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Palladium. With fcun - 1(0 KLUX USED BLACK MASKS, SAYS WITNESS Member Admits Raids at Night (Hy Associated Press) BASTROP, La., Jan. S. J. T. North worthy, who declared himself a charter member of the Morehouse parish or ganization of the Ku Klux Klan, asserted on the witness stand at the open Rearing today of the masked band dep redations in Morehouse that the black mask was used by members of the Morehouse Klan when they went on iuaurauding raids at night. When the Klan went out on raiding trips they wore black masks, but when they met in the lodge rooms they wore the while ones," Northworthy told At torney-General Coco, who was conduct ing the examination. ' Who w as the leader of the klan, the grand cyclops, or whatever they called him? asked Mr. Coco. "Captain Skipwith; we called him

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president. He was the king of this community of this parish." His word was final, was it not?" asked the attorney-general. "Yes, sir." "What was the result of all this raiding? Was the parish being controlled by a super-government?" Caused Trouble. "It caused all kinds of trouble. The people were all torn up. It was not what we called invisible government, but it sure was a change in government. As a matter of fact, Capt. Skipwith told us that if the grand jury, which was in session, failed to bring abount indictments, we would, (meaning the klan). After I got out of the klan they sent me with a bunch of men to the Arkansas line. I had orders to flog these men and tell them to cross the line and stay across. "They did not know you had quit them?" "I reckon not." As to the inner workings of the klan, the witness claimed he was made a captain by Skipwitn and "Dr. McKoin was likewise honored." but that Dr. McKoin was "my assistant." - "Why did you quit the klan? Was it because they wore black masks?" "Yes sir, but I did not like any part of it." " Warnings Received J. L. Daniel, father of Watt Daniel, hooded band victim, testified at the open hearing today into hooded band depredations in Morehouse parish, that he had learned that subsequent to the kidnapping of his son and Thomas Richards, whose mutilated bodies were found in Lake LaFourche, that four Mer Rouge citizens had been warned that they "would have to leave the ommunity" or "they would be killed." Daniel Faid the information was ;iven him by Joe Davenport, another Mer Rouge citizen. Davenport. Dan iel said, told him he had received such word over the telephone. Daniel said Davenport declared he had been told by "Capt. Skipwith" that the men "would have to get away." Capt. J. K. Skipwith, of Bastrop, is the exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan organization in Morehouse parish. Daniel, Saturday told of being taken into the woods and lashed with a leather strap by the same band which kidnapped his son and Richards. Sought Information. Daniel was called to testify after two pathologists, Dr. Charles Duval, aud Dr. John Ianford, had declared that their examination of the headless and mutilated bodies of the men showed they had been tortured before they were killed and thrown into lake LaFourche near here, and another victim of the masked band, W. C. Andrews, had told of being flogged. The purpose of the beating accordlne to the witnesses was to obtain information as to an alleged attempt to assassinate Dr. B. M. McKoin, form - r mayor of Mer Rouge. C. C. "Tot" Davenport, another of the nifn kidnapped with Watt Daniel and Richards was on the list ot prospective witnesses today. Others were men who were in the car with tho younger Daniel when it was slopped by the laiders, and Thelma Dado, granddaughter of .1. L. Daniel and daughter of Mayor Dade of Mer Rouge. Crowds Gather Early. ' Crowds bes-'an gathering early for today's session. As on previous days of the hearing sheriffs deputies were stationed about t'ne corridors of the building ami speftatois were searched lor weapons before passing to the courtroom floor. State troops sent into Morehouse parish 1o act in conjunction with civil officials in any emergency continued td maintain the role of by-standers. Since court recessed Saturday approxi-j mately half of the 2n0 troops sent here.! have been relieved and returned to! their homes in Monroe and Alexandria.! A troops ot cavalry liom Jennings and a machine gun detachment from New Orleans are being tetained here and at Mer Rouge, the headquarters of justice investigators assigned to assembled evidence. MINE UNION OFFICER IS ON TRIAL IN OHIO , rAV.V sm. ui-unstiuiit,, wiiii.. Kin. j. Trial or nooert farmer, vice presiuemi

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scheduled to begin today Farmer in charged-with first degree murder in connection with the killing of John I. Major, strip miner, in the New Lafferty riot last June. Dominick Veuturato, one of two miners already convicted in connection with the riot, is to be brought from the penitentiary to testify for the state. rerrv Tetlow. former state industrial relations director, is a character witness for Farmer.

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INVASION BY FRANCE VIOLATION OF TREATY, SAY GERMAN LEADERS (By Associated Tress) BERLIN, Jan. 9. Baron Von Rosenberg, the foreign minister, declared today that if France carried out her invasion plans, a gross violation of the peace treaty would be committed. In the first place, he said in a statement to the press, the decision of the reparations commission, regarding deliveries of coal and timber would not justify the taking of any step against Germany except those stipulated in the allied note of March 21 last. In the second place,, he declared, the peace treaty did not. allow any penalties of a territorial character even if any default on the part of Germany should?. be established. Sees Breach of Treaty. "Force remains force whatever its guise." This declaration was made today by Wilhelm Cuno, the Chancellor in connection with the reported intention of France to extend her military occupation into the Ruhr region of Germany. The Chancellor added that Germany would regard the application of arbitrary torce as a breach of the Versailles peace treaty and as "the use of might against a defenseless people." The German government for the time being, is wholly stressing the leg al aspects of France's attitude as based on her treaty prerogatives, and has not yet indicated the line of action it purposes to adopt, in the event the French invade the Ruhr. Says Action Cloaked. "France," continued Heir Cuno, "is trying to cloak her contemplated action with .the appearance of justice, in that she spreads sanctions and pledges which are supposed to have basis in the stipulations of the Versailles treaty. Yet, even as monstrous as this instrument is, it does not go so far as to permit the allies optional impinge ment upon German sovereignty or wil ful encroachment on German territory. "As a pledge to their demands under the treaty, or as security for repara tions, the allies are occupying the Rhineland for a specific period, thus holding a guarantee which is more secure and more crushing in its' final working out than any yet incorporated in any peace treaty between civilized' peoples. If France on her own responsibility fails to recognize the limitation established in the agreement governing the rights of occupation or if she actually proceeds to impinge imon Rhineland territory outside the established zone of occupation, then such procedure ceases to be a mere exercise of her treaty privileges and becomes a violent breach of the peace against a defenseless people." Reiterates Stand Calling attention to the fact that the premiers would not listen to or receive the German reparations proposals at their recent Paris conference and that they could not reach an agreement of "their own making. Chancellor Cuno declared the solution of the reparations problem had been postponed anew. "France," he added, "appears determined to force her claims by the armlication of coercive measures. It would therefore, appear that certain j quarters in France still believe ful-j fillment. can be obtained from us by j such proceedure. In my speech at i Hamburg I declared that the policy of sanctions spelt death to economic recuperation, and today I can only reiterate this with increased earnestness and emphasis. "For in the satne measure as we were, and still are, willing and ready to go to the limit of our economic and financial capacity in rendering reparations so also are we determined not to yield to coercion in any form. Claims Proof Given. "We have given tangible proof of our readiness voluntarily to fulfill to the extent of our ability the demands upon us. If need be the German people will show equal firmness in further following the rath of its affliction. "There can be no negotiations In an atmosphere of pressure and threats. We cannot oppose violence with violence, we are determined, however and in this we have the concurrence; jof the German people? to expose in its true light before the world at large the economic folly and complete illegalitv of the French intentions." The chancellor said Germany's of fer of an anti-war, based on a plebis cite, still held good. He added that the German government was willing to double, even to treble, the number of years informally designated in the original proposal. "We are ready." said the chancellor, "so to constitute it that whenever the hydra of war dares again to raise its head the question, yes or no, shall be decided, not in the secret conclaves of diplomacy or through the whim of a ruler, but at the family fireside. The final decision shall rest (Please Turn to Fage Twelve) TONER SAYS PRIMARY REPEAL IS UNLIKELY fBy United Press) , ANDERSON, Ind.. Jan. 9. -Edward C. Toner, one of the foremost advocates of the primary election law, said today he does not believe the primary repeal bill can be rushed through the legislature. "If it is necessary for someone to establish headquarters in Indianapolis and fight the repeal bill, I will do it," Toner said. "Our way would be to go out Into the state and arouse public sentiment i against repeal of the primary. ! "Friends of the primary are looking . the movement to repeal the law t deal of interest, but we "Two vears ago an attempt was made to repeal uie ia auu puuuc sen- , J,. 1 J H..L. timent arose to such an extent that thev did not dare go through with It. It would be a very serious matter for the Republican party to go through with f-uch a program. A pledge to reneal the primary law was contained in neither political platform. Albert. J. Beveridge will tour the ! state, if necessary, to retain the pri imary, Toner said.

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WIPE SLATE CLEAN FOR DAUGHERTY Find No Evidence of Misdemeanor (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON', Jan. 8. Attorney General Daugherty was given a clean bill of health today by the house judiciary committee, which investigated the impeachment charges brought against him by Representative Keller, Republican, Minnesota. In a resolution which was adopted by a vote of 12 to 2 the commission said that upon the evidence obtained there did not appear to be any ground to believe that Mr. Daugherty had been guilty of any high crime or misdemeanor requiring the interposition of the impeachment powers of thei house. The resolutions also proposed that the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration of the Keller charges and the proposed impeachment of the attorney general and that the impeachment resolution introduced by the Minnesota representative be laid on the table. HOPE OF ACCEPTANCE OF U. S. SUGGESTION IS STILL KEPT ALIVE WASHINGTON, ' Jan. 9. The fact that there has yet been no conclusive word as to the attitude of the French government on the officially conveyed American suggestion for a reparations inquiry by a commission of financiers still kept alive today the hope of American officials that the plan might yet bee adopted as an alternative to forcible collections. Convinced that it has gone to the limits of the possibilities of American : aid 'in transmitting offcially to the ; French government Secretary Hughes' j ! suggested plan as disclosed yesterday, i the Washington government today . could only await results. As formally ! brought to the attention of Paris officials prior to the premiers' meeting on January 2, presumably through ambassador Jusserand, Secretary Hughes suggestions which also were outlined in his New Haven speech involved no time limit, it was said authoritatively and the plan thus still is before the government of France. The preliminary reply already received here is regarded as inconclusive and still leaving the door open to psosible acceptance. There were growing indications tojday that despite action of the 'senate in the resolution expressing the opin ion that American troops shouia De withdrawn .from .the .Rhine, officials bel ieved this course at the present tjme involved such possibilities of mis understandings as visable to follow. to make it inadSAYS SEPARATE DEBT SETTLEMENT NEEDED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Preliminary negotiations with the British debt commission over question of the paying of the British war debt to the United States ha3 convinced the administration, a WTiite House spokesman declared today, that no settlement of the problem can be made under terms of the law, as it now exists. President Harding is convinced it was declared that the American commission in dealing with the situation must recommend a tentative plan for settlement with each of the debtor European nations, without regard to the present law, and that these plans must be presented later for the approval of congress. MOTIVE IS SOUGHT FOR MASKED ATTACK (By Associated Press) CASTLETON, N. D., Jan. 9. Efforts were made today to learn a motive for the attack last Friday on Walter Corcoran, prominent young man of this place, who was seized by four masked men and severely beaten. Complaints have been issued against three men, George and Ed Neishmeier and Joe Erdmier. The name of the fourth man in the attacking party is not known, it is said. Two young women who accompanied Corcoran struggled with the men, unmasking them and recognizing two. The girls were not molested. (t Super Shiek" Held For

Stealing Three Wives (By United Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 9. Martin Durkin, "super shiek," of Griffith, Ind., was lodged in jail here today, charged with stealing an automobile and three wives. According io police Durkin stole a flivver and departed for a tour of Flodira with Mrs Margaret West, Mrs. Anna Lindel and Mrs. Mabel Savant, all of Chicago. Durkin and his companions returned today. Durkin told police the Florida trip was marred by frequent stops to quell quarrels between his three companions. "1 brought 'em back. I'm glad I did. The women are glad I did and the husbands ouaht to be glad I did," Durkin told police. h

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Two Prospective From left to right Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium, the Princes Yolanda of Italy and La,dy Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, daughter of a Scotch Earl, who is reported as the prospective bride of toe Prince of Wale. Lower left Princess Marie Jose of Belgium, whose betrothal to Prince Volcanic Garden Of Alaska Put on Map by Eruption (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 Pavlof volcano, reported last Saturday to' have lost its entire top in a mighty explo- j elnn nnrt latpst nf the world's neakS 1 to break into eruption, has like, Mount Katami, which blew up in 1912, again put America's great Alaskan "volcanic garden" on the map, says a bulletin of the national geographic society. "This peak is in a. region In which volcanoes and one time volcanoes are as thick as prairie-dog mounds on a western plain," the bulletin says, "but most of the time they are dormant It is as though nature were playing a gigantic game of drap-the-handker-chief with fire from below; for after delays of greater or less length, up pops a molten stream unexpectedly through some peak, which perhaps has not erupted in hundreds of years." This seems to have been the case

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with Pavlof. It is situated almost at j McDonald became anxious to tell the the tip of the long narrow Alaskan j local police all that he had done. Mcpeninsula that stretches out toward Donald admitted burglarizing the store Asia anl sends its offspring, the at Troy and stated that he had served Aleutian Islands, almost to the shores! time for a similar offense. He took

of that continent. For years vessels have passed near it and no activity other than a slight smoking has been observed. Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moore Occasional snow flurries and colder; considerably below freezing tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy but mostly! fair. The great storm center now cross-j ing the Great Lakes will be followed , by considerably colder weather to-j night, with snow flurries, being followed by fair weather due to rapidly rising barometric pressure. Temperatures Yesterday at Pumping Station Maximum 43 Minimum 31 Today Noon '. 32 Weather Conditions The etoim now crossing the Great Lakes is causing general rains over the central states turning to snow west of Ohio, this morning. A cold wave is overspreading southern Canada and western lake regions, but it is not unusually cold for the season. The temperatures are from 10 to 20 degrees below zero in southern Canada. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau. Generally fair to night and Wednesday. Colder tonight, Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 12,218 .

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Humbert ot PieImont, son of the King of Italy and heir to the Italian throne, has just been announced. Diplomatic circles expect , this announcement to be followed soon by. a court proclama tion; tha ' a. marriage has -been arranged fof-Prl nee Leopold, brother of Princess Marie, and Princess. Yolanda, sister of the Prince of Piedmont. DISPLAY OF MONEY COSTS OHIO YOUTHS LIBERTY AFTER THEFT Clarence Phillips and John McDon old, two youths of Troy, Ohio, were a bit too free about displaying a sack of monev when paying uieir Dins ai Chenoweth's garage Tuesday, morning, and they were arrested by J. W. Hennigar, motorcycle policeman. It was later learned from Troy authorities, that the two young men were wanted in that city for burglarizing a confec tionery store either late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. After a thorough search by local authorities, a total of $81.21 wa3 found in the pockets of John McDonald and in the automobile which they were driving, said to be the property of Phillips' father, who, the boys said, let them have the machine "any time they wanted it." Confess to Theft. When local authorities Communicat ed with Troy police about the boys, the whole matter with a calm attitude. The boys declared that the only money spent of the sum taken at Troy, was for their breakfast, a road book and for oil and gasoline. McDonald couldn't see how the local officer knew about their being in town and how the arrest was made so readily. McDonald was evidently experienced in burglarizing for he had the key, which he, declared was to the store, which they robbed at Troy. DEFENSE IN MASSACRE TRIAL WELL PLEASED (By Associated Press) MARION, 111., Jan. 9.- Attorneys for the defense in the trial of five men charged with murdeF during -the Herrin riots of Jast June, announced today that progress of their case had been so satisfactory that they had eliminated many- of- their- remaining witnesses in the hope of being able to rest before the' end" of" the 'week. Nearly a hundred .defense .witnesses so far heard have accused guards at the Lester" ' strip 'mine "where' the trouble started, of various offenses ranging from highway robbery to murder. Other, "witnesses, have testified that they saw a crowd with six prisoners the day 20 non-union miners were slain, but did not see any of the defendants: Further testimony will be intro : duced the defense attorneys said, designed to impeach state's witnesses j who asserted they saw all of the de- ! fendants with fire arms or in the act of shooting at some of the victims the day of the tregedy. Other witnesses will be called to continue the alibi testimony, the attorneys said.

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LEGISLATIVE HOPPER IS OILED TO REPEAL PRIMARY IN INDIANA CBv United Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 9. The prl mary election law In Indiana was consigned to the scrap heap by po litical leaders today. Friends of the system were rushing to its rescue just as the legislative hopper was being oiled to enact a re peal of the bill before the end of the week. The repeal measure, drafted by Sen ator Will Penrod, of Loogootee, bore the stamp of the donkey and the elephant. After Republican state leaders had approved the measure, they went into conference with Democratic State Chairman Walter Chambers and brought the measure out with his O. K. It was prepared for introduction in the senate by Penrod and in the house by Thurman Gottschalk, the minority leader, today, with a strong partisan demand that it be pushed through both houses and onto Governor McCray's desk before the end of the week. - Mc Cray's stand of opposition to the primary has been known ever since he entered public office, and there is no question as to his signing it. Provisions of Bill The bill provides that all state officers, Including governor and United States senator shall be nominated in convention and that the presidential preference primary shall be abolished. The nomination of local officers by primary would be optional. It was revealed that the election committees in both senate and house were comprised of men opposed to the primary system, picked before the legislature convened. Despite this however, there was certain to be strong opposition to the bill. Many of the lawmakers had been instructed by the folks back home to fight for retention of the primary system. Others had an aversion to tak ing the direct nominating vote away from the people and restoring it to the old convention plan. KLAN URGES FIXING OF STRIFE IN RANKS (By Associated Press) jsmw iokk, Jan. 9. a message signed by J. K. Skipwith, grand cyclops of Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux 'Klan In Morehouse parish, Louisiana, urging Klansman to submerge their .differences until "affairs in our ranks can be adjusted" was read at a meeting of the Brooklyn Klan last Friday night, according to the New York World today. The message was read by Wilson D. Bush, grand goblin of the realm of New York in the pres - ence of more than 100 klansmen, the paper says. Skipwith's message as published follows: "All the boys are standing true and backing me in a fight to the finish. "They urge me to yield not one whit to the insolent insinuations slanderous charges of our common enemy. I am going to do right as God gives me the vision of the right, and in this, should there be for the present any misunderstanding in our force, let those things remain without agitation for the present until we have whipped in the fight against our common enemy. Then we can adjust affairs within our ranks." In the course of the meeting according to the paper, Goblin Bush announced : "We will soon form a reception com mittee to visit Catholic churches in uniform and show them how strong we are.' INTERIOR SECRETARY TO COME FROM WEST (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. President Harding has assured leading members i of congress that the new secretary of! interior to succeed' Albert B. Fall, w ho retiresMarch 4, will be a man from the territory west of the Missouri river. This eliminates the possibility of the appointment of Senator New, Indiana, or Carmi Thompson, Ohio, both of whom have been prominently mentioned. It narrows the race down to Senator Poindexter, Representative Mondell, both of whom were defeated in the last election, and Josiah Dixon, former Bull Moose leader of Montana.

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ALLIES VOTE GERMANY IS INDEFAULT Give France Permit For Invasion BULLETIN BERLIN, Jan. 9 Thirty-eight trains carrying French troops left Mayence yesterday, with Essen as the destination of the forces, says an Essen tele gram today. The arrival of heavy artillery and sappers is reported from the neighborhood of Meuse, three and one-half miles southwest of Dusseldorf. The staffs of several French regiments arrived at Dulsberg last evening and this morning, and the troops themselves were expected to reach there today. BULLETIN BRUSSELS, Jan. 9. Premier Cheu-" nis formally announced to the chamber of deputies today the government's determination to stand besida France in the occupation of the Ruhr district He regretted that the allies were moving without England, but said that "neither anger nor vengeance" actuated Belgium. (By Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 9. Germany -was voted in willful default of her 1922 coal delivery by the reparations commission today at a session featured by an address by Roland W. Boyden, in which the American representative with the commission severely critized the workings ot the treaty of Versailles in certain respects. His strictures created much surprise and excited hardly less interest than in the oral declaration of Germany's default. The statement made by Mr. Boyden before the vote in the secret session was described by some of those who heard him as a condemnation of the whole treaty of Versailles and a suggestion that it should be revised as soon as possible in the interest of the economical revival of Europe. Neither Mr. Boyden or Col. James A. Logan, the other American representative, would discuss the proceedings or their part in them, feeling the Americans above all others should observe the 5c-eey byth commission. British Vote Against The committee by a vote of three to one found Germany voluntarily in default. Sir John Bradbury, British representative voted against the findings. This is the necessary technical ac tion which was to procede French invasion of the Ruhr Valley and occupation of Essen. Marshall Foch's military plans waited upon action by the allies finding Germany in default. The reparations commission notified the French government of the default and it was semi-officiallly stated action will follow almost immediately, possibly tomorrow. American observer Boyden made a statement to the commission before it took the vote. He refused to divulge its nature bui stated he made no reservations. Apply Censorship. The French government clapped immediate censorship, applying to foreign as well as local newspaper correspondents upon forecasts of what France will do. But the press agrees that Invasion is practically at hand. It is expected that the French will not wait until Thursday when Premier Poincare addresses the chamber of deputies before acting. He may present occupation of Essen as an accomplished fact. France, backed by Belgium and Italy, made speedy finish of the sitting today. Ten German experts had succeeded in delaying matters yesterday by harranguing all afternoon but today they were called speedily to account and the vote France asked of the commission, wr taken. The Germans claimed they delivered so much they were forced to import ' other coal themselves Troops Assembled Reports from Duesseldorf today said that all troops necessary for the expected coercive movement of France in the Ruhr would be assembled at the point of concentration near that city by noon. Reinforcements were being sent to take the place of the advancing units. Premier Poincare is understood to have been vexed by the failure of the reparations commission to declare Germany in default on her coal deliveries at its meeting yesterday. It was reported that he had sent a note to the German government eetting forth the decision of the commission on the wood default, together with a paragraph of the Versailles treaty covering the prospective French steps and an announcement of his intention to act. Hires Strikebreakers Anticipating a possible strike of workers in the Rhineland, the premier is leported to have hired provisionally a small army cf strikebreakers, including miners, railwaymen, butchers and bakers, who could be sent into the region at ehort notice to replace German .labor. The French public is taking the situation in perfect calm and there is practically no opposition to the gov ernment s prospective move. Opponents of the premier naturally express skepticism at the success of the undertaking and indulge in the usual criticism. The communists alone are showing a certain agitation and have Indicated Hhatr th?y are trying to stir up trouble both here and in the Rhine, land where Marcel Cachin and Gaston Monmousson are operating. The government, however, attaches no undue importance to their activities, although it has indicated that it would prosecute them should they go too far.