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Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Taft Takes
SeatinHigh
Former President Becomes
Head Of U. S. Supreme
Court - Sworn in BY
Justice Mckenna.
Calls at White House

Washington, Oct. 5.-Administra-
ton OF the judicial oath to William
Howard TAFT, the new chies Justice
Of the United States. marked the re-
eonyening today Of the supreme
court for the regular fall term.
The oath was administered 10 Mr..
TAFT, who thereby became the first
chief justice to have previously oc-
cupied the highest executive offices
in the nation by the senior as
soc;ate justice, Joseph McKenna.
Age-Old Ceremony.
The administration OF the judicial
oath, the final step in the induction
OF new chief justice, was attended
by all of the age-old ceremony at
tached to the nations highest tri-
bunal. The oath binds the chief
justice ito administer justice with
out respect to persons and do equal
right to the poor and the rich"
The chief justice and the associate
justices at the conclusion OF the cere-
lHoNutS lO'iOWCO lIiC CStdDlISi!Su GUS
tom and went to the White House
10 pay their respects TO the president.
The president received the justices
in the residential section OF the
White House. The reception was
brief.
Clerk of Court Chosen.
Selection OF William S. Stans-
burg OF Washington, D. c., as clerk
OF the court was decided on today
and will be announced tomorrow.
Arguments on unargued cases
pending before the court will be
started tomorrow with two impor-
tant cases listed. One of these is
the appeal of the associated bill post
ers and distributors OF the United
States ard Canada, which has been
before the court for a number of
years.
One of the most important labor
cases now before the court will be
the second to be urged under the
present program. 1t is an appeal
brought by the American steel foun-
dries involving the right OF organ
;zed labor to engage in picheting to
promote a strike at the company's
plant at Granite City, Ill.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
100000 Men Are
On ArmyPayroll
OF a Countries
China Leads World With
100000 Soldiers, While
France Is Second and
United States Thirteenth.

Washington, Oct. 3.-(By the AS
sociated Press.).-Active armies OF
the IA most important nations OF
the world today include on pay
100000 men, according to figures
obtained here and regarded as
reasonably correct. With the in
clusion of land armaments in the
agenda of the forthcoming confer
ence on limitation OF ornaments.
these are the figures with which it
is expected the assembled commits
sioners will have to deal.
While China stands first among
the nations in this summary of SOL
diers actually under arms about
September ! last, being credited
with 100000 active troops.
France is Second.
France is far ahead among nations
not distressed by civil strife, in the
number of men with the colors. The
French army strength is placed at
l,034,000 men, the British empire
standing next with 740,500 and Ger
many last with 100000. The United
States stands thirteenth with 10000
men in the regular army, exceeding
cnly Germany, while Italy has $780,
600 and Japan 100000 active troops.
In considering problems con.
nected with attempted reduction of
armed forces ashore, it is to be as
sumed, however, that the Washing
ton conferees will of necessity take
into consideration many other fac
tors than the forces actually under
arms in computing the army
strength of any nation for purposes
of discussion. Reserve systems, the
extent to which reserves have been
organized for quick mobilization
and the degree of training they have
received ali would be reviewed by
technical experts.
U. S. Demobilized.
The United States at present has
nothing in the way of organized re-
serves behind the regular army ex-
cept the national guard, the move
ment for organization of a volun-
tary reserve having just been started.
One thing clearly established by
these army figures, military experts
said, was that the United States
alone among the victor nations in
the war seems to have completely
demobilized,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04

New York. Oct. 5.-The old
spheroid known as the earth is
emerging IRON what human diagnos-
ticians might call a severe attack OF
meteorological mumps. II has been
accompanied by an intermittent
fever. manifested in a worldwide
heat wave OF unusual length and in
tensity. In spite OF crisis and re-
lapses - earthquakes, tidal waves,
cloudbursts. typhoons, waterspouts,
hailstorms. floods and hurricanes in
many widely separated parts, from
kamtehatka to Cape Horn. and from
Guam 10 Guadalupe. the doctors are
confident the patient will recover.
Meanwhile, the United States for
last year has been suffering chiefly
from an excess OF high temperature
and deficiency OF moisture, a con-
di,ion unprecedented in the 50 years
history OF the weather bureau. From
January to September % last, the
temperature of New York City,
which is typical OF the country, has
shown an aggregate excess Of
warmth OF 900 degrees above nor
NAL, while there has been shortage
OF OH inches in rainfall. The great
est amount of September precipita-
ton was in 1882. when. more than
l4H inches fell, and the least for that
month occurred two years later, with
only is OF an inch.
Higher Temperatures.
The persistent higher tempera-
lures, for which a number of speu
lative explanations have been given.
began in August. 1920. and for the
succeeding II months there was an
average monthly excess above nor
NAL OF 3.4 degrees. March, 1921,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Third Defendant in
Kaber Murder on Trial

Cleveland, O., Oct. 5.-The trial
Of Marian McArdle. charged with
the first degree murder of Daniel
Kaber, her stepfather, was set for
today. She is the third to be tried,
Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber, her
mother, and Salvatore Gala, serving
lie sentences for the crime.
The girls knowledge of the plot
to kill Kaber. which, also involved
Mrs. Mary Brickle. her 69-year-old
grandmother, will be admitted by the
defense. according to Francis w.
Poulson, associate counsel for Miss
McArdle, but general denial that
she participated in the murder con-
sp:racy will be offered.
That Miss McArdle's devotion to
her mother prevented her from in
terferin9 with or disclosing any de-
tails of the plot will be one of the
pleas offered. Attorney Poulson said
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Yucatan Residents
March to Mexico CITY

Mexico City, Oct. 3.-The long
journey OF more than 500 men,
women and children from their far
off homes in the, state of Yucatan to
Mexico City, where they hope to
plead their case in person before
President Obregon, ended last night
with the arrival here OF this inpov-
erished band. 70
Economic conditions, they ex-
planned, are so hard that wholesale
migration to other parts Of Mexico
from Yucatan was deemed desirable.
President Obregcn is said to have
interested himself personally and has
ordered all possible relief measures
and a further investigation of the
Yucatan situation.
The clashes among the socialists
themselves and between the radicals
and conservatives are frequently re-
ported from Yucatan and the news
papers almost daily cali attention to
the extremely unsatisfactory situation
there,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Cotton Production Is
But "a Per Cent Normal

Washington, Oct. 3.-Cotton pro-
duction this year was forecas, today
ate g, 200 equivalent 500-,b bales
by the Department of Agriculture,
basing its estimate on the condition
OF the crop September 4, which was
24:5 of normal, indicating a yield Of
1850 pounds per acre.
New Orleans, La, Oct. 3.-The
flnal report today of the season by
the Department of Agriculture on
the condition of the growing crop
of cotton cracked the cotton market
wide open and in FIVE minutes of
trading, following the issuance of the
figures of Az. prices were 200 points,
or $40 bale off from the highest Of
the morning. the extreme Of huctua-
tions in one session allowed under
the rules OF the cotton exchange,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04

Earth Rallies From Attack
of Meteorological Mumps
Scientists Urr,s ount for Series of Quakes
Flood syyN - NsN % in Last Two Years. But
.,o .,sN Ierrestial Ball Well on
iV'N Way to Recovery.

an unusually warm spring month
had an excess average OF l0.8 de
grees. The first slight break in III,
record occurred last August, which
was slightly below normal.
The average temperature for April
l92l-s5 degrees-was the warmes,
for that month in half entury. May
and June were not unusual, but July
broke all records for the preceding
II years.
Weather bureau officials here de-
clined to discuss the possible con-
nection' between the present high
temperatures and disasters OF ma
ture in many parts OF the world II
was recalled. however, that when the
volcanic eruption OF Krakatoa. a
small island in the Malay archipelago
in the Sunda strait, between Sumatra
and Java. occurred in the summer OF
1883, the most violent of its kind in
modern times, two-thirds OF the
island was blown away, and 10000
people perishcd in tidal wave pro-
PEELED as far as the English channel.
On this occasion, dust from the vol
canic ashes was carried around the
world, and for days, IN many parts,
cool temperatures prevailed. owing
to the obstruction OF the suns rays.
Some of the dust from Krakatoa was
suspended in layers in the upper at
mosphere for years.
List Of Disasters.
Now. whether the worldwide heat
wave is due TO some terrible pa
roxysm of nature, such as volcanic
action, in some remote region Of the
earth, or seismic upheaval in the
depths Of some unknown seat. or
whether it is due to sun spots or
Turn to Page Two. Column Two.)
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Nine Children Arrested as
Dope Peddlers in New York

New York, Oct. 3.-Nine children
from IL to IS years old, who were
used by adults to peddle drugs on
the streets, were among the 2,488 ar
rests made by the police narcotic di-
vision during the first nine months
of 1921. Special Deputy Commits
sicner Carleton Simon, in his re,
port to Police Commissioner En-
right yesterday stated that the num-
Der OF arrests had established the
tremendous growth of the narcotic
evil in New York City.
Five dollars, he said, was the aver
age delivery cost for drugs for those
with the habit. He figured that the
division by its activities had deprived
the drug peddlers of an income OF
$1,000 a day. or $5.000.000 yearly.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
De Valera Not to Take Part
In Negotiations for Peace

Dublin, Oct, Shy The Asso-
ciated Press.)-The Sim Fein dele
cation to the conference in London,
beginning October II, which will ex-
plore possibilities of the Irish situa-
ton with view to definite settle
ment, will leave Dublin next Mon
day, October 10, it was announced
here today.
Eamonn De Valera will not be one
Of the Sim Fein delegates and will
not go to London in connection with
the conference, according to Des-
mond Fitzgerald, Sim Fein minister
OF propaganda.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Jury Chosen to Try
James Saxton For
Murder Of F ogg

Impaneiing OF jury for the Fogg
murder trial in District Judge
Troup's court was completed at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Open
ing speeches OF the attorneys for the
state were postponed until this morn
ing.
During the entire process Of Sc
curing the jury, which started early
in the morning, James Saxton, q,
charged with the murder Of Frank
w. Fogg, sat near his mother, Mrs.
Matte SaAton. of Lebanon, Mo.
Miss Adelaid Fogg, the dancer.
daughter OF the murdered man, who
offered $1,000 reward for the cap
turc and conviction of the bandit who
shot and killed her father, also was
il the court room.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Former Lion Bonding Head
And Bank Building Promo
ters Face Embezzlc-
ment Charges.
SIX MEN AND WOMAN
ARE TAKEN in CUSTODY
Curney Freed on $4,000
Bond-Two Shafer Broth.
ers Kept in Jail Over
Night.

Six men and one woman wers
taken into custody OF Sheriff Mich
ael Clark yesterday afternoon as the
first result OF the Douglas county
grand jury's indictment OF more
than 90 persons, 80 of whom were
charged with offenses in connection
with irregular stock selling or finan.
cial schemes. Others are to be ar.
rested today and tomorrow.
These Arrested.
The list OF those arrested included
three whose activities have been
known throughout the state. II fol-
lows:
E. r. Gurney, former president
of the now defunct Lion Bonding
& Surety Co., one time head OF
the First National bank of Fre-
mont, Neb., and until recently an
influential stockholder in 80 out
state banks, charged with embez.
element on three counts
Marion F. Shafer, president, and
Ward E. Shafer, vice president of
the American Bank Building COM
pany, former officers of the Amer
ican State bank and of the now
defunct M. F. Shafer Printing
company, charged in three indict-
ments with ernbezzlement, conspir-
acy to embezzle and aiding and
abettinR a felony,
Samuel H. Grace, for 80 years a
labor union official in Omaha,
charged with embezzlement in
connection with the Shafer trans
action.
Sam B. Musser, president Of the
American Brokerage & Develop
rnent company, and Miss Ruth G.
Strickland, his stenographer,
charged with obtaining money un-
der false pretenses.
Skaters First Taken to Court.
The Skaters were the first to bs
arrested, following the grand jury's
final report. They were taken to the
sherifi's office at II o'clock. From
that time until E o'clock in the eve.
ming, they made desperate efforts to
get bond. While they sat in the sher.
ifs office, their attorneys were busy,
but without avail. At E o'clock they
were required to 60 to the jailer's
office, but were not placed in cell.
Bond was fixed at $4,000 each.
Gurney Gives Himself Up.
E. r. Grrney, president of the
now defunct Lion Bonding & Surety
gave himself up voluntar.
!ly late in the afternoon after he
had read that the grand jury had
made investigation of the affairs Of
his company. He quickly obtained
bond of $4,000 and was released. He
s charged on three separate indict-
nents with cmbezzlenient in con-
(Turn to Page Two. Column One.)
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Little Progress
Made on Tax Bill
By Upper House
Amendment Requires All Per.
sons With $1,000 Salaries
To File Returns Regard
less of Net Income.

Washington, Oct. 8. 3.-Compara-
lively little progress on the tax re-
vision bill was made today by the
senate. The most important COM
mittee amendments reached, those
proposing a tax Of is per cent on
corporations and increasing exemp-
tions to heads of families having net
incomes of less than $4,000 and on
account of dependents, were passed
over a second time.
Committee amendments agreed to
included those requiring individuals
having gross income OF $4,000 a
year to make a return regardless of
the amount of the net income, and
permitting the taxpayer to make a
reduction for debts ascerrained to be
worthless and charged off within a
taxable year.
Several amendments were pro-
posed from the floor. Senator King.
democrat, Utah, offered a substitute
for his previous income surtax
amendment under WHICH the maxi
mum rate would be 40 per cent of
that portion of the income in excess
of $4,000. The rate on the first
$1,000 of net income would be 2 per
cent; on the next $1,000 3 per ccent;
on the next $1,000, 4 per cent, with
an increase of per cent for each
additional $1,000 up to $1,000. Then
the rate would be increased per
cent for each ADDITIONAL $1,000.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
proposed that deductions be allowed
corporations for rents received from
buildings of any character to the ex-
tent of E per cent "of the fair market
value of such buildings and the land
on which they stand"
Repeal of the freight, passenger
and Pullman taxes which was pro-
posed by Senator Harris, democrat,
Gcorgia, who gave notice that he
" ould offer an amendment propos-
ing that where income is derived
from the labor or personal service
of the individual taxpayer. the rate
on the first $4,000 should be 2 per
cent, that on the second $4,000. 4 per
cent,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Harvester Head
Admits Wife and
HeLiving Apart
Mrs. Harold Mccormick, al
Chicago Home After Eight
Years Absence, Denies
Report of Separation.
Chicago Tribune. .omah. bee Le..ed Wire

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Chicago, Oct. 3.-"Mr. Harold
Mccormick presents his compliments
and begs to announce that the re-
port that he and his wife are living
apart is true"
This message was given out by the
butler at the McCormick's Lake
Forest home this morning. Mr..
Mccormick, president of the Inter-
national Harvester company, spent
the night there.
Mrs. Mccormick, daughter of John
D. Rockefeller and patroness Of the
arts in Chicago, is staying at the
Chicago residence, 1000 Lake Shore
drive. She returned to this city yes
terday after an absence Of eight
years in Switzerland, where she was
a pupil of the famous psychologist,
DR.. Carl Jung, at Zurich.
She drove from her Lake Shore
drive residence to the Drake hotel
early this morning, stopped at the
hote! for few moments and en-
tered her car aagin and drove away.
She said she had nothing to add to
her previous statements that there
was no truth in the reports that she
and her husband were contemplating
divorce.
With Mr.. Mccormick on her re-
turn to the city were her daughter,
Muriel, DR.. Josef Hartmann, one Of
the Jung school psychologists, a
nurse and several servants. Mr.. Nc
Cormick also arrived here yester-
day from New York, but on another
train.
The fact that they did not come
to Chicago ON the same train, al
though it had previously been an
nounced that they would do so,
caused comment among their friends.
because OF the previous rumors of
a separation which have been re-
peatedly denied, -
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Grand Jury
Will Probe
Klan Riot
Inquisitorial Body Will Be
Convened as Soon as Wound.
ed Recover Sufficiently.
To Testify.
Three Critically Hurt

Waco, Tex, Oct. J.-Dehni.e an
nouncement was expected here to-
day o. the date when the Fifty-fourtfi
district grand jury will be called to
reconvene for investigation OF the
fight at Lorena, ~ miles south OF
here, Saturday night. following an
a.,emp. by Sheriff Bob Buchanan OF
McLennan county to halt Ku Klux
Klan parade, resulting in probable
fatal wounds 10 three men and seri-
ous injury OF seven Others.
Following conference with Coun-
ty Attorney r. B. TREY after the
latter had refused the demands of a
committee OF approximately 100 Lo-
rcna citizens that he file complaints
against Sheriff Buchanan and his
deputy, N. Burton. for their partici-
patton in the encounter, Judge r. /.
Monroe announced that the grand
jury would be called without delay.
He declared, however, that the in
quiry should not be ordered until the
wounded had sufficiently recovered
to enable them to testify.
Late last night those undergoing
treatment at local hospitals were re-
ported as resting we'll" with Sheriff
Buchanan, Louis Crow, proprietor of
a local laundry. and Ed Howard still
in a critical condition.
Warnings Issued.
Warnings signed "K. K. K" were
posted in Lorcna last night, follow
ing the rioting of Saturday night, in
which Sheriff Bob Buchanan of Nc
Lcnaan county and nine other per-
sons were wounded when the sheriff
attempted to stop parade through
the main street of the town.
Notices posted read as follows:
wife Beaters Beware" T..
"Crap Shooters Beware; Our Eyes
are on YOU"
Love thy Neighbor as Thyself.
but Leave his Wife Alone" ..-
Chicken Thieves Look Out, We
Are After you" .-e
Two factions are rapidly forming
in the county, il is said. with the
apps-c1tlr backing the
sheriff in his fight against the klans-
men. Governor Pat M. Neif took
,and in the situation Sunday when
lie made inquiries OF County Attor-
ley TREY, asking the prosecutor if
my assistance was needed in ham
ling the affairs.
The attitude of those who back
Sheriff Buchanan and his deputies in
their efforts to stop the parade is
that all Texans stand for law and
order without the assistance OF
masked men. Those who are support
ng the klansmen explain their at
.itude in a petition circulated today.
part OF which is as follows:
I'VE conclude by affirming our be-
lief in the preservation OF America
:or Americans, and by offering
ribute to the little band Of men who
night showed, by their
aim and determined action, that
heir lives supported this principle.
Ne do not believe that the members
# the Ku Klux Klan who staged the
parade violated the law"
The clash took place. according |
o reports, when Sheriff Buchanan,
With Deputies Burton and. Wood, at
empted to disperse the marching
Klansmen who were masked and
'obed. after they had refused to di-
,ulge their identity. The sheriff had
lgreed to permit the parade to be
,eld, he declared, if they would al.
ow him to identify those participat-
trurn to Page Two. Column Eight.)
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
'ifeULsedPoison
Flypaper to Kill
Husband, Charge
Prosecutor Says He Has Evi.
dence to Show Mrs. Lydia
Southland Poisoned Three
Other Mates.

Twin Falls, Ida, Oct. 3.-Poi.
son flypaper supplied the theme
about which was woven the stories
Of the first two witnesses OF the
state to testify in the case Of Ly-
dia Meyer Southard, charged with
the murder Of Edward F. Meyer, a
former husband, by means of poison
secured from soaking pieces of the
paper in water and administered in
her husbands food.
The opening statement by Prose-
cutting Attorney Frank L. Stephan,
delivered Immediately following the
securing of a jury to try the case.
did rot 20 outside the case Of the
death of Meyer, although Stephan
has stated that he is prepared TO SUBJ
NIT evidence showing her to be re-
sponsible for the death OF three
other husbands and broter Of one
OF these, the alleged crime in each
instance being committed by means
of poison derived from flypaper.
Few Spectators Present.
Only small number of specta-
tors were present when the first
witness for the state, Mrs. Carrie
Howe of Muscatine, Ia, boarding
house keeper at the Blue Lakes
ranch at the time of the death of
Meyer, told of the defendant bring
ing the flypaper to the ranch and
setting it about the boarding house
in saucers of water. She described
in detail the illness of Meyer and
the events leading up to his death,
told of conversations with the de-
fendant in which she advised the
calling of physician and the de-
fendants reply that "she would call
doctor and then no one would
have anything to say"
She testified that following the re-
moval OF Meyer from the ranch to
a Twin Falls hospital, she found two
packages Of the flypaper in a drawer
in a small commode underneath
some papers in the room occupied by
the Meyers. She also found daisy"
fly killer under the bed in the room. |
That the defendant also told the
witness that she did not love her
husband as wife should, was tes-
titled to by Mrs. Howe.
Ranch Manager Testifies.
Granville Haight, manager of the
ranch upon which Meyer was en,-
ployed as foreman up to the time
Of his last illness. told of CONVEX
sations with both the deceased and
his wife He stated that he was pres
ent when the flypaper was discov-
cred in the drawer OF the commode
and identified certain marks placed
thereon at the time he turned over
the flypaper to Deputy Sheriff Orms-
by, when the latter first entered upon
his long investigation of the Meyer
death.
He testified in detail regarding
his endorsement Of a purchase note
on an automobile previously ac-
quired by the then Mrs. Meyer,
which note was signed by the de
fendant as Mrs. McHaffie, although
this was subsequent to her marriage
to Meyer. The relationship between
Meyer and his wife while at tn.
ranch he described as more that OF
companions than of husband and
vile.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-10-04
Wife of Wealthy Importer
Dies From Mysterious Cause

Morristown, N. J., Oct. 3.-Dying
from all overdose of a sleeping
powder and with both wrists
slashed, Mrs. Paul c. Zuhlke, wife OF
wealthy New York importer and
exporter, who had been missing
since Thursday, was found Saturday
night in barn on the Zuhlke es-
tate near Madison. it became known
today. Mrs. Zuhkie died a, few nlin-
utes al ar being found.