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New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
olson Kills Nurse
Observation-Disclosures
Efforts to Save Her
Phoned Wife of Physician
She Is Declared to Have
+, Loved After Taking Po-
ton, p olice Are T old

Alice Julia Carrahan, twenty-four
years old, trained nurse, said to have
come to New York from Canada two
! years ago, died last night at the Man
haitian Square Sanitarium. SO West
Seventy Street, Of mercurial
poisoning.
DIR. James M. West, of II West Forty
ninth Street, reported the death. Po-
lice of the West Sixty-eighth Street
station described the case as one of
suicide. Miss Carrahan took bichloride
of mercury tablets last 5unday with
suicidal intent, the police say, and
from then to the moment of her death
fought against efforts of physicians to
save her life.
According to the police Miss Cara
han became infatuated, while engaged
as nurse at the Knickerbocker Hos
pital, with surgeon said to have been
attached to hospital staff: The doc
tors wife learned of the affair, it was
declared, and reproached Miss Cara
han, who is said to have admitted her
affection for the doctor.
Last Sunday Miss Carrahan called
the telephone number of the physician.
The summons was answered by his
that she had taken poison and would
soon be dead.
The wife Immediately called DR..
West, neghbor, also notifying the
authorities of Knickerbocker Hospital,
whence an ambulance was dispatched
to Miss Carrahan's apartment, 1870 West
Seventy third Street.
Four doctors worked over the girl for
several hours in an effort to use the
stomach pump, but she fought so des-
perately that it was found impossible
to take effective means for elimination
of the poison. At the instance of the
doctors wife Miss Carrahan was re-
moved to the sanatorium, where, de-
spite unremitting effort to save her,
she sank into coma, which ended in
death.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Prohibition To
Be Enforced bv
"
State Directors
Plan for Reorganization of
Dry Enforcement Is Laid
Before Senator'S; TO Aboi-
ish Many Supervisors
Would Cut ssRed Tape
Present Scheme of Field
Force To Be Abandoned
to- Consolidate Activity

WASHINGTON, June 17.--Prohibi-
tion enforcement officials have COM
pleted program for the reorganiza-
tion of the Federal enforcing units and
revision of enforcement methods. The
suggested changes, which include abol-
ishment of about half of the super
visory jobs and the establishment of a
system of state directors, to be held
wholly responsible for enforcement and
administrative work, were submitted
to-day by Prohibition Commissioner
Haynes to Chairman Penrose and Sena-
tor Watson, Republican, Indiana, of the
Senate Finance Committee.
Senator'S who studied the plans de-
clared the changes would tighten the
lid ON liquor and would result also in
saving in the money, cost of enforc
ing the Volstead act. Mr.. Haynes and
Commissioner Blair, of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue, who had approved
the program, explained to the Senators
that they had sought to eliminate "red
tape" and make the enforcement corps
moe responsive to its various duties.
Mr.. Haynes said it had been Clearly
demonstrated after a thorough triaI''
that the present plan of organiza tiou
OF the field force should be abandoned.
he, wanted. he said. a centralized
authority, coordination in the handling
OF permissive and enforcement feat
ures and elimination of uncertainty.
friction and confusion as result Of
present methods.
In addition to the creation of a
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Agreement on Peace
Measure Likely Soon
Fun Conference Committee Ex.
pecfed to Act Quickly ON
Resolutions This Week
From The Tribmme,s Washington gpreau

From The Tribaae's Washington Bxyeau
WASHINGTON, June 17.-Senate and
House Republican conferees on the
peace resolution held another meeting
to-day and later reported that progress
was being made toward an agreement.
The House formally sent the bill to
conference. This was done without de-
bate. Representatives Porter and
Rogers were named as the Republicans
and Representative Flood as the Demo
crat on the conference committee.
1t was decided to call the full confer
ence committee together next week.
The meeting, however, will await the
return to the city of Senator Lodge,
who goes to Harvard to attend the if-
tieth anniversary of his class.
Republican conferees after the meet
ing to-day expressed optimism about
reaching an agreement. They said the
Knox reservations intended to protect
American property rights would be
agreed to. The differences between the
Senate and House as to repeating the
war declaration or declaring the state Of
war at an end were not taken up and
remain unsettled.
Indications point to little delay in
arriving at complete agreement when
the full conference committee meets,
according TO statements OF conferees.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Il Saw .Judg6 h:l
Kagy, but Shielded
Him. y Girl Swears
Witness in Cleveland Murder
Trial Says McCannon
Coached Her ON Story
at a Midnight Meeting
Speciat Dispotci, to The Tribune

CLEVELAND, June 17.-Every detail
of a midnight conference in hotel
here, at which Miss Mary Nicely claims
Judge McGannon induced her to refuse
to testify against him in his second
trial for the murder of Harold Kagy,
was laid bare before the jury in Judge
Florence Aliens Criminal Court this
morning, when Miss Nicely took the
stand in the trial of McGannon for
perjury.
"I saw Judge McGannon shoot Harold
Kagy," said the witness.
This statement was especially start
ling in view of the fact that in all of
her previous statements concerning the
shooting she had gone no further than
to say she saw McGannon "pull some
thing shiny from his pocket" after
which she had heard shot.
Miss Neely's repeated assertion that
McGannon was present at the death
corner was borne out by the testimony
of John Joyce, who preceded her on the
stand.
Calm and self-possessed, Miss Neely
related the occurrences on that night
in February when, she charges, through
McGannon's interference the states
murder case against him was practi-
cally wrecked By her promise to refuse
to give damaging testimony.
The testimony she gave at McGan-
mons first trial when she said she
saw him shoot Kagy-the testimony
she refused to give at his second trial
when he was acquitted-she swore to-
day was true. In minutest detail the
woman traced McGannon's movements
on the fatal night. She denied that
he left the automobile before it
reached the death corner, and a severe
discrimination by Attorney William
Fl. Boyd for the defense failed to shake
any of the major parts Of her testi-
mony.
Her refusal to testify in the second
trial. when she surprised states attor-
neys and spectators by denying Nc
Gannon's guilt, and by refusing to
answer other questions put to her by
Prosecutor Stanton, she swore came
as direct result of the conference
with McGannon on the previous night
in the hotel.
Judge McGannon started to tell me
how to avoid answering the questions
asked by the prosecutor" she said
"He said, Start out, Judge McGannon
did not kill Harold Kagy.' Then I
asked him what to say to the prose-
cutor's questions. He told me to saw.
I don't remember and also to say 4
refuse to answer because | might dis
grace or lncriminate myself
Il asked him to go over it again and
he did"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Grand Jury to
Seek ColItlsio1l
In School Sites
Craig 10 Present Charges
Against Shallow and Hy-
Ian Officials i'm Brooklyn
and ID G I'M a n d Inquiry
Has Nothing to Say
Comptroller Uncertain if
Board Of Education Man
Is ssStllpid or knavish''

Charges of alleged collusion in the
selection of public school site cn
Neptune Avenue, Coney Island, will be
investigated by a grand jury. Comp
troller Charles L. Craig, who made the
charges at the last meeting of the
Sinking Fund Commission and incurred
the wrath of Mayor Hylan and Edward
'B. Shallow, Associate Superintendent
of Schools, who has charge of building
operations of the Board of Education,
made the announcement last night.
"This matter calls for grand jury
investigation" said the Comptroller.
i"All Of the information in my posses
sion relative to the school site at
Twenty Street and Neptune Ave-
nue., Coney Island, selected by Asso-
ciate Superintendent Shallow Tor the
Board Of Education, will be turned over
to the District Attorney of Kings
County Monday. ! am taking it to the
Brooklyn District Attorney, because I
believe he has jurisdiction, but, to
make sure, it is quite possible that
torney Swami also"
Hylan Stops Talking
The .furor created in Hylan admin
istration circles by the Comptroller's g
charges was tempered yesterday by the
silence of Mayor Hylan and other city
officials, who declared at the last meet
ing of the Sinking Fund Commission
that they had personally visited the
Neptune Avenue sites and found the
situation as DR.. Shallow had stated
it--that the city-owned land, which the
Comptroller said should be used for
site on private property, was under
water. Unofficial investigators who
looked over the district yesterday main
tanned that the lay of the land was
exactly as the Comptroller contended,
and that there was ample room for
several school sites on property filed
in by the city.
The Comptroller's Office is interested
in the circum stances surrounding the
selection of other school sites, aside
from the Coney Island sites. Comp
troller Craig directed severe criticism
at the Board of Education on the selec-
tion of sites, and particularly at Asso-
ciate Superintendent Shallow.
QOH y pIclEuu 10 say WneJneT
Shallow is STUPID or knavish," said the
Comptroller, "but in either event his
action in selecting certain sites is in
defensible."
Need Ladder to Reach Sites
The Comptroller referred to two sites
selected at 10th Street and Grant
Avenue, the Bronx, both Of which he
said were twenty feet or more below
grade, so that "you would have to use
a ladder to get out of the school play
ground" He said that one of these
sites was Sinking ground" with no
bottom, as far as any one. knew He
declared thereswe other available and
more useful sites in the neighborhood.
The Comptroller told of another in
stance where the residents of Rosedale,
L. L., located at the border line of the
CITY, in Queens, wanted their school en-
larged, and, despite the fact that there
was vacant and available land on either
side of the school, the Board of Educa-
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Deutschland Is Sunk
At Target Practice

CHERBOURG, France, June
II (By The Associated Press) -
The former German super -subma-
rine Deutschland, which in 1916
slipped into Baltimore Harbor
from Germany after daringly
running the gantlet of British
and French cruisers standing
guard off the Virginia Capes, was
sunk by gunfire to-day during
target practice. The submarine
had served as target for a series
Of submarine attack experiments
carried out by the French ar
mored cruiser Gueydon, seven
miles off shore.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

single enforcement and administrative
unit for each Of the states, Mr.. Havnss
proposed adjustment of the Offices az
supervising Federal prohibition agents
elimination of prohibition inspectoys
and the designation Of all enforeiny
and administrative officers under the
ststs directors TO "legical and aeees-
sible" locations, creation Of a mobile
field force, organized to operate directly
under the Federal Commis sioner. an1
the consolidation of all records ia
syoid duplication and, at the same
time, to provide closer check on leaks
which may be sprung in the liauor
supply.
Mr.. Haynes's reorganization pro-
gram was worked out on the assurnn-
tion that the prohibition unit will re-
main in the Treasury Department, il
was said. The proposed changes, Il
was added, had the approval Of eyery
officer, both in the bureau and in tbs
field work OF enforcement.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Retail Food Prices
Drop 4.8 p. C.. i'm Month

WASHINGTON, June Retail food
prices to the average family declined
as per cent in May. as compared with
April, while wholesale food prices
dropped 5A per cent in the same
period, according to statistics made
public to-day by the Department Of
Lahof. General wholesale prices, in
cluding farm products, food, building
materials, metals, house furnishings
and miscellaneous commodities, de-
cliied approximately . per cent during
the month
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Schoolgirl Tries to Die
Parents Refuse to Allow Her
to 60 to Work

Au attempt at suicide was made YES
terday morning by -year-old
Martha Korn, of 80 WilIett Street, be-
cause her parents insisted that she
remain IN school instead of going to
work. The girl inhaled gas, but was
discovered soon after adjusting the
tube and speedily revived by an am
bulance surgeon. A truant officer took
her into custody.
When truant officer called at the
Korn home Thursday afternoon. Mar
tha was out, and he told the parents
to hide her clothes SO that she would
have to remain in the house. It was
after she discovered her clothing was
missing yesterday morning that the
girl tried to end her life.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

ton selected site on the opposite side
of Merrick Road The Comptroller said
that he communicated with real estate
operators interested in development
at Rosedale, and found that they would
be willing to give the city a school site
in their development free Of charge.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-18

The combinations should be prosecuted
by the local authorities and their lead
ers punished. He said that the cost OF
FIRE insurance should be reduced at
least 25 per cent. If this group does
not dissolve or mend it's ways, he said
he would prosecute the members for
criminal conspiracy. He touched upon
the loan market, declaring that unless
the banks were more liberal in their
loans on building the situation would
be very little improved.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
SPECIAL MEDAL FOR THIS DOG
St. Bernard Forgot Eternal Feud With
Cat Family and Rraved Flames
to Save Pussy.

The supply of Carnegie hero medals
would soon give out if all the brave
and thoughtful dogs were remembered,
A st. Bernard in the town of Everett,
Mass, mindful of the traditions of
snowbound travellers and his Alpine
monastery, has just effected triple
rescue that entities him to whatever
dogdom can offer in the way of canon
ization, to match the name of the saint
that his devoted breed already bears.
First he woke up the families in two
apartments by his loud barking when
a fire broke out, and then, having
started the human beings on their hur-
ried exodus to safety, he darted back
through the smoke, got the family cat,
which had been forgotten in the ex-
element, and reappeared with his
tribal enemy in his mouth. Would all
human beings have been so magnani-
mous?-Philadelphia Ledger.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
JAPAN WILL FINISH
NAVAL PROGRAM
VICE ADMIRAL kATO BELIEVES
PLANS WILL BE COMPLETED
REGARDLESS OF u. S. ACTION.
Says Program Was Inaugurated q
Decade Ago, and Even If Com
pIeted Would Not Bring Japan's
Naval Strength Up to Others.

Tokio.-Regardless of the United
States naval program, the japanese
program requires completion of the
eight battleship and eight cruiser unit
said Vice Admiral Kato, minister OF
the navy, in responding on January 30
to an Interpolation by Lieutenant Gen
eral Ushara, chief Of staff, as to ia.
pans view of Senator Borah's resolu.
ton concerning cessation of war
ship construction. Japan's naval con
struction plan, however, he said, need
not be carried out with the United
States as an imaginary enemy.
He said Japan would adhere to o
world curtailment of constructor
plans.
He declared Japan's naval program
was inaugurated decade ago and was
born of imperative necessity. Even II
completed, he said, wide margir
would remain between the nava
strength of japan and other powers.
War Minister Tanaka said Japan's
forces had been organized to insure
the safety of her territorial rights. II
was true, he declared, neither Russia
nor China could now menace Japan
Any effective plan of defense, how
ever, he added, must presuppose the
necessity of operations beyond Japan't
frontiers.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
COURT DECIDES IN
FAVOR Of BERGER
SOCIALIST EDITOR AND ASSocI.
ATEs IN ESPIONAGE CHARGES
TO BE GIVEN NEW TRIALS.
Bench Divided in Decision on Radical
Cases, Majority Deciding Judge
Lands Was Ineligible to
Conduct Trial.

| Washlngton.-Victor L. Berger, So
clalist editor of Milwaukee, and four
co-defendants who were sentenced to
terms ranging from ten to twenty
years for violation of the espionage
act, will be given new trials under a
decision on January 81 by the supreme
| court.
Dividing, six to three, the court held
that Judge lands of Chicago was in
| eligible to conduct the trial and should
have retired on the filing of an affi-
| davit by the defendants charging him
with personal bias and prejudice, u
because OF the nativity of certain of
them.
berger and his co-defendants are
Adolph Germer, national secretary of
the Socialist party, native of Prus-
STA; William Kruss, editor of the
Young Socialist magazine, whose par
ents were Germans; ]. Louis Engdahl
and Irwin st. John Tucker, writer's
and lecturers, natives of the United
States, and claiming to be not of i'm
mediate German descent.
The sole question before the su-
premer court was whether Judge Ian
dis had erred In continuing to sit in
the case after defense counsel had filed
n properly drawn affidavit Of preju-
dice. Six members of the court, includ-
Ing Chief Justice White, held that he
did. Three other members, Justices
Day, Pitney and McReynolds, held he
did not, and filed opinions dissenting
from that of the majority.
Next to that of Eugene V. Debs,
the case of Victor Berger, publisher
Of the Milwaukee Leader, Socialist
paper, attracted more attention than
any other brought by the government
under the wartime espionage act.
A movement to bar Berger from the
seat in congress, to which he had just
been elected from a Milwaukee dis
trict, was at once started. Represen-
tative Mann, former Republican leader,
being one of the few influential men,
hers of the house who came out in be-
half of the Socialist editor. A new
election having been ordered, Berger
was again returned and again the
house voted to bar him, 32S to 6,
within an hour after he had presented
himself to be sworn In.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
LoPD MAYOR TOLD TO LEAVE
o'Callaghan Ordered to Depart From
U. S. by February II.

Neutrality-suspicious. J. O'Callaghan,
lord mayor of Cork, has been ordered
by Secretary Wilson of the labor de-
partment to leave the United States
by February H. He is now in the
country as a seaman awaiting an OPP
portunity to reship.
The Irish official arrived in the
United States as a stowaway without
a passport. He was classified as a
seaman, however, which permitted him
to remain until he could find ship.
Whether he left as a seaman or as a
passenger was held to be no concern
Of the department of labor. In order
to clear the records a certificate of
O'Callaghan's departure, citing the cir
cumstances, must be filed with the i'm
migration Inspector at his port of de-
parture.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
ROPE SUPERIOR TO LEATHER
Fibrous Material Rapidly supplanting
Betting in American and Euro
pean Mills and Factories.

For 20 years there has been an in
creasing use in this country of manila
rope for power transmission in mills
and factories in place of leather belt
ing. In English factories ropes super
seeded betting long ago, and their use
is nearly universal. In the United
States the change that has taken place
began with the acquisition of the Phil
ippine. islands, where, as everybody
knows, the manila hemp flourishes.
The fiber of this hemp varies in length
from 6 to II feet, and occasionally at
tains length of Is feet. 1t is said
to possess greater tensile strength
than any other fiber known, exceed
ing $4,000 pounds per square inch.
Rope drives, as transmission ropes are
called, possess the advantage of noise
lesSness, owing to their fiexibility and
to the existence of an air passage in
the grooves between the rope and the
sheath.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
SWAMP ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as a medicine for
durable ailments of the kidneys, liver and
bladder.
DIR. Ki,mer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be Just the remedy needed in thousands
upon thousands of distressing cases.
Swamp-Root makes friends quickly be-
cause its mild and immediate effect is soon
realized in most cases. 1t is gentle,
healing vegetable compound. =,
Start treatment at once. Sold at all
drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-
um and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamson, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
CONGRESS TAKES UP LOAF
Appropriations Bills and Other Meas
ures Will Cause Busy Time.


Observation-Disclosures on Monday
entered into the peak load period with
only twenty-eight days left and appro-
priaton bills and legislation damned
up.
The final money bills, the army and
navy supply measures, with the diplo-
matte and rivers and harbOrs appro.
priatiOns are to come before the
house, while the senate plans to take
up the postoffice and sundry civil
measures. Republican leaders are be-
ginning to be dubious of getting
through.
To hasten action on the appropria.
tons bills, the Fordney emergency
tariff bill is to be given what Repub-
licans say will be its ''last chance" in
the senate.
Naval disarmament also is to come
up prominently in the senate.
immigration exclusion legislation is
to be considered by the senate immi-
grafton committee.
Reapportionment of the house on the
basis of the 1920 census will come be-
fore the senate census committee, in
its consideration of the house bill re-
tanning the present house membership
of 1876.
Provision for more hospitals for dis
abled service men is expected to be
made by the house through passage
of bill to establish additional hos
pita's.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
Mob Releases Prisoners.

Bremerton, WASH Authorities at
the Puget Sound navy yard are
investigating circumstances of a raid
on the Kitsap county Jail Saturday,
when, 1t is alleged, crowd of nearly
100 marines, some of them armed,
overpowered the two policemen, broke
doors leading to the cells and released
L. c. Karron, marine, held on n
charge of drunkenness and two young
women prisoners.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
VICTIM OF ABDUCTION FOUND
Los Angeles Woman Returned to
Home and Abductors Captured.

Los Angeles.-Mrs. Gladys Wither-
ell, wife of O. s. Witherell, investment
company president, who was abducted
by Arthur w. and Floyd G. Carr, and
held for ransom, was rescued by Off
GERS Monday, she having been held a
prisoner on lonely abandoned ranch
near Corona. The Carr boys, who are
cousins, pleaded guilty to charge of
kidnapping within few hours after
they had been captured. Mrs. With
erell was unframed, but has suffered
nervous breakdown.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
BeredolI Will Become German.

Eberbach, Baden.-German citizen
ship papers for Grover C. Bergdoll,
American draft evader, for which he
applied number of days ago, have
been made out and are ready to be
issued as sooh as the technical state of
war between the United States and
Germany have been ended. His chauf-
feur, isaac Stecher. has already been
granted citizenship papers.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-05
Wilson Refuses cIemency to Debs.

Washington. = Recommendation by
the department of justice that the ten
year sentence of Eugene V. Debs, long
prominent Socialist leader, and now
serving ten-year sentence at Atlanta
for violation of the war time espionage
laws, be committed. effective Febru-
airy II, Lincolns birthday, was rejected
on Monday by President Wilson and
communication refused.