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Exclusive AssecUUd Prcst Service HO MI fit r. i f- 1. 4- i ks Untol Press International Uew Setvce VOLCME XCVI FIVE CENTS SUNDAY TEN CENTS. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1922. Crryrlght 1322 by TRIBUNE Publishing Co.

NO. 130. FORECAST. OuUlaud and vicinity: Tonight mid Thursday fair, mode-rate northwesterly winds. Rainfall to 7 a- ni.

(By Cliabot Observatory.) Last 24 hours. Season to date 22.69 Normal to date. 23.36 Last cor to date. 22.77 r-. 7TT XVrt Vi I I al i i i Victims of Flames in Home DORIS HOn ELL and Her sister GRACE (imeih 'A in a critical cpndition a if rQsylt of burn received i pre today at tjieir Piedmont residence.

LIIIDTO mm PARLEY; RUSS i i 111 FRAUD INSISTED OF I I II ITU 'V' llllla Uklllll III CHICAGO W1R 1 Law and Literary Lights Collide as Jack London Bust Goes to 'Drydock' Club President Appeals to Court When of the Famed Writer Departs. Rudely snatched from Its pedestal tnhe Martin Eden club, the bronze bust bf Jack London has been carried into the center of cultured and caustic controversy. It could tell" a thing or It it would. How, for' instance, it came to pass that Oakland's group of young, writers have crossed their pens and Jammed their typewriters and have gone their separata ways. It could explain the split in ranks which has been responsibly for the formation of the.

Wolf's Head club, sundry arguments, and a request for a warrant of one of the members. The bist of Jack London has seen this trouble brewing and now that the crash has, come the bust is the very crust and center of the row, BUST WAS GIFT TO CLUB, CHAMBERS SAYS. That everything was not running smoothly in the ranks of those who were using London as their inspiration was revealed when E. W. Chambers, past president of the Martin Eden Club, complained to the police that Carlton XV.

Kendall, author of "The Truth About Korea," had blown the dust oft the' top of the tucked it under his arm, and departed. It was no way to treat a bust, said Kendall, and besides the statue belonged to the Martin Eden C.lub, a gift from Mrs. Charmian London, and Mrs. Eliza Shephard, wife and sister of the famous and the work ot Finn Froelich. Kendayy, Chambers insisted, desired to place the bust in the now quarters of the Wolf's Head club, which, he- let it be known, was a rival Organization made up of disgruntled Martin Edcners.

To Prosecuting Attorney Fred Donohue Chambers related the tale of rift in the literary, lute, the snake came into the roof garden of the Edeners, and finished with an impassioned recital of the ignominious manner in which the bust had disappeared. It was a convincing story, all full of language, and Donohue- was 'equal to the occasion. BCST BEING REPAIRED, KENDALL EXPLAINS. see," he said, "someone swiped a bust." If this story were dramatized and a work of that fiction in' which its principals deal, gal-lumphlng hoof-beats here would indicate the entrance ot the law, real', have a more preplexlng What Donohue did was Issue a citation to show cause why a warrant should not be issued for the arrest of Kendall on a charge of taking the Londcuj but. It was more legal than nevertheless, as Donahue remarked, ro far as words went, 'twas a neat little come-back.

Kendall appeared. He did not bring the It was being repaired, he said, and as soon as it was all right he would return it to the orlnigal pedestal. He had never tried to malte away with it except that he might have the opportunity to fix GULF AVIOENS BETWEEN RIVAL ORGANIZATIONS. 4 Two Girls Near Death in Blaze Piedmont Maids Enveloped in Flames From Healer in Their Boudoir. Doris and Grace aged IS and 15 respectively.

Piedmont society girls, may loct their livejs as the' result of burns suffered at their home today when the flames from a gas heater ignited the garments worn by Grace. Doris suffered extensive burns when she attempted to rescue her Ulster. "Both are in a critical, condition at their home, Sd.t venue. 1 SCHUSTER BAIT FOR TERROR TP th river in Alaska where frap hide In the water to net unwary fish, the full catch depends upon two kinds of luck. One Is the the run and the o'ther the chances that the traps have been overlooked by thieves.

The salmon pirates travel in launches at night, make quick hauls and quicker got-aways. They are what the' horse thief used to he In yomlhg, wtMr an advantage that there Is no way of Identifying a stolen The Big Fin Packing Com, pany liad been pestered for three seasons by a gang of these pirates and the big boss had issued the order that the thievery had to top. "It is easy enough, for him to It in his office and. write out a thing like this," said Slim Hor- ten, -looking over the order," "but notfvlng short' of a. "regiment could guard them traps." The clerk in the station office glanced up and smiled.

"Well," he said, "you and Buzx are the regiment. Slim took a week off to lay his plans. Then he rounded up Buzz, loaded a queer lot of Supplies on a small launch and put-putted up the "We will teach them galoots." he said, "a gosh-awful lesson." On the way the two met with a larger launch manned by four men who -answered tho accepted description of pirates. Dark, squat men they wore, of low brow and cunning look. "Breeds," said Slim, "all of them, I bet tho scare mighty easy," SLIM and Buzz hid their launch In tho mouth of a creek and walked a ways down the rlv'er where they pitched their camp behind some rocks and brush.

Nearby in the stream was one of the company's largest layouts of traps. All day1 Slim worked on a pole and box arrangement from the hinged cover of which projected a email white disk. "This here Invention," he explained to Buzz, "Is especially designed to make a man what is Jookin' for fish see Up the river came the launph of. the pirates, nosing softly through the dark. There was juxt enough starlight far SHm and Buzx to make out the lines of tho ship as it drew near the traps.

A sound came when the small boat wen yer the side. The pirates weret work. Two of the thieves remained on deck while the other two rowed out to find the traps. Somebody whistled and the launch' nwed up to the smaller boat. Long poles thrust in the water had found whftt the men were looking for.

Then a strange thing happened. mere was a crack as of a stone I riung against tin. From the surface of the river rosa a white nnd luminous figure, bowing, swaying, grotesque and menacing. It moaned and seemed to move toward the boat. THE two men in the small craft their oars and scfeamed while one of those on the launch 'cranked frantically at the engine, Tho pirate who had stood at the wheel jumped overboard and swam desperately out into the stream.

Came a roar of exploding gasoline the. Jaunch picked up rpncd and with no, one at the helm, rammed' the rowboht, tie- scribed a half circle and dashed' against the' rocky shore. At widely separated points scrambled up the and ran through the brush which tore at their dripping clothes. Shadows threatened thepi and ghosts pursued. "7t was easy Slim ex- plained, when he returned to the station.

1 "All I had was the box. pole, sheet, bellows, phosphorus and Maxim From' his cover he had shot the disk which released the lid of the box and allowed the pole to rise, carrying with It the'sheet. The jnotlon dropped phosphorus into the water and a released bellows furnished the moan. "I om not telling in detail," SHm confided to Buzz, "how I knew that those fellows daw-gOhe superstitious. Tomorrow Lilacs, (Copyright, 1922) Berlin Ordered to Pay U.S.

$750,000 BY UNITED PRESS IE4SFJ) WIBK TO THIBUNfi. PARIS. May. J. 0 Ihe council of ambassadors today announced Ms decision that Germany must recompense the United States for Zeppelins destroyed and not delivered in compliance with the treaty of Versailles.

The council fixed the amount due the United States from Germany in this respect at approximately three Trillion gold marks (about "The above "able apparently ln-'dicates that the councll-of ambassadors has1 decided, the- United States has suffered the loss, of only one Zeppelin or smaller type air ships 'of depleted value. The cost of -a new Zeptelln owould be con. Mwably-more'than "three -million gold marks.) 1 I $Vwni nwiiww mftiM? Mother Burned Saving Children Woman Makes Thre Trips Tnto Flaming House to Rescue Youngsters. Mrs. Josephine Mann, Fifth; Mti nt, suffered burns on hoi bead and it! her ui ni.s and hands today, when the made, three trips through her burning home and carried her three small children out of danger.

The home was destroyed by tire which started in an alleyway, According to the firemen, who discovered by neighbors. who to Mrs. Her first thought was of. her chU- Twrt rif them. yenis old.

and Robert, 'o, wers in (be luck yard The mother picked up the eldest and ran with him IhrnuKh the hallway, a there was no other passage open between the front and rear of the vne. returning, for the other hid, 'he di.scoveiMl lh.it the banu' atid smoke was then pouring1 through the ceiling and into the hall. J-be ran the and Die child, carrying him to tbe street. She letuined to Vt room whe.rc the yoiingct ot chil-d re n. .1 yc ti t- us I i nu im -a tile i hiul wlth her apron -lie in ran ihrmith the smiike to tlu she wai bout Hv and h.n.u:.

The lire i'i i fioii. mine H''tc- the the l.Kie I irem-n. ihe hou.se, was Tv ii other tho; of leorse Fifth nrevt. and that oi T.iiif tVifi h-trift4 yyrvr' b'ldly damage 4 by bilUl'S: Lemne ro Undergo Second Operation eT.v Iritvrn.i-tioiiu! News Sc i -i-The operation on Niciihii l.enine, had of the Rust-inn Soviet yevenimeiit. for tlie refm.1 Of a bullet from hls-bj'idy waw uus.iicci?s3fiil and he must undergo another operation.

aid a Ciopriihiigon despatch to tho Daily Teb'gi-iph today. The first operation was performed about six weeks ago by a German surgeon, lienine has i-uffered from nervousness, headaches and insomnia us a resutt of the old bullec woltnd. -whtci wts trflicterd Trhcm tixtr years ago. i Missouri Petitions For Wines, Beer BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE ASHINGTON, May 10. A petition signed by 2i) citizens of Jlis-soort Asking for modification of the Volstead law to permit theVnanu-facturt and sale of light Ines and beer was presented to the house, today by Representative Kahn, Republican, California.

Bundled into a liatlaga. naacly-, went to Chairman Volnead's com mlttee. 7 1 S. F. Girl, "Who Confesses to Shoplifting, Involved in Jewel Theft Here, But Was Freed on Probation Operations Said to Cover Years and Extend to Many Coast Cities; Admitted She Robbed a Woman Friend A rliain of circumstances which appears to link Oakland with the girls' school for crime said to exist In Seattle, came to light here today.

The revelation came about through an examination of the policerecord of Harriet O'others. alias Rae Du-ponl, who Is now In 'the city prison In Sun Francisco, a confessed ahop-llfier. Jler admitted thefts tolaf between li.Uim and $20,000. She states thai s-ho stole DO gowns from a ingle store. Iter confession included the statement that there exists in Seattle a girls' school for crime.

1 WEl.L-DItESSKD MEV ntM.Mi "It'-has a number ot handsome, well-dressed young men whose sole ob Is bringlngin recruits," she declared. "The scheme Is to trick a till) through love. If sho succumbs 1' his advances, the next step-Is the school, which Is In Seattle. The first course Is called 'study of hu-ntsii It Includes "visits to department stores where the, 'professor' points out the different hinds of salespeople and the K''c-'f of ease with which different types can bo fooled." According to the confession the "scJinol room" contained miniature, department store with shelves loaded with goods. The course re-auire I three-months.

There wers ten girls In each "graduating, class." Harriet under the aliases of Phjllis Martell and Dor-otjyr Vuu A Hon was arrested In Los Angeles on a charge of'grand larceny, by the Oaktand police, on December. 1911. She wan brought back to Oakland by Police Inspector Jack Mulhenrn. On December 28 she was held to answer by Police Judge Mortimer and hr ball was fixed at ak ised girl worked as typist. Previous to 'this she had worked a typist and had lived at' the Hotel Putter, Sho was arrested on complaint of Elizabeth Heraldson cf l'J27 streej.

Sho said that In the early part of December, 1919, she met Mrs. Heraldson, Sho complained to Mrs. Heraldson that her rent was' too high, yho eaid Mrs. Heraldson that she come tq live at. the Horuldsofr home, where she cont'd have room for $15 a month.

"About this time, she told the police, she met a man, whose name he did not reveal. She told him of her proposed arrangement with Mrs. Heraldson, and he told tier he had a better plan. KENT TO SEATTLE TO IiElAR.V HOPES. She said this man sent her from Oakland to Seattle to the crimo, school.

paying her fare and expanses both ways. On her return the went t'q. llye with Mrs, Heraldson in accordance with her agreement. While there, according to her story, the man who had sent her to Seuttlo culled on her and saw several thotiKand dollars worth' of Jewelry, -belonging to Mrs. Heraldson.

At his suggestion, she laid, she took jewelry worth several hundred dollars when opportunity fefed. Instead of turning the loot over to her preceptor, she Is said to have pawned It on her own account. She went to Los Angeles, where she was taken into custody. Her- polios record shows that he had been arrested several times previous to her "education" In eatt On JaliuTw 1 9 1 7, sho was arrested in VfcnlcoSnder the name of Dorothy Van; Allen and Riven thirty days on a. vagrancy charge in the county jntl.

"Later the same year slie was givt'ii tort, days in jail In Thoenlx, oil a On July IS, 1919, she wus arrested in Stockton on a charge of petty larceny, which charge Was tibsequently reduced to vagrancy? She was given a six months' son-- tenea at-that- butcommitment was withht'ld. Following her aerest ort )the charge filed by Mrs4IaJflfion she pleaded guilty to' grand larceny on. February 3, On March :) she was placed on five years' probation by James Qtiinn. On June 2, 1920, revocation ot probation was asked on grounds that she had left the county. On June.

22, 1920, the probation revocation proceedings were dropped, Jt was stated during. her trial here that her true name was Augusta Ross Harris. No More Wage Cloth Workers Say CHICAGO, May 10. The nation's Unionized clothing workers wlli not countenance further wage reductions. It was announced today" at the convention of the.

Amalgamated .1 Clothing Workers of America, when the report of the general board was read-sad adopted. The report tid that rock bottom In wages had been reached" vind that "no. further retreat can be considered." VITAL STATISTICS Marriage, Birth and Death Notices Will be found on i Page 24. 1 Schauzef: Ilalts Presentation" of Unfavorable Reply to 'Allies; Persuaded Soviet! to Modify Their Course Delivery of Answer Delayed Until TtMiiorrow; Counter Claims Defended as Just; Property -Tribunal Urged GENOA. May 10.

(By United) Presn.) Minister Schan-zer of Italy tenia stepped In and save.l the Genoa conference from' breakdown Jtte prevented Russia from Uelht'rliijf' au unsatisfactory reply to the allied memorandum. The Russian note was ready for delivery. Schaiiz had been ap prised that certain portions ot tho document would be onaecept- able to the allies. He persuaded Tcliitclicrjn retain tho nota and to onslder certain changes before It was formally presented. GENOA, May 10.

(By International New Serrhjo.) Tlie Russian notciWcrrltiff to article seven of the allied memorandum, cite precedents Including the American repudiation of treaties with England and Spain, thou says: "In conformity with these precedents, RunnIa cannot obliged to assume any responsibility wluvtever toward foreign powers or ttielr nationals, for au-niilnu'iit of public debt or th nationalization of private property." GENOA, May 10 (By the Ast-6-ciated. Press), Tho Kus3tan reply to the allied memorandum, which was ready' for presentation thi forenoon, was not delivered to th allies, as expected, as at the last moment, after a conversation between Foreign Minister Tchitcherin ot Russia and Schanzer of Italy, it was decided the reply would hav to undergo some alteration. Tchitcherin left Genoa at 2 p. returning to Santa Marghcrita, nearby, to consult the other members ot the Russian delegation. It was not-expected, therefore, that the reply could be had until to- t-morrow.

WORLD PARLEY' URGED ON PROPERTY TANGLE. The reply, says the-Central News, requests that clause VII of th memorandum be referred to an in ternational committee ot with Ruspia repres nted on it. (Clause VII In the memorandum is tho clauso relating to. the statu and disposition of foreign-owned property in Russia nationalized by the soviet government.) With regard to the war debts the allies are asked to state the exavt discount that would be mad it th debts were acknowledged. he preamble of the reply, It is learned, urges the point that the entrance ot fofeign capital into H-lUiSriian guarantees for the future than upon discussion of claims.

It expresses regret that the allied memorandum 'paid mors attention, to contentious about legal questions than to consideration of a -financial for rebuilding Russia. On the. whole, It is added, thi reply is evasive. By S. D.

WEY'ER. Inteiiiational News Service Stall Correspondent. May 10. The Russian reply to the allied memorandum of conditions for eventual recognition of the Moscow Soviet govemmenr, whicli was to have been delivered today lilt was held up at the last moment, criticizes the cuntents of Ui aihed communication. Russian delegation note.s.

and not without astonishment, the remarkable fact that the memorandum deals only -in the most general terms with tho most important question namely," Russia's recovery" said. text of tht Russi.ui document, tH NTEIt I.AIMS ARE JUSTIFIED. RUSS INSIST. Tnle-is we arH surprised, the fl-' nancial headed apart from tiie politnal matter, was a daunt which never hitherto. had figured in' the pour parleurs tween the Russians and other dele- ganons.

"Russia's- counter claim? are tn- finitely- more justified -than -th- foreign claims. "it tha labors of the conference are threatened with failure, the -en- tire responsibility will fall upon those )owers which have placed themselves in omif'Sltion to the gen eral desire lor an agreerr.eni and (ContiBued on Page 2, Col. 3) Steamenls Aground Off New Foundland BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUJiE. ST. JOHNS, N.

F-, Mary 10. 'The- sitiiiner Abcec'o w. on Renew Rocks, Zi miie north of Capo Pace fdsy. She had struck during" the rtigiit' ana Ushermen wiftit out to her ut daybreak. The captain and ci'ew landed safWy at Cooptr Haydeh.

It was oeuwsci the vessel wouiil be. a total loss. Harding Once More Rebuffs Crusaders BY TTNtTED PRESS IEASED WIRB TO TR1BUVE. WASHINGTON. May' 19 Per the 'fifth time.

President IJard.r,g declined to see the children when they called at th Whtte llouse today to ask amnesty, for the lit" political prUeners, bUa-JXatui 4LlcUis. t. tb.a.. and informed them that the Prsl aant wou'not sea thr today. Bombings and MurdersArc Cause of Roundup of All Leaders in the City, When Labor Strife Sheds Blood "J3ig Tim" Murphy One of Men Arrested; 20 in Jail; Shootings Follow Running Battle After Gang Attack BY ASSOCIATED PEESg LEASED TO TRIBUNE.

CHICAGO. May 10. The police tnlny rafalcdthe Build ing Trades labor headquarters nml arrested throe of Chicago's biggest lalmr leaders "Big Tim" lurpliy. Erctf Mader and Cornelius Shea in connection with bombings and shootings which early today resulted in' the death of two policemen and serious ui-' Jury of a third. Murphy, known as Chicago's "labor czar;" Is out on ball Bfter having been sentenced to seven years in tho penitentiary In connection wUhjlie Cnlon station maHrrobbery.

Mader. te' president of the Building Trades Council, whilo Shea heads the Teamsters' Vnlon. BY UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRK TO TRIBUNE. CHICAGO, May 10. Twenty men.

Including official of the Gluzicrrf' union, were arrested to-day In connection with the investigation ot the murder Of two po-lieemcti. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE. CHICAGO, May 10. Two policemen wore' nhot and killed, another wounded and two buildings bombed early todify in disorders police attributed to labor warfare. The shootings were followe by a running pistol fight -In which the killers eluded.

police. Charles C. Fitzmorrls, chief of police, immediately ordered every policeman on duty and directed that all labor leaders of whatsoever caliber be brought in. "I have ordered" detention of every one who may have any information of the workings of labor attacks," he said. POLICE THINK CENTRAL B.VXI) DIRECTED OUTBREAKS.

The dead are: Terrance Lyons, 30, acting lieutenant, and Patrolman Thomas Clark, 30. The wounded man Is Patrolman Albert Mueller. Although the killings and bombings were in different parts of the city, police believe they were directed, bv a'single band, desiring to express resentment at enforcement ef.the Landis wage award, a decision handed down by K. Landis, former federal Judge, acting as arbiter' In a long drawn out dispute between members of the building trades council and contractors. The buildings bdmbbed were a garage and a printing plant.

Patrolman Clarke, who was guarding a building previously bombed, and under police protection-, was notified of the garage bamblnfc, and a few minutes-lajer a taxi driver notified, police that three man were fighting with Clarke. Officers found him wounded fatally, ell had been through the head and ditd oil the way to the hospital. Police believe Clarke was killed by men who Monday night showered tho building with bricks and escaped in an automobile, DRIVER inE.c.WIIEN COMMANDED TU HALT. Later Lieutenant Lyons, car speeding past a traffic signal, commanded it to halt. The occu pants answered with a volley of Fhots which killed Lieutenant Lyons and wounded Patrolman Moeller.

Police believe that the bomb exploded in the printing phtntwas intended for a new building 'nearby, which in being erected under the Landis hundred unien printers were at work when the bonjb 'x'ploded. but no one was injured. boiul) nt the garage was thrown through a window ill the of the ljullding and cx ploded on the' cement floor. Since the labor war began thou- sansd of dollars worth uf property has. been destroyed- and scores of persons injured.

t- Portuguese Airmen Will Resume Flight LISBON, May 10 (By the Associated Press). The Portuguese trans-AfiantIc aviators, Captains Coutinho and Sacaduia-, planned -to leave St. Pnul Rocks today for the Island of iFernando Nororiha, off the Brazilian coast, in continuance of their voyege from Lisnond to Rio Janeiro. "i Resumption of the flight' was made possible by the shipment from hejre, of a new seaplane to re place 4that demolished on their landing at the rocks April 18. From St.

Paul Rocks to Fernando Norpnha is approximately 4(X0 miles, to PernambucD, on the Braillaij. coast, 350. miles, and from there to Rio approximately 1200 miles by air line. Magnate Will Is Called Law Violator BY ASSOCIATED PRESS IE ABED WIRE TO TRIBUNE. WASHINGTON, May 10.

The contention that certain" provisions of the will of James McDonald, millionaire oil magnate, violates the law against perpetuities, is made in the eult filed in the supreme court of the JSistriet of Columbia by only ton of th testator. Following Daugberty's Letter Republican. Leaders Seek to Balk Passage of Pend-, ing Resolution in House Promise That Prosecution -Is to Start Soon Does Not Stay Demand of Powerful Group for Investigation By LAURENCE M. BENEDICT, United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON.

May 10. leaders in the Hjuse laid plans today for balkinKpassage of the pending resolution calling for an investigation of the conduct of the department of justice In war graft cases. rename source it was learned that Floor Leader Mondeit and other party leaders, apparent; working in close touch with the administration, have decided to do everything they can to stave off the investigation. deneral Daugherty's statement that prosecutions in fraud cases are soon to be started, thoy will vigor ously oppose any attempt to brintf tno resolution before the House for consideration and if they fail in this they will try to marshal enough votes to kill tho resolution when it comes to a vote. INVESTIGATION WOULD BLOCK An investigation, these leader contend, would "reveal the hand" of the deparment of justice and lav bare many secrets which should be made known only in the courU.

Standing firms for the investigation, however, is. a powerful group of Kepublicans, many in the western s.ates, and practically every member on the Democratic side of the house. They are united behind Representatives Woodruff, Michigan, and Johnson, South Dakota. Republican authors of the joint resolution providing an Investigation. Wroodrufl and Johnson said today they have more than enough names on pelitionsTorTorCo the resolution to a vote and to secure its adoption.

Woodruff today characterized Daugherty's ldtter, transmitted to the House yesterday, as "purely and-? simply an attempt to steer Con-; gress away from an BY ASSOCIATED PRESS BY ASSOCIATED WASHINGTON. May 10. In detailed statement concerning the prosecution oi war fraud cases, prepared at the request of the President and transmitted to the Hous, Attorney-General Daugherty declared that examinations so far completed disclosed in each instance "sufficient indication that a crime had benn committed to -warrant submitting them to a grand jury." Presented on the eve of a Republican caucus, called to consider a legislative program, including a Republican resolution for investigation cf charges of alleged laxity in prosecutions by the Department of Justtoe, the attorney-general let-1 tor provoked a partisan i which Representative Carrertt, the, Democratic leader, broadly ititi-i mated that it was intended to I giiiijkiibi Lilt. vjju. vvi Representative Mondell, tiie IXe-, publican lender, to whom Datigh-j erty's letter was sent by the l'rosl-1 dent, ct'd not Indicate in reply to a question on the floor as to Ujfrtherj it th resolution, already i given privileged status by the rub's, committee, never would be heard from again.

DEMOCRATS TAKE ISSI WITH Taking isnie with trie attnrnrey-; general. Representative Wckiriruff, Republican, Michigan, declared the former was requested six months ago to appeal to Cojigress for hail a million dollars to clear up his war-timo docket and that ho never acted until Republicans had assailed' the department in tho House. Woodruff reiterated that unless the attor-ney-xeneral allowed the courts to decide the pending case against the) Linooln Motor company "on Its) merits, 1 will move his impeaoli-' men In the House of Represents-, The Michigan members as-j serted that a Republican Congress) could not "faco the country in a- electlou unlets it clears up war fraud cases which smell to iiigri heaven." BIG RECOVERIES PEND DEC LA RES DA UGH EIU Charging that "little or nothing" has been clone by the former administration, to biting war robberies to ligheTDaughcrty wrote the president would soon have reason to know that "influential -personages in the government who had knowledge of these transactions, who were In a position to make disclosures, and who were personally Interested in concealing them." The department, he. said, was handling upward of war contract cases, and if recoveries were obtained in all, the total would reach "1100,00,000. It was a terrible thing, the attorney general said, citizen with robbing.

his own government, and for that reason he -hafrlnsistoVl upon a'paTHSrakiii In vestigatlon of all cases involving charges of criminality, it was regrettable, too, he declared, that (Continued on Page' 4, Col. 4) Fire Sweeps Russia Richest Oil Fields COPENHAGEN, May 10. (By International News Service.) Tremendous damage has been done by a fire in ti.e Baku oil fields, according to advices received, here today. The conflagration is believed' to have jeea cUnfienaiarltjjjiglnTiie Baku oil fields are the richest in Russia. The two mris are clause's to 'a double alarm, th" George W.

Howell, president ot the) in. (Martin home was In flames wrn Early this morning the girls, clad in negligee. their liaiv. t.t-paratory to' leaving lor school. In an efort to dry it quickly, Grace ignited the g-as heater.

GARMENTS AI LAME WHEN COMB EXPLODES. As she bvnt over the lU'e comb-she was using caught life, -exploded and in a seivmd the names had enveloped )vr flimsy garments. Immediately Grace serenmed' Doris ran to her side and attempted to put out the fire, Doris "braved wall of flame in her heroic attempt to save her sister. Rushing to the" adjoiiting bathroom, Doris turned on the' tap and then run 'back to blanket her burning sister. In her efforts to carry tho girl to tho bathroom the garments of Doris became ignited.

The" scream "of the girls 'attracted' their parents, v. ho ruslved 'ipsia-irs and extinguished the Iain. v. FATHER SMOTHERS I 'LA ES WITH IH OWN BODY, who hid lust returned i from the South, i cached, the room just after I oris thrown her sister Into tho tub of cold -water and was running around the bllnn fronfthe nr.nies-ii It owe 1 1p ut-1 e- ir r-on-1 b' and with, his own body smothered the flames, while has just returned -from the hes pitai. ministered to ouiii uoriioiv tmrn en, nut rorttir.ateiy their ku'es ui practically Howell "Their hair, however, is gone.

"The burns extend ahur the i I f) i There were no arrests, the bust Is to go back, but the gulf between the Martin Eden Ciub and tho Wolf's Head is a wide-one. After Kendall and the others'" left Donohue's today, the attorney had an idea, "What do you do when you repair a bronzo bust," he asked. "I wonder now He looked out of the window. "I wonder now it the bust of London louking down on the spirit and energy which moves the youths who have been honoring him, did not crack a bit around tho 4-earners of the mouth." New Offer Made For Muscle Shoals BY UNITED PRESS LEA 8EITWIRK TO WASHINGTON. Mav 10., A new offer for.

Muscle' Shoals, providing for a seini-governmental opera- won ot me project, was luul 'l' Senate agricultural emnmltfe by'x-Congressman J. T. Lioyfl, Missouri, representing J. H. Lever log.

Los Angeles, Cal. I The offer, based upon the Norrls hl" for government operation of Muscle Shoals, provides for Joint operation of the project by the gov. ornment antt -a "private corporation. Husband and Wife Wage Duel to Death BY ASSOCIATED PRESS -LEASED WIRE TO THIBUNE. SARNIA, May 10.

A duel to the death between husband and Wife, armed with butcher kiyfe and axe, in the presence of their three small children, today was being investigated by a coroner's jury, which has viewed tho bodies. The duelists were Joseph Lambert, 33, and his 29-year-old wife, who held their battle yesterday in their farm home In Elkton, a few miles from Port Huron, Mich. Edward, aged Vthc- was- in the house with two youi.ev childrenL tojd theprosecu tor Uk tragedy. R. R.

"Union May Aid Miners on Strike HOUSTON, MayJ0, -A 'that the International Brbtherhtiod of Locomotive Firemen and Englnenien contribute $5.0,000 a month to the United Mine Workers of America each month during the continuance' of their strike was made from the floor and placed in the hands of a special committee for consideration and report before the final1 action of the delegates to the convention of was learned today lower parts of (heir bodies. Grace has. a-lew patches of Fkin off behind her ears and a-small spot on her face, hut the doctors do not think she Will be disfigured, "When Mrs. Howell and I first heard, the screams we thought the girls'were playing. I realjyvwent up stairs to put a stop to- the" up-rotir, tittle what hail lap-pened." High- school and Doris recently graduated.

According to Dr. Jajors, who was called upon 'to 'attend the young women, they ara seriously burned about the' bod'y'a'n'd'are no In condition to- be rejTioycd to a hospitaU, U. Asks Religious Freedom in Mexico WASHINGTON, May 1 0. The American government in its negotiations with Mexico' over the question of American recognition, has askei iuariiiUicA.ct i-alisiouali sari orn in that country, it was learned on high authority today. 7 v- 1.