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Muncie TAR V-- First in- Circulati on an A i i ng The VOI-. 48 NO. 354J PRICE THREE CENTS. MUNC1E, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1925. Ford Freight Airline, First in U.

S. on Paying Basis MARY PICKS HIM FOR LEADING MAN TRIAL OF TRIO NOTTO BEHELD Ml lCvLy A vt4Snlf first Ford freight plane. Below, at riant: Kdnel Ford and his father, Hamilton nnd Machlnhl Harry Rnsnell talking to Judge kmruw M. Chicago for Detroit. CONFERENCE TO SOFIA FUNERAL SERVICE SCENE OF BOMB DEATH Many Killed by Explosion in Cathedral at Georghieff Obsequies.

AFTER. ASSASSINATION AND ATTACK ON THE KNG Sofia. Bulgaria, April 16 (By The Associated Press). The ancient ca--thedral of Sveti Krai (the Saint King) was the scene of a terrible outrage this afternoon. The members of the Bulgarian cabinet, hundreds of leading political personalities and citizens, and many military officers were assembled at the funeral of General Georghieff, assassinated in the streets of Sofia Tuesday night.

In the course of the services a bomb, or bombs, exploded, "causing -widespread death and destruction and partly wreck-" Ing the old building. Xnmerons Bodies Taken Out. How many persons were killed Is not known, but rescuing parties have already taken numerous bodies out the ruins. None ofithe ministers was killed, although several were wounded. It the general belief that this outrage, the attack on King Boris and the murder of General Georg- hieff constitute an attempt to provoke a communist revolution.

It Is expected martial law will be proclaimed. An -attempt was made Tuesday to assassinate King Boris, of Bulgaria, as be was motoring near Sofia, and the king narrowly escaped death. That night General Georghieff was assassinated in the streets of the capital. These attacks were 'the culmination of a long series of disturbances which have distressed the country and developed into a national crisis. Overthrew Stamboulinty.

Georghieff was one of the leaders in the' 1923 revolution which overthrew the Stamboulisky government. The plot was carried outbyj reserve officers, who were assisted by the active army. Stamboulisky, who had headed an agrarian ministry, fled from Sofia after hjs overthrow June 9, 1923, but wis captured a few days after by troops and was shot and killed when a of peasants attempted to rescue iy.ni. lnl921 King Boris narrowly escaped death when a bomb was thrown at him as he reviewed a parade from the royal palace. The king has been taking an active part recently in the efforts to quiet the turbulent conditions of his country, but without success.

Three deputies were assassinated in Sofia with in a month's time early this year. Reports of Revolt Plot. Within the last few days the au thorities announced they had seized documents showing that an armed revolt was planned for this spring. Continued on Thirteenth I'ftftc MONTREAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL IS BURNING Montreal, April 17. Half of the city's fire fighting apparatus was called out to combat a blaze in the St.

Brigid's Catholic school which broke out at 12:45 o'clock this (Fri day) morning. REPRIEVE GRANTED TO RUSSELL SCOTT Illinois Governor Acts When i rormer rromoter is Nearing the Noose, jppringfield, 111., April 16. Russell Scott, of Toronto, received a r-priev of ninety days from Governor Small, today, shortly after the Suprem Court had failed to take 'action on his appeal. The Supreme Court had neglected again today to act on a petition for a writ of supersedeas to save Scott from hanging tomorrow. Scott's lawyers left the courtroom directly for Governor Small's office.

The governor had indicated yesterday that he would not interfere if the SJupreme Court acted. Petition Too It was unofficially announced when the court passed it that the petition was too long for proper examination In so short a time. The governor granted the stay for this reason. 111 fortune has "attended Scott's case from the time of his arrest. A.

Centlnned on Second rata. "LONE WOLF" GUILTY: GETS LIFE SENTENCE April 16. A jury in Superior Court today returned a verdict of guilty against James E. "Walters, of Richmond, Va, known as the Lone Volf, raider of women's In the Back Bay district- Walter waa tried on six counts of breaking and entering, and also charged with carrying weapons. -He was sentenced to life Imprisonment by Judge Bishop In Suffolk HAS RECOVERED HER COMPOSURE FROM COLLAPSE Gary Who Confes se'd Poisoning of Three, Goes Into Sound Sleep.

HEARING ON MURDER CHARGE IS POSTPONED Crown Point, April 16. Mrs. Anna Cunningham, 49, of Gary, who collapsed today after confessing the killing by poison of three of five members of her family who hsve died in the last six years, and the poisoning of another son who is in a Chicago hospital, had recovered her composure tonight. Sheriff Benjamin Strong said that the middle-aged widow, who said she killed those she loved best in order to take them with her to Heaven, had eaten after being revived and had then gone Into a sound sleep. Word was received her from medical authorities at Iafayette to-right that the analysis of" the bodies of two of Mrs.

Cunningham's sons showed a large amount of rsenic in the body of one, and a very small amount in the body of another. Partly A little of lhe arsenic was found in he, body of Harry Cunningham. and this in pvt substantiates Mrs. Cunningham's story. She maintained that she had not poisoned her husband, David, Sr.

the first to die in 1918, nor Harry, the fourth to die. She admitted, however, that she had spread arsenic on bread and butter and given it to Isabelle, Charles and YTalter, at the same time taking some herself. They died, but it only made her ill. she said. She also admitted she had poi soned David, who is ill in a Chicago hospital.

She said she had not poisoned Mae, the only Sur viving daughter, because she did not like her well enough. Arraignment Postponed. Mrs. Cunningham was to have been arraigned today on a chargs of having murdered her son, Wl-tei-, but after she, collapsed tha, hearing was postponed Indefinitely. Authorities saidthat a coroner's inquest would pfobably be held first over the body, and thatlt might be two or three days before the worn- an Is formally arraigned.

It was the second time Mrs. Cunningham has collapsed since her, arrest, she having fainted In Chicago after she' had been questioned for several A few hours later she tried to choke herself to death with bed clothing. Only One Murder Charge. The authorities here said that they would probably press only the one murder charge, and that the Continued on Eleventh Page. FINE WOMAN JAYWALKER Cleveland, April 16.

Mrs. Josephine Campbell, the first person arrested for violating the Jaywalks ing ordinance recently ordered clamped down by Traffic Commissioner Donahue, was fined $1 and costs in Traffic Court today. Mrs. Campbell pleaded guilty to the charge of walking by a policeman who was holding back pedestrians in the downtown district. LIES IN AMBUSH AND SLAYS HUSBAND Kokomo Woman, Refused Automobile, Says She Acted in Self-Defense.

Kokomo, April 16. fethel Dombroski today shot' and killed her- husband, Stanley Dombroski, 29, with a shotgun, as the out growth of a quarrel in which Stan ley had refused to buy an automo bile. The couple had quarreled the night before, and this morning Dombroski was arrested on a. charge of assault and battery. When he returned to the home with, the announced lnflntton of getting his clothing, wife was bushed behind the front door.

She discharged the shotgun a glass panel, point-blank into his vitals, as he attempted to open the locked door. Mrs. Dombroski is in Jail, after asserting that she, acted in self-, defense. The grand jury will be asked to return a verdict of first degree murder. Prosecuting Attorney Homer R.

Miller has announced. 15 ARRESTED IN RAIDS IN HAMILTON COUNTY Nobleeville. 1 April 16. Fifteen alleged liquor law violators were arrested here and in other towns of Hamilton County today In. a series of raids by local officers and federal prohibition agents.

Five gallons of grain alcohol and a stilir which is said to have been taken from the drug store of Wm Robbins" at Sheridan, was confiscated. Robbing escaped when officers allowed him to return to his room to get a COOLIDGE NEWS MILL TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY White House May Deny That Such.oSuch Impression Was Given. PRESIDENT MUST NOT BE QUOTED DIRECTLY By David Lawrence. Washington, April 1G. President Coolidge is becoming more and more communicative at least to the press yet, so far as the cpuntry is concerned, he maintains a char acteristic silence.

The process by which the President discusses a number of subjects, vital anJK otherwise, but; is protect ed from direct quotation, is one that has undergone a somewhat intensive development under the Coolidge administration. Lately there has been striking evidence of a renewed interest In it, not only in America, but abroad. Mr. Coolidge hasn't exactly been misquoted, but various inferences have drawn and impressions broadcast from the Information he gives to the press and the White House has taken the position that it is not responsible for anything except that which it officially authorizes In writing. "Write Out Their Questions.

Twice a week Tuesdays and Fri days the correspondents gather at the White House and are received by the President. The questions are written out by the newspaper men on slips of paper and passed in to the President's desk as the cor respondents file into the room. Mr. Coolidge takes up the ques tions one" by one. and he may Ignore some of them or answer them.

Nobody knows wfiat questions are handed by everybody else, so there Is no opportunity to ascertain what significance there is in disregarding certain queries. The President speaks at length very often. His answers are usr ually clear and comprehensive and he does not deal In ambiguities so the correspondents get definite Im pressions. But they are not at lib erty to tell the American people that the information they print came from the President. They must attribute it all to a "White House" or say that "the President is represented as believing," etc If they should happen to publish an.

Impression received from the President and that Impres sion creates embarrassment for the President, the White House reserves the right to deny that tbe impres sion was glen at all. This aa Illustration. A case in point was the recent episode in which the correspondents received he impression that the President was taking Ambassador Jusserand to- task for making speech- about the" French debt instead of telling his views to the debt commission. This was fof- owed by an official statement from Continued on Second Tax- DISABLED ARMY BLiMP IS SAVED The TC-3 Lands in Missouri After Drifting More Than Two Hours. Black Walnut, April 16.

An army truck is on its way here from Scott Field, an army aviation near Belleville, 111., to take back the partialy deflated bag and gondola of the TC-3. a big dirigible which safely dropped to earth here this afternoon with its crew of seven after drifting with the winds across the Missouri and. Mississippi rivers from CaseyvJIle, III. The huge airship suffered a mis hap to its rudder shortly Rafter noon and drifted for more than two hours. Gas Allowed to Escape.

Part the 300,000 cubic feet of non-inflammable gas which kept it afloat was allowed to escape before the dirigible descended. The TC-3 left Scott Field late this morning on a training flight, and over Caseyville the control to the rudder failed to work, leaving the-craft and Its crew at the mercy of the air currents. While the ship Continued on Sixth Pace. TO STREW FLOWERS FROM THE SKY FOR VICTIM OF AIRPLANE Kokomo, April 16. The ashes of Lieutenant Clifford Kile-man, former local boy, who was killed March 21 when an airplane in which he was flying at.

Wheeler Field, Honolulu, nose-dived 150 feet and was wrecked, will be burled fit; New London, near here, Sunday afternoon, April 19. The American Legion ritual service will be read at the graveside, while a squadron of airplanes from the na tional guard flying field here will strew flowers from the sky. The lieutenant's body, charred beyond recognition, was cremated at Honolulu by military orders. BEFORE MAY 25 Stephenson, Klinck, Gentry, Plead Not Guilty Motions to Quash Overruled. LAST HONORS ARE PAID TO MADGE OBERHOLTZER Indianapolis.

April 16. D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the'Ku KluxKlan, and his two al leged companions, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry, who are charged jointly with conspiracy to kidnap Miss Madge Oberholtzer, who died last Tuesday from the effects of poison she is said to have taken, and who was buried today, entered pteas of not guilty today after Judge James A. Collins overruled defense motions to quash the Indictments.

Miss Oberholtzer died following a four weeks' illness. According to her physician, Dr. J. N. Kingsbury, her death was caused by poison she took after an alleged attack by Stephenson.

Stephenson, in addition to being charged with conspiracy to kidnap, is charged with assault Lwith intent to kill, assault with in tent to rape and malicious mayhem. Klinck and Gentry are named only In the conspiracy indictment No Date Set for Trial. hlle no date was set for the trial of the trio. Judge Collins in timated he would be unable to hear the case until after May 25, because of the crowded condition of the court, docket. Further considera tion of the case is being given by the grand Jury, it was said.

The motions to quash were filed last Saturday by Inman, after Judge Collins had sustained demurrers to pleas In -abatement, attacking the validity of the indictments, which had been filed previously by Inman. Klinck and Gentry until recently lived In Evansville. "Sothtng to Be Said." Stephenson, Klinck and Gentry entered the courtroom with their attorney soon after 9 a. m. They sat with Inman at the counsel's table when Judge "Collins asked whether Mr.

Inman "desires to- be heard on the "There is nothing to 'be said. Mr, Inman motions speak for themselves." Judge Collins then overruled the motions and, at Inman' a request, entered on the record exceptions of the defense counsel to the ruling. "What do you desire that the records show further?" Judge Collins asked, "The records should show that the exceptions are made for all the defendants." Mr. Inman replied, "and also that the defendants waive arralgnmenUand plead not guilty." The Inquest Postponed. The inquest into the death of the girl, started yesterday at which Dr.

Kingsbury gave Coroner Paul D. Robinson the girl's ante-mortem Continued on Page. STORM-DRIVEN R-33 RETURNING British Dirigible, With Crew of 20, Carried Across the NortliJSea. London, April 1" fBy The' Associated Press). Relief came tonight to an over-wcpugbt British public, which had been fearful throughout the day as to the fate of some score of officers and men who were borne away early Thursday in the dirigl ble R-S3, which' was torn from its mooring mast at Pulham by a fierce gale and driven across the North Sea.

The relief came with a report which reached the air ministry that the dirigible had successfully rid den out the storm and was starting on her homeward Journey from Hoi land. Shewas making from five to ten knots an hour, '-the reports said and expected to reachhe airdrome Borne time this (Friday) morning. a i The air ministry announced that the Pulham air station received a message at 3:44 o'clock this morning from the R-33, saying she was making fifteen knots for jfVoivestoft, yith a destroyer escort. At 4:30 the airship asked the sloop Godetla, which Is following, to Vflose In on her. The air ministry o'clock this morning made publio a message received from the R-33 saying she was making about eight knots an Continued on Eleventh Pare.

MUST QUIT OWNERSHIP GLASS COMPANIES Philadelphia, April 16. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals today -ordered Thatcher Manufacturing Company of Elmira, N. to divest itself of the ownership of the Essex Glass Company, Mt. Vernon, the Travis Glass Company, Clarksburg, W. Va, and the Lock-port Glass Company, Lockport, N.

which, it acquired in 1920 in a deal approximately iSff v. f-' fy-'W k. Fairy tales do come true. Hugh Allan (above), recently a high school boy In Oakland, played his first part In motion pictures six months ago. Now he Is Mary Pick-ford's leading man.

He is a six-footer, and was chosen by Mary herself for his handsomeness. SHIP OF STATE AGAIN AFLOAT: PAINLEVE PILOT Full French "Crew" Listed and Troublesome "Cargo" Thrown Overboard. LEVY ON CAPITAL WALKS THE PLANK FIRST THING Paris, Ajpril 16 (By The Associated Press). Parliamentarians described the cabinet formed by M. Painleve today as composed of the safer and saner elements of the left group, as compared with the Herriot government, and with pronounced leanings toward the center and right parties.

The new ministry continue the policy' of conciliation toward former enemy countries, relying en tirely on the operation of the Dawes plan for th? collection of reparations, and, it is declared, will make an earnest attempt to reach some agreement wth Great Britain and the United States on inter-allied Sorlallit Lose Oat. So far as internal affairs are concerned, the idea of a levy on capital has been abandoned, and the policy demanding complete enforcement of the law respecting separation of church and state, which caused much bitter opposition to the late Herriot government, will be allowed to lapse. This be possible owing to the practical elimination -of the Socialist party from the councils of the new government and the loss of prestige and authority of the Continued on Eleventh Page. DRY AGENTS MAKE BIG LIQUOR FIND Louisville, April 16. Barrels and barrels of red liquor, said to constitute the largest find in the city since prohibition became effective, were seized by federal authorities at noon when they raided the Eugene Walsh cooperage works on Fourth street, near the 'Ohio River.

Most of the wfcisky was found in kegs, and probably will amount to several thousand gallons. It was stated. A complete bottling plant and dozens of barrels of metal caps for bottles were discovered in one of -the five warehouses of the works, officers reported. Preside. Walsh 'and his employes were placed under arrest and his place seized and sealed.

LONG SKIRTS LOSE IN PARIS BATTLE Paris, April 16, The battle of the long and short skirts Is still going on. The 1925 spring offensive in this struggle which has been in progress for the last two years, shows, however, that the long skirts have effected a slight retreat. Arbitration was attempted, but the referee the dressmakers-have ruled that it is Impossible to negotiate, inasmuch as the short skirt, while an adornment to some women, especially those of slender figure, tends to make others look ridiculous. Reasonably short skirts, ending about halfway between the knee. and and of moderate width, have been the rule thus far this spring.

if vx if Above: The "Maiden Dearborn" Henry Ford. At left: Pilot Edward Landls just before hopping off from HAYNES SPEAKS T0JE1B0ISTS Laymen's Association in Favorpf Union of Churches -Officers Are Named. Anderson, April 16. United States Senator James E. Watson and Major Roy A.

Haynes, national prohibition enforcement officer from Washington, were headllners of to day's program of the eighty-second annual North Indiana E. Conference, in session here, 1 and drew one thousand out-of-town vTsitors to the meeting. Sen'ator Watson In- brief but eloquent address lasting one-half hour, Introduced Major- Haynes, who expressed pleasure at, address ing a group of Methodists, whom he honored for the important part they have played in bringing about the national prohibition amend ment. Walter Wrtkliig At the close of their annual ses sion this afternoon the Laymen's Association elected Walter Werking, Anderson, president, 1 and named F. W.

Greene, Syracus, secretary- treasurer, Presidents of the "various conference districts elected by the Laymen's Association today were: Lf N. Scott, Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne district; D. C. Tufnbull, Mishawaka, Goshen District; G. E.

Meek, Kokomo, Logansport district; C. H. Neff, Anderson, Muncie H. L. Burr, Newcastle, Richmond district; A.

H. Sapp, Huntington, Wabash district. Walter Werking presided at the Laymen's meeting ani named the following committees Nomination Jj C. Coppes, Nappanee; Jay dinger, Garrett; Y- D- Weaver, Logansport; C. C.

Cochran, Atlanta; Riley Continued on Sixth Page. 2 WOMEN AND CHILD BURNED TO DEATH IN AUTOMOBILE MISHAP Yankton, S. April, 16. Two women ami a eruia were burnecj to death, and another woman was injured today when their automo bile plunged from the highway near Beresford, overturned and burst into flames. The dead, reports received here said, are Mrs.

S. N. Hereford, of Aberdeen, Miss Doreen Fin-negan, Yankton, and David Flnne-ganage'3. Mrs. D.

M. Finnegan, daughter of Mrs. Hereford, was severely injured. Miss Finnegan, a school teacher, was armng. sm lost control or he car, which plunged Into an em bankment and pinned Its occupants beneath it when it overturned.

INCH OF SNOW Cassadaga. April 16. Nearly an Inch ot anew fell here today and aa far sontk as Sin-rlalrville, five miles away. Detroit, April 16 (By The Central Press). Is Henry Ford going to be king of aviation, too? The world's biggest automobile manufacturer is making what is generally conceded a success of the first air freight line in America, and is forming plans to extend It so that all of his plants In StrXouisrst: Paur.

Iron Mountain, and St. Mo. will be linked directly with Detroit by planes operating on a schedule time The first plane is no operating between Detroit and Chicago, making a round trip every other day, Continued on 8ecod Pajce. 'NICKEL PLATE' MERGER SAVING i Outlined in Detail by Presi dent Bernet Stockholders wasnmgton, April IB. Two aspects of the Nickel Plate merger plan of O.

P. and M. J. Van Swer ingen were brought under consider ation at today's continuation of the Interstate Commerce Commission' hearing on the question. J.

J. Bernet, president of th Nickel Plate corporation.outlined In direct testimony the prospect of more economic operation, reduced security capitalization and bettered service for the public which he saw in the program. Then, in four hours of cross-examination by at torneys for minority stockholding groups in two of the roads con cerhed, the genesis of the maraer plan, the question of profits to come from it and how these were to be divided were brought into the record One Saving of S4.600.000. Mr. Bernet was still unexcused when adjournment for the day was taken, after the questioning had led him into an explanation of the in tricate structure of inter-corporate agreements and tentative security exchanges, by which, lf the commis Continued on Second Face.

THREE CINCINNATI DETECTIVES FOUND GUILTY, GRAFT CASE Cincinnati, April 16. A ver dict of guilty was returned by a jury in United States District Court here late tonight In the case of Cincinnati City Detectives James Hayes, Fred I. Bullerdlck and Robert Kinney, charged with conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Bullerdlck and Hayes were ad judged guilty on all four counts of the Indictment returned by a recent special federal grand jury. Kinney was found guilty on two and not guilty on two counts.

The four counts of the indictment were for conspiracy in the trans portation, the sale and the posses sion of liquor and In maintenance of a nuisance. Kinney was found not guilty on the first two eounts, but penalty twill be the same as in the other verdicts. nThe maximum sentence is two years' Imprisonment and 10,000 fine, i BE HELD TODAY Civic Club Committees Will Discuss Industrial Problems of City. v' With committees named by eight civic organizations, plans have been completed for the conference at the chamber of commerce this afternoon at 4 o'clock, at which the two lead ing problems confronting the citi zens of Muncie will be discussed. Committees were selected yesterday by the Ad, Optimist and Exchange clubs, and prior to yesterday rep resentative bodies' had been chosen1 by the Dynamo, Lions, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs and by the Merchants Association.

The purpose of the conference, as announced by the new Industries committee of the chamber of com merce, which has called the meet Ing, is contemplating, first, the building up of a better and even stronger ei vie spirit in Muncie by selling the city to its own citi zens, and. second, the sfrengthening of the industrial situation. Held Elsewhere. Conferences of the kind have been held with great success In other cities where the residents are desirous of making a keen analysis of their advantages and disadvantages, and" an abundance of data has -been gathered by the new industries committee for consideration. The idea of, other cities have been gone over minutely to determine exactly' how and with what success similar might be applied to Muncie.

The two problems, In the expectations of the committee, will be discussed in a general way this afternoon, and their consideration fti reater detail probably will be left additional conferences. The organizations to be repre-Contlnued'On Sixth Page. CLOUDT. PROBABLT RAIN. Chlcacr, April 1.

Forecast: tSTMANA Increasing cloudiness sad lightly warmer Friday, followed by showers and local thunderstorms at nlhi and on Satnrday. TEMPERATURE IN MUNCIE Last Twenty-four Hours. (Courtesy Indian General Service Co.) 1 a. a a. knl P.

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