Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1922 — Page 1

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ENGLISH FIELD 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 lieutenant 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—British soldiers and police and regulars of the Irish republican army .

LONDON, June 22—Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson was shot dead here today 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 extremists were responsible for the assassination. After shooting Sir Henry, the two assassins ran through the streets, pursued by police who constantly guard Eaton Square, where many of the most prominent 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 cabinet 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 literally riddled with bullets.” It was feared the assassination of Sir Henry may be part of a general plot against military leaders sympathetic towards 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 Neville Macßeady, who was not unpopular, depsite his position. Wilson, however, was bitterly iated by Republicans. When arrested, one of Wilson’s assassins attempted to commit suicide, shooting himself with his revolver. He was seriously wounded and taken to the bospltal. **' * 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 afternoon 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 responsible for sending troops to Ireland during 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 reeogittlon, 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 Plymouth Congregational Church, conducted a service over* the body of Mrs. Koon. Fifteen minutes later a Christian Scientist 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.

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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

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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 proposed to the national prohibition amendment and then voted against the resolution.’’ ASHER SAYS KLAN RULES OFFICIALS Motion for Retrial Sensational in Allegations. 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 Rymnn, assistant T'nlted States district uttormy, 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 acquainted 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 “illegally shielded thugs and assassins.” In affidavits attached to Asher's petition 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 Federal 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 angered because I assisted in bis prosecution at one time,” Mr. Rynian said. “1 am not a member of the Ku-Klux Klan. and do not know that such an organization exists in Muncie. If It does 1 presume it is conducted in a lawful manner, 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 assistant 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 enforcement 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 witness.

SEARCHING FOR 2 ‘LOVE NESTS’ Additional Disclosures of Suspect 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 children at Palm Beach, was today the feature of developments, in the case that culminated 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 indiscretions 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 today. 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.—Richard R. Yancey, 67, editor of the Nashville Banner, died at his home here today following an illness of several months. He was stricken with influenza, which was followed by a heart affection.

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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, represented by dedegates here, awaits the outcome. The representatives of the powers profess 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 internal strife, which reaches a crisis, as the date set for conferences with European powers approaches. If Lenin wins and sends moderate delegates to The Netherlands capital. Russia may make peace with the world, and resume relations that will render the extremists impotent 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 meeting 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 Calcutta. 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 devotion to cause of the people in India, saying his Industrial standards arc high. Most of the reports were routine, paving 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 Philippines 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 meeting. 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.—Estate of the late Benjamin Bosse was appraised at $966,167.11 in papers filed today 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 Township, in the Shelby County Circuit Court. Cruel treatment is alleged. The complaint 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.

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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 assistance 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 central 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 President Harding today to a special mission headed by Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate, which came to Washington to demand "immediate, complete and absolute” independence.

BLAST HOMES OF MINERS WHO REFUSE STRIKE Bombs Wreck Two Houses of Uniontown Coal Diggers. UNIONTOWN, Pa. Juno 22.—Dynamiting of homes of coal miners who refuse 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, considerable damage resulting. No one was hurt in either explosion. MATCH PLANT BLAST CAUSE OF 1 FATALITY Diamond Factory Disaster Results 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 Company at Barberton, near here, early reports today said. FORMER STEEL TRUST OFFICER IN FRAUD CASE NEW YORK, June 22. —Six men. including Henry Bopo, former vlee president 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 Refining Company, now bankrupt, out of approximately SOOO, IKK). Paper Firm Officer Dies From Apoplexy FT. WAYNE, Ind., June 22.—Stricken at Ids office yesterday afternoon, Patrick Griffin, 52, secretary and general manager of the Corrugated Paper Company, 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, prominent clubwomen said today. Instead of saving money on playground operation, expenditure of more to keep pace with the growth of the city and the increasing danger to child life from street accidents is justified, most of the women agreed. The board of directors of the Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations of the Indianapolis Public Schools was to const! r the matter and adopt resolutions 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 Expresses 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 elected against thirty-three coalitionists opposed to the treaty, while only six extremists won seats in the constituent assembly. De Valera, in a manifesto, declared the people of southern Ireland only supported 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 committee 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 making other olnecs for women in tho party organization. It also had under consideration 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 populated 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 recreation department treasury at the end of 1022. There should be more and more playgrounds, no matter how meagerly

‘G. 0. P. ROAD BODY PASSES ALL RECORDS’ Ralston Tells Democrat 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 Democratic Editorial Association. The Republican State platform holds no assurance 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 Indiana 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 reduction in tax rates. There Is no question In government that so vitally concerns the people as does that of taxation, and certainly there Is today no other question in Indiana over which the people are so aroused, and yet the Republican platform promises no relief. "It Is now costing the taxpayers of Indiana at least two times as much to run this State government ns it did under the (Continued on Page Two.)

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 hearing 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 Championship Match. SANDWICH. England. June 22.—Walter Hagen with a scone of 149 for tho thirtysix 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 second 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 Senator Watson. Democrat of Georgia, appealed to Vice President Cooildge to call them to order. Open hostilities were averted when the vice president compelled 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 important factor in keeping children out of the streets properly directed playgrounds are of tremendous value in the training of little minds, she said. MINDS OF CHir.DKEN' NEED CULTIVATION. ] “To grow properly, the minds of children as well as adults must be employed at something helpful,” Mrs. Arti man said. “Good recreation and helpful : exercise meet the requirements for children. It Is sameness and idleness that j wear out childish minds.’’ Minds are like gardens, said Mrs. Artman. Left to deveiope themselves the j weeds drive the useful plants and beau(Continued on Page Five.)

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TWENTY-FOUR WORKERS DIE IN MINE WAR Slain During* Illinois Uprising When Strikebreakers Are Captured by Union Sympathizers, 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 dthemselves 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 mining communities in the county. Most of the bodies were taken to Herrin. 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., according to word received here.

tween Carterville and May, Illinois, near the mine. Six others known to have been in company 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 unaccounted for early today. Heavy firing and reports of loud explosions 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 Wednesday afternoon, was precipitated by receipt of a message from John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, declaring that workmen, who are members 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 injured. Others in the party escaped through a fusillade of shots by swimming a creek. One man who escaped injury reported the attacking band numbered 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 withdrawn 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 notice, 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 proposed 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 operators 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.

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UP TO STATE WASHINGTON, June 22.—The Government will take no steps to intervene In the strike troubles In Illinois, Attorney General Daugherty said today. The situation, Daugherty said, can be coped with by State authorities.

orders issued to the company commanders, 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, international president, is quoting as referring to men operating Illinois mines as “common 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 public 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 dispatch 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.

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I.OGANSPORT, Ind., June 22. A committee representing destitute coal miners In Indiana, is soliciting funds In this city. A committee, accompanied 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 Indorsement 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 Governor 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 contentment that indicated perfect, even If temporary; foot comfort. C. L. I>. saw a man on East Washington 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 display window for a mirror and powdering 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 success, the man got out and twisted it himself until he got an answering spark. ,T. A. R. saw a man at Euclid avenue and Michigan street industriously cranking 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.

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