The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-11-14


the details of his denial of charges
against him, Former Director Charles
r. Forbes of the Veterans Bureau,
put new thrills in the senate Veter-
ans Bureau investigation today by
flatly contradicting the testimony of
several previous witnesses. He
passed the lie direct to Elias III.
Mortimer, Philadelphia, who had told
the investigating committee that un-
der Forbes administration confiden-
tiaI information was furnished GER
tain contractors regarding proposed
hospital sites.
eff Mortimer states that" said the
former director HE states that as
lie"
James S. Easby-Smith, counsel for
Forbes, read into the record requ1-
sition on the veterans bureau for
supplies for the soldiers home at
Dayton, Ohio, made by General Saw
yer 1t called for twenty barrels each
of whiskey and alcohol, one hundred
thousand towels and sheets, each;
one hundred thousand yards of gauze
and gauze bandage, each, and fifty
thousand blankets. This requISlt1on,
Forbes said, he refused to fill. When
questioned as to why, he SAID,
quantities were excessive"
To Investigate Wheat Tariff
Washington-(A. P.--An investiga-
ton of the tariff duty on wheat, was
ordered by the tariff commission to-
day, under the flexible provisions CT
the Fordney- -McCumber tariff act.
Wins Nobel Prize
Stockholm-(A P.-The Noble /
prize for literature has been awarded
to William Butler Yeats, Irish
author, it is announced here today
withdraw ExpOrtable Surpluses
Chicago@(A P.-An agricultural
export commission, designed to re-
store the farm purchasing power by
the exportable SURPRISES 1.
from the domestic markets, is re-
very careful consideration by
the department of agriculture" Sec
retary Henry c. Wallace said in an
address before the Chicago Associ-
alton of Commerce today.
Separation Action UnOppOsed
New York-(A. P.-W. E. d. Stokes
will not oppose the separation action
of his wife, Mrs. Helen Elwood
Stokes, his attorney told Supreme
Court Justice Wasservogel today The
said, however, that the
wealthy hotel man would appeal from
last weeks court decision refusing
him a divorce.
Unemployment Demonstrations
Dusseldorf-(A. PD-One person
was killed and twenty more We're
wounded during a clash last night be-
tween the police and crowd of un-
employed holding a demonstration.
The demonstrations continued today
with the crowds which paraded the
streets all day yesterday protesting
against the unemployment situation
Bandits Murder Messengers
New York=(A P.)-Two bank
messengers were murdered by two
bandits who stole $43,600 from them
n spectacular hoIdup at the Fifty
fifth street station of the west end
subway line in Brooklyn today. The
station was filled with persons on
heir way to work when the bandits
opened fire, later fleeing with the
money in an automobile for which
he police have sent out general
alarm within the SO mile radius of :
he city. +.
Separatist Leader Arrested
Cologne-(A P.)--Leo Decker, +
5eparatist leader, has bee narrested ;
at Verviers, just over the Belgian
rontier, according to advices recelv-
I'd today from Aix-La-Chapelle.
Jury Acquits Assassin I
Prague, o-Slovakia-(A. P.) f
.Atanas Nikoloff, 26 years of age, I
Bulgarian, tried on the charge Of T
M. Daskaloff, Bulgar- $
an minister in Prague last August +
IS, was acquitted today by vote OF $
eight to four after the jury had been :
out Is hours. The supreme court :
las yet to pass on the verdict and
nay reject it. Nikoloff confessed to .
he killing which he said had been :
ordered by the Macedonian organlza-
ion because Daskaloff opposed the
Macedonian separatist movement.
Ambassadors Delya Consideration =
Paris=(A PN-The allied council