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• DISPATCHES tt * & a a a A ;■«- ■■ . • UniM VOLUME XXIV More Charges Hurled at Sinclair and Doheny at Oil Lease Investigation —* . + Denver Newspaper Man De clares Doheny, Sinclair and “Standard Oil Companies” Entered Conspiracy. SINCLAIR WAS TO GET TEAPOT DOME Articles Which Appeared in Paper Read at Hearing.— Editor/Tells of Money and Oil That Changed Hands. (■» *fc*> AmiMMei Pma.) Washington, Fob. !>.—A ohargo that Harry F. Sinclair, E. 1., Doheny ntal “tin* Slnnilari) Oil a Mini companies” con spired to assure award of (ho Teapot Homo naval oil lease to Sinclair was made before the Serrate oil committee to day by Frederick G. Bonfils, publisher of the Denver Post. Continuing ltis story of Ids connection with the group that held contesting claims in the Teapot Dome reserve and disposed of them to Sinclair, the publish er asserted that in addition to the pay ments made to that group, the Mid-West and Pioneer companies who also had in terests in the distract, received $1,000.- 000 in oil t(reduced by the Sinclair com pany from Teapot. During his testimony yesterday, the witness had said that he and John.L. Stack, a Denver oil man, with H. If. Tammen, his partner, nnd H. H. Schwarts, their attorney, negotiated a settlement, with Sinclair, the proceeds of which were split’ four ways. 'Hits set tlement, he said, took place after the Post had published an article attacking the Teapot Dome situation, but had de ferred publication of other stories on the snme subject because of a fear of libel suits, Heverting to this feature of the testi mony today Senator Walsh called atten tion 'to the article attacking the Teapot Dome lease which appeared in the Post on August ls», 1922, und asked if there were others. , Bontils said he had prepared a list of all the articles regarding the lease of Tenpot Dome and he supposed there were 100 of them from September 1A 1022, up,to the pr««»,tiw„^ Interior Department - shovwf rmf® then Secretary of {he Interior. Albert R. Fall, was kept fully advised as to the publications in flic Post regarding the lease. The first, he added, was under dale of April 5, 1922. two days before tlie lease was signed. Mr. Bonfils in re siiouse to a question, said he supposed that financial editor Dill, of his paper, had secured the information from hank ers and brokers. The clippings from the Post were sent to Mr. Fall by N. D. McEnery, a land office official at Denver,, according to the record submitted. I’nder date of April 9, 1922, he wrote to Mr. Fall that he thought some of the lawyers who rep resented large oil companies “are giving Dill this dope.” I'mler date of April 14. 1922 Enery sent a telegram to Win. Spry, in the In terior department, stating that the finan cial editor of the Denver Post asserted in an article that the Teapot Dome lease to Sinclair threatened an “oil scandal” nnd that "a probe by Congress may be asked.” The Post's daily published articles from April sth to April 14th the record show ed. although the public announcement of the lease was withheld by the Interior Department until April 21. Ktinnes Is No Movie Fan. Berlin. Feb. 9.—Hugo Stinnett, Ger many's great captain of industry, con fesses that he has little taste for, theat , rical entertainment. His experience in ’ this direction is limited to one visit to the Berlin opera house, on which occa sion Wagner so bored him that he left before the performance was halt complet ed. And a* for the movies, he has neve er seen them at all. £ Nevertheless, Herr Stinnes is goiik into the movie business. A colossal company tinder his control has been formed for the production, selling arid general distribution of films. The com pany will also build, acquire and manage motion picture theatres. It aims at ex tending its activities all over central Europe. 3,000,000 Yards of Fog a Minute. Stockholm, Feb. 9.—M. Jernberg, an eminent Swedish engineer, has been suc cessful with his apparatus for produc ing artificial fog, to serve in the place of a fog screen in naval farware. The apparatus produces about 3,000,000 cu bic yards of fog per minute. It is said the Italian navy will introduce it on all lighter vessels, v The possession of American Hama'- is guaranteed to the natives forever by the Government of the United States. Opium, alcohol, paten medicines and commercialiaed drugs are prohibited and medical service is supplied free. WHAT SAT'S BEAR SAYS. Fair and not quite so cold tonight; Sunday, fair and wanner. t ! The Concord Daily Tribune j ZANGWILL SAYS JUDAISM ‘ Cl MAY YET CONQUER WORI.D » Author Th'nks Modernist Cimirovorr.y Portends Returns to Ilckrrw Doc- New York. Feb. 9.—lsrael Zangwill, the playwright «and Jewish lender, sail jj ing on the Pnris for his home in Eng land after several months in this conn- I try, continued up to the last moment so \ , voice his opinions— most of them un favorable—-of • “typically American'' I things. f 31 Some of the asperity seemed, how ever, to have departed from the rapid fire condemnation of this .country’s in stitutions. customs and laws. He «d --mited it. and ascribed it to .“two piens ! 1 ant surprises in one day—ft policeman '■ who refused a tip. nnd a little girl who ‘ kissed me.” Discussing his own people, * Zaugwill said: H “If the Jews had shown more p’nck ‘ and had mere look, they would have a '' valiean at Jerusalem today and Catholi cism would never have known the one. at 1 Rome. "I once thought America might be ! eotne the land of the ehosen people." Tl<> *| explained he mennt “those who bring '! Cod's kingdom upon this earth.” la ter ' I he said : "I “American regulated against alcohol, the Jews regulated against ham. It makes little difference what is regulat ed. The regulation generally is for the i good of the greatest number." ' Flappers l|e described as (‘youngsters ' who would define a line of conduct with- out the experience of their elder to guide them.” , “It was an historicnl flpke thnt .Tudn , ism did not win the Roman and Pagan * world to its standard." he continued. [ “Judaism 'might have conquered tiie , world. It may conquer it yet. The 9011- I troversics between so-called fundamen talists and modernists over the atone ment of Christ and immaculate coneep tionwre indication of a gradual return . of thinking men to the Judaic eonoep t tions, nnd q desire to rest upon the old , er theories concerning where man comes from nnd where he is goinng. [ "The Bible n completed thing? No. [ If God spoke then, he speaks now. In 1 stead of the Bible being a closed book. it is bat a chapter of n volume to which 1 'finis’ never will be written." happy.” It was, lie said, “typical of the ! complete swing of (lie nenduliSm 1 peculiar to moderns. There teems to he . no happy medium—no half way. People . must be either miserable or happy. The . modern interpretation is; ’lf they're [ miserable we know they’re happy.’ ” New York Cotton Review. New York. Feb. B.—After selling up to 34.97 or May contracts at the begin- I ning of the week on the reports of a ' good export demand, the cotton market * turned easier under renewed liquida ' tion. This developed as prices approaeh ’ ed the 35-cent level and became more : active toward the end of the week owing to continued report of dullness in the domestic goods markets, reiterated talk ' of domestic mill curtailment and a ' rather bearish view o the week-end 1 statistics. May contracts Bold off to ' about 23 cents during today’s trading, haking a decline of approximately 2 cents per pound from the high level' of Monday, and a re-aetion to within 40 1 points of the lowest price touched on the ! declines of last month. Reports of rather better progress with ' J new crop preparations, may have con tributed to the declines toward the end of the week, but new crop months were relatively quiet, nnd steady, and the ’ market, on the whole, appeared to be influenced chiefly by expectations of n | falling off in domestic mill takings due , ing the balance of the season. ThiSt im pression was encouraged doubtless by ’ reports that stocks of goods were ne . cumulating in the hands of 1 manunctur ’ ers and thnt goods buyers as a rule were operating only from hand to mouth. Their attitude in that respect I was said to be 'influenced by the dis -1 counts at which new crop months were 1 selling in the futures markets and-a be -1 lief thnt raw cotton would be lower if [ the coming crops secured n favorable start. Fitrtlter reports reached the trade j of export buying in the south, but they seemed to have less effect on sentiment after she advance of over 2 cents per pound from the low levels of January, , and toward the end of this week liqui . dation was reported by recent buyers . who were said to have been disappoint- B ed by the fai'ure of prices to go nbove 5 the 35-cent level on the enrly week I bulge. j There were rumors today that private 1 returns indicated domestic mill con sumption of 519.000 bales for January compared with 401,000 for December. i Some buying was reported on these / figures but it was pointed out thnt they . showed a considerable falling off as i compared with the eonsueption of ap -1 proximately 610.000 bales reported for January last year. Sales of print . doth* in the Fall River market were es timated at about 60.000 pieces for the week nnd curtailment of mil activity there was said to be on nbout the same scale as during the previous week. Vera Cruz is Again Occupied By Rebels. Vera Cruz. Feb. 8-—Orizaba, Cordoba and Vera Cruz* were reoccupied by revolutionary forces last night. Martial law was declared in Vera Cruz by order of the revolutionary general, Eduardo Loyo* A few cases of looting occurred last night in Vera Cruz and its vicinity. 1 • General discontent exists among the ; populace hbrd, lack of work and hunger causing the unrest. rfT CONCORD, N. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1924 i. j Ml ij \ ;<- l> /|t - &£ ‘|l ...> it/ f . r> - t hmSSB <■■■■ jpgßj B j built by J. D. Morehouse atfccCtokEleUt, klTton” an! | hour over frozen waters. - THE COOPER TRIAD Effort to Show Coopers Converted Ranh's Funds to Pay Personal Draft. * Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 9 (By the Associated Press).—Records of a trans action in which Lieut. Governor W. B. Cooper ami Thus, E. Cooper are eltarg ed with having aided and abetted Hor ace C. Cooper in an alleged conversion of funds on the last day before the Com mercial National Bank was closed were introduced 'this morning in the trial of the first two on a charge of conspiracy in connection with the bank's failure. Horace Cooper, cashier of the defunct bank, and also under indictment, is al leged in the conspiracy charge* to have converted $2,656 of the bank's funds to his own use, with the collusion of the defendan'ts, to pay a draft drawn on him by the Long Island National Bank of Hicksville. N. and the draft was of fered in evidence, stamped paid. W. L, Smith, Jr., auditor of tl/c Mur chison National .Bank, identified the j draft, and testified it had been received by his bank for collection on December 29. 1922, the last day the Commercial National was open for business. He stat ed that application for payment was made to the Commercial National and the funds were remitted . Most of the day was spent in introduc ing records of the Commercial National and a large stack of ledgers and other iJMSIte! pjt. oAdod. J*'iJn 1 . pqat. qwytity r!r documentary evfifewv* nlrondv mine dueeil. ' THE COTTON MARKET Opened Firm at Advance of 22 to 41 Points in Response to Relatively Firm Cables. (By the Associated Press.) Now York. Feb. 9. —The cotton, market opened firm I inlay at an advance of 22 to 41 points in response to relatively firm cables and overnight buying orders. The latter was- believed to include further price fixing by the trade, as well as cov ering, and May contracts sold up to 33.90 during the first few minutes, or 45 points net higher. Offerings increas ed at this figure and there were reac tions of 25. to 30 points, but the market showed a fairly steady tone during the eariy trading. Cotton futures opened firpi. March 33.40 to 33.50; May 33.75 to 33.90; July 32.45; Oct. 28.20; Dec. not quot ed. A lion gnawed the wood away from j two iron bars in his cage and roamed free in two connecting express cars on n Santa Fe passenger train near Kan sas City, Missouri. He was raptured by tbo superintendent of a park zoo at Kansas City who lassoed the animal and pulled It into a waiting cage. “Faith anil toil and helping one another.” These seven words farm the plan for international peace sumitted by Anton Lang, Ohristus of the ObernmnK-rgau Passion play, to Ed ward W. Bok. Anderson Gets Sentence of One To Two Years In Sing Sing New York, Feb. B.—William H. An derson must go to Sing Sing priaan from one to two years for third degree forg ery in falisfying the books of the State Anti-Saloon League, of which he is su perintendent, unless his conviction by a j jury January 29th is reversed on np- I peal. I In imposing sentence today Supreme | Court Justice Tompkins said : “This crime was deliberately commit ■ ted anil aggravated by some of his testi j mony, which was obviously untrue.’ 1 ) i The sentence followed an impassioned plea for clemency by former Governor , Charles S. Whitman, Anderson's chief ; counsel, anil an appeal by Ferdinand Pecora, assistant district attorney, that | the punishment” be such as to satisfy j the public that jiwfice has been done j and that the law is no respecter of per | ssons.” Anderson, ft is reported, has re ' signed as State superintendent of the Iveague. Anderson was freed in $5,000 bail on a stay of execution to permit Mr. Whit man to seek a certificate of reasonable doubt which the trial court refined to i grant. Arguments for a certificate wifl be heard by the court February 15th. 1 As he left the courtroom Anderson was served with papers in a $105,000 j libel suit brought against the league, of ■ which he still is superintendent, by ' Francis Cortwright, of Corning, N. Y., i who has accused the league of having i libelled him in literature distributed ■ throughout the district in which he was , a candidate for the State assembly in 11922. ' I HAVE REBELS REGAINED CONTROL S; VEKA CRUZ? I j: JEJ j Dispatches Kay Rebels Have Again 1 j Taketi tile City—N»l Confirmed. (By tbe Associated Press.) [ Washington. Feh,|, tl. —Although the •State department has* no definite con-, j Dentation of reports tfcat the De La Ilu | erata rebels have reoteupied Vera Cruz, | overnight dispatches tqiii contain infor i ! illation as to the rebel movement which j led officials to belive file report probably j was true. I Claim More Geuerfls Join Rebels. j El Paso. Texas, Feb, 9.—El Paso ail herents of the De Lfl Huerta levolu j tionnrv movement today were advised ! that General Angel Flores anil General jßoual Mailero, commanders of the Fed eral armies in the State of Sinaloa, had ! joined the Want American Released. I El Paso, Texas, FVb. .!).—Officials of j the Roquillns Power,(>.. a Canadian cor poration operating tic huge Boquillas dam and power ploilt. and the lint's which furnish powerifor mining enter prises in Chihuahua, Jdexico, were here tftday in an effort toeobtaiti the release of T. J. MncKcnkie, feeneral manager of ! the company, who is'held by Hippolito ; Villa for $2000,000 <snsom. THE RESIGNATION OF _ ACCEPTED i Resigns as Superintendent of the Anti- Saloon I>eagne of New York. (By the Associated Pres.;.) Glovensville, New York. Feb. 9.—The resignation of William 11. Anderson as superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of New York was nooepted at a meet ing of tiie league’s board of directors' in New York City last Tuesday. This announcement was made today by Rev. William C. Spicer, vice president of the League, and pastor of the First Pres byterian Church of (Ilovensville. New York, Feb. 9.— A stiff fight, it was asserted today, will be made to keep William H. Anderson from going to Sing Sing, prison to which he was sentenced yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Tompkins for altering the books of that organization. Arguments will be heard next Friday by Supreme Court Justice Wagner for a certificate of) reasonable doubt. . / Should the certificate be re-fused, An derson it is understood will have to go to Sing Sing without delay to begin his j term of between one and two years. Wind’s Gift of Wild Duck. London, Feb. 9. —An easterly wind re cently cast upon the shore at Deal great docks of wild duck. Their feathers had become so coaled with crude oil that apparently fhey were udable to fly. They t-oultl only swim in the direction of the wind, and had thus drifted across the Channel. Where anil how- they en countered the oil is a mystery. Many of the birds, which wore in plump con dition, weighing from two to five pounds, were captured—and roasted. Shows No Penitence. Justice Tompkins recalled that An derson waN found guilty of forgery in the third degree on an indictment alleg ing he had falsified the books of the league by transferring the sum of $4,000 from’ tbe salary account of O. Bertsall I Phillips, a fund collector, to Phillips’ ex pense account. At the outset the court remarked that a suspended sentence was customary where n defendant hail con fessed anil said he was. sorry, and when boys committed crimes. “But this is nos such a case," declared the court, “This crime was delibeiatc jly committed. , After the defendant's at tention had been called to the fact that j Phillips’ salary aci-ount bad been int j properly charged some days elapsed be fore the alteration was made. He bas not confessed and he did not plead guil tv. He stood trial and was convicted, i His case is further aggravated by some of his testimony which was obivoitsly untrue. “Some of his testimony could not have been true if the statements in hisl affidavit to the league were true. I re-1 fer to his stating that, he raised the I money “loaned to the league” by mort gaging his home in Baltimore. This is not a proper case for n fine because the law does not permit it. It is not a proper case for 'the reformatory because of the age of tbe defendant. It is not ft case fop the penitentiary because he might be detained there three years.- The sentence is that you be confined in the State prison for nrtt less {ban one year and not more than ,two." : . - . j. A.'AA.V• V■,. State Troopers Take Over Herrin After Near‘Riot ♦ i 1 One Man Was Killed and Deputy Sheriff Seriously Hurt tin Disorders Which Took Place Friday Night. KLAN IS BROUGHT INTO SITUATION It Is Charged That Raids Are Being Made at Request of Klan.—Anti-Klan Meeting Broken Up by Fights. Herrin. 111., Feb. 0 (By tho Associated Press). —Herrin, the scone of the miner's riot of 1922, was taken over by state troops today as a result of n near riot last night between wets and dry* in which one man was killed and a deputy shooin' seriously wounded. The trouble is a result of the whole sale dry raids which have been conducted ’.in this (Willinmson) county recently by reputed members of the Kn Klux Klan led by S. Glenn young, paid employee of the Klnn. A meeting of the Knights of i the Flaming Circle, an anti-Klan organi zation. was in session when n crowd stormed the hall. The shooting followed. Caesar Cagle, who has been issuing the warrant* on which the drys conducted 'the raids, was shot dead. John Cayman’, deputy sheriff, who with Sheriff George Ualligan. went to the anti-Klan meeting to urge the conferees to disperse and go to their homes in the interest of pence, was shot, lie was taken to a local hospital by Mayor C. E. Anderson, and Ora Thomas, an auti-Klnnsman, and the trio is being guarded at the hospital by guardsmen. Immediately after the mou went to the ho.-pitnl a crowd gathered outside and be gan firing into the institution. Persons inside the hospital responded to the fire ami a miniature battle waged for a short rime. • The first guardsmen arrived at Carbon dale at 4 a. m. and the drys then estab lished headquarters at the city hall, sev eral blocks from the hospital. The guardsmen are patrolling the hospital to protect the Mayor, Cayman and Thomas Five companies of troops had arrived this forenoon. The crowd which visited the meeting hall of the anti-Klansmen was headed by three of the four police men of Herrin, and when shouts of “lynch them,” and “string them up" were i heard, tilt sheriff commandeered an au tomobile kud nisVeit'-ttrt> Itte~m“Mrtrrryt>- lioro. The three are chief of police John Ford and Policemen Harold Crain and s'iin Shephens. Before the arrival of the troops the raiders armed until revolvers and shot guns, patrolled the streets of Herrin, de nying anyone they considered suspicions the right to puss. Those unable to give the Klan password were searched for weapons. Just as the trouble in Herrin was at its height. Leonard Sterns, deputy circuit clerk, and son of Cyclops Ham Stearns, was fired on as he was riding in an au tomobile in Marion, the county seat. The bullet grazed his baek, but he is uot seriously injured. He is a candidate for circuit clerk. An automobile owned by John Whiteside, also an admitted mem ber of the Klan, was fired on at the same time. SLIGHTED FRENCH BEAUTY DRIVES JUDGE TO COVER But He Was Married Already and Es caped. Nice, Feb. 9. —Ten yearn ago Made moiselle Callmon was the most beautiful girl in France. While her po'uplarity was at its height because of her having won first prize in a beauty contest, a Nice merchant proposed marriage to her and was accepted. He was drafted into the army before tlieif marriage, and went to Morocco in military service for four years. His affection cooled at the end of his military service, and he sought to have the engagement cancelled. Made moiselle Callmon, however, regained his affections, and lived happily for six years in the thought that she would one day marry the merchant, but Ihc tenth anniversary of their betrothal he declared the engagement null. Mademoiselle Callmon then brought i suit for 100,000 francs damage. In the court she displayed the pictures of the girl whose beauty had been the toast of the Itiviera, and declared her un faithful suitor hud made it impossible for her to think of another man. “But why?” tlie judge asked. “Would you take a girl who was en gaged for ten years to another man. and then jilted by him?” the woman tptes- j tioned. “At once,” the judge replied. “Well, here I am, judge,” she coun tered. “Oil, I am married already,” the em barassed judge replied. Tlie court then proceeded to award Mademoiselle Callmon 8,000 francs dam ages, and cautioned the defendant not to prolong another engagement for ten years. New Home is Burned. Salisbury. Feb. B.—The home of Will Wetmore. at Woodleaf, was destroyed | by fire, together with practically all the I contents. It was a new home, Mr. Wet j more having moved into it about a | month ago. Cause of the blaze was not ascertained. I The children of Japan arc taught to reverence the emperor as a semi-divine being. The present Prince Regent, liav i ing traveled extensively in European i countries, favors more democratic prac tices with regard to the imperial • Japanese family. • A concrete house, simple and inexpen , --give, and declared to be capable of with* i standing earthquake shocks, has been • designed by Simon Lake, the submarine fcoat inventor. ■ - ■ - - r Can^^On HL fl A. I. Rykoff has been chosen t* succeed Lenin as president of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Government, CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT SICK Has Cancelled All Engagements anti Will Take Complete Rest. Washington, D. Feb. 6.—Chief I Justice Taft, by direction of his physi-1 cian. Dr. Thomas A. Clayton; has can-, celled all engagements for the imme-' diate future and entered upon a period of complete rest. This course was de- : termined upon after the Chief Justice had suffered ail attack of indigestion to day. Although the attack is jyielding to treatment, lie followed his physician's instructions and went to- bed. Because of his illness, Mr. Taft was unable to attend .tlie funeral of Woodrow Wilson, fer which lie had been named an honorary pall bearer. At tlie same time, lie decided to abandon a trip to, New York and New Haven, which he: had planned for tomorrow. Although the Supreme Court is in a three weeks' recess, he had been work ing intensely in preparting opinions for j delivery upon the reassembling of the Court. February 18th. It w believed too close application to his duly is re- 1 - epanwtolc in his condition- v- -j Dr. Clayton said tonight he did not consider that Mr. Taft was seriously ill and added that it probably would not b? necessary for him to remain in bed. i “The Chief Justice had a little gastral indigestionai. upset today,” Dr. Clayton stated, but he has had no fever and will be fully restored lo his usual good health in a day or two. Ido not consider him seriously ill. He was resting comfort ably tonight. I have advised him to re main quietly at home for a day or two. where lie will be permitted to go about the house. His condition is not such as to rejuire him to remain in bed." Chief Justice Taft has kept himself in condition by methodical exercise since leaving the White House. Even during the winter months, he has daily walked t the three or four miles between his resi dence and the capitol at a brisk pace. He has been generally regarded as en joying excellent health. DAWES HAS NO IDEA OF QUITTING BOARD Denies He Will Quit as Chairman of First Committee of Experts. Paris, Feb. fl (By the Associated Press). —Brigadier .General Charles (}. j Dawes has no intention of resigning ns! chairman of the first committee of ex perts examining German's economic and financial condition, lie declared today in a telephone- conversation from Berlin with reparation headquarters hero. His disclaimer was made in *;onnec tion with various published rumors that he was about to withdraw. Lawrence Gatling. Wife-Murderer. Re ported Captured at Jacksonville. Jacksonville. Feb. S.—A man believed to be Lawrence Gatling, wanted in Raleigh, N. C. on a double murder charge, was arrested by deputy sheriffs at farm garage nine miles from here this afternoon and is being held for Raleigh officials. Officers said he admits he is Gatling, but denies the murder charge. According to the deputies lie ran when they drove up to the garage in an auto mobile blit stopped after guns had been leveled on him. He was unarmed j except for a hunting knife and had $705 Jon his person. With Our Advertisers. I Candy and valentines—you need both for the 14tli at Cline's Pharmacy. You get electrical satisfaction when' you buy electrical fixtures from W. J. Hethcox. Armature rewinding, generators test ede and repaired at tlie Bollinger Service Station. Read what “U. B. Thrifty” says in the new ad. of the Cabarrus Savings Bank today.• PIEDMONT Next MONDAY, TUESDAY, WED NESDAY, THURSDAY The Motion Picture Version of A. S. M. Hutchinson’s Famous \ Novel “If Winter Comes” f, ' 1 • > / | Mightier Than the Book . )<K»99«O« > TODAY’S « * NEWS « > TODAY fl > fl fl « fl fl fl fl NO. 31. MYSTERY OF TODER ; OE LOUISE LAWSIN DEEPER ®_*«eory of Robbery, Which Was First Entertained, Somewhat. Changed When Missing Jewels Are Found. JEWELS LOCATED IN REPAIR SHOP Owner of Shops Says They Were Left There for Re pair.—Two Photos Found on Dresser of Victim. tßy the Associated Prong.) New York, Feb. o.—The mystery of the murder of Louise I-awson, manikin and actress, in her apartment yesterday, became deeper today when detectives found a part of her jewelry in a shop where she had loft them to be repaired. The discovery tended to dissiimtc tlie po lice theory of robbery. - Miss Lawson, a towel stuffed iff her mouth, her hands and feet tightly bound, was found dead by her negro maid. The police found the apartment in disorder and the young woman's jewel box empty. Tliis evidence, couplied with the elevator l boy's story of two uncouth strangers ! who visited the apartment, led to the I robbery theory. ' On a dresser stood a photograph of an , army officer and one of Gerhard M. ! Dahl, chairman of the executive commit tee of the Brooklyn. Manhattan Trust * 1 Corporation, lawyer and broker, who the ■ police learned, had been interested in the young woman. Mr. Dahl was hut one of her socially ; prominent friends. She was a friend of j the late Angicr B. Duke and was one of : these at the party which ended in his drowning at Greenwich, Conn., last Hep ! tember. She had a motor car at her 1 disposal, it was said. !! MURDER OF TEXAS GIRL IN j HER APARTMENT IN NEW YORK The Girl Was a Member of Angler B. , ] Duke Death Party . ,' New York, Feb. B.—Miss Louise I Lawson, former motion picture actress, •j was found strangled (jto death in her I faiihionablc studjo on. West and poliee have divided their time in a , search for two men) who entered her rooms early this morning and in ques tioning those believed to have known de tails of the girl's life and her friends along Broadway. The theory has been advanced by the poliee that the murderers were bootleg gers who had visited the apartment be fore and had been attracted by jewels’ Miss Lawson wore and others they had seen in her rooms. A quantity of li quor was found in the ice box of the apartment. Poliee cast aside all mo tives other than robbery, for a platinum bracelet, said to be worth SB,OOO, and ! other valuable jewels were gone. All j jewel boxes were open and the entire | apartment was in disorder, indicating that the girl had fought hard .to savtf her life and her valuables. In their probe of Miss Lawson's life, police learned she was the daughter of a prominent merchants of Walnut Springs, Texas; that she had played small parts in motion pictures, but for two years or more had been unemployed, living in her luxurious apartment which •frill was filled with tlie fragrance of | fresh cut flowers when her body was ! found. They learned she had been a member of the gay party that ended in the death of Angie B. Duke, wealthy tobacco man ufacturer, at Greenwich, COnti.. last September. Pictures of an army lieu tenant and of a middle-aged man were on her dressing table. MONEY FOR NAVY Naval Appropriation Rill. Carrying $271,942,867, Report by House Com mittee. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. 9.—The annual naval appropriation bill carrying $271,- 942,867 of which $30,000,000 would be available for completing more than a score of vessels now under Construction, was reported today by tlie House Appro priations Committee. Th» total is $4.- 453.000 less than the budget estimates, and $23,024,000 less than tlie amount allcted tlie Navy by Congress a year aga. ... > Plump Ankles Lengthen Skirts. London, Feb. !). —Because women's ankles have iucrcased in size through ] the wearing of very tight shoes, dresses are to he longer in length. This is what llie Paris experts have told pro prietors of the principal West-end stores, and it is in the intention of fashion ! creators to design dresses in such a way as to give only a slight glimpse of ankles. > Rebels Holding Americana. El Paso, Texas, Feb. 9.—Paul Ginther, prominent mining man of El Paso and . Chihuahua, has been taken a prisoner |by rebels under the command of Hipoli ta Villa and Manuel Chao, and is being | held for ransom, according to word re ceived here from Chihuahua. I A young French archeologist, swim tming into the recesses of a partially j submerged -cave near St. Martdry, France, found valuable secret*. Keeping ■ his matches and candles dry by means of a special contrivance he swam nearly 1 a mile, resting on rocks en route, when he reached a dry gallery 200 vards long, the walls of which were covered with "
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