Burlington Hawk-Eye Gazette from Burlington, Iowa • Page 19

SECOND SECTION TB Rtl rue. hfllil lr as quota of toy with explosive caps. Due to the 111- Commander Randall the dinner was not as festive such functions usually there was the cus- balloons and All of the paper foolscaps and colored views of teething a yellow and I found half a balloon nv portion of chaud-froid of a i' orange and the soup was iiv with confetti. lSl-: STRATEGY who picks the talkies at sea, but I have anyone, crossing on uncs, who has seen a good niL-ht the exhibit was I believe, "One Reckless a poor little girl who clinches of a wicked rich hour solved a problem c.tton perplexed students of cinema. What "tho attitude of a steamship movie offered for exhi- S( which depicted thejiero about to embark upon a Mr.

Conrad Nagel and were about to elope to The harrowing moment ap- VETERAN SECOND SECTION Page Three SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1931 ManyHeldlnKentuckyCoalMineMurders nionpnrpc nor SKETCHES OF THE WEEK I SUICIDES SHOW DISORDERS ARE NOT HALTED BY 40 INDICTMENTS Prosecutor to Demand Death Penalty In All Cases Harlan, Aug. two mine guards, a commissary clerk and a coal miner met death in a bloody ambuscade at Evarts, May 5, when it would be necessary marklng the climax of the trouble- the boat they intended some period in the Harlan county audience trembled lest Mr. number Harlan county command his butler to ci ti 7 ns began to be'withdrawn from berths on the II de cjrculatlon They were ridden into Harlan and placed in cells atop the county jail, all implicated in the murder of the three coal mine employes and the miner. No one, it appears, knows how many are in jail. Estimates range from 115 to 135.

Everyone agrees that there are plenty. Change of Venue likely The grand jury has been investigating all charges resulting from the Harlan county disorders and new indictments are expected. It isn't likely that the 40 odd already indicted will be tried in the Harlan circuit court before calm, urbane, seven-foot Judge D. C. Jones.

The commonwealth what they call state prosecutors in Kentucky W. Brock, admitted to Central Press that it isn't likely the men would receive a fair trial in Harlan county. And he is demanding the death penalty for all of a result of the May 5 TWO the Majestic. at the proper time, Jeeves engage a stateroom on the and everybody sighed very with relief. The United States had attended to another detail.

XViTHKRS. the room steward, me that there is an Engish line, plying between African ports, which has been a strange bequest for fifty Tuesday all the room receive a fat pot of Jamaica while the oilers, cooks and I workers get two every This is made possible by the will lady whose entire estate a-ude to provide the luxury. j.NNTHKNTS ABROAD YOU realize," the small talk this morning, that tomorrow we shall be in Paris?" This. -ical question has probably been millions of times enroute to I have never heard "Do you that tomorrow night we shall New York?" And yet the ion on the faces of home-coming is fur more ectastic than to be seen in the eyes of Paris bound. ten years Americans haev been to acknowledge any genuine for their land.

The word liahbitt has thrown the fear of scorn their hearts. Only isitors are al- to become excited about INew from the same motive I have thc boats of European lines to the skies over anything can offer. I am told that ship's officers of foreign lines stewards not to spak English with Americans. Americans -i. -opposed to'consider semi-unintel- very smart.

This is nonsense particularly offensive sort. The appeals on any boat, for me, and efficient service, con. understanding and cleanli- The defense, headed by ex-Senator John Marshall Robinson and Ben Golden, Pineville attorney, is expecct- ed to ask for a change of venue. The defense isn't saying anything. It won't even say whether the of those under indictment and facing trial are paying for the defense or the 'United Mine Workers, HE BEST OF FRIENDS (1UST PART- RGENT RESOLUTIONS FOR- LABOR DAY STORM'5 SUICIDES SHOW HIGHEST PEAK OF YEARULINOIS Nearly One-Half Among Persons Over Fifty Records Show FIRST FERRY AT MEYER STARTED WAY BACK IN '53 Captain Homer Roberts Knows Histories Of 'Sippi Boats see and how did they impress you The annual vacation is organization of which started all the is, it seems to me, little to betweenThe value offered by cvicted various great liners.

Personally, a well-cooked egg and a well- in the Harlan field. Started a Year Ago The trouble in Harlan county began in September of 1930. A man by the inoffensive name of William Jones came down from Ohio. He went to work at Black Mountain, about 10 miles from Harlan. Pretty soon there i was a mass meeting of miners.

They 'were told about the United Mine Workers' union and the benefits of 'joining it. Plenty of them were grumbling over pay cuts and condi- They say Jones started it. He secretary of the local union when arrested last May. The coal industry has been a very sick industry and the operators didn't want a union added to their troubles. So they simply announced that miners attending mass meetings would be They were steak to a thousand yards of Caruso.

the daily ship's newspaper I there is an unclaimed re: being held for Quincy Os- i If Mr. Quincy Ostienfx by one" chance in a hundred read these lines, I hope he will Miners attended, evicted. Someone raided a commissary at Black Mountain, Then there were some shots fired from a ridge top Black Mountain brought In deputy sheriffs, armed them and told them to keep the peace. On Tuesday night, May 5, headed- by Jim Daniels, two cars of guards were going from Black Mountain Harlan. They had to a note setting forth what nis pagg through a free town, in litv rnav be.

The thing Has iij. rrr.i->iniTir1 ncif hty may be. The thing i me all morning. KAKA AVIS BAKER called this morning asked me to drop in around found him amiable and direct that it. Is built on grouund not owned i by a coal company.

It was the capital of the union. Passing an abandoned tipple, the party was fired upon. It returned the fire. When the shooting was over, four men were dead. He is on vacation, and only to forget how to play an fur a month or two.

He remarkable eccentricity, for He dislikes intensely for he meets to praise his accord- hearing S1CK That brought the national guard, 450 strong, commanded by Col. Dan M. Carroll. They remained until the vying and insist on little number." ubtcdly before the trip is over be called on in the night club convenes each evening aboard. 1 me that some time next year i PS to put on the show which his dreams for nineteen an exhibit which he insists will different from any show past; louder and loonier and that description is to convey.

last of July. There weren't any more killings. But there were a lot of arrests. The troops arrested Aso Cu- Evarts police Al Benson his- assistant, and Joe Cawood, city clerk of Evarts, and clapped them in the calaboose, indicted for murder on three counts. They were said to be the ring leaders.

The next day Wil- Jones was arrested at Pineville DUCK SEASON TO OPEN OCTOBER 1 Unless Federal Government Decides Differently Shooting Wffl Start Early By The Associated ITess. Springiield, 111., Aug. 29. Suicides among Illinois men increased 29 pet- cent last year, and among women they increased 20 per cent, the state department of public health announced today. Figures show that suicides during 1930 reached the highest annual rate ever recorded in Illinois.

The number of fatalities charged against this cause last year was 1,382 against 1,087 in 1929 and a previous high record of 1,227. Nearly one-half or 608 of all the suicides were men more than 50 years old. Those under 35 was 293, a matter of 21 per cent. The greatest increase took place among people in the 35 to 44 age group, who numbered 33 per cent higher in 1930 than ifi 1929. Last year there were 1,085 suicides among males against 841 in 1929.

an increase of 29 per cent. Among females there were 297 suicides last year against 246 in 1929. an increase of about 20 per cent. "It seems reasonable to suppose that mental pessimism brought on by the influence of the economic depression was an important factor in the suicide rate last year," Dr. Andy Hall.

state health director, said. "At the same time the highly prosperous year of 1928 gave the previous high record rate from suicides in Illinois. "It is noteworthy to point out also WP rp denied the privilege this year may get a dose next year, that there was a very sharp decrease ood medicine. All who were denied me pnv Jast mor tality from starvation and from direct exposure to the influence of cold weather. In 1929 there were seven deaths charged against starvation and 43 against exposure to cold weather compared with four and 24 respectively In 1930.

"Probably unfavorable economic conditions are a definite factor in the suicide rate, but it seems equally certain that there is a deeper and more significant factor at work. Otherwise Those good, dreamed of days come and go-seem like come, and the world is back started. a long time quicker than they dodging, boosting or knocking, grunting Bv Tlie Associated Presx. Springfield, 111., Aug. Unless the federal government steps in and orders duck hunting limited to the month November, Illinois duck hunters will shoot their first ducks at noon October 1.

The open season at present lasts until December 31. Beside curtailing the open season, the federal government is contemplating cutting down he legal bag limit. At present hunters are permitted to shoot 15 ducks a day and have 30 ducks in possession. The movement for a short season and limited bag was started by William T. Hornday of Stamford, director of the Permanent Wild Life Protection fund, on the ground that the crop of ducks is short and the usual three months killing may damage the source of continued supply.

Several millionaire members of duck clubs along the Illinois river have joined Director R. F. Bradford of the department of conservation in protesting against the reduction.ln time. Mr. Bradford announced he had information from R- Blohm, American consul at Regina, Saskatchewan that the crop of ducks will be equal that of or- while others report a OF THE SEAS ''-'I DENTALLY.

I have always the U. M. W. local, was arrested. They kept on arresting men.

No one knows how many are In jail. About 40 of them have been indicted, connection with murders. Trouble isn't over in the Harlan field. The U. M.

W. has more or less gone to pieces. The National Miners' dlnary years shortage. Among those who have protested to Director Bradford against any drastic curtailment of the present season are the members of the Duck Club of Henry, 111., including William E. Clow, Jr Philip D.

Armour, secretary. Members of other clubs who protested president, treasurer, Senachwine club; James K. Wescott, president, Round Pound Gun club- Franklin, secretary, Central Illinois Hunting club; Joe Greiri why night clubs at sea came in and began fighting it far superior, In decoration and They say around here that the Nat, t. i nn rf Ours ional is nothing but a Red organiza- to any of the land species. Ours only possessed of a dance floor enough to escape from that sar- feeling common to all the places, but the seats are actually -ut things do not offer all of explanation.

The true secret rests absence of a cover charge. Even (: f-ndwiches are served free. You can around without the sheepish look your face of a sucker. You know -t the management isn't lurcking '-he wings ready to swoop down at 5 -i. with a chisel and a wallet Uowtorch.

The captain's table has been minus captain since the first meal! Com- niodore Randall has been ill with a li of influenza complicated by an Infected toe. Louis Wiley, the business chief of tho New York Times, sensed at once news story in the illness of the Unltfd States Line's commodore. He tried to radio his paper, but the Commodore asked hJm not to, hoping tion; that literature is being dumped In mining camps every night, advocating violence and overthrowing of the government. They report that the W. are on the ground.

A soup kitchen at Evarts was dynamited the other day. No one was hurt. A number of the miners have quit the union and are back at work. Business has picked up a bit. There haven't been any more killings.

But the situation Isn't pleasant yet. Information Scarce You can't learn muchc in a coal camp. An old axiom says to believe nothing you hear and half of what you see. The operators don't say anything. Neither does John Henry Blair the tough sheriff of the county.

The miners have a lot to say, but what they eay can't always be verified. forget about It. Finally, however, when he grew no better, Wiley got his radiogram only by having the sick man sign his name on the as authorization. Now throw off the trouble in a day and Randall is improving. were Champ C.

P. Zacher, vice secretary- Kilt-Reared Pipers Won't Play in Pants Bv Tlic xissoctaf ed Press. Melbourne, Aug. 29. Australian Scots, recently invited by Victorian government to join a regiment to be known as the Victorian- Scottish Volunteers, are protesting because they have been issued with khaki trousers instead of the traditional kilt.

The pipers have refused to play in trousers. Buyers Really Must Like This New Type Brick Quincy, 111., Aug. bricks are selling in Quincy faster than the proverbial hot cakes. In fact, sell so fast that one "wine they bricker" who easily twenty dozen bricks In 1931 SHIER USES NEW WAYS Vogite With Confidence Men- Use Mail Order Graft Gold Brick Selling No Longer why should the. suicide rate per 100,000 people in Illinois increase from in 1920 to 18.0 in 1930, a decade characterized on the whole by unprecedented prosperity? The trend in the suicide rate was distinctly upward throughout those 10 years." distributed Quincy lastj week is sold out and is dreaming of handling them in carload lots.

He has sent a rush order to the California producer for a big These are the same bricks that caused a kind of wine furor in New Bu The Associated Press. New York, N. Aug. bridge and gold bricks no longer are being sold to small-towners when they come to the big city. The 1931 swindler, adopting big business methods, has installed a mail order department.

The newest mail order game is a i revival of the Spanish prisoner fraud which had its inception 300 years ago. Joe Doe of some place in the middle west receives a letter mailed in Argentina. The writer describes in touching--(not a how he has been imprisoned for political reasons. He has a $300,000 fortune cached away, but there is no one in Argentina he can trust with his secret. Mr.

Doe's name has been given to him. If Mr. Doe will send him $200 so he can buy his way out of jail, one- third of the fortune will be sent to Mr. Doe as soon as it is retrieved. York and sent the prohibition enforcement authorities "up in the air." They are nothing more than grape concentrates, dessicated and pressed into a n'eat compact package the size pound of butter perfectly legal, innocent little brick, it nanaiea properly, the "wine bricker" told a reporter, "and I only sell it to decent responsible people how -o.

supply will be here from "Watch my smoke, when they do come," said the "wine bricker." He said that he had not really tried to push sales, there wasn't any need. brick. "It's a perfectly legal business," he "and the authorities can't touch me. The wine brick is SJSS, added people Ke dlrections or reads the rec on then he adroitly you. 1 "Danger" In Delay "Now if you buy this brick," he continued, ''I want to warn you that you must use it in five days after you add the water.

You know you put in the the package. They say plainly that benzoate of soda must be added or else the liquor will ferment and. become wine, which is illegal. Sale Writes End toLongRomance Of Mogul's Jewel Bv The AssortnlcA London. Aug.

29--A jewel with one of the most romantic histories in the world sold for $50,000 after a few seconds' bidding in a London auction room. The bauble was the Earl of Harewood's Canning jewel, gift of a Florentine prince to a mogul of India. It has a magnificent gold pendant set with pearls, diamonds and rubies, and with parts encrusted in enamel, Italian IGtr century work attributed to Cellini. The jewel was found in the treasury of the king of Oudh when Delhi was taken in the Indian mutiny. It W.IP appropriated by the Indian government Earl Canning, thc first vice- acquired it by purchase and the Earl of Harewood by inheritance.

It is expected that it will go eventually to a museum. Regardless of Fire, Man Milks His Cows "It's no more against law to! gxira, liy Thf Axsoriatcti Prtis. Aug. Pf-ppers water to-make the finest grape juice sen fTAiin irmi wait IOr sell this grape concentrate than it is i five COW must be milked on schedule, drink you ever five days and there's your drink want to keep It longer just add Then you wait a farmer to sell grapes. Every- regardless of ire circus parades or cago; Charles N.

Steele, president, some benzO ate of soda to keep it from J- First National bank, Chicago; J. Merrill, secretary-treasurer, Island club Dr. George B. Davis, chief surgeon Illinois Steel Joseph P. Karnp secretary-treasurer, Anderson Lake Hunting club; O.

H. J. Otis, F. H. Farnsworth president, Blue Wing Duck club; John T.

Firle, and John, B. Drake, president, Grand Island Lodge. "Those protesting are of the opinion that this movement Is getting is un- rom persons who are more uxeor.sts than practicalists," Director Bradford said. "Those who are practical are more inclined to accept the report of American Consul Blohm that this year's-crop will be a normal one Mr. Blohm resides'In the far north, at Regina, Saskatchewan, and has many advantages over special investigators sent there in obtaining information.

"CHRISTIAN" STIDL PROGRESSES The Associated London, reBponse to an urgent request from New Guinea the Religious Tract society has published -Flhrrlm's mTube-tube, one of the Papuan tongues. This Is i23rd language In which society has printed Bunyan's classic. fermenting." "But I don't want any grape juice, said "prospect." If! body knows that you can make wine! Disturbances of the elements. from grapes, but no one holds the; the hay in the mow of his for that. It's the same way: barn cau ght fire from spontaneous my little brick.

It's O. K. uti- i com bustion yesterday, Pepper joined less you abuse it." 200 volunteers in removing the hay. Maybe the "wine bricker" is right, i When milking came around he The printed directions warn the buyer wpn to the smoke-filled barn nad 11 1 Ivilr -A- 11 Went JI1LCI Hit; Ah," the wine bricker replied, wink-! usg thg liquor he makeg in five thft cows ''Tiiar Tfiflrl QirGC" 1 "KA ing knowingly. "Just read the tions on the other side of the age.

That tells the clergy and how to handle thc stuff, when dayg Qr wil ferment and Surely none of the customers took thc worker 12 hours to get out Black, Audubon fQrked Qut for a 1Ittle wine! theater and Artnur Horning of inev brlck wan to see the tasty grape, Audubon were overcome by smoke. IJV UV fcJi-v- i-" have permits to use sacramental punc turn into wine. Of course it's illegal for you to make Thg clergy and the ra bbis may make wine, but there ain't any way to keep wine and according to the directions this brick from working unless have a choice of Port, shoot in the soda." fl herry, sauterne -or champagne are "Will it make good wine?" available. Just select the right brick "Oh boy. Just cover the brick with and ge a favorite tipple.

Seventy-five- Year-Old Oak Tree Is Cut Down a gallon of water and in five days bricker" admitted that so have good old 40 per cent tan-1 far he na( in't sold a brick to the clergy smoother than silk and with Je." have been BV Tlit Associated Prexs. Tabor, Aug. had bad glefoot, a kick like a mule." The experiment would de if but ever saw a reporter with $2, a week after pay day. However, it was an interesting story that the "wine a gentlemanly, known salesman had to tell He had only handled the wine bricks for a week or BO, he said, and he was down to the last brick. The twenty dozen he had secured from a Chicago it distributor, have been lie week before sold.

Manila, P. I. is in circumference at the base. Thirty posts are to bej Benjamin Gardner planted the tree abandoned by the Philippine constabulary improved-roads having made It feasible to: concentrate the troopers at fewer, but more strategic, points. Some of the old posts were established in the early '50s.

Children of farmers constitute the largest single the 15,126 students in Ohio State university's summer school. Canton, Aug. has been almost a century since the first ferry was established on the river here. Boats have come and boats have gone. Some were queens as such river crafts go and some were common, but always they came as an answer to tho needs of traffic and transportation from state to state.

The present ferry, the Canton-Meyer, is a busy craft just now. Thousands of bushels of wheat are being carried from the rich fields of Adams and Hancock counties Illinois to reach the market from Canton, Mo. The ferry was launched unusually early this year and has had a busy season. Captain Homer W. Roberts, who Hws in Meyer, 111., but a man to whom the residents of Canton, feel they have equal rights, has perhaps a more complete knowledge ol the history of the ferry at this place than any one else.

He has pictures, papers, documents, personal knowledge and from father to son narrative for he himself has been all his hfo connected with steamers on the Mississippi river; from boyhood, when ho sold papers and popcorn to the many years in which he was a most efficient pilot. His father. France Wayne Roberts, grew up besidn tho great Leyhe boatmen and through all his life was an engineer on the river steamer at a time when thai means of transportation was at its greatest popularity. Between 1842 and 1847. the first survey was made of Hancock and Adamn counties.

III. This section of the country was densely with vnluaolo timber. A sawmill was built near where now is the home of Henry Lie- fcr This mill, calied Spece's mill, was connected by a good stone road with a ferry landing back of Taylor island, the ferry running from this point to Gregory, a few miles north of Can- 1 ton. This ferry carried on a prosperous business not only for local transportation but. it was the gateway for the covered wagon, and tho gold-seeking '49ers.

First Ferry in 1853 The first ferry, bctwoon Canton and the Illinois of tho was in 1853, when Christian university secured a charter from Lewin county. This charter, recently uncovered among the papers of tho Ia.tr Mrs. Mary Henderson, was granted February 24, 1853, for a period ol twenty years. It was issued to thc trustees of Christian university, D. F.

Henderson, president. The ferry was called the Lewis-Adams. Thc charter definitely stated the fare: For foot- 1 men ,10 cents; team and wagon, 50 I cents, and that the trustees of tho college and their families were to ride free. No definite knowledge of the fate of this boat is in hand. The i authoritive record of ferry boats usu- ally is that they were burned or "sold down the river." Captain Roberts says that nine out of fvery ten are destroyed by fire.

About 1870 the Rosa Lee was built and operated by Captnin Sam Critch! field. Lima was a real lake at that time and the Rosa Lee made many a crossing. Captain Critchfield ran the boat up Buehle branch within two miles of the town of Lima and trasferred thc immense wheat crops of that region to the Canton market. boat was eventually "sold south." From this time on to thc present day, an interlude between adequate, ferries was always filled in by some more or less "efficient makeshift, for there was always a need for this service. One of these was a flatboat ferry owned and operated by James Maples.

This boat, which two could handle, did good service and could carry a good cargo. It was op- crated by old-fashio-ned sweep oars and sail. Then followed thc Jennie Durant, out of the St. Croix river, Wisconsin, owned and operated by Perry Munday. After serving a short time, this boat was "sold down to Cairo" and taken down by the pilot, Dan Haines.

The largest boat ever in thn ferry service at this place was the Warsaw. owned by thc Canton Sawmill com! pany with Captain J. E. Short as pilot. It was a recess wheeler with a ca- pacitv for twenty or more teams.

It i was a beautiful boat' with fine cabins nd equipment, but the trade did not iustify of crew and opera! tion. It was "sold down the cantonia Was Burned A boat remembered with pride was 1 the Cantonia. A charter for hor was in April. 1891, to the Canton 'Sawmill company, B. B.

Brooks, president- C. E. Cummings, J. E. Short, i Wooders and Thomas Hampton securities.

This charter was renewed in 1897 The boat was built especially I for the sawmill company by the Kalke boat yards at Rock Island. was made according to specifications drawn up by Captain J. E. Short, a i beautiful boat and adequate In serv- 1 ice Thft cost complete was $5,500. It i is that today such a boat would cost $50.000.

It was equipped with the best of machinery, with lever engines 8 inches by 6 feet. This machinery is still in daily use by the Miller Bros, company. Kcokuk, in their boat, the Sand Boy, The Cantonia had as engineers at different times Frank Goldsmith, Tom Martin, Ernest Pirkey. It was destroyed by fire..