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Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-10
/ Indicted
Go To Jail
Wohlberg and Masse Unable
To Furnish $25,00O Bonds
-McWhorter Does
Not Report.
R. ]. Low Freed on Bond

Charles Wohlberg and Jacob
Masse. promoters, are in Jail as re-
suit OF an indictment returned yester-
day by the federal grand jury. which
has been in session since Monday.
/ The indictment charges nine men
with conspiracy to defraud in con-
nection with the promotion OF the
Missouri Valley Cattle Loan COM
pany.
Capiases have been issued for their
arrests. Bonds have been fixed at
$4,000 each.
The men indicted are: William A.
McWhortcr, Charles Wohlberg
Jacob Masse, Ray V. McGrew, Vern
w. Cuttings, N. G. Cohn, E. c.
Nance, r. J. Low and r. F. john
son. Masse, Wohlberg and Nc
Whorter are now under indictments
by the federal court on charges OF
using the mails to defraud.
Charged with Fraud.
McGrcw was vice president of the
company and Cuttings secretary.
Low was assistant secretary.
The men are charged with having
bought the Missouri Valley Trus'
company, capitalized at $4,000, ano
having forged minutes of meetings
of this company to the effect the
name had been changed to the Mis-
souri, Valley Cattle Loan company.
Charles Wohlberg and Jacob
Masse shook hands with Sheriff
Mike Clark in the Office of the
Douglas county Jail when federal
officer brought them to the jail to
await bond on the federal indict-
inent. #4aE
Welcomed by Sheriff.
They were brought to Omaha from
Los Angeles by Sheriff Clark little
more than week ago. They seemed
glad to see him.
Sorry | haven't room and
BATH" he told them. But I've got
room.7
Masse and Wohlberg will be un-
able to furnish the $4,000 bond re-
CURED, their attorney, A. L. Sutton,
stated.
Low Gives Bond.
R. ]. Low gave himself up to the
United States marshal as soon as
informed he was indicted by the fed.
eral grand jury. On the plea of hi.
attorney, A. G. Ellick, Federal Judge
Woodrough reduced Lows bond
from $25,000 to- $4,000 Edwin E.
Sterricker and Charles A. Nelson of
the Dundee Plumbing company
went on his bond.
Il am innocent OF the. charges"
said Low. II was only an empfoye
of the company and only for a short
period from April to December.
1919" He said he joined the COM
pany in Kansas City on an offer
made to him by Ray v. McGrew,
vice president and general manager
OF the company.
McWhorter Not Found.
William A. McWhorter. whose at
torney stated that he would give
himself up to the marshal, failed
to do SO up to the time the mar
shal left the office, late yesterday.
He is suffering from a nervou.
breakdown and his life would be en-,
dangered if he were sent to jail, At
torney Sutton argued in an effort to
have Judge Woodrougf reduce the
bonds. The judge denied the plea.
If Masse, McWhorter and Wohf-
berg can furnish $25000 bond each
here, he indicated. he would exon
crate similar bonds put up by them
in Los. Angeles and Houston, Tex.
The latter bonds are questioned
by ]. c. Kinsler, United States dis;
trict attorney, and a report on the
result of an investigation made into
the sureties will be made at hear
ing next Tuesday.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-10
Sim Fein Prisoners Freed

Belfast, Nov. 9.-(By The Asso-
ciated Press.)-Twenty-nine more
Sim Feiners held in internment
camps were released yesterday.
Eleven were freed from the Rath
camp; Curragh; eight from Spike Is
land, Queenstown, and 10 from
Ballykinlar. This makes the total
released to date 1l3, leaving the
number .interned at approximately
4.720.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-10
Retail Food Prices Show
DrOp. Sept. Is to Oct. Is

Washington, Nov. 9.-Retail food
prices decreased between September
Is and October IS in nine of the II
principal cities from which reports
were received, the Department of
Labor announced today.
In Milwaukee there was decrease
of 3 per cent, and in Chicago, De-
troit and Indianapolis a decrease Of
2 per cent
Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-10
Britain Arranges to Pay
Interest on War Debt to u. S.

London, Nov. 8-(By the Asso-
ciated Press. Am arrangement has
been made to begin paying the in
terest on the debt owed, by Great
Britain to the United States at the
rate of G50,000,o00 yearly, it was
announced in the House of COM
mons today by Sir Robert Horne,
the chancellor of the excheauer.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-10
Want to Learn
Piano Playing?
No Expense

4 A new feature starting in
The Bee for next Sunday is
series of twenty-four les
sons in piano playing, fur
nishing a complete course in
simplified and practical
method of instruction.
T The lessons, carefully pre-
pared by W. Scott Grove,
provide an easy way of
achieving pleasing results
without expense. They start
with fundamentals and lead
through all phases of play
ing The course is enthusi-
astically endorsed by piano
artists and expert teachers.
Zone lesson will be published
each Sunday.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-10
Iowa Convict Surrenders
Rather Than Go Hungry

Mobile, Nov. S.-Declaring that he
had rather be in prison than hungry,
John (Fatty) Holmes, SO, who es-
capped from the state prison at Fo,t
Dodge, Ia, where he was serving a
sentence for train robbery, still
wearing a part Of the prison uniform
walked into the police station here
today and surrendered.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-10
Child, Hit by Poker Thrown
By Mother at Husband. Dies

Chicago, Nov. 9.-Eugene Mess
mer, 2, died last night in the county
hospital of a fractured skull. Ac-
cording to the stock yards polite,
Mrs. Lillian Messmer. the boys
mother, threw a poker at her hus-
band, who was intoxicated. II
missed him and hit the boy on the
head,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-10
Crude Oil Price Advanced.

Houston, Tex, Nov. 9.-Efective
today, the Texas company advanced
all grades of gulf coast heavy crude
25 cents, from 81 to Sl.25 barrel
This is the second 25-cent advance
CT this grade in 50 days. {
Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-10
The Weather

Forecast. ..-
Fair and somewhat warmer Thurs
lay.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
Modern Bill Skies and
Oliver Twist Get $1,000
Police Believe Boy Was Used in
Five and Ten Cent Store
Safe Cracking

An up-to-datc Bill Skies used lat
ter day Oliver Twist in robbng the
Wooworth Five and Ten Cent Store
at Fifty seventh Street and Third Ave
nuc, opposite the Yorkville Police Court,
early yesterday morning and got away
with $1,000 cash, the entire Saturday
receipts of the establishment.
When the police investigated the rob-
berry they found that ingress had been
obtained by forcing /. small rear Win
dow cf the store, but the window is so
small that a child must have been used
they say, to enter and let down the
steel bar which had been removed from
the door.
Roy Eckert. assistant manager of the
store arrived at the usual opening time
yesterday morning and found that the
Office safe had been dragged from its
place near the Third Avenue entrance
to steel stairway on the Fifty seventh
Street side Of the house, where it had
been bounced down a steel stairway to
the basement There the robbers
opened it at their lesisure, blowing off
the door with charge of nitro.
Fingerprints are being compared with
those at the Bureau of Indentihcation,
but these are the only clews left by
the burglars
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
Actor Held in Rug Theft
After Chase by Crowd
Chauffeurs, Messengers and
Police, However, Only Capture.
One of Their Quarry

Nearly one thousand persons--taXi-
cab drivers, messenger boys and traf-
fic cops included-gavc chase to two
men on Fifth Avenue last night. It
was disappointing chase, too, so far
as the one thousand were concerned.
One of the men got away.
The man caught gave his name as
Ernest r. King, thirty-two years old,
motion picture actor, of 62 West
Forty-ninth Street. He vigorously pro-
tested against his arrest, saying that
he was running not from the crowd
but with the crowd. He was locked
up, nevertheless, at the East Thirty
fifth Street station, charged with
grand larceny.
Harutunc Michaelyan, an Oriental
carpet dealer at 8 East Thirty seventh
Street, said King and another man
entered his place and asked to see
some rugs. When they left, he
said, they took with them silk rug
valued at 81 500 which they had ne
elected to pay for. Michaelyan started
in pursuit, and soon had 999 others
joining him. Patrolman Dandwerg, of
Traffic B, contributed the greatest aid
He caught King in Thirty
Street, between Madison and Fifth
avenues
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15

-, Blacky the Crow nodded in approval.
sad sad he. What any one would swap
piack 'or brown for is beyond me-
"Probably she didn't have anything
to say about it," rInarked Reddy Fox
dryly. i've noticed that most folks
take what Old Mother Nature gives
them and say nothing. The main thing
is Mrs. Buster is Bear and that makes
two Bears here in the, Green Forest.
mat is one too many, to my way of
thinking"
Timid little Whitefoot the Wood
Mouse, peeping out of little hole in a
tall stump, nodded his head in agree
ment. you said something then. Red
dy Fox" he squeaked. you certainly
said something then. The question is.
what are We going to do about it? We
ought to drive her out of the Green
Forest" -
Everybody laughed. The idea of
timid little Whitefoot doing anything
to drive great big Mrs. Bear out of the
Nreen Forest was funny. Shrewd
crafty Reddy Fox was the first to ston
laughing. "Of course said he SLOWLY.
we can drive her out, but if we really
noh t~Want her here we might frighten
her out. | don't say it can be done. but
it might be done. She wasn't invited
mere by any of US. l don't know of anv
one but Buster who wants her hers
ne might call meeting and talk it
over"
Copyright. 1921 by T. w. Burxe.D
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
Sing Sing Trusty Escapes

Frank Martin, a burglar sentenced
from Dutchess County to from two to
four years Imprisonment at Sing Sing,
escaped on Monday night from the
Sing Sing prison camp at Wingdale
and is still a large, with corps Of
wardens and special deputies in pur-
suit.
Martin, who is said to be familiar
with the entire countryside, was in the
squad working at Wingdale Farm un-
der Superintendent Kiernan. who no.
titled Warden Lewis f. Lawes of the
escape. A force Of wardens under
Keeper Joseph Brdsall at once took un
the pursuit
The escaped prisoner was "trusty"
at the farm. With good behavior he
would have been eligible for release in
five months
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15

-Pctor kaDDlt.
OF course, the news that there was a
strange bear in the Green Forest soon
spread. Peter Rabbit couldn't have
kept his tongue still to save him if he
1t isn't often that Peter has such a
chance to spread real news, and he
made the most of this. He was so eager
to be the first to carry the news
through the Green Forest and over the
Green Meadows that he almost forgot
to eat, and when Peter forgets to eat
lie is very much excited, indeed
At frst no one would believe Peter.
Blacky the Grow told him that he must
have dreamed it. But no sooner had
Peter started on to tell some one else
than Blacky headed straight for that
part of the Green Forest where Peter
had seen Mrs. Buster. SO did Reddy
Fox and Old Man Coyote and all the
others who could They didn't believe
Peter, but they wanted to be sure.
OF course, they found that Peter told
the truth and at once there was the
greatest excitement among the little
people of the Green Forest and the
Green Meadows. There hadn't been
such excitement since the day Buster
Bear himself had been discovered
mere AND now the tongues did fly!
or course, Peter told all that he had
learned from Buster. how the stranger
was really Mrs. Buster. and that de-
spite the brown coat she was really
Black Bear. The others found this
just as hard to believe as had Peter.
II don't believe it," declared Sammy
Jay. II don't believe it, Why should
a Black Bear wear a brown coat? y
don't believe it. Do you, Reddy Fox ?"
Reddy looked up at Sammy Jay and
grinned. Il won't say l believe it." he
replied. "but ! won't say / don't be-
lieve it. You see it is quite possible
that Buster told the truth"
NO. | don't see." retorted Sammy
Jay obstnately. You are a Red Fox.
Did you ever see a brown Red Fox?"
No. replied Reddy, "no, | can't say
that ever did. But have you forgotten
thst son of mire who had a black coat?
If there can be a black Red Fox, why
not brown Black Bear"
Sammy looked just as he felt-fool-
sh. He had forgotten all about that
,lack kcoated son of Reddy's. That's
So said he slowly. "Well, perhaps it
s true that Mrs. Buster is a Black
Bear. If she is don't think much of
YER taste. Her coat isn't nearly as
handsome as Busters"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15

making comments during cross-exam-
ination.
st. John said that he was sitting on
the roof watching other boys fly
pigeons when Flood and O'Brien ap-
peared with guns in their hands. He
insisted that he was not doing any
thing wrong.
"If you weren't doing anything
wrong, why did you shout 'butso.' and
run away?" Mr.. Fallon asked.
because | didn't want to get beat
up" replied the witness.
Were you ever beaten up before by
q policeman9'
''Sure, three times" st. John an
swered
The witness told of Jumping down
behind q coping while Gushing kept
on running, and started climbing up on
the higher roof to the Westward He
then heard several shots and saw a
blood stain "about as big as a 25-cent
piece appear on the back of Jimmy's
blouse.
Struck With Revolver Butt
Flood jumped down on the roof
where we were and iammed his re-
volver into my back" said ST. John.
"O'B 'Brien stood up on the other roof
and kept US covered with his revolver.
Then they took us down dark stair
to the street, and on the way one of
them hit me several times in the face
with the butt Of his revolver
Policeman Patrick Gilshannon, of the
West Forty-seventh Street station,
testified to hearing about the trouble
on the roof and of going there and
seeing Cushing's body. The patrol
mans memory was faulty regarding
the incidents, and Judge Mott reminded
sharply that he was testifying in Il
homicide case
The trial will be continued to-day,
with Mrs. Kenny on the stand.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
St. Patrick's
Parade Plans
Are Complete
Hylan, Clynn, Smith Will
Review the Pageant, i'll
Which More Than 100
Societies Will March
Friction Still Exists
Irish Relief Association
Will Take No Part in
Event, Leaders Declare

Tho st. Patrick's Day parade and
celebration committee Of 1921 made
public yesterday It's official program
for the protest to be registered against
British domination of Ireland next
Thursday afternoon. Although there
is evidence of friction between New
York City's Irish elements, involving
the leadership of Eamon De Valera,
president of the Irish Republic" and
certain distaste for participation in
any kind Of celebration supported
by Tammany Hall, more than hundred
organizations. civil and military, areSS
said to have paid their aifiiiation fees
for the demonstration and will par
ticipate.
Roderick J. Kennedy, chairman of
the committee on arrangements for
the parade, said Mayor Hylan yester-
day accepted an invitation to review
the spectacle and that other con-
spicuous figures participating will in
clude former Governors Glynn and
Smith
the following quotation from Thomas
Jefferson which the parading groups
are asked to place below the American
and Irish flags on their standards:
Here's to Ireland. may she soon
sever her fetters and take her place
among the free republics of the earth"
Line of March
Then follows announcement Of the
line of march, to include a police
escort, the 69th Regiment, headed bv
Colonel John j. Phelan; members of
the Rainbow Division, 165th Infantry;
grand marshal, Lieutenant Colonel A.
r. Anderson, and aides; New York
Catholic Protectory Bank, with it's mill
tary cadets; mounted aides to grand
marshal; the Rev. Brother Lannon,
marshal; All Hallow Boys; Clason
Point Military Academy cadets; st.
Jean de Baptstc cadets and band; St
Francis Xavier High School boys;
marshal, Warren S. Fisher; United
American War Veterans, and numerous
other organizations and individuals
grouped by battalions and units
The parade will start at 2 p. M, be-
ginning at Forty-third Street and Fifth
Avenue and proceeding north to 12Oth
S1iSOl, tHtISc west HIOunu mount
Morris Park to 124th Street, east on
124th Street to Fifth Avenue, north on
Fifth Avenue and east on 126th Street
to Second Avenue, where it will dis
band.
The Opposition's Nicw
Spokesman for the American Asso-
ciatlon for the Relief of the Irish Re-
public reiterated yesterday that mem
hers of this organization, which the
spokesmen claim represents 90 per cent
of the Irish in New York City, would
not take part in the parade but would
bold meetings in virtually every public
hall in the city Thursday nigh: as the
opening guns iii the campaign to raise
a fund of S10,000,0O0 for Irish relief.
The A. A. r. l. RS opposition to the
parade is based on two cons derations.
it was ascertaincd yesterday: Refusal
OF large part of the membership to be
drawn into = celebration which they
allege, is backed and supported to a
considerable extent by Tammany poll
ticians. and the attitude of the Friends
of Irish Freedom. the principal expo /
nents of the St. Patrick's Day parade. |
toward Eamon de Valera, "President |
OF the Irish Republic"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15

ri want to die because have to work
too hard. I'm tired Of living; it's too
hard for NO."
McConnon rushed for the nearest
house and procured bottle Of milk,
making young Castagnetti drink. all Of
it. The prompt action of the officer
may save the boys life. He was in a
critical condition at the Staten Island
Hospital late last night.
Joseph Castagnetti ST., the boys
father, told the police that his son had
been having trouble at high school,
complaints having been made by his
teachers that he had taken to the
school books that were beyond his
years" The father denied that he had
caused the boy to work too hard, say
ing that he was only asked to run a
few c.rands after school hours.
Young Castagnetti is very popular in
the neighborhood of his home, being
regarded as far advanced in learning
for his years.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
$2OO,OOO Recovered
In Toledo Mail Theft
$l45,OOO Bonds in New York,
$27 600 in Detroit and
$4,000 in PHILADELPHIA

TOLEDO, Ohio, March 14.-Postal
inspectors here to-day announced the
recovery of 100000 worth of the loot
in the million-do Toledo postoffice
robbery Of February II. More than
S145000 Of the bonds was recovered in
New York City $4,000 in Detroit and
$4,000 in Philadelphia.
William Leutz, Toledo inspector of
detectives, is given credit by postal au-
tthorties for the recovery of the Detroit
bonds.
Postal inspectors say the Detroit
bonds viii play a larger part in the
prosecution. There are now fourteen
persons under arrest in several cities
in connection with the case
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
The Easter Wrap

The slim straight-line
wrap with set-in sleeves,
the wrap with the wasted
slim bodice, with fullness
over the hips, and with the
short waist-line length cape,
have made their appearance
In the Wrap Salons, and
with them the variations
of cape-wrap with the full
panel back, and the new
straight of line cape.
These, too, are developed in
the most equisite materials the
designers could find: finest mar
vella cloth, chamoistyne, Poiret
twill, Orlando cloth and duvetyn.
Very, very new
Canton crepe or Morocco
crepe wraps, beautifully
quilted and fur-trinmed. or
fashioned in straight-line
cape, with or without fur,
are the newest.
Made lovely by the new inter-
estlng embroidery that EMPLOYS
gros-grain ribbon and French
knots, or chenille and metal
cloth. In midnight blue and
black, and the rev Sorrento
blue, pewter, ostrich and Hin
dustan shades.
Prices and choice range from
the smart wrap at SIPS to the
beautiful canton crepe and mole
wrap at $685..
Second Floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
Price Put OH Lynching Mob

FRANKFORT, Ky, March 14.-Gov-
ernor Edwin p. Morrow to-day offered
a reward of $500 each for the arrest
and conviction of the members of the
mob who early yesterday took from the
W oodford County Jail and lynched
Richard James, negro. He also is
sued a proclamation removing from Of
fee John II. Edger, jailer of Woodford
County.
The Governor called upon all officers
in Woodford County to arrest and in
dict the lynchers.
The action Of the Executive, the first
under the anti-mob law of 1920, gives
the removed jaiier ten days in which
to appeal for reinStatement
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
Tired Of Work, Wants to Die,
So Boy Of 13 Drinks Iodine
School Youth Tells Policeman He Never Had Any
Time to Play, Then Raises Vial to Lips and
Drains 1t; His Condition Is Reported Serious

Because he never had any time for
play Joe Castagnetti, thirteen-year-
old school boy living with his parents
at 1870 Water Street, Staten Island,
drank bottle of iodine yesterday,
after telling Patrolman Peter McCon-
non. of the Stapleton police station,
that he wanted to die.
The patrolman saw young Castag-
netti standing at the corner of Hop
kins and Pennsylvania avenues, Rose
bank. The boy was crying and McCon-
non inquired what allied him.
oh, want to die--I just want
to die replied the lad, as he placed
something to his lips with gesture
that caused the officer to jump for
ward in an effort to stop him from
swallowing the contents of small
phial. Before McConnon could inter
fcre the poison had been swallowed
snd the boy lay writhing on the
pavement.
'"I took iodine" he told the officer.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
Local official Record-7hn +o,,,-,.
Humidity
barometer Readings
\ > - -. 90 c1
General Weather Conditions

WASHlNGTON. March l4-Pressure is
high along the Atlantic coast aud the
northern border from the Great Lakes cast :
ward, low and falling over the plains
states and the Rocky Mountain region
with the center OF minimum pressure nvsr
North Dakota. and relatively high and -.
ing west Of the Rocky Mountains. 'rhe
weather continues unsettled over much ~
the country, with SHOWS along the north :
ern border and rains within the la twsr
ty-four hours in the Gulf and south Allan
TIC states. the Mississippi Valley and over
much OF the region west OF the Rocky
Mountains. '
Temperatures continued above the nor
NAL to-day generally over the United
States except along the northern border
and in Arizona.
The outlook is for snow and rain IN +hs
northern border states and unsettled
showery we-ther elsewhere east of tha
mississippi River during Tuesday and
" eduesday. Comparatively mild terlrera
ture Will continue Wednesday throurhou+
the > atlantic and east Cuff states. Colder
weather vii! overspread the region Of the
Great Lakes and Ohio Valley and Teunes-
see on Wednesday,.
District Forecasts.-Eastern New York
and southern New England-Cloudy. with
occasional showers TO day and to- morrow
Eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey and
elaware-Partly cloudy and mild tern
peraturc. with occasional showers. TO-DAY
and Tomorrow.
Western Fennsyivania--Cloudy, with
probably showers. to-day. warmer near
Lake Erie: to-moyEow rain and colder
western New fork-Rain to o-day and to-
morrow no change IN temperature
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15
The Beautiful New Easter Fashions for Women

The Women's Gown
Salon is sponsoring the
long slender coat frock for
E aster trotteur wear.
Sometimes it is straight of
line, and often has a de-
cided circular ripple effect.
These are developed in the
fine twills and fine tricos this
season favors.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15

The wrap at the left is of
ostrich tan chamoistine with a
very new trimming of che
mile, knotted. Over long
straight under-coat is hung a
half cape into which the sleeves
are made. Price SITS. The
other coat is of tan mavella
cloth, with he new circular
ripple around hem and at bot
tom of the sleeves.
Price $195.
Second floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-15

New three-piece suit on the
left, developed in exquisite
midnight blue tricotine, COM
bined with gray canton crepe.
Price 1915. At the right a suit
with the chimois type of coat,
made with wide three-quarters
length sleeves. The simplicity
Of the coat is relieved by fine
embroidered motifs in heavy
black silk. Price $179.5O.
Second floor, Old Building.