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THE DETROIT REE" 'PRESS 3 TODAY TODAY A Sale of Winter Coats Presenting Special Groups at 65 75 AND MISSES DEAD WIDOW LET Detroit In September ESTATE $55000 ISADORA KEEPS HARDING URGES MRS ORD HER CLOTHING ON AID TO ARMERS REMEMBER PLOT DIES AT AGE Continued from Page Oi Conflowed rom Pace One all remarkable dancer 6000 WILBERT 1HMOST of the The Weather JUDGE URGES LIMIT ON AUTOS DRIVER WO KILLS Oldest City in State Practically in Ruins tl RUSSIA' LEANS SialToDi TOWARD PEACE 2 Continued from Psge One cm when Jt Tchltcberln aad MELVIN BROWN TELLS RAID I the OCEAN SHIPS the 3 A The the of formerly a Toledo ord December 20 1921 2 Astoria Associated district ot In Oregon au De terpretefl President message read to earlier pro rl 3 3 5 SCOUTS TO BOOST RANKS UP TO by the woman who threatened the boy when he left her package on a indow Bill and attended a neigh borhood theater without leaving the change of a 5 bill ahe had given him Mrs Dumont the daughter and the neighbor then went to the theater and brought the boy home lie was whipped for hl Het by his mother and sister Mrs Hollister asberted NEW LIQUOR LAW CHIE NAMED OR WISCONSIN' relations of the American ana asserted umi we are 1 PiSl'Uhp exerting moral Influence VALENTINO IS LOSER IN CONTRACT SUIT that HUI aad Sausnnaa are tbs same or Saoermaa Io rsloasod MeaawMle "HU now botng sought br both tho fedora! oficors and deputy eh riffs dance at the Hotel Addison but in stead Induced her to accompany him to a room at a Kscond boule vard hotel on a pretext that ho wanted to show her a picture There she alleged he attacks! her and she was unconscious fur a half hour she declared Later Ztsiia refused to marry her was not by any Not until Etude of Never Recovered rom She Had Lut June Ror Murphr former protUMtloa officer enJ said br officer io bo one ef th Brown raiir waa ar taisned before Commtealoaer Stanley Hard riday on a chars vf ImpernenaUnr a government offi cer and takinr a ear and a load of liquor from Jim Lucan an Indian apolis bootlegger He pleaded not guilty and wa held for examina tion in a IS W0 bond BOY GONE 5 DAYS OUL PLAY EARED IVaaMngton Dao Avpotatwv ment ot Clark It Perry a aottng prohibition director for Wlaoonaln was announced riday by Commissioner Jone ot Urn probtbU tlon unit Perry annceeda Jaffiea A Btona realgned time he reached home at 4 a he found Norma huetltng out ot hertreet clothe abe1 haring beaten him home by a very few minute When he aaked her where ehe had been she told him It wav none ot hl business and when he register ed a firm protest ehe left him eight week from the wedding day He was given a divorce Anna Hall of 3194 Heidelberg street said she disliked the Idea of divorce so much that she had twice "reunited with her huAand George after bling suits but she took a decree on the third LU ri day BOARD COMMERCE PLANS WINTER ROLIC New York Dec Rudolph Valentino motion picture actor must abide by the term of hl con tract with the amous Lasky company It wa decided rLJ day by the appellate division otu the supreme court Valentino? through this decision Is enjolnel from appearing with any other corporation during the life of tn contract United Hates Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau Ietrolt Dec The fol lowing nbrervatlone were taken at at th place named below: GLASS ENCLOSURES OB TOURING CARS THE ENGLANDER CO 4940 CAM ATS Mother Thinks Woman Neigh bor May Be Responsible ear that her 13 yir old boyWllbrt Dumont may have met with foul play at the hands of a woman a former neighbor who la alleged to have threatened him win ex pressed riday by Mr Lillian Du mont 1745 ourth avenue who ask ed police to insist in locating the youth Wilbert a sixth grader In the ranklin school was last seen by his mother and his sister Mrs Syl via Hollister as he left their apart ment home early Sunday morning to deliver newspapers His slater told police he had been sent on an errand Saturday evening WOLL WILL BE SUNDAY OPEN ORUM SPEAKER Zlssl wrots her that seen her plctur and make her hi bride Shi llieKPfl that aha talned by Zlssis as his respective bride for some time and In June 1922 he invited her to a Ore Dec 8 (Byhe Press) business Astoria the oldest city is in ruina two rp dpnd hundreds ot persons are homeless and property loss estimated at $15 000000 was caused by a fire here riday or ten hours the Hames held sway eating an ever widening path through the city until shortly after noon when dynamite stayed them Banks newspaper plants hotelstores theaters and numerous buildings housing a variety of busi ness places were destroyed Accord ing to ire Chief oster the fire got out of control because it burned the piling beneathAhe build ings upon which the business sec tion of the city was built He at tributed the disaster to failure to fill in the space beneath the pilings I simply say that If the moral tnut America herself from treaty that is Germans will Turks I can Members of the Board of Com merce are preparing for their an nual mid winter cruise and they promise a unique entertainment this year One of the features will be a burlesque of the fight of Car pentier the rench champion and Battling SlkL the Senegalese con queror It will provide no end of amusement 4 three act play by a local playwright satirizing all the prominent Detroit celebrities will be put on with members or board in tho various roies tertainment will be held In dltorlum fin tho evening cember 20 thia exemplified at Its best means on this occasion frhe interpreted the third Scriabin and the Sonata the same composer did the dancer Indicate just how subtle grip ping she can make her Interpreta tions The term Interpretation here Is used In a rather broad sense fur does not Intend to interpret the exact music of the Chopin or Liszt of Scriabin number she an nounces on her program but rather the emotions such music brings forth In the play of features with ges ture and movement attuned to tho rhythms uf the work she would portray grief remorse joy gratl me Im her 7 burs are used richly for cuffs and chin chin or shawl collars are shown in Caracul Wolf Mole Beaver and Raccoon ancy and silk crepe lining The best values Colors $15000000 IRE VISITS ASTORIA ORE W1 was greatly comforted said the war time premier of rance I read in the message of your president tne tiilowing lines They are not very long but they are very suggestive Tbe four power pact which abolishes every probability of war on the Pacific has brought a new confidence in jnaintained peace and 1 can well believe it might be made a model for Ute assurances wher ever in the world any cummon in terests are concerned 200 lee lames When Hotel Burns Many In Same BaalneasA According to the testimony uf members of the gang they are n1y four of many that are selling booze and then holding up the buyer tak ing it away and selling It over They have had many stories of the men they held up and whom they say paid royally to be let go The prosecutor's office has gone over the evidence on which Leo Sauerman now serving a life sen tence was tried for murder and are still convinced that Hill aqd Sauerman the same man However Prosecutor Voor hfs states that he will continue bis investigation until is is established Boy Scout organization her 1 promoting an active expansion cam paign tor the organization ot 40 new troops within the next 40 flaya There now are 163 Boy Scout troop In Detroit with enrollment of mor than 4000 Th plan 1 to large thl number ot troop by 4C and to lncra the total enroll ment more than 1000 a SpKlal to Th tm rrx San rancisco Dee Two hun dred guest were driven from their bed riday when fire broke otjv In th Garland hotel shortly afttlr 7 a tn The structure waa quickly filled with amok but the levators wer kept running ami th reU' dent reached safety in varlouk (tag of dress and undrez DaW age waa estimated at 130000 'Drowning' Victim Believed Murdered obr ast Dally Trains Chicago tc California Via Chicago fc North Wrstrrn By astest time most attractive scenery finest trains including an rancisco Overland Limited (the fastest and finest long distance train In the world) Los Angeles Limited Continental Limited and California the beet of everything Ask any ticket agent for booklctsand Information or apply to A Lad wig A Ry 621 ree Press Bldg 127 Lafayette Ave (Tel Main 7350) Detroit Adver tisement Whether it is to be chosen as a Christmas gift or for immediate service there can certainly be no more hand some or more suitable Winter coats than one of these handsome models which will go on sale this morn ing The variety offered in this sale includes prac tically kind of winter coat that one could wish for William Stephen 9131 Glrardln avenue told Judge Harry Kel riday that it required eight attempts before Mrs Lillian Scott of the same address suc needed In hitting his window with toy chair that she perseverlng i r'e it after the Stephen children and the Scott children had 4 quarrel December 2 But Stephen brought the rem nants of the toy chair which crash through his window as evidence ct the final success of Mrs ntXorta He asked a warrant for dlsturb 10 a the peace and obtained it 41W fz All Tv Ul( Tlelathe a fl? per cent 8 S3 The sun mu Saturday at 601 and rlfws Sunday at a in The moon rises Saturday NORMAN CONGER Official In Charge SATURDAY DECEMBER 9 1922 Shocked Vet Dubs Marriage Worse Than WorldWar Marvtllas Silk Veldyne Panvelaine Bolivia Normandy Seal Plush Orlando and Duvet Superior MRS ROSE STARK Hail Menage to i Congress as Overture i to Europe Cinnamon Tones Malay allout Zanzibar Navy Taupe Reindeer and Black thing uf a seemed latklntr tvo many grimaces replaced play of emotion on her mobile turea But whatever Imbresaion the irram made on her audience day evenfhg Duncan stands among the notables In the realm of the dance Uts history will record the remarkable revolution in the style of dancing her methods accom plished even In Russia where dancers as great as and Karsavina Incorporated iter Ideas and modi tied their art In accordance with her remarkable theories Dunean holds that music actually suitable for the bullet has nver been composed Therefore she has had to make use of such numbers tur her Interpretation work as will lend themselves to emotional dis play but riday evening the emo tions she called Yorthym her pos turings and geUiringa were not always the emotions the music aroused In her audience The artist was assisted by Max Rabinowltch a pianist of ability uho not unly supported the dancer in her work but offered several solo numbers Word has been received ot th? death at th age of 71 years of Mru Rosa Stark widow of the lata George Stark who for many yean' waa superintendent ot the old Da trolt Bridge it Iron works Mr and Mrs Stark were residents of Detroit though Mrs Stark since her husband demise has made her? home with her daughter Mrs Rom Bchllohting at Lake Linden MictaL' Mrs Stark had a fail last Juno from which abe novar recovered She Is survived by her two daugh ters Mrs lora Cordon! of De troit and Mrs Rnae Schllchtlng' of Lake Linden Mich Also by one granddaughter Miss Oretchea ftchHchtlpg: three grandsons rank CardonT George and Harold Stark and three slaters Mrs patr Henkel Mrs Carrie VeenfUet and Mrs Dora Plager a Burial will bo In Woodmere Wednesday afternoon the woman tn the cell demanded equal consideration "if you tak my picture to she cried Myou needn't coma In here again Cells It rame up "Listen to that" Mrs ord said excitedly a what ord haa brought me to Do they realty think that I would have talked about killing tny husband with a stran ger? Never had I aven thia man Kunath until they confronted mo with him In the prosecutor's office this morning 1 told him then and to hla eyes that the thing waa a frame up money has done it 'They should give me credit for a little more horse sense than talking such stuff to a man whom I bad never ipet There are plenty of crookf In underworld houses yrho would have knocked off ord for me and the price would not havn been 20000 either Any one of thesn' crook would have done it for 20 "After all though if have ae tually met Kunath and another man in an apartment In boulevard and have devised with him a plan whereby niy husband should be kill ed snd burned In a hay barn for20000 then remember any thing about 1t du forget things 1 have dona There were other in stances during the past few months that I did things and then forgot completely about them Once for example I dressed up got Into an Interurban came to Detroit and returned to my home in Dearborn all without knowing anything of what 1 was 'zjrpccts Night In nil Sion came when JL Tcnncnerm Rakovsky alao of the Russian delegation demanded Russia be admitted to all Informal discussions which may take place between mili tary and naval experts of Turks and the Entente un tho fitraiM question Gulls This Impossible Lord Curzon held this would be Impossible as these discussions yould be Informal and wholly un offlclal' He said Russia had no right demand representation when the other powers interested dn the Straits were making no auoh request In case the problem of the StraiU was discussed In full con ference or by a sub committee Lord Curzon explained Russian experts would be welcome Ixrd Curzon opened the session with a long detailed review of tho points on which the Turks differed from the Entente plan and replied to questions on 'which Ismet Pasha had asked further information at the morning session Hla address Indicated most of the questions on which the Entente and the Turks differed were proper subjects for dlacussion tn an informal way by military and naval experts and ex pressed the opinion such discussion would bring forward the necessary technical information undoubtedly would form the basis for agree ment Edward Sharron Convfctedkof Negligent Homicide Edward Sharron driver of tte antomoblle which struck and kBled Arthur Ban sis eight old tober 8 Of was sentenced by Judge Heston riday to serve five yeant in Jackson prison following his conviction on a charge ot negligent homicide Kharroa gave his addrem ttd street The accident occurred at Vine wood and Michigan avenues the Ballsls lad who lived at 3934 Hub bard avenue suffering a fracture the skulk from which ha died make It a nice ahe said is ray first time in jail and I xvant to look nicer In the paper than the other women photo graphed after they have been locked up Will powder help or soil the picture She was told that powder might make her look pale ana aad then going to lay off the ahe giggled 1 have nothing to sadden me Come to think of It nothing haa leally nappenea nas hasn't been killed AIR WnehlRfcf nn Dec I Lower Generally fair Catnrdny and prohnbly Supdnyj not much change in temperature Vpper Mostly cloudy Saturday snow flurries near Lake Superior Sunday probably fnlri con tinued cold Generally fair Saturday and Sunday! not much change In tem pejrdture Number of Cars Getting Too Great Magistrate Says 111' WILLIAM KICTIARDS ree Press Correspondent New York Dec Broadway In the 40s where automobile insanity probably reaches it zenith and where they have to out theaters at 10 mlnute intervals In order not to clog the streets put un the brakes for a moment riday and thon went into high again The pause was caused by Magis trate rederick House of traf fic court who from the bench ad vocated the passage of a law limit ing the number of taxicabs and automobiles to be permitted the use uf New York streets York said fac ing a traffic crisis Right here In this court since the beginning of the year we have heard about 49 000 cases arising out of vehicular traffic In the streets and have tak en In flns of about 500000 There were too many automobiles In the streets in 1921 and it is getting worse daily There is every likelihood that the percentage of increase in 1922 over 1921 will be greater than the Increase of 1921 over 1920 automobiles In the future con tinue to be placed in the streets as fast as they have been in the past 1 certainly feel that some sort uf curtailment of passenger cars and taxis will be necessary I that there will be protest against that and' that It will be difficult to get a bill through the legislature but It will be necessary the event that the legislature will not pass such a measure the police power may be exercised Dry thermorf'etr a St degree 29 Wet 4 a degrees Special to The ree Press Owosso Mich Dec 8 Investiga tions believed to have revealed that Roland Morgan of Owosso sup posed drowning victim had been murdered before hia body was thrown into the river wre In progress late riday it waa learned Morgan was reported to have been drowned last summer when whileIth a friend his boat capsized Police now are said to bo seeking the friend Officers it was learned riday had exhumed body from the grave here and had found evi dence that he had Geen badly mis treated before being thrown into the water State officials are said to have taken charge of his vital or gans tor a further probe WOMAN THROWS 8 TIMES THEN BREAKS WINDOW rhla ceveral day ago tor foreclo the mortgage It has developed In the Detroit Investigation that Mr Lotz' will name Karl Vernon Wlzler a bene ficiary riend tire probing the report that ehortly before her deathhe undertook to change the bene ficiary ot her will gp az to name a' Detroit man Donbt There la Second Will According to Buffalo advices Mrs Lotz waa named the benefici ary In the will of Karl Wiler de spite the fact be haa a legal wife living In that city Attorney doubt whether there la a aecond Lotz will In existence but admit ted It waa possible loyd Holliday and Davis both of Detroit and for several week In terested In the bunines dealing of Mr Ixtz visited Mr Lotz Jn the Buffalo hospital before her death Holliday atated riday night that he had been appointed agent for Mr Ixtz in the transaction of the vassal hotel and the AVoodward ave nue rooming house and that Davis was to have been the manager of the Hoodward avenue place accord ing to Mr plans Holliday asserts he and Davla went to Buffalo at the telegraphic request of Mr Iolz and that for several hours after thlr arrival they were unsuccessful in seeing her at (he hospital He charges that a city official of Buffalo whoa brother Is Wislers attorney had Issued orders to hospital authorities not to allow Mrs fotz any visitors Hoped Mhe Would I Ire Holliday declares hla mission to Mrt Lotz waa to Inform her that sufficient money had been raised in Detroit to straighten out her finan cial difficulties hero and that when he told her this she said she ehe would llve Ho then told her she must tel! the authorities the nature of the poison she took which she did after he left That attorney with a clear bill of sale of Mrs car was In the Buffalo city office when he Davis and Mrs Mc Cubbln called upon him to arrange for the foreclosure of her mortgage on the car was the statement of Holliday He declared Mrs Lotz previously had told him she had made out the bill of sale In July but that she never had sold the car and still retained the docu ment in her possession The packet of papers turned over to the police by Wlsler indicated that her heaviest Investment in De troit was 17000 In a rooming house venture She had bought the place In August from Gertrude Morris the total consideration involved be ing 11000 Detroit friends says the rooming house was known as "The on Woodward ave nue near Erskine and that she dis posed of It October 4 shortly before entering negotiations to purchase the Cassel hotel Onre Had Millinery Store Her notebook indicates that she conducted a millinery store In Buf falo before coming to Detroit but there is no reference to its sale Another notation accounts for the loan of 1000 to Mr and Mrs rank Rae of Detroit No mention Is made of the purchase price of min ing stocks she accumulated but the notebook Indicates most of the pur chases were made from Steck with whom she had consid erable correspondence Altogether she had 59000 shares of a Kentucky lining enterprise the par value of which was 1 a share Wlsler told the Buffalo police he bought Mrs Lotz car July It was November 11 McCubbln a 1900 mortgage on it and accord ing to Mrs Mqputibln a man she understood to be Wlsler was with when the transaction was closed Husband Death Mystery ThS mysterious death of Mrs i aS brought renewed interest In the death of her husband Ed A Lotz of a gunshot wound last March before she came to De troit Insurance on the life of Lotz provided aa estate of 40000 for the widow who has Just died much of which she Is supposed to have lost in near swindles Lotz was killed March 7 near Ro chester while standing beside his automobile Investigation did not disclose the exact manner of bls death other than that he was shot In the back of his jiead Because he was short in his accounts with the Danuhyi Backing company accord ing to Buffalo advices it was con cluded he killed himself Buffalo detectives and Undertaker John Dohn of that city disagree oyer the death certificate The former contends no certifi cate of death ever waa issued but Dohn says he had a certificate of by gunshot It is possible Lotz's body win now be exhumed for further Investigation Another interesting development of riday was that Lutz was not the only husband Buffalo po lice are inclined to believe the wo man's real name was Mrs Appleby if this la true it is probable she married Appleby while Lotz waa still living without the formality of a divorce Detroit friends Insist that she considered herself the wife of Wisder It was a hectic day fur Mrs ord beginning with the arraignment fin Judge court followed by a quiz at Prosecuting Attorney Paul office and ending with the lockup In county JalL Mrs ord was not sure late Thursday whether her attorney Maurice itz gerald woukl succeed In finding ball and she was resigned to a night among the other women In mates When Sergeant Detective Stralth conducted her into Judge courtroom Mr ord seemed on the verge of collapse rny poor father my poor mother my poor brother rny poor she screamed after the charge uf attempting to commit murder was read to her "What will they Then Mrs ord turning her back to thazbench saw a snil clrcle of camera men and newspaper report ers "Doni take my picture please take my she cried biding her face lth both hands There was commotion In the crowd ed courtroom and Stralth led Mrs ord to the press room Powders Iler Nose Mrs ord you have taken this very well so far ani you break Stralth said soothingly In an Instant Mrs ord opened her dainty vanity bag and powdered her nose and cheeks Smiles broke over her pretty face as she assured the detective she would break down no more There was no further relapse Into hysterics when Mr ord once more faced Judge Heston and pleaded not guilty to the charge Ialer she jpked with courtroom attendants and newspaper reporters hat I am she laughed what they called a hat where 1 used to live In 01116 But I told them I am a Sheik not the In county jail when asked to pose for a ree Press camera man Mrs orl Insisted that she must wear her expensive fur coat and the beplumed headgear Hopes Diplomats Make of Suggestion on Disarm Pacts Washington Dec (By the As sociated Press) Georges Clemen ceau closing his visit to Washing ton riday afternoon with a mal' address expressed the hope that diplomacy wofild find the way to bring America back into Euro pean affairs through what he in nrotd a a an hv Harding in the annual Which the executive bad congress a few hours "So you continued the Tiger that even thoae who are supposed to dUagree really agree at the very bottom of the feeling and reason ing power That 1 what ask and I nope thl Is something like an overture tnat some light will be coming and 1 will be very glad if it comes irorn America and 1 hope that diplomacy will have something to soy about It adU talks may be engaged In which I am aure can brine nothing but good for us all" When Clemenceau's reference To the president's message waa called to the attention ot the White House it was said that there waa no com ment to be made and that there was no Intention ot elaborating on the president's statement to congress Clemenceau's address delivered before au audience which Included many diplomats government offi cials ot both houses ot congress waa in Its essence the peace mes sage he first dellveied in Chicago But apparently sensing that official Washington would judge him and bis mission by this speech he spoke deliberately and chose hl word with great precision America' Effort Praised He recited the history ot the war paying tribute to the part America played In It but declared that the United states quit too soon leaving upon Europe the responsibility tor enforcing the treaty ot Versailles which he said was largely the work ot American mlndb at the peace con ference message is peace" he ex claimed "1'eace by any means You have got tho leagu ot nations you have got your three power agreement you may do something now It you like "Of course We league has the ad vantage that you can go there may be with some reservations to keep yourself free of Its dangers do do not know but I suggest now I hat the league has done much for Austria and Siberia and It has dune It In a rather good way 1 do not know If you have an American ob server at the league ot nations There must he somewhere a man who Is watching for you War Clouds Are Seen "I do not say that war 1 coming 1 hope it is not But I do say it looks as though it might be com ing That 1 enough to take pre caution It I were to tell you th precaution to take It I were to ad vise you to send soldiers that might' be going very tar but I do not I slrnnlv sav that if th mn! assurance I given does not disinterest lhe execution of the enough Then the keep ouleL And the not suffer the Turks I don't think anyone can they too would keep quiet And Russia will understand that It she wants to come back to the civilized world she has only to perform civilized acts" The Tiger boarded his special train shortly after 9 o'clock to go to Philadelphia where he Is sched uled to speak Saturday morning My husband Whv should titey be making such a fuss about a 'conspiracy' to kill him as they call it? By the way what the penalty on Such a charge?" There was no approach to hys terics in Mr ord's attitude when she wa confronted with Lieutenant Detective Kunath In Prosecutor Voorhles's office Thursday morning Kunath stepped in front of her after ehe had talked briefly with Prosecutor Voorhiffs and Detective Sergeant Stralth Denies Knowing Kunath "You know me don't you Maya" Detective said "No I don't know you" Mr ord answered evincing no trace of emotion 'What are you gentlemen trying to do with me anyway?" she then asked the three men! "It you Inalst that I say I met Kunath In a Park boulevard apartment where you say I offered to pay 320000 for the mur der of my husband then I can say I have met him But It will be a He Do you think couldn't have done away with ord long before If I had Intended to dr that? That's all I have to say until I can con sult my attorney" Maurice itzgerald Mrs ord's attorney was'expected to reach De troit from a trip Saturday morn ing She expressed certainty that she would clear herself of the charge without difficulty Mrs ord formerly a Toledo nurse married Photostats are true facsimiles of any original subject Vamely Abitructx Ajwawrta Iom XHiobAro McCauley madison inc Jo Xaek Bldf hoata OzdlCxa turn over the booze In the name of the law Vhenahey failed to proJuce credentials Vhlch Dom browski demanded the latter at tacked Hill with a knife and was immediately shot down by both Hill and Brown although Brown Is not sure that he hit him as he only fired one shot and Hill fired several Shortly after the firing azlker and Noel came in In the meantime the booze had been found In the bushes and had been loaded In the Hupp so the four started for Detroit where the liquor was disposed of The Olds In which Brown was riding wm wrecked on the way and aban Penelope Pffpanastasopoulos Charged 5 Betrayal by Rich urrier Penelope PxpanaUsopoulos II yearoM maid of Athens wax given I a verdict of J15000 by a jury In I circuit court riday'at the close of her 150000 suit for breath of promise against Ztssis Zlssls weal thy Detroit furri who she alleg ed refused t0 marry her after he came here from Greece to be hl picture The girl who live with her brother at HS Davin wept tears of joy when th ju brought in It verdict The Intense interest taken in the case by the local Greek eolony shown whefi the Greek consul has tened into court just a Judge Richter was charging thg Jury He had brought a letter from th girl a mother In Athens who wrote that she haj sent her daughter to this country understanding thet he to bride of XIssls The letter aaa of course of no use in the trial having arrived too late to be Introduced In evidence Miss Papanaztaaupoulu came to Detroit In September 1J21 afte her brother Ageslleoa a friend of Aisl had wanted to courtship lasting less than a year They met In Toledo where the wo man was then livings llh her two children by former marriage d'ord wrote her many letters from his home in Dearborn she said urging her to hasten ths wedding She cam to Detroit to merry him and the two then moved to ord's 80 acre farm at Dearborn Worked I Ik a tho farm 1 worked like a she said "booking meals for Ney and hl two hired men I hung the wall paper myself and did most of the other work around the hous Amon other things I painted th floor One day I car ried Ice cream 4crc th fleld to where Ny and hl men were work ing But life with ord was Impos sible and separated when I filed my divorce suit I came to Detroit and took rooms with Mr and Mrs Will Graham SOU Pacific avenue Where I was treated a If I wer one of the family "One ot the things ord delighted In doing was to have mo shadowed Strange men prowled around my front yard in Dearborn and I knew I wa shadowed after 1 cam to live In Detroit Al last I went to Toledo and told the chli ef police there abqut my trouble He told me to beware uf aln "I know nothing of a frame up on ord's life If 1 have really planned hl death I know nothing about It now I am suffering from acute nervousness I don't know where Park boulevard Is and much leas do I know of any apartment wheru I might he met the de tective disguized a a gunman I wa walking on Woodward near Temple avenue Thursday nUrht when Detective StraPt stopped me He told mo I was under arrest and took me to police headquarters That was about 9:6 o'clock At police headquarter I was refused 'permission to use theur telephone A a result I Was unable to get In touch with my attorneys or with my When asked whether her pres ence 1 Woodward and Temple ave nue Thursday night had been In response to a message from tbs "gunman" with whom she Is al leged to have planned ord's slay ing in a Park boulevard apartment Mrs ord declined to answer Iler I'ourfh Husband Ney ord Is the fourth husband of Mrs May ord her three for mer one having obtained divorce from the woman In Toledo where she had been known ter years be fore she came tu Detroit In Decem ber 1431 according to report from the Ohio city a Ora Hallett the third husband who Is in the garage busi ness In Toledo sued her for divorceSeptember 2T 1317 and obtained a decree a month later It Is reported At about th same tltni th present Mrs ord brought ault against an other woman for alienating Hallett a affection according to report from Toledo but the ault never cam to trial Mara Mcond buaband IUy Btonn a railroad man alo ued for ob vorcft Ae Mra Blenn it reported the woman conducted a aplritualUC ezUbllshtnenL Earlier in her career aa Mra Hallett the woman managed a rooming houee lrwt DlwreC He Tow No record could be foun4 rtdecT by Toledo police ot the women 9 rat husband but he likewiee ob tained divorce from her it ie ejat ed by police or eome year May was known In Toledo aa a trained nurse police said She was bom on a farm Ada and Duncard In Ohltk but camo tu Toledo when atlU a girk' bhe now ive her afe aa WedlocBAfter 2 Day Court ship Only Endures for Eight Week Eugene Pruett ho aald be la aheU ahocked victim of the World war declared bo waa suffering from shell shock when he married hie wife Norma after two days' acquaintance on Judo 4 1921 only to learn tn elht of matri mony that shells didn't contain aU the shocks Pruett testified In Judro Harry court that be worked until In the vtornlng do ing four hours' overtime to earn not believe the rigorous and literal enforcement will concentrate pub lic attention on any requisite modi That is not only the lawful course to pursue the president observed but It Is a course' hlch saves the government and the American peo ple from humiliation In the eyes of the worlk and challenges law breaking and corruption In conformity with policy thus laid down the president said he would call a conference of gov ernors with federal officials to de vise methods of a more perfect en forcement of the prohibition law Wnnld linn HjiII strikes Recommendations submitted by the president Included: Prohibition of railroad strikes and transformation of the railway labor board Into a division of the interstate commerce commission with authority to enforce labor de cisions 1 Expansion and cheapening of transportation through co ordina tion of the railways waterways and motor transport and greater economy and efficiency ot operation Merging of the railroads In sys terns Interchange and pooling of frelglit mra mure economic use of terminals consolidation of other railroad facilities and financing of new equipment by a central agency which also Would direct economies and traffic Interchanges Provisions fur agricultural pro duction and enlarged farm land credits through an extension of the existing farm loan machinery Registration of aliens and other measures designed to enforce re spect tor American Institutions by immigrants and other aliens Asks Two Amendments Establishment before relaxing the limitation nf Immigration of immigrant examining boards abroad to weed out undeslrableR ederal co operation in oducation particularly with a view to Ameri canlzation of Immigrants Amendment of the constitution to prohibit child labor Amendment of the constitution to restrict the Issuance uf tax free securities by states and municipali ties orest conservation legislation Htepa to narrow the spread of price between production and con sumption as a means of reducing the cost of living Unification of steam water electric powers Provision for drafting In time of war all national resources human and material Defeads orelga Policy The president stoutly defended lhe administration pullcy of non entanglement in Eurupean affairs asserting that we ask none to as surne responsibility for us and as sume none which others must bear themselves nationality Is hopelessly swallowed up in interna Those like Clemenceau and num erous other rench and British statesmen who are complaining that America Is holding aloof from in ternational obligations scant the president said the helpful part we In world affairs Be pointed to the establishment of the pulley uf naval armament limitation by lhe Washington con ference and offered the four power pact abolishes the prdb ability uf war on the as a model for war prevention measures in other parts of the world reminded our foreign critics of the expressed repugnance of the American people to the league uf nations or any super government and to treaties uf armed alliance but pointed uut how we are promoting amicrDie republics and assert fulfilling obligation nue freely the United States the presi dent said makes no demands It Is not prepared to back up witfe force tude etc The joyousness of Scriabin Sonata and all that It plied sho caught and gave to audience Larks Agility But fur the most part In "Benediction de and his there was frequently lit tle impressive connection between lhe poslngs the posturings the sweeping gestures and the music Itself Have the yea: a taken the deft touch the compelling power of the formerly great DUncftn' Some thing uf agility and buoyancy seemed lautlng on this occasion and the fea Battle Creek Poxse Hunt for Hill Thought Hiding SpeeHI to The ree PreeA Battle Creek Dec A posse of city and county officers armed with sawed off shotguns and rifles and headed by Sheriff Henry Lucas and Chief of Polios Laverne onda riday visited the country home of Charles Brown tour miles outside the city off the Hubbard street road where It wi reported Harry HUI fugitive and alleged accom plice In the killing of Alex bom browski of Gibraltar July 34 wu In hiding A search revealed house vacant Tho officers acted on a tip from a woman who said she was In conversation with HiU here Hill was she told officers and 1 A 4 4 3 4C 4ir lUBtHU Brown Is the father of Brown now held in Wavne tail rv faflaeal at llrown and Homer Noel of Mass also held in alleged confes sions to Wayne authorities Thurs day are saM to have admitted that they with Hill and Leo Pakizer now serving a sentence In the De troit house of correction for rob bery were members of the gang that murdered lombrowkL Muriel Brown 21 year old wife of Melvin Browo arrived in Battle Creek riday and is at lhe home of her parents Mr and Mrs Charles Rathbun 92 Innroad cannot tell you where you might find Mra Brown tld Sheriff Luoas "I have not seen Harry for two months and the last time that 1 saw him was In Battle Making hrlitmat Condyt Then van'll want to read article by Alice Hathaway about delicious sweets for yule tide Part four Household Section Sunday's ree Press Melvin Idn Warns county uthorities Melvin izOwell ARRIVED New "ork Dec 8 Rio 1e nelro: Constantinople Plramrv aina Palermo HARDING VIEWS Jilted PLEASE Wins $15000 Verdict The speaker at the Detroit Open orum Sunday afternoon will be Matthew Woll president of the In ternational Photo Engraver union His subject will be Unions doned vs Closed Shop fr i i I 1 I lO ('Si fvV jJ pC 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