long Island railroad by an agent, he said. Seaman admitted, that he had re ceived $2 or more a permit and that his agent might have tot even more. According to an investigation con. auceu ny me .ew iorK ponce, many oLthe permits issued by Sea man have fallen into the hands of ex-convicts. U. S. Sudying Tripartite Agreement of the Powers Washington, Nov. 9. The Amer ican government, it was said today at the State department is giving careful study to the tripartite agree ment between Great Britain, France and 'Italy, in which those countries undertake to support each other in maintaining their "spheres of influ ence" in Turkey. Whether there is ground for a for mal protest by the United States has 'dot yet been determined, officials said. The treaty between the three 1 countries, ' which was signed at Sevres Jast August 10, was officially referred to as a "secret" one and it was stated that a copy of it had not "officially" been ransmitted lo the American government, v W. K. Vanderbilt's ( 4 Daughter Given Divorce Decree Duchess of Marlborough, Nee Consuelo Varylerbilt, Award ed Separation From English Nobleman Husband. London', Nov. 9. The duchess of Marlborough, formerly Consuelo Vandcrbilt, 'daughter of W. K. Van dcrbilt, was today awarded ar decree of divorce, from the duke of 'Marl borough. ' . Allegations of desertion and mis crmduct were made by the' duchess. Fonnal denial of the charges was inaJe by the duke's counsel, but nc evidence was taken. The duchess also was awarded the costs of the action, . Desertion Is'Chw-ged. The charge of desertion was based on the duki's disobedience of the order for the restitution ,of conjugal rights which the duchess obtained last month. The case lasted only 35 minutes, Sir Edward Carson appearing for the duchess and Robert Bayford for the fluke. Only two witnesses were called and Eiglish detective who watched Blenheim palare, the dike's resi dence, and shadowed the duke' and a companion on a trip to Paris and a solicitor's clerk who witnessed the service of the court papers on the defendant. Duchess Not Present, Sir Edward Carson explained, to the court that the duchess ,was in disposed and was not in fit physical condition to appear. Justice Hor ridge, presiding, commended Sir Ed ward's statement that "we were very anxious that the duchess should be present," adding "the plaintiff's counsel is right in showing the duchess is willing to appear the same as anyone else." The duke occupiedva front scat in the court room. Evidence was given that the duke had occupied a room in a prominent hotel in Paris on February 28 last with a woman who the detective de scribed as "24 or 25 years of age." The woman was not named. ' Unless other proceedings are in stigated by tha duke, the decree awarded today automatically be comes absolute at the end of six months. Western Wool Growers Discuss Their Problems Salt Lake City, Nov. 9. Leaders of various wool growering associa tions from Montana, Wyoming, Ida ho and L'tah. met here with Pro fessor C. R. Marshall, secretary of the National Wool Growers' associa tion, for a discussion of problems confronting the wool producers of the west. Wool pools and various methods of marketing were the main subjects brought up at the conference. Woman Commits Suicide In Lobby of Chicago Hotel Chicago, Nov. 9. Plunging a Mex ican dagger into her- heart while talking to her former fiance, Miss T. Saunders, 25, of Laredo, Tex., ended her life on the mezzanine floor of a downtown hotel. II. 'H. Garver, Chicago declared that an engage ment between the two had recently been broken off. The young woman feft no explanation of her act. The Bee's Free Shoe , Fund "Three-in-One," an anonymous, philanthropist who has contributed regularly both to the shoe fund and to The Bee's Free 'Milk and Ice fund, has already sent in a contribu tion to the office for the present sea son of the shoe. fund. Already a group of shoeless little children of the very poor are in line ,. - :hi. t'tat ;Ws fund buy.. Send in your contribution eariy right NOW or bring it to The Bee office. It will be acknowledged in this column, PreTkuIji reported 'Three-in-Onr" . . John riillip Sous $ .1.00 13.00 10.U0 Total 130.00 Harding Spends First Day of His Outing Fishing President-Elect Spends Fore noon a la Isaak Walton Plays Golf During the Afternoon. Toint Isabel, Tex., Nov. 9. (By the Associated Press.) Outwardly as carefree as the happiest member of the little community of fisher men who are his neighbors here, President-elect Harding began to dny a vacation that he hopes will make up in full measure his loss of rest and recreation during the cam paign. A fishing expedition and a game of golf were the compass of his plans for his first day's outing. The forenoon heset for a .test of his ski!t wittnhe rod and reel, for the afternoon he had a golf game af the Brownsville Country club, 20 miles away. The same combination is expected to occupy him during most of the days of his stay here. The appearance of the president elect as he began his vacation was anything but that of a man worn out by the cares of a national cam paign. , He looked robust and vigorous, and told the villagers that he came here more because he liked tin seclusion and the outdoor life, than because he v-, as in need of rest. For his cruises along the coast, Mr. Harding used a launch placed at his disposal by Governor Hobby of Texas. He planned to take several extended pleasure trips iu the craft during his stay here, and may also I take an automo,-Ie trip lste this week up the Rio Grande valley. November 18 lias been selected as the date of departure of the president-elect and his party from New Orleans for a voyage to Panama. Mr. Harding must return for a speech in Virginia December 5, how ever, and it is understood that his sailing date from New Orleans may possibly be advanced so as to give him a longer stay in the canal zone, where he is to tuakc an intimate study of the local government and the practical working of the big waterway. Jury Acquits Man Charged With Manufacturing Liquor Boston. Nov. 9. The first trial by jury in New England for manufac turing liquor in violation of the federal-prohibition law resulted in ac quittal of the defendants, Louis Karros and Manuel S. Sarras, of New Bedford. Ellery Sedwick, editor of the 'Atlantic Montnlv. was foreman ! of the federal district court jury which reached its verdict after an hour's deliberation. In the next case before the court John. Gonzales of New Bedford pleaded guilty to operating a still and was sentenced to six month's in jail. This was the first sentence under the prohibition law in this section. $40,000 Spent on Movie To Boost Democratic Party Albany. N. Y:, Nov. 9. Bernard M. Baruch of New York, spent $40. 000 for the production of a motion picture in support of the demo cratic party and the league of na tions in the election of a week ago, he notified the secretary of state to dav. Mr. Baruch wrote, that he. was not a candidate for public office n the accent election and was not certain that the law required him to file a pe-sonal campaign statement, add in? that he was doing so to meet the rpoiiircments of the lav if thev cov ered expenditures similar to his. Gibbon Man, Shot by Town Marshal, Dies From Wounds Kearney, Neb., Nov. 9. (Special Telegram.) Lorton Murray of Gib bon died at St. Lukes hospital to night shortly after 7. from a bullet vound inflicted By Harvey Graham, mashal, of Gibbon. Graham had I ctn arrested on a warrant charg ing him with shooting with intent to kill and was to have had his pre liminary hearing on Fridav morn i.ig. Instead a coroner's inquest will be held over the body Wednesday morning and the charge may be changed. , Silent airman enson By The Associated Preas. Washington, Nov. 9. Corruption of employes and officials of the shipping board emergency fleet cor poration, graft in purchasing sup ulies for and in repairing govern ment owned merchant ships and the use of political or other influences in obtaining contracts for ship con struction and the allocation of com pleted vessels to operating com, panics, are among a maze of charges made in a report submitted to the house committee on shipping board operations by A. M. Fisher and J. F. Richardson, former employes of the board. 1 Chairman Benson of the shipping board refused toiiight to discuss the report, declaring that any statement he might have to make would be made to the house committee which is now conducting its investigation of the board's operations. The report was made public to night by the committee of which Representative Walsh, republican, Massachusetts, is chairman. It cover more than 100 printed ;ages and deals exhaustively with many phases of (Shipping board operations as ob served by the committee's investiga tion over a period of niorethan a year. Survey of Board.' Mr. , Fisher, who formerly was connected with the iedcral ,trade commission, mafle a survey far the shipping board as to record-keeping systems. In the office of the lumber administration, Mr. Richardson, for 20 years at newspaper man; was em ployed for several - years in,- the boards department of investigation". In presenting the report, Mr.! i-isr.er explained that it was. de designed to deal only with problems which could be solved tthollv bv the shipping board itself, and "left untouched" 14 general subjects in connection with the board's opera tions. Among thes were enumer ated one of the board, technical er rors in the construction program, German-American deals, assumption of the diplomatic (unctions Sv hoard officials, enforcement of the newf merchant marine act and evasions of thp selective draft act.r, ,t Taking tip in detail seven" general phases of the board's activities,, the report charged gross waste of gov ernment funds, improperly drawn conti acts which cost the govern- (Continiifil on Tag Two, Column Three.) Clearing House for Stolen Bonds Found; Iowa Loot Recovered St. Paul. Nov. 9. Posing as pur chasers of stolen bonds. United States secret service agents un earthed what they term is a clearing ifouse for stofen bonds -and through which they charge more than $400, 000 worth of bonds have passed. Oyde A". Smith and Mrs. Cin Hearse, both of Minneapolis, arc irr the county jail here. When Smith v:?s arrested at Rochester, Minn., late yestqrday, $lj),000 worth of sU.len bon'ds were in his possession, secrtt service agents say. Mrs. Bcarse was arrested at- the same ti're in her Minneapolis home. In the Beatsc home in Minne apolis, secret agents found hidden' $30,000 in bonds, which, they said, were stolen from the Nassau, Minn., S'ut- bank, the Sully, -la., State bank, the Rockham, S. D., Farmers' Si ate hank and other banks in North Da kota and Wisconsin. Smith and Mrs. Bearse had an of fice in Minneapolis, operating osten sibly as a detective agency. Large Amount of Drugs Found on Steamships New York, Nov. 9. Two hundred and forty bottles of cocaine were seized beneath a dead fireman's bunk aboard the steamer Atlantic, Sunday, by authorities from the port survey or's office. The fireman, Manuel Cayon, slashed his own throat and shot himself twice during the ship's recent trip from Rotterdam. Members of the ; crew asserted Cayon intended smuggling the co caine into New York, but feared be ing caught. ' Ten thousand dollars worth of op ium and other narcotics was seized yesterday aboard the Ditch steamer Enganno, much to the chargin of Chinese seamen in the crew, it was learned. Paper Association to Ask Forest Protection Fund Chicago, Nov. 9. Fifty million dollars for the protection of Amer ican forests will be asked of the government and of individual states by the American Paper and Pulp association, at its qonvention which opens here tomoripw. it was an rounced by Varrm B. Bullock ot Syracuse, a director , The plan has been approved bv Col. W. B., Greeley of the United States forest service, according to Mr. Bullock. Reavis to Deliver Address At Kiwanis Club Luncheon Congressman Reavis of Falls City will address the Kiwanis club and its guests on "The Nation's Status" at the club's regular noonday lunch eon at the Rome hotel next Friday. Wives of the members have received special invitations. The city com missioners, eounty commissioners, members-elsot of the senate and ho'.isc and the city and district judges be gujsts of the club. r Bluffs Farmer Finds Still in His Cornfield Moonshiners Located Plant on His Farm and Used His , Corirfor Manufacture of 'Whisky, He Discovers. The best booze story tdat has de veloped in Council Bluffs since the beginning of the open season for moonshiners and bootleggers, was made public yesterday. None of the still finders and booze hunters connected with the federal or state prohibition departments knew any thing about it. There were ele ments of real originality about the tale that gives it unusual interest. A whisky still was set up in the center of a big cornfield, several hundred gallons of ' moonshine evolved from the ripening corn and all of the product and the still an:l paraphernalia removed without de tection or the remotest knowledge of the owner of the field. L. Peary, farmer . living south of Council Bluffs, leased a large tract of corn land south of the Union Pacific dump For the last week or more he -has been gathering his corn crop, which is running about 80 bushels per acre. In the progress of his work he came upon a section of field near the center where all of the corn had been shucked for about an. acre. When he investigated, he found a first'-class still in the cenier of the denuded patch. It was full of cold mash and several small tubs and hr?e pails were near. Prints on the "ground showed where kegs and jug3 iia I stood. The ground around the Mi'l was covered with shelled corn and some of the; tubs contained soaked corn. ,s near as Peary could determine, about 80 bushels of his corn had been converted into whisky during the several weeks the operations ap parently had been conducted. He loft the still and vessels until his last trip in the evening, but found they had disappeared when he returned to collect th?m with his wagon. Prohibition Officials Start Cleanup in New Jersey Jersey City, N. J.. Nov. 9. Fed era! prohibition enforcement author ities launchecka sweeping offensive In Xcw Jersey, corralling 35 men under indictment in Hudson county for violation of the Volstead act and removing $200,000 worth of liquor from warehouses at Perth Amboy to New York. More than a score of agents con tinued searching for 45 additional liquor dealers and bartenders under indictment. It was announced that 80 indictments were returned Satur day by the federal grand jury. Hotel Men Are Urged To Reduce Price of Their Bridal Suites New York, Nov. 9. Edward M. Tierney, chairman of the committee in charge of the National Hotel Men's exposition, recommended that , hostclries cut the price of bridal suites "both in order, to encourage ! matrimony and as a part of the gen- I eral price cutting program." The hotel men will partake one day this week, of a 25-ceut meal pre pared by the chef at the Ellis Island immigration station as a challenge to their skepticism that a repast for such a sum could be concocted and still show a profit, V "- '"' First , Real Cold Wave Hits Omaha Mercury Scheduled to Drop to 13 Above Northwester I " Also Predicted. The cold .wave flag was flying over lhe Federal building yesterday for the first time this season. It was in Warning of a drop by today on the part of Old Van Marc' to temperatures from 15 to 20 de grees above zero. Fair weather, however, was scheduled for yester day and today. . The wintry blast started 'o make itself felt yesterday morning when the temperature fell down to freez ing. It is coming in from the north. Shippers were warned yesterday by ' Meteorologist Robins to be on guard against temperatures of 10 north anS west and 15, cast; 20, south. The ctldcst point in the state re ported yesterday morning was Val entine, "with a mark of- 20. North Platte showed 30. Williston, N. D., won the distinc tion of being the coldest point in the United States with a 2 below zero mark. Swift Current; Canada, shiv ered in 6 below zero weather. Though the cold wave is accom panied by wind and Omaha is to get some cold treatment at the hands of the zephyrs, the worst of it will whistle in chimneys and rattle win dow panes in Iowa. At noon trie mercury began to drop steadily. At 11 o'clock, the temperature was 31 degrees; at noon, 30; at 1 o'clock, 30, and by 8 o'clock it had dropped to 23. Norfolk, Neb., Nov.' 9. (Special Telegram.) -A heavy " northwest wind and driving snow storm are reported in the Rosebud county oi South Dakota . and northeast Ne braska, i Temperatures are rapidly falling in this vicinity. Business Ruined for Tire Firms by Second Dealers Akron, O., Nov. 9. While the same factors have operated to affect the tire business as affected the auto mobile business, it was the activities of the dealers in "seconds" which probably precipitated the worst dif ficulties' of the tire makers. According to an official of one of the leading companies, there are probably 10.000,000 to 11,000,000 au tomobile tires- sold in the United States. Distribution of hundreds of thousands of these tires has been de layed by the sale to car owners of I seconds by dealers in that class of shoe, who" were quick to see the op portunity presented by the threat of depression indicated by the cessation I of free selling of motor cars. Nine Suffer Burns When j Galveston,' Tex., Nov. 9 Nine men employed Ss checkers and clerks at the Southern Pacific docks are in a local hospital suffering from burns received early today when the launch Ouido. on which they were to go to the docks tor their day's work, caught fire at Pier 22. Between 30 and .40 men were on the Ouida when the flames broke 'out. Railroad Head Named. ! St. Taul, Minn., Nov. 9. William F. Turner of Portland, Ore., today i was elected president of the Spo kane, Portland & Seattle railroad at a meeting of executives of the Great Northern aud Northern Pacific rail roads, which own the road. He suc ceeds L. C. Gilman, whiVbecame vic.e president of thc'Great Northern road with t-jattlS acaaguarters. Trades Leader , Receives Cut on Pier Contracts I rrt . l e f.w r r 1 lolal ou "Hicipav Work Collected by Head of , New ''York Unions, Witness' Testifies. New York, Nov. 9. Robert P Brindcll, president of the Building Trades council, -who is alleged to have received payments tor calling off building' strikes, "expected one half of one per cent" on city pier construction contracts, totalling $3,250,000, testimony in Commission er of Accounts Hirschficld's inquiry iuto ramifications of the "trust," re vealed, j Howard H. Sherwin, vice presi dent and general manager of Terry & Tench Co., contractors far Staten island piers, declared that of ttts one-half of one per cent, $16,250. Rrindell actually had been paid $7,500. Jn a letter to i'amuel Uiitcrmycr, special counsel for the joint legis lative committee investigating the al leged trust, Mr. Hirschfield for warded copies of testimony of Mr. Sherwin and Frederick Tench, his associate, taken by a deputy of the commissioner's ffice tending to show that .operatulis of the "build ing combine" extended to contracts for work for New York City. Mr. Sherwin testified that it was his "understanding" that Brindcll ex pected a half of 1 per cent of the total contract figure. He said he personally paid Brindell $5,000 last May, and that Brindell put the money in his pocket and gave Sher win a cigar. A second payment of $2,500 was made to Brindcll a month ago, Sherwin added. He said his firn: had not taken such a fee into consideration in calculating its bid. and never before had paid labor leaders to prevent strikes. However, he regarded such a payment would be more iu the na ture of a "retainer's fee" than a bribe. He added that irl justice to Brindell he wanted to say that thenesses are known here only as latter had proved "useful" in adjust ing labor disputes. , Carpet Factory Closed. Springfield, Mass., Nov 9. The plant of the Hodges Fibie Ca:pet company closed following the re fusal of the 350 emplaycs to accrp? a cut of 15 per cent in wages which he management states is the only way the plant can be. kept in opera tion. The Weather Forecast. Wednesday fair aud colder. Hourly 1mnratnr. . ii. in.. f' H. III.. 1 n. m.. H a. ni,. U .1. in.. Ill . in., tin. ni. . 1 ! noon . .SO 1 1 p. m... . .til ) . .W . . . 4i Ml,. III.. m.. . . .40 ...41 ...40 ...US . . .81 . . .30 S li. s P. m. P. m... p. in. . . 8 p. m. . . .is Reports From Station nt 7 I. M. Tm. H,'h.Pr t rhvonno. part cloudy.. K 2- Davenport, cloudy 3H lieitver, nnow ......24 IotlK( Oty, cloudy ,.SL l.ndr, clenr 4 Nt.rih riatt cicar ii riicblrt, olnudq no Salt Laltr, partly cloudy 31 Santa IV. partly cloudy 4n s. rplM. ,-,- ,r 1 Valentin, clear 16 4li 2ti I H :t'i 411 01 Shipper Bulletin. Protect shipment durlnic th" m-M L'4 to Sfi hour from temperatures as iIovk: North and west, in il xreea: caaL la d- Jsrta: south. 20 deirtca. liy The Aaaorlatrtl I'rraa. 1 .1 ... V il Y" j j j-oiiujii, iov. v. vapi. Lniiiicii I Kilpatrick, representative of the ! American 'Red Cross in south Rus- i ia, and two nurses were brutally i killed during a bolshevik cavalry raid on balkovo station, says a ebasto pol dispatch to Reuters, tonight. Reported Captured. ' Washington, Nov. 9. Report reached the State department today that t'apt. Emmett Kilpatrick of the American Red Cross and C. Atechny of the Mennonite relief society, ht.d been captured in the soviet advance in southern Russia, but no mention was made of the possible death of either one. It was believed that the recent assertion of the soviet gov ernment that an American mission "headed b General Morel" had been captured by their troops was found ed on the capture of Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick was last seen, the ad vices said, at Novoalcxeievsk, Octo ber 30. Mr. Atechny, wdi'o is found er of the Mennonite relief society, landed at Halberstadt, October 25. Kilpatrick, formerly publisher of a country newspaper, served with the American army in France a lieutenant of field artillery and al ter the armistice as chief of the sup-' plv division of the American com mission to negotiate peace. He ob tained his discharge from th,c army in Paris in September, 1919, and be- came connected as a civilian with the peace commission. In Lithuanian Service. When the commission was dis solved Kilpatrick joined the Lith uanian army as a captain along with a number of other Americans and saw several months of active service on the Lithuanian-bolshevik battle front. When the fighting ended, he asked for his discharge and returned to Paris to join the American Red 1 Cross in 1920 and was ordered first to Constantinople and then to south west Russia. In the records of the War depart ment, Kilpatrick's next of kin was shrfwn as Lida M. Kirpatrick, sis ter, of Camden, Ala. "Kilpatrick was last seen at Nov calexcievsk on October 30, stripped lo his underwear in bitter zero weath eri and being led away by red cav alry raiders, aid the State depart ment's official announcement, given out before the London report of the captain's death was received, "His fate' is consequently a matter oc grave concern. 4- Rock Island Cashier Slugged and Robbed; Found Unconscious Fd'rburv, Neb., Nov. 9. (Special Telegram.') F. S. Tucker, Rock Is land cashier, was knocked uncon scious and robbed of $525 at noon Tuesday, as lie stepped from his office to deposit the company money in the bank His assailant had evi dently watched through a window nearby. The thug thrust the sack in his pocket and hurriedly reached the door in time to strike the cash ier a heavy blow on the head, which was followed by a kick in the stom ach. Conductor Nuckolls found Tucker unconscious on the threshold of the depot door soon after the attack. The cashier's condition is critical. His assailant has not been appre hended. Tucker is unable to fur nish a very accurate description of thr stranger, but he is htonght to be a man who has been loafing about the depot for several days, and dis appeared about the time of the hold, up- ..Hastings Man, Accused of Manslaughter, Is Missing Hastings, Neb., Nov. 9. (Special Telegram.) William Forney, one of three Hastings men accused of manslaughter in connection with the death of Julius Kroll of Trosser, Neb., following a drinking bout, was still missing today when the. trial of the other two, Lawrence Thieds and Carl Stromer, was be gun in district court. Grace Rodgers and Alice Johnson. They are said to be former teachers and although they admit having given fictitious names they refuse to divulge their identity. All of to day was given to the examination of the jurors. I . Wilson Commended J or ' Kefusal to Free Del Indianapolis, Nov. 9. President Wilson's refusal to pardon Eugene j . lyens, socialist candidate tor j president, who is now serving ; term in the federal prison at At I lanta. Ga., for violation of the cs i pionage act, was endorsed by depart- ment adjutants of the American Le gion, who are meeting here. the legion views with hearltelt satisfaction, this support of the fundamental doctrines of the con stitution," says a telegram to th: president. 1 Former Prison Warden Dies at Age of 81 Years Chicago, Nov. 9 Maj. Robert Wilson McClaughry, 81, formerly warden of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., and f the state penitentiary at Jolict, 111., died here today. Major McClaughry was bom ;tt Fountain Green, 111. He was war den at Jolict from 1874 to 1878, and warden at Leavenworth (roia 1899 until 1913. '- i !
