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Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-12-01

The people Of this vicinity wefa
sorry to learn of the death 81
Mrs. VIM. Smith. of Ar96a. last
Monday afternoon. Mrs Smith
has been in very poor heath for
the past two months. Funeral
services were conducted from the
family home Wednesday after
noon at one o'clock and the re-
mains laid to rest in the AroyA
cemetery. The Record extends
its sympathy to Mr.. Smith ard
family in this sad hour.
Manager Perry. of the Rialto
Theatre, put on a little extra pre-
gram at his play house last Sat-
urday and Sundsy evenings in
the form of a musical entertain
menS furnished by the famous
Southern Jazz Hounds" of this
city. The attraction was enjoy
ed by the patrons of the housa
who hope that this will not b.
the last appearance Of the Hounds
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-12-01

Koeni9's Store is putting on .
special sale this week of ladies'
coats. Ladies if yon are in need
of a coat read their adv in this
paper and see what they have to
say about them,
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-12-01

Ray H. Neal, of the Sheridan
Lake district was in this city on
Tuesday and left with US his
public sale notice. Read it IN
column.
Living in a small tswn has one
distinct advantage /over life in a
big city. WheD<the tongue Of
gossip eneulfs g/fekow you never
have to ask who he Is.
Just three publications of our
paper left Mr.. Merchants in
which you can use our columns
to let the public know about your
Christmas goods. Better get
busy. n
Harold Shy went up to Denver
Monday night where he will re-
ceive medical attentions. Harold
has not been feeling the hest in
the world for some time hence
this trip.
I, Mr.. and Mrs. Emmitt Hatcher
and family from Wakeeney.
Kans.. were in the NsitS last week
to spend hanksRiViRg with the
formers mother. Mrs. Mary
Hatcher.
Koenia's Store is putting on .
special sale this week of ladies'
coats. Ladies if yon are in need
of a coat read their adv in this
paper and see what they have to
say about them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Losee and
daughter. Miss Margaret. went
down to Winona, Kansas. 70
spend their Thanksgiving and eat
turkey dinner with their daught-
er, Mrs. Chas. Tauscher.
Friends here of Dr.. Womack
will be pleased to know that he
il still in the land of the living.
Word reaces US that he has ac-
cepted a position a. druggist Ia .
drug store in Alamosa, Colo.
B. w. Beas0n and family, who
have been residing on the KaufE-
man farm south Of this city DE-
parted Wednesday morning for
Colorado Springs where they will
make their home for the present.
Mrs. Rummels. who teaches
the Golden Valley school. was
unable to fill her position last
week on account of sickness.
The lady had improved enough
to take up her duties though this
week.
H. ]. Seibert was Q Denver
passenger last Tuesday morning
where he expects to spend I few
days taking in the sights along
Curtis street after which he win
90 on to Dallas. Texas. where ho
intends spending the winter.
The Boosters class Of the II. +
Sunday school had an attendancD
of fifty.nine last Sunday morninn
The hustlers class had charge a
Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-12-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Losee and
daughter. Miss Margaret, went
down to Winona, Kansas. 10
spend their Thanksgiving and eat
turkey dinner with their daught-
er. Mrs. Chas. Tauscher.
The evening world., 1921-04-23
DAYLIGHT SAVING
IN 30 n. Y. CITIES
IS ON TOMORROW
So Turn Your Clocks Ahead an
Hour Tonight, and Don't
Miss Train.
COURTS ON NEW TIME.
Railroads on Old Standard,
but Commuters Trans viii
Run on Revised Rule.

Tonight is the night to turn the
clock one hour ahead. Those who do
it before going to bed will wake up
tomorrow morning in accordance with
The daylight saving system which has
oeen adopted by New York city and
many other New York cities and
towns, as well az in the committing
distance towns OF New Jersey aud
Connecticut.
Chicago, Milwaukee. Louisville, Pitts
burgh and other Western cities have
already turned their clocks ahead And
bills are pending in Congress to make
daylight saving uniform in the Middle
and Eastern States.
The official hour for the beginning
OF daylight saving here is A. NJ.
tomorrow, when the municipal clocks
will be turned. Private clocks will be
turned ahead at various bedtimes.
Railroad clocks will continue o
show standard Eastern time. but
train schedules for commu .rrs will be
arranged in conformity with daylight
saving.
Following is a list OF the New York
cities that have adopted daylight saw
ing: New York. Buffalo, Amsterdam,
Albany, Watervliet, Niagara Falls,
Syracuse. Oswcgo, Newburgh. W
Rochelle. White Plains, Poughkeep-
sic, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Glen
Cove, Kingston, Glens Falle, Clover
vile, HUI /, Troy, Cohoes, Sch =
tady, Rensselaer,, PeekskiIl, Port q.
Wis, Cortland, Lackawanna, .oches-
ter, g.. .pga Springs, MechI evil.
Tatertown, Geneva. Tonawanda
North Tonawanda. Green Island.
Plattsburg, South Nyack and Utica.
Attorney General Newton, at Al
bany, has given notice that all courts
and public offices in cities where
daylight saving has been adopted will
conform to the new schedules.
The evening world., 1921-04-23
GERMAN CABINET
FACING CRISIS ON
NOTE TOAMERICA
Foreign Minister SimonS At
tackled Because Leaders
Were Not Consulted.

, BERLIN. April ga Cabinet
crisis appears imminent here as a re-
suit OF the discomfort aroused by the
Governments failure to consult the
Reichstag before asking President
Harding TO mediate between Ger
many and the Allies. The position OF
DR.. Walter Simons, Foreign Minister,
is particularly imperilled.
The Cabinet Ministers, despite dit
ferences OF opinion, reached an un-
derstandins shortly before midnight.
which was presented to the party
leaders for approval.
While the details OF the agreement
were closely guarded, II was learned
authoritatively that the proposals
will be presented to the United States
for transmission TO the Allies, in con-
formity with Secretary Hughes
offer
That Germany will make better
offers in her new proposals vas re-
garded as having been clearly demon
SlIdltu III IOItlbl minister pAllOAS
speech before the Reichstag ycsrer-
day, in which he declared the Govern
ment must go to the extreme limit OF
what the German people can furnish
in the way OF reparatiOns,"
After approval by the party leaders
the counter proposals were TO be read
in the Reichstag and 1t was expected
they would be made public by o'clock
this afternoon.
Discussing the American note. Jo-
hann Won Bernstorff, former German
Ambassador TO the United States,
declared that the situation is
greatly improved" pointing out that
while President Harding had refused
TO arbitrate the question OF repara-
tons he had offered the opportunity
Of mediation.
The situation should be solved
along economic, not political lines"
Won BernstOrn said. America is the
only nation IN a position to accom-
plish this. We are lost II politics
prevails"
lie said he shared the opinion pre-
vailng IN certain American and Ger
man circles here that mediation will
be achieved II the German proposals
are high enough. In tnat event, he
asserted, France would hardly dare
to advance into the Ruhr district in
I the face of the American suggestion
OF negotiations.
The evening world., 1921-04-23
10 MORE VICTIMS
SUFFERING FROM
N. J. POISON GAS
Nan Who Sounded Alarm in Bound
Brook Dies From Leaking
Fumes.

Ten victims of the leak OF phosgen
gas from the big tank OF Hemingway
& Co, near Bound Brook, y. j., yes
terday. were suffering to-day from
acute bronchial affections. One man,
Earl Pullman, died late yesterday.
The others are expected to recover,
though it is said they will be in dan
ger of tubercular developments for
several months.
Besides Pullman those who suffered
from the gas are DR.. J. T. Leahy,
plant physician; DR.. Benjamin Bor-
row, his assistant: Harold Saunders,
former chief chemist at the Heming-
way plant; Michael PASCAL, driver
for Saunders; Peter Wirdel and John
Hegeny, who were working at the big
tank with Pullman when the leak
was discovered: Charles Jansen: City
Patrolman Charles Boiler, who came
to the assistance Of plant physicians;
Peter Koechlin and Edward Novak.
All except three are employees OF the
Sherwin- Williams Paint Company,
which purchased all the property OF
Hemingway & Co. except the gas
tank.
DR.. Leahy to-day attributed the
death of Pullman and the injury OF
several others to an open door of the
emergency room where he and DIT
Borrow were working or the vic
Tins. Jensen, who had been out
looking for Wirdel, entered the en-
ergency roo mand forgot to close the
door, according to DR.. Leahy
Though the emergency room is 3OC
feet from the tank, a sudden shift
of wind filled it with the poisonous
fumes and six men were overcome
They were loaded in an automobile
and taken TO places OF safety.
Pullman, who had been resusci-
tated after his first heavy dose OF
gas at the tank, was one of those
overcome in the emergency room.
He died later at the Somerset Hos
pital.
Pullman had turned in the first call
for medical aid and the first warn
ing, Dr. Leahy said AS soon as he
escaped from the gas area Pullman
called the telephone operator and told
her to notify DR.. Leahy, though at
that time he was so badly burned
he could hardly talk
The evening world., 1921-04-23
HAS TWO WOMEN
AS WIVES IN ONE
FLAT IN BROOKLYN
One Belgian, One French,
They Talk by Knocking
Wood-RuyS Is Arrested.

Antoine Ruyts, Belgian. has been
living for several months in a three
room apartment in Brooklyn with
two wives, one Belgian and one
French, according TO officials OF the
Brooklyn society for the prevention
OF cruelty to children, at No. 100
Schermerhorn Street. Brooklyn. The
Belgian wife talks only Flemish, II
was said, and the other only French,
and they communicate with each
other by system OF knocks on wood
Ruyts, who is forty-fivc years old,
Is an ornamental ironworkcr at IN
establishment at Long Island Ciry.
He was held in 81, 00O bail in the Fifth
Avenue Court, Brooklyn, to-day. on
"A charge OF bgamy, on short afflda-
Wits sworn out by Brooklyn police
detectives
On complaints made by neigh bors,
the Brooklyn Society for the Proven
ton OF Cruelty 10 Children sent Ter
ence McKiernan, an agent OF the So
ciety, to investigate. He was accom-
panied by Mrs. Paula .Golnick, their
investigator. it was said at the Of
fices OF the society to-day.
Ruyts was living in Antwerp in
1916, according to the story told by
McKiernan. with his wife, Charlotte,
forty-tive years old, and two daugh-
ters, one now thirteen and the other
fifteen years old. The Germans or
dered Ruyts to work for them and he
Ned 10 Paris, whore he met Nine
Marie Pierre-Llbar a handsome
widow OF forty eight The pair lived
together in Paris until January, 1920
when they came to America, accord
ing TO the story told by the Brooklyn
society.
The evening world., 1921-04-23
BELGIAN PAPERS
STOLEN ON STEAMER
Addressed to Ambassador at Wash
ington-Disappear From Ships
Strong Box.

BALTIMORE Nd, April Is
Secret Service agents are investisat-
ing the disappearance OF three pack
cts Of correspondence directed to the
Belgian Ambassador at Washington.
which officers OF the steamship Ner-
vier reported stolen from its strong
box. The papers are believed TO have
been stolen by German agents.
Announcement OF the merger of the
Merchants National Bank OF Balti-
more and the National Bank of Com
merce, with combined resources OF
more than {52OOOOOO, was made yes
terday. Thomas Hildt OF New York,
formerly Of this city, was elected
President.
The evening world., 1921-04-23
WALDORF RESIGNS
OSCAR AT $50, 900
Ten-Year Contract, Totalling $780,
900, Makes TSchirky Highest
Paid Maitre dHOtel.

Roy Carruthers. Manager Director
OF the Waldorf-Astoria vro' an
nounced yesterday that he had signed
contract with Oscar for period Of
ten years at a Zee said to Involve al
most $500, 900. This makes Oscar the
highest paid maitre d'hotel in the
world,
Oscar Tsch!rky joined the Wal
dorf on It's opening night, March 0,
1898. The story Of how he rose to
fame and wealth through the tips Of
Wall Street men Is too well known
Tor repeating.
The evening world., 1921-04-23
CABINET FOR REJECTING ANY
CANCELLATION PLAN.

The Harding Administration officially
terms these loans az "a most valued
asset" and At recent CS'hinet Meet
ing, the decision was unanimoIs for
rejecting any schemes OF cancellation
either in whole or in part.
OF course, the entire question OF
eign Indebtedness has always had a
direct bearing on what amounts OF
money the Allies could collect from
Germany, but every effort to transfer
British or French obligations TO the
backs OF the Germans who are already
overloaded with debt has been Off
cially squelohed whether presented to
the United States formally or infor-
mally through diplomatic or financial
channels.
The decision OF the Harding Ad-
fContinued on Second Pagel
The evening world., 1921-04-23
NNill Not Yield Papers Until
Courts Decide on Legality
Of New Appointments.
IfYLAN'S ORDER OBEYED
Governors Action i'll Super
Seding City Control Held by
Mavor Unconstitutional.

The cirys hight with the Miller
Transit Commission, which was in
aIgrated by Corporation Counsel
O'Brien, is on in earnest, according
Il a statement made to-day by Dep
MY Transit construction Commits
s.oner Daniel =. Ryan, speaking for
his chief, John Ii Delaney, vino was
ULt of the city.
Mr.. Ryan said: Commissioner De-
laney will comply with the suggestions
an Corporation Counsel OBrien's letter
and all contracts and other legal and
official data in possession Of the Tran
sat Construction Commission will be
retained by Commissioner Delaney un
Ill the legal questions involved shall
be adjudicated by the courts"
This is valedictory day for the old
Public Service Commi ssion and in the
public hearing room Of its headquar-
Eers at No. 40 Lafayette Street the
farewell exercises were conducted.
Chairman Alfred NJ. Barrett officiated,
and with him in words of thanks and
farewell TO the Commission staff were
Deputy Commissioners Morgan T.
Donnelly and Charles V. HALEY jr
This was one Indication that the
O,d Commission would go out OF ex-
istence on Monday. Another lay in
the fact that the payrolls of the de-
partment have been certified to the
State Civil Service Commission to
April 25, Monday.
The letter which Mr.. O'Brien wrote
40 Mr.. Delaney in opening the war
on the Miller Transit Commission
said in part
AS you know a bill has passed the
Legislature and received the sanction
Of the Governor purporting to ap-
point a Transit Commission with ju-
Tisdiction over the matters and things
concerning which you have acted in
the past. This Transit Commission
Is. apparently. made your official
successor and undoubtedly upon the
appointment OF the commission by the
Governor, demand will be made upon
you for tho books. papers, records,
documents, muniments Of title and
other property OF the City OF New
York or relating to the traction COM
Continued on Second Page.)
The evening world., 1921-04-23

LONDON, April 23-Germany has sent to Washington reply
10 the American note rejecting the arbitrator Of the paraton
question between Germany and the Allies says Central despatch
from Berlin The terms of the divuged up time
despatched to-day, and its will known
until later il the day.
Leading politicians declared have been angry
bers of the Cabinet did them original conna
ion sent to the American capital
According to report from Berlin the proposals include an in
the cash payments offered better plan reconstruction in
France ard some form of international credit
The evening world., 1921-04-23
STEVENS TOLD WIFE
THERE WAS NO WILL,
SHE ANNOUNCES
want Everything to Go to
Family-to YOU" Recluse Is
Reported as Saying.
SEARCH SHIFTS TO N. j..
His New York Office and Hall
Room in Hoboken Searched
From Top to Bottom.

c. Amory Stevens. millionaire -re-
cluse OF Broad Street, since whose
death March 20 there has been a
thorough search for possible will.
told his wife a year ago when he was
i'll in Trinity Hospital. according to
an intimate friend OF the family, that
he had made no will.
81 want everything to go to my
family" Mr.. Stevens is quoted as
saying "All my personal property,
in fact everything l have, goes to
you. You will have to look out for
anything in their power"
Mr.. Stevens, according to this
friend, practiced this and never made
an entire confidant OF any one mem
Der OF the legal profession. He em-
ployed five lawyers so none of then.
would know all his business affairs.
He was a man who was slow TO
take any action that might prove
final, the friend continued, and al
ways delayed the performance of im-
portant business. He expected 10 live
until he was ninety-five and planned
once to retire before then and travel
around the world with his daughter.
These thoughts, the friend vent on,
and the fact that prior to his death
he was engaged on an invention
which he expected to revolutionize
mining and for which he refused an
offer of i6OOOO, 1t is believed, caused
him to delay making a will, II he ever
intended making one.
His eccentricity, it was said, fol-
lowed two operations he underwent
twelve years ago. He became ner-
vouB, sometimes irritable and at
times easily alarmed about his
health. Lawyers then advised Mrs.
Stevens 20 ask her husband to make
a will, but she refused because she
feared the suggestion would have
harmful effects.
Mr.. Stevens's estate, according 10
this friend, was in such a condition
that his family hardly considered 1t
necessary for him to make a will.
Although its value has been variously
estimated from $1,000, 900 to S15,OOO,-
900, IT is composed largely Of undevel-
oped and unproductive mines and real
estate and little valuable personal
property on which legatee could
realize anything Immediately.
Mrs. Stevens remained in retire
ment to-day at her home, No. S765
Bay 9th Street, Bensonhurst Search
for the will shifted to New Jersey,
owing to the declaration OF Mr.. Ste
vens' physician that the millionaire
told him he had made one.
The dingy office at No. 80 Broad
Street, where Mr., Stevens worked
has been turned upside down. A room
he rented it at S12 a week a year ago
after asking for the cheapest lodg
ings in the house, was similarly
searched,
william X. Pagan, OF No. l West
3oth Street, the father Of Richard Fa-
gan, the Dartmouth student who
lToaftnNaa m Cacppd paga
The evening world., 1921-04-23
STILL BLOWS UP,
80 FAMILIES ROUTED
Jantor After Explosion Admits, Po-
lice Say, He Had Home
Brew Plant.

An explosion in the basement OF
the siX-story apartment house. No,
1892 Madison Avenue, near 90th
street, aroused the 100 tenants at
$50 A NJ, to-day and most Of the
thirty families ran to the street.
After hremcn had eXtlngushed a
small blaze In the apartment Of the
janitor MARCEL Czrikrzit, they fund
what appeared 10 be the remnants OF
sull for manufacturing liquor
on their report Policeman Roche
OF the lO4th Street station, arrested
Czrkrzlt who they say admitted a
stll he was operating blew up The
are did Little damage,
The evening world., 1921-04-23
WARD LINER IN DISTRESS.
Tug Sent 10 the FnrnAm, Asking
Aid Off Florida Coast.

The Ward Line freight steamer Far
nam was reported early to-day, by wire
less, in distress foIy miles Southeast OF
SomDrero Ligat on the southern Florida
coast, The radio message stated the
steamer had boilc. trouble tug went
10 her assistance from Key West
The Farnam, which left Southampton
for New Orleans March had previously
put IN ~ Bermuda for TepAirS,
The evening world., 1921-04-23
FinancierS of Many Nations
Hoped Compromise Might
Be Effected.
ALLIES IGNORED TREATY
Endeavored to Fix Indemnity
Without United States Be-
ing Represented.
Bn Dapid LAURENCE.
Especial Correspondent OF The Eve
nina Morld.l

\
ming Worldly
WASHINGTON, April "a Copy
right, 192D Germany effort 20 get
the United States to say what amount
would be fair and just as a var in
demnlty was not altogether Of Ger
man origin, for there is good reason
TO believe that in countries other than
France the banking community has
hoped the American Government
would be able to lind n compromise
between the extreme views OF Frhnce
and Germany.
But President Harding ana Secre-
tary Hughes turned down the Ger
man request for arbitration for an
entirely different set OF reasons, 1t
is true that the American attitude
toward reparations is that the amount
first fixed was too much OF burden
and destroyed the incentive of the
Germans 10 work hard enough 10 pay
their bills. Yet back OF any PROPOSE
tion which introduces American aIgu-
ment or suggestion is the greater
factor OF American responsibility for
the size of the indemnity fixed.
II the United States had agreed to
arbifiitratc, the American Govern
ment might have been placed in a
position of being morally required to
accept German reparation bonds in
exchange for some of the Allied
debts to the United States. This,
American public opinion has evi-
IDENTIFY looked upon as a makeshift OF
doubtful value because when the first
suggestion about II was made. Wash
Ington showed a marked coolness
toward that idea as well as any
other which would tend to deprecl-
ate the value OF Americas foreign
loans.
The evening world., 1921-04-23

PARIS. April 23 (Associated Press).
OF the German Gov
ernments note to the United States
was completed at meeting of the
German Cabinet last night, says a
message received here from Berlin.
Party leaders later met with Kon-
stantine Fehrenbach. the Chancellor.
TO hear a report from Or. Walter
Simons, Foreign Minister. and TO ex-
press their opinion on the proposals
sent TO President Harding. The meet
ing was secret.
Germany instead OF either agreeing
or refusing to transfer the gold re-
serve OF the Reichsbank TO occupied
territory in the Rhineland. as the
Allied Reparltions Commission had
demanded. has offered to agree not to
export or permit the expectation OF
gold from Germany before Oct.
next.
Germany's note in reply TO the
Reparations Commission, delivered 10
the commission to-day, in which this
offer Is rendered. says her proffered
agreement would adequately protect
the Allies, who had demanded the
transfer because the second para
graph of Article 24S OF the Treaty OF
Versailles, prohibiting the exporta-
tion OF gold. becomes imperative
May |.
The note was signed by DR.. Won
Oertzen, for the War Burdens Com
mission. II pointed out that the re
moval Of the Reichshank's gold would
act further to depreciate erman ex-
change. and Furthermore that the gold
reserve was not directly under the
control OF the Ministry OF Finances,
but was private property.
The transfer. the note contended.
would not serve as a guarantee for
reparations payments, as the Com
mission seemed to think, as the de-
preCiation in exchange growing out
Of II would result in a general eco
nomic weakening Of Germany.
LYMPME England, April 20 CAS-
sociuted Press. Exchanges which
have been going on for some weeks
between the British and French For
eign Offices relative TO what can and
ought to be done TO collect repara-
tions from Germany will be con4
tinued here late to-day by Prime Min
ister Lloyd George and Premier
BRAND. The two statesmen win
meet at the villa Of Sir Philip Sas-
soon, where they have held confer
ences in the past
The French plan is, broadly. q
project for administration and taxing
for the benefit OF the Allies the Ruhr
coal basin and some parts OF the
Westphalian Industrial district OF
Germany.
The two Premiers were understood
o-day to be in agreement as to tho
general plan to be followed, but IL
was said they wished to have a COM
plete understanding of what was to
be done early in May IL in the inter
val the German Government does not
submit acceptable proposals.
a new German proposal is expected
The evening world., 1921-04-23
NICARAGUA QUITS
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
South American Government Finds
Expense of Representation
Too Heavy.

MANAGUA. Nicaragua, April "a
Nicaragua has given up It's membership
in the League Of Nations, this step be-
Ing due to the expense attaching to the
holding OF a place in that organization.
Announcement that the Government
was considering withdrawal was male
Vyme tlne a19,