Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1923, Page 5

HEARD SHOTS FIRED INMER ROUGE FEUD Witness Tells of an Aileged s Attempt on Life of Dr. | 3 McKoin. MURDER PLOT SUSPECTED State Believes Two Lake Victims Were Kidnaped After Attacking Physician. ‘B the Aswci BASTF mlleged attempt to assassinate Dr. B. M. McKoin, former mayor of Mer Rouge, which is believed to have prompted the kidnaping and killing of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard, was brought up at the outset at to- day’s session of the open hearing be- tng conducted by the state into the mectivities of masked men on the More- house parish, particularly into the murder of Daniel and Richard C. Wagsdale of Wagster, the first witness, testified he was in a poker xame at the home of J. L. l)anlt-l " Mer Rouge the night Dr. MecKoin ix sald to have been fired upon frow ambush. Watt Daniel, J. L. Daniel, °r. F. Richard, W. C. Andrews, Tom Bell and & man by the name of Hizk were the other plavers. “After I left the game I went to a ¥estaurant,” .sald Wagsdale, “after which I went to my home. On my #vay 1 heard two shots. I did not pay mny attention to it. I was going away that night, so T left home and walked down to the restaurant again to walt ! for the train. I joined Watt Daniel, Richard, W. C. Andrews and others §n the restaurant. 1 _did not hear of mny attempt to kill Dr. McKoin until 3 reached Bonita next day.’ Lake Find Is Shown. Rain has made the highways into the parish almost impassable, and officials expressed the opinfon it would be impossible for many of the witnesses summoned today to appear. S. 1. Bennett, general manager of the Southern Carbon Company plant at Spyker, where Harold Teegerstrom was employed as timekeeper, was the next witness. Teegerstrom disappeared the night ot December 29, a few days before the beginning of the hearing. Two Aays later he appeared at the home of Henry Jones, near Bastrop. Jones testified before departing . from his home_ Teegerstrom informed m-1 was best for him to leave because federal agents were “hounding” him concrning certain evidence and he believed that should he continue to remain In the vicinity “they would implicate him in the kidnaping case. “Do vou remember some one re porting to you he had disappeare Bennett was asked “Yes,_ the matter was reached to me by Dean Ashe 't after T made in- *aniry to where ‘Teg’ was. T was informed that ‘Some one had called him out last night’ 1 notified the sheriff at Bastrop. 1 also notified Teegerstrom's brother. The sheriff came to the plant and talked to Ash- v id Teczerstrom read the met “No, Ashcraft attended to that. Governor in Conferemce. “Who had access to the buildings where the meters were stored? “Asheraft and myeelf.” “Do you remember a bunch of keys wers handed to you after Teeger- atrom had disappeared?” “Yes, Ashcraft gave them to me. arc at my house now.” A “bunch of keys was handed the witness and he was asked whether a certain one opened the meter houses Mr. Pennett replied it was a master key and it would open all the meter boxes. The keys exhibited to Bennett and » hacksaw were found on the banks of Lake La Fourche by J. C. Nettles, +n_fisherman, the morning after the explosion of a charge of dynamite which brousht the bodles of Daniel and Richard to the surface. A conference terday in Baton Rouge between Gov. John M. Parker and Agterney General Coco was the toplo A «iscussion here today as the open laydng into marked band ac- tivities Morehouse parish, _which culminai in the kidnaping of Watt Daniel aua Thomas I. Richard, Au- guet 24, enteved its third week. The attorme general, at the re- quest of the governor for the capital Saturday afternoon soon after the hearing adjourned for the week end, ymade no annuouncement befora his departure, nor would any of his as- sistants discuss the subject of the conference. Tt was known, however, that it pertained to the Morehouse investigation. End of Hearing Near. Tn some quarters the conference was regarded as foreshadowing the early conclusion of the hearing. Mem- hers of Mr. Coco’s staff last week had ’ /7 (nero, Feeot)( Five! < SAW YOuR MISSUS O EVERY YOUMGER AN - HAR WAy SHE GROWS -HAR! g 1 VE TRIED DIETING AND . EYERCISING- BUT DA\{GM ‘DAY IM EVERY WAY t GROW FATTER Any FAT TER VAH! yAH! BL0OD MONEY IDEA ' FIRES GERMANS Rebel Because of General Be- lief That Reparations - Are Unjust. | SAY WAR WAS FORCED State of Mind Declared One of Sullenness and Responsible for Present Resistance. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Washington has just beén made authoritatively acquainted with the DPrecise state of the German mind, of- ficial and popular, on the questipn of reparations. It clearly explains not only past but present German resist- ance to the claims df France. Ger- many does not consider that repara- tions are a debt of honor, but “blood money” extorted by conquerors fter a war which they forced upon her. She will pay if and when she must, but, no matter how much, will pay sullenly and in the spirit of people who feel they are disgorging. some- thing they really do not.owe, at all. State of Mind Amalyzed. First-hand information of the Ger- man mental process anent repara- tions is brought by Prof. Jeremiah W, Jenks, the well known political econo- mist and currency export. who was on duty in.Berlin.six weeks ago.as the American member of an inter- national commission ‘invited by the Cuno government- to_diagnose Ger- many’s fiseal woes. Prof. Jenks set forth the German viewpoint on repa- expressed the opinfon that the end would be reached Wednesday or Thursday, basing their assertion on the number of witnesses the state ex- pected to cdll to the stand. Testimony taken during the hear- fng has assumed large proportions. The stenographic report already in- cludes approximately 500,000 words, and the court reporter is so far be- hind in transcribing it that thousands, the war, of words are being read on dictating | ing machine records and sent to tvpists in New Orleans. A transcript of the testimony is necessary for the grand jury i the result of the investigation is placed before that body, and every effort is being made to rush the work. Five men, “Newt” Gray, T. Je Burnett, Oliver Skipwith, = Smith Stevenson and “Blacksmith” Smith, were declared by witnesses last week. 10 have been recognized as members of the masked band which made cap- tives of Daniel and Richards, who were never seén again after appear- ing at Collinston, eight miles from here, as prisoners of the hooded men. The general trend of the interroga- tion today was expected to relate to jdentification of other alleged mem- . bers of the kidnaping party. " SUN YAT-SEN LEAVES ' FOR CANTON SATURDAY Ex-President Will Take Charge of Southern Chinese Capital Cap- tured Last Wednesday. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL January 22.—Sun Yat- Een, ex-president of the Southern Re- publlc, announced today that -he would leave next Saturday for Canton, his former capital. Both foreign and Chinese tnterests have been urging tim to ge there to restore order. Hi dherents took the city from Peking sationalists last Wednesday. EX-PRESIDENT IS ENVOY. Lithuanians Send Ambassador to Memel Government. i, A radiogram from Kovno to the Lithuanian legation here today said that Mr, Antanas Smetona, who was the first president of Lithuania, has been sent as envoy extraordinary to the allied powers at Memel. There been no disorders in H(mdt the Lithuanian insur- genis {ook the eity, the massage said. rations before the National Civic Fed- erdtion’s civic committee of 100, which was convened {n Washington to dis- cuss America's role in world affairs. Prof. Jenks spoke dispassionately of the German attitude toward repara- ons. The country's stubbornness dates back, he said, to the fourteen points of President Wilson. The Germans, in accepting those terms for ending understood they were bind- selves to pay only for resti- war-damaged civilian prop- erty in France and Belgium. They did not really regard themselves boun insist, was a war of defense which they were compelled to wage against their will—a. war forced upon.them by-their aggressive neighbors. While they acknowledged no moral.or legal obligation to pay restitution repara- tions, they realized that it was. cus- tomary for the loser of a war to do so. They sought and obtained -the armistice on that understanding. Staggering War Burdens. Then came the peace conference. At its end the Germans found them- selves saddled not only with a &i- gantic bill for “restitution” costs, but for pensions to members of the Vic- torious armies and their survivors and dependents. With other damages assessed against them by the treaty of Versailles the Germans were con- fronted with a ‘“reparations” bill staggeringly out of proportion to anything they imagined they were letting themselves in for' under the fourteen points of Woodrow Wilson. From the outset they were sullen, resentful and openly bent upon evasion of such an “injustice.” It was thelr attitude from the 5 were re- guired to sign on the datted-line at YVersailles on June 28, 1915. pea: Jenks ] them: | tution of DR ot Tamains el Sicde o L ul 18 rin hqonm today. = ~ Net in Sympathy. Jenks was at pains.to-make plain he was not identifying him- self with the German viewpoint. He intended merely to set it forth. It was a condition of mind, he _sal that required to be understood abroa: in any attempt intelligentiy to gauge ‘what is now going on in Berlin and the Ruhr. Jenks clothed the idea in a homely illustration. “The aver: man ér woman among us” he sald, “incurs an ordinary liability, like a bill for a purchase, and recognizes without question the duty to pay-the bill when it is presented. But any number of people waste gray matter and midnight oil trying te circum- vént income tax assessments. % moral or Iar about: about :the waythe Germ: STREET YESTERDAY, L:E/J NEVER SAW HER LOUK S0 WELL . DAY By DAY trt 0 YOUNGER - | Captain’ of industry and chamber- | that ‘sort of thing, Jenks said. | result THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. Events Leading g up to the Tragedy REAT ! 114 FACT, DAY By DAY 1M EVERY WAY | GRew BETTER AND BETTER . M‘A‘- HA How's Reoy ? THA'S Goco Gus? SOME TOKE EVERY WAY P BusiNeESS OF REATHING ~ For 44 CAL- SIXSHOOTSR. ™M M@ POKET ( MASH 3RowW Ed their reparations bill. If they can dodge it, they're persuaded they're within their moral and legal right: Draws Distinction, Jenks declared that a distinction should be drawn between the attitude of the’ German government and that of the German people. Although the Cuno - cabinet might adhere- to the “policy of fulfillment” and be willing to abide by a reparations agreement, German citizens are engaged in a wholesale attempt -to put their prop- erty into non-taxable forms. i ‘When they sell in foreign countries, instead of accepting money in pay- ment they take it in the form of “eredits,” "~ which are non-taxable. maid, prince and pauper, are doing The is that however weil inten- tioned the German government might be in its desire to .obtain real wealth for reparations payments, the diffi- culties of laying hands on this wealth for revenue purposes were almost in- surmountable. America, the Nether- lands, Switzerland, the Scandinavian kingdoms, and even France and Great Britain notoriously are de- positories for vast sums of German assets hidden there so as to be be- yond the reach of the Berlin treasury. (Copyright, 1923) RUSS WANDERERS | 10 BE GIVEN F00D U. S. Authorities Forbid Refugees Landing in Philip- pines, But Will Aid. By thie Associated Press. MANTLA, P. I, January 22.—Ad- miral ‘Stark, Russian anti-bolshevik leader, with flve ships of his refugee fleet oftwelve, carrying 830 persons, d to do even that. The war, they ! representing the destitute remnants of | the former czar's forces that fled from Vladivostok when that city passed into -soviet control, anchcred yesterday at Bolinao cove, at the ertrance of Lin- gayen gulf. The other ships, beaten off ther course, are expected to arrive before next Wednesday. Admiral Stark was notified by Ad- miral Edwin A. Anderson, commander of the American Asiatic fleet, that the refugees would not be. permitted to land at Bolinao, but must proceed to the Mariveles quarantine station, Manila bay: f There_they will.be given food sup- plies. This word was conveyed to Admiral’ Stark by Capt 'S. §. Rogers, commander of the United-States:de- stroyer Barker, and Lieut. Osborne Wood, representing Leonard:" ‘Wood, governor general of the-Phil- ippinies. ‘Admiral Stark will be per- mitted to wait-at Bolinao until -the other.ships arrive, providing they.do so_not later than next Wednesday. ‘The refugees, 700 men, 100 women gnd | thirty children, “dre wearing oolen clothing, which is unsuitable for -the tropice, and the Red Cross | has appealed for donations. for the unfoftunates. Admiral Stark said he was disap- pointed to hear that he .probably would not be permitted to remain permanently in the Philippines. said the last time he was there was| in 1905, when his ship, one of nine, escaped destruction in .the famous battle of Tsu China, in the| -Japanese war. g e ——— FALL IS CITED. Must Show Cause Why He'Should Not Be Pakty to Claims:Action. +"Justice Hits of the District Supreme Court 'today. cited Albert B.* Fall,:Sec- retary of . the ‘Interior,: to show: causs |' February 28 why a writ of mandamus|. should not be {ssued againstihim ito compel: him to take jurisdiction:of a war clalm of Logan Rives-of Jalifor- nia. Mr. Rives complaine that he was requested by the department .during the ‘war to produce manganese’ for ‘war purposes and bought -two. "“hu ’ of land na!lir B;Iaxuvflh. Ark., for: urpose. Hé. also went to great e: 33',;%" in “equipping the . piaces, e s The signing of the armistice made the value of the land deteriorate and he_filed claim. for los: ——— - How's BusIness, HEY, Roy T DAY 8Y DAY I~ WwWE GRow, WETTER Anp \VETTER . =By Webster ROrTEN! OAY By DAY 1n EVERY WAy BuSiMEss 6Rows ROTTENER AMO RoTTENER | s = = T3 PROHIBIT 1O - | ‘| ever, that it would be feasible to jack K! N MUROERED FATTY S 1 Tuas! Th' PAPER'S FULL OF \T . \ ;Ropflen Hi TH' FIQST SHOT THen | SYooD OVER HiM AMO EMPTIED i FiS REVOLVER N HIt Y WHA O YA THinK PART-TIME TEACHERS GIVEN NEW SCHEDULE; A definite program or part-time tea€hers in the primary grades and the kindergartens, drafted by a spe- clal committee headed by Supervising Principal Ben W. Murch, has been submitted to- the school officers and teachers by Supt. Ballou. with in-; structions that it be put into practice as far as possible until modified by responsible school officials. The new schedule supplants the one designating the work to be performed by the kindergarten. first and second grade teachers in extra hours which was introduced several years ago when all part-time teachers were or- dered to devote flve instead of three and one-half hours a day to sohool work. Besides Chairman Murch, the committée which framed the new pro- gram was composed of J. C. Bruce, supervising principal; Rose Lee Hardy. @lrector of primary instruc- tion: E. F. B. Merritt, assistant dire tor of primary instruction; Catherins R. Watkins, director of kindergartens, and Imogene Wormley, assistant di- rector of kindergartens. —_—— EXPULSION IS URGED. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, January 22.—Expulsion of the Jews was openly advocated at a demonstration held vesterday before the city hall. Speakers as- serted that efforts to regenerate the German people would not succeed | until the Jews were ousted from the dominant positions in economic life, art, the stage and the press. A heavy police guard was present and only a few minor collisions oc- curred. so GOOD Nine months of ex- perimenting—to create the tastc of Angel- drink. Its exquisite fla- vor is produced by the secret blend of our good milk with richest choco- late, delicately malted. It comes in the bottle —absolutely pure and sanitary. Serve Angel-drink at home, _hot or cold. Thompson’s Dairy milk- man will bring it to you in pint or quart bottle. Ask for it at fountains. Phone ‘N. 5997 ‘Today! North 5997 2012 11th StNW. ; MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1923. D.C. RECLAMATION PROJECT BOOSTED Senators Approve Plans for Beautifying and Extending Anacostia Park. PHIPPS INDORSES MOVE Amendment Calls for New Report on Work Near Benning Bridge. Plans for extending the Anacostia Park project north of the Benning bridge will take definite shape if Con~ gress adopts an amendment to be of- fered by Senator Phipps calling for a new report on that phase of the work. Reclamation of the flats and its conversion Into a beauty spot has been confined to the area south of Benning. principally for the reason that it had been deemed necessary to put a draw in the Benning bridge In order to carry the work hevond that point Semators Approve Work. At the hearings before the Senate | bcommittee on the District bill a v days ago it was developed, how- the dredging machinery out of the water and transport it around the bridge, thus obviating the necessity for a draw span. Senator Phipps by his questioning brought forth from Maj. M. C. Tyler, engineer officer in charge of the project, that this could be accomplished at a much lower cost than would be required to reconstruct the Benning bridge. The senator ap- peared interested in the proposal, and related an experlence of his own in moving a large building. When this fact had been brought to light the senators in charge of the Distriet money bill showed keen in- terest in the possibilities of carrying the park reclamation work beyond Benning. They questioned Maj. Tyler in detail regarding the cost of land still to be acquired. following which the Army officer suggested that a new report be called for, setting forth clearly what should be ‘done above the bridge, Maj. Tyler told the subcommittee he could prepare such a report in his office without an additional priation and Senator Phipps h pared an amendm ing for t as pre- The bill, as reported. carries $150,000 for continuing the park project south of the Benning bridge. This sum, MaJ. Tyler said, will' complete dredging operations. The dredging, however, must be fol. lowed by the erection of a substantial sea wall to hold the new-made .ground It is roughly estimated that about $350.000 will be needea *o complete the ea wall in subsequeni: appropriation acts. Maj. Tyler told the Senate subcom. | mittee that to get the dredging ma- chinery around the Benning bridge without inserting a draw-span would be practically a house-moving job. “I had one ‘exerience in Pittsburgh,” said Senator Phipps, “where we took up an office building, a two-and-a- half-story brick structure about 175 feet in iength and seventy feet in width. and we moved it from its loca- tion about 150 feet to railroad tracks, jacked it up and moved it across the railroad, a series of six tracks, on Sunday ‘morning. We jacked it up and put it back about 100 feet on the other side of the tracks, in all a di tance of about 250 feet from its foi mer location, and thereby saved 3150, REFUSED BY COMMITTEE. Vote Against Return of Alien Prop- erty Trusts to Owners. A proposition for legislation au- thorizing immediate return to their owners of all trusts held by the appro- | COAL PRODUCTION HEAVY, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS Both bituminous and anthracjte coal production is now greater than it has ever been at this season of the year, according to estimates made pubifc_today by the geological sur- vey. For the week ended Saturday last total output of bituminous was placed in the nelghborhood of il,- 000,000 tons, with anthracite produc- tion approximately 2,000,000 tons. Increases in the daily average out- put from the soft coal mines which have been noted since the Christmas holidays, the survey said, can be at- tributed to betterment of transporta- tion conditions. East of the Mississippi river, it was sald, consumers ‘have been taking every ton of soft coal it has been possible to mine and trans- port, but west of the river the supply has exceeded the demand in many places and mine operations have been closed down ' because of lack of market. Summing up the results of 1922 production in the anthracite flelds, the survey poinied out that during | December a total of 5,430,000 tons | was turned out, a greater amount | than was ever previously mined dur- ing the same period. Due to the five | months’ miners’ strike, tihe output of | anthracite for the year, however. was only 52,485,000 tons. as compared | with 90,473,000 during 1921. | HELD ON LIQUOR CHARGE. Clarence Barnes and E. L. Anderson Accused of Having Whisky. Detective G. W. Worrell of the first | precinct prohibition enforcement squad arrested Clarence Barnes, twenty-six years old, Benning, tod for alleged possession of two one- If-gallon ja-s and twenty-three one: half-plnt boitles of corn whisky. ! Barnes, it is alleged. was about to make a dellvery on 9th street oppo- site Center market, when he was ar- rested. The liquor and a touring car were seized by Worrell. Bond in the m of 3600 was given for Barnes' appearance. Edward L. Anderson, thirty vear: old, Good Hope, was arrested yester day afternoon by Policeman L. C. Thorne of the fifth precinct, and charged with illegal possession of alf gallons of corn whisky. 'ged by the police that the glass jars alleged to have contained uor were broken before the arrest as made. alien property custodian was rejected today by the House commerce com- mittee. Thrift Talks Certain People Certain people who never had the savings habit have called the last six months a period of depression—but our depositors have proved that neither time nor conditions make savers —it’s the savings habit. Our savings deposits have increased about $400,000 in the last six months. The largest savings department in . Wash- ington, with an average balance of $600 for each depositor. Lincoln National Bank Cor. 7th and D Sts. N.W. home every evening and 5 cents Sundays. and 5¢ Sunday ‘T'hej Star-delivered by regular carrier to your Sunday morning for 60 cents a month costs you about 1 cents a day and + . Telephone Main 5000 and Delivery Will Start at Once | Columbia Peymanent Building Association Seventh and E Streets S.W. ~ Main 353. District Building and Loan Association MRS. MW’CORMICK’S SWISS . ARCHI‘I’ECT IS ARRESTED Edward. Krenn Taken Into Court After He Fails to Answer + Traffic Police Summons. CHICAGO, January 22.—A polic arrested Edward Krenn s archisect, whofe report- e ement to Mrs. Edith Rocke- teller McCormick never has been con- firmed. for failure to appear in the speeders’ court to answer a charge of violating the automobile parking ordinance. When Krenn faced a bat tery of mewspaper photographers at the entrance of his hotel, he prevailed upon the policeman to take him out the rear door. Krenn was served with a court summons to. appear January 4 after he and Mrs. McCormick had entered a jewelry store on December 30 and| left the machine standing more tham thirty minutes, the lindt ‘prescribet by ordinance. He failéd to appear in court on the date wet and the court ordered him brought jin. ‘Krenn was later released on a $25 bond. PEPCO CASE ON DOCKET. Supreme Court Will Hear Argu- ments This Week. of the Public Commission against the | Electric Power Company involving | $he valuation of the property of that company and the disposal of im pounded funds created out of electric light rates is on the calendar of the Supreme Court-of the United States for argument this week. The case | will “probably be reached some time fomorrow. | The case Ttilities Potomac “Be it ever so humble— There’s no place like home.” The desire of tomorrow is provided for by the savings of today. 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