SENATORS MIVE
TO FORCE VOTE
Forty Republicans Sign Pledge
To Remain in Continuous
Session Until Bill Is Finally
Disposed of.
Washington, Oct. 25.—Steps to force
an early vote on the tax revision bill
were taken by sales tax advocates
after the measure had been thrown
into an almost hopeless tangle dur
ing seven hours of consideration In
the Senate on Monday.
A pledge was drafted by sales tax
advocates and quickly signed by all
republican senators present under
which the Senate will remain in con
tinuous session day and night, start
ing Wednesday, until the bill Is dis
posed of.
Senator Moses, of New Hampshire,
a sales tax advocate, drew up the
pledge. It obligated the senators sign
ing It to remain at the capitol con
tinuously day and night, starting on
Wednesday, so as to be within reach
ot call for a quorum or a vote until
the bill is finally disposed of.
The pledge was signed by more than
40 republicans who were attending the
session late Monday. The others will
sign Tuesday, Senator Curtis, repub
lican whip, announced, and when a
majority has been obtained a resolu
tion for continuous sessions will bo
introduced.
Senator Penrose made the definite
announcement late Monday night that
the resolution will be Introduced. He
also announced that a night session
will be held Tuesday night.
Final Vote This Week.
Unless a filibuster is conducted
against the bill 24 hours a day for
three or four days, a final vote should
be reached before the end of the week,
according to republican Senate lead
ers. They see little prospect of an
attempt to filibuster under the cir
cumstances.
Sales tax advocates see a decided
advantage in the plan to hold the Sen
ate In continuous session. The tax
bill has been thrown into an almost
unprecedented tangle and Its spon
sors have been unable to make any
progress with It. By securing a vote
on substituting the sales tax for the
finance committee tax program while
the bill Is in a tangle, advocates of
the sales tax believe that chances for
adoption of their plan are greatly in
creased.
Bitter personal colloquies occurred
throughout the day during discussion
of the bill. Senator Ashurst. demo
crat, of Arizona, joined with Senators
Watson of Indiana, McCormick of Illi
nois, McLean of Connecticut and oth
^r republicans in denouncing demo
cratic senators for delaying consider
ation of the measure with long
speeches.
Jones Threatens Filibuster.
Senator Jones, democrat, of New
Mexico, openly threatened a filibus
ter, and Senator Reed, democrat, of
Missouri, announced his intention of
talking about the bill “at great
length.” The move for continuous
^session was then made.
Earlier in the day the Senate com
pleted consideration of the income tax
schedules. The schedules were ap
proved without change. As passed by
the House and approved by the Sen
ate, the normal tax remains at 4 per
cent, on the first $4,000 of net income
and 5 per cent, on incomes in excess
of $4,000, with an exemption of $2,500
for heads of families receiving in
comes of $5,000 or less and $400 ex
emption for each dependent. The Sen
ate last week increased the income
surtax schedule to a minimum of 60
per cent, on incomes of $200,000 or
over.
ARBUCKLE TRIAL TO
BE POSTPONED A WEEK
San Francisco, Oct. 25.—Further
delay in the prosecution of Roscoe
(Fatty) Arbuckle for manslaughter in
connection with the death of Virginia
Rappe, appeared Monday.
Defense attorneys announced that
when the trial is called November
7 they will ask a continuance for at
least one week.
District Attorney Mathew Brady,
prosecuting Arbuckle, said he would |
not oppose such a continuance.
Chas. Brennan of Arbuckle's coun
sel will leave here tomorrow for Chi
cago to take the depositions of Dr.
Rosenburg, of Chicago, and of two
nurses, said to have treated Miss
Rappe for kidney trouble in 1917.
The defense claims to have infor
mation that Miss Rappe was warned
by the physician that her life was un
certain unless she used extreme care
In preservation of her health.
MURDERER IS SHOT,
BURNED AT STAKE
Allendale. S. C.. Oct. 25.—Ed Kirk
land, a negro who shot and killed
Eugene Walker, a prominent planter
on the streets of Appleton Monday,
was shot dead as he attempted to
escape from a masked mob that dis
covered him aboard a train where
Sheriff Bennett had secreted him in
an effort to save him. The black was
blaced In an automobile and at dusk
was burned at the stake on the main
atreet.
BIG WRECK ON U. P.
Ogallala, Neb., Oct. 24 (Special).—
One man Is thought to have lost his
life In the wreck of 17 express cars on
the Union Pacific two miles west
of Paxton Monday. Trains were held
up for 13 hours. The cause of the
werck has not been definitely deter
mined.
A new record In the shipment of water
melons was established this year, ac
cording t* the department of agricul
ture. Shipments exceeded 44,000 cars,
surpassing last year's record by 5,000
cars. .
DECIDE HEIST
5TBIIEJ5 BELIEF
Developments Indicate That
“Big Five’’ Chiefs Have
Agreed on Peace Policy—
Expect Railroads to Accept.
BY WILLIAM L. BLISS,
Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 25.—The high
tension under which tho executives of
the five train service unions have
been laboring for the last two weeks
has been dropped and it is believed
that some definite proposition has
been tentatively offered them which
they are ready to accept.
One railroad man. high In the coun
cils of the locomotive engineers’ un
ion, said Monday:
“There will be no strike October
30. Of this I am satisfied, because
of things which have taken place
within the last few days. But the
unions were not bluffing and we fully
expected to go out until Monday."
President W. G. Lee, of the rail
way trainmen, following a long con
ference of all five leaders of the big
rail unions, said Monday evening:
“I am not at liberty to make public
what took place in our conferences to
day, but I will say that what occur
red would be of vast interest to the
.public if they knew what it was."
Only Minor Differences.
Union men here say that the “big
five” chiefs have reached an agree
ment on a peace policy which they
believe will prove acceptable to the
executives of the railroads. This
peace plan, it was suggested, differs
in some minor points from the propo
sition they are said to have received
from Chicago. It is believed, how
ever, that whatever differences there
are can be ironed out.
The above is the optimistic view of
the strike situation here—the one
generally accepted. But it was also
stated here Monday that while the
union chiefs are ready and anxious to
make any reasonable concessions
which will guarantee a peaceful set
tlement of their difficulties with the
railway companies, that unless the
rail executives show a conciliatory
spirit the strike will be called.
Like Balanced Objeot.
Said one of the union officials:
“The unions are like an evenly bal
anced object. The slightest influ
ence can cause the organizations to
turn either way, but we are striving
for peace.”
Mr. Lee was informed of newspaper
dispatches which quoted the rail la
bor board as stating that there would
be no strike.
“I hope that is true,” he said. "But
I haven’t the slightest idea how the
board expects to prevent a strike.” He
would not deny, however, that peace
is in sight.
It was learned Monday that the
500 general chairmen of the big rail
unions will attend the conference
with the railroad executives in Chica
go in a body, in addition to the chiefs
of the organizations and the executive
committees.
The executives could not call off
the strike without the sanction of the
general chairmen, and the fact that
all have been summoned before the
board is another indication that defi
nite plans have already been propos
ed by both sides on which a peace
conference may be based.
DAUGHERTY IS READY.
Washington, Oct. 24. — Attorney
General Daugherty in conference with
district attorneys for five great rail
road centers of the nation, cleared the
department of justice decks Monday
for legal action that will avert the
calamity of a transportation tieup
in event of a rail strike.
District Attorneys Hayward, of New
York; Clyne, of Chicago; Van Nuys,
of Indianapolis; Wertz, of Cleveland
and Lockood, of Buffalo, were those
with whom the attorney general
created his board of stragety. With
them he worked out in detail the
plan for concerted action in the course
to prevent national suffering from a
rail strike.
After the conference which lasted
until late Monday night, Mr. Daugh
erty was just as positive that no
strike would come as he was earlier
in the day when he visited President
Harding at the White House. He
left no doubt about the government’s
Intentions of seeing to the operation
of the roads if the strike comes and
about his department’s prepared
ness.
Following his session with the dis
trict attorneys which will be resumed
Tuesday morning the attorney gen
eral said:
“The government has the power
and ample authority. It will be just
as prompt and reasonable as pos
sible but these arteries of commerce
must be kept open; property pro
tected, life preserved and order main
tained.
“The government is big and strong
enough to see that this is accom
plished."
MRS. DUKE GETS DIVORCE.
Philadelphia, Oct. 25. — Mrs. Cor
nelia Biddle Duke, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Drexel Biddle, was
granted a final decree of divorce in
common pleas court here today from
her husband, Angler B. Duke, son of
the tobacco king. Mrs. Duke charged
cruelty. The suit was not contested
and testimony in the case was secret.
The Dukes were married here in
April, 1911 and have two children.
POLICE QUESTION IF
SUICIDE IS SPURGIN
Miami, Fla., Oct 25.—That the body
of the mystery man who committed
suicide in a local hotel Thursday
night, is not that of Warren C. Spur
gin. absconding bank president, of
Chicago, was the belief of police Mon
day following an Investigation.
"The physical measurements do not
tally.” said a police announcement.
The body had been Identified by W.
, F. Bennett, friend of Spurgin, as that
of the missing banker.
PRINCIPALS IN RAIL STRIKE. |
J2bcV£'Sa-nn-wel l/.Teltoxt Albert aJ. Couxvty
3eJaW' «JoK n G 'Sjodffirs <5 Milton H- Sww'flv.
Here are four of the leading railroad executives who are going ahead
with preparations for another general reduction In wages. Ignoring strike
warnings of their employes. Above, from left to right, ara Samuel L. Fel
ton, president of the Chicago Great Western, and Albert J. County, vice
president of the Pennsylvania lines. Below are John Q. Rodgers, vice
president of the Pennsylvania, and Milton H. Smith, vies president of the
Louisville & Nashville.
Griffith Obviously Satisfies
Lloyd George De Valera’s
Letter Not Intended to No
tice to British Government.
BY ROBERT J. PREW,
London, Oct. 25.— Although all
signs pointed to a disastrous break in
the peace parleys, the rupture was
avoided again Monday. The lull dele
gations met at Downing street Mon
day evening and after one hour’s in
terchange of views on the funda
mental issue of Ireland’s allegiance,to
the British crown, a committee was
appointed to continue to consider the
situation.
The committee named included
Lloyd George and Austen Chamber
lain for the British and Arthur Grif
fith and Michael Collins for the Irish.
This "Big Four” carried on the par
ley for another hour and although no
official statement W'as issued It Is
believed that they directed their en
deavors toward drafting a formula on
the allegiance issue which will enable
the conference to continue to work
out a settlement.
Unofficial statements made In Eng
lish and Irish quarters Monday night
were limited to: "The conference
will meet again tomorrow. There Is
no reason to be pessimistic.”
Veil of Secrecy.
Although both sides continue to
defy efforts to penetrate the veil of
secrecy surrounding the conference It
Is obvious that Griffith was able to
satisfy Lloyd George that De Valera's
letter to the pope was not intended
to be a notice to the British govern
ment that the Sinn Fein intention Is
severing all ties with the United
Kingdom.
Before Lloyd George went into the
conference he had to face rancorous
criticism In parliament from sections
of the Unionists who denounced the
flying of Sinn Fein coloi’3 at the
headquarters of the Irish delegation in
London.
The premier said that such an ac
tion constitutes a breach of the truce
and Is a gross provocation, adding:
"I cannot imagine why these follies
are perpetrated during the peace ne
gotiations.”
Message Grave Challenge.
He characterized De Valer’s mess
age to the pope as a “grave chal
lenge" and declared that he would not
recede from the position that the
cabinet has already taken that Ire-1
land must remain within the British
empire and owning Its allegiance to
King George.
An hour later the premier was tak
ing the same position at the Downing
street conference with Arthur Grif
fith, who maintained that the mess
age of De Valera to tho pope was
meiely a restatement of the position
that the Sinn Fein has taken through
out the preliminary correspondence.
Some of the largest railway locomo
tives manufactured In the United States
are used In the Island of Java.
400 MU8ICIANS STRIKE.
Los Angeles, Oct. 25. — Protesting
against a proposed annual per cent,
reduction In wages, approximately
400 union musicians went on strike
against the Los Angeles theaters com
prising the local theater association
Monday. The theater association
hired 100 men to fill the pllces of the
musicians on strike.
The Paris board of charities Is In the
market for a gram and a half of the fin
est radium to be used In the treatment
of cancer in the city's free hospital.
ROB MAIL OF
MILLION ON
BROADWAY
New York, Oct. 25.—A million dol
lar mall robbery wag successfully car
ried out on Broadway Monday night,
when three young men In an auto
mobile held up a United States mall
truck at Broadway and Worth streets
at the point of revolvers.
Four sacks of registered mall were
seized. These, It is said, contained
at least $1,000,000 In cash or nego
tiable securities. The roblbers ap
peared to have had advance Informa
tion as to the location of the bags,
for other mail pouches were not mo
lested.
The robbers escaped In their car,
driving north on Broadway.
ATTORNEY ASSAILS
OBENOHAIN LAWYER
Makes Startling Charges
Against Erbstein—Separ
ate Trials Granted.
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 26.—Start
ling charges against Charles E. Erb
stein, noted Chicago criminal attor
ney, who arrived In Los Angeles to
day to take charge of the defense of
Mrs. Madalynno Obenohain, indicted
with Arthur C. Burch for the murder
of J. Belton Kennedy, were hurled
by District Attorney Thomas. Lee
Woolwine In Superior Judge Reeve's
court late Monday afternoon.
Woolwine filed a formal objection
to Erbsteln’s application to the court
for permission to appear as Mrs.
Obenchain's attorney.
The court referred the charges to
the state law association.
In the matter of separate trials for
Burch and Mrs. Obenchatn, the dis
trict attorney said ho didi not oppose
the motion of the counsel for Mrs.
Obenohain. and the court thereupon
ordered that Burch be placed on trial
November 1st. Mrs. Obenchaln will
be tried at a later date.
The district attorney's objection to
Erbstein was in the form of a type
written statement and was read in
open court by Woolwine. In his state
ment Woolwine characterized his
reputation in Chicago, "as of the very
worst, being that of a trickster, a Jury
fixer and a suborner of perjury.” He
declared he believed Erbstein to be a
person "wholly unfit to practice law
at this bar.”
Woolwine produced a telegram from
former State Attorney Maclay Hoyne,
of Cook county, Illinois, in which
Hoyne is alleged to have stated that
Erbstein had been twice indicted in
Chicago.
The postofflce department handles
1.700,000 letters an hour; It sells 2,000,000
stamps and 9,000,000 stamped envelopes
dally; and It handles 2.500,000,000 parrels
post packages annually. The dead let
ter office finds 255,000 annually without
any claimant, and spends 21.000,000 an
1 nually In correcting the mistakes of
careless writers.
FORBID8 RADICAL MEETING8.
Gary, Ind., Oct. 25.—No more radi
cal meetings will be permitted in
; Gary, W. A. Forbis, chief of police,
announced Monday as a result of a
meeting for the "relief of soviet Rus
sia," which was broken up by police
Sunday.
M. J. I_,oeb, of Chicago, and a dozen
women garment workers left town
after Forbis had ordered I-oeb to take
the next train.
Thirty thousand persons are killed or
Injured In the United States every day.
BOARD DEMANDS
FOLL AMICE
Will Leave No Room for 'Pass
ing- the Buck’ to Absentees
From Wednesday’s Con
ference.
BY EARL L. SHAUB,
Chicago, Oct.t 25. — Precaution
against a run away strike" October
3t) was taken Monday night when the
railroad labor bontrd Insisted that
every district chairman of tho “Big
Five” unions attend Wednesday’s
conference.
"There must be no room left for
passing the buck to absentees on eith
er side,” said Ben Hooper, vice chair
man. "Railroad executives must also
atteibd. Several brotherhood chair
men have asked If It Is necessary that
they be there. The men occupy posi
tions of Influence and their attend
ance Is necessary."
Twelve hundred union officials and
iOO railroad executives will meet the
i oard in the Coliseum. Thus the
Harding Industrial peace plan will be
thrashed out In the hall where the
president was nominated.
In addition to keeping any one from
“passing the buck" to absentees tho
presence of both big and minor offi
cials will make all subject to any ul
timatum that may be Issued.
Also It will keep every union lead
er posted on what occurs Just as fast
as events unfold.
Will Last Four Days.
It Is expected the meeting will last
four days and maybe more. A roll
call will bo ordered to see that all who
have been cited to attend are pres
ent. Those who fall can be fined
under tho law.
If the conference extends beyond
Saturday It will overlap the strike
date. In that case some kind of a
clash may occur. The board has or
dered both the roads and unions to
maintain the status quo. The union
leaders have repeatedly stated they
cannot postpone their strike order. A
prolonged conference will call for a
showdown on this point.
In case of a walkout It will be lim
ited to the 475,000 train service men.
Practically every other railroad union
with a total membership of 1,625,000
men has voted to stay out of any
strike until after the board decides
their separate grievances.
Tho signal men, with 17,000 mem
bers announced Monday they had as
sumed tho "no strike" attitude. Sat
urday they announced they would not
Join in the brotherhoods' strike.
Prospects that the telegraphers will
go out on Sunday loomed when E. J.
Manlon, head of the order said they
would strike.
“We are not striking in sympathy
with the brotherhoods, but in protest
against the recent wage reduction,”
he said. The strike order was used
by the telegraphers last Friday.
The optimism of the board for a
settlement was reflected in a state
ment issued Monday. It said in part:
“There is great reason to hope the
strike will be averted. Let the public
assume thnt both parties to this con
troversy are struggling in good faith
to solve some of the difficult indus
trial problems that are the aftermath
of the war.”
The statement'is taken here as a
prediction of peace and some believe
it is based on secret information in
the hands of board members.
Executives of railroads entering
Chicago did not hold their weekly
meeting Monday. They will gather
with road officials from all parts of
the country Tuesday to outline their
plans for the peace meeting.
Executives watched the strike of
trainmen on the I. and O. N. Texas
carrier in progress since Saturday
noon. They were encouraged by re
ports that passenger train service Is
uninterrupted and freight trains are
being operated. They believe this an
Indication of what would happen in a
genera! strike.
HOUSEPASSES
FOREIGNLOAN
REFUND BILL
Washington, Oct. 25.—The for
eign loan refunding bill was
passed by the House tonight by
a vote o f 139 to 117. It now gooa
to the Senate.
A R M A MENT DELEG AT 10 N
MEETS NAVAL COUNCIL
Washington, Oct. 25.—The Ameri
can delegation to the conference on
limitation of armaments met Monday
for the first time with the naval ad
visory council.
The report of the general naval
board on "basis of limitation" Is un
derstood to have been submitted to
the delegation. The meeting lasted
for nearly five hours during which
every phase of the conference aside
fi om the political Issues far eastern
questions was drfscussed.
The report of the general board was
brought to the conference room by
Capt. H. V. Pratt. Others present
wore Secretary of Navy IJenby, Assis
tant Secretary Roosevelt and Ad
miral Coontz, chief of operations.
♦ JACOB MIXED LETTERS; X \
♦ GETS THREE YEARS ♦
-f New Yorlc, Oct. 25.—Jacob ♦
♦ Kunz will be on the way to ♦
♦ Sing Sing tomorrow lament- ♦ '
♦ ing the day he decided two ♦
♦ wives were bettor than one. ♦
♦ Jacob's little adventure was
♦ discovered when he mixed let- ♦
♦ ters to each wife. Judge ♦
♦ Nolt has given him three years ♦
♦ in which to ponder the result. ♦
Government Forces of Admiral
Horthy Capture Former Em
peror and Consort After
Two Days’ Pursuit.
BY KARL H. VON WIEGAND,
Budapest, Oct. 25.—The seoond
attempt of former King Charles
to regain the Hapsburg throne
within eight months collapsed
with his capture and internment
Monday night.
The troops of Admiral Horthy,
the Hungarian regent, outnum
bering the forces acoompanylng
the emperor in hie second ooup,
forced them back in their attempt
to enter Budapest, the ancient
capital of the Hapsburgs.
Following advices from the al
lies that Karl would not be tol
erated in Hungary, the Budapest
government issued a warrant for
his arrest, and with tha forme” I
Empress Zita, he was captured
Monday night and Interned,
From the hour that Charles and
Zifa hurriedly left Switzerland by
airplane, presumably last Friday, un
til their rapture and Internment Mon
day night by government troops in
Hungary their movements have been
the subject of keen Interest on the
part of statesmen of both the big and
little ententes.
Far reaching effects were antici
pated In the event that this second
attempt of the former monarch of
Austria-Hungary to regain his thrond
was successful.
With the news that he again was
approaching hl3 old capita’., Buda
pest, at tlio head of an army of roy
alists, the royalist fires In central
Europe were rekindled in many sec
tions and It Is still feared that pos
sibly more than one attempt to restore
some of the fallen European mon
archs may follow.
Ono of the first of these was the
rumor Monday that a kingdom was
declared In Bavaria. IMspatches from
Munich, the capital, do not confirm
this.
Working Classes Arm.
Reports from Vienna were to tho
effect that the working classes were
arming to combat the monarchist
spread.
The allied council of ambassadors
at Paris sent a strong protest to the
Hungarian government against the
return of Charles.
Jugo Slavla, Czecho Slovakia and
Bulgaria, the little entente, served
notice on Regent Horthy that they
would march their forces against Bu
dapest from three directions unless
Karl was arrested within 48 hours.
Spurred by these ultimatums Ad
miral Horthy Monday morning issued
a warrant for the arrest of the former
emperor.
Troops mobilized by the Hungarian
government went forward to ottaolt
the three divisions under General
Kegednos, supporting the advance of
Charles.
Refute Armietice.
The government forces refused to
grant the request of Charles for an
armlHtlce and, according to various •
reports, the battle has been raging for
many hours.
Following the dispatch of the gov
ernment forces to repel the advance
of Charles’ troops, the Hungarian
government wired the allied council
that it had taken tho necessary steps
for the removal of Charles.
Although Charles’ forces were aug
mented during the day by companies
of troops organized among his former
loyal subjects, his troops were large
ly outnumbered by the government
forces. His army was forced to re
treat promptly, and withdrew to Ko
morn, where a stand was reported to
have been made.
Eight Killed.
It Is here that the most serious
conflict occurred. The troops under
Regent Horthy were reported to havs
suffered eight killed and 12 wounded.
The Karllst forces retreated, de
stroying the railroad behind them.
With reports of all kinds drifting
from every capital In Central Europe,
it has been difficult to sift the ac
tual occurrences from the rumors.
The first positive news of the cap
ture and Internment of Charles and
Zita came from Universal Service
correspondents. Mr. Wiegand has
tened to Budapest on Saturday and
reached his Berlin office by telephone
with the first news of the arrest of
Charles.
READJUSTMENT THIS WEEK.
London, Oct. 25.—Former Emperor
Charles' coup has failed in his latest
spectacular attempt to regain the
throne of Hungary because he will
be forced to abdicate and to renounce
all claims. The situation should re
adjust Itself within the week.
This is the official view of the Brit
ish foreign office as given to Uni
versal Service Monday night.
The one big question which Is both
ering Lloyd George and Brland and
the other allied leaders is where to
put Charles when they get him.
Switzerland will not have him any
more. Germany is through with kai
sers. He cannot come to France or
to England. Spain has turned him
down. Holland has Wilhelm, and does
not want any more. So when Charles
signs his abdication agreement he
will truly be a man Without a country,
brcause his presence in any country
Is dangerous.
The unappreciated taste that Is ac
quired by cold storage eggs Is said by
the department of agriculture to be
caused by the fact that they absorb
odors of the" storage plant. A new pre
serving liquid has been developed, and
eggs dipped In this will not collect the
objectionable flavor, Washington au
thorities announce.
William Blackburn. 72. Boston, who
served In the naval reserve during the
World war, and is under the govern
ment's plan for vocational study for war
veterans, has been trying to letffn to
write for the last two years and four
montlis. Director Forbes of the war
veterans bureau says it has cost the
