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WARREN CLUB RAIDED; LIQUORS SEIZED; STEWARD ARRESTED Nearly 200 Warren Busmess Men and Women Attend Opening Session of Business Institute PHILA. MAYOR RETIRED FROM DELEGATE RACE Kendrick is Replaced by State Chairman Baker in Republican Slate CITY CHARTER CLAUSE IS GIVEN AS REASON Action Not Unexpected by Politicians Since Development of Fight By United Press HARRISBURG, March Freeland Kendrick, of Philadelphia, today withdrew his name a candidate on the Republican slate for delegate at largo at the national convention. W. Harry Baker, chairman of the Republican Htate committee, who withdrew in the of harmony several weeks ago, will take place on the slate. Kendrick sent notice of his intention to the capital today.

He gave as his reason for declining to run on the slate, the existence of a clause in the Philadelphia city charter prohibiting political activity of this character. nomination petitions as a candidate for delegate at large were circulated throughout the state today following the withdrawal of Kendrick. The move on the part of the Philadelphia mayor did not come as a complete surprise in political quarters. He had been expected to drop out of the race when it was seen that a fight was to be waged. Baker gave way to make room for Governor Pinchot.

Then Ralph B. Strassburger came into the field as an anti-Plnchot candidate. There still ins one more candidate thaa there are places on the slate, however. Seven will chosen and the political interest centers In the one who must be eliminated at the primary. mayor it is my duty to set example in obeying all laws rather than to dodge it or technically justify the violation of its Mayor Kendrick itviid in commenting upon his withdrawal.

this reason I decline to permit the use of my name as a candidate." resignation came as the result of an opinion by City Solicitor Joseph Gaffney declaring him ineligible for the post. MILLION DOLLARS USED IN GUN RUNNING PLOT WHEELER IS INFORMED Probers, Getting Tip From Former Mayor of Border Town, Expect to Link Fall and Others in Oil Revolt Conspiracy By United Press WASHINGTON, March directly involving former Secretary of the Interior Fall and some present government officials in a $1,000,000 bribery and gun-running plot will I sought by the senate Daugherty Investigating committee from a witness subpoenaed today. He is Harry S. Obbon, former mayor of Calexico. a town on the border between California and Mexico.

Obbon wrote a letter to Senator I Follette, Wisconsin, detailing alleged instances of interference from Washington with efforts to stop gun-running across the border during the Cantu revolution in 1921. He also told of a $1,000,000 fund, part of w.hich was to go to Estabau Cantu, leader of the revolution and of which, according to Obbon, Fall had control. Follette turned the letter over to Senator Wheeler, who at once summoned Obbon. Since announcement by the committee that It was going into reports that department of Justice agents on the Inmler were -called off from Washington when they tried to prevent violation of the neutrality laws by gun runners, much information has been volunteered. The committee has received offers from several persons whose names are being kept secret, to testify if they are afforded protection.

Some of these volunteer witnesses have expressed fears of the consequences if they tell their stories publicly. With a score of witnesses enroute to Washington from southwestern states, the committee is ready to open hearings Wednesday. a At the same time, the committee rushed its separations to Investigate the story of Leonard Wood, concern ing the alleged offer made by oil Interests to General Wood, his father, when he was a presidential candidate in 1020, and to inquire into the alleged failure of the department to prosecute 55 cases turned over to it by the federal trade commission. Evidence in the hands of tho committee, according to Senator Wheeler, Montana, chief points to the involvement of Edward L. Doheny, Harry F.

Sinclair, and former Secretary Fall, principals in the oil scandal, in the alleged plot to aid the Mexican rebels. Witnesses subpoenaed from the border states, many of them department of justice agents, are expected to testify that they received orders from Washington not to interfere with shipments of arms and ammunition which the oil interests were said to be across the border to the rebels, Wheeler said. Such gun running is in violation of law. and persons found guilty of aiding it are subject to prison terms. In organizing Its investigation of this affair, the committee has issued subpoenas, not only for department agents, but for agents-of tho Mexican revolutionaries in this country, and for all telegraphic correspondence passing in (Continued on Page Nine) POLICE CATCH FORGER AFTER ROLD ACTIVITY Man Arrested at Kane Stole Checks and Used Name of Charles E.

Keelor IS UNDER PAROLE AT MICH. PRISON SELECTION OF BAKER IS URGED BY REED DENBY LEAVES CABINET POST JOB UNFILLED Coolidge, Sifting List of Available Men, May Make Choice Before Night By United Press WASHINGTON, March David Reed, of Pennsylvania, issued a utatement today urging selection of W. Harry Baker, chairman of the Republican state committee, as delegate at large to the national convention. Ho said Baker's certificate would be circulated immediately. Senator Pepper and Secretary Mel- lcn are also in favor of selection.

GOES INTO CROWD, ONE KILLED AND 2 HURT By United Press UNIONTOWN, March Chroma, 30, was killed and two other persons were injured when Ernest Douglas, a negro, lost control of his automobile and it crashed into a crowd of people on the new Salem mid, near here, early today. Douglas surrendered himself to the police and was released on $1,000 bail for a hearing later. He claimed he was blinded by glaring headlights of an approaching machine. AIRPLANE TEARS ROOF OFF; NO ONE IS HURT POMl'TON LAKES, N. March 10.

soup was beginning to boil in the kitchen of Mrs. William Hopper when an airplane tore off the roof and crashed into the yard. Neither the soup nor the two aviators were hurt. ROOSEVELT TAKING TEMPORARY CHARGE Five Best Features viaRadio By United Press WEAR, New York p. m.

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m. (C. S. by the Tearl Memorial male chorus. By United Press WASHINGTON, March of tho Navy Denby, first casualty In tho naval oil scandal, in leaving office at noon today, saw no one yet selected to succeed him.

President Coolidge. it was stated at the White House, hoped to send to the senate before night tho name of a new navy chief but the task of filling this first vacancy in his cabinet has proved very difficult. Theodore Roosevelt, now assistant secretary, automatically took over the administration of the department and will serve until successor has qualified. farewell to the navy was: and God bless It was broadcast to every ship at sea, and in port, and to all American naval stations throughout the world. Just before Denby went out, President Coolidge let it be known that he had not found a successor.

Several hundred clerks, stenographers and minor department employes presented Denby with a leather bound testimonial for their esteem. Denby was sworn in by Major General John A. Lejeune, commandant of the marine corps, as a major In tho marine corps reserve. Mr. Coolidgo today is understood to be considering tlireo or four candidates, including: Judge Curtis Dwight Wilbur, California, who was at first mentioned for attorney general.

Judge Wilbur is a graduate of the Naval Academy, and deeply interested in naval affairs. He has been (Continued on Page Nine) CLAIM IN CANDLER LAWSUIT ATLANTA, March Claude Bylleld today lost her attempt to obtain $100,000 damages from Walter T. Candler, son of the multimillionaire Cola manufacturer, for an alleged attack on board a ship. A jury in Dekalb superior court, after deliberating since Saturday, denied Mrs. By claim for damages and found for the defendant, who charged the suit was the result of a blackmail plot.

LITTLE HOPE OF SAVING ANY IN MINE EXPLOSION Practically No Chance of Any One Living in Gas Filled Chamber --------BODIES OF 31 OF 175 MEN RECOVERED By United Press CASTLE GATE, Utah, March Very few, if any, of the more than 170 men entombed in the Utah Fuel coal mine number two, when a dust explosion wrecked the working Saturday are expected to bo found alive today as rescue workers penetrated Into the galleries where the miners were caught. Thirty-one bodies removed and eighteen have been positively identified. All were badly battered and burned from the blast and subsequent fire. Mine exports said there is practically no chance that anybody could he alive in the stifling, gas-filled chambers. Twenty other bodies were sighted in a tunnel still inacessible as workers bored into the mass of debris choking the passageways.

Fire and deadly gases hampered the relief efforts yesterday, but the flames finally were extinguished hist night and rescue squads equipped with gas helmets made their way into the tunnels. It is believed that the levels where (Continued on Pago Nine) Full Kit of Burglar Tools Found Among His Belongs at Kane; Taken to Jail In the arrest of a man giving his name as John Thompson, who is in the Kane lockup charged with forging and passing a oheck for $64 made out on a personal check belonging to Chas. E. Keelor, of Wetmore, police of section are confident that a dangerous criminal has been apprehended. By representing himself to employes of tho Keelor Chemical Company as B.

H. Donovan, of the Pennsylvania Gas Company office of this city, Thompson succeeded in gaining entrance to Mr. apartment during a brief absence of the latter. When he found that his ruse failed to deceive Mr. Keelor the stranger represented himself os a railroad man and declared he had lost his wallet and asked If ho could borrow some blank checks.

He was readily accommodaled but in Home manner pilfered from the desk of Mr. Koe- lor, some personal checks on the Warren National bank. Later In the evening it was ered that ho had succeeded In forging and passing one and when caught he had another for $35 filled out and signed. After his arrest it was learned that he is on from the Michigan penitentiary at' Jackson where he was serving a 14-year sentence for highway robbery. An examination of this effects at Kane revealed that he possess ed a full equipment of burglar tools.

The prisoner was arraigned before a Kane justice of tho peace today and remanded to jail at Smethport In default of $1,000 bail. The McKean county officials are endeavoring to have him returned to Michigan. PROSECUTOR OK DAUOIIKRTY In Wash 1 ntfton they look ujion Senator Burton K. tin- chief prosecutor of Hurry In the hearing brfore the senate Jury nr which Wheeler member, hs a Democratic insurgent as outspoken and untamable iu Senator Un- Follette, tlie bud boy of the Republican wide. It wan Wliweler who presipltated the dadlock In the vote for the t-hnlrmnn of the Interstate commerce commission.

Next to Dill of Washington lie Is the youngest man in the binate. TELLS HOW TO OWNER OF CAR MAKE BOROUGH AND DRIVER ARE TRADE CENTER ARRESTED HERE Opening Session oi Business Believe to Have Brought Institute is Attended by Stock ol Liquor Seized in Nearly 200 PRYOR IRWIN DELIVERS INTERESTING ADDRESS Club WHISKY, BEER AND GIN IN SEIZURES Cultivating Territory Import- Trio Held Under $1,000 Baft ant Step in Increasing of Each For Hearing Later Business in Week FIVE GRADES OF CRUDE ARE GIVEN ROOSTS First Changes to be Announced in Several Weeks by Seep Agency THREE UP IS CENTS, ONE 20 AND ANOTHER IS 10 SEEKING PRINCIPALS IN PITTSBURGH RACE RIOT PITTSBURGH, March teetives today were searching for the principals in a nice riot in the hill district here, Sunday night, which resulted in a negro being shot through the ankle, a white man slashed across the face with a razor and more than a score of other persons being slightly injured. The riot started, according to police, when Mrs. Joseph Chlzek, 40, ly stepped on the fingers of a nine-year- old negro girl. Whites and negroes rushed to the scene and a free for all fight culminated.

PHILA. PASTOR READY TO DO POLICE DUTY PHILADELPHIA, March E. J. Larose, pastor of the Messiah Reformed church, will do police duty hero if tho city will give him a uniform, pistol and stick. think it would be a fine thing if clergymen of this city were made officers for a he said.

Christianity is not out of place." VOTE TO WORK WILKES BARRE, March More than 500 miners at the Westmoreland Colliery of the Lehigh Valloy Coal who have been on a strike a week, voted to return to work today following a stormy meeting addressed by President Cappellni, District No. U. M. W. Following il period of inactivity of several weeks that camo on the heels of a number of boosts in prices of crude oil, the Joseph Seep Purchasing Agency this morning announced Increases in five grades not including Pennsylvania which was quoted unchanged at $4.00 per barrel.

The now prices are as follows: Corning, $2.15, up 20 cents; Cabell, $2.00, up 15 cents; Somerset Medium, $2.30, up 15 cents; Somerset light, $2.50, up 15 cents; Ragland, $1.10, up lfr cents. The credit balance for Pennsylvania grado has unchnnged since January when it was boosted 25 cents which sent It to the $4.00 mark. Nino other grades were Increased at the same time, which was the last general boost announced by tho Seep Agency. A dispatch from Findlay, Ohio, today declares that the Ohio Oil Company also announced Increases of 15 cents a barrel In Wyoming and Montana crude oils at the wells as follows: Creek light, Elk Basin, Lance Bif Muddy, Rock Creek, Mule Creek, Sunburst, Montana, $1.05. HYSTERIAL OVER PROBE HANDICAPS, SAYS SCHAB By United Press WASHINGTON, March prosperity In tho United States is being handicapped by over the in vestigation in congress of the naval oil Charles M.

Schwab, steel magnate, today told President Coolidge at a conference at tho White House. told the Schwab said, I never saw, prior to those dif ficulties and this public hysteria over tho oil investigation more promising business conditions. Today the country is prosperous, hut not so prosperous as it should be." 676 CHURCHES ARE BACKING BUTLER Take Charge of Crusade to Line Phila. Citizens Up in Law Enforcement DROPS DEAD AT ALTAR. ALTOONA, March Father James B.

Egan, pastor of St. Catholic church, dropped dead at the altar while addressing the congregation, from heart failure, Sunday morning. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, March hundred and seventy-six church congregations of this city are today securing signatures to a pledge of support to Gen. Butler in his plans to clean up the city. Hundreds of thousands of signatures are expected to bo added to tho pledge which Is being circulated as a result of appeal to the public for an expression of support.

Every minister in the city will march to city hall today to pledge support and aid to Butler. BARONESS VON ROTHSCHILD DIES BERLIN, March Press) von Rothschild, widow of Baron Carl von Rothschild, died In Frankfort today. FIND SCHOOL IS BOOTLEG CENTER Janitor and Assistant at Philadelphia Distributors to Neighbors By United Press PHILADELPHIA, March public school here has-been found to the seat of a widespread liquor trade. The building was used to house the and the assistant janitor was the dispenser, polled Bay. Wholesale visits of neighbors to the school, many of them parents of the pupils there, aroused suspicions of the principal and the raid followed.

-------ARTIST ENDS OWN L1I WILKES BARRE, March No reason could be given today by family and friends for tho suicide of Albert J. Winder, 58, official landscape artist for Luzerne county, who shot himself at his home here yestorday. CONGRESSMAN HELD IN JAIL Minnesota Representative Arrested With Young Man; Plead Not Guilty Find out what your patrons think of 1 Warren, convince them that it pays to trade here and then cultivate your trade territory providing entertainment to hold their interest in your city. This was advice given Warren merchants today by Pryor Irwin, counselor and retail Investigator from Chicago, who spoke at the opening session of the Merchants' and Community Bus incus Institute In tho Y. M.

C. A. The opening session followed a luncheon which was attended by nearly 200 business men and women of the city and vicinity. The Institute will con tinue for flvo days under the auspices of the retail bureau of the Warren Chamber of Commerce. Emery A.

Cook, president of tho chamber of commerce preaided at the luncheon meeting. a Trade was the subject of Professor Initial talk to the business men. He pointed out different cities and towns In various parts of the country that have grown prosperous because the merchants got together and made a trade center so that the particular communities attracted business from surrounding territory. Must Keep on a city quite growing in a civic way, it stops growing also in a com merclal Professor Irwin said. business and trade center docs consist chiefly in opening up a lot of fine stores- and you have some mighty fine stores in Warren but you must ultimately start out on some definite program of Tho speaker compared the establishment of a good business house in the manner in which a farmer starts out to raise his crop.

A farmer prepares tho soil, then plants bis seed and then cultivates it, the speaker explained, and urged the merchant to begin the establishment of his trade in a like manner. out what the people think of Professor Irwin said, "and then try and give them the service they The merchants were urged to prepare the soil by inviting the people of the surrounding territory to trade in Warren and give them confidence in theli business by serving them iu a fair way ami by placing fair prices upon merchandise, thus competing with other outside communities. The second step, according to the speaker, Is to inako the community believe that it to trado in Warren," and give them confidence in their business by serving them In a fair way and by placing fair prices upon merchandise, thus competing with other outside communities. The second step, according to the speaker, is to make the community believe that it to trade in In order to hold their patronage. Cultivating tho trade territory Is the most important step of the three In tho opinion of Professor lie told of various Instances where small cities and towns aro prospering because they have provided a sort of community house where various entertainments, poultry shoks, stock exhibits and meetings can be held.

This, he explained, brings tho people from the rural dls tricts into the city and holds their interest in that particular trade center, so that the business men need not worry about outsido competition to any great extent. arrived in Warren this morning and immediately started in to do a lit tlo local Professor Irwin said Just before finishing his remarks. your market? I asked. Thus far nobody has answered that question. Where is your hitching posts? you havo horses here anympre? No one lias answered that question either.

do you suppose the farmer who comes here to sell his products thinks about it? What do you suppose the man with tho horse thinks? Those are Just two things that I have noticed since my arrival in Warren. By United Press WASHINGTON, March Harold Knutson, Minnesota, is held without bail In the Arlington county, Virginia, jail, on a serious charge, following his arrest in a parked auto- mobilo on a lonely Virginia road at 9:30 last night. Held with Knutson, Is L. M. Hull, a Washington young man.

have no statement to make until 1 havo talked with my Knutson said today. He pleaded not guilty before Judge Thomas in Arlington county police court, and asked for a hearing. Judge Thomas and Commonwealth Attorney Gloth declined to fix bail until they had heard facts in tlie case. A i result of a tip that drifted the police headquarters this shortly after nine o'clock, the rooms or Conewango Aerie, No. 313, Fraternal Order of Eagles, located over 416 Pennsylvania avenue, west, were raided shortly after 12 o'clock, when four half ImrrtiR of 43 of gin and a gallon of whiskey were confiscated, three men were placed under arrest ami a high grade automobile was taken la charge by the Warren police.

The men under arrest are SummI owner of the automobile, once Munger, chaulTuer, both of Jamestown, and Clarence Whlteshot, of Warren, steward at the Eagles club. Munger was arrested about 0:30 o'clock when Officers MacKendiick Griffith, acting on a tip that a quantl ty of liquor was unloaded at tha club, visited an automobile standing la front of the entrance and found sufficient evidence to hold tho man In charge of tho car. It Is alleged, however, that the liquor had unloaded from the ulloy bewecn Pennsylvania an4 Socond avenues. Chief of Police Wholeben was notified of the arrest and District Attorney Eddy summoned. The officials held conference and decided that they wouht be Justified In raiding the club, and about 155:30 o'clock they visited rooms.

According to the police Whlteshot was in chargo of tho grill room, buft most, of the liquor was found in a small room on tho same lioor near the elo- vator and it is the assumption that. II had been placed there during the morning hours. Whlteshot was placed under arrest. Petrix was arrested by Officer Ciriffltli about 12:15 o'clock and taken to quarters where he was grilled by Chief Wholeben. The trio were arraigned before tiro Blackman at 2 and under $1,000 ball each.

Whlteshot waived hearing and the two Jamestown men asked for a hearing Thursday afternoon at 2 IjOcal citizens nished bail for all the prisoners. The two Jamestown men aro said to have started from that city for Warren about this morning. Just how much liquor tho car carried Is not known, but tho police have reason to believe that the gin and whiskey found (Continued on Page Nine) Mine yy POP THE BE ON THE OF THE FAGl STORK Iv TH ST0PK SHOULD OLLAR INSTEAD OLD' TAX-EXEMPTI0N MOW Ml I will notice other things during my stay Prior to Profeasor Irwin talk, Secre(Continued on Page Nine) FORMER KLAN CHIEF ENTER GUILTY PLEA HOUSTON, Texas, March Young Clarke, ono of tho founders of the Ku Klux Klan, today pleaded guilty to violation of tho Mann act in federal district court hore. Ho was fined $5,000. No prison sentence was imposed.

At ono tima Clarke was acting imperial wizard of tho Klan but recontly had been allied with the William J. Simmons faction In fighting tho present administration of tho hoodod order. WASHINGTON, March Western Pennsylvania: Snow tonight and probably Tuesday, not much change in temperature. WEATHER CONDITIONS: A disturbance which was noted in the southwest Saturday morning has moved eastward and northward, having increased in Intensity, with one center of disturbance over Ohio and another off the North Carolina coast, attended by snow in the northern states and by rain in tho southern states. High pressure covers the northw'est and tho w'ost gulf states, with generally fair wreather west of tho Mississippi river.

There have no decided chango in temperatures and the temperatures aro generally below' the seasonal normal. 8 a. m. observations: Atlantic City 38; Chicago 28; Denver 12; Harrisburg 34; Now York 38; Pittsburgh 34; San Diego 48; San Antonio 32; Washington 36; Winnipeg 4. LOCAL WEATHER temperature: 6 a.

24; 8 a. m. 26; 12 31; 2 p. 33. Highest today 33, lowrost 24.

Highest yeac ago today 33, lowest 22. River 1.5. No precipitation..