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Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Screen Stars Photos Added
To Cash Prizes in Contest
Beautiful Sets of Enlarged Portraits tssSA .ss -
Winners in Big Identification ca >ssM
Who Fail to Get One of 1CSsss
Cash Awards.

Prepare, movie fans, for game
treat.
Are your wits keen?
Are you student of close OBJ
servation?
Can you recognize a photo of
your favorite film star?
Then add TO your laurels in The
Bee movie contest which begins next
Sunday.
Besides the cash prizes that arc
offered for your ability to identity
photographs of favorite film stars,
IS sets of screen stars enlarged
portraits in sepia will be given away
to winners of the contest who sall
in the cash awards.
Don't Miss Out.
The photos of Mary Picktord,
Anita Stewart, Jack Pickford,
Charles Chaplin. katherine Mac
Donald. Constance T Talmadge, Nor
ma Talmadge and Mildred Harris
arc included in each set. These
portraits are highly suitable for
framing.
Don't miss out OH them.
Make up your mind to enter the
contest.
All you have to do is TO Identity
the photographs of two movie stars
on the motion picture page OF The
Bee beginning next Sunday and
continuing for so days,
Watch for the coupon to enter
your name in the contest.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
"Buy a Barrel of Flour
Campaign Is Launched

Chicago, Dec. "A buy barrel
OF -four now" campaign was
launched heres by the Farmers Ma
tional Grain Dealers association. H,
R. Meisch, president of the organiza-
tion, announced that the 100000
farmers who hold stock in 4,800
farmers elevators would be urged
to lay in their winters -four supply
now, while the price is right"
Our figures show that the United
States has sold for export, nearly
all of the wheat it can safely ex-
port Mr.. ,Meisch said. Nearly
100000 bushels of wheat are being
sold for export every day. Soon
it will be fight for American -four
or wheat between America and Eu-
ropc"
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Unidentified Man
Leaps to His Death
From Omaha Bridge

In full view of several employees
of the American Smelling works, an
unidentified man committed suicide
yesterday afternoon at by leaping
from the rail at the center of the
Douglas street bridge into the Mis-
souri, river.
A few minutes before the tragedy
the man had entered the office OF
the Cady Lumber Co., Sixth. and
Douglas streets, and asked A. H,
Grant for car fare to get across the
bridge. He then went outside and
shortly after was seen to Jump into
the river.
Efforts by police to recover the
body have thus far been unsuccess-
full.
The man was described as being
about As and shabbily dressed. He
wore a brown suit, the coat OF
which was torn; grey sweater and
a brown hat. The hat was recovered
by Charles and August Faust, $3.50
South Twelfth street. The mans
face was covered with several DAYS
growth of beard.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Chicago's ''Colored
Ponz" Found Guilty
OF Confidence Game

Chicago, Dee 2-Dr, ]. Ebert
Robin son, described as Chicago's S
"colored Ponzi,' was found guilty
by a jury of operating a confidence
game in connection With his fnan-
'cial methods.
DR.. Robinson, who rode to and
from the court building in an I'M
ported racing car, claimed he .ex-
pected to recover Sl0,000,000 from
the American Car and Foundry
company for alleged infringement OF
aNalents on a "hard iron wheel" He
sold his notes for several times their
face value to hundreds of negroes
and whites, the purchasers to collect
their profits should he win his patent
suit.
Conviction for confidence game
carries sentence of from one to 10
years in prison.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Five Persons Perish
As Apartment Burns;
All Are Identified

New York, Dec. 2.-Identification
of the last of the five victims who
perishcd early today amid flames
that swept a five-story apartment
house in West Fifty-secopd street,
as Betty Jones, wife of Bobby Jones,
London dancer, was made tonight.
The other victims were:
DIR. F. M. Potter, veterinary of
the New York Hippodrome, trainer
of animals and owner of race horses.
Ms. Eva Luscombe, English pre-
mier danseuse adm actress, the wife
of Victor Luscombe, an employe of
Lloyd's. London.
Mrs, Harold B.. Reid, vocal stu
dent Of Goderich, Ont.
Mrs. Jessie jenkins of California
sister of Mrs. Reid.
The police started an investigation
after receiving reports that stairways
were missing between certain floors
of the building and there were no
fire eScaDeS
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Bluffs Thief Uses =:
Chloroform on Man

A attempt on the part OF bur-
glar to loot the home of Herbert
Finch on Twenty-fifth street, Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Sunday morning after he
had drugged Mr.. Finch with chloro-
form, was frustrated by his wife,
who was awakened by the fumes
of the drug, according to report at
police headquarters yesterday morn
ing.
Mrs. Finch awakened just in time
to see man crawling On his hands
and knees around the foot of the.
bed, she told police. She did not
move until he escaped, then she at
tempted to arouse her husband. She
found him unconscious and turned
on the lights.
The thief had placed cloth, sat-
urated with chloroform, over Mr..
Finch's face. His wife removed the
cloth, but did not succeed in . re-
suscitating her husband for several
hours. The episode was not re-
ported to police until yesterday.
Nothing was taken from the home
by the burglar, although quantity
OF money and jewelry were in the
bedroom,
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Mincemeat Latest
Object of Federal
Prohibition Agents

Houston, Tex, Dec. I'm what
was said to be the opening of a ma
tion-wide campaign, federal prohibi-
ton agents here seized virtually all
of Houston's visible supply of
Christmas branded cherries and
mincemeat, put up in glass jars prior
TO prohibition.
. Armed with search warrants and
moving van, the agents seized
more than 400 jars OF fruit from eight
or 10 retail grocery stores.
The agents assert that the fruit
contained more than one-half of I
per cent Q; aliQhpL .
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Large Tonnage of Iron
Is Shipped From Duluth

Duluth, Mimi, Dec. 2.-The total
shipment of iron ore for the season
reached approximately 50,000000
tons, according to figures an
nounced today.
Total shipments from all the
docks at the head Of the lakes for
the season show an increase of ap-.
proximately 100000 tons over last
year, when 40,067,ss0 tons were
shipped
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Harding Steamer
On Last Leg Of
Z Homeward Trip
Pastores Headed for Florida
Over Smooth Seas-To Dock
At Norfolk Before Noon
Saturday. /.

On Board the Steamer Pastores,
Dec. Passing northward through
the Bahamas late today, the steamer
Pastores with President-elect Hard
ing on board, homeward bound from
the canal zone, headed up toward
the Florida coast over the smoothes st
seas she had sailed since leaving
Cristobal.
Mrs. Harding. who had been in her
stateroom during most of the voy-
age, was on deck in the afternoon.
Senator Harding made the most of
the fine weather, spending several
hours playing Switchboard.
; At her present speed the Pastores
should dock at Norfolk before noon
Saturday. An elborate program
has been arranged for Senator
Harding's entertainment there, but
it is uncertain how much of it can
be carried out. If the steamer ar
rives in time he will go to Newport
News for visit to the naval station.
possibly making an address there
and return to Norfolk for an after
noon address in the Tabernacle.
Saturday evening he expects to at
tend a dinner in his honor by the
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce.
After his speech to be delivered
Sunday at the Elks' celebration in
Bedford, Va, he probably will go
to Washington, although that has
not been definitely settled
Senator Harding probably will
look in at the opening of the con-
gressional session Monday, being
thus the first president-elect ever to
sit in his place in the senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03

! @ Contest.
Neal W i'll.
State Plans 10 Make Fight for
81, 100000 Estate Left by
Late Omaha Tobacco
Man.
Suit Hinges on Residence

The state of Nebraska, it was
leart ed yesterday, will fight for the
SlS 10000 estate left by the late John
Neal. western district manager OF
the r. ]. Reynolds Tobacco COM
pany, WHO died in Omaha August
29. 1t will be the first suit of its
kind ever brought in this state.
If the state wins, Douglas coun-
ty will also benefit to the extent of
$4,000 to $4,000 in inheritance
taxes.
The suit hinges on whether Mr..
Neal was resident of Nebraska or
of North Carolina at the time of his
death.
The suit will be a legal contest
between these two states. for an
estate conservatively estimated at
100000.
Notified of Move.
Assistant Attorney General Al
fred c. Munger notified the Douglas
county court officials yesterday of
the move undertaken by the attorney
generals office.
He went to Lincoln yesterday,
taking with him a complete history
of this unusual case.
In Lincoln, he and Attorney Gem
eral Davis will determine just what
procedure to follow in the case.
Actions will probably be brought in
the federal court and in the North
Carolina courts.
Lost Will Involved.
A lost will and an alleged widow
and son Of the supposed Omaha
bachelor are involved.
The states interest in the big
estate is this;
# the typewriter copy of Neal's
Will (the original has not been seen
since Mr.. Meals death) is disal-
lowed; and if the claims of the al
legged widow and son are disproved,
then the entire estate will 60 to the
Golfers of 'the state-the state of
which Neal was a legal resident
when he died.
Application Made Here.
Nobody here seemed to question
that Mr.. Neal was a legal resident
of Nebraska at the time of his
death. Franklin Shotwell, named
executor together with trust COM
pany in North Carolina, made ap-
plication for probate of the will in
the Douglas county court a few
days after Neal died.
The will copy, on file in county
court, lett big blocks of stock in the
Tobacco company to vari-
Gus personal friends of Neal in
100 shares to Franklin Shot
wlel, an Omaha attorney, and 800
shares to Mr. Shotwell's young
daughter. The residue of the es-
tate was bequeathed to two Or
phans' homes in North Carolina, in
which Neal, an orphan. had been
brought up.
All was going peacefully toward
Turn to Page Two, Column One.)
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Shows Spirit of
"Onward OMAHA
Chamber Member Deals 'em
Off His Arm While Friends
Attend Big Banquet.

Onward Omaha" plans discussed
by members of the Omaha Chamber
OF Commerce at the Auditorium last
night will be discussed with large
freight shippers in all parts of the
country by J. L. Fox, travelling
freight agent of the Canadian Pacific
railroad, as he travels in the United
States and Canada in search Of busi-
ness for his company.
And thereby hangs tale.
Also Rock Island freight agent
with headquarters in Omaha feels
that he has his shoulder to the wheel
helping shove Omaha onward.
Musing as he carried his tray in
cafeteria, while fellow members
of the Chamber of Commerce were
seated at seven course banquet, the
Omaha railroad man reluctantly told
of his sacrifice, that visitor should
leave the city boasting of the enter
prise of Omaha citizens.
Overhearing the business seeker
from Canada remark that he would
like to attend the banquet, as Omaha
seemed composed OF such an excep-
tionally "live wire bunch" of busi-
ness men, the Omahan generously
proffered his ticket to the Audi
torium meeting. In making hrs offer
he was confident that he could OBJ
tain another ticket at the door.
But alas and alack!
On arriving at the banquet he was
informed that every seat was re-
served. All dinner engagements had
been Cancelled weeks before and he
lonesomely ate alone.
Il would go and get a few freight
shipments away from our Canadian
rival tonight" he remarked, lust to
even up with Fox. But. what's the
use? Everybody But me is at the
BANQUET"
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
President Still Working -
On Message to Congress

Washington. Dec. ls-President
Wilson still is at work on his an
nual message to congress and it was
indicated that it probably would not
be completed before the end of this
week or early next week. 1t is I'M
derstood that the present plan is to
communicate it to congress next
Tuesday, the day following the open
ing of the session.
The president is expected to make
a number of recommendations re-
garding taxation and government f.
nances, and senetors from the west
ern and southern states are hopeful
that he also will deal with the situa-
ton which the farmers are facing as
a result of falling prices for their
produce.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Lodge and New
Eliminated as
Cabinet Timber
Men Mentioned as Possible
Additions to Harding Off
cial Family Prefer to Re,
main in Senate.
BY The Associated Press.

Washington, Dec. ILLUMINATION
OF Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
and Senator New of Indiana as
prospective officers OF President
elect Harding's cabinet was reported
to be a definite development of the
visit here of Harry NJ. Daugherty
of Ohio, friend and adviser OF the
president-elcct.
Mr.. Daugherty conferred with a
number of prominent republicans. i'll
GLIDING Senators Lodge and New.
There was no announcement of the
subjects or results of the confer
ences, but close friends OF then two
senator's said that both had advised
Mr.. Daugherty that they desired no
cabinet position. believing that they
could perform better service for
President Harding and their party by
remaining in the senate.
Many matters OF legislation were
said to have been discussed BY MIR.
Daugherty with his republican con-
ferecs. These included Senator Wat
son of Indiana, who will go to Phil
adelphia tomorrow to conter with
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the senate finance com
mittec.
The question whether partial tariff
revision to meet conditions regarded
as urgent should be attempted dur
ing the coming session of congress,
preliminary to general tariff revision
planned after President Harding in
auguration, was among subjects said
to have been taken up with Mr..
Daugherty.
Regarding cabinet appointments.
republican leaders who talked with
Mr.. Daugherty said there was no dis
position on the part of Mr.. Daugher-
ty or any other republican leader
TO frame a slate" of cabinet eligi-
bles for President Harding.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Harding Declines Offer
OF Presidential Yacht

Washington, Dec. 2.-Senator
Harding declined President Wilson's
offer to place the presidential yacht
Mayf1ower at his disposal next Sat-
rrday on his arrival at Norfolk to
carry the president-elcct to Washing
ton. 1t was necessary, the senator
said in a radio message to Secretary
Daniels, who transmitted the offer
Yesterday to the steamer Pastores,
that he should make the trip by rail.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Philippine Island Solons
OppOse ProhibitOry Law

Manila, P. l., Dec. THE JOINT
committee of the house and senate,
appointed at the last session of the
legislature to study the liquor ques-
ton, has prepared a report against
the passage of prohibition law in
the Philippines. it was announced
today. The report says that there
is no necessity for prohibition, as
the liquor business r. the Philip
pines declined slightly in volume last
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Hogs Back
ToPreWar
Price Level
Wholesale Pork Rates Rapidly
Getting Down to Scale of
1917, Figures of big
Five" Packer Shows.
Little Cut by Retailers

Chicago, Dec. 2.-Hogs on the
hoof have returned to what is prac-
tically their 1918 prcwar price, juds
ing from figures obtained from one
OF the big five packers. Pork and
pork products, at wholesale, are on
their way toward that same level,
the November report of the Institute
of American Meat Packers indicates
and have reached the scale prevail
ing in April, 1917, when the United
States entered the war.
Beef also is on the downward
path, the wholesome price of car
cass beef having dropped II per cent
since September !, according to the
institutes lgures.
The biggest drop recorded, how
ever, is in live hogs. The packing
house figures show pork on the hoof
brought 8 cents pound i'll Novem-
Der, 1918. During the war the farm
or virtually was guaranteed mini
mum average OF 17H cents. In
July, 1919, the price reached % cents
a pound. Today hogs are back
around l0H cents; y
Retail prices. however. have not
kept pace with the falling whole
sale market, the packing house Off
Cal said. but he decliued to be quot
cd directly on the ground that re.
,ailers might boycott his company.
Difference in Prices.
Quotations from two retail deal
crs. one whose store is classed as
Il high-pricc establishment, and the
other as cut-rate market, show a
wide divergence in prices, partly
due. however, both said. to differ
cnce in the grade of meat handled.
The bulletin OF the meat packers
institute says that during November
the wholesale price OF pork loinS
declined q per cent, making total
drop OF 45 per cent since October !.
Other declines on November %. as
compared with October |, of this
year show:
Smoked hams, 50 per cent; fancy
breakfast bacon. IS per cent; stand
ard bacon, Is per cent; fresh
skinned shoulders, 50 per cent; lard, |
10 per cent
Explaining why the wholesale |
price has failed to fall as fast as
The live stock quotations. a packing |
house official said:
There are two features OF the |
price situation that |
should be borne i'll mind. One is
.hc price OF by-protucts; the other
the cost of labor, The average con-
stlmer naturally thinks OF meat ami
mails only as they affect his table.
He sees that the price OF hogs has
dropped and he thinks, OF course,
that meat should follow at once.
: Much Waste.
Only about 76 per cent of the !
live hog is meat. The other "a per |
cent consists of waste and by-prod- /
lcts, (which just now have little val
le. Also i'll the carcass there are !
,arts that must be sold for low !
prices. The entire carcass does not
bring pork loin prices, for example. |
Labor Is now receiving much ,
greater awards than it did in 1913.
The total increase Of plant wages |
has been more than 10 per cent.
'sThus though there have been
decreases in wholesale
pork prices, these price dfops can
not quite equal the fall i'll live ami
NAL prices
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Bank Robbers Sentenced y
To Indeterminate Terms

Salt Lake. City. Dec. 2.--Edward
Harris and Joe Wall, found guilty OF
robhingl the Bank OF St. George At
ST. George, Utah, November IS, OF
$4,000, were sentenced to indeter-
inmate terms in the state prison
from one to 20 yeaSs by Judge
Evans. The men broke into the
bank and left in an automobile for
Nevada. They scattered unnegoti-
able securities along the highway and
this trail of paper led to their cap
ture shortly after crossing the Utah
Nevada line.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Descendant of Calindo's
OF Spain Dies In San Jose

San Jose, Cal, Dec. flames
Alonzo Forbes, II, historian who
traced his ancestors back to the
Calindo family in Spain, which was
said to have sacrificed It's jewels
in order to insure the success Of
Christopher Columbus explorations,
died here today. He had been i'll for
eight years
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
American Physician Is
Prisoner in Moscow

Riga, Dec.2-A letter received at
American Red Cross headquarters
here, signed by DR.. S. A. Jaugur
of Chicago, asserts that the doctor,
though all American physician, is
imprisoned in Moscow. The letter
adds that he was captured by the
soviets while discharging his duties
as a member of the American Red
Cross
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Divorce Of Duchess
Opens Two Ronances
BY ROBERT ]. PREV,
(Uniyersal Service Staff Correspondent.


London, Dec. 2,-The recent di-
vorce decree of the duchess of Marl-
borough, daughter Of the late Will
liam K. Vanderbilt, has opened the
way to the realization of two fresh
romances.
While it is understood that the
former Consuel Vanderbilt is to-
marry Jacques Balsan, well, known
French turfman, friends OF the duke
today said that as soon as the decree
obtained by the duchess is made alb
solute next May, he will wed Phyl-
lis Boyd, beautiful daughter of Cap
tain and Lady William Boyd. whose
mother is sister of the earl of
Munster. Captain Boyd is a well
known figure at the English race
tracks.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Senate to Investigate
Anthracite Coal Prices

Washington, Dec. 2-Senate in
vestigation into the prices of anthra-
cite coal will begin in New York
Saturday, it was announced by Sem
ator Calder, chairman of the senate
committee of inquiry. Senator Cal
der said the governors OF the New
England states had requested the in
yestigation.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Des Moines Chosen for Next
Convention of Baptists

Minneapolis, Dec. 2.-Des Moines.
Ia. was chosen as meeting place
next June. of the annual convention
OF the general board of promotion
of the Northern Baptist church at
the concluding session of the con-
vention held here.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Double Golden Wedding
Reception to Be Held

Celebration OF two golden we'd
ding anniversaries will be held at
Westminster Presbyterian church,
Twenty-ninth and Mason streets. the
evening of December 10. in the form
OF reception in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Waterman and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wiley Middleton, $40 Jones
street. Mrs. Henry E. Maxwell is
in charge of the reception.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Senator to File Raising
Live Stock Grazing Fee

Salt Lake City, Dec. I'm sup
port OF the fight which Senator
William H. King of Utah has an
nounced he will make in congress
to prevent an increase in grazing
fees for live stock upon national
forest reserves, Thomas Redmond
secretary of the Utah Cattle and
Horse Growers association, states
that three conventions which will
assemble in Salt Lake beginning
next Monday, will adopt resolutions
which will be forwarded to Wash
iupton.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Brave Janitor Wanted to
Take Place of One Murdered

Wantedl
One brave janitor who doesn't be-
lieve in ghost stories.
This is TIE sort of all appeal Mayor
Smith believes will be necessary to
secure a permanent janitor to sue
ceed G.. F. Lung, who was murdered
in the basement of the First Con-
aegational church last Saturday
~ ;oht
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Minister Held on Charge :
OF Killing Inn Proprietor

Windsor, Ont, Dec. z.-Rev. ].
O. L. Spracklin, Methods ministe''
and Canadi,n liquor license iuspec-
tor, who shot and killed Beverly
Trumble. inn proprietor. during a
aaid on the latter's hotel. was bound
TO the court OF assizes on charge
OF killing and Staying
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Four Sets of Twins Born.

Chester, Pa, Nov. 27-The birth
of four sets of girl twins was re-
ported to the department of vital
statistics of the local health board.
The parents are Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Harris Slater. Mr. and Mrs.
Horris Saletzky, Mr.. land Mrs. Irwin
Reist and Mr.. and Mrs. John Mon
roe
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Mullen in ashington.

Washington. Dec. 2-lSpecial
Telegram. (-Arthur +, Mullen, ex-
democratic natioual committeeman
OF Nebraska. is in Washington OH
matters before the Treasury depart
ncut and the Department Of Justice.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Wanted on Check Charge.

Beatrice, Neb, Dec. 2.-(Special.)
County Attorney Nasey filed a
complaint in Judge Craig's court
against Frank Brown of Wymore,
charging him with issuing worth
less check for $50 to p. c. Keeping
er, painter OF Beatrice
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Medicos See Movies of
War Surgery Wonders

Boston. Dec. 2.-X-ray nlotio!l
pictures showing the shell-smashed
arm of soldier being restored to
normal and the shatteredIbone being
replaced by 10 inches of grated shin
bone was shown to Boston surgeons
at the conference Of the Clinical aud
Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-03
Minneapolis Buys Five
PLAYERS. Two Pitchers

Minneapolis, Mimi, Dec. g.
Purchase of five bali players was
announced today by the Minneapolis
American Association club. The
men are Fisher and Cullop, pitchers; !;
Stevenson and Stanage, infielders.
and Novak, catcher. All played in
the South Dakota league this year.