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Brother ami Sinter Teotify
Against Parent in Mother
Suit for Divorce ami
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Declare Olds Was Cruel
"I might as well die drinking us
nv other way!! was the reply of
I dwin li. Olds, wealthy retired
farmer, when hi wile, Mary, re
monstrated with him, according to
be testimony in District Judge Scar'
court cstcrday a iter noon.
Mm. Old is suing (or divorce,
and ak a division of property which
will Rive her $50,000.
"Mr. Old had a team of mules
when I married him," said Mrs.
Olds. "1 had ahotit $50. I loaned
him $40 of it to huy harness for his
team. Our children were all bom
before we moved on a farm in
Wayne county.
Neglected Farm.
"It was after we had moved there
that my husband began to drink, lie
got gradually worse. He neglected
things about the farm he never be
fore would have neglected, and went
away frequently leaving the farm
work for my little children and my
self to perform. He became jealous,
and accused me of undue familiarity
with-boys much younger than my
self; just country boys. ,
Mrs. Olds related details of a
quarrel with her husband, when, she
says, he attempted to whip one of
their sons.
Protected Her Son.
"I told him he was in such a rage
he would hurt the boy badly," said
Mrs. Olds. "I, told him he would
.strike the hoy only over my dead
body. 'If I can't run things here
I'll leave,' he replied. He went out
and drove away. 1 tried to follow
him, but lost him at a road crossing.
Me came back some days later and
was good for a while."
Mrs. Olds said that while on the
farm her husband had twice publish
ed notices in the local paper declar
ing he would not be responsible for
her debts or the debts of the chil
dren. She said she always was a
careful buyer.
"Someone advised me to talk back
to my husband, instead of being so
meek," continued Mrs Olds. "I tried
it one night and he leaped out of bed,
astonished. After w-e moved to Oma
ha in 1910 Mr. Olds stayed away
from home for months at a time."
Children Against Father. '
-Mrs. Olds, who' is Represented by
Congressman A. V. Jcfferis and II.
F. Mossman,. is 60 years ' old arid
gray. Mr. Olds is 61, and also gray.
One of their sons, Robert, and a
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Tryon, took
the stand against their father yester
day morning. They testified he was
cruel not only to his family, but to
the -livestock on their farm. Mrs.
Tryon said he told' hex he wanted
to "leave, the farm to bo nearer the
saloons."
Mrs. J. A. Pardoe. who boarded for
two years at the Olds home in Oma
ha, took the tand to testify that Mr.
Olds had shown her a picture of a
young girl. "She's a pippin," Mrs.
Pardoe quoted Mr. Olds as saying.
.."Of course you immediately
thought of Beif Davis apples," ob
served Judge Sears, thus creating a
vipple of amusement in the court
room. Men Blamed for Movie
Crash Freed on Bonds
x Washington, Feb. 15. Bonds of
$5,000 cash each were furnished to
day by the nine men ordered held
for the grand jury b ythe corner's
jury yesterday after the inquest into
the collapse of the roof of the Knick
erbocker motion picture theater. The
men were booked formally on
charges of homicide, but District At
torney Peyton Gordon said that
should any of them be indicted they
could be charged with no higher of
fense than involuntary manslaughter
He said he did not expect the grand
jury to take up the case before early
next week. '
Lumber Manufacturers
Accused of Price Fixing
Washington, Feb. 15. Lumber
manufacturers of Idaho, western
Montana and eastern Oregon "have
organized and conducted the West
ern Pi-tie Manufacturers' association
fpr the primary purpose of agreeing
on the prices of their lumber," the
federal commission : declared today
in submitting to congress the fourth
of a series of reports dealing with
the lumber industry.
"The activities of the association
in advancing prices by concerted ac
tion were contemporaneous with a
steadily rising price level between
1915 and 1920," the report asserted,
adding that in periods of depression
members of the association acted in
concert to regulate production so as
to maintain prices.
2 Men and Women in Auto
Found Dead in Ice in Creek
Kansas City, Mo, Feb. 15. The
, bodies of two men and a woman
were found in a closed automobile
half submerged in Brush creek i:i
the south part of this city today.
The ,car had apparently fallen with
its occupants from a trestle and
broken through the ice of the creek.
The -bodies were frozen in the -ice
which had formed inside the car.
Boaz W. Long Resigns
Washington. Feb. 15. Boaz W.
Long. American minister to Cuba
since 1919. has tendered his resigna
tion to President ' Harding to take
effect at one.
Accused of Wanting
to Live Nearer Saloons
Edwin Olds.
British to Go on
With Evacuation
of Soiilh Ireland
Belfast, uiet as Troops Check
Gunmen Ulster Border
Also Quiet Collins Con
fers With Churchill.
London.' Feb. 15. (By A. P.)
Michael Collins, head of Irish pro
visional government, has obtained
the reales of IS of the Ulster union
ists recently diknaped, it wasc an
nounced in the house of commons
today by Winston Churchill, secre
tary for the colonies.
Mr. Colling hoped that more of the
prisoners would be liberated during
the day, the secretary added.
Mr. Churchill said that at his sug
gestion. Premier Craig of Ulster and
Mr. Collins had agreed to the ap
pointment of impartial commissions
who would go to the border area,
ascertain certain facts and keep in
close touch with each other in order
to allay if possible the great ap
prehension existing on both sides of
the border at-tne action being taken
on the other side.
Belfast, Feb. ' 15. (By .. A. P.)
After a period of quiet lasting sev
eral hours disorders again broke out
in this city at 3 o'clock this after
noon when shooting began in the
Stanhope street area, near the Vic
toria barracks. The military prompt
ly opened fire.
When the firing of the military
failed to disperse the hostile crowds
the troops were ordered to charge
with bayonets. .One civilian was
wounded.
Up to 5 p. m. the total casjalties
since Saturday night had reached an
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Priest Arraigned
on Murder Charge
Montreal, Feb. 15. Laying aside
his priest's costume for a suit of
gray and tweed, Rev. Father Ade
lard Delorme was arraigned today
en a charge . of slaying his. half
brother. Raoul Delorme, an .Ottawa
university student, on January 6.
Father Delorme faced Judge Cus
son in the office of the chief of po
lice rather than in open court and
was remanded for pleading until next
Tuesday. Even newspaper men were
barred from the hearing, which was
attended, only by the accused, the
judec and a few officials.
The priest was arrested last night
after a coroner's jury returned a ver
dict accusing him of the slaying. The
youth's body was found in a suburb
with six bullets in the head.
Secretary Hughes Sails
for Vacation in Bermuda
New York, Feb. 15. Secretary
and Mrs. Charles E. Hughes sailed
on the steamship Fort Hamilton to
day for a two weeks' vacation in
Bermuda.
Mr. Hughes refused to be inter
viewed on affairs of state, asserting
he already was on vacation.
They will spend their vacation
with their daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Hughes at Fort Hamilton.
Congress
May Drop
Navy Class
House Committee Agree to
Recommend Annapolis Grad
uate to Be Turned Back
to Civil Life,
Attempt Made on Life
of Hungarian Regent
Vienna. Feb. U.-(ly A. !.)-An
attempt wis made on the life of Ad
miral Nicholas llorthy, the Hun.
ginin regent. Ut week, according
to rrport published in Vienna today,
A volley of ihoti fired through,
the window of a rattle outside of
liudapett, where he wi attending a
hunt dinner.
The attarkert vye pursued and
everal of them were wounded. The
incident wa concealed at Budapest,
the report said.
Plan to Shave
Hjr the Awarknttd
Washington, Feb. U
naval committee, in try
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New York Detectives
Imitate Cats in Raid
on Gambling House
New -York, Feb. 15. New York
detectives hit upon a disguise that
Poe, Gaboriau and Doyle missed.
They became cats.
Working on a telephone tip that
Henry Bownlow. who described him
self as a "retired broker of New
York," was running a little game for
wealthy clubmen in his apartment,
Detectives Burpeau, Hock and Smith
betook themselves to .the house in
the early morning hours.
Dropping to their bands and knees
they loosed some piteous "me-er
ows" and began scratching on the
door. '
"Poor puss," said someone inside
and opened the door.
Then, the detectives said, they saw
Bownlow and guests, all in evening
clc-thes,- standing in a luxuriously
furnished room around a roulette
whecL
At the police statifln Bownlow
asked the lieutenant to telephone
Lord Auckland at the Buckingham
hotel so that he could furnish bail.
Lady Auckland told the police her
husband was out. Bownlow was held
in $500 bail He pleaded not guilty.
cover some way ol rcouiy appro
priations for the naval etaulishnient
next year, was reported today to have
asreed informally to recommend that
the first class at Annapolis to be
graduated in June, be turned bark to
civil life without commissions in the
navy.
Although member declined to
discuss this proposal, it is understood
that such a recommendation probrthlv
will be made, along with the further
proposal that the number of men to
be admitted to the academy each yenr
be reduced from five to tw for each
member of congress. Secretary eDn
by proposed that the reduction to be
cut on a congressional allotment
from five to three.
There are about 540 members of
the first class, all of whom naturally
exacted to be sent to sea. A com
mitteeman, urging that the entire
class be dropped, declared final de
cision on this question would be
reached at the earliest possible time,
in order to let the midshipmen know
whether they could expect to remain
on the government payroll.
Plan to Cut Appropriation.
While the committee continued to-
I day to hear naval experts tell of the
needs for the next fiscalyear under
what they ' described as "the treaty
navy," house members were can
vassing among themselves in an ef
fort to find how much could be cut
from Secretary Denby'g estimate of
$350,000,000 for the next fiscal year.
On all sides it was admitted that
the drive for a reduction from that
figure was gaining headway, although
manv leaders insisted that to cut!
much under the Dcnby estimate
would put the navy below the ratio i
rating fixed by the arms conference.
The figure most .persistently men
tioned as the most probably to be set
by the appropriations committee
which will frame the navy bill, was
$250,000,000. There were many claims
by "little navy men," demanding
drastic cuts, that the house, at least,
would not stand for more than $200,
000,000. Scrap "Treaty Navy."
In asking for $350,000,000, Secre
tary Dcnby explained ' that - this
amount would give' the navy an en
listed personnel of 90,000 or 10,000
less than fixed by the last appropria
tion bill. Nobody in authority was
prepared to say offhand what the en
listed personnel would be if only
$200,000,000 was allowed, although all
agreed it would scrap the "treaty
navy," and give it an actual strength
less than that allotted by-the confer
ence tol Japan.
The committee, it is said, probably
will ask congress to repeal the law
under which officers are not per
mitted to be associated with concerns
contracting to supply naval supplies
or war materials to the government.
Representative McArthur, republican,
Oregon, a member of the committee,
said there was strong sentiment in
the committee for such a move, as
it would open the way for a larger
number of retirements.
Big outside influences aVcady are
developing, according to reports, for
retention of many of the navy's shore
stations which are certain to be
abandoned or curtailed. Chairman
Butler declared that the same polit
ical influences which broughti about
the establishment of many yards and
stations are at work now to keep
them from being destroyed. As
sistant Secretary Roosevelt told the
committee, "however, that the de
partment was not prepared to say
at this- time what stations might be
curtailed, all depending on the ap
propriation. Hitchcock Seeks Data on
4-Power Pact From Harding
Washington, Feb. 15. A resolu
tion calling upon the president for
information and documents con
cerning the four-power Pacific
treaty negotiated at the arms con
ference, was introduced - today by
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska,
ranking democratic member of the
senate foreign relations committee.
On request of republican leaders,
the resolution -went over to await
the return tomorrow of Chairman
Lodge of the committee.
Senator Hitchcock told the sen
ate that the printed report of the
American delegation, submitted by
the president with the treaty, con
tained "almost nothing" regarding
the negotiations of the treaty.
Chicago-Omaha Passenger
Fare Cut by Great Western
Chicago, Feb. 15. Regular pas
senger fare between Chicago and
Omaha will be reduced $1.50 by the
Chicago Great Western railway, ac
cording to an announcement by of
ficials made public today.
.' The new rates will be effective as
"soon as tariffs can. be prepared.
Officers of the railroads east of
Chicago yesterday agreed to reduce
summer tourist fares to all principal
points 20 per cent, it was reported,
but these reductions have not been
officially announced. - .
Another Offer to Buy
Muscle Shoals Drawn Up
Washington. Feb.. 15. (By A. P.)
Another offer for purchase and
lease of the government's properties
at Muscle Shoals, Ala., was com
pleted today and arrangements made
by its sponsors, the Alabama Power
company, for immediate filing with
Secretary Weeks.
I (S -ess May Cut
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"1 1 V iv'uoui
to Provide Bonus
Slashing of Appropriation
, Bill Proposed to Finance
Added Compensation
for Former Soldiers. '.
Washington. Feb. 14. The sol
diers bonus question was to-night
still very much in the air.
Congress was without any offi
cial word from President Harding
as to his views on the subject, and
meantime, the committees which
have been handling the problem con
tinued to mark time.
Among senators and representa
tives generally, there was consider
able private discussion and conjec
ture with the revival on the house
side, of talk about a slashing; of an
nual appropriations bills as a means
of providing the necessary finances
for the bonus.
Representative Mondell, Wyoming,
and some other leaders in the house
were understood to be giving this
proposal close study. Mr. Mondell
called at the White House early in
the day. but did not see the presi
dent. He said afterwards that the
supply measures would be examined
carefully to determine whether much
of the sum needed for the bonus
could not be obtained from that di
rection. Favored in House.
This proposition met with consid
erable response from members of
the house, where apparently there is
a growing desire to put the bonus
through. There were suggestions
that as a result of the agreement for
a naval holiday as much as $200,000,
000 could be cut from the naval bill
and that another large sum could be
feved by cutting down the size of
the army. Mr.' Mondell. and other
leaders were not prepared, however,
to make estimates until a more care
ful study of the subject had been
made.
With the executive known to look
with disfavor upon either the sug
gested eight point tax program, or a
I pushed their campaign with reilewed
vigor and were understood to nave
been well satisfied with the pro
gress made. They were said to be
hopeful that the president would
suggest this kind of a tax in his
expected communication to Chair
man McCumber of the senate finance
committee.
Many Oppose Sales Tax.
Some senators also thought that
Mr. Harding might make such a sug
gestion, but this belief did not- ap
pear to be general. Sentiment in both
the house and senate against a sales
tax was said to be so strong that
there was little probability that the
bonus bill with a provision for this
tax could be passed.
Congressional leaders were under
stood to be without information to
night as to when the president would
communicate with Senator McCum
ber or whether his letter would con
tain suggestions that might assist
congress in shaping its program.
Harding Lauded for
Stand on Bonus Bill
New York, Feb. 15. President
Harding was lauded by officials of
the national budget committee here
for having; put "squarely up to con
gress the question of raising money
to pay the soldier bonus."
"It was the first time a president
of the United States had insisted that
congress assume some responsibil
ity," said John T. Pratt, chairman of
the budget committee at a luncheon
meeting. He urged that making con
gress raise the money it voted to
spend would make that body "more
circumspect."
Henceforth, said members' of the
committee, the question asked of
congressmen would be not "how
much moncv did you get for your
constituents?" but "how much money
did you save the nation?"
Heaviest Snow of Winter
Descends on Manhattan
New York, Feb. 15. Greater New
York today experienced its heaviest
snowfall of the winter. Six inches
had fallen after the storm had been
in progress a few hours.
The city marshaled 12,000 shovel
ers, 150 tractor plows and 400 trucks
to clear the streets.
Newport News Ship Firm
to Recondition Leviathan
Washington, Feb. 15. The con
tract for reconditioning , the giant
liner Leviathan was formally award
ed by the shipping board today to
the Newport News Shipbuilding and '
Drydock company.
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HOWES!
The Jones Corners Disarmament Delegates Are Still At It Black Hand
Ga ngsters
Ca p tu red
Band, Allop'd to JIar LV
tortcd I.urjjf Sum From
Los Anjrcl.' RiiMiioa Men,
Battle Police With Gun.
"Ghosr Fails to Walk
for Chicago Aldermen
Chicago, Feb. 15. Today -was
supposed to be payday for Chicago's
aldermen, but the city lawmakers
went home minus their pay envelopes
for the "ghost" failed to walk.
The reason was that the mayor
had not yet approved the city budget
and the finance department refuses
to pay out any cash until the budget
is approved.
About $600,000 due city laborers
tomorrow will not be paid unless the
budget . is , approved, it was an
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Fight Launched
to Move Capitol
From Lincoln
Threat of Citizens to Seek
Damages Starts Move;
. x Broken Bow, Makes -Generous
Offer.
Lincoln, Feb. IS. (Special.) The
state of Nebraska, which contem
plates building a $5,000,000 state
house at Lincoln, is threatened with
thousands of dollars worth of dam
age and injunction suits by Lincoln
property owners, who object to the
inconvenience of a spur track from
the Burlington running in front of
their homes to carry material neces
sary for building to the state house
grounds.
According to engineers and mem
bers of the state capitol commission
a spur track is necessary to save
thousands of dollars in drayage other
wise necessary in carrying materials
from the railroad to the state house
grounds.
Broken Bow Offer.
W. L. Gaston, assistant secretary
of state and a resident of Broken
Bow, has taken advantage of the at
titude of Lincoln citizens ' and the
slowness with which the Lincoln city
commissioners are acting in granting
the railroad a right to install the
spur to reopen the fight for chang
ing the location of the state capital
to a more central part of -the state.
In a statement, which Gaston says
he submits in behalf of the citizens
of Broken Bow, the following is
offered to the citizens of Nebraska
if they will remove the capital there:
Broken Bow will deed the state
200 acres of land anywhere within
a radius of two miles from the Cus
ter county courthouse. . "
Will Build Mansion.
Broken Bow will build oil tle same
site a governor's mansion With 93
rooms, one for each county in the
state, including a den in theiasement
for a democratic governor.
Broken Bow will grant the free
use of any of its paved streets for the
purpose of laying tracks to deliver
building material.
Broken Bow agrees to pay all the
expenses of a special session of the
legislature called to legalize and re
move the state capital.
Broken Bow submits that Broken
Bow and Custer county is in the very
center' of the state and is the logical
location for Nebraska's capital.
"Three-GHiv" Boy Bandit ,v
Has $100,000 in Loot
Chicago. Feb.1 15. "Three-Gun"
Herman Alien,' 17, today - amazed
hardened criminal chasers with his
story of how he had obtained more
than $100,000 'in 200 burglaries and
holdups in three cities. He told the
detectives he was "the king of boy
burglars." Allen was arrested while
trying to make away with a stolen
automobile. He carried a high-caliber
pistol in each hip pocket and an
other slung under his arm. His
pockets were filled with pawn tickets
and he led his captors to a flat filled
with stolen goods.
Deadlock Reported on
Proposed Steel Merger
New York, Feb. 15. A "deadlock
has been reached in the proposed
merger of several of the independent
western steel producing companies,
according to report current today
The outcome of the proposed mer
ger hinges largely on the questions
of valuations and securities. On this
question no agreement has been
reached, y
Water Congress
Success iVssured
Delegates Arriving in Hast
ings to Plan Subsoil Satu
ration for South Platte.
Hastings, Neb.. Feb. 15. (Special
Telegram.)- Early arrivals for the
supplemental water supply congress
assured success in the movement for
the organization of the counties into
a unit. State Engineer Johnson and
Attorney General Clarence A. Davis
are here to .address the meeting.
Delegates from the different coun
ties expressed belief that the congress
would go down as one of the most
important events in the hitsory of
the South Platte district.
Teh supplemental water supply
congress has for its purpose to
cement the South Platte counties to
a program of subsoil saturation that
will assure a full crop every year.
Large engineering problems are in
volved, but it is maintained that the
direct benefit to the counties in regu
lar and full crops will pay large divi
dends. The proposed plan to carry
the project to completion it is said
will not call for special tax levies or
bond issues. '
Assurance w-as given that delegates
from Hamilton, Clay, Fillmore,
York, Kearney, Phelps and Adams
counties would be present and.-special
delegations .from all thc.princi-'
pal cities in this district.1
Banker Will Handle
Democratic Finances
Washington, Feb. ' 15. Appoint
ment of Harrison Nesbit, president of
the Bank of Pittsburgh, as chairman
of the finance committee of the Na
tional democratic committee, was an
nounced, today by Chairman Cordell
Hull, who said it aws "the first move
for a thorough financial organization
in the national committee." Other
members of the committee which Mr.
Nesbit will head are to be announced
soon. : , ' -.
A complete program for an active
campaign along, progressive lines is
being mapped out at national head
quarters. Chairman Hull said, with
an enlarged organization and
activity. The chairman left today
for Indianapolis, where he will ad
dress a ' meeting of . the ' Indiana
Democrat Editorial association. His
speech will be the keynote for the
opening of the democratic campaign
in the? middle west,, it! was said at
headquarters. ... . ' r.
U. M. W. Meet to Consider '
Howaj's Plea Against Lewis
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb, 15. Alex
ander Howat. deposed Kansas miners
leader, won the1 preliminary skirmish
of his-fight at -the special convention
of the United ; Mine Worker of
America here today, against- the ac
tion of the union administration of
ficers expelling. Howat and treating
a provisional district government for
the union in Kansas.
By a rising vote of 977 to 864, the
delegates decided -to consider How
at's appeal to override the adminis
tration officers' orders and'immedi
ately a roll call, was ordered,' prob
ably delaying a final decision until
tomorrow.
Meanwhile ' all consideration , of
wage csale matters was deferred.'
.Illinois Bank Robbed.
Alton, 111.. Feb. 15. The Illinois
State bank of East Alton was robbed
of about $2,000 by three armed men
today. This was the second time in
three months the institution was
robbed, six men obtaining $7,600
last November.
Gigantic Ice Jam
Converts Baltic
Sea Into a Lake
Closes Cattegat Five Steam
ships, Caught in Pack, in
Great "Danger as Wind
Presses Ice.
Stockholm, Feb. 15. The Baltic
sea has been converted into an iso
lated lake owing to the closing of
the Cattcgate and the sound by ice.
Five steamships, including the
Thule from London with 27 passen
gers, are held fast in a very dan
gerous position off the Vinga light
house, while other vessels caught by
the pack of the Swedish west coast
bring the total of blocked-in craft to
well above a score.
The ice pack which is blockading
the Swedish west coast is of enor
mous thickness, and the wind is con
tinuing to press the ice against the
shore, increasing the danger of the
ships caught in the pack. Two
steamers already have foundered,
their plates being crushed in by the
ice. The crews escaped to other ves
sels. The 3,500 ton Danish freighter
Tranquebar, from Galveston and
.Norfolk for Copenhagen, and more
'than 20 other vessels are imperiled.
Ice breakers who ordinarily would
go to the rescue of the' imprisoned
craft are themselves stuck 'fast in
the ice.
Will Not Halt Relief.
The closing of the Baltio by the
ice belt will not interfere with the
American relief activities in Russia,
according to American relief head
quarters here. Anticipating the
freeze up , the administration has
created reservoirs of supplies within
Russia adequate for feeding 2.000,000
persons until the middle of April.
Four American famine relief car
goes are ice-bound in the Elbe, but
15 ships,-bearing nearly 100,000 tons
of corn, arc beginning to arrive at
Black sea ports.
Man Killed When Trigger
Catches on Neck of Bottle
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 15. A small bot
tle of cough medicine . caused the
death here last night of Charles S.
Martin, 50, real estate dealer, who
was shot . through . the heart. The
neck , of the bottle caught on the
trigger guard of a pistol . he was
carrying in an overcoat pocket and
discharged the gun.
Durant Motors to Put
a $348 Car on Market
New York, Feb. 15. W. C. Du
rant, president of Durant Motors
Inc., announces that he has accepted
a contract to build in quantity a four
cylinder, five-passenger automobile to
be retailed at $348.- The car will be
placed on exhibition at Washington,
D. C, March 9.
The Weather
Forecast.
Thursday, fair and somewhat
warmer. , . . .
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Wounded Man Escapes
I.o Angcle. Oil., Feb. 15. -l.ik'it
men, allciit d tu have cuiipircd to ex
tort larc miiih of nuiiuv from
wealthy l.o Allele bu-im-fs men,
were arretted here la-t night after
revolver battle witfi federal oftior.
deputy sheriffs and private inrtKJ
tun. according U a try the Lo
Angeles Time printed today. A
ninth man, believed to have been
rioiicly wounded by a bullet tired in
the dark, ecaprd. but hi capture
expected, the officer said.
The men arretted aie:
John Maiich, jIj l'.nnle Gtittt. 4'J;
Mike K?airh, 44; Aimust lirllich,
26: Frank Sereo, 44: lleniv Siuiik,
37; Jack Ken.lotT. 26. and llarrv
Akolza, 27. Thry were all booked
"for investigation," and KandolT, in
addition, was held on charges which,
it was stated, would be prcfened
later by the United State marshal.
The alleged conspiracy was
brought to the attention of the au
thorities through the reported efforts
of the men to obtain $25,000 in cash
from the president of one of the larg
est corporations of Los Angeles.
His name, those of others said to
have been selected a prospective
victims and those of the officers who
participated in the gun battle anil
who made the arrest are withheld
at the request of the authorities, the
Times states, for fear vengeance
will be exacted by friends of the men
tiiken into custody.
Typewritten in Red.
Last Wednesday, it is said, the
business man received a letter type
written in red and signed "B. H. S.."
which the authorities believed stood
for "Black Hand Society."
The letter instructed him to place
the money in a certain spot in a va
cant lot. The letter contained the
threat that unless he did as directed,
he would be killed.
lie notified the authorities. A
'"plar.t" was arranged. Four bundles
of paper, cut to the size of national
bank notes, with a dollar bill at the
top and bottom of each, were placed
at the des: nated spot.
Prepare to Shoot.:
Heavily armed federal agents hid
in the vicinity, prejiared to shoot if
any person came for the money. A
man appeared, but the keeper of an
oil station was in the line of fire, so
the officers did not shoot. The man
got the bundles of notes and left,
unmolested.
Two days later the business man
received a second letter, similarly
written and signed. It acknowledged
(Turn to Pmr Two. Column Three.)
Harding. Alaska Trip
Will Start on June 15
Washington,' Feb. 15. The presi
dent and Mrs. Harding will leave
here for Alaska about June 15, it was
learned yesterday, and will not re
turn until the .middle of September,
According to tentative plans formu
lated at White House, thc presiden
tial party will go by special train to
thc Pacific coast. The Mayflower, the , '
presidential yacht, in the meantime
will sail to thc Pacific and be ready
to convey the party down the coast
late in August. Mrs. Hard'ng feels
that the only opportunity for relaxa
tion on the president's part will pre
sent itself after his departure on the
Mayflower.
Steamship Olympic Brings '
' $4,307,000 in British Cold
New York, Feb. 15. The steam-,
ship Olympic, arriving today front
Southampton and Cherborgc,
brought 113 cases of British gold. -valued
at $4,307,000. Most of it was .
consigned to Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Banebridge CelbyJ former secretary
of state, and law partner of former
President Wilson, returned from a
business trip abroad. He said he felt
"unique" and thought he deserved
great credit for having refrained
from the popular pastime ot writing
or lecturing on "greai persons I
have met."
Samuel M. Vauklain. president of
the Baldwin Locomotive company,
another passenger, expressed opti- .
mism on the general business situa
tion abroad. He made a trip through
England, France, Poland and Ron
mania. Los Angeles Man Kills
Wife, Her Mother, Self
Los Angeles, Feb. 15. George A.
Boden, attorney, shot and killed his
wife, Mary Boden, 37, and her moth
er, Mrs. Julia Taylor, 66, and then
ended his life todayin his wife's
home here. Failure to effect a recon
ciliation with his wife, who had sued
for divorce, was indicated as the
cause of the Triple tragedy, police
say. -
Study of German Is Resumed
in Chicago Public Schools
Chicago. Feb. 15. Study of the '
German language once more has
been made a part of the official cur
riculum of Chicago public schools.
Peter Mortenson, superintendent of,
schools, in a statement asked that
teachers urge their pupils to study
German. .
Welcome Prince of Wales
Delhi. British India. Feb. 15. The
prince of Wales received a royal wel-
come on his arrival here yesterday.
Many thousands of Indians lined the
route through which the prince'a
party passed.