Hamilton Daily News (Newspaper) - February 17, 1923, Hamilton, Ohio THE s VICE THE HAMILTON DAILY COLDER 1 CM T ESTABLISHED 1879 Pull Associated Press HAMILTON OHIO SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16 PAGES TODAY BOMB THROWN AT FRENCH HEADQUARTERS Revenue Agent Disguised as Minstrel Leads Raiders HEARTS OF VIOLATORS 50 Warrants Crew of 30 Conduct Tour of City vWASHINGTON Feb nnd prohibition enforcement officers today second city wide liquor cleanup since the beginning of February Armed with FO they gan noon a series of raids which reached into every section ofj Sleuth Mum as Questioner Accuses Betrayal of Race In Probe For Ford Paper the capital and which filled up rapidly all available detention space at al As in the series raids con- ducted February 2 evidence was en tho revenue agents nnd police by L- revenue agent from Kentucky Asher traveled the rounds of the capital underworld this time in the wandering minstrel playing his way into the hearts of bin i victims on a violin i Thirty revenue agents and police divided into Squads in various tions the city and working under the Davis of the police force and revenue Chief Ruby conducted onslaught on the started his latest of the in quest forgers within 24 the raids on 2 Disguised as hr played through the city streets and and into headquarters entirely The police have for since announcement nf activities in the raids nnd summoned a Hinder on the Haver to on his new of the time the pair tho of making H con- venient to cart their nnd of to At Xvnt organ grinders with monkeys CHICAGO Feb 17 of Albert Bailin alias confessed agent provocateur and paid informer had completed and Alien 0 Myers of the J Burns Detective Agency's radical bureau was today to continue testimony in ft de- position being here in defending 22 of the communist day ended in a sensation the state of Michigan represented by L Smith assistant general at- to show that Balanow had his own people the Jew- ish race Hut Balanow at times protesting volubly and then refusing to answer neither nor affirmed the impli ill ions The asked if lie bad gathered on which Henry Ford's tho born its Jew- ish articles said Mr Smith I ask you were you ever employed by i Henry directly or indirectly to obtain material to betray your own Balanow who had previously fied he is a Jew remained silent Then Balanow was asked if it was not a fact that while Collecting Jew- ish material in the employ of Daniels a brother of former Secretary 61 the NaVy nnd for a New York de- a he sold duplicate re- ports to Hapgood author of articles on that appeared recently n International gazine published by Randolph Hearst The witness remained silent Consistently Balanow maintained his of defiance when asked questions designed to show that he had been employed either by Ford or or had sold reports to Balanow would not reply to tions relative to who aided him tain freedom after arrest in New York in November 1920 for letters through the mails The queries were framed to show that Balanow gathering Jewish material for Ford soon his release from jail Balanow said any answer ho would make might in- criminate him as the New York charge lias hot been prosecuted A warrant for the arrest of now on a charge of criminal libel was in the hands of a city detective today FLU ON DECLINE THROUGHOUT OHIO Only Small Percent of Cases In Southern Part of State Reily Resigns As Porto Rico Governor t WASHINGTON Fein 17 dent Harding had before him today the resignation of E as Governor of Porto Rico an in Which lie was inaugurated in July inai The resignation cabled San Juan ill health as the reason was received at the White last evening and was made pub lie without comment indication has been given it is believed in tion circles that President Harding will accept the resignation which gested April 1 as the effective date Appeal of Socialists Denied by U S Court CINCINNATI Feb The U S Circuit of Appall ed r decision in Lotta Burke and eleven irs for selective COLUMBUS 0 Feb 17 ment of the influenza epidemic in Ohio during the first two weeks in February with the last two January is indicated ad- to reports to the state ment of mado public There were 012 cases reported as against 1261 for the last two weeks it January According to reports the disease is more prevalent in the south n of the stale than in northern part Owing to the fact that doctors have not reported cases these figures probably represent only a small part of tho total number of cases in the state HELEN OF TEW OF 28 LOSE LIVES IN WEEK'S STORMS 5 Die In Chicago and 6 In In Northwest ST -17 At least 17 persons lost their lives in the west as a result of Tuesday's blizzard following cold spell ing to here today perished In Minnesota three in South Dakota three in North Dakota and five in Saskatchewan province Canada Politician Held on Prohibition Charge CLEVELAND Feb Patrick P Joyce politician was arrested by Federal prohibition agents following raid on his home THEATRICAL MAN DIES CLEVELAND Ffb Irving 45 treasurer of the catre died here Abolition of Bible and ly Aim of Organization Says Witness SACRAMENTO Cal Feb 17 An inner secret society composed members of the Industrial ers if the World is being formed to carry on a reign of including assassination of jurists and bombing nf buildings as n means of checking 1 W W K Rend Los Angeles police officer am former member of the I W W testified here yesterday in the ma of five men charged with violating the California net Townsend star witness for the pros testified the sought the of an in commonwealth the Bible ai religious teachings and of the as unit of society School Is Burned TIFFIN Feb destroyed n school building at Senca count with a loss SEAMEN SAFE SHIP LOSS 3 MILLION 29 Men of Tuscan Prince On In Barclay Sound CHICAGO Fob 17 of at least five persons in to the cold wave that has embraced this region since day The cold still gripped this early today the dropped six degrees above zero i lev having reached 14 above yesterday At two more days of 1 the excessive weather was forecast SEATTLE Wash Feb 17 Un- der the open sky on a rock in Barclay Sound opposite Cape Flattery across the mouth of tHe strait of Juan de Fuca 25 men the last of 125 to be snatched Scatheless from four weeks were waiting to-be taken nft to safety and comfort this ine The four wrecks involved losses on hulls and cargoes that carried 000 of insurance Onc hundred of the 125 rescues were placed to the credit of the coast guard cutter Snohomish Sho wis waiting this morning for the 29 men marooned from the steamship can Prince when she went ashore ter midnight Thursday on the rock Already aboard the Cutter were me fourteen men who completed the Tus can Prince's crew Thn Snohomish Thursday landed at Port Angeles Wash the 34 men of the steamer Nika which burned to the And on her way back to port Angeles from the wreck of the Tuscan Prince the Snohomish was to take from the beach at the 23 men of the crew of the steam ship Santa Rita which struck th rocks early while trying to an S O P from the Nika the 25 carrier by the motorship wrecked early Wednesday on Mar Victoria B C were saved b Ifco Canadian Salvage ship inc DEISMS Springfield Police Chief Says Report Is Hot Air Klan Backs Kleaglc O Feb 17 Po lice Chief R K O'Brien today bram ed that he had received threa tening letters in connecticn with th Blue Laws Reformer and W A Brady Who Is Fighting for Sunday Theatricals ESSEN SCENE OF GERMAN DISORDER Windows Thrower Strike Continues The Rav Harry Iw Bowl by general secretary of the Lord's Dny iance of the United States obtained a summons in New iam A Brady nationally known producer and members of a company who appeared in a presented on n Sunday The Rev Mr announces that the purpose of an aggressive reform campaign is to stop all Sunday theatrical performances including vaudeville and burlesque and to clean up or clean out the movies Mr Brady de- clared in court head Lord's Day Alliance was not trying to suppress decent shows hut was making a campaign against mate respectable performances The bearing was adjourned SHIPPING Bit CALENDAR Debt Measure Passed By To Conference R R PLANNED BY FORD Motor King Would Use It for Freight Made SEATTLE Feb 17 in are attributed to deaths record breaking storm that raged from day to Wednesday Four men col- lapsed while shovelling ing one died soon after boarding a street car in an exhausted condition from several blocks and one Suffocated by smoke while to thaw out a frozen pipe E Greatest Gains Made In Re- action Noted Borah Appeal for World Parley Fantastic Says Italian Pact Ratified ROME Feb of the Washington conference by the Italian Senate day was marked by a speech raler Mussolini in which ho touched topics of international Interest v United Senator international as trio The Premier said that Mr position did not give him suf prestige to compel of hli of more or asked wether any one could now nourish any illusions as to the nf debt cancellations Turning to tho Ruhr question denied that Italy was ing between France Italy must make as to hef policy with ini continued She is mindful generosity toward hnr but she cannot afford the luxury of when it means tho welfare of Italians The premier urged passage of the fianta treaty with Jug nf Zara under K hajd liters Chief O'Brien declared that published reports of anonymous letters sen to him were all hot and that the only letters gotten at police quarters were commendatory of his action in raiding Klan headquarters here Wednesday night Attorneys for the Ku Klux Klan the police and attorneys for the were marking time in the case of M Cortner of Muncie Ind and organizer of the loral Klan branch who in police court pleaded not guilty to the charge of riotous conspiracy in connection with alleged activities of hia tion here and Was released on bond of Cortner was arrested night in the raid Tho Klan case is described by the prosecution and defense as a test of the Klan in the United States case is the first of Its kind to come before a court in this country and the entire national Klan is said to be throwing its resources into the breach Before the matter is ended there is a possibility the prosecution says of the Department of Justice taking a band in the affair Feb 17 wholesale prices United States to some extent in January from the upward movement of re- cent months says a report made by the bureau of labor no change in the general price is shown by the index number covering 404 commodities which again stands at as it did in December Comparing prices in January with of a year ago the report tines as measured changes In the index figures it is seen that general price level has risen 13 cent compared with ember the decrease in wholesale farm was slightly more than 1 per cent Building materials show the largest increase for the the increase be ing 19 percent Metal and metal products dhow an increase of 18 percent farm products 17 cent fuel and lighting materials 11 percent clothing U percent good chemicals house and many oua articles show smaller compared atq Church Worker Dies CLEVELAND Feb Fred A Mansfield 58 worker died when stricken ill attor 1 meal pre- ST MINN Feb of n for freight carrying purposes only to operate between Duluth Min Superior and the Twin Cities is contemplated by Henry Ford it was reported here today said be part of Ford's plans in connection with his proposed industrial plant at Feb 17 Ad- jj nere in tnc that ministration shipping again held of the power derived privileged status in the Senate today 5 after the passage last night of the British debt funding which now to Tol L H Britten goes to conference industrial engineer of the Greater The shipping measure was restored Paul committee Bitch a pkn had to its the unfinished teen suggested to Mr Ford but he ness of tho Senate on motion of could not say that any definite Senator Jones Republican tion hnd been taken Engineers it ton who has it in charge after a was said move for adjournment by Senator surveys for the line Democrat Arkansas had been defeated 38 to 30 This movo however was not as a test of strength on the since a ber of Senators on both sides were absent The debt was passed shortly after 7 bv a vote of 70 to 13 difficulty is expected in the Senate's action being re- as virtually completing Con- gressional approval of the settlement of the British debt which was not affected by the ments adopted Only two important amendments are dispute between the House both having been adopted yes without a record vote One provides that funding agreements negotiated with other debtor nations bo subject to the approval of Con- gress instead of the President The other amendment enlarges the fund- ing commission to eight members and stipulates that not more than four mnv be members of one political party This in effect will place three Democrats on the Commission which it present includes Secretary Mellon of tho Treasury as man and four Republicans Feb Bomb throwing and serious cases of tage occurred in the Ruhr valley ing the bomb was thrown in street in Essen near the hotel the French engineers quarters where chief engineer Coste end SO or 40 other civil engineers are lodged No injuries resulted The windows of he hotel were broken by the explosion This hotel is day and night by French soldiers but the It is thought possible the was thrown from the roof of one of the neighboring Considerable additional difficulty in is being caused the French act of Germans recently reported in ing two loaded barges in the channel of the Rhino Berne canal which is one of the arteries of water communication in the Ruhr It will be several days before the occupying are able to get the barges out of the way i the canal com- blocked Another strike has occurred among the miners of the Krupp pits at Bochum men going out They struck because the mine officials were arrested by the French for refusing to obey orders and obstructing tho work of the French commission The employes of the municipal tric works have decided to cut off Essen's supply of electricity as u re- sult of the imposition nf tho fine of five million marks on director of the local plant BERLIN Feb re- from Essen today said that one French soldier was and two others wounded one seriously in the restaurant battle Thursday night between French and Belgian soldiers nnd Essen policemen Tho fighting started when guests summoned the police after the soldiers had been re- fused service and one of the Belgians had drawn his GEM THEFT NEAR SOLUTION are l AI Senate and U H 1 U V I t 6 Q Chase of 6000 Miles THINK 2 SHOT LOS ANGELES ENGINEER Attorneys Say Wife Spoke of Gay Parties -4 Watch Home Leaders in Good Will Meet Idea to Reclaim Man of The Street CLEVELAND 0 Feb Di Mission of problems of work was on today's Kram of the institute fur in good will of the dist hero The meeting opened yesterday In ton to the of the man of he the organization planning definite work in riving the to a worth while American Good will from twenty two of the countries in Rev Richard E of nati waa scheduled to address the motiving session theme was how can we realize our year program adopted at The afternoon program called for an address by Rev S Burton of Buffalo on a sensible program of Americanization for a good will in- dustry of the development of the cial educational and religious of the goodwill will M by NEW YORK Feb 17 The man under arrest in Albany as the alleged ring leader of the trio who on New Year's eve robbed Mrs Irene of Buffalo of worth of jewels early today was identified by his photograph as the occupant of the apartment in which the daring robbery occurred The identification is made by Frank Barrett Carman actor and friend of the and who was host at the party which immediately preceded the robbery That's the man who had the ment under Carman said on being shown a photograph of the bany prisoner whose real name local police declared to bo Matthew D dulph member of a well known ily of Rye N Y He waa arrested ter n mile chase that extended to the Pacific coast and return to Canada and ended at Albany knew him as Carmen continued He is the man who came to the party uninvited It was in His apartment that Mrs was robbed Local police said today that the ar- rest would serve to up the bery TKd Biddulph police said has had a long criminal Two other men in custody with UM LOS ANGETES Feb 17 police said today were trying to determine whether a woman was in- in the slaying late Thursday night of Earle Remington nationally known electrical engineer whose body mangled by a charge from a shotgun and a bullet from a revolver MS found on the lawn near the doorway of bis residence in a fashionable early yesterday The officers said they lie waa killed by two persons As far was known there was no witness to the slaying Tho officers said they had bean told that a woman in a coupe was watching Remington's residence about 8 o'clock Thursday night that about two men and two women were seen lurking in the dows nearby Two attorneys told the officers Mrs Remington recently dis- cussed domestic troubles with them wikh a view to effecting a property but had taken no definite steps toward filing a suit for divorce One said she had spoken of Gay Parties her clubman husband at- tended and had told of employing de- to shadow him and that he had accused her of having him watched Warm In Cleveland CLEVELAND 0 Feb 17 ly rising temperature was today and tomorrow when the ther record indicated that extreme cold spell here ly ended The mercury stood at 13 above this morning Weather In Detail Local mows this afternoon tonight Colder tonight generally fair and somewhat Temperature near tero or north portion Sunday
