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Show Ever-changi- oppor- ng for labor and capita! are presented in The Tribune Want Ads. tunities VOL. 106, NO. 9. 16 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1922. DR. LYMAN ABBOTT 4 : f Ancient Church Altar Hides uMoonshine Bar Mother of Fifteen Given Agricultural Decoration MACON, Go., Oct. 22. Detectives who raided an old church here today found that the altar had been Into a bar. , stained-glass broken Through man saw a window they liftingoffi- a his the of to lips, liquor glass cers stated. They rushed In and claim to have seised two jugs of moonshine whUky, hidden under, what had been the' mourners' bench. One arrest was made. MOULIN., France, Oct. 22 (By Prees.) A woman the Associated farmer, Madame Chemlnot, the mother of fifteen children, fourteen of whom are working the land at Le Veuredre, twenty miles from here, today was decorated with the Order of Agricultural Merit by Minister of Agriculture Cheron. M. Cheron said It was the government's dpty to salute such a woman aa an example for all French women to follow. . con--vert- Fire Is Believed Deed of '"Pyroraaniaci; Majority of Victims Are Children. Spectacle of Once Bitter Opponents Again7 Comrades Amuses Observers. Flames Democratic Five-stor- Senate Leader AffiliaWet Famous publicist, editor and CongregaXEOf YORK. Oct. 22. Fifteen tional minister, who for half a century most of them children, loot their . has been prominent In public Ilfs. lives early today in a fire believed by OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 22. In .the news city officials to bo the work of a of what is happening here in Nebraska The flames swept with murderthere will be surprise for the fraternity ous suddenness from cellar to attic of of politicians In places distant from this y a brick tenement house at state and amusement for everybody evLexington avenue and One Hundred But for the ' leaders of the erywhere. Tenth street,-i- n the thickly populated movement to make the United States wet east side. . again there are sorrow and painful lh- The blaze apparently smarted in a baby Out here, by the way, the rtruction, carriage under the stairs . in a lower who are so well pleased with the dry's, hall under almost Identical circumstances state of the world that they are in a a? the recent incendiary fire In an upmood to be humorous, gaV that this batper west side apartment house which retle cry of that association for the repeal Well-know- n Writ- of sulted in seven deaths. So auickly did prohibition Is, divided we stand, unitthe flhmes shoot through the building ed we stagger," that a number of the deid were found Successor The .Democratic party in Nebraska was In bid, burned or suffocated without for many years split between the drys the slightest opportunity to escape. Is and the wets. The leader of the drys Nathan Silver and four of his children was William Jennings Bryan. The leader were among the victims. . Mrs. Silver of the wets was Senator Gilbert M. escaped. Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Matil-sk- y NEW YORK, Oct.' 22. Dr. Lyman Ab- Hitchcock. The fight between the two and Sidney and Catherine Sugarman, waa extremely acid. Of late years Senof the Outlook, with ator Hitchcock has been pretty steadily brother and sister of Mrs. Matilsky, also bott, which he had been associated nearly the winner. In more than one case he perished. forty years; clergyman, lawyer, author has Interfered seriously with Bryans Alarm Sounded. and successor to Henry Ward Beecher ambitions tn the nation, and Bryan's removal from Nebraska to Florida was Shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. as pastor of Plymouth church, Brook- believed to be due partly to humiliation City Marshal Joseph Lasarus, while on lyn, died today. He would have been suffered in his old home at the hands hi wav home, saw smoke Issuing from 87 next December. When the end came of Hitchcock and the wets. Senator the hallway of the building. He ran to Hitchcock was an opponent of the proBe nezt corner and turned In an alarm. his four sons and two daughters were hibition amendment and up to as late When he returned the whole building, at the bedside. as two years ago was on the wet side the ground floor of which Is occupied " a fight for delegates to the DemoIr. Abbott suffered a severe at- of by stores, was a mass of flames, and exit by the stalrwavs was cut off. Most tack of bronchitis at his country home cratic national convention. of the pereongon the second floor made In last summer, Hitchcock Recants. their way down fire escapes, but those on 'upper floors had to struggle through from which he never fully recovered. Within the last few weeks, however. smoke and flames pouring out the winHitchcock, who Is & candidate The Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D., was Senator dows. He now for reelection, has recanted. Several tenants perched on upper story one of the most active leaders In many takes ths position that it Is obvious that windows threatened to Jump, but were avenues of religious .and civic thought the United States to be In the United States. As preacher, ediprevailed upon by firemen to remain until dry, end that any senator wjto wishes ladders could be' raised to take them tor, author and theologian, he exhibited correctly to represent his country and On down. eared woman, Mrs. Mary a quality of character which impressed hts state must take that side. Senator the warning and Itself on all who came In contact -- with Hitchcock, having thus recanted, has Inglass, disregarded no from the fourth floor, receiving him, a singular poise and serenity of been welcomed to the mourners bench which caused her death tonight. spirit. Injuries by William Jennings Bryan In person, ' vvhle tne n remen were St work on the and the spectacle that today astonishes second floor and preparing to fight their Practiced Law. a person familiar with the ten years of way to the third floor, this floor colIn his early youth, after, graduation nation-wid- e feud between Bryan dry and before not but roar s from the university of the city of New Hitchcock Wet Is the sight of William lapsed, warning had sent the firemen to safety. York, he studied law and was admitted Jennings Bryan in his best form gallopto the bar, and afterward practiced tn ing up and down the state begging ths Youth Is Hero. partnership with his brothers, Benjamin folks to vote for Hitchcock for the senV. Austin Abbott, Giving up the ate. , Nearly a score of persons owed their law and for theology, he studied for the minOf course, there are In this commuJames ODonnell, a lives, to mechanic's helper, who was eating at a istry of the Congregational church with nity, as there are everywhere else, perrestaurant In the vicinity when he heard his uncle, S. C. Abbott, and was or- sons of a cynical disposition, and soma a woman cry for help. Running to the dained at Farmington, Me., In 1860. His of these point out that a portion of the was in Terre Haute, Ind., motive for Mr. Bryan's patching up ths street, he saw the woman leaning out first charge of the window on the eecond floor of the where he remained five years. party feud may lie In the fact that BrAs editor of the Christian Union, yans brother, Charlev, is on the same burning tenement with two children bv was which to later be known as the ticket with Hitchcock In the role of her side. The young man clambered whatever upon the sfll of a store window. Jumped Outlook, his work. In association with candidate for governor. To affection -- mnv have and caught a swinging sign and pulled thajt of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ITMr. so an to ihiin of himself up a luan the "indow Vi the .mnikcl Bryan's willingness 'grcSir'promlse XhrFefrighlened tenant's down the fire and one who saw religion, not too nar- quickly to forgive Senator Hitchcock's escape to the street and then ran back rowly conventionalized, but overlapping former association with the wicked and and spiritualizing many and rescued the woman's social and welcome him back to the fold of the baby, who Was asleep In a crlb. civil problems of the time. righteous is a matter for the worldlv and adto the roof of an Later he went After the death of Mr. Beecher. Dr. the unworldly reader to decide each for board and a became Abbott of throwring building by joining Plymouth himself. pastor over the alley space, made It possible Continued on Pag Tkroo for a number of tenants, who seemingDrys Still .Displeased. (Column Thno.) ly had been cut off from escape, to cress However that may be, no one out here In safety. or anywhere else where Senator HitchWilliam Connors, 23, who live with cock Is known, doubts his good faith. his mother across the street from the When he promises to resist any change burned building, also rescued a number In the Volstead act, he will go through of persons from the third floor. Includwith It. Nevertheless, some of the drys, Hs was badlv burned ing Mrs. Silver. III.. 22. Oct. when a gust of flames burned the cloth-- . PEORIA, Timothy Doyle especially among the women, will unIng from his back as he was walking is held in the Mason county Jail at Ha- doubtedly take athe position that Senator returned sinner ought woman with In a hia vana tonight, after be, shot and probably Hitchcock, a down the fire escape period In meekness arms. fatally wounded one man and wounded to spend a greater two others on his farm, three miles north and repentance and will vote for hla ReB.- Howell. R. Incendiarism Suspected. opponent, of Mason City. The shooting is said to publican Howell. 4n a statement In the current have been a Everything points to the fire being family feud. climax to a newspapers, proves the greater longevity of Incendiary origin Assistant District of bis dryness by reciting that back tn The wounded are: Attorney H. Ennis, who Is conducting 1832 the first temperance meeting in the Frank 42, Hubbard, in shot the head' , an Investigation, said tonight. of Michigan waa held in his grandThe charred frame of a baby carriage and probably fatally wounded; taken to state father's house and that his mother was Springfield hospital. tn which ths fire started waa found George Hubbard,- 68, uncle of Frank secretary of the Adrian,of Mich., W. C. T. In the ruins of the building. Part U. Howell Is the sort Republican who of the Investigation hinges upon the Hubbard, shot In body; not serious. Jake Hubbard, 62, father of Frank Is called progressive by hia friends and baby carriage clues. He was a radical by hia opponents. Taxicab drivers, lounging In their ma- Hubbard, shot In body; not serious. ownership of Doyle Is alleged to have used abusive pioneer In the municipal chines at the curbings In the early has been and utilities the manover the public language telephone to iMre. morning hours, turned Hubbard. The three men went ager of Omaha's municipal gas and wagood Samaritans during the fire. Scores Frank ever sine the terworks to city took It Doyle's farm to demand of them put their cabs at the disposal by automobile over. of the police in dispatching the injured an apology and the fight ensued. Although he has proved his faith by Later they were comto hospital. his wors, Howellls a less loudly vocifermandeered to bring relatives to the ous person than, for example. Brook- bodies of where dead the the morgues, were lying. Twelve Cantiamd ea Edward Pine hurried In one morgue, (Column T oar. ) to the body of his fiancee, Sarah Silver, and Identified It when others- had LITCHFIELD, III., Oct, 22. Five A Party had been sons were killed when an automobileper-In failed to do so, Sleight-of-Han- d planned In the flat today, at Which the which they were riding was struck by an engagement was to have been announced. Illinois Central train at Waggoner, near Mias Silver, survivors say, had once here, this evening, passed the danger' point in the hall wav, on her way to safety, when ehe returned MONTCLAIR, N. J., Oot. 22. Four to her room for her engagement ring. In Persons were killed early today when an a moment the flames blocked the cor- automobile driven by Edward G. Dah-le- n ridor. She Jumped from a window and struck the curb while rounding a . near .died of a fractured skull. eurve Porter sharp park, throwing By C. F. BERTELLI. Police estimate that 300 persons lived the seven occupant Into the street. In the building. Many of them Universal Service Cable. lost all they had in the fire. A relief DECATUR, 111., Oct. 22. A mother and 22. "Sleight-of-han- d Oct. PARIS, committee is tonight making provision father and thelr child were for the care- of the homeless and pro- killed thle evening when a Wabash pas- styles have been Introduced by Mrs. Jo viding them- with temporary, funds from senger train crashed into their auto, Davidson, American wife of the famous in Bement, twenty sculptor, who has Just launched a dresspubilo collections. stalled on a The . card on the bedsteaij of Fred miles east ofcrossing Two here.. other children She has captured fitrokkach, who la recovering In a hos- were Injured slightly. The automobile, making establishment. of smoke, bears with its five occupants, was carried favor with the smart set, due pital from the effects instant forty him of makes the a notation that one, feet, then flung against a car on a aiding. to the elegance, simplicity and economy heroes of the fire. "He saved the lives of eighteen perof her offerings and the fact that one War-profiting sons, the notation says. It is signed by style can, with a few quick motions, be Patrolman Cash, who was on duty at transformed from an afternoon to an said about nothing ths fire. Strokkach It today. evening gown. CHICAGO, Oct. 22. A plan to raise a Even the color and the whole lines of not less than 86,000.000 from fund of Cline The miraculous firms and corporations that profited most the gown are changed. war for the relief of needy efTect is achieved by the manner of This during the men to and their families during lined fabrics by which the outer winter was announced to- draping can be worn inside out or given HACKENSACK. N. J.. Oct. 22. The the coming garment night by Lee Shubert, theatrical man a cape-lik- e effect by a simple adjustment trial, of George Cline, assistant director ager. picand location manager for moving Mr. Shubert and I. H. Herk announced of the alceY and collar. brother-in-lahis Charles Scullion, tures; of 1 per cent Intention of giving one-ha- lf at Clro's last jilght a dinner and Alice Thornton, During toof their theaters the gross income amazed the guests by friend of Cline, for the murder, on Au- of Davidson Mrs. fund to relieve most a the ward needy color aa well as the lines gust 26, In Cline's home at Edfcewater, destitute of the veterans, provided at changing the without N. J., of Jack Bergln. known In film and leaving the table, ninety-nin- e other firms and cor- of her gownthe Ircles as Dare Devil Jack, will begin least space of a few moments. the same and guarantee a and within porations do riot tere tomorrow morning. less than 36.000,000. Clines defense willrbe that Bergln shot net fund of Customers Are Guests. h'mself accidentally in a struggle for a COLLISION RAIL KILLS 30. The sculptor's wife is the first promiweapon which had been tiaed in an inLONDON, Oct. 22 A dispatch to ths nent American woman to definitely indoor duel and that In any event Cline world and act was Justified In killing Bergln because Central News from Bucharest savs thirtyv vade the Parisian fashion in the sumptuous of Bergins relations prKh Mrs. Cline. persons were, killed Saturday and eighty-fi- aa her own mannequin e injured in a railway collision near establishment- - opened In the exclusive The" latter will be star witness for the Laurubanva. defense. quarter. Her custojners enjoy the noieity pyro-mania- c. five-stor- TAKENJf DEATH Career of of Henry er and Ward Beecher Ended. editor-in-Chi- ef Cornwall-on-the-Huds- X i. of-th- e Farmer Is Held, Following Shooting of Three Persons - long-standi- - ur Twelve Are Killed in Auto Accidents Pf - . five-sto- ry Firms Aid Service Men May Trial of George Begin Morning Representative American Cruiser at Hand as Disorders Threaten; e ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Oot. 22. What residents here declared was the largest funeral within their recollection took place today when the body "of Nellie Hale, girl killed Friday night by a shot supposedly fired by police, was borne to the cemetery through streets lined by j thousands of spectators. A crowd estimated at 5000 waited in the In which cemetery for the cortege. marched 600 members of the Kuklux Klan, robed and with their hoods raised. The funeral was under the auspices of the klan. No uniformed police were to be seen. Klansmen handled traffic in the streets with rapidity. Two klans men and six girl friends of the victim were pallbearers. At the grave hundreds of klansmen stoou at attention as the body wan lowered. The crowds began on the streets long before the forming hour net for the funeral and grew rapidly despite a drenching rain. The funeral was the only development today In the police situation, which reached a climax last night when 12.000 persons attended an open mass meeting of the Kuklux Klan held In a downtown park and demanded the retirement of the police board on the ground that the police department has failed to take proper precautions for the preservation of Ufe, Nellie Hale Is the second perBon accidentally killed here since last summer while police were attempting to make arrests. She was riding on a country road with her two brothers when killed. According to her brothers, a police car raced down the road In pursuit of an other car, the officers firing aa came. Their slater leaned out of they the car and waa struck by a stray bullet. Th three patrolmen, who, with Clay C. MacDonald, chief of police, have been discharged, aay the girl was killed by a shot from the car they were pursuing, old-tim- eastern republics revolutionary arm! has begun negotiations with the commander .and the Vladivostok consular representatives for the surrender of Vladivostok, according to advices received by the ' I I from Chita. j The dispatchcs say the American consul handed General Uborevltch a note hequesting him to guarantee the personal safety of American citizens. Similar requests were made on behalfof the British and Japanese lousul&tes, and the safety of foreigners and of property waa assured by General Urborevltch on condition that the red army be allowed to enter Vladivostok Immediately. Additional advices to the government say the red army encountered at Okean-skaJapanese detachments which were covering th cHy. Representatives of the Japanese command reached Okeanekals Friday and warned the far eastern troops to retreat four miles to the north of that place. Jap-ane- oviet-government ls U.S. Cruiser Arrives. The dispatches assert that disorders broke' out In various parts of Vladivostok In connection with the Japanese retreat and that the American consulate sent word later, to General Uborevltch that the Americans were Impatiently awaiting the far eastern troops to restore order. The American cruiser Sacramento haa arrived at Vladivostok. The vesael was sent at the request of the American consul. announcement A government says great danger threatens communists, workmen and far eastern sympathizers, who are in prisons, at the hands of the remaining white guard bands. The government declares responsibility for any PITTSBURG, Oct. 22. Scores of per- excesses will rest entirely upon the Japsons massed In front of a hall In Mc- anese command, .which Is retarding the red of Russian Kee's Rocks this afternoon, told Chief entry in Vladivostok of Police Edward Raider that If he did troops. not prevent a Kuklux Klan meeting within the hall they would. VLADIVOSTOK, Oct 22. (By the AsThe curtain has been Relder broke up the meeting. The sociated Press.) run down on ' the last scene of the Ruscrowd dispersed. IC. K. K.s from Those who defended this revolution. sian Pittsburg who' organized and advertised the proposed or- last outpost of opposition to the aoi'lets A few hundred persons ganization meeting were on hand In full ar departing. have been killed, and the people are sitregalia when Relder took action. for their new rmers, back waiting ting the soviet leader of the far eastern reWitnesses or Chita government, as It is public, called, to ami in Murder Cblcs ko Tribune Salt CHICAGO. Oct. take Tribune Leased Wire. Two of the men whose testimony resulted . in freeing Thomas J. Walsh, business agent of the sheet metal workers' union, of the murder of Adolf Georg, Jr., and George Gast last December, have confessed they concocted the stpry of a "mysterious stranger dashing into the Weinstube, killing the two men and rushing out. John P. Norton, employee In the county assessor's office, and Martin Byrne, bartender In a saloon patronised almost exclusively by labor sluggers and gangsters,' have confessed they committed perjury to free Walsh of the murder charge. They said they were to receive 110,000 each If Walsh went free, but they only received $250 between them. Several arrests will be made tomorrow. Walsh is still to. stand trial for the murder of George Gast, - the waiter In the Weinstube. 22. Oil Syndicate Secretary Ends Life by Drowning White Guard Defeated. The white guards of the Vladivostok government fought desperately from October 8, the day they came In contact with the soviet forces at Spassa. until nearly two weeks later the reds utterly defeated them and forced them to cross the Manchurian frontier. The men who bore the brunt of the .who had retreated flghtingwere soldiers to this last strongfrom rhe Volga river hold of the white guard. Dlederlchs General sent Vladivostok -only 176 men In reply to hla call for reto Inforcements, which led the dictator declare: Where are the sacrifice which were to be made for brethren who for two years have borne the cross which was laid on Russia for the alns of aU' . TOKIO, Oct. 22. (By the Associated to residents of Press.) The danger Vladivostok after the approaching evacuation of the Japanese forces takes place arises from ths presence around the city of bandits who are ready to plunder Vladivostok in the Interim between the departure of the Japanese and the occupation by the red army of the Chita government, according to persons who arrived here today from Vladivostok. It lBj,feared that the Chita government has not sufficient troops present to cope with the large number of bandits threat, ening the city. CLARINDA, Iowa, Oct. 22. C. E, Blair, secretary of the Page County Oil syndicate, last plgM or early this morning ended his Ufe by drowning in Lake. Cra'blU, one mile east of here. Blair, until a year ago, was vice president of the Clafinda National bank, and at the time of his death was a director of K and the Union Trust company. Steamers Crowded, g Relatives and business associates dedanger Is believed so great that clare they know of no motive for his ac- allThe are steamers leaving Vladivostok . tion. Vessels leaving crowded . with people. crowded with Japanese for Japan are so. that few foreigners ran obtain passage. Moot Russians wishing to go to Japan are unable to procure vises to passports because they have insufficient money in their possession to meet the requirements laws precedent to of the immigration landing of foreigners in Japan. Russian steamers are taking a few Ruse Ian, chiefly officers and their families, to who feared to remain In of being treated aa guests instead of ar China, Others Vladivostok are trying to escape by any mere prospective buyers. means possible toward Korea and ManAt the Longchamps races today . of the Davidson creations attractedmany the, churia. most favorable comment. Mrs. W. E, Corey wore a long, draped Russian black velvet dress relieved by crimson facing and Russian embroidery, with a Lost in handsome red and black toque to match. Mra- - W. E. Corrigan who. by the way, Get. RIGA, the Associated haa vacated her London establishment armored cruisers In order to devote her social attention Press.) The Russian Gromobo! and and other Rosslya' exclusively to Paris was gowned In vessel hate .been lost In several a storm In black velvet, draped with original Chansea. Baltic the w tilly lace, and wore a wide bat trimmed with white flowers. picture The Rosslva was a 12,195-to- n vesael and the Gromoboi a. ship of 13,430 tons. Mrs. Vanderbilt Out. The Rosslya in prewar days had A comLady Paul Dukes, formerly Mrs. Ogden plement of 833 men and the Grothobol 368. L. Mills accompanied by her husband and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, was noticeThs Gromoboi was scuttled by A muable fat the paddock. Mrs.' Vanderbilt tinous ergw at Kronstadt in November. was garbed in dark gray, and her ap- 1920. The Rossiya (also known as the pearance at the races was the first since Roes la) was said to participated in the Kronstadt mutiny tn the winter of her husband's death. Lady Dukes wore a draped gown f 1921. heavy brown with a high collar, and a OLD BIBLE DISCOVERED. brown velvet toque decorated with an Imitation hatpin set In mother of pearl. B08TONMai.rO. 22. In a The customary large crowd included collection of books recently presentedlarge the hundreds of Americans, among them Cambridge municipal library by a woman Charles E. Mitchell, president of the Na- donor, whose, identity Is being kept setional City bank, who leaves tonight to cret, has been discovered an edition of Interview the Belgian premier; Benedict the Bible nearly 4oO years old and now Baker, the Boston banker; Mra. Walter valued at 8100,000. Clark Fish, Mr. and Mrs, James K. T. Harrison Cummings, librarian, to Hackett, George I. Cochran of Los An, whose care the collection was entrusted, geles, Mrs. Stuart Tavlor, Mrs. Mont- has Just learned the value of the edigomery Sears, Mr. W. A. Baker and. tion. The volume, it Is stated, is one Colonel Arthur' Woods. of the few extant in the world. Styles Introduced to Leaders of French Fashion by Newly Opened Shop of Sculptors American Wife Novel . Frear, Re publican, of Wisconsin, Takes Issue With Mellon Far Eastern Republic Army Advances on City; Jap Asked to Yield. , pcr.-aon- a, I" -- Standard -- Oil and United States Steel Stock DiviRecants Thousands Attend .Funeral dends Are Criticized. Consul Asks Guarantee. Richard Palmer Eludes the tions; Howell Is Strong. of St Joseph Girl Killed Vigilance of San Quentin WASHINGTON. Oct. '22. 'Seeretarj By MARK SULLIVAN. MOSCOW. 22. (By the Associated Oct. Officer. Accidentally by was charged today by RepresenSpecial to Tin Tribune. Presa-Officials at Rawlins, Wyo. Mellon General Uhorevltch of. the -- far tative with y Sweep Building, Suffocating and Burning the Occupants. s FIVE CENTS . SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 22. Rlcltard A. Palmer, hotel robber, jewel thief and one of the, slipperiest guests ever comat San Quentin mitted to prison, escaped from custody of Call fornla officers again today at Rawlins, Wyo., according to meager, advices re celled by police officials here. He stlU has some days left to serve of the six months' minimum sentence first Imposed on him, although he began serving It more than three years ago. Palmer was sent to Ran Quentin In 1919 for a 815,000 Jewel robbery at the Ht. Francis hotel. In which he waa trapped by the quick ait of a girl. y Steals Suit of Clothes. He escaped hi September of that year and waa recaptured some time later In New York, En route west In the custody of a guard. Palmer took the key to his handcuffs from the sleeping guard, stole a suit of clothes from a near-b- y Pullman berth, his own having been reto diffimore ills moved render escape cult, and leaped from the moving train near Cedar Rapids. He was picked up bv the officers and again incarcerated In Ran Quentin. Caught in New York. " V J Mellon Writes Letter. Mr. Mellon wrote no relation to such 220 bad stock dividends as that proposed by th New Jersey Oil company. but added that there had been and would be no laxity on the part of the treasury In evoking that section wherever there Is any boats for so doing. Your letter, feplled Mr. Frear under date of today, Ignore and misapprehends the plain reading and purpose of the statute and your ruling assumes f the prerogatives of the supreme court when it seta aside this law. 1 trust that you are not under a misapprehension a to the question squarely presented to you, because the press has been filled with announcements that the purpose of the stock dividends to be issued by the Standard Oil company and the proposed stock dividend of 1500,000,-00- 0 In United States Steel, In which you are supposed to be Interested, is foe the purpose of avoiding the surtaxes which would apply tf these enormous amounts, aggregating over 81.000,000,000, were distributed as cash dividends. (hot section Last February he escaped, with three other prisoner, and nothing was heard of him until ths New York police arrested tilth recently. Hs was started westward In custody of a penitentiary guard a few days ago. Palmer Is about 24 years old and asserted when hors that he waa ths son of a wealthy iuenos Aires resident, but this story has been discounted by ths He told officers hers hs had police. run through a fortune of (76,600, was In Subtle Inference. need of funds, and turned to robbery aa Naturally, as a man of great wealth. a means of. providing them. Interested In sixty or mors corporations affected by ths ruling on stock dividends RAWLINS. Wyo., Oct. 2. Richard A. and taxation, you will find your personal Palmer, Jewel thief, who waa being tak Interest Involved In any decision, but i en from New York to San Francisco, assume In your position as a public offiescaped from the officers having him In cer you will be governed by the law ana custody about 3 oclock this morning, interests of the public rather than by according to advices received here today. any personal consideration. News of the escape was conveyed to the "In your letter to me you say the corsheriff at Rawlins by telephone from poration has paid Its full tax. This reRock Springs, Wyo. The point at which fers, I take it, to section 230, but the Palmer left the train waa not stated, al- penalty of 25 per cent is Imposed by con- though officers believed It waa west of grees In order to reach the unwarranted Rawlins. The sheriff here was Informed surpluses that are held by corporations that this waa Palmers second escape and not distributed a cash dividends in on the present trip from New York to .order to evade the tax payment under Ban Francisco. Details til .the the- individual surtax tew.-ot given. It was said, however, Palmer had considerable money and Loss Is Millions. that wore a good suit of clothing. That is the distinction no clearly, made by congress that it cannot fairly be misunderstood. It la another way of reaching the tag on undistributed profits, which is undoubtedly permitted under the law and the decision of the supreme court LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct, 22. Memin the stoqk dividend case. bers of the fire departments of Los AnYour efforts to protect the governSaw-telle ment treasury In the past have been not geles. Venice, Santa Monica and were rushed to the head of Santa directed -- toward collecting a tax upon Monica canyon late today to fight a brush large and powerful corporations, and In fir which was sweeping toward Brent- th present emergency your action In wood park, an exclusive residence dis- overruling the express act of congress trict of Jhis city. The fire was fanned will result tn n los to the treasury of an by a strong wind, and burned over forty amount reaching several hundred million acres In as many minutes. A high wind dollars annually. I trust that you will reconsider your has driven two fires into th high timber on the Oat mountain. , ruling. eras scene a of th Eagle Rock, suburb another fire that was burning over an area one mile long and half a mile wide near the north edge of town. Three hunSSth Cowes, dred men were fighting this fir. LONDON, Oct. 22. Admiral Sir AlgerSAN BERNARDINO, ' Cal.. Oct. 22. Fire which yesterday started near the non de Horsey died at Cowes today. , Arrowhead hospital had tonight reached Admiral de Horsey had been deputy serious proportions and was racing along the Isle of Wight since 1913. the foot of the mountains, with 350 fire- governor of 95 old. He was senior He fighters battling In an effort to prevent navalwasofficer years during the Jamaica ina widespread conflagration. A number surrection of 1866 and th Fen an raid of small buildings ou ranches were on the lakes of Canada In 1866. H burned today. was commodore of the British fleet in the West Indies from 1872 to 1876 and commander in chief of th Pacific fleet College from 1876 to 1879, - Fires Menace California Homes and Ranches Admiral de Horsey 'Dies Year in at -- Student Wounded in Quarrel With Watchman 22 Theodore FINDLAY, Ohio, Ot. Relealng of Grand Rapids, Mich., a etu dent at the University of Michigan, was shot In the side at Carey, near here, today during an argument between Andrew Greer, village night watchman, and a party of Michigan students returning from the Ohio football game at Columbus. Ths gun was discharged accidentally, !t was aald. when Greer attempted tQ.strlk. Relsetng with It. Rel88ings wound Is not dangerous. Relsetng and twenty other Michigan students had been arrested by Greer, he said, for taking articles from a restaurant for souvenfra. State-Michlg- . Cruisers Reported Long Skirts Declared J Baltic Sea Storm aid to Unemployment 22.-t- Frear, Republican, Wisconsin, overthrowing the action of congress by his ruling that section 220 of the revenue law, designed to reach large surpluses accumulated by corporations to prevent th payment of individual surtaxes, was not applicable In the case of the projected 400 per cent stock dividend of the Standard Oil company ot New Jersey. The charge was made in a letter tc Mr. Mellon made public by the Wisconsin representative. The communication wa in reply to llr, Mellon's response t one written by Mr. Frear calling attention to the reported stock dividend and urging that the penalty provision be invoked. By Universal Service. WASHINGTON. Ot. 22. The return of long skirt hashad an effect upon the unemployment situation, it would appear from figures announced by the' department of labor today. The hosiery Industry, the survey sets out, was one of the eleven industries out of forty-tW- o that showed a decrease In the, number of employees during September. The fact that thirty-on- e Industries showed a gain in the number of hands employed iivllcates that the Industrial revival is here to stay, according to- the survey. The greatest Increase, 15.8 per cent, appears in car building and reCotton finishing had an inpairing. crease of 11.3 per cent and woolen of 11 per cent. - STORM DOES DAMAGE. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 22. Reports Build for the Future With Concrete A few simple instructions are all n you need to build anything fromcel- feed box to a garage or a cyclone Porehes,- - steps') walks, benches, flower boxes and hundreds of other perthings can be made easily and simprocess is fectly at home. The last a will century. ple. The results Everything you need to knowcon-to undertake making anything ef crete is contained in a booklet which our Washington Information Bureau will obtain for you. This booklet is entirely free. Simmail the coupon beply fill "out andtwo cents in stamps low, enclosing for return postage, and the booklet will be sent to your address. . Be sure your name and address are written clearly. . Frederic J. Raskin, Director, The. Salt Lake Tribune - Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. . I enclose herewith two cents in stamps for return postage on a free copy of the Concrete Book-leL Name re- ceived here frorq Vera Crus, Progreseo. Tampico, Tuxpam and other ports Indicate that the storm which has swept the Gulf of Mexico In these region during the past few days has dong considerable damage to shipping. Several small vessels wgre sunk. .. Street City State . . |