THE FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN, PUBLISHER/
W. C. TEMPLETON,
Editor and Business Manager.
O'NEILL, NEBRASKA
Radiophone equipment has been put
on trains of two railroads In thla coun
try, says Popular Mechanics magaslne.
namely the Lackawanna and the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. Both these
companies have converted buffet cars
Into virtual receiving stations, wherein
the passengers can don headpiece# snd
listen to the various broadcasting. The
coaches are surmounted by special
aerials running the length of the ears,
and are of different construction, the
Lackawanna using six wires ana the
other road two, with the entire set being
grounded through the axles to the rails.
In the IB years Geraldine Farrar was
with the Metropolitan Opera Company
she accepted no free seats from the
management, except two for each per
formance when she sang. These were
usually occupied by her father and
mother. When she Invited friends to
hear her sing, she paid for seats. An
other feature of Miss Farrar s long en
gagement Is ahe never gave luncheona
or dinners for musical critics.
What Is a oulja board? The United
Plates supreme court has been asked to
lend its learning to solve the problem.
The government determined such hoards
are to be classed as sporting goods along
with tennis rackets and baseball bate. A
Baltimore manufacturing company has
asked the court to rule that the board
la "a grade of motor automatism, In
i solving considerable subconscious ac
tion of intelligence,'' and not sporting
goods, subject to a tax of 10 per cent.
Miss Edna Ferber and her mother,
who sailed for Europe early this spring,
are now at Nice and expect to spend
the summer on the oontlnent. Before
she sailed Miss Ferber left with her
publishers the manuscript of a new
book, "The Afternoon of a Faun,” which
they will bring out In the autumn.
Corporal Claude Samsomoff, 9-year
old ecout of his father’s Cossack troop
In guerrilla warfare against the bol
rhevist army. Is the youngest hero of
the Russian revolution. He was wound
ed three times and decorated with the
cross of 8t. George. Since his father's
death he has been at a Russian or
The United States spent during 1920-21
on its army $342,151,808, or $3.22 per
capita, while army expenses In the
British empire exclusive of dependen
cies, amounted to $562,128,000, or $12.85
per capita; France, $933,927,000. or
$22.52 per capita; Italy. $246,081,200, or
$6.70 per capita, and Japan, $189,082,
900, or $8.38 per capita.
Dr. George T. Harding, Jr., physician
of Wrothington, Ohio, and brother of
President Harding, attended the Sev
enth Day Adventist conference In San
Francisco recently and predicted that
the end of the world Is near. •’Indlca
tlons from conditions In the world today
.point to the fact we are living In the
time predicted by the prophets," he
said.
A New York man got a verdict for
$250 from a landlord who failed to sup
ply heat In an apartment. The man lost
three weeks' work from Illness, and
spent money for medicine and medical
advice.
A wide field is open to college women
In charity work. They are almost al
ways able to stand the strain of making
difficult humanitarian decisions such as
come up often In the work, says the sec
retary of Now York state charities aid.
Ixmdon has discovered the he-flapper.
He runs to sandals, long and sometimes
jewelled cigaret holders, sport shirts
with string ties, purple velor hats, wide
colored scarfs about the waist Instead of
a belt, and he Inhabits Regent street
cafes.
A man stopping at a Wichita, Kan.,
hotel, looked under his bed and found
something that niAde him gasp. A
woman was lying there. She crawled out,
Jerked open her pocketbook and dis
played an automatic pistol. “I'm looking
for a man who treated me badly," she
said. But h® was not the man.
The Shakespeare chair in the Burdett
Coutts art treasures auctioned In 1 Lon
don brought £2,106 ("normally $10,600).
It w’as designed by Hogarth for David
Oarriek. According to tradition, Ho
i srth carved the chair out of a piece of
Shakespeare's mulberry tree.
Some Idea of the volume of present
day literary industry in the United
States may be gathered from the fact
that one large eastern publishing house
publishes more than 100 books a year,
Issues five nugazlne a month, and an
average of 400 manuscripts a day are
read In It.
It is reported In reliable business cir
cles that «n English financial group is
endeavoring to purchase a large'por
tion of shares In the Alfred Krupp Co.,
Vienna. The English group offered £8
sterling each for a block of 80.000 shares
—but Krupp wants £3*4. Negotiations
are said to be proceeding.
A textbook, "De octo partlbus ora
tionis" by Aellus Donatus, printed by
John Guttenbeurg about 1448 at Mayenee,
is to be offered for sale at auction iu
New' York. The book is the earliest
specimen of European printing.
Mrs. Harriet Scar, 72. known for years
as one of the most expert trappers In
Michlgun, recently lost her life while on
a hunting trip near Algorioc, Mich. Her
arm was caught In a muskrat trap, and
unable to tree herself, she died of ex
After 24 years congress has voted the
Distinguished Service Cross to Brig.
Gen. Henry H. Whitney, retired, who
penetrated the Spanish lines In Porto
Itlco, disguised as a British sailor, and
returned with important information for
General Miles.
The women's vote In New Jersey will
bo 30.000 more than that of men, accord
ing to the Republican Women's club
which has a membership of 60.000 and is
seeking 100,000 before fall elections. It
is pointed out there are 280.000 women of
voting age in the state.
A historically famous portrait in
pastel of Marie Antoinette ut the age
of 16, declared to be one of the prizes
of the art world, was picked up for $40
recently at an auction in New York city.
It was among the effects of Archduke
Ludwig Victor who died In 1919.
Colleges favor prohibition. The Inter
collegiate Prohibition association re
ceived replies from 168 colleges and uni
versity presidents In 40 states. There
were i36 favorable to prohibition, 10 non
committal and 8 unfavorable, and 4
favorable to the theory but unfavorable
to present law*.
General Pershing has been made a
doctor of laws In McGill university at
Montreal.
The mortgage debt on owned homes
and farms in the state of New York ac
cording to census returns of 1920
amounted to $1,164,976,000. The total
value of these properties amounted to
$2,646,166,000, the mortgage debt being
43 per cent, of the total value.
Bad tempered admirals will no longer
sail the blue, as far as the British navy
Is concerned. By an orJftr Just issued
the Brf*4l admiralty U authorized to
place on the retired list Irrespective of
age or service, such officers of the
naval and marine forc«a who may he
judged to have irasclbia^mpers
FARM BUREAU HAS '
Four Constitutional Amend
ments Are to Be Pushed—■
Income Tax Law Is One
of Its Planks.
Lincoln. Neb., May 2D (Special).
The legislative committee of the
state farm bureau has prepared a
tentative draft of Its legislative pro
gram. It proposes to Initiate four
constitutional amendments, permit
ting a rural credit law, classifica
tion for taxation of tangible property,
permitting legislature by two-thirds
vete to change salaries of state of
ficials at any time, and to provide
for taxation of municipal property
where used as a public utility and
the taxing of bonds and securities of
all governmental subdivisions.
Along the lines of legislation the
bureau asks for a state Income tax
law, compelling public utilities to
pay taxes on their rate making value;
mandatory publication of tax re
turns; township boards of equaliza
tion; repeal of Smith mortgage tax
law; seeking aid of other etates to
end federal road aid policy; continua
tion of appropriations for wiping out
bovine tuberculosis, and agricultural
extension; state civil service law;
state*to buy land sold for taxes; pro
viding for optional adoption of ceunty
manager plan, and a number of minor
matters.
TAX ALL PROPERTY IS
PLAN OF THIS BANKER
Lincoln, Neb., May 27 (Special)/—
President Aldrich, of Group One of
the State Hankers’ association, told
the convention here that the bank
ers should work to chango the laws
so that there should be no tax exemp
tions possible save the amount that
la exempted from execution. He de
clared that the farmers were paying
as much taxes now. In many In
stances, as their farms formerly
rented for, and that they were not
anxious to eliminate good roads and
good schools. The one remedy left
was to make all property pay taxes
and thus take it off land. At present
any rich man can evade taxation en
tirely, when he Is best able to pay.
Mr. Aldrich said the bankers
should start an educational campaign
against the referendum on the law
which permits the state banking
board to decide If a town hus enough
banks. He says this Is not something
the bankers tried to put over, but Is
Intended to protect the guaranty
fund.
PRACTICAL TESTS
FORJI BEANS
State College Plants 10 Varie
ties In 25 Counties to Deter
mine Which Is Best Fitted
For Growth In Iowa.
Ames (Special). — Soy bean seed
will be teBted this summer by the
farm crops department of lowa State
college in 30 plots which have been
planted In 2B counties to determine
its growing ability with corn. Kach
plot contains 10 different varieties
and It is hoped that the eperiment
will show the seed value of the dif
ferent beans for planting under lowa
conditions for producing silage.
Hue to the unusual demand for soy
beans this season, there have been
calls for many varieties. Some of
these, according to F. G. Churchill,
farm crops specialist with the lowa
agricultural experiment station, are
not suited to Iowa as they are south
ern varieties and will not mature
properly. By planting the many va
rieties in the different plots the re
sults ought to show the true value of
the beans, says Mr. Churchill.
Farm Crop Specialist at Iowa
State College Finds More
Fields Planted With
Sov Bean.
Allies (Special). — That average
acreage of corn has been planted In
Iowa this spring is the assertion of
E. S. Bressman, farm crops specialist
of Iowa state college, who has just re
turned to Ames from a tour of the
state. Mr. Bressman assisted In plant
ing the samples for the corn yield test
on 12 experiment fields of the state
and had ample opportunity to look
over crop conditions.
Everywhere soy beans are being
planted, generally with the corn and
these will be harvested for silage or
hogged down. The unusual demand
for the soy beans this season has
practically exhausted all the seed in
the state. Recently the Iowa Experi
ment association at Ames received a
cull from the American Red Cross for
a carload of seed to replant the flood
ed sections In Illinois. The associa
tion was unable to fill the order.
•
IOWAN FROZEN TO
DEATH IN MAY BLIZZARD
Rock River, Wyo., May 27.—The
tragic end of a companionship which
began In the army was revealed Fri
day when the bodies of Marion D.
Young. Pasadena, Cal., and Jack
Westcott, I’rbanu, la., were fesind
frozen In the snow of a May blizzard
on the plains, near here. Evidently
both boys, who were sheep herders,
had become confused during }he
storm and were unable to find their
way back to their shack. Westcott's
slicker covered the body of Young.
DEMANDS RETURN
DF SEIZED LIQUORS
Prohibition Director in Ne
braska Asked to Explain
Why He Has Not Oar
riedOut Court’s Orders.
Omaha, Neb., May 27.—Motion ha*
been filed hi federal court by James
H. Hanley, Omaha attorney, asking
that * Prohibition Director D. 8.
Rohrer, his chief clerk, and others
show cause why an order of Federal
Judge J. W. Woodrough, directing re
turn to Its owners of malt and hops
seined by prohibition agents, had not
been carried out, and whether they
aro In contempt of court for failure
to do so.
Judge Woodrough recently ordered
the property returned, holding a
United States commissioner has no
legal right to Issue a search war
rant for seizure of malt and liops
without proof that they are designed
for unlawful manufacture. Attorney
Hanley, formerly federal prohibition
director for Nebraska, said he would
ask for a hearing tomorrow.
MOUNTAIN LION RAN
WILD IN 8TREET8
Alliance, Neb., May 27.—A moun
tain lion, escaped from its cage In
a wild animal show, killed a mule
and scattered 100 people In Its path
before the animal was recaptured
after running through a house, caus
ing Its occupants to tumble over
themselves to get out of the way.
HERBERT QUICK GROWS
ILL WHILE SPEAKING
Des Moines, la., May 25 (Special).
—Friends of J. Herbert Quick, former
Sioux City mayor and now a prom
inent author, were alarmed last night
when In an address to the Iowa Press
and Author club he was suddenly
seized with an attack of lapse of
memory and for u short time was un
able to continue.
Today he had fully recovered from
a threatened nervous breakdown diue
to an exceedingly strenuous day fol
lowing closely upon a strenuous ses
sion at the University of Missouri.
He left today for Iowa City to put
In two days at the university.
"I’m rested again and as good as
-- M Ln on l A
MISS ALICE GROWS ANGRY.
Representative Alice Robert
son, Oklahoma, is not fighting
fairly when in her attack on the
National League of Women Voters
she says the league Is putting the
country into a gynecocracy. One
fears that she has let her temper
get the better of her tongue.
Miss Alice started out to ignore
the league of voters. She sniffed at
them. Then they sniffed back, and
in sniffing snubbed Miss Alice. They
neglected, when Lady Nancy Astor
was their guest in Washington, to
iuvtte the lady from Oklahoma to the |
party.
Whereupon Miss Alice declared
war, complaining that she considered
herself deliberately insulted by the
league of women voters, inasmuch
as “Lady Astor holds the some posi
tion in England as I do in this coun
try.” Similar positions, yes, but
there the comparison abruptly ends.
In this connection one wonders it
President Harding’s glaring failure
to attend the dedication of the Wash
ington headquarters of the National
Woman's Party has any connection
with Representative Robertson’s
hurling multiple syllabled words at
the voters’ league. The president
does not think that political al
legiance should be separated on sex
lines. In that he is right.
But while progressive thinkers will
readily agree with him there, it is
not possible for them to follow him
in his insistence that women shall
align themselves permanently with
one or the other two major parties
and become partisans. If they fol
low the president’s advice they will
Boon find themselves submerged, be
ing useful chiefly to wash the dishes
after political banquets and to cast
votes as they are directed on election
day.
By keeping unbiased minds, pre
venting the political prejudice that
has made men automatic voting ma
chines from eiftering into their con
sideration of men and events, women
can exercise the balance of power
and force parties to live up to their
pledges, to stand for right principles
without equivocation, to put forward
candidates of good character. This
has been said before. It cannot be
repeated too often.
But to return to Miss Alice and
her verbal bomb, hurled into the
camp of her “enemies.” For those
who haven’t a dictionary handy it
may be stated that "gynecocraoy”
means "government by women, in a
deprectatlve sense, petticoat rule.”
President Harding expresses the
aspiration of the average American
when he asks for a “commerce with
a conscience.”
Proponents of child labor legisla
tion are recovering from the shock
of the supreme court’s annulment
of the federal child labor law. They
are counting on the woman's vote
for ultimate victory, it is a safe
bet that their confidence is not mis
placed.
I
CHILD BURNED TD
Her 7-Year-Old Brother Failed
to Rescue Girl But Man
aged to Escape From
the Blaze.
Fullerton, Neb., May 25 (Special).—
Katherine Virginia Horn, 4 years old,
was burned to death in a fire which
destroyed the Horn barn. Her 7
year-old brother, who was playing in
the barn with her, escaped and said
he had tried to pull his sister down
the feed hole into the manger to
escape. Fire had cut off the exit
from the loft. His hold was broken,
however, and he rushed out of the
smoke filled building.
The charred body of the little girl
was found in the ruins.
BECAME BANDITS TO
GET MONEY FOR CAR
Lincoln, Neb., May 25 (Special).—
Three boys, none over 17, are in cus
tody as holdup artists. They hired a
car to go pleasuring, and according
to their story did not have enough
money to pay the garage man at the
end of their trip, so they decided to
hold up somebody and get it. All
they got from their only victim was
23 cents, and he was sharp enough
to jot down in his memory their car
number. By this they were traced,
and very readily confessed.
THEY PASSED CHECKS ON
SIOUX CITY BANK
Auburn, Neb., May 25 (Special).—
Charles W. Alexander and William G.
Alexander, charged with passing a
number of bad checks here drawn on
a Sioux City, la., bank, pleaded
guilty in district court here. The
former was given an indeterminate
te.-m of from one to four years in
prison and sentenced to pay a fine
of $100 and oosts of prosecution.
William Alexander was given one to
six years in prison and a similar fine.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
MEET AT YORK, NEB.
York, Neb., May 25.—The state con
vention of the Knights of Columbus
c f Nebraska convened here Tuesday
for a two-day meeting. The delega
tions met at St. Joseph Catholic
i hurch at 9 o'clock to attend pon
tifical high mass, th» celebrant being
Kev. Father Cullen, pastor of the
church.
elecIcIrr
FOR NEGRO JUNEB
Nebraska Authorities Prepare
to Execute Slayer of Prison
Guard—Send for
Executioner.
Lincoln, Neb.. May 23 (Special).—
Preparations have been begun at the
Hate penitentiary for the electrocu
I n on June 9 of James B. King,
who killed Robert L. Taylor, a prison
guard, a year ago. The supreme court
1 as held that there was nothing to
tl " defense of insanity, and his at
torney has made no move to file a
n.otton for a rehearing. Warden Fen
ton has sent for Executioner Currier,
of the New York prison, who of
ficiated at the electrocution of Cole
and Crammer.
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ASSERTS COUNTY IS
WITHOUT A SHERIFF
Lincoln, Neb., May 23 (Special).—
Thurston county has no legal sheriff,
says the attorney general, and if the
county board, which refused to recog
nise Sheriff Rutledge’s suspension by
the governor, does not rescind Its ac
tion it is likely to cause a lot of liti
gation. The attorney general takes
the position that that Is the county's
lookout, however, and he will take no
further action in the matter save to
push the complaint filed against Rut
lidge. In accordance with the gov
ernors order.
Mr. Davis is of the opinion, after
looking over the authorities and
precedents, that the threatened pros
ecution of County Judge Flynn will
he dropped. He is inclined to think
that us Flynn holds an office created
by the constitution only the legisla
ture can try'and remove him. Neither
suspension nor ouster has been insti
1 lllhll dUQlllGl kli-nn
BITE OF INSECT^
NEARLY CAUSES DEATH
Harvard. Neb.. May 23 (Special).—
The bite of a poisonous insect almost
tost the life of Frank E. Turner, local
parage proprietor. Turner had just
ii turned from a funeral service at the
local cemetery when he felt a sharp
Sting in the small of-his back. The
sung was much like that of a bee or
wasp, he declares. He failed to find
the insect. Turner soon found lie
could not move his left arm or leg and
his face and tongue began to swell,
ft hen he was removed home he lay
paralyzed for night hours. He is now
recovering. it is believed that the
b te may have been that of one of the
huge spiders which are appearing in
large numbers at Auburn.
FUGITIVE BANKER IS
BEING RETURNED TO STATE
Lincoln. Neb., May 23 (Spicclul).—
Sheriff Howard, of Hamilton county,
la supposed to be on the way back to
Nebraska from Kalkaska, Mich., with
C! arlcs ft'. Wentz in his custody. A
hiter received at Governor McKel
vi> s office states ih.it the requisition
was honored by Governor Crossbeck
and an extradition warrant issued to
Slerltr Howard. The officers of
Kalkaska county -tie reacted to be
Willing to deliver Wentz to a Nebras
ka official, ft entz is under sentence
for violating the Nebraska banking
law.
50 S0L0NS
FIGHT FOR
A WET U. S.
Congressmen Demand Prompt
Action on Bill to Put Beer,
Wine and Local Option Up
To the People Next Fall.
Universal Service.
Washington, May 27.—The light
wine and beer movement took on
added momentum in the House Friday
when 60 representatives petitioned
ways and means committee for
prompt consideration of the local op
tion bill recently introduced by Rep
resentative John P. Hill, republican,
of Maryland.
The letter to the committee reads:
"The undersigned members of ths
House of Representatives request that
H. R. 11410 be promptly reported in
order that the qpngress may have an
opportunity to decide whether the
American people shall have the right
in the coming November elections to
determine whether in each federal lo
cal option district they desire to per
mit the use of 2.76 per cent, cider and
beer, as set forth in H. R. 11410."
The Hill bill provides that each
congressional district shall substitute
a federal local option district, and
that in the next November election the
voters shall decide whether they wish
beer or cider as defined In the bill.
The alcoholic content of beer and
cider is limited to 2.76 per cent, by
volume. Dandelion wine also is In
cluded in the bill.
A tax of 20 cents on a gallon is
provided for. At this rate Represent
ative Hill estimates, the bill would
produce revenue of $400,000,000 to
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this estimate is based on the pre
sumption that the country's thirst
has lost none of ita zest since 1914
when 2,000,000,000 gallons of beer
were brewed in the United Statee.
The city council of Baltimore and
of many other municipalities and
many chambers of commerce and
other commercial organizations have
endorsed the proposed legislation, lir.
Hill states.
ANTI-NARCOTIC BILL
SIGNED BY HARDING
Universal Service.
Washington, May 27.—President
Harding on Friday signed the Jones
Miller anti-narcotic bill. Thus the
most drastic measure ever aimed at
the illicit drug traffic became a law.
The measure was signed in the
executive offices of the White House
rvith Senator Jones and Represent
ative Miller, its co-authors present.
After attaching hTs signature the
president shook hand heartily with
the two members who sponsored the
bill who were tireless in obtaining its
speedy passage through congress.
“ The federal narcotic control board
created by the law will meet to or
ganize within a few days. It is com
posed of Secretary of State Hughes,
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon,
and Secretary of Commerce Hoover.
They will have the widest powers to
regulate manufacture and shipment of
narcotics.
The law imposes 10 years impris
onment and $6,000 fine for illicit drug
dealing and provides for deportation
of alien offenders.
An international conference to
adopt a world code for suppression of
the illicit drug traffic was proposed
Friday by Senator McNary, of Ore
gon, in a Joint resolution offered in
the Senate.
FORD’S SHOALS OFFER
TO BE ACCEPTED, BELIEF
Universal Service.
Washington, May 27.—The House
military affairs committee will rec
ommend next week a plan for disposal
of the government’s project at Mus
cle Shoals which will make it virtu
ally certain that Henry Ford’s offer
will prevail, members of the commit
tee indicated brtaay.
Three men and two women were ar
rested Friday evening when police
raided the home of M. L. Wynn, 39
years old, who lives near the Logan
Park cemetery Wynn's home has
been under police surveillance for
several weeks.
Wynn was charged with keeping a
disorderly house and was allowed his
freedom after he posted a $25 cash
bond. The others gave their names
as: E. Larson, 26 years old, 1008
Grand avenue: Joe Mannie, 39 years
old. Homer, Neb,; Ida Jones. 26 years
old, Vermillion, S. D.: and Harriet
Petram, 31 years old, of Minneapolis,
Minn.
Eighty bottles of beer were found
by police hidden in a cave in the rear
of the residence. The bottles were
broken and a pint of alcohol, also
found in the cave, was destroyed,
troyed.
The raid was made by Chief of I o
lice James Shanlev, Capt. James
O'Keefe, Patrolmen James Haggerty
and W. B. Gardner.
BLAIR SUSPENDS TWO.
Washington, May 27.—'The ax fell
cgain Friday in the internal revenue
bureau.
Samuel B. Hatched, chief payroll
examiner, and Fred C.ilinger, clerk,
were suspended by orders of Com
missioner Blair, pending further in
vestigation Into the affairs of the ac
count unit abolished May 23.
Slr Arthur Conan Doyle expects to In
vestigate the possibilities of communi
cating with the spirits of the departed
by means of radio during his visit In
Chicago.
SLAY WARD,
IS PLOT OF ‘
N. Y. WOMAN
Cafe Guest of Fine Gowns and'
Gems Offers Waiter $500 to
Murder Walter Missing
Since He Gave Bond.
Universal Service.
White Plains, N. Y„ May 29.—Th*
plot of a woman to kill Walter S.
Wart\ confessed slayer of Clarenc*
Peters was bared Sunday night.
Authorities declare that Saturday
night a waiter in a cafe in New York
city was offered $500 by a fashion
ably dressed, bejoweled woman to go>
New Rochelle and "get that Million
aire."
The waiter said, according to re
liable information, that the woman
had been dining in the restaurant for
about a week and that he had served
her several times.
“Get How?” “Get Right.”
Saturday night, he said, he waited,
on the woman and when she had fin
ished her meal she said that she had a
“job" she wanted done and that there
was $500 in it for the fellow who had
the nerve to carry it out.
“I’ve got the nerve all right, what's
the Job?” the waiter inquired.
“There's a guy in New Rochelle I
want to get," she replied.
"Get how?" The waiter inquired.
"Get right, I mean," she replied-'
"Who’s the man?” asked the waiter..
“Walter S. Ward,” she replied.
8he Knew He Told Cop?
The waiter said that he would think
the matter over and made arrange
ments to meet the woman later. The
man immediately informed the police
but when he went to meet the woman
she failed to appar. It is believed that
she or one of her accomplices watched
the waiter to see if he would report
the incident to the police.
While authorities here refused to
glve the waiter's name they said the
police at the west Sixty-eighth
street station, New York could prob
ably tell. Efforts to trace the my
sterious woman have failed.
SENSATIONAL STORY
TO GO HARD ON WARD?
New Rochelle. N. Y„ May 29.—A
story, which if verified, may prove
seriously damaging to the tragedy
chronology as narrated by Walter S. 0
Ward, young millionaire who has con
fessed that he killed Clarence Peters,
has come to the attention of the au
thorities and has excited their keerr
attention.
It involves a record of events at the
Ward home on the night of May 15.
If true, it upsets Ward’s story of how"
he spent the middle hours of that
night and brings up even more forci
bly than before the puzzling and un
answered question.
What were the circumstances that
induced Ward, rich police commis- ^
sinner, and New Rochelle society mam
to make of Peters, uneducated, un
talented and poverty stricken youth
with a long police record an ac
quaintance eventually impelling the.
millionaire to go automobiling with
the penniless youth?
What Ward Said.
In a statement last Monday, when
he surrendered, Ward said that up
to about midnight he was at home
and that then he went out to meet
Peters and the mysterious and mis
sing Charley Ross and Jack, that he
drove with Peters to a rendezous
followed by Ross olid Jack, and that
at 4 o’clock on the morning of the
16th they wound up near Kensico
reservoir where the shooting occurred.
Reporters were informed Sunday
by an intimate friend of one of the
men of the affair, that a bridge party
was held the evening of May 15 in the
Ward home, that Mrs. Curtis, mother
of Mrs. Ward was among the dozen
guests and that Ward was not im
the party.
This informant said that when in
quiry was made by guests for Ward,
his wire expiuinea ne nun leiepnonea
late in the afternoon that he would
not be at home.
Most of the guests left at midnight,
goes the story, the others remaining-:
until daylight, still playing.
No Hilarity But Lights On.
Though week-end parties lasting
late Into the night and Into the morn
ing are common occurrences in Now
Rochelle, with its colony of actors and
actresses, who do not reach home
from the city until morning, the '
bridge party at the Ward home lasted
so long as to arrest the attention of
delivcres of milk in Sutton manor and
sue li neighbors as happened to be up
at daylight.
There was no hilarity, but the lights
burned brightly on the ground floor
and occasional choruses of laughter
sounded from the house. Nobody
heard Ward's voice, nor did anybody
see him enter the house in the early
evening, when, according to his story,,
h returned home, or leave about mid
night. when he says he went to meet
Peters, Ross and Jack to indue them*
to yelld their alleged blackmail de- ^
mand of $75,000. —
Ward is said to have entered his
home at 5 o'clock in the morning,,
an hour after the time at which, he
says he engaged in the revolver bat
tle.
If Billy Sunday conducts revival)
meetings in the mining camps of
West Virginia, it is hoped that some
of the coal operators who, it de
velops In the Logan trials, hired %
gunmen to annul the constitutiflha!
rights of peaceful assemblage ant?
free speech also attend.
Bargains Are For Husbands.
Prom the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Notwithstanding a woman's fondness
for bargains, nothing makes her inadder
than tbo suggestion that she is wear!ns
one of them.