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FDEITWE BUNKER
FIB!
E REWARD
TEXAN WIRES HE WANTS $15,
000 DEPOSITOR COM
MITS SUICIDE.
r.IIlCAGO, Aug. 9. Warren C.
1 1 J? xl 1.
missincr neaa oi uie wi-bca-
Avenue Trust Co., will
j llii-'-ujran
be suvrendered to the Chicago au-tiH.riti--
$15000 reward, said a
n,e?fairo from Chihuahua City, Mex-
vo-vived here. This message came
Clinton and was address-
MOTHER MYSTERY
SHIP UFF ATLRKTtG
NEW YORK, Aug. 9. Anothery
mystery ship, suspected rum carrier,
appeared off the Atlantic coast south
of Cape Hatteras today.
The vessel is believed to be one of
a fleet smuggling liquor into this
country, authorities said.
not
ICO,
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ej to State's Attorney Crowe.
-I have Spurgin," Clinton wired.
;.fje is hiding where the police can
rot oVt him. I will be willing to sur
render him if the reward is large
nou?h. I understand $15,Cr00 has
been ported. The $2,500 reward does
not interest me."
A similar message was received by
V. C. Bams, representing Lloyds of
London. Mr. Burns said he would
reply to u.
Job:1- Me Shane, assistant state's at-
TOVneV, Wired iu viiinuii i-uai, uic
oniv reward so far offered for Spur
jin was S'2,500. He did not believe it
would be increased. He said undoubt
edly Spurgin would be apprehended
without Clinton's aid. Clinton is a
resident of Marfa, Texas, but is well
know;: and has friends ir Chihuahua
City.
Depositors and stockholders of the
wrecked bank met to plan a receiver
snip. The loss will exceed $1, 000,000.
William Chambers, who had $2,500
deposited in the bank, committed
suicide. Me was despondent over his
loss, relatives said.
TWISTED KNIFE IN
TRXI DRIVER BODY
LOVELESS WIFE T!
SEPARATE FROM
CH HUBBY
MRS. AUERBACH ASSERTS SHE
WAS ILL-TREATED CHARGE
DEATH THREATS.
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WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Aug. 9.
Mrs. Doris Auerbach, of Manhattan,
youthful bride of less than 2 years,
sets forth in affidavits before Su
preme Court Justice Tompkins here
a detailed story of what she terms
S BROKEN
KEEPING ARMY
RHINE RIVER
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRAT
CONDEMN PRESENCE OF
FORCE AT BIG COST.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. The
continued presence of 14,000 Amer
ican soldiers in Germany is stirring
the senate. Senators Borah of Idaho,
and Brandegee of Connecticut, re
publicans, and McKellar of Tennes-
MEXICAN CENER
KILLED BY AM
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 9. General
Jose Alessio Robles was shot and kill
ed today while automobile riding by
fire armed men.
General Jacinto Trevine has sur
rendered to the police. , The killing,
it is said, is the result of a newspaper
controversy.
AL iMRS.
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CARUSO 1
SEEK FORTU
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a bestial and loveless marriage, and I see, democrat, are protesting against
COLUMBIA, S. C, Aug. 9.
The body (of William Brazell,
aged 19, taxicab driver and col
lege student, who was killed near
Leesville yesterday, was found
early today three miles from
Leesville.
F. J. Kirby, C. O. Fox and
Jesse Gappins have been arrest
ed. The sheriff said that Kirby
made the statement that Fox
stabbed Brazell and twisted the
kn'fe around in his body while
1.1 begged for mercy. The
wOinpanions threw the body into
the bushes after robbing him,
Kidby is quoted as saying, and
drove off in Brazell's automo
bile. JAIL ATTENDANT NOT
FINED FOR GAMBLING
seeking by the narrative a separation
from Hyman AueHbach, her wealthy
and elderly husband, member of the
firm of Katz & Aueibach, dealers in
flowers and feathers.
She suffered in silence and misery
the results of the marriage, she said.
Finally determined to bare her des
pair and degradation only because,
their maintenance of the Rhine.
"One of the solemn pledges made
in the last campaign was that the
army would be brought out of Eu
rope as soon as the order could be
issued," said Senator Borah. "I think
that was a pledge which it was within
our power to fulfill."
"What possible benefit do we re-
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TOBACCO TRADE
UNDERGO PRO
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. The
Federal Trade Commission was di
rected today, under a resolution just
adopted by the Senate, to investigate
tobacco trade conditions, including
tne prices to producers ana co i-
WIDOW ACTS TO GIVE GLORIA
ALL OF ESTATE OF THE
FAMOUS SINGER.
having been forced from her hus- j ceive f rom having 14,000 soldiers in
band's home, she was left on the! Europe? What possible advantage to
hands of her parents. i the United States? What property
Henry Knight Was Quieting Insane
Prisoner When Alleged "Skin"
Artists Were Taken.
She asserts her husband's income
to be not less than $25,000 a year
and alleges he is the owner of Man
hattan real estate worth at least
$300,000. She chaft-ges, however, he
has transferred blocks of property
to corporate ownership and quotes
him as taunting her with a statement
that he had made the transfers so
that she could make no claim against
him.
Nevertheless, she asks $200 a week
alimony and an allowance of $5,000
counsel fees. Judge Tompkins took
her petition under advisement for two
weeks announcing that meanwhile he
have we there to protect?
"My humble opinion is that the
thing which has more to do with main
taining them there than anything is
I the delightful position in which they
are located. The total cost of keep
ing these troops in Europe has been
$275,324,192. It is costing us there
fore about $1,000,000 a month to
maintain this army in Europe, a much
larger amount than would be neces
sary to maintain the same number in
the United States.
"It is no relief to the taxpayer to
say that Germany must pay this up
keep when Germany does not pay it,
LONDON, Aug. 9. According to
the Napels correspondent of the Daily
Mail, immediately after Caruso's
eath his widow appealed to the courts
for the enforcements of the Italian
statutes which would make his baby
daughter Gloria his' only legal heir
except for a fraction of her husbands
money, which would be assigned to
herself. The Judge provisionally
granted her petition. He then went
to the Hotel Vesuvio, where Caruso
died, and sealed all his valuables pend
ing further investigations of the matter.
Bruno Zirato, the private secretary
and confident of the tenor has an
nounced that Caruso left practically
no property either real or personal in
ers. ..-i""'
Senator Smith, of Sou' ... olina,
who is author of the r n'on, said
there was no maxkrsi. obacco and Uv,;0 f v,Q i.
y I tuio vvuuii v w livll lie oailCU W C V
last spring to his native shores. His
bonds and securities had been sold
that farmers vf t$y iig tobacco for
y
fertilizers, b' ' es on cigars and
cigarettes a the wartime peak.
ie 8? HORSE
The Henry Knight fined in Mayor's
Court Monday morning for gambling
was not the Henry Knight who at
tends the county jail here.
The negro caught in the "skin"
raid was Harry Knight.
In fact, Henry Knight claims that 1
at the time the alleged gamblers were
taken in a raid, he was very busy at
the jail quieting an insane man who
had torn up the plumbing in his cell.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 9. of this, Henry has undisputable
fc-d-A-ard Vizhiski, 42, fell down a lad-(proof: a swollen and bruised arm,
with two long scars, which the crazy
man inflicted when Henry entered
his cell, after about $25 worth of
toilet fixtures had been demolished.
The afflicted man is Robert Per
son, ajred 18. who lives iust across
father attends the Williams farm of
FOR L ANGEVIN INCIDENT j the Elks-Williams Company.
Application has been made for the
entrance of Person at the State Asy
lum, and the authorities are hopeful
that same will be accepted.
Edgecombe has another patient, a
woman, awaiting permission to the
state institution, though the county
now has her full quota in, and the
state has no room for additional en-
would have the question of Auer- and Germany cannot pay it at the
bach's financial status investigated i Present time.
der in
landin
hor?e,
death.
The victim of the accident has
family m Poland.
ALLIES DEMAND APOLOGY
bam ivasdwitz s junk yard,
on teh heels of the latter's
hich then kicked Vizhiski to
a
by referee.
The affidavits of Mrs. Auerbach
and of her father, Abraham Schrei
ber, were submitted by Hymphrey
and Lunch, her attorneys, according
to Mr." Lynch the defendant has "caus
ed to be transferred his equities in
a Manhattan house and other build
ings assessed for $780,000.
WOMAN GAVE PEDDLER
$600 RING IN $1.00 BILL
under his orders before his departure.
Propedty Shipped To Italy
Even his beloved art objects, his
ceramics, his pictures, coins and curio
of which he had a marvelous collect-
j ion, were packed into trunks and
Removed Diamond From Her Hand j boxes and most of them were shipped
And Wrapped It in Bill, Later to Italy. So were all the personal ef
Bought From Peddler. f ects and furnishings with which he
. hab beautified the Caruso suit in the
MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Aug. 9. spoken reasons for this course, accord.
Miss Mollie Vuolo, of this city, while j ing to his secretary althoug the tenor
expressed with an almost jocular non
chalance was;
"Who knows Bruno, I may never
BEE LI X, Aug. 9. The allies have
landed a sharp note to Germany de
manding an apology from the Ger
man government and the dismissal
of the police who arrested Capt. Lan
?ev''R, of the French army.
Capt. Langevin's arrest aboard a
tram has created a new German-allied
:ncid
"The sooner we withdraw those
troops the better. There can be no
rehabilitation in Europe .''until the
170,000,000 persons of Russia and
the 70,000,000 persons of Germany
are erialSledto get on their feet. By
keeping these troops there certainly
it is not helping these countries.
Maintaining them there is unneces
sary, and if we make Germany pay
the cost of keeping them there, it is
unjust to Germany."
Senator Brandegee said he was at
a loss to understand why the neces-
i sity for the maintenance of troops in
Germany now exists.
"It seems to me," said he, "that
three years after the war is over the
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9. Search ! American people are entitled to
for the shotgun used in killing John j know without anybody being embar-
SEARCH FOR RIFLE
at her work, removed a diamond ring
from her finger, wrapping it in a $1
bill, which she placed in her pocket.
Five minutes later, when a peddler j get back to New York?"
appeared at the house, she made a j
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purcnase anu nanueu xne man me
bill, she says, not stopping to open it
and not thinking of the ring, which
was valued at $600.
Half an hour later she remember
ed and notified police headquarters.
The peddler was caught bue denied
all knowledge of the ring, and as
none was found in his possession he
jwas dischorged.
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TROOPS TO SILESIA
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B. Kennedy continues today.
Mrs. Madelyn N. Obenchain and
Arthur Burch, who are held in con
nection with the shooting, refuse to
talk.
tni. The Germans allege that the j trances. -Tarboro Southerner.
;ap:am puffed smoke in the faces of
"wu.on passengers. Asked to stop his
coking, he refused, whereupon a
man major knocked the cigar oat
K)uth. Captain Langevin pull-
emergency cord and stopped
the
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MISS STONE TO PLEA
GEMS STOLEN BY CHILD
12 YEARS OLD, REPENTS
loot
eh-y
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 9.
Serial for a melodrama was fur
nis"ed by a girl. 12 vears nlrf. who
, . , .
,K a c-tiaraois bag, containing jew-
' ued at $5,950. from a drpss-
r- tried to sell a diamond brooch
$4,000, for a song, and then,
Ulin conscience stricken, re-
an Sene of the robbery
lf tned to replace the gems but
ff:-hr;ed away. The climax
itle!V 'Cn 8irl's mother was
C-v. 8'' ;;'y sting her displaying a
ia;;r
no
amond ring, and the chUd
e(j "fiiicu now sne o Drain
ed U( m than her motner compell
tr 1" return all the valuables.
TEMPORARY INSANE
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ALLIES WERE MIXED
INSILESIATRIAIiELE:
! Killed in P
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Hi Persons were killed or
dei. " m a government pow-
.jjiuaiua iiere.
owder Explosion.
Japan, Aug. 9.
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vou cierans oureau
lpt?IIXf;TTABg. 9.-Charles
01 the Bureau of War Risk
V rclmg as director of the
ws nominated today by
!;era But
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led
ceau created by Sweet's
day by the president.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9. The case
of Miss Olivia Stone, a Cincinnati
nurse, charged with the killing of El
lis C. Kinkead, a former Cincinnati
corporation counsel, was postponed
until Thursday.
Counsel for Miss Stone intimated
a temporary insanity plea. Miss Stone
said she did not realize what she was
doing that night and wept and moan
ed in her cell.
She discussed the shooting with
newspaper men on the way to jail
yesterday and said:
am the happiest woman in the world.
Ellis Kinkead is now in the place
where the dawn comes up like thun
der, and I am glad.
T waited for days at a time to
meet Kinkead. I dared him to face
me. When I saw him I said: How do
you do, Mr. Ellis Kinkead? You are
surprised to see me, ain't you, you
dirty rat?"
"Then I pulled the trigger. At
the police station I first learned that
I had killed him They told me be
fore that I had hit him in the knee
and I was awfully disgusted with my
self, because I had aimed at his head.
I am a nurse and ought to know
what part of his body I had hit "
PARIS, Aug. 9 The allied experts
who have been attempting to delimit
Upper Silesia were in hopeless dead
lock here, and it appeared certain
that they would not have a working
report ready for the Supreme Coun
cil, but their decision was finally ren
dered today.
The French had definitely declined
to accept the British and Italian view
points on the partitioning of Upper
Silesia. The British-Italian view had
proposed a majority of the disputed
province to Germany, whereas the
French wanted to give it to Poland.
rassed why an -American array is be
ing maintained in Europe."
"I want to ask," said Senator Mc
Kfllar. "after the passage of the
peace resolution, was it not the idea
j that the soldiers in Germany should
at once be returned and that it also
would be illegal or almost, if not
quite, an act of war to keep them
there after the peace resolution?"
Senator Borah said the only way
government expenditures could be re
duced would be by reducing the army
and halting naval construction temporarily.
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PARIS, Aug. 9. The Allied Su
preme Council has decided not to
send reinforcements for teh allied
troops in Up"?r .Silesia.
The French and British premiers
are reported to have reached agree
ment privately on the partition of
Upper Silesia.
THIS GHOST MADE REAL
NUISANCE OF HIMSELF
NEW YORK, Aug. 9. Premier
Lenine has issued an appeal for fam
ine aid.
The message was sent out from the
"toiling industrial workers zrd agri
culturalists of ali countries," says the
Russian cable received here today.
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ALL PITC
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MANCHESTER, Aug. 9. When a
spooky, angry, great white ghost
stands across the street from you in
the wee sma' hours and shakes his
i:::-t v-, :ir':v rally you're nervous.
This is the way a ghost has been
treating three lone, lorn women here
7'T--:c- vtr. Te women are Mrs.
-Jabei Iviorriii, Ivlrs. Abe Allen and
Miss Frances Stewart. Now the
ghost, as Miss Stewart more than a
little surmises, is her dead grand-
father, George F. Bosher, late weal
thy real estate operator.
SUES HARVARD MAN
BOSTON, Aug. 9. William Nick
erson, of Somerville, has filed three
libel suits of $100,000 each against
the University Press, of Cambridge,
Mass.; the Barta Press, of Boston,
and Dr. Henry Lyman, of Boston, the
last named research fellow in biolog
ical chemistry at the Harvard Medi
cal school and also in chemistry on
the Harvard Cancer commission.
Nickerson charges that books pub
lished by the two presses named him
as deserting from Base Hospital 5 in
France on January 21, 1919, and that
Henry Lyman, commanding officer of
the hospital, caused one of the books
to be published.
ONEIDA, N. Y., Aug. 9. Frank
Sager today shot and killed Miss
Pearl Hook, seriously wounded his
sister and committed suicide in a
rage of jealousy.
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SHERBURNE, Minn., Aug. 9. F.
R. Frederick, baseball pitcher, and a
former bookkeeper, is returning to
day to Kansas City with detectives,
charged with the embezzlement of
$156,000 from Armour & Co.
POLICE CHIEF'S SLAYER
AT BAY, KILLS HIMSELF
SHARK-LEATHER SHOES
OUTWEAR ALL OTHERS
Bureau of Standards Makes Interest
" ing Statement Regarding Qual
ity of Shark Hides.
SYRACUSE, Aug. 9. There's no
longer any need to send samples of
brew suspected of hitting more than
one-half of one per cent alcoholic
content to New York for analysis by
federal chemists at the federal pro
hibition director's headquarters there
according to agents attached to the
local enforcement bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. The
sharp has a grouch against the gov
ernment. First, the Bureau of Fisher
ies attempted to popularize shark
steaks as both edible and delectable.
Now comes the leather shark in the
Bureau of Standards, who declares
that shark leather is superior to calf
leather for shoes. In proof he offers
laboratory tests on tensile strength,
water penetration, etc., bufc stronger
than that, points to its actual wear.
At the request of the Bureau of
Standards scientists, laborers working
"Carrie Nation," the ferocious fed- in ditches, postmen tramping their j
AURORA, 111., Aug. 9. James T.
Witt, 29, who has been hunted for
three months in connection with the
murdeT of Chief of Police George
Rehm, of West Chicago shot and
killed himself near here after he had
been wounded in a pistol fight with
Sheriff Martin Hextall, of Kendall
county, in a country road near York
ville. 111..
Witt shot himself after an automo
bile chase when his capture appear
ed certain. His wife and 3-year-old
son, who were in another automobile,
escaped.
Confer on Tax Revision.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Repub
lican members of the House Ways
and Means committee will confer to
day with President Harding on tax
revision subject. ,
TURK NATIONALISTS MOVE
THEIR CAPITAL TO SIVAS
eral feline, on duty as rat catcher at
the Syracuse office, is the answer.
Agents have discovered that if sam
ples of home brew are placed before
the cat, the animal will lap up the
real stuff, but tip over the saucers
holding the innocent cereal beverage.
routes, and even school boys at play
have been wearing one shoe of shark
skin and the other qf salf.
The sea product wore better than
the land leather, and in addition does
not abrade as easily when the toe is
stubbed.
ATHENS, Aug. 9. The Turkish
Nationalists, broken by the latest
Greek attacks, are precipitously tran
ferring their capital from Angora to
Sivas, according to reports here.
The Greeks are declared to have
dispersed the enemy ar Nicaia.