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Show THE WEATHER. Friday Local Settlement Silver Lead Copper Domestic-- , 99c Brices. foreign cathode It is hard to keep altogether alive to opportunity without reading The Tribune Want Columns. ' fair south, unsettled north por. tton; Saturday ganarally fair. 62Uc :.$4i6 ....$12,375 SALT LAKE CITY, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1921. YOL. 102, NO. 119. 18. PAGES FIYE CENTS HER OKTERS RAIL BOARD REFUSES TO ABROGATE AGREEMENTS JStL Confession WmngF.omBandits Villains Make Bid for Clemency Archbishop Dougherty j(jf Accomplices of Murderer of City Detective Relate Long List of Desperate Deeds in Salt Lace. , I No Information as to Japanese Negti&tin Possible at Present, Lodge 'Hears. State Secretary Says That Substantial Progress Has Been Made in Conferences -- WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Tha letter of Recretafy "Colby aeclinrhg to trariamlt con. Information on the negotiations ducted with the view to treaty action with Japan, wai received without comment today by the senate foreign relatione committee. The letter wee In reply to a communication of the" committee forwarded at the Instance of Senator Johnson of California, requesting Information on the subject, If not Incompatible With the pub Ho Interest. Secretary Colby said In his letter that the record of the negotiations was practically that of a preliminary comparison of view, coupled with recommendations still the subject of examination." Substantial progress has been made tothe letter ward an ultimate agreement, added, "through Informal conversations S. Morris, ambaasa-de- r conducted by Roland to Japan,, and Baron Bhldehara, Japaneae ambassador, with the view of lading basis of a new treaty, 'or amending existing commercial treaties In an effort to aolve the problem arising from tha enactment last November by California of an antiallen land bill. Senator Lodge arranged to advise Senator Johnson, Republican, California, of Mr. Colby's reply as itr was at the instance of the California senator that the committee requeat waa made Colbys Statement. Mr. Colbys letter to Senator Lodge follows: I have the honor to acknowledge tha receipt of your letter of yeaterday'i data the requesting, if not incompatible with compublic Interest, that I furnish tha mittee with a copy of the agreement reached by the Japanese ambassador and Mr. Morris. Permit me to say that this requeat Indicates a misapprehension of the status of the pourparlers which have been going on for some time paat with a view tlo Teaching a friendly understanding as to tha scope and terms of a conventional agreement yet to be negotiated by the plenipotentiaries of Japan and tha United 8tates, when they shall have been duly empowered to that end. While I think I am warranted In saying that substantial progress has been made toward an ultimate agreement, there la no agreed text of which a copy could be communicated to the com- -, mittee In advance of the regular submission of whatever convention may be ultimately signed. "I think you and the committee will readily concede that any communication of a record which la practically that of a preliminary comparison of views, coupled with recommendations still the subject of examination, would be premature and might tend to defeat rather than aid an eventual settlement of a question which has been the source of much misunderfor a and misinterpretation standing period of many years. ' ... i Phelan States Views. " Senator Phelan, Democrat, California, who la not a member of the foreign relations committee. Issued a statement tonight saying that Secratary Colby had said he would be very glad to go over the matter verbally with the committee and arglng such a conference. "A long aa the secretary has not approved the findings. the statement said, "I do not think the conversations are of any value or Importance. Ambaaaador Morris la obviously friendly to tha Japanese and would make concessions to encourage commerce and trade. That la about the breadth of hla view. Therefore, anv understanding between him and the Japaneae ambassador la of no value to the country, because It waa a meeting of two friendly minds Instead of two minds one representing America and one representing Japan "I think any attempt to taka away tha Jurisdiction of the western atatea over the control of land will be obstinately resisted nnd that the senate never would treaty assuming that the ratify auch ahad the right to Invade the treaty power stale for such a purpose." Urobe Not Concluded.' TOKIO. Feb. 10. The official Invest!-- . get Ion of the recent killing by a Japanese sentry at Vladivostok of Lieutenant VV. H. Langdon of the American cruiser Albany has not been concluded. General Tanaka, minister of war, today made this statement In reply to queetlone In the diet as to what the result of tho was and what effect It would have on tha relations with tha United Btatea M Tanaka added that there was no fear of tha relations between the United States and Japan becoming strained aa a result of the shooting. court-marti- al Revolt Is Reported., . TOKIO, Feb. 10 A special dispatch to tha Jljl Rhlmpo from Muroran, on tho Island of Yeao, aaya 1100 afmy reservists have revolted In criticism against the attitude of the authorltlee on the shooting ol Lieutenant V. H. Langdnn. ' Ozakls Proposal Rejected. Feb. 10 (Bv the Associated The house today rejected, 36 to Osakl, party, proponing a curtailment of naval armaments. The entire Nationalist party and some Independents favored the resolution. the , but the governments) Hctvn.Kar.aud .far jr, opposed It General Teuda, on behalf, of tha government. delivered a speech on tbs conditions In China and Siberia, which he declared were unsatisfactory, and that, therefore, Japan waa unabla to reduce her proposed naval and army development TOKIO, Preee.) . 2H5, a resolution offered by Y. former leader of the opposition ' i i .1 mors than two months, accord-to the confessions wrung fftfm accomplices of Tom Burna of Detective G B. Hamby, Salt Lake has been the operof the most desating field of a gang banperate, daring and conscience-wolhas dits that appeared In the west for many year. These men, whose motto has been to shoot to kill whenever the occasion should arise, have been roaming the streets of the city, attacking men and women without discrimination, plotting to dvnamlte safe and in every way conceivable by their dark minds to gain loot by violence. They tell in their conthe memory of which fessions of hold-ustill shocks the people of the city, and been of plans which, had they not thwarted, would have netted the villain thaumindi of delta rs and in aitproo-abilit- y would have cost the city many lives. During their stay here, however, they have not been- dependent pn Immediate success of their ventures for finances with which to carry on their debauched, existences. It was another city that fur. nished them with money, for befors coming to Salt Lake, according to their confessions, they blew up an express office safe In Fellows, Calif., and obtained thousands of dollars' Vorth ot travelers' checks. These they have cashed In Salt Lake ae they needed money, and on the proceeds have lived their lives of debauchery and crime. Substitute for House National Pacts to Remain in FOR sure Restricts Alien Flood Force Until Completion Until Jtme 30, 1922. of Hearing in Chicago. Mea- Placed Hailed as Victory by Lead on Percentage Basis and , ers of Rail Unions; Discriminates as to Class. Jewell Presents Statement Number Admitted a WASHINGTON- ,- Feb-- . Hh Reeteietten Decision of Ihe on immigration, said by Committee mem- railroad labor board today that tha nabers to be more drastic than those pro- tional agreements shall remain in force posed In' the house or Johnson bill, are until completion of the present hearing contained in an emergency measure ap- waa characterized tonight by railroad Philadelphia prelate- who Is declared to proved and reported &day by- the senate employees as a victory. be practically certain t receive red The measure The ruling came aa a surprise both to Immigration committee. hat. decided on ss a substitute for the bill railroad and labor camps and upset the passed several weeks ago by the house plans of union officials, for a bombardwould become' effective April 2 and con ment of the railroads request for Immetinue in force only until June 30, 1922. diate abrogation of the agreements. Fortified tyith a legal battery headed 'During that period senate leaders are confident permanent Immigration legis- by Frank P. Walsh, .the labor represenlation will be enacted and in the mean- tatives appeared to answer the requeat time the predicted flood of aliens would of W, W. Atterburjv speaking for the be stopped. railroads, for quick abolition of the naThe bill, as reported, would limit immdecision The board tional agreements. igrants admitted annually from any coun- against granting the request left little try to 5 per cent of the national of that lor the labor men to do except to file a country In the United Statee when the statement prepared by B. M. Jewell, pres1910 census was taken. The measure, ident of the railroad employees departu however, provides that tt shall "not be ment of the American Federation of Laconstrued as amending, repealing or mod- bor. This statement and an amplificaifying any law or agreement which for- tion bye Mr. Walsh charged the railroads bids the admission of any alien of any with being a party to an attempt at Now nationality or geographical boundary. wiping out Collective bargaining Sad This provision was Interpreted to mean crushing all labor organisations. When r treaties existing between the United they had finished, they were unprepared ROME. Feb, 10, (By, the - Associated States and China would not be affected. to proceed wftli the. regular rebuttal of Frees. t Archbishop Dougherty, of Philarailroad evidence objecting to the tlie delphia will succeed to the next Ameri- Excludes Larger Number. national rules, and the hearing went over can cardinalate, according to the' view 8enators tonight pointed out the prin- until Monday. held la Vatican circles. The almost unan- cipal differences between the Johnson Mr. Jewells request for time to preimous opinion la that hla choice fa def- bill and the senate measure. The latter, hla testimony met with protest from pare inite. they declared, would exclude more aliens rail the representatives, but he promised es300,000 Johnson bill, being The 'appointment of a new American than the of ad- to canvass the situation tomorrow and number minimum as the timated cardinal will be made at the next secret missions in the first twelve months of advise the board Saturday when he could the measure's existence. Admissions of consistory early in March. From 1775' to 1911 America had only relatives and dependents, authorized by proceed. house measure, they said, would more on cardinal. Pope Plus X for the time the than equal the number of all entries un- Both Sides Are Pleased. In the consistory of 191,1, increased the der the senate bill. Both' sides expressed gratification that number to three. Another difference between the two the hearing would proceed In the regular In to was the bills provisions pointed Pope Benedict has preserved the tra- for determining what classes of Immmanner. 'V. W. Atterbury, speaking for dition of PiUs X, by keeping tho number igrants would be admitted. Tha house the railroads, declared that "if there was at three, but aa the United btatea la the voted to treat all nationalities alike. urgency on January 31, When I made third Catholic power In the world, fol- Theto apparent disposition in the senate the request of the board, there is still is legislate only against European lowing after Italy and France, the pre- immigrants more now. December report show that vailing opinion has been that the miles of railroads did not earn 115,000 In the United States would be Ultra Antis to Fight. fixed and their operating expense" Increased. The railroads 6 per cent figure was agreed to charges for that month The e twenty-onout of cardinals has Italy have contended that abrogation of the Spain, with 20 000,000 Cath-die- s, after three votes had been taken to agreements would mean a big cut in , has four, and will have six, reduce It, and senators favoring abso- their operating expenses, while the United States, with 'the Phil- lute prohibition will carry their fight to W. J. Lauck, consulting economist for senats. ippines, Porto Rico, Guam and Hawaii, thaSenator th labor the men, however, declared In reporting the bill, antotaling more than 24,000,000 Catholics, nounced heColt, "would push It for passage real Issue was not the rules, "but what will have but half of Spain's representathey concretely sanction the principle and 8enator Harrison ex- of Immediately, tion. collective bargaining on tba basis of The sacred college after the March pressed a similar Intention. Floor leadunion recognition e, of ers, however, expressed doubt that the consistory will number has received the "WKehthl which thirty cardinals will be Italian. bill would pass at the present session. of board's sanction,principle no further disturbances Provision for continuing the system Seven red bate will be unasslgned, the will occur on the of prospective immi- or acute controversies full quota of the sacred college being vise of passport he said. grants by consular officers was made by railroads," seventy, though this la never attained, the a ruling reviewed th board powThe senate foreign relations committee In each pope desiring to leave some vacandelegated to It afid declared Its duty the diplomatic appropriation bill, report- ers cies for hla successor to fill. and of to reasonable be that deciding Just ed out today. The committee Inserted conditions. item for the work, with au- wages, salaries and working Feb. 10 The dis- a $600,000 PHILADELPHIA. the outcome of the said It that pending conto continue It the beyond thority waa which patch from Roms referring to the likelirules hearing, separated by hood of Archbishop Dougherty being made clusion of peace. agreement, from the wage hearing which a cardinal waa read with much Interest ended In the award of July, the national at the prelate's residence today. The PRESIDENT federal agreements promulgated under archblahop wae out of town. Archbishop control would remain In force. Dougherty was Born In tha anthracite BOUCHER SENTENCE coal regtona of Pennsylvania and Is 55 Beyond Jurisdiction. years old. In 1903 he waa made bishop 10 Feb. Plea for their abrogation on account President of Neuva Sagovla and later of Jaro, In WASHINGTON, the Philippines. He became archbishop of Wilson today approved the dismissal of financial inability to pay wages was a matter of outside from Lieutenant the awarded 1918. the Commander in navy Philadelphia Creed H. Boucher of San Francisco, for- board's jurisdiction, the ruling said, and to to commerce ths interstate should assistant naval the go governor merly Boy-E- d commission. of Samoa. Boucher .was charged with a vartetv of The executives request for permission offenses, among which were intoxication to pav common laborers on the basis of on duty, conduct unbecoming an offithe scale prevalent In different localities was also dented and leaves the haste cer, dierespqct to hla superior officer LANCASTER. Pa , Feb. 10 Mias He was also accused of railroad rate at 37 to 461$ cents an hour. Mackay-Smltof the and falsehood. daughter to the president and to the With 4he esse clarified by the unexlate Bishop Alexander Mackay-Smlt- h of disrespect of the navy, but the court did pected decision of the board, Mr Jewell the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Penn- secretary hie prepared statement withnot on these rule submitted charges. forsylvania. and Captain Kart Boy-EThe Boucher trial grew out of a con- out comment and introduced Frank P. mer German naval attache at Washingcounsel for fifteen as between brotherWalsh the accused officer and troversy ton, wera married today In Berlin, Mr. W alsh requested the board A cablegram to this effect waa received his superior. Commander W J Terhune, hoods. from the brides mother by friends here, OeatUaed a Pas Ftur Oaatianad aa Pat Pear aa published by the Lancaster Intelli(Columa Three.) (Colama Two.) gencer. with her mother, Miss Mackay-8mttleft their home In Washington last month for Germany. Mis Mackay-Smlt- h and Captain Boy-E- d have been reported engaged several It each time was denied. The times, but first report waa circulated shortly befors d and Captain von Papen Captain Boy-Ewere recalled from Washington by the German government In December, 1915, at the request of President Wilson. Tbs wsre charged with having two officer Feb. 10. House tariff constructors fiddled on th job been connected with munition plots and WASHINGTON, of tho sending supplies to German raiders from American porta, as well aa plots Th house way nd mean had up th violins schedule and W. R. with Mexico, Clymcr of Columbus, Ohio, was on hand with an armful of fiddles, ranging in price from $10 to $1800, to contend that American fiddle builders did just ' to as good a job as anybody and ought to have tariff protection for their product. Dry He also brought along a local violinist, who treated the committee to a Violators classical selection played in turn on tbeiinstrument. Clymer defied the tariff makers to detect differences in tone. Federal PORTLAND. Ore., Feb. 10. asked Chairman Fordnev. How about 'The Arkansaw Travclorf H. Bean announced Judge R, today that The musician complied, and in a moment the lilting measures of tfie old hereafter he would sentence to tha pentune went rollicking through the staid committee room. Committeemen and itentiary persons convicted of violating onlookers sat with toe tapping and bends nodding to the lure of it. Yankee the national prohibition lswa He mads ths detlaratlon after he had sentenced Doodle followed, then .Dixie. In a man to three months Jail for Illicit Representative of xylophone makers,- also seeking tariff protection, manufacture of liquor a few yerda ftf.miraJ eordwood- to demonstrate their .ease. It The seriousness t.S the offense of I c o vc r e fr KvpNsentLVv 'Yonrig,' Kcpotilnlu. tif .North D ak o tli J Tli battonal prOnttdilon ting hul himself to his colleagues as a man of accomplishment as well as sentiment by not been realised by tha public, tha Judge out the mournful strain of HowiDrr I Am." declared. thumping . "Moat people consider the law a Joke," Tina has been a relief," said Chairman ForJney, when the aymphonie he said, "It Is not a joke. It la a law session ended. Weve had little music here except chin musie up to now. of this country and la In force and Is going to cunt nue In force." - - , Philadelphia Archbishops Elevation to Cardinalate Assured Regarded as Clemency Hope Seen. been arrested,- - have These 'bien have confessed and have been convicted. But In their confessions Is seen the hope that they will some day be granted clemency. They all cialm Burns waa ths master mind of the gang and that he led th others on. Each avers that he has never been in trouble before and that until ht met Bums a few months ago he had lived a straight life. One even claims to be a hero of the world war. Their confessions ring with the sound of the poor young fellow led astray by a powerful master personality, and It la evident they hope In this way to win the pity ef ths Blit for such ss these there people. should ba no pity. Society should accord them the same consideration they have shown their victims, and. white they cannot be sentenced to death under the existing laws, they should be given, as far as It la possible, the full reward lor their evil works. Th confessions, which were mads yesterday morning to Warden George A. Ktorrs of the Utah state penitentiary, follow; . By OSCAR ROBERT BLANEY.- "My name la Oscar Blaney; J am 25 years old, born in Inyo county, Calif. I nd two have a mother, three sisters brothers living in San Francisco. I have always been a miner and have worked in Tungsten mines ou of Bishop. I registered for tho draft tn Horn Silver, the local board was In Goldfield. I wbs In Saii'FrsncIsco when failed In 1518, Juno 1 I went overseas for eight month In France. "I stayed around Ban Francisco for I about three months after discharge. went to work out at tha Engles mine A on and Stone there the Wenaters, Feather river. Worked around there st different mines until about th forepart of August, 1919. I met a partv by the name of Lewis at the Engles mine, where I had been working, and we came to Portola. Calif., and met Tom, who had the name of George Merkle. This Is th party who was with us In ths job at Salt Izvke and who was killed, and who went by ths name of Tom Burns Meets Burns Again. . "I returned to Reno, spent some time there and I worked around at different places and met Tom again at Los Angeles, Just about after last Christmas, along aboilt the 26th. Of course, I was going to work at these mines, making some money and going Into the towns and blowing tt In, but I nfver had been in any crooked deals' when I met Tom in Los Angeles He told me what he wae doing "The first job suggested by him that I Ceattaned aa Pag Twt (Oehnoa Twe.) fifty-seve- n; alxty-thre- APPROVES ) , It Wedded to. Pennsylvania Woman Vlr-gln- la d, Tariff Makers Are Treated to Impromptu Musical Melange Judge Law Send to Penitentiary d ' b Tells Rail Georgia Community Visited Workers Irish Affair Will by Tornado; Most of the Be Considered on Merit Victims Are Negroes. George LONDON, Feb. 10. Mr. Uoyd George, the prime minister, today Informed tne and Firemens Locomotive Engineers union that tta Implied threat, to bring on a general atrlke in Great Britain over at Mallow. Ireth ahooting of ruihvria-tland, last month, would not Influence the government In considering the unions demand for an Investigation. The Intimation of the union In a resolution adopted by its executive council at Leeds yesterday, waa that, unless the government granted an Inquiry Into the Mallow affair by February 15, and gave guarantees for the safety of the members of the union, a general atrika would be called. Mr. IJoyd George, In replying today, announced to Secretary Bromley of the union that It was the government s Intention of sending the resolution to Ireland for Informative purposes The premier added, however, that he wished it stated at onee that no threat of a national atrlke could be "permitted to Influence the action of the government on a matter of th administration of the law " The government." he continued, "will consider the question purely on Its merits, to these without reference Improper , threats. The Mallow shooting occurred January 31. District Inspector King was wounded and hla wlfs shot dead by seme unknown persons that night, and the police, hearing the shots, rushed to the Mallow railway station. It la alleged they wera fired upon, and their answering fusillade killed on railway employee, who ran, and wounded several others who accompanied him, one of these later dying. Constable Wounded. TRALEE, Ireland, Feb. 10 Constable Molahy was wounded at Abbcjdorney, County Kerry, Wednesday night. Crown forces arrived early In th morning and ordered the villagers to leave their hemes and then, according to tha report, burned eleven houses, th occupant of which fled in their night attire, A sergeant and a constable were wounded here Wednesday night by soldiers when they failed to halt on command. Refused Permission to Speak. LINCOLN, Neb . Feb. 10. The Nebraa-k- a house of representatives by a vote of 44 to 46 today refused to permit Ml Mary MecSwtnev, slater of ths late lord mayor of Cork, to apeak her next Monday on the Irleh question, In refusing Mias MacSwIney th right of the floor, th legislatures de lared her mission to this country was not of Importance to th people of Nebraska. Moderates Refuse Support. , DUBLIN, Feb 10 A meeting held today under th auspices of the Dominion league, hut Including representatives of ewey bHWerflrih moderates, plated Itself on record, with only threa dissent-In- g votes, aa refusing to lend support to the home rule act In southern Ireland. Resolution were adopted defining th pegs Tkras Oeatiaaed e (Oelviji 6 Twe. ney Meet Quick Justice. Definite Recommendations Will Be Made to Pardons Board at Later Date. Orr In Ray Parsons, Walter E. Smith and Oscar Robert Blaney, partners of Tom Burns, alias Thoms Gleason, murderer of Detective O. B. Hamby, began serving indeterminate terms tn the state prison yesterday afternoon for the assault and robbery of Detective C, V. Rosen-kranat th Delphi hotel early Tuesday morning. The men were sentenced late yesterday afternoon by Judge 1 B. Wight of tha Third district court after they had pleaded guilty to charges that they had beaten nnd bound th officer and stolen hls re. volver and 7. Judge Wight declared In passing sentence that hewaa not prepared to say what recommendations he would make to th state board of pardons. E. A. Rogers, district attorney, declared that the defendants were men who would not hesitate to resort to desperate methods In carrying out violations of the law, and urged that they be confined to prison for life. ts Each Heads Guilty. -- Lloyd Orrif R. ParSOM, Walter E. Smith and Oscfar R. Bla- OCONEE, Ga., Feb. Ip. A tornado that Gardner settlement, on mil from hers, shortjy after noon today, brought death to two whit persons and nearly thirty negroes, and serious Injury to flv whit persons and mors than a score of negroes. Territory extending almost to Tooms-bornearly flv miles long and about a half mile wide. Is barren, not a building or trss standing. Among the dead la Benjamin Orr, 14. who was decapitated. The other whit person who met death was tn daughter of E. L. Minor, manager of. Shepherds oommlsaary at tha Lumber plant of th Cleveland-Ocon- e company. Eighty-tw- o children and three teachers were In a school building near tba Gardner settlement when the tornado struck. Th building wa twisted to piece and th fragments scattered for mile. Children wera picked up by th wind and carried for some distance, but It waa announced only one waa seriously Injured. Approximately forty houses were blown down In the settlement. The. Shepherd Brothers commissary at the big lumber plant was reduced to kindling wood. Orr and four negroes met death there. Ten feet away, the general office of the lumber company was untouched The fifteen-acr- e plant of the company waa not seriously damaged, although millions of feet of lumber were scattered. struck th o, three-year-o- ld Carried to Death. faced th Negro houses and store tracks of the Savannah division of tha Central of Georgia railroad In tha rear of th houses was a field, extending nearly a mile, from the Ocone station to the lumber milt. It waa Into thla field that men, women and children were carried to their death from their dinner tables. ten minutes after ths tornado had elped out th Gardner settlement, a Central of Georgia local freight train arrived. Thv conductor Immediately ordered tha loco mml detached, and alth the crew hastened to Tennllle, eleven miles away, for aid. Coaches were commandeered and a relief train sent back, I motor found on negro boy with a board driven Into hla forehead. They removed the board and gave temporary aid. It la believed tha youth will Hv. The body of a negro Infant was found at th roots of a tree, ths top of whiih had been twisted off. The child s head had hern crushed In, having been carried head fore most against ths tree. On negro's body waa cut In two, A negro man and hls wife were found more than 100 yard from their home lying aid by side In the road, both dead V "Th court feel disposed to concur In tho recommendations of th district at. torney, but In view of the fact that th defendant hav voluntarily appeared end pleaded guilty, I would like to giv the case further consideration before making any request In th matter," Judge Wight said. Th men each pleaded guilty to charge of robbery when arraigned before City Judge Ben Johnson at I o'clock yesterday afternoon, and wera each bound over to th district court on $10,000 bond. Within two hours they war brought befors Judge Wight and sentenced to tha state prison. AU thro men, as they wef questioned by th court, pleaded guilty to the robbery charge. None had anything to say In defense of hla actions. Only Blaney took advantage of th opportunity to was not a "safe he that speak, declaring cracker,' aa the district attorney had him to asserted be. Ho admitted coming to Salt Lake from Los Angeles with Burns a month ago. Hs knew that Burns had s set ot burglar tools at ths time they went to live at the Delphi hotel, formerly the Stewart, and also was aware of ths fact that Burns had s package of dynamite st ths hotel, he said. Shooting of Burns Upheld. "In view of the fact' that these men were members ot a gang headed by Burns and that they would not hesitate I feel that th to resort to violence court should recommend that they be life Mr, Rogers Imprisonment, given said. Chief of Police Joseph E. Burbldg and Detective Clifford Patten were acquitted yesterday of any blame for tha shooting of Burns, who was wounded by the officers after ho had shot 'and killed Detective Hamby. A coroner's verdict returned yesterday afternoon before Judge Johnson stated that ths burglar had died as a result of revolver wounds Inflicted by th police chief and Detective Patten In the Una of their duty. Th city commission yesterday voted to revoke th license of the Nord hotel, where Detective Hamby was killed. Hotel to Be Given Hearing. As Is customary when th commission favors ths revocation of a license, a hearing will be held In order to give th hotel an opportunity to present reasons why the license should not b rescinded Arthur F. Barnes, commissioner of pub. lie safety, mad a motion that the city refuse permission to operate th hotel, because of the death there of DetevtUe police Hamby and for the reason that Investigations show th plat to be frequented by bootleggers and women of the underworld. Blaney. . Smith and Parsons were arrested by police officers at tha Delphi hotel, formerly th Stewart hotel, after they had attempted to gain entrance Into the J. C. Penney store, underneath tn hotel, by throwing a rock through the Burns made hls escape and skylight. later Information gained by th po.lc was to ths effect that he had gone to th Nord hotel. , Shoots Detective. and' When Chief of Police Burbldg Detective Hamby endeavored to break down'th door of hi room after he had refused tn orn tt, be snot tha detective through th head and slightly wound, As the burglar ed Chief Burbldg stepped Into th halt and covered the police chief with hi revolver. Detective Batten, fearing that Burns would shoot, fired frpm the stairs. The shot took efleft tide, and t fect In the fugitive he started down th hallway he was struck near tha heart by a buf- -t from Mortallv tho gun of Chief Burbldae. wounded, h" dragged himself Into hla He was taken to th emergency room where he.'!!! soon after the N . . BodieSott Treed.'.-- . S. jOueollilg. HI n I he yesterday afterilty oommt-eloThe bodies of several small nsgroea noon pseeed an ordinance prohlbllln pool were found In trsaa, out of the path ef and billiard halls from remaining op-- ti th tornado, suspended by their clothing later than It o clock In the evening The The bodies of grown negroes were action was taken tn accordnn. e with tho Oeatiaaed ea Pete Twe Ceetteued aa Pete Twe three-year-o- . (Oeiuaia Tear.) - t tCeiiuna -- 7hr-- e. ) |