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se Gmiaircb A ecu mem The Weather Fair and unchanged. CUMTIJSTK KKItlKT ON FAGE II.) TU, The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon fyumte rtitff (OF I sunrise FINAL I I I riiui: -SCENTS 79. NO. 123. DES MOINES.

IOWA.MOXDAY M01IMN(i, OCT. 21. OIIU I EKN PACKS. lo) fA 1 Eli gt I UVJU ma) $50,000 in Narcotics Seized by Federal Agentsmm UNUt AUA1N I Din nnor National Guard Men GRAYSON SHIP THE SCOFFERS um uurL msiu T. orri nrrinr jiccusea in luun riot ziu urnui.

RETURNS WHEN EXPOSED MOTOR BALKS ARREST HERE Former Editor Helieves Job Is the Kight One for Him. Chicago, Oct. High army nud Illinois national guard ollicers are connldenng court martial proceedings annl.ist several mem born of their commands who are accused by prohibition agents of conspiring to withdraw liquor ixl grain alcohol from a government warehouse here. A 1 1 llitll Ii ev tj I Inil Airjil irpiane urnm uacn 'Chieajjoan Lured to Cilv .1. I.eland Bass of the army was found leaking iu a freight car.

The furniture proved to ho tine liquor and pure alcohol. lu a raid yesterday prohibition agents confiscated l.iilili gallons of alcohol which were claimed to have hvn withdrawn from the government warehouse through connivance of army ami national guard officers While details of other alleged withdrawals and names of the army and guard oil Hers and men involved were guarded by the prohibitum department, It Was said Adjl. lien. I.utz Wall I and Maj. (Inn.

William I.assiter of lh armv, and Adjt. Gen. Carlos Black or Illinois had been informed of the circumstances and were Lftncei ning the uriiiy liquor iu-r vestlgation. it has been charged Starting Point on AI Slader, onetime editor of th Ankeny Times nud pen tmliU candidate for sheriff, is iu the field once again to defeat Park Kind-ley for the fflce. On his return to folk county Through Subterfuge hy U.

S. Agents. Inst week. Mr. Stader was surprised to lea ru thai nriny trucks were used to transport liquor, and prohibition agents claimed to have learned of many mysterious liquor transfers from the government warehouse to a national guard armory and other storage places.

The investigation was instituted several weeks ago when "furniture'' shipped hy ('apt. old Orchard. Oct. 23 (A.P. The Grayson plaue, the Dawn, which hopped off this morning for Europe, lauded ten hours laiet at the.

starting place, having been that lew persons knew of bis ii- plans to enter Cjf the mi llllril iriven uacB uy a ueiecuve inuiui fight again. "I (Oil Iosh iiiy bat Into tile ring, becauxa it has been there ever since l'nrk l'Tlldley beat me in the election Dickman, of World War ricnire on A narcotic ring w.liich is be-liccd to have supplied tho entire state of Iowa with "dope was exposed, federal agents revealed last nUhtl with arrest here ot William Jloanier of Chicago and the seizure or morphine which is valued at $50,000. Tha narcotic ring, with head quarters in Chicago and New York, has been supplying "dope" to wholesale dealeis who have been distributing it to retail men throughout Iowa and uilddlewest-ern states, it Is believed. -Though Beamer is not a ringleader, tic connection with the Chicago head quarters of the ring was learned and two federal narcotic agents lelt immediately for Chicago, Two Church Men Scolded by Primate wo years said. II, AUI II.

for the Job be Fame, Dead i I not out cause my friends urging mo to London, Oct. 23 (I). The Commanded Third Army of A. E. F.

in France. run, but because I think the sheriff's office would an exceedingly good place for me to bo. My campaign has been in progress ever since 1 gave any thought, to running for sheriff several years ago," Starter Is an advocate of the plan of authorizing the hoard of supervisors to feed county prisoners, a task which is now inn- Archiblshop of Canterbury gave stern public scolding today to two prominent l'lngUsh clergymen for t' elr inu la -In stil ing up a country wide controversy over evolution and the doctrine of lu un letter, the primate of Kngiand took to tusk the Right Uev. W. Battles, bishop ol liiriiiiiigbuiu, who bad.

preached Washington. Oct. 23 (A.P.) Maj. lien. Joseph Theodore Dick-man, 70 years old, organizer and! sua heavy tog.

Aimougn ne naa but "one and a half engines" functioning. Pilot Wilmer Stultz made i perfect landing here on the beach shortly after 4 p. ni. "We bad made better than ninety miles an hour," ne said, "from the takeoff at 6: 13 a. m.

to a point off Cape Sable at about 10:30 a. "ru. Suddenly, for a cause we do not know as yet, one moloi went bad and we could not run it at more than half speed. Sends an S. O.

S. "I sent out an S. 0. S. and we were quickly in touch with a ship, 1 think it wan tho Coahoma.

By radio 1 told the skipper that a forced landing might lie necessary and asked him '0 stand by. He toid us, if we did have to come down, to land on the starboard side. "We dumped tha pas In the tanks which streamline the two engines and with our lightenJ ship decided would proceed to land under our own power. We found that the lightened ship rode fairlv well, so we kept on toward Old Orchard. "The first place we sighted was Bar Harbor.

"Things were all right, so we ept on." Few at the Beach. All who had secu the plane off this morning were so confident a nonstop flight to Europe had beeu begun that all had left the beach. Igor Sikorsky, builder of the plane UaM ICtncnid. Wl'iellt idled by the sheriff. Polk county commander of the third A nmrl, un could no saveq approximate army in the world war.

died at i annually, he be- his tesiuttime here arlv todwvl in Beimiers' anest was the cut-ininatloii of a four mouths' investigation by Federal Agents 11. (i. Higbee, Harry Blizzard, liny I'ruess, and City Detectives 1'red Si lick and K. Timuions, with help from Sheriff FindU.y. Arrested in Hotel.

Reamer was arrested in i downtown hotel after he hnd been lured from Chicago by prospects of selling a large amount of morphine. His arrest was thu result of carefully laid plans hy authorities, who had been seeking foi several weeks to have Ueamei come to i)es Moines with a con ramnalnn stxtv- imiiii ii Buoucn attack of heart trouble. Famous also bis belief In evolution and disbelief In the doctrine ot transit i-st a ti In ion, and the itev. G. K.

Bullock-Webster. "Not by action of that sort can the cause of truth be reasonably set forward," the archbishop said, referring to ('anon Bullock-Web- us a cavalryman, Woneral Dickman elalit "Stader-for-shei iff" club were organized. wielding a mighty Influence over the rountv. Iln is an agent of the board of parole and bus been a resident of Polk county for fifty-one years With Starter's eni ranee tutu the fiuht three and possibly four i candidates are out for election. I Sheriff I'urk Findley wants a had spent practically all of his service in that jster'a iinprecendentod attack upon mi if ml: signment ot the narcotics.

i TH i ni (h.iHlu inniHJ I ill laiun iiiiiiv'iim vus uooui in fourth term; Frank Long, deputy county auditor, is soon expected to announce bis riimiiilacv. nnil branch since his gradual Ion from West Point in 1KXI. Leading the third army oi the regular army inon. And, as for the bishop. Hie I I I w.lw,,l al'te.

bis arrival here. When he stepped from the Chicago train, liSm for before 'the 'pub- look him to thu hotel and Minora A. Llllott. stale representative, has signified his will Ingness to run. gave lie his beliefs and disbeliefs.

i a a im March, yrjlT him $50 in marked money as a payment on the narcotics. After the money hud changed ft mm nr exnert. had left for New- The archbishop's letter iswered Bishop Barnes' open Iter to the primate, asking MAJ. COGULAN, Cenernl Dickman participate ttit hii.in. hands, federal Agent I'ruess signalled Agents Highee and Blizzard jopinion regarding the controversy I hich, after remaining dormant York.

Onlv Mrs. Coldsborough and Mrs. Stultz remained at Hotel Brunswick, where the; awaited the evening train for New "oik. OLDEST PRINTER IN U. IS DEAD months, suddenly flared up irons.

Blizzard, Silllck und Hi-allpr (l, canons attack in the F.Ingersoll I'd in virtually every matnr campaign of the American troops, rising rapidly in rank and fiuailv receiving command of Hie third American army which he led into Former Iowan, Movie. I Producer, Kills Self I.os Angeles, Oct. 23 A.P. nee entered tue room aim arro.ueu of Emikiml. Cant.

Harrv Jones, whose hangar i Man, Sought for Murder, Canon Bullock Webster, with ill been placed at the disposal oi the expedition, had tlown 10 iew York with the movltiE picture film Oscar Staby, 41 years old. Germany. Won Service Medal, lie returned bearing the dis Dies From Gas Fumes fnf the tnkenf and "had not re- St. Louie, Oct. 23 P.

lsj. Philip F. Coghlan, the oldest, working printer in the 1'nltcd States, died here today of henrt disease al Hie age of ill years. He was at work yesterday as usual In the coiimosinir i nnm of I he SI wealthy Investment broker and motion picture producer, shot and killed himself at his home here Lived Here tinguished service medal of the United Stales and the of Great Britain. France.

Iialv today. Friends could ascribe no a luindhil of followers, last Sunday Interrupted Bishop llarnes as he was about lo preach on "Man's Creation Hy Design or Blind Cieati.irt?" hy walking up to the pulpit and demanding of the congregation that the clergyman be forthwith deposed and cast out of the church. The archbishop said he decried such sensationalism. The Incident broughta storm motive for the suicide. Staby Heamer and made a pretense ol arresting Pruess, who hud posed as the buyer.

The other officers remained on guard outside the room to prevent, au escapo. After he was nrresled. Beamer was handculle.l and rushed to the county Jail lo face a charge ol violating the Harrison narcotic act. Was Here Many Times. Fedeial agents became acquainted with Beamer's suspected activities In the state nearly four months ago, when was alleged came here three years ago from Burt A.

Hull, who is being Atmued. A large Sunday crowd or lughtseers was on hand, however. I Wives Hear Message. By odd twist or fate, Mrs. SiColdsborough and Airs.

Stultz fwera standing in the operating room of the naval radio compass istation at Cape Elizabeth when the husband of the former was iseuding the message which told their nredicameiit and forced sought by San Francisco police Davenport. where his parents were said to he wealthy residents. He was secretary of a motion picture producing company. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. In connection with the death of and Belgium.

He then commanded Louis Post Dispatch, where he has the eighth corps area with head- been a case worker for fortv-four quarters at Fort Sam Houston, I vears. Tex. until his retirement after'," Major Coal) Ian was awarded a for y-f ive years of service on Orl K0ld medal by the National r.i i Arts exposition last August, as Dickman had partici-i ln(1 oltivHt W()l klng printer In the psted III two campaigns In the ry his employers tmrt Philippine Insurrection and was vpograpbl. al union' offered Mrs. Mamie Hull, was for many (Continued on Pace Col.

Frederick Ingersoll, the father of the American roller coaster responsible for more tips ana downs in American merrymaking than any other man, died yesie day at Omaha, according to an Associated Press dispatch. He was found dead in a con cession stand at Krug park, years a resident here, it was cniet or siair or me t.inna htm twenty learned last night. Hull originally lived In Ilun-nells, it was learned, where he Bellamy to to have made a delivery of narcotics at Adair. Since that time, several "buys" of morphine have years ago. but he refused saying: Tt turn to Old Orchard.

Because (of the interference of other stall ions, Radioman Haul it. Clark, f.ilthough he recognized the jluwn's radio sending tone, was ianle to catch only the last three swords, "see you later." 1 Because the last message only tin hour before, which came in OI Keeps me EOlllg 11" was a pat commander ot the ti. A. H. in Missouri.

TWO MISSING SCHOOL GIRLS RETURN HOME Julia Snow and Jean Hind, 14-year-old and 1 year-old North High school girls, respectively, were hark at their homes yester- Omaha, with doors and wUidows tightly closed and an open gas let filling the room with its been made hy government opera-lives. Beamer has been In lies Moines three or four times since federal agents, detectives, and the slier-ift's offke began working on the Be Married on Dec. 28 married Jessie fleece, who now lives in Dos Moines. They were divorced here, and he later married Mary Hull of Dana, la. San Francisco detectives have learned that Hull was regarded hy his friends as "a man of many wives," Scattered from Iowa to expedition of 190(1.

At the outbreak of the world war he. was In command of the Second (a-, all) at Fort Kthnn Allen, Vt. Iliul Good Health. General Dickman had been enjoying inmparativcly good health lately, F.urly today he asked lot medical aid and he died sbortlv afterward, lie is snsvived bv a widow who was al Ilie heiWulc; a brother. John, of tlllscitv; ibiee sisters, Mrs.

L'. Murphy, ot fumes. The county coroner, con vinced that death was self earlv. had reported better ins, lie was not arrest oil. how inflicted, held no inquest.

The progress than expected, they be- htsiday. after a statewide search last ever, because the source of 'Handcuff' Await Those Who Burn Feast's on Pacing act was attributed to ill health. eved tlfht Goldsborough reterrea supply had not been learned. He Ingersoll is well remembered here as the amusement park mag to a homecoming after the expected reception in Copenhagen. California.

Ihrv returned to Old Orchard nate who installed the rollei ijsnd waited confidently for an coaster and other amusement de ing two days had proved futile. Julia, who lives at 1ltl Seventh street, and Jean, her closest chum told classmates Thursday thai they were going to run away to Hollywood and Join the movies Friday morning they were missing, and sheriffs and police all uer the stale were asked to watch for them. vices at Ingersoll park, the van Jjcvpning train for New York. At m. today they were startled was in lies Moines unoui mice weeks ago ith a small amount ol the drug and a "buy was made from him.

Thf morphine found on Beamer was termed by men working on the case as the largest amount of "dope" seized in the in recent years. The morphine was contained in a hag fiulph Bellamy, leading man end manager of the Princss Slock company, and Alice Uelbridge will he married Dec. 28. It was announced last night by i)r and Mrs. 1.

Delbridse, parents ot the prospective bride. The Delbrldges came here from their home in Detroit wheu their daughter and Mr. Bellamy announced their Inteution Friday ol iehed center of gayety once operated at Korty-eignth street and nv the message that Cape fcliza- Dayton, native city of the general; and Mrs. F. W.

Freck and Mrs Clem Stueve of Wnpskonets, and two daughters. Mr If. Knauss and Mrs. Charles W. Foster of this city petti had heard that the ship was liiEersoll avenue.

W. Mitchell, superintendent I of vireets. lias neen fUMhg lo the of Des Monies', "Pieasa don't I urn sour leaves nil the pavement but all the while lie's been holding- a pair of handcuffs I behind his back, he levelled last ni-Uit "We appreciate having folks I keep their lawns raked," he said, I "and the best way to dispose ot returning. The real secret of their dlsnp- At that time he was regaideo as the foremost amusement park magnate in the country, with im-uortant financial interests tn They Are Reunited. Since the position of the Dawn which was packed to capacity with pearanre.

however, was revealed Another divorced wife, reported from San Francisco to be living In l)es Moines with a son, Lance Hull, is not hero now, it was learned. While Hull lived In Des Moines and other places In Polk county, he contracted for interior decorating Jobs and established a fair business. He moved to California, however, shout eight years ago. So far as his relatives here know, he has not returned toIowa since that time. Tho body of the latest Mrs containing one ounce cart ois yesterday when Julia said that being married within a few days.

as not reported in that niessatte. parks in putsmirgn, uieveiaou The Inability of Mr. Bellamy, how fn greater surprise came in less and Philadelphia, as well as Ues cans. One Payment Made In Chicago. thev had been only as far away as Camp Dodge, visiting at the hottm ni1 her crandfslher Ceotze ever, to reach his parents, Mr.

ana Mrs. Hexford Bellamy of Chicago, Moines. At one time ne operaten five Luna parks in five eastern wno are now traveling in tne east cities. Ona payment was made on the RWnn morphine in Chicago, and the see. end was made iu the room of the fffTLf Ft HFf? I resulted in tho postponement of Besides his Interests in the the ceremonies.

iw.tol inui l.t.rrtra Ihe mnn un tm h- park. Ingersoll Dr. Delhridge left for Detroit FOIL NEW PLOT TO ASSASSINATE KING ALEXANDER Belgir.de. Oct. 23 lP.i A Macedonian plot to assassinate King Alexander and twenty Hlavian statesmen bus I ilis covered bv Belgrade am boril ie It was officially announced today I hat, the authorities have ob tained a Macedonian committee's confidential circular, enuniei riling Ihose marked for death a1" well as Ihe names of twenty persmn en DUE TO REACH i an an nour wnen me iape iF.Iizabeth coast guard station jughted the returning amphibian.

A few minutes after 4 p. rthe plane landed on the beach and it he flyers and their wives were 'reunited. i Mrs. (irayson said that no decision as to the future of the expedition would be made until to iSiiorrow. That the flight has not et been abandoned seemed to be ndlcatcd bv the fart that T.

llar-i'l Kinkaide. the Wright motor last night, but Mrs, Delbridgo will remain here until the wedding, in order lo assist her daughter with leaves Is to burn them. But heat from a file ruins any type ot pavement. There Is a city ordinance to prohibit bonfires on tha paving but so far we Imvo merely been saying. 'Please "However, practice has readied a point where wo can no longer ihe pavement crack up I am going to instruct Ihe police to arrest all offenders if It doe not slop." Afur all.

it was decided last oielii hv persons who bad slacH oiling I'-avcx at the riiriiinz, 'ho was associated with similar enterprises lu Lincoln, and le-troit at the time of his rieatlu He has lived for the last eight years in Omaha. Amoncc amusement men. Omer LISBON TUESDAY II ill was found Friday iu the San Francisco apartment occupied by herself and Hull, with whom she had lived as his wife for several months. She had died from st Angulation. The couple quarrelled several days ago.

according th preparations. Dr Delhrldge will return at that time, and as Funchal. Madeira Inland. Oct. 1'3 (A.P I The steamship Lima, tested.

The final Installment on the "dope" was to have been made later. All the federal, county and city officers winking on the case had Invested money in morphine in "buys" from lies, rncr in order to gather evldencf again-l him. A who as accompanying Beamer from was put off the train at soon as the Bellamy can be Kenvon of tha (Jarrick theater said last night, Ingersoll was re jwiih Kuih Filler mid her co-pilot, jGci.irgp W. Ilaldenian. abroad, ar- to the San Francisco police, after which Hull disappeared.

garded as the foremost -amuse jrived here Ibis morning. I he lly vperr, and Igor Sikorsky, the iplane's builder, were immediately trusted with the proposed n-as ment park promoter in the couu try. yard Hie best plare to burn proceed on me Lima 10 lers will I Lisbon. ENGINE STOPS, am'tfied bv te ensrah to return Several arrts have heen made them To Ingersoll is given-credit for la when he became embroiled in Kinkaide had flown back to few York this morning after the The Lima docked at 7 s. m.

and Miss Fider disembarked three the conductor. BUT CHAMBERLIN ZlalVl efinile word bad fakeoff. while Sikorsky started liver the road at the same time. the discovery, long before the airplane became a more practical imitation of a bird's flight, that Americans like the thrill of bird-like soars and dips and glidings been received here from Chicago iin iaiH ih. reached, they will lie informed of the date so thai they ma be here.

Mis Delhrldge is second woman of the Princess players l-ast Thursday the young couple drove to Winterset to obtain a marriage license, but were too late to obtain onj. Hurrying across to Indianola, they lost their way. The Princess cast, ignorant of their colleagues' secret plans to married, held up the show until 9 p. and then called it off and refunded their patrons' money at the box office. When their disappearance was finally cleared up and their marriage plms revealed.

Miss Del- LANDS SAFELY 1 The flyers estimated that their Auto Deaths Total 13,500 for Two Years in 77 Cities last night, it is bplieved that pital mileage for the flight was The first 500 miles was His inspiration led to the rapid tired or being Delow and longs lo fly again. The Limn Is expected to arrive at Lisbon Tuesday, blossoming of gaunt white roller in little more than four and ft half h-urs. coaster structures on the out Petcrboro, N. Oct. 13 (A.P.) Clarence D.

Chanihcrlln. In his tiny reconstructed foreign biplane, today performed a stunt not on the program 1,000 ad mirers had come to admire. skirts of most Ameriian cities of Agents Pruess snd HiKhee of I)e Mo'nes, with Chicaao agents, have made arrests and have been sue. eessful in breaking up the mid-western part of the ring. A telegram from Pruess lat night, though without details ol progress frt Chicago, announced that "everything Is all right." any siza.

Iiles Poindexter Will uaier ne exienaea nis iaea to Sail Fake Citv Firm Suffers SI 00,000 Fire Run for Senate Office bridge and Mr. Bellamy decided tol other thrillers, such as whirling chairs, crark-the-whip rides, and swift revolving swings, on which zestful men and wutnen spent Oct. 2 3 I A.P.I warehouse and Salt Luke City, -The 10 story delay the wedding until the parents of both could lie present. f-pnkane. Oct.

2:1 tA.i'. f--Mile Poindexter of Spokane, l-'lers Burno! to 1 tea lit. period last, year 650 deaths occurred in the same cities. New York reported the largest number of deaths, 113, for tha four weeks. Chicago seveuty-six, and Detroit, thirty-one.

I.oKton reported eleven deaths; New Orleans, ten: Atlanta, four; Buifitlo, twelve: Cincinnati, eleven: Cnluiiibiis. seven: Cleveland, twenty-one; Dallas, two; Deliver, five; Indianapolis, six; Kanfas City, six: Memphis, Washington, Oct. 23 More than 13,500 persons were killed by automobiles In seventy-seven cilles during the last two years, the department of commerce announced today. With auto deaths reported 111 fiftv-two weeks ending Oct. 9.

and for the year ending Oct. K. 'J27. fatal automotive accidents show a 4 per cent inc rease. three or four exhilarated minutes i ii (,,.

it iui utrte sterv ihiviih'SS nuiiuing in niiassador to Peru, today an- r.rr hi ii i the Carpenter Paper company iu for 10 or 1 cents. The engine of the plane, which has a wing spread of only 25 feet and weighs only 500 pounds stopped when Chamberlin was over Woodridge, a mile and a half from the airport here. Although the haze was thick, the fiver glidod to earth at the airfield here without mishap. "ned his candidacy for the re- the center of Ihe business distiici Fire Causes $750,000 KamaRC Clitiirh Observes Anniversary. Shrewsbury, N.

Oct. 23 The congregation of Christ Episcopal church, founded hy William Leeds, a reformed pirate follower of the notorious here were destroyed by fire to itisht. with an estimated loss oi 'oiican nomination for nireo i senator from Washington said he would resign his and enter the cam- Lincoln, airmen of scant experience in flying, were burned to death early tonight when theli plane rrahed in a lemetery two Patterson. N. Oct.

23 ttXP.) Fire caused 7 iMi.OtlH damage at the nilliBtin Lumber yard here -itgn nit March. He will leave Chamberlin had tlown the ma For tnr four week ending Oct mil-s south of the my limits a three; Pittsburgh, seventeen; 4 00. (no). Spontaneous combustion was believed responsible. Four fire companies fouslit the blare for more than three hours tonight, before it was extin aplatn rwdd.

today relehrs ten chine from Philade nhia. Lalernhev were atiemmiiie to make S. 19 J7. 682 desths from auto ao-i Portland. six: LonH, lomorrow for' Washington.

en route to his post in Tit. gnihd hy the city's entire Iireithe mstftntion two- hundred he t.mk the air snd stunted over I landing on the Limoln aircraft cirients were reported from seven-' fourteen Salt Lake City, one; San I twenty-fifth anniversary. fighting strength. Ihe ticid. before bringing it under control, ty-scven cilice.

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