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THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday, but some cloudiness; not much change In temperature. A FOR PUBLIC A NEWSPAPER WITH A CONSCIENCE BEST CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, TJJESDAY, OCTOBER 20,1925 INTERNATIONAL NKWB WIRH FROM ALL PARTS OF WORJLD PRICE THREE CENTO Today A. D. Oct. 20, 1925.

One Woman Wanted Death. Ended, a Divorce. 20,000 Canaries, All Sing. Arthur BrUh.ii. history is written by i ruesswork and Inference, because tha ancients had no nswipaperp.

Caesar, "the demagogy of his day. wrote on the walls of Homo about hig doings In the that common people might read But he wasn't much of an It Ii different now. the historian of 2025 will examine old newspaper files, find reports in tho main wonderfully accurate and WHITE HISTORT, not I A I A 1 DRY DRIVE HITS BROADWAY SENATOR FROM SICK BED mercury from 89 decree? I i a i ed Is Made Tooy of Household-Battle I SITUATION IS UNCERTAIN I i a i That One of Fcur Candidates i Become Ralston's Successor, to 44 degrees above at noon today: Chilly and snow flurries by with the temperature hanging near BO degrees above all dar yesterday I boosted the sale of radiator alco- at garages arul filling stations which had laid in a supply in expectation of the cold ware. PUHTOCUT DOOMED TTays awl Has Other For Committal When 160 years hence he comes to Tuesday morning. Oct.

20, he! will get a. fairly accurate picture! of tbe civilization of our d'ay, thns: A yonng girl standing before a photograph of the young man she loved, an ordinary young man, I phot herself in toe breast, When I she cam to she asked, "Doctor, did do a good job?" I She big blue eyes and a white face, so the doctor sympathized with her. The police arrested her for having a pistol without permission. She J.NDIANAPOUS. Oct.

20-Frank Ball, of Muncie. manufacturer and prominent in business circles i Indiana, loomed this afternoon as a pos- Sible compromise seleeteloa for the late Samuel M. Ralston's scat In l-be senate: INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2V- Governor F.d Jackson still confined to his home here today with a rere cold, speculation over the identity of who he i name, turned to when he will make known his choice fcr the Beat in Jive. 8h is Danish.

Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, very radical young person--Communist, In fact--divorced by her husband, wails thus: "The prevailing social standard, degrades lovers" and "a his physician's woman must go out of her home to get a divorce from a man that she does not love." "Ha, look at that now," tbe conservative and virtuous will say. "See what comes of being a radical and a Communist." i the United States senate, left leant by the death of Samuel M. Ralston. Mrs.

Jackson, (he governor's wife, told callers this TRIAL NW END FOR SON WHO SLEW DAD Crime of Youth Who Slew Minister and Wounded Mother, Re called by Case. TO PLEAT INSANITY Counsel Youth to Tell Court Defendant Did Not Reslira What He Had Done. WANT LOWER INCOME TAX Slash JfttilmBiB Sflrtax is Slated Per Hard Fight InAka- WASHINGTON, Oct; 20--Fortified with Secretry of; the Treasury Mellon's recommendations for a 1259,990,090 slash in the nation's bill, the powerful ways and means committee of the bouse set about, today drafting the new revenue bill. This measure, when drawn, will Incorporate some of Mellon's proposals, bat many of his suggestions are for the discard, it was stated br bath republican and derjHieratfe members of the committee; over the telephone list in Newport, i housrhblri, -intimated that tno pjv- morning that the eiecutive was obeying orders remain indoors to prevent possible coru- plirations from the cold, but ii. was generally understooj that Jackson was giving 2 lot of con- of Vanderroort, who sideration to the senate vacancy, dnspito his illness, Members of the governor's raarried-ladisa.

c-bangij sTpaint ing their names almost as rapidly mont Vrom his sickbed as the lighting bug' changes Us; Meanwhile supporters of t-ie ra- illumination. A Newport they 1 candidates for lh anpoint- are not "Red Communists." It's: ment were png-agins in a warm a. combination of inside urge and battle to swing the governor to outside attraction, not their views and the power of th-i that does the mischief. Republican leaders alifineJ! cac'" r-ther made Deutschland certain an already uncertain situ-1J- By Simon i a I. N.

S. Staff Correspondent. ALLISON, Iowa. Oct. 20 Like a tale soon told, the tragic drams admitted killing his and wounding his Rev.

and Mra. Ji. j. Vandervoortf'-at 6. moved VwifUy to to'day-.

It was expected uiat night Judge C. H. Kellev would bring the hearing to a close and fix tbe degree of murder to the boy has pleaded guilty. Tie hearing has been short ant! 87 A. WASHINQTOMi Oeb Mellon tax reduetleti disguised this rear under the cloak ot suggestions and came up today before the house ways and committee to be' riddled and rejected as was the Mellon plan a year ago.

Representative J. Ogden Mills, (R) of New Tork, appeared to be the only indicating a purpose PHAROS-TRIBUNEBIFT DRIVE WINNERS FROM ILL WALKS OF LIFE The contestants who shaj.ed in the capital prizes ot the Fro? Offt campaign, constftnto folk? from all walfc of life. is Tell known kr Ms or irer reapectfver cornrrjuriity and while popularity arHed to some extent the successful race staged by these contestants, It was chiefly' hard work of the respective whfch resulted in the winning of their spurs. Thomas E. field, (if Ktrwann-a, who topped the field, of fnl contestants afld tv wrrom t.he ead-illftc' car was presented is a geh-CToI iescltef 6f.

jfwee Lake, ott rwra'i ftjuic out of S-ewanna; Mr: rteid is well known to northern Cass and Fulton county residents nn-d is receiving the congratulations of his many friends. Mfers BrJtt-h' Ttmmoms, tbe erf th-r Pbttros-Trjb- URC Free- (jirt campaign, resides on a rural rtmte bni trf Delphi. T'S b-sr fee sedan er Bee- Jrrfre was .8. JJorri's, Fnlton eorm tyv residing Rear fa i fanner Swt despite the Jaborf. tms of his 6ecapatkra.

Mr Norrls tWad" BBfBeteBi time io effectively work in the Pha- rosVFriune Free Gift campaign andf in reward et his efforts the sedan has been given. Mrs. George Conwell, of Buffalo, is the wfle of the genial proprietor of the Buffalo general store. She also worked fervidly and her showing entitled her to the Hudson coach designated as fourth award. TEXT OF PACT BTMSTMMER PUBLISHED IN BRITISH PRESS FIRE General Appreral Tfhfeh Greeted Tnttial Jfms of Pact Airreeirrcnt SOU FrraHered.

ELI6HT EXCEPTION MED wt Become Efferttre Until Germany Is Jfember of Oct. Lloyd's message from Ora.n. Algeria, states f.hat tho Stock-well, hound from Calcutta to New York and Pfcfhufelpfrfa, has caught fire at sea and sunk; No mention is made of tbp- of tbe crew. Lloyd's registry gives the Stockwell a-s a steamer of 5,643 tons, sailrag- mitier the British flag with Newcastle as her home port. foe secertary "o'fStlS'treasury In to -restrict j' IB but little need to point.

The night marshal, On the steamship yesterday came Von Hoogstran. who directs the Philharmonic orchestra, and in the bold of the ship 20,000 canaries, the biggest shipment ever known, to supply Christmas trade. "acquired Mitchell, who arrested Wai- a( i on iren; Dr. C. H.

Mponey, the family Xarteroas distrlcr 'leaders 1U called; Henry fiurma. ranks all O.VOT th sh rl f' and a 'ew othert, wero a "toutPtl" strongly for KLalleu the appointment today, but seneral bpllof prevnlled a bod of th( a i minister, governor trill pick the Mr. i the 8e Kalston's successor from these to substantiate of those who the testl- founci the These If you doubt that rharacterlstics are four men--Albert Severities, ironsider these canaries, all 1 nited senalnr; to sing well. A few centuries i tliur R. Robinson.

Indianapolis at-1 hence in about 1.000 centuries. forme.r state senator perhaps, human beings will close- friend lo the executive: horn with musical and other eivtt Terrp Hies, as surely as the canary f.e'.-rp-tary to Presirttnt Coolidge, Inslcte the egg contains the inher- f'lyde A of Lasranse, Ited power to King, in its tiny! Republican state chairman. sraln. Saneers Confers. Human beings with brains; WASHINGTON'.

Oct. more complicated, bipger brains a successor to Senator Jt was expected today that Attorney C. G. Burey, Clarksville, woulfl come forward with a de- that the boy (lid not know what lie was doing -when ha com. Reiston (D) i ciiBseJ at the i between Indina.

dia- white house today, Kv- the mitted the crime. The shooting toot'place it mid- I night. August 6. According to the ttory of nesses and by the boy's cpnfes- slon, after he bad gone to bed in a sleeping tent in the yard, he arose, and with a single shot rifle kljled his father and seriously wounded his mother. He was thfc.

major-' rp i duptlonii in taxes oh higher I SiftFoduce- Clifford Wells, afh- leHe 'director '-of -the Logangport comes, with repeal of the federal; estate and taxes and termina-. tion of Issue of tai exempt securl-' ties. There ejtists today in tbe committee about twenty plans for reduction--a plan formulated by i each member ot the differing in some particular from! each other'pl'an; 'Many congress-i men are waiting around to offer; suggestions for other reduction plans, and the representatives of the tar industries have suggestions how revenue can be raised without taxing them. Representative Oldfield, (D) of "touring car oV. flftb prize.

-Coach Wells is known -to practically every citizen of, tb.l 8 city and Ihe devotion of his friends was of material assistance to him in the race. Miss Marie Whitted. the winner of the Oldsmobile sedan is employed as clerk" at the Ahem grocery store, She is one of the most popular and pleasing young ladies of the city and is fully deserving of the honors that she has won. President Coolicge, secretary James than birds, ants or bees, will be born with a thousand kinds of wlel developed knowledge In one brain. That will he the beginning Sanders of a civilization, and a race worth i provident, and hlle i forroov Republican siate chairman jfater and wrote Europeans having decided to Indiana.

I fession in which he sild the -con- stop cutting each other's throats, i Koeling refused to comment on temporarily at least, arc having the conference. Reports prev- love feast. Frenchmen and Ger-jalent lier that Jackson 'irmself, found an hour later on a country road beside the stranded family car. in which he had taken flight. At first he told a glory' of bur- glnrs committing th crime, but roans shake hands and smile, and Former responsible correspondents startle Sanders yon, a little, by announcing that i Europeans determined "to force the TJnlted States into the league.

without any reservations." That program may go ind then again it may -not. Europe does not love Tankee; land and gets more bitter as we ask for something "on account." 1 It Is even suggested that it might pay the nations of Europe to unite and figbt tie TJnlted States, I rather than ten dollars with fsterest. Senator Beveridye get the post. stant bickering" between liift father and mother drove him to the deed. He was to have entered, or! Cornell college, this Tall and in ACCIDENTS CLAIM SIX MORE PERSONS IN PAST24 HOURS; INDIANAPOLIS.

Oct. said to have been jb-rfght student. an unusually Arkansas, declared it was not fair on Page SUSPECTS TO "AIL FOR FIFTEEN DAYS SEN, BORAH PRAISES LOCARNO AGREEMENT LONDON, Oct. 20--England's enthusiasm at the first word of the Locorna was little dampened today after week-end of consideration and ptiblicatlon last n-ight of the full texts of the pacts: A few commentators saw the pos sibiifttes of. difficulties, of Great Britain and Italy, as co-guarantors of the status quo disagreed regarding the merits of "unprovoked on the part of either Germany or France.

It was also pointed oat that Baglairti be drawn into a conflict in eastern Europe should France go io the aid of either Poland or Czeeho-Slovakia and the league nations later should approve tbe French move. The usual critics of the government among the London newspapers were silent, a favorable augury of tbe feeling engendered by publication of the tests. Tbe liberal organ tacitly approved the The London Express alone offered indirect criticism, pleading for than The documents published here eluded, textually today are the Rhineland ev H. Fout. bishop of th security treaty between France Northwest area of tbe Unite WILLDEDICATE NEW BRETHREN CHURCH NOV.

29 Terrtatlve Plans for Ceremonies Announced Today by Rev, W. B. Taylor, Pastor. BISHOP FOUfTO SPEAK Realization of New Church and Conaolldatlon of Dates Back Three Yeart. The date for the dedication of the new Brethren church on Broadway, near Thirteenth, has been tentatively set as November 29, by Rev.

W. B. Taylor, pastor of the church, and his congregation Work on the structure Is nearimr TO PADLOCK HY. RESORTS Great TYMfe ef by Ae'ion of I. S.

Thirty rant? and Sight inbs, nrc completion and It is hoped Jbat by the time set for the dadicaiion ali natlpnaUstic jthough ,05,, in'lfiternaitonaU'" Tsmfl" decoration win have been NEW YORK. Ocr. way's famous lljht dlstrtei was dealt a staggering blow today when -S. Attorney ICmory 1L started padlock- suits Itrt violation of the prohibition against thirty cabarets, roster" rants and smart soper clubs. If the district attorney's are successful it will mean tM rfrtual wiping out of" that 'doraa-to of music and mirth made famottt by the big; batter and egg from the -west: Sneh well known and heayftf patronized places as the club, and Hotsy Totsle.

Jack api- the Half Moon, the Lido nice and the Club Ritz. were un the long I1gt against which lock proceedings were instituted. The district attorney w(H brine all thirty casei to trial at tiM earliest possible moment. the rules of the courts, this cannot done the ee'i of Norembsr. If 1 Belgium and Germany, guaranteed by England and Italy, a technical arbitration treaty between Germany and France, a similar treaty between Germany and Belgium, and arbitration treaty between Germany and Poland, an arbitration treaty between Germajiy and Czecho-Slovakia, an agreement of mutual guarantee between France and Poland and similar guarantee between France and Czechoslovakia and finally a letter from (Continued on Page Seven.) "inside'' informaloo ai to what bis Investigators learned at the varloon places they.have had under' surveillance.

The Del-Fey club, the district, attorney said, was the most dlfff cult ofi all to enter, "admission being only by card or by a Ber" tiltfon system, of identification. the local organization is a mem-i "We have information." her. Rev. Groves is also included Buckner, pipeline led among the speakers. Brethren church organization, js to be the chief speaker of the day.

Oiher notable churchmen of tlij stale and nation will bs in attendance. Co-operating with Rev. Taylor and I congregation in tho making of the plans is Rov. J. A.

Groves, Kuperintendeuc ot the St. Joseph conference, of which The- construction CHICAGO. Oct. Locar- no pact is "ona greatest conj tribtlons to tha causa European peace of all time," Senator William Bcrah, of Idaho, upon his arrival here to address a meeting which will launch a countrywide campaign, against the world court. "You will observe, how "the senator continued," that tbe powers signing the pact did not recognize tbe world court but created their own arbitration commission.

"Here we have European na- INDIANA REFEREE IN BANKRUPTCY DIES AT CLINTON Ki Alexander Hoffman, 39, and Charles Creegan, 38, both of Philadelphia, were fined J5 an.i costn in city court yesterday afternoon on a charge of trespass. The men were representing themselves as trainmen and wero using a railroad pass whicii thin- later admitted they got from man in Pern. The two were unable to their fines and were locked in Jail. aons engaged in a great movement for peace--and refusing to recog- DIVORCE SUIT FINISHED nize the European world court. A judgment on tbe finding tor a A heu the want tne United yorcn in favor of Mrs.

Hattle States to become a member of that Walters against Francis Walters i court PENNSYHEAD AND OFFICERS VISIT IN CITY the cellar ot Del-Fey, tbrougfc of htch all liquors other than church on Broadway is tho result tied goods was 1 of the consolidation cl tha North- Abe Attell. former featherweight ElJ Southsirie who figured prominently in the "black sox" world sertei' United Brethrens, both separate cburd) or- In This City Early This Evening Aboard Special Train Remain But Short Time. CONDUCT INSPECTION TRIP Superintendent Hudson and Other Officials Accompany Party on Westward Journey. for The unification is Taylor and Rev. Groves i loyal group of workers i two old congregations.

The construction new; j'rlJurch buildjDg might bo consid a feat in management thai I the board was able tu have tho building erected at creditable low figure. uflder such baseball scandal, often had and nigbt of Oct 32 hc acl of I 1 VTD i.i-rf A .1 i case of in bail by the federal.authorities. It was expensive business setting information at the Del-Fey club Orders for any liquor other The contract let a champaigne are frowned upon terms that -Jonated Bochner gaid. but ayents (Jld nbor by mcKil)ers of cmigrega manage to buy whicker lon credit. jTurins' P' nt after Paylnff the most of the time since tbi struc- 1 ture waa started last spnag, Bev- members of tbe congregation have been on duty, donating their time.

On one occasion a tmrnber oC ladies worked for the contractor, aBsist'ng in the razing of the temporary building, erer-ted on tie ground at tbe time thi a any conversatloa is been recorded in circuit court, the nine The "case was one of heard on "Separation" day )n court one week ago. LAlry, Brad- ared for the plaintiff. "The big is that Germany and France were able to sit down at the conference table together in friendship and agree amicably upon a settlement ot their difficulties." billions of Indiana in the last 34 However, hours took a toll of hair dozen those nations have recently learn-1 lives, according to reports reached that a big war started to savejjn phere today. ten or fifteen billion wouldn't bal or." of th" peculiar profttable. The last one cost two haps on record occurred at Mun- hundred and fifty billions.

The Society for Prevention of Crime will offer a prize for "the fered best scheme for abating crime in York City." cfe. when FRAKFORT, Oct. Harry C. Sheridan, veteran refereo! in bankruptcy for Indiana prominent throughout in a hospital here today following an operation several days Ago. 'H6 EUROPEAN NATIONS CAMIY RECEIVE PRESIDENT'S ARMS PARLEY PROPOSAL Two special trains carrying officials of the Pennsylvania railroad who are conducting an inspection of the track on the Ixsgansport di- Mrs.

Gretclien Francq. 45, slipped and fell while ruoppins: i was 56 years old. tlic floor of her kitchen, and suf- Mr. Sheridan became ill sudden a brokp nprk, dyinp in- on an car eight ensrineev, died at A courageous high-spirited man was always drunk when In New York. On various expeditions to th Arctic Circle he kept sober.

He wad interested. Men turn criminals or drunkards when they are bored or poor. Give them excite--- ment or money, or both, nnd they I from injuries received in will mend their-ways. But howlth-; yards at Louisville. are you going to do that? Mrs.

Harriet Shoemaker. 92, died at her home near Warsaw At Harrisburg. Michael i from exposure, after wandering cround in the cold clad only in a nightgown. gtantly. James W.

77, farmer was struck and killed by a Penn- i death today unexpectedly sylvania railway train ertro itc Cincinnati, at Thorniown, Ind. 1 Joseph Stevenson, 50, i son WiHam. 28. wer? kilhul iu mine -Qxplosion near Linton. Andrew locomotive Jeffersenvilio fall in and John Girsch are under sentence of death.

They solemnly say "justice should the sune ail cages." They demand that- bs spared Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Small; of 115 Eel River avenue have returned trem a rUlt 5n Tttdianasolia.

days ago. Only condition was reported favorable and RECALL NOVELIST FOR MILITARY DUTY WASHINGTON. Oct. Rupert Hughes, novelist and'- member of the military Intelligence dlvttlon reserve, today was ordered by the war department to report for active duty in "Waihinj- on DM. will take a ta milltarr Oct.

20--President suggestion that the" successful negotiation of Lpcarno security pacts paves the way', for a second international arms conference--and his announced willingness- to initiate such a conference-, -has been rej veiveid with distinct coolness according to confidential reports reaching Washington from American diplomatic series. European reaction to tbe president's idea-, has. been such aa to strengthen the already widely entertained here, that in the'negotiations at there wag a quiet agreement among the powers to have the league of nations, and not the O. any furtW disarmament shows. Tfjll Sot PTMS Oa Mfc said today, he has no desire- to force an arms conference 'ipon Europe if Europe does not want one.

Neither it was said, will the IT. 8. be put in the undignified position ol "bidding" the league ot nations for the -production. Armament reduction means, officials said, more to impoverished Europe than, it does to the United States, separated as we are by two, wide oceans from potential trooble. There is no reason.

It was stated, whv rhe U. 8. not participate in dliarmamena confare'ice staged under the direc'bn of the league, provided 'such a conference gave promise-of real accomplien- and not provide battlej'ound merely lor European politics and te united, three years The new church building ha-; been constructed on the east of the double purchased: with a view of some time erecting a par. ificnage for the rainiKter to 'tbe vision will arrive in this city thp church about 6:30 tonight. Alter taking cmircn.

dinner aboard their special, the officials will leave for St. Louis where they w-ill inspect the track on the St. Louis division and pro- cee.d to the various divisions until they have inspected all track on the Western region. The personnel of the special trains arriving here tonight as follows: W. W.

Atterbury, presi- dent'of the Pennsylvania system; Elisha Lee, vice-president in charge of operation: T. B. Hamilton, vice-president of tbe West- COURT ADMINISTERS LIGHT SENTENCE TO MAN HELD 76 DAYS charge before was begun. is the "hostess? She recently gent to tbe "insiders" according to Buckner, an snnounee ment of a party at which guests of honor would be "thrsii of America's foremost Thi announcement. BucVn-r said.

Ufned- boast: Everr JHfht "Jt's new year's eve' every night at tbe Del-Fey." At the Cameo cm.b. "a high clasf and. expensive liquor ta I sold, according to tbe 41strlrt I torney! only by bottle wdl those wishing a "scotch mu(t i purchase a pint whfslcy for'-ftO, I The Game Cock: 1 moat -elaboratelv furnlr.hed places by the John B. Smith tras agreed up- on this morning ae a special Judge to hear the Schawl'tsch' vs. Scha- witcsh assault and battery case which 'is scheduled to come to trial at 2:30 this afternoon.

At ern Region and I. W. Geer. assist- torney A G. Jenklnes appe-vs for ant manager of the "Western Region.

Mr. Schawitcsb, the defendant. The trial of Fred A UC Wll UL JT I CU Hudson, superintendent of has been hfe)J ta the local for tbe Logansport division; D. B. Johnston division engineer; C.

H. Campbel assistant division engin- the past 76 days, came before the court this morning flned 25 and costs, and ae totaling eer; R. C. Unketer an sentenced to .30 days at the ter; J. farm.

and sen- G. Evert, track supervisor; J. Now-I tehee were made as low ns viskie, track supervisor at Point and Charles McCarthy, track supervisor at Union City are also aboard "the inspection trains. rible by Judge George A. Custer, in view of.

his long conflement before, coming to trial. The aannal prize award for the best kept section on each be made following the inspec-1 checks and tn St. Joe, 'connection with a murder Dean, it is said, is guilty of automobile theft and is wanted in Mishawaka for passing in PUGILIST STABBED IN HOTFJ. BRAWL 26, Chicatd TNDIANAPQLIS, Charlei McAullft, lightweight boxer, known In circles ag Prankie Sohaeter. In a serious condition, in today after being tabtofd times in in 'a flfht ln! room in.

a promlaent hoUl early thii morning. Police ordered hospital Itiea to hold. him. and assault and tery. Olin Watklns.

colored wa arrested on of gault and battery with Intent to kllj'to connectioa with blag..

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