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Interstate and foreign commerce will not be burdened or affected by and shortage in the earnings, nor will any carrier in such commerce have to bear or make good the short age" of the Eastern Texas Railroad, Judge van de Vanter stated in deliv- ering the opinion, to which there was no dissent.
 For the courts to hold. the decision said, that congress in authorizing the interstate commerce commission to regulate the extension and abandon ment of old lines, intended that the commission should deal with the abandonment of such a road as to intra-state as we'll as interstate and foreign commerce." would raise a se- rious question as to the constitutional validity of the law. Where a statute Is susceptible of two constructions, by one of which grave and doubtful constitutional questions arise, and by the other such questions are avoided. it is the duty of the court to adopt the latter, Justice van de Venter said, adding that by giving the section the more restricted construction, it's val idity would be undoubted.
 <Ao Dy llc COuTl, It was the intention of congress to enact a. law to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, and to affect state com merce only as 1t may be incidental to the effective regulation and protec- tion of interstate commerce. Justice van de Venter said there were many manifestations of a continuing Dur pose on the part of congress to re- frain from any regulation of purely state commerce, save such as was in volved in it's rightful exertion of it's control over interstate and foreign commerce.
 Justice van de Venter said the court would not pass upon the ques- tion of whether the railroad company was entitled to abandon it's line, be- cause that question was not present. ed i1 this case. the only issue before the court being, he explained, wheth- CT the interstate commerce commits sion had exceeded it's authority in or dering the railroad to abandon its line.
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SAYS EXCHANGE HAD NJ rCOTT TON
 TO TRADE WITH
C hi e f Magistrate Criticises Method of Operating Cotton
 Exchange During Inquiry

NEW YORK, March 13.-Criticising methods of operation of the American Cotton Exchange during the John Doe" inquiry into it's affairs today, Chief Magistrate McAdoo declared it appeared that the exchange had no cotton on which to base its trading unless 1t purchased across the street from the New York Cotton Exchange. .'
 The American exchange purchased 15,O00 bales from the New York ex- change simply for use by the brokers in checking the wheel so 1t would stop at a winning number" he added.
 These comments were evoked by testimony of former Judge A. w. Graham, president of the American exchange. who spent the afternoon on the witness stand. Graham disclaimed knowledge of a petition offered In evidence in which exchange officials were advised by members that 'the state of trading on the floor is ter rible," following withdrawal of a firm which customarily had held 10000 bales to cover brokers who sold short
 The petition urged the purchase of 15,000 bales to sell at opportune times in the trading when the buyers de- mands exceeded sales so far as to halt trading and force prices upward Revenues of the members would thereby be doubled" "trebled" and perhaps "quadrupled," the petition said.
 Graham was ordered by Magistrate McAdoo to present to the district at torney tomorrow names of a half dozen southern planters who bene- fitted by the chance to speculate, of fered with the opening of the ex- change"
 This order was based upon testi- mony that the exchange was founded in the open market by using 10 bales as the minimum unit of transactions, thereby opening the field of smaller growers eliminated from the New York Cotton Exchange and the New Orleans Cotton Epchange by a 1O0- bale minimum unit.
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BELIEVE GUNNAN KILLED SNOWMAN
Following Up Many Clues in Murder of Circus Owner;
 Made Bitter Enemies

RIVERSIDE. N. J., Mar. l3 - A number of possible clues were un- earthed today by detectives trying to- solve :he mystery surrounding the death Of John T. Brunch. circus own CT slain with a shotgun at his home Friday. Some of these clues. Prose- cutor Jonathan Kelsey. of Burlington county, said tonight. led to the win ter quarters of several circuses in different parts of the country.
 Prosecutor Kelsey said that he had learned that an oath or vengeance had been made by relatives Of a man Brunch was reported to have shot and killed at Mt. Carmel, Pa. several years ago, during a fight in the mid way of his shows there. Brunch was acquitted on a plea of self defense.
 Brunch had a, dozen bitter enemies. Kelsey stated. and authorities also are working on theories of vengeance from former business associates.
 Authorities were Investigating the report from 'Hammonton. x. J.. that a touring car, bearing license tags stol- en from a garage in Philadelphia. had been found there Saturday. Tho car had been abandoned by three young men who were seen to climb aboard truck headed for Philadelphia. the reports stated. The car had been abandoned after 1t crashed through fence.
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the jurisdiction of the court and was not available at this trial was touched upon in the questioning of the venire- men. The name of this witness was not mentioned, but 1t was assummed the reference was to Miss Fey Pre- vost, one of those who attended the Arbuckle party. and who has been considered an important prosecution witness. She is in New Orleans and reported to have said she would not return for the trial
 The examination of the prospective jurors assumed wider scope that at either ot the previous trials. and il was predicted freely that more than a week would be consumed in obtain ing the jury.
 The Woman's Vigilante Committee. representing the several women's clubs of the city, was again in attend ance, and the trial is being held be- fore Superior Court Judge Harold Louderback. who presided at the other trials
Bisbee daily review., 1922-03-14
Soviet Newspaper Skeptical of Genoa
 Conference Results

MOSCOW. March 13.-(By the As- sociated Press. s.)-Commenting upon Americas decision not to participate in the Genoa conference, the Soviet newspaper Pravda, says:
 The motive given is that until the European countries disarm, it will be throwing away of American money in European affairs. This is mainly Propaganda by which the Republican party is preparing for the new con- gressional elections. The real cause of the American governments refusal to finance Europe is that the Amer ican government has not much money, while the private capitalisist are in- terested in Central and South America.
 "The absence of America means that nothing big economically can happen at Genoa. The allied bour- geoisie has no plan whatever for the economic relief Europe"
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ed to operate by the Paber process, had been successful, and could be al. tered for S1.000.000 or $1 ,5O0, ,000, and used successfully In the production of nitrates and fertilizer compounds
 It was the opinion of the witness that no Individual company would ever attempt fertilizer production on a commercial scale by leasing plant No. 2. He urged the committee to make sure" that Ford would produce cheaper fertilizer for the farmers be- fore congress accepted the proposal for purchase and lease of the Muscle Shoals properties, or that of any oth- CT bidder.
 Chairman Kahn announced at the conclusion of the investigation today that the committee would adjourn subject to call for it's next meeting on the Muscle Shoals question. He ex- pected to hear only two more wit nesses, he said, before the hearings were closed and the committee be- gan preparation of it's report on the proposal 1t has been studying.
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S|X NENDME NTS NOW READY FOR SUBMISSION TO VOTERS OF STATE.
Six of Seven Amendments Now Ready to Come Before
 People; Pass Both Houses
ELECTION NEXT FALL
Hoover Accepts Invitation to Address Both Houses in
 Joint Session

PHOENIX, Ariz.. March 13-Six of the constitutional amendments pro- posed by the Arizona Industrial Con- gress now are ready to be placed on the ballot for submission to the peo- Ile. Passed by both house of the leg islature and sent to the governor. they were transmitted today to the secretary of state. A seventh amend >ment. Senate Bill 15, proposing amendment of the initiative and ref erendum provision of the constitution. still is in the hands of the standing committee of the house, and is ex- pected to be reported out tomorrow.
 The six amendments had been sent to Governor Campbell several days ago but were held by him until yes terday because of doubt of the ne- cessity of action upon them by him. The matter was referred to the at- torney general. who, in an opinion today, stated that inasmuch as they were not subject to the veto power of the governor. his approval of them was not required.
 When the amendments will be placed on the ballot hinges on the fate of Senate Bill 3S, by Senator Stoddard. This measure, providing for special election next fall. for
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year after their marriage in Los An
 geles in January, 1919, and who is of
 counsel for the defense, sat appar ently unmoved during Fricke's argu. ment -'-
 | Fricke's address was interrupted at
 [ o'clock when Judge Sidney N. Reeve , announced an adjournment until to- morrow morning.
 It appeared from Mrs. Obenchain's s pallid face and nervous manner as she resumed the witness stand today,
 that she had not rested much during
 the weekend adjournment of court.
 Her voice, however, was much strong
 CT. and more audible. She showed considerable hesitancy in answering some questions during previous cross examination.
 Deputy District Attorney Asa Reyes took up the crOss-examination at the
 point In Mrs Obenchain's testimony where it was stopped Friday by ad- journment. He questioned her in de- tall about her trip with Kennedy to his cottage in Beverly Glen on the night of the shooting She chung to her previous statement that it was Kennedy, and not she. as the state contends, who suggested the trip to the Glen. To her former statement that Kennedy suggested they go to the cabin and look for lucky kenny." she added a further reason today, saying that Kennedy asked her to go up to the cottage, where he might urge her to marry him.
 Keyes referred frequently to a written statement said to have been made by Mrs. Obenchain to the dis trict attorney the day following the staying. Mrs. Obenchain reiterated her earlier declaration that while she did not mean tai say she never had made such statement, but that she had no remembrance of it, and did not even remember having been in the district attorneys office on the day in question.
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PLANES BOMB
 S. \. STRIKERS
Rand Mine Strikers Bombed But Continue Attempts
 to Damage Railroads

JOHANNESBURG, U. of S. A., March 13.-Operations against the Rand gold mine strikers continued to. day in the vicinity of Pretoria. The Germiston Railway revolutionaries were heavily bombed, but they per sisted in their attempts to damage the railway. The line. however. had been repaired on both occasions.
 One commando, five hundred strong. which had succeeded in blowing up part of the railway at Driefontein. was located and bombed by an air. plane. The airplane dropped rations to number of detached police off cers beseiged by the strikers
 Premier Shuts, in an interview, said the response to the governments call to form commanders had been magnificent. Farmres and others. men of every shade of political opin- ion. instantly enrolled, he said.
 Government forces have captured the important positions of Benoni and Dunswart, together with many prisoners. The government casualties were slight.
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LITTLE HOPE
 OF MEETING
 COAL STRIKE
Operators Steadfastly Refuse to Enter Into Conference
 With Mine Workers
AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS
Labor Department Declares 1000, 1000 Tons are Now in
 Storage; 10 Weeks Supply

! WASHINGTON, March 13.-Little hope for averting a strike in the un- ionized bituminous coal fields on April l, was held out today in those off cial circles which are most concerned with the repeated governmental at- tempts to bring about an adjustment of wage agreement differences.
 Mine operators, it was declared were continuing in their refusal to enter conference with the United Mine Workers looking to the creation of new wage contract for the cen tral competitive field, notwithstand- ing representations made by them by Secretary of Labor Davis, who holds that existing contracts require them at least to enter negotiations regard less of whether such negotiations are carried to completion.
 The United Mine Workers of Amer ica, the general union organization, was declared to be entirely willing to enter conference, although insist ing upon the maintenance of existing wage scales, which were adopted in 1920. The employers are demanding reductions amounting to 20 per cent or more.
 It was indicated in official circles today that the government would go no further at present, but await the development of the threatened srrike. The degrees of possible government intervention later, 1t was said by a high official, would be determined by the degree to which the strike, if it developed, might affect adversely the public welfare. Statistics assembled for the labor department indicate
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Senate to Vote on Amendment to Treaty
Madalynne Used Husband As "Human Doormat" Declares Prosecution And Husband Hears Apparently Unmoued
State D1els U pon Mrs Obenchains Relations With All Three Men and Contends Burch Was Man Who Fired
 Fatal Shot; Last Witness For Defense Is Called

LOS ANGELES, March l3.-Mrs
 Madalynne Obenchain used her hus band, Ralph Obenchain, as "a human
 doormat,' Deputy District Attorney
 Charles w. Fricke declared today in the opening argument for the prose cution in the trial of Mrs. Cbenchain cn the charge of murdering J. Belton Kennedy, who, she has testified, was the man she loved.
 Fricke dwelt upon Mrs. Obenchain' s relations with Obenchain, Kennedy and Arthur c. Burch. co-defendant in the case. The prosecution contends Burch fired the shot which killed Kennedy. .
 Mrs. Obenchain's testimony was completed this afternoon; the defense called only one more witness, and the prosecution confined it's rebuttal to the testimony of one witness, Mrs. J. D. Kennedy, mother of the slain man.
 Mrs. Kennedy testified that Miss M. L. Wilson, proprietor of beauty parlor," told her on July II, 1921, your son is going to die: you are going to cry"
 MiSS ilSoH testllleu LOT the ue- fense that Kennedy and Mrs. Oben- chain communicated with each other her, and denied she made the statement to which Mrs. Kennedy tes- tified.
 H. s. Hallner, a private detective, was the last witness called by the defense. He testified he recently drove an automobile from Los Ange- les to Long Beach, seaside resort, and back. the speedometer reading being 43.3 miles. The prosecution had shown that the speedometer reading on a car driven by Arthur C. Burch. codefendant in the case, on the night of the staying, was A miels. There was no testimony that Burch was in Long Beach.
 Obenchain, who was divorced by he defendant in Chicago about
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MAY bE UNABLE ID BRING ABOUT PROPOSED VOTE
 ON BONUS BILL
Leaders Unable to Ascertain Speakers Opinion on Motion
 to Suspend Rules
MELLON VETOES PLAN
Mellon Is Played in Letter; Declares Secretary's Figures
 Are Admittedly Incorrect

WASHINGTON, March I3.-Repub- llcan leaders were confronted today with the possibility that they might be unable to bring about a vote in the house on the compromise soldiers bonus bill under suspension of the rules next Monday. With favorable report of the measure by the ways and means committee promised bv Chairman Fordney, they generally were agreed that the bill should be disposed of by the house early next week
 Inability. however, to ascertain whether Speaker Gillett. who is in Florida with President Harding. would entertain a motion to suspend the rules, which would require a two thirds vote for passage of the bin. and would automatically bar all coupled with reports that he might decline to do so. threw the whole question of procedure into the air
 Republican members of the ways and means committee. who. at a meeting. decided 10 proceed with their plans for a report of the measure at the meeting cf the com mittee scheduled for tomorrow, de-
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TREATY F|GHT SLACKEMS UP
 IN INTENSITY
Opponents of Pact Withhold Attack, Agreeing to Vote
 on First Amendment
LITTLE REPLY IS MADE
Johnson and Borah Take Lead in All-Day Assault; Again
 Raise Question of Origin

WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.- Cppon ents of the four power Pacific treaty loossd another series of broadsides against the pact today in the senate but slackened their onslaught just before adjournment to accept an unanimous consent agreement for a vote tomorrow on the first of the pro- posed amendments.
 Senators Johnson, California, and Borah of Idaho. both Republicans, took the lead in the all day attack, the former declaring ratification of the treaty would be a national sur render" under a threat of danger from the Anglo-Japanese alliance. and the latter asserting that the pro- posed four power arrangement would transfer to the Pacific the old bal ance Of power system that has dom mated Europe for centuries.
 A question as to the authorship of the treaty and its supplemental agreements again was raised during the debate, BOrah asserting that de- spite Secretary Hughes letter accept ing responsibility for the final draft, there seemed to be the most conclus- i've proof that somebody else wrote the treaty.
 The amendment on which it was agreed to vote at D. m, tomorrow. was proposed by Senator Robinson, Democrat. Arkansas, and will be the first issue of the four power treaty fight to come to roll call. As mod flied today by Robinson, it provides that the rights of nations both In and out of the four power group are to be respected, and that non-signatory as we'll as signatory nations, shall he in-' vited to any conference held to con- slider controversies affecting their insular interests in the Pacific "or any Far Eastern questions"
 Administration leaders declared to- night they had sufficient votes to de-
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ATTEMPT ID BAR
 RAILROADS FROM
 HEARING FAILS
Railway Employees Seek to Show Roads Had Violated .
 Law; Rule Evidence Out
UNION LEADER OBJECTS
Says Proper Conference Had Not Been Called Before
 Disputes Were Heard

CHICAGO, Mar. 13.-An attempt to bar a number of railroads from the present wage hearings before the United States railroad labor board failed today when Vice Chairman Ben W. Hooper ruled against evi- dence presented by railway employe to show that the roads had violated the law and therefore have no stand ing before the board.
 The ruling brought out the fact that action on cases involving three roads, charged with violation of the transportation act because of con- tracing shop work to outside firms, is expected soon. The question at is- sue, Vice Chairman Hooper said, was one of the most important the board has faced. If such contract work were declared legal, he added, the ground would be cut out from under this board and the vitals of the trans portation act would be killed"
 Cases against the Erie, the Indiana Harbor Belt, and the New York Gen. tral are now pending before the board All involve the sub-letting of shop work to cont1Sctors, all of whom are paying lower wages than the scale set for railroad shopment by the board.
 The ruling was made over the wig orous protest of B. NJ. Jewell, head of the shop crafts unions, who asserted that if shops were to be closed by the railroads one day and opened by a contractor at lower wages the next, the railroads were setting an exam pie which might convince the em- ployes that the very small number we have termed radicals were right
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Court Decrees Commission Has No Jurisdiction Over
 Strictly State Railroads

WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.- The in- terstate commerce commission was held today by the supreme court to be without authority to authorize or compel the abandonemept of strict ly state railroad.
 The decision. which was handed down in a case brought by the state of Texas against the Eastern Texas Railroad Company, to prevent that road from dismantling under an order issued by the commission, declared that where railroad lies entirely within a single state, is owned and op eiated by corporation of that state, and is not part of another line, and where 1t continued operation without more than local concern. the commis sion was without jurisdiction.
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EXPLOSION IN APARTMENT

NEW YORK, Mar. 13.-Peter Picu- TO and his wife, Angela, were serious ly injured tonight by an explosion of sulphur and potash. which he was mixing in his apartment on East 76th street.
 Twenty other families in the house fled to the street when the explosion occurred.
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START NEW STEAMER SERVICE

\ LOS ANGELES, Mar. 13-A direct service between Los Angeles and Ha- vaaa by way of the Panama Canal, soon will be established, it was an. nounced here today by agents for the 1sthmusian Line of freight steamers. The steamer Santa Eulalia, which saied last Friday from New ork for this port, will start the service April 12
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LIMITS RING SEAT PRICE

TRENTON, N. J., Mar. 13.-Gover- nor Edwards today signed the Evans Dill. limiting to $15 the maximum price for seat at boxing exhibition.
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THE WEATHER

ARIZONA: Fair Tuesday and Wednesday: not much change in temperature.