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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
DOUBLE CRIME ENDS
M|D-L|FEROMANCE
Aged Chicago Divorce Kills
Comomn Law Husband, Then
Turns on Gas.

CHICAGO, May 10. - Middle ged
romance ended in tragedy here when
the bodies of Mrs. Mabel Thomas, a
Divorce, and Nicholas Miller, wealthy
furniture dealer. were found side by
side in a room in Miller's apartment.
Miller had been shot to death by Mrs.
Thomas, who ended her own life by
inhaling gas.
Miller was forty-f,ve years old. Mrs.
Thomas was past nifty. They had
been living together for eighteen
months.
Before the contamination OF the
tragedy. Mrs. Thomas wrote two let
ters to her friend, Mrs. Estelle
Wright. In them she told how she
and Miller had planned to be married,
but that marriage had become inn
possible because Of Miller's insane
jealousy.
Mrs. Thomas shot Miller in the
back and waited for him to die.
"In less than fifteen minutes he was
gone" she wrote.
After writing the letter she read q
chapter from the Bible. turned ON the
Rss and waited to "toin poor Nick In
heaven, where we will he sweetkenrts,
man and wife, ms we were ON Garth
The bodies were found after Mrs,
Wright took the letters to the police.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
PO|NTSOANGEE
IN TAX POLICY
Exemption Of Municipal Bonds
Leading to U. S. Ownership Of
Utilities, Says Expert.


Taxation policies of the Govern
man, ere ,..s,n. ,.:,
" aN
'reoerai ownership OF public utiii7
ties despite q noIiticaI no,icy
opposed IL s,yrL no,rsa phtIl;n
ri Cad.dar - Ephi,aa.Inh,, aha;r
r,ar a. 49, -
e 'vs.' LA conpoee VI
.no nl"ciNan nectric nAiWay ASso-
ciauoh' the american Gas Associa-
lion ana the National Electric Light
Association, asserted today when he
appeared before the Senate Finance
COMMITTEES IN ,yvRa revision os m,
E.davaI tax "a -. - ,,,ai,,Sa rnh,h,
t,,n 20 arr t..,..c
M ~ . iSSuance VI tAA eAeHr'
SocuIiues.
UTILITIES HANDICAPPED.
"The most serious question which
now confronts public utilities" Cad
Us tneir ipaoiity 10 Sc
49, nv ~pI re-
mem annually IN ccnpep-
a. eae"p. municipal Sc
eu.i'' ~ can pe SHOWN that TAX
paye' vi an Investor VINO pays sur
.aA oI over per cent cannon aiIord
10 invest ms money In pubic utility
securities IN preference TO municipai
securltles
Sadsden pointed out that under the
law, pubic utilities are limited to
return on their investment OF not
more than per cent.
= III IL clear. therefore," he said.
that they cannot issue securities
agreeing to pay more than that
amount for any long time. Unless they
can pay over 3 per cent they cannot
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
pastor CHAMPIONS
|DANCE, PAR|SHSPL|T
| ets Son and Daughter Go to
Balls Because Bible Doesn't
Prohibit 1t.

SYRACUSE, N. Y. May 10.-Be-
cause his own daughter and son
dance. ansi because he declares he
cannot find anything in the Bible to
forbid dancing or card playing, and
so he does not condemn them, the
Rev. James l. Coote. pastor OF the
First Baptist Church of Baldwinsville
for seven years. faces a vote OF the
church membership. A session has
been called for Thursday by the
board OF deacons on the question of
change in the "pastorate."
The attack upon the Rev. Mr.. Coote
has split the congregation into two
camps, but the chances are that the
faction supporting the board Of
deacons will be outvoted, and that
the pastor. one OF the most popular
of his faith in Onondaga County, will
be retained.
NOT PROHIBITED BY BIBLE.
Discussing the controversy occa-
stoned by his refusal to consign those
who dance or play cards to a hell
fire punishment, the Rev. Mr.. Cootc
today said:
81 can see no harm in dancing
Further than that, / can find nowhere
in the Bible that ii is prohibited. il
the Bible were against dancing
time also. This is point where
the church has lost out by falling to
approach the question in sympa-
thetic manner.
Dancing. card playing, billiards.
pool-what picayune matter to
make them such stellar Issues! Per-
sonally / can see no fun in travel
ing ten miles in circles around a
dance floor; but while II may be
foolish, il certainly isn't sinful"
DAUGHTER GOES TO DANCES.
Miss Julie Coote. the pretty daugh-
ter of the minister. has long ATTENDED
dances with her fathers approval.
His son, Robert Coote,-is a junior at
Colgate, where the minister himself
studied.
"If my children desire to dance.
far be 1t from me to forbid them"
said the Rev. Mr.. Coote.
The pastor, whose release is sought
by the board of deacons, has been in
the misistry for twenty-eight years.
Before coming to Baldwinsville seven
years ago, he held charges at
Jamaica, l.. l.. and at Keyport, N. j.
The church at Baldwipsville is ono OF
the OLDEST Baptist congregations in
the vicinity, dating back to 1918.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
MEDICINE BEER HAS
MELLON PUZZLED

The problem of medicinal beer has
the Government in a turmoil today.
Protests against holding up beer
regulations have begun to Hood pro-
hibition officials. Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon is in a Quandary
over the problem.
The only official statement au-
thorized by the Treasury was that
no action can be taken upon the
question until after a new Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue qualities.
The new commissioner will decid.
upon the future policy. 1t was de-
clared.
Government officials today said
that much delay probably will en-
sue before any Confessional action
is possible upon the beer question.
These Officials. including some OF
the legal advisers. strongly pleaded
against further delay in issuing
rules which would authorize manu-
facture and sale of beer as well as
wines for medicinal purposes.
Secretary Mellon has taken per-
sonal charge of the question and
will confer with the new revenue
commissioner in an effort to cettle
squabble which has arisen over
pigeon-holing the regulations.
ou1CldlS nave peen
holding out for long delay on tn.
beer rules, anticipating more re-
strictive legislation by Congress.
Thus far the Treasury has Needed
the advice of these officials that the
regulations should not be issued
when there is prospect that they
will soon be overturned.
The "drys" have not relaxed In
their warfare against the opinion Of
former Attorney General Palmer
legalizing beer and wine sales for
the sicR. They met with success
through positive assurance that pro-
mitigation of the beer rules would
be postponed until Congress decides
the issue.
This assurance given by prohibi-
ton officials had a stimulating ef-
feet upon the "drys." But the sit
uation may be radically altered by
the attitude of higher legal officers
in recent conferences with Secretary
Mellon and his chief assistants in
the Treasury Department.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
All Run Down
Now Feels Fine
Eaf0slic Ended
His Troubles

"Easonic is the only thing I have
hound to stoD my heartburn and I
think It has been q great help in
nervous spells, writes G. @. johnson.
An upset stomach may cause lots
Of suffering oil over the body. Eatonic
helps In such cases by removing the
cause Of the misery, because it takes
up and carries ont the excess acid
and gases and keeps the digestive
organs in natural working order. A
tablet after meals Is all You need.
Big box costs only . triHs with
druggists guarantees.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
Princeton H0n0rs Einstein.

PRINCETON, N. j.. May Or.
Albert Einstein, originator OF the the
cry of relatively, received the degree
OF doctor OF science at Princeton Uni
versity yesterday 1t was conferred
upon him by Dean Fleming West. OF
the Graduate School, after President
John Grier Hibben, of the university.
had formally welcomed the noted
German scientist
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
WRESTLER KILLS THIEF
WITH HIS BARE HANDS

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1o-Louis II.
Ardouin, of the Olympic Club, who
recently was runner-up in the heavy
weight class of the National A. A. U.
wrestling championship. yesterday
killed with his bare hands, man
he found rifiing bureau drawer in
his home. The man later was iden-
titled as William Z. Anderson.
Ardouin told the police that after
graphing with Anderson, who was
unarmed, for five minutes he applied
a severe wrestling hold to detain
him until Mrs. Ardouin could tele-
phone for help. ........
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
AMBUSH
and KILL MFORMER

CUMBERLAND, Md, May 10.-Har-
mon Bell. forty years old. farmer
of near HopevilIe. Grant county, w.
Va, was shot from his horse and in
stantly killed by persons unidentified
at North Fork Gap, seven miles west
of Petersburg, Sunday morning.
The shooting is thought to have
been the outcome OF III feeling
against Bell in that neighborhood. IL
was said Bell had been accused of
informing on moonshiners to revenue
officers, and had been told by resi-
dents OF that section to leave. 1t Is
also alleged that Bell had informed
on draft evader and had gained
added luminosity.
The horse Bell was riding also was
shot and killed.
No arrests have been made.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
PNEY BRANCH CTS FIGHT
TUBERCULAR SCHOOL

The Piney Branch Citizens Asso-
citation last night Endorsed the $1,000
900 school building program for the
District and vigorously opposed erec-
ton OF a school for tubercular child
rem at Fourteenth and Upshur streets
northwest.
A branch postoffice will be opened
at Fourteenth and Decatur streets
June I, 1t was announced. The en-
tertainment committee is considering
plans for combining with other citi-
zens' associations for a joint celebra-
ton July 4. ......
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
Boy Goes Over Falls; Lives.

MANCHESTER, N. H., May 10
Lawrence Hartman. eight years old,
of Ashland, N. H., isn't letting a little
matter of falling over an eighteen
foot dam and struggling ashore
through the icy water interfere very
much with school or play. The boy
was fishing from the top of the dam,
and. catching his foot on a plank,
plunged over the dam. He reached
the shore unaided, was pulled out by
a man who was passing and, aside
from a slight cut on one, knee, was
uninjured
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
URGE Phone Merger Bill.

Representatives of a number of
telephone companies appeared yesterday
before the joint Congressional Com
mlttee on Interstate Commerce to
urge enactment Of the Willis bill
which proposed to give the Inter-
state Commerce Commission author
ity over transfers and mergers OF
telephone companies doing an inter-
statA business
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
DREDCEMEN'S STRIKE ON
GREAT LAKES SETTLED

Secretary Of Labor Davis has an
nounced the settlement of the strike
of dredgemen, which has been on for
two weeks. Three thousand dredge-
men are returning to their work in
Great Lakes ports yesterday, the Secre-
tary announced.
Settlement was made on the ba sis
of acceptance of partial reduction
of wages by the men. conciliator l..
I. Thomas represented the Depart
ment Of Labor in the settlement.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
Steals 100000; Gets 5 Years.

TORONTO. May 10.-John Doughty,
convicted of stealing s105,0OO in Vic
tory bonds from Ambrose Small. miss
ing theatrical man, was sentenced to
SIX ytSrs in the provincial peniten-
t,ary. Crown authorities ind tea ed
they might drop for the present the
charge that Doughty. who was Smalls
secretary, had conspired to kidnap
him,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
Aliens Race CONGRESS.

There is general scramble among
Europeans to reach the United States
before any legislation restricting i'm
migration Is enacted by Congress.
Commissioners General OF immigration
Husband said today. Fearing that
they will he barred from entrance TO
the United States by legislation now
pending there are many Europeans
who are now rushing to this country,
Husband said
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10
Hostess Room at New Woman's Precinct
Seraniu1ns Bloom Where Blood Was Once
Spilled and Young Women Who Might
Otherwise Be Homeless Find Comfort
and Pleasure in Cheerful Room

NEW YORK, May t0-Never day passed that gore was
not spilled the old station house doorstep in Hels
Kitchen
Now geranums bloom there They shed the gaey of their
scarlet blossoms upon the visitors who pass the famous
West Thirty-seventh street.
Woman'S magic has wrought the change
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-16
HAITIANS EAT
u. S. MARINES
Such Is Charge Made by New
York Man Before Senate
Committee.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 16-American
marines. after being put to death by
torture. were eaten by Haitian bandits
II. NJ Pelkington Of New York. charged
today before the Senate committee in
vestigatiug conditions In the island.
Instances Of cannibalism cited by
Pclkiugton were those Of Private Law
renee, a marine. who was tortured 70
death and his body eaten and Lieutenant
Muth. whose body was eaten after he
had been slain.
oh, there is nothing vicious about the
Haitian bandits saTcastically remarked
Pelkington. Even the fellows who killed
and ate the marines were most docile
and amtablc chaps''-
Pelkiugton said the natives have the
primitive notion that when they eat HUI
man flesh, the courage and fortitude OF
their victim IS transmitted TO them.
The witness told the committee that the
Americans were partly responsible for
the antagonism OF the natives because Of
the failure Of the Americans to under
stand the psychology Of the situation.
Re said jse French had m!streated the
natives and they feared similar treat
ment from the American forces.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-16
FORMATION OF
CITY PLAN BODY
Permanent Committees Named
and Secretary Appointed.

Permanent committees were named ana
an executive secretary appointed by the
city plan commission at the weekly meet
ing Tuesday afternoon Lawrence V.
Sheridan, a municipal engineer Of Dallas,
Texas, who was engineer for the Indian
apolis board of park commissioners from
I91I to 1914, received the executive secre-
tary appointment. An assistant secretary
and an engineer for the commission are
to be appointed next week. Macklih Mack,
senior Office aid in the city civil engin-
neering department, is mentioned for the
engineering post.
The new executive secretary is a gradu-
ate Of Purdue University. He has served
with the bureau Of municipal research in
New York City and the y Z. f. in France.
He was in charge of planning Camp Pike,
Ark. and since 1919 has been in the city
planning business at Dallas. Texas.
The permanent committees are as fol-
lows:
ZOning-Emerson W. Chaille, Mark II.
Miller and Thomas c. Howe.
Public Highways and Parks-AIr. Howe.
Samuel E Rauh and II. Foster ClippingeFs
Public Health and SaniJatiOn-Mr. Clip
pinger, Frank c. Lingenfelter and Louis
W. Bruck.
TranspOrtatiOn-Hr. Bruck Gustav G..
Schmidt and Mr.. Chaille.
The commission viii have headquarters
in one end Of the board Of safety room
on the third floor Of the city hall. it was
announced.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-16
SAYS
CITY UTILITIES
IN GOOD REPUTE
Asserts Statistics Show Serv.
ice Best in u. S. in
Similar Class.

Complaints against Indianapolis utility
companies received by the public service
commission average less than ten a month
a company, according to John McCardle,
chairman of the public service commits
sion, speaking yesterday at the luncheon
given by the Indianapolis Water Com
pany at its new ten million gallon reser-
voir Mr.. McCardle, reading from a table
prepared in the commission offices, de-
clared that in the last six months the
commission had received nineteen COM
plants against the water company, none
of which had to do with the quality of
water supplied. This, he said, was an
average Of three and sixth per month.
Complaints against the Merchants Heat
and Light Company numbered five in
six months, he said, while twenty COM
plants had been received against the In.
dianapolis Light and Heat Company,
which supplies a great number of indi-
vidual customers as contrasted with the
Merchants company, which supplies the
city Of indianapolis and other large con-
sumers. The total number of complaints
received against the gas company was
twenty six in six months, an average of
approximately four and one-fourth per
month.
The largest number of complaints re-
ceived was the number against the In
diana Bell Telephone Company, there be-
ing ninety-one, an average of a fraction
more than fifteen per month. These COM
plants were checked against a total Of
more than 100000 calls, or a monthly
average Of about 100000 calls.
Reviewing these figures. Mr.. McCardle
complimented the indianapolis utilities
companies on their service. Indianapo-
lis, he said, has the best public utility
service and the lowest rates among all
the cities in the United States in the same
class
1T should be borne in mind that despite
low rates, which average only a IS per-
cent Increase over the low prewar rates,
while other commodities have advanced
tremendously, the public service commits
sion has permitted no company to go
bankrupt he said.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-16
Births

Willie and jamie Armstrong, Tls West
North. girl.
Rolly and Myrtle Jones. 1927 Barnes
boy.
boy.
Charles and Helen skinner, city hos
pital. boy.
Sterling, girl.
Ciaig and Lucy Westenhofer. 1902
Hiatt. boy.
Thaddeus and Anna Allen, 1S47 South
keystone. girl.
Alfred and Rema Tingle, st. Vincent
Hospital, boy.
Joseph and Bertha Dugan, St. Vincent
claude and Dorothy Arsdan, St. Vim
cent Hospital, girl,
DENIM and Violet Felix, 1885 Ringold,
boy.
Frederick and Rachael Crider. $500
North New Jersey, girl.
Arthur and Eleanor Geiger, s62 East
McCarty, boy.
Roy and Gertrude Crowdus. 1744 Calvin,
girl.
Duard and Bertha Johnson, 2719 Adams,
girl.
Laburn and Alicia Bennett, 226O
Fountain, boy.
Matthew and Anna Donohue, 1914 South
Talbot, boy.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-16
'BLUEBEARD' OF
FRANCE ADMITS
ROBBING WIDOW
LGndra Dramatically AbsOIUeS
Wife From Blame of
Wrong Doing.

VERSAILLES, Nov. 16-Admitting
for the first time that he had "victimized"
one Of the ten women whom he is ac-
cused Of numbering, Henri Desire
Landru, the alleged Bluebeard, today
confessed to the court he had robbed
Nine. Buisson. 4 widow, of $1,000. Landru
denied however, that he had killed the
woman
Nine. BuissOn is Landru's eighth al
legged victim and ii was under severe
crosse examination regarding her dis
appea Snce that he admitted the fraud
perpetratcd on the woman.
Il induced my real wife 10 pose as
Mime. Buisson after her disappearance, 4"
said the prisoner, "in order to cash the
bonds l took from her.
But" said Landru, raising his hands
dramatically toward heaven. my wife is
Innocent Of any wrong doing.
Whatever she did was only as my tool
and for love Of me-"
The prosecution declared Landru made
this admission in order to save his wife.
who is under indictment charged with
fraud. 1t was the disappearance Of Nine
Buissou that finally brought Landru's
arrest.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-16
CHARTERS CASE
MAY BE TAKEN
TO HIGH COURT
Peru Banker, Found Guilty
of Embezzlement, to APP
peal Case.

Following the conviction in Federal
Court yesterday. of Charles NJ. Charters,
formerly cashier of the Citizens National
Bank of Peru, Ind, on a charge OF en-
bezzlement, 1t was said that the case
undoubtedly will be carried to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals. On re-
quest of James w. Noel, attorney for
Charters, sentence was deferred until
Thursday. At this time Mr.. Noel will
file a motion in arrest Of judgment as
a preliminary step toward taking an
appeal.
The jury was out about twenty min
utes before returning a verdict Of guilty.
Charters is charged with misapprOpriat-
ing $4,000 worth of Liberty bonds be-
longing to Giles NJ, Tilletts, a customer
of the bank Charters insisted that he
had not stolen the bonds but when he
left the employment Of the bank the
bonds had become mixed with his per-
sonal effects.
Immediately after the lict in the
Charters case was retur. ID Nick Mis-
covitch, proprietor of a soft drink es-
Establishment at Gary, was placed on trial
on a charge of violating the Federal
liquor laws When court adjourned
the defendant had taken the stand in
his own behalf. The case will reach the
jury this morning.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-16
Deaths

Wilhelmina f. Thrun, 70, S43 Brad
shaw, carcinoma
Arthur Jerome Geiger, -, S62 East Nc.
Carly, nOnclOsure f0ramen ovale.
George E. ScbOwengerdt, 1, 131 McKim
bronchO pneumonia
Alonzo A. Zion, 70, 3744 North Meridian,
diabetes
Daisy Robbins, 81 1915 West New
York, lObar pneumonia.
Charles HOllingsworth, GO, 1925 East
Eleventh, typhoid pneumonia.
Edward Smith, %, 1014 South Meridian
asphyxiatiOn, accidental
Nick Gunner, 40, 1914 South Meridian
asphyxiation, accidental
William r. Brown, II, Methodist Hos
pital, bronchO pneumonia
Warren Southerner, 81, city hospital
tubercular peritonitis.
Marietta Bloomhoff, "a 1928 North iii
nois, chronic myocarditis.
Bertha DOkkenwadel, 81 1015 Willow
Drive, carcinoma.
Anna Marie Krone. II, 11G6 North Tenn
pie, chronic interstitial nephritis.
Martha NJ. Behuke, 80, 2047 Columbia
epilepsia.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-16
RAILROAD MEN
AGAIN CONTEND
OVER WAGE CUT
Seventy-five Western Roads
Ask Workers to Take
Reduced Pay.

CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-Renewed fights Of
railroads and their employees before the
United States Railroad Labor Board over
wages doomed today.
This followed action of seventy five
Western roads in asking workers of all
classes to accept wage reductions.
1t is not believed that a crisis such
as that of, Oct. 80, when a strike was
owly averted, will be precipitated.
This will be the procedure in the pres
ent case:
Railroad executives and representatives
of unions win meet and bargain over
wages. If they are unable to agree the
case is automatically thrown before the
labor board.
The labor board is expected to hand
down a decision soon on new working
agreements.
The policy meeting" OF 600 officers Of
the engineers and firemens brother
hoods is over. Steps to be taken in the
most recent demand Cor wage cuts were
discussed.