Pit ICE FIVE CENTS VOI,. Jj "YO 18 894 . Entered at Portland (Oregon) ,J-V ", V' JO'n,' t Postofftre as Second-Class Mutter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, li21 MAIL PILOT AND BRIDE ON AIR HONEYMOON EW- OU AWS HOTLY . HASED BY POSSES MENACE TO MORALS E BIG MORGAN TO FINANCE . WESTERN STOCKMEN HANDS OFF, COURT SEEN IN BIG. FIGHT IDEA IS BEATEN CLEAR UP MURDER RACE? EX-BRITISH AVIATOR TOUKIXG COAST IX PIjAXE. iCERS , OF THREE STATES OCT AFTER ROBBERS. . METHODISTS FAVOR BOXIXXJ, BIT XOT DEMPSEY BATTLE. FINANCIER PLEDGES HALF OF $30,000,000 POOL. WIDOW-DAUGHTER ION ORDERS S ERS REGATTA Assassins Hired to Stab Wealthy Publisher.- POISON FED DAILY IN FOOD Mrs. Kaber Says Only Intent Was to Make Mate Be Good. MURDERERS HELD GHOSTS Confession Declares There Was Xo Intent to Rill, Just Merely to Frighten.. NEW YORK. June JO. (Special.) Almost-two years after the crime, th murder of Daniel F. Kaber, wealthy publisher. In his home at Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland, on the night of July 18, 1919, was cleared up early this morning in police headquarters here by confessions from Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber, his widow, and Ma rian .McArdle, 19. his stepdaughter.- Mrs. Mary Brickel. 69, mother of Mrs. Kaber, Is held in jail at Cleve land, charged- with knowledge of the crime. Mrs. Kaber brojse down after 18 hours of relentless questioning by Captain Carey of the New Tork homi cide squad and Chief of Police Chrls tensen of Lakewood. She admitted she had mixed arsenic in her hus band's food for weeks prior to the. murder and had arranged with a spir itualistic midwife to hire the two assassins who mortally stabbed Mr. Kaber on his sick bed. Explanation In Fanlaallc. Denying she had Intended muraer, the widow gave a fantastic explana tion of her act in sending the two men to her husband's bedside, saying that she dispatched them as "ghosts" merely to wake the sick man up'in the dark of night and frighten him into treating her more kindly and giving her more money. She said her husband, not believing In ghosts, must have fought with the night vis itors and been'killed in the struggle. The widow's story was contradicted In several vital points by her daugh-' ter'aj statement. They were examined separately. Mrs. Kaber admitted she waa to have paid the two men. $100. Her daughter said the pay was to have been J3000. ry Denied dionta." According to Mrs. Kaber's state ment, she refused to pay the "ghosts" after she learned murder had been committed and they hounded her and threatened her so that she fied to New York. This was her explanation of being a fugitive. Mrs. Kaber said that she had con sulted mediums several times, trying to have her husband influenced to treat her better. These ministra tions having failed, she said she went to an Italian woman, who is charged with taking her to "the woman of arsenic," who is being held in Cleve land on the charge of teaching Mrs. Kaber how to use the arsenic. Later, she says, the Italian woman engaged the "ghosts." In her confession, Mrs. Kaber re ferred to the "ghosts" as Spaniards. But the police say they were Ital ians. They say one "the man in tha cap" who did the actual stabbing, while the second held the sick man is now under arrest in Cleveland. Mr. Kaber's last words were that "the man in the cap" was the murderer. Knowledge at Poison Denied. Mrs. Kaber asserted that she did jiot know the arsenic she mixed with her husband's food was poison. She sad "the woman of. arsenic" gave it to her as medicine, "to cure his bad habits." The widow admitted the "medicine" came in a bottle answer ing the description of a bottle found 'in a flower urn at the KaDer nome after Mrs. Kaber had sold the house and came to New York. That bottle had traces of arsenic. The mother's story did not impli cate her daughter, but Marian ad mitted to the police that when she returned home from Smith college three weeks before the murder she "sensed something was wrong." She paid she accompanied her mother to the home of the midwife who is charged with hiring thai assassins. mother Believes In Supernatural. Marian declared her mother was a firm believer in the supernatural and frequently visited fortune tellers and palmists. Marian tells fortunes in an amateur way. The girl said tier mother underwent a noticeable change after visiting the midwife. Edward C. Stanton, prosecutor of Cuyahoga county, in which the crime was committed, said he would prove at the trial a deliberate plot to get rid of Kaber. He said the arsenic had rendered the man's arms and legs useless, so that he could not .have battled with the "ghosts." -MMnire Voder Arrest. 'The ghosts Mrs Kaber tells of went to that house with only -one object In view," said Mr. Stanton. 'They went to kill, whether In tha disguise of ghosts or as professional murders. The arsenic was given to kill and when It failed the knifera were called into action." ; The Cleveland police say the second assassin Is the cousin of the "man In" Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sharpnack Slop in Portland and The Dalles on Trip Over Northwest. i THE DALLES, Or., June 10. (Spe cial.) An aerial honeymoon is being experienced by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sharpnack of Reno, Nev., who ar rived in this city yesterday afternoon from Portland in a new airplane. They made the trip from Portland to The Dalles, through the Columbia river gorge, in 50 minutes. Sharpnack is a pilot in the govern ment air mail service, flying out ol Reno. Several weeks ago he and Mrs. Sharpnack were married and started upon their honeymoon an airplane tour of California and the Pacific northwest. In a platie purchased from the government. The first lap of their flight took them to San Francisco.- From there they flew to Portland, where they visited with friends until yesterday, when they again "hopped off." with The Dalles for their destination. After taking on gasoline and oil here and spending several hours visiting points of interest about the city, the newlyweds took to the air again, their destination .this time be ing Spokane. From Spokane, they will' start on the last lap of their wedding trip, completing a loop tour of several thousand miles when they arrive in Reno again. Sharpnack served with the British army as an aviator during the war Spectators Throng i: Banks and Bridges. M0T0RB0AT WOLF BARRED Surfboard Riding and Diving Stunts Are Sensational. - VOGLER BOY-EASY VICTOR Miss Portland and Scandal Take First Place in Secondary Free forAM' Events. THIEF MAILS PURSE BACK Two Parlies of Dancers Are Robbed as Well as Kelso Poo! Hall. KELSO. Wash.. June 10. (Special.) Kelso was the scene of two holdups and a burglary last night. ' L. F. Wiecking, operator for the 'Western Union and a young woman were stopped by a marked robber as they were going home from the dance and Wiecking was robbed of ?15. He asked the robber to return his purse, which contained some valuable receipts, and the bandit replied "Don't worry, kid I'll mail it to you." The purse was mailed. Burleigh Carothtrs and a . young woman, also homeward bouruiW from the dance, were held up, the thief get ting several dollars. , , The Pastime hool hall was robbed of about $30 and some cigarettes. BODY- MAY BE' EXHUMED Investigation of Woman's Sudden Death Is Debated. YAKIMA. Wash.. June 10. Tha body of Mrs. Courtland Leach of Sun nyside may be exhumed in order to examine other vital organs than the stomach and determine finally whether or not evidences of poison ing exist. Mrs. Leach died about ten days ago, almost without warning, and with symptoms which caused the belief that she had been poisoned. A preliminary report received today from the state cnemlst stated that the -stomach did not show any traces qr alkaloidal poison, and was nearly normal in appearance. Otficials here have no evidence of a motive fott murder and say suicide was out of the question. VESSEL LIMPS INTO PORT With thousands of spectators lining the Broadway and Steel bridges and the river banks yesterday afternoon, the Portland Motor Boat club staged a regatta on the Willamette as its contribution to the Kpse Festival pro gramme. The regatta, which had been planned as the chief event of the day, prcyved an anti-climax' to the other Festival activities of the week. There were comparatively -few thrills, with the exception of a race by crews from the waV ships in port and the work of a group of swimmers from Multnomah club, who drew the applause of the spectators with brilliant diving and surf-board riding. The motor boat races 'were slow in getting started and the entire pro gramme was. further delayed by long waits between races. The delays ap parently were due to the lack of pa trol boats on the course and continual tiresome wrangling over entries. False Starts Are Made. Several false starts were made in the handicap races, and once when the speed boats had circled the course twice they were called back and it all had to be done over again. In the free-for-all race the Oregon Wolf was barred from the contest after considerable discussion and wigwag ging between admirals and commo dores of the regatta committee. The barring of the Wolf left only one real contender, which was Volger Boy IV, and the free-for-all was an easy victory for this boat. . . Volger Boy IV also was scheduled to race against a hydroplane, but this event fell through, due to the fact the two machines could not get to gether for a good start. The real race of, the afternoon and one that was greatly enjoyed vas the International : whaleboat cruise be tween one crew from the Canadian cruiser and six boats from the United States destroyers. The Canadians turned in a victory by three-quarters of a boat length over the nearest American boat. The cutter 'from a United States destroyer placed second in the race. An excellent exhibition of surf- Men -in Stolen Automobile Said to j Have Seriously Wounded ' . Xevada Sheriff. , NAMPA, Idaho, June 10. (Special.) Two robbers In a stolen automobile tonight attempted 'to elude officers of western Idaho and eastern .Oregon with a sheriffs posse from winne mucca assisting in the hunt. Thoy shot and seriously .wounded Sheriff Smith of Fallon, Nevada, several days ago and stole their third car - t-t Winnemucca Wednesday night. - They passed through . Nampa last night some time and members of the sher iff's force took up the chase today. , They are believed to be the same two men who robbed a store at Cran', Or., some time ago and escaped by abandoning an automobile stolen from C. C. Reed of Nampa May 10. Sheriff Smith was scriously wounded but will recover. BONUS LOANS RESTRICTED Ex-Servlce Men Cannot Pool Their Money for Commercial Gain. SALEM, Or June 10. (Special.) J. B. Miner of Bend has written a let ter to the attorney-general asking whether ten ex-service men of that vicinity can pool their loans for the purpose of purchasing a stock ranch. Under the bonus, and loan act this would be impossible, according to a verbal opinion of the attorney-general. The law specifically provides that the loan must be in the name of the soldier, himself- or certain relatives. Further provision of the law makes a loan collectable immediately if transferred to a corporation before 40 per centjof the loan has been paid back. Board Calls on Public to See That This Is Last Prize Fight to Be Fought in America. WASHINGTON, D. C, ' June 10. With "the declaration that It was astonishing that "any state In the American -union would tolerate an exhibition not only bloody and brutal in itself, but" intended to appeal to all that is abyssmal In the average man," the board of temperance and public morals of" the Methodiet Episcopal church issued a statement today- condemning the Dempsey Carpentier fight to be held at Jersey City July 2. ."All right-thinking Americans," the statement said, "ought to 'see to It that tnis is the last prize fight fought on American soil." Boxing was characterized as "a perfectly harmless, character-building sport,." but the Dempsey-Carpcntier bout, the statement said, ."will not be boxing or anything like boxing." "Men who habitually see such things Inevitably become not only brutal, but cowardly," the statement continued, "and lose every sense of sportsmanship. Women who see them frequently In the end become things that are Certainly not women." Metal Trades Convention Turns Down Radicals. FAILURE ON COAST CITED Western Delegates Tell Futility of Proposal. of SIMS' RECALL IS WANTED BOOTLEG TRUST CHARGED ANNOYANCE POLICY SOLD (Concluded on Pace 6, Column 2.) Hotel Builders Testify Labor Trou- Wes Cost $10,000. s . CHICAGO, June .10. "Annoyance insurance policies" at a premium of 1000 a month were sold by Simon O'Donnell,' former head of the build ing trades council, to contractors and building owners, according to evl dence offered the legislative com mission investigating the building industry. Contractors building the Webster hotel purchased a "polioy," the com mission v.-as told, but at the end of two months O'Donnell did not offer to renew it, and shortly afterward labor troubles, which cost more than 110,000 to settle, began. Telephone System Planed. CRESWELLi Or., June 10. (Spe cial.) The council met in special ses sion last night with a committee of consolidated farmers' telephones lines for the purpose of considering a municipal telephone system. A final effer was made by the Iocl company to sell for $1250. The council agreed to recommend that the town sub scribers pay $250 and the farmers J 1 000, and the purchase on these terms will be recommended to the farmers at a meeting soon to""-be called. - Anti-Saloon League Suspects Fin anciers in Combine. WASHINGTON. D. C, June 10. Charges that "certain brewers" and men prominent in big city financial atfairs have organized a bootleggers' trust which spreads far and wid and has made law enforcement ex tremely difficult, were made today before the house rules committee by Wayne B. Wheeler, general counse for the Anti-Saloon League of Amer ica. The league attorney was not ques tioned about the alleged liquor trust and did not go into details. Equalizing of Work During Indus trial Depression Is to Be Presented to Locals, y SNOWS DISCLOSE BODIES Mystery of Two Missing Utah Min ers Solved. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, June 10 Solution of tne disappearance ol Her. bcrt Waterworth and Frank 'Tyler, miners, In White Pine canyon, nea here, last October, was furnished yes terday when the melting snow dia closed the bodies. Relatives believe that the men were caught in a snowslide when they were attempting to get out of th canyon. BUDGET BILL IS SIGNED Harding to Xante Director for Government Expense System. WASHINGTON. D. C., June 10 The bill establishing a budget sys tcm of government expenditures wa signed today by President. Harding. To put the. new system quickly into effect, the president expects to ap point a budget director as provided for in the bill some time within the next two weeks. THE CANNING SEASON ALL .THAT'S REQUIRED IS PLENTY OF CHEAP SUGAR, FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. Steamer Hit by Berg Has Hard Fight to Keep Afloat. ST. JOHNS, N. F. The American freight steamer Chariot, still stagger ing from the effects of a collision with an iceberg 200 miles off this port yesterday, reached here today. Cap tain Albert Ricca and his crew had made a hard fight through the night to stay afloat. When the crippled ship slipped through the narrows her decks were awash and her boats swung out ready for launching in the event of the foundering that appeared imminent. Captain Ricca reported , that the steamer's bow was stove in by the crash. BIG RED REVOLT BARED . ' ' Documents Reveal Uprising in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Plan. COPENHAGEN. June 10. The police of Stockholm have discovered docu ments showing chat it is Intended to start a simultaneous bolshevist revo lution in Sweden, Finland and Nor way, according to information re ceived here today con. :rnlng the al leged - revolutionary plot uncovered Thursday as a result of the arrect of a widely known bolshevist leader in Kiruna, in the iron mining district of Sweden. s - . o - Papers also were found implicating 400 foreign bolshevists staying in Sweden, who will be arrested and ex pelled from the country, it is said. (Concluded oa I'age Column l.J ROBBER FAINTS AT TERM Smile Fades When Holdup Under stands 18-Year Sentence. SUPERIOR, Wis., June -10. John Kowalskl. 29, smiled as . Superior Judge Perrin yesterday passed sen tence of 18 years on him for holding up a cripple. . ' "Why do you smile?" asked Sheriff Buchanan, . "Isn't 18 ytars long enough to suit you?" "My God! Did he say-lS years?" shrieked Kpwalski, "I thought he said 18 days." Kowalskl collapsed arid had to be assisted to his cell. II r : - i U I . -'J' 1 DENVER. June, 10. Delegates to the convention of the metal trades, department of the American Federa tion of Labor this afternoon byan overwhelming vote defeated the -proposal designed, to bring about the or ganization of one big metal trades union in the United States. Representatives of the Interna tional Association of Machinists, who introduced the resolution, were vigorously scored as advocating and attempting to revive the "one big union" Idea in this country. The debate was long and bitter, re pre -aentat'ves of the Pattern-Makers' league of North America, the Inter national Brotherhood of Boilermakers and 'International Brotherhood of Electrical .Workers vigorously op posing the proposal. . Reas!uloa la Defeated. 1 A rollcall showed that the resolu tion was defeated by a vote of 3210 to 171. The International Associa tion of Machinists was the only union to vote solidly for the resolution. The resolution presented by thi machinists asserted that the amalga mation of the .metal trades organi zations into one compact, efficient union is of necessity the practical means of meeting and solving the present great problem and a guar antee that will provide for the or ganized workers the ability to protect their interests and secure improved economic conditions for the future." Conference In Proponed. The department was urged to call a conference of international presi dents of affiliated organizations with one delegate from each trade from each state and province of North America for the purpose of discussing and determining the question of closer affiliation, and if advisable, amalgamation of ail metal trades. Recommendations of the conference were to hi submitted by the various unions to a referendum of -their membership. , Curley Grow, delegate of the ma chinists from the Pacific coast, led ine ngnt lor the resolution, declaring that the metal trades unions must sonairy ana organize to meet the great industrial conspiracy, which, he said, has been organized by the em ployers. He said that the present craft form of organization will not permit the . workers to co-ordinate their efforts to act in concert and get the desired results. Coast Failure Is Cited. The 1 amalgamation proposal, Mr. Grow said, had been approved by an overwhelming vote of the member ship of the machinists' union. James Wilson of Cincinnati, O., head of the pattern makers' union, said his organization had unanimously re- ected such a proposal. He ald the 'one big union" idea had been a fail ure on the Pacific coast and In Can ada, and declared it an "awful crime" for men to- preach doctrines of thia kind to the working people "of this country. . . ' We have had bitter experiences with the one big union on the Pacific coast and in Seattle." said M. F. Mc Guire 'of San Francisco, a delegate for the boilermakers' union. "We are till suffering from the effects of that gitatlon. We don't want any more f It. It works for the destruction of the trades unfbn movement." C'loner Union Favred. H. W. Brown, also of the Pacific coast, a machinist delegate, took tne floor, asserting that-his organization was not advocating the "one big union," but wished to bring about an malgamation and closer co-operation between the various metal trades or ganizations. m The department - unanimously In dorsed the resolution presented early in the day demanding that Admiral ims be recalled from England and be dishonorably discharged from the United States navy, if 'it was found that he was correctly quoted regard- ng remarks on the Irish question made in London. The resolution now will be sent to the convention of the American Fed eration, of Labor which meets next week. Work Division Wanted.. The convention also adopted a reso lution calling upon the department to recommend to its affiliated organiza tions to make provision in all future agreements for the equalizing of work during industrial depressions. This resolution asserted that it is ap parent that a great portion of the industrial depression is artificial and was manufactured for the purpose of lowering living and working stam'- d '. and to weaken the labor move- Stanfield and Gooding Get Prom ise ot A'ld at Conference With Bankers. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, D. C, June 10. As a re sult of an agreement reached today at a conference between Senators I Stanfield of Oregon and Gooding of Idaho, with J. P. Morgan. New York financier. Secretary of the Treajury Mellon and the governors of the re gional federal rrserve banks of New York and Kansas City, the livestock men of the west are to be financed without the government. Mr. Morgan said that he would promise that New York banking in terests would supply at least 60 per cent of a $30,000,000 pool for aiding western livestock men If tho r:maln der were raised in other parts of the country. It was suggested at the conference that Senator -tanfield should go to Chicago and therj attend another conference to be arranged by the governor of t:ie Chicago fed eral reserve bank, at which the move ment should be started for raising the remainder of the pool. He prob ably will go to Chicago Tuesday. Senator' Stanfield some time ago In troduced an amendment to the fed eral reserve ct which would have made it possible for '.he federal re serve banks to finance western live stock raisers through the livestock banks and cattle loan companies This amendment had the approval of the secretary of tho treasury and the controller of the currency, but It was suggested that Mr. Stanfield withhold the request for Jegislatlve action on his amendment until such a conference as that held today could be arranged. -The understanding reached tcday causes it to be believed thatyhe fi nancial resources needed by the live stock men of the west can be had through private sources entirely. Permanent Injunction to Prevent Violence. LIQUOR PLOT IS CHARGED Port Superintendent Said to Have Planned Smuggling. , BULLYING CASES DENIED Numerous Complaints From Tlin0 Assaulted Filed; (iocriiiuciit (o Be Watchful. LEAGUERS FORESEE DOOM Amalgamation of Single Taxers lo Prevent Slow Death Favored WASHINGTON. D. C. June 10 Single tax advocates embraced In the National Single Tax league were urged to unite with the single tax party to avoid "slow death" by speak ers from the latter organization at a conference today of the league here. League members said their or ganization and their official organ of publication were proving a heavy drain on their financial resources and there was sentiment for an amalga mation. Tho question was not formally put before the conference, but members of the tax party declared the unifica tion would be decided upon before the session ends tomorrow night. Fears that the leaguers were "dis appearing from the earth" was ex pressed by George Edwards of Youngstown, O. He said the last con ference of the leaguers had numbered 300, while perhaps 50 persons sat In the hotel room at the meeting today. MASHER DIGGING TRENCH Soldier Also Sentenced to Fill Up Dllch With Tablespoon. DALLAS, Tex., June 10. A Texas soldier arrested yesterday for accost ing a girl on the street, today began digging a deep trench. When it I" finished he will begin putting the dirt back into the hole with a table spoon. The punishment was designated by the commander of the troop INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS (Vunciuded on i'ase 3, Column Li The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temprture, C7 degrees; minimum, 55 decreei. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; southwesterly winds. Foreign. Repnrt of speech garbled, says Slma. P"e 3' N.tlon.1. Approval by inttmtate commerce commla lon of rale reduction aured. Page 2. MethodUts acore Dempaey-Carpentier tight. Page 1. J. P. Morgan to aia atocumen. i-age i. Pe.tUence feared on Immigrant ahipa. Page 2. Federal ahipplng board plana to revive paralyzed merchant marine. Tage It. Pomeatle. Metal tradea unioua turn down one big union idea. Page 1. Wealthy publisher killed by men engaged tO pOae a It .1 "O .... vmjm - ' ' Pueblo to appeal for national aid. Page 4. Chicago mayor not worried by taxicab war. Fate . rneifie Northweat. Mall pilot and his bride on air honeymoon trfn. Page 1. Drainage party views Clataop diking proj ect!. Page o. 8 port a. Pacific Coast league results: At Portland 6 Seattle 10: at Los Angelea. Vernon 4. Oakland 5; at Sacramento 5. Salt Lake X- at San Francisco 2. Lo Angeles S M2 Innings). Page 13. Multnomah club mermen meet University ot Oregon tonight, rage 13. Carpentler not likely to suffer from nervea. Page 12. Dempaey to resume boxing. Page 12. Commercial and Marine. W"holeale commodity prices show fewer declines. Page 111. Bullish crop reports strengthen wheat at Chicago. Page 19. Break In oils weakens general stock list. Page 10- , Steamer to sail direct to Norfolk to test possibility of new service, rage 14. Portland and Vicinity. Thousands witness Rose Festival regatta on Willamette river. Page 1. Higher strawberry prices predicted by by deaiera for coming week. Page 10. Judge- Uatena" appeal to arbitrate church row faila. Page 9. Injunction Issued against marine strikers. Page 1. Driver of Lotlsao ear on trial charged with perjury. Page 11. Plans for building construction to eo!t $50,000 filed In two days. Page 10. Auto wreck fatal to Frank D. Wilson. Page 3. Quern Dorothy ot Qoaarla abdicates throne. Page Work at Tongue Poiot will begin today ru i. 1. Permanent Injunction against strik ers Interfering with violence In the present marine walkout on the water front was granted by Judge Wolver ton in federal court yesterday, fol lowing arguments between Lcftpr W. Humphreys, United States attor ney, and W. S. U'Rrn. who is attor ney for the waterfront unions. "The government will make' par ticular efforts to apprehend violators of the injunction from now on," said Mr. Humphreys. The effect of the order Just made was said to make penalties for violence In conneecllon with the strike heavier In that con tempt, charges would be brought against offenders. Liquor Plot Charged. Judge Wolverton announced that his mind was made up before Mr. Humphreys had concluded his argu ment and said the court was con vinced that the injunction should be continued. Mr. U'llen protested against the finding, but to no pur pose. Arguments yesterday were enliv ened by the charge made In affi davits that Fred F. Smith, port su perintendent for the shipping hoard, had sought to have K. W. Turpln. a striking engineer, accept the post of chief engineer on the West Nlvaria. with the understanding that the two would go partners In Importing il licit whisky, eaay money being prom ised Turpln if he would take the Job, he alleged. Smith was said to have talked thia project over with Turpln at the lat ter's home and an affidavit by Mrs. lurpln to the same effect was filed, nnllylnc In Alleged. The strikers also filed affidavits alleging the department of Justice agents Intimidated anil bullied th men and their wives In seeking to get them to go buck to work. Thl was denied rather fully in counter afti- ' davits filed by the government. Charges that mail was planted on k the steamer Weat Nlvaria merely to break the strike, no that the charge of delaying mails could be brought against the strikers, was knocked rathqr flat by the affidavit of A. S. Rand, chief clerk of the railway mall service in charge of the dispatch of mall by both land and water for this district, who stated a general order had been issued by the superintend ent of the division on April 2 an r.ouncing the schedule of the WeKt Nivarta and directing that 700 sacks of mall for the orient be put aboard her. which was done on May 16, and that because of the strike the mail was delayed 11 days. Assault Complalata Filed. Affidavits by men who alleged they were assaulted, presumably by strik ers, were filed by Mr. Humphreys. William Sharkey, boatswain of the steamer Venlta, declared hi had been assaulted and beaten on the night of June 4 In the yards of the Inman Poulsen company. Albert Hefner, a salesman, said in an affidavit that he had been beaten on the Broadway bridge, presumably by mistake. An affidavit of John Kline, In a lo cal hospital with a broken jaw, was filed In which Kline said he waa beaten last Tuesday. Leo J. Campf, chauffeur who was-employed to drive a passenger to the waterfront iast Tuesday, made an affidavit to the ef fect fhat as he drove past a group of pickets, rocks were hurled at his automobile. James King and William Dwyer made affidavits to the effect they were followed about the streets May 27a by a gang of eight sailors an.l, threatened. Another group of sailors Intimidated them, they said, and on striker drew a knife. Affidavits filed by Mr. U'Rcn for his clients were not seeti by Mr. Hum phreys until yesterday morning when the court was ready to consider argu ments and for that reason Judge Wol verton gave Mr. Humphreys un-til next Monday to file the Injunction order. Meanwhile, it In In effect, BILL WOULD CANCEL DEBT Relief Meawprc for Farmers Who Ist Crops I Proposed. WASHINGTON. D. C, June 10 V bill for relief of farmers who suf fered crop failures during the period of war guarantee of prices for wheat, oats and rye was Introduced today by ' Senator Curtis, republican. Kansas. It would cancel debts of such far- mers'to the government on loans for seed grains and authorize refunds to farmer who have paid up their loans. The bill would apply to acreage on which less than five bushel of grain were produced. 107.5v