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Hotel Clerk Who
Is Short $2,000 Is
Sougth in Omaha
Blackstone Manager Tells Po
lice "High Life" to Blame
For Employe's Disap
pearance. Police and private detective are
' searching for A. E. Dewey, 28,
former clerk at the Hotel Black
stone, who left June 8 with a short
age in accounts at the hotel which
will total $2,000, according to police.
Dewey was employed at the hotel
since January 1 and was considered
a trusted employe, according to
Charles Schimmel, manager of the
hostelry.
"Too Much High Life."
"It was just a case of too much
'high-life' for Dewey," Schimmel
toid Chief of Detectives Van Deusen,
who assigned Detectives Danbaum
and Palmtag to the case.
Detectives investigated and dis
covered that Dewey was keeping
company with a girl known as the
"baby blonde with the big blue
-ycs.
It was on her that Dewey squan
dered sums of money, detectives
stated.
Believed In Des Moines.
Through telephone conversation
Friday police detected a call and
were informed that Dewey was io
Dea Moines.
While at Central police headquar
ters Schimmel and detectives got in
touch with police in Des Moines,
who were requested to arrest
Dewey.
Dewey left in a $2,000 automobile,
they said.
Boundary Line
"Fight Has Fatal
Ending for Man
President of Mining Com
pany Slays Ranch Foreman
Who Attacks Him During
; Quarrel.
Cheyenne, Wyo., June 18. (Spe
cial.) An argument over a dividing
fence between, the Ferguson ranch
and one owned by Horace E.
Adams, near Hecla, 20 miles west of
Cheyenne, had a fatal ending early
this morning.
As a result Frank Brown, foreman
. at the Ferguson ranch, is dead and
Horace E. Adams, president of the
Eagle Mining company, is confined
in the county jail in this city, held
on a charge of murder.
Adams, who is more than 60 years
old and in poor health, telephoned
the sheriff immediately following the
quarrel and shooting, and then re
..mained at his home until the arrival
cS the officers.
After his removal to the county
jail Adams declared that Brown
" came to his home early this morn
ing' and started an argument over
the fence.
Adams says that Brown attempt-
to force him to go to tne f ergu-
ranch nouse and when he re
ed Brown attempted to take him
'force. Breaking away from his
ounger assailant, Adams ran into
bedroom, where he secured a re-
'volver from beneath a mattress on
a bed. and then went back out and
ordered Brown to leave.
Brown refused to obey the order
and attempted to continue the fight.
Adams, according to his story, then
fired a single shot at Brown, the
bullet piercing his heart and causing
instantaneous death.
An inquest will be held Monday.
Alleged
Slayer of
Four; Husbands Is
Denied Bail Bonds
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Twin Falls, Idaho, June 18. Mrs.
Lyda Southard, alleged slayer of
four men, who was yesterday held to
trial in district court here on a
charge of first degree murder of Ed
ward F. Meyer, her fourth husband,
was today denied liberty on bond by
Probate Judge O. P. Duvall, the com
mitting magistrate.
Judge Duvall held that his jurisdic
tion in the case had passed to the
district court with the filing this
morning of the transcript of evidence
in the preliminary examination. Ap
plication for release of Mrs. South
ard on bond will be made in the dis
trict court, her attorneys announced,
with the request that immediate trial
be granted if the bond is denied.
Failing health of . Mrs. Southard
was made a supporting principle in
ti. nnnlii.9i'ni for hand. W. T.
"Trueblood, father of the accused wo
man, said today in the event Mrs.
Southard was granted liberty on
bond she would be taken to the fam
ily home on a ranch near here to
await trial.
Captain Accused of Part
' In Slaying Major Is Heard
Washington, June 18. Capt
Robert Rosenbluth of New York,
who is charged at Tacoma, Wash.,
with having ordered the shooting of
Maj. Alexander Cronkhite at Camp
Lewis, in 1918, will be given a hear
ing today at the Department of
Tustice. Investigation of the- cir
cumstances surrounding the death
of Major Cronkhite was ordered by
Attorney General Daugherty in April
after charges were made implicating
Captain Rosenbluth.
Mnh Storms Jail When it
' Jears Execution Failure
New Orleans, June 18. Police at
the parish jail were rushed by '
crowd here today when it was
iimwi that th execution of Felix
lirbiglia, convicted of murder, seera-
sgly had miscarried, due , io me
ipping of the noose. : . .
di:, hnrV the ' mob and
Birbiglia was pronounced dead near
ly. 30 minutes after the trap was
sprung.
Fenders entirely surround an auto
mobile designed by a North Caro
lina man with a view to protecting
its occupants in event of ay collision
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a woman who happens also to be a
lady."
It was worth weeks of effort to
her her say it. Her voice is low, dis
tinct, musical, with a faint accent
left from her French-speaking child
hood. She puts into the word "lady"
the consciousness of background all
that structure of culture, taste,
lineage, tradition, which we call
aristocracy. She was sitting very
straight in a divan by the fireplace,
her head held high. Somehow the
idea comes of a solution for her
problem; let the world see her sitting
there and let the world hear her say
"lady." If the world could then have
any doubt of her high-minded sincer
ity, it must be indeed a hard old
world. '
But, suddenly, a smile breaks the
ice of her magnificent haughtiness.
Reporter Wept to Secretary j
"It's a funnv thing, life is," she de
clared. "A man came into this draw
ing room once and wept to my sec
retary, swearing that his whole, fu
ture aepenaea upon nis seeing mc.
He was from a cress association. And
a woman came, up the service eleva
tor yesterday and walked ngnt
through the servants, announcing
that she had come to see me and
wouldn't go away until she had.
"They used to bark at me from
$60,000,000 in $200 Gown
Is Married to $10,000,000
Simplicity, press dispatches say, marked the wedding yesterday of Miss
Lolita Armour, reputed to be worth $60,000,000, and John J. Mitchell, jr.,
whose worldly possessions are said to total $10,000,000.
So Lolita wore a wedding costume that cost only $200.
The wedding took place at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at Melody
Farm, the Armour home in Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago..
In her youth Miss Armour was a cripple, but was cured by a noted
German bone specialist She was active in? war work and is popular in
Chicago. ' ,
I These photos of Miss Armour and Mr. Mitchell .were, taken at a wed-
A9ut Siisafljar. uifsmi fiMw' ' .
Years of Progress
th" street curbs It's a little ap
palling, the thought that so many
people in the world are actually
vajv.nsj their living trying to see me.
They snap-shot me everywhere. They
waylay me everywhere."
She grew a little somber.
"When I go out now," she said, "I
have.no more feeling than well, no
more, feeling than that fender by the
fireplace. I think my own thoughts
and try to be fearless try to be
worthy of my ancestors."
Courage and Confidence.
She does not need to try, I thought.
Fearlessness and dignity are her
heritage. In her steady gaze and her
quiet voice there are the courage
and the confidence of a truly great
woman. ,
Certainly a great deal of the char
acter which radiates from her is made
up of the individuality and deter
mination which . she inherited from
her mother,
The romantic career of that
mother, Mrs. Brown Potter of New
York, Paris and London, who left
the pinnacle of social position in this
country to express her artistic am
'bitions on the stage,' will be told in
the next installment. .
Camp Lewis Dynamite Plot
Is Announced by Officers
Tacoma, Wash., June: 18. Intelli
gence officers at Camp" Lewis, near
here, in announcing today the dis
covery of more than 100 pounds of
dynamite hidden within the camp
limits, declared they believed .a plot
which would have meant heavy prop
erty damage and possibly loss of
life had been forestalled. .
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'Kissing Blonde'
Is Poor Witness
For Prosecution
State Witnesses Prove Friend
ly With Mrs. Orthwein,
Charged With Ziegler
Murder.
Chicago, June 18. Trial of Mrs.
Cora Isabelle Orthwein for the mur
der of Herbert P. Ziegler took on
added interest Friday when Mrs.
Charlotte Lewinsky, the beautiful
"kissing blonde" was put on the wit
ness stand.
This is the woman Ziegler, . was
dancing with on the night he . was
killed. He had promised to meet
Mrs. Orthwein at one summer gar
den, but instead he went to anpther
where he met the "kissing blonde,''
drank and danced with her and in
dulged in some wholesale osculatory
performances. Word of this came to
Mrs. Orthwein at the other cafe and
led to the quarrel with Ziegler dur
ing which they threw liquor into
each others faces. After this scene,
Mrs. Oithweien went home and
Ziegler followed her. It is said he
broke down the door to 'her room
and the shooting followed.
The "kissing blonde" did not prove
a very good witness for the state.
She is apparently friendly with Mrs.
nrtWpin and has much svmnathv
for her. To most of the questions
she replied that she "did not re
member." She admitted knowing
7ecrer ahnnt six weeks and told of
many evenings spent at the booze
parlors, armKing aim uaimug.
Dcor Parsons, a broker and a close
friend of Ziegler, was the next wit
ness. His memory also seemed very
i.v ot times and when a dancerous
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hr-iAaa ImH hppn crossed in the aues-
tioning, Mrs. Orthwein would raise
her black veil and smue at nun.
Parsons was with' Mrs. Orthwein in
ti o-irlv nart nf the evenine of the
tragedy. He told of many supper
parties in whicn Dooze piayea a
prominent part on the bill of fare.
H slcr. rplatpriV reluctantly, manv
parties at the wild, all-night cafes,
but the state was unaDie to gei nracn
information from him to strengthen
its case against Mrs. Orthwein.
The prosecution hopes to prove
that jealousy of the "kissing blonde"
was the motive tor me Kiuing ui
7,"oTlor tViat Mrs Orthwein felt she
was losing her hold upon him and
determined to kill rum ratner man
let him go back to his family or
take up with some other woman.
Income Tax Returns in
Chicago Over $25,000,000
rVuVatrn Tune 18. Returns for the
June quarterly income tax payment
in the Chicago district amounted to
$25,110,431, John C. Cannon, col
lector of internal revenue, announced
today. Ninety-eight thousand scnea
ules were returned of the 135,000
sent out, Mr. Cannon said.
Find Mail Sacks
Toneka. Kan., June 18. The five
mail sacks stolen Friday morning at
Baxter Springs, Kan., were found
today in a field five miles west of
McCune. The sacks had been cut
open and rifled and mail strewn
about the field. .
Banana Splits and
Parfaits Knock 'Gaif
Out of 'Gay White Way"
New York. June 18. The old order
changeth. The white bright lights of
Broadway no longer signify gay
white way." Drab days are upon it
and the old habitues are blue.
You can travel the length of Broad
way from the battery to Yonkers
day or nieht and the only way you
can wet your whistle is with an ice
cream soda or an orangeade.
And who the who wants to start
carousing when there is no way to
get jazzed and pepped up, except on
nartaits and banana splits i
The great drouth has tamed the
old path of glory Broadway will
Ineyer ha the same again.
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Lolita Armour
Becomes Bride
Of J. J. Mitchell
Marriage of Packer's Daugh
ter Joins Two of Chicago's
Wealthiest and Socially
Prominent Families.
Chicago, June 18. Miss Lolita Og
den Armour, only child of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, will became
the bride of John J. Mitchell, jr.,
second son of Mr. and Mrs. John J.
Mitchell, at 4 this afternoon at Mel
ody Farm, the luxurious Lake Forest
home of the Armours. The mar
riage will join two of Chicago's
wealthiest and most socially promi
nent families.
The wedding will be remarkable
for its simplicity, the bride having
announced several weeks ago that
her trosseau would pot exceed $200
in value. The ceremony will be per
formed by Bishop Herman Page of
Spoliane, Wash., assisted by Rev.
ichn H. Edwards, of Lake Forest
)uncan Forbes of Rockford, 111.,
will be best man, and the bride will
be attended by Mrs. Robert Hunter
of Pasadena, Cal., sister of the bride
groom, as matron of honor.
The couple will spend their honey
moon at an unannounced place and
later they plan to spend some time at
Santa Barbara, followed by a motor
trip through the Canadian northwest
The bride yesterday was the re
cipient of a gold key, bearing the in
sertion, "a kev to our city," pre
sented to her by Mayor Thompson of
Chicago, lhe key was the wedding
gift of the mayor. The key to the
city has been presented on many oc
casions to prominent visitors but
only in a symbolic sense. Miss Ar
mour is the first person ever to get
the actual key.
The couple is receiving gifts from
all parts of the world. Jade vases,
mink.jobes and thousands of other
costly gifts are in the collection.
Message of Sympathy
Is Sent Mrs. Mason by
President Harding
WoaliMiortnn Tune 18. The con-
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frreccinnal funeral nartv accomnanv-
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incr tfie Snrlw nf the late Renresenta-
tive William E. Mason of Illinois,
who died yesterday, will leave lor
Chicago tomorrow.
Upon arrival in Chicago sunaay
morninir the body will be taken to
the family home. Funeral services
will be held Monday in the Third
Unitarian church.
President Harding today sent a
message of sympathy to Mrs. Mason,
widow of the late congressman. The
president said:
"I learned late this evenine with
very great sorrow of the death of
Mr. Mason, ihe news was a snocs
to both Mrs. Harding and me and
. verv 'cenninplv share the creat
sorrow which has come .to you. It
had been my good tortune to Know
him for many years and I held him
to be not only a,Jjighly patriotic
citizen, and annf public man, but
a most lovableTPwnd and associate.
Girl Burns to Death
Learning to Smoke
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TAn1ir Rtnffa Wn . Tune 18. Clara
T an Ochnme S was burned to death
when her clothing caught fire while
she was attempting to learn how to
smoke.
The little girl was left at her home
near here, yesterday, while her par
ents went to a nearby field to work.
Attracted by screams, they returned
to the house and found her burned
almost to a crisp. Tobacco, matches,
and cigaret papers were touna near
by. Harding Declines to Give
Half Day Off on Saturdays
Washington, June 18. President
Harding has declined to meet a re
quest that government employes in
the District of Columbia be given a
half holiday on Saturday throughout
the year.
In exolanation of his refusal, the
president is understood to have
stated that tne granting oi sucn a
holiday when the need for economy
was paramount would not be in the
interest of the public service.
Governor of Colorado
Declares Pueblo Needs Aid
Colorado Springs, Colo., June 18.
Gov. Oliver H. Shoup of Colorado
in a statement here today disagreed
im'th the nnhlished 'statements of
Secretary of War Weeks that Pueb
lo business men and relief societies
are asking for aid and funds that
are not warranted. "It is impos
sible to exaggerate conditions at
PMr " the envernor said. He
added that the state would continue
to give whatever aid it could to tne
flood victims at Pueblo.
Dutch Cabinet Resigns.
TyinHon. Tune 18. Official an
nouncement of the resignation of the
Dutch cabinet was issued in ine
Hague today, says a dispatch to the
f"ntr-i1 News from thp Dutch canital.
It is understood here the resignation
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Was principally uuc iu ucicm ui nit
second chamber of the Dutch Par
liament of the main clause in the bill
for reorganization of the army.
Ex-Yank Drowned
Mitchell, S. D., June 18. Andrew
M. Voss, 23, who was gassed while
fighting in France and who has been
taking vocational training at the
Mate highway commission in
Mitchell, was drowned in the Fire
steel creek while swimming Friday
evening. Voss' parents live at Castle
wood, S. D.
Governor Cox of Massachusetts
has signed a bill which extends the
48-hour law to motion-picture
houses, laundries, hotels, hairdress
ing establishments, manicuring par
lors, telephone operators in private
exchanges and women elevator
operators.
Steamships
ArrtTed.
Bombay, Jun 13. Brooklyn, Seattle.
Sailed.
Conenharan. Junt IS. Chile. Ban i't&n-
Ford Pays $600,000
Damage Judgment
New York, June 18.T-The Hotel
Woodward company, which won a
judgment "of" $600,376, with interest
from November 20, 1919, against
Henry Ford, has been paid , in full.
The suit. and Ford's subsequent re
fusal to pay; started the rumor that
the Detroit automobile manufacturer
was in financial straits.
The suit was based on an alleged
contest by which the Ford company
agreed to build an addition to the
Hotel Woodward. The addition
never was built and the hotel sued
for .$600,000 damages, winning the
suit "and also on Ford's appeal.
During the last year the member
ship in the One Big Union in Can
ada has dropped to 5,000. In 1919
the memberslipi totalled more than
41,000.
Confidence that is the heritage
of forward looking yesterdays
is the most highly prized and
appreciated possession of
Thompson-Belden &
"Women's dress of today is good and healthy. This is an age of youth
and every one ought to remember' it." Dr. Elizabeth Chesser.
British Miners
Formulate Plan
To Extend Tieup
Executive Committee Decides
To Ask AH, Trades Unions
To Confer on Taking Na
tional Action.
London, June 18. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) The executive com
mittee of the miners union, which
met thin morning to consider the
coal strike situation, decided to ask
all the trades unions affected by th
wage dispute to meet the miner?
representatives at an early date with
the object of taking national action
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with the miner's to secure ihi-ir
mutual demands. Secretary 11oIkim
cf the miners, said this implied ,t
general strike if the other union's
apretd.
Many thousands of miners win)
did not participate in the balloting,
thev result of which w;is announced
yesterday as decidedly against ac
ceptance of the owners' settlement
cifer as well as others who voted in
favor of acceptance arc pteparing to
resume work Monday in response to
notices posted at several nit heads
announcing that' the works would
open Sunday night, according to ad
vices from mining centers today.
Mr. Lloyd George, the prime min
ister, replying today to the notifica
tion given ' him by Frank Hodgrs,
the miners' secretary, of the result '
of the ballot, stated that the govern
ment had no option but to make final
its decision that the 10,000 subsidy
offer would not remain open after
tomorrow night J
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