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THE WEATHER 1 Cloudy, coolw- and possibly frost A NBWePAPBR FOR PUBLIC A NEWSPAPER WITH A CONSCIENCE VOL. IV. BEST- CLASSITtED -AND'. ADVERTISING MEDIUM I NORTHERN INDIAKA a LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1925 rNYERNATIONAI, -NEWS. I.EASBDV WIRE REPORTS PROM AIX OF.

WORLD PRICE TfoREE To Stop a Hen Sitting. Rare News for ers. I Only Theoretical Vio-i tory- At Least He Liked Her. This is written In Florida, not far. from Lake Okechobee, Here you meet Mr.

Greenlees, once a farmer and cattle man near Lawrence', now farming in Florida where he bought 6,000 acres. Interest farmers and city people in 'Mr. Greenlees' Florida farm. t- Flrst, you notice his Leghorn hens, "evidently much annoyed, each with a feather goes -in CADETS TRAIL ABDUCTOR MAY DAY FINDS INDUSTRIES OF a Conditions IB America Marked By Settlements Many Disputes the other. An Italian -takes care of Jlr.

Greenlees 1 chickens, that's his Italian pl'an to keep a hen from sitting. When she want to sit he sticks'the feather through her nose. Amazement and annoyance make her'forget all about her desire to be a mother, and she goes hack to laying eggs. It. really works.

Mr. Greenleesr points to little yellow ducklings walking about with their mother In strange silence. Not a single quack from the whole family." "Those," says Mr Greenlees, "are known as They are a. cross between a turkey and the yellow runner The meat 1s delicate. 'Th duck makes no.

disturbing, sleep-destroying noise BUSINESS YEAR SEEN Secretory Of tabor In Review of Various Industries FJndsf Sat- IsfRctorj' Conditions (Editors Note: May day to Europe is a day of uncertainty and dread because, of traditional labor disturbances and clashes between class and class. -May day to America is just another date on the calendar; (he following article, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis sums up the Industrial situation.) COST CAUSES CITYTQfjECT TRAFFIC SIGNS By James J. Paris Secretary of Labor Third. Mr.

Gi-eenless. gets from (Written Exclusively for Interua- hls soli, which looks like white tiona i News sedvice) nfty barrels of Irisnjotatoes copyright, 1925, By International to tha digs the and sells them for This writer shipped carloads of in February $12 a barrel. News Service WASHINGTON. April 30- -There potatoes from N. to New York for $1.10 a barrel, from which had to be deducted freight, cost of barrels, hauling and the wholesaler's commission.

Fourth, Mr. sells his tomatoes for a crate, or about This, writer sold ripe tomatoes to the catsup factory 'at Farmingdale for a ton. If you must be a farmer, which should be a great sense of satisfaction, especially in the industrial Officials Admit JTeed Of Automatic Signals But Declare Price Excessive Demonstration of the operations of another brand of automatic traffic signals was given. for the benefit of the officials of the city yesterday by A. McQuIn, of Craw- fordsvllle, representative of the Leslie Haines.

Signal company of Carmel, Ind, While several of the officials manlfeste'd- interest In this correct methixl of solving traffic proolems, it was'pointed out that at this the city, was not Interested 'to the extent of appropriating money the pur- age of this type of signal equip- Maty of the city en- fayor the purchase of the signals. Traffic congestion has long been a problem tbat'has confronted Logansport and according to these officials the only effective means by which the difficulty can be remedied is to install, tie electrically controlled signals on the downtown thoroughfares. Tn the Past year, several cessful were launched '85- BEAUTY AND AUTHOR field 'that "May day" this year, i obtain th passage by the common presents no industrial disputes of! ul il of an ordinance appro- serious 'concern in Amedica. Plating moDey with which, to ouy signals. The fail- uation.

is very satisfactory whole. There appears, t'ij be a li a'hard life at best, select your, ett i ed determination on the part climate with care. You have read about the theoretical battle of our great fleet, including submarines. cruisers, battleships, flyinp (snips, around Hawaji. That fighting end- de in great victory for our battleships.

The flying fields of the air force wer seized and the entire enterprise was a gigantic success for the battleship. It's lucky for our noble ships that the battle at Hawaii was a theoretical battle. If it had been a fleet of five hundred properly managed Asiatic airships opposing us, our battleships and cruisers would not be lying peacefully on the bed of the Pacific Ocean, find the report would have a. different wording. Captain TVarn is, accused of keeping bis young' wife a prisoner on hlf for five years.

He would not let her meet or talk to other men. When Tie went ashore he locked her In the cabin. Wo all despise such a selfish husband; But many wives w.i!1 tell you they rather have Captain Warn' than the kind oi husband they actually have. Cap tain Warn 8t least proves that he likes his wife. The worst kiad of husband is one who doesn't care what his does, or where she ed in great victory for our battle- Is, or whotn she sees.

No woman is really happy unless some man about her. plain that? is "very particular 1 How do you ex- In the Florida Legislature at Tallahassee, Representative Branch proposes a Jaw'read ing: "It. will be against the- dignity of this state for any newspaper or Cfther publication to refer to any lady within the of this state as a flapper A few hours' residence convinces vou that Florida ladles are dignified, self-respecting and entitled to tuch'-a law! In some states rou wonld suggest that if the ladles would null their dresses up a little around the? neck, In the back and in let them down a little more at the knees. no antlfla'pper law-would be necessary. Sometimes a real estater Is carried away by his own enthusiasm.

One Florida concern, advertising a really admirable section of the state, says: of Grover Cleveland and ''Job Jefferson linger here. So you spend one As of "get-rlch-qulck 1 schemers, a -Florida, editor -offers this improvement of industry generally to make the present year a good business year. Coal Conditions Unstable -It is true that in one of our great basic 'industries bituminous coal mining--Conditions are not at all what we wish- Over development in this particular industry moans' 'over production. Under the -natural economifi laws this unstable employme'nr-and 'unprofitable business. However, the prospects for an increasing volume of business generally point toward a gradual improvement in this industry.

I the bujlding trades industry a- splendid' program is in prospect which hi volume promises to exceed the vast amount of construction of last year. One strong favorable a stabilized building program this year'and possibly for 1936 is. the action taken in many localities to make two or threa year wage agreements instead of one year contracts. The long agreement contributes largely toward stabilization. The prompt getting under of the big- construction program, together with the movement of the MISSM'SWINEY WILL NOT SHOW HER PASSPORT Woman Leader of Irish Republic to Deportatloji, clals Claim Offl- ACTION PENDSTHOROFROBE Claiming She Is In Country Legally Woman Conceals Date and Port of Entry.

CHICAGO, April beautiful as she is successful. Her signal. that time the coat of many of the leading makes 'of automatic' decreased Could General Fund It was -pointed 'but "by city officials today 8 that money for the purchase of the equipjnent could- be secured from theVgeheral. fund- of the city. Only recently of Peru purchased a half dozen-of the automatic -signals which.

are now operation 'on- the downtown streets of that city. The town of Delphi is considering purchasing the traffic, regulators while it is'also'announced That Monticello will four automatic signals immediately while the acquisition of-additional signals is contemplated by cello at a later, date- first novel. Seas," won instajit recognition; for her in England junt released another, i Judge Rabb, Venerated Jurist, Is Called to Rest spring crops should be reflected In better business'for the transportation systeni the countrj-. Increased Frodortlon Seen With the bulk of labor satisfactorily employed at good wages, and the financial and manufacturing- interests (iooperating to increase the industrial can safely anticipate a real healthy- growth in, production in the country at large. The American workman is Interested, vitally in the progress and prosperity of the country.

HP is entirely in accord with policies and principles upon which the nation is established. He realises the fact that his welfare is dependent upon profitable and productive enterprise and he is sincerely cooperating with the em- ployer'in this Of course, there are always in evidence a few individuals whose ways are'not the ways of the vast majority of our wage earners. In LOVELORN GIRL ENDS HER LIFE Pretty Ex-nurse Suicides at Pitts-. burgh--Leaves Note for Hoosler. on an old 'saying: care of your some one will rome to take care of your dollars for yon." if.

the; American people -would display one-tenth of the intelli- 't'onlihued on ptge some localities there are organizations influenced by anti- American radicals, leaders of which contribute nothing, toward the advancement of American ideals. The leaders and members of these societies advocate discontent. -and opposition to our form .0 fgevernment; But 'very, few -ot our working, people are ever swayed by exponents of a false philosophy. This in Itself a high: tribune to the intelligence (and stability of American labor. All in the industrial.

outlook is promising. have no reason to complain of as they and' wfe have reason to expect fliem to better. PITTSBURGH, April The 'body of Miss Gypsie Merle Beer, 34, pretty ex-nurse, who (fomniitted suicjde some time yesterday; lay in the city morgue here today, awaiting the. arri'va of a sister from Cleveland. The body, a bullet hole through the heart, was found by who, at the request the girl'i friends, who were worried be cause'', of Miss Beer's fa.ilure tp respond to 'phone calls, broke open the door of the girl's apart m'ent last night: BesidB th'e pdy.

Member of Logans- 'Bar Pactts Away After Three Weeks' Illness. THROW STATE Wai Former Judge In Court of Appeals--Jo Be Burled at Willlamsport. Joseph M. Rabb, senior member the legal firm of Rabb, jMahone'y, Pdnsler Douglass, best known -valued, citizens, died Wednesday evening .6:45, at family Tesidence', 71S Kast Broadway, aged 79 years. Judge Eabb had-been in failing health for the- past four years, this being hy'ari attack illness' about three "weeks ago, and since then the bad been very ending in his last evening, inhere, hev passed his final rest in the of his wife, son, George Rabb of Chi- cago; his daughter, Miss Louise Rabb of this city, and several intimate friends.

Born Judge Rabb son of Smith aad MaTy Rabb, and'was February 34, In 1862, after the outbreak the Civil war, he enligted in company Indiana Volunteer as 'the; SlxtaAIndiana Cavalry after the; Richmond, Virginia, and 1 -four He was honorably in 1865. In 1872 Joseph Rabb and Miss -Ixittle'' Morris were united in marriage WJlHam.sport,.; Indiana. To this Bunion were born three M. Rabb, now of 'C. Rabb, of Denver, And-Miss Clara, later Mrs.

Clara who preceded her Mrs. Lottie Morris passed- away in 1882. i Jutfge Rabb 'and Mlas Ma Elwell married 1 In 1 to them ipage three) of proof of their passport eationp rests "with aliens and If Aiiss Mary McSwiney, leader of the Irish republic movement and sister of Terenance 'MacSwlney, martyred hunger striker, of Dublin, has no passport, "she is quoted as stating, she Is liable to imprisonment 'and deportation, according to Howard Ebey, chief'of the Chicago Bureau of the de partment of immigration. "I do not know as a matter fact whether' or not Miss Mai Swiney has-a passport or whethe she ever' had oae," said Ebey to day. "I know that my di( not act until'ordered to do so-bj W.

W. Husband, 'chief of the bureau at Washington. I sent an inspection to see Miss Mac Swine) and though she insisted she wai in this'country legally, -she refugee to show her passport-or to tell date or port of her eatry Into thil country- "I reported this to Washington. "DRUNKS SCARCE AS NEW is EFFECTIVE f) 'TM -L Qfl The of the 'dollar drunk are no more. With the event of the stringent Wright Bone-dry bill victims who are found guilty in court on charges of Intoxication cannot escape with less than a fine of $10 and costs.

This is the minimum penalty for first offense and thereafter fines and imprisonment in jail may also attached.the law provides. It- has been customary In loc police court to assess: fines of 1 and costs for first intoxication fenses while occasionally fine of 5 and costs were meted out the Thera were victims in police court mor ing to initiate the new'locally. Of'interest here Is the rulin that was handed down by the In diana Supreme court yasterda affirming the decision pf the mino courts, allowing. an officer I search and obtain evidence wit' out search-warrant. The ruling was the result of a appeal taken by two Indianapol young men who were arrested the national road for speeding I ha4 b'e'ea.

instructed to Jiolt -take -other action Federal Authorities Investigate WASINGTON, Aprd 30-- Federa! are today conducting an inyestigatloD. into the status of this country of Miss Mary Mac- Swiuey, Irish republican advocate, but denied today that their action is preliminary to deportng Miss MacSwiney if it is found -she is illegally in the United -States. Immigration. officials admitted they did not know how Miss vclver with'which' lay the re the girl took her life. On the table two deati notes were found.

On? scribbled with a pencil read: "Tell my The girl's mother, it is 'said, lives at 621 East Market street, Akron, Ohio. The other said "Please tell Earl' Squires, 1152 Hanna street. Fort Police 1 believe the 'girl shot herself, because of her. love for Squires, -a married man, who is reported to have -returned--to His wife and children ago. daj-s isister, who lives at Cleveland, is.

on her wtty here to claim the body, police- announced today. VACCINATED WASHINGTON, April 30-- President 'Coolldge has submitted to vaccination, against small-pox because, of 'the -prevalence of the disease in Washington, which has cost lives since January 1, it was reported here today. officials -would Eiirtipean Situation Alarms Conservatives In England LBolche-rlst Activities On Continent Cause 'Apprehension of May Day Danger BRITISH CABINET GUARDED By DfiTld M. Church INS Staff Correspondent LONDON, Tpril 30 --The approach of -May day again brought tenjflfy to conservative quarters today. Bulgaria's recent sanguine outbreak of communists, which was still causing concern in Sofia, the round up of radicals in Rome and the -plot reported against Austen-.

Chamberlain, British foreign -anti- bolshevist newspapers, with more, than the material presaging May day danger. Executives of Scatland Yard's secret service were taking the reported plot against" Secretary Chamberlain it was learned today. Guards protecting all members of the cabinet werd doubled, as further details of the plot were received from the Aus- government In Vienna. 00 Reds Held In A dispatch Riga said a bomb had been disep'yered under a railroad in was believed an attempt, to. 'wreck' the train carrying the presidential party, Sofia, reported with; the cbnimunists in which artillery forces -hid been, forced to shell the 'the ont- sfirts of the Bulgarian capital, Warsaw reported Poljsh.

authorities had frustrated bolshevist plots there. British government -circles main- tamed their calm, declaring there was little danger Qf any general uprising or demonstration. Foreign Office Optomlstic Swiney in, for records here do not show' her as possessing either a passport or an immigration visa. "This is all a tempe.st in a. 1 said 'Commissioner General of Immigration Husband today when questioned concerning the It is true we are checking up when Miss.Mac came in, out- we are not -deporting, her, and intention ot: doing so." The state department made a similar denial of depprtatton.

talk, and Timothy Smiddy, the Jrish free state envoy jn Washington made the same disavowal. The immigration bureau said' it was up to the state department to It Is found-the Irish adyo- 'ca-te is hero and the stating that it is up to the- Immigration "authorities. Neither department apparently cared, to assume responsibility' In the matter today. The neither ports. An Exchange dispatch from Jome said tlw jfoHce, believed they dlscovejjed luumst plotjin roundup of I Third, Chanceller Luther's speech deny or confirm the re-" more than '100' "communist sus- in Berlin, DOOMED FAILS 10 AE One of Three to Die Tonight Is Unsuccessful In Attempt at Suicide.

OSSINING, April stoical John Farina planned, by means of a bone handle -of -a tooth' brush, sharpened to 'a dagger-like point to cheat the law, It was discovered by. prison guards today, when Farina and Morris and- Joseph Diamond wisre removed.to death cells'to be executed tonight for the murder; of two Brooklyn bank messengers in 1923. When the three men wero-taken from their regular cells, a guard noticed that two or ang-es in his hand. His manner aroused supicion. The guard' examined oranges and found they were fastened' together.

The oranges were held a dagger made from a tooth brush. The guard quoted Farina as saying: "I wanted to see my relatives first. if they had come here: yesterday I would- have saved you a job tonight. 1 Morris "Whitey" Diamond, broke down when taken from hfs cell. He was placed Ip.

a padded cell under extra guard The three men will die tonight was considered satis- unless Governor Smitli should Is-, sue a reprieve. charge and' sentenced to year's Imprisonment 'in the a the-police term "the firs tlO-'drunk," was lodged In the loca jail afternoon in perso pt-J. C. Beebe, age 33, charge with intoxication. Beebe will arraigned in police court tomor row morning.

Should he be con victea in court tomorrow, he wi fined in accordance with th of the drastic Wrtgh law now effective in.th ofBce stated today- considered the, general European situation greatly improved, assigning- three," reasons for the optimistic view. Firs't, Aristlde" Briand, French foreign secretary, has notified the plans, to take 1 up French debt" and -security pact negotiations where the Herflot ministry left off. the French reply to Germany's peace pact proposal will be ready ID tbre? or four days and are understood to be of a moderate jnature. 1GAINSI SHARTS UNTIL MONO AY CfrcvJt Court Adjonraa in Eenpec to the Late Judge Joseph Raub. 'Paying, respect to Judge Joseph Rabb, law partner of M.

Fansle-r, 'special prosecutor, an Agreement was made this morning by the state, defense and court IT case of Ben Sharts, chargec with 'embezzlement, now in' eourt to have the case eontinuec until Monday morning, May 4th The action was taken upon the resumption, of the case at 9:30 this morning. The state and, defense attorneys together with the" de- lendant In the case had conferred on toe matter tp the opening of court aid agreed upon he postponement, providing It was suitable 'to the court. The jury was called to the box Judge Springer and Instructed relative to the postponement after which- they were excused until 8 'clock May 4th. In aa effort to complete the. case as soon as pos- ile sessions will open hour arller next week arid will con- inue until 7 o'clock In the evening with a brife recess In the afternoon.

Under these working hours Jt. is hoped to finish the suit in two days. Douglass Testified. Don Douglass receiver of the Sharts-Bulck company, was on the stand when the session of Wednesday closed. The state used Douglass to have -placed in evidence contracts involving the taking over of the Bulck agency by the Sharte-Buick company.

Miss Maude fc'awcett, secretary of the board of directors of the Fentou Investment company, was also used by the state Wednesday, afternoon relative to technicalities in the alleged activties of the defendant aa president of that company. Mrs. Faye Slagle, Miss Rose Hoaley and Bernard- Neyille, who had testified preyioup 'to the afternoon session, were also re- 300 COMB HILLS FOR EX-CONVICT WHO STOLE GIRL 800 Armed Military Stadente TriO- Vermont Fngittre And Abdnctor FEAR GIRFjS DEAD Orderi Given to of Green Mountain 1 Vermont April pOMM hunting Earl' Woodward, ex-ooTlct, came upon. the fugitive on a. road In Brookfleld Shots fired, but Wood--, ward, carrying U-yetOKrid Chatterton.

in kis rmn to cover. of tte posse sail thought one of the shots wounded" Woodward. The 400 men. Including anfd 7 cadets from 'Norwich engaged In -nuntlng the ex-con- vict, were given orders to er- ery effort to take Woodward alive, in order to saro the of- Lucflle. called to the jtand for short pe- rlods.

YOUTH HAS FINGER CUT IN SHEARS Harold ChslI, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chell, 207 Montgomery street, had the tip of a finger cut off -while at work in the sheet roOtal department of the vocational shop at the Riley junior high school Wednesday afternoon. The.lad caught the finger in the metal shears being operated by GRANVILLE, Vermont, Armed with carbines and mounted on cavelry horses, military cadets from Norwlsh university--300 strong--tookvthe Held- today In search for JSsriy Wood-ward ex-convict 'and abductor ot 11-year-pld Lucille The cadeti, in a drtiillng rain, rode off the parade grounds Norwich in relays of 50 troopers each. Corer Entire Mountain The first 50 men.

In deployemnt spread out fan-shape the foot of Gram mountain. Leaving their horses at the base, th? cadets advanced in skirmish order through the timber' land. They were supported by a second fifty- men. Meanwhile, another troop was spread on the other side of mountain. The cadets, under comrfland of John c.

McDonald, army of-fleer, will use military strategy In scouring the almost Teats of the mountains of Braintree and Roxbury. Use of the troops was granted by Charles A. Plumley, president of. the academy, npon the urgent request of attorney general Frank Archibald, who Is In charge the search for the elusive Wood' ward. The Norwich xsadets, crack troopers of the state, although evwry man la the outfit is a studeit.

were. prepared to trail the until he Is run down, and The request for the mUltaiy cadets WAS mads by tha attorney general only attar it became apparent that it larger force than he seven posses of pollw and itizens, already In the woods, was leeded to Meanwhile, on the summit ot 3ram mountain, Walter Cnatter- von, father, of tha missing girl, -lone with gun across his etermined, he said, to kill Wood- 'arduthe yo.ung man he befrlend- off sight Fear Crlrl Dead Traces of Woodward hare bean ound in, the woods but nothing of le girl, supposed to be with him. om'e fear that she is either mur-r 1 cred or died of Footprints from an abandoned. chpbl house on Cram declared to be those of Voodward. They were followed- id led to tangled under-brush." was here the posses resumed heir search today.

All Crack Every cadet Is a crack shot i expert horseman. The entinT outfit carried ball cartridges their carbines. were equipped with the Some of the the saber for use If close contact wltht Woodward was obtained. Both the -cavalry and units at the university participated in the man-hunt The troops were around at their barracks by' the call. Equipment was made while Lieut.

MacDonaId.f the United States, cavalryman' the outfit, conferred, 7 with President--Plumley of. thtr" "niverslty and officers the" car- dets. Detailed maps of Cram mount: tain and the surrounding territory' were brought out and the plan campaign was outlined. Woodward'Is known'to (Continued on.