South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 152, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 1 June 1921 — Page 1

f'YJ TriP"U ND NE 1 ' 1Mb nin wi:Tin:n. Indiana: Partly ep.uly r. '. c- Y-i.T day; Thursday fair vith :..b r temperU Morning Edition j uro. . VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 152 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE I, 1921 PRICE THREE CENTS f I

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WEDDING BELLS

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lour Couples Report Marriages Soon After Clotk Tolls Twelve. MUCH INTEREST SHOWN Many Nuptial Event? Expected to Take Place Early This Morning. TODAY'S KVITNTS IN Tim .ium; iuiidi: 'coxtiist Sailors Bros, company offers a Jl1; bedroom suite to the couple whb h will be married in the vestioub of the furniture .turo on North Michigan street between th" bourn of 2 and 3 o'clock this afternoon. The Rllnworth siro offers a rash pri.e of 0 to the most, beautiful bride to be married in the county today, the brides to f'Ti'l their photographs immediately after the ceremony to th" business odlee of The NowhTime.s to participate in thi s feature of the contest. Meeting of three judges to. drei d winners of contest, who will receive nearly Jil.äOO worth of beautiful prizes of all kinds. Preparations for monster entertainment at Oliver opera hn;if!.' on Friday night nt S o'clock under auspices of Th" News-Tim s and p artioir ating merchants of South P.end and Mishawaka. when the prizes will bo formallv distributed. Principal winners in the great second annual June Bride contest of Th South Pend Nevs-Times. in whi.-h, nearly worth of prizes wül awarded, are as follows-: Mi..-: Mildred Peters. 7'2 tif-orgia avenue, and Horace, Stanton, blT North Eighth Mreet. Ktver Park, raarried at 2 seconds after 12 .Vb-"-k. Miss Mary Seltzer, aced 21. 302 Kat Hrrilway, Mi?hawnka, and Alvin Curtis, lnn-.i Division street, Mifhawaka. married Rt 4." secondf :ifT--r 12 o'clock. Mi Janice Spinton. aged 2H. 2717 Wr -t Lawton street, and Philip Mciui'dan. aped 25, Fame address, married Et 12:01 (.clock. Mis Carrie Weber, a-cd 1. 1130 I a 5-1 Donald street, and John Kdinnd Housekeeper. a;e, 21. I!at Han b.dph Ftreet. married at one minute and 40 seconds after 12 oI "ck. In ill probability Mr. and Mr?. St inter., who were . ma tried by Kev. i: M. Kerlin of the First Kvangelici! cb i-h. will be first winners in th" ur.ciue newspaper contest. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, whe, are both re.-u-Irr.ts of Mishawaka. are believed to ), .,.rn;i.j winners in the race md Mr and Mrs. McQuillan third. Mr. and Mr.--. Housekeeper were the f'-urth r.ewiy wed.s to report in the l:r.t half hour of the congest. Dozens of -ither rouplrs are rp' ted t rep. n t tril iv, ;is many .;!u.Cde- pri.' e liave no 1'e.iring on ti'.e p i rt i" ul.'i r tin."1 of th- ceremony ether than th t they be we. bird on the r.rt of June. (:"!':vial announcement or thewinrer.s in the contest will be announced today after the judo-. Mayor Frank Carson. Frmk Oeen. manager f f the C'-an-.Ver of Commerce. and. County 'lerk Wiba r Warner I hive vorir;.-d the Information rewrird-j inr the coup". 3 who !.ie reported! thus far. Inten?' interest was centered cn the contest as the hour of midnicht approacne.1 iast n:;nt. scores of people tame to t;e buin?s etnee cf TvVhe News-Times t xpe-tinc to see a annro ached last n:ht. Scores veddir.g ceremony pe-rforrned there. but one of the ru.-s of the contest w;u that the cercnov.-.v had to b. perfcrnied oiiVia" of the newspaper otü'co. Thousands cf dcHtrs' worth of presents have been piven bv- nterpri i:c South Pen t and M.shavvaki m rcyi ints for the first coup!" marrying flvt tin June and reporting the this newspaper. Oth- r ups will receive scores cf v tlaa . gifls. There are p; iz. s f- r the beautiful June first I r; ! one :e prizes is $00 in gold priz-s r.e youngest, prizes for the oldprizes for the most intelligent. . for the 13th couple wedding midnight in fact presents of - description to be pivr, away - -'! orts of novel Condition. r t Jlflr Uleh Award Offered. Th presents offered in The nVtj. ::".:; contest, conservatively c-ti-ate-i. amount in dollars and cents S 2 . " 4 . 5 r . Dividing this al'.otr.t of presents among a half dozen r. les, it may he seen at a giinve r-rH reir'ir that awaits th

s l . ky winners in the bridal event far ahead of last year s event.

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the rr.o.-t Hicce'ful cooperative efforls ever attempted by South Pond ar.d Mi.-hawaka busin-s-; men. The at the public presentation of gifts Ohver or-era hf'Uf w:l! takr,v. -i' :jv evening at S : 1 " dock with Nelson L. Jone. South . r.d's prfniier tr,.!n:act?r and f n(Continual cm I'ajn? J mr

CALL OUT TROOPS IN RACE RIOT AT TULSA

t TULSA, Okla.. .May SI. One ! JKgro was kllbd iuul two whites j .in i Min-' im -groo; wounded In rae trouble here tonight v. hen a M-nrr of white )oioih, armed, rlah-l with alut -Oo annl negroes who gathered In the l rinlty of the court lunw after a negro had lwen nr res tri I for nn .alleged attack on a white girl. Scattered firing continue! ner midnight while the IhkI.v of the dejtd negro Mill lay In the street. CAIL OUT TROOPS. OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., May 'M. Three units of the Oklahoma national guard were railed out by Adjt. r.en. Charles V. Barrett late tonight to a-slt police oltioi.iN at Tul-a in hardline the ran trouble there. Gov. .T. n. A. ItoN'rtson said tonight that following a rail from the Tulsa chief of jollco, he had -hen Adjt. Gen. Barrett full authority to proceel at his own discretion. shortly iVforo midnight a crowd of white men estimated at from ."00 to l.ooo were marching through tlie business section In TiiNa. some of the men statin? they were on their way to the neuro district. The first company of national guardsmen on the streets was greeted with loud cheers front crowds along the .sidewalk. The guardsmen were in motor trucks I and headed for the court house j there. DELAY RATE BOOST INDIANA-MICHIGAN ELECTRIC COMPANY Elkhart Jurist Enjoin? Commission From Making Inerea.se JEffective. Special to Th Nws-Tifns : RLKHAKT, Ind.. May 31 The Public Service Commission of Indiana has been temporally enjoined by Judge XV, D. Hile of the superior court fron putting into effect today the advance in rates granted by it to the Indiana and Michigan H'eetri- Co.. The plaintiffs in the proceedings are the citbs of Klkbart and Ugonler. the Noye? Carriage Co., Klkhart Irnwn Works Metal Forming corporation. Elkhart Brass Mfg. Co., Crovve-F.lkb.art Motor Cor., Foster Machine Co., James A. Pell Co.. C. G. Conn Ltd.. Oliver Hotel Cor., and tbe Sideway Mercantile Co. The complaint, after setting out the powers of the commission to grant Increases in rates that will be "just and reasonable fix tolls, charges, rules and regulations.', of the public utilities, recited the tiling of the petition of electric company on Nov. 12. 1020, the numerous hearings on it and the final entry on May 2 of the order granting the increase. The increase is declared to be "unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, excessive and exhorhltant and therefore unlawful." It is declared that it affects 25,000 consumers of electric energy in the counties of Flkhart. Noble. St. Joseph and Marshall. That the electric licht company prepare? its Mi's to be sent out at different tiir.es during the month and that "unless a restraining order "temporary in character be granted the plaintiffs, the company will make out such bills and collect them at the increased rate, and if the order of the defendant b enjoined or modified consumers, ach and all of them, will be required to file claims for rebates of money unlawfully collected". It was shown that the order (f the commission was not made until Saturday and that two or three days intervening between that day and June first, when the order was ro be in force, are days on which business, if not performed "Saturday and (Continued on Pace Four) What is "Babe" Ruth Doing? Everybody is interest1 1 in the de mg of this famous home run ewatter. Will he break his record of a year ago when he clouted liftyfour home run drives? Ibad all about him on the Sporting Page. Read what th" other fellows are doing in ba.sAball. In tennis. In golf, on the cinder track. You'll pnjoy reading a live, up-to-the-minute paper on sporting events. THE NEWS-TIMES

VIRGIL DECKER

MURDER. TRIAL 1 BEGINS TODAY Slayer of Lcroy Lovett to be Tried Before Judge Royse at Warsaw. FACE SEPARATE TRIALS Mother and Brothers to be Tried Later No Motive for Murder Known. ry Associated Press: WARSAW, Ind., May 31. Trial of Virgil Decker, 1 R, for the murder of Leroy Lovett. 20, said to be hlfi "double." was fet to begin In the Circuit Court here Wednesday before Judge L. YV. itoyse. Two of Decker's brother and his mother, also under indictment on a charge of murder, will be tried Ff p.trately. Although Virgil Decker is said to have confessed to having murdered Lovett, a boon companion, early in March, the authorities have failed, ro far aa kno.vn, to learn the motive. The young man is said to have declared in one of his numerous statementjj, that "the devil told me to do it and I just did it." Lovett was found fatally injured at a railway crossing twelve miles west of "Warsaw after he had been struck by a freight train. The body was taken to Pourbon, where Fred Decker, a brother of Virgil, and Mrs. Decker, mother of both men claimed ed the body as that of Virgil Decker. Claimed As Son. Accepting at first the claims of the Decker family to the body, a search was Instigated for Leroy lovett, who !t was said, had been with Virgil Decker a short time before the accident. This brought the Iett family of Elkhart, Ind., into the casu and upon viewing the b.jdy, it was claimed by them as their ton, Leroy. Further Investigation disclosed the deceased had died from, injuries other than those received when struck by the train. The Deckers stoutly maintained the body was that of Virgil and it was some time before they admitted their error. The state, it is said, bases its charge against Fred Decker, Calvin Decker, another brother, and Mrs. Lydia Decker, the mother, on the theory- that a conspiracy existed to kill Lovett, substitute his body for that of Virgil Decker, and co.lfct $20.000 life insurance which (Continued on Page l our) DISMISS JURY IN M'GAHNON TRIAL Case Continued Until June 9 File Information Against Mis? Chamber?. Iv Assrx-i.ited Press: CLEVELAND. O.. May 31. The dismiss of the jury w-hich was to try former Judge William 11. McGannon. charged wdth alleged perjury during his trials for the murder of Harold C. Kagy, and filing of an information against Miss Catherine Chur.oers, a bailiff in charge of women jurors, were the, outstanding features in the Mcflannon case here today. The jury was discharged without prejudice by Judge Florence E. Allen after two witnesses testified that one of the women jurors recently made remarks prejudicial to McGannon. The trial was continued until June The information n gainst Mis'' Chambers was filed in common pleas court after two women jurors made afbdavit? that Miss Chambers had sought to Induce them to "hang" a jury which was expected to try Jarnos F. MCaffery. convicted of committing perjury as one of McOanr.on'c alibi witnesses during his murder trial-. Miss Chambers denies the charges and declared it is an attempt to get r ver.ge. Arraign Mrs. Lcwen For Murder of Child Plea of Not Guilty Entered State to Call 41 Witnesses at Trial. Ir A'""I:cte 1 rr": 'DlTROIT. Mich.. May si. Mrs. Elizabeth Lewen. 5-5. was held for trial In recorder's court Tuesday for the a'.Vged murder of Max Ernest, a 6-year-oVI boy who disappearei from his home on May 1 and whose bedy was found in a swamp on the outskirts of the city a week later. The trial was set for June 13. When she appeared for arraignment. Mrs. Lewen stood mute and a pica of not guilty was entered by her attorney. The prosecutor announced 41 wdtnet?es would be called by the stati to cjve testimony Intended to support hü contention that the woman lured the child from his home on Wildemer avenue and killed him for revenge on his father. Frank Errust, with whrm she is sail to have quarreled over a business deal.

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G. W. Duvall, Jr., football star of Westminister College, Fulton. Mo., obtained a license to marry Zaida Sherman, a student at William Wood.- College, also in Fulton. But Pres't Serena tf the girl' school thought Miss Sherman should consult her parents. So he pu: her in an auto aand speeded her homeward. Duvall pursued in a taxi, but a tire blew up and he lost the race.

CANCELS ORDER AGA1HST PAPERS Hays Restores Mail Privileges to Milwaukee Leader and New York Call. Br Asseciatl Trss: WASHINGTON, May 31. Pctal prohibition against tho Milwaukee Leader and tho New- York Ca.ll. two socialist newspapers were withdrawn Tuesday by Postmaster General Hays, who restored them to second class mailing privileges. The action wa in line with that recently taken in the case of the Liberator, a periodical prohibited in New York City. Orders cancelling the second classmailing privileges of the publications were issued by Postmaster Rurleson in 1317, after an inquiry which Mr. Burleson had Hhown that articles published, each of them had violated provisions of the espionage act. Tlie Liberator, a sucessor to the Masses, ceased publication soon afterward, the publishers announcing they were unable to bear the additional burden Imposed by the thirel class rates. Both the Leader and The Call carried their ficht to the coijrts. Tbe .Milwaukee paper, upon refusal of the supreme court of the District of Columbia to issue a writ of mnndamus to compel the postmaster general to restore the canceled privileges appealed to the supreme court of the L". S., where the lonver couit was upheld. The Call won in the lower courts cf the District of Columbia, whereupon th post ofhe department appealed. No Formal Order. No formal order was issued by Mr. Hays Tuesday, tho department s action being carried out by an notification to the newspapers interested and instructions to the postmasters in the respective cities of publication. Postmaster General Hay? Is understood to have roceeded on the theory that the previous administration of the department had erred in withdrawing the low rates and yet permitting the paters to be distributed. If barred at all, they should have been barred intirely, he is said to have decided. Whether the pcvt office department will volunteer to refund th? exce.-s charges was not stated Tuesday. In the case of the Liberator. Mr. Has said a refund would be ordered, the amount due that publication being estimated at more than $11, OQ". STATE FAIR GROUNDS NOW STATE PROPERTY Bv Asso.Mnted Prs: INDIANAPOLIS. May 31 The In diana State Fair grounds passed intoj the hands of the state of IndianiJ Tuesday. th transfer cf the title "from the semi-public state fair board of agriculture 1 eing made as part! of the program for making the board ' a strictly stat institution. The ln-( debtedness of thö old title amount ing to almost $400.00 remains to be paid by the state, for which purpoje the state finance board will meet Wednesday. nun DAMAcis sun. HOBOKEN. X. J., May 31. A mall fire Tuesday night slightly damaged the steamship George Washineton whih twice carried Pres't. Wilson to France and back. The steamer Is in drydock here undergoing repair

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: , V .s. V-v - ; ,if j' . . -v y.-y im- . 4 AV. .v. VOTE CONFIDENCE IN FRENCH LEADER Senate Favors Briand in Conurction With Reparations Settlement. Hy Associated Tress: PARIS, May Jl. The senate Tuday voted confidence in Premier Praind in connection with the reparations jettlement, the vote was 277 to S. The question of confidence arose duringo the discission of the budget expenses recoverable from Germany. Tlie radical socialist, M. Hery, presented a motion that the decision taken at the London conference be referred to the finance and foreign committees. He not only objected to France foregoing a balance of 12 billion marks due May 1, but also to France's acceptance of 50 percent reduction of her claims. Mr. Briand, in asking for a vote cf confidence, eaid he would not be the one- to adopt a policy which disregard e-d the agreement the allies had reached at Ixmdon, and which fught to obtain from Germany a greater amount than the reparations commission had awarded. If the Iiuhr were occupied in an attempt to collect m.ore. from Germany, the premier declared. France must bo called to arms, and he would nevt be the one to do it. "Suppose such a policy were accepted. he said, "then there would no longer exist either treaty or reparations tommbrfon, and the entire world would utter a cry of amazement." The special budget expenditure recoverable from Germany, amounting to more than 15.00-0.000,0( 0 franrs was finally adopted by th-1 senate. Certain modifications were made, which necessitated the return of the budre-t to the chamber of deputies Some opposition was encountered in the chamber over the modifications but at the reque-st of M. Doumer, the minister of rinajice. they were accepted, and the budget wa deflnitelv voted on. DEMANDS OF MARINE ENGINEERS PREVENT STRIKE SETTLEMENT WASHINGTON, May 31-Demands of the marine engineers fcr a clause in the proposed agreement with the shipping board providing fcr the reinstatement of the men who lft their shirs durinsr thr. n nriip w-ao! controversy prevented a settlement of the shipping strike Tuesday, Sec'y Davis announced after a series of conferences with both parties. Later he visited the white house, but no (statement was made concerning his discussion with the president. The secrejry will confer with the engineers again Wednesday, it was announced but Tuesday night he snid he felt that he had exhausted. every means of settling the dispute, and unless the present tentative agreement was signed, he would devote no more time to the matter. iikmovi: Ai 11 nnin CHICAGO, yiy 31. K. XV. Majors, superintendent of the Chicago divi&icn of the air mail service, was relieved from duty on orders from Washington Tuesday, following a month's ir.vestlsiUon by postal in-ppectors.

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TWO SOLDIERS KILLED AND 13 HURT IN BLAST

Four Not Expected to Live Following Bomb Explosion at Aberdeen, Md. FACTS STILL UNKNOWN Occurs at Armv Provinz Grounds During Preparation for Experiments. WASHINGTON, May SI. Two men were killeed and 1" others injured, four rrobably fatally by the explosion of a bomb at the Aberdeen, Md., army proving grounds during preparation for airplane bombing experiments, according toofficial reports telephoned the -war department Tuesday night by MaJ. William A. Borden and Capt. Claudius H. M. Roberta, special investigators sent from here to report and ascertain the cause of the explosion. The dead are Privates Allen AShermer, fourteenth squadron air service, and E. 11. Grinnell of the same organization. Capt. Jos. E. Hall, air service, New Haven, Conn., was said to be not expected to live. He was wounded severely about the eye-3 and face. Kxoected to Recover. birst Lieut. Carl G. Eliason, air 9-Tvloe, Hagerstown, Md., the report faid. was expected to recover. He received a deep muscular wound on the right side just above the hip. First Lieut. Iwis R. Reese, quartermaster corps of Gwynn Brook, Md., also was expected to recover. His thumb and fifth finger of the right hand had been removed, the advices said, and it was probable that the fourth firfger would also have to be amputated. Private Samuel Weinstock of thc-Forty-fourth Ordnance company suffered a punctured lung and was not expected to recover. Privates L. S. Hite of the Fourteenth juadron, air service; P. W. Hall, M. D. Rlezins of th; same organization; Charles J. O'Neill of the Thirtyfourth ordnance company, .and Edward Jarry of the same organization all were wounded and recovery was reported to be doubtful. (Continual on Pago Four) STATE ASKS DEATH OF CECIL BURKETT Eleven-Year- Old Lad Placed on Trial for Slaying of Benny Slavin. Bv United Pret-s: KNOX, Ind., May 31. The State today demanled the life of an 11 year old boy. The trial of Cecil BurkeU, charged with murder of Benny Slavin, his even year oil playmate, started. It is expected that a jury will not he selected for several days. Prosecutor James A. Dilta charges the crime was committed In cold blood and will demand the death penalty. Cecil, his brother. Alfred, aged 9, Jand Frederick Scherman, aged 7, were playing in the Burkett bacK yard last Thanksgiving. Bonnie Slavin and his little sister Clara. 6, were in the adjoining yard. Bcnnie was fhot and killed with a rifle. The s-.ate said the shooting was the result of the quarrell. Cecil said it was accidental. Citizens of Ora, where the shooting occurred, have rallied to Cecil's defense. They raised Sln,000 bail on which he was released. He has been attending school since his playmate was shot. School children and parents will be called as witnesses. Logan to Represent U. S. on Commission Will Act as Unofficial Observer in .Meeting? of Guarantee? Committees. I!r Associated Prs: "PAIUS, May 31. James A. Logan will sit a unDfflcial observer for the United State in the meetings of the guarantees cemmittees ef the reparation commi'ien as the representative of Roland W. Boyden, who has resumed his seat on the reparations commission. No instiurtion-s concerning 2Jr. I.near. attendance on the. meetings of the guarantees f?e expected from j Washington and there are believM here to he t.n necessary in view of the fact that the .committee is subordinate to and part of the reparations commision in the instructions to Mr. Hoyden to partlclrat In the commission be'r.g cor.sidered rjfticient for him to delegate Mr. Iog-an who is hi aJitant. Trie meeting of the guaranterc commission proVably will be held la Paris this week. aftr which it may meet wherever its duties re-quire.

Natalie Talma dge Latest to Marry; Engaged by Wire

By I'nitec press: NEW YORK. May .11 Natalie Talmadge, rilm star, va marri. i here Tuesday to Buster Kenton, screen comedian. Miss Talmadg is the youngest of the Talmadge trio, which includes Norma .and Constance. The Wfddincr Tnecr'iv tv-ia rer- ., formed by a justice of the peace. Those, present were: Mrs. Talmadge. the bride's mother; Constance and Norma, Producer Sehrenok and Lou Anger, Ke.aton's manager. La! r in the week the couple will ' .ixe or! Hollywood, Calif., where t.i-y will! live. Mrs. Keaton will retire from work in the films. Keaton, who gave the name of Joseph Frank, will return to studio work Immediately. The ocuple had not seen each other for two years until Keaton came east about four weeks ago. They corresponded constantly, however, and became engaged by telegraph. Keaton has just recovered from a painful injury sustained in screen work. CONTINUE DEBATE ON APPROPRIATION ' FOR NAVY PROGRAM Offer New Proposals for Reduction Expect Final Vote on Measure. By Associated Press: WASHINGTON, May Si The third week of senate debate on tne $495,Ofio.C.'0 naval appropriation bill opened Tuesday with the. group of senators who have been prominent in the disarmament and economy controversies offering new proposals for naval reductions. A final vote, however. Is expected by leaders Wednesday or Thursday. When the senate after Its holiday recess resumed consideration of the iyi'i Sen. Lenroot, republican, Wisconsin, offered an amendment to cut $15,000,000 from the total of $r-0,-000,000 voted by the house and supported by the senate naval committee for continuing work e.n the naval building program. The amendment was rejected by a vote of 35 to 20. Sen. King, democrat, Ftah, then offered an amendment proposing temporary suspension of work on five of the Fix new battle cru!?er?? and also on fix superdreadnaughts of the South Dakota class. He spoke for several hours on his amendment, and it went over until tomorrow. Disarmament questions, tlie place the United States should occupy among the naval powers, comparisons of the naval programs of Ununited States, Great Britain and Japan and numerous other subje-or were threshed out anew in Tuesday's discussion. Dcploro Agitation. In supporting his amendment. Sen. Lenroot expressed the opinion. in which Sen. Williams. democrat. Mississippi, concurred, that the United States should not become more than the second strongest naval power in the world. Both deplored agitation for an American navy which should be "th Iirg'.-t in the world". Opposing the i.r-n-root amendment, Sen. Poindex-r, republican, Washington, in charge of the bill, declared for a r.nvy at bast equal to any in the world. Sen. Lenroot tfrged the rut of $15.000,000 in the general building fund because the .enate hid adopted a committer amendment author- ( Continued on Pago Four.) WILL RENEW FIGHT IN STILLMAN SUIT Two Squad? of Layers to Battle at Hearing; Before Referee Gleason. IS? At-seriated pre: poughkki-:psii:. n. y.. Two squad of lawyers w Mav w i lepal battling here Wedr.'-s Jay in the divorce suit brought by James A. Sti'.lman. New York hanker, against the former P:fi Pctter. The first witness at thft hearing We d n f 5-! ay b e f o r e R c f c r e o j ) . r. ; . J. Gleson. will 1)7. Hugh L. Ilusfe'.I, a Buffalo asteopah, who at a p.-e vv .session te."tifiM tfca d: Stilln.an. whib und'-r hi.s tr-atmr. early .n Kd5 admitted that Mr. Still man was not the father of the- f-x peTtrd infant. This c-r.tr r.v.r n ; tne ras:s o: tr.e comp:air.t tn wr. h Fred Reauvaise an Indian guid-, is named co-respondent. Direct examination of Ir. Ru'ell will bQ resumed when he ta'-fs ?h stand, after w hicn th- def. ne v.-ill try to l atter down hi-s t.:ir:.r ny in croa examination. He will be f d'.owed in the witness chair bv P.e-rnard Kelly, former supe en if nt f tho Stillman estate at Pl-'-as intv Il. At a previous sfvn Kelly Mentiflel that handwriting cf B-auvafs on letters alleged o have- ee-n written by the guide to Mr.--. S'illn-.an. On of theo le'tfrs wu admitted In eddence at that time. When Kelly iak'-s the p'ar.d Wednesday esuinel for Mr. Stillman will erdf'1: t" have tho other letura acceped ly lieferte Gleaon

RAIL DECISION TO SAVE ROADS $400,000,000

Order of Rail Lai or Board Authorizes Cut of 2 Per Cent on (H Road. IS EFFECTIVE JULY 1 Attitude of Rail Unions L'nknown Executive? Express Disappointment. F.r A.'.dM.-d Pr?s: rilhWin, Mi." .11 An etlrr.atel four hundred million r' irs v. ill ba slashed from the nation's railroad wage m;i vhn an orier cutting wage5! an aver t go of 12 prr cent to bo handed down Wednesday 1 y th United State railn ad l ib- r board becomes effective July 1. Tho order atfects m.' rnber of 31 labor organisations ctv.pl -yed en bd railroads. While the d .-.(.-, t-e ;s- s peel f a lly applied only t- the rads who.cas. s have- b. e v. henrd bv the p. ard. the de. iiou f.ijs it m iv later be applied to any other ;..il asking a hearing under tk- pr v;.-:oT-;s; f the Esch-e'ummir.-i transportation act, Computo Avcragv. Peroent-igo ,,f r. du'-tiin computed by iv.rmbo.-s f the l-mr-l gavo the average of in per eej.j and th" same source estimated tho annual reduction J:i wages at approximate-.' J 400,000,000. The derision grant rrdu'ti- r.s varying from five to i .1 cents an hour, or from five to 1-' jer cent, and in case of ereti-n ab. r'rs, completely w ipes out the p-.rre.ase granted that cliss (f emp:. y. - ;y the $' i 0,0f. .!,(. r.() wag-- awu d of J 2 0, 1?2 0. For section men ihr- reduction was approximately IS '.- 0 nt switchmen and s!k;i crafts were given a nine per cmt reduction, while the train fc-rvi'-o men wer cut approximately seven per rent. Car repairers wcic cut a! out 10 pr cent. Common labor pay, ov.-r which the railro. ids made thr!;- hard'?! fii-'ht. is to be i-e-dure-el ;v Jo S 1-2 cents nn hour, cutting f: tru- kerf" a vera go monthly v.-.ig. s to S'7.10 and tr.ok PiImmts m -577.11. This new sdv-du!.- giw s . ti' n iv : an average duly v..:g-- of J1.c' f, an eight h tir day, although c-:;b era bio testimony offer- d ),y the roads, particularly in the south, showed common labor wag s as ;v.v as fl.-'O for ,i t:;- hour day. Shop craft employes and train an 1 cr.g'.r.e service m.-n. v pt th' --- :n pas5---n-ger Servier, r'nr 1 V-Cfi t f-1'S an hour. "on.-truction ;rd .'---tioa foremen are r .lu- 1 10 c r.ta an h u r. Cut Fngiin--r. Pa.-s r.g r and fr- ight rrirers. (Contirinoil on Pag l our.) IS HYSTERICAL AT TRIAL FOR MURDER Airs. Nott Stops Trial fer 45 Minute s I Jooncy Tells of Conspiracy.

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