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ST THE PALM BEACH PO HE POST IS A MEMBER 12 PAGES THE AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION XV. Associated Press Leased Wire. West Palm Beach, Saturday Morning, Sept. 29, 1923 Single Copy Five Cents May Open Hospitals To All Ex-Soldiers WORD TALES ID IH1HHY GIFT I BS ARE Harding Memorial Planned at Capital CLOUDBURST, TORNADO AND FIRE SWEEP THROUGH WESTERN CITIES IN LINGERING DEA Al PULLMAN CARS FLIER IS FORCED DOWN BY BROKEN WATER LINE SOCIETY LEADER 0 CREEK (By Associated Press) Washington, Sept. 28.

Consideration was given by President Coolidge and his cabinet to the proposal that a memorial be erected in honor of President Harding and it was indicated that such a proposition will have the backing of the chief executive and the cabinet members who served under the late president. A corporation headed by "Mr. Cpolidge and the members of the cabinet probably will be formed, in which many other friends of Mr. Harding will be associated, for the purpose of raising money and directing the building of the memorial. The form and location have not been decided upon but the suggestion has been made and considered that the memorial be erected in Marion, Ohio, the home and burial place of the late chief executive.

MUNICH 51111 State of Emergency Precautionary Measure Wrongly Interpreted Aboard (I'y Associated Press) Berlin, Sept. 28. With the Munich situation having calmed down and the international situation generally safeguarded for the time being through the provisions of the government's emergency proclamation, Chancellor Stresemann is directing official activities toward accomplishing a speedy liquidation of the situation in the Ruhr and the Rhine-land, with the purpose of facilitating an early readjustment of Germany's foreign affairs. The Bavarian flurry no longer is viewed as harboring menace to the situation at home, a working understanding having been reached with the Bavarian premier Von Knilling, which it is will relieve the Berlin government of any immediate concern over developments in Munich, especially as reports from the Bavarian capital continue reassuring. An official communication issued tonight, sets forth the reasons which prompted the government to proclaim a state of emergency throughout federal territory.

It said the government's action has been wrongly interpreted abroad. The precautionary measure, the official statement declares, was dictated primarily, by a determination to forestall creation of disturbances in the present precarious economic, financial and foreign situation, obviously the result of French policies in the Ruhr and the abandonment of passive resistance. By proclaiming a state of emergency, it adds, the government proposes to make the most effective use of such defensive resources as are at its disposal and promptly quell any attempt to place the government in jeopardy. Paris Plainly Puzzled. Taris, Sept.

28. Prudence was the watchword tonight in French official circles, to which the situation in Germany appears more than ever puzzling. Premier Poincare, it is said, will not be satisfied with any more repudiations. He is waiting for the resistance actually and permanently to cease and for the industrial heads in the Ruhr to accept the situation as established by the allied regulations. When all this appears to be an accomplished fact, it is said the allies will proceed to make the Ruhr pledges as productive as possible, with the co-operation of the heads of the industries and further reparations negotiations will be allowed to wait until Berlin makes some move.

It is anticipated that if the government has matters definitely under control Chancellor Stresemann will appoint ambassadors to Paris and Brussels at an early date, in order to resume conversations in the regular way and it is thought likely he will propose a scheme-for settlement of reparations through diplomatic channels. CIIO 1 5E 1 D. and Bruce Neilly, Fishermen, Picked up at Point i of Drowning INLET REPORTED TOO ROUGH FOR PASSAGE Several Craft Unable to Enter Forced to Head South Along Coast After an hour of fighting for their lives against waves which swainpt-d their dory off the south jettylp the inlet, P. D. Ncilly teiidisAfother, Bruce, fishermen fo theYy L.

Ricou Company, were pivkeif up as they were about to drown, ft the beach a mile south of the inlet yesterday afternoon. Their condition, serious1 at first, was considered improved at their home last night. The boat of the Independent Fish Company of Riviera, manned by Marvin and L. L. Pinder, narrowly escaped being wrecked and a fishing-smack and two dories- of the Ricou company could not make port here but were forced to head south along the coast as a resultof heavy seas which broke early yesterday afternoon after the boats had put out in the calmer seas of the morning for ithe day's fishing.

The inlet was reported late yesterday to be too dangerous for passage. The Ricou boat was returning with a catch of blucfish and members of the Ricou company who saw the accident believe the rough water either capsized it directly or flooded the engine, causing the men to loose control of the boat. The wreck occurred as1 the boat was trying to make the inlet after the Pinder craft had managed to slip through the treacherous outer entrance unharmed, barely escaping waves which were running from 10 to 12 feet high. Sensing danger from the rough seas, Mr. Ricou had sent out a boat in charge of J.

A. Stewart, but neither it nor the Pinder craft were able to negotiate the high seas to go to the rescue. Instead, the crews of both boats, with men from the inlet dredging crews, hurried down the beach, realizing that the strong current would carry the men in that direction. Captain Gus Jordahn and G. M.

Culver, manager, of the Sug-Ootcr Company, noticing from Gus' Baths that the fishing craft were in danger, seized a number of Sug-Ooters and started for the inlet. 1 Members of the rescue party picked up Bruce, the younger brother of P. D. Neilly, just off the beach about half way between the inlet and the Cosden residence. Although in an exhausted condition, Bruce was less harmed by the experience than his1 brother, who did not make shore until nearly half an hour later, far to the south, nearly opposite the Cosden place.

Rescued unconscious Members of the crew of the Pinder boat and inlet workmen carried P. D. Neilly from the sea in an unconscious condition. By that time Gus Jbrdalm and Mr. Culver had They had been delayed in getting an automobile and it was too late to use their Sug-Ooters.

The rescuers worked for almost an hour trying to resuscitate Neilly but although partially revived, he was still in a perilous condition when taken with his brother to their home in Riviera. The rescuing crew of the Pinder boat expressed 'belief that Sug-Ooters would have prevented the near-drowning had they been aboard the wrecked craft. Gus' and Mr. Culver received a large order for the life-saving devices. Later in the afternoon an unidentified fishing boat effected a landing on the beach near Lake Worth, its crew of three being brought nere hv automobile.

The boat is believed to be one which was seen near the inlet at about the time of the wreck. The smack and two dories of the Ricou company were expected to make nort last night, somewhere be tween here and Miami. Estimated Loss hA heen found yesterday of the wrecked boat and its net and the loss was placed at t.sw. speas-ing of the condition of the inlet last night, Mr. Ricou recalled that two of his smaller boats were wrecked by striking rocks in-the inlet last week.

Need Life Guard Station "The accident brings up again the need of a government lifeguard station along the beach here," Gus Jordahn said after the wreck. "Some time ago we worked to get a lifeguard --station here but as a result of bringing its need to attention of the government, Miami got it instead." i 1 AS SWAMP HI CI OFF INLET SOUTH JETTY IF II GUILTY' fard, Smiling and Chewing Gum, Is Surrounded by Kissing Women LSSISTANT COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE FAINTS lost Emotional Display Over Verdict in Fashionable Westchester County iliv Associated Press) VVI.it. l'lains, N. Sept. 28.

Walter S. Ward was acquitted today the charge ot murdering Clar ice Peters. As the jury foreman announced lie vcruict a uk-hhh, I I mostly women, cuinueu the lianrl and kiss the face IU lci3 if the wealthy DanKcr son. Ward, flushing, smiling and chew- Li Hlg gum, tried yam 10 ngni uis thruuirh the milling crowd that packed the court room and reach the side of his wife, who had falj leu into the arms of his brother Ralph, when she heard the jury's verdict. Ward was in an ante-room.

Ralph hurst with the glad tidings find with a murmur she sank into Ins arms. It was not merely a polite demon stration that greeted the verdict of Mil L' 111 1L H.I UUlUUIJk Jk IllOUUIl. 1 Wl 111! uw, a mv. wuii room has been packed and most of the spectators each day have been womyn. Never in fashionable Westchester county has there been more interest displayed in a murder trial than in this one, in which the wealthy member of a leading family fought for his life for the killing of an inconspicuous youth.

And if ever, has there been a mure emotional display over a verdict. While the trial itself was not unusually long the events that preceded it dragged out over a period uf sixteen months. Peters was formerly a sailor. His body was found on a lonely road near the Kensington reservoir Itr was several days before the body was identified. Then' Ward came forward with a statement that lie had shot Peters in self defense as a result of an alleged attempt to blackmail him.

The jury's deliberations had lasted less than four hours. It was o'clock when the jury filed in and its foreman," Charles H. Schelling, a shipper, announced the verdjet. Immediately the court room was in a turmoil. Ward was the center of a swirl- iTig mass of humanity.

Women and Li i i i--: 11.. gins vriui siei lediiy anu lihhulu over the railing to reach him. He fought through them, smiling and chewing gum. They hung to his arms and legs at every step. As he by a row of chairs, upon which a number of women were standing, one woman, with gray hair, threw her arms about his neck.

Good boy, Walter," she exclaimed. She clung to him, pinched his cheeks and patted his head until he tore himself away to find his wife. Mrs. Ward was waiting in a room, where newspaper men were dictating their to operators of telegraph in -Mrtimcnts. Ralph burst into the room.

"Oh boy; acquittal!" he cried. "Thank God," murmured the woman, and she sank into his arms. It was not learned until all this had happened that A. R. Campbell, assistant defense counsel, had fainted when the verdict was announced.

So great was the crowd that pushed and slmved about Ward, no one noticed him lying on the- floor of the court room. He was soon revived, however. flip dav of his acciuittal, xas Wards tnirty-secona uirtnuay. 1 1 1 I BROKERAGE HOUSE FAILS (By Associated. Press) New York, Sept.

an extreme decline in the stock of lones Brothers Tea yesterday from 44 to 35. failure of the brokerage house of R. H. Marshall and com-panv, pool operators for the tea stock, was announced today, Marshall, member of )ie defunct' firm, denied the crash i i iUa lrtflpc Tf3 iiiri'Hptit nas aue iu jwo -adding that his firm's difficulties were caused by failure of customers to meet margin calls. James R.

Sheffield was appointed receiver. The failure depressed the market for industrial stocks generally for a time but these quickly recovered. SOME FEMININE SUPPORT lO i. jrit. Petersburg high school girls nfiortirtnn with hope mrntu uui and rakes to clear the school gridiron nnroWir tn tVip Kt Ot Sand6pUrS, picya.a,.

i Petersburg-Sacred Heart football game to 'be played Saturday afternoon This will be the first game nf the season for the St. Petersburg boys The boys had ignored the call lo do the work Thursday afternoon. BAKER'S 1 (By Associated Press) Washington, Sept. 28. Opening of government veterans' hospital to former service men, regardless of whether their disabilities arc of service or of non-service origin, likely will be adopted as a permanent policy, in the opinion of President Coolidge.

Such a proposal was presented to the president several days ago by a delegation representing the veterans of foreign wars and has appealed to the president as worthy of consideration. The delegation suggested that the government hospitals be opened to veterans of all wars and for all sorts of disabilities. There are thousands of vacan beds in the hospitals and inasmuch as it is often difficult to ascertain whether the veteran's injury was received in line of service and as the determination of such a point sometimes works an injustice to veterans, the president believes it would be a beneficial policy to open up the hospitals. He feels that congress would approve such a step. Offer Made by Seaboard Is to Apply to All Points on Florida East Coast Tallahassee, Sept.

28. Aft a conference held here today i the of fice of the state railroad commis- sioncr Dctweei atives of the Seaboard Railway Company and Artoe Railway Expressmen and re ntatives of of Leon the dairying interc county, it was agreed that the pres ent baggage scale of the Seaboard Air Line Railway will be carried out to all distances reached by the rails of the Seaboard Air Line in the state of Florida and on which 25 per cent additional for milk carried in ice tubs, or in thermos or vacuum cans, will be charged; that the representatives of the Seaboard Air Line will confer with the first vice president with a view of making this charge on milk carried in ice tubs 20 per cent additional, instead of 25 per cent, and will communicate with the Atlantic Coast Line officials and endeavor to have the same charge made applicable on that line. On two line hauls between Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line points, it is agreed that the Seaboard Air Line will make the rale 10 per cent less than the sum of the locals, and that they will take up the same with the officials of the Atlantic Coast Line for their consent to participate in this arrangement. It is aurccd between the Sea board Air Line and the American Railway Express Company that milk handled in baggage from noints on the Seaboard Air Line lo Jacksonville in combination with the American Kailway express to points on the Florida East Coast Railway, that the express scale will be open to all points on the line of that road. On all the above movements it is understood that empties will be returned free.

Both the American Railway Ex-nress Comnanv and the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company will publish new tariffs, extending the above scales to cover all points on the Seaboard and Florida Last Coast. The adjustments agreed upon at the conference will give the dairying interests in this region the best rates they have had and will give them a wider range for their prod ucts, it is said, the conference was harmonious and representa tives of both sides expressed sat isfaction over the outcome. G. M. Kimball, Norfolk; Jesse M.

Tones and G. Z. Phillips, Jacksonville, represented the Sea board, while C. A. 1'rey, vv.

a. Buckner and J. M. Hannan appeared for the American Railway Express Company. Phillip Goodc, Ralph Scott, L.

W. Scott and J. M. Burgess represented Leon county dairy interests. Escaped Convicts Are Still at Large (By Assocltited Press) Tallahassee, Sept.

28. State prison authorities tonight still were awaiting news as to the whereabouts of John Ashley and Wayne Cobb, who escaped yesterday from state road camp number 3 in Holmes county. Captain H. L. Green of the camp, advised prison officials that he had placed dogs, on the trail of the two men who, according to records at the capital, had escaped twice before the getaway yesterday, which was effected early in the afternoon by forcing bars out' of the night cell in the stockade.

Ashley was sent up from Palm Beach county in March. 1916. for 7lA years on charges pf participation in a bank robbery at Homestead. Cobb, a des-crter from the United States navy, was sentenced in Volusia county in December, 1921, to three years for grand larceny. MILK FREIGHT RATE at conference rcpreseirt ir L.

rica IT SJs (By Associated Press) Council Bluffs, Sept. 28. Six persons known to have been killed, more than a score injured and property damage estimated at more than $250,000 were, the results of a tornado which struck here shortly after 9 -o'clock tonight. The down town section was flooded for more than a mile square. So swift was the current in the streets that spectators rushing to the sctne of the tornado, were unable to remain on their feet.

A warehouse, several homes and garages were destroyed by fire, which started soon after the tornado. The fire department, which was called to aid in the rescue of marooned persons, was unable to get within half a mile of the stranded persons, or the fires. More than an hour alter the first alarm of fire was sounded, firemen succeeded in getting water on the burning structures. I By Associated Press) Louisville, Sept. 28.

Eight persons were killed and thousands of dollars of damage was done when a cloudburst struck this city tonight. The eight dead are members of the family of Mack Carvern, in whose house they were congregated when the cloudburst struck the city. (By Associated Press) Omaha, Sept. 28. A fire iv reported to have broken out in the downtown district of Council Bluffs, a short distance from here, after a tornado had visited the south of the city tonight.

A portion of the Strand theatre, which is located on the tank of Indian creek, is reported to have collapsed as have a number of houses. So far as could be learned, no one had been killed. Telephone service was disrupted. The streets were reported to be inundated by water from Indian creek, which has risen rapidly in the past few hours. Parade Most Striking Demon-stration of Numbers of Klan in County "Bootleggers and confidence men must go." was the wording of one of the placards carried last night in a parade of 52 automobiles' through the streets of West Palm Beach, preceding a Ku Klux Klan initiation, or "naturalization," at Lake Worth.

l'recdom of press, 'Prccuom ot speech," "Chastity of womanhood" and "Separation of church and state" were some of the other mottoes displayed, evidently to indicate the objects sought to be accomplished or maintained by the organization. Hour set for the arrival of the parade in West Palm Beach was- not clearly Stated in the advertisment, the announcement being limited to the statement that the assembly would be at 7 o'clock at Lake Worth. There were groups of people on all of the corners on Poinsettia street between Clematis avenue and Okeechobee road at 8 o'clock awaiting the arrival of the parade, with the largest group at Clematis. The parade had lost some number of awaiting spectators' when it arrived at Hibiscus avenue at 8:50. A large white car which carried the American flag and a placard with the words, "The Ku Klux Klan stands for white supremacy" led the parade.

The cars moved at a smart pace and quickly covered the route stated in the newspaper advertisements: On Hibiscus west to Sapo-dilla, north on Sapodilla to Clematis-, east on Clematis to Narcissus, thence circling the two blocks on Banyan back to Dixie highway and returning to Lake Worth for the ccremany of initiation. In only 'a few cars was the driver alone; in almost every car there were two or more persons, and the parade last night 'was accepted 4s the most striking demonstration of numbers the klan made in Palm Beach county. There were many kinds of cars but Fords predominated. License plates of some of the cars were wrapped in cloth to conceal the numbers; in some instances the cloth had come loose and streamed behind, exposing the number, and in other caws no effort seemed to have been made to conceal the car's license number: The accepted costuming of klan membership hood stnd robe was in evidence only partially, for many of the paradcrs wore only a hood or made a handkerchief serve as a mask. In one car a rider seemed to have opened his hood purposely to expose his features'.

The paraders were viewed with curiosity by the crowd on the Sidewalks in the business section of the city but there was no applause, demonstration of sympathy nor disapproval. A reporter who mingled with groups of spectators for half ah hour before the parade heard no comment on the organization' or its demonstration. BOOTLEGGER MUST Chicago, Sept. 28. Parker D.

Cramer, aviator who bopped oil from Ellington Field, Houston, this morning in an effort to fiy 1,744 miles to Bradford, was forced down at Hickman, by a broken water line this afternoon, according to a message received from him by the Associated Press. He did not indicate whether he would continue his flight. He had hoped to break Scotty Crooker's non-stop record flight from the Gulf to Canada. State Supreme Court Dissolves Injunction Against Recall Election (By Associated Press) Oklahoma City, Sept. 28.

The area of stringent martial law in Oklahoma was widened tonight when Governor Walton ordered national guard troops to Payne county, in response to an appeal from "District Judge C. S. Smith of dishing. The judge declared that no justice can be obtained in the county through the county attorney, the governor said. Coincident with his order the governor intimated that martial law throughout the state will be modified within the next few days.

"Military rule may be eased up after Tuesday," he declared. The last legal barrier to the special election called by Governor J. C. Walton for October 2 was removed today when the state supreme court" dissolved the injunction issued by the district court, under which the election would have been prevented. The supreme court earlier in the dav had denied a rehearing of the friendlv suit instituted by Attorney General Short to test the legality of the election, after yesterday reversing the decision of the lower court in granting the election.

This suit was filed at the behest of American Legion officials, who are interested in a $55,000,000 bonus bill that is to be voted upon at the election. The fate of an initiative bill will be taken up at a supreme court conference tomorrow. At that time the court is expected to rule on an application for mandamus, filed by Campbell Russell, who circulated the petition to force the election board to place the measure on the October 2 ballot. The supreme court is expected to act on the application of Governor Walton for rehearsing of his appeal from the decision of the secretary of state, holding that the referendum is legal. Walton charges that a number of signatures on the petitino are forgeries.

Governor Walton said that only the Gushing district, an oil field which extends into Lincoln and Creek counties, will be affected. The military has occupied Drumwright, in Creek county, which was included in the original proclamation of absolute martial law, he added. The withdrawal today of the Enid unit of the national guard, which has been on duty here, lent strength to the belief that Governor Walton contemplated a modification of military regulations. Guardsmen posted at the state capitol here, were removed but the statement came from the executive mansion that military courts of inquiry would continue their investigations into mob violence. The second edition of the Record, Governor Walton's newspaper, was published today.

It made public testimony before the military court at Tulsa, showing that a former official of the Ku Klux Klan had ordered the whipping of a man in Tulsa county. The governor revealed the alleged account of how the Rev. Thomas J. Irvin of Lawton, had been persecuted by a masked mob who, on two occasions, maltreated him and left him for dead. The first mob action, according to the report, was the order to leave the state.

The report declared that in April 29, 1922, he was slugged, gagged and bound and thrown into a ditch of water, and again, June 5. 1922, stripped and beaten. Greece Authorizes Payment to Italy Athens, Sept. 28. Acting on instructions issued by the Greek government, the National Bank of Greece has telegraphed the Swiss National Bank, authorizing tha't institution to make immediate payment of the fifty million lire indemnity deposit to Italy.

The presentation of Greece's reply to the council of ambassadors, with regard to the council's decision in the controversy between Greece and Italy, has beert postponed until tomorrow. AREA OF MARTIAL LAW IS WIDENED Crash Through Bridge Weak-ened by Storms and Swollen Stream BODIES OF VISIBLE DEAD OUT OF REACH Piled up Cars, Wretched People, Lightning, and Rain Make Veritable Hell Casper, Sept. 28. An unknown number of victims of the wreck of the Burlington's Casper-Denver passenger train No. .50, wrecked last night near Lockett.

still were in the submerged cars of the wrecked train tonight. A conservative estimate of the dead is believed to be forty, some persons maintaining that many others lost their lives, while railroad authorities sav fewer were lost. "The train composed of a locomotive, baggage, mail and express cars, two day coaches and two Pullmans plunged through a bridge across Coal creek shortly after leaving here at 8:30 o'clock last night. The train was made up in Casper and was due to arrive in Denver at 10:06 morning. All of the train except the rear Pullman dropped into the creek, which was over its banks on account of recent rains.

As the day wore on, newspaper men noticed that the cars had slowly settled beneath the water. This afternoon the known dead consisted of Nicholas Schmetz, of Douglas, Wyo B. E. Schultz, of Casper, a baggag-j man, and an unidentified hobo. Out of the eighty persons believed to have been on the train about forty have been accounted for.

The estimate of the loss of life is based on statements of passengers passed through the day coaches prior to the wreck. These coaches are under water and the death figure probably will not be known for some time. Although the bodies of several victims arc visible, an attempt to reach them was out of the question as the creek is 75 feet wide and the current is extremely swift. Everything possible was being done, railroad officials said, but little could be done toward recovering the bodies until the waters recede. Railroad men today declared their belief that the accident could not have been prevented.

An hour before the swinging around a slight curve on schedule, time, crashed through the bridge spanning the small stream, a track walker reported that he had inspected the structure and found it safe. Weakened by heavy storms and with its edgejs torn away by the torrent as the result of a cloudburst, the small bridge was in no condition to withstand its heavy load of steel, they said. The train back to the second coach is submerged and the car is standing on end, almost under water. The Pullman stood on end almost throughout the night and today its support washed away and it fell into the stream. The Pullman is believed to contain the bodies of three passengers and a porter.

L. D. Coburri, conductor; M. A. Robinson of Salida, and D.

Littleton, porter, saved many of the passengers of the Pullman. Three times Coburn and Robinson, guided by a rope made from bell cords, entered the car and rescued men imprisoned in their berths. A rope was strung from one end of the partly submerged day coach to the bank and over it passengers who were able climbed, hand-overhand to safety. Women escaped in this manner. Flashes of lightning and the glare from the headlight of a locomotive broke the darkness.

"Piled up cars, wretched people and the lightning flashing through the rain made a hell I will never forget," declared Dan J. McQuade of Denver, who telephoned first news of the disaster. Narrow escapes were recorded by several passengers, among them H. G. Bellrose, first reported missing because he was known to be in the smoking compartment of the leading Pullman.

Bellrose was thrown out of the berth and was washed into the Platte river and there grabbed a floating tie, with the aid of which he reached the bank. Gus. G. Phillips was burned badly when he crawled out of a coach and made his way over the hot engine to reach the bank. Survivors removed from the flood on the east bank were taken to Douglas, while those removed from Pullmans on the west were brought to Casper.

Many had abandoned their clothing on the sleeper and remained in Pullman cars on Burlington tracks here un. til they could be provided for. 1 Chicago, Sept. 28. Reports filtering into the Burlington office here over damaged telegraph wires, from the, creek near Lockett, where passenger train number 30 plunged into the swollen waters, indicated that rescue work was proceeding slowly because of the rushing waters, (Continued on page six Unnatural Conditions Surrounded Illness, District Attorney Informed DEATH OF MOTHER WAS VERY SIMILAR Relatives Who Are Left Out of Last Will Demand an Investigation New York, Sept.

28. The New York district attorney's office was informed of unnatural conditions surrounding the illness of Mrs. Charles Webb, a few hours before she died in the Westchester-Bilt-more Country Club at Rye, N. Assistant District Attorney Pecora announced today. Mrs.

Webb, socially well known and wealthy in her own right, died after a short illness, which mystified her physicians. She was 40 years old. Dr. Otto Schultze, medical assistant to the district attorney's office, immediately went to Rye at the request of the dead woman's friends to make a preliminary examination of her body. He declared today that in his opinion death had been caused by poison.

He said that certain corrosive substances had been found in the body. Friends of Mrs. Webb went to Pecora's office last Tuesday and informed him that "death was imminent" and that "most unnatural conditions prevailed," he said. He added that the New York officers could take no action unless further developments proved, as had been suggested, that some slow poison was given Mrs. Webb in New York city before going to Rye.

Mr. and Mrs. Webb, who were socially well known in New York, Philadelphia and various resorts were married November 4 last. Before her marriage Mrs. Webb was Gertrude Emily Gorman, daughter of S.

Jennings Gorman. Mrs. Gorman, who died shortly before her daughter's marriage, left Mrs. Webb two large pieces of real estate valued at about It was reported that Mrs. Gorman died under circumstances similar to those which surrounded her daughter's death.

Both women were stricken with an affection of the eye. Mrs. Webb went to a hospital, where medical authorities declared she could not live more than 30 days. This was about three weeks ago. The Webbs moved to the Country club in Rye, where she grew steadily worse.

Friends of the dead woman said today that the disposition of lief fortune, which they estimated at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, had been altered several times since her marriage. Her original will, it was said, made before her marriage, contained numerous bequests to relatives, including Mr. and Mrs. William T. Hunter, of Devon, wdio were with her shortly before her death and who demanded an investigation of its circumstances.

In whose favor the will was changed was not said. The death certificate filed in the town of Harrison, which Mrs. Webb's private physician refused lo sign, attributed death to a gangrenous affection and to a kidney ailment, which, according to physicians, could have been caused by poison, bilt not necessarily. No mention was made of bruises on the dead woman's abdomen nor what connection this might have with the poison theory. ROBBERS GET $6,000 Dayton, Sept.

28. Two robbers held up the office of the Delco Light Company here this afternoon and took approximately $6,000, company officials report. Dayton and Montgomery county police are searching for the men, who esipcd in an automobile. and started his short-lived comeback; and Luis Firpo jumped into the contender, class by stowing away Jack McAuliffe. The other clashes bulletined by The Post included: Dempsey-Gibbons, July Willard-Firpo, July 12; Leon-ard-Tendler, July 23; Greb-Wilson, August 31; and Dempsey-Firpo, September 14.

The fight next Thursday afternoon is attracting more interest in these parts than of the bigger affairs because Young appeared in the Banyan street arena last season in an exhibition, and has fought at Miami twice in the last year. Mike McTigue, the title holder, is a spectacular pugilistic figure by virtue of his defeat of Battling Siki, Senegalese wild man, who lifted the crown) from dapper Georges Carpentier. And not only that, but Mike turned the title-gathering aifair into a jubilee by turning the trick, is Dublin on St. Patrick's day. POST TO BULLETIN BLOW-BY-BLOW RETURNS STRIBLING-McTIGUE LIGHT HEAVY TITLE GO In accordance with its policy of giving local sport enthusiasts the best possible service The Post has arranged for special Associated Press blow-by-blow returns on the Young Stribling-Mike McTigue bout for the light heavyweight championship of the world next Thursday afternoon, October 4.

Final results only will be bulletined of the preliminaries, which are scheduled to begin at 3 o'clock central time, or 4 o'clock eastern time but when the first round comes up for the main argument at 5 p. m. "West Palm Beach" time, every detail oif the ringside, inside the squared circle and out, will be megaphoned from the office of The Post to the stamping ground of local fight fans Olive street just south of Clematis. This will be the seventh big ring encounter bulletined to local fans this year by The Post. The first show was the big Milk Fund program, May 12, when Jess Wil-lard stopped young Floyd Johnson.