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0 iSallli ntk MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS The circulation of the Enquirer and News is regularly audited and approved. nsily average net paid circulation for October TEL 12145 City 8.4S1 Mail 3.n;;v nnETENING NEWS. EST. the ixyt'iRER. vol.

xxvm. MAY 8, 1011. BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1924. CITY EDITION PRICE THREE CENTS NO. 124.

rws DEADLOCK FOHMER "FIRST "RUM PIRATE" COMES BACK HOME FOR VISIT LEFT WIFE IN WANT FLED WITH $2,000,000 Charles Chaplin Reported on Way To Mexico to Marry Leading Lady a MAN WHO STOLE MILLIONS FOUND IN NOVA SCOTIA SPEAKERSHIP BRITISH TAKE CUSTOMS OFFICES AT ALEXANDRIA groundless. It was pointed out that the comedian had been In Los Angeles the day previous and no doubt still was "somewhere in Los Angeles." However, W. E. Curry, grandfather of Miss Grey, gave out information that he had accompanied Chaplin to the tram. He declined to state whether Miss Grey and Chaplin were engaged, though "she has been out with him a lot." Douglas Fairbanks called Chaplin's departure for Guaymas a "business trip" as did others who knew the comedian had planned to leave for Mexico.

Train schedules Indicated that whatever might be the purpose of Chaplain's trip. It could not be accomplished today, since his train was not due in Guaymas until 2 a. m. tomorrow. HOUSE EXPECTED May Put Forth Compromise Candidate in Attempt to Avert Prospective Battle.

MANY SUPPORT FARRIER Presque Isle Representative May Get Backing of New and Old Independent Group. (By the Associated Tress) Lansing, Nov. 24 A compromise candidate for speaker of the 1925 house of representath'es may be put forward in an effort to break a prospective deadlock and avert what may develop Into a stern battle in the opening days of the session. Representative Nelson G. Farrier of Presqua Isle may secure the sup'-port and the votes of an independent group of old and new representatives, it was authentically reported here today.

Several members of the 1923 assembly conferred in Detroit last week. They were informed that Representative Farrier, while not an announced candidate, would accept the speakership. Known as an Independent, he would be more acceptable to the Wayne and apportionment group in the lower branch than any of the four candidates now in the field, and he has many friends among the leaders of the Irreconciliable gasoline tax bloc. Forecast Dead Lock The members who believe that Representative Farrier, or some other member not yet announced as a candidate, will have to step into the breach, declare that a deadlock is likely between the four candidates now out for the place. They are Representative Fred Wells of Cass, Representative Frederick Ming of Cheyboygan, Representative Watson of St.

Clair, and Representative J. E. Warner of Washtenaw. Representative Ming, an ardent opponent of re ap- (Continued on Page 6, Col. 3) IS.

DAUGHERTF FUNERAL TUESDAY Wife of Former Attorney General Dies Sunday from Pneumonia Services from Home. 'By the Associated Press) Columbus, Nov. 24. Funeral services for Mrs. Lucie Walker Daugherty, wife of Harry M.

I Daugherty, former United States at-; torney general, will be held 1 p. m. Tuesday at the residence. The bo ly wiu De sent to wasnington courthouse, former home of the Daugher-tys for burial. Mrs.

Daugherty's death, attributed by Dr. Frank S. Barey, the family physician, to pneumonia, occurred at 12:30 a. m. Sunday after an illness with which she had been stricken a week ago today.

Prior to that, although Mrs. Daugherty had been an invalid for years, she had enjoyed good health. Dr. Barey said. Last Wednesday, when her ailment was diagnosed as pneumonia.

Dr. R. L. Barnes was called to assist in attendance upon her. The body is expected to arrive in Wash ington Courthouse about 3 o'clock Tuesday aft rnoon and after services in the cemetery will be placed in a crypt in the Daugherty mausoleum.

Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty were married In Welston. Ohio, Sept. 3, 1S84.

They moved to Columbus in 1S93, when Mr. Daugherty was engaged in the practice of law until he was appointed attorney general by President Harding in 1920. LEE KORETZ Koretz. arrested last night, is charged with numerous land fraud swindles and has been sought for a year. GHMIDI ADMITS Indian Non-Co op erationist Leader Tells All-India Congress He Is Reasonable.

(By the Associated Press) Bombay, British India, Nov. 24. "I am not a lunatic. I am a reasonable man. I am losing ground gradually and would hae no hesitation in bending before the Swarajists and the liberals.

If necessary, I shall bend before the Englishmen also. If only they show a change of heart." These are extracts from a speech delivered Sunday before the all-India congress committee by Mohandas K. Ghandi, the non-coopera-tionist leader. In moving approval of a pact agreed upon between himself and C. R.

Dasand and Noti-lalam Nehru, two other Swarajist leaders, in favor of cooperation among all parties. Ghandi's speech was a recitation of his strongly held views, which hitherto have proved the main barrier between the orthodox politicians and the Swarajists. He admitted he had lost power to command universal acceptance of his views and confessed that he was not a safe guide for the orthodox politicians. HEAD OF DETROIT CIGAR CORPORATION DIES AT 52 Cemard Schwartz Was Nationally Known Cigar Manufacturer In Poor Health for 3 Years. (P.y the Associated Press i Detroit, Nov.

24. Bernard Schwartz, nationally known cigar manufacturer and president of the Bernard Schwartz corporation, died at a hospital here yesterday after a lingering illness. Although in poor health for three years Schwartz was not forced to go to the hospital until a few days ago. Schwartz was 52 year old and came to Detroit when he was IT. Five years later he went into the cigar business.

THIEVES GET $50,000 FROM WINE CELLAR SATURDAY; TRY IT AGAIN TODAY. (By the Associated Iressi Beverley, Nov. 24. The wine cellar at the estate of Joseph Letter of Chicago, from which $5,000 worth of llquora was taken Saturday, was raided and robbed again early today of the $10,000 worth remaining. The eight men Involved were arrested with the load by the police, only to overpower a patrolman and escaped in the police automobile.

They left the liquor behind. POWER IN LADY OF LA! IS LI TO REST Pastor Extolls Christian Faith Of Mrs. Warren G. Harding at Funeral Services Today. SIMPLE BUT IMPRESSIVE Augmented Guard of Soldiers Act as Escort This Afternoon: Favorite Song Is Sung.

(By the Associated Press) Marlon, Nov. 24. The "deep conviction of and her profound faith in the great realities of Christianty" was one of Mrs. Florence Kling Harding's greatest virtues. The Rev.

Dr. Jesse Swank, the pastor of Epworth M. E. church, declared here this afternoon in his sermon at funeral services of Mrs. Harding.

Trust Essential As the responsibilities of her life became heavy "she found this trust in God essential to enable her to meet the great burdens that her onerous position imposed on her," the Rev. Swank declared. It was through the message "we are praying for you" contained In hundreds of telegrams reaching the white house while Mrs. Harding was ill there, the Rev. Swank said, "that the conviction came to her one day that she was not going to die and from that time she fought steadily on with a great faith In Divine Providence until her recovery became assured." Faith Was Constant "It was In this faith she lived, in this faith she did her work, on this faith she relied and found sure support when her beloved was taken away from her and it was in the possession of this faith that she went home to God." The Rev.

Dr. Swank related a conversation with Mrs. Harding soon after her arrival in Marlon with the body of President Harding in which she said "my faith In Christ (Continued on Page 5, Col. 3) CHINESE CROOSE TUMI US LEADER Former Premier Installed as "Chief Executive" Declares Aim Is to Maintain Harmony. (Bv the Associated Press) Peking, Nov.

24. Tuan Chi-Jui, former premier, who was installed today as the "chief executive" of what he hopes will be a unified Chinese government, selected his title, a new one in Chinese public life from French history. The title corresponds to that assumed by Louis A. Thiers In when he was named "chief of executive power" after his election to the French national assembly. Tuan, who has been living in re tirement at Tientsin, delivered a brief address today before an as semblage at the office of the minister of war where inauguration cer emonies were held.

Pie said that the object of his administration would be to accomplish the reunification of the country and to maintain harmonious relations with other countries. General Chang Tso-LIn, Manchur- lan dictator, whose victory over General Wu Pei-Fu, deposed military head of the Peking govern ment places him in the position of power in the central Chinese government, arrived in Peking at 3 o'clock this aftarnnon from Tientsin. Ceneral Charts took an active part in the deliberations at Tientsin which resulted in the choice of Tuan as the nw leader of the I'eking government. Wednesday told Mr. King he was of the conviction that his wife committed suicide by casting herself into the furnace after becoming vlolent- ly insane.

He has not admitted to authorities a reversal of his convic- tion, although Prosecutor King and! ethers working on the case declare they are confident she did not com-! mit suicide. The prosecutor has a basis for his conviction the report of Chemist C. F. Long, which shows she did not breathe after her body entered the' firebox. Aid of the Sheatsley family, Including the minister and his four children, will not be available to i the prosecutor in his investigation until Wednesday.

The Rev. Sheats-1 ley in a telephone conversation from Paris. Ohio, yesterday said they will not return here until then. Previously they had planned to come today. Among those expected to be examined today by the prosecutor is Simon A.

Singer, a neighbor of the Sheatsley family, who was called in by the minister after his wife's body was found in the furnace. (Ey the Associated Press) Los Angeles, Nov. 24. Charles Chaplin, motion picture comedian, reported in Mexico City dispatches as expected at Guaymas, a Mexican west coast port, to marry to Lita Grey, his young leading woman, passed through Yuma, bound for Guaymas late last night. Chaplin was aboard a Southern Pacific train for Nogales where his car would be switched to a train for Guaymas.

Chaplin refused to discuss reports that he was to marry Miss Grey, but admitted he was going to Mexico. Miss Grey has been In the Mexican city "on location." Chaplin'3 departure from Los Angeles late yesterday was not preceded by publicity. Even at his own residence, where the Mexico City report was termed entirely TO UP BIG DEFICIT Party Is $300,000 Short, According to Director of Finance Who Asks for Funds. LEADERSHIP IS AN ISSUE Smith or McAdoo Forces Would Pay All the Bills if Given Control of the Party. fBY MARK SULLIVAN) Washington, D.

Nov. 24. The director of finance of the Democratic national committee has sent tut to a list of Important democrats, a letter which not only reveals new facts about the party's finances. but in Itself and In its effects throws a new and not cheerful light on the party's morals. Mr.

Jones Is asking for money. He makes his plea In words which are admirable for frankness but not the best sales manship. He says "I now appeal to you again, offering nothing hut the opportunity and privilege of help ing to pay your party out debt." He reveals that the debt is $300,000 which Is rather more than commonly supposed. He says the committee started the campaign with the hope of raising and with plans for expenditure based on that hope. "It soon became apparent he sys, "that we could not raise that amount of money and plans were curtailed.

We have spent money and incurred debts amounting to approximately $1,100,000 and have collected to date approximately SS00.000, leaving a deficit of Must Maintain Party For this sum Mr. Jones appeals on the ground that in due course "the country will again turn to the democratic party to administer our national government and in the (Continued on Page 6, Col. 5) DETROIT MAN IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERS W. G. Sheehan Chosen Head of In dustrial Society of M.

Professor Made Vice President. (Br the Associated Press) Chicago, Nov. 24 VV. G. Sheehan of Detroit has been elected president of the Society of Industrial Engin eers, it was announced today from the society's headquarters here.

Other officers Include: Professor Charles B. Gordy, University of Michigan, vice president and Profes sor George H. Spard, Lafayette, Ind. director. The next convention will be held in Cleveland on May 6.

7, and 8. TO PICK M. A. C. CAPTAIN AFTER RETURN Of COACH Young Absent in East-Haskins and Hackett Considered Most Likely for Leadership.

(By the Associated Prcs) East Lansing. Nov. 24. Election of a captain of the Michigan Aggies football squad and the award of monograms to the players completing the 1925 schedule will be delayed until the return next week of Coach Ralph Young, absent in the east. Don Haskins of Saginaw, and Paul Hackett of Lansing, both of whom will be back in school next year have been mentioned as the most likely candidates for the honor of leading the 1925 team.

Other players who will return next year are: Roy Spiekerman, Richard Lyman and Allen Tedmunds. Announcement of next year's schedule will await the meeting of the western conference and non-association schedule makers In Chicago, December 6. CHANGE EMBASSY (By the Associated Press) Parl3, Nov. 24 Announcement is made of several changes In the personnel of the French embassy In Washington. Andre de Laboulaye, counsellor of the embassy has been appointed counsellor of the embassy in Berlin.

M. Do Sartiges will be the new counsellor in Washington. Jules Henry, second secretary of the embassy, has been promoted to the oost of first secretary. DEMOCRATS AH IKE Lee Koretz, Whose Bayano Development Scheme Netted $2,000,000, Is Under Arrest. WAS IN RETIREMENT Mad Purchased Country Estate; Disappeared from Chicago Last December.

(Bt tb. Associated Pres Halifax. X. Nov. 24.

Lee Korc'z. alleged $2,000,000 land fraud of Chicago, for whom a u-ofd-wido search had been conducted for more than a year, is in the hands of the law. Ho has waived extradition and will be taken back to Chicago by two assistant state's attorneys who arrested him in a hotel here last night. According to the police. Koretz ptole away from Chicago with the loot of a gigantic mail fraud in a band satchel.

Spends Fortune No one here thought to connect fhe thin, smooth-faced Koretz with the bearded gentleman of evident wealth who purchased "Pinehurst," a country home, and spent a small fortune in renovating it. For ha gv his name as Lou Keyte and he peemed Interested chiefly fii collecting rare books and furniture. He was regarded as a man of culture and even Invited to deliver a sermon. When arretted he seemed stunned hy the realization that he had been discovered. Quickly recovering, however, he said: "All right boys, I won't make any trouble," The attorneys refused to divulge how his disguise had been pene trated.

Defrauded Many The specific charge upon which the extradition warrant for the Rrrest was sworn out was that allegedly of defrauding, by use of "the confidence Samuel J. Rich man. of Chicago, to the extent of S3S.400. The Chicago attorneys, speaking of other charges against the prisoner, 6aid one of his alleged exploits was to defraud a t.Tiing U' saving car steward of $20,009, his Koretz is said to have headed, et Various times, the Bayano syndicate, the Bayano River Trust company End the Bhyano River Timber syndicate, with offices in Chicago and New York. The reward for his arrest was offered by the Chicago Title and Trust company, trustees In bankruptcy, but the identification of the person to whom It would be paid could not be ascertained.

Kortez was last seen, according to the circular. In the St. Regis hotel. New York, December 6, last. (Continued on Page 7.

Col. 2) FLEE AS FLOOD OISES Sharlevolx District Towns Are In Path of Menacing Waters Which Sweep Away Bridges. (By the Associated Press) Quebec, Nov. 24. Hundreds of brollies are fleeing from flooded Villages In the Charlevoix district, SO miles northeast of Quebec, BeeXmg to escape a disastrous flood which is rising hourly.

3ur bridges the the Rivierre XT Souffre, a stream emptying Into the St. Lawrence, have been swept i (rwy and the menacing waters have Ccrvered large sections of land and I undermined a number of buildings, i There has been a downpour of rain for hours. The villages of Bais St. Paul and St. Urbaln were reported to be the most severe sufferers.

I FIND BODY OF WOMAN IN RIVER AFTER 3-DAY HUNT flluskegon Wife Believed to Have Committed Suicide Was Visiting Relatives in Hastings. (By the Associated Tress) Hastings, Nov. 23 A three-day jearch for Mrs. Gerald Smith. 30 years old, of Muskegon, ended here I Sunday afternoon when Sheriff Charles F.

Parker found her body floating In Thornapple river near the Grand Rapids Chair and Book-rase plant. An Inquest was held by Frank Sheffield, coroner, and the jury decided it was a case of suicide. Mrs. Smith came here recently Jn rompany with her husband and eleven-month old baby for a visit with rela.tw9. She was in ill health and VlsiteV'-wIth W.

M. Cole several days. Wednesday she left the home and was not seen since. The sheriff was notified Thursday and he found footprints near the river. Since then the sheriff's force has been search-searching the river for the body.

The husband Is employed In the Brunswick Balke plant in Muske- VILLAGER First Measure Taken in Failure of Egypt to Accept All Demands. ENTIRE CABINET QUITS Indemnity of 500,000 Pounds For Death of Sir Lee Stack Paid by Government Today. (By the Associated Prss Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 24. The Egyp-ian cabinet, headed by Zagloul Pasha, tendered its resignation today to King Fuad, who accepted it.

The king summoned Ziwar Pasha, president of the senate, who consented to form a cabinet. To Occupy Customs Lord Allenby, the British high commissioner, at noon today informed the Egyptian premier. Zagloul Pasha, that instructions had been given for Bristish forces to occupy the Alexandria rutir--. This. said, was thf flsi to lie taken in consequeee of Egypt's non-acceptance of all the British demands following the assassination of Sir Lee Stack, the sirdar.

Indemnity Paid The idemnity of 500,000 pounds sterling demanded by the British for the death of the sirdar was paid by the Egyptian government at 11:45 o'clock this morning. The payment was accompanied by a note protesting against the British demands for evacuation of the Sudan by Egyptian troops and for the withdrawal of all opposition to the wishes of the British government concerning the protection of foreign interests in Egypt, which demands the note characterized aa unjustifiable. Cairo Peaceful Cairo today wore a generally peaceful, if somewhat excited aspect. There was a small demonstration in Abdin Square, but it was easily dispersed by the police. The students at a large meeting last night decided to await instruc- tions from a proper quarter.

Mean- while they will continue their strike but remain in their homes. The newspaper Alsiassah, advocates an appeal to the league ol nations on Great Britain's declaring that although Egypt is not a member of the league, it is sufficient that Great Britain belongs. Trouble in 1882 Alexandria has been more than once the point of Egyptian troubles with the outside world. The most notable modern instance occured in July, 1SS2, when a British fleet bombarded the city after there had (Continued on Page 7. Col.

7) THE WEATHER LOWER MICHIGAN Snow flurries probable tonight and Tuesday; not much change in tem perature. Detroit and Vicinity. Monday night and Tuesday generally cloudy, probably snow flurries; not much change in temperature- fresh west erly winds. I'pper Lakes. Fresh northwest winds tonight diminishing Tuesday; probably snow flurries.

Lower Lakes. Fresh westerly winds tonight and Tuesday: prob ably snow flurries. THE TE.MPERATl RE Max. Min. Today 37 05 Yesterday 39 22 A week ago 25 19 A year ago 40 31 Barometer risinft.

Today 29.01 Yesterday 2S.97 Normal 29.27 Sun rises at and sets at 5:31. Moon at 6:22 a. m. Weather the I'n'ssi Detroit. Nov.

24. Highest temperature this date in the past 51 years, 60 in 19(C; lowest. 14 in 1917. One year ago loday: Highest temperature, 44; lowest, 31; mean, 30 partly cloudy weather. Highest temperature yesterday.

3S; lowest last night, 33; at a. 33. Weather Influences t'By The Associated Press) East Lansing, Nov. 24. Cloudy weather and snow flurries are reported this morning throughout the northern states.

The pressure is lowest in Ontario and highest over the Rocky mountain region. In dications are the weather will continue mostly cloudy and moderately cold with occasional snow flurries. WHERE TO GO TONIGHT POST Mildred Paries In ''Tem-porarv Marriage." and vaudeville. HIJOl'-ARCADE Buster Kcaton In "The Navigator," and Keith vaudeville. REGENT Milton Sills In "Madonna of the GARDEN Agnes Ayres in "Without STRAND Gloria Swanson in LIBRARY Wlllard Memorial library open until 9 o'clock for circulation of books.

Reading rooms open Sunday 2 to ii o'clock. Public invited. Y. V. C.

A. Open at all times for girls and women with cordial Invitation to take part in various classes and clubs. Strangers welcome. CITY. HALL City commission meets tonight at 8.

o'clock. Public invited. TWO BOOKS NECESSARY FOR NEXT NEW YORK TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. (By the Associated Press) New York, Nov. 24.

The New York Telephone company announced today that because of the steadily increasing size of the New York city telephone directory it was not practicable to publish the directory in one volume and that therefore the forthcoming issue would be in two books, one covering Manhattan and the Bronx and the other Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. The present book, containing 830,000 listings on 1,920 pages, weighs five pounds. 'S Slaying of Roadhouse Keeper-Sunday, May Be Linked with Killing of Dion O'Bannion. (By th AssocTared Press) Chicago. Nov 24.

A gun fight that police today said probably was the result of a beer runners' feud and might possibly be linked with the slaying of Dion O'Bannion, gang leader, brought death yesterday to Eddie Taniel at his Hawthorne Inn at Cicero. Myles O'Donnel and James Doherty, alleged gangsters and beer runners, were accused by the police of the slaying. O'Donnell suffered four bullet wounds In the chest Inflicted, the police said, by Taniel. Doherty escaped, but it is believed he was wounded. Lee Kleimas.

former saloon-keeper and patron of the inn and a non-combatant, was shot through the lung. The shooting occurred when Taniel fled the cabaret, where, according to the police, O'Donnell and Doherty had waited all night for him. Mrs. Taniel. who witnessed the shooting, is held as a witness.

May MacLe'an, also in the roadhouse, was questioned, the police saying that her story did not conincide with that of Mrs. Taniel. O'Donnell, the police say, was leader of a group of beerrunners that formerly sold beer to Taniel an that he was an aid to O'Ban-n3 Doherty is charged with a inTwtfer at Cicero. Taniel, a former boxer, began his pugilistic career when a boy. In 1907, aa a "professional," he killed Charles "Young" Greenberg in a match.

He never was prosecuted. He then quit the ring, purchasing the Hawthorne inn four years ago. TWO ARMED BANDITS GET $500 IN DETROIT HOLD-UP Coal Company Collector Victim of Thugs Taxicab Driver Robbed by Passengers. (By the Associated Press Detroit, Nov. 24.

One holdup in which thugs got $550 and a number of smaller holdups featured the week-end crime record in Detroit. Isadora Margolis, collector for a coal company, wa3 robbed of $500 by two armed men who followed him in an automobile, he told police. Irving Atwood, a taxicab driver, was robbed of $7 by two passengers who drove him from his machine, but abandoned it a few min utes later. Three armed men held up T. McClure Prosser as he was placing his automobile In a garage and took $40 from him.

TOWNS IN ANATOLIA AND JAPAN GET EARTHQUAKES Considerable Damage Done at Ouchak Four-Minute Tremors Rock Kioto and Nagoya. (By the Associated Press) London, Nov. 24. Many towns in Anatolia were shaken by an earth quake Saturday night, says a dis patch to the Daily Telegraph from Constantinople. The new railroad station at Ouchak was destroyed and considerable damage was done elsewhere.

(By the Associated Press) Tokio, Nov. 24. Severe earth quakes of four minutes duration rocked the lake biwa region in cluding the cities of Kioto and Nagoya at 8 o'clock this morning. No serious damage wo -orted. GO GA 1 CONTI MAX J.

PHAFF Max Jerome Phaff, young New York lawyer accused cf piracy on the high seas in connection with rum-running enterprises, is here landing back home on 5,000 francs bail, pending the completion of his trial In a French court. OHMS SCHOONER Four-Master Wrecked by Unidentified Steamer Skipper Reported Killed in Another (Bv the Associated Tress) Norfolk, Nov. 24. The crews of two four-masted schooners wreck ed In collisions off Cape Hatteras during the 60-mile gale Sunday have been rescued and the steamer City of Montgomery, which was dam aged in a collision during the storm arrived today at savannah. Eight members of the crew were rescued after the schooner Perry Setzer was rammed and almost cut In two by an unidentified steam er south of Cape Hatteras Sat urday morning.

Captain A. J. Wil son, master of the schooner, was in stantly killed in the collision. Word of the rescue by the oil tanker So. Iana, after the men had been cling ing to the ship's rigging for twelve bourse, was brought to New York by the United Fruit liner Calam'ares, which was in radio communication with the Solana.

After he and his crew of seven men had been picked up by the battleship Utah 20 miles south of Cape Hatteras last night, Captain Costa, master of the schooner Marguerite M. Weymess of Boston, re ported that the ship had been run down at 1 a. m. Saturday by an unidentified passenger steamer and almost her entire bow cut off. The battleship at last reports was pro ceeding to Colon with the rescued men, who had been clinging to the rigging of their ship for hours before the rescue was effected Captain Costa reported that the craft which collided with his vessel was a "brilliantly lighted passenger and that the latter in the heavy seas made no effort to put out lifeboats to rescue his crew.

The time of the collision as the ship's master reported it, coincides with the first report from the City of Montgomery that she had been in collision with a schooner. There had been no indication as to what steamer collided with the Perry Setzer. shall do here. I am creating beauty. There are some who do not want to see beauty or to have beauty created." In today's ceremony, Dr.

Guthrie was assisted by Os-ke-non-ton, a Mohawk concert singer and Gal 1-wah-g-wah, a Sioux lecturer, both of whom wore tribal regalia. The service given was a "compilation from American Indian life and cere monies." "I believe tliere is no more effective way to reach souls than through messages conveyed through flowers and muclc." Dr. Guthrie said In opening the services. "The Indian expressed his emotions for God through the great out-of-doors through flowers, rivers, forests, mountains, the sun and the moon. Today's ceremony is a study'in cora-partive religion.

We must adopt what we can use from the religions of other peoples." Dr. Guthrie said that the sendees were not of the eurythmic order which have been the subject of a controversy between himself and Bishop Manning and had nothing to do with eurythmic 1 MYSTERY BOAT Pastor Again Defies Bishop and Stages 'Pagan Rites" on Sunday Prosecutor Follows New Lead In Ohio Furnace Death Mystery (By the Associated Press) New York, Nov. 24 With blue incense smoke spiralling from censers on either side of the pulpit of the Episcopal church of St. Mark's-in- the-Bowerie, two American Indians in native costumes Intoned Bongs, prayers, dirges and other tribal rituals at an "Indian serlce" yesterday. Dr.

William Norman Guthrie, the pastor, at the close of the service said he had received no word from Bishop William T. Manning in regard to the ceremony. Bishop Manning early this year had requested Dr. Guthrie to discontinue "any form of worship composed in whole or in part of American aboriginal material." Last April, Dr. Guthrie announced that the so-called "pagan-rites' would not be repeated in his church.

Dr. Guthrie said that even If he had received word from the bishop expressing disapproval of today's service, "the program would have had to go on as scheduled just the same." "I am not attempting to start a controversy with Bishop Manning," he said, "but this Is my parish and I shall be guided by the dictates of my own conscience as to what I (By the Associated Press) Columbus, Nov. 24. Investigation of the Bexley furnace mystery entered into its second week today with County Prosecutor John R. King following a lead which he developed yesterday.

Mr. King would not make known, now, he said, what additional Information he had In his efforts to determine how the body of Mrs. Addie Sheatsley, wife of the Rev. C. V.

Sheatsley of Chicago Evangelical Lutheran church, came to be in the heating furnace of the Sheatsley home. A resolution adopted yesterday by members of the Rev. Mr. Sheatsley's congregation contained a prayer for divine guidance "that the real culprit in the baffling case will be discovered and brought to Justice." A declaration of "unqualified confidence in the integrity and nobility of character" of the Rev. Mr.

Sheatsley also was contained In the resolution as well as an expression of sympathy for the minister and his family. The Rev. Mr. Sheatsley last.

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