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A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Entertainment for Every Member of the Family. TONE OP, JHE LEADINCf METROPOLITAN SMALE CITY NEWSPAPERS OP AMERICA 1 IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN Full Leased Wire of the Associated Press--Greatest News Gathering Agency in the World ESTABLISHED 1840 IOWA CITY, IOWA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1925 PRICE FIVE CENTS Latest Quotations By Wire Prom All the Principal Stock and Grain Markets ARMERS HOLD 1925 CORN CROP 8 Bodies Taken From Alabama Death Pit INE BOSSES EXPECT LIST TO REACH 53 fwenty-Six Bodies Brought to Surface Today; Still Unable. to Explain Cause of Blast (By Associated Press) BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 11-- wenty-six bodies were brought the Overton mine No. 2 this aming, bringing the- total re- oved to forty-eight.

Mine offi- and rescue workers believe at five bodies still remain in mine but have abandoned ipe that the men would be ind alive. ine officials expressed the be- that the total death list iuld not exceed fifty-three as estimated that all bodies ept five had been recovered. iscue crews worked all night id continued their labors today. Cause of Blast Unknown explosion was one of the orst of the seventeen large ones Ince 112 lives were taken in the Srginia mine in 1915. The Overton mine is the prop- Srty of the Alabama Fuel and ron company and is considered iy federal and state mine offi- ials one of the best equipped in he mine field.

The cause of the blast probably lever will be learned positively. Some of the mine ieved.it was triking a match, which en, or by -a It Is believed "that most of the odies not recovered are those "of tegro workers. Relatives of the victims were iot allowed tb view the bodies. dentification was being carried with greatest difficulty. Some ay never be identified.

Save One Miner Rain began falling daybreak women, hoping to find their ved ones yet alive, refused to iove from -the guard lines. One oman, who heard the blast yes- rday while she was about her iusehold duties, and knew its has never for a moment ift the mouth of the pit. She gged her baby to her breast rough the night to protect it the cold. negro miner owes his escape his mule. Back somewhere in lie pit when the gas was worst id conditions appeared darkest Dr the entombed men, out trough the slope opening dashed "big mule.

Clinging to the-mule's kil was the negro who had be- ome temporarily blinded by the llast 3 and took this means of faving himself. He said he knew mule would "get out if there Iras any getting out." Only 4, But a Traveler FOREIGN AIR CONCESSIONS MENACE U. S. Major Strong Tells Mitchell Court Footholds in Central Threaten Canal Zone (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. interests have secured exclusive concessions for air operations in South America, the Mitchell courtmartial was told today by Major George V.

Strong of the army general staff. "In Central America." Major Strong testified, "there have been concessions granted, but they have not been exclusive. "In Columbia, a concession -was negotiated by German capitalists with the Columbian government." Guatamala had given a concession to a French concern, but Major Strong said it was not an exclusive arrangement. Representative Frank R. Reid, chief counsel for Colonel Mitchell, told the court these concessions had been reported to the war department by, Major Raycroft Walsh of the army air service who held them to be a serious menace to the defense of the Panama canal.

The court then turned to Colonel Mitchell's charge that the national guard has been flyjng -without parachutes. Captain. Frank of the Maryland al guard, denied this. Marco Polo, who travelled to China and became famous, had' nothing on "Edward'Bancey, of Portland, Ore. Walter is on bis way.

to Australia will spend Christmas with his father. He's travelling his lonesome." "I like boats and my father is going to give me a little one for Walter told his friends when he left. IAN, 46, HELD FOR ROBBERY Council Bluffs Police Say Omaha Man Member of Bold Bandit Gang (By Associated Press) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Dec. 11 lian giving the name of Oliver Faly, forty-six, of Omaha, is being leld in jail here following his last night during an at- empted holdup of Fred Clausen, llaim agent of the street railway lompany, at h'is West End home. Daly, in a confession made to tie police today, the officers say, old of plans for holding up the aen at the car barn.

In some tanner the men blundered and rent to. Clausen's home instead, two of Daly's alleged pals, fled Vhen Clausen's son appeared on tie scene armed. The officers ay they found on Daly a mask Irhich leads them to believe Daly member of the bandit gang Irhich last week were involved in payroll robbery in Omaha. OLD COLLEGE MAY GIVE UP Famous Nebraska School May Be Abandoned After Loss of Students (By Associated Press) OMAHA, old Bellevue college, of Dec. fate almo mater of many Omaha persons at Bellevue, oldest settlement in Nebraska, may hinge on a court's decision whether its enrollment of two students makes it a "fine arts college for liberal it is now called Christian Workers college.

-Trustees of the institutions have filed suit to quit title because heirs of the doners have asserted it was to revert to them if the college were not maintained. High on a bluff overlooking the broad Missouri river where French, traders St. Louis first settled, Bellevue covers fifty-five acres. Its six, large brick buildings and musty. No young folks swarm its shaded walks.

But in the caretaker's parlor, two girls, one his daughter, receive instruction regularly. Twelve persons comprise the faculty. They include Omaha ministers and theological professors who commute for classes. Bellevue was closed in 1919. when it was made school for disabled a vocational sen-ice men.

This service terminated, it.got its present, name. It was founded in 1883 as the University of Omaha. IOWA COLLEGE ATHLETIC MEN CONVENE TODAY DBS MOINES, Dec. from colleges of the Iowa intercollegiate athletic association commcMly known as the Iowa conference, will gather here today in their annual meeting. Playing cards for football, track, baseball and wrestling for the coming year will be drafted and in some cases basketball schedules for the approaching season will be completed.

A rule prohibiting Iowa Boy to Fly Home in Army Plane OBLWEIN, Dec. 11. --(AP)-Lieutenant Max Balfour, who will fly from Mitchel for his first visit since June. 1917 with his parents. Mr.

and Mrs. William Balfour, Traer, will store his plane here during his Consent to his iise of an army plane, has been given, he reported. Lieutenant Balfour will spend several days with his parents, whom he last saw just before he left for service in France. DRYS CAPTURE BOOZE PLANT Atlantic. A.

C- Federal Prohibition Men Raid Factory Mined by Dynamite (By Associated Bress) TACOMA. Dec. with 200 pounds of dynamite, presumably to prevent seizure, an illicit whisky manufacturing plant was raided by federal prohibition officers in the Bald hills district of Thurston yesterday. The severing of a connecting wire leading from the point qf setting off the charge to the buried explosives is believed by the raiders to have been the only thing which prevented the destruction of the plant before their arrival. The plant consisted of three buildings.

One built below the ground housed a 300 gallon still and 3,000 gallons of mash and several gallons of the completed arti- s-irriT cle, while the two buildings above! 2 ADMIT GUILl ground were used for blending and bottling purposes, the officers stated. OLD THE RACE Recall Days of Long Ago in Battle of Sails on Ocean Trip (By Associated Press 1 ABERDEEN, Dec. of the long ago were recalled day afternoon when the four-mast- ed schooner Alvena, with lumlber and having Miami, as her point of destination, left Gray's Harbor and headed south, starting wi.at gives promise to be a race such as was chronicled decades Wednesday afternoon her sister ship, the Irene; hoisted anchor and dropped down stream ready to cross the bar and point her prow to Miami. She, too, carries a cargo of lumber. These two schooners once known as the "twin pearls of the Pacific" were called back'into service as a result of the Florida building boom.

They should be docked here for sometime and were doomed for the scrap heap. Then orders began to come in for Pacific Northwest lumber for city the late William J. Bryan helped make famous and instead of being wrecked, the sister craft were given an overhauling, provisioned, crews signed and they again took their place at the docks here and once more took on board a big lumber cargo for the city on the 1839 Reveals Name of Johnson County's First "June Bride" (Iowa City News) Antique and interesting, a record in an ol8, age-worn book, with pages stained yellow by the chrome-tinted talons of Father Time, was discovered in the court house today. Incidentally, it -settles a problem that has been discussed and re-discussed a thousand times, and has source of a countless number of disputes the last half century and even the last eighty-six years. "Who was the first bridegroom; and who was the first bride, to receive a wedding license in Johnson That's the question that has been asked "of the Press-Citizen a hundred times, arid of others many hundreds of times.

ancient record, above noted, reveals fact--that close to ninty years ago, on the 21st day of June, 1839--yes, there, were "June brides" in those days, too-Elijah Orsbon secured a license to wed Miss, Sarah Harris. It wa.3 issued to the young by County Clerk Luke Douglass. The groom's name is spelled as above printed, although one is inclined to scent a transposition. The name is uncommon, whereas "Osborn," with the same letters in another combination, are used. The entire record is in writing, which is clear and legible, although, as stated, time has stained the pages.

Still the clerk might have transposed the letters--an easy psychological lapse, not exactly that of misspelling. The second license was issued July 38, 1839, to Preston Scott and "Elisabeth" Martin. In those days, Johnson county, although Iowa was a territory and Wisconsin sort of 'bossed it," there was a district court. Later there was a circuit court established to displace ft, but, in time, the district court resumed operations. FARMER HELD FOR SLAYING Louie Bruey, Who Killed Neighbor Boy, In Jail Without Bond (By Associated- Press) FAIRF1BLD, Dec.

Louie Bruey, prominent Jefferson county farmer who shot and killed Samuel McNeese, -18 year old neighbor boy learned of the latter's, Brueyjj is held without bond in the Jefferson county jail charged with first degree murder as a result of a preliminary hearing held yesterday. Three witnesses were examined, Sheriff Carl Butcher, Coroner W. T. Webb and Ralph Miller. Neither the parents of young McNeese or thq little girl who was his sweetheart were called although the youths parents were in an adjoining room.

Bruey and the father of Sam McNeese were both searched for weapons before the hearing opened. MAN HELD FOR MURDER FINED ON'WET CHARGE Chicago Woman Likes 'Flapper' DBS MOINES, Dec. 11--(AP)-We need the modern flapper in the business Miss Helen Bennett of Chicago, told 400 women gathered here last night as guests of the business and professional women's clubs. "I really think the modern flapper dresses much more sensibly than the flapper of fifty years ago." DBS MOINES, Dec. 11--(APJ-- Charles Gaston, who is being held in the county jail charged with the murder of Policeman Ollie Thomas, was fined and confined In the county pleading guilty to a charge.

jail after bootlegging Wilvers is the master of the Alvena while Captain A. Rosenthal will handle the Irene. Both will crow.d all the canvass possible on their vessels to test which has the better ship" and the superior crew. Elapsed time will settle the race, the Alvena having better than a 24 hour start on the Irene. The schooners often sailed at a rate of twelve to fourteen knots in their better days and hope to equal their old record on this journey.

lOWA'SDEATH RATE HIGHER Forty-Nine Murders and 311 Suicides for Ten Months in 1925 I (By Associated Press) DBS MOINES, Dec. nine persons were murdered and 311 took their own lives in Iowa during the first -ten months ol 1925, according to statistics made public yesterday at the office of Don M. Griswold, state health commissioner. The fatalities in the classification from all causes outnumbered those in the same period last year by 122. Suicides led the list ot unnatural deaths by a wide margin and also showed an increase this year.

Compared with the 311 cases i year, there were only 281 in Among the forty-nine cases of; LOVE TANGLE I murder -in the ten months was one of infanticide, while case. The KATOIROWNS ON ARMS TALK Japanese Premier Believes Tittle Not Ripe for Big Disarmament Parley (By Associated Press) TOKIO, Dee. Kato today discussed' with the Associated Press the subjects of disarmament, Sovietlsm, America and China and declared Japan would participate in any legitimate disarmament conference but the time was not ripe at present for such a conference to prove successful. The premier did.not believe that Russia would enter such a conference and he also said he feared certain European countries were not ready. The Japanese government head said Japan wanted the United States to participate in such conference called.

So far as any future Japanese- American war was concerned, the premier declared it to be an absurdity and physically impracticable. Grange Says He Feels Fine After Injury PITTSBURG, Dec. 11 A -Refreshed by a night's rest, Harold (Red) Grange, who was injured in yesterday's football game here, was "feeling fine" today and will accompany the Chicago Bears to Detroit, Georga Palas. manager, said this morning. Whether Grange will play Saturday Palas said would depend upon the advice of a doctor.

The Bear's manager announced that an X-ray photograph of Grange's injured arm disclosed that there had been no bone 1 fracture. RELEASE BOYS UNDER ARREST FOR ROBBER I DBS MOINES, Dec. 1924 wasjrtthout Harry Kildow and Miss Kathei- ine Zeller, two of a love triangle of which. Mrs. Gladys Kildow of Waterloo, is the third, pleaded guilty to charges of bigamy her? i in district court today.

total of murders was two more than last year. DOCTOR DIES SUDDENLY DKS MOINES, Dec. 11--(AP)-- 0r, James dean of wa 'pliyslriaiis. diorl ttm morning; i home here after a few hours for, i ths summer were acs of heart months be considered. of Missouri coaches and ruhletic directors from scouting COUNCIL BLUFFS, Dec.

11-(AP)--The two young meu arrested late yesterday' and held by Sheriff L. B. Campbell at Maryville. as suspected Bentley Kildow children bank robbers, today proved they' in an infatuation. innocent of the charge and Kildow was married tr released.

They are resi-, teller fi. Sentence vill imposed tomofrow The mounting toll of automobile victims was shown by 209 deaths, an average of twenty-one each month. This number is exactly According" complaint ofjn-'ty more than was attributed to Mrs. Kildow. wife No.

1, 'automobiles up to Novembei, mendation NIGHT WATCHMAN ON MURDER CHARGE MIDDLE WESTERN STORE CROP; INCREASE OF ONE CENT MEANS MILLIONS Warehouse Act Helps Iowa Farmers Secure Cash Loans on Corn in Storage; Wisconsin and Kansas Farmers Resort to Feeding to Convert'Crop Into Cash CHICAGO, Dec. 11--(AP)--Most of the 1925 corn crop of seven middle western states remains upon farms, sonie held for higher prices and the other for feeding to stock. In Iowa each one cent advance in the corn. price means approximately $5,000,000 more to the farmers. Virtually none of the 479,000,000 bushel crop has been sold.

LETTER CAUSES WOMAPTS DEATH Failure of Missive to Arrive on Time Leads Donna to Suicide Frima (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Dec. 11-- Had a certain letter from New York arrived here ten days ago instead of last night the young and gifted Russian prima donna, Zinaida Jur- jewskaya, who leaped to her death last week from the "Devil's Bridge" at Andermatt, Switzerland, probably would be aliva and happy today. This Is the assertion of her lawyer, Dr. Jafte, who is In possession of the fateful missive. It offers Jurjewskaya a contract to appear at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

She was ot nervous temperament, Dr. Jaffe said today, and this borne' of an insatiable ambition to scale the heights of her chosen art. "She was depressed often and faaped her art was not progressing rapidly," the lawyer said. "Ar- ihus Bodanzky (conductor for the Metropolitan) recently told her she would hear from the Metropolitan as soon as possible after his return to America. When weeks pa'ssed without the offer.

she- feared that she had failed. Dr. Jaffe said the leap was influenced by the fact that the only Russian monument in Switzerland is situated there. Jerjewskaya's fur co'at was found near the bridge, on a precipice with a drop of 75 feet to the river. A new razor and a phial of morphine also were fotfnd and there were blood stains X.

Andermatt dispatches today said the search for the body must be given up for the present became of the swollen state of the river. In Iowa a warehouse law permits farmers to use storage receipts for obtaining loans and most bankers accept them foi loans of 40 tb 45 cents a bushel for corn in the Wisconsin Feeds Corn Minnesota farmers produced, 154,296,000 bushels of corn none has been marketed, although probably 23,000,000 bushel has been fed. Price advances add thousands of dollars to the value of the grain withheld from market. Virtually all grain, raised lii Wisconsin is fed. At the rate of $4 cents a bushel for corn $11.50 a hundred weight for hogs, Kansas farmers figure a fifteen fold return- 1 although a feeding return of 12 to Is considered high.

Sixty-eight per cent of Kansas' JfcOOO.OOO bushel wheat crop marketed by October 1. lowant Borrow On Oatt Nebraska agricultural department eiPitlfirflgure abjwt ninety percent of 1925 corn crop remains upon farms; with ihdiea- that the farmers wilL profit feeffiiirft. The corn- PLAYFORFORD Mellie Dunham of Maine Aids Henry in Compiling purchasing power is nineteen percent below. 1 normal, with tat value at- the market price $46,000,000 below that of although more produced. Iowa's wheat crop is negligible but It is estimated sixty percent of the oats 'crop of 247,000,000 bushel 'remain on the Loans had been obtained last month of 13,000 bushel of oata under the warehouse act.

Minnesota wheat aggregated 25,875,000 bushels and approximately 11,000,000 bushels is in storage. Oat production ran to bushels, very little has been told because of low prices, but probably 50,000,000 bushels has beea fed. international Old Dance 'Music CBy Associated Preset DETROIT, Dec. 11--M-allie Dunham. Norway.

Maine's fiddler, who came here with his wife a few days at the request of Henry Ford, will reach the climax of his visit tonight when he plays for the old- time dancing class organized un- d'er the direction of Mr. Ford. The class is made up of persons Mr. Ford has invited to aid in re-establishing old-time dances. Yesterday and today Mellie played "his tunes for the orchestra of the Ford organization which plays for the fiances and tire musicians of wh ch are compiling an Americana, of olcl-tims dance times.

Tlie tune would be played, the small orchestra would repeat it. and then it wcr.ild be taken down for checking with music played by other old fiddlers. For Chinese PEKING, Dec. 11--(AP)--Eignt. een American passengers were on board the international train whici left for Tientsin with a detachment of American infantry sa special guard.

The included Mrs. Calhoun, widow of former Minister Calhoun and Tiffany Blike and Mrs. Blake of Chicago. The train reached Yangtsun this morning. Four miles to the south General Li Ching-Ling's troops fired on it.

The official report alleges that the Chinese feared an enemy ruse in the use of-foreign flags to cover the approach of General Fend Yu-Hsiang's armoured train. The train returned to Tangtsnn, where some of the passengers tramped several miles and secured motor cars In which they returned to Tientsin. HOLD FOUR NAVY MEN FOR USING STILL IN SHIP LOS AXGELES. Dec. --S.

C. Stone, nigtot watchman, was convicted by a jury here to- man can play day on two counts, ot murder in the first degree for t'ne killing the two Martin sisters. May. Xina. 0.

I NORFOLK, Dec. --Three non-commissioned officers, and one mess attendant attached, to the battleship Texas now at the Norfolk navy yard, are under AK soon as a 1 music he is able i arrest and have been recommend- to play has been recorded, it is i ed for court martial by the siitl the fiddler return home, manding officer on charges of op! The time will depend on erating a still on ooard the They are W. A. Barnes and H. M.

Wilkinson both electrician's mates, first class; R. A. Cutdp, machinist's mate second class, C. Venerable. mess nttend- ampunt of music he has to give and the speed with which the age.l which automatically Zeller was employed in her at Waterloo, caring for the three which resulled FAILS TO ESCAPE FORT MADISON', Dec.

11-(AP)--A. A. Casdorf, a prison in- mate, who had been taken to a he downtown i escaped jester- I day but was re-captured. invokes the death mmalty: The two girls disappeared Aus ust 14. 1924 and thair bcHes were discovered in the Baldwin hills, February -1.

of tlii- yea' 1 Tvrre lo bteu last seeu vnlu iitoaa. ESTATE GETS BIG DAMAGE? Dl I Dei- A i -The estate of G. Freeman, switchman who was cvushH in the i ant. The Weather railroad. CeneiT'ly i -ill slisrhtly ir.

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