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The Washington times., 1920-05-10
White House Correspondence on
League as Chief Issue

sallIes. They are entitled TO our
support In this settlement and In
the arrangements for which they
have striyen.
The league of nations L. the
hope of the world. As a basis for
the armlstice l was authorized by
oil the great nghting nations 10
say 10 the enemy that Il was our
object In proposing peace to es-
tablish a general association OF
nations under SPECIFIC covenants
for the purpose OF sffording mu-
. tual guarantees OF political indie
pendence and territorial integrity
10 great and small states alike,
and the covenant OF the league OF
nations is the deliberate embodi-
ment OF that purpose In the treaty
OF peace. The chief motives
which led us TO enter the war will
be defeated unless that covenant
Is ratified and acted upon with
yigor. We cannot In honor whit
tie Il down or weaken II as the
Republican leaders OF the Senate
have proposed 80 do.
IL we are to exercise the kind
OF leadership 10 which the found
ers OF the republic looked for
ward and which they depended
upon their successors to establish,
we must do this thing with cour-
age and unalterable determine
ton. They expected the United
States to be always the leader In
the defense OF liberty and ordered
peace throughout the world. and
we are unworthy to call ourselves
their successors unless we fulfill
the great purpose they entertained
and proclaimed! The true Ameri-
canism. the only true American
ism. Is that which puts America
at the front of free nations and
redeems the great promises which
we made the world when we en-
tered the war, which was fought.
not for the advantage of any sin
gle nation or group OF nations.
: but for the salvation OF all.
II Is in this way we shall re-
deem the sacred blood that was
shed and make America the force
she should be In the counsels OF
mankind. She cannot afford to
sink into the place that nations
have Usually occupied and become
merely one of those who scramble
and look about for selfish advan-
tage.
The Democratic party has now
a great opportunity TO which II
must measure up. The honor of
the nation Is In It's hands.
WOODROW WILSON.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
Luxury Buying Rampage
Called Industrial Death
Dance by Credit Officer

NEW YORK. May lo.--'The
dance OF Industrial death" Is the
manner in which the American
peoples extravange is described
4 by j. III. Trego. secretsry-treas-
urer Of the National Association
OF Credit Men. in a letter sent yes
tsrday TO the organisation's mem
bers. lie adds:
tDuring the war period we sacri-
fced gladly. but with the cessa-
ton Of hostilities the restrained
feelings broke loose and we went
on a rampage OF extravaganza
such as never before hand beon ex-
hibited In this land. ...
This nation Is sound funda-
mentally, and the souhdness will
continue IL people will give up
their folly. will become diligent,
Will work as human beings should
work during a time of stress and
strain. and thus help to bring
about a gradual denstion In cur
rency so that prices may steadily
recede." -.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
WILSON'S TREATY
ED|CT ST|RS G. O.P.
Telegram Believed to Mean
Democratic Defeat at Polls
Next Fall.
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CONTINUED from First PaSe)
Democratic party. they say, including
President Wilson. has repeatedly init
mated its Willingness TO accept res
ervations which do not XIII" Inc
treaty, and for the San Francyeo con.
vention to repeat. this assertion would
be but natural and certainly not IN
furious TO the party's chances mex,
fall. IIAA
Seek Political Capital.
Obviously .both.sides are trying 10
make political capital of the wilson
Hamaker telegram. but side-line op-
servers. are inclined TO believe II VIII
have no effect. one way or another.
Others believe crisis within the
Presidents party Is pending. These
point out that William Jennings
Bryan has expressed opinions Totally
at variance with those OF President
Wilson, and that between now ana
the end OF June one leader or the
other must receive the support or the
Democrats. One or the other must
lead. not both.
At the White House today II was
stated that the next move Is up 10
the Republicans. The observation
was made that the Democrats had at
least been frank. coming out squarely
In the open as to where they stood
and that 1t was now up TO the he-
publicans 10 do as much.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
CARRANzABEL|EVED
HID NEAR VERA CRUZ
Revolutionary Agency Here
Doubts Reports President
Has Been Captured.
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CONTINUED iToiH TitS' dE'')
gon TO revolutionary headquarters at
HermosiIlo. Sonora. stating that his
TROOPS were In full possession Of the
national capital The message was
dated from Tacubaya. a suburb of
Mexico City. "a.
The last official act Of the CaTrnnHa
regime I'm Mexico city was the cold
crs In Santiago prison. including If
teen generals, it Is stated in advtces
from the first rebel troops to enter the
city. The slaughter. II Is stated, was
ordered by General NurEuin. Car
rnnxn's riGht-hand military leader,
Just before the Carrnnxistas fed from
the rapitnI before the ad, ancc OF the
rebel troops.
The city is reported TO have fallen
without "a battle. only two skirmishcs
on the outskirts being offered in an
attempt to stay the onrush of the VIC
torious rebels. Preceding this, how
ever. battles were fought at Nuevo
Laredo and Vera Cruz, the revolution
lists winning both. General Cara,
of the Carranza forces at
Nuevo Laredo, fed into the United
States after the capture of the city.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, May TO-
Raymond de Negri, Mexican consul
general at New York, has resigned
and declared for the revolution. 1t is
reported here.
Negri, IL is understood, has been ap-
pointed Obrcgon agent in New York.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10

regarded he would eliminate Palmer
from further consideration as a Presi-
Dental possibility. Palmer's oppon-
ents declare in any event the oppose
tion to Palmer in his home State will
be demonstrated to be sufficiently
strong to prevent him from over
coming the handicap OF having to go
to San Francisco without a solid del
egation from his home State behind
him. "'
The result in Pennsylvania Is bound
to be watched by politicians through
out the country as a test of Pal
mer's strength. With, the State or
ganization at his beck and call. Pal
mer's friends predict he win win
easily. They admit. however. the Nc
Adoo drive was shrewd political
move by the anti-Palmer forces. and
may develop into a showdown on
MeAdoo's own strength with the d.
vided Democracy.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10

withI A. 4 eshpot now. Outlines ]
k.ys AAid 10 myseif. 1I have tsoabls
even remembering or nguripg who
was. 1 don't remember the names
OF some OF my Inost Intimate frianos
when 4 have been away. you mign1
say a yeor' '~'' .i-."
Q. Cans you nx your mind on some
other woman that you have done
away with. by remembering incl
dentsT A. / don't believe I can now.
or course. / am awful tired tonight.
IL was TO study . whiie-4t times
my mind IL just q blank. and st
night l will lay some times for
hours. and since ] have been arrest
ed l md myself ofttimes in a trance.
Imagine that ! am not arrested. I
am just dreaming / am under arrest.
go on for hours that way.
O. Can you recall In numbers how
many women you have been mar
ried toY A. No. 1 don't know, Some
times 1 try TO figure IL out myself.
~ isn't any number like they have
given out. that Is certain. Some
times 4 ngure 30 many and again i
cant remember at all.
Never Get Divorces.
Q. Would you say IL was twenty
a, No, no; should say not. 1 should
say ten or twelve-something like
that. / Judge.
Q. Have you ever gotten a divorce
from anybody? A. have no divorce
from anybody. 1 don't know that
anybody got a divorce from mo that
can remember OF
\, q. Do you remember the first WON.
an you ever married? A. Tho trou-
BILE OF. IL Is. owing to the blank In my
life, don't know whether / do or not
4 think Catherine Wilson was the
FIRST.
Q. And where did you marry her-
A. 1t was somewhere in central Brit
ish Columbia.
Q. Do you know the town. A. ]
don't remember IL now. II IL was
called i might.
Q. Did, you do away with her? A
No; she Is In Oregon.
O. Might IL not be possible that you
have done away with and killed other
women to whom you were married, oil
other women TO whom you were not
marrfedy A. 1t night be possible
because there are blank spaces in my
life that 1 cannot remember. i can't
ngure out years or the months. In
the past have Travelled over in diff.
fereht States and been in many towns
and sometimes sit down and try to
study myself. and then go and take
a map and trace the towns: yet in my
mind ! couldn't mention any OF the
towns unless had put them to me BY
seeing the map.
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TODAY
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Continued from First Page.)
not PRODUCE, it won't be there,
and YOU will be the ones to 20
without. You won't have the
money TO pay the high prices when
the high pay stops.
Not pleasant talk today, but inn
portant to the few that notice it,
and work and save while working
and saving are possible.
Seventy cents and one dollar
an hour to harvest wheat. Such
are prices quoted in Missouri,
Kansas, etc.
With the Government limit
lifted on the price of wheat, how
high will that price climb? The
South says that cotton ought to
bring a dollar pound, because
cotton cloth is so high.
Farmers might say that wheat
should bring five dollars a bushel,
to start it, with bread selling at
twelve cents "a loaf in some places.
Then cotton cloth would take a
jump, bread would double, wages
would rise Of necessity, and so on. .
Out West in quiet walk you
come TO the edge of the Grand
Canyon and look down mile or
so. You usually step back when
you come to that spot.
This country has reached the
place where it can look down a
couple of miles to one of the big
gest bumps that any country every
had, but no one seems to think 1t
worth while to turn back.
-
Some Americans have taken
twenty-five millions of stock Tin
marks) in the General Electric
Company of Berlin. They will
make money. Henry Ford says
Germany will be the first country
after England TO get completely
on its feet. One Of the biggest
bankers and industrial leaders in
America, who has sent his men
throughout Germany and her
factories, says Germany will be
FIRST on her feet. ahead Of Eng
land. The reason Is that Germans
will be first 10 have forced upon
them the knowledge that they have
GOT TO work. ....- -......... e.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
GRAB
BY GENERAL WOOD
Johnson, loWden, and Harding
Managers Give Notice of
Contest at Chicago.

NEW YORK, May 1O.-Formai no.
tices of contest In a dozen States will
be submitted by Johnson, Lowden,
and Harding managers when the Re-
publican national committee meets in
Chicago today. Arguments in the
contests win begin before a subcom-
mittee on May &c.
II the Wood men control the sub
committee and the full committee APP
proves it's report, the first sllirmish
for control of the convention will be
won.
johnson. Lowden and Harding
managers will watch. every district
controversy and seek to prevent any
such wholesale grab of delegates
disputes involve these States: Mir
nesota. ii delegates: Georgia. II:
Idaho. Z; Mississippi, II: Missouri. 2;
Nebraska. 4; North Dakota. 8: Ohio.
8: Florida. 8: Louisiana, IL; South
Carolina. II; Tennessee, 20.
Minnesota "Snap Primaries"
Wood managers maintain that they
have elected the entire twenty-four
delegates from Minnesota. johnson
managers will present evidence at
Chicago that the Wood-Lowden mon
VI SdhiNco snap primaries anu
counted on the machine to win. John
son carried Minneapolis, St. Paul and
Hennepin county. Despite. this.
Col. William Cooper Proctor. Wood
campaign manager, keeps claiming
the entire sixteen delegates. Wood
men will fight for four. Johnson
swept North Dakota, and insists the
complete delegation of ten belongs. to
him. Yet the Hitchcock Proctor COM
bine has put in a bid to Chairman
Hays for eight of the ten.
"F'rnud" In Ohio.
Lowden has apparently won all the
thirty-six Missouri delegates. with
Johnson as their second choice. Yet
Wood managers have officially tried
to appropriate two or more.
Governor Harding's managers have
served notice that they will reveal
startling frauds and use of money
lavishly by the Wood campaigners to
get the nine delegates they claim
from the Buckeye State. The ma
tional subcommittee will probaly
listen to the details Of the allegations
that me than $3.50. 900 was spent by
the Wood men April 81 last to get
delegates from Ohio and humiliate
Harding in his home State.
"i'he aggregate service OF the Sal.
vntion Army cnnnot Ice measured in
l n
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
EUROPEAN BIRTHS SHOW
BIG GAINS; BOYS LEAD

LONDON. May 10.--ks after all pre-
vlous wars, nature appears to be
busy again restoring the population
in European countries to normal and
counterbalancing the excess of wom-
en- caused by losses in battle.
The years birth rate figures in Lon
don show an enormous increase in the
number of boys born. A record was
reached in April, when 5.3i5 boys and
1850 girls were born.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
PROPOSALS

ERNMENT FUEL YARDS. BUREAU OF
MINES. Washington, ID. G., May 8, 1870
sealed proposals, In duplicate, will be re-
eetV,d up to 1900 y. m. Saturday, May Is.
1880, and then opened, upon which con-
tracts will be based for tho coal require.
,nsntp Of the District and Federal Govern.
.mcnts within and contiguous to the DiStrict
n, C'oIutnhls All contracts made will be
subtect 10 appropriation by Congress to
met tho expense. SPECIFICATIONS ma" h.
had b. addressing w" ,hiet bng n".r. Gov
pe,arttAcnt Ruihlus, Naainstur. y. e..
ssisnedJ JOHN BARTON rAlNE, Score
tary . d. =. o.. - Z. &C.,. as'. -.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
FIRES ON BURGLAR
HE FINDS In ROOM

Caught looting a room at 4o5 M
street. northeast carly this morning. n
burglar was fired upon by Raymond
France, a roomer. France believes he
wounded the man.
Hospitals have been requested to
turn any applicant for treatment for
a gunshot wound over to tho police.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
DRUGGISTS TO REVISE
TEXTBOOK In CONVENTION

The decennial revision OF the Amer
lean Pharmacopca. standard text book
on the properties and ingredients of
drugs used for medicines in the United
States. will commence at the Hotel
Willard tomorrow, when the Phar-
mncopea convention will open its ses-
sions Several hundred American
physicians and druggists will attend.
DR.. II w. Wiley. of Washington, is
president of the convention.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10

Q. Now, the way that she cut
her head then was that you showed
her down against this bunk? A.
showed her because she grabbed this
pin. .
Q. When you struck her with the
hammer what part of her body did
you strike? A. 1 struck her on the
head. -
.. And did You break her skull?
A. don't know. because apparently
she didn't move any more.
.. What did you do with her body?
A. The body lay in the house all aft
ernoon and l stayed around the car
to see no one came in. Then, just a
little before dark two men and a
woman came along. They were going
to camp, and, of course, knew must
not let them stay in the house. / told
them I was going to stay there for
the night, and they went on. After
night l kept planning what to do
with the body. At last. when I was
walking around just before night, 1
noticed kind of hole where tree
or a stump had been taken out some
little distance from the car, and
dug il a little deeper as best I could.
Q. With what? A. l used the same
outfit I carry to. dig the car and I
said to myself: "Now there, there"
Burned House md Fled.
And then ] thought II all over and
said to myself: NOW there is all
kinds of blood in that house, and that
will be SEEN" so l set this old, de-
serted house on fire, and drove the car
down to-let's see. to Olympia. Next
morning ] had them go to work on it
to Ak the wheel.
@. Was the house consumed! A..
| could look back and see it burn
ing.
q. Can't you FIX your mind upon
any other woman that you did away
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
GIRL SUED FOR DIVORCE
SAYS TWIN IS REAL WIFE
British Woman Tells Court Plaintiff
Married Her Sister, Now Dead,
and Was Deluded.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 10.-Arthur
J. Eller yesterday attempted to d.
vorce a woman who says she isn't his
Wife. The woman claimed she was
the twin sister OF the English girl
Elier married during the war. The
real wife died, she said. Nevertheless
Eller pressed his prayer for a legal
separation. -s.- .... r
Eller was married in 1910. return
ing on troop ship. The woman fol-
lowed on another ship and went to
live with the 'bridegroom's parents.
Early this year she told Eller. he had
been deluded-that the woman he
married was dead, Eller claimed, say
ing she pr iuced- a photograph of
herself and sister defying Eller to
desiGn7ta mis- bEtdelBb "
sElleT's petition said the woman had
become ,infaraAretf with another man
and gone to live'in New Orleans.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
BAND CONCERT

TO-DAY At THE MARINE BARRACKS
At t;Se Il. M. BY THE u. 6. MARINE
BAND.
WILLIAM IT, sASTELMANN. Leader.
March. Virgin Islands" Adams
Overture, "RionEi" Wagner
"Reverie" Or. 22........yie uxtemrs
Grand Scenes from .Mignon'i Thomas
ts( March Of the Moujieks'. .Renelis
fiotts
suite froru the South. .sNi
t) Legend from la Provrne.
lhllegrct
tbl NoorNh Dance Song Noderat
Co In the Tavern. Allegro 4 ocoso
Torchlight Dance, No. I..l ieyerbesr
Marines "! mn. The liaIlsI ( Montc.
suma"
Tho star.sp.nsled ne, GER"
The Washington times., 1920-05-10
BLUEDEARD KILLED
! 0NLYPO0R BRIDES
rch-Monster Asserts He Felt
Like Singing and Laughing
After Crimes.
tcOntinued from First PsEe)

la draft at once. but l wasn't sick
as long as ! though ] would be. so
I 1 returned the draft without CASH
ing u.
4 will tell you the same thing,
suppose she is worth $4,000 or s3o'-
GOO"
Although Watson looks unusually.
weak physically. due TO his two at
tempts TO end his life, he would not
! even normally be a powerful man.
lHow he could kill two OF his Ave
wives with such a crude weapon as
hammer was explained in his con-
fession as follows:
"Under those killing spells / seem
| TO have had the strength OF two or
three persons combined. After IL was
done / always became very weak.
Just seemed was given the strength
You see. ! did have a few epileptic
nts and / know what strength the
folks said 1 did have then. had the
strength
- Pav~s Way for Defense Plea.
The original confession made by
| Watson at the County Hospital, be-
fore he he'd regained strength enough
20 direct the police to the grave OF
Nina Lee Deloney. gives such an In
|
slayer that II Is printed here just ~
he made IT. II also paves the way
for his, plea OF insanity. and touches
upon the great problem murderers all
face-what to do with the body--how
to dispose Of II, without leaving tell
tale. clues.
o. DID you ever marry Elizabeth
J. Prior? he was asked. A. Eliza
beth Prior in Idaho. what is the town
out from Spokane. the first town out
there OF some size-Coenr ID Alsne?
Q. You mean you married Elizabeth
Prior at Occur d'Alene, Idaho?
A. Occur d'Aiene. Idaho.
O. Did you do away with her?
A. did. but will tell you how 1t
happened. We were driving from
Portland to Seattle and when we
got quite a little ways out we kept
having trouble with the front wheel
of the. car II seemed that the lock
nut was not working. 1t would get
loose and we stopped couple OF
places and they were not able to
AK II. We had quite few words
over this car.
Tells Of Staying.
O. Whose name was the car reg
istered under?. A. 1t was Lewis. l
bought the car in Portland. We
| come on u ways ahN 81 'nos
the car got pretty bad and had to
stop again. A fellow came along
and I got either a monkey wrench
; or screw driver. 1 forget which. from
him. He told me when got through
to lay II up against 4 telephone pole
that was right opposite where we
stopped the car, and he would go
there and get 1t.
while we were eating lunch in a
deserted house that stood near by
Elizabeth said II was no account
car. / was getting rather sore. 1
couldn't help II IL the car was bad
car. She rode in the car when 1t
was demonstrated, and made no OBJ
, jections TO me purchasing ii.
at last L got so mad i used some
: little profanity and told her to shut
up. She grabbed out her hat. pin
and said she would stick 1t through
any man that would cuss her In
stantly l pushed her with all my
might. and her head struck the cor
ner of.a bunk that is built up about
eighteen inches from the floor.
Buried body In Hole.
The Washington times., 1920-05-10

"ihe aggregate service OF the Sal.
vntiOn Army cnnnot Ice measured in
dollars ard cents"
The Washington times., 1920-05-10

as II a human being I'm pain, in
dfStress:" That's all the Salvation
Army iussie asks. She cares naught
for creed, color or country.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-03

honor OF their cousins, Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Seese. whose marriage took place
recently and who today will return
from their widdng trip. After short
stay in this city. Mr.. and Mrs. Seese
will leave for Ireland to visit relatives
In that country. Mrs. Seese was for
merly Miss Margaret Hopkins.
Miss Margaret Kilpatrick entertained
the women's Bible class of the Prince
OF Peace Memorial Chapel. Twenty
second and Morris streets. at her home.
5114 Chester avenue. on Friday eve
ming. Her sisters. Miss Martha Kill
patrick and Mrs. William J. Harvey
assisted her IN entertaining. Among
the guests were: DR.. Floyd W. Tomkins
and Mrs. Tomkins. the Rev. Joseph
Paul Morris and Mrs. Morris.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Miss Clara Il. Diamond
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Dia
mond, to DR.. Morris I. Ruberg.
Miss Kathryn X. Kennedy will en-
tertain the members of her sorority q,
her home. 250i Spruce street. on Sat
urday afternoon. Among the guests vii
be Mrs. Robert 4. Bond, Miss Edith
Gulick, Miss Kathleen Davis. Mis-.
Kathryn Kennedy, Mrs. Howard Mag
Mrs. William Kirkpatrick and Mr.
Ralph McClay.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-03
WEST PHILADELPHIA

a running sale for the benefit Of the
Woman's Southern Homeopathic Hos
pitnl was held Saturday at 5137 Mar
ket street. The committee in charge
includes Mrs. II. Il. Moore. Mrs. ]. A.
Potts. Mrs. Fl. 8. KINNEY, Mrs. u. T.
Buckingham. Mrs. W. G. Mercer, Mrs.
John s. Dove and Mrs. Henry ]. Kuhn.
Mrs. Charles N. Cadwallader. for
merly Of West Philadelphia, and now
OF Johnstown, Pa, arrived on Sunday
to be the guest of her daughter. Mrs.
Il. G. Standbridge. 23O South Fifty
third street, for month.
Miss Georgia Lucia Hull. formerly OF
West Philadelphia. and now living In
the Kenmar Apartments. Tenth and
Pine streets. is spending the week end
with friends at Vineland, n. ].
A quiet wedding, which took place
Friday afternoon. was that of Miss Flor
ence Il. Nell, Of $3.50 Walton avenue
and Mr.. Wesley 8. Milnor. Of 1927
Dover street. Miss Ruth Hanly was
maid Of honor for the bride, and Mr.
James Ford was best man. After q
short wedding trip Mr.. and Mrs. Milnol
Will be at home at Thirty third ant
! Spring Garden streets.
Miss Lallah II. Flanagan. 5042 Haze
avenue, left Thursday on FIVE weeks
trip to the Grand Canyon and Califor
MIA. She will visit friends in Los An
geles.