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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-27


Central Theatre.
This Fascinating Gripping, Punch-Delivering Special
Will Be Shown But Two Days.
There IS No One Big Movement In "Thunderclap"
There Are Many of Them
There Is No One Big Star In This Picture. Eleven
Players Put Over" the Story and Each Is Star.
MARY CARR the Famous Mother" in "Over the
Hill," Is One of the Cast
There is of imagination, transplanting of
nature the studio introduction of the impossible
"THUNDERCLAP," 4 masterpiece of photography, rolls
along the silver in unbroken story, story
neatly woven and depicted to make captions
wholly unnecessary While it leaves nothing to the i'm
aginaton it does leave plenty of food for thought plenty
talk about that night after the picture the day.
the week and the month Beneath the
full efforts OF Mr. Fox to again please his millions of
patrons there moral WHICH needs emphasis and
which receives
Throughout it all there the thread of beautiful
love story, held firm by the greatest of all hui
mans, typical loving, selfsacrihcng Mother.
In a word, 'THUNDERCLAP" leaves nothing to be
desired It's winner
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-27

The resignation of DR.. Edward Day
Collins as provost and professor of ped
agogy at Middlebury college has been
announced Dr.. Collins will continue
his services as director of the summer
year
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-27

State Fish and Game Commissioner
H. p Sheldon has received from the L..
s bureau of biological survey a letter
asking for cooperation in the Obtaining
of information on the mating, nesting,
and rearing of water fowl found in this
vicinity. Arrangement will be made to
observe the birds at the bird sanctuary
at Milton to obtain the information.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
J0PLINITES WIN OUT
Missouri Dc-leunic- jasper Capital
na on Preferred Highway 60
the Southwest.

Fleriul To- THE NU'.Ns
CARTHAGE. Mo. July lit ia
officially announced 90 tho roma n.-
focintlous or southwest Missouri
that the state highway commission
has approved ns preferred highways
the routes from 81 Louis through
Rolla, Lebanon, Springfield, car
thage, webb city and Joplin. and
from st. Joseph 20 Southwest Mis-
souri, hy way OF Platte city, Kansas
CITY, Ruuor, Nevada. Lamar. car
thage. webb city and Joplin.
Tho preferred highways are 20 be
bard surfaced throughout ana con-
structcd with tho SO0.00o.oOo road
bond issue. ana ~ connect with the
500 miles of federal primary high
ways IN Missouri running from Kan
sas city 20 81 Louis, through S'dhIlnl,
nnd Jefferson CITY Towns not al
ready located on the preferred high
WAYS are to be given an opportunity
To present their case.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
INDIANS OPPOSE q
u. S. REGULATION
Usage Full Bloods to Seek
Repeal of 1921
Law


FAIRFAX, July Lied b. tNa,.
newly installed chief, Ne-Ean.eaf.
era-tJn-kah, fun blood members o.
the Usage Indian tribe nav.
launched q campaign in ar effart d.
break up the payment p.r g...
uect,d wtH the extension an. o.,
lg-I Preston a. Shlnn. prouIna.,
Usage county attorney hls been
selected ly the tribe 90 lead the az.
tuck upon the feature OF tne law
which gives the interior dep4rtmar.
tuil authority 10 hold up large por.
tious of the tribal payments.
The chief and his fellow tribes.
mon contend that the Indians ara
capable OF handling their own af.
fairs and they resent outside inter.
ference. 1t is pointed out by many
members OF tho tribe that the art /,
"a direct violation OF the treaty made
with the tribe during the latter part
OF the past century. which gave fns
Indians authority to dispose OF tlei'
money as they saw fi'.
Tho action OF the interior deua-i.
mont is holding up portions OF the
Usage payments has wrecked Harr.
with business intersest In OsaRs
county and many business men ars
openly I'm sympathy with the tribe IN
their fight 20 regain control Of tae.-
funds.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
PAY TRIBUTE TO DR.. HERzL
Mass Meeting Of Jewish People VIII
IIc Held on july ~,

\ mass meeting ~ Jrwish people
I'm Tulsa FOR sunday evening, July 10
has been called hy the Tulsa Ralcs-
tine committee through Rabbi NJ.
Teller. The meeting, to be held In
the jewish synagogue at 9l9 South
Cheyenne is for the purpose or pay
ing tribute to the memory or the
18th anniversary Of the death OF br.
Theodore Her2l. tho great Jewish
leader.
Speaking OF tho commemora,ion
exercises. Rabbi Teller spoke ~ Doc
tor lIcrgl as "thc great leader I'm
Israer and soid further that "the
Observance of Doctor llerzla Nahr-
ycit was especially timely in thoeo
days that are so momentous for our
people
The meeting is to be held under
the auspices Of the Tulsa Palestine
committee representing the Cougge-
cation BSai Emmau, lladnssah and
the Doctor llorZl branch of the JuW-
ish National Workers alliance.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
KILLS HIS BR0THER-lN-LAW
Val Quarlcs OF Olnthe Shot In Duel
pCaCVmikCr Hurt.

OLATHE, Kan, July 1i.--Val
Quarlcs. As, was shot in the left
side today In revolver duel with
Charles Sloan, At. his brother.!n-iaw.
Sloan was arrested following the
shooting. Irwin Rogers. who at
tempted 10 stop the duel was shot
lu the left elbow.
Tho shooting followed n quarrel
over Mrs. Sloan who he'd started on
q motor car ride with Quarles, her
brother and other relatives against
hor husbands wishos. Quaries wae
taken TO Kansas City hospital
whore i8 was stated he would rc-
cover
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
HERRlN DEAD TOTAL is q
Guy Hudgcns Dies I'm Hcrrin Hospi-
tni of Bullet Wound in stomach.

MARION. Ill.,. July 14.--Guy Hud-
gems aS. d'od I'm "a hospital az Hcrrin
from bullet wound ln the stomach,
bringing the total OF dead today iu
'rr mIrc massacre in williamson
county 90 %. IIudgcns, union
coal miner. is one OF three union
men TO die In the riotlng at the
Ilorrln strip mine last month.
lie was shot through the stomach
ON the first day OF rioting. Hudgens.
who Cumos from one OF tho most
prominent families in the county
was "a wIdower and leaves a 6-ycor-
Old dauEMtor.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
ono Ont Tccds Many.

Special 10 The World
VINITA, July l4-w. o. Dillon
of this city and Att Cobb Of Big
CABIN brought home 60-pound
catfish from trip on tho Grand
river this week The big fish sup
puicd a meal for all OF their rola-
t!vcs and many OF their friends who
were called out to the Dillon home
10 see the fish.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
Mixed Poetry and Astronomy.

The professor was showing n
young woman tho heavens through
his big telescope. He directed her
gaze 10 a bright planet which he
told her was Venus.
"oh, isn't 81 perfectly lovely!" she
exclaimed, NOW please show me
AdQpAsa, ''r>
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15

TALIAST. July IA tourists
rcst room has been established In
The Community club building here
hy the Empire Gas y luol Co. The
Empire company has also built Il
park club building so that tourlsta
passing through this part OF Usage
county may rest
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15

KILDARE, July lA.--Audrow
Hondrickson has been awarded a
diploma OF proficiency In Clvil en-
Ciucorlng course offered by the
Marine Corps institute nt Washing
ton, and has n letter Of commenda-
tion also from Major General l.e-
tcune. commnndant OF tho United
states marines.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
7 AIDES $1,000 RTwARDiI most

lively guarantee my great Sue.
ccsstul Monthly" Compound. Safe
ly relieves some of the longest most
obstinate, abnormal cases IN 3 TO B
days. No harm. pain or Interior
ence with work. Mail s2.O0; Double
Strength $500. Booklet free. Write
today. DIR. Il. A. southington Rem
edy Co. Kansas City. Mo.--Adyor-
tlsement.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15

HOLTISTER. Mo, July IA
Anton Muller. was elected president
OF tho Grape Growers association At
meeting held here, TanCy county
ls becoming one or the most I'M
southwest
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
OKENfAII.

OKEMAIr. July II. -- County
Agent T.. a. Klsuck reports Okfus-
koc county has 80 boys' agricultural
clubs both white and colored. seven
moro than any other county I'm tho
state Lincoln county IS second with
%, while McCurtain Is third with 2S.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15

And he IL a bookkccper, tent
hc9"
yeah: umbrella, too. or anything
he hnppCus TO borrow"
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, July IA
Several patrulWon were stationed
near the Baptist hospital when
rumors were said 20 have been
circulated by Missouri Pacific cm-
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15

CLINTON, Mo. July 1i.--"TInppy
Jack Doyle. n negro, was shot and
fatally wounded by Jesse McSame
during n quarrel at Lovers Leap. "a
hin west of clinton. Argument over
n quarter. involved in crap game
caused the shooting
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
Northwest Arkansas

PRAIRIE GROVE Ark, July IA
A carload of spring lambs avoroE-
ing 10 pounds. has been shipped "a
the St Louis market. Lamb raising
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15

MANSFIELD, Mo. July IA
bond issue Of $1,000 wac voted 139
20 at a special election for the
erection Of another school building.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15

ELDORADO, Kan, July l4.-El-
dorado and adjacent territory slowly
Il recovering iruru the storm or
Monday Estimates OF tho loss
caused by the storm range from
s15O.OOO 10 100000. with oil COM
pouIcs tho hc1yicst losers. Approx
imatoly $50 rigs were levelled by the
high wind, and many other buildings
in the fields wcrG blown down,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
Southern Kansas

BANTER SPRINGS. Kan. July
14.--tIenry Hoffman, a.. bruno man
at the Euterpo. mine, here, was
killed when struck by a falling houl-
der. The mlno IL about five miles
from here.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15

LYONS, Kan. July 1t.-Harry
Chase, treasurer 81 Rice county. had
% now experience recently. \ farmer
wanted tu Eiyo his note IN settlement
OF hig taxes.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15

NOWATA, July l4-Aftor three
years and seven months with the
Rcd Cross, part of tho time Ia
Europe. Miss GLADYS Arnold, has re-
turned home.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
Southwest NoUs Briefs
OKLAHOMA,
ARKANSAS

Quoucmo. Olivot. Emporla. Chauute.
Colony Richmond and clscV.Jcre.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-15
Oklahoma

STILBWATER. July 1.-THE
Oklahoma farm congress ia TO bee
held at the A. q NJ. college this year
August 90 10 30.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
and confesses.

what was meant by adding an
envelope filled with blank strips
Of paper to the regular consign.
ment Of its bonds. The Staw-
nut cashier stated that his bank
had ordered a big block Of Sc.
curities from the Chase bank
and had received them in two
envelopes, but that he did not
quite understand the significance
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

THE PLOT IN PICTUREs!-Arthur F. Chase, who
gained the freedom of the bank by getting employment
as watchman, substituted an envelope filled with
blank paper into the mail for envelope containing
S5O00O0 negotiable Liberty bonds, pictured in the
upper sketch
The sketch below shows the amazement of the New
England bank officers receiving the valueless pack
age which had arrived in the mail. But more than
week passed before the Chase National Bank knew of
the loss and then they could not tell how where the
theft had been committed.
Fern Hollis sudden trip South to meet her hus-
band gave the detectives the first definite hope for
solution of the mystery of the half million dollars
The singer is shown in the third sketch the train
surrounded by detectives whose presence she did not
guess.
Confronted by the armed detectives in the Savannah
Hotel pictured in the fourth SKETCH Captain Vardeman
and his wife searched and the key to the safety
deposit box containing the bonds is found.
In the last sketch, Arthur F. Chase unaware of his
confederates capture and still the job as watchman
in the Chase National Bank is seized at pistols point
and confesses.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

Before that reached New York
telegraphic inquiries revealed that
all bonds consigned by mail had
arrived safely-except the $780,
900 ordered sent to the First Ma.
tional Bank. of Lynn. And so,
eight days after the theft, the
loss was discovered.
The first step taken by the
Chase National Bank was 10 nou-
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

OF the third envelope filled with
blank paper. Was It a joker
Decidedly, the Chase officials
agreed, 1t was not a joke, and
they started TO check up by wire
other consignments Of bonds sent
out by mail, at the same time
wiring Boston to send back the
blank paper and the envelope that
contained IT,
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

difficulty in landing as a guard
and watchman.
There for months he watched
the flood Of money sweep past
him and it fascinated him. There
is nothing to indicate that in the
beginning of his employment he
was even tempted to steal any Of
1t. But it was there all the time
and he could see 1t, and the
volume Of 1t seemed inexhaust.
able.
The clerks who handled it, in
the same callous fashion that
clerks elsewhere measure out
ribbon, wrap up cans of tomatoes
or weigh coal, got to like the
Western service man. He was no
dumbbell hired for physical
strength, though he had plenty
Of that, nor for the imposing
appearance he might have made
in a uniform, though he could
assume the solemn dignity Of an
Indian when the occasion re-
quired. But he was chummy
and independent at once, and
ready to lend a hand any time
at any task-and he was quick.
Why, before he had been there
long he was helping stamp and
weigh and count the registered
mail, and was doing 1t as dext-
rously as though he had been
born in the currency cage of a
bank.
The animal.like accuracy and
speed of hand that had served
Chase so we'll in the old two-gun
days made bank work mere play
to the man.
THE BIG IDEA DEVELOPS.
The watchman lived at No. 152
West Forty.ninth street, New
York City, with Captain Varde
man and his wife, Fern Hollis,
the singer. 1t is understood that
at one time Vardeman was also
employed by the bank. How he
came into contact with the
ranger.watchman is not clear.
Probably 1t was through service
connections or their employment
in the financial district At any
rate, the three occupied the
same apartment. and 1t was in
that apartment that the big idea
was developed. 1t is in line with
what is known OF the character
of the man that Chase insists
the plan was first advanced by
himself, and that the others mere.
ly fell In with IT,
Anyway, the half-million sud
denly disappeared, and it was a
week before the Chase National
Bank knew that 1t was gone, so
cleverly was the theft staged
The Chase officials on April Is
decided to ship 100000 Liberty
Bonds to the First National Bank
OF Lynn. Mass, by registered
mail.
The securities, unregistered and
negotiable. were set apart to be
packed and wrapped and taken
to the postoffice with the reg.
ular mail that Is sent on April
II under guard after banking
hours.
The 18th came and went and
several days after II without ap-
parent incident. Watchman
Chase continued at his duties, un.
concerned and undisturbed, and
the bank officials never gave
thought to the 100000 ordered
sent to the Lynn institution. So
far as anyone could tell, the
securities we're already there.
1t was MT until April 26 that
that first htimation was given
that something was wrong. On
that date the National shawmut
Bank, Of Boston. wrote 20 the
Chass Nat nal Rank inauirfnR
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

Capt. John V. Vardeman, a
thirty-year-old veteran Of the world
war, and his pretty young wife,
known as Fern Hollis, an opera
singer, with Arthur F. Chase, a SOL
der of fortune, form the trio under
arrest. So far as can be gathered
they are the only persons involved
in the plot. They worked shrewdly,
carefully and with a swiftness that
was equaled only by the sinI licity
Of their procedure.
Chase was employed in the bank
as a guard and watchman. He had
been a gold hunter in the Nome dis-
trict, a trapper in the Arctic Alas
kan interior, and later punched cat
tie in Nevada. Wyoming, Montana,
Arizona and New Mexico. wher-
ever there was trouble or other
forms Of excitement Chase drifted.
When the Philippine insurrection
became heady he pulled away from
the plains and enlisted in the army
for foreign service. After eighteen
months in the islands he returned
with his regiment, and went with II
to the Big Bend district OF Texas,
and there his quick temper and
equally quick fists drew him into a
conflict with an officer. and Chase
was chased out Of the service.
BRED TO DANGER.
Thence he drifted into the
Arizona territorial police force, a
mounted organization similar to
the Texas rangers. Chase
achieved more than local fame
among them. He was rated a
hard rider, a fast worker and a
marksman with pistol or rifle
who stood out among an organi-
Eation of sharpshooters. Men who
served with him described him
as a real two-gun man." and his
service record of arrests was
high.
When Arizona was admitted to
the Union Of States, the mounted
constabulary disbanded and Chase
was adrift again. He filed q
homestead claim at Concho, but
he was afflicted with restless
feet and couldn't stay rooted any
way. He wandered East, swing
ing from city to city, from job
to Job, trying a hand at a hun.
dred ventures, gaining little and
losing little, because he had little
70 lose.
Then came the war and Chase
went right into it. as II the cata-
clysm had been ordered especially
for him. He went in and through
II from the recruiting office to
the Hindenberg line and back
again to be mustered out. And
It was typical Of the man that
when he was discharged, he went
to work in Pennsylvania
ammunition plant. Other men in
the war may have seen enough
Of powder and shells to last them
q life time, but life for Chase
was q CLANCY business at best
and hazard never held him back.
All this is considerable intro
duction to Arthur F. Chase, but
the plot pivots on his personality
and without an understanding of
him the story loses it's point.
MILLIONS AT HIS ELBOW.
When ammunition became inter
nationally Questionable and ex.
plosive plants began to turn out
t,nitation ivory. linoleum and
near-leather instead OF sudden
death in capsule form, Chase
dropped out OF the industry and
came to New York, the city OF
long chances and high stakes,
and applied for a job In the
bank that bore his own name.
with his military record. his
intelligence. and quickness OF
thought and action. he had little
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

fy Lloyds OF London, the Ma
tional Surety Company, the
Hartford Accident and Indemnity
Company and the Aetna Insur.
ance Company. with all OF which
the bank insuros It's shipments.
The bank announced then that
it was completely protected
against any loss and that the
surety companies would. with Its
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

cooperation, prosecute the search
for the missing securities and the
detection and arrest OF the
thieves.
But right there complications
developed. Tho banks insurance
policies we're carefully drawn for
It's own protection. 30 that every
shipment was insured on every
foot Of its journey and from the
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

NEW 1URk, June s.
THALF a million dollars stolen from one of the big
IT gest banks in the country!
For three weeks the huge mystery, without the
fantest clue to the identity of the thieves the
In which they operated the disposition of the loot
Most extraordinary of all the extraordinary elements
of the crime, the bank did not know where the
funds had been stolen when!
This is the story of the $5O0OOO unregistered nego
able Liberty bonds lifted from the Chase National Bank
on April II last in plot planned and executed so sim
ply as to impossible of Yet the job was
successful that but for careless on the part
OF the consprators at the last minute they would have
made clean getaway with the funds and been over
seas in safety today.
But because of that careless in an otherwise air
tight plot two men and are under arrest
charged with the crime and the bulk of the bonds have
been recovered
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

HI nasa
NIL ED fortune
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
NEW YORK POLICE
CALLED i'm AFTER
OTHERS FAILED

Private Detective Agencies, Bafled, Ask and
Obtain Help i'm Tracing ThieVeS-L0ot is
RecoVered-0pera Singer Was Trailed to
Savannah and Her Husband Arrested at
Pistols Point i'm Hotel Room Which HE Had
Engaged.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04


The main stem Of the investi.
CATION was then thrust into
the Postoffice Department, while
Pinkerton men continued TO covcF
the bank employees. The opera
tives pushing the mail end Of the
case came up against . blank
wall at the first step.
They found out that It was the
custom OF the bank to send its
registered packages Of bonds In
punches and to accept a receipt
for the number OF packages
handed to the postal clerks,
without any Identified ton Of each
package, not even the consirnes's
Continued on Page 81
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-05
SHOOTS DAUGHTER,
TURNS GUN ON SELF
Indianapolis Man Also Fires
Two Shots at Wife-Had
Been Despondent.

INDIANAPOLIS. June 4.-(By A.
PD-AIbert II. Ballman So years
old. a craftsman. ended his life with
a revolver early Sunday after he
had shot and seriously wounded his
10-year-old daughter. Anna Gather
ine. and had fired two shots at his
wife. Mrs. Florence Gemmer Ball
man.
Mrs. Ballman told police officers
that her husband arose about four
m. today and obtaining a revol-
yer. went INFO the room where their
daughter was sleeping. Mrs. Ball
man said she heard a shot then her
husband returned % their room and
pointed the revolver at her. she
struck his arm as ne fired. she said
and the bullet went into the ceiling
She then ran 10 the daughters room
and found the girl with a wound
in her head. As she fled her hus-
band fired a second time. Mrs Ball
man told the Officers
Mrs. Ballman carried her daughter
70 a physicians office. Police who
had been called found Ballman dead
in his room with a revolver clutch
ed in his hand Four OF the SIX
cartridges in the weapon had been
fired
Mrs Banman said her husband
had been respondent recently.