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Celebration Of Cass County's Centennial Continues All Week THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday. Rather warm. .1 II I i FOR A NEWSPAPER WITH ACONSCIENCE 'VOL. IV. BEST CLASSIFIED AND ADVERTISING MEDIUM NORTHERN.

INDIANA LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, SATURDAY -JlpE 20, 1925 INTERNATIONAL NEWS BED. WIRE REPORTS FROM AIiL-PARTS OF WORtD PRICE THREE CENTS. Meager Attainment. A Good Young American. IShe Saw a Hanging.

'Royalty Matters Little. irthur Senator La Foiiott'e is dead. When he knew that life was end- Ing he said, ''I have earned a rest," turned his face toward the wall md died. An ultra-capitalistic newspaper Senator La Follette left behind him a meager record of attainment." What is attainment? If the same editor had been writing nineteen hundred years ago about the death at Golgotha he probably would have said of the greatest of all public servants: "He left behind him a meager record of ATTAINMENT." 'La Follette died fighting and died poor. His children will get from him little but his name.

Many a man that has up millions, when, his time comes to toward the wall, would gladly those millions for such a 'name as La Follette leaves as his sole "attainment." U.S.ARCTIC RS LEAVE Heart Disease is Fatal to H. H. Ho well MACMILWN IS SEEKING Three times governor of Wisconsin--and as good a governor as any state In this Ualon bad- four times elected by his state.to the United States Senate, La Follette, running for President, with no party and no him, received the than four millions And he' ran at time when the price of wheat was rapidly rising. PASSES AWAY THIS MORNING! NEARSEND AT HIS HOME OF JOURNEY STARTING NORTH Hid Attended and Participated in Cass County Historical Pageant Last Evening STRICKEN News Received as Shook By Community; Bar Association Prepares Resolution Herbert H. Howell.

junior member of the legal firm of Lairy Howell with offices at 306Mj Fourth street, died suddenly at 4:30 this morning at his home at Potto- money behind I wattomie Point, death being due votes of more 0 acute dialation of tlie heart, of Americans. comp i lcated a chronic fatty degeneration of the heart. Death being instant. Mr. Howell, who had participat- that rising wheat, his vote wpuld probably have been doubied.

ed in the Pageant" wbich'h'aTbeen given this week at the Driving Park, has, each evening read a representative, of reaction that, with La Follette dead, Wisconsin will return to servatism. The author of that Dpiniqnjip.esp't know Wisconsin, moro 'probable suggestion is. esnrin will send Lfli Fol- widow to take his place in lie Senate. The state -that he honored in his life will be glad of my opportunity to honor La Follette in his death. Amundsen is back from ''almost to the pole." and if he lives and can raise the money he will start again.

His ambition is to be the Dnly man that; ever stood ''on both topr. of the eaVth." discovered, south pole. Pear" cot to the i of hi Amundsen tneans there anyhow they may write on his tomb the two dates upon which he stood at the north and south poles of this earth. Lincoln Ellsworth, the young American on the Arpundsen trip, represented his country well. First, be financed the expedition.

But role of a benevolent moneybag ild not satisfy his ambition. He flew with Amundsen as an observer. The record of the trip tells how he saved from drowning in the arctic waters Dietrichsen, pilot, and Omdahl, mechanician of the plane in which he rode. Had he not saved those men the entire expedition would now be inside the arctic circle and probably dead. In Chicago, at dawn yesterday, they hanged Willie Sara, a negro, tt-ho killed policeman.

A young girl from a theater chorus, dressed as a boy. was there. The sheriff saw that she was a girl, but allowed her to stay on and see. He hadnt the heart, presumably, to deprive her of a little innocent This Is the first time any woman has witneised an official hanging to Chicago. In Chicago's stck yards they "orbid women "visitors to enter the department where sheep and Iambs have, their throats -cut.

"The sight is too pitiful 1 they say. Which would yeu consider the more sight--a lamb having Funeral Train Bearing Body of Late Senator Passes Through Indiana and Illinois. BODY ToTiflN STATE At Madison Until 11 O'Cloek -Monday Morning When Funeral Services Will Be Held. By Kenneth Clark. ABOARD LAFOLLETTE FUNERAL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO MADISON, June the country he loved best and.

which accorded him the i greatest honors Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin, passed hurriedly today on his last journey homeward. As in life it received him with open arms, so in, death the coun- IRLBIGBlfl AT SHEPHERD Defense Suffers Setback When" Witness Admits His Assistant Saw Dr. Faiman in Labatorr. HIDDOIUND Believed to Exlrt North of Monttrous Farewell Daring Adventurers OTTAWA, June prohibitionists today appealed to Premier MacKenzie King to stop liquor smuggling across American line.

Heading a delegation which ap-j pealed to the Premier, the Rev. 1 nrTIIDII III CCDTCIIQEQ Ben Spence declared that condi- WILL TM IN OLrltniUUI tions along the on the St. Lawrence, Niagara Letrolt and St. I Comment Upon Objec. Clair rivers is 'a disgrace to ATTACK GIRL'S STORY Attorneys For W.

D-' Shepherd Center Their Attack Upon Conflicting Testimony. Lieut. Com. Donald B. MacMillan is receiving' flowers, and good wishes- from Assistant of the K'avy Theodore D.

Robinson just before sailing from Boston on his latest Arctic expedition. Fourth of July address by 'the late tryside gave him a reversential Judge Horace P. Bidrile as a part i jbute as the funeral train sped of the program, and bis through Illinois and. on 'to place las usual Jaatjevening about:) Wisconsin I the land that bore him receive him back for i Heie it was that LaFollette had fougnt sp mazxy of his hardest political battles and here It was amid 8:30. 'He "however, at this time present the Biddle address, "but for a'few minutes delivered an on the the centennial of the city, the past and outlook for the city.

The address, was his last public -utterance, is spoken of- as a fine patriotic and eloquent speech. Later in the evening. He and his wife and their foster daughter jane, returned, to' their home at Pottowattomie Point re tired.Jor the night: About 4:00 Howell awolce'and complained of not feeling -arose and home treatment and took some lay down. Again he complained of a pain in his neck and shoulder, arose and sat down on the edjre of 'the bed. Almost.

immediately he collapsed. was hastily callptl the city, but upon his arrival Mr. Howell was dead, dfath having come instantly, at the time he seemed to. collapse. Mr.

Howell was bcrn in Paris, 111., and received his education there; later taking a course in the law, his father also being an attorney. He was united in marriage with Miss Cora Sims Paris, and about fifteen or eighteen years ago, he and his bride came to Logansport and have since resided here. He was admitted to practice before the Cass Cdunty bar and opened an office in the same room with 0. M. Zinn.

He later formed a partnership with O. B. Conaut, and shortly before the death of the latter opened an office for himseif, and then on February -1, 1922. formed' (Continued on page two) NEW HOSPITAL AT WHICH 88 PATIENTS HAVE REGISTERED DEDICATED FRIDAY The Spirit that prompts the 1 -of the missionary, that the rolling western, plains that lie moves the relief corps on 'the bat- had wished, when was, ended, to come back-to sleep ever among hirf own people. pitch blackness of the night, urges man to aid his -fellow man--that for the bet- terment'' of spirit that brought about: this great institution, the Cass county hospital, Fing.only to change-' engines, little being dedicated were open- knots of sad peopJe, many' of- them i statements of A.

K. Sails, La' railroad in smeared -g a ve dedi- pltal A. B.aub~ pital board presided, at the services. Following dedication exercises, me speaKer and a local people made an'inspection of the building. CHICAGO.

June defense given a bad blow in th-j trial of William D. 'Shepherd, cused of killing Wiliiarn Nelson McCintock, at today's when Ur. Frederick Tunney, director of the health department laboratory, admitted under cross examination by State's Attorney Crowe that his assistant. Dr. White, had seen Charles C.

Faiman at laboratory. Isabels Pope's testimony for the i state was made the target of the i defense attack today. As yesterday, when it put its first witness on the stand, the dei feris'e -between. Miss Pope and Charles C. Faiman, head of the national university- oj sciences, who testified that ho gave Shepherd the germs that caused Mc.Clintoc.kj5.'.

Frederick Squibbs, a short, hand- grease peered through at the hid cof- calory address-at the county has- fin in 'the observance car. They Friday aftre.ioon at stood silently, bareheaded and o'clock. A small crowd gathered many a the. nlace for the dedication AIR MAIL SERVICE WITH NEW TflRK ON 27 HOUR SCHEDULE The train outward appearances, might have been just an ordinary limited on Its -regular run. Except for the plain gray coffin and heaping banks of flowers, there was little about to suggest, a procession, carrying home the body an illustrious man.

1 The widow and her two daughters and, two sons bore with ex-. I'ostal Service Will July 1st, According to Local Officials. but it was well rewarded by the splendid address of- ihu Tipp.fi- canpe- county attorney. The- ideal's embr.d.H:ci within this building aye those that make the pro-V Word was rec ej -ed While building itself may crumble in years to come the ideals" surrounding it will-live for ever were 'other remarks of the speaker. Sells revised in brief the history-of medical reporter, was i witness today- He was questioned as to whether Miss Pope had used- "the word "germ" in her testimony at the coroner's Inquest.

He said that she had not. i Miss Pope, in testifying for the importance the fact chat it tend- rd to demonstrate her tr the manner of Billy's death at that time. Says Miss i'ope Uncertain. The defense is expected to capitilize the conflict-ing testimony i by endeavoring to show that Miss MAKE MORE PLANS FOR BANDITS County Bankers Met Here Last Night in Conference With Sheriff and Detective --Deputies to Be Named Further plans for defense of the banks of Cass county, against bandit gangs were made at a meet- i of representatives of Hie fifteen institutions Cass Bounty held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms last night. Upon invitatiou.

from'the bankers Walter "Bowy'er, iiere treme good fortitude their saddest Betting forth'that the admission. None were mourning. They believe he would wished it." To BeBnried Beside Parents. during long night. Mrs.

LaFollette stole, to the (Continue on Page Eight.) Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Moss, 2813 Bast will spend the week-end with relatives Indiana.

vancement within the last today I 0 a a i sure of her- bv the local' pest office officials that i self and that lar art her testimony may be the result of on July 1, the. will overstrained nerve and disap operate an pyer-night 1 air mail pointment, service between Chicago and New Walter Smith, a resident at York. Faiman's was next called. The mail will-leave the Chicago His testimony was a direct blow post at. and will i at Faiman's storm.

He said not havel, nillldre years has been almost'' be-1 be" loaded into the 'plane, whicli he had at the school for "at i three years and had been thero have the mail delivered to the i every day since he went there. York post-office a. m. "In all that i ever Allmail going to i served a live, active bacteria cul- yond comprehension and that the advancement even from, the begin-. ning of the'-, twentieth century Xew York post-office 7:30 a.

m. "in all that i ever ob- twenty-five years ago could a be realiezed by most of. the people mailed a the local office by even though they lived 30 will be. taken to Chi- thrpugh that same yy train and dispatched on 27'Patents XO-TT Accommodated, XJrant, detective, attended'the gathering and: offered suggestions as'to plans for the defense. The two officers stated that riot guns or sawed off shotguns loaded wth heavy buckshot were the most effective weapons-available.

One or two high powered ritles should be in the possession of. for long range shooting in case of necessity) they said. The use of is' not" practical" in combating bandits. Sheriff Bowyer told the bankers, because in- the- excitement and n'ervous strain of the moment the.average man would not be able to fire with accuracy. At least one of shotguns should be located across the btreet from the different banks, the committee members decided, and sounding of there should be someone with the courage To use the weapon on hand to the bandits ran for fheir car.

All deputies, the name of. whom will not be made public, will be men living or at work in the immediate vicinity of a bank. The approximate cost to arm a squad of four was estimated at something over $100. A corumitte of three--Everett Gregg. Lucerne State bank; Paul Hockenbearaer.

Logansport. State 1 bank; W. C. Cen- ter State bank--was named to confer with the by Opi Claims TerMtory North By Bert Ford (I N. S.

Staff correspondent) WISCASSET, Maine, Juaa Donald B-. intrepid arctic. explorer greatest scientific polar expedition ever oi-ganized started for the frozen north today. Before the sun sinks over 'this pretty littel Sheppcot toVn. the exploration ships Bowdoln and Pearl will be out on the broad Atlantic on the northward dash; A visit to the.

North Pole-by the air route and discovery 1 "lost continent" north of Alaska, 1,000,000 miles In are the two big objectiveg of the ninth invasion of the far north the modern Viking. "Uncle Sam's naval with the expedition were fired renewed zeal to reach, the Tole first, The speaker stated the officers night air service which leaves p. m. The HISTORICAL PARADE PASSES IN REVIEW AS AIRPLANE HOVERS OVER LOGANSPORT its throat cut: or choked- to death? a negro being Mafalda. the Italian "King, Is reported engaged to Prince Philip of A papal dispensation probably will be necessary.

The German Prince is a Twelve years such an announcement woulfT 'have' seemed highly atre-ngthening the alliance between the Italian King and his "all-highest- royal and imperial majesty, the But in the Itartan-Ger- alliance was burned up with ier scraps of paper. f'All-high' it" giving quietly in Holjand, idping many things that won't One of his generals, old to.be his is President of the German republic. Mussolini Is the real boss-of It' matters little now' wtioni princes and marry. Napoleon proved, tends, In our to make royalty ridic- The third and last parade--the Historical parade--of the Centennial week celebration was staged Friday afternoon through the business district of the city. Entrants in this parade were chiefly relics of interest to the people of this time in that in the pioneer days they were the- common and only methods of accomplishing the purposes for which they were intended.

Modern machinery and methods have long since replaced them. Coincident the historical parade an airplane, Chicago bound, passed over Logansport as the head of the line moved away Indiana days were mounted on of'the--hospital had just informed av time between him during the one month Xew York'will hours, which period the institution has been S've Logansport 27-hour in 'operation a' total eighty- "vice to will ad- patients had been registered. Lo rt a business day 0 The postage'rates for the man service iOc an-'ounce and records of Friday showed a total of twenty' seven had the costumes of the days. "Logansport'a original "duley 1 wagon, an old spring wagon afr fair equipped with -heavy- standing vbbut two feet high was an entrant. A 1911 Buick automobile followed, in its place with its motor purring away in 'a- very efficient A two wheel phaeton; among the' first topped vehicles, recalled the 'early horsedrawn advancement! in vehicles.

The Pennsylvania- 'engine "Old General," depicted the Civil war days of the; old wood burning locomotives, An quilting, and a spinning wheel of the early remaine'd in the hospital for treatment. Sells extended- c'ongrajula- 1 for the work diat -has been 'accomplished at the hospital, for the- site and structure provided and interest, Cass. county people are taking' in the new institution. The. dedicatory, address was ae' -under 'the side: pro.vided the e-ast from Eighth street down Broadway.

A platoon of American Legion police band and led the the parade while officers of the Chamber- of Commerce-- promoters of tht Centennial week activities- followed -In. automobiles. 'the list 'vehicles of antiquity was the old 'stage coach brought here by Gillespie. Occupants 'of the 7 stage coach, -both; men and women, dressed In i separate trucks and attracted comment from Horseback riders garbed in the" quaint riding habits of the 60's fitted well into the. parade.

A seashore scene showing the landing of Columbus in America, was carried out on a large float provided for the parade the Knights of Columbus lodge. Occupants of the floatiWeEe attired in Indian costumes dress- of the Spanish warriors and -This 'a'nd the fact presence of the band was omniltte'd was made in consideration tpr the patients at the hos- HIS PLACEJS VACANT The audience at the Cente.n- Pageant tonight will be asked to bow their hea'ds In re- rspect for Attorney H. IJowell, who died early today, when that part of the play is reacted Jn which Mr Howell, Judge Horace gave Tourth of July- oration every fractional 'part an ounce. COURfTlilT INSTfPHENSON CASE THURSDAY June until, next Thursday C. Klin'ckfand Earl Gentry know whother they -will be on bond or remain: until they, on.

t-rtal for a))eged: murder cf Madge'-' Ohefhpltzer.r: 2S, last April. The fight of attor- npys to procure tiieir freedom pending 1 the beglntfrig of the trial, rame to a close late" following which Judge Fred Hines announced he would known his Ruling' on the afternoon cf i June 25. Today the accused men were back behind- the barn ilia Jtl.un- ilton countj jail here." ture?" asked Stewart. "No," Smith replied: "It there ah icebox- in labor- atroy?" "No." "It there one on- the second "There was," Smith said. icebox was kept on the back porch far as I know." 1 Stewart then jumped to a sculfle said to have taken the states's attorney's office between Faiman and Marchard, a saiesmaT for the school.

Smith testified that he heard, the lie passed between, the two man--he was ii! then the sond of a sicrifict: and a. "thumb." He went in, he asserted, and found Marchand standing over Faiman on his hands and.knees floor. On 'cross examination he testified live bacteria "cultures! were kept in. the school Uaboratpry and incubated there. now that Roald Amundsen flyers failed, in their flight miles' becajuse of a shortage of fuel.

aboard the 'BowdblhV- and; Peary centered-their attention on the "lost thoilght to; be-rich---in oil, coals and- fertile with rare Arctic summer, and populated by rabbits as big as lambs, white wolves and white deer, swarms 01 great rats, sagulls with red -breasts; white and blue geese and possibly by human beings unknown; -Picture Arctic Fairyland The charting of air routes and currents around the pole over "the hidden the next ail" battle ground fot western civilization--and" observation-of weather conditions arid the advisability of establishing woather stations were other features of ths- undertaking sponsored by the Na-- tional Georgraphlc proved-by the: government, ported by navy and given: the well wishes of-the people. Men and women, 'prominent in National and state Affairs, college presidents, Mrs. "Robert E. Peary, widow of the Stafford, the "snow baby," dent Gilbert Grosvenor. of the National Geographic Society, Adolr phus W.

Greely, oldest Hying arctic explorer, were among' thirty thousand here 'for of the expedition. Bid Farewell' At least 1,000 craft and excursion steamers hovered, "P.eary and the Bowden to escourt city and county authorities in the selection o'f proper arms for the squads. W. Plorer as his ships the Denniston. chairman, of.

the com- river rat 3 p. m. (Eastern-Standard mittee and William F. Hanley, sec(Continued on pge St time) and out toward Momsehan (Continued on page LAFAYETTE PRAISES LOCAL PAGEANT; FINAL PRESENTATION GIVEN TONIGHT Lafayette is to stage a Page-ant in September, and- is looking to LoganspoTt for. suggestions.

-Miss. Myrtle who has mi ADMITS mm FATHER WITH CROWBAR 'MICHIGAN CITY, June 2Q; --(INS)--A mui-der charge placed today aaginst Mary. Skibb (j been engaged by. the Centennial committee of the Tippecanoe to write the pageant, 'spent. Friday in Logansport conference with members of-the local She.

mairied over for.the production of. the: pageant at the fair last reviewing the' pageant MiSs.Simons declared that was.fje capably staged she had ever wit- npssed. She was astonished to hmk that such a i-ould be put on with here production the, funds out to the local cojp- Mr. and Mrs 0 today on a four weeka' vacation the dragging the body Into an trip to the Rocky: Mountains. alley, police said.

$10,000 in its Centennial funds and who, according to police, killeu'l inittee that had fter father, Frank Skibo, with a crowbar Although the killing occurr-id Thursday night it did not gecome known -last night when Hetzner left 1 neighbors reported they had seeji expected to suhscnption raise even more l)y MJss Simons holds a. contract to be paid $2.000 for her serviees Plans of committee are to the Lafayette charge fronj cents to 11.50 a seat admission to the pageant Miss, Simons was accompanied here, by a group of Lafayette citizens interested in the'coming, celebration in that. city. Heimlicb. city editor of the-Lafayette Journal-Couier, and.

who -'is taking a very-active part in preparations for-the Centennial at Lafayette, with the local committee Thursday evening. He witnessed Thursday evening production pageant. The local Centennial, is well pleased with way --in which the pageant is being put on In view of the fact'that'La- is to charge the higher prices' even with reserve funds available, Loganeport looks to- the forty cent admission" price for adults "fair grounds, where the pageant and 1 Industrial exposition, is being; stayed; as a very commendable price of admission. The pageant was. again, crowned, with success -Friday night, when another audience of approximately nix thousand people gathered at fair grounds.

The production IB to be staged again tonight, it marking the last presentation ot the pageant.