The Omaha Daily Bee
VOL. 31-NO. 214.
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OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1022.
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Riot Guns
Kill Man in
Strike Mob
Strikebreakers Attacked, IV
)t lice Fire on Crowd of 2, 000
Before Spinning Plant at
rawtuclfl, R- I.
Former A'. J'. Hroker
Who Wed Stage Star
Sentenced to Prison
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Mayor Addresses Crowd
raw tucket. R. I.. Feb. 21. One
man was killed, two were seriously
votmded and si persons were hurt
when police hc1 riot Runs today on
a crowd ot 1.000 persons at the plant
f the Jcnckes Spinning company
where a strike is in progress. The
guns were brought into play when
several patrolmen had been knocked
down after the arrest of three strike
sympathizers.
The dead man is Juan D'Assumpe
cua of Valley Falls. Joseph Diaz and
Tony Rek'o of this city were taken
to a hospital in a critical condition.
Witnesses Shooting.
Mayor Robert A. Kenyon witness
rd the shooting. He had arrived at
the Rates of the plant early in the
morning to observe the crowd that
has customarily gathered to watch
working operatives enter the mill.
'J he mayor, believing that there was
danger in the crowd, read the riot
act. Jle then told the patrolmen
to be careful and calm, but to "shoot
ir necessary."
Meanwhile women were pulling
and mauling at the girls who were
attempting to enter the mill ana
several were knocked down. Police
put their shoulders to the crowd and
were countered with list' and club
blows. Three patrolmen were
knocked down and the arrests fol
lowed. Van Commandeered.
A passing furniture van was com
mandeered as a patrol wagon., but
when the patrolmen attempted to
hustle their prisoners aboard it. they
were stopped by a bombardment of
stones. Then rit guns swept the
crowd. Eight persons fell, all but
two of whom got up and ran away.
The crowd dispersed.
The Eighth coast artillery com
which was mobilized in the
"state armorv last night, left the
armory at 0 a. m. today.. Its desti-j
nation was not made public. t
State Cavalry Patrolling
Streets in Strike Village
Providence. R. 1.. Feb. 21. Two
troops of stat? cavalry today patrol
rd tii? mill village of Pontiac, where
stri-ins cotton operatives yesterday
Vested the mill and office of the
P.. B. & R. Knight company. '
The cavalry, dispatched last night
at the order of Gov. San Souci, was
to be augmented today by a detach
ment with machine guns and possi
bly by a four coast artillery, com
panv. I'onliac. cut off from telephone
commtmication, was quiet all night,
recording to reports from the neigh
boring town of Arctic.
Sleuths Facing Stone .
Wall in Taylor Murder
Los Angeles, Feb. 21. The mystery-surrounding
the slaying of Wil
liam Desmond Taylor, motion picture
director, still remains as far from so
lution as when the body of the di
rector was found in his apartments
here almost three weeks r.go, investi
gators working on the case said to
il;! v.
With the elimination of Daniel Mc
Shca. a laxieah driver, who had been
rmnrtril as missing since tllC night
of February 1, the night on which
Taylor was murdered,, trom any pos
sible connection with the case, the
investigators said they again were
"facing a stone wall" in their efforts
to solve the crime. . . . .
McShca yesterday surrendered
himself to the authorities, who re
leased him after a. two-hour, examina
tion in the office of District Attorney
Thomas Lee Woolwinc,
x:ii.. C,,M4a. Talnnsv.
Washington, Feb. 21. Jealousy
over a woman was the motive be
hind the recent murder of William
D. Taylor, motion picture director at
Hollywood, Cal.
This was the opinion of "Billy"
Sunday, famous evangelist, as ex
pressed at the White House Yester
day, where he went to lunch with
President Harding.
'T believe that jealousy caused the
death of Taylor," said Sunday. "And
as a rule there is always a woman
in the background of such tragedies."
President Harding greeted the
evangelist warmly when he came to
the executive offices yestrcday and
later invited him to lunch. "Billy"
said he was on his way to Charles
town, W. Va., for a moral cleanup.
Three Brothers Drowned
as Ice Caves in "With Them
Erie. Pa., Feb. 21. Three brothers
were drowned yesterday when the
ice caved in, pitching them into the
water.
The boys, Charles, 17; William,
12, and Joseph Momas, 9, were
fishing for minnows.
Chihuahua Rebel Slain
. in Federal Skirmish
Mexico City. Feb. 21. Gen. Pablo
Marrcro, who last week started an
uprising in the state of Chihuahua!
, was killed yesterday near Ciudad
; Lcrdo, iui fight with federal forces.
New York, Feb. 21. Convicted
at drug addict, Frederick Cru
hm, a prosperous broker a decade
ago ana a compicuout fiturt then
in the night life of Broadway, wit
aentenced to the penitentiary yes
terday in the court of special ses
sions. In 1913 Grtiham married Lillian
Lorraine, the tenets. In 1915 he
was convicted in San Francisco of
obtaining money under false pre
tenses.
At that time he was in the grip
of the drugs it was testified. Miia
Lorraine divorced him in 1919.
He was arrested two yeara ago
while trying to force hit way into
the residence of Charles M.
Schwab and was committed to
Bellevue hospital.
Two weeks ago Gresham was ar
rested in a dive in the East aide
patronized by users of drugs. He
will be kept in confinement until
cured.
Boston District
Attorney Ousterf
by Supreme Court
Found Guilty of Conspiracy
to Extort Money and to
Suppress Indict
ments. Boston, Mass., Feb. 21. District
Attorney Joseph C. Pelleticr of Suf
folk county was removed by the su
preme court today. The court found
him guilty in several counts under
charges of malfeasance, misfeasance
and nonfeasance in office.
The court's ruling was on charges
brought by State Attorney General
Allen that Pelleticr had been a party
to conspiracy to extort money under
threats of prosecution and to sup
press indictments. His relations with
Daniel II. Coakley and other local
attorneys were characterized by the
attorney general as "a partnership in
crime." United States Senator James
A. Reed of Missouri, as counsel for
Pelleticr presented no testimony in
defense, arguing that the evidence
connected hiui with, no wrong doing
and that charges were merely the
outgrowth of. a conspiracy of per
sonal and political enemies.
Second Hearing.
The trial of District Attorney Pcl
leticr before the full bench of the
Massachusetts supreme court, which
began on December 27 last and end
ed January 24, was the second hear
ing of the kifcd in the state's history
and involved 32 specifications of al
leged "malfeasance-, misfeasance and
nonfeasance in office" formulated bv
the grievance committee of the Bos
ton Par association and by Attorney
General J. Weston Allen. Less than
a year ago Nathan A. Tufts was re
moved as district attorney in Mid
dlesex county in a similar proceed
ing. Evidence was presented against
the district attorney, however, in
only 21 of the charges. In 10 of
those he was accused of conspiracy
to commit blackmail. Improper ac
tion in handling cases in his office
was alleged in 10 others, and one
specification attributed "misconduct"
in two campaign addresses in which
the state quoted Pelleticr, ' while
speaking as a candidate for mayor,
as having promised immunity from
prosecution to anyone who got into
trouble through defending him from
reports that he intended to resign as
district attorney. Pelleticr withdrew
from the mayoralty campaign be
fore the election.
In Unlawful Manner.
Attorney General Allen alleged
that the acts of Pelleticr as district
attorney since November 13, 1909,
when he took- office, -down to the
date of filing the charges, as unfold
ed, by. witnesses, proved that the ac
cused prosecutor had conducted his
office in an "unlawful and reprehen
sible manner." None of the charges
as originally filed specified that Pel
letier had received money in return
for his alleged misconduct, but evi
dence to this effect was presented in
five cases. The attorney general of
fered this evidence in connection
with a claim that Pelleticr had "par
ticipated in the profits of a partner
ship Of crime."
Prominent Will Expert
Dies Intestate iu Chicago
Chicago, Feb. 21. John S. Miller,
one of the best-known will experts
in the country, who died last week,
failed to make his own will, it was
disclosed today when his son, John
S. Miller, jr., also an attorney, ap
plied for papers- to administer the
estate. -
The elder Miller devoted a large
part of his practice to specialize in
drawing wills. A year ago he drew
a fee of more than $100,000, for his
part in helping interpret the will of
the late Marshall Field, whose es
tate was " being sued by Peggy
Marsh, London shor girl, in behalf
of her son, Anthony Marsh, whose
father was Henry Field, . grandson
of the merchant prince.
Harold Lloyd, Film Clown,
Suffering Attack of Flu
Los Angeles. Feb. 21. Harold
Lloyd is suffering: from a severe at
tack of flu. He is confined to his
home here with two nurses in at
tendance. His temperature went up
to 104 yesterday.
Being an athlete, it is thought the
comedian will make a recovery with
out the dreaded pneumonia setting
in, despite his high temperalur,
Sinn Fein Is
Trying to
Avoid Split
Ard Flici Adjourns After In.
fctructing Leaders of Two
Parties to Han United
. Agreement.
Fail to Agree on Treaty
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By tht ArarlU4 lrM.
Dublin. Feb. 21. There is a pos
sibility that a Milit in the Sinn Fein
over the augkvlrisli treaty will be
avoided. The Ard Fhcis, the na
tional Sinn Fein convention which
met at the Mansion house today
for the purpose of defining the at
titude of the Sinn Fein clubs on
the treaty, whether for a free state
or a republic, adjourned until to
morrow with instructions to the
leaders of the two parties to come
together and devise a plan to keep
the Scin Feinn organization united.
The unexpected outcome was due
to the direct initiative of the meet
ing in general and w as not prompted
by the leaders of either side. After
De Valera had presented a resolu
tion pledging ahherencc to the con
stitution adopted by the Ard Fheisj
in 1917, looking to "international
recognition of Ireland, an independ
ent republic" and stated his objec
tions to the treaty on republican
principles, the debate, unlike the
discussion in the Dail Eirrean .did
not settle down into an examination I
of the merits and demerits of the
treaty. i
Raise No New Points.
After Griffith, president of the
Dail Eirrean replying to Mr. De
Vatera, raised no new points; he
merely reasserted that the treatv
gave Ireland the opportunity it
needed.
Cheers from both sides greeted the
suggestion of Father Gaynor, an in
fluential member of the standing
committee, composed of both sup
porters and opponents of the treaty,
for a three-year postponement of the
elections and proved that the prevail
ing sentiment of the convention was
for unity in the organization in view
of possible eventualities and that it
should not be difficult for Mr. De
Valera and Mr. Griffith to reach an
arrangement avoiding ' disruption of
the organization on ivhich Ireland,
in the case of a breach between the
British ministers and Ireland, might
be compelled to reply.
Mr. De Valera argued that elec
tions at the present time would be
unfair because the Irish people would
have only the vaguest idea of what
they were offered in exchange for
the republic. Michael Collins did
his best to mreti this objection and
indicated that he did not desire that
the elections be rushed, but was un
able to give a guarantee against elec
tions. He pointed out that so long
as the elections were delayed it was
open to the supporters of De Vatera
to defeat the provisional government
in tltfc Dail Aircan and that defeat by
even one vote on a minor point would
compel the government to resign.
Mr. Griffith emphasized the same
point and charged that De Valera
wa strying to avoid a decision by the
people. Mr. de Valera resented this
and meeting the objection of Col
lins and Griffith that they could not
guarantee Lloyd George would not
forec elections contended that no
elections could be held without the
sanction of the dail eirrean and the
army.
Opposed to Split.
Subsequent speakers reinforced
the plea that the leaders should en
deavor to avoid a split. The matter
finally was settled by, the interven
tion of ' Richard , 'Mulcahy, minister
of defense and head of the army.
" Mr. Mulcahy framed a resolution
declaring that the leaders, meet to
night and seek a basis cf agreement
for submission to the convention to
morrow. '
Several of the leading members of
both' sides, questioned later,' ex
pressed doubt as to the possibility
of accommodation. Mr. Collins,
however, was strongly of the opin
ion, which he voiced "forcible to the
meeting, that the situation would
so improve that three months hence
united decisions, impossible ' now,
might then be reached. "
. Despite the' long ' drawn out arid
arduous session the general tone of
the convention was unexpectedly
harmonious. It is unquestioned that
the rank and file, both republicans
and free staters, arc earnestly de
sirous to prevent a spit and every
move toward the continuation of
unity was heartily applauded. Just
before adjournment both Mr. De
Valera .and Mr'. Collins admuitted
that they had entered the meeting
believing that a compromise was
impossible and that the attitude of
the delegates surprised, them.
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Gypsy's First Bath in
40 Days Pleases Camp
Newark, N.'J., Feb. 21. Four
teen gypsy families who make
their homes near here are making
holiday today for their chief, Ben
Moyt, has taekn a bath, and
changed his linen.
This is the first-time the cere
mony has. occurred in at least 40
days, for the chief was forbidden
by the traditional tribal laws to
touch his body with water, shave
or eren change his clothing until
that time had elapsed after the
death of his wife. This is the day,
and the chief's followers are giv
ia (very vidcnce ot haroinin.
Roma Third Big
Spectacular Air
Wreck in Year
Hampton Roads Accident Re
calls Fate of Other Air
craft ZR-2 and R-31
Destroyed Recently.
New York, Feb. 21. The dirig
ible Roma, which blev up today
over Hampton Roads, was the third
big airship to be destroyed in spec
tacular mishap in the last 13 months.
On August 24. 1921, the ZR-2.
built by the British for purchase by
the United States at a cost of
$2,000,000, exploded over Hull, Eng
land, killing 42, including 16 Amer
icans. On. January 1, 1921, the R-34,
v.hich flew from England to Long
Island and back in the summer of
1919, the first airship to cross the
Atlantic, was wrecked in a gale
while tethered outside its airdrome
in llowden, England.
Previous ' Death Toll 28.
Before the ZR2 disaster, the
greatest number killed in an airship
accident in peace times was 28, the
toll of the explosion of the German
Zeppelin L-2 over the Johannisthal
airdrome on October 17, 1913.
Some of the other airship acci
dents in which heavy losses of life
occurred follow:
, July 21, 1919 Ten lost when dirig
ible exploded at Chicago and fell in
flames into the , Illinois Trust and
Savings bank.
July 2. 1912 Five killed at At
lantic City when balloon Akron, in
which Melvin Vaniman hoped to
cross the Atlantic, exploded shortly
after leaving the ground.
September 9, 1913 Fifteenth lost
in destruction of Zeppelin L-l off
Helgoland.
Struck by Lightning.
July, 15, 1919 Twelve when Brit
ish , airship NS-11 fell into North
Sea after being struck by lightning.'
June 20, 1914 Nine lost in col
lion of airship and airplane at Vi
enna. ' ''
Six of the great peace-time dirig
ibles built by Count Zeppelin, the
German aviator, were wrecked in
accidents. They were Zeppelins I.
II. -Ill and .VI and Deuschlands I
and II.
The Germans lost. 66 of the 83
dirigibles, sent out during the .war,
34 of them being ' accounted for by
the allies and the remaining 32
wrecked. . .
Striking Textile Workers
Parade Streets of Town
Naticky R. ' I., - Feb. 21. Striking
textile workers and sympathizers
jammed the streets of this village to
day, waving small American flags;
but preserving silence. Meanwhile
mounted cavalry troops and police
kept strict patrol, forcing the throngs
to keep moving. ',
In the village of Pontiac, eight
miles away, people remained in their
houses with the blinds drawn. Or
ders to remain1 indoors w-ere issued
last night by the military authorities
after disturbances at the B. B. & R.
Knight company mills.
In. Natick hundreds of children,
each bearing a tiny American flag,
swelled the ranks of the strike sym
pathizers. . ' ,
26 Unionists Still Being '
" Held in Northern Ireland
Belfast, Feb. 21. (By A. P.)
While most' of the unionists cap
tured in recent raids in northern
Ireland have been released,' the -Ulster
home office announced" today
that 26 of the kidnaped men had not
yet been returned. . .
Of these men, apparently still held
in custody, 14 are class "A" special
constables-and 11 class "B'- specials.
The other missing man is Ivan Cat
son, former high sheriff ' of Fcr
mangh, who was kidnaped at Clady
February 8. His wife , received a
letter from him the next day stating
he was well, but not revealing the
place of his detention.
Barhara Weed Proposed
fir Bassett Postoffice
- Washington, Feb. 21. (Special
Telegram.) Barbara B. Weed was
nominated 'for postmaster at Bas
sett today.
Cholmley-Jones -Former
War Risk
Head, Succumbs
Twice Rejected for Military
Service, Finally Went Over
seas With War Risk. Sec
lion as Captain.
New York-, Feb. 21. Col. R.'.G.
Cholmlcy-Jones, formerly t director
of the bureau of war risk insurance,
died at the Presbyterian hospital
early today. He had been ill at the
hospital since October 30 last.
Col. Cholmley-Jones, who w as 38
years of, age, was twice rejected for
military service during the war, but
the government, recognizing his
ability as an orgauizer, gave him a
captain's commission in the adjutant
general's department and sent- him
overseas with the 'war risk section.
He became chief of the war risk bu
reau in rlie American expeditionary
forces, remaining in France until
1919. . .' !
Upon his return ; to America he
became director of the bureau of
war risk insurance, his task being
the reorganization of the work being
done by the bureau. He resigned to
become vice president of the finance
and trading corporation of this city.
Heart disease caused his death. -
Allied Debt Fund . . '
Body Is Nominated
Washington, Feb.- 21. Nomination
of Secretary Mcllo'n.osecrctary
Hughs, Secretary Hoover, k' Senator
Smoot and Representative Burton to
be members of .the allied debt fund
ing commission will . be 'sent'- to 'the
senate today, it was announced-at
the White House. '!;
Upon confirmation of the nomina
tions, it is expected ' that foreign
debtor nationsAvilI. be informed that
this country is prepared to begin ne
gotiations for funding, the $11,000,
000,000 allied debt.
According to high officials-negotiations
probably will be begun, first
with Great Britain, looking to the
funding of the $5,000,000,000 debt
owed by' that nation' and -with thei
other foreign' governments : in ' the
order of the size. of. their debts.'
Under the congressional authority'
creating the debt commission.1, the'
amounts due- from the : foreign - na
tions may not be funded 'forlonger'
than a years or at interest of" less
than 4 1-4 percent.' "V '-i .-'
Sensational Disclosures '
Made in Air . Crash Report
London,- -Feb. . -21. What" I are
characterized'" as-1 '.'sensational ''dis
closures" are- made in the-air minis-'
try's report -mto the'' K-38 disaster'
at ' Hull last'- summer, , say's-! the air
correspondent' of : the - Evening. Star,
in an article 'today. The R-38, "re-
nau:ed the ZR-2 when ttXwas.pur-i
cha.cd by. the United 'States iffrom:
the . British , government,- collapsed
over Hull while on ' a, test. trip, with
the loss: of1 more than 40 lives, in-;
eluding, nearly a score.'of Americans.'
Meat Producers Asleep,1
, . Charge of Rail Executive
Chicago, Feb.; 2L Live 'stock in
dustry, needs advertising rriorc than'
lower frcnght . rates, , Charles .Dillon;
assistant' to the chairman of -railway
executives, said today 'in a' state
ment issued by the association. , ;
"The indifference . of nieat .fproi
duccrs,"' the 'statement, said, "to the
developments going on right under
their noses is largely responsible for
most of the depression from which
their business .has been, and i3 suf
fering. Not until, very recently has
anyone in that industry sensed the
truth and' even ' then the situation
was. accurately analyzed by the
packers, and not by the live stock
men." :' ,'. .-"' '-
Urge Freight Rate Cut.
Washington, Feb. 21. S h a r p
freight rate reductions on live stock
were urged in the Interstate Com
merce commission's general rate
hearings today by producers, of cat
tle and hogs and .the National Live
Stock exchange. . Chicago ... neat
packers and their competitors sec
onded the argument. , . ...
Roma Commander
Held Omaha Post
Till January 16
Was Ordered From Here to
. Langley Field to Take
Year's Training Hand
ling Dirigibles.
Maj. J,' D. Rcardon, former com
manding officer at Fort Omaha, was
one of the victims when the Roma
fell near the naval base at Norfolk.
Va., yesterday.
- Associated Press dispatches listed
Maj. Rcardon among the injured,
but did not state the extent of the
injuries. The officer, taking air
training at Langley held, embarked
on the ill-fated cruise as a passenger.
Maj. Rcardon came to Fort Oma
ha as commanding officer in Sep
tember of last .year, remaining, in
charge until January 16, 1922, ac
cording to Lieut. Ltmdbcrg, now in
command at the fort.
Previous to his duties here the
major was stationed at Ross 'iold.
near Pasadena, Cal. He was in the
air service office at Washington, D.
C. during the war.
He went directly from Omaha to
the airship school , at Langley f.i hl
for a year's training in the handling
of dirigibles, officers here state.
Maj. Rcardon has a wife and a
daughter, 3 1-2, according to Maj.
Ira A. Rader, air officer of the
Seventh corps area, stationed at Fort
Crook. The wife and baby arc said
to have been at Washington, D. C,
at the time of the disaster. Maj.
Rcardon is about .16, Maj. Rad;r
stated. '
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Lewis Calls Meeting
to Avert Mine Strike
': Chicago, Feb.' 21. President John
I.. Lewis," of the United Mine
Workers of America today asked
'coal operators of the Central Com
petitive field, comprising the states
of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and also of
western Pennsylvania, to meet with
union officials at Cleveland on March
2 for a wage cbfcrcncc which he said
might avert the impending strike.
Similar rcaucsts have been re
jected by some operators who said
that' they wished to discontinue col
lective bargaining with the miners.
'.-Mr. Lewis' messages were sent to
all associations in the central com
petitive field, and also to signatories
to the present wage agreement made
in New York city two years ago.
The' Cleveland meeting, if approved,
Mr.. Lewis said, would fix dates for
negotiations . on the wage scale.
' Mr.. Lewis referred to a provision
of the present contract providing pre
liminaries of negotiations, tins year.
$24-a-Week New York Clerk
Kept "Gay Life" Apartment
'New York, Feb. 21. A sumptuous
apartment on upper Broadway,
said by the police to have bfcen
maintained by Lrnest A. iliret, a
S24-a-weck clerk for the Borden
Milk Products company, was closed
todny when Mirct was arrested on
a ; chargc of. grand larceny pre
ferred by his-employers. ,
"The specific charge against him j
that-lie. raised and cashed a $75
voucher. During the last three
rears',.', according to detectives,
Miret has spent' between $70,000 and
$80,000. ' " ' '
; In addition to tiie cstaniiMimcni
on Broadway, they asserted that he
maintained a summer home on Long
Island and drove a costly automo
bile, with all the accessories which
constitute a gay life.
The Weather
Forecast
Wednesday rain or snow, colder.
Hourly Temperatures.
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11 a. m S7 7 p. m. .
13 nooa 31 8 p. m. .
Highest Tuesday.
DodM City ,...4' Halt Like
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North r:tt . ..a Valentine
Puablo 6,
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Over' 30 Die When Roma
Hits High Tension Wires,
LanclingWilliout Rudder
IVty-Fhc Ii!eiigers on Gin lit DiripiMc ha It Pluiijjt s li
Farth in irginia Heat From Hlazing Wmk Is In
tense, Drhing Hark Kcs ( tiers of 111-Fated Crew
Making Trial Trip Vt licit IUa.t Omits.
Bodies of Dead Burned Beyond All Recognition
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 21. Flung earthwaiil, presumably
by a broken rudder, the giant airship Itoma plunged a thou
sand feet or more today to strike the ground at the Hampton
Roads army base, capsize across a high tension electric line
and burst into a roaring furnace of blazing hydrogen gas in
which at least 30 of her army crew and passengers perished.
Long after dark tonight, many hours after her fall, the
ship was still a mass of flames from end to end of her 410
foot mass. The fire was feeding on the million cubic feet
of gas that had distended the great bag for the flight.
Jlarcly a doxrn of more than two
Passengers of Roma
Washington. Feb. 21. An official
list of the survivors, dead and miss
ing in the Konia disaster was re
ceived from Langley field by the
army air service tonight. The ad
dresses, however, in most cases were
unavailable. The list follows:
Identified dead:
l-'irst Lieut. William E. Riley. 526
East Eighty-sixth street, New York.
Survivors:
Capt. Waller J. Reed cf Scarsdalc.
Xcw York.
Mai. John D. Rcardon, Washing
ton. D. C.
First Lieut. Clarence IT. Wclsch,
Fapillion, Neb.
Lieut. D. G. Burt, pilot, slightly
injured.
Scrgt. Harry A. Chapman.
Scrgt. Yirdcn T. Peck, Tcrrc
Haute, Ind., uninjured.
Scrpt. Joseph M. Bicdcnbach, Ak
ron, O.
Corporal Flores.
Charles Dworack, McCouk field.
Dayton, O.
Ray Hurley, cf the national advi
sory committee on atcnautics, unin
jured. Walter McN'air, of the bureau of
standards, Washington, D. C.
Missing:
Maj. John G. Thorncll.
Maj. Walter W. Vautsnicier.
Capt. Dale Mal.
Capt. George D. Watts.
Capt. Allen P. McFarland.
Capt. D. Durscluuidt.
First Lieut. J. K. Hall.
First Lieut. J. C. Hums.
First Lieut. Clifford E. Sntytlic.
First Lieut. Wallace C. Cummins.
First Lieut. Ambrose V. Clinton.
First Lieut. Harold Mine.
Master Sergeant Morris.
Master Sergeant Murrary.
Master Sergeant Gordy.
Sergeant Harris.
Sergeant Hillyard.
Scrttcant Healc.
Sergeant Yarborough. 1
Sergeant Ryan.
Sergeant Huffman.
Sergeant Schumakcr.
Sergeant Ilonilcs.
Sergeant Hcvron.
Private Kingston.
Private lilakcly.
Private Thompson.
Private Hill.
Civilians (all said to he from Mc
Cook field, Dayton. O.l Strykcr,
Hanson. O'Lauglilin, Mcrryman,
Schulcnbergcr.
i
Legal Talent Argues Over
Division of Olds Properly
Attorneys representing Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin Olds, whose divorce
hearing was completed last week,
argued ' before District Judge Scars
yesterday in an effort to find some
means of dividing the Olds property.
"Olds might fall for some good
looking female," observed Judge
Sears, "but evidence in the case
showed that heretofore he has held
on to his money with a tenacious
Sr'P-" - w
If. L. Mossman, representing Mrs.
Olds, offered to give or take 120
acres of the Olds farm in Wayne
county, with improvements, the Olds
home in Omaha, or 120 acres of the
land unimproved and the town house
in Omaha. '
Xo agreement was reached.
Prisouer to Spend Day Each
Year on Bread and Water
Lincoln, Feb. 21. (SpeciaU One
day in each year of his 10-ycar sen
tence m tlic Nebraska penitentiary
must be spent in solitary confinement
on a bread and water diet under
terms of Clarance Dailey's commit
ment received by Warden V. T.
Fenton from Norfolk todayV The
dav is to be selected by the warden.
Davis was found girlty of a statu
tory crime. He was . at one time
superintendent of the Good Samari
tan home at .NortOik and prior to
going to Norfolk was engaged in
the same work at Omaha.
Influenza Growing in
Severity in New York
New York, Feb. 21. There were
400 new influenza cases, with 31
deaths, compared with 184 case
and 24 deaths yesterday, reported
here today. New pneumonia cases
totaled 260 with 104 deaths com
pared with 121 cases and 12S
deaths yesterday.
Since January 1. influenza has at
tacked 18,249 persons and claimed
464 victims, while 6,946 have been
stricken -with pneumonia and 2,046
have died.
score men aboard had been picked
up alive. One died curoiitc to a hos
pital. All of those who survived the
lire escaped by jumping as the
hip struck. The others, penned in
the hull beneath the fall of the bag,
were burned to death.' Heat of thi
lire fought back the rescuers for
hours.
30 Bodies Recovered.
Three lire departments fight the
flames with chemicals and by 7 to
night it was out. Derricks began
picking up the wreckage as the
dames were driven back. There wa
scarcely more than the aluminum
framework and the six Liberty
motors to move. Within the wreck
age lay the bodies, many of them
charred beyond direct recognition.
Thirty bodies had been taken out
tonight. Three or four more were
thought to be still in the charred
mass that alone remained of what
had been the largest ship of her type
in the world.
Accounts of surviving officers as
to what happened were not available
tonight. Every man who escaped
alive was burned or bruised, or both.
Eye witnesses who watched the
smash agreed, " how ever, that the
huge, kite-like structure of the stem
rudder, itself as large a$ a bombing1
plane, had slipped to one side as the
Roma drove along a thousand feet
above the army base.
Making Trial Trip.
She was making a trial flight with
a new battery of Liberty motors.
They were installed to replace Ital
ian engines bought with her in Italy,
but which have not proved satisfac
tory. Installation was completed at
Langley field two weeks aRO.
It was just before 2 when those
below at the army base at Hampton
Roads had their attention caught by
the approaching thunder of sis
motors and looked up to sec the
Roma dip down from her straight
flight, t They agreed that the rudder
seemed to have slipped bodily down
i and to one side.
The ship nosed steeply down as
she came closer and it was seen that
her crew were hurling out sand bal
last from the ports in the fragile
labric that formed the covering o
the space between her keel and back,
the living and operating quarters of
the ship. The dipping blunt nose of
the bag did not respond. On the
ship came, unchecked in her glide
earthward, head first. Her com
mander could not force her the few
hundred feet that would have
dropped her into the waters of the
bay and comparative safety for her
people.
Hits Electric Wires.
Below ran the high double wires of
the high power electric line. It
carried a 2,300 volt current. The
Roma's nose, shod with its alumi
num guard, sank into the wires,
broke them es the ship flattened to
earth and rolled over, and the next
moment came the noise of an ex
plosion. Flames burst out along the
hull space.
There was a rush of men to the
rescue from the army post and the
navy base beyond. Just as the Roma
neared the wires two men were seen
to leap from high up in her slanting
hull. As the stricken, flaming mon
ster writhed in her first death agony,
10 more dropped from doors or ports
or through holes they tore in the fa
bric sides that enclosed them. Some
leaped from the platform where the
engines stood, far cut from the hull,
, Rescuers Driven Back.
So fierce was the flare of the gas
flames that rescuers were driven back
before its terrific heat. They watch
ed helplessly as the great 80-foot bag
shriveled in the blaze of the liberated
gas. The Roma was a wall of flame
a city block long and until the thou
sands of gallons of chemicals and
water had checked the holocust. it
was impossible to reach the men
mangled and dead, in that fiery fur
nace. The ship left no passenger list be
hind her when she set out for a
brief trial run from Langlcr. It is
(Turn to rnca Thw, Column One.)
"Wire Tappers" on Trial
for "Sure Tiling" Fraud
New York, Feb. 21. Seven "wire
tappers" charged with having" con
spired to defraud Harney Knape, an
Ohio farmer, of $25,000 on "sure
thing" stock deals, were arrested to
day at Mobile, Ala., it was an
nounced here by Sherman Burns of
the William J. Bums- detective
agency. The swindle is alleged to
have been promoted at an Orlando
(Fla.) "stock exchanse." .
