M’KEOWN
RELEASED
- BY BRITAIN
BY DENNIS O’CONNELL,
Dublin, Aug, 9.—Within an hour
After his release rrom Gaolti on Mon
day Gen. John McKeown of the Irish
republican army, was seated amongst
a. whole group of other released pris
oners singing Irish songs Just as joy
fully as if he had never been im
prisoned.
“My release is the acceptance of
my attitude that mv act was an act
of war,” said McKeown to Universal
Service. “It is therefore clear that
my release is a final abandonment of
the claim of the enemy that the Irish
war is murder.
“My release is an admission on the
part of the government that I am not
only a representative of the Irish peo
ple, but they also recognize me as an
army officer.
"The Irish war was a war waged in
accordance to prevailing conditions.
If I had not been a soldier of Ireland
I should not have been chosen as a
representative of the Irish nation.
That conclusion makes it clear that
my fellow soldiers in the jails must
t>e similarly recognized.”
MqKeown was met outside the pris
on and embraced by his aged mother.
The hundreds of friends who had
waited all day for his expected re
lease took him .upon their shoulders
and carried him away.
1ET WORLD HELP
FEED RUSSIANS
—RED CROSS
All Relief Agencies Are Urged
To Meet in Geneva 16th to
Prepare Food Invasion of
Famine Areas.
Washington, Aug. 9.—Six mil
lion Russians are moving out of
the poverty stricken areas in
Russia, the state department was
-advised Monday by its official
_.. representative abroad.
This is the greatest simul
taneous movement of people in
all history, according to officials
here.
Chairman Kemeneff of the all -
Russian commission, estimates
that it will require 1,476,000,000
pounds of breadstuffs for the 10
districts where the distress is
greatest, the advices add.
Jjr*- London, Aug. 9.—World co-opera
tion in Russian relief under the sole
direction of Herbert Hoover's Amer
ican Relief Administration, is fore
shadowed by the emergency call by
the international Red CrossJ The
call asks all relief organizations to
meet in Geneva, August 16, to lay
down methods for a food invasion of
the famine areas.
Assistant director Mitchell of the
American relief bureau in London,
expressed his belief that a world or
ganization will be functioning within
a fortnight after the Geneva agree
ment is reached.
No Time to Waste.
“The co-ordination of all organiza
tions under one directing head is ab
solutely necessary if Russia is to be
saved," said Director Mitchell. “There
is no time to waste in duplication and
congestion which is bound to occur
unless eweryone co-operates. Prom
what we can gather the Red Cross
Aims to accomplish the co-ordination
in Geneva.”
Mitchell declared that relief ships
At Danzig and other ports are now
completely ready with their cargoes
•of food and medicines to leave at a
day's notice for Russia. This means
that the food will be in Petrograd
and Moscow within a fortnight from
the day the agreement is signed in
Riga.
England Holds Back.
V* uur uumciouo piivuro ui ftetinna.
tlons in England are feverishly work
ing to gather money and supplies, the
British government has so far refused
to recognize the famine conditions in
Kussla. The government refraind
from committing itself until the ques
tion of the extent of allied aid is set
tled at the Paris conference.
A foreign office agent, who has
been in Moscow for the last 10 days
making an investigation, has not been
heard from, 'this leads Lord Curzon
to believe that his dispatches are be
ing held up by the soviet government.
British official opinion asserts that
the soviet government Is now at
tempting to minimize the news re
garding famine conditions, fearing
that Interference by western powers
will destroy communism.
KENYON WANTS PRICE PROBE.
Washington, Aug. 9.—Senator Ken
yon, Iowa, Monday introduced a bill
calling for the federal trade commis
sion to investigate failure of Mouse
furnishing goods to follow the gen
eral downward trend of prices. Ken
yon's action followed complaints by
farm organizations.
GET LEADER OF THIEVES?
Alliance, Neb., Aug. 9.—A Burling
ton special train was used Monday to
run down Ed Lynn, believed to be
the brains of a gang of box car
thieves, who have been operating
here. The train caught up with him
30 miles from Alliance near Lake
side and he was surrounded by offi
cers who were aboard the special
oar. Lynn gave up when he saw
himself surrounded .by officers.
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How Bootleggers Combine
“High Finance” with Crime
And Rob Public Is Ex
posed.
BY W. B. SEABROOK,
Washington, Aug. 9. — Bootleggers
combining "high finance" with crime
are robbing the public wholesale as
well as violating the law, according
to specific facts disclosed from high
official sources at the federal prohibi
tion headquarters .here.
By adopting all the methods of
modern big business—exception—
they are realizing profits that run as
high as $6,000 on a single,barrel of al
cohol and often from 600 to 1,000 per
rpnt on a para of whiskv or cin.
Sit in High Places.
“The opportunity for enormous
gain," said this official who has
closely investigated the national sit
uation, “has attracted two big classes
of offenders who are now' working
hand-in-glove together in the wide
spread distribution and sale of illicit
liquor—the brains of the criminals of
the underworld, and unscrupulous,
dishonest Wallingfords of high fi
nance.
“They sit in high places, se
cretly directing gigantic operations
which make fortunes for themselves
and big money for the thousands of
agents who carry out the details of
the traffic.
“We are out to get these big men.
They pride themselves on being be
yond the law. But big crooks in the
past have imagined they enjoyed the
same security, yet sooner or later
most of them have been caught and
convicted. The prohibition law is
here to stay. In the long run the law
wins. Disgrace and then penitentiary
await criminals at the end of the
road. •
Case of Brolaski.
“The biggest and most typical case
this department has yet exposed was
the notorious Harry Brolaski con
spiracy in California. Brolaski was
a power in politics and finance. He
was long mayor of a California town.
He corrupted local officials and fed
eral officials as well. For months ho
had practical control of the release
of bonded whisky In the entire state.
Witnesses testified that "territorial
rights" were offered for sale. His
business was as well organized as the
automobile industry. He boasted that
he had been indicted 79 times and
never convicted. It was currently re
ported that he individually cleaned up
more than $1,000,000 in less than 10
months.
"In the end we got him. Through
the efforts of the government, Brola
ski. the man of wealth and political
boss, has been convicted of conspir
acy and sentenced to the penitentiary.
Only an appeal to the higher courts
now stands between him and the ac
tual prison etripes.
Case Is Typical.
“I mention this case because it is
typical. Thera are Brolaskls in every
bootlegging center of America and as
fast as it is humanly possible we
are going to bring them to justice.
It is learned that the government
knows who some of these master
minds are. It knows exactly what
they are doing. And It is gradually
drawing the net tighter. Time must
be give, but these men are big and
powerful and any newspaper which
published them before absolutely cer
tain criminal evidence is obtained
would risk heavy libel action. The
master minds seldom engage in any
thing so crude as actually buying and
selling whisky. They furnish the
brains and the money. Rich and
amply supplied with credit, they get
all they want legitimately from the
banks.
Through their lieutenants they use
it to charter ships, buy cargoes of
booze in the Bahamas, finance and
supply funds to operators of moon
shine plants on a large scale.
Wherever possible they furnish
"protection” to their henchmen
through business Interests. This is
one of their chief plans. They sup
ply large sums for bribery and cor
ruption.
In Atlantic City smugglers have
actually unloaded their cargoes on
the city docks.
PARIS SKIRTS SHORT
AS EVER—BERTELLI
Paris, Aug. 9.—The reverse of the
decollette was launched Mondiay by
Molyneaux with gowns leaving the
back bare to below the waist and the
front closed right up to the neck. Tha
skirts were as short as ever but
“black and white” Is dotted as the
unhappy result of the attempt to
popularize these colors by Mrs. Smith
Wilkinson.
PICK W. C. T. U, DELEGATES.
Watertown, S. D., Aug. 9. — The
South Dakota W. O. T. U„ will send
Mrs. Flora A. Mitchell, of Brook
ings, state president, and Mrs. J. A.
Frensen, of Sioux Falls, as delegates
to the national convention in San
Francisco, August 18.
ITALY* ACCEPTS.
Washington, Aug. 9. — Italy's ac
ceptance of November 11 as the date
for the Washington disarmament and
Pacific conference was received at
the state department late Monday.
1TI-BEER BILE
PASSES IN SENATE,
IIJTEJSf TO 20
Drastic Amendment Making
Search of Premises Without
A Warrant a Penal Offense
* Is Adopted After Fight. p
Washington, Aug. 9.—After adopt
ing a drastic amendment making tho
search of private property and prem
ises without a warrant under the pro
hltibition act "or any other law,” a
penal offense, the Senate late Monday
passed the Campbell-Willis "«.ntl
beer bill.” The vote was 38 to 20.
The measure forbids physicians
prescribing beer for medicine and is
designed to nullify the ruling made
by Attorney General Palmer just be
fore he left office, that beer might ba
made and used for this purpose. Rigid
restrictions on the amount of other J
Intoxicating liquors that physicians
may prescribe for patients also are
imposed by the bill.
Makes Enforcement Harder.
Adoption of the amendment making
illegal searches a crime, punishable
by heavy fines and imprisonment
marked a signal victory for the lib
eral elements of the Senate. While it
ostensibly intended to check the
abuses and indignities to which pri
vate citizens have been subjected by
prohibition agents and about which
there has been so much complaint, It
will, it is admitted, have a liberalizing
effect on the enforcement of the dry
law.
Alarmed by this possibility the dry
forces and supporters of the bill
fought the amendment to the last
ditch and only surrendered when it
becamo apparent that the measure
which has already been pending for
weeks would 68 tied up indefinitely
unless it were adopted. Then they
permitted its passage by a vive voce
vote.
The amendment specifies that any
federal enforcement officer who sub
jects a citizen on his premises to
search without a warrant shall bo
guilty of a misdemeanor and made
liable to a fine of $1,000 and impris
onment for one year. It likewise pro
vides that any person, who posing as
an enforcement agent violates the leg
islation rights of private citizens shall
be guilty of felony and punishable by
a fine of $10,000 and five years im
prisonment.
Hits "Beverage" Medicines.
As adopted the amendment is a
combination of a measure offered
originally by Senator Reed, democrat,
of Missouri, and re-drafted and pre
sented by Senator Stanley, democrat,
of Kentucky, upon the insistence of
the proponents of the “anti-beer bill.”
As it stood at first the amendment
applied ^only to prohibition enforce
ment officers, but its scope was
widened when the “dry” senators in
sisted upon its principle being made
applicable to the enforcement of all
laws.
Besides the Stanley amendment, the
Senate also adopted an amendment
giving the federal prohibition com
mission power to compel changes in
the formulae of patent medicines con
taining alcohol when it is found they
are being used for beverage purposes.
Another amendment offered by
Senator Spencer, republican, of Mis
souri, which would reverse the re*
strictions on the prescriptions of
liquor other than beer was voted
down.
What Effect On Rules?
The effect of the passage of the
bill upon the plans of the prohibition
enforcement authorities for issuing
the regulations^governlng the distri
bution of medicinal beer was in doubt
Monday night. Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon had stated only a
few hours before the Senate action
that the regulations would be issued
within a few days unless the Senate
should pass the measure. Monday
night he could not be reached.
The secretary's statement was pre
dicated on his understanding that the
situation in congress was such that
the anti-beer bill would not bo passed
for a considerable time and he plain
ly indicated that if it should apear
that the bill would become a law
within a reasonably short time, the
regulations would not be promulgated.
Liberals Try to Kill Bill.
Following the adoption of the Stan
ley amendment, the liberals attempt
ed to press their advantage by trying
to kill the “anti-beer bill" all togeth
er by sending it back to committee.
The motion to re-commltt was made
by Senator Bl-oussard, democrat, of
Louisiana, leader of the democratic
opposition to the bill. It was rejected
24 to 28.
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House and it now goes to conference
where an agreement by the lower 1
chamber to the Senate amendments
will be sought. Some opposition is i
expected but Senate leaders believe
that the approval of the House will
be obtained eventually in order to
expedite the enactment of the legls- :
lation. Afterward it will be sent to
President Harding-for final approval.
The vote on the bill came after a
lengthy discussion in which the ;
whole question of prohibition and Its
enforcement was re-opened and thor
oughly probed. It centered chiefly
on the proposed amendment to re
strain enforcement agents from
abusing their authority in their quest
for liquor.
RANCHER’S 8LAYER RELEASED.
O’Neil. Neb., Aug. 9.—Waiter Hol
comb, who shot and killed Thomas
O'sen of Chambers, Neb., on Hoi- |
comb’s ranch six miles southeast of
Chambers Sunday evening, was re- j
leased from custody here Monday !
afternoon, the county attorney not
having filed a complaint against him. !
Tuesday afternoon County Attorney
Chapman will reopen the Inquest on
the Holcomb ranch. ^
FOLLOWS RIOT OF
UNEIHPLMO MEN
Breaks Out with Renewed Vio
lence with Great Lumber
Yards Destroyed—Dissatis
fied Labor Started Blaze?
London, Aug. 9.—At 10: SO Monday
bight tho London lumber fire broke
out With renewed violence. Only tho
skeletons of a few buildings in Lon
don's greatest lumber yards are left
standing and several firemen and po
licemen have been Injured.
The firo In tho big lumber plant
started early Monday and the stock
of timber valued at more than 26,
000,000 covering 21 acres of ground
with great plies of boards and tim
bers, Is completely destroyed.
The firs followed a riot by 5,000
unemployed men who were refused
work by the owners. The origin of
tho firo Is a mystery but tho police
believe It was started by disappointed
laborers who Invaded the yard when
they were told that there was no
work. They upset lumber piles and
hurled rocks through tho office
windows.
Entire District Threatened.
A riot call resulted in an attempt
by 600 foot and 50 mounted police
to disperse the angry crowd. The.
fire alarm soon followed. The firo
spread with lightning rapidity over
the quarter mile of lumber piles which
were thoroughly dried out by tho long
droughj.
The yards are on the banks of the
river Lea in the heart of the densely
congested east end manufacturing dis
trict. At one time it was thought
the entire district was threatened and
adjacent factories began emptying
their buildings by sending the em
ployes home and removing the con
tents.
mu „ f. iimhor 1 •> rl art
barges In the river. A Btrong breeze
fanned the flames, making it almost
impossible for the firemen to ap
proach because of the intense heat.
Cranes Fall, Tanks Explode.
Scores of firemen narrowly escaped
with their lives when piles of lum
ber and timber near which they were
working toppled over, undermining
three 66-foot cranes which fell a mo
ment later. Late Monday afternoon
several gasoline tanks exploded en
dangering nearby buildings as huge
spurts of burning gas shot many feet
from the lumber yards.
Efforts of the firemen to control
the flames were ineffective owing to
lack of pressure In the water mains
due to the recent prolonged drought
which has cut London's water supply
almost in half.
Scores of Scotland Yard detectives
were sent out around the yards In
an attempt to find the cause of th»
fire.
GET BANK BANDIT
IN TOPJFTREE
Former Mason City Plumbing
Inspector Tries to Rob Ge
neva, Minn., Institu
tion, Is Report.
Mason City, la., Aug. 9 (Special).—
Q. C. Merritt, formerly plumbing in
spector of Mason City, Is in jail in
Albert Lea, Minn., following an at
tempt to hold up and rob a bank
In Geneva, Minn., according to word
received here Monday. He was cap
tured on the topmost branch of a
tree in a corn field near Geneva after
he had entered the bank, beaten the
cashier over the head with his re
volver and broken into the vault.
The cashier, regaining conscious
ness, jumped through a plate glass
window and spread the alarm. Mer
ritt fled in an automobile without any
loot. Hundreds of citi"ens Joined in
the inan-hunt, capturing Merritt after
a 12-hour search.
He is the father of three children
and previously had served part of a
10-year term for forgery, being on
parole now, it Is said.
FATAL SHOOTING ON
A NEBRASKA RANCH
O'Neill, Neb., Aug. 9 (Special).—
Thomas Olsen, a real estate man of
Chambers, 25 miles south of O’Neill,
■was shot and killed by Walter Hol
comb, at the Holcomb ranch, six miles
southeast of Chambers, Sunday night.
Olsen and a Chambers' auto livery
man were driving near the Holcomb
ranch when their car broke down.
The driver went to the Holcomb
ranch to ask aid from the latter.
Holcomb promised to go after the
car as soon as he had unloaded a
jag of hay".
It Is said Holcomb was slow In
unloading the hay and that Olsen
and the driver of the car returned to
the place and made threats of vio
lence/ to Holcom'b. The shooting fol.
lowed.
Holcomb Is in jail here.
DAKOTAN SHOOTS MEXICAN'
Belle Fourche, S. D., Aug. 9.—M.
Morallls, a Mexican, was probably
fatally wounded, it is charged, by
William Rae at the home of the Rae
brothers near Fruitdale early Tues
day morning. A full charge of shot
entered the left side of the abdomen.
The Mexicans had been ordered off
the premises but had returned early
Tuesday and two of them were beat
ing David Rae, when his brother Is
said to have fired the shot. William
Rae was held on $1,000 bond to ap
pear for a healing.
TO LET HARDING
DICTATE TERMS
Committeemen Decide to Put
Problem Up to Him After
They Cut Mellon Estimate
600 Millions.
Washington, Aug. 9. — President
Harding will be asked by republican
leaders in congress to settle the tax
problems.
Chairman Fordney and the other
republican members of the House
■ways and means committee, after de
ciding Monday to cut $600,000,000
from Secretary of Treasury Mellon's
estimates, announced that they will
call at the White House on Wednes
day or Thursday and ask the presi
dent to decide what kind of a tax
revision bill they should write.
Ignore Mellon’s Requests.
The republican members of the
ways and means committee hope to
secure the support of the president to
their plan for reducing taxation by
reducing expenditures instead of levy
ing new taxes to make up for the
repeal of the excess profits tax and
other existing taxes.
The committee Monday definitely
decided that It will not levy new taxee
despite the recommendation of Sec
retary Mellon, that new taxes will be
needed.
Charles B. Dawes, director of the
budget, conferred with the House ap
propriations committee and pointed
out how approximately $600,000,000
could be pared from the estimated
expenditures for tho present fiscal
year. His suggestions were turned
over to the ways and means commit
tee.
To Repeal Luxury Taxes.
General Dawes and- the appropria
tions committee agreed that Secre
tary Mellon’s estimate $4,655,000,000 In
expenditures during the present year
could be cut to $3,879,000,000. The
shipping board would be allowed only
$100,000,000 under tho revised esti
mates. The army and navy will be
cut a total of $134,000,000, army Ex
penditures being reduced to $375,000,
000 and navy expenditures to $430,
000,000. The revised estimates also
include a cut of $245,000,000 in Sec
retary Mellon's estimate of what will
bo required during the present fiscal
year for settling tho claims of the
railroads.
The ways and means committee
Monday formally decided to repeal
the existing soda fountain and ice
cream tax and several of the present
taxes on wearing apparel.
lit KILLER ONLY
MAN I EVER LOVED
—OLIVIA M. P. STONE
Binkead’s Slayer Wants
Case to Be Lesson to Young
Girls—Writes Poem on
Wasted Life.
New York, Aug. 9.—"I have killed
the only man I ever loved,” said Olivia
M. P. Stone, Monday afternoon In her
prison cell, granting the first inter
view since her arrest for the slaying
of Ellis Klnkead, Cincinnati lawyer,
whom she shot to death here three
nights ago. She sat on her iron cot
with her knees crossed, her hair dis
heveled looking out of swollen red
rimmed eyes.
”1 realize what I have done,” ahe
continued, speaking In the presence
of her two lawyers, “and I feel as if
a band was around my head. But I
want to say this In the beginning. I
hope this will be an example to all
young girls. I tell them never to
trust a man Just because of love for
him. Ellis Klnkead was the only man
I ever loved. God knows I loved him
and he loved me.
‘‘My Spirit Lawyer.”
I have always been honorable and
true to my Ideals. Now Ellis can see
It all as It really was. Now he Is no
longer weak. He will be my spirit
lawyer and see me through these aw
ful days. All I have done Is to think
of him. I believe he know’s how I
loved him now.
If he had only been strong enough
to do as he wanted to all this night
mare would never have happened. I
love Kipling and Service, I tried to
write a poem telling how I know El
lis must have felt. The poem shows
how he felt toward me and how he
was nampereu oy me oiner me ne
seemed chained to. The words are
supposed to he hie, addressed to the
woman he married. I fainted ’when I
heard he was to marry her.
“He Had Me Barred."
Ellis loved me but other influences
held him and caused him to make me
the worst of my kind. He had me
barred everywhere I tried to get work.
And nursing was all I could do. I felt
as if X could lose my mind when I
thought of all the money he owed me.
Yet I loved him all the time and
I love him now. I was wild with
pain for months and at the sight of
the cause of my suffering I—.
Here Miss Stone began to cry and
after recovering her partial compos
ure thought better of it and decided
not to tell of< the actual shooting.
MEMBERS OMUGO-SLAV
CABINET UNDER ARREST
Paris, Aug. 9. — Fifty communist
members of the Jugo-Slav chamber
of deputies have been arrested In Bel
grade, says a dispatch from that city.
This action followed the lifting of
parliamentary immunity. Wholesale
arrests have been made recently by
the police in Jugo-Slavla as a sequel
Prince Regent Aleander last June,
to the attempted assassination of
Prince Regent Alexander, last June.
TO INDICT
MADELYNN
AND BURCH
Los Angeles, Aug. 9.—Grand Jury
Indictments will be asked Tuesday
against Mrs. Madelynn Obenchain
and Arthur C. Burch, now held as
material witnesses in the mysterious
•laying of John B. Kennedy. An of
ficial announcement was made to this
effect Monday night by Deputy Sher
iff Joe Nolan.
"I anticipate no difficulty in se
curing an indictment against Burch,”
he said, "but of Mrs. Obenchain I'm
not so sure.”
The indictment will be asked, the
officials said, to thwart release of the
prisoners on a writ of habeas corpus.
Unraveling Mystery.
Development in unraveling the mur
der mystery came rapidity Monday.
Burch, who was brought here from
Las Vegas, where he was arrested on
a train, admitted he had hired an
automobile in Los Angeles the night
Kennedy was slain. A tire on the
automobile was marked by a flaw
which, the authorities declare, re
sembles the tread of a tire found in
a creek near the scene of the shoot
ing.
But Burch, although grilled all day
and Monday night steadfastly main
tained he did not commit the crime
and he did not know who was guilty.
It also developed Monday that Mrs.
Obenchain had visited Burch's room
in the Broadway hotel and had oc
cupied a window where she could
watch Kennedy’s office. She had vis
ited Burch in disguise, it was said.
She refused to explain these visits,
but insisted she knew nothing of the
identity of the slayer.
Seek Another Woman.
The nuthorlties were searching for
another woman Mondiay night. Sha
is believed to have written the note
of warning to Kennedy. The note
was found near the scene of the slay
ing. The hand wrltting did not cor
respond with that of Mrs. Obenchain.
The authorities also found a diary
written by Mrs. Obenchain and cov
ering the events of her daily life up
to the day of the murder. The last
entry told of Kennedy inviting her to
spend the afternoon at the beach.
That was August 5. He was shot to
death at the door of his summer home
late that night while Mrs. Oberchain
was with him.
And on that night Burch left hia
hotel, hired an automobile at 7 p. m.
and remained out with it until 11
o'clock. Kennedy was slain about
9:30. The next day Burch was speed
ing toward Chicago but was arrested
at Las Vegas.
VERMILION READY FOR
TEMPLAR CONCLAVE
Record Crowd of Knights Ex.
pected to Attend Annual
State Convention.
Vermilion, S. D„ Aug. 9 (Special).—
The largest attendance ever regis
tered at a Knights Templar conclave
in South Dakota -is expected here
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
when the thirty-eighth annual con
vention of the organization comes
here.
Largely due to the good weather
and fine roads, more than 150 Knights
Templar, wives and families, had
registered with the chairman of the
reception committee at 8 o’clock Mon
day evening. The remainder of the
Templars are expected to arrive dur
ing the night and early morning. All
delegates and their families will be
housed In the Dakota and East Hall
dormitory buildings on the University
campus as the guests of -the local
commandery.
Dean L. E. Akeley, of the College
of Engineering at the University of
South Dakota, will make the address
of welcome at 9:30 Tuesday morning.
The business of the conclave will con
sist of the regular routine of business
and election of officers for 1921 and
1922.
James E. Mathews, deputy grand
commander, of Watertown. S. D., Is in
line to be elected grand commander
to succeed Dr. G. W. Collins, of Ver
milion, and probably will be elected
to that position Thursday.
The entertainment will be featured
by The Sioux City Tribune Flying
Circus. A ball game between teams
from Jones and Mitchell, S. D„ and
exhibition drills by the different con
claves of the state, dancing and golf
ing will feature the meetings.
LAD, 18, CONFESSES
KILLING MOTHER, 70
Boonevllle, ind., Aug. 9.—William
Deffendoll, 17, confessed Monday to
murdering his widowed mother, Laura
Deffendoll, 70 years old, officials de
clared. The woman’s body was found
decapitated in a woods near tha Def
fendqll home at Heilman, some time
ago, two weeks after she had disap
peared.
Young Deffendoll first accused his
older brother of the murder, claiming
that a desire to secure household fur
niture so that he could marry at once
was the motive.
GREEKS’ALL READY FOR
OCCUPATION OF ISMID
London, Aug. 9.—Greek re-occupa
tlon of Jsmld Is expected at any mo
ment, according to dispatches to the
Dally Express from Constantinople.
Only a small number of Turkish
fbrces of Mustapha Kemal remain at
Ismtd. The resumption of any large
scale offensive Is unlikely before Sep
tember owing to the necessity of re
pairing the railway.