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HE ARLOTTE 28 PAGES TODAY SUNDAY EDITION AND EVENING CHRONICLE u GREA TER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER" -WiRt-OTTE NRWS Established, Dail-r. ISS81 TffB-vBVwG CHUOMCLB-Established, mj,' lst)S S"y, 1810. CHARLOTTE, N. C SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1921. Consolidated PRICE FIVE CENTS, mmWB THE -CHARLOTTE XEWS I " T1IK KVEXWG CJIRO.MCI E ? May S. 1!14 GENERAL STRIKE OUTLOOK LOOMS f IN ENGLAND Miners Trying to Induce Other Federations to Join Them. 5000,000 ARE INVOLVED Doubt as to Whether Ex- Able to tremists um e Swing Deal. June 18. London again prospect of a general strike London' faces the vikir.S miners gave warning they ,iVeek to enlist other unions in UK' iners executive council, which The in touch with the govern- had bn ' or several days, adjourned indeu "'mv this morning, thus cutting off an cppi-'iLiiuii. o rUnk Hodsres. secretary of the union, issued a statement de- tvins that the executives of other HiXi" would he asked soon to con Cwith the miners, "with the object a- u-kinc national action to secure our mutual demanas. IHEEAT IS IMPLIED T'-e move to join with workers in other industries in enforcing their ,'tmnnds was accepted in omcial circles as impMng the threat of a general .-rike in the event the other unions .-eed to co-operate. "prenier Lloyd-George, in a letter H'".lses. commenting on the miners' ecnt 'action in voting to continue tlc;r strike, took the strikers to task vir endangering tne country ana an runced that the government would withdraw its oner or a suosiay 10 morrow night. The executive council left the pre mi-r's letter unanswered, merely en vin? it en the minutes. The unions to which the miners will apoeil total at last 5,000,000, including i'jfifl.000 engineers, 1.000,000 farm hands and printers, textile and tram way workers. THOSE INVOLVED. ' The aim of the miners, according to a formal statement made by Frank Hodges, secretary of the federation of miners, following a meeting of the miners union is to involve the fol lowing in a walkout: Engineers. 1.500.000. ""Printers, 100,O(TU.' "" " """" Farm workers, 1,000.000. Cotton operatives. 500,000. Gas workers, 95,000. Road and transport workers, 100,000. Tramway men, 70,000. Coal tippers and trimmers, 20,000. Wool workers, 250.000. Shipyard joiners, 20,000. In addition there are upwards of 1.200.000 collinrv workers on strike who have been out since the national mine strike began an April 1. STRIKE IS DOUBTED. The public generally doubts the ability of the federation of miners to sw-in? a general, strike. They u:ea it once before but failed. Labor leaders admit that many of i.ne trade unions are bankrupt by rcng payments of strike doles. How 'vr, if the unexpected solidarity and me enflurance of the miners is takc-n "s a guide British labor mav be ca pable of doing to any lengths in its uwceaented strue-zle aeainst camtal An attempt is being made to break SO Id ranks nf tho rnal strlkprs The colliery owners announce that "any pits, wju be open Monday and claim to have information that fflany fo the coal strikers who failed to vote in the recent referendum will to work DANZIG PLANT MAKING RIFLES And Turning Them Over to Mexico, League ot Na tions Discovers. iSeney.a June The League of Na- tinn. "'' Luuay umi a mum- uns factory in Danzitr is secretly fr,r iVg -out an order of 10,000 rifles dppifl !X1C0- A"er long debate it was -'aea that the leaerue cannot inter- iifvWltvh delivery of the weapons to iw!co but orders were issued that no uircS r materials shall be manufac hi2hn'?ral Hakirg. the league's new t0 ' coy1missioner at Danzig, reported fartn IeaS"e that he "had found the thp J secretly engaged in turning out livB, lhe weapons are to be da n4 within a month, he said. the t tl0aue previously had ordered :a .actry not to arrant an offer for of pi,rlfles ordered by the government instr.1 The niSn commissioner had turn t .v ownera of the factory to chine? manufacture of sewing ma p.;,' and other peace time goods. the 7, r80r Knox. superintendent cf tie iT plead thelr case- They 8aifI ri0Ull "'"'"Pioyment situation was s-2-wn,,ua"d that cancelling of the ordyr cfir.il rnrw a thousand workers out P,. , "'nissinn to fill th nrfler -wfln cranb alter lea?lla msry.V.or, r, licniisolnv - case. CITY OFFTPTAT G APT?. AM0NG THE INDICTED circlet ' Ga- June 18. Atlanta police 'iRth- ?e in a flurry tonight follow Kf!nd ment by the Fulton county teoi,..JUl'y f 62 persons, including de- here todayd City offlcials public 5fc4led inaictrnents were returned in ere kB,,Velopea sometime ago, but tre or , secret ""til today when they "rominl!red Pened. Among the most Coun M m(?n are: WtivLnian A1 H. Martin, Lieut, of L Pavn ' r- D- Shaw, Detectives W. Hn s ?,and Paul V. West, Attorney 6ritW I: "smith and Ernest C. Poole l -nief of Detective, Poole, America Will"Associa'-With Nations On A VoluntM Basis ByngCanada'sNewl Governor General LORD JULIAN BYNG. Lord Julian Byns:, of Vimy, has been appointed Governor General of Canada, succeeding the Duke of Devonshire. ' FRANCO-GERMAN PACT IN MAKING England and France Vieing With Each Other for Fa vor of Germans. By WILLIAM BIRD, Staff CorrrNpondent of The Copyright, 121. I3" Kewg Publishing: Co. Paris, June 18. The French goverv ment has' reached the- conclusion that not only the pace of the world but the vital interests of France require close economic co-operation between France and Germany. That much has been de clared categoricaly by officials author ized to speak for the government. Such co-operation pre-supposes an agreement, an understanding or an en tente of some sort. It is recognized by the Briand govern ment that French public opinion" the basis of which is sentiment, is not fully prepared for such a development, but Premier Briand and his colleagues; are going ahead with their program believ ing thati' given sufficient time, the re sults will justify -them, i The conversa tions this week between the French and German cabinet ministers, M. Loucher ana Herr Rathenau, are of course but the first step. ; Briand's political adversaries .. mean time, are preparing for a' tremendous drive against this policy and naturally will make the most of the easily in flammable state of popular sentiment against the Germans. The adversaries of Briand will get powerful support from London where the prospect of a Franco-German political and economic entente ' is most disquieting since it would destroy the keystone of tradition al British policy in Europe, namely, the even balancing of rival groups of powers. ! CANNOT PREDICT SUCCESS. With such forces against him, it WU LULL Uxs I cloll ill yi cuiv l. Kjut-v?k? M. Briand's undertaking. Nevertheless, -r .1 1 1 mnaaroKla llfl- easiness. Two evidences of this are particularly striking. The first is the agitation in England for an , alliance, with France". The second is the hearty 4.: :.t r . "r n o Vi i n erf on rlisc- rcucytiuii given w c cwow. patch in The London Times in which the corresponaeni oi mai yapei Ba assurance that President Harding's i j nnliiv i a n Vio a world - UtlSlU luieign V""-J . i - wide entente among the English-speak ing peopiea. - - - . France exhibits decided coolness , to ward the talk of an alliance with Brit ain. As to the second,-while unques tionably English popular sentiment fa vors an understanding . with America, there are 'few, serious .'statesmen who consider it possible . except upon the condition that England shall retain con trol of the. seas. . : " - ,. If this suggestion as to the Harding policy, which after all is nothing more as yet than deductions based upon ac cumulated . words and ' acts,- is encour aged by British officialdom, it must not be forgotten that not-only, are- Franco British relations in a precarious state, hit that the Anglo-Japanese treaty is now up for. renewal. WILL IMPRESS JAPAN. British-American ' flirtation cannot - .. TorM, Th Ri-itish need- iail LO impress uai""'""- . tiators now are insisting upon writing new clauses into the-Japanese, treaty, giving Great Britain much more of a lion's share . of . the. bargain,, and .t Js safe to predict that, until Japan s signa ture is on the dotted line,-talk-in Eng land of a world-wide under taiidmg 'with America will-persist.'; ' . . This is not intended to discount the sincerity of such taiK, nu; ijii"f'. sons regara we "",1v American unny. pu'".r 7rSZ sea Dower, as far too formidable to sea powei , ff well-mean. be brusnea asiuw "x"' - ing words.- ; T,rifish col icy is floundering. The cabinet i olf is not a umi mi "y. v' - - iueduuiire. nermany. tion in xL,urope io , . i- ii : , pn,i9nH annear to be Botn trance a'u , -, courting her ' ardently using all tne arts of devoted and jealous lovers -' To the long-maintained British' charge thlt France v'engefulspiteful and narsh toward Germany, a h.PaP rotnrta bv showing that it was Sang which ruined Germany by talc ta? hJf colonies and her- ships and Sfrefore the .Germans Bbouldl much less nosiue luvvoju .v.. ------ than the Jiriusn. v -pvpnch eov These is a conviction in Frencn gov xnese is . Franco-Ger SS cryrVid :ni hearty stroke in ."Sthe Ameri tinn but II ne 6 iu'u . , IIJ can support he . expects, his . position , would oe a u us . . Adminif ion's Statement of Sati ctory Progress in Foreign Policy Clears Air. PLEDGE TO HUMANITY Will be Working Agreement But Not Any Ponderous Association. By ROBERT T. SMALL, Staff Correspondent of The News Copyright 1931, By News Publishing Co. Washington, June 18. Significant in the extreme was the statement made at the White House today that the ad ministration's plans for American asso ciation "with the natioft of the world" are making satisfactory progress. Here apparently, then, is the fist real intimation of the scope and char acter of the new foreign policy-association "with" the nations of the world rather an association ' of the nations of the world. It is to be association without constituted machinery, with out any of the hard and fast obligations of the proposed league of nations which many held to be an invasion of Am erican sovereignty: It is to be a pledge to the nations of the world that America is ready to' do her nart al ways. America voluntarily will asso ciate herself with the nations in any enterprise which looks to the better ment of humanity. .America will not hold aloof, or take refuge in her geo graphical isolation from the principal trouble centers, and will always be ready to listen and to act as her best judgment dictates. ANSWER TO HOLT The virtual decision that there is to be free and frank "association with the nations of the world," instead of some possibly ponderous machine known as "an association" ' is an in direct answer to the letter President Harding has received from Hamilton Holt, who led a group of pro-league re publicans m the last campaign, de manding to know what policy the ad ministration had formulated looking to American participation m world affairs. . -f-sident has indicated no numose U c into details of the matter with -it. The new administration policy, so briefly announced, is in keeping with that paragraph of President Harding's speech of acceptance of Marion last summer when he said: 'Disposed as we are; the way is very simple. - Let the failure attending as sumption, obstinacy, impracticability and delay be lecognized, and let "us find the big, practical . unselfish way to do our part, neither covetous be cause of ambition, nor hesitant through xaar, but ready to serve ourselves, hu manity, and God. With the senate ad vising, as the constitution contem1- plates, I wpuld hopefully approach the nations of Europe and of the earth, proposing that understanding which makes us a willing- participant In the consecration of nations to a new rela tionship, to commit the moral forces of the -world, America included, to peace and international justice, still leaving America free, independent and self re liant, but offering friendship to all the world." REFLECTS PRESENT ATTITUDE The abovp paragraph, rather than any of othe utterances of Mr. Harding on the subject of international policy, rpnrosenta thp rvrpsent attitude of the White House toward American associa tion with the nations of the worm. This attitude was reflected in the speech of Secretary of State Hughes at Brown University m week when he . told of the high purposes which called America into the war. And it has been reflected in a number '-. of President . Harding's talks with call ers in recent days. The statement of the foreign policy is a modification if not a correction of the reports cabled to England from Washington the past week that Pres ident Harding favored "a working agreement among" the . English-speaking peoples which would be world-wide in its scope." The President desires "a working agreement" with all the na tions of the world, big and small. The President knows, however, that any sort of world order must come from agreements with the great powers,- and that is why his "feelers" have gone first of all to the bfg nations. The trreat powers always must act as guar dians and protectors of the small, and President Harding believes that the plan of voluntary association with . the nations of Europe is far better than the cumbersome League Assembly and league council which he regarded as an attempt to set up a super-government of the world. ' The decision on the part of the . ad ministration to associate freely with the nations of the world explains the order to Ambassador Harvey " to be present at future meetings of the' al lied supreme council as representative of the president. It explains the awakened interest of theUnited States in world settlements everywhere. VITALLY INTERESTED It explains above all the . sureness with which Secretary Hughes has been moving in international affairs. Am erica is vitally interested in . world con ditions, and is as ready today as in 1917 to move in the direction it deems right and necessary. The various recent steps of the ad inistration, .taken in . conformity with the policy of associating ourselves with the other nations, have been mlsinter-nr-atoA shrnnd as steria in . the direction -of "a possible future entrance into some form of modified league or nations, ine President is just as "opposed to ' the league, as an instrument pf world gov ernment, as he ever was. He is not opposed to unofficial and informal asso ciations such as the allied ' supreme council represents, provided always that" America reserves her own right The President also is constitutionally Opposed to ail amictiiuca iruwc is concerned and will have no part of them. While Europe is filled with talK of new alliances, new groupings 1 of the big nations, the United States gov ernment looks on calm and unaf raid. We are ready to' associate with all the nations in an alliance of friendship, good will and help to. humanity. That is the- world entente President Hard ing desires. PACIFIC TO GET A LARGER FLEET Complete Change in Naval Policy is Believed in the Making. - Washington, June 18. Secre- tary Denby today announced the following changes in commands of the two fleets: - Vice Admiral Hilary P. Jones to command the Atlantic fleet . with rank of full admiral, suc- ceeding Admiral Henry B. Wil- son, who takes charge of the Naval Academy. Rear Admiral E. W. Eberle to command the Pacific fleet with rang of full admiral, succeeding Admiral Hugh Rodman, who goes to command, of Hampton Roads naval base. N Rear Admiral John D. McDon- aid, now commanding New York Navy Yard, becomes second in command of the Atlantic fleet with rank of vice admiral, and Rear Admiral W. R. Shoemaker, now. in command of the naval sta- tion of Honolulu, becomes vice-admiral of the Pacific fleet. BY A. L. BRADFORD, United Press Staff Correspondent. Washington, .June 18. A reorganza tion of the United States navy, in volving a probable change in naval pol icy, will be" announced, next week, it was : stated . officially f tonight. The statement followed the first act ual reorganization step taken today When new commanders, and vice-coni-manders for-the two major fleets in both the Atlantic and Pacific were an nounced along with-the statement that there would soon be a redistribution of ships. . The change in policy is expected to be that a main battleship fleet of the American navy is to be created in the Pacific.'. . . Secretary Denby, it is known, some time ago decided x on strengthening the Pacific fleet, if not immediately put ting the main American fleet on th west coast. He recommended this to President Harding. Because of the del icate .international situation involved. Harding referred the question to Sec retary of State Hughes. - ' Whether Hushes aooroved the sti in full is not known. NOT AIMED AT JAPAN. The contention of Secretary Denby and of high officers of the navy, it is understood. Is that . the proposed crea tion of the main fleet in the Pacific is not designed in the least toward Ja pan, but is only following put a sound naval "noli nv. - :X.:-'-. .The change- in American naval polio v is linked , with the naval poicies of Great Britain and Japan. If a main American", fleet be created in the PaciTic ocean this brings up the question of why could therg not be a working at tempt between the United States and Great Britain to police the -waters of the world, the British navy to take the Atlantic ocean and the Americans the Pacific. - - Great Britain7 has. been studying tho question of creating a" main battleship nect m the .Facihc ior v her domin ions on that ocean, but' if America would police the Pacific, this would not be necessary. . .; PUBLISHERS ARE NOW GATHERING Innovations Will ' Feature Annual Convention of Newspaper Owners. Asheville, June 18. Newspaper pub lishers .from .-over the entire South were gathering at the Battery Park hotel ' today, . in readiness for the nine teenth annual convention of the South ern Newspaper Publishers' Associa tion which opens Monday for a three days' session. - Marcellus E. -Foster, of Houston, Texas, president of the association, ar rived iast night, coming from Atlanta, where he attended the convention of ;the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, . , Another arrival today was Arthur G. Newmer, chairman of the advertising committee, who notified members of his committee, to reach Asheville in advance of - the big convention, so that important matters can be acted upon and . a report be prepared for the con vention :" proper. - The program, prepared by President Foster and his committee follows nove! lines ' this year, in that no set speech es have been scheduled. This is a de parture from custom, and has decided upon in order that the '..publishers might have ' full advantage of the time for discussion of timely topics. Leaders have been selected to lead the discussions ' on various topics. :Mdre than 150 reservations were made in advance at the . hotel, and many additional reservations are ex pected '" before the convention opens. - Advertising agents - will not be pres ent -at the convention' this year, and this will be another innovation, as the quarterly session of the A. A. A A. has been held simultaneously with the S. . N. P. A. However, several reserva tions have been made by representa tives of newspaper supply houses and special newspaper representatives, who will be in attendance at the conven tion. . . : ' Members in attendance will wear "get acquainted" badges at the convention These will be distributed upon regis tration. - The badge is a , metal device, bearing the insignia of the ,S. N. P.. A. with a motto line: "Advertising success assured below the T Mason-pixon. lina." The wearer's name and his newspaper are printed on a suspended card bearer,-" - ; Washington D. C, June 18. North and South Carolina: Partly cloudy and unsettled weather Sunday and Monday, probably ' local thundershowers; not much change in temperates, moderate shifting winds. I Lived With Mrs. Kaber To Get Evidence I AUTO : ... -: : -: : ' - 1 i - - mmmmMmm MRS. ETHEL ' A woman volunteer detective, who some time after - the mysterious stabbing to death of her husband, Dan Ka ber. wealthy publisher furnish a ni indictment of Mrs. Kaber and others treated Mrs. Bemian as a friend, occupied the same room with her in hotels and took Mrs. Berman-with her on visits to fortune tellers. Administration What To Do With Tax Problem CONSIDERS VAST REFUNDING PLAN Cabinet Plans to Bring Lib erty Bond Issues Back to Par Basis. By HARDEN COLFAX, Staff Correspondent of The" News; .- Copyright 1931, By. News Publishing Co. Washington, - June 18. The adminis tration, through- vast refunding -plans considered by ; the ... Cabinet this week, apparently is trying- to ; make-" good its promise to bring liberty, bonds-back to par and to place the finances of the na tion on a sound and. continuous policy, the need of which-has been manifest to President Harding -. and Secretary Mel-' Ion fo some time past. A study of the government's balance sheet shows that, . withhi " the - next two years, the government wUl have to pay out more than $7,500,000,090 in matur ing securities; that it. holds atthe pres ent time approximately ( $10,000,000,000 of various kinds of memorandum notes given it by the Allies to cover loans extended during the -war; that interest on these foreign loans is accumulating to the credit of the United States at the rate of more than$l,000,000 a day, but that much. of it is not being paid and has not been, -paid; and that ex penses of the United 1 States govern ment during the next " two ; years will slightly exceed the government's esti mated revenue during that period. -- It is out of this - situation that the administrtaion is attempting to evolve a sound and stable-plan of national fi nance that will do away with the pres ent method of borrowing from hand to mouth on certificates due a few months from dating in order that pressing de mands on the treasury , can ..be me t . ... SUCH A PLAN NECESSARY As an instance of the - necessity for such a plan, , the government's, financial transactions for th epresent, week may be cited. . Since last .Sunday.', .the treasury has collected ..more . than v $1, 000,000,000, partly through the June 15 installment of .income and. profits, taxes and partly through the issuance of; one year certificate's . and three-year notes. Qut of the billion dollars, collected,-however, the treasury v " parted promptly with more than $600,600,000; to -meet interest payments r on ; Liberty bonds, to retire outstanding, certificates' due Ju,ne 15 iand to take care -of other va rious items of expense.- The balance will be utilized, to some extent, in" re tiring 'additional short-term certificates when they become due within the next sixty days. There remains, net,-out .of the- $L 000,000,000 cpllected this week, virtu ally nothing to apply on ..reduction of the national debt. And the interest rate which the government has to pay on its notes . and certificta.es now in higher than the-highest 5 paid .on the Lberty loan issues. - , ' V - How Secretary Mellon - will organize the nation's financial -program-, so -that the present system will be bettered has been revealed in part : to members of the ways and means, committee. .So far 'as . the seven and one-hdgf billion dollars worth of securities maturing within the next two years are con cerned, Mr. Mellon .hopes to-. distribute their payment, tlnuigh a. process of rofimrHnir bv three to live year not.s. through the next seven years. : At that rate, the pressing debt ..could be retired at the rate oj.haif a billion dol lars a year and wiped out. in the seven-; year period.;,,.,. - - AS TO FOREIGN LOANS . V; -. - The . situation is different from ; re spect to the foreign loans. ; Secretary Mellon is attempting to have these, obligations to the-Uniei States,,r5pre. sented largely by memorandum notes, put into more satisfactory- shape; .Pos sibly special bonds of foreign govern ments will be accepted- by the' Ameri can government; and in turn these for eign bonds m.ght be placed- gradually on the. investment .markets here, : thus making them available' for private pur chasers and "relieving: the American government of its pre,seht ' burden of (Continued on Pare Thirteen.)- BERMAN. lived with Mrs. Katherine Kaber for aior portion of the evidence for -the for Her husband's death. .Mrs. Kaber Worried Ovr Coolidge Tells Cabinet After Trip to West, That Mat ter is Serious. By DAVID LAWRENCE, Staff Correspondent of Th Nw. Cop-rlsht, 1021, by J'ew8 Pnbllahlne Co, Washington,. June 18. Vice-Presi dent Coolidge is a man of very few woras duc wnat ne told Jfresldent Hard ing and the cabinet recently made a deep impression. For it was learned to- day that after. a trip through the West Mr. Coolidge came back convinced that the country was a good deal more im patient for action , by Congress ; On a new tax program than folks in the national capital had been inclined to be. lieve. ' Mr. Coolidge reported on the senti ment which he had found out West, particularly among Republicans who felt that it was of paramount import ance that the tax question be disposed of without further delay, CAN'T. SPEED CONGRESS. The new administration in Washing ton has not doubted the existence of 'a strong sentiment for tax revision but has been unable, of course, to speed up Congress because that body has jhus far Insisted on steering its own course. But matters are growing serious. Re publican leaders in various parts of the country are worried. They know that there is political dynamite in the tax question but they are even more con cerned that Congress has evidently made' little progress toward a solution and here it is . almost mid-summer when the whole thing was to have been passed and out of the way. The a tangles in the tariff are local in their effect; and no one denies that discontent oyer, certain proposed sched ules is 'causing considerable political ruction: The insurgency of the Min nesota Republicans who protest against the Fordney tariff on lumber is only the forerunner of a series of clashes between sections of the country as well as opposing - interests in the manufac turing,, agricultural and banking world. HARDING MUST ! ACT ; Thus far President Harding has kept Out of the general run of controversies of the tariff but people on capitql hill believehe will sooner or later have to take1 a hand "and steer the ship. Mr. Harding : already has made it. plain that he will insist only on the tariff and (Continued ron Page Thirteen.) Th' 'weddm o Artie Small an' Amy Moots' took filace last nitrht an' th' hap py' couple 'H be at home in a tent till capital an labor git t get her. . it gins could only : see ther elbows as others . see i 'em. .--'' . LICENSES NOT ASKED FOR VERY SPEEDILY People of State Slow in Making Application to the State. DEPRESSION IS CAUSE. Department is Not More Than a Third Up With Checking Up. BY JULE B. WARREN, Staff Correspondent of The News. Raleigh, June 18. Applications for new licenses for automobiles are coming in more slowly this year than during any other year since the State began licensing machines. Indications are that July 1 will find a large num ber of automobile owners in the Statu without their new license plates anu consequently subject to arrest for not displaying the 1921-22 plates. As a rule the State Department has: been lenient about asking officials to enforce the law immediately after this first of July, because under norm.it conditions it has been impossible to get all of the applications checked up, fil;. ed out and the plates mailed back to the car owners by the first day of July. MUST HURRY UP. This is not a normal year, for despite campaign promises of an early return to normal, that idealistic situation pic tured by the Republicans as norma;, has not made its appearance in North Carolina. At least if normalcy has re turned, it has not presented itself ta the automobile license department, for the car owners are not sending in their applications at the normal speed. With ten more working days in the month, the department will have to send out twice as many applications during that time as they have sent out during the first 20 days in the month, if all of the owners of automobiles last yea.-, get new plates by the first of July. This tardiness in getting the checks in for the new license plates is prob ably due to the fact that money is not as plentiful this year as it has been in other years, especially during the past few years when the number of ma chines made such gams. Even thbso people who have the money are not turning it over to the automobile fund as promptly as they did last year and the year before that. They are hold ing to It longer. .. . ONE CASE EXPLAINED. Joe. Sawyer, chief clerk . for the de partment,-has had a number' of letters which explain the failure to make ap plication and attach check for the new license. One came from a colored man's wife, who wrote Mr. Sawyer . that "Charlie is on the roads, and he wl'l not need a license this year." Charli-j, it seems, was - caught fooling with whiskey, and .the judge was unkind enough to put him where he will be unable to use his Ford this year. While this is a sample of some of the let ters and excuses, Mr. Sawyer is un willing to believe it explains any largo number of missing , applications. SIX ARRESTED FOR HIS MURDER Two More First Degree Murder Indictments Kaber's Case. in Cleveland, June 18. Two more first degree murder indictments in connec tion with the murder of Daniel F. Ka ber, wealthy Lakewood, Ohio, publish er, were returned by the Cuyahoga county grand jury late today. The bill ntade a total of six people who hava been indicted as a result of the slay ing of Kaber in July, 1919. The indictments returned tonight were against Salvatore Cala, confess ed murderer of Kaber, and Vetera Pis selli, named by Cala, as the man who actually wielded the knife with which Kaber was stabbed 24 times. Cala, who is held in Buffalo, pend ing extradition, made a complete con fession, detailing how the murder was planned and executed. Pisselli has not yet been captured. A nation-wide search was , going on for him tonight. Cleveland police are confident that he will be taken into custody shortly. Three pieces of silverware which disappeared from the Kaber home be fore the murder, were turned over t County Prosecutor Stanton today. They were given to Stanton by the daughter of a fortune teller who hid the silver in her home for Mrs. Kaber. THROWN OFF TRAILS At' the time of the murder the ap pearance of the house led to believe that Kaber had been murdered by bunj lars. The silverware was missing. This, it developed recently, was all planned in order to throw detectives off the trail. All of the silverware has been recovered and signed confessions Si cured from three of the persons under indictment have told how the princi pals . in the murder plot disarranged the furniture and hid the silverware in order to lend the appearance io burglary. ' Stanton said tonight that the recov- ery of the silverware and the arrest of Cala cleared up the case save for two things. One is to capture Pisselli and the other is to recover Kaber s watch and ring. TO BRING MURDERER. A Cleveland detective left tonight for Columbus. Ohio, to get extradition, papers to bring Cala to Cleveland. Cala told Buffalo authorities ne would waive extradition. He probably will b3 brought back to Cleveland Monday. Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber, widow o" the slain publisher and who, . it ! charged, wanted Kaber killed, tonight issued the following statement regard ing Cala's arrest: "I am glad he is arrested, ms state ment does not interest me very much at this time and I have nothing to say about it. I do not fear my approach ing. trial." . .... . , . J She and ner aaugnier, Doxn unaerj (Continued on Face. Two). f 8 If 1. 1
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