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(Courier -ouviml, A National Newspaper 14 Pages Today 112 Columns VOL. CXXXffl. NEW SERIES NO. 19,123. LOUISVILLE, TUESDAY MORNING, THREE CENTS?" ami uuyokd MAY 10, 1921.

BY BRAND 10 200.000.000 $1 GERMANS NO WBtvmED Lady Walnut Hill, Champion Hen of World, Dies In Harness TARIFF ON DEFYING A wmms MOSES NCHTA ER Eifgland to Back U.S. On Yap For Sitting With Allies, Report Special to The Courier-Journal and 2few York Times. Courier-Journal, years and one month old. She started laying November 6, 1916, and during her pullet year laid 292 eggs, ninety-four ot which were laid consecutive days, giving her world's championship record. She produced" 180 eggs the second; 1S4 tho third and 154 the fourth year.

She began her fifth year of laying January 2S, 1921, producing her Sllth egg on that day. She laid four in January; eighteen in February; 24 in March; fourteen in April and six in May, a total ot sixty-six for her fifth year. It was announced that she would be mounted and placed in the university museum. She was owned by Dr. Lindsay Ireland, Louisville.

Special to The Lexington, May 9. Lady Walnut Hill, world's champion White Leghorn hen at the College of Agriculture, died this morning of septicemia. She laid her S76th egg Sunday. The champion died in the harness, an attendant at the college poultry farm finding her dead on a trap nest where she had gone to lay. She holds the world's record for continuous egg production having produced ninety-four eggs in ninety-four consecutive days.

She also has a record of S10 eggs in four years and was expected to pass the 1,000 mark early in her sixth year. She was hatched April 12, 1916, and at the time of her death lacked three days of being five Citizens Grow Ugly As Time for Possible Occupation Draws Near. U. S. AGAIN TAKES HAND Teuton Ex-Army Officers Take Charge In Silesian Area, Ignoring Entente.

German parties split on dcryinjr Allies. Berlin reports French troops have occupied Muclhcim in Kuhr region. Germans in Ruhr cilies grow ugly as lime for possible occupation ncars. Allied Council of Ambassadors warns Poles and Germans on Silesia. American envoy takes scat In Council of Ambassadors.

German former army officers taltc command In Silesian zone, Ignoring Allies. BULLETIN. Berlin, May 9 (Associalcd Press). Late tonight I he. parly leaders admitted that there would be available Tuesday in the Reichstag a safe majority in favor of accepting the allied ultimatum with regard to reparations.

$50,000 ROBBERS' LOOT IN 48 HOURS; 2 SAFES CRACKED Bcxtin, May 9 (Associated Pres3). The majority Socialists and Clericals in party conferences today voted in favor of accepting the ultimatum ot the Allies. The German People's party, by a vote ot 59 to 5, rejected the proposi- tion. The Democrats were in session Chicago, May 9. A dispatch from Washington tonight to the Chicago Tribune says: "Reports in diplomatic quarters here are that Great Britain, in return for American participation in European war councils, will support the United States' contentions for equal opportunity in mandate arid particularly the demand of this Government for internationalization ot tho Island of Yap.

"State Department officials say that the British Government has not replied to the American note to the Powers on mandates, and that no official word of any char DR. THOMAS USES ROPETOEND LIFE Methodist Editor, Former Pastor Here, Is Suicide At Bowling Green. Special to The Courier-Journal. Bowling Green, May 9. The Rev.

Dr. Frank M. Thomas, 50 yejjrs old, editor of the Quarterly Review of the Southern Methodist Church, and formerly presiding elder of the Louisville District, hanged himself in a thicket on the outskirts of Bowling Green this morning. The body ot the eminent churchman was found this afternoon by a boy playing in the thicket. The small twine rope had broken and the body lay on the ground.

Life had been extinct for seven hours. Ill health, causing insomnia, is given by relatives as the cause for tho act. When he left home this morning he gave no Intimation ot his intentions and his family supposed he was on his way to town, as was his habit. When he failed to return to dinner, it occasioned little alarm. Between 2 and 3 o'clock a young son ot Edward Lodge, reported his dla-j covery to the police.

The place Dr. Thomas selected to end his life was at Fifteenth and Kenton Streets about six blocks from his home. Operation Thought Helpful The churchman returned two weeks ago from Battle Creek, where ho underwent an operation in an effort to overcome the insomnia which had troubled him for several years. He appeared to be much improved on his return. Previously he had seemed very depressed on occasions.

He went to church Sunday as usual. He left no notes, his brother, Charles Thomas, said tonight. The most notable work in which Dr. Thomas was engaged during his active career as a minister was his secretaryship ot the joint commission planning merger of the North and South Methodist Churches. He was secretary of the commission for twelve years and was in attendance at its meeting in Louisville last year.

Dr. Thomas was a native of Bowling Green, the son of a physician. Ho held the degree of A. B. and A.

M. from Ogden College. Bowling Green, the degree of B. D. from Vanderbilt University, and the degree of D.

D. from Kentucky Wesleynn College. Became Minister in 1893. Wn was ordained as a minister in 2S93 and held pastorates in Louisville, Owcnsboro, Henderson and Morgan-field. For eight years he was presiding elder of tho.

Louisville District. After serving four years as pastor of the Fourth Avenue unurcn, Louisville, he was succeeded three rears ago by the Rev. Lconidas Rob inson. He then was elected book ed itor of the Methodist Review. Dr.

Thomas was the Reverend Fraternal messenger of the M. E. Church, South, to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal In 1912; secretary of the Federal Council of Methodism; executive' commissioner ot the Federal Council of (Continued on Page 4. Column 2.) Man, Afire, Saves Hay; May Lose His Life Special to The Courier-Journal. Hopkinsville.

May ST G. C. Tabor, 60 years old, farmer, driving to town on a load of hay today, started to light his pipe. The match ignited a turpentine-soaked rag on his sore To keep from setting the hay on fire he jumped from the wagon and broke his hip. Stunned, he was unable to keep the fire from spreading to his clothes.

Miss Myra Means, 16 years old, riding by, jumped from her horse and beat out the burning clothes, saving his life. She was badly burned. Taboris In hospital in a serious condition. DEMOCRATS PICK DISTRICT CHIEFS Chairmen of Eight Legislative Sections In Jefferson County Elected. Choice of two new and six old mem bers of the Democratic City and County Executive Committee, withholding of names ot precinct committeemen and "complete harmony" at every meeting place marked the election of Democratic chairmen for the eight legislative districts in Jefferson County yesterday.

The two new members of the committee are L. R. Curtis, who succeeds Lawrence Leopold as chairman of the Fifty-fourth District, and J. Frank Cassell, assistant secretary of the Belknap Hardware Manufacturing Company, -who succeeds Owsley Brown as chairman of the Fifty-first District. Those re-elected were: Fifty-second District, Charles II.

Knight; Fifty-third, Charles G. Klapheke; Fifty-fifth, Marion E. Taylor; Fifty-sixth, P. H. Callahan; Fifty-seventh, W.

Overton Harris, and Fifty-eighth, Joseph T. O'Neal. Each of the legislative chairmen was elected unanimously. To gether they form the City and County Committee. Secrecy Is Defended.

"It's not customary," Mr. O'Neal said, "to give out for publication the names ot the precinct committeemen. It never has been done, and I know no reason for it. Such action would furnish the other side with a mailing list. It would give away your organization.

The Republicans don't even announce the names of their women committeemen." After his re-election Mr. Knight ap-pointed "Mrs. John L. Woodbury as woman chairman for the Fifty-second District. Mr.

Curtis named Mrs. W. H. Miller for the Fifty-fourth District. The six other chairmen said they had not decided on their appointments.

Mr. O'Neal, who was secretary of the City and County Committee which acted until yesterday, said last night that he expects to call a meeting of the new committee today or tomorrow. A chairman probably will be chosen and the unannounced names of the women members given. Provisional Body Dissolved. The Provisional Campaign Committee of the City and County Committee also ceased to act with the elections yesterday.

This committee consisted of W. W. Davies, chairman, A. J. Carroll and Allen P.

Dodd. It is probable the new committee will take up the selection of a campaign committee at its first meeting. C. C. Wheeler was elected secretary of the Fifty-first District, which comprises the territory in Jefferson County outside the city, at a meeting of precinct committeemen at the Jefferson County Court House.

Thirty men and eight women were present. The meeting was held in the early afternoon. Tyler Barne'tt presided at the' meeting of precinct committeemen of the Fifty-second District in Exchange Hall at the Bourbon Stockyards last night. First Ward Democrats, it was announced, will organize a club at the Exchange Hall Thursday, night. Approximately 100 men and women were present for the selection of a chairman of the Fifty-third District (Continued on Page 3.

Column 4.) ON Declares Big Slush Fund of Dye Interests Is Being Used to Pass It. WILSON'S STAND PRAISED Knox Asserts Ex-President Twice Tried to Obtain Action By Congress. Washinston. May 9 (Associated that the Emergency T'iriff b'H was throue'? Congress by "one of the most highly or-antod, Iiest paid and most arrogant lobbies which this Capitol ever ms seen" were made in the Senate today by Senator George Moses. Republican, New Hampshire, who broke away from his party position and at-tacked the measure.

The American Dyes Institute had pent "the not inconsiderable sum of jliH.932" pressing forward the Tariff Bill, thd Senator said, adding tint lie had hoped he might vote for lt, "even though holding my nose while doing so." While representatives of the dyes industry have bee.i crying for help, Mr. Moses said, their businesses have spent "$70,464 in what they euphemistically describe as 'legislative ex Judge Quits IScnch for Fee. "In this connection," Mr. Moses continued, "it is worth noting that the largest items of expenditure were those for. counsel fees, which amounted to $30,000, divided in equal parts, one paid to Joseph H.

Choate, as his compensation to Oct. 10, 1920, and the other to Judge J. Harry Covington, who descended from the Federal Bench in order to take the more lucrative employment which this client affords." Jlr. Moses declared that the "moving spirit" of the institute was Morris 11. rougher of whom he said: "lie also is with the Dupont Com- inv.

the Dves Institute, the Textile; Alliance, the advisory committee of the War Trade Board and it is now proposed to make him the doorway to the War Trade Board." Sees One-Man Control. Now conditions which the Board has set up for obtaining licenses, the Senator said, required that the applicant must first apply to the American Dyes Institute. "In his various capacities," Mr. Moses continued, "the way will be open to Sir. l'oucher to know not only details of the business of every dye manufacturer, but to obtain an accurate line on the consumer as well.

It this is to be the police the War Trade-Board, the dye consumers might well understand in the beginning that the entire dye stuffs industry has been turned over to one man." Mr. Moses declared Tariff Bill to be 'both un-Itepublican and un-Demo-cratle and mighty un-American as mil." lie attacked the Republican leadership for appointing as its tariff and tax advisers, men who were brought into that work by Senator Oscar Underwood, then the Chairman of the House "Ways and Means com-mottee and other Democrats. Mr. Moses charged they had furnished unreliable statistics on which the Senate finance committee has based its bills. Wilson's Stand Praised.

Senator P. C. Knox, Republican, Pennsylvania, who sponsored the dye restrictions amendment told the Senate he did not approach the question from the stand "of a Dolly Var-ton Calico Mill up in New England," lie defended the amendment as one step toward building up an industry In the United States which would not leave the manufacture of chemicals, used alike in warand in peace, in the hands of single country. "Woodrow Wilson had the vision of what the dye stuff industry Mr. Knox said.

"Twice he called to the attention of Congress, the need aiding it." DUMPING FEAR SCOUTED. Stanley Says Hill Is Buncombe nad Represents Broken G.O.I. Pledges. Courier-Journal Washington Dureau. Washington, CJiarglns that 'ho Republican party, in supporting the Fordney Emergency Tariff Bill.

violating its platform pledge and the declaration of its candidate to make "consistent attack "jPon the high cost of living," Senator A. 0. Stanley, Kentucky, in a speech on the floor of the Senate today de-fared that measure to be nothing but Mitical buncombe of. the worst sort WJ capable of destroying all plans of 'Us Government for extending ita loreigu tnulc and maintaining its Merchant marine. "It has been demonstrated by hear-lnS3 before the Finance Committee "jW admitted bv Senator Porter J.

rCuniber, North Dakota, that there no threat of and no immediate prospect of this dreaded dumping from country in the world." said Mr. Stanley. Continental country is prepared to supplv its own needs, to nothing of the sale of the of life i mark.ts across the Ma. Two-iifths of all the wealth of has been obliterated by war. Whole fabric of protectionism based "otitiimed on Page Column 6.) THE WEATHER.

Kentucky and Tennessee eluudy in easl, showers in west portion Tuesday; Wednesday showers. Indiana Cloudy and unsettled showers Tuesday and "eilnesilay, no change in PUT BY U.S. RAIL LOSS War Period Deficit Exceeds Estimate Made By Hines By $300,000,000. SETTLEMENTS TANGLED Washington. May 9 (Associated Press).

Loss to the Government in operation of the railroads under Federal control will be about or $300,000,000 more than estimated by former Director General Walker D. Hines, according to an estimate today by Director General James Davis. The director general 'made his estimate in the course of a report to Chairman J. W. Good of the House Appropriations 'Committeo on the progress made by the railroad admin istration in liquidating claims arising out ot Federal control.

Former Director General Hines estimated the loss to the Government in operation during the period of Federal control would be Mr. Davis said. Because ot claims not considered by Mr. Hine3 which have arisen, he added, and the under-estlmate made In the allowance for maintenance, Are losses, additions and betterments made solely for war purposes, and other accounts, it is the estimate of the present director general that the operating loss to the administration will be about $1,200,000,000. Court Rulings Are Needed.

Differences between the administration and the carriers as to the liabil ity ot the Government for under-maintennnce during Federal control, amounting to several hundred million dollars, may be carried to the Supremo Court for final adjustment, tho report said. It was estimated that when all the carriers have filed their under-maintenance claims, they will aggregate between $700,000,000 and $800,000,000. The report showed that the railroad administration had assets aggregating $430,930,138.08, consisting of negotiable obligations of the carriers such as equipment trust obligations and notes and bonds taken by the administration during Federal control. The delay in settling claims has been caused chiefly by the slowness of the roads in filing their claims, the report said, adding that practically no claims had been filed in 1920. Up to the present time, 149 of the 555 roads taken over have filed their claims.

representing 58.5 per cent of the en tire mileage, excluding short lines. Situation Is Tangled. "I have no desire to exaggerate the importance of the complexities of mak ing this final settlement," the director general said in his report. "It undoubtedly is the greatest adjustment between one tenant and more than 500 landlords that ever occurred. "The property was operated under the abnormal conditions a world war.

The demand for labor and materials in all industrial enterprises was greatly in excess ot the supply. In the effort to combine this stupendous aggregate of independent lines into a single and co-ordinated concern much of the operating property ot the individual carriers was inextricably intermingled." President Wilson stated at the time the roads were taken over that he would "recommend to Congress the passage of a law providing that the railway properties be maintained in substantially as good repair as when taken over" and acting on 'this recommendation Congress provided that standard contract should contain such a clause. It Is the difference of opinion over the construction of the rules in this provision ot tho contract that has caused the majority of the contro versies between the carriers and the administration, the report said. Every settlement presents peculiar differences, the report said, many of them being "serious practical ques-1 tlons" which involve more" than mere I matters of accounting. Church Loses $5,200 And Guardian of Fund Waitress Disappeacs-AtSame Time; Jerseywe Begin Search Special to The Journal and tw New Brunswick, N.

May 9 The police were searching today for Shubcl K. Sivcr, treasurer ot the First Reformed Church, Miss Adele Gouin, a waitress, Pertjh Amboy, and $5,200 in Liberty bonds belonging to the church. All three (disappeared about the same time week, and when Siver was missing from yesterday morn ing's church the authorities were notifii The chu old. He 1, dren. eh treasurer is 4S years ft a wife and three chil- Mrs.

Alfrid Knudson told detectives this afternoon that Miss Gouiri lived in her homje until April 30, when she left on reniicst of Mrs. Knudson. ForestFires Siveeping Largh Areas In Michigan liny 9 (Associated Press), were reported sweeping Fore large a n' hal: a dozen Michigan countici JIs tires broke out Sunday of men were at work and their progress. rn no towns were in but the tires were owing to dryness of 4 Detroili" Bly. today HBt 50 lBOV runnliv Women Flee Prison; Bolt for Next State Bedford, N.

May 9 (Associated Press). A wholesale jail delivery took place nt the Bedford Reformatory for Women tonight when ten of the inmates made their escape. They were seen last heading for the Connecticut line, five miles away, with State police, armed guards of the institution and a number of farmers In pursuit. U. S.

DIPLOMATS SEEK BERGOOLL Military Action Is Barred, But Army Approves Efforts to Get Him, March Says. Washington, May 9 (Associated Press). Diplomatic moves for the return ot Giover Cleveland Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft evader, from Ger many are in progress, Maj. Gen. Peyton C.

March, Chief of Staff of the army, today informed the House committee investigating the Bergdoll case. The steps taken could not be discussed. General March said, adding that military movements ended with the armistice and Bergdoll could not be brought back by that means. The WarDepartment has made continuous efforts to capture Bergdoll, General March said, adding: "The efforts of those men in Germany to land him by any means have our entire and utmost sympathy." The committee went into executive session to discuss the German phase of the Bergdoll case with General March. General March was asked if Brig.

Gen. Henry T. Allen, commanding at Coblenz, had been censured for apologizing to German authorities for the attempt to kidnap Bergdoll. "He was not." he replied. "The action of General Alien was entirely correct from the standpoint of international law." The Chief ot Staff added that It would have been perfectly satisfactory to him if anybody had succeeded in bringing Bergdoll back to prison.

He described Bergdoll as a "bad specimen" whom the' Government was anxious to catch. Boy's Last Smoke Lights Dynamite In His Pocket Portsmouth, May 3 (Associated Press). When Carl Newman, 15 years old. attempted to toss a lighted cigarette away it lodged In his pocket with a number of dynamite caps, exploding them. The lad was virtually blown to pieces and six companios were more or less seriously Injured.

Thurold M. Carmichacl, 13, lost a leg." The accident happened late yesterday. British Recognition of Red Russia Is Reported Copenhgaen. May 9 (Associated Press). The British Government, it is asserted In lnlormation omaincu nure from a Russian source, has given de-facto recognition to the Russian Soviet Government.

No confirmation of this report has been received from any other source. acter has come from. the British Government on the subject. "Informal assurance, however, is said to have como from representatives of the British Government that England would not oppose the mandate principles set forth by the United States in the YAip note if this Government would resume participation in the Supreme Council and other Allied councils which have worked out the post-war problems. "This assurance, it is said, had considerable to do with the Administration's decision to accept the Allied invitation to send representatives to the European councils." THIRTSY REJOICE AT CURB ON DRYS U.

S. Forces Practically Lose Effectiveness As Lack of Funds Limits Work. A paean of rejoicing sounded in "bootleg alley" yesterday in response to an order received by prohibition officers curtailing all expense money for the agents and causing them to be assigned permanently to their home villages. It said: "Repair to your designated post of duty and remain there until further orders, engaging in such activities as conditions warrant" I The order was contained in a dis patch sent by S. R.

Brame, Supervising Prohibition Director, Southern District, to J. S. Hamilton, Chief Federal Agent, Federal Building. The low ebb of prohibition enforce ment funds made the order compulsory, according to the dispatch. Heretofore the agents have been receiving $5 a day for their subsistence while operating away from thir home villages and additional expense money for automobile, hire and street car fare while' in pursuit of bootleggers.

Three Agents Left Here. Under tho new order O. H. McFar- ianl, N. E.

Reed and J. W. Clark will be assigned to Glasgow, Bowling Green and Paducah, respectively, and Air. Hamilton probably will bo assigned to Eardstown. J.

Allen Pierce, another agent, will return to Virginia. U. G. McFarland, chief of the State's raiders, also will remain in Glasgow. The Louisville office will be limited to three apents, William Bosler.

T. L. Whit-aker and J. R. Coleman.

They will have funds to develop investigations, they said. The officers will not work together except when a raid is deemed absolutely necessary. It was explained yesterday that the now order will permit only a minimum of effort on the part of the already overtaxed force. The of the raiders in Ken tucky have average almost as high as salary expenses and has been about $2,500 a month for the State. Court Rule Curbed Work.

It is believed that the same oYder has been issued in the other four States in the Southern area, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee. A similar order was received yes terday by J. Paul Williams, State Director of Prohibition. Work of four inspectors in Mr. Williams' of fice will be handicapped through the order.

The inspectors are J. Sherman Porter. Lexington; Elijah Hogge, Morehead: Henry M. Maher, Newport, and W. B.

Staniicld, Mayfield. These men will be forced to confine their investigations to their own cities. Tho Lexington branch probably will be closed, as Harry J. Klaine, Eastern Kentucky Chief, lives in Covington, and his assistants live In other Kentucky towns and In Virginia. Work of the -agents has been restricted since the last term of the Federal Court, when it was 'decided that no private residence might be searched on a search warrant unless (Continued on Page 3.

Column 4.) tlon. The Mayor is opposed to the proposed removal." Mr. Crutcher said the monument would be kept in a better state of preservation in the park. Motorists frequently run intp the monument, he explained. Repairs to the memorial will cost approximately $1,500.

and the removal cost has been placed at $2,000. Among the women present yesterday who protested against the removal are Mrs. Charles Seniple, Mrs. Andrew M. Sea.

Mrs. Jane Creel Benedict and D. F. C. Weller, who solicited funds for the memorial twenty-six years ago, ami Mrs.

Nor-borne G. Gray and Mrs. L. Eustace Williams. Mrs.

Woodbury explained that the small plot of ground on which the shaft stands was donated by the city for the purpose, and she contended that It should remain there. Because of its age, she it is believed that it will not withstand the moving process. 1 Yeggmen Work In Full View of Street Policemen Passing Theater. CREPE ON DOOR IGNORED Ixot obtained within forty-eight hours is placed at $50,000. Alleged notorious criminal arrested at Churchill Downs with diamonds said to be worth and $1,000 in money.

Safe of Mary Anderson Theater robbed of $5,400 after night watchman and repairman were bound. Doors of National Theater pried open while police investigated the other theater robbery. Robbers escaped after firing at night watchman. Garage employe held up by three armed men on West End street corner and robbed of $83.67. Two robberies frustrated by families' return tn fiicir homes Loss of $11,000 in jewels reported by Seelbach guests.

Seventh Avenue Hotel guests robbed of $1,000 by negro bellboy believed to be under arrest in Chicago. Safe in Fourth Street florist shop blown and looted of, $50, but hard-" ware store safe, containing $700, withstood an attempt to open it. One soft drink stand and restaurant six automobiles stolen, five residences entered and thirteen 'persons robbed by pickpockets. Five yeggmen, watched hy pedes trians, who thought they were mechanics, yesterday morning cracked tho safe in the ofllce of the Mary Anderson Theater, Fourth and Chestnut Streets, and obtained $5,400 in money, jewelry and securities. Under full lights in the theater the robbers went about the task of opening the safe as if they were employes.

They were just inside the glass door of the lobby. As they worked Henry IT. Dicken. 63 years old. the night watchman, and Eugene J.

Siemplekamp, 35, a repairman, lay within the theater, tied and gagged. A few minutes later tho quintette drove up to B. F. Keith's National Theater, Fifth and Wralnut Streets, in a green touring car. They were surprised by William Barley, night watchman, while at work, and tried to kill Barley before they escaped in full daylight.

$50,000 Loot ill 48 Hours. Mary Anderson robbery, with others announced by the police yesterday, brought the haul of forty-eight hours by yeggs, burglars, automobile thieves and pickpockets to an estimated total of $50,000. Guests at The Seelbach reported the loss of jewels valued at more than $11,000, and guests at the Seventh Avenue Hotel said they lost valuables totaling $1,000. -Two arrests were made. Although a crepe with a card announcing the death of Mrs.

C. B. Thompson was still on the door of the florist shop ot C. B. Thompson a few doors from the Mary Anderson Theater, 624 South Fourth Street, safe blowers entered the place and opened tho safe with an electric drill and took $50 in currency and jewel heirlooms belonging to Mrs.

Thompson, who died Friday. The robbery took place Saturday night. Store Safe Balks Them. The cracksmen failed when they tried to open a huge wall safe of the Albreclit Sons Hardware Company, 230 West Jefferson Street. After knocking off the combination they failed to open the outer doors.

Two opened yesterday. The robbers contented themselves by looting a desk and taking $5 and some stamps. The safe, which resisted their efforts, contained $700. Citizens sensed that safeblowers were again making a Sunday visit to Fourth Street when they notified the police Sunday night lhat three men were seen climbing tire escapes in the rear of five and ten-cent stores on Fourth Street. A search by police revealed nothing.

Police now believe that this was an attempt to draw attention from operations on South Fourth Street. "Kid" Schwartz, alleged notoriou (Continued On Page at midnight. As the Independent Socialists, already favored yielding to it is believed there will be majority in the Reichstag ance ot the ultimatum. Paul Loobe of the majj ists and president of tbj will be commissioned Ebert with the task of Cabinet. FRENCH SEIZE Enter iiueineim anil Points of 1 Berlin.

May 9 (Assocn dispatch to the Deutschj Zeitung from Mculhcim today French troops from Geldorf crossed the Ruhr last night and occupied va rious points in the town of Muelhcim, including the National Bank. Germans Grow Ugly. Duesseldorf, May 9 (Associated Press). As tho day approaches for tho possible occupation of additional German territory by the Allies the temper of the population seems to be growing more nervous and sullen. Leaves of officers and soldiers have been reduced to a minimum and fewer troops are visible in the streets, of them being confined to barracks.

The troops are billeted in certain dlsl tricts of the city and the Belgian batl teries are trained on the remainder ofl Duesseldorf. French headquarters has informed 1 Burgomaster Kottgen that the artil- lery would open fire at the first out break of rioting. 1 Tho first incident between civilians and troops of the French army of occupation, occurred today when an automobile containing several passen gers, returning from Cologne at rapid speed and in high spirits, ran past the military outposts of Duesseldorf. Fire On French Sentry. One of the occupants of the machine fired three revolver shots, one bullet severing tho finger of a French sentry.

On entering the city the automobile was stopped and Its occupants. arrested. They will be court mar- tlaled. Essen, May 9 (Associated Tho municipalities of Duisbuig, Rhur-I ort, Wesel and Essen have sent a Joint resolution to the Borlin Govern ment asking that it refuse to sign any document "enslaving the Ruhr miners to the Entente." ENVOI'S ACT ON" SILESIA. Warn Poles and Germany Further Clashes.

Against Tarls, May 9 (Associated Press). With tho object of showing that it will not permit Itself bo influenced by any action of tho Upper Silesian Population the council of Ambassadors at its sitting today decided to take two steps as follows: First To request the Polish Government to disavow the Polish agitators. Second To remind the German Government that the interallied commission in Upper Silesia provided for un- -der the Versailles Treaty, possessc-a full authority over tho region until the Supremo Council has announced its decision with regard to the plebiscite. ana to request tne German Government consequently to retrain from all intervention there. American representation at Allied.

conferences was resumed today when Hugh C. Wallace, the American Am bassador, took his seat at a session oC the Council of Ambassadors. Roland W. Boyden, who formerly sat with the Allied reparations commission at its sessions, has received hia instructions from the State Depart- ment to resume his seat with that body. JVNKEPS HAVE TAKEN HAND.

Ratihor. Upper Silesia, May 9 (A-isociated Press). Former German oficers have taken charge of the district on the west bank of the Oder in this seation of Upper Silesia, and are issuing rifles, furnishing machine; U. D. C.

PROTESTS REMOVAL OF SHAFT AT THIRD AND BRANDEIS Mayor Objects and Plan May Be Abandoned; Old Monument Might Not Withstand Process, It Is Feared. ESTATE WORTH MILLIONS FAILS TO LURE DOCTOR FROM PRACTICE 'Haven't Paid Much Attention to IV Beneficiary Says Whenif Told of Good Fortune; Knew He Would Receive It The heroic bronze gunner which surmounts the Confederate Monument at Third and Brandeis Streets probably will continue to watch the mad charge ot traffic around the Coleman which stands In the middle ot tho thoroughfare. Mayor George Weisslnger Smith has added his objection to its removal ro ine protest of the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. The chapter met yesterday at the Hotel Henry Watterson. Mrs.

John L. Woodbury, president, was instructed to send a formal protest to Thomas B. Crutcher, chairman of the Board of Public Works. "The removal was merely suggested." Mr. Crutcher said last night when told of the opposition to the monument's removal to Triangle Park, nearby.

"I doubt whether anything will be done, at least during -the life of the present atlnlnistra- lias known for years that some day he might become an heir to the vast estate of IT. Mount Booman, that has remained in the family's hand since the time of William the Conciuerer. He says he received at one time a small income from it, but never lias lived in anticipation of impending fortune. "I have been Dr. Amesbury said, "I'm shortly to come in for a i share of.

the Raleigh estate a few million pounds. I haven't paid much attention to it. I haven't been offlcialiy notified as yet." Four relatives ot the doctor, who are lawyers, are looking after his interests in England. Special to The Courier-Journal and York Times. Boston, May 9.

Dr. Iron C. R. Amesbury, a practicing physician for some thirty years in this city, can see no reason why he should give up his practice here to take up an estate in England, even though millions of dollars go with the estate. Ho has just received word, that with the death of an uncle in England, the last remaining barrier between his family and an estate of many millions of dollars has been removed.

A direct descendant of the Ral-cighs of Devonshire, Dr. Amesbury X' A.