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TIMES. SIXTEEN PAGES. LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1921 SIXTEEN PAGES. 1 1 ILO STRAW IT Elected To Ulster Parliament GET SEVEN BIDS New Assistant Attorney General QUIT WHITE HOUSE FOR RIVER CRUISE President And Mrs. I larding Sail Potomac To Cho-apeake Ea3 Distinguished Party Aboard.

ACQUIT ill OF MURDERING ENGLISH WATCH TRUCE III Oil WITH EAGER EYE Ml Ell il TO MAJOR BHTOI Iff- at -ft i '5 I wnnn in-1 i -r in -t fim mariiMj wrariMivuw.tt, wcmm i 1 1 1 Ml ni. St- 6 TULSA JURIST 3 BALLOTS TAKEN DURING 2 HOURS AND 6 MINUTES BY JURY IN OKLAHOMA. ACCUSED CLAPS FOR JOY Mn. Jesse James, One Of Defendant On Trial For Slaying Judge Devereux, Applauds Verdict Enthusiastically Until Attorney Orders Her To Ceae-l-MNrve" Developed In trial Though? To Have Affected Her Actions. Tulsa, July 9.

Goldie Gordon and Mrs. Jessie Jame. nurses, were found not guilty of the murder of Judge John Dever-eux, Tulsa Jurist, by a Jury in di-trict court here tonight. 'The Jury was out two hours and 5 minutes. Three ballots were taken, according to the foreman, but be declined to state the vote on the first two.

Judge Devereux was found May 9 in his room at an apartment house here, uuflering trom wouuui which a poroner's Jury stated caused his death on May 11. The Jury also returned a verdict that an overdose of drugs had been a contributing cause. The two women, hit nurses, were then arrested. When the verdict came in tonight Mrs. James started to clap her hands.

Her attorney Immediately turned and flapped her. "I told you to be quiet" he said. Then Mies Girdon and Mrs. James thanked the Jurors personally and quit the courtroom. Mrs.

James outbreak waa believed to have been caused by the nervous strain of the past few days aa she cried audibly after the rebuke administered by the attorney. In his instructions to the Jury, the Judge stated that Jf no motive had been shown (or such a crime, that should be taken into consideration. The defense offered no witnesses', and In setting forth its case before actual trial, yaid "the prosecution will prove" and made other eimiUr statements. After six hours of argument by opposing counsel, the case closed with the argument of E. J.

Lundy, special prosecutor, appearing in behalf of the local bar association. He aaked for a conviction. W. L. Coffey, aeaistant county attorney, made the firs! argument for the L'tate.

He spent 45 minutes in a brief resume of the evidence and asked for a conviction of first degree manslaughter. Coffey dwelt at length on the difference of time in the stories of witnesses and the defendants as to when the judge received his fatal injuries. FUEL CONDITIONS Pittsburg. July 9 Th Kansas Industrial Relations court late this afternoon closed its lnves-" i INUIR INTO ES INTO COIU BATTLE IS ON WHEN. DEMOCRAT SEIZES HEADPIECE TO PROMPT TARIFF DEBATE.

RAPS VALUATION DIVISION Declares If Schedule Had Been Ap-. plied To Underwood Law, Rates Would Be' Higher Than They Will Be Under New Bill Scores Mellon As a "Beneficiary" Of Act, Because Of Family Inter-i est In Aluminum Industry-Green Defends Provisions. Washington July 9. An Old utraw hat was the article used by Democrats in opening their attack In the house today on the Fordney protective tariff bill to illustrate their contention that its rates were higher than anything written into the Payne-Aldrlch bill a decade ago. Representative Garner of Texas, ranking Democrat on the Ways' and Means Committee in the course of a two hour denunciation of the measure, seized the hat as the first object in sight and challenged Republican members of the committee to say off-hand what duty had been imposed on it.

There was a moment's hesitation, then in the midst of a shout from the minority side Representative Green, Relublican, Iowa, arose from his seat and brought an answering shout from the Republican side by announcing that it was printed in the bill. Still waving: the faded headg-ear, Mr. Garner declared that In the Payne-Aldrlch. bill the duty on that product was fifty per cent, but in the Fordney measure it was $10 a dozen plus an ad valorem duty of 20 per cent. Comparison of' the two bills, be eaid, would sh6w the same scales running throug-h the 346 pagres of.

the Fordney measure: The average rate of the Fordney measure, he added, was higrher than ever proposed before by congress. A 'Attacking- the American valuation Oar.n.er. charged that if It had been applied to the present Un. I derwood law, now being paid would exceed the Payne-Aldrlch schedules in every instance. There were many sharp exchanges while Mr.

Garner had the, floor. I Most of the verbal battles raged around the valuation provision and Mr. Garner declared that the most glaring evidence of how it would shoot rates ekyward was to be found In the case of reed furniture, much of which is shipped here from Japan. In quoting from a letter received from manufacturer at Grand Rapids, Mr. Garner charged that because of the peculiar conditions entering into foreign production, the reed furniture rate figured exactly 14.87 per cent higher than the Underwood tariff, which stipulated a duty of fifteen per cent against the Fordney's fifty per cent.

The name of Secretary Mellon was brought into the discussion by Representative Oldfield. of Arkansas, a Democratic member of the ways and means committee, who described the treasury secretary as one of the "beneficiaries" of he high tariff. He siid that "the Mellons of Pittsburgh" control the aluminum industry of the United States and called attention to the Increase in duty to five cents a pound on aluminum, Representative Green sought to explain that the five cent duty "means nothing" to the consumer. He illustrated his statement' with the. cost of the old kitchen stewpan, saying that less than half a pound of aluminum was used in its manufacture, but Mr.

Oldfield that whether the amount was great or small, the consumer was bejng taxed for the benefit tot the manufacturer. Representative Mondell, the Republican floor leader, spoke briefly near te close of the day, paying tribute, to the Republican members of the ways and means committee for the work they had done In drafting the bill. He declared that notwithstanding the many handicaps under which the bill Was framed, "this bill has met with a more favorable response from the country than any like measure presented in a generation" and added that this approval will, in my opinion, jfrow rather than diminish as the pro-Visions are examined and analyzed." LOVER FAILED TO KEEP DEATH PACT Gorunna, Miclu, July 9. Forrest Higgins and Lucy Wlttum, his fiancee, for whose death he is charged with first degree murder had entered into a suicide pact that it he girl carried out, according to a statement attribued to Higgins by Joseph Sheridan of Detroit a' sjate trooper, who testified for the pros-reution at Higgins' trial here today. 1 ISE SJON Washington, July 9.

The President and Mrs, Harding left Washington late today for a week-end cruise en the, presidential yacht Mayflower in the lower Potomatac and Chesapeake, bay. At the President's request the presidential salute and all other military honors were omitted "at the navy yard as the yacht left.5- It is not planned to go ashore during the trip which will end here Monday morning The guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harding on the Mayflower include Secretaries and Davis," Postmaster Hays; Senator Watson of Indiana and Watson, Senator Kellog of Minnesota and Mrs. Kellogg, Senator Kewberry of Michigan, Senator Hale cf Maine and Chairman Lasker br the shipping board.

LANSING i SECOND TIE Bertha McArron Escaped From Institution "With Companion Yesterday Afternoon. For the second time since she was received, Bertha McArron, alias Katherine O'Brian, alias Lillian M. Hudson, state's prisoner at the Industrial Farm at Lansing, took "French leave" yesterday afternoon. She was convicted of false pretense. With 'her went Mina Jack Caparoon who is doing' time at the farm for petit larceny.

There was (nothing spclaculajr about the escape. The women were sent on an errand and disappeared en route, according to Mrs. Julia Perry, matron- at the farm. Rewards of $50 for Bertha and $25 for the capture of her companion have been posted. Paper Artist.

Bertha McArron specialized in bogus checks and bad casth orders drawja on Jtejegraph companies. One of her, to" obtain work at a telegraph office as an operator, "raise" or tofge an order on the company disappear. Her activities extended over a wide area including Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and Wyoming. She was received at the farm from iabette county on September 20, 1920 to serve a miximum sentence of four years. She is 23 years old and rather good looking according to descriptions.

Bertha made her first escape from the farm three months ago, but f7H recaptured after several days of stolen liberty. Mina Jack Caparoon was received from Geary county where she was convicted of petit larceny on May 19, this year. Her maximum sentence would have kept her at the farm until April 15, 1922. Yesterday was only the second time that sate prisoners have escaped from the Industrial farm, the matron faid. Excitemen At Game's Climax Kills Watcher Chicago.

July 9. The roar of S5.060 fans which greeted "Bib" Falk, of the "White Sox, when he trotted across the plate in the frenxied, ninth inning of -today's sixteen inning contest between Chicago and New York at Com-iskey Park, the funeral dirge for J. H. of Omaha, a spectator. The heat rand excitement proved too great a strain for Green, and as the tying run swept over the plate in the ninth inning with two men out, he collapsed and fell to the floor.

It was not until the end of the inning that those about- him noticed the huddled figure. It was found that he was already dead. Heart disease was given as the cause. SHOWER RELIEVES HOT, HUMID CITY New York, July 9. Drizzling rain tonight brought temporary relief after the third day of the most uncomfortable hot weather the city has experienced this summer.

At one o'clock the therometer reached 84 degrees with a humidty of 77, and remained there until shortly after 2 o'clock, when it fell gradually. The weather bureau prrecycted only a brief respite from the heat following the light shower. Four deaths and several prostrations were reported before the rain brouht relief. The fifth death was reported late tonight "when a brewery wagon driver collapsed- on his wagon and succumbed. Mi LEAVES 4 tA- 1.

William D. Rlter is a graduate of the University of Utah and lulled law at Columbia Law Sohool. Elected president of the Utah Bar Association. 1917. and commissioned Major Advocate General's Department Officer Reserve Corps, February, Member National Republican Advisory Committee on Platform and Policies, 1920.

State Offers Good Evidence But No Story Cleveland, Ohio, July 9 Through direct testimony and alleged confessions, the state today sought to link together pieces of a chain of evidence it has been welding to prove a conspiracy in the murder of Daniel F. Kaber for which his widow, Eva Catherine Kaber, is being tried. Whether the confessions, alleged to have been made by Salvatore Cala, whom the state claims ctually kill-ad Kaber and Mrs. Erminia Cola-vito, claimed by the' state to have procured the assassins of Mrs. Kaber, is permitted to go to the Jury, depends upon a ruling to be mad by Judge Maurice Bernon when trial is resumed' Monday morning The confessions were presented in open court today in the absence of the Jury, through Police Detective Phil Mooney.

The defense objected to their introduction. CASHIER'S DEBT Kansas Bank Guaranty Fund Must Make Good $260,0.00 in Bank Acceptance, on Salina Institution. Topeka, July 9. The Kansas Bank Guaranty fund must make, good two hundred and sixty thousand dollars in bank acceptances Issued by H. missing cashier of the defunct Kansas State Bank of Salina, Kans.

according to a decision handed down today by the Kansas supreme court. According to evidence presented in the case, Lefferdink issued one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollarB in acceptances for 120 days. The acceptances were drawn by( the Central Securities Company and the Western Brokerage Company, both concerns created by Lefferdink and Felix Broecker, president of the bank. Across the face of each was written "accepted the Kansas State Bank, H. J.

Lefferdink, cashier." Broecker has testified that he took accepance east and turned them over to a note broker, but that neither he nor the. bank had received the proceeds. Before expiration of the first Issue more acceptances to the amount of one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars were -issued for which the bank received no returns, Broecker testified. They sold in the east at a heavy discount, but by the time they began to return the bank was closed. Fred.

F. Fitzpatrick, receiver for the bank, contended before the Supreme court that Lefferdink had no authority or power to acknowledge the acceptance. The supreme court held that under the negotiable instrument law the securities, once issued, must be taken as valid or the whole commercial structure would be torn down. t.M C-' ft! 't- TT 11 RELIEF IS GENERALLY FELT AS ARMY LEADERS CONCLUDE TERMS OF PACT. DE VALERA IS CAUTIOUS Studied Character of Letter To Premier Is Regarded As Precaution To Keep Sinn Fein Factions -United Attacks, Searches And Raids Are To Be abandoned During Period Of Cessation Valera Apparently Is Undisputed Head Of Faction.

London, July 9. With something like an immense Bigh of relief the entire country has greeted the news of the cessation of warfare in Ireland and Eamonn de Valera's coming conference with the British prime minister at London, which it is feverently hoped will lead to full restoration of peace, the prospects cf which even the more cautious political 'observers regard as brighter than for a long time. The careful wording of Mr. de Valera's acceptance of a conference is interpreted in some quarters here as based' on the necessity of the Irish Republican leader feeling his way with his own followers. It is thought however, that a truce deliberately embarked upon cannot well be deliberately discarded, and that alone is a consideration of great promise.

The terms of the truce, which begins at noon Monday, were agreed to at British military headquarters In Dublin this afternoon. The provisions of the truce cover fully all the ground for a temporary peace between the active Irish workers and the Crown forces. AH attacks, searches and raids, surveil lance and provocations '-'are to be abandoned by both sides. Mr. Valera's acceptance 6f the responsibility for fulfillment of the truce by the Irish Republican army is held to dispel the Idea in some quarters that the active branch of the Sinn Fein is beyond control of the political chiefs.

Whether that is so will be tested by the course of events after the truce comes Into effect Sir Haraar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ireland, will remain at the Irish office throughout Sunday watching the situation, as Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, is remaining in London it Is concluded that Premier Lloyd George's principal task next week will be to bring him and Mr. de Valera together. According to the Irish Bulletin, organ of the Dail Eireann, it was agreed on behalf of the British army: First That there would be no incoming troops, of the Royal Irish constabulary and auxiliaries and no shipments of munitions into Ireland and no movement for military purposes except in the maintenance of drafts. Second That there would be no provocative display of forces, armed or unarmed. Third That all provisions of the truce apply to the martial law are just as for the rest of Ireland.

Fourth That there be no pursuit of Irish officers and men or search for war material and military stores. Fifth That there be no secret agents noting descriptions or movements of, and no interference with the movements of Irish military men and civilians and no attempt to discover the haunts and habits of Irish officers and men. Sixth That there be no search for, or observance of, lines of communication. Seventh That there be no search for messengers. Other details connected with courts martial, motor permits and 6'm11ar matters, says the Irish Bulletin, are to be agreed to later.

On behalf of the Irish Republican army it was agreed: Firstly, that attacks on Crown forces and civilians cease. Secondly, that there be no provocative displays of forces, armed or unarmed. Thirdly, that there be no interference with government or private property. Fourthly, the discontinuance and prevention of any action likely to cause disturbance of the peace and which might necessitate military Interference. AWARD CONTRACT SOOX TO CONSTRUCT TE3IPLE AT FORT LEAVENWORTH.

COST MORE THAN $100,000 It Required Special Act Of Congress To Secure Site For Building Oil Military Reservation Charles E. Keyser, Well Known Architect, Who Drew Plans Aud Specifications And Will Supervise Construction, Says Work Will Be Started Before August 1. Bids for the contract to coniitruct Boughton Memorial at Fort Leavenworth have been opened and the award will be made within a few days, actual construction of the building, for which it was necessary to pass a special act in congress for the purpose of securing a site on the military reservation, being scheduled for July 25. When completed the building will represent an expenditure of more than $100,000. Boughton Memorial will be located on Kearney avenue, east of the post tennis courts and facing the parade grounds.

The building is to be a memorial to Major Dan H. Boughton, who was instrumental in organizing Masonic chapters at Fort Leavenworth. He died about twelve years ago. For Masonic Temple. The contract will be awarded by the Boughton Memorial Association, an organization of more than fifteen hundred Scottish Rite andrfive hundred "Blue Lodge" Masons.

Colonel Ezra B. Fuller, treasurer; George Pulsifer, secretary; Colonel E. E. Boone, George Schillo and D. V.

Ponder form the building committee. Charles E. Keyser, well knowm Leavenworth architect, drew the plans and specifications for the memorial. Keyser also will supervise the Tare Leal Blllcti: Besides the seven bids, three of which were submitted by local contractors, hlds for heating, plumbing, wiring and painting- will be opened July 19. The general contract for the building will be.

affected materially by alternate bids, but the contract probably will be awarded to a local contractor, since the Baer Engineering and Construction company and R. B. Yoakum are the two lowest bidders. The Bid. Baer Engineering and Construction Company, Leavenworth, $65,995.

R. B. Yoakum, Leavenworth, Murch Brothers Construction Company, St. Louis, $70,000. Lehr Construction Company, St.

Joseph, $74,830. Jofcn G. Barnes. Leavenworth, Long Construction Company, Kansas City. $89,990.

Hoffman Construction Company, Kansas City, $92,280. Completed Next April. According to Charles E. Keyser, the supervising architect, Boughton Memorial will be completed on or before Aprill. 1922.

PAIR WHO ATE BAD WHEAT DIE Hutchinson, July 9. Everettt Reed, the 8 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Reed, of this city Is dead and his two sisters. Ruby and Ruth, six and five years old, respectively, are ill as the result of having eaten wheat which had become musty In shipment.

A carload of the damaged wheat had been refused by local grain dealers and was awaiting disposal in the Rock Island Railroad yards. The three children in company with several others were playing close to the car. and ate several handsfull of the wheat before they were discovered. The child died of ptomaine poisoning, according to the attending physician SEES ARMAMENT RACE MOUNTING Nagoya, Japai July 9 of the Anglo-Japanese alliance might necessitate Great Britain's keeping her Pacific fleet to a certain degree of efficiency, aHd strengthening of her Pacific force by Great Britain might oblige Japan to follow suit and strengthen her navy, former Foreign Minister Kato declared in addressing the Kensei-kal or opposition party of which he is the leader here today. Sir Crawford McCullogh, the ex-Mayor of Belfast, who has been elected to the Ulster Parliament.

Let Contract For Part Of K. U. tadium Lawrence, July 9. The contract for the partial construction of the University of Kansas memorial was awarded today to the Unit Construction company of St. Louis, for $212,000.

The contract specifies that sit sections of the structure seating 15,000 persons shall be completed by November 24, the date of the Thanksgiving Kansas-Missouri football game. The first four sections will bd ready for the Kansas-Aggie game October 29. The state rested at the conclusion of Sheridan's testimony. Sheridan remained in a cell with Higgins for four days, leading his companion, to believe he also was a prisoner, in order to collect evidence it is said. Higgins.

according to the witness. said "Lucy me to and add ed he became terror-stricken, after Mies Wittum had taken poison and collapsed in his arms, and fled from the scene. Seeing Miss Wittum die caused Higgins to give up the idea of suicide, he is said to have ex plained. 1-PSRTISiS II i DEADLOCK Committee Fails to Asrree on Disposi tion of Libel Suit Rcoultlnsr From Misappropriation Charge. Fargo, N.

July 9. Harmony in the ranks of the state executive committee ef the Non-Partisan League was no nearer tonight at the close of three days of conferences over the situation arising from charges by the editor of the league paper, the Courier-News, that the league's fifty thousand dollar defense fund had been misapplied. Hopes of league leaders that a compromise might be reached within the committee and that the charges of criminal libel filed against C. K. Oummerson, the deposed editor, and George A.

Totten, his business manager, who was also ousted, might be dropped, apparently were dead tonight. Ole Kaldor, treasurer of the recall campaign fund, and majority members of the committee announced that he and his associates, Chairman A. A. and Chris Levang, had taken an uncompromising stand. "We will yield nothing," Mr.

Kaldor said. 'TV'e believe we have a criminal case, and the charges will stand." "Walter Maddock, 1 one of the minor pembers and league director of publication, who has been in charge of the Courier-News, left this afternoon with State Senator W. J. Church and former Senator D. H.

Hamilton, for Valley Crty, where they will confer with Attorney General "William Lemke tonight. R. H. "Walker, the other minority member of the committee, who had expected to accompany them, remained in Fargo. CHOLERA GRIPS SOVIET RUSSIA Riga, Letvia, July 9.

Moscow news'papers, received today, confirm previous dispatches reporting the cholera to be rapidly spreading in Russia. The disease is being carried by starving refugees One hundred and twenty-three cases are registered in Moscow, says the Trwd, the organ of the trades unions, which are being mobilized in some governments of Russia on a military basis to fight the diseased tigation into the production and distribution of coal In Crawford and Cherokee counties. The purpose of the investigation, which has been in progress the past two dayv waa to ascertain, if possible, whether a combination of operators exists 1 which tends to eliminate competition and fix the wholesale price of coal mined in the Pittsburgh region. The session late this afternoon was occupied by the investigating of small mine who supply coal to the local -consumers, in an effort to determine whether any combination exists to fix retail prices. The result of the investigation, of course, will probably not be continued for several weeks, or until the testimony, has bees, thoroughly gone over by the court members.

THERMOMETER BREAKS RECORD Mandan. N. July 9. A new heat record was established here today when the thermometer re-M to 1014 this afternoon, according to the government weather bureau. On June 20, last, a mark 1084 decrees was registered.

IH-Yer Reerd Falla. Rlnmarek. N. July A weather record that had tood for fifty years waa broken here, at 3:30 p. m.

today wien the mercury registered 108. according- to officials ef the local weather bureau. The previous record. 107, was equalled Ju SO laat. v'.