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2 WEATHER Showers WT 1 9 5 PRICE: ARMY BOARD DEMANDS INQUIRY INTO DECK KILLING 1 ASSAULT STORY WEST VIRGINIA 0 BRANDED HEAT MINERS BALKED OR 4 GUNMEN BY INJUNCTION MILITARY QUIZ Says Must SB are MRS LADDERS his RADIO BUILDER ELECTROCUTED 1 4 4' will declara Trlbute In LATEST WIRE LASHES Girl Athletes Await Grafton Wed a Dozen Pentathlon Eagerly Wives No 4 Charges O' 9' Russian Bishop Accused of Theft the a1 and to I Sir for by ar A 8 ot one the the until ti the Rus of in has yet been bullet but an taken Monday APRIL 10 1922 SIXTEEN PAGES LITTLE ENTENTE WOULD KEEP HER OUT HUNGARY MUST NOT INTERERE WITH NON UNION WORK DETROIT PASTOR OVER 50 YEARS IS SERIOUSLY ILL WILL COME SAYS NEPHEW tip Ja un bol SEVEN SUSPECTS HELD ON ROBBERY CHARGES it LEBAUDY GIRL SEEKS DIVORCE or take vour ad to any one of our 4(50 Want Ad Stations one in your neigh borhood THREE CENTS DETROIT MICHIGAN Representative Britten said It the blit "had been framed by British and Japanese with the Intention of wrecking the American navy they could not have more deliberately reduced the United States to a third rate power" while Representative McArthur said a canvass he had made gave him hopes of adoption ot an amendment providing for 80000 men "or the first time in its history" said the minority report filed by Continued on Page Three Column One Troops were ordered request of th sheriff county who reported resulting from the strike Adjutant Gen I of the coun Sunday that Diedges amount of the naval forces States to the extent by the committee basic naval OX WILL LIVE CITY SCOURED Athens April 9 Serious fighting has taken place between Greek and Turkish forces on the Doryleo front In Asia Minor uln spite of efforts ot Allied powers to brlngynbout a truce there During fighting twoGreek soldiers were killed and 14 wounded and an official report states that In front ot Greek posi tions a large number of Turkish dead were seen One of the dead (Turks was an officer RUSSIA GENOA'S CHIE PROBLEM mlngttm Del and then warned me against her often told me that It he ever was in trouble ho would go to Crytal Beach Canada where the authorities couldn't get him He said that the Gratton money would always get him out of any scrape In spite ot the tact that his father had washed his hands of him Pon has friends In Buffalo which Js only 10 miles from Crystal Beach" While the police in Albany Troy Buffalo and other up state cities were diligently running down every clew In the hope of bringing the bigamist to justice further evidence ot Grafton's susceptibility came to light In the form of his "last and Irrevocable will" which In July 1 918 he made out in favor of Miss Ethel Muir specialty dancer The will is dated July 2 1216 and is written on stationery of the Hotel William Penn Pittsburgh It makes Miss Muir bls beneficiary The witnesses of the document were the beneficiary Ethel Muir and her sister Nellie Muir to whom Grafted Is said to have proposed twice The instrument Is now in the possession of Miss Muir and according to her attorney Is valid In the event of the Pittsburgh mil lionaire's death It may make the dancer heiress to 'several million dollars HI by Tes timony of Judge Day and Wife Officers Charge Stenographer Wanted Demand Whole Truth The army men feel that th tes timony of Mr and Mrs Day has "besmirched the unltorm" They declare that when the "whole truth Is known" this stigma will be re moved And they demand Its re moval Washington April The pro posal of the house appropriations committee for a navy In 1923 of 67000 men and 6356 officers was vigorously attacked Sunday in a minority report signed by five Re publicans and one Democrat and in statements issued by Representa tives Britton of Illinois and Mc Arthur Oregon Republican mem bers of the house naval committee A reduction of the United recommended would ignore policy" set down by the arms con ference the minority report de clared asserting that an enlisted personnel of 80000 with 6000 ap prentices would be necessary to keep the United States abreast with Great Britain and ahead ot Japan COLLINS WARNS CIVIL WAR IS NEAR IN ERIN 3 WOULD WED OLIVIA STONE MISS WANDA BLAIR Change Tone Tactics Immediately I INAL JeDITION HAMTRAMCK WIE MOTHER MAN SHOT Do you? Other employers by the score who need stenog raphers are iisint ree Press Want Ad columns to get thejn find them seeking good help this morn ing Chances are they already have someone on the job reading this That's the fine part about talking to prospective help through ree Press Want you hit 'em while they're looking for work in the morning You can get done what you want done before the evening news papers are printed CALL AD TAKER MAIN 9400 ONE KILLED IN RUM RAID Special to Tho t'rso Press and Chicago Tribune Herrin Ills April 9 One man killed six arrested an Im mense amount of white rnulo seized and one still captured were tho Tesults of a campaign ot Herrin officials last night and today to cripple the sources of supply for the illicit liquor traf fic Would Increase Coal Coat New York April 9 Samuel I Warriner president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company and spokesman for the anthracite mine operators issued a statement Sun day night In which he declared that accession to the wage demands of miners now out on strike would result In an Increase of 3 a ton to the cost of coal to consumers JE1KHRELIE HOUSE NAVAL DRIVE OVER TOP ELM IS SCORED Coni Output Mumps Washington April 9 Production ot bituminous coal In the United States dropped to 3500000 tons the lowest In modern coal history while work In tho anthracite fields "ceased entirely" during the first week of the coal strike according to a review ot the Industry Issued Sunday by the United Stales Geo logical Survey The spot" price of bitumin ous Is practically at the lowest price reacheo at any time since thoUnited States entered the World war the review said adding that consumers thus far have displayed no anxiety as to fuel supply Jean Day former member of the Oklahoma supreme court com mission and prominent Democratic politician shot and killed Colonel Beck some time between 2 and 3 last Tuesday morning Ills testimony at tho inquest Saturday was that he returned homo and saw Colonel Beck "with his hand on" Mrs Day who strug gled terrifically with tho officer to "save her honor" saw It through the window" he testified "I went In and got my revolver from my room upstairs He was behind some portieres when came down I walked towards him He drew back as though to strike me or to draw bls gun 1 struck ho dodged but my revolver struck him on the side of tho head towards the back The Impact must have discharged It" Lieutenant John Beck nephew of the slain aviator openly attacks this story "It's He hei says bitterly uncle never outraged a woman or run away from trouble In his life I tell you not through even If tho state Is We'll get the whole troth bore before we're through" And that appears to bo the con sensus of opinion and determina tion of tho officers who comprised the Inquiry board Their statement to County Attorney Hughes with whom they held a three hour con ference Sunday morning was 'The board does not believe the version of the Days as to tho con duct of Colonel Bock on the fatal morning The board does not be lieve this was the Thia document was signed by Thomas Lamphler major sir service the president of the board Captain Burge member of tho board and Captain Roger 8 Mc Cullough recorder Doth the latter also are In the air service Colonel Beck wa the superior of all the board members One persistent report current here Is that an official investigation of this murder has been ordered by the war department at Washington This version states that William Burns has been ordered to Okla homa City to conduct this Inquiry It Is a question whether the war department would make such an Inquiry even If a group of officers demand It or whether It Is within the province of Mr Burns to make it It Is understood that ordering such an Inquiry Is in the hands ot the adjutant general of tho arm And It I pointed out that it the local officers can make the ad jutant general feel about the mat ter as they do the Inquiry 1 likely to bo made Colonel body the eesk't covered with the flag was put Into tho baggage coach at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon with full mili tary honors Several thousand per sons were at the railway station end in a Pullman was the dead aged mother Paul Ward Beck Jr bls son and John Beck Suddenly while the casket was removed from the hearse and wheeled slowly by tho escort to the baggage car the drone of motors was heard overhead A squadron or aeroplanes from Post field circled about over the train Several times the airmen circled coming lower and lower finally one after the other the planes swooped down to within a tew feet of the long line of cars flew parallel with their tops and scattered flowers all along the way One of the officers standing by said that Mrs Beck knows th exact manner of her death 'that she knows all tho alleged sor did details (Copyright by Underwood Underwood) EX EMPRESS ZITA Budapest April Czerho Slovakls Jugn slavta and Rumania have Informed the Hungarian government that the Utile En tente would oppose the return ot former Empress Zita to Hungary as likely to provoke complications AN BLAMED OR IRE Now Orleans La April 9 Sparks from an exhaust fan are believed to have started the fire which late last night de stroyed the annex to the Elks home causing the death of Con rad Schwartz a fireman and the Injury of several Another tlieman was pinned for several hours under the debris of an upper floor which fell upon a party seeking in the ruins for several tenants reported to have i ue at Bullet in Market ight Missed Detective Lung Is Under Armpit Minority Report On Bill Says Will Be Third Rate Power Martini lnw nt Gallup Gallup April 9 our troops ot national guardsmen ar rived here about noon Saturday and martial law was in force Saturday night in the city and surrounding coal neias here at tho of McKinley disturbances coal miners era! II Brown preceded the troops here by a few hours Practically all the mines In the district save one which Is work ing on short time are idle Mine operators however predict that at least 40 per cent of the men will return to work wlttjln the next few Court Stops urther Activities In Winding Gulf Coal ield Mr Collins concluded by again appealing to de Valera to pause and consider where his language is being translated into ac tion la hurrying tho That section of the Irish Repub lican army which la opposed to Krofi State authorities on Sunday held in private in Mansion House the convention adjourned from a fortnight ago It is reported that the draft of a new constitution for the army and a resolution propos ing a military dictatorship were discussed About 250 delegates from various parts of the country attended the convention which was in session throughout the day A guard of young men in clothes armed with revolvers lined tho ap proaches to Mansion House Notice has been served on the Royal Academy of Arts in Dublin that all pictures or other exhibits belonging to persons in the North ern area must be removed auspicious Character a man giving his name as John Imber 35 years old of Huntington Ind told the police that he had been sentenced six years ago to the Indiana State reforma tory to 14 years imprisonment for killing a man but had escaped after two years and had served overseas in the army under an assumed name Ha said that he had shot the man because he had been at tentive to his wife IlOHIlEJ) GSM8 New York April Details of a recent alleged theft of diamonds valued at 180000 when tho owner collapsed and Jost consclousnssR in a subway station were revealed tonight when Leo Sherman of New ark Inserted a classified advertisement in New York newspapers offering 145000 re ward for their return Actress Says Pittsburgh Man Confessed to Her His Acts of Bigamy Special to The ree PrM and Chicago Tribuna New York April 9 That Joseph Donald Grafton bigamist son ot a Pittsburgh millionaire had as many as 12 wives scattered throughout the United States and Its posses sions was the belief expressed Sun day by Miss Peggy Davis pretty ollies dancer and movie star who Is Mrs Grafton No 4 Miss Davis recovering from arfous operation said Grafton told her after their marriage that there were dozen or more women who are Mrs rartons" "It was after our first quarrel" the dancer said Donald told ma' of them He got angry be cause I grew hysterical over It it was not long after that he disap peared "At first I thought he was try ing to tease me He would say I didn't love him end then speak of these other Ho men tioned several times a girl in Wil ls as sailants of the game detective chief who drove hla car In pursuit ot the bandits until he was near fainting from loss of blood and shock of his wound seven men are in cus today of police on charges ot "rob bery while armed" but none appear to be among the men sought for the Hammond Standish robbery and the shooting of Chief ox and Burt Reno a 17 year old clerk who also played a heroic role Suspeet Not bleatined our trien picked up by Detectives McNally Detloft and Mitchell of the police auto thefts squad biciuie they answered the descriptions of the bandits in a general way were shown to Miss Gertrude ootlander cashier in the Hammond Standish market and to several other wit nesses of the robbery but all failed to Identify any ot the suspects the police stated The men were registered as Jack Kelley 23 years old of Howard street John Eagan 27 of 856 West Ijifayette avenue Ewald Hoffman 25 of 3791 Bangor avenue and John Moore 27 of 615 Porter street Police also declared that compari son of these finger prints with those left on the glass of the cage failed to show that any ot the men held had left the tell tale prints at mar ket Police believe they have the big touring car used in the holdup and it was while to trace the car that they picked up the four Continued on Page Two Column Two been trapped by the fire damage waA estimated $250000 HANDICAPPER DIE Cincinnati Ohio April Edward Jasper handicapper judge on all Kentucky 1 EARS BRITAIN WILL TAKE CHARGE AGAIN Royal Oak Man Killed ai He Throws Aerial Wire Over High Power Cable What Is Relieved to be the first death by accident In the construc tion of an aerial for a radiophone occured Sunday afternoon at Royal Oak when Homer Chase ot 733 Pleasant street in that village was instantly killed MrChase was stringing wires for hfs aerial when a wire he was holding tell upon a high tension wire ot the Detroit Edison companjr Some days ago Mr Chase com menced the construction ot a radio set but left ths erection of the aerial until Sunday It Is believed that he Intended stringing his wires i over the top ot those of the Edison company and had thrown one wire over the cable carrying several thousand volts The high tension wire was not Insulated and at the contact Chase was electrocuted A purmotor was rushed from Highland Park'nnd three physicians worked over the body for two hours without success was an em ploye of the ord Motor company and had taken great Interest In the development of the radiophone He leaves a widow and six children He was 35 years old It Is known that his death Is the first attributed to such a cause In the state and possibly the first In the country ew persons hove at tempted to erect aerials so high In the air that It would Y' necessary for them to pass over the wires of public utility companfesThe death of Chase probably will result In warnings being Issued by the police to amateurs Installing radiophones 14000000 Goal Is Exceeded by $4000000 Conference Here Is Told The $14000000 campaign launch ed last September by the Jews of the United States to relieve the suffering of millions ot their peo ple abroad helpless victims of the world especially In Russia and Ukraine where the conditions are said to be appalling became an $18000000 accomplishment before the drive closed a few weeks ago David A Brown of Detroit na tional chairman of the Jcwlsn war relief committee which had charge ot raising this fund an nounced at an all day conference of tne roremost Jews try in Hotel Statler the grand total ot money receivea $181 168363 i Detroiter Mr Brown renort of tho cnco said that the total amount actually received up to date la $15 757500 and that the amount repre sented a contribution ot $580 for each ot the approximately 3000 000 Jews In America When Mr Brown finished hla re port ot hts activities which took him away from hla business In terests In Detroit and kept him In New York nearly six months he was accorded a standing vote ot thanks that was virtually an ova tion Julius Ttosenwald and Jacob Yxjcb of Chicago elix Warburg of New York and other men who are conspicuous among the big business men of the country as well as leaders among the Jews gave Mr Brown full credit for the success of the campaign At 6 o'clock Sunday night Mr Brown was tho guest of honor at a testimonial banquet at which time he was presented with an oil paint Ing "The Coast of Cornwall" red Butzel of Detroit presided over the dinner and the painting was presented by Louis Marshall of New York The Inscription on tho painting cites that It Is testimonial of gratitude and affection tn David A Brown Esq from his co work ers In appreciation of his dlstln fenllnued on Page Three Column ive making his final drive to the confcr Greek urk War Keeps Up in Asia DA( ING HED AT THE TIER Tonight Refined Club Night Adv DETROIT CllEAsrERT BUTTER churned fresh daily At groesrs by 11 ax A Co M05S ERXrST VAN DYKE Rtxht Rev Mons Ernest Van Dyks swrioualy ill in hta home 1JW Wash inrton boulevard He baa Hern suffering for two month from a complication of Uiaeaaw natural to advanced ae Ho rw cently vtalted Mt Clemeno in tho hope of obtaining relief but after spending nearly a month there ho returned to Detroit three weclui ago Huie the better for hla trip fttnea then he ha been wnflnel to hlw bed and ia so weak that he ran not move hlmxelf without help Mona Van Dyke is T7 ytars old lie haa offi doted in Detroit more than half a rn tury Ha received the title of monala nor i1urm hla golden Jubilee a few years tiro Ho is puator of St Aloyeius church connection with the pentathlon al ready have been completed by Miss Hherman The prize list wlllbe published In The ree Press prior to the event but already the prom ise of awardshas been stimulating to Interest lnthe affair The pentathlon Is a test for the strong school girl Tho winner must be strong and versatile and possess speed and endurance If she doesn't have these qualifications It Is impossible for her to qualify for the pentathlon Events will begin promptly at 9 In 1921 It required several hours to run off the pentathlon but Miss Sherman hopes this year to complete It in 90 minutes The faster the meet Is completed the better results obtained Miss Sher man believes Competition' In the pentathlon Is expected to prepare girls who will take part tn ield day at Belle Isle June 9 when The ree Press will 'give prizes and medals to the winners among the 8000 likely con testants tor tne annual test A list of events for pentathlon will bo announced fol lowing the close of the spring vaca tion when recording of testa In tho schools for this event will be re sumed At the same time instructions will go out from the health edu cation department governing the pentathlon VOL 8 7 NO State Guardmen Take Charge of Situation at Gallup Charleston Va April An Injunction restraining the United Mine Workers ot America from further activities In the Winding Gult coal field of southern West Virginia was Issued hero Satur day by ederal Judge George Mcplintlck The injunction was asked by 58 coal companies ot that region Tho Injunction names Interna tional officers of the union and officials of districts 17 and 29 as defendants Ths Injunction process will be served Mondajt morning ac cording to court attaches Sunday Meeting Planned Union leaders had planned to hold a series of meetings In the Winding Gulf field Sunday In this connec tion court attaches declared that such gatherings would be In direct violation of the injunction Tho Injunction Is temporary Judge McCUntlck set April 17 for hearings Under the order the defendants "are hereby enjoined and restrained from doing any act or thing that will suppress or unduly limit the rights of the plaintiffs to employ non union labor that will restrict or prevent the rights of the plain tiffs to voluntarily contract wijh their employes or the rights of their employes to voluntarily con tract with them" The union Is restrained from any further efforts that will "tend to create and establish a monopoly ot mine labor for the purpose of un reasonably Increasing wages or the Srice ot labor above what It should under normal conditions from doing any act that will lessen the ability of the plaintiffs to enter Into competition with coal operators In the central competitive states In the sale of their coal In Inter state trao and commerce" Olher Act Prohibited Any further efforts on the part ot the mine workers the Injunction continues "to unlonlzo the mines of these plaintiffs by persusjdojn menaces Intimidation threats or force or violence or In any manner whatsoever Interfering with the contracts of employers with their employes and the lawful rights of these plaintiffs to employ such laborers as they may choose and to discharge them as they see lit with or without cause" are prohibited Referring to tho meetings sched uled to be held In the Winding Gulf field Sunday the Injunction says that the defendants are "hereby re strained and enjoined from holding proposed mass meetings" prevent the train from Wexford Thousends of persons attended the meeting at' "Wexford There were only feeble signs of opposi tion to Mr Collins He declared that tho language of Eanlon de Val era had become that ot a dangerous despot that de Valera while pos ing as a lover of liberty and shout ing the name of liberty was tramp ling Its form underfoot language of our opponents" declared Mr Collins "Is that of treason not of patriotism Our existence is threatened as no enemy from the outside ever has had the power to threaten it and there Is grave danger of another period of long agony before the country Wants Quick Change Unless there is an Immediate change In the tone and tactics of certain of the people It looks as If elvll war can only be averted by a miracle In case of civil war tho British will return to restore the order which the Irish people have shown themselves unable to pre Daughler of Late of lees Special to The ro cm and Chlcaao Tribune New York April 9 Jacqueline Lebaudy daughter of Jacques Ie baudy slain self enthroned "Em peror of the will attempt to rid herself of her young hus band according to advices received Sunday night In New York With her mother Mme Marguerite Le baudy Jacqueline has fled from a sanitarium near St Cloud rance where they were living Incognito The heiress to the millions of the eccentric ebaudy was married last January In Baris to Roy Harris son of a Parisian detective She is not yet 17 Jacqueline lebaudy was educat ed in a convent in Montreal Her father wax fatally shot in their Izjng Island home by his wife In 1919 Subsequently she was ac quitted of a murder charge Spirits Chief ox was In high spiritswhen Police Commissioner Inches talked with him nt 6 o'clock Sun day evening hls principal suffering seeding to be from soreness In a highly inflamed right shoulder "I am satisfied that Chief ox will Commissioner Inches announced shortly after his talk with the wounded man The commissioner also declared that there was little probability that a rewara wouia oe ouerea the police department for the rest of the hold up men With practically every man the department hunting for the Wound Are Severe Husband of One Victim Accused Mrs Bernice Sygen her mother Mrs Mary rellck 133 elmer avenue and a friend Andrew Ma xurak were shot and severely wounded In the Sygan homa 245S Goodson street Hamtramck Sun day night Peter Sygan husband of one of the victims Is under ar rest charged with the shooting The Sygan have been separat'd for eome time Peter Sygan has ben living at 1S18 Moran etreet Bunday night he 1 alleged to have visited the Goodson etreet house armed lth a shotgun and to have ford 1 way into the room where the ure were seated He la charged with shooting the before they could Cffenl thcmselve I "We Want Says Girl Partner John St Women ace Pistols Detroit thugs Sunday afternoon introduced a new phase Into armed robbery when they returned some of the loot they did not want which they had taken from two women whom they held up with revolvers in their home at 1 o'clock Sunday morning Mrs Wonctla Landers and her ale I ter Miss Wanda Blair of 5540 John street were the victims of th' robbers who later restored to them some of the less valuable pieces of their loot which the women esti mated as being worth about $6000 Women Were Sleeping The women were asleep when the thugs first visited their residence shortly after midnight and after the ringing of the door bell awak ened them they refused to answer An hour later however annoved ringing of the arose and went opening It only polite voice in lived Approximately 1000 Expected to Contest for Medals and ree Press Prizes More winders more and better officials and more smiles from everybody is tho slogan adopted for the grammar school girls' pentathlon which will be held this year on Codd athletic field May 13 Between 700 and 1000 girls are ex pected to compete Jor the pentathlon medals and prizes to be provided by The ree Press In 1921 600 school girls com peted In the pentathlon Weather conditions were bad The fieldwas wet and heavy Only SO girls flual Ified for the pentatnalon medal Since then many Improvements have been made in Codd field jWlth Ideal weather conditions more than 1Oo girls should win tUe coveted medal The work of conducting this annual event which has attracted countrywide comment is directed by Esther Sherman In charge of grammar1 and Intermediate competitive athletics under super vision of Miss Ethel Perrin head ot the department ot health edu cation Many of the minor details lr and race tracks and In Cupa died hero today following an operation performed last Tuesday to re lieve him ot stomach trouble ADMITS JAIL JMirAK Philadelphia April rented here today suspicious character Thugs Take Back Part of $6000 Holdup Loot Acquitted Nurse Spends Sun day Morning in Church New York April Three let ters offering' to marry her have been received by Miss Olivia at Stone since her acquittal on the harge of murdering Ellis Guy Kln icad Clnclnnatl lawyer Ono of them is from a widower with three children a man of 45 who writes: "Ever since you went on trial I've been praying night and day fo God to save you You have been terribly wronged and have suffered tho agonies of hell I know something about marriage and I should like to be your hus band When can I see you?" Miss Stone spent Sunday morning the Palm Sunday services Bl Episcopal church In Brooklyn she Is resting up at xvetlg house 286 Clinton street Weparatory to visiting her aged mother In Kentucky Moscow April the Asso ciated Tress) Clergymen and oth In a number of provincial towns have been charged with ob structing the task of requlsltlon Jr'h treasurers Amnng them Bishop Anatoly ot Irkutsk who of theft and secreting valuables at Vitebsk Two clergymen aro accused of open resistance Although thefts the falsification lists and tho hiding of articles are reported from many places the ot taknff over tho treasures continues and tons of silver and other valuables are added dally to Moscowa9Ur heap now TONIGHT aXL Place for better people i 15 Adv Rebel ree Staters Discuss Plans for Military Dictatorship London April (By the It rum ored In London nnd Dublin Into Rundny night that the ftcrrot meeting of Irfah re publican nnuy In Dublin hnd (lepowed Enmon le Vnlcrn a lender of the republicans ay the Dally 31nlt Monday morn ing The newspaper Adds Hint nhnt nctiinlly happened Is a mystery but nays some con firmation of the rumor given by the statement thnt nlern now has no governing part In the republican Dublin April (By the As sociated Press) In a speech de livered at Wexford Sunday Michael Collins head of the provisional gov ernment declared that unless there was an immediate change in the tone and tactics of certain of the people looks as if civil war can only ba averted by a Mr Collins added that In such a contingency there was little doubt that the British would return to restore the order which the Irish would have shown themselves un able to preserve Train Held Up Train hold ups and attempts to prevent pro treaty meetings con tinued Sunday A Dublin train on which Mr Collins was supposed to be travel ing to Wexford found the rails had been taken up near Arklow Armed men prevented a repair gang from replacing the rails Mr Collins had foiled his oppon ents by making the trip during the night The place where the rails wore removed was on a brhlgo over the Avocar Afttfr they were eventually relald and tho train reached Enlskorthy armed men who arrived in an automobile kid naped the engine driver so as to reacnin Body of Slain lier Is Put Aboard Train for Nation's Capital dMjiI to Th PrtM and Chtea Tribune Oklahoma City Okla April 9 Charges that testimony which Jean Day and Mrs Day gave al the inquest Into the death ot Col Paul Ward Beck is "untrue" were filed here Sunday with County Attorney orrest Hughes just before' the slain officer's body was put aboard ii baggage car to be Sent to Wash ington for burial In Arlington ceme tery They cam formally from the army hoard of Inquiry from Tost field ort Hill which has conducted on Indep'nd'nt Investigation Into Colonel death And County Attorney Hughes asserted that so far as the state Is con cerned It Is satisfied with the ver dict and recommendation of th coroner's jury the army hoard has Intlmatod that it by no mean ready to drop matters and that a government inquiry directed from Washington may soon under Stolen Auto Used by Thugs Recovered police Hunt for Russell Lynch Chief of Detectives Edward If ox who gamely chased four des peradoes after ho had been shot through the breast in a pistol duel with them inside the Ifammond Standish meat market was much Improved Sunday evening and physicians Including Dr James Inches police commissioner satisfied he will recover A posterior ray the only taken thus far disclosed tnat thug's bullet did not plerco detective chiefs lung as It at first feared but entered breast near the lung and lodged In the right axilla under the right armpit No effort made to remove the other ray will be morning ox in Good Parley Expected to Begin and End With Discussions Regarding Soviet Genoa April 9 (By the seriated Recognition Russia is a dominant quwtlon In the Genoa conference and probably will be the first subject taken un der consideration All discussions will begin and end with soviet Rus sia whose 150000000 inhabitants and territory comprising a large fraction of' the earth's surface over shadow smaller states which make up the mass of representation at Genoa The supreme council's Cannes resolution of January 6 from which 'the Genoa eenferenee grew announced steps must be taken to ward economic reconstruction of central and Europe In order to restore International com merce and develop resources "all" countries which clearly elude Russia Japan Envoys Arrive Members of the Japanese delega which numbers about 60 emphasize keen interest In the Russian question Tho negotiations which were dragging on at Dalron between Japan and the ar Eastern republic they pointed out could not logically be completed pan could see the turn of slan problem at Genoa Under tho tlon made at the Washington con ference Japan Is committed to evacuation of Siberia at the earliest moment this being dependent on assurance of protection of panese Interests and also an equivocal agreement that the shevlki will not pursue their propa ganda in the Siberian littoral adja cent to Japan or along the Man churian Korean frontier It Is considered here unlikely that Japan will agree at Genoa to any program of evacuation further than her delegates went at Wash ington even If soviet Russia Is per mitted to enter the family of na tions believing peculiar conditions in Siberia create a special situa tion Russia Names Condi lions Russia asserts she Is willing to reduce her army If Japan evacuates Siberia and Rumania evacuates Bes sarabia and guarantees for secur ity of Its boundaries are given rance contends she cannot reduce her army because Germany Is not complying with the Versailles treaty Premier Lloyd George and Laming Worthington Evans England: Louis Barthou and mllle Harrere for ranco Baron Hayashi and Viscount Ishii for Ja pan Premier Theunys and Jas per for H'lglum and Premier ac ta and Signor Schanzer for Italy met both morning and afternoon Sunday to discuss procedure ot the economic conference The attitude of the Alli' on leading questions has boon decided Those countries who Invited other to the Genoa conference will be by the persistent bell Mrs ganders to the front door an inch so so A ouired If a "Mr there and while Mrs Danders was vigorously shaking her head and telling the visitor to go away a revolver was pointed at her and the door was pushed open by main force Then two men pushed their way Into the hallway and directed Mrs Landers to escort them to tho front room There she was told to In form them where her jewelry and other valuables were concealed and while Mrs Landers was complying with the command Miss Blair' got up from her bed and entered the room She and Mrs Landers then were lined up against the wall In their night clothing while the two men leisurely searched the hotue Take Deed to Property The Intruders helped themselyes to everything that seemed to be of value including a quantity of jew elry and' deeds to two pieces of property In Ecorpe then drove ft wav Mrs Landers Continued on IVin nnlicft Ihnt Three Column Three 4 'TV gfNS I I wiffi 'll 4 II fl it 4 I 1 'Mr ft AV 4 I I I '5ikr' If (i yS' I A i ai I.

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