- Omaha's Airport Covered By Flood - Douglas County, Nebraska -

OMAHA, April 13 (AP)—Army engineers today abandoned hope of saving Omaha's $4,000,000 airport and Carter Lake, Iowa, from complete inundation by Missouri river flood waters as the angry stream poured through two broken dikes into the ten-square-mile stricken area on the northeastern outskirts of Omaha.

At Hamburg, Iowa, fifty miles south, two hundred families living in the southern portion of the community, which is eleven feet below the normal river level, began leaving their homes after dikes at McPaul and Percival, above-Hamburg, gave way. Residents of McPaul also were ordered to leave their homes. Col. Lewis Pick, United States army division engineer, said there was no chance of stopping the Omaha dike break and that further efforts to save the airport Carter Lake area would not be made.

The river reached its crest at 2:00 a. m. at 22 45 feet, remaining at that level until 7:00 a.m. It then started receding slowly at the rate of about one-tenth of a foot an hour.

From four to six feet of water was expected to cover the airport within the next forty-eight hours. Two-thirds of the field stood in several feet of water this morning, said Airport Manager William R. Milner.

From two directions through widening gaps in the broken dikes, the swollen river spilled into the airport and Carter Lake.

Red Cross and other rescue workers worked late last night to evacuate the last of pproximately one thousand families living in the ten square mile stricken area which is on the northwestern out- skirts 0f Omaha. Other scores of families had been removed earlier from north and east Omaha as the crest moved downstream.

Held For Rustins Death Charles E. Davis Bound Over At Omaha

Alleged Slayer of Physician Was Released on Bond of $10,000

Omaha. Neb.—Following a five days legal battle before Police Judge Crawford Charles Edward Davis was Tuesday afternoon bound over to the district court to answer the charge of murder in the first degree for the killing of Dr. Frederick

Rustin on the morning of September 2. Bail was fixed at $10,000 which was promptly furnished by two brothers of the defendant and the accused man was per in charge of a guard who has been retained by the Davis family. Mrs. Abbie Rice, who has been detained in the matron's department at the police station since the shooting.

It is stated, will be released on a nominal bond for her appearance in the district court as a witness. It is stated also that her father will take her back to Des Moines where she will remain until the trial is over.

Dr. J. P. Lord and Mrs. Rice were both called in rebuttal Tuesday morning. The testimony was brief, being for the purpose of refuting statements by the police that Lord had not told the officers of meeting a man answering Davis' description the night of the shooting and explanatory of why Mrs. Rice did not ride in the same seat on a street car with Rustin.


Omaha - Double private funeral services were held here today for Mr. and Mrs. Harry S.

McDonald, of Omaha, killed in an automobile-train accident last Saturday.

Ralph Nickerson, Sarpy county coroner, said last night no inquest would be held. Nickerson

said he and Sheriff Harry Mundell, of Sarpy county, together with relatives of the McDonalds,

made a thorough investigation of the accident, which occurred at a grade crossing near Chalco,

Neb.

He said they found no evidence to warrant calling a coroner's jury.

Omaha, Neb. Richard Gale Brophy, business manager for the Byrd Antarctic expedition, who resigned suddenly in New Zealand last spring and later disappeared from New York, leaving a suicide note, has been found alive, working on the, copy desk of the Omaha Bee-News. The Bee-News said in a copyrighted story today that Brophy's identity was learned from a photograph showing him with Commander Richard Byrd. Brophy, who had been working here as "C. Manning Mitchell," admitted his identity and left at once for New York, saying he intended to straighten out his affairs there.

Brophy disappeared from New York last August leaving a note to his wife which said he was going to Coney Island, "and walk into the waves until they cover me and then I will be no more.”

New York police after an investigation said they doubted that Brophy had killed himself. Nothing was heard of him until the news editor of the Bee-News made the discovery yesterday that Brophy and "Mitchell" were the same man. "I only wanted to rest," Brophy explained. "My nerves were shattered. I was tired, distraught, unable to find relief from the pressure that seemed to hem me in. "I have found rest in Omaha, but I am going back to New York and straighten out my tangled affairs. I must begin where I left off that day at Coney Island."

Brophy said he "bummed" his way to Omaha. He started work for the Bee-News Sept. 25. It was the news that Commander Byrd had flown over the south pole and returned successfully to his base that resulted in "Mitchell's" identification as Brophy. The news editor, seeking pictures of the explorer came upon one showing him and Brophy. The resemblance between Brophy and "Mitchell" was so apparent that the editor confronted "Mitchell" with the picture and "Mitchell" admitted his identity.

Brophy was second in command of the Byrd expedition at the time of his sudden and unexplained resignation. He was in charge of the Byrd supply ship, Eleanor Boiling. The ship turned back after getting 900 miles out, the ice formation preventing its further movement ahead. He returned to Dunedin, New Zealand and resigned.

At Dunedin, Brophy was arrested as a public nuisance and a court gave him his choice between entering a sanitarium or returning to the United States. He took the latter alternative but on arrival in New York he voluntarily submitted to a mental test at Belleville. He was declared sane, but ordered to take a rest. On the advice of Commander Byrd's New York representatives, Brophy spent six weeks in Canada and then returned to New York, the suicide hoax and disappearance following shortly afterward.

Omaha, Neb., July 17 - June 28 Sara Clarke, the sixteen year old daughter of J. C. Smith of this city, was decoyed away from her home by a Mrs. Kate June, a woman of questionable repute.

A week or so ago Detective Blanfuss obtained a clew, and followed it up succeeded in arresting the girl in a camp of railroad grading hands ten miles west at Grand Island. She and Mrs. June had been living a life of reckless dissipation and depravity there for a period of a month. The girl was attired in male clothes, and when the officer went to arrest her a burly Frenchman stepped up and said he could not take her, that she was his wife.

The girl gladly accompanied the detective, and the story she told at her home of her life in the railroad camp is revolting and rivals the depravity of the Wisconsin logging camps.

Detective Blanfuss left yesterday with a warrant in his possession for the arrest of Kate June and it is the intention to prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law.