Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1923, Page 35

CHINESE SOLDIERS . LOOTCITY HOMES $Heinous Crimesv Charged « Against Regular Troops _ After Victory. BY JUNIUS WOOD. BBy Calle to The Star and Chicago Daly News. Copyright, 1923, SHANGHAT, December 4.—Heinous while they robbed cltizens, them to carry the loot. Business at Chenchow standstill, with the leading citizens hiding in the hills and farmers re- fusing to bring food to the city. The city government has been suspended. Foreigners managing a neighboring mine were forced to contribute funds to the marauders = stripped of jewelry wai diers, who then looted the postmaster's home. Life in the interior of China is the same story. differing only name of the city and whet marauders are troops or bandits. SCOUT CRUISER CONCORD IS PROVED SEAWORTHY Makes Record for Stanchness on First Leg of Her 24,000~ forcing is at a THE EVENING ST LAST OF FINES IS PAID. Mississippi Insurance Prosecutions Now Closed. Miss., December 5.—The last of the fines assessed against fifty-six fire insurance companies | which quit doing business in Mississippi three years 11‘:0 when sults alleging violation of "the state's anti-trust laws were filed were paid to Revenue es V. Robertson. mount, including interest, JACKSON, mount the revenue agent, under a Mississippi law, is entitled to 20 per cent, or $15 One-half of the latter amount will be pald to at- toreys representing the revenue agent and expenses of the trial of the suits. ~Approximately $20,000 will come out of Mr. Robertson’s share. INDICTS FATHER AND SON. Federal Grand Jury *Charges Dry Law Violations. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., December 5.— Maurice W. Allen, manager of the Philadelphia warehouse of the Fed- eral Distilling Company of Baltimore, and his father, 1. J. Allen, were In- dicted by the federal grand jury in con- nection with an alleged conspiracy to defraud the government in the with- drawal of whisky valued at $1,000,000 on forged permits. Bench warrants were issued for the arrest of the defendants, but they will be given opportunity to sur- render voluntarily before the war- rants are served. —_— Enthuslasm is the genius of cerity. N sin- VIRGINIANS PLAN STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE New Body ,Will Represent Forty Cities and All Sections of Commonwealth. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., December G5.— Plans for the organization of the Vir- ginia State Chamber of Commerce, representative of forty cities and every section of the state, with head- quarters in Richmond, were . formu-' lated at a meeting here of officers of a WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER number of local chambers of commerce and presided over by Dr. Joseph H. Smith, president of the Petersburs ‘body. A committee report prepared at the meeting yesterday will be presented in the near future at an assembly of representatives of virtually all Vir- ginia chambers and boards of trade, The object of the state organization would be, according to the report, “to promote the welfare of the agricul- tural, industrial, financial, civic and educational interests of the state.” Among those present were: H. H. Rumble, president; T. P. Thompson, vice president, and W. A. Cox, exec- utive mecretar of the Norfolk-Ports- mouth chamber. 1$11,000,000 DAMAGE SUIT OVER FLYWHEEL MAGNETO By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, La, December G —The fly-wheel magneto, a device {known wherever the products of |Henry Ford are used, is the bone of contention in_a damage suit for 1$11,000,000, a ranffication of which is |to ‘be heard in the federal circuit | court of appeals here. The suit was | brought by Edward 8. Huff, formerly |an engineer of the ¥ord Motor Cor | pany, but now a resident of Miami, Fla. Huft claime to have invented' the magneto while in the employ of the Ford Motor Company and asserts he was to have received a rovalt of 3$2.50 for each one used. When he flled his suit in federal court a! Miami last year he calculated thers was due him $11,000,000. The Ford defdnge is that the inventor Daid $10,000 as a reward for develop ing the contrivance and that there no agreement epecifying = before the the instance of the Ford com pany on an_apy from the ruling of Federal District Judge Henry I Clayton at Jacksonville, Fia., se\ eral months 4go that the main issu- could be tried before a jury. Koes oourt ,::tmeu committed by Chinese govern- ent soldlers are described in a mes- ®ago from Chenchow, midway be- #ween Canton and Changsha, which ‘!u typical of the interior, as a result ©f the lawless warfare. The m Wescribes the arrival of Gen. i Peng-Tis' victorious troops at Chen- chow a fortnight ago, and is of par- ticular significance because Chao Peng-Tis is one of the Peking gov- ®rnment generals recognized by for- €ign powers. The invading soldiers seized the othing, food, live stock and It a home was without Foal the furniture was selzed and Wsed for fuel. Men and boys from all statlons of life were compelled to carry the burdens of loot, whil d girls suffered unspeak Mile Cruise. By the Associated Press. 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