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TIIIKH ZilMt riVB CENTS. RAFT AT CHARGED EEFOMMATOJRY FIGURES IN SUIT Priest Here a hi 3 a 3D uimm Day ton, Pious City of Evolution Fame, Has Dark Purple Past OUST HOPKINS GOT FOOD, SHOES, GUARDS SAY ff -49 i 7 'If I SUIT CHj Scopes Fattier Meets Bryan Moment After Tirade Against Commoner. Federal Judge Will Hear Arguments Today In Stockholder's Action. BROWN, OTHERS ARE DEFENDANTS Banker 1 of 3 to Ask Inter-Southern Head for Resignation, Petition Says. Hearing of the arguments in the injunction suit of Dan- iel W.

Harris, a stockholder, to block an alleged plan to have the present Board of Directors of the Inter-South- 4Y ern Life Insurance Company "bust James R. Duff in as president and throw the company jinto the hands of a receiver is set for 9 o'clock this morning in the Federal Court here. OF GANGSTER CLAW SLAIN Tony Genna Shot As He Advanced to Greet Two In Motor. TWO BRQTHERS ALSO KILLED Police Scour Chicago for Man Named Ca-vallere; Seek Others In Underworld. Chicago, Juty 8 (AP) Chicago gangland ran amuck again today and, Tony Genna, of the notorious gang of gunmen and beer runners, fell the victim of assassins' buJ lets, the third member of his family to be killed in the past six weeks Tony's death came In the midst of a relentless polite war being waged against Chicago gangsters, which started a few weeks ago when Michael Genna.

Tony's brother, was shot to death after members of his gang had staged a battle with policemen, kill ing two officers and wounding a third. A few veeks previous Angelo Genna. another brother, was murdered. Tony, 2D years old. and the wealthiest of the six Genna brothers, apparently was lured to his death.

For half an hour he paced nervously up and down before the grocery store of a friend In the- heart of "Little itaiy. men as a big closed car drew up to the curb ne advanced with hand extended to greet the two occn pants, who stepped from the car and walked toward hlmr'- As Tony clasped the hand of one, the other fired five bullets Into his body, and both fled, tossing the pis tol away. Tony died a few hours later In a hospital. Two minutes berore he died Tony broke the iron rule of silence that has prevailed in Chicago gangland where men live and die by the gun to settle their feuds. "Ypu're dying.

Tony, you have just a few minutes to live," a police offl cer told him. 'Tell us who shot Tony shook his head. Gasps' Name. "1 11 get them when 1 get he said. Then apparently realiz ing that he was about to die.

he gasped. "Cavallere." and dropped back on his cot. lonigni nunnreus ot police were combing the city for a man of tha name with whom Tony is reported to have quarreled several weeks ago In addition a dozen gangsters were in custody, relatives of the Gennas werf held and scores of other members of the underworld were sought. ham Genna. reputed one of the toughest members of the Genna Sang, cracked under the strain as he saw his brother die.

"Please, he begged of police officer, "protect me. Kirst it (Continued on Page 3. Column 4.) Bank Is Closed In Elkhorn City Special The Courier-Journil Klkhorn City. Julv The First State Bank of Rlkhorn City. Pike County, voluntarily closed its door? today and turned its assets and affairs over the State Banking Department for liquidation.

This action followed an examination made by A. Phillips, Deputy Banking Commissioner and Examiners W. L. Combs and J- B. Smith, who advised the officers and directors of the true status of the bank.

Closing of the bank was caused by frozen and uncollectable loans and depleted reverses due to the dtpression in the coal fields. The bank was organized in 1312 and has a capital stock of $25,000, surplus $11,000, do-posits $70,000, loans $93,000, bill? payable $7,300. totai assets and liabilities $113,000. J. C.

Charles. Klkhorn City, was president and Ira C- Oeskins. cashier. Both assumed office about a year ago. In the opinion of the examiners and the the depositor.

will be paid in full but an assessment against the stockholders may be required. OZI- Cm 11 3S 3D STORM AT MINNEAPOLIS 25 Are Injured As Wind and Hail Cause Much Loss to Property. Minneapolis. July 8 OP) Three per sons were killed and at least twenty- five others injured here tonight when a wind and rainstorm, strikinar with the force of a tornado, tore the roof off a section of a pavillion at Lake Harriet and buried nearly a score under the debris. As the wind rushed through the city, the floor in a South Minneapolis cafe gave way beneath halt a dozen dinner guests, throwing them into the basement.

None were seriously hart. however. Store fronts were caved in by the wind, several houses damaged, trees uprooted and traffic was tied up by flooded streets as the sewsrs were unable to carry off a heavy rain Basements of many homes were flooded. ine wind blew the roof off the Fiesler Drug Store, bulged out the four walls, smashed all the plate glass and scattered drugs and sundries over the street. Two houses were wrecked while a third was twisted about on its foundation, the roof blown off and nearly every window smashed.

Hurled with the full strength of a furious wind, the hail stones, some of which were reported from three to six inches in diameter, smashed windows, broke boards, dented corrugated iron coverings and knocked, plaster from trie walls of dwellings as they crashed against the houses. The stones, some of which weighed from four to five pounds, battered the tops of automobiles, dented the bodies and broke the glass in the closed types. PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY. Two Hnrt. S2S9.MM Damase In Wind Morm.

Hancock, Minn. July 8 (()) Two men were Injured, property damage esti mated at J2a0.000 was done and some livestock was killed in a hailstorm in a strip two miles wide and twenty-five miles long in Central Minnesota late today. I Killed Under Tree. Philadelphia. July 8 UP) A severe electric storm which swept over Philadelphia today caused the death of one man.

did considerable property damage and sent the temperature down 19 degrees from a maximum of 91. When the storm broke Jure! Cook dashed from an unfinished buildins In Chester, where he was working and sought shelter beneath a tree. A few minutes later he was struck by lightning and killed. Four Dead in New York. Xew York.

July 8 OP) While breeees and showers brought relief today from the torrid temperatures which have gripped the city since Monday, three deaths occurred from the heat, bringing the total since the heat wave began to four deaths and nine prostrations. Heat Takes Two. Pittsburgh, July 8 OP) Two deaths from heat occurred in the Pittsburgh district today. Negro Again Held In Death of Byrd Is Captured Second Time In Madisonville After Release In Paducah. Madisonville, Ky July 8.

Frank Graham, negro, was re-arrested here tonight by D. Watson. Chief of Police, in connection with the killing of Syp Byrd, news "butch" of Louisville on an Illinois-Central train between Louisville and Paducah. Graham was arrested here July 2, when he is said to have made a vol untary statement to the effect that he did trie killing. He was taken to Paducah.

but later released bv Pa ducah police who said he was not the man in connection with the crime. The Paducah officers did not notify the officials of Hopkins County who wanted Graham in connection with other offenses. It is believed that the McCracken County grand jury will be asked at its next session to "inveslisrat the re lease of Graham by the Paducah po-lice officials, it was said here tonight. Graham is being here on an old charge of drunkenness while the murder eharse is being sifted. U.S.

Judge and Dead After Brief Illness FATHER O. P. ACKERMAN Father O. P. Ackerman, 57.

Pastor of St. Philip Neri's Twenty-seven Years. Father Oscar Pacific Ackerman. 57 years old, pastor of St. Philip Xeri Catholic Church for more than twenty-seven years, died at 1:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon at St.

Joseph's Infirmary, after a week's illness of Father Ackerman, a native of Louisville, was the son of the late Phillip Ackerman. president of the Senn-Ackermann Brewing Company He received his education for the priesthood at St. Meinrad's College. in Indiana. He also studied abroad.

(Continued on Page 4. Column 4.) GENERAL COUNCIL IN FINAL SESSION Ousted City Officials Close Up Business; Democrats Meet Tuesday. -Final business, includinc the approval of minutes of the last meeting-, was transacted last night by the Republican' General Council, which met at the City Hall at the call of Mayor Huston Quin. A Democratic General Council, to be appointed by Gov. William J.

Fields, under the provisions of the puster decision of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, is expected to be convened Tuesday night, when the retiring Republican boards will meet for final adjournment. Among the- first hil)p scheduled for introduction in the new Council are those whirh would provide for refer-endunij on the proposed $5,000,000 public (school and the $1,000,000 University of Louisville bond issues. Authorization of a vote on the bond Issues is mandatory under an act passed ai the last General Assembly. "If the voters do not pass the bond issue I don't know what we will Or. A.

B. Weaver president of the Board of Kducatlon. said yester day. "The way the city is growing the schools are crowded. It is a question of a bond issue for more schools or two school sessions a day, which would send half the children to fichool in the morning And the other half in the afternoon.

If Governor Fields does the expected, that is, the Council rec ommended to him by the Democratic City and County Kxeculive a programme 'of strict enooomv In municipal expenditures Is indicated probable members, so announcing themselves yesterday. caucus has been held, however, and no crystallizing of sf-ntiment has developed regarding the election of presiding of fioers. Relative to a councilmnnlc programme, Mark Beauchamp. who Is favored by Henry J. Rueff.

one of the recommended, for president of the Board of Aldermen, said: Kconomy was one of the arguments on which we built our campaign two years ago. Unquestlon-' ably, economy should be the programme now. 1 would rather not make a statement at this time as to my choice for president. I be. lieve that no comment should be made until we have had time to cnll a conference.

Mr. Uiieff. Ben Sachs, another of those recommended for Alderman; George W. Clarke. Karl L.

I5adger and Frank F. Fleming, three of the twenty-four recommended for appoint-ment to the lower board, all voiced sen-tinvent for a programme of economy. I he prospective members ot the Hoard of Counoilmen said they had not considered a president. It also was pointed out that Fields has not yet announced his appointments. (Continued on Page 4.

Column 1.) captain had met with some accident or had been unduly delayed, and would explain his absence when he arrived at the New Jersey station. Since then, however, concern for his safety has grown and the Investigation has been extended to the Baltimore oorp area headquarters and the the Lancaster police, but ttithiiut success. War Department records fall to show that Captain Connell had any living relative at the time he entered army service. Only the name of a brother officer was given by him. the space on the records for names of person, parents or next of kin.

who would be notified in an emergency, being left blank. The officer named has been communicated with, but has-reported (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) v. a Seventeen Saloons. One for Every Corner, Thrived In Little Town. REGULAR SUNDAY KILLING Maintained Pace Ten Weeks; Signs of Religious Nature Tacked Everywhere.

(Br Staff Correspondent.) Dayton, July 8 Dayton, which now boasts the spires of nine churches and greets the visitor with glaring placards exhorting him to read his Bible daily and asking him ominously where he will spend eternity, has a past, a purple past. Tha much came out today, during the long, hot afternoon when the old timers sought the shade and discoursed in reminiscent vein for the benefit of inquiring reporters. It appears that In days agone The good, old days." some people call them Dayton not only had nine churches, but also seventeen saloons. Seventeen saloons, or more than one to a corner, and all thriving. In those days when Dayton, so to speak, was sowing its wild oats, there was one period of ten consecutive Sundays, with a killing every Sun- dav.

according to- the old timers. Which indicates that Dayton was having -father a high old time, as the saying goes. All of Dayton's past dates before 903. In that year, prohibition was 'oted for the town under a local op tion law. Only one vote was cast against it.

according to the old timers' story, and that by a negro. He still lives here and the old timers wui noint him out to you on the street. The seventeen saloon keepers, it Is declared, didn't vote. One of them is now a pillar in the Siethod- ist Church. There's not a trace of the seventeen saloons today.

And. as as appears the casual visitor, not even a bootlegger. At least, the only can'assers one noticed so licitine passersby today were sales men and saleswomen seeking sub scriptions Co a national anti-evolution magazine. Dayton's past is strictly past, ac cording to all the signs and the word signs can be taken literally. React you Bible daily, a score of them ad vise In box car letters.

Be honest, where will you spend eternity?" An other asks. ou need God In. your business, still another suggests, and one at the Court House where John Thomas Scopes will go on trial tomorrow, for teaching evolution in the Dayton High School, says "Be sure your sins will- find you out." Bryan- Jr. To Come. Withdrawal of Bainbrldge Colby of New York frmo the defense counsel (Continued on Page 3.

Column 1.) MARCUM PARDON CASE UNDER FIRE Letter to Fields Urging Clem ency 1 Varies With Witnesses Statements. By J. HOWARD HENDERSON. Staff Correspondent of The Courier-Journal Whitesburg. July 8 Oscar Marcum.

a former convict, procured a pardon from Gov. William J. Fields through a letter from N. B. (Bony) Hall, another former convict.

The alleged fact-s. set out by Hall in his letter to the are at variance with statements made by witnesses for the Commonwealth. Marcum, who formerly served a year at the Frankfort Reformatory from Breathitt County for robbery. was convicted in the Letcher Circuit Court for carrying concealed a deadly weapon. He was fined $100 and given ai ten-day Jail sentence.

Governor Fields, referring to the letter from Mr. Hall, said "it appears from the statements of reliable wit nesses, that the said Oacar Marcum was deputized to assist N. B. Hall constable of Letcher County, in mak ing some arrests. Asked to Aid.

Claim. Hall wrote the Governor he had summoned Marcum to aid him in ar resting persons charged with shoot in into a dwelling house at Marking (Continue on Page 9, Column 1.) Woman Ends ife With Noose At Jail Anne Tecett Found Dead By Matron Hour After Asking Arrest. Annie Tecett, 27 years old, who was arrested on her request at" 7 o'clock last night at Preston and Liberty Streets, committed suicide an hour later, at 8 o'clock, in her cell at the County Jail. The body was discovered by the jail rnatron, Mrs. Leona Wells, her- head raughj.

to the' cell bars by a tight noose. The deputy jailer, Floyd Orion, immediately su'Timoned the Coroner. Roy Carter: The woman had called the First District Police Station at 1 clock, and asked that the sergeant on duty sind a patrol to take her to jail. Patrolman Charles Wolford, on arriving at the point designated, found the wman was intoxicated. Wolford arrested her on a charge of drunkenness and 'took her to the jail, where she gave her address as 124 West Chestnut Street.

She used a bedsheet to end ber life. 7 Top: James B. Brown. Bottom: James Duffin. CARTER ELECTION PROBED BY JURY G.

0. P. Men- Vote for Relds Against Testi--mony Discloses. By DONALD McWAIX. Staff Correspondent of The Courier-Jnurn al Grayson.

July 8. Testifying before the Carter County grand jury William Offll. election officer today said eight or ten Republicans in Cedar Grove precinct voted for Austin Fields, brother of Gov. William Fields, and against S. Yates, Re publican nominee In the November 1924.

election. Tnese vvoters were known by the Republicans before election and they were expected to vote for Fields on account of a pardon for Walker Ross, convict, who later was paroled by the State Board of Charities, according to Mr. Offll. The grand jury's probe was de manded by Stoval, chairman of the Carter County Democratic Com mittee. following an unofficial count on ballots which indicated that Mr Fields and not Mr.

Yates was elected Commonwealth Attorney In the dis trict' embracing Carter Morgan and Klliott Counties. The discrepancy in Cedar Grove precinct alone would have changed the result of the The grand jury investigation began yesterday on motion of Mr. Yates in open court. Offil G. O.

P. Sheriff. Mr Offil was Republican sheriff of the election He he was present at all times and watched the count. was not true that 117 Republicans scratched- for Mr. Fields against Mr Yates; if there was any change in ballots, it was after they were deliv ered to the County Clerk at Grayson he said.

All the Republicans ballots cast for the Democratic nominee were counted for Mr. Fields. Offil declared With completion of evidence offered by approximately twenty witnesses, the grand jury today was working on its report which will be made public tomorrow. Statements by Mr. Yates and Mr.

Fields probably will be made on receipt of the report. Sam Porter, Democrat, clerk of fhe election, denied that tnere was any fraud unless it were after the ballots were taken to the clerk at Grayson Porter testified that he tallied the vote and that it was counted correctly 202 -votee for Yates and 11S for Fields, Porter stated that he knew the voters of Cedar Grove, and knew there were not 117 Republicans in the pre cinct who would -vote against Yates Porter supported Fields and voted for him testimony indicated. Then Por ter, Democratic judge of the election (Continued on Page 4. Column 1.) Two Officials son, and formerly assistant cashier of the bank, with aiding and abetting an embezzlement, and Cawthon with forgery. Bond for Judge Ross was fixed at $23,000, which was immediately given.

Bonds for Carroll and his son and Cawthon, supplied at the tim of their arrest, prior to the grand jury were permitted to stand. T. B. Can-oil is under bond: lohn and Cawthon. $3,000.

ol the four men was set for the third week it. Septern'. The indictment returned jointly against Judge Ross and T. B. Carroll and his son.

contains twenty-two counts. The first thirteen counts charge T. B. Carroll with embezzle- (Continued on Page 3, Column 84 -r -f- yf Ss Two Score At Prison Against Former Assistant Superintendent. PROBE MUNDAY ALLEGATIONS $184 Said to Have Been Taken In 'Shake-Down' Process Missing.

Frankfort, (AP)-Testimony July 8 of about twenty guards and the same number of prisoners before "Attorney General Frank E. Daugherty has brought forth corroborated statements, under oath, tha C. E. Hopkins, former assistant superinten- 1 dent, received wearing ap parel, food and furniture from the State Reformatory. Hopkins resigned recently at the demand A Gov.

William' J. The Attorney General concluded his third day's hearings at the prison late today. Investigation is proceeding at the request of the Governor following' charges of Buford Mundav. nevrn prisoner, from Madison County, that $184 had been confiscated from him in a "shake-down" administered by Hopkins. Today's testimony developed that Munday had been placed In solitary confinement until the alleged "shakedown" was completed.

The i a customary procedure of removing money from prisoners and crediting It to them on the booka of Chief Clerk Fuller. Mr. Fuller teetl-fied, however, that the $184 did not appear on the hooks. Hopkins got the money, several others testified. Mr.

Hopkins sent out a letter to the guards, just before he resigned, urging that they resign with him, and prisoners who served as messengers, testified. James Turner, negro prisoner from Letcher County, serving a life terra for murder, said he had left as many as twenty pairs of men's and women's hunting, high and tow shoes on Mr. Hopkins' dctdt; that they always disappeared. but that the did not know where they went. Walnut furniture, several loads, were moved from the prison factory to Hopkins' house, the testimony de-velopde.

Cedar chests were said to hive been included. Sewing machine cabinets were moved to the office and disappeared, it was testified. Mrs. Oberchain Fears Jail Lover Central Figure In Sensational Murder Case Asks Po. lice Protection.

Los Angeles, July 8 OP) Madelynue Obencliniu, who figured prominently in the J. Helton Kennedy murder case here a few years ago, being given her freedom after several Juries had failed to agree on the guilt or innocence of herself and Arthur C. Burch, her co-defendant In the murder trials, appealed to the sheriff's office late to. day for protection against the bullets of a former admirer. Deputies quoted her as saying that Paul Roman, recently released from Folsom Prison, had been lurking about her home and making vague predictions of a forthcoming- shooting affray.

Roman wa a sensational -figure In Mrs. Olieiichain's second trial. At the time under a penitentiary sentence he told of letter that had passed between and the defendant while they both were the county Jail. Many of these missives, nffec donate lit tone, were read into the evidence. CjMtn completing his prison term several week ago.

Roman came to Loh Anselet. To acquaintances htfw he said the fact that he had turned evidence against Mrs. Oben-chain did not mean that 1 no longer cured for her. Two deputies re fnl to the Oben-chain tieighliorhood to wutch for the tn let. 7 I MINE PICKETS HELD IN CONTEMPT Moundsville.

W. V.i.. July OP) Kleven union miners were adjudged guilty of contempt of court by Circuit Judge I. D. Morris, today for picketing near the Parr's Run mine of the Mineral Slate Coal Company In vioUition of nn injunction.

Four of them were fined $100 and sentenced to twenty days in Jail. The other ven were released on their promise to refrusr. from picketing. Nine additional miners, arrested at the same time, were discharged after toeing sr-i-xed with a copy jf th3 ion. A Programmes on The Courier-Journal and Louuvilie Time radiophone fetation for today arid r'rtday and other station throughout the United Stetes will be found on-'paga DOES NOT FEAR RESULT Evolution Foe Speaks At Dinner.

As Guest of Lawyers In Prosecution. By RUSSELL. BRINE Y. Staff Correspondent of The Courier-Journal Dayton. July 8 Dayton, by now quite accustomed to the sensa tion of being the center of the world's controversy over wnetner Adam or an ape was the father of man.

has spent the day placidly waiting for Fri day. when John Thomas Scopes goes on trial in the'-Jthea County Court House. Asiae irom tne iact an arriving airplane tore up a. corn field, ruin ing part of a promising to day's chief excitement was provided by the arrival of Tom Scopes, a ma chinist from Paducah. Ky.

Tom Scopes, you see. is the father of the young -high school teacher whose class in Biology has made Dayton fa mous. The senior Scopes took tne spotlight away from William Jennings Bryan for the moment, anyway. Mr. Bryan, esieruay auupieu tne uayion fashion of going coatless, went the mode one better this morning and ap (Continued on Page 3.

Column 2.) LEAR GUILTY IN FAYETTE KILLING Convicted In Death of Partner In Alleged Moonshine Making Plot. The Courier-Journal l.exinsrton. Bureaa Lexington. July 8. A jury in the Fayette Circuit Court at 5 o'clock this afternoon found Edgar Lear Lexington youth, guilty of first degree manslaughter and fixed his punishment at twenty-one years In the penitentiary.

The jury deliberated an hour and forty minutes. An appeal probably will 'be taken. Lear was charged with the murder of Joseph Riles at 'the latter's home on Driscoll Street March 11. Riles was shot between the eyes and in the leg. He died almost instantly.

Lear surrendered himself at the Fayette County Jail the night of the shooting Riles and Lear were beneath the house when the shooting took place. Police found a moonshine still beside Riles body. Lear pleaded self-defense Star Witness III. The trial of Lear began yesterday and was halted by the collapse of Henry Reeves, brother-in-law of the slain man. star witness for the Commonwealth.

When the case was resumed today Reeves was called from St. Joseph's Hospital to testify. Among those who took the stand today was E. L. Elackburn, named in Lear's statement to the police as being in a partnership with him and Riles in the illicit manufacture of whisky in a dugout beneath 'Riles' home.

lllackburn has been in the work-house serving out a sentence for his part in the liquor ma kins. Both Drunk. Testimony. Lear claimed that Blackburn and Rileg both were drunk the night of the shooting and that Riles was a dangerous man when drinking. He said that following an argument.

Riles reached for a shotgun behind! him and when he did Lear shot him. Mrs. Riles took the stand with her baby in her arms and testified there was no shotgun in the dusout. She said she heard the shooting and started to the dugout when she met Lear, who pointed a pistol at her and told her to stand out of his way. When she asked him if he had killed- her husband, Lear replied that he had not.

hut that he had tried to kill him, Mrs. Riles said. Numerous character were called by the defense today who testified that Lear had a good reputation in his reighborhood and that Riles' reputation was bad, especially when drinking. In his address to the jury, Maurv ICemper. Comrnonwalth's Attorney, charged Lear with being doubly guilty because he ha.J killed a man whom he knew was drunk and called attention to the fact that Riles wa shot square between the eyes.

when 1-iear said he shot him as he turned his head- toward a shotgun behind him $300,000,000 In Tax Cut Is Seen Smoot Expects Surtaxes to Be Lowered 20 Pet. When Next Congress Meets. Washington. July 8 OP) A tax re duction of at least $300,000,000. and possibly $350,000,000 by the next Con gress was predicted today by Chair man Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee.

lie based his estimate on the indi cated surplus as shown by Treasury The cut In surtaxes he predicted uld be to 20 per cent, from the present rate of 40 per cent. In advance of a jelear Indication of what would be done with miscellaneous taxes be would not estimate the cm in normal income taxes. Should It be decided to utilize all present sources of revenue raising. Mr. Smoot looked for a normal tax reduction greater than would be possible if some of the sources were eliminated.

I Among: many other charges the pe tition asserts that James B. Brown president of the National Bank of Kentucky; Shelton M. Saufley. State 'Insurance Commissioner, ana A. Ernst of the firm of Ernst Ernst, "recently demanded Mr.

Duffin's res ignation. Mr. Duffin refused to com ment on this Wednesday night. Mr. Harris, who is an Indiana bank er and the owner of 4,325 shares of stock in the company, directed his uii against Mr.

Brown, chairman of the Inter-Southern's board of directors; James C. Stone, president of the Burley Tobacco Grawers Co-operative Association; Mr. Saufley, Ernst, and other members? the board of directors. In addition to his connection with the bank and insurance company. Mr.

Brown is a director In the Kentucky Jockey Club, the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky, the Louisville Nashville Railroad Company, the Cumberland Telephone ft Telegraph Company, the Louisville Gas Electric Company, and is editor and publisher of the Louisville Herald-Post. Postponed a Day. When the auit wae filed at 10 o'clock "Wednesday morning by El-wood Hamilton, of counsel for Mr. Harris. Judge Charles 1.

recessed court for one hour to give attorneys for the defendants time to reach the Federal Building. Later he postponed the hearing one day in order that these attorneys might have sufficient time to build up their plea that the case did not come within Judge Dawson's jurisdiction. John C. Doolan and Ben Sellg Wash- miinl for the defendants, said Mr. rn'iffin should be listed as a plaintiff h.

artinn. "With him. a resident of the City of Louisville, a plaintiff. the jurisdiction of the eaerai t-uun would be ousted." Mr. Doolan said.

iUf Washer, who is also named as a defendant declined to make any statement other than that their answer to the petition would be ready ednes The potion filed by 'Mr. HarrL, states that Mr. Saufley. on the bus of a "wrongful and unlawful examina tion and report" maae oj -Ernst is threatening to throw th company into the hands of a receiver Mr. Harris contends also: That the present board of directors, cumbering twenty-three members is illegally constituted and that'eUht of the members, including Mr.

Brown and Mr. Stcne. have no legal status as directors. That Mr. Saufley was without any Ieal right when, at the request o.

ihe board, he appointed Mr Ernst and five accountants in Mr. Ernst mplov as deputy insurance commissioners to examine the books of th company in conjunction with a committee of directors. 'that Mr. Ernst "wrongfullv ana eribneously' reported that the assets of the company were Impaired to the extent of $1.250.000. whereas.

on Page 3 SJ THE WEATHER ashing ton. July 8 OP) Fore- CSKenuy Fair Thursday and proiWbly Friday; mucn chaise in temperature. In liana Mostly OTerc Thursday and Friday, with probably low ers and thunderstorms: not much change in temperature. Tennessee Fair in west, local thundershowers in east portion Thursday nd prDably Friday; not much change in temperature. Comparative Temperatures Here 1924.

1923. Disappearance of Army Officer Mystifies War Department Heads Case of Copt. Robert M. Connell Among Strangest of Peace-Time Annals; Investigators Blanhed. Face 22 Bank Crash Charges Cashier and Son Held for Tennessee Failure; Bond Immediately Furnished; Trial September 1.

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Xo trace of the missing officer has been found, despite investigation conducted bv the Baltimore corps area headquarters, Lancaster police, and War DejMirtnieiit officials, since he was ordered transferred from Lancaster to Fort Hancock. N. more than three months ago. The War Department scene time ago received a report that Captain Connell had failed to appear at Fort Hancock, and investigation was be-SMTi. Officials beloved then that the Jackson, July S.

OP) Judge J. W. Ross of the Federal District Court for Western Tennessee. Thomas Ccrrol. and John Carroll, bankers.

ant W. timber tonight stood charged with implica- lion ir, irregularities which resulted in Lhe failurt of the People's Savings i Bank cf Jackson closed a month ago aftei the discovery of an apparent I hortt ir. ttt accounts aggregating more thar. 530O.OU0. Indictments returned todav by th Madisor, County grand jury Judge Rcsa with accessory to embezzlement, forgery and fraudulent breach of trust; Thomas B.

Carroll, former cashier of tne wrecked bank with embezzlement, forgery and breach of trust; John M. Carroll, his.