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WORTH-WHILE a roe tmtte VOLUME ALL PBOHK 141 "YOUR HOME TOWN 1 LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1934. Latest Happenings HOME EDITION Of World Events ALL LEADING rUBUSHKD DAILT (Member A. B. Price 3 STOLL FAMILY RENEWS HOPE Time Wednesday" is Only Announcement. by Prtam Warden- COLUMBUS, Oct.

(UP) Wednesday" the State will- terminate the criminal career 'of Harry Pierpont, onetime confederate of John Di Binder's notorious gang which terror- ised Middle Westerners for months with bank robberies, jail breaks I and murders. Pierpont was sentenced to electrocution on conviction of murder In the -death of Sheriff Jess Sarber of Lima. The state supreme court rejected his appeal set October 17 ac the date for his death. Governor George White declined to intercede. "Make no further attempt in my oast," the gangster told his par- mil, Mr.

and. Mrs. J. ,6. Pierpont, LakeriHe, Ind Ha -will -he the tint of the leaden of the Dililnger outlaws to die Under a prisoa death warrant.

TMlltnger was slain by Federal) officers in Chicago. Homer Van! Meter waa killed by St. Paul 1 Charles Makley, sentenced with Pierpont, died before the fire of Ohio penitentiary guards when the two gangsters made a desperate effort to escape from the death house -here. Warden P. E.

Thomas kept se- the 'hour of execution. It will Wednesday," he said. He waived visltint rales tor the parents to visit Plerpont today. They expected to take the body to. for burial beside Makley.

Pierpont Will Die In Chair Tomorrow AUTHORITIES GUARD HOUR OF EXECUTION Teachers Qo To Indiana Convention Parent-Teachers Meeting Precedes Instruction session; Local Lady on Committee Logansport's delegation has left for the state P. A. meeting in Indianapolis opening preceding the Indiana State Teachers' association sessions. It began Monday night and will end Thursday, all meetings scheduled for the Severin hotel. MM.

Lisle Minnick, past president of the local P. T. A. Council, served on the information and bulletin board committee. Those going from here follow: Mrs.

Paul-Cochley, Daniel Webster; Mrs. Al Pettit, Tipton; Mrs. Harry Newby, Mrs. Earl Newcomb, Franklin; Mrs. Ben Sedam, McKinley; Mrs.

Reed Burdge, Mrs. E. Z. Zartman, Lincoln junior high; Mrs. Roy Cox, Roosevelt Mrs.

Clarence Riggs, Mrs. Glen Pumel. Mrs. E. C.

Garver, Washington; Mrs. John Kroft, Columbia; Mrs. Leona Hipsher, Hendricfcs; Nipple, Jefferson; Mrs. J. E.

Hehm, Longfellow. DEPOSIT THOUSANDS OFYfRMFOT RIVERS AUD LAKES Cass- county chapter ot the Izaak Walton League has completed removal of. all fish from ponds at' the league farm and their distribution into rivers and lakes in this vicinity. Serenteen thousand, small mouth have been deposited. In the Wabaoh river above and below Lo-' and 16,000 rock baas have been placed In Bet river, in Lake Cicott and Fletcher's Lake three thousand large mouth bass and 26,000 blue gOls hayw been distributed.

The local chapter of the Uaak Walton League was the only chapter in the state whose efforts In raising fish proved successful during, the past summer. NATIVE OF CASS COUNTY IS DEAD ROCHESTER, Oct. Mrs. Peter Buchanan, 73. who came to Rochester fifty-one years ago front New Waverly, Cass county, deld at her home hero at 8 o'clock this morning following an Illness of five years.

Ske waa a member of the East- era Star lodge, Victorian Reading circle and the Methodist church. SurrirlnK are the husband, and sons, George, who is prose-. eating attorney of Pulton county; Harry of South Bend and Biythe of Mlshawaka. Funeral rites are to be held at the Methodist church at 2 p. m.

Thursday with burial in the mau- seleum. SELECT CASS EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISOR Ernest I. Bnrch Will Direct Federal Emergency Education Program in County. Ernest. E.

Burch, Miami county, waa named Cass county supervie- of the Federal Emergency Education program Tuesday by Ross Lockridge, Bloomingtou, state represen- tatlgre. Appointment was confirmed by "the county emergency council. Mf. punch, who comes here with a long public school career including recent principalship of Richland township school, Miami county, will assume duties at once, establishing headquarters in County Superintendent Reed Gronlnger's office. A seven day survey for students will be made immediately in preparation for class organization the middle of November, Mr.

Burch stated. The county has been ted i6 teachers to be chosen for efficiency and according to need, all to be paid by federal funds. Only unemployed persons on relief may enroll in commercial education and nursing while any adults may enroll in other classes, the new supervisor said. The local council includes: Mrs. P.

Flynn, Mrs. Grace Zimmerman, Reed Groninger, W. L. Sprouse, W. C.

Barr, Carl Kloepfer, William Hardy, Mrs. Lisle Minnick, and Fred A. Skoog. A representative from the Ministrial association, will be named to assist the council in aiding Mr. Burch.

ELKHART FARMERS MASS SUICIDE STRIKERS END IMPRISONMENT Miners Come to Surface After Being- Entombed 4 and Half Days When Pay Demands Are Met. FUNFKIRCHEN, Hungary, Oct. thousand coal miners who in despair at their living conditions threatened the ultimate of economic ascended from their day entombment to-day, victrious. Assured of concessions arranged through the personal intervention of premier Julius Goemboes, the men came up from the galleries 1,310 feet below the surface where they had been voluntary prisoners since 5 p. m.

last Thursday. They were greeted hysterically by wives and children. Weakened by hunger and thirst, blackened from days and nights of lying in thick coal dust, the men ended their strike after an agreement which provided: bonus of about $17,217 (57,200 pengoes) now and a similar one at Christmas time. prosecution for sabotage provided no damage was done ta the mines. 3-r-No cancellation of vacations because of the strike.

government commission to see that justice is done them. They agreed to await future negotiation on their demand for five days' work a week instead of the present two. At the pit heads when the miners ascended were government officials representative of Qe owners mine union leader who came here from Budapest, wives and children almost exhaused as the men themselves, several thousand who had sought join 4he underground suicide strike-j-anii-soldiers, with machine gunfl at alert because they believed sanguinary fighting would begin on the surface it a single man died down In the black galleries. BANDITS STAGE DARING RAID Swoop Down Office of City Treasurer of Brockton, Obtain 912,811. BROCKTON, Oct.

bandit, heid up the. city treasurer, Leo V. Clancy, In office at city hall today and with $12,811 in cash. For sheer daring the robbery has had no parallel since the sensational machine-gun raid on the Needham Trust company last February, which resulted In double murder and netted a like amount of loot. AIRPLANE VICTIMS Kill WILD DOGS REPORTED IMPROVED PORTER SERVICES SLATED THURSDAY ELKHART, Oct.

pack of 14 German Police dogs who lived in a nearby thicket and roamed the countryside in the manner of vicious timber wolves, had been exterminated today by John Engle of and Henry Hill of Newark, N. injured when an airplane piloted by the latter crashed at Lafayette Sunday afternoon, are reported farmers whose chicken pens and I improving at St. Elizabeth's livestock had been raided by the pita lin Lafayette and it is believed ar Vials. I that Engle, the less seriously hurt The dogs not only slaughtered I of the two, will be able to leave many chickens and other poultry the hospital in a few days. To Pay Obligation Final Installment on $40.000 Re- Modeling- Program Will be Met Jan.

20 The final payment to clear up the indebtedness incurred by the Elks' -Home Association in 1926 to carry out a remodeling program will be made on January 20, it was announced Tuesday by Frank Amoss, secretary. The present balance of the original $40,000 debt is only $8,500, Secretary Amose pointed out, and the retirement of bonds la being made six years prior to maturity. The last of the bonds mature in 1941, but the association reserved the right to pay them off earlier by giving sixty days legal notice to bond holders. The legal notice le scheduled to appear in tomorrow's issue of the PHAROS-TRIBUNE. By paying off the debt years in advance of the schedule, Elks are automatically saved a considerable sum in interest for the bonds pay six percent.

HANDWRITING OF SUSPECT INTRODUCED Expert for State Attempts to Prore Bruno Hanptmann Wrote Kidnaping and Ransom Notes. NEW YORK, Oct. Handwriting described as "an admission and confession" that Bruno Hauptmaun entered the Lindbergh home and kidnape dthe famous flier's son went into supreme court evidence today at resumption of the German carpenter's extradition The state of New Jersey, seeking to extradite Hauptmann on charges of murdering, hte bady, introduced testimony of Albert S. Osborne, handwriting expert, to prove Hauptrnftno wrote ransom notes to Col. Charles Lindbjergh.

notes said the "writers had been in the Lindbergh nursery, Hauptmann's counsel immediately attacked credibility of Osborne's testimony. James M. Fawcett, counsel for Hauptmann, forced the portly, white-haired Osborne to make minute explanations and comparisons to show Isborne's opinion, the ransom notes were the same as Hauptmann's handwriting Osborne, wearing an apparatus to aid his hearing, explained the lines and the errors in writing which he said made him "reasonably certain." Special emphasis was placed on the handwriting testimony because the notes referred to writer having gone into the Lindbergh nursery. New Jersey's greatest difficulty in evidence against Hauptmann has been in proving that he was at or near the scene of the crime on March 1, 1932. By proving Hauptmann wrote these notes New Jersey Attorney General David WHentz seeks to establish a "confession" that the suspect was at the scene.

PASSES AWAY EARLYTODAY Well Known Retired Blacksmith Has Been in Falling Health for Some Time of Prisoner is Thwarted Chicago Hoodlum Attempts Flange from Third Floor Balcony After Being Sentenced. Kidnaped Victim's Husband Optimistic Indicates In Conversation That Family Has Received Information of Encouraging Nature; Believe Family Forewarned of Impending Tragedy George A. Schaefer, 74 years old of 1901 High street, veteran horse shoer and blacksmith, died at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday morning at the Cass county hospital, where hs was taken on October 9, in a critical condition. Mr. Schaefer, a native of had been in business since 1888.

Last February ne suffered a stroke of apoplexy but recovered and was able to resume his business until three weeks ago when he -was stricken with a heart ailment which ultimately caused his death. The deceased was the son of Andrew and Mary Schaeter and was born July 29, 1860. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Nina Purcell Schaefer; three stepchildren, Jeptha Purcell of Chicago, William Purcell of Eel River avenue, and Mrs. Carl Closson of 210 Twenty-second street; two sisters, William Moesta of 1230 Smead street, Mrs.

Richard Hazel of 1214 George street and Charles A. Schaefer of Zanesvllle, Ohio. Mr. Schaefer was a member of lodge No. 33, P.

and A. Logan chapter No. 2, R. A. and 1 can council.

No Si and M. Fuueral services be held from the residence Thursday afternoon at 2:30 oclock under the auspices of Tipton lodge and with. the Rev. J. S.

Corkey of Calvary Presbyterian church as officiating minister. Burial will be made In Mt. Ijlope cemetery. KANKAKEE, 111., Oct. (UP) (Whitey) Wells, 26-year-old jailbreaker, attempted to commit suicide at the Kankakee county courthouse today after receiving three sentences ranging from one year to life.

Wells, weak from wounds received when lie was shot down Sept. 21 after shooting his way out of jail, was helped into the courtroom by two bailiffs. One was C. R. Reed, mayor of the nearby village of Bradley, who shot him.

As he was being taken back to jail he broke from his guards and ran to a third floor railing. He was attempting to hurl himself to the marble main floor lobby when he was recaptured. "I'd have made a swell diVe If you hadn't stopped me, 1 he muttered. Wells, a Chicago hoodlum also known as John Robert Whitehall, was sentenced to one to 14-year terms on two charges of attempted murder. One waa in with the shooting of connection jailer Leo TYPHOON NITS PHILIPPINES Extensive Property Damage Reported But Only Few Believed Killed, MANILA, P.

Oct. Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy led relief agencies today in assembling medical and food supplies for the hundreds made homeless by the worst typhoon to strike fee Philippines in 19 years. The winds were subsiding.

First reports indicated that while property damage was heavy, there was little or no loss of life. Fifteen American took charge at Red Cross headquarters. There was no loss of life in the city of Manila, authorites said The storm began early today and continued for six hours. The typhoon apparently centered in Manila. At one time velocity was at almost 160 an hour.

Drenching rains still continued as Manila dug itself out of wreckage. High waves accompanied the wind across the islands. but also had beeij seen attacking calves in the fields. Hill, who suffered a fractured vertebrae In addition to other in- Two of the dogs were old fe-1 juries, will be confined to the hos- males whose IS puppies were pital for several weeks. found in the thicket home ot the! wolf-like dog pack.

LIST OF VOTERS IN CASS COUNTY BEING PREPARED LOCAL DELEGATION ATTENDS INSPECTION ROCKFIELD. Oct. Funeral services will be held from the Rockfield Christian church Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Louig Porter, 21-year old son of' Mr. and Mrs. Otho Porter, residing i it the northeast edge of town, who' was, fatally injured in an automob-i He accident near Monday.

Rev. officiate I and burial will be made in the local Odd Fellows cemetery. i The body was returned to the of the parents today. WEATHER FORECAST MEDARYVILLE MAN DIES AT HIS HOME Two Shifts of Stenographers Work Comiiilintr Xanies and Addresses, Forty Logansport men and women representing St. John's Com- mandery No.

24, F. and A. went to Kokomo Monday night for annual group inspection of comman- derfes from Logansport, Peru, Wabash. Marion. Tipton and Kokomo with the latter commandery No.

30 as host. The local group ex- at i em-Dlified the Illustrious Order of Tetreault, who still Is in St. Mary's hospital with wounds received when he attempted to thwart Wells' break Jor liberty. INSULL LAYS OF DEFENSE Win Attribute Collapse of Huge Utility Empire In Part to Program CHICAGO, Oct. Samuel Insult's defense against charges that he engineered a $145,000,000 swindle will Include a plea that he sought to carry out former Prest dent Hoover's program of recovery by putting "full steam ahead," it was revealed today.

Details of conference of the nation's business leaders and Hoover at the White House late in 192S will form an important link in Insull's testimony when he goes on the witness stand in federal court, MORRO CASTLE OFFICERS MAY BE SUSPENDED Licenses of Four May he Suspended or Revoked by C. S. Steamship Board. NEW YORK, Oct. inquiry board of the U.

S. steamboat inspection service which conducted sensational hearing into the tragic fire on the Ward liner Morro Castle today ordered acting Captain William F. Warms and four 1 his subordinates to show cause Oct. 29 why their licenses should not be suspended or permanently revoked. The five officers of the giant luxury liner which was beached off Asbury Park after 134 persons had drowned or burned to death, were criticized in the report, a preliminary one signed only by Captain Karl C.

Neilfion and James Smith, inspectors of the New York district. Although the report did not assign a cause or fix responsibility for the disaster because its power extended only to determining whether the officers had been negligent, it definitely that had' the vessel been stopped and the SOS sent when the fire was first discovered, loss of life would not have been so great. In this connection the board severely criticized the conduct of members of the crew, who, It found, after lowering themselves into the sea in lifeboats, failed to heed the appeals of passengers huddled on the stern. It was learned. The 74-year-old Insull, on trial with 16 former associates on charges of using the mails to defraud, Is "actually eager" to testify in his own behalf, his attorney said.

Following the White House conference, attended by Henry Ford, Julius Rosenwald and other captains of finance and industry, Insull made a speech before prominent Chlcagoans at the Palmer House on Dec. 3, 1929, and announced a $200,000,000 (M) expansion program for his vast utility em- pira. The crumbling collapse of the Insull domain came before the program could be carried out, however, and only $71,107,651 was spent. This I went for expansion of the Middle West Utilities company, key unit of his holdings and now in receivership. SHELL PLANS NEW STATION $7.000 White (Sinned Brick Structure Will Constrncted on Market Street.

The Shell-American Petroleum company portable service station at 219 East Market street Is to be replaced by a permanent station at a cost of $7,000, local officials of the company announced Tues- LOUISVILLE, Oct. V. Stoll. freshly-shaved and with most of the haggard look gone from his face, indicated today he Is more hopeful for the safe return of his wife than at any time since she was kidnaped six days ago. "Well, I shaved today for the first time in five he said in reply to a question about whether his hopes were vising or falling.

"We know nothing yet," said the 40-year old husband of Alice Stoll. His attitude, however, indicated the family had some concrete basis on which to base their higher spirits. In Fort Wayne, a mutilated Kentucky license plate was discov- ered that precipitated an intense investigation there on the possibility it had been discarded by the Stoll kidnaper. This fit in with the theory of authorities here that the seat of negotiations between abductor and family may have been shifted from Nashville, to some Indiana City, possibly Indianapolis. The mutilated tag was wrapped In a Kentucky-Tennessee road map and tossed into an allej'.

The center section ot the plate had been cut away. Kentucky license plates carry the name of the county in which they are Jesued but the only distinguishable letters readable were "TT" at the end. It was pointed out that Bullitt county is not far from Louisville' and that this name ends with the letters "TT." Study Numbers With the tlrst number and the last three of the series readable police said It would be possible to limit the field to 100 license tags in tracing; ownership. This would include numbers from'700-457 to 799-457. At the same time that is was discovered that Mrs.

Stoll bad been Interesting herself in target practice on the 16-acre Stoll estate outside Louisville it was learned that she had become unusually proficient with the pistol. If Alice Stoll actually had any: warning of the kidnaping and was practicing with the pistol to defend herself or her family, however, the fact that she was sick In bed and unarmed at the time the kidnaper appeared nullified her efforts to perfect herself in the science ot shooting. While the center of activity In ransom negotiations and investigation seemed to be shifting northward into Indiana reports from the Stoll estate indicated Berry V. Stoll, husband of the victim, is less despondent Chan heretofore. This coupled with other optimistic re- including one.

wholly unconfirmed, that the family had obtained information Indicating Alice was alive and in comparatively Red Cross. IMMA.V4 In croaslnir cloudiness and warmer tonight: Wednesday, unsettled, scattered showers extreme north, cooler northwest portion, Two shifts of stenographers ara at work in the office of Sylvester MEDARYVILLE. Oct. i Kelly count clerk, compiling the Rath. 56, died at his home here 1 Monday after a brief illness.

A resident of lledaryville several years Mr. Rath is survived by Ms mother and -a sister, Mrs. Henry Luken of San Pierre. voters regiS' tered in the various voting precincts of Cass county. -These lists, which are to be turned over to the party chairmen I ten days after the period ended i ft ROOSEVELT CLUB MEETS WEDNESDAY Members of the Roosevelt club i to hold their regular meeting the club rooms, Pearl and! will show the names and address-; Broadway, at 8 o'clock Wednesday! Funeral rues are to be held at: es all persons whose regHtra- i night.

October 17. "Democratic I the local German Lutheran church tion cards are on file with the Issues" is to be the subject of dis-' at cloc-1 odnesday afternoon clerk, cusslons by speakers selected for The list? win contain more than, the evening." All Democrats are 23,000 names. invited. i with burial in the Lutheran ceme-. RALPH CUMMINGS Fill IN PLOT TO ESCAPE JAIL KOKOMO, Oct.

(UP)Frustration of a plot to liberate six prisoners from the Howard county jail here was announced today by county of- The plot was headed by Ralph Cummings, 27, and Leland Waters, 28, both held on robbery charges, jail attaches said. C. A. O'Neill, deputy sheriff and Ted Scott, turnkey, said that acting on a tip from within the jail they found six saw blades and one window that had been tampered, with. The saw allegedly were smuggled into the jail by a prisoner arrested Sunday night on an intoxication charge and were hidden In of a broom.

good health as recently yesterday. Threat Increases Fears A Louisville police officer saifl Byron Lewis, Kokomo, company he was convinced that the brutal construction superintendent, was kidnaper who shouted at Mrs. Stoll. "dame you rich, you'll get yours now" had no Intention of her for the $50,000 ransom he demanded in a note. These facts supported the theory: 1.

A ransom note left in the house when Mrs. St.oll was kidnap- ed last Wednesday said that "unless you get in touch with us within five days with the ransom money, we will be forced to do away with Mr. Stoll (C. C. Stoll, originally selected as the victim) or bin body." The fifth day expired last night 2.

"We are Socialists," wrote the note's author, and "damn you rlcn. you'll get yours now," the kidnaper screamed at Mrs. Stoll. 3. The kfdnsnev was of a brutal day.

A permit for the new building, erection of which will start immediately under the direction of issued by the board of public works at a meeting in the city building Tuesday morning. All work will be done by local men. The new station will be a 30-0 foot structure of white glazed brick and one story high. Across the front will be a. 26-foot showroom.

The portable station was opened in June of 1933. WINAMAC ELEVATOR BURGLARY SUSPECTS ARE UNDER ARREST WINAMAC. Oct. boys held at Jeffersonville, for the burglary of the elevator nature. With the frail, 26-year old matron just aroused from a sick I Grand Rapids.

here last Thursday night are to be he slugged her mercilessly with i returned to Grand Rapids, lead n( to face more serious charges, it Is Contents of the ransom note announced by Sheriff Asa Riehard-' Indicated Intimate acquaintance ison. Those held are: Roy Mann wi V- and a atred of members of '-e i and ATvin White of Knox and Rob- Stoll family, iertLake and Garv Russell rf 6V 'anguarge an anti-social atatement purportedly i made by C. C. Stoll at a. corporat- ion directors' meeting.

I 5. No positive trace of either sb- ductor has heea found since Mrs. Stoll wag carried, scantily clad, I from her home to a waiting auto- I mobile. 6. All signs indicates that the Thirty-four from Logansport at- $50.000 ransom wag sent to a designated spot but Is unclaimed.

Other developments that may or may not have a bearing on tha feeling of optimism In the family: 1. Increased and unexplained activity of federal agenU last night. FATHERAIGHINGER AT I tended a district meeting of Catho! lie women at Peru Sunday and heard among other speakers the Rer. M. J.

Aichinger of St. Jo! sept's church, this city, who is head of the Logansport deanery..