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A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN PAGES TODAY I I 5STABLISHED 1841 IOWA CITY. IOWA. MONDAY, JUNE 12,1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS 50 DIE AS CYCLONE HITS NEW YORK LABOR REPORT RAPS COURT tarket Street Resembles to Old World Mosques As City Plans to Welcome Visitors EARTHQUAKES, ONE LASTING AN HOUR, FELT IN CAPITOL (By Associated Press) June 12 A heary arthquake shock was recorded at the Georgetown Univer- NEA Servlce CHURCH TO YIELD $25,000 PROFIT (By Associated Press) SAN PRAXSISCO, Jane 12-- ransisco todaj is turning itself ito a tented oasis for the dele- ues and visitors to the Golden of the Ancient Order, Nob- of the Mjstic Shrine, June 13 i 16 For the convention period te San Fransisco bay district jgbt justly be termed the Cali- tate of California, for It will be to resemble a bit of the Old "orld Islam as closely as man's will permit. The ordained procedure of the al Islam to spread rugs for the liphs and the lesser nobles on occasions "will be reversed mewhat in the transplanted lam. The or their replicas, ill ove-hang on the streets, tak- ig the place of the usual bunting Some "Main Street" Market street, the main thor- Jghfare.

is being turned into a ne closelv akin to the pictur- arteries lead to the old orH mosques. The great Ferry mlding, San Pransisco's "front -will be recognizable only Bedouin tent and the blazing: along the main thor- iighfares will be softened in which are blend- i the red. green and gold of the Near East Traversing the "hot sands" that between the bay and the civic inter the pilgrims will cime upon le place of the kneeling camels, an. right be end, the minarets. avflions and obelisks of an Arab- in village.

In the background ill be seen the new City Hall, into an awe-inspiring irone place, its great dome glow- ig at night -with red and amber ghts and by day with a riot of ensoas, gorgeously hued, snapping i the breeze. Sham Battles Planned Wednesday, the second day of le convention, the United States will put on an aviation pro- ram with confetti and American eauty roses as the bombing am- inuition. On the same day the 50 mile Golden Jubilee national uampionship automobile race for arses agregating will be in on the San Fransisco speea- ay at San Carlos, south of here, he following days the air man- avers will be continued and other vents will be land and sea sham attles. Regattas, excursions and visits the great battleships and the craft of the Pacific fleet ill be the other events. sity last night and a less severe tremor, probab'y more distant, was recorded at about 6 o'clock this morning.

SYRACUSE, N. June a church on a business basis pays. Instead, of its annual deficit, the The first quake began at First Baptist church here, first o'clock last night and continued 5 church tn the country to adopt until 1 o'clock this morning, reach- business efficiency methods, ex- ing its greatest intensity at about pects to clear an annual profit five minutes after midnight. The center of the disturbance was estimated at 2,100 miles from i of $25,000. Its money-maker Is hotel operated in connection with Its other Washington in, a southerly direc- aciiviiies.

tion. The second quake lasted i about half an hour. Medicine Show Man Pound Murdered in Alley in Des Moines (Bv CTnited Pressi DES MOEXES, June 12 George Johnson, 40 years old. medicine man was shot and Milled by an unknown assailant in a South Side alley here today. Neighbors who tcard the shot sent for police wao found the For many years this had been run at a loss.

Trustees, hard put, met in executive session. One member, a business man, f'-'f IMS throat, and declared himself: administration of a church is no different from that of any other organization. We baie certain investments entrusted to us. The only way to protect them is by the hard, cold method of business. Let's get at it." Call Efficiency Experts He carried his point.

Efficiency experts were summoned. They found: "Too many thoroughly respectable but not "highly developed business men on the board of trustees. We recommend the whole boaid resign and a board of business men be body with a wound In the i right breast and arm The body was taken tb the coroner for an inquest. "Oklahoma Lewis" Gi'IIspie, C. M.

Hardin May Hardin have been arrested In connection with the murder. They are being held for investigation. It Body of A. F. L.

Asserts Decisions in Against Workers Are Unjust (By Associated Press) CINCINNATI. June 12--The record of organized labor's accomplishment in "a year of unusual strife and unusual industrial depression" was laid before the forty- second annual convention of the American Federation of Labor which opened here today in the report of the federation's executive council. The report declared that American labor during the year not only snffered from the, widespread unemployment that existed but was beset "by opponents more active and determined than ever." In addition to strictures on the conduct of employers in numerous cases, the report added explicit and pointed criticism of congress and of A hotel without a cigar? "Preposterous," the eff'c- iency experts. "Install a cigar Mand and other thlas-s necessar THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SYRACUSE, to the comfort of guests." WHICH HOPES TO CLEAR $25,000 THIS YEAR THROUGH BTTSI- Some of the 2.50nfcn-embers were NESS METHODS, AND (INSET) ITS PASTOR, THE REV. BER- aghast.

But the Rev. Bernard C. NARD C. CLAUSEN. Clausen, pastor, supported the effi- eitncy Why cot?" he asks.

A ted i We figlK are Cf on a Why slioUd DES MOINEs! june i business bas's Wnv not we T-to go tV cbnrch ent on a TjiTe not 'be fear of the law to Up W'Vi Times" the times. Our eaein.es take Rd- ve expect to realise a net profit The vices vantage ot the fin-iJEgs of science. 3f )rg? i D1 Johnson. 4f, a baseball playe known as "Chief" Johnson, was found slain in the rear of a build ing at 907 Southeast Tenth street. Johnson, acording to the police, formerly played baseball wlrh the Tulsa, Oklahoma western league team.

HARDING BACK HOME (Bv WASHINGTON, June President Harding returned to the Tne things we ministers "This will pay off mortgaged debt in four or jcars. we will use the profit to extend our work, supporting hospitals, expenses to missions and other worthy causes. 000 a jear," sajs the pastor. "Other churches may well fol- ness i-asis called uprn to fight ate up wTJi the new efiiciercy methods low our example." OVERDOSE OF MEDICINE FATAL TO WOMAN (By Associated Press) CLINTON, la, June 12--Mrs. White House' shortly before FranceHarriett Thuesson, 34 years o'clock today from an over Sunday! old, is dead as a result of taking cruise down the Potomac on thej an overdose of heart medicine Mayflower.

Saturday night- CITY POLICE HOLD WOMAN TELLING OF SEEING MURDER Press KANSAS CITY, June ollowing a sworn statement that ae was with Denzel Chester the ight Miss Florence Barton, local ociety girl, was slain in October, 920, and saw him fire the shot lat killed the girl, Mrs. Bessie 'urtis was held by Kansas City olice. Chester was acquitted of r-e murder of Miss Barton in far, 1921. FARM HOME BURNS (By Associated Press) CLINTON. June 12--Fire com- letely destroyed the farm resi- ence of Yunke Voss on the out- kiris near here yesterday with a estimated at $4,500.

FAMOUS OPERA STAR DEAD COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, ane Parkinson, donna, who sang Musette in ie quartet of "La Boheme" at 'onvent Gardens, London, with 'aruso. Melba and Scotl, and -ho took Melba's role in singing duet with Caruso, In one of great houses, died of tu- erculosis at a sanitarium yester- av. They Greet Shriners In West Fair FOR IOWA tonight and warmer. Tuesday. Student, Who Won Degree Tuesday, Drowned In Waterloo Yesterday Tragic was the fate of Harold Bernice Miller, newly an Iowa raii- versity alumnus, who was drowned in the Cedar river at Waterloo, late Sunday afternoon.

The young man received his degree as a bachelor of engineering in the college of applied science, Tuesday morning, June 6. He returned to his home town, to be with his parents until today, when he was to have begun his work a civil engineer. His father, Miller, Is a prominent insurance man in Waterloo. Several brothers and a sister also survive. Details of Tragedy about 150 feet from shore, when his friends, who were nearer the bank, saw that he had become a victim of a cramp and was beyond his depths.

They swam rapidly to his side, shouting for help in the meanwhile. Before they could reach the spot, however, he had drowned. Another woman, living near the scene, essayed a brave rescue, tut her efforts were futile. Firemen Recover Body Firemen were summoned and an hour after the drowning, recovered the body, using grappling I Mr. Miller was but 22 years of Mr.

Miller and two young wo-1 age. He was a high-ranking stu- men friends went to the Cedar dent at S. U. both as to schol- river Sunday to swim. He was I arship and personal worth.

10 KILLED i H'CBl iDayenport Man and Daugh- ter, 11, Victims of Crash San Francisco is ready for the "00,000 Shriners who arc expected for the Golden Jubilee 'which starts tomorrow. The welcoming leaders, all past potentates, will be- (Above) George Filmer, (right) and John McGilvray; (Below) Francis V. Keesling, (rignt) and Ernest C. Hueter, Near Princeton (By Associated Press) June 12-- Harry Schultz, and his 11-year old daughter, 1 Bandits Robbery In Office Building Lobby at Des Moines i MAY LEAD JAPAN ADMIRAL KATO Recent dispatches from Tokio have announced that the premiership has been offered to Admiral Tomosaburo Kato. The resignation of the Takahashi ministry has brought Admiral Kato to the fore as the most capable in Japan to form a new cabinet His work some state legislative bodies, de-j a the Washington conference last olaring such branches of the gov-l Trinter stamped him as a real dip- ernment to be "succumbing to a wave of Fault was found with, the action of some courts, including tie Supreme court, and with what was described as President Harding's "proposal to regulate trade unions." Proud of Their Progress "It Is with no little satisfaction in of these circumstances," the report on the other hand declared, "that we are to lay before this convention a report of achievement, a report of solidarity, a report of constructive planning, and a report that can only inadequately portray the militant spirit with which our movement has come through the year." The report declared that in the direct labor field "workers in a number of industries have been compelled to resort to cessation of work," because "organized employers" were "unwilling to -meet in conference for The most important instance of this policy was declared to be the cause of the existing coal mine strike, although troubles in the textile, garment, printing, granite, and packing house industries also were cit- ted.

Call Decisions Inhuman lomat IN fit TO (Bv Awviated DES MOINES, June C. L. of Davenport, were killed. Mrs. Cole, collector for a local whole- Schultz Is in a local hospital suf-' sale tobacco company, was held fering with serious injuries as a op and robbed by three men, of result of a railroad crossing acci-' approximately $4,500 in cash in dent south of Prinse'V last! the lobby of the Hubbell building night when a -frth bound the center of the business dis- Burlington and Qnitcv passenger trict at 11 o'clock this morning.

enthusiasm expressed" by every local organization of labor in the effort which it said proved that "not only the wage earners, but the great mass of our citizenship tuu are crying for auto Driven by Tti robbers also held up and! campaign effort will be to Turning next to courts, the executive council protested "most emphatically against such unjust and inhumane decisions" as that of the Supreme court voiding the act intending to abolish, child labor in the United States. Congress "by I this decision, must keep ite hands off when the health and life and well being of the nation's children! are concerned," the report asserted, adding that the "Supreme court of today is far more legalistic and less humane in its attitude and temperatment than was the Supreme court of ISIS." Instincts of "most fragrant abuses of equity power" were declared to be contained in Federal Judge Andersons order at Indianapolis, enjoining continuance of the! "check-off system of collecting! miners' union dues, and in Federal Judge McClintic's decision in West; Virginia against strikers of the same union in that state. i Tell Campaign Plans The executive council described its renewal of nonpartisan poht.cal campaign organizing in advance of the fall elections and expressed "satisfaction over the wonderful (By Associated Press) June 12--White additional wage cuts swung over tb.3 heads of 300,000 more railwav em- ployes and awaited only formal release by the railway board to slash another $40,000,000 from the payrolls carriers, it was rumored today that an rail strike growing out of the present efforts may be directed and financed from Canada. This move would be taken as a means of evading the recent decision of the United States Supreme court holding unions liable for damages caused by their members The expected nev wage reduction will increase the total cut from railway workers' wages approximately a year. New Cut This Week (Bj United Press) CHICAGO, June third $50,000,000 cut in the pay of railroad workers will be announced by the United States railroad labor board th's week was learned today.

Clerks, signal men, truckers and freight handlers are to be affected by the last ruling of the board. It was forecast the cut will be about 50 cents an hour Fierce Gale Tears Ferria Wheel From Base, Causing- Six Deaths; Resort Center of Storm fBy Asioclated Fran) KEW YORK, June deatir toll of the brief but terrific num cane that swooped down on the metropolitan area late yesterdr? passed the sixty mark today witi Indications that total numbei of dead might go much higher. (By tTnited Press) NEW YORK, June 12--Nearly fifty persons are dead today, According to police estimates, ra the wake of the first cyclone in history of Xew York. The hurricane struck the city late yesterday. The list of injured stands at approximately 100.

Ths heaviest life toll was taken at City Island, a resort suburb, where tha gale, accompanied by sheets of rain, bursts of hall and almost a continuous play of lightning caused casualties estimated as high as thirty dead. Bathers Among Citv Island today appeared war- wreckeu Most ofthe victims were caught bathing or boating. The storm assumed the fury aa3 characteristics of a tornado as it swept up the Sound. The twister after touching the water ripped along at nearly ninety miles an hour leveling everything in its path. Pleasure craft went over like tov boats.

Nithing like the storm has been known in the history of the oldest inhabitants for the sound and bays about New York hare been free from the perils of cyclones. Like A Pratrte Twister Yesterday's Wast, however, had all the characteristics of a prairie twister. On land, the tronado assumed the same terrifying proportions. Trees were whizzed up from their roots and hurled through the air like giant tenpins iroo eo through the roof of an, inn. pinning a woman and a little girl to their deaths beneath it Huge advertising signs New York City towered over skyscrapers were slapped down as though by an invisible hand and sent spinning high over roof tops Trees everywhere bowed before the storm.

Six Killed in Ferris Wheel In New York city proper, six were killed and twenty-seven injured when the wind and torrential rains tore a ferris wheel from its base at Clason Point Park. All the passengers were hurled to the ground amid a of twiste-i steel and their bodies many of them almost beyond recognition. One victim, a womai 1 remains tmidentified today. The gale swept into amusement resort any indication of the approaching storm from a low hanging, seemingly dark cloua It was estimated that 200 craft around the C'ty Island waters capsized by the storm and of tbeTi submerse' 11 JDOEEIUE JTIII Bv United Press 1 COLUMBUS. June 12--Witi three known dead and taore tasn twentv rescue parties today searched -ne wa'ers 01 Buck- Lake for more vlcuiss of whie 1 rescrt last night ve of the haadrias small pleasure craft on a lake when the storm broke sti 1 miss'ng.

More -has CT- tasps were Schultz. Two other pa the car, received inir.or injuries ons Ts i robbed several men standing In the lobby. They made their es- cape in an automooile. MAN LISTED IN GRAIN ONE KILLED THRE 6R chi-; CRASHES AT KEOKUK cago capitalist who was said by (By Associated Press) James K. Mason of Milton, Ind, KEOKUK, June 12--Thomas in testimony before the special i i tolled and Chester Rhod- senate committee investigating the es seriously injured In a collision United States Gram Growers, to be willing to spend $1,000,000 in promoting a sales department for the grain growers is Burton P.

Hales, member of the board of trade. between two automobiles north of Donnelson last night. Both men are from Keokuk. Two others are in a hospital here as a result of another collision between cars on ft crofi sear focus votes behind a program of Judge the age3 attorney, whose crltica; condition was reported herein "ast week, died at his home IE Sua- day aftei-noon, agen 74. He was a native of Cnicago and was graduated from S.

CHURCHILL DELAYS REPORT ON IRELAND "opposition to compulsory labo'M 1870. He had 1-ved law," and "opposition to injunc- county tions and conte-npt proceedings as substitute for trial by the council said. Take Rap at Harding President Harding was accused of having contemplated "a system of industrial laws similar to those which prevail in Kansas' when in his message to congress last December he declared that "in the case of labor organizations might well apply similar and equally well-defined principles of regulation and supervision (as he hal just recommended Ipi I in in Clinton 68 Br June 1- Wins' oa i 68 th Colonial secrets-v. City He was! nnoT3nce tte house of con- save whrn at Iowa city solicitor, school board mem- afternoon taat it wou her. Iowa senate'- and district judge, now and again, during a period of 25 years and more He retired from judgeship in 190i.

to become law partner of his son. John L. Wolfe, formerly state representative The funeral be Wednesday, Nth corporations) in order to conserve the public's interests as affected tap their be more convenient and general public interest if te de- lerred his statement on Irelanr, wh'ch it was extected he would today, until Tuesdav o- possibly Wednesday. The "articles of the new Ir constitution have been rens-d satisfactorily, the Evening Star serted today, that Artfcu- wili return to Dublin with tbein tonight..