St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 20, 1924

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DINNER. ly Beef turnover with card 2 peas. im, oe , Mashed po atoes ‘ Beet, pickle, egg valaaa ruit cake. ay. 4 Coifee, tea, milk. : him VEGETABLE CROW! her Cut four potatoes and 3 into stiall pieces and add to cover: add one | tables ver- finely chopped celery tons, did hiespoonful finely chopped be pepper and boil gently until Then add 3 onions finely e and browned -in 2. tables EY bu'ter, thickened with 3 Frith spoonfuls fiour, and combi nic 2 cupfuls cenied tomatoes to bollnge point, season teuspoonfuls and stire ety - iy until nurture thickens, at cupfuls scaided milk and 4 the once, Giner veyetahbles used insiead of carrots. Lé | vegetables and cooked we | may be utilized for this e ho Picir CAKE, uci- Three egus one cupfib | ream, env cupful butter. fo 'tuls flour. two and one-h —— tuls raisins chopped fine, f fuls brown s "sar, one ft? iul soda, ove teaspoonful of | One teaspocuful cinnamoiys alf | slowly. as a ea- a ae :. [ HUSEHOL tte ble- GG ST] nful tof | on- | the The Home Artist. It | laded mattings may be ing | or even stenciled with a thi | nd brush dipped in hot dye and It- | applied. i . 7 . ew Silverfish. the ao These rather pretty P | th insects are decided pests and - | should be taken to get rid off Test | excellent =—— ae coffee. y morn- French he next e coffee ing. The e French that on fifth and thereafter fee will lected to m, ha : A t- . a Kolinsky ‘Best Real Estate Buys! Real Estate Ads printed in the POST-DISPATCH in October 13,697 9829 MORP than in ALL Louis newspapers COMBINED! post-Dispaich Leads in Real Estate Advertising the other 8t. ¥ in St. Louis W ith News the Associated Press Service 37. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Paper a rd + i SR ed VOL. 77. NO. 74. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1924—48 8 PAGES. IES BILKED 700,000 AND NERS ROBBED Re- Tangle yealed in London Where Bank Is Being Sued by “Wronged Husband.” ATE’S NAME LLY GUARDED 000 in £1000° Notes. Paid Across the Counter ‘to One of the Con- -gpirators. to the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, Nov. 20.—"'Splendid!”’ The adjective, accompanied by a tic rolling of eyes, came this rnoon from Mrs, Charles Ernest n when she was asked in of the most astonishing trials English history what manner of s “Mr. A,” the ‘unnamed ern Prince, whose indiscretions her resulted in his paying $000 blackmail in which her band shared. rs. Robinson, whose husband, ex-bookmaker and police char- _is suing the Midland Bank $625,000 he said was deposited him there by agents of the ckmailed potentate, proved the most unusual witness of this ual case that has society on its) needles. Mrs. Robinson's testimony yered with a theatrie flourish. exquisite beauty was enriched | a black cloche hat, French Sentence German General for War Theft Officer Given One Year for Stealing Chateau He Occupied During Conflict. By the Associated Press. LILLE, France, Nov. 20.,—Found guilty -by a French courtmartial of confiscating and shipping to Ger- many valuable properties from the chateau he occupied as headquar¢ ters in Northern France during the war, Gen. von Nathusius, a German commanding officer, was sentence i this afternoon to a year’s impris- onment and payment of the costs of the trial. The conviction was cn a vote of four to three. d Gen. von Nathusius, who a year ago was tried by default and sen- tenced to six years in prison on the charge, was caught in French territory recently and brought to trial in person. He was arrested at Thionville while visiting graves of relatives killed during the war. The General was charged with having confiscated and re- moved valuable paintings and fur-| niture from the chateau, shipping, them into Germany. The detailed accusation read to the German officer in court today charges him with stealing cloaks, furs and hats, a dinner service and a baby pets, francs Nathusius $465). denied the (about Gen. ladies’ several car- von charges. When he first moved into the house he had the carpet taken out of the bedroom, was full of fleas.’’ ner service regular way that requisitions were Miss Billie Edith Stanley Anyway, it! had | made, he was not his service he declared, “because requisitioned in declared, and he it He had the din- the never packed it among his baggage. He formally denied stealing any- thing. In the courtroom, which holds little more than 50 people, many German reporters were present as | also was Secretary Von Rintelen, o*% the German Embassy in Paris. ~~ — Cie DEATH IN LONELY CABIN. ACCIDENTAL Coroner’s Jury Decides Woman Whose Body Was Found by Husband Fell on Knife. y the Associated Press. oy ARROAD, Minn., Nov. to!knife was An accidental falling of a butcher | caused the death of Mrs. |= Slsie Wheeler, 31, of Clearwater, Kan., in a lonely cabin in the es and the Indian Office on pins| Northwest Angle country, accord- jing to the verdict of a Coroner's jury. This was the news brought back late yesterday by county officials coat, fur trimmings | W ho made the trip into the north when she. ,country across 160 miles of wilder- the stand with amazing self- | ness to investigate the woman's pession. | death, ereafter she answered ques-| Mrs. Wheeler was found dead as an elocutionist might. She | Nov. 13 by her husband and Con- Hof Montague Noel Newton, ac- by the defense of leadership the blackmailers, discovering falione in a Paris hotel room m "Mr. A,” as the Indian Prince being called by mutlal agree- mt, because the Indian Office the revelation of his identity tstir up trouble. | Cable to the Post-Di spatch. 1924.) (Copyright, NDON, Nov. 20.—What Lord | bury, counsel for the prosecu- described as “‘the most amaz- story that he had ever heard.”’ menced to be unrolled in court erday, and the early stages of M case justify the description. his of the love of an “Oriental ntate’ for an English woman. inating in the payment by the ntate of £150,000 (nearly $700,- #) toa man he supposed to be Woman’s husband, the theft of 1 but £25,000 of this sum by bank ud conspirators who included “unnamed English officer at- ached to the potentate’s suite, and tes of conspiracy and blackmail ndon, Paris and the Riviera. rles Ernest Robinson, a boox- rt, issuing the Midland Bank 125,000. He alleges that th» irators placed the £150,000 by the potentate as hush in the bank, forging his siz- Pand opening an account in on’s name, and that one of conspirators the next day, al- h he was unknown person- to the bank, cashed a check Robinson for £130,000. The , it is alleged, raised objec- Stating they had never seen client, but they were per- led to pay over the counter the € amount in thousand-pound | Potentate Is Protected. Midland Bank, for whom the ! 8 advocate Sir John Simon is ting, declares in defense Rob- Was engaged in the blackmail lmey and hence is not en- to recover the sums he lost. most astonishing feature of day's hearing was the care by all parties and by Jus- Darling to conceal the name of “Oriental potentate’” who was to as His Highness and as » A” When a photograph of cheek for £150,000 was intro- In evidence and shown the & plece of white paper was OVer the potentate’s signa- &nd the counse) appealed to Per men, should the poten- Mame slip out during the ex- fon to keep it secret. Sugh Lord Halsbury accused Potentate’s aide-de-camp of ® some of the money intended the injured husband, his name, held secret so as to prevent from guessing the poten- hame, Lord Halsbury told the It appears obvious the po- » is an Indian sovereign » 8nd ruler in his own right, at strong pressure has been ‘by the British Government a Ngants to keep him out of Bel in inson, wife of the book- ay ii, om Page 2, Column 64, me | gle about the cabin, ported, and none of the objects in with whom the couple Hagen and Jake friend, set out for Warroad to notify the authori- ties. They arrived here Sunday, after making the 160-mile trip on foot. The next day, accompanied by the County Sheriff and Coroner they left on their long journey back. When the party arrived at the cabin Tuesday, a half dozen set- tlers were pressed into jury service. After an investigation they re- turned the following verdict: “We find that Mrs. Dean Whee!l- ‘rad Hagen, were staying. Coulson, a er came to her death Nov. 13, 1924, by accidently falling on a butcher knife held in her own hand.” Mrs. and Mr. ~*7heeler came here several weeks ago from Kansas and had planned to take up a home- stead in this vicinity. Mrs. Wheeler at the time of the accident was preparing the evening meal. It is believed she stumbled while holding the butcher knife in her hand. Traces of blood from the table to the door where Mrs. Wheeler was found lying by her husband and Hagen were taken to indicate that she had attempted to get out- doors to call for help. : There were no signs of a strug- authorities re- the room was disturbed. Dean Wheeler, husband of the woman repudiated previous reports that Mrs. Wheeler had a large sum of money and Jewelry. LIQUOR PIRATES RAID BRITISH SHIP, LEAVING IT HELPLESS Liner President Harding Gives Aid to Schooner Veronica, Drifting Off Cape Sable. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Nov. er President Harding reported the offices of the United Lines here today that last evening she rendered assistance to the Brit- ish schooner Veronica, which had a left in a helpless condition 100 miles off Cape Sable after a raid by liquor pirates. The President Harding found the Veronica without compass or a working chronometer. All her boats had been smashed and the officer had no knowledge of their position, The President Harding replenished the schooner's dimin- ishing supply of provisions, gave tha vessel'a ‘compass and then dis- patched a message to her owner, M. K. Warren of Halifax, who was asked to send a tug.. The Veronica was bound from Bermuda to Hali- fax and had been at sea six weeks. SAYS U. S. MAY SELL WILSON DAM POWER .TO PRIVATE FIRMS WASHING TON, | Nov. 20.—Ma- jor-General John A. Hull, Judge vised Secretary Weeks today it was his opinion, reached after a careful study of the law, that the Federal Government had ample authority to sell to private and commercial enterprises power gen- erated by the Wilson dam at) Muscle Shoals, Ala. MISSOURIAN KILLED BY TENNESSEE WOMAN fs | | | Advocate-Genefal of the Army, ad- | that | al Set Paul Patterson of Springfield, Had Been Told to Stay Away, She Says. By the Associated Press. LEBANON, Tenn., Nov. 20.— Paul Patterson, 21 years old, of Springfield, Mo., a law student in Cumberland University, 10:30 Mrs. at the and last night Pearl Baskin hospital three hours later. It is said he declined to make a statement. arrested, said she ing, Mrs. charged Baskin, with the was shot at} home of | died at a who was shoot- had told Patterson to stay away from her home and when he came there two shots, fect. The wounded student covered on H. Swann, home latter Swann, was a nearby a fellow-student, Knoxville, and an is near summoned last night she fired both of which took ef- dis- street by R. whose | the ambulance. who is credited with saying he and Patterson had been together earlier in the night and had pur- chased a half pint of whisky, was held were not as a material witness. together at the time the shooting, he said. Mrs. turned over to Sheriff C. S. a small-caliber pistol Baskin, who two shots had been fired. They of is a widow, teeves from which | carriage, to the total value of 8880 | | Billie Edith Stanley, her compan- ton for the last three years, whom 'she treated as a daughter. Assets of the estate were reported in 1921 | Parker, l'oote may institute a contest. Miss | | t i ' Son of Roscoe C. Patterson, For- mer Congressman, By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Nov. 20.— Paul Patterson, 21 years old, who was shot and killed at Lebanon, Tenn., last night, was the oniy son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe C. Patterson, Springfield lawyer. Mr. | and Mrs. Patterson left Springfield | last night immediately upon being) informed shot. anon when the Roscoe term from this that their son had be They were en route to Leb- youth died. served Congr district. Patterson as Republican (the Seventh) SEVERE COLD SPELL IN ITALY Mountains By gri p only but even covered are Cov ered With Cattle Driven to Plains. the Associated Press. ROME, of the mountains in those surrounding Rome the Nov. a severe cold 20.—Italy spell. the and with snow Snow; is in the Not north, temperature here sank during Iast night to about 20 degrees Fahren- heit, gion. which is unusual for this re- The sheep and cattle already are heing driven down from the Abruz- StateS|jages special watches have 20.—The lin-|zj Mountains to the plains for the to} winter season, and in sevéral vil- been organized as a defense against the wolves forced out of their tain haunts by snow and hunger. le i i a i ee on anna net POO A ‘How to Reduce the High Cost of Carfare How much do you and your . family spend yearly on transportation? Add the cost to business daily; ing friendly calls; of short busi- ness trips; of recreation; of vacations. When you have figured the total. turn to the classified “Automobiles” columns of the Post-Dispatch pare it with the cost of one of the good cars advertised. There's not an item above that a car would not cover—and, frequently, at a saving of time and money. You can put this statement to the test by making in- vestigation of the cars that interest you. and profit by the information you will re- ceive. of goin of ma The Post-Dispatch 2 st Louis’ > The Perfect Market- Direct or’ ] ‘lace § One Big Automobile ee aaa listed ¢ moun- 7 a a i and com- ‘i }| Association, ¢ ( \ . 4 ¢ ( c ) ; : nl } | one | essman | | Soon ‘a daughter, ' WILLS HER ESTATE WORTH $181,000 ~ TOWOMAN FRIEND i ganizations to Mrs. Jennie A. Holbrook | | | } Had Treated Companion for the Last Three Years as a Daughter. CHURCH NAMED IN EARLIER DOCUMENT Met Benefactor on Street Car—Thinks There Will Be No Contest. Mrs. Jennie A. Holbrook, volun- teer worker for improvement of the condition of employed women here, who died Sunday at the Delmonte Hotel, left her entire estate to Miss as worth $181,000. The.will was filed for probate yesterday and today an earlier will was offered but not accepted, in which, it is said, the bulk of the estate was left to Mrs. Holbrook’s church, Centenary Methodist, and two women friends. The will mak- ing Miss Stanley sole heir men- tions Mrs. Holbrook’s only relative, a brother, Dr. James S. Feote of Omaha, Neb., but leaves him noth- ing. Miss Stanley said the former will léft Dr. Foote $1000, and, she added, her attorney thinks Dr. Stanley does not think so, however. The will being probated; which was dated April 4 last and signed by Miss Stanley’s attorney, Jones as a witness, declareg it was the testator’s will and desire that her brother, Dr. Foote, receive nothing. Miss Stanley was made executrix. Other Will Offered. The earlier will was offered bv Francis E. Williams, an attorney, who today declined to comment on his action or discuss that document. Miss Stanley said it had made the following bequests: About one- half of the estate to Centenary Church building fund, about one- half to Miss Mabel Kennedy, dea- coness of.that church, and to Mis. Jane Conzelman, daughter of Theo- philus Conzelman, 5260 Washing- ton boulevard, and $1000 to Dr. Foote. “The first will was made several vears azo, when Mrs. Holbrook was on a sickbed, very ill,”’ said Miss Stanley. “That was after I knew her, but before I came to live with her. I don’t think there will be a contest, because Mrs. Holbrook and Dr. Foote were estranged since her divorce in 1908. She said she was through with her brother then, and she didn't even want him no- tified of her death. Dr. Foote is paralyzed. I have never seen him. Met on Street Car. Holbrook treated me as "* Miss Stanley contin- met her on a street car became attached to me. afterwards, when I was stay- ing at the Y. W. C. A., I took sick and she wanted me to go to her house. She took me to her home. at 4310 West Pine boulevard, ina taxi. She had no children of her own, “IT became her companion three years ago. She wanted to adopt me, but I refused because my own mother is living. She asked me to call her grandma and I did— the only person who. did. We moved to the Delmonte last May 1. Miss Stanley’s parents reside in Louisiana, Mo. Divorced Her Husband. Mrs. Holbrook, who had suf- fered from paralysis since June 1, was buried in Valhalla Cemetery Tuesday, after services at Centen- ary Church, She was the former wife of Walter J. Holbrook, presi- dent of the Holbrook-Blackwelder Real Estate Trust Co., whom she ‘‘Mrs. ued. a and she divorced so that he could marry his stenographer, Miss Jessie Purcell. It was reported then that she re- ceived an alimony settlement of $150,000. Jesse Wolfort, an attorney, was appointed guardian for Mrs. Hol- brook in January, 1921, but six ‘months later the guardianship was removed. In his final report Wol- fort placed assets of Mrs. Hol- brook’s estate at $181,000, of which $138,000 consisted of notes given by Holbrook. Mrs. Holbrook was one of the | founders of the Women’s Christian which was merged with the Y. W. C. A. In 1910, Subway Ad Space Worth Millions. ~" NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—The nar- row rim of space in subway cars, which carry hundreds of advertis- ing cards, has assumed an enorm- ous value. Three advertising cor- porations have offered the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Co. sums ranging from $43, 9.900 to more than $100, 009 000 Ape P°- -year ad- vertising copgeesion Be M4 PRICE 2 Cans HOOVER 10 STAY N CABINET AT URGENT REQUEST OF PRESIDENT ‘BAN LIFTED FOR ~ RETURN OF ANNA LERNER 10 U. 8. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. | ECRETARY HOOVER has | definitely decided to remain S in the Cabinet, despite vari- ous efforts by commercia] or- obtain his serv- ices. | The Secretary made his deci- Hughes Reverses Himself sion after President Coolidge | had earnestly requested that he || After Year and Half and remain in the service of the Passport Is Ordered Is- sued to Veteran’s Wife. | | ¢ Government. a Se MRS, HARDING REPORTED IN SEMI-COMA AND VERY WEAK Doctor’s Bulletin Gives Heart Aec- tion as Fair, After Restless Night: President Sends Message. By the Associated Press. REASON ‘SUFFICIENT,’ ONLY EXPLANATION Woman Was Educated in | MARION, O., Nov. 20.—Mrs. Warren G. Harding was in a semi- ° "ae coma today at the White Oakes America but Father s Sanitarium of Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, where she has been at the point of death for the last week. Dr. Saw- | yer, in a bulletin, however, said/| that her heart action was fair. Dr. Sawyer’s bulletin follows: | ‘‘Mrs. Death Prevented Her From Becoming Citizen. ee ee ee By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, Harding was restless Most| 4 Staff Correspondent of the Post- of the night. This morning she is Dispatch and New York World. in a semicomatose condition. Her | WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Anna heart action is fair: elimination | : poor. She is very weak and ex. | Lerner’s exile is ended; she is ‘coming home. A telegram from President and; From an alien country where an Mrs. Coolidge was received this'arbitrary order of the American morning saying that she constantly! State Department sentenced her to ras i oj s and the ey | was in their thought ths 1 that the’ ‘remain for the last year and a were anxiously awaiting word of half, she is at last coming back to her improvement. The message was read to her by/the land in which she was reared, hausted.”’ George RB. Christian Jr., who was!to he husband, her mother and President Harding’s secretary. The! her brothers, to the scenes and as- > ors ws: e . telegram ce : + ot sociations of her childhood. “Mrs. Coolidge an¢ send af- a ; Mrs Coolidg 1 | When a Post-Dispatch corre- fectionate regards. You are con-; stantly in our thoughts and we|SPpondent inquired at the State De- anxiously await word of your con-|partment a year ago for the rea- tinued improvement.” sons that underlay its refusal to let this 20-year-old bride of an HAPPY WOMEN SELDOM SMOKE, SAYS PHYSICIAN American war veteran re-enter the country he was told that the De- partment deemed the reason “suf- ficient” and that was all. When the correspondent inquired yesterday for the reasons which Vienna Doctor Dec lares Habit Gives Women Chance to Execute Graceful Movements. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, Nov. 20.—Happy andtunderlay the department’s decision satisfied women _ almost never to reverse its position and lift the smoke, in the opinion of Dr. R.|qecree of banishment he was told Hofstaetter, gynecologist, who some time ago asserted that smoking al- tered women’s faces, making them look more masculine than feminine. that the department deemed them “sufficient,’’ and that was all. The department, it was explained, feels under no obligation to explain its “Women who smoke much have] acts. almost invariably contracted the Raised in Philadelphia. habit at a time when they were Anna Kipnesh was born in Rus- especially unhappy,” he says in his |.i4 ana was brought to this country book, “The Smoking Woman.” by her parents when she was 6 “Women regard smoking 4S/vearg old. She grew up in Phila- something ‘smart’,” he continued. delphia, attending the public “Smoking affords them an Opp0Or-|schools. Her father died before he tunity to execute a_ surprisingly large number of playful and there- fore graceful movements and positions. It is a significant fact that the smoking woman is much more concerned about the motions‘ through which she goes as_ she smokes than is the man, for whom the accompanying movements, such as the play of his features, bear the character of automatic, uncon- scious movements.” WASHINGTON DENIES RUMOR OF ARMS CONFERENCE CALL completed his naturalization.. Her brothers became citizens, in 1922 she went to Russia to join the in- dustrial colony at Kuzbas, Siberia, where an experiment in industrial and social democracy was being carried out largely by persons from America. There she met and married Noah Lerner, an honorably’ discharged veteran of the World War who, like her, hag gone there to par- ticipate in the yexperiment. In the summer of 1923 they con- cluded to return home. A pass- port was issued to Lerner by the “No Truth in mepen Cire ulated in | American Congut at Riga, but he ’ eee, A nati | Lerner could not return then, be- By the ___ Announc “i | cause the immigration quota was "SPL OSSING@TON Nav full. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—The ; ¥ , jearned for the first time State Department issued today a/| ong we poe — oe a denial of rumors current in Geneva that Scasee 3 when she left this country, and that the Washington Government, was taking steps to convoke a dis- | armament conference in Europe. The department's statement fol- lows: “In answer to a question by the Associated Press today, the Acting Secretary of State authorized the statement that there was no truth in the report circulated in Geneva that the Washington Government was taking steps. to convoke a dis- armament conference in Europe.” PARTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT AND | —! Wien TONGHT because her father had died before his naturalization was complete, and because Congress had passed a law which deprived alien wives of American citizens of the status enjoyed by their husbands—be- cause of these technicalities—the State Department regarded Mrs. Lerner as an alien precisely as if she had never been in this coun- try. Refused to Admit Her. But the worst was yet to come. | While they were yet lamenting the few months of separation that must intervene before a new quota | became available, they were § in- | formed that the State Department, ae er 43 ‘8 A, MM... eee ees 43) for reasons which it deemed “suf- 3 a Bening 10 a. m-.--+----82l gicient’” had decided not to admit 8 RRR | tie we Se peepee Ea elagade eee Oe GA. M....++0%> 4" 2D. Messee cess at | Lerner was in r vn ef gz a nee * 3h 9 2 a4 : 4 m.-+-***-*89) a living for himself and his absent “Hig Epes peat vesterday, 57. ac Bh. m.: 10W- | wife at his trade of electrician; she est ay .__ | 20 years old, was in Riga, unable Official forecast | ¢, speak the language of the coun- $s ALFONSO | for St. Louis and ;+,, marooned among a_ strange THE DIFTH vicinity: Partly| people. In a short time she fell FPORSEMAN cMoudy tonight) Stripped Seized Autos. Later, Leopold said, members of the police department began col- lecting payment, for protection which went to $55. “They got so thick pay them any more,” said, H. L. Baltimore Dafly Post, Attorney- General Stone sought to present va- rious phases of the question of pub- lishing income tax returns so that a court ruling may be obtained un- der the conditions existing in Bal- timore. He has instructed United States Attorneys in six or seven other in- stances to make presentments to grand juries in as many cities, ask- ing for indictments of newspapers there to obtain court expressions in a variety of communities. The Attorney-General sald today he would press for early court ac- tion In the Baltimore case and woujd pursue the same policy with respect to the others. He desires to get the question to the Supreme Court as soon as possible. Since the indictment in Baltl- more is against the Baltimore Post Co., it Was indicated that the De- partment of Justice desired -to hinge that case on the alleged cul- pability of a corporation instead of an individual. In some of the other cases, indictments may be brought against Individuals in or- der to develop another phase of the apparent conflict in tax law which says, in one tnatance, that the Income tax returns shall be open to public Inspection and, tn another paragraph, re-enacts sec- tion 3167 of the revised statutes, making it an offense to print in- formation concerning the returna. The Attorney-General the question of Hability of news- papers under the tax law from the Treasury Department, which, at I couldn't the witness Hurlbut, a policeman, tes- tifvinig today, adraitted he had re- ceived $20 from Federal prohibi- / Hurlbut wore his uniform on the the-time it ordered the Income tax lista made public, issued a warning against their publication. The treasury, Secretary Mellon sald at that time, could take no further steps in the matter. It had at- tempted to comply with the law, which sald specifically that the tion agents after he accompanied them on a liquor raid. witness stand. He testified he had received the money from Beeno Greenabaum, a former prohibition agent, who has jumped bond. C. L. Hudiler, a salesman, em.| returns must be opened at the ployed in a garage operated by earliest date after the tax year was Arthur Cyrran, testified that! complete. aaah automobiles confiscated by pro-| Pat Harrison Now for Repeal of hibition officers and stored in the garage were stripped of) te accessories and tires which were replaced with inferior articles. Hudler testified that he became an informer for the department, watched the agents and reported Publicity Provision. the Ageoctated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Re- peal or modification of the puwub- licity feature of the income tax law was urged today in a state- ment by Senator Harrison, Demo- onngugetrer: ' 7: After reviewing the files, Sec-/ evidence of extortions. met of te ant a wmenharte Mississippi River at 5t. 2 uis: °° | retary Hughes supported his sub- Hudler said he planned to sell @ithe Senate Finance Committes a ' t St. ‘anactels 11.8 fect, | OPdinates apd declared that Mrs./ car.to two men in Sugar Greek. but| who supported the measure when nese a " Genttnnea]on Page 2, Colamn 3. 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