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THE WEAtHEK Cloudy and somewhat unsettled tonight and Tuesday; somewhat cooler in northwest portion LOGANSPORT PHAROS-TRIBUNE A NEWSPAPER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE VOL. 3 The Cost is Small 1 The cost of a Pharos-Trib- u.ne classified ad Is small-- yie results large. Phone 22, 70 or 312 BEST CLASSIFIED AtfD ADVERTISING MEDIUM LN VOBTHEHN INDIANA LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1922 INTERNATIONAL NKWS LEASED -TIBS REPORTS FROM ALL HARTS OF WOULD Twelve Greatest Women. Women Lack Choice. Pictures of a Prince.

kVomen on Farms. -By A Brisbane Ladies of the League of Women Voters went a list of the twelve greatest in America, but say they cannot make the list--and they can't indeed. No ono today could name even one of them. Three hundred and fifty-seven Christ, the bad-tempered, wild, murderous daughter of King Neoptolemus was making miserable the lite of Philip, her new husband. She danced naked with snakes wrapped around her--nevertheless, she was the greatest woman of that period, for she bore Alexander the Great.

PRICE THREE CENTS. Today Who, in 1808, seeing a tail, gaunt young woman, going in and out of a wjndowless hut in Hardin County, Kentucky, looking about for bears and Indians, keeping house on a dirt floor, would have chosen her for what she was, the world's greatest woman of that time? In that hut, one year later, she bore Abraham Lincoln. know th TmVn ta MACHINE GUNS WERE DESTINED FOR OIKS' WAR Col. Thompson, Harvey's Son-in-Law, Indicted by Federal Grand Jury For An Alleged Conspiracy To Ship Machine Guns Into Ireland for Use by the Sinn Feiners; Violated the Neutrality Laws; Seven Other Men Have Been Indicted. TRENTON, N.

June Marcellus H. Thompson, son-in-law of George Harvey, American ambassador to England, and seven other men have been indicted here by a federal grand jury for an alleged conspiracy to ship machine by their, guns into Ireland for use by the Sinn Fein in violation of the omen ns neu ra laws, it was revealed today. The indictment was returned several months ago, but was not permitted to become public until today. Colonel Thompson is vice president and active head of the LOCAL MAN HIT BY PASSENGER TRAIN SUNDAY HEXRY SITZ KVOCEED FROM WABASH RAILROAD BRIDGE TO STREET BY EXCISE HAS CONCUSSION OF BRAIN Escape From Instant Death Due to Fact That Train as Slowing Down. the work he does, a woman by the children she creates.

The curious thing is that women are not satisfied with that judgment. admit that Phidias was greater than his Auto-Ordnance Company of New greatest statue, but do not realize York City, distributors of arms. that Phidias' mother was greater I In June, 1921, it is alleged, 495 than he. The creator Is -greater machine guns were found buried un- ihan the thing created. There Is one unjust feature about woman's work.

Man selects his material for work. Woman depends for results partly on the sort of man she marries and is not always allowed to choose. That is a handicap that should he adjusted In some way. It wil! be adjusted in the end by woman making thn average man mod enrmzh. Once woman had to r-iek and choose among cannibals.

NTow. usually, the worst choice makes Is a nonentity. I der the coal in the bunkers of the freight ship East Side of the Cosmopolitan line. The discovery was made while th freighter was lying at her dock on the Hohoken, N. waterfront.

The guns were of the type invented by Colonel Thompson's father. Brigadier General John T. Thomp- she "Women that deny fundamental differences between men and women should consider the Vassar baseball game, with college girls plaving aeainst thoir fathers. The fathers won Could anvbady Imagine the mothers of college bovs beating fhelr sons at baseball? The idea is ridiculous. The power of woman goes first into creating a and then civilizing it.

That oucbt to be 1ob bis- enough to satisfy even ambitious woman. Flvprs risked their lives taking to Lonrtrn the earliest Photographs of Prince of Wales in Eirvpt. How foolish, we sziv. to risk life for pictures of a youth that did nnv- i i ercent fnme into the world In fortunate fashion. WP recollect that our flynrs risked their lives carrying first phn- toe-'aphs of the Demnsey prize fleht.

snd our democratic ccnrn calms It is alleged sold the Auto-Ordnance Company. This accusation was made following a long and by aeents of the United States Shipping Eoard and the department of justlcv. Seven Others Indicted Those indicted along with Col. Thompson are: Frank Williams, alias Lawrence ROOT ROT HITS CASS CORN CROP -Another blow has been struck to the growing crops of Cass county, according to information reaching County Agent Zechiel. The damage which has already been sustained aggregates thousands of dollars it Ji ns estimated while it is evident that further damage will be reported.

The damage Is due to root rot and and reports from all sections of (lie county thow that but lew sections have escaped the disease. Root rot is shown to exist primarily upon ground which was last yf'ar planted in corn, according to the county agent while the presence of the disease may be determined Henry Sitz, age 36, residing at 338 Burlington avenue, lies in the St. Joseph hospital seriously injured I suffering with concussion of the I brain, a cut two inches long on the left side of the head; probable internal injuries; and bad bruises about the face and body, the result of being hurled from the east end of the Wabash railroad bridge at Fifth and East Wabash avenue yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock when he was struck by Wabash passenger train No. 4, due in this city daily at 3:33 p. m.

daily. After being struck by the locomotive, the victim fell a. distance of twelve feet to the ground where he was picked up by members of the train crew in an unconscious condition and put aboard the passenger ORA O. BURTON COUNTRY HOME Tw a one half miles northwest of Lucerne in Harrison township is located tne home of Ora O. Burton, farmer.

modern home appears above. A cut of his two story SIX AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS MARK OVER SUNDAY TOURING ACTIVITIES One Woman, Hurled From Buggy, Wfl eH Ante Hits It, is Serionslr Injured --Four Babies Escape Injnry-Conpe Turns Orer But OccnjMints Escape-- Maclnes Damaged. Only one casualty was reported from a total of six accidents which occurred in and near Logansport yesterday and last evenfng Mrs Dora Ranee, residing west of this city on the Bates street road was severely but not seriously injured late last night while her three small children wh were with her. were somewhat shaken up when the horse and TWO FAMILIES WIPED OUT WHEN FORD AUTOMOBILE IS HITBYPEISYLVANIA FLYER Edward Carson and Wife, Jesse Carson and Wife, and Harry Dempsey, Adopted Son of the Younger Carson Family, Meet Instant Death at Royal Centre, Sunday--Bodies Brought Here Today. orse an 1 1( ey wer ridin their way home, was struck Dunki Chase ambulance were hurriedly Tried to Get Airay.

Sitz who failed to see the train i until it was nearly upon him. attempted to reach the side of the tracks. He had just reached the side of the rails when a corner of the engine struck him, throwing The horse hitched to the ad was by Dr. Mrs. Kance was said to be suffering considerably today and whether her injuries are of a more serious nature than first ascertained, canaot be determined at present Fred Buckland of this city experienced a narrow escape from Five persons met instant death yesterday afternoon at 12:10 o'clock in Royal Centre, when the Pennsylvania flyer in charge of Engineer Charles Helvie and Conductor M.

Holies of this city, hit a Ford automobile. Every occupant of the car was killed, four were dead when members of the train crew reached them, the fifth died on the way to the morgue. The dead are: EDWARD CARSON, 68, retired farmer, Onward. MRS. DELILAH CARSON, 72, wife of Edward Carson, Lin JESSE CARSON, 35, son, basketmaker, Peru.

MRS. NORA CARSON, 38, wife of Jesse Carson, Peru HARRY DEMPSEY, 14, adopted son of the vounger Carsons, Peru. Jesse Carson and family left Peru early yesterday morning, drove to Onward where they were joined by Mr. and Mrs train and rushed to toe" Wabash jnachlne belong'to ITarl of'this The Edward Carson, father and mother andI together tte depot where Dr. j.

H. Reid and the. and the four occupants thrown to the sfde of went to Royal Centre where they spent the VP VlftfYl TIO 1 1- 1 It -m tragedy occurred. They had left home De Lacy, Lawrence Pierce, who through ihe reddish brown and deep is alleged to have paid for the blue color of the corn. and Fred Williams, brother of Frank alias Edward De Lacy.

He is said COMMITTEE GETS READY to have been implicated In the THE June 19--Commit- chase of the arms. (tees of the conference on recon- (Teorgp E. Rorke, a salesman struction of Russia today began Washington. D. who is suspectedi their BLAKE FINED $100 AND COSTS Harry Blake was fined $100 and from the bridge.

The "roadway costa ln Ilce court. Saturday after- of East Wabash avenue extends under the bridge at the point where he was struck, the man falling into the street. Sitz was suffering great agony upon reaching the hospital and throughout the night, it was impossible to ease his great pain despite opiates which were administered. This afternoon the patient was rest- noon when arraigned before Judge Custer to answer to a. charge of violating the state liquor law, by having liquor in his possession.

Charges of violating the liquor law filed against Charles Kleckner some time ago, were dismissed when he was arraigned in court while Geo. Conn, cha.rged with intoxication was also allowed to go free when the ing somewhat easier and barring! alS a WeQ go free when the possible internal hurts it believed proa8CUtlu witness failed to put in believed that he will recover despite the seriousness of his injuries. of having been one of the alleged chief conspirators cused of having placed most of the guns. Frank E. Merling, secretary of the Auto-Ordnance Company.

Frank B. Ochsenriter. of New York find Washington. D. who is alleged to have placed the original order for some of the guns.

John Culphane. a New York City truck final preparations for their du Wa! with the Russian commis- 01 i.ne anegen; i me tvussian commis- bash and who is of experts next Monday when I the order for! data will be gathered upon which If thp to base recommendations. I I I I 1 I I IU down. Adoration of a reigning who is charged i having 0 1 tTM ct ble PTM. from station of than adoration of a prize fighter.

Flammarion. French astronomer. that the the American Express Company his storehouse in the Bronx. A to soul exists: a man has bodies, spiritual and physical. two But the usual human boing says.

"Thank V.MI. I need no proof." We feel about the soul as Samuel Johnson felt when freedom of the will was discussed: "Sir. WP know that thp will is free, and 'that's an end of it." who is said to have transferred the shipment of the guns from the Cul- nhnne storehouse to the ship at Hoboken. In addition the Auto-Ordnance Company was indicted as a. corporation.

AGAIXST. SOVIETS June 19--Revolution KF. VOLTS LONDON, against the soviet government has broken out at Butureionv, in the province of Vernoesch. according to an Exchange Telegraph Dispatch from Copenhagen today quoting a report received there frcm Helsing- fors. JIAT CALL COXFERE3NTE.

WASHINGTON, June 19-- Republican leaders of the house said today traveling at a enty miles an hour at the time of the accident The train which was in charge of Con- appearance. SEEK HARDIWS INDIANAPOLIS, June President Harding and Secretary" of State Hughes, themselves Baptists, are called upon to do everything ductor Charles Thornburg, formerly! ss to secure united action of this city, was Just slowing down I the United States and Euro- esqape serious injury last evening at 10:20 o'clock at the corner of Third and Market street when his machine was struck by a street car Buck- FREE STATERS WIN IN IRISH ELECTION land was just backing his autorao- havet swep 1 Dublin in the bile away from the curbing. At the corner of Nineteenth and L. R. Day who resides near tbe crossing where the accident occurred, told Engineer Helvie.

that Jessa (-arson who was driving, stopped hii automobile just before reaching crossing. He stated that the crossing alarm was ringing and the roar of the flyer as she bore down upon returns town could be distinctly hear After indicated that the free staters stopping, however, he again started ne mentary elections. Mulcahy and are leading. two independents parlia- hig car and had reached the center of the tracks when the Broadway yesterday afternoon, a car operated by Leroy -Yeider and a Was re rted that- Eamonn de machine belonging to H. J.

Dewen- I Vale a chief leader of the Reter came together, both cars being Publicans would immediately issue considerably damaged. The occu- a manife sto in opposition to the I i constitution and calling upon struck the automobile. passenger pants escaped unscathed. Another'accident was reported at the corner of Fourth and Broadway yesterday morning when a Hudson touring car driven by Miss Ann Zimmerman crashed Into the rear or the Dodge touring car belonging to Dr. B.

E. Masters. Master's the country to resist its adoption. A conference was held at noon at de Valera's headquarters by his supporters. EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST LONDON, June 19 Eighteen for the crossing over the Peansyl- vanio i-o i i vania railroad tracks.

Sitz was injured in an accident somewhat similiar several years ago when he fell from the Third street pean governments looking to Hverance and security of perilled Christian people in Near East, in resolution adopted by de- im- the bridge. VANCE BROTHERS INJURED Harry and Fred Vance, brothers uoc oam Luua Peru Were slightly inured Sun- they expected President Harding to i a evenm about 5 o'clock when their automobile turned turtle i the Northern Baptist convention here today. The resolutions pro- Vide for a committee to call in person and urge the president and Sec- call a conference immediately to L. determine definitely what action is Mexlco lke near Peru. First to be taken on the administration's 6WS to reach this city ot the a cci- ship subsidy bill.

They are conji-' was hat the brothers had been BOM'S AFTER TARIFF WASHINGTON. 19--A reso- Human beinss know, from within that the soul exists, and that's and that- Let an ody in doubt lution stipulating that the soldier's read Wordsworth's poem on Immor- i bonus bill shall be passed immediately a the tariff bill was disposed of was adopted today at a i conference of Republican senators. Once statistics told you that of in- The vote was 27 to ll. a number on talitv. HP will know a the spirit within cometh from a dent that the president will give his consent to their suggestion that final action on the merchant marine legislation go over until after the senate has finished with the tariff bill.

mates In our insane asylums the (Continued on Page Three the Republican side absenting themselves from the conference. PANIC REIGNS IN CHINA TODAY; THOUSAND KILLED FOVD DEAD.Kf TARD CHICAGO, June 19--James E. Stroud, an electrician of New York City, was found dead early today in a yard in the rear of an apartment house on the southside. Stroud was enroute from New York to Des Moines for a reunion with his wife and infant daughter, living there with his mother-in-law. Police believe he was lured to tie vicinity robbed and murdered.

fatally injured. The Vance brothers are well known in Logansport where they have frequently visited. "MCK" GETTDTR BETTER MOSCOW, June 19--An official bulletin issued here today said that the health of Nicolai Lenine is improving. retary of state to bring action. about this FATHER KILLS SOJf.

COVINGTON, June 19 C. B. Brooks, 65, a farmer living in Kenton County, eight miles from Covington, shot and killed his son J. Leslie Brooks, 33, this morning. He then went into a workshop and substituting a shotgun for the revolver he had used, ended his own life.

The tragedy is said to be the result of many bitter quarrels between the father and son which had their climax in a heated altercation Sunday. sccratch. A Dodge coupe also turned over the vicinity of Anoka yesterday arternoon striking a telephone pole in an attempt to make a turn in i Sky was wrecked the Scottish coast today. machine was somewhat damaged. lives were Iost hen the Admiralty An Oakland coupe occupied by a traveling salesman and his wife turuned completely over east of this city yesterday afternoon.

The machine landed on its right side but the occupants got out without a POLITltlAN DIES. LOUSVILLE, June Montedonico, 42 years old, died former Louisville today at Central politicial, Kentucky Hospital for the insane at Lakeland as the result of injuries which he sustained riunday night when at- the road. The by another inmate of the.in- pants who escaped unharmed could not be learned. A car being driven by Otto Schrader of 339 Grove street crash- McCORMICK IMPROVES. CHICAGO, June F.

IAU.CJ, vji OOP Ve Street CTHSn-- x- ed into a machine being operated by ff cCorfflic chairman of the In- Henry Wahrenberg of 424 Four- I te rnational Harvester Company, who teenth street noon on the late Saturday Stoney Pike Four- after- road underwent a gland operation is improving rapidly last were ths Four of the five occupants hurled to the side of the right-of- way, Edward Carson, the fifth pae- senger, was caught on the pilot of the engine and together with which was also picked up carried for nearly half a mile before the train could be brought to a stop The train was backed up and the tord and mangled body of Edward Carson taken from the engine. What possessed the young Carson to try to cross the tracks will never be known. It is the human assumption, however, that he did not realize the train was so near the view of the tracks for a considerable distance i obscured by the depot, and believed he could cross before the flyer, or he may have thought the train stopped at the town and that he had plenty of time to make the crossing. The train Is a limited and does not stop at Royal Centre. It a running eighteen minutes behind time, it is reported, and was makine around sixty miles an hour whei the crossing was reached.

The train due in here at 12:30 did not reach Logansport until 1 o'clock The remaps or the taken to the Douglass dead were Weyand which runs from Burlington avenue cordin to reports today, to Eighteenth street, south of the city. Wahrenberg was turni.ng around in the road when Schrader -The BA.V OX BURGLARS. WASHINGTON, June Government whiskey warehouses are to be made burglar proof and the cost of Panic reigned in Canton today as a result of the intermittent shelling' hiskey now remaining in the the city by three -cruisers in the Pearl river which remained loyal United tate are placed Trj Sun. poured southward to Hongkong by the thousands The warehouses in Maryland, Pennsvl streets are deserted. I vania and Kentucky.

The heroine of the hour is Samuel Wong, American wife of ir i Won Harvard graduate and technical adviser to Dr. Sun Yat Sen who' A I A KILLED IN MEXICO. risked her lifs passing through Canton alone to Shameen Island where' WASHINGTON. June Warren snt appealed for help to locate Madame Sun. i 1 Harvey, an American citizen, She revealed the details of the dramatic escape of Dr Sun Accord aS rdered bandits Saturday, ing to Wong, Dr.

Sun fled under fire from hts besieaed vamtn 1 ve miles out ofTampico. fluised as a coolie, making his way to a waitTnc, aunboat Ame can consul at Tampico TM Seven Small Children Bid Dad Goodbye; Was Hanged In County Jail until last Friday Leskowski had no notice of the date of his execution and Saturday he was taken to Rockview. He had a telk with nis spiritual adviser and his seven small children before he was hurried on the railroad trip to scene of hu death. r.f er i' has een the custom to give a man 20 days notice of the day on which he has to meet his fate, by 'the reading of the death warrant by the sheriff, but county officials did not receive notice of the impending event any sooner than Leskowski Leskowski was convicted of killing his wife while he was intoxicated. The group of children bidding farewell to their father mOSt affectlng scen es ever witnessed in the county On the way to Rockview Leskowski and his guards boarded a tfjsm hauling a coffin, which Leskowski was convinced was his STATE BESTS CASE.

WAUKEGAN, 111., un 19. end of the trial of Governor Small of Illinois, on charges i conspiracy to embezzle state fund Len ran into him. The Schrader machine turned over in the collision and was badly damaged although I tae driver was Wahren: appeared be in sight today when bergs machine, which is practically the state rested its case at new, was not badly damaged and o'clock, the occupants of the car also es-1 caped--injury. morgue of Royal Centre, where they ac prepared for burial. Edward Carson was most terribly mangled.

Death was due to a fracture of the skull. Mrs. Edward Carson died of abdominal injuries. Jesse suffered a fractured ars Carson skull. Mrs.

a broken neck Within ten minutes after the crash hundred of people, including on Page Two) DEPARTMENTS CALLED OUT. MUNCIE, June departments from Muucie, Winchestei and Union City called to Farmland, a village of 1,000 inhabitants, 14 miles east of Muncie, saved the business district from, destruction when fire gutted the three-story i Knights of Pythias block at 3 o'clock this morning. The loss is' estimated at $15.000 with $10,000 insurance. The lodge hall and a grocery on the lower floor are total loss. EYES OF NATION FOCUSED ON TWO STATES TODAY WASHINGTON, June ministration and its of Maine-face primary contests in ttelr respective will determine whether they are to be Republican majority of the senate Both are identified with what is known day Which as member, of the rtai Whi e(the fVlend8 of H.7.-p'refcM eo" strong ty thlr.

Kl Ld Plt Guernsey." rmldable is former representative Frank E. For the Republican nomination, Kellogg is being opposed by former representative Erne.t Lundeen, who is pronounced progressive and who immediate consideration by Senator also as tne support of the nonpartisan league. Lundeen achieved coi- Dial, Democrat, South Carolina, the slderable notoriety as a member of congress by opposing the entry of resolution was referred to the sen- the United States into the war. Kelloaa's friends accuse Lundeen ate naval affairs committee. ing a "radical." day introduced a resolution in the senate demanding an investigation of the navy's efficiency and economy of administration, particularly in regard to naval bases, navy yards and stations.

On objections to its.