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Herald 12 PAGES UNTINGTON OPPORTUNITY'S GATEWAY" HlWt INGTON. INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 29, 1923. PRICE THREE CENTS cl. XXXIX No.

290 1 I nnhrnT in lQpAflPHirjR FOR NORTHWEST COLO SNAP ICfJFIPPI NEW UNION LABOR TRUST nnijT purn APPtAL SATISFY FIKE IMPOSED bS5nK REACHES GREAT LAKES COMPANY OPENED IN N. HIlM UVtK I I Ml 1JT I I lini 1 LLII1ILII JOSEPH 817PZ1IOB COUBI 1 Brmra KOi rnriL test, HOWETEB INTEREST STATE KHlgkway CommlsiloB Heal Says la I tTIU Be Takes And wigs way Plans Jfot Changed (By IntamaUenal Kews Bervlce.) 8outh Bend, Dec. i9.The new 4" Indiana motor license fee' act passed at the last session ol the general as sembly was declared unconstitutional by Judge Lenn J. Oare In a. decision handed down In superior court today.

The decision was regarded as of ut tnostlmportance to owners and opera tors of motor vehicles throughout the state because If the decision is not overruled by' the supreme court It will mean a saving of fifty to sixty six per cent in the cost of license plates. Judge Oare's' decision was the re ault of a suit brought by the South i Bend Motnr.Bua comBanv asklnK state authorities be mandated to issue license plates under the old license law, maintaining the new law is invalid because of the Improper Inclusions ef two subject matters, both la the title and body of the act To this action Attorney General Lesh filed a demurrer which was overruled. It Relieved certain, here that ippeil Voald tthen. Secretary of State Jackson, with Ro etta B. Nye, St Joseph county, rep Msentatlve of thV.

stats secretary, were made defendants In the suit for mandate brought by the South Bend Motor Bus company after the tender of the company for ten licenses, at the former Tate, bad been denied. The esse was heard ten days ago by Judge Oare, the state being represented by Attorney General Lesh. Oare withheld his decision until today and has the holidays In looking. up the (Tf various citations. rosrai 'Oare's decision covers twenty four typewritten pages.

Oare declares that the final hour passage of the license law, Joined In body with the Inheritance tax law, was unconstitutional and that the omnibus bill united the friends of both measures and was passed without debate. "Such prac tice la the very evil the constitutional provision under consideration seeks to prevent," Oare Bald. The outcome of the case was watched with interest throughout the state, If Oare's decision "is upheld by the supreme court the state will be required to refund on many 1924 licenses already issued. Numerous automobile owners are waiting action (Continued on Page Three.) 1 v'V (By r. s.

BASH) will the train from Virginia get here were words I chanced to hear from a tlny.wlt of a girl ad dressedto the clerk at the atamp window of the post olfipe a day or two before 'Christmas. The little thing (lid Hot look to be over seven or eight years old and her, head did. not reach to the window. At the side' ot the child was another, little tot still smaller. She may have been a sister.

The clerk oh the inside, who at that moment happened fo be Dell Glenn, did not know, they were there waiting until I mentioned that they were ahead of me. Then Dell leaned over until he; could see them, when the above Query about the "yirginia train" was him; with evident candor. The little one was told that the train would be in about 1:30. As the little waifs were turning to leave I featured to ask how they came to be interested in a train from Virginia. "Well, yotl know' said the older one, "our grandpa and grandma live In Virginia and my ma says It cotts, too much money to go there, but we just know grandpa and grandma will have a Christmas gift for us and will.

send: it on the train'' comes kere from Virginia," The largef tot kept a tight hold on the hand of the one at her side End both "soon disappeared In the moes or ilfode Heavy i I Ha mm mwamm i i vw mm mm mmr mm mm Roy Clou wu fined 1 tad costs amounting to $31.4 by Justice W. A. Jones Saturday on a charge of beating a board 1)111. He was unable to pay the fine and was sent to jail to serve the necessary time at the rate of $1 "day. The added costs were necessary Because county officials had to go after, him at STORK STOPS Mr.

and Sirs. William C. Keefer of Jackson township, a daughter named Dorothy Marie, SEND MISSION I (By International News Senrloe.) Vera Cruz, Dec. 29. A revolutionary commission, appointed by Adolfo de La Huerta, leader of the Mexican revolt.

Is en route to Washington to present the cause of the rebels, it was announced today. The commission, headed by Juan Lopez, sailed yesterday for New Orleans on the steamship Nlcaro and Virginia. It will proceed to Washington Immediately upon arrival at New Orleans. Revolutionary headquarters here reported two important victories over the federals and reported that Gen eral Guadalupe Sanchez, rebel gen eralissimo, Is "so encouraged over the situation," that he has ordered an Im mediate offensive on the Esperanza and Oriental positions. Obregon forces suffered defeat 1n an attempt to flcsiHurt PusMa, act cording to revolutionary fieadonart' ers.

General Alor 'commanded the Huerta forces. Capture of a provision train at Laguna, a small town between San Luis Potosl and Saltillo, is also claimed by the rebels who say officials of the train and the federal gufird were also taken prisoner. General Sanchez has Issued a pro clamatlon against private persons! .1. 1 JIUDDCDOlilg ftl UIO SftUU BUlUMiUiMVU the' occupied areas, thus minimizing the danger of capture of the arms by enemies. Revolutionary advices also report protection of cruisers.

They meet com plete defeat at the hands of General Estrada, it Is claimed. MORGAN FUNERAL MONDAY body of William Morgan, who Atoil in Tinrida. will arrive in Hunt inrtnn BniwiAv mftrnin at 8: SO o'clock over the Wabash railroad and will be, taken to the Frank Henry, home at SW5 Warren street where it will lie in state. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at I clock at the Central Christian church with the, Rev. W.

S. Lockhart In charge. Burial win be at Mt. Hope cemetery. By Similarity WASHINGTON Service and Poor Writing throng that, crowded he post office luyDjr.

ab diuuu waning ana waicn ing the life quickening moment, and Min Amii hi i a La iT be8 upon the body, which dls two little innocents with whom I had have mutrnIed, BeIzed the commander In fw not and thrown his body overboard. an index of all. Was not. the same mhtraw livinK at SclaCca oft Still th'oaz: Md old' which port the body was picked up. i '5 1 Wrthe care encum ,,,,1 the storm over the Mediterra bered men and women, each differing nean last Friday and Saturday was from the other in age as well as sta one of extreme violence.

They.be tlon and rank, yet all meeUng there lleve he tIr8h, could not have re. on a common level with thoughts covered from 8Uch a gale. tr? WV The search for wreckage and would bear token, of love to and from o4Ie, flBnemen has been lntensl all corners of the earthy fleW by Th of rewardi nsm Bet9 vwh" are being drawn through the water in standlng. there. to peep through the ofplokl up windows and watch the nimble ting ftwehl( Beaplane9 crul8lng over ered clerks i with duties thft 8ea In hope of sighting wreckage of weighing, stamping, making or change, looking up.

sones. inspecting The and Italian wireless f.V they'woul1d CMfy sUtlons are csking ships In the Medl i safely, while bthers. were sorting, dls vPn lookout and patting, cancelling and looking after t) report immexiiately if any sur Lavast smbunt ot things Quite incon celvableno the "outsider. Of couree, a good deal of the work is routine and much the same the year round, nnlv'nivt an mimk nf it nnA atiH It different, fnr thrn nnlv nn. anhi supreme period for clerks and every' nw body and that is at Christmas.v 2 to 5Bk.0? lh" nf last quarter of the year.

The offl i.C':.' vnT'0B i 4' uiAliluuc uiLV rrrs. inmioi lmilu I (By International News Service.) Chicago, Dec. 28. Winter stretched GENERALLY BELIEVED DIRIGIBLE LIES AT BOTTOM OP THE SEA no me (By International News Bervloe.) Paris, Dep. 29.

Frencn, Italian and British destroyers and cruisers con Untied their search of the Mediterranean sea today without finding any trace of rrench dirigible Dix mude, norths bodies of any of the missing forty nine persons who were on board. Loss of the Dlxmude was discussed at a cabinet meeting at noon. On emerging, Minister of Marine Ralbertl made the following statement to International News Service: 'There has been absolutely no news regarding the loss of the Dlxmude yesterday afternoon. We are waiting for a report from the Warship Mulhouee, which Is cruising in the Mediterranean near the spot where Lieut. Commander Duplessis de Grenedan's body was found." It is, generally believed' that the giant dirigible lies at the bottom of the sea somewhere oft the coast of Sicily.

Uninhabited islets of the Mediterranean and deserted coasts of Tunis, Algeria, Tripoli and Sicily are being searched for survivors, who may have escaped by jumping overboard with parachutes. But hone Is now virtually aband oned "fast any of the frsfteakeri rf crew of the unmade win louna Belief was expressed in some quar ters JJixnmde may have mutinied and cast the body of the commander, Lieut Commander Duplessis de Grenedan overboard, but this theory Is not entertained in of ficial quarters. WUIllltcu uiab mo an ou.j. down In a gale and owing to her great weight, eank. However, the fact that no more bodies were found off the Sicilian coast where the corpse of Lieut Commander Duplessis de Italian fishermen, has deepened this dramatic mystery affair.

Officials believe that the Dlxmude crippled by lack of fuel and a broken motor, was lost in the Mediterranean on the night of December 21, during a terrific gale. Mme Duplessis de Grenedan, wife of the commander of the Ill fated ship bo lives at Toulon, is an expectant 5MvaoJ. y'1 ln" rmed of her husbands death By New, London, Dec. 29. King George sent messages to President Millerand of France, and Polncare, expressing sympathy over the loss of the dirigible balloon Dlxmude.

(By International News Service.) Messina, Sicily, Dec. 29. French naval authorities today formally took charge of the body of Lieutenant Duplessis de Grenedan, commander of the lost French dirigible Dlxmude. It will be taken on a warship to Toulon, France, for burial. Search of the clothing of the dead air officer failed to throwjight 'upon the tragic loss of the great dirigible.

ttAjWt wast fiillw nltriaff flTPont. for tte The fac'e W8g mutllated, ltd imiuftr fich 'r 1 TO CLOSE FOU REPORT. County offices, except the treaS continue close over Tuesday because of the New Year holiday. Its long blue fingers down from the northwest today and the Great Lakes region and intervening territory shivered, stamped its feet and blew gusty steaming breaths. Eight belqw zero at Margo, N.

was accompanied by eight Inches ot snow, five; of which fell during the night Winnipeg had five below Minnesota was somewhat warmer with thirteen above, and skies clear. Chicago thought twenty seven above chilly enough, the coldest mark since February. In the west, weather was mild, with Denver enjoying clear and cool, five above. of Chicago the cold wave thawed itself out mild before reaching Kansas City. Girl's School Inmates Riot; Ten Missing (By International News Service.

Delaware, Ohio, Dec. 29 A checkup early this morning by officials of the girls industrial school, a state correctional institution here, revea)ed that ten inmates were still at large following a riot ln which more than 100 inmates participated. The riot broke out late last night and bricks and stones were hurled by 'inmates at officials who attempted to restore order. Windows of some of the cottages in which incorrigible are housed wero smashed 4y the Tktre Help ww summoned from the city of Delaware Volunteers from farms nearby also aided officials, who were out numbered ten to one. Trouble started about 7 o'clock hrt night when rumors were circulated that corporal punishment, banned by the state, since dismissal ot Ma E.

Stannard as matron last summer, would be restored by tl new matron, Mrs. J. P. Elton. Residents of cottage No.

6, in which approximately forty girls are housed, were the first to They demanded that the matron deny reports that had reached them that the" "paddle" Was again to be used. Failing to get satisfaction, they marched to other cottages, and inmates of these, it was reported, Joined ln the battles. As reinforcements were received by officials, the girls were placed under guard in the assembly hall, and by midnight about 100 had been rounded up. As. the girls were gathered, a dance was started which continued until inmates were forced to leave the floor exhausted.

A careful check up Is being made today to learn the names ot those still at large. C. PROGRAM SUNDAY TO START NEW' TEAR The Central Christian church pro 1 gram Sunday will.be especially fitting, for the new year, it is announced by the Rev. W. S.

Lockhart, pastor. The fiundsy schooi; session will feature; vUv. d00.uu mU8lc' lhe morning church service at 10:30, the uaw AnirHoni mp ill niiii Ha mi rv Ject, "Knowing Thyself." This ser mon, he states, is expected to assist in forming New Year's vows, to make them really serious, and to put con io h. is to tent into them. Most New Year's resolutions don't amount to much, he declares, but this sermon will help to make them serious.

"Peace on Earth" or "The Christian Crusade Against War," will the Sunday evening topic. The Rev. Lockhart returned from Columbus, Ohio, recently, where he attended a meeting of the executive committee of the Federal. Council of Churches of Christ of America. At this meeting the interests of the thirty one leading Protestant, denominations were discussed, including war, and the Christian attitude toward it.

The evening sermon will come practically as the pronouncement of all' Protestantism on. the subject of war, as decided at the recent meeting, the pastor stated; At both the morning and evening services the choir will render special numbers, some of which were given last Sunday and enthusiastically, received. The members of the choir, under the leadership of Helen Thomas Ducher. plans to give a concert in the near future. viv'iftTR HUSTDiGTOX PHONE GOES TO FRANKFORT, INDIANA GETS TASK C.

L. Kneipple, for the last three years manager ot the Huntington exchange of the Indiana Bell Telephone company, announced Saturday thiAhe bad been transferred by the CompVdy me position or manager at ran fort, succeeding G. W. who Is sent to Muncle, as com mercial superintendent ot the Muicle district. Mr.

Kneipple will be rue ceeded in this city by Georze E. John. who has been assistant superintend f.w i Ma j. few days ago, but.lt was not made noi n.ii a Mian uiiiit unHi fj aavis no ibiui ucu from a business trip to Indianapolis, Frankfort and Kokomo. On this Jrlp 4K i.

he found that the Frankfort Job Is a ton plant! and the commercial business being much larger. There are seventeen connecting companies at Frankfort, while in Jluntlngton there are only three. Mr. Kneipple has been in the telephone business for twenty eight years and came here three years ago from Indianapolis where he was appraisal 1 engineer, to take the Huntington manager position. He had been here pre vlously as plant chief, and spent four years Blufftpn aa engineer for the United Telephone company, which formerly owned the plant ln hls city.

In the time that he has resided In Huntington Mr. Kneipple has become wldely vknow. Identified with civic and church organizations He is a member of. the Huntington Rotary club, of the Community association, and an official member of the First Methodist church. He has been active in all these organizations, forming friendships and connections which he naturally regrets to sever, Mr.

Kneipple will leave Huntington about Wednesday or Thursday ot next week, as the transfer is to be come effective on 'January 1, and ex pects to move his family in three or four weeks. A son who has Just, started a term ln Huntington college, will remain here for the remainder of the school year. The new superintendent, Mr. John, said to have a wide experience in the telephone business, and is prominently known ln Muncle. No word has been received from him concerning pected fore Mr.

Kneipple leaves for Frankfort. The changes mentioned here are only part of a large number made by the Indiana Bell company. BE PUT IN EAST END The eastern part of the city will probably be without street lights three or four nights next week owing James VanPelt, city light superln tendent. installing a new circuit with! incandescent lights, the same as the other circuits are. now equipped.

The' change is expected to take threo or' four days. I I when completed, Mr. VanPelt states will Install a A a pal a A A it inn 1 nEhta along the circuit at nlaces now aa7 nai tuatait Bvssaa nuuiuunai dark.The new system allows more light, at the same cost. The lights re 400 candle power each and throw Just as much light as the old nrbon 1 lamps, mere are ntty iour ngnts now on the east circuit. Goolidge Files His Acceptance (By International Kewa Bervlee.) Pierre, S.

Dec. 29. The. signed acceptance of Presldentj Coolldge as a nominee of the state Republican majority ha. been received, according to a statement by the secretary of statu tod nr.

The signed acceptance Bays: Calvin Coolidgc do declare that If nominated and 'elected I will qualify." Hiram Johnson, Republican presidential candidate ot California, also filed his acceptance and was placed ln the independent column on the bal the minority filing having been denied by a decision of the state supreme court a tew. days ago. A IGGER I i i i (By Internationa) Newa Service.) New York, Deci 29. The Co TruBt company, owned by the Brotherhood. Investment company, and BPOn80red by the Brotherhood of LvoCOmotive Engineers will be opened here today, Warren S.

Stone, chief ot the railroad men's organization announced. The bank is affiliated with the Brotherhood National bank ot Cleveland and Is also associated with the railroad organization's other banks in Hammond, end Minneapolis, Minn. FAKE SCHOOLS (By International News Service.) ment of registration and education o) Intends to stamp out at least fifty al leged "diploma mill" correspondence "3 learned here today. Omcials of these B0.called "poiio eg'' nrobablv will be aiknnli AnroMniv In Vi In a (Vi 4f wna in a week or ten days, according to Inspector John W. Follmer.

Investigators led by Inspector Follmer have been watching the opera tions of thoHe "mythical universities" for several weeks, and the ramifica tions ot the chain of them, he said, had proved startling. Most of these schools promise their graduates every privilege which the graduate of accredited institutions re ceive despite the fact that no correspondence school graduate ln Illinois is ever granted a license to practice medicine or pharmacy, A. R. Sheldon, director of the Illinois de partment of federal Investigators i Indictments will be asked on the basis of the alleged use of the malls to defraud, according to Sheldon. The schools under suspicion usually have one room, and the "staff" gen erally consists of a stenographer and the "principal," the federal director explained.

'Forecast for Indiana Unsettled to night and Sunday; probably rain in Bouth and rain or snow la north portion; warmer tonight lu south por tlon. (By International News Service.) iir.ni.ini.tM Ti on in. i. aouiuKLUii, i lie wruuici forecast for next week Region of Great Lakes: Decidedly colder at beginning of the week, con tlnulng cold several days. Local Bnows Monday and again probable lat ter part ot week.

TO STAMP OUT Arrests Exp ETERT CONGRESSMAN HAS OYTZ IDEAS CONCERNING LOWER TAXES Administrative Measures To Be Passed And Bonus Taken I'p Before Considering Redactions (By International News Service.) Washington, Dec. 29. The Mellon tax bill, proposing a horizontal reduction, in taxes on incomes and far reaching changes and simplification in the general administration of the tax law, will be so revamped and re written during its long and torturous course through the sixty eighth con gress that neither Republicans or Democrats were willing today to predict the date when congress will finally pass upon the reduction features. It is safe to say that nearly every member ot congress has his own Ideas ot what should go Into a tax reduction bill. The Democrats are planning to introduce their own measure, adopting some features of the Mellon bill, but differing radically in other features, particularly as regards surtaxes, taxes on stock dividends and inheritance taxes.

The Democrats too, according to present plans, will go further in reducing taxes on incomes below $10, 000. Work on this bill already has been begun by Representative Garner, DeasoerBtr'Of Tttnrtwho "wtll com mand the Democrats in their campaign in both houses. Republican leaders, worried and harassed by evidences of Democratic solidarity and by the factional differences that can at any time wipe out the narrow Republican majority ln either house, had about agreed today to split the Mellon bill into two distinct parts one dealing with tax reduction and the other, with purely administrative features. There Is not so much controversy over the administration end of the bill, and they' were hopeful that this matter could be quickly cleaned up. It Is the tentative plan to pass the administrative bill as soon as possible and then take up the soldiers' bonus on the theory that no reduction estimates are possible until the fate of the bonus is determined.

It there is to be a bonus, taxes can he reduced so much, but it there is no bonus, then the taxes can be reduced so much more. Hence the general rcemerif amonsr the leaders that the bonus mugt flrBt be disposed of before (Continued on Page Three.) ected To Clear Up Counterfeiting Plot Oi Nation Wide Ramifications (By International New Service.) Chicago, Doc. 29. "Beware of ten dollar bills of the Chicago branch of" the federal' reserve bank, series 7 0. The notes bear reads the federal reserve bank ih.e new 1 osoU i bills.

"On the reverse side they are off color, being either a lighter or aarkerTshadeDt green than the genuine note Under the seal on the face side of the note is the number 333." So serious had the situation be come that before secret service men started making arrests, sev eral large Arms in Chicago and New York had ordered that no employe accept any 110 bill with out first obtaining approval of it from a money expert." (By International News 8orvlce.) Chicago, Dec. 29. Important arrests, which will clear up a counterfeiting plot held responsible for the placing ot bctweon 1500,000 and a million spurious $10 federal reserve bank notes, were expected today by a picked squad of federal secret service men in Chicago. The notes havp been scattered between the rasteru aeabnard and thi Rocky mountulus. Five arrests al RED ready have been made, including two here and one each In St.

Louis, Peoria and St. Paul, though the name3 ot but two ot the alleged conspirators have been made public. Tho names ot fourteen of the note distributors have been learned. The five under arrest Include one woman. was arrested In St.

Louis after a frantic taxicab shc ping tour In which she was said to have passed 200 of the bad bills. Operatives said she still had 136 of them when arrested. Under.grilling she revealed that her usband, Homer Sweeney gave her the bills. He was arrested, ln Peoria, 111. More of the bills were recovered and the hiding place of another buried near a Chicago roadhouse, was revealed.

For three months operatives ot the federal secret service from Washington bave been bewildered by a flood ot bad money reported between New. York and Omaha from Boston to Gal notes, series 7 with portrait of Andrew" Jackson. The imitations are readily detected by a currency expert, but are close enough, even to the silk threads, to fool the inexperienced. The sanitary district board of Chicago was one of the victims, receiving a wholo packet of the notes whose character was not suspected until the bogus bills were returned by the baoV' .1 i.