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THE PEOPLE'S I THE HAMILTON Established 1879 Full Associated Press HAMILTON, OHIO. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1928. 16 PAGES TODAY 1 pDIpE" Twelve Cents I'tr Week PARTS OF PLANE TELL STORY OF DISASTER CAPTORS KILLED BY U. S. ENGINEER Held For Ransom By Mexican Bandits For Weeks --Stirring Tale Of Wild Escape Told On Arrival In Mexico City MT.X1CO CITY, Jan.

10--(AP) A smuggled bottle of cognac enabled Lyr.ian V. Birbor. Los Angeles mining: engineer, to get free from his bandit captors. To Tour of the bandits who guarded him, it brought death. I Bni'bcr, shrunken and haggard today as a result of three weeks of confinement mid hardships among tlic bandits, told the story of his escape to friend.

He had bottle of cognac smuggled by couriers wlio during MIME TOLL 219N GAS EXPLOSION Blast Comes Without Warning 600 Feet Below Surface WST FRANKFORT, Jim- 10 (AP) RJ'S, 11-nl i menace of Ihe coal miner, has added 21 lives to ils lengthening list. The 21 were killed slcrday ''V terrific ijas explosion in a passage of the Pcabody Industrial Mine No. 18. Six ivndrcl feet underground, and more than a mile from the surface, of he vvn killed outright. The olhpra d)ed from the af- txplo to day sorght to fix the explosion's cause.

Comiui! without, warning shortly iiOD miners )vd lakon their pli-cCR at explosion all the men working in four mljViv'Tig rooms. ii rescue crews foi'rhl their way through gas and crumbled Is of coal nnd limber to hvHg the I ortr'os to the surface lasl night. 1C4 f. as ir I his. imprisonment went back and bandit camp to, the mines lo negotiate his release.

On Saturday night he and his servant Pedro, who was kidnapped with him from the Monte Carlo mines, near 16, overheard tho guards discutsing them. The cupiivcs learned that they would be Tuesday if the ransom of $7, .500 was nol paid by that lime. They decided to make a desperate effort to escape. Barber got tho smuggled cognac and passed it around amonj the lour bandits who guarded him and Pedro. Berber and Pedro then used the cnirn-'c bottle and some large stonea lo pound in the heads of the four bent'nf them lo death.

Barber nnd Pedro rushed lo the cornfield ami jumped on horar. rung out and the wpi-n mn-MteH. hut were nol wounded. When tho horse- tumbled into a ravine and died they continued their a fool. Barber was suffering from an injured ey- received previously when thrown from a horso whjlc" being I moved from one camp of the bandits ilo another.

I At dayliphX Sunday they reached a liltle Indian village. They were I treated kindly and after a rest started afoot again for Cuemavaca. in- ivcd there Sunday afternoon nnd gol an automobile and completed their trip, arriving In i City Sunday niglit. 1 'Berber may not be able lo leave his bed for at a week. lie will rrolwxhlv re.quire medical attention much longer.

lie sustained an ab- I'oinina! iiiitirv while the bandits were taking him as prisoner from to nn- other and was forced to continue riding and tramping despite Ms ln- 'ju'ry'. Breaks Traditions ST. A Jan. 10 uuimuu wns lav piosciu Mrs I'enton, at n.wii, i M.O:;U tu A uerseu LO- djiy in celebration of her tO-lth ua.ay. was in support of othei very ideas, voiced by this wmier ifcKvfi IUMU who was burn in Scotland in 1824, crossed Ihe Atlantic lirigatmo in 1S'14, shook minds wi-tn Abraham Licoln wlinn sue was lorty, looked upon tnt advent ot kerosene lamps as dangerous i tallow tips, ana saw iit'Li-spui-ailum develop iruin lumbering ox-carts to practical aviation.

LumUlill WUIIIUl clothi's HIT and proper. i hey have I reed women from bond, rige," sue insists. IN AUTO CRASH Accepted i With Chance Acquaintance-Husband Unhurt CLEVELAND, Jan. 10--(AP) Mrs. Kthel Comply, Springfield, possible fatal injuries last night when Hie automobile in which she and her hu.sband were riding wilh a chance acquaintance crashed into safety stjition here.

The Compty's nvet the driver of the car while attending the American Houd convention here accepted his offer lo drive them to ounrters. Tho driver, who hail not given lits nimc, disappoaied after the crash. Police believed 'hn nntomobilu was from Cuyahoga County. Mrs. Comply suffered a possible fi-ii'-ture of Ihe skull mid olher injuries nnd was taken to T.akcFidc hospital.

Tier husband, Maurice, escaped injury. Sanijrch Haboob Breaking the age-old tradiliona of her race, Saniyeh Haboob, 26- year-old Mohammedan woman, is in the United States studying medicine at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Her hair is bobbed, and in every way she haa adopted occidental ways. HICKMAflTT TORNS ON HIM Youth to Testify Kidnaper and Killer Was Sane--Hunt to Deny Guilt LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10--(AP) William Edward Hickman's con- 1 s-ed "Pa." in 16-year-old Welby Hunt, probably will be allied wi'h the prosecution, forces in IllcK- man's 'trials bf ))t- tle Marian Parker'aiid-C.

Ivy Thbma, I Koschill druggist. i This became known when it was announced that would testify against IHckman in Ihe laller's insanity defense to the two murders. Hunt's ullorncy, A. Gray Gilmer, saM his young client would testify that Iliokman was sane and had been since he first embarked on his 1 known career of crime. At least one concession has won by Hunt in his defense against the indictment which charges him jointly with Hickman murder of Thonis, who was falally wounded when Ihe two vonlhs held up his drugstore on Christmas eve, 102fi.

be I rind juvenile court. Gilmer stud his young cltcnl would plead nol guilty. Jerome K. Walsh said lib woii'd plead a Hickman is victim of dementia praecox, or adolescent insanity. 11 OVERCOME IN CINCINNATI FIRE CINCINNATI, 0., Jan.

10--(AIM Elcvou firemen were overcome by smoke laat nighl after they had been lighting a fire that had been burning in the four story brick structure occupied by the O. and D. auto supply company and the Pick Pen Company for nearly twelve hours. Damage was estimated at tfloO.OOO. Smoke from burning rubber and radio batteries was responsible for the collapse of the fire lighters.

Physicians reported that mine appeared to be in a serious condition. TITLE SAINT FOR FINE WORK Ur. nelius Woelfkin, wno pastor of the Park A Uaplisi Church is Iho only man who President Fauncn of Brown University has known to deserve the title of Saint. At the pastor's funeral Dr. Faunce eulogized nis iricud's rise from a painter to a position where he was snowing men and nations the way lo the kingdom of heaven.

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PLANS "CHURCH NIGHTS" A scries of "Church Nighl" services have been planned for the First Methodist Episcopal Church every Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock until Easter. These will be in the nature of prayer, Bible sludy, Christian Fellowship and discussion. Beginning with Lent special emphasis will be given to tho Lenten season. These services are open to the public and arc for a who de- to cultivnle and develop Iho ideal of Christ in their lives. GEORGE P.

SOHNGEN SOMEWHAT BETTER Condition of I'. Sol'ngi'n, president of 'he Hamilton Dime Savings Bank, who was operated on for a carbuncle several dayr, was reported slightly i Tuesday by Mercy Hoj-pitjil authorities. His condition, JiosvcviM 1 is still serious. SAM AT NORTH BEND LAST RITES TOR J. I.

GR1ESMER Funeral services for John I. Griesmer home builder of Hamilton and president of the Hamilton Lumber ikimpnny, were held Monday afternoon nl the late residence, SIMS Pleasant avenue. Rev. Stanley Wiant, pastor of the Limlcnwald M. K.

church, was in charge, assisted by the Hev. J. II. Denney the First M. E.

church. Onening the service, Rev. Wiant read a little poem, followed by the obituary of Mr. Griesmer, giving a character sketch of his life. Rev.

Denney read the Scripture lesson and offered the prayer. At the cemetery in Monroe where Ihe interment took place, tho Methodist service was used. Rev. Denney offered the two prayers nnd Rev. Wiaint read the committal service.

This was followed by benediction. Hundreds of sorrowing friends had called sit Ihe residence lo pay their final respects, betokening the esteem in which Mr. Griesmer had been held by them. RUTH WANTS TO DIE IN SILK DRESS Snyder and Gray Resigned to Fate-rWoman Weeps Continually NEW YORK, Jan. 10--(AP) Apparently resigned to death in the electric chair Thursday night, Mrs.

Ruth Snyder has told her mother she would like to die in her own black silk gown. Mrs. Josephine Rrown her daughter had told her she was tired of the coarse cotton and gingham clothing she had been forced to wear since her entrance to prison and would like to wear her silk garments once again if only for her execution. Warden howcvyr, indicated the condemned woman probably would don for her execution the same kind of gingham house dress she has been wearing 1 except the color would be black. Mrs.

Brown, after a visit to her daughter during whirli both wept, told tlie her daughter was resigned to death. "Ruth is blue," she said. "She has Riven up hope and is preparing for the end. She expects no clemency from the governor." Henry Judd Gray, her paramour who also is scheduled to die Thursday for In's part in the murder of the woman's husband, has made final preparations for death. Gray made a will in which, it is understood, he made his wife, Mrs.

Isabella Gray, and his 10-year-old daughter, Jane, his sole beneficiaries. Warden Lawes said that both prisoners were bearing up well under the strain. Gray, he paid, was perfectly normal, both mentally and physically, and Mrs. although highly nervous and incessantly weeping, was normal mentally. Governor Smith, upon whose clemency rests virtually their only hope of declined to dis- c.uss'tKe?case,'saying: "I'll talk about that when I'm good and ready." "EAGOROPS FROM CLOUDS" And Crowd Greets Smiling Lindy--Honored By Panamans A A A Jan.

10--(AP) Where Balboa waded ashore to discover an isthmus, the I.one Kngln descended from the clouds to discover a great throng awaiting to greet Charles A. Lindbergh as a modem conquistador. From the direction of Balboa, the Spirit of St. Louis came sailing through space and settled down to earth on Campo Lindbergh, named in honor of its pilot. It had taken the flier a little more than four hours to span tho distance of 310 miles between Panama and San Jose, Costa Rica.

His faco sunburned from his flights under a tropical sun, Lindbergh smiled ami shook hands and bowed gravely. Attired in a wrinkled blue suit Lindbergh attended President Chiai-i reception, meeting those who came from Panama City and the canal zone in unifor.ns and formal dress to do him honor. "Efe is charming and we love him the president's wife mid. She added hat her grandson born a few hours before the flier's arriv.il, would be named Rodolfo Ramon Lindbergh DC Pa radcs. At the Presidential Lindbergh too); une tip pagne, clinking glasses Chiari.

reception, of chain- twice with FRANK PRINCE HURT IN CROSSING CRASH Hamilton friends of Frank Prince, a well-known glolhing salesman, of Piqim, have learned ho was seriously The automobile owned by Sam TUce, of 022 Dayton street, stolen here a week ago, was found at North Bend Monday, authorities have been notified. WHY! MftTFoRD! NEW text of an interview with Henry Ford about his wealth: "Are you really billionaire? What la the extent of your richest" "1 don't know Mid I don't care damn." STEAL TYPEWRITER FROM FIRE SCENE II. II Moss manafri'r of the Underwood Typewriter office hnie, reported lo police tho of a new typewriter from his offices in the Jefferson i i The office was damaged in the building fire last week anil because Ihe rear end of the place had tuirncd out and the office easily accessible, boys took advintnge of their opporlunily lo ransack Ihe place. HI-Y A I A I The carnival of llie Girls' Ili-Y Club of the Hamilton High school been postponed from Friday Friday night, January 13, to Sat- urady night, January 14, because of the Stecle and Hamilton baakctball game on Friday. The affair will sUrl at 7 p.

m. at Ihe Y. C. A. WEDS YOUTH WHO SHOT HER After yew In hospital with a bullet In her body fired by her Raymond Wentworth.

Mary O'Connor. IT, now on her honeymoon with him. She had been ehot during a sweethearts' (juarrel, but ihootlnj did not stop her'from '-her man. May Padlock Castle Farm; Agent Tells Of Drinking; Girls, 16, Intoxicated ll7, and, Observed that unless ac- The prohibition which dust' and cobwebs, is about lo be hung'on Castle Farm, ono America's most -beautiful rendezvous for dancing, dining and genera! entertainment. The United Stales Government filed a "padlock" suit against the place in Federal Court at Cincinnati yesterday charging in affidavits that Albert J.

(Toots) 'Marshall, the proprietor and sole defendant in the action, had absolute knowledge that liquor was being brought into the premises and that his assistants were assisting in the violations. The suit was brought through Havcth E. Mau, United States District Attorney "I saw numerous young girls, who appeared to be 16, 17 and 18 years old, drinking and apparently under the influence of liquor: I saw at least dozen men who appeared lo be under the influence of liquor taken lo the lavalory for the apparent purpose of reviving them: 1 saw a man off his chair," the testimony of Don S. White, prohibilion agent, relates. Must Have Companion '1 visited Castle Farm on and 25 and on December IB, 16.

icompanie'd by "a''' woniari," White's statement said. "The affiant saw patrons entering lite building with bottles of intoxicating liquor in their hands and the at tend lint at Ihe door knew the same was liquor; saw persons checking bottles of liquor in the checkroom and the attendant knew tlic content was liquor; saw the attendant drink liquor from bottle chicked; saw waiters and other employees drink- I ing liquor furnished by the patrons; say many bottles labeled whisky and gin. "I saw a waiter at the table of the affiant furnish ginger ale and ice glasses and a corkscrew. I ssrw Albert J. Marshall walking among tho tables fl nd conversing with persons wllile the serving of drinks was going on within his view.

"As- each evening and night progressed the excessive drinking of liquor was in evidence and displayed VPS pait, staggering and vomiting, the fumes of whisky spew filling the lavatory and overflowing into the other room door of the lavatory was opened." Death Fear Grips Widow Who Slew Her Husband; Mrs. West Under Gaard PAINESVILLE, p. Jan. 10--(AP) Fear of the electric chair--like that mistaken notion of a death sentence caused her to collapse when shr was arraigned--hangs over preltv Velma West as she spends her limn nervously in her cell in county jail. The blond widow of ward West, Thomas Ed- young nurseryman of Perry, 0., who was beaten to death with a hammer last month was under special guard.

i r.u county grand jury was considering the first degree murder chart' against her when Mrs. West showed a very nervous disposition. She talks i a of her horror of death in the electric chair and when for nighl She Rasinusscn last night placci Mrs. Frank A. N'ash in the cell wiith her.

Mrs. Nash will spend the nights with her from now on and if it is necessary a guard also will be placed with her during the (lay, Ihe sheriff said. LEJEUNEWRECTS MARINE CAMPAIGN 3 BODIES FOUND IN WRECKAGE Machine Struck Earth With Terrific Impact During Fog SAN'AJOIIAUrK, N. Jan. 10-(AP) The mangled bodies of three aviators and a crumpled roll of metal and canvas found on a Mohawk Galley farm today told a mute story of the disaster that overtook a big; passenger airplane which for Buffalo last Sunday.

ifn WASHINGTON, Jan. 10--(AP) More than half of the 1.200 Marine reinforcements for Nicaragua were sailing south today while -150 others waited at Norfolk, Va. for a cloar- The victims of the accident were; Raymond Henries of Buffalo, pilot of tho plane; George P. Benedict, of Peoria, a passenger, and Captain Edward M. Pauley, an Albany aviator.

The wreckage showed that tho fliers, lost in the dense fog that overhung the Mohawk Valley, struck the earth with engines running, probably killing the occupants 01 the cabin instantly and reducing the plane to a twisted pile of fragments. Apparently the plane was coining from the northeast when it struck a small hummock of earth, bounded in the air and hit the earth again, only to rebound once more clearing a wire fence without breaking a strand of wire. So great was the impact that the Wright whirlwind motors were torn apart. One cylinder was found 200 feet from the crumpled ball of canvas and metal that had once been an ail-plane, and another was found 150 feet away. The airplane crashed about seven miles from this village in a sparsely settled region.

NATIONAL BANK MEETINGS HELD Reorganization At "Second" Is Deferred After Naming of Meeting as required by Federal statutes, the stockholders of the First National Bank and Trust Co. met Tuesday afternoon in their annual meeting end election. No changes were contemplated in the personnel of directors and officers. These Directors--Peter Benninghofen, F. M.

Hughes, E. G. Ruder, Christian Benninghofen, Don W. Kitten, John M. Bcoler, James K.

Cullen. officers are: President--B. G. Ruder; Vice-president---Peter Benninghofen, Vice- president-- John M. Heeler, Vice- president--Don W.

Fitton, Cashier-Ernst M. Ruder, Assistant Cashier-E. B. Hughes, Assistant Cashier- i i a II. Pater, Aissistant Cashier --Llewellyn D.

McGinley. Second National Bank The stockholders of the Second National Bank also held their annual meeting and election Tuesday afternoon. Because of the serious illness of George P. Sohngen, for many years director, the reorganization of the board was deferred. The directors are: John'E.

Heiser, Clinton L. Gebhart, Judge Clarence Murphy, Charles .1. Parrish, George P. Sohngen and Charles Sohngen. 727,000 ALREADY SOLD NEW YORK, Jan.

10 (AP) Thousands of motorists are visiting two automobile shows here, one of them free. The national automobile show is in Grand Central palace, while at a free show in Madison Square Garden the Ford MIotor Company 1 displaying all steps in the manufacture of a Ford. Edsel Ford said that retail orders for 727,000 cars have already been booked by (he Ford Company, of which 537,000 arc for earliest possible delivery. her, Sheriff Kd. Kasmussen sail To keep Mrs.

West company and Ui watch her for spells of melancholy injured last Friday afternoon, near Shelby, Ohio, when his automobile A i 1 1 A was struck by a 0. freight GRAND HAS a i His spine was injured, right RFCFSS OF A hip fractured three Tibs broken I The automobile was demolished Because Mrs. Charles Billingslea, While the latest information i one of the grand jurors, had to al- Ihal y.r. Prince is showing somoi lllc i i of relative today, improvement liltle hope for his covery is held. Mr.

Prince is a salesman for the Cleveland-Whitehall Clothing of Newberg, N. Y. GIRL FRIElNlTTboK HER DRESS, CHARGE Rose Menninger, of 17-18 Grand Boulevard, signed A warrant nt police headquarters Tuesday charging Mary Rhinchart with petit Inrceny. Miss Mcnninger nllejjea she left a black dress nnd pafr of house slippers at a hotel where she was employed on suggestion of Miss Rhinehart, and when she returned in the morning, the dress and slippers were comes she cannot sleep the frightful dreams that assail held their in the harbor. Well on their way to Corinto, on the Xicaraguan west coast, Iho cruisers Trenton, Ikileigli and i waukee were a miles out of Charleston, S.

where took on Major General John A. l.cJeune, Marine corps commandant, Brig, (ien. Logan l''elaml, who will direct the campaign against the a lender Auguslino Hamlino, and ,100 1000 CHAIN STORES PLANNED BY SCHULTB NKW YORK--David A. who 37 years ago was making JlS week as a clerk in a cigar store, and since then has made millions selling tobacco, is to start new chain store. 1 selling general merchandise at price ranging from a nickel to dollar.

Ho aims at 1,000 stores in various cities. there jury. Wednesday will hear several no session of the (rraiid the grand witnesses, after which il is expected that a partial report will be made to Judge E. J. Kautz.

CHECK CASE FASKS ATI-ED LOITERER George Ked, of Erio, arreslcd here a week ago on a charge of loitering and now serving a 30-day sentence in Iho county jail, faces charge of check forgery. Warrant for his arrest was signed Tuendny by C. A. James, of 622 Ross avenue who alleges Reed forged a check on him 10 days ago for J8. James identified Reed nt the jail Tuesday as being the man gave hint bad check.

QUARTERLY M. E. CONFERENCE TOPIC Thursday evening at 6:30 in the Junior Chatiel of the First Methodist Episcopal Churc' superintendent trict, will call Quarterly Conference together. After hearing reports from each min- Dr. Jesse Swank, of the Dayton Dis- Ihe Hullor County ister in the Baumgardner, county, Dr.

Homer of Covliigton, Ken- speak on "The who Uc. tiicky, will speak on "The' Local flp.1 KvangelUtlc Program." Thia will be an Inspiring will be open to the pub- ParUy cloudy tonight and day, slightly warmer tonight hi southwest portion. The sun rose Tuesday 7:58 A. and will sot P. M.

i maximum temperature Monday was 39 and the minimum last night was 29 degrees. At 7 A. M. today the Ura- perature was 81 degrees. (A.

B. Heath). 27 24 NOT. Highest temperature S9 38 Loweia temperature SI 'n Avtrage St..