Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 14, 16 January 1923 — Page 1

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BASTROP. La., Jan. 16. Mysterious and oft-repeated references to a motor truck owned by an admitted member of the Ku Klux Klan gave added excitement today to the public hearing which is inquiring into the death of Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards. The owner of the truck, prominent in the morning's testimony was Smith Stevenson, a special police officer, in Bastrop, on Aug. 24, the date tne rannirv rpntprs about, the date of the barbecue, and of the swift descent of the black masked men and the sudden disappearance of Daniel and Richards until their bodies came Ironi the dpntha of Lake LaFourche. a few weeks aco. Stevenson had been questioned about his whereabouts and the things he saw

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f reared into the darkness uea ana blindfolded in the back of a small

truck, the line of questioning was sud denly switched "iou own a trues; Question Surprise. The question came out of the blue filcy. "Yes, I bought it from Harry Neelis It was second hand. "Where is the car now?" "At mv house." "You can give us some idea as to when you bought the truck?" "About 30 days before the kidnapping. "Did you use the truck that day?' "Yes, to haul water to the ball players up at the ball game." "Was the car there when you went home that night?" "I don't know." "Was it there next day?" "I think so." "Can't you be positive about it?" "I think it was but I don't remember exactly. Harry Neelis kept his car there, but 1 don't remember anything about it." Denies Pointing Out Stevenson denied repeated questions by state's attorney as to whether he bad seen anyone point out the two men before the kidnapping. "On your honor as a man, you answer me?" George Seth Goin, assistant attorney, asked. "Yes." Stevenson said, and repeated his denial that he had not seen anyone point out the men. "If your oar was seen on the roads out. of Bastrop, it was being driven without your permission?" Stevenson was asked. He replied in the affirmative. Stevenson was questioned as to whether he was one of the Ku Klux Klan members who it has been testified, fathered in the Thomas Hard ware store in Bastrop and armed themselves after news of the kidnap ping was received. Evidence Range Spreads. The range of the net of evidence bring woven by State's atorneys was spread by the testimony of two witnesses, self-styled members of the Ku Klux Klan. to show a gathering of Klansman in Bastrop on the night of the kidnapping af Watt Daniel and Thomas Richard, victims of a band of "black hooded," to repel an expected attack by the people of the neighborin? village of Mer Rouge. Several witnesses were expected to testify today in connection with those statements made yesterday by "Jap" Jones and James Harp, farmers of the village of Bonita. They told of the preparations made by members of of the Klan in Bastrop to stave off an attack by the citizens of Mer Rouge as a reprisal for the kidnapping of Daniel and Richard. Says Skipworth at Home Harp testified that he was positive Captain J. K. Skipworth, exalted Cyclops of the Moorehouse klan. was in Itastroo on the night that Daniel and Richards disappeared. His testimony was corroborated by Jones, who testi fied that he railed on Captain Skipworth early that night to find out whether the kidnapping of the two men on the Bastrop-Mer Rouge pike was the work of the klan. He said the ex ;:lted cyclop denied any knowledge of the blackhoodpd band. Several of the prospective witnesses who vere named by Jones and Harp as being members of the guard which stood watch at the Thomashardware store in anticipation of a raid by Mer Rouge citizens were ordered to testify in corroboration as to the whereabouts of the klan leader on that night. Discussed McKoin Plot Tim allezed nlot to assassinnv DM B. M. McKoin. former mayor of Mer Rouge, proved to be the topic of discussion throughout the parish up until Daniel and Richard disappeared. Witnesses have testified that Daniel, Richard and others, but particularly Daniel, were accused of having taken part in the alleged shooting. Several witnesses were placed on the stand yesterday to testify as to whether the reports of firearms, which Dr. McKoin contends rained bullets into his automobile, were those or a pistol or a shotgun. All of them said that they were, in their opinions, reports of a pistol because of the rapiditv of the sounds of the shots. Hugo Davenport, father of "Tot" Davenport, told state's attorneys that he would produce today a letter, signed by the vigilante committee, ordering him to cease his klan operations. His son, "Tot," was unable to recognize any members of the band which kidnapped him. Watt Daniel, W. C. Andrews, Richard and J. L. Daniel, said the witness. Mrs. David Jayne Hill Dies as Result of Injuries (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Jan. 16. Mrs. David Jayne Hill, wife of the former ambassador to Germany died her early today from injuries received when struck by an automobile late yesterday. She was 0 years. old.

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PRESIDENTIAL BOOM FOR CAPPER BURSTS: STICKS TO FARMERS By PAUL R. MALLON WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. The boom to make Senator Capper, of Kansas, farmer and progressive, a presidential candidate in 1924, was punctured today by Capper himself. "I'd like to see a farmer from the middlewest president of the United States," he told the United Press in an interview. "I think it would be a good thing for the country but not for me. I've got a man-sized job here in the senate for the next few years. I'm going to devote my political life to working out a permanent solution of the farmers' ills. "There is something fundamentally wrong with this agricultural system in the United States. Here a farmer gets only about 34 cents out of every dollar the consunier spends for farm products. In some nations they get as high as 75 cents out of the con sumer's dollar. Money is Wasted "There is too much money being wasted between the producer and the consumer. I'm going to find out where that money goes and then I'll attempt to sweep out that waste by congressional legislation. j "If I can do that I figure I will have satisfied my ambition. "That looks bigger to me than being president." Capper has been repeatedly mentioned as a candidate for the presidency. His recent purchase of a string of farm papers in the east was regarded by some watchful politicians as a move to provide a strong weapon for his reported presidential candidacy. Tells Friends Sand. It is known that Capper has written some of his closest friends telling them he does not intend to allow the presidential bee "to buzz around him." Capper said there was no farm bloc presidential nominee, as yet. He declared he wag authorizing those who had begun to boom his name to turn their work to other channels. Senators LaFollette, Borah and Johnson and others will receive the backing of most of the progressive farm block members, he said. But he added, that no serious consideration had been given by the groups to a unanimous choice for the presidential nomination. PICTURES OF "WET" FLEET TO BE TAXEN AT NEXT OPPORTUNITY (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 Irrefutable evidence of the operation of the Atlantic fleet of rum runners will be obtained wlfen the ships engaged in that traffic, again attempt to land their cargoes. Unimpressed by official de nial of the activitiy of the fleet, agents of several pictorial news associations today sought and obtained permission to piace an expert cameraman on the custom's craft assigned to the New Jersey district. In response to inquiry made when their requests were Hied, the applic ants stated frankly their purpose was to film the smuggling flotilla and if possible to record the transfer of the goods brought from wetter ports. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. Captain Derry, attached to coastguard headquarters in this city, announced today that the commander of a vessel arriving from the West Indies had reported difficulty in crowding its way through the rum fleet standing off the New Jersey coast. Complaint was made that the fleet constituted a menace to navigation. FREE STATE POSTS BOMBARDED BY REBELS (By United Press) DUBLIN, Jan. 16. The city hall and several Free State army posts were bombed and raked with machine gun fire by Republican insurgents during the night. Two soldiers and four civilians were wounded in the fightin. The crash of bombs and rattle of machine guns with intermittent revolver shots kept the city in an uproar until early today.

Unfettered Single Blessedness Finds Favor With Mar y By JEAN DEGANT PARIS, Jan. 16. Who, when and where Landon Baker will marry was solved by the Chicago heiress herself today in the first interview she has given on the subject. "I'm not going to marry any one ever," she told the United Press. "Everything is definitely off. You may announce that." A little later the contrary little American society girl, who left Allister McConnick waiting at the altar half a dozen times before she jilted him for good, contemplated her silk clad ankles reflectively and mused: "Well, at any rate, if I ever do marry it won't be a society man. "They're so futile. No I won't give you the reasons why 1 know and there's nobody else. "Yes I know it sounds mysterious but that's a girl's prerogative. "There was no quarrel with Allister. I just made up my mind that's all. "Y'es, he's come over to Paris, too, but it won't do him any good."

STRIKER'S BODY FOUND HANGING FROM BRIDGE FOLLOWING GRILLING (By Associated Fross) LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 16. The body of E. C. Gregor, a Missouri and North Arkansas striker, was found hanging from a bridge near the railroad yards at Harrison, Ark., today, accoding to the Harrison correspondent of the Akansas Democrat. Gregor is said to be the man who opened fire on officers and -citizens who searched his home yesterday afternoon, according to a telegram to the Arkansas Democrat. It was said at Harrison that he was called before the vigilance commission last night and he defied them avowing that "a day of reckoning" would come. A coroner's jury is being impanelled to investigate the killing. Several hundred armed citizens who began housecleaning" yesterday, still were

walking the streets this morning. ' reau forecast today. The wave will m searchinz.for strikers who thev werelvade the south, and freezing tempera

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said in an effort to find clues' as to! Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. j their assistance and that the doorwho Is responsible for the destruction i the bureau stated. Snow was forecast) keepers clear the floor of every state

of railway property. A well-known capitalist and hotel owner at Harrison, the corresponden: states, was publicly whipped on the streets this morning and then taken before the citizens' committee. He is said to have signed the bond of A. P. Stevens, accused of the bridge burning. Round Up Strikers It is estimated that more than 800 citizens, from points as far as 110 miles away, came here yesterday to

round up-the strikers. .viummus iuuwkui "iui""1 , while not one speaker supported the A brakeman named Ford was slight-; pressure over southern Canada inc.i- j legislation. At one point the proposed Iv wounded when struck bv a shot'i te9 rather cold weather tonight with , reforn) wa3 termed "a piece of esperiflred from home of a man said to 1 temperatuies considerably lower thfin i raental legislation." be a striker. At another house the in-1 st n'ht. Generally fair weather to-,

vaders were met by gunfire, but no one was injured. The occupant wars held to await action by the citizens' committee. The crowd was orderly, and, although many of them carried weapons, there were no reports of any shots being fired by the citizens. The labor hall was raided and its furniture and fixtures burned in a huge bonfire on the public square. Several of the men reported that a store of guns and amunition was discovered in one of the homes they entered. Bridges are Guarded. According to J. C. Murray, vicepresident and general manager of th

road, the recent bridge fires were of'cific coast, but pressure is falling at incendiary origin. All of the bridges j Puget Sound which show s there is a along the line are being guarded by i storm approaching the United States citizens who have organized, he said, over the north Pacific coast. "We no sooner would get one of the'j burned bridges repaired or rebuilt un- For Indiana, by the United States til another would be damaged or de-j Weather Bureau Fair tonight and stroyed" Mr. Murray added. The! Wednesday. Colder tonight.

road discontinued operations sometime ago and the government made it I a loan of $3,000,000 to resume busi-l ness. ! Word was awaited today from the' committee questioning the strikers.1 but it was rumored that the resigaa-1 tions of the mayor, city marshal and ' two alder nen here would be requested j because trf alleged union sympathies, j

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FOULKE PROPERTY BOUGHT BY FIRST ENGLISH LUTHERAN Purchase of the John T. Foulke property, with a frontage of 55 feet on South A street and on Park Place, gives the First English Lutheran church possession of one-half of the block between South Eleventh and Tenth streets, says an announcement Tuesday. Transfer of the property, owned by John T. Foulke. adjacent to the west side of the church property, was made to the church today. It was acquired, church officials said to provide for the expanding needs of the congregation. No immediate building operations are contemplated. . The Foulke property was acquired as the church is unable to acquire space to the north, south and east, owing to the presence of streets. The acquisition will give the church frontage on South A and South Eleventh streets, and on Pauk Place. A double house now occupies the South A street front of the newly acquired property, an the Foulke Manufacturing operates a garage on the Park Place frontage. In Family 70 Years. The property had been in the Foulke family for 70 years. The house, now standing on the site, was erected 70 years ago, and was he first one in that part of the city. It was surrounded by farm property when erected. Mr. 'Toulke has not announced where he i will remove the garage which he and ! his. sons operate. In more than three decades of its existence the First English Lutheran church has enlarged the Sunday school room twice, and a few years ago installed a $5,000 organ, art windows, and made a number of other impor taut improvements. The present Sunday school room is crowded now, which was one of the impelling reasons for the purchase of the Foulke property. The frontage on South A street now- is 165 feet. A replacement value of the church and parsonage, re cently fixed by an engineer, is $110,000. The congregation has no debt. Cold Wave Will Grip Eastern Section Tonight WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. A cold wave ot marKea intensity win grip practically the entire eastern section ! of the country tonight, the weather wiMires and frost will nrevail in Florida, ilor Pennsylvania, .New crk anu tne . northern .New Lngianu staler. r Weath er forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moore Partly cloud", followed by fair and Coider tonight: much below freezing. i "ant-Dfy Tair- ! mS1,T- ana weanesuny. I Temperatures vestcrcay at Futnptng station Maximum 38 ! Minimum 30 ! Today j Noon f 291 Weather Conditions A severe) storm is now over the New England ! states causing strong west and noilh-j west winds over the lake region and 1 the Ohio valley eastward to the Atlan- j tic coast. General .snows are in the j northeast. Temperatures are below zero in parts of the noithwest. Baro- i metric pressura is far above normal west of the. Great Lakes to the PaPaid Circulation Yesterday, was 12,19

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. The belief that occupation of the Ruhr district by French military forces will have an adverse rather than a favorable effect on reparations payments was further emphasized today by utterances in administration circles here. The occupation of so Important a sector was described by one official

as a blow over the head of German industry as a whole. Industrial production, It was de clared, is one of the most delicate and finely adjusted complexes of modern life and one that military occupation I is nuic LU uecsliuj. lie im R ui x i i j centive to produce, destruction of I competitive action, and dislocation of all the machinery of production, It was said, is sure in the long run to defeat the avowed purpose of the Ruhr occupation. Germany Learned Lesson The present action of the French was compared with that of the Germans during the war wrhen they tried to make use of industrials after their occupation of Belgium. It is pointed out that the Germans failed utterly to obtain the benefits, the Belgian laborers refusing to work, except by compulsion, and accomplishing nothing in instances where they were forced to work. It was suggested further that the Germans learned by this experience exactly how to balk the present efforts of the Belgians and the French to make use of the German Industries of the Ruhr. The problem now is, according to this view, whether the German nation will consent to send food supplies into the Ruhr at the expense of other portions of the coun try, or will cut off that section from its usual intercourse with the remainder of Germany in an effort to avert a general economic collapse. (By Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 16. An authoritative statement from American quarters here today makes it clear that "the American reparations plan" before the reparations commission was drawn up in an effort to fit with the American government's view on the reparations problem. The statement says the plan as drawn here, was mailed to Secretary of State Hughes for his consideration about Nov. 20 last, and that the secretary' was believed to have had the plan before the end of November. Since Secretary Hughes made no changes or suggestions in regard to the plan, it has been assumed by the representatives of the state department here that it met with bis approval. LOBBYISTS ORDERED . OUT OF LEGISLATURE BY UNANIMOUS VOTE (By AssoclatPd Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 16 The following motion, Introduced in the lower house this morning by Representative Harry E. Rowbottom, of Evansville, was unanimously carried on a viva voce vote "that no appropriation bill be given any consideration until every employe of the stale and state universities, Purdue and Indiana, are in their respective places, as set out by law, and that all remain there during the entire session of his legislature and that those not here be informed to stay in their places, as this legislature is an intelligent, body and i can pass an appropriation without j employe or persons connected who me oenevoiem, euucauouai anu pecai institutions." Opposition of th? farmer members of the state legislature to the administration's county unit school reform was manifest at a meeting Monday night of farmer legislators with representatives of the Indiana Federation cf Fanners' association. Fiftfpn iiprsnni snnkp hpfnrp the j meeting again.st the school measure. ENALTY IS PROMISED TO MASKED PERSONS WHO FLOGGED WIDOW (By Associated Press) HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. ' 16. The masked and disguised persons who flogged Mrs. R. H. Harrison, 30-year-old widow, and R. A. Armand. oil field worker, are known and swift justice will be meted out to them. Sheriff T. Binford declared here today as the Harris county grand jury prepared to renew its investigation into the attacks at Goose Creek, a suburb. Two arrests w-ere expected at once, and the sheriff declared he wf.s prepared to lay full information concerning the affair before the grand jury. Mrs. Harrison spent the greater part of yesterday before the grand jury, but Armand has not testified. He still is in a serious condition as the result of his injuries. Neighbors of Mrs. Harrison were expected to be summoned before the grand jury today. The grand jury investigation was started yesterday on instructions from District Judge C. W. Robinson,

Rev. Aaron Worth Rev. Aaron Worth, 87 years old. of Fountain City, died early Tuesday morning at his home. Rev. Aaron Worthy 87, Dies Tuesday; Pastor Since 1856 FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind., Jan. 16. Rev. Aaron Worth, S7 year sold, an ordained minister of- the Wesleyan Methodist church since 1856, died at his home here at 12:15 o'clock this morning. Death followed a long period of ill health. The Rev. Worth was born April 9, 1835, in Randolph county, and at the age of 16 was converted, immediately entering upon his work of preaching the gospel to the pioneers of Indiana, He was ordained an elder in the Wes leyan Methodist church at Milton, his ordination parchments bearing the name of Rev. Daniel Worth as president of the conference of his denomination and one of the founders of the Wesleyan Methodist church. Called to Preach. It is said that the Rev. Worth's early entrance to the ministry was due to his having been frequently called upon to supply the pulpit in the absence of Eebenezer Tucker. The Rev. Worth also was an evangelist, a position requiring him to take an av tive part as a delegate in all quarter ly meetings for 40 years. He preached in Tennessee. Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. The Rev. Worth was one of a group of five Fountain City men who voted for Lincoln and were active in the anti-slavery movement. Those five men were Will Davis, John Keever, Major Lacey, Rev. Luke Woodard, and the Rev. Aaron Worth. Major Lacey died last November, and with the death of Rev. Worth only three of this group survive. Although retired from active ser (Please Turn to Page Four) ALARMING EPIDEMICS IN GREECE RESULT IN BARRING OF REFUGEES (By Associated Press) ATHENS, Jan. 16. Epidemics of typhus, smallpox and cholera have reached such alarming proportions in the refugee centers through Greece that the government today forbade the admission of more unfortunates from Asia Minor until the crisis is brought under control. Dr. Boxiadcs, the minister of refugees and a prominent physician, reports that the situation in the concentration, camps 4 requires heroic measures. Inasmuch as epidemics have broken out in 200 different localities. Sixty deaths occurred on the refugee steamer Marigo, which has arrived at Piraeus from Samsun and Constantinople, according to James Atkinson, of Chicago, a near east relief worker, who was on the ship. "Three epidemics broke out simultaneously the day we left Constantinople," Mr. Atkinson said, "and out of the 2,000 passengers 1,600 were stricken. Two of the three doctors were taken ill and the remaining physician was unable to cope with the situation." The disposal of the bodies became a problem, he added, and it was necessary to throw into the sea the remains of the first 35 refugees who succumbed to disease. By the time the vessel reached Piraeus harbor, 25 more refugees had died, Mr. Atkinson asserted, and by order of the health authorities the bodies were burned in the ship's furnaces. HOTEL PORTER HELD FOR EMBEZZLEMENT Wilbur Hoosier, colored, former porter at the Westcot hotel, was arraigned in police court Tuesday morning, charged with embezzling $5 from J. G. Kinner. roomer at the hotel. Hoosier alleged that Kinner had given him $5 to use as chance in delivery of liquor to another alleged roomer of the hotel. Hoosier stated that he was supposed to be in room 34, and that the ?5 which Kinner bad given him was to be added to two! additional dollars of lloosiers, which would be turned over to the. roomer with the liquor, for a $10 bill. Hoosier alleged that the amount realized from the delivery of the liquor was to be Before Hoosier could execute his 1 errand, lie said, the management of j the hotel discharged him, and he pro-' The case was postponed until the guei--t in room 34 could be brought ! us as a Witness. Mine Union Official

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(By 1'nited Press) fei. LUAlKSllLLt, unio, Jan. lb. Robert Farmer, local mine union ofric ial was acquitted last night by a jury j on a charge of firs: degree murder in j connection with the slaying of John I. Major, strip miner in the New LafferI ty riot of last June.

BULLETIN PARIS, Jan. 16. The reparations commission today decided that Ger many had wilfully defaulted on all de liveries in kind for 1923. France. Bel

gium and Italy so voted. Kemball Cook, representing Great Britain in place of Sir John Bradbury, who was reported as indisposed, abstained from voting. PARIS, Jan. 16. An order requisitioning the Ruhr valley mines has been suspended for 24 hours. This was taken here as an indication that the mine owners are ready to adopt a more reasonable attitude toward the coal deliveries, which have been forbidden by the Berlin government. Only thi3 modification in Premier Poincare's plans for going ahead wi'h his policy of seizing guarantees was evident this morning. It was thought here that the negative policy of Chancellor Cuno might involve the fall of his cabinet, inasmuch' as the application of progressive pressure is in opposition to the immediate need3 of the manufacturers. DUSSELDORF, Jan. 16 The French now control every outlet from the Ruhr into Germany, whether by rail or water. The lines were extended today through Dortmund 10 kilometers northeast to Luenen on the Lippe and thence to Witten, which is seven kilometres south of Dortmund. LONDON, Jan. 16. The French authorities at Essen have ordered the German police to arrest the instigators of a demonstration at the Kaiserhof hotel yesterday a Reuter dispatch from Berlin says. Chancellor Cuno replying to a telegram from the Essen town council has promised the city government to do everything possible to alleviate the "hard lot" of the residents. DORTMUND, Germany, Jan. 1C. French cavalry appeared on the outskirts of this city at noon today. It is expected the occupation of the city will be completed by 4 o'clock this afternoon. ESSEN, Jan. 16- The Ruhr valley mine operators forbidden by the German coal commissioner to make deliveries to the entente have decided to wait and see what France will do, their spokesmen said today. As one director put it the owners did not expect the occupation In the first place and now that it h's come about it only remains for '.hem to await further action by the economic commission. The operators regard the occupation as a breach of the Versailles treaty and declare any confiscation of private property, such as the mines, wil constitute a further isolation of that agreement. LONDON, Jan. 16. The half hour stoppage of work at Essen yesterday says a Reuter despatch was accompanied by a vigorous anti-French demonstration outside the Kaiserhof hotel, the headquarters of the inter-allied mission. The proceedings opened with a patriotic speech by an unnamed orator from a balcony overlooking tho square, who exhorted hi3 hearers to look forward to the day when they would victoriously beat back the French into their own territory. Enthusiastic exclamations greeted the sentiments of the orator and the crowd sang "Deutschland Uber Alles". "Die Wacht Am Rhein" and other war songs which were interspersed with denunciations of French official photographers who appeared in the hotel windows. Soft Methods Fail. Whatever the outcome of the conference set for today at Duesseldorf, between the German industrial magnates and the FVench economic mission, the Ruhr valley appeared to be in line for an uncompromising military occupation. "We have tried soft methods and the Germans have refused to co-operate," the correspondent was told at the French headquarters. "If they don't come to terms now, they will get a taste of what they gave Belgium and northern France. We will give them something to whine for." Today's meeting to which the German industrial leaders had been invited under the threat that if ihey failed to appear they would be sent for. was to be presided over by General DeGoute. From the w indows of the conference room in the Ducsscldorf city hall, the French tanks, armored cars and infantry were discernible as they moved forward to strengthen the hold of the French upon the German's rich coal fields. Watch Stinnes Action. There was great interest as to whether the Stinnes holdings would comply with the summons to send a representative to the conference. Herr Stinnes himself was reported to have left his villa between Bochum and Dort mund, last evening, . bound for Berlin. French economic experts appear somewhat less sanguine than the military leaders over the prospects of ob taining practical results from the ocRation. They came here, it is adted. unprepared for an operation of this magnitude and the turn of even 8 !has caused M. Coste, head of the mision. to look rather depressed, al though he voiced the opinion that tothe situation. I French Are Surprised T-hr. ohnut fare, nosition of the Oer- - ma industrialists took the French by surprise. They were quite convinced Sunday night that the Germans had agreed in principle to the coal de (Please Turn to Page Ten).