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TEST GROWS NG W-S P A-P E.R I ORTH CAROLINA 1 JL 1 Jj JL' PAGES TODAY GREATER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER" iblished: Daily, 1888 Sunday 1910. CHARLOTTE, N.C., FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1913. Est Price : Daily 2c; Sunday 5c. THE FA EE CHAEi NEWS NIGHT EDITION Officials are Optimisticm LIST OF a ui, T ntoBl-. Uir.4? flPPfllMTMITRIT About Latest Neir. rom Dispatches Received in Wash ington Indicate lhat Huerta is Weakening and Will Ac- t to Some of Unclt Sam's Requests. Bryan Declares no Alternative Has Ever Been Stated in Cese Huerta Refused U. S. Demands- -hind May Return to Capital pv Associated Press. 'Mexico City, Nov. 14. Confidence lr iiie early accomplishment of the jiff ' of the United States toward Mex ico' Vas expressed today by Nelson Osbaugbnessy, United States charge iafi'aires. The overtures made by the Mexican minister of the interior, Manuel Garza i'idape yesterday, are taken as evi dence thai Provisional President Huer a is ready to recede from the stand " had previously taken. . Although Mr. O'Shaughnessy was '.incommunicative on the subject and efased information as to any phase Df the latest development it was un derstood that he expected to have a further conference with Senor Aldape :oday. At this conference it is expected that the ideas of Washington as to the visdom of John Lind, the personal represtntative of President Wilson, re turning from Vera Cruz to the Federal rapital, or receiving a committee rep resenting Huerta will be made known to the representative of the provision--! president. Tension Greatly Relieved. Despatches from Washington, pub lished here today, indicate the prob ebility of a settlement of the Mex ican question without resort to arms, uhich during the past week, appeared here to be a forlorn hope, created an atmosphere of optimism and greatly relieved the tension. To most of the foreigners in Mex ico City it appeared today that the storm cloud had passed for the time be ing. Constitutionalists Capture Capital of Sinaloa. Tucson. Ariz., Nov. 14. The con stitutionalist army captured Culiacan, capital of Sinaloa, at 3 o'clock this morning, according to reliable reports received here. Felipe Riveros, govern or of Sinaloa. who was deposed by Provisional President Huerta, was cgain installed as governor. Mazatlan Is now the only city in Sinoloa remain ing in the hands of the federals. 3ryan Receives Message. Washington. Nov. 14. Secretary Fry an exchanged messages early today with Charge O'Shaughnessy in Mexico City about the reported concessions which members of Provisional Presi dent Huerta's official advisers have Intimated he would make to the Unit ed States. Lind May go to Capital. Efforts to recall John Lind, Presi dent Wilson's nprsonal representative. from Vera Cruz to Mexico City to dis- cn.5s the American memorandum, ae Ji'endir.g that the new Mexican con piP5S should not convene were taken here to indicate that . the group sur roucdirig Huerta would suggest a com promise arrangement whereby -the Mexican Congress would meet but not pass on concessions or other measures calculated to continue Hr.erta in power. iflatedp.il scd cCaaaaEia.cSohd: sAreo Officials Optimistic. Officials were silent about the inner radiations but were optimistic. It 'culd not surprise official circles here K an announcement of Huerta's inten tion to resign were withheld until tatWfactory arrangements could be Pade for the choice of a provisional successor acceptable to the constitu tionalists. While tli TTn;J Cl4n mio-V-.t TP- ' 11.11.. iin.tru C LCL L'.. CI Uiui. ) fl'ain from malriTicr nnv en e-srsM OTIS Ot u ...... . . , - , . n - "S own, it would endeavor to act as) thrmieh )"iiliam Bayard Hale with general j cir.anza and Charge u ttnaugnnessy Mcxicc City so that there might be f-xchange of views upon various -arnes. There wag a report early today that weign minister M one no might be the men selected though the views of the constitutionalists as to Moheno's ac "eptfbility were not known. No Alternative Stated. secrnarv P.rvati rlpplnrpd tndav that none of the instructions to John Lind ontamed any statement of the alterna te the United States would pursue 'a the event of Huerta's failure to n;eet this, government's demands for '' retirement. Mr. Bryan made this statement in vesponBe to inquiry as to the truth of recent report from Vera Cruz that 'ir. Lind had delivered a note to Gen Huerta informing him that if be '"'-i not abdicated the presidency by -oniorrow noon the United States 'o;:!r blockade Mexican ports. Tii" secretary declared that at no un i;ad this government stated what its course would be if Huerta refused tr accede to its demand for complete eliminution. Mr. Bryan likewise declin- to say what course of action the ti'Tfii States would pursue if the -vy.:ian congress is convened tomor j;'v: the face of representations- by l l ! ; t cerniBfci;t that it will not recog any of that body's acts as legal. Me x i c q The secretary said that thus far no foreign power had interposed any ob jection to the course the United States is taking in its endeavor to restore order in Mexico. England's Attitude. London, Nov. 14. In reply to Pres ident Wilson's communication an nouncing his determination to elim inate Gen. Huerta and his adherents from power in Mexico, Great Britain today answered formally through Am bassador Walter H. Page that her policy was strictly one of non-interference. It ii3 understood that the other European powers have sent . similar replies to that of Great Britain arid that the exchange of views which it was understood Washington desired they should do. President Wilson's note to the pow ers while it stated very clearly his intention to get rid of Huerta did not, it is understood, include any out line as . to how he expected to ac complish that object in case Huerta should remain deaf to the persuasion now being exerted in Mexico City. As an official pointed out today, however, it is not difficult to forecast what would happen. "Should Gen. Huerta not voluntarily withdraw and the financial pressure and the blockade of the Mexican ports prove ineffectual intervention must follow." It is expected that President Wil son will continue to communicate to the' powers the successive steps ot the United States government as he has been doing. So far as Great Britain is concerned it is pointed out that he may rely on her reply being the same in each case namely, non interference. With her moral support a sym pathy on the . side of the United States, England remains firm also to her decision not to dispatch a war chip to Mexican waters. She is assured' that : the United States will afford her citizens and her trade interests every protection. All this has been clearly explained to Ambassador Page on his frequent visits to Sir Edward Grey at the British foreign office.- Satisfaction over the attitude ot Great Britain was the chier basis tor a feeling of optimism that enveloped the Mexican situation in official cir cles today. ' It became known that there had been the frankest interchange of views between the United States and England not only through Ambassador Page abroad but in Washington as well. ' Sir Edward Tyrell( private secreta ry to Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary, has during the ill ness of the British ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, been active in get ting the American viewpoint and is believed to have been largely instru mental in the promotion of a friendly understanding between London and Washington. It is thought also that the inter change of views with the United States has been made known to the British , representatives in Mexico City. ARI KILLED BY FALL MANILA B, Manila, Nov. 14. C. Perry Rich, second lieutenant of the Philippine scouts, United States army, was killed today in a fall with a hydroae roplane into Manila Bay. The accident was due to' a faulty cylinder in the motor. Lieutenant Rich discovered the defect before he left the ground and at first determin ed to abandon his bight, but he after ward repaired the cylinder and as cended. He had risen to a height of 2'JU feet and was making a preparatory trip" around the fleet before starling on his intended flight over the ves sels during which he was to attempt to drop a bomb on one of tthem when his motor again broke down. Lieutenant Rich was the only mem ber of the Philippine scouts attached to the aviation corps here. A launch from the torpedo boat Decatur of the United States fleet in the harbor here was the first of many craft to reach the scene of his fall. Washington, Nov. 14. Lieutenant Rich was bom in Indiana in 1883 and was appointed, to the Philippine scouts in 1911. He is the eleventh aviator to die in the work of the United States army, and navy. In aviation accidents of all kinds the world over since 1908, 414 have met death, -the toll for the present year to date being 195. " Lieutenant Rich was not married and the war department's records give his nearest relative as Charles A. Jennings, of Grand Rapids, Mich. Charleston, S. CI, Nov. 14. A squad of 18 Citadel players . left here this morning for Florida. Citadel plays University of Florida tomorrow, using the line up that held Clemson 7 to 3 last Saturday. T ni I ui I v L i i u ANNOUNCED Special to The News. Raleigh, Nov. 14. Internal Revenue Collector J. W. Bailey, of the eastern district of North Carolina, announces a list of appointments of deputies that have just received the approval Of Commissioner of Revenue Osborne at Washington. They follow: Chief clerk, to succeed I. M. Deaton. resigned, H. M. London, Chatham county, effective December 1. Office deputy to succeed V. C. Gar rard, W. L. Brown, Pitt county, salary $1,100, effective December 1. . Office deputy to succeed G. E. Sut ton, L. Meador, Alamance county, salary $1,000, effective December 1. Deputy collector as export clerk for stamps in Durham county, to succeed Grant Hall, Walter L. Steele, Rich mond county, salary $900, effective No vember 20. Field deputy to succeed C. C. Fagan, Edmund James, Martin -county, salary $1,000 with $600 expenses, effective November 15. Field deputy to succeed J. C. Camer on, Mull. Lenoir county, salary $1,000 with $600 expenses, effective Novem ber 15. Field deputy to succeed D. C. Down ing,. W. J. Robinson, Cumberland coun ty, salary $1,000 with $600 expenses effective November 15. District deputy to succeed M. L. Wood, J. R. Kennedy, New Hanovev county, salary $1,000 with $600 for ex penses. ' General deputy and revenue agent to succeed K. W. Merritt, H. G. Gulley, Wake county, salary $1,350 and $900 expenses. . . ' General deputy and revenue agent to succeed C. P. Carter, George Taylor Jones county, salary $1,350 and $900 expenses. Temporary appointments made per manent: J. P. Stell field deputy, salary $1,050 with' $850 expenses. Mrs. W. E. Shipp, deputy collector for office service, salary $1,200. Miss Flora Creech, deputy collector, office service, salary $1,000. -"Bryce Little - deputy collector, duty of messenger, file clerk and personal stenographer, salary $900. LIST OF F OEM IN YESTERDAY'S By Associated Press. By Associated Press. Clayton, Ala., Nov. 14. Twenty-two persons now are known to have been killed in the wreck of the Central of Georgia passenger train near here yes terday: Twelve were killed outright and the rest died en route to Clayton and Eufaula. Savannah, Ga., Nov. 14. The gen eral superintendent's office pf the Cen tral of Georgia Railway announces as official the following list of dead as a result of the derailment and over turning of a train on the Ozark branch of the , Central . Railway three ' and a half miles from Clayton, Ala., yester day: White: Pomp Outsey, Clayton, Ala. Monroe Floyd, Clayton, Ala. Miss Bonnie Brock, Clio, Ala. Son of Curb Bell, Clayton, Ala. Mrs. Laura Wilkerson, Clio, Ala. Mrs. Wilbur McLean, Clio, Ala. Wash McRae, Clio, Ala. Mrs. Alto Adams, Clio, Ala. Zack Peak, Clayton, Ala. Baby of F. Brock, Clio, Ala. Colored: Maud McRae, Clio, Ala. This makes a total of eleven dead. Wash McRae died this morning. The others injured will recover. McCombs and Bride in New York i Bv Associated Press. New York, Nov. 14. William F. national committee, came home . from Europe on the steamship Mauretania today with his bride, formerly Miss Dorothy Williams, pf Washington, whom he married in London. When asked about the possibilities of his accepting appointment as am bassador to France he said: "I have no taste for public service and I do not expect to take public office." . -jrw j . i i". 't r ? 't 'i v 't "a". i" r 't i" " v -afii" THE WEATHER. Forecast for North Carolina: ' H- IF Fair, except local rains in & west portion tonight or Saturday; w r somewhat colder Saturday west portion: Light to moderate winds, mostly west and northwest. or. ; 3JS TRAIN WRECK GREAT STRIKE ON SOUTHERN All Reports. Indicate General Suspension of Traffic Sugar Interests Will Suffer Heavily if The Strike is Con tinued. . COMPANY MAY USE STRIKE BREAKERS Lists of The Grievances Offered by Grievance Committee Senators Ask Federal Board to Take a Hand in Effecting a Settlement. By Associated Press. New Orleans, Nov. 14. The South ern Pacific Railroad, whose engin men and trainmen struck last night, got one train into Algiers, across the river from New Orleans this morning and another left for the west short ly before noon. The train that ar rived at Algiers came from Lafay ette, La., a division terminus. Divis ion Superintendent Knightlinger was at the throttle. No effort was made to bring it across the river. A few strike breakers are in evi dence and there have been no dis orders. Loss to sugar producers promises to be the most serious result of the strike. New Orleans business men held a meeitng early this morning to discuss the situation. No Disorders Reported. Houston, Texas, Nov. 14. No dis order had been reported early today among the 2,500 skilled employes ot the operating department of the Southern Pacific Railroad lines be tween El Paso and New Orleans who went on strike last night. Aside from two trans-continental trains said to be enroute reports indicated general suspension of traffic. Just before the walkout went into effect an offer of government media tion was received at union headquar ters last night. The employes' lead ers replied that the only possible way to avoid a strike was for the railroad to meet the federated committee of the four unions involved the engi neers, conductors, firemen and train men. Such a conference had been the main point of the railroads ob jection during negotiation. 'May Use Strike Breakers. The company today was said to be preparing to install strike breakers with, the aim of restoring passenger train service at least. Places for housing such employes are said to have been arranged at different points along the' Sunset lines. President W. B. Scott, of the Sunset-Central Lines, defended the road's attitude today, pointing out the ob ject of one of the employes' griev ances that against the making ot efficiency tests at unexpected places as designed to insure greater safe ty of life. The employes' 67 com plaints involve demands for reinstate ment of many engineers and others declared to have been discharged in violation of contracts; allege exces sive imposition of demerit; assert that many reports and other informa tion are required outside of company time and ask regulations of lay-overs away from home termtnals. The Grievances. Some of the more important griev ances in the words of the grievance committee are: Complaint against letters of a harsh and threatening character from sub ordinate officials. "When new runs are established in passenger service officials should con fer with local committee as to the assignment of men. "Request of engine men that all boiler heads and side sheets be cov ered . "It is conceded everywhere that motor car service is passenger ser vice and we insist that passenger train rates be paid therefor. "Request that men be allowed to report for duty by telephone. "Complaints of crews called later than 9:30 a. m. and required to do local work after dark. "Violation of firemens agreement acount of firemen being discharged for going to lunch and consuming eight minutes after being on duty more than seven hours. "Protests against method of re-examination of men on eyesight, hear ing and color perception. "Claim for $3.75 rate for firemen. "Protest against the re-examination of conductors and engineers on train rules and mechanical re-examination of engineers.". . The question of wages is involved only in that it is claimed the con struction of existing contracts by the company curtail the rights of the men. Ask Government to Aid. Washington, N6v. 14. Senators Ransdell and Thornton, of Louisiana, today appealed to President Wilson to request the federal board of medi ation and conciliation to take a hand in the settlement of the strike on th8 Southern Pacific line. The" request was referred to the board.. . ROAD TO E PROBLEMS Raleigh, Nov. 14. The executive committee of the North Carolina com mittee of rural race problems is call ed by President Clarence Poe to meet in Shelby nexl! month at the same time that the State Farmers' Union meets there. President Poe says he never knew a new idea to grow faster than this " idea of setting aside some rural neighborhoods1 exclusively for white ownership. "Please note." said Mr. Poe, "that voluntary white seg gregation by people who want it is rather different from compulsory seg gregation of negroes, by people who don't want it. Some people are con stantly confounding one with the oth ed." Great headway was ' made, Mr. Poe says, during the last legislature. The house of representatives, com posed chiefly . of farmers, almost un animously voted for a special com mission to investigate the subject and suggest needed legislation to the gen eral assembly, and while opposition, chiefly of city lawyers, defeated the measure in the senate by two votes the majority of the farmers are in earnest and will pust the plan to suc cess sooner or later. MR. MORSE REMAINS OVER TO CONFER ON STEAMBOAT MATTER Following the meeting at the Great er Charlotte Club last night of Char lotte business men, called by Presi dent W. R. Foreman of the Just j Freight Rate Association, to hear the proposition or Mr. xi. '. Morse ot Mew York and his Wilmington associates on the new steamboat line, a confer- ; ence was held this morning ebtween Mr. Morse and the special committee iiauieu uy .rresiaent r oreman looKing to a further adjustment of the mat ter. The meeting adjourned shortly af ter noon to meet again at 4 o'clock to resume its task. The plan under consideration today is to work out, if possible, a special agreement to be signed or guaranteed by Mr. Morse whereby he will give definite - assurance as to the rates which his line will establish on the water haul from Baltimore and New York to Wilmington. The committee which is working with Mr. Morse consists of Messrs. W. R. Foreman, Cameron Morrison, W. S. Creighton,' J. L. Chambers and oth ers. ' ' - " The only obstacle that arose at last night's meeting to hinder the imme diate beginning of a campaign for sub scriptions to the stock of the South ern Steamship Company, was the in ability of Mr. Morse to state what the new tariff of his boat line would be. The special committee was nam ed by President Foreman to take up this point with Mr. Morse and see if some plan could not be evolved by which the desired assurance to the local business men could not be sup plied and it is possible that at the second sitting of the committee at 4 o'clock this afternoon, the .problem will be satisfactorily solved. CONSUMPTI DF COTTON Washington, Nov. 14. Cotton con sumed in the United States during Oc tober amounted to 542,809 bales, the census bureau announced today. . Cotton on hand October 31 in man ufacturing establishments amounted to 1,072,274 bales and. in independent warehouses 2,551,964 bales. Exports of domestic cotton during October amounted to 1,517,838 bales; imports were 5,372 bales. Cotton consumed included 17,955 bales of foreign cotton and -31,257 bales of linters. Consumption in cot ton growing states was 273,534 bales and in all other states 269,275 bales. Cotton on hand in manufacturing es tablishments October 21 included 61, 482 bales of foreign cotton and 49, 877 bales of linters. In cotton growing states manufacturing establishments there was on hand 576,139 bales and in all other states 496,135 bales. Cot ton in independent warehouses in cluded 2,872 bales of foreign . cotton and 38,108 bales of linters. In cotton growing states in independent ware houses there was on hand 2,497,799 bales andin all other states 54,165 bales. Imports were:- From Egypt 2,119 bales; Peru 1,419; China 751, and from all other countries 1,083. Exports were: TO United King dom, 514,054 bales; Germany 465,525; France 279,469; Italy 54,282 and to all other countries 204,508. Active cotton spindles during Octo ber numbered 30,833,024, an increase of 803,291 over October, 1912. Those in cotton growing states numbered 12, 071,652 and in all other states 18,761, 372. Ridgefield, Conn., Nov. 14. One man -was killed, four fatally hurt and live others seriously injured in a runaway accident , here early today. The ten men were returning from a lodge meeting in a large wagon. As thev were Roinff down hill the ; horses took fright and ran away. The I wagon was overturned and the me,n j spilled out along the roadway. RURAL RAC HE T ON Thousands Paid By Swindlers Fo? Police Protection Aldermanic Board Meeting Deferred Mayor Bland announced this morn ing that the meeting of the board of al dermen announced for Monday night next would be deferred until Thursday following. This action was taken by the mayor because of the absence from the city of several members whose presence is desired at the next meeting when the city is to again take up the ques tion of the erection of three convrete bridges by the Southern, Seaboard and Charlotte Street Railways on South Church, East Boulevard and in Piedmont, the last named being a bridge that has been asked for over the tracks of the Seaboard Air Line. In the Elevtnth street bridge all three of the roads named are inter ested, while the South Church street bridge falls to the lot of the Southern Railway alone. This hearing is to be one of import ance since there is much involved in the building, of these bridges. Wheth er the board will contend for all three bridges of for those on Church and Eleventh street alone is i not known yet. There has been a divergance of views among members of the board as to the -building of these bridges, but it is very well established that the Eleventh street and Church street bridges at least will be heartily con tested for by members, and probably the bridge in Piedmont also. Elect to Pay Cash By December 22 Citizens assesed under the last gen eral batch of special street and side walk assessment ordinances passed by the board of aldermen, will have until December 22 in which to file formal notice with the city to the effect that they desire to pay cash for this work, otherwise the assess ments will be entered against the abutting property owners under the 10-year plal and the annual install ments of principal and interest col lected. - This notice applies, to all abutting property owners who have property on those streets for the improvement of which the city on December 6 sold from $50,000. to $60,000 of special im provement bonds to the Independence Trust Company of Charlotte at 103. This applies likewise to those owners in front of whose lots the sidewalks are to be improved. Not a few citizens call each week at tbe office of the city tax collector, Mr. J. M. Wilson, and proffer pay ment of their asessments in the bulk but after the bonds are sold the city is unable to receive the money in this way unless the citizen has formally signified his wish to pay cash for the assesment against him before the final sale of the bonds. TRAIN CARRYING KING WAS WRECKED, Bv Associated Press Leipsic, Germany, Nov. 14. A spe cial train conveying the King of Sax ony was wrecked today by the derail- mg of a haggage car near iuemzen junction, a short distance from this city. The king was uninjured and pro - ceeded on foot to the station here, where he boarded another train FOUR BID STEAMERS DIN UP AS LOST , McRae said, was first made more than ' eighteen months ago or about six By Associated Press. , months from the murder of Herman Port Huron, Mich., Nov. 14. With Rosenthal which resulted in disclos four big steamers given up for lost ures Df police graft. During the in with all oh board and practically all vesligation after Rosenthal's death hope given up for three others that the swindlers became scared and others encountered the terrific storm many left the city. Later the work on Lake Huron during the early mg arrangement, McRae said, was re part of this week, interest today cen-jTiVed. tered again upon the identity of the' ; . " overturned freighter which lies in the njppDC IM THF lol-a o four miloa nnrfhpnst rvf hrp Weather conditions this morning in- j dicated that it would bt posisble for a diver to go dowrn and examine heri before night. j : The four steamers for which all The papers in the case of Mrs. hope has been abandoned are : Callie Scott Applebaum, of Atlanta, The John A. McGean and the against the order of United Com Charles S. Price, both of Cleveland; mercial Travelers of America to re the James S. Carruthers, the Regina cover $6,300 insurance held by her and the Wexford, all of Toronto. . ! late husband, Jerry Applebaum, or The three vessels, the description Atlanta, which was. mentioned in The of which has not been so definitely News some weeks ago, were filed to determined are: ; day in the office of Clerk of the The Hydrus, the Argus and the Court C. C. Moore. Isaac M. Scott, all of Cleveland. ; The case will come up at the term The loss of the eight ships with all of civil court here next week, of the crews would make a life loss The plaintiff in represented by of more than 160. Wreckage from Flowers & Jones of this city, and by both the Hydrus and the Argus has ( the firm of Moore & Branch in At been washed ashore and the Scott lanta. It will be recalled that the has not been heard from since she ate Jerry Applebaum, whose deatn sailed away in the storm. She was occurred from a pistol shot in an due to report in Chicago yesterday, it Atlanta hotel some six or eight is said. 'months ago, following which Mrs. Ap- The general opinion this morning plebaum was tried and acquitted of was that the unidentified overturned his murder, formerly resided here steamer will be found to be either the Price or the Regina. More Coiruptin is Brought to Light in New York City by District Attorney Whitman Prominent Men Involved. Police Got Ten Per Cent When Chicago Woman was Fleeced Out of Near Half Million More Startling Revelations Are Expected. New York, Nov. 14. District Attor ney Whitman confirmed today the re port that he had obtained from a gang of wireless wire tappers confes sions involving the payment of graft for police protection to a civilian in high authority at police headquarters, a police inspector and at least two lieutenants. Many hundreds of thousands of dol lars, Mr. Whitman said, Iiad been ob tained by the swindlers under police protection. Ten per cent of th'13 sum and a fixed retainer of $2,500 a month, according to the confessions, bad been divide among the police ofAcials in volved. George McRae, confessor-iu-chief of the gang of five who have bared their records to Mr. Whitman, is autnority for the statement. that a. Chicago wo-, man whose identity is known to the district attorney, was fleeced out of $400,000 during seeral months by the gang in thiSiity, and the police receiv ed ten per cent of this sum. McRae's confession, Mr.' vVhitman said, had been corroborated in many essential details by the otlier wire tappers, all of whom are under indict ment for grand larceny. Still more startling revelations are expected today in the confession cf two other wire .tappers who have in dicated, their willingness to tell ih'i district attorney all they know about money being paid for police protection. These men were expected at th dis trict attorney's office this afternoon. According to th story told by Mc Rae and his confederates, the police were notified by the bank in advance whenevr a dal;was on. Giving names and dates, McRae told the district at torney that the police would statio.1 a man outside the building to which the victim was taken and that after the wire tappers had got his money pay ment of the ten per cent commission was immediately made to the police waiting outside. This, McRae charged, was taken to the office of a police inspector and either retained entirely by him, or divided with his superiors. Ii addi tion the wire tappers, McRae said, paid a man at police headquarters a monthly retainer of $2,500. McRae confessed to the district at torney more than a month ago but no announcement was made mtil to day. In the meantime Assistant Dis trict Attorney Groehl has devoted al mnsst Tilfi pntirft time tn invtieatins the st0ry. During the course of bis investigation Mr. Groehl made several I trips to Chicago and - there confirmed . portions 0f McRae's confession. Al together nearly a dozen syindlers con nected with the gang have confessed. McRae's confession and the result ant revelations are the . outgrowth oi an accidlental meeting in Los Ange les last September between .VTcRae and a representative of the district attorney's office who was in thas city on another case. The district ttor ney's representative brought Mcllae with him to Chicago and there they were met by Mr. GroehL Before com ing to this city McRae had made a par tial confession. The alleged working arrangement between the police and the swindlerv. 1 1 " APPELBAUM CASE WERE FILED TODAY wjth his wife before going to Atlan- t ta.