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BE THE IIM
New Zealand has long been noted
fov her laws designed to throw the
protecting arm of the government
around the children. She has led the
world in legislation of this character.
As the people of New Zealand have
sowed so have they reaped.
Figures just given out by the
United States Bureau of Public
Health, show that the infant mortali
ty rate in this enlightened British
colony is the lowest in the world. It
has been cut in half during the past
45 years.
That is the kind of conservation
worth boasting about.
It is the kind of conservation that
might well occupy the attention of of
ficial Washington to a far greater
extent than it does now or ever has.
If there is any explanation that
really explains why America instead
of New Zealand should not lead the
world in conserving child life, we
should like to have it.
Postmaster General Hays has an
nounced a reorganization of the Post
al Savings Bank of far-reaching im
portance. He cays that if congress
will back him up with the necessary
legislation he can add hundreds of
millions to the country’s usable
wealth. The money is now hoarded
because its possessors are afraid of
private banks and do not consider
the Postal bank’s terms are attractive
enough.
Hays proposes to raise the Postal
bank’s interest rate from two per
cent to three per cent and to so lib
eralize the bank in other ways that
hoarded money will flow into it.
The Postal bank now has 508.000
depositors. 70 per cent of whom are
of foreign extraction. The total of
their deposits is merely nominal com
pared witn what it would be if the
liberalizing policy suggested by Hays
were carried out.
An Ohio supreme court judge ap
peals for the “court of conscience”
as a final standard for all lawsuits.
Many a lawyer in Augusta will
agree with him.
Such a standard would be of ines
timable value to the public and to
honest lawyers.
The “court of conscience” could be
established and maintained by co
operation of public opinion and strin
gent action by bar associations to
prevent practice of law by uncon
scientious attorneys.
In a municipal dance pavilion in an
Oh o town, there were, despite orders,
some who insisted on toddling and cat
stepping and camel-walking. Anri so
all were called together and given
this speech:
“Dance as you would if your mother
were here!”
This is the best that has yet been
said in behalf of clean dancing. \
There is not much danger of a girl
dancing the wrong way if she can
be made to visualize the reproving
eyes of her mother watching her.
Wilhelm Hohenzollern is reported
to be wearing again the glittering
uniforms that he loved to displav
when he was war-lording the world.
»So the last of the autocrats for
whom millions died is plaving sol
dier. still feeding the vanity that
wrecked him.
It was the French philosopher
preacher. Pascal, who said:
“Vanity is the great enemy of man:
but those whom it hath betrayed
never cease to honor it. Such is the
folly of man.”
In Paris recently gendarmes used
a lasso to capture a fugitive when
they couldn’t get him any oiher wav.
They learned the art from Will
Rogers, Tom Mix, et al.
Girls in Italy are reported to be
dressing their hair like Mary Pfck
ford.
These examples well illustrate the
power of movies for world-wide dis
semination of knowledge.
MURDERER CUTS OFF
BOY'S HEAD WITH A
RAZOR; SUSPECT HELD
Heinous Crime Early Mon
day Morning at 1231
Johnson Avenue—Colored
Boy Decapitated While
He Slept
One of the most heinous crimes
ever perpetrated in Augusta was dis
covered by the police early Monday
when they visited a house at 1231
Johnson avenue and found the body
of George Dunbar, a colored boy about
14 years old whose head had been vir
tually cut from his body with a razor
after he had been knocked in the head
with an axe. The body was rolled up
♦ n a quilt, which had apparently been
used by the boy as a pallet. It is be
lieved he was killed while he slept.
Gad Waiters, a negro about 35 yehrs
old, who gave the alarm, is being held
by the police in connection witli the
crime. A coroner’s jury, Investigat
ing the homicide, returned a verdict
Monday that the boy came to his
death from his throat having been cut
probably at the. hands of Gad Waiters
Waiters was being put through the
third degree Monday afternoon. Ho
denies any knowledge of the crime,
but Chief of Detectives W fj Reid
said that there was sufficient evi
dence against him to charge him with
the murder. .
About 3:30 a. m. Lieutenant Elliott
received a telephone message that a
hoy had been killed at 1231 Johnson
avenue. Sergeant Caudle and Officers
Martin. Hoover. Bridges and Aikens
hurried to the house and found the
decapitated body of a boy rolled up in
a quilt in front of a fireplace. Gad
Waiters, it is said, was the person
who gave the alarm, having rushed
out of the house shouting ‘•George has
been killed.” Waiters was put under
arrest as a suspect and carried to the
barracks. Tbe body was turned over
to Coroner Elliott, who arrived on the
scene a few minutes after the police
were notified of the murder.
A bloody razor was found by the
boy’s side, and in the vatd was found
a bloody axe. The officers believe the
boy was hit in the head with the axe
and rendered unconscious while he
slept, ami that the murderer then
slashed his head off with a razor. He
had been hit twice with the axe. The
body was still warm when the police
arrived.
Witnesses at the coroner's inquest
stated that Gad Waiters was seen to
go into the house with George Dun
bar earlier In the night, and that he
had not been seen to come out. Other
negroes living in the neighborhood of
the crime told the police that Walters
had recently been heard to rcm.irfc
that he would “rather see George dead
than carying on the way he was do
ing.” and that he guesed he would
“have to kill George vet.” Walters
was not related to the boy. it is said.
The boy's mother was not at home
when the crime was committed.
The bloody razor bore a finger print
which the detectives believe to be the
murderer's. The police hope to es
tablish guilt by the finger-print sys
tem which was recently Installed at
police headquarters.
The murderer evidently sawed his
victim's neck with the razor until the
head was practically severed, then
rolled the body up in a quilt and wash
ed his hands in a basin in the house.
A soap dish bearing bloody finger
prints was found In the house.
Nancy University
Ready to Re-Open
'"•'as Under Fire Throughout
the War.
ANCY, France.—Nancy Univers
under fire throughout moat of the
.r. has plugged the holes* in its
v.a Is. enlarged its facilities and is op
ening its doora to American an ! Al
lied students. Immediately after the
armistice several hundred American
officers and men were assigned to the
university f<>r %at |< us com iea u ■
r»f thla contact with a large group of
foreign students grew the idea of de
veloping such work
Nancy university is reputed for lt»
application of science to industry.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
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VOLUME XXVIII, No. 192 CONSOUDATED SERV,CE AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 11, 1921 iassoc.ated
BRITAIN BACKS UP HARDING
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State of Peace Begins In Ireland
LLOYD GEORGE TO
MEEIDEVELERA
ON THURSDAY
TO DISCUSS
PEACE
Dominion Status for Ireland
Likely Be Urged.
UP TO ThFsINN FEIN
Will Ask That Party to
Abandon Republic Plan.
LONDON.—Premier Lloyd George
and Eammon de Valera will meet in
London on Thursday at a place not
yet designated, to begin tbe prelimi
nary conversation in an effort to ar
rive at a settlement of th£ Irish ques
tion.
The premier was notified by the re
publican leader Monday that he was
coming to London on that date. It is
understood bis colleagues will include
Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sinn
Fein, Prof. John Mac Neill, E. J. Dug
gan and Michael Staines, Sinn Fein
member of parliament.
The British premier’s colleagues
have not yet been announced. Mean
while the truce agreed upon last week
oecame effective in Ireland at noon
Monday, with the exception of Bel
fast, which Sunday experienced one of
tiie most frightful days of fighting and
bloodshed in its history. The trouble
in Belfast continued on a smaller scale
in some districts this morning and the
curfew which was lifted by the truce,
has been re-imposed, while the mili
tary. carrying arms, are continuing to
police the city.
Dublin resumed its old peacefulness
Monday, and military display was
larking.
From distant parts of Southern and
Western Ireland came reports of vio-
I lence over the week-end. but these ln
l cidents all occurred before the truce
| became effective and the Dublin au
thorities assume they were due to the
fact that word of the truce had not
yet been received.
Confidence Is expressed that the
Irish Republican army will obey the
orders of its leaders for the cessation
of hostilities. The greatest optimism
over the prospects for a settlement
continued to prevail Monday in near
ly all quarters.
DUBLIN.—The truce in Ireland,
agreed upon by government officials
and republican leaders pending peace
negotiations went in effect at noon
Monday.
In Dublin the complete disappear
ance from the street* of the military
police lorries and armored cars marked
the official beginning of the truce.
In Londonderry, according to the
terms of the truce, the police at noon
( \vere summoned to their barracks to
hand in their revolvers, subsequently
resuming street duty unarmed.
In Belfast, disorders which begun
Sunday were still continuing in les
ser degree Monday forenoon, the po
lice were still retaining their arms.
The yard of Dublin Castle, w’hich is
usualy active with the movement of
the police lorries and armored auto
mobiles. the yard being mainly used
as a starting point for these vehicles,
was empty of cars Monday morning,
while the auxiliaries on duty were
standing al>out in their shirt sleeves.
The Dublin Castle officials and
others in this center, who hitherto
have been unable to walk In the
streets openly were going about Mon
day forenoon under normal condicions.
Another development was the appear
ance of furniture vans which left the
Castle presumably with the belong
ings of officers who, while the truce
lasts, will be aide to leave the con
finement of the Castle area and live
in their own houses.
In consequence of the abolishment
of the Curfew the theaters, the mov
ing picture houses, the street car
companies and the railways made an
nouncement that from Monday night
they would resume their normal hours.
Confidence was everywhere express
ed here Monday that the Republican
fores would observe the truce order.
BELFAS4T—The curfew was reim
posed here Monday as a result of the
disorm rs of Sunday. Belfast now 1s
the only place in Ireland under the
curfew regulation despite the truce
terms by which the curfew was raised
generally.
The quiet was disturbed before the
morning had progressed far. A great
deal of revolver firing developed In
Stanhope street and the adjoining
Carrlck Hill districts. At one hos
pital six cases of bullet wounda were
treated. A bakery wagon was burned
in Lancaster street and the driver was
beaten. S#me firing occurred In sev
eral of yesterday’s disturbed areas,
but olice patrols promptly checked
any : -tempt at an organized outbreak.
The freight a r .d mail train from
Belfast to Londonderry was attacked
near Carrlckmore, county Tyrone, and
six cars with their contents were
burned and the line torn up at this
point.
LONDON.—Eammon deVelera will
come to London on Thursday of this
week tor hi* conference with Premier
Lloyd-George to discuss the basis of
a settlement of the Irish problem. Of
ficial announcement to this effect was
issued Monday afternoon.
Mr. Lloyd-George, who spent the
week-end at Chequers court with the
premiers of the British dominions, re
turned to London Monday morning to
arrange final details for his meeting
with Mr. de Valera, which may mark
an epoch in the relations of Ireland
and Great Britain.
The truce between the crown forces
and the Irish republican army became
effective at noon Monday, but there
were apprehensions that extremists
on both aides of bitter controversy in
Liiti woo'd be hard control Sun
day's rioting in Belfast, during which
at least fifty n persons were killed
and nearly one hundred Injured,
aroused grave sea over incidents
which might happen Tuesday, the an
niversary of the battle of the Y -vne.
It appeared Monday that confer
ences between Mr. de Valera and the
prime minister would revolve around
the granting of do minion status to
Ireland upon condition that the Hinn
Feinn demand for the establishment
of an Irish republic would be aban
doned.
There were other « * lous questions
to be debated, however among them
>*lng th< bo> <ot • of i lister by south
Ireland, which has brought serious
difficulties to the people of Ulster.
President Harding Flayed For
“Interfering With Congress”
WASHINGTON. D. C.—Presi
dent Harding was attacked Mon
day by Senator Harrison, Demo
crat, Mississippi, for visiting the
c.apitol last week and urging de
ferment of the soldiers’ bonus bill.
The President, Senator Harrison
told the senate, disregarded pub
lic promises made early In his ad
ministration to avoid interfering
with congressional prerogatives.
Addressing senate Republicans,
Senator Harrison said:
“For eight long years yoy
abused this side of the aisle, say
ing we were nothing but rubber
stamps and responded only to the
will of the President. We. thank
God, responded to requests for
legislation for the people. You
responded to requests for the de
feat of legislation for the peo
ple.”
Senator Harrison asked the Re
publicans whether they intended
to “desert” Senator McCumber,
Republican. North Dakota, in
charge of the bonus bill.
“Are you going to accept the
5 SLAIN, 50 HURT
AS PLANE FALLS
INTO DIG CROWD
MOUNDS VILLE, W. Va.—Officials
of Langin Field here, where five per
sons were killed Sunday, and a num
ber injured when a Martin bombing
planec rashed Into automobiles park
ed on the grounds, Monday were
awaiting the arrival of officers from
Dayton, Ohio, and Bolling Field,
Washington, before making a state
ment as to the cause of the accident
and fixing responsibility. The officers
were ordered here Sunday night to in
vestigate the accident.
The bomber, piloted by Lieutenants
C. R. Mclve and T. H. Dunton, at
tached to the Langley (Va.) Field,
wer taking the machine from Cleve
land to the Virginia Field, when trou
ble developed at the Langin take-off.
sending the machine crashing into the
line of automobiles, causing the tanks
to explode and spraying the burning
fuel over the spectators.
Sixteen automobiles were burned.
Nearly twenty persons were given
surgical attention in local hospitals as
a result of burns. *
The pilots of the bomber escaped
with burned faces and hands, after
being extricated from the wreckage
by Carl Miller, coach at Bethany Col
lege and Sergeant Roy Duley, on duty
at tiie local field. Duley also suf
fered numerous burns in rescuing the
pilots, and had his hair burned from
his scalp.
The monetary loss in the accident
will reach one hundred thousand dol
lars. it is said. The automobiles
burned were estimated at $20,000, and
the bomber at SBO,OOO.
A revised list of dead include: Fred
Edge, 35, Round Bottom, W. Va.; Carl
Pettit, 16; Ralph Hartzell, 11; Mrs.
George Long, 65, and Leo Morski, aged
9, all of Moundsville.
Many of the victims were removed
to the Glendale Hospital, where little
hone was held out for their recovery.
MOUNDSVILLE, VV. Va.—Five per
sons are known to be dead and ap
proximately fifty injured as the result
of an accident at Langin Field here
late Sunday when a Martin bombing
piano crashed into a group of auto
mobiles parked on the grounds. An
explosion followed setting fire to the
machines. The dead were all spec
tators. Lieut. C. K. Mclve, pilot, and
Lieut. T. H. Dunton, assistant pilot,
were rescued by Carl Miller, coach of
Bethany College.
The dead are:
Mrs. George Long, 65 years old,
Moundsville anrl an unidentified child;
Garl Petitt, Fred Edge and Ralph
Hartzel.
Most of the injured were taken to
the Glendale Hospital, where it was
reported five were a serious condi
tion. A physician’s office nearby, al
so was used as an emergency hos
pital, where It was reported two had
died.
The known dead were of Mounds
ville with the exception of tfMgc,
whose home wac at Round Bottom.
W. Va
Lieutenants Mclve and Dunton were
taking off in the government plane
from Langin Field, starting from the
south side of the field, with the Ohio
River on their left. They had risen
about thirty feet, affording to the re
ports when the plane swung sharply
to the left and seemed about to hit a
hangar. An apparent effort was
made, It was said, to throw the plane
into the river, hut it was flying too
low, and crashed into a line of auto
mobiles lined along the river bank.
Sixteen automobiles were burned,
and the dead. In most instances, were
trapped in the machines.
The pilots arrived at Moundsville
Saturday afternoon with the hpmber
from Martin factories at Cleveland,
and were leaving Langlin Field here
for Langley Field, where the plane
was to he put Into service.
Codon Market Generally
Shows Encouraging Signs
By STEWART P. WEST.
(By Leased Wire to Augusta Herald.)
(Copyright, 1021, by Auguated Herald.)
WALL STREET, NEW YORK
The very firm showing of the Liver
pool market encouraged a continue
tion of the recent buying movement In
cotton Above the 13 refit level for
October deliveries, however, there was
evidently a good deal of realizing r
companUd by scattered southern sell
ing. This served to hold the advance
In check and give the market an Ir
regular appearance during the middle
of the day, although there was trade
buying on declines with reports from
the south emphasizing export demand
for old crop cotton and less favorable
weather conditions in the southwest.
The market opened firm at an ad
vance of 12 to 17 points and sold about
20 to 25 points net higher during the
middle of the morning with October
touching 13 18 compared with 12.03,
the low price ruling Just before the
publication of th* bureau on July U
•/lew expressed by executive in
terference’” Senator Harrison
asked while the few Republican
senators In the chamber remained
silent.
In his address retiring from the
senate last December, Senator
Harrison said that Mr. Harding
had pledged himself not to inter
fere with congress. Yet, the Mis
sissippi senator continued, the
President had visited the capitoi
last week, "buttonholed senators,
and urged delay on the bonus bill.”
Mr. Harrison added that Chair
man Penrose and Senator McCum
ber, of the finance committee, hnd
promised “quick relief” to former
service men.
Senator Edge, of New’ Jersey,"
from the Republican side, refer
red briefly to Senator Uarrison’s
Speech, decrying “political by
play.”
Republicans would “seek to get
the President’s viewpoint," he
said, without “cringing behind an
administration policy an Demo
crats did for so many weary
months months in 1920.”
“A Warless
World”
This is Aim of Endeavorers
By 1923
NEW YORK.—Tho new slogan of
the Christian Endeavor Societies will
be “A Warless World by 1923.” It
will have the support of 18,000.000
members and former members of the
movement in all parts of the world.
The aims as described in tbe motto
"A Saloonless Nation by 1920,” hav
ing been attained, agreement was
reached Monday on the slogan for
world peace. It was originated by the
Rev. Mr. Francis E. Clark, of Boston,
president and founder of the Christian
Endeavor movement, and will be sub
mitted Monday night to the sixteen
thousand delegates at the convention
here. It will be accompanied by an
other one calling for "Universal
Brotherhood.”
All the forces of Christian •
throughout the world. Dr. Clark said,
would be called upon to join the en
deavor movement In order to prevent
war
“In choosing 1923 as the date of our
next convention at Dee Moines.” he
added, "I took the position that two
years were sufficient to make plans
for a warless world. We had to wait
eight years after the adoption of our
saloonless nation slogan, but we can
not wait that long for world peace.
Further delay would be disastrous ”
The endeavor, he said, will put forth
every effort to influence public opinion
to carry in to effect the new slogan.
A resolution has been prepared calling
upon congress and President Harding
and the nations of the world to adopt
immediately a plan for world peace.
This country is urged to join any
league or association that will pro
mote permanent world peace. Tiie
League of Nations is not specifically
Indorsed.
milis
CHEF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON.—WiIIiam Howard
Taft was sworn In Monday as Chief
Justice of the United States
The simple ceremony of elevating
the former president to the supreme
court was performed In the office of
Attorney General Daugherty by Jus
tice Hoehling, of the district supreme
court, in the absence from the city
of the supreme court. Those present
included Mr. Taft’s brother, Henry
W. Taft, of New York, and John T.
Adams, chairman of the Republican
National committee.
Before the oath was administered
Attorney General Daugherty present
ed Mr. Taft with his commission as
Chief Justice, saying:
“I now hand you on behalf of the
president your commission as Chief
Justice of the United States. It af
fords me great pleasure on account
of our personal relations, but far
above that 1 feel a security to the
country, its constitution Its laws, arid
Its people, In your installation in that
high court.”
Immediately after taking the oath.
Chief Justice Taft went to the White
House to pay his respects to Presi
dent Harding.
MEXI. CITY POPULATION
INCREASES 100 PER CENT
MEXICO CITY.—The population of
Mexico City has increased more than
100 per cent during the past ten years,
according to recent estimate* based
on statistics which fix the figure at ap
proximately 1,000,000. This is far
above the normal Increase and Is at
tributed to the Influx of persons due
to revolutions. Housing conditions, as
a result, ftre bad and suitable dwel
llngs are at a premium
and 11.22, the low record established
diet month. Liverpool was a buyer
here and there wae a good deal o(
scattered covering aa well a* Home
frcah commission house support and
a moderate demand from the trade.
This was supplied a little more freely
on the advance, however, and there
was prol.aldy some celling for a reac
tion »» well as realising on the mod
erate setbacks which followed
Private cables reported a continued
Improvement In Manchester and spot
demand. Spot sales In the Liverpool
markets for the day amounted to 12,-
000 hales, the largest total for months,
and they Included sales for export to
the continent. The showing in this
respect served to ofTest the decline In
foreign exchange rates, which msy he
partly due to Increased purchases of
cotton Advices received here from
both esstern and western sections of
the belt Indicated a • ontlnued good
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efts-
DEFINITE ACTION
BY HARDING TO
CUT FIGHTING
FORCES OF
WORLD
Requests Allied Powers to
Meet at Washington
FAR EASTERN PROBLEMS
May Also Be Discussed at
Proposed Meeting
WASHINGTON.—The course of the
United States was definitely set Mon
day toward two goals of International
importance—-limitation of armament
and solution of problems Involving the
Pacific and the Far East.
President Harding, it was revealed
In a. state department announcement
published Monday, has approached
withinformal, but definite, inquiries
the governments of Great Britain,
France, Italy and Japan to ascertain
whether It would be agreeable to those
nations to participate in n conference
to be held In Washington at an agreed
upon date for the discussion of arma
ment limitation. He furthermore has
asked the nations interested in prob
lems of the Pacific and Fur East that
there be undertaken in connection
with thed isarmament conference “the
consideration of all matters bearing
upon their solution with a view to
reaching a common understanding
with respect to principles and poli
cies in the Far East.”
The state -department announced,
it is said, that if the proposal for a
limitation of armament conference
was found acceptable formal Invita
tions for the conference would be is
sued. Whether any responses to the
inquiries directed to the allied and as
sociated powers have been received
by the President was nof*lndicated in
the department’s announcement. For
thn * reason great popular Interest was
uitfcched to the statement by Lloyd
George; the British premier, promised
for Monday, and which London Ad
vices have indicated would touch upon
the matters initiated by President
Harding.
LONDON COMM NT IS
MOST APPRECIATIVE..
LONDON—Announcement that Pres
ident Harding had invited Great Brit*
ain, France. Italy and Japan to con
fer at Washington on the limitation
of annaiuents was printed in Monday
morning’s newspapers, the news get
ting tiie place of utmost importance
In their columns, and what editorial
comment there was, was most appre
ciative of Mr. Harding's action.
China would be admitted to the con
ference for tbe purpose of taking part
in tiie consideration of Far Eastern
problems, and there was a feeling here
Monday that the discussions would
bring about a definite understanding
which would include virtually the
whole field of international relations.
George Harvey, the American am
bassador to Great Britain, is under
stood to have conveyed President
Harding's proposal to Prime Minister
Lloyd George at Chequers Court Hun.
day. Dominion premiers, who were
spending the week-end with Mr. Lloyd
George, Joined him in heartily receiv
ing Mr. Harvey, and voicing apprecia
tion of Mr. Harding’s action in ask
ing for a conference.
Newspaper comment would appear
to indicate deep gratification on the
part of the British people over tbe
prospects of a disarmament confer
ence, it being felt that such a meet
ing would clear away the difficulties
surrouiding a new wnll of the Anglo-
Japanese alliance, to which there
seems to have been a rising tide of
opposition Internal affairs In Eng
land would at once reflect the relief
felt by a limitation of armaments, it
was declared here Monday, and the
conference would thus be of intense
Interest to the people throughout this
country,
FRANCE CERTAIN TO
ACCEPT THE INVITATION
PARlS.—Official comment on Presi
dent Harding’s Initiative for a con
ference on the limitation of the arm
aments is withheld pending receipt of
the official Invitation, but unofficial
opinions gathered In official circles,
are to tne effect that France certain
ly will accept the invitation If one is
received.
The attitude of the French govern
ment. however. | H said to be un
changed since it was set forth in the
assembly of the League of Nations
Inst December by Leon Bourgeois
France, it is explained, is ready and
would be glad to reduce her arma
ments and save the heavy expense In
volved as soon as she <an safely do
so. but any decision on this question
must depend upon absolute security
from the East.
Inquiries In official circles disclose
the Impression that such security linn
not yet been offered The upper Miles
ian troubles and the nationalist re
action in certain parts of Germany are
cited as indications that the time has
not yet come when France ran safely
weaken herself In the face of tier
many. French opinion in particularly
exercised of continued na tation by
the German mnnlfestanfs r*
rnalned In upper Slleet* aftai tiie
evacuation by the Gorman force*
under General von Jloefer,
In this connection It in declared
that since the assassination of Major
Motifalleres at Beuthen last week,
two .French officers there have been
benb ged In their quarter* by me
nacing crowds, being saved only by
the Intervention of poller., while
French official dispatches declare
that, of tiie forty thousand troop* who
w#re tinder General von Hoefer in
Upper Hllesla, only 20,000 were with
drawn. fit the twenty thousand said
to be remaining half arc non-resi
dents of upper Hlleslfl, and these are
understood to be the elements which
nre continuing tiie anti-Polish agita
tion and menacing the French troops
and their officers.
The French government, affirms
that tbe version of the assassination
ot Major Momallert* given by
fain German newspapers is inaccurate
in essential particulars, both tbe
French and British reports dem
onstrating that some one In the crowd
(Tum if MUD |
FRIEND OF U. S.
• - ■ »■
WJ**
Winston Churchill, British Domin
ion secretary, wants the friendship of
the United States. Here he Is ar
riving at the Imperial Conference in
London. When the renewal of the
British alliance with Japan was dis
cussed he declared nothing should he
done that might appear unfriendly to
the United States.
Says Wife
Had Him
Killed
Another Witness Testifies to
This In Kaber Trial
CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The elute ill
noon Monday rested its case In th*
trial of Eva Catherine Kaber so» the
murder of her husband, Daniel F. Ka
ber, with tiie exception of one wit
ness, who cannot be heard until th*
middle of the week. The defensd will
begin Its testimony Tuesday morning.
For a fourth time the state Mon
day produced a witness who testified
that Mr. Kab*r declared Mrs. Kaber
had him slabbed.
The witness was F. W. Utterback,
Mr. Kaber’* male nurse. He said he
was aroused on the night of tin mur*
r by Kaber’s cries:
“Utterback, Utterback, come quick
—murder.”
On entering Mr. ICaber’s room he
sold he found him lying on the floor,
his night clothing covered with blood.
“Who did this?’’ Utterback said he
asked.
“A man witli a cap. Mrs Kaber
had this done,” Mr. Kaber was alleged
to have replied
Utterback said he nursed Mr. Ka
ber for about nix wdffiks prior to tho
murder and during that time Mr. Ka
ber’s condition steadily Improved. He
said he served Haber's meals which
had been prepared by Mrs Kaber or
<t maid. Mr. Kaber became sick after
eating only once while he was nursing
him, tie said
About five days prior to the murder.
Utterback said, Mrs. Kaber asked him
to sleep at the Kaber hom*, assign
ing him to an attic room
Utterback said Mis Ka6*r returned
home from Cedar Point. Ohio, the day
after the murder. She never asked
him anything about the tragedy, ho
stated
Prior to Utterback being placed on
the stand, Attorney William J Corri
gan cross-examined Mrs Ermanla
"olavlto, who had testified Saturday.
The cross examination brought out
nothing new #
Though Mrs. Mary lirickel, Mrs.
Kaber’* mother, and Miss Marian M<‘-
Ardle, Mrs Huber's daughter, were In
tho homo the night ot the stabbing,
Mr Utterback said, neither of them
went in to see Mr Kaber. Mr*,
lirickel cried, he said, when he told
her that Kaber hud been stabbed.
A motion by Attorney Wlldnrn J.
Corrigan for Mrs. Kaber, that all
testimony relating to poisoning bo
taken from th* Jury was overruled by
Judge Herron On th** ground that It
tended to prove the conspiracy charge,
also premeditation anrl deliberate in
the charge of murder bv stabbing.
At the conclusion ot the state's evi
dence, Judge Maurice Bernon with
drew the poisoning count in the In
dictment from tiie Jury, thus Bering
Mrs. Kaber from the r-iiarge of killing
her husband by poisoning. The test*,
rnony relative to poisoning, !. -
may be considered by the Jury In de
termining the charge of conspiracy to
commit murder.
County Prosecutor Kteoton an
ccd thet th< frit ine or'MrKa
ber on the poisoning charge meant
nothing to th* stair* us It never had
been expected to prove that Mr Ka
ber had died front poisoning, but that
death w'fl** caused by the stab wounda
as charged In the second count of the
lndl» tment
Judge Bernon overruled a motion of
Mrs. Kaher’s counsel to trot Mrs Ha
ber after the state had concluded Its
testimony
The remaining witnesses to be call
ed by the state Is Dr. T A Jacobs,
coroner, who Is expected lo testify
that Kal or died from affects of the
stab wounds.
HOME
EDITION
PLAN TO DISARM
IS EXPECTED TO
PLEASE OTHER
BIG POWERS
OF WORLD
Britain Wanted Such a Con
ference From the Start.
IS IMPORTANT MOVE
May Actually Mean Preven
tion of Further Wars.
LONDON. President
Harding’s message looking
to the calling of an interna
tional conference on the lim
itation of armaments has
been received with the ut
most pleasure by Great
Britain, Mr. Lloyd George,
the Prime Minister, declar
ed in the House of Commons
Monday.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
(By Leaned Wire to Augusta Herald.)
(Copyright, 1921, by Augusta Herald.)
WASHINGTON, Diplomacy move*
In striingn ways Km wonders to per
form, and the various steps that nave
led up to the calling at lust, of a dis
armament conference of the nations
known itN the principal allied and as
sociated power* are a peculiar mixture
of sensitiveness on the one hand and
hesitancy on the other to assume re
sponsibility for the success of adrnit
edly one of the most difficult Interna
tional problems of modern times.
Great Britain has from tin* start
wanted a disarmament, conference ns
a means of reducing her tax expense,
but on the one hand she was faced
with an element that looks askance
at the mere mention of reducing the
«ize of the British navy and on the
other hand the ElrltiNh government
found Itself more or less bound to
go along with Japan because of the
delicate matters involved In the in
glo-Japanese alliance. A proposal by
Eng in ml would have to be seconded
by Japan.
Now the situation has been some
what reversed. A great point Is made
of the fact that the president of the
United States Issued the call for dis
armament conference. England is n«*t.
In the position of having forced the
Issue, though If the truth were told
she was eager in private to have Am
erica make the move and she lias
rnnnged to maneuver things around
so as to go Into the conference with
out. any especially responsibility for
compelling agreement. It is one thing
to call the conference and quite an
other to sit in that conference as mod.
Ifttor with a certain degree of mediat
ing Interest, in what is going on. The
United States becomes more or less
the ariblter In the discussion and
Great Britain would prefer to have it
that way.
TONCHES WHOLE REALM DF
INTERNATIONAL PEACE. W
Thai iH not all, however Tlod up
with the disarmament problem Is
something else besides naval habl
tures. It touches the whole realm of
International peace the league of na
tions as an instrument fur preserva
tion ot peace In the Absence <>f lard*
nfunaments or some other Internation
al viody able to accomplish a slmlar re
suit. Then, too, there aie the big
financial questions the payment of
war debts, which sooner or later touch
the disarmament problem.
America, as a disinterested nation
end similarly a* th* creditor nation
of Hie world, with a big navy and
with no special Interests or ambitions
except the peace of the world Is count
ed upon as a greater inoral force |n a
disarmament conference than ever be
fore There turn been Internetlonal
conferences ot armamant gueetlone
before. The subjects were discussed
at Tna Manus as w*ll as th* famous
London conference of 1909, but no
single ptwer had than as much influ
ence as the United .States has today.
This, of course. Is because of tiie way
the United Htates used her power Iri
tiie World war—unselfishly and dls
interestly.
The success of the disarmament
conference called by president Hard
ing doesn’t depend upon formulas, but
upon something entirely different- the
readiness of the powers Involved to (
agree upon a program of peace that
will remove sources of friction and
possible war Everybody admits that
the chance* of war In Europe are re
mote for a generation to come—the
(Irmneial and physical resources of
Europe, are too near exhaustion for
anyone to rattle the srtbre But there
are war clouds in the Pacific. Japan
and the United Htates have delicate
*l stake and so ha v* v i
British dominions like Australia and
Canada arid New Zealand The Brit
Ish Empire anil the United States
must clear the Pacific of possible
trouble before there ran be any prog
ress toward disarmament Accord
ing! y th« confen m * i ummoned by Ilf
Harding !s In realty a concrete step
toward wai prevention an effort to
preserve peace by going at the roots
of trouble while then- Is still time
| and not when the passions of the peo
ples are inflamed by an untoward in
cident.
ffiOFS FURTHER THAN
BORAH HAD EXPECTED.
Kenutor Borah's resolution has been
a. contributing factor to waul the
bringing about of the big conference,
but at the name time the president
bus gone much further. He has not
limited the meeting to Great Britain,
Japan, and the United States as tiie
Idaho senator wished lie has asked
Italy to Join the former became she Is
a member of the supreme council and
th* lattei because much of th* trouble
In tire Pacific relation* in the commer
fTuni to i>««» »t»i) »
WORLD WAR VETS MEET
HICKORY, N. P --More than 200
veterans of the 117th engineer regi
ment, Rainbow division were gather
ed here Monday to aM< rid the second
annua reunion of the members from
North and South Carolina. Monday’s
program Included luncheon at noon, a
business session Monday afternoon
and a reception and dance Monday
night Folowlng a business session
Tuesday morning, the meeting will
come to an end.
GIRL FALLS
15,200 FEET
Miss Fairgrave Makes Sen
sational Parachute Drop
“IT WAS TERRIBLE’’
Says Pretty Miss—“l Never v
Want to Try It Again’’
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Miss Phoebe J.
Fairgrave, 18 years old, of this city,
established what was said to be a new
world’s record for a parachute drop
for women when she dropped fifteen
thousand, two hundred feet from an
aeroplane at Curtiss Flying Field,
near here Sunday.
It took exactly twenty minutes from
the time Miss Fairgrdvo leaped until
she alighted .safely In a wheat field.
"It. was terrible,” said Miss Fair
grave later, “I never want to try
it again.”
MAN AND ~WIFE KILLED
TOPEKA, Kans.—M. A. Rose, an
oil well shooter, and his wife were
killed and four other persons were in
jured Sunday when their automobile
carrying six cases of dynamite and a
quantity of nitro glycerine, collided
with another motor car. The deaths
resulted from the crash and not from
the explosives which, although scat
tered along the highway, failed to ex
plode.
WOULD REVISE TAX LAWS
CHICAGO, Ills.—The National As
sociation of Credit Men, comprising
33,000 business men, Monday launch
ed a campaign for revision of federal
tax laws and for governmental econ
omy.
“Wo believe most earnestly,” said a
letter sent to members by James H.
Tregoe, secretary, “that the exercise
of prudence and common sense in op
erating costs of government would
bring the ledger within $3,500,000,000
for 1921.”
YOUNG GOLFERS LEAD
CHlCAGO.—Youthful golfers predo
minated In the first, qualifying round
Monday on the 22ml championship of
the Western Golf Association at the
Westmoreland Country Club. Com
paratively few veteran* aside from
(’hick Evans, defending his title for
the fifth time, entered the contest.
robbers Toot safe
CHlCAGO.—Robbers, presumably
after the gate recelputs or the game
between the White Sox and New
York Yankees, blew thn safe at Com
lskeg park here .Sunday night. The
loot of about $3,000 dollars represented
tin* receipts of various confessions at
the game, gate receipts of about $30,-
000 having been sent to a bank. Own
er Comiskey denied reports that the
safe contained papers pertaining to
the former White Sox players now on
trial In connection with the alleged
throwing of the 1919 World aeries.
SCHOONER IS RAISED
HALIFAX. —The Gloucester schoon
er Esperanto, recently wrecked on a
sand liar off Sable Island, has been
brought completely to the surface by
wreckers, It was stated In a wireless
message received by tho department
of marine and flesheriea.
NEW “HOLE IN ONE”
HUNTINGTON, W. Va—Major T.
M. Hays, president of the Huntington
Chamber of Commerce has received
notice of Ids election to membership
in the Hole-ln-One Club of America,
following bis feat of holing out In
one in a golf match recent I v at the
Westmoreland links here. The dis
tance for the shot was 150 yards. The
Hole-ln-One Club is said to have been
loss than a dozen members.
DEAF FOLKS ASSEMBLE
ATLANTA, Ga.—Delegates from all
over tiie country were gathered her*
Monday for the convention of Na
tional Fraternal Society of the Deaf,
composed of five thousand men ami
women who can only understand
speeches made in the sign language.
Interpreters have been provided to
translate addresses of Governor Hard
wick and Mayor Key, who have ac
cepted invitations to welcome the con
vention, but there will be other nn
dresHcs and several business sessions
in which the speakers themselves will
use their fingers in communicating
* held Ideas.
The National Association of the
Deaf, composed of persons unable to
hear and om co-operative members,
those who have aided the afflicted, will
hold sessions hero simultaneously with
the society.
1 BIG ELKS GATHERING '
LOS ANOET.ES, Calif-This city
was host Monday to more than twen
ty thousand members, their relatives
and friends, here to attend the fifty
seventh grand lodge of the Benovolent
and Protective Order of Elks, which
opens Its sciciions Monday. About
twenty thousand other persons are
expected to arrive for the sessions be
fore noon Tuesday.
The Chicago delegation Is one of the
nttm one* whh h will submit
arguments for the selection of their
respective cities as the site of a pro
posed national headquarters to cost
two and a half million dollars. This
site is scheduled to be chosen Wed
nesday. The 1922 budget will be in
troduced Monday.
A REMARKABLE FEAT
GILBERT, Minn. - While Harry
Woodward, a good swimmer, was
drowning. Roy lthodda, minus his
two wooden legs which became ioos
*ik*d when a boat occupied by five
men overturned, swam three hundred
yards to shore Sunday. The otlicrm In
the boat also reached shore safely
lthodda told friends heie that Uo
of his comps nlon i u| tilled Ihe floe I -
lug wooden legs to aid them to reach
the shore.
'Express Robbers
Ask New Trial
MACON, Ga Hearing on the mo*
tlons for new trial of seventeen de
fendants who were among tho thirty
six convicted In the alleged conspir
acy case in which it was charged that
the defendants robbed the American
Express Company while the company
wu* under government control, will be
taken up Monday afternoon by Judge
Beverly D. Evans, of the United
Htates District Court. The defendant*
;ir« liilav ii inti i W. G Mixon, J.
O Hood, F J. Morris, Eugene* Hardy,
Lee Dlx, G. R Baker, \V E. Bruner,
E K. Dunaway, A. O Johnson Dan
McLendon, O. L. Smith. Ed Knox,
Chari e J n, J. 1 I n J m
Smith and Eugene Stovall.
PARTY EXIGENCY
Says Republican of Attack
on Tariff Bill
WASHINGTON. Hazorn, knlveaA
ne.-dies and parts of watches succeed-\
■ i ifoi lay th< old straw ha f a* ex
hibit* before the house of representa
tive** |n the debate on th> permanent
tariff bill.
Representative Tllson, of Conneetl
cut, a republican membei of the ways
•no irp an * • r.• »* . •. . i * m as
the I ■ ' h.l ' high
protective duties were necessary to
protect specific Industries. He declar
ed that all of the samples he hnd
brought to the house were of Amerl
oan mi ids article which would feel
most keenly any effect of a German
drive on American business.
The Connecticut member declared
that thus fa » th attack
on th* tit!! had amounted to “sub
tantlally
r a in I liar with ItN details He atli Mi
nted the speeches and reports of the
minority members to “the require,
n; ,nt« of party exigency or partisan
bias,”