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PUBLIC LIBRARY JUN 2 4 1922 1 i'j DEtROlT INAL EDITION MINE GUARDS QUIT UNDER THREATS PERILING PRDPERTIES i 4 Daois inds No Honor VETS EARNING NO BUSINESS TUBUC LOVETT i ft ES IL DAVIS SLAYING'DENIED CHANGES BY IRISH LATEST WIRE LASHES BILLION DECLINE GUILTY MURDER 4 un girls tool all lodar's SIMULA CHIE AND AID GUILTY IN STOCK RAUD $2000 OR OVER MAY LOSE BONUS 3 KILLED MANY HURT IN STORM 2 KILLED IN MOB ATTACK ON CAR LIKE ANOTHER PAY' I DM IS CHOSEN iOUNCIL CHIE RIENDS MEASURE PLANNING EARLY ACTION Virginia Outbreak Looms 1000 Depu ties to Mobilize June 23 Antonio found guilty eo murder of 5 year Varotta who was No Pity for Murdered CanBeound inHerrin CASH GITS PRIVATE INTEREST HE ASSERTS the first a 4 Secretary Refuse to Discuss Question of ee Paid for Conduct of Campaign NAMED TO HEAD CHURCH COUNCIL OR NEXT YEAR Pal Bud Tay Ind ban round to air arena of Portage home col the wreck JUDGE KEIDAN SCORES $1000000 SWINDLERS Eagerness at ishing Causes Boy to Drown Senator Suggests That War Service Payment Be Lim ited by Incomes Sr ctal to The ree PrM Adrian Mich June 23 Harold Edward Miller 4 years old son of Mr and Mrs George Miller of inch street bled to death ri day as the result of the extrac tion of two teeth on Wednesday evening PRICE: THREE CENTS Washington June In a re port to the prohibition unit here ederal Prohibition Director Davis of Michigan asserts "that there is little it any honor among boot "When a bootlegger Is arrested said Director Davta "It means a long list of others because they can't stand punishment and see others go free They don't work together and they are always cut ting each throats Often spite serves a good reason for giv ing another bootlegger away "On one occasion when a man was arrested he Immediately said he knew who caused it and named a allow whose girl he had recently stolen On rtill another occasion when a man was arrested ho In formed the officers that he should Continued on Page Three Column Three Washington June 23 Charges of misconduct in office filed against Judge Charles Lobinger ot the consular court of China were said at the White House riday to be without foundation The judge it was said will return Immediately to China "THINK HEALTH AND BECOME Professor' Emile Coue famous rench psychotherapist explalne the method br which suggestion Is used to cure varloue physical and mental diseases There' are other splendid fea tures four full pages of marvel ous Magic Pictures for boys and girls develop with water "Unde Wlggtly'e Adventures'' stories for boys and craft I complete analysis of 4 had said Jonesi "but I haven't Tokio June (By the Asso ciated Dress) The Japanese cab inet riday decided that Japan shall evacuate Siberia according to reports carried by the Japanese news agencies The decision has been referred to the Imperial diplo matic council The cabinet decision to withdraw from Siberia Is declared to consti tute a reaffirmation of policy In that country The date of evacuation will not be fixed' until after the matter has been considered by the diplomatic advisory council Saturday Revenues for 1 1 Months Up to May Total $2732000000 Washington Juno 23 Govern ment tax receipts fell oft by more than $1000000000 during the 11 months of the current fiscal year ns compared with a year ago ac cording to the classified collections for May issues riday by the inter nal revenue bureau The period revenues from taxes aggregated 12 702000000 as against $3806000000 for the corresponding months of 1921 while for the month of May the total was $102515000 compar ed with $217560000 during the same tnunth a year ago Income and profits taxes amount ing to $1702000000 showed a de crease uf $811000000 while the re ceipts from transportation amuse ment and other miscellaneous taxes aggregating $613000000 declined by $193000000 Taxes collected under the na tional prohibition act for tho pe riod aggregating $1875000 disclos ed an increase of $150000 while taxes on distilled spirits amounting tn $43000000 decreased by $35000 000 alls in River in Leaning Too ar Over Bank 3 Others May Die rom Hurts Vacation pastimes brought death to one boy and probably fatal In juries to three others riday A youth may die from hurts suffered when a woman autolst ran into bis bicycle Tommy Irvine 8 years old 48 Jefferson court his brother Harry 14 and Remle Wybo 12 of 494 Jefferson court were fishing with nets for minnows from a boat sup at the foot of ield avenue Body Recovered Tommy leaned over too far lost his footing and fell into the river Two men hailed by the other lads dived into the current but were un able to rescue Tommy Then Harry ran to a canoe house and telephon ed to the police Patrolmen td Shaw and Russell Downs aped across the stream In a motor boat from Belle Isle station They recovered the boys body and worked over it for an hour with a lungmotor without avail Mrs Thomas Irvine the drowned child's nwther prostrated by his Jury Convicts Charles Jonesi and Oscar Rubin After 3 Hour Deliberation rainfall of hlmaclf said Wash compensation save hia revolutionary urge and accept a rench and Indian Sheriff Aids Battle Clarksburg Crowd Successfully' Clarksburg YV Vs June The Harrison couniy court late ri day authorised Sheriff Loco! Young to deputize 1000 men to Assist him in preserving order in connection with the miners strike In this reg ion The court took up the ques tion after it received reports ot an attack by a mob on a street car carrying non union miners and officials of the Hudson Coal com pany Two men were killed in the fighting When the ear stopped the mob swarmed on the platforms in an at tempt to drive the non union men out James Klrdwell chief clerk ot the Hudson company was struck on tho head and others of the party Injured The deputy sheriffs on board fought the crowd which finally madb its way Into the smok ing compartment where Orr Continued on Page The Column "THE ROMANTIC COURTSHIP GILDA How the actress found her own romance while playing a IIHUUI iVIB III drama and how ehe descend ant of star of the London stsss herself achieved stardom New box scores live born the long mustaches of Eaatern Europe they lay at peace for all the crowds the laughter and the sullen looks Bricks beneath their heads for pillows pick boxes for their beds they lay waiting the call of friends and relatives who loved them once and have lost touch with them in the vicissitudes of transient labor Most of them it ts sate to say will be forgotten In the potters fields their meager courses run their stories finished They came here because they want ed a living and because other menwanted to make money They died hunted across the fields stoned shot at tied and dragged down dusty county roads because other thousands feared these men would take away their living The trees are green In Herrin and the birds are singing and the crops ripening in the mid summer sun rom the morgue the crowds drift to the billboards In front of the picture show to see what the posters promise to the drug store for soft drinks and then home for supper Only the outsiders show surprise and horror People here say "This is our business Sorry but its done Let us alone We will 'handle this all right good people to get along with good as anybody If you mind your own bus iness We'll attend tcCpurs" 5 Sunday ree Press BANTAMS IlGirr DRAW 'Aurora III June 23 Moore Memphis and lor of Terre Haute tamwelghts boxed 10 a draw In the open here tonight CHILD KILLER TO PAY New York Marino was night of the old Gluseona kidnaped in May 1921 and aft erwards drowned in the Hudson river Sentence will be passed next Wednesday The jury was out over eight nours boys nmi in lake Special to The ree Press Grond Rapids Mich June 23 Officers dragging Woods lake late riday night recovered the bodies of Henry Brinks 19 years old and Bert Slop 17 years old drowned when a small boat scuttled a few hours before They had been attend ing a picnic orf the Oakdale Reformed church Special to Tho Trw Pr Grand Rapids Mich June 23 Nurses at St Mary's hospital endu ed a 38 hour vikll riday in their efforts to prevent Norman Chapin 17 months old son of Dr and Mrs Howard A Chapin of Jenison from falling asleep The child swallow ed an opiate when the father a veterinary left the baby alone for a short time In his automobile Not until the effects of the drug had been completely overcome was the baby permitted to rest physician tearing conse quences The child was patted and aggravated continuously until de clared out of danger Electrical Hurricane Sweeps 3 Canadian Provinces Loss to Property Great Winnipeg Man June 23 Three known deaths scores of injured and extensive property damage was the toll of a half hour electricaltorm of hurricane violence that passed across Manitoba early ri day The province is recovering from the short but fierce blast which swept down from Eastern Saskatchewan striking Brandon Portage La Prairie Winnipeg and Lydiatt then passing over the On tario boundary Brandon escaped without serious damage but Portage felt the full force of the blow Public buildings churches hotels and residence suf fered severely Grain Klevatera Destroyed Snapping of high tension wires started a fire that destroyed three grain elevators of the Metcalfe orsyth and Premium companies The Methodist Hngllcan and Pres byterian churches were unroofed and otherwise badly damaged cnaries apence was killed when hfa lapsed burying him in age Accomnanled bv a tropical violence the wind struck Winnipeg at 84 miles an hour with terrifying electrical disturbance Terrific gusts of wind shook the city to its foundations Itoofs werb carried away from many structures An ice warehouse toppled In a heap hundreds of tree were up rooted or stripped of branches win dows were driven in like paper telegraph and telephone wires were broken down adding an element of danger which later In the morning cost the life of Garfield price 8 who grasped a live wire and was instantly killed In a half hour the storm passed on Heavy Damage to Crop At Lydiatt where the home of Mr Pauline Kormrle was dismant led end nine months old baby was killed and Mrs Kormrle and an old er child were brought to Winnipeg seriously injured The Canadian Pacific railway station was shifted from its foundations a railway sleeping car was overturned Vand several employes Injured arm buildings and crops also suffered The rain was accompanied by hail In some areas causing heavy dam age to crops The damage In Portage LaPrairle will reaoh the million dollar mark according to a report received here No estimate of the damage in the outlying areas Is available Even Children Peer Unmoved at Corpses Them Town Says Herrin III June (By the Associated Press) Herrin's honors 1 dead lay pale and stark riday night in the vacant store building that has been pressed into service as a morgue since Thurs mine battle Past them filed men and womenyoung and old bare focted boys and little girls in their rummer clothes They lifted muslin clothes and peered at the pale faces and at the wounds left by pistol bullets rifle balls and buckshot They lingered then reluctantly pressed on to some adjoining hor ror eager to miss nothing Never a word of pity from the crowd These were the enemy slain In a labor war These were the men who came to take away their jobs "Well It served them right That was the attitude of the town a expressed by its men and wom en and it children Tears node sympathy not much These were the enemy The dead of half a dozen nation alities With sloping foreheads of the Slav high profiles of the na Charged With Killing Va Sheriff in Mine Trouble Charlestown Va June 23 (By the Associated Pres) Rev Wilburn charged with fatally shooting a Logan deputy sheriff In the miners march of last August during labor disturbances in the southern coal fields riday night was found guilty of murder tn the second degree by a jury in the Jefferson county circuit court The jury was out for one hour and 35 minutes The defendant who has remained imperturable during the two weeks of his trial received the verdict in the same calm manner that haj marked his bearing during the past two weeks His attitude was one almost of indifference ENVOY TO CHINA CLEARED CHARGES I or Those Who Like To Read Tn addition to its regular Sun day eatures The ree Press will print tomorrow an extra 12 page Library and Book Special Illus trated in compliment to the American Library Association Con ference to be held next week In Detroit This section will be of Interest not only Co librarians but also to the mass of newspaper readers who enjoy books and use libraries Among the contributor are: John Chipman arrar Editor ot The Bookman May Lamberton Becker of the Literary Review Adam Strohm librarian Detroit Public Library rederick Melcher managing editor of the Publishers Weekly Carl MUam secretary of the A A Bowker editor of the Li brary Journal May Massee editor of the Book list Bishop librarian Uni versity of Michigan Azariah Root librarian Oberlin College Theodore Koch librarian Northwestern University John Cotton Dana librarian Newark Public Library William Grosvenor Bleyer direc tor ot course in journalism Uni versity of Wisconsin Charles Brown Marlon Hutnble Bernice Stewart Leila Bracy Marton Holden Lee Smits Ida Wright and others Order Your Copies Today ree Press New Arbitration Plan Being Devised tails Withheld WEATHER Wanner ROUTES TO COUNT STRIKE VOTES Cincinnati June 23 Jewell head of the railway em ploye department and nine other rail executive who have been attending the American ederation of Labor conven tion left here tonight for Chi cago where tomorrow they will begin a canvas of the na tion wide railroad (trike ballot 4000 DEAD IS RIOT TOLU Shanghai June 24 (By the Associated Pre) Although there 1 no report of confirm ed accuracy on the casualties In the Klangs! mutiny a probably fairly accurate estimate places the dead at 4000 in Kianfu Tai ho Wanan and Lungchuan The greater portions of these cities were destroyed It is believed no foreigners were slain or taken captive DETROIT CREAMERY BUTTER fresh daily At grocers Watson Maintains Washington Accepted Money Grant for War Service Detroit ro Press Burson Wt MotropoHton Bank Bldg WaabingtoD By rro roo Private Leaded Wire Washington June Under an amendment to the bonus bill which was introduced in the senate riday by Senator John Sharp Williams of former soldier who has an Income of 32000 or more would be in eligible to the benefits of the bonus measure Senator Williams Intends to urge the adoption of the amendment when the bill la brought up for con sideration If adopted it would greatly curtail the cot of bonus legislation and deprive a large ele ment of the veterans of tensMj Advocates of the house bill made no new effort riday to force the consideration of the bill ahead of tariff but may do "PY daY Controversoy over the question whether George Washington favor ed or received a bonus was re newed In the senate when Senator Borah read extracts from different lives of Washington to show that he declined any bonus for his rev olutionary services He said Sena tor Watson of Georgia was in er ror In a statement ho had made earlier that Washington did receive a bonus To this Senator Wataon aid that he had ington refused expenses for service but did Knmia aftp th war At that time' Senator Wat son said Washington not only worked for a bonus for hie soldiers and htmself but accepted a bonus In money and land Senator Watson quoted from au thorities to show the Virginia leg islature after the refich and In dian war granted Washington and his soldiers 40080 pounds out ot which Washington himself received 300 pounds a operators and the United Mim7 workers of America are qmt ting their posts riday night with the result that unless sub 1" stitutes are obtained millions' of dollar worth of mines soon will become a total Ips through flooding It is under stood that they are quitting be cause ot threats they nave re ceived from local miners Most? of the men quitting are not member of the si I it was said by coal operators and state officials who ridsy night a made a hurried tour of the county to confirm the reports previously received from anon ymous sources They have been caring for the mines since the strike began on April Thursday and riday there have been many rumor here that turtner raias on mines in retaliation for previous labor troubles were planned and that the pumper and guards would be told to leave soon NO PUNISHMENT KILLERS SEEN JL DETROIT MICHIGAN SATURDAY JUNR 24 EIGHTEEN PAGES Rev Rogers I Elected President of Detroit Church Organization Rev Rogers dean ot St cathedral will head the De troit Council ot Churches during the ensuing year having been chosen president at the third an nual meeting ot the council held riday at the A Other officers elected were Vice president: Rev red Chamber lain Leete Jr 8 S'Kresge and Watson honorary vice presidents Bishop Theodore Hen derson and Bishop Charles 11" Hams: secretary Ixgan treasurer Charles Clark Chairmen Named Tho following committee chair men were appointed: Evangelistic Rev McCormick social serv ice Martin publicity rank Weber ministers end church lo cation Judge llny Marsh reli gious education Rev Edgar Jones finance Cndmore younir peoples Ernest Marks atn letics Rev Homer Henderson Mrs Edward Wilson race relations Itev Gaius Glenn Atkins The executive committee consist of Rev Glebs Norton Wilson Clark Rev Morgan Rev Hoag Woodroofe Rev Niebuhr Ray Wollam IL TmblJnG Iynn Hough Rev A A Keiser Rev Ganta Rev ion Sullivan Haldw Rev Stroh Rev Bold Rev George Gullen ranlt Robert Ernst Warren and Mendenhall In addition a committee of 50 Is to be organized to promote open air meetings the city To be divided Into nine districts with an organi zation of ministers and laymen as signed to each Secretary In Hospital Executive Secretary Dear son who is in a hospital In due to Injuries suffered In a rail road wreck sent his annual report to the meeting the report being read by Dr Joseph A Vance Secretary report dwelt on the lesson of "organization taught by the World war and rec ommended that the Council of Churches arrange a program for the year character Ohio Houses Wrecked by Ni troglycerine Explosion East Liverpool June Two men believed to be oil well shoot ers were blown to atoms and three houses in the outskirts of Wellsville were wrecked riday when nitro glycerine being transported by au tomobile exploded The meh are believed to have been from Jewett as on a card found in a piece of clothing was written Ksne oil shooter Jewett Pieces ot the bodies were picked up a thousand yards from tbe scene of the explosion A woman and her two children asleep In the home of John Thomas narrowly escaped serious injury when a section of the house caved tn a a result of the concussion Ths homes ot Edward James end' Edward Thoma also were damaged Authorities believe the nltro gly cerine car was being driven Jewett 36 Hour Battle Saves Tot's Life Transportation Chief Makes Announcement of New Transfer Points Complaints have been received by the street railway department that cars marked and "Car have failed to stop to take on intending passengers which resulted riday in an order being issued Instructing ail motor men to make these stops and warn ing them that failure to do so will result in dismissal Ros Schram assistant general manager of the 'city lines said that Mayor Couzens at the Inauguration of municipal ownership had In formed the street railway commis sion that while cars are on the street they are for the convenience of the public and stops must be made Several' changes In the routes of cars and other alterations were an nounced by Rider superior tendent of transportation Passen gers transferring from the Michi gan line to Clairmont cars will make tho change at a loading ela tion at Junction avenue Instead of transferring from eastbound cars at Thirty fifth street passen gers will be requested to make the transfer at Junction Conductors will announce transfer points The McGraw line will be discon tinued Monday Rider announced and the Grand Belt line will op erate via that avenue The Grand Helt cars will not be operated via Warren and ourteenth avenue to erry Park but will travel east bound from Junction east on War ren to McGraw east to Linwood north to erry Park and east on erry Park to ourteenth where the present regular route will be lesumed Transfers issued for use on McGraw line will be punched "Grand Belt" In explanation of this change Rider said that the Grand Belt line operating over McGraw will serve as an intermediate line hon oring and validating double trans fer Issued by Intersecting lines He also said that conductors on the ourteenth line will hereafter when arriving at the Manchester loop issue In addition to Wood ward Hamilton and Northwestern belt lines double transfers for ush via Hamilton boulevard and Trum bull lines out enkell avenue These double transfers Issued for use on the Hamilton line will be honored on Trumbull and Northwestern belt lines Japanese Decide To Quit Siberia in Bootlegger Ranks Usually on Others When Arrested Himself Dry Chief Says Dstroit tee Prws Bureau Metropolitan Hank Bldg Washington rsewn uva ocirco Bl League games with standing of the teams and other Interesting information Latest developments of Radio new inventions Then too all the news of all the world ful of comics that will afford many a chuckle a Rotogravure ytorial full of local interest automobile and financial news and plays society pages and pages for women In fact everjlhing that you could wish for in any newspaper is yours In VOL 8 7 NO 2 7 0 Republicans Declare Wilson Was Not Assassinated at Their Instance Dublin June (By the Asso ciated shooting of Sir Henry Wilson was not done at Republican Instance or of the Irish republican army if it were tho Irish Republican army would ac knowledge the fact" says a state ment issued by the publicity de partment ot the dissident army at the our Courts headquarters early Saturday morning London June'2x' (By the Asso ciated The funeral of ield Marshal sir Henry Wilson will be ld next Monday In St Paul a cathedral the empire's military pantheon" The body will be in terred In the north transept be side the grave of ield Marshal iArd Roberts ull mllltanr honors will be accorded the dead eoldler Cathedral toBe Opcn( Except for the portion Of the cathedral reserved for relatives of tho field marshal members of par liament and other prominent Per gons the whole of the vast edifice will bo thrown open without tlcKota to the general public Over the lonR route from Eaton Square the home of ield Marsha) Wilson Io St hthcr of the public will have opportunity to pay their last rvspccta The two men arreated aa assas sins of ield Marshal Wilson were arraigned on a charge of mer riday and formally remanded for a week In order to enable further Investigation Little has been add ed to the identity or the motives of the assassins except that they prove to be former soldiers one of them was employed as a doorkeeper In a government office The expressions of horror ana Indignation over th assassination are not confined to England I riday they extended virtually over the whole world Irge numbers of message of condolence reached Lady Wilson from sovereigns great soldiers and cabinet ministers in various countries J)e Vnlern Attack Ulster Thu far the responsible repub licans in Ireland who have spoken regarding the assassination Includ ing Eamonn do Valera have dis avowed any knowledge of the crime or its perpetrators Mr De Valera riday night however Issued a po litical manifesto In which he de nounced the policy ot the British government and that of Ulster as the cause for such outrages Sir James Craig the Ulster premier also Issued a statement In which he asserted that the assassination would servo to widen the breech and harden the hearts of the Ulster ites for their policy of no surren der Regret was expressed in gov ernment circles riday that the murder mlalit be calculated to de lay an Irish settlement EXTRACTION TEETH LEADS TO DEATH A Wealth of Splendid eatures Await You in Sunday ree Press "THE CRIMSON BLOTTER" Isabel Ostrander a mystery and detective story In which a crimson blotter and its telltale stains ptay an important 'HONEY OR of Jack lively stories woven about a tall blonde emotional romantic girl who made up her mind early in life that she was going to have a breakfast room when she was married Herrin Now CalmjBut I Murder Inquiry 4 Lags Herrin III June (By the Associated Miners on duty st i the closed mines ing Williamson county through an agreement between the coalj: 4 1 of "organization that the Council of ii a "sufficiently positive in rhailenee the atten tlon of all Christians in tho coun try regardless of denominational He also bespoke the "promotion of all the ideals and principles of the Sermon on the Mount aa applied to the religious social Industrial and moral life of Detroit and of al! tho country The council passed a resolution condemning the Johnson bill and kindred legislation proposed in con gress giving the department of la bor control over education of aliens Dr Vance declared that the pro posed program seemed to carry a strong hint of soviet Influence The council endorsed the Detroit Citizens league campaign for funds without Investigation HARDING CALLS MEET TO DISCUSS MARINE Washington Juno 23 President Harding it became known riday ha issued invitations for another dinner conference at the White House next Thursday when it was believed the administration mer chant marine bill would the major Interest of the executive and hi guests Detroit pee Pr9S Bcmtu Vfi MstrocmHUm Bank WMWwrton Rv rs rras Private (nd Wlr Washington June Stirred by the murders in the mine region ot southern Illinois administration ieauerB nave taar urumutie to the coal strike In both the bituminous ana sntnracttor fields Probably by the end of an other week the government will have laid Its program before the operators and the miners This program it waa learned ri day provides for Intervention by the government with a straight proposal for arbitration by a corny mission appointed by the president which shall have authorisation to adjust wages fix the term of' new contract and provide that the scale to be adopted shall be retro active to the date when tnkr er resume operation Information obtained at White House was that the Continued oe mi Three Coloma BLAST BLOWS 2 MEN TO BITS An extra weekly income for the housewife is especially convenient these days Earning it herself makes itv doubly gratifying No nSed to add to household duties Rent that spare room ree Press Want Ads speed ily bring the most desirable roomers Call "AD MAIN 9400 it Your Honor I tragic death said that every sum mer for the last several years Tommy and Harry have been spend ing their vacation on the farm of relatives in Canada "This she i said 'Harry wanted to attend summer school so we didn't send the boys all May Be atal Teddy Zamojskl eight years old 8044 Edgewood avenue and some of his playmates were climbing mu" berry tree In a vacant lot on van Dyke avenue just around the cor ner from the home ot Teddy father Joseph The boy went out too far on a rotten limb it snapped and he fell to the ground Teddy waa tak en to Receiving hospital where it was found that his skull and left arm were fractured His condition 1 critical Angelo Romeo five years old 11519 Hawthorne avenue and hl elder brother Sam were having Continued on Page Two Column ire SPECIAL TRUNKS called for and delivered at 70c Mttls Baggage Park Blvd Cadillac 2188 Adv PALAIS PATRONS ARE THE ELITE Particular People Prefer Adv I HARDING STIRRED BYtfMASSACRESf SEEKS TRIKE END Advises Them to Return Cash Taken rom Poor Both Are Jailed Pending Appeal Charles Jonesi and Oscar Ru bin of the defunct brokerage firm of SInkula Co which closed Its doors overnight upon agents and customers alike leaving hun dreds of foreign bom Detroiters losers by upwards of $1000060 were found guilty by a jury of the court before Judge Harry Keidan riday evening Thu Jury waS ou three hours ant 15 minute retiring 4:24 riday afternoon and bringing In Its ver dict at 7:39 Defendant Seek Appeal Attorneys William Qualne and Beth Wicker had p(it up a hard tight for the defendants filed notice of appeal and Judge Keidan granted 69 days for filing a bill of exceptions Jonesi and Rubin were remanded to tho county jail without ball judge When the verdict was returned said to Jonesi: advice to you Mr Jonesi Is to these people their money back I "You enjoy the fruit of your work in Detroit" ald the judge Jonesi Trotets Innocence understand bow a man with any conscience could take the money from these people" give the money buck but I haven't got said Jonesi dog gedly "Had I been guilty of tho charge I would have pleaded guilty but I am not I am Scores of witnesses victims njt the SInkula operations a well as 15 of the 75 salesmen whowere sent out with order to sell to foreign born customers only and many of whojn were themselves heavy loserC according to their testimony when the firm "blew had been on the witness stand dure lug the long trial Many of the stories toid by the witnesses revealed pitiful trage dies in which life savings had been wiped out by the alluring promises of great and quick profits made by the SInkula company aaleamen many of whom themselves "believ ed" hi the project to the extent Continued on Three Column One TAX RECEIPTSSHOW Highland Park Paper Advise Readers to Refrain rom Making Subscription absolutely refuse to dlscusq or to consider as a matter of public interest the question of the fee being paid the firm of Ward Pierce Wells Co for expert advice in the campaign the Detroit League is now making for 50000 to meet its two year budget" This was the answer riday aft ernoon of William Lovett sec retary of the Detroit Citizen's league when asked for a statement relative to the arrangement with the Chicago firm which describes Its business on its stationary as "financial organisation" for tho conduct of the campaign now un jjerway "Not Publie's "Inasmuch as the Citizen's league Is asking the public for financial support during Its campaign do you not consider it due the public to frankly state what portion of the 50000 campaign fund being collected will go to Ward Pierce Wells A Co and what portion to the Lovett was asked do not" he replied "We are not going to dlscuose to the public as far as I am concerned anything we regard a private business We are not asking every man woman and child for contributions "Other political groups have not hesitated to revest their expendi Lovett was reminded ours Isn't a political or ganization" he declared Asked whether it wa true that the Hut of subscribers to the De troit Community fund was being solicited by the Citizen's league In it campaign Lovett entered flat denial although he admitted that the Citizen's league officer and directors of the Detroit Community union had discussed the Citizen's league drive and that advice ot the La f'ftmmiinltv Union was belnff followed as to the manner of conducting the campaign Oaly Ceaeeraa Lensme "Once Lovdtt declared "I must refuse to make public matters which concern only the league 1 cannot reveal anything about the preparation of the lists" The league's campaign fund pamphlet sets forth the relations between the two organizations as follows: The league has no official connection with the Community union and receives no gifts from the Community fund though individuals and leaders! of the Community organization have given personal and moral support to this work Ixvett denied that the firm of Ward Pierce Wells Co was working on a commission basis Continued on age Three Column Six PASTORlSOUND IREN ROGERS BEV jyi WAI.

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