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ispppsppp mwmMjmmxmEi lWSSwN TiTtlWWT lAimw is re W5 WfW rt Vi rr i CC J3AN RAClsc6cimolficiE TtrRDrCXiJuSj as D2r MB SEEKS POLICE AID TO RE CHILD Mrs Gertrude Moyles Says Divorced Husband Made Threat to Kill Son KIDNAPING IS CHARGED Maternal Love Overcomes Fear She Asks Arrest of Former Spouse News sent to her by friends that ir little son was constantly calling Sot her yesterday caused Mrs Ger Urude Moyles of 22S4 Bush street to ink for the arrest of her divorce husband Qoorge Moyles for the kldr sWns of their 4 year old son Leonard last July Mrs Moyles said that she has feared 10 attempt to tain her child other vise than by constant appeals to Xloyles because of a threat he made I hat he would rather kill the baby than give him back shortly after sbductlnr him 8lnce that threat the mother says bhe has been preyed upon by two Amotions fear for her childs life and Jonging for him But she said yesterday that when fwo days ago she yieard that Moyles had been seen with the child on the streets late at night land that the child had cried constant ly for her she determined to risk Everything upon the power the taw CHILDS LTFB THREATENED Mrs Moyles was granted a divorce from Moyles last May she said on the Irround of cruelty and the child was Iglven Into her care by Judge Thomas Graham with the understanding that the father could see It at frequent Intervals and wlh her permission She fcald that only July 1 Moyles entered the home of her mother Mrs Dorothy ftosenklnd at 2284 Bush street with tout her knowledge or consent and took the child away with him Since that time she says he has refused to Tve her his address and during a chance nfeetlng with her made the threat of taking the boys life Which Jits kept her for two months from asking tho police for aid The couple were married here In Billy IMS Mrs Moyles said and her tiusband worked Irregularly as a ma rolntst In various local shops She raid that their life ws at times made unhappy by her husbands intemperance and after the birth of the child by acts of cruelty on his part becauao tof which she secured the divorce MOVIKS FRIGHTENED IIKIt She said that she had not asked for alimony from Moyles preferring to Work for the support of the child whom she left during the day in her mothers care while she worked In a local dying establishment as a cleric Moyles she said had constantly made lier apprehensive bv his actions in fallowing her to and from her work since 4he divorce and by threats of revenge against her for securing It According to Mrs Movie his action in taking the child Is dictated only by the hopo ert hurting her and riot from any at loctlon for the boy Yesterday accompanied by her attorney Joseph JlcShayne Mrs Moylesswore to a avarrant before Police Judge 1 fltspatrlck in the hope that the police tould And her boy and return him tinharmed to her Be ture to vote for Short ridge the only true Republican Becking the nomination for the United Statet Senatorship 1750 Christians Killed By Bedouins in Rad CAIRO EgvpO August 26 Jhe hundred and fifty Christians have been killed at AJlun a village about fifty miles northeast of Jerusalem by bond or Heciouins Rccoruiny i dispatch rpcelved hero from Haifa Palestine Another flspatch states that In a recent Reitouln raid on a train near Damascus an Italian naval fcfllcer was among the killed Miss Henry Appointed Social Work Official Miss Helen Jean Henry assistant director of community organisation ef the Commission of Immigration fend HoAsing has been appointed executive secretary of the California Plate Conference of Social Work I This organization Includes virtually all of the social womers in me oioo fend has a membershln ot 2000 SHASTA SPRINGS Tiellghtful weather and a delightful tripboth rail and highway Advt MRS GERTRUDE YJ MOYLES who has asled the police to find her child who the tayi wet kidnaped last Jul byhcr divorced husband a MRRRMs aBsan tCTvial aBBBBaHsBaauasflamv tt 4sHf underbill Willed Grandsons Million Two English Nobles Sons of Consuelo Get Money NKW TORK August 27 The Marquis of Blandford and Ird Ivor Churchill have been left 11000000 each by their grandfather William Vanderbllt It became known tonight vi hen summary of Vandcrbllts will was made public Both are sons of the Duchess of Marlborough formerly Consuelo Vanderbllt To carry out a provision of the settlement made on the marriage of the Duchess of Mirlborough there is left to the trustees under the settlement 12500090 with interest at 4 per cent William Vanderbllt Jr and Harold Vanderbllt sons were left 12 00000 each In rash or securities and to them as trustees for William Vanderbllt III his grandson he left another 11000000 A number of Gainsborough and Reynolds portraits and other works of art are bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Vanderbllt University of Nashville Tenn receives 1250000 The will leaves tlS 000 to James Love drove his butler and William Kavanagh the valet receives 5000 Maine RaibEmployes GetVoge Increase CHICAGO August 27 The United States Railway Labor Board today handed down Us first short line wage decision granting employes of the Bangor and Aroostock Railroad in Maine the same wage scale recently fixed for the big roads In the 600 000000 wage Inurease WAGE IIS OF fffil Reported Terms Decided On by Commission Announced by Operator WILRJSSBARRB Pa August 27 Reported terms of the award of the the anthracite coal commission now In the hands of President Wilson were made publlo In local newspapers here today Copies of the award It Is said had been furnished operators In advance of Its announcement by1 the President An operator not named la given as their authority by the newspapers carrying the award which It Is declared was made public to satisfy Insurgent miners who were threatening to strike WAGE AWARDS The award so far as It affects wages and working conditions Is as The contract rates at each colliery shall be Increased 65 per cent over the contract rates effective April 1916 as established under the agreement of May 1916 The hourly rates of outside and In side company man receiving 11848 or more per day under the agree ment of May 5 1916 shall be Increased 17 per cent said Increase to be applied to the total rate now In effect namely the base rate established under the agreement of May 8 1916 plus the war allowance It being understood that the new rate so established shall not be less than 4 20 per shift DATA FROM APRIL 1 The hourly rates ot outside and inside employes receiving less than 11S4K ner dav under the agreement ot May 1916 shall be Increased 4 cents per hour over the rates now in effect The rates paid consideration miners shall be Increased 17 per cent plus the war allowance The rates paid contract miners laborers and consideration miners labors shall be Increased above the rates established to the same amount per day as the Increase to company laborers The employes of stripping contractors hall be paid an Increase corresponding in amount to the rates for employes of the operators In similar occupation at the same colliery The Increases are to beoome effective as of April 1 1920 On Tuesday Republicans will show by voting for Shortridge that the teat of loyalty thU country i devotion to American interest and not those of a Wood to Decide on Withdrawal of Troops DENVER August 27 Major GeneralGeneral Leonard A Wood arrived here today and with Colonel Bftllou commandant of Fort Logan began an official Inspection of that post While here Wood will determine whether Federal troops now enforcing military control in the city on account of a street car strike will be withdrawn TOTE FOK TIIE INCUMTIEKTS Bonn ind BritUIn IFMiJvam prlmtrr TtHSdny Aatttt 81 Ad Pastor Deaconess Pictured in Nude Divorce Evidence pi Former Pastor Faife to Answer Charges Made by Wife Spadsl br LMMd Wire to Tin Chmklt PITTSBURG August 27 Pictures of her husband In the nude with the deaconess ot his church which were taken In his study were introduced as evidence In the sensational divorce proceedings filed by Mrs Esther Hart wife of Rev Frederick Hart a Methodist Bpls oopal minister Hart formerly had a pastorate at Bellalre but the denouement ot his relations with the church workers resulted In his being removed from his charge and he Is now working in Akron Th minister did not appear at the hearing The first Intimation ot the husbands misconduct was obtained when his wife found the pictures ot her husband with the deaconess These pictures the wife said she learned were taken by her husband himself some of them being taken by placing a thread on the shutter release on the camera The wife also testified that she had found letters which had passed between the oouple and these together with the photographs were offered as exhibits In the case Mrs Hart told a story of neglect and abuse at the hands of her husband On one occasion he threatened her Ufa with a revolver she said She endured his treatment tor the sake of their children When how over she discovered her husband conduct she left him Physician Is Denied Habeas Corpus Writ Contending that he was sentenced to Sn Quentin without the formality of a fair hearing by a magistrate before bavins been taken before the I Judge who ordered him Imprisoned Dr Ephrlam Northcott now Ml prison In connection with the death of Mlvs TUltiabeth lnes Reed an Army nurse who died following an Illegal operation yesterday petitioned Federal Judge William Van Fleet for a writ of habeas corpus The document was filed at 2 oclock and fifteen minutes later was denied by Judge Van Fleet Miss Heed die early In March of last year and her body was found near a creek In the hills near San Mateo Northcott was charged with the nurses death and was arrested April 29 He later was convicted and oil July was sentenced to an Indeterminate term In San Quentin i i Oil Land Claimants Must Establish Title WASHINGTON August 27 3rant of leasing rights on thousands of acres of valuable oil land may turn upon the ability of applicants to prove the exact time on last February 28 at which the President siomail the land leasing bill Under a ruling announced today by Secretary Payna hundreds of conflicting locations made the dav the act was approved would be held as having been iqade simultaneously and tbe locations split up subject to some of the filings being thrown out bv proof that they were made before the act went into effect To do this It will be necessary for an Interested locator to establl ih the precise time at which the President affixed his signature JUDGE SHORTALL Incumbent Re elect him for Superior Judge Advt MNTSH Fl ntKlQ PRICES TUMBLE ieiraiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiyraiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiir I E3 aSJVA 9 0BaBa Is CF RlrfilS Ultimate Consumer May Soon Enjoy Joyful Music as King Hi Cost Loses CHICAGO August 27 Time Is approaching when that patient burden bearer Ultimate Consumer can get out the hewgag and regale himself with a little Joyful musli for prices are tumbling If people etarve to death this winter It will not be the fault of the farmer for reports show greater crops of better quality than were produced last season Commission men and food experts generally agree that this vast surplus must result In lower prices These have already set In and are being felt nil along the line SUGAR TAKK SLUMP Perhaps the most noticeable declines at present are in various classes of food clothing and shoes Sugar has already taken a decided flop and is due for further decline and experts say it will tall to 10 or 11 cents a pound before the end la reachel Huge potato crops In Minnesota and other states noted for production of this highly Important food product assures much lower prices and removes all fear of a famine Perhaps the most hopeful of all signs la the attitude of labor There has beefi no reduction In the price of labor or its hours bnt the men are speeding up at a most gratifying rate Bricklayers who hav taken note of many men walking the streets seeking employment are now laying 30 to 60 per cent more bricks a day Carpenters who are paid 9180 an hour now give soma attention to their work Instead ot devoting their short hours to filing saws and consulting their baseball pool cards sebk nicmsn pat The same change goes for other branches of labor excepting slways political and municipal employes who still do just as little as possible spending practically all their time agitating for higher pay and shorter hours and berating any foolish employe who undertakes to give a show of service for his pay The chief fly in the ointment le the hoggish attitude of the landlords They are still gouging tenants to the lhnt and propose to give them a still heavier dose when October leases are made out The Increased rentals will eat up all that may be saved on lower priced food products Tenants are organising for mutual protection and the Legislature will be asked to pass an especial law to curb the greedy rent hogs Boy Admit Plot to Kill Ball Magnate CHICAGO August 27 Confession of a plot to kill Charles A Comlskev baseball magnate and the office forw and police guard at the White Sox baseball park box office September 16 vtas marie by the three boy bandits who were arrested yesterday in an attempted robbery of a 140 000 pay roll of Wilson Co stockyards packers the police announced today According to the police the three said that they Intended to steal the gate receipts of the White Sox Yan kee game September 16 when they flgured Babe Ruth would draw a record breaking attendance Hie itiirtt of To hrMOiM In th rtmr The Man or the Monkey by Bleatmre Rom is thlN weeks News Letter Oo a copy tt all eewi stsndfl Advt PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS A Series of Historic High Lights Prepared for The Chronicle by JOHN FISKE Celebrated American Writer and Historical Authority Tho Democrats In 1850 nominated General Hancock mainly because of his brilliant record in the Civil War He obtained 155 electoral votes The Republicans nominated Gener al Garfleld who obtained SULv qUs and was elected The Vice President chosen with him was Chester Alan Arthur who had been Collector of tho Port of New Tork The new Presi dent was besieged with applicants for office On the 2d of July the ARTICLn TWENTT JAEFIELD AND AKTHCB 1WU 1WM country 1 it tv fsspytflj JHkI IJAMF 1 A AIliriEIU I was startled bv the news that he had been shot while standing In the railway station at Wash ington The assassin was a worthless wretch who failed to obtain some paltry office For many weeks tho President lingered between life and death and finally passed away on the 19th of September The chief event of President Arthurs administration was the passage of an act tor reforming the civil service It empowered the President to order appointments to be made by competitive examination and It provided tor a permanent board of commissioners to superintend and perfect such a system The act proposed by Senator Pendleton ot Ohio a Democrat was passed through Congress hy majorities Irrespective of party and was set in operation by the Republican President lUlhU mmd hj Bouhtm Mifflin Company I Glendales Gain In Count 392 Pd Los Angeles County Has 936438 Population WARH1NOTON August 27 The Census Bureau gave out the follow ing population figures today Totfc Nab 6388 i rraaooU Arts 4S80 nmi Ml or IS per ent docraue 713 ot 14 par Jerome Aria MSO Imraaaa 16ST 4 Huron 8SOS ineraaaa 8811 or tt4 GVUIi Im AnsalM oounty OaL oontalniiis Jja An i aoi i 490 SUIT HOS DOf amiM vowwwv i i OBDU Glrndala Cal lWi toawaaa 1070 SW WwoVwuntr Mtak OMrtaintal Detroit U77 713 lnomaa 040115 or 21 Orm ny wis 111017 Increase 6181 or Ited wina Uina 8687 oKreaaa 411 at 45 IkTA Ait UJtH deeroMa 7S 1 OomiCIrlaU Tax 10622 lnoraaaa 230 ot BntfaloTN0 rartood 0rnft Prtewl7 mimrl W0M0 lM OU Of UWH1M iiraawaata mtowr JHW4 or 10 per cent Blood Stained Clothes Found in Suit Case HARRISON August 27 The polee are Investigating a new aniinaae mvatery today following tne discovery of bloodstained garments cr a man ana wumtB uf ing bag oeuevea 10 nav nnfi uunn from a car window Into West Hudson Park League of Southwest Opposed to Japanese DENVER August 27 Resolutions favoring development of tbe waters of the Colorado river and opposing farther enlargement of agricultural holdings of citizens ot any Oriental nation were adopted unanimously today at the closing conference ot the League of the Southwest i MlIWAltKKK IWrali Annul 27 Raaeh Buffalo waa elaptad praaidant of the rholOfratihara Aatneiarlon of America today ft nonfat tar Dea Jloiaea Iowa waa eboBae Brat tioe pmident imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiraiiiiBiiiiniraiiiiiiiiiiiiiiwiiiiiiiraiiHiuii Crant Ave al Ccary Telephone Douglas 2100 For the School and College Girl Tricotine Dresses i 26 DISHES from which to partake in Todays CONTINENTAL STYLE LUNCHEON Enjoy one or all same price ALSO Ready to Serve Specials Fricassee Spring Lanib Rice60c Marquard Omelette Florentine 55c Fricandeau of Veal New Carrots in Butter 65c TONIGHT Veto Show HELLO CALIFORNIA Extravaganza Extraordinaire Dlaner a 4e 1 After Theater Sapper 11 to 1 CAFE MARQURD Smart Placa for Smart People ieary aad Muaa Service Bnreaa Colaaabla Theater Prospect 1 ft Hairy Mafqtiard Prop Designed especially for the In Belween Ages of 13 to 17 years IN THE FOURTH FLOOR SHOP The variety of the collection anticipates the manifold requirements of these ages Slim line frocks for those a bit too plump accordion-pleated modes for the girl whojs too thin and for all the many types of figures in the years when weight does not keep pace with growth we have particularly designed frocks Colorful embroidery leather trimming smart stitching and buttons give additional charm to the many modes featured in these tricotine Frocks at 2950 3950 4500 Youthful Hats to accompany these frocks also in our Fourth Floor Shop Displaying an equally diverse array of hat modes from the close fitting types to dashing roll brims and wide brim sailors Both Duvetyns and Velvets are favored in the seasons new shades of Pheasant Nanking and Beaver as well as Brown Navy Black 115Psli50 1450 MtVi fmv a 1 nisiiniitMiii IlMinitiinrmiEiiiiimiiMiirniiiiMni tttu gearystoCTttom Jg4 3 TELEPHONE Paris uses Veils tKat range from a MasK to i a a long wiHth that sometimes grows to yards atfKtbWLMaBBBBBBBBBBBBaaBV City of Paris Veils are noted lor their beauty and quality and oir Milliner just back from Paris says this little sketch is typical of the use of the veil in the gay French capital The hat illustrated is one of the youthful notions that Fashion says is so correct There are veils in the Millinery Salon and there are veils on the Main Floor This Beautiful State which is an Aggre gation of Fine Specialty Shops is literally teeming with New Beautiful Merchandise Spend your whole day here today Foch Will Not Visit Declares Knecht STRASBOURG August 17 Dr Marcel Knecht formerly ot the French high commission to the United States today denied on behalf ot Marshal Foch that the latter plans to visit the United States In April Dr Knecht added that Marshal Foch would not go to the United States without consulting both his own and the American Governments EXTENSION I i posh miw StSTEMHB Former Director War FinaTice Corporation Favors RaisF in Interest Rate NEW TORK August JT sfsrl ron of the postal savings system at an attractive rata of Interest by ttoi uoverpmeni to inrnistt banking fa I cllltles to the great body of common people was urged here today by Eugene Meyer Jr former managing director of th War Finance Corporation Appearing before tho Senate spe clal committee oo reconstruction and DrodUCtlOn the tlnAni nnnn4 legislation to authorize payment oft I a 4 per cent rate ot interest on pos I tal savings deposits Instead of tba present 2 per cent He also advocated Including all the 55000 poatofflces branches and substations as depos torles fliv Proper organization and admlnla rat Ion Myer said could gain savings deposits within a year sufficient to pay off the Nations Boating lnrt debetedness He also said that with Proper hanlltng deposits could be increased to cover a large part If nrti all of tho Victory loan ot more baa 14000000000 maturing In 1923 Talcing up of treasury certtfleatesv by postal savings he added weuldi relieve the banks of the burden rh redemption of certificates would fitr thermore bring about ha said a rlea In Liberty bonds of from I per peat to 10 per cent 1 I ir JSV i i raaifW iTiiiajf UTr UVi I if If tu flEBff WKJ Vai KJMlLSt1 llsVlllllflll sis ALL dky I today fl A 4 ft i 4 fffiSi maeQMaxoom i i 1 lit I i9 1 3 WrwWJ 1 I if fN i tM i i ift 1 lwynflffh ffhMM.

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