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Zg: Wss final EDITION THURSDAY SENDS STAR RUM SLEUTH HERE TO PROBE TUTTLE CHARGES a PROBE BY ARMY VIOLENT GALE I Refuses to Enter Race for Gov RADIO EXHIBITS ECLIPSED HERE the of B0YJ6 ARRESTED LATESTW1RE LASHES IN $121150 THET: BUILDING JOBS GAIN IS 1027 4 4 111! HE GIVES SENATE VIEWS ON SOLDIER BONUS Exeloalve American MaaaKament Temple Ballroom Woodward at Temple Ave Dance tonight Adv ST ANDREWS easteh conceht St Halt tonight o'clock my mind" "I never LEADER IN A WHO IS SLATED OR BIG HONORS the recent shooting City of Lieutenant Ward Beck which a possible trial tor Day were predicted POLICEMAN JAILED ORALLEGED RAUD TELEPHONE TELEGRAPH POLES ARE BLOWN DOWN STRASBURG DANCING HOME JJURNED WRENCH ELLS DENTIST KILLS WOMAN THEN HIMSEL REPRESENTATIVE TO WED SECRETARY DETROIT MICHIGAN the suffer BRING THE AMILY to the Pier Ballroom where strict nu pwrvlefon he eliminated undeelrnblet Adv DANCE TONIGHT ot the exclusive And beautiful Tem ple Ballroom Woodward at Temple Adv ENORCEMENT IS SEEN AS TARGET ROCHE UNROOSPLANT TIES TROLLEYS 'Miss Ada Knechtel of the Aid society holding Baby Pearl Jakowski in her arms after neighbors notified the authorities that Mrs Jakowski had left them motherless after receiving a telegram from her husband The other children are Joseph 5Cecilia 3 and rances 2'years old They were abandoned at 6347 Dubois Tuesday afternoon by their mother Mrs Joseph Jakowski OKLAHOMA MAN HELD IN BLACKMAIL PLOT 12 MONTHS IN JAIL $1000 IS MAXIMUM did not ONE KILLED IX BLAST Lafayette Ind April One man wai killed and two other probably fatally Injured when an explosion followed a fire of undetermined origin in the power house ot the Standard Oil company plant here late to day The power plant was destroyed very Innocently left a shorthand book to see if the false suggestion might be taken that she was a stenographer It was The circle of chairs was placed In the front the windows of which were dr ped Itwa a square room empty of all furniture except the chairs and In one corner a gathered black curtain was hung about three or four feet from the cornet and fastened to the walls One portion of the curtain was Continued on age Three Column Two 3IAROONED MAX RESCUED Beardstown Hl April Jesse Lowe prominent farmer whose farm is under water was rescued from hie home today after being marooned 36 hours He attracted attention by wav ing a bed sheet from an up stairs window Mr Lowe ex plained that he had gone to his almost submerged home early yesterday and on arriving at a window clambered Into the house and left the boat When he came beck to the window It had floated away emor at Meeting in Grand Rapids I Washington April 19 Repre sentative airchild Republican of the Twenty fourth New York dis trict riday will marry Miss Elenor Parsons his secretary It became known Wednesday Miss Parsons Who Is 26 years old formerly lived In Yonkers Mr airchild Is 59 years old a widower and is serv ing his third term In congress I tOO OOO CAXCER PRIZE 'Montreal April 19 It was learned here Wednesday that Lord Atholstsn proprietor of the Montreal Star has decided to donate $100000 for cancer research to the Interior Cancer Research fund of London of which Earl Balfour is chair man while a second sum of 1100000 Is to be offered as a prise for the discovery of a cure for cancer The $100000 prize Is open to the world the award to be decided by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons ot London England DODGE GUILTY HAVING RUM MAY GET YEAR to change her mind about throe times aJ1 ROAD I EASES SHOPS Sedalia Mo April The Missouri Kansas A Texas railway shops here the largest of the system have been leased to a Cleveland Ohio contract ing flrm and will open under their direction April 24 It was announced today DOREMUS COLD TO PLEA VOL 8 7 NO 20 5 Record Shows Up ward Trend Say Business Men An increase of 1027 men em ployed in March over the number engaged during ebruary hy the Associated Building Employers ot Detroit Is indicated in the monthly report of Charles A Bowen sec retary of the association The or ganization has 625 concerns as its membership In addition to being accepted as an indication of better times the report Is taken by experts to show the upward trjnd In building activi ties The Increase in business and the number of men employed ful fils anticipations of the employers tn building trades according to Mr Bowen A continued Increase In the num ber' of men employed and improve ment In the building business Is looked for Mr Bowen says Northwest Wind Brings Snow Rain and 22 Degrees Temperature Drop OPENS OICES AND PLANS BIGi MR ON BOOZE: I 4m Mark Having So wrote George Bernard Shaw to Mrs Campbell Her memoirs containing these extraordinary let ters will be found each week In the Magazine Section of Sunday's ree Press school is to be presented wlfh an outfit of baseball uniforms a set of bats baseballs gloves and other necessary equipments The outfit Is the 'gift of several members of the Rotary club whose attention has been attracted to the fine athletic work being done In Capron school under tbe direction of Miss lorence Warwick health education teacher iTy Cobh tn Visit Besides being the recipients of fine gift the school is to be visited by the celebrity ot baseball Ty Cobb The Detroit club manager and rank Navin owner of the Tigers will present the outfit In behalf of the donors Several offi cials of the board of education will also attend the presentation which is to take place In the school at 9:30 o'clock Thursday morning Ifi schedules can be completed In good time the city championship baseball game of grammar school leagues will be staged on Belle Isle athletic field June 9 as an added attraction to field day activities The girls' schedules already are arranged so as to make It possible for the girls to wind up their base ball season on field day GERMANS SEEK TO KEEP PACT Hamtramck Officer Said To Have Collected Taxes Inclusion for The ree Press Awards Would Increase Interest Says Post Efforts may be made by 'Loren Post supervisor In the health edu cation department to arrange com petition for ungraded and special class boys tn the Detroit public eighth annual Jield day at Belle Isle June 9 when The De troit ree Press will present the winners among 8000 contestants with medals and special prizes Success or failure of a plan to have special class youngsters com pete would depend entirely upon the boys themselves and the teach ers directing their work In class rooms They were dropped from competition on field day last year after having participated In the event In 1920 May Hold Separate Games It will be necessary to arrange separate games for these lads It they compete field day for ages of boys attending special classes vary considerably A plan probably will be suggested to teachers of un graded students In the near future "If we can bring In the ungraded boys and Interest all Intermediate schools to the point of placing rep resentative teams In field day games we will have the greatest athletic meet for school boys ever staged" Mr Post said Wednesday Boys and girls at the Capron school already spurned to do their utmost in athletics by the promise of more field day prizes than ever before by The ree Press now have another reason for trvlnv to es tablish a high mark in snort The REW TEMPLE BALLROOM now open Woodward at Temple Ave Detroit's most exclusive place of dancing Adv Jury Reaches Verdict in 20 Minutes Millionaire Gets Stay QoaHjI tr Ths Pri'n Prase Kalamazoo Mich Anrll 19 Twenty minutes after the jurors retired at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon they brought In a verdict finding John Duval Dodge Detroit millionaire and Rex Earl of Kala mazoo guilty of possessing trans porting and furnishing Intoxicating liquors Attorney Harry Howard of counsel for the defense asked a stay of sentence to filo a motion lor a new trial It was granted Under the Michigan prohibition statute Dodge and the Kalamazoo architect may be sent to any penal institution In the state for not to exceed one year and may be fined up to $1000 together with the costs In the case or both in the discre tion of the court'' Reaches Speeds End The trial came to an unexpectedly early close The prosecution rested Its case just before noon without calling Dodgo to testify against Earl or Earl to testify against Dodge although the two young men had been subpoenaed to appear against one another Court attaches had been given to understand th defense would pre sent a number of witnesses and the case was not expected to go to the jury before late Thursday morning The defense to the surprise of the great crowd which worked Its way into the court room and cor ridors tailed only one witness Municipal Judge Blankenburg who sat in trial In lower court on a charge of driving while intox leafed He quickly was excused by the court on an objection by the prosecution The defense sought to ehow by the testimony of the jurist that Dodge had been acquitted in lower court on a charge of driving while intoxicated but the attempt was overruled hy the cour Charge Is Brief Judge Weimer's charge to the jury was brief the only contest point was that concerning the legality of the officer's seizure of the bottle ot gin which they found In the Dodge machine afterthe joyride winch led to the arrest ot himself and Earl The court held the officers had alegal right to confiscate the liquor they found In the machine Dodge and Karl listened without emotion to the reading of the ver dict Which may take them to cells In one of the state peniten tiaries They exchanged glances and then' walked from the court room with their attorneys Their expressions did not change from the time the verdict was given un Contlnucd on Page Three Column oor Trial of Young Detroiter Ends Unexpectedly in Kazoo Court Show That Opened Wednes day Night Surpasses New York and Chicago Displays Every wireless lane traversing the ether within a radius of 600 miles or more will lead to Detroit by Thursday night Into a space 56 feet wide and 501 feet long will come hundreds of and of music lecture news anti general Information sent out from a score or more of cities ot the middle west All that Is by'way of reporting that first radio which Is among the first in th country because tjiere have been only three other radio shows of any pretension opened tor a week's ex hibition on the fourth floor of the General Motors corporation build ing Wednesday night Couxens Makes Address It was formally opened by Mayor James Couzens speaking through a local broadcasting station This show the fourth national radio show Is far and away the biggest of Its kind ever held ac cording to wjhapman speak ing for the promoters Mr Chapman explained Wednes day night that the show in New York was held In one of the hotels of that city and those in Newark and In Pittsburgh Da which closed last week occupied space less than half ot the Detroit show Virtually every foot 'of the ex hibition space In the main exposi tion hall In the General Motors building extending from Cass ave nue to Second boulevard and meas uring 56 feet by 501 feet Is taken up by the exhibits More Than 1OO Exhibits More than 100 Individual exhibits were In place when the public wax admitted for the first time at 7 o'clock and by Thursday night It la expected that every conceivable kind of wireless receiving Appara tus will be displayed There will be receiving sets ranging In size from a half gallon measuring cup to a cabinet talking machine and costing from a few dollars up to several thousand dol One set perhaps the largest Continued on Page Three Column ive Sensation 'Seen in Report Now On Way to Weeks Hinting Judge Was 'Whitewashed Offer Profuse Excuses in Reply to Demand for Abrogation or Quitting of Parley Genoa April (By the Asso ciated The German dele gates and experts have not yet been able to find a formula where by to cofiipromise with the' entente powers without sacrificing the Russo German treaty although they were in session at a very late hour Wednesday night Efforts are being made to have the con ference formulate a Russian policy in vjtlch the Russo German treaty can be absorbed thus giving it the stamp of conference approval and removing the cause of hard feeling The plain language Premier Lloyd George to the German states men Wednesday over th treaty In cident which at one time threaten en to disrupt the economic confer ence believed to have cleared the political atmosphere but as lthej the German reply to th Allies nor the Russian reply regard ing acceptance of the conditions for the restoration of Russia was forth coming the situation Is still con sidered critical 1 Conference la marked Some of the neutrals described the Garmans a embarrassed as how to find a way out ot the difficulty Meantime the work ot the con ference Is blocked Th neutral states have officially Insisted that the agenda of the conference be dis cussed In the commissions and not In private conversations among the chief delegates To this the leader reply that preliminary meetings are advisable In order to expedite the labors of the conference It le expected that once the Russo German controversy Is disposed of the machinery of the conference will resume operations The an nouncement that Morgan wilt join the group of hankers to dte cuss the possibility of floating an International loan for Germany has created an optimistic feeling for the future finances of Europe Barthau of th' rench dele gation Wednesday night confirmed that Premier Lloyd George had ad opted a strong attitude at 'Wednes meeting with th German Continued on Page Two Column Thro lee In th basement of home of T'aul Strasburg 1736 Seyburn avenue proprietor of the Strasburg Dancing academy 61 63 Sproat street caused damage estimated at $200 early Thursday Strasburg and his family were not at horn at th time and the residence was In th hands of a caretaker It 1 believed th flame spread from an overheat'd furnace iremen extlngulhd th blaze without difficulty Strasburg UWjne of the leader In dancing circle In Detroit An attempt to block the passage ot two gunmen as they fled from the scene of an accident in which' they had wrecked a stolen auto mobile late Wednesday night cost Dr Rice dentist a heavy blow on the head with a' steel wrench His assailants made their escape leaving him Unconscious and with a deep scalp laceration The accident was at Myrtle street and National avenue The thieves drove head on into a machine piloted by Dr Thomas erguson 2811 Maybury Grand avenue Both machines were virtually demolished The thug extricated themselves and started to run A crowd quickly collected Dr Rice from his home at 1681 Myrtle street heard the commotion He heard a woman shout that two men were running away He ran from the house In time to see two figure disappear In an alley' Taking up the chase Dr Rice pursued the thugs to Grand River avenue and Ash street the' way loading through beck yards and va cant lot At Grand River avenue the pursued men turned and struck Dr Rice down Drawing revolver they threatened to fire at a few spectator If they took up the pur suit where Dr Rice was forced to leave It As The doctor was taker) to hls horns and given JI rat aid HI condition 1s not serious Dr erguson escaped from the automobile crash unin jured The machine wrecked by the thugs had been stolen frqm Rowena street near Woodward It Is the property ot Pepper 98 Mt Vernon avenue Power System Between Wind sor and Amherstburg is Put Opt of Commission Dismantled buildings paralyzed traffic on Woodward avenue up rooted trees telephone and tele graph poles comprised the havoc caused by a rain snow and windstorm ot brief duration and violent intensity that swept Detroit Wed nesday afternoon A drop in tem perature from 60 degrees to 38 de grees between 3:30 and 4 ac companied the storm Six block of trolley wire on Woodward avenue between Watson street and Temple avenue were blown to ths street causing a ces sation ot car service and a general congestion of traffic Tho cars be gan moving through the wrecked area approximately half an hour after the wires were down Regu lar service was not resumed for several hour Building is Unroofed Sweeping down from the north west a wind of high ve locity accompanied by rain and snow lifted the roof from tbe build ing of the Chick Construction com pany on McDougal street near Te cumseh road Windsor The roof of the single story concrete building was 1 hurled aero the road and wrecked about 8000 feet of tele phone cable None of Ahe workers in the building were injured All power lines between Windsor and Amherstburg Ont were wreck ed by the storm Additional damage was caused by uprooted trees and telegraph poles and several persons struck in Thieves Turn on Pursuer After Wrecking Stolen Car Knock Him Unconscious James Balch of Kalamazoo Is Chosen erris Picked or Senate Slayer Returns 5 Miles to His Home Before Ending Life Atlantic City April George Paul aged 28 was found dead In bed In his apartment here Wednesday with a bullet through his brain A pistol with two cham bers empty lay at his side Later Paul's sister in law Mrs Stephen Paul was found slain by a pistol shot Iffiher homtat landing five miles iwa The county physician concluded after an Investigation that Paul had gone to his sister ln law's home Tuesday night slain her and then returned to his apartment and end ed his own life 1 BY GEORGE ree Preen Staff Correepondeat Grand Rapids Mich April 19 One ripple of discord disturbed the placid waters of the state Demo cratic pre primary convention here Wednesday It came when rank Doremus of Detroit former con gressman declined to run for the governorship and party leaders found it necessary to select a sub stitute Alvah JL' Cummin Lansing at torney who came within 3000 votes of beating Patrick Kelley for congress In the sixth district In 1913 was Indorsed by delegates of avary district except3he third fourth and fifth and seemed like a sure winner until S'Beebe of St Joseph advanced the name of James Balch of Kalamazoo 1 Balch Advocate Win Although the third district was split over the Balch candidacy his supporters demanded a showdown In the primary and finally won their point after Cummins declared he could not make a decision without further consideration and urged against shutting the door upon any other candidate Only one other was mentioned for the office John Wlnshlp whoso name was advanced by Claude Tay lor of the Grand Rapids delegation Balch Is a former mayor of Kala mazoo and gained some prominence through establishing municipal coal yards during the period of wartime coal stringencies Cummins was nominated by Dore mus and had the solid support of the Wayne delegates Neither Cum mins nor Balch would announce de finitely whether ho would enter the primary As was expect'd Wood bridge erris former governor was unanimously Indorsed tor Uni ted States senator He had been call'd away before the nomination actually was made He would not declare publicity what his answer would be but Michigan Democrat look upon him as a certain entry National Committeeman William Connolly of Detroit nominated erri Walter McKenzie of Detroit former assistant district attorney Continued on a Two Column ive MAY ORCE DAY TO STAND TRIAL APRIL 20 TWENTY OUR PAGES PRICE: THREE CENTS MISS AlIC McDCXE (Se Story on Page Three Column One) Another Agent Here Monthly I Working Secretly to Aid 1 In Drive Patrick Roche special agent nf the Intelligence department ot the Internal Revenue Bureau who! stirred up a neat in New York Chicago and in other cities in investigating Irregularities in liquor enforcement and Other ace 'tivitleR under the control of the Internal Revenue Bureau opened permanent offices in Detroit nJ room 407 Postoffice building Wetfc' nesday it Is intimated that some busy and exciting days are ahead for bootleggers rum runners and their friends 4 Broderick' 'special agenL who it Is now admitted has been working "Independently" or under cover In Detroit slice some time In March Is assigned to the local office to work with Agent Roche Heaarded A Slgnlficaat The arrival of the Intelligence office sleuth close oh the heel of Judge Tuttle's scathing denunci ation of the liquor enforcement ma chlnery here and the recom mendation to Prohibition flommle sloner Roy A Haynes and Attorney General Daugherty for an In vestigation Into local administra tion of the prohibition law I I garded as extremely significant by federal officials Roche Wednesday night did nots deny or affirm that he had received order to proceed with an lnd i pendent Investigation Into the pro hibition enforcement situation her "Our department I to the bureau of internal revenue a the potofflee office Is to the poetoffleo department" he said "We are hern to look Intn any department of the bureau that we may have reason to believe 1 not functioning proper' iy Worked In Walsh Case During the Investigation of the alleged bootlegging activities In Chicago last year of William Walsh now awaiting trial in fed eral court on indictment charging him with selling liquor to many wealthy clubmen In that city Rocha played an unpublished part In gath ering evidence against Walsh It he who with two city detec lives arrested Walsh hl Detroit bom last summer and who supplied the grand jury with Important ev donee In the rase Since then Roche ha operated throughout the wintry tn Investi gations for the bureau He re cenlly returned from Pennsylvania where he is said to have unearth'd sensational Irregularities In de partmental offices In one city Blackmail Plot Hared Oklahoma City Okla April 19 (By the Associated Press) An al leged plot to blackmail Mrs Jean Day wife of Jean Day who recently was exonerated of the slay ing of Lieutenant Colonel Paul Ward Beck army aviator was re vealed tofiight with the announce ment that a man giving his name as Ed Reed had been arrested at Edna Okla Mr Day said tonight that a letter was received last Wednesday by Mrs Day from a man who demanded $2000 to keep silent as to what he said he saw through the window of the Day home April I the morning Beck was slain Day said the let terwas signed and It ds clarerl he added that If the money wns sent to Edna In a package labeled the writer would forget what he had seen A package was sent addressed tn Daer and was claimed last night by Reed who asked for Daer's mall Day said a deputy sheriff immedi ately arrest'd him Rted Is declar ed by officials to have received mall at Edna under the names of Daer Jim White and William Wilson The man arrested denied any knowledge of the letter He told officers th'v'aald that he had met Daer White and Wilson just be fore he went to the postoffice and at their request ask'd tor mail ad dressed to them Intensive Campaign Is Sequel To Recent Denouncement By Jurist Letter Written Wife Demanded $2000 to Keep Silent on Special to The ree Trees and Chicane Tribun Washington April New de velopments in at Oklahoma Colonel Paul may result ln Judge Jean by war department officials today The report of a special board of army officers which mad detailed Investigation Into the affair result ing In the killing ot Colonel Beck by Judge Day is now on its way to Washington Coming in advance of the report are letters to secre tary War Weeks and other offi cials of the department predicting that the army report will shed light of a character on the tragedy Distortion I Charged Indications have been received that the report will Jiend to prove that the Investigation of the coron er's jury was Evi dence It was said was "Improper ly presented" and important facts were withheld or distorted If the advance information Is substantiated by the report itself Secretary Weeks will take under advisement the question of present ing such evidence as the army board may have produced to the Oklahoma state authorities with a ylew to demanding a retrial of Col onel slayer 1 The Investigation of an army board Into the affair officials ex plained merely was a matter of routine procedure In the event of the death ot an officer a board of officers is constituted to inquire Into his death with a view to decide whether he died In line of duty Liquor Was been In the Investigation ot Colonel Beck's death however army officials are satd to have found many dis crepancies in the conduct of the coroner's inquest One specific in stance which was cited to' the question of whether Intoxicants were in evidence at the party which resulted fatally for Colonel Beck Before 'the coroner's jury It was testified 'in the negntlv The army report however declares that corn liquor 'was found In a jar on the mantelpiece of Judge Day's home The shooting orColonel Beck commandant of the post flying field attracted nationwide attention sev eral weeks ago Because of the prominence of Judge Day and the high rank held by Beck tho affair was given much publicity through out the country 1 IWIb KEEPS TITLE Boston April 19 Ed Lewis world heavy weight wrestling champion suc cessfully defended hi title against Dick Davlscourt of Texas here tonight Iwls wih two straight fall Mathilde Denies Report She Has Changed Time Prcefal to Th ree Pre and Chlcagn Tribune Chicago April Miss Mathlldo McCormick daughter of Harold McCormick president of the Inter national Harvester company In an Interview said she would marry Max Oser the Swiss horseman In about three weeks Miss McCormick has Just returned to Chicago She attended the per formance of "Le in which her sister Muriel took a leading role Mathilde denied report from Hot Spring that she had changed her mind about getting married The story from the Virginia esort was to the effect that the gay young sters she had met there had caused her marrying a man almost her age "I have not changed said tils McCormick change my mind once It Is made up I won't do a Mary Baker My father and I will go tn New York In a week We will remain there probably two week and then sail for Europe I will be married as soon as I Mis McCormick denied that Oser ever contemplated a trip to thin THOSE wyo KNOW ollow the of Detroit dealers in placing yotir Want Ads Detroit deal ers use more classified adver tising in The Sunday Press than in any other De troit newspaper ollow them and you'll go right Their business depends upon RE they demand RE SULTS and they get RE SULTS through ree Press classified columns A ree Press Want Ad has finished up the job you want done be fore the afternoon newspaper is even printed CALL AD TAKER MAIN 9400 or take your ad to any one of our 400 Want Ad Stations there's one tn your neigh borhood received minor Injuries when by the flying debris carried wake of the storm Wire Are Broken Detroit with the exception iramo suspension greatly Numerous reports ot mi nor breaks throughout the state were received by the Michigan State Telephone company More serious damage was caused by falling wire In Pontiac Kalamazoo and Jackson One of the main Interstate cables to Toledo was wrecked The storm which centered early Wednesday morning In Wisconsin moved rapidly A gain of 46 miles an hour was recorded by the United States weather bureau here according to Norman Con ger in charge of the bureau Small Cyelone Hit Saginaw Special to The ree Pre 'Bllch April Sag inaw and the eurroundlng farm section was visited by a miniature cyclone shortly after 3 o'clock Wednesday afternpon Both the Bell and Valley phone compants have poles down telephone service to Continued On Page 11 Column 3 Michael Bywra a Hamtramck po liceman Wednesday was locked In a cell behind the bars of which he often had thrust others during two years Of service His superior of ficers and present Jailers allege he had quite a nifty scheme for obtain ing money under false pretenses According to Sergeant Walter Kraft of the Hamtramck police Bywra visited many Bolish resi dent of the city and told them he was a tax collector He collected about $100 In "taxes" It Is charg ed He la said to have admitted telling hls victims the "tax money" would be used for the proposed new hospital In Hamtramck and also for a viaduct under Jo Campau at tho intersection ot tho Michigan Cen tral and Grand Trunk railroad rack Tho latter project has not been authorized but was tlspd as political thunder during the recent campaign In a statement tn Assistant Prose cutor James Chenot tho ex po 1 iceman Is said to have admitted hls guilt TO WED OSER IN 3 WEEKS Special Class Games May Spice ield Day Medium Behind Curtain Obligingly Invokes Wraiths As Partner Leads Endless Hymns ARTICLE The ghost does not tcalk but oozes between black curtains takes all the strength she needs An evening with two chaps who toil not neither do they spin Tom and Jerry two well knoten spirits are mentioned but not materialized BY LEILA BllACY Zeigler and Harner Watkins are what might be called itinerant spiritualists They travel about the country holding seances in various cities and towns and expect to spend next summer in the Rocky thus combining business and pleasure a happy arrangement which few of us could contrive Tney remind one oi me anciento saylng augurs cannot meet without and the paint ing Gerome made of tho two 'augurs behind the scenes in the temple laughing over some Jest about the divining rod If Zeigler and Watkins have any sense of humor they must have gleeful times recounting their ex periences When in Detiolt last winter these two made their headquarters at the home of Mre on ourth avenue The apartment Is located over a store and gives little suggestion of the momentous hap penings within accompanied me as usual and when we aside our wrap she Itinerant Spiritualists Provide GhostsorAll "WOMAN TO WOMAN By Kathleen Norris amous Novelist This internationally known writer has prepared especially for the Sunday ree Press a series of stirring to Woman on heart and home topics "The One and Only Secret of Happy is the subject of Mrs first She says that the secret of true happiness is "Not to be admired not to become rich and famous but just to be Kathleen Norris's big success comes not Horn wide travels or thrilling experiences but from writing of life as thousands ot ordinary women live it No woman will want to miss one of these sympathetic for they carry a vital message to all Published every Sunday beginning April 23 exclusively 'in THE SUNDAY REE PRESS Broker Messenger Taken at He Invites riend Co New York April Charged With th theft ot $131160 Robert Byrnes 16 year old messenger for Halsey A Co broker was arreated near hls home In Brook lyn Wednesday night Just sjpbe was Inviting a friend go wA with him The brokers who had sent Byrne to the bank earlier In the day with $50 In rah and $120160 In certl i fled cheek asked th police to lend out a general alarm for th meen ger when he failed to return to the office by 4 and Inveatl gatlon disclosed that he had not appeared at th bank Walter Norrl a friend who live 'i' In th same house upon Invitation to accompany Byrne "out akbd the boy where he got th money and called a poising police man when Byrne told him that It belonged to hl employer Th officer arreeted Byrne0who at! he had thrown lh $120lq In cheek Into th East river and took Norrl (along to headquarter to expiate further how he wa originally brought Into the affair Deserted ind a Charity" Mother Qjitml lai I ski A SENATOR WATSON of Indiana Li UM.

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