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32 SIX GO ON Ml IN TROUTON DEATH Father, Two Sons and Sons in-Law Face Murder Charge in Georgia Slaying. By the Assoeiated Press. NEWNAN, Ga.. September 6.—Trial of the six men indicted in connection with the death of Millard Trouton. whose mutilated body was found floating in a creek several days after he had disappeared from his home, August 10, began In Coweta superior Court here this morning. The six men who face the murder charge are: J. W. Minter, father of Trouton's wife; two of his sons, Grady and Jeff Minter; two of his sons-ln- Jaw, Floyd Weldon and Leon Good rum. and William Feltman. Trouton, who was reported to have had trouble with his wife, is alleged to have been lured frohi his home on the evening of August 10 by Feltman and a companion on a pretense of tak ing a walk. When they had walked about a hundred yards from the house an automobile dashed up to the curb and Trouton was seized by its several occupants. No report of the alleged kidnaping was made at the time. A few days later his body was found floating in a small creek about eight een miles from Newnan. Five bullet holes were found in the body and the skull was crushed. Feltman and his companion were arrested, as they were the last per sons reported to have been seen with Trouton alive. Feltman’s companion later was released when it was estab lished that he had no connection with the alleged kidnaping plot. Later, when it was learned that Trouton and his wife had had recent difficulties, Minter. his two sons and two sons-in-law were arrested. Officials have divulged little infor mation concerning evidence in their possession, but Minter is alleged to have confessed killing Trouton and to have shouldered all blame. { ) Furniture \ Save You / Always Right in Quality and Price Let Us See, Now— is the thing you do when you need new furniture? Walk up and down the street, looking in the store windows? No, because Til that is guessing. 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Spe -42-,nch top. cial. F in , eather substitutc> clal,y Priced s34-°° $24- 75 $3975 $62- 50 905 7th St. N.W. Phone Main 167 ARREST 13 ACCUSED OF RAIDING OFFICES Police Act on Complaint That Men Were Seeking Evidence Against Themselves. By the Associated Pres*. NEW YORK, September 6—Thir teen men were arrested In the office of the Sinaloa Exploration and De velopment Company last night and charged with attempted grand lar ceny. State Senator John A. Hast ings. who holds an interest In the company, declared the men raided the office to obtain evidence connecting them with a conspiracy to force him out of the concern. Senator Hastings and James S. Klley are partners in the All-Ameri can Investment Corporation, which holds a contract giving It the exclu sive right of underwriting all activi ties of the Sinaloa Ann. the senator told the police. More than a year ago, he said, some of his associates in the Sinaloa company organized a rival faction which sought to compel the Investment company to relinquish Its contract with the development com pany. “Planting” of narcotics in his hotel rooms at Albany last spring and attempts to kill him were among the methods used by his competitors, the senator asserted. When the senator realized the ex tent to which his alleged enemies had gone he employed detectives, he said, •who obtained evidence against them on the basis of which complaint was made to the district attorney. This evidence was to have been presented to the grand jury today. According to the senator, the raid was a last minute attempt to obtain this evi dence from his offices before it should be presented to the grand Jury. According to Miss Gertrude Corliss secretary to the president of the Si naloa company and herself a direc tor of that company, the men de manded certain papers which she re fused to give them. Her refusal re sulted In an attempt by the men to pry open the locked compartments in the company safe, she said, but she was able to kick the outer doors shut before they succeeded. The thirteen men were released in SI,OOO bail each THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, I). C„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1923. MUTT AND JEFF—The Little Fellow Shows Evidence of Intelligence in Dempsey’s Camp. “if;,."J. *; T ’"“ —By BED FISHER. I COLLEGE PURCHASE BY KLAN DROPPED Valparaiso University to Be Oper ated as Usual Despite Failure to Self, Announced. By the Associated Press. VALPARAISO. Ind„ September 6. Valparaiso University will continue to operate, regardless of the fact that negotiations whereby the Ku Klux Klan was to have taken over the institution have been dropped, it was announced here last night by Dr. H. W. Evans, president of the school. The school was recently reported In financial difficulty and negotiations were opened with the Klan organiza tion to assume control. An initial pay ment to bind the deal was to have been made by the Klan at a meeting of trustees yesterday. When the meeting convened a telegram from Milton Elrod, editor of the Fiery Cross, Klan publica tion. was read, in which the latter stated the organization had found it impossible to take over the university because of technicalities in the charter and deeds to the school property. The technicalities objected to by the Klan were not made known. Mr. Evans did not state what, if any. plan for operating the school had been agreed upon, and declined to amplify his statement beyond saying the school will operate this year as usual. MUSSOLINI IN RACE. By the Associated Press. MILAN, September 6.—lt was con firmed today that despite the inter national complications Premier Mus solini will not only attend the auto mobile grand prix here September 9, to carry out his agreement to start the race, but will himself drive one of the racing cars one lap. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM^ BThe first American locomotive to enter actual service was shipped by sea to Charleston, it hauled the first passenger train on what is now the Southern Railway System. times as heavy as this famous pioneer engine, and 70,000 operating on 8,300 miles of Southern Railway System 111 slf western gateways at St. Louis and Memphis—to the \L I * [ \ ||f iM ‘ W ' ocean ports of Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick 1~~ 1 1 || | *||[ 11||| HI || l|| | and Jacksonville and the Gulf ports of Mobile and New £ |l| ill ill mllml il®Pa Operated by men of the South, who have been bred in its |S ■ W pI 3{) Ijf mm Imi stA traditions to understand its problems and its needs, the '■ I } Southern keeps pace with the South. The investment in I k 1 Ti * ? Illy properties is now more than $710,000,000, of which I II I' i f ||/ $285,000,000 has been expended in the past two decades. I \ * 1 I With the continued cooperation of the people of the South, 0 "vis IS K v / we will be enabled to command the capital for the greater | I j ■; |II transportation facilities that Southern development will I liffi * Southern Railway System I■ S *| i ~ S^ >gnt t^le SERVES THE SOUTH DEBS REPUDIATES FOSTER ACTIVITIES Tells Garment Workers He Op poses “Boring From With in” Methods. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 6.—Eugene V. Debs, conservative radical of the so cialist party, and William Z. Foster, leader of the communist wing, have definitely split forces, it became known here after Debs declared Fos ter’s activities mainly manifested in his Trades Union Educational League did not have his backing. Foster is said to have claimed the support of Debs in his "borlng-from withln” methods advocated In the league’s literature and is said to have gained the attention of many social ists because of their regard for the socialist leader. Debs when visited here by a com mittee headed by Myer Perlstein, vice president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, who recently ex pelled several of Foster's men and denounced their leader, expressed hearty disapproval of the Foster pro gram. OIL BURNERS POPULAR. NEW YORK. September 6.—Coal burning steamships are being aban doned in favor of oil burners in Great Britain and 20 vessels are now in dry dock there In course of re construction into oil burners, said Herbert G. Wylie, president of the Mexican Petroleum Company, who ar rived today on the Olympic. CHINA GOVERNOR FLEES, LEAVING SUN IN CONTROL By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, September 6. Chao Heng-Ti, military governor of Hunan province, has fled from Changsha, the capital, leaving the province under the control of Sun Yat-Sen, South Chinese constitutionalist leader. The new sit uation has created a profound sensa tion in Chinese circles. No details in connection with Chao’s flight have been received, but it is as sumed it is the result of Sun's increas ing military activities in the south. OPPOSE WORLD COURT. 'tREAT FALLS. Mont., September 6. —Tlie Ancient Order of Hibernians of Montana, in convention, adopted reso lutions placing the convention on record as against a world court, de nouncing the Ku Klux Klan and ex pressing confidence that the people of Ireland would settle their own af fairs satisfactorily. Atwood & Rupprecht Designers iand Manufacturers [k r J3 K Lighting ft/QP Fixtures ** 737 9th St. N.W. M, 8798