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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 31 NO. 80. I. OMAHA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1921. I, Mill (I '). Dili Sua VHi Ball, !. Hi MlH. ti.H. M I Halt (UIM, GUa e4 MmIm, THREE CENTS 0a Pi el Man I, Waterway Is Urged By Nebraskans Thirty DUtiuct Agricultural And Commercial Organiza tions Represented at ; Lincoln Meeting. Plea Made to Congress Charlet P. Craig, executive di rector of the Great Lakej-St. Lawrence Tidewater, association, will address the Omaha Chamber of Commerce at today's noon luncheon. Lincoln, Sept. 28. (Special.) Eighty Nebraskans, representing 30 distinct agricultural and commercial organizations, in conference here to day, endorsed without reservation the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tide water project and passed resolutions urging Nebraska senators and con- . gressmen to give it immediate and active support. The project proposes the improve ment of the St. Lawrence river to permit the entrance of ocean steam ers to the Great Lakes, virtually bringing the Atlantic seaboard 1,500 , miles inland and cutting transporta tion costs of Nebraska products ac cordingly. Nebraska is one of 16 states which are members of the association supporting the project and today's conference was called by Governor McKelvie to hear a re port by Charles P. Craig of Duluth. executive director of the association. Men present, representing every variety of commercial and agricul tural inttest of the state, endorsed the project whole-heartedly. Ques tions were asked as to various fea tures of the work to be done or the effect to be achieved, but thcrs was r.ot the slightest difference of opin ion as to the necessity of the im provement. ' . Need Aid in Congress. "What we' need from Nebraska now is action by Nebraska senators and congressmen," said former Gov ernor Harding of Iowa, who accom panied Mr. Craig. "We need that badly and we need it now. This project is certain of accomplishment some day. .We want it started now. This winter is the time for congres sional action authorizing the work lo be begun. Then, in five years' time, it can be completed and when ft is, Nebraska" wheat will be worth 10 cents a bushel more than it is today." -':.. ,:. .,, , : "The 10-cent'a bushel increase -id' the 'value of Nebraska wheat, Air. Craig pointed .out, wilt come -front a "reduction, of transportation costs from . Nebraska to export markets. ilerbcrt Hoover ana Julius barnes were "auoted as authority for the statement, which means. $6 000,000 a year to Nebraska on wheat alone and $336,000,000 a year to the west ern wheat producing states as a whole. . .': . . 'i "Today," said Mr. Craig, "Argen tine wheat can be shipped to New York, landed there, shipped inland to Buffalo, be milled into flour and the (Tarn to Pate Two. Colnmn Two.) State Expenditures During September Exceed Receipts Lincoln, Sept. -28,-(Special.) . The state treasury during September spent $220,000 more than it took in. The total expenditures this month were 880,000, a. big drop, over the oM.cditure of July, totalling $1,- 7.C0O, and August .totalling $1,390,- . 000., , -V,- .The present systtm of having leg . illative appronjiations come due inonthsin advance of the taxpaying I-eriod is leaving a big deficit of ap 1 rorumatcly $1,500,000 in the gen- P crr.l fund which must . be met by drawing -on the hail insurance and temporary school fund, which has a balance of about $1,000,000. This money -will be -refunded to tax. money which will begin pouring in in short time. ' , - -', Warrants due on hail insurance vefe issued during September and State Rests Case Against Man on Trial As Wife Slayer 4 Seattle, Sept'. 28. The state rested in the trial of James E. Mahoney, charged with the murder of hi aged bride, and the defense in its opening statement, announced it will seek to prove Mrs. Mahoney was alive after April 16, the day it is charged she was killed. The last witness for the prosecu tion, Detective Captain Charles Ten nant, told of the recovery from Lake Union, August 8, of a trunk contain ing a woman's body which other wit nesses identified as that of Mrs. Ma honey. ' ' Canadian Paper Company Cuts Price on News Print Washington, Sept 28. The Ca nadian Export Paper Company, Ltd., has announced a reduction of $15 a , tea for news print paper for the ; fourth quarter of 1921. the Depart- j tnent of Commerce was informed by Consul E. H. Dennison at Quebec The new price is $80 per ton, or 4 cents a pound. Relatives of Man Killed In, Car Cannot Be Found jw .nuance, ieo., otpu o. v-f iciaU Air efforts to locate relatives of Leroy R. Bennett, who was crushed to death in a freight car; loaded with lumber near here Sepj icber 22. and in" whose overalls! f l , 1 mA . . i sewed up in the cuffs, have failed. ivtuuu neariv in riTircncvi G.A.R. Vet Serving Life Term Paroled To Attend Meeting Indianapolis. Sept. 28. Prison doors were opened so that one civil war veteran might meet again with hit comrades during the 55th annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Henry Komine, to, U serving a life sentence at the Michigan Citv cenitentiarv for murder of which he was convicted March, 1913. Out for five day he is tree. Komine was granted a tern porary parole by Governor McCray so he might attend the encampment, Group Plans for 19 Major Railway Lines Announced Arrangement Authorized by Transportation Act Local Officials Decline to Make Extended Statements. Br Tha Aaaorlated Pwaa. Washington. Sept 28. The inter state commerce commission today announced tentative plans for con solidating all of the lriajor railroads of the United States into 19 great systems, and gave notice that hear mgs would be called upon, it in the near future. The step was taken under pro ision of the transportation act which allows the consolidation if voluntary with the railroads con ccrned. The proposals now put for ward by the commission follow in the main a plan prepared under its direction by Prof. William Z. Rip lev of Harvard. llie commissions proposed if syS' terns, as outlined today, provide for retention of the competitive arrange ment of transportation lines, giving most sections of the country access to two or more of the great routes devised. Combine Weak and Strong. The principle followed in making up the consolidations was that ot hitching weaker and less profitable roads to more prosperous competr tors or connections, at the same time maintaining the identity very largely of existing great railroads. In some cases branch lines of existing roads arc suggested for divorce from pres' ent owners and attachment to other systems, with rearrangement of ter minal facilities. - It is expected that the plan with alternative arrangements which the commission has suggested, par ticularly with reference to New England, will be under consideration and argument for a prolonged per iod, since permission of the commis sion and consent of the railroad is required to every detail befcre it can be put into operation. The vol untary consolidation -p!an -was adopted - by congress as a possible means of facilitating the operation of the American transportation sys tem under rate regulation, on the theory that rates allowed by the in terstate commerce commission was being found sufficient to give ade quate earnings to strong lines while weaker roads in the same territory could not show sufficient earning to continue operations. - In the main, the plan proposed by the commission is that drafted under its direction by Prof. Willim Z. Rip ley, Harvard university, but some variations were made. The commis sion said that while all of the larger or- class 1 railroads had been in cluded in the make-up of its schedule, a number of class i and class i lines had also been covered. Proposed Groupings. llie following consolidated sys tems are proposed by the commiS' sion: No. 1, New York Central, includ ing the Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chi cago and St. Louis; Monongahela; Boston and Maine; - Bangor and Aroostock, and others. No. . 2 Pennsylvania, including Toledo, Peoria and Western; Long island, Monongahela, as an alterna tive to the inclusion of that road in the New York .Central system, and others. " " ' No. 3 Baltimore & Ohio, Read ing, Jew York-, ew Haven & Hartford; Lehigh & Hudson, and others. No. 4 Chicago & Erie; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; Bessemer & Lake trie; Wabash lines east of the Missouri, and others. - No. 5 Lehigh .Valley: New York. Chicago & t. Louis; Pittsburgh & West Virginia, and others. ; Group Short Lines. No. 6 Pere Marquette, Ann Ar bor and others. No. 7 New York. New Haven & Hartford; Boston & Maine; Bangor &: Aroostook; Lehigh & Hudson River, all of these being alternative ly to be taken in to other systems. No. 8 Chesapeake & Ohio: Hock ing Valley & Virginia. . - - io. l Xorfo k & Western: Tol edo & Ohio Central, and others. lo. 10 southern. New Orleans Great Northern and Alabama & Vicksburgh. Ao. 11 Atlantic Coast Line, Nor- (Tara t Pag Two, Colnma Six.) Black Sauriol was a bad man. He had reached that state of iniquity where he took pride in his- in famy. Read this BLUE RIBBON STORY by ., Arthur Stringer in Next Sunday's Bee Congress Asked To Probe Klan New York Man Urge Inves tigation in House Resolution Outrages in Texas Laid To Organization. Ex-Service Man Lashed Washington, Sept. 28. Invcstiga tion by a house committee of the ac tivities of the Ku Klux Klan is pro posed in a resolution introduced to day by Representative Ryan, repub lican. New York. The committee would be instructed to "recommend, if nrrtcarv. oroncr disciplinary ac tion" and to inquire into the financial affairs of the organization. Mr. Ryan charged that income tax reports did not show "proper returns of vast sums realized by the klan from the "sale of material and para phernalia." Simmons Asks Probe. Atlanta. Ga.. Scot. 28. Letters have been sent to President Harding and Attorney General Daughei ty by William Joseph Simmons, head of the Ku Klux Klan, requesting an immediate and thorough investiga tion bv the government into the activities of the organization, accord ing to a statement ssued a: klan headquarters. Both letters were signed by Mr. Simmons, it was stated, but were given out by other officials of the klan. It was said Mr. Simmons was ill and no action had yet been taken on the demand of E. Y. Clarke, im perial kleagle of the order, to be re lieved of his office. In his letter to the president, Mr. Simmons declared that the klan would welcome a sweeping investiga tion by the government into all its activities throughout the country, while in the letter to the attorney general, he said all records, books and files of the "invisible empire" would be at the government's dis posal.- The letter to Air. .uaugnerty aiso Hfrtared "if anv so-called outrages, as charged by a small partisan fjress, have been committed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, we will render every possible assistance to the De partment of Justice in tracing down such alleged outrages and will be glad to fix the guilt on any man or men, members of the klan or . not, who are cowardly enough to, by threats, intimidation or bodily force, take the law into their own hands. We do not teach nor practice class hatred, relitrious intolerance, facial prejudice,' disregard "of the law of the enforcement ot the law py tne individual. The modern Ku Klux Klan, which is sweeping this country like a tidal wave and has assumed such menace ing proportions that President Hard ing himself is giving it official atten tion, has its most active seat in Texas where numerous outrages attributed to it have been committed. The original Ku Klux Klan of the late '60s did not molest women. But the modern klan recently tarred a woman in Tenaha, Tex. The eossips of this small town got busy with the reputation of Mrs. Beulah Johnson. 21 J She had been married thrice and had neglected to get a divorce from her second husband, they clacked. ;iv Tear Off Clothes. The night of July 17 three auto mobile loads of masked men drove up in front of the Berry hotel. They dragged her into one of the cars and drove three miles from town where more masked men had a pot of toil ing pitch ready. Tearing the clothes from the uooer part of the woman's body, they cov ered her with the pitch. They cut off her beautiful hair which was her (Tom to Fata Two, Colnmn Fire.) Nye-Schneider-Jenks Firm Incorporated Lincoln, Sept. 28. (Special.) The state bureau, of securities approved a $2,500,000 stock issue by the new JNye-schneider-Jenks company of Fremont and its, subsidiary corpor ations." Articles of incorporation were nied Dy ; all companies con cerned in the secretary of state's of fice. A total of $4,000,000 in stock is authorized but no more than the $2,500,000 can be issued unless an other permit is approved by the state bureau. The articles filed do not permit the sale of shares to the public for five years." N. Mitchell, Isaac E. Congdon and Frank D. Williams are named as the company s mcor orators. ! . Merger of Two New .York National Banks Announced New York, Sept 28. Merger of the Metropolitan National bank with the Chase National bank has been approved by the directors of the lat ter, it was announced today. Direc tors of the Metropolitan bank will nice i iujuuitow iur me same pur pose. The total assets of the Chase National bank are $377,767,860, and those of the Metropolitan National bank $56,796,056, which will give the consolidated banks total assets of $434,563,916. Sample Jewelry Valued at $20,000 Stolen From Depot ; Mitchell, S. D., Sept. 28. Two jewelry sample trunks containing watches and other jewelry worth nearly $20,000 were stolen from the Northwestern railway station at Sa lem, 40 miles east of here Tuesday sight The trnnks were in the pos session of A. L. Huer, a representa tive of the H. E. Murdock company ci Minneapolis 1 ' Burglar Caught in Act of Changing His Clothes by Reporter Sioux City, la., Sept 28. Burglars often catch their victims with their tr6users off, but a Sioux City burglar had the tables turned on hint by be ing caught with bis trousers otf and clad only in a union suit and a pair of silk hose late last night. The man, who cave his name as Nick Cotcl-l lant. was caught while robbing a men's furnikhing store by the pro prietor, John KeviH, and II. E. Cody, a newooaoer man. When discovered he was donning a new outfit and had $500 worth of the best clothes in the store packed in two suitcases . Carmen to Vote On Wage Reduction Proposal Today Company Officers Refuse to Confer With Member of Union Executive Board Regarding Question. New developments in the street car wage reduction controversy are: Arrival of A. II. Burt of Denver, a member of the executive board of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway -Em nloves of America. Calling of an all-day union mass meeting to start this morning at the Labor temple, when members of the union will vote for or against accepting the decrease effective October 1. Conference between members of the union executive board and W. A. Smith, "president, and R. A. Leussler, vice president of the street car company, which lasted for two hours yesterday afternoon at the company offices. Mum About Compromise. At the close of the conference Anton Rubeck, president of the union, said: "The men will vote on the reduc tion proposition Thursday during the day and evening, by ballot. Until the result of the vote is known there is nothing to announce." President Rubeck would not say definitely whether or not union offi cers had offered to compromise by accepting a smaller cut than the 12 per cent reduction announced by the company, Vice President Leussler said, sow ever, that the men had made no counter proposition. Leussler Talks to Employes. "I read the decision of the state railway commission to the men. said Mr. Leussler.- "I also quoted statistics from the September $; 1921, report of the United States secretary of labor,.which shows that 603 repre sentative establishments emploj-ing 4,500,000 ' workers, have : reduced wages 15.9 per cent during the first eight months of this year. "I read them statistics from the United States Department cf Labor which show that taking the - United (Turn to Paa Two, Colnmn One.) Martin Convicted Of Bluffs Burglary; Sentence Is 20 Years Frank J. Martin, said to be from Kentucky, was found guilty by a jury in Council Bluffs yesterday of the burglary of the Glen Wilcox homo there on the night of July 5, last. The verdict carries a 20-year sen tence for Martin. His attorneys will move for a new trial and may car ry the case to the supreme court. County Attorney bwanson an nounced yesterday that the case against Martin's pretty young wife will be dismissed.' It was only claimed, that Mrs. Martin was in her husband's car when he was robbing the Wilcox' residence. The Iowa law holds that in such circumstances the wife is under duress by the husband and cannot be punished with him. She will be released and sent to the home of" her parents at Garfield, Wash. All the valuable jewelry found in their possession when arrested at Lincoln may be restored to her, Since it -has, not been identified as stolen. Jewelry Salesman' Robbed Of Trunks Valued at $20,000 Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 28. (Spe cial Telegram.) A. L. Heuer of Minneapolis, traveling representative of the H E. Murdock jewelry estab lishment, was robbed of diamonds and other jewelry valued at- $20,000 in Sioux Falls. His jewel trunks were taken to the railway station at about 6 last night and when he called for them at 10.30 they had disappeared. Not the slightest trace of the trunks or the thie.ves has yet been found. . . ' Minister Pleads Guilty To Violating "Dry" Laws Joplin. Sept. 28. Driven by the urge of providing "worldly necessi ties" for his wife and three sons, Ma rion E. Griffiths, 28, 'an unordained minister here, took up moonshining. Today he pleaded guilty to violating the Missouri "bone dry" law and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. Grif fiths quoted biblical passages where in he found justification for mak ing liquor as long as he did not get drunk. . Minneapolis Man and Wife Killed in Motor Car Wreck Watertown. S. D.. Sept. 28. Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Jones of Minneap olis were killed this morning when their automobile turned turtle in a ditch six miles vast of Clear Lake. Mr. Jones was general ticket agent in Minneapolis for the Great North ern railroad 1 I ,''" i nmrwiii .mi iii . r . ,.,bw i i a: .r i m& jjfv . Prairie Fire Is Raging Over Wide Territory Motorist and Family Rescued By Alliance Firemen Sev cral Thousand Acres Devastated. Alliance. Neb., Sept. 2S.-f (Specl.) One of the worst prairie, fires :in this section in many years is raging over a . wide territory, two. miles south of Alliance. Several hundred mn, equipped with' shovels, we sacks and other 'fire-fighting appa ratus are working desperately to check the flames, which are fanned by an exceedingly high wind. At noon the flames had swept over sev eral thousand acres of prairie land, destroying fences and everything in its path. , . Forty members of the Alliance vol unteer fire department are at work with fire shovels, While scores of automobile loads cf men from every direction rushed to the scene. " ' The prairie grass is very dry and burned like tinder. The flames are sweeping over the territory at the rate ot several miles an hour over path nearly two . miles wide. Many ranch houses were threatened by the blaze, but the fire-fighters prevented any of them catching. Several teams with plows were em ployed to plow fire guards about the buildings and this was all that saved them frpm destruction. - An -automobile in which a man, woman and three children were rid ing, was caught in the path of the flames as they swept across a high way. They were rescued by a group of firemen, who pushed the car to safety, after, the occupants had been blinded and nearly suffocated by the smoke. ", . The fire is believed to- have start ed from sparks from a freight train which passed a short time before the fire was discovered. Lead, S. D., Sept. 28. Fire which yesterday swept through the nation al forest ' reserve, in Parmalee can yon, 30 miles west of here, was brought under control today after doing much damage to standing. tim ber, local forestry officials aiv r.ounced.. Large forces of rangers are now patrolling the region. , s . . Thousands of Thin Cattle Are Shipped to Market Norfolk, Neb., Sept. 28. (Special Telegram.) Five hundred carloads of feeding cattle were sent to the live stock markets in the last two days from western Nebraska. Five hun dred carloads more will go Saturday and Sunday. Ranchers are quoted as saying that they are sending their thi cattle to market because banks cannot extend them credit to hold them over. Travelers returning from a trip over thecattle country say it is practically cleaned of stock. Farmers Near Callaway . May Burn Corn This Winter Callaway, Neb., Sept. 28.- (Spe cial.) It is said that fanners in this part Of the state will burn corn this winter instead of coal as com is al most as good a fuel as coal and is several dollars a ton cheaper. Coal is $16 a ton here and corn is 26c per bushel. ' Contractor Falls 25 Feet Norfolk. Neb.. Sept 28. (Special Telegram.) Harry Davis, contractor on the new state hospital kitchen, fell 25 feet down a narrow chute from which he was extricated with a rope. U1iures arc not fatal. Will It Come to This? Briand to Outline French Position Speech of Much Importance To Be Given at St. Nazaire. Paris, Sept. 28. Premier Briano will outline the position ot the French government relative to" th' conference on . limitation of arma meuts and far eastern questions in a speech at St. Nazaire on October 9. He will also discuss national ques tions, including finance and Ger man relations, in addition to the Washington conference. It is e.v pected that the premiers' utterances regarding to conference will be only incidental to a comprehensive state ment of the government's plans. The visit of M. Briand to Wash ington, ocntinues to be a subject of animated discussion by the news papers and the friends and oppon ents of the premier. It was announced when M. Briand decided to go to Wasinton a month ago that he would make the trip - across the Atlantic with the French delegation on board the ar mored cruiser Edgar Quinet landing at Hampton roads. . It is . . iow re ported that he has decided to sail on board La Savoie on October 29 with his entire staff. Bill Would Prohibit : Impersonating King Or Queen in Pageant AVashington, Sept. 28. Imperson ating a king or a-queen in a play, pageant or carnival would be liable to a fine of not more than $10,000 and imprisonment from' 10 to 20 years, under a bill introduced by Representative Hcrric, - republican. Oklahoma. Similar penalties are proposed for producers who engage some one to act the part of a king or queen. Among a half dozen other unusual measures presented by- Representa tive Herric, was a bill designed to fix- "standardized wages for labor in all vocations vand industries" and standardize prices for' all kinds of commodities; 'a bill to fix the price for wheat for. the next 10 years at from $1.50 to $2 a- bushel and a res olution urging the American govern ment to request France to replace colored troops in the occupied area of Germany with white soldiers. Keith County Commercial Club Discusses Irrigation Ogallala. Neb., Sept. 28. (Special Telegram.) Secretary Bacr of the North Platte Commercial club and J. J. Halligan, an attorney of North Platte, discussed the lower Platte valley irrigation project at the first monthly banquet of the Keith Coun ty Commercial club. The Keith county club plans to work with the North Platte chamber to have the district cntended to Julesburg, Colo. Present plans only call for a survey from Kearney to North Platte. . Negro Suspects ", Held Norfolk. Neb.. Sept 28. (Special Telegram.) Three negroeo were arrested here for inquiry into the murder of a northwestefti railroad detective at Omaha. The negroes said they came from Omaha Tues day. - - - - Wolbach Paper Sold Callaway, Neb.- Sept. 28. (Spe cial.) Rty Barnard, formerly of this place "but now of Kearney, has pur chased the Wolbach Messenger. Men Convicted in "Wild Horse" Case Go to Prison Today Attorney Fails in Effort to Obtain New Trial for Men Sentenced for Using Mails to Defraud." v Eleventh hour efforts, yesterday, of Attorney. J.; M. Priest of Cple Grammer fame, to obtain a new trial for Clyde A. and J. Sidney Smith, who must go to prison today for using the mails to defraud in the celebrated "wild horse" casev proved of no avail.' : V ' . v The federal court bere": has no jurisdiction to consider the motion for a new trial, J. C. Kinsler, United, States district attorney, ruled yes terday, after Federal Judge Wood rough had turned over to him Priest's application. "We can do nothing to alter the judgment of this court after the close of the term in which the judgment was made," said Kinsler. "Five years have elapsed in this, instance." The Circuit tourt of .appeals and the pardon attorney in the United States Attorney General's, office, and thereby, President Harding, have de nied interference with the original r action of the court here in convicting the brothers. , They were given 30-day and lately 10-day respites from their commit ment sentences, but the latter ex pired last night at midnight. J. B. Nickerson, chief deputy in the United States marshal's office, Said late yesterday, afternoon that the two would be given until this morn ing to report. J. Sidney Smith goes to the federal prison at Leavenworth for two years and Clyde to the ' county jail at Grand Island for three months. C, M. Thompson, convicted at the same time, recently received a presi dential pardon. Mexican Bandit Sentenced To 40 Years for Murder Brownsville, Tex., Sept. 28. Pablo Perez, alleged member of Mexican bandit gangs, whose depredations six years ago brought thousands of American soldiers to the Texas Mexican border," today was found guilty, of murder by a jury in dis trict court here and sentenced to 40 years in state prison. . He was ar rested recently upon returning from Mexico and was tried specifically for the killing f Dr. E. S. Cain, deputy state health officer, who was shot when the bandits wrecked and lobbed a passenger train near here on October 19, 1913. The Weather ? ' Forecast. JCebraska Cloudy and - somewhat unsettled Thursday and Friday; much ' cooler Thursday; . strong north to northwest winds. ' Iowa Showers and much cooler Thursday; Friday fair and cooler, strong northwest winds Thursday. Hanrlr Tampcratarca. t . n. t a. m. 7 a. m. S a. m. t a. m. It a. m. 11 a. m. t: coon . J 61 .....61 tl i ? 7t 71 1 p. P. t P- 4 P. 5 P. i-P. m. m. m. m. m. m. ..it ..S3 ..Si ..SC ..SS ..13 ..S ..71 T p. m. I p. m. Blcbcat Wdaadar. Cherenna 8 J Putblo ... Davanport to.RapId City lDTr Hi Salt Laka , Dm Moinea Santa Fa ., Dodgi City ,...tRhtr1dn ., lnder 7l'3loox City North r;:t .... Valeotina .,... ti 74 7 S 44 i Jud ge Holds Arbuckle For Trial Film Star Must Anwer to Charge of Manslaughter in Connection With Death Of Actress. Released $5,000 Bail By EDWARD J. DOHERTY. 1 blcaca Tribuaa-Omaha Baa Laaaa4 Ira. San Francisco, Sept. 28. Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle was held aver to the superior court this afternoon by Judge Sylvian Laiarus on a charge not of murder, but of manslaughter. He has been admitted to bail of $5,000 and tomorrow he returns to his Los Angeles home, with his wife and his mother-in-law, bit attorneys and some of his closest friends. The holding of the slapstick king on the minor charge was greeted with applause by hundreds of women. They came into the cham bers of Judge Lazarus' court to i .1.. .i i. .... j . gnaKC l nc coincuian a iiauu, w .uu- gratulate him, to tell hjm how glad they were. Fatty's first action was to em brace his wife, Minta Durfee of the films, who has sat beside htm all through the ordeal, and then lo hug and kiss her mother. -Tears In Star's Eyes. When he walked with them into tne cnamocrs incrc were icaia i Fatty's eyes, tears in the ey of a clown, tears that were not meant for any screen. Mrs. Arbuckle and Mrs. Durfee were crying, too, a,nd many of the women who crowded their way into the place were sniffling. "I was with you all the time," said one. "Oh, I just kne they wouldn't hold you for murder' said another. "Isn't it wonderful," said a third, "just like a fairy tale." Fatty had nothing to say to any of them save "Thanks." He rolled a brown-paper cigaret with one hand, unconscious of what he was doing and his great fingers shook as he lighted a match. He had been under considerable strain all through the afternoon in court. Judge Lazarus had had much to say before he gave his de cision. , 1 Judge Reviews Evidence. He had reviewed all the evidence in the case and he had gently re- i ..i i . i. i.: v... i-- PUKCU uic prosccuuuu, uui nc uau given no hint of whimcaec's was to be until he was ready to give it. In fact at the beginning of his discourse it looked as if he were going to hold the comedian for mur der. - ;-. , .' - The judge began by announcing that the prosecution had put in its case, that he had overruled the mo tion of the defense to dismiss the case and that he was ready to hear any witnesses the defense might call. Attorney , Frank Domineuez. the big lawyer for the defense,' stated .1.- r. i..: . ., . it had been decided not to Call any ...hv a.i.v. .WMOU1..1IUII nun aiucai witnesses. . . . . -u.- ,., Now, gentlemen," , the judge be gan, before rendering a decision, the court will indulge in a little discus sion. ' - "There is iust enoueh evidence here, I may say barely, enough, to justify me in holding the defendant without further faets and circum stances which would more strongly establish the fact that Roscoe Ar buckle is guilty of the crime of mur der." ; . ,.. - Important Case. ? "This is' an important-case. We are not trying Roscoe Arbuckle alone. We are not trying the screen celeb rity who has given joy and pleasure to all the, world. . "Actually, in a large sense, we arc trying ourselves. -..v. "We are trying, our present day (Ton to Iaga Two, Columa teres.) ' British Cabinet Works On Jobless Situation London, Sept. 28. Various pro posals for relieving the unemploy ment situation in Great Britain were discussed by a committee of the British cabinet yesterday. A olan to revive home and export trade by the extension of credits was one of the matters taken up by the commit tee during the day. - Lnofhoal reports assert that an tagonism has developed between cer tain departments of the government, and the representatives of the treas ury, who are striving to cut down expenses. Prime Minister Lloyd George plans to consult a number of leaders in commerce and industry at Gairloch on Friday, and on that oc casion lie will probably, hear the views of union leaders, who have asked for an interview. Couple Sought by Police Were Married in Hastings Beatrice, eD.,- 5ept. ZS. (Spe cial Telegram.) Mary E. Eble, Beatrice girl, an4 Peter Carson, who left this city Monday evening, were married at Hastings Tuesday, ac cording to word sent to Judge Ellis, . grandfather of the girl. Police at Omaha and Lincoln have been looking for them since their disappearance. ' . -. Weeping Water Has Crowd At First Annual Conntv Fair Weeping Water. Neb Sept 28. (.Special Telegram.) The first an nual Cass county fair opened here with a big attendance. The displays overflow the provisions made for them. Hog breeders made 140 en tries consisting Tof over 300 hogs. Women made 450 entries in th reddlework department which rivals the state tau ft . -w 4. . vi