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OUR PHONE NUMBERS Business Office--20C News Office--205 Always At Your Service The Coshocton Tribune THE WEATHER I Cent-rally a i anil continued cool i and Thursday. FULL INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEWS REPOHT CMtCTLATION HOOKS OPEN TO VOL. XIV, NO. 231 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 23, 1923. THREE CENTS on Slayer's TrailWed.

Whitfield Escapes At Madison, Wis. After Police Seize Him COMPANION HELD Hnt Graduation Exercises of nui Coshocton High Will Be Held Thursday Evening MIRACULOUS WAULS FOLD A A STILL AND LIQUOR Chester Received Signed Turkish Concessions. Murderer of Cleveland Cop Fights His Way To Freedom MADISON, May 23 A posse of fifty police, reinforced by citizens, today was hunting for John L. Whitfield, wanted by Cleveland police on a charge of having murdered Patrolman Dennis Griffin, following his capture and sensational escape here last night. A young woman giving her name as Marie Price who was taken with "Whitfield said she was his wife, but police are investigating.

She is being held at police headquarters. The couple entered a restaurant in the university district last night. Grace E. church will be the place where the commencement i exercises of the graduating class of the Coshocton high school will be held, Thursday night of this I week. One hundred ami thirty! four students will be graduated I This will be the first time the commencement program has been i presented iu Grace M.

E. church. i is necessary to hold the program elsewhere owing to the limited number of in the high school auditorium. The class address will be delivered by Dr. 13 II.

Bode, professor In education, Ohio State University, Columbus. The Boys' Glee club and the Girls' Glee club will furnish the music for this occasion. Miss Virginia Shaw, will dnect the music. The invocation he offered by the Rev. Joseph Speer, pastor of the Presbyterian church and the benediction by the Rev.

Dr. W. B. Winters, pastor of Grace JU. E.

church. I Miss Ada Firman is the saluta- Itorian and Miss Clara Green is valedictorian. The honor pupua CContlnuea on Paat Five) I I A I May 23. -Police searched the homo of Dora Basban, bcro for hours ostcrday In nil to locate a i which they believed in the house. Then as they were about to leave the place one of the officers accidentally pulled a rope which a a to a pulley in the cellar.

Suddenly the wall started to move, the cell- ing moved, both folded up and revealed a 100 gallon still, 25 gallons of liquor and barrels of 7 a 8 St a nd New Baldwin Government Encounters BTe church Rough Seas with Open Opposition of Liberals, J-aborites and Others Acclaimed Italy's Most Beautiful Woman bly Rejects Resolution On Evolution DEBATE RAGES TO LOCATE I Arthur Chester, son of Admiral Colby Chester. U. S. retired, has returned from Angora, Turkey, I where he received from officials of i I the new Turkish Government the The proprietor said he recognized, gigned concessions granted to his the man as Whitfield and stepped lcvolving Sname nse oil a to a neighboring telephone to noMy to poliw. The couple were taken bulw several modem resistance from either the jnftn or woman, but the man denied -was Whitfield.

TVo policemen escorted him to the street, where suddenly turned, knocked down both of his captors and fled in front of a street car, running down the Btreet to safety in a rain of Reserves from the Madison called and a man hunt started immediately. Early today the eu- tire city was being combed. In the early hours before dawn police re- ported having fired at a man that believed to be "Whitfield, who they said, was trying to steal an automobile. A trail of Dlood was said to have been, found near the spot. Police at headquarters declared the woman taken in the capture (Continued on Page NO DIFFERENCE PARTHOLICIES Victory For Either Is Equivalent To Same World Entanglement State Legion Head Praises Organization and its Aims Bettman Declares Sun Never Sets On The Legion Commoner Undaunted By Reversal Thinks Success Awaits NO SECT, CREED L'FOLLETTE SAYS Concealed Big Bertha i An Impossibility In Future Wars MADISON, May 23.

--In an attack upon the world court Sen- A large audience, composed ex-service men, Rotarians and their friends heard the address delivered in Eagle hall Tuesday evening by Gilbert Bettman, state commander of the American Legiou. was scheduled to ad- tl.c Rotary Club Tuesday noon, but arrived" here tA late, and tht Koianans were invited to hear his evening address, which was delivered under auspices of Ralph Courtright Post 01 the American Legion. of the state highway de-' prtineuf. who accompanied Belt-' man to this city, spoke on, "The Necessity an Organization like the Legion." His talk was interest-1 INDIANAPOLIS, May 2T The choice between Moses and Darwin has been made und ih-3 re suit is more of a victory for the latter. William Jennings Bryan, win knows not defeat or else knows nothing else but--failed to get tiie Presbyterian general assembly meeting here to go all the way with him in his fight against the brute hypothesis of the origin of the species, but today refused to admit defeat.

"All great causes a progress thru defeat--there is no other road to victory," he said. A resolution adopted by the sembly declared. Presbyteries or synods of church will withhold approval of schools which teach a materialist evolutionary philosophy of life or disregards or attempts to discredit the Christian faith. Bryan's resolution rejected by a two to one vote, was more direct I and subject to no evasion or misinterpretation. It declared no part (Continued on Page Five) ator Robert M.

LaFoileUo, in the ng and concerned the Legion, current issue of his publication, George Mitchell gave a short and LaFollette's Magazine, tv.0 Harding "has done more to TO URGE REALTORS! TO BACK TAX LAW! Curzon to Remain As Foreign Secretary-Few Changes to Be Made in Cabinet-Liberal Press Assails New Premier Bitterly Envious of New York's dor laiitlin I bat Man hu G'oiualeH, the "perfect 34," Is tbo A Venus. Rome. Italy, has pronounced Miss Elena Taddicl "Venus of Holy City. 1 adjudging her moat perfectly formed and beautful woman in all Italy. IS WED, BY HIS FAMILY Heart trouble caused the sudden death Wednesday morning of Jacob Schlarb.

aged 72, 111 south Tenth- st. He was found dead in his bed SOUND MEASURED I WASHINGTON, May 23. den artillery 'ill have no terror for the United States army in the "next war." Scientists of the bureau of stand- declares interesting talk. He pledged his Mayor AV. S.

Tish was in re- administration support to the Legion. He stated ceipt of a telegram Wednesday promote i- jthat he was impressed with a i that the Lima Realtors' pruvone war than can ever be off- work of the Legion as a whole. association was opposed refer- set by all the arbitration courts' L. C. Glover, president of the to kill the Taft bill, recent- and other similar devices that can Rotary Club and Seth Snyder were ly passed by the legislature, and be devised." two speakers last evening.

Their asking him to get an expression ot By its pleading of the werfe similar to the one sentiment of local realtors. Standard Oil and Sinclair conces- given by Mr. Mitchell. i The Taft bill repeals the Hmitn sions in Mosul, Sakhalien and else-, At this meeting the final a per cent law, and fixes the where, he said, the administration; rangements were announced for tax limit in municipalities at 17 has "incited war." Ralph Courtright's membership 'mills instead of 10 mills, it was PLAN TO BEAUTIFY UP LAST NIGHT TURKISH SOLDIERS STEAL INTO A I I I I A ATTIRE A cunningly conceived plan, the i since tne United States entered the by members of the family 6 World war. Devices to detect hid- o'clock.

de guns used by the French and He was in unusual good health British have been improved to a the immediate family said Wednesday. He was working yesterday and had planned to work today. Mr. Schlarb was a carpenter by trade. He was born in Holmes-co on ards announced today they have de-' artlcle stated "contemplates a po- veloped a gun "locater" functioning i mical am in which the with such accuracy that within a i Democrats will support the league few moments after the first enemy of natlons and the administration salvo return fire from American Republicans will-battle bravely for long rifles may be directed to si-; the world court --in other words for lence the concealed battery- the league of nations in a disguised The work has been in progress and ii ute form.

(Continues on Eight) Under this plan the article states, "whether the pro-league Democrats or the pro-court Repub- licans "win. the result will be the high degree of efficiency, according sarne United States will be WILL BE PRINTED explained by local attorneys. i The telegram which Tish re- celved was from C. A. Bingham, president of the Ohio Municipal League- It read as follows: "The! Lima Realtors' association has unanimously refused to aid in an attempt to launch a to kill the Taft law.

Will you gel your realtor's association to vote against starting a Committee To Visit Cemetery Tuesday; Proposals Heard Plans for the i Jak Ridge cemetery (llHriis at an open meeting held in referendum': Carnegie Library i i i i Tin- to the announcement. Dr. E. A. Eckhart, in charge the general study of acoustics, de-' dared the American gun locater is hopelessly entangled in the Euro-, A novel address on the subject This is the cities' last Mand and and a commit IP- the Taft law must be saved if we lnt( (J to -onsldr are to operate real municipalities in Ohio." was of of sc-d i l.iy CONSTANT! NOPLB.

May thou.saml Turks in civilian a i have, 1 pournd Into Thrnco i i the last week find aro now wearing: uniforms, uccording to roport received bere today. Tbf i a i on Turco- frontier in extremely grave. The allies are a i prwau- tions to i i i i order due to i i a Turkish opinion. Allied troops Karltza i i be recalled in the event of an i i i of Turco-Gruek fight- I February 17. 1851.

After residing a practically infalible guard against extensive operations of concealed batteries. The arrangement, he explained, I has a switchboard similar to tele-i phone equipment with automatic listening posts which in warfare: would be distributed at various' points along the terrain Jo be pro-' tected. By the difference in i I (Continued on t-xgf Five) I in that county for several years he moved to a farm near Chili, where he lived until he married Elizabeth Thomas, many years After the marriage he and his wifi 1 moved to near Baltic. Tor the past two years he had made his home in this city. He a member of the local St.

John's church. He attended Sunday school regularly for tiie, past several years. He was a faith-1 ful and consistent member of a church. He is survived by eight children: Mrs. Georce Mrs.

Ralph Blackburn and Alonzo Rchiarb. ail Canton: Laura Schlarb. of yirz William Mr-, William Ross and Mis? Emma all of thf lat" and Alvin SchlarK of Baltic. and the JollowlnE brothers and sis- survive. bosirJ" srrandfhildrn: Mrs Millar.

K-ni: WiUiam Wnlford. Kil'ir; Mrs Kathryn of near City THREE GRADUATED I The Taft law was passed over governor's veto April 28. Un- regU ar referendum is passed, the law will become effective July 28. As there is no realtor's association Coshocton, it Is doubtful if anv concerted action against the referendum will be taken here. Wednesday noon at the Town and Country Club by Dr.

G. Smailos. So interesting and so well predated was the address, the KI- wanians decided to have it printed in pamphlet form and distributed among the club members and their friends. Among the many interesting statements made by Dr. Smalles in his address were those that, thp WILL ERTERTJUI The Adams Mills school hall was a Wisconsin is at the present filled Tuesday night with patrons advocating unsexlng of who heard fourteenth annual and imbeciles so that 'commencement exercises of the they cannot perpetuate their kind: three graduates of that school.

a 4f, percent of all girls hailod I The program was splendid and 0 uv courts reform and i every patron seemed to enjoy .1. nat only 2 pfr cent of the boys The for the occasion was reform 'hat 10 out of 51 of Ameri- furniphed by the Knights of ra's famous aona of 'Pythias orchestra of Toshorton. The was by Clyde H. Hooloy. of thp Ohio State of STORES TO CLOSE HALE DAY A WEEK HOT TIIE every retail storo in r.lTy will -lose on Thursday a arcordinj; io array afternoons during and persons In Unit- Aiipist it waA announced ran road nor day bv an official of the Business ing monr-y for a purposf The committee roniposfil ot Clarence K.

Clemens. Fnn.k Mulligan, Mrs Thomas house, Sr, Victor Johnson and A. McConnell. The committee i visit the -m etery Tuesday afternoon. at two to sc( a i i ments moHi ni-mlr-ii.

awl (o fer i in the cemetery. Th- mpeting Tuesday was called by a jp'- appointed K. pn 1 dent of council, to arraiiK" for ill" on Page Eight) pnGrsiisey HIS PREDICTION OP Girls Under 21 Will Be Denied License to Wed After July 18 State Law Will Require Parents' Consent riirl.s. if jou i-ipoft lo bf; mar- wlihotit parents' (Onsent. von had tin tii.

of IS. a i jou i t'ro- L.ONDOX. May 23--All the members of the old Bonar Law cabinet resigned today to Stanley Baldwin, the new Brltiith premier. Premier Baldwin took the resignations under consideration. It is understood that practically all members of the old ministry will retained.

The n-signations con-' i stltutod s. formality that always takes place when a prime minister i Official announcement was made a Tory headquarters this afternoon that Lord will remain an foreign secretary. Premier a i conferred during the afternoon with Lord Robert Cecil, former under foreign secretary, indicating that Lord Robert might Iwve a place in the new gov- i ernment. It Is understood that Sir Robert Home, who has been offered the post of chancellor of the exchequer is conferring with Austin Chamberlain before accepting. Both were members of thf Lloyd George coalition cabinet Baldwin is popular with the public, bocntise.

like many American (Continued on Page Five) VETSTO THE PARADE EJiTE FRIDAY i Final arrangements have been mude for the big; ex-service men's parade to staged on Friday evening at when the Disabled American World Veterans here for their convention. convention is Friday and Sat- of this week. All ex-service 'men participating in the big review will nibet at tliv! A i a Legion rooms, prior to ,5:30 o'clock. The A. will form foi parade on the west of tiie comt square on norl.i i Hm head of the '-cl- i on Main-st.

Clvdo i vice-commander of the American Logion ill havp full charge of parade, acting as marshal. parade will niovo at 5.30 ni. proceeding east to and south on a a to Brethren rhtirch the D. A. will be a i with banquet given the Klwanls and- Rotary clubs combini'd.

Tin- Disabled Veteran's will he in rh.irgp of Walter Sher- TPIS, commander of the local tor. Commander S. Cardwell of Ralph CourtriK'nt I'nst will chargr- of the lygionairpR. The m'-ti and will have businp'-- places and v. ith American flaK" on days of convention, the isitors After the hanqin-i at the B.

th" P. A. Vv. will t.ikyn iK" Park in aulos when- in enj)v ilancinc th" our- nf jxirK mandgpr. P.

C. to ri 4 of 'l-nt'-- Th" Cosbocton-co romona win r. th" Knox-ro pomona at Tiverton. 2. in a rryinc out iho plan of ox- -r and John SrnlarK of changing Pomona and pro- prams, -shith wi? started last university.

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