Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 269, 21 September 1920 — Page 1

RIGHMOOT) FA AJDIUM VOL. XLV., NO. 269 rail ad I um. Est. 1831. Consolidated with Sun-Telegram, 1907. RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 21, 1920. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS

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BURN AN IRISH TOWN; REVENGE FOR MURDERS Troops Wreck Balbriggan in Retaliation for Death of Two Policemen Inhabitants in Terror.

M'SWINEY BEING FED? (By Associated Press) DUBLIN, Sept 21. Auxiliary police forces last night wrecked the town of Balbriggan, near here, in retaliation lor the shooting of two police officers earlier in the evening when district Inspector Burke was killed and his brother. Sergeant Burke, was seriously wounded Two civilians were shot dead and several persons wounded. Many houses were set on fire and the largest hosiery factory In Ireland, belonging to an English firm, was destroyed. This morning the town was in terror, and streams of refugees in all sorts of vehicles were abandoning th place for neighboring villages. Bent on Reprisals. Shortly, after midnight uniformed men appeared in the streets, evidently bent on reprisals for the shooting of the police officials. They Immediately proceeded to wreck the town. The public houses were entered and set on fire, as woll as numerous private homes whose occupants were given little time to dress before the buildings were burned. Many of the business houses including the big hosiery mills of Deedee, Templer & Co., were destroyed. The town is one of the centers of hosiery manufacture, and power loom weaving. LONDON, Sept. 21 Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork passed a very restless night at Brixton prison, where he entered, this morning, the 40th day of his hunger strike, according to a bulletin Issued by the Irish Self Determination league. He had some sleep, but it was quite fitful, and he was very weak this morning, the bulletin stated. Relatives Have Free Access When asked the direct question whether MacSwiney was being fed, a home office official said this morning: "Not that we know of, but you must remember his relatives have free access to him." This is the first time officials have qualified the statement that as far as the government's doctors- know the Lord Mayor is not receiving nourishment. The prison physician reported this morning that MacSwiney was considerably weaker than he was yesterday. rnon ddipcc Dcnimcn I UIIU I IIIULU IILUUULU TO PRE-WAR LEVELS DETROIT. Sept. 21. Establishment of pre-war prices on all Ford products, effective Immediately, was announced today by Henry Ford. The reduction amounted to 14 per cent for motor trucks and 31 per cent for small cars. Mr. Ford said: "Now is a time to call a halt on war methods, war prices, war profiteering and war greed. It may be necessary for everybody to stand a little sacrifice, but it will be most profitable after all, because the sooner we get the country back to a pre-war condition, progress and prosperity and contentment will occupy the attention of all. "For the best interests of all it is time that an effort was made to bring the business of the country back to normal. The reduction of prices was made, lie said, in spite of unfilled orders for 14G.000 vehicles. There will be no reduction of forces at any Ford plant. It was announced. Tolleston Bank Robber Goes On Trial for Life, Today (By Associated Pres;i VALPARAISO. Ind.. Sept. 21. The trial of Thomas Batchelor. one of four defendants accused of killing Herman Ucker, cashier of th? state bank ac Tolleston, when the Institution was robbed June 14, 1919, opened in tho circuit court here today. The day was given over to the examination of a special venire of 100 men summoned for prospective juryservice. It is believed three or four days will be taken up in the selection of a jury, due to the fact that the state is demanding the death penalty. The case was brought here from Lake county. BOLSHEVISM CUTS DOWN WORLD'S SUPPLY OF OIL (By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21. Bolshevism in Russia has curtailed the word's supply of oil, according to delegates to a conference of the petroleum section of the American Institute of mining and metallurgy which opened here today. A paper prepared by A. Beaty Thomson, a geologist of London, was read, in which the author declared Russia contained vast oil wealth, but development of it had been prevented by industrial conditions there. MARINES GUARD POLLS. SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Salvador, Sept. 21. United States marines guarded the polls in Nicaragua during the election which took place there Monday, according to a dispatch received here. I t BUBONIC PLAGUE IN FIUME? FIUME. Italy, Sept. 21. It is rum ored that four cases of bubonic plague have been discovered' in Fiume. The theaters have been closed and other local precautions taken.

Elmer Stephenson's Fatfier Dies Suddenly at His Home David M. Stephenson. Sr., 63 years old, died of heart trouble at 8:45 p. m., Monday, at his home, 414 North Sixteenth street. He was born in Indiana in 1857, and has been a resident of Richmond for a number of years. Mr. Stephenson was the father of Elmer Stephenson, Richmond policeman, who was killed several years ago at the Pennsylvania freight station, while endeavoring to capture thieves. Surviving Is his widow, one daughter, Mrs. Millard Haxton, and four sons, Everett, Lawrence, David, Jr., and BeckWith, all of this city. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

QUIET PREVAILS IN CHICAGO YARDS AFTER NEGROES SLAY WHITE (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Sept. 21. Quiet prevailed this morning In the stock yards districts on the South Side, where last night one white man was killed by three negroes, followed by disturbances which were quelled by the police with the assistance of a priest In whose church the negroes took refuge. Chief of Police Garrity established "dead-lines" in the district and reported that the situation was under control today. The disturbance which ended when the police hurried the negroes from the church while Father Thomas M. Burke was talking to the crowd, was followed by minor outbreaks in which Frank Gavin, white, and several others, both negroes and whites, were reported wounded and injured. The man killed was Thomas E. Barrett, an .employe of the Chicago surface lines,, who the police said, had been arrested several times on charges of assaulting colored men. According to the police the trouble started when Barrett began abusing the negroes threatening one of them. One negro is said then to have drawn a razor, almost severing Barrett's head at one stroke. Sanctuary on Lips One small priest, with a smile and the word "sanctuary" on his lips, did more than squads of police in preventing the threatened lynching. He is Father Thomas Burke, pastor of St. Gabriel's church, in the stockyards neighborhood. When Father Burke reached the church a mob estimated to number nearly 5,000 was packed about the doors and hundreds more had already entered in the search for the neeroes. j Forcing his way in, the priest shout ed: What is this sacrilege! Who are the-TCTwdleTr that storm the house of God?" Crowd Files Out Quietly Some one explained, "That makes no difference." The priest cried: "This place is a sanctuary. I order every person in this building to leave immediately and quietly." The crowd broke and fled. The last man had fled when a police riot squad arrived. Taking -the police inside, Father Burke called to the hidden negroes to come out. FRIENDS MAY START SCHOOL FOR WORKERS Establishment of a Friends school to provide for the training of pastors, missionaries, evangelists, bible school teachers, social workers and secretaries, was favorably considered at the meeting of the executive committee of the Friends Foreign Mission board of the Fixe Year3 meeting, held in the South Eighth Street Friends church, Tuesday. The matter was referred to the executive committee of the Five Years meeting, which Is to meet following the Forward Movement conference, which ends Friday. The recommendation that such a school be established was signed by 12 prominent Friends, who while on their way to the all Friends world conference, held in London, in August, met and agreed that such an Institution should be operated for the above given purpose. The communication was signed by Murray S. Kenworthy, Elbert Russell, Lindley M. Binford, D. H. Michem, Ellison R. Purdy. Clarence E. Pickett. ! Thomas A. Svkes. Sylvester Jones, Ancil E. Ratliff. William J. Ratliff, William J. Sayres, Chester Reagan and Asa F. Sutton. A vote of appreciation for the services of Miss Lova Mansfield, who re- ! signed from the board about two months ago, was unanimous. Those I attending were George H. Moore, ! Charles Woodman, Bell C. Bailey, I Herbert Hoffman. Ross A. Hadlejr, ! Lucy Hill, Binford and Charles E. Tebbetts. Nathan Andrews, Wallace Kemp and Dr. and Mrs. Blackburn. WANTED: A CAR FOR G. A .R, ENJOYMENT Wanted: A volunteer to help Grand Army men of Richmond enjoy what may be the last encampment some of them may ever see. Several Civil war veterans have signified that they would like to spend Wednesday in Indianapolis attending the general encampment. They would like to o over in automobiles, spend the day and return at night. Anyone who wishes to donate his car and a driver for the day is requested to call The Palladium, 2834, before 8 p. m. tonight and volunteer. SAN REMO IS WRECK KINGSTON. Jamaica, Sept. 20. It is believed possible that the steamer San Remo, which went aground off Macoris, Santo Domingo, Sept. 1, will be a total wreck. Members of the crew of the stranded vessel have arrived here.

JOHNSON ON TRIAL TODAY FOR ALLEGED SUGAR THEFT HERE

Clarence Johnson was placed on trial in Wayne circuit court Tuesday on a charge of grand larceny. It was the first Jury trial In circuit court since last spring. Johnson Is charged with having stolen 2,500 pounds of granulated sugar from the C. D. Kenny company, a Richmond jobbing concern, where he was employed as a truck driver. He entered a plea of not guilty to the charge when arraigned several days ago. Values Sugar at $550. Dwight Smith, manager of the Kenny company, testified that he had no knowledge that the missing sugar was taken by Johnson. He fixed a value of $550 on the sugar wl ich Is alleged to have been stolen, basing this valuation on the purchase price of $22.40 per hundred pounds. He admitted that the wholesale price of sugar on the day the theft is alleged to have taken place. Sept. 7, was $16.50. Smith testified that Johnson had keys to the warehouse of the concern mil to the garage, located in the rear of the Kenny building. He stated that the store closed every day at 5 p. m. The theft is alleged to have occured some time after C p. m. Required Daily Invoice. Smith stated that he required a dailv invoice of the sugar stock. He said' that on September 6 there were 250,000 pounds of granulated sugar in stock and that the following afternoon the invoice revealed a shortage of 2,500 pounds which could not be accounted for by sales.. Two city firemen. Assistant Chief Carter, and Harry Miller, stationed at the hose house at North Eighth and D streets, near the Kenny store, stated that they saw the Kenny truck on I North Eighth street Detween t:au anu 7 p. m., on the evening of Sept ' 7. Carter said he did not see anyone in the truck. Miller made the same statement. Both testified they had not seen the truck driven away. Miller said that he saw tops of sacks in the truck but did not know what the sacks contained. Smith Cross-Examined. When Smith was cross-examined by the attorney for Johnson he admitted that on the evening of the day before the theft of the sugar is alleged to have occurred a policeman had discovered the south door of the Kenny stock room open. That was a holiday. Labor Day, and he said Johnson had not worked. Smith entered a denial when asked if It were not true that in July there had been a shortage of four sacks or j sugar, 400 pounds, and that he had I i procured four empty sacks and had j ! partially filled them up for the purI pose of reporting to his superiors that he had the required number or sacks of sugar in stock. COLBY DEFENDS U. S. POLICIES IN HAITI (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. The United States "hopes" to bring its occupation of Haiti to an end as soon as the "benevolent pudposes" for which this government intervened have been fully achieved. Secretary Colby declared in a statement published today, defending .the administration's Haitian policy, recently attacked by Senator Harding, Republican presidential nominee. The work which the United States undertook in Haiti under treaty agreements with the native government, the secretary added, already is "nearing completion." Asserting that as a result of Amerl can occupation Haitian revenues were "greatly improved," and there had been notable progress in road construction and other development. Secretary Colby declared that "with the exception of a few centers of selfish and interested agitation, credit and gratitude are freely expressed to this government from every quarter it. Haiti. "The course of this country In Haiti," the secretary added, "has been moderate and dictated only by the desire, to meet its duties and not in any degree to go beyond them. Had less been done, this country would have been guilty of a dereliction ot duty and might have been exposed to sound criticism." Colby Turns Down Anti Plea WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. Secretary of State Colby has refused li grant the request of anti-suffragists that he rescind his action in proclaiminc ratification of the federal suffrage i amendment, on the basis of a favor able action of the Tennessee legislature on the amendment. Weather Forecast For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; somewhat warmer northeast portion tonight. Temperatures Yesterday Maximum , 80 Minimum 53 Today Noon ' 83 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair Tuesday night and probably Wednesday: continued warm. General Conditions Generally fair and warm weather still predominates the weather conditions east of the Rockies, excepting over the lake region, where it is quite cool. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., reports a " maximum; temperature of 52, while it is 80 to 90 1

over the Dakotas and plain states. The low barometric pressure area over the Carribean Sea has developed into a West India hurricane of great severity. This hurricane passed Yucatan Monday night moving northwest and will probably reach the gulf coast within the next 24 hours if not sooner. A storm of considerable energy also covers the far northwest; its centojr being over western Canada and extending northward to Alaska. There is no cold weather in sight for this section for the next 36 hours or longer. v

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EVERYBODY WANTS ARMISTICE PICNIC; 'LET'S GO,' SPIRIT Unanimous sentiment In favor of an elaborate Armistice Day celebration, was expressed at a meeting of representatives of virtually all organizations of the city, held last night In ihe American Legion rooms, in the K. of P. Temple, at the call of the Central Labor Council and American Legion. A community wide celebration in which every one could enter heartily was the expressed desire of the meeting. The celebration is planned in honor of the signing of the Armistice, and also Pilgrim's Day. Frank Irwin, President of the Central Labor Council was in the chair and conducted the informal meeting. He called for expressions of opinions from representatives of the organizations present and all of them were favorable to the plans. Harrison Outlines Plan Lucius Harrison, outlined the plans that had already been made and made a strong appeal for a patriotic cele elation. He stated that plans were on foot to feature in the parade events that stand out conspicuously in American history- He spoke particularly of the landing of the pilgrims, the Revolutionary War, Civil War, SpanishAmerican War, and the World War. He further outlined the industrial part of the parade which would include representatives from manufacturing concerns of the city, business houses and several labor unions. Rev. C. Raymond Isley and Harry J. Sarkiss, from the Ministerial Association, urged on the meeting that the celebration be one above reproach and commensurate with the ideals of citizenship and patriotism held by the leading organizations. They promised the support of their organization if such were the case. Memebership Body Named A committee on membership waa appointed to urge all the organization? of the city, who were not present at the meeting last night, to be present next Monday night. This consisted of the Rev. C. R. Isley, Mr. Bills, Dr. Hunt, G. Copeland and Verne Pentecost. A permanent organization will be effected at the meeting in the K. of P. Temple, at next Monday evening. HARD COAL MEN ARE SLOWLY GOING BACK TO WORK IN MINES (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Sept. 21. Officials of the Reading Coal and Iron company announced today tha reports showed that 37 of its collieries and washeries in the Schuylkill and Shamokin districts were in full opersi tion today. These reports, it wa.? further announced, showed four of the company's collieries in the Shamokin field were still idle, due to the failure of mine workers to return. Practically all mines in the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company remained idle today due to the failure of the' miners to obey the proclamation issued by their policy committee. Monthly workers have been notified by the company that they can not make application for work until the miners have returned and the collieries are in operation. State troopers continue to guard the streets of Shenandoah, and Shamokin but there was no disorder. Normal Operation Reported. Normal operation was reported by coal companies in the Wyoming-Lack awanna district, with the exception of the Pennsylvania Coal company collieries, where a strike against the "contractor" system has been in ef feet. The strike was settled last night, the men voting to return to work today. The mine workers agreed to ac cept a proposition of the company that their grievances be submitted to the state bureau of mediation and arbitra tion for adjustment. Practically all mines in the Hazelton district are operating although most of the collieries were short-handed. ERWIN BERGDOLL'S ESCAPE TOLD AT MOTHER'S TRIAL PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21. Twenty-four hours after Grover C. Bergdoll, convicted draft evader, was captured here last January, his brother, Erwin, slipped t,hrough the government net and escaped, according to the testimony of F. L. Credon, a friend of the Bergdoll's, at the trial today of Mrs. Emma Bergdoll, their mother, in the federal court. "PRESS AGENT" PEST LOS ANGELES. Sept. 21 The press agent is a pest, and ought to be eradicated. That was the substance of a paper read to the Southern California Editorial association today by E. O. Wickizer, of Passadena, who advocated a central bureau for southern California newspapers to pass on free publicity.

Bomb Hurled; Anarchist

:: : : ' xv: A few of the broken pieces of window weights, showing their size In comparison with a man's hand, and reproduction of the anarchists' circular. Officials tracking down the perpetrators of the Wall street bomb outrage are trying to learn where the window weights used in the bomb were purchased. These weights were CITY TO TAKE HALF HOLIDAY IN HONOR OF EARLHAM, SEPT. 23 One hundred per cent success was the report of the Klwanis-Rotary club committee that visited the business houses Monday to obtain their signature to the Thursday half holiday petition, in order that the firms and employees might take part in the big Earlham day festivities that are to be beld that afternoon. Seventy-five floats from business houses on Main street between Seventh and Ninth Street have been promised the parade committee. Schools of the city will also be given a half holiday it was announced and a place for them in the line of march will be provided. This was decided at a meeting of the school board Monday afternoon. Representatives from all parts of Wayne county have been urged by the committee in charge to make arrangements to participate in the big day's activities. Those in charge stated Tuesday that they were desirous that the affair assume county wide significance and that representatives from every town and township in the county be present in the parade. Earlham Gets Full Day President Edwards announced in chapel at Earlham that the college would be given a full day's holiday in order that they might better prepare for the parade and afternoon's "fun and frolic". Earlham is said to be j making great arrangements for their section of the parade Stunts for the ball game are Increasing with each day and many predict that the amateur and professional amusements furnished will be the best ever seen in Richmond. It is the plan to make everybody have a good time in a "good old fashioned way". ' Factories to Have Floats Factories of the city state that they will be unable to close because of pressing orders at the present time. However, practically all of them will f have floats in the line. Stores having signed up to close thus far are: George Fox, Beckman & Krei(Continued on Page Ten) MINER'S HEAD SAYS LABOR'S FOR HARDING (By Associated Press) MARION, O., Sept. 21. W. J. James of Illinois, national representative of the United Mine Workers for Illinois, today discussed labor and political conditions with Senator Harding, Republican presidential candidate. After the conference Mr. James issued a statement in which he said: "Being a Republican, I am for the Republican party and the HardingCoolidge ticket. I find that miners who are Republicans and going to support Harding, and those who are Democrats will support Cox. President Gomper's effort to deliver the labor vote to the Democratic ticket will fall just as it always has failed. Percy Tetlow, statistician of the United Mine Workers of America, is out for Harding, and will shortly be on the stump for him. John Moore, recently president of the United Mine Workers of Ohio, is likewise vigorously supporting the Republican ticket. The Democratic effort to control the labor vote, and particularly the miners, has resulted in a failure because the workingmen have studied the records of the two candidates and the two parties, and the Republican candidates and program have made such an appeal that the Democratic propaganda has failed completely." Late today Senator Harding will address a delegation of the Loyal Order of the Golden Heart of the World from Columbus. Mrs. Harding has received a telegram from women members of the California delegation which recently visited Marion, asserting that they "have been thrilled and inspired by their visit with you and Senator Harding."

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broken up before being put in the infernal machine. These murderous chunks of iron killed and maimed scores and chipped pieces out of the walls of buildings. The circular shown above is one of those dropped into a mail box four blocks from the scene of the explosion. It is the same type as the ones found by officials after the May day riots. GRAY AND BENT, BUT FULL OF 'PEP'. BOYS OF 1861 AT CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 21. Old friendships were renewed and stories of the days when they battled for the Union to be recounted as the principal activities today of the 1920 encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which formally opened here yesterday. Eighty regimental brigade reunions were set for today and tonight the annual campflre will be held. The national council of administration of the organization was to meet this morning but the business sessions of the encampment will not be held until Thurday morning. Organizations Hold Meetings. The various organizations affiliated with the G. A. R. were to open their meetings today. The annual sessions of the National Association of Naval Veteran, 1861-64 Sons of Veterans, Ladies of the G. A. R., the Woman's Relief Corps. Daughters of Veterans, Sons of Veterans Auxiliary, and the Union Ex Prisoners of War, are being held in conjunction with the encampment. The veterans and the affiliated organizations were formally welcomed to the city and state at a meeting last night Mayor Charles W. Jewett, Governor James P. Goodrich, and Judge Robert W. McBride, commander of the department of Indiana, delivered addresses of welcome. Daniel M. Hall, of Columbus, O., national commander of the G. A. R., responded for that organization. The organization at the business session Thursday will be asked to increase the per unit tax from 34 cents, at which figure it has been for 20 years, to 16 cents a year. It was stated by members of the national council of administration that the dwindling membership makes the move necessary. Draw on Funds for First Time For the first time in the history of the organization it was necessary this year to draw on the fund to pay a portion of the expenses of the encampment, it was announced. The membership of 294,000 in 1890 has dwindled to 105,200, Commander Hall said. Among the notables attending the encampment are Dr. Robert T. Harding, of Marion, O., father of Senator Harding, Republican presidential nominee; former Congressman Washington Gardner, of Albion, Mich., a former commander in chief; former Governor Joseph K. Fifer, of Illinois, and Lieutenant-Governor F. A. Harrows, of Nebraska. "The Old Guard of Ohio," its memDers ranging from 75 to 90 years of age, attracted cnsiderable attention last night as, with Springfield rifles shouldered according to the manual of arms of the sixties, It marched to its headquarters. The Veterans' Headquarters Drum corps of Milwaukee also was the subject of much attention. ANTI-ALCOHOLISTS MEET IN CONCLAVE WASHINGTON. Sept. 21 Delegates from various parts of the world were In attendance today at the opening sessions here of the fifteenth international congress against alcoholism. Speakers from 15 foreign countries in addition to a number from the U. S. are on the program whicji calls for day and night conferences through Sunday. The effect of alcohol on the brain, lervous system and health generally and its relation to crime and heredity were discussed at the first day sessions which were held in the PanAmerican union building. A pageant will be staged tonight on the east steps of the capital, illustrating the progress of the prohibition movement in the U. S. It will be followed by a reception to delegates.

PLOT AGAINST N. Y. CUSTOM HOUSE FAILS Crowd Which Gathers To See Big Structure Blown Up Disappointed as Warned-of Hour Passes. FOLLOW BOMB THEORY (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. Sept. 21 The New York custom house was still standing at 2 p. m. today, the hour when officials were warned they might expect to see it blown sky-high. The minutes ticked off one by one without bringing traces of a single bomb or a single terrorist, and if they had been there they would have been seen, for Bowling Green park was filled with a curious crowd and the building itself was heavily guarded by custom Inspectors, agents of the department of justice, policemen in uniform and policemen in plain clothes. The warning of today's "explosion", following on the heels of the disaster in Wall street last Thursday, caused anxiety among workers in lower broadway, and resulted in authorities taking unusual precautions, notwithstanding their expressed belief that the warning contained on a postcard was nothing more than an alleged practical joke or the work of some demented person. Brooklyn Museum Guarded Police were stationed about the Brooklyn Museum of arts and sciences today as a result of a threatening note which was posted on the bulletin board of the institution yesterday. The note, printed with rubber stamps, similar to those found in a mail box near the 6cene of the Wall street explosion, read: "Warning Look out for vnnreoif

It was signed in pencil "Russian Reds". ine note is believed by the police to have been directed to the attention of the trustees of the museum, all of whom are prominent. Shortly after noon all women employes and all men were sent home fro mthe custom-house. About this time special details arrived from police headquarters to reinforce customs Inspectors. No excitement was discernible. Solution Far Away. Police authorities today were ad mittedly as far as ever from a solution of the mystery surrounding the explosion that spread death and destruction in Wall street last Thursday. Clues at first apparently promising have not developed and today virtually the only trail being followed was that supplied by Samuel B. Wellington, president of the West Indies trading company who told newspaper men he remembered seeing three suspicious looking men hastening from in fron of the United States assay office a moment before the detonation knocked him unconscious. Wellington was asked to repeat his story, to the police and to Chief Wi'liam J. Flynn of the department of justice agents investigating the explosion, as well as the September grand jury. Saw Wagon for an Hour. Investigators have not entirely given up the pursuit of the story of Joseph Meade, of the society for the prevention of cruely to animals, that he had seen the "death wagon" standing for more than an hour before the ex plosion in front of the assay office. The importance they attach to hid story lies in the hope that through It they may be able to identify the driver of the wagon, and this may lead to the discovery of the person or persons responsible for the plot. Hope of development from questioning Kewin P. Fischer, lawyer, and former employe of the French high commission, and Alexander Rrailovsky, Russian Journalist, went glimmer ing witn ine commitment or the tormer to psychopathic observation In Bellevue hospital and the unconditional release of the latter after authorities had satisfied themselves that he had nothing to do with the tragedy. Insane Story Convinces. The incoherent and eccentric story of Fischer, who sent postcard warnings, which he said he "received from the air," to friends here, convinced the government agents of his innocence. Brailovsky, who was detained on the technical charge of being an undesirable alien, was released because there was no evidence to warrant prosecution. ANTI-SOVIET CAVALRY WINS STRONG HOLDS (By Associated Press) CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 21. General Wrangel's latest cavalry drive against the Bolshevik! in South Russia has won him valuable strategic positions on the railway and resulted in the capture of more than 2,000 prisoners and quantities of supplies, it is reported in advices from the Crimea. The Southern Russian cavalry, by a sudden dash, surprised the Bolsheviki and captured the railway Junction of Petropavlovak, with sections of the line In either direction as well as the town of Oriakhoff. The Wrangel forces now are menacing Alexandrovsk on the Dnieper, about 90 miles inland from the Sea of Azov. The Japanese government has an observer at Sebastopol, General Wrangel's headquarters. CARPENTERS AND JOINERS HEAR REPORTS IN SESSION INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 21. Today's resslon of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, meeting here in national convention, was given over to a meeting of th committee on credentials. About 750 delegates were seated. Reports of - oc-T-p-nry cf the general board were heard this afternoon. '