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Rail Ruling
Big Boost
for Omaha
Loi of Central Pacific Con
trol Iiy Southern Pacific
' Mean Im-rcaiM'd Traffic
Tliroiijdiout Gate City.
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U.P. May Purchase Road
IWiinn f thf.lniled SlatCI U
pi erne court tt Washington jester
Uy tlut the Stjiitlicrii Pacific rail-
r.Md cannot continue ew iirrmi
Ml Ontul Pacific line, (ram Sail
i-raiu'iM-a to ugiim, constitutr me
tiKRct bit of railroad new altccting
Om.iha in rn cut year.
The likely otitruinc i that the
l'n ion Pacific will acquire the Cen
tral lViiic line. Riving the 1'iiion
Pacific entrance into S.411 Francisco
ver it own rails instead of by con
iicctinii at Ug'li'ii. i now. this
would makf Omaha the caMcrn
terminus and headquarters of a
niiilied railroad ysiem, retching
went from the Missouri river .and
spreading fanlike to the Pacific
roast at three termini Lo Angeles,
Sail Francisco and 1'ortland.
Means Increased Traffic.
Whether this be done or the' Og-dtn-Saii
Francisco line be acfjtiircd
by independent interests it will be
developed, according tq authoritative
railroad report, into far closer ro
'operation than hefctofore with Union
I'acitic, meaning increased traffic
through Omaha and greater pros
perity for Union Pacific.
The supreme court's decision yes
terday was the last of a series of
railroad dissolution suits before it in
the last 15 years. It reversed a con
trary decision by the district court'
of Utah.
Should Central Pacific be acquired
by Union Pacific, the dream held by
Kdward Harriman ,25 years ago will
come true.
, , Buys Whole System.
Harriman bought the Union Pa
cific at receiver's sale. He planned
to create a great transcontinental
railroad. To Rive his line a Pacific
coast outlet he wanted the Central
Pacific, which was built originally as
the Union Pacific s connecting Itnk.
Tm line was owned by the Southern
Pacific, which also operated from
New Orleans to Los.Angeles and up
the Pacific coast to San Francisco
and Portland. - Southern Pacific
vould not sell Central Pacific, so
Harriman, through Union Pacific,
bought the entire Southern Pacific
system.
Suit was brought in the federal
in 101 1 tin sunreme court
ruled that the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific were competitors,'
both operating transcontinental lines,
and could not be under one owner
ship. It specifically stated that
Union Pacific could legally own the
Central Pacific, that part of the
Soutiirrn Pacific system reaching
from Ogdcn to Sad Francisco.
. Deal Falls Through.
Following this decision, a contract
was made lor me purcnasc ui m.s
Central Pacific by the Union Pa
cific. Before completion, the deal
fell through. '
Now the supreme court says that
Southern Pacific cannot own Central
(Turn to Two. Column Four.)
Hooper Merchant Hurt
in Auto-Engine Crash
Fremont. Neb., May 29. (Special.)
Max Matzen. prominent Hooper
merchant, was seriously and perhaps
fatally injured when the coupe in
which he wag ..riding was struck by
a Northwestern passenger t ram east
n lm ritv aSont-11 this morning.
about bO feet away. Matzen was in
the act of passing over a private rail-
road crossing when he was struck by
the train, which he apparently failed
to see. . . , , .
The accident victim is a brother of
State Superintendent of Instruction
John H. Matzen, prominent business
man and farmer of Hooper vicinity.
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Plattsmouth Garage Ordered
Sold to Satisfy Creditors
- Plattsmouth, Neb., May 29. (Spe
cial.) The O-K garage, one of the
most expensive garage buildings in
southeastern Nebraska, built in 1918
bv J. H. McMaken & Sons at a cost
said to have exceeded $40,000, has
been ordered sold to satisfy the claims
of creditors. This is the second court
sale of the property, the first time it
having been bid in by Charles Far
mele of the now defunct Bank of
Cass county, who was financially in
terested in its erection. In establish
ing priority claims, the court has
handed down a decision giving the
Bank of Nehawka first lien, Fred R.
Bodie, receiver of the Bank of Cass
county, second lien. The First Na
tional bank of Plattsmouth, third lien
and the other attaching creditors
fourth lien.
To Broadcast Harding Speech.
Washington, May 29. The ad
dresses of President Harding and
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hirl lUSUCC IdlL at lilt utuiiauuu
Tuesday of the new Lincoln memor
ial will be oroaacasr. oy raaio reie
thone to the fartherest stations of
the world, it. was announced today.
The .naval radio plant at Arling
ton will be utilized for distributing
the speeches to foreign lands, using
a wave length of 2,650 meters.' and
that at Anacostta vviil send at
meters for domestic points
Audrey Munson to
Recover From Poison
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Audrey Kurvwm
!l racist-. N. V.. May 29 Audrey
I Munson, nationally known model,
w.is reported uut of danger at Her
hoiifc in Mexico, near here, today.
Miss Munson took poison Saturday
afternoon and when her mother
found her declared that she wanted
to uie. It said that worry over
money matters was responsible. To
day she was slid to be eager to re
cover. Her physician. Dr. L. D.
Stone, said "her condiiioii is favor
able to recovery."
Loevinger Named
Head of District
B'naiB'rith Lodge
St. Paul Man Succeeds Henry
Monsky of Omaha as
President General
Committee Chosen.
Gustavus Loevinger of St. Paul,
Minn., w.as elected president of the
district Grand lodge No. 6, Independ
ent Order of B'nai B'rith, at the
s'dti, 3nmiul iMivrntinn nf the organ
ization in the Blackstone hotel yes
terday afternoon. He served as nrsi
virf tirAwirtpnl rtliritlQr the last vear
and in his new position he succeeds
Henry Monsky ot uninna.
Otfipr nffimt eWteH were Ben
Samuels, Chicago, first vice presi
dent; Charles D. Orcckovsky. Du-
luth, second vice president; a. d.
Scclenfrcund, Chicago, - secretary;
Benjamin Braun, Milwaukee, treas
urer; - Solomon Levitan, Madison,
Wis., sergant-at-arms. ,
General Committee Named.
the creneral committee
were elected as" follows: Jacques
bhlitstem, Uncago; KODert juappen,
DcsIoines; S. J. Leon, Omaha; Leo
Keitman,) Milwaukee; V. Bernstein,
fi,;.-QTr,- D C. Felton. Chicago;"
Julius Kahn, Chicago; Irvin M.
Treusch, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Reports of standing committees
and officers were received yesterday
attcrnoon. -ntporafpc
and visitors attended the
opening initiation at the Ak-Sar-Ben
den last night and joined their
women folks at 10:30 at a tea dans-
ant in the Brandcis tea rooms..
Install Officers Today.
The new officers will be installed
at this morning's session, when reso
lutions will be received. This after
noon at 2 a convention class of 100
will be initiated by the staff of Oma
ha lodge No. 354. Memorial serv
ices will be held this afternoon at
3:30 in the ballroom, of Blackstone
hotel. An address will be delivered
by Rabbi Frederick Colin. The pub
lic fa invited. A banquet and dinner-dance
will be given tonight in
tbe Bra.ndeis grill room. The con
vention will colse on Wednesday
afternoon.
Missing Launch Safe.;
, Pensacola, Fla., May : 29. The
pleasure boat Swan, with about 50
persons aboard, missing throughout
the' night, reached its dock here to
day with all hands aboard safe. -
Somebody Found
Your Dog
Find the Somebody'
Jimmie came home from ,
school, flung his books on
the table, and went out in
the back yard. His whistle
failed to call forth any bark
of welcome. Bob, his big
Airedale, and the companion -of
his idle hours, was lost.
A school boy grieves, while
somewhere, somebody else .
is trying to find the owner
of a fine big Airedale dog.'
. Bee '.'Want" Ads restore to
their owners lost dogs, pet
kittens, strayed live stock,
jewelry, keys, fur pieces,
purses, automobile tires and
other things that habitually
get lost
Phone Your Ad to
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Wo r 1 d i n
Disarming
This Nation in 1 till Place in
Point of Actual Army
Strength One Soldier to
Every 900 Persons.
Russia Largest . Force
Omaha M- l4 Wirt.
Washington. May 29. The War
department today submitted Mali
tics to illuntrate how the United
Sulci is leading the world in dis
armament. This nation, which raised an army
of 4,(XKt,0K) nien for the world war.
now stands in 14th place in the lit
of armies of the world in point of
actual numerical strength, and in
25tli place if the size of the army i
compared to the total population of
the country.
According to the War department
comparison, which is based on the
present strength of the army and
not the lower, figures that will ob
tain when the new army bill becomes
law, Russia has the largest army in
the world, a force of 1.57U.IKK1 men.
China is recond with 1.083.000 men.
and France is third with an army of
818.000.
Other Nations.
The other armies included in the
comparison are are follows:
Abvssinia. 571.000: Grece. 310.000;
Japan. 302,000; Poland, 290.000; Italy,
2MI.UNJ; Great Britain. S,iW, innia,
221,000; Spain. 216.000; Turkey. 188.
500; Roumania, 165.000, and the
United States, 158,000.
In view of the decision of the
league of nations at Geneva recently
that nothing can .be done at present
towards general reduction of land
armaments, these figures are regard
ed in official quarters here with par
ticular interest. Other statistics that
have been wo(ked out throw interest
ing light upon the comparative bur
den borne by European populations
and Americans for the upkeep of mil
itary organizations. In the United
States, the analysis shows, there is
approximately one soldier to every
900 persons, contrasted, with the state
ment often made that every turo
pean adult "has to carry a soldier
on his hack." , - ; ',..
. ' One '. to Every 25 Miles.
It is estimated that in the United
States there is but- one soldier for
every $2,000,000 of wealth and one
soldier for every 25 square miles of
territory. '
Army experts also emphasize the
fact that practically all the Euro
pean powers, and Japan as well, have
compulsory military service, with
guarantees that every able-bodied
youth will receive military training
when he comes of age. Thus, they
point out, despite the World cry for
disarmament, th European nations
and Japan are actually building up
great army reserves which are sub
ject to mobilization upon short no
tice. .. ' (
Nonpartisan Leaguers Ask
Heads to Call Convention
Norfolk. Neb.. May 29. During a
district mass convention of the Non
partisan league here Saturday, reso
lutions were passed asking the state
management to call a mass state con
vention in the near future and for a
district delegate convention here in
about ten days to" draft or endorse
candidates. The convention went on
record asking the state board to furn
ish paid members with a purely. Non
partisan league newspaper and de
clared that the New State is not in
a sense a league publication.
Edgar Howard of Lolumbus, it was
indicated, may be drafted as a league
candidate for congress in the Third'
district. 1 - . . ' '. ,? '
Former Fillmore County
Couple Are Divorced
Geneva,; Neb., May 29. (Special.)
District court adjourned here after
a night session Saturday,' and is to
reconvene on Wednesday. Judge
Brown of this district will deliver
the Memorial day address at Milford,
Tuesday. -
A divorce was granted to Robert
E. Hastings. Mr. and Mrs. Hastings
lived in Fillmore county a number
of years but recently Mrs. Hastings
has been at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. Harry Yates, in Miniatare.
In settlement of the property, Mrs.
Hastings was allowed possession of
80 acres of land and $10,000 in cash.
Candidates for Senate
Nomination Have Busy Day
Candidates for the republican nom
ination for United States senator -will
be busy today.
Congressman ' A. W. Jefferis is
to deliver the Memorial day address
at Auburn cemetery southwest of
Millard..
Attorney General Clarence A. Da
vis will speak at Wahoo.
- R. B. Howell will speak at Craw
ford. . . .
- Mr. Jefferis also will deliver the
commencement address at York col
lege Wednesday.
10 Per Cent Wage Increase
at Firestone Tire Factory
Xkron, O., May 29. Announce
ment of a 10 per cent wage increase
in factory departments was made to
day at tthe offices of the Firestone
Tire and Rubber company. A short-
age of skilled tire workers was re
sponsible for the increase, it was said.
Mathilde McCormack
to Sail for Europe
New Yoik, Miy .N-Mi Mathilde
Mclornuck of l'hic(fo, grand
daughter of John I). Kotke I'tlrr
whof e nK-iKniifiit l M 0er,
Swot riding matter, lu been 'an
nounced, will Mil for Europe tomor
row mi the tie ri;ria, the said today.
"I have nothing further to say, and
I don't want to be bothered with
question, she added.
Mi McComukk. daughter of the
wealthy harvester manufacturer, will
he accompanied by Mm Julia Man
gold, at one time bookkeeper to User,
who came from Chicago with her.
I'reviout records had quoted 0er
an saying he expected to me to
America in June. Mitt McCormack
declined to confirm or deny these re
ports. Approval of House
Soldier Bonus
Plan Predicted
Informal Canvass Shows Sen
ate Committee Stands 9 to
6 for Mi-Cumber Plan
With Modifications.
Washington. May 29. Approval
bythe senate finance committee on
Wednesday of a soldiers' bonus bill,
following closely along the lines of
the house measure with its bank loan
provision, was predicted today by
members of that committee, after the
rubject had been discusfed for near
ly two hours.
An informal canvass of the com
mittee indicated that the members
were divided. 9 to 6 for the house
measure with some modifications
the so-called McCumbor plan. Five
members, all republicans, were re
ported to favor the Smoot proposi
tion of paid-up life insurance for the
veterans in lieu of all other forms of
compensation, while one committee
man. Senator Williams, democrat.
M ississippi, was understood to be
opposed to any bonus legislation.
Whether a land reclamation pro
vision is to be instituted in the Mc
Cumber plan is an open question and
consequently it mav .be some time
before a bonus bill is reported to the
senate. Chairman McCumberNs anx
ious, however, that the bill be report
ed out in the immediate future and
he expects to press for action as
speedily as is possible.
"After reaching the senate the bill,
in the usual course, would go to the
senate calendar, to remain until call
ed up bv Senator McCumber. There
is a difference of opinion among re
publicans as to whether the bonus
should displace the tariff bill at any
time, so the probably time at which
the senate will get into the bonus
fight is indefinite. '
Senator McCumber is of the opin
ion that the senate can dispose of
the measure with a few days of con
sideration but this view is not shared
by all leaders. '
Long Discussion Expected.
Opponents o fa bonus in any form
as well as opponents of the amended
house bill are prepared for a long
discussion of the question.
Both the McCumber and Smoot
plans have been outlined in some
detail to President Harding, with a
view of obtaining an expression of
opinion from him, but the Committee
went ahead today with their con-'
sideration without having received
any word from the executive. Pro
ponents of the McCumber proposition
believe that he will approve that form
of bonus if passed by congress, but
publicry at least, the president has
given no indication of a change, of
mind since he told the house ways
and means committee to finance the
bouns with a sales tax or postpone
enactment of the legislation.
Excelsior Springs Man Dies
in Hotel at Gibbon, Neb.
Gibbon, Neb., Mav 28. (Special
Telegram.) C. L. Williams of Ex
celsior Springs, Mo,., died suddenly
at the Walker House here of heart
disease. Mr. and , Mrs. -Williams
came and homesteaded about: six
miles north of Gibbon in 1879. He
was here to sell his large farm
Wheat Prices in Sensational
Dive on Chicago Market
Chicago, May 29. Wheat prices
made a sensational dive today, the
May delivery plunging downward
10c a bushel as compared with
quotations earlier in the session. May
went as far down as $1,184 and for
the first time this year sold at a
lower price than July.
Farm Utopia of Sculptor
Polish Artist Who Secures .License to Wed Chicago
Society Girl Says There's More Money in Rais
ing Pigs Than in Chosen Profession.
Omaha Bee Leamd Wire.
Chicago, May 29. Stanislaus
Szukalski, Polish sculptor, who has
risen from obscurity to considerable
fame, today secured ' a license to
marry Miss Helen Louise Walker,
member of Chicago society and
daughter of a wealthy physician.
Miss Walker accompanied the sculp
tor to the license bureau. Szukalski
gave the ages of himself and prospec
tive bride as 26 years each.
"I do not know when we will be
married." he said. "Perhaps tomor
row. Consul; the ouija board. It
ought to know."
A farm with a yard hilled with
Where Girls
View of the Grimes knack in Ben
son Gardens, two miles west of Ben
son. It is Eighty-third and Lake,
according to the old numbering, but
Eighty-fifth and Lake according to
new numbering in that district.
Grimes built it himself. ,In front of
the shack is the stolen Dodge auto
mobile used by Grimes to lure girls
to his place.
Below, left to right. Harry Boyd,
who went to the rescue only to be
himself imprisoned; Mrs. Roy Jenk
ins, nee Jean Valentine, and Miss
Katherine McManaman, held in
chains for nearly 30 hours and as
saulted by Gus Grimes, escaped des
perado, in the dugout of an unfin
ished shack at Eighty-fifth and Lake
streets, Benson Gardens.
Girl Captives
How they pleaded with the male
brute who held them captive in his
Cave, manacled with chains, was told
yesterday morning by Mrs. Jean
Jenkins and --Katherine McManamau
at the county jail, where theywere
given refuge, their gruesome wrist
bonds still dangling from their arms.
"We tried everything in our power
to win our freedom," he girls re
later. "We begged, coaxed and
pleaded for him to let us go.
"I even called him ,'Honey!" and
told him I-would do anything, if he
would let us out," said Miss Mc
Manaman. ; -.'
Parents Are Poor.
"First he told us he was holding
us for a reward. We told him he
couldn't get anything from our folks
because they were poor people."
"'Never mind. They'll get the
money somehow. They always do.
I've got money, that way before,'"
was his answer. -
He threatened to kill the girls if
they made any outcry.
"See that sap. It's steel. I made
it myself and if any of you yell, I'll
Hungarian Government
Victorious in Election
Budapest, May 29. First returns
from the Hungarian . parliamentary
elections indicate an -overwhelming
victory for the government. The
Carlist right wing, or , monarchist
party, is regarded as crushed, and it
seems probable that the social .dem
ocrats will make a great gain.
Therflection of 74 government and
six opposition candidates is assured
so far. . , , ". . , -
Former British Publisher
" Sentenced to Prison Term
'London, May .29. (By' A. P.)
Horatius Bottomley, former pub
lisher of John Bull, was fpund guilty
today by a jury on the charge of
misappropriation: of funds belonging
to the Vitcory Bond club. He was
sentenced to seven years' penal servi
tude. ' ' ,
squealing little "porkers" ;s the ar
tist's Utopia to which the black
smith's son will lead the millionaire's
daughter. Disregarding.the ominous
eyes of Miss Valker, he continued:
"I think it will be nice to live on a
farm and raise pigs. Sculptoring is
not so very profitable. But-those
who raise pigs make a lot of money."
Miss Walker gave an angry snort
and quickened her step, but her ec
centric lover gave her no heed and
chattered on. She, by word and mo
tion, sought to stop his flow of
words, but without avail. She had
nothing to say about her marriage
plans except that they would be an
nounced Friday i
Were Imprisoned by Maniac
a tl PL'
Tell or 5
Pleas to Brute Captor
scatter your brains over this place
with one blow," he warned.
"Jail would be heaven in place of
that hole in the ground where he
kept us," declared the Jenkins girl.
"At least you know when you're go
ing to get out of a jail, but we didn't
know but what we would die there."
She is smaller in build . than the
McManaman girl and she evidences
the ' ordeal more in her face and
shattered nerves.
She .was dressed in a thin brown
silk dress and wore only a small fur
wrap, so that she suffered from old,
too, more than her friend.
Pail of Spaghetti.
The McManaman girl had a - tan
polo coat, for a wrap ami did not
mind the cold night and dtrt so much,
she said. Both wore dainty , satin
slippers, covered with mud, when
they were found. , ' .
'"We had dothing to eat but a'pail
of dirty spaghetti he made for us
Sunday, they said.
The Jenkins girl worked in the
Harmony cafeteria, Fifteenth n and
Jarnejv until last weeki.: J-. ';
French Officially Deny
Crane Sentence Report
v Washington, . May . 29. Official
dispatches from the French foreign
office, made public yesterday by (he
French - embassy here, .. . declaied
"false " and untrue" reports that
Charles R. Crane of Chicago had
been tried by, a French court-martial
in Damascus ,a,nd sentenced to 20
years' imprisonment for having at
tempted , to incite anti-French dis
turbances in Syria; Investigation
of the reports,' conducted by the for
eign office, embassy offifficials said,
proved them to be wholly J without
foundation. .. . ''. '
. Paris, "May 29. Charles R. Crane
of Chicago left Paris yesterday for
The Hague. From The Hague ' he
will proceed to. London a.nd on June
3 will take passage on the' steamer
Aquitania for New York.
217 "Drunks" Arrested; All ;
"Spiffed" on Concoctions
' Indianapolis, May 29. Two hun
dred and seventeen- persons have
been arrested in Indianapolis "since
January 1 charged with drunkenness,
but not one in the lot was "spiffed"
on "regular" liquor. This was the bc
belicf' expressed by the turnkeys at
the city prison, who recalled various
intoxicating concoctions, , self-administered
by those who fell into the po
lice net. One man admitted he got
his jag by drinking metal polish.
School Head's Brother Is
Fatally Injured' by Train
Lincoln, Mav 29. (Special Tele-
eram.1 Tohn . Matn cfato
perintendent of schools, received
worn mat his brother, M. v. Matzen,
had been fatally injured this morning
when the motor car in which he was
riding was struck by a Northwestern
train at Hooper. Neb.
The injured man was rushed to the
Methodist hospital, Omaha. The
state superintendent left for Omaha
this afternoon ,
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Neighbors Hear .
Queer Cries at
Home-Made Shack
Deputy Sheriffs Believe Other
Women Attacked by
Fiend and Pal at
Garage.
The siory-ind-a-half frame garage,
scene of Sunday's outrage, was built
by the man believed to be Grimes
himself in the last two months, ac
cording to neighbors.
."He and a pal lived ina nearby
tent while Grimes worked on the
shack," said Mrs. J. M. Everett,
Eifrhty-second and Lake streets.
Her sister, Mrs. C. E. Gifford,
F.ighty-sixth and Miami, a little clos
er to the : Grimes' shack, reported
strange outcries from that vicinity
at night. , ,
"We heard screaming and running
like crazy people, but we did not
interfere. .They sounded like both
men and women." :'
Deputy sheriffs account for the
sounds by the theory that the man
?nd his' partner may have brought
other women and attacked them there
before this weekend's occurrence. "
"It's the worst, thing that ever
happened in county criminal
records," said Deputy Sheriff Quack
enbush: "These girls are not the
first ones assaulted here." .
, Frightened Neighbors.
Mrs.. Everett stated that she and a
neighbor. Mrs. H. E. Daniels passed
Grimes' tent a month ago, while they
were picking violets.
"He peeked out of the tent and
leered at us as if he would make ad
vances, so we hurried away," she
said. "He was dirty and disheveled,
his red dish hair rumpled, and he
looked as if he were drunk.
Sheriff Clark found a whisky bottle
near the tent. .
Grimes' conflicting statements
about the "whereabouts of his pal led
officers to make a thorough search of
the surrounding alfalfa fields to see
if they could find a grave. They be
lieve Grimes may have killed his asr
sociate. . ;
He told Harry Boyd his pal went
to Texas and told his neighbor,
Everett, with whom he dickered to
dig him a cellar, that his friend went
to Denver ,
Plenty of Money.
. Grimes made his first payment on
the place on, March 25 to Kenneth
Reed of Hastings & Heyden. He
told Reed he intended to build a
home. '
"I just came from Lincoln and I
find rents high in Omaha, so I want
to get on .the outskirts," he told
Reed. ,
The real estate man said Grimes
haggled over price, but when he fi
nally agreed on a figure seemed to
have plenty of money with which to
while Grimes held the two,
girls and Boyd captive, R. F. Martin
and Wynian Robbins, Hastings &
neyaen salesmen, were within 100
yards of th! place, but neither heard
nor saw anything which aroused their
suspicions
CAPTIVES
ARE FREED
BY DEPUTIES
Sheriff Hot o Trail of Arch
' Fiend Who Imprisoned
Young Women Near
Hcnxoii.
CAR I SKI) 1 OK FLIGHT
FOUND NF.AU WAVF.RLY
Farmer Who Attempted Rel
ate Alno Manacled and
' Held in Subjection by
Three-Gun .Maniac.
Sheriff Mike Clark is hot on the
trail of "Gus Grimes," escaped arch
fiend, who held two Omaha girls
chained for 36 hours in a dugout
near Benson, from Saturday after
noon until Sunday night, when they
were rescued.
Two deputies found the car in
which "Grimes" escaped on the out
skirts of Lincoln, about 5 yesterday
afternoon. The exact location is
three miles east of Waverly.
They identified it by the license
number furnished by Harry Boyd.
Benson farmer, who attempted to
rescue the two girls and was him-'
seld bound in chains and threatened
with death.
Identity Is Known.
Deputies Charles Hoye and Chris
Christiansen are the one who found
the car. They were dispatched to
Lincoln by Sheriff Clark about 2 in
the afternoon in pursuit of a clue
pointing that way.
"I have reliable information lead
ing to his identity," Sheriff Clark ac
knowledged at the time. "His right
name is not 'Gus Grimes. " '
The sheriff has photographs erf the
man he suspects to be the "Gus
Grimes" of the heinous Benson Gar
dens incident.
Girls Recognize Pictur.
"Boyd and one of the girls he as
saulted, Mrs. Jean Jenkins, positively
identified this man's picture as that
of "Grimes," so did the agent in
Hastings and Haydens real estate
office who leased the ground at 85th
and Lake streets to him," said the
sheriff. .
"That's the man!" Boyd and Mrs.
Jenkins exclaimed, without hesita
tion. 1
Katherine McManaman, the other
girl principal, could not be located by
the sheriff last night.
The car in which Grimes escaped
belongs to Boyd whose escape Sun
day night frustrated Grimes' plan to
murder him and bury him in a grave
he had dug at the side of the house,.
Once in' Prison.
The man Clark seeks was sen
tenced to the Lincoln penitentiary
from Omaha on an auto theft
.charge two years ago. He was
rearrested in Omaha not long ago
after a battle with three police of
ficers, in which he was badly beaten -about
the head. ... '
K sheriff's passe searched the vi
cinity of Grimes' shack yesterday for
traces of the escaped desperado or
I (Turn to Pace Two, Column One.)
Successor to C. F. Reavis
Will Be Named at Primary
.Lincoln, May 29. (Special.) A
special primary and a special elec
tion "will be necessary to select a
successor to C. Frank Reavis, First
district congressman, who will re
sign June 4 to prosecute war fraud
cases. .
The Special primary will be a part
of the regular primary to be held
July 18 and a special ballot will be
handed to First district voters at the
primary and election so they can de
cide who will fill the unexpired term,
which ends MarcH 4. '
This is the procedure which those
in close touch with Governor McKeJ
vie declared today he would follow.
It is pointed out that suoh a course
will be lawful and would save much
expense to the taxpayers.
The governor, before making a
definite decision, will consult, with
Attorney General Clarence A. Davis.
If this course is definitely decided
upon a special primary election proc
lamation will be issued shortly.
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Wellesley Girls Save
Contents of Burning House
Wellesley, Mass., May 29.
Young women students of Wellesley
college formed fire lines today to
save the furnishings of Mathison
House, one of the college buildings,
(luring a fire i,n an ice house a short
distance avay. The ice house was
destroyed, but college employes and
the local fire department prevented
the flames spreading . further.
The Weather
The Forecast.
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