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The Washington times., 1924-05-06
MOB SEEKS
ACCUSED
PAIR
Wife Of Aged Victim Fed Him
Spiders and Glass, It
Is Alleged
By international News service.

NEW ORLEANS, May g.
After confessing to feeding her
aged husband ground glass and
spiders in an attempt to kill him,
and his ultimate death by another
man who struck him with a boat
paddle, a mob today was searching
for Mrs. Holly Dykes and John
Hogan, who are being spirited
from one Jail to another by Of
ficers in an attempt to escape the
enraged crowd.
Dykes body was found acct
dentally in river near Bogalusa
La, Sunday.
Couple Arrested.
Immediately after the body waa
found and identified, Officers. went
to the Dykes home where they ar
rested Hogan and the slain mans
wife. AT the coroner's inquest, nc
cording to officers, the woman con
fessed to feeding her husband
ground glass and spiders in an at
tempt to kill him. but said 1t die
not make him seriously i'll.
Hogan then confessed to killing
the aged man with a boat paddle
as he sat on the river bank fishing
After being thrown into the water
his body was found Sunday while
q search was being made by s. G
Flint, 1t was believed the aged mar
had fallen into the river and
drowned
Mrs. Dykes and her two small
children were on the river bank al
the time Of the Staying, authorities
said, but did not witness the actual
killings Hogan is a widower with
four children. His wife died several
weeks ago.
The prisoners were rushed to the
Franklinton, La. county Jail late
yesterday for safety, but had hardly
arrived before a mob began to form
During the night officers, through
a ruse, escaped with the prisoners
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Officers Believed to
Be Speeding Pair to
Jail at Baton Rogue

BOGALUSA, La, May 6.-A mob
of several hundred persons today
was searching Washington Parish
for Mrs. Holly Dykes and John
Hogan, who, according to officers,
have confessed to Staying the
woman's aged husband. Dykes
body. with his head horribly abeaten,
was fished from Pearl river near
here Sunday.
After escaping from mob at
The Franklinton county Jail last
Right, officers today were believed
to be rushing toward BATON Rouge
with their prisoners although auth.
critics stoutly maintained they
have not heart a word from them,
some expressing q fear that they
might have been over taken.
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Popular Song Writers Ask u. S.
To Restrict Radio
Gene Buck, President oil
Composers, Would Have
Melodies Protected From
Free Use

The hardships under which the
composers of Americas popular
songs must labor were graphically
pictured by Gene Buck, president
of the American Society Of Com
posers, Authors and Publishers.
at a hearing held today by the
House Patents Committee.
The committee had before it a
bill amending the copyright law
regarding the use of popular songs
for radio broadcasting purposes.
Sees Need Of Protection
Buck gave a lengthy recital of
the conditions under which popular
songs are written and the lack Of
protection which now handicaps
composers and publishers. His re-
cital was interspersed with humor-
Gus side remarks, which furnished
considerable enjoyment for the
crowd that gather in the majority
caucus room of the House Office
Building.
American music is among the
most popular in the world today.
Buck told the committee. Despite
this fact, he said, less protection
is given the American publisher
and composer than any other in
the, world. In Europe, he explained,
the government goes to'great length
to encourage and protect composers.
Buds explained that he repre-.
scented 326 men who make their
living exclusively by creating and
publishing songs.
Returns Called Poor.
Ninety per cent of the song writ.
ers all over the world are poor
men," he said. When nature
fashions a song writer he gives him
talent other men do not possess,
but she compensates for 1t by TAX
ing something out of his head which
leaves him a poor business man.
The average song writer has little
business ability and cannot protect
himself against those eNwho exploit
upon his creations"
He dwelt at length upon the man.
F." CONTINUED on Page 2. Column 81
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BY CECILIA COoNEY,
The Bobbed. Haired Bandit.
CHAPTER 3.

Say, it's wonder lot Of these Brooklyn cops still hate
and to Ed and get the limit Nobody likes
to be made fools Of God knows they've got their
now, but there while when made them look like
brass monkeys almost every time the went down.
Things were going good that seems like took
chances just for the fun of it. What did the night Of the
Weiss drug hodup stunt guess they
caught that night they might have killed u.s. enough
just out of spite.
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MRS. JULIA STULL AND HER LITTLE BABY
Raymond Sylvester Stu forty Of Richmond Va and Huston
Tex dead with bullet his body, and his wife, Mrs. Julia
Stul Of Houston mother Of ten-monts-od held
by the police in Richmond suspected
the killing of Stul in apartment May g.
Mrs. Su the police the of Miss Matte O. JordOn of
Beaumont Te te other the letter
TO Mrs. S by her husband days before the tragedy which
brought her pOsthase Richmond suggested
pistol with which Stul killed, the wife admits she brought
from Houston with her. Stul construction engineer had
married three times dvOcg his first wife because another
"cryng baby
Mrs Stul married twice.
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the crest Of a wave, all popped
up by the excitement, and craving
a thrill. Well. believe me. that
night we got It.
We. were cruising as always In
the old bus, letting the grocery
stores alone, because we knew they
were watched, looking for something
else that was open and easy meat.
We got to the corner Of Jefferson
Continued ON Page 2, Column 81
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WEATHER

Fair tonight; Wednesday
cloudy and somewhat cooler;
moderate variable winds.
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Oh. BROWN
IS CRITIC
OF. ALL
SECTS
Declares Churches Teach Bun.
combe-WouId Put Marxisnl
and Darwinisn in Bible
(Copyright, 1924, ~ Coanaopolitan
News SerVice1

News Servlce.1
/ GALLON, Ohio, May 6.One Of
the most remarkable trials IN the
history Of Christianity is to be
held at Cleveland on May q
when Bishop William Montgomery
Brown, resigned, is to be tried on
charges of heresy.
The charges, made by officials
of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, together with the answers
thereto by Bishop Brown, con-
stitute the most amazing situa-
ton that has confronted any
church body in modern times.
Not Question Of Greed.
Heretofore when a member Of q
church has been cited to appear in
answer to charges of heresy. such
charges have impinged upon a dif-
ferent Interpretation Of Biblical doc
trine or church creed.
But in this case Bishop Brown,
who has practically forced the issue
that has arisen from his teachings,
virtually has defied all church au-
thority and set himself against all
organized religion, as at present
constituted. Christianity as taught
in churches today, Bishop Brown
claims, is buncombe, parasitical and
enerVating.
Until he was fifty-five years old.
Bishop Brown-now sixty-seven---
was a member in good standing
with his church, serving at that
time as bishop Of Arkansas. I'm
able longer to follow the creed Of
his church, he resigned as bishop In
1912 and since that time has been
expounding his own philosophy Of
life, which is a combination Of OAR
winism and Marx4sm. He frankly
calls himself q Communist and pub
Iished a book called Communism
and Christianism."
Prelate Gives Views.
my heresy," says Bishop Brown,
docs not consist in rejecting the
philosophy Of the Christian interpre-
tation of redemptive religions. but
in emptying it of it's supernatural
ism and filling 1t with scientific
naturalism. In this way stiIl hold
to the Gods Of the Old and New
Testaments, but empty them OF
their Mosaism and Paulinism and
refill them with Darwinism and
Marxism.
my body has been inherited from
animal ancestors, as It evident from
the fact that it contains 207 vestigal
or useless organs, twelve Of which
have been of no value to any among
my lower progenitors since the fish
stage.
my soul has been inherited from
my civilized, barbarian, savage,
and animal ancestors, as Is evf
dent from the fact that 1t Is full
Of uncivilized and inhuman disposi.
lions and instincts"
For twelve years Bishop brown
has preached Danish gods from
the sky and capitalists from the
EARTH"
Practically everything Bishop
Brown teaches is opposed by fund
amentalists in all churches and
creeds today.
Miracles Not for Him.
Bishop Brown considers that his
forthcoming trial is an effort to
close the mouths OF ministers who
preach the gospel, enlightened by
science and their own thinkinR.
particularly II Il Is along sociailstic
lJiDes. He regards the Approaching
trial as an evidences Of the sffouA
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Snag for Dawes Plan Seen Il
Monarchists Take Over
Government
BIZ s. d. WEYER,



BERLIN, May 6s-Although the
new coalition government resulting
from the general election will have
a majority in the Reichstag fears
were expressed today that a counter
coalition may make il extremely
difficult to pass the laws neces-
.sary to put The Dawes repatriation
plan into effect.
The government will require q
two-thirds majority in the Reich
stag votes to change the consti-
tuition.
To Garry Out Plan.
Foreign Office officials said the
policy Of the present government.
which has already accepted the
Dawes plan, will be continued.
President Ebert, a Socialist, IL
holding conferences with party
leaders regarding the formation Of
the new cabinet.
The crucial question now IL
whether the struggling results give
the nationalists one or two more
seats than the Socialists in which
case President Ebert would be
morally constrained to charge the
Nationalists with the task Of form.
ing a new cabinet.
Parties Arc Tied.
with some returns still missing,
official tabuIation to date gives
the Social Democrats and the Ger.
man Nationalist 80 seats each.
Leaders of the Nationalists un.
officially claim los seats.
Continued on Page 2, Column. ~
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IS
GWEN 70
YEARS
Bobbed- Haired Bandit and
Her Husband Stole as Judge
DEGREES Limit

NEW YORK, May 6.-Cecilia
CooAey, Brooklyn's notorious
bobbed-haired bandit and her hus-
bend, Edward. today were SEN
fenced to serve from ten to
twenty years in prison for rob-
berry.
It was the maximum sentence.
Smiles At Husband. @
The girl accepted her sentence
stoically. She looked County Jndke
Martin squarely In the eyes and
when he had finished she turned to
her guards 40 IL to indicate she was
ready for the next step.
Cooney- was very grave. He
looked at his girl wife and she
smiled at him.
The court was packed to the back
doors. Outside great crowds
gathered.
The girl bandit was dressed trim.
" in a blue tailored suit and a new
spring hat. She appeared to be
"spic and span"
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Here was lot Of Enright's finest
flat-feet, hand.picked and nicknamed
the Bobbed- Haired Bandit Squad, off
all other duty and devoting their
lives to chasing little me.
Here was 200 plain cotheB men
stuck around at every grocery store
in that part of Brooklyn, hiding
behind a fish.harrel maybe, and
waiting to shoot me the minute /
walked in and said "Stick 'em up"
| don't think really knew what
l was doing those days. / was on
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FRENCH ENGINEER WINS
RECORD WITH HELICOPTER

PARIS, May 6.--M. Oehmichen.
a French engineer, established
new helicopter record today flying
one gilometer Slightly more than
six-tenths Of a mile)- in seven min.
utes and forty seconds, in q
closed triangular space.
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FRENCH PLANES DESTROY
SIXTY SYRIAN TOWNS
FIRST RACE.

LONDON, May 6.--French air.
planes bombed and destroyed sixty
Syrian villages, said a Jerusalem
dispatch to the Daily Express to-
day.
A revolt broke out along the
Syrian frontier.
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This was the drab close Of q
short, sensational career In crime Of
the famous ''bobbed haired bandit
girl" and her big, ungainly husband.
Judge Martin, who yesterday was
notified that the girl and man were
sane, announced before sentence
that he would give them ''all that
was coming to them" He gave
them the limit today?
The bandit girl viii so to Auburn
prison. Her husband viii do his
time at Sing Sing. They were
arrested In Jacksonville, Fla, after
the girls baby had died.
Neither Cecilia nor her husband
had shown the slightest nervous
Continued on Page ., Column 81
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TWO CHILDREN BURNED
TO DEATH IN OHIO FIRE

NoRWALK. Ohio, May 6.-Two
children OF Mr. and Mrs. Paul c.
Mundy were burned to death and a
third was seriously burned In a fire
that almost totally destroyed the
family dwelling here carly today.
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GIRL HELD Up STORE UNDER
NOSE OF zoo COPS

Cecilia Cooney the BObbeHGr BGnd continues today The
Washington Times her exclusive story Of during robbeies of Brooklyn
and ho0 she and her husband Ed continually Outed the
police set their trad.
chapter she tells of the robbery Of drug
Brooklyn full Of Grnory nsiG police
he the police
minute of her getG10Gv
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of Stanley Hud-
kins, doing business under the name
of The City Meat Market:
You are hereby notified that at the
request of B. E. Wilmoth, Trustee Of
the estate Of the said Stanley Hud-
kins, doing business under the name
of The City Meat Market, ] have APP
pointed the 18th day of March, 1924
at my office in the City of Philippi,
Barbour County, West Virginia, for
receiving proof of the debts or de-
mands against the said Stanley Hud-
kins, doing business under the name
of The City Meat Market, at which
time and place you are requested to
attend.
Given under my hand as Commiss-
Toner of Accounts of Barbour County
this the 10Th day of January, 1924.
C. M. MURPHY
1-31::6t) Commissioner of Accounts
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and lay so close to one corner that
some Wild cucumber vines Of the
season before had crossed to the
ruined roof and still hung in brown
and dead festoons stretched from the
fast decaying clapboards to the
fungous warted branches.
A pair of chimney swallows, true
prophets of summer, darted. In and.
out of the crumbling chimney. A
yellow-hammer Hoped down out of
the woods, lighted upon the dry and
sounding comb-board and drummed q
challenge to all and sundry other yell
low-hammers--or was ii love call TO
his mate in the dead limb of a syca-
more down at the creek across the
road?
The sound drew the eyes of the
man. At the moment one of the swal-
lows rose above the roof. AS he FOL
lowed its flight, the chimneys and
gables Of the red-roofed cottage. near
Iy a mile away down the hollow, came
Unexpectedly within his range of Vi
sion. His brows drew together; he
gripped the shotgun; turned and
strobe through the fringing brambles
back among the trees.
Half mile farther up the hollow,
at the point where he had left off fol-
lowing the double trail the day be-
fore, he picked his way down the
rough and stony side of the wooded
bluff to the road. He was just in the
act of stepping out from the fringing
trees to cross 1t when the soft swish
Of a bush a short distance above
caught his quick ear.
Remembering that sinister face be-
hind the log, he threw the heavy shot
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CHAPTER Lon the banks of the
Wabash stand Texie Colin and Jack
Marhope, young and very much in love.
Iexie is the only daughter of old Pap
Jack Is the orphan bound boy of Pap
simon, who had foreclosed a mortgage
on the War562ei estate. At first Texie
and Jack ealk sadly OF Ken Colin, the
girls missing brother. Then Jack says
mat IN ten days his servitude will be
over. tnat ne will go to California for
goId ana that he will come back. Then
the MILFORD stage comes in, bringing
Rev. Caleb Hopkins. the new minister
O. Buckeye, in the F'latwoods.
CHAPTER u.-Simon Colin welcomes
the minister and introduces the VIII
lagers. The preacher is young man
with beard, enormous spectacles, stiff
neck stock and patent leather boots.
CHAPTER III-At supper at the
Colin home the preacher. who had been
the boy killed a gambler and disap-
peared. His father attributes Ken's
faIl from grace to his red lock of hair.
pirate in the days Of Elizabeth. Then
Pap simon has sort of stroke.
brought ON by reading letter from
CURSES his father on his death bed. A
postscript by another hand says he
IL dead.
CHAPTER Tv.-At the village store
and postoffice Loge Belden. newcomer.
says ne saw the new parson with his
arm around Texie. Jack slaps him,
ucks him. shoots q pistol from his hand
and makes him say he was mistaken.
CHAPTER V.-The parson goes sein-
ing on the river with Jack and others.
Jack discovers the parson carries a re-
voiver. The party runs across a hid
den houseboat. Jack discovers that the
parsons boot flts q footprint on the
dusty deck.
CHAPTER Wall the villagers
gather at festival in the schoolhouse.
n drunken stranger disturbs the fes-
nvities. He attacks Jack with knife.
Jack knocks him fiat, but receives an
unimportant wound in the shoulder
The preacher faces the desperate and
points to the door. The ruffian, cowed,
goes out and disappears.
CHAPTER VIL--Jack. working In a
held, sees the desperate of the festival
Watching him from behind a log. He
trails the man to the cabin where Bel
den and his sister live.
CHAPTER yIIL-Jack tells Pap ST.
mon, who has been good to him, that
he's going to California to find gold to
buy back the old homestead. He tells
Texie of his love for her-in all but
words.
CHAPTER K.-Al Counterman and
Uncle Nick Whites, friends of Jack,
Black Bogus, counterfeiter and bad
man wanted by the sheriff that he is
harborin with Loge Belden and that
they are planning to rob Pap Simon.
CHAPTER x.-Jack trails night
prowler, who goes to whispering
Spring, calls out the preacher with an
owl boot and hands him a small pack
age.
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CHAPTER XII
Knives of the Night.


A man strolling carelessly through
the woods would be surprised to know
now many eyes are on him, how many
creatures scrooch in the covers and
wait for him to pass He might even
Imagine from the silence that he is
alone. The true woodsman knows that
he Is never alone, that his slightest
move is watched by thousand eyes.
The stiffness does not deceive him.
But lei '@.sSaslething happen-a stick
snap, or some creature break cover In
sudden panic-and instantly all is
oommotion. The still woods wake to
the call of voices, the beat of wings,
the clatter of scampering feet.
In such quiet lay the forest next
morning when Jack Warhope. thread
ing the dew-bathed glades. inad
yertently stepped on a brush that
dipped up and ratified some dead
leaves lodged In thick cluster Of
sprouts growing about an old white
oak stump.
pheasant that happened to be
hiding under the brush instantly
flushed. It seemed as If the furry of
his wings famed the whole woods
alive. fox squirrel bounced up out
Of the leaves and skurried away: a
chipmunk dived into his den a pair
Of blue jays set up their strident
screech; crow left the dead limb OF
Nd ont
over the tree-t0ps squawking the
news that the most dangerous AMI
NAL In the world--a man-was loose
n the woods.
With the heavy shotgun he carried
"a present from the banker-Jack
covered the pheasant as 1t glanced
away until 1t blended with the dull
gray Of the trees and faded from
sight. He dropped the butt of the
gun to the leaves and stood listening
10 the beat of the swift wings, grow
ing fainter. finally ending abruptly,
and he knew the bird had settled
again to the brush.
"Well, oil drummer" he chuckled,
sgeaking half aloud-a habit the
woods teach men--and throwing the
shotgun lightly across his arm. "y'u
didn't need e rush of without s.
much as sayin' good morning. | could
"a stopped y'u If I'd ben a-mind to.
had y'u right on the end Of my
trigger finger"
Though Jack Warhope was consid-
RAered a man of clumsy tongue, he
could talk well enough to himself. or
to the creatures Of the woods. He
even had a curiously sane and sensi-
hle phll0sophy--a sort of romantic
idealism-that outcropped at such
times.
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HEAD SWAN
WORK A TORTURE

Mrs. Sarah Sanders, r. F. D.,
Cobbville, Georgia, writes: II never
was well much until / used Bene-
dicta. / now use both Tablets and
the Compound and Mind they do
me much good. When | take
Benedicta I do not feel bad and
there is no swimming in my head
as there used to be. 1t relieves all
pain Thousands Of women could
corroborate Mrs. Sanders state
ment. Get bottle of Benedicta
from your druggist today.
GRANT GRAHAM. Druggist
.RenedICzu
HEALTH BUILDER
BrWOrnen
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and beasts alw'ys run true, while
s-sometimes-oh, we'll"
He walked away toward the west.
coming at length to where the up
lands ended abruptly in the line Of
wooded bluffs that fell steeply to the
deep and winding scar OF Eagle
hollow. and the exact point where
the double trail had run plainest
the day before-a fact that had
doubtless brought him just there.
He bent a critical look upon the lout-
ish trail; carefully crossed it; stepped
out under clump of haw trees at the
very brink of the bluff and stood Keen
ly searching the woods in every direc-
ton.
Below him and short distance
farther down the hollow an old desert
ed cabin of muddaubed logs squatted
against the bluff few yards back
from the Eagle Hollow road. The
place had a reputation in the Flat
woods. 1t was the uncanny howell of
dead Henry Spencer, a woodchopper,
who. on a winter night years before.
while in drunken frenzy, had muir
dered his wife and infant daughter
with an ak, then had wandered out
half naked and frozen to death in the
snow.
What had once been yard and riny
garden was now oyerrun with weeds
so rank that storms and snow could
no longer break them down. A fallen
oak had but just missed The cabin.
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The thing that causes most of the
wear and tear on politicians is strad-
ding.
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when We are feeling tough moth

ing irritates us more than to meet
the fellow who is determined to scat
ter sunshine.
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SYNOPSIS

Copyright by The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-06
CITY GETS CHECK FUR $1,1 93, 622
Jefferson County Turns Over To Birmingham Tax Col
 lection Share

City Comptroller c. E. Armstrong Saturday received from Tax Collector J. F. Hawkins a check for $1,193,- 622.SS, representing city taxes col lected during the last half of De- cember.
 Temporary loans of $700,o00 ob- tained from Birmingham banks re- gently were repaid out of this money and the rest went into the banks to the city's credit.
 The temporary loans cost the city 5 per cent interest, but as the money was used on general fund invest ments yielding 6 per cent, the city gained one per cent on the deals, Comptroller Armstrong said.
 Since October l a total of s1,70S,- 444.98 has been collected in city taxes, constituting an all-time record, the comptroller's records show.
 Collections for the whole month of December were $1,29S.622.Ss. also a high mark for any single month. Tn Birmingham's history.
 The city budget for the current year carries a total of $2,220.O 900, leaving nearly half a million dollars In taxes yet to be collected.