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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
SMALL GIVES Up
PLAN To FIGHT
ARRANGEMENT
Illinois Governor Accedes to
Wishes of Family and Will
Face Early Trial.
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON.
international New. Service.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Aug. IL
The sudden collapse OF the war"
plans of Gov. Len Small of Illinois
was due to family -/"pressure," it
was learned here today.
The Governor, 1t was reported,
has abandoned all plans to delay his
trial on charges Of misusing s2,50O,-
900 in State interest funds and to test
the legality of his arrest. In this
decision the Governor entirely ignor-
ed the wishes of his legal advisers
He finally surrendered, his intimates
said, to the pleas of Mrs. Small and
members of the family.
Strain Hard on Family.
The strain of his legal difficulties
on members of his family, it was
said, had seriously concerned the
Governor. Since the issuance of
bench warrants for the Governor s
arrest Mrs. Small has gone into re-
tirement at the family home in
Kankakee.
The governor, through counsel,
late yesterday accepted the offer OF
States Attorney Mortimer to a charge
of venue from this county. The ac-
ceptance was based on four clauses.
the principal one OF which retained
the right to file any future action
on any phase of the case excepting
change OF venue.
All four clauses were accepted by
the States attorney I'm u reply made
public here The State attorney
declared his first offer had held
no catch" the governors counsel
having taken exception TO certain
wording.
Attorney to Nape County.
Mortimer also agreed to the GOV
ernor's suggestion that attorneys for
both sides agree upon another county
in which the case shall be tried.
He announced that Judge Z. 4.
Smith, who issued the bench war
rants for Small's arrest, would ,iesig.
nate the circuit Judge to decide the
petition for a change of venue. This
petition will be heard Tuesday, Sep
tember 6. The jurist will be either
Frank r. Burton or Judge Norman
l.. Jones.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
THEFT Of STEEL
ON RING;
I MEN ARRESTED
Metals Valued at Hundreds of
Thousands Reported Stolen
BY Detroit Band.

DETROIT, Aug. IA steel.theft
four States, has been discovered In
Detroit with the arrest of seven men,
police announced today.
A half dozen other suspects will be
in custody by tonight, they say.
The ring is charged with stealing
metals valued at several hundred
thousand dollars from Detroit and
Clevealnd steel concerns and selling
them in competition with the con-
Germs from which they were stolen.
The men under arrest are:
Hyman Kramer, an officer of the
Wayne Steel Sales Company.
Rueben Kramer and Sam Kramer,
brothers of Lyman.
William Newton, yard superinten-
dent of the Union Drawn Steel com-
pany.
Albert LANCER. a railway yard fore
man.
Earl Miller.
Ben Cohen, of Cohen & Kunsky,
scrap metal dealers.
Charles Searle, a detective. saw
men loading steel on a truck in the
yards OF the Union Drawn steel
Company at o'clock Tuesday morn.
ing and investigated. with the result
that within twenty-four hours police
had records of the operation of the
alleged ring.
Branch offices were maintained in
Cleveland and Toledo to arrange for
the sale of metals, 1t is charged.
Police say they found $4,000 worth
of tool steel, Identified as stolen from
the Union Drawn Steel Company, In
a yard connected with the Kramer
brothers plant at Twenty-fifth and
h streets.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
By DAVID O'CONNELL.

news Service
DUBLIN, Aug. 1.-THE Irish
peace negotiations were brought to
the point of absolute collapse today
when Eamon de Valera, speaking in
the Sim Fein parliament, announced
that the English peace offer would
be rejected. Dali Eireann (the Sim
Fein parliament), will draw up count
er-proposals which will be forwarded
to Premier Lloyd George. De Va
lera's announcement that the English
offer could not be accepted. and that
England had never offered Ireland
dominion status, caused tremendous
sensation.
Order TO Army Issued.
Next In importance to de Valera s
history-making speech was a general
order to the officers and men of the
Irish republican army, saying:
"A republic exists in Ireland now
and always will"
Sim Fein soldiers were told to be
In readiness to make greater sacri-
fices than they bad in the past IL
war is resumed
The separation of Ireland from the
rest OF the United Kingdom dates
from January 2, 1921, de Valera
said. He added
The Irish people, l know. will not
finch now because the British in
Ireland have sent for more arms"
DE Nelera added:
IF this question is settled there
r1 a
The only enmity is toward British
rule in Ireland. The Irish hate to
the marrow of its bones the so-called
Irish problem. A powerful and self.
ish person wishing to encroach upon
the rights, property and freedom of
his neighbor-that typifies the funda-
mental problem ut issue.
Hearers Stunned by Speeches.
De Nalera's announcement that the
peace negotiations with England were
off came like a thunderclap and tho
spectators sat silent and easping for
"a moment. Then handclapping and
cheering rang through the chamber.
Parliamentary officers tried vainly TO
restore order.
At the beginning of his speech Dc
Velera was plainly agitated and hesi-
tate1 at times. As he proceeded he
grew calmer.
Says Irish Won't BE Fooled.
I'VE cannot and will not accept the
English peace terms" said De Valera.
"The Irish people are not going TO lie
fooled this time. Ireland has not
been offered dominion status. The
Almighty placed Ireland as the neigh
Dor of Britain and the Irish desired
to be neighborly, and II Britain were
wise she would be friendly. We do
not desire to close up Englands
routes To the sea.
I'VE are prepared to make any
sacrifices toward Ulster TO make Ire
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
MAN SLUGGED IN CAFE
AND ROBBED OF $4,000

NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Blackja jack
ed by two men while eating I'm a
restaurant at Jamaica avenue and
Ninety.fourth street, Woodhaven,
Israel Cooper, junior member OF the
firm of Kantor Cooper, jobbers OF
watches in Maiden Lane, was robbed
of more than $4,000 worth of
watches. The men jumped into an
automobile and, although police and
citizens in other cars gave chase, got
away.
Cooper was taken TO the Jamaica
Hospital with a possible fracture of
the skull.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
KU KLUx is ORGANIZED
IN CHICAGO BY 2,376

CHICAGO, Aug. 17.-Details of
Chicago's first Ku Klux Klan initia.
tion, in which 1876 men were madp
members of the order, became known
here today.
The initiation, conducted with weird
rites and much secrecy. was held on a
prairie thirty-four miles from the cltv
while a drizzling rain fell on the white
robed figures. The Klansmen stood
ankle deep in mud and slush and
ghostly fires burned as the neophyteo
took the oath of allegiance to the
invisible empire"
A procession of 1000 automobiles
carried the Klansmen TO the scene OF
the initiation, more than 1000 white
robed men participating.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
BERCDOll STILL ABSENT:
MAY HAVE FLED BADEN

BERLIN, Aug. 17.-Grover Cleve.
land Bergdoll, the millionaire Ameri-
can draft dodger. who disappeared
from his home in Eberbach. Baden,
last week, was still missing today and
his friends and relatives said they had
received no word from him.
lt Is believed at Eberbach that
Bergdoll has fled from the country. He
was last seen in a high powered auto
mobile riding towards the Swiss from
tier.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
FE|N
IS ORDERED
TOPREPARE
FOR ACTION
Dali Eireann Cheers as De Va
Iera Rejects Peace Terms.
Won't Be Fooled Again"

LONDON, Aug. 1.-So delicate
Is the new Irish peace situation;
created BY EamoDp de yaIera's rep
udiation OF the Ehgiish offer that
the plan OF tIs British cabinet to
have Premier INf George make
q public :! tea \ tile House Of
Commons this afternoon was can
celled mt the last minute.
Austen Chamberlain, spokesman
Tor the government, said:
1t is not desirable that any
statement on Ireland should be
made here today"
LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE critical
Irish situation was reviewed by the
British cabinet just before noon.
IL was understood that Premier
Lloyd-George decided to make 3
statement to the House Of Com
mons later In the day. Official cir
cles are pessimistic over the latest
developments at Dublin.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
Mrs. Obenchain, Held in Con-
nection With Killing, Battles
To Prevent Search.
by international News Service.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1.-THE
Staying of J. Belton Kennedy,
wealthy California insurance broker,
at his mountain bungalow several
days ago, today developed into a
real trunk mystery, when Ralph
Obenchain. former husband Of the
beautiful Northwestern University
coed. held in connection with the
case. frantically tried to stop local
detectives from examining her bag
gage for evidence that might COLI
meet her with the case.
Trunk Traced to Hotel.
Police traced a trunk sent to Mrs.
Obenchsin from San Francisco to n
local hotel and announced their in
tention Of examining it's contents.
Obenchain instructed the hotel man.
agement to refuse to turn the trunk
over to the police and today sought
an injunction TO foil the detectives
in that direction.
Although detectives would give out
nothing definite regarding clues they
expected to find in the trunk. II was
limited they expected it's examination
would reveal letters between Mrs.
Obenchain and Arthur c. ,Burch, a
former sweetheart. who also is held
in connection with the case on a
charge of murder, which would
form definite and connecting link.
Defense Engaging Lawyers.
Plans for procuring legal aid for
Burch and Mrs. Obenchain are rapidly
being formulated, 1t was said today.
and announcement of the names of
attorneys who will represent the de-
PENDANTS probably will be made this
afternoon or tonight.
Obenchain asserted he is salts
fled with the evidence he is OBJ.
tanning and that he had found wit
nesses whose testimony will. 'if
substantiated, clear Mrs. obenchain
and Burch."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17-Miss
Gertrude NJ. Fisher of Melrnse
Park, proclaimed six years ago by
a jury of photographers as 'ths
most beautiful girl in America"
and who received a bale of pro-
posals of marriage and offers OF
tooth paste and automobiles in con
sequence. is engaged. She has. 1t
is announced. accepted Carl l..
Lauber, jr., a soft drink manu-
facturer OF Philadelphia.
Miss Fisher did not seek the pub
licity she received, and protested
vigorously that she was not even
the most beautiful girl in the city,
much less the entire country. She
declined all the offers, although the
list included bankers. lawyers. bus
mess men. heirs to large fortunes,
a major in the army and a news
paper editor
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
FARMER sLAYS WIFE,
HER MOTHER, AND SELF

HOPKINSVILLE, KY, Aug. H.
After fatally shooting his nineteen
year-old wife. and her mother, Mrs.
Herland Durham, Garvey McCord,
young farmer. swallowed carbolic acid
before deputies sent to arrest him
could prevent his act.
The tragedy took place at the Dur
ham home, ten miles from here, late
yesterday. Details reached here to-
dny. Family troubles are said to have
been the cause.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
CHINESE LIQUOR FREED;
TOO BITTER TO DRINK

CHICAGO, Aug. 17.-One hundred
cases of Ng.Ka.Py, a Chinese liquor.
valued at $4,000, was ordered release /
today by Roy ID. Haynes, prohibition
commissioner at Washington. The
liquor was seized by revenue agents
here.
Federal agents who tasted IL de.
clared the liquor was too bitter to be
consumed by occidentals as a bever.
age. Haynes ordered that future ship.
ments must be medicated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
TODAY

United States is the official count.
This means less income, harder
struggling for those that would
divide the earnings of millions
idle, from doctors to moving pic
ture houses, and from washwomen
to street car companies.
Government is concentrating its
mind, earnestly, on the problem,
"How can we reduce taxes on the
incomes Of the prosperous ?"
The question, How can we con-
tinue the incomes Of the less pros
porous ?' deserves attention.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
Practiced Law in ID. e..
GREEKS ADVANCE As MILES
IN NEW DRIVE ON TURKS

ATHENS, Aug. 1.-THE new often
sive of the Greeks against the Turk
ish Nationalists continues in full
swing. Official dispatches from
Smyrna today reported the Greeks
have advanced forty-five miles east
OF Eski-Shehr. They are meeting
but slight resistance in their encirN
cling drive against Angora-the Turk
ish Nationalist capital-from the
south.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
cox's CONFIRMATION URGED
FOR !. c. C. BY SENATE

The Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee, in executive session to-
day. voted to report favorably to the
Senate the nomination Of Frederick
I, Cox, Of New Jersey, as a member
of the Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion.
Cox Is to fill the place made
vacant by the resignation of Chair
man Edward f. Clark.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
POLISH ATTACK REPORTED
FOILED IN UPPER SIlESIA

BERLIN, Aug. 17.-Polish regulars
attacked the Upper Silesian border
towns of Sternowitz and Dosterlitz. but
were repulsed by the inhabitants, ac-
cording to an unconfirmed report cir
culated today by the Wolff Bureau.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
Leaps in Front of Train.

BOSTON, Aug. 17.-An unidentified
man leaped to his death In front OF a
subway train at the Summer street
station here today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17
RENT BILL TRUNK CLUE
HEARINGS|N KENNEDY
TOMORROW CASE FOUND
Ball Act Appears Assured of
Speedy Passage Through
House.

Speedy passage by the House of
the Ball rent act, passed by the
Senate yesterday, was forecast to-
day when the House District Com
mittee voted to begin hearings on
the rent bill at a special session
called for 8 o'clock tomorrow nignt.
Special Meeting.
The committee. although no quorum
was present, voted to hold a special
meeting at $40 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing for final consideration of the
Woods railway bill. II is predicted
the bill will be reported out.
Efforts will be made 10 conclude the
rent hearings before Saturday and
have the bill reported favorably to the
House at least by Monday. This will
allow three days for passage before
adjournment. and House leaders will
probably call up the bill Immediately
for vote.
The meeting of the House District
Committee lasted for less than half an
hour this morning. The committee
disposed of a bill to close a part of
upper Water Street, near Potomac
Park. by reporting favorably on it.
The part of the street that is closed
is directly in front of the site for the
proposed s1.500,000 building OF the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences.
Hearings to Start.
Notification that rent hearings
would begin were sent to the Wash
ington real estate board. this morning
by Congressman Benjamin Focht,
chairman of the House District Com
mittee. Members OF the committee
said they would know definitely to-
morrow night whether 1t would be
possible to report out the bill this
week.
The rent bill, as passed by the SEN
ate by a vote of 38 to s. extends the
life Of the District rent commission
for seven months beginning October
%, when the present law expires. This
will give the commission power to regu-
late rents during the time when thou
sands Of people are in Washington at
tending or watching the events CEN
tering about the disarmament confer
ence.
Senator Pomerene Of Ohio. who
vigorously supported the bill in the
Senate yesterday, declared that land.
lords in anticipation that the rent bill
would not pass, were preparing notices
of Ieviction and increased rent. The
debate on the bill was very short, only
four speeches being made, two against
and two in favor of the act.
If the bill should fail to be re-
ported to the House before the ad-
journment there is still hope for it's
passage. When the House recon
venes late in September, after its re-
cess, the rent bill no doubt will be
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17

DECREE IS
BASED ON
DESERT ION
Former Lucille Bacon Accused
Son Of Ex-District Judge
With Fleeing His Home.

RENO, New, Aug. 17.-Mrs. Lu-
cille Bacon Penfield, former ID. C.
society girl, whose marriage to
Walter Scott Penfield, also of
Washington, was a notable event in
Omaha, Neb., society a few years
ago, has been granted a decree Of
divorce in the district court of
Washoe county at Reno.
Charged Desertion.
Charges of desertion were made by
Mrs. Penfieid In her papers asking q
separation. In her testimony she re-.
vealed the situation as a case OF in.
compatibility.
While the Penfields were at Swamp
scott, a watering place IN. Massachu.
setts, in 1920, Mrs. Penfield said, MIR.
Penfield packed his clothes and left.
Living apart from his wife appealed
to him. Penfield wrote later. He said
he liked the experiment and had made
up his mind not to return to his home.
Mrs. Penfield appealed to him, she
testified, on numerous occasions to re-
turn to her and resume marriage rela-
tons, but he persistently refused.
Mother-in.Law Got Child.
A property settlement was effected,
Mrs. Penfield testified, and an agree
ment was reached with reference to
their old daughter, Viz
ginia.
Under the terms of the agreement,
which was approved by the court. the
custody of Virginia is vested in Mrs.
Penfields mother, Mrs. Alice NJ.
Bacon, of Omaha.
Both the father and mother will
have an unlimited right to visit with
their daughter and the father may
have the child for a period of six
months each year. There was no pc
tition for alimony.
seven months ago with Mrs. Macon.
They left Immediately after the decree
was granted for Mrs. Bacon's home in
Omaha.
Practiced Law in ID. e.
Walter Scott Penfield was born in
Auburn, Ind. the son of the late
Judge William l.. Penfield, with whom
he practiced law in Washington for
number Of years. The firm name re-
mains Penfield 4 Penfield.
Mr.. Penfield has made a specially
Of international law. His father was
solicitor in the State Department dur
ing the presidency of William Nc
Kinley.
The Penfield home is at 1908 Cali
fornia street and his offices are in the
Colorado building.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17

More than five million seven
hundred thousand idle men in the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-17

Miss Robertson, Of Oklahoma,
only lady in Congress, will be
very useful persuading other wo-
men to run for Congress to off
set her views. Be it said most
respectfully Miss Robertson rep
resents the female opinion OF The
early General Grant period.
She thinks no woman should
share in the disarmament con-
ference, that women are not quail
fled to discuss such important
questions. Why did SHE run
for Congress'
What about the men' Miss
Robertson says woman, to be fit
for that conference, should he
able to speak several languages
fluently.
President Wilson can speak
only one fluently, but he went to
Paris. For one man in thc
United States, native born, that
can "speak several languages
fluently' there are two or three
women able to do the same.
The disarmament conference
deals with fighting men. Women
produce the fighting men, there
fore the Disarmament conference
Is their conference.
More than five million seven
h,cJv>d <hou,opd idl> MAN L., xh>
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1921-10-14
REAL HEAT IN PHILIPPINES
Travellers Description of Weather
During Some Months Is Not by
Any Means Alluring.

The rainy season is behind time,
and the dear garden burns yellow
brown. 1t is so hot that even the
crickets are still. The long, black
raftered rooms are unendurably warm,
Caroline S. Skunk writes in Asia
Magazine. Smoke from the servants
fire in the yard drifts in over us. The
yellow earth at our back door
stretches, a glaring plain, to meet the
Jungle, which rolls up a rich green
carpet to the "Secret Place Mountain
where, so runs the legend, Negrito
chieftain hid his fayorite wife. There
she died, and, at her request, the dell
cately carved comb that held her long
hair was buried with her. From this
grave, the natives say, grew tree
with leaves like the fine, soft halr
of a woman-the useful and beautlful
bamboo tree.
Out in the yard the women have
ceased their chanting to the beat OF
their washing paddles, to sit around
a chow pot of rice and smoke long,
black cigars. Their sphinx-like faces
have no Illuminating expression, save
when a baby toddles too near the open
fire. Then the look of fear ana love
with which the child is hastlly
snatched away into the arms Oh the
little brown mother includes us for
an instant and Is gone. We are smut
ont In an alien world again. L near
the plant of the Chinese cook: "China
NOT same. Alice samee China poys
90 Too muchee Mclean man." Iheh'
q harsh. clattering word like tin pan
falling from a table-perhaps O'''-
nese swearword!
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1921-10-14
WON THIRD PLACE
KOOtenai Products Exhibited
At State Fair.

nootenai county agricultural
vh,hits won third place at the state
sa,, at Boise, E. Grosvenor, who has
..,., raturued, having been in charge
>, tho exhibits announced Friday.
o,ovon county won first place and
Twin Falls second.
..Taking into consideration tnat
tho nou.irrigated products OF Koote :
40, county competed with the irrigat-
od nroducts of the counties OF Inc
southern part of the state ana won
third place, is 10 my estimation' an
oYcent,onally good showing" Mr.
posrdao said. "And, toe, the counties
no.rhy had fresh products to exhibit
while ours were dried up to certain
ovteot because Of the long distance
wa had TO ship them. Press
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1921-10-14
To Meet at Boise.

Lewiston, Idaho.-The annual
meeting of the Idaho State Teach
ers' association will take place this
year at Boise, November "a, Is
and 26, according to an announce
ment by President C. R. Frazier
of the Idaho Technical institute,
president of the association. This
years meeting will be the largest
in the history of the association,
according to predictions of leading
educators of the state. Among the
outstanding speakers on the
program are Governor Frank 0.
Lowden of Illinois, William g.
McAdoo, and United States Com
missioner of Education j. Tigert.
These nationally prominent
speakers will bring important
messages to the 4, 200 teachers of
the state.
President Frazier has set aside
large section of the program for
the discussion of educational
problems of Idaho. Many matters
of importance are to come up at
this time Of special significance
will be the reports of the various
committees, particularly that OF
the committee on legislation.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1921-10-14

hands cf a receiver bad issued more
than half million dollars worth Of
bonds 10 the state.
That the people of the old New
England states have more trouble
with taxation problems than those Of
The westerns state is the opinion OF
John D. Robertson of the Idaho
budget and taxation department. He
stated at recent meeting OF the
Idaho commissioners that be bad Just
returned from national tax
conference held 10 New Hampshire
and cited one place in Connecticut
where S5 per cent Of the taxes were
used to pay interest and sinking fund
bonded Indebtedness.