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I JterMt JrW MICHIGAN'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER INAL WEATHER EDITION air VO PRICE EBRUARY CHICAGO IS SHAKEN BY BLAST 30 TONS DYNAMITE a a a i 1500 IN PANIC tail BUILDING TRADE iSSLSffiSS ALLEGED TOTAL Buried Pal In rance TRAIN IS BIDM Helps AgainOver Here ROM TRACKS IN SWINDLE UNIONS CURBED GLASS BROKEN IS NOW $700000 BY COURT RULE I i on The WILLOW INDUSTRY HEAD URGES TARI to the $20 he Sales Tax Bonus Plan Defeated in Committee plane a tricky gust or take your a1 to any iid4 1 1 I his two para to diacntanRle It might open her the crashed him in DAUGHERTY LEADERS AGREE AT CONERENCE to the riday i 4)5 LANSING LIER KILLED IN AItL THREE CENTS vol NO O1KS D1NCE At AHaIha this afternoon Mat Inee 3 to 6:30 Adv ARMY MAJOR AMONG COMPLAINING PARTIES When Washburn stepped Speedy swung that It could only partly open The tragedy brought the List of Society Women Who Gave Broker Money Given Out by District Attorney $250000 LOSS TO PHONE LINES GIRL IS BADLY HURT IN RUSH OR EXIT Judge Halts Trial of Man Assault Charge for Pri vate Session JS Sfm little folks by Blanche 811 Boy Sront News Wha The tragedy brought the two days' aerial circus to an abrupt end The dead body will be suit to Lansing Consent Decree Entered in to Do Away With London eb 24 iring upon several members of the of Wales' parly while they worn mo toring from Delhi tn In the Punjab region of India is re ported by the Puttlala correspond ent of the London Times No one lilt and the character of the assailants Is not known AS POLICE RAID MOVIE THEATER off the of wind his parachute and the aero tall together ripping it bo struggle prac Dnny against the ground killing TuzzIph a full page of Inter eating new onea also answers to' hurt puzzles Seo If you rnn aolvo them Maa a Pkaaant hat with Mm Bod Thne Talca for MAN'S LEG SEVERED 2 CHILDREN INJURED re riniinTiwcn ac NEW DAY DAWNS Dublin eb Evacuation of British troops from Ireland will be resumed next week It was an nounced riday Two special trains under government order will leave Dublin early in the week with troops and military' stores ENGLAND TO RESUME 5 EVACUATION ERIN silled with "The Busy liia hftblta and disposition (tri Hcnuta Intereatlnif thlnii that Girl Hcouta are doing Too there la all lato newt of r) the world an exquisite page Rotogravure Pictorial 4 full pagea of the beat comic In nil newapaperdorn newa of the acreen and playa aoricty news and notes complete detailed re ports of all sporting events au tomobile news and pnges tor women in Los Angeles Police Think His Is Scheme Avoid Punishment Authorities in Los Angeles have abandoned efforts verify the story of Harry ields a prisoner in the county jail who claims he drove the slayers of William Desmond Taylor to his Hollywood bungalow believing it untrue Sher iff Coffin however is continuing his investigation all but convinced that ields is telling the truth when he says ho was in Los Angeles on the night of the murder Deputy Sheriff Blscalluz Loa Angeles declared late last night according to dispatches that he be lieved story a clever scheme to avoid sentence on the forgery charge to which he pleaded guilty hare recently "It appears to he said "that ields wants to be taken to Los Angeles Then he could get out of Jail on a writ and It would be impossible to take hint back to Detroit legally He would put up the defense he 'was taken from the state of Michigan against his will A clever scheme and that Is Label ield' Story Bunk Biscalluz and his co invcstlgathrs do not doubt admission that he has been in Los Angeles knows dope peddlers there or Is a drug addict himself They believe it pos sible he may have heard the true story of the murder but that he has not told it They have labelled as the story he does tell Sheriff Coffin points out in sup Contlnued on Page Three Column Mi Elly Ney Olp Gnbrllon Itnrh Orchestra Hall Monday eb 27 8:18 i Tickets at Adv ire On Party in India Sunday ree Press Subpenas were Issued today for the appearance of all the complain ants before the grand Jury on Mon day Lindsay was under indictment charged with a Mann act violation in 1919 but the indictment was dis missed Arguments Spiritual Earthly and of AU Varieties Pour In With Still Ahead Grandma was still a favorite by several hundred votes riday Re plies coming in every minute of the day irf answer to the plea for help sent out by the ree Press as to whether Mrs 'Johnson of Saginaw had a grandmother or not seem to favor grandma although those taking sides with Mrs John son in the assertion that she never had one because she wasn't born until 15 years after their deathf are causing grandma a little worry Banflelrt of armington gives some spiritual and earthly reasons to help settle the argu ment: 'In an earthly way Mrs John son nover had a grandmother but in a spiritual way she has a grandmother In other words If her father had died before she was born she would have had no earthly father but still she would have had a father In the spiritual way Therefore she never had a grandmother In the living but In the spiritual life she has one" Sny She Did Have One Arguments have been good but read this: "On reading your grandmother iluemlon you have had some Continued on I'uge Three Column Seven one i of our Want Ad Stations there's one in your neighbor 'hood PROPRIETOR DANCER UNDERGO QUESTIONING ALL N1VEHSITY BALL Monday eve eb 27 (Tha Graystone) Music hy Tlltt Orebe tra Tickets on sale at Adv Mlt'HAEL COLLINS ILL London eb 24 A dispatch to the Dress Association from Dublin reports that Michael Col lins Is In bed suffering front 1 Influenza The dispatch adds that Eamon Duggan minis i ter of homo affairs in the pro visional government cabinet accompanied Arthur Griffith to London CHECK ON SMI GGIING Kingston Jamaica eb 24 Strong measures are being tak en to prevent Chinese landing In Jamaica and subsequently being smuggled on vessels to the United States Chinese now must show J500 In cash before landing and also must be able 1 to read and write English PALAIS niNC MUSIC MAHVElOt Hear and onjoy Hickman tonight I'ARTICULAIl peoplo prefer PAL Ad WALTZ AND TWO STEP TONIGHT at "the beautiful Pier Adv1 SKATEHS HrLIGIITED at PALACH RINK Jeff Tonight every night I Whul Ta doing aio article Scouting Cleveland eb 24 Mrs Jessie1 Seaman 38 who admits being thee? wife Of eight mon whom the mar rled without obtaining a 1 dlvorce A was sentenced to from one to sevru years In the Marysville reformatory by Common Judge Walther' riday Mrs Seaman said she married thes men In Buffalo Nashville I'a Clio Cleveland "1 alone ant to blame and all th puntsnment 1 get is surely fn mA Snfimnn vtrkan vwiw nvivu UAH' tence was passed L'rtrnlt l're Bureau 32 Metropolitan Bank Bldit Wuihinict'm i Washington eb Baffled at every turn the nine members of the house ways and means com mittee Instructed to devise a scheme for financing a bonus for World war veterans riday 'suc cumbed threw up their hands In disgust and voted to report to the full committee Tuesday that It can not be done Tholr only hope was the sales tax In some form but the astounding opposition that thp agricultural hloc brought against this scheme blasted its way Into the sub committee and resulted In only two of Its ordinary champions standing against the seven others for enactment Blame opinion Six months ago the committee was overwhelmingly In favor of the sales tax and even month sgo Its leading members said that senti ment had not changed The reversal fa ascribed to the ponderous weight of public opinion which has borne down against any plan for getting more money to pay the bonus at thia time The sub confmlttee voted to rest until' Tuoaday because of ths Un nerving and exasperating toll of the last three weeks and at that time to Inform the full membership thaf ft cannot All the order If the whole committee supports It aa seems most probable the ways and meat) committee will report to the con fcreniio vt all Republican members Promoters of Show Sought Squad of 25 Men ind Doors ire Escapes Shut Charge Presentation of an alleged Inb moral motion picture in the Plaza theater 11G31 East Jefferson avenue was Interrupted early this morning by a squad of about 25 policemen who forced their way through doors' said to have been locked and an audience of 1500 men was thrown Into a near panic About 2500 feet of film said by police to have been indecent were confiscated The show It Is al leged had been arranged by a local fraternal organization Oriental Dancer Win There An Orlentl dancer had appeared on the stage following several vaudeville skits and the picture was being flashed on the screen when the raid began Several re serve policemen had been stationed at strategic points in the audience having been tipped off as to the al leged character of the production Doors were locked according to the raiders and the outside of the theater was dark Inside the house was packed every square foot of space bring occupied Ono of the reserve officers sta med In the audience pretended to fi int and made his way outside Other reserves climbed ladder to the box where the projection ma chine was being operated and stop ped the show Simultaneously policemen outside under command of Lieutenant Lester Potter theat rical censor of the police depart ment entered Panic An Police Enter Persons who had turned their "heads Inquiringly at the Interrup tion attempted to leave So crowd ed was the theater that It was vir tually Impossible The congestion was added to by the fact of all doors except those opened by police In their entrance were lockcd Po lice managed to quiet the scene be fore anyone was injured Jt was an hour before the cyowd dispersed 'Bobbie" Shaffer Oriental dancer who had stepped on the stage when the raid began was held for ques tioning but later released Ticket sellers at the theater and other at tendants also were questioned Solomon layer owner of the theater according to police arriv ed at the show house about 11 ni almost two hours before the raid began He parked his automo bile directly in front of a machine in which were Lieutenant Potter and his men Recognizing the oc cupants of the machine behind him as policemen he is alleged to have started to run for the door of the theater Police chased and over took him Huy say II was taken to the McClellan avenue station and held there until after the raid layer will be questioned further today in an effort to determine who the promoters of the show were The question of the license will be taken up today with Mayor Couzens Light in Nearby Town Are Put Out Cause Has Not Been Determined bt TTria' iMiiruirn rm tca Chicago eb A powder niag azine containing 30 tons of dyna mite in the United States quarry'' in the southwestern comer oi Chicago blew up tonight shaking the whole city Window in all part of Chicago were broken by the explosion which had mvillfted the entire citv A freight train on the Belt Line rail read near Argo was blown off the "track The audience of an Argo 'jj moving picture theater were thrown sj Into a' panic by the sound of tho blast Summit Hl nearby was In feu darkness Its electric light plant being put out ot commission Only One Hurt Alfred Kendle ooeratlnr a loading stone some distance from the magazine wa the only man Injured He was thrown 15 feet and his arm was fractured The roof of the sanitary district station a mile from tho iiuarry was caved In Thirty five men employed In the crushing plant near the quarry were not hurt although the building was usmagro oauiy Many laborers employed In the quarry live In cottages nearby Hi none of the occupants was hurl Ibeyond cuts from broken glass The power plant SfiP BIUO fiUUlH VI IIH' I partly wrecked and several of 10 men employed there were bruised The explosion occurred dn two 8 shed which constituted the maga zine at the bottom of the quarryDynamite a stored there to thawed out and dried for use Marines formerly of 1640 McClellan avenue consigned to Mrs Harriet Peebles Dundee Mich Corporal Eugene erguson Co '125thInfantry to rank I'" erguson Sault Ste Marie: Private Otto Xntlnned on Page Three Colnmn Eight Explosion Heard 50 Miles Away Argo I1L Theater Crowd in Panic ni'SMAN poitlation falls Washington eb 21 Reports of tremendous shrinkages In the population nt Russia since the World war appear to be borne out In official figures on the last Russian census prepared for the league of NutlonS received hero today 8 7 0 151 II 0 1 MICH Id AN AT UK 1) A Mrs Dorothy Atwood Admits She Lindsay $97000 Miss Adams Lost $40000 Special to Ths rse Press and Chicago Trlbuns New Jork eb The district office made public today full list of complainants against Alfred Lindsay South Nyack broker accused by women well known in New York society an ac tress and a West Point graduate now an army major ot stock swindles totalling more than $700 000 Among the dozen other complain ants besides Mrs William Duke wife of the "tobacco king" who as sert she lost 8325000 in cash and $50000 In Jewelry are Mrs lorence James a relative of the Harrimanfamily who says Lindsay inveigled her Into giving him $2450 In cash and $2500 Ip jewels for his stock venture Miss Catherine Adams who charges the broker with tak ing $40000 and Mrs Adelaide Rice of Riverdale who says Lind say got $25000 from her Mnny Other Victims Miss Charlotte Nilson an actress living at the Hotel Buckingham claims a loss of $20000 Mrs Arnold $30000 Mrs Margaret Bo gart $18000 Mrs Dorothy Atwood $97000 Mrs Helen Burnett $31 000 and Mr Joseph 1 Cornell Bayside I amount not given Major Redondo Sutton of the Hotel Ritz Carlton and Miss Helen Smith Stamford Conn are also named as losers by Lindsay's opera tions According to Assistant District Attorney Murphy the broker met most of his alleged victims through a Riverside drive physician Dr Arved Enlfnd Dr Enllnd said he had until re cently Jiad tho greatest faith In Lindsay Some of the broker's al leged dupes had only mild suspi cions of the safety of their Invest ments It appears until Mrs Duke brought her charges GROCERY ROBBED TWICE IN 8 DAYS Labor Chiefs Assent to Order Stopping Limit on Working Capacity Washington eb (By the Associated Press) Executive heads of the International Organi zation of Bricklayers Masons and Plasterers in conference riday with Attorney General Daugherty consented to the entry of a decree in the federal court at New York enjoining certain practices of the union which have been under In vestigation by the government The decree which la directed against a 'vicious practice" a series of wide abuses" and "vari ous discriminations" by the 100000 members of the organization In building 'operations throughout the eountry was described by Mr Daugherty as "a new bill of rights for the home builder theirent pay er the manufacturer and the busi ness man who has to build" Ila our Principles It lays down and adopts he said four basic principles: "One there is to he no limit to the productive capacity of the In dividual workman within the work ing day or any other jjiveti time there is to be no limit upon the right of the employer to pur chase his materials wherever and whenever and from whomever he may choose whether those mate rials be union made or otherwise there is to be no favorit ism shown by organized labor to wards employers or trade associa tions or contractors associations end no discriminations are to be Indulged In against the "Independent employer who may not be a mem ber of such an association "our the labor qrganl'zatioh Is not to be used or permit itself to be used by material men or con IractorsNir sub contractors as an Instrument for the collection cl debts or enforcement of the pay ment of alleged claims" culminating in the agreement to the filing of a consent decree Mr Daugherty ex plained was the result of several investigation by District Attorney William Hayward of New York In conjunction with the Jus tice Investigation building trades and tho housing sit uation Rendy to Proceed "The department" he said "would not' have hesitated for a moment to proceed by Indictment as it has done In a number of other cases In New York and Chicago and other large cities but It did not feel jus tified to pursue that course with labor leaders who have shown every desire to co operate with the gov ernment In checking the abuses of and who have in dulged in these 'agreements and ontlnued Page Two Column our Ripped Parachute Tangles Safety Device in olds Special to The ree Tress Arcadia la eb 21 our thousand spectators at the Carl strom field air carnival here riday saw Sergeant Robert Washburn Lansing Midi fall 3000 feet to his death when the tail of the aero plane from which he jumped ripped open hla first parachute and his second safety bag became entangled in the ruins of the first The throng could plainly see the unfortunate filer struggling in vain with tho cords or chutes endeavoring tho second so that and soften his fall He continued the tlcally until his Report to Tell House of Ina bility to Agree on inan cial Scheme Paul Eaton Visits Olean N1 for uneral of His Buddie of 3 Years Ago I'uul Eaton 27 East Willis avenuo and Leland Hugadorn ot Olean were "buddies" in the days three years 'ago when they served together on the battlefields of rance Those at home who daJlywcanned the lists of dead and injured one day noticed Hagadornk name in the long column But Eat on returned to his home safe and uninjured Eaton wa one of the foremost In tho Httlo group which followed Hagedorn's body to a resting place In rance He wa a lieutenant Hugadurn had been an aviator Yesterday Eaton started forOleon to again follow the flag draped cof fin to a grave This time the rest ing place will be among the scenes ot the aviator's youth where he had longed to be when In ranco The body arrived this week from rance Eaton has not forgotten others perhaps have Twelve bodies of soldier dead In cluding that of a former Detroiter arrived hero riday afternoon enroute to relatives In Michigan Ohio and Indiana The list follows: Private Edmund Everett Peebles Sixty seventh company ifth that It cannot carry out Its Instruc tions The disposition of tho bonus then will bo up to tho Republican mem bership uf the house whlvhi at least 8 to 1 for a bonus but at not such a ratio for bonus with In creased tuxes Instead of holding the conference next week as has been planned the housa leadership desires the subject to simmer a while If It dies then it will die quietly If It Is to revived from Its pres ent exhausted state then there will have been some Important changes not only In public opinion but In the judgment of the president and Continued on Three olumn 1'1 Thugs Repeat Call Get $20 on Second Visit Armed thugs held up two grocers early riday evening WilliamSchultz 7311 Plymouth avenue faced a gun and was robbed of his money for the third time in recent date Just 'last riday night the some man took $15 from his cash register he told police The thief this time accompanied by a second man returned czlrtrrt SO night and at the point ot a gun forced srcnuitz to nana over reported Elias Sklbo 3136 ourth avenue reported two men armed visited his grocery end robbed him of $36 Joe Shaw night clerk for the Burka hotel 347 Jefferson avenue was bold up and robbed of $1C while on duty at 1:20 a today A lone bandit held a revolver over Shaw while he removed the money from the cash drawer police were told Vhilo on his way home shortly after 1 Saturday John ta in a drug clerk 3701 Woodward avenue was held up and robbed of $2 bv tin armed thug on Cass near Michigan avenue he reported to tho poller Tho robber fled down an alley Judge Diny Marsh In munic ipal court riday halted the trail of Emil Grunwald 32 years old 4880 avenue charged with an attempted assault on Elizabeth Krause 17 years old 4823 Rohns avenue and requested a juror sit ting in the case a woman witness not yet called to testify and attor neys to confer with the court in private ollowing the conference It wa announced that Its nature was not to be made known until the trial is finished Conference Kept Secret Allan "Av Kent assistant prose cutor said he as well as the others had pledged themselves not to re veal the outcome ot the conference It was hinted that the private hearlntr was the result of a report' concerning conduct of some persons Interested in the case during the noon recess Judge Marsh said any action that might be taken as a result of al leecil misconduct would not come until the trial is over Grunwald Is charged with brutally striking Miss Krause with a wrench in the shrubbery in Pingree park where he Is alleged to have dragged her as she walked In the vicinity of her home the night of Decem ber 10 The young woman Identified the defendant as her assailant Character ItncKsc Testify Several character witnesses tes tified riday that Grunwald bore the best of reputation In his neigh borhood and among his acquain tances Christian Rosal 30481 Crane avenue carpenter testified Grunwald injured his hand slightly while working with him as a car penter Miss Krause bit her assail ant on the hand during her struggle to free herself Detectives say the wounds on Grunwald's hand resem bled teeth marks The jury visited the scene of the assault riday morning The case will be resumed Saturday Sleet Storm and Blizzard Put North State Service Out of Commission Lines of tho Michigan State Telephone company suffered dam age in excess of 3250000 in the sleet storm which swept northern Michigan early this week later turning Into a blizzard which prac tically has stopped rail transporta tion as well as wire communica tion Detroit officials riday night the storm was the worst the company ever has experienced from the standpoint of damage More than 2500 poles are down In the man's land" north and west of Ray City and mllo after mile ot wires have been put out ot business ac cording to report just beginning to filter through by mall With the wires heavily coated with ice and a wind still adding to the strain poles are still snapping hy the score and it is conservatively estimated more than 3000 will have to be re placed ive Exchanges Out In addition to this damage ex change equipment at Clare Glad win Reed City Big Rapids and Her sey is down Ice averaging two Inches in diam eter in some instance twice thickness has collected on wires Continued on Two Column Two REBELS ABE Bl'Al EN San Salvador eb Ad Vices received hero from Guat A emala say that 500 revolution A nries made an attack on the plaza Escnlntla In an attempt to capture the fort The gov 1' ernment forces repulsed the at tack and captured 120 prisoners and much material from the rebels POLICH PROTECT I'HIEST New York eb or the second time In three months police reserves tonight were rushed to tho parish house of the Church of Our Lady of Pity to disperse scores of Infuriated 1 men and women who bombarded tho dwelling adjoining tho church structure with bottles stones and brickbats in an nt tempt to nut Into the street" the Revather James Mehrlgl CLERK AD11IITS DEATH NOTES Hendnehen from Mtlrht Colds Lavative RROMO QVTN1NE Tablet! relieve the Headache by curing th Cold A tonic laxative and rrn stroyer The genuine bear the g'z TbVomV3c LATEST WIRE LASHES' SECRECY MARKS GRUWALDCASE Mrs' Church Hopes Boy Will Pass Away Before Execution 1 Special to Th ree Press from Ctilcam v' Tribune Chicago eb 24 "We pray every' night and morning that Harvey will die before March 3" said Mrs Et wln Church mother of the mur dercr 'or Bernard Daugherty and Carl Ausmus who Is tn hang on that date done our best by the bo'" said his father looks as If wo had reached the end 1 drew my last $100 out of the bank the other day to 'help pay the alienists' who examined him for th" sanity hear ing There's not much left between his mother and me and starvation 7 The need father did net much he had spent but It must have tS been considerable He savs promised Harvey an automobile before the boy killed two mm in uiuer to si'ai one nan pientv of money then" he said ''enough to buy several high priced ars Church who Is being forcibly fed to keep him alive until the day tf mo CAqtuvuzn 3 fiiiunill BUHIV ptlVM" zi 1 leal' Improvement but to nil ap W4 pearanct he Is already dead a i '4 1 alls Under Street Car While Pushing Automobile Three persons two of them chi' dren were in hospitals early this morning with probably fatal in juries sustained in street accidents They are: Alton unk 10 years old 7732 Russell street suffering from a broken arm and concussion of the brain William Chambers 15 years old Royal Oak in Highland ork general hospital with prob able fractures of the skull the right arm and left leg and Milton Taylcr 28 old 5638 Twenty third street with one leg fractured and tho other cut oft Just below tho knee unk was run down by an auto mobile at Clay avenue end Russell street Ho Is said by police to have stepped from behind an automobile parked at the curb directly in the path ot a machine driven by Crowe 2653 Northwestern avenue CrJwe was exonerated of nil blame The Chambers bey was struck hvn automobile at Woodward avenue end Twelvo nrllo rend Ha stepped to one aide of the intersection to avoid being hit by a northbound automobile and was struck by' according to spectators The driver of the mto mobile did not stop police claim Taylor was Injured in a street car accident at Grand River and Turner avenues Ho was pushing an auto mobile which hud stalled acrossGrand River avenue He slippedrd fell His lejjs were lying ariosi ibc street car trucks A westbound street car' ran' over him breaking one leg and severing the other Tho motormnn on the street car Milton Nowman 2756 McGraw avenue was riot held Be stopped tho car after tho accident Taylor Is In Receiv ing hospital In serious condition STORY IS J' (Photo rom Underwood Underwood) HEMII LANDHt Versailles eb Henri Landru Beard of was guillotined at 6:05 this morning Landru died gamely He walked the few paces from the jail dour to the guillotine unaided His head fell Into the basket as tho first rays ot dawn gleamed In the sky The bugjes ot the barracks and the Angelas bells in the churches sounded Landru's passing As far as Is known xnado no revelations concerning the crimes tor which he was put to death A New Page or Women in ree Press Admits She Wed Goes tn Prinn SJ Look for it in the Society Section It's to be a regular Sunday feature and will be devoted Household Arts and Allied Interests Miss Alice Hathaway a graduate of the Household Arts department of Columbia University and a teacher of several experience will write exclusively for this page and will answer all requests for suggestions and information in household matters the features tomorrow are: Tempting Dishes or the Lenten Miss Hatha way gives several suggestions for the Lenten menu also contributing an article Simple Aids tot Good Di Spring In Detroit Shops A breezy article full of in formation about the spring styles By Margaret Burke "Andre Tridon Noted contributes the first of a series of articles being entitled "Is Psycho analysis Your answered by Ruth Alden Miss Alden gives advice on personal matters to those who write to her asking it The Correct A column that has proved immense ly popular since it was started in The ree Press several months ago These and other interesting features in ree Press Wires Harding Senators Back American Valua tion flan If Selfridge president of Willow Industry Protective associa tion riday telegraphed President Harding and Senators Porter Mc Jme Wadsworth and Calder warning them the Industry faces ruin unless a tariff to protect American farmers and workmen la reported at this session The telegram reads: It Is your desire that the American Willow Industry shall be ruined by foreign competition it is Imperative that you urge the senate finance committee to report a tariff at this session based upon American valuation to protect American farmers and workmen from being cut out ot business" Lindsay was aided to success In the frauds according to the stories ot the complainants by creating about himself an nlr of great wealth He spoke of a certain mys terious members ot which met secretly to manipulate enormous deals on the money market Mrs Rice of Riverdale who 18 75 years old said Lindsay declined to take a $25000 check from her because he said the bankers would be suspicious of so large a check iroin a woman or ner age Miss Adams asserted one ot friends "cleaned up" $293000 on broker's market tips Subpenas were Issued today Alleged Indecent ilm Seized Performance at Plaza Interrupted by Police HAHt'S! RSTAHRANT Convenient to Hotels at Grand Cir cus Park 1542 Woodward ave Adv DETROIT CHEAMER BUTTER churned fresh dally At grocer It la thought that a box may have fallen from the drying table setting off the dynamite The explosion tore a hole in the ground about 200 feet wide and many feet deeo auarry Is nearly 100 feet deep and 1 4 IA thia am LtILllkv a iu litis rvcyu vi i iu i ii a on the surface safe from destruc rS HUU A OnlV a mlnutpji hr fnrn Iha plosion thr Missionary a through" uaasenirer train irom Laiiiorni in the Atchison Topek and Sant railroad had paaned within 500 fed ot tne quarry ino rails were part ly covered with crushed storm by the explosion shortly after the tram had passed ony girl was severely hurt during a panic in a theater at Argo whHi thi crnwil lloH nt fha aViinrt ihn detonation The theater was not damaged and other than the girlc wno was trampiea tnc spectatars escaped with bruises The night superintendent said tin Investigation would bo made to de termine the cause of the exnhiinn lieport from Waukegan HI showed that the explosion had been' felt 50 miles north of the quarry Windows were broken in the MH 1 "o' mm iHtmj utiriR nuverai miips iroTii the magazine and the police were: summoned by pedestrians who be lieved that burglars had blown the bank's safe MOTHERPRAYS OR SON TO DIE GREATEST AI DVNCEfi ARCADIA TOMGHT Arcadia entertains morn dancers then any place In America Why? TONIGHT Is the big night Specta tors Invjtcd Adm 20c Adv Choice Reading or the Grown Exquisite Delight for the Children Great Society Machine and How It An inside irtory of tho great society circle Writ ten by one who has known for years by Jack Lalt A story about a girl who left her home with seventy cents and made her way to stardom and silk stockings Told in Jack over popular and entertain ing style TnthcNcw 12 Page and Magazine Two full pages of Tlc Pictures are apparently printed In black ink Go over thorn with a brush or bit of cot ton flipped in clear wnter and wonderful rainbow colors develop Instantly No crayons or water colors required Thia is posltlve ly the biggest best and most amusing feature ever published for boys and glrla In any Detroit newspaper MAGIC PICTURES APPEAR EXCYA'SIVETY IX THE SUNDAY REE PRESS Dutch Dancing A mechanical CUT OUT TuY Little an right page booklet giving tho story of Little pga and the With drawings for boys und girls to color In (be a aerial story for buys and girla by Roy j' Shell Stories written by hoy tnd girl readers of the Sunday Get Your Want Ad in Before Noon Sunday ree Press Want Ads close up sharp At 12 Don't wait Write your ad now Take time to make it a Good Ad courteous efficient "will handle your advertise nient by calling AD TAKER 8 MAIN 9400 Remains Unbroken In Johnson Debate L' 1 War 1 Department Employe Confesses He Sent Threats To Capital Women Washington eb George Long a clerk in the bureau At in sular affairs of the war department since 1904 confessed riday ac cording to the police to the author ship of blackhand letters recently received by Henry White 'former ambassador to rance and by several women prominent In Wash ington society Tho letters de manded large sums of money and threatened death if the sums were not forthcoming Leng was taken into custody rl day after department of justice agent were said to have traced the letter to him by a peculiarity In the hand writing and by a water mark used In war department sta tionery He made his alleged con fession after more than two hours of questioning' at police headquar tern by Inspector Grant but then wasVrpbrmlttod to return to bls home where bls wife Is seriously 111 LoriK 40: years of age and has three children Olliers iteceive Threats No charge was pteferred against him as Inspector Grant said know we enn get him when we want him and we thought it better to let him go home for bls wife who is very III and his three children" i Besides Mr White according to the (police the threatening letters were received by Mrs Thomas Walsh widow of the late "copper of Colorado Mme Christian Hauge widow of the former Nor wegian minister and Airs Alary Scott Townsend According to police Long served as valet to Major General Clarcnco Edwards when he was chief of the insular bureau and had travelled around the world with his employer In his confession In spector Grant slated that Long said: "I know why I wrote the tter 1 may have gotten iny Idea from reading of the Gatti case ta recent blackband case) but I was Continued on Pnxe Three Column Two I 5 5 19 EIGHTEEN PAGES i I I I 11 1 7 'v A I 1 i aK EMM 9 Kc 3 AW PAUL EATON ill I A 1 I if 4' Al 5 ii si i I tram lit If 7 '3 II HiU £Wl 3 1 'll I 40 ki lii il TO Hi 'HI 4 4T 1 I 1 1 Is sig' ff AW a.

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