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Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Eskimos Execute
One Without Trial
Strangulation Is Method Used
Two Executioners Under
Arrest.

Ottawa, Aug. ga strange story
of the course of justice in the Cana
dian northland which resulted in the
summary execution of an Eskimo by
strangulation has been brought hel
by the Royal Canadian mounted
police.
The victim of the unwritten law,
cne Ahkak, was himself murderer,
police said, and adjudged by his fel-
low villagers in Konghermuet, an
Eskimo colony on Prince Albert
sound, as dangerous to the COM
munity.
In the summer of 1919, the report
reads, Ahkak murdered one Aglue-
TUX. Shortly afterward Ahkak
made hunting pact with Olepsekak
by which they were to share for
tunes and the wife cf the former. In
March, 1920, when the hunters re-
turned to their base, the Eskimos of
Konghermuet, both men and
women, met Ahkak.
Seemingly aware of their intent,
Ahkak told them of deer skin line
outside his hut which would strve
their purpose.
1t was with this line that Ahkak
was duly strangled, and two Eski-
mos, Kahahovi and Amokuka,
charged with being chief actors in
the drama, were arrested last March
by Corporal E. H. Cornelius and
Constable ]. Brockie of the mounted
police. They will be held in
Herschel Island over the winter and
will be brought out for trial next
snrinp.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Repetition Of Crop
Failure Forecast
Seed Grain in the Volga
Region Has Not Been
Gathered.

Riga, Aug. 23.-(By The Asso-
eiated Press.)-At least partial
repetition next summer of this
wears crop failure in the Volga
region now appears inevitable, ac-
ccrding to official bolsheviki advices
ard independent dispatches from
Moscow. The Russian peasants are
said to be doing their utmost to iur-
n;sh a seed supply for the stricken
provinces, but with only a few
weeks remaining before the latest
possible date for sowing. an ex--
tremely small proportion of the seed
grain needed has ben gathered IN
Russia and the foreign grain which
has been ordered is slow in coming.
The collection of the natural tax
and return of seed loans up to
August 10 produced altogether
1867 900 pools (about 640,20O
bushels). while for the Volga region
alone there are needed 9,000,0OO
poods of grain, says a radio dis
patch from Moscow. Time does not
wait, and our stride is too slow.
Some of the more radical writers
in the Moscow newspapers charge
that foreign aid is only make believe
and that at the same time France. is
arming Roumania and Poland tor
a new attack on Russia.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Legionnaires Visit
"Their Shell Holes

Rheims, France, Aug. 23.-(By
The Associated Press. .)-Many mem-
bers of the American Legion dele
cation left the main party on the
trip over the battlefield after the
ceremony at Verdun yesterday to
visit my old shell hole" in the Ar
gonne. The Americans on the trip
passed through Mont Faucon and
Romagne on their way to Rheims.
At the Romagne cemetery, where
several thousand Americans are
buried, the legionnaires held a spe-
cial service. School children from
Verdun and the countryside brought
flowers.
One group, headed by Franklin
D'O1ier, first national commander OF
the American Legion, accompanied
Marshal .Foch to Corey, where the
American Legion service was read
over the grave of the inarshaps son.
Another group went 10 Decourt,
where son of former Premier vi
viani is buried. Here similar serv-
ice was held.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Four Vocational
Schools New Plan
OF Vets Bureau
Universities to Be Established
In Cantonments in East,
Middle-West, South and
On Pacific Coast.

Washington, Aug. 25.-Foul
United States vocational universities
one in the east. the middle west,
the south and on the Pacific coast
will be established in abandoned
army cantonments by the veterans
bureau under a new policy for ;he
rehabilitation Of former servicemen,
announced to nirht by Director
Forbes.
The new policy, Colonel Forbes
said, was worked out with the ap-
proval OF President Harding to cor
rect 1.-The system OF farming out vo-
cational patients. and properly re-
habilitate the approximately 94,00C
men now being trained.
Colonel Forbes said he would leave
within 10 days for an inspection tour
of advantageous sites for the pro-
posed universities in the definite Sec
tons OF the country but expected to
announce the location of the first in
stitution before his departure. Choice
of localities, he added, would be
made upon approval OF the president.
Present plans, he said. call for the
first university to start work within
90 days with about 1000 men in at
tendance. Courses will be offered in
masonry, architecture, plumbing,
printing. engraving, book binding,
electrical work, carpentry and steam
fitting, and such agricultural lines as
animal husbandry, dairying and for
estry.
No legislation will be necessary
for the Inauguration of the new policy
of vocational training, Colonel
Forbes asserted, nor will the cost be
greater than under the present sys-
tenn of decentralized instruction.
While the universities will not be
self-supporting, he added. farm prod
ucts can be raised to provide
partially for the subsistence OF the
men.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
1000 Chiropractors at
dwelling of Palmer Bust

Davenport, Ia, Aug. 23.-More
than 1000 chiropractors from all
parts of the country. attending the
10Th annual convention here today,
were present at the unveiling of the
d. d. Palmer memorial bust. The
sataue was erected by the chiroprac-
tors of the world as a tribute to the
discoverer of this new science. The
convention will be in session all
week. The feature will be MAN.
month street parade Wednesday.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Omaha Day at State Fair
At Lincoln Set for Sept. 8

Omaha day" at the Nebraska
State fair will be celebrated Septem-
Der 8, according to information re-
ceived by the Omaha Chamber OF
Commerce. Plans for a record at
tendance of Omahans at Lincoln on
that day are under way by local
commercial organizations.
Officials of Omaha clubs and Or
ganizations will meet at the Cham-
Der of Commerce Thursday noon to
discuss arrangements for a large
representation of Omahans to the
state fair. Officials of Ak-Sar-Ben
will give paper pennants to motorists
which will permit them to park their
cars in a guarded area in the fair
grounds. Admission to the fair will
be Is cents, a similar charge to be
made for automobiles.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Townley Would Appeal From
Conviction in Minnesota

Washington, Aug. 25.-A. C..
Townley, president of the Nonpar-
tisan league, and Joseph Gilbert,
manager of the leagues organization
department, today filed notice that
on October 10 they would ask the
supreme court to consider an appeal
from the state courts of Minnesota
in which they were convicted of hav-
ing opposed en1istments and the pur-
chase of Liberty bonds during the
war and of having declared the
United States would soon be bank
rupt, urging that the money be in
vested in Nonpartisan league grain
elevators.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Banker Delegation
Will Stop in Omaha

Bankers from all points in the east
and midwest will travel in two spe-
cial trains to attend the forty-sev.
enth annual convention of the Amer
ican Bankers association at Los An
geles October 3 to /. The specials
start from Chicago and will pick
up large delegations at Omaha.
The equipment will comprise
sleepers, diners and observation cars
of modern type, according to L. w.
Wakely, general passenger agent CT
the Burlington railroad, which fur
nishes the trains.
Walter w. Head of Omaha is a
membe- OF the general committee on
invitations and Arthur Reynolds,
president of the Continental 4 Com
mercial Bank of Chicago, is chair
man of the committee on tran ,porta-
ton. The delegations will stop IN
Omaha from 2 to II p. III. cn Sep.
tember 81.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Preparations for
Armament Parlev
Well Under Way
American Government Defin-
ing Principles and Collect
ing Data to Guide
Representatives.

Washington, Aug. 23-While dip
lomatic formalities of the disarma-
nent conference move forward with
deliberation, the American govern
nent is at work defining principles
and collecting information which
will guide its representatives at the
council table.
Considerable progress is under
stood to have been made both to-
ward preparation of plans and data
for the American commissioners and
toward a canvass of the diplomatic
field to determine what interna-
tional problems are to be considered
within the scope of the conference.
Both the army and the navy have
taken an extensive part in the gov
ernments preparations.
Meantime, although the conference
has become an assured fact through
the informal acquiescence of all IN
vited powers. the periunctory story
CT formal diplomatic exchanges con-
tinues to hold the center of the
stage so far as surface developments
are concerned, and to be the theme
OF all available official comment. The
formal acceptance of Great Britain
reached the State department today.
Formal acceptance from Japan,
Italy and France are yet to come.
1t has not beet revealed what steps
may have been taken automatically
to secure agreement as to the scope
of the conference, but the nature of
the formal replies are taken gener-
ally to indicate that negotia-
tions are entirely separate from the
semi-public formal exchanges over
the actual assembling of the dele
gates. 1t is understood that the ten
dency has been to hold discussions
of scope in an informal status in
order to facilitate a free exchange of
views.
The senate under an agreement
reached tonight will vote not later
than 1880 tomorrow on an amend
ment to a deficiency bill carrying
100000 for expenses of the disarma-
ment conference as well as on a
to direct American delegates
to the conferences to demand open
sessions.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Reserve Board
Caused Decline
In Prices, Charge
Cotton Association Head Says
Policies in Connection With
Deflation Cynical, Cruel
And Inexcusable."

Washington, Aug. 23.-Federal
reserve board policies in connection
with price and currency defation
are cynical, cruel and inexcusable,
and constitute financial tyranny
and commercial criminality,' ]. ).
Wannamaker, president OF the
American Cotton association,
charged today before joint Con-
gressional Agriculture Commission.
The boards methods, he added, are
"heaping up gold in the United
States at the expense OF all civillza-
ton" :.
Speaking, he said, for agricultural
producers, the witness asserted the
federal board and banks were re-
sponsible for the general price de-
cline. The boards pressure still was
being exerted upon bankers who
are afraid of their shadow, who may
find all their loans called by the re-
serve banks any minute, and dare
not disobey its orders" according
to Mr.. Wannamaker, who asked the
commission to recommend legisla-
ton for general revision of the re-
serve board personnel.
He proposed that the personnel
be composed of II members, nomi-
mated from the various districts as
representatives of industry instead
OF banking, who should be appointed
by the president and confirmed by
the senate. Further, he suggested
that the commission recommend the
instant reduction in federal reserve
1ediscount rates to basis OF three
and one-half per cent on liberty
loan collateral.
"Thc federal reserve banking sys-
tcm, created to serve the people, by
its administration, has made the peo-
pie servants of the system," he as
serted. "It's policy will require the
American people to, pay with de-
flated dollars national debt bor-
rowed in inflated dollars"
Price declines that have been et-
fected lately, he declared, will not
help consumers, because they have
left nothing for agricultural pro-
ducers to do but combine and reduce
production so low in the future that
prices will give us some marsin OF
profit and let us pay our debts"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Ex-Foot Ball Star
Is Held for Fraud

Long Beach, Cal, Aug. 2S,--
Ralph F, Capron, former foot ball
star of the University of Minnesota
and later a professional base ball
player in Pittsburgh and Philadel-i
phia and B. Vedele:, who was said
to have represented himself as an
oil operator, were arrested here to-
day on warrants from South Bend,
Washington and Bathkeep. N. D.,
charging the defrauding of banks
through the issuance of Worthless
checks.
An operative of a private detective
agency, who made the arrests, de-
clared charges against the men IN
other states, including Kansa, Wis
ccnsn, Mississippi and Texas, in
volved alleged crimes through
which total of not less than
$4,000 was Obtained
Capron was said to be brother OF
George Capron. former all Amer
ican fullback at the University OF
Minnesota and later high school
foot ball coach here.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Deputy Sheriffs Killed
Bv Men Shooting at Cars

Jellico, Tenn. Aug. 23.-Deputy
Sheriffs c. P. Mcdonald and Andy
Wortham were killed late Monday
six miles from here on the Jellico-
Lafollette road when, it is claimed,
they attempted to arrest Fred Jones
and Virgil Reno. Jones and Keno,
with two women, according to
authorities, had been ON the road all
day shooting at passing automobiles:
Jones and Reno we're arrested
later and lodged i'll the Jellico jail.
Precautions against mob violence
have been taken.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
De;ect;ve Beats
Death ) Minutes

Detective Treglia beat death by
five minutes in a trip today to the
home OF Paul Holzappel, 20lS
Martha street.
He made the trip on call from
Holzappel's son, Hans, who phoned
the police station that his father in
tended to commit suicide.
At the home Detective Treglia
found Holzappel pacing the floor.
On a table in the center of the
room was an alarm clock set for II
o'clock, rosary beads, a Bible, a
lighted candle and razor.
According to the story told
Treglia, Holzappel intended to kill
himself when the alarm went off.
Treglia arrived five minutes be-
forehand. Holzappel was taken to
Central station and later to the
county Jail, where he was said to be
demented.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Iowa Editors Sing Praise
OF Omaha in Letter to C.. of C..

What Iowa editors think of Oma-
ha and Nebraska may be. gathered
from letter received by Montagu
Hancock, manager OF publicity for
the Chamber of Commerce. .
"We fellows from Iowa certainly
had a good time in Omaha and en-
jcyed your hospitality. You know
we people here in Iowa used to think
Nebraska and Omaha belonged III,
or were a part of, our back yard.
but OF late we have moved you all
around in front with the rose bushes
and flower beds"
The letter was signed by Z. O.
Stevens, president of the Iowa Press
association.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
"Hyrarchy" Intervenes in
Irish Peace Negotiations

Dublin, Aug. 23.-(By The Asso-
ciated Press. )-"The Hyrarchy," as
the Roman Catholic church is
known in Ireland, has intervered i'll
the Irish peace negotiations. Rev.
Edward Mulhorn, lord bishop of
Dromore, came to Dublin tonight
with a message from the highest
authority" which he delivered to
Eamon De Valera and the other Sim
Fein leaders. There were long con-
situations over the message.
Asked whether the message came
from "the cardinal" meaning Cardi-
nal Logue, the prilnate of Ireland,
q priest who accompanied Monsig-
nor Mulhorn replied i'll the neg
ative. This was considered in some
circles here as possibly meaning that
Rome had interviewed
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Neighbors Doubt
Mrs. Meals S Guilt

in the afternoon. She had made
good progress in her perusal of the
story.
There was a mysterious telephone
call to the Buck home, three long
rings over a rural party line, just
before the Neal women started from
the Neal home. This was not heard
by the Bucks, but it was heard by
several of the neighbors and by the
night operator at the Peru exchange
who called the village marshall, ].
c. Woodie, and told him she be-
lieved there was some one in dis
tress out on the line, either at Bucks
or Meals. The call was sent out, it
is presumed from the Neal home.
No one replied to central's response,
Who Sent Phone Call.
The puzzling question is: Did Mrs.
Neal or Ava send in the call and
then become panic-stricken at the
thought of what the call would re-
veal? Both of them deny that a
call was sent from their home.
Or did Ben Neal, weak and faint
from loss of blood, send in the call
after he had been shot and was on
the border of death and unable to
complete it? This is thought im-
possible, for the telephone was in the
dining room some distance away and
there were no blood clots leading
from the room where his body was
found in a welter of his own blood.
The farm home of the Meals is
located in the rough hills of the Mis-
souri, river valley and is located on
one of the highest points. From it
can be seen the Missouri river and
the Missouri shore in the distance.
The farm and home is an isolated one
with an environment of almost abso-
lutte solitude. In such a setting al
most any kind of crime could be
committed without the danger of
much of the incriminating circum-
stances being revealed.
Butler Incident Forgotten.
So far as the injection of A. Z.
Butler of Lincoln into the case is
concerned, there are few here who
pay very much attention to it. Most
of the persons familiar with the case
believe he was eliminated when he
and Neal came together at Brown
vile last spring. Some have the
theory that Ben Neal wrote the But
Ter letter as a diary to refresh his
memory and enlighten his attorneys,
Kelligar and Ferneau of Auburn, in
the event that Mrs. Neal would re-
vive the divorce proceedings that
she had withdrawn few weeks be-
fore in rebuttal OF any testimony
she would produce to his discredit
in the marital relationship.
Ava Marie Neal has been student
at the Peru Normal school. Her
mother and Ava were desirious OF
leaving their farm and obtaining a
residence in Peru, where they could
live while Ava was attending school
and had looked up house short
time before the tragedy. 1t is well
known that Neal preferred to live on
the farm, although Mrs. Neal testi-
fed that he had expressed his will
lingness to go to Peru for the Win
ter and return to me farm in the
sDrinp.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Motive Claimed Found
For Murder Of Broker

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 23.-When
Arthur Burch and Mrs Madelynn
Obenchain face jury here for trial
on an indictment charging them
with the murder or ]. Bolton Ken
nedy, the state, it was announced
here today, will endeavor to estab-
lish as the motive for the shooting
of Kennedy that Burch was anxious
to marry Mrs. Obenchain and that
he removed Kennedy as the final OBJ
staclc to the possibility Of such a
union. This announcement of the
states theory of motive was made
by Malcolm MacLaren, special in
vestigator for the district attorney,
who has been shaping up the evil
dence and preparing the states case
for trial.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Congress Does Business
Rapidly to Get Vacation

Washington. Aug. 23.-The senate
and house resumed todayitheir con-
sideration of business under high
pressure in the expectation OF de-
claring a 30-day recess late tomor-
row. Both were in session last night,
the house until it had passed the ad-
ministration railroad funding bill
and the senate until ll:l5, when it
had reached a point where it was
ready to take a final vote upon re-
convening today on the shipping
board deficiency bill carrying $4S,-
100000.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Bluffs High School Is
Honored by War Branch

Washington, Aug. 25.-Nine high
schools were officially recognized by
the War department as honor IN
s.itutions and designated as such be-
cause of the Especially high stand
ards of military training and soldier
" discipline" maintained by them
in training 1nembers of the JUNIOR
units, reserve officers corps: lhe
schools are Chattanooga. Tenn;
Council Bluffs, Ia; Crane Technical
and the Schurz, Chicago; Gloucester,
Mass; Lincoln and Manual Arts,
Los Angeles, Cal; Northwestern,
Detroit, Mich, and Rockford, LII.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Ambition for Stage
Blamed for Divorce

Ambition on the part of Mrs.
Adeline Kellstrom for stage and
operate career blasted their happy
home, Alvin F. Kellstrom, 1927
North Eighteenth street, asserted in
petition filed yesterday in district
court.
Mrs. Kellstrom filed petition for
divorce several days ago. charging
she was compelled to chop wood,
and that her husband failed to keep
the house warm enough for their
child, Carl Albin, IL years old.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Blair Garage Man Killed
When Auto Goes Over Bank

Hurting over an embankment on
the river road north of Florence
Monday night. large touring car
which he was driving instantly killed
G. NJ. Antill, Blair garageman. The
auto turned over, pinning Antill un-
der the steering wheel and break
ing his neck.
John Fisher, also of Blair, was
thrown clear of the car and escaped
iniury
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Probe Into Alleged ''Coffin''
Trust Will Be Started

Chicago, Aug. "a nationwide
investigation into profiteering by un-
dertakers and an alleged coffin
trust" was announced today through
the Offices of Charles F. Clyne, dis
trict attorney. Mr.. Clyne was in
Washington today and went from
there to New York to secure intoE-
nation on the proposed campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Red Cross Medical Head in
Saloniki Dies of Burns

Saloniki, Greece. Aug. 23.-Dr.
Russell Stewart Wingfield of Rich
mond, Va, medical head of the
American Red Cross unit here, who
was seriously burned August IS. in
a fire in the Red Cross child health
clinic in Kalmaria park. died of his
injuries Saturday. ....
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Woodrough to Go to Fargo.

Judge Woodrough of the federal
court will go to Fargo, N. D., Sep
tember S, to sit with two other fed
eral judges, one of them a circuit
judge, in two cases where constitu-
tionality of laws are under question.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
100000 Appropriated
To Enforce Packer Bill

Washington. Aug. 23.-An appro-
priation OF 100000 was authorized
by the senate last night to enable
the secretary of agriculture to pro-
vide clerical and other assistants tor
the enforcement of the packers con-
troll act
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Funeral of King Peter
Attended by Vast Throng

Belgrade, Aug. 23.-(By The As
sociated Press. 1.-The funeral of the
late King Peter was held today IN
the presence OF vast throngs CT the
people. Perfect order was maintained
throughout the city during the cere-
monies.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
W. ]. Burns Sworn in

Washington, Aug. 25.-William ]
Burns OF New York was sworn in
today as director of the bureau oi
investigation of Department OF
Justice. succeeding William J. Flynn,
who resigned last week.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Rail President Dies

Tuscon, Ariz., Aug. 23.-Epes
Randolph, president of +he Arizona
Eastern and the South Pacific De
Mexico and one of the pioneer rail-
road men of the southwest, died here
late tonight.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-24
Schools to Open Sept. 5

Geneva, Neb., Aug. 23.-(Special)
The city schools will open Sep
tember 5 with prospects OF the larg-
est enrolhuent on record here.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-08-20
CARBURETORIS
BIG GAS Saver
So Says Roy |. Frederick of
His Little Giant"

because we are proving we can
reduce gasoline bills Is TO 40 per
cent with our Little Giant Steam
carburctor' we are being flooded
with ORDERS" declared Roy !. Fred.
eriek. head OF the National Engineer.
Ing a. Manufacturing company,
makers Of the device In. this city.
with offices nj 900 Pacific block.
We don't talk our product so
much as we show It's achievement"
Frederick continued. And we don't
fail 10 show that II not only cuts
down gas consumption. but II also
increases the power and efficiency
OF an engine. by eliminating carbon.
and gives better fabrication, making
the motor run smoothly by stopping
vibration.
Further. II keeps the motor
from overheating. II Is adjusted
from the dash OF the car. giving the
proper amount OF steam under
various conditions. and Is closed
with ieak-proof valve when the
motor is stopped. so there can b no
moisture entering the cylinders.
ron hot summer afternoons the
Little Giant is prepared to make
a motor run as smoothly as on a
cool. rainy evening"