St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 17, 1922

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~% OL I ae FRR IN er te ae —_, a , st. LOUIS, FORWARD OR BACKWARD? '} What shall St. Louis have—more play- ss rounds and park space or more disease, | }orime and vice? 5 ee TC PAGE =. 9 16, 1922, ~f (Copyright, logy ST. The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service LOUIS POS T-DISPATCH { —_————— — ‘ FINAL (Browns’ Box Score.) nee ec". ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1922—36 PAGES. ee PRICE 2CENTS , SHOWERS LATE TONIGHT OR TOMBRROW AND WARMER “ROB AIM: FREED | AFTER TEN YEARS i eetniemesnemmenennann lowest, 57, at 2 Pp. m. Se Official cast for Louls and vicin- ity: Increasing cloudiness WRAT'LL I Do WIth THE | SNO” 1 | | : Samuel A. Cheatham Re-| | Genoa? - - & eased by Governor on Z —~\ . 3 Commutation of Life Sen-| |‘ O PUT THE or tomorrow ; row. Missouri —Inereas- ing followed by showers late to- night or tomor- row; warmer tonight. “SHOT CLERK IN {| PAWNSHOP IN 1912: 7 Action Follows ienieiiein| ; 4 of Petition—List Protest- 7 | ing Against Release Also | Submitted. a p22, by H. C. Fisher S. Patent Office.) | Unsettled night and morrow, ably to- to- prob- with portion tonight. Stage of the river at 7 a. m., 16.3 feet, a fall of .é foots. NEGRO SUES TO OBTAIN Samuel A. Cheatham was released j z foday from the Jefferson City peni- - tentiary after having served less 4 than 10 years of a life sentence for ® the murder of George J. Wurz- : 4 burger, whom he killed in a pawn- @ chop holdup at Eighth and Pine b streets, Jan. 31, 1912. i Gov. Hyde, acting upon the rec- © ommendation of the State Board of ' Pardons, granted a commutation of | Cheatham’s sentence. The commu- - tation reduces the sentence to the |. time Cheatham has already spent in prison, and does not require him to » account’ to the State for his future ' conduct, as a parole would do. The | State has no further jurisdiction _ fn the case. » Julius Wurzburger of 4300 Dewey ' avenue, father of the murdered man, ' had circulated a petition against | | the proposed release of Cheatham, > and he said today that the Gover- nor’s action. was taken over his Mandamus Proceedings Filed in Cir- cuit Court Against Park Com- missioner Pape. A mandamus suit to determine whether negroes shall be permitted at Forest Park was filed yesterday by Albert H. Howard, 4411A West Belle place, a negro. The court is asked to compel Park Commissioner Pape to issue a permit to the peti- |tioner. | It is alleged that Howard recently applied for a permit, but one was refused him solely because of his color. him to be unjust discrimination. |= n J : ‘ "4 _ftarnest protest. Julius Wurzburger S. M. Bass, attorney for the plain- | Was a well known political figure ' here 25 years ago, and was Assistant | Street Commissioner and later an ‘@ Election Commissicner. tiff, said that he also represents five other negroes who are interested in getting permission to play golf on the municipal course, and that the Petition for Commutation. @ Commutation of sentence was @ urged in a petition signed by a num- ® ober of Jefferson City physicians, in- | dding Dr. Waterman, prison phy- | sician, and Dr. Clark, former presi- ' dent of the State Board of Health. | Additional influence was used by | Cheatham’s relatives in Florida, and | the names of the two United States Senators from that State, the two ; former Senators,-a former Governor ' and five present, State officials of | Florida, were signed to the petition. | United States District Attorney Wil- » son of Kansas City was a signer. | In granting the commutation the _ Governor announced that he was not | lessening the magnitude of the crime, | but was acting on reports of Cheat- | ham’s record as a prisoner. Prison . Officials, urging commutation, #tuce] _ that Cheatham, as an assistant phy- » Ssiclan at the institution, rendered _ exceptional service to othér prisoners during the influenza. epidemics, | . Gov. Hyde was informed that j Cheatham would go to New Jersey » And resume his medical studies. 4 The Wurzburger Case. The Wurzburger -case attracted > Unusual attention, not only because ' Of the nature of the crime but on _ account of the previous standing of ' Cheatham, and the clever detective ' Work that resulted in his capture. _ Cheatham’s father had been a ' Prominent physician in Tallahassee, - Pla., and Cheatham, who was but 22 | Years old at the time, was a medical _ Student and had a wide social ac- Quaintance in St. Louis. Robbery was the motive. Cheat- - ham later confessed that he had held up Wurzburger, the clerk, who Was alone in the pawnshop at the time, and demanded money. When Wurzburger hesitated Cheatham shot him in the head. He then tiled _ Wurzburger's hands and legs with’ _ & rope and tossed him through a ' Wapdoor into the cellar. This was fone, he later confessed, so that he/ could loot the pawnshop without at- Wacting attention from the outside. '. He removed his coat to -give the suit filed by Howard is a test pro- ceeding. The lawyer said permits were granted last year to Howard and other negroes to play golf at Forest Park. Commissioner Pape said that in de- clining to issue a golf permit to Howard he explained that such ac- tion, in his opinion, was best for all concerned, as there were no facilities for a separate golf course in Forest Park and that there might be objec- tion to negroes playing on the same course with whites. He said his ac- tion was upheld by Director of Pub- lic Welfare Cunliff. LAWYERS STANDING “DO NOT ASK MANY UNNECESSARY QUESTIONS” Federal Judge Faris Makes This Ob- servation When Lawyer Apolo- gizes for Sitting Down. Lawyers who are required to stand when interrogating witnesses don't ask so many wholly unnecessary questiond as when they are allowed to remain seated, Federal Judge Faris has found. He said so in court today when Robert M. Nich- ols, who has practiced law here for many years, apotogized for having remained seated during an examina- tion of a witness. A bailiff had reminded Nichols of the rule about lawyers standing. Nichols explained he had been suf- fering intense pain from rheumatism ‘n his feet and the Judge tvuld him he might remain seated if he was un- comfortable. The Judge added that he was not in sympathy with the rule when he took this bench, but that since he has found it to be one of the most valuable rules. LODGINGS FOR DOCTORS SOUGHT In anticipation that an attendance of between 8000 and 9000 fellows ‘and visitors for the annual meeting *ppearance of a clerk at work while | of the Amertcan Medical Association he stuffed watches and other jewel- | will overtax the hotel facilities of St. ry, valued at several hundred dol-/ Louis, the \ocal arrangements com- lars, into a suitcase he had taken | mittee of the St. Louis Medical So- from a shelf. ciety has made an appeal that St. f > ¥ es te > * PTPTOSEFA PETE TERE RT ALR ORL: How Cheatham Was Trailed. Louis citizens having spare rooms in iki The only clews on which detec-| their homes offer them for occu- | lives had to work were a cuff link| pancy by visiting physicians from | Dearing the initial “C” and a sail-| Tusday through Friday. . | rs knot in the rope with which e St. Louis Convention, Pub- a Wurzburger was bound. The disap- tk and Tourist Bureau is sending | Pearance of Cheatham and the in- for its members to mail with | formation that he had served in rooms. and the public is re- ; Navy led to his arrest, after he inform the bureau i 4 been trailed through several oms, with the charge. _ a rn states. It later developed| whether or\not breakfast would be that he had pawned the cuff link | furnished. , San excuse for entering the pawn- Poe | FOUR HUAT IN TRAIN COLLISION Passengers - h Escape in Head-on Cras Near Kansas City. By the Associated Press. a se KANSAS CITY. Mo., ay ” ap taenel Frisco accommodation trains Nos. - 1 and 22 crashed head-on near Dod- son, Mo., a few miles south of here today, injuring three trainmen and an express messenge’. No passengers were hurt. . Cheatham pleaded guilty qf mur- | Ger and asked for life imprisonment, ' 'laining at the time that he pre- ¥ ferred that to risking a sentence of death at the hands of a jury. For- _ Mer Circuit Judge Kinsey, who sen- ;. Cheatham, later wrote to the ¥ On Board that in his opinion & Was nothing in the case that Ree. consideration of clemency, | *4 he suggested that if any action 78" thken: it should be based solely ee n Cheatham’s prison record. in ea AE ee eens + en a a ee ee ee es OS A: . . ey et iga irae i : BE ; inact ate Cee ee etn Se re hee « cegeeg eee er ad Sig PERE Ge SIT el aan ol og. Ss ated as es, howd © Highest yesterday, 65, at 5 p. m.. | fol- | lowed by show-| ers late tonight warmer tomor- | cloudiness | Ilhlinois—| showers; sligh€ly warmer in south | FOREST PARK GOLF PERMIT to play golf cn the municipal links | Such refusal is declared by | cen et LAA — eee ~ _ ———— —— er eemetent meee PLAN COMMITTEE REPORT BEFORE NEEDS COUNCIL Gaon FW for Issue of Total of $66,800,000 in Bonds Presented at Gen- | eral Session. fore- | St. | i } ‘OPINION DIVIDED ON MEMORIAL PLAN ACQUITTAL VERDICT ORDERED IN “THIRD DEGREE” TRIAL ‘Court Sustains Demurrer of Defense That State Failed ta Make Case Against Of- ficers. WITNESSES DECLARED | MAN WAS BRUISED ae | : “Majority Apparently in Favor|Charges Against Detective of Including Convention | Hall and Symphony Quar- ters in Structure. The General Council Civic Needs received the report of the | Plan and Scope Committee, recom- 'mending a $54,800,000 municipal 'bond issue and a $12,000,000. water bond at the |'Chamber of Commerce yesterday ‘afternoon. The report was published | in The “council adjourned, following an im- Promptt discussion of some of the ‘items, to-take up the full report aft- on } | } . issue, at a meeting } yesterday's Post-Dispatch. 1er the members have had opportu- | pity to consicer it. | E. J. Wallace, chairman of the committee, introduced E. J. Russell. |a member of the committee and | chairman of the City Plan Commis- sion, who read the report, which in- cluded recommendations for bond issue items for hospital and health purposes, general sanitation, play- grounds and recreation, major thor- oughfares, paving existing streets. elimination of grade crossings, and & memorial to St. Louisans who made the supreme sacrifice in the world war, and for a separate bond issue, to be covered by Water De- partment revenue, for the construc- Uon of a new waterworks plant. Sentiment on Memorial Plan. It was recommended that. the memorial should be kept free of utilitarian purposes, such as a con- vention hall. Apparently the ma- jority of the 50-odd members of the Suggestion, and a number of them spoke in favor of combining the memorial with a convention hall and quarters for the Symphony Orches- tra. Other Objects Under Consideration. Wallace explained that additional objects, reported as still under con- sideration, could not be discussed in detail yet, because the committee had not been supplied with full data about them. He made the following explanations of the delay: New fire engines and houses—Di- rector of Public Saféty McKelvey ap- parently has ignored a request to re- port what is needed. Convention hall—Secretary-Mana- ger Hatfield of the Convention. Pub- licity and Tourist Bureau has been away. Development of the river front— Probably will have to come out of money for parks. Municipal bridge—aA plan will be ready in a week or two, which. it is thought, will satisfy all groups inter- ested. Armory for the First Regiment— Legal matters have interfered. Municipal building for mechanical and power purposes—Committee has not received full details and wants figures from other persons than city officials. Lighting for other than major thoroughfares—Not satisfied with de- tailed information in hand, and other citles disagree on needs. New courthouse, grouping of pub- lic buildings and new city markets— No figures or proposed locations sub- mitted. Jail cells—Doubt whether these should be paid for by bond issue. Workhouse and fire alarm system —Needs have not been reported in detail. Opera house and symphony hall— Doubt that these should be com- bined. Timit on Bonded Indebtedness. The present limit on new bonded indebtedness nayable from city. rev- enue is $61,987,220. Should the bonds recommended yesterday, in the total of $54,800,000. be issued, there would remain a margin of $7.- 187.220 to cover the issuance of bonds for the aforementioned plans under consideration, unless the bulk of these plans is reduced by combi- nation with other projects. When Wallace had finished his statement, Mrs. Charles Stix declared that the present street lighting is bad and urged that provision be made to improve it. Veering to the subject of buildings, such as a Symphony Hall, she urged that something be done, because “many women whose husbands trave] stay in Chicago instead of St. Louis he- cause they don't want to be bored to death,” John H. Gundlach declared that no living soldier would object to the Continued on Page 2, Column 7. me ae Daily POST-DISPATCH alone approximately Equa council-present disapproved of this | NE Re and Two Others Brought by Man in Whose Home Kidnaped Boy Was Found. A verdict of acquittal was ordered today by Judge Hochdoerfer in the Court of Criminal Correction, after he had sustained a demurrer that no case had been made by the State to show that. Detective-Sergeant Wil- liam C. Murphy and Special Officers Richard Delaney and Edward Fierce of the Police Department had re- sorted to “third degree” methods to obtain a confession from Frank Palermo, 25 years old,--of-1424A Blair avenue, that he had participat- ed in the kidnaping last November of Vincent Castelli, 5, of 4551 La- clede avenue. The State’s case, as presented by Prosecuting Attorney Oakley, Was ruined by the testimony of one of its own witnesses; Special Officer Nicholas McVey, who, during the course of testimony yesterday, de- clared that Palermo made his al- leged confession of guilt in the Cas- telll case to him voluntarily, in the absence of the three officers on trial. Demurrer Upheld. Today Prosecuting Attorney Oak- ley veered from connecting the al- leged beatings of Palermo with the Castelli. case to an alleged attemp to obtain a confession in connection with the kidnaping of Dominic Di Franco, 7 years old, 5256A Wilson avenue, who was missing from his home at the same time as the Cas- telli boy. This. brought demurrer from John S, Leahy, attorney for the accused officers, and the Judge’s instructed verdict of acquital. The demurrer was made when the State had closed its case the testimony of Dr. John P. Stéin, 6557 Robin avenue, who declared that when he visited Palermo in the home of the latter’s parents on Dec. 1 he found him suffering with two blackened eyes, swollen jaws and discolorations and bruises .on breast, abdomen, armb, back. In the demurrer Attorney. Leahy declared that he did not blame ‘“‘so ardent a prosecutor as Oakley, who. when driven to extremity and feel- ing that his case was slipping, had with the dexterity of an acrobat shifted from the Castelli to the Di Franco boy.” - Sergeant to Be Tried. Both sides indicated that they were ready to proceed with the trial of Sergt. William Schmidt, accused sep- arately of connection with the beat- ing of Palermo, but Oakley said that he wanted to consider the disquali- fication of Judge Hochdoerfer to sit in the case. The Judge retorted that he would continue thé case until June 19 and that in the inter{m Oak- ley could take any course he saw fit, but that any witnesses brought ts testify to any prejudice on his part, would be subjected to vigorous ques- tioning. Six Witnesses Testified Yesterday Palermo Was Bruised. Six witnesses testified yesterday afternoon that they saw bruises on Palermo’s face when he was released from Centra] Police Station on bond, Dec. 1. Several of them testified that they had seen him at the time of his arrest and that his physical appearance was normal then. Pa- lermo, in his testimony, had stated that he was beaten by the detectives in an effort to make him admit hav- ing taken part in the kidnaping of Dominic di Franco. Willis H. Clark, an attorney rep- resenting Palermo in the kidnaping case, was subjected to a lengthy cross-examination after he had tes- tified that Palermo’s yes and face were swollen and discolored and that he walked with difficulty when he was released from the police station. “Didn't you ,udgel your brain to work out a defense for Palermo in the kidnaping charge?” Leahy asked him. “IT never cudgeled my brain.” the witness retorted. | “Well, you did try to divert public attention from the kidnaping case by charging these.officers with having used third degree methods, didn’t you?” “IT did not,” replied Clark. “When Ieaw Palermo’s conditionand heard his story I reported the facts to the Prosecuting Attorney and he made an investigation.” Clark refused legs and to answer several Continued on Page 2 Column a ° Leen ea that of the ee eR : ’ with | the | ee Daily Globe-Democrat xt — as et A A EN COS DANDELION NOT A FRUIT, HENCE IS ILLEGAL FOR WINE Conscientious Addicts of Herb’s Intoxicating Issue Draw Dry Ruling by Inquiries. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., May 17.—Dande- | lions are not fruit and herice cannot | be used legally in the manufacture | of wine for family use. Dandelion wine addicts with a con-| science are responsible for this rul- ing of Federal Prohibition Commis- | sioner Haynes made public today by | _Collector of Internal Revenué Fergu- | son. Constant inquiries by law abid- | ers, who feared dandelions might not be one of the fruit wine stocks per- | missible for householders to use on | permit, caused him to send the query, to Washington, said. 3,500,000 WORKING DAYS LOST IN MONTH THROUGH DISPUTES Labor Troubles in Great Britain in March Involved 280,000 Workers in Several Industries. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 17.—It is estimated | that 3,500,000 working days were lost in Great Britain in March owing | to labor disputes involving 280,000 | workers. The principal disputes be- ing in the engineering and _ ship- | building industries. Unemployment in March. though | still bad, showed a further slight im- | provement despite the adverse effect | of the engineering dispute, says the | Labor Gazette, which publishes the estimate above. Among industries showing provement were ‘iron, mining. pig iron manufacture, the building trades, the cotton and wool textile | Industries and the clothing trades. Changes in rates of wages reported as having taken effect in March re- sulted in a reduction of over £223.,- 000 in the weekly fulltime wages of about 1,350,000 workers, and an in- crease of £800 weekly in the wages of about 10,000 others. Coal miners in Yorkshire, North Staffordshire, | North Wales and Scotland sustained | reductions varying from under 2 per cent to over 8 per cent, the paper states. BREAKDOWN OF IRISH PEACE EFFORTS FORMALLY REPORTED im- | CHINESE LEGIT Collector Ferguson . ' By the Associated Press of the Chinese legation left Tokio ‘today without notifying the Foreign | | due to the failure of Pekin to sup- | | ply funds for Chinese students here | ‘ Northumberland, | and the refusal of Japanese banks | By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, May 17.—The peace | committee of the. Dail Eireann, | which has been trying to find a ba- sis for unity of the Irish factions, | formally reported to the Dail today a breakdown of the negotiations. The agenda for the Dail, as it re-| sumed sessions this afternoon, con- | tained a motion by Arthur Griffith, its president, declaring that the elections for Southern Ireland should be held June 16; and that nomina- tions for offices should be made pub- | lic by June 6. | The secretary of the Peace Com-'| mittee on the side favoring the trea- | ty read a long statement regarding'| the peace negotiations, saying they | were conducted on the basis of an| election with the candidates agreed | upon, the plan being to submit to the country a national panel of can- didates. The pro-treaty side finally offered to agree to a list on the pro- portion of six pro-treaty candidates to four anti-treaty members. Liam Mellowes, however, the sec- retary continued, objected to any- thing except arrangement of mem- bers in the existing proportions of the Dail membership and as far as possible the game members as now. On this the negotiations collapsed. $5,000,000 REFRIGERATOR CAR ORDER FOR MADISON PLANT American Refrigerator Transit Co. Wants 2000 Carriers by September to Handle Increasing Business. A contract for the building of 2000 refrigerator cars in the plant of the American Car & Foundry Co. at Madison, Ill., has been let by the American Refrigerator Transit Co. at a price of approximately $5,000,- 000. Delivery by September ts called for. The contract is regarded as an omen of returning business prosper- ity and was made. necessary, the re- frigerator transit company declares, because of increased offerings of fruits, vegetables, eggs and dairy products. FEDERAL “DRY” AGENT SLAIN AS HE BEGINS SEARCH OF GARAGE Officer Shot in Fusillade Fired From House, Houston (Tex.) . Police Report. Special to the Post-Dispatch. HOUSTON, Tex., May 17.—Fed- eral Prohibition Enforcement Agent J. W. Floyd was shot and killed to- day as he was about to search a garage in the rear of @ residence. The police said Floyd was killed by a fusillade fired from the house. eon Briggs was wounded in an exchange of shots with officers aft- er Floyd was shot down. He was held on a charge of murder. Earl Briggs, his brother, and Samuel R. Brock also were arrested. Three |'Government to warn the other enforcement agents were with Floyd when the shooting occurred. — _ _ —_—— Times Combined, and RUSSIANS FORMALLY _ ACCEPT HAGUE PLAN © PROPOSE CHANGES ee Nn STAFF SUDDENLY LEAVES TOKIO Stoppage of Money for Stu- dents and Refusal of Ad- vances by Japanese Banks Given as Cause. MUKDEN ISOLATED - __ UNDER CHANG’S RULE Fate of Manchuria and Parts of Mongolia, Controlled by Defeated Gereral, i Now. Important Issue. | | —T TOKIO, May 17.—The entire staff PRESIDENT INVITES STEEL MEN TO DINNER CONFERENCE TOMORROW. Large Number of Prominent Manufacturers Will Meet Ex- ecutive at White House. by the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, May 17. NVITATIONS have been issued ft a large number ef promi- nent steel manufacturers of the country to meet with Presi- dent Harding tomorrow at a din- ner conference, it was said today at the White House. DROPPED BOMBS ON MINERS AT $133 A DAY Aviator Testifies as to His Em- ployment in Logan March. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTOWN, W. Va., May 17. —~The State rested its case against William Blizzard on a charge of trea- son at 11:15 this morning. The defense at once moved to com- pel the State to elect upon what Office, declaring the departure was to make further advances on the ground of lack of security. Mukden, in Control of Chang's Forces, Virtually Isolated. By the Associated Press, PEKIN, May 17.—The fate of Manchuria and outér and inner Mongolia for the moment trans- cends all other issues in China be- cause of Gen. Chang Tso Lin’s de- fiance of the Pekin Government and his avowed intention of establishing an independent empire in_ those provinces. The presence of large bodies of Gen. Wu Pei-Fu’'s troops at Tang- shan, north of Tientsin, threatening the forces of Chang at Launchow, has’ virtually isolated Mukden, where it is declared Chang has as- sumed the role of an independent sovereign. Gen. Wu has urged Pekin foreign Powers not to have relations .with Chang, who he desires to prevent from obtaining any foreign aid or negotiating any concessions in Man- churia. ) The Pekin Government announces the ‘that it has not yet received notifi- cation of Chang Tso-Lin’s declara- tion of independence and the lega- tions are endeavoring to ascertain whether the proclamation was péer- sonally sanctioned by te Manchu- rian General. Copies of a declaration purported to have been signed by Chang, have been ‘received by the _Consuls at 7 Tientsin. The first paragraph of the decla- ration refers to President Hsu Shih- Chang’s mandate in dismissing (hang as Inspector-General of Man- churia and continues: “Hsu Shih- Chang requested me to give up the three Eastern provinces. These re- gions henceforth shall not be re- garded as part of the territory of th Chinese republic.” : Another provision is that Chang alone shall have power to make treaties for the regions named. Wang Chung-Hui, Minister of Jus- tice and a delegate to the Washing- ton conference, has been in confer- ence at Paotingfu with Wu Pel-Fu regarding plans for reductions in the Chineee army. Gen. Wu expressed faith in Pres- ident Hsu Shih-Chang' with his scheme to reduce, the forces from 1,500,000 to 250,000. WAGE INCREASE FOR LABORERS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 17.—The Lack- awanna Steel Co. today announced a wage increase of more than 10 per cent to common laborers. The increase from 23 to 26 cents an hour was not asked for by the workers. It was understood to ,have been made for the purpose of equal- izing wages with those paid by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, by which Lackawanna has been ab- sorbed. ° Rights in Hall of Fame. By the Associated Press. arate hall for famous women in the hall of fame of New York University is to be abandoned, according to Dr. nobert Underwood Johnson, direc- tor, and in future elections all dis- crimination as to sex will be abol- ished. ad Exceeds %. Daily A nt nt Sa rng ae a overt act by Blizzard it relied to | sustain a conviction. James M. Mason of defense coun- sel asked that since the question of treason was to be settled for the | first time in many vears no limit be ‘imposedwin time for argument. | Judge Woods, however, suggested | that twé hours for each side should ‘be sufficfént. Cc. J. Van Fleet of Charleston, ar- guing for the defendant, declared the wase was serious only in the name of the charge. He raised the question as to whether there could be treason against a State, which he said had not full sovereignty, could have no army or no énemy, under the Constitution. Arguments on Treason. Comparing English and American treason law, Van Fleet stressed the word “only” in American provision that treason should consist of levy- ing ‘war against the United States, adhering to its enemies and giving them aid and comfort. This might be stated, he said, as holding that none but principals in levying wer could be found guilty of treason. Aviators who made observation trips from Huntington and Logan under direction of the forces that held off proposed invasion of Logan County by armed marchers, and newspaper men who were. with the marchers, furnished the bulk of yesterday's testimony. W. F. Dennin of Logan, Earl Holloran of Hinton, and Horace Haines of Columbus, O%, were the observers who from the air kept the defenders apprised of the movements oftheir “enemy.” Waines testified that besides o»- servation duties, he dropped bombs on large bodies of men he found as- sembled, especially where there was firing. He was paid $400 for three days’ flying by the Logan Coal Op- erators' Association. The bombs would make a noise but not much shrapnel would. fly when they ex- ploded, because of the nature of their construction. | Keeney’s Alleged Speech Related. Speeches by Blizzard and District President C. Frank Keeney, of the Mine Workers, which, the prosecu- tion says, referred to the subse- quent attack on Logan County by armed miners, were told to the jury by Amos O. Stanley of Fairmont, today. Keeney called citizens who voted for Gov. Morgan “red handed murderers,’ Stanley testified, and said the Governor was “as red hand- ed a murderer aa any pirate who ever sailed the seas,”’ and gave no protection to men, women and, chil- dren who were being stood up be- fore box cars in Mingo County and shot. Five hundred men were un- der arms in Southern Weat Virginia and more were being armed, Keeney said, according to the witness, and they were going to organize Logan and Mingo Counties. PERJURY INDICTMENT AGAINST SENATOR CAMERON DISMISSED By the Associated Press. PHOFNIX, Ariz., May 17.—Fed- eral Judge Van Fleet today sus- tained the demurrer of United States Senator Ralph H. Cameron, Repub- Iican, of Arizona, to an indictment that acqused the Senator of perjury. The indictment was ordered dis- The indictment against the State's Fail- ure to list amounts totaling $26,300 was citea. missed. Se first Republican Senator grew out of | in Cameron's} THER PROTEST. AGAINST BARRING. GERMANY FROM PARLEY OVERRULED Lloyd George Tells Tchit- Meeting in London, Instead of Holland, Is ‘Not Prac. tical, Makes Clear Ger- mans Can’t Attend. : SCHANZER SAYS U. S. AID IS NECESSARY Would Like to Go to Wash- ington to Induce ials to Participate in Parley— By the Associated Press. . GENOA, May 17.—Russia has at- cepted the proposals of the Powers for the meeting at The Hague. to discuss the. in 8 cépting the Russians propOsed cer. tain modifications in the plan, which, will be discussed at a meeting dur-. ing the afternoon. : M. Tchitcherin, the Ruasian For- eign Minister, said he thought the frontier truce proposed should in- clude the allied soviet republics, de- claring he would take it im that sense. He desired to have the truce broadened, in order to include ag- gression by bands. Referring to the bands of Gen. Wrangle, former anti- bolsheviki leader in South Russia, now in the Balkans, he asked that they be removed to more distant countries. 4 Tchitcherin read a statement say- ing the appointment of commissions would perpetuate the Genoa method and lead to separate meetings, but he would accept the proposal to par- ticipate in the commisbion. He re- peated his protest against the exclu- sions of Germany, pointing out that the question pf credits, which was not covered by the treaty of Rapallo between Russia and Germany, would be discussed at The Hague. Tchitch- erin concluded by reserving the right to suggest certain amendments to : spoke, tions on the part of the various Gov- ernments. He made it clear that the conference would not comply with M. Techitcherin's request that Ger- many be admitted to The Hague meeting. The Premier urged Tchitch- that the’ meeting be held in London or Rome did not appeal to him as practical, he said. . After reflective consideration of the American note, many prominent delegates also felt it offered more hope than they at first belleved, and the way open for further negotia- tions. When the explanation was re- ceived that the note left the door open for further conversation, . a exclaimed: kg e's ¥ ~ = amie i te kg a oa neg. 4 an a oo bar - on Siberia. oi 7 naid that it was worded eo as to leave | | ton, tt wae announced this afternoon. In ac- $