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7 A National Newspaper of 'Newspaper ry 22 Pages Today rruDPi? r'lrxrrc train and sjctond VOL CXUIL NEW SERIES NO. 20,987 LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1926. THIRD SONS riTB CENTS CRASH DIE TRAINS Woman, GM Held When 3PUIIMS COLLISION PARADE HERE mm 4,000 TURNERS MARCH HI BY STREET SCENES AS TURNERS FROM TWO CONTINENTS PASSED IN REVIEW Cincinnati Limited Plows Into Washinc-ton Flyer Near UP l' if SMASH LAID TO MISSED SIGNAL Admits Act As j- prital When Victim, 1 Her Daughter Quar- rcl. Five Dead and Unknown Number of Injured Taken From Debris of Cars. LIQUID SEARS NEARLY TO BONE Philadelphian Loses Life After Attempted Reconcili ation With Wife.

-TO BBSBBaaasBBBBSBB. vb: Philadelphia, June 16 (AP) Shortly after he had sought a reconciliation with his wife, from twhora lie had been estranged for three years, njr.n-' rr: it i Pittsburgh, June 17 (AP)' Rescue workers had removed five unidentified bodies and taken out an unknown number of injured early this morning from the wreckage of three pullman cars of Pennsylvania railroad train No. 50, which were telescoped when the engine of train No. 40 crashed into them at Gray's Station, near Tor-rence, West Moreland County, late last Officials of the railroad here said that tha engine of train No. 60, Pitta burgh to Washington, had been halted because of trouble.

It appeared, they said, that the engineer of No. 40 ran past a block signal stop, crashing into a EXERCISES IN Louis Kramer, 42 years old, SKVSCBAPERS TOGO UP SOON was burned to death today with acid. Sirs. Sadie Yank- a Utl" ARMORY' DRAW olovitr, and her daughter, Yetta, 14, who lived in the 0UD17AV house where Kramer had stopped since leaving his wife, Sk i It Heyburn and Brown Will were held for questioning. Kramer wm found lying on th Steps of drug atora trying to tear Number of Contestants for TV' J.

4 is doming i rem rim noay. a mo jrlnl took him to a hospital where he Start Work Soon On New Structures. Announcement of tha proposed erec Prizes Establishes New 1 tion- of two -pfflw buiMlnga to cost The Turners Wednesday showed 12,750,000 at Fourth Street and Broad HI Louisville one of the largest and most way was made. by officials of the Fi i interesting parades the City ever saw. --3 Sa jar delity A Columbia.

Trust Company after which, 4,000 strong, they went me puumans on tne rear of JSo. 60, Train No. 40 from Chicago. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, was en route to New York. Train No.

60 known as the Washington Express, was made up of sleepers from Columbus, St, Louis, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Th coaches, from Cleveland and were the ones crushed. Ona of the other cars turned ove, reports at the railroad headquarters here said, but it was not known where it had been made up. Train No. 40.

the Cincinnati Limit-ed. carried cars from Cincinnati, Chicago, Columbus and Richmond, Ind. It was drawn by two engines. It was not believed that any of the members of the crews of tha trains had been killed, as it waa thought that all the dead were In tha crushed pullmans. Relief trains carrying doctors and nurses -were dispatched to tha scena-from nearby points, and a group of Pennsylvania officers left tn invxti.

fcinii lm to Churchill Downs and began to com r-M, ikmtA ,,,,,111.... 1 Wednesday. The concern Is to participate in tha financing of tha buildings, it was pete for prizes that 1 will be awarded the winners a the Thirty -third Inter. Ona of these is to be a seventeen- national Turnfest. PLOT AIMED AT story building which will be built by Then, at the Jefferson County Arm ory Wednesday night, the twelve so William Heyburn.

It will cost nearly 12.000,000 and will be started July 1. cieties in Group Four gave, demon CARDINALS, FEAR Tha other, to be built by J. Graham strations of model exercises before 4. 9 I ted. FlNh on hi head.

cheat and arms had lwn seared with Acid, which. unchecked for mora than half hour, had burned almost to the bona. Mrs. Yankolovits. arrested in tha office of an attorney, at first denied knowledge of tha affair.

Later, how aver, polios said she admitted throwing the acid on tha man when ha quarreled with her daughter. Examination of tha woman revealed that aha had been burned by tha same kind of acid which caused Kramer's death. Mrs. Kramer, widow of tha acid victim, declared, according; to police, that her husband came to her home yesterday and had promised to see their 14-year-old daughter and effect a reconciliation. Mrs.

Yankolovits, tha widow said, threatened tha life of her huslmnd several daya ago when he refused to listen to a proposal that she obtain a divorce. A druggist living- near the Tankolo-tRi hotn. told police that Mrs. Ys nk-tovKs purchased a bottle of the same kind of acid which killed Kramer sev-1 ersl days ago, explaining that sue was house cleaning and wanted It as a disinfectant. 3 Students Get 13 Years Each.

Brown. wlU be begun within the next 6,000 spectators. It was pointed out sixty days. It will be four stories high with provision- to add sixteen that there are more contestants In the Turnfest here than even at Milwaukee SLAYER ESCAPES IN PISTOL FIGHT Posses Hunt Floyd County Man In Hills of Pike After Battle. Special to The Courier-Journal.

Prestonsburg, June 16 Joe Potter, 24 years old, who Sunday morning fatally wounded Roosevelt New York Police Warn Chi stories later. The Initial cost wiU be gate -the wreck when the first reports in 1893, when 3,380 members took part. arnvea. 1750.000. The Fidelity St Columbia Trust xne most novel exnmiuon was oy FIVE DIE IN SLEEPER.

the South Side Turnverein of Indian cago of Reported Anti- Catholic Plan. New Tork. June 18 W) Informed Company will hare the exclusive rental and management of the build- apolis. The number consisted of run Thirty Escape When Fire Destroys in. ning free exercises and attitudes depicting field sports.

The harvest dance of reports of plot against the Cardi jiwurisk tar tn ievaaa. Los Angeles. June 16 (VP) Fiv Graham, Probst, White and Anderson, who designed the-. Starks Build nals attending the Euchartstic Con 1 ing, have prepared the plans for the 1 by the Monpngahela Turners in tyro-lean costume was another number 1 I sons were burned to death and up. wards of thirty others escaped umiuit earjy today when fire of undetermined origin turned a cross country touriat Heyburn Building.

Plans for the Brown Building were drawn by Preston J. Bradshaw, of St. Louis, architect who designed the Brown Hotel. Fraser, 23, a miner, at Garrett, Floyd (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) A if i'4 6 BARES RUM PEAL, 19 Storerooms. The unimproved lot, 158 by 210 Vi County, in a fight, late yesterday afternoon; escaped, after a lengthy pistol from a posse of officers and citizens of Floyd; County and Is believed to have taken refuge in' the hills in Pike' County.

11 feet of the southeast corner will tx (Continued on Page 3, Column SJ Tornado In West Kills 2, Hurts 41 On Girl's Charge tha site of the Heyburn struo" MAN QUITS STAND A warrant was sworn out by Magis All Admit Attacks But Say trate M. C. Wright of the Seventh Top, Left to Right Girls drum corps from Davenport," Iowa; one of the floats, and a section of the parade on Broadway. Middle Crowd in front of Turner Hall. Bottom A group of the marchers.

Town In Iowa and Wyoming Coed Did Not Resist Their Advances. District of this county Monday, charging Potter with "Since Monday, the hunt for the man has Ex-Bootlegger Tells of Al Sycamore, 111.. June It tFl- Leon Struck; Damage Is Heavy. Des Moines, Iowa. June If OPX been continued.

The shooting, it is -claimed, was. the climax of a drinking bout at Garrett, ard Rich. Stanley Hurt and Emerson leged Transactions of Banks, Whisky Men. Wilson, former students of tha arts Illinois State Teachers' College at Two persons were killed and fortv. a mining town twenty miles north Wheeler Is Summoned In Senate Slush Sift i who pleaded guilty to a one hurt in a tornado which struck at Clarinda.

Iowa, and at Torrington. (Continued on Page 2, Column 3J DEMOCRATS HIT G.0.P.AS CORRUPT Minority Party Favors Lower Tariff As Farm Aid; Assails Mellon. Br CLRIC BELL. The Courier-Journal Wsahinrtaa Bureau. Washington, June IS.

Democrats west of here, in which six men were involved, according to Deputy Sheriff Washington, June 16 04) After telling the House Alcoholic Liquor grress in chief Inspector Will-lam J. Lahey today telephoned Chicago police advising that they take extreme precautionary measures. Chief Lahey said a citizen, whose name was withheld, reported he had overheard a conversation Tuesday while the Cardinals were on their way to the City Hall to be received by Mayor Walker and Governor Smith, which the chief thought warranted extra precautions being taken. Chicago, June 16 W) Prepared for the duties of host the greatest ecclesiastical gathering in the history of the United States. Chicago will give first account of her months of preparation for the Twenty-eighth International Eucharistic Congress tomorrow in her welcome to his eminence John Cardinal Bonzano, personal representative of Pope Pius XI.

The special red train bearing the papal legate and seventy Cardinals and priests, will be met. by an official religious and civic delegation, headed by Cardinal Mundelein, sponsor of the congress, and Mayor William E. Dever, Police arrangements have been made for a throng of 25,000 In the vicinity of the Illinois Central Station on the lake front. Church bells throughout the city will ring for several minutes after 10 o'clock in the morning, the scheduled hour of arrival. From the station Cardinal Bonzano will ride with Cardinal Mundelein in a great procession to the (Continued on Page 2.

Column 3.) Inal attack Miss Dorothy esterveit. a co-ed. tonight were toaay reports reaching here tonight said. Damage at Clarinda was estimated Cee Martin, who returned to Prestonsburg tonight with two prisoners, Mike Sloan, 30, and Jimmie Craig. veetenced to serva thirteen years Traffic Committee an "inside story of alleged bank transactions with bootlefirsrers throughout the country, sch in tha Pontlae Reformatory by Sloan is charged with malicious Washington, June 16 CW Wayne Juilga WlllJam J.

Fulton. shooting, it being alleged he fired at William Davidson, styling himself a reformed bootlegger, refused to undergo cross-examination and he quit Tb youths, sons of well-to-do testified in a hearing in hope of Craig but did not wound him. Craig is also charged with malicious shoot at 1 50,000, and at several thousand dollars at the Wyoming town. Homes, business houses and farm buildings were razed in both and communication was halted. 'A radio tower of Station KSO waa blown down.

Efforts to reach Clarinda tonight were hampered by heavy mud roads. the witness chair at tonight session. James J. Britt, counsel for the prohibition unit, had just been permitted offering- circuro stances in mitigation of their punishment. Their stories of an automobile ride last Arrll 11.

durinsr which the attack by the committee, after a row, to ques tion Davidson concerning his test! occurred, coincided with tha testi mony when the witness rose from mony of Miss Westexrelt aa to details in some places reported as impassable. The dead at Clarinda are Dennis Usher, 13 years old, and J. A. Douglas, of the trip Itself, but disputed her statements regarding her resistance of the Senate and House struck swiftly in tha open today following conferences In secret wherein they chose deliberately the party's main position for the Congressional campaign. Their programme, as it was unfolded In dramatic fashion thls afternoon, is to lunge out for tariff reduction as 60.

Residents in the vicinity of Scotts his chair and said to Britti I refuse to answer your questions. I don't know who you are. brother. I've had a Santa Claus pulled on me too many times. Bluff, estimated the damage to to tha attacks.

Rich said tha three boys invited Miss Westervelt and Lillian Gray, a crops ni the North Platte Valley In thousands of dollars, with hay, corn With that he stepped aside and Britt companion, to go for a ride, and that and small grains suffering most. en tha war Miss Westervelt sat on ing. According to Martin, only one shot was fired by Potter at Fraser. The bullet severed Frasex's jugular vein and died shortly afterward. Potter Immediately took to the hills and posses, including members of Fraser's family and Deputy Sheriffs Willie Estep and Frank Clark took up the Yesterday Potter was round on Cedar Creek, near the Pike County line, about fifteen miles east of here, by one of the posses.

He opened fire and his shot was returned. Sixteen shots were fired in the engagement, but no one was Injured, it was reported here Potter escaped and now is beljeved to be in Pike County. Fraser was a son of A. J. Fraser, prominent Floyd County farmer.

He is survived bv his parents and several brothers and sisters. began a recital designed to show that Davidson had sought on earlier occa tha only genuine medium for farm relief, and to cite Republican primary campaign expenditures as evidence of "plutocracy gono-mad." The party of Calvin Coolidge and Alexander Ham MAGEE IS FREED IN sum CASE New Mexico Editor Cleared After Leahy Says He Was Aggressor. East Las Vegas, N. June 16 04s) Carl C. Magee, Albuquerque editor, was freed of a charge of manslaughter by a directed verdict of the court tonight.

District Judge Luis E. Armijo granted the motion for a directed verdict a short time after the opening of the night session of court. Magee shot and killed John B. Las-seter, a State Highway employe, last August during a fight" with former District Judge Davis J. Leahy, a political enemy.

Testimony that Magee was the vic- (Contlnued on Page 2, Column 2.) his lap and kissed him repeatedly. Ha said none of tha party had anything B. Wheelerj general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, 13 to be summoned before the Senate campaign fund committee. In directing that a subpoena be Ih sued for Mr; Wheeler, Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, said he probably would be placed on the stand tomorrow. Since the Senate Investigation of the Pennsylvania Republican primary began Mr.

Wheeler has made formal charges of the expenditures of large sums, for the Vare-Biedelman ticket by the "brewery and liquor interests" in the Keystone State. He will be questioned on the basis of this statement and also with reference to expenditures if any by the Anti-Saloon League in that campaign. Senator Reed will now have the opportunity, denied him at. the recent prohibition hearings, to examine Mr Wheeler with respect to the expenditures of the Anti-Saloon League to Influence senatorial elections. Some inside details of the workings of the rival political machines in Eastern and Western Pennsylvania during (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) to drink.

sions to use the evidence he presented today to obtain a job with the Government and to sell it to newspapers and others. Davidson had charged that when he had offered his evidence Calendar of Events ilton again is to be branded as corrupt and contended. Andrew Mellon became today the ready instrument of tha minority loaders in their effort to stir the against certain banks to Government officials on the Pacific Coast, they had country on both questions. His letter Thursday. Exchange Club.

p.m.. The Seelbach; weekly luncheon-meeting. Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Brown Hotel; weekly luncheon-meeting. done nothing about it. Britt was authorized to cross-ex (Continued on Page 2.

Column 8. to farm leaders against tha Haugen (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.1 Save Time and Strength These Hot Days Stop drying alshesi The United States Government says this Is a waste of time. It shows the housewife how to arrange a rlnser and drainer that saves this work and leaves tha dishes in better condition. These are 'but one of tha hints on household efficiency Uncle Sam gives in a booklet on home conveniences, Our Washington Bureau will aecura a copy of this useful booklet for anyone who sends in name, address and- two cents in stamps for return postage. THE WEATHER.

Washington, June It VP) Forecast: Kentucky Iartly cloudy, showers in west portion and warmer in east portion Thursday; Friday showers and cooler. Tennessee Fair Thursday; Friday showers; cooler in west portion. Indian a Thunderstorms Thursday, slightly warmer: Friday probably fair, cooler in extreme south portion. Comparative Temperature Cere Tdnbv. 17 Girls and 8 Boys, All On Edge, Await Spelling Bee Test Tonight Schall Senate Shock With Vitriolic Attack On Johnson, Aid i Blind Senator Assails Minnesota Opponents Despite Pleas to Withdraw Speech.

Conference Favors Law To Save Falls In State its Kentucky's Champion "Crams" for Final As Others 1S23 r) Attend Theater Party Given for Group, i i i i ..00 Prederte 3. Raskin. Director. The Courier-Journal Information Bureau, Washington, D. C.

1 enclose herewith 3 cent la utamna for return postage on a free copy of the booklet, "Home Name Street Journal and twenty-four associated newspapers, enjoyed a full day's en-tArtoinment nrncramme. but the near Washington. June 18 W) Tha Senate was stunned today by the impact nf a verbal hombshell fired By SPELLING BEE EDITOR. Washington. June 16.

Seventeen small girls and eight small boys, the ness of the national finals bad the that, "as the yars roll on, he will regret this speech. Senator Schall. however. Insisting upon the "right: to be heard for four minutes at least. declined to accede and insisted upon the clerk continu- (Continued on Fage 2, Column 2.) by Thomas I.

Schall. Republican, who ha A lust been declared the duly A most of them noticeably fidgety by ...60 ...83 eM ...88 most of them more or less on eage. Pauline Bell of Grayson County. VantnrWa 14-veAr-old chamnion. and ir elected junoir Senator from Minnesota, 1 a 31 1AM A at SAX 3 A SAM 4 A 4 AM 8 A 5AM 8 A 1 ...76 6 AM 7 A 1 7AM A 1 SAM AMJ SAM 19 A 10 A A 4 .75 jll A 19 12 1 (1PM IPX 1 3PM iml ...8 4 M.

...85 4 PM I I ...77 5 .78 6 City at former Senator asagnus Jonnson. illlMI aj Miss Temple Bell, her sister and .19 this time, are waning in wasnmgton tonight for tne. supreme test of their young lives. They will meet It at 8 o'clock tomorrow night when they line up on tvis atacrtt nf 1ho new fiat tonal farmer-labor, wno naa coniestea nis State 1 rrrjri'r-j ...7 election. similarly menaced.

The resolution, unanimously adopted, was as follows: Whereas, there are many scenic areas of outstanding beauty and -grandeur, which represent the highest types of our native landscape, such as the Cumberland Falls of Kentucky, the Dunes of Indiana, the of Wisconsin, the Torrey pine? rea, and the beach lands along thr ast of California: many cavern, nnyons and ritonntalns. whirl, hould be preserved unsullied to, future generations; Resolved, f-that this conference (Craned" rr Cca' chaperon deemed not to auena me theater party given tonight in honor of the spellers. They stayed in their room at the Hotel Hamilton with a Special to The Courier-Journal. Hot Springs. June 16.

Official recognition was taken at the closing session today of the National Conference on State Parks of the fight being waged by the State of Kentucky to preserve Cumberland Falls from commercial encroachment or despoliation. Near the close of the final ness session, late in the afternoon, the committee on resolutions, of which Richard Lieber, director of conserva tion for Indiana, was the chairman, brought in a resolution covering the Cumberland controversy, wlUx soma edtr txtxs tLr 'y ts WH AS ..7 I Museum Auditorium to compete for Programmes on The Courier Journal and Louisville Times Mr. Haskln will answer any uestlon a reader of Tha asks. Pleas -tvail yourself of this service. It Is free.

Midway in the reading by a clerk of a speech by the blind Senator, following the Senate's acceptance of the elections committee's unanimous report -recommending the seating of Sec tor Schall and the d'amlssal of tha contest. Senator Ashurrt. Demo- prizes totaling S2.000 in gold and ror ihe spelling chamjnonphip of the i grade schools of the United States. big dictionary and vision of the $1,000 in gold which will be first prise. A lively argument persists In the spelling bee party as to whether it radiocasting station for lodny ...70 ...75 The young entrants the second annual national si 2Jin bee, which and Friday and other stations throughout the United rtirs wi3 be foezJ naga 19.

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