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MARSHAL DIES
FROM BULLETS
British Leader Shot
Outside Home in
Eaton Square.
TWO MEN TAKEN
Irish Extremists Are
Believed to Be
Guilty.
NOTABLE FIGURE
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is
the biggest figure to be sacrificed to
death in the Irish struggle during the
present generation. An attempt was
made to ass -ssinate I.ord French,
while he was .erring as lord lieuten
ant of Ireland, but it failed. Os the
thousands of killed and wounded In
the struggle in Ireland ail have been
members of the rank and file—Brit
ish soldiers and police and regulars
of the Irish republican army .
LONDON, June 22—Field Marshal Sir
Henry Wilson was shot dead here to
day outside his home in Eaton Square
by two assassins.
The men were captured.
Scotland Yard announced the names of
Wilson's assailants as James O'Brien
and James Connelly. One of the assas
sins declared they were soldiers. Both
gave their ages as 24. They refused to
designate their regiment. One of the
murderers carried a letter revealing the
fact that he was a member of the Irish
Republican army.
The war office believes that Irish ex
tremists were responsible for the assas
sination.
After shooting Sir Henry, the two as
sassins ran through the streets, pursued
by police who constantly guard Eaton
Square, where many of the most promi
nent men in England have their London
homes.
Shots were fired after them down the
narrow streets through which they fled,
past houses of titled personages and cab
inet ministers, who were within earshot
when Wilson was killed.
The murderers turned and fired at
their pursuers, keeping tip a running
gun fight for three-quarters of a mile.
A policeman, giving chase. was
dropped by a bullet from an assassin’s
pistol. A civilian, unable to escape the
hall of fire, was wounded.
Lord Carson, Ulster's champion, has a
town house within a few rods of the
scene of the murder. It is constantly
guarded by special police.
An eye-witness to the tragedy told the
following story of the shooting:
“I was in the neighborhood of Eaton
Square and heard shots ring out. I
looked In time to see two armed men
pumping bullets from their revolvers into
the body of Sir Henry. When I reached
him his head, legs and chest were lit
erally riddled with bullets.”
It was feared the assassination of Sir
Henry may be part of a general plot
against military leaders sympathetic to
wards Ulster premier, last Tuesday, but it
was frustrated.
Wilson was an exponent of the “mailed
policy toward Ireland, and was a
strong 6’jpporter of Ulster. lie Incurred
the enmity of southern Irish extremists
after the withdrawal of Sir General Ne
ville Macßeady, who was not unpopular,
depsite his position. Wilson, however,
was bitterly iated by Republicans.
When arrested, one of Wilson’s assas
sins attempted to commit suicide, shoot
ing himself with his revolver. He was
seriously wounded and taken to the bos
pltal. **' *
The House of Commons, of which Sir
Henry was a member, representing North
Down, Ireland, adjourned this afternoon
in honor of the field marshal.
Scotland Yard announced this after
noon that three policemen were shot by
the murderers during the flight.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson was
Great Britain's representative on the
allied supreme council which dictated
allied military policy during the latter
part of the war.
He was chief of staff of the British
army.
In the latter capacity, he was respon
sible for sending troops to Ireland dur
ing recent troubles.
TWO FUNERALS
OVER ONE BODY
Club Fire Y’ields Only Single
Body for Pair Missing.
MINNEAPOLIS. June 23.—Two funeral
services were conducted over one body
here at the Lakewood chapel.
Only one body, burned beyond reeog
ittlon, was recovered from the ruins of
the Lafayette Club at Minnetonka beach
which burned to the ground Sunday. Two
women, Mrs. Martin P. Koon and Miss
Lucy Gilbert, lost their lives in the fire.
Rev. Harry P. Dewey, pastor of Ply
mouth Congregational Church, conducted
a service over* the body of Mrs. Koon.
Fifteen minutes later a Christian Scien
tist service was conducted* over the same
body for Miss Gilbert. Services were
private. The body was buried in the
Koon family plot at Lakewood Cemetery.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending at 7
p. ra., Friday. June 23:
Generally fair tonight and Friday;
warmer Friday.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m hi
7 a. m (2!
8 a. m 70
9 a. m 73
10 a. m 72
11 a. m 74
12 (noon) 75
1 p. m 78
2 p. m SO
“ —for love of a woman
and to avenge a friend ”
Anti-Saloon Head
Is Hard-Boiled
at \Veeks’ Speech
WASHINGTON, June 22.—Wayne B.
Whepler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon
League, was considerably roiled today
over the statement made in Chester, l*a.,
yesterday by Secretary of War Weeks
in favor of legislation to promote beer
and light wines.
“Secretary Weeks is not anew recruit
to the beer and wine brigade,” Wheeler
declared. “He has always been against
prohibition and is an irreconcilable wet.
He dodged the vote on war prohibition,
voted for all weakening amendments pro
posed to the national prohibition amend
ment and then voted against the resolu
tion.’’
ASHER SAYS
KLAN RULES
OFFICIALS
Motion for Retrial Sen
sational in Alle
gations.
NAMES QUOTED
MUNCIE, Iml.. June 22.—Sweeping
charges against the Ku-Klux Klan and
county and Federal officials alleged to be
members of “the invisible empire” were
made today by Court Asher, convicted
recently of violating prohibition laws, in
a motion asking anew trial
The motion asserted “things have been
fixed” in Federal Court at Indianapolis
so that Klausinen will not be prosecuted
and charged that his case was railroaded
here.
Clarence Benadum, county prosecutor;
Sheriff Harry Hoffman and Wilbur Ry
mnn, assistant T'nlted States district ut
tormy, now at Indianapolis, are members
of the Klan, Asher charged. Hoffman and
Benadum both deny membership.
The motion asserts that W. A. Cahill,
known as an organizer and head of the
Muncie Klan. has been illegally appointed
a deputy sheriff and In Asher's trial,
Cahill was permitted to sit on the Jury,
after swearing falsely he was not ac
quainted with I’roseeutor Ilenadum, and
was unfamiliar with the Asher case.
It is declared further than members
of the police force are Klansmen and that
they have on different occasions “illegal
ly shielded thugs and assassins.”
In affidavits attached to Asher's peti
tion are statements of four Muncie men
who declared that four weeks ago they
were held up on the streets of Muncie by
Cahill who represented himself as a Fed
eral officer and at the point of a revolver
forced them to submit to a search.
Unqualified denial of all charges made
against him by Court Asher was made
by Wilbur Bj-ninn, assistant United
States District Attorney today.
"These are the charges of an irrespon- j
sitde violator of the law, who is an
gered because I assisted in bis prosecu
tion at one time,” Mr. Rynian said. “1
am not a member of the Ku-Klux Klan.
and do not know that such an organiza
tion exists in Muncie. If It does 1 pre
sume it is conducted in a lawful man
ner, as I understand it is chartered under
the laws of Indiana.”
HYMAN TELLS OF
HIS ASHER CONTACT.
According to Mr. Hyman he a-ted ns as
sistant to the prosecutor of Delaware
County in a case in which Arbor was
charged with burglary early In 1021. He
said the ease was taken from the Jury
and Asher permitted to go free by Judge
Thompson of the Delaware Circuit Court
on the ground that it was not charged
Asher was an accessory to the crime.
SHERIFF HELD IN'
HIGH ESTEEM.
As to the Asher’s charges against Sheriff
Harry Hoffman." Mr. Kymai, continued,
“I would like to point out that he stands
high with Federal prohibition officers
for his wide-awake and efficient enforce
ment of the law. On lucre than one
occasion he has raided Court Asher’s ,
place and has seized liquor and a still
which he found in Asher's possession.”
Asher was a defendant in the Muncie
liquor conspiracy cases involving almost
fifty defendants which were tried in
Federal Court last year. lie was
sentenced to sixty days in the Marlon
County jail by Judge Albert B. Anderson,
Dec. 9, 1921. He entered n plea of guilty
and took the stand as a Government wit
ness.
SEARCHING FOR
2 ‘LOVE NESTS’
Additional Disclosures of Sus
pect Ward’s Indiscretions.
NEW YORK. June 22.—Search for two
additional “love nests" where Walter S.
Ward is suspected of having entertained
a constant stream of fair women visitors
during the absence of his wife and chil
dren at Palm Beach, was today the fea
ture of developments, in the case that cul
minated in the killing of Clarence I’eters.
Ward’s lawyers at White Plains sought
his rt lea.ae on bail, but interest centered
in additional disclosures of alleged in
discretions by the millionaire baker's
son, here last summer.
Railroad Unions to
Check Strike Vote
CHICAGO, .Tune 22—Railroad union
leaders will meet in Chicago Sunday to
canvass the strike vote of the 1,200.000
rail workers, it was announced here to
day.
Rail executives and mine workers'
leaders will confer before the rail men
go to Chicago. It was indicated today
that no details of the plan for joint
strike action by the two organizations
would he made public until after the
rail strike vote has been canvassed.
EDITOR YANCEY IS DEAD.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 22.—Rich
ard R. Yancey, 67, editor of the Nash
ville Banner, died at his home here to
day following an illness of several
months. He was stricken with influenza,
which was followed by a heart affection.
JnWatta ilattu QFimffl
TWO FORCES
IN STRUGGLE
FOR RUSSIA
The Hague Delegates
Await Outcome of
Strife.
AIMED AT LENIN
Soviets Expected to
Make Peace if He
Wins.
THE HAGUE, June 23.—Two powerful
forces struggled for coutrol of soviet
Russia while the outside world, repre
sented by dedegates here, awaits the out
come.
The representatives of the powers pro
fess to see in the tentative request from
Moscow for pos' ponemont of The Hague
conference, n last stand by extremists
within the soviet ranks to drive Nikolai
Lenin from power.
Soviet Russia is believed torn by in
ternal strife, which reaches a crisis, as
the date set for conferences with Euro
pean powers approaches. If Lenin wins
and sends moderate delegates to The
Netherlands capital. Russia may make
peace with the world, and resume rela
tions that will render the extremists im
potent to bring about another war.
If the radicals win it is feared war will
follow.
Bolshevik radicals, supported, if not
led, by Trotzki, are making their light to i
cause postponement of The Hague meet
ing until Lenin's ill health shall have
forced him from active control.
The Hague conference, it is believed, |
may lust six months.
BISHOPS HEAR
GHANDI STORY
FROM FISHER
Methodists Informed Indian
Leader Has High Industrial
Standards.
The Methodist bishops In conference
today heard a report of the activities
of Mahatma Ghandl, the non-eoopera
tlonist leader of India, from Bishop Fred
B. Fisher of Calcutta, India.
Bishop Fisher has Just arrived from
India and much attention is being pqld
by the bishops today. Bishop Fisher Is
of Muncie, Ind., but is now resident
blahop of the Methodist Church in Cal
cutta.
During the troubled conditions In
India, Bishop Fisher has been in close
contact with the government leaders.
Ghandl has visited the home of the
Bishop, who made a lengthy report on
his observation.
He told the bishops of Ghandl’s devo
tion to cause of the people in India,
saying his Industrial standards arc high.
Most of the reports were routine, pav
ing th,* way for important committees.
The committee on assignment of bishops
for the fall conferences probably will be
made Saturday.
This afternoon preliminary refbjrts
were heard concerning cooperation with
the Centenary movement. Dr. R. .T.
Wade, one of the leaders In the Centenary
movement, has arrived and will address
the bishops.
Bishop Charles E. Locke of the Philip
pines reported on conditions in thesisland.
Tonight Bishop F. J. McConnell and
Bishop Fisher will speak at the Central
Avenue M. E. Church at a public meet
ing.
EDWARD ARRAS
PRESIDENT OF
K! WANTS CLUBS
TORONTO, Ontario, .Tune 22.—Edward
Arras. Columbus, Ohio, will be nominated
for the presidency of the Kiwanis Club
International, now in session here, it
was reported today.
BOSSE ESTATE
NEAR MILLION
4
Dead Democratic Leader
Leaves Property to Widow.
EVANSVILLE. Ind., June 22.—Es
tate of the late Benjamin Bosse was ap
praised at $966,167.11 in papers filed to
day in Probate Court.
Real estate, bequests made in his will
and SIOO,OOO insurance, which went, to
his \ilow, raise the estate's total value
to more than $1,100,000, according to the
appraisers. No debts were scheduled.
Bosse, besides being president of one
of the largest furniture plants in the
world, had many other manufacturing
interests. Ho was also State Democratic
chairman. He died last April 4.
The appraisers were Charles IS. Enlow,
vice president of the National City Bank,
and Daniel B. Wertz, president of the
Maley-Wertz Lumber Company.
Asks $40,000 Alimony
in Divorce Action
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., June 22.
Divorce and $40,000, with an allowance of
$75 per week, for the support of their two
daughters, are asked in a complaint filed
by Mrs. Bertha D. Mobley against die O.
Mobley, a wealthy farmer of Noble Town
ship, in the Shelby County Circuit Court.
Cruel treatment is alleged. The com
plaint states that for eighteen years Mrs.
Mobley suffered “nagging;” and seven
years ago was knocked down and
“pinched” by her husl and. The couple
was married Oct. 2S, 1903. Mobley is said
to be worth more than $50,000.
“SCARAMOUCHE”
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922.
WOMEN MISSIONARIES
SENT TO MOUNTAINS
ROPED WITH CHINESE
SHANGHAI, China, June 22. —Foreign women missionaries have been
roped with Chinese, two by two, and driven into the mountains, according
to reports from Kiaufu giving details of the most horrible massacres since
the Boxer rebellion.
Soldiers with whips lashed the foreign women to hurry them on the
march into captivity.
More than 10,000 Chinese and many foreigners are reported to have
been murdered in widespread slaughter by mutinous troops, in the Kiangsi
province.
British missionaries are reported to have appealed directly to the
foreign office at London, over the heads of the Pekin legation, for assist
ance against the mutineers. They are quoted as saying the disaster is the
most terrible in years.
First reports that 10,000 had been slain
in the destruction of Kiaufu Kinklang
Kiengobun and other cities of the cen
tral Kla.igsi province are believed to be
exceeded by fresh atrocities.
Hundreds of foreign and American
missionaries are in danger.
American gunboats are coming. The
PHILIPPINES
ARE REFUSED
FREEDOM
WASHINGTON. June 22.—The United
States Government is not prepared to
grant independence to the Philippine
Islands. That was the reply of Presi
dent Harding today to a special mission
headed by Manuel Quezon, president of
the Philippine Senate, which came to
Washington to demand "immediate, com
plete and absolute” independence.
BLAST HOMES
OF MINERS WHO
REFUSE STRIKE
Bombs Wreck Two Houses
of Uniontown Coal
Diggers.
UNIONTOWN, Pa. Juno 22.—Dyna
miting of homes of coal miners who re
fuse to join the ranks of the strikers
was renewed in Fayatette County late
last night and early today. The side of
the house of Charles A. Fisher of Fair
Chan County was blown out and every
window in the structure broken when a
bomb was hurled against the structure
Ju;,*, before midnight. A bomb was set
off alongside the home of J, N. Smiley
of Fair ('ban Just before daylight, con
siderable damage resulting. No one was
hurt in either explosion.
MATCH PLANT
BLAST CAUSE
OF 1 FATALITY
Diamond Factory Disaster Re
sults in Serious Burns to
Three Others.
AKRON, Ohio. June 22.—One person
was probably fatally Injured and three
others seriously burned in an explosion
of the plant of the Diamond Match Com
pany at Barberton, near here, early re
ports today said.
FORMER STEEL
TRUST OFFICER
IN FRAUD CASE
NEW YORK, June 22. —Six men. in
cluding Henry Bopo, former vlee presi
dent of the Carnegie Steel Company,
were indicted by the Federal grand jury
today, charged with using the malls to
defraud investors in the stock and bonds
of the Petroleum Producing and Refin
ing Company, now bankrupt, out of ap
proximately SOOO, IKK).
Paper Firm Officer
Dies From Apoplexy
FT. WAYNE, Ind., June 22.—Stricken
at Ids office yesterday afternoon, Pat
rick Griffin, 52, secretary and general
manager of the Corrugated Paper Com
pany, died at his homo last evening
from a stroke of apoplexy.
Club Women Oppose Closing
Eleven Playgrounds of City
From the standpoint of child welfare,
It is a mistake for the city recreation
department to discontinue operation of
eleven playgrounds this summer, promi
nent clubwomen said today. Instead of
saving money on playground operation,
expenditure of more to keep pace with
the growth of the city and the increas
ing danger to child life from street ac
cidents is justified, most of the women
agreed.
The board of directors of the Federa
tion of Parent-Teacher Associations of
the Indianapolis Public Schools was to
const! r the matter and adopt resolu
tions luis afternoon. It is expected the
expression will favor more playgrounds.
Edward Mcßride, director of recreation,
has announced the city will operate
thirty-three playgrounds this summer as
compared with forty-four last summer.
Most of those discontinued are on grounds
Quiros and the Monocacy are reported oh
their way from Kiuklang. The British
are sending the Bee, the Fox Glove and
tho Cockchafer.
Several hundred British and American
marines will be in the landing parties.
WATSON SAYS
PETITIONS ARE
PROPAGANDA
WASHINGTON, June 22.—Petitions
benr.ng thousands of signatures against
the passage of the Mel'muher tariff bill,
pouring in on Republican Senators from
New York and other cities were declared
in the Senate today tty Senator Watson,
Republican. Indiana, to be part of the
propaganda circulated by importers and
retailers in opposition to the measure.
DE VALERA IN
AN ANTI-TREATY
PLEA TO IRISH
Defeated in Election, He Ex
presses Fear of Renewed
Warfare.
DUBLIN, June 22.—Defeated at the
polls, Kamonn De Valera today called
on Dai! Elreann to refuse to ratify the
Irish constitution.
Supporters of, tho constitution won a
tremendous victory, fifty-five being elect
ed against thirty-three coalitionists op
posed to the treaty, while only six ex
tremists won seats in the constituent as
sembly.
De Valera, in a manifesto, declared the
people of southern Ireland only support
ed constitutional candidate* because they
feared “renewal of an infamous war.”
REPUBLICANS
MEET BEHIND
CLOSED DOORS
State Central Body Taking Up
Part of Women in
Organization.
The Republican State central commit
tee was in session behind closed doors
at the Hotel Reverin today.
The committee met for the purpose of
taking up the question of the naming
of a woman vice chairman and of mak
ing other olnecs for women in tho party
organization. It also had under consid
eration the naming of a treasurer of the
State committee and the discussion of
campaign plan*.
Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of
the committee, appeared at the door of j
the committee-room several times and an
nounced there was nothing to give out. j
At noon members of the committee sent
out for lunch and remained in session.
Under discussion for the position of
treasurer were Reilly C. Adams and Fred
C. Gardner, both of Indianapolis. Mr.
Adams was treasurer of the Republican
city committee and Mr. Gardner was
treasurer of the State committee in 3920.
W. (’. Robbs of Indianapolis, an active
Beveridge man in the primary, had been
offered the {dace, but declined it.
Wealthy Citizen
Takes Own Life
ANGOLA, Ind., June 22.—Amos Perry,
60, a prominent citizen of Montpelier,
Ind., committed suicide yesterday at
Lake George. Failing health is said to j
have caused hint to take his life.
lof various welfare organizations, many
jof which are located in thickly popu
lated districts. If the organizations want
I to operate the grounds the city will loan
equipment but will not furnish directors,
Mr. Mcßride said.
BI’DGET SHOWS
COMPARATIVE COSTS.
The recreation budget as revised by
Mr. Mcßride calls for expenditure of $30.-
000 on municipal open-air theaters and
I $21,000 on playground operation. He esti
[ mates the amount for playgrounds is
| about $15,000 less than was spent last
year. The cut is made to provide funds
I for the opsn-air theaters, he said. Even
with tln> theaters, he estimates there will
bo at least a $20,000 balance in the recrea
tion department treasury at the end of
1022.
There should be more and more play
grounds, no matter how meagerly
‘G. 0. P. ROAD
BODY PASSES
ALL RECORDS’
Ralston Tells Demo
crat Editors of Rapid
Expenditures.
‘TAXES TOO HIGH’
‘No Assurance End Is
in Sight,’ Says
Candidate.
Special to The Times.
MADISON, Ind., Jude 22.—More is
now being spent each year by the State
highway commission than was spent in
a year by the whole Administration
wile uthe Democrats last controlled it,
Samuel M. Ralston, Democratic nominee
for United States Senator, declared today
in a speech before tho Indiana Demo
cratic Editorial Association. The Re
publican State platform holds no assur
ance in the event the G. O. X*. stays in
power there will be an end to profligacy,
he said.
“I do not know of a farmer in In
diana who is not complaining that his
taxes are too high. Tho grocer, the
merchant and the manufacturer are ail
crying out against excessively high
taxes and demanding that there' be a re
duction in tax rates. There Is no ques
tion In government that so vitally con
cerns the people as does that of taxation,
and certainly there Is today no other
question in Indiana over which the peo
ple are so aroused, and yet the Repub
lican platform promises no relief.
"It Is now costing the taxpayers of In
diana at least two times as much to run
this State government ns it did under the
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MINERS CEASE
MASS ACTION
AS EXPENSIVE
Meeting Takes Position After
Hearing From President
H essler.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 22.—Mass
action In closing coal mines in the
Terre Haute field pending the miners’
, strike is to be discontinued.
Individual action will follow through
the strike.
This was decided on at a meeting of
miners held late Wednesday, after hear
ing recommendations from President
Hessler of District 11, United Mine
Workers.
Hessler said that mass action was too
j expensive and was also unsuccessful.
WALTER HAGEN
IS LEADING IN
LINKS CONTEST
Jock Hutchison Has Only Fair
Luck in British Open Cham
pionship Match.
SANDWICH. England. June 22.—Walter
Hagen with a scone of 149 for tho thirty
six holes, was leading at the end of the
first day’s medal play in the British open
golf championship. Hagen took 76 on
his first round and beat that on his sec
ond by making the course in 73.
Jock Hutchison had a score of 153 for
the day, turning in a card of 74 in the
afternoon after going around in 79 in the
morning.
SENATORS PASS
LIE IN SESSION
Heflin and Glass Seated on
Watson’s Appeal.
WASHINGTON, June 22.—A physical I
encounter between Senators “Tom" Hes- j
lin, Democrat of Alabama, and Carter 1
Glass, Democrat of Virginia, was nnr- 1
rowly averted in the Senate today when j
each Senator passed the lie to the other.
Both were angrily shouting when Sen
ator Watson. Democrat of Georgia, ap
pealed to Vice President Cooildge to call
them to order. Open hostilities were
averted when the vice president com
pelled both Senators to he seated while
the rules on senatorial privileges were
read to them.
• equipped, provided there are trained
i directors in charge of them, said Mrs. S.
it. Artinan, president of the May Wright
.Sewell Council and a noted writer on
child psychology. Besides being an im
portant factor in keeping children out
of the streets properly directed play
grounds are of tremendous value in the
training of little minds, she said.
MINDS OF CHir.DKEN'
NEED CULTIVATION.
] “To grow properly, the minds of chil
dren as well as adults must be em
ployed at something helpful,” Mrs. Art
i man said. “Good recreation and helpful
: exercise meet the requirements for chil
dren. It Is sameness and idleness that
j wear out childish minds.’’
Minds are like gardens, said Mrs. Art
man. Left to deveiope themselves the
j weeds drive the useful plants and beau
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TWENTY-FOUR
WORKERS DIE
IN MINE WAR
Slain During* Illinois Uprising When Strike
breakers Are Captured by Union Sym
pathizers, Taken Into Woods, Beaten,
Shot and Hanged.
MARTIAL LAW SEEMS INEVITABLE
CARBONDALE, HI., June 22.—A telephone message received her#
today from J. T. Turner, plant superintendent of the Murphysboro
Long Distance Telephone Company, said that twenty-six prisoners wer#
shot by their captors.
According to his information, the file of prisoners was being
marched through the woods when they broke and attempted to escape.
MARION*, 111., June 22. —Twenty-four men were slain in the mine strik®
uprising that was still raging in- Williamson County this afternoon.
Many of the bodies were hanging from trees and others showed evl.
donee of severe beatings before being fired upon.
Martial law seems imminent.
State authorities were getting ready late this afternoon to dispatcU
troops with all haste to the murder area on word from the Governor’s office.
1 hose slain were reported to have been strikebreakers who wer®
captured by the miners who marched upon the coal properties near her®
and, through superior numbers, forced the strikebreakers to relinquish
their posts.
Among the (load was C. K. McDowell,
superintendent of the Southern Illinois
Coal Company, according to witnesses.
Forty-seven of the workers barricaded
in the mine surrendered, according to the
story told by those returning from the
scene. They surrendered their arms and
were being carried toward lierrln when
tho shooting began.
Fourteen, powerless to defen dthem
selves weer shot down, it was said. Seven
were seriously wounded. The remainder
escaped and were said to be fleeing to all
parts of th section.
The attackers at once dispersed.
At least 500 automobiles were reported
this afternoon returning to various min
ing communities in the county.
Most of the bodies were taken to Her
rin. according to witnesses.
All was quiet in Marion this afternoon.
In the storing of the mine during the
morning, steam shovels and buildings
were blown up and spur tracks ripped
out.
Attempted dynamiting of a small clam
near the strip mine last night gave rise
to the report that a score of miners
had been killed.
Darkness halted the battle which raged
throughout the late afternoon and early
night in which thousands of shots were
exchanged.
The men reported dead wer said
to have been shot In the battle at the
strip mine owned by the southern Illinois
Coal Company six miles west of Marion.
Three of the others are said to hare been
fired upon while riding on a truck be-
MOBILIZATION
MARION, 111., June 22. —A mob of
approximately 1,000 striking miners
and sympathizers snrrounded fifty
strikebreaker- at the strip mine east
of here at 7:31) this morning and Is
now marching to Herrin, 111., accord
ing to word received here.
tween Carterville and May, Illinois, near
the mine.
Six others known to have been in com
pany with strikebreakers, leaped into the
Big Muddy River following a battle with
a baud of ambushed men. supposed to
have been striking miners. They were un
accounted for early today.
Heavy firing and reports of loud ex
plosions were heard at Intervals during
the night.
The number of injured, who are being
cared for in Marion, Herrin and other
mining towns In the vicinity, may reach
100. it was estimated today.
The battle, which began late Wednes
day afternoon, was precipitated by re
ceipt of a message from John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Workers,
declaring that workmen, who are mem
bers of the Shovelmen's Union, were
common strike-breakers and had been
outlawed by the American Federation of
Labor.
Three workers bound for the mines late
yesterday afternoon were tired upon near
Carbondale and one probably fatally in
jured. Others in the party escaped
through a fusillade of shots by swim
ming a creek. One man who escaped in
jury reported the attacking band num
bered more than fifty.
Sympathizers of the striking miners,
who have been idle more than three
months, were reported to have invaded
hardware stores in the vicinity of the
mine late in the afternoon, secured arms
and ammunition and advanced on the
strip mine.
Reports from the mine early today
were that only two were killed and that
the employes of the mine would be with
drawn during the day. The situation
was quiet this morning.
NATIONAL GU7\ RD
IS UNDER ORDERS
SPRINGFIELD, IIL, June 22—Thre*
companies of the 310th infantry were
under orders today to be prepared to
move into the Williamson County mine
field trouble .zone at a moment’s no
tice, Adjt. Gen. Carlos Black's office
indicated today.
While the National Guard headqunr
ters refused to make public the specific
NO TRUCE
CLEVELAND, June 22. —Thp pro
posed truce of coal operators and
union mine officials of the central
district, comprising Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and western Pennsylvania, in
an effort to end the strike of coal
miners, has been abandoned, coal op
erators here said today.
Insurgent coal operators, or those
who favor dealing with the strikers
at individual mines, finally aligned
the majority of the operators of the
district to their ranks.
HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS FEB COP*
UP TO STATE
WASHINGTON, June 22.—The Gov
ernment will take no steps to inter
vene In the strike troubles In Illinois,
Attorney General Daugherty said to
day. The situation, Daugherty said,
can be coped with by State authori
ties.
orders issued to the company command
ers, it was indicated several thousand
fully armed and provisioned men could
reach the riot zone in eight hours.
The home stations of the companiei
are at Cairo, Mt. Vernon and Salem.
MINERS’ UNION
DEPLORES VIOLENCE
“The United Mil .Yorkers deplore any
violence in conne, .ion with the strike,"
Ellis Searle*. editor of the Mine Workers*
Journel, declared today In commenting
on the situation in Illinois.
None of the officers of the union wore in
Indianapolis today and it was said at
union headquarters that no one thera
knew anything of the message to Illinois
workers in which John L. Lewis, inter
national president, is quoting as referring
to men operating Illinois mines as “com
mon strikebreakers.”
GO VERNOR WA TCHES
STRIKE SITUATION
The mine strike situation in Illinois
was watched at the Statehouse hero
with interest today. Fear was expressed
that the disturbances might spread to
Indiana.
Governor McCray, who was keeping
in touch with the situation made pub
lic a letter to the sheriff and prosecuting
attorney of Knox County setting out his
attitude, in case of trouble in Indiana.
The same letter published in a dis
patch from Vincennes two days ago.
1 - Governor declared whatever steps
authorities there take to maintain the
supremacy of the naw, will have the
full backing of the State administration.
DESTITUTE
I.OGANSPORT, Ind., June 22.
A committee representing destitute
coal miners In Indiana, is soliciting
funds In this city. A committee, ac
companied by A. J. Reid of the local
trade* council, Delbert Kinneman, city
clerk, and Simeon Shaw, appeared at
the office of the mayor with Frank
Schuman of Clinton, asking Indorse
ment for a cumpaign for funds.
Schuman told the trades council that
he had personal knowledge of one
family in Clinton, including nine
children, that is entirely without
food, as disclosed by a search of their
home.
“What goes for that county goes for
every county in the State,” the Gover
nor said in commenting on the letter.
In case of difficulties in Indiana which
might bring about the necessity for the
use of troops the National Guard could
be organized on very short notice, it was
stated.
Wha’ D’y See?
Mrs. C. E. U. saw a girl eating in a
downtown restaurant and beneath the
table her white kid slippers contained
nothing except the mere tips of her (pes.
On her face Mas an expression of con
tentment that indicated perfect, even If
temporary; foot comfort.
C. L. I>. saw a man on East Wash
ington street pull a small mirror from
his pocket and look to see if his nose
needed powdering.
S. J. S. saw a man using a store dis
play window for a mirror and powder
ing his nose.
J. W E. saw a man sit at the wheel
of his flivver M-bile his M-ife cranked the
car until, disgusted with her lack of suc
cess, the man got out and twisted it him
self until he got an answering spark.
,T. A. R. saw a man at Euclid avenue
and Michigan street industriously crank
ing his car. When he returned an hour
and twenty minutes later, the same man
was still cranking it.
WHAT DID YOU SEE?
Tell the Who’ D’y see Editor of the
Times about It on a postcard or la A
letter.
NO. 36.