The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

THE PEOPLE'S NEWSPAPER Today's News News, Picture! and Comics ESTABLISHED 1891. EXCLUSIVE UNITED PRESS NEWS DISPATCHES MURPHYSBORO. ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1923 NoW In'Our-'New- South Twelfth Door South of City Hall. PER WEEK FIFTEEN PANCHO VILLA ASSASSINATED NEAR PARRAL, REPORTS SAY El Mundo, Mexican Newspaper, Says Word of Ex- Rebel Chiefs Death Is Tremendous Sensation Is Caused Own Men Accused Differ. (United Press) MEXICO CITY, July 20 Pancho Villa Is reported to have been assassinated.

The erstwhile hero of revolutionary Mexico, the former bandit and rebel chief who defied the American government and who led the taiynis raid on Columbus, N. Js reported to have been shot down by hiH own men near Farral, Villa has lived the quiet life of a farmer during recent years. His name haH not figured in Mexico's political affairs. El Mundo, local tiewHpapJer, says the report of Villa's assassination is officially confirmed. Staff Chief Also Dead Colonel 'Miguel Torrllle, chioC or Villa's Btaff, and the former revolutionary leader's secretary, Is also to- ported to have been shot and killed.

News of the reported slaying of Villa created a tremendous sensation in Mexico City. 'A dispatch from a telegraph clerk brought the report oC Villa's assassination to the government offices here. This report told of a quarrel among the men living on the Villa ranch. Such an end would be In radical contrast to the life ot the famous leader before his surrender and agreement with the existing government to lay down his arms. Great Excitement at Parral Great excitement prevails in Parral to reports to the gov- ornment.

Tho streets are thronged with excited citizens. The; authorities have taken Immediate steps to round up the assassins. A late version of the attack declares that three others in Villa's party, In addition to the former revolutionary leyler and his secretary, were killed, This account differs from the first 'report, nlso declaring that Villa and 'i his entire party were ambushed. It does not charge Villa's own men with responsibility for his death. Thirteen Miners On Ill-Paled Cage That Fell (United Press) TRttR'E HAUTE, 20 Thirteen minors wore Injured when the cngn In the Vcrmilliou inlno, one mile north of New shen, foil 170 f('Hl.

this morning. Tho minors had just stepped into tho cfigfi lo go down for day's work when the cable broke. Ambulances aro nrlnging the injured here. Several arc helievod to be fatally hurt, SHERIFFS RESCUE 13 YEAR OLD CHILD SHACKLED IN HONE OF FRANK BALLEW Carterville's Tack Stewers Are Arrested CARTERVILL.E, 111., -July John and Leslie MaMahurn, sons of Mr. and Mrs.

Ned Mallaimrn. arrested here hy Marshal Alvln Thomas, after they were alleged to have distributed largo tacks In the street, causing several automobile tires to bo punctured. One driver Is said to have had all four of his tires punctured. The boys were taken to court here and fined $25 and costs, altogether, which the father paid. COUPLE SECURE LICENSE, WED THURSDAY Joe Eady and Grace Bravio of Herrin secured a marriage license hero Thursday and were married al 3:00 p.

m. Wm. E. Roberts, ujstlce of the peace, performed the ceremony. Miss Mae Cotter, who is employed at the First National bank, is off duty for two weeks' vacation.

Henry Weber is ill at his home on Murphy street. Evidence furnished by clinical ob- nervations of groups of infants fed on milk containing small numbers of bacteria an dlarge numbers of bacteria show a higher death rate in tho latter than in the former, and in general a reduction infant mortality in cities results from a substitution of milk containing small numbers of bacteria for a milk containing largo numbers of bacteria. BOYV1LLE TEAM DEFEATS HOSTS THURSDAY P. M. Play Rings Around Rotarians At 7-9; Tonight Guest Night, With Radio Concert, 7 to 9:30 O'clock.

The Rotary Club baseball players looked like plugged nickel Thursday afternoon, when the team from Boyville licked them in a live inning game to the tune of 7-0. The Rotary players have boon alibi- ing all day, and pointing out that the game was playod on tho Boyville home grounds and their fielders were not accustomed to scaling crags and mountain sides in pursuit of balls; they further charge that they were deserted by the best club and that the team was only a hasty pick-up after all and did not represent the real ability of the club on the diamonds. But the Boyville residents declare that their team just naturally played butter ball nnd point but that Rotary had Sanford Buer on their team and that some of their players professed to be professionals before the game started, therefore(hey had no kick coming. Anywiiy, it was a hot game and a real feature of the day. Thu line up of Rotary follows: Claude Wisely, Dr.

Wob- er, Smltty Smith, 1st Sun fiaer, ss; Ben Daniel, 2nd Billlu Michaels, 3rd Elssa Millikan, rf; Rollte cf. Boyville team: Bill Mohlenbrock, Robert Williams, ss; Robt. Mohlenbrock, 2nd 'b; Fletcher Ransom, 2nd Joe Gibson, Kenneth Haglor, 3rd Horn Tansey, cf; Fred Pigott, If; John Newsonie, rf. Pitcher Gibson put over a no-hit game for the Boyville team and Sanford Baer caught a fly for tho Rotary that brought forth cheers. Thursday night Dr.

0. B. Onusby spoke to the boys on the subject of These nightly talks by 'professional and business men are given for the purpose of showing the boys the business side of life and Lo give them a practical view of tin; linen discussed, Special Visitors' Hours Camp Director Hartung announced Thursday night that visitors would be welcome tonight from 7 to 9:30 when Rotarian Electrician Clyde Wisely will install'a radio set and concerts from the radio will be the program of the evening. This is a special concession to those who can not visit the camp in the clay time, today, and Sunday when. Mie visiting hours are from 3 to Due to the large number of visitors tho camp waa closed to all except those who had business there yesterday and will bo closed hereafter except regular visitors' hours.

It was discovered Ihat tho promiscuous visiting was breaking up the morale of the camp and the rules had to be strictly enforced. It is urged that everyone interested take advantage of the visitors' hours today and Sunday. First Boys Break Camp Sunday P. The first group of boys in Boyville will break camp late Sunday evening, preparatory to making the camp ready for the arrival Monday morning of the boys from 10 to 13 inclusive. Cards were sent out today to the sixty-five boys who.

had registered prior to the date the lists were closed tolling them to report at tho court MIKE LEVY DIES THURSDAY; RITES SUNDAY Brother of Well Known Attorneys Expires At 8:40 P. M. In St. Andrew's Hospital Following- Busy School And Made Own Way. Officers Jail Father, 48, Car Repairer, and Refuses To Believe His Story That Ex-Sheriff A.

Davis Gave Him Ankle Cuffs and Chain and Advised Him To Use Them on Sister Perhaps On Death Bed. Mike Levy, brother of the prominent Murphysboro attorneys ot the name and'son of the pioneer Murphysboro merchant, Abraham Levy and Pauline Levy, deceased, died of n. lingering illness at St. Andrew's hospital at 8:40 o'clock Thursday night. Deceased was born iu Indianapolis, November 12, 1S72.

Abraham Levy lirst stopped in Murphysboro in 1SG!) and later located hero, Lhu family joining him in 1877. The mother died in 1907 and the father in liUfi. Deceased entered in holy wedlock with Mrs. Crammer, nee Holder, September 30, 1911, The union begot one child, Mike who will be ten years old next month! Mrs. Levy died in January some time Following her injury by an uuto- mobile at the intersection of: Walnut and 18th Her death was attributed to illness nnd the shock sustained in Lilt; accident.

Mr. Lovy is survived by the son and the brothers, Simon and Harris and Attorneys Isaac K. -and David B. the slater, Mrs. L.

Fein- or, formerly Miss Radio Levy, of El Paso, 'Pox. Mrs. Foincr bad been here for somu Lime. Mr. Fniner join- nd her horo.

Wednesday. Review of Life Mike Levy quit school when he was 13 years old and became a messenger boy. As such he learned telegraphy and later became rated as one oC the most competent keymen in this section of the country. Hardly more than a lad he became telegrapher Cor the old St. Louis and Cairo Short Line, as it was called It is recalled that he occupied thn dual position as telegrapher and chief clerk to P.

Batcher, at the time superintendent oil the line, sometime? called the Grand 'Power and Texas. with depot on Sixth street, near where the Big Muddy Coal Iron Company store still stands, now the property of the Consolidated Coal Co. He and Rnpt, Batcher ran the road Ho was one of the very first telegraphers in America to receive key messages on a typewriter. Later this custom became general. When the Short Line was absorbed by the Illinois Central Mike Levy was made agent here.

He.remained such until IflO'l. Later he became Lary and mine superintendent Cor tha Carterville Big Muddy Coal a property in which Tom John, ed, was one of the principal investors, at Cambria. The investment was terminated, as it happened, shortly prior to the world war when prices mounted. Early in the war he engaged briefly in the express business and later ay auditor for the Murphysboro Telephone Co. Still later Mr.

Levy became agent in Murphysboro for the happily back in hia favorite calling within sound of the telegraph key. In this position he gave the P. competent service until a year prior to his death when his health became too precarious for him to remain on duty. The Way He Wanted It Mr. Levy had been ill tor several years, seriously so for the last year, As long as his strength would permit to do so, the subject made his way down town for a chat in the Ell? parlors'with his friends.

He was (Continued on page two) (Continued oh -pace two) Child Claims Parent Not Long Since Had Kept Heavy Prison Irons on Her Limbs For Two Weeks; Says He Made Her Sleep In Them; Step-Mother Carried Key, Unlocks Them. Thirteen-year-old Florence Ballew cried a little Thursday afternoon when her step-mother, Mrs. Frank Ballew, unlocked and removed heavy jail shackles from her right ankle. The girl, the two heavy prison sh.ackles clamped to her slim ankle, her face a little hard for her years and bespeaking her travail, called to the minds of deputy sheriffs stories of another age. The girlsaid her father shackled her; that he had done so repeatedly.

Ballew, a car repairer at the M. 0. shops, 48 years old, was arrested on the strength of the girlV.story and complaints of neighbors of the Ballews, McCord street residents, who had charged the father was insanely cruel to his daughter. Ballew is charged with contributing to the dependency of his daughter. She is allegedly dependent in that she has lacked proper parental His alleged guilt lies in that he may have been a cruel and unnatural parent, Father's Story Not Believed ellege, who served notice that if ice Ballew appeared furious when ar- water or delicacies were needed there not; on his neigh ten with sternness towards those un- cler his root 1 a man who hates and one aloof from the tender things it, should be made up of.

Ballew said among other thingf that he got the prison shackles found on his daughter from 'Sheriff A. 0 Davis at Uu'. Jackson county jail, But when lin declared that Ex Sheriff Davis had given him the 1 heavy irons and advised him to shackle her," officers not brinp themselves l.o believe, thn man lole 1 the truth. "Bnllew insisted that Ex-Sheriff. Davis, to whom he went with his complaint that he could not control his daughter and keep her at home, he said, "advised me to get a switch and wear it out on her.

When I. told him that switching did no, good he gave me the shackles and told me to shackle her and thus keep her at Thus Ballew is quoted as having told officers yesterday. Officers feel that Ex-Sheriff Davis will deny that he gave Ballew the as they are called, for any such purpose, or, for that matter, for any purpose at all, it may be. The girl declared that not long since her father had shackled her an kles together and left the irons 'for two weeks time, making her sleep in them. Stories Neighbors Tell in the Ballew home is Ballew's older daughter, a girl on what may prove to be her 'death bed.

She has been long ill. it was for this girl, neighbors of the Ballews complain, that they had sent ice water and other things, only to have it sent out of the house by the irate father, they Delightful Summer Reading The Daily Independent has purchased the copyrighted series of 23 stories on Married Life, by America's foremost writers. They are dandy summer reading. They are short and snappy. Not a dull moment in any of them, All star program.

Irvin Cobb, Booth Tarkington, Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield, Hughes, Ellis Parker Butler and 17 others. Starts tomorrow with "The Second Coming of Mrs. Bain's First Husband" by Cobb. bors for such things. A story was current in the neighborhood weeks ago that, sister of the distressed invalid had saved pennies and nickels out tance, gleaned by toil at a local fac tory, and with this had bought the sufferer a bed mat.

That her father became enraged when he of the deception the younger girl dared practice in liis household, and that be had made the girl take the mat from the sister's bed and return it to a downtown merchant. Reports were current that the older girl'a was-contributed to by cruelties of the father which began long ago with severe whippings. Comparatively few persons hearing of alleged carryings, on Ballew in his own house could believe these things true. Jailed in Default Ballew was first jailed late Thursday. He waived preliminary hearing before Magistrate Wm.

Jern.i^an Friday morning. bond was fixed at $750. In default of the same he was returned to jail today. Magistrate Jernigan and other officials say they have read of such cases as that appears to be in the Ballew home, but that this is the first time they have officiated in one of such a nature. County Nurse Mary Welch had learned some time ago oi! the distress of the Ballew girl who is so ill.

She had paid mercy calls at the home again and again. Letter As Evidence McClure, South 20th street merchant, turned over a letter to officers yesterday, purporting, to be a letter from Ballew and bearing his name, in which he instructed McClure he would not be responsible for any debts contracted by his daughter Ruby. Ruby had been buying ice for May Ballew, her consumptive sister, now near death. When her shoe factory pay was repeatedly taken by the father, or so it alleged, the girl bought ice for her sister at McClure's- on credit. Ballew, after he had been allowed to return home over night because his daughter May's death is expected any time, is declared to have confronted McClure and threatened him for turning.in the letter.

A uear fight ensued, McClure and a clerk named laom telling Ballew all they thought of his alleged cruelty to the dying girl. The Invalid's Chair Some time ago, stories relate, Bai (Contlnued on 8lx DAN BLAIR AND BRIDE OF YEAR DUE TOMORROW Son of Mayor and Mrs. Blair of This Cily Wins of Miss Marjorie Smith, Madison, 111., Who Kept On Being Washington U. Co-ed After Run In With Cupid. Dan Blair, coal broker of St.

Louis, son of Mayor and Mrs. Gus Blair of Murphysboro, and Miss Marjorie Smith, esteemed daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D. A.

Madison, 111., were secretly united in marriage at Edwardsville, 111., July 31st, 1022. So well laid were the plans of the two, she a Washington U. girl and he a man from the universities, that not until a few days ago, when a Madison newspaper reporter got hold of the did their friends know of the plighting of their" troth. Mrs, Blair is a senior Washington U. girl.

She had kept her marriage secret, among other reasons, to avoid the high-handed measures her fellow co-eds would surely have resorted to had they known. As for Mr. Blair, if 'the world hair known he was a married man, it would have expected him to spend too much time with his young wife anil 'too little with his coal business. A Presbyterian 'minister officiated. Presbyterian ministers never tell.

At least this one did.not. Came a wooing for Miss Smith's hand a graduate of Christian Bros. 1 later a University of Illinois man, and then a one year'at Harvard. Their ideals were akin. There was no real need to wait a dismal yenr more, and Edwardsville was just a step removed as it were, from Madi- 'sori.

The minister was handy and had a closed mouth. So Cupid won hands down, and will accompany the couple in person to see them happily settled in their temporary home at 2120 West Pine street, Murphysboro, where lives the bride's grandmother, Mrs. J. Harris. The Independent interviewed Mr.

Blair by wire in St. Louis Friday. He admitted all and said he and Mrs. Blair would arrive tomorrow. Murphysboro will be delighted to welcome the "newlyweds," so-called, although it has been nearly a year since they took the vow thai, binds.

Their coming to Murphysboro is to them just like a honeymoon. Their friends have heartily congratulated them up Madison way since the newspaper exposure of their dual deception. Jt remains for his friends in Southern Illinois to give him the high and happy cry: "Welcome to our city, Dan, old boy." The Independent's congratulations take the tone of the best they lived happily ever If Mayor or Mrs. Blair knew of the marriage, and it is highly probable that they as well as the bride's parents did, they kept religiously quiet and made the secret hold good. Bert Terpenitz of C'clale Hurt Bert Terpenitz, 17, Carbondale, son of Mr.

and Mrs. E. B. Terpenitz of that city, narrowly escaped death at Makanda late Thursday when he was thrown by an I. C.

freight train be'- tween the rails and the edge'of the depot platform at Makanda. The boy's scalp was torn badly, a. leg was broken in two places and injuries were caused by axle boxes on the wheels. rushed to Carbondale for treatment and will recover. BREAKING HEART TO DAWN AIRMAN FAILS TH Have A Third Try and Make It If They'll Let Me," Lieut.

Maugham Declares; Brought Down 600 Miles of Goal By Suffocating Fumes From Leaking Oil (United Press) ROCK SPRINGS, July "I'll have a third try and make it, if they'll let me." Lieut. Russel L. iVaugham, army flyer, whose second gallant attempt at spanning- the American continent between dawn and darkness ended in heart breaking failure here late yesterday, when the airman was within a few hours of his goal, awaited orders from Washington. Grimly surveying the little plane which had sprung a. mechanical defect that alone prevented his victory, Lieut.

Maugham declared emphatically he wanted to try the flight again. It was hia duty, he said. Would Go to Coast Meanwhile he wants also to bo permitted to start 1'or the coast at the hour at which he landed, 5:08 p. in. mountain time, nnd prove it possible for a plane to be llown from New York to San Francisco between the hours of dawn and dark.

The end of Maugham's second at- at an all days transcontinental flight came in somewhat the same manner as that of his first, although he had covered twice the distance. It; was through a. fault of the engine which the most skillful mechanic had not foreseen nnd could not: repair for hours. Fumes Nauseated A tiny stream of oil spurting from an opening in a nipe of the piano's engine caused suffocating fumes to fly into the face of the pilot ns ho held his Curtiss plane on its westward course. For a tinny he fought, off the consequent nausea, taking the air from Cheyenne, his third stopping place in a second sickened condition.

At the border between Wyoming and Utah lie could stand no more, and the spirit that held Maugham's eyes on the western horizon where the- Rockies soon were to loom could not overcome the handicap. With less than GOO miles to go and the sun still high enough in the heavens to make his venture of a dawn to dark flight possible, Maugham was forced to circle back while over Greenriver and swoop to earth at Rock Field, landing on the aerial mail service lield here. May Get Another Chance DAYTON, July Rus- sol L. Maugham, who streaked across the country to within a fow hundred miles of his goal in a second attempt to span the continent, probably will get another chance at the achievement this summer, Major General M. M.

Patrick, chief of the army service, said here today. BIG ST. LOUIS PIANO HOUSE TODAY ST. LOUIS, July swept the- Lehman Piano Company building, a six story structure in the heart of the downtown business section early today doing damage estimated ai; $200,000. One hundred and fifty pianos and a like number of talking machines were destroyed.

The We a Forecast Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Little change in temperature. 25 Injured In Gotham Crash NEW YORK, hily persons were injured, none senpusly, when a heavily laden municipals bus crashed into a trolley car -The bus was hurled on its side and break- jug glass showered the passenger.8; as they were piled into struggling heap's:.