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WEATHER I Cloudy I1W 1 INAL EDITION VOL 87 NO 223 DETROIT MICHIGAN MONDA MAY 8 1922 SIXTEEN' PAGES PRICE: THREE CENTS MASKED THUGS TERRORIZE NORTH WOODWARD WGX PROGRAM BRINGS 7 ROM CHICAGO ine and $100 Wallop DISTRICT ROB 7 SUNDAY JOINS IN21 2H0URS TO START HOME church home IN 30 MINUTES ahead MISS KI TH MAIHH THRILLS KILL 2 JH PATTERSON AT BALL GAMES DAYTON 0 DEAD Press the not TWO DEAD MEN CRASH HURTS 4 went bat and OUND HANGING a WANDERSEE JURY DETROIT GIRL WINS laun from the LATEST WIRE LASHES UNABLE TO AGREE i WELLESLEY HONOR Wesf Side Pupils Out for Revenge on East Admits Slaying Brother In Tub More Income and side offi great motor sweet nr 30 days George had to In BREAKAST IN WINDY CITY LUNCH IN DETROIT halls by two young couples In a tragedy Sunday morning one of the quartet Mrs Mar Gallagher 18 years old of who trials must 11 the first out and Sox in seventh HEAD BIG OHIO INDUSTRIAL PLANT EXPIRES ON TRAIN BARTHOU MAKES CLEAR HIS ATTITUDE HAIUES white MILDRED SCOTT the afternoon newspaper even printed di 413 the two and their TAXICAB ORGY ENDS IN DEATH DISAPPEAR AS POLICE LYER IS SUMMONED REAL SOCIAL REORM NEEDED HE DECLARES old half sat 1 DEAD 5 HURT IN ATLANTA GA RIOT tn four men armed with Before he could ap enouKh tho machine to occupants It had drlv away Police see a counter lay a wooden mallet wooden mallet forehead juet eyebrow and an endlesa pa aown a all WOMAN HONORED AT WELLESLEY Mnvle like a movie pretty and In schools west of BALLROOM Cope Harvey's Chicago ninco Or chestra starts Thursday May AdvA Then rnmn dragged both Hamm into of disturb Call Ad 'Taker Main 9400 of rivalry and Individual lau In west united the east victories of last Advised by New York Woman He explained that by ho meant his relatives who made the appeal in his behalf to the British embassy his attorney and Great Britain's diplomatic representatives tn this country Robertson would not reveal the Identity of hla law yer Mrs Mary Andrews In whose heme here Robertson la vlsltlnpr la the Person who took the initiative in halting the deportatlon hy ngrec ment of the youthful ex Toinmy Continued on ace Two Column our LOAN New masked meeting BociatlonIn Brooklyn today rubbed It members of 31272 In cash and Jewelry and escaped In a motorcycle with a aide car attachment The president of the association Stanley Quinn was addressing the meet ing when the thugs entered with drawn revolvers After collect 'ing their booty they locked in the members and fled our Highwaymen Jn Speedy Auto Hold Up Pedestrians At Point dugout Alfred Kenning 65 347 West Grand boulo rose from his chair and downfalnt 'and a 'bit course re AHCABtA DANCR TONIGWT A belter place for better peoele 15c Adv Special to The ree rets from Ctdcaav Tribune Chicago May 7 Edward Roch Srek Bloomingdale Mich brother of William Hocharek 49 years old 1921 South Homan avenue who wm found dead with his skull crushed In a bath tub of him home Satur day morning confessed to the mur der MISSINgThILDREN ARE OUND ATER 13 HOURS garret of a house at 1220 street where' he had just a furnished room His wife Mrs Mabel Petts street was Informed of Two Men Woman and Baby Are Struck by Debris as Interurban Sweeps Auto our persons were Injured and the Uvea of scores ot motorists threatened when a Detroit bound Interurban car crashed into an automobile from which the occu pants had leaped after attempting to turn around on the Pontiac road one mile northwest of Bloomfield Hills Center at 10 Sunday The machine had been backed upon the It tracks by Its driver whose name was not learned In an effort to escape the conges automo prevlous Kiss Costs George $15 DASH THROUGH THIIIIIX AT THE COIIMECM And laughter and joy Oceana of fun barrel of merriment old and young screen with delight 100 nmuaeinenta under uno great rouf for only 30e Adv Now is a mighty good time to add to your income by renting that spare room or by taking in With busi ness on the boom people working and coming to De troit to work every opportunity for you One sure economical and effi cient method of "getting a on prospective room ers ten Hits and so on is to use a ree Press Want Ad You'll find them doing what you want them to do before the afternoon newspaper is Organist Scores in Sacred Program Bishop Smith Speaks on India Eddie Stinson Pilots Huge Junker in Record light Here 283 Miles THK IER BALLROOM Refined modern carefully conducted Adv fell unconscious All IleMtorathcM Vsclvss Trudeau of Saranac who was In the next de her long time friendship and union with Dngiana Rural A Official Also Talks on Hindo Conditions Dr Hougli Gives Sermon Church and home were joined by WCX The Detroit ree Press radio broadcasting station Sunday with the transmitting of a sacred organ concert and morning and afternoon services If the broadcasting of tho organ recital from the radio studio of sta tion WCX done for the first time pleased those in distant cities who heard it as it did listeners of De troit and Michigan certainly It played an important role in Ameri ca's observance of the Sabbath Problem of India Told India and problems of that vast country wem discussed by Lester Smith who han been a missionary In the far east and llahibaksh national secretary for rural work of the A in North India speakers on the afternoon program from sta RETURN BOMBER Special to The ree Urea and Chicago Tribune New York May 7 After many weeks of consideration tho department of 'justice Is ready to bring back Wolf Ltn denthal from Poland to establish just what connection he had with tho Wall street bomb plot oY two years ago Dr Lake parlor car was summoned and tried to revive the stricken man but all restoratives failed Ho had been a iufferer from a chronic cardiac condition The' body was brought to this city and authorities after investigation ordered it sent tQ an undertaking parlor William Roberts the valet wired the family and is waiting in structions I' Mr Patterson had reservations at a beach front hotel where he was to have remained "two weeks for the benefit of his health 'Arrangements probably will bo made to take the ooay io vayion unio aionuay Starts An nrm Hand Patterson who started life as farm hand near Dayton Ohio and established the biggest business of its kind In the world on the land he had plowed as a boy retired as president of the National Cash Reg ister company July 16 1921 Upon retirement he was elected chair man of tho board of directors an honorary position At the time of retiring he was "7 years old He did farm work canal toll col lecting retailing of coal mine op erating and finally "went to seek fortune as a lancn and orchard owner before he hit upon the cen tral idea of his career manufac turing and selling cash agisters I mother in telling of her life on the farm said: "Ho used to bo called at 4 In the spring summer and fall He had to make nls fires carry up enough wood to last all day split klndUag and get it ready for the night After breakfast he would turn the calves out put up his dinner and go to school In the evening It was necessary to drive up the calves feed and Bed them carry up wood to fill the boxes and after supper to study lessons" Gives Up Western Life Mr Patterson studied two years at Miami university at Oxford Ohio and afterward at Dartmouth After ids venture as a ranchman In Colorado he returned to Day ton where he set up a factory for making cash registers 'employing at first 13 men After achieving success he aided to transform a slum factory district Into sanitary and better working conditions In the Dayton flood of 1913 Pat terson staved off threatened de struction of his business and help ed the city to recover from th disaster mv nut forget that my words are carefuhv chosen and that I speak as the chief representative of the rench government We have been here a month Some and I am nut referring especially to American or aeomedv to doubt the Sincerity of rance and aeemed also to doubt the senti ments with which we came to Genoa But wo have collaborated in every possible way rance gave proof of her good will and loyalty and continually xmade concessions so that the conference could go on "At the outset we had seml otll cial conversations with the Russians at Mr Lloyd villa and my attitude was approved by the rench government Then came the sensational disclosure ot the Russo German separate treaty You know how everybody felt about that 'If rance as alleged by some possessed secret or sinister Inten tions that was her opportunity to wreck the conference nlle we were sitting unofficially with the Russian delegations and meeting them officially around tho tables or the commlaelon on Russian annjra we wore struck In the back Had Continued on Page Three Column live IMHIST lllHVIlTr Special to The ree Press and Chicago Trlbuno Spring Valley May 7 Doubt that the skeleton found atop Cheesecuck mountain Is really that of Lillian White missing since last full from Letchworth village model insti tution for weak minded and incorrigible girls was raised to day by Coroner Stapleinun Dr Stapleman said examination of the skull revealed eight teeth missing whereas the White girl had lacked only four Altitude Is 3000 to 4000 eet in Whole Trip Marks Aerial Activity Increase Here nr WATSON Stuff Correspondent of The Detroit ree ress Breakfast in two hours and 32 minutes ot driving through the air in Eddie big Junk er piano at the rate of 110 miles an hour lunch In'Detroit tfhfs happened Sunday morning A Detroit Chicago party of seven persons made the trip the first time the inter city flight has ever accomplished to comply wih a schedule The start was made the 'hangar at Ashburn Eiehtv slxth street and eighth avenue Chicago at 10:01 a It was exactly 12:32 in when tho a 1 1 tired wheels taxied along the grass of Morrow field in Detroit after a per fect landing The tjme is said to bo a record over this route for a machine carrying seven passengers Reaches 4000 eet In addition to Stinson the party in the Junker comprised Charles Edckinson president of the Aero Club of Illinois Chicago Stanley Knauss sales manager of tho Stout Engineering labora tories Detroit Robert razier Chi cago Herald Examiner: Gordon Thomas Chicago Adolph Schaeffer mechanician ana me rree correspondent rom start to finish the 160 horsepuwer which drivftw the Junker hit on all six At 110 miles an hour the tachometer registered Twenty eight gallons of gas was consumed during the journey Climbing from the Chicago field Stinson who is the holder of the world's record of 26 hours and'some minutes of sustained flight main tained an altitude of 3000 to 40U0 feet throughout the whole distance until he neared Detroit The Junker with its load of seven persons trav eled smoothly with no perceptible vibration Illvcr Seen rom Ann Arbor Uvlow was the panorama of field lake and river gridironed by white lines that Indicated roads ields ct black loam splashes of green giowing Ivheat big farm house with barns and Elios painted red villages that look like the toy sub divisions in the real estate brokers window lakes of black spring water blotches of white that meant orchards In full all slipped by with an easy glide In an aero plane there is no sensation of speed rom 3500 feet up in the air a square mile looks to be about the size of a city block You can see 25 or 3o miles in all directions The Detroit river was visible 10 miles the other side of Ann Arbor To one unaccustomed to travel at more than 100 miles an hour the point to point speed of an aeroplane is amazing Thirty two minutes out of Chicago brought up Michigan City Ind and the Continued art Page Two Column Sh been meal from field orty SOCIETY HEM) York May 7 Two robbers broke into a of the Gates Loan As Bride of ew Months Out With Another Leaps in River New York May 7 An all night taxicab tour of Hoboken's cafesand dance ended when garct this city jumped from tho ferryboat Lackawanna In tho Hudson river and was drowned Several hours afterward Thomas Cassidy 18 who said he had been Sirs Gallagher's companion walked "into a police station and declared she made tho leap after a quarrel with him Mrs Gallagher a bride of a few months had been separated from her husband the police were told According to story she reproached him on the boat saying "You do not love me any more" and before he could reply she brushed past him and made the fatal leap Cassidy who said he "felt sick" nt the time claimed he wan too stunned to prevent her from carrying out her threat Emily Gift and Robert Arnell the other members of the party said they were In the taxicab when Mrs Gallagher jumped Party of Delegation Attaches Begins Trip rench Ready to Pack Up A 13 hour aearch by down river police for Mallnda and Vanttea Deamud children reported milng by their father William Deamud Wyandotte ended early today when the youngster were discovered In the home ot Richard Belle River Rouge Deamud'e housekeeper Mrs A Brackett had taken th children there on a visit which continued too late for her to return home thia le a distinction tho schools and their boys and girls are anxious tu acquire Holiday or AU It means those students have railed to qualify in the tor the renresentatlve teams observe this school holiday for a schools will be closed riday Juno 9 by going to Belle Isle' and urging their more fortunate mates tu vic tory The attention of athletic super visors of thesteaalth education de partment given this week to preparing the thousands ot en tries which cam to the office last riday for compilation in the an nual field day program A letter to those teachers in the Detroit system who will act as ot Hclals in the pentathlon scheduled for Codd athletic field Hazelwood and Byron strets Saturday morn ing has been sent Miss Esther Sherman supervisor ot girls' com petitive atnietics in grammar Intermediate grades Group Cards Important It is highly significant tho dale be capable Recording the ac complishments of between 600 and 1000 girls In one to two hourq Is no small task however It Is re quired If the pentathlon Is to be successful Girls who have been entered In the pentathlon are warned to pay particular attention to the group card which will be Issued them Mav 11 and wlhout which they will not be permitted to enter tho meet Teachers are urged to have tnejr entries on the neid ready compete at the hour appointed the pentathlon bulletin NEW uUTIWOIl SKATING KINK opens tonight at Palace Gardens Adv DETROIT CREAMERY BUTTER fresh daily At grocers Chicago Office Boy Takes $450 to Become Beau Brummel Special to The ree ress from Chicago Tribune Chicago May 7 Morris Bark ham aged 2f felt thu call uf spring and the desire for sumo glad ral nt wherewith to deck out him self and make a killing among his flapper friends So he secured a job as office boy with Bridge Leonard The pay was hardly com mensurate with 'his Ideas so he helped himself to the funds He Is now under arrest on evidence that during the 30 days he worked for the concern he stole tie a day and bought him self six suits of clothes together with gaudy socks and noisy ties It was his display of haberdash ery that led to an examination of his financial affairs and his arrest Will Remember Pat Defeati i in ield Day Tilts for 1 1 ree Press Prizes A little matter of tradition which I has crept slyly Into Detroit gram mar school athletics promises to bo a factor In the determination ot champions in the coming athletic struggle at Belle Isle In which the 1 winners will receive medals special prizes and trophies from The De trolt ree Press AthlptPN Woodward avenUa feel they are en titled to some revenge for the out come nt the seventh annual Held day ot public schools in 1921 elted Against Enst hide Three uf the four major cham pionships in 1921 were won by east side schools and while the spirit of competition ana the dealt to win tela Is prevalent schools they seem ehull not repeat its Columbian was side school to win junior and senior Head of National Cash Register Company Victim of Heart Atfack on Train Atlantic City May John Patterson founder and chairman of the board of directors of the Na tional Cash Register company Day ton Ohio died suddenly Sunday aboard a train bound for this city Patterson was stricken with a heart attack and died before medical assistance could reach him Her was seated in a chair chatting with his valet hia only companion when as the train passed through Kirkwood Camden county he sud denly British Ex Soldier WiU Tell Embassy of His Suit for Texas Hand special to The np ITetw and Chicago 'Tribune Bloomfield May Alec Robertson the young Engllsh'war hero who says Burns detectives him because the daugh ter ot United States Senator Cul berson of Texas returned his love prepared Sunday night to go to Washington and tell his story to officials of the British embassy Robertson hae pledged himself not to Involve 21 year old Mary Culberson In any litigation which may be attended by publicity but bn says he feels It his duty as a British subject to do as the em liassy ataff wishes He has receiv ed letter asking him to present himself In Washington Immediately Embassy tt lints Esplnimtlon The letter from the British em bassy also asks an explanation of why ho did not respond to com munications addressed to him by mall and wire during the tlnm he says he spent In Boston with three Burns detectives awaiting the de parture ot a vessel aboard which he had agreed to sail fur South America Thesn communications Robertson says he never received In hie first story he told ot being trans ferred to much more modest quar bpeaklng on the subject ot the "Renaissance In India" and the gradual turning toward Christian ity in the far east Bishop' Smith said "The religious outlook In India gives encouragement "The new India is fyr social re form vital and fundamental and 1 ho people are turning toward Christianity In increasing numbers and with Increasing eagerness "India is not the poitical creature of the past There is a well defined movement for self government and the British government has co oper ated with the present home rule bill which has been In operation In India for 15 months It hast been satisfactory and a success to lead ers of a new group In India "Revolutionary elements In India arc fast losing control of the situa tion and they have slipped to a de generate lawless alempt to over throw the powdr "burial changes have been equally startling "Leaders ot the now India are for real social reform freedom from cist freedom from child marriages and enforced widowhood They have taken a determined stand against the policy which forces children to assume tho rcsponslllbl ties of parenthood before reaching their "It has been he de clared "tor the over population and children weak physically" Horrible Conditions Depleted Mr Ilahlbaksh who was born in Bombay but has been educated in the United States since he was eight years old described the hor rible conditions In the rural sec tions of India He pictured India as a country ot 1800000 square miles and 320 million inhabitants ho speak 147 languages "With 320000000 people speaking 147 tongues one easily can realize the problem uf the British govern ment In obtaining a unified govern ment tor India" he declared "May have visited India and written about the people but there are 82 1 2 per cent In the rural sec Centlnned on Page Three Column Three tlon ot several hundred biles being held up by a collision of two machines lying glass and debris car which was swept along the right of way for 150 yards before being tossed from the pilot of the Interurban struck occupants' of other machines Two other auto mobiles were literally dragged Into the crash ns the Interurban which witnesses say could not be stopped for nearly a quarter of a mile car ried the wreckage down the track The Injured are: Hlpollt Ruzaul 2064 Trowbridge street Pontiac head cut: Mrs rancos Weiss UK Lafayette boulevard Pontiac face cut Injured about body her hus band Martin cut and bruised and their Infant who escaped serious Injury Thu victims were taken to the Pontiac hospital According to witnesses the con gestion of automobiles originally resulted when one machine either attempting to pass another or fall C'ontlnued on Page 4 Column fl Railroad Yard Scene of Trouble As Shooting ollows Rock Battle Atlanta Ga May 7 Dan Wal ton 18 years old is dead two other white men and one Negro are be lieved to be wounded fatally and two others were injured seriously as the result ot a riot in the yard office ot the Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic railroad here Sunday afternoon The shooting resulted from a rock battle between several Negoes em ployed by the railroad and a num ber of white men officials stated Charlie Giunt a Negro porter In the yard office was reproached by tho white men for working for th road during the strike police as serted and when he answered Im pudently the rock battle resulted Running Into onu ot th offics buildings Hunt secured shotguns and recruited three other Negroes Charlie Manley Robert Williams and Albert Everett and charged the white men It was stated Tho white men were unarmed but with stood the attack with rocks Po licemen In tho vicinity were rushed to the scene Divorced ather in III Health Laundry Driver Put End to Own Live The bodies of two men who had ended their lives were found Sun day One ot the men had been dead several days the other only a few hours Thomas Petts 8968 Winfield ave nue hanged himselt from a ratter In the Third rented vorced Alfred death as she was dressing her eons Thomas tz years oio Arthur 1U lor a visit toi father Albert Guest a driver for a 1 dry company Is believed to have hangetj himselt several days ago in an Isolated barn on the Guest farm near Nlne MIIo road east of John street His body was found Sunday by three little girls whq were gathering flowers Guest was last seen riday He told his wife when he left his home at 5841 ourth avenue that day that the next time he came home it would be a corpse He also had told others ot his Inten tion to commit suicide It Is said by police According to his wife he had been drinking heavily He leaves two children Willard 9 years old and Marlon 6 The farm where his body was found is owned by a brother Ill health is given as a motive for suicide Mrs Eliza Pans ier a sister with whom he had made his homo for two years said he had been 111 ever since ho was divorced In 1918 the lone west one of the four chaniDlonshlos' winning the senior title But for the victory uf Columbian girls tho east side's supremacy would have been complete The sen ior championship was won by Rose school 5806 Van Dyke avenue the junior championship by Duf field school 2650 Clinton street and tho senior title by Marcy school 6920 Sylvester avenue There Is every Indication the field day this June will be the greatest school athletic event of its nature staged any where In the United States and ters In tho New Richwood hotel after a night in the exclusive Ad ams house one ot Boston's finest hostelrios and he now believes the switch was mads to keep letters end wires from Washington out of his hands Roberts said he would have no full statement to make concerning his association with Miss Culberson and Us consequences before Mon day "I nin In the hands of my friends" he said "I must consult them before I say anything fur Slieelal to Thu ree Press from Clilcurr) Tribune Cold Indian Spring May 7 tho sedan automobile in which Miss Elsie Vnekl 24 was 'driving her father John Vockl 60 malinger ot the Winckler Candy Co of Asbury Park at Cold Indian Spring upset this afternoon broken glass in tho rear window sheared off the back head kill ing him Instantly The girl and Ernest Worth of Elbcrson also' a passenger werir bruised and cut but not seriously Calls urther Parley Useless if Red Reply Is Not Categor ically Affirmative Berne Switzerland May (By the Associated Press) Sixteen personssattached to the Russian delegation to the Genoa conference consisting of secretaries and sten ographers crossed Switzerland Sunday on their way to Moscow Genoa May 7 (By the Associated It the Russians do not giva a categorical affirmative answer to th memorandum that has been sub mitted to them rance will not go on with the negotiations and If no arrangement Is made with tho Rus sians th non aggresslon' pact be comes impossible Barthou head of the rench delegation to the economic conference and vice pre mier in the rench cabinet said to the American and English newspa per correspondents Sunday Barthou hlntself suggested the meeting which proved of historic consequence because tho rench leader emphasized repeatedly that rance had sided with Belgium on a question of principle and not be cause she wished to line herself up against Great Britain The vital problem was that of protection of the pioperty In Russia of foreigners and ranco believed Belgium was nearer the truth in treating this im portant question Talka rankly Openly rance Barthou declared sired only to maintain always I England His initial request that questions be put to him on the status of the conference met with nn response wnten orouKiie plcasantrq: "Gentlemen your silence is helpful" He continued: "Then lot tn say what Is in mlqd frankly and openly and do RUSSIAN GROU IRST AT GENOA a an Dies as Cobb Hits Homer Second Man Is Stricken as He Cheers Bush Leaguer The grim paradox of two deaths resulting from exultant surges of emotion injected a note of tragedy into two ball games Sunday It was at Navin Held that occurred Two Tigers were two on bases The White their half of the fateful Inning had pounded out six runs breaking a 1 to 1 tie Tyrus Ray mond Cobb stepped to the plate Spectator Excited Stricken In a box directly behind the Ti years vard i then dizzy "Crack" i the ball sailed over the right field wall for a home run But as the thousands of excited men in the stands rose and cheered and Lou Blue Robby Jones and Cobl crossed the hotne Kenning was sliding Into a crumplbd heap on the lloor of the box By the time his son in law and others reached his side he was dead Heart disease said the doctors It stopped the game for a few moments as the players swarmed from their dugouts to watch doc tors work isver prostrate form Kenning was carried to the club house and every effort was made to revive him but the medical men said he hod died almost as bat connected with the horsehide Bush League Game atal Once belore when Tavln field was Bennett park and the Tigers were In a hot pennaitt race with Cleveland the fatal seventh brought death to a tan whose heart wouldn't stand the strain The second victim of excitement at a ball game Sunday was Julius Van Ovcrmeer who fell dead while watching a hush league contest at Dlx and Waterman avenues There had been a clever play by one of the youngsters and Van Overseer was applauding Ho suddenly reeled and ll riends who rushed to his side found him dead Apoplexy was tho cause The body was taken to the Van Ovcrmeer home 4657 Harding avenue Ruth Marsh Elected to Office in Dramatic Society Miss Huth Marsh 712 Atkinson nvcnu a junior in Wellesley col 1 lego Wcllesl'oy Mrss was eloctofi vlre proMdoht of the Alpha Kappa Chi dramatic society of tho col lege Saturday evening it was an nuunced Sunday In addition to this honor Miss Marsh was chosen custodian of thv society The Alpha Kappa Chi so ciety is the only Greek dramatic so ciety of Wellesley and is the leading dramatic body of the college Tu be elected an officer of the society is in itself considered a high honor for only those who have achieved marked success in Greek drama during their first three years In the college are eligible to office Miss Marsh Is the daughter of Albert Marsh general manager of the Hoskins Manufacturing com 'pany of Detroit JIODY 15 OUND North Day Ont May The body of Ellis Trowbridge of Pittsburgh Ta who was drowned on a hunting trip last November in Boulter township has been found near the shore of Mud Lake by his brother Ross Trowbridge who came here from Dellslow Va( last week tn institute a search The body will be taken to Morgans ville Vtu for burial Gang Reiembling Thieves Seen Racing Through City With Shotguns in Car our masked and armed men in a low hung racing car at 12:12 o'clock this mbrning wound up a whirlwind series ot seven holdups the first of which they had perpetrated exactly a half hour before Their victims were lste pedestrians In the North Woodward avenue district When terrified residents of tho district heard the approach ot a police flier and the screech of its siren eightminutes later the holdup car had disappeared occupants the ncner oy more tnan ivu caau and considerable jewelry The victim were Charlee Van Coellie 1434 Holcomb avr nni" Mur ray Giinet" 1272 iacher avenue Edward Schlckcnbcrg 201 Colorado avenue Wlnzel Brewer 1409 Blaine avenue William Gouhley 1193 Pin gree avenue red Gregory Pingree avenue and Thomas Sul livan 1433 Leo Then Moonlight I Spoiled In all instances the victims re ported to police they were on their way home thinking of nothing In particular except that the moon wae shining and it was a fine night when hey heard the approach of an automobile driven at high speed and the sudden grinding of brakes A they turned at the sound they said they saw two of the masked gunmen leap from the running board ot th machine and come di rectly toward them with leveled re volvers Th holdup merr were unccre monlous They demanded that their victims put their hands In the air When the latter affrighted and amazed had done so one of th gunmen took from each of them all the money and valuables he pos sessed The automobile barely had cornu to a full stop before the gun men had leaped back to the running board and were epeeoing on way AH tbe holdups took place within It htncks at Pinarea and Hamilton avenue Sullivan Was the heavleat loser1 The robbers took from him J6S In cash a watch and a diamond I stickpin Van Coellie the first man I held up lost a watch and 1135 Giinst and Schlckenberg rach were robbed ot 37 and a gold watch Gregory was another light loser He bad 3 In cash end a watch taken from him rom Brewer's pockets were taken a watch and a wallet containing 28 Goohley lost 33 feed Stolen Car Is Belief The license number of the auto mobile wae reported to police who believe the automobile a stolen one A flier from the Bethune avenue I station patrolled the neighborhood for hours but at 4 o'clock thia morning had found no trace of the mysterious gunmen The robberies ar believed to have been the most 1 rapidly executed In years Shortly before the series began a patrolman at Twelfth and Howard street signteq an automontia wnicn were shotguns proach near question Its on swiftly possible connection' Glass Kills Rider 4s Auto Upsets KOIIIIKIt IS SHOT Mexico City May (By As sociated Press) Monte Michael alleged to be an American Sat urday with six men entered a small camp near Zacamlxtla maintained by the International Petroleum company and de manded that the paymaster sur render th funds In his posses sion The paymaster refused and while a struggle was In progress federal troops entered the camp and shot and killed Michael and dispersed the mem bers of hl band iiig falais ror 1an tonight Superb music No floor Adv Kidnaped By Senator Lover Says A New Trial of Arson Charge Is to Open Tuesday After nearly seven hours' deliber ation the jury In the case of Wil liam 4 Wandersce prominentporting goods dealer charged with atson In connection with the burn ing of his store on Gratiot avenue early Christ ma morning reported to Judge Pliny Marsh nt 12:15 o'clock Sunday morning that It wns hopelessly deadlocked Tho jury was Uncharged and Judge Marsh ordered a retrial Of the case set for Tuesday morning It was charged by tho state that Wandersoo was responsible for the Installation of a complete electrical equipment consisting of colls spark plugs and dry cells found In the basement and second floor ot the building at S35 Gratiot avenue Itwas alleged that ho left the place jibout 40 minutes beforu tho tiro alarm was given Bo was arrested Christmas day on Ids farm near Monroe STEALS TO GET GAY CLOTHING Pretty Charms Too Much for Him Cafe Man Wields Mallet Perhaps It seems like ft pretty reasonable assessment that Judge Heston handed to George Ramm in night court $15 or 30 for and 'Mildred Scott of 1524 Gray avenue for Mildred Is a 20 year old wait ress in Charles White's restaurant at 3785 Jefferson avenue and de cidedly good to look at But when Judge Heston gazed at the epot where the wooden mallet landed over Ramm's Gght eye he thought 1 15 extra ought to be about hut that is getting of the story Action Ia It was something Tht re was Mildred attractive picture as she went about her humdrum tasks ot swabbing off the tables and such in the restau rant where George Ramm 32 years old of 533 Mt Elliott avenue sat at a table folowing the good look ing waitress with his eyes And suddenly he railed hep over to the corner where he sat and she be ing a good waitress of course an swered And then heavens! he up and tried to kiss her Crescendo on the violins Strug gle More struggle Moro crescendo Struggling to the last ounce of her strength and just as George was crushing the fair Mildred to him for the kiss in walked Charles White 40 the proprietor He had no facile six shooter? no lasso Mallet Effective Weapon But over on the homely but effective went the on George north of his right Genrcre dreamed of rade of cunids rushinir beautiful rainbow balancing ver trays laden with hnt i right off the griddie tne nonce and Charles White and Mr night court on charges Ing the peace Mr White was of leased Mr Ramm drew $15 Jitdcre Heston thmiffht about $100 worth of bump over his right eye Ramm paid the $15 fine I aSBjSk r'jjKz ga lixjf 4 iT Ay?".

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