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B: RIEF IGHT EEZY BITS OF NES OMAHA, THE GATE CTY OF THE WEST, OFFERS. YOU GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES. FIRST PLANE LEAVES ON TRANSCONTINENTAL TOUR. Mineola, N. Y., Aug. IS. The first airplane of the all-American Path finders, an aviation recruiting unit which will mak a transcontinental tour, left here Friday afternoon. It was piloted by Lieut. Kenneth C. Laggett of the bureau of aerial in formation, routes and mapping, and the overserver was Second Lieut. Carl D. Guenthert Their destination was Bustleton field, near Philadel phia. Seven other machines are ready to fly. It is planned, tentatively, to send four away Saturday and three Sunday. The first plane will act as scout all the way, unless disabled, sending back information about landing fields and othej informa tion valuable to the main body of machines. It is to go from Bustle ton field to Middletown, near Har risburg, Pa. CONNECT WIRELESS PHONES WITH DESK SETS. San Francisco, Aug. 15. Wireless telephone mechanism which will permit San Franciscans talking to ships of the Pacific fleet in the har bor through their ordinary desk or wall telephones is being set up by the Navy department at the Goat Island radio station here. To get the connection it will only be nec essary to call up the radio station and then ask for the ship and per son desired. This connection will be made by the station. Tests have proven that the sys tem will work out perfectly, accord ing to Lieutenant Commander C. R. Clark, the commandant of the station. The connection can be made whether the ship is anchored or in motion. URGE SPECIAL SESSIONS TO RATIFY SUFFRAGE. Chicago, Aug. 13. Efforts will be made by the national woman's party to -make ratification of the federal suffrage amendment a para mount topic before the governors' conference at Salt Lake City next week, according to Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, political chairman of the woman's party, here on her way to the Utah capital. Efforts are be ing centered now, she said, on per suadiqg governors to call special legislative sessions for ratification of the amendment in the hope that the women of the nation may be enabled to take part in the import ant fall elections. Nine state legislatures have been called in special session to act on suffrage, Mrs. Baker said, but in order for, women to participate in the campaign of 1920, 18 others must hold special sessions. CUT SHIPPING RATES FROM SOUTH AMERICA. Washington, Aug. 15. Freight rates from South American points to the United States ports were cut sharply by the shipping board. The new schedule of commodity rites makes the charges per long ton as follows: Wet hides, $35; wood and hair, $30; quebracho, cased, $35; que bracho, sacked, $30; cheese, $45; tallow, $45; casein, $40; pickled skins, $50; case meats, $40; fertiliz ers and bones, $30; minerals, $30. Marked improvement in labor conditions at the terminal ports, the shipping board said, has allowed the reduction because vessels are enabled to shorten time in port. COON HUNT STAGED IN ARISTOCRATIC SECTION. Newport, R. I.," Aug. 15. The monkey dinner, the master stroke of diversion introduced by Harry Lehr, now gives way to the coon hunt for society's excitement in these "dry" times. The hunt was staged along Belle vue avenue. A fat, but agile , rac coon, which escaped from the estate of Paul J. Rainey, the African explorer, was the principal ' factor in this skit. The rest of the cast was made tip of Rainey servants, summer, fashionables and merry villager; and the usual childern's chorus. The Coon leaped aong the aristocratic avenue, dodging motors and causing debutantes to skip with hosiery revelations added. The pur suit swelled, the coon bounded on. then streaked up a friendly tree. Henry Nelson with the advantage of a bicycle was in the. van of the chase. Henry journeyed up the tree and came down with the coon. THOUSANDS CHEER ROYAL VISITOR AT ST. JOHN. St. John, N. Aug. 15. The prince of Wales received cheers without number from the thousands who lined his route to the water front and pressed on to thepier to which he was escorted by provincial and city officials. His farewell there was without formal utterance as he gripped hands with the naval and military officers and bade them goodbye. The day, although marred by in clement weather, brought crowds from all parts of New Brunswick to add to the cheering hosts already here to welcome the prince. Recep tion after reception was accorded him and enthusiastic gatherings met him everywhere. From 'the armory, where he was first officially welcomed in formal addresses, to the province of New Brunswick, and the city of St. John, and the Union club, where he was entertained at luncheon by Premier Foster, the prince went to the gov ernment house at Rothesay, where an elaborate reception was arranged fcr him by Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Pugsley. - ' METHODICAL BURGLLAR; MADE 4,008 SINGLE THEFTS. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 15. Arrested V.-. knr tarcfnv T .i F. T.in fff man . 33, "married, admitted to tl.e police that l.f had stolen one article a day t ML ..-,,- (rnm th Whitt KarH. ware Co., where he was employed. He also took an article each day from the Shapleigh Hardware Co.. where he has worked for the past v two years, according to his admis N lion. Upon investigation detectives found enough articles to stock a small hardware store. They had not beer used or sold. There were 4.IV3 different articles. Two patrol wagons were necessary to carry the loot to the statiof The 0 i t Bee VOL. 49 NO. 51. Eaten ai ot-tUm ntter Hay M. ISM, it .. i Oatna P. O. 4m art at Mink S. 1879. ' OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, , 1919. By Mill (I mr), Dally. M.W: SoXw. SMO: Dally aatf San.. SS.M: atila'a Nak. aottaaa " TWO CENTS. THE WEATHER '.H ' , - ' ' - Fair Saturday and Sunday; some what warmer Sunday and in ex treme west portion Saturday. Hourly trmprraturti ,, . 8 a, m . .70 I p. 111 ,it a. m (Ml S p, m .....HI 1 a. m 7! S n. m SI S a. m , ....WI 4 iv ni ,...KU It a. m ;t S p. m... ....... Hi lft a. m ?ft p. M 11 a. m 7 1 p. m .'....HO, It noon It, n. m.. IV DAYLIGHT REPEAL IS NULLIFIED Wilson Realizes Inconven ience to Which Measure Sub jects Farmers But Avers Pressing Need Is Production: BALANCES DRAWBACKS AGAINST EACH OTHER Second Refusal to Sign Same ' Bill Sets Precedent Doubt ful if Votes Obtainable to Overcome President's Veto. Washington, Aug. IS. President Wilson today vetoed the bill repeal ing the daylight saving law. This was the second time the president had vetoed, repeal of the law by vThich the clocks are set for ward an hour on the last Sunday in March and turned back an hour the last Sunday in October. White House officials and mem bers of congress could not recall today a previous instance of a presi dent having twice vetoed the same bill. Leaders doubt that the two thirds vote necessary to pass the repeal measure over the president's head can be obtained. Veto Message. The president's message vetoing the bill follows: . "To the House of Representa tives: I return this bill, H. R. 38S4, 'An act for the repeal of the daylight saving law,' without my signature, but o so with the utmost reluctance. I realize the very con siderable and in some respects very serious inconveniences to which tne daylight law subjects the farmers of the country to whom we owe the greatest consideration and who have distinguished themselves dur ing these recent years of war and want by patriotic endeavors, worthy of all praise. But I have been obliged to balance' one set of dis advantages against another and to venture a judgment as to which were the more serious for the coun try. Country Needs Law. ."The immediate and pressing need of the country is production, in creased and increasing production, in all lines of industry. The dis organization and dislocation caused by the war have told nowhere so heavily as at the industrial centers in manufacture and in the many industries to which the country and the whole world must look to sup ply needs which cannot be ignored or postponed, "It is to these that the daylight saving law is of most service. It ministers to economy and to effi ciency. And the interest of the far mer is not in all respects separated from these interests. He needs what the factories produce a Jong with the. rest of the world. He is profiited by the prosperity which their suc cess brings about. His own life and methods are more easily adjusted, I venture to think, than those of the manufacturer and 'the merchant. "These are considerations which (Contlnaed on Page Two, Column Four.) NEGOTIATIONS ON v TREATY REACH DEFINITE STAGE' President and Foreign Rela-I tions Committee Getting Together. j Washington, Aug. 15. Negotia- j tions between democratic and repub- j lican senators looking to. ratifica- j tion of the peace treaty with ser- j vations reached a more definite stage Friday while President Wilson and the Foreign Relations commit- J tee were getting together on unpre- ! cedented measures to give the pub lic all the details of their discus sion of the treatv next Tiiesrlav at the White House. N Democrat leaders, feeling " out sentiment on "the republican side, i were told that the treaty never could be ratified without qualifica tion but that more than 20 republi cans wanted to see it accepted in the near future with reservations along the lkie of those agreed on by seven senators of that party some days ago. This inf6rmation came from menv bers of the group jjf seven after completion of'a poll begun Wednes day on receipt 6f the first demo cratic overtures. The 20, needed by the demofcrats to make the neces sary ratification majority of 64, had not accepted the proposed reserva tion program in exact form, it .was asserted,-but had given their assent to its general provisions. Expect Democratic Assent. Afterward Senator Hitchcock, the-H democratic leader, went to the White House and is understood to have laid the whole senate situation before the president. He made no formal announcement after the con ference, but indicated that- the ad ministration stand for unreseped ratification remained .unchanged. Some of the 7 reservation repub licans, however, insist that they have had information assuring democratic assent to their program. Among the first proposed amend meiljts to come before the commit tee when it takes up that subject will be a series presented by Sena tor Fall, republican, New Mexico, under which American representa tion would be eliminated from vari ous international commissions which are to , administer reconstruction measures in Europe. U. S. CUTS OFF SUPPLY OF ARMS FOR CARRANZA GOVERNOR ACTIVE IN FOOD PROBE McKelvie and "Code" Cabinet Direct Attorney General to Start Investigation of Profit eers as Soon as Possible. WATTLES TO RESUME WARTIME ACTIVITIES ; ; Ban on Munitions First Move in New Policy Toward Mexico. Washington, Aug. 15. The Car ranza government will not be per mitted to import further arms and munitions frontthel United States for the .present at least. This be- ! came known today following the publication of the exchange of notes j between the United States and Mex-. j ico in which the American go'vern ment threatened a change of policy unless Americans in Mexico were adequately-protected. , El Paso, Tex., Aug. 15. A union of the Mexican Liberal Alliance and the Mexican union, organizations having branches in border and east ern cities, for the purpose of bring ing about peace in Mexico by unit ing all factions oppysed to the Car ranza government, was' announced here by Manuel Bonilla, general executive chajrman of the Liberal Allianr X Armour Thanks Builders For New Pair of Shoes Chicago, Aug. 15. J. Ogden Armour Friday wrote a note of thanks to the Builders and Traders' exchange, whose members voted to send him a pair of shoes because he recently said high prices had led him to have his old ones repaired. Ir. Armour's letter, addressed to a member of the exchange, was as foHows: ' "My dear Mr. Sullivan: I learned on eading this morning's paper of the intention of the Builders and Traders''Exchange to send me a pair of shoes. I am enclosing my ad dress, so .that by no chance will the shoes go astray. Your endorsement of the principle of conservation is much appreciated. "It is fitting, however, that the builders and traders show evidence of their generosity. Salesmen the world over have regarded it good business to spend a few dollars for theater tickets or some other enter tainment for a prospect on whom they expect to wax fat. "When I peruse the bids, which have been submitted by the builders and traders on various building pro jects in which' I am interested, and when I note how high these bids are, I marvel that your generosity stops at' a mere pair o shoes. It seems to me that such a prospect as your bids indicate me, to be deserving of more consideration. It is as though .,-ou were asking me to the movies when'' the circumstances warrant a box at 'The Passing Show'. "Instead of stopping with a pair of shoes, why not present me with a wardrobe for a year? My wants are very reasonable because I regard clothes from a utilitarian standpoint rather than decorative. One overcoat usually lasts me for two ye'ars and this happens tobe the. yeaf when I must have a new one. You will not need to buy me a hat, because the felt one which I have used for the last five years is still in good condi tion, and the application of a little black ink now and then enables me to use the derby which I like so well and which feels so comfortable on my head. "Ordinarily I am contentTwith two suits of clothes each year and you will not need to pay more thau $75 for them, because I am not ken for fancy stuff. My other needs may be summed up like this: "One straw hat at six shirts at $5 each; Three neckties at $1 each; six suits of underwear (I find part wool and part cotton more comfortable than all wool); two dozen pairs of lisle socks; two pairs of silk socks for state occasions. "You need not bother with such things as handkerchiefs and collars, because I am pretty well fixed in this respect. "I may seem ajittle immodest in thus making known. my annual re quirements in wearing apparel, but I feel sure, from the newspaper re port of your meeting, that the bulid ers and tradefB do not want to be regarded as 'pikers' and the prices which you have mentioned in vour -various bids are so ample that they give me.gooa reason to hope you will be as generous in doing some thing for me as you are willing to do me for something. ' "Please convey my best regards to the exchange and ask them to ex cuse me fjr thus calling their at tention tothe mediocrity of their well intended gift" Food Administration Responds Promptly to Request to Find Fair Prices and Instructs j County Heads to Act. 'j Lincolnr Aug. 15. (Special Tele gram.) There is going to be "somc-j thine doing" and profiteers on tool might just as well come in, "fess up" ! ... .. - t f ia. - - ! and take tnetr. medicine Deiore u is everlastingly too late. Governor McKelvie yesterday sent a telegram to G. W. Wattles, state food'' administrator, whose home is in umana, out wno is spending uie summer in Hollywood, Calif., and J this afternon received a reply, ine message of the governor was: "The state is willing and anxious to co-operate with the federal food administration in Relieving the situa tion relative to the cost of food products. Within a week we shall begin an investigation of the cost of living, and it is desirable that you reappoint all former county food ad ministrators so that their assistance and co-operation may' be had in car rying on this inquiry." . Wattles Takes Action. To which Mr. Wattles responded: "Have notified all county food ad ministrators to reappoint fair-price committees and assist .you and At torney General Palmer." As a result of the conference held by Governor McKelvie and his cab-, inet. the secretaries of the differ ent departments of. the state under the new code law, a complete in vestigation of the cost of living will be made and the attorney gen eral will be instructed to get busy as soon as he returns from the funeral of his father. Speaking of the matter today Governor McKelvie made the fol lowing state'tnVnt: , "This will be accomplished through the examination of wit nesses, under authority that is given to the secretaries of the de partments under the code, who will be called to testify regarding costs (jf distributing the commodities that" may be classed as tne necessities of life, and the processes through which trade and commerce are con ducted. Will Empldy Special Counsel. "The attorney general will em ploy special counsel to assist in the investigation, and an expert ac countant, will be employed and such other help as is necessary to insure the accuracy and completeness of the work that is being done. "The hearings will be open, and will begin just as soon as an ade quate force can be gotten together for carrying on the work. This will probably be not later than the mid dle of the forthcoming week. Hear ings will be held in all parts of the state, and it is again urged that any one having specific information bearing upon this subject should bring it to the attention of the sec retary of the department of agricul ture, under .whose direction tht hearings will be started. , Ex-Convict's Testimony Frees Alleged Slayer of Rich 'Nebraskan Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 15. (Special Telegram.) Earl Klyun shue, charged with the murder of A. E. Brink, rich Beatrice, Neb., ranch er, February 9, 1919, was acquitted by a jury in the court of Judge Frank Willis after six hours' delib eration. The . testimony of Sam Lilly was regarded as important and is believed to have had a marked ef fect in the verdict. Lilly testified that some one in the rooming house where the murder of Brunk, proprietor of tli place, took plate, gave him knockout drops on the night of the murder, and had the effect of rendering him speech less but not unconscious and that while he was in that condition he realized that someone was going through his pockets. y Guy Eddie, attorney for Klyun shue. advanced 'the theory that knockout drop's had been adminis tered to Brink but that the quantity had killed him before he was shot. Klyunshue is an ex-convict from Deer Lodge.-Mont. King George Puts 0. K. on Treaty Ratification London, Aug.. 15. King George has given his assent to the bill adopted by Parliament ratifying thtf German peace treatv. The act thus becomes law, -' i . i Save Any thing? Oh, Yes, He Saved a Little Daylight I v. VVRY WW WW l aSfe V Jafc xJr.Tsvt VUk. r 1 m m I lit mm J i I. MOVE FOOD TO ESCAPE PENALTY Wholesalers Said to Be Ship ping Supplies From Ware houses in Cleveland to Avoid Seizure by Federal Officials. PROBE ONLY BEGINNING SAYS OHIO GOVERNOR" FILE PETITION FOR RECALL OF COMMISSIONERS Election Asked to -Replace Four Members of City Coun cil by 5,500 Voters : of Omaha. STAGE STARS TO ENTER INTO THE PRODUCING FIELD Schedule "Gala Performance' at New York Theater " Next Monday. Recall petitions against Mayor Smith and City Commissioners Ringer, Ure and Towl were filed yes terday with City Clerk Hunter. The petitions carry, 5.500 signa tures and the names of J. C. Dahl man, T. P. Reynolds, J. W. Burns and J. C. Holley are named as can didates to be submitted at a special recall election against the mayor, Ringer, Towl and Ure respectively. It will be the dytv of the city clerk to check the signatures on the peti tions and to verify the signatories as b-ain- voters. Having completed his check, he will report his finding to the city council. Under the law the council is- required to call a spe cial recall election not later than 60 days nor less than 30 days after the date of the filing of the petitions, provided the petitions are sufficient. Attorney J. R. Lones, attorney for the, circulators ' of thq petitions, stated that the supreme court of this sate has ruled that petitions for a recall4nust have at least 30 per cent of the highest-cote cast at the last electiorf, which in this instance, he says, refers : to the last city election when Commissioner Butler. was high with more than 13,000 votes. Mr. Lones added that 3,948 signatures would have sufficed for these peti tions,' but that 5,500 were obtained. Commissioners .Ringer and -Up: are on their yactions. The mayor is busy in his municipal grocery in the auditorium. Federal Court's Action . May End Carmen's Strike Des Moines, la., Aug. 15.--The first intimation tha Des .Moines' strike of street carmen, which has left the city; without car service since Wednesday morning, ' might enI soon became apparent Friday bight. Federal Judge Martin Wade, under whose jurisdiction receives for the company operated, wired fronf Lake Minnetonka, Minn that he would be here Monday to hear application by City Corporation Counsel H. W. Byers that the com pany issue receiver's certificates to pay the $100,000 back pay the men are demanding. Bill for Old Age Pensions , Referred to Committee Washington, Aug. 15,. Plans for old age -pensions forepersons more than 65 years of age were proposed in a bill introduced Friday by Sen ator McNary, republican, Oregon, and referred Jfo11 the pensions com mittee. Under its provisions per sons with incomes of not more than $6 a week would receive a weekly pension of $4. New York, "Aug. 15. Twenty one unionized stage stars of the first magnitude will appear at the Lexington avenue opera house next Monday night in a "gala perform ance" which marks the plunge of the. Actors' Equity association into the producing field .as a rival of the Producing Managers'- Protective as sociation, according to an announce ment issued at Equity headquarters. The announcement, coming hard on the heels of a report that the managers were - planning a "lock out" against all actors affiliated with the - union, , was declared to mean that "if. the . managers won't furnish the public amusement the" actors will". Among the stars announced for the Lexington ,. avenue. . opening, which will be a vaudeville produc tion, were Frank Bacon, Etljel Bar rymore, Lionel Barrymore', Sam Bernard, Barney Bernard, Ed Can tor, Marie Dressier, Raymond Hitchcock, Blanche Ring,, Joe Stan ley, Ivy Sawyer, Frank. ' Tinney, Pearl White, Van and Schenk,"Ed wyn and Frank Fay. ' Th Actors' - Equity association announced .that . Samuel Untermyer, although 'himself a half-owner of two theaters leased by members of the managers' association, had agreed to act as attorney for the actors in defending damage suits brought by the managers. ' Mr. .Untermyer declared that the managers 'seem to. me to be about a quarter' of a century behind the times." V ' , MOGY BERNSTEIN FOUND DEAD WITH BULLET IN HEAD 1 Body Discovered in Place of Business Late . Last Night Suicide, Say Police. Mogy Bernstein, for 36 years the idol of Omaha newsboys, was found (lead in his store and restaurant, 1607 Farnam street, at 11:30 o'clock last night with a bullet hole in his head.. H had been dead several hours. v The police say Mogy committed suicide. His immediate family can ascribe no reason for such an act and are .inclinedto discredit the theory and the particular circum stances surrounding the finding of his body tend to confirm their dis belief. Mr: Berstein's body was found by his brother, Nathan and his wife, lying onfts,face near the rear of the doughnut parlor. A .38-calibre revolver with one chamber exploded was found just under the tips 6f the fingers of his left hand. A bullet hole on the right side of his head, two inches behind the ear showed how he had died: There were no signs of great disorder in the room, but on ac count) of its having been closed for several weeks everything was not in order. " "Mogy's wife telephoned me at 10:30 o'clock," explained Nathan Bernstn to the police. "She said Mogy had promised Jo take her and their two children to Krug park at 9 o'clock and triat she had seen (Continued oa Page Two, Column Closer Co-Operaton Being Es- ' tablished Between State Au thorities and U. S. Attorney General and His Staff. ' V ,.. . Columbus, O., Aug. 15. bov. James M. Cox today wired Assistant. United States Atty. y Gen. Frank Davis at Washington that th. '. age company, Cleveland, to avoid federal penaltyv is movinjf 'fts mc.it prpdjjcts to Chicago warehouses and that records as to previous storage- . in Cleveland are being destroyed,, - While the governor's telegram did not give the names of companies alleged to be snipping tneir product T to Chicago, his telegram earlier w . the day to Attorney General Palmer said Morris & Co. and Wilson & Co. were owners of 2,000,000 pounds ofT' meat alleged to be held in the Cleve land storage house illegally under Ohio laws. Brannt & Co., Cleve- -v land, were alleged to own the. re mainder. ' .' -A , Governor Cox announced that . Friday's activities are only the be-y ginnipg in the state's war an food profiteers. He said many additions! warrants will be issued, some prot ably tomorrow. ' rrv ... . i . ine governor requested tne resign nation of ,S. T. Nash, 'Cleveland, y member of the State Board of Agri- culture. Mr. Nash is president . of tne Cleveland rrovision company, r the manager of which is.charged in- a warrant issuea toaay wun vioiai ; wg the cold storage law. , r..i.i.-.i.. j i .- Washington, Aug. 15. Close co- . : operation between state authorities. ...t, -.-. j ., i -: i j :.. f f w in, iiunacsa uciaucu iiiiui litauuji i food and orice conditions and the attorney general and his staff of as-v sistants, empowered to enforce the food control law, is being established as part of the government s fight tOj - reduce the cost of living. ' Instructions went out todav from Attorney General Palmer to the two. district attorneys in Ohio to pro, ceed immediately to assist governor , Cox in the seizure of large quantfi ' .- r . I.... .-. lies or meat, nuner ana runs uneven to have been held in storage in that ' state for more than 6 to 10 months,' the legal limit. Criminal prosecu tions will be instituted, it was stated, if it can be shown that the foods were neia irom tne marxet tor tne purpose of boosting prices. Officials'" here were inclined to thik that the ' long period of. storage indicated ' spread the abundant supplies of, a -producing season over the lan part of the year. i ' . Acting on a telegram irom uov-. . ernor Cox, saying that a Cleveland concern in order to eacape possible prosVcution for hoarding was-mov- v ing its meat products to warehouses in Chicago and destroying its rec ords, the Department of Justice or-j dered the district attorney at 'Cleve- land to ldnk into the matter immedi ately. . All attempts to effect trans- ' fer of goods in storage, offic't's said, would be summarily dealt with. seizures Continue. ' Seizure of large stocks of food- stuffs in storage continued today with reports received of libels filed in Cleveland ind Detroit and prep- - , arations for such action' in many ; cities. 1 The department was inr formej tonight that the district iti . torney at Detroit had filed libels hv ' three cases and seized approximate- ' (rontlnurd on Tan Two, Column One.) . Former Religious Workers Governors Will Found to Have Seven Wives New, York, ug. 15. Convicted of bigamy on his confession that he has scVen living wives, one of whom he marrfwl twice, Charles Hugh Wilson, 48 years old, former Y. M. C. A. secretary, evangelist and traveling salesman, was sentenced to .three years and ( six months in Sing Sing prison where, ' he an nounced, he will take- up prison re 1'orm.work. . Judge .Wadhams told the prisoner he would hate givi-n him five years,, the maximum sen tence, but deducted 18 months, the period spent by Wilson in a Wis consin jepitentiary 'for a larceny which another maq afterward con fessed to having committed. Wilson . began his matrimonial career January 22, i900, when he married Elizabeth May. Stanton of Davenport, la. After three chil dren were born he left her and in July, 1908, married May Bailey. '.t Wytheville, W. Va. In less than a year he embarked on his third ven ture at Decatur, Ala., where he mar ried Ethel C. Moore in March, 1909. Four years later he was united io Louise Davis at Detroit, anda year afterward he went through a sec ond ceremony with Miss Davis at. Pittsburgh. The following year he sought a New York bride and was married to Carolyn K. Morris. "He tried Phila delphia next and took Wilhelmina C. Jaggard of that city for his sixth bride in August 1915. 'His final ven ture was in New York, where he married Fay Jeanette Ziff in No vember, 19. t , According to a report by the Parkhurst society, to which his last wife appealed after he deserted her, Wilson yas born at Barnesville, Mo., and is the son of a Scotch min ister. He served as a Y. M. C A physical instructor or secretary at Sedalia, Mo.: Davenpotf. Ia.; Kan sas City, Mo.; Knoxville. Tenu, and Burlington, Vt ' V Discuss High Cost of; ' Living at Conference . - ', -; ; Salt Lake City, Aug. 15. Govern ors who will meet at Salt Take in conference August 18 to 24, will de- ' vot all of next Wednesday to dis- c.ssion of bringing about a teduc- , lion in the high cost of living. The, previously arranged prograpt , fr ' Wednesday has been abandoned, due to the prime importance of. ' thin niestion at the moment and the state executives will attack the great problem of profiteering and thr ' other causes which have contributed to the rapid shrinking of the dollar. , This information was announced today by Miles . Riley, secretary of the conference . Mr. Riley said the , executive committee had directed him to make this change in the program. Twenty-two governors exclusive of Governor Bamberger will be present, according to information received by O. J. Grimes, secretary to the governor. - ,V