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ZETTE AND COMMERCIAL-STAR 1 1 11 Entered as second class mall matter at Mattoon, m. Forty-Eighth Year. No. 231 MATTOON, ILLINOIS, MONDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1923 Published ewy alternoon except Sunday. Prlca Fiv Cntt nn JV DAILY JOURNAL-G-A r-i uu uuuuu I U.

S. Troops Sail From Antwerp I'AR CLOUDS ARE LOW OVER 17ADS1RTII IS URGEDASG.O.P. II ail FATAL DOSE ISDRUIBY JAMES GUIHEY i 1 1 1 J. 'RED'BEOT IS PICKED UR BY OFFICERS Third and Last Man Implicated in Theater Robbery Caught With the arrest of Harold Bennett, better known as "Red" Bennett late Saturday afternoon by Sheriff McNutt and Deputy Shirley, the Mattoon theater robbery 8eem3 to have been cleared np entirely. 'The arrest of Bennett was made at 3:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the home of hia mother at 1813 DeWltt avenue, about half an hour after his arrival in Mattoon from Oklahoma, where he had gone following the robbery.

With the arrest of Bennett, Sheriff McNutt now has in the county Jatt the three men who are, held respon- sible for the theater robbery on the night of January T. The others are Virgil Willingham. a Charleston young man, and Elmer Walling of Mattoon, both the latter having con- fessed shortly after their arrest ta complicity in the crime and ImpU eating Bennett Bennett Confesses Also. Bennett was taken to Charleston shortly after his arrest but stoutly denied being mixed up la the robbery. It was not until he had b.en accused of tbe crime by both Willing-ham and Walling, and shown the two confessions that they had made, that broke down and confessed to Sheriff McNutt that he, too, wag fa on the robbery.

Both the sheriffs office and Mattoon "police have beeVanxious to apprehend Bennett ever since Walling and Willingham confessed: that ke aided them In robbing the theater. The Belgian guard of honor lined ica with the final detachment of American troops. BERLIN MAKES FIVE BUSIES BlKGSAl: DESTROYED Editor Rardln of Daily News Is Heaviest Loser. (, CHARLESTON FIRE LOSERS. Claude S.

Rardin $30,000. Boyer Ice Cream Co. Thomas Brif $10,000. George E. Burkett $5,000.

Boas Breen ft. Cadle $5,000. Mason Sons $2,000. Ed Wilt'ermood $500. Mary Cooper $500.

(Y STAFF CORRESPONDENT.) Charleston, 111., Feb. 5. What was formerly a thriving part of Charleston's industrial and commercial life, today is smouldering ruins. Property with a valuation of $67,000 was destroyed by fire Saturday night. This is the story of one-of the greatest losses this town has had since the destructive cyclonepf 1917 swept a sec-Jion of the' town clean.

Two fires, within two hours of each other, left in their, wake complete ruin. The buildings destroyed were just west of the Charleston House, at the northwest corner of the the block lying across the street to the south from the interurban station." The first alarm was reported about 11 o'clock Saturday night, when the building occupied by the Boyeir Ice Cream Company, located' at Fourth Street and Washington avenue, was discovered on fire. The Charleston fire department responded immediately and only after an hour and a half of fighting, were the flames bronght under control. By that time the building and equipment, valued at $12,000, was a total loss. Hardly had the foremen, desperately weary after fighting the flames in zero weather returned to the fire hall wherrthe Second calling them to the Charleston Daily Jfews building was sent in.

When the company arrived at the scene'of the fire. Fifth and Monroe streets, the Jiames had eaten their way into the adjoining building, quickly spreading until five of the business houses in the block were in flames. I Mattoon Aid A fhort time "after the Charleston department had arrived on "the scene, It soon realised that outsldg assistance would have' to be called on If the business section of Charleston was to be saved. A call for assistance was sent to Mattoon. and In response Fire Chief Weaver of that city sent the big American La France booster pump, with Clarence Haskell driving, and accompanied be Firemen Fred Joseph.

I. J. Carfyle and Jo I Allison. Chief Weaver 'directed the ore fighting; The Mattoon" firemen made (he ran SENATE LEADER New Yorker May Be Given Place of Henry-Cabot Lodge. Feb.

5. "Slim Jim" Wadsworth, more sedately known as the Hon. James W. Wadsworth Junior senator from New York, la be- JAMES W. WADSWORTH JR.

ing groomed to succeed Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts as majority leader of the senate in the next congress. Wadsworth Is 45, full of pep and pugnacity and a bred-ln-the-bone Republican partisan. Wherefore be is' looked bpon as offering the party the fighting tort of leadership that will be needed Snd which may not, because of his years and temperamental limitations, be expected from Lodge. Lack of firm and stimulating leadership, which it is believed Wadsworth might give, is blamed for failure of the tenate to handle euqcessfujly Pro" gram of the past two sessions. Wadsworth's biography in the congressional directory gives his business as "live stock and He is not, however, a member of the farm bloc.

Western farm members look upon him rather as a "lauded proprietor," when not in Waoh-lngton, lives on his llOMcre estate near Oeneseo, N. Y. Farm-blockers consider him rather as a "silk-stocking" senator, his experience as manager of a big ranch at Paloduro, merely the quest of a wealthy youth for thrills, and his present farming activities, as a hobby. i Lota of Experience. They do recognize, however, that as a legislator be hag both experience and tradition in his favor.

His father, James W. Wadsworth Sr, preceded him as senator from New York. Young Jim himself broke into the New York Assembly at i'8. was speaker at 29" and a United states senator at, 38. 'Having seen service in the Porto Rican campaign in the.

war with Spain, Wadsworth was asslgied to the Committee on Military affairs when he came to the senate In IMS. He is now chairman of that committee and as such has many prerogatives and much power. If he becomes senate majority leader, we may expect a program of adequate military preparedness. At 25 young Wadsworth married MIsg Alice Hjiy, the daughter of the then secretary of state, John iiay. They have three children, one daughter and two sons.

Mrs. Wadsworth took an active part In the tight against suffrage, beading the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Senator Wadsworth voted against the' suffrage amendment, Q. E. D.

fend of Athletics. Wadsworth la fond of. athletics. He does not play golf. He keeps' a sSjddJe horse in Washington and rides Of summers he and Ted Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navV.

taka dallv ewima In rtthe big testing tank at the navy He is also a hiker of ability and, devotee of baseball, To the horsehide sphere he sacrificed the symmetry of hit good right When be addresses the senate it is noticeable, in his that the tore-finger of big speaking hand buckled awkwardly at the Joint" It was busted by one hot off the bat when he was flt seeker on the nine A St. Mark's prep- school at Southboro, Mass. Incidentally, his. father' also played nrst, base with' the St. Mark's team and now hii 17-year-old son, Jerry, holds theisms position on the nine therft't-' ''Three generations of first base men, Wads worth's friends, ought to be, sufficient to make his selection ss majority leader a popu lar one.

''r'lii i t- -4, THE HEAR EAST Situation Menacing Because of Parley Collapse. BULLETIN. London, Feb. 5. A cabinet meeting was hastily summoned for 6 30 this evening to discuss the Near East crisis.

T.ord Curzon, the foreign secretary who arrived during the afternoon from Lausanne, prepared a report on the breakdown of the Near East peace negotiations. Lord Curzon refused to comment upon the Near East situation. BY DAVID M. CHURCH. (I, N.

8. Staff London, Feb. 5. Menacing clouds of war were hanging low over the Near East today as a result of the collapse of the Lausanne peace conference through refusal of the Turks to sign the treaty. Advices from Athens and Constantinople said that both Greece and Turkey have renewed war preparations and are moving troops.

Great Britain Prepared. Great Britain is prepared for any eventuality in the Near East. It the Turks carry out their threat to resume hostilities, the British are prepared for it w'th a great fleet and a big army massed in Turkish ports. The general Impression is that 9tit9ta.wltt "sJtaighVMorhe time being, future developments. No move will be made in any direction nntll after the 'return of Lord Curzon from Lausanne and the convening of parliament next week.

Although some, of the newspapers represent that an outbreak of war Is possible at once, belief Is growing that Premier Bonar Law and his close advisers will make further concessions to the Turks rather than risk British participation in Near East hostilities. Despite tha- fact that It would Uke- Uy lead to downfall of the present government, it is probable that Premier Law will withdraw the British troops from Constantinople and Mosul, rather than incur war. Military experts declare that, while the British military position at Constantinople is not entirely secure, the British could hold Chahak against assaults by the whole Turkish army. Garrison Now a Gibraltar. Since their occupation of Chanak (on the Narrows of the Dardanelles) the British have' transformed the garrison into a second Gibraltar.

The garrison is supported by heavy long range guns and a gigantic fleet anchored in the Dardanelles behind the land forces. The breakdown of the Lausanne conference throws further strain upon the Anglo-French entente, as Indications are growing that France is preparing, to malfe a separate treaty with Turkey. MRS. HEARN DIES IN INDIANAPOLIS Mother of Mrs. J.

A. Kldwell Psssss Away at Advanced Age-Funeral Here Tuesday, Mrs. Mary Hearn, mother of Mrs. J. A.

Kldwell, 1709 Marshall avenue, passed away on Saturday afternoon in Indianapolis at the home of another daughter, Mrs. W. H. Spencer, with whom she had been living for several months. The funeral services will be held at the First Baptist Church In this city on Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev, M.

lively conducting the services, The body will be placed in the Hearn-Howland mausoleum in Dodge Grove cemetery. Mrs. Hearn Is survived by four children, Mrs. Spencer of Indianapolis, Mrs. M.

PrlceUt ShelbyvUle, 'ad-Mr. J. A. Kldwell and W. B.

Hearn of, Mattoon. Mrs. Hearn was the wil-ow of -JClza C. Hearn, who passed away about thirty years ago. She was born near Mattoon on January SI, 1837, being at the time of her death allehtfv mora than Yalehtv-aix veara (old Mrs, Hearn had been a member of tne Baptist Church since early girlhood.

i NEW MILLINERY', Complete line, bargain pvlces. A Murphy 200 prairie. 2-5 Former Mattoon Bus iness Man Dies Early Sunday. Special to The Journal-Gazette. unanesion, reo.

o. james Gulney, aged sixty, who at the time of the open saloon conducted such an establishment In Mattoon for sev eral years, died about six o'clock on Sunday morning about two hours after he had swallowed some of the contents of a jug. Rennels also was made violently Hi from the same cause, but through the heroic work of a physician, his life was saved. A young man named O'Hern was also made 111 from drinking of the Jug's contents, but his 'case wag at no time serious, and today he Is up and about. James Dornblazer was also made quite ill from the effects of a drink from the jug, but he soon recovered.

No inquest was held, Coroner Schilling merely conducting an inquiry, Fatal Doa in B. R. T. Hall. Gulney, Rennels, O'Hern and others were among the hundreds who flocked to the scene of the blaze which destroyed several of the city's business blocks Saturday night About tour o'clock Sunday morning these three men and several others are said to have gone to the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen hall, which is on the third story of a building just across the street to the north of where the big fire occurred, a short distance west of the square where the interurban line enters the city.

They are said to have partaken of the contents of a jug which someone had taken Into the hall, and in a short time Gulney, Rennels and O'Hern became ilL Gulney, whose condition appeared to be the more serious from the outaet, was removed to his home, where he grew rapidly worse, despite the efforts of physicians to save his life, and he passed away about six o'clock. Just what the jug contained Is not definitely known. Conducted Pool Hall. Gulney was sixty years of age, and except for the comparatively short time he was in business in Mattoon, had been a resident of this city for years. For some time he had conducted a pool and billiard hall at 408 Sixth street.

Surviving Is a wife. MRS. DAVID AGNEW DIES SUNDAY NIGHT Mrs. Louisa Agnew, wife of David Agnew, passed away at eleven o'clock Sunday night at the family home, 1200 Marshall avenue, after an Illness of about a week. Mrs.

Agnew bad suffered an attack of la grippe recently, but waa believed to have recovered. A relapse came several days ago, r.nd she grew worse rapidly. Short services will be held st the home on Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock. The body will be taken overland to Janesvllle, where the funeral will be held In the cemetery chapel. There burial will be made, the services to be In charge of Rev.

Tate of Lerna. Mrs. Agnew is survived by her husband and three children, "Mrs. Laura Junken, Mrs. Mary Raef and Clark Agnew, all of Mattoon.

Two half-sisters, Mrs. Flora Morgan of Lerna and Mrs. Laura Icenogle Of Cumberland county, and three half-brothers, Joseph Bohiff, Ben Boruff and J. W. Boruff, all of near Johnstown, Cumberland county, also survive.

Mrs. Agnew was born near Johnstown on July 31, 1869, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. She aad been a resident of Mattoon about jix years, she and her husband coming here about that time from their farm near Paradise, on which' ttsjy had resided for a number of years.

PNEUMONIA IS FATAL TO 2-YEAR-OLD CHILD Delores Ruth Poorman, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Poor man passed away shortly after five o'clock this morning at the Poorman home, 2401 DeWltt after an illness of only three days. The little girl fell a victim to a serious attack of pneumonia on Friday, the ills-ease making such headway that on Sunday afternoon her recovery wsb despaired of. The body was removed to the home of Mrs.

Sarah Abel. 2320 Moultrie avenue, maternal grandmother, tie- sides her parents, the little girl Is survived by a brother, Robert Elmer, and two other grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. O. R. Poorman of Humbolt She was born.

In Mattoon on October 17. 1919. Burlat'wOr be In the Humbolt cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, following funeral services In that village. transport St. Mlhiel galled for Amer TURKS BREAK UP LAUSANNE CONFERENCE Peace Pact Terms Are Rejected by the Moslems.

Lausanne, Feb. 6. The Turks have refused to sign the Near East peace treaty as prepared at the conference here by the allies. The Lausanne conference la at an end. The break-up cam late last night after an all-day discussion and study of the answer prepared by the Turkish delegation, which consulted the government at Angora.

It is well understood, however. that there was a split among the (Turks, Ismet Pasha and Rlza Nour Bey being at odds over some of the Ultimatum Answered. While it was at first stated that the final disagreement between the allies. and the Turk1 waa entirely on the questions of capitulations and economic points, Rlza Nour Bey, who was second In power in the delegation, announced to the press: "We will not sign the treaty be-' causa- it would be impossible of ratification by the government at Angora. The Turkish answer to the ultimatum of the allies, which gave them until today to sign up.

waa a Voluminous document containing acceptance of many points. Ask to Sign In Part. Ismet Pasha, bead of the Turkish delegation, In presenting the document, said there were several Important reservations and suggested that the Turks be allowed to sign a' part of the treaty leaving out the economic and financial clauses and the section regarding the Mosul oil fields. Ismet Pasha stated that the Mosul question should not prevent the signing of peace, and urged that the allies make the subject of Mosul and other moot questions the basis for a separate treaty. Turks Agree on Frontiers.

The Turks accepted the western frontiers proposed by the allies and did not Insist on holding Karagatch or its railway lines, or the frontiers of 1913. They agreed to the closing and demilitarization of the straits and renounced their claim to any right to the maintenance of a garrison at Gallipoll. They agreed that the cemeteries In the Anzac zone should remain undisturbed and aacepted the proposals regarding the islands of Embros and Tonedos as well as the Duodecanese. They urged that the Mosul question, In order to Insure the conclusion of the peace treaty at once, be referred to arbitration between Brit-sin and Turkey, the decision to be reached within a year. The Turk answer raised objection to certain economic clauses and asked modification of the terms of capitulations.

Conversations on the Turkish document lasted all night and all day. Lord Curzon said the concessions offered last night represented the last word to be offered by the allies. AnroiliKs Just received, a complete run of sizes in brand new tnxedoa for tale or rent. Dress accessories also. 15 A.

H. ADLER. up on the Antwerp quay as the American MEETS DEATH UNDER TRAIN Special to The Journal-Gazette. Charleston, 111., Feb. 5.

Rusgell Henry, aged nineteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Henry, living in the western section of the city, was instantly killed about 12:30 o'clock this morning when be fell beneath the wheels of a Clover Leaf freight train while returning from a visit to Lerna. Both legs were cut off and the body was otherwise cut and bruised. Henry and Alvln Trobaugh, a young man about bis age, had been to Lerna to make a Sunday evening call on two Lerna young women.

They decided to return home on a freight train Instead of on a nasseheer train. end 'wnen Vast 'bound freight train No. 44 passed the station In Lerna they boarded it. As the train neared the vicinity of their homes on the western limits of this city, near what la known as Happy Hollow, the two young men prepared to get off, and in making the attempt, young Henry missed his footing and fell beneath the wheels. Trobaugh alighted in safety.

Young Henry came to this city with his parents a few years ago from Clark county, and for some time had been employed at the shoe factory. Besides the parents, there are several brothers and sisters. Deputy Coroner Lewis held an inquest this morning, the Inquiry beginning at ten o'clock. The verdict was that young Henry came to his death by accidentally falling beneath the wheels of Clover Leaf train No. 44.

RESIDENT OF COOKS MILLS PASSES AWAY Andrew Jackson Nash Succumbs on Sunday Evening Funeral Services Tuesday. Andrew Jackson Nash, retired farmer and Civil War veteran, passed nway at 7:45 o'clock Sunday evening at, his home in Cooks Mills after an illness of three weeks. Nash suffered an attack of erysipelas about three weeks ago, but had apparently recovered. His heart action, however, was considerably weakened as a result of the illness, and to that cause hlg death was assigned. The funeral will be held from the home on Tuesday afternoon at one o'clock.

Rev. J. F. McMahan of this city in charge. Burial will be In the Cooks.

Mills cemetery. Mr. Nash Is survived by his wife and the following children: Mrs. Mary Kearney of near Cooks Mills; George Nash, who resided at home with his parents; William Nash of Mattoon and Oscar Nash of near Cooks Mills. There are also ten grandchildren.

Mr. Nash was born near Litchfield on February 23, 1840, and resided there until early manhood. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted In the Union army, serving for three years. At the end of the war he returned to Litchfield, but shortly after-Ward removed to Cumberland, county, where he engaged In farming. He married Miss Sarah Taylor on March 14.

1878, and three later the couple, removed to a farm tear Cooks Mills, where they resided until fifteen years ago. Since then tticy had resided in Cooks Mills. Mr. Nash was a member of the Masonic lodge at Lerna, of the Knights of Pythias of Cooks Mills, the D. O.

K. K. of Mattoon and a member of the G. A. R.

post at Mills. Since his retirement from the active management of his farm, he had been called upon to serve in a number of North Okaw township offices, I PEACE OFFER; FEARS REVOLT Germany Reasserts She Can't Meet 1920 Payments. Paris, Feb. 6. Faced by absolute penury, go far aa coal Is.

concerned, is the near future, Germany aent out feeler to France today to discover a possible basis for new negotiations. Germany reasserts her utter inability to fulfill the 1920 schedule of wpwrtTOtfS paymentl "ana' pleads her urgent need of a moratorium. Germany pays the refusal by France to enter into negotiations will provoke a labor revolution in Germany, with possible spread of bolshevlsm. Germany Insists she can pay nothing while the French retain their throttle hold on the industries of the Ruhr. France Keeps "Clutch." It is stated France will refuge to release the Ruhr that she will refuse to turn over the forests to Germany, and will refuse to reduce the occupation unless the magnates are forced to pay heavy taxes out of their capital to take care of the German payments for 1923.

As an alternative, France will attempt to turn the entire output from the Ruhr towards France, gelling fhe surplus products abroad and applying the cash thug received on- the reparations account. With the exception of sporadic strikes, the Ruhr was reported calm today. LITTLE DAUGHTER MR. AND MRS. RUSSELL DIES Helen Marie Russell, only child of Mr.

and Mrs. Otto Russell, passed away-this morning at 7:30 o'clock at the Russell home, 2504 DeWltt avenue, following an illness of three The cause of death was assigned as pneumonia. The little glr was bprn in Mattoon on October 1, 1917, and had resided here all her short life. Funeral services will he held at the African Methodist Episcopal Church on "Wednesday afternoon, Rev. W.

E. Mayfleld In charge. Burial will be In Dodge Grove cemetery. PECULIAR DEATH OF CUMBERLAND FARMER Special to The Journal-Gazette. Newton, Feb.

6. Wilbert W. Myers, aged about forty, a farmer living just across the line In Cumberland county, died In Hidalgo last Thursday about one o'clock after having swallowed some creosote, Myers was handed the creosote in the Office of Dr. F. W.

Keuchler, whom he had gone to consult about alleviating: the toothache7Th phy Siclan had handed Myera a bottle of with the belief that would take his Anger and put some of the liquid on the tooth which was troubling him. but Instead Myer put the bootle to hie Hps and took two swallows of the deadly poison. He died in about twenty minutes. A coroner's jury returned a verdict to the effect that Myers came to bis death "by beechwood creosote poisoning, self-administered. Nothing wag 'revealed at 'the inquest which would ghow that Myers had any reason tor taking hie own waa Among the suspect pfeked up the morning following; the -robbery and questioned by the Mat toon police.

At that time, however, 1 he established what was thought to be an Iron-clad alibi, and after several hours of grilling, he wag re- leased. Two dayg later, or oa January Bennett disappeared from hia usual haunts, and on that same day both Walling and Willingham confessed, Impllcatmg-Spnnett Every effort to locate Bennett failed, but a day or so later it became known that he had gone to Oklahoma. Efforts to locate him In that state also failed. t-8oon Picked Up. Saturday morning Sheriff McNutt received information to the effect that Bennett planned to return to Hat- toon Saturday afternoon, and every 1 incoming train waa closely watched.

He waa seen to leave the Bis; Four passenger station shortly after the arrival of a train from St, Louis at three o'clock and waa followed to his home. He had hardly entered the house, when Sheriff McNutt "hd Deputy Shirley nabbed him. Bennett ig twenty-one years old and wag formerly a brake man oa tbe Illinois Central, leaving the employ of that company several months ago. During his stay In Mattoon he has resided at the DeWltt avenue -address. Sheriff McNutt stated to a JournaW Gazette reporter Sunday afternoon that he did not believe that Bennett was involved in any of the other bertea or attempted robberies at- tributed to Walling and Willingham.

believing that Bennett's lone act of law breaking was tbe theater robbery. Bennett's share of the loot la that robbery was 9178, according tp his statement to Sheriff McNutt LAST MEMBER IN FAMILY OF ANDREW JACKSON DIES Nashville. Feb. 5. Mrs.

Rachel Jackson Lawrence. 90. last member of the family of Gen. Andrew Jack son, died in her home here yesterday. Springfield, IlU Feb.

Follow og are the weatn-er Indications for Illinois tor thirty sir hours endlug at 7 p. m. Tuesday: Mestly cloudy ts night and Tuesday. Probably snotf Uv north perils JVsrmsr tonight and In south in juesdayi to Charleston, in forty-five minutes, over foadg fought to be Impassable. By the time they had the flames were' eating1 their way east and threatening to spread the conflagration to the David meat market, located just' west, of the Charleston House.

Whet the booster pumper went into action, the flameg stubbornly gave way, and by 1:10 o'clock Sunday morning they were 'under control. i result of the tire, five buslr ness houses were completely destroy ed. rmese were located at 500, 603, 6047 SOS and BO! Monroe street, and go and 611 fifth street, -The building at 500-50 Monroe street, owned by Claude Rardln, publisher, of the Charleston Dally News, is believed to have been the place, in which the fire originated (Continued on Page live.) t. life, 7 .4.