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- WEATHER - ~ Generally fair tori and Tuesday; ext:M snow flurries tonight 'in extreme north, slightly I colder tonight. THE NEWS 2 __ THE Day | ** IT IS NEWS| IL/ 77 //// ////,/// SHERIFF AJMIS ¢ s SKPWITH HAD: \_ NWARMNTTO | SEARCH HOMES Names Several Klansmen Who Gave Braddock Into His Keeping Following Raid PVICTIM WAS NOT JAILED Hanging Penalty For Crime At- tributed to Hooded Mob in This Case wortmemen~ « COURTHOUSE, BASTROP, Le., [ [HHUANIAN ~ \NENE NEDA DECA ~ obmune mow triz BERLIN, Jan. 15-Lithuanian Irre- district of Memel,have senta note. gulars' captured Meme] this afternoon to the Allied control commission, | claiming that the movement was di- disarming the handful of Frengh rected solely against Germany and guards on duty there, said a telephone asking the French to refrain from message from Koenigsberg. It is be-|\any act of war,\ said a dispatch lieved thit several persons were kil'- |from Dantsig today. The Lithuanians { od in fighting. | promised protection to the residents The Lithuanians seized the French of 'the Meme! district and the Allied | prefecture. , officials. General Simonatis, the T4 | Memel is the capital of the neutral thuanian commander, has proclaimed FRENCH BILLETS STONED Womumimt BEEN EXORBTANT | SAYS U. . BOPD | - Report to Congress_That Toll 1 Taken Has Exceeded Service or: Risk DELVING INTO PROBLEM 'Three Periods of High Coal Prices Followed Labor Trou- bies, They Point Out WASHINGTON, Jan. 15-The Uuit« t’r fl rrr Ar/ 1 ';,‘3 A | The Whirling Globe .]w MINT ROBBERY SUSPECT CHICAGO, Jan. 15 -Two suspects 'in the $200,000 Denver mint robbery, are under arrest here today. One of the men gave his name as Dan Cul- * hane. He is believed to be Albert T. Hollywood’ leader of bandits. Culhane j said he was a St. Louis Gambler. He, would not explain marked money in his possession. Believed That New: Reparatnom I Proposais Will be. Forth- coming From Amenca zone established 'by the Alles after; hunself \head of the Memel govern {they cut off from Germany the ex- |neent.\ gleme northeastern tip of the country | rdering Lithuania WASHINGTON, Jan. 15--The Lithr | \hr Local police assisted the French in 'anian Irregulars, who captured Memael R “mars Ba‘k at working defending the drawbridge over the |@re not fighting the Allies, bug revolt} Overtime While Occupa- . Dange, canal in an effort to prevent ling against the \unbearable director~ . Cp the Lithuanian advance.. The Irregul-|ate which was the local adplinistra~| tion Confirms ogle ars first penetrated the southern part. tion,\ said a statement by the Litho \ h of the city. :anian legation here today. fa GREECE REFUSES SEPULCHRE NAPLES, Jan. 15 --The Greek revo- lutionary government at Athens has refused permission to bury the re- mains of former King Constantine on Greek soil, said a dispatch from Ath « Jan. 15. -By calling Sheriff Fred A. Carpenter as a \surprise witness\ in the open hearing today, the state of Louisiana \burned the bridges\. be- hind members of a,. \hooded mob\ which smashed its way into the home of Alonzo Braddock, Morehouse parish Jr‘armer to carry him away a prisoner last, summer. Braddock blamed this cutrage on Ku {| - Km Klan and positively ldentmed h six members of the \mob.\ The:-crime is a capital offense with hanging as the penalty in Louisiana. Sheriff Carpenter, a self admitted member of the Klan, was used by the | state to prove that the \mob\ did not act for parish authorities and did not have a search warrant when it broke into Braddock's house in the dead of the night. The members whom Brad- dock identified were Captain J. K. Slupmth, Marvin Pickett, Kurd Pick- itt, Ben Pratt, Sam Cox and Sam- ldmdge, all well known residents of the parish. U SPEAKERS SCHEDULED FOR _ CHURCH BROTHERHOOD Millard N. Atwood of Cornell Uni- versity, will be the speaker tonight before the Brotherhood of the Presby- terian church after the supper which is served at 6:20. His subject will. be ed States Coal Commission declared {today in its first report to congress, that \profiteering\ by both operators and retailers is responsible for pres ent high prices of bituminous and an- Tthracite coal. \There have been profiteering,\ the commission said, \in the sense that | {grossly exorbitant profits have besa taken at times by. many operatore, brokers and retailers; profits that} bave, been _ dlsproportlonate to the cost of the coal or the service rend ered or the risk incurred.\ The commission made no recom- 'mendations with a view to stopping the unwarranted profit taking to which it referred but announced that a \thorough examination of the profits of production and distribution includ- ing the revenue derived from associat- ed enterprises, is already under way.\. A satisfactory solution of the prob- lem of transportation the commission declared, would be necessary before there can be a mutually acceptable ens today, The body is in the Greek church here. WRECK HOMES OF IRISH DUBLIN, Jan. were reported from vartons parts o 'the Free State today The ings and caused mudh mght Legs s 0 o a. . OBREGON EXPELS CHURCHMAN MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15.--Monsignor part in open air religious Texas. FUR THEFT PRISONER ESCAPES 2. 15. -Indiscrimtnate attacks by Republican Irregular raid .ers against the homes of Irish leaders Irregulars demohshed furnitures, wrecked build. BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 15.-Sawing| his way out of a cell on the second Workmen threw. down their tools | and rallied to the defense of the city.. It is reported that Lithuanian cav- alry were following up the Irregular. COPENHAGEN, Jan. insurgents who Handed the neutral f The statement said protection had | been , assured all\ residents and . gov- ernment workers of Memel. lrestless,\ continued the statement. \It demands the new government be re- cogmzed > _ LUBRARY FORCED :: j P El Ernesto Filippi, apostolic delegate -to BY LABK 'F F U Mexico, who was ordered expelled by President Obregon because he took | ceremonies contrary to the federal law, said he. would leave tonight by way of Laredo TO CLOSE DOORS Dealers Who Received Supply . Saturday Are {Coal BELIEV'EVF‘RGZE'N BODY : ~ DENVER, Colo., Jan. 1i5-The fro 'The laboring element of Memel is : tot '.-i<0.N:E.-DF;M1N.T..«BAN?DIT S. . PARIS, Jan. 15———!‘reneb tram advaneirx into Bochnm, Wer Magnet announced this arts-neon Advices to the foreign , Milne mt! the French advance upon Bochnm [commenced at 5 o'clock, | The Allies are awaiting new rope '|atfons proposals from the' 'United States. It is expected that Roland W. Boyden, American observer onthe Inter Allied, reparations commission \will present certain ® 'same day Lonis Barthou, of | hence, chairman of the: commission 'ammon en body of the man*believed to have been one of the mint bandits, in Den- var's $200,000 mint robbery, was found lmst night in a garage in the fashion file Capital HiXH district. In the garage was found the Buick car that carried the bandits the day they rob bed the mint and killed Charles T. | \ Seven 45 ca¥bre revolver cart .es France's new conditions for a Ger» man indemnity moratorium Boyden was. asked ® persistent report that he 1 (hzcel new American indemnity uro- B.~ confirm the report nor discuss it in any way,\ said the American: obser- ver. It was understood from other sotre‘ \Because of my position I-cannot _ Carpenter declared he had once giv- en Captain Skipwith verbal permission the homes of several men sus. Short Again Today es that the American proposals al- - O ready have been reduced to writing. They are believed to follow the mein | midges were found in his left hand side pocket of his coat. Begide the body were bloody rags, three caps \The Things That Can't Be Done ' The following is the schedule of speakers for January and February: floor of police headquarters, lato last night, Frank Conley, thirty-two years old, arrested in a fur theft, climabed wage agreement 'and a lasting peace 'between the,codl operators and mic- ers. The subaectxon of the railroads to The Crandall Free Library will be pected of making moonshine whisker); January 22-John Williams, Of sudden peak loads of coal trafficatthe|down a fire escape and won liberty. closed until further notice because of | and a pump gun. Clothing tags on the Hues of Secretary Hughes D. lP' Ho denied however, that the \mob\ [China, president of the Nanking Uni |season when the demands of agricul- He improvised a saw out of a knife |lsck of fuel. Patrons may keep their shirt band and collar indicated the pealing to the British and th to had search warrants when it smashed [versity, His subject will be “Rela— ture and industry are at their height which he failed to return after the eve- {pooks until the library is opened maan was from Chicago and the only arcept an injernational committee of its way into Braddock's home. tions Between Ching and Japan.\ was held by the commission to be [Ring meal. Conley was suspected Of again, ~*~ ~*~ lemme to his identity were the initials [bankers and economists, MGM \Do you remember the night that ° January 20-Charles H. Johns02, %: [the principal problem to be solved in having committed a $30,000 fur rob 'Goal dealers in (lens Falls and |'\T. F. H.\ on a handkerchief. to draw up a workable comproffiie Alonzo T. Braddock was taken from Albany, will speak on \Russia.\ Mr. bery at Syracuse last November. Police believed, it was sald, that plan the man found dead was kifiled while the gang was making its getaway in a motar car on the day of the hold- up. The machine. aprilarently was driv en immediately to the garage, nearl .a mile from tie mint, ushers the meg Ruhr mines was prohibited today by - changed part of their garb and aban. |the National Coal commissioner. ¥ doned their dead comrade. ' M. Coste, director -of operations and. The owner.of the garage could givé chief mining inspector of the 'Frenck e no clue to the identity of the two men Elgism gfoégugém’lfi uf‘étgeggfg w who rented the machine from him. that he expected the individual mines to deliver as they had agreed, 'The managers declared they could not do m so because of the official bans | © French officers protested to the' pes > | (~~ lice at Buer against the stoning of , A French billets by Germans Sunday. | ~ The French warned that if there was - 'a repetition the French would resort |_ to use of arms. The French: demand © arranging for adequate transportation. The commission pointed out that the three periods of high coal prices since 1916 had resulted from labor troubles. > “Whatever the cause or the merits of the labor controversy,\ it was stat- ed, \it is clear that an immediate re- petition of these crises in the produc- tion and distribution of coal would be intolerable. Industry and home alike must be freed from the menace of constant interruption of their coal supply.\ The commission said it had p reason to believe that an agreement would be reached to prevent another mation wide coal strike in April of this year. \Over development of mmes and surplus numbers of miners,\ was held by the commission to be the \under: South Glens Falls found themselves short of coal again today with a targe number of orders booked for what- ever shipments are received within the next few days. One dealer in the-city has some sof: coal. The deaters who received ship- ments on Saturday rushed the coal t \to persons who had been waiting for it several days. To facilitate delivering and at the same time relieve suffering dealors made deliveries Sunday. - All of the dealers expect to receive shipments within the next few days. | Coal dealers request patrons to keep driveways open so they | can | drive into them and thereby save time in dumping coal into cellars 'During the past two or three days drivers of coal vehicles have been his home by a hooded mob?\ \Yes sir.\ \Was he brought to you?\ ”Yes U g - \Who gave him over into your cus- tody \ ESSEN, Jan. 15-Coal delveries to France and Belgium under terms 'of Saturday's tentative agreement by which the French and - elglans\ were 'to pay in cash for coal taken from Johnson visited Russia last fall. February ~5-Dr. - William Horace Day, of Bridgeport, 'Comn.. pastor of one of the - largest Congressional churches in the country, will give an address. He is a popular speaker be- fore International Y. M. C. A. conven- tions. February 12-Harlem B. Horner, dean of the- State College of Teachers. Albany, and district deputy of the Ro- tary Clubs of 'the Bastern district, will speak on, \Abrabam Lintoln.\ , February 19-Pedro M. Blanco, gra- .duate student of Columbia University, and a native of the Phillippine Islands, will speak oR ' \What the United States Democracy Has Done for the Philippine Islands * |SHIENTAG APPOINTED ALCOHOL KILLS MAN. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 15 -A vie tim of poison liquor, John H. Duker, known also as J. Brady, of Boston, is dead here today. A bottle nearly half full of almost clear denatured al- cohol was in the man's pocket, GERMANS MOURN. ESSEN, Jan. 15.-This was a day of German mom-11mg in all the cccupied territory in the Rhineland. Black was conspicuously displayed as a protest against French occupation. \Captain Skipwith was cuse of the party. I do not remember them all.\ \Name those whom you do know.\ \Marvin Pickett, Ben Pratt, Meln- tosh, one of the Edwards boys, I think, and also one of the Cox boys, exther Sam or Frank, and Captain Skipwith, \Was he placed in jail that nlght’” \No sir; I gave him a room in my house.\ \Did you at that time hold a war-. rant for his arrest?\ \No sir, I did not.\ \Were any of these men who l brought him to you, deputized as sher- DOUGHBOYS LADEN WITH GERMAN FURNISHINGS COBLENZ, Jan. 15. -Officers and men of the American army of occlipa- ANOTHER. CHURCH BURNS OTTAWA, Ont., Jan. 15i-An a tempt to destroy St. Mary's Roman Catholic cathedral at Hamilton, Ont., by fire early today was followed by a ifs?\ lyhngstcause” of instability in the coal. decision of the Canadian governmrnent called upon in $ng mstsgncesthto hoequnlpm Ifiavs'iargfioéfisegfiz ‘Zfiefi that the Buer chief of police. be piin- \No sir.\ R 5 s industry ca coal a long: distance from the a * \gld they have a search warrant” LABOR COMM! SSIONER In this regard the report said : a 821121333 {rifiigtflfs I???“ iiluihggai dell-fiery tracks to cellars, thereby $333 oicggxtginsififgflfiogg tgidmtitel figsd 515121121 £31313 stopping the demonstra \No sit.\ - y ($13; exaivftihéed‘ég; mfndgfgy g is conducting an organized campaign causing 2113?) de 255 - low value- of the mark they {ave been Ruhr miners are refusals to work Robert Andrews and McVea Young, MAISJEiAgzIftgg lgf {Te‘gag’oris TIBfggéi fraught with so many complications against Catholic church property. ' 'There were r255rst’ons oforlliithfaclte shopping lavishly. overtime, while occupation is 'in éf-. J} Bastrop druggist, followed Sheriff Car-| Selected 'by Governor Smith gs state |that the commission has not yet had 4 coal in this city at noon today and lo- |- There are forty grand pianos in the fect. Previously they had worked six MAY BALK SARAZAN, NEW YORK, Jan. 15.--It is report- ed that the board of directors of Briar. cliff Lodge Country club may oppose hours overtimé | every week. This was suspended for the Christmas and New Years holidays and was to have been resumed today. The anti-French demonstratlons in- cluded a 30 minute strike throughout the: Rhineland at. noon: The: French did not attempt to interfere» Thous~ ands of workmen stood bareheedéd Kn > the streets sitiging \Deutschland Uber Alles.\ - Violent antiPFrench speeches were made. A mob surrounded the Kamerhot, (French headquarters), singing anti- French songs and shaking their fits . army and much luxurious furniture as well as many costly rugs and art ob- jécts. Enlisted men's apphcatlons to marty German girls are pouring in, despite the unfavorable conditions imposed. ' The. Americans do not want to go home .and the German population doés not want them to. go. Every soldier and most of the offi- cers are seéking places in the detail clean up squad which will remain be- hind to clear up the loose ends tf business. time to ascertain sufficient facts on which to base any recommendation to. be hade to congress. \ \The inquiry involves the whole. {question as to what is best for the people-free competition, government or pnvate ownership, - regulation or Jeontrol in the coal industry. Should lthe operators in given areas 'be per- lnutted to combine so that the low cost: mines would furnish the product to cal dealers had 2100 orders on their books, it was stated this afternoon at ? the office of James MePhillips, secre- the plans of Gene Sarazen, golf cham- !2\V of the Warren County Fuel -Ad~ ion of America to go abroad for the. ministration. 'There was fo coal on grltxsh open event gm June. hand Saturday fight; it was stated land the supply 'being delivered* today | gov. To TREAT EDUCATION reached this city Sunday and thgs ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 15 -Governor| morning. There is no soft cogl in the Smith said today his first | special city. message to the legislature would deal Much coal has already 'been divert- with education problems. He expects ed to Glens Falls to relieve the short-. to support the message this week so it age, it was said, and District Fuel Ad- can be submitted to the law makers: ministrator Kilmer has promised to: 4] penter and corroborated evidence giv- \ en. previously by Fred Cobb, a factory owner, The second surprise of the day dame when James Salton, court clerk was called. He was presented with the papers, one a search warrant aid the @ other a bond, each duly filled out, and *. * bearing the name of Alonzo L. Brad- | ; dock and the. date of Nov. 24, 192%; i The date on the search warrant show- ed that an erasure had been made un- der the figure \4\ and a microscopic eaxmination proved that the original industrial commissioner to succeed Henry D. Sayer, resigned. The governor probably will send 'Shientag's-appointment to the senate ' tonight for confirmation. Shientag for- merly was counsel-to the state indus- trial department. He is a close friend: of the governor. | Under Shientag, it is expected the: labor department will be almost com- \pletely , reorganized. In his message to 'the legislature, the govelnor made {the people and the high 'cost mines numerous recommendations for chang- |kept.tin abeyance to meet 'an emor» es in the work of the department |geney, properly regulated, as to price I date was Nov. 25, the day following » {GOV. SMITH MAY GIVE LAW land profit by - some governmental Tagency, or should this ' prime neces- | the first part of next week, Before completing the message, the [do all in his power l‘o relievo the pres- ent shortage . Coal is expected to ar- MISS STANTON ENTERTAINS, reporter who Idughed at the: 'Germim at photographers on the balcony. One“; Lou. Continued on page two. w. trollor, away locomotive tors through the. heart of this city this morning endan- gering the lves of hundreds of \work: . men enroute to the shops, gathering: speed as it travelled through the \yards and crashed head-on with an. eastbound freight train at Van Ruren, five miles west of this city. The. en- gineer and fireman of the freight train \observed the approach of the lightiess rugaway engine and leapéd. from their | ca SMUT H T0 ADDRESS WOMEN. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 15.-Governor -gmith will address the State League Of Women Voters tomorrow night in - the state education building on rec- 'pfimendations ho made in his message | &\ to the legislature for consolidation of. #tate departments;, an executive: bud: get; and for a four year ferm for gov- |_ . . efnor, Heutéenant governor and comp sible Governor Smith will provide} Walter W. Law. of Westchester, chair- man of 'the state tax commission, as. of incompetéency, with a bill of par-. 'teulars. as requested by counsel for Commissioner Law. When asked today if he intended to- #ive Taw the bill- of particulars, the: governor said: ~~ \I: know, I may. Hls request; is len my dekk but I haven't read it yet.\ «Commissioner, Law will Appear be-} fore the: governor *in the executive chambers Frxdav noon to answer the} charges. He-.is' now preparing His de- 'fense 'with the. assistance of hig coun- . former: Senator Edgar T. Brackett. - Tutve of New York. ell meetlug 'of, he \Choir Circle tomor ~evening at against whom he has preferred charg- | Joss GOETHALS IN BUFFALO economic life of the republic, that the 'view of the commission must be left to 1ts final reporli lie interest in coal raises fundamental [questions 'of the, relation of this in- suustxy to the nation and of the ds gree to whleh private | vight must: {yield to public \welfare. | It may be | 'that botfl private \property in an ex- 'haustfble resource and labor in a pub [Tic service industty must submit to. certain' modifications of their private rights, recéiving in return certain, guarantees 'and ptivileges not. aocoid- led to purely private business 'or per- eons in pmvate employ ' BUFFALO, N. Jab. 15.-General 'George W., Goethals, newly appomted 'fucl. administrator, artived here today. 'to ingpect the Erie county fuel situ- anon. 80 lockhln thelwroom 4n «the Parish. £03 ntl ab l: \The- commission believes the pmb-| : Feonderoga, U. more attentmn to the \little schoolhouses in the rural dlétllcts THREATEN SSHENECTADY STRIKE hod carriers and building new city schools.' the threatened strike. WOMAN SERIOUSLY SICK. tion at the MosesLuddingtorn hosprtal today. Her condition was Serious this afternoon. Mrs. Ruby Witharspoon ls employed Ab special nurse on the: can. \ - « Lee o red: SCHEBNECTADY, N. Y., Jan. 15. - Building contracts totalhng thousands. of doliars may be tied up here with in the next fow days by a Strike of 'The strike would stop work on three Failure by the contractors to arbit- rate a request for increased wages is given by the workers as a cause for Mrs. Robert Poterson, of South Ti : underwent a serious opera-] wood in their furnaces: and ranges. A large number of lotal wood dealers, lare bringing quantities of hard wood, {into the city during the emergency BLG FIRE IN TROY TROY, N. Y., Jan. 15.-Fite today: 'thregatened one 'of the most important business blocks in This city, & “Starting on the fourth floor of the' Candy company in River street, the} fire spread to the Polk -and Thompson 'Drug store before it was checked. The ually the entire Troy fire department ‘Ifought the flames. AUXlLIARY TO HQLD PARTY: The. Woman's Auxiliary of the Am- erican Legion will give a card party [Wednesday evening at §,.o'¢lock in their rooms in City hall. The public is invited 'dareage is estimated at $30,000. Vir] people at Crandall Park until 10 o'clock when they went to Miss Stan tons' home on Smith street where a ' buffet tuncheon was served. Decora tions of red carnations were used. 'i Dancing and games followed. 'Those present were: The Misses Gertrude Decker, - Polly - Broomeli, Manon Strong, Bthel Wilson and Mor. ris Miagard, William Gould, Howard | building; occupied by the H. W. Ward!) Holley, LeRoy Briggs. Robert Higgins and Kenneth Corlewr RED CROSS SHIPS SWEATERS 'The Glens Falls Chapler of the Red Gross today shipped the first lot of its [quota of sweaters and socks to the [ Veterans' . hospital in New Haven. There is a great need for these artl- ales and those who are kmttmg are ty- quested fo send the finished socks and sweaters . to © the chapter as soon as possible, © § Werippling local melustnes; I | zone of occupation is limited with; | ‘lHer condition is serious.“ ' ( {sity of life and Business be i6ff who} governor will consult with members of Five in this city tomorrow. Miss Doris Stanton gave &A PST | demonstration was nearly lunched. [& e =~ R B|LLOF PARTICULARS ly to- open competition' in the mar- tghe state board of regents regarding! It was stated at Judge McPhillips' Saturday evening in honor of her vhsflmgwon Jau. 15-Only 45, LOcomoTIVE RuUNs Away. . lket This problem is of so EreUt| rural educational problems, The gov- office that it would be: advisable for seventeenth birthday anniversary. | pog men and these exclusively whits, ll; RK, N. Y, Jan. 15 -A Tun ANY,- N T., Jan. 15 -It is 'pos- Eoment. Futh referentceb ntotlsonltaé ”it; ernor believes the state should give all who can possibly-do go to burn Skating was enjoyed by the YOUNG | arg engagod in the military opera- o UNKI B . 15.- = ALB theories-of government, but also H tions in the Bochum region .of the Ruhr which began this morning, Ac- cording to an official statement made here today by the French embassy. The announcement stated the new: movement was intiated following ac- tion by the German government ifn is< suing orders to cease all' coal déliver?: jes and was furthermore prompted by the fact that the aroa prevmusly -6t# cupied could nof alone furnish. tha Allies with coa delivéries © without © line of Werden- W1tten-Batteln \beck; s t NURSE gUFFERS PARALYSI'S. Mrs. Carrie Bolton, a domesti N this morning suffered a; shock alysis at her home 'in Ticon The new .. O ao =~
