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JAYS MARX HAY NOT BENEFIT BV $3,009 INCREASE >tate Law Also Bara Clerk and Treasurer, Rules Corpora tion Counsel )THERS MAY RESIGN TO GET BIG WAGE BOOSTS layor Will Ask Council to Re adjust Salaries of City Offi cers Tonight Mayor Marx will not be able to bene, t by the $3,000 salary Increase, hlch the people voted Uis oftlce In le recent election, dutiug his prcs it term in office. Neither will City lerk Hie hard Lindsay nor City Treas rer Max C. Koch be able to take ad intake of the SI,OOO salary increases icy expected to receive. Corporation Counsel Richard I. Law >n informed Mayor Marx, Tuesda} orning that, in his opinion, the pres it incumbents of the elective offices entioued in tile charter amendment >r salary raises, could not receive lem legally. He based his verbal >lnlon on his reading of a section of le state constitution which says the ficialS, salary cannot be increased ter iris election. The charter amend ent was submitted at the regular fall ection and was adopted at the same me that the mayor, the city clerk id the city treasurer were elected. It is also l<awaou's view that the institutional provision does not af >ct the city controller, the corpora on counsel or the commissioner of üblic work?, all appointive officials, oviding the> are willing to resign le first of the year and accept reap ointments from the mayor at ad sneed salaries. The mayor has as ur*»d the three officials that If they are to do this he will reappoint them ithin five minutes and allow them to r.joy the benefit of the Increases hlch the voters have already given lem. “There Is a very tine point involved 1 my salar> rai*e and those of the It y clerk and eify treasurer,’* aald layor Marx after interviewing Inw on. “hut I will make no effort to tnke dvantage of it to gain an Increase >r myself. The law is a bit vague n this point and I will abide by the pinion of Mr. Lawson, whom I con ider a very able lawyer. However, I elieve that the people, when they dopted the charter amendment, real s wanted to give the present officials i office the benefit of sulary Increases nd for that reason 1 will gladly help tie three appointive official* to get it.” It Is up to the common council to x the compensation of the mayor and lie other city officials mentioned, the barter amendment simply stipulating lie salary limitation for each office. 'herefore. the mayor says he win end a communication to the council, 'ursday night, asking the aldermen o readjust tne salaries under the pro. islons of the amendment. The mayor ays his kVa in doing this is to make tire tl at, should anything happen to emove the present ineumbents from •fflee, their successors will not be de irlved of the salary increases the peo ile have voted them. Controller George Engel has repeat. »dly stated that he will not resign to lecure his ?nlary increase by a tech deal point. Corporation Counsel Law on and Commissioner Fenkel are num on the salary subject. I-awson s a Democrat and lie may not want o be out of office —even for five m*n- Res —for an extra $2,500 a year. BEGIN NEW PROBE OF COLORADO COAL STRIKE DENVER. Col.. Dec. I.—What prom see to be the mo#t sweeping investi- of the Colorado coal miner*’ itrike yet undertaken will be opened it the state house here tomorrow by he federal industrial relations com nisslon, headed by Chairman Frank P. Walsh. Having held a series of conferences with the prominent Colorado coal jperators, Walsh today met leaders of he United Mine workers. Both sides iromised cooperation. President fesse Welborn, of the Colorado Fuel fe Iron company. President David W. Jrown. of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company, and President John C. Os pood, of the Victor American Fuel company, offered to furnish all the in formation they have. I>istrlct Presi dent John Mcl/ennan, and Secretary- Treasurer Edward Doyle represented the union at today’s conferences. It hs probable the first witnesses will be Governor Ammons and Gov ernor-elect Carlson. Both have prom ised Chairman Walsh to take the stand. FAIL TO FIND SINGLE TRACE OF LOST HUNTER Relatives of Robert Shuttock, the motorcycle dealer at Fourteenth and Foresta-aves., who has been missing in the north woods since Nov. 16, have received no trace of tiie missing man to dale, and searching parties which have scoured the woods for him hi.re reported no success. A reward c* S2OO for his discovery, dead or alive, is outstanding. • Shuttock wandered away from his companions while limiting, and never reached his camp near McMillan, Mich. The day following his disappear ance, a terrific blizzard occurred, cov ering up ail trails, and making the search for him practically hopeless. TOO MANY TOMBSTONES CAUSE OF LITIGATION Mrs. Mary t'omstock has an extra tombstone on band ana doesu’t know just what to do with It, as the result of a trial which terminated Monday In circuit court, when Asa Lyon, tombstone salesman, was awarded SB3 damages, and Mrs. Comstock be ' came the possesor of a stone for that r amount Mrs. Comstock wanted only one grave marker. That was for h*r hulband’a last resting place Two salesmen convinced her to buy from each of them, and when Mrs. Com stock finsUv tried to eliminate one of them, after giving him the ord«\ she found herself Involved in litlgor lion. IHE OLD WORLD WAR IkOM DAY TO DAY BY J. W. T. MASON, iForwvr Kurupraa Naaagtr of tka l ailed Hrcaa.) NEW YORK, Dot. 1. —111 a. m. —The failure of the Russian field army to fullfii the optimistic predictions of Fetrograd, is now uppareuL There has been no huge victory gamed by the Slavs and Field Marshal Von Hinden* bergs army has not beeu spilt into three parts preliminary to Its annihilation. These highly colored narratives seein specially manufactured in Petrograd by correspondents who apparently are at the mercy of highly imaginative Slavs for their information. The Russians are paying little attention to the oper ations in France and Belgium. The armies of the allies in the west are chlefiy thought of as being useful for diverting a large part of the Austro-German armies from the eastern operations. Petrograd, therefore, regards the Russian field forces as being op posed by numerically Inferior en emies, thus making victory for tho Grand Duke Nicholas certain at every encounter. The danger of serious Internal disturbances. If the Russian arm ies show no Improvement over their form during the Japanese war. Is also an Important factor In explaining tho illogical optim ism at Petrograd. It w'ould be dangerous to the security of the present bureaucracy If the news were allowed to spread through out Russia that Von ITlndenberg is holding the Slav armies from the German frontier: it would be more dangerous if the conviction were to gain ground among the people that the war may end without any German territory in Russian possession. Tho Japan ese were outnumbered two to one whbn they defeated the Russians in the Manchurian campaign. Since then heave additions! taxes have been assessed on the Rus- NEW YORK BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS Line of Depositors Camps Be fore Doors in Cold Drizzle of Rain NEW YORK, Dec. 1. —Another pri vate bank closing in New York today I brought out a long line of shivering { East Side depositors, who gathered before the doors of the institution, 'and of its two branches, nearly all day in the cold drizzle. Some ,of the women were crying. Most ot the men were cursing and threatened violence. The institution is owned by Abra ham 1.. Kass. There are two offices in Harlem's East Side, and one in Gra -1 hani-st., Brooklyn. A run started at jthe Brooklyn offices, yesterday, at 5 j o’clock.* An hour later Kass told the (state banking superintendent his trou bles, and closed all the institutions. 1 As early as midnight the sales girls, errand boys and working folk began Jto gather at thexloors of the three buildings. They found a notice on each bank saying the state superin tendent had taken over the business. They knew what misery was caused to depositors when similar notices appeared on the doors of the private banks owned by Jarmulowsky, Man del and Kobre last August. Toward noon the crowd at the i Brooklyn branch became so threaten ing that police reserves had to be call ed out to disperse it. While Kass was explaining that his assets are $2,000,000, and sufficient to pay 100 cents on the dollar, three de positors filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy against the private banker. In the petition they placed Kass' assets at $750,000, and his lia bilities at exceeding $1,000,000. OPERATOR HELD ON NEWS THEFT CHARGE NEW YORK, Dec. I.—H. L. Linder, a telegraph operator, was today held for action of the grand Jury on a charge of pilfering news from the As sociated Press and selling it to the New York News bureau, a ticker ser vice. The specific charge against the operator wits that he “Jacked in” a receiving instrument on his desk in the ofllce of the New York Globe so that he could hear matter sent over the Associated Press wire to that newspaper, and that on Nov. 27 he so heard the “Fliba” fake story and transmitted it to the New York Newg bureau. Testimony was introduced showing that Linder admitted receiv ing -a weekly salary from the New York News bureau, sent him by mes senger. Linder’s attorney maintained that the stAtute under which his client was held, that punishing persons foi revealing private telegraphic mes sages, did not apply to news mes sages. The court ruled otherwise aud held Linder. The operator’s attorney said Lindner wanted to do anything he could to right any wrrong he might have done. CHITRCHF* RESPOND TO CALL FOR HOME VISITORS Great Interest is being shown In the Detroit Home Visitation which is to be observed Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 8. The large auditorium of the First Congi egatlonal church was filled Mon day night with men and women of all denominations who have volunteered to go as workers. One church has sent in the names of 724 persons who have agreed to visit the homes on the afternoon of the Visitation Mr. Durham, interna tional vu peiin ten dent stated at the headquarters today, that that record had exceeded anything in the history of the movement. Another church will send out 466 visitors. The whole city and all suburbs will be visited, and a larger army of work ers than was first called for will be needed. A meeting like the one held In the First Congregational church Monday night, will be held in 8t Joseph’s Catholic school halt, at Orleans and Jay-st., Tuesday of visitors. J. Bhreve Durham, international superintendent of home visitation, will* be In charge. THE DETROIT TIMES. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2., 1»14» slau nation to reorganise tho army, aud yet the army once more la being held back by smaller numbers, possibly as inferior as during the Japanese war. These facts, quite apparent to outside observers, are dangerous food for reflection in Russia. The German war leaders have always counted on Slavonic revolutionary posibilities coming to their aid, in a war against Russia. If the present war is extended over a long period and If Slav impotence continues against Germany, in ternal disturbances are practical ly certain to break out in Russia, unless the czar's armies are able to make headway against Turkey. The lack of any serious Rus sian initiative in the Caucasus, coupled with the inability of the Slavs to retain the offensive in Poland, suggests that Russia may be suffering from the same fail ure of equipment that is so seri ously hampering the allies in the west. At the outbreak of the war, the unlimited numbers Rus sia could put in the field was a favorite dinner table topic. Since then, it has become known that soldiers do not fight with their fists, but must have guns and am munition. Russia probably la.Ks these supplies. Otherwise, what has become of her exhaustless millions of soldiers? Why aren’t they in the field, overwhelming Von Hlndenberg and marching victoriously across Asia Minor to Constantinople? Berlin now confidently asserts that danger of a Russian Invasion has disappeared. T>o the Germans know that Russia’s limited war supplies make Impossible the equipment of a large part of the Slavs otherwise available for the battle line? This fact, together with the temptation of Constanti nople. and. above all, the leader ship of Von Hlndenberg, are prob ably the reasona for German’s sat isfaction over the campaign in Poland. Michigan News Notes CALL AlET—Another hunter was added this morning to the list of those lost or killed while hunting deer in northern Michigan during the past season, when it was learned here thut an Ontonagon hunter, a woodsman whose name is unknown, disappeared three weeks ago, alter going d‘ier hunting. Posses have been unable to find the man, as the county is wild, and the woods where he was hunting almost impenetrable. Search has be.jn given up. and it is thought certain the lost man is dead, either from bul let wounds or exposure, as the weath er has beeu very severe. KALAMAZOO- —What officers say will be the largest convention of the Michigan State Horticultural society ever held, began here this morning. Over 400 delegates are in attendance. After being welcomed to the city by Mayor A. B. Connable, the visitors heard, an excellent address by E. F. Stoddard, of Kalamazoo county, on how he had made a success of a fuiit farm in 10 years. Mr. Stoddard has one of the biggest fruit farms in the county. KALAMAZOO —Alleging that the freight rates charged to southern Michigan from the various coal fields rre much too high, Jackson, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo witnesses today appeared l>efore examiners from th» interstate commerce commission here today In an effort to have a change made. Witnesses from Jackson re the first to be examined. The hear ing will probably continue for several days. , FORMER SUPREME JUDGE IS SUED FOR DIVORCE NEW YORK, Dec. 1. —Justice Alfred Ennis, formerly a member of the In diana supreme court, was expected to furnish SI,OOO bond sometime today to insure his appe&ranoe in the suit of his 27-year-old wife for separation. Judge Ennis was served w’lth papers yesterday. He spent the night at hia hotel in custody of deputies. Judge Ennis is father of Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the well known editor. His marriage to Miss Norma Schiller, has proven a "May to December” romance. The ceremony took place seven months ago. Mrs. Ennis declares in her com plaint that the aged Jurist is not the man she believed him to be. She says she was "attracted by his command ing personality and his noble char acter. which he led me to believe he possessed.” "I have since found, however,” the complaint added, "that he*forced hia attentions upon me and married me as an instrument in connection with his various promoting schemes.” THE WAR TAX TODAY On various business pa pers, from bills of lading to stocks and bonds, a stamp tax of lc to $5 or more must be paid from to day until December, 1915. We have prepared a han dy synopsis of this Fed eral Stamp Tax Law and shall be glad to supply copies on request. PENINSULAR STATE BANK 40 Fort St. West —Adv. CHALFONTE Atlantic City, New Jersey The Leede Company RATE ON DEMAND LOANS TOUCHES NEW LOW LEVEL Numerous Influences Tend to Increase Cheerfulness of Financial Atmosphere WAR LOAN CERTIFICATES CALLED IN, IS REPORT Prices Maintain Yesterday's Level In Open Trading On Stock Exchange t Copyright. lUI4, by the Mow York fclvrulnp I'umi Cos.) NEW YORK, Dec. 1.- Numerous Influences conspired today to increase the cheerfulness of the financial at mosphere. The decided ease of money—rates for demuud loans de clining to much the lowest level since July—was perhaps the most impres sive of these developments. it is quite possible that tills general downward tendency in the loan mur ket is responsible for the very meagre re-discounting of paper, thus rar, with the federal reserve banks; the regional bank at Cleveland today re duced its rate on two months’ paper. The announcement from the clear ing house that all of the loan certifi cates, issued during the war disturb ances to meet balances between New- York banks, had now been called in aud cancelled, came earlier than had been expected. It is one of the in creasingly numerous evidences of return to normal conditions. In the open trading on the stock exchange, prices for bonds moved to day much as they did yesterday— that U to say, values were generally well maintained, though fiuclations were only fractional, and there were minor dowuwurd re-actions, us well as advances. Total volume of actual transactions was 'close to yesterday’s and not abnormally small even when compared with ordinary times. NEW YORK HAS ANOTHER INCENDIARY FIRE NEW YORK, bee. I.—The city’s dally early morning blaze occurred to day. One hundred tenants of the 10- story tenement, No. 33 Crirsby-st., bare ly eacuped with their lives when a fire believed to have been Btarted by fire bugs, swept through the structure. Many were taken do«wn the fire lad ders and over adjoining roofs. Several women and children were found lying unconscious on the floors of smoke filled rooms. As firemen were fighting the fire in Crosby-st., another blaze started in a five-story building No. G 8 Madison-st The building hs a landmark. It has lately been occupied as a pickle fac tory. Fumes from the burning vats were so dense that families in tene ment*, on either side of the building had to flee to the streets in their night clothes to escape suffocation. NEGRO SLAYER GIVES SELF UP TO POLICE James Talton, alias Ernest Har rison, a Negro, who has been room ing at No. 253 Hastings-st., gave himself up to the police, Monday night, for fatally wounding another Negro In Cincinnati, on Thanksgiv ing day. Talton showed the police a telegram from a Cincinnati Ne gress. which read, “He is dead. Write from Canada. Charlotte.*’ He said that news of his victim's death unnerved him, and he changed his plan of skipping to Canada if he received word of the man’s death. He told Inspector Larkins that he and his victim had quarreled, and he shot the other man, then fled to Detroit, In order to he able to skip across to Canada If he was pursued. HAVE YOU SEEN IT? The Greatest Electrical Decorative Display Ever Shown W’est of New York is now on view in front of the MILES THEATER “Detroit’s Greatest Amusement Value” Sign Erected by Walker & Cos. ALL THIB WEEK Edmond Hayes In “THE PIANO MOVERS” The Biggest Laugh of the Year 7—Other Standard Acta—7 I. P. NORTON / My reputation for saving at a time when a saving is most needed is assurance to you of less cost for perfect service. E2.T3— WUU I .inly to? a beautiful broadcloth casket, Any or oi S hi. silk-lined, usually sold at 7fti£r«i 74 viuV Avr. SIOO.OO, and save you from one-half to one-third on other g expenses. Remember, my A L establishment is the largest *T KA and best equipped in the state. FAIL TO LEARN WHAT WAS DONE WITH P.M. CASH No Records of Many Transac tions in Existance, Auditor Tells U. S. Probers ONE DIVIDEND PAID WITH BORROWED MONEY Gen.-Man. Alfred Will Take the Stand Thursday To Tell of Road's Condition The history of a $00,000,000 bond issue authorized by the Fere Mar quette in 1905 to run to Jan. 1, 1950, vv&* gone into in detail when the pub lic hearing in connection with the in terstate commerce commission's probe of the road's affairs was resumed in the Federal building, Tuesday mov ing. It developed that only $14,000,000 worth of bonds were Issued under this authorization and that the com pany used $210,000 out of a $6,000,000 loan to pay dividends. Attorney G. Gutheim. one of the commission's legal staff, was persistent in his in vestigation to find out what was done with all the cash that the company realized on the bond issue. Also, a large number of notes were taken up by the company about that time. Clarence 8. Sykes, auditor for the re ceivers, stated that he had been un able to find what this money had been spent for as the records cover ing that period were incomplete. In 1905 notes were Issued to Rob ert Winthrop A Cos. in payment for railroad equipment. The notes amounted to $1,977,266. but the equip ment bill was $76,000 less than that and Attorney Gutheim declared that he would find out where that m~ney, and other money, went to. The de tails of the hearing are Involved and even the Investigators admit that it is hard to make headway through the mass of data and figures to get at the salient points. General Manager Frank Alfred will be called before the commission Thursday, and questioned about the company’s physical properties. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN DEAD IN NEW YORK WASHINGTON, Dec. I—J. Borden Harriraan, retired New York banker and broker, died here today, after a protracted illness. BAD AXE HAS DOUBLE « JAIL DELIVERY PORT HURON, Mich., Dec. I. (Special.)—Charles Quackenbusli, who was arrested in this city two weeks ago by Sheriff Maines for Huron coun ty officers, has escaped from the Bad Axe jail and a state-wide search is being made for him. Quackenbush had been sentenced to Jackson prison for five years, having been convicted of robbing the Ellison store, in Klnie, Mich., about two months ago Elmer Mills, who was serving a 10 days’ sen tence, escaped with Quarkenhush. The latter Is said to be a professional crook ami gang leader and has a long police record, and he Is also wantvd by the police of several Canadian cities. He effected his escape by tearing down a portion of the Jnil wall which was of the thickness of three bricks. Children Ory FOR FLETCHER’S CASTORIA “Yes, the Campbell | Jgjr reputation certainly y counts with me. v 1 “I feel that this reputa tion and the quality which \ \ has made it and the con science behind them both —are maintained in every f y Tomato Soup blow that it is always the same and always good —pure, appetizing, rich and, above all, thoroughly “That is why 1 specify jinn Campbell's in buying to~ mm mato soup. And that is HH why I always buy it by the Ij IIIVI WE OFPER OUR ENTIRK mil f DIAMOND 'Y j STOCK I sto 20% OFF - I j FOR THE MONTH OF H I DECEMBER ONLY * j J Every Piece of Diamond Jewelry is Ij Included, With the Exception I B * AMUSEMENTS. g% a nniru Popular Matinee UAnlllUTodu>. 2*se to f I Thr luvr etury with a IniikH In every line Kitty Mac Kay II) t ntherlne_thlnJ»olin t,'uahlng. Nun. at and Band of W. Sun. Night v Dec. 6 KTaMi LVVUN U II OWK-S TKAYKL n * ""FICSTIVAL UDCIIUIIIC F.l.Kt'TßOilllMir MKT A 1.9 VKOUVIUO M m(4 FEATI RE« ypvT U/rrif 9EAT9ALK ntAI Tin KN|>.%Y Oi l \ KH MORONI'4I OPKKHS Peg 0’ My Heart With ELSA RYAN Mahta Nat. Mat. Me. 50r. 75e. 91. IIM. Wrtl. Mat. 3&C, SOv, 73«. 91. aXli- M % TIM KB DAILY THE BRIDE SHOP .lark 11. Gardner! llahy lletani Moran A \Mori John H. Gordon A (u.l i'ardo A Nollt Toy# Truapri M«*«»reOeeope. M|| g" C I.IMMt Nf.ATN I Or. ■L L A ““ 3 NIIOUn DAILY Daily Mata. l*Jt9U to 4iAO. EDMUND HAYES & CO. In “Thr Plano Mover*. M THE (;REAT rivoij H—-Other Ilia Aria- <■ i i ®c Daily Mats. 12:30-4:30 f <>c two Tight niiow 7i.yo-i»iI» 30C MR. ANO MRS. ROBYNS Harry Godfrey and Y eta Header.on (I—OTHKR BIG %< TN—d. /> A V C T V FIMNT-t I %nn tl A T t I 1 BI HI.ICNMI K. TIIDA V—3it.N and Ntltl. HONEYMOON GIRLS With PHIL OTT Ynl Week—MOl UN ROfUIP QIRL9. Joh Printing Done Hlaht. Tlmat Printing to., II Jwha K.-SL. AMUBEMENTB. DETROIT-™’’ I Watch Yourßtep mh’n. Virnon Castli Frank Tinnny Elisabeth Murray Hrlee and King .V*—-Corgruu.ly Gowned Girin oO NEXT WEEK’ Neatn Thura. HENRY SAVAGE offers The Impreaatve Dramatic Spectacle EVERYWOMAN Knaemhle of ISO. Symphony Orchestra M YTINKKM U< to 91.00 —NO HIGH KH LYCEUM phi"r« IScto 75e I A mighty good enter-iy.f Tnrisw talnmcnt with nothtng I ivugj to offend. -I>et. Journal. I . OCaa SEPTEMBER MORN | Seat* I \nt weeki Chan. Hirin’. Maggie Pepper AVENUE • 1 K, NTOCK^ T Jaa. J. Corhett'a Hlg Nui-eeaa THE BURGLAR AND THE LADY I Mata.. Sun., Tuaa., Thura.. Sat. Price*. 10c. 20c. 30c—Few 60c —Week Day Mat.. 10c 20c. Seat Week— “ Sold for Money.” CADILLAC burlesque Vni/lkkn V , lpp || U t # i cadi line The High Rollers .Neat Meek—-The New Broadway (drla.« CAI IV H< HLKB4MK r ULL T MATI3IKK 1) 4 11. Y Had Flaher’a Merry Girl Fro lie “FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE” KXTRAt MI-AY9MA. Oelonle Daaeat ’ Ngalaean-llke Printing. No tuaa and no feathers. The plain, neat kind that looks right. 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