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Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Dollar a Year Men :.
Are Not on the Job
.. To Push the War

Washington, Sept. 18.-Weil-paid
employees in places of prominent men
now giving their services to the gov
ernment at nominal pay, such as 81 a
year, were urged on the house today
by Representative Dupre of Louisi-
ana.
"The greatest cause of delay in our
war activities" he. said, lis the ava
lanche of men who have descended
upon Washington to do their bit free
of charge. II you go down to see
them on Thursday you learn that they
have left town to return Tuesday and
if you 60 back on Tuesday you learn
they have just gone out to lunch. If
we had paid, employees who were re-
sponsible to someone this condition
would not exist"
Representative Gillette of Massa-
chusetts defended the "dollar-a-year
men," insisting that their positions
probably would be filled by "deserv-
ing democrats" if they were to retire.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Norfolk and Madison
,.. Honor Draft Army

Norfolk, Neb.. Sept. 18. Especial J
-Thirty-two Madison county nations
al army men leave Madison for Fort
Riley on Wednesday morning. A
large number of the men were BAN
quetted in Norfolk Tuesday and Mad
ison and Norfolk united in giving
them a big farewell reception at Mad
ison Wednesday morning.
Big plans are under way in Norfolk
to honor approximately 500 national
draft army men, who will pass
through here on special Northwest.
ern trains at noon Sunday, enroute to
the training camp. These men are
coming from all points west and
north on the Northwestern lines.
Residents all along the line are pre-.
pairing to welcome the men when
their train passes through the various
towns enroute to Omaha. -.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
KELLY VICTIM
OF PARAN0|A,
DEFENSE PLEA
Preachers Counsel Attempts to
Show Defendant Suffers From
Mental Disease; Testimony
Bears Out Statement.
BY EDWARD BLOCK.
(staff Correspondent far The BeeJ

Red Oak, Ia, Sept. iS.-(Special
Telegram.)--Th Rev. Lyn G. J.
Kelly is a victim OF paranoia is the
contention presented by the defense
in the trial Of the minister for the
octuple AK murder at Villisca FIVE
years ago. Judge w. E. Mitchell, DR..
s. X. Stratc of Sutton, Neb, Monday
whether. he believed Kelly during
time of his residence at Sutton, mani
tested symptoms of the disease.
Victims Think They Are Prosecuted.
Experts say victims Of paranoia
live under the delusion that they are
being prosecuted. The disease Is
characterized by a gradual impairment
Of the intellect and usually by manda-
tory delusions producing homicidalI
tendencies. They generally show evil
dences of bodily and nervous dcgen-
Grafton.
In another form known as sub
acute hallucinatory paranoia the illu-
sions are transitory and the victim
apparently sane except under their
spell. In this form homicidal tend
ency is especially marked.
Much of the testimony indicated
that Kelly told people he met that he
was being followed by detectives; that
he was suspected because he was in
Viilisca on the night of the murder,
or that because he sent stained shirt
to laundry in Council Bluffs, he was
under espionage.
Somebody has advanced the theory
that Kelly may have been afflicted
with transitory dementia during the
last five years; that he may have been
living under a dual personality. 1t
has been observed by the transitory-
dementia theorists that in most of his
conversations, which have been many,
relative to the ak murder, he invaria-
bly, spoke in the third person.
He told one witness that "the muir
derer" did not intend to steal any
thing, but was going to take watch
which appealed to his fancy, and
dropped the timepiece when some
passersby alarmed him.
He told another witness that "the
murderer" had difficulty killing one
OF the Stillinger girls.
To another person he said "thc
murderer" entered the front door of
the Moore home. Many other details
he attributed to "the murderer"
According to experts, these transi-
tory-dementia persons ask whether it
could have been possible for one OF
Kelly's personalities to have
prompted the confession and the other
personality to have repudiated it.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
DRY LAW IS NOT
ON TRIAL, SAYS
JUDGE ESTELLE
InstruCts Jury to Decide Cases
On Evidence; Beer is Intoxi-
eating Also Declares
the Judge.

Judge Estelle, sitting in law court,
in instructing jury hearing the first
liquor appeal case in district court
told the veniremen not to take into
consideration whether they believed
the prohibition law to be good, bad
or Indifferent, but to decide the case
squarely on the evidence.
The case of the state against James
Kahout went to a jury at II o'clock
and Immediately another liquor appeal
case was begun before twelve other
veniremen. Kahout was charged with
illegal transportation of several bar
rels of beer after May l.. He pleaded
not guilty in police court and appealed
to district court.
Beer is Intoxicating. "
One of Judge Estelle's remarks to
the jury was: Remember, gentle
men, beer is an intoxicating liquor"
Judge Estelle also instructed the
jury as to the weighing OF testimony
of the different witnesses. He told the
jury members to carefully consider
the fact that policemen and detectives
in their quest for evidence are "apt
to remember at a trial only the evil
dence most damaging to the defend
ant"
Special Prosecutor MCGUIRE, ap-
pointed by Governor Neville to head
drive against bootleggers in Omaha,
trained his legal guns on the first
state case against the Millard hotel
at 1880 o'clock. The first complaint
against the Millard hotel appealed to
district court charges illegal posses
sion of liquor. Il
Judge Estelle, who is hearing all
liquor appeal cases-twenty-eight in
number-declared Prosecutor Nc
Guire should have assistance during
the trying of the cases. Mr.. MCGUIRE
has his city prosecutors duties to at
tend to in addition to prosecuting all
appeals in district court.
Il will ask Governor Neville and
the city council to give Mr.. Mcclure
some assistance, as his duties at pies
eilt are too many for one, man." de-
clared Judge Estelle.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
DR.. avery Tells
HOW UNIVERSITY
HELPS THE WAR
Chancellor Scores Prussianisn,
: and Pacifists in His Con-
.., vocation Address to
..'. Students. III.

Lincoln, Sept. 18.-(Special.) DIR.
Samuel Avery, chancellor of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, in his convoca-
ton to the students today, scores
Prussianism and tells of the splendid
work for the war which is being done
by the university. His subject was
"The University and the War;" and he
said in part:
"Since the recognition by the gov
ernment of the United States that a
state of war exists between our peo-
pie and the imperial German govern
ment, | take it that no American citi-
zen fails to support fully the govern
ment of the United States in, feeling,
speech and conduct unless he is af-
ficted with one of the following all
ments, namely, partial foreignism,
partial treason or partial idiocy.
"The last term could be more ac-
curately expressed in the vernacular,
but students use the vernacular too
freely at all times. Of these three
classes the only one for whom have
any respect or tolerance are those
who are afflicted with foreignism, and
for those do have a very definite
sympathy and often profound re-
spect, much as I deplore that atti-
tade.
Scholarship is one of the most
practical things in the world, because
scholarship molds thought. Scholar
ship may degenerate, to be sure, into
the monastic and the academic, but
scholarship at its best means ultimate
action, because to a large measure it
controls the thoughts of men. Yet
scholarship as a thing by itself is nei-
ther good nor bad,
1T can be used as German philoso-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Edinburgh Honors
Walter Hines Pare

Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. l8.-
It was unanimously decided by the
town council here today to confer
the freedom Of the city Of Edin-
burgh on Walter Hines Page, the
American ambassador to the court
Of St. James. ~. Al.
This honor was conferred upon
Ambassador Page in recognition
of. his representative position as a
diplomat, his public services in pro-
noting friendship and good feeling
between the people Of Great Britain
and the United States and also 'in
appreciation Of th heroic conduct Of
his country in joining Great Britain
and her allies in the great war"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Urge Federal Guarantee to
Prevent Live Stock Loss

Washington, Sept. l7.-Federal
guarantee against losses in the live
stock industry was discussed with the
food administration today by repre-
sentatives of western stock raisers as
means of encouraging increase of
the meat supply for the next year.
Small producers complain that feed
prices are too high now to justify
fattening or raising new animals and
that the guarantee plan would prevent
the slaughter of thousands of lambs
and feeders during the fall and early
winter.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Police in Autos
Parade Streets to
Prevent Riots

San Francisco, Sept. 1S.-Ninety au-
tomobiles, each manned by two po-
lioemen, .patrolled lines of the United
Railroads in certain districts today in
a determined effort to prevent a re-
currence of widespread rioting which
began yesterday when striking iron
workers and sympathizers, according
to police reports, joined car strikers
in outbreaks of violence. d.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Head of Shipping Board
Goes to Settle Strike

Washington, Sept. 1S.--Chairman
Hurley of the shipping board and
William Blackman. >conciliator of the
Department of Labor, will leave to-
morrow for San Francisco to under
take adjustment of labor troubles in
plants building ships for the govern
ment.
Hurley today appealed to President
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor to stop the strikes which are
holding UP government shipbuildiug
on the Pacific coast.
I A conference will be held today be-
tween Mr.. Hurley and Mr.. Gompers.
Chairman Hurley also conferred to-
day with Secretary Daniels on the
navy's settlement Of wage demands in
government ship wards. l,E.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Will Teach Horseshoeing
To 10000 Nationa! Army Men

Boston, Sept. 18-Twenty thousand
members of the new national army
will learn horseshoeing under expert
craftsmen selected by the Master
Horseshoers' association through a
plan proposed at the annual conven-
ton of the association today.
With the consent of the War de-
partment The association will pay the
difference between the $5l wage of
the enlisted instructors and the civil
ian wage schedule. 80. -
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Denies Insurance Men
0pp0Se Soldiers Bill

Washington, Sept. l8.-Brief hear
ings were held today by senate
finance subcommittee on the soldiers
and sailors insurance bill which
passed the house unanimously last
week.
George Eide, professor of the Home
Life Insurance company of New York,
denied that insurance companies were
against the bill, but instead urged its
massage
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Court-MartiaI Trail
Of Negro Rioters Open

San Antonio, Tex, Sept. 1S.-The
court-martial trial of negro soldiers
implicated in the Houston riot will
be open to the public, it was announced
at the headquarters of the Southern
department today. Newspapers will
be allowed to have representatives
present and take the testimony. 1t is
expected the trial will be held in Ell
Paso in about two weeks.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
U. S. Grant Exempt from
Military Service; Wife

Bismarck, N. D., Sept. 18.-Ulysses
S. Grant will not have a chance to
make himself as famous as the man he
was named after, in this war with
Germany, for the North Dakota dis
trict exemption board here has ex-
empted him from military service on
the ground that he has a dependent
wife and as a result a great name is
lost to the military annals of the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Trainload of Troops to "
Hold |. w. w. in Check

Portland, Ore, Sept. l8.-Colonel
c. E. Dentler, U. S. A., announced
here today he would send a special
trainload of troops to Astoria, Ore,
tonight to prevent Industrial Workers
of the World from endeavoring to
coerce employees of the Hammond
lumber mill there to strike in SYM
pathy with Seattle strikers against
kfen-hour lumber.
The Hammond mill is working on
aeroplan spruce.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Army and Navy Men
ENJOYING Fine Health

Washington, Sept. H.-Generally
good health for the navy, afioat and
ashore, was reported today by Sur
geon General Braisted, who said
there was little serious illness. Some
cases of measles and mumps still are
reported from the Atlantic feet with
measles less prevalent than rnumps,
averaging only ten cases a week for
the whole force ahoat.
Conditions also are excellent at the
shore stations, except at San Fran
cisco, where there are a number of
cases of measles and mumps.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Druggists in Convention
At Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, o., Sept. l8.--Nearly
5000 delegates. representing drug
gists, are here for the nineteenth con-
vention of the National Association
of Retail Druggists, which opened
yesterday. The convention is ex-
pected to ask a place for a pharma-
cist on the Council of National De-
Tense and to demand commissions in
the army and navy for pharmacists.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Los Angeles Doctor Arrested
CHARGED With Beinu a Spy

Los Angeles, Cal, Sept. 1S.-Dr.
Max kampman, young physician,
was arrested at his home here to-
day, charged with violation OF the
espionage law.
DR.. Kampman, according to fed
eral authorities. previously had been
ordered interned, but had eluded the
officers. 1t was said he came to the
United States shortly before the be-
ginning of the European war. He
came to Los Angeles from Salt Lake
City several months ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Father and Son to f.,
''. Serve u. S. in France

Milwaukee, Sept. l8.-Benjamin F.
Steinel, for eighteen years a sporting
writer on Milwaukee dailies, is on his
way to France to drive an ambulance
in the American service. His H.
year-old son. Jack. already is in
France. having enlisted in the mar
ines. Both father and son were out
side the age limits of the draft law.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Owen Frank Will Be
Sub Coach at, Nebraska

Lincoln, Neb.. Sept. 18.-Owen
Frank, Nebraska's star halfback in
1909-l0-l1, has been appointed as
sistant to Coach E. J. Stewart, of the
University of Nebraska, and started
to work with the team today.
Nineteen men answered the cali. to
practice for the varsity team yester-
day. 1t is expected this number will
be doubled later.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Costa Rica Breaks All
Relations With GERMANY

San. Jose, Costa Rica, Sept. 49,
Diplomatic relations between Costa
Rica and Germany are considered
severed as a result of steps taken by
the government today. General
Tinoco, the president, discovered
that German residents here had
joined with some of tie followers of
former President Gonzales in con-
spring against the government.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Roumanians Take Part /.
Of Austrian Positions

Petrograd, Sept. 18.--Rumanian
forces yesterday occupied a section
of the Austro- German fortified posi-
tions in the region of Varnitza. says
the official statement issued today by
the Russian war office. In the area
of Riga. the statement adds, there
was no change in the situation
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Seven Hundred Carpenters
On Strike at Houston, Tex,

Houston, Tex, Sept. 18.-Approxi-
mately 700 union carpenters, engaged
in government construction work at
Camp Logan and the aviation camp
here, struck today as the result of the
failure of contractors to meet their
demands that none but union labor
he emo1oyed,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Canada JaiIs Anti-Draft
Ortator on Charge Of Treason

Montreal, Sept l8.-Paul- Emile
Mongeau, an anti ti.conscriptionist or
ator. was arrested today on charge
of treason. He is the third to be taken
here on this charge for publicly op-
posing CONSUMPTION. Mongeau plead
ed not guilty wheh arranged and was
released on bail.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19

First Group Starts at s A. NJ,
Second at $50 and the
Third Goes at 1885
Tonight.
Bulletin.

Washington, Sept. 18.--Mar-
shalled for the last time as civilians
and under civilian authority, more
than 100000 men of the national
army will 60 forward today to the
sixteen cantonments to be trained
for the battle against German au-
cracy. Their next move will be as
fighting men toward the battle fields
of France.
Greater Omaha's quota of 4s0 citi-
zen soldiers, the second contingent OF
drafted men to &C from the Gate City
to the training camp at Fort Riley,
will leave today in three divisions.
The first group, consisting of men
of the Fourth and Fifth districts, leave
over the Union Pacific at 8 a. m. The
second group, comprising men of the
Third district, leave at $3.50, while the
last group, making up the First and
Second district, 60 at 10:s5 tonight:
The Fifth district men reported at
the court house at 9 yesterday morn
ing for roll call and final instruc-
tions and a little drilling. Those OF
the Third district have orders to re-
port at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Men from the First and Second dis
tricts report for call this morning at
10 o'clock.
The South Sides quota will be en-
tertained today instead of yesterday,
owing to the later departure. At $50
this afternoon, the men will as
semble at the South Side city hall,
where they will be greeted by bands
and committee of South Side busi-
ness men. They will be escorted to
the Stock Yards exchange dining hall,
where they will be guests at dinner.
The boys will then be taken to their
train in automobiles. ~
The transportation of 1874, 900 mem
bers OF the national army, who con-
stitute 40 per cent of the citizen SOL
diers selected for military service,
begins todap and continues over q
fve-day period. ....a., @1..
T" Requires Many Cars.
In handling 10000 men within the
time designated, railroad men figure
that it will require all Of the available
tourist sleepers in the country. This
number is placed at 1900. In addi-
ton, the movement will require ap-
proximately 5000 day coaches.
Generally speaking, the tourist
sleepers will be used for the transport
tation of the men living farthest from
the eantonments, while the day
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Two Bishops Appointed
By the Apostolic Legation

Washington, Sept. lS-Appoint-
ment of two bishops Of the Roman
Catholic church were announced to-
day at the apostolic legation here.
They are: Bishop of Denver, Mt. Rev.
7. Henry Then, at present bishop of
Lincoln, Neb.. and bishop Of Los An.
giles, Rev. John ]. Cantweh of San
Francisco.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
InfantiIe Paralysis Closes
Schools in Northern Iowa

Des Moines, Ia, eSpt. ia num-
Der of rural schools have been closed
in the northern, part of Crawford
county, in an effort to prevent an
epidemic of infantile paralysis. Forty
three cases have been reported to the
board Of health thus far in Septem-
Der, as against total of twenty for
Aupiist 3,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Omaha Man With Canadian
Forces Killed in Action

Ottawa, Sept. l8.--The following
American names appear in today's
Canadian casualty list:
Killed in action:
A. J.. SCHOEMPERLEN, Omaha,
Neb. ..
Missing:
S. Whin, San Francisco.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
OOO,OOO,OO0 War Bill
Passed by L0lUer House

Washington, Sept. lS.-Thc ST.
000, 900, 900 war deficiency bill, car
rying huge appropriations for the
army, fortifications and shipping
board, passed the house today by
a unanimous vote.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
Kansas City Pays Record ,.+
Price for Fifty.0ne Steers

Kansas City, Sept. l8.-Fifty-one
steers selling at $l7 100 pounds to-
day established the highest price ever
paid west of the Mississippi river.
The cattle averaged l,447 pounds.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19
State RESTSIN MURDER CASE:
DEFENSE CLAIMS MINISTER
0DSESSED' THAT HE|S GUILTY
Details of Murder Told by Accused Man to Jailors at
Logan Read in Court; Kelly Declares He Does
Not Remember Signing Document; Out.
line of Course of Defense. .+t'
By EDWARD BLACK.
(Staff Correspondent for The Omaha Be


Red Oak, Ia, Sept 1s.-(Special telegram 1.-The climax
of eventfu day in the trial of Rev. L. G. j. Kelly for the
Visca murders this afternoon when Attorney F.
Fave read in calm deliberate the confession made by
Kelly and offered in evidence by the minutes
ter the prosecution rested its
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-19

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-18
His UnyieIdins Attitude.
(Judgc)

"a man has gotter be firm wild wo-
own household" stated Brother Clank.
q skinny little hornet of man. "Dey'S
all alike, sch! You gotter be firm. or
deyll ride yo' a-bughuntin' wild der
notions. Tudder day. me and muh wife
done had a little 'spute bout a potion
O. de Scriptures. and she not on'y lost
de ahgymunt but picked up a skillet
and slapped me down wild 1t. riz in
muh dignitude and div headfo most un-
der de bed and de whack she gimme
on muh posterity smacked me SO fur
dat muh head popped ag'in de wall at
dc back side. Dat was dess as q good
a thing as I wanted. sab. uh-kase by de
time she had got me by de britches
legs ard was uh-pullin' like a yoke O.
steers, l done had muh claws socked
into a crack in de flo and was in de
finest kind O shape to frusticate her
| beavers
Come on out'n dar. yo' coward
she yelled. Come on out twell I bust
20 hide open wild dis skillet
Maddum.' says I. dess like dat
'Maddun, 20 kin pull at me and whack
me tweil yo' gets plumb white in de
face, but yo' KANT break muh manly
sperrit: pineed if tn come out!'
And didn't. needer, Aw, yo' got.
ter be firm wild EN-, sab: firm as a
rock"