Nebraska Newspapers

    The Omaha Daily Bee
VOL. 51 NO. 70.
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OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1921.
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Witness In
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Case Grilled
District Attorney Quizzes
Movie Bathing Girl Whose
Storiea to Police and
Grand Jury Differed.
Rappe Inquest Resumed
San Francisco, Sept. 13. Miss
Vey Trovost, motion picture bathing
girl, was questioned by District
Attorney Brady today regarding tes
timony die save before the
grand jury in supposed conflict with
her other statements to the authori
ties concerning tier interest in the
l.otel party where Miss Virginia
Rappe, motion picture actress, is, al
leged to have received the injuries
from which she died. Simultaneous
ly Koscoe Arbuckle, motion picture
comedian, who is charged with
murdering Miss Rappe. went before
a coroner's jury ill the second day of
the inquest into the actress ucatn.
District Attorney Brady said he
was going to endeavor to determine
if Miss Provost, who is afco known
as Vey Pyvron, was Induced to com
mit perjury in her grand jury testi
mony last night. This testimony
differed widely with statements made
00.0 himself and Captain of Detec
tives Matheson, Brady said.
Mrs. Delrnont Testifies.
Mrs. Bambina Maude Dclmcnt,
who brought the murder charge
against Arbuckle, was the first wit
ness at the inquest today.
Mrs. Delrnont began her testimony
by saying she met Miss Rappe and
Al Semnacher, Miss Rappe's man
ager, in Los Angeles by appoint
ment and they drove to San Fran
cisco, arriving Sunday night Sep
tember 4.
While jbIic and Miss Rappe were
eating breakfast the next day, a tele
phone call was received by Miss
Rappe that a Mr. Arbuckle wanted
'to see them all at the St. Francis
hotel. Miss Rappe went to
Arbuckle's room alone and then
telephoned for. Mrs. Delrnont an:l
Semnacher to join her in Arbuckle's
suite. There Mrs. Delrnont testified,
she met Arbuckle, Lowell Sherman,
Ira C Fortlouis and Frederick Fisch
bach. There were many bottles on
the table in the room. Miss Rappe
had three drinks of gin and orange
juice and Mrs. Delrnont had about
10 drinks of whisky.. Two more
girls came in who she learned later
were Alice Blake and Vey Pyvron.
7 ' t Hears Screams.
The Rappe girl rose and went into
the bathroom off Arbuckle's room.
When she came out of the bathroom
Arbuckle w,as in his room.. He closed
the. door. ... - ' ' : . W- '-.
' Here she testified that she had
"heard that Miss Rappe was dragged
into the room," but the court ruled
this testimony out. - ;
She heard screams coming from
the room about an hour later and
demanded that Arbuckle open the
' door. He did so and it was noted
, that he was wearing Miss Rappe's
hat and the pajamas he was wearing
were . wet with ; perspiration. The
Rappe girl was on the bed tearing at
her clothing and screaming. .
"I am hurt. I am dying. ;. He did
it."' . v.,'.'- ;r "
She removed the girl's '.clothing
and, assisted by Fischbach, placed
her in a tub of cold watet. This
had no effect and so Miss Rappe was
taken to another room and put to
bed. '
Affected by Testimony.
Arbuckle kept his eyes fixed on
t!.e witness throughout her testi
mony and he appeared to be some-1
what affected by it. ', .-.-.
While Mrs. Delrnont was testify
ing District Attorney, Brady .an
rounced that Alice Blake, who was
reported last night to have dropped
irom sight, had been located and was
in his office to submit to an examina
tion. "Miss Blake explained, accord
ing to Brady, that she had gone from
her home in Berkeley to a friend in
Oakland in order to avoid publicity
and notoriety.
Mrs. Delrnont finished her tesi
nony at noon. Arbuckle took more
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Spanish War Veterans Hold
Meeting at Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Sept. 13 Pension
legislation and a resolution urging
letention of Spanish war veterans in
the federal service without demotion,
were before the annual encampment
of the United Spanish War veterans
today. .'
William F.' Lueper of New York,
last night, was elected supreme
grandissimo of the Military Organ
ization of Seprents, composed of
Soanish war-veterans. K L. Gun-
ther, Los Angeles, was elected a
trustee. '-..;
Fifty Warships Assist in
Search for Missing Boys
San Diego, Gal., Sept. 13. With
their powerful searchlights flashing
over San Diego Bay, SO warships
aided last night in the finding of two
boys, Philip Watkins, aged 4, and
Charles Sherbno, 5 years old, who
disappeared trom tneir nomes m
Coronado yesterday.
A boat from the destroyer Bailey
found the two little fellows shortly
1 after midnight asleep in a row boaf.
The little boat was reported half full
of water. s -
'Louisiana Legislature
Would Ban Secret Societies
Baton Routre.' La.. Sept 13. A
bill to prohibit organization of secret
societies whose membership is not
known publicly and to provide pen
alties therefor was introduced in tne
Louisiana legislature foday. The
bill also would prohibit street parades
in disguise that seek to regulate by
threats 'of punishment the conduct
f persons. r- "
Cop, Character Which Gave
Fatty His Start, Is Nemesis
From His Cell Film Star Views With Grim Reality
Operations of Those He Burlesqued in
"Breaking In" Days.
Washington, Sept. 13. From liii
cell in San Francisco Koscoe
"Fatty" Arbuckle views with grim
reality the operations of thoe whom
he burlesqued so successfully in tne
breaking-in period of hit meteoric
screen career.
The comedy policeman hi first
movie part long ago died a "fade
out." Now comes a "close up" of
the tragic officer of the law whose
investigation of the death of Mis
Virginia Rappe, landed him in jail
on a charge of first degree murder.
Sidelights on the screen debut of
the rotund comedian were revealed
today by Walter Newman, "Fatty's"
first stage manager and later his
"movie" director. Mr. Newman is
appearing at a local vaudeville the
ater in a playlet of his authorship.
Started at 130 Per.
Arbuckle, according to his first
manager, made his bow on the stage
at the modest salary of $30 a week
a thousandth part of the income ho
now is reputed to enjoy.
Later as a "Mack Sennett police
man" he worked "extra parts for a
remuneration both uncertain and less
than his original salary
"I gave Roscoe his first part in a
stock company I was managing In
Long Beach, Cal., said Mr. Newman.
"From the very first 'side' handed
him, he capitalized his huge bulk in
every part he played with the intel
ligence and discrimination which has
brought him to stardom in the screen
world.
Nearly Broke Up Show.
"I will never forget his first ap
pearance although for it nearly broke
up the show, both literally and fig
uratively. "We were playing a mclod.ama in
which I, as the hero, was supposed
to be at the point of death. The other
characters had- aproached the bed
side on tiptoe with hushed voices,
but when Arbuckle's cue cimc he
improvised his entrance by tripping
Deaths in Texas
Flood Reach 200
Late Reports From Stricken
Sections Show Heavy ,
Loss.
Dallas. Tex.. SeDt. 1J. Overnight
newspaper reports from portions of
central Texas flooded as the result
of torrential rams last iTiuay and
Saturday brought the unofficial
death list to nearly 200.Communica
tion with the affected area still was
more or less demoralized today, but
with the. high waters in the Colo
rado,' Brazos, San Gabriel and other
streams rapidly receding . normal
conditions were in prospect.
Most serious loss ot lite occurred
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in an uaDnei river ,-; luwiauus m
Williamson and Mitam counties, ac
cording to last night's developments.
More than 100 bodies have been re
covered in these two counties,, re
ports said. Property damage there
was said to be large.
In addition to ban Antonio, wnere
the list of dead stood at 49, over
night reports showed the following:
Thorndale, 4a Mexicans orownea.
Lane Port, 23 Mexicans dead.
Elm Grove, 29 Mexicans.
San Gabriel, 10 dead, including
eight Mexicans.
Alligator creek, live Mexicans.
Taylor, six persons drowned.
Lawrence Creekj three.
Redville, two. '
Between Gause and Valley Junc
tion in Brazos bottoms, 20.
Previous reports of two deaths at
Georgetown were confirmed today.
J. H. Cobb and wite, an agea
couple, were drowned m a small
creek, which suddenly had become
a raging torrent.
Mrs. Lydia Southard
Arraigned for Murder
Twin Falls, Idaho, Sept.' 13. Mrs.
Lydia Southard was arraigned to
day in district court here on a charge
ox first degree murder of her fourth
husband, Edward F, Meyer, here last
fall. She took the statutory 24 hours'
period in which to enter her plea.
Mrs. Southard appeared in court
with her left hand bandaged. One
of her attorneys stated that she had
scratched .her hand and infection had
set in. Her demeanor was cool and
collected as it was -when she ap
peared in court for preliminary ex
amination soon after being brought
back from Honolulu to answer the
murder charge. ... . .
Speaker at Church Meet .
Says It Has Failed Women
London, Sept. 13. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) Appeals to Englisn
women to demand prohibition in
Great Britain were made by Mrs.
Norman Sargent, Wesleyan church,
and other speakers at this morning's
session of the world's Methodist
conference.
Mrs. Nellie McClung, Canadian
Methodist church, . asserted the
church had failed to help women
solve their problems. -.
Aged Beggar Hermit Dies
Leaving Estate of $100,000
Chicago, Sept. 13. "French Sal"
84 years old, who died yesterday in
a dreary little attic room was found
today to have securities declared to
aggegate $100,000 in value hidden in
her room. For years she begged
' from the well to do near her home
and dispensed philanthropy to the
Lpoor. tier identity is not Known.
Congressman Dies
Washington, Sept. 13. Represen
tative Samuel M. Taylor of Arkan
sas, died at his home here early to
day, after an illness of several weeks
with pleurisy and pneumonia
ponderoutly over one foot, turning
a complete somrrault and iunrl"
til heav ilv in the middle ct
stage that lie oroke three ioa:a -
With the audience .convut-ed V,V0 ..uuyler-Dropped in
he himself shaking with laui.l-.ter
hat he could not continue tor vei.
al minutes, Mr. Newman declared
that the play had to be finished as a
farce.
Encouraged by his tuccurt as a
comedian, Arbuckle developed his
comedy methods in much the same
manner that they are now to be seeu
on the screen.
Longtd for Drama.
"But like all comedaius, he thirsted
to play straight dramatic Dins and
kept after me until I assigned hiiu
the role of the bereaved father in
the "Half Breed" more with the idea
of convincing him that his forte was
comedy than with any hope that he
could put it across. What was the
surprise of us all then to fir.d that
he not only handled the part well,
but so sunk his personality in the
role that those in the audience who
had known him only as a comedian
could not be convinced that it was
the same man."
While playing in tabloid musical
comedies known to the profession as
"tabs" Arbuckle met a girl in the
chorus named Minta Durfee. whom
he married, but from whom he later
became separated. Mr. Newman said.
Following a tour of the Orient
with a musical comedy company,
Arbuckle essayed the "movies" and
was given a chance to play "extra"
comedy roles with the Mack Sennett
company for whom Mr. Newman
was directing.
"The marked intelligence of Ar
buckle made him stand out from the
other burlesque 'policemen' and it
was this more than his physical
qualities which brought him to star
dom," Arbuckle's first manaair as
serted. Mrs. Schnorr Gets
Divorce Decree
Maiden Name, Metz, Restored
To Her; Husband Fails
To File Answer.
William F. Schnorr did not resist
the suit of his wife, Harriet fetz
Schnorr, for a divorce and the de
cree was granted her by District
Judge ', Leslie yesterday afternoon.
Schnorr did not file an answer nor
apical ill tuuu. . , , ;-
. ne is a caugrucr ot rrcu .uciz,
wealthy former brewer, and the bed
ding on June 7, 1916, was a notable
social event here. Mrs. Schnorr was
prominent in society and a princess
of Ak-Sar-Ben. She is a sister of
Charles E. Metz and a niece of
Charles Metz.
Schnorr is a son of T. J. Schnorr,
Council Bluffs. He was a captain in
the Dodge Light guards which be
came Company L, 168 infant', dur
ing the war. He resigned his com
mission before the war.
Mrs. Schnorr's maiden name was
restored. She alleged in her petition
for divorce that her husband had re
fused to speak to her for 12 months
except to criticise and upbraid her.
She said her mental distress was to
great that she lost SO pounds in
weight and she finally left their hand
some home, S024 Davenport street,
May 11. 1920. . ,
Negro Bell Boys Beaten
By Mob in Austin, Tex.
Austin, Tex.,-Sept. -'13. Unmasked
men late Monday night' seized Sher
man White and Theodore Feamsters,
negro bell boys in local hotels.- took
them to a secluded spot in the coun
try and whipped them severely. The
negroes were then brought back
into town in an automobile, dumped
out on a down town street and
ordered to go to the office of the
Austin American and relate to a re
porter the story of the occutrence.
The negroes said they were over
powered and taken into the country
where straps were applied to them.
They declare that from 25 to 50 men
participated in the attack.
Persons who saw the negroes
ejected from the automobile, stated
their captors wore goggles and
were attired in overalls. No trace of
them has been found. The negroes
could assign no reason for the attack.
Moonshiners Fined $500
Each for Operating Still j
They tnake moonshine, oh yes, but
they wouldn't sell any, even to their
own- brothers, Charles Lewis and
James Ewing told District Judge
Troup yesterday, after officers found
a still in their possession. .
The judge sentenced them to three
months each in the county jail, and
fines of $500 each.
Swedish Woman Labor
Leader Elected to Parliament
Stockholm, . Sept. 13. Miss Kcr
stcn Hesselgreu, for many year a
labor leader in Sweden, has been
elected at Gothenburg as a member
of the first chamber of the Swedish
Parliament Miss Hesselgren, who
enjoys a wide acquaintance in Amer
ica, will be the first woman to hold
a seat in this chamber.
Quebec Votes Wet
Quebec, Que Sept. 13. The city
of Quebec voted itself wet Monday
by an overwhelming majority, esti
mated at 12,000 in a total poll of
25,000. The effect of the Toting will
be to repeal the existing local op
tion law and place the city under
the province liquor statute, where
the state vends " intoxicants in its
wo. dispensaries.
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Holders of
Mill Stock
To Lose All
n Wells.
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Court.
Funds Refused by Banks
Stockholders lose all in the failure
of the Wells-Abbott-Xieman com
pany, largest milling concern in the
state.
Efforts to reopen the mill at
Schuyler, through the issue of $100,
000 in receivers' certificates had to
be dropped, after application for the
order was made to Federal Judge
Woodrough, because four outside
creditor banks declined to advance
additional funds.
This admission was made yester
day by Judge Howard Kennedy of
the Tetcrs Trust company, whicn,
with W. J. Coad, is receiver for the
defunct company.
Sale Order Expected.
An order from the judge to sell
all the property is expected after the
inventories are hied and notices sent
to the creditors, Kennedy declared.
"There is but one chance to save
the mill and that is to get some one
to buy in and effect a "corganiza
tion," said Kennedy.
"The plant and holdings are of
immense value, so that even if this
is not done before the receiver's
sale some one will undoubtedly step
in and undertake to operate the mill,
instead of letting it go by the
boards."
Liquidation Authorized.
The receivers already have been
authorized to collect and reduce to
money the liquid assets of the com
pany and to sell out everything not
necessary to the immediate opera
tion of the business. Among the
items offered for sale are member
ships to the Chicago Board of Trade
and Omaha and Lincoln grain ex
changes. The four outside banks whose de
cision not to invest more money pre
vents the reopening of the Schuyler
mill are the Atlantic National bank
of New York, to which the com
pany is indebted already to the ex
tent of $69,598; the Continental and
Commercial of Chicago, with $143,
380 at stake: the Corn Exchange Na
ional of Chicago, $60,560; Hath
away, Smith, Folds & Co., of Chi
cago, $50,000. ,
Omaha Bank 'Willing. ' ' ...
Tlie Omaha National' bank, al
ready involved : to -the - extent , of
106,6Zb- was willing ; to;f advance
mort ; money i to help out in- this
emergency, according to Kennedy,
but the eastern banks declined to do
SO. ' ; '
They preferred to get out as much
as they could without any more
risk," said Kennedy.
"Whether they will be able to col
lect 100 cents on the dollar depends
on what price the mill and other
property will bring." "
, Asked for $100,000.
The . liquid assets, of the company
are $325,848, and. its other property
$721,924, according to' the receivers'
report on file in the federal court.
In addition to 4,649 shares of out
standing common stock valued at
$464,900 and 4,750 shares' of pre
ferred 7 per cent cumulative stock,
valued at $475,000, there were cur
rent liabilities of $580,404. Of the lat
ter, $435,217 is the total owed, to the
five creditor banks.
While $20Q,000 was the sum esti
mated necessary to reopen the mill,
the order the receivers sought from
Judge Woodrough was permission to
obtain only $1UU,0W.
"We expected to realize $100,000
by liquidating- some of the assets,"
Kennedy explained. . ,
Alleged Slayer Wanted in
Canada Is Under Arrest
Salt Lake City, Sept. 13. Corpor
al Toseph Cadoza of the Canadian
mounted police reached here today,
having in custody Arthur' Saike,
wanted in Ottawa, Canada, on a
charge of being implicated with four
others in the murder of a Chicago
detective in the. Canadian capital 14
months ago. Cadoza said he arrested
Saike at Pueblo, Colo., Saturday,
that he did not jail him the:e but
took him to Denver and then brought
him to Salt Lake. Cadoza said he
would leave here with his prisoner
for Canada tomorrow.
Mammy Wins Son's Pardon
Old Southern Negro Pleads Successfully for Re
lease of Omaha Man From Prison--37 Cases
Heard By State Board.
Lincoln, Sept. 13, (Special.) An
old southern mammy of the ante-bellum
days successfully pleaded the
case of her boy, Willie, before the
Nebraska state board of pardons and
paroles this afternoon. Governor
McKelvie, chairman of the board, or
dered the immediate release of Will
iam Thomas, sentenced in Omaha to
six years in the penitentiary for stab
bing his sweetheart, Jennie Secret. '
William is 38, but to his old
mammy, he is still the happy little
pickanniny, who played the whole
day long on the old plantation in
Kentucky.
Mrs. Mary Thomas, the mother,
lives in Kansas City and she told the
state board of pardons and paroles
that she wanted to take her boy back
with her.
"I'll tell yuh, governor," she said
in soft accents, "that boy never did
anything wrong because he always
did what I told him to do. He would
mind a 6-year-old baby."
Then in characteristic style she
kept the officials and spectators at
Girl Smuggles Her
Immigrant Sister
Into U. S.; Jailed
New York, Sept. 13, Stafania
Wtrobka of Westport, Conn , came
to America eight years ago from Po
land, she saved her money hoping
to bring tier family here. But war,
pestilence and famine left only one,
her sister, Karotina. Stedania sent
Ksrolina her passage money and
waited.
At Ellis Island she learned that
Ksrolina hsd arrived too late to en
ter port as one of Poland's quota
under the new immigration law.
Karolina wept and declared she
would kill herself rather than go
back to Poland.
Stcfania made a resolve. She gave
Karolina her American clothing and
her pass to New York and sent her
to friends and she took the im
migrant's place. Stefania later was
taken into custody, charged with aid
ing an alien to enter the United
States unlawfully. But she will not
tell where Karolina is staying.
Governor Asks
Federal Aid for
State Farmers
Results of Questionnaire Sent
To Reserve Board Head,
Who Is Urged to Finance
' Live Stock Feeders.
Lincoln, Sept. 13. (Special.) Ne
braska farmers are not in a position
to stand continued pressure in the
financial deflation which has been
taking place, Governor McKelvie in
forms Governor Harding of the fed
eral reserve board in a letter sent out
today.
Governor McKelvie goes exhaus
tively into the conditions as revealed
by a questionnaire which he recently
sent to over 700 Nebraska bankers
asking their views as to what was
needed to assist the farmers of Ne
braska in recouping their losses of
the last year. .
The farmers of this section, Gov
ernor McKelvie informs Mr. Hard
ing, have been compelled to bear
more than their share of the burden.
It is time now that the federal re
serve banks extend sufficient credit,
he says, so that the tarmers may
hold what wheat remains on the
farm and to feed the cheap corn to
live stock, giving promise of insuring
a reasonable return for their work.
Reporter Claims
Burch Confessed
Alleged . Slayer Characterizes
v Statement as Deliberate
Untruth.
Los Angeles, Sept. 13. Chandler
Spraguc, a Los Angeles Examiner
reporter, the newspaper announced
today, is under subpoenae to ap
pear before the county grand jury
to testify regarding the case of Ar
thur C. Burch and Mrs. Madaiynne
Obenchain, indicted for the alleged
murder cf J. Belton Kennedy.
Sprague said he expected to be
questioned regarding a conversation
he said he had with Burch in -the
jail August 14.
Sprague declared Burch made
statements . to him regarding' the
case which he said were to be kept
in confidence until Burch gave him
permission to make them public, or
until Sprague was .required to make
them under oath, bprague said he
regarded his subpoenae . to appear
before the jury as releasing him
from his pledge of secrecy. ' -
Burch when questioned at the jail
today about Sprague's .statement
about the alleged conversation, said,
Tfs a lie." .
Mrs. Obenchain said:
"There's not a word of. trutn in
it." -; ,. '.- -.-.
Chicago Contractors to
Hire Non-Union Thursday
Chicago, Sept. 13. Members of
the Building Construction Employ
ers' association were-planning today
to replace all union men who have
not returned to work by Thursday
morning with non union workmen.
This followed action of Judge K. M.
Landis, arbiter, yesterday in can
celling a date for a rehearing of
matters in connection with the wage
award he announced last week. The
date, he announced would not be
fixed until the workers were back
on the job.
attention until the close of her story.
"I am glad you came here.rGov
ernor McKelvie told Mrs. Thomas.
"I wish there were more mothers like
you. and there would be fewer boys
in the penitentiary."
Lewis G. Conley. 23, asked for a
parole to enter "the Lord's service."
He has served 10 months on a one to
seven 3-ear sentence for stealing an
tulomobile in Omaha. He said that
he had intended to drive the car back
and pay the rental when he was ar
rested. "I'm in the penitentiary , because
Dennis O'Brien had a wife and
baby," sa'id Dewey Woodman, not
yet 21, sentenced from Omaha for
highway robbery for a term of three
to six years. .
Woodman said that he was called
out a poolhall and went with a man
who "pulled" a highway robbery.
Prison workers told the board
Woodman had been a model pris
oner. The board considered 37 cases in
all at its hearing today.
Profits Tax
Repeal Set
Jan. 1,1922
Senate Finance Committee An
proves House Hill Date for
Abolishing Taxes
Corporations.
on
Corporation Taxes Cut
Washington, Sept. 13. Corpora'
tions would be required to pay ex
cess profits taxes for another year
under a decision today of the senate
finance committee which finally ap
proved provision in . the house bill
reoealimi these taxes as of next Jan
uary 1, instead of last January 1, as
recommended by secretary mciioii.
The committee also inserted a
provision iu the house measure re
pealing the capital stock tax" effective
next year and adopted an amend
ment increasing the corporation in
come tax from 10 to 15 per cent in
stead of MYt per cent effective next
January 1.
Report Called For.
These represented the major de
cisions reached today at two ses
sions, although it was said officially
that the committee practically had
decided to amend the house bill to
continue the tax on express pack
ages and oil transported by pipe line.
Whether any portion of the taxes
on the transportation of freight and
passengers will be retained after
next January 1, will depend, Chair
man Penrose said, on a report to be
made tomorrow by the treasury as
to the savings in expenditures ex
pected to be made this fiscal year
by the various government depart
ments. This report was called for today
by the committee, which was repre
sented as taking the position that it
could not complete the levy sections
of the bill until it had more detailed
information as to how the depart
ments expected to accomplish the
$350,000,000 cut agreed on at the
White House tax conference last
month.
Rapid Progress Made.
With this information in hand,
Chairman Penrose said the commit
tee probably could get through with
all of the levy sections of the bill
tomorrow. Rapid progress was
made today, the committee complet
ing consideration of a number of
administrative as well as; levy sec
tions.
Provisions in the house bill
stricken out today . included those
exempting from the income tax the
salaries of the - president and the
judges of -federal courts; the first
$iOO of income from investments in
building and loan associations and
contributions made by corporations
tor charitable purposes. J. lie com
mittee also disagreed to the house
provision allowing traveling sales
men to deduct from their income all
expenses incurred while on the road.
Returns on $5,000, '
A new section added to the house
bill would require individuals having
a gross income of $3,000 annually to
make a return, irrespective of
whether, the total amount of net in
come was taxable. Chairman Pen
rose said that the treasury expected
to collect income tax from many
persons not now making returns,
through this provision.
Another provision added would
permit banks to deduct for federal
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Seven Rescued From -Wrecked
Seaplane
Groton, N. Y., Sept. lj.-Seven
persons, three of them women and
two children were rescued from a
wrecked seaplane Monday night
after W. H. Manners, pilot of the
plane and a mechanic named Bald
win had swam more than a mile in
the Hudson river and were picked
up by a launch which answered the
shouts and cries for help.
The plane developed encine
trouble and in makine a forced
landing from a height of 1.000 feet.
the pilot misjudged the distance. The
plane crashed to the water breaking
one of the pontoons and t'mowing
the occupants about inside the cabin.
When the cabin began to leak, the
women and children were lifted to
the superstructure and Manners and
Baldwin, after, calling in vain for
help, set out to swim the twa miles
to the nearest shore. Thev were
picked up after they had covered
half the distance. The plar.e was
towed - ashore where the women
were found to be hysterical and
hwere gn-en medical attention.
Red Willow County. Fair
Is "Off to Flying Start"
McCook, Neb., Sept. 13. (Special
Telegram.) Red' Willow county
fair opened here with promise of
one of the greatest fairs in history
of the Republican valley. The races
are full and a number of state fair at-i
tractions are among the entertain
ers. ,
Cattle and stock generally are
largely represented and agricultural
fancy work in excellent display.
About 100 ' Holdrege boosters at
tended and greatly assisted .with
their jazz band in the fair getting
off on a winning ait.
Mob at Calicut Storms Jail
And Destroys Many Records
Calicut, British India, Sept. 13. A
mob of 1.000 armed men from
Mannafghat went to the pol'ce sta
tion in Palghat yesterday and at
tempted to kill a sub-inspector and
seven constables after firing shots
into the air. The sub-inspector and
constables escaped to Ottapalam.
The mob later looted the registrar's
office and set fire to the records.
Plunder appears to have been the
Main objective of the mob
Baltimore Putt Ban
On Plans for Auction
Sale of Unemployed
Ualtimore, Sept. U Auctions of
the unemployed, t was proposed -to
be started here today, will not be
permitted by cither state or city offi
cial. Tin's vas announced jtt as a
crowd of jobless seafaring men were
preparing to march from the harbor
front to hold a "tale" tn the city
hall plaza.
Governor Ritchie telephoned
Police Commissioner Caithe,' forbid
ding the auction, lie decl.ued that
the idea could not be tolerated, add
ing that "no man's scrvici khould
be offered in this state in a way
which would violate the jclf-repect
of the Americau working man."
Hitch Occurs in
Negotiations on
Peace in Erin
Irish Delegates Return From
Scotland Conference With
Lloyd George to Explain'
Points to Dail.
Iljr The Associated 1'rrM.
London, Sept. 13. An unexpected
hitch has arisen in the Irish nego
tiations. Premier Lloyd George, who
is at Gairloch, Scotland, today re
ceived Harry Boland, secretary to
Eamonn de Valera, and Joseph Mc
Grath, another Sinn Fein represen
tative, according to an official com
munication issued tonight and
Messrs. Boland and McGiath are
returning to Dublin with his ex
planation of certain points in the
government's proposals for consider
ation by tho Dail Eireann.
It is said Mr. de Valcra's reply
dealing' with the question of accept
ing or not accepting the invitation
to a conference will not be delivered
until Friday or Saturday,
It is understood that the letter
which Couriers McGrath and Bo
land bore to the premier asked for
fresh explanation of the British gov
ernment's latest communication and
that these points are of vital im
portance, necessitating return of the
couriers to Dublin for consultation
with Mr. de Valera and his col
leagues. The new developments will delay
the proposed conference between the
government and the Irish plenipoten
tiaries beyond September 20, the
date suggested by Mr. Lloyd George.
Apparently nothing has been defin
itely decided as yet on the composi
tion of the Irish delegation. Michael
Collins, commander of the Irish re
publican army is mentioned now as
a possible delegate ' and it is still
possible Mr. de Valera 'will consent
to head the delegation. ' J
New York to Have
Auction of Humans
Man Who Conducted Boston
"Sale" Promotes An-,
other.
New York, Sept. 13. Urbain Le-
doux, also known as Mr. ero,
who auctioned off jobless men on
Boston commons, said today he
would hold a similar suction next
Monday near the New York public
library after a parade of the unem
ployed up Broadway.. He 6aid that
not only would he put jobless men
on the block, strip them to the waist
and sell their services to the highest
bidder, but that he also would auc
tion off the services of any unem
ployed women who might apply.
. Asked if his methods with women
would be the same as with men,, he
said:
."Why certainly, if necessary," and
called attention to the modes of dress
of women in Broadway musical com
edies and on ruth, avenue.-"
He said the officials of an old-time
New York Episcopalean church St.
Marks-m-the-Bowery had turned
over its chapel on the East Side to
him and he would provide shelter
and food there for the hungry and
homeless until they could get jobs.
Fishermen Protest -
Against Bomb Tests
New London. Conn., Sept. 12.
Fishermen from New London plan a
protest to Washington against the
extinction of fish in the waters of
some parts of Long Island sound. A
delegation of loyal fishermen . ac
companied by representatives of the
fulton fish Aiarket tn New York.
called on the commandant at the sub
marine base and asked him to take
his submarines far off shore for prac
tice in dropping depth bombs.
Aot content with seeinz the com
mandant, the fishermen enlisted the
aid of James G. Hammond, secretary
of the New London Chamber of
Commerce and. Representative Rich
ard G. Freeman. A protest will be
made to the secretary of the navy.
The Weather
Forecast
Nebraska Showers ' probably on
Wednesday and Thursday: cooler in
.east and south portions Wednesday.
Iowa Showers and cooler Wed
nesday; Thursday unsettled and cool
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'Higher-Up'
In Murders
OfAutoMen
Chicago Polite Seek "Master
Mind' Bai-k of Brutal Sla.
ing ot Salesmen By
Young Criminal.
Third Gangster Is Jailed
('lilraia Trlbuaa-Umaba Bra Iffurtl Wtrft
Chicago, Sept. 13. Despite 1on
detailed confessions by Harvey Wi
Church and Leon Turks, that the)
end Clarence (Bud) Wilder murdered
the two Packard automobile sales
men, Bernard J. Daugherty and Carl
A. Atismus, there remains an un
solved mystery in the sordid crime.
This is the identity of the "master
mind" who planned the murders.
Detectives feel certain some older
criminal used the three young men as
his tools. 1 here is also a belief that
back of the entire crime is the syndi
cate engaged in stealing automobiles
outright, or "buying" then:, paying
the price and then holding tin the
agent and robbing him of the price.
Church and I'arks admit they went
into the deal solely because it offer
ed some easy money. Church, in his
second confession, names Parks
the one who conceived the ettfffc
plan. The police say, however, that
Church is much the superior of I'arks
111 mentality and he was undoubted
ly the leader, or rather the active
agent of a criminal still higher up.
"Could See Rope."
Parks, who made a long, detailed
confession late last flight, undertook ,
to repudiate it today. When asked
to sign his confession, he at first re
fused. "It's not the truth," he said. "I
I didn't I won't sign it. What
I said was not true."
"You're a liarl" shouted Church,
leaping to his feet and shaking his
fist in Parks' face. "You know it is
true, every word of it. Yellow, that's
what you are, yellow all through"
Parks delayed for two hours
longer and then signed his confes
sion. "It is true and I might as well
sign it," he said. "I could see the
rope dangling in front of my eyes
and thought maybe I could escape
it by denying my confession, but it
is true." And he affixed his signa
ture. Third Gangster Arrested.
Clarence Wilder, the third of the
cuthroat gang, was arrested today
and held incommunicado . by the
police. His attorney made frantic
efforts to get to hira with a writ of
habeas corpus, returnable instanter,
but could not find where the police
were holding him. Chief of Police
Fitzmorris said he did not have
Wilder, but there are many police
stations in the city and it is certain
Wilder was being held in one of
them. This is borne out by a state
ment he made to the police, denying
any knowledge or part in the double
murder.
Two more men were arrested to- .
day. One was an employe of Gus
Benario's garage where Church arid.
Parks had been employed. The
other was picked up at Wilder's
home. ,
Benario Questioned. ,
Benario himself was questioned
at length by the police after they
Had tound a large quantity of alleged
stolen automobile accessories in his
garage. Benario said Church had
left the accessories . there.
There also remains to be solved
the ownership and history of $3,00k
in Liberty bonds found in Church'i "
apartment.
In their latest confessions, which
the police believe to be approximately,
the truth, with the exception that
both men are shielding some onf
higher up, the murderers told in de
tail, how they slaughtered Daugher.
ty and Ausmus without giving then1
the slightest chance for their - lives
Daugherty, it appears, was knocked
on the head before he had time t
make an outcry. Parks says thev
beat his. head, fracturing his skul'
in several places and then cut hit
throat with a hatchet. .
Call Ausmus "Yellow."
Ausmus. they describe as "yellow
He begged for his life, but it availed
him nothing; They garrotted hinC
but he was not dead when they
buried him face down in the shallow
grave scraped in the cinders of the
garage. In crowding him into the
pit, which was too short, - Church
stamped upon his head until he broke
the victim's neck.
After this they went to supper, ap
parently with no hint nf
After supper Church, with the stolen
machine, went joy-ridiue throueh
the parks With hfs rnm nan Inn c j
three girls. Just before daylight they
took the "body of Daushcrtv
a coal bin, carried it in the machine
10 tne ues flames river and pitched
it over a parapet. At no time in
their stories, do either of them
press the slightest regret. The police
regard it as singular that Daugherty
hu ausmus were so easily over
come, but the murderers say Daugh
erty had no chance for his life and
Ausmus made no show of putting up
a fight.
One Killed, Eight Injured,
In Auto Crash at Dubuque
Dubuque, la., Sept. 13. One man
was killed and eight other persons
were injured last night in an auto
mobile collision on the Hawkeye
highway near here. D. G. Van
Dora, a Des Moines ulmin
killed and J. L. Richey, also a 'sales
man; airs, j. L-ahp and Mrs. C
P.. Wilson, all of Bes Moines, and
occupants of Mm. fahn'a stm.
bile, were injured. Mrs. Cahn's con
dition is critical.
L. O. Hillyard and his wife and
K. P. RoeriVH anit hi. xvif. nf iv..
buque were injured when their car
and that of the Des Moines party
crashed. y