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DISARM PARLEY BEATS NA WW LEAGUE-BRYAN What Happened Sunday. Readers of this morning's Register are learning full details of the world events that occurred over Sunday from 12 to 24 hours sooner than readers of other newspapers will know It. Did Your Children See It? We mean th new Boys' and Girls' Magazine flection in yesterday's Sunday Kcgistr. If not make it a. point to g-et it for them next Sunday.

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27. iH VOL" 0J mm LRJLmUUVJ WHEN HAUNTED HOUSE GHOST WRESTLES WITH HIM FAINTS BRYAN HOLDS HARDING PLAN SO FAR THE WEEKS FAMILY SEEMS TO TO GET ITS HOUSECLEANING BE THE FIRST DONE MEANS PEACE Commoner Armors Collar 1 Against Heat As He Speaks Here. Neighbors Revive John McCauley but Spook Roams Yet Crowd Dares Not Tackle Nightly Apparition. The "ghost" which has haunted the house of John McCauley at the Southwest corner of Twenty-ninth and Raccoon Btreets, for the last three weeks, returned last night with the result that the entire neighborhood was thrown in a panic. Police who arrived on the scene at 11 o'clock found a crowd of more than 100 people congregated in front of the house after the "ghost" had pulled him over backwards with cold, clammy hands.

Mr. McCauley, they said, was carried out in the yard where he was revived. Weinl Sights. Members of the family said that strange lights and mists had been seen about the building during the CONTINIED ON PAGE COM'MN I. FARM BUREAU OUT TO SEEK TAX COTS Speaking with his old time per- suaslveness on his favorite subjects, world peace, prohibition and rv the brotherhood of man, William Jennings Bryan addressed a Chautauqua audience for an hour at Valley Junction last night.

Fortified with a palm leaf fan and a pitcher of Ice water, his neck. swathed in the familiar white handkerchief, the grand old democrat announced his subject of "Brother or Brute" and proceeded to attack atH7! fio LArV i NAVY SHAKEUP IS ADVISED BY SENATE BODY Sims Upheld Over Daniels by Majority of Quiz Committee. (By United News.) WASHINGTON, D. July Appointment of a commission by the president to study the organization and administration of the navy department, is recommended by a subcommittee of the senate naval affairs committee, in a report made public tonight. The report deals with the Investigation made by the subcommittee during the winter, and Is signed by Senators Hale, Ball and Keyes.

"It would appear that one of the most important lessons of the war is- that the organization of the navy is not as good as it reasonably might be, and that a careful investigation on this whole subject should be made," said the report. Report Upholds Sims. The report deals largely with the controversty between Admiral Sims and Secretary Daniels, and upholds Sims in virtually every respect. Daniels is accused of having permitted the navy to remain in a state of unpreparedness up to the very moment of America's entry into the war, of having hampered the conduct of the war. The report declares that Daniels not only ignored the plea of the general board of the navy for preparedness, but that he deliberately withheld the report from the senate, end failed to heed- recommendations from high officers, notably Sims.

The assertion is made that when America entered the war, two-third3 of the vessels required material repairs, which requlreed an average of fifty-six days per vessel and that nine-tenths of the vessels did not have fuel rompllments, the average being 55 per cent of the proper unmber. Daniels Is Criticised. Daniels is criticised for having failed to carry out immediately many recommendations made by Sims, having to do with the establishment of the convoy system, the laying of mines and the concentration of naval efforts in the submarine areas. "We find that the many interferences by the navy department with operations under Rear Ad- rriiral Sims' command showed that the navy department had failed to support him clearly in authority in the command for which It held him responsible, said the report. "It also failed to support him with reasonable adequate advices.

falied to support him with forces available, and failed to support htm with a personnel commensurate to the efficient performance of his duties, and that In all-this the navy department persistently violated some of the basic principles under lying sounn practice both of civil and military command and responsibility." Adopt 81ms' Recommendations. Eventually, the report states, the department adopted practically all of the recommendations of Sims, which facilitated the conduct of the war. "We find that naval facts brought to light make unavoidable the conclusion that upon our entry into the war Secretary Daniels had prevented the navy from immediately taking aggressive action in force against the German submarines and had Imposed upon the navy the stay-at-home, purely self-defensive, and nonoggresslve policy," the report continues. The charge Is Inade that the administration did not do everything possible to help win the war. Senators Pittman and Trammel.

In a minority report, disagreed with the conclusions reached, Daniels is credited by them with having, from the beginning of his administration used every effort to Strengthen the navy, and of having put the navy In the highest Btate of preparedness possible long before the entry of America Into the war. The navy, the minority assertB, was In a more efficient state -hen the country entered the war than it had ever been. THREE FATALLY, HURT IN WRECK DANVILLE, 111., July 17. Mr. and Mrs.

James I). Craig and Mr Devillers, a boarder at their home at Harvey, 111., were fatally injured and the 4-year-old daughter of the Cralgs was slightly injured this morning when their automobile was struck by a Big Four passenger train at a crossing near Covington, thirteen miles east of Owen Moore Picks Kathryn Perry As Mary's Successor Weds Leading Woman at Greenwich, Conn. NEW YORK. July 17. The mai-riage of Owen Moore, motion picture actor, to Miss Kathryn Perry, his leading woman In several pictures, was announced today.

Mr. Moore recently was divorced by Mary Pickford, who later married Douglas Fairbanks. Mr. and Mrs. Moore were married In Greenwich, Saturday.

Miss Perry, who is but 19. played with Moore in two screen shows. She formerly was a model for Penryn Stanislaws. and was aiven the gold- en apple by a group of New York art-'ttits as the most beautiful girl in New York. The newlvweds are honeymooning quietly in New Eng land.

BLOCK ATTEMPT OF WOULD BE SUICIDE Heat Crazed Man Hangs Self, Is Cut Down. Apparently crazed by the heat which sent the mercury to the 94 mark, James Drake, 63 years old, an inmate of the county poor farm. was cut down from a tree Sunday afternoon while attempting to bang himself near the bank of the Rac coon river at West Second and Edi son streets. Police, who were called to the scene, found Drake, partly clad, stumbling through the underbrush along the river bank. When taken, the man was bleeding from, numer ous cuts and bruises received when he trampled through the bushes.

Residents in the neighborhood re ported seeing Drake wandering about earlier in the evening. They said that the man obtained a rope and threw it over a limb after fastening it about his neck. He was hanging several feet above the ground when someone cut the rope, they said. Police were unable to establish the identiy of the man that came to Drake's rescue. After being given emergency treatment, Drake was placed in a cell at police headquarters.

He probably will be taken before the insanity commission today. Report Wood to Be Philippine Chief (By United Newi.) MANILA, July 17. Private telegrams received here state that Pres Ident Harding has appointed Major General Leonard Wood to be governor-general of the Philippines There Ib great rejoicing here among both Americans and Filipinos as the result of this news. tVged in Washington. WASHINGTON, D.

July 17. Within recent weeks strong pressure has heen exerted upon President Harding -to name General Wood governor of the Philippines. Wood has been elected provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and was expected to formally accept the place upon completion of his work for the war department in the Philippines. A number of developments have occurred since, however, that have made it seem likely Wood would accept the governor Keneralship if Harding offered it to him. MRS.

KENDALL MAY UNDERGO OPERATION WITHIN 48 HOURS Mrs. N. E. Kendall, wife of the governor, was renting more easily last night, according to her special nurse at Mothodist hospital. Though her surgeons could make no definite forecast, it was belleveu that she will be operated upon for appendicitis either today or tomorrow.

At a conference of Dr. Oliver J. Fay, Dr. C. B.

Luginbuhl and the Kendall family physician Saturday afternoon, It was decided that her condition superinduced by the acute Inflammatory state of tho appendix, was too serious to permit of an operation until sue in stronger. Yesterday's turn for the better makes conditions for the operation more favorable, according to her attendants. Mrs. Kendall was stricken Thursday, and Immediately taken to the hospital. The governor has been with her constantly, and was at her bedside practically all of' Sunday.

ARREST WOMAN AND MATE AS HOTELROBBERS Theft From Actress in St. Louis Leads Police to Discovery. Following closely on the heels of the arrest of Percy Gray, alias Ralph Milton Davis, in St. Louis, on an indictment for robbery, and Mrs. Henrietta Davis, said to be his wife, in Kansas City, on a similar charge, Des Moines police received word that more than $4,600 worth of Jewelry and clothing, stolen from rooms at the Hotel Fort Des Moines during Shrine week, had been re-1 covered.

Practically all of the stolen goods were found in possession of Mrs. Davis in Kansas City, and Chief of Police Saunders left last night for that city for the purpose of identifying the property. He will probably take steps to bring Mrs. Davis back to Des Moines. May Bring Gray Hero.

Detective McGoldrlck also departed last night for St. Louis for the purpose of questioning Gray with the Idea of locating still more of the missing property. If the St. Louis authorities are willing, Gray may also be brought back to Des Gray Is being held for the alleged robbery of jewerly worth $2,500 from Naomi Chllders. movie actress, while she was staying at a st.

Lous hotel. According to the St. Louis police Gray confessed to having committed robberies in hotels in Des Moines. St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago and Omaha.

Kansas City police placed Mrs. Danis under arrest as the result of the interception of a letter which she wrote to her husband. Following the finding in her possession of keys to rooms at the Hotel Fort Des Moines. Kansas City authorities communicated with Chief Saunders. The communication resulted in the identification of the woman and Gray with the robbery here.

Texas Shriner's Jewels. Practically all of the $2,500 worth of jewelry which was stolen from the rooms of Mike H. Thomas, a Shrlner from Dallas, was found among the woman's effects In a rooming house In Kansas City. This Included a pair of diamond cuff links valued at $1,000, degree, scarfpiu set with diamonds and pearls worth $500, scarfpin set with diamonds valued at $150, another $150 pin set with emeralds and diamonds, a diamond bull pin valued at $250, pearl and amethyst pins worth $50 each, an opal pin valued at $5 and twelve others worth $20 each, and a $100 gold and platinum watch chain. All were In a Jewelry box and were stolen from Room No.

1038. From the list supplied police hers by Kansas City authorities, most of the $700 worth of clothing taken from the rooms occupied at the hotel by Mr. and Mrs. A. H.

Kuss-mann, a Shrlner and his wife from New Orleans, Chief Saunders picked out numerous of the missing articles. These Included an evening gown valued at $50 and a suit worth $75. Other Jewels Missing. Diamond rings taken from the rooms of Mrs. Charles Ross of St.

Paul mav he nmnnv ih. gether with a ring belonging to Clarence Dunbar of Providence, At the time nf the mhhan, than $550 in money was 'stolen Mum niree otner rooms occupleu by Shriners at the hotel. Since the KhrinA AAn.lDVA nave ben chasing down clews to tne Tne looting of thu hotel constituted the only robbery in Des Moines during Khrfna vui, the army of police and sne-l mJ. fleers on duty at tne time manag- Ing to keep down crime to a verj low minimum, Authorities at St. Louis say Gray, admitted to them that ht served four years in the Missouri penitentiary for a robbery com- mitted in Kansas City, and that he-had continued living at hotels and robbing guests In Des Moines and other cities since his release in December, 1919.

It is believed that Gray operate out of Kansas City making thai city his headquarters. According to the authorities working on the case, the man came to St. Louis from Kansas City, leaving Mrs. Davis there to await his return. MONGOLIAN REBELS WIN BIG BATTLE (By United Nowi.) MAN'CHULI, Via Shanghai, July 7.

Delayed) Mongolian revolutionists occupied Upga yesterday after dispersing Ungem's army. Un-gern's army resisted for forty but finally retired. Losses ou botu sides were extremely heavy. is being pursued. Much artillery was captured when was taken as well as vast quantities of muultions.

Russ Mobilize for all evidences of greed and brutish-ness in modern life. Commends Disarm Conference. Enthusiastically, he commended the disarmament conference just called by President Harding. "The disarmament conference will have a greater and more beneficial effect upon the world than the Versailles peace conference," said Mr. Bryan.

"Once the nations begin to limit their amaments by agreement, world peace Is Just over the next hill," he continued. "The Versailles conference end-(1 on war, this conference is liable to end all war. The results of even a limited program of disarmament are incalculable; once governments s'art to disarm, then cannot stop, eventually, short of complete disarmament. I Plan Has Powerful Fos. "The American people en masse are behind the idea.

Powerful Influences are at work both in this country and abroad to discourage the idea, and there are great possibilities of failure. Nevertheless, the plan must be backed with all energy. "In case the enemies of disarmament In Europe are able to influence their governments to reject the proposal, believe it is the duty of the American people to set the example," he said. "The world is weary of war. The Un'ted States leads the world In idealism.

It Is up to us to set the standard." Denies "Wet" Alienations. Quotinsr formidable statistics. Mr. Bryan refuted the idea that the country Is as wet now as it was before the saloons were closed. "If they say there is as mucn drinking now as there was before the enactment of the Eighteentu amendment," he declared, "they are staTIng that which is untrue.

They used to bring liquor in in freight cars and distribute it wltu drays. Now they bring It in in car pet bags and sneak it up the alleys. Mr. Bryan dispelled all doubt of the question as to whether prohibi tion is nere to stay. Me aociarea that every wet candidate was de feated at the lastpresldenttal po litical conventions and that two- thirds of the total number of democratic votes in the house and senate are rigidly dry.

Raps Farm Products Gambling. He stated that gambling in farm products by the board of trade is injurious both to the farmer anu to the business man. Board of Trade gamblers and farm produce price jugglers came in for their share of Mr. Bryan a attack. The farmer needs moi protection from manipulators 1u the pit, he declared and quoted statistics to show that there was seventeen times as much wheat sold last year as was raised in the entire country.

Little mention was made in his speech of specific labor questions which ere confronting the nation at present but the larger question of the amount an Individual can collect from in a lifetime was considered. Defines Injustice. "Injustice, said Mr. Bryan, "Is A system where individuals are allowed to collect from society more CONTINIKD ON PAOB COM'MN The Weather oday 1 It ') 'A rfiv fa it If IP if i i XY7 VI i lit i I I Levy on High Land Ruinous, Says Mitchell. The battle for a reduction of the farmer's tax levy will be fought to a finish, according to J.

G. Mitchell, attorney for the Farm Bureau federation, who aDneared before the state executive council last week. "We think now that they are going to give us a fair deal," said Mr. Mitchell yesterday. The farm er's share of the taxes has beeu raised hv the fnnnrll fni 1 VAflm hut thfnlr.

it the farmers did not have the facts wun wnicn to put their case before iue cuuiicu. Farmer Faros Ruin. Mr. Mitchell emphasized that any valuation based upon the high market price of land Is certain to prove ruinous to the farmer. He said, "There Is no such thing as a market value for farm lands." He characterized much of the buying and selling of land during the land boom as fictitious.

His contention was that the "sales' were mere exchanees of farms he tween farmers and speculators in wnicn very little money was in volved, but by which real estate agents made large profits. Consider Karri I ng Power. Mr. Mitchell is working for a tax rate based upon the earning power of the farm, similar to the requests wntch are being made bv the railroads. He contends that urban properties and public utilities are undervalued, making the burden fall upon the land owners.

Mr. Mitchell stated that present tax distribution is unjust, and intimated that the farmers may test the constitutionality of the levy if it Is based upon earning power for Industrial and transportation equipment, and upon market value for I Farm Mortgages Double in Decade. WASHINGTON, D. July 17 Mortgage debts of Amrlcan farmers more than doubled in the decade between 1910 and 1920. it was reported today by the census bureau.

The Increase in mortgage charges against farms owned by their operators was 132.5 per cent, or from $1,720,172,851 in 1910 to in 1820. The mortgages amounted In 1920 to 29.1 per cent of the value of the farms, against debt of 27.3 per cent of the values In 1910. Ttie values of the farms In 1 9 20, the report said was 113.772, 729. 610. The average amount of mortgage debt per farm for the United States In 1920 was 13.361 against $1,715 In 1910.

For the ten year period, the value of the farms increased 117.6 per cent and the number of farms operated by their owners and carrying mortgage debts Increased 18.6 per cent. The mortgage debt in California was $224,063,903. MAN TRAPPED IN YOSEMITE CLEFT YOsEMITE, July 17 A man believed to be Lieut. Fred W. Nichols of the California national guard, which is holding an encampment in Yosemlte National park, is trapped In a granite pocket several hundred feet deep here Into which he is believed to have slid while attempting a short cut across the mountains.

National guardsmen and forest rangers will attempt a rescue tomorrow, being unable to move about the edge of the pocket with safety In the darkness. HONESTY EXPERT HERE WITH TESTS Gives List of Catch Questions for Conscience. If you saw a perfectly good head of lr'tuce which your neighbor haa accidentally thrown over the back fence, would it be right to take It home and serve it for dinner? Suppose you were a clothing store salesman and saw a customer coming who always asked for a reduction in price. Suppose you raised the price of every suit $5, and that he bought one without asking a reduction. Would It be honest to take the money, extra $6 and all? Suppose a girl worked In a cafeteria where her board was Included as part of her pay.

Suppose she ate only half as much as she wanted to and took the rest home to her sister without asking the manager about It. Would she be doing right? Answer Immediately. Upon your spontaneous answers to these questions and a score of similar ones depends the measure of your honesty according to T. B. Homan of Duluth.

psycho- dlagnostlcan and author of an hon esty test. Mr. Homan Is visiting in the McElfresh home at 1308 Thlrty- fourtn street. There are a long list of queries in the test, upon which the individ ual being tried Is to pass judgment immediately, answering "right or "wrong." Mr. Homan Insists that the answer be given spontaneously, without time for consideration, so that the first Impulse may be known.

Persons always reveal in their first reaction whether they are naturally honest or not, he maintains. Mr. Homan has given the test to bank clerks on several occasions. The results have been verified to such extent that persons whom the tests have shown doubtful in character have eventually had to be discharged. Gives Them in Court.

Mr. Homan is the author of various other psychological tests, as well. He was formerly head of the department of education at the Minnesota State Normal college. At present he is employed by the Juvenile courts and other city departments of Duluth, where he gives PONTINIF.D OH PAGB COM'MN TEXAS WOMAN IS TARRED, FEATHERED Coat Is Applied When Dragged From Porch. SHREVEPORT, July 17.

Mrs. Beulah Johnson was taken from the porch of a hotel at Tene-ha, Texas, stripped, tarred and feathered, according to advices reaching here today. The attack on Mrs. Johnson which occurred last night, was said to have been made by masked men wearing white uniforms. They are said to have driven up to the hotel In three automobiles, into one of which the young woman was hurried and driven out of town.

Brought Bark to Hotel. After the administering of tar and feathers she was brought back to the hotel. Mrs. Johnson said she was employed at the hotel as a maid and cook. She did not know any of the men.

It is understood that Mrs. John son had been arrested on a charge of bigamy and placed 1n jail at Cen ter, Tex. Was Thrice Married. CENTER. July 17.

Mrs. Beulah Johnson, who was tarred mid whose hair was partially clipped by masked men at Tenaha. Katuroay nignt, was nrougui to Jail here today and is being held to the next grand Jury on a charge of bigamy. Mrs. Johnson was out on bond and was surrenderee Dy bondsmen following the tarring.

Sheriff J. N. Smith of Sheiny couuty. said the woman told him that the masked men gave her no instructions when she was freed on the streets of Tenaha but asked her about a man she knew. Mrs.

Johnson Is said to have been married thrice. Also Applied to Texan. BEAUMONT, July 17. R. F.

Scott of Deweyvllle, wear ing a coat of tar and feathers, was ejected from an automobile on a crowded downtown street lata tonight. Scott tola tne ponce ne was onv- lnE alonsr a country road about twenty miles from here early this morning with two women, when, as he Btopped to Investigate the presence of several automobiles block ing the road, he was seized by maskmd men hidden nenina me bushes. Polish War, Report Poles Prepare and Defy Chieherin Note. (By Unite liOXDO.V, July 17. A (jen-eral mobilization of the Russian army has ordered, accord-lug to unconfirmed dispatches from Helslngiors Sunday.

COPENHAGEN, July 17. The Polish army is mobilizing in Russian frontier districts and the classes from 1885 to 1894 havs been called preparatory to meet ing possible belligerency by the soviet forces as a consequence of a Russian ultimatum, according to reportH from Riga. The Polish government replied to Foreign Minister Chlcherln, de claring there was no ground for the Boviet government's protest which complained that Poland was countenancing the plotting of Savlnkoff and other antlsoviet agitators. Poland, however, reserved the right to consider such a matter as an Internal affair, even it tnere had been such plotting, and re fused to assent even to the bol shevik proposal of trying the sus pects before a mixed Polish and soviet commission. The Polish r.ote replies also with COSTIMKI ON PAt.B COM'MN Japan Fears Anglo-Saxon Alliance Greatest Poker Game in history is involved in diplomatic exchanges on disarmament parley and meetinR of the conference in Washington, says Frederic William Wile.

Latest dispatches from Washington, Tokio and London on President Harding's conference will he found on PAGE 12 Iowa Fair In extreme east; probably thunder showers, cooler west and central portions Monday; Tuesday generally fair and cooler, preceded by thunder show-f ers In east, South Dakota Fair Monday and probably Tuesday; moderate temperature. Nebraska Unsettled Monday and Tuesday, probably thunder showers; cooler In east Monday. Kansas Unsettled Monday and Tuesday with probably local thunder showers; somewhat lower temperature Monday. rrkA omnmiilnteH rieflciencv of precipitation at Des Moines since 1 January 1, 3.36. The normal precipitation at Des Moines, January 1 to date 18.55.

Tamneraturps at Des Moines ves- (( terday: ill P- ni a. P. n4 jo 84 p. BO Relative humidity. In per cent: a.

m. 12 hood.