The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 24, 1921, Page 13

UR BILLION DOLLAR LOSS IN MERCHANT FLEET The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 192L. B PRICE QF |SEVEN WOMEN PLAY ROLES IN GREATEST MURDER MYSTERY) CLEVELAND, June 24.—Seven women have played prominent roles so far in the sol Mies eve: yer € ‘ ution of the Kaber murder mystery—the most baffling crime which has been solved b; 3 TONNAGE took two years from the commission of the crime to lift the veil that enshrouded the affair—a veil which revealed money madness, revenge, black art, poison and rere ates Synge picid gg igh * oe ; women, daughter, mother and grandmother, are facing the death chair as a result of the crime. Kaber’s father followed the trail relentlessly until arrests were made. § Expert Says Loss Must Be Faced by Taxpayers if Mer- | chant Marine Is Success | Section Two Sree teers BY J. F. RICHARDSON SAN FRANCISCO, June 24.—"A} g Toss of four billions of their five bil : Hion dollar investment in the merch 4 ant marine fleet must be faced by taxpayers of the United States if they expect to put the tonnage Into Operation and successfully to estab lish an American merchant marine. The tofinage price must be reduced the shipping board.” ime REDUCED Mrs. Mary Bricket Mrs. Eva Kaber Miss Marian McArdle ‘These startling assertions were mn tikes tip Alexander J. Dickie, | This is the woman whose confes- ‘Th fe the woman whose hashand, This is the woman who, according ‘This ts the an who charges y sion, involving her own daughter Dan Kaber, was) stabbed to death, to the confession of her grand that Mrs ope aay pein Ascaph co hdl ih tor of the Pacific Marine Review, | ; hn . " Disd-tn: ahipping ct and granddaughter, resulted in the and who, according to her mother, mother, Mra Brickel, strewed silver- $5,000 if they would kill her husband, a7. aper tried to 4 “ friend of Mrs. Kaber’s, and who |” and who has confessed that she . get her to kill Ardie from New York to Clev ' turned detective and volunteered to jes as an| went to the Kaber home with two Dan Kaber. She quotes Mrs. Kaber She is the wife of Chief of Police help solve the mystery. She gave ~ Mrs. Emma Colavito Mrs. Mary J. Wade Mrs. Margaret Christenson Mrs, Ethel Berman This Is the woman, a self-styled This is the woman who escorted This is the woman who, before the | who charges that Mrs. Eva Kaber and Marian Me Murder of Dan. Kaber, was clossijii authority on marine matters, as well) indictment of herself and several Mrs. Brickel, said she “was going to ware on the floor of the Kaber home, &s one of the closest students of prob-/ others for the murder of Dan have Dan killed.” She has been im on the da: aye s : ay of the murder, to give the . Dg mage ited reeling its| , . te , , Mie : " men, two days before the murder, to as saying, “T have no money—he he ct € eo ct o1 started 2 nired . according to another confession, been indicted on a charge of murder. 1 t ” t k 4, 1 c says : DMfthe Pacific coust echo his views ystery “ . re urder, J want to kill him,” and states that th aber home is < 5 < a vito, Aik Geciarations that the wood-| tor t r . ne ; n er the home. Sbe is Mrs. Kaber’s Ardie played jazz music to detract queerest women I ever got a 101 7 f é m® n fleet ust be Fi eee taba 4 after her son haa been threatened cur hie bad habits.” She denies that daughter and the slain man’s step- attention from the assassins while ed with,” when she bsllype provi pss Shak mas “Sioa ren tay lap ee bape and cep a or the murder. she plotted his death. daughter. She has been indicted. they “got the lay” of the house. ply with the request. prisoner. She ac pe A this seid ra pan non ‘ é amplified by Dickie, who de- . f Slarea operators cannot atford to buy Ist 1 c gag ~ if shipping board tonnage at more than) | Oliver omes ui ° * Bian of in contraction owt - - ‘> as | Fg sh 10 ne War {we Wives Befriend “British tonnage—steel tonnage, | a British tonnage—ateel tonnaen SUIT ENDED pate Arne Siackines American Legion’s Fourth of July ~ Their One Husband} 9 to $35 a deadweight ton, some of the silver pieces which had been ARIS, June 24.—Louts oto $35 « dendwetent ton, some of the “alver pieces which had been a O e art O Committee Wants to Hear From—|/,?*""* ome 3 De juthority. jthe high value of silver are ‘making | Individuals and organizations to enter he dec ao ge - in the decorated auto “a The shipping board at Ist a) ucweet B: ‘and By” Litiga- | thelr reappearance in France, an . |] mobile section of the Fourth of July Parade. he was induced to commit Migaaam counts was seeking to sell its ton- y y Qa-|aitho they are till rare, it is n Members of foreign societies to march tM the parade in | ut of patriotism to raise the B nage at $185 a deadweight ton. How tion Is Settled longer a matter for great astonish- | ée (4 Tra 1on our || native costumes. rate in “my beloved France” Hel Eka the. private operators, with ment when one is received in 9 Fraternal organizations to march in parade, was living a double [ife in towns +f money tight, with freight rates change. The reason is that the price) ‘There will be an old-fashioned War the Pucific const. Former service men to wear uniforms ou Fourth of July. miles apart. When arrested his{ | Call Ralph Hall, chairman parade committee, at East 53 or BOSTON, June 24.—Memories of | of silver has fallen. Pasa Elliott 1285, the days of long ago, when the ‘wives told the judge he was tl “best husband™ ever and on @ down to rockbottom, with world] | | Path on a miniature seale for the The shows will open:down town a such price? #If the shipping board expects to) trade stagnated, afford to pay aad its tonnage, it will have to re-| words and music of “Sweet By and By” first became familiar thruout the land were recalled by the set tlement out of court at the federal |Said She’d Die on |big Fourth of July celebration of the Aseria Legion at the exposition grounds, the attractions, rides and week in advance on the lot at Fourth and Lenora, under the same aus | pioes, the funds derived by the Le ‘pleas he was released. Wednesday, Correct! ice its price. The cost, we are other funamaking devices being fur- | t hi se ing fur- | puilding af @ sujt that has been on| syRACUSE, June 24.—Margaret|nisned by the Leen B Tecain, |#on to be applied to helping out of that tonnage was around; - @ deadweight ton. If it moves eee ph jbagreel States dis: | sfarie Mors, 12, predicted her death |shows, who will bring upwards of (®* heavy expenses incurred for the | 35 a deadweight ton the shipping] 17") ory | three days in advance. In a delirium} 25 cartoads of paraphernalia to Se |b! doings of Independence day. d may consider itself fortunate.| "1°" i mn—eaid to be one of elon to inflammatory rheumatism |attle for the purpose. It is hoped in this way to realize .EET WAS BUILT IN best known pieces of gospel muste | Tee priate the words, “Monday,| The Levitt organization makes a more than enough to defray not - EXTRAVAGANT WAY aoe he oo averie ne omni Wednesday, I'll die that | specialty of catering to the wants of only these but add considerably to | “The tonnage of the American! posed by Joseph P. Webster of Elk pmb On Wednesday, as she had the American Legion in this respect the balance that it is hoped will ac- | ist Was built Under strees of war:\horn, Wis. thred years after the bred ected, she died land has done similar service all over |crue to the credit side of the ledger. it Was built in an extravagant way | civil war. And since suit was begun er * SON TTA cask, Rare ware ims A-Day of Specials | —unavoidable, perhaps, because of| by Mrs, Joan Webster, widow of the itions surrounding construction| author, for an accounting from ON- Five-gallon L ‘at the time—and it is out of the ques-| ver Ditson, et. al, Mrs. Webster tion for private operators to try to|herself and many witnesses in the | Stone Jars operate tonnage profitably if it has| case have died, and of the score of and Covers be bought at any such price as the/ lawyers connected with the litiga- | shipping board has asked. tion at one time or another, few “The American people may expect,.| were in at the finish. It was ru- 4f they want a merchant marine, to|mored that the settlement was in for it—and a merchant marine| the neighborhood of $50,000. Fmeans a great deal more than merely} Louis P. Webster, a near relative feet of vessels. A’merchant ma-/of the author of the hymn, was| is not established in a day—and| pi. %™mt at a conference of counsel does not make profits the day it| with Federal Judge Anderson, who} established. complimented the lawyers at effect © “If the shipping board had figured|ing a settlement of the “oldest” of these things out, it could have dis-|suits in point of years that hate posed of its tonnage many months! ever appeared on the records of the Come In @Ge—. ch portion of it, at least, as court. private operators can absorb. It A contract entered tnto by Web ould have told the people the truth, ster with the Lyon & Healy com and Meet and the people would have faced P@ny of Chicago in 1865, and taken the loss as Americans always face, 0Ver. it was clatmed by the Boston | M Pr. ses-—-with courage and equanimity,| Publishers after the big fire. entered | 1 \ hen that loss is known to be inevit-|!argely into the case. 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