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THE DECATUR DAILY b-ORTY-SEVENTH YEAR--NO. 161. Township Politics Prompted Murders Muskegon Constable, Jealous of Supervisor, Admits Sending Bomb Fatal to Three. DEGAT-UR. ILLINOIS, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1926.

12 PAGES--PRICE THKII Bomb; Wrapped as Wedding Present, Kills 3 in Michigan 'A -Muskegon, Mlch, May 51-- (A.P.)-- IAia K. Bartleti, twenty-eight year Bid Blue Lake township constable confessed sending the bomb that Jtillcil August Krubaeeh, supervisor, fcis daughter. Janet, and her fiance, William Frank, last Thursday. Details of the document will not b- tevealed i a Bartlett is arraigned tomorrow, said R. G.

Dunn, prosecutor, who made the announce-' that Bartlett had confessed, SIGXS CONFESSION. Bartlett signed his name to the Confession just as the three he and the long funeral -procession of the three bomb victims moved away from the Elks temple here on the eighteen mile Journey to Oakhurst cemetery at Whitehall. "I couldn't stand to have Krubaeeh i the township" was all Bartlett vouchsafed in explanation. Hundreds of the country folk drove many miles through the sand hilis and cut-over lands yesterday to pay i to the slain tavern keeper. Jiis daughter and "Opie" Frank, the Kii-l's sweetheart from childhood, to she was to have been married or.

Si urday. A SERVICES. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Charles A. Clay of thft Whitehall Congregational church who to have officiated at the wed- dinc.

The pastor told Mrs August Krubaeeh that because of the feeling In the community he would not trust himself to preach a funeral sermon and he confined the service to the reading of the Scriptures and prayer. Officers intimated that "sen- developments" would follow of the text of the Bart' lett confession. Bartlett has told the prosecutor he waive examination tomorrow and Ko at once into circuit court to plead guilty to the charge of first de. eree murder on which he is held. If this program is followed Bartleti.

may be on his way to prison before details of his confession are made public. Frustrate Bank Yeggs Employe Discovers 50 Foot Tunnel in Chi- cago Subway. Chicago. May Ing for fifty feet beneath an alley to the vault of a surburban bank fhandits found their plans a Sunday because an employe came to work on holiday. Opening the vault when he came Wown on Sunday morning of the bank on the northwest Anton L.

Formack, cashier, Sound i the floor of the tronghold, in which $200.000 in cash, and jewelry were stored in deposit boxes. Police found the start of the tun- Tel in a garasre across the alley. On floor -were found jnoney baes containing but nine dollars of the loot missing from the WAS ALL. READY. Every 3 a i ot the burglary had 'hren completed except the actual off the police said.

The rob- thtrf a a believed they had a and Mofiday, the Memorial holiday, to complete- their work. The safe contained U5.DOO cash and in. checks, besides bonds and A Inches by eighteen inches in front of the inside rate hart hern rut through a steel rt- ctmcnt floor from the basement. FIND TOOLS. In the basement was found an acetylene torch and two tanks, hood, crow bar, chisel and mallet.

A driven through a stone wall in the basement led through the alley end to a garage a half a block away. Here the police found in it'nirty small sacks which had oeen a from safety deposit boxes. DIF.T IN SACKS. The thieves had planned the rob- i elaborately, and the owner of the garage oaid they had the mructure two months ago. Myiter- Jr.us a leaving the garage were explained by police as being dirt removed from the tunnel.

Officers believed the culmination of the plot had been fixed for today, Bandit Lair Is Destroyed Notorious CKicago Suburb Resort Burned By Vigilantes. Chicago, May unidentified men were assassinated to day by fire from a passing automobile, supposedly another outbreak of gangsters' tactics. The Memorial day quiet of south side Hyde Park was broken by the shooting. The victims started to run as the first shots sounded and both fell mortally wounded. Chicago, May gaunt ruin of The Stockade, vice residt and gangster rendezvous of Forest View, brought no pall today to the Memorial Day celebration of the little suburb, dedicated to World war dead.

The torches of vigilantes set ablaze yesterday the "Capitol" from which the community had been ruled for months by associates of "Scarfaco Al" Capone, Chicago gangster chief. Capons wrested control of the municipality from the war veterans who incorporated it. and police had come to know it as Caponville. The building, deserted since gans- dom has been riddled by police in quest of Capone, suspected of knowledge of the recent machine gun slaying of W. Ii McSwiggin, assistant state's attorney, had been in charge of a single negro caretaker.

FILLED-- THTCEE CARS. Three motor cars filled with men, rolled up to the building before dawn and the occupants, overpowering the servant, set the structure afire in a dozen places. Gambling devices, a luxurious car and a dance floor, which polite say brought UOO.OOO a month to the resort's operator in Its better days, perished in the flames. A nearby company, finding no water available, confined i to saving 1 adjacent buildings. WIliL NOT INVESTIGATE.

Police will not investigate the origin -of the fire, they said. The Rev. Tuttle, president of tn- West Suburban Ministers' association which has waged an unrelenting fig-ht against the resort, remarked: "This is very pleasant news. I am sure no decent person will be sorry. ARREST BANDITS Chicago, May heavily armed bandits who had atag- ed three holdups in less than an hour, were arrested by a.

detective bureau squad early today, after running revolver fight. More Shan seventy-five shots were exchanged and both the police car and the large stolen sedan in which the holdup men were riding were ridc'led by bullets. U.S/Women Are Rebuked International Suffrage Alliance Refuses Membership. Paris. May international woman suffrage alliance today voted, 123 to 49, not to admit the National Woman's Party of America to membership in the alliance.

Lockhart and Hartz Lead Sueedwav Rai a wedding present exploded as they Pilsudski Spurns Post Refuses Presidency of Poland Because of Restrictions. a a Poland, May 31 -Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, who threw the Witos government by force a little more than two weeks ago, created another sensation today by- refusing the presidency of Poland. The senate and diet, convened as a nation.il assembly for the purpose, chose him on the first ballot, giving him 292 votes as against 133 for Count Bninski, governor of Posen, the nominee of the right a i and the only other candidate. There were sixty-one abstentions. THE RESTRICTIONS.

Pilsudski declared he could not accept the post under the restrictions placed about it by the "present constitution. The he out lacked protection, against parliament because under the i i he could not dissolve it even in case of necessity. IS COJfFIDE-N'P. Premier Battels told i i he could not guarantee what people would do in i disappointment, but the marhsal replied: -Leave that to me; I'll manage all right." M. Rataj, a reading the letter of a to the assembly called a new election for 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

In refusing, Pilsud- ski recommended the election o. either Prof. Marjanz Dziechowski of Vilna i i or Prof. IgnaU Moscicki of kemberg i i Practice Common Sense Coolidge Asks America Sounds Kevnote in Nation's Quest for World Peace VanOrman Is Winner American Balloonist Covers 521 Miles in World Classic. Brussels, May Goodyear III, piloted by Wade T.

VanOrman, today won the international Gordon Bennent balloon cup covering 850 kilometers (about 521 miles). The Goodyear III landed at Oeide- berg, Sweden. AMERICAN SECOND. The American army balloon S-16, which landed -near Krakow, Germany, was second, having covered 600 kilometers, (375 miles). The Belgica, piloted by Ernest De- Muyter, was third with 240 kilometers 2SO miles), the Prince Leopold with 210 kilometers, fourth anS- the Miramar with 165 kilometers i The only balloon still missing Is the Akron N.

A. A. piloted by John A. Boettner. The Akron N.

A. A. was ruled out when she- lost her second pilot, Herbert Maxson this morning. Youth Has Six Foot Lead Over Veteran at 250 Miles-Rain Halts Auto Classic For Over An Hour. Speedway, Indianapolis, May 31--Lorkhurt had Incrttntnl his lead to five miles at 300 which hr 3:10:20.24, an average of 94.57 an hour.

Hard MC- ond. Woodbury third. When these California race finished the finrt 2M miles Lockhart, driving hid first major race, watt kadlnt Hartz by about six feet, with Clif Wood bury of Chicago, third and Frank Elliott of Los Angeled, fourth. The time was 2:37:08.34, an average of 9fM an hour. Fourteen of the twenty-eight remained In the race at 250 miles.

Asks Practical Results. Three, Trapped by Fire, Perish Flames Destroy Baltimore Professor's Home. Baltimore, person) were burned to death early today when fire destroyed the home of Dr Aaron Ember, eminent Egyptologist ot John Hopk'tn. Universitj. Ths dead are Mrs.

Eegina his wife, their six year old son and a Dr. Ember was seriously burned before he was rescued from the roof of the blazing house. The dead were all trapped in their bedrooms. Open Sesqui-Centennial Fair at Philadelphia Exposition Celebrates 150th Anniversary of Araer- ican Independence--Rain Interferes Philadelphia, May Canal Zone and the x-iiiiaucji' i. T.ion^o cither here of sesqul-centennial exposi- commemorating the 150th anni- vera'ary of American Independence, found the city drenched in rain, but disappointment gave way to smiles as the rain down and finally ceased at 10 o'clock.

Uniformed elrls were on hand at theNnaln entrance of the exposition at 9 a m. the appointed hour for informally opening; the gates to the me inot nau oeen IIACU iui iniornin-nj holiday, and that only the uncx- cfowds, but it was raining hard ana pected coming to the bank of For- kiiacck to post some checks prevented complete loot of the vault. The renters of the garage are being nought. The tunnel they had dug was tim- fcered and electrically lighted, with pads to keep out the damp and with facilities for day and night digging. MEXICAN BANDITS RELEASE AMERICANS Sttxlco City, May Mal confirmation was received by the American Sunday of the release ot C.

B. Braden and J. C. Gallagher, American mining men, kid- Happed by bandits on May IS. HIV there was only a sprinkling of vis- the rain came to an end more visitors appeared, and soon.there was a stream of persons soing Into the grounds to await the formal opening exercises later in the day.

PHLADELPHIA IS MECCA OF SHRINES OF CONTINENT Philadelphla, (A.P.)--Phila- delphia was the Mecca of Shrlnedom Caravans' from in the United Canada, Mexico, Pan Islands either here or on their way for the fifty-second Imperial council session of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of tho Mystic Shrlne( and for four days the city will be the cene of a carnival of splendor, mu- jic and jollification. The' session formally opens tomorrow. PARADE OP NOBLES. Today's program called for parades of the Nobles from the. headquarters of various temples to Independence Hall, shrine American freedom.

Later Induction exercises were to b. held for 1,000 new members. Tonight thousands of dancers will make merry on the Arabian way- half a mile of Broad street-bedecked with colorful streamers, flags and lights. As midnight approaches, patrols of musicians will Invade hotel lobbies and provide Impromptu entertainment and novelty-stunts. At tie same time the Inaugural ball of the sesqui-centennlal exposition will be under way at the municipal auditorium, where Imperial Po- tentiate James C.

Burner of Denvei and officers of the imperial cow will guests of honor. a i May -'Common sense-." he the key- ot A i a i i to vorld peace, as well as the control- ing force in her conduct at home, Conliflge a i today in a Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery. The rule of practical possibilities he applied to the a arms negotia ions, to the war ind to a domestic problems. He renewed his belief in "the principle of religious liberty and toleration and -quality rights;" in an a a national defense; in the World and in the practice of economy. PRACTICAL RESULTS.

results," Mr. Coolidsc I saitt, is what the American nation ext pects from the negotrftters at Geneva. I 'We believe a other nations ought to join i us in laying aside their suspicions and hatreds I i i to agree among themselves upon methods of mutual i from the necessity of the a i ance or great a and sea he. i "This can not be if we. constantly a in mind the resort war for redress of wrongs and the cf rights.

I A A "Europe has the League of Nations. That ought to be able to provide those countries with certain political guaranties which our country does not require. Besides this there the World Court, which can certainly be used for the i a i of all justifiable disputes. "We should not under-estimate the difficulties of European nations nor fall to extend to them the highest degree of patience and the most sympathetic consideration. But we can not fail to assert our conviction that they are in great need of further limitation of armament's and our determination to lend them every assistance in' the solution i problems.

GOOD FAITH. "We a entered the conference- with the utmost good faith on our part and in the sincere belief that it represents the utmost good faith on their part. We want to see the problems that are there presented stripped of all technicalities and met anJ solved In a way that will secure practical results. We stand reads' to give our support to every effort tha! is made In that direction." It was in a spirit of sensible helpfulness, the president said, that th5 United States had made "generous settlements" of the foreign war debts ARLINGTON SCENE OF HOMAGE DUE CIVIL WAR VETS Washington, May Rev erent eyes turned toward Arlington national cemetery in homage to thos. who died in the Civil war.

Here was the center of the nation' Memorial day tribute at the flower strewn graves, with President Cool idge the chief spokesman for the Hy Ing and many other high official and members of congress playlm similar roles at local ceremonies 1 various parts of.the country. OTHER SPEAKERS. In addition to the president, th list of speakers at tne Arlington cer emonles set to begin at 1 p. m. in eluded Senator Willis of Ohio an Dr.

Charles V. Pettys commander the Department of the Potomac, the Grand Army of the Republi sponsor of the exercises. CROWN PRINCE. Peculiarly fitting was the pos ponement until today of the visit i Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus i Sweden, and Princess Louise, to th tomb of the unknown soldier, their trip to Washington had as I principal state purpose the partlcipa lion on SaturdB.y of the Swedish he apparent in the dedication of the me morial to John Ericsson, whose achievement in designing the Monitor bulked large in the history of Civil war. An early morning visit to the tomb and i Robert Woods Bliss, the American minister den and Mrs.

Bliss were the concluding features of the royal couple's act i i i in the capital prior to their FALLS FHOM BASKET. Brussels, May Maxson, assistant to Pilot John Boettner of the American balloon Akron Naau, competing in the Gordon Bennett balloon race was thrown from the basket near Antwerp when the Akron hit the ground. He escaped with slight bruises. The Akron, with Boettner aboard was still in the air this morning, but officially out of the race. rt (tI i i a lit-6 debt negotiations.

departure for New York whence will i of the i States. COOLIDGE ASKS FOR AMERICA TO SUPPORT PROGRAM Washington, May President Coolidge, in a formal paper made public today, appealed ta the American people i In a nation- patriotic pros-ram in celebrat- this year the 150th birthday of the United States and the centennial (if the death of Thomas Jefferson. The appeal was issued on behalf the sesqui-centennial of American and the Thomas Jefferon i a commission created bj ongress, of which the president is onorary a i a PLEDGE FAITH. After citing the achievements of he signers of the Declaration of In- ependence, the president said: 'As long as Americans remain worthy of such sires the people he United States must pledge anew every generation their faith in the deals expressed in the declaration ndependence and observe the nation's atal day in such a manner as to car- a i a i to all freedom-loving eople. ON SAME DATE.

'By a coincidence the sesqui-cen- i a of the Declaration of. Inde- endence falls upon the centennial ot he death of Thomas Jefferson, who vrote it. "Among the founders of the nation .9 was with the foremost, achieving vith the pen as Washington' i the word a Adams with the spoken vord. It Is a happy coincidence hat the American people can re- icw their fidelity to the elemental irinciples of the Declaration of In- while according to its author the recognition due him by virtue ot the services enumerated, in the sesqul-centennial of the one ind the centennial of the other." Argue Legality of Scopes Case Nashville, May Claims that the Tennessee law under which John T. Scopes was convicted of teaching the theory of evolution is constitutional 'and Is unconstitutional -were made before the atate supreme court here today -when Scopes' appeal came before the court.

Oral arguments against the conviction was opened by John T. Neal of counsel for the young man who was convicted and fined 1100 at Dayton, Tenn. He attached the warding of the law on technical and expressed the opinion that It violates the state constitution and the Hth amendment to the federal constltu- Strong of New York Pope PiuHas 70th Birthday Rome, May of congratulatory messages toda; ured in on the Vatican in honor of the birthday of Pope Pius who was born at Dcsclo. May 31, 1S5T. There -was no formal celebration at the Vatican.

It was pointed out in ecclesiastical circles that the pontiff is entering his 70th year In, full vigor and in excellent health, despite the strain of holy year. FISHING YACHT AND 24 PASSENGERS SAFE St. Petersburg, May open fishing yacht Casanova, reported lost in the Gulf-of twenty-four persons on board, reached Gulfport, with all members of the party safe. The boat was delayed on account of the excessivtiy low tide. CHIHLI PROVINCE SOLDIERS REBEL Tients'ln, May sion of troops under command of the mllltaVy-governor of Chlhll province mutinied Sunday at Lofa, point midway between Pekln and Tientsin The rebelllos troops tore up rails and held up railway commiinication this- morning.

tion. Charles counsel for the Unitarian Laymen's league which Intervened as "amicus curiae" also argued against the law and was followed by Arthur Garfield Hays, New York, counsel for the American Civil liberties union, a written' argument for the law prepared by W. J. Bryan whose father took leading part In the. prosecution, was filed with the court.

Fundamentalist Side Victorious Presbyterian A Echoes Cat-Calls. Baltimore, May -Hisses and cat-calls punctuated the Presbyterian general assembly here today during an executive session which culminated In a fundamentalist victory in the adoption of a rule for rotating memberships of boards. The resolution adopted was a minority report presented by Rev. Mark A. Matthews of Seattle.

The majority of a committee had recommended that no change be made in the present rule permitting continuing membership on all church boards. The i i report requested that this rule be changed to permit a maximum of two terms of three years each, after which a board member would be required to vacate for one year. STANDING VOTE. A viva voce vote was Indecisive and it went to a standing vote which showed a majority for the fundamentalists in the closest contest of the assembly. Opposition to referendums on prohibition was expressed in the report of the committee Christian education, which was presented shortly after the fight on board membership.

The report also pointing out that compulsory military training has been introduced into twenty-one high schools and eighty-three colleges under a special act of congress, said the assembly "looks with great apprehension on the movement." REPORT TABLED. The reference to military training raised another division in the assembly which culminated In that sec- tlqn of the report being tabled fort It finally was adopted. Rev. William H. Marbach of Jacksonville, 111., said he favored that part' of the statement condemning compulsory training, but wished to add a-clause recommending military training camps.

also went, by the board with tabling of the clause. Speedway, Indianapolis. SI CA.P.)--The 500 miles race, temporarily halted today because of a shou-er, a Ihe drivers had covered win -resumed after a a of an hour and ten minutes. When Ihe race. i ri lit- (I.

eighteen i i a eight starters a i In i gr'ielling i i i i In their quest of speed a totalling $100,000. Frank 1:1 a youngster of Los Angt-len, wns the lead, with Harris Hart! In ond place Earl Cooper i "nil Dave Lewis fourth, Lockhart clung: the lead st miles, making It in was a lap ahead nf Dave Lewis was third. a driving at a i pare, in an attempt to catch his a i i a STANDING START. The cars were Marled from standing start. Kaeh i given the same relative held when flagged from cour The timing device ln so that'll registered exactly an II when the race, was stopped.

The hidden behind since early today, shone fflor for the first time, flooding speedway and, with (he aid of brisk breetc. i dried Ihe and a half mile hrlck track. Lockhart, the boyish looking i had taken the lead rrom Lewis 150 miles which he covered (n an average of JR.20 miles art hmir was second, Lewis i Earl Cooper, of was CHANGKP Lewis lost the win ped to change oil. As the racers a nn mie another drench set In. popped into use and thone who hud spread them over theli Drivers waved to i i yellow flag were I main with i mm.

touch a forced i i i 'lit ,11 i i-n lilt Alfinl ,1 Anniti' nit A I rliili'h i i ffl III i 1 LAKER SUNK BUT CREW IS SAVED Hr Paris, May the radio aerial he was trying to take down came in contact with a 2,300 volt wire, Paul Glllvary, II, instantly killed Sunday evening. FIRST A I Before rai-n was Jones i i I i a i crashed into a a i i wnll on turn. His car was wrecked, hut i miraculously escaped I Jones presumably wan bllndVil hy a i which smeared hi" At the time thn WKF Frank Iiockhart year old devil driving i event was leading with a end and Earl Cooper i The was 1 a age of 97.91 an (FIRST TIME HALTED It was the first time In the motor a (he hM to he. stopped hecauee of i conditions. THREATENING T.AIN As the start was made, the urn was i lo break Ihrouali i rain laden clouds, which a i threat of a second.

Peter DcPaolo, winner of Ih" race, was (tlven tremendous ovation as his cream-colored shrieked past the. Del'aolo with his Baby Shoes tied lo the front axle of his racer, waved I I I bond i-i salute. THE FITIST LAP. Phil Shafer, i i owiuil and entered hy DePaolo led the i lap at the i i speed of miles an hour. His time for the two and a half miles was If rain forces n.

postponement fore 150 miles have been raced Ih event will postponed until tomorrow. If the deluge off untl after the 350 mile murk, the leader at that time i be. declared th winner. LEWIS IN A Shafer led for the first mile n-hen he was pasted by Davs who finished second In i year ago. Shafer had tl.SOA, lid for crossing the finish 1 In place' eacfc lap, before he th, lead.

At fifty miles was at the rate of miles an hour Ha covered the In Shafer was second, Frank Lockhart 21 old itar, driving his major race, third. FIRST 100 MILES. Lewis oft tht ftrrt In an of 1M.1* mlUs an hour. drltlng la 1i his arms tanntd la Ihr elbows, had a ef two mil's over Lockhart In with Harry third. of .100 FREE PASSAGE FOR ITALIAN VETERANS i A r-1 AnitM Inv i i I I i i i i i Th" i i I ti Pilllfl fttf nMl the llnlllll" The Weather I I I 1.

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