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SCENES AT HERRIN, WHERE KtANSMEN
BATTLED BESIEGED DEPUTIES WHO
SOUGHT REFUGE IN HOSPITAL
Guard in Front of Herrin Hospital.
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5 Company I, 130th Infantry, from Salem, 111., cleaning rifles for guard duty on the streets of
Herrin, where Klansmen engaged in a battle with deputy marshals, necessitating the calling out of the
militia. 7
ILLNESS CAUSES
CANDLER CASE
DELAY
(Millionaire’s Wife Ready to
Testify, But Chief Wit
ness is Sick.
By B. V. STRUDIVANT,
International New* Service.
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 12.—The
ease oil Mrs. Asa G. Candler,
pretty young wife of the aged
multi-millionaire Coca Cola king,
charged with ''occupancy of a
dive," after being arrested with
two male companions, today was
postponed indefinitely because of
Chief of Police James L.
Beavers' illness.
Chief Beavers is a material
Witness.
Mrs. Candler Arrives.
Mrs. Candler drove up In front
es the police station, where city
court Is held, In a luxurious
limousine. She was attended by
two women.
The three stepped out and walk
ed to a crowd standing at the
entrance, and Mrs. Candler timidly
asked where the court room was.
After being told, she and her com
panions entered.
In the crowded lobby. Mrs.
Candler was joined by W. J. Stod
dard one of her alleged companions.
The four then went Into Chief
Beavers’ office where they waited
until the case was called.
Although the opening of court
was postponed one hour, the room
was jammed to the doors when
recorder George E. Johnson called
the court to order.
Their Case Is Called.
They were kept waiting In Chief
Beavers office only a few minutes
when their case was called, Attor
neys fog the prosecution made a
motion, asking that the trial be
continued on grounds that Chief
Beavers was sick and unable to ap
pear as the material witness.
Counsel for the defense fought
the motion vigorously, asking that
the case be tried immediately, but
their protests were unavailing.
The two little girls, twins, today
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Militia Now In I
Control at
Herrin
By International New* Berries.
HERRIN, Ills., Feb. 12.—An
armed citizenry again held responsi
ble for the latest of the recurrent
disorders In Williamson county, to
day was being ousted by patrolling
guardsmen as MaJ. Gen. Milton J.
Foreman and the troops of his com
mand advanced their program of en
forced order.
The situation lacked little of
actual martial law, though the
technical declaration of it was not
made by General Foreman. Civil
officers and courts were told to
proceed with their duties and given
the military force as backing.
8. Glenn Young, klan raider who
announced himself chief of police
and dictator of Herrin after tempor
ary disappearance of Police Chief
John Ford Friday, was en route ta
•Washington, shorn of hia dictatorial
powers by the militia, General Fore
man announced the reinstatement
of Ford aa police chief, while Young,
with his wife and baby, left Herrin
saying he would stop at his home
is Marion before going to Washing
ton to seek injunctions against
fifty-four places where bootlegging
and moonshinlng had been dis
covered in Williamson dounty.
All citizens deputized by Young
and by the rival forces have been
ordered to disarm and consign their
tin stars to the rubbish heap.
Coroner W. T. McGowan, acting
sheriff and the only civil officer
functioning after the wholesale
arrests made by Young, was under
orders of General Foreman to re
turn Sheriff Galllgan and four de
puties from the Jail at Urbana,
111., where they had been taken by
Young.
One of Young's last acts, the ar
rest of Mayor A. T. Pace, named
yesterday as foreman of the coro
ner’s Jury, was nullified by Pace’s
release by the militia, and the Jury
continued its. investigation into the
slaying of Constable Cagle t in the
outbreak Friday night.
After his “resignation" aa acting
police chief had been accepted,
Young was ordered to disarm, but
refused. He went immediately to
Justice Hicks and secured authority
to continue wearing two large pis*
Itols in holsters strapped to hia legs.
Williamson county rumor makes
Young a marked man. There Is
talk of a price of 110,000 placed on
Jtis band by bis snsmtaa.
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STRAWN OIL RANK DIRECTOR
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for Washington Times
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r _ When The Washington Times
started Its Savings Club plan It
did so with the sincere belief that
it was offering a wonderful oppor
tunity to the boys of this city.
But no plan for boys can be suc
cessful without the support of the
mothers of those boys. They must
encourage their sons in taking ad
vantage of its opportunities and
show them that the training they
receive will be of benefit to them
In later years.
In the early years of his life
the Influences that his mother has
upon him determines all his actions
and in later years that same in
fluence is the cause of his success
or failure.
Ask Aid of Mothers.
Realizing this The Washington
Times is calling upon the mothers
of Washington to give their support
to the Savings Club as Government
officials, educational leaders and
business men have given it their in
dorsement.
Through this club your son will
receive an education that he could
not get elsewhere. Among the
things that he will be taught in his
education as a carrier for The Wash
ington Times are self-reliance, the
ability to make friends and the value
of thrift.
He will learn self-reliance, because
he will own his route. His papers
will be sold to him at a wholesale
rate. After serving his papers he
will make weekly collections, and
the profits will be his.
Sustained by Authorities.
Authorities on child welfare and
the education of children agree that
a boy should be required to earn his
spending money and should not be
given any money that no does not
earn. They say that this will teach
him to rely upon himself and not
upon others for the satisfaction of
his wants. ,
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SLAYING
Mysterious Stranger May
Hold Key to Death of
“Broadway Butterfly.”
By JACK CARBERRY,
ißtrrnatlonal New* Service.
NEW YOfeK, Feb. 12.—“ Find
the *raan in the gieen car.’**
Fifty picked detectives today
sought Is obey ‘that command ox
Detective Inspector John D.
Coughlin, seeking to solve the
latest tragedy of the white lights
—the murder of Louise Lawson,
“Broadway butterfly" and former
{musical prodigy of West Texas.
One Friend Not Found.
For the “man in the green car"
today presented the one apparently
unsolvable mystery of the life of
the beautiful girl found strangled
to death in her apartment.
Louise Lawson had many wealthy
men friends. Pollde say they have
found all of these “friends’* but
one—“the man in the green car.”
Louise had one friend who want
ed to marry her. He was “the
boy” from back home. Louise
called him “the pest.” Police want
to talk to him, too.
From one of these two extremes
of the social scale—"the pest” with
his pleas of marriage, his promises
of love, and "the man In the green
car,” with his gifts of Jewels, his
lavish entertainment and his wife,
police believe they may learn at
least something which would aid in
the solution of the crime.
Her Bine Book Found.
Police found Louise’s “little blue
book.” In it were the names of
many of New York’s social leaders
—their clubs, their silent telephones.
Police Interviewed all of these —
quietly, tactfully, pledging “no
publicity.’’ All of them said they
knew nothing of the girl’s death.
But the “man In the green car”
was not found.
Police say he Is about sixty years
of age. Tailors and barbers have
) made him look much younger—his
car, a green sedan, driven by a green
liveried chauffeur—was at the daily
< disposal of Louise Lawson. Each
: morning, police learned, the car—
l sometimes the man was Inside, some
times not—drew up to Miss Lawson’s
, apartment. But on Thursday—the
1 day her lifeless body was found —
1 the car did not appear.
. , “Why?" Coughlin asked.
1 All of Louise’s friends—the girls
of Broadway, the ladies of the
chorus, the sisterhood of the cab
, arets, knew of "the man in the green
car.’’ None knew his name.
Police this morning telegraphed a
• number of cities to be
; on the lookout for a pretended physi
-1 clan with a long crime record here.
Photograph Partially Identified.
A photograph of this man who
l fromerly had offices in the Times
I Square district was partly identified
» by Thomas Kane, elevator operator
1 at the apartment where Miss Law
• son lived. Kane said the man
1 “looked something like a man who
1 visited Miss Lawson’s apartment."
The last heard of this bogus physi*
• clan was in Youngstown, Ohio.
Inspector Coughlin put little faith
' in the theory that the men who
. killed Miss Lawson were the same
1 men who, a year ago, murdered
“Dot" King, also a Broadway But
terfly. ,
I While their deaths are strangely
. similar Coughlin believes he sees a
different hand in the two crimes.
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[ ITALY SENDS MANZONI
1 AS ENVOY TO SOVIET
f ROME, Feb. 12. —Completing | tH
recent action in recognizing Russia,
. it was officially announced today
1 that Italy will send Count Manzonl
to Moscow immediately as her an,'
haaaador.
WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1924.,
ECONOMIC
PARLEY IS
SOUGHT
Britain Seeks World Confer
ence to Aid in Rehabilita
tion of Europe.
By pAVID M. CHURCH.
iMtematieaal Mews Service. ?
LONDON, Fsb. 12—Great
Britaß is considering the details
of a memorandum appealing for
a world conference td assist in
the reconstruction of Europe,
Premier Ramsay MacDonald an
nounced in the House of Com
mons this afternoon.
He said the prospects for such
an international conference are
promising, and that Great Britain
welcomes support from all
quarters for the movement.
Negotiating With Germany.
Revelation was made in commons
this afternoon that Great Britain
has entered into direct negotiations
with Germany regarding repara
tions.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Philip Snowden announced that
“representations are being made to
Germany In reference to Germany’s
refusal to honor reparations obliga
tions.”
The first parliamentary session
under Great Britain’s first Labor
government got down to business
Immediately after It was ngpned.
Accomplishments Cited.
The accomplishment of the Labor
government so far were grouped
roughly.
1. Recognition of Soviet Russia.
2. More cordial relations estab
lished with France and settlement
of the Rhineland-Palatlnate ques
-1 tlon.
8. Appointment of committees to
deal with unemployment and the
housing shortage.
4. Settlement of the railway
1 strike.
It is generally admitted that the
. Labor government has proved more
( popular than was believed possible
, at the time of the election. It has
not tried to put Into force any of
1 the policies demanded by the radical
element.
; Radicals Restive.
, The Labor cabinet. In fact, has
. been so conservative that the com
munist wing is threatening trouble
in Commons.
Bitter debate upon the govern
ment's policies will be forthcoming
in the next few days.
There was an early rush for seats
1 in Commons, Lady Astor arriving
at 6:40 o’clock. Lady Terrlngton
1 and Mrs. Thomas Wlntringham
> were on hand twenty fhinutes later.
■ More than 100 members were in
. their seats before 8 o'clock.
1 BLAZE IN PENITENTIARY
[ PRECIPITATES A PANIC
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 12.—A small
. panic was precipitated In the West
[ ern Penitentiary at Rlyerside, near
, here, this morning when fire broke
out in the prison laundry, and smoke
. curled among the cells. Warden
Jonn Eagan took personal super
vision of the fire and denied that
it was another attempt of prisoners
[ to escape similar to the plan frus
. trated yesterday.
1 The warden could not be reached
' as he was investigating the blaze,
but prison attaches said the fire
r had been caused by crossed wires,
t None of the prisoners had been re
leased from their cells when the
fire broke out.
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minishing.
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Oil king and politician, who will be questioned by the Senate Pub
lic Lands Committee on bis connection with the oil lease scandal.
Open 9 24 Campaigns
In East and West
By WILLIAM HARD.
Calvin Coolidge left here today going East, and Hiram
Johnson left here today going West, each candidate thus
going in the direction in which he has the most friends.
Calvin Coolidge’s speech in New York is expected to be a
rallying cry to the solid business sense of the country. Hiram
Johnson’s speeches in Illinois and subsequently in numerous
other Western States are expected' to be attempts to arouse
“the common people” against the element which Hiram John
son will describe as benefiting from “corrupt business” and
“corrupt politics.”
UUI X U|ll/
"The present situation is a cor-*
rupt situation," said Senator John
son today on the eve of his de
parture for the Western trip which
will make or break .him. It was
manifest that he intended to pull
out all the stops on the organ or
the old “progressive"’ denuncia
tion of “malefactors of great
wealth" and that he Intended to play
the old "progressive” tune of
"Onward, Christian Soldiers” with
all ' recent accidental petroleum
scandal variations.
Coolidge Managers’ Claims.
The Colldge managers have claim
ed that the Johnson candidacy was
dead, but Senator Johnson today
seemed to know nothing about its
demise and departed in high spirits
to spread through the West the
story of the Administration’s al
leged misdoings and alleged fa
vortlsms to the super-rich.
Friends of Calvin Coolidge, when
asked to explain. Senator Johnson's
mystifying hilarity at his own
alleged funeral, said:
"He cannot get the nomination
for himself but he is out to make
as much trouble as possible for
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THREE CENTS
* SECRET SOCIETY AGENT
SHOOTS WRONG IVJAN
BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 12.—Con
fronted at the Franklin Square Hos
pital here this morning with James
Carwell, whom he shot and fatally
wounded late last night, Domenick
| Avate, who police believe is the
operative of a secret organization,
admitted he had never seen Car
well before he shot him.
Detectives are working on the
theory that Avate shot Carwell In
mistake for some other man whom
his organization had marked for
! death. Carwell is dying.
i COUNT SALM HAS NOT
ASKED AUSTRIAN LICENSE
VIENNA, Feb. 12.—Official an
nouncement was made today that
i the Government has not yet received
i any application for a marriage 11-
1 cense for Count Ludwig Balm Von
Hoogstraeten and his bride, the for
-1 mer Miss Mllllcent Rogers.
1 The marriage, which took place in
‘ New York, is Invalid in Austria un
-1 til reaffirmed here,
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POST
Senate Committee Brings Out
New Angle In Teapot Dome
Investigation.
SHaa H. Strawn, one of the spe
cial counsel appointed by Presi
dent Coolidge to handle the| Gov
ernment’s oil cases, is a director
of both the First Trust and Sav
ings Bank and the First National
Bank, of Chicago, in which the
Standard Oil Company of In
diana is a heavy depositor, it de
veloped today.
Melvin A. Traylor, president
of the Trust Bank, and Edward E.
' Brown, vice president of the First
National Bank, both testified to
this at the Public Lands Com
mittee’s hearing today. Brown
i said the Standard’s financial trans
actions with his bank run "into
millions daily.” The Senate itself
was not in session, but the com
mittee continued its probe into
former Secretary Fall’s affairs.
Witnesses were grilled on the sale
of a New Mexico paper.
Carl McGee, New Mexico news
paper editor, who previously told
of Fall’s “straitened financial con.
dltlon" and of the “dilapidated con
dition” of his ranch in 1020, was
recalled to the witness stand. In Feb
ruary, 1920, McGee purchased an
Albuquerque, N. M., newspaper in
which Fall had a $25,000 Interest.
Melvin A. Traylor, president of
the First Trust and Savings Bank,
of Chicago, was summoned to the
stand ahead of McGee. Traylor’s
bank. In which Silas H. Strawn, one
of the counsel appointed by Presi.
dent Coolidge to prosecute the Gov
ernment’s oil cases, is a director,
handled the financial transactions
for the sale of McGee’s paper, the
Albuquerque Morning Journal, to
Sidney M. Weil, of Albuquerque, to*
$200,000 in May, 1922. At the re.
quest of Weil, the negotiations were
handled in strictest confidence,
Traylor said.
McGee purchased the paper from
ex-Secretary of Interior Albert B.
Fall In February, 1920.
Are Standard Oil Banks
In the sale agreement, McGee
agreed to dismiss two libel suits
against the paper.
The paper was paid for by drafts
on bonds of the New Mexico In
dustrial Trust Company, a holding
company owning the Morning
Journal.
Traylor said drafts were received
In payment as follows:
First National Bank of Tulsa,
Okla., $21,180; Citizens National
Bankl of Albuquerque, $60,975;
State National Bank of Albuquer
que, $21,369; First National Bank of
i Albuquerque, $€8,196.
Under questioning by Senator
Walsh (Dem.) of Montana, Traylor
admitted his bank and First Na
tional Bank of Chicago, with which
it is affiliated, “are the Chicago
banks of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana.”
“Can you conceive why two citi
zens of Albuquerque would go to
Chicago to handle the
asked Walsh. J v ,
“No. Albuquerque has good bank*
lng facilities,” replied Traylor.
Edward E. Brown, vice president
of the First National Bank of Chi
cago. said in reply to a question
by Walsh that his bank had no
record that the. Standard Oil of
Indiana had drawn checks “fug