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THE WEATHE8 9432 Today's Issue triEMBEA A. a. C) II III Mil I run and wAnnr. VARIABLE WINDS After "playing dead" for flvo It Month Copy SUNDAY gS i'agks cMwwaper fir Sm Bectm years, Edward ty. Scrlpps, one ot the notable men in modern Journalism, la dead Indeed.

And 850 So MORNING, MARCH 14, 192 only 71. With the energy that he displayed In earlier years, he ought lo have Jived to be 100, but he VOL. LVIII. NO. 9 4 9 AAA Railroa aid Rates to Cut Long Flier Clim Into Sky For INLAND CITIES Week of Straw Vote Shows Portion of Nation Reached To Be Overwhelmingly Wet Figures Gathered by United Press from 34 Newspapers Show Drys in Minqrity PRO EC ED 1 FREIGHT RU CHECK HECK By M.

D. TRACY United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright, 1926, by the United Press NEW YORK, March 13. The end of the week saw the nation engaged in the most extensive "straw vote" on a question of national policy yet undertaken the polls on prohibition being taken by more thin 400 newspapers. The United Press tonight gathered figures from 34 newspapers and found that mora than a half million votes already have been cast. The figures stood For repeal or modification of the Volstead act, 489,154.

Against any change in the present law, 40,859. This showed a ratio of nearly 12 to 1 in favor of changing the Jaw The tabulation Paper St. Louis Time3 Oklahoma City News Schenectady Union Star Buffalo Times Albuquerque State Tribune Cleveland Press Columbus State Journal Kansas City Journal Post Chicago Herald Examiner :1 Milwaukee Sentinel Peoria, 111., Journal Terre Plaute Independent Post made- the perhaps fatal error or re liring. Bcrlppa gave over the ac mo management of his extensive newspaper properties when he was lie said lie wanted to see If the organizations lie had set up couict function without his dlrcc tlou. They did, but he didn't.

Four years later he broke the string com-pletely, by turning ownership and general direction over to hie son men lie boarded his yacht and started out for a two years' trip, but death overtook him In the Atlantic off Liberia, The poor man hadn't thing left to think about or lly for. Retirement kills more men than hard work. fl Mr. Scrlpps was one of the first, it not the first publisher, to dream of "a string of newspapers." He had at one time as many as 26 Important dallies In middle western cities under his control. They were both Influential and profitable.

Of course he was a good Judge ft executives; he made few mistakes in policy, and judred by most standards, he was a great success a publisher. -But perhaps he tlved of the game. He gradually withdrew himself from the cut himself off from his assocla- I uons. divorced himself from the active life he had been following and from the things he had been thinking about. It Is a delightful thing to take a vacation, even long vacation, but heaven help the man who acknowledges to himself that he is "through." He is, Senator Brookhart wants to force ino, consouaation or all the rail roads ef the country Into one sys tern under private ownership.

He would use the right of condemna tlon If necessary, and perhaps the Government's ability to finance the plan, but In the end there would be one big system of roads, privately owned and publicly regulated. That is the natural trend of things, and when one comes to think of it. there might be Just as much rca son In having all the railroads un der one organization, as to have all fhe malls under one management Senator Cummins, of Iowa, has a bill in Congress proposing to force r.iHroad consolidations Into perhaps seven great systems. If eva sys thou why not one system says Senator Brookhart, of the same -tate. And It will be confessed he Aw given the country something to Think about.

5 (2 Modernism seems to be rampant even. In the Dutch Reformed Church over In Holland, and a minister has been suspended for three months for casting doubt upon the Genesis story of Adam and Eve and the serpent. And st that. It will seem that the punishment is not vere. (J A Congressional committee finds more man one commodity on which the foreigner Is hoisting the price, at the expense of the Amerl ran consumer.

Of course rubber heads the list, because the British colonies In the Indian Ocean have lncrascd the price S00 per cent above wnat was agreed to be a fair price. But that Is not nearly all. Brazil has curbed the marketing of the coffee crop, at an expense of $100,000,000 a year to American coffee drinkers. France and Germany control the world's potash markets, although there are deposits In Texas and Utah that would completely break this mono-poly If they were developed, while Searlcs Lake and other deposits on the California deserts would add materially to the supply. Chile coU lects $11,000,000 a year In export taxes on nitrates shipped to the United States, which will be unncc.

eseary If Muscle Shoals is put to work. Mexico taps us for $5,000,000 annual excess rroflts, and SO per cent of Japan's silk Is shipped to the United States, when the fiber, rayon silk, would serve milady Just ns well. Which the committee merely suggests ns national economies (hat might be Invoked it we ion ccnnmlcal. JJ Muscle Shoals may bo put Into commission. Congress has fin ally approved the Coolldgo suggestion of a Congressional commission to call for bids for the lease of the big power plant, and six weeks hence Is likely to see tho proposals submitted to Congress for It to da-termlne which Is best.

It Is stated that several proposals will bo of-fercd, possibly- Including one by Henry Ford. fJAnd mentlou of the name or power plant cm the Tennessee I liver recalls tho experience of the writer as he sat In the Senate gal lery at Washington 15 months ago, Mtn the subject was even then russlon, and a lady sit-il-. inxi. to hlni solllorintzed: "I do 'vifti thuy would spell 'Mussel' naiea-1 it 'Musclo' Shoals. 1 was "irn on the Tennessee Hlver, and I rio-" to spell thnt name." But jConUu.ied on Tago Throe) of to tlo It set er to per ure club" this and lar than Rev.

thrco of trial sign Omaha News Baltimore Post Atlanta Georgian New Orleans Times Picayune Birmingham Post Memphis Press Tampa Times New York Daily News Boston Traveler Sacramento Bee San Francisco Daily News Los Angeles Examiner am DEffiPSEY IS $250,000 PUT Bond With Champion's Hotel as Security Deposited to Guarantee Wills' Fight RING PRECEDENT IS SET! Labor Day Match in Chicago or Michigan City Now Claimed as Certain Hy LINCOLN QCARBERG LOSANGELES, March William Harrison Dempsey, world's heavyweight champion since July 4, 1919, "said it with money" late today. For. tho first time in the history of pugilism, a champion thoved h's own cash across the lino "to suro the people" he would fight. pvsted n. $250,000 bond local bank to for liim.

i I Fitzslmmonp, promoter of u'bor Day match between and Harry Wills, negro put up a similar lu'iv-t r.r. his (tuarantee to make tLe ush' ft reality. "My money Bays what I have L-een to put over for long Uempsey told the United Press tonight, "and that is, I am going to fight Harry Wills on Labor Day. Champ Decrie "There has been altogether too much unfriendly ballyhooing in connection witfi the next bout for the world's heavyweight champion-ship. "The fight is all set now and I am going to start training within two weeks." ntzslmmons posted a quarter million that was furnished by a syndicate of Chicago and South Bend, Ind.

capitalists. Dempsey's hotel. "The Barbara," worth half a million dollars, went into tho "million-dollar prizefight pot," as security for his bond. By investing a quarter of a million dollars in his own fight the champion Is doing the unheard of thing In the pugilistic sport. He Is gambling a large slug of his for-tune on his next battle, for which ho Is not to be guaranteed one nickel.

$3,000,000 Gate Is Anticipated "Both Wills and myself will fight on a percentage basis," said the champion, "I will get about 40 per cent of the gate, and that means, I figure, that I will clear more than a million dollars. Tho bout will draw $3,000,000: I am gambling on that. Fltzslmmons and the champion were both happy over tho outcome of the hertlo negotiations which have finally materialized into a match. Dempary and the promoter, together with Estelle Taylor, the champion's film star-wife, and Mrs. Fltzshnmons.

left for Tijuana for tho weekend after tho business had been transacted. Fitzslmmons will to the middle-west late next week and start Betting the stage for the "$3,000,000 battle of the century." "If the new Illinois fight law goes through, the bout will bo held In Chlcngo," said tho promoter. "If (Continued on l'ago Two) Plan Will Contest to Pare Amount as Given to Charity (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO. March 1 S.Mrs. Susan Bridge Hatch of Kan Mateo said at her home today that she Intended to contest the will ot her brother, Dr.

Norman Bridge, under the California law which pro. vldos that no more than one-third an estate may go to charity. While the will was drawn up under the laws of the state of Illinois, Mrs. Hatch said, Its probate In a California court would compel Its administration under the California law. This would automatically reduce tho amount Dr.

Bridge willed to charity. Mrs. Hatch also contends thnt her brother was actually a resident of Cnl-ifornla at the time of his death, although maintaining his log-ai residence Illlnola. OR BOUT Fail Record Anti-Saloon League Officers Visit President and Petition Help SENATOR ASSAILS MELLON Upholds Prohibition Even If Administered by 'Big U. S.

Distlirer (By Associated Pr'ss) WASHINGTON, March 13. The quarrel over prohibition went in the Capttn, in its c- and at tb While It va r. oi formal a it velopedj oiti. real action when an Arti-Sab'-n League committee took "'3wB lo President Cotr -nd the Senate iudic, xrv Mv- viie question of f-r or against uiT'-uis on modification j' iV uuounceJ plans for it work next k. Late In, "I.e.

day TTjl'4'. Democrat; rernei.s.:e. closed it1 hostilities f. the v.tn a eret In the 6ei.jLj In he declared prohibition a success despi'a flagrant violations vt Un law by (' "moneyed aristocracy ani Vz hy the "biggest distiller in tt)e republic," President Told Vote Worthless The visit of the Antl-alocn league committee to the White House, a statement issued by it said, was primarily to take up several questions "important to effective enforcement of the law," but the subject of newspapers on prohibition also were gone into and the visitors advised the President to take no stock in such balloting. It was learned subsequently thst the callers at the executive offices discussed legislation, particularly the pending bill to establish cus.

toms and prohibition units In the treasury department, which has Anti-Saloon league endorsement. The league statement Issued after the committee left the President's office had a number of sharp things to 6ay about the newspaper ballot- and It came simultaneously with one from Senator Edwards, Democrat, New Jersey, declaring it was "downright immoral for Con gress to ignore the prohibition question, "because through its sub missiveness to the dictates ef the Anti-Saloon loague it is connivina with criminals." "I do not believe If Is fair. 1 do not believe It Is Just," he said, "for Congress to 'pussyfoot' on this question. And I herewith ouenlv chare that this is what Congress Is doing today." Denies Polls Reveal Truth As to tho newspaper polls, the Anti-Saloon statement satd most of them do not reflect public sentiment and should not be taken as an In-dictation thnt sentiment Is Increasing for modification of the Volstead Ar-t. "Most of the papers engaged In this matter," it said, "am In lurjse eltlos, where the sentiment for pio-lilbltlon has not been strongly dc-velopett, nnd we hnve credible evl- (Cotitlnued on Page Three; Secret of Marital Happiness Is Told by Wife of Actor (By Aakoclatud Press) CHICAGO, March IK.

Mrs. Tully Marshall (Marlon I'ulrfax). playwright and wife of a moving pxtui autor and the only Independent woman producer In Hollywood, lodjy ascribed her 20 years of martini happlneMS to hiving regarded tier husband's career as more Import" ant than hers. "A wemun is hiipplcst." alie said, while passing through Chicago, "when she bus some work of her own to do In which she la Infer-eated. Vet she should always plaea hor husband's enreer ahead nf her BIT OF ACTION DEVELOPED OJy'S EVENT Miles Unofficial Reading Reveals Veteran Army Aviator Reached 39,025 Feet MERCURY 74 BELOW ZERO MacReady Says He Suffered No III Effects From His Long Climb (By Associated Tress) March 13.

Lieutenant John A. MacReady, ct Mc-Cook Field, today made another attempt to make a world's altitude record, but whether he was successful will not be deflultely established until official recording instruments have been calibrated by the United States Bureau of Stan dards at Washington. The unofficial reading made by officials here showed the veteran army pilot had reached 39,025 feet, which is 561 feet short of the record held by Lieutenant Callizo, French aviator. This reading, Mc-Cook Field officials say, might be exceeded by that of other Instruments, as the one calibrated today had worked Imperfectly at a high altitude, the mechanism apparently having stopped for a time. The other McCook Field barograph will not be calibrated until next week.

Plane Failed to Work Perfectly Ho said the plane did not work perfectly, but its performance was fairly satisfactory. In spite of the intense cold of the rare atmosphere, the flyer did net suffer much because of his swathing of clothes. A heater from the exhaust kept the coekpit ef the ship warm. JIacReady, as on previous altitude attempts, did not show any 111 effects of his dash to a point eight miles above the surface of the earth He told of his experience In the same matter-of-fact tone which he might use in describing any other test flight. Lieutenant MacReady showed no ill effects nf tho flight and asserted It was "not quite bo cold" ns the flight he made last month In an attempt lo set an altitude record The temperature, according to the instruments, waa 74 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit Bothered by Spark Plugs For several thousand feet, Lieu tenant AiacKeady said, the same plane he used last month did not function properly, a fouled spark plug forced him to land 10 minutes after his first take-off, and although a new set of spark plugs was In stalled before he made the second take-off, he still experienced slight ignition trouble.

Officials of the field and Lieu tenant MacReady said that in case the official calibration failed to show that the altitude record had been broken, the lieutenant probably would try again. Scot Fiddler Would 'Kill Jazz in U. S. (By Associated Tress) LIVERPOOL, March IS. James Scott Skinner, Si-year-old fiddler from Aberdeen, Scotland, wearing kilts and carrying his fld-dlo under his arm, boarded tho liner Caronla today with tho announcement, "I'm going to America to kill Jazz." Skinner is on his way to Lewis-ton, Maine, to competo In the old-time fiddlers' contest there.

"There's nothing to heat a beautiful old melody," he declared. "Jazz gets on your nerves and spoils your appetite." The veteran Scot has wielded the bow 6a years. Husband Is Accused in Bathtub Murder (By Associated Press) TROY, Ohio, March 13. A for-nial charge of first degree murder against Jacob Nesbltt, confessed slayer of his wife, Frances Drake Nesbltt, was signed today by Mayor O. H.

Stokes. Mrs. Nesbltt waa found three weeks ago, clad In a nightgown, with her skull frac-tured In tho bathtub In their home, Closo watch Is bolng kept on Nesbltt In his cell to rrevent any suicide attempt, UCGESS II II UNTIL LATER Goodcell To Quit Job and Join In Race (By Aasoclated Press) LOS ANGELES, March 13. Rex B. Goodcell, collector of internal revenue here, totay said that lie had tem'ered his resignation to Prudent Coolidge, effective Apri' 5.

iHe said that within taw after leaving office will 'irmally announce hie for the Republican nom or Governor. Campaign h- 'i uarters favoring Sis have already oj.c i ii San Francisco. ra'Ml iner Topers' Feopic Gir But Likti Courts Fy AjlociaiM XEW Ludwi 1 "-Toohstr i Europe todi Ji jt.o: plaining of Ij" In estranging Mt the former M. 'r. grateuJ to -Mi.

a (- ir pernlttlng bin-, 'o tov lse.l He bud he had i with his attorney' ion tn' Jl' "proofs of unfair him if It should prior to hearing of onie necssary 1S said h. ir. it Is suit for lep. aration. The count disapproval of him by Salm's father, had wf ers, Countess Iness career In the "People were afralcTi rae for fear of ofendl r.c.

family." he said. tn Eoers Lady Cynthia Mo daughter of the late 11' l. zon, and her husban' (1 Captain O. E. Mosley.

former Le' homeward bound on after a stu.iy of fonl tlons In this country. tu. Lady Mosley's Utle Joke." but said it their sorlallsllo cnpltallntto rowapfp State $900,000 During year past (By AjiocIi ft i Frtss) fiACRAMKNTO, arch 13. It cost California m. corlste nearly $900,000 latr, year violate the IHnes and state motor vehicle forfeitures collected revealed today by Will JI.

Mart of division or "tor Iclcs, eggre- gated 892.6C-. Most of the big Hj hm tnr speeding, reck dr: and rlrlv- ng while into I' utei 'l, vlntatni-. 'Rules of ho pRld S3.830. r(l th wh0 dr0V6 wun improper mim nonB contributed 1-627 tt.T other offenses iciud' Violations plaK C.S16: driving with 15.143: drlvlni lh i ea muffler i operator's Irenso oous 1 Sale of atiou hv Navy Is tutrx prized (By Assoi atrd Pt WASHING TO Marel is) 3. Ttep- publlcun, bill to-etary of aln por-io longer would stations i Mission In Sun in Puget ipltal at rcsentatlve Mi cnnsyjvanin, in iiimioi day to nuthorlzi Ua si of il( ho navy to dlsp' tlons of nnval tuns'l ceded.

Tho au. I'rliatl ncludo property on Inglcwood, CaH'o'tiln, Hock nnvnl res "Tnnclsco, the rlf rniigH sound and tho ivul okohnmn. Concede cCan mt Nomination Is Lost (By Assocla ctl Presi WASHINGTON, Ms ret 1 J. nxt report 10 a p. as a udge Wallace Me 'annnt nation to tho fedct I olrcit ill go back to 1 1 HenrJ week with on unci vornoie from the judiciary coinmltJ votes to A.

nejecti'-n of polntment Is regarted it certainty. Tho four vntln or a favorable report we CJIM Mas- snchusetts; Drn.it, West Virginia, and l'ciW'nvViiinols' LINER Portland, News Great Falls, Leader Sheridan, Post Enterprise Evansville, Press Camden, N. Courier Fort Worth, Texas, Press El Paso, Texas, Post Dallas Dispatch Totals Poll By Case Decider nr.j,i Roads o. From INEQUITY IN i CUcD. Gooding Bill Now Would End Fight Peidinq Upon Long, Short Haul (By Associated Tress) WASHINGTON.

Mar. 13. Trai contfnentel railroads failed todi for the second time In five 3 ears to y.in interstate commerce commission approval of reduced freight rates on long hauls without applying the cuts to intermediate movements. The case decided today was that of the western transcontinental car riers who sought reductions of 47 commodities moving from origin territory west of the Indiana state line to Faclflo coast terminals In an effort to cope with eastern manufacturers who ran ship through the Panama canal. Inland Points Not Protected By a 7 to 3 vote with Commls sloners Each.

Meyer and AUcblso dissenting, the commission held that while the carriers hoped to stimulate traffic through the pro posed reductions and Increase net revenues, they had not applied th eutt to intermediate destination because this would have "mere than offset the sin from inerened traffic- to the ports." The case had been pending for three years and involved the long and short haul provision of section of the interstate) commerce act, which makes it discretionary with the commission to grant relief by permitting lower rates for long than short hauls. The Gooding bill, pending In the Senate, would wipe out this discre tlonary power. The commission held that the reduced rates would have diverted a substantial volume traffic, principally Iron and rtlcles, from Interior eastern points Chicago territory and wouM have deprived eastern lines of the revenue they now derive from the movement of such traffic to Atlan ports. No estlmato of this loss, gald, appeared In the record of tho case. resent Rates Not Decided The dissenting commissioners who forth their views nt length de clarcd tho majority had failed to decide the question whether the proposed cuts, If applied on short lmuls, would be fully compensa tory, or whether the present rates the Intermediate territory are rcnsonablo or unreasonable.

This, they declared, had "always been considered one of the funda mental questions in caies of this kind." The principal commodities of wliloh the roads sought reductions were Iron and steel, paper and pa products, ammunition, cotton piece goods, lard substitutes, paint roofing, rosin, soap and soda. $100,000 Champagne Shipment Is Seized (By Associated Press) NKW VOftK, March 13. Customs officials today announced the seiz of champngno estimated to value more thnn $100,000, "supper prices, which was brought to port aboard tho President Polk the President Hayes, both Dol. lino stenmshlpa now In tho round-the-world tourist trade. Tho champagne, totaling more 400 cases, was In 200 barrels marked "crude alum," "sulphate of aluminum" and "colored earth." Pastor Who Scouted Eve Story Suspended AMSTERDAM, March IS.

The J. II. Cicelkerkcn, who In a recent, sermon cant doubt on the Blbkal story of Eve and the ser-pent, whs suspended today for months by tho General Synod the Reformed Church after a for heresy. He had refused to an agreement lo Interpret Genesis literally, Prohibition For Modification Or Repeal Against Change 148 1.769 1.163 12,902 2,557 41,027 9,406 1,548 26,679 43,154 757 609 209 070 1,827 3,219 967 101 1,432 4,152 161 678 2,600 582 176 117 8 391 OO' 3,503 7,838 14,104 2,304 3,769 139 5,436 53,477 1,176 5,239 15,831 16,206 995 36,501 19,444 2,721 438 993 6,909 4,485 551 430 9,238 12,716 1,288 581 1,409 474 774 268 3,875 1,244 371,055 States For 36,006 For Wine Beer 3,616 1,033 For Repeal 1,141 340 3,029 373 on Page Three) Cheap Dance Halls Searched for Cast to Appear in Reformatory Scene (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES. March 13.

Cast-ing directors for Famous flayers-Lasky film studio staged an after-dark raid on honky-tonk dance balls and night clubs of Los Angeles last night seeklntr realistic girl figures, "young enough and liaid enough" for a scene In a woman reformatory. Tho raid staged after the cen-trul casting office, with more than 5,000 women on Its lists, had found only 13 who were able lo play the purts. l'aylng their admission to a num. ber of cheap dance halls, the casting director and his aides picked out the girls, one by one, and asked them if they wanted an opportunlh to work In the films, The majority thought they were being hoaxed. "Gwan," retorted one, "all the big butier-aud-egg men have that line." Others declared that ttiey could earn more than the extra's a day by continuing their dince hall life, whore they recrlvi nickel per dance for acting us partners foi stray men.

plus half the price of the soft drinks they induce the men to buy. iis 'TOUGH' GIRLS Arizona Arkansas (Continued Community Property Laws in States Other Than This Give U. S. Trouble (By Aasoclated press) WASHINGTON, March right of wives and husbands to flic separate Incoe tax returns In seven states having community property laws may be put up to the courts for final decision. Attorney Gcnoral Sargent has taken such a suggestion from state representatives under consideration.

The department of Justice Is Btudylng the effect of the community property laws at the request of tho treasury department. Meanwhile Commissioner Dlalr of the Internal revenue bureau has ruled that separate returns be filed by husbands and wives on taxes due this quurter subject to reversal later If the pending Inves tigation develops a contrary view. The attorney general and Solicitor General Mitchell have reached tho conclusion that each of the seven states must be treated separately and that the ruling of the supreme court In the Instance of California where It was held Joint returns must be filed cannot be applied as broad principal. The seven states having commu nity property laws are Nevada, Texas, Washington, Idaho, Louisiana, Arizona and Ne DUAL PROPERTY RULING SOUGHT t. i l..