The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Unsettled, Rrceaely, light snow tonight of Waren t might, ESTABLISHED 1878 | COBB, SPEAKER LINKED IN BASEBALL SCANDAL . SUICIDESTORY | IN INGERSOLL DEATH SCOUTED Attorney For Dead Woman Says Probasco Was the Pur- suer, Not the Pursued Probasco, Critically Wounded, Released From Prison Ward on $12,500 Bail New York, Dee. of Mrs. Wallace M. herself, today was buscher. na basco had $12,500 bi of homicide and removed to a p; vate sce ee Leubuscher denied | that Mrs. money, said Probasco was the pur- suer of the dead woman, and de. manded a@ thorough police investiga- tion. “New articles so far advanced, al of which emanate from the Probasco side, seem to indicate that Mrs. In- gersoll was the pursuer and Mr. Pro- basco the pursued,” he said. “L have letters to show that it be the other way around; that he infatuated with her. Mrs. Thggrs had forbidden him to enter house.” Three’ Suits Planned He fore the shooting Mrs, authorized him to start three su against Probasco, one for the covery of jewelry and the others he recovery of moneys. Mrs. Ingersoll was the wife of th lollar watch manufacturer vagco ix the son law (of the Robert G. Ingersoll, famous The two famillgnlate wet yalaeed” Probasco was released on bail b: special homicide court session i ‘ae. prison the verdict of Dr. medical examiner, oll d ‘robas ounded. Rescued Fisherman Relates Details of Gruesome Agreemen (RP) two sats Charles Norris, that Mrs. is still considered critical, 21— yeen Ys upon the mainla last night f d, where yesterday when ¥ on he was take ody of his friend, Jan = é bd z g 3 to the eighth day. There will be no inquest in Me- | Kinley’s death the coroner announced | heing satisfied that McKin- today, ley died from exposure and starva tion and that the knife wounds on his body were inflicted aft death. ‘Kelley admitted flesh of his friend for food, | This Thermometer. | Tells How Cold it | Was During Night! ——— 21—)—The suicide theory attached to the death Robert H. Ingersoll, who is alleged to have severely wounded Probasco in her fash- ionable Park Avenue apartment on Sunday and then turned the pistol on under the fire of her’ attorney, Frederick C. Leu- statement issued. after Pro- been released from the prison ward at Bellevue hospital on il on a technical charge Ingersoll owed Probasco | Tnger:| d from a self-inflicted wound, ‘A grue- Redondo adrift in a small | &t work pre uld either die, the other | of revetment which will permanently told 69 and | further erosion, m Avalon, Santa Cats me boat from the island i seu without food or drinking water during a storm, McKinley dying on 1 I that only a few days be-|poricag in Ingersoll had e and Pro- © y | “il ward at. Bellevue. after | rea | a- | one of t low, Unionist t. Miss Ashley re from he nest Cas Louise Mount of Parliame srandfathe is a sister of Lad batten. REVETMENT OF MISSOURI IS UNDER WAY {West Bank thewion Bridges | Being Graded Preparatory to Paving With Rock Cutting brush, digging and shovel ing, a crew of over 90 men are hard x for the 3,000 feet protect the-west bank of the Missouri river at the Memorial Bridge from Under the n of Captain W. war depart. n are now busy grading k, which will be paved with stones to the water's edge, and 2,000 feet of the grade is already completed, Below the water will be a mattress woven of brush, 75 feet wide, 3,000 feet long and 18 inches thick. | Con- tracts have already heen let. for brush and a crew of 13 men will start the work of weaving the mat- tress probably Thursday or Friday. The work will take ae a month to 36 days, Captain Maulding estimated, and 100 cords of brush will be used. Longitudinal cables spaced 20 feet apart will run through the mattress, and cross cables, tied to “dead men” ‘on shore, will ‘help to anchor the mattress in position. The “dead men” are logs buried in the ground, Captain Maulding explained, ’ — Weight Mattress With Rock When the mattress is complete, it will be weighted down with rocks and the ice at its outer edge will then be dynemited, with the result that it will sink into position evenly. This mat- tress will fully cope with the treach- erous undercurrent of the Missouri, Captain Maulding said. The slope, above the water's edge, will be paved' with rock for a thick- ness of from one foot to 14 inches. Farther up the river, at Harmon, 43 men are working on another vetment project to protect the u end of “Norwegian Bend Bottom.” This revetment will be 2,000 feet long and its cost will be partly paid by tue Nonthern Pacific railroad, because for a distance of 500 feet at this point th river has become a menace to the railroad. Because athe ioet pe the bene is 10 feet high at this point, work on the project is more difficult, Captain Maulding said. He added that the same procedure would be followed at Harmon as_at Bismarck. Chamber Maid Bites on $2,000,000 Diamond Paris, Dec. 21-1) —Every once in a while d traveling salesman or some other fortunate person bites on a pea while eating oysters, but it re- for a chamber maid in a Paris hotel to bite on a $2,000,000 diamond, The maid, whose name seems to have been overlooked in the scram- ble, was munching on a luscious apple. found in the room of an ab- sent guest.when she nearly broke a tooth. A large brilliant stone of had been concealed in the 3 ae fruit. e took it to a policeman and then came the revelation that the “Grand Conde” stolen from the Museum of the Duc D’Aumal's age teau in Shantily: in October, had anon hy K Leer the careless. gueat autfer, who left*the be-diamond apple in es n yalise for the modern eve ae guest oO! _polige, thea, i m, a ahent of th ide, ind ogher en describe as ‘te ences" of roperty. ‘ ‘ ) te) gathered at dawn at the company’s is friendliness BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1926 AT LEAST TEN STILL MISSING IN SHIPWRECK | pas \ |Police and Firemen Continue Grappling Among Ice Floes |. of Hudson River 30 RODIES RECOVERED Young Captain of Boat Held Under Charges of Negli- gence and Homicide New York, (P)—Police and firemen’ today continued grap- pling among the ice floes of the Hud- son river for the bodies of 10 men believed missing from among more than two score workmen in search of jobs who drowned yesterday when the launch Linseed King capsized. Thirty bodies had heen recovered. Relatives who visited the morgue fail- ed to find at least 1@ others they sought, ‘Twenty-seven, of more than 60 men who crowded the 42-foot craft in its | perilous trip eeross the river from 95th street, New York, to Edgewater, N. J. were rescued i.fter clinging to ice cakes and the sides of the ship for almost an hour, Captain Under Arrest Captain John Rohweider, the 29- -old skipper of the craft, who more than a mile towards the shore before he was picked up, Was under police guard at the Knickerbocker hospital tgday suffer- ing from shock and exPosure and | threatened with pneumonia, He was under technical charges of —negli- gence and homicide, The launch was owned by Spencer | Kellogg and Sons, linseed oil manu- | facturers, More than 100 men, most of them answering an advertisement, | n pier for the trip to th the river. Captain Roh-| only 60 men, less than plant ae: weider | the boat's estimated capacity, crowd- ed aboard for the first trip, but some Has [Has Dope Cure _| Cure Here is the man whose 15 research have produced claimed to be a sure cure for narcosic and alcohol addiction, He is A. 8. Horovitz, Austrian bio-chemist who a compound which toxic sub- stance taken into the body. Only one of 366 cases given treatment under the supervision of prominent neu- rologists fell short of Narcosan contains no acti but is composed of teins and water-soluble vitamines. His experiments were made on Wel- fare Island, New York City. ° HANGING OF MURDERER 10: BE DEMANDED of the survivors place the figure at close to 100. | dway across the boat capsized but | just what sed the accident had not |been determined today. Captain Rohweider says the launch struck an ice cake that drove a hole through its | hew, but police were unable to find |a hole in the beat. Others said the | boat was shoved on its side by an ice | flpe and the men, rushing to the oth side to right her, caused her to | capsize. GOVERNMENT SURPRISED AT PIUS’ REMARKS Papal Declaration Came as Shock to Political Circles, Spokesman Says Rome, Dec. 21—)—The Italian government considers “strange, sur- prising and uncalled fo Pius’ pointed criticism of cism’s religious policies contained in ye terday’s allocation, the Associate Press today was informed by a gov- ernment spokesman. The papal tion, which is felt to have eliminated any hopes of @ speedy reconciliation between church and state in Italy, came as ‘a shock to political elrcles gen- ally that the greatest reticence is being observed, while the newspapers have not printed a word of comment. Incidents of violence against Cath- olic individuals and organizations, upon which the pontiff based his criticism, it was declared, are defi- nitely things of the past, having oc- curred as a spontaneous and mo- mentary reaction lasting for but a few days after the most recent at- tempt on Mussolini's life. Since then, it was asserted by the government spokesman, nothing has Occurred to occasion the pope's re- marks while the government, in ad- dition, has maintained and intends to continue malacning its policy of to religion and has taken the severest steps possible to prevent the recurrence of excesses, 60,000 Employes of U. S. Steel Company to Share in ‘Melon’ New York, “Dec. 21—(#)—Sixty thousand employes of the United States Steel corporation, it is esti- mated, will share to the extent of about $22,000,000 in the 40 per cent Christmas stock dividend exceeding $200,000,000 recently authorized. The stock held by these workers i figured at around 557,000 share: The exact stock Neiilogs of employes and the extent of their participation in. the “melon” is expected to be made known shortly. Lithuanian Premier Says Government Had Favored Bolshevists Koyno, Lithuania, Dec. 21-+-()— Augustine Valdemaras, premier in the government formed after Fri- day’s coup d’etat, charged in an in- terview today that extremists, sup- ported by the late. government, bad eacly prepared seize power, would have given a pretext for Polish intervention, Morever, he i} , the had I to| favored ‘the’ bolshevistg. "The army ww fee Hes ae Steno teat the pendence a ere fore ove row the feeble Slezevicius adm ion. Pope | jit ate’s Attorney | Forearmed Against an | Insanity Defense | Chicago, Dee, 21 (A) rearmed y defense, Stat Crowe declared Robert Attorney himself prepared today to obtain a hanging verdict for Harold Cro wr-old scion of a wealthy fam ed slayer of aix-yeur- | hmith, proceeding as_thor-! oughly as in the Leob-Leopold case s ago but, Crowe said, rk effort to avoid wrangle that arose inthe trial of the | two weait’y | {youths who wore sven life 9 ho such opportunity e been state kept’ almost con er the prisoner since | that he killed the | ub stable I for fear the sla: be revealed. ‘The have yielded material, Crowe ed, that will convince a jury. th: Croarkin is is entirely sane and lucid BUDGET BOARD HAS DIFFICULT PROPOSITION May Recommend Expendi- tures of Million Dollars in Excess of Revenue | Elizabeth's hospital for the ‘ e Crowe Is “the | the | getting Possibility that expenditures. a mil- lion dollars in excess of the anticipat- ed state revenue for the next two years may be recommended by the state budget board has been an- nounced by members of the board who have been in conference here for more than a month, The reason, board members say, i that the various state institutions have been on a “building diet” since the world war and additional room and facilitfes is an imperative need at all but a few. The only two which do not have valid claims for new buildings, it was said, are the state Bareint schools at Minot and Dickin- “The Minot teachers college was &raued # new building at tne last session of ‘the legislature and the situation at Dickinson is not yet as | acute as at other institutions. As # ‘result the budget board is torn between two 8. One is to keep the budget within the $8,000, 000 which can be raised under exist- The-other is to a a ing tax laws. justice to the various school: institutions and recommend pnts which the bord feels are just- One result may be recommended by the board that the legislature find new sources of revenue to Ue rovide.the money for improvements, he state constitution limits the gen- eral ied tax to,four mills but oot oi the state’s income now is dei source, the re- idan ph ee Feceived from Tole, special taxes. ——$—__————__ The crown . of Great Britain worn. by the king only once—at coronation, On ail oer mute wou- sions hé wears the state crown, =~ ts ‘hig [Has Dove Cure ||POLIGE KEEP DP SEARCH FOR DOCTOR'S WIFE Medic’s Mother Believes Daughter-in-law Is Victim, of Mental Disorder WANDERED AWAY’ ‘ Three Theories Followed: Woman Was Slain, Commit- ted Suicide, or Left Home HA Washington, Dee, 21-—-)—Admit- tedly baffled, Washington police turned with little expectancy of sue- cess today toward the icy waters of the Potomac for a solution of the jous disappearance of Mrs. WH louck, wife of Dr. Knute St. Hew k, ung psychiatrist of Jwho is under guard j Municipal hospital pending inyesti- gation. Mrs. H. K. Houck, mother of Mr, Houck, who is here taking cure of |’ three-year-old Hugh, left alone when his parents dropped out of sight Wednesday, is of the opinion that her daughter-in-law, like her son, is me victim of a mental disorder and s “wandered away. Me Houck, she said, had been! studying very hard to keep pace with | the brilliant progress of her hus- band, and she attributes his condi- tion to the same cause. He was pick- ed up Friday at, Hormell, N. ¥., walk- ing about in his underclothes and babbling irrationally, Three Theories Ae inced Detectives are working on. three | thee in, connection with Mrs. | Houck’s disappearance: That she Was slain, committed suicide or lett her hor They by no means gertain that she i d-and the im is growing among the in- aplrta! that she is alive and ina hiding place. as, Houck was peeved oa enigma, ven to his colleagues of the St. abeth's hospital. pears rational Boned tthe neerting into other At nes he vhile being ques- ffair, but then nswers and di- channels of To newspapermen and po- Vi querying him, he has tre- quently bitskad aside their questions about the affair and talked about the “sign language” and other irrelevant subjects, Fellow physicians -have told the police that he had shown signs of | nervous and mental trouble re ently | pbut they regard the present attack as only temporary, He was an in-| tern at the Mayu Brothers chime at chester, Minn, and was pursuing the study of mental and Bese | isorders at St. Elizabeth's. “LT know Tam still a bit ' told reports at Gallinger ho “(aay a tr ional period, “but I ter,’ al dis ‘| ital am ‘MEN FOUND FOUND WITH MONEY ARRESTED | waa Nearly $4,000 in Cur- rency in Pockets—Helieved to Be Bank Robbers Nebraska City, Neb. Dec, 21—() —Two men, carr; in currency ‘and thought to be mem | bers of a gang of three wanted at Odell, Texas, on a charge of robbing a bank there last Saturday afternoon, were arrested here last night and held for investigation after the sus- picion of a clothing dealer had been aroused by the currency bulging from their trousers pockets until, he said, they were unable to get their coats down over it. The money taken from the men, who gave their named as ene A. Stratton, * Coin, Iowa, and L. Huff- man, 30, Wichita, ‘totaled $8,629.96 and a bill of sale on an au- tomobile bearing a Sage county, Ne- braska, dealer’s license, which they said they purchased in Beatrice, Neb., Funder, porennted for $400. One bundle ‘of $500 had a wrapper bearing the name of the City Na- tional Bank, Wichita Fal! Texi The men refused to talk, when ques: tioned, other than to say they came from Juarez, Mexico, where they claimed to have won the nae | gambling. Weather conditions at North Da-' kota points for the 24 nes ending at 8 a. m. todev, Temperature at ia. m._ - 18 Highest yesterday « Lowest last night , Precipitation to 7 4. m. . Highest wind velocit; CAS’ For Bismarck arty eee: Un. ight snow to- settled, with probabj night or Wedrecnert ‘ali ly warmer tonight. Colder Wednesday; much colder at night. For North Dakota: Unsettled, with Probably light sno’ or penay. Slight; rmer toni; t east and south portions. Colder Wednes- day. Much colder. at WEATHER CONDITIONS A well defined low pressure area is centered over the e: this morning ai = sae Semple north Pacific coast fre southers Plains Stee and lower Mississippi eel Maa in a Seescuetls tem- peratures sections. OREIS. w ROBERTS, | tation hi Official in ebarge.|tiary us Lifetime Jake.” x The younger | ing “nearly $4,000 | | he pale, ieee brought a pardon yes- | people are | sion that this is ‘all, 114 hour: ‘Tran: cisco, 2,701 mil 1920—Alaskan Flyi and retul 1922—Jacksonville, 1919— piles in 11 it 1922—Duration fl utes and co' Non-stop flight, New hours and fifty tah —Re-fueling flight during wi times while going, covered minutes. 19 1923—Port Rican flight from San hours. 1924—Central American flight from Canal Zone, 2,000 miles in 26 hours and 20 minutes. 1924—Dawn to 2,670 miles in 21 hours and 1924—Round the World, from Seattle, Wash hours and 11 minutes. NA 1911—Lieutenant John Rodgers flying from Annapolis to Havre de Grace, Md. 1912—World’s seaplane record made when machine remained in air 6 hours and ten minutes, 1919—Lieutenant Commander A. Trepassy, Newfoundland, t in 26 hours and 45 minutes, 1924—Dirigible Shenandoah, on cruise from Lakehurst, N. J., to | Pacific Coast and return, 19 hours. 1925—Dirigible Los Angeles flew return without mooring, covering 1,700 miles in 33 hours. 1925—Commander John Rodgers Pablo Bay, 1926—PN-10 No. 1 and 2 planes Hampton Roads, a Today’s Doings in Nation’s Capital Congress meets at n auivers and harbo is before the senate. The agricultural appropriation hill continues before the h { ‘Validity of the | Fall-S conspiracy Indictment is up for urgument. | legislation WINTER HERE, BUT WEATHER TS VERY MILD Today Is Shortest of Year, But It’s Only 36 Seconds _ Less Than Yesterday “Winter at last! gible optimist as he glances at the calendar today, but winter this year failed to come into Bismarck with the customary zero temperatures and bit- ing blasts, As a result a number of harboring the delu- merely a belated ys the incorri- Beside making a mild entrance, winter brought with it an added at- traction—the shortest day in th year, Workers who overslept tl morning needn’t blame it on this fact, , however, for investigation shows that the sun rose but 36 seconds later to- day than yesterday. ‘The sun rose at 8:36 today and set at 4:56, while tomorrow will be from; 86 to 48 seconds longer. The sun, al- though beaming so brightly today, is actually expending most of its heat; in the southern hemisphere und as far north as the Tropic of Capricorn, | while here in the north temperate, zone, the earth is leaning away from; the sun and will not begin to turn| toward it agen until until Maych 21. PRAYERS OF AGED MOTHER BRING PARDON ‘Lifer,’ Freed / After Serving 25 Years, Hopes to ‘Make Mother Happy’ Berlin, N. J., Dec. 21—)—Free, after having spent 25/ in the eastern state penitentiary in Phil- adelphia, Jacob Pensendorfer now seeks to fill the declining years of his aged mother with joy. For it was his mother’s prayers, terday from was servil Governor Pinchot. He a life sanpaner for the barrens of his fath; re Pensendorter, as sat in the little| 1 bungalow built with money he had earned in prison, but which he had never seen until freed. “I only won to forget, now, and make Ma hay acnaartar, who is 52, sai might buld up a new ee Ine business, similar to the one he con- xtreme west orecipitation ae seated tn Oe emaihastiary and which ie sol Or also occurred in| for the present hi 8 States 4 be when released, but lans rest quietly at his mother’s home. Pensendorfer was sentenced in 1901 i be executed. After commen ¢ was known at the peniten- ights By the Army and ARMY Rate 1919—Round the rim of the United States, covering 9,823 miles in 5 minutes flying time. continental reliability test, > hours, 11 minutes. xpedition, Mitchell Field, N. Y., ja, to San Diego, Cal., er first time in less than twent ht over San Diego lasting 35 ing 2, 060. mile: to Mexiean border flight, dusk flight from New York to Cal., 1,841 miles in non-stop Hawaiian attempt, establishing a non-stop record for seaplanes. | to Colon, but were forced down be- cause of fuel and mechanical troubles in Caribbean waters. ‘FIVE ARMY PLANES TAKE OFF TODAY FOR PAN-AMERICAN FLIGHT TO COVER 20 NATIONS AND VISIT 80 CITIES) th Tsai nie Journeys. tho nats of which | t THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [naam New York to San Fran- {| to Nome 2 hours. ing continent for four hours hours and 18 min- o San Diego, 2,516 miles in 26 hich on fuel three irplane t hours and 15 miles ir 12 hours 13° minutes, Antonio, Tex., 6,900 miles in 64 San Francisco, 48 minutes. on y 27, 553 miles in 371 Y established seaplane record by Washington, College Park, and C. Read and crew flew from 10 Lisbon, Portugal, 2,150 miles with stop at the Azores. | flew 9,317 miles in 19 days and | from Lakehurst to Bermuda and and crew flew PN-9 from San attempted non-stop flight from Flight, Delayed a Day Be-| cause of Muddy Field, Has | Auspicious Start — First Plane Takes the Air at 10:51. A. M., and Others Follow at Short Intervals elly Field, San Antonio, Dec. 21— ; issed by wives d_-mothers, {and carrying the benediction of the nation, pilots of the army’s Pan- American air argosy departed today [fees ly Field to blaze a trail of ip into the hearts of 20 na The reserve plane with General | Patrick was the firgy to get vs taking the air at 1 a.m. Major | Herbert A, Dargue, flight command- | er, followed at 10:52 and the eral planes went up at minute intorvals The first mile of the n is laid across des: tuoUs untains, | rt wastes and over bound- less se was perhaps an augury of | smooth and happy sailing to the journey’s end. A Fine Start The great yellow winged, bird-like flying boats umed along the mile | ‘stretch of the field’s concrete run- | way with what officers called “sweet | speed,” their glistening bodies giving something of a gleeful udieu to the Texas mud which vesterday held | them fast in their earth bound tracks. | With Major H. A. Dargue in com- mand, guiding the great ship New York, the planes glided along the runway and were off in a twinkling, contrasting with the many hours of slow and laborious preparation which made possible ale moment of i the successful ge The other pilots followed quickly. The beak-like prows of their ships carry the names of five Ame! cities to at least 80 sister cities of the southern continent, and th planes’ ar irerine. sides are embla: oe with the American eagle, whose spreading wings bear this republic's colors and emblem to the republics of the south. In the New York with Major Her- bert A. Darrue, commander, was Lieut. E. C. Whitehead. Just Clears Photographers The Santonio was second to take off with Captain A. B. McDaniel at the wheel, and Lieut. Meck Robin- son in the cockpit with him. The Faaianle skidded off the runway slightly and rose just above the heeds. aw men taking pictures. One of the men had to duck to save himself fen bene hit. the other machines at es intervals, the San Fran- cisco with Captain Ira C. Eaker and ree Mele | fi forenile, | the Detroit Woolsley and ees oh n we "Benton, and the St. oe with Lieuts. B. S. Thompson L. D, Weddington. Fabric Company Announces Huge Stock Dividend Hartford, -Conn., Dec, 21.—()—A 3,900 per cent stock dividend voted by the Alrectore, of the Vales. Fabric company of Derby, re a pores: ed corset steels and radio pai be- came known yesterday with thet filing at the office of the secretary of state of a certificate of increase of ital ok Since it yd established in 7, the com} as had @ capital mock Of but 40,000, which will be in- reased to The increase is ),000. 4 capitalization of part of the ane accumulated slowly but steadil; the small start 39 years ago. issue will be distributed pro ray among 8 rs. Lyon hag wite and two sons. oo) | tween j iately indentified in connection with \throwing the PRICE FIVE CENTS IRREGULARITY IS CLAIMED IN DETROIT GAME Commissioner Landis Makes Public Testimony Taken in Connection With Case GAME NOW 7 YEARS OLD Cobb Claims Box Score Shows Neither He Nor Speaker Were Implicated Chicago, Dec. 21—()—Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker were linked today in an investigation conducted by Base- ball Commissioner Landis ‘involving an alleged irregularity of a game be- Detroit und Cleveland played in Detroit, September 25, 1919, Commissioner Landis, ‘without mak- ing any decision, made public more than 100 pages of testimony taken in connection with the case, Cobb and Speaker recently resigned as managers of the Detroit and Cleve- land clubs, respectively. Dutch Leonard, once pitcher with tthe Detroit Club, and Joe Wood, an- other American League pitcher, also were named in the investigation, which Commissioner Landis indicat- ed involved betting on the result of the game. Third Scandal in Six Years Today’s scandal was the third to be exploded on the American baseball public within the last six ye a on the surface appeared ‘to startling as the famous crooked world series of 1919, after which eight stars j of the Chicago White Sox were for- ever barred from organized baseball. The volume of testimony Commis- sioner Landis made public included letters Cobb’ is purported to have written to Leonard, the Tiger pitcher, ‘red C. West, who is not immed- the investigation, also was named in the testimony. Cobb, here with Speaker for a ng granted by Judge Landis yes- y, dechared today that he did not know of the bet until long after- ward and that the box score of the contest which Detroit won, 9 to 1, would show that neither he nor Speaker could have been implicated in game. Cobb related that “Dutch” Leonard, Detroit pitcher, and Joe Wod, Cleve- land itcher, had bet $600 ‘against Detroit, then in third place, east win from the second place Cleveland club on September 25, 1919. Wood did not play in the game, Cobb said. Speaker, accured of having knowledge of the plan for Cleveland to lose, made three hits, two of which were doubles, while Cobb, charged with knowledge of a pre-arranged Detroit victory, got but one hit in five times at bat. Boland pitched for Detroit. “That ought to show,” Cobb de- | clared, “that neither Speaker nor I were in on it.” Always Played Square Cobb did not bet on the ball game, he said. “L have played baseball for 22 years,” Cobb said with a catch in his voice. “I couldn't think of anything but win, Every yeur, every month, every (Continued on page six.) Last Minute | News Bulletins | Washington, Dec. 21—(#)— While the senate bgt ao, dohotiog on the rivers and hai yesterday, Senator Norris, Me- publican, Nebraska, broke the solemnity by falling out of a chair, He explained that it w not the weight of the that had him, but the spring in the clerk's chair he was using. New York, Dec, 21.—(#)—An- other substantial holiday. sift by an industrial corporation