mu COME QUICK! MURDER!" CRIED KISER, COVERED WITS BEOOD, ' “Ml WITH CIP! WIFE RID IT DUE" BY (l.ENE FLACK. Universal {Service Correspondent. Cleveland, July 12.—How every detail In the stage setting of the murder scene In the Kaber home had been carefully planned days In ad vance, was decribed Monday by the last witnesses called by the state. With a series of trip hammer blows aimed at clinching the conspiracy _charge against Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber, the state cloeed Its case Mon day nopn. Tuesday the defense will tinllmber its battery, proposing to in troduce alienists who will testify that Mrs. Kaber has been mentally Irre sponsible since birth. The insanity plea is to be the bulwark of the de fence's position. "Burghtrs” Deotsree Defense. In their effort to make it appear that burglars had perpetrated the at tack, a drawer in the buffet had been deliberately chlsled open in the Ha ber home, silverware had been care lessly strewn about and the bed clothing in the chambers upstairs, had been disarrange^ - according io the witnesses. To assure herself that the plans lor the cold-blooded as sassination would not miscarry, Mrs. Kaber had ordered Frank Utterback. Mr. Kaber's male nurse, to sleep In an attic bedroom on the fateful night, according to the state. Marian McArdle, the winsome daughter of Mrs. Kaber, and Mrs. Mary Brickel, her mother, co-defend ants in the charge of murder in the first degree, were seriously incrimin ated in the alleged conspiracy by Monday’s testimony. Utterback’s Startling Story. Utterback corroborated statements already made by three defendant wlt nesMa by the state that Daniel Ka ber,* he wealthy Lakewood publisher, accused his wife of the attack in his dying breath. Utterback was tpe first person to reach the side of the mor tally wounded man. "I was sleeping in the bedroom up stairs,” narrated Utterback, a sharp featured man of middle age. “Mrs. Kaber had told me she was going to visit her sister for a few days. She asked me to sleep in the attic. I had gone to bed about 10 o’clock. In the middle of the night I heard Mr, Kaber shriek: "A Man With a Cap7” * "Utterback! Utterback! Come quick! Murder! I ran downstairs and found him in the middle of the floor — of his bedroom. He was covered with blood. I asked him who did it He said: “A man with a cap! My God, Mrs. Kaber had it done!” Neither Marian nor her grandmoth , — er, who were in the house the night of the murder, went in to see Mr. Kaber, following the brutal assault, Utterback testified, and Mrs. Kaber, > on returning the next day, never in *- DELHI DODDS Appearing Before Senate To day, He’ll Try “to Disclose Dangers of Such Legis lation,” Is Report. fi Universal Bervlce. ■Washington, July 12.—President Harding will appear personally be fore the Senate Tuesday to urge his views regarding the legislative pro gram. This was indicated in the White House Monday after a conference be tween the president and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, republican floor leader. The president will express the view that the Senate should defer action on the McCumber soldier bonus bill, It is understood. The president is expected to cite substantially the same reasons given recently by Sec retary of the Treasury Mellon for postponement of bonus legislation. Secretatry Mellon stated payment of a bonus at this time would place too heavy a load on the government. Since soldier bonus legislation orig inated in the Senate, the president will confine his remarks exclusively to that body and will attempt "to dis close the dangers of such legislation at this time.” i At his recent conference with lead ers of the Senate at the capltol, the president expressed himself infor mally on the subject, stating he wished the Senate would defer action on the McCumber bill. GIRL SETS RECORD IN LEAP FROM AIRPLANE St. Paul. Minn., July 12.—Miss Phoebe J. Fairgrace, 18 years old, of this city, established what was said would bo a new world record for a parachute drop for women when she dropped 15,200 feet from an airplane at Curtis flying field, near here late yesterday. The previous record Is said to be 11,000 feet, held by Miss Mabel Cody, set at Chicago last Feb ruary. LIEUTENANT KLOOR’S ►- ROMANCE SHATTERED Universal Service. New York, July 12.—Another pretty romance shattered because a despairing couple decided they couldn’t live on navy pay. ^ The engagement of Miss Alexandra Flowerton to Lieut. Louis A. Kloor, Jr , commander of the famed balloon trip Into the Hudeons bay country has been broken by mutual consent. | qulred of the nurse regarding her husband’s condition or the manner In which he had been assailed as he lay bedjfclden In his chamber. Woman’s Apparel Strewn About. The mattresses had been overturned [In Marian’s room, the bureau drawers removed and women's apparel strewn about the room, when Detective Al bert Soukup, of the Cleveland police reached the house that night, the lat ter testified. All of the doors of the heuse were open, he said, and there were no ’’Jimmy" marks Indicating (hat fce alleged burglars had beep obliged to force entry. There was a suggestion of grim humor 4n Marian's remark when the police arrived on the scene that night, as qaoted by Soukup. It created • stir in the crowded courtroom, “Almost Killing Paps.” "I found the drawer In the buffet jlmnfled open and silverware lying all around,” said Soukup. "Marian said: ‘My God, they stole the silverware —besides almost killing papa!’ She did not seem much excited. When wb went upstairs to her bedroom she souted, ‘My God, the burglars got In here, tool”’ The state contends that she had keen in her bedroom all the time and would have been aware of It before that If burglars actually had en tered hep room. Withdraws Poison Charge. In closing the state’s case. Assist ant Prosecutor James Cassidy for mally withdrew the poison charge In the Indictment of Mrs. Kaber, as predicted. Daniel Kaber died as the result of 24 stab wounds In the ab domen, not from the administering of arsenic poisoning. But the state drew that Indictment and Introduced evidence that Mrs. Kaber for two months previous to his death, had secretly poisoned her husband In an effort to prove premeditation to the Jurors. Mrs. Kaber! remains In the same stolid position during the proceedings that has characterized her attitude since the first day of the trial. With her face partially covered by a hand kerchief in her right hand she sits with bowed head, unmoved through out the ordeal. * "Poison Queen” Comes In. In cross-examining Mrs, Emma Colavlto, the Italian "poison queen,” Attorney William Corrigan, of coun sel for the defense, sought to lay the foundation for the insanity plea by stressing Mrs. Saber's fascina tion of the "supernatural powers” of the woman. The defense will en deavor to prove that Mrs. Kaber’s al leged request that Mrs. Colavito in voke her heralded powers of witch craft to do away with her husband, is In itself evidence of a deranged mind. CROPS OF FRANCE FACE RUIN IN HEAT Hundreds of Vienna Children Said to Be Dying from Hot Weather’s Effects. Paris, July 12.—Unless rain falla this week the entire crops of Franca are likely to be destroyed. This an nouncement Is made by the ministry of agriculture. All society is fleeing Paris as the thermometer climbs. Monday It reached 95 In the shade, the highest point recored since 1911. Dispatches from Vienna report 101 In the shade and hundreds of children aro reported to be dying from the effects of the terrific heat. The senate Monday voted to sup press the traditional annual presi dential review because of the "ex ceptional atmospheric conditions.” Two deputies collapsed In the chamber during the speech by Pre mier Brland Monday afternoon on the Upper Silesian question. Due to the conservation of the available water supply Paris Is faced with a beer famine. COUPLE LOST IN AIR OVER CITY OF CHICAGO Universal Service. Chicago. July 12.—William Evans, Minneapolis real estate man, and his wife were lost in the air above Chica go for several hours Monday. They flew to Chicago to attend a convention of realty dealers and had announced in advance that they would land in Grant Park, A committee of real estate men and two bondsmen went to meet them and make their bond when they were arrested for landing there. But Mr. Evans refused to land on account of tents that had been left after the Fourth of July celebration. He circled the park several times and flew back over the city. Two other planes were sent up to direct them to another field but the pilot evidently could not understand the signals for the three planes ap peared to be chasing each other all over the city. At midnight an effort was made to communicate with suburban landing fields but the lost plane had not re ported at any of these. The Corn. I have see'n a Held full of bowed corn. The somber congregation of the eon Pondering the question Of the food of the world; But a wind with feet of shadow Came and shouted something. And the bowed congregation of the eon aroee— An uproar ran through the Held— Innumerable hands were waving— And I know that somewhere fay awa* Sunken faces and hungry rye* Ware looking out beyond a hill. —Oecar Williams, in Pictorial Review ♦ DUSTY OTJ OCEAfll J ♦ —— ♦ 4 Washington, July 12.—lierv's ♦ ♦ a new ana. I* was very dusty 4 or: the ooean the other day. ♦ + ‘Sounds like a vaudeville joke ♦ ■f but it s true. ♦ ♦ The proof, In shape o£ dust, ♦ ♦ was received at the bureau ♦ ♦ Monday. The dust was gath- ♦ ♦ ered from the detsks from the ♦ ♦ American merchantman Santa ♦ 4 RC’Sallna, and sent to Wash- ♦ ington in connection with the ♦ ♦ merchant service conducted ♦ ♦ by the bureau.. ♦ ♦ The air was so full of dust ♦ ♦ on the day in question that ♦ ♦ sailing was hazardous, due to ♦ impaired visibility. The Santa ♦ ♦ Rosaljna was in the Yellow sea 4 enroute from Karatusu. Japan ♦ ♦ to Taku, China. Investigation ♦ ♦ shows that there was a violent ♦ 4 duststorm a few days before ♦ 4 In Mongolia and that fine yel- ♦ ♦ low sand had been carried ♦ 4 hundreds ofi miles to sea. 4 ■ f - — — ^ ' “Partnership” with Private Owners—Small, Love, Frey To “Run” U. S. Fleet— Harding for Lasker’s Plan. Washington, July 12.—The United States shipping board through Its chairman, A. D. Lasker, Monday an nounced the formation of a "part nership” with the private ship own ers and operators of America for the upbuilding of the American merchant marine. Private owners will furnish master minds of the shipping busi ness to establish the fleet on the seven seas As a starter, the private shipping business canvassed their own ranks and selected the three men to act as operators of the government owned fleet at a total salary of $95. 000 a year. Smull Unanimous Choioa. They are: J. Barston Smull, of New York, vice president of J. H. Winches ter & Company, the largest ship brokerage company in America, who Was the unanimous choice of private owners and operators. William J. Ipve. of New York, assistant American manager for Furness, Withy & Company, Ldt.. one of the largest shipping firms of Great Britain. A. J. Frey, of Los Angeles and San Francisco, who managed the operation for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at the time that company had the largest fleet of steamships on the Pacific ocean. Will Be Vice Presidents. These ship operators will be In stalled as vice presidents of the Em ergency Fleet Corporation which Is being revived under the Lasker plan for bringing the fleet to a state of ef ficiency, that will make Its sale pos sible on the day world-wide economic conditions are ready. Chairman Las ker will sit as chairman with the board of operations In deciding all Questions of policy. This plan was submitted to Presi dent Harding In the White House Monday afternoon by Mr. Lasker and two of the operators, Messrs Smull and Love. The president, like the shipping board Itself, gave his ap proval and promised his support for any legislation necessary to make complete the revival of the fleet cor poration. As I. C. C. Does Toward Roads. From now on the shipping board will function exactly as the Interstate Commerce commission does toward railroads, it was explained. The Em ergency Fleet Corporation with the shipping board officers as Its execu tives will deal exclusively with the operations of ships, as originally in tended. There will be five vice presi dents—the three operators, the gen eral counsel, Elmer Schleslnger, and one to be named. The fifth vice president will be charged ^with full responsibility for the sale of ships salvage. The settle ment of the $300,000,000 worth of claims outstanding against the board will fall within the jurisdiction of the fourth vice president, who Is the general counsel of the shipping hnarrl “No Alibi if We Fail.!' "But It la on the operation that the merchant marine la to stand or fall," said Mr. Lasker. "Their losses may be continuing and we* will never be In a position to carry out the ad ministration policy of getting these ships Into the hands of private op erators unless we get them under operation in an efficient manner. “New that we have men like Smull, Love and Frey for the operation of the ships, we will have no alibi If we fail," he added. "Those are names which mean something in the ship ping world. Thefr names to the ship per are like Babe Ruth's In the base ball world and Caruso’s In the mu sical world. Furthermore, under our partnership with the private owners, we ha've the right to call upon key men with any companies for our service. It means we are going to have a world beating organisation." Smull's Part Moat Important. Skim milk Is. said to be excellent for washing floor tiles, giving them a much better appearance than soapy water does. But how Is the average citlaen going to afford such a ‘‘luxury?” Now the Ku Klux Klan and the nonpartisan league are battling in South Dakota. Seems that Coyote state can't help but keep before the public whether it be a good or bad publicity. LEG! MS .USING, If lli I DN BONUS DELAY Brands Order Dishonest, Un- { warranted — “Republicans, Can’t Fool Soldiers,” Harri son's Warning. Chicago, July 12,—President Harding's action In asking con gress to postpone passage of the bill providing a bonus for ex service men was attaekod Monday by American Legion departmen tal commanders of six states. The Legion chiefs of Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Tsnnsssse, who ara in sassion hare, sant tha following telegram to the president: “Ex-service men and woman of tha states we represent feel deep ly your attitude and opposition to tha bill for adjusted compen sation for the service rendered by them in the days of 1917 and 1918 when they offered all they had to preserve for you and all othar Americans our heritage. Wa urge you to seriously reconsider your position and to carry out tha policy of fair play promised by America when she called upon her sons and daughters to enter the great struggls.” ■Washington, July 12.—’Plans of Sec ’ retary of the, Treasury Mellon and the administration to delay soldier bo nus legislation were vigorously de nounced by the legislative committee of the American Legion in a state ment issued Monday night. "The 11th hour order from one end of Pennsylvania avenue to the other is Intellectually dishonest, economi cally unwarranted, and politically lu dicrous,” the statement declared. Legion Bound to Protest. The American Legion officials have carefully weighed the question of whether the legion should consent to the delay without protest, the statement said. "The American' Legion can do no such thing," It continued. “There is nowhere in the l^eilon statement any reasonable Justification for the theory that a bill, , not designed to become financially operative until July 1, 1922, would ruin the country if passed now but be safe and sound if passed in November or December. It makes not a scintilla of difference, so far as the United States treasury is con cerned, whether the bill Is passed in July or December of this year. Any difference that might be argued would be in psycho-analytics and po litical jockeying with which ex-serv ice men are not at all interested. Ex-Yanks Not Asleep. “Against Secretary Mellon’s ex cathedra pronouncement that the bill’s enactment would cripple and ; impair If not altogether ruin the treasury, there stand reports on the bill from both the House ways and means and the Senate finance com mittees, the membership of which committees, the American Legion be lieves, is fully as capable of declar ing the bill economically feasible as any one man is capable of declaring to the contrary. “Ex-service men did not fall to ob serve. too, news dispatches in the very same editions which carried tha secretary's statejnent against the ad justed compensation bill to the efTeet that the government was to be called upon to loan the railroads of the country^ 1500,000,000. As a matter of fact, the Interest alone due. this gov ernment on its loans to the allies would more than finance the adjusted compensation bill if enacted, for the first five years of its operation, or until July 1, 1927. Considering the fact that all ef the allied govern ments havo paid their soldiers and sailors adjusted compensation, is it unreasonable for the ex-service men of the country to call attention to this fact? Charge Play to Kill Bill. "Secretary Mellon's diatribe against the adjusted compensation bill la nothing more than a rehash of tha organizations long ago interposed by his predecessor in office, former Sec retary of the Treasury Houston. Against the republican majority members of the Senate finance com mittee which had reported the bill favorably and the republican major ity In the Senate which had voted to make the bill Unfinished business, tha republican secretary of the treasury hurls the leftover thunder of his democratic predecessor In office. Truly an amusing political spectacle. "The proposed postponement Is merely a subterfuge, a play for time, through which its enemies hope ulti mately to destroy the measure. Fur ther delay by congress in meeting this just obligation will only ag gravate a situation which is already deplorable enough.” Harrison’s Attack "Hot Shot." Alleged Interference by President Harding in the affairs of the Senate was assailed by Senator Harrison, democrat, of Mississippi, in a speech In the Senate Monday. Referring to the president's move to delay tho soldier bonus legislation, he charged that It was In direct violation of his campaign pledges to refrain from meddling with the legislative func tions of the government. Woman continues to forge ahead. The president of the Northern Bap tist convention Is a woman, and Lon don now numbers among Its ambas sadors Lady Surma, who. It is said, will be the first president of modern Assyria, a territory of 80,000 square miles in Mesopotamia which has been alloted by Great Britain to the Assyrian people. Gentlemen, the la dies! l FATIMA WEARS J JEWEL IN ROSE } Bsmmmrnsmtmmmsmmmm Princess Fatima, sultana of Kabul, Afghanistan, photographed on her ar rival in San Francisco recently from the orient, wearing a Jewel in her nose. The princess Is a cousin of the Emir of Afghanistan. She is en route to Englapd with her three sons, who will enter college there. ; HITJH TRAIN Dragged By Locomotive For Some Distance She Escapes With Bad Cuts and Braises. Waterloo, la., July 11 (Special).— A tragedy was narrowly averted here when Miss Nellie B. Mosley, 28, ca shier of the Waterloo Business col lege, was struck by a Rock Island passenger train at the union depot. Although she was dragged several feet by t)ie engine. Miss Mosley es caped serious injury. She was badly bruised about the right arm and right leg, her hip was cut and a large sliv er was Imbedded In her left cheek. Rock Island and Great Western passenger trains traveling in oppo site directions arrived at the depot at almost the same time. Miss Mosley was preparing to board the Great Western train, which comes in on the third track, and did not observe the Rock Island train coming in on the first track. She was walking down the Rock Island track with her back to the approaching train and did not realize her danger until struck by the train. She fell face downward, but was pushed clear of the wheels. The engineer stopped the train with in a few feet and thus averted a more serious accident. FIREMAN HELD FOR ENGINEER'S DEATH • ... • Hearing Pat Off Until Place Where Trainman Died Is De termined—Were Friends. B1 Paso, Tex., July 11.—The pre liminary hearing of Charles P. Rob inson fireman for the Galveston, Har risburg and San Antonio railway, who is being held in connection with the death of Er jineer W. F. Bohlman last Friday, will be postponed until the authorities can determine lust where Bohlman was killed, officials of the railroad In HI Paso announced to day. Bohlman's body with a bullet hole In the head was found along the rail road track after the holler of his freight engine had exploded near Al pine. Officers of Presidio county maintain, according to the railroad, officials, that the murder occurred in that county and that the hearing should be held at Marfa, the county seat. Brewster county authorities. It is said, Insist ths murder was com mitted in that county and that in consequence the hearing should be held at Alpine. Robinson Is being held, railroad of ficials said in an effort to fix re sponsibility for Bohlman’s death in spite of the fact that employes of the railroad, friends of the men and the engineer's widow all declare the en gineer and the fireman were the best of friends. Mrs. Bohlman, who Is in El Paso, says she and Mrs. Robinson are friendly neighbors. Advertising is a short-cut to any goal that must be reached through public response. Perfectly Serious. "Are. you serious In your attention to Miss Dobeigh?" "I am. Her father did me out of $10,000 in a stock deal last month and I’ll get it back if I have to marry the entire family.” The Etemel Feminine. Old Gentleman—If I give you a quar ter. little girl, what will you do with it? ■ Six-Year-Old Miss (contemptuously) | —Why, spend It of course. 1 Old Gentleman—And what wiU you buy. a peppermint stick? | «x-Tea»-OJd—No. a Up stick. Eli CELEBRATES' TRUCE LIKE II. 5. DID ARMISTICE Ulster Only Obstacle to Peace —Belfast Curfew and Biot Continue—De Valera Sees Lloyd George Thursday. BY DENIS O’CONNELL, Dublin July 13.—Alf Ireland, with the exception of Belfast, Monday ntght la celebrating the truce aa America celebrated the armistice. From every mountain and hilltop benftrea are biasing. The streets of towns and cities are bedecked with glnn Fein flags and the Stars and Strtpee. Boys and gtrTs dance about great bonfires In the streets of Dublin, where after 18 months of the curfew law, they, are having their drat ntght of freedom.' Crown forces are not much In evi dence but there are no cases of In terference as the Sinn Fein police assist the ordinary metropolitan fosses in maintaining ojrder. This eo-operatton was necessary to keep the wilder spirits In cheek. Raids Up to Last Mfoute. Up to the last moment before the truce hour the Sinn Felners carried out the hr usuul raids, searches and holdups. A spesial number of the official organ of the Irish republican army Monday night impresses upon all volunteers that they must observe the ?ruoe to the strict letter, but de clares that the efficiency of the or ganization must be maintained. All units, the paper states, must be ready to resume hostilities If it becomes a necessity owing to the failure of the London conference. Several soldiers removed a Sinn Fein flag from a boat In the harbor but an officer put them under arrest. The officer restored the flag saluting It. GRIFFITH, SLACK~AND BARTON WITH DE VALERA BY ROBERT J. PREW, London, July 13.—Premier Lloyd George announced In the house of commons Monday afternoon that he had received a telegram from Eamonn De Valera reading: "Will be In London for a con ference Thursday next." An announcement that the telegram had been sent to the British premier had been previously made by the Sinn Fein in Dublin following a pri vate meeting of the Dali Elreann In the Mansion house. De Valera Leaves Today. The delegation of four which leaves Dublin Tuesday for London will be De Valera. Arthur Griffith, Austen Slack and Richard Barton. Right up to the noon hour when the truce became effective reports of acts of violence In various parts of Ire land reached Dublin Castle but no organized operations occurred on either side. The truce hour was hulled with siren shrieks and bells in all cities. The troops, auxlls .rtes and police are now mingling unarmed with the people pf Dublin, where only nonpolttlcal metropolitan police are on duty. Sniper* Aotive in Belfast. Ulster Is the only obstacle now to peace. This was emphasized Mon day by the announcement that de spite the truce the curfew would be continued In Belfast. This Is the re sult of the black week end when 18 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded. Tbe rioting and dis turbances continued Monday. Snipers were active and many wounded con tinued to be received In the lopal hos pitals. The bodies of many of the slain still remain In Me hospitals un identified as relatives are unable to cross the fighting zones to search for the missing. High Explosives in Two Wrecked Autos Harmless as Bricks Topeka, Kan., July 12—A motor car collision near hero early today In which two motor cars, six cases of dynamite and a large quantity of nitroglycerin figured brought death to M. A. Ross, an oil well shooter and his wife, and the Injury of four other persons. The explosive played only a minor part, however, for al though It was scattered along the highway for a considerable distance It failed to explode. The victims were killed and Injured by the crash of the machines. ALLEGED BAD CHECK ' MAN DE PEW’S SON? Council Bluffs, la., July 12 (Spe cial—Paul M. DePew, who stoutly maintains that he Is the son of Chauncey M. DePew, was backed up in his claim Monday by his young wife, who says that to the best of her knowledge, her husband's story of hts family connection Is true. They have been married about one year. DePew says that trouble between him and his father caused him to change hts name. The young man is being held on a charge of passing a bad check. They came here from Pueblo, Colo. The socialists in convention at De troit reported that there are now but 17,644 names on their books, as com pared with 126,000 10 years ago. It therefore is no longer correct to speak of the socialist “party." It now Is but a gang. Assigned. "Ole.” said the preachee to the Swed ish bridegroom-to-be. "do you take Hil da Sorgoson for your lawful wedded wife, for better or for worse?*' "Oh, well." replied Ole gloomily. “Aye e'pose Aye get little of each."