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.'THE BEE: OMAHA", SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1921. Body of Davis Found in Water Near Columbus Omaha Taxi Driver Is j Murder Mystery Victim Man and Girl Hurt When Auto ( Turns Turtle Votes Are Coming Their Way Tornado Kills One, Injures out :;; At Mason City Twister Hurls Auto 50 Feet ; Killing Passenger Bride ; Of Two Weeks I; May Die. ,f Mason City, la., May ,28. Build ings on a .half-dozen amis were blown away and at least one man lost his life in a tornado which late .Thursday swept a path almost a Quarter of a mile wide' . between Plymouth and Manlcy. Wires are down and it has been impossible to learn the full extent of the dam ge wrouRht. ') Frank McCall of Topeka, Kan., bridge laborer, was killed instantly when the car driVen by County En gineer F. R. Lyford of Worth coun ty, was picked up by the twister and hurled SO feet. His body was crushed. Lyford and a Mexican passenger in the car escaped with minor injuries, t Bride May Die. ; Mrs. Art Dobcl, bride of two weeks, will probably die of injuries she suffered , when the farm home on the place was lifted up and set down in a nearby grove. The bride groom, also injured, regained con sciousness and carried the woman to a irranary, the only building on the place left standing where a phys ician was summoned. : . '. With reports from nearly alt the stricken area received this foreuoon, it was believed the casualty list would not be Increased. All the buildings on at least a half dozen farms were razed however. DSrf Mil f l.Ovi W i H ttv rV iff i ?a- jm$& i. n tfify El Aim . Revolver Found Near Culvert Taxi Driver Evidently Shot, Killed and Thrown In Hiding Place. Mrs. Vinsonhaler : ToWedNavvMan Omaha Divorcee to Marry Naval Captain in Los Angeles. - Los Angeles, Cal., May 28. Mrs. Isabel Vinsonhaler, former wife of Duncan .M.. Vinsonhaler of Omaha, will be married here Mohday aft ernoon to Capt. Arthur Lee Willard of the United States navy. The ceremony will be performed by Chaplain Scott of the U. S. S. V If.... .1 t-. t-... new mcAitu ai 111c uijauu iiuiti auu the couple will leave immediately thereafter for Washington, D. C, and then on to Newport, R. I., where they will live. Captain Willard's term expires Monday. During the war he had charge of the navy . yard at Wash ington, D. C. Captain Willard is 51 and Mrs. Vinsonhaler is 50. The divorce of Mrs. Vinsonhaler in Omaha about 18 months ago, was a great surprise. Her husband, for mer County Judge Vinsonhaler and a prominent attorney, left his family in Omaha and went to a farm which he had bought in Missouri, announc ing his intention of becoming a far mer. Shortly thereafter Mrs. Vinson haler filed suit for divorce alleging cruelty, to which charge her husband made no defense and the decree was granted. She then came to California. The Vinsonhalers have two chil dren, Mrs. John Caldwell of Omaha and Ellison Vinsonhaler. : "Cruelty With Auto" ie in Divorce Suit Bandits Torture Aged Iowa Couple Finger Nails Pulled From Adair Man, Refuses to Tell Where Money Is Hidden. Charge Chicago, May 28. Judge Fred Rush of the divorce court heard a new one when Mrs. Louise L. Allen filed a petition for a divorce from Rav Allen. Her charge was "cruelty with an automobile," which shs ex-j olained as follows: "In December, 1919, when w? were tak.ng a vacation in our tar, my husband pushed me out of the ma chine ana then ran thj heels over mv foot." ' Mrs. . "en also citel other In stances of cruel trejlr.ient. Last "ltritmns ohe said she had a num ber of b:v-t.ful Rifts for her hus band, but ii.is did noi. prevent him from slc,'p.i g her so r.ard that Ishe fainted. v Judge Ri:sh granted a decree. Austria Ready to Trade With Russian Bolsheviki Paris, May 29. Austria is ready to resume commercial negotiations with the bolsheviki at any time it receives permission from the allies, according to information received here from Vienna.' " Financial envoys from the .Mos cow government already? have . ar ranged details of the resumption of commercial intercourse. But " the Austrian government fears an early declaration might put an end to al lied plans for Austria' rehabilitation. Grand Island Opens Soup Kitchen to Feed Vagrants Atlantic, la., May 28. (Special Telegram.) Burglars, after binding Ed and Phoebe Demming, aged brother and sister, to their chairs, brutally tortured them when they refused to tell where they had hid den ?6,UU0, which they were sup posed to have on their farm near Adair. The two men represented them selves as federal officers searching for liquor and by this ruse obtained entrance to the house. , They drew a gun on Miss Demming and de manded the money. When she re fused to tell, both Demming, who is feeble, and his sister were bound to chairs. , The old man's finger nails were pulled out with pliers, which the bandits found in his pockets. Un able to get the information, th'e two men then began a search of the house. Demming worked himself free and escaped through a window. This move frightened away the two men. Before leaving they found $400 belonging to Miss Demming, which she had in a pocketbook. The bandits escaped in an auto mobile and county orhcials are working on the theory that they came from Greenfield. The automo bile was seen going in that direction after the assault. Knights of Columbus Surplus Fund Used as Aid to Disabled Men Chicago, May 28. Knights of Co lumbus supreme officers, department directors and supervisors from every state in the union at a meeting today decided to organize committees of women in every town where there is a public health service and govern ment conducted hospitals to provido comfort for disabled service men The meeting had been called to plan the expenditure of the $5,UUO,UUU bal ance of the K. of C. war fund." "It is our ai mto enroll the mothers and wives and sisters of the men who returned well and whole from the war, to aid the thousands who came back with health impaired," Supreme Secretary William J. Mc Ginley, announced. "There are ap proximately 26,000 disabled A. E. F. men receiving hospital treatment and the number of those going to hos pitals each month exceeds the num ber of discharged patients by more than 1,000. Our fund of $5,000,000 will be devoted to recreational and vocational training work for these men and for education work for the other veterans." Body of Murdered Woman Is Buried at Roseland Hastings, Neb.. May 28. The body of Mrs. Fay Mellin Morris, Who was shot and killed at Los An geles, May 19, by G. H. Weltrick, who then committed suicide, ' was brought by her hasband to her for mer home at Roseland, near here, and buried this afternoon. Mr.'Mor ris said he believed Weltrick was se cluded in: the Morris apartments and killed Mrs. Morris on her return from a shopping trip. , . 1 did not know Weltrick had made Miss Eleanor Shoff, Fairbury, Neb., District No. 7. I. N. Warrick, Blair, Neb., District No. 6. -Mra. Kloye B. Morell, 544 South 25th Ave., Omaha, Dist. No. '2. Miss Betty Eacrett, Malvern, Iowa, District No. 5. Martin Neilson, Dannebrog; Neb., District No. 8. Alfred E. Stafford, Rising City, Neb., District No. 9. R. D. Edwards, 2310 Ave. C, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dist. No. 4. Mrs. Bert Anderson, 1324 H St., Lincoln, Neb., District No. 7. Mrs. K. C. Dillman, Broken Bow," Neb., District No. 8. Miss Helen M. Wynkoop, Central City, Neb., District No. 9. ' R. W. Sage, 2519 South 33d St., Omaha, District No. 1. Miss Gladys Mavis, Harlan. Iowa. District No. 5. A group of active, energetic Omaha Bee, Help Yourself Club mem bers who are striving every rnoment to add to their accumulations of votes in the $29,450 campaign. This is a group of folks who have appreciated the wonderful nn- jiortunities presented by the Help Yourself Club to secure the most vaiuaDie awards ever offered by any Omaha newspaper. Further groups will be published. ; 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 6. , 7.; 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Dean Would 'Fire' Naughty Editors of State U. Annual Faculty,' However, Postpones Action Until Return of Chancellor Avery Dean Wonders If "Vulgar Hu mor Indicates Breakdown in Civilization Many Daring Cartoons and Pictures in Publication. threats against my wife until told by - rii : . ti . Grand Island, Neb., May 28.-The 1 i" , 1UUU W1"8 l,,c "V Isrge number of transient unemploy ed coming through tnis city, a point on both the trans-continental lines, has induced the city to open a soup kitchen and a proclamation of Mayor Ellsberry this morning urges all citizens to stop feeding such men at their homes, but to send them to the public kitchen in stead. ' Husband Found His Wife , Already Wed, He Alleges When James O. Mitchell married Anne Le Grand in Papillion January ol, 1919, she told him she as a sin gle woman, he says in a petition filed in district court yesterday for an nulment of the marriage. Since then, he alleges he has found out that she is the legal wife of Rob ert Le Grand, Humphrey, Ark., whom she married nine years ago. Carmen Vote to Strike Rock Island, 111., May 28. Car men employed by the Tri-City Kail way company in Rock Island, Mo line and East Moline, 111., and Dav enport, la., and interurban lines to Clinton and Muscatine, have voted to strike Wednesday. The company fixed that date to reduce their wages from "0 to 40 cents an hour. Dr. Edwards, chiropractor, will be in his officefrom 9 until 12 on Deco ration day. Adu Girl, ' 7, Plaving in Front Of Home Is Injured by Auto W hue plaving in front of her house, Tessie McMullen, ,7,' 1151 North Eighteenth street, was run down Friday night by an automobile driven by H. G. Venemann, 2302 Manderson street. The little girl suffered bruises on the right arm and possible internal injuries. , The driver was not ar rested. " . Seniority Will Govern Promotions of Officers Police Commissioner Dunn an nounced yesterday that under his administration of the police depart ment the seniority rule will apply. "Of course," he added, "merit and ability must be given some con sideration, but all other things be ing equal, seniority should be recognized. Week of July 10 Is Set As "No Accident Week" The traffic safety committee of the Chamber of Commerce at a meeting at the Athletic club Friday night selected the week of July 10 as fno Accident Week. During that week efforts will be made to interest drivers of all motor ve- -iclu in prevention of accidents, Lincoln, May 28. (Special.) The University of Nebraska faculty sen ate met yesterday to consider th alleged vulgar sections of this year s Cornhusker Annual, but decided to defer action until the return of Chan cellor Avery from the agricultural college at Manhattan, Kan. "Personally, X hope the men and girls responsible for it will be fired," declared Prof. C. C Engberg, ex ecutive dean. "Their humor is Bow ery stuff not clean, but common." An Object Lesson. "I anticipate the faculty will take advantage of this student criticism by making preparations for a stricter censorship of school publications in the future. Students have always complained of any censorship of ex pressions used in their papers. This will be an object lesson, showing them what lack of censorship does." , Members of the faculty declined to say whether they would favor an in vestigation into sorority houses as a result of disclosures in the "student life" section of the Cornhusker "I don't know who the girls are, who were photographed in pajamas, 'teddies and sleeping garments," said Dean Engberg. Breakdown in Civilization. "I wonder if the low strata of humor displayed in this publication does not prove there is a degenerat ing line of thought among certain students, indicating a breakdown in civilization as a result of the war." Two Omaha students, Tack Lan- dale, editor of the Cornhusker, and Miss Helen Wahl, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Wahl, 103 South Fifty-first avenue, are involved in the student affair. Miss- Wahl, an Alpha Phi, is one of the editors of the objectionable "student life" sec tion. Denies Responsibility, When called on the carpet, 'Lan dale denied responsibility for his part of the publication. He stated he was too busy looking after other af fairs of the paper o edit this section and that its contents slipped by with out his knowledge. Detailed descriptions of objec tionable pictures and cartoons in the now recalled paper were learned yesterday. One is a trapeze scene with a man and girl in tights, hanging bv their knees and kissing each other jn mid air. "Any time, any place, any where," and "illustrating the Kappa motto," ire the inscriptions. "Soul. Kiss" Cartoon. . .There is a cartoon of a man and girl, his arms around her, delivering a "soul kiss," with the caption: In nocence, H 1!" Another hugging scene has the caption "That Delta Gamma Grip." The photograph of a pajama clad girl, exposing a bare limb and knee is entitled "j-.-t a Kappa Freshman." A picture of four girl students in "Teddies" is labeled "Gamma Phi" and one of four girls in nighties, "Guess Who." Bare Limbs. Another pictures a well-dressed young man photographed against $60 check background, and embel lished with a drawing of bare limbs 1 he check is written to a univer sity -student and is signed by one of the girl students. A large ques tion mark, "The dainty toes that buy the clothes and "Who buys his ciothesr are the captions. Dean Enbersr states that this oaee brings out a story told on the cam pus that a beautiful college girl, a clever dancer, dances at nubhe ta tertainments to earn money to pay me way ' ot the men students through school Members of Staff. Besides Miss Wahl, Nora Living stons,' Gregg McBride and Blaine Graybill are the "student life" sec tion editors. Asa Waters and Wil liam Jagger are the photographers and Robert Jonas, the artist. Others on the Cornhusker staff are Eva Holloway, Mary Sheldon, Genevieve Lanes, Jessie Watson, Madeline Stenger, Leland Hawkins, Richard Stephens, Ward Randall, Leslie Dare, Margery Barstow, Sue Scille Leonard Powley, Donald Pierce and Audrey Sullivan. Man Tried for Murder Begs Court for Life Chicago. May 28. Frank Ligregn!. 28, weht down on his knees in court this afternoon and begged for his life. '. He is on trial for murderins his wife,. Genevieve, at Bartlett, 111., December 21. He remained on his knees during the recital of his story, accusing his, wife of infidelity and threats against his life. Judge Sullivan finally ordered the man to arise and resume the witness chair, Mrs. LigregmYin September 1920, obtained a position in the schools' of bartlett, because she was not billing tor her husband to support her. On December 23, invited by his wife to come to the Christmas exercises in the rural school, Ligregni visited her at her boarding house. She was killed in a quarrel that followed. The case is expected to go to the jury soon. Highwayman Is Killed In Attempt to Rob Autoist Trinidad. Colo.. May 28. A hieh- wayman tried'to rob John Cha of ti Moro last night, while he was driving his automobile along tne road near Beshoar. Shots were ex changed and the highwayman was killed. His body was brought here today. A card bearing the name of A. Reed. Kansas City, was the only mark of identification. Omaha Bank Clearings. Bank clearinsrs for the week end- inn Saturday. Mav 28. were $32,281.- 025.07. For the corresponding week last year they were $59,451,569.83. For last week thev were 37,348. 19571. Four Students Killed ? As Train Strikes Auto Chicago,' May 28. Four High school students were instantly killed early today at an unguarded crossing ot the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad at Aurora when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a passenger train The dead are: Joseph Beck, 17; Wilbur Ames, 18; Alice Rilein, 18, and Walter Glattfelt, 17. Frank Carroll, 17, and Marian Cohen, 14, were slightly jnjured. ine students were on their way home from a dance. Two other girls had been dropped at their homes before the accident occurred. The dead students occupied the rear seat. 1 he tram struck the rear of the auto mobile and the impact was terrific. Canadian Farmers to Ship Products to Great Britain Ottawa, May 28. Agriculturists are planning to divert their products to England as a result ot the pas sage of the Fordney tariff bill in the United States. Premier Charles Stewart declared, while visiting the dominion capital. Ranchers, he said, had already srnt 1,000 head of cattle . overseas and other stock rnd farm products would ioiiow soon. , " Threatened Neighbors. Thomas Goggin,' 17, living at. 524 North Seventeenth street, was ar rested yesterday for disturbing the peace. Neighbors say he threatened their lives with a razor. Thomas told police officers the neighbors ag gravated him by calling him names. Youths Trip on Easy Money Path An Alleged Get-Rich-Quick Scheme Causes Arrest of Young Men. Vergie Volland, 24, 3010 Cass street, and Joyce Mehrens, 23, 609 Lincoln boulevard, were arrested yesterday because it is charged, they attempted to "make a little easy money. ' J. J. Simon of the Western Union Telegraph company was to have been the victim of their get-rich-quick scheme, according to Charles Pipkin, private detective. . The two youths went to Simon's office Friday. They charged Simon with wronging Beatrice Strathdee, 21, and Blossom Poirier, 20, both of whom reside in the same apartment building as he, according to Pipkin. Simon made an" appointment with them for this morning, then called Pipkin. "It's a frameup," he told Pipkin. A trap was laid at Simon's office yesterday morning. The two alleged plotters arrived on scheduled time, repeated their previous threats and demanded money for silence, accord ing to Pipkin. They were then ar rested. According to Pipkin the two girls implicated are divorcees. They de nied sending the two youths to see Simon and said they often visited the Simcn apartment to dance, ac cording to Pipkin. Hearing of the charges against the two men were continued until next Friday. They were released on $500 bonds each. $13,000 Damages Awalded. ' -To Injured Railroad Man Mike Glarizio drew a big verdict from a jury in District Judge L. B. Day's court yesterday. It was $13,000 against the Missouri Pacific railroad for loss of one leg two years ago while he was working in the yards. tie asked $25,000. , Last Thursday Judge Day threat ened to discharge the jury in the case after he had found Mike dem onstrating to the 12 men during re cess in the corridor just how the ac cident had happened. Later, at torneys for both sides waived thi3 "error" and the case proceeded. This Is Logic, However, That Doesn't Go in Court Room Johnny Measure, 14, 4502 South Twenty-ninth street. was erven money by his mother to buy a pair. oi tennis shoes and some shirts last Monday. At 3:20 the next morning he was found- by police under a platforrmin the alley at Fifteenth and Dodge streets. He was chared with stealing some shirts. Well, he said in juvenile court yesterday morning, "it took all the money to buy the tennis shoes, so I stole the shirts." He was sent to Riverview home. Goes to Horse Show. Major General Omar Bundv. com mander of the Seventh army corps area, with headquarters at Fort Crook, left yesterday for Fort Des Moines to attend the horse show 'of the Fourteenth cavalry. He wis accompanied by his aide, Capt. R. Shlaughter. Two farmer lads found the body of "Wingic" Davis, taxi driver, under a culvert near Columbus yesterday. The body was found at 9 yester day morning as the two farmer boys were crossing the Lincoln highway live miles cast of Columbus. Identification of the body as that of the missing taxi driver was made by a book he earned in his pocket, 1 lis name and his address, 1722 Cali fornia street, were written in the book. The absence ot one arm completed the identification. Revolver Found. Joe Kuta and a son of Frank Krzycki were the lads who found the body. It was badly decomposed. Lvidently the body had remained in water since last Sunday morning. Friday a revolver was found six feet from the culvert, where yer tcrdav the. body was found. Early last Sunday morning. Mrs. Charles Krzycki heard revolver shots, she told County Attorney Otto S. Walters of Platte county today. Shot and Killed. It is plain, County Attorney Wal ters declares, that Davis wax shot and killed and then droppM vdcr the culvert. An autopsy performed yesterday revealed Davis had been shot in the back of the head. Davis disappeared from Omaha last Saturday night. He was las, seen in Omaha about 12:30 at th Edwards cafe with two men and a woman. Mrs. Davis broke down this morning when intormed that the body of her husband had been recovered. Irish Volunteers Take , Refuge Inside Vaults , In Customs House Fire f Dublin, May 28. A remarkable story published here, tells of the es cape of the Irish volunteers, who set fire to the customs house and were trapped there when the building was surrounded by troops. After the first conflict, when a strong cordon was thrown around the burning building, the volunteers made their way to the underground vaults wherein they were immune from the fire. At fnidnight they crept out un observed and made their way to Spencer dock. Ferry boats were waiting for them and they drifted silently down the river. Barbed wire, was placed about the ruins of the customs house today. An official report telb of an ambush of three lorries filled with black and tans near McCroon, County Cork, yesterday. After a few minutes' en gagement, the attackers decamped. The place was set ort fire by 40 armed men. Thieve9 Batter in Garage Door, Steal $4,500 Auto For the second time within a year W. B. Hughes, 4357 Barker avenue, secretary of the. state bankers' asso ciation, reported the theft of his $4,500 automobile. The car was taken after the thieves had battered down the door of Hughes' garage. A year ago after Detectives Pzsanowski and Murphy had ar rested Tom Kelly, sought by Can adian officials and William Maher. now under arrest in Minot, in con nection with the theft of Hughes car, threats were made that Hughes would "get his." The car was re covered at that time. I SPECIAL Fried Chicken DINNER $1.00 per Plate MRS. M. S. PIERCE Phone for Reservations Phone Douglas 3808 LET US TUNE YOUR PIANO LIJLMH.'IJ Phone rlujslc Co JA ckson 4240 s Anything You Get From "MacW is Good MAPLE LAND! THE ONLY FIRST CLASS . SODA FOUNTAIN SERVICE OUT "AK-SAR-BEN" WAY Maple Land Store J. T. McMannis, Proprietor Center Street at 52nd Atlantic 4603 1814-16-18 Farnam St. For the benefit of the public, we will be open Monday till 1 p. m. In our Delicatessen Department we have hot weather delicacies prepared in our own kitchen by our own chefs. We invite you to visit our sanitary kitchens and see. for yourselves. We are in posi tion to completely prepare your picnic lunches for Sunday, Memorial Day, or any other day you wish to picnic. Delicious salads, lunch meats, fried chicken, pickles and all the necessary trimmings for lunches or dinners. Envoy to Mexico Meets President Mexico City, May 23. George T. Summcrlin, American charge d'af faires in this city, had a conference with President Obregon last night and it is said he handed to the presi dent a memorandum from the State department in Washington. N6 of ficial statement was made regarding the meeting which was described as "extremely cordial." The memorandum brought by Mr. Summerlin upon his return from Washington was said to be in no sense an ultimatum which called upon Mexico to sign a treaty or pro tocol as a condition to recognition. It was also asserted that it was not an embodiment of the report on Mexico submitted by Albert B. Fall. present secretary of the interior when he was a member of the United States senate. Film Sales Folk Victims As Car Hits Rut and Turns Over on Steep Hill in 1 Iowa. Miss Wilma Corbin and H. No vitiky, both on the sales force of the Universal Film company in Omaha, are recuperating from in juries received last Thursday night, when an automobile in which they were riding turned turtle on a hill near Persia, la. A broken steering knuckle caused the car to run into a deep rut while backing down a itcep incline, ac cording to Novitsky, who was driv ing. J. F. Connelly, salesman for the film company, escaped injury by jumping from the car. Miss Corbin and Novitsky suffered slight cuts and body bruises. Free Road Service 7 A.M.to 11 P.M. SEVEN DAYS A WEEK Our service cars will go any where to make a tire change, bring you a new tube or tire. Full line Pennsylvania tires and tubes. 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