The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 25, 1920, Page 1

’ « t \ 4 f é Ky ", , ye " ; 4 * ad ‘8 Nan Head i , g , ve i i} if 4 k en 5 4 * tm ' EY } 4 yo i } bch 9 ee . “ ) , i a , 1 Bae THE WEATHER Generally Fair rd THE BISMA rials CK TRIBUNE ten 1 tt ee | LAST EDITION THIRTY-NINTH YEAR PRICE FIVE CENTS . BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 25, 1920 LEROY, WANTED WITH “TRUNK MURDER” MYSTERY ARRESTED IN SOUTH AMERICA ? Man Taken Off Freighter on Which He Sailed From New York August 3 HELD BY SHIP OFFICERS Woman Declared His Wife Found Mutilated in New York Warehouse (By Associated Press) Rio de Janeiro; Aug. 25.— Eugene Leroy, wanted by the police of De- troit, Mich., in connection with the murder of a woman supposed to have been his wife, was arrested on board the British freighter Dryden, which arrived here late this afternoon. Le- roy was a member of the crew. Leroy was placed under arrest at the request of United States authori- ties here. and while the Dryden is in port will be guarded by four mem- bers of the police. The ship will pro- ceed to Beunos. Aires and from that point will sail. for New York, where Leroy will be turned over to officers from Detroit. SAILED AUGUST 3 : New York, Aug. 25.— The British freighter Dryden upon which Eugene Leroy was arrested yesterday at Rio de Janeiro in connection with the trunk murder mystery, sailed from New York on August 3 ,10 days after the body of his supposed wife was found jammed in a trunk in a local warehouse. The authorities learned a week la- ter after the Dryden sailed that a man answering: Leroy’s description was on board and the freighter’s cap- tain was asked to hold him. Eugene Leroy was sought by detec- tives all over the country and Canada and Mexico. Nude Body Found A few minutes after a employe of the American Railway Express com- pany here had discovered the nude and multilated body of a young woman in a trunk stored in the unclaimed baggage warehouse, police of New York and Detroit began following the train of evidence which led to. the victim’s identification as Mrs. Kath-; erine Lou Jackson of Sturgis, Miss., and the location of A. A. Tatum, whose name and a Detroit street address were found marked on. the trunk which concealed the crime for more, than a month... At 105 Harper streét, Detroit, Ta-j tum was unknown but someone there told detectives that a young couple known as Mr. and Mrs. E. Leroy had disappeared from the address about; June 10, the date on which the trunk was shipped to New York. The publicity given these two names, Leroy and Tatum, brought forward, Andrew J. Branic, a New York expressman who said he knew Leroy under the name of Fernandez. He told the police he had handled a trunk for Fernandez or Leroy, who, he said, also used the name of O. J. Woods. He produced a letter from Leroy, enclosing a check for the trunk in which the body was later found, asking that it be removed from the express warehouse and stored by Bra- nic until Leroy should call for it. Town too Small A Detroit policeman, Leo Trumbull, then came to the front, declaring that he and his wife, knew the young wo- man who lived with Leroy as his wife at the Harper Avenue address.. When the body of the murdered woman ar- rived.in Detroit, Trumbull and his wife identified it as:““Mrs. Leroy.” Then from the south came positive word that “Mrs. Leroy” was really Mrs. Jackson, wife of Kid McCoy Jack-+ son of Sturgis, Mississippi. “The town was too small for Kitty Lou and she went away,” Jackson said, when asked to tell what he knew ot his wife’s wanderings. Next Tatum, the man whose name appeared on the mysterious trunk, walked into police headquarters at Birmingham, Alabama, and explained his connection with the case. Knew Mrs Jackson He told the authorities that he had known Mrs. Jackson in Birmingham, where he works as a linotype opera- tor. At her invitation, he said, he vis- ited her in Detroit, where she told him: she had married Leroy and that he was “terribly jealous.” Shortly after- ward, Tatum, said: He returned to Birmingham. He declared that the next he heard of the woman was when he read of the dis- covery of her body. Reports have poured in from every quarter of the continent indicating that Leroy had been seen in this or{ that place. A $5,000 reward offered: by the police of Detroit stimulated the search and he was reported vari- ously as escaping to Canada, hiding in, Mexico, sailing for Brazil and the Ba-/ hamas and under arrest in Chicago. | * * “yong osnowyong “da || HOLY STATUTE IS | Dr. E. C. Stackhouse and wife have/| | returned to the city. Dr. Stackhouse | BLEEDING, REPORT || went to Minneapolis by automobile to; & ry meet his wife, who had been visiting in the east. | Dublin, Aug. 25.—Excited | crowds are flocking to Temple- ———_________—_—_—_—__—____—_——_-® more county, Tipperary, where CLAIMS HEN LAYS 3 EGGS EACH DAY @ | | | a Moorhead, Minn., Aug. 25.—The hen that laid the golden egg has nothing on one owned by Ole Er- ickson, custodian of the Clay county courthouse. Erickson has a Rhode Island Red which lays three eggs every day, and reli- able witnesses were ready to tes- tify the nest is not rented out in shifts but occtinied solely, by this one hen. The bird was won on a chance game at a recent carni- val. fred of the Bismarck Motor company, are available for the trip. IN CONNECTION HERE’S LEROY { 1 i i { The three figures inthe Detroit-New | York trunk mystery. Above: First, photo of 0. J. Fernandez, alias Eugene Leroy, for whom a warrant charging! murder ‘has been_ issued. Katherine Jackson Leroy, whose body} ‘was found in a trunk that was ship-| ped from Detroit to New York. Be- low: Allen A. Tatum, to whom the trunk was addressed. Tatum told police that Leroy was jealous of him! because he was friendly with Kath- erine some time ago. NDIAN MOTHERS TO HAVE CHAPTER OF WAR MOTHERS Bismarck Women Will Motor to Fort Yates Tomorrow to Form Organization The first Indian chapter of the American War mothers will be organ- ized at Standing Rock Indian reser- vation tomorrow. A delegation of Bismarck women will go to the reser- vation to confer with Indian mothers and to organize the chapter. Probably six or seven Bismarck war mothers will make the trip, going down tomorrow morning and return- 'ing on Friday. Major Welch, of Mandan, who is well acquainted with the Indians, will be present and aid ; the local women. When Mrs. Alice French, national war mother, was in Bismarck she spoke of the efforts to organize the mothers of alien soldiers, and also expressed a desire to have a chapter 1of the first Americans. There were 118 Indian boys from the Standing Rock and Ft. Yates district in the War, and many made splendid rec- ords. The fact that the Indian fair is to be held Wednesday, Thursday anid Friday makes the time propitious for the organization of the chapter. Two cars, furnished by Mrs. Al- Zuger and Chris Bertsch, Jr., | | | | {| i | extraordinary manifestations been reported. All the holy statues and pic- tures in the home of Thomas Di- van, a news agent, began to bleed after the town was wrecked by the military authorities Friday, the reports said. Blood oozed from the hearts and mouths of the figures, it was said. Miracles were reported to have been performed on cripples and consumptives who came into the town from the whole countryside. have Japan plans to spend enormous sums during the next few years in the construction of a deep sea har- bor for Tokio. MOVIE THRILLS ARE ADDED ALL FOR YOUR $16 Job and Art and Jim and Bill Are Entered in New Dakota Scenario Contest LOTS OF QUICK CHANGES Scene Flits From Warm Florida to Storm-swept Prairies of the State By Honor Bright Job Brinton to be “pinched,” Art Townley sued by his old friend and political side kicker, “Marse” Jim, and “Bill” Langer as chief prosecu- tor for the state, all on an August WHOLE SPANISH TOWN IS MOVING TO THE U.S. A. Madrid, Aug. 25.—Every man in the village of Hueta Pevyo, In the province of Guadalajara, has decided to emigrate to the United States, according to Pedro Emoll, the town clerk, who appeared at ‘the American consulate with 25 companions to secure vises tor passports, He declared the mayor | of the town would: have decided to go to Ameriea hid he not been aged and infirm,'The iamilies of the immigrants will follow ‘as foon as men are settled in Amer- ea. SAYS FARMERS _ ARE ROBBED BY | WHEAT) PRICES day. The political movie may not be es-! pecially edifying, but the public will, be amused at the antics of the stars.' Townley’s enemies intimate they have! put lots of “pep” into the scenario and there will be a variety of scenery ranging trom the verglades of Flo-! rida with its background of sisal and alligators to the stormswept prairies of North Dakota. _- Acres Upon Acres “Marse” Jim suirounded by 24.000 of Townley’s acres, smoking the best Haveras with Job in a Palm Beach) checker reading aloud: to “Jim” the first word of his resignation from! “Bill” Lemke’s very own Courier News, would make a scene that should draw tears from even Tom Box and Jack Hastings who once basked and cashed in Townley’s favor. i Then there can flicker over the een telegrams and letters reading: | $500 in cash we do our worst.” Johnnie Baer, the cartoon congress: man disguised 48 Hiram Rube, should be pictured as the chief avenger. He {can be decorated with a town mar- shal star, engrossed upon which we suggest the mystic, $16 and pictured { as looking for the chief culprits, “Art” and “Bill” Lemke. Quiet Skies Not Quiet After the prelude is worked amid the soft scenes and quiet skies of Florida, the plot can shift abruptly northward via Pullman and _ hotels where Box and Hastings used to stop in those pilgrimages when their ex- nense accounts were in good stand- ing. “Bill” Lemke, disguised as a Mexican, should always be lurking in + the offing. He is after “the papers” | which “Job” and “Marse Jim” have | secreted on their person. For thrills we suggest that Art Townlev’s $10.000 aeroplane be util- ized. Walter Thomas Mills as pilot with “Art” scanning the horizon can Center: | be worked into some real stunts. By| way of contrasts, the scenario could picture Art, Fred Wood and Brinton out near Deering, N. BS cranked and sent out on its mission for/the New Day and the six dollars per. “From a ‘Tin Lizzie’ to a $10,- could remark, “if you only know the way.” To give atmosphere to the movie, we would also suggest a scene de- voted to “Job” buying newspaper plants for seventy-five cents on the dollar with .post-didted ,chécks and |selling them back for cash to the farmers at 100 cents on the dollar. This could be staged in any of the fifty-three counties of the state, but believe that in the interests of real- ism and verisimilitude, we would vote for Oliver county as the “mise-en- scene.” Peddling the. Stock By way of humor, “Job” could be pictured as peddling the stock to the farmers and humming softly the dit- ty, “Ponzi is a child compared to us.” It would make an effective cut in |any of the fifty-three counties where there is newspaper stock in circula- dated checks. But the movie without “Les” Simp- son, as Dakota Dan, would be as bar- ren as a thriller minus Tom Mix. The versatile “Les” would work in nicely as friend and comforter of “Job”. He jcould be pictured as impressing upon the fallen leaguers, “that a man may be down but he is never out.” That would give timely optimism and re- vive interest and sustain attention for the grand finale. Some Real Tears A real “tear squeezer” could be jhad with “Bill” Langer-raiding a consumers store in Ward county and | the confiscation of several barrels of lemon extract in the cellar. ; “Where’s the rest of the groceries you bought with the farmers’, jack?” Bill could say real snappy-and west- ern like to the shivering clerk. ; “We specialize only in extracts here,” would be a real tart reply and} | which the store is buried and the hori- zon reddened up for miles and miles and miles, In our humble judgment the last scene should be laid in Beach with Townley completely surrounded by his creditors. They could all be (Continued on Page Three) NEW CREAMERY FOR DEVILS LAKE Devils Lake, N. D., Aug. 25.—Re- organization of the Farmers Cream- ery and Cold Storage company as- sures another creaimery for Devils Lake. The-officers are: President. Thomas Maloney; vice president, Nels Otterson; secretary and treas- urer, Charles Peterson. A building costing about’ $100,000 will be con- structed. The company is incor- porated for $125,000. | only Way to Beat the Method where the first N. P. L. Ford was: 00 air buggy is but a step,” Townley! and could not fail to get a hand in! tion or on file for collateral for post-j should be the excuse for a fight in| A. McGoverré Says Future Delivery’ Prii Governs Price Paid for Wheat URGES HOLDING OF GRAIN; Is for Farmers to Keep Wheat! From Market, He Says Charges that the farmers of the state are being robbed of millions of dollars on this year’s wheat crop jare made by J. A. McGovern, chief ‘ deputy grain inspector of the state. McGovern's claim is that price rds are being furnished to eleva- ors from Minneapolis based on De-| ‘cember quotations rather than the ‘cash price. He says that heretofore | {the quotations have been based on the cash market. e McGovern’s statement says that the | state mill at Drake bases its quota- tions on Minneapolis prices, bein governed by the cash prices at the grain market. |. Farmers are urged by McGovern to hold their grain.: . |. “When the farmer sells his wheat jhe thinks he sells it for the casi | market on the day, but such is not | the case now,” said Mr. McGovern. “The North Dakota farmer that sells ‘his wheat today ig, selling it for a ‘price that the speculators. have de- cided. the. Decenther ‘ition is: ta. be, and that is a big: difference. | “For instance, today the quota- ;tion on December wheat, according | to telegraphic reports from Minneap- olis was $2.26 per bushel, at the on- {ening of the market and $2.29 at\the ;close. The millers and other buy-j ;ers of wheat who purchases wheat ‘for cash in Minneapolis on the track and in the chamber paid from $2 ;to $2.48 per bushel. That’s what 5 1 northern wheat was actually worth at the terminal market today and the price that shippers of wheat receiv- ed who delivered wheat there today and which should be the basis of the prices paid by local elevators for wheat today. “Instead of that the price paid for the grain in this state today is based on what December wheat was quoted at in Minneapolis, $2.26 per bushel. This is 22 cents per bushel less than the cash market price today. No one cgan deny but that the farmer who sold wheat today was entitled to the cash price quoted in Minneapolis less the freight, commission and ex- pense of the local elevator. In- stead of that he received a price based on what the speculators guess- ed that wheat will be worth in De- cember.” WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST ALCOHOL WILL MEET AGAIN, Washington, D. C., Aug. 25.—For the first time since its organization in 1880 the international congress against alcoholism will hold its annu- al convention this year outside of Eu- rope, meeting here Sept. 21 and re- maining in session for a week, under the auspices of the state department. The prime minister of the Nether- lands, Jonkkheer Charles Ruijiis de Boerenbrouck of The Hague, as pres- ident of the permanent international committee of the congress, has issued invitations to every country with which the United States maintains diplomatic relations, thirty-one of 'which already have accepted. The congress, which is a strictly scientific body, engaged in the study of alcoholism as a disease, will make a special study of the effects of pro- hibition in the United States. ZAMORA READY TO SURRENDER Washington, Aug. 25.—The Amer- ican embassy at Mexico advised the department of state that it had con- firmed a report that Pedro Zamora, the bandit leader, who kidnapped a {number of American and British sub- jjects, had offered to surrender. Ne- | gotiations to that end are to be begun at once, the embassy was informed. The Mexican foreign office said this action should remove apprehension as to the safety of the captives. GRAVE DIGGERS GO ON STRIKE London, Aug. -A municipal strike has heen called in Cardiff, Wales, according to dispatches re- ceived here today. The cemetery workers are af- GOV. COX WILL BE GUEST OF CITY SEPT. 7 Democratic Presidential Candi- date to Spend More Than Hour in Bismarck CAPT. BAKER IN CHARGE Heads Reception Committee to Make Arrangements for Public Address James Cox, governor of Ohio and Democratic presidential will speak in Bismarck September 7 This announcement was authorized today by Capt. I. P. Baker, chairman ot the reception committee. A special train will be run from Fargo to Bismarck, arrive at Fargo on the morning of Sept. 7 and after filling his date at that place will board a special mak- candidate, } i| INJUNCTION Goy. Cox will] STATE RAILROAD RAILROADS SUE MINNESOTA BODY TO RETAIN RATE State Commission Had Refused | to Allow Passenger Fare Increase in State IS. ASKED Railroads Declare They Will | Continue the 3-cent-a-mile Passenger Rate ing speeches en route to Bismarck. He is expected to arrive in the; capital city about 4:30 and it is hoped | to keep him here until 6 p. m. The! wssues of the campaign and especial-! ly a discussion of the league of na-} tions will be discussed iby Gov, Cox.' Plans are being made to give him a! rousing reception and an earnest} hearing regardless of political bias. | Capt. Baker is now preparing ,the | committees and arranging for the ' tertainment of the distinguished | guest while in Bismarck. Gov. Cox! invades the west at St. Paul on La- bor Day when he speaks at the Min-; nesota state fair. He lea thal} evening for Fargo and a circuit of the! west. It is planned to erect a platform in| some central portion of the city so that a large number of people ni hear the candidate discuss the vit: issues of the campaign. RUSSIAN ARMY MAY SURRENDER 10 THE POLES i Report Received That Troops i Want to Give Up the the Fight’ ~° POLES STILL GAINING Paris, Aug. 25.—-Negotiations look- ing to surrender to the Poles have been begun by the northern Russian Bolshevik army, according to a Vien- na dispatch. Latest information from Warsaw indicates the advance of the Polish army continues rapidly and that the Bolsheviki seem anxiously on- ly to lose contact with the Poles, The number of prisoners captured by the Poles is said to approximate 60,000 AKE A TOWN Warsaw, Tuesday, Aug. 24.—Kolno, an important town‘ near the East Prussian frontier, north of Lomza, has been taken by Polish forces which have been sweeping rapidly north- ward in pursuit of the retiring Bol- sheviki, More than 10,000 prisoners, who were cut off from the main bodv of the Soviet army have been cap- tured in this region. Reports from various fronts _par- ticularly the northern sector of the line, indicate the Bolsheviki are de- moralized and fleeing everywhere in great disorder. General Solnokows- ki, minister of war, has issued a statement to Polish newspapers de- claring that the, Soviet armies have been decisively beaten everywhere, adding that of the 250,000 Bolshevik troops participating in the offensive for the capture of Warsaw more than 140,000 have been accounted for, and| that nearly all other detachments have been shot to pieces. He esti- mates the number of prisoners at 50,- 000 and the number of other Bolshe- vik casualties at 40,000. Military observers assert the Polish victory forms one of the most in- tersting strategical problems of re-- cent years. SOVIE ILL FIRM Warsaw, Aug. 25.—Polish victories over Soviet armies, which invaded Poland, apparently have not affected the Bolshevik delegates at the peace | conference being held in Minsk. A wireless dispatch seized from Minsk today by Foreign Minister Sapicha as- serted: rf “The Bolsheviki at Monday's meet- ing continued to retain their asure- ness of manner.” DENY WILD RETREAT Berlin, Aug. 25.—Reports that the! |the Illinois Central. | such procedure be stated and agreed j the proceedings held that the court St. Paul, Aug. 2: —Nine of-the prin- cipal railroads operating in the state today instituted suit in the United States district court here, for tempor- ary and permanent injunction to pre- vent the state railroad and ware- house commission from enforcing’ a return to the old 2-cent-a-mile intra- state passenger rate September 1. Intention to continue the 3-cent-a- mile intrastate passenger tare is an- nounced in the suit which is against the members of the state railroad commission said Clifford L. Hilton. state attorney general. The suit is brought jointly by these railroad com- panies: Northern Pacific, Great North- ern, Milwaukee, Soo lines, Rock Is- land, Minneapolis and St. Louis, Chi- cago Great Western, Burlington and Rate Now 3 Cenis The Minnesota 2-cent-a-mile pass- enger rate was established by the leg- islature in 1913. Under government control a flat rate of 3 cents a mile was fixed and this rate: is continued until September 1 by terms of the transportation act passed by Con- gress last winter. The railroads in their suit assert the | Btate of jals are preparing to bring jaction against the railroads which do not put the 2 cent rate into effect September 1 and'to, avoid a multip- licity ‘of. suits ‘the joint action is brought to determine what rate shal! préeedicomos ee i mae TRY 10 HALT ~ PROCLAIMING ~ OF SUFFRAGE Injunction Asked to Restrain Secretary Colby From An- nouncing Ratification i | FIRST ‘ATTEMPT FAILED Associate Justice Siddons to Hear Counsel on Point Today Washington, Aug. 25.4<Application for an injunction to restrain Secre- tary Colby of the state department from promulgating ratification of the federal suffrage amendment was filed in the district supreme court today by counsel for the American Consti- tutional league. Associated Justice Siddons required that authority for to hear counsel on the point during the day. Second Attempt - This was the second attempt by the league to obtain from the dis- trict court an injunction restraining Mr. Colby trom proclaiming the ratifi- cation. The first effort was made last March. Justice Bailey, in dismissing was without authority to inquire into the action of the state legislatures in ratifying the suffrage amendment and that it had no authority to pass upon the validity of such an amend- ment. { An appeal to the supreme court of the United States was noted by counsel for the league. |PUBLICITY FOR INCOME FIGURES f northern Bolshevik army is retreating in disorder are denied in dispatches to the Tageblatt. The report from the East Prussian town adds that on | the contrary the Soviet retirement is being conducted methodically and that all baggage is being moved in wagons. | FEAR TURKISH UNION London, Aug. 25.—An alarming con- centration of Bolshevik forces on the borders of the Republic of Georgia is reported in advices to the Georgian legation here. Troops which were as- sembled at Akstafa, southeast of Ti-) flis, are said to have occupied the neutral zone in that region. A note dispatched to the Bolshe- vik government of Averbaijan rela- tive to this concentration of troops is declared to have brought a reply that the move is in accordance with a “certain plan” regarding Armenia. fected, and the families of those dying have had to dig graves for their dead, the dispatches say. This “certain plan” is believed by the Georgian legation to be a scheme (Continued on Page Three) HOUSE PROPOSAL Washington, D. C., Aug. 25.—There continues a demand among more rad- ical members of the lower house for changes in the income tax laws. Talk among the occasional anti-concentr tion of wealth representatives he during vacation takes two principal; forms: 1. A demand that the law be amended so that individual incomes and the income taxes paid, be made public. The radicals contend publi- city will be wholesome in its effect with respect to great accretions of wealth. 2. A proposal that the internal rev- enue bureau exchange sinformation | with local taxing bodies, the idea be- ing that assessors will thus have more adequate data on which to base | assessments for local taxation. Both proposals are being urged in} certain quarters, but other quarters | {bullet removed from her skull. RATES ARE INCREASED UNDER AN ORDER ISSUED BY STATE COMMISSION Freight Rates Within State to Mount 35 Per Cent, Same as National Increase MILK RATE RAISE DENIED Commission Holds Action Per- mits Retention of Power to Equalize Rates The North Dakota railroad com- mission today took the following ac- tion on the railroads’ petition for in- creased rates on traffic originating in and terminating in the state: Allowed an increase of 35 per cent in freight rates, as asked. Allowed an increase of 20 per cent on passenger fares, as aske ed. Denied the petition for a sure charge of per cent on sleep- Ing ear raj ‘ Withheld action on the petition for an increase in- milk, carrying rates, pending hearing on express company’s petition, The new rates can be effective in five days, upon the filing of tariffs by the railroads. It is probable that they will be put into effect either next Monday or September 1. New Rates Today The interstate increases recently granted railroads by the Interstate Commerce commission, estimated to yield more than a billion dollars ad- ditional revenue annually, are effec- tive today. The railroads had asked ; the state commission to make the interstate increases effective at the same time. It is hardly possible that the new tariffs can be filed for a few days, it was said at the commis- sion offices. zy The commission, in issuing its or- der, took the position that the Esch- Cummins act regarding freight rates was mandatory, and that unless the increases were granted by the state commisison they would be ordered into effect by the national body. If this came to pass, according to the com- mission’s viewpoint, the state com- mission would surrender its author- ity. over interstate rate entirely. Rather than do this, according to ©. F. Dupuis, of the commission, the increase was granted, and the com- mission will immediately set hearings at which time shippers may present es. -evidence- of discrimination=\and* at” which the statements that Minnesota intrastate rates are 40 per cent lewer than North Dakota’s_ will he considered. The railroads, ac- cording to Mr. Dupuis, will be re- luired to show that the rates are not discriminatory, or that North Dake- ta is not discriminated against. Under the action today; the commission holds, it retains power to equalize rates. It is expected that somebody of shippers immediately will file pro- seedings for a readjustment of intra- state rates to put them on a parity with other northwest states. Pullman Charge Denied The petition for the 50 per cent surcharge on Pullman rates was de nied, it was stated. bece mission felt that any inc: pensation for the railroads througn such a method should come in an adjustment of the contract with the Pullman company. The commission has set Sept. 10 as the time for hearing the petition of the American Railway Express company for an increase in express rates. Most of the milk in the state is carried by express, it was stated, and the ‘increase in both the railroads’ milk rates and express company’s pe-, tition, will be considered at the same time. The North Dakota maximum freight law of 1919, which never became ef- fective because the railroads were un- der federal control, is held a dead letter, being superseded by the Esch- Cummins national transportation act. 2 Washington, Aug. —Increased transportation charges on practically all railroads and steamship lines of the country will be effective at mid- night tonight. Nearly every railroad has filed blanket schedules with the Interstate Commerce | commission making effective the general increase of approximately 33 1-3 per cent in freight rates of 20 per cent in pass- enger and excess baggage and milk charges and of 50 per cent in charges for Pullman accommodation. in freight rates in the 5 per cent. The increas! northwest is WELLER WILL BE BURIED TODAY Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 25.—Arth- ur Weller, a member of the law firm of Weller & Abeles, who was drown ed at Brush Lake, near Mercer, Sun- day, will be buried at Wabasha, Minn., today. He was a member of the Hennepin County and Minneapolis Bar Associa- tion and was graduated from the St. Paul College of Law in 1917. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Stephen Healy, 340 Newton avenue north. | REMOVE BULLET BY OPERATION An operation was performed on Mrs. Ben Benson at St. Alexius hos- pital -yesterday afternoon and the The bullet penetrated the skull and was lodged there, although it did not in- jure the brain. Dr. Lipp reperts that she is doing very nicely, and recovering as fast as could be expected. The coroner's jury has so far failed to complete its consideration of the “are likely to fight them off vigorously. case.