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CITY FINAL The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon TOL. 76. NO. 205. DKS MOIMX IOWA.

MONDAY MORNING, JAN. 12, 1925. TWELVE I'AGKS. PK1CE 3 CENTS IE AY Jobbery accused xQ) ISJiUKL If II Jit nJlWCrinCD mwMusteru Co-ed Identilied ITS A POOR FATHER THAT WONT SET A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR THE REST OF THE FAMILY A by Aunt After Hearing Plea For Aid Over Radio WATCH PAPA HAKE SOME. PAPA LIKES IT Woman in Chi TELLS OF PLANES TO BE USED FOR SPRAYING CROPS Washington, Jan.

11. (Associated Press) Advocating the development of aviation, for agricultural uses, Godfrey D. Caooi, president of the National Agrlcul-! tural association, yesterday rltel the house aircraft inquiry eom-i mittee a contract let recently tor airplanes to spray 66.000 acres of cotton land five times apnually for five years in fighting the boll weevil. The undertaking. Mr.

Cabot said, called tor about $800,000, the largest aviation contract l-t outside the government service. Much of the cotton acreage of an country could be similarly treated, Mr. Cabot suggested and ne urged research, to determine other use airplanes could be put to for the benefit of agriculture. SAN FRANCISCO COURT BOMBED Hall of Justice Entrance Wrecked. (By Th Afsoolnt.il PrftM.) San Francisco, Jan.

11. The main entrance of the hall of Justice here was wrecked today by a bomb which exploded as a number of police officials were walk ing through the corridor. X. I MioH rrom her failed ra the force of "she refused. lcLall oh from, her failed SON IN KANSAS BRIBE TANGLE Warrants to Be Sworn Out in Topeka, Prosecutor Says.

Topeka. Jan. 11. War- i.iii. im I'UV II.

111-? fill Im Irourl nf Tnneka tomorrow ehara- )n(? noy jona(nfin M. Vvn and hill Bon. pavls, 21 oldi with 0r)Mn and ac- lpfin)! brin 0f $1,250 in pay- W. Tollman, it was announced today by Tlnkham Veale. county attorney of Shawnee county.

Agreement was reached at a conference of county and state of(ice this this afternoon that will be preferred and a chjirjgpg warrant served on the governor and his son before the inauguration exercises tomorrow, when Governor Davis yields his chair as executive. The accusations will be based, Mr. Veale said, on an alleged payment of $1,250 to the younger Davis by Pollman. convicted forger, who formerly 'was president of the Linn county bank at La Cygne, Kan. May Call Grand Jury.

The money was said to have been exchanged last Friday in a Topeka hotel when Russell delivered a pardon signed by his father to Pollman, later returning the money when he was con fronted by witnesses who had "listened in" on the transaction by a telephone arrangement. in conference with County Attorney Veale were his assistant. Ralph H. (Jaw. County Attorney-elect Paul Heins and his assistant.

Kd Rooney, who assumes office tomorrow noon, and Capt. W. A. Smith, assistant state's attorney general. During the conference, Mr.

Veale said, the officials were In constant touch with Chafl p. r.rtfith,, attorney general, by te'ephone. There was talk of calling a spe-. rial grand Jury, It was said, but no action was taken. Such a grand jury would be limited to investigate affairs within Shawnee county.

Rase Charges on Story. Mr. Veale satd that the county marshal or sheriff would serve Ihe warrants and immediately the governor and his son would be given a preliminary hearing and placed under bond. The prosetu-ilon would then fall to the new county attorney. No witnesses were consulted or testimony taken today.

The charges were based on accounts of the episode published in the newspapers, but Mr. Veale, said that Pollman would retu-j'to testify for the state. Pollman is now In Missouri, he said, and could not be reached today. Friday afternoon young Davis, according to his own story yes-trrdsy, took the. money fo his room in the executive mansion nr.d returned to the hotel with the pardon which, his father declared, be had'already decided to sign.

Confronted there by Poll-man and a group of newspaper men and officials of the state and federal government, he handed hack the money, went back to his home snd related the affair to his father. Son Shield Father. Roth Governor Davis and Russell. In formal statements to the press, have asserted that the elder Davis knew nothing whatever of the alleged illicit transaction until told of it by his son at 8:30 o'clock Ftidav evening. Russell said last night that he regretted for his parent's sake letting himself "be caught in a trao.

hut emphasized that his father was not involved The governor, too. professed innocence and lamented that Pollman snd "political enemies" had taken advantage of "friendship and the unsophisticated nature of my son to Inveigle him Into accepting money for a pardon." While talk continued xt the solons who are collecting here for the legislative opening this week, no proposal for a legislative Investigation of the pardon records has been made openlv. No charge will be placed against Pollman as his part In the rase did not constitute a criminal offense. Veale said. "Pollman turned vover the money to the governor's with Ilia Infant nf him Jk the governor and not for the pur- th county attorney said.

invis imnra nurje. Governor Davis declare todav he welcomed criminal prosecution, says a special dispatch to the Kansas City Journal from a staff reporter who interviewed the, executive at his home. Governor Davis was quoted as saying the bribery charge to be filfd against him tomorrow would give him an opportunity to "clear his skirts" of the accusations to he made against him. "I do not believe there is nf-flclent evidence to justify the filing of a charge." the governor said. "However, if they want to (Continued on Page 2.

Col. 5.1 Honor Officers of Capitol Hill Church A complimentary service, in honor of the officers of Hill Church of Christ wa heU at the church yesterday me-mlif under the direction of Rev. C. Carpenter, pastor. A proerum of church work for the ensutng yer was outlined snd adopted at yesterday's meeting.

I LV.AINSVORTII MAY HOT LOSE SENATE POST Hot Fight Slated Today Whrn Iowa Assembly Convenes. Confronted by a wide rain? of proposed legislation, the forty-first general assembly will convene at 10 o'clock this morning. The day will usher a week to be given over, the greater part, to formalities and general "settling down" for the more important work after the inauguration of the new governor. Presiding over the house, by precedent, will be Representative Volney DtlU of Polk county and Lieut. Gov.

John Hammill, who on Thursday becomes governor of Iowa, will preside over the senate. After the two officials have called the chambers to order, the invocations will, he given and the door opened to the state's newest law making session. A temporary organization will be set up in both houses and the new members then will be given the oath of office. Immediately thereafter. Representative VV.

C. Kdson of Storm Lake will he formally elected speaker of the house, having been nominated by the majority party in caucus Saturday, and Senator Kd H. Campbell will be formally elected president pro tempore of the senate. Other" officers of both houses will be elected and installed. Each chamber will appoint an inaugural committee to aid in the arrangements for the inauguration of Governor-elect Hammill and a Joint resolution will be presented inviting Governor Kendall to a Joint convention of both houses to deliver his biennial message and farewell speech.

But one incident last night threatened to disturb the calm of today's session In the senate. The defeat of Col. Leon Ainsworth for secretary of the senate by Walter H. Bam may prove cause for bringing Aina-worth's name before the body when Ream's nomination is ssked ratification. Several democrats, said to be favorable to Ainsworth and a number of republican senators who failed to vote in the caucus Saturday, could, if they voted for Alns-orth today, change the results of the caucus, since Beam defeated Ainsworth by but one vote.

All other nominations made by the caucus would be accordpd ratification, according to sentiment last night. This afternoon the members of the senate and house will choose their seats and the bodies then will adjourn until Tuesday to hear Governor Kendall's message. MASTER BUILDERS OF STATE MEET HERE TOMORROW The annual convention of the Iowa Master Builders association will be held at Hotel Fort Des Moines tomorrow and Wednesday. A program of business and entertainment has been arranged. Directors and officers for 192o will be elected.

Association officers and members of the directory board who have served during the past year are as follows: C. W. Ennls of Grlnnell. president; W. A.

Tusant of Des Moines, vice president; J. W. Hoop of Cedar Rapids, secretary; W. F. Kucharo of Des Moines, treasurer; and J.

H. Coster of Des Moines, general secretary; Hunzlnger of Davenport, Carl Shlacter of Rockwell City. C. H. Warner of Waterloo, A.

Zwock of Dubuque and John Soller of Davenport, directors. The board of directors held a meeting yesterday In the association offices in the Masonic building preparatory to the convention. Ministers of City Hold Banquet Tonight The annual banquet of the Des Moines Ministerial association will be hell this evening at the Y. M. C.

A. with Rev, August Norrbom, pastor of the First Lutheran church, presiding. Following the dinner, several of the ministers will make brief remarks, most of which will be of a humorous nature. Mrs. W.

A. Shullenberger. wife of the pastor of the Central Church of Christ. wilV wind up the program with a reading entitled "A Roast for the Preachers." Members of the Y. M.

A. Glee club will sing. This Cop Will Appear Twice in Same Photo -A group picture of the entire police department was taken In front cf the police station yesterday afternoon. Sergt. William Skinner, through i misunderstanding, caused his likeness to appear in the picture twice when he moved from one end of the line to the other while the panoramic camera was re -rolvlog for the photograph.

UHVUHJL mono r.n UllcTO Httf CURB CRIME Young Men Held As Suspects in Series of Holdups. Yegsfs entered the Plstgly WigRl.v prrocery store at Sixth and Inlversity avenues early tlvis morning via a rear window, carried the safe out the front door and drove away with it in an automobile. They obtained about $500. The robbery was discovered by J. 8.

Robinson. 13fM ave-nue, who found the door of the open. Three young men, ranging in age from IS to 19 were arrested by police last night and held In connection with a number of robberies here recently. The trio gave their names-as -i Lawrence iVMller, IS years old, (2703 Franklin avenue; Lobert I Tnrou 1 v-nara nA 7 i 1 1 Frank. I 1 1 1 V.

tt XI 1 1 I lin avenue, and Lloyd Mover, 18 I years old, 3700 Sixty-first Taken Into custody by Patrolmen Watson and Miller when they were caught in an automobile with no license number at Beaver and Franklin avenues, the youths confessed to Assistant Chief of Police Roy Chamberlain that they broke into the Peterson grocery store, Twenty-seventh street and Franklin avenue, early last night. They said that pried the glass lodse -from a dor -Httf entrance. -T Detective Seek Loot. Detectives early this morning went to the homes of the youths where merchandise and other loot was said to have been Stored. Several dollars, which they admitted was taken from the grocery, was found in the possession of the young men.

Police stated that the trio bore the same description as the bandits who- held up several stores in the last few weeks. They are held for investigation and will be queniiinieu lurmer today. A downtown business establishment and a residence was looted wver the week end by burglars who obtained a small amount of cash. Rob Cafeteria. Mrs.

Virgil Huff, 3214 Woodland, avenue, of the Huff cafeteria in the Liberty building, informed detectives yesterday afternoon, that the establishment was entered Saturday night and $21 taken from a desk. Burglars broke into the, home of Watson Turner, 2S2'2 Chester avenue, obtaining The robbery took place while members of the family were away. Chief Asks Aid In a talk before the Rap-1 1st. Young People's union afDes Moines university last night. Chief of Police James Cavender discussed law enforcement week and made an appeal to citizens to co-operate with police in suppressing crime.

"The department has been and will be on duty twenty-four hours every day ridding the city of lawlessness," the chief stated. "I want to appeal to the citizens of the city to co-operate with ua in pu'ttng across our program." The chief said that the crime situation was acute at the present time and would amount lo virtual anarchy if the police were not continually on the Job. He asked that, persons seeing suspicious characters hanging around street corners or about their homes, notify police headquarters immediately. "We will continue Ihe same grind that we started months the chief said. "Contitine unceasingly an Intensive campaign again lh lawbreaker." Two Persons Hurt in Auto Accidents Here! "Two persons were hurt In au-: tomobile accidents here vesterday.

Pete Henry, 512 F.ast Lyon street, was riding In a Ford coupe In front of .1100 Dixon street, when the machine struck a rut and overturned. Henry was thrown through th'e windshield and cut about the wrists. He was taken to the city hospital. Jessie Stone. 35 years old, 1105 Maple street, was bruised about the lower limba and ankle when struck by an automobile while crossing Ninth and Maple streets.

The automobile was driven by Cecil who took her to the Red Oak Bov Arrested Here As Runaway Gerald RilHngs. 18-year-old runaway boy from Red Oak. was arrested by police as he stepped rrom a passenger at the union nation vesterdiv 't- at me union siauon jesirnav ernoon. Hie lliuri tiw mjq nil his son intended to Join the army uric. to I I ounr cago Is Charlotte Ma-guire of St.

Louis. (My Th. Amrimrr.u.1 (hlcigo, Jan 11. -A new fash ioned appeal shot through spare by radio to possible relatives and friends and an old fashioned bird perched Annie's" hat today led to the identification of Chicago's mystery girl and the restoration of her memory. The girl, who became Chicago's most perplexing enigma on Nov.

19 when she was found lying In mini nil iiir 1 1 1 1 i i mw until ststlm, apparently suffering from KtHn or niPinnrv, whh laeniuiPU Today as Miss Charlotte Magulre. 20 years oid. of St. Louis, who disap peared from that city Nov. 14.

while on her way from her home fo the Harris Teachers' college of that city. The identification, was made at the hospital, where the girl has been a patient since she was found, hy Mrs. Anna Griffiths, her aunt, and Miss Genevieve Sullivan, the girl's cousin, both of St. Ixiiiis. They arrived from St.

Louis this morning and a few hours after identifying the gin, relumed with her to that city and her parents, who they said did not know their daughter was missing. Hypnotic Test Kails. "Charlotte," as the girl had come to be known to all Chicago, aroused nationwide Interest through the newspaper stories of her plight. When taken to Ihe hospital she professed a complete loss of memory as to her Identity, her home or the names of rela tives or friends. All attempts to elicit Informa- 'and ft" a ow news paper photographers to make pictures of her, explaining that her "mother would not like It." A broadcasting of the description of th young woman brought a deluge of Inquiries and hundreds or relatives of lost girls came here confident that she was their "kin" only to return home disappointed.

finally a hypnotic test was applied and this too proved unsuccessful. Doctors who made the test later said they helieved the girl had been feigning hvnnottsm. During Ihe test she told them her name was Charlotte Norris and that she was a student of a Chicago unlversitv. Despite the fact that her statements were found to be incorrect, she still clung to the belief that her first name was "Charlotte" and Charlotte she became to those who knew her. Aunt Hear I'lea.

Last Friday night, In desperation, she tearfully agreed to broadcast an a linen 1 hv radio to try to find her lost self. It being explained that or friends who might have missed newspaper accounts and failed to recognize photographs might know her voice. The lent was made from WERH Ihe F.dgewater Bench hotel and Chicago Kvenlng Post station. Speaking In a low tone and with apparent emotion the girl asked her uneen audience to assist her. Ry her fireside In St.

Louis. Mrs Griffiths was frying to "tun in" on outside stations when suddenly she Ihe low voice of a gill who said ah helieved her name in he Charlotte and who I Continued on Page 2, Col. 3.1 Reach Trade Agreement. London. Jan.

11. A semi-official news agency dispatch from Rome last night states that an absolute agreement has been reached by the Italian and German governments for provisional trade arrangements, beginning tomorrow, pending final settlement of commercial relations 'V trestv. TRY NOW! St'ysi If you can't skat" you ran take a few pictures, anv-way. A "cracking" good skating pictures could win one of the prizes In The Sunday Register's Winter Picture routes! now Prizes totalling $100 will be awarded at the end of the contest Jan. 18 only 7 more days to send your pictures in.

The best picture will win 150. and eleven others will win prizes. Iowa winter pictures of all sorts are eligible in the contest. Write your Information on the bsck, with your nsme and address and send 'em In at ONCE. Only photo- graphs taken this winter are eligible.

i. I SAYS EUROPE GETTING DRYER "Pussyfoot" Addresses Huge Crowd Here. Rfore a crowd which taxed the capacity of the audltortlm of the First Baptist church. William E. (Pussyfoot! Johnson, famous prohibition crusader, yesterday afterroon outlined a panoramic picture of the progress of the dry movement.

In European countries during the last few years. Johnson recently returned to the I'nited Stasis following a tour of Europe and Asia and his lecture yesterday was the first he has delivered in America. The speaket was introduced by Rev. Herbert E. Scott; pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church and a reprsentative of the Des Moines branch of the Anti-Saloon league.

The meeting was held tinder the auspices of the local chapter of the Anti-tSaloon league. "I'm sure you people will be in terested to learn that Clemenceau, 'The Tiger' of France, now Is actively Interested In the work of the World League Against Alcoholism," said Johnson. "And right here it possibly will not be amiss to add that a former president of France, (Contlnned on Page Col. Daughters of MIKE TALARICO HURT IN CRASH Fear Des Moines Man May Die of Injuries. (By Th A trl Prp.

Galesburg, 111., Jan, 11. Mike Talarico, 30, I)es Moines, prob ably was fa'tally Injured and "Pete" Rand, 27, of Des Moines, received minor cuts and bruises when the automobile In which they were riding skidded on the icy pavement and collided head-on with a streetcar here late this afternoon. Talarico was rushed to a local hospital where physicians said he had small chance to recover. The men were enroute to Peoria to visit relatives. Wife 111 Here Mike Talarico is proprietor of Ihe Subway billiard hall and has been a resident of Des Moines about ten years.

News of the accident was withheld from the injured man's wife because of hef sickness. She has been ill for Several weeks and any sort of a shock might prove fatal. It was said. Mike Tslarlco recently wss given a penitentiary sentence of a year and six months by Federal Judge Wad, following hts conviction on a charge of conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. His counsel sppealed the cae within few rlivi aftpr the rourt ihad pronounced All AW Al Alll.i II.

CALL FOR HELP Norfolk, Jan. 11. (Associated Press) The voice of an explorer, his ship imprisoned in the frozen wastes of the arctic was picked up here by an amateur radio fan last night and while neither the name of the teicu piecpB vi iron, wuuu emu other missies around the corridor. Several persons had walked past 'the place where the bomb was placed, about twenty-five feet from the door of Police Chief Daniel J. O'Brien's office.

The force of the blast tor a hole through police headquarters, demolished a telephone, booth, shattered all glass In the corridor and wrecked a sfeam radiator. Although the explosion oc-curried at 10:07 o'clock this morning the fact did not become generally known until tonight. The police at first were somewhat reticent to discuss the affair in the belief that it hinder an investigation which was launched immediately. Observe Anniversary of Prohibition Here The fifth anniversary of the advent of prohibition in the United States will be celebrated hy a luncheon and devotional meeting Friday at the central Church ot Christ, to he sponsored by the city federation of the Women's Christian Temperance union. Chief of Police Cnender will preside at the meeting.

Rrief addresses will be msde by County Attornev Reehnrger, Sheriff Findley, H. O. Wandlini. a special agent of the Great Western Railrohd company. Chief Cavender.

Federal Prohibition Agent Adams and several other persons Interested in law enforcement in this vicinity. Paul Oarher, a member of Ihe Shrine Chanters, will sing several selections. Silk Association Holds Annual Meeting in N. Y. New York.

Jan. 11. -The silk association of America held Its fifty-third annual dinner at the Hotel Astor last night with 1.40(1 guests and at the speakers' table a score of consular and commercial representatives from China, Japan and other countries. Describing the year past as one of fesst and famine, A. Goldsmith, president of the association, reviewed the progress of Ihe nation along the rood to economy, urged that states and municipalities beware prodigalltv of public funds and pleaded foV a greater stabilization of th silk Industrv.

77ip Weather Today rvnitmif1 fnMr; prrthsbly I nnw tomorrow. lOVV A -Fair In rifrrhwt, prsthjihlv jnnt nw In tnd fttuth Mnn1y, priMar; gnrH rjiir. ILUNOIS Tlnurtv Mnflftv, prohjMv nme inn partly rlur1y 1 and nbiht rl(1er. MlsnrRt Partly rlnnrty i Hnti1v Mftnrlny, pfth1y om mow, colder -Tiidi nfrallv ir. MINNESOTA Generally fatr In went.

ame annw in east portion londay. colder, cold wave in north- I eaai portion wnn temperature iei or below Tuesday mostly fair. WH'TH OAKOTA Generally fair Nfnn- colder in east nor ton Tuesida partly cloudy nd somewhat ht her trn pera lure, NEBRASKA Mostly fair. enmewhat colder in extreme east portion: Tuesday generally fair and somewhat hiffher temperature. KANSAS Mnarly fair Mnnrliv, somewhat colder Tuealv fair with somewhat htt-her temperature.

Hourly leiumTurea In Pea Moines toterday 3i: .21 .31 I n. p. 4 n. 5 D. rti II t.

2S ui 37 Ri 2 L'P 9 ft, IS a. 11 a m. iww i Tnrl rrumula'r'l or ri Min mr j.n i. irch. li non rUnslflltv.

pr pt i l'3 nB" J. m. ml sun nw iiiv ti t.4.1 Mtft ftt 1 rl Boy of 14 Found Guilty of Slaying His, Grandmother Pottsville, Jan. IV. Four teen-year-old William C.

Cavalier was found guilty today of murder in the first degree for the killing o( his granomotner, Mrs. Catherine Cavalier, SIS- years old. last July. The jury lia'l deliberated nearly twenty-four hours. Cavalier was remanded to prison to await disposition of flu appeal for a new trial.

He showed no emotion when the verdict was delivered. Attorneys for the commonwealth introduced testimony tend ing to prove that Cavalier had shot his grandmother seven times and then stolen $58 from her stocking as she lay. dying on the floor. Counsel for the defense pleaded moral insanity and four physicians testified that the boy was insane. Nicaragua Wants to Keep Yankee Guard Manngua, Nicaragua.

Jan. 11. (Associated Press) The Nicarag-iian goverin.ent has requested the state department at Washington in allow the American marines Lo remain here until some provision has been made for vhe established constabulary similar to the Philippines. Porto r.ico, Haiti or Santo Domingo forces. It Is also generally believed the immediate withdrawal of the marines would entire ronditions here similar to those in Honduras, Ice Dealer would stay on the vaudeville stage.

Rosa's phenomenal success at Ihe Metropolitan on th night of November 20. 1918. when she sang "La Forza del Destino" with Caruso, was the beginning of a brilliant career in opera; Carmela remained obscure. Hut tonight Carmela got her "bravos" in the world's must famous msic hall. Singing the aria.

Don Fatal," from "Don Carlos," she was recalled a half dozen times by the audience, which filled the great from orchestra nit to the' deep top gallery; and then a half hour later, she shared with Rosa the applause that followed their singing of the duet in the second act of "Aida." Lawrence Tibbeit. the youthful California baritone, who received an ovation a week aeo. for part in "Falstaff." with th, great Scofti, also sang tonight and was recalled repeatedly. Share Honors in speaker nor the name ot his h. nitai' ho lesrneri hocsil.s nf liy BOSpKa I.

(By Th Associated Preu.) New York. Jan. 11. A dream came true tonight for the Pon-selle sisters, Rosa and Carmela. They sang together in the Metropolitan Opera house to a great audience which acclaimed the yosinger, Rosa, as a favorite prima donna and the elder, Carmela, as the sister whose self-sacrifice tad made possible the i ise of Rosa to stardom.

Several years ago In Merlden, so the story goes, the Pontiles were choir and vaudeville singers. Rosa a soprano and Carmela a mezzo-sofirano. Fach had ambitions for the opera and crit ics said each had. a good ivoice. Rut training was expensive nd for their father, an Ice dealer, was ntroe too plentiful.

So I Carmela Insisted that Rosa i should use what there wss for further study, while s4 herself riodical static interference, enough of the. far-away monologue was caught to reveal a connected story of weird adventure and privation. The speaker appeared to he shouting at the top of his voice. He declared he was 3.000 miles swsv fmm the temperature was 70 below rero, food wag running low and the crew nf the frozen-in ship were killing and utilizing other crude foods obtained frem Eskimos to eke out their.