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FLORIDA
POICE NOW
UPON TRAIL
Of BANKER
Missing Financier Said to Have
Boon Intimate Friend. of
Clarke Woman.
ORLANDO, Pla., Aug. 8-Tele
grus and letters from friends who
express confidence in her innocence
ocatinued today to pour in on Miss
Left M. T. Clarke, former post
mistress at West Palm Beach, Fla.,
who is held in jail here on a charge
of murdering Frederick A. Milti.
s,Orlando restaurant proprietor.
spnds ost of her time at a
tiny typewter sent her by one
of these friends, writing letters and
ocasionally poetry.
Moewy From MwelL
Littlo excitement was caused here
by a tement Miss Clarke is said to
have ven Sheriff Karel, in which
the name of Joseph Bowns 1lwell.
New York sportsman who was mys
teriously slain, was brought Into the
story.
The statement had been promised
by tbe sheriff several days ago and
contained no facts that had not previ
ously been touched upon.
As for the Elwell angle, It only
speaks of him as having loaned Miss
Clarke money with which to cover
a shortage several years ago. This
money, she said, was paid back, after
which she covered and kited accounts
In her postoffice to hide the thefts.
Widespread search is being made
for a leading West Palm Beach bank
er, who had been sued by Miltimore
several months previously for alleged
trifling with Miltimore's daughter.
Questioning of this banker, who was
a friend of Miss Clarke, is now re
garded bry the police as having an Im
portant bearing on the case.
Al of today this community was
agog with discussions of the dual per
sonality of the pretty postmistress,
who, through her confession, revealed
herself as a feminine Jekyll and Hyde.
A' Queer Cembbatlm
Lena Mary Thankful Clarke, if you
eass, is a queer combination - a
n4le of contradictions. In personal
appearance and dress she is far from
attractive. Her figure Is heavy and
uncorseted and her clothes smack e
the backwoods.
Her shoes are generally without
heef'and her stockinst of cotton. Her
skin is very fine in' texture bat cov
ered with frge, disfiguring freckless.
Miss Clarke's only assets in appear
ance are her hair, which Is decidedly
Titian and naturally wavy, and her
eyes, deep blue in color and absolutely
straight and unwavering In their gae.
She has cultivated a habit of a
straight and steady look, believing
a directness of gae to a psychological
winner in dealing with human nature.
Miss Clarke is a firm believer in the
power of will. She Informed the post
office inspector when he confronted
her with supposed knowledge that her
shortage was known to him, that it
f a question of his will against hers
and that hers was the master mind.
defying him to place the blame on her.
Charitable Nature.
Miss Clarke was a generous con
tributor to all worthy charities-local
and national; a member of the Cham
ber of Commerce. and of a church
society for young people, whotp she
banqueted on Monday prior to her
trip to Orlando. She quite frequent
ly played for midweek services at
the church,- where her family regu.
larly attended services, and gen
erally was looked upon as a woman
of strong refigious beliefs.
The only tne Miss Clarke ever ap
peared before the public In any ex
cept a business way was during the
lat Seminole sun dance, a festival
held each March In Palm Beach,
when she took first prise on the
night of phantasmaagoria as bride
groom In a wedding party In which
Joe Farmnan, political boss during
Governor Catts' administration, was
dressed as the bride.
Knowing her tendencies to avoid
society and taking Into consideration
that she- could lay smai5ll claims to
personal attractiveness, people have
marvelled at the reported revelings
in which whiskey played an in
-portant part.
Little old Grandpa Collins, care
taker of the J. 10. Chambers home.
No. 822 South Poinsetta street, where
55,700 of the missing post office
funds were found In a "studio"
maintained on the top floor by Miss
Clarke characterized the woman as
a crank on cards.
A Fertune-Tefler.
Every time she came Into the
house, Grandpa Collins said, she
would sit down and cut the cards
and tell fortunes. He said:
"I used to tell her that some of
the fortunes she told were bound to
Scome true because she told so many
of them."
The name nf Frederick A. Mill
more and Lena Clark were con
nected In an unpleasant way eight
or nine year. ago and Miltimnore left
the post office. Later he became
again an employe of the post office
and a candidate for the office of post
master, for which Miss Clarke also
was a candidate.
Miltimnore accused Miss Clarke of Ir
regularities in the office. but the af
fair was hushed. Both lost out in
the race for postmaster and J. D.
Argyte was named. He named Miss
Clarke as an assistant because of her
fifteen years' service. Upon Argyle's
r-esighation early In 1920. Miss Clarke
became acting postmistress and later
was appointed to the post.
'Rev. T. A. Clarke, father of Miss
Clarke, who Is founder of a corre
spondence course In theology taught
by an Atlanta seminary, declared to
day:
"The law of man may deelare our
daughter a robber and a murderess.
Biut In the siaht of God and her aged
father and mother she is as innocent
POSTM
BELIEVES c
HER FA
Belief that
Lena Clarke,
former
postmistress at
West Palm
Beach, Fla.,
is suf4ect to
hers4itary
insanity
was espressed
by Miss
Naomi.. Mti
more, daughter
of W M.
Miltimore
whose murder
Miss Clarke
a said to have
confessed at
Orlando, Fla.
Miss Miltimore
passed
through Jack
sonville, Fla.,
en route to
Orlando
from
Chicago
to attend
her father's
funeral.
MISS NAC
NotedCon
Recalled
Roosevel
.Xy M)
Istorer
NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-1
Af one whom she called "C
personal maid, Mrs. Emmi
[a in the Tombs awaiting I
Forging the name of thi
for $69,900 Is the chargE
waited upon that spook p
is alleged she has since en
s Her former mistress's startling
roer is recalled to mind by the ar
)f Mrs. Burkett, who has been 1
tively Identified as her maid. But
prisoner, although charged once
rore with a similar offense, does
bandle her alleged crimes with
same broad sweep of Imagination
Dharagterised Dis Do Bar.
Divorced wife of General Dims
Bar, the notorious woman swin
married Theo&r Jackson in Chic
and with him perpetrated many
various types of crime, Including a
ligious cult.
Do fares iggest Dupe.
Dis Do Bar's most notorious
ture as the deluding of an old ma
wealth and artistic taste? Lu
hMarsh, of New York, wp.uh defr
ad by means of "spook 91ctures."
canvasses, which were found to I
been painted by her husband. ap
Let of no small ability, were .me
yver with chalk, which sh. rubbed
it seances, thus foolin the vic
who believed his enslaver a bands1
ruided by the spirits of dead arti
For this hoax the "Goddess of
Snow." got ae sentence of tw
year.. But later 4he and Jackson
peared in London with their noter
cult, "theocratio unity," -the- macil
tions of whieh brought them to
attention of Scotland Yard.
The practices of their domestie
were bared to a shooked public.
London court sentenced 'Jacksoi
fIfteen years in jail and -Die De.
to seven.' But the "Queen" of per
lowers survived, an'd finally c
back to the United States to appel
vaudeville.
Not the least of her remark
claims was Dies De Bar's constant
sertlon that she wasn the daughte
the likewise noterious Lola Mor
one-time favorite of the poet-l4
Ludwig I, of Bavaria, now long m
resting In Greenwood Cemet
Brooklyn, under a slab whichi
simply "Mrs. Elisa Gilbert/'
Career of Lola Monte.
Lola Montes's career was di
ruished If not for financial swinc
at least for the viciseitudes of her
if fairs. An eloperat sevente
with a young English officer. s<
to avoid an unwelcome match,
was eoon deserted by her husband,
found another lady more to his
ing. Little did the young bridegr
realise that the young damsel he
lected would yet be the prize for w
king. and princes would compete.
Irish and Spanish blood combirn
the make-up of the daring Lola,
capltvated Paris In 1829, when
visited the city billed as "Dolores]1
tes," a dancer, She could not da
any too well, but it is said her bei
made other qualifications unneces
for succees. Her eccentricities bec
famous and often led to her bai
ment from various towns she vie
whoge staid, Inhabitants would
none of the caprices of the dancer
the age of twenty-seven she met
wig, king of Bavaria, himself .i
and It is said she represented to
the beauty and poetry of life that
exigencies of his stern career had
repressed in his nature. She bec
[STRESS,
SLAYER OF
FHER INSANE
MI MILTIMORE.
.Women Are
by Arrest in
t Note Affair
640RY RIM,
mai News servie.
?ollowing in the furtive footsteps
'oddess" and whom she served as
i Richardson Burkett, of Indiana,
rial on the charge of forgery.
late Colonel Roosevelt on a note
against this woman, who once
riestess dnd adventuress whom it
ulated, Ann Odelia Diss De Bar.
Ca- 0Countess Landfeldt and a villa in the
rest Barerstrasse.
>osi- Lola ruled over Ludwig's affections
the until 1848. when European ferment
turned his subjects against the fair
young charmer, whose views were op
not posed to all conservatism. She was
the banished and Ludwig gave up the
that crown nine days later.
America becarthe Lola's mecca after
this period, and here she came to seek
De fortu%e on the stage. But her lack of
dler serious accomplishment was not bal
ago, anced here by her beauty and noto
and riety, so failure wan inevit4.ble. She
re- married later in tL West, but re
tdrned In her old age to the East. In
Astoria,, L. I.. she died, unknown and
ren- unmourned.
In this lack of comliness, coupled
thter with success in deluding men, Dins De
MId- Bar resembled the late Casie Chad
The wick, whose audacious exploits 'n
iae fleecing financial kings are prominent
ar-in our annals of crime.
ired How Cassile Worked.
off Her psychology of approaching a
tim, victim has been highly praimed. The
were cash-loving Canale always had a roll
.t..t of hundred-dollar bihn with her. which~
the she displayed carelessly when discuss
sdye ing a possible loan. To Insure
ap. promptneess in negotiating her
Lous wishes, she ;lway. erfered a little
jpg. "bonus" to her viutm. This was
the usually hailed by men supposedly ex
perienced as vindication of her hon
cult esty and financial Integrity.
A Mrs. Chadwick was eccentric even
toas a young girl in Ontmario, where she
Bar had calling cards which bore "heiress
fol- to $15,000" after het name. On onle
im. occasion in her native land, when she
:- in collided with the law, she was de
clared to be insane.
.ble Big Business Men Easy.
;a- She paid one loan wttn another andi
of started an endless n,iaIn of indebted
ites, ness. She needed securities, and, be
Ing, ing of a resourceful nature, pro
Ince ceeded to manufacture them. The
ery, late Andrew Carnegie- name was
may. used on promissory ndYc and deeds
of truit. In fact, she pretended to be
related to the famous man. On these
stin- forged signatures she norrowed about
ling a muillion and a half nrom banks. Ini
love Cleveland she got $230.000 from a
mn- hank ithich had to crose its doors on
as account of its dealings with her.
she Letters of introdtretron from pas
who tors helped along greetly. It was or
lik- one of these that she met and dealt
oom with Herbert Newton, af Boston, who
neg. finally sued her and *rogght her -af.
bom fairs to ligl t. She was at last in
dicted in Ohio, arreste<r here, and put
d in into the Tombs. In the second year
who of her ten-year sen tence Mrs. Chad.
she wick died in .jail. Much of her life
e.and affairs are still a mystery.
2; TOOK MONEY FOR FAKE
y ADS, IS CHAROE; JAILED
aish- NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. ,-BD1.
Ited, lie Howar-d, advertising solicitor,
tave kolp ail over the South, Isbeen
At arrested by th.e police charge with
L.ud- obtaining money under false pretense.
xty, by claimink to place an advertinement
him that never appeared.
the Local police say the charge in only
kept technical and that Howard is wantedi
am. on a more serious charge by Lams An
a of gales polica,
HELD IN
ALASHA ENT
DOWN WITH 44
16g. RESCUE
Shipper Dies at Post-MroH
Writ Large as West Coast
Liner Hit Ref.
BY ternatiem- N "0 squiS.
EUREKA. Cal., Aug. I.-Again b
the rock-studded, reef-strewn, (
clouded coast of northern Califort
taken heavy toll of life. And ag
has an epic of sea heroism been wi
ten in the annals of the Pacific.
Today the borrors of Saturday nirl
when the steamship Alaka hit t
treacherous Blunt's reef, sld off, sh
ered as if in mortal agony and th
plunged beneath the cold watevs
the north Pacific, were inemores:
counted with varying degrees of en
tion.
44 seleve4 Lost.
The Humboldt cbunty coast %
added to her already long lit a fro
harvest of possibly forty-four liv
according to figures of the Portia
rnd San Francisco Steamship Co
pany.
i Written brightest in the high lig
of the disaster are the names of thi
-Capt. Harry Hobbey, of the AlasI
Mrs. Grace Campbell, stewardess
the same ship, and Captain Snoddy,
the rescue ship. Passengers and cr
are awesomely repeating today I
megapho wrds of CaptaiR Hobb
as he moun? the Alaska's bridge
few seconds a ter the ship struck.
"I am going down wift this sh
but if you do what I tell you nobe
will go down but myself," he shout
He went down with his ship, i
to his cool direction. unudoubtei
was due the partially successful cle
ing of the ship.
No ls courageous was the e4
duct of stewardess Grace Campb
The women and children were guie
and in some instances carried to I
ship's boats by her. Tiny childr
distracted women and those infi
with age owe to her supervision a
personal efforts their safety.
"She worked as if inspired." a
a mother today.
And the third hero. Captain On
dy, shares his distinction with
crew.
IntrepM Crew Saves 164.
Captain Snoddy, of the Anyox. V
formed a miracle of the sea in rea
ing the scene of the wreck and taki
from the oil and wreckage stre
waters 166 souls. Every boat and r
that had been launched from i
Alaska was picked up. and in ad
tion men and women struggling In I
water were hauled to safety.
"Credit due our ersw ior handl
all survivors without mishap." v
the terse and modest manner in wh
Captain Snoddy told of his night
heroism.
Today the search for the bodies
those who lost their lives was
progress. Hundreds watched ak
the rocky shores of Cape Mendocino
the sea to give up its dead.
Blunts reef, five miles out from she
half a dosen small craft scoured
surface of the ocean for bodies.
Only a partial list of the victims
the disaster is available as yet. Anc
the known victims were:
Thomas Johnston. Brooklyn;
Pickall. Hubbard. Ore.; A. N. Hut
inson. Portland, Ore.: S. Kumasaws
steerage passenger, and the follow,
members of the crew.
Chief Steward Hesne: Steward F.
King. Frank Comm. Ralph J. Mo
ett and an engine hand named Lars
Twelve bodies had been recoe
early today and thirty-six pere
were reported missing.
130,000 KILLED
BY CHOLERA Ii
LANDOFRENIl
By Int.ernia New. Service.
LONDON. Aug. 8.-Cholera des
in Russia to the end of July tote
130,000, according to an Exchat
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhat
today quoting reports received th
from Riga.
Brigands are ravaging the fanm
district along the Volga Valley. '
brigands have burned all the tim
and farmsteads on 25.000 acres
land in the Ural district.
Refugees Traveling.
.* agnLE c. REEvSs,
I.teratiesel New, Se-vice.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-A million
a half of famished, disease-rid'
lIussian re tgees are pouring i
the Pinik md Brest-LUtovak distri
of White Russia, near the Pol
frontier, according to F. L. Tho,
son, an American relief worker, 1
arrived here today. The Russ
refugees are arriving at the rate
2,000 daily. They are interrible c
dition, especially the obhidren.
The British foreign office has *
an agent into Russla to investig
the famine and cholera conditki
Although he was supposed to h
arrived at Moscow on July 30. nm
ing has been heard from ham. Be
is expressed that his dispatobes s
have been held up by the soviet
ficlis who are censoring outgc
messages in an evident attempt
minimise the famine congttions.
Government officlis were amm
today at the report that Line we
comes to Great Britain. They said ti
did not believe it and aharacter-is.
as "incredible,"
Up to this afternoon no word1
beein received fromn Riga that the
lesed American prisonere had arr
eW.= mamsa.
SLAYINC
NATION SAVED'
TH-E RAILRO0ADSq
0 M9AOOO HOLD!
ir Message to Convention Signiff
cant of Leadership of Party.
- Says Hapgood.
By NORMAN RAPGOD.
as WilIarm G. McAdoe, asked for I
g, Inassage to be sent to the trUinme
who begin a convention n. Toroft
today, select
I" as his two rd
It- lated topic
the ralira
it, qUestion an4
disarmament,
NP Just wha
Iv- he says I
on would not b
of proper to 1
re- rate until thi
1o- message i
made publW
It will b
printed in ful
sh in the nex
e, InuE of "IA
rid bor."
M. The ignif
canoe of th<
its * stand taken
we *.. however, Cal
Ea: be disgussed
of now. Sin?'e Mr. Wilson's retiremen
of there is no doubt that Mr. McAde
.w comes nearer to being leader thai
he any other Democrpt. There Is n.
y, one leader, but McAdoo's followin
a includes the most Influential ek
ments In the party.
11. Governor Cox hopes to run to
dy governor of Ohio next summer an,
id. by a sweeping victory to regain th
uit political strength, lost in his defee
Ily last Novem . That defeat. hov
tr- ever, was .unexampled that th
ex-governor certainly cannot 'oom
.n- back" unless he makes soipe uneJ
411. pected and extraordinary impresslo:
ed in discussing national issues.
he McAdee's Ral ViewpoW.
Senator Underwood Is the one rd
nd maining outstanding candidate to
the national leadership, but with th
lid Republicans controlled by their cor
, servative element It is hard to me
,is how a Democrat who agrees witJ
them on nearly every Intense Isu
can lead against them.
Dr- Mr. Bryan will always retain
e1- large and devoted following, but hl
ng views on finance and economics ar
wn too untechnical, too Impressionisti
lkft
he ally moral, for him to lead int a
dl- era of difficult economic reconstrw
be tion.
Without going further into detal
ng I may say that Mr. McAdoo takd
6a issue sharply on the foundation fror
ch which the railroad problem In bein
of approached. The Administration an
the Administration forces in Coi
of gress treat the roads as having bee
in wronged by Federal control-ruine
"g as Senator Lodge put It the othe
for day. Mr. McAdoo holds that an th
contrary they were saved from con
ro, plete disaster.
he The Committee on Interstate Con
merce meets again on Tuesday at tb
nf urgent call of the railroads to hurr
up the Government help. That con
mittee on the issue heard all the pr
railroad testimony, and then befo:
h- the opposition could be heard it a
journed the hearing until September
ng A
K. Now it comes together. not to has
mk- the other side of the wage disput
on. but to hurry Government help befo1
-ed the effect of railroad propaganda
ins public opinion wears off.
have Just been enjoying reada
the Commerce Monthly, issued by t1
National Bank of commerce In No
York. It is talking of the settlemel
forced on the British railways by tk
Government.
The Government told them to mal
a final settlement for about a third 4
their claims or get nothing. The bam
periodical observes:
"In view of the fact that this offe
is epnbodied In the terms of the ne
bill it Is feared that any assumptic
Sof hostility sufficiently active to blat
its passage by Parliament wou:
merely result in a protracted peric
of litigation with the Government."
Preteet Public, He Sags,
That "It is fested" I.is c u.
alf is hoped, at least, that beore.'1
Amerfcan railroads finally walk t
Swith the cake now offered to the
they wdil be forced by Congress
make a settlement of their claims.
Here is a chance for the Commi
tee on Interstate Comieros to she
the some statesmanship. Let It advgca
led the mortgage loan to the roads, If
age wants to. That loan In itself
rnmerely a step toward Governme
enownership.
are But let it act tot the pope at t
same time that it acts for the road
Inc The roads are the petitioners. The
'he are begging for help. Before they c
bert tain it they should be stopped frc
of using the next decade or t_wo to dra
one be1ate# claim after another. 1
fore the Interstate Commerce Coi
mission, before Congress, before 11
President, before the courts.
Many of these alaims are again
adthe spirit of the contract between tl
nd r,ds and th4 Goverwnent. This
ethe moment to wind them up. Aft
lit the roads get all they want out
cts the present Administration bill tl
ish chance for a real settlement will1
II- gone.
of QUAKERS URCE PRESS
* AID POR DISARMAMEN
ant PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.--In tl
ate old Quaker MLeting,Rouse from whi<
ns5 William Penn issued his first appe
i. for universal peace, the Philadelph
saf quarterly meeting of the rellglo1
Soclety of Friends passed a messs
-urging "the press of America" to he
Ing the international disarpiamnent conte
to ene called by President Harding
abolish the causes for ware.
med The call was issued In the form
uld "an appeal to the newspaper edito
iey of the United States." It asks the
Iit to use their influence "throua-h hae
lines and printed articles for peai
aad through disarmament."
re- The mnessage wasn adepted -na
red piously a very few minutes after t.
-em --s envned
r WRITES
LITTLE VIRGII
WINS A FRI
' Miss Theresa Ebert, of Cherrydale,
is known as a "hustler." As soon as tb
started a canvass among I
beg yely ubserbers for The Washi
chocked up and found to be "0. K.," an
received te brand-new, completely eq
above illustration.
L.o.aNo NTSTO I
GUT BIG MELON,
PETITION SAYS
Tells I. C. C. It Desires to Dis- D
3 tribute $53,000,000 as a
Stock Dividend.
The Louisville & Nashville Rail
r d today asked the Interstate C9m- T
orce Commission for authority to
Issue $638000,000 of capital stack
- and to distribute dividend pro rata fr
e among shareholders. l
This request was accompanied by p,
a request for authority to execute tc
and deliver first and refunding mort
gage to secure various scries of 0
a bonds. tI
a The carrier also axk3d the commis- be
sion for authority to issue Serled A
of these bonds, aggregating 124%3,- .
- 0, and to sell $12,753.004) of thern,
holding the balance in the Treasury t
for future dispoettion- ti
The bonds to be issued will bear tg
I per cent interest, payable 'eMi- th
annually, and will mature April 1,
2002. They are redemablq at the
option of the carrier on Ocetob-r 1,
d 1926. or on any interest date there- 1i
after at 102 per cnt of the full k
amount with accru,,4 interest. 04
MAN SHOOTS WOMAN
* TWICE; THEN HIMSELF d
- at
NEW YORK, Aug. $.-Mystery sur- ,
- rounds the cause of the shooting of ,
e Mrs. Josephine Kruer, thirty.nine ,
y years old, by Thomas F. McCarthy, l
1. forty-five, a city engineering foreman. x
p. The shooting occurred as Mrs. Kruer
, was returning to her home in the Hen- w
I. drick Hudson Annex. McCarthy is t1
unconscious In Knickerbocker Hos
iptal. unable to explain the mystery.
Mrs. Kruer. who was taken to St.
Luke's Hospital. raid she could not
unyderstand what prompted McCarthy. t1
l Her husband, Bernard Kruer, who was a
I with her, also professed Ignorance. a
Mrs. Kruer told the police she had 6
g ent the evening with a woman friend u
in a nearby apartment house. The e
husband took her to St. Luke's Hos
t pital in a taxicab. One bullet had
wounded her under the letf ear and
the other in the right breast.
k FORMER FROHMAN AGENT
SUES WILLIAM A. BRADY _
W NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-William A. 11
n Brady has been sued in the supreme
I court by C. E. A. McGieachy for $250,
Id 000 for alleged libel in Mr. Brady's d
d book, "The Fighting Man." McGeachy c
was publicity maager for the Froh- h
man interests during the fight waged g
thirty-three years ago over the dra- t
imatic righia of Rider Haggard's d
W "She." 1
ff Mceschy alleges that faInt state- p
m ments are made, In the book concern
o ing happenings in St. Paul in 1889, j
when he was sent there to c6nvince the a
it- public that the Brady company play- r
w ing "She,' was not the Frohman gm
te wihplayed "She" in New lork- a
tHednes that he was taken out of
i bed. arraignedfolbeanhldnt
LIt $10,000 bail for the nd jury.
HASTILY DUG ENHS
aISOLATE TOWN FROMl FIRE
'GENE'VA, Aug. 3.-Troops and fire
m'men yesterday dug trenches and felled a
gtrees to save Fort Ecluse, where tons,
,of gunpowder are stored, and Collonge e
-and other villa.ges, from a forest fire
which swept down the northern slopes .,
of the Jura Mountains.t
at The fire was a mile in wiath, driven i
Sby a hot south wind. The smoke,
is which obecured the mountains, was
r visible in Geneva.
SSee New Spanish Cabinet. t
SMADRID, Aug. .-The general
opinion here is that Premier Allen-.
desalasar will remain in power, but ~
that he will take into the cabinet '
members of the Conservative ele
T ments, which at present are not rep- I
resented in the government.
h Farmers Die In Runaway.
aOIL CITY. Pa., Aug. 3.--An auto
Ia mobile frightened the horse driven
a by John Lauffer, seventy-six, and
te Willie Hill. fifty, farmers of West
Ip Washington, Armstrong county, to
ir- day, causing it to run away, throw
to ing them out and causing their in-I
gtant death.
rs Death Rate Lower.
d. LYNCHBUTRO, Va., Aug. .-Thel
se death rate here in July. 34, was the
lowest on recor1d since the establish
d1. ment of the vital statistics of the pub- I
he lie welflare department. There were I
. e haam usmseted darlin= She ...ne a i
POETRl
4IA GIRL
E BICYCLE
Va., is only ten years old, but she
le schools closed and her vacation
ier neighbors and got thirty-five
mgton TImes. They were quickly
d in return for her enterprise she
zipped $60 bicycle ydu see in the
NEADE.ROOKES
WILL BE GIVEIN
ARMY 1ACTlI
emonstrations of Real Wul
Work on Program for
This Week.
CAMP MEADE, Md.. Aug. N.
n,is week probably will be the big
'st that the boys of Company JM
Din Washington in the civilians
ilUtary training camp here will ex
rience during their month's stay
r demonstrations of the actIvities
the arms of the service allied tc
e infantry in military tactics wil
given by troops from the regulars
These will include cavalry move
ents, loading and firing of machine
ins, automatic rifles, trench mor
ra, light and field artillery, avia
3n. signal corps operations and
.ok movements by infantryner
iem.4elves.
Reudne to Be Changed.
Thn object of these demonstrationi
to give the men a comprehensive
iowledge of all of the various activi
es which they will see in case thea
e ever called into active service
id will at the same time be valu
)le to them in learning tne work
me in that branch while they ar4
udying. They will know somqthing
all of the things the army dow
hen they finish their work herm
ith the possible exception of thi
:erations of the quartermastern
orya and the ordnance department
Besides these demonstrations. thero
ill be a change in the routine whicb
te men will undergo, the moving
ctures, which all last week -werq
ven at 9 o clock, being changed tc
o'clock in the afternoon.
After several days It was foun
iat showing theie films in th
rternoon was too much for the meri
i they started the day's work a
30 o'clock. and went at it har
ntil 6 o'clock In the evening. Thi
%ange will givV them the entir
vening off after retreat.
ARON KORFF TELLS HOW
AUSTRIAN DIPLOMACY WOI
WILLIAMSTOWNf Mass.. Aug. 9
-The story of how the political for
mies of Russia and Austria seeme.
ir many years to turn upon thi
Iplomatic~ maneuvers of the t'w,
auntries in the Balkages and o
ow the cleverness of one mal
nally won out for Austria. was tolh
y Baron Sergius A. Korff, forme
sputy governor-general of Finland
Shis lecture before the Institute a
olitics at Williams College today.
Baron Korff told how Russia ans
ustria struggled for years to gal
foothold In the Balkans and the
stated how tho Count d'Aereritha
atroduced the Austrian influenc
5 strongly that when the worl,
ear broke out. Bulgaria went in 01
he side of the Teutonic allies.
iTUJRDY OAK TREE SAVES
FIVE GIRLS FROM DEATi
UNIONTOWN, Aug. 8.-Only
turdy oak, which had grown on th
ide of the mountain, about fiftee
met from the National pike at Polin
nookout, saved the lives of five girl
rhen an automobile crashed throug
he guard rail along the pike an
eaded directly toward the bottom
sixty-foot cliff ,the scene of severn
oaths.
On the second roll the car struc
be base of the tree and it withstoo
he impact. In the car at the tinm
rere Lydia Hanbenk, Frances Halle1
lelle Akar, Frances Kadalek and Alic
alberts. The girls were slightity cc
nd bruised.
.lOHTNING KILLS CADDIE
SHELTERED UNDER TREI
NEWARK, N. 3.. Auw. 8.-Ligh
ing struck a tree on the Beequah
ourse, between here and Elizabeti
tte yesterday, instantly killing A
hur Schants, fifteen-year-old cadd:
rho wasn seeking shelter beneath I
l'our members of the club, who wet
tanding near him, were temporarli
aralyzed by the shock.
Cans 100 .Jars of Berries.
IIE?LEFONTE, Pa. Aug. 1.-Mr
'. A. V'an Valin, of Ujnionville, Centi
nunty, has virtually made a corni
n the* hlackberry crop in that localit
he has canned l%0 quart jars of tt
erries and expects to make It 200 b
are tha arow I. all harvastid
(IN'JA .V
JAL1
HOUSE STARTSA
TODAY ONTAKSK
OF.TAX REI oil
TransportAtIon Lavies Relv.
First AttWntion-"RepWsl or
R*duce" Is Payirs' Slogan.
my 1060rus" NO" nervies.
The difficult task of decIding oe
repeal or reduction of taxes wee.
started today by the House Ways,
and Means Committee.
Transportation taxes were amn
the first to be taken up. The tL%es
on railroads and steemsbips, freight
and passenger, have given the com
mittee much concern. Pressure CW
their repeal has been heavy and GOrn
sistent.
&ecretary Mellon recommended that
the transportation taxes be cut IS
half for the fiscal year 1322-23 and
removed totally during the fisel
year 1923-24. The committee hopes
to be able to remove them altogether
with the close of the present tislW
year. They yield over $30,O00O0
in revenue.
in connection with the reteal (A
these taxes the American Expres,
Company asks the removal of the
tax on its express business. The
company denies It is an active eW
dangerous competitor of the parGels
post, and charges that the latter
has an advantage in carrier rates.
The Ways rod Means ComAdttee,
however, does not look with fa-ve r'
on repeal of the express tax.
Congressman Keller of Minne ta ,
who Is urging a land value tax and
opposes repeal of the excess proft"
and surtaxes, Issued a statement to
day criticising the Ways and Means
Committee for It@ tax revision plane.
Hc warned the Republican party that
it was riding to Its destruction in the
next election because of the policy of
i-educing taxes on those most abie
to pay and shifting the burden eM
those least able to pay.
WIFE JAILED AFTER
HER HUSBAND IS SHOT
NEW YORK. Aug. l.-Frank De-1
nantes, a subway guard, is under
arrest, accused of having shot his
wife three times yesterday, In their
home, in Brooklyn. because she re
fused to become reconciled to him.
Although all the bullets struck the
woman In the face, she was not so
riously hurt.
The quarrel started several days
ago when, it is said. Mrs. DeseAtes
found a letter from atither woman
in on* of her husband's pokets. She
tells that she refused to have any
thing further to do with him. He
called yesterday to plead to be taken
back, she said. According to one ac
count, the husband insisted he could4
not live without her and offered the
revolver to her, asking her to shoot
him. After the shooting the hus
band attempted to turn the revolver
on himself. Mrs. Martha Imbriall. hiG
wife's mother, said. She told that
she threw herself on him and graP- I
pled with him, but that Desantes
kept on shooting, the bullets going
wild. Neighbors had Desantes Pinns
to the floor when Detectives DwyM
and Foy arrived and arrested him.
RAINBOW VETERANS TO
HEAR OF OHIO MEETING
J. Dendey Mulford, newly eleted 1&.
tional first vice president of the Ain10'4
bow Division Veterans, will report 1i
full on the recent convention of the
Rainbow men in Ceveland at the ansta
ing of the District chapter tonIght 4'
the chapter dugout. 104 stres
northwesL
Due to the abseno frem Whngo
ton of both presideat and vice presl
dent, Edwin J. Stubbe and Eb*r F
NeeglO, this evening's m wi
presided over by Ralph . of
the executive oamittee.
All local and transient Rainbow veto
erans are Invited to attend.
LUCKY
SSTRIKE
Ci arette
It's
The Hispmobile is eayto
drive; It almoset never g
out of order and eeto
to maintain.
STERRIET & FLEEING, he
r camneane s. as - -
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