Copyright, 1926, by CIV-THREE CENTS-SUNDAY, TEN CENTS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26,1926 TRIBUNE Publishing Co. 48 PAGES D NO. 5T She Drives, Lets Him Walk Solon Stumps Again in Bride Role .MISS BETTIE DE LATE, stenographer, didn't want to return CONSTANCE TAL- DRY CALLED , MADGE, sister of Norma home alone in a taxicab last night after.quarreling with her:escort in Houdini by Trick PRESIDE!!! his automobile, so she reversed theiusual procedure and drove it.back Talmadge and famous in movie to town herself, leaving hiis to find his.own way......':'..' ADVUfflNQV 'Spirit Reading' TDrtlTHD IN comedy-dram?.? as star. '.'.iU PI PUP until BY ASSOCIATED PEESS "marry Oliver Mclntosh at Bur- uimnuL nut tiuHIM LEASED "WIRE TO TBIBUHE Mini i UN in lingarne tomorrow. TT7"ASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—C43)— nun " A House committee got deep- ly mired in a discussion of Spir- itualism today when- it undertook to consider a bill for regulating clairvoyants in the District of Co- lumbia. Blackmail Plot Intimated a Anita Hodgkin of St. Mark's Houdini, the magician, told the Claim That Prohibition Is committee that persons claiming 2,300,000 Revenue Payers in Court-martial as the Gir Church, Berkeley. Cleared supernatural powers were nothing Success Termed 'Inexcus- 1925 Exempted by Law Under Grilling Reveal of Knowing of Plot to but fakirs. able Lie' by Senator Ed- His statement led Mrs. Jane B. Approved Today by Execu- Auto Eide Out of State Defraud Adopted Child Coates, head of the Spiritualist wards in Radio Talk tive to Clicking Cameras Church of America in Washing- ton, to declare he had reflected Accuser's Chum Hunted a New England Relatives of on her church, and was interfer- Epithets Hurled Over Air Measure Becomes Effective U. S. Agents Threaten tc Norman Lawrence Beck- ing with religious freedom. Put Pep Into Broad- at Once in Main Clauses' Prosecute Captain Undei Houdini then offered $10,000 to with Lose Battle Waged in anyone who could tell him what cast Discussion of Foes But Extensions Are Given * Federal Mann Act Statut Oakland Superior Court was in a telegram he tossed upon and Friends of Booze the. table. Representative Reid, for Returns in Some Cases Republican, Illinois, without BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26.— I BY ASSOCIATED PEESS • Completely vindicating Deacon- blinking an eye, snapped out: LEASED -WISE TO TBIOTHE BY ASSOCIATED PEESS Rev; Orville Clampitt, army chap ess Anita Hodgkin of St. Mark's IEASED WIRE TO "Why it says 'I can't be there WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — Pro- laJn, being tried by court martial a Episcopal church, Berkeley, of all WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The today.'" hibition was "our greatest victory the Presidio for alleged Intimac defraud the court in concealing ^ "That's a guess," Houdini re- new tax reduction bill became a Xclth Lucille Swallow, 22, a beaut important facts, Superior Judge J. sponded. "You are no clairvoy- in the World "War," and also was law when President Coolidge.gave S. Koford today denied petitions parlor attendant of Lawrence, Kan ant." "foisted upon a war-crazed. ' peo- it his formal approval at 10:22. •as, is successful In freeing himsel to eet aside her adoption of Nor- "Oh yes I am," replied Reid. o'clock this morning. from .the military court, it will onl man Lawrence Beckwith Hodgkin, ple," in the respective opinions of The reductions afforded by the the "1400,000 baby" and letters of It turned out that the Illinois b« to face re-arrest under the term representative's quotation of the Senator Brookhart, Republican of bill become effective immediately Irf the. Mann Act.. guardianship over-the child granted Iowa, and Senator Edwards, Dem- on all provisions except the auto- to her. ' telegram was about correct, but ; This was determined today by B Houdini- insisted it was all an ocrat of'New Jersey. mobile and theater admission taxes, XL Bohner, chief of the departmen - Judge Koford, by his decision, which become effective in 30 days. upholds the contention of attorneys accident. They debated the subject last 9t Justice Investigation bureau a Then, after another vigorous The income tax provision applieS'to the court martial proceeded behin for --Miss Hodgkin that there Is night over the radio, while Mrs. last year's earnings. ;. -' absolutely no evidence to warrant protest by Mrs. Coates the com- closed doors while Miss Swallow Mary T. Nortdn, Democratic rep- Following signing of the bill by wvealed the intimate -details of he the charge that she conspired with mittee adjourned. the" president, the treasury today "friendship" for Clampitt while h relatives of the child to defraud resentative from New Jersey, was granted a number of .extensions-of was stationed at Leavenworth, Kan it.of'its rights in a $400,000 trust criticising prohibition In a speech time as to when final tax returns «as,.and the events that lead to for fund. Miss Hodgkin's right as an at another radio station. The count must be made«-for this year's 'pay- . mal charges against the mllitan adopted mother is confirmed and ments to the government. ""'.-- iclsrgyman. also, her guardianship of the child's for and against prohibition was Extensions were decided upon., Miss Swallow -will be followed on estate in .California. evened -when Wayne B. "Wheeler, because of the nearness of March the stand, which she took yester The proceedings were brought on general counsel for the Anti-Saloon 15, when the returns ordinarily day after being brought here from behalf of guardians appointed in would be due, and to the fact that Los Angeles by General P. A. Wol Massachusetts and Rhode Island League, Issued a statement assail- the new tax law was approved only of the Vancouver barracks, and the seeking to _set aside both the adop- ing the views of Senator Edwards. Redwood City Halts Business, today. " - jnllitary officials are also seeking tion and the guardianship. It was SENATOR TERMS TWO MONTHS' EXTENSION . trace of a friend of Miss Swallow charged that Miss Hodgkin con- Citizen? Cheer as Couple also a beauty expert, who is be Tion't Brand Her Scarlet," The New Jersey senator gave Obtain License. Under the new regulations dti- '£• lieved to be here and who Is ex Pleads Star's Lawyer zens and residents of the United : ? pected to cast new light on the ro much of his time to an attack of States whose net income exceeds', -...'.& mantle entanglement. Before Jury. the league, calling Wheeler the All business In Redwood City was 15000 and domestic corporations , "J* GIRI/ T73STDERGOES BT UNITED PEESS "arch-traitor of American liberty, stopped for a brief Interval this were given until May 15, or two ; :|: BITTER. GRILLING. IEASED WIRE TO TElBtrNE months' extension, in which to file • -fir freedom of thought and action," morning while the town turned out This young woman Is sought bj NEW TOEK, Feb. 26.—A jury In complete returns. However, they ' ;-f" supreme court here today -was and declaring that "not even the to assist Alister "William Mclntosh must make tentative returns on or ' ff'•"- the military officials to substantiate asked not to send Marjorie Ram- certain allegations made by Miss sacred courts of our land are free of London to obtain a marriage before March 15, together 'with '•' ' '!' beau, actress, out into the world one-fourth of the estimated amount ' -".I Swallow during the course of her branded as a scarlet woman, and a of the poisonous taint of the license to wed Miss Constance Tal- testimony at the hearing yesterday of tax. ' •'-] love thief. league's filthy hands and breath." madge, the noted film beauty. The nature of these allegations wil Miss Talmadge was accompanied If the estimated tax is less than . .« Attorney Barnard Sandier, sum- shown to be.due on the completed/ -Jjj not be made public until after the" ming up for Miss Kambeau, -named He termed an "inexcusable lie by her sister, the famous Norma. Swallow girl has completed her tes- return the difference will bear in-. .,: E! as corespondent in the trial of the Wheeler's recent statement that She gave her age as 25 and her terest at 6 per cent a year until ! •'$ timony because of "the scandalous divorce action of Mrs. Mabel Man- birthplace as New Tork .city. Mc- prohibition had been a success and ; paid back. ' '.' | »nd 'intimate nature" pf the tale.;'. ton against "William Kevitt Manton lntosh •gaye;-3irs ais/as 36 arid his 1 The -defense subjected Miss Swal- declared she was an innocent vic- added that the league .-official's 'birth-place as''Scotland. ': '" American .citizens residing. - or " -"H, low to bitter cross-examination to- tim." "pee wee mind and mental Inca- After receiving their license, the traveling abroad, including- '•' those ' -f-4 day- and plan as a coup5 'the intro- in the military and naval - service, .4 "Look at her," said Sandier, dra- pacity for grasping facts made him couple passed between two lines of and all other persons^ outside the, ., f duction into the -evidence .of letters matically. "You can look into her cheering-, residents extending from ; immune to convinclngvpropfj''--!titat United. States, . ,were . .given- until • - j purporting to be of a black-mailing heart and see that it is broken. iEe'"£6ur.tho:u$e .to their automobile nature in which the .Kansas girl prohibition is a failure. ' " '" ' •""' June 15,. -or :three months' "exten-' ' ;i "In California sits her gray- Wheeler replied that, They • departed for Burlingame, sion, to file their return. 'This ' threatened the clergyma'n with ex- haired mother. Are you going to "like where the wedding ceremony will posure unless he paid stipulated lawyer whose case is bad, Senator order applies to taxpayers in Alas- ., 4|l broadcast this woman as a scarlet be performed tomorrow.