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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
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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
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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" !
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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, -'
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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
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Closer Co-Operaton Being Es- '
tablished Between State Au
thorities and U. S. Attorney
General and His Staff.
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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. '
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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. ,
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Washington, Aug. 15. Close co- . :
operation between state authorities.
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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 '
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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
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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
