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Co. rfrVrr -rf tv -if r4 1 ri FURTHER DISARMING Can Keep a Secret KU KLUX UNMASKED AT TORTURE PROBE BOYDEN ASSAILS TREATY IN REPARATIONS COUNCIL; FRANCE READY TO POUNCE BY DEFIANT VICTIMS DR. ELLEf? POTTER HMD) BY HOI FOR WELFARE HEAD Philadelphia Woman Gets Cabinet Place Under New Governor BURDENS ALLIED Captain Skipwith and Dr. McKoin Definitely Named in Court as Rulers of "Invisible Empire" Which 'Flaunted Laws and Established Louisiana Reign of Terror lan Leader Who Revolted Bares Skulk-ing Sculduggery, Involving Kidnappings, Whippings and Killings; White Hoods Worn at Ceremonials, Black Ones at "Raiding Parties" Developments of Day In Reparations Crisis Germany was voted in will-y ful default on her 1922 coal deliveries by the Reparations" Commission, at a session': marked by an attack on the Versailles Treaty by Roland W. Boyden, American observer with the Commission.

General Degoutte, com- mander of the French army of occupation, left for Dussel-dorf, established as headquarters, for the operations in-. volved in the Ruhr after completing all military preparations. Advance troops, engaged in the reached Hettwigg, seven miles from Essen. Ambassador Herrick failed in an attempt to keep an appoint- ment with Mr. the French Premier, who referred the American Envoy to a Foreign Office official The State Department at Washington, prompted by.

press reports from Paris that the French Foreign Office had denied receipt of the American plan, jn a formal made it plain that Secretary Hughes proposal had been transmitted through Ambassa- dor Jusserand, and, moreover, that with regard to the taking, of forcible measure, "it is not. doubted that the attitude of the American Government is well understood." was never a member of the Klan, Dr. B. M. McKoin was definitely linked with the organization by E.

W. Andrews, a brother of one of the men who was lashed, and who was a member of the Klan. He declared he was one of the party that was directed to run Annie May Hamilton out of Mer Rouge and that he got his orders from Dr. McKoin. Former Klansman Testifies J.

S. Norsworthy is the former captain of the Klan, who, friends say, has taken his life in his hands to tell what he knows about the order. He was also an eye-witness to the kidnapping of C. W. Andrews, one of the men who was flogged by part of the same mob that tortured 'Daniel and Richards to death.

Norsworthy testified that he went to the Bastrop ball game August 24 with C. W. Andrews and on the way home to Mer Jtogue he saw several cars ahead, and he thought there had been an auto accident, "We were stopped," Norsworthy said, "by four or five masked men, who gathered on either side, all with a Winchester, and I asked what they wanted. 'We want that they said, ADVANCING FRENCH AWAITING DAYBREAK IS MENACE TO U. ROOSEVELT WARNS Says Navy Must Equal (Britain's and Beat All Others Rogers Asserts Pacifists, Re inforced by Election, May Dominate Congress "God knows I do not wish to see another war," said Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, last night, "but on the other hand I do not wish to see a peace of un righteousness." Colonel Roosevelt was addressing about five hundred members of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, at their twenty-eighth annual banquet at the Bellevne-Stratf ord.

A majority of the guests were in army or navy uni form. wish to nail one lie of the said Colonel Roosevelt toward the close of his address, speaging with much of the emphasis and some of the mannerisms of (his father, the late President. The pacifists tell us there can be disarmament by example. Let us look into this. Following the American re duction of its army to about 115,000 men, what has happened.

"Switzerland has an army of. 170 000 men. Rumania has an army of 190,000 men. Russia and China both have armies of more than one million men. It doesn't look as if the example had much effect.

"The navy is the right hand of the State Department. The United States cannot take any action in international affairs unless the navy is there to back up the stand taken. We have proposed a percentage of naval strength and we must hold to our full share of the percentage which makes us equal with Great Britain and with more strength than other nations. Big Navy Prevents War 'The pacifists say that a strong navy leads to war. I believe it prevents With the United States' ravy in good -condition, no nation is going to attack us.

Our entire his tory shows thatj because' we, havev a strong navy ft will not lead Us to at tack another nation. Roosevelt said that the navy is not only a means of national protection but is a great industrial asset. He said that Carnegie had admitted that needs of the navy had developed the steel industry in the country. The navy, he said, is the greatest developer of radto and he told of re cent inventions by which naval officers can find their way into port in the midst of a fog, and always know the denth of water hv an electrical device- Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Chief of A aval Operations, presided at the din ner and other speakers were Rear Ad miral Hugh Rodman.

L. Heisler Ball, benator from Uelaware, and Represen tative John Jacob Rogers, from Mas sachusetts. Representative Rogers spoke of the last election and said he feared the next Congress mieht try to still fur ther reduce the military and naval strengtn or tne isation. Danger Seen in Reduction "The danger is that the members-elect will believe they have received a mandate still further to reduce the land and sea establishments, he con tinued. "They will be as in the hands of surviving members of this Congress who hold key places in the Congressional machine -and who in the last three years have done their best Continued on 4th Page, 3d Column 500 ESCAPE INJURIES WHEN P.

R. R. EXPRESS HITS AUTO AND UPSETS Locomotive, Tender and Baggage Car Derailed by Wreckage of Truck Run Down Near Baltimore BALTIMORE, Jan. 9. Five hun dred passengers on a fast train of the Pennsylvania Railroad, bound from New York to Washington, escaped injury this evening when the locomotive, tender and baggage car were derailed near the Washington Road Bridge at Hale-thorpe.

after the engine had struck and demolished a big motor truck' at the Halethorpe crossing. Locomotive and tender turned over, and the baggage car plunged down an embankment, but none of the nine passenger coaches left the rails and passengers said their shaking up was slight. Fieces of the shattered truck which became wedged under the locomotives are believed responsible for the derailment. Passengers who were at dinner said the shock was not sufficient to disturb the dishes. REPRESENTATIVE UPSHAW This Georgia Democrat promised to name the members of Congress who pledged support to "dry" legislation on one hand, and -wielded a corkscrew -with the other, but he has chanced his mind on the ground that Cong-res "is not a police matinee." UPSHAW WEAKENS Oil THREAT TO NAME C1E0ESS DRINKERS Takes Refuge in Platitude About "Devilish" Bottle Accuses Unnamed High Official -Who Brought Liquor With Him From Europe WASHINGTON, Jan.

9. Representative Upshaw, Democrat, of Georgia, in; a speech in the House today, asserted that "bootleggers ply their devilish trade among too many public men in Washington," and that he had seen with his own eyes "some of the highest officials in Washington, not members of either branch of Congress, lifting the devilish bottle to their lips." Commenting on reports that liquor imported for embassies and legations under diplomatic immunity was being diverted into bootleg channels, Mr. Up shaw said this problem called for but firm treatment." The Georgia Representative told the House be would not make public the names of Senators and Representatives, who "do not practice the prohibition which their votes profess," but would promptly turn over to Federal and local authorities all evidence relating to liquor drinking by government officials placed in his hands. Accuses High Official With this evidence, Mr. Upshaw said, he will "turn in the name of a high official (not a diplomat), who returned fioni abroad some time ago with more than a score of cases of foreign liquors marked 'diplomatic' Answering his own question as to why he did not give the House the names of its "drinking" members, Upshaw said the House was not a justice court and that Congress was not a police matinee.

Referring to his recent speech in which he brought up the subject of bootleg liquor drinking by high officials, the Georgia Representative said he had made no threat that he would publish the names of known offenders. "I did not brandish a sword. I made an appeal," he declared. "Some newspapers naturally put into the name news story with my general charges the simultaneous arrest here of a certain gilded bootlegger. They naturally imagined I would go after his list of customers.

I did not have to. I know enough already to well nigh break the heart of any man who loves to see public men walk in sobriety and righteousness before the youth of the land. "I declare now what most of you know that bootleggers ply their devilish trade among too many public men in Washington. "I have seen with my own eyes -ome of the highest officials in Washington, not members of either branch of Congress, lifting the devilish bottle to -heir lips. No dry official will stand up and declare an alibi because his reputation does not make it necessary, and the drinking ones will not dare deny for there were other witnesses besides me.

"As for members of this House God knows 1 find no pleasure in this disclosure-but the bright daughter of one of the best men in Congress said to me: 'We are with you. I wish you could stop liquor drinking in this I louse office "And here." Mr. Upshaw continued, "is a signed letter that says a professions bootlegger told me a year ago. The House office building fur- Continued on 8th Page, 3d Column 2 PARIS FULLY ADVISED OB VIEWS OF U. Report Plan Was Not Transmitted Formally Denied Took Matter Up With Jusser-and, Through Whom Exchanges Occurred WASHINGTON.

Jan. 9. A formal announcement by the State Department today set at rest any dpubt -as to the manner in which Secretary Hughes' proposal that financial authorities be called into the reparations controversy was laid before the French Government. It said that the secretary had taken the matter up "directly with Ambassador Jusserand," who was understood to have "transmitted to his Government," and later "presented to the secretary the observations of M. Poincare in reply." "The views of the two governments were exchanged in this way," the statement continued, adding that a copy of Mr.

Hughes' subsequent New speech had been delivered formally to the French Embassy. The department's statement was prompted by press reports from Paris stating the French Foreign Office had denied receipt of the American plan. Text of Statement The full text of the statement follows: "The Department of State said that if could not credit such report, and believed that there was some inaccuracy in its transmission. It was further said that the suggestion that financial, experts should be called In order to advise, the, governments with respect to what Germany could and what financial plan would be advisable, was taken up by Secretary Hughes directly with Ambassador Jusserand some time prior to the Secretary's address at New Haven, that, the matter was discussed with the French Ambassador, who, it is understood, transmitted it to' his government. The French Ambassador presented, to the secretary the observations of M.

Poincare in reply. The views of the two governments were exchanged in this way. Subsequently, when Secretary Hughes made his speech at New Haven, he delivered a copy of it to the French Embassy for their information. "With regard to the taking of forcible measures for the purpose of obtaining reparations, it is not doubted that the attitude of the American Government is well unjjr stood." Protest Not "Formal" was pointed out that French officials might have had in mind in making whatever statement they did a formal protest from the United States against occupation of the Ruhr. The word "formal" had deep significance in diplomacy, it was added, and it was true that the United States had not presented any formal communication of that character.

Yet in the light of the conversations between Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Jnsserand, and also in view of the flat expressions on the point by Secretary Hughes in his New naven address, it was added, the French authorities could not have the least misapprehension on the score of the American attitude as to the reparations course they proposed to follow. A formal protest involves the question tof the direct interest of the government protesting in the matters dealt with. There is no reason to believe that administration officials have ever considered the possibility of making any such representations to France, as the question involved is one relating to a treaty to which, the United States is not a party. The whole course of the Washington Government has been conducted with that situation in view, and in the desire, it was reiterated officially today, of maintaining the friendliest relations with all the Allied Powers. No Discourtesy Seen It was stated authoritatively that the Washington Government has not as yet been advised in detail of French plans.

If Ambassador Herrick at Paris obtained a confidential outline of those plans today, as dispatches indicate, they htfd not reached the department Any suggestion that the Ambassador's failure to see Premier Poincare involve a discourtesy to him or to the United States was waved aside by the State Department. Mr. Herrick has been given every courtesy of treatment in Paris, it was saidj and only the great preoccupation Continued on 4th Page, 6th Column MILKER ASKS $50,000 FOR KICK FROM COW County in Maine Sued for Damages by Victim PORTLAND, Jan. 9. A kick by a cow is the basis of a suit for 000 filed today in the Supreme Judicial Court by John Wells, of this city, who asks damages in that amount from the County of Cumberland.

In his suit Wells alleged that, while at the county farm at Windham in 1020, he was asked to milk a cow, and no lantern was furnished him. In the dark ness he backed into the animal which kicked aim, causing injury to bis foot. HUGHES ANNOUNCES DEMANDS TOD HEAVY, U.S.EHVOY PROTESTS Urges Pact's Revision as Berlin Is Held in Default on Coal Poincare to Notify Berlin Today of Coming Seizure of Mines and Forests PARIS, Jan. 9 (By the Associated Press). Germany was voted in wilful default of her 1922 coal deliveries by the Reparation Commission today at a session featured by an address by JRoIand W.

Boyden, in which the Ameri can representative with the commission severely criticised the workings of the Treaty of Versailles in certain respects. Mr. Boyden's strictures created much surprise and excited hardly less interest than the formal declaration of Germany's default. The statement, made before the vote in the secret session, was described "by some of those who heard him as "a condemnation of the whole Treaty of Versailles and a suggestion that it should be revised as soon as possible in th? interests of the economic revival of Europe." Reparations Commission having officially advised the Allies that it declared Germany in default payments of and coal, the French Government formally notify the German Government tomorrow of the penalties she intends to impose. These include control of the State mines and forests.

Notification will be made simultaneously by Premier Poincare to Dr. Wil-helm Mayer, the German Ambassador at Paris, and by De Margerie, the French Ambassador at Berlin, who will communicate the Wilhelmstrassft. Belgium will take a Similar course. 'Neither Mr. Boyden nor Colonel James A.

Logan, the other American representative, would discuss the proceedings or their part in them, feeling that the Americans, above all others, should observe the secrecy imposed by the commission. Statement Called "Sensational" Mr. Boyden was quoted as citing in support of his view the absurdity of declaring Germany in voluntary default on coal deliveries when as a matter of fact all the deliveries in kind were entirely too great a burden upon Germany- in her present condition, but that the commission under 'the treaty procedure could do nothing but recognize the default. It is authoritatively stated that Mr. Boyden began ls statement by saying that if he were voting he would be compelled to vote for the default, since a default actually existed the terms of the treaty.

He then made what was described as a somewhat detailed statement regarding all deliveries in kind. It was a mistaken idea that it was easy to get deliveries of merchandise from Germany without affecting the financial and economic situation, the American representative is said to have pointed out. As a matter of fact he thought that deliveries such as were being made were a serious strain on Germany's situation arid one of the principal elements contributing to the weakness of Germany's position. The remarks of the American representative were currently referred to as "a sensational statement." British View Similar The British view, it is learned, is quite; similar as to Germany's difficulties in meeting the coal requirements. Sir John Bradbury is reported to have said that German strikes and unavoidable transportation failures were responsible for a shortage of 750,000 tons, reducing the deficit in deliveries to I6V3 per cent, of the commission's demands.

Other factors, the British member is understood to have asserted, lessened the shortage further to 11 per for which Germany ought really to be held responsible. This he regarded as not unreasonable in the circumstances. The German representatives in their arguments contended it was a common commercial on mich 1 tracts to allow a leeway of 10 per ceni. aeuveries, wtnch they argued was closely approximated when allow- anees wer trniHn for fici-monn'n ordered condition. The discussion, which lasted an hour three-quarters, was opened by Louis Barthon.

nrRir1n r- mlssion. He presented the French Tiewpomc ana requested Lis colleagues to vote for a default. 5i Germany had Wllfllllv failprl tn hnrwt of coal excess of tons under the stipulated amount, dispite the fact the amount Continued on 4th Page, 2d Column THE WEATHER Washington forecast: East Pennsylvania Vo- Partly cloudy and colder today; tomor row 1 air. Delaware, Maryland-i-Fair and colder today; tomorrow fair. West Pennsylvania Colder and generally fair today; except snow flurries near Lake Erie; tomorrow fair with rising temperature.

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DR. ELLEN POTTER Philadelphia, woman physician and active in medical, research and social work, hat been elected by Governor-elect Pincbot as the woman member of his Cabinet. She will be chief of the Department of Public Welfare succeeding- Dr. John M. Baldy.

also of Phila delphia. Special to The Inquirer. DARRISBURG, Jan. 9. Gov ernor-elect Gifford Pinchot tonight re deemed his campaign promise to name a woman to his Cabinet by announcing appointment of Dr." Ellen Potter to be Commissioner of Publio Welfare, suc ceeding -Dr.

John Montgomery Baldy, of Devon, the first commissioner of the department, -with a salary of $10,000. The new Governor ndmed A. Nevin Detrich, long an associate with him in conservation, work, to succeed Robert C. Miller, of as Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding, with a salary of 5000. Commissioner of Banking Feter G.

Cameron, was reappointed commissioner, salary $8000. and Major Lynn G. Adams, JSc-ranton, reappointed head of the State police, with a salary of $6000. The appointmerts followed that of Judge George V. oodrutt as Attorney General, announced yesterday.

Mr. Woodruff came here with the new Governor and immediately began work on the drafting of legislation. The Governor-elect refused to commit himself as to when other appointments would be made, but there were intimations more would eonie within a day or so. lie plans to remain here working on the budget until Saturday afternoon, when he will go to New York with Judge Woodruff to attend the reunion of their class at Yale. He refused to comment on the resignation of Insurance Commissioner Thomas B.

Donaldson and would not discuss any plans for that place. Plans Dry Pennsylvania Accompanying the appointments was a series of statements, each an interesting document in itself, one of them being that he had consulted Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, vice chairman of the Republican State Committee about the welfare department and another that he expected Major Adams to help make Pennsylvania "dry." In announcing the appointments, the Governor-elect said: "During the campaign I made public my decision to put a woman in the Cabinet. As the time for doing so drew near, it became clear that the appropri- Continued on 4th Page, 4th Column BANDITS KIDNAP DRIVER, TAKE TRUCKL0AD OF SILKS WORTH $25,000 Victim Hauled About for Hours In Auto and Finally Dumped Out Beside Road A truckload of artificial silk, valued 8t $2.1000.

was stolen by two men who overpowered the driver on the Chester Pike, at Crum Lynne, early last night, bound and gagged him, and several hours later, after driving in an automobile, threw him out on the West River drive near the Fairmount avenue bridge. This was the story told by the driver, William J. Davis, S3 years old, of 3316 Mantua avenue, when, after kicking off the cords which bound his legs, but with his hands still tied behind him, he made his way up the river drive toward Girard avenue, where he found a Park guard and was taken to the Detective Bureau for questioning. The truck, stripped of its contents, was later located at Commercial avenue and Mifflin street. The silk, packed in fifty cases, was the property of the Viscose Company, which operates a big artificial silk plant at Marcus Hook.

Davis is in the employ of John P. Dolan, proprietor of the National Motor Transit Company, of 3304 Fairmount avenue. According to. Davis story as he was ascending a hill at Crum Lynne the truck developed engine trouble. He stopped the vehicle under- an electric arc light.

Just as he repaired the defect two men seized him from behind. One of them pressed a revolver into his back. A handkerchief was stuffed into his mouth, and both his hands and feet were tied. He was lifted to -the side of the road, placed under a tree with his back to the truck so that he could not see the men, and allowed to wait there for a few minutes. Presently an automobile drove up.

A handkerchief was tied about his eyes and he was lifted into the rear of the car. For three hours he was driven about, he says, until finally he was lifted out and found himself on the river iJrlT. ft I Special to The Inquirer. BASTROP, Jan. 9.

The mask of the Ku Klui Klan was lifted today at the hearing in the kidnapping and murder of Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards. If there was ever any doubt the Ku Klux Klan was tojje put on trial. that doubt was swept away when the State produced a former captain ot the Mer Rouge branch of "The Invisible Empire," who, it is alleged, was the predecessor of Dr. B. M.

McKoin, now under arrest on the charge of being one of the ringleaders in the killings. This witness testified black hoods were worn by the Klansmen when they were out on raids, that he had been placed in charge of whipping squads and that he had resigned from the order because he could no approve of their methods. Other testimony against the Klan was offered by J. L. Daniel, father of one of the murdered men, who testified that J.

K. Skipwith, imperial Cyclops of the Moorehouse Klan, had said over the telephone that he was going to "'get' the witness if he had to kill him himself. This alleged threat by Skipwith, Daniel said, was overheard by Joe Davenport, a Mer Rouge citizen. Despite the fact he has insisted he OPEN FORUM TAKES PLACE OF TAGTIGS OF OLD C0MB1E8S Pinchot's Call for Square "Deal Gracefully Accepted by Legislators Pay Roll Will Be Cut and Farming Out of Jobs No Longer Permitted An open forum for the consideration of candidates for appointment to minor positions in the Pennsylvania Legislature, held in the headquarters of the Republican State Committee, yester day afternoon, was the logical outcome of the action of Governor-elect Gifford Pinchot in insisting that his friends in the General Assembly shall be given a square deal in the allotment of patronage in the Senate and the House. For the first time in recent history of the Republican Party the selection of such appointments will not be made by a group of party leaders assuming the power which the Republican caucus invariably delegated to a slate committee.

This time the old practice of appoint ing a sub-committee, which took their instructions from the ruling political powers, was abandoned. Both the Senators and the members of the House named on the slate committees of their respective bodies, held separate meet ings and formerly planned to give a fair distribution in public riieetings of the places that are to be filled when the Legislature reconvenes next week. "Efficiency and a watch word which has become quite popular since Gifford Pinchot put his budget scheme into oneration. was the domi nant note at each of these gatherings. William J.

McCaiir. a follower of Max Leslie, of Pittsburgh, presided over the House committee- meeting, and a diplomatic plan of avoiding friction in the naming of a sub-committee was fol lowed in the adoption of a resolution offered by Mr. Armstrong, of Arm strong county, that the members of the committee submit their recommenda tions for appointments to the chairman of the meeting and that he. in con junction with W. Harry Baker, chair man ot tne Kepublican State Commit- Continued on 4th Pane, 2d Column LURE OF PULPIT AGAIN GRIPS THIS-N.

J. JUDGE Rev. David B. Tompkins Returns to. Church in Princeton PRINCETON, N.

Jan. 9. The lure of the pulpit proved too strong for Rev. David B. Tompkins to resist, so he retired from the Police Court Bench today after serving two years as police justice.

While in the pulpit Mr. Tompkins attacked the municipal administration for alleged laxity in law enforcement. He was then offered the police recorder- ship by Mayor Brown, which he accepted. He now feels his ministerial duties should receive his entire attention, Continued on 2d Page, 2d Column HARDING SEES UW M1fl TO MIS OF ALL WAR DEBTS Convinced Modifications Are Necessary for Final Settlements Discussion in Congress Indicates Fight to Stretch Existing Limitations WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 President Harding is convinced, it was disclosed today at the White House, that there can be ho settlement of the eleven bil-J'ons of dollars of war.

debts to the United States within the limitations laid down by Congress payment the principal withm 25 years with interest at four and one quarter per cent. The Executive's view in which numbers of the American Debt Commission concur, were crystallized by developments at the preliminary negotiations, with the British Debt Commission looking to the refunding of -the four billions of dollars owed by Great Britain. The progress of these negotiations was laid before the President in detail yesterday by Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, members of the American Com-1 mission. Whether Congress will be asked to liberalize immediately the terms of the existing statute or the American commission proceed to make the best arrangements possible with the debtor nations, subject to final Congressional approval, is yet to be determined. It was indicated at the White House, however, that the latter course was regarded as preferable, certainly so far as the British debt is concerned, be-caiuse the British commission is on the ground, ready to reach a settlement and advance action by Congress might result in a long delay in the negotiations between that commission and the American body which are to be resumed today.

Expects Agreement Shortly. Mr. Harding cpnsiders that the British and American delegations may reach some sort of an agreement within a week and he feels that when the American Commission has decided what modifications are absolutely necessary- there will be a test of what the country desires to do and what its representatives in Congress will permit to be done. The President also was represented Continued on 6th Page, 1st Column ASK MURDER JURORS WITH HEADSNOT HEARTS Talesmen of "Extraordinary Intelligence" Called in Raisen Death Case NEW YORK, Jan. 0.

The selection of 100 talesmen "of extraordinary intelligence" to try Mrs. Lillian S. Raisen for the murder of Dr. Abraham L. Glickstein at Brooklyn in December, l'l, was ordered in Supreme Court to-dfy on the plea of prosecuting attorneys for "jurors who can try a woman with their heads not their hearts." Justice James C.

Cropsey tentatively set January 29 for the trial date. TP EHIP RUHR REGIOta Zero Hour Fixed for En try of Occupation Army in Essen Military Chiefs in Conference With Burgomasters of Towns to Be Seized PARIS, Jan. 9. (By the Associated Press). France is ready, tonight to seize the Ruhr" at daybreak.

There are many reasons for believing that to morrow sun will disclose French airplanes hovering over Essen, while a long string of tanks crawl into the Krupp's home in advance of foot and horse troops. The zero hour has been fixed, but, until the occupation army inarches, the time, place, manner and exact objectives are held by the government as a military and political secret. France, late today, notified England through the French Ambassador at London, and the American Ambassadors at Paris and Brussels were informed by the French and Belgian Governments respectively, what France plans to do. M. Maginot, the War has had a final conference with Premier Poincare, assuring him that the army is ready; the technical men, even emergency crews of railroaders and telegraphers, in case of strikes in the Ruhr, are awaiting orders at Duesseldorf, and their military escort is impatient to be off.

General Degoutte with his staff left Mayence for Duesseldorf just ahead of the last trainload of Mayence troops, and all will be in Duesseldorf late tonight. This readiness, however, is no proof that the French have set their advance Continued on 4th Page, 3d Column i I. 6 FIREMEN OVERCOME BY FUMES OF SULPHUR AT WAREHOUSE BLAZE Seven Men Were Killed Several Years Ago in Building Formerly Occupied By Same Firm. Six firemen were overcome by futnes from bags which had contained sulpnur as they fought" a blaze which last 'night swept the pjant of Potash Brothers, Swanson, and Wolf streets. Three of the men were so seriously affected they had to be taken to the Methodist Hospital.

They are: TTarrv Rncklpmnn XCc Mays. mensing avenue; Frank 82ft Morris strept. hoth in surinna vnri; tion, and Fred Haigh, 2228 South juniper street, au are nosemen, at taciiea to engine uompany, jno. 10, Eighth and Morris streets. The others; who were treated on the scene by an ambulance surgeon are: Morris Kfhwartz.

Engine Comnnnv XV Fourth' and Snyder avenue; John Heger-man, of Engine Company No. 10, and Joseph Floeco, of Engine Company. N6. Zl. second ana 1'ine Potash Brothers are dealers in burlap and bags.

They were engaged in reclaiming bags which had beui used to bold sulpnur, ami dense clouds of smoke rolled out from the building, making the tnKk of the firemen difficult and n. darigering their safety. A building which the firm occupied on North American street burned several years fn. seven firemen beinff killed in fiht. ing the blaze, Last Year Nearly All Philadelphians Brought Their Help Wanted Ads to The Inquirer Total number that appeared in The Inquirer during 1922 302,191 Ads.

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