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INAL WEATHER EDITION Cloudv tubes cents AUTO TO THUGS a 4 1 1 LATEST WIRE LASHES At 4 1 ii (Wife lAWliazo i of of SOSPECTS HELD INCREASE SEEN IN TAYLOR CASE IN 1NT0XICA1W 24 yearg old run over by on yr am nld 3241 is alleged to arms lay in ATHER CHILD ARE SNATCHED RO DEATH BESIEGED HALL WINS IN COURT DODGE REUSED ACCIDENT TOLL NEW TRIAL I TOT ALS 4 DEAD BACK IN PRISON THREE INJURED Spend a Pleasant Sunday Morning With These eatures LINKS DETROIT I CHICAGO BY AIR BABY HAD BEEN TAKEN ROM ARMS SAVED AS GAS UMES ILL THEIR BEDROOM Girl' 8 Year Old Ran in ront of Auto Man Also Struck by Machine 3 Mb Revive at Hopital Long Enough to Tell Police Story of Assault ANOTHER IS KILLED AT ACTORY inds Perils InErin Mostly Myths Edward Stinson Open New Line Here With our Hour light Man and 5 Year Old Daughter Rescued rom Gas illed Bedroom Tessmer and Law deputy sheriffs rl nlege had worn on and the watchful deputies had begun to try a difterent Appealing they were plane flight from Chicago to JJsfrotl made Priddy by Eddie Stinson hold er of the world's aeroplane endur ance record Stinson carried five passengers with him Due to a stop page tit the gasoline line a forced landing had to be made two miles from Woodward avenue near the Seven tnile road Stinson is to con tinue Saturday to the government hangar at Selfridge field i Eddyville Ky March Monta Guess who la serving life sentence In the state penitentiary here on a manslaughter charge Thursday stabbed to death Clifford Quinlan a fellow convict during a fight as the two men were entering the machine shop Guess used a knife he had made himself Guess killed a guard at a reform school in Louisville In 1915 and OtiiMian wnn sfirvififf a tBnvrr term for hfs participation in a hold up of a restaurant tn Louisville la IMO when three men were shot Starts Second Night Up as Lawyer ail to Ob tain Hi reedom VOL 87 NO 172 Chicago March The Italian Vendetta which followed the mur der several months ago of Paul Labrlola municipal court malllft and Nineteenth ward leader Thurs day night claimed its twenty sev erth victim He was Paul Notts saloon owner Ho Identified An gelo Geona recently acquitted after a murder trial as the man who shot him police said OLD STYLE PARTY TONIGHT Refined dancing at Pier Ballxoom noon the jury asked to have a por tion of the testimony read Judge Sidney Reeve directed that this tlUIHL 1 I The foreman said at least one of I the jurors was in doubt concerning th testimony of a prosecution wit ness regarding automobile lights he said he saw In Beverly Glen on the night Kennedy was slain The un certainty the foreman said was whether the lights came from the ear In which Mrs Obenchaln and Kennedy drove to the glen or from one which the state charges was left In a side road by Arthur Burch co defendant Burch the prosecution alleged hid In a clump of bushes waiting for Mrs Oben chaln and Kennedy DETROIT CREAMERY BUTTER fresh dally At grocers Adv Did You ee Wesley Dnrryt All the girls and boys will be In terested In the personaj Interview with him by Bernice Stewart on page 3 of the Girls and Boys Mag aslne ree Press A Rd of bv in circuit writ of habeas corpus LOSES MONEY Legal Defeats Calmly Accept ed by Millionaire Speeder Day Spent in Court John Duval Dodge appealed to the highest court of Michigan late riday in an effort to avoid serv ing the five day prison term im posed on him for speeding and failed The state supreme court decided that the youthful million aire was Justly sentenced to prison and must serve the term A peti tion for a new trial was denied Dodge was back In the house of correction riday night various et forts to obtain his freedom having been fruitless His attorneys prac tically have given up hope of se curing relcare from the sentence Imposed Thursday by Judge Bart Ilett who In addition to giving a prison sentence also fined the young millionaire 3100 and revoked his diivepa license for one year He will set to work In' the house correction at some form of man ti labor Saturday unless a last esperate attempt to obtain another writ of habeas corpus proves fruit ful This last attempt is io be made Saturday morning Law of 1910 Cited The petition filed In the supreme court asked that Judge Bartlett be required to show cause why he should not grant Dodge a new trial and release him under bond pend ing that trial It cited an act of 119 which provides that a person convicted before a court without 1 a jury shall be entitled to a new NOW UNCONSCIOUS IS EXPECTED TO DIE Providence I March Textile strike sympathizers in Pawtucket adopted a new weapon riday when the streets leading to the Jake Dunnell plant of the Unit ed States inishing company In that city was strewn with tacks Work ers from East Providence and other places have been conveyed to the plant daily In trucks and touring cars When the cars struck the tack entanglements riday the tire casualties were heavy The tacks had been sowed on the street dur ing the night "New Spring Co Two foil pages of fashion drawings by American artists Illustrating In colors afternoon street and eve ning dresses that aro the "last In spring styles for women "The Ancient Supremacy of Will It return? Will man eventually become the orna mental sex which woman Is now? Read what Marjorie Wilson has to say on this subject "Hickey the Hickey the Irish humorist has been studying Investigations and con ferences Let him tell you soma of the Interesting facts he has discovered "Things Yon Ought to AU about first aid operations the disadvantages of an upright pos ture the lack of fear In animals digging worms by electricity A page for women devoted exclusively to household problems and their so lution with helpful suggestions and advice or Boys and Girls Maglo Merely touch plain black and white prints of beautiful drawings with WATER and wonderful colors devolop No crayons or water colors required TWO ULL PAGES EVERY WEEK IN THE BUNDAY REE PRESS "Uncle Adventures" Il lustrations and a story telling of nn adventure "Uncle had when he went to pick spring flowers for "Nurse "Crowley Grump" An Interesting DANCING BEAR CUTOUT TOT in bright color Other A full page of puzzles stories tor boys and girls an olght pago booklet with Illus trations to color as you wish: Bed Time Tales for the little folks Michigan Bird Life Use ful Articles a Boy Can Make: The Sunbeam Club Scout News These and other good features all the news from rverjwhcre: for esurybodyl four full page of the very best of comics complete detailed reports of all sporting rvrnts society pages and nntorno bile news In Sunday ree Press "The Daughter of Pontius rilate" a Lenten drama will be presented in Holy Redeemer hall Dlx: and Junction avenues Sunday evening March 2d VThree additional presen tations will be given during the following two weeks The play has been produced In the Mission church Boston for 20 consecutive years drawing larger crowds each year Elaborate stage settings and electricar equipment has been In stalled WILL SEEK ANOTHER HABEAS CORPUS WRIT Charles Witt Jr of Cleveland and his daughter Gladys 5 years old who were rescued from a' gas filled bedroom in Jefferson avenue ri day night by detectives 7 COLLINS 8 years avenue struck John erguson Noted Solid tor Passe Away John erguson prominent Ds trolt advertising salesman and old est member on the staff of the rederick Matthews company publishers of advertising matter for the dairy Industry died suddenly on a Grand Trunk train at King? ton Junction riday nignt Mr erguson was 31 years old Ills wife died a tew weeks ago and he has since made jils home with a pi i a a nn Third flVfinllfi erguson left Detroit five days ago to make a trip through Cana dian territory that was to have ter minated at Montreal While arrangements tor the fu neral have not yit been completed It Is expected tne oouy win wu to old home In ort Huron for burial SLAYER KILLS ELLOW CONVICT IN PRISON J1 Clue Leads to Arrest of Two in Mexico After Weeks of Search Loa Angele Cal March A former Canadian noldler wanted in Lo Angelen in con nection with the murder of William Dewmond Taylor film director here ebruary I vol tintnrily submitted to arrest in Mexicali Lower California and tonight is on the way back to this city In custody of two local detectives according to a spe cial dispatch from Calexico Cnl io the los Angeles Times The former soldier whose name according to the Times conrcs pondent was not made public by the officers admitted that during the world war he was In the company with Taylor ns a captain in the British forces commanded in rance It wm said Special to The ree Brees and Chicago Tribune Los Angeles March 17 The ar rests of two men suspected as the slayers of William Desmond Tay lor motion picture director were reported to have been made today in Mexico The trailing of two suspects was begun a week ago by working quietly under the' personal direction of District Attorney Ie Woolwine have searched all of the Mexican border towns opposite the California and Arizona boundaries Clew our Week Old The first clew pointing to the possibility that the hunted men had rnnnlrAd tn miirdA Tavlo WAS Ufl covered four weeks ago Nothing dould bo done without corroboration Partial nrrnhnra Ion was received by District Attorney Woolwine about a week ago in a letter from England which was dlrectcly linked with the first clew Hatred of an enlisted man for his commanding officer who had severely punished him during serv ice in the British army overseas provides the motive Points Out Accuser Taylor was a lieutenant in the I Canadian forces One evening shortly after the armistice he was dining In a London hotel with a fel low otneer ins comimiuun name Is withheld suddenly Taylor became greatly agitated and point ed out a man who was crossing the dlnints room and remarked "there goes a chap who says he Is going to kill mo It It takes him a lifetime to get me" Taylor told hl friend that the man was a sergeant In his company lha he bad reported him had him court martialed apd imprisoned tor a short time forthe theft ot com pany property Ing from the other direction filled with green muffled youths slows to a slop at your approach You surmise they are a detachment Ml A soldiers who have halted to size you up the better and perhaps to commandeer your mount Getting about the island In a car you see many souvenirs of the It Is only a matter of weeks that the roads have been made passable end some ot them still aro in wretched condition Be fore that there were great gashes known as trenches in almost every bridge and culvert and at other convenient places During the fighting these were the cars tell Into them and their occupants were riddle! with rifle and machine gun fire from Republican forces concealed nearby Often along the winding you pass the shells ot stone houses burned by one side or the other Continued oa Page Threfc Cakuno Three I IRM t'HANGEg H4ND8 New York March 17 The Air Reduction Company Inc today announced Its purchase of all the assets including patents and trade marks of the Davis Bournonvllle company pioneer in the development of oxyacetyleno apparatus The manufacturing and sales or ganization of the Davls Bour nonvlllo company located In Id leading cities of the United States and Canada will be amalgamated with those ot the Air Reduction company ORM SUGAR IRM New Y'ork March 17 Hans for the organization of a new corporation to acquire control of the sugar estates owned by the Cuban Dominican Sugar Development Syndicate to be known as the Cuban Sugar company were announced today The syndicate was formed almost two years ego with sub scriptions of 3309490(10 Of which S25000000 has already been paid In SATS PREMIEH WONT QUIT London March (By the Associated Press) A statement apparently Inspired was Issued tonight denying that Premier Lloyd George Intends to teslgn a fortnight hence It adds that ho Intends to stay at Crlccleth Wales another 10 days or fort night and has definitely de cided to go to Genoa and states further that on his return to London he "will seriously tackle the home political situation" ALTER INSURANCE LAWS Albany March The assembly today passed a bill designed to permit life Insur ance companies to invest up to 10 per cent of their assets In real estate and to build apart ment houses The Metropolitan Life Insurance company Is con templating Investing 3100000 000 In a model housing acherpe TOWNES DIES New York March 17 Word reached here tonight of the death at Palm Beach la last night of Wlllla Glover Townes pioneer In the eastern coal ex A port movement And former chairman of the finance com mittee ot the national Demo cratic executive committee He was president of the United State Coal and Coke corpora tion with offices here Mr Townes was 51 years old HALL PLATER KILLED Richmond Va March A fractured akull suffred when he was struck with a batted ball during baseball practice re sulted In the death here today of A Holderby a student nt Hampton Sidney college Hol derby was a candidate for tthe freshmen teams 4 7 rlf DT MORROW KRUM Aviation Editor of the Chicago Trlbuno The Initial trip of the Edvard Stinson air line which Is to oper ate between Chicago anti Detroit came to a sudden end in an exceed ingly damp and muddy emergency landing near the Seven mlle road riday afternoon four hours after the ship loft Chicago The gasoline in the main tank was exhausted and the emergency container re fused to oncrate ive passengers who made tha trip in the cabin of the all metal monoplane stepped to the ground end were In the heart of Detroit four hours and 30 minutes after they left the metropolis The fast est train makes the trip In seven hours th general trains In It wind Makes light Jumpy 1 i Aboard the ship were 8 Vln Theodore Thomas Arthur Thextbn Charles Hurbick and that Chicago aviation editor Stinson holder of the world's air plane endurance record was the pilot The monoplane took off from Ashburn field In Chicago at 10:40 a in the face of a 35 mlle an hour wind The latter besides re I tardlng the progress of the craft made its flight bumpy One of the passengers a youth wYth bright red cheeks and a tre mendous Interest In everything that went on saw Gary Ind slip un derneath the fuselage and sudden ly to the surprise of every man aboard dropptd to sleep He slouched against the corner of the 1 cabin apparently unconscious of 1 the progress of the airplane The 1 bumping continued The plane drop ped its left wing a bit then Its I light It reared a bit and made a short dive 1 Over Niles Mich the youth jump ed from his seat A roar of laugh ter greeted his action The win flows of flv passenger fuselage were closed tlaht The boy sank back The colon had left his cheeks Gone One Good edora Now It may be remarked that one of the other passengers had pur chased a new fedora but yester day It was as beautiful as It was 11L Ta arlnaa Wfig likft Unto rz bUcknlntr advertisement It was quite a remarkable hat Any "gents' outfitter" would have been proud to show It In his window The man will not take that hat back to Chicago with him He lost it somehow over Jackson Mich Ar riving at that point the youth thought he might find solace by Continued on Psge Three Column blx LENTEN DRAMA WILL BE STAGED MARCH 26 3 Suspect Arretted in Res taurant Had Revolver Ac cording to Detective Three suspects were arrest i ed in connection with the rob bery and assault on Upmal at I 3:30 this morning They were taken in a resuu rant at 617 Michigan avenue where they are said to have been flourishing revolvers A blood stained revolver was found in the rear ot the res taurant An automobile Dark 1 ed outside was said by police to be aimilar to the one stolen from Upmal They were tak am Unfften ITnmil at Daeaimniy I as vwl 4 I a mi 1 ollowing is a story of an arro hospital but the victim was tn 1 JJ As I AV too senous a condition to identify them Left for dead by two gunmen who brutally beat him after rob bing him ot 315 and his automobile! John Upmal 2776 Putnam avenue a jitney driver lay unconscious near Jov road and Grand River aveniio for an hour early this morn ing He finally was discovered and rushed to Receiving hospital His skull Is believed to be fracturcdt and scant hone is given for his life Upmal wa revived at the hos pitai long enouvn io leu ponce ox the aseault He uld two men boarded hie machine at Grand River avenue and AVeat Grand boulevard: They thruet revolvers against his' I back and ordered him to drive Joy one and 2 GUNMEN BEAT ROB VICTIM LEAVE HIM TO DIE JITHE? DRIVER Davis Learns Too That Autos Enjoy Monopoly in Ireland BY ORREST DAVIS ree Press Staff Correspondent ARTICLE XII On Tour in Ireland eb Motor traveling in Ireland these days is hazardous only in anticipation It is always in the next county that members of the I A are cars or that desperadoes are waylaying those who take to the road When you reach the next county town you learn that while there may have been a few automobiles stolen there the practice has stopped admonishes the garage man wagging his head eiynestly had better look sharp in after them there all So on in and after a week of it you get so you push on with a grin at the identic note in the warnings As a matter of fact a consldcr able number ot machines have oeen appropriated in one way and an other during the last few weeks Cars belonging to British officers and the army and to loyalists have been the chief prey In Colomel County Tipperary 32 motors were seized because their owners flailed to pay levies assessed by the re publicans But recently that was stopped by order of the brigade commandant and the cars thus held were to have been returned to their owners Here and there driver have been stopped At the point of rifles and compelled to give up their machines to bands who have driven off leav ing the car's occupants to make their way on foot to their destina tion And knowing ot such Inci dents one always has a premoni tory thrill when a motor car com I The closing hour a for Sunday ree Press WANT ADS Don't be late miss out on the more than half mile lion readers made available to you through the Sunday ree Press Say it and do it through a ree Press Want Ad CALL AD TAKER MAIN 9400 or take your ad to any one of our 400 Want Ad where the same cash rate may be had as at the down town office SiwJat to rM hoenlx Arlz March 17 Iter bert Hoover is not a candidate for the United States senate not now at least He said here riday that ho has received no delegation or news ot any such delegations which would urge him to enter the race jn California against Hiram John son next fall He declined to answer "hypothet ical as tn what hfs atti tude wouldbe should he he aeked to run Headaches from Slight Colds Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets relievo the Headache by curing the Cold A tonic laxative and germ de stroyer Tho genuine bears the sig nature of Grove (Bo sure you get BROMO) Adv TI I ERE'B NO DOUBT NOQUESTJ ON about dancing at PALAIS the choice of the finest dancers Adv MONROE HOTEL Henry at Wood ward A homelike place clean rooms running water connecting baths 38 week Adv Everybody Loves Mother Gonsel There'll he seven of her well known rhymes all ready to be made Into a dear little booklet Girls and Boys Magaslne Sunday's ree road When he reached there of the robbers took his money i the other threw him out Beat Him Unennsetous The victim protested as the thugs started to drive hl machine away They stopped and returning beat him Into unconsciousness with the butts of their revolvers A passing motorist discovered the Injured jitney driver and called the police 1 Upmal was unable to give deacrltkA llnna tif th Michael Dy pe 1031 Shoemaker avenue was another victim of thugs riday night Three armed and masked men entered his grocery ea he was about to close and com palled him to give up 332 he had taken from hfs cash register They escaped in an automobile after firing several spots In the air 's nur Houses Robbed Loot totaling 370 waa stolen from four Grand River' avenue bust ness houses riday by thugs who smashed windows with a rub 1 ber tube filled with sand Ten coir lars waa taken from the James Jar si barber shop 3328 Grand River 1 avenue: 3590 from the Harris Arndt meat market 2910 Grand River avenue: 3380 from the Arnflf Bros drug store 3031 Grand River avenue and cigars and cigarettes worm eno were stolen xrom tnw ji soft drink eafe of John Hanley a 3146 Grand River avenue Windows' masheri tn thu drtiC Store 2911 Grand River avenue nothing was The sand filled tube was found In one of tha i stores i 2 Boy Seriously Hurt as Is Struck and Other alls rom Car Shdp and street accident took toll of a child and tnree men riday and resulted in the serious injury of three others A girl 8 wa? killed while at play One of the men met death while riding with a friend the other two suddenly were killed while at work dead are CATHERINE old 303 Meldrom by nn nutomoblle EAHL MULLEN 2704 nvenue automobile lEO GIIZEK 22 nvenue Hamtramck killed while nt work beside motor block MIKE MELEK 47 old 5737 Kopernlrk street fatally Injured when a mnciilnc over whlgh he was working broke The Injured are Alex Pzwodek 8 years old 2125 arnsworth avenue victim of an automobile accident Walter Glover 6 years oia Ills Elmwood avenue Halfway Mich Injured tn a fall from an automo bile Charles Shannon 45 years old 837 Michigan avenue struck by ataxl cah near his home Girl Huns Into Street Catherine Collins la'sald to have run directly Into the path of an automobile when she stepped from the curb tn front of her home The machine was driven by Ray Lewis 3934 Mcldrum avenue The child was taken to Receiving hospital with fractured skull but died a few minutes later Mullen died at Receiving hospital from Injuries sustained when he was jolted from the running board of an automobile crossing railroad tracks on Nodell avenue He had jumped to the running board of a machine driven by a friend John orrest 6110 Sixteenth street The jolting ot the machine as it was be Ing driven over the tracks dislodged him He fell under one of the wheels 'which passed ovtr his ab domen Crzclc was found dead In this Klne 'Motpr factory 8745 CcMant road Continued on Page" Six Arrests Gain 3iy2 Over 1920 According to 1921 Court Report Under federal and state prohibi tion laws with the combined en forcement agencies of the govern ment stato and city In full opera tion arrests for drunkenness In Detroit during 1921 show an in trial before another Judge of tho crease of 31 1 2 per cent over 1920 court nnnndin iv Argument was made In the cham according to figures given out by I hern of the supreme court late in municipal court officials riday I the evening The court denied the Comparison of tho number ot con 1 request of the petition In a verbal vlctlons for violation ot the prohl decision It was believed that as bition laws In the city court for Dodge had pleaded guilty the court the same years show an increase ot I held that his case did not come mure man 43 per ccm 1 witnui me iumkubku mv aui 1919 which speaks not of pleas 34u In 10 1 1 guilty but of convictions During 1920 4824 cases of drunk return to the house eness were brought before tha correction followed dismissal court In 1921 the number increae Judge Ira Jayne cl sit i fiiirr rii i ''In 1920 1592 convictions fnrvlo on which he had been released ear latliig the atatN prohibition law Her in the day The writ had bean were obtained before judges in issued By Judge Theodore Rich municipal coiirt year ending ter December 31 last brought 3267 ailure to attach the warrant to convictions the petition for a writ of habeas ines collected during 1920 corpu for the of Dodge amounted to 348837 Tho figure caused Presiding Judge Ira )V was Increased to 326986s In 1921 Jayne to dismiss the motion riday Judge Pliny Marsh before afternoon following a brief hearing whom a large number of the cases Ik which young Dodge as repro of Intoxication as well as liquor sented by Attorney George A kelly law violation were tried said that Assistant Corporation Counsel Clar he was not prepared to furnish an ence Patgo appeared for the peo explanation for tho figures pie' Kelly tried to get an adjourn ment until 9:30 Saturday morning Sees Better Enforcement but this was opposed by Page and He said that part of It might be Judge Jayne sustained his objection duo to the Increase In the The legal phraseology of the population during the period cover writ was also criticized by Judge I ed by the report An increase in Jayne since it did not Yellow the home brewing might explain part language prescribed by law it said "This writ is too sacred to be or 11 ne SSIU I na1" That the poiica ana otner prom bition enforcement unlta had In court Its issuance cannot be creased their activities and vigl denied by a judge but it Is based lance was indlcatea ne declared I Continued on ugo Three Column Two bv the increase in the number of 1m1rrfcTM convictions for violation of prohi 2 KILLED 3 INJURED bition as well as jump in the WN TRAINS RA6M amount exacted In fines from vlu Writ Pi 1KAHN3 UKAOri lators Special to Th Press al Portland Ore March A fire rt man and an unidentified man were trilrprci rrPW I killed and three others Injured rl uunitio UUCVr day when the Northern Pacific's i fl northcoast limited train collided PPIfC in NTrPPT with a local train east of Butte 444 jIont according tn a dispatch re celved at the company's local office Jury in Ob enchain Case Is Locked Up Unable to Agree Illness of Woman orce End of Deliberation Lon Angeles CAUL March Tho jury In the case of Mrs Mad alynne Obenchaln charged with the murder of Belton Kennedy after deliberating about seven hours and a haltuwere ordered locked up for the night at 9 There wasa report that the jury was divided nine to three but It was not Indicated whether tha majority favored acquittal or conviction The reason for locking up the Jury an hour earner than Is usual was said to be that one of the wo man jurors was subject to heart at tacks and that her companions had sent out for medicine fo ner sev eral times The jury left for hotel at 918 after having neen instructed by the judge to resume its deliber ations not later than 9 o'cloclr to morrow morning Shortly after 4 this after Divorce Disrupted Home In Cleveland Prisoner Says Was Angered While two gas jets poured deadly fumes Into a bedroom in a Jeffer son house late riday eve ning a man and his 5 year old daughter wnom ne have taken from her in Cleveland "for a linrt Inhnllne them But for the penetration ot the fumes through the locked door into other parts of the house Charles Witt Jr and pretty little Gladys his daughter would have met death and there would have been a dif I ferent trend to this story i Had Roomed There a Day Mrs Margaret Holley 3383 Jeffer son avenue Thursday rented a room to Witt She Is a friend of Mrs Barbara Besso 1522 Jefferson ave nue whose two little boys were kidnaped by their father line Besse following his reported threat to "do with them Mrs Holley's heart Immediately went out to the little dark eyed baby girl brought to her home by Witt ho learned her home was In Cleveland Shortly after 10 riday Mrs Holley detected an odor of gas fumes In her home She called the police Detectives John Scnlechter and Joseph Stack of the Hunt street station were working In the neigh borhood on the Besse case and io 'celved orders from a police call box to ko to tho Holley home Had they opened the door of the Witt bedroom five minutes later the officers declared little Gladys would have been dead Both were taken to the Hunt street station and tho police of notified As tho result Mitt Is be ing held as a fugitive and Gladys Is waiting in the womens deten tion home for "mama to come XV Had Gotten Divorce Witt who Is 36 years old gave his occupation as a asked why he brought his child to Detroit he told detect ves he wanted "to break her mother heart He declared that his wife Katherine had Instituted divorce against him and Tuesday was Rl'er wstX of the child Wednesday he I told officers he lisnt to who was stopping at the homo of a slater and asked to take "out foi a He arrived In Detroit Thursday he said In the Hunt street station little Gladys was the centev of lr'tcr'' during the examination of her father She munched fastidious!) on an apple and told the officers was hungry" She was able to describe her mothers home and could tell what street car to taUnder Questioning Witt rtt'Clar ed hfi sold the furniture of Us home for 310 in order to leave TTv nnnaarfid tn DO OTl the of ts several times during his examination and said little when Questioned aboutthe narrow escape he and his daughtci had from death Cleveland relatives have been notified and a expected to anlve today to take the girl hack home POLICY MOVIES OUT LMBY HAYS DETROIT MICHIGAN' SATURDAY MARCH 18 1 922 EIGHTEEN PAGES I Asserts Industry Has Accepted Challenge of America New York Match The motion picture Industry looks upon the de mands made upon it by the can public as a challenge which 18 accepted to the ultimate do dared Will II Hays the new chief of the Industry In addressing a meeting here Thursday night A gathering of more than 1009 persons Including more screen stars than were ever before assem bled In any one place heard Mr Hays deliver Ms "Inaugural ad dress" on taking up tho duties of the position for which he resigned from President Harding's (cabinet The Industry accepts the chal he said "in tho demand of the American youth that its pic tures shall give the right kind of entertainment and Instruction dt accepts the challenge in the right eous demand ot American mothers that the entertainment and amuse ment of that youth be worthy of their value as tho most potent fac tor In the future The oppoartunlty is great and so In like measure is the responsibility That responsibility is Hoover Rumored in Toga Contest Dance Palace Lessee Gets In junction Blocking Owners Police rom Whilo oranges and other foods were being hoisted by ropea from the sidewalk to an open window on the second floor where the sec retary ot the Crystal Palace dance hall 2771 Woodward avenue In a state of siege had barricaded him self the troubles ot that institu tion moved into Judge Ira court riday aiternoon police got as far as a second office and arrested Adani Asmus 40 years old 602 Henry street and Ben Bebe 23 years old 4456 Grand River avenue on a charge of dis turbing the peace but Harry Young the belligerent secretary continued to hold his fort with Mon golian fortitude and imperturba tion Annul Bebe Out on Bail Through an open window solici tous friends on the outside deliv ered food to him while deputies with Caucasian Impatience wait ed for him to declare a truce and unlock his door Judge aust In municipal court riday night released Asmus and Bebe in 3300 bond each Judge Jayne in the afternoon granted an injunction to ths Crys tal Palace Company Inc which re cited that John Liggett red 8 Isham Rice A Howell A Phillips et al were combining ana con federating to Injure the business" and enjoining them from continuing the alleged molestation Wherr the papefS were served on Constable Anflrew Phillips he said he would disregard the Injunc tion it Is claimed that bls men were In possession of the dance hall and that being In possession they wert not infringing upon any cne clso's possessive rights Proprietors of the hall said ri day night they would reopen the hall Saturday night despite tpefact that Mayor Couzcns revoked the haH's license about a week ago after complaints of Improper be havior had been made against men employed In conducting the last business The revocation to take effect April 1' To Act Agnlnst Phillips Their attorney Clarence Hill said he would appear In Judge Jayne's court Saturday to press a contempt charge against Phillips In ths attitude toward the cir cuit court Injunction Thursday afternoon at 3 Constable Andrew Phillips served a notice of a mortgage fore closure on Sum Yung proprietor ot the dance hall In behalf of the agent ot the building nice Howell Howell charges that back rent to taling 34300 ts due and he exer cised his right of foreclosure In the notice But devotees of the dance hall joined with its renters to pre vent occupation by tho constables Three ound In Office The constables stayed the night together with Stanley Ro mansKi rana renco Hlllmor day after the past mid day fnhfhlnq and to feci the gnawing pain of hunger thpv dAninea method of attack tho nAllra ripTiftrtmAnt advised to obtain a warrant charg Contlnued on Page Three Column Keren Vendetta Claims Its 27th Victim fAD SALESMAN DIES ON TRAIN MSCn CHALIOUX DIES Sherbrooke Que March Monsignor Hubert Oliver Chait foux auxiliary bishop of Sher brooke died today after a long Illness a ARCADIA MATINEE DANCE This afternoon or young folks Adm 15c 20c Adv THE BIG MGHT AT ARCADIA TONIGHT OR DANCING Special spectators balcony Orchestra of 25 Adm 20 30c AdV r'' Ui GRAYSTONE1000000 BALLROOM Dancing Tonight and Sunday HARRY VAIL now with the famous Graystone Orchestra Wood ward at Canfield 2000 seats for spectators Adm 25o and Adv i i Mr is bI VICTIMS MISHAPS IN SHOPS STREETS 71 XZZ bAl Iphl MICHAEL MELEK EARL MULLEN LEO GRZEK 5 id.

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