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Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Two School Boys Are Held
For Death of PLAYMATE

Detroit, Dec. 12.-Clydc Santure
and Henry Damaszewski, II and
IA. respectively, were sent to the
detention home for boys to await
the coroner's inquest into the death
Of their playmate, Raymond Klein
schmidt, 9.
Questioning the boys brought the
explanation, according to the au-
thorities, that kleinschmidt was a
brilliant pupil and that this aroused
the jealousy of the lads detained,
who, it is said, attacked Raymond
on his wav home.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Man Murders His Wife
And Attempts Suicide

La Crosse, Wis, Dec. II. - Mrs.
J. C. Myers, Is, of Sparta, Wis, is
dead with her head crushed from
hammer blows and her husband, As,
farmer, FIVE miles south of Sparta:
is suffering from a badly slashed
wrist as the result of an alleged
murder and attempted suicide.
Myers will recover. A charge OF
murder was placed against him to-
night.
Myers, according to the sheriff,
declared Mrs. Myers, who is his Sec
ond wife, had left him several months
ago and he had killed her because
she refused to come back and live
with him and the five children Of
his first wife.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Tarzan Feature is
Hit Of Singer Show
At Gayety Theater

The much heralded Jack" Sing
er's Show" with Harry Lander and
his brother, Willie, opened at the
Gayety theater yesterday and it
scored a complete triumph. The
scenic and costume equipments
must be seen to be fully appreciated,
two of the scenic high lights being
Outing Inn" and "The House of
a Thousand Candles"
The honors of the show went to
Harry Lander, one of the best
tramp comedians. He is a fun wiz
ard and works hard every second
to create laughter. His laughing
elephant" was again the laugh hit
of the show, although his New
Way to Catch a Woman" novelty
did not fall short of coping the
honors. In his brother, Willie. he
has an able assistant.
One of the most amazing acts
ever witnessed on the bur1esque
stage is that presented by Tarzan,
the human ape. He can box and
some of his poses while wearing
the gloves would do credit to a
champion. Besides, he rides a BIZ
cycle at break-nech speed about the
stage; does a few acrobatic stunts
and ends his acts by lighting
cigar and smoking it.
Sam Wilson, negro comedian, re-
peated his success of last year when
he sang jazz songs in Yiddish.
The cast throughout is a capable
one, Ameta Pynes scoring heavily
in two new dance numbers. Hen
rietta Byron and her songs won
favor. Others in the cast are
Bobby Moore. Leo F. Daily and
Robert c. Miller. Then there is
the usual chorus of beauties.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
All Overseas Mail
Records Shattered

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
New York, Dec. H. - Uncle Sam
will handle the largest Christmas
mail dispatched to foreign countries
in the history of the postoffice de-
partment this year, according to pos
tai authorities. Ships leaving the
port of New York daily are laden
with all classes of mail, ranging from
postcards to cumbersome packages
and the rush will continue until after
the holidays.
Nine odt of the 10 packages sent
to Germany contain foodstuffs. Cot
fee, sugar, tea, smoked meats and
especially cocoa. soap, lard, con-
densed milk and chocolate, are ar
tic1es found on the declaration ags
of every package. Articles of wear.
ing appare are missing, as are candy
and tobacco. Those sent to Poland,
however, contain mostly clothing.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Watchman Suffers
Conclusion Of Brain
When Struck by Car

Henry Kopp. block night watch
man for the Creighton university,
Twenty-ffth and California streets,
suffered conclusion of the brain and
several broken bones Saturday when
he was struck by a west-bound Har-
ney street car.
kopp was crossing California
street from the north, between Twen-
ty-sixth and Tweuty-seventh, when
he was hit by a street car. said to
have been travelling down the hill at
high rate OF speed. The motor.
man was A. B, Cummings, 4231
Douglas street
Kopp was knocked unconscious
and removed immediately to the
Ford hospital, where the attending
police surgeon, DR.. Kinyon, said his
condition was serious,
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Mystery Surrounds Death
OF Wealthy Chicago Widow

Chicago, Dec. l2.-Mystery at
taches to the death of Mrs. c. A.
Reynolds, 50, widow OF a wealthy
coal dealer, who was found dead on
the floor of her luxuriously ap-
pointed dining room. Two burners
of the kitchen range were wide open
and the house was full of gas.
Mrs. Reynolds was fully dressed,
and on her fingers were diamonds
worth thousands OF dollars. There
was no indication that she had taken
her own life. On stand near her
body was her hat and scarf, indicat-
ing she had either just come in or
was preparing to go out when over
come. There were no marks of
violence.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
''Tubby'' Clark Found
Not Guilty of Charge
OF Robbing Empress

After celebrating from 5 Saturday
afternoon until Sis the jury re-
turned verdict of not guilty in tine
case of Glen (Tubby) Clark, tried on
a charge of robbing the Empress
theater the night of October "a.
Two masked men covered Wal
II ed Ledoux, owner and manager
of the theater, with revolvers in the
private office that night as he was
slowing $3,145, two days receipts,
III the safe.
They forced him into an inner
Office and bound him. Then they
escaped with the money.
Clark, who has been arrested fire.
quently heretofore on various
charges, presented an alibi as his
chief defense. Manager Ledoux
was positive in his identification of
Clark as one of the robbers.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Hoover Urges Churches
To Aid in Relief Work

Chicago, Dec. l2.-Herbert Hoov-
er, chairman of the European relief
council, issued an appeal to all
churches to observe December 70 aa
national collection day and to take
part in the campaign to raise $685.
100000 as Americas Christmas pres
ent to European children The cam
paign will extend over the holidays,
collections being made in all public
places and through civic organiza-
.tionS.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Mrs. Wilcox Elected Head
Of American War Mothers

Mrs. w. A. Wilcox was elected
president of the Omaha chapter Of
American War Mothers at meet
ing held in the memorial room Of
the court house. Other officers
officers elected are: Mrs. NJ. E.
Lewis, first vice president; Mrs l.,
Bullock, second vice president; Mrs.
Weeks, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. James Shields, record secre-
tary; Mrs. Harmon, treasurer; Mrs.
beaverton and Mrs. Hinzie, histori-
ans, and Mrs. Neihart and Mrs.
Wolfe. auditors
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Important Changes Made
In 10 New Scout Cruisers

Washington, Dec. 12,-1mportant
changes have been made in arma-
ment of the 10 scout cruisers now
under construction for the navy. The
vessels will carry II instead OF 8
6-inch rifles, with the 4 additional
guns mounted forward and aft on
twin mounts.
The change will increase displace-
ment to $500 tons and cut down the
speed from IS to 80 knots. it was
said. The first of the type, the
Omaha, will be launched at Tacoma,
Wash, soon, and it is expected all
will be commissioned before 1928.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Federal Judge Raises
Car Fare in Des Moines

Des Moines.- Ia, Dec. 12.-(Special
Telegram. Judge Martin ]. Wade
of the United States federal court
issued an order late Saturday grant
ing the Des Moines Street Railway
company an Scent fare, 10 tickets
for rs cents, five tickets for SO
cents. The court also orders an
increase in the service OF 40 per cent.
The order will become effective
Monday, -.-.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Negro Laborers of Chicago
Offer to Accept Wage Cut

Chicago, Dec. 12.-More than ~
900 negro laborers in Chicago and
vicinity, anticipating possible loss OF
work by lessened production, have
agreed voluntarily to present their
employers an offer to accept a re-
duction in wages, r. f. Parker,
president Of the American Unity
Labor union, announced. He de-
clared there already were 100000 un-
employed negroes here and that the
negroes In his organization would
accept 10 per cent cut tor un-
skilled labor and IS per cent de-
crease for skilled workers.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Liquor Agent Refuses
To Prosecute Sick Man

Boston. Dec. Il. - William ].
Mccarthy, prohibition enforcement
director, refused to prosecute a sick
man in whose home had been found
a bedside still and some moonshine
whisky. The man was so weak when
the officers made the raid that he
could not be moved He told the
officers that his finances would not
permit him to purchase whisky on
a medical prescription and as he
needed whisky to keep him alive he
had installed the still.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Voluntary Reductions
In Apartment Rents Made

Springfield, Mass, Dec. 12-Own-
ers of four large Springfield apart
ment blocks have voluntarily an
rounced reduction in rents and in
anticipation of further reductions
within the next six months, w. F.
Grady, president of the Tenants
Protective association has cautioned
members to accept no leases for
more than six months.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Department of Justice to
Deal With Alleged Spy

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE War
department is preparing to turn over
to the Department of Justice, the
case of John A. Willers, alleged
American army deserter and Ger
man spy, who in his original en-
listment gave his address as La
Fayette, Ind.
The charge of desertion in time
of war, punishable by death, will not
be dropped, it was said, but will
be held over Willers in the event
he is not convicted of espionage.
Willers is confined on Governors
Island under the jurisdiction OF
General Bullard.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Stock Salesman Gives Up
To Answer Indictments

Cedar Rapids, Dec. II. - H. c.
BeeSon, former stock sales agent
for the Iowa Bankers Mortgage
company, returned and surrendered
to Sheriff Taylor. Three indict-
ments were returned against him by
the Lynn county grand jury.
One charges enbezzlement OF
$4,000 from the company and the
other two allege the utterance of
forged instruments.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Parents Problems

At what age should children be
told who Santa Claus is?
This is a matter that individual
parents must decide. Some tell their
children from the first, some wait un-
til the children are 5 or years old,
and some do not reveal the pretty
secret until the children ask, who
is santa CLAUSE"
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Oakland Cattle Men Ship
Special Train to Chicago

Oakland, Neb., Dec. l2,-(Special.)
-Thirty-seven cars of cattle were
shipped to Chicago from this point
by combination of local stockmer.
A special train was obtained over the
Burlington. J. A. Danielson and
Walter Magruson organized the
shippers,
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Ponzi Begins Serving
Five-Year Jail Sentence

Plymouth, Mass, Dec. II. -
Charles Ponzi entered Saturday
upon service of his sentence of five
years at the Plymouth county Jail
that was imposed by the federal court
as punishment for the fraud by which
he obtained millions OF dollars from
thousands of persons.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Mail Burned, Two Clerks
Injured in Explosion

Deshler, O., Dec. II. - A large
quantity OF mail was destroyed and
two railway mail clerks severely
burned when an explosion set fire
TO a mail car on Baltimore and Ohio
train No. 10. The explosion is be-
lieved to have been caused by the
contents OF package in the mail.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
York Grocer Plans Two
Stores to Solve Credits

York, Neb., Dec. l2.-(Special.) )--
The storeroom occupied by Etel5
grocery until it was gutted by hre
some time ago, is being remodeled.
Mr.. Etel will conduct grocery
store on the old stand for credit
customers and will also carry a
stock with the public market for
cash and carry customers.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
Oppose Industrial Court.

Des Moines. Ia, Dec. 1.-THE
Kline Industrial court bill is not a
square deal and labor cannot ac-
cept it" said Fred Garfield of
Cedar Rapids, president Iowa State
Federation of Labor.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-13
How To Get Rid
OF Your Cold
The quick way Is to use
DR.. Kings New
Discovery

dlM druggist and yet a bottle
of DR.. Kings New Discovery and start
taking it. By the time you reach
home you'll begin to feel better, and
will have a restful sleep without
throat-torturing coughing.
DR.. Kings New Discovery, for over,
fifty years standard remedy, has the
medicinal qualities that relieve con-
gestion, ease the cough and loosen the
phlegn. Convincing, healing taste,
too. Price 80 cents, $40 a bottle.
For colds and oou6hsi
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-10-05

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The most accurate and far reach
ing straw vote Of any presidential
election ever attempted in this coun-
try is now under way. Millions of
ballots will be east in this test vote,
and at least two weeks before the
November elections those,swho fol-
low this straw vote will be able to
tell without fssr of contradiction
who is to be the next occupant Of
the White House, and by how many
votes he wilfSsn.
In order to accomplish. this IT,
tanic task eight thousand Rexall
Drug Stores in the United States
have been designated by the United
Drug Company, of Boston, as the
balloting points. In each store a
clerk has been detailed to conduct
the ballot and thus insure sure and
fair test to, vote. There will be no
stuffing of the ballot boxes, nor
will there be any repeating.
The big unknown quantity in the
forthcoming election is the women's
vote. In order to accurately COM
pute this vote two ballot boxes have
beep installed in each Rexall Drug
Store, one for the male vote, the
other for the women. Each night the
vote will be counted, that of men and
women totaled separately.
Each ballot clerk, ip> each town or
city, after compiling his local vote,
will telegraph his returns to CEN
tral point in that state. This state
captain, in turn, win compile the
total--yote for the state and tele-
graph these returns to the Straw
Vote Director at the Boston office
of the United Drug Company.
In addition to this the state cap
tain, after compiling the vote for his
state, will send these returns back
to each Rexall Drug Store in his.
state, where they will be promi-
nently displayed on each store win
dow.
The Boston office, after receiving
the reports from all forty eight
states, will compile the total ma
tional vote, for men and women,
separately, and a bulletin will be is
sued each night. together with the
total figures by states, which will be
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-10-05

and telephone, will be necessary
each day. Beginning October 1, an
nouncement will be made daily of the
vote, and with 5000 drug stores to
draw upon, it is safe to say that
many million votes will be cast and
compiled.
An actual test Of the Rexall Straw
Vote was made in the last presiden-
tial campaign. While balloting was
conducted only nine days in all the
stores, yet several million votes
were cast and five days before cleo
ton the figures were announced.
This test vote showed that Presi-
dent Wilson had been re- elected by
small majority. 1t showed that he
would carry California and also
New Hampshire, an announcement
which brought indignant denials
from those opposed to him. When
the total vote east in the Rexall
Straw Vote were compared with
those east in the November elec-
ton, they differed from the actual
figures less than one-half of one per
cent. With thirty days of balloting
in the present test vote, not only
can the readers be kept in momen-
tary touch with the temper Of the
public, but the, viii get very def
mite idea as to how the women of
the nation will vote ON November 2,
next.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-10-05

Wanted = Something that will
sharpen American wits so they will
ent the cost of living. Minneapolis
Tribune.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-10-05

We know a whole lot of sovereign
citizens and whoopers for personal
liberty, who have to sit out in the
back yard when they want to chew
tobacco, because their wives won't
let them have a spittoon in the house
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-10-05

sent back to all the 5000 drug
stores and to many newspapers and
news agencies throughout the coun-
try.
In order to handle this straw vote
an interchange Of upwards of thir-
ty thousand messages, telegraphic
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New-York tribune., 1920-10-26
Commission to Probe
Newark Tug Purchase
PAYMENT of Sl8,5OO. for Craft
{. S. Sold for $500,
A.rouses MavOr Cillen

Mayor Charles p Gillen of Newark
has summoned the City Commission
to meet in special session this after
noon to investigate the purchase by
the city for SlS,5OO of tug which the
War Department sold for $1,000. Cap
tain Matthews j. Quigley, of the
Newark Fire Department, asserts that
lie made an offer Of 900 for the
boat the day before the government
sold it to Ernest Rudolph, the ship
troker from whom the city bought 1t
later
This was denied yesterday by Colo
rel John J. Bradley, who has charge
of the army pier at Hoboken, where
the tug, the Grover Cleveland, was
moored The records of his department
In the matter of the sale of the tug
were perfectly clear, he said
An officer of the appraisal depart
ment, he said, had informed him that
the Grover Cleveland was worth about
$4,000 and that he had better accept
anything above $500 Captain Quig-
ley, Colonel Bradley was informed by
mis- subordinates, examined the boat,
commented on the expense that would
te necessary to convert it into fire
boat and said he would return.
Captain Quigley maze no offer for
the boat at that time. Colonel Bradley
was Informed. but came back later
after bid Of 50 500. made by Rudolph
had been forwarded TO Washington
with favorable recommendation and
complained that he understood he had
had an option on the boat.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-26
Hearst Urges Election
Of Malone as Governor
Declares for Farmer Labor
Candidate and Attacks
Miller i'm Editorial

William Randolph Hearst, in his New
York American of to-day declares him
self for Dudley Field Malone. the Farm
er-Labor candidate for Governor. and
makes bitter editorial attack on Judge
Miller, the Republican candidate. He
makes 1t plain that he wants progres-
sives to vote for Malone and that Judge
Miller should be defeated by all means.
lie pretends an Indifference with regard
to the candidacy of Alfred Z. Smith.
IN closing an editorial, devoted largely
to an attack on Judge Miller and ure
ing vote for Malone The American n
says:
But all who feel that thew must
choose between the regular Rcpubi-
can and Democratic candidates. we
urge to vote for AL Smith, because he
Will have more inducement to do good
and less power to do harm than Miller"
The editorial follows the reprint
ing of two kilograms from Hearst and
dated Los Angeles. One dispatch is
dated October 23. The other October
20. In these two dispatches, Hearst
sets forth his objections to Miller and
ms appreciation of Malone.
want to support Malone as a pro
gresslve and genuine Democrat, y
Hearst wired on October 23, "and if |
could get Smith sincerely to pledge
himself to progressive legislation |
would not oppose him.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-26
Sword Wielder Sought
After Woman Was Killed
Man Arrested in BROOKLYN
Said to Resemble Lodgcr She
Dunned for Rent

A man giving his name as Rezzcri
Noschi, who was arrested Sunday eve
ming when he halted traffic on DeKalb
Avenue, Brooklyn. by brandishng a
sword, was identified yesterday in
Kings County Hospital, as the occu-
pant of rooms at APT Cherry Street for
whom the police sent out a general
alarm after Anna Horowitz, jaintor of
the building, was found murdered there
Sunday
Voschi, the police say, has the dark
complexion and red hair Of the lodger
whom Mrs Horowitz was dunning for
rent. and has been identified as the
man by Martha Yantz and Thomas
fSllon, tenants in the building The
last seen of the tenant, who fed be-
tore the murder was discovered, he
was carrying a sword.
Noschi not only had a sword when he
was arrested, but also had strips of tin
like armor bound about his body and
limbs. He told the police that he came
to this country five years ago from
Italy, where his father. was a police
man in Messina. He wanted to be a
policeman, he said, and knew nothing
about the killing of the woman in
Cherry Street. He was sent to the
hospital for observation.