THE BEE: OMAKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1921.
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Fifth Husband of
Alleged Slayer
Sought Insurance
Paul Southard Refused $10,
000 Policy in April Because
Salary Insufficient to Pay
Premiums.
Honolulu, T. II., May 31. raul
V. Southard, whose wife, Lyda, is
under arrest here on a charge that
she murdered her fourth husband,
Edward Meyer, in Idaho, applied
during April for $10,000 of insurance
in one of the larger American com
panies, according to V. H. Ormshy,
deputy sheriff from Twin , Falls
county, Idaho, who is here to take
Mrs. Southard back to stand trial.
Ormsby said today his investiga
tion had disclosed that when South
ard, who is a navy petty officer, ap
plied for this amount the insurance
agent informed him that owing to
the size of his salary the company
would not permit him to take a
policy for more than $5,000.
Wife Wanted $10,000.
Southard asked the agent to ex
plain this to Mrs. Southard for he
said she had asked him to take a
policy for $10,000, Ormsby declared.
The agent did this, according to
Ormsby, and Mrs. Southard said
"she believed a man should have
plenty of insurance."
She asked the agent if his com
pany paid claims promptly and said
friends of hers in Idaho had a claim
which was not paid, Ormsby said.
Southard took a physical exam
ination and on April 13, filed his ap
plication for $5,000 but on May 11,
Mrs. Southard was arrested and on
May 14, according to Ormsby's in
vestigations, Southard asked for the
return of his application, which he
received on paying the doctor's ex
amination fees.
Sought $500 Loan.
A letter was written by Southard
to the Bank of Hawaii asking for a
loan of $500 and stating he had a
$5,000 life insurance policy as se
curity, Ormsby stated. Later he
called at the bank and asked for the
return of the letter and also sought
. an affidavit that the bank had ad
vised him to take out this insurance
as security for the loan, Ormsby
said his investigation revealed, but
the bank did not return the letter or
make the affidavit,
Sworn statements have been ob
tained covering these details,
Ormsby said, and he will attempt to
introduce them as evidence at the
trial of Mrs. Southard.
County Officials
And Indians to Hold
Peace Conference
Moab, Utah, May 31. San Juan
county officials and Indians of the
southern part of that county have
assembled for a peace conference,
according to word received here to
day from Monticello by long dis
tance telephone. The call for the
conference was issued by J. W. Per
kins, county commissioner. The con-
- ference was called to meet at Bland
ing and Sheriff R. Lynn Hyde.'Avhd
returned to Monticello Sunday, went
back to Blanding for the conference.
John Dutchups, 21,' Indian, who
was shot Saturday while attempting
to escape from a sheriff's posse, tried
to escape from the hospital at Bland
ing, according to information re
ceived here. He is now guarded by
two deputy sheriffs. His attempt to
escape caused his wounds to reopen
and he lost a considerable amount
of blood ' during the day. Sheriff
Hyde is apprehensive that if Dutch
ups dies further trouble may be
caused by the unruly element of the
Piute band, and he is having every
precaution taken to prevent another
. effort to escape.
The renegade Indians in south
eastern San Juan county are Piutes
and not Utes, according" to a state
ment made here today by C. L.
Christensen of this town, who for 40
years lias been an Indian interpreter
in this section of the state.
New Mexico's Brief in
Boundary Case Filed
Washington, May 31. The state
of Texas is attacked as a "would
be land grabber" in, briefs filed to
day in the supreme court by Frank
- W. Clancy, counsel for New Mex
ico, in the original suit of that state
against Texas to obtain an official
' delimitation of the interstate
boundary along the Rio Grande
river. . -
Declaring that the present claim
of Texas would put the Rio Grande
"on rocky bluffs or sand hills, far
above any possible bed of the river"
the brief .called attention of the
court to what was described as "the
predatory and unscrupulous charac
ter of the defendant (Texas) in
land matters."
Five Chicago Bakers Held
As Union Men Go on Strike
Chicago, May 31. Five union
; bakers were arrested today when
striking employes of a large bakery
company were said to have threat
ened non-union men who took their
places yesterday. More than 1,000
union bakers, said to have baked 85
per cent of Chicago's bread, whose
agreement expired at 4 o'clock yes
terday, were on strike today.
The strike was called because the
Master Bakers' association insisted
on a 20 per cent reduction in wages
it the bakers' agreement was - re
newed. Shipping Board Linr Tied
Up by Strike, Catches Fire
Baltimore, May 31. The passen
ger and freight steamer Buckeye
State, one oi the large liners plying
between Baltimore, San Francisco
and Pacific ports, caught fire shortly
after 5 o'clock while tied up at a
Baltimore & Ohio railroad pier. The
steamer is one of the shipping board
vessels affected by the marine strike.
"The blaze was 'confined to the
boiler room, where oil waste was
ignited by sparky, according to re
ports. Jap Prince in France
Havre. France, May ."1. Crowr.
Prince Hirohito of Japan, who has
been visitine England, arrived here
today.
A Believer in Preparedness
"Your Doctor Has Given You Only Six Months to Liveli Why, Uncle Henry, What Are You Going to Do?"
"I Thought I'd Lay Off and Rest Up for What's Coming."
Downtown. Programs.
Rialto Roscoe Arbnckle in
"Brewster's Millions."
Sun "The County Fair."
Moon Tom Mix in "A Ridir.'
Romeo."
Strand "The Oath."
Empress "Pagan Love."
Muse "Conrad in Quest of His
Youth."
Neighborhood Houses.
Grand Harry Carey in "The Wal
lop." - . .
Hamiltorti-Wallace Reid in "The
Valley of the Giants."
If the popular actor Neil Burgess
could see what Maurice ' Tourneur
has done for his famous old drama,
"The County Fair," at the Sun the
ater this week,, it would show how,
far the motion picture can advance
over'the limitations of a stage play.
The scenic so-called realism of the
drama pales by comparison with the
real art of the cinema story. Here
the great race is actually run and
the hundred and hundreds at the
county fair actually participate in
that happy occasion.
Clyde Cook, now f rollicking on
many a screen in the Fox five-act
special comedy, "Skirts," is to be seen
shortly in a new comedy called
"The Guide," in which he is prom
ised to make a new record for mirth
creation.
'. Mary Miles Minter is the most re
cent celluloid celebrity to go abroad.
She leaves immediately upon comple
tion of her current picture.
Ora Carew is playing lead opposite
Tom Mix in a picture now being
made at Hollywood.
Vladivostok Rulers
Extend Authority
Tokio, May 31. (By The .Asso
ciated Press.)-f-Anti-bolshevik) lead
ers who have established the new
Vladivostok government have ex
tended their authority to the north
westward, .being in control of the
cities of Spassk and Grodekovo, says
an official report received here. The
majority of the commisars and the
higher clerks Employed by .the rail
roads in the southern part of the
maritime province have fled, ' or
have been arrested, but the rail
roads have continued in operation.
The Japanese . have recognized the
new militia formed in Vladivostok
on condition that it obeys the presi
dent of the government.
Resolutions have been adopted by
the Vladivostok Chamber of Com
merce declaring that recent events,
there were the outcome of com
munist methods, which-"drove the
population to desperation."
Proposed Allied Meeting
On Silesia Is on Dead Center
Paris, May 31. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The exchange of
views between London and Paris re
garding a meeting of the allied su
preme council to consider the Sile
sian question, has reached a sort of
dead center. Mr. Lloyd George,
British prime minister, is insisting
that the premier's meet previous to
the creation of an expert mission to
examine the Silesian problem.
Premier Briand handed the Brit
ish ambassador here last evening a
note repeating the French argument
and dwelling upon the impossibility
of the premiers taking effective ac
tion previous! to the examination of
the question by the experts.
Two Shot at Ball Game
Pittsburgh, Pa., May 31. -Two
men were shot and killed and four
others wounded in a fight duVinc a
I base ball fame here today.
Wanda Hawley is now an expert
in putting on and taking off weight.
In "The Hou That Jazz Built,"
her latest starring- vehicle, which
opens tomorrow at the Rialto theater,
she had to add 40 pounds to her
ayoirdupois in the morning and re
gain her normal weight each eve
ning.' . Wanda thinks it's a hard life.
?Fight Promised on
Rathenau Appointment
: Berlin, May -31; (By The Asso
ciated Press.) Chancellor -Wirth
has selected T)r. Rathenau, president
of the German General Electric
company, as' minister of reconstruc
tion, but this selection has failed to
cause enthusiasm by industrialist
and financial organs, who have been
accustomed to view Rathenau as a
"parku socialist." They express the
fear that his influence in the cabinet
will transcend the bounds of his im
mediate ministry.
Industrial circles around Herr
Stinnes are outspoken in their hos
tility to Dr. Rathenau, while the gen
eral criticism is rather the result of
his economic theories.
The Hansa league, comprising the
nation's big industrial, commercial
and fnanc'al interests, has notified
Dr. Rathan eau that it will oppose
any attempt -on his part to put his
pet economic theories into effect. '
AT THE
THEATERS
THERE are
Mine. de 1
"S3 East."
re characters In array in
Mailly's boarding house at
39 East" Is the title
of the comedy which is the attraction
offered by the 1'rincess riayera at tho
Brandeis this week, playing a matinee
today and Saturday. And the title of
the play indicates the address of the
above mentioned boarding house. It is
lv?re that Penelope Penn conies from
the mlddlewestern home of her minister
father, seeliinp fame and fortune with
her voice. And it is here that Hlie meets
Timothy O'Brien of Kansas City: Count
GioneWt, Miss Sadie Clarence and her sis
ter, Myrtle: Mrs. Smith and Dr. Hubbard,
ad lost but not least Napoleon Uibbs.
Th fortunes of Penelope mnKe a tale
worth telling. Thy were originally told
by ftache! t'rothers on Kroadway Inst
season with Constance Hinncy in the role
of Penelope Penn. This is the first time
ths play has appeared in Omaha.
The ('hoy I. inn Hep troupe, a quintet
of Chinese artists, featured nn the Kin
press, bill, spccieli-e In .lutfirlintf. acrobat
ics, magic .ml other uniquely odd Oriental
stunts. Skilled bnnlo esroncn's are the
Bolirer Brothers. Soocs and dances and
clean humor are offered by Ulfva and
iUi'k.
By Charles Dana Gibson
Copyright, Life rubllshlng Co. .
Published by arrangement with Life.
Woman Ends Own Life
After Attiring Self
In Wedding Finery
Grantsville, Utah, May 31. At
tired -in her wedding gown, shoes
and gloves, with veil and flowers
carefully adjusted and the decora
tions of the wedding cake upon a
table near bv, the body of Mrs
Marie Ida Farina, 21, was found
lvintr across the bed with a bullet
wound in her head by her husband,
Pietro Farina, 40, when he returned
home at Dolomite, seven miles west
of this city, for luncheon.
In a cradle near the bed was the
eight months old infant of the couple
L with -a-. piece;'-f gauze tied tightly
about its neck. Ihe husband and
father tore the gauze from the child's
throat and its life was saved.
Scott Bill Favored
By House Committee
Washington, May 31. In spite of
general opposition from organized
labor to any changes in the seamens
act, the house committee on mer
chant marine, expects to report out
the Scott bill this week, lessening
some of the restrictions applying to
vessels on the Great .Lakes.
The sub-committees will meet tO'
morrow tw revise the bill as intro
duced originally by Representative
Scott of Michigan. The subcommit
tees will report to the full commit
tee on Thursday and action on the
bill may be taken at that time.
The democrats on the committee
are expected to line against the bill.
They contend as do representatives
of organized labor, that any amend
ments relieving ship operators ot
present requirements tend to in
crease the hazards of water trans
portation. Single Set of Standards
For Cotton Trade Urged
; New YoYk, May 31. Establish
ment of a single set of standards
throughout the cotton trade of the
world was urged by W. R. Meadi
ows of the federal bureau of markets
in an address today at the confer
ence here of the American Cotton
association.. Mr. Meadows said that
it was hoped that through the world
cotton conference to be held at Liv
erpool next month an agreement
with respect to grade and", staple
standards for American upland cot
ton might be reached.
Fifty Deputy Sheriffs to
Guard Shelby County Banks
Harlan, la., May 31. (Special.)
Fifty special deputy sheriffs will be
named by the sheriff to guard the
banks of Shelby county from yeggs
and bandits. The bankers' associa
tion of the county has posted a
standing reward of $1,000 for the
capture, "dead or alive," of any bank
robber.
Russian Oil Concessions
Are Refused by Soviet
Riga, May 31. The Russian so
viet government has refused a pro
posal of an Anglo-Dutch-Belgian oil
company for concessions in the
Groznyi and Baku regions of the
Caucasus. To date the government
has not granted a single concession,
according to advices.
Man, 50, to Wed Woman, 66,
12 Days After Wife's Death
Alex Larzlo, 50, obtained a li
cense to wed May Boyd. 66, ii
county court yesterday morning. He
told Marriage License Clerk Stub
bendorf his former witc died just 12
days ago. - The couple will live at
1400 .North riltccnth street.
Plague in Texas
Austin, Tex., May 30. A case of
bubonic plague has developed in a
I small town in Limestone county.
Girl Intercepted
On Way to River
To Drown Herself
Policeman Arrests Young Wo
man Who Planned Suicide
As ManShe Loved Would
Not Marry Her.
Half-crazed because the young
man she loved would not marry her,
Ora Cook, 19, whose home is in
Hamilton, 0., was saved from
drowning herself in the Missouri
river about noon yesterday by Po
liceman Carter.
Notified by a man at the Union
station that the girl had just gone
toward the river, declaring she was
going to drown herself, Carter ran in
pursuit.
Catching up with her about Fifth
Touring Car $5,625.00
Torpedo 5,625.00
Roadster . 5,625.00
Four-Door Coupe 7,200.00
Sedan 7,400.00
Limousine 7,500.00
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conditions. . . . But the quality of the
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and Mason streets, he asked her
what she was going to do.
"I'm going to drown myself," she
cried, running toward the river.
The policeman seized her and took
her to the police station.
"My lover and the man I love is
James Allen, who works in an iron
foundry in Hamilton, O.." she said, at
the station. "He otfered me $400 if
I would live with him without mar
riage, but I wouldn't do that and it
broke my heart to think he would
ask it. So I left home. I went to
Chicago and then to Cedar Rapids
and I arrived in Omaha this morn
ing." She said her father is Andrew
Cook, who lives on a farm near Ham
ilton. The girl left home about a year
ago and worked in Hamilton, where
she met Allen. A stepmother, she
said, caused her to leave home. She
says she also has a sister, Mrs.
John Napier in Hamilton.
"Another girl, who is a friend of
Mr. Allen', is the principal cause of
my sorrow," said the girl. "She kept
him from marrying nie."
Matron Gibbons .of the police sta
tion has arc.'iiged to .have the girl
examined 1 Dr. G. A? Young as to
her sanity.
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Freak Accident
New York Elevated Train Toys
With Lives of 500 Passeng
ers iu .Wreck.
New York, May 31.A detailed
Third avenue elevated train, turned
into a battering ram on its lofty
structure over the hub of the Bronx
at One Hundred and Forty-ninth
street and Third avenue, last nigut
toyed "with the lives of 500 passen
gers while it ripped out a big wood
en signal tower yd enacted many
queer freaks for a ching crowd of
10,000 persons.
One of tha freaks this fantastic
accident, 50 feet above, i the busiest
part of the Bronx, was that only six
persons were seriously injured, al
though one of the cars was virtually
crushed to bits as it smashed into the
solid-timbered signal house.- Between
20 and 30 other persons among about
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Doctor Smith the Great Eye
Specialist Warns the Public
To Care for Their Eyes
Sayi Eyesight may be strengthened through the Law of O.mo.it 50
in one week's time in many instances.
New York. Doctor Smith says, "Most
peoples eyes go back on them between
forty and fifty years of age unless they
strengthen them while young." He further
says, "Everyone young and old should
know how to care for their eyes in order
to prevent the wearing of glasses by
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get misty and dirty and must be cleansed
in order to see well." Very few farmers
require distance glasses because most of
the time they have an unobstructed view
and use their eye muscles for distant
vision ; this keeps their eye muscles strong
and well developed while the city man is
restricted in his range of vision, and there
fore does not properly exercise his eye
muscles; thus they become weak and sus
ceptible to eye strain. Doctor Bickstien.
who is heartily in accord with the views
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he advises everyone of any age to use Bon
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J00 in the three forward cars of tha
seven-car train were bruised and
slightly cut by flying glass.
Another freak of the accident was
that one of the persons who was
most seriously injured was not on
the train, but was driving a taxicalt
under the structure at Third avenue
and One Hundred and Fiftieth
street when a shower of debris
crushed his vehicle to the ground.
A heavy brake shoe from the demol
ished car inflicted a possible fracture
of the skull upon the driver.
All the other injured were in tha
second car of the train, which was
wrecked beyond repair and had to he
cut to pieces.
$3,400 Fines Are Assessed
Against Removed Sherifl
Beatrice, Neb., May 31. Fines
aggregating a little over $3,400 have
been assessed by the internal rev
enue department against John L.
Schick, recently removed as sher
iff of this county on his conviction
in federal court of the illegal sale
of liquor. Schick recently com
pleted a short jail sentence for the
same offense. ,
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that it has a soothing, healing, cooling
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other physician of many years practice,
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Look how we abuse them and yet they
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