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MRS. OBENCHAIN DENIES GUILT EXEMPT HOME FROM SEARCH TAX REVISION PASSES HOUSE OF CONGRESS AT KN0XV1LLE IN BEER BILL Conferees Write New Amendment Instead of Senate Plan mm BYPARTYVOTE Three Democrats for and 9 Republicans Against Bill SENATETO ACT AFTER RECESS? Measure Expected to Cut 818 Million Patrol Street Around Jail, Scene of Pre President Urges Aid in Solving Snipping Board Problem EXPECT FIGHT UPON MEASURE Upper House Likely to Oppose Elimination of-Clause Three young citizens being weighed on Uncle Sam's parcel post scales, Since a. postal regulation makes It possible for mothers to bring their babes to the parcel postman to be weighed when he calls. Oak lunH fal mnthnri or taking artvantarra nf it A Inrirn acnlo i narf of the equipment of the parcel post wagon and mothers eagerlv bring their bahies to he weighed. Each of these kiddies could be sent, from California to New York for about the only difficulty being the from Burden tai revision bill of 1921.

estimate 1 to cut $818,000,000 from the jtion's tax burden by 1923, waa. passed late today by the house. 274 to 125, on an almost straight party vote. Three Democrats sup--i ported the measure and nine Re-; publicans voted against It. i Compared with, this number of Republicans were 50 who voted for a Democratic motion to recom mit the bill for elimination of the provision repealing the income surtax rates above 32 per cent.

This motion was lost. 1 85 to 239. with one Democrat. Campbell, of Pennsylvania, voting against It. Goet To Senate Monday.

The bill will be sent Mondav to the senate, where it will be taken up after the nd of the recesa oo sept. 21. Meantime the senate fl- nance committee will hold addt- tlonal public hearings oa th whole tax question and probably revise the measure In a nnmber of 'de'ails As finally passed by th hous with nearly 100 committee amendments, the bill Is estimated to produce a total of $3,347,000,000 revenue this fiscal year, or $221. ono.ooo less than the estimate un- der the existing law. As rple' excess profits iax ana mgaer income surras ra'e? would not become effective until next Jan.

1. the full force the measure will not be reflected in government receipts until the calendar year 1923. but Republi- other taxes the reduction In the tax bill in the net calendar rear passed include: Repeal of the excess profits tax. Increase of the corporation income tax from 10 to 12 1-2 percent effective next January 1- Repeal of the income surtax from 30 percent, to 63 per t.pnf inclusive. A new photograph of Mrs Mada-lynne Obenchain.

Mrs Madalynne Obenchiin. accused with Arthur C. Rurch. of the murder bf J. Rolton Kennedv, will enter her plea in the Los Angeles court next Monday.

It is expected that her ple i will be "not guilty," ana mai sne win asK ior ner tree- aom on nan penning trial. PLAN HEARING KENNEDY CASE 1 Both Attornevs Claim Accused Persons to Gain Freedom LOS ANGELES. Aug. 20. I i 1 WIFE DROWNS; vious 1 rouble FEELINGTENSE DURING NIGHT Rumors of Plans to Use Dynamite Fail 4 to Materialize KNOXVILLE, Auk.

company of national guardsmen under command of Adjutant General Brum it and virtually the entire police fore was ordered on duty tonight to patrol the vicinity! of the Knox county Jail to prevent if poss'ble a recurrence of Inst night's attempt by a moh to storm jail, whfr Frank Martin, a Jhegro, charged with attacking a young white girl, and eeveral other Important prisoners are held. A company of state cavalry patrolled th streets near the jail throughout the day, and a machine gun company rematned stationed outside building, which was virtually wrecked by a mob Aug. 30 ,1919. attempting to seize Mau-ric Mays, negro, soon after the murder of Mrs. Bertie Lindsey, for which he i now held thro under sentence of death.

Fnir whit men rocently sentenced to death for the murder of Goorg' Lewis in Anderson comity, also are held in the jail. Feeling Continues Tense. Feeling continued tense throughout the day, and the authorities announced tonight they were prepared for any eventuality. Analysis of stains found on Mar -j tine umieroioining xooay reveal-rd were caused by blood but whether of human or animal origin has not been ascertained. Extraordinary precautions wer faken to preserve order tonight as A threats of the use of dynamite against the jail and its defenders in revenge for the shooting last I 11 1 (I 'VT" JIIIM71 ft" 6.J JFAVOR POWERS FOR TREASURY Senate Finance Committee Sanctions War Debt Plan WASHINGTON.

Aug. administrations bill for funding the allied debts was reported to the senate today by the finance committee with a majority recommendation for its passage so 1hat the treasury secretary may have broad powers in adjusting the questions at issue. An amendment requiring the funding to be completed within 5 years was added by the majority. The freedom and broad powers with which the njajority said the secretary should be endowei how-; ever, were attacked by Snaor La-! i i rroserution and defense -la the can -leaders say-that through re-cases nf Mrs Martaivnn Ohen-1 real of the transportation and ch.iin and Arthu C. Bureh, indict- ed for murder in connection with wm be approximately $512,000,000.

the shooting of J. Kennedy to-! Prlnc'pal Chanqes Made day prepared for the preliminary! The principal changes in pres-hciring Monday at which the de-ient tax levies made by the bill as EXPLAINS WEED FOR HIGH PAY Tells Senator in Letter of Difficulty LaskerFaces i WASHINGTON. Auc 20. Th- closest co-operation between con i gress and the administration in an effort to bring Shipping Roard losses down to a minimum was urged today by President Harding In a letdr to Senator Jones. Republican, read to the senate during consideration of bill cj'lTying $4 SOtvOOO for the boards activities.

The president sa'd there had been "unjpeakable losses and unutterable wastes" I 1 L- mi ii musi. up uarKfii in ujp war MuerKmry. Laskr's effort to get i big men to aid in putting the i hoard on ts feet was approved hy the president, who said if they iiiMiiu run uissps iii'ir salaries would be more than justi flpf1, Pay ld Claims. ame time, tftere wa from Chairman saying that sooner or lv congress would called upor to appropriate in out standing claims, inherited from the former administration. The president's letter giving his views at leng'h on the general shipping situation follows in part: "I could not fail to note the dis satisfaction expressed in both houses and senate over the very unsatisfactory conditions nf the affairs of the Shipping Roard nnd the reluctance of congress to make appropriations for the continued ac ttvities of the board without put ting specific restraint upon the board's activities in employing apents of relief.

Urges Fuji Consideration. "From Jrour position. ytu are probably as familiar with the af lfrs of the board as I am and I none you will make it a point to lay the exart but unpleasant truth bpfnv your colleagues. "The Shipping Tloard situation is wholly an inheritance from th previous administration. It would avail nothing to attempt to outline hnw the intolerable state of af fairs came about.

Our great problem is curing the situation. The difficulty of this task becomes very apparent to me, and had its reflex in th delay in the final selection Shipping Roard. "It was no easy thing to bring c-npnrtl men to th solution of this (Continued on Pago 2.) STATE TROOPS ON WAY HOME Arn I Kltle Men Under Lapt. Coslick Remain for Shooting Contest JACKSONVILLE, Aug 20 To da was get-away day at Camp Johnston for the first Florida infantry and by midnight tonight it 1 was expetd most nf the troops would he nn their way home. The brtaking of camp bpgan early this miming and the soldiers were busv all riav loading their equip men into lone; lines nf cars stand inK in thf railroad sidings at the.

camp The encampment wss de-; i ciarcd by officers to have been one' 1 or' the most successful ever held! in Florida Expert rifle men (mm the various companies of the reciment remained at the camp anw Monday miming will enter elimination for places on the state teaai which will represent Florida; in tho nat'cnal rifle matches to be' hold within the next few Cant. George M. Coslick. of St. Pe Ursbarg.

has been appointed coach for the team and will be among the efficcus in charge of the elimin ation uia'ches. Captain Preston AyciM of Orlando will he team cap-tain. Company of Sanfurd. com-' iiiandcii by Captain tleorge A. 1 14 cot tea.

today won llu- sliver tro-i phy for th- highest score with machine guns Company nf Lake, City was second and of lirooks -j ville third. Lnits which left the camp tonight for home were t'onipaut K. of Miami. West Palm L. Wauchuia; I.

Tarpon md the headquarters enmnanvand! band of St. Petersburs Jackson- ville units left, the camp for the city by motor truck at midnight, a other companies will depart early tomorrow I Increased exemptions to heads of families, effective as of last January 1 to $2,500 for Incomes not in excess of $5,000 and additional exemption for dependents to $100 from $200. Repeal of the tax on life, fire (Continued on Page 2.) WASHINGTON, Aug conference report nn the nntl heer bill, definitely agrped on today and presented to the senate, exempts a man's home from search without warrant obtained in du' course of law hut requires no warrant to search other property provided an officer acts without malice and has rensonahle cause to suspoet the presence of liquor. Along' with the presentation of the repcrt, word reached the senate that prohibition leaders of the hous had declared ther would "be no recess of congress until the measure had been finally enacted. Senate leaders, on the other hand, announced It was hopeless to expect senate acceptance in view of the rejection by the conferees of the Stanley amendment, passed unanimously and designed to project the home and other property from any indiscriminate search through imposition of heavy penal ties.

Searching Provision at Issue. The only point at Issue in final deliberations of the managers was the searching prevision. In reaching a compromise both th senate and honso on the snh- rflace the confers adopted the following section. "That any officers, agent, or em ployee of the united States engaged In the enforcement of this act. of the national prohibition act or any other law of the United States, who shall search any private dwelling, without a warrant directing such search, or who while so engaged shall, without search warrants, maliciously and without retsonable cause search any other building or property, 'shall be guilty of a misdeameanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined for a first offense not mote than or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Penalty For Fraud. "Whoever not being an officer. aegnt or employee of the United States shall falsely represent himself to be such an officer, agent or employee and in such assumed character shall arrest or detain any person, or shall in any man ner search the person, buildings or other property of any person, shall be deemed guilty of a misdeameanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not mor than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than on year or by both. SEE SOLUTION OIL DISPUTES Mexico Supreme Court Calls for Hearings on Old Cases MEXICO CITY, Aug. 20.

fBythe Associated Press) Possible solu tion cf the difficulties between Mexico nnd the United States rel ativc to article 27 of the constitu tion which has to do with petrol cum deposits in Mexico is seen by representatives of oil companies here in the announcement that the supreme court intends to hold pub lie hearings beginning Tuesday next on temporary injunction suits brought against the government by foreign cil companies, some of which have been pending since 1918. Various oil men stated today that if the court's decision Is far reaching enough it doubtless would be accepted as law of the land and a Indicating Mexico's judicial in terprelatiou of controversial clauses of the famous article. It Is understood that approxi mat'jly 10 of the suits, most of them dating back to the Carranza regime, will be called up forbear ing. WEALTHY NEGRO DIES. LAKELAND, Aug.

Rt-v. A. L. Bruuson, Lakelaud's wealthiest nego citizen, dropped dead on tbe street here today, death having been due heart trouble. Erunson, was 52 years old and who bad been a resident of Lakeland 3fl years, owned 25 or 30 pieces of ropertv here He was reeard- MRS.

HAYWOOD AmbroM J. Small The assertion by Frank Harty, former chief of police of Des Moines, that Ambrose J. Small, millionaire theatrical magnate who disappeared from Toronto in 1919. is now in Des Moines, has been received with skepticism by police authorities of the Iowa capital Small's disappearance was sudden and mysterious, and it Is generally. believed that he met his death through foul play.

SIDNEY CATTS NABBED AGAIN Former Governor Call ed to Answer New Fraud Charge ATLANTA. Aug. 20. Sidney J. Catts, former governor of Florida, F.

L. Jester and the American Purchasing company are cited to appear at the September term of the Fulton superior court here to answer an attachment filed In court today by J. H. Hogue of Villa Rica, to recover money said to have been lost by Hogue In an alleged fradulent business scheme. Hogue charges he was Induced to pay $150 to secure a position as manager of a store in a chain said to have been owned and operated by the American Purchasing company, of which Catts is said to have been president.

He never obtained the position, Hogue charges, and he never has been convinced of the existence of any Ftores owned by the company. CATTS SOLD INTEREST. JACKSONVILLE Aug. 20 Former Governor Sidney J. Catts disposed of his interest in the American Purchasing company several months ago, it is understood here.

Catts, last October, while governor, advertised in papers in Florida for men to serve as store managers, declaring that "when my term as governor of Florida ex- plres January 4, will rep resent a corporation establishing retail stores throughout the south" nnd that "a large number of men will be required as store mana gers." Applicants were directed to Catts, Box INDIANA COAL FIELDS NORMAL Sullivan Troubles Quieted by Swearing in of 50 Special Deputies by Sheriff. TERRE HAUTE, Aug. 20. Normal conditions prevailed to night in the Sullivan coal fields from the swearing in of 50 special detectives to assist Sheriff Ed. Douthitt, according to reports re ceived here.

The deputies were sworn following a telephone conversation between Governor McRae and Sher iff Douthitt this afternoon. Officials said more men are to be deputized next Wednesday, when three men arrested on charges of rioting and conspiracy will be tried in circuit court. The men were arrested iu con nection with the disorders laet week when several mine bosses and other mine employes were forced to leave the district. THIRTEEN HURT IN COLLISION Cl.KVKIAND, Aug. 20.

Thir teen persons were seriously hurt one perhaps fatally, and more than a score of others bruised in a head- on collision between Cleveland Painesville and Ashtabula Shore Line interurban cars east of the city limits lata today. The seriously hurt were taken to hospitals The cars ware completely wrecked, both telescoped and derailed, one being jammed -wlthta the framwork of the other. HAlESTATE- question. "When do we, eat?" W. C.

T. U. FIGHTS! SEX -PICTURES Speaker Says They're Worse Than Barred Boxing Films SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. Prize fight motion pictures which ere barred by law mav be more' inspiring and desirable than some sex appeal pictures whose display Is allowed, Mrs.

Culla J. Vayhin- ger. Upland, a national direc tor of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, said today In ad dressing a Sabbath observance con ference of the forty-eighth annual convention of the union. She charg ed that the present censorship of pictures is almost purely commercial. "Pictures are not censored for what they contain," she said, "but for how well they sell and where the best markets may be obtained.

The censorship itself is left in the hands of tho industry." The conference resolved for a closer observance of the Sabbath without any undue restriction on amusements as they now exist under the law. KILLS OFFICERS THEN HIMSELF LOS ANGELES. Aug. 20 -A Mexican, tentatively identified as Pedro Romiroz, wanted in connection with a slaying last week at Oxnard, shot and killed She Iff E. G.

McMartin of Ventura county and fatally wounded tender-sheriff William E. Kelley of Oxnard, at Owensmouth today The Mexican then killed himself. Kelley died about two hours later. The Mexican fired through the door when the officers went to his room to arrept him. BIG RAISIN SHIPMENT FRESNO.

Aug 20. Five tarin loads, aggregating 7,000 tons of raisins, valued at $2,500,000, will be shipped to the east Monday, marking the first day of reduction in dried fruit freight rates, according to the California Associated Raisin company. A saving of in freight and $5,000 in war tax will result from the reduced freight. INFANTRY TEAM WINS. SEAGIRT, N.

Aug 20 The Sadler match one cf the most not able events Ifn American rifle shooting, was won today by the United States infantry team, with a score of 1,727. The United States marine corp second team was second with 1.717 and Massachusetts, third, with 1.715. The mateU wa shot at sou, and 1.000 yards. KINCEAD GETS 18 YEARS. ORG ANTOWN, N.

C. Aug. 20. -Sidney A. Kincead, convicted of second degree murder, in connection with th killing of his wife.

July 1R. last, was 'oday sentenced by Jndgo Byrson in supne-r court to IS vears in the state neniten- tiary at hard labor Attorneys for i Follette, Republican, Wisconsin. nddress "Sidney J. and 5 Democratic members of Atlanta, Ga." committee, who declared in a ruin PREACHER HELD Friends Cause Arrest of Minister After Several Weeks SANTA ROSA. Ang.

20. A warrant charging murder was is- at I olrn T) a. .1 tnmt a tti i iwwj lwi 1.1.- arrest or uie ev. jonn a. spencer, connection with the death of his wife, Mrs.

Emma Spencer, Tho was reported drowned in Clear Lake on 27. Rev. Spen-rer was arrested tonight at San' Jose. Mrs. Spencer was alone with her husband when she died.

The husband was quoted as saying they Ind been boating when their craft overturned. His efforts to save his wife were futile, he said. A coroner's jury brought in a ver- dirt of rtent.h hv ilrowninp Friends of the preacher's wife asked for further investigation and the body was exhumed and un an-" topsy performed. Issuance of the warrant followed the report of the autopsy surgeom: today. Persons well acquainted with them said tonight the couple had hecome estranged about a year ago and Mrs.

Spencer for a time went to live at the home of some friends. They said that when a1 woman friend of the pastor reniov ed from town a reconciliation was effected and she returned to her husband. BAIRD SELLS CITRUS CROP CLEARWATER. Aug. 20.

Sale of the first citrus crop in Pinellas county this season was completed according to an announcement hy A. E. Liaird, who has disposed of approximately 16.000 boxes of fruit to the Dr. P. Phillips company, of Orlando.

The price obtained was not announced, but Raird stated that it was satisfactory. SENTENCE DAVIS TO LIFE TERM SOPERTO.V, Ua, Aug. 20. -Dan Davis, on trial here for the last three days for the murder of V. H.

Hall, was convicted of murder with a recommendation to mercy. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. This is his second conviction and supreme court having given him a new trial after the tirst one. The motive for the crim is said to have been to collect the insurance! upon Hall's life, in which Davis had an interest. It is expected a uew trial will Je suuglit.

DEPUTY KILLS NEGRO Dl'KIIAM, N. Aug. Hays, a negro, was instantly killed this afternoon when he engaged in a gnn duel with Deputy Sheriff Ionnie Morgan, a member of- the popup engaged in raiding a Lfcirham countv still Fourth Avenue Fish Market, the place to get your fresh flsh. All orders delivered. Phone 6U-M.

J. MacBowen. proprietor adv. lmt will make a plea. The hear-' ing wns continued from last Mon-I day.

Tho defendants continued to refuse to meet interviewers. U. C. K'ng. a gunsmith, who was reported to have Identified a gun stock jund on the beach at Santa ixmiL-j.

as uric repaired in nis snop July saiu ne nart discovered there were discrepancies and that' he I'flicvrd the two were not identical. Plans to have him confront Rurcii ere abandoned by the sheriffs office. Richard Kittrelle, of counsel forx the defense, today said that he was confident Rurch could account for every moment of his time on the nirht cf Aug. 5 when Kennedy was The case against Mrs. Ob-' enchain, he said, would fail be-; "there was no evidence to b4r." Ra former husband and attorney for Mrs.

Obenchain. announced that he would demand that the prose-' it-mana mai me prose- uce letters he declared le possession of D. cut ion prod were in tne possession Kennedy, father of the dead man. He said he believed the letters had an 'important bearing" on the case. At the district attorney's office it was said no information had boen received there of any letter of this kind MOTOR TRUCK CRUSHES ROY! OCALA.

Rockhouse, Aug. 20. Raymond eight year-old son of! h.j lj in 1 use 1 TUMI TO deatn undpr a heavv motor truck here today Witnesses said he attempted to climb up on thf rear of the vehicle and fell undr the left rear wheel. His de-Uti was almost instantaneous It w.i said that Thoni.is Luvoll. driver of tb truck, apparently was not to blame SCOUTS OHLANDO.

Scouts of Kev BREAK CAMP. Aug. 20. The Roy West who have been in "rlul, or th I)ast wet'k break camp early i and depart for. tneir homes in Key West.

The Key West. The. scoun will he bile to Tampa eaieli a boa; for tak-'ii by autorno-. where they will home. Th Orlan- do Rotary club -pruviJo Uie car-s ior ine trip to lampa Sixty two scours are jn the party.

SET RATE HEARING ATLANTA, Aug 2o -Hear ins of the complaint of the South ern Hardwood Traffic Association on hardwood rates to northern I consuming points, and to southern norts for pvnnrt has hcun ot hv the interstate commerce commis interstate commerce commis- Mop (or 29. according to telegrim from the commission re-1 ceived today by the J. H. Totes- hend. manager of the association.

I i 1 Alleged Fortune Left to Dig bill rroves Only Phantom AN FRANCISCO. Cal Ang. 20. Mrs Jane Minor Haywood, wife of William D. Haywood, former leader of the Industrial Workers of tbe World who fled to Russia to escape a 20 year prison sentence and a $15000 fine for consplracr to f.hstrugl the government' war effcrts, left no estate when she died at Winnemucca.

two years nirn if Waski vt a Irn sm rr a 1 said this fact would dispose of any chance that United States District Attorney Clyne of Chicago might have had attempt-inc to collect the fine from her estate News dispatches last Monday from Chicago said Clyne was contemplating action to recover the tins because Mrs. Haywood died without leaving a will. Under such circumstances the Nevada law awards one-third of the estate to the husband. AGED LAKELAND MAN MURDERED LAKELAND, Aug. 20 Levi W.

McCuMom, S3, a highly respected titiV of Lakeland. ateJ tonight as he sat on his front veranda, an unidentitled person firing 1 pistol bullet through his The assassin left tracks near the house and bloodhounds have been ordered to the scene. MeCullom came to Lakeland vears ago from Randolph county, Ncrth Carolina. NOTICE TO GENERAL CON- TRACTORS, City Plumbing Company will save you 10 to 20 per cent Ji2Ss reugan, 814 Coppia's Court adv. ority statement that this oonsti-j jhited a basis sufficient for rejec-.

tlon of the measure. I Has Enough, Power Is Claim. I The secretary, they has now sufficient authority to negotiate the settlements and they suggested that the obligations of the foreign governments be held iH their present form "until our gernment shall have sufficiently o'rvstalized its policy to know ex-tly what use they can best be put." The best and most practicable method of handling the question is afforded by the measure, the majdrity report declared, adding that it was necessary for some one to be authorized to deal promptly yt with the situation. Assurance was given that the. treasury secretary does not intend to accept obligations other than those of the debtor country in the case of the principal debtor countries and that "it is not his intention to accept C.erman bonds unless it becomes necessary or desirable to do so in some now unforeseen tiycial case." A Says Congress Abdicates The minority report said the foreign obligations accepted should lear the same rate of interest that the American government paid to raise the money loaned, and opposed the exchange of the obligations for those, of countries other than the originai debtors.

The bill, it continued, would permit thp secretary "to make any bargain he wants to make and "become the actual dictator of the disposition eleven billion dollars," with CCtfgress nav.ng aoaicaieu ils ed highly by both races and con- Kincead gve notice of apnea! his eldered a strong influence for good'hond fixed at $10,000. He Is expect-atnong his own people ed to give bond..