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By Carrier Twelve Cents a Week In Lansing' and Kast Lansing THE TATE By Carrier -fijgjgfj Twelve Cents a Week "iTE In Tanslng and East Lansing 571 SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1923. Tuesday-Rain or. Snow PRICE THREE CENTS. Tonight Rain or Snow, Warmer. Trolleys Beat Jitneys With Passes PUN BILL TO ONE KILLED, 3 Reads Account of Son's Arrest, Dies BAR 5CH00LT0 UNVACGINATED Bank Building Being Juggled Foundation Points of Capital Nat'l Being Shifted by Engineers HURT, OT AUTOSi FRENCH TROOPS ARE ON MARCH START MOVING INTO RUHR VALLEY TODAY; REPARATIONS COMMISSION AWAITS ARRIVAL OF GERMAN EXPERTS; U.

S. OUTLINES SETTLEMENT PROPOSAL TO FRANCE Invasion of Rhine Border Is Under Way A PRETTY TOUNGSTOWN STREET RAILWAY PASSENGER WITH HEI1 PASS. YOUNGSTOWN. O. (By X.E.A.) member of you family can ride as many times during the week as is necessary without paving a fare, Woman Dies When She Steps in Car's Path CORONER CALLS INQUEST Boy Is Hurt When Hit by Car Driven by Woman Auto Damaged in Collisions A woman was killed and three were injured in automobile accidents which occurred in Lansing over the week-end.

Mrs. Ijms Irene Wygant, 10. wife of Omar 1 1. Wygant. 626 N.

Foster avenue, was fatally injured when she was struck by a motor ous auer genius on a avenue street car at Michigan and roster avenues, Sunday afternoon about 12:30 o'clock. The motor bus driven by F. W. Bentiel. of Detroit, was traveling west on the north side of Michigan avenue, and the street car east- buund, stopped at the intersection to permit Mrs.

Wygant to get off. She got off the rear of the car, it it said, and started around the rear end stepping in front of the machine. Witnesses stated to the police that the driver sounded a warning signal and that Mrs. Wygar.t hesitated for an instant and then stepped in front of the auto which (Continued ui Page 2, Col. 6) Draft of Near East Treaty Ready Within Fortnight LONDON.

Jan. (By A. A draft of the Near East treaty will be presented to the Turks at Lausanne within a fortnight, it was said ill oflicial circles Monday. The Turks will be told to sign the document or to tear it in pieces and take the consequences. Start Nationwide Search for Vanished Prominent Business Man TUHKS WLLGET MAN KIDNAPED I I i CASHOCTON.

Jan. S. (ByAP) Abraham L. Carman, GO, father of Frank B. Carman, who is being held by the New York police in connection with the $500,000 Schoellkopf jewel robbery, died suddenly at his home here Monday.

His death is said to have immediately followed reading an account of his son's arrest, printed in a local paper. Carman has been an invalid for several years. i i Onnnnnnn MdA dllU JUIIdlllld 0(Jldliyci Drown Near Williamsville Special to The S-late Journal. HOWELL, Jan. 8.

Max Springer and his sister, Johanna Spran-ger. aged eight and 10 years, respectively, were drowned in the Williamsville mill pond near Gregory in Unadilla township, this county, late Saturday afternoon. The children, who are the only son and daughter of a Gregory painter were playing on the ice when the accident happened. Earl Carr. 9..

who was drawing the sled on which the yprangor children were riding when the ice collapsed, fell through the hole but crawled lo safety and ran two blocks to the village for assistance. Sheriff Chas. J. Hoff and Coroner Crittenden of this place were called to the scene and the bodies were recovered shortly afterward. Williamsville poiui is about three llllics lioill mc unit: oiasu oi Gregory, about 20 miles south west of here.

A double funeral will be, held at the home of the parents in Williamsville tomorrow afternoon for the drowning victims. TO DEATH, BELIEVE Ohio Hardware Store Proprietor Brutally Murdered With an Ax CLEVELAND. Jan. Poilice Monday were -(By A.P.I prepared IU I'lumij ax found in the hardware store of Tia'rry Keim. wtrh Those of Fred Goetling.

in an effort to connect him with Keim's murder. Keiiu's body, hacked to pieces with the ax found in his' store early Sunday. Apparently he met death after a struggle. Goetling. his clothing and shoes lice.

Goetling recently was released from, the Lima. state hospital for the criminal insane. He was committed to the institution two years ago. after he had written a.n anonymous leller to the police, in which he admitted beating to death with clubs. Miss Louise Wolfe and Miss Mabel Foote, Parma.

Heights. school teachers. loiter he established an alibi, however, and repudiated his confession, saying he had written the letter as a joke. Killed as Result of Searcih for Negro Who Attacked White Woman ROSEWOOD. Jan.

8. Bv A. Rosewood is nuiet today, the racial disturbance of 1 11 CHILDREN LIU EM BE A RACE RIOTS ENDED I I 1 French Policy Will Be Told By Premier PARIS. Jan. S.

A. P.I Prominer Poincare will inform parliament on Thursday regarding his policy toward the Ruhr district. This was decided upon at Monday's council of ministers. "France is going just far enough in action in the Ruhr to show Germany she is in it was said in official circles today. There is every desire on the part of France, it is stated, to avoid any unnecessary show of force any indication that the French government is disposed to rely on force alone to reach a FRANCE TOLD of rui Given Proposal for Settling Reparations Controversy WASl 1 INGTON.

Jan. S. (By A. P. 1 The plan for settlement of the reparations controversy between France and England outlined by Secretary Hughes in his New Haven address, has been communicated to the French government through otlicial channels.

Vci filial rciilv In- Paris, although it was learned (Monday that a preliminary answer had been received here from the rcneh foreign oflii-e. It was said the state department that Ihe proposal was regarded as till before the French govern ment for decision. It was not stated when the American communication was sent, but indiactions were that it was transmitted through diplomatic hannels before Mr. Hughes de-liveird his address at New Haven. It was authoratatively that the ti'a nsmitta was "perfectly definite" in character, and it was in- Idciated that it revolved about the Isuggeslion that international fin anciers be called in to formulaic a reparations payment plan.

Oflicial comment as to the nature of the reply already received from Paris was withheld. The statement that the American suggestion still was definitely' before the French government, however. was interpreted to mean that the French answer was not an unqualified rejection of the scheme. Scott, Cochran Scott, Former Co-Partnership, Alters Business Status The copartnership of Scott. Cochran Scott, consisting of T.

A. Scott. M. W. Cochran and J.

O. Scott, has been incorporated under the tinn name Scott. Cochran. iScott, with an authorized capitaliza tion of $150,000, of which amount $100,000 has been paid in. it was announced by the company, Monday morning.

The incorporated company in- eludes all the business of flic for-I iner coporttiership, including all liabilities, the announcement stated. The stockholders and directors consist ot the members of the former copartnership together with PauI K- Cochran, who joined the nrarlv a rn anil i 1 will be removed from the Oakland building to after Feb. 1. the Bauch building CONTRACTING FIRM MADE CORPDRaT ON Would Class Highway Concerns With Common Carriers GAS LEVY TO BE ASKED Senator Connelly Working on Measure to Bring Road Maintenance Fund Bills to provide strict regulations for all motor buses, trucks, and other commercially operated mo tor cars, placing them in fact in the class of common carriers, and for a tax on gasoline to finan Michigan's highway work and its department, will shortly be intro duccd in the Michigan legislature at the present session. State Senator Williani L.

Con-nelley of Spring Lake, who in 1919 introduced the resolution for the constitutional amendment authorizing the state to issue $00,000,000 in bonds to finance trunk line high way construction, will probably introduce the bill relating to the reg ulation ot buses and trucks. He has already gathered from other Hates all available information on nils sudjccl ana lias neen wuimiis on the bill for some time. According to Senator Connely this Mil will provide for the following requirements: A fived rate of fare for passenger service and also fixed rates for all freight transportation between given points: the filing of an indemnity bond by all individuals fr oompan-(Continued on Page 12) IGNORED, 5ff it i at I naming urmcizea roi nui Consulting Them 3y KAV1D LAWKEM'E by The Stalo Journal. WASHINGTON. Jan.

S. There's a poh'ical pot hulling hero ovcr the of the republican ad ministration toward the democrats i.i connection with reparations and foreign policy generally. The pla.ul of the democrats :li.it they are not being consulted. Woodrow Wilson was criticised severely for not putting at least two prominent republicans on the American commission to negotiate Pace at Talis and be was charged wi'h looking at foreign policy through partisan eyes. Now the democrats are preparing tins same kind of bombardment t3.linat Mr.

Harding. On the all funding commission which is to settle when the allies ii-iv the and interest on inrii ldl ur.it nit- im epublicans. and no democrats. I 1 1 iauria in i "ic democratic party are saying that democrats helped to buy liberty bonds just as did republicans and that any policy which will com mit the government in the future should he shaped by consultation with democrats too. But that isn't all.

And really tins is what has caused the irrita- tContinucd on i'age 2. Col. 3) Kep. John Holland to Introduce Pet Measure Asain: See Farm Opposition Rep. John Holland of Gogebic county will again offer at this session of the Michigan legislature a bill providing for an eight-hour labor day.

to include all manufacturing industries, the mines, and other classes of labor. At the two preceding sessions of the legislature. Rep. Holland has introduced a similar bill. and proposes to champion his measure so Ions as he remains in the house.

One of the principal objections to this measure in past sessions has been based on. the agricultural situation relative to its labor. In i' was pointed out that the farmers were having great difficulty in obtaining labor because the hours were necessarily long, and even then the cost of labor was high compared with the returns from the farms, so a combination of short hours with high costs in competition with industry in the cities, would only add to the labor troubles of the farmer. i SENATE MEET TOWIGHT, EXPECT Can Secure Quorum in Upper House, Sec'y Says; Bills Due in House There will not be enough members of the state senate on hand for a quorum when the roll is called at 8 o'clock Monday evening. Dennis Alward.

secretary, said at noon. Consequently there will be no session of the upper branch of the state legislature. The house will meet at 8 o'clock, some bills will be introduced, and the meeting adjourned until Tues- nay aiternoon at ciook. at which time the senate will also meet. Men's one buckle arctics, $1.95 Davis Bros.

AX BUS LINES IT 8-HOUR DAY BILL TO BE SPONSORED Health Board Makes Rules To Fight Smallpox BUT 15 CASES IN CITY Swift Cambative Work by Health Forces to Nip Epidemic Here, Believe The order put in effect by the city health board at a meeting Saturday evening that every student attending the Lansing public schools he vaccinated or else jjhow proof of having been vaccinated within the specified time, was being carried out Monday by the city health department. The board of health was called in special session by Dr. S. R. Hill, city health director, Saturday evening.

Dr. 11. M. Olin, commissioner of the state board of health Mayor Silas Main, Tr. II.

A. Haze, president of the board of education, and Aldermen William Mc-Coinb and S. II. Watley. members of the council health committee, attended the meeting to plan methods to chock the spread of small-pox in the city.

Out of a total enrollment of in the city schools, teachers sent 2.000 students from school Mojiday as a step in the enforcement of the compulsory vaccina tion order. The health board passed a resolution directing Ir. Hill immedi ately to enforce the rules ot the slate health deaprtment in re gard to small-pox and to order vaccination or quarantine of all persons exposed and not already successfully vaccinated. The or- ncludes all children attending (Continued on I'age 12) Urges Fair Business Settle' mcnt of War Debt. Jan.

(By A P.I Circa Britain wants a fair business settlement, of her omi war debt to Ihe lnited States on such terms as will produce the least possible disturbance in the trade relations of the two countries. Stanley -Baldwin. ihe British chancellor of the exchequer, declared today in an address before the joint meeting of the British and American debt funding commissions. "We are not here lo ask for favors or lo impose on said Mr. Baldwin.

"We want a fair business settlement, a square deal, a settlement that will secure fur America the repayment lo the last cent of credits which Ihe lnited Slates government established in America for us, their associates in the Mr. Baldwin's address was in reply to ime of welcome by Secretary Mellon. chairman of the American commission. who expressed particular appreciation of the courtesy of the British government in having designated as its delegates men so distinguished. He called attention lhat this was the lirst time a.

chancellor of the exchequer had left his country to participate in a mission of this character. KEEP DEPT. BUSK Narrowly Avert Blast When Rail Employe Forgets Fire Near Gas Cars Firemen responded to five lire alarms Sunday and Monday morn ing. A loss estimated at $75 was caus ed at the residence of Lewis Allen. 1311 filenrose avenue, Sunday afternoon, shortly after 1 o'clock when a lire was started by an overheated stove.

A lire in a pile of coke at the La using Fuel and Gas early Monday morning caused the lire-men to mak a run to the scene. The blaze was extinguished quickly. A spark from the rurnace dropped into a rubbish pile at the home of John Yates. 417 N. Grand" Sunday evening about i :30 o'clock causing a small blaze.

A chimnev lire occurred at the residence of Earl Clover, 1623 Nel-ler Monday morning shortly after o'clock. When firemen extinguished a fire under a coal car on the Lake Shore railway near Kalrmazoo street, a huge blaze was probably averted. The fire had been built under the car (o thaw out the dump car mechanism and the men who had started it had gone away, it was reported. Coupled to the coal car it either end were two gasoline cars, accordinv lo the firemen which would have been ignited had the coaL car blazed tip. ,1 XEW YORK.

Jan. S. (By U.P.) A blizzard swept New York and surrounding territory today, badly hampering traffic blocking the streets with drifting snow and causing accidents that resulted in casualties. Jerome Devinc was found dead in Brooklyn from gas left alight but blown out bv the storm. Sev eral persons were hurt in traffic accidents.

One woman was cut by falling glass when two surface cars collided in Brooklyn. BRITAIN ASKS SOUARE OEAL 5 SILL BLAZES blizzard sweeps NEW YORK DEAD (covered with blood stains, was ar- rested at his home in the neigh-C'HICAGO. Jan. S. (By A horhood shortly after the crime nation wide search for Hugoiwas discovered.

A lodge receipt Kchlesinger. 6.1. wealthy Milwaukee issued to Keim was found in his business man who mysteriously possession, according to the po- Juggling a weighty, five-story building, that is shifting its points of foundation support from place to place, whiles big job goes on in the basement of the building is afoot just now in Lansing. The temporary hoist at the side of the Capital National bank build ing gives hint ot wnere mis worii is afoot. People in the down-town section have noticed that a prominent building concern has been at work there of late, but the outside hoist for earth going out and sand and cement going in tells little of the amazing aspects of the undertaking.

The Capital National bank is having ils vaults removed from the first floor banking room to the i Continued on I'age 12) IT COOK Charged With Entering U. S. For Immoral Purposes MUSKEGON. Jan. 8.

(By A. Miss Margaret Wassernian. 41, Ihe "$40,000 cook" in the onie Eugene JIcupt, millionaire manufacturer of this city, was arrested Sunday night by immigration officials on a warrant charging the reentered lh-- United States Oct. 26, last, from Crmany for immoia'. purposes.

Miss Wassernian recently figured in a rather sensational way in the domestic troubles of the aged mil lionaire. Miss Wassernian was arrested Sunday night as she was returning from the Meiuer summer home at Spring lake. with the Continues! on page two IT Hanging of Mrs. Thompson Postponed; Armour Must Die Tuesday LONDON. S.

(By of execution was granted Ml" IVrcv Thompson today, on the eve of the date set for her Hinging tor murder of her lifts band. Frederick F.dward waters, found jointly guilty uith Mrs. Thompson, is to hang tomorrow. Sentence of the couple to dead followed one of lite most dramatic sordid ninrdcr trials of modern Knglish historv. and it is believed Mrs.

delicate condi tion may have led lo the heme secretary's agrciiig lo a considerable posip menl of l.er exe 'uiion. Chamber of Commerce Work in Providing Locations For Factories to be Aid "The micccss of the Lansing Chamber Commerce in aiding prospective, industries to locate advantageous building sites in Ionising cannot he measured in terms of new additions to Lansing's present industrial standing but is nevertheless satisfactory in terms of ils future possibilities." says Charles 11. Davis, secretary of the Lansing Chamber of Commerce. "Wo have provided a survey which is at Ihe disposal of prospective industrial builders but the stimulus given to building is not apparent at this time. Its the plan of the Chamber ol Commerce to secure a list of all property for sale or available for long term leases or available lines and other desirable locations.

This information is turned over lo all those who wish it and I believe will he instrumental in encourag ing new industries Ui locate here." Chicago Millionaire Stricken With Appendicitis in Paris Improving PARItv Jan. S. (Ky Harold McCormick. stricken suddenly, was operated upon at midnight for appendicitis. His condition today was announced as satisfactory.

(ianna Walska has abandoned her American opera tour and will nurse her millionaire husband back to health. Haggard after an al-night vigil, the Polish prima donna told the United Press: "The operation was simply for appendicitis and has nothing whatever to do with Mr. McCormick's Chicago Three days must pass before the harvester magnate can be declared out of dancer. "Until 'Wednesday or Thursday he cannot tell if complications will set in," Mrs. McCormick declared.

The illness came upon McCormick suddenly that three doctors were esummoned to his home last night and there was no time to take him to a hospital. M. A. C. rggs.

Adams, East Lan- If, XT 01 STAYED MAN MURDEREKb IN SITES SURVEY C01I IS COBLENZ. Jan. ft. (By U.P.) French troops were on the march today along the Rhine. Engineers and a detachment of railway workers have gone to lessen, first city to be seized as France takes steps to enforce reparations payment.

Two regiments, one of artillery, one of infantry, have, been ordered forwarded from Epiual. Troops are quietly concentrating at Dusscldorf in small detachments. Fast tanks and armord cars will form the advance guard, it is reported, when actual invasion of the Ruhr starts. All that was needed to put in motion the horizon blue machinery of war which France has drilled and kept so long throughout the Rhineland was word from Paris that the reparations commission had formally found Germany in default. Infantry, it was believed, then would be rushed to Essen to support the engineers and railway dc- (Continued on Page 2.

Col. 5.) ADDS TO VICTIMS Fcnton Youth Dies From Revolver Shot at Gay Gathering in Livingston Co. HOWELL. Jan. 8.

Robert Cly-mcr. IS, of Fenton. was the latest victim of Ihe treacherous "unloaded'' gun, last night, when wj; shot and instantly killed by a pistol in the hands of Wilbur Cooper, 11. also of Foiiton, at the home of Paul Carmer ot Tyrone town ship. A load of fcnton young peopl" had gone lo the Carmer home to spend the evening and in some way two pistols belonging to the hor.t were brot'glit out and were bein: examined by Cooper.

Suddenly ifi. explosion occurred and Cooper was horJticd to-sec Clymer drop to the floor. The bullet, it was discovered, entered the outh's forehead directly between the ejes. An attempt was made by the frightened young people to summon a and when none ould be the body, in which it was hoped some life might still linger, was hurriediy plaeed in an automobile and taken to Fenton. Howell officers were called to thu Tyrone township farm house, but when Under Sheriff E.

W. Barber ind Coroner A. R. Crittenden arrived, hey found the body had been removed. The case was later turned over to Justice Corrigan of Fenton.

who impanekd a iurv. An i inquest will be held next Thursday. LOUISVILLE. Jan. (By U.P- rolice claimed to have a second confession today in the "hammer murder" of Gus JCoff-singcr.

wealthy southland coal company oflicial in his back yard at Henderson last week. Ollic Gibbons, brought here for safe keeping after bis arrest on the strength of an alleged confession by Noffsingcr's widow that, she and Gibbons plotted to kill Xoffsinger. collect his insurance and get married, has. himself confessed to the slaying, authorities declared today. Gibbons at lirst denied any connection with the crime.

Mrs. Nolf- singer was to testify before a grand jury at Henderson today. Gus Noffsingcr's body was found at the door of his garage in Hender son the morning of Uecember His skull had been battered in with a miner's hammer. a common plane. Millionaires rubbed shoulders with pickpockets and gangsters, and uproarious plainsmen, picturesque in tall hats and high boots, jostled Indians, characteristically garbed in bright hued blankets and glass beads, in hotel lobbies.

And throughout the crowds mingled painted ladies and gamblers as true to type as in the days before statehood. Moonshine liquor, choc beer and other beverages flowed as freely ns in the days that were, fciving a realistic atmosphere to the from the state's early history. Fires gleamed in rows and rows of trenches preparing savory meats for the mammoth barbecue tomorrow. Hundreds of men were kept constantly busy. The formal inauguration, will take place at noon but will be repeated before the thousands of visitors to-borrow.

From then until Wednesday night, square dances. Indian war dances, the Barbacue and other events on the program will follow in rapid succession. UNLOADED CONFESSES KILLING KY. COAL OFFICIAL Youngstown street car operators have found a way to beat the jit ney but not until the jitney almost beat them. iuu see, the rare in loungstown 0 cents with 1 cent extra for a transfer.

then the street railway company began selling -passes. ou pay $1.25 a week for one and you or anvi High Water Also Threatens 'Washington Cities PORTLAND, S. (By A. Flood waters drew a closer cordon about Portland. today, while reports from all sections of western Oregon and southwestern Washington pictured vast areas under water and many towns and communities isolated.

Bush of streams tributary to Willamette and Columbia rivers caused them to rise rapidly, hut a cessation of the torrential rains of the last, few days gave promise that Ihe crest of the flood was about over. Al though the Cowlitz and a few other small streams late Sunday night still were rising reports from Wil-amettc valley points were that manv tributary to the Willamette were falling rapidly. A cloudburst on the east, fork of the Tilton river, four miles from Saturday, wrecked the west fork logging camp. A tive-loot wall of water rushing down the Tilton river overturned nearly every building in the camp. One man and his two-year-old son are reported missing.

As Ihe situation stood early 7.1on-day. the crest of the flood pouring down the Willamette bail not reached Portland and the river Cqntinuod on page two, col. Dr. Coue Works Behind Screen of Secrecy; People Clamor For Audience YORK. Jan.

S. (By U.P.I A censorship was clamped down today on the proceedings of L'mile Coim. The French master of auto-suggestion who says he helps the sick heal themselves, worked behind a screen of secrecy, imposed by New-York police. At his publicity headquarters, it was announced that one rpresentative of the press would be permitted to atend cone's clinics and that this representative would later make a statement of what had occurred. Reports to Coue's meetings here indicate that veritable Cone craze is sweeping the country.

The slo- an 'day by day. in every way I am getting better and better. is gaining wider circulation daily. The smiling little druggist from Nancy who originated the phrase. seems to take quite as a matter of course the fact that since his arrival a few days ago his fame has spread so fast the police in sist that his movements be kept secret for fear he will be mobbed by admirers and those seeking health.

DETROIT IS AFTER DETROIT. Jan. (By A. Further inroads upon what they declare to be an intercity drug peddling combine were lhade by police Sunday, they declare, as a result of the arrest of two men and two women and the seizure of opiurm. morphine and cocaine valued at $1,000.

Jack Coster. Edward Williams. Peggy Decra and Mary Nicholson were arrested in a flat in one of the city's best residential sections and only a short distance from the home of Federal Judge Arthur J. Tut-tle. Warrants charging violations of the L'nitcd States code were to be issued today.

Police are checking the activities of the quartet under arrest in an effort to learn what connection they may have had with alleged dope ring operations from Windsor into the United States. Boy's high top shoes Bros. CnWEMElTS OF FRENCH MEDIC PEDDLERS I was introduced street railway re- ceipls have increased from in three months to $338,733 in three months. this increase is partly due to improved industrial conditions in this steel and manufacturing ecu tor. BOWLERS MEET TO DECIDE CHAMPION CHICAGO, Jan.

(By A.P.I Joseph Kalcaro, of New York city this afternoon will meet James Bluoin, world's champion bowler in the first block of a 40-gamc series for the title. Play will end I hursday. Building Leveled by Shock; Automobiles Crushed I'ONTIAC, Jan. (By A. Explosion of gasoline in the test house of the Wilson Foundry Machine Monday injured several men employed there and at "the Drop Forge plant nearby, biro started by the blast threatens to 10.001) gallon gasoline storage tanks connect with the plants by a tunnel.

The injured all of Pontiac are: A. W. Mil'er. Vi'. RigT'cman.

Fred Wilcox, n. 11. Hart in.iii, and Teter all of whom are at the city hospital. None are believed fatally injured. The storage house of the Wilson Foundry Machine plant wnere ine mast occurred.

was levelled by the shoc'i. everal automobiles standing near were crush, ed and the concussion communicated through underground tunnels to the Michigan Drop Forge plant, where the interior of the boiler room was wrecked, but the boilers were left undamaged. Fragments of teh building were cast through windows of the large Wilson oflice building nearby. Flames are now consuming oil and gasoline which had seepeid into Mie earth at the storage house and it is feared they may set off two 10.000 gallon gasoline storage tanks under the floor of the build- Charge Skonder Ellis With Attempted Murder; Gun Failed to go Off Skonder Ellis. 1113 Isaac street, was being held by the police on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder Monday morning.

Tin arrest Sunday afternoon followed a brawl in which the police allege that Ellis chased Fred John son, colored man, and aiming his pistol at him. pulled the trigger, but the cartridge failed to explode. Fred Johnson is said to have entered Charles Ellis' store and' purchased a package of cigarcts. lie offered a $20 bill ill payment, it is reported, and Ellis was unable to change if. Johnson had opened the cigarcts and the proprietor would neither take the cjparets back nor permit Johnson to to out after change, the police were told.

Charles Ellis, who is a Syrian, is said to have chased the negro from the store with a hammer and his brother. Skonder, who was eating at the time, hearing the noise ran out and pursued the negro with 32-cahbre pistol. Mrs. Ellis, wife of the storekeeper Iso is said to have joined in the fracas with a length of gas pipe. Skonder Ellis was awaiting ar raignment Monday.

KENT EMBEZZLER GRAND RAPIDS. Jan. S. Bv A. Lawton L.

Skillman. former treasurer of the Clark Memorial home. Monday was sen tenced to serve 2 1-2 to five years' at Ionia by Judge Verdier in su perior court. He had jfleaded uilty to a charge of embezzling about $7,000 from the funds of the home. 5 INJURED IN Ml SAr SYRIAN TR ED TO GETS IONIA TERM iuf i.i?.!.

iw W11M II --i persons were killed as the result! H- Carter, former president of Ihe of a search by officers and citizen Carter Construction of New-posses for Jesse Hunter, i'ork. wanted for an alleged attack on a With the announcement of the young white woman at -Sumner last! incorporation ot the concern the Monday. Hunter still is at large, i company stated its home offices disappeared after checking out of a hotel here Friday, was launched today. Police believed he was kid napped Kchlesinger was an uncle of A r-j man and Harry Schlesinger. millionaire owners of the Goodrich Tire Rubber Co.

Authorities in Chicago and Milwaukee have searched hotels and hospitals since Friday in an unavailing effort to locate the missing man. The kidnapping theory was strengthened by a mysterious call to the Milwaukee police last night from someone in Chicago demanding the telephone number of Louis Kchlesinger, a brother. Police be- lieved this was the first step to-1 ward a demand for ransom. I Friday Kchlesinger paid his bill; been seen since. at the La Salle Hotel and has not Professor Herman Ki-hlesinger.

of the University of Chicago, another nephew of the missing niiui, told police his uncle had been in failing health recently and was childish. Fred Robinson who has been resident of Lansing for- the past years died at the home, 611 St. Joseph street. Saturday evenin Mr. Robinson was born at Lin coln, England.

June 4. 1S84. being the oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson.

They came to Michigan when he was four years old. lie was a representative for the Berghoff Produces of this city. He was married in 1906 to Miss Alice Wells of Simfield. He was a charter member of the Loyal Order of Moose and al osa member of the Fraternity of Eagles. He is survived by the widow his father and mother.

Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson; one brother, Floyd Robinson and two sisters. Mrs. Walter Dickinson and Mrs.

Edward Grahn. all of Lansing. Funeral services will be held at the home. Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev.

V. Boyer officiating. Interment will b-- at Mt. Hope cemetery. Warring Factions of Ireland Pick on R.

R. Jan. S. (By A. A man issued by the southern and FRED ROB NSON DIES AT HIS ROM All Oklahoma Turns Out For Inauguration of Governor Cowboys Mingle With Indians, Millionaires Rub Shoulders With Pickpockets at New Executives "Wild West" Party Officers believe the hiii-nine-; Sunday ifternoon of 12 houses, all that was left of the negro quarter at Rosewood, marks the end of the racial clashes.

The negroes whose houses were fired still are taking refuge in nearby woods, out of fear. The houses were burned by a number of white men while a crowd looked! on, but no one could be found who would say that he saw the houses burned, according to county officers here. MERCHANTS TO ACT ON STREET PAVING Mayor Silas Main and City Engineer Vesley Bintz will be asked to give an of the plans of the vity in improving Lansing's downtown streets Wednesday noon at the meeting of the Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. II. L.

P.rown, president of the Merchants' bureau, indicated Monday that efforts are to be made by members of the bureau to press the need of better downtown paving as a means of stimulating business. "The downtow paving in its disgrace to the Brown. "It has reached the state of disrepair where something must be done immediately toward its improvement. We plan to get an outline of the spring street improvements plan and form committees to act in cooperation with the city offi cials in carrying out any improvements. possible I OKLAHOMA CITY.

Okla. Jan. S. (By U.P.) A run as wild as the opening of the "strip" in 'S3, was on in Oklahoma today. Cowboys atop pinto ponies galloped into the capital.a wild yip-e-e and an occasional blazing revolver announcing their arrival; quaint vehicles bringing quainter people, rumbled behind staid ox teams over the paved streets: high-powered motors 'carrying Indians, rich from oil honked their way through swamps of pedestrians while overhead hovered airplanes seeking a landing spot.

Special trains steamed into the union depot in rapid succession depositing delegations from states from Washington to New York. With thousands' already jamming the streets, trails, paths and roads converging here were swamped as all Oklahoma made a mad rush to attend the inauguration of Governor Jack C. Walton a reversion to the days when the "wild west" was wild. The elite and the riff-raff met on western railway, shows that durinsiPresm- state is a the last-year, the right of way oficity." said Mr. the line has been damaged at 3 places.

Forty-two engines were derailed. 93 bridges destroyed and 98 signal cabins and other buildings razed. Women's Galoshes all sizes and heel. J3. 95.

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