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THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature. VOL. XXXIV. DISARMAMENT COMMISSION OF LEAGUE MEETS France Asks Immediate Ad journment, but Other Na tions Make Objections. U. S. REPLIES TO JAPAN Fear of Secret Anglo-Ameri can Treaty Is Expressed by Tokio Newspaper. PARIS. Julv I.—A strong movement to allow the United States to maintain the initiative in world disarmament de veloped today when the disarmament commission of the League of Nations met here. Tribute was paid to President Harding ss a leader-in the movement for world disarmament, as the commission con vened. Rene Viviani. former premier of France, in his opening speech, praised Harding's initiative and declared 'the commission would be ‘able to prepare valuable data for th? proposed Wash ington conference. Contrary to expecta tions. Viviania. however, did not suggest an immediate adjournment on account of the Washington conference. Twenty delegates from fourteen nations met in the Luxembourg Palace for the first session. They do not officially repre sent their governments and will discuss the disarmament problem along broad general lines. “We are happy to greet the initiative of President Harding and we are glad to associate ourselves with it and assist in making it a success"’ said Viviani) "We feel certain that the work we are undertaking will be considered by the governments concerned in the disarma ment movement” LORD FISHER IS SHORT TALK. After a brief session, the meeting ad journed until tomorrow. In addition to ViTiani’s spech. the features of the first sitting were a speech by Lord Fisher of Great Britain and a discussion of the provision in the league covenant pro hibiting unrestricted sale of munitions. Inasmuch as the United States is the only power which has not agreed to this, it was decided to await the outcome of the Washington conference before going any further with it. In his spei*<h, Fisher declared that Harding s conference was not at all in harmonious with the idea of the League— that the two were in full conformity. COMMISSION MAT DO PRELIMINARY WORK. France favors postponement of any definite disarmament action on the part of the League of Nations until President Harding's meeting Is held. On the other hand some of the powers are opposed to adjournment. Their representatives take the Tiew that the efforts of the league toward disarmament would undoubtedly achieve results which would lie helpful to the Washington conference. Ail evi dently are of the opinion that the leader ship of the movement should be held by the United States. It was pointed out that, as America is not a member of the League of Na tions and is not represented on the dis armament commission, the commission could do little of a permanent nature. It was suggested, however, that the com (Continued on Page Two.) 3 CLAIM BODY IN AUTO WRECK Oregon Case May Be Another ‘lnsurance Murder,’ Po lice Say. ROSF.BURG, Ore.. July 16,-With the headless and charred body lying in the morgue here claimed by Mrs. It. M. Brumfield as that of her husband. I)r. R. M. Brumfield, and with J. T. and Ed Russeil equally insistent the remains are those of their brother Dennis, hermit laborer, the solution of a mystery, evolved when the body was found under Brum field's blazing automobile, lies with pro <l Doing either Brumfield or Russell alive, police authorities declared today. Neither has been seen since the night of the sup posed murder. Sheriff Stamer lias is sued a warrant for the arrest of Brum field on a charge of murder. Informa tion from various witnesses is claimed by authorities to substantiate the belief of Sheriff Stamer that the dentist, heavily involved financially, killed Russell and so mutilated the body that it would be taken for that of himseif. This was done, officers declare in order that 527,000 in insurance might be paid to Mrs. Brumfield, who later would Join her husband with her three small boys, according to the police. TRAIN STRIKES AUTO; 1 KILLED Two Others Not Expected to Live. Special to The Times. COVINGTON. Ind., July Id— One 'person was killed, two were probably fatally injured and a fourth less se riously hurt today when a Big Four passenger train struck the automobile in which they were riding about half a mile west of here. Mrs. James Craig of Harvey, 111., was killed instantly, her husband and an uni dentified man were thought to have been fatally hurt and Mrs. Craig's daughter was injured. The two men were rushed to a hospital in Danville, where physicians abandoned hope for their recovery. BLACK “PONZI" GOES TO PRISON. Samuel G. Bullup. known as the "Black I‘onzl.” will be taken to the Indiana State Prison on Sunday t obegin serving a sentence from one to seven years on a charge of receiving money under false prtenses, according to Sheriff George Snider A deputy will take Bullup to Uichngan City on an excursion train. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., July 17: Fair tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature. HOI ELI TEMPERATURE. 6 a. in 69 7 a. m 74 8 a. m 79 9 a. m 82 10 a. m 84 11 a. m.. 84 12 (noon) 87 1 p. in 87 t and. m....... 87 Published at Indianapolis, Ind.. Dally Except Sunday. ‘Bonus’ Bill Not ‘Dead,’ G. 0. P. Senators Insist White House Reviews History in Defense of Action Causing Delay. WASHINGTON, July 16,-r-Vlgorous denial was made by Republican lead ers of the Senate today that the soldiers’ “bonus” bill is "dead,” be cause of the action of the Republican majority in sending it back to the Senate finance committee. Senator Penrose, Republican, of Pennsylvania, the committee chair man, insisted that the measure would be taken up by his committee again when a “suitable opportunity” to do so presented itself. When that will be, no one professes to know or will hazard a guess. It is the opinion of other Re publican Senators that the bill would be rewritten if the Senate is ever $32,000 BANK BANDITS SURROUNDED, REPORT GREEN BAT, Wls„ July IS—Three desperadoes who looted the State Bank of Waubena, Wis., of 532,000 are reported today to he surrounded on all aides by posses of heavily armed farmers in tho woods northeast of here. The loot of the bandits consisted of cash and bonds. After the robbery the bandits separated and one of them is trapped in Forest FOUR MILLION DOLLAR ESTATE LEFT BY MALOTT Personal Property Valued at Three Million and Real Estate $1,250,000. The value of the personal estate of the late Volney T. Maiott, known as the dean of Indianapolis bankers, and who for years was a leading financial figure in this city, was appraised at S3.I7C,ViS>3 and the real estate at 51,250.000, word ing to an inventory filed today bj John i'. McCloskey and William T. Rasmussen, inheritance tax appraiser for Marion County, as appraisers. This appraisement fixes the total value of the Maiott estate at approximately $4,500,000. According to the Inventory, the bulk of the estate is in stocks, bonds and notes. The inventory shows that Mr. ftalott had United States Liberty and Victory bonds totaling 581.500, par value. Mr. Malott’s stock holdings were ap praised as follows: Two hundred shares First National Bank, B.iwil, Ind.. $30,000. Thirty-eight shares Tlrst National Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio, $7,000. Two thousand six hundred and fifty shares Indiana Nat.min' Bank. 5062.500. One hundred and ten shares Cotumer- I ciai Acceptance Trust Company, SII,OOO. Twenty-five shares Great Lakes Trust I Company, Chicago, 52.500. Two hundred shares Union Trust Com i puny, Indianapolis. 5*55,000. Seventeeen hundred and fifty shares Century Life Insurance Company. $17,500. (Continued on Page Two.) SLIDE PARTLY BLOCKS CANAL Only Largest Ships Will Be Impeded by Culebra Cut Obstruction. BALBOA PANAMA CANAL ZONE, July 16.—A landslide in the Culebra Cut part ly blocked the Panama Canal today. The eastern and central parts of the water way were obstructed. A canal 100 feet wide and thirty feet deep was left open along the western bank. Navigation will not be impeded except in cose of the very largest ships. Dredges are already at work and it is expected the canal will lie cleared in about ten days. The battleships, which are en route from New York to Peru to take part in a national celebration, were not delayed. Ft. Harrison Man Honored by Rainbow CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 1.-Geo.-ge E. Leach, of Minneapolis, was today elected president of the Rainbow Divi sion Veterans Association. Matthew A ; Tinier, of Council Bluffs, lowa, was elected honorary president; J. It Mulford, ; of Washington, I>. C., first vice president; ; Colonel J. M. Johnson, of Marion, S. C„ second vice president; E. O. Stroube. of Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., third vice president; J. J. Ilailday of Detroit, chap lain an dW. B. Wolfe, Chicago, historian. ROADS of DESTINY r- / v TTr'ATTAY/' Copyright. 1920, by Doubleday. Page /< 1/ I 1 f—l 1-4 - Y A Cos., Published by special arrange • A A A-/J. a IV A ment with th* Wheeler Syndicate, luc. I go to seek on many roads What Is to be. True heart and strong, with lore to light— Will they not bear me In the fight To order, shun or wield or mold >ly Destiny? Unpublished Poems of David Mlgnot. THE sonjjr was over. The words were David's; the air, one of the countryside. The company about the Inn table apelauded heartily, f.>r the young poet paid for the wine. Only the notary, M. Papineuu. shook hl's herd a little at the lines, for he was a innu of books, and he had not drunk with tae rest. David went out Into the village street, where the night air drove the wine vapor from his head. And then he remembered that he and Yvonne had quarrelled that day, and that he bad resolveti to leave his home that night to seek fame and honor in the great world outside. "When my poemg are on every man’s tongue,” he told himself. in a fine exhilaration, ’’she will, perhaps, think of the hard words she spoke this day.” Except the royatercrs In the tavern, the village folk were abed. David crept softly into his room In the shed of his father’s cottage nnd made a bundle of his small store of clothing. With this upon a staff, he set his face outward upon the road that ran from Vernoy. He passed his father's herd of sheep huddled tn their nighty pen—the sheep he herded daily, leaving them to scat ter while be wrote verses on scraps of JfotiiiHitcf Hatly SRtttfS Entered as Second Class Matter. July 25, 1914. at Postofflc*. Indianapolis, Ind.. under act March 3. 1879. called upon to pass it. It is con sidered that it will rest in the Pen rose ■ committee until after the pres ent session, as the Senate will be pressed to enact tariff and taxation legislation before the regular session begins in December. Past history was revived by the White House In defense of the action taken by President Harding in caus ing the deferment of the bill. The White House issued a state ment calling attention to the fact that President Grant in 1875 exercised a pocket veto on a soldier "bonus.” Btating his opposition in practically the same words as used ty Presi dent Harding in his message to the Senate Tuesday. County, twelve miles south of aubena. Another is surrounded two miles further in the woods near Mountain. Ihe 'whereabouts of the third is not definite ly known and he may have slipped through the cordon. The bandits locked Rowell Richardson, cashier, and Miss Myrtle Glutton, his assistant, in the vault and looted the bank. Small Change Causes Arrest of Boy, Age 14 Poverty in Home Brought Out When Police Investigate Robbery. An attempt to get about two hundred pennies changed into “big money ' caused the arrest of Melton Senteney, 11, 258 Collier street, today and orought to the attention of the police the struggle of tho boy's widowed mother to make a home tor her children. A sack of money, pennies, nickels and dimes amounting to 510 or sl2 dis appeared from A. J. Lieske* grocery at Stop 1 Danville inUrurban line A few hours later Milton Senteney gave an other grocer a dollar s worth of change for a paper dollar. At another store he bought a cap. lie met l’yrus Mickley, 14, who lives on Fuller Drive, and bought ehoc< late candy and soda water. Then the boys went to the grocery of 1,. O. Harper, 4301 West Washington street, who had been warned by Mr. Lieske. When the boys tried to change about two hundred pennies into "big maiiey" they were detained until the arrival of Sergeant Dean and Detective Reilly. Senteney who has three times been in Juvenile court denied robbing Lteske's grocery. The Mickley boy told of meet ing Senteney and told the police where the bag which had held the money had been thrown away. The bug was found and identified by Lieske. Senteney was taken to tlie detention home. The police went to the boy’s home on Collier street. They found a little fotir rooraed house built of boards that fur merly had formed parts of box cars. It was a mile and a half west and south of the city limits. A little girl and boy Melton's younger brother and sister, were there and when told of their brother's arrest burst into tears. The children explained that their mother had ten children, one older brother being in the army aud another older brother Is married. The mother and seven children live in the four-room house. The house'was built by the mother, Mrs. Katie Senteney, and Steven, the crippled brother of Melton. Eight years ago Samuel Senteney, the father, who was an electrical engineer employed by tlie Maxwell Gravel Com pany, lost his life in saving the lire of tho boy's mother. A cabe at the Southerland avenue plant and Fall Creek upset a boat in which Mrs. Senteney wus crossing the creek. Hu plunged in and saved her. But the same cable struck him and rendered him unconscious causing him to drown. Now the widow is struggling to pay $275 for two lots for a home for the children, the boy said. She Knew Better Special to The Times. EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 16.—A woman reported to Police Chief Wilt shire here today that a mnn in her neighborhood was making home brew. “As long as he makes it for Ills own consumption the offense is very small,” the chief said. “Chief," replied the woman indig nantly, “I know that man better than you and he uever did have cousutno tion." paper. He saw a light yet shining in Yvonne's window, and a Weakness shook his purpose of a sudden. Perhaps that light meant that she rued, sleepless, her anger, and that morning might—but. no! His decision was made. Vernoy was no place for him. Not one soul there could share his thoughts. Out along that road lay his fate and his future. Three leagues across the dim, moonlit champaign ran the road, straight ns a plowman's furrow. It was believed In the village that the rpad ran to Paris, at least; and this name the poet whispered often to himself as he walked. Never so far from Vernoy had David traveled be fore. THE LEFT BRANCH. Three leagues, then, the road run, and turned into a puzzle. It Joined with an other and a larger road at right angles. David stood, uncertain, for a while, sad then took the road to ghe left. Upon this more important highway were, imprinted in the dust, wheel tracks left by the recent passage of some ve hicle. Some half an hour later these traces were verified by the sight df a ponderous carriage mired in a little brock et the bottom of a steep bill. Tbe driver and postillions were shouting nnd tug ging at the horses’ bridles, (in the road at one side stood a huge, black-clothed man and a slender lady wrapped In a long, light cioak. OAvld saw the lack of skill in the efforts of the servants. He quietly as sumed control of the work. He directed the outrAlers to cease their clamor (Continued on Page Pour.) INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921. ULSTER MEN ON HAND TO TAKE PARTIN TALKS Hitch in Peace Plans Probable When Unionists Take Up De Valera’s Proposal. PREMIER READY' TO ACT Irish Faction Leaders Said to Know Details of Each Other's Outline. LONDON, July 16.—Leading members of the cabinet of the Ulster government arrived here today in response to a sum mons from Sir James Craig, the l ister premier and Immediately took under con sideration the Sinn Fein proposals that had been communicated to Premier Lloyd George by Enraonn De Valera, “president of the Irish republic.” It was admitted that there may be some hitch if the Unionists are obdurate against accepting De Valera's conditions, but it was reported that Lloyd George was ready to "use more than persuasion" on the Ulsterites to prevent them from breaking up the peace negotiations. CRAIG UNLIKELY TO MEET riUSMIEB MONDAY. Officials believe it is unlikely that Sir James Craig will meet the premier again Monday when the latter renews hi* peace convocations with I*e A alera. It is understod De Valera and Sir James Craig are fully acquainted with the details of each other's proposals. The impression prevails that De Valera is willing to accept dominion home rule, but insists upon a central government in Ireland. Premier Lloyd George has gone to his country homo at Chequers for the week end. He will return Monday to learn the result of the conference of the 1 later cabinet before lie meets De Valera for their third conference The Chronicle believes that the eonver- Nations between Lloyd George and De Valera will be continued Monday and Tuesday and possibly Wednesday. De Valera, according to the Chronicle, will probably return to Dublin about the middle of next week, to obtain the con sent of Dali Eireann (Sinn Fein Parlia ment) befufe meeting Sir James Craig If Dall Elreaun consent*, then the scene will be set for a general parley with De Valera and his colleagues representing the republicans; Sir James Craig and bis colleagues and Premier Lloyd George with two other officials representing England and the British Government. The Impression has gained strength that De Valera Is the real voice of the con ference. SUCCESSOR TO LEMAUX SOON TO BE ANNOUNCED Special Meeting to Be ( ailed Saturday if Chairman Is Agreed Upon. Unless the plans es peacemakers go awry the Republican city committee will he called In n special meeting next Sat v.rdny to receive the resignation of Irving \V Lemaux, city chairman, and select Ills successor, it was said today. Those who predicted that th • meeting will he railed at this time said that leaders In the long drawn out controversy between Mr. I.euiaux and Knn lei Lewis Shank, Republican nominee for mayor, over the latter's demand for Leroaux's retirement would have a settlement practically ef fected in time to rail the meeting before Saturday but that the date was to be fixed for the end of tho week in order to accommodate committeemen who could not leave tlieir employment until then. TWO CONTENDERS FOR CHAIRMAN. The chance for postponement of the calling of tho committee until a later date than next Saturday rests in failure of leaders to agree upon Mr Letnaux's successor. Dr, E. E. Hodgln. Shank cam paign manager, and Ernest Kingston, vice chairman of the city committee, are said to lie the only serious contenders for the post. Mr. Lemaux will cai! the committee when it is definitely ascertained which one of these two nun the committeemen will select, it is understood. This, it is confidently predicted ty friends of both Shank and Lemaux, will be settled early next week. It would have been deter mined in time.to call the committee today but for unfortunate interference of out side parties, one of whom Is understood to have been Republican State Chairman K. M. Wnsmuth. Wnsmuth, it is said conferred with both sties and made rep resentations to one that ho did not to the other with n consequent further tangle when Shank and Lemaux followers com pared notes. LEMAUX AND SHANK DEVELOP FRIENDSHIP. The desire of Lemaux not to rail the committee until it is absolutely certain than either Hodgln or Kingston will be elected chairman is based upon his hope that once he resigns the atmosphere will be cleared so ’hat the new chairman can open city headquarters and ptart down the lino with campaign plans assured of the unified support of the regular Republican organization for the whole Republican ticket. Prior to the primary campaign and Shank’s demand for Leiuaux’s resig nation the two bad never met. Since that time they are known to have had talks together and a personal friendship entirely aside from their political enmity has developed. Lemaux says he likes Shank and Shank says he reciprocates. It is said that Lemaux has gone so far in his desire for general Republican success as to attempt to maneuver his resignation so as to satisfy some of his friends to the extent that they, too, will be for the entire Republican ticket. SUCCESSOR MUST BE CHOSEN BEFORE MEETING. From gome quarters the suggestion that Lemaux call the committeemen to gether and let Hodgln and Kingston fight for the chairmanship in the meet ing has eome. This does not meet with the desire of both Lemaux and Shank for a cessation of all hostilities, and it is regarded ns certain that Lemaux’s suc cessor will have to be practically chosen before the meeting is held. Meanwhile politicians are watching the gathering of regular Robison and Shank precinct committeemen at Shank's resi dence, 3547 East Washington street, Mon day evening. It will be the first gather ing of the regular committeemen since the city conventicn in January when Lemaux was elected. Hodgln and Kingston sup porters are expected to work fast and furiously to line up enough votes for success of one or the other at this t'me. FORDNEY BILL TO RE FORCED IN, THE HOUSE No Opportunity Will Be Offered to Make Changes in Measure. DYES NOW DEBATED Committee, Unable to Agree on Limiting Hun Colors, Lets Congress Decide. WASHINGTON, July 16.—The old steam roller was brought out today, pol ished up and made ready for the task of smoothing the way for passage of the Fordney tariff bill. Hijuso Republican leaders gave warn ing that dissastlslied Republicans aud Democrats who are opposed to the bill are to be given no opportunity to make drastic changes and delay its passage n< planned by the Ways and Means Com mittee. The bill will not be thrown open by reading of paragraphs for general debate on items, and the committee amendments and specifided paragraphs are coming to a separate House vote. Only such changes is the Ways and Means Committee desires will he made in the Hojise. DYES LEI T UP TO THE HOUSE, Following adoption by tlie House of a 15 per cent ad valorem duty on hides. Chairman Fordney called up the dye stuffs section of the Bill with the an nouncement that because of division in the committee of the plan provided to limit the Importation of German dyes. It had been decided to let the House decide the character of legislation. This plan will he followed early next week with cotton, oils and asphalt, and the action of the House , should It change, the provisions of the committee with respect to either or any of theese items, will tie satisfactory to Fordney and his colleagues. Sensational charges against an alleged dye stuffs monoply were made by Rep resentative Frear of Wisconsin, who opened the attack on the chemical dye stuff schedule of the. Fordney tariff bill. Frear read a warning from Wilbur Wiik'-man of the American Protective Tariff Association that the proposed dye stuffs embargo would “lose every doubt ful congressional district.” for the Repub lican party in the next election. I sear moved to strike from the'bill paragraph 27, which places an embargo on the importation of competitlie Ger man dyes. Representative I/ongwortb of Ohio, read a letter to the house from General Pershing stating that protection is necessary for the dj* industry and coal tar products Iw'imse a majority of the high explosiv-s used in warfure are made from tile product*- 2 KENTUCKIANS GUARDEDAFTER KILLING THREE Chief of Police of Lynch and Two Others Shot While Making Arrest. HARLAN, Ky., July 16,—Two men, said to be brothers, were guarded In a hospital here today and two other men were held in Jail following th* shooting of three men at the mine of the Uuited States Coal and Coke Company late yes terday. The dead are: William Holcomb, chief of police, Lynch, Ky. Carl Fulton, mine foreman. James C. Coldtron, deputy sheriff. Tho wounded are two brothers named Striven The two said to have dona the shooting were rushed here by special train to avoid threatened lynching. They were employed at the mine. According to the story tobl here, Ful ton was told one of the men had entered the mine with a pistol. He reported to ,Holcomb and Cobllron. They accom panied Fulton to the mine and the four men were apprehended in the bathhouse. They immediately opened fire as the officers approached. ASSURANCE IN BUTLER PROJECT Street Railway Company to Cooperate in Obtaining Fairview Site. Assurance that the Didianapotfs Street Railway Company will cooperate with persons interested In obtaining Fairview I’ark as a site for Butler College when ever a university project attains pro portions where it can erect suitable buildings if it has a suitable site, is given by the management of the com pany, which will endeavor to persuade its stockholders to, agreo to turn over the property. This information is con tained in a letter sent by Dr. Henry Jameson, chairman of the board of direc tors of the car company, to Louis C. Huesmann, John H. Holliday and Hilton V. Brown, members of the committee back of the project. The letter states that the stockholders agreed to the recommendations of the executive committee that the park be per manently devoted to public purposes. “Whenever the time shall come when a university project has advanced to such a point as to give assurance that with Its obtaining a suitable site, such ns Fairview l’ark,” the letter continues, “it will be able to erect suitable build ings and conduct an educational insti tution on broad lines therein, the man agement of the street railway company will do their utmost to secure the neces sary legal consents from Its stockholders and the holders of its securities which may be necessary in order to enable it to dedicate Fairview Bark to public pur poses.” The company points out that it has been held that the park cannot lawfully be considered property for street railway purposes aud tlpit its value, therefore, does uot add to the company's valuation for rate making purposes. STUDY OHIO'S METHODS. Edward Farmer, State budget clerk: Fred Robinson, Secretary of the State purchasing committee, and Estes Duncan, who is to be secretary of the teachers' pension board, have returned from Ohio where they studied methods of operating their respective departments as practiced in that State _ (3y Carrier, Week, Indianapolis, 10c: Elsewhere, I2e. Subscription Kates: j ßy Mall BOc Pcr Month; j 5 , 00 Per Year Played Detective ■ t - ; L '* - JMr’-y >. * E'ei-nva.rv V Mi. Mrs. Esther Berman, who gathered much of the information that resulted In the arrest and conviction of Mrs. O'.th erlne Eva Kaber, for first degree murder. A Jury In Cleveland, Ohio, today found Mrs. Kaber guilty cf murdering her hus band, Daniel Kaber, wealthy publisher. JITNEY LINES TO FIGHT MOVE FOR NEW ORDINANCE Besiege Members of Council to Make Protest Against City Regulation. It has become quite evident that Mayor Charles W. Jewett and the Indianapolis Street Railway Company will have con siderable opposition to overcome before the proposed ordinance legislating jitney busses off the streets occupied by car tracks can be enacted. Members of the city council have been beseeehed by Jitney bus operators, their frieuds. patrons and sympathizers, and among others who are not particularly in terested In the bus business there has developed a sentiment for the proper regulation and befriending of the jitney business. A proposal that Jitney bus operators be required to file with the elty a definite route and to operate on that route dur ing prescribed hours has been made to councllmen. Advocates of this plan agree that the bus operators should be bonded and bound to maintain service during more than the rush hours of the trans portation day. It is argued by these '--lends of the jitney bus that the street car company is either unable or unwilling to give the city the service it iequ*r.s, that the com pany never has given atDqoate transpor tation facilities end that the busses are an auxiliary that should be developed rather than suppressed. DO NOT WANT JITNEY ELIMINATED. Sol era! members of the council have expressed themselves as being opposed to elimination of the busses but entirely willing to regulate them in a proper manner. Other members of the council take the viewpoint that it would lie folly for the city to eradicate jitneys .vitbout an iron clad agreement that the street car com pany would furnish an adequate service at a rato no higher than Is collected by the Jitneys. It is certain that Councilman Brown's proposed ordinance to keep the jitneys off the car lines will met with strenuous opposition. How much of this opposition can be traced to the fact that the car company is depending on Mayor Jewett and his friends to “put it over” remains to be seed. In the years gone by the sup port of the administrative branch of the city government has meant the opposi tion of the majority of the legislative branch and it was very evident from the (Continued on Buge Two.) BERGDOLL FIXED ARMY OFFICERS? House Committee Hears Charges Made by Draft Evader, Who Escaped. WASHINGTON, July 10 —Grover Cleve land Bcrgdoll. millionaire draft dodger, now in Germany, has made charges against Army officers, declaring that he gave them money to “fix” big escape, ac cording to information under consider ation today by the House committee which Is investigating the Bcrgdoll affair. The investigation into the escape of the millionaire draft dodger, will be reopened Tuesday. This decision was reached after the in vestigating committee has consideied charges made by Bcrgdoll himself, in a letter to his mother in which he im plicated certain Army officers. The committee refused to disclose the names of witnesses who will be called to testify next week. Step Aside if Wife Loves Another, Says Pastor as Mate Stars in Elopement GROVEVILLE PARK, N. Y„ July 16 —“When a man Is no longer able to con trol the love of his wife and when his wife yearns for the love of another man —he should step aside.” This is the philosophy of the Rev. Clark Durea, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, love pacifist of Monticello, N. Y„ who calmly read his Bible while his wife and Earl Van Noy, also married, prepared to elope. “I sliall make no attempt to win back my wife,” said Durea today when he was found by a reporter at a catnp meet ing in this remote spot. “I will not even attempt to regain our two children, whom my wife took with her. I will not apply for a divorce. “I will pray that my wife will commit no sin in the Lord's eye. Rather than see her in a state of sin I would see her in jail “But the authorities will have to take LAST HOME EDITION TWO CENTS PER COPY IST DEGREE MURDER VERDICT IS RETURNED AGAINST MRS. KABER Jury Tempers Finding With Piea for Mercy —Woman Sent to Prison for Life With No Possibility of Pardon. UNABLE TO TALK, CARRIED TO COURT COURTHOUSE, CLEVELAND, July 16.—Mrs. Catherine Eva Kaber is saved from the electric chair. The twelve men who sat as her judges today found her guilty of murder in the first degree as arch conspirator in the murder of hev hus band, Daniel Kaber, but recommended mercy. From men she had hoped for mercy. Branding her ownSsex as “merci less,” she had fought to bar women from the jury. A verdict of guilty in the 'first degree, with recommendation by the Jury of mercy, carries with it a penalty of life imprisonment. Detective Is Arrested With Auto Thieves Seven Cars Found in Raid on Pretentions Residence at Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS, July 16— Fred riuff, plain (Jothes man of the Detroit police department, operating “under cover” and aa a member of a Minneapolis-Detroit gang of automobile thieves, with four other men, was jalied here early today following a sensational raid on tine of the most, pretentious residences of the “Gold Coast” here.- James H. Daly, Department of Justice agent, and Minneapolis and Detroit-'de tectives conducted the raid. Seven auto mobiles, four of which had been stolen Here and three stolen in Detroit, were confiscated. The syndicate, maintaining offices In one of the largest downtown office build ings and the sumptuous home, consisted of Frank W Cardigan, his brother Jatnep, who were discharged from the Minnesota State, prism June 2, Irving Siska and .William Dewitt of Detroit. Automobiles stolen here were driven to Detroit where they were offered for sale and machines stolen in Detroit were sent back here for disposal. The automobile ring is said to have been in existence for more than a year. The men ate being held without charge for the prtsent for the department of Justice and, according to information here this morning, the men will be charged with the illegal transportation of au tomobiles in violation of the interstate commerce act. OTHERS HELD IS DETROIT DETROIT, Mich., July 16—Twelve members of what is said to be the big gest automobile theft ring ever uncov ered in the Middle West, were under arrest here and in Minneapolis today with the police predicting that before night at least a score would be in cus tody. Fred Piuff. a former Detroit police man. is held in Minneapolis as the "brains’ and ringleader of the gang, whose operations extended Into Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Minne sota, Scores of cars stolen in the eastern part of the land's operations were sold in tho West, according to the authorities. Those under arrest here are Sam Car digan, Carl Lockhart, Glen Smith. Thomas Miller, Percy Ransom, Joseph Cloudy and Carrie Dansby. The ring was uncovered here follow ing the theft of an automobile In Law ton, Mich. which was traced to Lock hart, Cardigan, Smith and Miller. Lock hart was taken to Minneapolis, after con fessing, police say, and his stories in criminated l’luff and the fuur others. Bluff, according to police headquarters records, resigned from the Detroit de partment with a clean record on Dec. 1, 1 DID. giving as his reason “home tru bles.” 2 HUN OFFICERS JAILED 4 YEARS Found Guilty of Firing on Hospital Ship’s Life boats. LEIPZIG, July 16.—Two German sub marine commanders, Lieutenant Dittmar njid Lieutenant Boldt were today sentenced to four years penal servitude lu tho war criminals court for firing upon lifeboats during the war. The lifeboats were from the torpedoed British hospital ship I.landover Castle. Two Slayers of Bank Messenger Will Hang PHILADELPHIA, July 10.—Raymond Sehuck and Frank James, convicted slay ers of David S. Paul, aged Camden (N ..T.) bank-runner, were today sentenced to die the week of Aug. 28. No appeal will be taken to the New Jersey Supreme Court, but application for pardon will be made to the State board of pardons. care of that themselves. I will supply them with any information they desire. ‘‘My wife was in Passaic, N. J. She wrote to me from there yesterday asking ‘how Is the scandal coming on?’ ” A tall, lean, weary-eyed man, Dui-ea blinked slowly behind his doubled-lens glasses as he spoke. He slouched on the edge of a camp cot while gusts of rain beat on the stained tent Just over his head, and the sound of singers chanting an old-fashioned “Be Saved, You Sin ners,” hymn came faintly from a dis tance. “Would you receive! your wife back?" he was asked. Slowly and sadly he shook Ms head. “She never will come back,” he said. '“This has been brewing for a long time. I saw that Van Hoy was winning her away and then he led her out of my home, right before my eyes, and 1 had not the right to stop lier.“ £ NO. 56. Judge Bernon announced the convicted woman will be sent to the Ohio Reforma tory for Women at Marysville to spend the rest of her life. The verdict pre cludes all possibility of pardon. WOMAN CARRIED INTO COURTROOM. Mrs. Knber was carried into the court room from her cell in Jail to receive th* verdict. She looked a mere breathing image of woman as two bailiffs seated her in the defendant’s chair. Her head rested on the shoulder of the bailiff as the court, in solemn tones, read the ver dict. She was unable to talk, but nodded her head when the court asked whether she had heard the decree of twelve Judges. Her hair bedraggled, her face deadly pale, she was a pitiable figure, as th* i words condemning her to prison for life resounded through the colrtroom. 1 She was carried from the courtroom again unconscious. Gone was the hauteur of Mrs. Cathe rine Eva Kaber. one-time society matron and mistress of a beautiful suburban ! home. When Francis Paulson, attorney for Mrs. Kaber, -went to her Jail cell to break the news she had been saved from the electric chair, the first to greet him was the woman’s 19-year-old daughter, Marian McArdle, former Smith College student. The girl broke down. “Mother, mother!’ she cried to the Inanimate figure on the cot beside her. “It's noi death.. Oh, I am so glad.” The girl will be tried for complicity in the murder of her stepfather, Daniel Kaber, at the September term of court. SATISFIES ATTORNEYS FOR ROTH SIDES. Attorneys for both sides expressed satisfaction with tho verdict. "We are pleased,” said County Prose cutor Edward C. Stanton. “The woman was guilty. She will be locked up where she can do no harm. Justice was done.” The woman’s chief council, William J. Corrigan, said: “We could expect nothing less and we are gratified it was not the electric chair The woman is not responsible and IJ would have been a crime to sentence her ; to death.” Mrs. Kaber is the first woman to b* found guilty of first degree murder In , the history of Cuyahoga County. The Jurymen deliberated five and a half hours in all. ! Most of them had spent a sleepless | night, they said. They were at the-courthouse at 6 a. m., to resume their deliberations. Before they went to their hotel last night they were at issue as to whether to Impose the supreme penalty or recom mend mercy. WORKING RULES ON RAILROADS BEFORE BOARD Several Lines Unable to Reach Agreement With Employes —Pennsy Ignores Union. CHICAGO, July 16.—Working rules and' conditions for employes of the railroads will come before the United States Rail-, way Labor Board in the near future so adjudication. The Chicago & Alton is the first of the idg roads to refer its case back to’ the lubor board. After six weeks of ne-' gotiations between the railway and its' employes no agreement has been reached' and the board has been asked to adjust the dispute. i The chief points of disagreement were over the eight-hour day, which the board, has indorsed, and on the question of, overtime. The employes of the Alton refuse to accept a nine to ten-hour day, which they declare is, in effect, the propo- 1 sition of the road. There are a number of minor points in controversy. Other roads are expected to follow the Alton. Several roads are reported to have, reached agreements with their men on the main points involved but will ask, the labor board to aid in the adjust ment of minor details. Rulings on the controversy between the Pennsylvania road and the American Fed- 1 eratioa of Labor is to be reached next! week. The Pennsylvania has organized' Us men in accordance with a plan de-, vised by the road and has ignored tho, unions in negotiating its agreement. The, unions contend this Is a violation of the rules of the board. Mercury 10 Degrees Below Record Mark While predictions during the last two days have called for “not much change in temperature,” the thermometer today registered much lower than for the last’ several days. At 1 o'clock this afternoon' it stood at S7, ten degrees lower than th* season's record set Thursday. The hu-.i midif.v also was considerably lower. Th* lowest temperature this month was re corded at 4:30 a. m. today when the of-, ficial thermometer stood at yi7. Th* prediction is for continued fair weather. Last Day for Filing Capital Stock Return The last day for filing returns for th* capital stock tax will be July 31, accord ing to a statement issued today by M. Burt Thurman, collector of Internal rev enue. This is a special excise tax and Imposes a tax of $1 on every SI,OOO of value as represented by the capital stock o fa corporation. An exemption of, $5,000 is permitted. It is payable in ad vance, the tax this year being for tb* privilege of doing business until June 30, 1922. i The bureau of Internal revenue estl-. mates that about 320,000 such will be filed and that the amount of r*v-, enu* collected will be approximately $90,000,000. *?'