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THE DAY | TWELVE PAGES _, VOL. XLIIL No: 17 - REFUSAL T0 OBEY FRENCH ORDERS x( AUSES ARREST J \ Ila OF RUHR I Fritz Thyssen and Four Others to be Arraigned Before Military Tribunal _. PRIVATE MINE TAKEN OVER '* Essen Banks Closed in Protest Against Reichsbank Oc- cupation ESSEN, Jan. 20.-Frits Thyssen, coal and iron magnate, and four i- rectors of Rhur mines were arrested at Bredeney today and taken to Dus- u seldorf for arraignment before a\ French military tribunal They ave accused of refusing to obsy the Ir ancoBeLgmn—Itmhan industrial com- mission and obstructing activilies in the Rhineland. Thyssen is the son of August T ysseu, founder of the great chain mines 'and nulls through- out the Rhur and Rhineland. Hugo Stinnes, biggest of the coal and iron magnates in the Rhineland. is supposed to be in Berlin. He has left the Rhineland home. Other arrests were made at Pen- gelmand, Wuestenkoefer And Kes tenolfer, The first privately owned mine to be taken over by the French was requisitioned today. It is known as He \good hope\ mine. As soon as a; French occupxed it the men quit work The five thousand miners emp.oyed in P.ussian state «owned coal col- lieries 'who went on strike Friday, returned to work today. The French soldiers have been withdrawn from & the requis tioned mines. All the banks failed to open for .n protest against the occupation .if the local ranch of the Reichsbark av the French, The miners' councils appointed a committee io call wupoer General De gouette, the French commander-in- chief, at Dusseldorf this afternoon to nake formal demand for the with- drawal of the Freich forces. During the first week's occupation of the Ruhr coal production was re- duced to less than one-half of nor mal. The 'French are confident, howy ever, that the promise of steady wages and good treatment will induce a majority of the miners to remain at work. JUDGE ANGELL HOLDS COURT IN PORT HENRY Supreme 'Court Justice Edward M. Angell, at a special term of Supreme court held in- Port Henry today, ap- pointed a referee in the action brought by Joseph Disco and Henry Wolff agains! Carl Brooks Dosphnei, Mary Luck Doephner, Willian H. Steele, Christina Steele, Ellen Perry and Amelia Holmes.\ The plaintiffs seek to attach a lien on property owned by the defendants for payment of contract for the erection of a bun- galow at Saranac Lake. ., Judge Angell signed a ~judgment n default in the case of Clifford IL (len, a Massena contractor, against Ulysses H. Boyden. The testimony of the plaintiff was taken as to the amount of the claim and afidavits proving defaull were submitted. A Judgment of foreclosure was signed. in the case of Fred Belair against Frank L. Belair, et al. An order was signed substituting | ElmeiJ Vincent for Roy Lockwood [ as alterney for defendants in cases of Blizabeth Mott vs. Edward Mol} Ladd | and Homer Ladd vs. et al. KANSAS JUDGE RELEASES HOWAT IT'I‘SBUERIGI-I Kas., Jan. 20.— Judge Wooley loday ordered the re- lease from jail of Aléxander Howat] and August Dorchy, former president. and vicepresident, respectively, - of | the Unifed Mine Workers of America,; serving terms at Girard, Kis., for contempt of court for refusal to\ answer questions in brought under the industria law of Kansas, 'The judge also ordered the release of all other\members of the execr tive committee of the United Mine Lloyd i court © Workers of America for the Kansas' district who ate confined. w enemas len BARONS tported to be wrecked near proceedings | CIRCULATION BOOKS PRESSROOM AND MAILING DEPARTMENT WIDE OPEN TO ADVERTISERS GLENS FALLS N Y SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20 1923 boss aho RIOT CALL FROM GHETTO CHICAGO, Jan. 20-A riot: call was \turned in shortly before noon today from the Ghetto district after outrag: ed citizens had fallen upon an auto: mobile which had run ovér two boys killing one and injuring the The crowd threatened to take | geance for the boy's life. BANDIT DEAD; CASHIER SHOT ST. PAUL, Minn., ur identified bandit is dead and Chester | Eklund, bank cashier, is in a critical condltlon, following a frustrated at- tempt to hold up the Payne: avenue State bank today. GREAT NORTHERN WRECKED MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 20- 'Great -Northern passenger train No. 12, Fargo, N. D., to Chicago, was re A Sabin, Minn., today. GRANT TO ANSWER SUNDAY NEW YORK, Jan. 20-\L will deliv- er my answer from the pulpit tomor- row,\ was the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant's response today to requests for a statement in reply to the letter sent 'him by Bishop William T. Manning, demanding disavowal of utterances contained in Dr. Grant's sermon last Sunday, or his resignation from the Protestant Episcopal ministry. Denial that Christ had, the power of God was the' statement to which chief accep- tion was taken by Bishop Manning. 8 BURN TO DEATH LAWRENCE, Mass, Jan. 20-Eight persons were burned to death and one probably fatally injured when fire gut ted the 3 1-2 story brick structure at\ 349-351 Elm street, in the Syrian quar- ter today. A mother and her four children were among the victims. FOOD PRICES ADVANCE WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-There has been another increase in the cost of living, the department of labor an- nounced today, retail food prices hav- ing advanced one percent during De- cember. TENDLER EARNS DECISION NEW YORK, Jan 20-In a gruelling fifteen round bout, Lew Tendler, of Philadelphia lightweight, earned the judges' decision over Paul Moran of New Orleans, at MadisonsSquare Gar- den last night. CALL OFF COAL STRIKE PITTSTON, Pa., Jan. 20-The action of the grievance commlttee represent- ing 10,000 employes of the Pennsyl- vania Coal company and the Hillside Coal and Iron company in the Pitts: ton district in calling astrike for next Monday morning was rescinded early, this afternoon after a successful ef- fort on the part of Thomas Davis, representative of the labor depart ment at Washington to adjust the dif- ferences. All delinquents in the or- ganization have settled up their ar- rears, the cause of the trouble,. MANIAC KILLS PaAssENGERS LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 20-Run« ning amuck on the Southern Pacific crack westbound limited, The Cali- fornian, near El Paso, Texas, a crazed passenger shot and killed two men 21nd then escaped by'legping from the rain. T. S. KNOWLSON LECTURES ON EMILE'GOUE TONIGHT Mr. and Mm... Henry F. Atherton will givela dinner party this evening h at their home on Grant avenue in honor of T. Sharper Knowlson, direc- 'tor of .the Institute of Individual Psy- chology in .New York, who will lec- ture on Emile Cones System - this evening. Eight guests will be present at the dmnel Mr Knowlson is spend- ing the week-end in this city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Cowles. Mr. Knowlson's lecture tonight will begin at 8:5 in the Presbyterian church, Thirty-five cents is the admis- [sion. Any profit will be used for the Woman's club building fund. The lec- ture is under Woman's club auspices. GUARDS AND OFFICERS MEET _ The guards and officers of Warren | Review W. B. A. are requested to meet tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock: in Maccabee hall. scots MEET MONDAY 'The men members of the St. : drew's Socxety of Seots will Monday evening at 8 o'clock in Odd Fellows' hall to make plans for the banquet. An- coLoNny To MEET | The Glens Falls Colony. of New Emg-| land Women will meet at the home of. Mis. John W. Dean on Pine street, Tuesday afternoon, lings will be assistant hostess, Mrs. Betty Wakeman Mitchell will speak on \The Child and the State.\ be a > Al, l‘ L LA. « marm e eme ush ny t noe ]- || Subpar | other. | ven- meet | Vrooman; Mrs. A. D. Hast 'This photograph. F i MRE STAE GOVT.- EXEGUTES ELEVEN IRISH WEUIA'RS 'of Arms For Rebellion Lead to Death Sentence DUBLIN, Jan. 20.-FHleven Repubi- can Irregular prisoners}; charred with train wrecking and possessmv arms and munitions for purposes of re- bellion, were put to death by the Free State military authorities. Five men were executed at Ath- lone; four at Tralee, and two at Limerick. All had been convicted by Free State military tribunals. Cornelius McMahon and Patrick Hen- ing trams. This is the beginning of a more vxgorous policy against the Irregulars to put down lawlessness and guerrilla warfare. , . The executed men at Tralee were John Clifford, Michael Bresnan, James Hanlon and James Daly. The prisoners were found guilty by a military tribunal of having arms in their possession for purposes of re- bellion and in taking part in insur- rectionary activities. Free State troops raided a housé in Aughrim street, Dublin, arresting four Irregulars and seizing a quan- tity of arms and munitions. Dublin was shaken by explosions with Republican Irregulars blowing up railway viaducts and bridges with dynamite all round the city. A secret tunnél was discovered leading: from Mount Joy prison where hundreds of Irregular prison- ers are confined, to a nearby private home. Several inmates of the house were arrested. To try 13 MORE MEN FOR HERRIN MURDERS MARION, Ills, Jan. 20.-Judge D. T. Hartwell announced this after- noon that the next trial in the Herrin mine riot case would begin on Feb. placed on trial for the murder of An- tonio Mulkovich, one of the slean non- union men. The five men acquitted have been | released and the others granted the privilege of giving bonds of $20,000 each, NMificteen Herrin bu¥iness men went 'on their bonds. All men awaiting trial are now at liberty. MACCABEES INSTALLATION: At a meeting of Glens Falls tent, 208, Knights of the Maccabees, last evening, the following officers were installed by Past Commander Free- man Hayes: Commander, F. W. Cur- [tis; past commander, W. R. Austin; commander, Henry Pillet: chaplain, D. J. Brown; sergeant, Oth- Srtaith; master at arms, Fred first master of guards, G. 1, Darrow; second master of guards, Lester Johnson» sentifiel, P. A, Cran- nell; picket, W. D. Pitking record. ke@per, Folin L.] Caldwell. Following the ceremonies 4 banquet was served by the adies of Warren Review W. B. + The two men executed at Limerick, nessey, were found guilty of wreck-7 12. At that time thirteen men will be ! receivad in this eonntry.shmtho aetnaJanch milt German industrial region. | Here are shown pollus, WM entraining at Dusseldor£. tary penstration for M/ MS BLAME-HARD Tomei -n {to torture on August 24 last, , witness stand at the open hearing. I testified 'he had made a note of the Tnumber the day following the kidnap {number is Smith Stevenson, former | witness i“in the present investigation. | son of Captain J. K. Skipwith, exalted hil WEATHER: Rain or _ snow to pllg'ht' and Sunday; warm T0 GREY VTMS | | U IIIfl-IENIIHEII [Farmer Exhibits Copy of Order | He Received to Leave Morehouse Parish COURTHOUSE, BASTROP, La., | Jan. 20.-The motor truck used by the i T\hooded. mob\ of Morehouse parish to | carry their kidnapping victims away was posxtwely identified today from the The death cars number was declar- ed to be \Louisiana 74657,\ by H. B. Blankeiship, Bastrop merchant who ping. According to state authorities the owner of the car bearing this night watchman of Bastrop, and a Blankenship under oath, swore he | recognized Oliver Skipwith, youngest Carey Calhoun, Witness in In- | vestigation, Arrested For Killing J. P.Parker, Jr. WERE .FRIENDS | AND KIN Duel Occurs in Negro's Cabin- - w- 1 Dead Man 'Was Shot and (| - Skull ~ Fractured '. )| MONROS, La., Jan. 20.-John. P. , Parker, Jr., former sheriff and son of | & capitalist, died here early, today, from a bullet wound in the head., He was shot last night according to po- lice by Carey Calhoun, noted \dead- STILL PURSUED -BrEMBOFLAN W. H. Anderson's Son Violates Dry Law, College Men Find She and Her Son -in-Law Are] Arrested Again on New Charge -MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Jan. 20.- Official announcement was made at Wesleyan University today that Fred- erick Atwell Anderson of Yonkers, 'N. Y., son of Dr. ,W. H. Anderson, superintendent of the New York Staie Anti-Saloon league, had resigned from ithe college because of personal vic- lations of the Voistead act. His ac- tion followed a meeting of the stu- dent committee who aré governing the undergraduates with respect to drinking, and his was the first case since the committse. went into action last month. . GEORGE HARVEY SAILS TO BRITAIN During His 2 Weeks Spent in Washington NEW YORK, Jan. 20.--George Harvey, ambassador to the court of St. James, in jovial spirits weighing seven pounds more thas 'when he came to confer with Presi- dent Harding two weeks ago, sailed today for London. He is crossing on the United States liner Ameftica. Arriving at the pier with his two- quart ambassadorial silk high hat, he was lined up by a battery cf moving reel of him ground out for public consumption in a variety of poses At a loss to find a new angel from which to portray the patient am- basador a mdving picture operator bellowed out, \Take off \that Itellv.\ \Nothing domg \ smiled Mr. Har- vey, \this is a. perfectly good hat and on it stays » Mr. Harvey declared He was feel- feeling badly. I had suffered a rougn crossing on top of a two weeks' siege of the 'fiw' 'in London,. But in the last two weeks in Wasmmgton T have gained seven pounds.\ \What difference will that gain have on the Ruhr invasion?\ an un- kindly reporter queried. \Not any, 1 suppose,\ said the am- bassador. \In fact I donI; suppose it matters to the work at all but it am glad I got that weight.\ He refused to comment upon world affairs involving United States diplo- macy, but sphked reports that he would not continue as American am- bassador in London with a firm 'am absolutely going to continue am- © bassador to the court of St. James.\ % TBS. HEMER Ambassador's Health Improves“ and . picture photographers and reel upon: ing \great''and \ready for hard worl $7 \When IL Arrived,\ he said. \I was- gurely is of importance to me and 1) \TL The law, like the traditional villain, still pursues her. Mrs. Agnes Blanch ard, alleged vampire, was 'arrested again last night in Ticonderoga by Chief of Police Harding. of Hudson Falls. This makes four times that 411m. Blanchard has been arrested since Robert D. Steele, Dresden post master, decided that publicity might be preferable to paying hush money, and told his story to District Attorney Wyman S. Bascom of Washington county, With Mrs. Blanchard last night was arrested her also of Ticonderoga. This makes Ash's second arrest, He and his motherin: flaw were jointly indicted by the Washington county grand jury last night is on a second indictment tharging attempted extortion,. - Mrs. Blanchard and Ash were brought to Hudson Falls last night and jailed. Today Judge EB. C. Rogers admitted them to $1,000 pail, furnished by Alex- ander Sleight of Dresden. Sleight is Steel's brother-in-law and Mts, Blanch- ard once kept house for him. He also | bailed Ash when Ash was first arrest ed. District Attorney Bascom when questioned for particulars of the sec- ond indictment said that it was for \separate transactions in the Steele case.\ Steele accuses Mrs, Blanchard and Clarence Vosburg, former Ticonderoga policeman, of working the,. badger game on him last summer m a Glens Falls hotel, which cost Him several hundred dollars before he balked j at keeping up his payments, according to his story, What part Ash had in the transac- tions between the elderly | Dresden postmaster and the former housekeep. er of his brotherin-4aw, has not yet been madé public. The case will come on for trial in Hudson - Falls week alter next. Vosburg has pleaded guil- ty aud is awaiting sentence privilege to change his plea, thar > L. J. PARANT PROMOTED _BY ST. CROIX COMPANY wazz L. J. Parant of Woodland, Maine, for a number of years a resident of Glens Falls and Fork Wdward, who general superintendent of the- St.. Croix Paper Co., of Woodland, has 'eral 'managér of the- company, - as. cording to an announcement mads last week at & banquet .of the: om- ployes and officials of the\ company. Mr. Parant was for a time .employ- ed by the International Paper Cofi: 'pany in Fort Bdward and for eleven. (years was with Finch, Pruyn & Com- pany in Glens Falls, © a 654 {. when it Boon. Wie driver of the truck 'he said, nize. * Blankensth told the crowded. court- ' room he saw the kidnapping entourage pass his home while coming away j from the scene of the hold-ups and yepnroute to the woodland rendezvous where two captives were flogged. He could not recognize any other mem- ber of the hooded mob. \Deportation orders\ use by the \black masks\ of Morehouse parish in sending exile warrants to persons falling under their wrath, it was Walter Ash,. week for extortion. Their arrest last. milk . ase for the past eight years. has been! been elected vice-president and gen-} shown today. Two farmers testified they had been driven from home by the \exile war- rants,\ hoth of which were couched in the same language. both farmers. er lantes.\ days time.\ \Have you got the notice now?\ \No sir, but I can produce one just 'orders read: \This committee after watching your mode of living and your ut ter disregard of the laws of our land against the manufacture and sale of liquor; the peaceable and unmolested possession of property. have decided that your open vio- lations of the law and your con- stant depredations upon the cattle, hogs, sheep and etc., of your neighbors, makes you a most un- desirable citizen, \You will, therefore, accept this as a notice and warning to you to depart from this parish at the expiration of ten days from the time of receipt of same, never to teturn again. you must stand the consequences. (Signed), \Who gave you the notice?\ last February and gave it to me. So 11 packed up my stuff and got out. n* *What did you do about it?\ trop and lie told me it was sent by the Ku Klus Klan. He said he could not do anything for me. I also saw some other men and nobody could help me, so I sold my land and moved , away.\ \Were you gevr whipped?\ , \No sir, my brother-in-law was.\ \Did you leave in the ten days?\ \\¥Yes sir, on the tenth day.\ READING CLUB TO MEET. The Monday Reading club 'will met Monday evening at 7:46 o'clock with 'Mrs. L. F. Stickney, 8 Newman street, | tion has inhounced that they A full attendance is requested. cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, as one| deputy sheriff of Morehouse parish. {of the guards on the \murder truck\} The two men were said by police to sed him that fatal after' haye quarreled over Ku Klux Klar -was: Smith-~Stevenson: -The -witness}.G further declared he had seen the form |At-dawn afd ;j8 how held in the par- of Thomas Richards lying bound.and ish 'Jall on a murder charge, Parker - blindfolded on the truck beside two {other \men whont I could not recog. fractured, presumably , from. PH The exile men j were C. C. Osborne and I. _N MeCouin, E. C. Osborne, Madison parish farm- testified he had been deported from Morehouse parish by the \vigi- He declared the order of de- portation told him to \leave in ten like mine, which was sent \to my father-indaw in McCowin. They, sent him one too.\ Two copies of.the \deportation or- ders\ were produced. Ons was ad- dressed to McCowin and the other to Duey Brown, another farmer. These \If you fail to obey this order - \VIGILANGE COMMITTEE,.\ \A man came to my house one night \I came to see Will Smith in Bas-] ,wou1d have ten teams drawing wood . Ito. the yard from the McPhillips pftop ; erty about a mile north of 1mm George. 1 Mack & Kennely will sumfly‘ A; ° shot\ and brother of Larry Calhoun, activities.. alfoyn was- arrested at his home Was shot through the head and his ,. heavy blow. : . The two men were cousins and ~ warm personal friends. The quarrel, according to police, was sudden and unexpected, revolving around the ré- tent appearance of Calhoun jas an wit- ness for the state in the hooded mob murder trial at Bastrop. Calhoun was an admifted Klansman while Parker was reported as not belonging to the organization, but sympathetic with it. Parker was the son of John P. Parker, one of Loulsiana's best known capitalists and a power in politics, The younger Parker had served one term ag sheriff of Ouachita parish and owned the third largest estate Louisiana. He served overseas as captain in the Rainbow division dur- Jng the war. 1 The elder Parker served as a mem- ber of the \peace committee\ which atterapted to settle difficulties in Morehouse parish following the ‘k‘hooded mob\ murders. Due to his father's interest in the case, both Parkers were regular attendants at the open hearing in Bastrop. On one occasion young Parker sat beside Cal- houn. . The shooting is said to have tiken place in the home of a negro cook emploved by Parker. 'The fwo mey tation just outside of Monroe. Park- er and Calhoun, police said, started ° their quarre} on the sxdewalk in front of the house and the shooting took place a few mmutes later after they - entered. Police early todav announced the negro was missing. First word of the tragedy was telephoned - from this: house by Saunders who told a friend- that Calhoun had shot Parker. When police arrived Parker was lying on the floor in a pool of blood. \Calhoun was a witness at the \hood. ed fnob\ trial this week. He told of having gone to the defense of Will® when the latter was charged with a plot to kill Captain J. K. Skipwith, exalted cyclops of the [Ku Kluy Klan in Morebouse pstist, Calhoun, while on the stand, deéeclar- ed he was a Klansman, . |NO CHANGE TODAY _ IN FUEL SITUATION, At the office or Judge James Me- Phillips, secretary of the Fuel A4 visory Board for Warren county, it was slated this morning that thers was no change in the fuel situation loday. No coal arrived boday, but It was stated that there was sufficient leoal in the city to last over the week- 'end and that more was - expected Monday. 'The board will assist in any Way lpossible the plan of the coal dealers. to establish a central wood yard in. Curran street and will locate a source ., loft supply, Mr. McPhillips stated at the fue} meeting yesterday that he 'gqw for the wood yard and the rondack Power and 'Light Corps {stall a motor at once: f with Wes Saunders, also of Montér.\ > stopped at the house the cpok | to accompany them to Parker's.plan- || 1
