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Jacksonville IDatlp Journal 189 JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1927 TEN PAGES THREE CENTS STAY OF SENTENCE GRANTED TO RADICAL TRIO CROP OUTLOOK BETTER SAYS FARM BUREAU BBS BETTER THAN parade in chicago IIIWC DCDflDT Police Claim They Have JUI1L ntr un I Control of Situation Termed Alarming CHlCAGO.Aug. 10 The Spring Wheat snows full force of police de- Inrreiup Rain partinent was mobilized tonight to Is Cause I and Vanzetti. three of which were broken up today Half of the force wan WASHINGTON, Aug. formed into an emergency squad.

With few except Iona, improvement John Alcock, deputy crop during July woa tendent of polite wan given the reported today by the agriculture task of preventing radical dinor- department which nmid that corn showed an increase of The first of demonstra- ooo bushels over the report of a and the most serious occur- month ago Corn production la red in the early morning now forecast at 2.385.226.000 and developed from a Sacco-Van- the smallest crop In 26 I sympathetic meeting The veart Winter wheat declined assembly terminated peaceably 28.000,000 bushels since July 1.1 the crowd poured from the the preliminary estimate placing production at 552.767,000 heartedly for a parade, hile bushels. Spring wheat improved .4.000,000 bushels in the month, with a total of bushels now Indicated. The Improvement In crops was due chiefly to a more evenly distributed rainfall. At present no STUDY PLANES IN HONOLULU PRIZE FLIGHT Get New Lease On Life. Two Aviators Killed In Testing Out Their Ship the crowd milled, around without unity of intent, a sixteen year old girl climbed on a truck and began haranguing it.

Olrl Parade "I'm an anarchist," she cried, her abbreviated skirt and bobbed hair contrasting grotesquely with the harsh attire of many of her area of the country is audlence. father was an suffering from drought or from arrhNt Follow mt, excessive rain, have roar th(1 croW(j followed been moderate in most states dur- some singing the tng recent crops made good growth. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. Aug 10.

airplane of Peoria" piloted by C. W. Park-1 hurst, and one of the entrants in the Dole San Franclsco-Honolulu race arrived here from Rock Springs, shortly before 2 this afternoon, from Cheyenne, Wyo. after we left Hoi Parkhurst said, engine wr nt dead and we bewail to look for a place to land We were over a mountainous country and the ship A'as filling when the engine started up again and we came on thru without dlf-j flculty." Parkhurst is accompanied by ft. C.

Lowes. a naval officer, who will act us navigator on the transpacific trip. After refueling they plunned to; proceed to the coast. OAKLAND. Cal Aug 10.

(A Study of entrants in the 135.000 Flight to Honolulu next Friday progressed today as the time neared for the first great aerial derby. Inspectors of the department of commerce busied themselves In this direction today but announced no decisions. They have until sundown tomorrow to approve certified list for the Dole commit-! tee in charge of the flight. FULLER ALLOWS RESPITE FOR COURT ACTIONS ON NEW DEFENSE MOTIONS VANZETTI IS PLEASED, TWO OTHERS QUIET Show No Emotion As Announcement Is Made To Them Corn, oats and most fruits are now the only important cropa ex ted to show acreage appreciably below the average of the last ten years and the yield of all cropa combined la expected to be only one per cent below the ten year average During Month i made" equipment on 1 any of the contesting will not meet with approval by the "Tvi, any Strike! rlke- Saccoand aetti not the, by Frank A. girl.

Nicola Sacco, to whom the arrow in the background is pointing, and Bartolomeo Vanxettj. foreground, who were convicted of the murder of Frederick A. Parmenter, paymaster, on April 1 This picture was taken when the men first found guilty on July 14, 1921. Since that time, both men have been given sanity teats and found sane, have been denied two trials BOSTON. Aug.

10 (AIM Warden William Hendry of the prison announced at 1124 that Nlccda Sacco, Vanzetti and Celestlno Madeiros been granted a spite to atrci August 22. Warden Hendry he had i received the Information from Secretary William Reed of the governor council. He lift immediately to notify the condemned men of the respite. The the news with no show of emotion. The I only one to comment was Vun- zetti.

who remarked that he was i Early tomorrow the three will be removed from the death house ctlon of the prison Beaupre of the state po- uller began his left the state house at 11:30 i of the case, and again, state prison with the offi- IReral- respites for (he three n. Demobilize tihi The. news of the respite I BEI.III F. TOR It MAOCIIOKK, Apulia Italy. Aug.

10 The family of Nicola Sacco expressing firm belief in his innocence, tonight had not lost faith In the possibility that he might saved from execution. the lust seven years we have had many terrible moments like these and every time Nicola was said SabitV). a brother. "Why should we despair won't kill him because he is as innocent as my aid Sacco's aged father. STAY EXPIRES ON AUGUST 22.

HAS APPROVAL All Was in Readiness To Electrocute Three Men LARGE GUARD PLACED ABOUT PRISON WHERE RADICALS WERE HELD Eject Woman Forcibly When Heard Calling Defense Office From Jail BOSTON. Aug. 10. respite to and includiti August 22. for Nicola todomeo Vanzetti and Ma de Iron was granted Mt i day acco.

by Oover- by Judge Thayer, under whom I they were and have been granted two stays of execution, once on June 2y. 1927, when vestigal last ly at their i of convicted of th August 22. door. The date lor! ecution, along with tino Madieros, who that ad crinit, is was rapidly and less than half an hour But the demonstration was short lived. Police rushed down, bluecoats leaped among the crowd and tear bombs were thrown Into the panic stricken ranks of the marchers They dla- While the Improvement of the 1 perked, leaving nearest the corn crop was general during front in the hands of the officera.

Aurora D'Angelo. the girl horter. under arrest, was unre- july. the department said, much ol the crdp so late that only an unusually late warm fall will penten: ja prevent serious frost damage. Abandonment will undoubtedly I considerably above average tbruout most of the corn It was added, due to poor stands and failure of planted coru to make satisfactory growth.

Winter wheal yields average 14 1-2 bushels per acre, which is 2 bushels less than last year. The quality of the crop is cent. compared with 90.1 per cent, the ten year average In connection with the Improved outlook for spring wheat, fipld statisticians say that since August 1 the menace of rust damage is Increasing. The combined winter and spring wheat crop total 851.145,000 bushels, which is 18,000.000 bushels more than last year- and 42,000.000 hushels mure than the average of the last five years. Prospects for white potatoes improved in all sections.

t.acco Improved to the extent of pounds. Fruit prospects which were very promising a month ago, declined (Continued on Page Four) Flynn, secretary of the National Aeronautical anaocialion in charge! of the race for the Dole commit tee News of the crash of plane at Point Loma. which sent! Lieutenants George Covell aud II.I S. to their deaths, sent! a pall of sorrow over the airinirt where seven starters for derby have gathered Both fliers were entered In the Honolulu i race The tragedy reduced to 12 the1, number of entry planes. Covell and Waggener had drawn No.

13 in the starting order (Continued On Page Four) CHICAGO BOOTLEGGERS KILL ST. LOUIS MEN FOUR LEADERS IS DEDICATED in the day two incipient parades were broken up almost at their origin. The three skirmishes resulted in .16 men and five women being under arrest. Several hundred workers here today went on a short lived strike in protest against the executions and the police termed the situation tonight as alarming but £aid they had control of it. WORLD CHURCH GROUP COMES TO AGREEMENT Tells of Respite Before Council Takes Action LAUSANNE.

Switierland. During Meeting 10. three commissions of the world conference on faitht BOSTON, Aug. 10. (AP) and order which have been work- Warden Hendry of Charlestown ing in private to prepare reports State prison after announcing a on important subjects, announced i respite for Sacco and Yansettl to- after the announcement, demobilization of the heavy aimed it rce around the institution was begun.

After Captain Beaupre left it was announced at the governor's oifice that statements short would be made public, one each from Governor Fuller. Justice Holmes of the United States preme court, Federal Judge Anderson and Attorney Arthur D. Hill, chief of the defense counsel. The papers were delivered to the warden and he tossed them STATK PRISON. Charlestown.

Aug. 10. (AIM An army of 250 police, including a machine gnu quad, three squads armed with rifbs and fixed bayonets aud the rest made up regular foot and mounted officers, mounted guard over the prison tonight in addition to the augmented force that has been on duty, for the past few days Streets for a quarter of a mile from the prison structure were roped off and all vehicular traffic was suspended. All thorofares i immediately surrounding the institution were barred to everyone without a special pass and the b'g square in front of main i off with only street radiaung Jail left for was edges of the away from th passage. A police boat Miller's river, a which runs him boat was under the stream of all I an a patri mall sti the jail, dera to Farmer Finds Bodies Coolidge Speaks At Of Well Known South Dakota Runners Shrine Dorothy Park.r.

aside on his desk. Beaupre ask- poetess was forcibly dpt and warden for a re New ork ejected from nor Alvan Fuller and the xecu- tive counsel tonight. The fi nt announcement that this action had been taken was made at 11:24 p. by Warden William Hendry of the state prison, where prepjra- tlons had been completMl for the cut Ion of the thiee men shortly after midnight. A formal statement announcing the respite was given out by Governor Fuller at midnight, it said iliat the.

governor had recommended the 12 day tespite find (hat the council had unanimously approved it. At the same time statements by Justice Olivel Wendell of the United States supreme court. Judge George V. Anderson of the United States district court and torney General Arthur K. Heading were issued from the governor's office.

The statement fol- courts of the commonwealth are actively engaged in the work of considering and deciding various motions and filed by the counsel in these The courts themselvm have no jower to grant a respite. "To afford the courts an opportunity to the consul ration of the proceedings now pending and render their decision thereon, I have recommended to the executive council that the sen- pris fice -tie in of Vanz-tti and M.i rote one in long hand, findinc wa3 heard calling the office of the deiros be respited for 12 days or 'h- typewriter locked up. He siid Succo-Vanzetti defense committee until midnight on Monday, August no WARDEN HASTY IN MAKING STATEMENT CONCERNING STAY CHICAGO, Aug. 10 KEYSTONE. S.

other double slaying tentatively A mighty WEATHER 1 Illinois: Partly cloudy and Friday, probably scattered thunder- sbowers; warmer Thursday in north and central portions. Indiana Cloudy Thursday and Friday, probably scattered thundershowers Friday and in west portion Thurs- a warmer Bad Thursday. Wisconsin: Partly cloudy Thursday and Friday: probably scattered thundershowers; somewhat warmer Thursday. Missouri: Partly cloudy Thursday and Friday; possibly scattered thundershowers; sofaewhat warmer Thursday In south and east portions. Iowa: Partly cloudy Thursday and Friday, probably scattered thundershowers, rather warm.

ures The current, maximum and minimum temperatures as recorded Wednesday were Jacksonville, 111. Boston New York Jacksonville, Fla. New Chicago Cincinnati San Francisco 7 6 82 GO 70 78 58 OK76 58 8692 76 76 86 78 707658 7 2 7854 70 7458 70 84 60 XO 8254 f.8 52 ti 72 50 tonight that they had reached agreement They will report tomorrow to full conference on the questions of the message to the world, the nature of fhe church, and the church's common confession of faith. American bishops, orthodox patriarchs and clergymen and laymen from more than 50 Christian religions, waited like crowds outside a Jury room, for a verdict from the commissions. The commission dealing with confession of faith was generally held to have had a most difficult problem before It.

This subject involved the creeds and was said bv many delegates to be the most combustible material before the conference. night asked that this news be held up. He did not say that the announcement whs incorrect, but refused to be quoted further until he received "official expected at 1 a. m. Meanwhile no word had come from the executive council chamber.

Arthur D. Hill, chief defense counsel was closeted with the governor and council and it was understood that he was presenting further plea for a respite. The only explanation that newspapermen could give for the request that be given and his first announcement he rescinded was that he had received news of a respite from the state house in advance of the official release hour and had been ordered to say nothing pending arrival of the papers or TYhKiKAIMiKRS 1 an official announcement from K1XK AFFKCTIXG PAPK1W the governor's office Elias Field, associate defense Indianapolis. Aug 10. (A new rule which vitally affects the relationship between employer and employe was adopted at the Diamond Jubilee convention of the International Typographical Union here today.

The rule provides that in case of discharge of an employe by a publisher, when the subordinate union, following an appeal reinstates a discharged employe, the reinstatement must be complied with by the newspaper This tule does not hold good where counsel, entered the council chamber at 10:45. Wife Breaks Herman A. MacDonald the governor's secretary said at 10:45 that the council had taken no action yet. Word of the announcement by Warden Hendry that a respite had been granted and that he later had rescinded the announcement was received with surprise at the state house. Altho no news had come from the council chamber, sr eh I belief as expressed by some of the warden Informed of a uoes not nom good wnere sucn controversies are specifically pro- have vided for in contracts between subordinate unions and publish- era.

DATE NOT SET Brunswick, Ga. Aug. 10. (AP) conference with officials connected with his flight and an examination of his plane, Port of consumed the day for Paul Uedfern. Georgia aviator, who hopes to hop off soon on an attempted nonstop flight to Brazil.

No announcement indicating a definite time for the takeoff forthcoming. acted upon by that body and had announced it prematurely. Gardner Jackson of the Sacco- Vanzetti defense committee arrived at the state house and sought an interview with Governor Fuller. Owing the council meeting, this was refused and he left a letter for the executive. Jackson said that Mrs.

Rose Sacco, wife of Nicola had intended to accompany him to see the governor but that she had broken down completely and had becu removed to the home of frieuda. was attributed to gangland activities with the discovery on a country highway of the bodies of two men who had been shot to death. They were not identified. A straw hat near one of the bodies had a St. hatter's trade mark.

A Pullman car receipt for a trip from St to Chicago on August 6, also was fouud on one of the men. The ground and the ditch where the bodies were discovered showed marks of a struggle. A farmer found the bodies. After comparing finger prints of the dead men ithe police said that the prints of one or the men resembled those of Anton Kuzzio, an alleged St. Louis gangster.

The fingerprints are to be sent to St. Louis to try to identify the victims there. Aug. 10. granite moun- itain on which a memorial to Washington, Jefferson.

Lincoln and Roosevelt is to be inscribed wns dedicated by President Coolidge in the heart of the Black Hills here today with an address in which he declared that the fun- i da mental principles which the presidents represented been wrought into the very being of our If the ideals these men stood i for are maintained, he it he because future generations 1 to study the lives and continue to support the principles which those men Pushing into the deep pine for- to honor the American presidents to whom the people of South Dakota have begun to rear this gitantic memorial. Mr. Coolidge called upon the country to support this project as a national! 1 shrine. nothing about the papers but re- from prison felepii marked I a little Mrs. Parker, officers said, gain-j This has been some strain.

admission to the prison bv say- There was no doubt from fug she represented a New York attitude that formal no- weekly paper, tification had made. 192 All Alike A moment later, however, one of the three envelopes was opened! and read tQ the warden. It was! a reprieve and all three were exactly the same. Asked if Sacco and Vanzetti had asked for anything to eat on be-' ing informed of their respite. Warden Hendry said: advised them to eat.

that's all 1 can say to that. Whether or not they will remains to be seen tomorrow morning. touch their Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizer" re-j peated their performance of yesterday by picketing the Beacon street front of the Ptate house late today. As on yesterday exactly I men and women were arrested) after they had Ignored police orders to move on. All those arrest-, ed were taken to a police station Buenos Aires.

Argentina, Aug. 10. of a respite for Sacco and Vanzetti was greeted Joyfully by thousands ho burned of it thru special sittnals used by several newspapers here. Evanston, 111., Aug. 10 (AIM home of Charles G.

Dawes toniKht was placed under a police guard as a precaution against possible violence at the hands of Sacco-Van- xetti sympathizers. Chief or W. O. Freeman made known I Toronto, Aug. Seven workers, five men and two women who carried banaers along the street in front of the I States consulate here this noon, while a committee pr ouncil has unanimously adopted this recommendation.

Prior to its adoption it was recommended by the att rney The statements of Justices Hoiiues and Anderson were in explanation of their denial to writs of habeas corpus. ROCHESTER POLICE MAN BEATEN DURING PARADE Attempted to Stop Man in Group From Throwing Club at Factory To Represent Growth ba" for I We cannot hold our admira- 1 appearance tomorrow. Three tion for the historic figures which we shall see the president (Continued on Pag 2 Four) Indentifiod in St. iMtuis ST. LOUIS, Aug.

10 (AP to the parents os Vincent Spicuzza. 28. and Tonj Russo. 28, led to the identifies tion here tonight of two men wha were found shot to death in ChV ctago early today. A hat band bearing the name of a St.

Louis hatter found be- side the men set local police on a check-up of the Italian settle- ment here today but before find- ing any solution of the Identity a i telegram was received by Mrs. Angelice Apiscuzza notifying her of the death of her son. Viiicent at Chicago. About the same time a similar telegram arrived at the i home of the parents of Russo. Have Jail Spiccuzza was well known to early this afternoon to be the police, having been arrested I his mother.

Mrs Evangeline more than fifty times in the past Lindbergh, and officials and in two years on charges from suspicion of robbery to assault to kill. The police said they had no (Continued on Page Four) of arrested yesterday were found guilty today of sauntering, loiteting blocking the sidewalks. Their sentences wore post- to Friday when the others will arraigned. i The governor was at the state house all day. ed a petition for a tew trial Sacco and Vanzetti, arre and hurried to a tat ion examina lion.

lited fter- nt- tor ted for ROCHESTER. (AP) Every 1 agency in the ci at full strength ing upon the se between 15,000 i Vanzetti sympat DETROIT TURNS OUT AGAIN TO WELCOME COLONEL LINDBERGH THREE KILLED WHEN T. S. HITS MACHINE Chicago, Aug 10. AIM Declaring that the executi in Sacco land Vanzetti steel the hearts of masses with loathing nnd 1 at- I red of the capitalist system which you the central executive committee of Workers' i (Communist) party of Am on st rat parade the ser and charge? The ions, a which in i arrest of assa trouble Aug.

10 aw enforcement ty was mobilized tonight, follow- eond day's strike The day two public dem- tna meeting, a in a riot, of policeman strikers on way is Mother and Henrv Ford at Field When Arrive on Tour tonight addressed a telegra Governor Alvin i 'Ah achusetts voicing a last min plea for the condemned i to I BLOOMINGTON, 111. Aug. 10. persons were in- I stautly killed at the outskirts of the city tonight when their auto- mobile was struck by an Illinois Traction System interurban car A i in DETROIT. Aug.

10 AP Charles A. Lindbergh, piloting his beloved of dropped tjt.m the ies bound for Peoria. The dead are David Parido, his wife and his mother, all of Bloomington. dust rial leaders. The first of the welcoming party to greet him was Henry Ford.

The hero of aviation grinned boyishly as the motor stepped forward hand extended. PATROLMAN' In another moment he was stir- IvlLLUD WITH SHOT rounded by the official committee Southwest City, Mo. Aug. 10 greetings. (AP)- Slain with a shot gun aft-! Colonel Lindbergh then np- er being knocked unconscious, the, proached the automobile in which Rev, W.

H. Hatfield, who pa-4 his mother awaited him. The trolled this town as a police offi was not effusive. Not cer in addition to his pulpit duties, over two hundred were was believed tonight to have been allowed within the airport gates, ihe victim of robbers. Fifteen thousand school children Some clung to the belief that he and other thousands at North- was slain as the result of an un- western high school field, greeted derworld plot but investigators him cheering and waving their discounted this theory.

flags. About 65 years old, the At Colonel birth- Mr. Hatfield had been a pastor for place a bronze tablet wras unveiled about 30 years. He was pastor ol in his honor. This evening he the Methodist church.

honored at a bauuuet. BELIEVE Parido drove in front of the carj BROTHER KILLED TRAIN at a crossing under a via-j Highland. 111. Aug. 10.

(AP) duct on the Nickel Plate railroad, The body of a man believed to be The car was badly wrecked and A. Voliva, brother of il was carried 60 yards before the: bur Glenn Voliva, head of the interurban was stopped. The inter- Ziou Church. Zion, 111., was found urban was In charge of J. J.

Connors. conductor and M. K. MeCril- ler, motorman, both of Peoria. JKAIAHS, KILLS WIFE Joliet, 111.

Aug. 10 of a husband 1 believed by the police to have caused Fred Johnson of Cht'ago to shot probably mart illy parade, on it Hall for a mass the Eastman plant. Employ hurled small mis of the parading whom moved tf toward the bulb Motorcycle pol seized tin did so the entire on the officer I I unconsciousness, brought the pol dispersed the mob. Thousands jammed into ventton hall for the mass Policemen surrounded the and mingled with the crowd, which was orderly. Sidney Hillman.

of New York, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and Joseph Saler- today bn the railroad tracks near no of Boston, a member of tha BERNE, Switzerland. (AP) A bomb explod street car station at Bash injuring fifteen them seriously. The poltc the bomb was placed Vanzetti sympathizers. when the convf ntion ing, passed of the plant iles on the heads strikers, one of throw a club ing iceman John Mc- man and as he crowd bore down eating him Into A riot call i-e reserves who coning. hall here.

Death was attributed to a fractured skull. Wilbur Voliva wired the authorities that he was sending an undertaker to identify the body. Denver, Colo. Aug. 10.

(AP) President recent statement do not choose to be a can-, Sacco-Vanzettl emergency committee were the speakers. Both pleaded with the strikers not to use force. are noi in sympathy with Hillman said. HONOR ILL REQUEST 1" i wound his estranged wlfo before didate, is a command to the He- Oovernor todiiy houoi a taking his own life along a lonely publican party to select another st f()r from Gov road mar Nev. Lenox, four miles! candidate for the office next year, small of Illinois mcr from kw t-Hily today.

Mrs John- William V. Hodges, treasurer o( II son to Joliet hospital Is. the Republican with In 8iUl unconscious and probably tee today told the Denver I ost aft- countv Fi f- physician said. at Rapid tty. re-.

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