Sioux City Journal, The (Newspaper) - August 15, 1923, Sioux City, Iowa REVEALS HIS ATTITUDE ON I MANY POINTS WEDNESDAY AUGUST TWELVE PAGES THE WEATHER Yesterdays 8 2 9 3 10 4 11 Fi 12 6 1 7 menl allows with by Coolidge Conference His Smith lo Th attitude on neatly all bo questions confronting Government was revealed at thn today after the cabinet he has contented him Self with the general statement that IllH policies would ho as those of President Thin was but were Outline of Boiled run be stued that tho president holds these views on the following subjects International policy The trallon ready to cooperate with In working out a solu of the reparations if It can do so without involving the United hut It has no concrete proposal In at this The the secretary of fire sympathetically studying numerous suggestions for legislation to the Mexico The signing of this agree ment paving the way for recognition of the existing Mexican government may he expected at any Foreign debts Tho administration will proceed with tin efforts to col loct all the obligations owed by for eign governments to tho United Anthracite coal lions are already under way io bring a settlement of tho coal but plans already havu been to assure an tutes for anthracite in tho event of a Immigration Favors policy of ad only tho better class of immigrants and will study plans sub mitted by Secretary of Labor Extra session of congress Seea no need for an extra but would not hesitate to call one It be comes Economy and The deter of the administration to en force strictest economy cannot be stated too strongly and thu budget system will be scrupulously Questions The holding its first meet Ing since President Coollage took I discussed rang 1 The maximum temperature day was SS degrees the minimum temperature was M The sun rises today ut and will set at but international The Is keeping in touch with de affairs in con wilh Secretary of State and he sees no reason for ig in any material prom the course outlined by Secretary when he stated the attitude 0f the Harding administration on the reparations controversy in New Haven members of the of the Treasury is now hurrying back from attended tho meeting of Labor Davis tho morning afler a rapid buck from II was ted on Ihe highest y member ot the cabinet has agreed to remain in office thai the president expects to follow president has no Intention of away to spend any part ot the of the Ho is king no speech He that the requirements of the will keep him constantly the He must with the multitude ot ad details and tho officials i whom he must confer fiom time time can be seen much more in Washington than where il was pointed he ease and understanding with tho new president to the difficult of position is surprising ibers mid other officials of the different man since he ithe The apparent jess which Was one ot his out ling characteristics luu given TIII J and cooler Nebraska Cloudy to partly cloudy and somewhat cooler Wednesday Thursday generally South Dakota Iartly cooler in as Thursday cloudy port Ion an air uf confidence and His familiarity with the i of the government is amaz This is accounted for the fact that its vice by invitation of In all the and on all sides there Is the late president for mak lls WEST IS AGAIN SAYS ALLEN WHITE is the rampage said of in a letter to on of the federal tariff corn which read L round table of the flute of col on agricultural condi and the election of Magnus as senator from our trouble the old we have had for forty to ship any Jwe sell to a buyer and put trans In everything we buy from We are overloaded with The farmer may be un locking to politics for his he does look to politics and when he gets into raises tho very Oto that thn election of taken with that of given Ui victory of In obvious complex and revealed nt proves very def middle Io on a I NEWS SUMMARY Thirtyseven persons rescued from Pago Ten scores hurt and heavy damage by Pago Mary Miles bares relations with slain movie Pago reveals his attitude on many lending Pago Operators and miners agree to con fer on coal Pago Motorists load up on gasoline at cut Pago Two princesses are bitter rivals for Cierman Page parents brutally torture girl arc held for murder Page Oil flames kill woman who pours gap Into stove while fire Page bare liquor scandal in dry chief Pago Editor Is successful candidate for postmasters place at Pago Packers drop both ends of double header to Tulsa Page Cubs on top In two games against lowly Boston Pago Ty Cobb hits three doubles as De troit boats 7 to Page Thirtysix rounds of boxing carded for Cudahy Page Three star bouts will fight card of disabled Page Two youths are Injured In auto col condition one Page churches will celebrate Feast of Assumption Page Pioneers Woodbury county to pic nle Thursday Sergeant Page of con duit may be started In Page Harvest hands moving north In search of travel Annual baby parade at Smiths Villa witnessed by 500 Page Villa is witnessed by Page Wife of prominent Methodist min ister dies after long Page Boosters of will pic nic today jt Grabbes Page drop In stock receipts fol lowing ban on anthrax Page Wheat prices close lower on bearish Rum Seizures Outside 3Mile Limit Valid uf running vessels that hover foreign New high Page for fat cattle hogs near Page FEIGNS DROWNING BY LEAVING CLOTHES ON RIVERS BANK the Blue north of had teen dynamited in an effort to re cover the body of Fred who vanished this leaving his clothes on the river local of expressed the belief that he had not been who has been serving a term for was at work a road gang when lefl Ihe highway to bathe in the The discovery of his clothing an hour aft led to the that he had been It Is now be that he merely used a clever ruse to Sheriff John Sailing and Police Chief Paul tonight found that wife took It very The possibility that she or some con federate secreted other clothing near the river for the prisoner wear when lie Is Indicated by Former Congressman Coolidges Secretary Re presentative Bascom of has been tendered and has accepted the position ot secretary to President of ap pointment wan nude today at the House shortly after he had Concluded hour und a hulf canter Slemp up hla per permanent charge of his office until after Labor diy and In tho meantime George secretary the late President will remain as presidential ones with will not be able to close gonal affairs and take New V alien rum outside the three mile limit was held legal by federal Judge Woodrough was h down In the rase of the British ship Marlon while trans ferring cargo to the American owned motor eight miles the near Fire July of Detroit Fidelity and surety company given after the seizure of the craft as 11 guarantee thit It would proceed to its supposed were declared It being contended that although the vessel arrived at the Canadian port she did not have her hereby violating her Tho Mosher case brought about special session of President cabinet and mi exchange nf conversations with Oreal The Attorney In his argument before today It IH clear that I respective of the cabinets determination us mat ter of diplomatic policy to release ships having cargoes of liquor when apprehended outside tho there was legal author ity for the sinil forfeiture of the Marion Mosher and her cargo ot Judge Woodrough held that selz uro of foreign ships In smuggling liquor into this country was even though they were on the high a ship hovers around the he although three miles from with intent to violate tho laws and is caught In the attempt to smuggle intoxicating liquors nnd it Is shown that it Is In contort with Its though H bo of foreign registry anil outside tho is Famous Washington Elm Tree h Dead Washington tlm Is The official demise of the famed tree beneath which took command the continental was announced yesterday by tor of the Arnold Har vard university In a letter to Mayor of Mayor It IB is eager so raise a fund from the school chil dren of the country for shaft to mark the historic spot whan the tree hoa The trunU will prob ably be cut Into small to be dis as souvenirs among tile mu seum o the country and tho Cam MOTORISTS LOAD UP ON GASOLINE Retail Dealers Report Heaviest Sales in the motor ists from the to the Rockies today the quaint old custom of rushing as In the gasoline industry brought bargain prices and retail gasoline dealers reported one of the greatest sales records In their The thrifty who ordered his automobile tank filled to the brim and brought along extra containers to haul homea brought forth no paeans of prosperity from the petroleum for all asserted that prevailing prices were far below the cost of production and will pre vail only as long as competition makes them The reduced prices In general ex tended from the Allegheny mountains to the Rockies with consumers of the middle west and south reaping the principal although through some sections they were still Few points along either the Atlantic or Pacific coasts reported any Independents in The price slashing started by the Standard Oil ot In South afler Me Master had ordered state depots to sell gasoline at 16 was extended ihn companys lii ten states and part of an eleventh today with a reduction of Independents charging tho cut of the Standard unfair and fe1 In line with reduced prices although in many Instances there were only D cent The Standard Oil of announced a cent reduction In West and the Standard Oil ot and Standard Oil of Ken also reduced their Ala bama Independents announced would meet the cuts in that while the same announcement came from Manhattan Oil company In and the Continental Oil com pany in Colorado announced a 3 cent As a result ot the price slashing a heavy Belling of petroleum stocks was reported on the New Vork stock and many oil stocks hit new low prices for the but most of them recovered and closed within a fraction of tho opening Surplus many oil men laughed at statements that the action started by Governor of South Da was responsible for the price that sur plus production particularly in the California have made storage of the surplus with the re sult that companies muit Some of the oil men also attributed part ot the situation to the selling of distress oil that the owners must dispose of at any price to meet loans and other brught about by holding it Meanwhile service stations pumped out their stocks all day long to lines of waiting eager to buy gas as less than In Chicago according to the Chicago Motor motorists will save a day by taking advantage ot the a gallon price instead ot the 22 cent price of The dealer Who yesterday filled an 859 or gallon tank with gasoline at from 18 to 20 cents a on whether he hauled It himself and who today wai forced to retail it at WM according to local oil and will be put put of In large If the low prices continue 10 KNOWN AND MANY HURT IN UTAH FLOOD Property Loss Near Mil lion Mark in Wake of By Lake Ten known several persons mis scores of Injured and property amounting to than tonight total In Iho wake of a cloudburst which struck towns In northern last night anil early As tho stricken farm counted their losses after the swollen streams had receded to nearly CJc i Mahey orders Io National guard here to stnn readiness for possible duty flood Dawn in the little city near Halt the devastation wrought by tho storm Wading waist Into mud nnd debris rescue workers recovered four Farm lands surround ing tho city were Several normally but which swelled last night to propor tions of nearly quarter of a mile wide and many feet deep swept farm buildings and stock down stream when the huge walls of water rolled with startling and Inten sity from tho mountain canyons nnd down upon the sleeping farm com Fears that tho death list would were expressed tonight by men and others who sur tho Two men were reported to havo been In cloudburst at near early In creasing tho death list to but the report could nol be List of Known The names of the known dead are Arnold died of exposure attempting to rescue bis daughter from tho flood waters near Willard 17 years of Salt Lake drowned at Farming of drowned at Agnew drowned al Sylvia II years drowned at Two drowned In canyon bodies swept down Ellen of killed when water wrecked her Heaps of mud and debris today covered acres of land In and officials there expressed the belief thai several bodies be found an exploration of the inundated Five persons In an automobile last seen being carried down current near had nol buen accounted For more than one mile the stale highway near is buried under several feet of debris and railway tracks have been washed virtu ally Isolating that Huge telephone poles and wrecked farm structures were strewn over a wide Destruction at of heroism continued to hold the In terest of this little city aside from the sorrow brought to It after a night of terror caused when flood waters from the mountains deluged this section and left behind a path of death and Two hundred volunteer rescue workers today aiding the many Injured and searching for and fearing that they might find other bodies to mount death toll of More than a dozen their ranch homes carried away and crushed to pieces in the rush of were cared for tonight by In the path of the flood the home and ranch buildings of As she looked from a window a flash of lightning Illu tho disclosing a torrent rushing u on her Obtaining a rope Hess threw It to three men atop tho structure after the struck They slid Io hand over hand down the rope A sick doctor left his bed to rescue an 8J year old woman who bad clung to a cult In the flooded After saving the woman and a child the physician upon the pleas of the aged saved the Other thrilling rescues to numerous to recount were told privately today as emerged from the night of horrors and counted Its SUNRISE AND SUNSET SAYS Glenn overseer of and an ad vocate of the flat world to day announced that there In no such thing as sunrise There Is literally no sunrise and no sun he they are only optical The sun Is the same height above the earth ut all The devil at one had many In fidels to teach the says Now he has dreds of university professors and professed ministers of the I believe In he Pilot Killed in an Airplane Wreck of Instantly kl led when an airplane he pilot ing fell one thousand feet John of was seriously Ward had come to capital with ft party of He had gone up with as a passenger In anight seeing Husband Admits Killing His Wife and Her Mother boxes each containing the of woman were in a field here early Shortly af ot FrankI was arrester as he WHS running through Medford and tile police lie confessed Hint be had killed his anil her A plea of nol guilty to charge j of murder was entered for him in the i court Inter In day j and ho was held without baij for New Hampshire A quarrel over money mailers which resulted In n fight in which his wife and took the led to the killing of tho two women with a bat and knife In their home in last Saturday to an eon fe V Tsekos to the Medford r o fr told the officers I hat lie two children to Boston on then returned o P Ihe two bodies ami put them Yesterday lie hired Charles a taxi to him Boston with the box which bo Clarke contained Clarke became suspicious nnd discovered what ho thought was blood coming In Medford taking tho notified tho out of one of the Tho car wan stopped and Tsekos wan boxes to a field Clarke Tho Iwo children found today In tho homo of Tsekos sister In Bos Tho Franklin upon examin ing found no traces of a struggle and no This led to tho suggestion that lite mur ders might have been commuted else but nothing to support this theory had been discovered Falling siato Kills men were killed ami two Injured by falling al Iho mines of tho Iron company hero this afternoon OPERATORS AND MINERS ACCEPT Agree Io Confer Today on Anthracite Coal tn The were received by the coal commission today from both tho operators and to the invita tion for a conference on the anthra situation The acceptances camo from at on of the and from John president of the United Minn Workers of at Atlantic on behalf ot the Five of members of the commission will bo on hand to meet with the committee of four operators and four minors at the Pennsylvania New al 3 oclock tomorrow coal received atten tion at todays cabinet The discussion was of a general inasmuch OH members of the coal which Is In direct charge of tho administration efforts to prevent a were not Secretary of Commerce I Sec of the Interior and Sec of Labor Davis all have a di rect Interest In the situation through bureaus of their departments and latest developments with the president mem President Coolidge desires the commission to handle the situation so far as because of Its legis lative mandate to Inquire Into all angles of the coal President desires the commission not only to report to him first hand of position of tho operators and miners as developed at tomorrows but to take Immediate steps looking toward mediation of thv It n tbo presidents hope that the commission will able to point the way for a satisfactory adjustment of Ihe While efforts to the con are In President sn precaution toward preparedness for a have been made to the relative to the plans of the operators to flood the country with bituminous coal If an anthracite strike takes and particularly to get the graldes of bitu minous coal most us tutes for anthracite to the sections of the counthy where they be most Reward for Persons Guilty of Whippings the re quest of Sheriff the rlty council tonight offered an reward of 1500 for the and conviction of persons guilty of whip ping In this city during the last few Karller In the sheriff Hicks has offered a reward of anil Walker had Increased the states re ward to the local chapter of the kuklux klan a announced that It would add to the was made by the klan that it had any thing to do with the Grand Jury Indicts Two Bankrupt Puller and partners in bankrupt stock bucketing house of Fuller were Indicted with their former Fallen and HV by a federal grand jury for conspir acy to conceal and assets of the firm which failed for Additional naming iil higher In a spread bucketing were toe Intends the government du take every possible MINTER BARES HER RELATIONS WITH TAYLOR Movie Star Gives Out Signed Statement to lly to flirt conferring four hours with her attor ney as to the heat methods of coin polling her mother to up Mary Miles for Ihe gave her story to Chicago Tribune and the Angeles Sho Is going to MIC for Iho money sho sho earned and Hut It Isnt tho fact of the money alone impels her to In her story she reveals the bitterness that lies between her and her It was a recital Mio to nnd tho tears fell like rain unchecked as she For the first time II she the scene with her mother that morning when she loomed of Ihe death of her William Desmond Ihe murdered movie Her A scene not depleted In cold a thing that nerds Marys Marys Marys hands to Kho was when news her mother rapping MI the demanding saying things about something about Taylor being killed in his Mary WHS she Rho wanted to go directly to the man who everything tri her and her mother flood In front of her and And gentle little leaped at her mother and threatened to kill and choko I sco two your shn and If you dont gel away Ill dig my thumbs into them and walk over you to Following Is Miss signed statement BY MAHY MILKS H has happened for months and months I been hoping and pray ing that my differences with my mother might nol bring up the dreadful Incidents of tho murder of William Desmond I havo tried and to make no references to It In my statements concerning my ef to an accounting from my but after lias ine day and night and always about Air The Chicago Tribune is Ihe only which has not done this and because of this I am giving my first statement that I over given under my own William Desmond Taylor my life when I was 17 years of He was thi first man o call me Miss How do you Miss Mln he to mi when first we were and then he by New Always I had been called Mary and treated like a child by men and women but Taylor called me which at that heart us I mado an Instant From that moment he fascinated It not long afterward that we were In New England making a my grandmother and sister were with the I to listen for bin footsteps camo into the door of tho little lintel whore we I recognized thorn as they went up Ihe stairway and into hjH which wan Just over n little parlor where we all One It was my and we all went Into Boston for a dinner parly for Ho rode In the automobile my grand mother anil Tho road wits rough and hut arms were spread across nar buck neat In which we One bump grandmother against him anil ho said I Murder Charge n darkened at the hospital for ruptured nnd crippled on Mast lies tho crushed nnd broken body of youthful brother of tho famous screen A deeply worried and frightened of film celebrities Is anxiously noting every beat of his i barely flowing For If ho j and according to hid physicians It Is 1 that he will tho land of i movie pictures will be wrecked by an other grave scandal in the high of Karly In the morning of who member of an automobile parly riding along the post bout en nml mauled by Ralph moving picture director of The brother of Iho lovely Anita was with n fractured skull and In an to the where liven nnd concealed until the following When he was removed to the During the 24 hours bo was kept secreted Miss and bor were conducting distracted search for him throughout the The police not boon advised of the but it was said today attorney for Miss tho affair prob ably would be given official tion tomorrow or on The of ho remains Ralph Inco Is the husband ot Lucy sister of and IIo has filed for divorce from but Iho baa never come to Since ban boon no official Investigation by the no con story boon gained from the witnesses tho account of Hurry German chauffeur for THREE CENTS THIRTYSEVEN TAKEN OUT OF SHAFT ALIVE 100 Are Believed to Have Perished in Wyoming Coal Continued on 1age Four RUMORS OF A DIVORCE DENIED BY COREY 1 The I New Oilman former comic opera dented tho report that lur con templated visit to Paris Is for the purpose of obtaining a di vorce from her millionaire William Kills one presi dent of the United States cor There In not a word of truth In 1 have heard the rumor ever since my re turn from but It is not Corey Just eume back Paris with He is now at his hunting lodge In I will toil on thu ISth to spend some time at my cha as Coreys pearl necklace disappeared In Paris last Po lice of London Paris joined in the search for tjio most of which were Auguste Coreyi und her weru arrested and are still In prison In Thp marriage of the magnate the in 1907 wir u sensa following Coreys divorce 10 months before from first Laura Cook whom he wooed he was a on his uncles coal In Explorer on Way to Nome Miss who was driving Iho and who also waa knocked down by the burly 2 WOMEN WAR OVER A THRONE Kaisers Consort and Princess Cecilie Are Bitler City Cable inth res ue of three moro miners entombed in Frontier mine 1 of tho coal company In explosion this brought the total of to It wan estimated late tonight that tho total death toll Hoald leader of an and lion that In bound for the North Is on highway to Norna aboard tho States guard to word re hero sooner does tho threat of a revolution and tho Betting up of n republican alarm two cort niv eyo on 6 Intriguing against each of self nulled and Crown Cecillo both want tho The former kaiser mm Crown Prince Wll say aH their women are on daggers Princess will rule Germany Princess declares her children aloni will inherit this and are because Germany may select Iho ing Prince of with MM Luxemburg on thu Peter once tutor to H children at and now a Dutch Just bus visited and obtaining the first interview with In the following Herr Meyer tells how kal and crown princess evidently each plot each other For her own family precedence to tho which does not Hy Ieter of the violent Kittle Is going on at present for the Herman Imperial not between but between wo women princess Cecelie ami Princess of e war before the former Princess the of which ill tin Hohenzollern con not by Fin illy the former kaiser Insisted that be your obeying IIH hlu children gave Not Princess refuses all contact with the former kaiser and Princess J telling ho that tn tho In terest of my and my recognizes second us a royal not im an 1m bluer has she become lhat thin year for tho first time ban given up her annual trip to Holland to HOG her fearing to leave a bad impression It refused to go to Doom after Associated Fighting way through Iho partially dismantled portions ot Frontier 1 of tho Coal one mile from scene of an explosion shortly after 8 oclock rescue workers tonight had brought out alive 34 of tho 138 miners on tombed by the The explosion occurred tn tho vicin ity of tho 1700 foot level of tho Tonight workers had pene to nearly every of tho underground and It was Indicated they hod brought out nil the men remaining blackened embers of mine cars buried in a caveIn on tho 1700 foot level of tho workings In entry 15 gavo to tho belief that fire had followed the blast which tore down sections of tho ripped up tracks on which trip cars are operated and dismantled tho electric wiring of plunging the smoke filled depths Into Tho ot the ex plosion IH presumed to have been a blow out according to a statement Issued late today by tho Kemmerer Coal No Fire In Tho company declared In the state ment that no tiro had followed tho ex At tho sania time the com rescue work was continuing and that tho final figures on tho number of victims In would not bo known for a few Great throngs ot women and chil many of them widowed by the about the mouth ot the shaft us tho rescue work wont Many were When trip cara carrying tho survivors the blast camo to the surface the crowd became almost rush v ins forward When I to the about hopes for her the crown princess not on a friendly not She thlu replied The crown princess and x Kho does through might harm the of the crown Princess and her But you may publish throughout the world that us the legal the kaiser I now have all hi Who will be the kaisers successor after his death will be UP m m r Is a sick as and he sees reality cye ft a tho kaiser Is waiting for tho moment when his cry out tq from their deep Than the hour will pome when ha and I will return to he kaiser and I as at his side and wo will show tho German that their arc U a not which direct my acti but that compels me to hard and no Intrigues ot ouu adversaries will prevent me trom Princess Is an talented and ambitious and her influence over the furrow is The former my actions Continued on Facet Four loved and If greatest Ing thorn away from the mouth of tho Fully olio hundred vol were In the lower depths of ilm mine tonight searching for thu bodies of tho dead und seek ing for Mino rescue car of the United bureau ot mines arrived here tills afternoon from Rock where It was Intercepted af ter leaving hero early this and members of the crew Immediately entered tho mine to assist in rescue Mino rescue car was expected hero later having left Salt City this Scenes Witnessed The men brought from the mine alivo were found In 27 to Nearly all of them were black ened by smoke and suffering from the effects of the Inhalation of although there had been very gas In the workings after tho Pitiful scenes were enacted about the mouth of tho mines as relatives of the men who came out of the workings rushed Into the arms of their waiting loved ones near by stood women and children In deepest grief fearful lest those they sought should never come Alex Inuma and Tapero were two of the first men to come from the They had a section ot the fine near the shaft and made their ivay through smoke and dust after the within a few were suffering from tho Follows The greatest damage to tho Interior of the mine was done on tho fifteenth entry where six mine cars had been burled by tho which appar ently followed the Rescue who rushed Into the mne as soon as the Indication of the Continued on Four GIRL HELD IN PEONAGE FOR OVERDUE Held as a chat tel for two years as security for an overdue board of beaten forced to wear boys and locked out at night to her bed with was sad fate of Margaret 11 years daughter of aj Inventor who dis In 1921 and whose where are Juvenile court who now have the girl in say Melton placed his then 9 with a farmer living near agreeing to pay WO a for her board and cloth the child to be sent to school and given light Neighbors complained oC the child frequently M uhe was being beiten and officers this morning went to the form and rescued Smith and his wife have been cited to appear In court tomorrow and answer serious of the childs little shows many thn Her hands BV p vindica tive of the i ik she was to At ot she Was al with ft Bleep s mi nt put to to
