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REVEALS BIG SWINDLES OF MRS. HAYES Charles B. Manville Declares Public Lost Millions Through Operations of Woman Ac cused of Forgery. Universal Service. New York, May 13.—"Like the wayfarer on the road from Jericho to Jerusalem, I fell among thieves. And I was beautifully trimmed. "Mrs. Mytrle B. Hayes, my secre tary and business adviser? Why, ^ sho is a member of one of the slickest confidence gangs In* the country—a/ gang that used my name to steal mil lions of dollars» irom uie puuuu., | With this ob-S cervation, Charles B. Manville, 89 years old, multi millionaire, Sun day told an aston ishing story of his business experi ences with Myrtle Bowman Hayes, under indictment k on a charge of Mrs. M. BT Hayes. , forging the name of Charles M. j Schwab to notes totalling $325,000. He frankly admitted he had been j ■“stung.” ' As in the Schwab case, he believes his signature was forged, and the use of his name by the conspirators caused the flow of $3,000,000 into the ■ coffers of Myrtle Hayes and com- j pany, he claiffis. The aged financier identified Mrs. Hayes as one of the prime movers in a big oil stock swindle whereby $2, 000,000 in practically worthless stock was unloaded on the public from ccast to coast. This bubble was punctured a year ago and six were Indicted. j OFFENSIVE NOTEj Reply to Britain Conciliatory •—Conference Asked— . Krassin Speeding > to London. ——————— Universal Service. Special Cable Dispatch. London, May 13.—Leonid Krassin, head of the Russian trade delegation, is expected to reach here Monday. He is flyiftg from Moscow by way of Berlin. Krassin comes to plead for delay in the application of the British ulti matum, dispatched May 2, if England considers the Russian reply unsatis factory. A big communist mass meeting in Trafalgar Square -Sunday afternoon passed a resolution against war with Rassia. All the speakers denounced Lord Curxon’s note, calling it a “provoc ative ultimatum”, and declaring that it is responsible for the present crisis and threatened hostilities. —^— RUSS ASK CONFERENCE. , Universal Service. Special Cable Dispatch. Copenhagen, May 13.—The Russian reply to the British ultimatum asks for a conference to discuss all dis puted points. The date and meeting place is left to the decision of the British government. The answering note flatly denies any anti-British propaganda on the part of Russia, and the offensive Weinstein note is withdrawn by the soviets. LEAPS INTO RIVER, FIREMAN SAVES HER Iowa State Oil Inspector’s Daughter Fears Confine ment in Sanitarium. Cedar Rapids, la., May 13 (Spe cial).—Mrs. Mabel Valentine, 49 years old, of Chicago, daughter of State Oil Inspector and Mrs. R. M. Garrison, of Cedar Rapids, attempted to end her life here Sunday by jump ing from the Fourth avenue bridge into the Cedar river. She was rescued by Joseph Hall, city fireman, who was attracted by her screams and the calls of a boy fishing from the bridge. Fear that she would be taken back to a sanitarium in Milwaukee, Wis., from where she had come home Sat urday night, prompted her attempt, sh« told police. She slipped out of tha Garrison home Sunday morning before other members of the family were up and made her way directly to the river. She will recover, physi cians' say. END* STRIKE. Denver, Col., May 11 (A. P.)—Strik ing shopmen of the Denver & Rio Grande western railroad, voted yester day 849 a*fl 379 to end their strike on terms suggested by Russell Flem ing, attorney general of Colorado, and John J. Tobin, of Montrose, state senator, acting as mediator. The Acid Test. From the Kansas City Star. Judge—If your object wasn’t to steal chickens, then what were you doing In your neighbor's chicken coop at that time of night? The Accused—I wanted to te*t mv will Dower, your honor. GIRLS TO BE CALLED BY ^ GRAND JURY I Roommate of Leighton Mount Gives Testimony Which Brings Recent Aubere Haz ing Death Into Inquiry. BY WILEY S. SCRIBNER, Universal Service Correspondent. Chicago, May 13.—Pretty coeds of Northwestern college will be ques tioned in connection with the inves tigation of the death of Leighton Mount and Louis Aubere. The decision to question girls of the college was reached at the state's attorney’s office Sunday, after Roscoe C. Fitch, college boy and former roommate of Mount, had, been grilled for many hours. He claimed to know nothing of Mount's death but admitted he was present when Au bere died in an automobile crash. Fitch told the authorities Dr. Wal ter Dill Scott had told fraternity lead ers to not talk to anyone regarding the Aubere death. To Force Testimony. “This indicates nothing morq than a conspiracy of silence and we are go ing to make them talk," said John Sbarbao, assistant state’s attorney. With the revelations of Fitch beforr them the authorities determined to broaden the score of the investiga tion to include the coeds. The girls, it was believed* were “in on the^ se cret” and possibly would talk more I freely than the college boys. It wat ' expected subpoenas would be issued for the girls to appear before the grand jury. What the authorities are ^inxious to establish, is whether Fitch was telling the truth when he said Dr. Scott had ordered students not -to talk of the Aubere death. According to Fitch, Aubere was being taken out for hazing. He was being held in an automobile and another car was rammed into it to frighten him. He was crushed to death. Fitch was standing on the running board of the death car, according to his state ment. Same Secrecy on Mount. Leighton Mount disappeared on September 22, 1921, in a class rush, two years previous to the tragic death of Louis Aubere, three weeks ago. The authorities believe the same secrecy was thrSwn about Mount’s disappearance and death that veiled the death of Aubere. The searching investigation into the Mount case has established that he participated in the class rush and was never again seen alive and that the skeleton found under a pier on Lake Michigan was that of the miss ing student, the investigators claim. The authorities are now trying to establish how Mount came to his death. Facts so far revealed by in terrogating scores of witnesses indi cate that he was killed intentionally /or accidentally, and his body hidden under the pier. Chief Justice Harry Olson, of the Chicago municipal court, who is a trustee of Northwestern university, gaid that while the motive for the student’s death is not clear, the facts do not indicate suicide. The fact that the body was weighted down with rocks, on the contrary, points to a crime, he believes. Defends President Scott. Judge Olson has been active in aid ing the authorities in their attempt to solve the mystery. He said that Dr. Scott had not tried to hide anything. “He hasn’t been trying to hide any thing,” Judge Olso said. “He had his right to his belief that Mount was a suicide. Of course, later details do not point that way." Dr. Scott will not be asked to re sign from the university, Judge Olson stated. The executive committee of the board of trustees of Northwestern Saturday voted approval of Dr. Scott’s stand. “Tlie trustees of the university are unanimously with and behind Pres ident Scott,” the resolution said. “When the conclusion of the present grand jury investigation permits a review of the facts in regard to haz ing at Northwestern university, we believe every act of the president in the matter will meet with approval.” 4 Balloons Tear Loose Near Paris Universal Service. Special Wireless Dispatch. Paris, May 13.—Four balloons entered in the grand prix tore loose in a gale and are now float ing empty somewhere over France. Fourteen other balloons en tered from France, Italy and Bel gium, started on their race at 4:10 o’clock Sunday afternoon. All of them were veering off to ward the sea in a strong wind. ISSUE OVERSUBSCRIBED. Washington, May 13.—Subscrip tions to last week’s offering of $400, 000,000 or thereabouts of 4% per cent, treasury notes total about $1,000,000, 000, Secretary Mellon announced Sunday. The subscription books closed Saturday, except for exchang es of 4% Victory notes, which were reserved in the official circular an nouncing the offering. The minimum wage of white aomen workers In Mabama, South Carolina, Missouri, Rhode Island and Kansas ranges from $'.80 In Alabavnn tlitfifl in Missouri I ...—:-: • ft . ..-——-<■* 1 111 ——!-1” Left to right, we have Byrnece, Beulah, Brauda and Beverly MacFad* den, children of Mr. and Mrs. Bernarr MacFaddcn, the former being the “father of physical culture” and multi-millionaire publisher. Mr. MaeFad den has challenged Supreme Court Justice John Ford, of New York City, who inspired the so-called “cloan b ooks” bill in the New York legislature to a debate. He has eliminated fairy stories in the education of his four beautiful children and lets them read anything which reflects life. ' ALLEGELSUVEB Poisoned Brother to Get Life Insurance, Police Charge —Suspected in Two Other Deaths. .... . . ...1 Universal Service. Newark, N. J., May 13.—Mrs. John Creighton, 24 years old, held with her husband in the Newark city Jail, charged with poisoning her 18-year old brother, Charles Raymond Avery, to obtain $1,000 insurance, collapsed Sunday, It was said by the police. Her 1>aby girl, Ruth, often called “the prettiest child in Newark,” has been taken away by friends and, un less she should be released, her sec ond child will be born In jail in six weeks. "I don’t know what I am supposed to have done,” she cried. "Oh, I know, I am charged with my brother’s death. Says Brother Ne’er-Oo-Wetl. "All that I know is that he was taken sick. He was ill 10 days. He had lived with us for two years. The night he died the doctor said he was all right. He didn’t seem ’able to keep a job. I made him promise to work steadily and told him if he did I would take out an insurance policy for him. I know people talked and said I didn’t treat him well. But I couldn’t buy him $45 suits when he was not working.” Young Avery left $1,000 insurance, of which his sister was beneficiary. The police say Mrs. Creighton paid for the policy after inducing the boy to take it out. It is the police theory that Avery was fed arsenic slowly in chocolate pudding over a long period. Will Exhume Bodies. Essex county authorities say Mrs Creighton’s fatherinlaw and mother inlaw died, soon after her marriage to Creighton, under circumstances re garded as suspicious. Both bodies are to be exhumed. Toxicologists say that arsenic re mains in the body for 10 years. The case has created a sensation In Newark and the surrounding country. Creighton is a clerk for the Public Service Corporation. He drives a car he inherited from his father to the of fice daily. His wife came from Rah way, and is described as beautiful. Creighton protests his innocence. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ IRVING FISHER’S x WEEKLY INDEX ♦ New Haven, Conn., May 13.—Last week’s wholesale prices of 200 repre sentative commodities averaged 164 per cent, of the pre-war level, ac- i cording to Prof. Irving Fishers weekly index number. The purchas ing power of the dollar was 61.1 pre war cents, this week’s index number shows. Both the commodity prices and the purchasing power of the dollar are relative to the pre-war year 1913. Thus the “low" prices in January, 1922, for instance, exceeded pre-war prices, on the average by 38 per cent., that is, the dollar was worth 72.5 pre-war cents. A summary of conditions follows: Index Purchasing Year. Number. Power. 1913 .100 100. 1920 May (peak prices)247 40.5 1922 January (lowr) ..138 72.5 1923 1st quarter aver. 161 62.0 1923 April average ...167 69.9 • Last week’s average 164 61.1 (Mr. Fisher is a noted professor at Yale university. His weekly index Is appearing exclusively in Sioux City In The Tribune o\ try Monday. It is the only weekly index of general prices in the world.—Editor’s Note.) NEBRASKA BANKS TO BE TAXED AS USUAL Lincoln, Neb., May 13.—State Tax Commissioner W. H. Smith has sent instructions to county assessors to tax state and national banks this year the same as In the past, with the single exception of 1922. He tells assessors to levy tax on i the actual value of the shares of cap- j Ital stock, surplus and undivided1 profits, but they are not to be assess ed as intangible property, as was the "ase last yea» REFUSETB PH Belgium Refers to Wilson ‘Agreement’—France and Rumania in Arrears Since 1919. BY WINDER R. HARRIS, Universal Service Correspondent. Washington, May 13.—Discussion of the Franco-Belgian suggestion, in connection with the reparations dis pute, for the cancellation of French and Belgian debts to the United States, disclosed here Sunday that Belgium has refused from the, outset even to consider a settlement, on the claim that the agreement made with Former President Wilson at Paris re leases her from payment. - France, likewise, has not been budged from her attitude of last year, when M. Parmentier came to Wash ington and informed the world war debt funding commission that the French government would not enter into a funding arrangement on any terms at that time and would not set a date when she would be willing to talk settlement. Rumania is a third one of the debt or governments, it is now learned, that has announced to the American commission its intention to ignore in definitely Its war debt. The excuse offered in this case is inability to pay even the Interest. Insistence on funding negotiations, therefore, came to naught. What Wilson Agreed To. The agreement with Former Presi dent Wilson, on which Belgium now Is relying, was a four cornered affair formulated outside the Versailles treaty, with France and Great Britain also participating. President Wil son transmitted it to congress for ratification on February 22, 1921, just before his retirement from the White House. It was in the form of a let ter to the Belgian premier, M. Hymans, signed by Mr. Wilson and Premiers Clemenceau, of France, and Lloyd George, of Great Britain. The matter was referred respec tively to the Senate finance and House ways and means committees, without discussion and has slept there since. President Harding did not re new the recommendation of his pre decessor that the proposition be ap proved by congress. Owe $450,000,000 Now. \ The amount of Belgium’s debt to the United States up to the armistice, according to President Wilson’s message, was $171,780,000. Loans made after November 11, 1918, and, accrued interest since April 15, 1919, the last date on which any in terest was paid—and that out of a fresh loan for the purpose—have brought the Belgian obligation up to $450,000,000. But the Belgian government, it is said, has steadfastly declined to enter into a discussion of settlement of the post armistice part of the debt unless and until the American funding com mission provides for carrying out the Wilson agreement. The commission has pointed out in reply, that the president was with out authority to commit the Uited States to the agreement witheut con gressional sanction. The agreement itself merely was that acceptance of German reparation bonds in payment of the Belgian debt up to November 11, 1918, would be recommended to the respective governments. France’s debt, with accrued inter est, now is nearly $4,000,000,000. Roumanla owes in principal and in terest approximately $50,000,000. Like Belgium, neither France nor Ru mania has pad any lnterst since April 15, 1919, when fresh loans were ob tained to meet the semi-annual in stallment then falling due. WIFE OF PRESIDENT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA DIES Universal Service. London, May 13.—The wife of President G. Masaryk, , of Czecho slovakia, died Sunday morning at Prague, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Carlsbad. Mrs. Masaryk was born and raised in New York. She was a daughter of Former President Garrigue of the Germania Insurant-6 Company. The Masaryks have one son and tw< daughters. BAND STILL HOLDING 19 FOREIGNERS Promise of Release Obtained After Ultimatum by Powers —China Agrees to Interna tional Inquiry Into Affair. Universal Service. Peking. May 11.—Negotiators have entered the lines of the brigands who held up the Shanghai-Peking ex press and the release of the prisoners is expected by Saturday night. The negotiators brought back the news Friday that there are 1? foreigners still held by the bandit* and nine Chinese. Two victims of the bandit outrage were to arrive in Peking Friday night, in the persons of the sons of Majors Allen and Finger, who were released and brought hack to Lin cheng. Holdup Carefully Plotted. New light on the holdup was ob tained Friday night in a message which came from a German engineer In charge of the Chung Hsien col liery near Ichow, close to the bri gand's stronghold. It revealed that the express train attack was carefully planned by the bandits. “The robbers and their prisoners live in well protected caves on the mountain ridge," tho engineer re ported. For the past two months this robber stronghold has been be sieged by government troops, but the Chinese soldiery did not dare risk their lives in serious assault. "In the dark the night before the outrage, a majority of the robbers went through the besieging lines and called for assistance from smaller brigand bands outside the lines. Information Received. “The colliery administration re ceived Information before the out rage that a capital blow was planned by the brigands agaiftst the beseiging soldiery hut flobody knew where the blow would take place. “The mining administration called everybody up for defense, thinking the properties might he attacked. In stead came the railroad holdup. “The robbers, protected by their hostages, went through the besiegers again. Eye witnesses tell that a bunch of the robbers were already on the train when it was halted near Lincheng." Opinion's divided regarding the treatment of the prisoners as reports are conflicting. Foreign armed in ' terventlon Is not generally advocated. Many observers declare that the seriousness of the situation is not fully recognized in foreign circles. CHINA AGREES~TO INQUIRY. Washington, May 11 (U. P.)—A Joint inquiry by representatives of the foreign governments in Peking as to the causes which made possible the capture of American and foreign citi zens in Shantung by Chinese bandits has been agreed to by the Chinese government. . The investigation will be made un der direction of the council of minis ters, which has decided that responsi bility for the bandit operations should be established and that It should also be shown whether there was any collusion between the bandits and Chinese government authorities. Minister Sze said Friday that the bandits were equipped in some cases with automatic firearms that could only have been obtained in violation of the general agreement among the powers that no arms woulcf be per mitted to reach lawless bands in China. He suggested, therefore, that the Peking government could not be held entirely responsible and that the foreign governments should take greater pains to enforce their pledg* against arms shipments. -4 ULTIM ATION PRESENTED. Peking. May 11 (U. P.)—The dip lomatic corps delivered an ultimatum to China Friday, demanding that she Chinese government obtain release of all foreign prisoners held by bandits in the Shantung hills by midnight Friday, Peking time. Otherwise a heavy progressive In demnity will be imposed. [ The powers’ ultimatum was pre sented Wednesday but kept secret until today. The diplomatic corps does not spe cify the dction that will be pursued in the event that China does not com ply with its terms, but it is under stood the powers control sufficient in come from private properties to en able them to collect Indemnity pajv ments. The Chinese ministry of commun ications put out word that nine more captives of the Shantung bandits had been released, but the foreign diplo mats and consuls have no such In formation. Dr. Heimberger, of the Shantung Christian university, has left for Liucheng. guaranteed safe conduct to the mountain strongholds of the Chinese bandits, where he will be conducted to fche foreign captives who were taken f*om the Peking express train last Sunday. « All the captives were reported Fri day to be alive but some of them, in cluding J. B. Powell, an American newspaper man were said to be 111. Dr Helmberger's mission was ar ranged by American Consul Davis. BANKRUPT BROKERS* ORDERED TO COURT New York, May 11 (A. P.)—Fed eral Judge Winslow today signed an order requiring Edward M. Fuller and William F. McGee, partners in the bankrupt brokerage house vf E. M. Fuller & Co., now under indictment for bucketing orders, to show cause next Wednesday why they should not be punished for contempt for fail uie to turn over certain books and papers of the firm which the United States supreme court recently held they had no right to concea' Vom ths authorities. CLUB WOMEN TAKE STAND AGAINST WAR Vote Unanimous Approval of International Court, But Withhold Endorsement of Harding Proposal. Atlanta, Ga., May 11 (U. P.)—The General Federation of Women’s clubs, In biennial council here, Friday voted unanimously in favor of a resolution approving settlement of International questions through ‘‘a Judicial tribunal” and expressing op position to all wars. The organization represents 2,000, 000 club women in the United States. The resolution stated that “inter national friction should give way to international understanding”, and endorsed all measures to that end. Harding Request Shelved. No mention was made of President Harding’s world court proposal, the delegates agreeing that the council should not go on record as favoring a “partisan plan.” President Harding had asked specific endorsement of his plan for American participation in the League of Nations court. Unanimous endorsement was also given to resolutions providing for rigid enforcement of all laws, partic ularly the 18th amendment, a child labor amendment to the constitution, a selective immigration bill and a probe into the narcotic evil. The delegates also went on record as in favor of the Fess bill, providing for an Increased congressional ap propriation for home economics work, petitions to newspapers to give crime news less prominence, and declared they were opposed to the leasing of convicts to private interests. A proposal that the general federa tion become a foundation, with an en dowment of several mllllgn dollars, will be placed before the board of di rectors Saturday morning, It was da« dared. BROTHER STILL HEIDI PROBE Coroner’s Inquest at Water town, S. D., Fails to Solve Mystery in William Shanahan Death. Watertown, S. D., May 11 (Special). —The coroner's inquest here Friday afternoon failed to shed any light on the puzzle which confronts Codington county officials !n the death of Wil liam Shanahan, who was found dead Wednesday at the farm home 12 miles northwest of here which he shared with his twiri brother, Walter. The coroner’s Jury found that Shan ahan came to his death by means of two shotgun wounds inflicted by an unknown person. • Testimony of neighbors and Sher iff Roy Goss, bore out the theory of suicide, but three surgeons, who per formed an autopsy declared, in their opinion, either of Shanahan’s wounds would have hjeen so quickly fatal that he could not have lived to reload and fire the single barrel gun at himself again. Neighbor^ said they never knew of trouble btRween the twins. Sheriff Goss declared It was suicide. Walter Shanahan was examined for more than an hour. He declared his brother refused to go with him for a load of oats the day of the shooting, declaring he wanted to kill himself. Walter said his brother threatened to kill him and he drove away for help. When lie and neighbors re turned, William was dead. State's Attorney Wolhelter has not announced his next step. Walter Shanahan is still in custody. HERE’S DEEP STUFF ON NEW ODIC RAY Scientist Says Gravity Can Be Overcome by Discovered “Element.” •Los Angeles, May 11 (U. P.)— Gravity can be overcome by .the new ly discovered odic ray, Edgar I* Hol lingshead, scientist, who maintains private lobaratories at Pasadena, declared in an interview Friday. The odic ray proves that electricity is an element, or substance, just as wood, with a definite atomic speed, his conclusions on 20 years of study maintain. He declared that: By use of the odic ray any metal can be made to have a lighter weight than any known gas, without In any way changing its strength. •By use of its radiation, a photo graph can be taken through 11% Inches of solid lead and 5% inches of solid steel with five seconds exposure. The "The new ray", he told the United Press, "is based on the the ory that electricity is an element or substance, with a definite atomic speed." PRESBYTERIANS APPROVE , OF FOSDICK PREACHING Philadelphia. May 11 (A. P.)— Twenty-three ministers and eight elders of the PrcsA>ytery of Phila delphia, in a letter to the Presbyte rian general assembly have dls approv the action of the Philadelphia presbytery in objecting to the preach ings of the Rev. Harry Emerson Fos dick, of New York, it became known today. The general assembly meets in Indianapolis next week.