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THE SUNDAY EDITION, H i SECOND SECTION AND EVENING CHRONICLE SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1921 Love Amid Perseveiairtice Off Fatli oilv . ; : I I 1 L "G R EATER CHARI.nTTF.'S W n m c w c d a i-r I x ...... x ttJL i u yv o r r c iv I . 1 ' " """"" ' " .. . - - 6F -a f 77 NG ISSUES OF RAILROADS IS per job of Restoring Business to Pre-war Conditions Then 50 Per Cent Done. TALKWITHDAUGHERTY Laws Must be Enforced But Many Details Are Like Edison's Questions. By IIAYDEN TALBOT; Copyright, 1921, by Hayden Talbot. Publication Rights in the United Kingdom Reserved. Washington, June 18. "The one most, important problem confronting i.his administration is two-fold in char acter. We must do everything: we can to put Europe on its feet before ve can do anything like satisfactorily solving our own domestic problems." Attorney General Harry M. Daugher ty thus put himself on record as by ac cord with the four other members of President Harding's Cabinet to whom I had put the id3ntical question. The Attorney General gave me two hours -and talked rapidly and on topics of vital importance, but except for the fingle foregoing statement he did not eel beyond the borders of the United States. He said: "Th-3 railroad sitution needs remedy ing more urgently tha nany other do-1 nestic problem. In this country, as in no other country in the world, all industry is dependent on railway transportation for its very existence. Solve the railway problem and the job of restoring business to pre-war condi tions is 50 per cent done. To know what is the biggest job you have to do is something. And I feel justified in saying that every member of the cab inet agrees the railway problem is the r.ut we must crack first. ' EAGER TO CO-OPERATE "The wonderful thing, to my way cf thinking, is that we are twelve men -I include the president who are willing and eager to work together, sub ordinating our own individual problems to the end that by co-operating we can accomplish most quickly the things the country needs. In my lifetime I've i ctn associated with many men, groups of men. ranging from two or three to twelve, fifteen, fifty. . But never ltiop; have I worked with men like these. "I bhall never forget the first day the cabinet came together. There they were every one of -them of an a;t and comfortable enough financial ly to make fishing about the hardest work he need voluntarily choose. Not tne of the mwould take a job in pri vate life that entailed one-half the work of his cabinet position for less than 550,000 a year. And yet in the eyes of all of them was the look you see only in youngsters setting out' to make fame and fortune. WORKS FAR INlt5 NIGHT "My case is like all the others. L.st night I knocked off' at 1 o'clock. The night before I was midnight wnen I quit. There is as much that must be "one in ev.'iy department as in the hv;a. tmor.t of Justice. The only way io get the work dono is to do it. That's the way this cabinet feels about it.' There is x fine spirit of helpfulness in evidence every time the cabinet meets. Every one of us is struggling to get his own dsck cleared of acumulated unfinished work. The president works s hard as any of us and then he works '-S overtime; but nobody complains. No man can yet say what the result yi'l tc. Maybe we will fall down. But 1 think - we won't." The Attorney-General has many con ductive ideas. He enumerated ami Plained thorn at length, but I car. lr- brief space only summarize what 'ie considers the most important tasks b j fwe him: Restoring the human quality to gov ernment officials, inaugurating an- era 'f good feeling as between officials and taxpayers, establishing as a basic Principle that no official is any more Important than the least important oit-izr-n. Reorganizing the departments so that overlapping . of authority and du P'lcation of activities shall cease.- Cut out conflicting, parallel bureaus. bet the country know all "that pos can be made public about what the government is doing, counting if damaging to the country to let nany premature announcements ea aPe than to hold secret one fact. , have ltd?' f which the Public should , EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT. "I'll lell you what ,1 think about it "llf, but I don't want to be quoted on the subject." his was the Attorney-General's an- "'r to my question as to his attitude spl (i The Eighteenth Amendment. It wmed to me no subject held more of ,n. ntlaI irterest than this to every 'wn and woman from Maine to Cali- '""a. And, although it is more prop J' in the province of the Treasury epartment to Secretary Mellon alono Z legated the enforcement' of the thi n n law at least the, head -of J th 1 llrtment o Justice w?8 eminent- one from whont to obtain an . wmon as to the legal aspects of the '-dSUre. Tn tVio T aiinaarerl In fin.' . w'nninE over the Attornev-Genral to my point of view. He consented to mv inS public part of what he had to Bay un the subject. He said "ueh first Place 1 myself am as Of n 111 the aark as everybody else is. land rwi Prohibition is the law of the . u. and it must be enforced. It must lt' Vi U wiU be enforced. How long and iv, take to Install the machinery tv t ,ong lt wil1 take that machin--W lUnctn effectively I don't know. i,pZ, eo"fusion is twice confounded. CEDENT LACKING. gal L egln with the executives or le ions aavisers who handed down opln rules made all the enforcement aboil V'c now either out of office or Ul to go out. Rut aaklft from that out. But aside from that. SOLVI PROS New American Legion Head Was Wounded In Aragonne ; Indianapolis, June 18. The national executive committee of the American Legion have unanimously elected John G. Emery, of Grand Hapids, . Mich., national commander of the legion to succeed Col. Frederick W. Galbraith, Jr., who was killed in an automobile accident. Major John Garfield Emery wag born July 4, 1881, in Grand Rapids. He saw much of the fighting in which the American troops partici pated i during the World war. He entered the second officers' training camp in 1917, was commissioned cap tain and sent to France with the first group of Americans. He participated in all the major actions with his regiment in 1918 at Cantginy, St. Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne of fensive. ' , In- August, 1918, he was commis sioned a major of infantry. Two months later he was wounded and was invalided home, being discharged at Camp Custer. , Upon his return " to Grand Rapids he was made member of the city commission, a position he has held since that time. Previous to his army career he' was a real estate and insurance broker. As vice-commander of the Ameri can Legion, Major Emery, was a close friend a,nd confident of Com mander Galbraith. BrianeFs Optimism Not Shared By Public Opinion Of France No Good Results Expected to be Forthcoming from Meeting cf Ministers. BY ANDRE TARDIEU, Former French High Commissioner to America. Staff Correspondent of The Xfws Special Cable IHspatch to The News. Copyright 1921, By ews . I'nbllshing Co. Paris, June 18. Direct negotiations between two nations often are advan tageous, but" it is very doubtful if that will prove the case in the meeting this week between Ministers Loucheur and Rathenau. For the first time since 1870, n French minister has had a two-days" conference with a German minister. AI. Loucheur, . minister of re-construction for France, which has been devastated, and Herr. Rathenau, mfnister of re construction for Germany, which is in tact, have met at Weisbaden and their meeting has provoked widely diverse comments. ' , ' ' My doubt as to the benefit of the discussicms iril based upon the faci that T had occasion to, view Rathenau's in fluence on German policy before tnc war at close range, for he was in Pans during the Franco-German discussions about Morocco in the spring of 1910. Rathenau's career resembles in many points that of Louoheur. .Both are engineers. Both first specialized in electricity, then entered the big in dustrial trusts, and then turned to pou itics. Rathenau, however, differs frpm Loucheur in that he .takes an interest in the general ideas of the philosophical systems, which are a closed book to Loucheur. Rathenau was, with Ballin, Helffer ich.and Gwinner, one of the planners of that well-known economic pan-Ger-nlan idea. RATHENAU CHANGES FRONT. Only yesterday, Rathenau was de claring that the London agreement cculd not be met by Germany, and now, as minister, he shifts his gun to the other shoulder and says that Germany can and must pay all that the London agreement imposes. i Such about-faces are frequent in pol itics, but they do not increase public confidence in those who make them. I can assert positively after a trip, dur ing which I talked with Frenchmen of every class and every profession, that French opinion lacks the confidence and does not share the optimism of the Briand government concerning Ger many. . If you Americans will try. as the saying goes, to put yourselves into our shoes, , you will readily understand this state of mind. We are told that Rathenau and Loucheur talked about wooden houses which Germany might deliver to our devastated regions, and other such subjects. - But wooden houses can be made, in France as well as in Germany and the real reparations problem is something quite different. It isn't merely eco nomical. It is financial. Still more is it a political and. moral problem. WIL GERMANY PAY? Does Germany intend to pay? Will France permit, her to evade paying by following the tendency of the French governments of the last 18 months? These are questions which must . not remain unanswered and the Weisbaden conference - has failed to fshe& any light upon them. Let me cite a few ex amples to illustrate the. state of min-i of enlightened Frenchmen: . -: - Frenchmen know that the indi rect taxes in Germany represent 6.30 francs per capita, while these same taxes in France are 83.70 francs, or 13 times greater than the German people are paying. Ger many's import taxes are 7-7U francs per capital, while in France they are 58.60 or eight times as great. Frenchmen also . know that the Treaty of Versailles proclaims 'that the Uerman taxpayer , suau , be assessed as heavily at least as sail Johu U. Emery. LABOR MEETING SAFE AND SANE Conservative at Denver Convention Easily Able to Check the "Progressives. , By RALPH BARTON, Staff Correspondent of TIt Copyright 1921, By News PablisjiinK Co. Denver, Colo., . June 18. k'Progres sives m organized labor have found small comfort in the movement of events at the convention of the Amerl can Federation of Labor to date. It has been distinctly a Gompers show. with the "Old Guard" of the movement dominating - every activity and the fa miliar Gompers views and opinions much , in -evidence in the speeches. It now seems probable that the "Pro gressives .; win devote their energies mamly toward obtaining representation on the executive council of the federa tion, for the council is a body with very real powers - and membership in It implies considerable influence in the direction of Hhe affairs of the Ameri can labor movement CONSERVATIVES STRONG. , j The strongly entrenched conservat ism: of the- federation has. been well brought out-in the convention. It must be admitted, however, that the attitude of the convention is not necessarily that of the rank and file, for politics have their place in labor as well as in every other human activity, and the fact that conservatives have so' long been in power, gives them an import ant advantage. . Long before the convention opened the report went out that William H. Johnston, president of the Machinists Union who is now in- Europe would probably be elected to the evecutive council. Whether this report was set in motion hy the powers that be in the federation in order to please the "Progressives," and to minimize the op position to Mr. Gompers, or whether there is a stronger foundation for it, will probably appear within a few days. It will not be surprising, from present indications, if the convention runs through all the coming week. : The resolutions which have met real favor at the convention have been those1! of conservative character. Mr, Gompers, in his remarks on disarma ment, was" platitudinous rather than con structive, arid perhaps his -most inter esting: suggestion, was that the federa tion would have 5,000,000 members by the end of the year. . It seems prob able that-such resolutkmsas' are likely to strengthen the federation as an or ganization will be adopted, but: those concerned vith the labor movement In the laree are likely to be rejected It is improbable fpr example that the federation will take any action toward support of the Bank of Nortri -Dakota desoite Mr. Gomoers' aavoca-cv or cios er relations between workingriien and farmers, or that ' any retU- measures will be undertaken for. the establish ment of chains of labor banks, labor newspapers or labor motion picture "the aters. " PROSPECT OF A RIFT. The rejection of .the-I'one. big union idea even in the' very innocuous torm in which -the resolution -was preseutei, shows that the' craft unions ari decjd edly jealous of their prerogatives and are not disposed to yield iny privileges for the sake of united action with other crafts. The renewed don unc:ati0.i of the labor Internationale by Mr. Gom pers and his associates, in the face of the strong disapproval or t.ne rnasam ists and certain other organizations, shows that there is apprnaching rome thing that? may soon " resemble ' a ? eal rift in organized labor; for. it does not seem - probable that the - somewhat ; ad vanced views 'of the machinists can hp made permanently to :ecqncil'3 them- Lselves to. the attitude, .for example, of Continued Ion . Taw StXtnA. SILESIAH 1 11US BE SOLVED S No Peace in Europe Until Polish-German Differ ences Are Ironed Out. FANATIC FIREBRANDS. Korf anty and His Fol lowers Injure Poland By Their Demands. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, Germany's Foremost Publicist. Staff Correspondent of Til A . Vanre Special Wireless Dispatch to The News, Copyright 1981, By ws Publishing Co. jeerun, June is. in the whirl of dis cord which-engulfs Europe today, the cause of the more immediate discord seems all but forgotten in the more eagerly discussed meetings of a French and German minister of re-construction at Weisbadon. But the Upper Silesian problem still is with us and it must be settled very shortly. It was this problem which caused' an estrangement between France and Great Britain recently and out of that estrangement .strange ru mors of new alliances and new ententes have risen. . But before there can be ententes ana "agreements." there must be a wiping out of the causes of dis agreement. The story of Upper Silesia snouia be put in the manuals for future political students as a standard exam ple of the damage done by the'old ta tics of conscious insincerity. FANATICS PERSUASIVE. Polish fanatics persuade the Allied bupreme Council at Paris that Unnev Silesia had been wrested from Poland by the Germans and that an over whelming majority of the people Ions; cd for the day when they would h returned to Poland. That is untrue. Lpper Silesia, for eight hundred years, , or since - the beginning of th.- worman conquest over England, haa not belonged to Poland. It has been ruled oy ancestral princes of fie Czechs and Austrians, and it was ' not until it came under Prussia that it at tained economical importance or pros perity, biiesia, voluntarily, has sent German representatives to Prussia's ami Germany s parliament, until about 30 years ago Korfanty, the young sot. of a Kattowitz miner, was elected to the Reichstag with a surprisingly large majority. Korfanty immediately started a pas sionate but clever agitation for making the province Polish. This agitation was facilitated by Prussia's bad psycho logical treatment of the natives. But not until the middle of the great war did anybody, even Korfanty, think se riously of Silesia s severance from Prussia. In 1917 a series of govern ment concessions satisfied nine-tenths of the people. GERMANY NEEDS AREA. The German peace delegation tried to dissuade the supreme council from its decision regarding separation, Ly informing it in May, 1919, that witr out upper feiiesia uermany would nci be able to pay the reparation demand ed. That is not absolutely correct, as the value of Upper Silesia does not amount to more than", two per , cent o the total German possessions. It is correct, however, to say that Gcr many's reparation possibilities will be lessened if it has less coal and loses the Upper Silesian coal, iron and leal, which mean a part of her manufactur ingr ability. The supreme council finally allowed a plebiscite. Being an Upper Silesian by birth and a Pole by passionate con viction, Korfanty became the Polish commissioner. This cunning, energetic man, who ' always called himself half Socialist belongs to those people who when in luck and the possession cf power, throw common sense to thi winds. , The sharp words of a charming American lady who once said, "A .con quered Frenchman is charming, but a victorious Frenchman is unbearable," can be .more . correctly applied to .Kor fanty. During the war he was sur rounded by mistrust and looked upon suspiciously by military' Poles in au thority. He often swore, even to mo, that a resurrected Poland would al ways be guided by human . kindness and not assume the harshness of the Prussian regime. As plebiscite commissioner, however, Korfanty immediately kindled - tha wildest hatred of the Germans. He and his supporters went beyond the bounds of .common decency, "insultin;; everything German and until the -last hour he swore (and - proved by his maps) that the plebiscite would yield at least SO per cent Polish yptes. it was a personal defeat for him when the returns showed only a 40 per cent Polish vote. RELYING ON FORCE. ' ;Korfanty then. triedto save himself by forcible measures. This was made easier for him by the rather, thought less English proclamation that Poland should receive the districts of Rybnik and Pless. He obtained further "suppor: as a result of the triumphant shouting of the Berlin government that the pie biscite meant a return to Germany of an undivided Upper Silesian. In accord ance with the wording of the treaty of Versailles an undivided Upper Silesia Is an impossibility, but that is un known to all but one in a thousand Germans and almost the whole nation Is convinced that as a , result of th3 plebiscite only shameful illegality on the part of the Allies can take awav any part of Silesia. - Korfanty took advantage of this. made himself dictator; and called the masses to rebellion. : He ' tried all of the terror of v "German frightfulness," of Jewish pogroms, plundering, etc., to force the non-Polish elements into civil war, which because of Poland's superiority : regarding arms and am munition would lead to making the province Polish and thus acquire rec ognition . f rom the Allies.' This has been Prevented, although great mistakes have been made by German militarises and adventurers. ' . " Nevertheless, . German Jews in Upper 1 "X .Continued ; on Faca E!xkt.L f prom r ; ; : Under The Great, Qray Dome Washington, June 18.j-Senatoriai COUrtesv can hfi sham us tho nrnwr. bial serpent's tooth,, on occasion,, as the following excerpts from recent le- bate between Senator Lenroot, Wis consin, and Senator Swanson, Virginia. on the naval appropriation bill, will show: Senator Lenroot: A little knowledge ! is a dangerous thing, Senator Swanson: The Senator has illustrated that very forcibly in the last two weeks. A little later: Senator Swanson: I did not think in 1915 Senator Lenroot: Ah, Mr. President. I know the Senator did not. The retort crushing was administerf d the other day to a somewhat, pompovs lady secretary to a high government official ny a humble secretary to a sen ator, y The lady secretary in question (a person of uncertain age ad rather vinegary aspect) affects rather outro dress .effects since coming to Washing ton, and, to quote .some of her irrever ent colleagues, she is "so haughty she looks down on the Washington monu ment." When this majestic person arrived at the Capitol the other day to attend a committee hearing, the hearing room ' was crowded and there were no chaii h available. She fussed and-fumed - and finally in a loud voice desired the se3 retary of the committee to -get her a chair. He., being busy ' oh an errand for his Senator, didn't act as promptly as the. lady secretary wished. "I guess you don't know who I am," she said to him bitingly. . "No, I don't," he responded. "Well," drawing herself up, while lier long jet earrings quivered indig nantly, "I am the secretary to General Blank." "Oh," said the Senator's secretary, SevenDaysInLi'lOFN'York BY JESSE HENDERSON, New York, June 18. More time . is wasted hy th eaverage man in argu ment than it would take ' to cross the Atlantic in a Fifty -root launch. Once your mind is made up on a subject why worry the wife with details? Leave . a note where she will find it, enclose your will and ,by the time she gets over her surprise you'll be out of earshot.' The method saves, ds cussion. It is Egg's method. Egg runs a shop in Greenwich village when he isn't busy expressing his untrammeled soul. This, however, is th eopen season for soul expression, which is how it hap pens that when gg's wife entered the shop after a, few days' vacation she found a neWly made will and a note. The note said Egg had left with two friends in a fifty-foot boat for a trip to the Isle of .Wight, and hoped to be back in a couple of months. Egg wins the village gold and batik medal for nonchalance. NONCHALANCE SCARE. As a matter of fact nonchalance has been scarce in Greenwich these days. Somebody started a rumor that various tea rooms were -"awful. A poster had heen displayed that well, really. And in in cellar restaurant the waiters went around with knives in their teeth. Besides ' there was . an anti-Volstead aroma, a suspicion of something in the tea. Mapor'Hylan according made a per sonal investigation, resplendent in top hat and frock coat; an inconspicuous disguise in a section where- the silk hat is as rare as the manicured nail and the boiled shirt as xthe bank ac count. The result of his ) investigation has thrown the village into an uproar of indignation. For His Honor says the poster was merely a reproduction of an Art Museum painting; the waiters never used their knives for stabbing; and the tea had nothing in it stronger than lemon. It a tough world Week Of Solid, Sane Advice By ROBERT C. BENCHLEY, Associate Editor of Life. Staff Correspondent of The News Copyright 1981, By News Publishing Co. New York, June .18. However fast and loose Ambassador Harvey and Ad miral Sims may have been with the English language of . late, the speakers at college commencements during the past week have been playing safe. It is doubtful if one of them will be reprimanded for unconventional utter ances, much ; less recalled. Tha master minds of the nation who have been asked to address the various graduating classes have dwelt on the homely virtues and assailed , the more unpopular sins. Statistics show that since last Monday the balloting among commencement speakers all ' over the country has resulted in the following vote: .. . HONESTY SCORES Honesty has been endorsed eleven times (this includes three exhortations to the young men and smen.to be "true to themselves," whatever ihat may mean.) Patriotism finished . a close second with ten votes. ; By "pa triotism" we gather is meant anything, from the . inhibition t)f any lurking de sira to overthrow the government by force, to . a gentlemen's agreement among : working men not to ask for more wages until business is a little bit more settled. This question of "patriotism" Is a convenient one for commencement speakers. If Luther M. Waggortv pres ident of the National Oven Works, is being given an honorary degree and is asked to say; a few words to the boys, he may plead a steadfast allegiance on the part of the youth of the coming generation to - the present capitalistic system, in toto, as a perquisite to per fect patriotism, while in the next state, at the graduation. exercises of the Free Thought ' School of Applied ; Revolu tion, the speaker may be pointing out that the only tiue patriot is the man who loves his country enough to J ParaJfcytth-a fiction or trnitrotpluol "that' so? The way you talked, 1 thought you might be the Queen of Italy." - How would you like this to happen to you? . The other morning a well known Re publican Senator, on entering his pri- vate office, found upon his desk a case of the best Scotch whisky. This was in the Senate office build ing, on the government property, un der the very shadow of the Capitol dome, and not a great way from Rep resentative Volstead's office. Now this Senator is a "dry. He never was anything else.'He never so he avers bought a .case of whisky in his life, no, not even a bottle. Where did it come from, and ' why? yVnd, furthermore, what to do with it? There was one excited Senator for a while. He questioned his secretaries. one of whom was vastly amused, the other terribly shocked. They " didn't know where the stuff came from. The shocked one intimated that the Sena tor was acting when he pretended he was ignorant about the booze. She gave notice. i The Senator admits he cussed. Also that he didn't know what to do. And just then, in walked the other Senator from his state, who. is not such a "dry" and who appreciates a good joke. The "dry' Senator saw himself disgraced when the story got about. But the other Senator, after "kidding" him a j while, solved his trouble. He put the whisky in one of , the big cedar chests furnished Senators to ship papers and books in, and shortly thereafter the cedar chest moved to the not-so-dry Senator's office. Some of the Scotch is there yet, though not. so much as there was. Where the Scotch came from in the first place remains a mystery where folks won't believe you when you are wicked. The village has been livened by a wonah who posed as man and man who posed as a woman. When a young stevenore stole through the custom lines on a North River pier a ninspector ' tried to stop 'him. ,The young fellow took fright. Off came the slouch hat and down fell a mass of long brown hair. As the young woman raced up Eleventh Avenue, she dropped a package and as the inspec tor halted to pick it up the girl jumped into a taxi. The police are seeking her eagerly, for the package contained fewo thousand dollars worth of cocaine. t V REVERSED SEX. It was a coy youth who posed as a ynaiden anxious to wed. so appeal rang were her letters in answer to advertisements in a matrimonial mag azine that six men in different states sent-photographs, tran fare and urg en tinvitations to come west and be married. One man who had forwarded $250 grew suspicious and investigated. "Miss M. E. Stewart," therefore was fined $50 "and advised to return the various collections of train fare to the various .swains. It is possible this fine weather to hop on a sight seeing airbus and get a nice aerial view of the town. The flying boats rise from the Hudson river at Eighty-second street, and each carries for passengers besides a pilot and mechanic. But the altitude reach ed by sightseers in flying boats is nothing compared with the height to which four women's civic organizations have gone up in the air after a sight seeing tour around the public schools. xney aeciare 4U scnooi buildings un safe and unsanitary, and their protest to the administration against the dark, damp, .ricketty- schoolrooms occupied by hundreds of children has caused (Continued en Fare. Seven.) followed by u brisk rub down with a stiff dry towel. DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS y Any young graduate reading the dif ferent definitions of "patriotism" and ''Americanism" offered by commence ment speakers who are in business for themselves, will be in a mood to go to the Swedis-h consul in New York and ask him what line of work there is in is country suitable for a young m?.n who has had three years of French and a little algebra. , , . But honesty and patriotism are not the only things that were given a hand in the various baccalaureate addresses. Many a good word was spoken for "spiritual values." Eight champions of spiritual values arose and, defying all criticism,' overthrowing all conven tion, came right out for a more spirit ual attitude toward life on the part, of our people. They said that there are things of the spirit as well as things of the flesh. One wild-eyed fanatic even threw out a hot one in the shape of an out-and-out -statement that man cannot live by bread alone. This was greeted by thunderous appliuse and af ter the speech the audience crowded up to the platform to press the hand of the man who had neen brave enough to o'efy the forces' cf materialism and say a good word for higher things. EXCLUSIVE INFORMATION A great many of the .speakers gave out execlusiev information to the effect that the world was no better than it should be at this present moment .Sev eral .of them mtiv.ated that, while they were not permitted to say anything any more, definite just now, their hear ers would do well to look but for some Ueort of upset of one kind of another un less things grew better before long. There seemed to be some difference of opinion as to just how to interpret "bet ter." ' Judge Gary at Syracuse said .some nice things about the capitalistic sys tem, and, coming from Judge Gary, - - in" . ' . S fConHnnea on fare Swp.); ftfca WHEN, CASE WAS SHELVED, KABER MADEOWNPROBE Prosecutor Stanton Finally Was Induced to Have Mrs. Kaber Indicted. LED TO CONFESSIONS. Murder Mystery Now is an Open Book; One Assassin Still is Sought. Ry W. T. LAUBENSTEIN, Staff Corresnonrfpnt nt Tl. - xr . Copyright 1921, By NewB Publishing Co Cleveland, Ohio, June 18. There is never murder but will out. For two years, at least ten persons men and' women, have gone about their daily work with some knowledge and in many cases, guilty knowledge of the killing of Dan F. Kaber, wealthy pub lisher, of Lakewood, Ohio. For two years.they kept the secret or the parts they knew of it. , For two years the slaying of Kaber pemained a mystery. To Lakewood po lice it was a closed book, anothef volume laid on the dusty shelf of un solved crimes. But now the mystery is a mystery no longer. ' Like a mountain torrent,held by a dam, whose banks were weakened -by rushing waters, the secret has burst its bfunds and leaped into thefields of public knowledge. Confession has followed confession, tales of plotting have trod upon the heels of other tales of plotting, state ment after statement has come of poison rings, of murder syndicates, of faith healing, of supernatuTalism, of quackery, of dark arts of the Middle Ages, of mother love. All these and more have Jeen tossed together into a case that, within two weeks, become most amazing murder revelation that has confronted police authorities in scores of years. DRAMATIS PERSONAB In this kaleidoscopic drama of plots and counterplots, poisoning and '. knif ings and dread silence, have moved these figures, dramtis personae in a tragedy of life: , Dan -F.. Kaber, the victim, whose life was snuffed out on July 18, 1919. He was found with twenty-four stab wounds in his abdomen. Kaber had been - a helpless invalid for weeks.. A chemical analysis of his stomach con- tents disclosed enough arsenic to kill ; three men.- Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber. 45, wid ow of the slain man, accused of the crime. Her denials and her tale of a trip that day to Cedar Point, a summer resort, sixty miles away from the big house on Lake Avenue, seem ingly formed an alibi the police could not disprove. Mrs. Mary BrickeT,' 69, mother of Mrs. Kaber, who occupied a room near that of Kaber the night of the murder. Confession ha3 led to her ' indictment also for first degree murder. Marian McArdle, 20, former student at Smith College, daughter of Mrsf Ka ber by a former marriage to Thomas McArdle, Chicago oil promoter. She, too, with mother and grandmother, ia in the county jail awaiting trial. . ' Mrs. Ermina Colavito, 45, an Italian woman of the typical old country type. Police declare her to be a "poison queen"" who practiced the 'black sart" of the Middle Ages and now lay half a dozen old murders at her door. Salvatore Cala, an Italian, according to his own confession, one of the two men who actually sunk the dagger into Kaber 's abdomen. 1 Vitario Viselli, another Italian, al leged to be the other of the paid assas sin.. , i Mrs. Mary J. Wade a fortune teller, questioned but not placed under arrest. Says she was asked by Mrs. Kaber to kill Dan. Mrs. Ethel Berman, a woman detec tive. , MOSES KABER NEMESIS Moses Kaber, father of 'the dead man, nemesis of the mystery. His money, his perseverance, brought the revelation of today." ' Madame "X," mystery woman of po lice records. She is reported to be a woman detective who has made astounding discoveries on the case. County Prosecutor Edward C. Stan ton, who pushed the case to its present stage. . - ' . With these then the drama has mov ed apace, though for two years it was dormant. The motive. "I love McArdle, my first husband," Mrs. Kaber is quoted as saying. . "I want money. Dan hasn't any." Mrs: Kaber is said to have fallen in love with a Smith College pro fessor and) wanted to marry him. Prosecutor Stanton's theory is that of the new love. 1 ! That July ; night, Kaber Had been fixed comfortably for the night by hns male nurse, F. W. Utterback, now in Pittsburgh. At. 11:15, Utterback says he heard a scream. He rushed to his patient and found Kaber groaning on the ficor, stabbei twenty -four times. , He learned over the dying man and heard: , , - , 'Mrs Kaber had this done. The man with the cap did it." - HAD PERFECT ALIBI But Mrs. Kaber had gone to Cedar Point, miles away that morning. A few days, of seemingly fruitless in vestigation and Dan Kaber's murder was shelved. But' here Moses Kaber stepped in. His lather's heart called for revenge, his money employed private . detec- ' tives, 'among them Mrs. Berman, who gained Mrs. Kaber's confidence. . Mrs. Berman says she found Mrs. Kaber seemingly pleased over the death of Kaber. "I laid him out with : a dirty shirt on," Mrs. Berman quotes Mrs. Kaber as saying with a laugh. La ter, in a hotel in Pittsburgh, . Mrs. Ber man relates,- Mrs. Kaber sat up in bed one night and screamed "I did it, I did it." The investigation went on. Then, as the second anniversary of his son's 1 tContinned on Tr SevenA', , ..... r . ' ' . -'; " .'. , . "I
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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