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nnnrrun lADOPT RESOLUTIONS wnwbif IV mi mpvuiDT'c iriuir I HI I II 111 LUUM fl 0 LLnillltW I 111, kit. iw 1 iwmnTcn NUbtlU BAITEKOBE POST IS FIRST SETESAL TO BE SO CH1BGED OP 1924 ACT1 AttoneyGenenl Stow Says Action Is To Get JndkW Interpret tkm of IspctlOK SecUoa (By International News Service.) Washington, The Baltimore Dally Post has been, indicted for publishing Income tax returns, Attorney General Stone announced this afternoon. The attorney general aald that the Baltimore paper was the first of a number of periodicals which' are to xbe Indicted In order to bring test eases before the United States su preme court The Indictment waa returned in the United States district court for the district of Maryland and there were fire scounts, the paper being charged with the publishing of tax returns of Daniel Willard, president of the Bal tlmore it Ohio railroad; Walter Newcomer, X. Cookman Leon C. Coblens and Frank Furst Dili UNDER Indictment waa drown under the wenue act of 1924 which pro hlblta the printing and publishing of tax' returns excptvu "proTide by law." The gorernment' holds that publl cation of the returns in newspapers) tnviouon carries wim a nue OI npi more xnan i.uuw or impnaonmras a aaa a I Forecast for Indiana Partly over 'ca tonight and FriJy; warmer to i Resolutions concerning the learlng of Dr.

W. 8. Lockhart, paetor of the Central Christian church, hate been mltUe, C. B. Byera, W.

A. Shock and Joseph E. Shldeler. The resolutions were read recently to the official board ol the, church. The committee expressed regrets that Mr.

Lockhart was leaTtet Hl'. work as a preacher, organlxer and manager ol church affairs waa praisea. 11 was reaoireu 10 the program that Rer. Lockhart had Siren the church. The best wishes o( all were offered to the retiring min ister.

(By International News i i SAYS WOf.lAN i CORRECT TKISSENTEKCE "No charge for Out, said the in( HE 12 PAGES HUNTINGTON OPPORTUNITY'S GATEWAY" HUNTINGTON, INDIANA; THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1924. PRICE THREE CENTS VcLXXXX No.255 WW Ierald Columbus, Ohio, Not. 20 "Mrs. C. WM arrested In Indianapolis In pos V.

Sheatsley, wife of the paator of eBsion of, a large supply of morphine, Bexley Christ Lutheran church here, charged with Tlolatlon of the crawled Into the furnace in the. base Harrison anti narcotics act xor tne puonsner ror a peneu oi noi ,1 II .1 1 1 1 I 1 1 II 0f a clerk In the Cincinnati office of more than one year. IIUIIU lllli I Ull Big Four raMroad to place a The attorney general made the fol mmm' 'poatofflfce box number oaja letter sent sssfs. cniJiissiotiH arlous sections of the country toj WUHam J. Bohannon, Louisville, bring against periodicals publishing! for passing fraudulent postal orders; tax lists with a view to establishing A plea to lend co operation and Raymond Fletcher, Indianapolis, for a Judicial Interpretation of the pro help to the state highway commission mer police officer, violation of nar rlalons of Section 257 of the revenue between now and the end of the next otlc law Lee Yip Yam, charged with act of 1924, which provides that there session of the legislature so that the operating an opium den, Indianapolis; shall be made available to public in highway commission could be fin Montgomery Logsdon and Robert epection in the office of the collector anced properly In order to pave state Wilson, entering a postofflce at TJn of internal revenue, lists containing roads, was" made by Earl Crawford, derwood, Clarence L.

Bridge the names and postofflce addresses of persons making Income tax returns together with the amounts of Income tax paid byeuch persons. "By Section 257 of the revenue act it is also provided that such shall be 'opened to Inspection' only section 1018 of the same act re the tentative list and the commission postofflce at Clifty, Ed enacted 8ection 8167 of the revised hoped to be able to pay It next ward Brown' East Chicago, post est at Tit sim A Tift ad and nvmrfdArl irn. j. office clerk, stealing from the mails: amont other thinas that 'It shall be 1 unlawful for any persons to print or pubiisn any manner wnatever not provided by law any Income returns or any part thereof ana. further it provided that 'any offense against the foregoing provision shall be a misde toeanor and shall be punished by a tine not exceeding $1,000 or by lm pnsonment not exceeamg one year or both, at the discretion of the court'." It was pointed out that the attorney general expressed the view shortly after the tax lists throughout the country were opened to public Inspec tton that there was nothing in the law which appeared to, authorise the general publication or such lists.

men oi jwr mnn muuu, This was the opinion voiced today oy ueiecure u. a. wno na oeea working on the case since Mrs. Sheatsley's remains were found burn ing in the furnace late Monday. The door of the furnace, Cox pointed out, Is largs enough to have nm.n rrwi in feet.

first by holding to another door dl Ptw th door, fnniiA when fVttred tort' mew to iracs me ouor oi onrning flesh Monday, he said. 'in tttt in ff II 1 1 1 11 1 IJ SM a member of tne commission, at tne noon luncheon of the Klwanis club Thursday. Mr. Crawford made no statement about the paving of a road betwesn Huntington and Fort Wayne next year except that such, "paving waa on win. Pnitn m.h thaf way Huntington would have a paved road to Fort Wayne and from Marlon to Indianapolis.

Until that tim ha ii Tniiiannnnita trafnn from this district would probably make use of the pavement beginning at Peru and aoinr on to Indiananolla. The following year the gap between Huntington and Marion would bo paved. He pleaded with the men present to look at the problem from a business standpoint. Paved roads, he said, can't be built and taxes reduced at the same time. 'He referred to the sunrema court holding the stAte auto 'license law unconstitutional and that evenr Ford owner rot a refund of 13 from this county.

HeNsald he did not favor putting all of the burden on taxe un aaya lor all to go across the county If. each had to stop at every, railroad grade crossing. Ha advocated the, stop signals used in big cities at trade croanlnfs which (Continued c.A age Ibibt), I EXPECTED TO BESUVE SESSION TO PROBE LIQUOR yiOLATIOHS MOSTLY POSTAL CHARGES International News 8rvtoe.) udlanapolla, Nor. 20. Fifty six persons were charged with offenses against the S.

gorernment in lony eignc inuicimenis remrnea oy the federal grand Jury here today, yitnong those indicted wa Irrlne proul of Chicago, a nephew of Congressman W. Sproul, who, with JrVWiam O. Willis of Toledo, was In dicted for Tlolatlon of the Dyer act, transporting a stolen automobile in Interstate commerce. Orlando Horton, oX Chicago, "lone woU" of the narcotic gang, as he Is known to federal officers, and who Dabney, a sergeant major at tacned the 84th iMl0R of th army, was indicted on a charge of tVvrffieY a irnWAFTtmanf eraf Inn in wlta tne of tne n. RiM riLi cnekt 4'v None of the indictments brought by rafd 1TJ Included any against liquor.

law offenders and the grand Jnnr expected to resume its ses fWr for hs purpose of proh Several cases of fraud connec itipa wimyie postoroce aepartment rharra arilnst WllHim 1. nhertln. 1 who was arrested through the failure VL wuncie, oieming ieue( of Charles Norrls, stealing mall: Steve Keleman, South Bend, stealing from the malls; Melville J. Butler, Decatur, stealing mall; Frank E. Muir, postal clerk, South Bend, embezzling letters; Eugene Goss, burg Peter Hon, held In Louisville, forg jnoney orders; Dale Heiney of Gary, special delivery messenger, stealing William J.

Law, Jef iersonvuie, using tne mails in a 8CBem to Carl A Tillman, p08tal embezzlement, sits: EACH DAY OF SCHOOL Patriotism instilled Into the hearts of the pupils at Central school in a novel manner, it was re' on the second floor Is used to strike! a cnoru, at tne sound oi wnica tne pupils stand at attention and others, wherever they may be, it on the stair way, in the office or any place In the building, stop and stand at attention while the Star Spangled Banner is played through. The piano Is plainly audible all over the building. This Idea was adopted by Mr.1 reiecung apian in, which pupils would nave saluted the flag beforeu leaving the The Department officials said the same wno paid for a license under the new i vealed Thursday by H. J. Schelber, view was expresaedby Secretary of law.

principal. Every school day morn the Treasury Mellon and Commission ni Det that you men who got a Instead of the usual gong atart er of Internal Revenue Blair, who is Check for S3 as a refund from the' ing the day's work, a piano. situated raea warnings inas newspapers pun eecretary of state can't say what you listing tax lists were doing so in vto dld wltn it Ifr that S3 was a llfe Iatlottjt the law. itver to you, then you areftt In fln Tie Indictment 'said that when the ancial condition to own an auto returns were made available in the mobile. But scattering thorfe $3 Baltimore Internal revenue office, they cneck to the four winds deprived the wrere not, however, to be printed or highway commission of a l6t of published In newspapers or publlo hard aurf ace road construction." prints.

He urged the taen to look at the i problem from a financial standpoint. WILLIAjr SCBTJKAIT DIES map out a program, and advocate that was received, in this city program, through representative Thursday of the death of William Bchuman, age seventy six, Whitley county farmer, which occured Tues the gasoline tax. He said the license day at fl m. The widow was form fees ought to' help construct the riF Caroline Hoch and she Is well known ia Huntington county, havingv He spoke of much legislation which lived a number ot years north of the come up it the next session of ctty near the, Goshen road. the legislation.

Some of this, he said, make It compulsory for motor FIN ED FOR SPEEDING lts to stop at all railroad grade John Peters was fined $10 and costs crossings He said a state represen amounting to 115 In police court on tatlve from Lake county had figured a charge of speeding recently In this that if all the motorists' going across city, i i 7 the on way. on Labor Dayr It latter; plan was scheduled to; be put to a bulleUn issued at that hour by case was expected to go to the Jury Into effect last spring but It was her physician, Dr. Carl W. Sawyer. I before evening.

learned that only, uniformed persons Mri Harding was restless most of should salute the flag. The Idea of night" the buUetln said. "She Is STORK STOPS playing a patriotic song was then semi comatose. Her heart action la' Mr. and Mrs.

Richard W. Coburn of suggested and It has proved very fair; elimination poor. She Is verr Chicago, a daughter born November successful since the start of the term. wetk and '19. according to word received in this Student gorernment has been In As it appeared that the end waa city.

Mr. Coburn is well known here, effect at (he building since the be near, messages from all parts of the I Mr. and Mrs. William White of 1112 ginning' of the term and it has. also country from persons who had known Warren, street, a daughter, Doris, proved very successful.

Pupils act' Mrs. Harding when she presided over' born at the Huntington county hoi am irswo cops ju ue naus ana eep ui wamo me ngnt. us in auguratlon, no pupil has been report ed, to the office for disorderly or un becoming conduct In the halls. Pupils also handle the money received In the thrift systsm take care of the banking tit, 7. WITH THE SICK Benjamin T.

Cheney of 500 Lincoln arenas Is reported to be In a serious condition at the Huntington county hospital, where he Is 111 of a complication of dlsetrees. Hiss SyWa Fry of North Laton talne street la 111 at her home of bronchitis. Her condition Is said to be serloua, PLAN. THAKKSGIYI5G SUPPER A Salratlon Army kettle to collect funds for a Thanksgiving supper for poor children" will be on the Huntington streets, Saturday, November 22, according to announcement The supper, for about fifty children will be on Thursday evening. Envoy and Mrs.

H. Marks are In charge. (By International News Service.) London, Nov. 20. American pub lishers, as well as British, will be re strained from publication of "Al phonso Unmasked," Blasco Ibanez's book on the Spanish king, it the Spanish government has its way.

It seemed probable today that the British government would heed 8paln's request and stop publication of the book In England, and It is pos sible the United States will be asked to take similar action. The Spanish secret service has been feverishly active here since Ibanez announced In Paris yesterday that he was ready to promise distribution of 2,000,000 copies of the book, which he said would reveal King Alphonso as ra traitor io. the aillea flarsng SUPPRESSED wBT'reBDODsiDie ror me aeuacie in dieted today That they had mustered Morocco, an. associate of gambling, sufficient votes to pass the resolu house keepers and a shadow on the tlon. rair name of Spain." The resolution admittedly has plac He said Alphonso, was a true ne ed.the delegates in an extremely em hew of the man who betrayed Napol barrasslng position and one that car eon ries the real' danger of a break belt other methods of distribution tween the railroad workers and the failed, the novelist Said he would federation.

drop copies of the book from air of the sixteen standard rail unions Planes so that all Spain might read twelve are affiliated with the federa them, tlon, four, the engineers, conductors, Ibanez has been announced leader firemen and trainmen, maintain eep of the revolutionary thought In Spain arate. organizations. All, however, since his declaration a month ago have worked closely together espec that the time was over due for Spain ially in advocating rail legislation, to seek a republican form of govern To vote for the miners resolution ment the affiliated rail unionists would be taking a direct slap at one of the (Br International Newa 8ervlc.l Washington. Nov. 20.

No request' has been received by 'the U. S. from the Spanish government to prevent the publication of "Alphonso XIII Unmasked," Blasco Ibanez' attack on the king of Spain, It was said at the state department This government could not stop the publication of Ibanez's works, anyway, save by court injunction and that is considered Improbable. (By International News Service?) Marion, Ohio Nov. 20.

Increase of she is almost totally unconscious, was reported in a bulletin on Mrs. Florence Kllng Harding's condition Issued this afternoon at 2 o'clock from White Oaks farm by Dr. Carl W. Saw yer, The bulletin reads: "Mrs. Harding's condition remains unchanged alnce this morning, ex cepting that the comatose state has Increased to a point where she is al moat totally unconscious." (By International News Service.) Marion, Nor.

20. Mri. Warren G. u.in. hu i hm me wnue Houseconunuea 10 pour in in an increasing stream at white 'Oaks farm.

President, Coolldge was keeping. In close touch with the situation and had aaked Dr. Sawyer to personally apprise him of every change la the condition of, the patient. HARDING NEAR DEATH MINERS RESOLUTION PUTS A. L.

BAIL DELEGATES JN HOLE F. I IDE (By International $ws Service.) El Paso. No 20 Strenuous efforts were launched today to head off a public fight an the floor of the Ameslcan Federation) of Labor convention in session here over the row stirred up by the United Mine Workers in asking that Warren S. Stone, president of the brotherhood of loco ntlve.englneers, be cejneured for employing non union mkiers on his organisations coal prof er ties in Kentucky and West Virginia, Officials of the so called twelve standard railroad unions affiliated federation held conferences that lasted until the early hours today, trying to devise some means to prevent action on the miners' resolution condemning Stone or to soften Its language. Mine union leaders were asked, it was learned, to withdraw the resolu tion on promises that efforts would be made to get Stone to sign a union UU0 IaJ i wage agreement This the miners re None of the shots was fired at any fused point blank, announcing that body In the bank, they were determined for a finish fight As the party left in two cloned cars, on the floor.

a Cadillac and a Studebaker, they Federation officials admitted that fired at one man a little bolder than should the resolution come to the the others In the town, but did not hit convention a nasty fight was This thay hope in some way to avoid in order that harmony might he main talned and to avoid the possibilities, bt a split between the rail and other wrio 4n workefwy freely pre most powerful of their own crafts. To J0 Proposal they would be opposing what Is one of the chief and fundamental aims of the federation, unionizing the workers of all industry. Whichever way they go, affiliated rail bodies are certain to be subject to severe attack, either from federation. If the miners resolution cannot be stifled rail 'workers would like to see action on it postponed until the closing hours of the convention when opportunity of public debate would be dlmlted. But in.

this they are faced with the fact that Frank Farrlngton of the Illinois miners' is chairman of the committee on boycotts to which the resolution was referred. And it is known that Farrlngton Is anxious forearly consideration. 'Among the bitter enemies of Stone there was talk today of making the resolution more severe by providing that the locomotive engineers should be boycotted by all other unionists. Be8lde'8 the coal mlner8 the have banks and investment companies in which trade unions are Heavy Investors. For the fourth consecutive time the convention session was cut short today.

At noon the delegates went to Juarez to attend barbecue given in their honor by the Mexican Federation of Labor. JTJRI HEARS ARGUMENTS The Jury which heard the case of Charles Sowerwlne against Mary All man and others for damage to goods an adjoining building owned by the 4.f.n.n. en.i Bfnm.n. i. i.t.

th. pitai. HI.T CLUB MEETS Thirty five Hi boys met at the T. M. C.

A Wednesday evening at 6:15 for. the usual weekly supper and heard an address by Dr. Grorer M. Nie. HEARS APPLICATION 0 NAME RECEIVER An application for a temporary receiver to take charge of the reserve fund for the payment of the work on the Little River Ditch, was heard by Special Judge Ward of Peru in the superior court room Thursday.

Pleadings were made on an amended complaint and a supplemental affidavit. Judge Ward took the matter under advisement. "She application was filed by Tere A. Clark, against the H. W.

Nelson company and others. The work on the Little River Ditch will be finished within a week, it was said, nd action was desired before the reeerve fund was distributed. Judge Ward is to make a ruling the flrgt ne (By International News Service.) Converse, Nov. 20. Nine armed bandits, one of whom was said to be a woman, held up the Farmers State bank here today and escaped with 18,000.

The bandits did consid erable shooting when they entered the bank, intimidating bank officials. 1 employes and patrons, and forcing a big vault. them to lay down in him. An alarm was spread immediately after the robberv and nelehborinc cities and towns were asked to be on the lookout for the two cars. SCHOOL HPS Thursday was Illiteracy day in the National Education week program, mnd 'W.

A Shock, vocational director of night school, called attention to the work being done in Huntington to educate its foreign born citizens. Twenty one persons, of German birth, none of whom have been in America more than fourteen months, are being taught the English language and American manners and customs In two Americanization classes at the high school building at the Mml weekly sessions of night school. The school had one Armenian woman la one of the classes for a while sh. left the city The twenty one foreign born persons all live in Hunt lngton and some of them did not know a word of the English language six months ago. Today, through contact with people and by Instruction in the classes, they can speak the English language fairly well and are educated to American ways and customs.

An advanced class of fifteen persons is taught by Lester Gordon while the beginners class of eight persons is taught by Miss Minnie Hoffman. None of these latter persons have been here more than six weeks. "We don't aim to teach them the English language by the alphabet alone," Mr. Shock said. "We teach them words and 1 combinations of words to form sentences and they catch the letters and sentence struc re tMt 1In.th,s way me imuuoi ui worn urumuruy uune.

However, their Americanization is not confined to words and letters. They are taught geography, do arithmetic problems, having reading lessons, writing lessons and occasionally are taken Into the auditorium where a pianist plays American patrlotlo songs and they learn the words and learn to sing them. A part of the Americanization course includes hls 4torf general to teach citizenship None of the persons taking this work have had lees than an eighth grade education In' Germany, Mr. Shock said, and some or tnem nave had some high school work before coming to this country. Their education in their home country before coming to America accounts for the speed with which they pick up the language here, Mr.

Shock said. ALLEY NOT INJURED The report that Hugh Dailey, a fireman on the Erie, was injure'd last Monday In the Erie yarda at Marlon. Ohio, is not true, according. to Mrs. Dailey, who said Thursday that her I husband had been at; home all week 1 because of the illness of a daughter, BANDITS ROB CONVERSE BANK 11 KILLED IN AUTO l( JOILX CARR COSH0R.V, AGE SIXTEEN, PINJfED UNDER CAR IB OTHERS I Ltghta Went Out On Paul Richard son's Machine, And It Went Over Culrert Into Big Ditch John Carr Goshorn, sixteen year old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Elvln F. Goshorn of 1648 Guilford street, lost his life Wednesday night about 11:30 q'clock when the automobile in which he was riding with Paul Rlchardeon, nineteen, and Hersel Welker, twenty, left the road between Huntington and Warren and overturned Into the ditch. Goshorn waa carried into a creek with the car and was buried almost entirely in water and His body was lifeless when removed and al though every effort was made to re tore a11 eflort8 were u'e" less. Richardson euffered from shock and severe cuts and bruises about the body.

He was taken to the Roy Trout home nearby where first aid was administered. Welker was taken to the Klara Andrew home at Warren, where the boys had been visiting earlier in the evening. Goshorn's body was not recovered from the wreckage until a party of, American Legion men, returning from Hartford City, came upon the scene. A number of men under the direction of Guilford Morrow, succeeded in raising the car and removing the, Ipdy. The boy's feet had become entangled In the top of the machine and his face and head were buried in mud.

The accident occurred when the auto lights, known to be defective, went nut completely. The machine veered to the side of the road, struck! a culvert over a small ditch, whirled about in the road and overturned into the creek bottom, ten feet The boys were returning from Warren, where they had been visiting girls. They knew that the car lights were bad and attempted to follow a coupe to this city. They were driving at a good rate of speed at the time the lights went out. The coups was about 100 feet ahead.

The first persons to arrive on the Bcene were Edmund Patterson, Eddie Payne, Gerald Saal and Paul Bowman. The boys were unable to secure aid from the nearby farm houses and it was not until American Legion men arrived that Goshorn was removed. Help Richardson had summoned had succeeded in removing Welker before he went to the Roy Trout home where he aroused Mr. Trout Will and 0, A. Souers and a companion, who were coon hunting, were attracted to the scene by calls of the boys and others who gathered, and Will Souers, equipped with hip boots, waded Into the water and attached a.

rope to the car. and twenty men on a block and tackle righted it, enabling Mr. Souers to get to Goshorn'a body. Welker was brought to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Vincent R. Welker, of 520 Iva "street, Thursday' morning from Warren. It was found that he was suffering chiefly from' shock and exposure, although he was badly bruleed. Welker said be was pinned down by the car, bis right arm being fast in such a way that his companion, Richardson, could not get him loose without help. As a result Welker was pinned in the icy mud and water for about half an hour, able only to get; his nose and mouth out so he could breathe.

Richardson was brought to this city, Thursday morning, by I. E. Clark, an uncle, and John Richardson, his' brother. His Injuries, cuts and bruises, said not to be extensive or ser i lous, were dressed by a payelcian and; he was taken to the home of his par ents. Mr.

and Mr. Jamas on the Mishler road. Goshorn suffered a broken necn In the accident and died instantly ac coraing to tne unaertaxer, wno carea for the body. There were no scratches or bruises on the boy's body and no water in the lungs which Indicated that he did not drown or strangle to death. Goshorn was born December 5, 1908, to Elwln and Darllne Goshorn.

Surviving are the parents, brothers and sisters, Katherlne, Everett Margaret Evelyn, George Richard and BHly Wayne. The grandparents live at Osslan. Goshorn was employed at the George Toung Son meat market on (Continued on Pag Three) A A.

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