Palatka Daily News from Palatka, Florida • 1

father Forecast rtIy cbudy and somewhat (tted Sunday and Good It is the mother wfc makes the domestic hearth the nursery of heroes. Webster. No. 186. PALATKA, FLORIDA.

TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1922. PRICE FIVB CENTS 0C BOMBERS YE CONFESSED; mmlm Uv SAFE CRACKERS OPERA TING IN PALATKA HE IS INCLUSIVE SIGHT HEADS Men Are Positively htified as. Slayers of Officers ING TO "BIG TIM" vtd He Is Certain to Go Up If Not Hung (Br Auoclated Pmuri tigo, May ie. Jiviaence ais- connecting bomb throwers slayers of two policemen lie "big three' Chicago labor was claimed today by police te attorneys who have work-efatigably since Terrance Ly- ting lieutenant, and Thos. patrolman, were shot down a tgo after two buildings had knamited in the so-called labor men have bee nidentified fly as the slayers of the po- and three of them have con-tie police said, while John bartender, owner of the motor ra which the fatal shots were las been identified as the driv- ugh bloody finger prints on lo door.

Two men who rode Cm were arrested when they for medical aid and the police had a body wound and the bullet through the questioning they broke down, py, and one made a complete on. himself confessed early to iler constant questioning, the faii He was removed secret in outlying police station be- an attempt to poison him. paid one dish brought from a pt contained a deadly Doison. kh these alleged confessions pr information, according to fid prosecutors evidence has itame'd to connect the wnrV nf fibers and killers with "Big wphy, head of the Oa Wnrk- Street Workers' union, for mer of the state assembly fsressional secretary; "Con" I Theater Janitors' union, renchy" Mader. president of pgo Building Trades coun- es men, called bv the nolire.

three," with five others, without bail under murder in connection with T.vnna' P's. deaths. They have main- since their arrests ago. PARKER NOT BE CANDIDATE FOR A BISHOPRIC Balloting Is Resumed at Hot Springs, Today 3 MESJTANO OUT Delegates Still Vote for Parker, Believing He'll Accept Long Wins to Enter Naval Academy Nram from the Commandant I Marion Milit Tntitni. a ry training school for ap- uniwa stales wavai St Annntu-Ji.

i. fwio, UVlf JU- p- Long this morning; announ- gttstus R. Tnff hi. -mn. Nsfmly pMed jj, I Mir.

i-u'hj inu the sesvemy. appointed some time I i. racx hich he -went to Marion cour. He stood "flala. tL 1 wii many nnnvis ao0'.

returning lo Paaltka a 1M tl- I 7 ms sux-eui in psss- Wight not only to hia proud but Li. ma many inenog fll lav some time next acatemy. (By Auoelated Pkm) Hot Springs, May 16. Balloting began today at the general conference of the1 Methodist Episco pal church, south, for the election of five bishops. Virtual withdrawal of Dr.

Franklin N. Parker, of Atlanta, as one of those to be ballotted upon was announced in a statement by Dr. Parker, who asked that his friends refrain from voting for him, saying he wished to continue in educational work. Dr. Parker was elected bishop at the general conference at Atlanta four years ago, but declined because he did not care to leave the educational field.

The elections attracted wide interest among the delegates and every seat was filled long before the hour for calling the conference to order. In addition there was one of the largest galleries of visitors that has attended the sessions thus far. As the voting began three names stood out prominently from among the large number mentioned in connection with the offices. They were those of Dr. Parker, Dr.

Sam R. Hay, of Houston, Texas, and Dr. J. E. Dickey, of Griffin, Ga.

Dr. Parker did not say whether he( would accept if elected to the offices in spite of his request and there was much conjecture as to whether his name would go through on the early ballots as his friends contended would be the case. Hold Two Sessions. For the first time since the conference began delegates were under instructions to report for two sessions, one this forenoon and the other this afternoon. If the Episcopal elections prove lengthy, officials said, they are.

prepared to urge that the conierence hold evening sessions in order that final adjournment may be reached by the latter part of the week. Slightly tighter restrictions in regard to performing the marriage rites for divorced persons are included in the report of the committee on temperance 'and social service, members of the committee sjaid today. The reDort. committeemen declar ed, condemns what is regarded as an abnormal and unwarranted increase in the amount of divorce and speci fies among other things that betore officiating at a wedding where one of the parties is divorced the minister shall have obtained a written statement as to the reason for the decree. The church, it was stated, will continue to recognize only one ground for on the part of either husband or no minister may perform the ceremony where either of the contracting parties has been divorced for any other cause.

Unveiling of the Grant Memorial in Washington BUSINESS IN U. S. DEPENDS HOW EUROPE IS FARING National Chamber of Commerce Hears Matter Dissected Ueneial view ut the Grant Memorial unveiling ceremonies lu Washington, showing the speakers' stand and the memorial. Insert are Princess Cantacuzene, granddaughter of General Grant, ana her daughter Ida, who unveiled the statue. CATTS INDICTMENT ON BRIBERY CHARGE WAS QUASHED BY THE COURT (Br Anmnlated Pma) Lake Butler, May 16 Former Gov ernor Sidney J.

Catts left here today with but one idea uppermost in his mind to proceed to Pensacola to prepare to fight the federal indictments there charging hi mwith peonage. Judge Long, in circuit court, yesterday, sustained the motion of the de fense to quash the indictment against the former governor, in which he was charged with accepting a bribe to in fluence his vote on applications for pardori. The action of the court cleared the former governor of any malfeasance in office growing out of his alleged acceptance of money to influence his vote for the pardon of a life term convict, J. J. Coleman.

While gov ernor he was ex-officio chairman of the pardon board. Still pending against him is a federal indictment charging peonage in that he is alleg ed to have held two negroes on his farm in West Florida to work out a debt. The defense argued that the indict ment was faulty in that although Coleman was alleged to have profited by the governor's alleged wrongdoing, the indictment did not specify or claim that he presented the bribe. The state charged that J. J.

Mendenhall, serving a life sentence for the murder of two women near Clearwater, several years ago, acted as the go-between, but Mendenhali's alleged part was not covered rpeei-fically in the indictment. Sloop With 2,000 Cases Booze Aboard Brought Into Port "New -k-The sloop Grace and Edna, loaded. said, with 2,000 cases of whisky, was bought into port today after it was captured off the New Jersey coast Six member, of the crew were arrested, including two who John -WoUa and Clinton Saunders, of Miami, Fla. Australian Champ to Make a Debut in Gotham Tonight IB PrrM New York, May 16.Jim Tracy, heavyweight champion of Australasia, will make his American debut in Madison Square Garden tonight in a 15-roundj match with "Knockout" Bill Brennan, who staved off a knockout last year at the hands of Jack Dempsey for twelve rounds. Tracy is younger, taller, heavier; has a longer reach, and virtually is superior in every physical measurement to Brennan.

The Australian is on the quest of a bout with Dempsey. Swindler Wanted Florida Gets Case Continued Wichita, Kans, May 1ft The preliminary hearing of C. Watkins charged with using mails to defraud Otto Haubenreiser retired banker of Providence, K. out of $10,000 in an alleged stock swindling ICE CREAM FIRM TO DISTRIBUTE ALL OVER STATE Locates Here Because Distribution Is Most Convenient WILL MADE BUTTER TOO Means Devxlopment of a Big Dairying Industry Here After carefully analyzing the ad vantages of all cities in the state A. E.

Drew and his associates have de cided to locate in Palatkt with an ice cream manulactunng plant to manufacture ice cream for the entire state, and with the ultimate development of a big creamery here. Mr. Drew has already made arrange ments for the establishment of a temporary factory at No. 707 Lemon street and expects to be ready for business just as soon as the two carloads of machinery he has is installed. Accompanying Mr.

Drew is W. M. Enos, also an experienced ice creani man, who win nave cnarge oi tne sales department. He will travel this territory and cover the local trade. The new firm will be known as the Palatka Ice Cream company, and is incorporated.

The plant will have a capacity of 500 gallons of ice cream per day, two carloads of machinery, all new, having arrived and is being installed. Nothing but the very lat est machinery will be used, and Mr. Drew believes that there is a big fu ture for a concern of this kind located in a city like Palatka with such splendid railroad connections for distributing his products. As soon as the ice cream business swell established he will erect his own building, Mr. Drew says, and begin the manufacture of butter.

He comes to raiatKa irom itome, where he built his business from 000 gallons per year to 80,000 gallons in a very short time. He also had great, success in the manufacture of butter, in which he says, there is a great future in the south. He will use alP of the milk and cream he can get locally, but will be' forced, until production here -increases, to import some of his sweet cream from Georgia. reiser identified Watitins as one oi the two men he alleges swindled him. The banker said he was induced to get $8,000 from home and with other cash he said he gave to Davidson for scheme at I a suDOOsed investment in Mexican oil Daytona, Florida, has been continued stock through Daytona brokerage until June 1.

In the meantime attor-jflrm. The deal resulted in total loss, neya' are to submit brief. Hauben- Haubenreises said. BAPTISTS' BUILDING I By Aaaodotrd Presa) Jacksonville, May 16 The million dollar church building and loan fund of the Southern Baptist convention is oversubscribed, it was' learned here today as hundreds of messengers from all over the south gathered for the opening tomorrow of the sixty-sixth annual session-. Dr.

L. B. Warren, secretary of the department of the home mission board who raised the fund just as continual retinal trouble destroyed his eyesight, will make a formal report later. An optomistic report on the progress of the Seventy-five Million Dollar cam paign is also expected. The re-election of President E.

Y. Mullins, of Louisville, and other of ficers is predicted, with the exception of Dr. S. C. Moore, recording secretary.

Dr. J. J. Taylor has announced that he will oppose Mr. Moore's re election on the grounds that he is ed itorial secretary of the Sunday School board and is now entitled to be an officer of the convention.

Dr. Taylor will nominate A. S. Barnes, of Montgomery, as recording secretary. New Orleans and Kansas City are seeking the next convention.

PRES. DEPRESS TALKS Must First Aid Europe to Get Back to Its Feet League of Nations Will Not Handle Russian Matter (By AMorlated Preaal Geneva, May 16. The council of the League of Nations refused today to take up the Russian problem, and referred to the Genoa conference the Norwegian government's request for immediate inquiry by the league into the general situation in Russia and the effect of the famine on eco-mbnic reconstruction in Europe. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who present ed the Norwegian government's re quest and who is the league's high commissioner for Russian relief, fought hard to prevent the question going to Genoa.

He said handing it to Genoa was equivalent to hurrying it. Marquis Imperiali, of Italy, pro tested this, saying he was confident the conferees at Genoa would give the question fullest consideration. Dr. Nansen, however, insisted that the Genoa conference was. about to break up according to the press, reports, having solved the Russian problem.

B. R. T. THANKS WILSON By AaaMlata4 Prcaa Toronto, May 16. A vote of thanks for the favors granted the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen during hi soccupancy of the white house was extended yesterday by the organization to Wood row Wilson.

A message sent to the former president by officers of the brotherhood, which is holdinf its annual convention here, wished him health, happiness and prosperity. (By Associate Preaal Washington, May .16. Although business conditions are on the mend in this country the improvement throughout the world and particularly in Europe since the war," has not been sufficient to justify optimism as to the future," Joseph H. DeFrees, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, declared here today in opening the tenth annual meeting of the chamber. Laying before the convention attended by some five thousand delegates from every section of the country, the keynote problem to be considered, "Eu ropean conditions in their effect on American business," Mr.

DeFrees said: "When we look eastward to the center of modern civilization in Europe to the markets of half our export trade, it is only the hopelessly ignorant or the incurable optimist who can work out any immediate assurance of comfort or stability. "Hunger and its kinsman, bolshev- ism, still stalk menacingly across the stage, wars and rumors of wars are yet in progress, boundaries are not fixed, governments are not secure, finances are not in turmoil. These things that we fought for, the defeat of militarism and the safety of our own and other free governments have not yet been attained. How and when we shall aid, 'we who are most powerful to aid, in restoring stability in Europe in our own interest as well as in theirs, are, I assert, the greatest and most immediate problems before American business today." Balfour Makes Address. The convention also addressed at the opening session by Arthur Balfour, vice president of the Association of the British Chambers of Commerce, who spoke on the economic and industrial situation of Europe.

"In England," Mr. Balfour eaid, "and in some other countries we have seen the worst. We are reaching economic conditions where trade on a proper basis will again be possible, and I am hopeful -that before the end of the year trade will begin to flow in its normal channels. "It is imperative that you and we, the great Anglo-Saxon people ofthe world, should stand together, work together, with the greatest possible harmony for the reconstruction of Europe. It is not alone the reconstruction of Europe which, whether we like it or not, has been placed upon Anglo-Saxon shoulders, but the whole peace of the world depends on us, and is our natural heritage, and we must assume the burden and face our responsibilities together." The program for today also called for a number of group meetings, including the domestic distribution, fabricated production and insurance groups, which heard addresses on subjects of special interest to those fields.

The afternoon session was devoted to a ceremonial program in connec tion with the laying of the cornerstone for the new home of the na tional chamber here for which eround already has been broken on a site overlooking Lafayette square on the north. The program called for addresses by Charlea Nagel, who is sec retary of commerce and labor under President Taft, called the organiaa- uon meeting which led to the forma tion of the chamber, and by Harry A. Wheeler, of Chicago, the first presl- aent or tne chamber. IKE FLUKE ATTEMPT AT JOHNSON'S One Yegg Kept Look-out While Second Worked on the Safe- MADE A BUNGLIHG JOB One Plunger Held and Burglars Missed ting Large Sum Yeggmen, members of the'' gang op-1 erating in Jacksonville recently it is believed, made an attempt to rob the' safe in the office of Currie Johnson last night on Twelfth street. They barely missed getting a large sum, between eight and nine thousand dollars Mr.

Johnson said, when a lower plunger refused to drop out of its soicket and held the door firmly in place until Mr. Johnson went down this morning. The fact that the operation on the safe at Currie Johnson's was simi lar to that which has been performed on safes in Jacksonville leads to the belief that the yeggmen are travel ing south and stopped off at Palatka to see what they could pick up. The intruders gained entrance to the big warehouse of the wholesale concern by prizing off a sheet of the corrugated iron in the rear, and pro- ceeded to the office. A chair was drawn up to the glass front of the office where one of the men is supposed to have placed himself as lookout while his pal or pals worked on the safe.

1 The handle which turns the tum blers out' of their sockets was first twisted off, and the holding bolt drivi en to the inside of the Safe. Then all of the plungers except one were shaken from their sockets, the last one holding tight, and prevented a rob bery. Too Some Chewing Gum. Failing to get the safe open the rob bers took some cigars and shewing1 -gum and left, leaving behind them tools stolen from a nearby blacksmith shop, and from the carpenters boxes at the rear where a big warehouse is being erected by the Merryday Gro- eery Co. When Mr.

Johnson came down this morning he found the front door pen, indicatig that the robbers had left the place by the frot way. He thought Mr. Currie was in the buildintr. but when he called no one answered and he began to look about finding that the safe had been tampered with. Police were notified, but to a late hour this afternoon had not secured a clew.

Wu Is Expected to Move on Chang in a Short Time By Aanctateai fun Tientsin, May 16. There is a mo- mentary lull in the military opera tions north of this city owing to the fact that Wu-Pei Fu, victorious in his campaign against Chan Tso-Lin near Peking, has not concentrated sufficient forces in the neighborhood of Tangshan for an attack on Chang's army, which is entrenched A movement of Wu's troops on a Urge scale is expected to "begin shortly, NUTT GETS NEW JOB Washington May 16-Prohibition Commissioner Haynea today announced the appointment of L. G. Nutt assistant federal prohibition director for the state of Illinois. 1.