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jBdwtt Jfge Ums INAL WEATHER EDITION Cloudv 2 1 I DETROIT GIRL ENDS LIE AS WAR ROMANCE DIES 7 LOOD CAUSED Bank Is Robbed of $594 000 in Bonds DIVORCE PENDS in BOBUS SECRECY STIRS UP RO in BUDGET VETOES REE STATERS SNOWED UNDER EXCHANGE IRE SEE GOOD PROSPECT OR GERMAN LOAN LATEST WIRE LASHES City of Tents to Mark Belle Isle ield Day in remark I the be American organize excluded a discus made It clear that all rench are alarmed over future mill possibilities of the Rusan Ger treaty and that Poincare merely voicing gen disquietude There are certain HE IS SLATED TO BE DIRECTOR CHICAGO OPERA fascinat that ha Watch ARMY OICER WON HER IN COURTSHIP 4 DAYS 17 DEAD IS ESTIMATE BY RED CROSS WORKER WANTS VOTERS TO ELECT HIM PRESIDENT notifying all through the first stop client I will time beyond discussing plans for of the Island athletic games "Every school that day and If every one It means the orec field This year Gladys Bott training teacher hopes to better representation than She Is a former North high school athlete and raiinrvi hkitned every night at Ballroom promotions In the depart REDS INSIST NEIGHBOR VIOLATED RIGA PACT IMERIPAN MANAGEMENT Temple Ballroom Detroit's most luxurious Dancing Palace wood ward at TeiopUr sAdw an EniniTiov of invent at tonight Experts demon Adv THREE CENTS iwlel to The ree Press nd tides po Tribune New York April 25 The condi tion of Helen Loe Worthing until recently a member of the Ziegfeld Midnight rolic cast who swallow ed bichloride of mercury tablets nearly a week ago was reported at Bellevue hospital Tuesday night as "fair" According to her nurse Miss Worthing Is out of danger It will bo several days however be fore the stage beauty will be able to leave the hospital Vetoes Overtime Pay council's allowed 230000 for in the tax records depart IGHTER Special to The BY BOMB PLOT TEXANCHARGES MAYOR WANTS BAN OK JITNEYS Worth City Engineer Say Levees Were Shattered by Dynamiters Believed The loss of of negotiable Iv affect the any but the very strongest banks and it was a matter of excited com ment In banking circles Tuesday night that the necessity for secrecy must be so great The conclusion drawn by men accustomed to the ways of banking houses was that the bank which had lost the bonds dreaded to have the fact become known It is supposed that the bank held them as security for a loan but that the bonds were not regis tered led to the Inference that they had been stolen almost as soon as they had coioe Into the bank's pos session Henry JI Bigham senior member of the law firm at hla home said Tuesday night: "I cannot make public any fur ther details of the loss of these bonds than appears on tho stock ticker We were retained yesterday by the banking house which has lost them to use all possible means to recover tnem anu possible purchasers stock ticker was our "The name of our not dlnrlnsA nt this saying that it Is a banking house downtown below ulton street The bonds were missed March 17 but we were only Informed of the loss Monday" Bigham declined to say whether the bonds were stolen warn other POLAND GETS LOAN Warsaw April 25 Announce ment la made that Poland has concluded a large loan In the United States The conditions of the loans are eaid to be most favorable Special Significance Attaches to Russian Protest as Big Army Camps on Border Police were combing an entire neighborhood In Hamtramck early today' searching for Tony Zwysekt who Sunday escaped from the stat" reformatory at Ionia They located a house In which tho fugitive wee believed to be hiding but were un able to capture blm As a result of their failure the police three men on suspicion of having helped the convict escape their trap Tho Detroit police were noti fied and detective fired severalhot at an automobile supectd of carrying Zwyecki a It passed down Illvard street SUITOR WEDS AS GIRL SUES THREATOWAR SEEN IN SOVIET NOTE TO POLAND WOULD PROHIBIT USE I LEADING STREETS KILLSHERSEL IN EVANSTON AS streets specifically mentioned are: corr avenue Grand avenue Woodward avenue avenue jeirerson avenue by Bain New Rerrtre) AKTHVR BA SILVA HEBNAUBES Arthur DaSilva llarnardaa la president of the stats ot Minoa Gtrasa In Brazil and ths chief candidate for tbs presidency of Brazil Ready for Pence arley Michael Rollins head of the pro visional government returned Tues day from Tralee ready for the re sumption Wednesday of the confer ence between adherents of the gov ernment and of Eamon de Valera looking tor peace The belief was expressed Tuesdaylight that the protest of labor which culminated In Monday's one day strike has had no effect In In fluencing' the leaders on cither aide Tho Dall Eireann also will meet Wednesday Dublin was buxslng Tuesday night with rumors of a possible attempt to rush the Dall Eireann and It by military forces Tuesday the Dublin chamber of commerce held a largely attended meeting at deep concern was expressed for the lack of se curity to life and property There was condemnation voiced against those who "are playing freakishly with the vulnerable machinery of trade" Sir Horace Plunkett chief speak er said he thought the people of the United States must be puzzled to know what Is happening In Ire land Ho that he sup ported thn provisional government because It was doing Its best to ob tain freedom for Ireland It was showing high courage In this effort Tho British government was not re sponsible for the trouble It was tho Irish themselves he said 'eV airmont Minn April The Jury In tho damage suit of Mrs Viola Limburg against State Sena tor Albert Ward returned a ver dict for tho defendant late Tues day one hour after retiring She sued for 275000 for alleged famil iarities taken by the defendant In the constltu rnled out the de In thef municipal Dodge of the DODGE APPEALS OR NEW TRIAL VOL 87 NO Pittsburgh Kan April 25 A cir cus train was In a smash up Tues day on the St Louis San ran cisco railroad A passenger train hit a car and killed Pleas Hart an old circus man known as "Calliope Blacklc" CARRIES BODY VETERAN HELD Escaped Convict lees Police Trap Circus Man Killed In Train Smashup before the task of preparing the field fqr competition will be a harder one Mr Cooney says He urges schools that plan to have tents to communicate early with him Last year only a few of the schools were without tent head quarters but many ot them asked for reservations at the last mo ment which Interfered with the layout of the field for the games Practice Meet Planned Schools In the northwestern sec tion of the city particularly Gold berg and Estabrook are looking forward to winning many laurels In field day competition this year The Goldberg school always has proaucea capauie tracK ana teams physical have a before western apparently has been successful In Imparting to her charges the ex perience she gathered while attend ing Northwestern Jack Tiderington who captains estanrooK on re schools to look for keen competi tion from his squad The girls at Estabrook will have a fine team also Jack agrees A practice meet between Gold berg and Estabrook teams before entries are made to the department ot health education May 5 seems possible The two schools are only a few blocks apart and Northwest ern playfield Is accessible to both In the event of such competition Walsh Insists Minority Has Right to Be Heard on Soldier Measure nr GRATON WILCOX Special to The ree rees nd Chicago Tribune Washington April 2o A row blazed up in the senate Tuesday as a result of the executive ses sions of the Republican members ot the finance committee with rep resentatives of ex service organizations over the soldier bonus bill during the last two days Senator Walsh Massachusetta precipitated the controversy by denouncing the secret procedure adopted by the Republicans He In stated that tho Democratic minority had a right to participate in the preparation of bonus legislation and deplored efforts to give It a partisan character Waeta Information "I would like the chairman of the committee Senator McCumber to let us know vhow long this is going to continue" said Senator Walsh "How long must the min ority remain dumb? And are we to tell the people that our functions and duties consist only of attend ance on the floor and expressing our opinions? Are we going to be permitted to maintain position as members of the committee and hear all the evidence that is pre sented?" Replying Senator McCumber said: chairman of the committee I am ready to consult at all times with those Interested and represent ing the soldiers and I may also wish to talk the matter over with two or three senators When we come again to consider the bill the committee on finance will be called together "I do not think It necessary to take any additional testimony so far as the soldiers are concerned Whether or not It will necessary to draft a bill that requires another method of raising revenue is a question which wo shall have to consider hereafter But If found necessary to do that such a meas ure will have to be framed by the house the constitution requiring such legislation to originate there" Prodded Ry Walsh Prodded by Senator Walsh Mr McCumber agreed that four Repub licans of the committee had met In the committee room Monday with representatives or tn Legion and other soldier lions that the press was And that there had been nlnn nround the table "The facts are" replied Senator Walsh "that some of the members did meet that there were persons prestnt Interested in legislation that they were not there for noth ing and there were some conversa tions and discussion of tho bill I protest because this Is not a party question and ought not to be a party question" Spokesmen for the American Le glon and Veterans of oreign Wars at Tuesday's meeting stood pat In favor of the bill passed by the house They found the committee decidedly opposed to the house cer tificate plan but they Insisted there should" be some provision In the bill to give the ex service men se curities on which money could be borrowed They were willing to accept a 20 year endowment provi sion If It could be for borrow ings Just like ordinary life or en dowment Insurance Members ot the committee were sharply divid ed on this point TEMPLE RALLnooW Exclusive luxury Woodward at Temple No Chinese Exclusive American management Adv Young Lawyer Kazoo Holds Admission of Gin an Error st 1A ffeaa Press Kalamazoo Mich April Ja At torney Harry Howard filed a tno tlonln circuit court Tuesday asking that John Duval Dodge young De troit millionaire convicted a few days ago of illegally having and transporting liquor be given a new trial The application declares the In troduction in evidence or the con fession Dodge made to the officers after his arrest In which ho ad mitted possessing the bottle of Kin found In the car he driving constituted reversible error Dodge's attorney holds ths confes sion would not have been admis sible unless Dodge had himself taken the witness stand and ho holds that the Jury was permitted to consider the confession It amounted to the" compulsory giving of evidence by the accused Tho point also fa made that tho liquor taken without a search warrant was seized Illegally and that therefore It should not have been admitted The attorney holds that It was tho one convicting bit of evidence In the entire proceed ing and that without It the prose cution failed to make a case He then reiterated his objection to its admissibility on the ground that it was seised without a warrant as provided lor tlon The trial Judge clslon of the jury court aeoultting charge of being drunk while driv ing his car and this his attorney holds also was In error Inasmuch as the finding of the lower court was pertinent to the issue Dodge's attorney also contends the court In addressing the jury magnified the force and effect of the evidence and was In so doing In error The validity of the prohibition law also is raised as a question Tho point mads Is that the con stitutional amendment prevents the manufacture of liquor and that the federal government having assumed jurisdiction over the liquor traffic the statute which prevents posses sion and transportation failed prop erly to Interpret the spirit of ths constitutional amendment Could Not Help Doing Is Last Note to Mother Had Tried to See Husband To strains of a Chopin waits played In Detroit hotel in UH Mildred Lawson 16 and all that magic age implies danced in the arms of a stalwart United State army lieutenant into the rosehued land ot romance Strains of an other waltz melody played in the fashionable North Shore hotel Evanston Ill Tuesday drowned the savage bark of a revolver ahot which told that Mildred Lawson Cornell bad seen romance stripped of its beauties She died a sui cide Into the less than six years bee tween the playing of tnos two waltzes were interwoven a tempos tuous courtship lasting four days and culminating In a military wed ding the bitter shock to parents' well known here that their daugh ter had taken such a hasty step a brief taste of Utopian happiness then disillusionment divorcs pro ceedings Instituted death! Visits Aa Attorney Last Saturday the girl visited Henry A Behrendt attorney In quest ot Information regarding the divorce her husband had One of the last questions she ask ed before leaving the office to visit heriparents In Evanston was: "Do you know where I could find my husband? Do you know he Is?" Mr Behrendt had lost trace ot his client and was forced to reply In the negative The young wife appeared Mowncast and shortly aft erward left the office The parents Mr and Mrs Lawson who formerly lived at tho Brentwood apartments 487 street had been residing at the North Shore hotel since last talk Monday Mildred arrived There was a conference between her and ner Ing trip I Higa April 25 (By the Associat ed Premier Lenin was op erated on Monday says a report from Moscow Tuesday A bullet which hart troubled him for three ears was extracted from his side Last accounts were that he was do ing well Every School Plan Canva Shelter ree Pres Awards Stirring Interest Interest in the eighth annual ield day of Detroit public schools on Belle Isle athletic field June 9 when The Detroit ree Press will give prizes to every winning ath lete already is so groat practically every school in the city is planning to erect a tent on the island that day The establishment of a tent head quarters for every school on field day has been a practice since tho annual holiday on the Island be came a fixture In the grammar school athletic program Useful to Councils While the tent Is used principal ly by a school erecting It as a place where Its representatives may dress for competition It Is a valuable asset to the schools' teams They may gather there after the morn ing competition and discuss the afternoon's battle and seek tho counsel of their athletic coach "We want to arrange early for the tents this year" Cooney of the department of health educa tion sal a preparation field for the needs a tent one reserves tlon of more than 125 tents on the Island the day previous to the com petition" Because more school children cwnpet Ul yeax than tr Bullet is Taken Erom Leninas Side Tulsa Okla April Read charged with using the malls to defraud In connection with nn alleged attempt to extort money from Mrs Jean Day Oklahoma City society leader was bound over to federal grand jury Tuesday A letter as mane public recently asked 22000 or the writer threaten ed to tell the authorities what he saw through window ot the Day home the morning Lieutenant Colonel Paul Ward peck was slain by Day Day who was exonerated by a coroner's jury declared he found Beck attempting to assault his wife Susel) to The ree Portland Ore April 25 The first disorder In the three day water strike occurred Tuesday afternoon when three longshoremen started a fight with three union pickets Winters one of the pickets was severely cut and bruised Qne ar rest was made ive hundred union longshoremen quit Jn protest against ths open shop and a 10 per cent reduction Id wages TEMPLE BALLROOM American management exclusively Luxurious Refined Dancing nightly COLISEUM OPEN HATCH (M '00 amusements million laughs and barrels of fun Thrills sensation Lloyd George Tired but Say Britain is Determined to Avert European Shamble BY JOHN STEELE rrndon( April On the rie ot the opening of pnrlhimetit tomorrow (here hnn been drop in the HrltKh political hnrom rtrr enutied by the fold draft from llar Le lhie oreign office obffcrvcr now believe that the rpnch orc deliberately trying tn torpedo the conference and likewise the lluNMhinN now that they hnvn ni much nn they can expect' In the Husao German pact It in thought that rance may withdraw nt any time In the belief that Its with drawn! may wreck the confer ence The Ilrltlah observers are not ao aare about HurnIh and they hope that Moacow will take KUddcn move toward renwon ablrncK They remember the oriental strain In the RunKiana which loved to haggle over a bargain If the rench with draws It la aaid that Prlthc Mln later Lloyd George may return immediately to London make a statement allocating the blame and return poat hnate to Genoa to anve whnt he can from the wreck If nil goea well he a not expected In London much before the end of next week (Copyright 1922 by Chicago Tribune) Genoa April 25 (By the Asso ciated Tress) Russia contributed another sensation to the economic conference Tuesday by sending a note to the Polish delegation re monstrating against action in joining with the Allied powers in protest against a separate treaty between Russia and Germany Rus sia claimed that the peace treaty between herself and Poland covers all relations between the two coun tries so that Poland like Germany should not participate In the dis i cusslon of Russian affairs even in timating that Poland by her pres ent action in the conference has abrogated the treaty signed at Riga on March 18 1921 Russia has a strong red army encamped near the Polish border and for this leason the Russian remonstrances are regarded by some of the delegates as equivalent to almost a threat against Poland Expert Compare Notes The experts on the Russian ques tion sitting without the soviet dele gates Tuesday compared notes on the new proposals presented by the Russian delegates at Monday's ses sion and decided to forward their report to their respecting govern ments It Is expected that when the answers are received from the various capitals the powers will submit counter propositions to the soviet couched in firm linguage In an endeavor to reach a working basis for an accord "We cannot stay here for ever" said a rench delegate Tuesday night The rench are disturbed over the manner in which the Eng lish have interpreted Premier Poin care's address The rench spokes man men tary man was ulne Indications here that rance with her dwindling population is fearful ot the cbnstantly Increasing Ger man population united with mighty Russia The rench attitude to wards Russia Is described as like that of Japan towards China each wants an organized and prosperous Continued on age Tnroo Column Three General Shot Dend Dublin April (By'the Asso ciated Press) Brigadier General Adamson commanding the Athlone brigade of the regular Irish repub lican army was shot dead Tuesday near tho headquarters of the inde pendent republican forces in Ath lone An official communique issued from the headquarters of the regu lar anny in Brush bar racks this city said: "Brigadier General Adamson ot the Athlone brigade was shot dead In tho streets of Athlon The gen eral was returning to the barracks near tho hotel where the mutinous troops have their headquarters He Was suddenly confronted by a group of armed men who ordered him to throw up his hands The genera being alone complied and while hfs arms were raised the assailants deliberately fired into him Several of th mutineers' officers were ar rested" General Immediately sent the following letter to Com mandant itzpatrick of the bar racks: hereby charge you and all th officers and men in the Royal hotel With unlawfully conspiring with tho commandant and other un known to slay and murder Briga dier General Adamson I further charge the commandant mentioned and others known to you with the murder of the above named officer and hereby call on you to aurrender all the officers in the Royal hotel on receipt of this allowing you 15 minutes for the surrender After the expiration of the time I shall open fire and will lo ao as the law ful authority charged with the peace of the district" Brigadier General Adamson had a fine career In tho British army dur ing the European war In which he was a sergeant In a machine gun corps He won the Distinguished Conduct Medal during tho war He his pension by joining the Irish republican army He was twice wounded In attacks on crown forces when he was vice com mandant at Athlone Waltz Melody Accompanied Start inuh of Dream of Hap pine New Yorker Believe Market i in a Receptive Mood Special to Tho Pre rees New York April Tho an nouncement Tuesday that Morgan had accepted an Invitation to attend a meeting of Allied bank er In Paris in a few weeks to con sider the possibility of extending a loan to Germany was Interpreted here as advancing materially the chances of such a Ioan being floated The Paris meeting will be held on Invitation of the Allied repar ations commission It Germany can offer satisfactory terms and security a large block of German bonds can be floated In the United States In the opinion ot Mr Morgan The local Investment market Is particularly favorable tor ths reception of such a loan Mr Morgan Is quoted as saying Dismembered Remains ound at Brantford Canal Brantford Ont April 25 Ar rested while carrying In a suitcase dismembered portions of a human body an Armenian known as Harry Dent a war veteran formerly with lhe Royal Canadian regiment and a man who wears the medals earned In two campaigns Is under arrest suspected of murder Other portions of the victim's re mains were found by the canal wrapped In cloth and paper and packed In a club bag and a sugar sack Th head and arms were lying a few feet away The body had been rut up and the bones severed at the joints So far the Identity of the murdered man has not been made known but the police have a clew which Is expected to lead to the identification illtl NIGHT DANCERS Arcadia offer finest place In the country Spectators invited TO NJGHT Adm lib Ads "MyMother Spoke No English My ather Spoke No Italian" Writ ft: Mrt Campbrll "And yet they fell in In her astounding memoirs this famous English actress tells of her family tree and a very unusual and interest ing one it must have been And what a childhood! Told in Mrs Campbell ably frank style "My Life and Some Letters" is one of the most ing autobiographies ever been written for it each week in the 1 Magazine Section ree Press Rebel of Republican Army Regular Troop Shoot at Each Other Belfast April (By the Asso ciated Insurgent republi can army troops Tuesday attacked a lorry carrying republican ariAy regulars at Mullingar Several shots were exchanged marking the first fighting between the two factions The regular troops were reinforced and ffiade six arrests parents The following morn her father left on business for Milwaukee Mathtr Out OinnBlnrr it wa Just before the dinner hour Tuesday evening Mrs Uw son was out shopping A bridge party was In progress In the founu tain room In the ballroom a ch 1 1 dren's party was nearing the pletion of a waltz when an employe of ths hotel heard the muffled re port of a revolver from a nearbv room Clerks and guests summoned the maid's cry ruhl Into ths room and found (he girl on the floor dead clutching a pistol from which one shot had been fired A not addressed to her mother was found It read: a "Dear Mother: I could not help doing It 1 am sorry Good bys Mildred" When Mrs Lawson returned she was prostrated All she could say' was "My poor baby tny poor baby" Then she collapsed The Lawapns wore prominent during their residence in Detroit Mrs Lawson Is related to several Continued on Three Cohnaa Itc Gopher Senator Wins $75000 Suit PLAN BRYAN BAN PROTEST Columbus April 25 Tele graphic protests against tho action of the pro gram committee of the 'inter national Sunday school conven tlon in deciding not to ask I William Jennings Bryan to speak at sessions In Kansas City next June were being con sidered bv the committee here late tonight It had been pre viously announced that a state ment would be Issued after the meeting telling why Mr Bryan would not be asked to address the convention Special to'The red Prst Grand Rapids Mich April 25 Belief that Phillip Van Houten 22 years old former Grand Rapids bank clerk was murdered In tho Clarldg hotel New York Sunday was strengthened Tuesday night when parents of Van Houten re quested the police to wire th Phil adelphia authorities to bold a man known to Van Houten as Crooks They also asked officers to eek two young women whose hams were not learned With ort 'Worth taking its last winks before dawn the flood rushed down and forced many to flee with out a thought as to what they wore Women with babes in arms many clad only in their thin night cloth ing were rescued time after time Others drenched and chilled had clung feebly for hours to any place that was above the water At the rooms of the Welfare As sociation where a check was being kept on refugees many happy scenes were enacted as flood suffer ers thinking their loved ones vic of the water joyfully learned that rescues had been effected Two little orphans each thinking the other dead were reunited at the association rooms late today An aged man rushed In pleading that the relief workers my two lit tle girls" The records showed that the two were safe In a hospital un der medical attention Thrilling eye witness stories were numerous one little mother cling Continued on Page Two Column live IS EXONERATED Pre and Chic go Tribunes New York April 25 rankie Pitcher lightweight boxer whoso knockout blow In tho ninth round caused hla oppo nent Lew Brody's death last night was today exonerated by District Attorney Itustoh of Brooklyn death was held du to his accidental fall ing so that his skull was frac tured The dead boxer' sweet heart lieglna lloth 19 years old whom he was to have mar ried hortly was on the verge ot a nervous breakdown today LEWIS KEEPS TITLE Kansas City Mo April 25 Ed Lewis cham pion heavyweight wrestler of the world successfully de fended his title hero tonight by defeating Stanlsaus Zbyxzko In the first and last of three falls Lewis won the champion ship from Zbyszko In Wichita Kansas a short time ago Mystery Surround Los of Liberties Ticker List Only Information Special to The ree Press and Chicago Tribuno New York April 25 Tho theft of $594000 worth of Liberty bonds from a banking house in downtown New York March 17 became known Tuesday through the listing of tha missing bonds' on the stock ticker shortly after the close of the market The utmost secrecy Is being' main tained concerning missing bonds beyond the fact that their numbers and amount have been mad public on the ticker by Big ham Englar and Jones a law Aim at 54 Wall street acting for the bank from which they were stolen All Ar Negotlablr The bonds ar negotiable and can be disposed of almost anywhere by the person into whose possession they have fallen The robbery for such It admittedly Is reaches the largest amount Wall street has known in a long time and thqnewu of it created a sensation in the street Inspector Coughlin at police headquarter on learning that the numbers ot the missing bonds had been sent out on the ticker sent a detective to the office ot Bigham Englar and Jones He could learn nothing there he said Tuesday night beyond the fact that the bonds had disappeared March 17 that their serial number begins 00166924 and that there were 67 bonds of 210000 denomination and 24 of 21000 denomination each They The clerks merit while 225000 would have I sufficient the mayor said He also opposed the $14700 for overtime work In the department stating that employes there had not suffered reductions In salary and therefore should bo willing to do a little extra work The mayor said that employes of private busi nesses bad been forced to stand wage reductions The council promptly overrode the mayor's action in cutting out the position held by Homer Carr assistant secretary of the civil serv ice commission said posi tion could easily be eliminated as he was no longer needed He said there was something wrong with the civil service commission If It could not adjust itself so as to get along without ths assistant secre tary 1 Mayor Couzens also objected to the council butting men usually em ployed under the minimum wage scale on a straight yearly salary Held or Trial On Day Letters CIOKGIO OLACCO Chicago April 23 Olorglo Polacco conductor of tho Chicago Grand Opera company I to he alated for the job made vacant by the seairnatton Sunday of Mary Garden Council 8 to 1 Restores Items Cut rom Estimates by Mayor Couzens Mayor Couzens in a communica tion to the council Tuesday night vetoed several items allowed by that body in this year's budgetAll were passed by the council over tho veto by a vote of eight to one John Lodge president of the council in voting against the overriding of the veto said that he was taking that action be cause he believed with the mayor that at "least two of the items specified could be eliminated The budget has now passed its final hearing and cannot now be reduced or increased Disapproves Poll Itrni Mayor Couzens disapproved the action of the council In appropriat ing $213850 for sergeants In the police department which Item he had previously reduced to $190350 He said be had gone Into the mat ter and had been Informed that the department could get along with the 81 sergeants now employed The $213850 stands and the roster of sergeants will be Increased as a result of the action The mayor also disapproved of an Item of $1222U for lieutenants In the department stating this sum could be reduced to $117000 without Injuring the service He disapprov ed the action of the council In pro moting the sergeant attached to the council chamber to a lieutenant He said If the council wanted to pay this man a salary that might be all right but that he did not think the council should mags rnent Poisoned Chorus Girl Improving privert Will Plan ight On Measure at Mass Meeting Wednesday Night 1 Aii nrtllnannn Watt introduced i the city council Tuesday night to Jliar jitneys from eight main thor ughfares and all boulevards and Ironi city parks The ordinance Was given a first hearing and sec i pnd reading and will lie upon the jable for 30 days A hearing will likely be held at which jitney drivers will be given an opportun jty to object to the proposed legis lation Thn 1 In the proposed ordmane street Michigan avent liver ratiot 4 afl avenue and John 11 street The ordinance was Introduced at tha Instigation or Mayor Couzmih fnd the street railway commission jt practically puts all jitneys out rf business as they afe barred fromnln thoroughfares and will not allowed to operate on the same i streets as trolleys Passage of the ordinance would eliminate competition to the mu nicipal street railway system which will be complete when the It lines pass io the city's possession May 15 Mnvor Couzens said Tuesday that tho present time the jitneys areery poorly regulated the drivers jailing to stay on their routes but diverting for extra compensation for convenience of patrons Tt Is prac tically impossible to regulate them according to the mayor Upon learning of the introduction of the ordinance officers of the va rious jitney associations called a mass meeting to be held in Metal hall Columbia street and Park place Wednesday evening At this meeting the driv ers will decide upon what tActicj are to be used In lighting the ordl rance Property Damage i igured at $1000000 Score of Building Wrecked Tort Worth Tex April (By the Associated John Mc Cain chairman o( the levee board Tuesday night stated that the levees "around the rivers which broke here early Tuesday and flooded lowland of thlM city were bv unknown partlee" and that an investigation by a grand jury would be demanded Im mediately Seventeen probably dead and property damage estimated at ap proximately $1000000 le the toll of the flood The water swept be fore It ecore ot residence and small building overflowing hun dreds of acres of land and inundat ing several city street Going io Grand Jury "If Is our opinion that the levee dirt not break of Its own accord but was dynamited and as soon as the situation Is relieved we are go ing to place tho facts bsfors tho grand Jury and demand Investi gation" McCain declared "This decision is based on a re port made to me by John Lyden field supervisor and a member of the levee board for the last years In which he declared he had men patrolling the levee all Mon day night and all day Tuesday and that it was his opinion that the levee was dynamited are not placing the blame upon any one but we are going to place the facts betore the grand Jury and demand an rom the tops of trees roofs of houses and other places above the water policemen aided by boats rescued hundreds of men women and children As tho water pread residents In the lowlands had been forced lo vacate their homes lor any place of refuge from the angry water Many thrilling stories ot rescue were told among them vhe finding ot an aged couple In the shaky branches of a tall tree On mother occasion one family was saved from drowning when police sawed a hole In tho root ot the residence In whleh they had been caged (Backs Proposed Ordinance Eliminating Competition With Lines Model Says Wedding Halt $500000 ction peclal sto Tbo' ree Press and Chicago Tribune New York April 25 The suit of Miss May Rollns a Brooklyn model for $50(1000 for alleged fe lonious assault and breach of promise will not be dropped be cause the defendant Robert Bar bour millionaire thread manufac turer of Paterson has mar ried another woman Robert Maloney attorney for the model announced Tuesday The millionaire was married quietly to' Mrs Janet Brownell Mc Clure Saturday afternoon in St Thomas's church the Rev Ernest 31 Stlres performing the ceremony When news of the wedding became public the lawyer for tho young artist's model Miss Rollns was asked what the effect would be on tha damage suit "No effect whatever" said attorney "Mias Holina's suit 1 age 1 1 1 JIUl LH3CII WVSQM Ws MV just as If Mr Barbour had remained a Picket Is Injured In Water Strike a are all of the 4 1 4 1922 38 Issue which almost touched par Tuesday selling at 9910 When the detective asked to whom tho bond belonged and who had lost themuthe information was refused but he was told that If nothing came of the ticker report that I If no broker or bank re ported having purchased any of the bond or having them offered for purchase additional Information wruld 'be given the police later Bank Affected such a targe amount bonds would natural financial standing of WITH TOAST AND COEE At the breakfast table thousands of Detroit homes the spot where ree Press Want Ads get across with the toast and the coffee On the job at the start of the day's work when minds are alert when plans are made for the day those arc reasons why ree Press' Want Ads do what you want done BEORE THE A TERNOON NEWSPAPER IS EVEN PRINTED CALL AD TAKER MAIN 9400 or take your ad to any otic of our 400 Want Ad Stations one in your neigh borhood Girls Are Sought In Death of Clerk DETROIT MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY APRIL 26 1922 TWENTYTOUR 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