The Omaha Daily Bee
VOL 51 NO. 94.
OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1921.
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17 4.
Changes In
Tax Plans
Outlined
Republicans Announce Def
inite Program for Amend
raent of Bill Now Pend
ing in Senate.
May Avoid Open Fight
Br ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Ckk Trtbune-Oaiana He Imh4 Wlr.
Washington,. Oct. 4. definite
program for the amendment of the
pending tax bill took iliape at con
ferences today. Leaders in the move
ment are Senator! McCormick of
Illinois, Lenroot of Wisconsin and
- Capper of Kansas, all republicans.
Twenty republican Senators, includ
ing a considerable number of those
Jdentified with the so-called agricul
tural "bloc," are said to be in sym
pathy with the program. Among
them are Senators Kellogg of Min
nesota, Willis of Ohio, Borah of
Idaho, Johnson of California and
Oddie of Nevada.
When the program takes definite
,-thape it will be submitted to repub
lican members of the senate com
mittee who, it is expected, may take
advantage of the opportunity for a
compromise which will insure the
repeal of the excess profits tax and
the passage of the pending bill with
out an open fight within republican
ranks.
Outline of. Program.
As the program now stands it
contemplates the following changes
in the pending bill:
1. A graduated corporation in
come tax instead of a flat tax as a
substitute for the excess profits tax.
2. Further reduction in the low
er surtax rates on individual in
comes, but an increase from the 32
per cent maximum in the bill to SO
per cent, which represents a com
promise between the proposed maxi
mum and the rate of 65 per cent
sn the present law.
3. Retention of the corporation
capital stock . law, which is repealed
in the senate committee bill.
4., An increase in the higher rates
of estate taxes.
5. Repeal of the taxes on freight,
passenger and -express transporta
tion, Oppose Smoot Plan.
Members of this group are op
posed to the 3 per cent production
or manufacturers' sales tax amend
ment advocated ; by Senator Smoot
of Utah and favored by a number of
republican senators.
All attempts byrthe so-called ag
ricultural ."bloc," composed of re
publicans and democrats, to agree
upon a program in connection with
tax legislation seem to have proved,
-a.fwlurev-.-Th wrpotal byr the ney
group ' of republican senator!) would
be likely to gain considerable dem
ocratic support. In order to avert
a defeat on the floor of the senate,
the administration .. leaders may
agree to a compromise.
.The plan, for a graduated corpor
ation income tax contemplates rates
ranging from 10 to 20 per cent in
stead of the proposed flat rate of
15 pet cent. ,
May Lower Rates.
The proposed maximum v surtax
rate of SO per cent would apply on
income above $200,000. Surtax rates
on income between $L,000 and $20,
000 would average from 2 to 3 per
(Ton to Pat Two, Column Two.)
Eight Diplomats
Receive Posts
Roster Practically Completed
A- Latin-American En
voys Named.
Washington, Oct. 4. Announce
ment of the selection of eight Ameri
' can ministers ot Latin-American and
old world countries was made to
day at the White' Hous?, virtually
completing the diplomatic ' roster of
the new administration. The eight
ministers whose names were an
nounced were: v
To Panama, Dr. John Glover
South of Kentucky; to Nicaragua,
John E. Ramer of Colorado; to
Vffneroiila. Willis C. Coot fit South
Dakota; to Guatemala, Roy Davis of
Missouri.
To Czecho-Slovakia, Lewis . Ein
stein of New York; to Bulgaria,
Charles S. Wilson of Maine; to Fin
land, Charles L. Kagey .of Kansas,
and to Siam, Edward E. Brodie of
Oregon.
Nations Resume Fight in
League on Blockade Rule
Geneva, Oct. 4. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Eight small states,
members of the league of natipns,
resumed in this morning's session
of the assembly, of the league, their
fight against the too rigid applica
tion of blockade regulations, which
are prescribed as one of the weapons
to be used by the league against a
state which has. violated the cove
nant of the organization
Greece has been especially active
in her effort to bring about an
amendment of article 16 of the
covenant of the league.
New 16-Inch Gun to Be Tried
Out by U. S. Next Friday
Washington, Oct 4. A new 16
inch, 50 calibre rifle, said to be more
powerful than any naval gun now in
use, and other new developments in
ordnance will be, tested at the army
' ordnance proving ground, at Aber
deen, Md., Friday, when "ordnance
day will be celebrated. New types
of artillery, shells, tanks and bombs
also will be tried out
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ill Plan Measures
To Relieve Workless
ARTHUR. woods
Col. Woods Heads
Central Agency
For Unemployed
Steps Taken to Co-OrJinate
Emergency Relief for Idle
Men Throughout
Country.
Washington, Oct. 4. Col. Arthur
Woods, former police commissioner
of New York, will head the central
agency to be established here by the
national conference on . unemploy
ment to co-ordinate emergency relief
of the workless wage earners
throughout the country.
The conference desires. Secretary
Hoover said in making the announce
ment, to see the whole cquntry or
ganized on a community basis to ef
fect the quick distribution of jobs to
the involuntary idle through efficient
operation of the emergency program
adopted last week. Informal ma
chinery, voluntary in its" nature, is
being set up in the form of one of
the conference committees which,
under the direction of Colonel
Woods, can receive reports from
various communities of the progress
being made and transmit to the dif
ferent localities, successful employ
ment methods tried out in others.
Seek Out "Slackerism."
Hope was expressed in high ad
ministration circles that President
Harding's suggestion for a review
by community authorities of the un
employment situation and steps tak
en to alleviate it !n local areas
would produce a picture froni which
it would le: possible to:. determine
where there is evidence q "slack
erism" in any community.: v
The municipal and other authori
ties were said to have shown great
interest in steps being planned here
to deal with unemployment and
where any community has failed to
proffer aid to its own unemployes,
it is feltjit would be brought to
such undesirable notoriety through
publication of the facts that emer
gency measures in that community
would promtply follow.
Reports Coming In.
Reports of local organization are
coming in to the conference steadily,
Mr. Hoover said, adding that tele
grams had been received from the
mayors of Memphis, Chattanooga
and Nashville, and Youngstown, O.,
stating that they were organizing to
meet their unemployment situations
along the lines suggested by the con
ference. The report of the committee on
municipal organization . for unem
ployment said: -
"The methods of accomplishing
results must vary with each locali
ty and no methods capable of uni
versal adoption can, with safety, be
recommended. Therefore,' specific
recommendations to communities are
confined to the very urgent one that,
following the leadership of their
mayors with united local committees,
they accept this primary obligation
to the fulL"
License Plate Found.
A eNbraska license plate and an
Omaha wheel tax plate were found
in the machine, as also was a card
bearing the name of a Chicago firm,
dealers in wines and liquors. Bates
was carrying a .3s caliber revolver.
According to Council Bluffs police,
they believe the driver is Casey
Gauhn of Omaha. Omaha police are
searching for the man.
Rail Yardman Killed
As Ice Falls on Head
Mrfrv.V TCpIv- Oct. 4. (Snecial
Telegram.) Henry Brumgardt, a
Burlington employ in the local
yards, was killed when putting a
brass journal in a freight car wheel.
A train was being iced tnd a large
piece of ice slipped from a work
man's tongs, falling IS feet from the
;,-lii-tie filatmrm imon the man's
head. He died in the Dominican Sis
ters hospital a few hours later, lie
leaves a wife and nine children.
MP. J. Simmons Summoned to
Capital for Klan Hearing
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 4. W. J. Sim
mons, imperial wizard of the Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan, today was re
quested by Chairman Campbell of
the house rules committee to come
to Washington on October 11 for
the hearing on the Klan. it was said
late today by Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler,
head of the order's propagation de
partment. Col. Simmons was re
ported ill af his home, but Mrs.
Tyler said he would appear before
the committee "even if he has to be
taken on a stretcher." and that prob
ably other officers of the Klan would
accompacy him. j
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Saxton Is
Acquitted
Of Murder
Man Charged With Killing
Druggist Fogg Found Not
Guilty by Jury Under
Court's Ruling.
State Fails to Make Case
James Saxton, 23, chafed with
the murder of Frank W". Fogg, vet
eran pharmacist, was found "not
guilty" of the crime by a jury late
yesterday, after District Judge
Troup ruled that tl-.e state had made
no case against Saxton.
Young Saxton rose from his chair,
smiling happily, as the finding was
made, and clasped his mother, Mrs.
Mattie Saxton, in his arms.
"We'll go back home to Lebanon,
mother," he exclaimed.
Mother Weeps for Joy.
There were tears in the eyes of
the little mother as she patted her
son s shoumer.
"Happy?" she echoed. "No, hap
py isn't the word. I I'm "
But Mrs. Saxton could find no
word to express the great joy which
showed on her countenance.
Young Saxton walked over to Mrs.
Mary Fogg, widow of the murdered
man, his hand outstretched. '
"If I knew who killed Mr. Fogg
I'd tell you," he said.
Mrs. Fogg took his outstretched
hand and attempted to smile.
"I didn't think you we.re guilty
she said. "I'm glad."
Takes Case from Jury.
Judge Troup took the case from
the jury at the close of the state's
evidence.
"Frank Fogg, an old-time resident
of Omaha, has been murdered," he
said. "I hope and every citizen
hopes that the musderer will be
found and convicted. .
"In this case I believe the state
has wholly failed to submit evidence
on which Saxton could be convicted.
This court could not possibly submit
the case to a jury.
"The state has labored under many
difficulties in trying to ascertain facts
concerning the murder. It has done
its best. Probably the arrest of the
defendant was justified by suspicions.
In proving his guilt, however, it has
failed."
Fail to Name Slayer.
The promise of attorneys for Sax
ton to name the "real slayer" of
Fogg failed to materialize during the
trial. . ,
Edward Hoffman, 600 South
Twenty-eighth street, placed on the
stand by the state, testified he had
heard Saxton and his friend, W. O.
Ryan, arguing in a room near his
between 12 and 1:30 the night of the
murder. . During his testimony he
denied having ever met or had dcal
iogs with Mr. Fogg.
"Isn't it a fact that you went into
Fogg's drug store about five min
utes before the shooting?" question
ed Richard Organ, one of Saxton's
counsels.
"No," replied Hoffman, "I don't
believe I ever was in the store..
Denies Report of Quarrel.
"Didn't your wife have a quarrel
with Fogg over a check that after
noon? '
"No."
"What kind of clothes were you
(Torn to Pat Two, Column Two.)
Man Kills Self on Eve
Of Marriage Because
He Suffered Losses
" Hazlehurst, Miss., Oct. 4. S. P.
Allen of Mendenville, U., oil pro
motor and reserve lieutenant in the
aviation service, was found dead in
his room here last night, his throat
apparently having been cut while he
was shaving. He was to have been
married last evening to a young
woman of Union-Church, near here.
Allen was to go to Union Church
for his prospective bride, returning
with her to Hazlehurst, where trie
wedding ceremony was to be per
formed bv the Methodist , pastor
here. A coroner's verdict of suicide
through financial reverses was given.
The bride-to-be was among those
summoned to identify the body be
fore it was shipped today yesterday
to Allen s home m' Ohio.
Denies Lives of Miners .
In Jail Are in' Jeopardy
Williamson, W. Va., Oct. 4. Gov.
E. F. Morgan today requested Maj.
Tom Davis, his personal representa
tive in Mingo county, to investigate
a statement made to delegates at
tending the convention of the United
Mine Workers of America at Indian
apolis that the lives of miners in
the Mingo county jail, were " in posi
tive danger" and that there was "rea
son to believe that the lives of Pres
ident C F. Keeney'of the West Vir
ginia district, and- Secretary Fred
Mooney and others are in jeopardy."
At the close of the investigation to
day Major Davis denied the state
ments. President Millerand Gives
Luncheon for Pershing
Paris, Oct. 4. President and
Madame Millerand gave a luncheon
in honor of General Pershing, chief
of staff of the k American army, in
the Elysee palate.
Among those present were: My
ron T. Herrick, United States am
bassador to France: Premier Briand
and his cabinet ministers; Vice Ad
miral Albert Kiblack, commander
of the American naval forces in Eu
ropean waters; Brigadier' General
Allen, commander of the American
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shals Foch, Joffre, . Petain andj
FayoIIe. J
ExA'lce President
Calls on Harding to
Pay Him His Respects
Washington, Oct. 4. Former
Vice President Thcmas R. Marshall
called at the White House today to
pity hit respects to the new sdminii-
tration as a private citizen out of a
job and not looking for one.
Air. Mriiaii. wno is raiiine
rtiir fi1 sri .4
was exchanging old stc"
money" and that he wa. ,a
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Motorcycle Cop
Captures Booze
Machine Alone
Stops Car Bearing 100 Gal
lons of Alcohol Driver Es
caped With Bullet in Leg
Policeman Injured.
Single-handed. Motorcvcle Officer
iv. .v. nosiecr oi tne i.ouncu biutts
police department, captured a big
automobile loaded with 100 gallons of
alcohol and one of the two men in
it yesterday afternoon. The driver
escaped with a bullet in Ins leg and
Bostcdt sustained a broken ankle
when his motorcycle collided with
the booze car. The captured man
gave the name of Bill Bates, Omaha.
Bostcdt first sighted the automo
bile at 1 wenty-fourth street and
Broadway. He had exchanged ma
chines with Chuck McXeeby, the
county motorcycle officer, and was
riding a motorcycle with a sidecar.
He gave chase to the car, overtook
it near Twenty-seventh street and
called to the driver to halt.
The booze car turned north to
Avenue A doubled back tQ Twenty-
first street, speeded south to Pirst
avenue and then cast again, turning
and doubling frequently to throw
the policeman off the trail. Bostedt
lost track of his quarry after a chase
of many blocks.
Shoots Tire.
Meeting McKeeby, he exchanged
machines again, and, mounted on his
own motorcycle with no sidecar, he
shot west along Broadway, again
sighting the booze car near Twenty
fourth street. W:hen the driver re
fused to stop he shot one of the rear
tires, which exploded with a bang.
Bostedt's next shot went through
the top of the car and crashed
through the windshield a few inches
from the driver's head. It passed
in its course between the heads of
the driver and his companion. As
Bostedt was maneuvering toward the
right rear of the car to shoot the
other rear tire, the driver suddenly
turned north on Twenty-ninth street.
The motorcycle officer was forced
tn cwlncr in thf ricrht suddenlv tOJ
avoid crashing into the'rear ot tne
booze machine. His motorcycle
skidded in the sand on Twenty-ninth
street and landed under the front
wheel. Bostedt jumped from his
machine to the front fender of the
automobile as the crash came and
landed upright, his revolver covering
the men in the car.
Captures Man.
The driver brought the car to a
complete halt and he and his com
panion climbed out. They had no
sooner touched the ground than they
began to run, the driver north
toward Avenue A and his companion
south toward First avenue: Bos
tedt pursued and brought to a halt,
the latter man, then turned and shot
at the fleeing driver, "hitting him in
the leg.'
The fact that the motorcycle offi
cer was suffering from a broken
ankle, sustained in the collision, pre
vented him from chasing the driver.
He kept his one prisoner and sent
to headquarters for assistance.
When the car was brought in, it
was found that there were 18 five
gallon cans of alcohol in the rear
end, with four one-gallon cans of the
same stuff. Pumps for use in taking
the alcohol from the cans, and col
oring fluid, were also found. The
car, which is a highrpowered, eight
cylinder machine of well-known
make, has only been driven 720
miles, according to the speedometer.
It carries an Illinois license number.
Bandits Wound Woman,
Escape With $5,000
Spokane, Oct. 4. Two masked
men entered the Spangle State bank,
13 miles south of here,, shot Miss
Ruth Jennings, the assistant cashier,
In the arm and escaped with about
$5,000. A posse ot deputy sheriffs
left here in an effort to overtake the
robbers.
According to Miss Jennings, she
attempted to prevent the - robbery
and was knocked to the floor and a
cloth saturated with a drug was 1
placed over her face. When she re
vived after the robbers had left, she
gave the warning and it was not un
til this time that the robbery be
came known.
Miss Jennings' wound is not be
lieved to be serious. The robbers
obtained about $5,000, deputy sher
iffs said.
Miners Meet Harding; Ask
Protection of Men in Jail
Washington, Oct. 4. Members of
a committee appointed by the United
Mine Workers of America at the
convention being held in Indianapolis,
arrived in Washington today to ask
President Harding to give protection
to 138 miners who are being held as
state prisoners in West Virginia jails
and whose lives, the union representa
tives assert, are in jeopardy.
The committee, accomoanied bv
John Moore of Ohio, who holds the
proxy of John L. Lewis, president
of the United Mine Workers in the
rational employment conferer.ee, con
sists of J. W. Wijicins of West Vir
ginia, F. C Hughes of Illinois and
E. J. Giles of Iowa.
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Harding to Lead
Funeral Cortege
Of Unknown Hero
President and Cabinet to
Head Procession on Armis
tice Day Business to
Pause Two Minutes.
Washington, Oct. 4. Plans for the
solemn ceremonies of Armistice day,
when the nation will pay highest
honors to its unknown dead of the
great war, reached a climax when
President Harding and his cabinet
decided to trudge afoot up Pennsyl
vania avenue at the head of the fu
neral cortege. By presidential proc
lamation the business and pleasure
of the nation will stand at rest two
minutes on that day, in tribute to
the dead, as the body from a lonely,
nameless grave in some great strug
gle of the war is carried to its last
rest in the peaceful Virginia hills
that look down across the Potmac
on the nation's capitol.
Not since President Wilson led a
preparedness march on the great
avenue in 1916 has the chief execu
tive appeared afoot in any parade in
the capital and never has any presi
dent set for himself so long a trip
as President Harding, will under
take. Escort of Highest Rank.
The War department announced
the makeup of the military escort
which will precede the gun carrage
on which the casket is carried. In
addition to the regulars, sailors and
marines, a provisionl battlalion ot
New York and Pennsylvania Na
tional guard will share in the honors
to the dead comrade. Under army
regulations, the escort will be that
provided for the highest military
rank of the service, a general.
The War department also made
public the list of non-commissioned
and warrant officers who will bear
the casket to and from the caisson
on which the last stage of the long
journey from a French bsfttlefield to
Arlington will be made. They in
clude: Sergr. Harry Taylor, headquarters
troop, First cavalary, Douglas Ariz.,
serving his sixth enlistment with the
cavalry and cited for gallantry in the
Meuse-Argonne action.
Sergt. Thomas D. Saunders, Com
pany A,- Second engineers, Camp
(Tnrn to Far Two, Column Four.)
Mexico Furnishes Land
To Former Military Men
Washington, Oct. 4. Establish
ment of agriculture colonies of for
mer military men by the Mexican
government has started, according to
reports to the Department of Com
merce announcing that President
Obregon , lias signed a decree au
thorizing expenditure of approxi
mately $1,000,000 fo the acquisition
of land for the purpose in various
parts of the republic.
Under the plan, the farmer will
be provided by the government with
Cgicultural implements and othei
equipment and will continue to draw
halt or his army pay for a penoa
of three years.
Employers Approve Landis
Decision Lowering Wages
Chicago, Oct 4. Representatives
of the leading building organizations
of the city today adopted resolution.
approving the recent decision of
Judge Landis lowering wages In
building- trades by approximately 20
per cent, and announced they were
notifying the employes that .they
must adhere to the Landis award or
Chicago would become the greatest
open shop city in the world, so fariEarl M. Cline of Nebraska City for
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cerred."
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$6,500,000,000 Is
Lost by Jobless
Economic Experts Fix Year'g
Cost of Involuntary
Idleness.
Washington, Oct. 4. Losses In
earnings of workers throughout the
country during the past fiscal year,
due to involuntary idleness were put
at more than $6,500,000,000 in an es
timate prepared today by . economic
experts of the national conference
on unemployment.
This estimate, it was explained.
kcovered the lass in wages because of
unemployment of all the jobless in
the country from July, 1920, to
August 1S, 1921, and was based on
an approximation of normal pay
levels rather than on the scales at
the peak of high wages. Efforts of
the conference it was said, would be
turned toward a remedy for the eco
nomic loss to the country from such
reductions of the earning- power of
its workers in the future by a more
stabilized industrial plan.
Young Chicago Bride
Dies After Brutal
Attack by Bandits
Chicago, , Oct. 4. Mrs. Teresa
Pender, a young bride who started
to a suburb Saturday to visit a sister,
was picked up on a lonely road late
last night by passing autoists'' and
hurried to a hospital. Her teeth had
been knocked out, her ribs broken
and her skull fractured. Her entire
body bore marks of a terrible beat
ing. 1 oday she died without regain
ing consciousness.
Her husband and the police believe
she was the victim of auto bandits,
the desperadoes who haunt suburban
drives and trap auto parties. It is
thought one of these Kanes en
countered Mrs. Pender and offered
to give her a "lift" on her journey.
Then, according to this theory, thev
drove to the lonely road and when
she fought against their advances,
they beat her fatally and threw out
of the car.
Men, Refused Food, Kill
Woman and Torture Man
Hastings, Mich., Oct, 4. "Three
men murdered my wife and nearly
killed me," weakly declared John
Baverstock, 60, late Monday after
noon to Sheriff Walter H. Burd and
other officials in Pennock hospital
here. He will recover, surgeons
said.
Baverstock asserted that three
strange men came to his home in
Middleville late Saturday night after
he and his wife had retired. Being
denied food they demanded money
and later forced an entrance into the
house. While two held him iu a
chair, the other cut off each of his
little toes, telling him they would
sever his head if he did not tell
where his money was hidden. Ago
nized by the torture, he gave them
$30, he said.
Baverstock said that when he re
covered from his treatment he saw
his barn in flames.
Special Trains Will Carry
Legion Men to Kansas City
Lincoln, Oct. 4. (Special.) Two
special trains from Nebraska will
carry 400 or more Nebraska Amer
ican Legion men to Kansas City for
the national convention of that or
ganization the last week in October.
This big delegation will be a
powertul
aid to the candidacy of
, national commander, it is planned
'to take Kansas City by storm.
''Mill,.
Middlemen Will
Continue Fight
On Market Plan
Grain Dealers Strongly Op
pose Co-Operative Selling
Scheme As Started hy
Farmer Organizations.
Chicago, Oct. 4. Middlemen in the
grain trade, meeting here in the
Grain Dealer Rational association,
voted to conliud their Sight against
the farmers' co-operatve gram mar
keting movement. They endorsed
the campaign conducted by their
special executive committee headed
by R. I. Mansfield of Chicago and
ordered it to continue its work for
the next year.
This committee was called into be
ing last June, following organization
of the United States Grain Growers,
Inc., a national co-operative corpora
tion of farmers. In this interval,
Mr. Mansfield reported, the commit
tee had sent out letters to 206,000
influential farmers, had distiibuted
1,400,000 pieces of literature in 18
states, had articles printed in nearly
700 . magazines, farm journals and
newspapers, and had organized
a speakers' bureau.
Reports that the grain trade had
raised a fund of $250,000 for. its
counter campaign he declared un
true, and he presented a financial re
port showing total receipts of $40,
386.59. Of this, $31,100 was received
from grain exchanges, $500 from the
Grain Dealers National association,
$6,675 as special contributions from
Chicago Board of Trade members,
$2,096 in outside contributions and
interest, $15.59.
Vigorous warning was given the
grain men by Mr. Mansfield that the
work they had started they must
carry- on for their own preservation.
He urged a "concerted and sustained
campaign of education for the pro
ducer and the consumer."
"Failure to follow up this work so
well begun," he declared, "will re
sult in a flood of adverse legislation
in ever new and more visionary mar
keting schemes and finally, without
doubt, in the concentration of the
great bulk of the grain business in
the United States in the hands of a
few powerful interests."
Accident Blamed for
ZR-2 Blast by Jurors
Hull, England, Oct. 4. (By The
Associated Press.) The catastrophe
to the sriant airsluo ZK-Z over the
Humber river on August 24, in
which more than 40 persons, includ
ing 16 Americans, lost their lives,
was due to accident, according to
the verdict reached by tli coroner's
jury at the resumed inquest here to
day. 1 here is no evidence as to the
actual cause of the disaster, the ver
dict says.
This verdict was rendered in the
case of Lieut. Commander Charles
G. Little of the American navy.
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It aooa. l t p. m..... 67
Highest Tuesday.
Cheyeciw 78 Rapid City S4
Davenport HO' Sait Iake 78
Denver 5S'8iil Fe St
Dodra City .... i; Sheridan 14
fonder " Sioux city 4J
North riatte ... , Valentine 84
Pueblo :!
Four More
Arrested In
Fraud Probe
BricUon,May,Karl and Mun
roe Freed on Vomh More
Than Half of Men In
dieted Out of State.
Inquiry to Be Continued
Attorney General Davis announced
yesterday that, in all probability, a
second grand jury will be aked in
Douglas county to pursue the "blue
sky" investigations started by the
first.
He said also that more than halt
the men indicted by the first grand
jury are out of the state and cannot
be arrested at this time.
Four Arrested Tuesday.
Four arrests, only, resulted yes
terday from many trips made by
deputy sheriffs with warrants for
men indicted under the "blue sky"
laws. These were the four:
O. A. Brictson, president of the
Brictson Manufacturing company,
automobile tire makers, charged
with embezzlement He was re
leased under $10,000 bond, signed
by Charles Sundblad as a cor-. ,
porate surety.
Frank A. May, 4819 Farnam
street, charged with conspiracy to
commit a felony and aiding and
abetting a felony. May, who is
district commercial superintendent
of the Northwestern Bell Tele
phone company, is charged with
transactions involving $97,000 in
the Omaha Potash & Refining
company. His bond for $5,000
. was signed by Robert P. More
man, vice president of the. United
States National bank.
Roy . Karls, secretary-treasurer
of the American Bank Build
ing company, charged with con
spiracy to embezzle and with aid
ing and abetting a felony, was
released under $10,000 bond signed
by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Levy.
Harry A. Munroe, former stock
salesman for the Great Western
Commercial Body company,
charged with conspiracy to commit
a felony, was released under $1,000
bond.
Attorney General Davis declared
that a vast additional amount of evi
dence is pouring into his office and
that more indictments than those re
turned by the first grand jury are a
certainty.
Preparing for Prosecution.
"The fact that the first grand Jury
did not find indictments against
some particular , company or group
of promoters is no Vindication of
them," he declared "We shall file
further information and, if that pro
cedure isn't rapid enough, we shall
ask for a second grand jury."
Prosecution of the indicted per
sons has been placed , by the at
torney general in the hands of his as
sistant, Judge W. .C. . Dorsey, who
will have other assistants and make
the headquarters of the state "blue
sky" prosecution in the present
branch office of the attorney general
in the Omaha National bank build
ing. The county attorney's office
is loaded down with the- ordinary
criminal work and will confine Its
efforts to that department.
Judge Dorsey said that many of
the cases are so involved that a
months will be required just to pre-,
pare for trying one of them.
Arrests of some prominent men
are predicted for today.
"Blue Sky" Probe
Urged at Lincoln
Plenty of Material for Grand
Jury to "Work Upon,
Says Touvelle.
Lincoln, Oct. 4. (Special.) Call
ing of a special grand jury in Lan
caster county to investigate blue,
sky transactions and fraudulent stock
promotions in Lincoln, similar -to
those which have been made the
basis of numerous indictments by
the Douglas county grand jury, is
being urged- here.
Guy Touvelle of the state bureau
of securities says he believes there is
plenty of material for a Lancaster
county grand jury to work upon. He
was one of the witnesses called be
fore the Omaha body. -
Receiver W. E. Barkley of the Ne
braska Hotel company and the Ne
braska Building & Investment com
pany has suggested to several local
officials the advisibility of a grand
jury, but so far has received very
little encouragement, he says.
County Attorney Matson said that
so far as he knew there would be no
inquiry here.
Boy Accused of Murdering
Woman Is Placed on Trial
Laporte, nd., Oct 4. Edward
R. Clark, 18-ycar-old Chicago boy,
charged with first degree rmirder, is
on trial this week in the Berrien
county court at St Joseph, Mich.
The defense will be a plea of in
sanity. Clarke is charged with the murder
of Miss Viola Dunbar, S3, whom he
attacked in her home near the little
town of Sodus. The body of Miss
Dunbar was found lying on the floor
of her kitchen by neighbors. There
were evidences of a struggle.
Parliament Dissolved
For General Election
Ottawa. Ont.. Oi-r 4 The d.
nadian parliament was dissolved by
uovernor Ocneral Byng, in order
that a ceneral clrrtion mtaht xnnn
be held. Although the date for
fhis election has not been officially
set. indications noint in Owmher
5. with nominations November 21,
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