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00 Samaritan Rescues Baby Animal on Highway; pinched for Keeping Skunk While driving alongv country road between Marion and Warren some time ago, Glenn Pitaer, 18 yea re old, aaw a tiny animal crossing the road. He didn't recognize the species, but the size and actiona of the little beast made it quite apparent Pitser that if the animal's mother waa a cat, it waa a kitten, or if the father waa a dog, it waa a pup. In other words, Pitser waa sure that the animal waa a baby animal and not full grown. He said he felt alarm at the thought of thia helplees little beast ataying about on the highway and byways. It might get hurt.

His heart waa touched and he stopped nis car and rescued the baby animal from an unkind world. Before reaching hia home he became quite attached to the beast and decided to keep it. He keep it for a time, but it developed bad habits ao he gave it the air some time go. Two game from Marion visited Pitaer and arrested him for keep ins a akunk in captivity. Pitser la resentful concerning his arrest, and eaye be will fight the case and demand a jury trial.

1 EIGHTEEN BODIES ME RECLAIMED FIH 5 1 AS BOAT IS DRAINED NEW YORK, July 9 (IP) After nine at the bottom the seas in their steel coffin, the bodies of eighteen of the crew of the submarine 51 were reclaimed today. The submarine, torn asunder, and sunk last September by the steamer City of Rome, was drained of water for the first time today and relieved of its grim cargo at the Brooklyn Navy yard. Sailors in black oilskins bore from the shattered hulk the bodies of their comrades and from fingerprints, clothing and other marks, identification of one after another was made. When the eighteenth body was. lifted to the light, navy officers in charge of the removal! expressea tne Deuei inai no "more remained Continued' Isfc vestigation was ordered to make sure thai none had been overlooked.

Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, who inspected the submarine, said that the 51 sailors would not be given a naval funeral since their relatives had made known their plans for private burial. One. of the bodies recovered waa that of a sailor who Investigators believed had fought for life to the last second. The body was wedged in some planks at the top of. a compartment nd belief waa expressed that as the water rose, the sailor bad climbed high and higher only to be drowned when he could climb no more.

PAPAL DELEGATE LEAVES CHICAGO Praises "Manifestation of Religion" irTEucharistic City in Farewell CHICAGO, July 9. Cardinal Bonsano, the papal legate to the recent Eucharistic congiesa, bade farewell to Chicago today, asserting the gathering was the greatest manifestation of religion he had ever witnessed. He will sail from New York for Italy July 24, Daniel Mannix, archbishop of Austra lia, and the Rt. Rev. John McCarthy, bishop of Sandhurst, Australia, andjnem bers of the Italian delegation, went to New York on the same train on the Penn sylvania railroad.

The papal legate had a special car and in leaging gave an apostolic blessing for "city, btate and nation." "Pope Pins will be happiest when he receives my report regarding the congress," the cardinal said, "for he above all in Rome was sure, and so stated before I started for the congress, that the promise of Cardinal Mundelein of 1,000, 000 communions would not only be ful filled, but would be Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago, and a big throng bade the legate good by at the depot. DEPUTIES VOTE FAITH GOV'T Cabinet Wins Right to Con by a Very Small Margin PARIS, July 0. The Chamber of Deputies voted confidence in the gov; ernment at an early hour tbia Saturday) morning after Finance Minister Caillauz bad Insisted that the government plan for stabilizing the. franc must be upheld. The vote was 202 for the government to 247 against it.

Before the vote on government's prepared resolution of aonfiuVnce the chamber defeated a 'socialist resolution calling for capital levy vote of 324 to 203. ornni OLllLllC OLUUHU OLVLhE RAIN HITS CITY Electricity Display Is Not Large; City in Darkness For Short Time me second ram storm of large pro portions within two daya descended on Huntington last night, deluging the streets with water which taxed the capacity of the drainage system to carry it away. Although there was display of electricity connected with the storm, it did not reach the proportions of that which took place Thursday and there waa little damage of serious nature laat night. The atorm did put the lighting system of the Northern Indiana Power company out of commission for a brief period, however, thia obtaining in all parts of the city. The damage west of Jefferson street was quickly repaired, and after a few minutes of delay that portion of the city east of the principal thoroughfare also waa restored.

The rain storm wai very intense while it lasted, and feara were expressed that it might damage the wheat crop of the county by persons conversant with the crop condition. So severe waa the rainfall that numerous automobiles were put out of commission and were towed into the city. Little Worms Ihreaten Tall Forest Trees STURGEON BAY, July O. Knemfes of the forext. the sta of Inch lorg hairs, millions of worms, are attack ing trees in Peninaula atate park, ne.tr here.

So deadly to giant vegetation are these liny worms, that drastic measures are being taken for their eradication. Mouday, in an effort io save the 500 trees of hemlock fcrest, an airplane load ed with calcium arsenate powder will fly over the trees atid scatter ita enrgoe, inner enoria to counteract toe worms have een unavailing. Six tone of the powder are at hand for the fight against the worms, which have destrojed almost 0,000,000 feet of lumber since renewing this spring the attack begun last fall. Press Directory Local News Page 2 Society i. 3 Editorial 4 Farm Page and markets Page 5 Sport I.Page 6 Classified Ads 7 QW PRESS INSULL TO DENY SLUSH FUND GIFT OF HALF MILLION Owner of Local Company.

to Be Principal Witness at Fund Inquiry CHICAGO, July 0 Winoia Repub licana believe the aenate slush found ccmmlttce is following a cold trail Id bringing ita investigation of primary cam nalxn expenditures here thia month. When Senator Jamea A. Reed special inquiry convenes, July 20, it will run im mediately into a mase of rumorf but will find Very ftwv definite facta, kecording to tbe.vlcwof,'ljtidistiirhedV fol'ticans here. Subpoenas calling appearance be fore the committee are said to be on their way from Washington and will be rerved by United States Marshall Palmer E. Anderson.

Samuel Insull, the multi millionaire utilities magnate, is the principal witness to be questioned due to Senator Caraway's charge in Washington, that Ins ull contributed half a mfllion dollars to Colonel Frank Smith's successful campaign for the Republican senatorial nomination, against William B. McKinley. This contribution, according to Caraway, was the sort of gift to Smith for fovors extended to Insult's Midwest Utilities company, during the former's term aa head of the state utilities commission. Republicsn leaders say', however, that Insull contributed a few dollars to Smith's campaign, personally, but that he gave nothing in the name of bis company. Others whom Senator Reed is believed to have called include toe two senatorial candidates, Smith and McKinley, Albert D.

Lasker, former bead of the United States shipping board. Mrs. MedlU McCormick, state's Attorney Robertm Orowvy ncils 'othe attle Anti Saloon league, George B. Srannon, democratic candidate for Unifed States senator and campaign managers for the candidates in the Republican primary. If the 'election did cost $3,000,000 as charged, the above array of witnesses will have the information.

And if it did not they will hare the necessary evidence to disprove the charge, as the list includes everyone who counts politically Illinois. 'Close observance of Illinois politics we the possibility of an interesting clasi of testimony between Colonel Smith aud hia 'Vet" opponent, George B. Bren nan. The latter is attempting to throw Smith definitely into a column and the aenate inquiry may be bis grand opportunity to abow how much support the colonel received from the Anti Saloon league in bis campaign. Another Important development may come in Reed'a determination to prove that Senator McKinley made a bid for votes by giving huge sums of money to Illinois colleges and charitsble'institu tions shortly before the election.

If CATC OTHIL IN JURY'S HANDS First Ballot Indicates Con viction May Be Verdict CHICAGO, July 0. With a plea for mercy and a demand for death ringing in his ears, the jury which will' decide the fate of Martin Durkin, accused of slaying Edward Shanahnu, federal agent, received the case tonight at 11 o'clock. After electing the foreman, the jury took one ballot on Durkln's fate and it was reported that the jury stood 8 to 4 for conviction. Judge Harry Miller, in Instructing the jury, gave them four verdicts that 'they might return: Guilty of murder with a sentence of death. Guilty with a sentence of life impris onment.

Guilty with a sentence of a number of years in prison. Not guilty, 0 The jury retired after having heard Louis Rosenthal, assistant state's attor ney, maka a plea for a "punishment that will fit the crime, which was murder in cold blood." Earlier in the argument defense lawyers had contended that Durkin was jus tified In shooting Sbanahan who went to the South Side garage to arrest the Chicago gunman for transporting a atolen automobile. The defense maintained that Durkin did not know that Shanahan was an officer, and that even if be did Shan ahan was not empowered to arrest Dur kin. Training Ships Collide with Students Aboard I NEWPORT, R. July lO.

Destroyers Lawrence and Hatfield, carry ing members of the New York naval reserve unita collided off Moutauk Point during night battle maneuvera early today and sufered damage to both boats. niiDiii uuniMii 8 PAGES TODAY THE WftiHEh; Clondy BaJurdI followed by fair, cooler; Sunday fair. High, N83 Low, 83. 1NJ JL 1L1N1 vur iL UNTmGTON OPPORTUNITra GATEWAY HyyTINGTON, INDIANA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY VOLUME XVI (By the Associated Press) (By the Associated Press) No. 12 3 Of UVJ ii i i i ki i int ill i ii i I i r1.

3 FOUR DEAD, Til HURT IN ICHIGAtJ CYGtONE WHICH STRIKES RESORT DUCHANAN, July 9 MJ right and two others died of an island in the St. Joseph river The dead: MRS. BERNARD POWELL, MRS. MARY ENGLISH, 30 FLORABELL POWELL, GRACE ENGLISH, 12. The island was davasted.

The Englishes lived in one of the other. Bernard Powell and his son James, were in a critical condition tonight from injuries. I The storm struck at noon after leveling everything on the island swept westward, cutting a wide swath through a stand of timber on the river edge. BOY KILLS TO WIN WAY TJHjOLLEGE Attempts Holdup, Shoots Officer and Is Shot and Cap tared by Another INDIANAPOLIS, July. 9.

(ffAr. elrhteen'year old ton of a railroad fireman chose automobile thievery aa a shdrt cut to tbt financing of hia neit year'e college work and today death, trailed hia rooking pistol after Tpectaeular brush, with. Indianapolis police. John Buchanan, 25, negro, traffic officer, waa killed; Carl Sehaffer, a by atandor, waa seriously wounded and Prank Whitlow waa Injured by Gene Alger before ha waa critically wounded by a traffic officer while attempting to escape ia an automobile he had comma deered. 'The fight and flight occurred within two blocka of the atate capitol near the downtown district.

t. Student at Butler. Alger, a rtudent at Butler University, waa caught by Alvin C. Fad while attempting to steal Fad's car parked beside the capitol. Fad turned him over to two negro traffic officers who tooL him into a tire shop while they called a patrol wagon.

Suddenly Alger pulled a pistol from a bundle be carried, fired at the officers and dashed from the store, Bis flight carried him to the Beyera hotel. Breaking through a window he con 'fronted E. A. Beyer, the proprietor, ndrtook Alger for a robber. "Hide me "quick; they will get me," Alser panted, waving his gun in front of Beyer let Alger into a closet, the gnnraan forcing the hotel to enter with him.

Buchanan, who wih several other patrolmen entered the ho tel, was directed to the closet by a mem Vr of the hotel Buchanan fired through the door into the closet after demanding the dood be opened. Wounds Policeman, A return shot from the youth's gun mortally wounded the officer. Firing promiscuously, Alger leaped through a window, jumped over a wall and ran down an alley. Scbnffer waa struck by one' of these wild buITFts. In hia flight encountered Whitlow whom he over the head with bis gun which been emptied.

block from the hotel Alger jumped into a machine waiting for the traffic tipnal to chunge. 'It was driven by a woman whose husbnad also waa in the eat. Still brandishing his pistol Alger commanded her to "drive like hell." Be fore the automobile could start Carl Sheets, a traffic officer and world war veteran who had chased Algei in a ma chine drove up and shot the youth in the back aa he crouched between the man and woman. Alger had been wounded in the leg earlier in the battle. HERE TODAY AND NOT GONE TOMORROW Due to our predilection for fads, Wjj have become to things ephemeral things here today and'gone tomorrow.

But for all our fickleness and flight, iness, we are not without a ballast of constancy. Day after day finds The Tress, classified section Belting forth opportunities to buy household goods, secure positions or rent rooms. Ana comple mental to thia ia the ateady reader interest which brings results to the advertisers. To wit Mr. Harvey, .1000 Elm treer, sold a Jersey heifef within a very short time after he plflTed his ad in The Press.

You can have the same results by calling 400 and asking for aiTkd taker. THE HUNTINGTON PUESS "'Tl; paper with the Msifled ada." (ff) 5. Its Two persons were killed out injuries when a tornado swept two miles north of here today. 35, Buchanan. sister of Mrs.

Powell, Mexico, Ind. five houses were demolished. the cottages and the Powells in 150 TO ATTEND REBEK All MEET 16 Lodges of Huntington, Wabash Counties to Convene at Bippus' Nearly ISO membera of the Rebekah lodge from the sixteen orders lnv district No. 32. composed of Huntington and Wa bash counties are expected to attend the district convention of the organization at Bippua July 16.

airs. Erehart of Greenville, president of the Indiana organization will attend. District officers will be installed and a business session will be beld. Officers to be installed are Lola Gerard of North Manchester, president; Mrs. Margaret Miller of Huntington, vice pres ident Mertie Ilummer of Lafontaine, secretary Mrs.

Mary Heck of Bippus, treasurer. i STATE GRIPPED BYBIG3T0RMS Cause Much Damage But No Loss of Life in Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, July 0. (A Vio lent thunderstorms gripped central Indiana tonight and, accompanied by high winds, did considerable damage, although no loss of life had been reported to the Associated Press at a late hour. The downpour tonight, with ita attend ant vivid electrical display, came on the heels of tempestuous weather which visited several sections of Indiana, causing some destruction. High winds of near tornado proportions whirled about the Calumet region late thia afternoon, unroofing houses, damaging communication lines and uprooting trees.

The storm waa apparently the outer, vortex of the disturbance that struck heavily in the region of Benton Harbor where it caused 4 wo deaths. storm did greater damage here than, did the one in the afternoon. Several large trees in the central district were struck by lightning and felled. Power and electric lights were seriously disturbed. POWERHOUSE MEN ON STRIKE New Insurgents Quit in Sym pathy with the Subway Men NEW TORK, July 9 OP) About one third of the power department employes of the Interborough Bapid Transit company voted tonight to join the striking eubwAy motormen and twitch men.

The striking power men number 148 of a total of 882. The strike of the latest insurgents wag called for tomorrow morning by their leader, James F. Walsh. Most of the striking power men are employed on the day shift. Interborough officials, informed of the powermen'e decision, re Iterated that the strikers would be le placed and that there wuuld be no interruption of service.

Eight OHerr Made (or Kansas City Newspapers KANSAS CITY, July 9. (JPh Trustees of the William Rockhill Nelson trust adjourned at 11:50 o'clock tonight and announced that eight offers have been received for the 'purchase of the Kansas City Star and Times. The trustees, William Volker, J. C'NichoIs and Herbert bad been in session since 0 o'clock this morning to receive offers for the properties, which must be told under the terma of Mr. Nelson's will.

The names of the prospective purchasers and the amounts offered will not be made public, tj ORGANIZATION TO GOVERN) $50,000 FUND FORMED; TENTATIVE PLANS MADE RICHARD J. McGREEVY, HuntingtoriFactory Fund who successfully conducted tha. association's drive for $30,000 for uoc uuuguig new. uiuuauics iu nuukuigkuu, was cicwtcu jsicsf dent of the organization last night at a meeting of the newly elected board of directors. Mr.

McGreeyy did not attend the Other officers selected were: O. E. Bradley, vice president; Claude Cline, secretary John Weaver, assistant secretary, an Earl Bucher, president. Three Are Absent All of the members of the board of directors elected at thi DR. DIPPELL IS SERIOUSLY ILL Rushed to Fort Wayne Hospital for Emergency Operation Dr.

K. T. Dippell of 411 East Taik Drive is in a very serious condition, the result of an infection in a wound left by a former operation at St. Joseph's hovpital in Fort Wayne, according to a bulletin issued early this morning. Dr.

L. Parker Drayer, prominent Fort Wayne physician, eaid Dr. Dippell's condition is extremely critical. Dr. Dippell waa taken to the hospital about 6 o'clock yesterday evening for an emergency operation.

Later it was found that bis condition was so critical that the operation could not be performed. He bad "undergone an operation in the bridge of his nose, near the frontel bone, some time ago, and thia bad become ia fected. Dr. Dippell had been feeling poor, ly all week, but up to two days ago had gone about his business aa usual. Thirty iz hours ago he became seriously ill.

Dr. Dippell Is one of the oldest and lest known physlcans in the county. Through more than a quarter of a cen ury in the practice of medicine, be has become an outstanding figure in medical circles. PICKENS HEADS INDJAR ASS'N Indianapolis Man Takes the Place of George 0. Dix MICHIGAN City, July 0 (P) William A.

Pickens of Indianapolis was elected president of the Indiana State Bar association st the closing business session of the 13th annual meeting of the organisation here late today. Jamea A. VanOsdol of Anderson was elected vice president aud Joel A. Raker of Indianoplls was elected secretary treasurer. George O.

Dix of Terre Haute is the retiring president. Frank Rlchman of Columbus was elected to take the place oMIeirry V. Walker of Evansville on the board of managers. The other two members, Willis E. Roue of Ciown Toint and James Ogden of Indianapolis, were re elected.

1 KILLED, 7 HURT AS TENT FALLS Storms Lifts Circus Big Top High in Air Over the Crowd ERIE, July 0. JPf One man was killed and seven others were injured, one seriously, tonight when a large icr cus tent housing' several thousand spectators at an exhibition of the 101 Ranch was wrecked by a heavy wind. Charles Duncan of Erie was crushed to death when a heavy tent pole was blown against him. The accident occurred shortly before (he evening performance when the audience was filing Into the main exhibition tent. A atorm had been threatening for some time and circus attaches were about to tighten the ropes of the tent.

But before this could be accomplished the storm broke, lifting the tent high into the air and sending the massive supporting poles flying in all The canvass was blown some distance away from the spectators. In a short time, however, order wasrestored. Some of the clrcua cowboys mounted horses to aid la calming the audience. The atorm lasted ten minutea and the perfatwsance waa giv en late. 4 called meeting of the associations were present with the exception! of three.

Those present B. J. J. F. Walter H.

Ball, John Mr E. E. Helm, EJi Wasmuth, A. J. Wilhelm, Mr, Weaver, Mr.

Bucher and Cline. In a general way, the plans ofi the organization for furthering the Indus, trial life of the city were discussed, anV it was decided to appoint a committee, consisting of Mr. Weaver, chairman Eben Lesh, one of the absentees, anfi Mr. Helm, to care for subscriptions isi the future, and see that the pledgee made by residents of the city are paid prompt ly. This committee also will have unde its especial care the membership rolK of the society, and attend to the removal? cf memberships which have expired, rians Are Tentative Financial plana of the organization were very tentative, however, and wer aid to be entirely too Indefinite to bal announced.

This also applied to planav for expansion. Current matters such aa? the plans for the disposal of the Arm strong Steel Casting company, were not. discussed. ANDREWS TO HAVE dig chautauqua! Program Will Be One of Best Ever Presented There; A. Hyde Is Headliner Featuring a.

three day festival music, novelty entertainments and mu sic the Radcliffe Chautauqqua will apV pear at Andrews on July 30 and 31 andr August 2. No program will be given oav. Sunday, August 1. Albert Marion Hyde, a forceful speak er, has been obtained as the beadiiner. He will speak on, "The Fireside," on.

the afternoon at August 2 and in the evening be will deliver a stirring leo ture on "The Dreamer." It is expected that these two lectures will draw one of the largest crowds during the chautau qua's stand. Competing with Mr. Hyde for popularity, although in a different field will be the IS lout Kempton Players, a splendid organization, presenting clasia' comedies in a clever way. "When Mother Goes on Strike," is the title of oue of their Interesting skits. Two Speakers In addition to these two there will be two other well known speakers, W.

T. S. Culp and Robert Sand. Miss Hetty Morris, soprano soloist, violinist and talented pianist, Mrs. J.

V. Alenander, saxophonist, Frank Lu caii "Accord ian King," Ellsworth Plum stead, impersonator, and the Alexander Novelty Vour musical organisation, complete the Chautauqua cast. Takeq as a whole the program is one of the strongest ever scheduled. Already many requests for tickets (Turn to Page Four, Please) Number One I CONVICTS MUTINY? PENNED IN MINE v' Prison Officials Refused tot Supply Sheets for Beds, Reason LANSING, July QVt) Sbcy teen officers and auards. 375 minor con Yicta were locked in the coal mine the Kansas penitentiary here tonight, foh lowing a mutiny among the convicts.

The convicta mutlned today and blok ed the cage in the abaft, making it in possible to send help to "the guards Warden Mackey, said tonight. L. D. Manabb, night captain at the prison, said late tonight it had been de ided not to allow the men to come up be fore tomorrow even if they signified their willingness to end the mutiny. It waa learned that the prisoners have been lna mutlnoua mood for aeveral day because sheet had not been supplied for their beds..