Sioux City Journal, The (Newspaper) - May 8, 1923, Sioux City, Iowa I 3mtnutL TUESDAY MAY fOINT ACTION IN CHINA NOW A POSSIBILITY Troops to Back Any Allied Move Against Ity Arthur Sears to In intervention In China to foreigners seized by bandits to assure future safety of for feigners mny be It waa If prevailing fears of Mho In the republic aro The most serious situation since tho Boxer when an International army relieved tho foreign legations In was the characterization of of tho capture of the Shanghai by a Chinese bandit army anil the Kidnapping of ami other American troops stationed in China participate In any International mil undertaken and may have been dispatched at the of Jacob Gould the to rescue of tho captured Tn tsc n conference requested by Sec of Acting Secre tary of War Davis stated that tho American troops will be used to back up any advised by the stato de and William Connor at has ample dis cretionary power to act without spe His force consists of 35 officers nnd enlisted men of the Fifteenth Infantry commanded by Campbell Secretary of the NaVy said the marines In could bo employed against the bandits without specific orders from Washing THE Yesterdays 8 9 10 11 12 2 p 5 4 6 1 17 Fair weather Is the forcast of the government weather bureau for Sioux City and vicinity The maximum temperature yesterday was 62 degrees and the minimum 48 The sun rises today at 613 and will set at THE May Fair and cool Tuesday Wednesday fair and some what South Dakota Tuesday and rising temperature on Nebraska Fair cooler In enst and south rising NEWS Joint action in China a possibility troops Page officials accused being on pay roll Page Swindlers use bogus checks to upset Page Important new developments In Mount Page Iron kings lose battle in high Pago Cannon celebrates his 87th ACCUSE NUMBER YANK OFFICIALS OF WRONGDOING Reported to Be on Payroll of Philippine dence By Grafton Special Dispatch to The May ington officials were apprehensive to day over press reports from that representatives and oth ers prominent in government official dom were on of the Philip pine independence it Is has been spending a mil lion voted from government for independence The report that Leonard Wood ordered an Investigation of the payroll vouchers and was about to a list of names of Wash ington officials and who have been on the Independence payroll cre ated considerable stir noth ing has been received in government departments confirming the press dls Chinese soldiers surround captors of Pago reply links debts and Pago Croat Franco and Japan have forces of about the same strength us the American In north The of Joint international opera tions will be considered by the council of diplomats in Peking This nnd other bandit outt recently have raised the question of the ability of the Chinese govern ment Jo protect foreigners and in some faar is that these events portend a new upheaval in China which the powers with an extremely serious lie scene and Sf to Vigorous slayer takes stand In his own Pago SOUTH Injures banker who may Page trampled to death by cned Page dies of burns when auto catches Page Sioux City Packers trim Des 5 to Pago Tigers bunch their Jilts and win from Pago Cracked States golfers clim Philippine commissioners are both having left for home BOOH after the adjournment of The Philippine press bureau Issued a StaTement denying any knowl edge of the The dispatch from a Manila news paper printed in an aft said the from play at Page Casey Stengel and come to blows In Page Eddie Kane posts forfeit money for Gibbons appearance at Pago Chinese bandits hold City resident Page hands for 7Nfeot above 4 nent officials in Washington have been receiving payments running The plain inference is that mem bers of the American congress have been receiving bribes from the Filipinos to favor Philippine this Is true it Is moro of an In of such American than of It would mean that the Filipino people have resort to bribery to obtain the Independence which was solemnly promised them by congress and which Is justly theirs by divine right and principles enunci ated In the declaration of The dispatch referred to states that Wood will make public the names of the been receiving the funds run ning into five TVo await anyone in this office not a single dollar has any senator or addressed to the Chinese govern i The it in ren tiered more serious by the fact that a British citizen is reported to have been The British government of late has given evidence of much annoyance in China during the six or months and the Brit ish proas has been full of suggestions ot intervention by the powers to take control of the affairs ot gov in view of the well known vigorous policy of the British govern merit in punishing outrages against its it 8 thought Ikely that the British diplomatic representative at Peking will press for drastic action In no secret is made of the fact that the American government has become annoyed at the or the Peking government to porno up to expectations with respect the Coltman the Federal Wireless both of llw subject of many of ne It was announced at the that the Tuchun of has made formal to the legation for Ws part In the killing and that there is reason to believe other demands of the United States in connection with his case be compiled believed here that the object of tie bandits was either to obtain straight prisoners or lexer for ob a milt the Peking government Continued on Page BODIES ITALIANS j PROBABLY THROWN r INTO RIO GRANDE Way bodies of lix Italian plain at a lonely Mexican near Colum bia while attempting to the United states in violation of the immigration been thrown Rio according to chief United Suites Im service He returned from the scene the 4K Of Clark makes Page Church organizes first agency of Its kind In the Page Intimates bootlegger to blame for auto Page Boys and Girls clubs of county serve Mothers Pago Move Bell of flees to Com merce Page Ball to bo given In Grabbes after formal bridge Page Insane traveling man attempts to end life In county Page Lifeless body of man found In sitting posture on Pago Overcomes Fifty Train Passengers New May persona were overcome by during to nights rush hour when a short circuit a lire In the east side subway of Sixty eighth street and Lexington Five of this made serious ly and were taken to The others Were able to go home after emer gency Passengers of a 10car train became excited when smoke from the short cir cuit filled Many of them smashed windows and fought their way to emergency although the ma waited until the station at Sixty was where 30 were removed by ambulance surgeons and At street 20 were found overcome by the FORMER SIOUX CITY RESIDENT BANDIT VICTIM Robert Allen in the Hands of Chinese 7 tor of T smoke and were taken Intp the Many passengers were trampled and bruised as the hundreds rushed for safety when train One woman guttered a broken former city edl wife and small ft were among the party of captured by Chinese morning whe dispatches to 7 Indicated that Allen by tho Mongolian ft MOTOR LAUNCH WITH CREW OF 65 IS MISSING Key Tho 62foot motor of tho United States with a crew of BIX op hao not been heard from since 4 the morning of May when was seen lashing tho high seas in a gale In latitude longitude It was officially made known here to day on arrival of the United States army boat General Frank Late today tho coast guard and were to go In search of the missing The General Frank attached tothe United States In was en route from New Orleans to tho Jana ma WAIL STREET Checks Running Into Millions Dumped on Stock editor of The from former Baying that Allens wife had been Tho wire fol lows Martha major nnd Dobble re leased BOOH by Chinese The message was signed by Martha Former School Allen Is a graduate of Sioux City high and for several years attended college at to ho a v Reply Links Debts K and Reparations Mny tho reply to the German one of the highest spokesmen for the French government said links the question of rep with that of the interallied This Is In the sense that out of the total gold forced In 1921 by the allies as Ger manys demands her share of tho scheduled payments bf Bold marks or 000 marks to begin as a and In addition such part of her share of the remaining marks as will correspond to tho sums asked of her in payment of her War debts to the United Great All this means that If tho United States or Great cancels any part of tho debts them by the latter is ready to reduce to that extent her share of the gold marks due from Germany addition to the pro for In the scheduled In other she feels obliged to claim from Germany aa much of the marks balance as may be to pay the This unquestionable authority did not say that Franco would not pay If Germany does but ho made It plain that If Franco so must pay to tho Ho also cm er member of the editorial staff of 1 ranco and urn cannot night city editor of Tho Later Allen attended North western at whore ho completed his medical edu For a number of years ho practised medicine at and theu went west to There ho was assistant city editor of a newspaper resuming the prac tice of At tho outbreak of world Allen was given a commission ip and later was promoted special position In the Ruhr the United States he at Fort but departed with his wife and from on April 10 for a two months trop through Japan and Tho party of which Allen and his family were members was riding a train eh route from Shanghai to Pek At Lin tho bandits wrecked the train and lifter a of shots forced the foreigners to march In front of them as guarding the railway wero they to prevent tho They wero pursued by up to ttn curly hour this morning their capture not fHE CHINESE TRAIN BANDITS Brigands Threaten to Kilf Captives Unless Troops At 10 Pacific oil available reports In connection with the Chinese bandit raid on tho Peking near Indicated that 10 ly were still In the bands of the The list Included one of whose release or escape had not been definitely although general statements had been received from two or three points all wom en captured had been The bandits have demanded a ransom of In addition to a pardon for all according to The diplomatic representatives of tho governments aro conferring op what action Is to bo Hy Sioux City Tribune May 7 latest reports received through Con ular stato that the Chinese to be compromised by allies whoso In aro far less than their Ho out that participation by Britain in tho reply to pursuing tho Lin Ching ban would have Implied that tho question of reparations could now be discussed by Germany with all tho In dependently of any action by Franco nnd Belgium in tho It Is would bo a distinct encourage ment of tho resistance to that occupa Uy the w New and private have become sufficiently close to parleys with tho bandits and Ing hus replaced the By Sioux City Tribune Mny Including or all tho tak en by tho Shantung bandits up en route from to at Lin Cheng aro unto and 23 others n still held cap tive and aro In grave danger of their lives as tho battle ban dits and tho who have sur rounded them One British subject Id reported to have been Larry formerly a reporter tho Chicago and now Chinese escaped by bin bandit arrived at Miss Later this message was For and bandits have hung to the soldiers MM Continued on Pago TO A SCANTLING Steeplejack Suspended 70 Feet Above Ground In side feet ground t Momentarily thn the outlaws put tho 10 miles small military group ta Blind sole support of his moth struck by street Pago Student education fund is advocated by Rotary club fage 11 Booze plant is raided at two men aro Morningside college day program Is Chicago grain heavy s Pago 12 Hogs suffer heavy losses mar ket Page Chinese r Pay Death Penalty Bun the Chinese student found guilty early In of the mur der pf Ben Sen undersecretary at the Chinese educational mission in must pay the by the district court of appeals held affirming the The execution will titke a Girl Killed by an Automobile May Gor daughter of and John was killed here today when she down by an automobile The child is said to Have tried to run u y misrepresentations of the Filipino peo ple with than to resort to BUSINESSMEN AIDING HEAD OF May business men who began today a cam of personal solicitation for tho sale of Wiggly stuck met to night and tho progress of the drive to dispose of shares and prevent president of from going Two visiting business of Str and Len of New attended tho meeting tonight and assured the local organ that their cities would back the slock and take caro of their The campaign will be un til the shares have been sold and has been saved for according to the leaders of the which followed Baunders appeal to tho people of Memphis through a newspaper ad Several hundred local business were active throughout the day In tho city which lias been laid out in 28 divisions had disappeared along the river were searching for sole sur vivor ot ot seven Italians who paid Mexican policeman to the awarding to his Is in a critical condition in at men are reported ay af o i 8a a a street al though a companion remonstrated with her against the An Attempt Made to Wreck French Train May By the Associat ed A bomb Which was ed at midnight as the Cologne express was destroyed one side of the at between Cologne and the crowded in FIRE DESTROYS A HOME CHILD LOSES May 3yearold con of and Harvey of was ed today the family home as a It Is believed of a childish fear that he would be punished for playing The baby and aged 6 found machos and started a fire under the from the flower smoKe issuing from the house and rush ing in called repeatedly for the baby several times while in the room where the but got no and a neighbor meanwhile carried out the The baby huddled under did not answer his mothers The house and contents were nearly After the fire was the babys body was was severely MATTHEWS LINCOLN Wall streer generally attributed the scheme to traders seek ing prices for own although tho possibility was not lout sight of that a fanatic or some disgruntled person might have thrown the monkey wrench into tho gears of the New York stock It was that those who worked plot had wide knowledge of AVall street and Us Although not a single one of the checks was their brokers had a marked todays Several rushing into ex change with what they thought were buying at tho mar ket for New York Corn Pro ducts and Chile with a sprink ling f other sent prices sharp ly Z Banks Reject In tho New York correspondents on which the forged checks were drawn began to turn down tho worthless The brokers who had bought promptly gun to unload and tho market Already uneasy under tho recent at tacks of bear and further de pressed by acute weakness that de the grain and cotton rfar the took the ean and most of the shares listed by the big board made new low records for the year before they juit The decline did not end few minutes before the Whan a by bear traders checked the Some shares ed 1 to 2 but practically the list closed below the losses ranging from 1 to 10 H Tho operators of the If they took full advantage of made a killing both on the rise and the selling short on the brief peak reached the forgeries were disclosed and then covering buying for Hie The scheme In which it was sought to involve brokers In ton and as well as In New was worked out with methodical although the forged names at to the checks were They apparently Dad been by the same but tho foreigners in the front stated that two Americans and one Englishman wero This appears to confirm my private advices that one American army officer was cither Finger or Robert I have confirmed reports of tho re lease of Lucy of John Miss McFadden and other women who wero not able to keep up with the pace of the fleeing They reached Lin Cheng very ill from having been com to leave tho train scantily had money to telegraph or jewels to but they managed to get word th rough to where a special train was formed Including a physician and nurse and also food and to to Pek where who will probably arrive to morrow By Sioux City Tribune May An American army whose identity yet been waa shot by Chinese ban dfts who held up a train en route from Shanghai to Peking yesterday at Lin according to reports from Lin bandits killed an Both the American and lega tions here have strong protests with tho Chinese foreign A meeting of the diplomatic corps is awaiting the return of United States Minister Jacob on Page THREE CHICAGO CHOOSE SUICIDE ROUTE to May to whom the world had brought disap departed from It today by heir own of rul dently figured on a turn before the forgeries weve Vivo who wero be hind the fraudulent check sue in causing the purchase pf 1 o time to avert ft disaster Governor Hopes fa Attend elected today he tg Jw aWe to ac Jhe shares of by fivo houses in tWs A net loss of was suffered BANKRUPTCY COURT WIPES WT DEBTS HARRIS May T actress her liad and two with to give feverishly to save Campbells Firemen chiseled at tho thick of tho smoke chuto as u 40mIlo gale threatened to blow ladders from tho stack and spectators far below up to them to abandon their before they were swept from tho giant to certain and his Henry 204 Seventh had been making Improvements In the Scaffold They completed the work lato Mon day descended to the fire pit at the bottom of tho stack to remove Home of the which had fallen into the While doing this he heard a sudden scream and flattened himself against tho wall of the stack JustIn time to escape being by the falling Looking upward he saw Campbell clinging to a small piece of timber which had become wedged at a point where several bricks protruded the this ono scantling re mained of the Creeping through a Small wo partially blocked by Broso gained the outside of the shaft and In alarm to the police and fire A ladder truck from the fire department headquarters the lengthened out to full failed to reach tho top of the Attempts were made to shoot ropes over the the chimney but the high carried tho ropes far from the The ladders wore then shortened until they reached a point six feet the point where Campbell clung for I Join In Firemen then chiseled n hole through the brick 10 Inches As they tho swaying with the threatened 19 slip from tho Twice they slipped a few but the firemen caught hold of the niche they liad chiseled in the wall in time to nave them from As the chisel broke through the thick Nineteen foreign ers are still List of Tho railroad company announced tbo following list of passengers who booked passage on tho train to Peking F Pratt and and Vera Miss Leon wife and Miss Miss Miss Miss Fred Theodore Chen and Larry Some of the passengers going to to join Minister Jacob for a ceremonious Inspection friends in Chicago and were In the midst of the argument Pel tier suddenly arose from the back seat and plunged from the fracturing her her second at the age of failed to bring happiness hanged herself from Because was tired of life put 80 years today committed through the aperture and the steeple bottom of the When tlw steeplejack was froin Pit was found that Ws aims were numb from the hours of to the POLICE RESCUE GIRL IN GAME STRIP to Tho May the Hco arrived just In time to save Miss who was playing With Louis Her bert lost her re stocking and wan down to ft very short skirt of vivid green on Uie first and third vf Chef Drowned While frying Out New May Rudolph ft bW When her name wag to her learning to drive and was drowned 4onioWle wient WQ municipal A teaching to gen Octo i in filed had complained to the police that poker game was In two officers arrived to liad just won Miss last Both men had lost everything their who the largest interest in had a hat the called all bets retired
