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Palladium. With s?un - SAYS YOUTH WENT AWAY VOLUNTARILY Teggerstrom to Take Stand For "Jeff" (By Associated Press) BASTROP, La., Jan. 23. Clarence Teggerstrom, brother of Harold Teggerstrora, missing timekeeper of the Southern Carbon company at Spyker, who disappeared Dec. 29 and for whom the state of Louisiana has been searching in connection with its investigation into activities of masked men in Morehouse parish, took the stand this afternoon at the open hearing here. '"Do you know where your brother, Harold, is?" he was asked. "I do not." "When did you last hear from him?" "I received a letter Jan. 10." "Where is the letter?" "1 destroyed it." Teggerstrom was given the letter by Dean Asheraft. an employe of the Southern Carbon company at Spyker, who said Superintendent L. 1. Bennett had found it in the company's mail box. The envelope bore a twocent stamp, but no postmark. Says He is Safe. Harold's letter, Teggerstrom testified, declared he was safe and sound, and in comfortable quarters, and he would bo ready to return about the twentieth when the state wanted him, and Would "testify for Jeff." "Mr. Jeff," he understood to be T. J. Burnett, former mayor Morehouse parish deputy sheriff and employe of the Carbon county and now at liberty under $3,000 bail. Burnett was arrested last month on a murder charge in connection with the kidnapping of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richards near Bastrop, whose bodies were found in Ike LaFourche, Dec. 22. The witness was asked if he was sure his brother's disappearance is voluntary, and he had not been sent or hidden away by anyone. "I am sure, or at least I feel certain it is voluntary." Fail to Find Boy Rumor was rife here late last night that Teegerstrom had been . located at Swartz, a station on the Iron moun-j

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Spyker. A detachment of calvary accompanied by T. Cemmes Walmslev, 'nssistart attorney general left here late, last night for Swartz in an effor to locate Teegerstrom but returned parly today without having found- any-j

track of him. Teegerstrom's testimony was regarded as vital to the alibi set up for T. Jeff Burnett whom witnesses have testified they recognized as one of the masked party which on August w 24 kidnapped Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard, whose bodies rose to the surface of Lake LaFourche the night of Dec. 21. One witness has testified

that Burnett was on duty the nigh of Aug. : 4 at the. plant of the Carbon . company. To Conclude Wednesday Associates of the attorney general eaid they expected the hearing to be concluded Wednesday night unless something unlooked for developed. The transcript of the testimony, which will not be completed for several days after adjournment, will be taken to New Orleans in order that a brief may be prepared for the grand jury. That, it was stated, would consume 10 days or two weeks. It was not known whether the case would be presented to the present grand jury or given to the new grand jury the first week in March. Attorney General Coco stated yesterday that between 25 and 50 indictments would result from the investigation and that the charges would vary from murder to assault and battery. It was regarded as certain that no more arrests would be made until after the grand jury reports. Burnett Out Birnett wa: d nested last month on :i charge i;f murder and is at liberty on 55.000 bail. Dr. 1. M. McKoin, former mayor of Mer Rouge, the al leged attempted assassination of whom is believed in official quarters to have prompted the kidnapping of Daniel and Richard, also is at liberty i-n $5,000 ball with a similar charge against him. Officials conducting the hearing declared they expected to spring a surprise at the opening of the Wednesday afternoon session and intimated that it would eclipse anything previously brought out. In some quarters it was believed that Harold Teegerstrom would be the surprise witness. Reports persist that he i-s being held under cover to be brought bere to testify despite official denial. The line of questioning has iudicated that the state believes the dynamite used to bring the bodies of Daniel and Richard to the surface of lake LaFourche was stolen from a supply at the carbon plant. Wire is Identified It has been established that the galvanized wire with which the bodies were attached to weights when they were cast into the lake was similar to wire used at the plant and a hunch of keys found near the scene of the explosion contains one identified as identical with those used at the plant to lock the gas meter houses. Assistant Attorney General Guion assured Teegerstrom's father yesterday while ho was on the stand that the state had no evidence whatever that connected his son with a crime. It is known, however, that the state regards the youth as a witness of the highest importance. It was understood today that the time and other books of the carbon concern would be brought into court for examination toii;iy or tomorrow. The time book would be expected to CPlease Turn to Page Fourteen)

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Photographic Scenes From I PACKING UP fWtOLO REWARDS OFFERED FOR APPREHENSION OF TEXAS SLAYERS (By Associated Press') WACO, Texas, Jan. 23. Reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who killed W. E. Holt and Mrs. Ethel Dencamp last Friday night, Grady Skipworth Nov. 20 last year, and Harrell Bolton May 24 last, stood at $2,500 today, with prospects of the total reaching $10,000. The Waco city commission offered a $2,500 reward and Mayor B. C. Richards recommended that similar sums be offered by the county commissioners, the citizenship of Waco and by the state. C. S. Farmer, county attorney, announced that if there were developments in the Holt-Dencamp double slaying to warrant a grand jury investigation he would request a special session of the grand jury, if that could be done legally. The next regular grand jury cannot be impanelled before the first Monday in March. According to Miss Helen Jacobs, sister of Mrs. Decamp, another sister said she dreamed of seeing Mrs. Dencamp and Holt in an automobile wreck on the Tehuacana bridge. Miss Jacobs was in the automobile party which found the two dead bodies Sunday afternoon after officers failed to find them. She is being questioned by officers. a ; 1 1 V 1 1 A of a loca, bt,siness coU are bei held in connection with the Holt-Den- ! ..... n u uuup, If VlUUli. Bolton also was killed while with a young woman. Both young women jsaid negroes killed iheir escorts and men mistreated mem. PEACE INDICATED BY HAPPY SONG AT COAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN NEW YORK, Jan. 23 , , committee or bituminous coal operat ors and labor union chiefs considering a new wage agreement to replace that expiring in the tri-state competitive field April 1 reached an agreement today. NEW YORK, Jan. 23. A burst of song coming today from the room in ! which union leaders and bituminous coal operators have been conferring over new wage contracts in the tristate competitive field, indicated that an agreement might have been reached. No official announcement, however, was forthcoming. While John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, and Fhil H. Penna, secretary or the Indiana Coal Operators' association, withdrew from the conference room to another suite, operators and union representatives gathered about a piano and joined in harmonv. "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" was the opening chorus. Frank L. Farrington, president of the Illinois State Federation of Mine Workers, was, at the piano. Withdraw Demand. As the conference began its sixth day it was generally conceded that the miners had withdrawn their demand for a two year contract, and were ready to sign for one year, dating from the expiration of their present agreement next April. They bad been won over, it was said, despite indications from Washington that the administration favored a two year deal. But what the opera tors had to concede to win this point remains a zealously guarded secret-of-chambers. Miners' Demands. They may have granted any one of the several demands made by the miners latt Saturday: The six-hour day, five-day week with double time for holidays, to include Saturday and Sunday; universal, application of the check-off system of collecting union dues direct from employers; adjustment of local differentials and settlement of disputes by arbitration in districts where they originate; operation of certain machines; payient for tools and explosives used by the miners, etc. Upon one vital point, both parties today seemed in continued agreement and that was extension of the present scale of $1.08 a ton for contract miners and $7.50 per eight-hour shift for day laborers. Although Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, known as the tri-state competitive field, are the only coal states in the negotiations they represent 1S0,000,000 of the nation's 500,000,000 tons annual bituminous production. Many opera, tors from outlying states are here as "observers" and the conferees believe ithe contract they sign will be adopted throughout the industry with only such differentials in wages as local mining conditions and markets warrant.

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eASS LONG LIST OF CRIMES IN OHIO EXPECTED TO BE SOLVED BY ARREST (By United Press) CINCINNATI, Jan. 23. Murder of Elvis Matthews, Xenian policeman as well as the slaying of Emery McCreight, Wilmington patrolman i3 expected to be cleared up by the arrest at Wilmington of Louis Vandervort, Jamestwon and Walter Bungham, Port Williams.' ' . Friends of Roy McKinney, Cincinnati who is serving a iue- term in -Ohio penitentiary for the murder of McCreight, believe he will be exonerated and freed. A. long list of less serious crimes will be solved by the arrests, Wilmington authorities believe. . Bangham is alleged to have told the story of the kijling of McCreight, alleging he was taken along by Vandervort Vjust for a ride" when the Wilm.ington policeman was slain. I Wilmington authorities assert they have evidence which will show Vandervort also murdered Matthews at Xenia because he wanted the officer's pistol. A. C. Fricke, counsel for McKinney, charges identification of his client as the slayer of McCreight was a "frame up," the prisoner having been dressed for the occasion in clothing to fit a Dtner jOtner Wilmington patrolman before Adams confronted McKinney. TEACHERS' LICENSES FROM STATE BOARD PROVIDED BY BILL (By Associated Press) I INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23 The county boards of school examiners are abolished and the granting of all teachers licenses put in the hands of the state board of education in a bill introduced by Representative L. M. Pittinger, Delaware county, this morn ing. The bill has the endorsement of the teachers federation and the state teachers' association, as well as the rural members of the general assembly, according to Mr. Pittenger. The measure eliminates teachers' examination and places the basis for granting license upon a scholastic standing, taking into consideration their preparation, experience and character, and requires that they must have at least 36 weeks' college or normal school training before making application for a license. Under the present law they must have at least 12 weeks such preparation. Receive Recommendation The state board will grant the license upon the recommendation of county superintendents and township assessors, and upon their report to the state will determine the kind of a license to be granted. Teachers' licenses now effective will be exchanged for like licenses by the state board. According to Mr. Pittenger, this will raise the standard of the rural schools to that of the city, since all teachers must have the same amount of initial preparation. He also stated that the law will prove an incentive for teachers to take all the college and normal school work possible, as additional work, other than the required amount, will be recognized by tbe state board in granting licenses. Seven Hart in Chicago In Trolley Ccr Crash (By United Press) i CHICAGO, Jan. 23. Seven persons j were injured when two trolley cars I collided here early today. The force j of the impact carried one of the cars j clear of the rails nearly to the side-1 walk. i

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Following several threatening letters signed K. K. K., the home of James Long," Chinese laundryman, and operator of the Central . laundry, was broken into Saturday morning it became known today. That robbery apparently was not the motive was indicated by the fact that they fled without taking anything. Mrs. Long was chloroformed and did not recover for several hours. The occurence was immediately reported to the police, the result of which a suspect by the name of Paul Caldwell was arrested late Tuesday afternoon. Caldweil denies all knowledge of the affair and when questioned as to his connection with the Ku Klux Klan de-1 nied that he was a member. Receives Letters. ' James Long, the husband ha3 received two communications through the mail in which he has been warned that some harm would come to his wife unless he left town. These threats through the mail were followed by several telephone calls to the same effect. Mr. Long and the authorities were mystified by the fact that all doors had been carefully locked by Mrs. Long immediately after the departure Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moore Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Rain or sleet. Moderate temper, atures. Richmond is on the northeast quarter of a storm, centered over the Gulf of Mexico, which is moving slowly northeastward. This indicates precipitations in the form of rain or sleet with strong shifting winds. Temperatures Taken Yesterday at Pumping Station Maximum 30 Minimum .'...IS Today . Noon 30 Weather Conditions: There are three stern s in the United States this morning, one m r.iontana and overi the northern states, another in the far west which is causing rains along the Pacific coast, and a third and large.' one centered over the Gulf of Mexico. The last storm is causing heavy rains over the southern states. ' There was a 24 hour rainfall of 5.04 inches of j water at Galveston. Texas and it was I ... . ,. ... . ..... ,J him nicurai ouseiauon time is below zero m the northeast and is getting warmer in tne west. Fcr Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau: Unsettled tonight and Wednesday, probably rain or snow south portion. Somewhat warmer tonight north and central portions. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 12,11

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n- A Wi, - .V.V v 111 CONNECTION of her husband for work and no locks were found broken. The front door has a night latch, and screens on other doors were hooked. . After starting her child, to school, Mrs. Long went down stairs to look at the furnace. It was at this time the marauder is supposed to have entered. Returning, Mrs. Long heard a chair fall over in the bedroom where another child was sleeping. As she entered and stooped over to right it, a cloth saturated with chloroform was thrown over her head from behind. On recovering, 6he immediately telephoned her husband ,t the laundry, who returned and reported the matter to the police. Watches House It was suspected that the housebreaking was the work of a well-known character, who for almost a month past has been loitering about the laundry and the home. Sometimes with a companion, sometimes alone, he was seen watching . the laundry, walking past and gazing into the windows of the laundry, and on two or three occasions, following girls who worked at the plant and annoying them. The same individual also had appeared, several times near his home, Mr. Long states, on one occasion being found loitering on the street corner nearby when Mr. Long returned from the laundry and leaving when he was observed. On another occasion he was seen peeping from behind a, raised curtain of an automobile parked near the home. The car sped away when it was observed. Because of these annoyances. M". Long reported the matter to the police and asked special protection. Several runs were made to the laundry on calls, but the culprit was never caught. Numerous threatening and anonymous telephone calls also have been i received by Mrs. Long in the early j forenoon and afternoon hours, when it I was easily ascertained that her hus band was absent. These calls were timed with observance of the laundry. ! j it is pointed out. since when anyone me lauum.v iu so io me uume whether Mr. Lung or one of the girls whom he sent, the calls failed to materialize on their usual hour. Mayor Favors Train Travel tor High DCnOOl UrcneStra Mavor Lawrence A. Handlev favors n; sending members of the Morton high itjBchool orchestra to Portland Friday ! iw train ir-to,! t v,0 i1!lfi von discussed, it was learned Tuesday. "The young musicians will be more safe on the train than on buses," he said. "and. the trip will be much more Tdeasant." The mayor said he would be willing to get up early in the morning of the next day following the night j concert and take the musicians to their j homes after they arrived at the local ; railroad station. He said that the students could have a party after the concert at Portland and then catch the early train back to Richmond. "They would be out late that night anyway, if they made the trip by bus."

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. .-;-: . ' - V v-v-" FEDERAL OFFICIALS CONTINUE ROUNDING UP GARY "WET" RING (By Associated Press) GARY, Ind., Jan. 23. Work of rounding up members , of an alleged Lake county liquor ring, which resulted in the arrest of several local and county officials including Mayor Roswell Johnson of this city, was being continued today by federal officials. Capiases for the arrest of 75 persons alleged to be members of the ring, which indictments returned by the federal court at Indianapolis charge, operated under protection of Lake county officials, have been Issued. Most of the persons Indicted were arrested yesterday and federal agents expected to complete the work of serving capiases today. Among those placed under arrest yesterday, other than Mayor Johnson, were Dwight Kinderfi prosecuting at torney of Lake county: Sheriff Wil-i liam II. Olds, William Dunn, judge of the Gary city court; Peter Person, constable; Andy Wytow, Nathan Potts and John Mullen, police officers: Clyde Hunter, former prosecuting attorney of Lake county; Lewis Barnes, j former sheriff; Charles I. Clemons, formerly a justice of peace, and John Bennet, treasurer of the Gary City Republican committee. Three prominent Gary attorneys also were arrested. Enter Into Conspiracy The members of the alleged ring, the indictments charge, entered Into a conspiracy to violate the prohibition law by the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquor. The conspiracy extended, according to the indictment, to having members of the ring placed in county and local offices, on the police force and other criminal law enforcing agencies. The ring was so powerful, it is charged, that no just penalty could be meted out to prohibition law violators. A system was used, whereby special judges were appointed in city court at Gary and attorneys for prohibition law violators would act as judges in each other's cases. Jail sentences would be imposed instead of prison sentences and the time shortened or suspended at will, the indictments set forth. The conspiracy extended also, the indictments charge to attempts to corrupt local, county, state and federal officials in charge of law enforcement. CITIZENS TO DICTATE SELECTION OF MEN TO FILL HARRISON JOBS (By United Press) HARRISON, Ark.. Jan. 23. Municipal officials favorable to the citizen's committee, which has controlled northern Arkansas for the last week, will replace Mayor J. L. Clute, Marshal Parr and councilmen who resigned last night. The resignations were offered , following pressure of the "citizen's committee," ..which seized control when suspension of operations of the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad was threatened because of bridge burnings and other outbreaks. While the change was being made here, a mass meeting, called by the constituted officials at Eureka Springs, pledged support to the "citizen's committee" and warned striking railroad workers against holding meetings. STATE NOT TO ACT ON PORTLAND CHARGES (By United Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23. Indicathe wm do"nothin g re garding the charges of Mayor Fleming, of Portland, that Indiana National guardsmen there are members of the Ku Klux Klan, were seen today when Adjutant General Smith returned here from an investigation of the situation. The general reported to Governor Mc Cray today and said that nothing can : be done at Portland until "some tangible evidence" is produced. Police Officers Mast Wear Regulation Equipment Members of the city police force are warned by the board of police commissioners to wear their regulation equipment while on duty under penalty of a 10-day suspension without pay if caught disregarding the order. The commissioners demand that the members of the force wear their belts, holsters and Colt revolvers while on duty. This step is taken by the board to assure conformity with the desire to standardize the department's equipment.

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PARIS CLAIM UPPERJAND Isolation Threatened - by France . .. (By Associated Press) The coal miners' strike in the Ruhr I valley, ordered In opposition to the Franco-Belgian attempt to obtain reparations by forceful means seems far ifroni complete. Duesseldorf reported a majority of the Ruhr miners still working at noon today. On the other hand, Berlin claims 165,000 men have gone on strike in the Thyssen and Stinnes works in the Ruhr. Pari3 announces new- and drastic measures to be taken if German resistance in the Ruhr continues. These measures call for total isolation of the valley, complete control of the mines, roalroads and public utilities and introduction of new currencies to meet the money stringency caused by Germany's withholding cash. Bearing out this forecast a Dortmund message says French troops already are guarding all exits from the Ruhr ready to execute the isolation policy if there Is a general strike or rioting. Conflict between the British and French over arrest and expulsion by the latter in the Cologne area, a British bridgehead section, was avoided by instructions from London to the British military authorities not to interfere, but not to co-operate. BERLIN, Jan. 23. All the German custom house officials in Mayance and Gustavsburg have gone on strike in protest against the arrest of the director of the customs office and other officials, according to reliable information received here from the occupied zone. BRUSSELS, Jan. 23. Several shots were fired today at an American legion officer attached to Belgian headquarters at Aix-La-Chapelle according to a despatch to the Libre Belglque. The officer was not hit. BERLIN, Jan. 23. Germany . today notified the allies it is doubtful if she will be able to pay any more reparations for the present, owing to economic chaos, resulting from French occupation of the Ruhr. BERLIN. Jan. 23. Since thi3 morning 65,000 employes of the Stinnes works and 100,000 of the Thyssen works in the Ruhr region have been on strike, according to information by Reuters this afternoon. DUESSELDORF. Jan. 23. The majority of the Ruhr coal miners were still at work at noon today despite appeals from their union headquarters at Muenster and Elberfield that they lay down their tools. DUESSELDORF. Jan. 23 The Ruhr see-saw halted momentarily today while Germans and French waited for news from Mayance, where Fritz Thyssen and six other industrialists were on trial before a French courtmartial charged with refused to obey the orders of the control commission. French general headquarters believed that conviction and imprisonment of the magnates might mean the calling of a general strike throughout th. Ruhr. Workers in the Thyssen plants at Essen and Muelheim, who recent I v declared that they would strike if their employer was not released, held up to their action until the results of the trial should become known, and it was thought that the general temper among the working population of the valley might find expression In a strike if the industrialists received a jail sentence. Ready to Counter. , The French are ready to reply to a general strike with the complete isolation of the Ruhr and the Rhineland from the rest of Germany: - The control commission it was said will bend every eftort toward getting coal out of the basin and shipping it to France, where it is already needed, leaving the Germans to operate the railroads and feed the miners and the population. "If Berlin wants the Ruhr to starve, it's her business," one official of French headquarters told the newspaper correspondents last evening. "If any one starves in the Ruhr it will not be the French. The Germans have chosen their battlefield; we will fight them to the finish." General Denvignes expressed the opinion that the Ruhr valley was the scene of the last battle of the war. "If we win this,' 'he said,, "we shall have peace for 50 or 100 years. If we lose all our sacrifices of men and money during the war will have gone for naught." The communists and the organized nationalist syndicates are finding little in common, and around Bochum the former are gradually turning to the French. They have twice asked French protection against the Nationalists in the face of incipient riots at Gelsenkirchen. The French have seized approximately 200.000 tons of coal in the Ruhr and declare that an extension of the miners strike would riot prevent onefourth of the basin's normal output from going to France. BERLIN. Jan. 23. The German government has instructed its diplomatic representatives at Paris, London, and Brussells to protect the recent decree of the Inter-allied Rhineland commission regarding the distribution of coal and the confiscation of the coal tax and customs duties. The note declares that the distribution decree is designed solely to extend to the Rhineland the competence and activities of the new inter-ullled commission at Essen, while the other decrees seek to divert German revenues from legitimate creditors to allied powers, which are outside the Jurisdiction of the Rhineland commission. The note adds that through its decrees the commission places itself at thf disposal of the French and Belgian military authorities.