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BUir, Neb. N'ov. 12. (Special
e I e g r a m ) Ouster proceedings
;ajnst Mis Grace "Ballard, county
itoney of Washington county.
brought hw IrorRe Michaelscn of
Dcsota, Jhrough his attorney, Hen
ry Mencke, cx-county attorney, came
lo. an abrupt ending when District
Jutjge Arthur Wakcly declared from
the bench that he could not see -that
the fcase of the plaintiffs was brought
in Rood faith or for any good cause.
Miss Ballard first won public no
tice tn her efforts to learn the iden
tity of the "mystery giri."
The petition contained 13 counts,
charging failure to enforce the liquor,
laws, elcten of which concerned the
hijacking of from five to eight gal
lons of whisky from the Michaelscn
home. In die twelfth count Sam Ste
rens, chief of police of Blair, alleges
that he arrested a man on August
3 upon whom he found whisky and
that the county attorney refused to
file a -complaint
" Steiner Raid Cited.
The thirteenth count charges fail
ure to do her official duty following
tSe raid on the Harry G.""itincr
frmin which Miss Ballard filed
complaints again five men, three of
whom pleaded guilty and each paid
a-fine of $100 and costs. The fourth
man was sentenced to sixty days in
jail and appealed 4o the district court
because Miss Ballard used the fifth
jqan to corivict the others.'
Henry Mencke of Blair waajtttor
r.ey for Michaelscn and Judge W.
t',W. Slabaugh of Omaha for Miss.
Udl RotlarH
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tcated two young men, one of them
minor, that she did not use their
'idence against them and file a
omplaint against them when they
jr-t riseA they took the whisky.
-Cl?fiI"V' "r"ed ' over ,0 Sute
TrY J . jchmidt of Lincoln.
"L: . i.i.m ' Schmidt, Gus Hyers,
ieriff Menrens and the two boys,
X, r... J-thur Rowe and James .Wallace,
"' 'po took the whisky.
; ( Hears Threats. . ;
ill V. During the trial Judge Slabaugh
VI 11 D3anv time he had heard Michael$en;
, , Mencke make any threat against'
VOUICt " Ballard. He said,' y; thai
ncke had told him that he would
t even with Miss Ballard... This
. js during the Michaelsen suit to
kcover damages for the whisky.
-The evidence of Michaelsen .wit
nesses showed that Miss Ballard had
cjjily done her duty. Judge Wakely
said, and that he would have done
the same as the county attorney did.
'The case was of more than gen
eral interest and the courtroom was
nearly filled with spectators, many
of whom were from distant parts of
f?te county. '
Hastings Man Found
: &dlty of Manslaughter
:'Hstings. Neb., Nov. 13. (Special)
Laurence Thiedc, of this city, was
found guilty of manslaughter by a
jury late last night, in connection
, with the death of Julius Kroll, of
"rosser, Neb., following-a moon-
ne drinking bout October 16.
-iTwo young women, who admitted
the names they gave, Grace Rogers
and Alice Johnson, were fictitious,
-ere the principal witnesses for the
state. They were not pressed to give
their right names on the witness
Stand and the trial concluded without
their identity being disclosed.
. The young women were1 members
jjf the drinking party. They are well
educated and are said to be teachers.
Carl Stromer was acquitted by the
iury. William Forney, also accused,
still is at large. He is being sought
as a fugitive from justice.
English Author Says
'Yanks' Literature Crude
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gave his first lecture on The Mod
ern Novel" eince arriving in Amer
ica at the opening number . of the
winter's x program of the Omaha
Fine Arts society in the Hotel Fon
tenelle Friday. Mr. George has
been, stirring the east with lectures
on Love ana .Marriage.
lk about love and marriage,
aid yesterdav. '"and you can
So'.d the attention of anyone." He
as given the more prosaic subject
officers of the Fine Arts society.
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ll V tvcr fofRft yu are ?'et a pioneer
J1 XV 1 ' in civilization and the arts,.
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V)Jl.fiT UT ir. George admitted this as his
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.?,6i icciure on inc noi hi America
treat
the subject except regarding the
r English novel.
j V "'- tciure on ine novel in jn
nf 10 '4JnJ that he was" unprepared to
h subject except regarding
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Lone Higbwayman Robs Two
Victims of Small Amounts
Two holdups were reported to po
lice Friday nrght. A lone negfo high
wavman figured in each.
C. J. Van Hoozer. 1618 North
Thirty-second street, was robbed of
$1 at" Thirty-second and Seward
streets. --
L. Smith. 4802 South Thirty-sixth
treet. wastobbed of his watch and
at x niriiem ana L- srrceis.
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rVoman Speeder Fined ter
' Third Tbeft In Week-
- ror tne ttnra time within a weeK
a seal on a box car. consigned to the
I Kirschbaum & Son creamery. Ninth
and Doge streets, was broken Fri
day night and a tub of-butter stolen,
C according lo police reports.
Ray and His Creek
: The outstanding, features of Jame
Vhitcomb Riley's ;The Old Swim
nin' Hole " Just finished by Charles
.iav. w-ill be the exterior locations,
ays Director Joseph De Grase. To
nbtam the old swimmm' "hole Mr.
l-itay's producers had to sign a year's
Jease on a srrexcii oi crceic snnaiea
one of the oldest Spanish grants
la southern California. '
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Case Was Frameun
Officer Declares Witnesses in
I San Francisco Bomb Trial
Coacbed in Advance.
San Francisco, Ntv.13. The con
viction and sentencing of Thomas
J. Mooney and- Warren K. Billings
on charges of murder in connection
with a preparedness daybomb ex
plosion here Jfcly 22, 1916, "was a
gigantic frameup from first to last,"
Police Officer Drawer Hand, an im
portant figure in the cases, said in a
statement submitted to Mayor James
Rolph, according to a stoVy appear
ing m The San Francisco Call
Hand, according to the Call, was
active in the gathering of witness
es. Several witnesses, he said, were
coached for weeks in what they
should say on the stand.
In one instance, the story said,
a witness identified the suspects
only after Hand virtually had done
so through calling them by name
from a group of other prisoners.
"The witness would not have been
able to identify them otherwise,"
Hand was' said by the Call to have
told the mayr.
Some or'the witnesses showed
signs of weakness before being
called on to eive their perjured testi
mony, the statement continued.. TheyJ
were, however, induced - to- go
through with the plan,- A "corpora
tion detective.'" had an . important
part in arranging the perjury pro
gram, Hand idecla'red-.Mooney and
Billings were -both sentencedfo life
imprisonment. .':r.'y-y..
Mail Ship Forced
To Land Twice on
Flight to Omaha
Pilot and Mechanician .Nar
rowly Escape Death Fuel
Freezes, Then Runs
Out.
Much Married Nav
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Man Is Discharged
Air .Mail Pilot II. H. Rowe and
Paul Dumas, chief mechanic of the
Chicago air mail station, had two
narrow escapes from death in their
trip in an 'all-metal German jifnker
plane, from Chicago Friday after
noon. In both cases they- madea
"dead stick" landing, came down
with engines stopped and useless,
but Pilot Rowe was able each time
to guide the falling plane to ar.
cpen space instead of into some ob
struction that niicht have caused a
fatal accident. Both landings were
m: de at Atlantic, la.
" Kowe obtained a truck and came
on into Omaha overland with the
mail. Dumas stayed with the plane
to await the arrival of fuel.
Fuel is Frozen.
"My fuel became suddenly frozen
at Dixon, la., and we were forced to
and there. We took the air again
and were forced to make a 'dead
stick" landing in a pasture at Atlan
tic, la, -when the fuel ran out.,
"We use benzol in these all-metal
planes because gasline pre-ignites
and heats up the engines to such a
degree that they gqdead. We found
thp.t the only fuel we could get. tt
Atlantic was gasoline and I decided
to take a chnace with it as I wanscd
to pet the mail in.
"We- had no more than started
and were passing over some tree
when the thing 'happened we were
fearing, the engine stuck.
"This time we dropped into a corn
field. - ' n
"I can tell you, we both are thank
ing our stars that we- were able to
get down fyoth times without a
'crack-up,' f)r you haven't much
choice of where you are going to
land in a 'dead stick' drop."
Rowe declared that he is convinced
of one thing, however, that the new
fuel system which had been installed
on the au-metai pianc at nicago
is just what it shSTild be.
"If- it had not tlplane would
have been . burned up when that
gas5line raced up on us," said
Rowe. ' v -
On Observation Flight.
Dumas was one of those who
worked out the new fuel system at
Chicaco. He came with
the all-metal plan for the purpose
of observing thet new contrivance.
He, too, was p'leased with the sys
tem. - .
"'Rowe left in a De Haviland plane
for 'Chicago, yesterday.
". The. all-metal i'tilanes were- abol-
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Marine Sergeant
Here Given Naw
Cross for Heroism
Soldier in Soissons Drive Caj
tured 63 Prisoners Single
1 lauded Was Under
Gen. Buudv's Command.
Glenn Aldrich. ,
Chlcmca Tribune-Omaha Be Leued W ire.
Chicago, Nov. 12. "Lieut." Glenn
Aldrich' - was discharged when ar
raigned for passing, worthless
checks. His father has undertaken
to make restitution to the five com
plainants who caused Aldrich's ar
rest in Portlands Ore., a month ago.
He has been in jail since. s
Keither his wife, Mrs. Esther
Carlson Aldrich, nor Mis Lillian
Dombrow, Oak Park debutante,
whom he "married" a few weeks
after the first ceremony, appeared to
prosecute the charge of bigamy
lodged against him and this also was
dismissed. - .
' "I am going away' somewhere."
he said, "and obtain employmenHin
order to pay my father back."
ished from the mail service some
time ago following a .series of fataj
accidents. A few of them have been I
reinstated following weeks.- of work
on the fuel system, where all of the
trouble is said to lie.
Miles Standlsh Sparkplug
Company Loses Decision
The Miles St.-tndish company, is
manufacturing an imitation of the
sprakplug "X" of the Champion
Sparkplug company and must dis
continue its sale in the manner in
Rowe $nl which it is now conducted accord
ing to . a decision of Judge Wood
rough in United States district court
Friday. The trial of the case has
occupied two v.eeks. The Miles
Standish "company attorneys gave
iiotice of an appeal to the United
States supreme ourt.
Sergeant Joe Carter of the United
States uwrine corps, on recruiting
duty in Omaha, received yesterday a
ravy cross and a citation from Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels-for extraordinary-
heroism in the Soissons
drive in July, 1918, in which he, single-handed,
cantured 63 German
prisoners. He delivered these pris
oners to Gen. Omar Bundy, now
commander of the Seventh army
corps, with headquarters at Fort
Crook.
The citation reads as follows:
"On July 18, 1Y18, north of Vierzy,
he gave striking proof of bravery by
following a tank with two Morac
cans in spite of an intense machine
gun fire. He captui'ed 63 prisoners,
one of them an officer.
"For the President.
. "JOSEPHUS DAKTELS."
Sergeant Carter was serving in the
Fifth marines which was attached to
the Second division.
Comrades Are Killed.
' Jul 18 Sergeant Carter and the
two Moraccans were some 600 yards
off the flank of his company follow
iiw a tank in search of German ma
clmie gun nests. A three-pch shell
struck the tank squarely in the nose,
killing the two men in the tank and
the two Moraccans, who had been
hugging close to it.
Carter was left alone in a shell
swept area. To run back to his
company would have been useless.
"I made hp my mincTVhat it was.
my time to get itV said Sergeant
Carter, "but I figured that I would
make it as costly as possible to the
Heinies.
"There was a German machine gun
nest and a dugout about 25 yards
from me. I ran up to it and grabbed
some potato masher grenades I spied
there. The Germans were in the
dugout. I hurled a few down and
right away they started coming up
with their han"ds in the air.
"One of the outfit spoke to me in
English and I told him to tell the
rest that the first one who made a
false move would get a bullet from
my pistol. One of them, a major,
refused to obey me and I killed him.
This quieted the rest and they
walked on ahead of me toward the
men of my company who were ad
vancing 300 yards away.
Has Two Croix de Guerres.
'T turned he. prisoners over to
General Bundy. : -.
"'That will be about enough for
you for today, my boy,' the general
said.
"I have paid my respects to the
general since I have been in Omaha."
Carter has received two croix de
guMs, one medal militaire and a
D. S; C. in addition to "his navy
cross. He served in all of the big
offensives with the Fifth marines and
was desperately wounded in the Ar-gonne.
Gasoline In Oil Heater, y
....Then the Fire Department
He had seen -a lellow do it in Chi
cago and they had to call the lire
department, set lie thought he'd best
suftfmon Omaha's noble fire fighters
on this occasion. '
This is what a yuing man, recent
!r'from the W indy City, told Assist
ant Fire Giief Dineen when h made
the run to the Uefnstein plumbing
ihop, 1914 Cuming street', -at 8:15
yesterday.
The youth told Chief Dineen the
blaze was the result of putting gaso
line in an oil h-aer. 1'uff! Lots o'
smoke! Hot flume and it was all
over. Damage to- the shop was
slight. ;
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