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the surface said that the explosion occurred when the electrician, holding the live cable, stumbled and dropped it upon the rails. This helper died two hours after being rescued. The rescuers could not get into the mine until early on Friday evening, because of the lingering gas. Four bodies were brought up by noon on Saturday and two more were found on Sunday morning, but the majority of the men are trapped behind a wall of rock brought down by the explosion. A rescue worker engaged in removing bodies died from the effect of poisonous gas yesterday afternoon, and three
from the effect of poisonous gas yesterday afternoon, and three others were overcome by the fumes which poured from the mine. GERMAN JOBLESS DECREASE BERLIN, Wednesday.—Official statistics of the unemployment situation in Germany show that the number of jobless drawing the Government dole is steadily decreasing. HIS TESTIMONY SOUGHT DAVID C. STEPHENSON LEGION TRIP TO FRANCE IS ASSURED Philadelphia Convention Enthusiastic After French Government Extends Invitation (Paris Times Spécial) PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday.—A vote of the American Légion, in national convention here, reaffirming its intention of holding its next Convention in Paris, is assured after the messages from the French Government presented
is assured after the messages from the French Government presented yesterday afternoon by Colonel Picot. Warm invitations to the Légionnaires to gather in Paris on the tenth anniversary of their war-time expedition to France were extended by President Doumergue, M. Poincaré, M. Briand, and Marshal Foch. The Légion men cheered for many minutes after the messages were read. Opposition to holding the convention in France developed in some Légion Posts this summer after anti-foreign demonstrations in Paris. Kansas Posts voted against the convention and the Indiana Légionnaires discussed the advisability of making the trip. Colonel Picot spoke before the Légion
of making the trip. Colonel Picot spoke before the Légion convention as a French guest. M. Jacques Truelle, Attaché at the French Embassy in Washington, gave official assurance of the welcome of his Government. Four ships of the United States Lines have been offered to the Légion to transport delegates to the Paris convention, a committee reported. They are the Leviathan, the President Harding, the President Roosevelt, and the Republic. Delegates from Paris Post reported that four thousand reservations for hotel rooms have already been received in Paris. The Marne taxi, one of the two survivors of those which transported
taxi, one of the two survivors of those which transported General Gallieni's army to the Battle of the Marne in 1914, is creating a genuine sensation in Philadelphia and in the cities through which it passed on the way from New York. The taxi is driven by delegates from Paris Post to the convention. It has been on display in the court of the John Wanamaker store here; it will be returned to the Renault Company in Paris after the convention. After the session yesterday afternoon, the Légionnaires were reviewed at the Sesquicentennial Stadium by General Pershing, Vice-President Charles G.
at the Sesquicentennial Stadium by General Pershing, Vice-President Charles G. Dawes, and Governor Pinchot. A celebration in the streets of Philadelphia lasted until almost daybreak today. CHICAGO GANG WAR VICTIM NEAR DEATH CHICAGO, Wednesday. — Gang warfare here is likely to claim another victim, as no hope is held for the life of Mr. W. W. O’Brien, the noted criminal lawyer and a former Assistant Public Prosecutor, who was shot in the stomach on Monday afternoon when gangsters opened fire with machine guns and rifles on rival leaders, killing two of them and seriously wounding two others. The dead are
of them and seriously wounding two others. The dead are Earl “Hymie” Weiss, gang leader, and Paddy Murray, professional gunman. The attack occurred in front of Holy Name Cathedral soon after Mr. O’Brien had left the court where he was selecting a jury to try his client, Joe Saltis, leader of a gang of beer runners, charged with Lefty Connell with the murder of Mitters Foley, leader of another gang. The attack probably came from members of Foley’s gang, interested in preventing the defense of the man who killed their chief. VALENTINO WILL SUIT Brother and Sister to Contest Terms
chief. VALENTINO WILL SUIT Brother and Sister to Contest Terms of Actor’s Testament. LOS ANGELES, Wednesday.—The will of Rudolph Valentino, the film actor, will be contested by Alberto and Marie Guglielmo, his brother and sister. Valentino’s will divides his property, valued at about $500,000, equally among his brother and sister and Mrs. Theresa Warner, aunt of Natacha Rambova, his second wife, from whom he was separated. Mrs. Warner is to be charged with using undue influence over Valentino, PROOF SOUGHT OF KLAN RULE OVER INDIANA Former ‘Grand Dragon’ of Order in State Called to Testify Before Grand Jury DISCLOSURES EXPECTED
in State Called to Testify Before Grand Jury DISCLOSURES EXPECTED Legislative Action Possible if Present Inquiry Fails to Fix Basis Of Graft Charges C Paris Times Spécial ) 1 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana. Wednesday.—Disclosures involving high officials in the Government of the State are expected to be made by David G. Stephenson, the former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, who is now serving a long sentence for an attack on a girl which was followed by her suicide. He is being taken from prison to testify before the Grand Jury engaged in investigating charges of corruption in which
Grand Jury engaged in investigating charges of corruption in which the Klan was concerned. Subpoenas Issued. At the same time with the subpoena to Stephenson and the order to the warden of his prison to produce him before the Grand Jury, the Attorney General of the State issued other subpoenas to Earl Gentry and Earl Klenck. They were henchmen for Stephenson when he was at the height of his power once apparently supreme in Indiana. They will also be called upon to testify regarding the exact extent and nature of Ku Klux Klan influence before and after Stephenson’s arrest and
Ku Klux Klan influence before and after Stephenson’s arrest and his conviction a year and more ago after a hard-fought trial. The Attorney General, in response to demands of newspapers that the entire Klan organization be bared, has promised to present all possible evidence to the Grand Jury with which he is working. But some other newspapers have suggested since the jury was called that the Klan is strong enough to sway a majority of its members. Indiana has experienced a series of sensational cases involving the Klan since the downfall of Stephenson, who for years was one of the
downfall of Stephenson, who for years was one of the most efficient organizers for the order in the country. The present investigation is in response to a public opinion that has been greatly aroused. Senate Action Talked. If either Klan or anti-Klan adherents can bring any important complaint after the Grand Jury has finished its work, a legislative inquiry will be sought again by a group of State Senators numbering twenty or more. These men have been in favor of such action from the start but have been opposed by a majority of the Senate. For months past, newspaper editors
a majority of the Senate. For months past, newspaper editors in Indiana have been declaring that a “super-government” by the Klan existed and that it had more power than the officials chosen under the Constitution. Several of these editors will be called to give the Grand Jury the evidence on which they base the charges. One head of a leading newspaper in Vincennes has already been subpoenaed. Interest in the situation of this State became national last summer when Mr. George R. Dale, editor and publisher of a weekly in Muncie, asked financial aid in securing his release from prison.
Muncie, asked financial aid in securing his release from prison. His case will go to the United States Supreme Court this month on appeal. Has Lost His Fortune. Mr. Dale’s arrest on a charge of carrying concealed weapons followed a long and bitter fight between his newspaper and the Klan. During his trial on this charge he published an article accusing the judge, jury, and prosecuting attorney of being Klansmen. The judge at once sentenced him for contempt of court. From the county jail, Mr. Dale filed notice of appeal, alleging that his statements had been true. This notice of
alleging that his statements had been true. This notice of appeal was held by the same judge to be in contempt. Finally the State Supreme Court set aside the second decision but sustained the first one. Mr. Dale has lost his personal fortune of $20,000, his newspaper, and his home during the fight. His last appeal is being paid for out of a fund raised by public subscription. WASHINGTON TALKS OF NEED FOR FEDERAL ANTI-LYNCHING LAW WASHINGTON.—Talk of the need for a Federal anti-lynching law has been revived here as the result of the lynching of three negroes, one of
the result of the lynching of three negroes, one of them a woman, at Aiken, South Carolina, on Friday, and the recent lynching of a negro in Tennessee. No action is being taken by Aiken authorities against the citizens in the mob which shot the three negroes. The coroner’s jury reported that they met their death at the hands of “bands of unknown parties.” METROPOLITAN OPERA BOXES SELL FOR $200,000 EACH NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Two parterre boxes in the Metropolitan Opera House are reported to have been sold for $200,000 each. They belonged formerly to the late August Belmont and William
They belonged formerly to the late August Belmont and William K. Vanderbilt and his brother. They were bought by Mr. F. Frazier Jelke and Mr. Robert Brewster. Ownership of a parterre box carries with it possession of one thirty-fifth of the stock in the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company. Subscribers may have THE PARIS TIMES sent to them while travelling at no extra cost. ADVERTISING RATES. THE PARIS TIMES guarantees that no advertiser obtains rates other than those quoted to all prospective clients and printed upon the rate card. Considering the wide distribution of THE PARIS TIMES and its
Considering the wide distribution of THE PARIS TIMES and its importance on the Continent of Europe, the rates are the lowest of any English-language newspaper. Rates will be quoted by the Advertising Manager, 33 Rue Jean-Jacques-Rousseau, Paris, 8e. THE MIDDLE COURSE American Comment. “Politics having become a profession, those who pursue it subordinate everything to the desire for immediate victory. If to straddle or avoid an issue seems to promise more in the way of vote-getting, it will never be frankly met. It may be doubted whether the Prohibition question, so widely adopted in the United States, could be made
so widely adopted in the United States, could be made a single issue in a national election.” —Christian Science Monitor. “For Europe, the influx of American tourists is a golden flood which justifies the earnest efforts to develop it in these post-war years. It is by far the largest of the invisible items in the balance of trade between the two continents; indeed, the visible French exports to the United States in 1924 were only about three-fifths as much as the tourist payments. Yet we profit quite as much as the Europeans. The cultural and social benefits are such that
the Europeans. The cultural and social benefits are such that we can cheerfully watch our annual stream of sojourners in Europe mount to twice its present volume.” — New York World. ONE TRAP CATCHES 40,000 MACKEREL HARBORS, Nova Scotia.— Forty thousand mackerel in one trap! This phenomenal catch was reported here by Captain G. Harnish, of Southwest Island. The large trap in which they were caught was carried far underneath the surface of the water by the crowding fish. The mackerel came in unexpectedly, moving in a dense shoal along the shore. Only a few fishermen were prepared for them,
the shore. Only a few fishermen were prepared for them, as seines and traps were being repaired after a storm. More Postage Stamps MANY NEW ISSUES. “Workers of the world, unite,” reads the slogan of the Communists, born of the Marxian conception of a world uprising of “convicts of hunger,” snapping their capitalistic shackles and reorganizing the universe on principles which are not working out too well in Russia. There is indeed a certain solidarity among those who work with their hands, but recent events in England and Belgium would indicate that it is scarcely a Marxian solidarity; for the
indicate that it is scarcely a Marxian solidarity; for the working man, in spite of some of his leaders, is not devoid of sense. The British laborer has at times appeared susceptible to the doctrines of Communism. The general strike of last May and the irreconcilable attitude of the coal-miners in the present strike have brought the all-condemning word “Bolshevism” to the lips of critics. Yet at the National Conference of the British Labor Party now in session at Margate, the disaffiliation of Communists from the Labor movement was maintained by the overwhelming vote of 3,414,000 to 209,000. The Belgian
by the overwhelming vote of 3,414,000 to 209,000. The Belgian elections of last Sunday showed a similar tendency. The Municipal Councils since 1920 had been of a radical cast. Now the Belgian state swings toward the Right. Communists won only two dozen scattered seats throughout the country on Sunday. The Socialists, who have been increasing their power during the last few years, received a set-back. Yet the election was not a victory for Reaction. The seats taken from the Extremists and small dissident parties went to the Liberals, for the most part. The Belgian returns indicate that Belgian labor had
most part. The Belgian returns indicate that Belgian labor had chosen a middle course, for the Liberal gains and Extremist losses were largely registered in industrial cities. English Comment. The Daily Telegraph calls attention to the conflict of Italian and French political interests in the Balkans, noting that Italy is seeking an understanding with Bulgaria, Rumania, and Greece, while France is attempting to cement friendship with the Serbs and Bulgarians. Great Britain is seen in a position where she could, if she liked, determine the political evolution of Bulgaria. The Westminster Gazette believes that official efforts may be made to
Westminster Gazette believes that official efforts may be made to strengthen the bonds between British and German industries. The goal of the industrial federations in both countries is attainment of a situation such as that which prevails in America—large-scale production, reduction of cost of production, and gradual increase in wages. Great Britain’s interests in China are special, the Times declares, and in spite of the fact that she has adapted her policy in strict loyalty to the Washington agreement, the time has come when she must consider the conflict of her interests with that loyalty. French Comment Opposition is becoming
her interests with that loyalty. French Comment Opposition is becoming more pronounced to the proposals made by Mr. Garrard B. Winston, Under Secretary of the United States Treasury, for the financial recovery of Europe in general and of France in particular. Editors consider from different aspects the idea of credits after stabilization by ratification but their conclusions are in accord. The Carlist Work offers a direct issue: “As flattery to what he believes to be public opinion in his own country, Mr. Winston tenders a usurious project: ‘When you have stabilized your franc, we will grant credit. But first, return
stabilized your franc, we will grant credit. But first, return the dollars which we advanced during the war for the common cause.’ ‘And if we perish?’ ‘That is no concern of ours,’ Mr. Winston will say. ‘But it is our affair, and we quit you.’ Mr. Winston forgets facts, in the opinion of the Nationalist Echo de Paris. “He proposes the example of Great Britain at a moment when sterling fluctuates according to the dollar. Regardless of what one may think of British financial policy, it is clear that it has not remedied the great crisis in the country.” While
has not remedied the great crisis in the country.” While it is true that the working man is easily touched by the eloquence of professional agitators, it is not true that he is as easily convinced. He may be carried away for the moment by an orator who knows how to take advantage of mob psychology, but when it comes to marking his ballot, he usually acts deliberately and reasonably. After a flurry of radicalism, he comes back to the middle course. If he organises to defeat the Conservative candidate for office, he also rejects the Communist. If he listens
for office, he also rejects the Communist. If he listens for a while to Comrade Cook, the chief troublemaker in the British coal strike, he listens also to Mr. Robert Williams, the chairman of the conference at Margate, who declared that “our trade unionists are served by one form or another of conciliation machinery between the unions and employers. The part that conciliation plays should not be forgotten.” FUTILE LOOT A thief has stolen the pink diamond from the Château de Chantilly. What will he do with it? He cannot sell it. The Grand Condé would be recognized instantly by
sell it. The Grand Condé would be recognized instantly by any jeweler in the world. He cannot keep it. A diamond three-quarters of an inch in diameter and an inch deep is rather inconvenient to carry in a vest pocket. And to carry such an article is worth any man’s life. He cannot cut it up. There are probably not more than half a dozen craftsmen living who could do such a job. International police authorities are in touch with them. What else can one do with a diamond worth at least ten million francs? It would make a neat
at least ten million francs? It would make a neat paperweight... It might be inserted in the side of an automobile lamp in place of the piece of diamond-cut red glass ordinarily used... It might be used as a professional tool to cut holes in jeweler’s plate-glass showwindows. About the only practical way to do anything with a diamond such as the Grand Condé would be to break it up and sell the fragments. But a diamond splinter half an inch long with a facet cut on one face would bring instant arrest. The man who stole the Grand Condé
bring instant arrest. The man who stole the Grand Condé is in as embarrassing a situation as the man who cut the Mona Lisa out of its frame in the Louvre. He has something essentially priceless and intrinsically worthless. He is worse off to cash in than was Mark Twain’s man with the million-dollar cheque. “Modération in all things” is wise counsel. It can be applied even to burglary. only modified its aspect. France has inflation; England has unemployment. Nevertheless, when the real problem consists in restoring a balance in international economic relations, Americans resolve everything into a matter of
international economic relations, Americans resolve everything into a matter of simple arithmetic between creditor and debtor. It is exactly because we have taken this attitude towards Germany that Americans reproach us.” Yet another phase is considered in the Conservative Journal des Débats, which says: “We should pay attention to tendencies manifest on several sides in the United States. Some persons, saturated with European gold acquired during the war, hope to make profitable investments in Europe. We would delight in these investments if they meant the purchase of our bonds and securities and if our lost gold were to return. But
securities and if our lost gold were to return. But it is frequently another matter, the yoking of our business, financial or industrial, and the gradual transformation of European countries, including France, into American corporations. Since Mr. Winston and many American financiers wish to assist in our financial restoration, we assist them to contribute honestly to such restoration without attempting to absorb it.” German Comment. The conference in England between British and German manufacturers is a general theme of discussion. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, which is in close touch with the Government and industrial circles, makes the assertion that the
the Government and industrial circles, makes the assertion that the negotiations at Romsey have given the German delegates a welcome opportunity of explaining to their British confrères Germany’s strong dissatisfaction with England's protectionist policy, and maintains that, when the Anglo-German commercial treaty was concluded in 1924, such policy on the part of England was by no means anticipated by the German experts who drew up the treaty. Japanese Comment "The Chinese have been fond during the past year of attributing all their ills to the unilateral treaty. The unilateral treaties are a result from and not a cause of China’s
are a result from and not a cause of China’s distress, and that the problem must be attacked at its base to be solved. That base is China’s own national incompetence, political corruption and hitherto indifference to the welfare of China as a State or the Chinese people as individuals. The condition in itself is no worse today than it was a few centuries ago. But a sufficient number of Chinese have been awakened by education and knowledge to the inferior status of their country in the world at large, and have set about to remedy it. For the time
and have set about to remedy it. For the time being this necessarily breeds trouble and disaster, but it also holds within itself the promise of a brighter future than could otherwise have been possible;" Japan Advertiser. That philatelist truth continues to hold good that the more stamps one collects the more there are to collect. In every continent new issues are announced; are occasional issues to celebrate some special event. One issue is already out of print. It was the issue in Spain on September 15, 16 and 17 of a set of stamps bearing portraits of the Royal
of a set of stamps bearing portraits of the Royal Family and sold for the benefit of the Spanish Red Cross. The Spanish Government has also issued a set of air stamps in commemoration of the flight from Palos to Buenos Aires by Franco. Other air stamps have been recently put into use by Austria and Costa Rica. Portugal began issuing last month a series of historical stamps celebrating the bicentenary of her liberation from Spanish rule. After being on sale for two days only, these stamps were temporarily withdrawn from circulation until November 30, when they are to be
from circulation until November 30, when they are to be issued for obligatory use until the end of the year. The latest State to issue stamps is the Soviet State of Northern Mongolia (Tannu Tovu), situated on the border of Siberia, with Krasny (formerly Belotsarsk) for its capital. Postage stamps have been introduced here for the first time under Soviet authority in a curious design which appears to be a wheel with eight halo spokes. The first Persian stamps to bear the head of the new Shah Reza Pahlavi come from the Government Press at Tehran, and bear a close
from the Government Press at Tehran, and bear a close resemblance to the former Persian series of 1907-8. Views of Mount Fuji, the Yomei Gate of the Nikko Shrine, and the Samurai Castle of Nagoya are reproduced in miniature upon some new pictorial postage stamps from Japan, which have been issued to meet the revised rates for foreign postage. The new Hungarian currency unit, the “pengo,” finds expression for the first time in the denominations 1 pengo, violet; 2p., carmine; and 5p., blue, which have just been added to current postage stamp series of that country, showing the figure of