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Detroit Jfrie 4 GREATEST NEWSPAPER WEATHER Rain PRICE SUNDAY VOI EASTERN COPS WOUNDED OICER GIRL CASHIER BLAME IN CHASES THUGS BECK SLAYING GERTRUDE OOTLANDER 12 CITIES HOLD SAETY MEET CHIE EDWARD OX REUSES MELLON CLOSES STRIKE TROOPS MONEY PLANT of of of ot hun' 1 Chftprnpe to ePoplt lK the bandits lumped Into their automobile which had hecft There is cruelty in AnUS Censorship Of Prayer Denied '55 if 3 he SHOWERS TO CONTINUE ALL WEEK IS ORECAST PITTSBURGH SHRINER PULLS PRACTICAL JOKE MEAT MARKET CLERK HURT BY IRE TEN CENTS APRIL 9 I 9 2 I 2 0 PAGES DETROIT MICHIGAN Ing prayer of the arms eonfM cnca were denied Saturday hr Secretary Hughee Taking his first notice of the charge which ware repeated several time on the senate floor during debate on the four power treaty Mr Hughes wrote to Repre sentative Pees Republican Ohio that the Japaneae delegate knew nothing of the omission and thv of course no censorship wu exer 3000 PERSONS PACK COURT OR HEARING GET BARTLETT IN AKE fighting I looked meant upstairs to get my 1 came down Reek My wife waa cry grand jury resulted tn the ar Saturday of Chariot Bartlett A Weatherhold brakeman of the Ina Tha Indictments followed alleged thefts from the railroads mounting high Into the thousands of dollars Both art charged with conspiracy to vio late the Interstate commerce act have been so aroused by their polit ical leaders that'the leaders art fearful of going counter to them It Is almost beyond belief that a niooa teua oouta carr great aeverttv for an 1 is a dally and nightly occurrence rom your hotel window at night you can hear machine gun rattle and rifle bark There are certain areas in which you walk at your peril Children are shot down old people cripples newsboys perish miserably The roots of the trouble here are dep and several "We were put here by Cromwell to Coatlaued on gage two Column our CHIE OX SHOT THROUGH CHEST i 8 NO? 194 Smith "YounRBtenj be any policy of haw rn or one thing you a pollcetnnn to Rtnp of catching rides on tints Cleveland an Detroit Nemesis Nearly Has Chance to Say" Morning 5 Washington Ann! Part the bureau of engraving and print ing which was reorganized lastweek under an executive order by President Harding removing James Wllmeth its director and other high officials was ordered closed I Saturday night by Secretary Mellon for an inventory of the stock val ued at many millions ot dollars i Mr Mellons order applied only the divisions of the bureau which handle' the paper used In making bank notes sth nips and government securities it being explained that a quicker and more accurate check ihe paper HLvcir could be made by a temporary shut down of all papei work About1500 employes of the bureau force of 5Q00 would ordinarily be affected by the order officials said but about 600 will be used as counter and all others having annual leave to their credit will be given the benefit of Ito According to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Wadsworth In charge of tire bureau the Inventory Id to Im taken as a check of the stock on hand In the plant against the books in much the same fash ion that stock is taken by a manu facturer for the year Check of 'he store of bank notes stamps government se curities paper plates and other supplies which officials said total an enormous amount tn value will be begun Sunday by a committee appointed by Mr Mellon and rep resenting all the departments such as the treasury federal reserve board and postofllce departments which have work done at the plant and a staff of Justice department agents assigned to Iiuis A lllil tho new director by Attorney Gen eral Daughrrty Mr' Wadsworth said he expected the count to be completed within a work at the outside Whether the results ot the In ventory will bo made public as Is customary when the cash In the treasury I counted has not yet been considered according to treas ury officials The report of the Justice depart ment agents who are experienced in bank examining work it was said Continued on use Three Column One Trainmen Accused of Thefts Aspirants for ree Press Prizes to Start Training at End of Spring Vacation Boy and girl captains havo been selected by every grammar school In the city for the eighth annual ield day Juno 9 when more than 8000 children survivors of tests In which 135000 now are com peting will strive to win gold sil ver and bronze medals and attrac tive special prizes to ba given by The Detroit ree Press When the spring vacation which Is this week draws to a close grammar schools their leaders chosen will start training for the gala day on the Island athletic field Teams to Number fHO or More As fine a contingent ot youngsters as Detroit schools hava boastcdifor leaders in years has been chdson this spring to head the 210 or more track teams scheduled to vie for 65 championship banners promised by The ree Press to winners in ield day competition Althbugh girl leaders now arc pointing their schoolmates to the pentathlon on Codd field May 13 their goat is the'Belle lain con test After the vacation dur ing a'hlch time many of the girls have promised1 their captains and physical directors to get outdoors and practice preliminary competi tion will begin In all schools Of Robbers Start Shooting When They Enter Hammond Stand ish Shop on 20th St a I Shortly before midnight De I tective Chief ox had devel rfa oped a pain in his side which gave Receiving hospital attend ants considerable cause for? alarm Washington April Weather outlnck for tho week beginning Monday: Ohio valley and Tennes ii region of the Great bakes: fjhower and warns at beginning of week fair and cooler after Mon day until riday or Saturday when it will become warmer with show ers course training of the girls and the boys as well for the pentath lon decathlon and ield day games will tit In nicely with the program of which has been carried cut by Detroit schools for months These stunts Include every known act of tumbling Participation in them should prove especially valu able to those children who hope to win The ree Press prizes In tho high Jump events Esther Sherman of the depart ment of health education who dl wets competitive athletics of girls in grammar and intermediate gtades will concentrate on prepar ation for tho pentathlon with the reopening of schools a week from Monday Roster of 'Schools Captains( Tho captains and the schools In which they were chosen follow: Alger school Arthur Daniels and Virginia Arms: Amos Theodore Slileliaamlth and Marie Hamel An gell loyd rankforth and Thelma Armstrong Balch orest Hill and Ruby Mc Cann Barstow Dominic Caramagno and Dougina Gust' Beard Maim and Maple Wyles Bellevue Abram Sharon and Ora Miner Ben nett Larue Sanson' and lorence Schumacher Berry Eugene Myers and Lillian Weiahaupt Bishop Chester Smith Edward Hall and Jennie Kerach: Brady Dan Mc Curdy and Catherine Woodruff: Breltmeyer Max Raskin and Dorothy Brown Burton Addison Caacadden and Margaret Morris Cainpnu Henry Jiireczek and Ce celia Skupny Capron Louthel on Page Two Column Three a nation It the bill passes and avenue He reached over slip from the position of equal 3220 from the cash in sea power we shall not again Able to secure support at home Wounded Officer Tears Self rom Arms and Drives Auto After Gangsters credible tales of cattle being burn ed alive and ot mutilations' ot soldiers during trouble" But they were exceptional and hers excess Is the rule' I dn not know who started the era of in BMfan which has continued Intermittently for nearly two years and has re united In the death nf mor than 400 and the wounding ot 1200 pcrRona The origin Is debatable but ihe rciponnlbility la not If the northern government of which Sir Jfirnea Craig la premier whhed to do no it could abate the horror over night Belfait mon tell me that Will Check Up Millions Dollars in Securities National Council at Hotel Statler Seeks Country wide Program Based on Tests Twelve American cities got to gether in a ballroom of the Hotel Statler Saturday to talk over the common dangers of their citizens and to agree on ways of best pro longing life by minimizing the chances of death The National Safety council be gan its three day session Saturday looking to the standardization of methbds in reducing accidents and fatalities in the Vnlted States The cities represented are St Louis Milwaukee Chicago Detroit Cleve land Grand Rapids Boston" Paul Buffalo Pittsburgh Hartford Conn and Rochester Nljr Seck National Program Each city has so far gone along on its experimenting adopting a scheme revising It discarding it pr meeting with success The suc cesses and failures will be reviewed during the next three days and butot the exchange of views "will crystallzi' a national program the council hopcb to serve is guide torthe whole country St Louis for example is now or ganlzing a school for automobile demonstrators "The demonstrator today teaches you how to drive but not how to drive safely or according to Carl Smith of St Louis told the council "When on the seat teaching the greenhorn how to push on levers and on ho never says a word about traffic regulations or what aldo of the street the man must drive on how fast ho can go or what to do when approaching a standing street car He shows you how to start the car how to strip it and how to oil It The first grade teacher might Just as well bach tho alphabet and net Join it up with words and an inkling of human in tercourse" 110000 Hoys Aid St Junior council he said has 30000 members of boys In their with a senate of 30 boys and a house of 176 one' from each member organization Seven hundred newsboys form one unit They tell father when driving too fast which ought to' go big warn the neighborhood against live wires playing matches and other cataclysmic sports The council was organized In 191 it when deaths from accidents ran up to ill Ism year only 18 persons met accl qentat oeatn tn ixuis "Ordinances are useless declared curbed hy forcement can't get 1 boy's fun stret Adam II Continued o' Two Column our Jury Also Asks That All Prosecution of Judge Be Dropped Rpnctal to Th ree Pnsa Toledo April Secret Indict ments returned riday by the fed eral rest and and conductor respectively Detroit and Toledo Shore Lil RADIO ANS IMtraatlana far buthttns yw own AU latest radio news P5 4 and Metropolitan Section i MRS JEAN DAY Wife of former Oklahoma supreme court justice and millionaire who testified in her behalf at the inquest Satur day Into 'the slaying of Lieut Col Ptffil Beck pioneer aviator who was killed by Judge Day for an alleged attack on her Washington Anrft 8 Charrea of ry on with so a "censorship" resulting in deletion long Sniping lof the name of Christ from the open Plants boiled to Get Distinguished Jurist as Traffic Violator JQnanfnl in Tha Waa Deeo Pittsburgh XJa April Judge Charles Barrtlett of the De troit municipal court who has at tracted nation wide attention by Imposing jail sentences on auto speeders left this city Saturday night after a few hectic hours here relieved to know that after all he was not to bo ridiculously classed with those law violators who are his own pet aversion and keenly appreciative of the pratical joking sense of his fellow Mystic Shrlner Traffic Commissioner Ben Mar shall This morning Judge Bartlett was for violating Pittsburgh's traffic rules He was taken to Cen tral police station and made to de posit 350 cash bail for his appear ance In court Monday Whole Nation Hears It It was tho rarest thing that had happened In Pittsburgh In many a moon News service corre snondents hot footed it to their Hees and in a thrlco the story ot how the Nemesis ot Detroit speed ers had himself run afoul of his favorite law was shot over the wires and blazoned under black headlines in evening papers from Key West' to Puget sound Had there been a radio sending apparatus in the house of correc tion Detroit where the tidings even penetrated there would have been broadcasted throughout tho land a loud and raucous chorus of guf faws or the house of correction la where Judge victims He in durance vile Judge Bartlett nabbed for speed ing The Judge be it known has been attending the convention here Shortly before noon Saturday bn left the William Penn hotel and told his chauffeur to take him for a ortvc around tno eastern section the city Sees Reputation Ruined They were still in the center town when a traffic policeman sta tioned at a busy corner signalled tha chauffeur to stop He stoppedTha policeman approached the car "What is the matter officer?" oulred Judge Bartlett in an affable yt dignified tone "Aw learn what's tjie mat ter soon enough" tho bluecoat re torted in a voice that Was gruff un pleasant and stern Judge Bartlett was taken aback Here was a horrible situation! Here was a reputation for stern unyield ing justice wiped away erased at one stroke! Why he would laughed out of his own court! you sure officer there has not been gome the Judge fqund voice to ask It" Snyi Cop "Can it can it!" the cop came back "You guys from tho west got an idea you can tear through this town hell bent for election here to showXyou that you Another guardian of the law bigger burlier and of more ominous visage than captor ob serving his colleague in animated converse with a motorist and thoughful of the tie that binds all policemen one to another thereby making it an extremely difficult and dangerous pastime tr indulge In 'combat with the craft wna seen at this Juncture to aprpoach "Oh my!" said the Judge to him self "Two policemen Now have a case against me whether I've broken the law or not" (Ills honor hastily recalled instances in his own court when he had marvel led at tho manner In which one po liceman testimony novetaiieu wan that of another) Calls Judge "This the row?" the newcomer demanded to know thia bird don't believe has thd other replied "Don't heh?" spoke up the more terrifying example of the species "Guess show him whether ho is or not Hoy addressing the chauffeur "turn around hero and head for the station house" The cops climbed on the running board The chauffeur made aa to obey Judge Bartlett essayed one last effort you the Judge was politeness "tell mo Just what it is that "Shut up!" commanded the big po liceman His World Crashes Judge Bartlett resigned himself to the inevitable satisfied that his world had crashed Arrived at Central station they were greeted by a grizzled desk sergeant who received tho guests from out ot town in anything but a hospitable manner Ho growled crossly when the patrolmen pre sented themselves and their prison ers Tb Detroit iurlat thought he might make an impression on ths superior ho started tn "I think those officers have made a mis "Sure" answered the unfeeling desk man "they always do Tell the Judge about It Monday D'you want to give ball? be 50 Judge Released on Bsll 11 The Judge produced the sum got a receipt for It and left the station house more crestfallen by far than any man who had over left his court with a 10 day waiting to be served There was one chance though a slim one that the affair might yet ba straightened out Judge Bartlett ruminated as he drove back to the hotel (and ha saw to It the chauffeur Continued on Pose Three Column Six Heavy Property Lojs Report ed in Western Texas and jtj Parts of Oklahoma SpecM to The ree Prese Dallas Texas April 8 Winds ot cyclonic velocity Saturday claimed at least 17 lives in west Texas and Oklahoma Because of crippled wire communication it is almost total will be added to Hundreds have been more or less seriously injured Property Loss IIenvy Property loss will run into droda of thousands of dollars The twister accompanied by a great downpour of rain struck west Texas shortly after midnight One person was killed at Bono a small town near CIebprn'c and many Jiooses wtre blown down Ttowotia In Russell county reported six dead 19 houses blown down and many In jured Relief parties have boon sent to Rowena Ballinger and Mlles At Cisco where 0 houses Wore 'blown down only one death was re ported Three houses and a church demolished nt Ranger but no loss of life was reported Twenty dve houses were blown from their foundations nt Elcctia and one person was killed! Reports reaching ort Worth from Baird were to th: effect that four persons were killed and fully 36 In jured at Oplln Law ton Okla reported two lives lost and it Is feared other sections state were visited by the storm Oklahoma City Ravaged Oklahoma City reported no loss of life but several thousand dollars damage The Kuhn farutpn the Colorado river near San Angelo was reported to have suffered heavy damage but it Is not known whether any deaths (resulted Train service In the stricken areas Is expected to be badly Interrupted Many miles of public highway are under water Communications over the entire alficted area Is badly crippled and It may be several days before the full extent of loss of life and prop erty can even bo estimated Doctors and nurses cots tents and other supplies havr been sent from surrounding towns to the stricken districts Many Hurt Uy Mghtnlng i AGreat sheets of rain preceded the wind and many were injured by hail and lightning ive persons were Injiir I In Dallas Damage there will run closf to 360000 Roofs in some sections of the cltv were blown off and part ot the walls of tho Barrett company a roofing concern were blown down Continued on rage Two Column 'our ield Day Captains Are Named TORNADO KILLS 17 IN 2 STATES Noted Lawyer Wife Tell of Acts on Night of Ill fated Party Spacial to Tha ree Press Oklahoma City Okla April 8 jury facing a sea of tense faces strained to catch every word Saturday night freed Jean Day former supreme court judge and oil millionaire from blame in the death of Lieut Col Ward Beck pioneer army aviator and commandant of Post field at ort Sill Tha Jury returned into court at tho Inquest o'clock with a justifiable homicide verdict Text of Verdiet 1 The verdict read: "Judge: Jean Dsly was justified for having ehot and killed Lieutenant Colonel Paul Beck He shot in defnso of his life wife and home and we the Jury recommend that any thought of criminal prose cution against him be The jury stated Its verdict Was based solely upon the evidence sub mitted at the inquest during which 30u0 menand women the largest crowd ever seeking admission to a court Inquiry here stood jammed shoulder to shoulder through six hours of testimony The court was silent as the ver dict was read and Mr and Mrs Day immediately left the room after shaking hands with the coroner Both had previously told their story of tragedy to the Jury Joseph Campbell a policeman who was the first witness said that when ho and the other officers reached the Day residence early Tuesday morning Mrs Day letthem in Day was not there" con tinued the witness saw Beck ly ing on the floor dead He was on his back about two feet from a couch One hand was outstretched tho other was by his side I looked st his hands and found a handker chief In one of them There was a big pool of blood on the floor After ws had been there a while Dav came down stairs He said: 'Boys I shot him I did not mean to hut my revolver went oft hv accident when went to strike him' He said he struck Beck be cause Beck wan trying to make his wife submit to him" Richard Miller another 'police man followed Campbell and gave the same line of testimony Withlngton a detective tho prosecuting attorney and others also told of seeing the body of Deck stretched out on the floor in a pool pof "Wood cw Then Prichard one of the guests at the Day home told of the events of the early evening "I knew Mrs Day just one week" said met her when she and Colonel Beck were at the thea ler last Monday they were nlone I met them in the lobby of the theater and asked them to come out to my house "Mr and Mrs Anderson Major Paddock and my wife made up the party Later Judge Day esme out We played the Victrola and danced didn't have anynew records at my house so wo Went over to Judge home "We stayed there until 3 We left in Judge Day's automobile all of us except Mis Day and Colonel Beck "Everything seemed proper There were no quarrels" said Prichard' ollowing a recess during which ay chatted with Prosecutor or rest Hughes and his detectives Dr McAtee described tha wound in Beck's head Tho prosecutor by a picture sought to ehow the course of th bullet as going forward to prove his contention that tho army man was shot from the hack Tho picture which Hughes has kept secret was passed to Lieuten ant Paul Beck Jr tho slain son Judge Day offered his story of tlie tragedy as follows: "I mel Colonel Beck through Lieutenant Kenneth Walker 1 never knew a man I loved more" he began Tho judgo ant facing the jury Ills voice was low He might have again been a judgo on the bench delivering Instructions rather than the star witness In hlaown behalf 'saw Beck and my wife throe orJour minutes before I returned to my hoffie tho last time" ho said "Everything was proper Judge Day left the witness chair tu illustrate looked in1 There I Beck one hand clutching her my wire was I saw what it "Then I went revolver When was not there ing 'Oh daddy daddy don't She saw tho revolver and thought 1 meant to kill I walked to the curtain where I saw his bulging form "Get out of here you I said tailing him a vllo name "He drew hack I thought he was going to strike mo so I struck him Tim gun exploded Beck fell dead 'My God my wife cried mean to kill him I said "My wife was you never knew a woman to suffer so" Tears welled In eyes of the witness With his teeth clenched his fists doubled ho leaned toward ITnsccutor Hughes "My wife la a good woman a no ble woman despite your slams in the press Judgo Day said want to say something to you "God knows in heaven orrest that what you intimated in that statement is not true "it la terrible to say that or don't you think It was hot right before man or God? "You havo cast a reflection on a good pure woman" Hughes in a hushed voice an swered: "Judge Day I have tried to be Continued on Puxe Three Column fleven DAY IS REED I WIE EX JUDGE BLAME IN CAUSE SLAYING Ity be or abroad tor another conference temAtsd to intraJ for 'vorld adjustments Jf we py hurling a heavy piece of meaat1 wouldslt at the first table in the the robber 1 who was In the lead councils of nations we must have one of his confederates aimed his sea power" pistol at Reno and fired The bul run navy rnen Riica ay iiimui vnicrea 'me yOutrVt rlKht up against "little navyv mtn In the and rendered him helpiese house Debate will open on the bill at noon Monday Ilppresentative uaier Marte rurwnlt Kelley win open the debate with an avowfil that tha nftW rlnArtl I ment can man the ships with the I standing st the curb all the time 66000 personnel he proposes lie engine running Chief ox will take direct Issue with fiecre iJ 'himself from the floor and tary Denby on the proposition that Sopite the protests of hts wife 96000 men are needed auto was watting to take him and flitter Debate Looma nls family to their home 616 Kina street Mondays debate promises to bs Ths robber wore speeding diwn one of the bitterest this year Twentieth street ox jumped to A minority report has been filed the wheel of his machine and tore which uphold Secretary after them He steered with his request for 96000 men In sub left hand and plugged four bullets mltting this report Representatlvs after the fugitives from his revol Tlnkham ot Massachusetts said: ver All his shots fell short A "I like Kelley personally but car turned tho cor wrong bn this He Is playing nr of Baker street ox felt hlm the Henry ord game of pacifism" self growing dizzy and stopped his The report says In part: "The machine Just a second before Ire dream of the pacifists to disarm the Bystanders who had world through example has never "him lifted him from scrapped a gun The principle of Sa ie was rushed to Recelvl limitation by international agree ment on the contrary has made the It "as txted that only great step along these lines entered ox chet bill is an attempt to Ignore jf dlooverednl a the agreement to disregard the navies of Great Britain and Japan robbera hid "hit byi to give us the smallest force of th 8 in tire history ever has fr Continued on rase Three Column Six the examination ot Chlrf 7 wouna 1 1 There were other customers North Ireland Xn1 WMWAMAW ww desperadoes entered Moat of them (scurried behind the counters and MJ a I dropped to the floor when the cun or Boundary Battle Cblef oje hU wlfe lluU Alt wltneise were brought Snturrtav i I night gave their versions of what Seeds of Cm! Warrare bull Exist oelrast pad happened and attempted to describe the hnldup men rZanrle 1 he thu who took the moner LzclVlo A lIIUo I from tho cash drawer tha police say left distinct fingerprints on the' BY ORREST DAVIS ree Press Staff Correspondent Klass enclosure These were photo ARTICLB'XXIH gOCof th robbers was descrbed Belfast April The seeds of Irish civil war exist in Bel beina about feet eirht fast and the six county area of Ulster she dominates In ree State they speak with dread of the possi na wJrini5 11 blue nd drlt 1 A aC second was said to be bihty of clashing with the Covenanters ot the north In north about 25 years old five feet nne ern Ireland there seems almost a desire for battle over the boundary question I scribed aa live feet iuchea tall rom a window of the train which brought me out of the south into the north I beheld a group of men forming a ring who ln th about two others one prone the other kicking him viciously ah winter long the cashier's cage The men in the circle were constables as Tanval clnoox here uniformed and with rifles grounded continued column nm Them criieltv in Ulster verv atmosohete suerrrests 1 1 1 a la 't 1 7 I I it tne manner 01 me people indicates 11 south Ireland too I heard A 1 ui uu vrj iimk vri angiium Weeks Warns That States Must irst Exhaust Their Own Powers Wunhlnglon April hB the AanocIq ted bnlrmnn Nolnn of the Iiourc labor vom mitlcr nine out telegram Saturday roreKed from the Centrul and Northrru Ohio Cunl Oprutor nRXK'lntion saying that lt mrmbrro uouhl be glad to and end the coal strike" by joint meeting ulth the I miner an the committee had I auggented If It uere powalblc The operator In the territory howVer nRRtiruncra 1 from the department of justice i the mrANnKe anld that they uotilil not be proerwtc(l fur violation of the nntl truRt In onrh meeting Washington April The first request for federal troops to main tain order in a coal strike zone in the present strike was turned down Saturday by the government Tha request came from Governor Merritt Mechcm of New Mexico He asked tsry of War Weeks for the detail of army troops for duty in the mine regions around Gallup where some disorders and shooting hgvo taken place Confers Willi Iln riling After a conference between I'resl dent Harding anil Secretary Weeks at the tVidte House Saturday after noon It was officially announced that troops Would not be sent Governor Mechem's telegram to the war department Saturday morn ing said that troops were desired because of "certain rough elements which authorities here will be un able to cope with" Secretary Weeks seat the follow ing telegram In reply: i "Unl ns disorder develops to a point where the state authorities are unable to preserve order with in the limits of New fed eral troops cannot he used In con nection with the coal strike" The anpfe policy will lie followed with regard to any similar requests from other states Secretary Weeks announced on leaving the White House States Must irst Act "States must first demonstrate their Inability to preserve order within their border before federal troops will be sent to assist" he said 'Tills applies to all Mates" As soon as lie learned that the war department had refused to send troops Senator Dursum of New Mexico called at the White House to make a further appeal to Harding He was told that the government would not In terfere until was shown that state troops could not cope with the trouble He expressed the opin ion that disorder of more seri ous proportions were likely to re sult when it became generally known that the government would not order troopa Intb Neyr Mexico from Texas May Appeal Harding 1 Spcclst to The Press McMechen Va April 8 Mayor (' Morris announced Sat urday that unless the governor of West Virginia forthwith withdraws the state police or greatly curbs their activities hereavouts he would appeal to President Harding Ho declared that numerous persons have been attacked 'without provocation and that one man I now in a hos pital with a fractured skull saldlto have been tho result of an attack by a state trooper Many local citi zens omo of ipromlnence the mayor charges have been arrested by the state police Sunday March Planned flnohl to The ree rees Charleston iVa April A march ot union minors through the heart ot the Winding Gulf' field In an effort to persuade non union miners of that district to join t6e i strike is planned for Sunday 1 Union miners have been notified to gather at Sullivan Raleigh' county and to march under the leadership of union officials to Cookstown 12 miles away where a meeting is planned Notice of the plans In addition to being distributed In hand bill I I contained In a half page advertise ment published In a Raleigh county i paper There is no Intimation that the contemplated march Is to bo In I the nature of nn armed parade such as took place in West Virginia last i summer In preparation for ricct Ing possible disorders however Continued an rase Throe Column Two Edward It! or chief of deter lives of the Detroit police depart ment was shot through the chest and seriously wounded tn th presence of his wife and 3 year olJa daughter Saturday afternoon by one of a trio of thugs who held up: the Hammond Standish meat mare afr 141 street Th a TIDnUC DD MeaPed after alsos 1 1 11 II ra 1 I 11 1 1 I 1 I wounding Burt Reno a 17 year old LfiLvlJM lllvlDu A cerk "ox though faint from loss wT tv YTtr rtT 1 ATT pf blood pursued the gitrnen two ON NAVY SLASH VAI AIA11 A MJJAAMAAl ta ev entni after chief I ox had been removed from the 5 operating table that the ty Denby Issues Warning That showed tuitet NnH'nn Cwretnlv pierced a lung and lodged Ini nation security is muscle under the right arm Endangered condition serious ptrcit rei rees 'Bur condition was said at that Metropolitan Rank BldsJ time to be "very serious" Ho 1 Waahlnxton not lost consciousness however Washington April Laying the I our suspect were taken at naval controversy at the doorsteps Oratiot avenue and Ch ne street half an hour after the crime Mra of the American people Secretary and other witnesses of the Denby Saturday night appealed to shooting who viewed the prisoner the people to think Of the conse coyldnot Identify them and they win released th police Qucnces ot thfli proposal otjcthal nouncod ip house naval appropriations commit 1 ox ox and their child tee to reduce the American fleet to op a purcha wHen an automobile drove up'JwL impotency tho curb at Twentieth street and Representative Kelley of Michl 1 Standish avenue our men were fgan today reported the naval ap Hn HQ remained at tha i wiixigjii tv uno AaAw owners' bill tothe house" It I entered the store provides appropriations for a per No sooner had they crossed the Isennelof 6(100 as against the low Xgbide? w7th theTd et figure determined by high naval oC terrorizing the customers and officer and Secretary Denby Mr employes Denby claims that 96000 men are V8 extreme rear of the store hl wife necessary td man the ships allotted ani vhlld between lUm and the to the fnlled States by the recent desperadoes ox threw himself in conference on the limitation of I front of them drew his revolver 1 and fired at the thugs They re I turned the fire 'a Challenge I A bullet fired by one of th gun 'Vtbil mn hlt mark I og slumped Tin bill is a challenge to the sawdust covered floor blood common sehSa of our people 'said trarnlng through his coat Mrs Secretary Denby in his statement fx ran to his assistance stooplag do not believe it meets the ap and lifting hie bend to her lap proval of our people I do not Meanwhile another of the holdup Heve such Ill advised economy can men had vaulted to a jutting piece have jhe Support of the majority of wood on tha front of the glass of arms tnay enclosed cage In which eat have coat they have made and kept Miss Gertrude ootlander 6661 Am us I I' p'1 I Wm 1 07 1 sSBSKKeByiak I' A "SISSMMbIES 'JeSHh saf 'W' 'Ay a xxBt jf 1 DBNhBHV flBv vRbeSb flu jB XA 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