TIIC 2EE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29. 1921.
Fight Launched
On GrainGrowers'
Pool by Dealers
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" 1 " v o o viEauizaiinna nan
Active Campagn to Combat
All Class Legis
lation.
Cincinnati, O., June 28. Anation
! organization pledged to combat all
class legislation wherever it appears
was formed here today, under the
auspices of the National Grain Deal
ers' association and an active cam
paign against the United States Grain
Growers, Inc., is to be instituted at
once.
Representatives of business or
ganizations from all over the country
were present and while the immediate
object of attack will be made agains
the United States Grain Growers'
reported campaign to pool the farm
ers' grain under a six-year contract,
me scope of the organization as
planned is much wtdcr.
Resolutions adopted declared that
the grain trade and general business
interests are directly menaced by ad
verse legislation both state and na
tional, arising on demand of or
ganized special interests. The resolu
tions declare such legislation to be
vicious and "deplore the attempt of
special interests by class legislation
to break down the present competi
tive individualistic business principle
ivauiraiic control.
. Practically all of the great busi
ness associations connected with the
handling of foodstuffs either in the
raw or finished state are expected,
it was said, to join the association.
JThese include the United States
Chamber of Commerce and other
Chambers of commerce; the Millers'
National federation f the Flour as
sociation; the National Feed Dealers
association; the National Hay as
sociation; the National Cotton Grow
ers association; growers of potatoes
and of produce; Wholesale Grocers'
association; country grain elevators;,
all state grain dealers' associations:
all grain exchanges, country banks
and exporters on both the Atlantic
and Pacific coast.
The work of organization will be
carried on by. the Grain Dealers' Na
tional association, supported by the
interests represented today. A cen-
tral organization to provide speakers'
and educational literature will be
established at Chicago at once.
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Ex-Yank Without
A Memory May
Be Nehraskan
Room Still Closed
Negro Waiters From Lincoln
Serve Patrons in Indian
Lunch Room.
The main dining room of the
Hotel Fontenelle was still closed at
noon yesterday as the result of a
strike of waiters, waitresses, cooks
titchen help Monday night, fol-
a cut 411 wages. ,
indi'Jri" lunch room was run
ning, patrons beinjTServed by negro
waiters.
s About IS negro waiters were
brought here from Lincoln yes
terday to take the places of the
strikers, according to Charles Mc
Kee, business representative of the
Waiters' and Waitresses' union.
These men were formerly employes
of the Epplcy hotel at Lincoln, Mc
Kee says, but when they learned a
strike was in progress at the Fon
tenelle most of them refused to work,
he savs.
"We have asked the organizer of
colored waiters to come from Chi
cago to Omaha at once," said Mc
Kee. "I think he will keep the col
ored waiters from taking our places,
under the circumstances."
McKee said all those on strike
were determined to resist any change
from the existing verbal agreement
"How do you painters feel about this craze for old masters?" "It makes us wish we were dead."
Published by arrangement with Life.
$5,000 Demanded
Blackmailer
On Pain of Death
By
Lincoln Legion Men
"Like" Dempsey" Tool
Prominent Des Moines Capi
talists Threatened by Letter,
Evidently Sent by Edu
cated Man,
Des Moines, June 28. (Special
Telegram.) Demand of $5,000 in
gold on pain of death by poison gas
as they sleep has been sent to Rob
ert and Stanhope Fleming, promi
nent Des Moines capitalists.
The demand was sent by mail
June 17, signed with the name
"Khad." , :
"Leave $51)00 in gold at the home
of Stanhope Fleming, 1815 Grand
avenue, or you and your families
will die by poison gas while you are
asleep," the letter said.
It. apparently was written by a
man well educated and well read.
The construction and choice of
words were excellent and the signa
ture was that of an ancient mythical
god, one who sat in judgment in the
underworld.
The letter covered several closely
typewritten pages and began with a
logical sequence 01
Bluffs Boosters
Off on Trade Tour
Lincoln, June 28. (Special Tele
gram.) American Legion post No. 3
of Lincoln, sent the following mes
sage to George Carpentier following
its meeting Monday night: .
"Monsieur George Carpentier:
Lincoln post No. 3 of the American
Legion earnestly hopes that you will
pulverize Jack Dempsey next Satur
day. The ex-service men of General
Pershine's home-town look to vou
strate to the world the Dualities of ! Chamber of. Commerce hopped off
75 C. of C. Men Strike Out on
Trip Through Southwest
ern Iowa.
In a blare of jazz music, auto
mobile klaxons and singing 75
boosters of the Council Bluffs.
a real lighting man."
sequence 01 arguments.
under which they had been working I pointing out that millions of dollars
until this cut was announced. I are paid for blackmail every year m
1 tne Tjnited States.
I am coming to 'you tor tnis
money because I know you can af
ford it," the letter said. "Of course,"
Man Drowns After Rescue
Of Companion From River
Des Moines, la., June 28. R. L.
Richardson, employe of a local
amusement park, was drowned in the
Dos Moines river here this afternoon
after he had succeeded in rescuing
Mis Donna Risher. local newsDaoei
voman, from a swift under-current.
Mtss Risher, who was leainmn to
J4w.n1, was being assisted by Rich
fardsop, when the pair were suddenly
swept out into the channel of the
stream by the switt current. Kicnara-
son succeeded in Dringmg aiiss
Risher to the opposite shore and
V himself within a few feet of
it?ty. 11 is thougnt ne was ex
hausted by his effort
New U. S District Dry Head
v Meets Rum Sleuths Here
Federal prohibition agents had a
brief conference with Emerson E.
Hunt of Minneapolis, new enforce
ment supervisor tor tne Northwest
ern district, Monday night at the
Ccnant hotel.
This was Hunt's first official "visit
to Omaha. He came to get ac
quainted with the Nebraska agents
and make a survey of conditions
here.
Hunt wilt try t make - Omaha
once a month, he told the prohibi
tion agents. He also spent some
time in Council Bluffs.
Rain in South Dakota
Brings Relief to Crops
Sioux Falls, S. D., June 28. Rain,
the first in three weeks, -was falling
tonight in eastern and southeastern
South Dakota, bringing some relief
to croos that were being burned by
the excessive heat It was accom
panied by a heavy wind and some
hail, however, which flattened a part
fif til errain alrjtarlv ura1rtiif tv tfii
long drouth and heat With the
coming of the rain, the temperature
here changed rapidly, the thermom
eter registering 94 degree at 7:30
and 68 at 9:30.
Fire Destroys Truck
Fairbury, Neb., June 28. (Spe
cial.) A truck owned by F. W.
Guthrie of Fairbury and its load of
merchandise were destroyed by fire
" the road between Fairbury and
Hubbell. Defective wiring is thought
.to have caused the fire, , 1
the letter went on to say, "there
must be some means of enforcing the
demand. For that reason death
must be inflicted if the money is not
paid by June 23."
Painless and silent deaths, so as
not to arouse a furor, was threaten
ed by the blackmailer.
"Poison gas will be released in
your homes. You never will know;
you will never make up," the letter
said.
Another Suspect in Death
Of Teacher Is Arrested
Des Moines, June 28. Following
discovery of a blood-stained shirt in
his home and his sudden flight from
the city, William Hoop of Valley
Junction, was arested at Guthrie
Center, la., today and is held in con
nection with the murder of Miss
Barbara Thorsdale, school teacher,
in a woods near Valley Junction
June 2.-
Hoop had been under surveillance
since the murder, it was revealed by
the sheriff. .
Six Nebraska Educators
Go East by Automobile
Washington, June 28. (Special
Telegram.) Superintendent A. J.
Stoddard of the Beatrice schools and
Mrs. Stoddard, Miss Mabel Labell
and Miss Cecila Hoehne, teachers in
the same school. Supt.W. H. Mor
ton of the Fairbury schools and
Supt L. R. Gregory of the Tecumseh
schools were in Washington today
en route to Columbia university
where they will do summer school
work. They motored from Nebras
ka in a seven-passenger car and have
had a most enjoyable trip.
Lads Far From Home Fall
Into Hands of the Police
Two boys, both 16, showing signs
of wear and tear, were arrested early
this morning by Patrolman Carl
Zich as they were hiking along at
Thirteenth and Jackson streets.
Zich reported to headquarters both
boys admitted to him they were
runaways.
They gave their names and home
towns as Clayton Beadle, Casper,
Wyo., and Clarence Lewis, Chicago.
They will be turned over to the
juvenjj.f authorities, 1
Grasshopper Army
Met and Defeated by
n 1 1 t?
UMoraao farmers
Colorado Springs, Colo., June 28,
Modern methods of "fighting in
sect pests have put to rout the grass
hopper army that has threatened to
occupy El Paso county, Colorado
Judge Hale, county farm agent an
nounced. Originating in the south
ern portion of the county, countless
millions of grasshoppers, most of
them very young, were advancing
northward at the rate of a mile a
day, Mr. Hale said, eating virtually
all of the vegetation in their path as
they proceeded.
Saturday the army had entrenched
itself over a front of more than 15
miles, it was estimated today. Thr
invaders were met by a farmers'
army of defense'. Led by Mr. Hale
and a government pest expert, 20C
farmers met the grasshoppers with
poisoned bran and molasses. Irri
gation ditches are piled high with
the dead insects over a wide are?
and the planes are strewn with their
corpses.
The danger of further invasion to
night was considered over and the
farmers are being mustered out of
service.
No Jury Obtained to
Try Kansas Miners
Columbus, Kan., June 28. No
jury was obtained today for the
trial of Alexander Howat and Au
gust Dorchy, officials of the Kan
sas miners' union, charged with vio
lating the criminal provisions of the
Kansas industrial court law by call
ing a strike. A special venire was
ordered drawn late today.
Howat, president, and Dorchy,
vice president of the union, are al
leged to have been guilty of violat
ing the law in calling a strike at the
mine of the George K. Mackey Fuel
company at Scammon last February.
A demonstration, planned ' by
friends of the accused men, did not
appear likely when court adjourned
tonight.
The feature of today's session
was a clash between J. E. Sheppard,
attorney for Howat, and Judge Boss,
when Sheppard dramatically
charged that "there is a conspiracy
to destroy union labor."
Grand Island Flyer Dies
Of Injuries Suffered in Fall
Atlantic, la., June 29. Paul Green
of Grand Island, Neb., who wa
piloting the airplane which crashed
to the ground at Red Oak Sunday,
killing Donald Seefelt, high school
boy, died of his injuries, according
to word reaching here.
Elects Officers for Year
Toledo, O., June 28. The Loyal
Order of Moose in national conven
tion here elected James F. Griffin
of Boston, supreme dictator; Ed
ward J. Heming of San Diego, Cal.,
now assistant to Secretary of Labor
Davis, as governor of Mooseheart,
and Funk J. Monahan of San Fran
ciico. Supreme prelate.
at 7 a. m. yesterday inA.caravan of
automobiles for their annual trade
tour through southwestern Iowa.
The 168th infantry band led the
wav. which was mapped out the
Blue Grass trail past the Iowa
School for the Deaf and into Glen
wood for the first stop.
The boosters, laden with souvenirs,
goodfellowship and high spirits,
hit the trail as far south as Ham
burg yesterday afternoon, doubled
back to Red Oak where they spent
the night and start out again bright
and early this morning."
This tour was postponed from
last week because of the .sudden
death of Julius. Ungar, who was
chairman of the committee in charge.
The boosters expect to reach Coun
cil Bluffs tomorrow night.
"OH" Coomes, Pioneer
Settler and Fiction
Writer, Dies in Crash
Atlantic, la., June 28. (Special
Telegram.) Oliver (Oil) Coomes,
pioneer of Atlantic and father of
Mayor Arthur K. Coomes, was in
stantly killed in an automobile ac
cident near Storm Lake. He and
Mr. Coomes were motoring to Rock
Rapids. ,
The message received here telling
of the accident gave few details. It
is said that Mr. Coomes' head was
crushed when the car went into a
ditch. Mrs. Coomes sustained three
broken ribs.
Mr. Soomes was born in Licking
county, O., in 1845. He came to
Iowa with his parents when 11 years
old, the family settling in Jasper
county. In 1870 he and his wife
came to Cass county, settlipg on a
farm near Atlantic. ,
While living on the farm, Mr.
Coomes, using the pen name of "Oil
Coomes," wrote scores pf western
fiction stories. These were pub
lished in eastern weekly journals
and in book form. Tens of thou
sands of copies of these books were
sold.
First Sugar Beet Farm
Being Operated Near Ord
Ord, Neb., June 28. (Special.)
ihe first farm with sugar beets as
a major crop irt this section of the
state is now being operated by Alex
ander Lond, who considered the ad
visability of beginning the cultiva
tion of sugar beets a few months
ago. He found a market at Grand
Island. Both the soil and climate
are right for sugar beets.
Hearing Will Determine
Success of Sunday. Train
Ord, Neb., June 28. (Special.)
There will be a hearing at Central
City July 8 to determine the suc
cess of the local Sunday train on
the Burlington branch which was to
have a trial run of several weeks.
There is not much passenger traffic
on the Sunday train now.
Wheat Needs Rain
Ord, Neb., June 28. (Special.)
Valley county wheat and oats are
much better than they have been
in preceding years, but they are
now badly in need of rain, farmers
say. ' ,
Variously Identified After
Wound in Head Wiped Past
From Mind Believed
Once Seen Here.
Who is he?
Hit on top of the head by a
fragment of bursting shell in France
his past was sealed. He does not
know his real name, whence he
came, or wno are nis relatives.
He regained consciousness in uc-
tober, 1918, in a hospital in France.
He was treated in various hospitals.
Someone in France said they be
lieved he was from Sacramento, Cal.
His shiftine about took him to the
Plattsburg barracks in New York,
thence to the Letterman general hos
pital in San Francisco.
Identified as "Osborne.
Authorities have appealed to the
Omaha police to aid in establishing
his identity because latest develop
ments are that he was identified a
year and a half ago in San Francisco
by a man named Leroy as "Os
borne." Leroy said he knew "Osborne m
Ainsworth, Neb., and Omaha, where
he had come from Australia. His
mother's name was Sarah Osborne
and his sister's name Nan Osborne,
accordinar to Lerov.
The American Legion at that time
wrote these persons letters and ai
thoueh receipts were received show
ing that the letters were delivered,
no replies were received.
Variously Recognized.
When he came to consciousness in
France, no one seemed able to
identify the soldier.
Someone said he was Fred OS'
borne, son of Governor Osborne of
Michigan. Another claimed to re
cognize him as Sgt E. W. O'Leary
ot California, and the hospital sur
geon booked him under that name.
Peggy Lynch was a nurse in the
French hospital where he was treat
ed. They were married m New
York. O'Leary learned from Gov
ernor Osborne his son was in
Florida.
The governor saw a close resemb
lance, however, between the "name
less soldier" and his son.
Everything Strange.
When O'Leary reached Sacramen
to, icverything was strange to him.
When he was pronounced a hope
less case at the Letterman hospital,
his wife left him and he has not
heard from her.
All this information comes from
Max P. Fisher, superintendent of
criminal identification of the Sacra
mento police department, in his ap
peal to Chief Dempsey.
O'Learv is about 24 years old. He
is 5 feet, 7 3-4 inches tall, weighs 145
pounds, is light complexioned, has
chestnut colored wavy hair and blue
eyes.
WHO IS HE?
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Democrats Rap
Frelinghuysen Bill
Attack Seasonal Rates for
Coal As Plan to Increase
Winter Price.
Table Rock Carpenter Is
Shot and Badly Wounded
Table Rock. Neb., June 28. (Spe
cial.) John R. Boyd, who was shot
and dangerously wounded near Dun
bar, Neb., was a resident of labie
Rock. His wife and 8-year-old
daughter live here. Mr. Boyd was
at Dunbar temporarily working at.
the carpenter business and had made
all preparations to come home on
his regular week-end visit to his
family. He is said to have been
taken to Omaha for treatment.
Omaha Salesman Killed
In Auto Wreck in Oregon
. Portland, Ore., June 28. (Special
Telegram.) Jack Whitemore, . trave
ling salesman for the Omaha Hotel
Towel Supply company, was in
stantly killed when an automobile
failed to make a turn on the Colum
bia highway near Clatskanie. He was
one of a party of six en route for
the seaside who are said to have had
three bottles of Scotch whisky.
Whitemore's body is in St Helens,
Ore., awaiting inquest.
Washington, June 27. The first of
the Frelinghuysen coal bills, provid
ing for seasonal rates, was attacked
today by Senator Underwood, demo
cratic leader, as an example of "the
old republican idea of using the
power of government to -help one
man and hurt another, and to foster
one industry at the expense of
others." The bill was "unjust," he
declared, and would force domestic
users to pay $2.50 a ton more for
coal in the winter. "This is a ser
ious sum for the toiler," he added,
"especially in these republican times
of soup kitchens, bread lines and un
employment." Senator Frelinghuysen, sponsor',
for the measures, retorted that the
Alabama senator was making a par
tisan and unfair argument and that
the Interstate Commerce commission
would insure justice in applying
rates. . .
"Interstate Commerce commission
car orders during 1920 made a coal
shortage much worse," Senator
Reed, democrat, Missouri, interjected.
2 Men and 2 Girls Sitting in
Auto at 5 A. M. Arrested
Two men and two girls, about 17,
sitting in an automobile at Seven
teenth and Farnam streets at 5 yes
terday morning, aroused the suspi
cions of Patrolman Charles Whalen.
He asked them several question
pertaining to the car, which they
did not answer satisfactorily, and
he took them into custody for in
vestigation.
They gave the names of Freda
and Clarice Willman, John Boyle
and Cecil Thompson, all. of Lincoln
The identification tag in the ma
chine was made out to W. E. Sander
Normal, Neb.
Man and Married Woman
Arrested at Fairbury
Fairbury, Neb., June 28. (Spe
cialsFrank Annon, ' former em
ploye of the Rock Island at Belief
ville, a single man, and Elsie Edle
man, with a husband and five chil
dren, at Eldorado, Kan., lately J
placed under arrest here on a charge
of viola tin sr the Mann act. have been
taken back to Eldorado. , John, El- I
sie s husband, was cruel and beat I
her, according to her story, and An
non, boarding with them, took her
to Fairbury, where they were ar
rested in a rooming house.
One of Bandit Pair
Shot While Robbing
Store; Both Escape
Des Moines, June 28. (Special
Telegram.) Leaving a trail of
blood behind them in the general
store of Crispen & Duncan, two
robbers escaped after being pursued
at an early hour today by C. L.
Huston, a Waukee barber.
The bandits were surprised in the
act of rifling the store till by Hus
ton, who fired a volley of four shots
from a shotgun through the glass
door of the establishment. After
striving for some time to effect an
escape through " the rear door, the
"inside" bandit finally broke out of
a window and was picked up by his
companion waiting in a red car. No
money or goods were taken from
the store in the flight of the rob
bers from Waukee.
That one of the robbers was seri
ously wounded by the shots from
the gun of Huston was evident from
the trail of blood on the floor, coun
ters and back door of the store.
Construction on Hebron
Library Will Start Soon
Hebron, Neb., June 28. (Special.)
Hebron will soon commence work
on a new $12,000 public library
building. The adopted plans call
for a structure 36x38 feet to be
erected on the "corner of Fourth
street and Olive avenue, one-story
and full basement The board has
about $13,000 to spend for library
purposes, left by the will of the late
L. O. Secrist, a benefactor and
philantrophist of this city.
Streets to Be Paved
Ord, Neb., June 28. (Special.)
Thirty blocks of paving will be laid
here this year. ; . J
Negro's Jig Feet
Fly as Gun Barks
That Was One of Hair-Raising
Stunts at Big Revel of
Grain Men.
George, negro janitor at the Grain
Exchange, essayed to jig for the out-of-town
grain men being entertained
at dinner Monday night by the Oma
ha Grain exchange, but his feet lagged
a bit and Sam Carlisle, grain man,
drew a revolver, iifed several shots
at George's feet which then fairly
flew. The shots were blanks, but
they did the work.
That was only one of the hair
raising stunts nulled off at the ban
quet. Sailor Burns and Kid Roi
gal matched fists and kept in their
ring all over the audience.
M. M. Day, the speaker of the
evening, told of the Chicago Board
of Trade's fight against' the Lante
bills at Springfield, 111. Mr. Day is
a Chicago grain man.
The banquet adjourned to the Ak-Sar-Bcn
Den after the dinner. Frank
Taylor was chairman of the com
mittee in charge.
Wheat Yield Near Superior
Better Than Expectations
Superior, Neb., June 28. (Special.)
Considerable of the wheat yield in
this part of Nebraska 'is above the
expectations of the growers; many
farmers estimating the yield at
from 18 to 25 bushels an acre, white
the more conservative place it at from
12 to 15. In many of the fields the
heads are short and not very well
filled and the stand is somewhat thin
in some other fields. Similar condi
tions prevail generally in the whole
northern and central Kansas wheat
belt.
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v v cities of the Pacific Northwest Port
land, with Mt. Hood as its back-ground
Tacoma and Seattle, with their magnificent
harbors on Puget sound.
At the same time see the famous Columbia
River Highway and the great perpetually
snow-capped mountains of the North Pacific
coast To Alaska from Seattle is an incom
parable ocean voyage through "inland seas."
' Go also to Mt. Rainier National Park, the "Mountain that was
God" with its Nisqually Glacier bordered by brilliant wild
flowers. Return by way of California and Salt Lake City. Visit
Yellowstone National Park on the way.
Two splendidly equipped through trains from Omaha the
. Oregon-Washington Limited and the Continental Limited.
Low Summer Fares. Now in Effect
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