Princeton Daily Clarion from Princeton, Indiana • 1

Indiana Forecast: Cloudy tonight and Friday; probably showers and local thunderstorms; slowlv rising temperature Friday, EIGHT PAGES MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, PRINCETONS LEADING HEWS AND ADVERTISING PAPER SINCE 1846. A HOME PAPER CLARION PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLISHERS PRINCETON, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1927 FOUNDED 1849 VOLUME LXXXII. NO. 40 Gives Life Trying CORN GROWERS ADMITS KILLING Television Flashes i Tf ROUSED MOSCOW A SEND STIMSON TO NICARAGUA AT CHINESE RAID To Save Stray Dog MAPLEWOOI), N. April 7.

Stuart I. Wcidcl general (tali's engineer of Hie Western hlertric company, today lost his life in an unsuccessful effort to save a Mruy (he. He was hilled In trying to coax the animal from (lie path of an approuelu'ng express train. The ilog was struck by the train and so badly hurt that it hail to he shot. BOY IS SHOT BY AIR RIFLE SLUG BULLET FIRED BY COMPANION FLATTENS AGAINST LAD'S SKILL A little boy, said to be the son of Mr.

aud Mrs. Waller White, west Broadway, was shot iu the forehead by an air rifle bullet late Monday, it has been learned. The air rifle was fired hy boy companion. The injured boy was treated by a local physician who found that the bullet, hail penetrated the flesh and had flattened against ihe skull. It was extracted with difficulty.

Hud the bullet struck an eye or the hoy's temple It is believed death would have resulted. The injured boy seems little the worse for the wound. Little could be learned as to the cause of the shooting. One story was that the rifle was fired by one of three boys following a dispute. wright Orphans SOUGHT IN SUIT 'A- CIRCUIT, COURT CASE RECALLS FRANCISCO MINE TRAGEDY OF DECEMBER 9 CM nnd Mary A.

Wright, parents of Claude Wright, who was killed iu the Francisco mine explo-sioa December 9, are plaintiffs in suits fried in circuit court today. The suits were combined. One is au action against Minnie Harrison, guardian of Bertha and Ralph Wright uml the oth er against Oscar Lanphar, administra tor of the estate of Claude Wright, deceased. Following Wright's death in the mine, his widow, Mrs. Jessie Wright, died in mi Kvnnsville hospital.

The grandparents of Wright seek the chil dren. Mrs. Harrison, mother of Mrs. Jessie Wright is at present guardian of the children. Mrs.

Mary Turpin Mrs. Mary Turpin, a resident of Princeton, became ill while In Terre Haute Monday visiting a da lighter, and died Monday night ut St. Anthony's hospital. She was 75 years old. Death resulted from hardening off the arteries and heart disease.

Mrs. Turpin became Hi while walking on the street. The hotly was brought here Wednesday night. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Colvin chapel in south Main street. Rev.

Russell L. Phillips, of the First Methodist church, will conduct the service. Burial will lie iu the I. O. O.

V. cemetery. Mrs. Turpin had made her home with a son, Jeff Turpin, In Coal Mine row. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.

Sam Clark, of Terre Haute, and Mrs. Lizzie Morgan, of Centralia, 111., and two sons, Mr. Turpin, and Ralph Morgan, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Three brothers uud two sisters also survive. SHORT VACATION FOR TEACHERS, PUPILS Princeton school children yesterday afternoon either took their books home or bade them goodbye for a vacation which will last until Monday morn ing.

This sliring vacation comes as a rest lieriod at the close of strenuous win ter term ami gives teachers a chance to prepare schedules for the remainder of the school year. DEATHS names as men i am NEW YORK, April Ttlevlsloiv 4Im nysteni of transmitting distant scenes and iktsuim in action over telephone and radio circuitsmade its formal public bow this afternoon. In demonstration, Secretary of Commerce Hoovrp at Washington tallied with I'residnit Walter S. Gilford, of the American Telephone Tleegraph company, while the apparatus threw on the M-rrni the char, animated picture of the secretary as lie MM)ke 200 miles away. BIG FIELD SEEKS -ORATION PRIZES STATE WINNER CAPTl'RE FOUR CONTESTS ARRANGED FOR SI'EAKERS ANDERSON, April 7.

(JP) The high school student who wins the $100 prize offered by the Indiana Bar association for the best oration on the federal constitution will have to battlo his way through four contests. J. A. YnnOsdoI, chairman of the as sociation's committee in charge of the state wide competition, has qnnouueed final plans for the holding of county, district, zone and state finals contests. County contests must be concluded by April 20, district contests by April aud zone contests by May 0.

The state finals will lie held May 14 at Anderson, hen the Frank C. Kail p-lsse fund will be divided among the six participants, as follows: first, second, $250; third, $lo0; fourth, $100; fifth and sixth, each. Trior to this, county aud district winners will have been awarded cash prizes, Medals for Winners la addition to cash awards, the state champion -will receive a gold, medal district winners will be given silver ones and county winners will receive bronze ones. County chairmen may name any dare prior to April 20 for the county contests. District divisions conform with congressional districts.

At these contests, county winners will compete for the right to go to the zone com petition. the zone competition, the pairings are First and Second districts; Third and Fourth; Fifth, Sixth and Seventh; Eighth and Ninth; Tenth and Eleventh, and Twelfth and Thir teenth. Places or exact dates have not yet been named for the county, district and zone contests. 76 Counties Entered Seventy-six counties art! represented in the competition by 181 entrants, thus insuring seventy-six county winners. District apiiortloiinient shows that the keenest competition will be in the1 Fourth, where the Bartholomew, Dearborn, Decatur, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Johnson, Ohio and Ripley winners will compete.

Eight counties will be represented in the Sixth district, seven in the Ninth, and six each in the Second, Tenth, Twelfth aud Thirteenth. committee first believed that it might be possible to dispense with zone contests, making the state competitions one for district winners, but the size of the field necessitated a shift in plans with the result that the zone contests, used in 192(J, have been returned for 1027. How Long Man Can Hold Job Question COLUMBUS, April 7. (JP) When George Annul and otll-r prop erty owners In Clay township recently petitioned the circuit judge for permis sion to build a draiuuge ditch, the judge couldn't find a drainage ditch commissioner. Now Boone county is wondering if a man named In 1910 who has not served since JO 13 can act.

Petitions must be approved by a com missioner before they can be posted. Charles Deatrlcli. a farmer, served as ditch commissioner from 1910 to 1913 but as no petitions for ditches were filed after that until this year there wag no commissioner. County officials holie to establish that Deatrich still is the commissioner, successor having never lieeu appointed. MARRIAGE LICENSES Gladys Jones, 20..

Owensville, to Ora Busing, 20, farmer, Ilaubstudt, WIFE, 2 FRIENDS SHE PLANNED TO LE.HE IIIM, SAYS MAN IIELI)' FOU THE THREE MURDERS BLl'EFIKLDN. W. April 7. ()-IIenry Griffith, of Richhinds, W. was In Russell county, Vir ginia Jiill at today, while lo lire were cheeking his confession tlmt he killed Lis wife mid two of "her friends.

Sheriff Henry Couch, of Russell county, mi Id that 'Grlffllh. father of eight children, had confessed to the slaying of his wife, Mrs. Mollis Grif lit and Mr. and Mrs. Mat I hew Law son, of Richhinds, friends, with whom Khe hud planned to leave the vicinity; The bodies of the three were found in flinch river Tuesday afternoon by telegraph lineman and reniaiued unidentified until yesterday, when Griffith was taken to Lebanon and there identified I hem.

Threw Hodies in Kiver lie maintained for two hours that he knew nothing of the crime. Later it was said he confessed that he hud shot the trio on March 27 and threw the hodies in the river. Griffith's story as told hy the sheriff was that three weeks ago Griffith's wife left their home after they had quarreled and tlmt Grlllith later learned she was staying with the Lavvsons. Griffith told the sheriff he had found out that the three were preparing to lenv their neighborhood at night and lie set out in search of them. He was said to have related that he met the victims on a bluff overlooking Clinch river and there asked his wife to re turn home.

Her refusal, the alleged confession said, was supplemented by the statement from Lawson that she would not return. Sheriff Couch said Griffith told him lie, UieijLtfhot, Lnwson, who run and fell down over the bluff to the' riyer.nml that Griffith had turned to the women dragging them to the Muff and throw ing them over into the stream. CENTRAL INDIANA LINE TO SUSPEND WASHINGTON, April remission was granted by the interstate commerce commission today for abandonment of the Central Indiana railway, which ojterates 127 miles of railroad in Indiana, unless within six months some iiersou or corporation willing to' operate it in whole or in part offers to purchase it. URGE MOTORISTS TO LET FLOWERS ALONE INDIANAPOLIS, April, 7. (JP) Better roads made more beautiful by nature's own handiwork, Is the slogan adopted for this year by the Indiana highway commission.

The traveling public has been asked to refrain from taking wild flowers, shrubs and vines growing along the open roads. While a majority of such beauty is a voluntary gift from Mother Nature, some have been placed along the highways at considerable expense to the highway department. Not only do shrubs and vines help to beautify Indiana roads, but they provide au element of safety to the motorist, according to John D. Williams, director of the highway department. Clinging tenaciously to hillsides and long fills, their roots prevent tills and ditch sloiies from washing awuy.

KEROSENE FLAMES FATAL TO WOMAN ELKHAIIT, April 7. (JP) Mrs. Anna Holler, 32, was dead today as a result of burns received In an explosion in the kitchen of her home Wednesday evening caused by her ltour-ing kerosene Into a stove. A son, ter, two ad a half years old, was burned to death. Another son, Donald, 8, who was iu the kitchen when the explosion occurred, eseaiied with but a small scratch oh the back of his hand caused by a piece of the kerosene can, though flame was scattered all over the room.

The husband and father, Clarence C. Holler, received severe burns to both hands in trying to' save his wife laby. MEDALS WILL BE PRESENTED AT MEETING OF ROTARY AND KIWAMS Winners of medal Iu the five-acre corn cluli contest of last year will Ik honor guests at a joint meeting of the Rotary ami Kiwanis clubs to be held at the Chrislian church at (i o'clock Tuesday evening. April 12. The meeting will be iu charge of the Rural Affairs committees of tho two clubs.

Euch member of Hie two clubs will invite fanner as guest. The medals, of which (lure are 8 gold, silver and bron.c, will bo presented uml T. A. Coleman, assistant director of Hit! African lira 1 extension department of Purdue, anil formerly Indiana gtHeinor of the Ki- wauis club, will be the principal speak er. Gibson county won more gold ineil als than arty other county in the stale.

winning one-fifth of all the gold med als given. To receive a gold medal the grower must have au average of over 100 bushels it ti acre for bis five acres; a silver medal above anil under 100; for a bronze, over and less than S5. The medals are furnished by the In (liana Corn Growers association. SAY FACIST FOES BURNED AIRPLANE ROME NEWSPAPERS BLAME PLOT FOR LOSS OF DEI'INEDO SHIP ROME, April 7-(VP) Some leading Rome newspapers today expressed the opinion flint destruction of Commander DePinedo's seaplane ut the Roosevelt dam in Arizona Wednesday was caused by anti-fascist agents. At the same time they voiced appreciation of tin; action of the United States in offering the Italian flier another machine.

APACHE I.OfiGK, ROOSKVKLT DAM, April 7. W) Comman der Francisco Jiel'inedo today planned a new route for the North American section of his four-eoiit incut tour, interrupted when his monoplane, the Santa Maria, bin ned on Boosevelt Lake here Wednesday when a boy dropped ma teh on the oil covered water. The Italian flier ami his two companions were enthusiastic over the prospect of continuing the flight iu a plane ordered shipped from Italy by Premier Mussolini. DePinetlo did not attribute the lire to ah anti-Fascist plot. IN CIRCUIT COURT Motion for a new trial was overruled nnd sentence pronounced by Judge Smith this morning in the ease of the State against Grant Kolb, who was fined $25 ami costs for exhibiting a gaming device.

Fine and costs were paid. PRESBYTERY TO MEET AT OAKLAND CITY Vinceniies presbytery of the Presby terian church will hold its annual meet ing at the First Presbyterian church, Oakland City, on Monthly and Tuesday, Apiil .18 and Matters of un usual interest will be discussed and acted upon at the annual meeting. FUNERAL OF MRS. CATT HALIOTOX, April 7. The funeral of Mrs.

Ann Cult, who tiled Tuesday afternoon, will be held at 1 o'clock Ftiday afternoon nt the home. Rev. W. B. Barnes will conduct the services.

Burial will be in Phillips cemetery, east of Hazleton. 1T NERAL OF MRS. MONTGOMERY The funeral of Mrs. Moiissell Montgomery will be held at 10 o'clock Friday morning at the I'nitetl Brethren church. Rev.

James Hedge, pastor, will have charge of lite services. Burial will be iu Maple Hills cemetery. WILL CARRY VIEWS OF COOL IDGE AMI GOVERNMENT TO S. LEADERS THERE WASHINGTON, April 7-(P)-A determined effort on the part of President. Coolldgo to solve the Nlcaragunu problem was indicated today iu the appointnienlof Henry L- Sliiiison, former secretary of war, to go to the war-torn Central American republic us a representative of the president.

The purpose of his visit as described at the state department will be to take to American Minister Eberhardt and Admiral Latimer, in charge of American marines Iwthat country, views of the American which could not be conveniently taken up in cor respondent' and gather information for Washington officials. CAPTAIN RIMER LEAVES; CALLED TO CHINA, REPORT Captain Clarence C. Rumor, Prince, ton attorney nnd World war vott'iin has left the city it was learned today. presumably changing his residence. One report Is that he has gone to San Francisco, and may sail for Chlmi on government service.

Captain Bum er Is an officer in the reserve corps and it was reported he had been called into active service. Still another report was that Captain Runier had gone to Indinnnpolb to engage In the practice of law. Mrs Rumer has also left and it was said is in Chicago expecting to join her husband tyiter. Their resilient, KM- south' Hart street, is vacant ami their furniture has been sold within the past few-days- PRINCETON ELKS INSTALL OFFICERS Officers for Princeton lodge No. Benevolent anil' Protective Order of Elks were installed Wednesday night as follows: Lawrence Salomon, exalted ruler; Joseph Vollmer, esteemed leading knight; Thomas N.

Adams, esteemed loyal knight; Frank Colvin, esteemed lecturing knight; Frank M. Harris, treasurer; Rollin Maxam, secretary; Ralph Finney, tiler; Norman Hart, esquire; Clifford Lockliart, inner guard; C. W. Benton, chaplain; Paul H. Brownlee, trustee A.

L. Gibson, delegate to grand lodge; Jjolm Orlla, 1- teruate delegate. SHELL HOLE YIELDS BODY AFTER 9 YEARS FT. WAYNE, April After nine years, the battlefields of France have given up the lost body of Jennings Bryan Yeager, cousin of Mrs. M.

H. Doclitennan, of Ft. Wayne. Yeager's hotly was found recently, in an almost obliterated shell hole near Parcy-TIgny, Aisne, France, Mrs. Doehterman has been Informed by the war department, it will be burled in a military cemetery In France.

The Identification tags, a found tain lten and two silver franc pieces, found on the body, will be forwarded to rela tives. OIL BLAST TOLL REACHES SIXTEEN PAUCO, April 7. (JP) The death toll in the explosion of an oil still at the Producers Refiners corporation plant here Wednesday stood at sixteen today with three of the six survivors lighting for their lives Rawlins hospitals. POOR FARM CONTRACT TO RIGGS STUNKEL The county commissioners have awarded to Biggs and Ktunkel the con tract for furnishing all supplies to the county poor asylum for the currcut yeur, MAYOR DUVALL EVANSVILLE. April 7 Indianapolis' roving mayor.

I Duvall, who left the capital city early Tuesday by automobile to go to bis farm near Princeton to Investigate the damage done by the high water, was a visitor hi this city Tuesday night, but left early Wednesday for "somewhere in southern Indiana." Accompanied by O. R. Scott, chief clerk iu the Barrett law department at I lie city hall, the ImllauaiMlis mayor sjw'iit Hie night at Iu; Soiintag hotel here. Nothing Is known of Mayor Diivuil's visits liei'e other than thai be lias a ril'l -ii ere farm six miles west of Princeton. Part of his farm lias been in the recent high water zone.

SUILOH FOUGHT 65 YEARS AGO James Klluiartlil, biilllll' of the (lib-son circuit court, today recalled Uml years ago today be was one of the t'niou Holdicrs engaged in the tlcsiM'rate struggle at Shiloh sometimes known as the battle of Pittsburg Lauding. The battlu began on April anil ended at the close of April 7, 1MRJ. It was actually the only real, stack up ami knock down battle that Mr. Kilmnrtin engaged hi during the Civil war, he Kkid. Later soldiers had learned.

Jo take cover and avail themselves of breastworks. But nt Slilloh the soldiers had not learned this; they simply went out into the open ami fought. COUGHING RUPTURES BLOOD VESSEL; DIES ANDERSON, April 7. W-Strickea with violent attack of coughing while laughing ami joking about sliring liouse-cloiiiiing, Mrs. Margaret Fall, 0T, suffered a ruptured blood vessel nnd died a few minutes later at her home at Suiuuiittvllle, north of here.

SEEKS $200 FOR REMOVAL OF CAR 'Joseph Beck has filed pit in circuit court usking judgment for and naming ns defendants John Hick-rod, Keutis Shoulfz and Eugene Johnson. All are residents of Ft. Branch. Beck alleges that he operated a storage garage in Ft- Branch, that he had a certain automobile there for storage and was holding the car in order to collect an amount due him; that someone the night of April 0 broke into his garage with crowbar and took the car away. AUTO HITS HIGHWAY WORKER ANDERSON, April Hershell Hawkins, 39, of Elwood, an employo of the Indiana state highway commission, suffered a broken left leg and left arm when ho was struck by an automobile while working on Stale Road west of here, this morning.

NEPHEW ELECTED MAYOR Frank Doyle, who Tuesday was elected mayor of East St. Louis, is a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bufkin, south Hull street. Mr.

Doyle has visited them here several times. CHARGE POTASH CONSPIRACY WASHINGTON, April 7. (JP) A conspiracy to control uud iiioiioitolizc the iiolash Industry of the United States directed by tiermau and French producers was charged in a suit filed In New York today by the government. CONDITION IS CRITICAL Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Kirby received word today that their niece, Miss Irene Stewart, formerly of tills city, is critically ill following a serious operation at St. Louis hospital. BREAK BETWEEN SOVIET GOV ERNMENT AND NORTHERN FORCES IS LIKELY AFTER DRASTIC ACTION tR.v llio Associated Tress) Relations between soviet Russia and the iinriliern Chinese government appeared si rained today In conseriueuco of WeihieMlay's raid on the soviet eni bassy compound in Peking. Indignation over the incident Is ex pressed in Moscow where the govern i if ii Is awaiting official advices he f.iro dee iiii'iic mi its pi'ticceilure. Peking' dispatches nay severance of relations i regarded as probable.

Thfl soviet consul general in Shanghai has warned Ihe consular corps that they will be held responsible for any similar raids mi the soviet consulate there. An Aloe rii'iiii I. uilii ran missionary. Dr. C.

p. Fihcrg. tr SI. Peters, is missing in northern iloiiau proviuct) ami is believed to lie held by balulitS. SIXTH REGIMENT SAILS SAN April 7.

(T) Bound for Shanghai, China, with ollleers and men of the Sixtli regiment, V. S. marines, aboard, the navy trans-port Henderson dropiicil lis lines at the Municipal docks at o'clock today ami began moving into the channel. ROB EXPRESS CAR ON SPEEDING TRAIN LOOT OBTAINED BY ARM.0-MEX IS ESTIMATED AT ONLY $150 CIIK'AfJfi, April 7. (JP) Two armed men, their faces shadowed by closely drawn caps and partly covered by black masks, Wednesday night robbed the express car of the Chicago and Alton's Lincoln Limited of cash and valuables first estimated from $2, PHI to but later found lo he only as the (rain siod between Jolict and Chicago.

DISTRICT MEET OF REBEKAHS IS HELD TODAY The 201 session of the tenth district Rebekah assembly is being held in the I. O. O. F. hall today.

The meeting, which is iu charge of Mrs. Stingle district chairman, of Sonier-ville, is well attended. After the session this afternoon bauiptct will be served. At the evening session tonight a large class will be given the degree work by a local team. Mrs.

Krdhart, state president, of Oreeiisburg, is an honor guest. HOSPITAL NOTES Miss Agnes Kuyten underwent a tonsil oin'tation this morning. WATERS FLOODING KENTUCKY TOWN MAYFIKLD. April 7. (JP) While laborers busied themselves building a levee to keep high waters out of Columbus, oltl-tiiuers declared the present high water mark a record.

Water stood six feet deep iu the Columbus hotel today while the bank there bad lieeu forced to move to the second floor to carry on business, THE WEATHER Wednesday: Highest temperature, lowest. 42; fair. Sim 'nte last year: Highest temperatii'v. Tl; low est. jwirtly cloudy.

Today: Tern-perature 0 a. Mi; sunset, sunrise Friday, 5:20. LUKTON..