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iLiyjiiL, itpiuju igma ukci mm WwlA Sl-UJJ PIP I "WaO- lixJIHSIni II Berrien's Biggest Buy For Reader And For Advertiser 'i PRJCE THREE CENTS BENTON HARBOR, MICH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 261929 BOAT DEAD IN PORT HERE MikAH Perished Of Exposure WhileAt Mercy Died Finds Rubber Canadian In Beer; Sues Brewery (Bv Associated Press 1 TORONTOOct. 26. Having lost his taste for beer, John Weatherstone is suing thKWalkerville brewery for $2,000. He lays his dislike to the discovery of a piecepf rubber in a bottle. Battered Vessels Limp Into Lake Ports For Repairs Following Terrific Punishment (By Associated Press) DETROIT, Oct.

26New storm warnings were flying in the lower lakes today as navigation, practically suspended since early this week, assumed some semblage of regularity. Tfiework of salvage and repair cohtinueKat a dozen points about the lakeswith, dry dock gangs busy removing the stars left on ships that battled the most" severe autumn storm in many years. All vessels have been accounted for and those that are not too badly damaged have been towed to port and repaired. The tug Iowa and the wrecker Favorite, of the Great Lakes towing company, have gone to the aid of the beached barge Lake Frugality at Point Au Sable. Salvage craft have been sent to other grounded ships.

O. Bowker, general manager of the Grand Trunk western railroad, yesterday said that the Milwaukee carried 25 loaded freight cars on its last trip. She carried no passengers. Bowker said the load was a normal one for the Milwaukee and that implicit faith was placed' In Capt. McKay and his ability to bring the vessel safely through the storm.

He added that the company was continuing efforts to find traces mER'SLSi'BY'SON mi Above is the Grand Trunk car ferry Milwaukee, lost last Tuesday night off Milwaukee with all hands 52. Four the Milwaukee dead, found in mid-lake last night by Capt. Carlson end members of the St. Joseph Coast Guard crew, were in port here today. The lower picture above shows a member of the ill-fated crew whose body was picked up off Kenosha and brought to Chicago.

All of the dead brought into port here last night wore life preservers as shown in this picture. F. IMI JAPAN FETES Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the nation's war-time President, is shown here as she was feted at a garden party In Tokyo, Japan, given in her honor and. attended by high' officials of the Japanese government.

Above, Mrs. Wilson is pictured tr'-W M. MILLS DIES IN 99TH YEAR AT SIOUX FALLS WEATHER LOWER MICH kJGAN: Mostly un let fledU) i ind Sunday not much change, ic? MYSTERY SHIP SEEN FALLING II Theory Is Plane Was That Of Cowboy Who Turned Rather Than To Sea (By Associated Press) MENOMINEE, Oct. 26-The Menominee Herald-Leader Friday said the theory had been advanced that an airplane which 12 persons said they saw fall in Lake Michigan Wednesday off this port was that of JJrban T. Diteman, Montana aviator, 'who took off from Harbor Grace, N.

F. Tuesday, with London as his announced destination. The paper said that because a check has failed, to reveal any planes missing in the. middlewest. it was thought very possible that Diteman had decided after his hopoff to return to his home in Billings, on a direct route, that would bring him over this city.

He' is known the paper said, to have made sevei-al flights in the past over Lake Michigan, i 12 Saw plane Fall The 12 persons who saw the mystery plane fallr all reporting Individ ually, were said by the paper to haveoffered partial describtions resembling the published picture of Diteman's craft; that it was black and that it had low wings. High winds prevented a search from the air Friday for possible wreckage. Wife Still Has Hope BILLINGS, Mont. Oct. 26 Mrs.

Uvban F. Diteman, Friday night said she was certain a plane reported to have plunged into Lake Michigan Wednesday could not have been that of her aviator-husband who soared away from Harbor Grace, N. Tuesday, with London announced as his destination. WWle the rest of the world generally agreed the Montana cattleman had met tbe fate of other unsuccessful trans-Atlantic flyers, his wife still clung to a hope that he bad landed in an isolated region, perhaps in Ireland, i Mrs. Ditemani declared her hus band was of suoh determination he would not turn back after starting.

MALTA COMMANDERY HEARS FINE TALK Malta Commandery had the pleasure of listening to one ot the Pacific coast's very eloquent preachers at- the drill corps supper Friday night, when Rev. and Sir Knight Ingram of Yakima, who Is visiting Rev. R. L. Kelley, addressed the Sir Knights on the relation.

of Templarism to the Christian church. Rev." Ingram brought a splendid vision of the possibilities of the Knights Templar organization for Christian service. 1 An' excellent supper was served by the Jadies of tbe Eastern Star whose menus are a feature of all templar banquets. The Sir Knights were put through a spirited drill and Full Form Opening by Capt. Gen.

Don Wilson and Past Commander Arthur Baushke. Next Friday night the Order of the Temple will be conferred by Malta's new corps of officers. ROCKEFELLER KIN PASSES AIR TEST (By Associated Press) ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Oct. 2 J.

W. Rockefeller, a cousin of Jobn D. Rockefeller, Is a qualified private pilot, having, passed a federal test He is to, fly bis own plane. NO office hours' at Cluster's 35c Hair Cut Saop.Ad. 10-25t2 "-Unsettled AT MENOMINEE One By One KbFrail Craft BULLETIN The bodies of the four sailors from the car ferry M1twaukee, found in an open boat 40 miles from here by St Joseph Coast.

Guardsmen Friday night were identified late today. They were: J. O'Brien, lookout Raymond Danlke, deckhand. Arnold Moran, wheelsman. Tony Kiss, wheelsman.

Identification was made by Joseph Menca, who quit as fireman aboard the Milwaukee last Sunday night. He came to St. Joseph with Fred Jackson, whose father, O. E. Jackson, was one of the lost crew.

"TJie bodies mII be taken to GtandHaven for burial. A rarra nf Smart from the lost Grand Trunk car Terry, Milwaukee came into port here about midnight last night. Anil tnHav at a mortu ary lay, unidentified, four of the crew of 52 who perished when the big lake craft went down last ines-Hav mVhf nff Milwaukee in the worst storm Lake Michigan has known in many decades. St. Joseph Coast Guardsmen, nune ine for traces of the Milwaukee found the car ferry victims drifting In a half-submerged me Doat oi int Milwaukee.

Tlifi rlriftin boat, with its CafKO oi dead telling a grim story of how its occupants had despairingly aiea in hna-Hncr pal. was found by Can- tain Sam Carlson and four ot his men of the St. Joseph station miri.inirp nmp 40 miles out of this port and also due east ot Kenosha. All Died Of Exposure Captain Carlson said all four men died of exposure to the biting cold and high seas. The open boat, its thwarts splintered and broken, bore mute evidence of the tragic battle with the storm.

The bodies themselves told a grim story ot the struggle, during which the victims were overpowered one by one, until at last but one man remained, alive, his feet lashed to the seat on which his body sat, slumped over in death. The men in the boat were all in the prime of life. The oldest was not over 40. Their bodies today rest in the Beard8ley funeral home, St'Jo-(Continued on Page Six) STRANDED Oft LAKE ISLAND 31 Men From Freighter ChK cago Marooned In Lake Superior (By Associated Press). SAULT STB.

MARIE, Mlchv Oct 6 The cold northern dawn spread ing over the white-capped waves ot Lake Superior today found Captain P. C. Farrell of the package freighter Chicago and 30 members ot his crew huddled about their campflres on the rocky shore at the western end ot Michipicoten Island, where they have been marooned without food or shelter since Tuesday night Michipicoten is a wooded and mountainous island 100 miles north west ot Sault Ste. Marie. Its highest rocks rise a thousand feet above lake level.

The only inhabitants are a few Indian fishermen living at Quebec Harbor in the southwestern part of the island. Traverses Bleak Country One member of the crew of. the Chicago succeeded in making his way across the nine miles of desolate coast to Quebec Harbor last night and reported that other members ot the crew might attempt to get across today. He said that the Second engi neer, James Black, who is cripple, prooabiy would be unable, to walk over the rough country and others- would remain with him until tbe coast guard boats orthe tug Whalen which have sought to aid tbe castaways, were able to take oft Wind and waves have prevented rescue ships from approaching the western shore ot the island far, although they have been cIom enough to see the camp fires Radio reports from the tug Whalen last night said the Whalen, the freighter John Henderson and the Coast Guard boat 119 were standing by and would attempt to take oft ths Chicago's crew? today if weather permitted. The Chicago is a 345-foot pack age freighter in the service ot ths (Continued on Page Six) TEMPERATURES Temperature readings for the, past' 24.

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Har. 285, Adv. 10-HU ESS ELSGREW 14 PAGES I A KILLED VHEN RIFLE JAMS Tragedy Occur sxIn Cass County Late Friday; Brother Of War Hero Tragedy dealt a new and crushing blow to the Clemens family of St. Joseph Friday evening when Joseph 'tR. of Raymond Clemens, one of the American' war dead being brought back from was accidentally shot and killed by his 11-year-old son, Joseph, while the two were hunting squirrels near Volinia, 14 miles southeast of Dovaglac.

The victim died of a shot through the heart. In company with his wife and son, Joseph Dixon Clemens, the prominently known St. Joseph man had gone Friday afternoon to Volinia. had not yet fallen when the three arrived at the home of Mrs. Clemens' cousin, Roy Dixon.

The two men, accompanied by the'boy, started for the nearby woods to try a shot at a few squirrels before sup- pe Separate In Woods Separating after they reached the woodland, the cousin struck off in one direction, leaving Mr. Clemens and his son alone. The lad walked behind his father. He is large for his age and accus-, tomed to handling firearms. His father, one of the famous hunters In this part of the state, had taught 1 hnv tho iiaA nt n.

eim ntiH fre quently taken him with him into the The small "22-rifle the boy carried Jammed as he tried to load the weaj) on, There was an explosion and the older man fell, the tiny bullet lodging at the edge of the heart. Horror-stricken' by the tragedy, the boy still had the presence of mind and courage to follow the instructions of his father, who in his last breath told him to shoot his rifle into the air and call for help. Mr. Clemens died a minute or two after cousin had rushed to his i side, summoned by lad's frantic call as he emptied the remainder of the rifle shells from the small wean-; on in bis hand. Coroner S.

E. Bryant, summoned' to the Dixon borne from Dowagiac stated that it would be unnecessary to hold an inquest, 8on I Prostrated t- TMee brothers; Edward ,3 George and Roy Clemens, with Mrs. George and Mrs. Roy Clemens, went at once tc- Dowagiac and brought the widow and her son back to the Roy Clemens home in St. Jo- seph.

The boy. who will be 12 years old on February 12, was prostrated by the" accident, most tragic of its kind the history: of the county. Since babyhood, the boy had been his father's constant companion, and at an age began to learn the art of hunting, his father's favorite i sport since' early boyhood. For 12 years or more, Clemens had. never, missed a bunting trip to the north with a party of well known St Joseph men He was a favorite (Continued on Page Six) HOTEL EASTLAND 1 Warm rooms, fend np per week.

Adv. 10-5tt SPECIAL Men's suits. $1, ladies coats and dresses, Jl np. Sanitary Cleaners, St. Joe 900.

Adv. WELCOME any time at Cluster's 350 Hair Cut Shop. Adv. 10-25U DANCE at Crystal Palace Sat Music by Music Masters Orch. Adv.

10-25t2 DANCE at Iris Ball Room (former ly Jap-O-Land) Sat, Sun. and Wed Music by Don Barringer and bis Woi IE rvn MRS. WILSON DR. EDWARD SHUMAKER ney General Arthur yL. Gilliom, Instigator of the original contempt charge, to increase the sentence.

Gil Horn charged the 'dry superintendent attempted to exert political pres sure to force VDnited States Sen tors James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson to interfere with tbe court in bis behalf. The court upheld Dk' Shumaker but refused to alter its decision on the contempt charge with Baron Yoshlro Sakatinl, noted advocate of Japanese-American friendship, and, at the right, Viscount Eiichi Shlbusawa, termed the "grand old man of Japan," Is shown greeting Mrs. Wilson.

of tbe lost vessel and members of the crew. Five Bodies At Milwaukee Fve bodies were at. Milwaukee last night. Three were identified as: Alvin Sadon, Bay City, purser; E. Nelson, Milwaukee, watchman, and Frank Walter, Milwaukee, watchman.

EAU CLAIRE MAN SBdOTS BIG HAWK EAU CLAIRE, Oct. 26 A large chicken hawk, giant of its size, is being exhibited by Henry Thumm, who shot the bird on his Pipe-itone farm. The hawk measured 45 Inches from tip to tip of Its wings. STOCK MARKET IS BREATHING EASIERTODAY Hoover's Statement Aids In Bringing Normalcy To Trading (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 26 Tho stock market returned to normal times Saturday, opening rather quietly, with most price changes narrow Commission houses stated that the distress selling resulting from Thursday's drastic crash had almost entirely been disposed of, and Presi dent Hoover's reassuring statement as to the fundamental strength of business had soothed the frayed nerves of both investors and speculators.

States Steel common held around Friday night's closing levels indicating decisive efforts at stabilization. A wide assortment ot stocks rose from $1 to $4 a share in the first hour of trading, and a few slipped back, as stock bought during the two previous sessions for support purposes was liquidated. Among the few declines, General Electric lost $5, and Radio and American Can sagged from fl to 2. Case Threshing, which dropped $18.50 Friday, rallied $14.50. Union Tank Car sold up $4.75, and Standard Gas, National Power Light, National Cash Register, Bendix Aviation, Missouri Kansas Texas, and Stone Webster, $2 to $3, while such issues as Montgomery Ward, Atlantic Refining, Baltimore Ohio, American Tobacco, American Water Works, and S.

Rubber rose $1 and more. ONTARIO TO CUT -PRICE OF BEER (By Associated Press) TORONTO, Oct 26 An early reduction In the price of beer in Ontario is promised by Premier G. Howard Ferguson. In a campaign address Friday night he made the promise in denying claims of political opponents that liquor sales for the year would exceed $75,000,000. said the total would not exceed $55,000,000, AND MAYBE THEY JUMPED AFTER REACHING (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oct.

26 There has a snappy comeback from Mayor Walker to campaign criticism of bis nifty toggery. "I just don't believe in tbe policy of walking up one flight and saving $10," he said. "Wheri I look my adversaries over 1 think some ot them walk to the top of the Woolworth building." EVERY day in the week, haircut 35c at Cluster's. Adv, 10-25tz Shumaker, Indiana? Dry Chieftain, Dies Belated pews of the death of F. M.

Mills, former Benton Harbor resident, at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was received here today. A letter from a son at Sioux Falls to M. P. Resch, local banker, told of Mr. Mills' passing early last Monday morning.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday at Sioux Falls and burial followed the next day at Des Moines. In His 99th Year Mr. Mills was in his 99th year. He passed his 98th milestone last spring. The last time Mr.

Mills was here he said: "I expect to live to be 100." But he had failed In strength in the last few months and a year ago, when he visited here, it was evident that his powers were ebbing. On New Venture At 99 When Mr. Mills left here, some 20 years ago, he went to Sioux Falls and operated the Sioux Falls street car system. A few months ago he scrapped the street cars and put on a bus line, believing that the day of street car was gone and that the era of the bus was here. At the time he made the change, embarking upon a new transportation venture in his 99th year, he wrote The News-Palladium that he was confident he would be successful.

Was Born In 1831 Mr. Mills was born in Ladoga, Montgomery county, April 4, 1831. Two years ago, when he was in his 97th year, Mr. Mills was given an honorary master's degree by Wabash college, at Crawfordsvllle, Ind. On the same platform on which he was honored by his early-day MACDONALD SAILS FOR LONDON AFTER VISIT TO AMERICA (By Associated Press) S.

S. DUCHESS OF Oct. 2fi Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's prime minister, and his daughter Ish- bel are enroute back to Saturday after three weeks spent in the United States and Canada In the Interests, of Anglo-American relations. They hoped for a quick trip to bring the premier to London as soon as possible after Parliament's convening, when his Labor government may meet its acid test. Parliament meets Tuesday; ship's officers have, promised they will dock at Liverpool eaiiyFriday.

Mr. MacDonald, Miss Ishbel. and their party came aboard the Duchess of York Friday night at Quebec. The Berrien Co. Cosmeticians as sociation has as its speakers Mrs.

Martelle and Mrs. Bell of the Nat'l Cosmetics association of 111. Banquet at Hotel Whltcomb Tuesday evening, Oct 29. All shop owners and operators requested to be pres ent Plate $1.25. Make reservation not later than Monday evening by phoning St Joseph 63.

Adv. 10-26-lt EAST of Fair on Terr. Rd Hair cut, 35c Adv. 10-25t2 F. M.

MILLS alma mater another Benton Har-borite, Bouton Sowers, son of Dr. and Mrs. C. N. Sowers ot this city, also received a degree.

Seventy-five years separated the two. Mr1. Mills was well known here, being connected with the local Street Railway company when he first came here. He owned a large tract of land on Empire avenue. News of his death will be a matter of deep regret to his many Benton Harbor friends and acquaintances.

TEMPERATURES TO BE ABOVE NORMAL Weather outlook for the week Monday: For the region of the Great Lakes: Temperatures mostly above normal, rather frequent unsettled periods, but probably no lengthy precipitation. E. J. MOORE ARRESTED E. J.

Moore, 32, coiored, ot 317 Koss street, Benton Harbor, was arrested late Friday charged with being in arrears in alimony payments. Weather EAST LANSING, Oct. 26 The pressure is low. Saturday morning from the Dakotas eastward across the Great Lakes to New England. Cloudiness prevails throughout the northern states and light rains are reported in a few.

sections. The temperature has risen In the upper Mississippi valley and lake region. The Indications are for somewhat unsettled weather nd mild temperatures in this section during the next 24 hours. The pressure is high and the weather fair and cool in the south and west. Fronts are again reported in portions of the Gulf states and along the south Atlantic coast TIME SPENT.

WELL Is time spent In looking over the varied offers in the Classified Section, Expires Late Friday; Under Prison Sentence' For Contempt (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOUS, Oct. 26 The almost lifelong conflict of Edward Shumaker with tbe liquor traffic was at an end Saturday Death late Friday terminated a lingering Illness of the man who for 22 years had been superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon league. Just as he had fought a losing 'fight in recent years to escape serving a sentence for contempt of th. Indiana supreme court for several; monins, ut. snumaKer nas oeen losing his battle for life with a malignant tumor, the hopelessness of which fight was not revealed to him Friday afternoon he sank into semiconsciousness, but rested easier and was able to recognize members of his family before He was 61 years old.

Friends ot the militant dry leader insisted that his Incarceration at the state penal farm for 63 days early this year sapped his otretogtn and weakened him in his. final illness. The sentence was imposed for publication of articles in which be criticized judges of the supremd court, for 'their decisions in liquor case Waged 2-Year fight For (two years Dr. Shumaker waged a legal fight to escape serving the penal term. He lost every mote but one a motion by Attor- -1 Wi, t-v 'V, it I 4 il.