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48. SASKATOON, MONDAY, FKBKUAUV 27, 1028. PK1CE ON TRAINS 5 CENTS. rx titt "1 'if- I 4 (1 HOME Edition 6 oj i MU'ftHHi'illMIIll Lfll 0 0 AMENDMENTS Trying Trip To Venus MOTOR WITHOUT FUEL PUZZLES EXPERTS Hendershot Invention Claimed to Draw Energy From Air; Nikola Tesla Dubious, But U. S.

Army Officer Says He's Seen It Work LARGE PORTION OF CASH STOLEN SATURDAY FOUND, POLICE STATE JL. HOUSING OF INDIANA PIT MEN SCORED Hovels More Unhealthy Than Swine Pen, Is Special Report SURVEY CONDUCTED fa i induction motor, who recently patented plans for a "helicopter-airplane," views the invention with skepticism. Dr. Tesla, who has spent many of his 71 years experimenting in taking energy from the heat of the sun, earth and air, said power obtained from these sources by a small motor "can only be measured In 'mouse' power." "There is," he said, "apart from lightning, no natural electrical source which could be exploited with the practical object of developing power in the amount required for the operation of machinery." WHAT INVENTOR SAYS PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27.

Lester J. Hendershot, 29 year old West Eliz 17,125, With $6,000 in Bonds Said to Have Been Discovered in "Limpy" Charlie Cleaver's Home; Confessions Obtained SLEUTHS "TIPPED OFF" IN ADVANCE A i ft Special Prevention Bureau Had Story Before Coup Was Pulled; Change Made in Location by Crooks, Handicap for Brief Time Associated Press CHICAGO, Feb. 27. Police today announced the solution of the $133,000 mail train robbery at Evergreen Park Saturday morning, the arrest of five of the seven bandits and the recovery of a large part of the stolen money. $17,125 AT "LIMPY'S" HOME William O'Connor, deputy commissioner of police, after spending most of the night on the case, said he would turn them over to the postal inspectors for The arrested were: "Limpy Charles" Cleaver, at whose home was found $17,125 and in bonds; Wm.

Donovan, who, police say, plotted the robbery with Cleaver; William Carmody, Angelo Francisco, and Joseph Lamm, the latter, a proprietor of a poolroom where members of the gang were said to have gathered. The deputy commissioner said he had detailed confessions from Cleaver and Donovan, together with additional information involving them in two other recent robberies. The deputy police commissioner did not reveal the exact amount of money recovered. HOLDING WpMEN 1 i 1 TO PENSIONS BILL OVER 20 Proposals Are Result of Conference Between Veterans WILL EXTEND SCOPE Disease Contracted From Enemy Act Qualifies Wherever Occurring Canadian Press OTTAWA, KeiJ. 27.

More than twenty proposed amendments to the Pension Act were submitted to the House of Commons committee on soldiers' pensions this morning by Hon. Dr. J. II. King, minister of health and D.S.C.R.

The minister explained that the proposals were the result of conferences between officials of the department and veteran organizations and that, owing to the budget debate they had not been introduced into the Commons yet. "FOR CONSIDERATION" He presented the proposals to the committee for consideration in order that the members would be thoroughly acquainted with them by the time the bill reached the committee stage. Several of the proposals are of a technical nature to dear up ambiguous meanings. One amendment makes it clear that disease contracted as a direct result of hostile acts is to be pensionable, irrespective of the place where it was contracted. It is proposed that: "When a pensioner appears to be incapable of expending or is not expending the pension in a proper manner or Is not maintaining the members of his family to whom he owes the duty of maintenance, the commission may direct that the pension be administered for the benefit of the pensioner and of the members of his family by the department or by some person selected by the commission." "It is proposed that any balance due to a deceased pensioner at the time of his death, whether unpaid or held in trust shall not form part of the estate of such pensioner, but the commission may direct the payment of such balance to the widow, the child, or to any person who has maintained him or toward the expense of last illness or burial.

There is an amendment which would create a definite tribunal to adjudicate upon applications for compassionate pensions. No pension is to be paid in respect of a child (boy over ifi or girl over 17) except when those responsible for its maintenance are without adequate resources. EXCEPTION FOR CHILDREN Exception is also made in the case of a child making satisfactory progress with its education. But no pension shall be paid in respect to children for educational purposes after 21 years of age. Sub-section 9 of section 22 of the act is repealed and the following substituted: "On the death of the wife of a disability, the additional pension for pensioner pensioned on account of a married member of the forces may, in the discretion of the commission, be continued to him for so long as there is a minor child or are minor children of pensionable age provided there exists a daughter or other person competent to assume and who does assume the household duties and care of the children." The department proposes to reduce the number of required medical examinations.

The following section is inserted in the act: "If the pensioner becomes an inmate of an institution as an indigent, the commission may direct that the whole or any portion of his pension be paid to his dependents and any part of the pension not so paid may be applied by the department towards the pensioner's maintenance, clothing and comforts. YOU WORK A BUNGALOW HE'S hopping off toward Venus in this projectil'j before long is Robert Condit (right), chemical engineer and astral aeronaut. Just how he's going to get off the ground at Miama beach, or keep going for the 67,000,000 miles twixt there and his destination is not quite clear but he says he's going to start nevertheless! Associated Press NEW YORK, Feb. 27. The Hendershot "fuelless motor" was In New York today to be put under the critical eyes of electrical experts as soon as a patent can be obtained.

It has already mystified several men familiar with electricity, Major Thomas G. Lanphier, commandant of Selfridge Field, said at "the hotel where he and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh are staying. Difficulty In obtaining a patent was found, he said, as the government patent department could find no classification for the motor.

Patent attorneys, he said, have taken the matter in hand and as soon as a patent is obtained the motor will probably be tested under the supervision of experts of the Guggenheim Foundation for the Promotion of Aeronautics. He denied that a company had been formed to produce the motor or that its practicability for use in airplanes had been proven. Major Lanphier also denied that Col. Lindbergh was in any way connected with the group which was backing the invention. The army officer, who said his only knowledge of electricity was what he learned in his first year at West Point, described the "fuelless motor" as a generator.

He saw the invention, which he called an energy collector, gather out of the air "a power which Hendershot says he believes is energy generated by the rotation of the earth on its axis around the sun." Dr. Nikola Tesla, inventor of the JAMES WHITE DEAD EAST Ottawa Man Was Once Conservation Board Secretary Canadian Press OTTAWA, Feb. 27. James White, former secretary of the conservation commission of Canada and for many years a resident of this city, died yesterday at his residence here. DEATH A SHOCK.

Whil Mr. White had been in failing health for some time, he had recently shown marked improve ment and his death today was a shock to his family and friends. Death was due to an acute heart attack. Mr. White was born in Ingersoll, and educated at schools in that city and at the Royal Military College, Kingston.

In 1884 he Joined the Geological Survey of Canada as a topographer. In 1894 he was appointed geographer and chief draughtsman of the geological survey. During the many years he spent in this work he travelled to many distant parts of Canada, including the interior of British Col- umbia. In 1903 he was employed ou the Alaskan boundary commission and in 1906 conducted an inquiry re specting fast trans-Atlantic steamship services. In 1909 he becama secretary to the conservation commission.

Mr. White is survived by his wife, formerly Rachael Waddell; two daughters, Mrs. S. C. Stevens, Hamilton, Ont, and Miss Marjorie White, at home; one sister, Miss Kate White, Toronto, and a brother, Charles White, Winnipeg.

PILOT NOT FOUND Harry Brooks' Body Missing From Flivver Plane Taken From Sea Off Florida Associated Press SEBASTIAN, Feb. 27. The flivver plane, which disappeared into the Atlantic ocean Saturday night off Meyburne. was towed ashore near here "this morning. No trace was found of the body of Harry Brooks, who was piloting the plane whpn it disappeared.

The plane was badly damaged. One wing had been entirely torn off by the waves and the fabric of the other wing was stripped. The propeller was broken and the fuselage wrecked. UJS. Dirigible On Flight to Panama Los Angeles Will Try, Trip Direct From Lakehurst Without Mooring En Route WASHINGTON.

Feb. dirigible Los Angeles was south of Cuba and proceeding on her way to the Canal Zone at 6:40 a.m. today, the navy department was informed by radio from the craft This was taken to mean that she had decided to attempt the 2.200 mile flight from Lakehurst, N.J., i without mooring to the mast of the tender Patoka, anchored in Guaca-j nayaba bay, about 700 miles this side of her destination. U.S. EPISCOPAL CHURCHMEN DIVIDED Fight Against "Anglo-Catholic" Group Started Evangelicals; Petition Presented to Houses Of Bishops, Clergy, Laity Conditions Blotch Upon Civilization, States Scathing Charge INDIANA, Feb.

27. Describing conditions in the Pittsburgh coal belt as "a blotch upon American civilization," the Senate interstate commerce sub-committee here today issued a statement declaring the "industrial war" affected the entire nation. The committeemen who came here yesterday from Ilttsburgh and spent today making a survey of local coal camps and mines, asserted that a "remedy must be found to relieve, the shocking conditions" uncovered on their tour of the Pittsburgh district. "BLOTCH ON CIVILIZATION The statement follows: "Conditions which exist in the strike-torn coal regions of the Pittsburgh district are a blotch upon American civilization. It is inconceivable that such squalor, suffering, misery and distress should be tolerated in the heart of one of the richest industrial centres of the world." The committee found men, women and children living in hovels which are more unsanitary than a modern swine pen.

They are breeding places for sickness and crime. "They constitute fe. le fields for the sower of communism and other doctrines which teach the overthrow of the American government. Industrial leaders of America cannot permit such conditions to continue. "The dispute in the Pittsburgh soft coal fields is more than a local fight between a union and a group nj coal operators.

It. is an industrial war that affects the entire nation. A remedy must be found to relieve the shocking conditions which the committee found in its first hand survey in the coal mines and camps Wants $12 Pension For All Over 60 Berger, Socialist Congressman From Wisconsin, Says Will Need It Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 De claring that 76,000,000 people in the United States fail to earn enough in their working years to provide for their old age, Representative Berger, Socialist, Wisconsin, announced today that he had drafted a bill providing for payment of a pension of $12, a week, to all persons 60 years of age or "Charity and the poor house," Berger says, "must do today what it is the duty of the government to provide." Old Country Football 1 Canadian Press Cable LONDON, Feb. Union Igarnea played over the week-end and neported today: i Bristol University Clifton 9.

I Exeter Sidmouth 8. Sale 18; Halifax 14. 1 New Brighton Waterloo 6. Headingly II; Hartlepool Rovers Bradford 10; Kendall O. Birmingham Weston Super-mure 3.

VVatwonians 12; Melrose 3. Hawick 26; Edinburgh Institution 0. Glasgow High School 11; Hcno-: loniana '). Sleuartonians 11; Glasgow Acads. 0.

Bridgend 11; Resolven 7 Nuneaton London Hospital ED. WALLACE DEAD Counsel to American Federation I Of Labor Passes; Served With C. E. F. I Associated Press WASHINGTON.

Feb. VVallare counsel to the American Federation of Labor, died on Saturday. Wallace was born in England and emigrated to the United States as a young man. He was closely identified with the labor movement in the United States for years before the war. When the war broke out he went to Canada and enlisted in the Canadian expeditionary force.

On his return to the United States he i served under the late Samuel Gom-i pers. former president of the 1 American Federation of Labor. abeth, inventor, whose fuelless motor has gained the interest of Charles A. Lindbergh and others prominent in the aviation world, wants the "humbug" eliminated from reports of his Invention, which he developed while experimenting on an effort to produce an improved compass. "Make it clear to the world," he said, in commenting on stories giving various descriptions to his creation, "that radio and its allied phenomena have nothing to do with my motor." "The force that turns my motor Is the same force that pulls the needle of a compass around and there is nothing mysterious about that." "I found out that with a pre-mag-netized core I could set up a magnetized field that would indicate the true north, but I didn't know just how to utilize that in a compass I was setting out to find.

"In continuing my experiments, I learned that by cutting the same line of magnetic force north and south I have an indicator of the true north, and that by cutting the magnetic field east and west I could develop a rotary motion. "I now have a motor built on that principle that will rotate at a constant speed, a speed pre-determlned when the motor is built. It can be built for any desired speed, and a reliable constant speed motor is one. of the greatest needs of aviation. "The motor I demonstrated at Detroit has a speed of 1.800 revolutions per minute and develops 45 Horsepower on a block.

i. Acclaimed 'mmf ONDON, 27. The eigh-tieth birthday of Dame Ellen Terry, actress, today was treated by the papers almost as if it were national event. In a message to the Daily. Express, Dame Ellen quoted the saying: "A merry heart goes all the day," and proceeds: "Perhaps that is why I managed to jog on fnr eighty years.

I am a little tired now, but not too tired to smile at kind friends who have not forgotten me." The noted actress has recovered from the attack of bronchitis which she suffered during the last 10 days. Talks to II Duce ROME, Feb. 27. Giacinto Auriti, Italian minister to -Austria, arrived here to confer with Premier Mussolini, in regard to recent anti-Italian utterances in Austria concerning the treatment of German speaking residents of the Tyrol. LIQUOR BOAT DOCKS Liner Pacific Reliance, With Precious Cargo, at Victoria; To Vancouver Next Canadian Press Peb.

27. The liner Pacific Reliance arrived at Victoria this morning and virtually ensured that her million and a half dollar cargo of liquor will reach Vancouver in time for it to be warehoused before the. ban' goes on receipt of liquorTinto export liquor houses at the end of the month. The steamer is expected here this evening. When the government ban was announced recently two steamers, the Reliance and the Moerdyk were eiironte' here from tKe TTnlteH Kingdom and the continent with i liquor on board valued- at $2,500,000.

two Immediately' put on all speed coming up the Pacific coast and the Moerdyk arrived on Friday, 4 several days lief ore-schedule. 4' TO- 1.A 5 SAYS NOTHING OF "It is a great deal more than the ,125 we found in Cleaver's home, he said, "but the exact sum will not be announced until we have completed our work." He vould hot. dLccuss the police report that a on the far south side early today, in A'hich three wo men were prrested, has led io folding of $13,000 cf the stolen noney. Ho robbery in police records wan more carefully planned or executed than this, O'Connor said. The execution ind escape yere' reconstructed by detectives this way: The first step was to obtain information as to how and when the money would be shipped.

This was followed by daily trips over the Grand Trunk to Evergreen Park by one of plotters Donovan, the police say. Thus, the plotters familiarized themselves with the routine of the train crew. TOY TRAIN USEO A toy train having the same number of cars as the train that was to be jobbed, was used by members of the gang, to perfect every detail and each man drilled in the part he would take in the On Saturday morning the train left Chicago with the of $133,000 by two Chicago banks for two banks in Harvey. Among the passengers, according to the police, was Donovan. It was Donovan, they say, who pulled the emergency cord, which brought the train to a stop.

So foresighted were the robbers that they had planted a cache of dynamite under the platform of the lonely St Maria Street station in Evergreen Park to be used If the explosives carried by the men proved inadequate for blowing open- the mall car door and safe. The division of the loot took place shortly after the robbery, according to the information the police got tn the Saturday night and Sunday questioning of 25 men and women under arrest. There were seven shares of $17,000 each. The extra $14,000 the Donovan and Cleaver confessions were understood to have explained was set aside as a legal fund. POLICE KNEW ABOUT IT The quick work of the police in solving the crime was attributed partly to the crime prevention bureau, a secret department of police working under cover and seeking to learn of impending crime.

A tip that Cleaver bad been heard to say STORM HITS TURKEY Famished Wolves, Dogs Destroy Many Sheep; Southern England, Trance, Balmy Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 27 With southern England and northern France en-Joying premature spring, several parts of southern Europe and Asia Minor today were in the grip of semi-Arctic weather. A severe storm swept Turkey and showed no signs of abating. Famished wolves and dogs destroyed numbers of sheep. Land and sea communications were disrupted.

Intense cold and a 50-mile gale made relief work difficult. Thrace suffered from a heavy snowfall which disrupted the service of the Simplon Orient express. Jerusalem was under- deep snow which also covered a large part of Judea. Bulgaria and adjacent in the Balkans were in the grip of a wild snowstorm. he was planning a "big job" led to the tapping of telephone wires lead-ling to his residence.

It was from constantly listening to conversations over the Cleaver line that polWe got the names of several persons who, the talk indicated, were "in" on the "big job." The wire-tep3ers learned that the robbery was to take place after the train reached Harvey. In anticipation of it there were three Chicago detective squads concentrated inthe suburbs. A change of plans, police said, was made at a meeting of the plotters at the Cleaver home. Thus, while the actual robbery caught officers unprepared, the information obtained by the crime prevention bureau before its commission, gave them leads which made solution prompt. SHELLED Canadian Pre LONOON, Feb.

27. The Prince of Wales was nearly killed by a shell during his service in Franc "in the Great War, according to an anecdote told last night at a dinner of the Welsh Guards' Comrades Association. The Prince, In responding as a colonel of the Welsh Guards to a toast to his health, observed that he was unfortunate in not having had the privilege of actually fighting in the Guards' division, although the unit in which he served had been associated with it A little laW Major C. II. Dud--ley-Ward alluded to this remark with "it all depends on what you call fighting." He then related how on one occasion, in Hotilt-hurst Forest a group of English soldiers were trying to signal a French gun whose shells were falling near them by some error.

Suddenly, they saw with dismay, two figures, one of which was the Prince of Wales, coming toward them. Just this moment the French resumed their shelling. One shell, in exploding, completely hid the Prince from view of the anxious watcners and Col. Sterling, commanding the battalion, exclaimed, "My God, they've got him." A moment later, however, the" English saw the Prince "leRging it Ihroncn falling mud filth to a little German pill nox we had taken shortly before," as tin? major expressed it Hinkler at Home SYDNEY, N.S.W., Feb. 27.

Beit Hinkler. Australian, flier, arrived at his home town of Bundaberg, Queensland, this afternoon, from Long Reach. Mrs. J. W.

Woods Killed VINNIPEG, Feb. J. W. Woods, wife of the 'ormer mayor of Winnipeg Beach, klU-ed yesterday near here when her automobile overturned on the highway. A SMILE "Your untie seems rather hard of hearing?" "Hard of hearing! Why, once be conducted family prayers while kneeling on the cat." AS by Protestant Episcopal Church is scon by Judge C.

L. Marseilliot, cf Memphis, leader of the Evangelist group. He said that movement may force a rupture in chuith ranks, and that 'if this comes it will not be the Evangelicals who will go out, unless through accident of a political conspiracy which will deprive them of their constitutional rights." The petition, already bearing UK) signatures of leading laymen and women, will-ic sent thl week to every vestryman in every Protestant Episcopal Church as- well a other laymen and women who are communicants, seeking their signatures. Byrd's Plane Hops Off Against Wind Bernt Balchen One of Those Aboard During Test Flight Of Polar Machine Associated Press MILLER FIELD, N.Y., Feb. 27.

The big tri-motorcd plane built for Commander Richard E. Byrd's expedition to the South Pole, took the air today against adverse winds for a test flight to Detroit. Floyd Bennett, who accompanied F-vrd on hH flight to the North Pole, Be; nt Balchen, a member of the crew of Byrd's trans-Atlantic flight, Thomas Mulroy who will he a member of the South Pole and Charles Reid, a photographer, were aboard. WIRE KINKS BI FFALO. N.Y., Feb.

27 Enforcement of the edict girls drinking and dancing in rabarets was carried out by Mayor F. X. Schwab In person early today, when he vlsit.nl two all-night places, ejected vhe patrons and tore down the licenses from the walls. The mayor, Hccomnaniea uy poliee, broke down the doors when refused admittance. -5 ALLIANCE, Feb.

27. His four sons having married four sisters. Dad Sisley. 70. made It unanimous by marrying the girls' mother I Associated Press NEW YORK, Feb.

27 With a movement afoot in England against a revised book of prayer on the ground that it opens the door to Roman Catholic practices, a revolt has broken out in the ranks of American Protestant Episcopalians, who would eliminate what they call "Roman Catholic practices'' in their communion. Fight against "What is" known-as the Anglo-Catholic group is proposed by the Evangelical or liberal group of the Protestant Episcopal Church, organized by leading laymen and women, representative of all sections of the United States. A petition addressed to the House of Bishops and the House of Clerical and Lay deputies, asks that steps be taken at the triennial general convention of those bodies at Washington, D.C., for abolition of mass, reservation and adora tion of the Sacrament, prayers to the Virgin Mary, invocation of auricular confession, practices of penance, use of rosary and holy water, the "worship" of Images and 'other ceremonies peculiar to the Church of Rome." Possibility of another split in tiie Prince Henry Has Bad Hunting Spill Hurts Leg and Collarbone When Out With Quorn Hounds; Makes Light of It Associated Press MELTON MOWBRAY, Feb. 27. Prince Henry, third son of King George, was heavily thrown from his horse while hunting with the Quorn.

hounds today. He injured! his leg and collarbone, but madci light of the accident. i It was stated in official quarters, after the prince had received medi- caf attention that his Injury was to! the left leg and that it was not i serious. i Lichnowsky Dead BERLIN, Feb. Charles! Lfchnowsk" who was German am-i bassador at London when the War broke out in 1914 is dead.

As; ambassador at that time he took an; opio8lte position to his government's! policy. i I tn OTneri. I VJOODl.TUtJ JXf i Ttf.