The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 51 NO. 70. f iim4 cum m,tu Stat tl, IW. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1921. (i tn, eait ?. i;.mi eiiii mi, mi . ItMl M aalaw H WaiUS SlaM. Uaaaa aa HwlM. THREB CE.N'TS mi M im a. 1 .1 IV Witness In ""Arbuckle Case Grilled District Attorney Quizzes Movie Bathing Girl Whose Storiea to Police and Grand Jury Differed. Rappe Inquest Resumed San Francisco, Sept. 13. Miss Vey Trovost, motion picture bathing girl, was questioned by District Attorney Brady today regarding tes timony die save before the grand jury in supposed conflict with her other statements to the authori ties concerning tier interest in the l.otel party where Miss Virginia Rappe, motion picture actress, is, al leged to have received the injuries from which she died. Simultaneous ly Koscoe Arbuckle, motion picture comedian, who is charged with murdering Miss Rappe. went before a coroner's jury ill the second day of the inquest into the actress ucatn. District Attorney Brady said he was going to endeavor to determine if Miss Provost, who is afco known as Vey Pyvron, was Induced to com mit perjury in her grand jury testi mony last night. This testimony differed widely with statements made 00.0 himself and Captain of Detec tives Matheson, Brady said. Mrs. Delrnont Testifies. Mrs. Bambina Maude Dclmcnt, who brought the murder charge against Arbuckle, was the first wit ness at the inquest today. Mrs. Delrnont began her testimony by saying she met Miss Rappe and Al Semnacher, Miss Rappe's man ager, in Los Angeles by appoint ment and they drove to San Fran cisco, arriving Sunday night Sep tember 4. While jbIic and Miss Rappe were eating breakfast the next day, a tele phone call was received by Miss Rappe that a Mr. Arbuckle wanted 'to see them all at the St. Francis hotel. Miss Rappe went to Arbuckle's room alone and then telephoned for. Mrs. Delrnont an:l Semnacher to join her in Arbuckle's suite. There Mrs. Delrnont testified, she met Arbuckle, Lowell Sherman, Ira C Fortlouis and Frederick Fisch bach. There were many bottles on the table in the room. Miss Rappe had three drinks of gin and orange juice and Mrs. Delrnont had about 10 drinks of whisky.. Two more girls came in who she learned later were Alice Blake and Vey Pyvron. 7 ' t Hears Screams. The Rappe girl rose and went into the bathroom off Arbuckle's room. When she came out of the bathroom Arbuckle w,as in his room.. He closed the. door. ... - ' ' : . W- '-. ' Here she testified that she had "heard that Miss Rappe was dragged into the room," but the court ruled this testimony out. - ; She heard screams coming from the room about an hour later and demanded that Arbuckle open the ' door. He did so and it was noted , that he was wearing Miss Rappe's hat and the pajamas he was wearing were . wet with ; perspiration. The Rappe girl was on the bed tearing at her clothing and screaming. . "I am hurt. I am dying. ;. He did it."' . v.,'.'- ;r " She removed the girl's '.clothing and, assisted by Fischbach, placed her in a tub of cold watet. This had no effect and so Miss Rappe was taken to another room and put to bed. ' Affected by Testimony. Arbuckle kept his eyes fixed on t!.e witness throughout her testi mony and he appeared to be some-1 what affected by it. ', .-.-. While Mrs. Delrnont was testify ing District Attorney, Brady .an rounced that Alice Blake, who was reported last night to have dropped irom sight, had been located and was in his office to submit to an examina tion. "Miss Blake explained, accord ing to Brady, that she had gone from her home in Berkeley to a friend in Oakland in order to avoid publicity and notoriety. Mrs. Delrnont finished her tesi nony at noon. Arbuckle took more ' (Turn to Pag-e Two. Column One.) Spanish War Veterans Hold Meeting at Minneapolis Minneapolis, Sept. 13 Pension legislation and a resolution urging letention of Spanish war veterans in the federal service without demotion, were before the annual encampment of the United Spanish War veterans today. .' William F.' Lueper of New York, last night, was elected supreme grandissimo of the Military Organ ization of Seprents, composed of Soanish war-veterans. K L. Gun- ther, Los Angeles, was elected a trustee. '-..; Fifty Warships Assist in Search for Missing Boys San Diego, Gal., Sept. 13. With their powerful searchlights flashing over San Diego Bay, SO warships aided last night in the finding of two boys, Philip Watkins, aged 4, and Charles Sherbno, 5 years old, who disappeared trom tneir nomes m Coronado yesterday. A boat from the destroyer Bailey found the two little fellows shortly 1 after midnight asleep in a row boaf. The little boat was reported half full of water. s - 'Louisiana Legislature Would Ban Secret Societies Baton Routre.' La.. Sept 13. A bill to prohibit organization of secret societies whose membership is not known publicly and to provide pen alties therefor was introduced in tne Louisiana legislature foday. The bill also would prohibit street parades in disguise that seek to regulate by threats 'of punishment the conduct f persons. r- " Cop, Character Which Gave Fatty His Start, Is Nemesis From His Cell Film Star Views With Grim Reality Operations of Those He Burlesqued in "Breaking In" Days. Washington, Sept. 13. From liii cell in San Francisco Koscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle views with grim reality the operations of thoe whom he burlesqued so successfully in tne breaking-in period of hit meteoric screen career. The comedy policeman hi first movie part long ago died a "fade out." Now comes a "close up" of the tragic officer of the law whose investigation of the death of Mis Virginia Rappe, landed him in jail on a charge of first degree murder. Sidelights on the screen debut of the rotund comedian were revealed today by Walter Newman, "Fatty's" first stage manager and later his "movie" director. Mr. Newman is appearing at a local vaudeville the ater in a playlet of his authorship. Started at 130 Per. Arbuckle, according to his first manager, made his bow on the stage at the modest salary of $30 a week a thousandth part of the income ho now is reputed to enjoy. Later as a "Mack Sennett police man" he worked "extra parts for a remuneration both uncertain and less than his original salary "I gave Roscoe his first part in a stock company I was managing In Long Beach, Cal., said Mr. Newman. "From the very first 'side' handed him, he capitalized his huge bulk in every part he played with the intel ligence and discrimination which has brought him to stardom in the screen world. Nearly Broke Up Show. "I will never forget his first ap pearance although for it nearly broke up the show, both literally and fig uratively. "We were playing a mclod.ama in which I, as the hero, was supposed to be at the point of death. The other characters had- aproached the bed side on tiptoe with hushed voices, but when Arbuckle's cue cimc he improvised his entrance by tripping Deaths in Texas Flood Reach 200 Late Reports From Stricken Sections Show Heavy , Loss. Dallas. Tex.. SeDt. 1J. Overnight newspaper reports from portions of central Texas flooded as the result of torrential rams last iTiuay and Saturday brought the unofficial death list to nearly 200.Communica tion with the affected area still was more or less demoralized today, but with the. high waters in the Colo rado,' Brazos, San Gabriel and other streams rapidly receding . normal conditions were in prospect. Most serious loss ot lite occurred , . , ... . i , i - in an uaDnei river ,-; luwiauus m Williamson and Mitam counties, ac cording to last night's developments. More than 100 bodies have been re covered in these two counties,, re ports said. Property damage there was said to be large. In addition to ban Antonio, wnere the list of dead stood at 49, over night reports showed the following: Thorndale, 4a Mexicans orownea. Lane Port, 23 Mexicans dead. Elm Grove, 29 Mexicans. San Gabriel, 10 dead, including eight Mexicans. Alligator creek, live Mexicans. Taylor, six persons drowned. Lawrence Creekj three. Redville, two. ' Between Gause and Valley Junc tion in Brazos bottoms, 20. Previous reports of two deaths at Georgetown were confirmed today. J. H. Cobb and wite, an agea couple, were drowned m a small creek, which suddenly had become a raging torrent. Mrs. Lydia Southard Arraigned for Murder Twin Falls, Idaho, Sept.' 13. Mrs. Lydia Southard was arraigned to day in district court here on a charge ox first degree murder of her fourth husband, Edward F, Meyer, here last fall. She took the statutory 24 hours' period in which to enter her plea. Mrs. Southard appeared in court with her left hand bandaged. One of her attorneys stated that she had scratched .her hand and infection had set in. Her demeanor was cool and collected as it was -when she ap peared in court for preliminary ex amination soon after being brought back from Honolulu to answer the murder charge. ... . . Speaker at Church Meet . Says It Has Failed Women London, Sept. 13. (By The Asso ciated Press.) Appeals to Englisn women to demand prohibition in Great Britain were made by Mrs. Norman Sargent, Wesleyan church, and other speakers at this morning's session of the world's Methodist conference. Mrs. Nellie McClung, Canadian Methodist church, . asserted the church had failed to help women solve their problems. -. Aged Beggar Hermit Dies Leaving Estate of $100,000 Chicago, Sept. 13. "French Sal" 84 years old, who died yesterday in a dreary little attic room was found today to have securities declared to aggegate $100,000 in value hidden in her room. For years she begged ' from the well to do near her home and dispensed philanthropy to the Lpoor. tier identity is not Known. Congressman Dies Washington, Sept. 13. Represen tative Samuel M. Taylor of Arkan sas, died at his home here early to day, after an illness of several weeks with pleurisy and pneumonia ponderoutly over one foot, turning a complete somrrault and iunrl" til heav ilv in the middle ct stage that lie oroke three ioa:a - With the audience .convut-ed V,V0 ..uuyler-Dropped in he himself shaking with laui.l-.ter hat he could not continue tor vei. al minutes, Mr. Newman declared that the play had to be finished as a farce. Encouraged by his tuccurt as a comedian, Arbuckle developed his comedy methods in much the same manner that they are now to be seeu on the screen. Longtd for Drama. "But like all comedaius, he thirsted to play straight dramatic Dins and kept after me until I assigned hiiu the role of the bereaved father in the "Half Breed" more with the idea of convincing him that his forte was comedy than with any hope that he could put it across. What was the surprise of us all then to fir.d that he not only handled the part well, but so sunk his personality in the role that those in the audience who had known him only as a comedian could not be convinced that it was the same man." While playing in tabloid musical comedies known to the profession as "tabs" Arbuckle met a girl in the chorus named Minta Durfee. whom he married, but from whom he later became separated. Mr. Newman said. Following a tour of the Orient with a musical comedy company, Arbuckle essayed the "movies" and was given a chance to play "extra" comedy roles with the Mack Sennett company for whom Mr. Newman was directing. "The marked intelligence of Ar buckle made him stand out from the other burlesque 'policemen' and it was this more than his physical qualities which brought him to star dom," Arbuckle's first manaair as serted. Mrs. Schnorr Gets Divorce Decree Maiden Name, Metz, Restored To Her; Husband Fails To File Answer. William F. Schnorr did not resist the suit of his wife, Harriet fetz Schnorr, for a divorce and the de cree was granted her by District Judge ', Leslie yesterday afternoon. Schnorr did not file an answer nor apical ill tuuu. . , , ;- . ne is a caugrucr ot rrcu .uciz, wealthy former brewer, and the bed ding on June 7, 1916, was a notable social event here. Mrs. Schnorr was prominent in society and a princess of Ak-Sar-Ben. She is a sister of Charles E. Metz and a niece of Charles Metz. Schnorr is a son of T. J. Schnorr, Council Bluffs. He was a captain in the Dodge Light guards which be came Company L, 168 infant', dur ing the war. He resigned his com mission before the war. Mrs. Schnorr's maiden name was restored. She alleged in her petition for divorce that her husband had re fused to speak to her for 12 months except to criticise and upbraid her. She said her mental distress was to great that she lost SO pounds in weight and she finally left their hand some home, S024 Davenport street, May 11. 1920. . , Negro Bell Boys Beaten By Mob in Austin, Tex. Austin, Tex.,-Sept. -'13. Unmasked men late Monday night' seized Sher man White and Theodore Feamsters, negro bell boys in local hotels.- took them to a secluded spot in the coun try and whipped them severely. The negroes were then brought back into town in an automobile, dumped out on a down town street and ordered to go to the office of the Austin American and relate to a re porter the story of the occutrence. The negroes said they were over powered and taken into the country where straps were applied to them. They declare that from 25 to 50 men participated in the attack. Persons who saw the negroes ejected from the automobile, stated their captors wore goggles and were attired in overalls. No trace of them has been found. The negroes could assign no reason for the attack. Moonshiners Fined $500 Each for Operating Still j They tnake moonshine, oh yes, but they wouldn't sell any, even to their own- brothers, Charles Lewis and James Ewing told District Judge Troup yesterday, after officers found a still in their possession. . The judge sentenced them to three months each in the county jail, and fines of $500 each. Swedish Woman Labor Leader Elected to Parliament Stockholm, . Sept. 13. Miss Kcr stcn Hesselgreu, for many year a labor leader in Sweden, has been elected at Gothenburg as a member of the first chamber of the Swedish Parliament Miss Hesselgren, who enjoys a wide acquaintance in Amer ica, will be the first woman to hold a seat in this chamber. Quebec Votes Wet Quebec, Que Sept. 13. The city of Quebec voted itself wet Monday by an overwhelming majority, esti mated at 12,000 in a total poll of 25,000. The effect of the Toting will be to repeal the existing local op tion law and place the city under the province liquor statute, where the state vends " intoxicants in its wo. dispensaries. i Holders of Mill Stock To Lose All n Wells. ." riini ML Court. Funds Refused by Banks Stockholders lose all in the failure of the Wells-Abbott-Xieman com pany, largest milling concern in the state. Efforts to reopen the mill at Schuyler, through the issue of $100, 000 in receivers' certificates had to be dropped, after application for the order was made to Federal Judge Woodrough, because four outside creditor banks declined to advance additional funds. This admission was made yester day by Judge Howard Kennedy of the Tetcrs Trust company, whicn, with W. J. Coad, is receiver for the defunct company. Sale Order Expected. An order from the judge to sell all the property is expected after the inventories are hied and notices sent to the creditors, Kennedy declared. "There is but one chance to save the mill and that is to get some one to buy in and effect a "corganiza tion," said Kennedy. "The plant and holdings are of immense value, so that even if this is not done before the receiver's sale some one will undoubtedly step in and undertake to operate the mill, instead of letting it go by the boards." Liquidation Authorized. The receivers already have been authorized to collect and reduce to money the liquid assets of the com pany and to sell out everything not necessary to the immediate opera tion of the business. Among the items offered for sale are member ships to the Chicago Board of Trade and Omaha and Lincoln grain ex changes. The four outside banks whose de cision not to invest more money pre vents the reopening of the Schuyler mill are the Atlantic National bank of New York, to which the com pany is indebted already to the ex tent of $69,598; the Continental and Commercial of Chicago, with $143, 380 at stake: the Corn Exchange Na ional of Chicago, $60,560; Hath away, Smith, Folds & Co., of Chi cago, $50,000. , Omaha Bank 'Willing. ' ' ... Tlie Omaha National' bank, al ready involved : to -the - extent , of 106,6Zb- was willing ; to;f advance mort ; money i to help out in- this emergency, according to Kennedy, but the eastern banks declined to do SO. ' ; ' They preferred to get out as much as they could without any more risk," said Kennedy. "Whether they will be able to col lect 100 cents on the dollar depends on what price the mill and other property will bring." " , Asked for $100,000. The . liquid assets, of the company are $325,848, and. its other property $721,924, according to' the receivers' report on file in the federal court. In addition to 4,649 shares of out standing common stock valued at $464,900 and 4,750 shares' of pre ferred 7 per cent cumulative stock, valued at $475,000, there were cur rent liabilities of $580,404. Of the lat ter, $435,217 is the total owed, to the five creditor banks. While $20Q,000 was the sum esti mated necessary to reopen the mill, the order the receivers sought from Judge Woodrough was permission to obtain only $1UU,0W. "We expected to realize $100,000 by liquidating- some of the assets," Kennedy explained. . , Alleged Slayer Wanted in Canada Is Under Arrest Salt Lake City, Sept. 13. Corpor al Toseph Cadoza of the Canadian mounted police reached here today, having in custody Arthur' Saike, wanted in Ottawa, Canada, on a charge of being implicated with four others in the murder of a Chicago detective in the. Canadian capital 14 months ago. Cadoza said he arrested Saike at Pueblo, Colo., Saturday, that he did not jail him the:e but took him to Denver and then brought him to Salt Lake. Cadoza said he would leave here with his prisoner for Canada tomorrow. Mammy Wins Son's Pardon Old Southern Negro Pleads Successfully for Re lease of Omaha Man From Prison--37 Cases Heard By State Board. Lincoln, Sept. 13, (Special.) An old southern mammy of the ante-bellum days successfully pleaded the case of her boy, Willie, before the Nebraska state board of pardons and paroles this afternoon. Governor McKelvie, chairman of the board, or dered the immediate release of Will iam Thomas, sentenced in Omaha to six years in the penitentiary for stab bing his sweetheart, Jennie Secret. ' William is 38, but to his old mammy, he is still the happy little pickanniny, who played the whole day long on the old plantation in Kentucky. Mrs. Mary Thomas, the mother, lives in Kansas City and she told the state board of pardons and paroles that she wanted to take her boy back with her. "I'll tell yuh, governor," she said in soft accents, "that boy never did anything wrong because he always did what I told him to do. He would mind a 6-year-old baby." Then in characteristic style she kept the officials and spectators at Girl Smuggles Her Immigrant Sister Into U. S.; Jailed New York, Sept. 13, Stafania Wtrobka of Westport, Conn , came to America eight years ago from Po land, she saved her money hoping to bring tier family here. But war, pestilence and famine left only one, her sister, Karotina. Stedania sent Ksrolina her passage money and waited. At Ellis Island she learned that Ksrolina hsd arrived too late to en ter port as one of Poland's quota under the new immigration law. Karolina wept and declared she would kill herself rather than go back to Poland. Stcfania made a resolve. She gave Karolina her American clothing and her pass to New York and sent her to friends and she took the im migrant's place. Stefania later was taken into custody, charged with aid ing an alien to enter the United States unlawfully. But she will not tell where Karolina is staying. Governor Asks Federal Aid for State Farmers Results of Questionnaire Sent To Reserve Board Head, Who Is Urged to Finance ' Live Stock Feeders. Lincoln, Sept. 13. (Special.) Ne braska farmers are not in a position to stand continued pressure in the financial deflation which has been taking place, Governor McKelvie in forms Governor Harding of the fed eral reserve board in a letter sent out today. Governor McKelvie goes exhaus tively into the conditions as revealed by a questionnaire which he recently sent to over 700 Nebraska bankers asking their views as to what was needed to assist the farmers of Ne braska in recouping their losses of the last year. . The farmers of this section, Gov ernor McKelvie informs Mr. Hard ing, have been compelled to bear more than their share of the burden. It is time now that the federal re serve banks extend sufficient credit, he says, so that the tarmers may hold what wheat remains on the farm and to feed the cheap corn to live stock, giving promise of insuring a reasonable return for their work. Reporter Claims Burch Confessed Alleged . Slayer Characterizes v Statement as Deliberate Untruth. Los Angeles, Sept. 13. Chandler Spraguc, a Los Angeles Examiner reporter, the newspaper announced today, is under subpoenae to ap pear before the county grand jury to testify regarding the case of Ar thur C. Burch and Mrs. Madaiynne Obenchain, indicted for the alleged murder cf J. Belton Kennedy. Sprague said he expected to be questioned regarding a conversation he said he had with Burch in -the jail August 14. Sprague declared Burch made statements . to him regarding' the case which he said were to be kept in confidence until Burch gave him permission to make them public, or until Sprague was .required to make them under oath, bprague said he regarded his subpoenae . to appear before the jury as releasing him from his pledge of secrecy. ' - Burch when questioned at the jail today about Sprague's .statement about the alleged conversation, said, Tfs a lie." . Mrs. Obenchain said: "There's not a word of. trutn in it." -; ,. '.- -.-. Chicago Contractors to Hire Non-Union Thursday Chicago, Sept. 13. Members of the Building Construction Employ ers' association were-planning today to replace all union men who have not returned to work by Thursday morning with non union workmen. This followed action of Judge K. M. Landis, arbiter, yesterday in can celling a date for a rehearing of matters in connection with the wage award he announced last week. The date, he announced would not be fixed until the workers were back on the job. attention until the close of her story. "I am glad you came here.rGov ernor McKelvie told Mrs. Thomas. "I wish there were more mothers like you. and there would be fewer boys in the penitentiary." Lewis G. Conley. 23, asked for a parole to enter "the Lord's service." He has served 10 months on a one to seven 3-ear sentence for stealing an tulomobile in Omaha. He said that he had intended to drive the car back and pay the rental when he was ar rested. "I'm in the penitentiary , because Dennis O'Brien had a wife and baby," sa'id Dewey Woodman, not yet 21, sentenced from Omaha for highway robbery for a term of three to six years. . Woodman said that he was called out a poolhall and went with a man who "pulled" a highway robbery. Prison workers told the board Woodman had been a model pris oner. The board considered 37 cases in all at its hearing today. Profits Tax Repeal Set Jan. 1,1922 Senate Finance Committee An proves House Hill Date for Abolishing Taxes Corporations. on Corporation Taxes Cut Washington, Sept. 13. Corpora' tions would be required to pay ex cess profits taxes for another year under a decision today of the senate finance committee which finally ap proved provision in . the house bill reoealimi these taxes as of next Jan uary 1, instead of last January 1, as recommended by secretary mciioii. The committee also inserted a provision iu the house measure re pealing the capital stock tax" effective next year and adopted an amend ment increasing the corporation in come tax from 10 to 15 per cent in stead of MYt per cent effective next January 1. Report Called For. These represented the major de cisions reached today at two ses sions, although it was said officially that the committee practically had decided to amend the house bill to continue the tax on express pack ages and oil transported by pipe line. Whether any portion of the taxes on the transportation of freight and passengers will be retained after next January 1, will depend, Chair man Penrose said, on a report to be made tomorrow by the treasury as to the savings in expenditures ex pected to be made this fiscal year by the various government depart ments. This report was called for today by the committee, which was repre sented as taking the position that it could not complete the levy sections of the bill until it had more detailed information as to how the depart ments expected to accomplish the $350,000,000 cut agreed on at the White House tax conference last month. Rapid Progress Made. With this information in hand, Chairman Penrose said the commit tee probably could get through with all of the levy sections of the bill tomorrow. Rapid progress was made today, the committee complet ing consideration of a number of administrative as well as; levy sec tions. Provisions in the house bill stricken out today . included those exempting from the income tax the salaries of the - president and the judges of -federal courts; the first $iOO of income from investments in building and loan associations and contributions made by corporations tor charitable purposes. J. lie com mittee also disagreed to the house provision allowing traveling sales men to deduct from their income all expenses incurred while on the road. Returns on $5,000, ' A new section added to the house bill would require individuals having a gross income of $3,000 annually to make a return, irrespective of whether, the total amount of net in come was taxable. Chairman Pen rose said that the treasury expected to collect income tax from many persons not now making returns, through this provision. Another provision added would permit banks to deduct for federal (Turn to Page Two, Column Six.) Seven Rescued From -Wrecked Seaplane Groton, N. Y., Sept. lj.-Seven persons, three of them women and two children were rescued from a wrecked seaplane Monday night after W. H. Manners, pilot of the plane and a mechanic named Bald win had swam more than a mile in the Hudson river and were picked up by a launch which answered the shouts and cries for help. The plane developed encine trouble and in makine a forced landing from a height of 1.000 feet. the pilot misjudged the distance. The plane crashed to the water breaking one of the pontoons and t'mowing the occupants about inside the cabin. When the cabin began to leak, the women and children were lifted to the superstructure and Manners and Baldwin, after, calling in vain for help, set out to swim the twa miles to the nearest shore. Thev were picked up after they had covered half the distance. The plar.e was towed - ashore where the women were found to be hysterical and hwere gn-en medical attention. Red Willow County. Fair Is "Off to Flying Start" McCook, Neb., Sept. 13. (Special Telegram.) Red' Willow county fair opened here with promise of one of the greatest fairs in history of the Republican valley. The races are full and a number of state fair at-i tractions are among the entertain ers. , Cattle and stock generally are largely represented and agricultural fancy work in excellent display. About 100 ' Holdrege boosters at tended and greatly assisted .with their jazz band in the fair getting off on a winning ait. Mob at Calicut Storms Jail And Destroys Many Records Calicut, British India, Sept. 13. A mob of 1.000 armed men from Mannafghat went to the pol'ce sta tion in Palghat yesterday and at tempted to kill a sub-inspector and seven constables after firing shots into the air. The sub-inspector and constables escaped to Ottapalam. The mob later looted the registrar's office and set fire to the records. Plunder appears to have been the Main objective of the mob Baltimore Putt Ban On Plans for Auction Sale of Unemployed Ualtimore, Sept. U Auctions of the unemployed, t was proposed -to be started here today, will not be permitted by cither state or city offi cial. Tin's vas announced jtt as a crowd of jobless seafaring men were preparing to march from the harbor front to hold a "tale" tn the city hall plaza. Governor Ritchie telephoned Police Commissioner Caithe,' forbid ding the auction, lie decl.ued that the idea could not be tolerated, add ing that "no man's scrvici khould be offered in this state in a way which would violate the jclf-repect of the Americau working man." Hitch Occurs in Negotiations on Peace in Erin Irish Delegates Return From Scotland Conference With Lloyd George to Explain' Points to Dail. Iljr The Associated 1'rrM. London, Sept. 13. An unexpected hitch has arisen in the Irish nego tiations. Premier Lloyd George, who is at Gairloch, Scotland, today re ceived Harry Boland, secretary to Eamonn de Valera, and Joseph Mc Grath, another Sinn Fein represen tative, according to an official com munication issued tonight and Messrs. Boland and McGiath are returning to Dublin with his ex planation of certain points in the government's proposals for consider ation by tho Dail Eireann. It is said Mr. de Valcra's reply dealing' with the question of accept ing or not accepting the invitation to a conference will not be delivered until Friday or Saturday, It is understood that the letter which Couriers McGrath and Bo land bore to the premier asked for fresh explanation of the British gov ernment's latest communication and that these points are of vital im portance, necessitating return of the couriers to Dublin for consultation with Mr. de Valera and his col leagues. The new developments will delay the proposed conference between the government and the Irish plenipoten tiaries beyond September 20, the date suggested by Mr. Lloyd George. Apparently nothing has been defin itely decided as yet on the composi tion of the Irish delegation. Michael Collins, commander of the Irish re publican army is mentioned now as a possible delegate ' and it is still possible Mr. de Valera 'will consent to head the delegation. ' J New York to Have Auction of Humans Man Who Conducted Boston "Sale" Promotes An-, other. New York, Sept. 13. Urbain Le- doux, also known as Mr. ero, who auctioned off jobless men on Boston commons, said today he would hold a similar suction next Monday near the New York public library after a parade of the unem ployed up Broadway.. He 6aid that not only would he put jobless men on the block, strip them to the waist and sell their services to the highest bidder, but that he also would auc tion off the services of any unem ployed women who might apply. . Asked if his methods with women would be the same as with men,, he said: ."Why certainly, if necessary," and called attention to the modes of dress of women in Broadway musical com edies and on ruth, avenue.-" He said the officials of an old-time New York Episcopalean church St. Marks-m-the-Bowery had turned over its chapel on the East Side to him and he would provide shelter and food there for the hungry and homeless until they could get jobs. Fishermen Protest - Against Bomb Tests New London. Conn., Sept. 12. Fishermen from New London plan a protest to Washington against the extinction of fish in the waters of some parts of Long Island sound. A delegation of loyal fishermen . ac companied by representatives of the fulton fish Aiarket tn New York. called on the commandant at the sub marine base and asked him to take his submarines far off shore for prac tice in dropping depth bombs. Aot content with seeinz the com mandant, the fishermen enlisted the aid of James G. Hammond, secretary of the New London Chamber of Commerce and. Representative Rich ard G. Freeman. A protest will be made to the secretary of the navy. The Weather Forecast Nebraska Showers ' probably on Wednesday and Thursday: cooler in .east and south portions Wednesday. Iowa Showers and cooler Wed nesday; Thursday unsettled and cool er with probably showers in west por tion. Hourly Temperatures. s ..5 ..M .6 ..6 . . .."I ,.,-s 1 . at. t p. m. 5 a. m. a. m. i p. at. 6 a. at. a. m. . 7 . m.. S p. mv m.. IS m. m. . U a. m.. 7 a. a a. m.... Highest Tuesday. T I Pveblo .... 14 I Rapid Cliy. Dsvenport .. Dnrr ! Motne4 . Dodit City . Lander North r;ut ...14 Salt Laks ...Tl t Santa Fa . Sharldan .. ...V Sioux City ...S Valcatlna . 'Higher-Up' In Murders OfAutoMen Chicago Polite Seek "Master Mind' Bai-k of Brutal Sla. ing ot Salesmen By Young Criminal. Third Gangster Is Jailed ('lilraia Trlbuaa-Umaba Bra Iffurtl Wtrft Chicago, Sept. 13. Despite 1on detailed confessions by Harvey Wi Church and Leon Turks, that the) end Clarence (Bud) Wilder murdered the two Packard automobile sales men, Bernard J. Daugherty and Carl A. Atismus, there remains an un solved mystery in the sordid crime. This is the identity of the "master mind" who planned the murders. Detectives feel certain some older criminal used the three young men as his tools. 1 here is also a belief that back of the entire crime is the syndi cate engaged in stealing automobiles outright, or "buying" then:, paying the price and then holding tin the agent and robbing him of the price. Church and I'arks admit they went into the deal solely because it offer ed some easy money. Church, in his second confession, names Parks the one who conceived the ettfffc plan. The police say, however, that Church is much the superior of I'arks 111 mentality and he was undoubted ly the leader, or rather the active agent of a criminal still higher up. "Could See Rope." Parks, who made a long, detailed confession late last flight, undertook , to repudiate it today. When asked to sign his confession, he at first re fused. "It's not the truth," he said. "I I didn't I won't sign it. What I said was not true." "You're a liarl" shouted Church, leaping to his feet and shaking his fist in Parks' face. "You know it is true, every word of it. Yellow, that's what you are, yellow all through" Parks delayed for two hours longer and then signed his confes sion. "It is true and I might as well sign it," he said. "I could see the rope dangling in front of my eyes and thought maybe I could escape it by denying my confession, but it is true." And he affixed his signa ture. Third Gangster Arrested. Clarence Wilder, the third of the cuthroat gang, was arrested today and held incommunicado . by the police. His attorney made frantic efforts to get to hira with a writ of habeas corpus, returnable instanter, but could not find where the police were holding him. Chief of Police Fitzmorris said he did not have Wilder, but there are many police stations in the city and it is certain Wilder was being held in one of them. This is borne out by a state ment he made to the police, denying any knowledge or part in the double murder. Two more men were arrested to- . day. One was an employe of Gus Benario's garage where Church arid. Parks had been employed. The other was picked up at Wilder's home. , Benario Questioned. , Benario himself was questioned at length by the police after they Had tound a large quantity of alleged stolen automobile accessories in his garage. Benario said Church had left the accessories . there. There also remains to be solved the ownership and history of $3,00k in Liberty bonds found in Church'i " apartment. In their latest confessions, which the police believe to be approximately, the truth, with the exception that both men are shielding some onf higher up, the murderers told in de tail, how they slaughtered Daugher. ty and Ausmus without giving then1 the slightest chance for their - lives Daugherty, it appears, was knocked on the head before he had time t make an outcry. Parks says thev beat his. head, fracturing his skul' in several places and then cut hit throat with a hatchet. . Call Ausmus "Yellow." Ausmus. they describe as "yellow He begged for his life, but it availed him nothing; They garrotted hinC but he was not dead when they buried him face down in the shallow grave scraped in the cinders of the garage. In crowding him into the pit, which was too short, - Church stamped upon his head until he broke the victim's neck. After this they went to supper, ap parently with no hint nf After supper Church, with the stolen machine, went joy-ridiue throueh the parks With hfs rnm nan Inn c j three girls. Just before daylight they took the "body of Daushcrtv a coal bin, carried it in the machine 10 tne ues flames river and pitched it over a parapet. At no time in their stories, do either of them press the slightest regret. The police regard it as singular that Daugherty hu ausmus were so easily over come, but the murderers say Daugh erty had no chance for his life and Ausmus made no show of putting up a fight. One Killed, Eight Injured, In Auto Crash at Dubuque Dubuque, la., Sept. 13. One man was killed and eight other persons were injured last night in an auto mobile collision on the Hawkeye highway near here. D. G. Van Dora, a Des Moines ulmin killed and J. L. Richey, also a 'sales man; airs, j. L-ahp and Mrs. C P.. Wilson, all of Bes Moines, and occupants of Mm. fahn'a stm. bile, were injured. Mrs. Cahn's con dition is critical. L. O. Hillyard and his wife and K. P. RoeriVH anit hi. xvif. nf iv.. buque were injured when their car and that of the Des Moines party crashed. y