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yHéfi woOuNDS NOT FATAL Believed Shefied Who Sent police indicates that the Berton~wo- . - P man was responsible for the attempt - , l to assassinate - Mvron _ T. Herrick |f ~ ma aF apartments, and entertain their wives - | A [as well as to accept employment on . P parms while presmmably serving tima. \ C to enjoy fisking trips and to attend 1 gy stage department today, follows: Oil company. ' \A radio dispatch conveyed to me the information that reports . : h \ A been published to the effect that sharp | to Spend between. sixty and seventy 'dieagreoment with respect to «foreign | maillion dollars. * policies exist between Hughs and myself, and that t indicat capital stock of that ed such divergencles of opinion while | clair then gave the committee a cer- in the United States. > \I wish to defy in my nate any {transactions demanded in the sub; suchstatements or intimations: They |poeba relating: to transfer .of Mam- | - are absolutely fulse. I am in full and | moth stock for Hyva shares, C complete agcord. .- with Secretary ° in Hughes and I have not ufléred a word | the fecord without being public, after; win that could by the wildest stretch of [which the 4 | - THE DAY | news ~> TWELVE PAGES VOL. XLHII No. 18 MEESE DOR 0F PMS ROYALIST ORAN Germaine Berton Shoots Marius | Plateau in His Sanstum, ._ Then Tries Suicide. x GLENS FALLS, N. Y., MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY CIRCULATION BOOKS, PRESSROOM AND MAILING DEPARTMENT WIDE OPEN TO ADVERTISERS 22, 1923 4+ [Fata Was Spirited Away by Band of OF TEEGERSTRON | I$ INYESIIGAIEIJ, Men, Employer's Supt. | Testifies « COURTHOUSE, BASTROP, La, | * Nubs of the News Romb to Ambassador « Herrick ~~ PARIS. Jan. 22.-Gefmaine Berton, a woman anarchist, today assassinat- 7M Mrrius Plateau, leader of the vv‘rrnfh Royalists, and editor of the Rovalist newspaper Acton Francaise. The woman tried to commit suicide but failed She was arrested. Mme. Berton entered the newspaper office with a request to see the editor. When chp was shown into U. Plateau's office she drew a pistol and fired. Employes, attracted by the sound, rushed in. __ Acton Francaise is the most radi- & cal of the Rovalist press. In - this morning's issue it urged France to send an armv to nccupy Berlin, The woman fired five shots at M. Jan. 22.-Hints of a new black mur- der plot were sounded today whon state authorities launched a formal inquiry into the mysterious disappear- ance of Harold L. Teegerstrom, miss- ing \key\ witness whose testimony is desired at the uooded mob inves- tigation. ** to A dozen withesses, including mem- bers of the missin; boy's family, were questioned on Teegerstrom's whereabouts, if living, or his fate, if dead. . S. I. Bennett, supeftintendent of the Southern Carbon company, whers Teegerstrom' was éfmiployed when he disappeared, was called, Bennett was '45; David and William, six (twins); A 7 m C yal ol aster / 2” P FA aA K Tk FIVE DIE IN FIRE , Pa, Jan. 22-Five persons, a fmother and her three chil dren are dead, and two others are serionsly burned as a result of the burning of the hotel Davies here early today. Ten other guests fied from the flaming structure in their night clothes, The dead are: Mrs. John Winnie, and - Catherine, 13; Thomas W.} Davies, 438, proprietor of the hotel. A FLOATING INTELLEGT SYRACUSE, N .Y., Jan. 22.-Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, under fire in the Episcopal church because of his \advanced views,\ is the victim of a \floating intellect.\ This characterization was made by the Rev. Walter Leopold Bennett in N closely questioned ag to Teegerstrom's vrork. He declared the youth had been spirited away by a band of men who callec} him from his house. Bepnett also identified the key: found at Lake La Fourche as being the \same\ keys used at his plant. \Did you employ Teegerstrom? \Yes sim's. - ', <- \What happened when he disap- peared?\ Plateau. two of which Then she turred the berseif, inflicting a tal where surgeons wound was not serious. \ Information in the hands of the struck him. weapon - upon wound in the ' breast. \S s © | supplanted - General mast. [Gho was rusbegagg thzthostfile commander of the French forces in «atest dispatches state that Gen- eral Maxine Weygand (above), for- Deugoutte | as Germany. imer chief of staff under Foch, has |. \He was carried away by a band of men who called at his house.\ \Do you have any idea of why ho disanpeared?\ \None.\ United States ambassador to France, about a year ago. . A bomb was seni to Herfick in a package. It was received at his home and exploded but the diplomat was not injured. A servant was slightly SHERIFF'S FOES CALL JAIL COZY STOPPING PLACE WATERLOO, N. Y., Jan. 22-A \jail deluxe\ with its prisoner in- mates «permitted to occupy private wounded. The police found a letter Germain Berton was alleged to have written to a friend, saying: v'ontinued on page {wo. }IARVEV FM CFA pENIFS HF a | | Al 2 j at resumption of bearings this {nom- | * ' ANL ing presented the committee “(1th a sas € 4 bain certified copy of the articles of incor- Ambassador Hastefis to Con-! vestment company, which he refused tradict Reports That Breach Existed can. 1 Sinclair subsi- WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-From the Oil company, a. ~ steamer OQlymplc, om which he is re- diary operanfxg the oil fields at Tea turning to his post as Ambassador to pot Dome, Wyoming. t a flat and equ! 1 iHarvey sen a oc ; rl wera an adjwfiz to pay if these stocks 'had been kept Secretary of| in your own name rather than being Great Britain, Col. George that thero were any between himself and State Charles E. Hughes over ques split.up among various companies tions of Amerfca's foreign policies, Qn the contrary, Col. Harvey said, - ho found himself \in full and complete | Sinclair, \but there would have been accord\ with Mr. Hughes, . Harvey's messago was prompted by @ rumors' originating in the opposition; Secretary $131: night. ! Thesé roports reached Ambassador' Harvey by radio on the Olympic, and he promptly wired the North Amer- joan Review, with which he formerly was associated, a vigorous denial, and | _ , instructed that this dental 'be given xeother, publicity. The tost of Ambassador Harveys | Sinclair's acquisition of message, as 'made public here by the 'Dome leage through the Mammoth: ipamediite publication,\ La - 0 United | were present when Sinclair took the States sehate, to the effect that Har- | stand. Included in the audience which vey and Hughes had \split\ on for- | surrounded the witness eign policy during Harvey's visit here, | packed the committee room were Col. and as & result of this and senatorial | Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the ppof I Hughes was | board of the Standard Oil company of considering retiring from the cabinet. Indiana and W. M. Burton, president Secretary Hughes denounced these lof the same organization, which will rumors as \absolutely false\ Satur- Secretary | to Mammoth; Sinclair obtained all the Hyva Corp. Documents Put Into Committee Record and Not Made Public WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-The ex- pected break between Harry F. Sin- clair and the senate oil investigating 'committee failed to materialize today. The oil magnate, under subpoena, poration and by-laws of the Hyva cor- poration, a Sinclair family owned in- io produce last week. 7 The subpoena ordered Sinclair to. bring All records and transactions of 'the Hyva company, which controls large holdings of stock of the Mam- \Have you ever figured up the dif- ference in income tax you would have 2s Roe fiked Simelair. \I have never figured it,\ answered a great difference.\ . High officials of the oil industry table and follow- Sinclair on the stand. Hyva is an organization with 100,000 shares of no par value, Sinclair, told &he committee, of which 200,000 shares were sold for $20,000; the remainder 'being held by himself, his wife and m 'The interrogation then . turnéd to the Teapot The lease, he said, cost nothing, have | but under it Mammoth was obligated In alloting the lease concern, - Sin: I tified copy of all the records of oil Thege documents were placed © in the movies. That is the way the Seneca county jail here is described by Harry Bak- enhaster, a former prisoner, in an affidavit supplied to former Under Sheriff Charles A. Long, Democrat, who, following his removal by Sheriff Burt E. Smalley, also a Democrat, has launched a fight to drive tha latter from office. Some action, it was said here to- 'Cay, may be expected cither later in the day or on Tuesday, with eithsr Governor Smith or the State Prison Commission playing a leading part. MARRIED CR SINGLE? KRENN WILL NOT SAY young Swiss architect, said to be the: fiance of Edith Rockefeller McCor- mick, was arrested today charged with a traffic law violation. He stout ly refused to answer when asked if he were married or single. Other questions -he replied to- freely. OfM- cérs with a warrant had to beat on 'the door of his hotel suite with a club before he would admit them., Before the officers took Krenn from his suite Mrs. McCormick visited him there but what occurred is a mystery. . The alleged violation occurred on December 30 when Krenn parked his 'car downtown in a spot where that is forbidden. He and Mrs. McCormick 'emerged from a jewelry shop to find a policeman in the coupe. TO PAY BACK $42,000,000 FOR ERRONEOUS TAXES WASHINGTON, Jan, 22--More than {$42,000,000 was ordered returned to American taxpayers when . President Harding today signed the second de- ficiency appropriation bill. , Of the $79;:000,000 carried in the collected by the gove ment on incomes. , , (In. gccordance with its policy, the treasury department refused to dis turned. f BO XPARTY AND DANCE . A box party and. dance will be held at the Mountainside Library, ham'§ Bay, Lake Geofge on the even- the Mountainside Grange. The public is invited to attend. Truesdale's, or- 'chestra will furnish music, adem - } poena, * i a+ ou bn econ nit mchugh 0 -- woo 10. \ aod s nema Fv s Sube MeSH n lode plik a ulate t dims e enon Cows Minna ps u Te 1 n net ome Mor are Cece ush > {dent of the Pickle ackers association, CHICAGO, Jan. 22-Edward Krenn, | I gurpass the record of $64 Saturday,. bill, more than $42,000,000 will be used. in refunding to taxpayers excess taxi'efis‘ 'close to whom the money would be rgi Dun- committee - recessed Io | Ing of January 24 \for the benefit of: Imagination be construed to the con-|:check. up. Sinclair 'had presented all. itery. Gilye the above lo press for | the transactions required in the sub the First Reformed church here. MAN AND WOMAN SLAIN WACO, Texas, Jan. 22-Two sus pects, a man and a woman, are being detained this afternoon by the police 'in connection with the murder of Mrs. Ethel Denecamp and- W.. B. Holt, whose bodies, riddled with bullets, were found yesterday afternoon near Springfield, five miles east of Waco. BLDG. COLLAPSES, 3 KILLED PITTSBURGH, Pa., Pan. 22-Three were killed by the collapse of a two story building in 25th street at noon today. The foundation of the struct ure is believed to have 'been under- mined by excavations for an adjoin- ing building. _ 3 IRREGULARS EXECUTED BUBLIN, Jan. 22-Three Irregulars were executed at Dundalk today by the Irish Free State government. They were cenvicted of wrecking. traing o -+ SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan.*22-An DENBY ASKS CASH s probing .the mys- { terions whipping by. a masked mob at Goose Creek, Tex. of Mrs. R. H. Harrison (above), and R. A. Armand (right). - The couple were kidnapped at night, taken to a lonely prairie and flogged so severely both, were comfined to*their beds for days, No reason can be assigned for the flog- ging. A grand jury i TO ARM MEN O WAR earthquake shock was felt in San Francisco at 1:$5 this morning. Night workers reported that the trembler was accompanied by a swishing sound as if Sandpaper was being rubbed to- gether. EHearthquake shocks of ' con- siderable severity were felt at Wil- lows, Chico, Gerber and other points north. i PICKLES MAKE YOU PRETTY ATLANTIC CIPY, N. J., Jan, 2%- Eat plenty of pickles and yau won't need rouge for a pink complexion, ac- cording to William Clendenin, presi- in an address to .that \ organization here today. He said that pickles are a great preserver of the complexion. APPEAL FOR COAL NEW YORK, Jan,. 22-With the, weather bureau predicting a cold snap tonight and scores of families appeal- ing to the fuel administration for fuel, the coal situation took or a more ser- ious aspect here today, Up to neon \151 appeals had been reeeived. Fuel administration officials predicted that requests for assistance today would ARREST MAYOR, SHERRIF GARY, Ind., Jan. 22-Mavor Ros- well O. Johnson, of Gary, and Sheriff William H. Olds, of Lake county, were among the first of 75 indicted city and | county officials arrested here today on federation indictments charging them with complicity in a gigantic con- CROWELL ENTERS PLEA WASHINGTON, Jan, 22-Hotly de: |nying that he had ever profited \one penny\ in the construction of millions of dollars worth of war cantonments, Benedict Crowell of Cleveland, former assistant secretary of war, appeared in district supreme court this after- noon and entered a formal plea of \not guilty\ to the indictment récent ly returned against hin\ apd seven other war time officials of the govern- ment. K. OF C, CARD PARTY On Wednesday evening the Fourth Degree Assembly of the Knights of Columbus will entertain at a. card and dancing party in. St. Mary's Social hall. Five hundred, 'Bridge and \Fuchre will be played. Card playing will begin at 8 o'clock. 'Handsom® prizes will be awarded, Dancing will continue from 10 until 1 o'élock,. The committee in charge is Dr. D. F. McGullicuddy, George Nolan, John ARCNET Requests $6,500,000 to Bring. Ships Up to Level of ' * Other Powers WASHINGTON, Jan 22.-Anr im- mpdiate approriation of $6,500,000 to make thirteen of the United States navy's eighteen fighting ships as ef- reetive as those of Great Britain and Japan was asked of congress today '\ by Secretary Denby. Appearing in person before the made a plea for funds to provide bas tleships © with adequate protection. tarpedo and aircraft attacks. \ These improvements have already Pagmene navies, Demby teld the com <| mitteg. Representative Britten, Reptfblican, of Illinois, suggested the governfnent is saving little of its bill for national defense as a result of the limitation treaties. Denby replied that mors | than $550,000,000 was saved. \This modernization of the existing: capital ships against aircraft and to-. pedo attack is necessary and shou'd | 'spiracy to violate the prohibition laws.! go, ahead at once but we face no danger because of the delay in start ing the improvement,\ said the sec retary. / \Great Britain adopted the policy} of moflernizing her ships while buili-, ing them, Japan built new ships un | der most modern plans, the 'United , States decided to wear out authorized , ships before going in for new ships | .of latest pattern. N i \The modernization program | wil cost the government an additional . $33,500,000 next year, according *0. Representative - Britten suggested | the net*result of the limitation con ' ference is to give the Unitéd States | a \rather poor sesurld | navy\ but | Defby insisted the conference would | assure an equal navy for the United; States. - . | \Great Britain and Japan are §0+) 1» Herlihy, Andrew, Boyls and -F60 Spain. Japen' |. _ L lae. ' A house naval affairs committee, Degbylwas a roaring furnace from top to 'been made in ships of the British and |- the present program of the favy.\ probably fatally burned while Carty. ing al 1 he terms of the con 'ed after he had been entombed in a' e _ ch, . t H iiggeéégnigeglznt.\t satd the secre snowbank for cighteen hours, Anto warned the tinfions that drastic mi tary. \Francé and Haly will act sodn, nio Falcone, 12, of this city, is in a : [1 hope. It is necessary that the uit: eritical condition at St. Joseph's hqs— 'ed States keep its ships on lermis of pital today, his recovery uncertain. equailiy with those of Eingind and The boy was, daughit in the cavein of: l . . {pis snow hut. | . v B ~ Germans . Assert Their Passive | FRENCH SAY MINES WOR) Director of One Prussian State! WEATHE Generally fair toni and Tuesday; colder ¢ night. FRENGH FORGE AND RHINE a Resistance - is Countering / Army - of: Occupation _ - Owned Mine Released on _. ;;\ $5 Bail \L. MAYENCE, Jan. 22.-The director | | general of (German customs was ar-! rested today by the Ewench military, || authorities. ~ Pe u f | 1 | l CHARBOURG, Jan, 22 --A number of French railroad employes foday |. were ordered to report to Versailles.. for military duty. ' '. * ESSEN, Jan. 2%2.-3 p. m.)-Moré © than 10,000 miners in the Rhur. coal felds, in addition to thousands | of © German railway workers, quit work today in protest against French go , cupation. Although the German worier~ ers adopted a policy of \passive re-. control. { fence,/is functioning.\ in open defiance of Frenca - orders to-continue at work,; there' been no disorders up to ker The French attempted ton.; 03%) the population by relaxing German officials declared: \Our de . | e Germans claimed two \Blood- tane t HOTEL BLE Ph HOMESTED, Pa., Jan.. 22.-Flames which swept through the three story wooden Hotel Davies here early to- day, took a toll of five lives aud a Sixth person was seriously injured. When firemen Arrived the structure bottom. Ten other guests barely es- caped. * The dead: Mrs, John Winnie, 45; David and William Winnie, 6, twins; seatyerine Winpie,, 13; Thomas W. Davies, 43, proprietor of the hotel. Joseph Bryce, chief of the Home stead fire department, is in a dying 'condition at' a\ hospital. | The fire, of undetermined origin, started :in the kitchen and quickly spread to Bed rooms on the upper floor. . > The Winnie family had an apart ment -on. the third floor, Firemen found Mrs, Winnig with her twins clutched in her arins lying upon the ficor. They had Been cut down by to escape. A few feet away lay th» other child. All four were ferribly burned. . © When firemen arrived fames were. shooting out of the window of the Winnie apartment while John Winnie, the husband, stood on a nearby ledge screaming like a madman to the fire men to save his family, || e On the second floor Davies, arous cd by the crackle of the flames found bis exit out off, He finally dashed through a wall of flames and rolled down a stairway, Chief Bryce was! ing Davies to sarety from the foot. of the stairs . ' f The estimated loss is $15,000. ENTOMEBED IN SNOW smoke and flames in their attemm\réfused to release the éoal mine opr \the miners to quit work, were issne 'after a series of trade union meeting SYRACSUE,, N. ¥., Jan. 22.-Resew | On Sunday. ' sures would be taken: unlbés. it-Release of Director Abrens, . s of the Prussian state ownei. of _ French of the R@ighsbank in Rhineland cities. The Fraiih have promised not to interfere . Wth the Reich@sbank branmghes in Mille future. | ke refused to releaso - Wilke the other cont: magnates arrested¥#@Aiurday althougn ! the Germans are threat@®Bigace ge! eral strike unless they are 'H In some quarters the cami day was viewed as the \quiet@ the storm,. The miners: visite@ mine, but refused to pick up® tools. . I It was estimated at noon tha h thousand German miners were idlegat various privately owned mines, includ- ing those,. owned by the Thyssefs. Strikers at the Thyssen collieries de- clared they would stand behind their | \boss\-PFritz Thyssen, who was arm rested Saturday. A deputation of miners again vis ited French headquarters at Dussél- dorf with another \ultimatum\ de- manding .the release of 'all the coal magnates on penalty of a general strike if the French refused. The French claim that all the Prus- - sian stafe owned mines are \work ing.“ » Representatives of the rail, unions [A \A |met today and décided to continue their policy of passive resfstance in- ./ definitely. PARIS. Jan. 2%%.-German railroad ° .< ers at Bcochvm and Dortmund werk | on strike proverting departure of coal and passenger trains, said a Dussel: 4 dorf dispatch to the Temps this af ~ ternoon, ' to PUSSELDORF, Jan. - 32. -General Deéegoutte, commander-in-chief of the French forces th, the Rhinéland, today - erators arrested Sunday. Formal de- mand for thoir release had been made by the Cerman Coal miners' unions, | ESSEM, Jan. 22.-Getman labor I1 | _> the Ruhr coal fields, following orders | '« from Boflin and the dictates of thailr | ~: union leaders, flung deflance: into the . - ; face of the French today by refusing -, to mine any more coal: Large num. | ~, bers of railway apd mill workers al» e ready had quit. Coal nroduction and } ~... {transportation is paralyzed.. ~. } troops are being | utilize1 to move a rains and run machinery. e \passive resistance\ against the. French - occupation | has - gradually\ enread - duripg the paff 24 bouts ° throughout the freat iudiistrial and : . mining belts df Westphalia, Orders to 'The - French . military , authoritles.. resumed operations, They t 'to tie up the transportation {pled zones, except the rations for £2 ul pt d \. and other necessities into the'
