New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1922, Page 1

¥ News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ARREST 22 FOR THEFT OF \WANTONSLAYINGAT W BRI FEDERAL PROPERTY WORTH $1,000,000 A Wholesale Clean-up of Civilian Employes En- gaged in Rifling Gov- ernment Store Houses at Brooklyn. Detectives Forced to .As- sume Role.o\f Crooks to Avoid Suspicion of Real Thieves. New York, Dec. 20.—Twenty-two clvilian employes - at the Brooklyn navy base were arrested today on in- dictments returned several months ago by a federal grand jury charg- ing that government, property to the value of more than $1,000,000 had been stolen since the war The arrests were made by agents of the department of justice, who tooki the prisoners to the Brooklyn federal bullding in army motor trucks. The grand jury indicted 23 men after its investigation of the glleged wholesale thefts, which the authori- ties sald included clothing, oil and various other materials used at the navy base. The twenty-third man under indictment was not found at the naval base today. The investigation has been under way for months. Discrepancies Create Suspicion, The navy intelligence service un- dertook to find out the cause for the discrepancies between' the inventories and the stock supposed to be on hand. The thieves were too cunning for the, regular naval detective force, the] members of which were apparently well known to those who were doing the stealing. | William J. Burns, chief of the bu-! reau of investigation of the depart-| ment of justice, was asked for help; and ordered Edward J. Brennan,| head of the bureau's New York office, to assign operatives. Brennan con-| sulted Police Commissioner Enright and borrowed the services of Detec- tive Francis Trainar, ¢ ' Detectives Forced to ‘‘Steal.” Under the direction of Federal Agent Robert Walsh and Ralph Na- varro and Lieut. Trainor, men were put into the warehouses as checkers, lebarers, watchmen and bookkeepers. These detectives found = themselves watched narrowly until they took ad- vantage of opportunities obviously .put in their way of stealing small articles such as wrist watches and; marine glasses. Not until they act- ually concealed these articles and pretended to steal them were they able to get any evidence against the men now in custody. They learned that government property was besag stolen by the truckload, including great boxes of clothing, paint by the barrel, crates of glass and commercial alcohol by the gallon. Instances| were found in which waste and sal- vaged materials hought by contractors were substituted for new goods or by other merchandise than that men- tioned in the contract; in other cases twice the quantity of actual salvaged stuff contracted for was delivered. SAYS HE KNOWS WHO SLEW MOVIE DIRECTOR Man Under Arrest in Toledo Cl He Can Tdentify Person Who Killed Taylor Toledo, O., - Dec. 20.—Police stoday are holding John Marazino, 23, for examination both as to his sanity and his story that he knows who murdered Willlam Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, in Hollywood, Calif., a year ago.s Marazino was arrvested late yester- day after he had entered a dwelling house and asked to be hidden, de- claring that he was marked for as-- sassination and was driven out of California by members of a "dope ring” who knew that he knew who killed Taylor. “geveral members of a dope ring are responsible for Taylor's death,” the prisoner told police. “Their agents have followed me all the way fram California into Ohio and I am marked for death,” he asserted. A suit case the prisoner carried was filled with womeW's apparel, which Marazino said he had used to disguise himself to escape his pursuers. \ REJECT HARDB!G PLEA Republican Leaders in House' Decide to Postpone Action on Prohibition of Tax Exempt Securitios. Washington, Dec. 20.—House ‘re- publican leaders decided today to postpone further consideration of the Green resolution for an amendment to the constitution prohibiting issuance of tax exempt securities, urged by Preident Harding and Sccretary Mel- lon of the treasury. Futile offorts were made in the senate again today by supporters of the administration shipping bill to bHng to a vote the question of whether that measure should remain before the senate or be displaced by 51 After that hour they will T NAVY BASE GLEMENCEAU AT HOME, " WILL HAVE LONG REST Friends Déect Signs of Ex- haustion After Strenuous Trip to U. 8. Havre, France, Dec. 20 (By Asso- clated Press)—Georges Clemenceau arrived home from his American pil- grimage today in a happy mood but apparently tired. The “Tiger' recelved representa- tives of his press in his stateroom as the liner Paris was entering the port. A large crowd of relatives and friends as well as the correspondents and photographers also greeted him be- fore the steamer docked. Clemencean began his visit with the newspaper- men by denying various interviews printed in the Krench press patticu- larly -one sent from New York to the Petit Parisiens The former premier had a very stormy voyage. He appeared gay anc vivaclous, but under the surface his friends saw that his experience in the United States had Been almost touo much for him. He will go to his Paris ‘home for two weeks and then take a long rest at his country place in the Verdee of St. Vincent during January. “I hope for good results from my trip to the United States” said M. Clemenceau to the Assoclated Press. “However let the people decide. I put my thoughts fully before them and they have certainly got sense enough to judge. It was apparent that there was a vast amount of in- terest in me personally for which Y am most grateful. It is a rare com- pliment.” Later he added: “Say, please to our friends in the United States: ‘My first thought on sight of Irance was that I was glad to be home; second that I was sorry I had left the United States. ‘Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from an old friend. " Asked what he thought of the reparations question, and also the possible occupation of the Ruhr, the “Tiger” sald: “I fear for German strikes there in case of occupation. This is all I will say on this supject for publication.” Among the many packages which the Tiger brought home were two cases of grapefruit. ¢ \ “I shall live as long as that supply lasts,” he said. “I love them too much to die before eating them. Anyway they are certain contribu- tions to longevity.” He absolutely declined to be photo- graphed on landing. “No, I wont,’” he exclaimed. have suffered a thousand times. enough.” EXTRA TROLLEY SERVICE Additional Cars Will be Operated On o | It is Hartford and North End Lines Be- ginning Tomorrow. Additional trolley service for Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday of this week to accommodate the Christmas shoppers and patrons of the Hartford and North End lines will be provided by the Connecticut company, F. L. Beardsley, superintendent of the local division, announced this merning. Beginning at 12:06 o'clock on Thursday noon, the same to hold true on Friday and Saturday, trolleys will leave New Britain for Hartford every 10 minutes until 9:15 o'clock at night. leave at 9:37, 10:07 and every half hour until 11:37 o'clock. Returning from Hartford, the trol- leys will leave at 12:15 noon, and every 10 minutes until 10:05 o'clock at night. The cars will then leave at 10:22; 10:52 and every half hour un- . 11:62, On the Stanley to Francis street line the trolieys will continue to oparate on the 15 minute schedule from 11:52 o'clock in the morning until '9:07 o'clock at night and then every half hour untfl 12:07 midnight. Ordinar- {ly the 15 minute schedule stops at 7:07 o'clock night, when the half hourly trips are resumed. The last car to leave Francis street on the 15 minute schedule will bhe at 0:22 o'clock. REID FEELS BETTER, MAY REGAIN HEALTH Temperature and Resmrul.inn Normal and Pulse is Down to 100, Bed- side Bulletin Says Los Angeles, Dec. 20.—Improve- ment was reported today in the con-| dition of Wallace Reid, motion pic- ture actor, Whose recent breakdown, according to reltives, came after he quit the use of drugs and liquor. The latest report issued from his bedside in a Hollywood sanitarium stated his temperature and respira- {land today to succeed Dr. HERRIN MINE RIOT Witnesses Jearfbe Brotality of Strikers, Advieetieu; ;. Ve ’Q%';ibtlsuk Lj HELPLESS VICT(sean Survivors Tell Harrowing Tales of Massacre—Non-Union Men Herded Into Group, Told to Run and Then Fired On like Beasts, Marion, 1il, Dec. 20.—(By Associ- ated Press.)—With the scars of bul- let and knife wounds on their bodles, three survivors of the Herrin riots testified today at the trial of five men in connection with the killing of 20 non-union men last June. They were Joseph O'Rourke, Willlam Cairns and Robert Officer. Cairns, who followed Robert Of- ficer, the first ‘survivor to take the stand,testifled that after the defenders of ‘the mine surrendered under a white flag, the prisoners were marched out of the pit with their arms above their heads. “After the march started some men took me back to the mine to point out where we had kept our arms. They let me look in my locker for some keepsakes I prized highly and then we rejoined the mob without finding guns.” The witness then pointed out Otis Clark as one of two men he had secn with C. K. McDowell, superintendent of the mine, and that Clark had a gun in his hand. No Mercy Shown. “Then we marched on and I heard someone shout: ‘Hugh Willis is com- ing’,” the witness continued. Willis is an official of the miners’ union. “We marched on until we came to a barb wire fence with four or" five strands and someone shouted: ‘Now you fellows run’ and the firing start- ed. “I tried to climb through the fence, but fell with a load of buckshot in my body. A rifle bullet grazed my scalp. While I was lying there, I saw a blood covered, wounded man ledning against a tree. A big man with a gun came up and said to the wounded man: ‘You great big ——, can't we kil you?' and he fired into his body.” The witness then pointed to Peter Hiller, one of the defendants, as the man who fired the shot. Prostrate Man Fired On. “Then I saw another man fire a shot into the body of John Shoemak- er, assistant superintendent of “the mine, as he lay wounded on the ground,” the witness continued. Cairns said that a crowd bad then found hé was alive and subjected him to all kinds of abuse for an hour when Sheriff Thaxton of Willlamson county came up with some other men and removed him to a hospital. The witness said he was one of the guards at the mine. Officer testified today in response to questions by the defense that the mob seemed to have several different leaders at different times as it march- ed toward Herrin. He said he was short sighted, the nearest he got to any of the leaders was fifty feet and that he could not identify any of them. The witness described the route taken by the mob as a gigantic “J" with the mine at the bottom of the hook and the cemetery at the top, the march covering about 6 1-2 miles. Shot Down in Man Hunt, McDowell was killed about a mile from the mine, 14 more of the origi- nal 48 prisoners about two miles fur- ther on, and four were shot down in a man hunt through the woods after they had been lined up before a barb wire fence and fired upon as they at- tempted to flec. CUT TROLLEY FARES TO PROMOTE RIDING Secattle Believes Revenue Can Be In- 5 creased by Reducing Charge to Five Cents. Seattle, Wash., Dee. 20.—IFares on the municipal car system having been reduced to five cents from 8 1-3 cents effective March 1, Seattle officlals are laboring to educate the publi¢ to ride more. Present revenues, according to of- ficial statements, are barely sufficient to operate and maintain the system and pay installments on its purchase price of $15,000,000, To make the system pay its way 46 per cent more riders must use the cars after the fare is reduced, it is estimated. Wojciechowski El;fed Warsaw, Dec 20.—(By The As- sociated Press.) - Stanislas Wojcle- chowski was elected president of Po- 4 Gabriel Narutowicz, who was assassinated last Saturday. ) M. Wojciechowskl, who was minis- ter of. the interior in the S8kulski cab- inet, received 298 votes of the 519 cast by the national assembly. He is a member of former Premier Witos' “Plast” or moderate party. Professor Morawskl of Cracow university, the only other candidate remaining on the final ballot, was supported = by the radicals. tion were normaland his pulse down to 100. PUTNEY I! NEW HAVEN. New Haven, Dec. 20.-+Federal pro- hibition enforcement activities ate be- ing directed here by I'rank Putney of Guilford, an agent who has been on the staff of Ralph Blakeslee, just re. moved, It is understood that Putney will be appointed to take Blakesiee's. the Norrls agricultural financing measure. - . R M i £ 3 G place as head of the force opernunsl here. Hinton Off Again on Dash to Rio Janeiro Camocit, Brazil, Dec. 20.—(By As- sociated Press.)—The seaplane pilot- ed by Lieut. Walter Hinton started on another lap today in the New York to Rip Janeiro flight. The plane got away from Camocim heading mouth- east down the coast, with Aracaty, 260 miles distant, as it intended next stopping point. W bry New President of Poland | i * R % B - B (s 4 Stanley Works to Erect City's Tallest Building On Site of Coal Yard A new building, the highest in number of stories, of any build- ing in the.city, will be construct- ed on Church street immediate- y in.s'he rear of the Stanley ’ id Level plant in the near « While figures on the ap- y _nate cost are not available at this time, the building will be eight stories from the ground, one story higher than any other building in the city. Work on construction will commence, probably in two weeks, or shortly after January 1, 1923, It will be builf by the Aberthaw Construction Co., of Boston, and will cover a ground space of 167 feet long by 60 feet wide. Tt will be constructed on the property recently purchased by the Stanley Works from the W. L. Damon estate, on Church and Bigelow streets. g The old wooden sheds along the railroad, used by the Damon company for storage purposes, have been cleaned out and will be ‘wused temporarily by the Aberthaw company in the same capacity. ; For several weeks, or prac- tically ever since the sale was consummated the Stanley Works has had men engaged in clean- ing up the yard on this site, NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922.—EIGHTEEN PAGES, NATIONAL GUARDSMEN OUT. POLICE CRITICIZED FOR INVADING HOME Defense Claims They Did Not Have Correct Warrants JUDGE DEFERS HIS DECISION, High Handed Action Alleged in Da- mon-Jedziniak Case — Clanflone Claims Whiskey Found in House | Was for Personal Use, Charges of high handed business in the manipulation of search and seizure warrants featured the trial of Louls Damon and Charles Jedzinlak on liquor charges this morning, Attor- ney M. A. Sexton devoting consider- able time to cross-questioning on matters pertaining to warrants, At the close of a lengthy hearing, Judge G. W. Klett continued the matter to next Tuesday morning taking the several warrants figuring in the case for examination. Damon lives at 258 Oak street, and is a partner of@Jedziniak in the grocery business it 800 Stanley street. The police received information that | liguor was being sold in the store and that the source of supply was 258 Oak street, where, It was alleged, the stuff was manufactured. Another Name on Warrant, On Dec. 15, Sergeant W. P. McCue and Plainclothes Policemen Patrick McAvay and John C. Stadler, accom-| panied by Traffic Policeman Edward Kiley, went to the house at 258 Oak preparatory to starting building operations. The new building will be of concrete and will be used by the Stanley Rule and Level plant as a warehouse. , Plans are being drawn up now and figures es-| timating the cost of building will be announced later. STRAITS DISCUSSED BY CHILD AND TURK CHIEF American Qbservers Re- ported Not in Sympathy With AHies’ Plan Lausanne, Deo. 20. (By the Associ- ated Press)—On the eVe of what threatened to be a critical day in the life of the Lausanne conference Am- bassador Child last night had a long conversation with Ismet Pasha about the straits problem, which Lord Cur- zon yesterday declared must be dis- posed of immediately. It has become known that the Am- erican observers at the conference be- lieve that an international control commission associated with the league of nations, as suggested in the allied plan for supervision of the Dardan- elles, is unnecessary. In other words, the Americans believe that freedom of the straits should be an actual free- dom guaranteed by a treaty between Turkey and the other world powers, and that it should not be a freedom limited by an international commis- sion. The American obdervers have so far on the conference floor limited them- selves to statements of the most gen- eral terms on the Dardanelles ques- tion, without suggesting as to how the straits should be kept open to the commerce of the world and to the fleets of the powers. Neither have there been intimations of America’s attitude toward an international board of control. Allied leaders last night served go- tice that the Turks today must either flatly accept or reject the allied project for settlement of the straits question. Although there was uncertainty as to whether Ambassador Child as tife American spokesman would voice the American views at today's meeting, it is understood that every delegation here claims to he cognizant of the fact that the ndming of an interna- tional commission meets the strong disfavor of the American observers. Ismet Pasha received a message from Mustapha Kemal today an- nouncing that the American college (Continued on Page Fifteen) COP, IN Al SUMMON San Francisco, Dec. 20.—Bad fuck literally rained on Dom- inic Bifiore yesterday when a “John Doe' summons charg- ing him with speeding fell in front of his automobile on a highway near here. Looking up he saw an airship circling about, 1t developed Ryers, traffic officer, that’ Robert was “tak- ing the air” with an aviator when he saw Bifiore speeding. Pulling a summons from his pocket Byers had the airship swoop down and dropped the paper in front of the automo- bile. Bifiore stopped and plcked it up. * THE, WEATHER g Hartfond, Dec, 20—Forecast | for New Britain and vicinty: || Clondy with rising temperature, | followed by snow late tonint | | or Thursday; increasing easter- 1y winds. street, armed with a warrant. Ques- tioning by the defense counsel brought out that the warrant was intended I!or Mrs. Theresa Scalise, while the It(‘anm\t is that of Louis Damon, Ar- riving at the house the police found a small boy to be the only one in the tenement. They delayed searching until his mother came in. Finding {that the warrant was no good, the search was delayed, Sergeant McCue meanwhile telephoning to headquar- ters for a warrant to search the store at 800 Stanley street. Liquor Found At Store At the store two bottles containing alleged whiskey and one contalning| alleged wine were seized, The bottles, were on a counter and no effort was| 'made to destroy them, it was testified. | Jedzinlak was present at the time, When Damon returned to the.store! ithe police took him to his home and; with a new warrant prdperly made out, conducted their search. They denied that any search had been made L T, & C. 10 CLOSE Shutdown Effective From Dec, 23 to Jan 2—Annual Inventory Will Be| Taken in Interim. All New Britain factories of the | close on Saturday noon of this week and will remain closed until January 2 for the annual inventory, Pardon C.: Rickey, vice president of the concern ! told a representative of the “'Herald" | this afternoon, Mr, Rickey stated that the shut-| down is an annual affair and by no, means implies that business is on thei decrease or is poor. | “In fact” Mr. Rickey sald, “it is| | quite possible that several divisions| will be back at work again the lat- ter part of next week if the inven- tory is anywhere near completed at| that time and all diyisions will be | working on January 2." ! WILL SUE AIRCRAFT l MAKERS FOR $3,601,715 Department of Justice Preparing to| File Suit Against Wright-Mar- tin Corporation, | Washington, Dec. 20.-—The depart-| ment of justice is preparing to fll(“ ault against the Wright-Martin Aiv- craft corporation for recovery of a war claim amounting to $3,601,71 ¥ i the house judiclary committee Was| told today by Assistant Attorney (;(‘I\»[ eray Seymour, at the hearing on 1"\»' peachment charges against Attorney General Daugherty. Washington, Dec. 20.—Newton D. Baker, who was secretary of war in President Wilson’s war time cabinet, | appeared today before the special federal grand jury which is'in session here investigating war frauds. jeently the investigation has centered abont alleged irreguiarities in the building of army cantonments. Sev- eral civil suits to recover millions of dollars from contractors already have been filed, and department of justice officials have announced that criminal proceedings also will be instituted. Several other former officials of the government have been before the jury Which vesterday questioned Bernard M. Baruch, who was chairman of the war industries board. At Chicago Post Office Chicago, Dec. 20.—~Proof of the Christmas mall rush was seen here today when Arthur C. Lueder, post- master, announced that the Chicago post office ostablished a world's rec- ord Monday for the volume of mail handled in a single day by one post office. Postal employes, he said, | {countea 6,389,308 pieces of first clasa | {mail and 1,673.3 tons of second, third and fourth class matter, mostly parcel post. {Meet This Afternoon and | Committee Still Needs $77 to Pay for Landers, Frary & Clark Mfg. Co. will | * | Take Iffect January 1. i fect the first of next year. | | colving a bonus. The purpose for which Mr. Baker! went bhefore the grand Jury was not revealed but it is known that re- - clals stated it was copper worth A . 'about 60 cents. The assay office Break World Mail Record |anager, however, was forced to lenslne repairs. SHARE OWNERS FAVOR A. 1. G, STOCK CHANGE Adopt Recommendations of Board of Directors At a meeting of the stockholders of the American Hardware corporation | at 3 o'clock this afternoon, it was vot- ed to approve the recommendations | of the board of directors that the par value of the capital stock be reduced to $26 per share and that one share | of new stock for every four shares of old be distributed to stockholders. The recommendations voted upon were as follows: 1—That the certificate of incorpor- ation be amended by the reduction of the par value of the shares of the capital gtock from $100 per share to $26 per share so that the authorized capital stock shall be as heretofore. $12,600,000 shares of such reduced par value to be exchanged for out- standing shares of the capital stock of the corporation in the ratio of four shares of the par value of $25 for each share of the par value of $100 now outstanding. 2—To authorize and ' approve a transfer to the amount of $2,480,000 in value, of a portion of the surplus now utilized as working capital, to, and the conversion and merger of the same into the permanent capital stock ! of this corporation by the issue of 99,200 shares of the unissued author- ized capital stock of the par value of $26 each and the distribution thereof among the stockholders in the pro- portion of one new share to each four shares of the then outstanding capital stock of the par value of $25 each. FUND FOR CHRISTMAS TREE REACHES $323 Purchase, Setting and Other Incidental Expenses. The sum of $323 has been raised to date by the Chamber of Commerce, the New Britain “Herald,” the New Britain *Record,” Albert Jourdan and | Mys, Elise Traut for the: Municipal Christmas Tree fund. Of this amount {$45 has been' raised by the '“Heral with two contributions coming into the office today. One from a Mrs, Thompson was for $2 and the otheyp from a “friend,” was for one dollar. Included in the total amount raised 1s $100 from the public utilities com- mission of this city. The committee still needs $77 with which to carry on its work as the quota of $400 was set when the drive for the money was started several days ago. A meeting of the Christmas tree committee will be held this af- ternoon at 5 o'clock in the Chamber of Commerce rooms to make further plans for the Christmas - exercises. The tree will probably be put in place on the northeastern corner of Central park tomorrow morning. i MAKE WAGE_DPMANDS Journeymen Masons Asking Employ- crd For An Increase Per Hour to The master masons of the city have received a demand from the journey- | men masons for $1.12% per hour in- stead of $1.00 per hour, the present scale of wages. This is to go into ef- At the present time, the journey. men are recelving $1.00 per hour and are receiving a dollar honus each day, making a total for the day of $9 for cight hours’ work. This bonus of one dollar per day is not the result of any agreement between the master masons and their employes. The journeymen at this time, in making their demands for $1.121 per hour, wish to fix a scale whereby they will receive $9 per day without re- This will make their ipay the same as it has been but will not endanger them at any time from having their extra dollar bonus taken away from them., The master masons | will take the new demands under con- | sideration and will probably grant them | KL IS NOT GOLD, EIC. Two Yeggs Flee After Robbing Assay Office, But. Their Loot Is Copper, Worth 60 Cents, Portland, Ore,, Dec. 20.—Two men {who hield up the Montana assay office | here escaped with the money belts with gleaming metal. They thought it was gold but offi- hand over $60 of his personal funds. Customs_vi—)Eicers Guard 2,000 Cases of Whiskey Halifax, N. 8, Ded, 20.—Customs Errand is Thought to in Connection W Kidnapping of P nent Residents Morehouse Parish. Feud Said to Have Be;n Bubbling for 25 Years Reported About to Boil Over. New Orleans, Deec. 20.—Compd.ny‘ G, natlonal guard of Monroe, has ! arrived at Mer Rouge, La, and ¢ pitched camp, according to a tele- | phone despatch received here tom Monroe, La., Dec. zo-—Nnuou.jz» guardsmen who left here yesterday were mobilized and moved on orders from the adjutant general's office at Baton Rouge but Gov. John M. Par~ ker and other state officials declined ' to say where they were being sent or for what purpose. It generally was believed they were ordered to Morehouse Parish in com- ' nection with the situation growing out of the kidnapping last August hooded men of five Mer Rouge zens, two of whom—Watt Danfels :md Thomas Richards—still are ng. The Mer Rouge kidnapping. z which for four months has bl’!ler:tf the legal machinery of the state of Loulsiana, originated, it is said, as & result of a fued between rival fag- tions of Morehouse parish. Although the Ku Kiux Klan or. ganization of Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippt has been charged in som: quarters with being involved in the mysterious disappearance of ' Major Watt Daniels and Thomas Fletcher:| ' Richards, citizens of Mer Reouge, many citizens of Northeast Louistana ' believe that the case goes much & deeper than alleged Ku Klux Klan animosity and is more or less raclal, irivalling in many respects the celes brated feuds of the Cumberland mofiav tains ot Kentucky, Tennessee and Vi ginia. % ¥ Kidnapped by Masked Men Although the feudal fight was sald to have been brewlug for a quarter d!f a century, involving some of the lead. ing families of Morehouse parish, climax was reached on August when J. L. Daniels, 70 years old, for- mer prominent Mer Rouge merchant: Watt Daniels, his son; Thomas F. Richards; Watt Dovenport, scion of' leading Louisiana family, and W. G, Andrews, a®planter, were kidnapped by 40 or 50 masked men on their way from Bastrop to their homes in Mer: Rouge. G A big festival was held at Bastrop on August 24, and thousands of peo: ple attended. - The five victims ot 2 hooded riders attended the celebration and then started home in the evening in two automobiles. When they were midway between Bastrop and Mer Rouge the hooded men appeared on the highway and seized the five. Watt Davenport was released with« in an hour, § Searchers for 24 hours tried to find the men who were kidnapped and the . @ day following the affair the elder Daniels and Andrews found their way back to their homes at Mer Rouge in a serious condition, Their stories gave but little information in regard to the kidnapping. Victims Feared to Speak For a while neithey Daniels nor = Andrews would discuss the case, but they finally told of how they were kidnapped on their way to Mer Rouge by masked men and severely beaten.. For several weeks Danjels was in & precarious condition because of his age. . Neither Daniels nor Andrews was able to identify a single person in the mob, nor could they give any infor- mation in regard to Daniels' son, Watt, and Richards. e Daniels declared he recognized Arkansas and Mississippl automobil license tags. L Following the kidnapping, the Morehouse parish grand jury was ore ganized at Bastrop and made a thors ough investigation but no indictments were returned. A When district court officials falled to solve the mystery, Governor Para k& announced his determination ta & use all the power of the state in th“"_:, case. Secrecy Cloaks Investigation. Governor Parker's investigal and that of Attorney General O have heen shrouded in much myst and directed from the state ca at Baton Rouge. i1 A4 Yor the past three months thers have been detectives and other invess: tigators in Morehouse parish int gating citizens and making se for the bodies of Richards Danels, which, according to some ¢ ports, were believed to have ' cast into a lake in the vicinit] Mer Rouge. ! kY Repoi were current | Morehouse parish - today " th it ¥ 138 officers were placed aboard the Brit- ish auxiliary schooner Robert and Ar- thur at her dock today to guard her cargo of 2,000 cases of whiskey. The schooner, bound from St. Pierre for Nassau, was forced to put in here for bodies of Watt Daniels h Richards had mnnioua!‘ t Cooper or La Fourche lake, * down with a wagon Wheel, have been taken fromi a farne hicle by the band of who kid five zens on August 24. Vo o