rou XLII—NO. 359.
FRENCH FLAG DESTROYED NEAR ESSEN
WITNESS
TELLS HATRED
TOWARD KLAN
rays Skipwith Threatened to
| Have Men Talking About
i Klan Whipped:
WRITES WORDS OUT
■Thinks McKoin Shot at His
I Own Car Instead of Be
| ing Attacked.
I Bastrop. La.. Jan. 13.—The confer
ence between Attorney General A. V.
Coco and Capt. J. K. Skipwith. cyrlops
L( the Morehouse parish Ku Klux Klop,
ma beer called off. “There will be no
conference between myself and Mr.
hoco,” the klan lender said. "I could
pot see where any good could come out
Lf it. The states attorneys seem to
be satisfied ill d’X; ng into th) aftair.*
M the klan by placing witnesses upon
[be stand nt the open hearing, mid
therefore it is best for them to get their
Information from that source.”
[ W. B. Stuckey, a former state sena
tor and a lawyer of Met Rouge, the
witness of the day. told of some of the
[onversations having taken place be
ween other Mer Rouge citizens and
••As a citizen of Mer Rouge, 1 am
Ehoroughlv familiar with the operation
bf the Ku Klux Klan. 1 nm not a
member of the klan, but wherever I
kvent in the parish 1 found persona btt-
Lrly opposed to the criminal activities
pf the organization.”
k “Captain Skipwith. because I e,-
Lvaya have been an opponent o. the
tdau, ha' not spoken to me in more
[baa a year.
►*•7% the dav following a conference
held in this bililding between members
|>f the klan and citizens, relative to the
Inupder of Daniel and Richard* I
heard Captain Skipwith remark to
Smith Stephenson that ‘every man rn
Morehouse parish who did not quit talk-
Ins about the klan would be whip
bed.' "
language Was Forceful.
Mr. Stuckey did not give the exact
language said to have been used by
Captnin Skipwith. which, he asserted,
was very forceful, but handed to the
judge a slip of paper on which he
had written the words alleged to have
been used by Skipwith. It was placed
in the record as an exhibit.
Mr. Stuckey said the language was
such that he did not wish to repeat
it in court. At the time a number of
women were among those in attend
ance..
| “All this happened after the disap
pearance of Daniel and Richard?” he
[was asked.
“les.”
“After an attempt was made to kill
Dr. McKoin?”
“It is not admitted there ever was
my attempt made to kill Dr. McKoin,”
ihc witness interposed.
“Why do you say that?"
Many Hateel McKoin.
“Well, the theory is he shot up H*
wn car in order to gain the support
it members of the Ku Klux Klan.”
“You wouldn't want to do anybody
iny injustice?”
“No, sir.”
“You insist your theory is Dr. Mc
xoin shot at his own car.”
“Yes, sir. My conclu-itns are from
the information and ideas advanced hy
other people.”
“Did Dr. McKoin have anyencmies?"
“Yes. sir, many of them, and long be
fore the advent of Ku Klux. because
of his reform activities. This hatred
joined after the advent of the Ku Klux
KWS because he then had an instru-
ment to help him.”
“When I first heard of the report
of the attempted assassination of Dr.
McKoin, I believed it. I accepted it.
as true, because I believe there wns at
least 50 people in the parish who had
something agninst him. But after dis
cussing it with the people together with
the physical evidence I changed my
opinion. They were pistol shots, not
buckshots. Department of Justice men
agreed with me on this."
“How about the annoymous letters
and the rounding np of people believed
to have been connected with the plot?"
“I hare learned Dr. McKoin wrot*
them himself,” replied Mr. Stugkey
"They were written on his
ARD CHICAGO CO-EDS
dudents Would Capture Persons Who
Peep Into Dormitories.
Chicago. RI.. Jan. IS.—Students at the
University of Chicago stood guard on
the campus last night to capture per
sons who have been annoying co-eds at
thdlr dormitories by peeping into win
dod-s and tossing notes through open
wiftdows.
TRAIN WRECK FATAL
'ne Killed, Several Inhircl in Crash
Near Toledo.
TiTedo. Ohio, Jan. 13.—One man was
tilled and several injured when a Balti-
Ohio passenger train running on
t-e Pere Marquette tracks crashed into
he rear of s freight train one mile
’orth of the Ohio-Michigan state line at
10 a. m. today, „ I
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
To Retry Divorce Sait
English society is agog cvei ports
that Mrs. John Russeli (above) will
face very soon a retrial of the divorce
suit brought by her husband, son of the
formbr viceroy of India. In the first
trial, won by Mrs. Russell, both parties
were “unconscious” of how their child
was born. Russel testified that their
love was “strictly platonic."
• TO BE SOME COOLER
Uneettled Weather To Continue But
Rain Not Expected.
Unsettled weather here will continue
Saturday night and Sunday, with Sun
day somewhat cooler, according to
Meteorologist J. H. Jarboc s forecast.
It will not turn cold, the minimuni
temperature to he between 60 nnd 66.
The winds will be modbfhte and ’ontb
erly.
Mr. Jnrboe does not look fqr r * in
within the next 24 hours, although
conditions may be sueh that the
drought will be broken here time
next week. From Washington, toe fore
cast for the coming week indicates
probable rain Wednesday or Thursday
for the West Gulf states. wjjjHi m
ciudcs Texas. Otherwise, it should be
generally fair, with normal tempera
tures the first port of the week and
colder the latter part.
There was wine rain at Del Rio.
Friday night, but that was the only
Texas weather station that reported
precipitation. An area of low pressure
centered -over Colorado early Friday
is what caused local cloudiness and
obscured the sun in all parts of Texas
except coast points.
The “low" predominating Texas
weather is M»t of a trough of low
pressure rnrminj north' and vouth on
the east side of the Rockies, is fol
lowed in its eastward course by a
“high” of moderate intensity coming
in over northern/California and bring
ing slightly lower temperatures.
An eastern “high” is not carrying
with it a very pronounced “kick" in
the way of cold weather and few parts
of the country, even in the extreme
north, are having real winter weather.
ACCIDENT IS FATAL
Glaring Headlights of Automobile Blind
Driver of Car.
Corpus Chrtefi. Tex.. Jan. 13.—
Blinder! by the glaring headlights of a
passing automobile. R. A. .Jackson,
while driving on the Robstown road
last night, drove his car into a ditch,
and suffered fatal injuries, dyins: at
2 o'clock this morning. Mr. Jackson
was found pinned underneath his car.
He remained conscious long enough to
say “The lights blinded me.”
THE WEATHER
TEMPKKATIRES
JAN.’ 12—
2 p.w.a.m.64 2 a. m 66
3 p. in........ 63 3 a. m 66
4 p. <6C 4 a. m 66
5 p. m 67 5 a. m.» CC
6 p. m.. 66 6 a. in 66
7 p. iu 66 7 a. G 6
8 p- 61 R a. m........ 65
S p. m 62 9 a. m........ 64
10 p. 10 p. rr>........67
11 p. m Cd 1! a. m 6 7
12 midnight.. ..64 12 noon GJ
JAK. 13— 1 p. m 76
1 a.'m .> 65 :p. m 77
WEATHIR.
San Aatonio and. vicinity: Saturday night
and Sundar, unsettled; ooldcr Sunday;
maximum temperatura, 60 to 667 moderate
southerly winds.
East Texas: Unsettled; propably rain In
north portion: colder Sunday, except in
southeast portion.
West Texas: Cloudy; rain In southeast
portion: Shad ay. fair and colder.
HOME WEATHER FOR TOURISTS.
St. J>eai«: Temperature. 36: clear; It
mile wind from the south; lowest tempera
ture tn l*et 24 hours. 26; highest, SO.
Chfaqro: Temperature, 25; clear; 10-mile
wind from the east; lowest temperature in
last 24 hours. 26; highlit, 36.
Kansas CHy: Temperature, 40; cloudy;
10-mlle wind from the eoutheatt; lowest
tempcratute in lout 24 hours. 40; highest.
33.
New York: Temperature. 22; clear; 40-
mile wind from the northwest; lowest tem
perature in last 24 hours. 22; highest. 43.
Washington*. Temursture. 30; clear; •-
mile wfnd from the northwest; lowest tem
perature in last 24 hour* 30; highest U.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1923.—TEN PAGES
THREE YOUTHS
HELD BN MANY
THEFT CHARGES
Complaints Filed Against
Jack Sperry, D. H. Hay
ner and F. H. Urban.
GET STOLEN PROPERTY
Officers Restore $2OOO
Worth of Goods to
Rightful Owners.
Jack Sperry, D. H. Hayner and F. 11.
Urban were named as defendants in
nineteen felony cases filed in Justice,
Fisk's court Saturday by city detec-1
dyes. They were arretted by police .
and detectives Wednesday night in con-1
nection with recent wholesale robbery |
of San Antonio business houses.
The prisoners, charged jointly, are I
specifically charged in filed.,
with burglary and felony theft, there
,being eight of the former and eleven j
of the latter allegations. Three mis-.
demeanor charges of theft, detectives
say. are scheduled to be filed in the
Bexar county criminal court.
Justice Fisk announced preliminary
hearings in the complaints would be
called at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Whether the youthful defendants hnye
retained counsel or whether they will ■
waive an examining trial had not been
indicated.
Clear Up Recent Robberies.
The investigation, which has not been
completed, has. according to authorities,
cleared the largest recent robberies in
San Antonio and resulted in recovery of
I stolen property valued at several thou
' sapd dollars. While a large assortment
of property still remains in the mtndn
lot detectives unclaimed, the charges
! filed against the prisoners St ‘urday al-;
I lege burglaries staged netted loot valued
at approximately $2OOO.
Jack Sperry, one of the detenaantß. i
gave his nge 'as 19 years and his ad-.
dress at 1220 Willow street. Hayner s [
age is listed at 20 and his home an,
1800 North Zarzaraora street. Urban i
gave his nge as 20 and his address as
114 Felisa street.
Claim Confessions Obtained. |
Charges filed against them by <le-;
tectives allege they staged the burgla
ries nt the following places: E. M.
Snunders. 3SOI South Flores street: H.
Y. Lander, 1301 Avenue D : < A. bcheh, I
5301 South Flores street; H. L. Mis
kimin. 917 South Flores street; J. I.
Heffrnm, 505 Roosevelt avenue; J. J.
McCabe, 2310 South Flores street; Gus
Pierdolln'a mercantile establishment nt
Lnvemia. Tex.; A. C. Toudouae, 390..
South Flores street: J. L. Cross, 1.011
North Hackberry street: Beaern ilill
Phnrmncv, H. W. Carbahan. propne-:
tor 1201 West Woodlawn avenue;
Evergreen drug store, R. T. Jone«. pro
prietor, 1824 Main avenue; Joe Lames
garage. 524 Garden street.
According to local authorities the pris- (
oners are said to have made admissions ।
in the participation in the various bur
glaries listed. It was as a result of
confessions said to have been by them
that officers nlso recovered a consider
able portion of the loot. The burglai eg
were cleared up M edneaday mzht
by Chief of Police Van Riner. Detective
Chief Sam Street nnd Detectives ''al
ter Hnrvev. J. P. Boatwright and Duke
Carver after Mr. Carver arrested two
men and got a confession from them.
ACTOR SAYS HE SLEW
SWEETHEART BECAUSE
SHE BROKE HIS HEART
Wcands Girl’s Brother end
Attempts to Kill
' Self.
New Y’ork. Jan. 13.—Harold Van Al
stein, member of the vaudeville team
of Van and Emerson, who last night
shot and killed Miss Marion MacLaren,
of the musical troupe “The Fave Mac-
Larens,” wounded her brothtr Hugh,
and then shot himself, told police to
day he killed the girl because she had
broken their engagement to be married
and refused even to talk with him.
Van Alstein is under arrest in Belle
vue Hospital on a homicide charge.
His self-inflicted wound is not seri
ous physicians said. Hugh MacLaren,
brother of the dead musician, also was
hurt only slightly.
“I am not sorry I shot her. Van
Alstein as alleged to have* told police.
“I loved her and she drove me in
sane by her refusal ever, to talk to
me. The only thing I regret is that
I didn't kill myself. Please don’t tell
my dear old mother her boy is a mur
derer.” .
Miss MacLaren, dining with her
brother, hia wife and her two sisters,
arose when Van Alstein entered the
crowded cafe. He walked to her table
and began shooting.
Would Combat Rum Runners
Washington, D. C. Jan. 13—A sug
gestion that the navy be called on to
fight Atlantic coast rum runners was
made in a letter to President Hard
ing today from the legislative depart
ment of the National Congress at
Mothes-
SUCCESSFUL RUM-RUNNERS
HOLD MEETING, THEN PLAY
POOL; FLASH LARGE ROLLS
Apparently Bootleggers at Highland Are On Way to
Become Millionaires —Citizens Admit That Streets
Have Been Blocked by Booze Vans and
Pedestrians Ordered Aside.
Highland, N. J„ Jan. IS.—The cap
ture of four boats belonging to the
bootlegging ring was attributed to the
failure of one man to carry out «n
agreement to ram any enforcement craft
that tried to halt a bootleg boat. It
was admitted, however, that the man
on the Margaret B. thought the coast
gunrd boat friendly and dre • along
side her to borrow a gasoline funnel.
It was revealed at the bootleggers’
meeting that one boat captured last
night escaped from the captoi in the
darkness during an argument. This
boat was repainted and her engine
changed.
| After their meeting some of the run
ners adjourned to shoot pool in the
I town billiard hall. Others, with no
i show of concealment, boasted in pub
! lie places, with obvious pride, of their
' achievement, of the cargoes they had
I landed last night.
| Besides the boats that succeeded in
: bringing liquor into Highlands, cargoes
wert landed at Atlantic Highlands,
Bedford, Port Monmouth, Keansburg,
Seabright, Gallilec, Monmouth Beach
and other points down os far as Point
Pleasant. This fact was openly pro
claimed by bootleggers operating out of
the various towns —bootleggers who
, backed up their boasts with displays of
$lOOO bills that were not counterfeits.
City Is Furious.
Reports of last night’s activities
aroused a furore in Highlands today,
Mayor Kieferdorf making a long state
ment to the effect that reports that
35,000 cases or any such amount had
been lauded wns a myth.
He admitted. Ipwever, that recent re
tirement of dry navy ships bad beep
followed by increased efforts on the
part of the maritime bootleggers, but
charged that an effort wt.a being made
to fix on Highlands the odium belong
ing to the entire northern Jersey coast.
Citizens were found who asserted that
bootleggers had things pretty much their
own wny.
Several nights ago, it was said, a
bootlegger, not a member of the ring,
started to his home garage with a truck
load. A party of men appeared, shot
out the street lights nnd took the truck.
The original owner located it next day
and took it back.
Law-abiding citizens report that sev
eral times, when driving home late nt
night they had been halted by boot
leggers' guards and forced to take to
other streets.
Stacked to Ceiling.
Another townsman, who has lived here
for 23 years, de lared today to the As
scciatcu Press correspondent that there
were a number of residences which, if
uue were to enter the front door and
walk through the ball to the kitchen,
would reveal cases of liquor stacked on
both sides to the ceiling.
Two enforcement agents dropped into
town this afternoon as two motor van
louds of liquor, destined for Newark,
rolled down the main street.
An agent stopped one of the vans
and asked the driver to direct him to
a certain hotel. The driver directed,
the agent thanked him, and the booze
rolled on.
Those of the bootleggers who came
in contact with the government boats
and escaped said that a negro customs
agent, or employe, actually had been
the most active of the enforcement
party.
Regular Pirate Style.
This negro, they said, was the bravest
government man they bad met. He
v. ent aboard the Evelyn after she was
captured and halted three boats after
chases during which the runners were
forced to abandon their cargoes. Com
ing alongside the runners he leaped into
their bouts from th; Eve yn's deck and
ordered hands up while ' e searched for
liquor.
“I’se customs,” they quoted him as
saying. “Don' fool wif me.”
And they didn't.
Bootleggers, discussing their cou,.
with a staff correspondent of the As
sociated Press, declared that the swarm
of small craft gathered around the rum
fleet was thick that they coulu hardly
gain landing space alongside. They
estimated that more than 300 little boats
had put out. nnd impartial observers
ashore, scanning the waters with glasses
before dusk made observation impossi
ble, confirmed the bootleggers' boasts to
the extent of declaring that the little
“He Never Surrendered”
In The Sunday Light will be an interesting story about
a surviving general of the Confederacy who has never
surrendered. His is an interesting personality and the
story of his famous exploits brings a thrill.
San Antonio is intenselj* interested in the army Air
Sen-ice both for sentimental and commercial reasons
and a story in Sunday’s Light which tells of the prob
lems of the air service should prove of interest to every
citizen.
The Sunday articles by Ring Lardner and George Ade,
the many timely features, both local and foreign, the
page of Letters to The Light, its strong editorials and
many other carefully choseh features all go to make The
Sunday Light the favorite of Southwest Texas.
And it always carries all the news.
boats were so numerous it was impos
sible to count them from land.
Denial Is "I-aughable.''
New Yorii, Jan. 13.—William R. San
ders, chief of the inspection division
of the United States customs service
here, which Thursday night captured
four rum runners off the Jersey coast,
today characterized as “laughable” the
denial of prohibition enforcement agents
that there were rum-running activities
of large proportions off Sandy Hook.
Mr. Sanders suited his action to liis
words, laughing heartily as he said:
“Our capture of foiu heavily laden
rum runners is all the support I need
to offer. The next day or two will
tell just how great the activities have
been.”
ACQUIT M’DANIEL OF
KILLING HIS WIFE,
WITH PAIR SCISSORS
Jury Reports at 2:55 Sat
urday Finding Defendant
Not Guilty.
Clayton G. C. McDaniel was found
not guilty of murder by the jury in the
Thirty-seventh district court nt 2:55
o'clock Saturday afternoon. He was
charged with the “scissors murder” of
his wife, Charlotte McDaniel November
25, 1922.
The trial started Monday morning
ar.l consumed all week. Both state and
defense called numbers of witnesses. The
case went to the jury early Saturday
morning. Arguments were started at
4 o’clock Friday afternoon.
Defense counsel sought to show that
Mrs. McDaniel tried to kill herself and
also attacked her hurfiand. The state
tried to prove murder.
TEXAS WOULD FORCE
SECRET ORDERS TO
PUBLISH MEMBERSHIP
Bill Introduced in Legisla
ture Said to Be Aimed
at Klan.
Avslin, Tex.. Jan. IS. —Secret or
ganizations in Texas would be requir
ed to make public annually a list of
their membership under a bill introduc
ed in the lower house of the State
Legislature today by Representative
Fugler of Marshall. These lists would
be filed with the clerks of each county.
Mr. Fugler stated his proposed meas
ure had been prepared particularly in
view of Ku Klux Klan activities in
Texas.
LIBERTY BONDS GONE
Mattress Used to Deaden Sound of
Explosion.
Baton Rouge. I-a.. Jan. 13.—A safe
in the store of Bridges and West at
Norwood. La., was blown open early
today and $30,000 in Liberty bonds,
$lOOO in cash ana other securities
taken.
The robbers put a mattress aroun .
the safe to stifle the sound of the ex
plosion, and did a clean job. They es
caped in an automobile.
Would Bar Klan Employes.
Minneapolis. Minn.. Jan. 13.—The
city council directed its public welfare
committee to conduct an investigation
to determine if any city employes are
members of the Ku Klux Klan. Em
ployes found to belong to the, organiza
tion would lose their positions with
the city, it was said.
BAR HERE ACTS
AGAINST ADDING
CRIMINAL COURT
Association Meets Saturday
Morning and Says New
Court Unnecessary.
CITY HALL MOVE
Rumored Proposed Action
Would Abolish Office of
County Attorney.
The San Antonio Bar Association, at
one of the largest meetings ever held,
went on record unanimously Saturday
morning as opposed to the establishment
of a new criminal court in Bexar coun
ty. The action was taken when it be
came known that a bill Was to be in
troduced in the Texas Legislature cre
ating a new criminal uistrict court for
this county. The bill, it is understood,
was fostered by the city hall crowd, or
that portion of it in sympathy with
the mayor, and by the district attor
ney's office. Its purpose, according to
local opinion, was to abolish tlie Bexar
county criminal court and do away with
the county attorney's office.
The meeting was held in the 73rd
district court room at 10 :30 o'clock and
presided over by C. M. Chambers. Henry
Lee Taylor, in speaking on behalf of
the bill, suggested that Senator T. H.
Ridgeway, who was then i i conference
' with the district attorney, be called upon
Ito explain the bill's purposes. Follow
i ing the adoption of the resolution set
ting forth the bar association's views
on the matter, however, Henry Dicl
man. representative from this district,
stated that the Bexar countj delegation
hod awaited the pleasure of that or
ganization nnd indicated that the dele
gation would respect the association's
wishes.
May Stop Agitation.
The action of the bar .issociation Sat
urday, it is believed, will prevent fur
ther attempts by the city hall crowd
and the district attorney's office 'tn
create a new criminal court. It had
been planned, it is understood, to give
this court jurisdiction over all, cases
now handled by the county criminal
court, nnd thus do away with that
court. The abolishment of the county
attorney’s offics also was contemplated,
it is understood.
The resolution adopted by the asso
ciation follows:
“Whereas it is reported that a bill is
nbout to be introduced in the Legisla
ture now in session, creating a crimi
nal district court for Bexar county;
“And whereas, there are now two
district courts with criminal jurisdic
tion in this county:
“And whereas the records of said
courts show that the criminal cases of
the grade of felony arising in this coun
ty can be easily taken care of by these
two courts;
Would Be Expensive.
“And whereas it would entail an enor
mous expense to the taxpayer, of the
county to establish and maintain such
criminal district court. And whereas no
necessity exists therefor:
“Therefore, be it resolved that it is
the sense of the San Antonio Bar As
sociation that there should not he such
criminal district court established for
Bexar county, Texas.
And be it further resolved that the
secretary be instructed to sena a copy
of this resolution to each member of
both houses of the Legislature.
TWO TEXANS DROWN
Accidents Occur Five Miles Apart at
Almost Same Time.
Beaumont. Tex., Jan. 13.—Two men
were drowned, one in the Necbcs river
and the other in a canal in accidents
occurring within fifteen minutes , of
each other at points about five miles
apart late yesterday. They were John
Hoover, 38, boilermaker and Chris
Joansen. 3(1, a rigger. Neither of the
bodies has been recovered. Hoover,
who was returning from a hunting
trip, lost his life while diving for a
shot gun which fell into the river.
Joansen fell overboard from a skiff.
HELD FOR GIRL’S DEATH
Postoffice Employe Charged With Mur
der of Brooklyn Child.
New York, Jan. 13.—Benjamin Tren
derville, an employe in the Brooklyn
General Postoffice, was arraigned and
held for the grand jury, charged with
the murder of ten-year-old Theresa Mc-
Carthy. whose body, with a bullet
through the heart, was found ii. her
home at Brooklyn last December 26.
Mrs. Pauline McCarthy, mother, o' the
little girl, was held without bail as a
material witness. PrendeAille had been
a roomer at the McCarthy home.
Postpone Rail Cases.
Austin, Tex.. Jan. IS.—All cases set
for hearing before the .tate railroad
commission on January 17 and 18 to*
day were postponed until January 23.
Chairman Allison Mayfield and Com
missioner Earle B. Mavfiela are both
in Washington and notified offices here
they would be unable to return by
January 17. Cases aet for hearing next
week included the application for a
general revision of lumber rates.
POPULACE WARNED AGAINST
EXCESSES BY BURGOMASTER,
10 APOLOGIZES TO FRENCH
Trcops, Continuing Advance, Requisi
tion Public Schools for Barracks,
Turning Children Out of Classes,
With No Other Quarters Available.
All Germany Prepares to Make Sun
day a Day of National Mournings
Berlin, Jan. 13.—At Steele, twn miles outside of Essien,
the French flag hoisted by the occupying troops was tom
down and destroyed, says a dispatch to Berlin today.
The burgomaster was made to apologize to the French
commander and publish an appeal warning the populatron
against excesses. .nx
Duisburg, Jan. 13.—Twenty-two public school buildings
have been requisitioned by th© French as barracks for the
troops of occupation, and the city has been forced to discon
tinue all classes as other quarters are not available.
The French are occupying all the public halls.
Essen, Jan. 13.—While Germany generally was prepar
ing for the observance of tomorrow as the “Sunday of mourn
ing’’ over the occupation of the Ruhr, the actual establish
ment of the French and Belgian garrisons continued to be
extended and the occupying authorities at Essen and Dues
seldorf were making further efforts toward direct negotia
tions with the big industrialists and mine operators.
BRIEF MORATORIUM
GRANTED GERMANY ON
GOLD MARK PAYMENT
France, Italy and Belgium
Representatives Vote
for Delay.
By the AMocinted Frew.
Taris, Jan. 13.—The reparations com
mission this morning postponed until
January 31 the payment of 500,000,000
gold marks due from Germany next
Monday.
France, Italy and Belgium voted for
the delay. Sir John Bradbury, the
British member, did not cast a ballot.
There was no discussion of the. brief
moratorium or its merits. The French
requested postponement of the payment
in order that they migh. finish prep
aration of their new moratorium plan.
Roland Boyden, the American ob
server, was present at the meeting,
which lasted a half hour. Steps were
taken to notify the German govern
ment of the delay.
There was a report that France might
endeavor to arrange a meeting with
Germany to discuss a settlement of the
reparations question, in view of the
fact that the French are now in the
Ruhr. Great Britain, Italy, Belgium and
possibly the United States were men
tioned as the nations that might be
asked to attend such -a conference.
In the event that a plan for direct
discussion failed, it was suggested that
a two-year moratorium, with certain
conditions, would be granted Germany
by the reparations commission in the
near futurb.
These conditions, according to a
forecast of what France is ready to
grant, would include not only the main
tenance of the economic commission al
ready in the Ruhr, but the occupation
of that entire region in the event Ger
many did not immediately accept the
moratorium provisions. The German
government would also agree to float
internal loans of gold and paper marks,
to balance the budget, and to permit
a committee of guarantees to assume
control fo German internal finance.
This committee would function in much
much the same manner as was set
forth by France at the recent premiers'
conference.
Corn Exports Increase.
Washington, D. C.. Jan. IS.—Ex
ports of corn from the United States
durinc the cereal year ending November
1. 1922. were 40 per cent greater than
for the twelve months preceding, accord
inc to returns to the Department of
Commerce. Shipments to Europe were
greater than for any twelve months
since 1906.
Irish Execute Three.
B> the Associated l’ro»
Dublin. Jan. 13.—Three men were ex
eented in Dundalk this morning, it was
officially announced by the Free State
authorities. Dr. Oliver Gogarty, mem
ber of the Irish Free State senate, was
kidnaped last night hy two men. hut
escaped after being taken some distance
outside the eity by his captors.
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By the Assodsted Press.
By the Associated Press.
“Confiscations and arrests” were
threatened if a number of the latter
failed to heed the invitation sent them
by the control commission for a confer
ence here today. '
The magnates were invited to attend
a similar meeting yesterday, but they
did not appear.
Tlie outcome of the present deafiock
in negotiations betwee the occupation
al authorities and the mining and in
dustrial operators, caused by the refusal
of the more important industrial lead
ers to meet the “invaders,” is oncer
tain, and the suggestion io advanced
that the French may ultimately decide
to operate the urines and pay the wort
men themselves in order to obtaia 4>e
deliveries of coal, the chief object of the
expedition.
Additional engineers, moody FrenA
men, are continually arriving, and evecy
effort is being made to get into active
touch with the members of the Rhen
isch-West Pholian coal syndicate, the
headquarters of which was removed to
Hamburg before the arrival of (ha oc
cupational forces.
TO SITPRESS REVOLmOIt
Allied Troops, Battleships and Foaaeh
Colonel Ordered to Meoei.
By the Associated Proes.
Paris, Jan. 13.—The Allied eoanhil
of ambassadors decided this morning to
make energetic representations at
Kovno to induce the Lithuanian gov
ernment to bring pressure to bear on
the group of Lithuanians menacing
Memel.
The ambassadors decided to send a
French colonel to Memel to take charge
of the Allied force. After the arrival
of the British and French vesrela or
dered to Memel, this force will con
sist of British and French marines and
the company of French soldiers already
on the scene.
Washington. D. O, Jan. IX—The
first official report received from any
of its representatives relative to the
situation in the Memel region of East
Prussia was made public by the State
Department without comment. A dis
patch. frota Consul Edwards, at Korao,
Lithuaniasaid:
‘On January 10, there occurred a
revolution of the civilian population "t
Memel of Lithuanian descent. The
supreme Memel aid committee pro
claimed itself the government of tbs
territory, aiming to brine about union
ot that territory with Lithuania.
“Insurgents surround the city •*
Memel, which is defended by French
troops. Unusual military ictivity has
been noted at Kovno and the troops >a
the Memel frontier are being rein
forced.”
New Mexico Congressman Dies.
Washington. D. C- Jnn. IX—Repre
sentative Montoya of New Mexico, died
suddenly at ii« home here today.
was stricken while sharing and J ”4
within a short time.
Krupps Get Russian Concession.
Berlin. Jan. 13.—The Russian So
viet government, according to Kinel
received here, has ratified as agreo.
ment granting a large agricultural
cession in southern Russia •»
Krupps. .