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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-01-26
STATE OF MICHIGAN, The Probate
Court for the County Of Gene

see.
At session of said Court, held at
the Probate Office in the City of
Flint, in said County, on the 9th day
of January, A. ID. 1922.
Present.: Hon. John G. Graves,
Judge of Probate.
In the Matter Of the Estate Of
Jennie Perry deceased.
William Young having filed in said
court his petition praying that the adj
ministration of said estate be granted
to himself or to some other suitable
person.
It is Ordered, That the Ord day Of
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Nation Returns to Rail Control
by the Government. -
Eastern Lines Depend on g. S.
Coal Routing to Run.
ALLOWS A BREATHING SPELL
Emergency Only a POultice, Not
Intended as a Sure Cure.
Definite Settlement of Strike
Must Come From Outside.

Washington. July 26.-The nation
went back to wartime regulation of
the railroads today while peace in the
industrial chaos brought on by the
paralyzing rail and coal strikes, ap-
peared almost as far distant as ever.
Merged to Carry on Business.
For all practical purposes the rail-
roads with their 100000 miles of
tracks were merged into one gigantic
system today with interchangeable BILE
equipment and operating under orders
to move food and fuel above all else.
The interstate commerce commits
sion with its broad powers derived
from the transportation act, became
over night a miniature railroad ad-
ministration empowered to suspend
all rules and regulations and to en-
force its fuel and food carrying orders
under heavy penalties.
To Reduce Public Prfvation.
The national emergency declared by
the commission and the priority
ratings accorded shipments of fuel
and food on all railroads, will, gov
ernment officials believe, reduce pub
lie suffering and inconvenience to the
minimum while at the same time af-
fording the government a breathing
spell to figure on new methods of set
Ting the strikes.
That the action thru the interstate
commerce commission is only a poul-
tice applied to the aggravated situa-
ton and not cure was generally
recognized by administration officials.
The cure can only come thru a re-
sumption of mining on a large seal
in mines now idle for four months
and thru expert labor being attracted
into the repair shops of the railroads
to work on rapidly deteriorating
equipment.
No Immediate Strike Action.
There were few intimations today
that the government contemplates any
immediate steps in the direction of
restoring peace in either the rail or
coal strikes.
For the time being, 1t appeared, the
administration is going to devote its
major efforts to insuring the move
ment of hfa's necessities, food and
fuel, to prevent profiteering and to
spreading out the available coal sup
ply over as thin a surface as is pos
sible- At the same time. encourage
ment will be given to any measures
designed to speed up production in
both union and noI.union mines.
Mine Plan To Be Given Trial.
The experiment of trying to mine
coal with workers under troop pro-
lection will be given a thoro test be-
fore any additional action is taken in
the coal situation, it was said at the
White House.
1.-The governments chief concern at
this time" said an authorized spokes-
man, rs to create a condition in which
men may work if they choose to work
ment will protect them. If it Is
shown that no men want to work un-
der these conditions. then other steps
will have to be taken"
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Z. S. Department of Agriculture Will
Tell of Conditions.

! L. S. Department of Agriculture Will
| Tell of Conditions.
Monthly. as well as intermittent re-
ports on conditions, prices, numbers
and movement of livestock thruout
the United States, VIII be issued by
the United States department of agri-
culture beginning sometime this fall,
according to Edward c. Paxton, Kan
sas statistician for the bureau of crop
estimates, who has just returned from
a conference held in Denver, where
the tentative program was arranged.
The program is intended to give
farmers and stockmen the information
they need to plan their marketing and
the breeding of cattle and sheep, and
also to serve stockyard officials, rail-
road executives and packers. The
regular monthly reports will give in
formation on the movement of live
stock to market. the pasture and feed
conditions, the condition of livestock
expressed in percentage OF normal,
and the available contract prices in
territory where there are no central
market reports.
Special reports also will be issued
internationally giving practically every
Kind OF infornatfofI desired =eoncern-
ing livestock in the various states
Heretofore the department has issued
only one livestock report a year.
A monthly report which will be
summary for the United States will
be issued, probably from Chicago, &C
cording to Paxton. Other reports will
be issued in the various districts,
probably from Denver. Cheyenne. Sac
ramento, some points in West Texas,
Kansas City or Topeka and some
points in the east, which will give
conditions in detail in rnat particular
district and a summary of the other
districts.
A report will cover the condition of
fat cattle and hogs in the corn belt, in
cluding number in the feeding lots,
and a survey Of actual changes in
numbers will be made by age and sex
on 80, 600 farms in the corn belt.
The first report probably will not
be made before September, and it may
be even later it was said, when the
entire machinery can be set to work.
ing sufficiently to assemble the de-
tailed reports.
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TO hike CITY TAX
Topeka Levy To Be Higher in
1928, Says Stevens.
Fire Marshal Asks for $4,000
Worth of Apparatus.

According to the tax levy certified
to the city officials by the county clerk
of Shawnee county the six-mill levy
for the general fund, in the city of
Topeka, for 1928, will furnish just
$479.94 more money to that fund than
was furnished by the levy of the pres
ent year.
And according to the state law there
cannot be levy of more than six
mills for the purpose OF raising the
general fund.
which are taken care of thru special
levies and special funds, have still a
margin left for increase, between the
point at which they are now fixed and
the legal maximum fixed by the state
law
Stevens Has Many Problems.
F. L. Stevens. city commissioner of
finance, is puzzling over how the in
creased demands on the general fund
for next year are to be met.
1.-The fire marshal wants $25, 600
worth of apparatus, Chief Leonard
wants about $4,000 more for the po-
lice department, and the commission
yesterday, approved the recommends
ton of Commissioner w. s. Hancock
that $4,000 be placed in the general
fund for the purpose of making
drainage survey of the city. Hancock
will furnish the $4,000 for the field
work of the survey from the funds OF
his department, without increasing the
budget, he has intimated," Stevens
said today. He is trying to divide
$47994 by the $4,000 which the extra
demands total, and was getting differ
.ent answers every time, rss.4.asz-,--aszsss,sz
To Use PAIRING Knife.
'HThe solution will be a pairing of
other items which are paid out of the
general fund" Stevens said. THAT will
all have to be arranged in the confer
ences on the budget for which 1 shall
ask as soon as the commissioners have
turned in the figures on the money
they want for the next year"
Stevens is still of the opinion that
city taxes will be slightly higher in
1923 than they were this year The
increase will come in Some of the spe-
ciaI levies which are NOS yet up TO
the legal maximum, he says But in
creasing. them will not help the gem
eral fund any.
'I think the citizens of Topeka
won't object to the slight increase
which will be necessary" he said.
1.-THE expenditure is for things that
the public wants and is willing to pay
for, and the public has never kicked
on paying for service"
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ENGINEER DIES AT POST
Heat Thought to Have Caused Death
of GoTCsOn Miller.

Gordon Miller. engineer of Santa Fe
local passenger train No. IA. which
left here for Kansas City at 1:10
o'clock this afternoon, died before he
could be brought back to Topeka after
falling at his post as the train neared
Tecumseh- His home was in Argen-
tine, Kan.
As the train approached Tecumseh
Miller appeared to be either overcome
with heat, or suffering from heart
trouble. and dropped in a faint. An
other engineer. named Whitcomb,
who was "deadheading'' east, took
charge of the train and backed it to
Topeka with the intention of having
Miller taken to the Santa Fe hospital
here, but the man was dead before the
train arrived in the city. The body
was left in Topeka, while Whitcomb
took the train on to Kansas City, it
was said.
The exact cause OF Miller's death
appeared uncertain in messages re-
ceiyed by the general managers office
here, altho it was stated that he had
probably been overcome with the
heat.
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Today is the hottest day in Topeka
in more than a month. The tempera-
ture at 3 o'clock this afternoon reach
ed "a degrees. which is the warmest
since June %, according to the records
of the local weather bureau.
There will be practically no change
in the weather in the next twenty
four hours, says Meteorologist Las
kowski. There will be a slight breeze
which will reduce humid conditions,
he announces. The temperature will
drop to about 6S degrees tonight and
Will rise to about 90 degrees Thursday.
The sky was clear today from Kansas
west to California and no precipita-
ton is in sight.
Topeka received a rain of .03 of an
inch Tuesday afternoon. The total
rainfall in Topeka this month is 7.42
inches. 1t is the fifth wettest July on
record.
The temperature made drop of 16
degrees between 1855 o'clock and
nm DaOa
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Cleveland Has Hones.

Cleveland. July 26.-Whether or not
a joint conference of miners and oper-
ators having in view the settlement
of the coal strike will be held here
next Saturday, is still undecided to-
day, notwithstanding the authoritative
but unofficial statement of President
Lee Hall of the Ohio miners, made at
Martins Ferry yesterday that such
action would be taken.
Thus far. it has proved impossible
to confirm this report from any other
source. but that unofficial and under
the surface efforts to end the long tie
up of the coal industry are under way
is well known and that Cleveland
operators are the most friendly of all
TO the miners organization is also an
undisputed fact.
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Mrs. John J. ReisIer Declares
She Slew Her Sister,
Son Had Stated Before He Was
Guilty One, Not Mother.
REOPENS A SEPARATION ROW
John ReisIer, Alleged SIayer's
Husband, a Ring General.
But He Failed to Keep Ring on
Wife After % Years.

| New York, July 26.-Miss Bertha
Katz, named as correspondent in a
separation suit filed last November by
her sister. Mrs. John ]. Reisler against
John the Barber was shot three
times and fatally wounded today in
her Brooklyn bedroom.
Police arrested Mrs. Reisler and her
two sons, Morris and George, and
the slain woman's brother. Max Katz,
charging each of them with homicide.
After rushing Miss Katz to hospital
detectives who said they found her
sister, brother and nephew in a room
adjoining the bed chamber, took all
of them to the death bed. where, the
detectives declared the dying woman
Identified Morns as the one who shot
her.
Her sister, Mrs. Reisler, the police
alleged, declared that she, and not her
son, did the shooting
"WeII, L Hope She dies"
Il hope she dies-if she don't, I'll
choke her-I have been waiting a
long time to get her." they quoted
Mrs. Reisler as saying on the trip to
the hospital.
Mrs. Reisler's husband, formerly a
Harlem barber, now an automobile
supplies salesman, was once manager
of Jack Dempsey.
Screams of Mrs. Jennie Katz,
woman, aroused neighbors when the
shots were fired. and they called the
police. The police said Mrs. Katz
told them Morris did it." and that
Mrs. Reisler, upon hearing these words
turned to her mother and said you
lie"
Said Husband Was Untrue.
The police reported finding a re-
volver in Mrs. Reisler's possession, but
believed she was trying to shield her
son. Morris.
Miss Katz had been cashier In
Reisler's barber shop and police said
they were told he had given her mon
ey so that she might attend a business
school.
The Reislers were married twenty
seven years ago.
The police said Mrs. Reisler accused
her husband of having Been intimate
with her sister for the past fifteen
years. Informed that her sister had
died, Mrs. Reisler said, according to
the police; Good. I'm glad of it,
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SUES TO COLLECT S1S,O5O
Action Filed Against CPavens Mortgage
and Securities Corporation.

Action Filed Against Cravens Mortgage
and Securities Corporation.
A suit to collect $1s,O5O from the
Cravens Mortgage & Securities corpor-
alton, of Salina, was filed in the fed
eral court here today by w. S. Frey.
trustee for the Weinle Motor COM
pany, of Salina, which was adjudged
bankrupt october 4. 1921. Frey al
leges that the motor company was in
debted to the securities corporation in
the sum of 81 1000 and that to secure
the debt motor cars valued at $751; ,050
were turned over by the company.
Frey charges that the company was
insolvent at that time and that the
move operated to give the securities
corporation a preference over other
creditors in its claim.
A similar suit was filed by Frey
against the Reserve State bank, of Sa-
lima, which was a creditor of the COM
pany in the sum of $4,000 and which
is alleged to have accepted $4,000
worth of motor cars. Frey asks that
either the cars or their value in money
be turned into his hands and the bank
and securities company be compelled
to accept a pro ratio of the companys s
assets along with the other creditors.
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E. R. GILBERT FILES ANSWER
Kansas City Lawyer Files Answer in
Disbarment Proceedings.

If he violated any of the state laws
or overstepped the bounds of profess
sional ethics, such action was uninten-
tional. That is the defense offered to
the supreme court today by Earle r.
Gilbert, Kansas City, Kan, lawyer.
who was recently cited for disbar-
ment. Gilbert is public administrator
of Wyandotte county.
Recently the supreme court re-
versed a personal injury damage suit
appealed from Wyandotte county by
the Santa Fe railroad. In reviewing
acts of Gilbert and Lee Judy, his part
ner the court held that their conduct
in the case was such as to warrant in
vestigation by the state bar examin-
ing board. The board recently cited
the men for disbarment.
Gilbert's answer today is in the
form of a general denial. He states,
tho. that if he was guilty of miscon-
duct it was an unintentional act.
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TO MAP AN AIR ROUTE.
Two Iieutenants of Air Service to Hop
Off at Rockwell Field.

San Diego, Cal, July 26.-The start
of a six thousand mile air mapping
flight by Lieuts. Charles Webber and
Virgil Hines, U. S. A, was scheduled
today when the aviators were to hop
off from Rockwell field for Sacra-
mento, Salt Lake and Denver a swing
over Oklahoma and Texas and then
back to San Diego. Their special De-
Haviland plane has a gasoline capac-
ity for nearly a thousand mile nom
stop flight.
The tour is planned as part of the
nationwide aeronauticaI mapping
program of the war department and
will take two or three weeks to COM
Dlete.
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JOHN L. LEWIS SAYS HA HA
Reports of Contracts for welsh Coal
Amuse the Miners Head.

New York. July 26.-Importation
of British mined bituminous coal to
avert a fuel famine among American
Industries, 'fs SO apparently futile and
absurd as to constitute a. huge joke"
John L. Lewis, president of the u. NJ.
w. A, asserted today.
"They tell me 5000 tons of coal
already has been contracted for at the
mines in Wales" he said. Enough
to keep the miners of America digging
2 II hours on = day of average produc-
ton. The normal coal requirement of
this country are 100000 tons a week.
1.-THE unloading capacity OH Ameri-
can docks is far less than that"
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LENROOT ATTACKS GOODING.
He Says Gooding Would Return
Democrats to Power

Washington, July GA sharp at
tack on Senator Gooding of Idaho.
chairman of the Republican agricul-
tural tariff bloc, by Senator Lenroot,
Republican, Wisconsin, and heated
exchange between the two senators
marked continuation to debate today
in the senate on the Lenroot amend
ment to lower the proposed duties on
coarse woods.
Asserting that Senator Gooding was
the greatest enemy of the farmer in
American senator, Lenroot declared
the inevitable fact of Mr.. Gooding's
policy with regard to wool duties
woold be to return the Democrats to
control of the government with free
woll and all that would entail in the
way of hardships for the wool
growers
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HIRAM JOHNSON is 'HOME."
"Same Old Fight" He Tells Frisco
Crowd Which Greets Him.

into the senatorial campaign with his
old time vigor and announcing his in
tention of making the fight for Re
publican nomination in which he Is
being opposed by c. c. Moore, two
fisted fight" Senator Hiram w. John
son was back home today FOR the final
month of the primary battle, which
will end August 20.
ITS the same old fight with the
same old gang" he told crowds that
greeted him from the time he entered
the state until he arrived at his home
here, and 1--WE will do the same thing
we have done in every campaign since
1910" he added, in prophesying a
sweeDing victory.
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Los Angeles, July 26.-The date of
the wedding OF MariIynn Miller of the
stage to Jack Pickford of the screen
has been advanced from August 1 to
July 80.
and she and her fiance were discuss
ing their plans for being married
August l, when Mrs. Charlotte Pick
ford, Jacks mother, interrupted:
No, they'll be married next Sun
day-at O'Clock Sunday night-so
there will be no interruptions in the
picture work.
''Au right said Jack and Marilynn.
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CASE GOES TO SUPREME COURT
Temporary Order Issued in Santa Fe
Hospital Case.

Officers of the Santa Fe railroad
today appealed to the supreme court
IN the mandamus proceedings in the
Topeka Santa Fe hospital case The
supreme court issued a temporary or
der which holds in allegiance enforce
ment of the district court writ direct
ing recognition of Clyde E. Hampstead
as trustee of the hospital association.
The district court of Shawnee coun-
ty recently held that Hampstead was
entitled to recognition as trustee
and issued writ placing him in office.
The appeal today will test the right of
the district court to make the order
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MUST USE CENTRAL Time
Ruling Made by p. L. c. as to office
Hours at Oherlin.

Office hours of the Burlington rail-
way and the Western Union Telegraph
company at Oberlin. Decatur county.
must be on Central time. Trains may
be operated on such time as the rail-
road desires according to ruling to-
day by the public utilities commission.
Recently merchants appealed to the
commission because the telegraph and
ticket offices remain open during the
Central time noon hour, but closed on
Mountain time. Thus there is no serv-
ice between the Central time afternoon
hours of l and 2 o'clock. The COM
missions orders requires that the sta
ton be kept open between the hours
of soc a. m. and 600 p. m, Central
Time ~s=~.1'a7- -
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STILL ABOVE PRE-wAR COST
Living Cost Is Down Compared to
June in 1920, However, Is Report.

Washington, July 26.-while living
costs generally in the United States
we're 23 per cent lower last month
than in June, 1920. and two-tenths OF
1 per cent lower than in March, this
year. they were 66.6 per cent higher
thar in December, 1913, the bureau of
labor statistics of the department of
labor announced today.
Food prices showed an upward
trend from March to June, the figures
revealed, but were offset by declines
in clothing, fuel, light. furniture and
miscellaneous necessities, while hous-
ing remained stationary.
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Allies Find Germans Using
Strategic Fort as 'ISchooL"
Supposed School of Fire and Range Control OverIoos
Kel Canal and Easily Could Be Made Fort-Will Send
Sharp Note Demanding Its Destruction.

canal Allied control officers who re-
ported the school to the council
termed it the most fragrant of the
long series of violations of the naval
terms of the treaty of Versailles on the
part of Germany. Among other
charges made against Germany was
that of attempting enlistn. ents for the
German navy far beyond the quota
allowed by the treaty. Failure of the
Germans to destroy the coast defense
guns also was among the complaints.
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POPE APPEALS FOR RUSSIA.
World Asked to Aid Them in Letter
United States Stand Praised.

Rome, July ga letter written by
Pope Plus XXI appealing to the whole
world to aid the starving Russians
was made public today.
The pontiff commended the splen-
did response of the United States to
the early appeals for Russian relief,
declaring the Americans had gained
recognition of all humanity"
A high tribute was paid to the
American congress for voting large
sums for Russian assistance
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Asks harrington to Agree.

Springfield, July 26.-Immediate
resumption of work in Illinois coal
mines at the same wage scale existing
when the strike was called. and the
opening of conferences in the COVER
nor's office here between operators
and miners to conclude a separate IL
linois wage agreement was suggested
in a telegram sent by Acting Governor
Sterling at noon today to President
Frank harrington of the Illinois mine
workers.
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NO IDLE LABOR AT sALINA.
Various Industries of Farm Keep I'm
pIoyment Offices Open.

Salina, July 26.-Threshing, potato
digging. local construction work. al
falfa cutting and harvest demands
from the Dakotas is keeping the local
employment office registers clean, ac-
cording to w. B. Smith, in charge.
The next call will be for men to
harvest the corn crop. Mr.. Smith said,
but this demand probably will be
filled by men coming up from the
south. THE supply of workers, how
ever, is none too plentiful" he said.
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southern Pacifics Net Revenue Up

San Francisco, July 26.-The net
revenue fof the operations of the
Southern Pacific company for the six
months ending June 80 was $685.
s26. an increase of s5,O14,210 over the
same period last year. according to
figures announced today by the corn
,1a0v
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Four Men HoIdup Lcnapah Bank.

Coffeyville, Kan, July 26.-Four
men held up the Citizens National
bank at Lena pah. Okla, twelve miles
south of Coffeyville at o'clock this
afternoon and escaped with about
$500 of the banks funds.
The men were unmasked.
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Ask Other "Soviets" to Aid Them.
INV the Assnciated prennl

Moscow, July 25.-An appeal to the
world proletariat to bring pressure to
bear upon the various governments
for better times for soviet Russia in
its endeavors to establish relations
with capitalistic countries was issued
today by the communist interna-
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MORE LIVESTOCK REPORTS

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