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THE SFMTFJi WATCHMAN, Este CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 SEMENOFF BY SHERIFF Anti-Bolsheviki Mili tary Leader in Si beria Arrested When Kg Reaches New York New York, April 6 (By the As- , soeiated Pre^K^-g|^ Oregorie i uron his arrival here iroin Wash ington today by S*erinl|2$agle; In the custody of six de-pijty sheriffs, he was takenv tei the ^aldorf - As- I toria hotel, where arrangements j were under wayno have him re leased on $25400<J bail.^. The arrest was' made* in, a civil action involving- nearly $5pO,0C0 on an order issjied by Supreme Court Justice r^gSfe^nfy. General Semenott.* charged with the theft of >wooleh stuffs an 1 property of the now battlerupt: firm, furs valued at about: $4?5.O0f?, Yourevata H'o.-ne q^f&gffgn Trade company, inc. The:.theft was al leged to have been made in oir near Chita. Trans-Baikal!*, in 191?. The order of arrest had been re quested by counsel, for receivers of the Yourevata. company. Their re quest was accompanied wich affi- | davits from Ma* Gen. 'Wiittata S. J Graves, commander of the Ameri can expeditionary force in Siberia, and Charles Ft "Smith;American representative on the inter-allied railway committee. Bysh were said to have denounced t||^ge?eval in their affidavits, ?ref^^^;*^to- him as a "bandit ?d-^r^anV' The general when attested .was aooom panied by his wife, a ^eautifirl wo man exquisitely jgfowji;?! and wear ing a necklace-of get as she said was worth ?50,0&0 and his.secre tary and interpreter, ^ivazofi, who was employed" at Vancouver. B. C The anti-Bolshevik leader had been told, he s^id^/ThaVhe would be cordially recfe|f? Jpa >\?V York and that he wc&l?->b^ jgiv?n quar ters befitting *Tlyl^'i^/'ji^-fRed Battalions." The sfierkf." Iiis dep uties, two sc?ads of reporters.and a Pullman porter eompsed. the re ception committee. * One of the deputies, who had learned how the generalvwon fame, stepped, forward timidly, handed him the order of arrest/then jump ed back as if he e^I^ct^d ^a sword thrust. Then vhe general bowed and Madame Semenoft smiled. Tho general evidently was preparing to deliver an address of thanks when his interpreter Stepped into the scene. When Aivazbff had convinced \ General Semenoff that he was un- j der arrest, Madame Semenoff burst into tears, tookTofT her necklace and .offered it. as security if they would let her husband go free. But the general quieted her and asked permissjon to go to.th* hotel for several hours before being taken to jaV?. He said he thought he could find freinds who would help him. .The charges a^j^\*Mhi^he an swered as follow?^^^ftW r\ All time. Everybody took tt'hat ^ey thought they could use or sel\y The Bol sheviki stole from me. stole from the Bolsheviki. ^-Boih "of us stole where we found something to steal. How am I to rfem?tnj??r- whether I took these particular tcoods?" "I have no recyUectVgir of it. A was chaos in Silvia dfcCthat tim ). New York. A|?Vir Arrested here upon his arrival'^m Wash ington in connection- with a civil suit involving the/*Kfcf|^ifc Trans Bailaklia in 191 i> of good's valued at $475,000. Gen Greegorle Semen off. anti-Bolshevik military lead er in Siberia, was released on $25.000 bail shortly before mid night after being held under guard in the "Waldorf Astoria hotel for five hours. ROCK HILL YOUTH WINS IN CONTEST First Place Goes to Bruce Feweli in Catawba Orator ical Meet Chester. April 7.?The annual declamation contest of the Catawba 'Oratorical and Athletic association was won here tonight at the Ches ter opera house by Bruce Feweli of Winthrop training school of Roek Hill With the subject. "Belshaz zar's Feast." Second place went to William White of the Chester high school, his subject being "Should Lee's Statue Stand in the Hall of i'am*1?" Third place was won by a RoekjeHill boy, Crosby Steel, on the subject, "Lay Down Your Arms." ile was from Rock Hill high school. A 1-rge crowd was present. The field day events will be staged here tomorrow after noon. Indianapolis, April 8.?Idle coal j miners started today receiving! their last pay. estimated at thirty million dollars by union officials J and regarded by them as strike funds. The big wage distribution is an important factor in the min ers' ability to continue suspension oZ work. ib?shed April, 1850. SSL_ fSEMi?FF I ! LAUGHS AT j i BOLSHEVIKS! Chieftain of Cossacks,; Knows Nothing of ! Company He is] Charged With Rob bing -% New York. April 7.?Gen. C.reg orie Semenoff. ataman, or chieftain of Cossacks, enjoyed a hearty laugh today?the first since the sheriff of New York county sur- ! prised him with an order of ar rest last night?at the expense of the courts of Harbin, Manchuria. The "terror of red battalions," 1 as he likes to be called, apparently < thinks no more of the Harbin courts which are said to have re-' turned a judgment of $473,578 ji against him. than he does of Nico- j1 lai Lenine. j! "I know nothing of this Yoroveta Home and Foreign Trading com- i pany which charges that I stole their goods at Chita in Trans- \ < Ba'kalia and that they obtained j a judgment against rne in Harbin," h..- said today. < "The courts of Harbin? can not ! believe you are serious?" he said j to his attorney, then threw back his head and laughed long and loud, i1 "These Harbin courts?they are ; < like the wind?here now and gone j. tomorrow," and he snapped his); fingers. , "Who is /Yoroveta?" he asked, i "I never heard of him. Where ; is the proof that I stole these goods ] at Chita?" Thus General Semenoff defended < himself in an interview at the of fices of his attorney. He had just returned from the office of Peter , B. Olney. referee in bankruptcy, , where his wife had given testi monj\ regarding their financial stat- '. us. . !. Madam Semenoff, formerly Hel- ' en Viktorovna, reputed cousin of ; the former Czar Nicholas, testified j that she and the general were j married in August. 192U. They left f Russia with ? limited funds and]' wardrobe and would have been j . unable;to get this far had nor their friend, M. A*vazoff, -r>f Vancouver, j, P?. C, advanced the funds, she j added. ,: General Krupsky and his brother. ! Nicholas, friends of the Cossack. 1 also testified. They were ouestion ! ed in connection with the vast j fortuue the general is reported toi' hold. 11 j George said he was a colonel and j ! former military attache to the Rus sian embassy in Paris. Neither her ! nor his brother, he testified, had j jany financial relations with thej 'general and denied that they had j [been in constant telegraphic andj postal communication with the! general >""ce his arrival in Ameri-| ca. There was some talk about ; <t mysterious treasure box, but the brothers declared they knew noth ing of it. The general also denied knowledge of the treasure. General Sernenoff will appear to morrow in the law offices of Davis H. Kahn, attorney of the receiver of Yoroveta.,for examination. ?- ? ? ? BACK FROM RUSSIA TO TELL OF HORRORS Captain of Relief Steamer Re lates Terrible Stories of Conditions at Odessa Baltimore, April 7.?A tale of famine, brutality and other hor rors was related by Capt. M. L. Hart of the steamer Deepwater. which returned to this port today from Odessa, Russia. The Deep water was one of the Russian re lief steamers which left here in January. Toward toe end of February the Deepwater reached Odessa and wasj met at the docks by thousands of j children. Practically unclothed and; showing unmistakable evidences of! starvation, they swarmed about ready to beg for food as soon as unloading of the grain was begun, but only to be driven away by Rus-. sian soldiers. Captain Hart said those who re-i sisted were bayonetted. It took nine days for 65 half starved stevedores to unload the ship by hand. Twoj of their number were killed in tiuarrels among themselves. Captain Hart refused to allow) any of his crew to go ashore, but i or.e night two rf the men slipped [ away. They spent a night of bor-1 ror before they were able to work' their way back on board, accord-j ing to stories they related on their' return. They told of seeing men stood up against a wall to be shot by a bring sound; of seeing men. women and children drop in the streets exhausted from hunger, and! as a climax to their night of ad venture, they saw three t rain loads ! of dead being shipped out of the, once nourishing city to be thrown into a hole in tin- outskirts. Captain Mart said the Russian people had had their spirit broicen j by the harsh .ami brutal methods) of tiiH Kassian soldiery and were offering practiclly no resistance The people believe tin- I. \v. \\'.\ has conquered the United states and that they air sending the grain j over to them. The people as a | whole also believe that ?olshe-1 vism has gripped the whole world j and that resistance is useless. tU (it "Be Just and Fear 3 TIDE TURNS AGAINST THE i TOUCANS _ ! In Local Elections in' All Sections of the! Country the Demo-! crats Are Winning: Decisive Victories j By Wallace Bassford (Special News Correspondent) | Washington. April 8. ? When scores of Republican towns and | cities elected Democratic mayors last November, the administration I leaders said the results were due ; to local causes. It appeared strange j at the time that the various and j varying "local causes" brought the same results all the way from Prov- j idence. Rhode Island, to the cities j of Utah, but the Democrats, still: smarting from the drubbing of j 192t'?. were backward in pointing diu the significance that seemed to lie therein. But when various rities in Maine kicked out their Republican officials about a month : ago. the trend began to be of more ! [Wmite character. This week | Hartford, Conn., overturned a ma- i *mino that had held the city for the Republicans the last twenty years, j while Kansas City,. Missouri, in a straight party fight, elected a Democratic mayor by 12,000 ma- j jority. The Republican Governor j of Missouri, Hyde, went into the. fight with all the help the State and National machines could give him. backed by a big Republican majority at the last election, but suffered a great reverse. These elections are strongly re- . mindful of the sorry condition in j which the Democrats found them- I selves during Cleveland's last ad- j ministration; llarding's situation is | very similar to Cleveland's, if not fully analogous. It will be recall- i ed ihat Cleveland came into office in March, 1803. just after pros-j perity had takep wing. He got the ! blame. For a year and a half he struggled against th? inevitable. \ He had a Congress with an un wieldy majority and dissensions in ! the ranks?just-as Harding has today. Cleveland had hardly got-; ten his chair warm before the city ! elections began to come along: in? I side of six months the reports had begun to grow monotonous?just J one Republican elected after an-1 other. At first Democratic lead- ; ers said the results were duo to! "local causes," but that was soon j worn threadbare. It made little, differences where the electins were! held?the results were very similar. The difficulty seemed to be that j the people were so disheartened by.hard times (begun muter liar-; rison's Republican administration); that they would not support any j man of the same political faith as the man who headed the existing i government. Today the Republi-j can leaders find the same diffieul- ! ty in getting the people to vote the ticket of the party in control at] Washington. If the analogy goes as far as next November?seven | nonths from now?Harding will) vceive the ram* sorr of repudi- J it ion as was suffered by Cleveland, ! /or in the middle of the latter's j term an antagonistic House was re turned by a very large majority. ; Some queer thing's occurred; ' Champ Clark was defated by an! itinerant music teacher while ^ichard P. Bland was beaten by a , horse doctor. The biggest Denn.- J crats in Congress were turned out. while many of their successors j proved to he "Congressional jokes. ' Many of them had been allowed to fake the party nominations because! they were in districts so strongly] Democratic in the past that the | Republican nominations were con- j sidered worthless; had the abler. Republicans seen a chance of get-j ing a seat in Congress there would] have been a different tale to tell, j And it behooves the Democratic organizations in the various states to see to it that only able men are nominate,! against the sitting Re publicans, for the signs of the times indicate that scores of Re publican .seats are to he vacated. | A landslide seems to have no re-I speet for previous majorities. The desperate state of the Ad-j ministration is Indicated by the) heartless discharge of the 28 chiefs of the various divisions of the Bu reau of Engraving and Printing, j where stamps, paper money and j Liberty bonds are engraved and; printed. It is the most wonderful! -hop of its kind in the world and has been considered a model of efficieny. The best opinion here seems to be that Harding needed jobs for his clamorous and hungry followers, and by putting Republi cans of his own choosing into all the head places he could have then: remove those below them. thus providing many hundreds of places.! Senator Harreld of Oklahoma, one of the accidents of the laSI eh e- | lion. ga.vc out a .statement t<> the effect that the administration found that many of the chief office holders reported more frequently to Mr. Tumults. President Wilsons secretary for eight years, than to the present loads of the govern ment. If this were true it would be a damaging proof of the uttei i weakness of the Harding control. Those who know Washington and I politics have observed with ap proval the very proper conduct of| ?fot?Bot all the rials Thou Aim.s't a ? uniter, S. G., Wednes Youngest A. A. U. Dorothy Hucknall, 13, of Philade: to win a place in an A. A. U. Mic She finished second in the 10&-yard 1 born she weighed only three pounds. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OF FICE CLOSED; Bureau of Engraving Closed Indefinitely Until Inventory Can Be Taken Washington, April S.?Divisions of the bureau of engraving nnd printing engaged in the produc tion of bank notes, bonds and postage stamps will be closed to night for an indefinite period to take inventory of the plant from which James L. Wilmeth and twent>*-eight chiefs, superintend ents and foremen were removed by presidential order a week ago. Hints also were given that dur- j ing the elosin.it the bureau could be further reorganized; or "Hard irigized," as one official put it. Tiie bureau employs six thousand and it is estimated that four thou-' sand would he affected by the clos ing. Officials said the elosing is to aid in taking an inventory, repair ing machinery and to issue new steel plates, such as used in print ins currency. The old plates are so worn that count erf eil ing i:: easy, they said. ULSTER BANKS ARE RAIDED i Belfast. April S.?uister Bank atl Lanesborough, county Roscommon.I was raided yesterday by. armed civilians who took away TOO pounds. The raiders were resisted by Free State troops and during! the fighting ('apt. Cox, a Free Slat-' or, was killed. The raiders escap ed. I 'Another I'1st er bank at Castlerea. County Roscommon, was robbed} of 2??o pounds, today by armed; civilians, who held up Cashier; O'Dougherty and his assistant. The hank's manager had just left | with tin- funds, otherwise the booty would have been much larger. Arrest Preacher? Greenville, April 8."?Bettrix Be eo. said to he a preacher for a j "Holiness" church near the city, was lodged in j:iil tonight by fed eral prohibition officers on the charge of manufacturing whiskey. Officers said they searched Iiis; home on the Spartanburg road i and found 150 gallons of "mash," j though no whiskey or any part of. distilling apparatus was found. | Mr. Tumulty, who, like his chief, has given every evidence of the correct attitude in i he cireum- i stances. .Mr. Wilson's silence has: almost been equalled by that of Mr. j Tumulty, who is quietly practising law. Harrvld's charge is ihe only' thing that has caused the former." president's secretary to break his! sib-nee on i arren; politics, though ' it must admitted thai he shat tered ii to hits at tin- expense of the Oklahoma senator, giving the] latter a dressing down that will' abide with him for some time and <Io much toward retiring him to' that private existence for which he! seems better ipialified than for thei hurly-burly ?>f Washington life. i Some of i lie employees summar-i ily fired by Harding had worked! for scores oi' vears in the Bureau ' and a:?- now thrown out in the-! most heartless manner, with no charges filet] against them, but branded h\ innuendo. Ii is as bad I .is tie- discharge of I.XhO N'avy: V:nil employees on tie- flay ih- ; Arms Conference ended. It is still, i In- fixed belief of Washington that ii was done in order that the j hi:- ucwsiKtper headlines might j make n deep impression on the for-j eign delegates who were about to' leave the pity. These men were'' not even riven fen minutes notiee. They came to work with their lunch baskets and were told they were no\ wanted. And yet this .-is .i '^Government of the people, fori the people?" I ? : t bo thy Country's. Thy God's and day, April 12, 1922 Swimming Champ pnia, is the youngest swimmer ever -Atlantic swimming championship, jreast stroke. AND when she was i OFFICIALS STATE VIEWS OF HARDING Declare He Will Not Wreck Civil Service. May Make Changes Wushington. April 7?Any inten tion by I'ivsnh-nt Harding t<> im pair the operation of the civil ser vice low was specifically disclaim ed today after the president's re cent bureau ?d* engraving dismis sals had again been the target of Democratic attacks in the senate. The intention of the chief execu tive it was said by officials in his confidence, was not in any sense to break down the spirit of the let ter of the civil service regulations Wt''rather to improve the efficiency of governmental machinery under those regulations. The president was said to take the position that as* head of the government he is responsible for efficient governmental administra tion. If there is anything in the civil serivee that tends to tie the hands of the.ex*'cutive. it was said, it will be looked into h?t without any effort to undermine or attack the civil service system. It ulso asserted that there is no intention at- present of changing the method -of selecting postmasters under presidential appointment. The system under which, tin- present administration is working, that is of taking one of the three highest under competitive examination, is regarded by the White House as giving on the winde fairly good sat is fact ion. Tim administration recognizes that there is considerable criticism in some quarters over the present method of appointing postmasters. howeVer, ami officials suggested if there was too much irritation the president might be forced to-with draw some postmasters from under the modified civil service plan. An alternative has been suggest ed, it was added, for the presi dent in case the irritation increas ed to withdraw the first, second, and third class postmasters from the civil serv ? where they are placed by executive order and to have persons desiring appointment as postmaster take a civil service exa mittat ion upon recommendation of their congressmen so that post masters could he named from this list. It was made clear, however, that the administration had no intention of abandoning the present system. ENDEAVORS HOLD STATE CONVENTION Several Hundred Delegates at Meeting Now Being Held in Greenville Greenville. April 7 With several hundred deleagtes from all parts of the state in attendance the a u nual convention of the South Car olina Endeavor union opened this afternoon in the First Presbyter San church here to continue through Sunday evening. "The Hour Square Christian'' is the theme of the convention, the four places for Christian service 1? i'l- the church, home, community and woi*TiI. Heaturlng today's ses sions was an address tonight b*> !>r. Haniel A. pnliug of New York, associate president of the Interna tional and hit ei'il.-notninat ion Uni ted Society of Christian Endeavor, who declared that the organization is laying the found: ii>>n of an in ternational brotherhood that will abide, Included among ihe speak ers today were: Marshall Woodson. Columbia: | ?r F. Kirkpatriek, Anderson: S. VVitkes Deivdy. Held secretary for-this'state, whose honte is Seneca; l>r. 10. I:. Quick. Atlan ta, and \Y P. Conyers. Greenville. Wyatl A. Taylor. >>( Columbia, the state president, is pre- iding over the convention. Ti iitirs." IRISH THEIR ; OWN WORST MIES I Conservative Leaders Clearly See That Country is Drifting Headlong Toward Civil War j London, April 0.? ir was rumor ed in London and Dublin Into last nigh: that the secret meeting of the Irish Republican army in Dub lin yesterday deposed Eamon De Valera as leader of the Republi cans, says the Daily Mail this morning. The newspaper adds that what actually happened is a mystery, but says some confirmation of the rumor is given by the statement that "De Valera now has no gov erning part in the Republican army." Dublin. April !> (By the Asso ciated Press).? In a speech de livered at Wexford today Michael Collins, head of the provisional government, declared that unless there was an immediate ? hange in the u?ne and tactics of certain of the people 'it looks as if civil war can only be averred by a miracle." .Mr. Collins added that in such a contingency there was little doubt the British would return to restore the order which the Irish would have shown themselves un able to ]>reserve. Train holdups and attempts to prevent pro-treaty meetings con tinued today. A Dublin tram on which Mr. Collins was supposed to be traveling to Wexford. found the rails had been taken up near Arlow. Armed men prevented the repair gang from replacing the rails. Mr. Collins had foiled his opponents by making the trip dur ing the night. The place where the rails were removed was on a bridge over the river Avon. After they were even tually i t laid and th# train readied Enniseorthy, armed men who ar rived in an automobile kidnapped the engine driver so as to prevent the train from reaching Wexford. Thousands of persons attended the meeting in :Wexford. There were only feeble signs of opposi tion to Mr. Collins. De declared that the language of Eamon De Va lletta had become that of a danger ous despot and De Valera, while posing as a lover of liberty and shouting the name of liberty, was trampling its form underfoot, i "The language of our oppon ents." declared Mr. Collins, "is that of treason?not patriotism. Our existence is threatened as no ene my from the outside ever has had the power to threaten it. and there is grave danger of another period of long agony before the country. Unless there is an immediate change in the tone and tactics of certain of the people if looks as if civil war crtn only be avoided by ja miracle. In case of civil war (the British wilt return to restore {the order which the Irish people ; have shown themselves unable to j preserve." .Mr. Collins concluded by again appealing to De Valera to pause and consider where his language, ??which is being translated into ac tion, is hurrying the nation.*' Dublin. April !? (By the Asso ciated Press).?-That section of the Irish Republican army which is Opposed 10 the Free State authori ties today held in private in Man sion House, the convention adjourn ed from a fortnight ago. It is reported that the draft of a j n<-w constitution for the army and resolutions proposing a military I dictatorship were discussed. About l'."'' delegates from various parts of the country attended tin' convention which was in session I throughout the day. a guard of j young men in citizens' clothes, 'armed with revolvers, lined the ap proaches to Mansion House. Tin- following official report of I tin* convention was given out this [ evening: "Ai the general conven I tion o! the Irish Republican army the number of delegates exceeded 'those attending the convention March The temporary execu tives elected at that convention submitted a constitution and dee I la rat ion of aims, which after dis I mission wi re unanimously adopl j ed. I "The constitution provides oer j taitl methods for the selection of a permanent executive, and this pro cedure look effect upon the adop I tion of the constitution. The executive elected ai tie.- previous convention havhig resigned a new body was chosen to replace it. "Many army mailers were dealt with. The proceedings closed at s o'clock this evening." The executive council appointed h\ the convention does not admit that it is subject to any exist Tu?; civil ant horny. The mayor and othei county councils are reported lo be pro ceeding to a revision of the reg ister of voters foi tiie next elec tion in accordance with the ? on tentions of bJamon De Valera. Ca van, Ireland, April I By t he Associated Press). Arthur Grif fith, addressing a large meeting outside the town hall here this af ternoon referred to what ho term ed Bam on De Valera's strenuous bui vain attempt during his \ i<ii to the t'nited Stales to secure Amori an recognition of an Iris hrepub ic. He tried for IS months, said Mr. THE TRUE SOU'! VICTORY WEEK I STARTS WITH ENTHUSIASM j _ I Reports of Contracts of More Than Ten Thousand Bales Re ceived at Columbia Headquarters j Columbia, April 10.?Although ? ''Victory Week" was not supposed j to begin until today, over 10,000] I bales of cotton were signed to the ! cotton cooperative marketing con tract Saturday, according to re ; ports recevied at the headquarters ! of the South Carolnia.Cotton Grow ers' ('o-operative Association today. ; From every county came reports : of the greatest enthusiasm and of a ;; determination to put the cam ! paign across. j Over 2.00a bales were received this morning from York county. 2,200 bales from Kershaw and sev eral other counties sent in from 500 to 1,000 bales. Following an address by Thomas G. McLeod. over 300 hales were signed at : Kingstree Saturday. Reports re ceived this morning indicated that the ?'Victory Week" committees I went to work early in many of the ; counties and a heavy sign-up was indicated for today. An interesting development of the ? past 4n hours is the great interest being displayed by the banks. All over the state the banks are giving their advertising space in the pa i pers this week to the campaign and many of the banks have wired J asking that contracts be sent them i *o that they can urge their farmer j customers to sign when they come I in the banks. The Palmetto Xat ? tonal Bank of Columbia in an ad vertisement in tin* Columbia papers j Sunday urged the farmers of Rich < land county and of South Carolina ? to sign the contract. The National j Lean & Exchange Rank and the ? Liberty National bank also had ad ! vertisements endorsing the move I mont and urging the farmers to :join. "With the sentiment of the state ! so strongly hehind us I do not be j lieve that we can possibly lose," ; said Harry C Kaminer, president of the association today. Dr. : Clarence 1'oe, editor of the Pro ? gressive Farmer speaks Friday at a big barbecue at Greenville. Satur , day morning he speaks at Winns '?. boro and Saturday afternoon at 1 Chester. J. D. Coghlan. dirt farm j er from Texas, is speaking three ! times a day this week, j A telegram from Dillon brought ihe news that J. 11. Manning, one i of the largest cotton growers in the j state, signed the contract this .morning a; 10 o'clock. Before ! signing the contract. Mr. Manning j had made an exhaustive study of j the plan and of its workings in oth i er states. Dillon county has no'~ i I signed over 11,000 bales and a tele j gram from A. V. Bethen, county 'director, said ihe campaign was going splendidly. STAND ON* UNWRITTEN LAW Oklahoma Coroner's Jury ? c : operates J. P. Day For B il in* of GoL l>eck Oklahoma City. April S?R d ing that Jean .'. Day. promin-nt attorney and oil man was justilied I in the killing of Lieut. Col. Paul ?Ward Peck at the Day home early jTuesday, a coroner's jury returned ,a verdict here tonight recommends |ing that ..o charges be preferred against Day. On the witness stand in a pack jed court room here tonight, .lean j j P. Pay and his wife told, with emo tion. <?f the slaying of Lieut. Col. Paul W. Peck. In a broken voice, hut with a gleam of determination in his .ye. Day said he killed the army aviator accidentally when he sought to drive Beck fron; his .home after finding him attempt-, in- to attack .Mrs. Pay early Tues jday, I Text of Verdict. Th?- text of the verdict follows: "We. the coroner's jury. duly .sworn and empanelled to inquire! int.i the cause of the death of Paul ! Ward Beck, after hearing evidence introduced before us from wit nesses, ami after viewing'the body of Paul Ward Beck, do upon our oath find and report: "That Paul Ward Beck came to ibis death at the hands of Jean P. | Day and from the evidence sub-i I mitted to us conclude that Jean P. j I Day was justified in defending his! i wife and himself even though the i unfortunate affair resulted in the [death of Paul Ward Beck, ami we. therefore, recommend and advise that no charges be filed or prose cution instituted against .ban P. j Day ." The verdict was signed by all j si\ of J In- juror-. j CriMith. w ith all the support of j the Irish people arid the Irish inj America but failed. It wasn't De j Yah ra's fault, but w hat De Valera 1* ; had failed to secure from the most [friendly country in the world he] lid not believe the people of Ire-' land in a few months could make England consent to give them. Mr. Griffith characterized the] tactics of De Valera ami his fol lowers at the present time as ; meaner than those of the Black I and Tans." PHRON, Established June i, 1866, VOL. LIII. NO. 17 FIVE MEET DEATH IN AIR COLLISION Planes on Paris-Lon don Route Crash.? Two Americans Are Dead Paris, April 7 (By the Associat ed Press.)?Five persons were killed today when airplanes on the Paris-London aortal express route collided over the village of Thieul loy, 70 miles north of Paris, and crashed to earih. The dead, are Bruce Yale, a Mew York exporter, and his wife, who were homeward bound by way of England in the French machine. M. Bouriez, air passenger in the French craft. Aviator Mire, pilot of the French machine. Mire's mechanician and the cab in boy of the English machine. The entire personnel of both ma chines except Pilot R. E. Duke of the English craft met death, either in the crash or flames that follow ed. Duke, who was seriously injur ed, was still unconscious late to night. The cabin boy in his ma chine wore a suit adorned with brass buttons. Late tonight it was' asserted that the American vic Lims of the disaster had registered at a Paris hotel as Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Bruce. They are said to have arrived in France on board the steamer Empre*sa of Scotland, which sailed from New York in February on a tour. Two women friends were to have .^c eompanted the Americans to Lon don but changed their minds at the last moment on account of the stormy weather prevailing. London, April 7 (By the Asso ciated Press).?The British air plane which collided with a French passenger liner in France today carried no passengers, only the pi lot, named Duke, and possibly a cabin boy on board, according to authoritative sources in London. The British machine was one of a number operated daily in the London-Paris service for passeng ers. ma.H. ,:and _ goods by three British and French companies. The first ma^hirJe. in the daily service usually leaves London with the morning newspapers about 7 o'clock" and is followed at inter vals by-others until .7 o'clock in the evening. They all leave from and arrive at the Croydon airdrome, where in case of fog those ^quip ped with wireless apparatus- are guided on their course. COMMITTEE i: WANTS FORD TO APPEAR ?Jr ' Washington. April 7.? represen tative Julius Kahn of^ 'California, chairman of the house committee . on military'affairs, will insist that Henry Ford, who has submitted a bid for Muscle Shoals, appear as a witness before his committee. It is understood that President Hard ing is very anxious that Ford ap pear. It is not believed, however, that the Detroit manufacturer will accede to the request of chairman Kahn. Mr. Ford passed through Washington last night. W. - B. Mayo, one of bis representatives, went aboard the train and "left with Mr. Ford. He will return for appearance before the house com mittee on military affairs Tuesday. It is understood that Mayo will tell Mr. Ford of- Washington's impres sion of the Muscle Shoals situation, and will inquire as to whether or not Mr. Ford is willing to amend his offer by an elimination of the Gorgas steam plant on which the Alabama Power company lias an option. Mayo understands, it is be lieved, that unless Gorgas is elimi nated, the committee will not re port the Ford offer. TORNADO HITS OKLA. TOWN Oklahoma. April S.?Five per sons were killed and scores injured in a tornado which struck Lawton. Okla.; today. Reports to the telephone company indicated that a number of buildings were de stroyed. A half-mile of telephone poles were leveled outside of town. Fort Worth, Texas, April S.?A tornado struck Cisco. Texas, wmn. ed the depot and destroyed a num ber of residences. Communication with the town is impossible. RIOT AT IRISH MEETING Tula more, Ireland. April lt>.? George Gayaii huffy, minister of foreign affairs of the Dail Eirehnn cabinet, was seized by a crowd of young; men and women ami drag ged Prom the platform where he was making an address at a pro treaty meeting. The " disturbers shouted ?'Long live Deyalera, Long live Republican Ireland**' Washington. April 10?Reports that he had been asked to return to Greece and resume a premier ship were characterized as ridicu lous by Former Premier Yenizelos today.