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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE AND SUNDAY MODFJl ATE TEMPERATURE. SO. HINDS ASSOCIATE 6 PRESS NETS COMPLETE STOCK MARKET 1 fl-r Vflluni R3 o. sua KK CITY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1923.

12 THREE CENTS. r-r BOB SHAWKEY IS K.K.K.HS5 BURNS Oafe Society Girl Motorist Held For the Death of a Child Home of Wealthy Chemist M. A. Woman Where Maas Was Shot Wayto Football Game Here; JEALOUS SOITOO IS POLICE THEORY Iff SHOOTING Of IIS HEIGHTS MANYMOREONLL JL US The palatial home or Ida M. Leslie, ldg'c Sound Bench.

where Milton Mailt, nciillliy N'cw York clicniisl, was mysteriously shot. REICHSTAG PASSES ST0ESEI1 BILL "Crammed HERE AND NOW If the unny of Public Servants continues to grow, we'll have to punctuate tliis The Public, Servant When the Government payroll equals the Taxpayers' bankroll, what then? When the last little Taxpayer Lingers alone. Will the Gov'ment still try to get Blood from a stone? Lloyd George said he was here to see, nml then didn't see the World's Series. And It's plain he's retired from the practice of statesmanship. He ducked our baseball classic without bothering pven to laud it.

N. H. The Feature Section of Today's Eagle Combined With This Section TRUCK KILLS BOY Eight-year-old Walter Reld of 429 Lincoln rd. was killed yesterday while playing In the street in front of 121 Clarkson ave. Robert J.

Payez of 314 Bainbridge driver of the truck which struck the boy, took him to the Kings County Hospital but, too late to save his life. FORD'S STATEMENT WEEKS DECLARESIN REPLY Secretary Resents Manufacturer's Attack in Connection With Muscle Shoals Sale. Washington, Oct. 13 Declaring Henry Ford's statement attacking him in connection wilh the sale of the Gorgas steam power plant of the Muscle Shoals project was "filled with reckless assertions," Secretary Weeks, in a forma Ireply published today, reviewed at length the Administration's course in dealing with tho Detroit manufacturer's offer for the project. Mr.

Weews issued bis statement after twice discussing the matter with President Coolldge, on the last occasion taking the prepared statement with him to the White House. While beyond his own formal reply, Secretary Weeks refused tn comment on Mr. Ford's statement, there was every indication fa feel-in gof keen resentment at the Detroit manufacturer's charges that political influences had operated to prevent his obtaining Muscle The fact that Mr. Ford his offer to be still open, Secretary Weeks said, would seem lo "Indicate that he does not regard the Gorgas steam plant as necessary to him In the carrying out of his plan to pur chase and develop Muscle Shoals waterpower" jfor nitrate producing purposes. The secretary In the course of his statement said that in the necessary roference of Mr.

Ford's offer to Congress he had never opposed his securing the use of the waterpower facilities there. S' TO EVtMRIES With Backs to Wall, Yan-kees Must Win Today or Confess Another Failure FROBABLE BATTING ORDER YANKEES. Wilt. r. IMiuhii.

111. Ruth. i-r. or Hi. Jt.

MniM-l, If. (ilANTS. Ilanei'ort. st. droll, itl.

KriM-li. Young, rf. E. MniM-l. If.

Stengel or Cun I'ipp. Ha rf. Wurd. 2h. Hchaiig, c.

Scoll. st. NhawUcy or or ningham, rf. Kelly, lb. Snyder, v.

Scoll or Itvun. I). llovl. p. riiililrct llari.

ii'Iihv and Nallln. (Nprclul to The Kaglc.) Polo (bounds, Oct. 13 With their backs forced to the wall, the still de-flan Yankees, their heads bloody but unbowed, returned this morning to the scene of their lone triumph prepared to put forth a titanic effort to even the scries for the second time. It is not an enviable tusk that confronts the Yankees today, for though they are only one game behind the pesky (Hants they nre faced with the necessity of winning three of tho next four struggles In order to cop the title. Muggins may derive some encouragement from the thought that two years ago the Giants, facing the same handicap that now confronts him.

came through to victory wnth colors flying. Maybe the Yanks will do likewise maybe. Yusterday's defeat was particularly hard to swallow, since Jones twirled the sort of ball that would have won nine times out of ten. As In the opening game it took a combination of marvellous stunts by the (liant Infield plus lethal hitting by Stengel to drag the Yankees to defeat. Stopping Stengel.

Tho problem of how to suppress Casey Stengel has become nn acute one. Ruth was expected to engage In the home run business, but no one anticipated that Casey would run amuck, stealing the Rahe's stuff. Hug-gins Is wondering whether ho ought to give Stengel the buse on bulls treatment which various American League doctors applied successfully to a certain. Mr. Ruth.

Yesterday McGraw was compelled to swallow his words to the effect that "Ruth would be handled Just like any other hard hitter." That outburst of homers on Thursday opened Mc-Oraw's eyes to the fact that Ruth was not after all as other hitters were. The Bambino Is a law unto himself. He must be dealt with differently from mere mortals. McGraw accordingly switched his strategy. He elected to give Ruth the free pass treatment, hut he did not dn It in tho crude fashion common In the" American League.

McGraw, In short camouflaged, his passing nf Humbiiio He did hot order his pltchlrs to pass Habe In any obvious, open fashion. Snyder did not jump wide of the plate to receive pitch outs that were patently beyond Ruth's reach. Instead. McGraw told Nehf to feed the Habe nothing but bad bulls while getting them near enough to the plate to make it appear that Babe was being pitched to. Whenever Rulh elected to walk he had only to wait for transportation, but McGraw hoped that the "big boy" would be tempted to lake a cut at balls that were for all praclicabl purposes unhiltable.

It wns shrewd psychology, for any one who knows Ruth knows that It pains the Babe to see a ball pass anywhere In hl3 immediate vicinity without taking a cut at it. Having tasted the sting In Ihe Ruthlan bludgeon, it is doubtful whether McGraw will again tempt fate by allowing Babe a fair crack at the ball. For the rest of the series the Bamblao will have to manufacture his homers out of balls that other batters would disdain. McGraw may have, as he says, "pitched to better hitters than Ruth in the National League," but it's a cinch that they didn't pnek the TNT in their bats that lurks In the Bambino's murderous wagon tongue. Dugun Versus Groh.

Yankee and Giant partisans are nil hot up over the thrilling third-base duel between Dugan and Groh. Dugnn's third-base play is the mold of form. He is the personification of grace, making the hardest plays look ridiculously simple. Groh employs a dramatically opposite technique. He smothers the ball, throwing his body at hard-hit drives in a way that brings the fans up shouting.

1 It's a more spectacular style but no more effective than Dugan's. Both are marvels. Bob Shawkey will probably take the hill for Huggins today. The Goh is Just rarin' for a chance to get at the Giants. He is the logical selection unless Huggins decides to give Hoyt the opportunity to redeem himself.

Wnlte doesn't need much reat between games. He barely got warmed up last Wednesday. Bush apparently has been allotted the role of relief pitcher. He's bearcat that Job. Wouldn't It be dramatic If Carl Mays wero to fling off bis winding sheet nnd come back to llf" with all his 1921 stuff Intact.

Stranger things have happened In this man's game. No one will forget how Carl throttled the Giants in that first, great series now only a dim memory. McGraw will probably shoot Scolt at the Yanks today, providing his cold Is no worse. Watson or Ryan are also possibilities. Germany's Currency Now Figured in Quadrillions Berlin, Oct.

13 The currency Issue trebled during the last week In Septemher and has now reached the fantastic total of 2S quadrillion, 230 trillion paper murks, according to the Rolohs-bank statement Issued today. In the same period the Relchsbank's home gold reserve decreased by 26.000,000 murks, while its holdings of discounted Treasury bills, private check nnd drafts Increased by 34 quadrillion. RELIANCE to Last Minute By JAMES llOLTOX. (Staff Correspondent ot The b'avle.) West Point, N. Oct.

13 Their path blocked by a landslide on the New York Central Railroad about a mile above Gurrison. N. the 1.200 confident Cadets at the U. S. Military Academy rose an hour earlier today in order to make their classes and connect with the football game against Notre Dame at Kbbets Field, Brooklyn, this afternoon, via a patched up eleventh hour special over the West Shore tracks.

The team made a regular train on the run at 10 o'clock this morning, after having risen with the rest of the corps at a.m. and crammed through their Saturday classes. They will lunch at the Hotel Astor and be on the field on time. Not n. thnir cheering it is believed that the corps will arrive in force between 30 and 45 minutes late.

The band will also be late. Not even the mule will be on time. Rut the Cadets never guar-anteed to arrive at thn ApIH nor schedule. Army executive before this have been compelled to alter their plans to conform "tn act nf God and the King's enemies." as It Is, they will land at Weehaw-kon, take the ferry to 42d North River; march to the Interboro sub way, ride to Franklin ave. and then march to the field.

What the Cadets will lose In time, however, will be made urj In en thusiasm. After the scoreless tie of last year, played under the shadow of Storm King and hailed as a moral victory for Major Daly, then coach at the Point, tho appetite of tho em- uryonlc generals has been whetted for a feast on Notre Dome prospects. This is a game which the Army seldom absorbs. The longdistance forward passers of the West have generally succeeded In silencing llie Cadet batteries of hacks and great has been the' desire of West Pointers to take Notre Dame into camp on terms of unconditional surrender. The cheer leaders, commandant, the cheerer8, the team and the mute are under orders to bring back Notre Dame's football as a trophy or bust.

It is Just possible that Knut Rockne, the cagey fox ot South Bend, who coaches Notre Dame, will have an ambush ready for their hopes, but no one up here can sec anything but an Army victory. The landslide at Garrison Interfered with the well-greased plans for transporting the Cadets via tho New York Central to the New York subway. BODY OF MURDERED WOMAN IS FOUND NEAR SALISBURY, CT. Wound in Head-Negro Employee of Local Hotel Is Sought by Police. Salisbury, Oct.

13 The body bf Mrs. Asa Edelman of this town was found on tho Mount Riga road during the night, and today State police and deputy sheriffs are working on the theory that she had been murdered. Near he bory in the ditch was a small motortruck belonging to an inn in town. The body of Mrs. Edelman was not fully clad and some of the clothing was tir the truck.

There was a wound in the woman's head. Medical examiner H. B. Bissell took charge of the body. Tho Stale police learned at the Inn that a negro named Jones was supposed to have had the truck out last night, but he and a motorcar he owned were missing, Chicago, Oct.

13 A notebook, containing several names, an initialed ring and thumbed copy of the poem "Plppa Passes." with the name "Anna A. King" inscribed on the flyleaf are the clues to the identity of a woman, whose body, fastened by a clothesline to a concrete pier at the edge of a suburban estate, was found floating Inst night in Lake Michigan. The body bore clothing of excellent material and apparently was that of a 40-year-old woman. Both murder and suicide theiries were advanced by the police to explain bruises and dlscoloratlons on Ihe woman's face, which was covered by a white silk stocking when the body was found. The body was either battered against the rocks near the shore, or was beaten before It entered tho water, police said.

No Information regarding the woman was obtained last night by police, who made a canvass of persons whose names were found in a notebook In the pocket of a woman's coat near the end of the pier to which the body was attached. snld that Arthur Covell, under Indictment for the alleged murder, had planned several oilier crimes, according to ivldence uncovered and stntenienls attributed to Covell. May said he was decoding horoscopes drawn by Covell and would submit to Ihe Oregon authorities evidence that Covell planned to murder E. J. Pressey, wealthy Oregon dairyman, end his wife and three children nnd burn tho bodies by firing llie residence.

"The motive was to bo robbery," declared May. "Arthur Covell had made Presley's horoscope and was to direct hlj 16-yoar-old nephew to commit the murders when the family was under unfavorable planetary influences. "Evidence has also been uncovered In other coded horoscopes which were to direct the nephew to rob and then kill two merchants in Uandnn, Ore. "The plans of Arthur Covell were so minutely detailed that they even called for the removal of windows and doors before (lie hontn of the victim was burned. The stolen articles were be used In a home which the CovoIIb Intended to build.

Kven wills were to be written In advance, turning the money over lo the astrologer or his agents. "tine will was In the hands of tho authorities when li-rt Marsh-Held, and It was so cleverly drawn up by him that II can hardly be detected us counterfeit." Former Brooklyn Woman Sure Assailants Wera Robbers Seize Letters. The police of Greenwich, I'onn, and Mrs. Ida M. Leslie of Sound Beach, friend of Milton A.

Mass, wealthy manufacturing chemist, strangely shol on Thursday evening, are today far, from being in accord a.s lo the possible reason for the fvt-luck on him. Airs. Leslie formerly lived in Brooklyn. Mrs. Leslie is emphatic in the statement that she believes the attackers of Mass had planned to hold them up while tit dinner and she expresses the opinion that tho assailants were amateurs who mistook her lor the maid.

She says -ho never saw the men before although he is sure that she would know two of them if she auw them again. 'the police are devoting; con.ddei-nhlc attention to the possibility that there is another suitor whose jealousy of Maas may have prompted the attack. A3 one angle of thin theory, the vare investigating to determine if gunmen were hired to to Connecticut to waylay Maas. dipt. Flannigun and Prosecutor Walsh el Greenwich are bard at wo.k probing that possibility today and one of the investigators directed attention to the fact that Mrs.

Leslie had on Jewelry to th cvalue of $10,000. and Vet no effort was made steal it. Mrs. Leslie Is a widow. She says (bat her husband died in Brooklyn 20 years fro con-traded while he was serving as a soldier in the Spanish-American War.

He was John C. Leslie and he was In the silk business. She has lived at Sound Beach for 13 years. Maas. who is who.

is in the hospital "resting comfonnbly," wording to his nepiuw. Gustavo Fleiseh-mnnn, has made no statement and no one Is permitted to see him. The police reflex on the shooting is one of They are- not accepting any of the statements lint have been made without suojieting them lo a thorough examination of all the circumstances. Mr. Maas' nephew answered the.

telephone at Mrs. Leslie's home today, and, after stating that Mrs. Leslie could not be seen and would make no more statements, he was asked what comment there was to make on the seizure of a number of loiters from Mrs. Leslie's home. These letters were taken possession of by the authorities yesterday.

There are said to be about ten nf these letters and the persons taking thom have characterized them as "love leliers." asserting that they were written to her by a man very wealthy am! of such prominence In the business and social world that he may said to be a national flguru, The letters have not yet be ex. "There Is nothing lo that report" nothing whatever," wns tho reply. "You mean there are no such ler let's in existence?" "I cannot talk over the tele phone," wan the response. Leslie insists that tho pollcrt are trying to make a mystery out of a plain case because, ihey do not wish to admit that it was an attempt at robbery. She complained of the lack of police protection ufforded residents, saying: "We have only one light out here In the road and no protection." She says that she thinks the attackers were boys, that her first impression was that they were youii'f boys playing "hide-and-seek" wilh a girl next door on whom thev wero calling.

She had seen three male fig-urea when she turned her flashlight toward the shrubbery along Ihe porch on hearing a rustling nolsei (here and one of the trio whispered' "Sh-h-h!" "That wasn't exactly bandit-like, was II?" Is her comment. Mrs. Leslie, in support of her opinion that they were amateurs, toll how one of thine awkwardly "cupped his hand" over her mouth, while another fumbled nervousiy with his gun nnd a third said, "Wi won't hurt you." Despite the hand on her moulh she was able to scream and Maas who was reeding in the house ran out. Two bullets weiy fired at him. Mrs.

Leslie discounted reports nf a parly held nt a restaurant near Stamford on Wednesday night. She had gone there to dine with Maas and another woman, she said, and they became acquainted with two parties of motorists who happened In. They were invited lo her house; but on the way one car got lost and never arrived. The Tour men In tho car did get there leaving around midnight after "one or two highballs" had been served. "My guests were reputable men, gentlemen." she said, "and the party was quite harmless." She was emphatic in her statement that she and Maas were engaged, adding that Ihey had not settled on a date tor the wedding.

"CAS" AT 7 CENTS-BUT IT'S AT SAN ANTONIO San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 13 fins-oline was retailing In many tilling stations here yesterday at 7 cents a gallon. The price was believed to the lowest In the t'nited Stales. The Atlas petroleum Company, which operates a refinery here, announced I hat because prices had been mnnipulnled without regard tn cost It would maintain the price at 7 cents until the market became stabilized although no profit was. made.

The Gulf Compnny reduced Its price from 13 to 11 cents Wednesday and was followed by other major companies on Friday. Gets Them Coining and Then Gets Them Going That is what an "Automobiles for Sale" nd in The Eagle docs. It gets prospective customers coming. Then it sells the car and Rets them going. Thomas F.

Ryan, (500 1 Fort Hamilton Parkway, sold a Hudson sedan last week through an Kaglc ltd. Next week other people are going to sell used cars the same way. If YOU have a used car to sell We have a column that will sell It. Call Main (U00 and describe your car to an Kagle ad-taker. That is the way to describe it to Brooklyn ear purchasers.

Police Busv Extinguishing Fiery Emblems on Columbus Day. Fiery crosses, symbols of the Knights of the Ku-Kluz Klan. wore seen tim-mmr in Krnnklvn and manv Lone stand towns nr.H villmrpa Insl night in what is believed to have been an antl-K. of C. Columbus Day demonstration.

The most daring ex hibition occurred in the Brooklyn Heights section, where a cross was crecica in a uinniii for me sccona lime after the police had pulled tl down. In all cases the crosses were set with great care, usually In vacant places, where no damage could be done by flames. 1 ho tire sdrew the attention of hundreds of persons wherever they were planted and Mlice and county authorities were kept on the Jump trying to pull down the blazing symbols as fast as they were set. The blazing cross on the Height was on a sana at fierreoont ana Henry sts. The men who set It up sped away in a high-powered motot- car on wnicn tne iicnis naa oecn ex tinguished.

The cross had been burning only a tew minutes wnen me patrolman on post arrived and dislodged It. The Ku-Klux Klansmen returned a snort lme later, after the policeman had left, re-eslablished the emblem and set Are to it once more. Tho telephone operator In the large apartment, at 181 Henry was standing in front of that building about 9 o'clock when a seven- passenger louring car containing nine men in peaked caps swung Into Henry st. from Love lane. "1 didn't nav much attention to the car," he said.

"As I entered the door I saw the reflection of a blaze, 1 walked out and saw the cross which was about six feet high, blazing in the sand pile. The machine that had come around the corner was speeding down Henry St. with the lights out. "None of the men In Ibe machine wore robes or hoods. They looked Just like a bunch of roughnecks.

When they stuck the cross up they bint it," The cross was of wood and was erected on the northwest corner in a pile of building Band at the curb. The cross-beam was wound wilh kerosene-soaked cotton batting. Today nothing but a few charred pieces of wood remain to mark the spot. Just as the last notes of the organ were fading away last night and the parishioners were leaving St. K.

C. Church, Oarden City, the worshippers were startled with the spectacle of a huge burning cross In a open field north of Meadow st. and ubotit two blocks away from the ihurcb door, Several members of the congregav tlon observed a number of men scur rying away from Iho burning cross and enter four, waltlm? motorcars ond speed away. They wore ordinary clothes and wero not masked. The die department of Garden City was on the scene a few minutes later and quickly put out the blaze.

The rector of St. Joseph's, the Rev. Francis J. Healy, said today, that In his opinion the cross had been burned by the Klan as a protest against the denunciation of the Ku-Klux Klan by Bishop Burgess of the Protestant Episcopal Church a few days ago. PARIS RECOGNITION OF MOSCOW HINTED AT TRADE PARLEY "Adequate Guarantees All French Ask for Resumption of Commercial Relations.

(Hu Wireless 'to The Eagle and Pftio. Vuilic Ledger; Copyrtght, r.HJ.) Paris, Oct. 13 French recognition nf Russia through the medium of commercial treaty in forecast in extraordinary negotiations going on today between a group of French hankers and capitalists and A. L. Hchelnmann, head of the Soviet State Bank.

Although the negotiations are be ing conducted with great secrecy, It is significant that at the same lime the bankers arc conferring Paul Rogers, president of the Paris Chamber of Commerce, made a statement to tho effect that "commercial relations between France and Russia can be resumed with adequate guarantees from Moscow." M. Rogers added that. France might deal with any kind of a government in Moscow and even would admit Russian railroads to the International Unloo of Railways If Moscow would guarantee to protect merchandise and business representatives. Tho mission of the Soviet Slate banker. In addition lo arranging for huge commercial deals, Includes spectacular negotiations for the disposition In Franco of 22,000 carats uf diamonds nnd other precious sloneii still In the possession of the Soviet Government us tho balance of Jewels looted from Russian churches and from private owners.

I'lvc Other Points. It Is authoritatively stated that the other negotiations are, first, to nrrnnge for financing the reconstllu-tlon of the sugar Industry in the I'kralne; second, to bring about through French banking interests recognition 'of the Soviet Government by the Qua I d'Orsay, In return for which Moscow will offer verv tempting compensation for the Inhlers of the old Russian third, lo negotiate largo sates of r.iuv-inii wheat to France; fourth, to ei-rnnge for one of the French banks to net In the fuliire as the official financial representative of the Soviet nnient, and. fifth, to secure icnlHnn for International our-ronev. purposes of the new Soviet ruble gold notes or tchenom-tx. vl'ic'i were Issued by Moscow lust Jvrnc.iber nnd nre backed partly by cold nnd purity by merchandise.

Tito State Hunk, which bonds, Is tho successor i.f the institution Mupprossed In 11117 hfii til'. banks were nationalised. When the Soviets ills-, 'i. en In 19S1 that even a Com-winlst stste t'-M not do without li'iiili'iis limtltw 11 was rciiur-, -fed uiid transformed Into a bank ft "r'te. Miss Paula Murray, 18 and soci ally prominent, was charged with manslaughter and held for the Nus- i County Grand Jury aflrr a Coroner's inquest at Oyster Hay, 1,.

Into the killing on Tuesday of 8-yrar-nld Marlon Rattle by a motorcar driven by Miss Murray. OF LITERACY TEST Ignorant Officials Dis qualify Many Who Have Right to Register. Thousands are being disfranchised this year because of tho ignorance of the registration officials and the altitude of the literacy examiners In the public schools, according to reporU thut reached The Eaglo today, Tho regisctration officials and the examiners in the schools that arc giving the literacy test wero assailed from many quarters by persons who have been barred either from registering or taking the literacy examination. The first complaint came from the Congregational Home, on Linden Flatbush, where tho superintendent informed The Eagle that she took 10 of the aged women to (he Board of Registry at Nostrand ami Linden-aves. last evening, uuly io find that tho officials would not let.

them register becauso they, didn't have either their elementary school diplomas or a certlgcate of literacy. Under the law these women are entitled to register without a diploma or literacy test provided they were qualified voters before Jan. 1, 1922. The siiperlntendont of the home said that afl were qualified. College Woman Rejected.

Frank Doudera, Republican candidate, for Assembly In the let A. charged today that literacy examiners were in sonic cases themselves Illiterate. He said hat an ex-service man and his wife went to lake the literacy examination at P. S. 136.

at 41 ave. and 40th Thursday night and were denied a certificate of literacy after taking the lest because the examiner said that the answer to ono of Iho questions should have been given in numerals rather than written out. "James Cullanen and his wife are old acquaintances of mine," said Doudera today. Cullanen Is a trained nurse and a college graduate. She.

went to take the llttrary test night before last and was refused a certificate because she, wrote out the words 'twtnty-six and the examiner said the answer should have been given In nuiner-aus, If. anything could more stupid than that I would like to hear of it. The examiner refused to give his name, but I will file a eonmlalnt against hi mtoday." Edward J. McCann of 209 Nassau st. In a letter to Tho Eagle declared today that he went to I'.

K. 5 to tuke the literacy test last night, and was told to "get out," because the room was crowded. Mr. McCann said that the treatment accorded those who came lo lake the test was outrageous. Sonic one called a policeman, he said, and the Instructors complained that they were overworked and would have to take the examination papers home to correct them.

"Now we have to go back tonight to get the results of the test," protested Mr. McCann. Appeal Mo Kltinger. In order to tuko caro of those who have not been able to appear for the literacy test, former Assemblyman James O. Moore today sent the fot-lowln gtelegrain to William L.

Etlin-Gor, Superintendent of Schools: "In order to accommodate belated reglslrints nnd those returning lo town earnestly urge continuation of literacy lest classes until close of registry boards tonight. There is danger of dlsfarnchlsement of new-voters If facilities for procuring their literacy cc.rtlftcitoB nre not continued." Mr. Moore wns Informed todny by The Kaglc of the cose of Ihe women at tho Congregational Home. He went nt once lo the Linden nve. Institution lo lake the women to the polls himself.

Mrs, Ellen M. Lewis, of 429 nth til years old, look out her final citizenship papers In May, passed the literacy test last night end registered today. NEW QUAKES RECORDED Washington, Oct. 13 Knrth shocks of moderate Intensity were recorded between 1:4 and 2 u.m. today on the Georgetown University seismograph.

Father Tondorf, director of the observatory, was unable to estimate the direction or distance of the disturbance from Washington. DROPS DICAD IN HOME. Morris Schrclger. C4, of 78 S. lot st dropped dead at breakfnst today.

THOUSANDS LOSE VOTES BY MISUSE Fcrd Presents Flivver To Old Michigan Fiddler; Helps Him Build Runway Big Rapids, Oct. 13 Henry Ford came back to Mecosta County today to make good the promise made during his recent vacation trip with Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone. He brought to "Jep" Risbee, old-time violinist, a new motorcar. With ihe help of Mr. Ford's chauffeur Ihe two spent a day making a platform with which to get the machine into the Bisltce ham at I'ari3, near here.

The maufacturer also arranged with a Big Rapids garage man to teach "Pep" how to drive the machine. Bisbee's old-fashioned denee tunes made a strong appeal lo Ford and Edbon during the vacation trip, and Mrv Edison has promised to tend hlni Fast to record some of bis selectons on phonograph records. FINGERPRINTS HOLD ALLEGED MURDERER AFTER TWO YEARS Edward Wilson, Boston Safe Cracker, Brought to Brooklyn for Cleason Murder. Arrested on a chars? of cracking safes In Boston stores, llngen prints of Edward AVilson, 23 years old. a chauffeur, revealed that he was wanted In Brooklyn on a murder charge, according to Ihe police, and he was taken before District Attorney Charles J.

Dodd today lor questioning. Boston police linked Wilson wilh about 20 sale robberies in Boston stores and advised Ibe police that be was slaying nt Ihe home of his mother-in-law at E. 163d Bronx. Detective Sgts. A.

F. Campbell nnd Robert A. Lynch of Boston arrived here last night and lie was arrested. At police headquarters it was learned that a bench warrant had been issued lor Wilson's arrest on a first degree murder charge in connection with the death in Brooklyn of Harry Gleason on July io. 11)21, according to police.

Wilson was I hen banded over to Detective Sergeant Fox of the J'lt'lh Avenue Station, Brookly. Wilson confessed to breaking into five safes in Boston Mores, but denied know ledge of Gleason's murder, the police suid. In his room were found a complete kit of bur-glars' tools and a loaded .38 caliber revolver, according to the police. Gleason was slnln by two men who drove up to 7th ave. and 12th Brooklyn, In nn automobile.

William Sutton, who is awaiting trial on a murder charge, and Wilson are alleged to have quarreled with Gleason three days previously, when Gleason beat them up. It is charged that the two men then shot Gleason in revenge. Sutton wns arrested soon after the murder, but Wilson vanished. It Is said he went to Boston, where joined a band of crooks who looted safes and returned to New York only recently. PAPYRUS HAS A GOOD PIPE OPENER AT BELMONT PARK By V.

C. VlfEELANB. Belmont Park, L. Oct. 13 Before one of ihe largest thrnogs llv.t ever gathered here to see the workout of racehorse, Papyrus, inner of the English Derby, here to meet Zev 111 the international match race next Snturdny, did one and a half miles In 315 early today.

Although not last, the trial was a good "pipe opener." he fractional times were: 2-5, :26 4-5, 3-u, :52. 1:04 3-5. 1:1 6 4-5, 1:13 2-5, 2:10, 2:24 and 2:38 3-6. A heavy haxo that made It dtillcull lo see the far slrir of the track, hung over the grounds when the English horse, accompanied by Bar Gold, bis stablomute, appeared a little utter o'clock. Terry Biinhun, his exerebe boy, was up Papyrus.

A shaver of about HO pounds was up on Bar Gold, lie wns decidedly lighter than the boys who have ridden lite trial horse In oilier workouts. At the start. Bar Gold had about 75 yards to the good. The horses! broke standing. Vnfortiiniitely, thel hn7.o made it Impossible to waleh Ihe complete workout, but Judging iiy iini was Feen, aprus is utiuiiliT himself.

II was his second real trial. There ill be next Tuesday. Steve Dnnoirhue, lite English Jocki who will ride Papyrus, Is now oh the high seas. He Is due to arrive in xt Tuesday. Present plans cull for him to breeze the visitor on Wednesday.

The llnal workout is scheduled for net Thursday morning. 55o breezed Ibree-elehts of utile. No time wn. sin ken. Tomorrow Ihe 4nierleau representative will hav a real workout.

(it uwixti ta x. John Krai. wskl. 31. of 132 Mescr-ole "ns arretted nr having revn'vor iirly today in saloon n( liii Ureettpoint eve.

BY VOTEf 316-24 Gives Chancellor Dicta torial Powers Sought 7 Members Fail to Vote. Berlin, Oct. 13 (By the Associated Press) The Reichstag this after noon adopted chancellor Shreee- munn's Authorisation Bill, giving him wide authority in dictating measures for economic reform. TThe bill was passed by a vote of 316 to 24, with seven members ab staining from voting. There had been doubts whether the Stresemumi government would be able to muster the two-thirds' majoilty necessary to pass its Authorization Bill.

President Ebert on Thursday gave the Chancellor authority to dissolve the Reichstag If the measure did not receive tho indorsement of that body and to proceed by Presidential authority under the Constitution to curry out the proposed rehabilitation measures by decree independent of the Parliament. The Authorization Bill gives the government ot the Reich authority to laltc, "In financial economic and social spheres, the. measures which it deems necissary nnd urgent, rights specified In the 'Constitution of the Reich," The authorization, however, does not extend to the re gulations governing the hours of labor or to decreases in pensionul and allowances. Tho bill becomes law upon lis promulgation and expires with the present Cabinet, or in any event by March 31 next. Make Belgian Plan Reparations Basis.

Brussels, Oct. 13 Tho Belgian Government has Invited the French, British and Dalian governments to to the Interallied Reparations Commission the Belgian reparation plan, submitted to the Allied Governments on June 6 last, to be used by the Commission as a basis of a concrete plan of German reparalion In Iho impending negotiations. II is officially slated that Iho three Allied Governments have acceded lo Ihe Belgian proposal and that the Reparation Commission will undertake a study of the ISclgian suggestions. Belgian Communique. The Belgian action is made known in a communique made public today by the Belgian Official News Agency, reading: "The Belgian Government has called the attention of the French, British and Italian Governments to the technical studies of the reparation problem communicated by the Brussels Government to Ihe Allied Governments, suggesting the advisability that Ihey be examined by the Reparation Commission.

These tech- Inieal Investigations indicate methods by which Germany could pay her debt. "Tho Belgian Government feels that these reports are destined to serve, partially at least, as a basis for a concrete reparation plan, in submitting them to the Allies she assist in bringing about a practical solution of the reparation problem. The Belgian Government thought that when the Reich should have abandoned its policy of resisl-ance, fulfilling the condition upon which, according to the French and Belgian communique of June 6, the question of resumption of negotiations hung, It would be extremely desirable for the Allies to he In accord concerning the solution of I In reparation question." Wlint Belgium Prooscs. It would appear that Belgium, n. again bringing her reparalion plan to the attention of the Allies.

Is ic verting to her reputed desire, expressed at the Brussels conference with the French in June, that all the Allies g't. together again and frame a reparation settlement Willi Germany. The Relgian plan, submitted at the Brussels conference, set 7, 00,1, gold marks as the figure Belgium wns prepared to uccept for her reparation share. The text of Iho plan was not made public nl the time, bus It is reported It llxed the total Indemnity to be paid by G.u-many nt 40,000,000.000 gold mark, with the payments secured by Gei-ninn bonds based on railway fc-celnts Industrial monopolies, etc. France, it was declared, while ar-eeptlng the plan in principle nskcl thnt time be given for French experts to examine and report upon it, and ultimately It appears to have been laid aside without any definite action, Belgium not pressing at the time her supposed desire for united Allied action.

PHILLIPS SUSPECT NOT ON MONTREAL TRAIN Montreal, Oct. 13 Detectives meeting the train In which Ihe supposed murderer ot Estelle Phillips, Now York department executive, wns believed to bo traveling to this city, reported Ibe man described In telegrams was not on the train. They said they believed he bad alighted at siimn point hefnre reaching Montreal. The train reached here at p.m. Inst night.

Crippled Astrologer Held On Charge of Murder Plot; is the Stars Guided Him Say. MarshflelJ, Oct. 13 Plans for the deliberate slaying of prominent residents of Coos County with their families were laid by Arthu" Covell, 47, a cripple, famed as an astrologer, according to his reported confession lo authorities here. With his 16-yoar-old nephew, Alton Co-veil, be is held in tho county Jail after indictment on a murder charge In connection with the death of Mrs. Fred Covell, Sept.

8 Inst. The. nephew, It Is suld by llie authorities, has confessed that he klllod his stepmother whllOmdor the influence of his crippled uncle. The confession. It is declared, tells how the youth, hypnotized by the Oct.

13 I bed-ridden man, crept up behind his stepmother on tno morning or 2. while sho was at work In her kitchen, and, clamping an ummonla-souked cloth over her lace, smothered her to Tho nslrolr. according to his purported ad, salons and to the confession of nephew, based hi schemes for th killing of Mrs. Covell nnd for wiping mil nt least .) dozen persons of Coos County, upon I lie sturs. Seattle, Oct.

IS L. S. May, criminologist. returning from Mnrslifteid, Ore where he the Mrs. Fred Covell.

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