New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1924, Page 1

ews of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 Bonfils ‘argesConspiracy Average Daily Circulation 10,258 Week Ending Feb, 2nd . ... NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1924, —TWENTY PAGES. In Assuring The Award Of Teapot Oil Lease To Sinclair mumal kyroprstons Bil Is Doheny and Standard Oil Allied Companies Will- ing He Should Have Property — One Com-| pany Got Million in Oil He States Denver Post Attacks on nclair Not Stopped and | Not Be Stopped, Publisher — Lease | Will Says Was Bad in Hjs Opinion. Washington, Feb, 9.-—A charge that Hurry 17, Sinclair, D, L. Doheny and “the Standard Oil allied companies’ conspired to assure award of the T pot Dome naval oil lease to Sine was made before the senate oil com- mittee foday by Frederick G. Bonfils, publisher of the Denver Post Iteplying to questions by Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, Bonfils sald “there was a conspiracy between Doheny and Sinclair and the Standard Oil allied companies to let Sinclair have the Teapot Dome as far as they were concerned,” hey having terests in California,” had no objection to heny have the naval reserve there and thy went into the agreement along these lines and the leases were B od. he midwest and a milllon dollurs in Sinclair Co, on the That I have eonfirmed. Not FPriendly to Stack oling with Sinclair was not (J. Leo Stack) in- they 1o antagonistic " he said, letting Mr. Do- the ol Teapot Ploneer got produced by Dome, “The fricmily to My, Stack one of tho assoclated with Bonths, ey treated him ke an office boy 4 thought they could settle with bim on uny terms agreeable to them, i Ploneer Co, kept telling him seftio. with Sinclafr and to take or he wounld give him,” Toduy Bonlils vigorons!y dented that the attitude of his paper toward Sin clulr had anyibing to do with the contruct rettlement with others, deseribed by him in testimony yesterday, In the of amination Chigrman Lenroot asked cther “the matter of your attack Kinelair was disenssed at the con- with Sinclair.” o #ir” Bonfils replicd, Was the matter your your uttucks Sinclair disenssed 7" “I wonld to know what insti- gated these t Did they ema- nate trom Colorado “F am asking these questions on my responsiviiity as a s and you will please answer them,” It i a most extraordinary tion and 1 want the ord to show the fact v Pressed as to whether the attacks clair in his paper had not been stopped, Mr. Bonflls leaned across the tabie and said: Attacks W did not They never or Lenroot rend a telegram said there had been article in the Post from Sep- tember 1 22 to December 3, 1922 The telegram added that there w none during most of 1 containing auy reflection upon Sin “We printed the said Mr. Bonf ‘Any editorial comment concegning these transactions” ¥ I do not think there were Do you moean to testify that there was no change in the attitude of your wspaper concerning th transac tions from the beginning? 1 do. “You air certaln time ?" “We printed it v and T still think it was ‘You think it was a bad deal, do you not “We were not for it Ref to the porter 10 New Mexico, Chairmar asked whether Bonhil yesterday described the d brought back as peking failed to print the articles mere cause of the possibility of lilx j s replied in the affirmatice you bel Mr. Fall could been corrupt and Mr. Sinc u 1o midst vigorous cross. ference of ceasing on like qn tor ques- o1 t Cense ™ ¥ shall cem conse ave o on the subject alr news every day 4 Mr. tranvactions up had tacke vigorously these of as a bad leuse corrupt blaming Mr. Sinclair erving sending o had closures had Iy iits root who De have -ve uir rred very Most of my information Mr. Fall's affairs. and to do with Teapot Dome.” “Why did you not send the inf it before called on by the « r matic mittee “1 thought have known it.” the commitiee must t that your contract Sinclair was not based upon rights of Mr. Stack? il wus for Ppurpose ing your ’ P in your mewspapers? oy bought shows Policy tair hing what the contract Witk ’ all his arrogance and wealth, he was (Continucd on Fage Seventeen) him and | REGRETS AGREEMENT { " MADE WITH BILL HART |Winifred Westover Wants| to Go Back to Movies Again Despite Pact i Los Angeles, ¥eb, 9.—Winifred Westover Hart, formerly of the films | tand wife of William 8. Hart, two-gun | |hero of western screen plays, 'signed a complaint which will be filed by her attorney today, asking the su- perior court to pass upon her right to return to motion spite an agreement entered into with Ler husband since their separation in May 1920, con<training her from such a course, accoruing to the Los Angeles | Times, | | Mnrs. Hart is now prohibited from appearing in motion pictures or from allowing herself to be photographed for sereen or advertising purposes | during the life of a trust fund $103,000 established for her shortly after their separation, The terms of the fund, to she agreed, provide that she will r |cefve the entire wmount upon the death of her husband or in the event of a divoree from him and that mean- while she will receive the income from the fund in monthly Installments, pro- vided she respects other clauses in the wgreement, WEEKS AND DENBY HAVE CONFERENCE Doherty Talks With Pres.| on Return From Florida; No Resignations has picture acting de- of | Hart which Washington, Feb, 9, — Secretary Denby, who conferred with President Coolidge cabinet mecting, with Socrctary W There were tions that the site vation in the was discussed, | but nothing appeared on the surface to evidence a ghange in Mr, Denby' announced determination not to re- sign in the face of the pending reso- lution asking that he do so. I'he navy secretary and Mr., Weeks have been dlose friends for urs, Mr, Denby cancelled a trip he had | plunned to Charleston, 8, C., today, to {say goodble to a delcgation sailing on [the transport Henderson to withess the naval mancuvers off Panama. Attorney General Daugherty return led today trom a two weeks' stay in Florida, and immediately went to the White House for a conference with President Coolidge Prior to sceing the president he d to discuss the conference, arcd hig return had nott been hastencd although at the time of his departure from Washington it was announced that he planned to make an indefinite visit to lorida After the conference, Mr. Daughers ty said the discussions had largely concerned the oil leasc investigation, He denied he had returned to Wash- ington at the request of the president, denied he had submitted bhis resigna- tion and refused to talk about details of the oil inquiry, RRIGHSTAG T0 DISCUSS EMBASSY FLAG INCIDENT yestorduy's long talk today atter had o re- He fus Socialists Will Make Effort 1o Find Out Who is Responsible for Affront at Washington 1l ident in Washing- Reich- part Berlin, Feb. The at the German embassy ton will be brought up in t stag when it convenes the I of netx woek, according to the Neue Betrliner Zeitung, which says the gove ernment will be questioned regarding the attitude taken by th b € fice in conmection with the Woodrow Wilsn. In parliamentary the 80 . w make an the incident and endea tain whether Foreign minister mwann himself, or other officials in the foreign office, arc responsible for the telegram it to Ambassador Wi eirel " ssdlie or 10 asc Ay shington newspapers print a dispaich from the W correspondent of the Cologne Gazette that neither the or Ambaseador the Washington offic advised Wilson's 4 asserts 1 had #ate depart- Jusscrand diploma the Gers ath. The Ambassa- note from asking wished to wreath from the dip- that he sent an af- saying fean o corps ally embass Mr correspondent lor Wiedfeidt M. Jusserand contribute 1o a lomatic corps a firmative reply The dispates German d adds that when ambassador roed on roary 5 that the cabinet had dec upon national mourning, Herr Wied- feldt declared that would partici- pate and so advi th . that afternoon. 1 rfspondent of th says (hat the masted on the day of the T was sel at full-mast as r newspap: Colog Ga embassy f atf - funeral and | eport- | i ne NAVY ESTIMATES [FORD WOULD GET FOR_NEXT YEAR| STAGGERING GIFP Reported by Committee T0TAL IS MUCH SMALLER Twenty-three Million Dollars Less | Military Committee Members Empha- | | Than Last Year is Allowed For— Cost of North Pole Trip is $183,000 —Amount for New Ships, By The Associate Washington, . 9 naval appropriation bill 271,942,867, which would be avai for completing more than a of vessel under construction, was reported to: day by the house appropriations com: mittee. The total is $4,453,000 less carrying 230,000,000 Nearly $84,000,000 Worth of | { Property for $5,000,000 SUBMIT MINORITY REPORT | tically Oppose Granting of Muscle | Shoals Development To “I‘Il\'\fl-jMethod of Payment forjl(jl‘l!'l King.” Washington, ¥eb, 9.—The McKenzie “The annual bill authorizing acceptance of Henry | {¥Ford's offer for the government's wartime project at Muscle Shoals, Ala., is emphatically opposed in a _members of the house military com- mittee, Comparing the Ford offer with that NATIONAL GUA 1 PRICE THREE CENTS RDSMEN TAKE OVER . HERRIN AFTER KU KLUX KLAN ? \ BOARDS IN WRANGLE Work of Permanent Nature Is Issue Decision as to what the tuture pol- now | minority report submitted today by |icy of the "aLfvr board in paying for ' court this morning and fined $2 | permanent®improvements shall be promises to vie with discussion of tax rates at the next session of the city than budget estimates and $23,024,- Lof the southern power companles but | meeting bdard, since there is a wide 000 less than the amount alloted the without specifically endorsing any of |divergence of opinion between navy by congress a year ago. The bill provides $117,000,000 for enough to keep the navy at its' Shoals plants, the report declares that whether “bonds or nt strength of 6,469 officers and [the four proposals which have been ! made for operation of the Muscle |acceptance of the Detroit manufac- the !water board and members of the board of finance and taxation as to regular income | should be drawn on for these pur- ,000 cnlisted men during the fiscal | turer's bid would amount “to a gift | poses, ar beginning July 1 next, Provision also is made for 1,002 officers and 19,- 000 enligted men in the marine corps the present strength, For aviation the bill carries 590,000 or $57,174 less than last year's appropriation. Commenting on the proposcd Polar exploration trip of the dirigible Shen- $14,- | |of enormous property and industrial | advantage to a private citizen from the resources of the United States |The power companies’ proposal, as compared with the Ford bid, it says, offers *savings to the government” |amounting to $34,218,000 for fifty years and $75,660,000 for 100 years, Representative Hull, republican, It appears that the board of finanece and taxation will take sides with Chairman Edward ¥, Hall and Mayor |A. M. Paonessa and In the prepara- | tion of next year's budget will make provision for bond issues rather than | appropriations out of revenue for [needed permanent improvements. If | s0, accortiing to authoritative reports, andoah next summer, the report said Jowa, who consistently has opposed | members of the water board will seek actual expenses over normal operating | the Iord offer, presented the minority [to have the issue threshed out | costs would approximate $188,000, and that since most of this amount would be met with eurrent appropri- ations, the committee had not & en fit to interfere in any way with plans for the expedition, New Ship Construction, As to new ship construction, the committee said it was without power to authorize expenditures for vessels not yet sanctioned by congress, but cited information it had obtained to the effoct that the navy deparment is committed to a program for building | types permissible under the Washing- ton arms conference treaty which, with the modernizing program al- ready under way would involve ex- penditure of approximately $35,000,. 000 for the next teh years, YA year ag the report stated, ‘the committee proposed and it Iy became law-—a request by the congress that the president take ap- propri steps looking to the cone summation of a supplemental treaty to limit construction by the leading naval powers of ghips of the types to which the existing treaty did not ex. tend or only controlled ds to tonnage and gunpower, Uf to this time no formal conference has been held look- & to sueh a supplemental treaty. “'So far as this committee has been able to ascertanin, none of the for. eign powers which are parties to the treaty actually has yet begun the construction of any treaty exempted permitted craft since the confer. coneluded. America cer not be the first, and its influence to prevent arising to commerce at or ence tainly sho the Al was hould exert necessity Ships Being Built With reference to the appropriation of 330,000,000 for continuing the building of ships permissible under the arms conference agreements the report said that on November 30 last ttleship, two airplane carriers, #Ix scout cruisers, 13 submarines, three fleet submarines, one gunboat, two destroyer tenders, one submarine tender and one repair ship were in arious stages construction and would be completed during the com- ing fiscal year, with the exception of the two airplane carriers, three of the scout cruisers and the three fleet s marines. An additional $6,500,000 it was estimated will have to be ap- propriated to complete the work. The committee declined to accept 1 budget recommendation that 2 ),000 be appropriated for commence ing the construction of three fleet submarines authorized in 1916, de- claring the values of this type of « t had not yet been proved. It commended instead that $600,000 available for the develop- testing of submarine mo- under actual serviee con- re e ment tive ditions For betterments at navy yards al stations, the committee nded an appropriation of $1 500 or less than hall the budget es- timate, to be distributed for the most part as follows: For Navy Yards navy yard ard $100,00 made nd power and na Mare Puget ; Pearl Har- station $178, Cavite, Philippines, naval station $141,600, and Great Lakes naval station $1 000, The report pointed out that the committee had no authority to make wlotments for some the projects provided in the budget estimates, including the ameda, Cal, base and the d Point, Wash., aviation station With a vie Toston Isiafnd 0; for far of cutting down the afficer strength of the navy, the eom- mittee recommended that appoint- ments to the Annapolis naval academy a five to three ba graduating class down to 1t also suggested that 0 civitian instructors at Ane napolis be dropped and their places fitled by naval office w ed on ug the German Industrialists . To Appear at Hearing Berfin Feb, 9.-—Several of Ger- ma cading industriatists will ap- pear before the Dawes committe Monday and Tuesday it is announced. Among them will be Dr. Bucher, pres. id of the Industrialists’ association, von Mendelssohn, banker and " the Berlin chamber of Franz presid commer burg banker and brother of Paul War. burg of New York of and Max Warburg, Ham-| report, in which he was joined by | Representatives Morin and Ransley, | Pennsylvania; Hill, Maryland; Froth- ingham, Massdchusetts; and Wain- | wright, New York, all republicans, | Ford Has Loophole The report criticises the majority or “attempting to justify the viola- 'tion by the Ilord offer of every safe- |guara and principle of the federal waterpower act,” and declares [the MeKenzie bill gives Mr. Ford a loop hole” to “quit” the manufacture | of fertilizer if it should not prove pro- ! fitable, one is in a position to know from any | statement of Mr. Ford, or any ac- |eredited representative, whether he Iwould accept the properties on the |terms offered him in the pending Dot | Asserting that under the bill recommended by the majority us Mr. | Ford’s company “would not be regu-| luted as to rates, service, or issuance of securities by the federal govern- | ment or the \larama puMic service | commisston,” the report states that “Mr, Ford pruposes to pay $5,000,000 |for the following properties: Nitrate |plant No. 2, costing $66,252,392.21; ! nitrate plant No. 1, costing $12,887,« $42.31; Waco quarry, costing $1,802,- 962.88, and cashing from the sale of |the Gorgas plant $3,472,487.25—a to- tal of $83,015,763.65.” Controls 900,000 Horsepower “The gift of properfy is staggering,” |1t declares, “but that Is not all nearly all. No individual nor corpor- ation in the United States has the un« regulated control | poweng or anything proaciffng that figure.” Any of the other propgsals sub- mitted is better than the Ford offer, the minority holds, adding that the | "poverty” of financlal return to the | government under his offer compared remotely with the “benefits he demands has led | supporters and apologists to his st arithmetical gymnastics, | strange 'AVALANCHE BURIES WHOLE TRAIN IN SNOW No Reports Concerning Loss of Life in Singular Accident in Austria By The Associated P _ Linz, Upper Austria, Feb, ¢ avalanche swept down upon th way station at Hieflau last night, burying a passenger tral® and a car- riage containing several persons. Railroad men and neighboring vil- lagers are hard at work digging out the train and rescuing the passengers. Telephone messages received here re. quest the assistance of troops. No loss of life was mentioned in the messages. h was estimated to be a thousand long and fully 100 feet in depth, swept into the river Enns after burying the train. FATHER SAVES 6 CHILDREN AS FIRE DESTROYS HOME Canaan Vamily Toses House and Clothing and Neighbors Start Rediel Fund. Canaan, 1 ~Louis Negri res- cued his six children from the fire which destroyed his home balf a mile from this village last night ‘and was burned about the head and face. Mr and Mrs, Negri lost everything even 1o clothing. Neighbors cared for them and opened a subscription to give the family money to start again | The fire began in a shed adjoining the house. The family were asleep at the time. The loss on the house which betonged to the New England Lime Co. employer of Negri, was $2,000. “eb. 9 * ! ' THE WEATHER —0— || martrord, Feb. 9 ~Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight; Sunday partly cloudy and warmer. | * (1 | | * that | Furthermore it contends “no | or| of 900,000 horse- | ap-| at the annual meeting of the city meet ing board, and it is reported that |there are many supporters of the wa- | ter board's policies. { If Chairman Hall's bond issue pro- | posal is accepted, increases in water |rates will be staved off for a few years at least and perhaps for many {years to come, he belleves; on the | other hand, members of the water board claim that carrying out a pol- icy of issuing bonds will so increase the amounts that must be deposited annualty in the sinking funds that it is a matter of but a few ars be- tore big increases in water rentals will be necessitated to bring the rev. enue up to what these annual pay- ments will require, | The water board recently construct. led, at a cost of $110,000, a pumping station in Forestville. It is possible tor the city to get permission from the legislature for water bonds in the amount of $110,000 to reimburse the water board, Chairman Hall belleve | With this income, the ordinary. r enues will be sufficlent for several |years at least, to make increases in | water rentals unnecessary, the chair- |man of the finance board feels, | Commissioner I, W. water board, is one of the leaders in the anti-bond issue movement. He | declares that' the present low water {rentals are the direct result of the | policy of paying out of regular rev. enues for improvements wherever possible. He has asserted that, in his opinion, the adoption of a system of |issuing bonds will, In a few years bring water rentals close to the amounts pald in citles where private | companies furnish the service. Had the city, in the days of the water sys- tem’s early development adhered to the policy of issuing bonds, the tak- ing up of these obligations would cause an annual drain ty finances that would today necessitate rentals considerably higher than are now | charged, he believes, Chairman Hall of the finance board points out that the revenues of the water board have been sufficiently large in past years to provide a fund { high enough to lay aside moneys with which to make such improvements as the pumping station provide, and he Lelleves, that if bonds were jssued, thereby avoiding great drains on this money, the revenue would be found to be high enough without jumping wa- ter rates, The water boa decision to rec- ommend to the board of finance that permanent improvements be paid for out of regular revenu was reached by unanimous vote, FARMHOUSE DAMAGED BY EXPLODED DYNAMITE Believe that Would-be Purchascr May Have Planted Explosivey to Get Even East Bridgeport, Mass., {The partly built farmhouse ¢ land W. W , a school principal of Whitman, was badly damaged in ar attempted dynamiting here today. One of twenty-four sticks of dynamite in the cellar exploded and the other re mained undisturbed because a to ignite thelr fuses had die before reaching them The police immediately -begar search for Michael Loughman, {lived nearby nd who they threatened Watts last October he visited the farm as a prospective purchaser. E Loughman, Chief of Police Everett Russell said, tolds Watts at that time he wanted to buy the property and that harm would befall Walls if he persisted in buying it. An b two later alleged. Loughmar hacked Watts' bieyele with his axe. A warrant was issued for his arrest, but he had disappelired and has never re turned. Watts bought the f nd started 1o build a, dwelling there Six Newsboys Killed ¥ 9 Row 1 said whe B, ur or it e rm & Returning From Party o Milwankee, Wis., Feb, 9 —8ix new boys and Arnold Veight, 26, super- visor for the Milwaukee Journal, were | killed late last night when a Chicago & Northwestern passenger train hit a Journal company truck. The bodies | | were strewn 606 yards along the ruil- | spe {road track. The newsboys had at- | tendea a party in St. Francis, a sub- | urb, pear which the accident occurred HAD NO TAIL LIGHTS, Pelton of the | NINC DRiurno e- | ‘uuo)) ‘piojiiey NE" | “daq APV 2 N b uo, 2)e)S DI -i),."'s % Have Law Strictly } Enforced { Nine autoists were haled into police | 5 a vesult of the campaign started last | night by Chief of Polisg William ( Hart against drivers of automobiles | which are not thoroughly equipped | with lights. In imposing the fines, | Judge William €. Hungerford said | that the reason that there was so many in court charged with not hav- ing tall lights on their machines was | undoubtedly due to the leniency of, the authorities in the past, but there | wus a determination to make all dri- | vers sce to it that their machines had | the proper lights. He imposed fines of | $2, saying that if the violations con- | tinued, the fines would be substantial- ly increased. | Those who were arraigned were Baba Jones of 25 Dwight street, Al-| | bert Castrow, George Abraham, Pas-| | quale Bolton, Norman B, Morrill, Ar-| thur Cachlio, Max Belkin, John Nel- | son and Harry Wellin, ! Chief of Police William C. Hart i8- | gq | sued orders to all patrolmen last| night to arrest all autoists who did| C of su. chines, telling the men that the state department of motor vehicles had | asked the cooperation of the police. |y The police were also given orders to watch jitneys closely and see that they were not overloaded as reports| { coming to the station indieated that} the warning issued by the chief some time ago aguinst overloading was not | | being heeded. As a resuit of this or- der, Stanley Novak and Chester Mu- | ter, Jitney drivers, were arrested, charged with overloading their busses, co Both men were driving busses, the | o capacity of which was 18. One of | b them had 23 passcengers when held up of | by the police, and the other 21, ANDERSON LEFT JOB "~ ON_ FERRUARY FIFTH fo! sh ra g gl ed Former Superintendent Is | Definitely Out of N. Y. Anti-Saloon League | Gloversville, N. Y., Feb., 8.—The | resignation of Willlam H. Anderson as superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league was uccepled at a meeting of |the league's board of directors held {in New York city Tuesday, Febru- y 5. 'This statement was made carly today by Rev. William gpleer, vice president of the Anti- Saloon league in New York state and pastor of the Iirst Presbyterian church of Gloversville Vice President Npicer 1 | while no succ essop to the former su perintendent had ‘as yet been chosen the board of directors had appointed a special committee 1o act in the ine terim Mr staten th be th th th that | sid th wl Spicer issucd the following h mecting of the board of r8 of the Anti-Saloon lcague of York held in York on Tuesday, February resignation Willlam H. Anderson as state perintendent of the le was cepted to take effect imme Mr. Spicer statement members board that no announcement son resignation should be had been imposed son's ¢ dire W th la o su agur Hately.” hat the | g, hud agreed the An made explained was held up of of He after sentence said t T nnections have ceased enlirely and efinitely 10 hat is out.” FIVE REVENUE AGENTS MISSING FROM BOAT Men Who lLeft Seminole in Small Launch to Investigate Rum Run- ners Not Heard From S United States to investigate rum Long Beac night not ¥ this morping and sent out 1o seek th ha ad News of the lisay wireless . by ters her Phillip H. Scott ¢ mand failed tc suspicious 100k icinity of Jones rum ing rendez 0 FLORIDA SANIEN e » " ington, D. C.. ¥ ? former republica ¢ hastened to ch, Fla izzing omm ir 4 ying fe ays warmer stimes. John T boss of Wash by the stigatin Wash King, the Connecticy ington from Palm Bes days ago 1o undergo q who the T seused from t &4 few @ and has gone south By ovi ‘wets" stable was killed and a deputy sheriff wounded seriously. |ducted recently by | not have proper lights on their ma- | K:‘;(uix ";il paid employe of the klan, ing of the | hall, Up! Harold Cr mob shot out the s de | who with went to the anti-klan meeting to urge was shot and and the trio is being guarded at the hospital by National guardsmen. hospital minjature Carbondalc city pit wher eath | RIOTS WITH “FLAMING CIRCLE” FINANGE AND WATER | Herrin Scene Of Riot- ing After Series Of Dry Raids Conducted Under Leadership Of Young Of Klan. onstable Shot Dead— Sheriff Injured—Mayor Hides in Hospital Under Guard, Which Place Is Fired Upon by Crazed Crowd. ; The Associated Pres Herrin, 1ll,, ¥eb, 9,—Herrin, scene the miners’ riot of 1922, was taken er by state troops toduy as a ree It of a near riot last night between and “drys,”” in which a con- The le trouble is a result of the whole« dry raids which have been cone in this (Williamson) county reputed members of the an, led by 8, Glen Young, A mects nights of the Flaming rele, an anti-klan organization, was session when a crpwd stormed the The shooting followed, Five companies of troops had are rived this forenoon, The crowd which visited the klansmen were headed by three of the meeting hall of the antl ur policemen of He outs of “lynch them! " were heard, Sheriff Galligan mmandeered an automobile and shed the trio to Murphyshoro to otect them., The three are: Chief Police John Ford and Policemen n and Sim Stephens. Raiders Patrol Streets Before the arrival of the troaps, the iders, armed with revolvers and rin, and when String 'Em shotguns, patrolled the streets of Hers rin denying anyone they considercd uspicious” to pass. All unable to ve the Klan password were scarche for weapons Before attacking the hospital, the street lights o ose within the institution could npt where tocaim, Constable Killed. Caesar €agle, a constable, who had en issuing the warrants on which e drys conducted the raids, was shot ad. John Layman, deputy sheriff, Sheriff George Galligan, o conferees to disperse and go 1o eir homes in the interest of peace, He was taken to a local by Mayor C. E. Anderson Thomas, an anti-klansman, epital Ora Tmmediately a crowd gathered oute de the hospital and began firing into e institution. Persons inside the responded to the fire and a battle waged for a short ile, The first guardsmen arrived 4 a.m, and the estabiished headquarters at the blocks from the hos- guardsmen are patrolling to protect the mayor, 1 Thomas, from 1rys” en ha Crowd Swears Vengeance. lertaking establishment 8 body lay, a crowd to- olemn oath to enge the ot in the back At un Cagle ¥ took a a was & had eir fearing ting with explained he #a t the flaming the and 1 were stated 1 Crain Several Patients Pank Strichen t and ken