Sioux City Journal from Sioux City, Iowa • 1

1 1 1 i itTY-FOURTH YEAR VOL. 68.1 NO. 245. -v simiv niTV mn: sATimnAY T.fnmifTfR. 2s ism.

sixtrrn pares PRICE THREE CENTS ALICE CHIEF A New Page for Ireland's ''Scrap" Book Woman Mistakes Duke's Auto for TEMPE HATCHES. .10 p. 8 9 10 TWELVE OIL TANKS FIRED' BY A BLAST a. a. UUUU UUIU U1TIIDULLET IIEAI 11 a.

....11 p. 15 4 5 p. 9 p. 7 p. Bus; Gets Ride Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jan 27.

ISSUES DEFY TO GANGLAN1 12 noon is 1 p. (JPh-An-'old Irish woman with The maximum temperature Friday basket of eggs furnished a comedy on the road between Hillsborough and -was io ana; tne minimum tempera ture was 10. The sun will rise today Belfast when she mistook the automobile of the duke of Abercorn for the ut a. m. ana wiu set at 5:35 p.

m. Lumen and Robbers local bUS. lEx-Hnsband of Pearl Explosion Rocks Texas TIIB FORECAST. The duke's aid de camp had asked the authorities to specify distinctive Chicago, Jan. 27.

Iowa: Mostly fair. rTiite, Movie Actress, dm cow saturaay: sunaay partly colored headlights for the governor's jre to Be Driven from Chicago ciouay. wnn rising temperature. a Suicide. motor car, which would be welt known to the police and prevent numerous south Dakota: Partly cloudy to cloudy Saturday asd Sunday; warmer halts.

These were supplied. -McaP. -Jan. 27. flH--Crlme and (special Dispatch to The Journal.) Nebraska: Mostlv fair Saturdav tusa Hollywood, Jan.

27, Wallswe i The police' permitted the governor general to pass without question, but an old woman with a basket of eggs gangsters who perpetrate most of Sunday; warmer Saturday and in ex Buildings and Kills a Workman. McCamey; Jan. 27. W) Relieved that what had been feared was a holocaust had taken relatively slight toll of life, the 6.006 Inhabitants ofl this 2-year-old oil town took a holiday, tonight by the light of a colonnade of flame surmounted by a mile high wall of smoke from 12 burning oil tanks) McCutcheon. 45-year-old actor, who In for the greatest onve jmcnaei treme soutneast portion Sunday.

stepped Into the roadway and 'tailed Minnesota: Increasing cloudiness Is said by police to be the former hus be commissioner police, ever Saturday, unsettled Saturday night the driver. He pulled up a short die tance as the old woman furiously ad band of Pearl White and an ex-Brit Urt of to his life and that encom- ana sunaay; rising temperature. monlshed the astonished chauffeur for Ues several decades or ponce work. ish army officer, was found dead from a self inflicted" bullet wound in not answering her signal at once. NEWS SUMMARY "Gangsters and racketeers must She then opened the door, handed his apartment this afternoon.

"was-the ultimatum he Issued to- her eggs to the duke and climbed in The housekeeper at his quarters She was allowed to ride to Belfast DOMESTIC. They can no longer lire In Chi of the Humble Oil and Refinery com discovered McCutcheon's body with where the duke discovered that the explosion tires iozen oil tanks In a pany. police had assigned him colored head Texas town. Page 1 bullet hole in the right temple. The dead hand still grasped a .45 caliber The tanks were Ignited this after The "show down- was tne aitermatn lights similar to those carried by local v-utcago pouce cmoi aeciares a busses.

the bombing the homes (of revolver. showdown In gangland. Page 1 Juries C. Flizmoms, city fpmww Search of the room disclosed papers Nine men and three women tenta noon by an explosion. Out of 4 hundred men working on the property only one, Fred Hendricks, chemist, was known to have been killed.

Prop NEW YORK WIDOW and Dr. William H. Reld, both I Indicating the identity of the man. tively chosen to try Hickman. Page 1 fcich political associates of Mayor BECOMES BRIDE OF Man adjudged habitual crook given among which Is a notebook containing the name of Herbert McCutcheon, Brooklyn, N.

T. He is thought to be fcllam Hale Thompson. lue sentence. Page 1 erty damage may reach half a mil lion dollars. A FRENCH COUNT vtror Thompson himself was credit Former husband Pearl White, movie a brother.

No farewell note was found actress, a suicide. Page 1 or anything to show why; the actor ft with leadership in the lnvestlga- CSpeclal Piapatch to Tha Journal.) Buildings Shaken. The blast, which started In tank No. decided to take his own life. South Dakota farm hand convicted New Jan.

27. Mrs. Ruth Obre lloa of the Tne police aaia Unarrests of the guilty were In McCutcheon was here as of assault by Jury. Pago 1. Goldbeck, daughter of a former east 15, under process of being steam IW that 100 men might be involved Iowa revenue receipts for fiscal year side electrician and building superin Maj.

McCutcheon. According to film records, he has not worked in motion pictures for some time. McCutcheon tendent, became the bride today of over 137,500,000. Page 0. Kt that they would begin to populate Kj police stations before the end of Count de Vallambrosa, member of one cleaned, rocked buildings half a mile away, and spread successively to 11 other tanks, ranging in capacity from Irish Free State president visits Phil was divorced by Pearl White in Provi ft week.

of the most distinguished noble fam adelphia. Page 6 dence, R. I. July 5, 1921, and three ilies of Prance $1,000 Reward Offered. Millionaire Kentucky man sent to weeks later an investigation was un 500 to 3,000 barrels, most of which, Resentful' of newspaper stories Commissioner Hughes offered a re- dertaken to determine if the divorce prison for vote tampering.

Page 6. mvi of $1,000 for Information leading should not, be set aside on grounds headed "Count Wins Poor East Side Girl, the count and his bride avoided Minnesota man hits Haugen farm re the arrest ana conviction ox tne that his actress wire was not legally lief program, 3 Page 6 were burning long after dark. Several workers were reported injured when thrown to the ground by the force ofl the explosion, but in most cases the newspaper men after the ceremony. a resident of Rhode Island," or entitled lumbers, and added that promotion The countess, who Is 27, was a ste FOREIGN. to sue in that state.

The investigation nlted the policeman making the ar nographer 10 years ago. Her slender Pan-American delegates favor a I finally died. beauty struck the eye of the late Wal Injuries were of minor nature. Mexican proposal, Page 6. I veritable "bomb trust" may be un- ter Goldbeck, well known portrait McCamey is situated in a semi-arid Lindbergh given hearty welcome In VICE PRESIDENT'S painter.

He made several canvases of her, and later married her. He died country of nearly flat contour and the capital of Colombia. Page 6. jrered when detectives get to the jttom of the affair. Deputy Police tmmlssloner O'Connor said.

be-uta 100 or more persons were in IOWA. four years ago in Paris, and in Paris big blaze was visible ror 20 miles, practically the whole population stood BROTHER AN OIL PROBE WITNESS the widow met the count. Man who choked teacher in school- itred in the Fitzmorrls and Reld Count Paul is next in line for the about on the streets or drifted back and forth toward the center of attrac house is being hunted. Page 3 ooNngs. His department, investlgat- title of duke' of Vallambrosa, which SOUTH DAKOTA.

Washington, Jan. 27. (JP) Beman tion, although close approach was ira mt recent unicago Domoings, nas dates back to the crusades. He his brother Louis, the present duke, Farmer long well thought of ar fkrnea he saia, or tne existence or a Kinrful organization, possibly with li A mhiimHaim. which TrnrH rested for poultry-theft.

-Page 2. From a levee which confined the are sons of the Marquis de Mores NEBRASKA. Count Paul served in the French army blaze to the Ignited tanks it was lm-. Dossible to see, anything but a billow as a lieutenant during the world war nibs and bombers to those who seek to "get" their enemies. New town near Bloomf leld Is need, of yellow and orange flame shooting and is now in the banking business.

mass meetings are told. Page Mayor Thompson saw In the bomb- upward into a sea cf boiling black MINNESOTA. in an aqmisiaon on xno part oi gang- with an occasional glimpse of the red sen that the present administration Party of young scientists will plunge hot metal of a twisted S. D. MAN FOUND G.

Dawes, of Columbus, a brother of the vice president, has been sub-penaed to appear before the senate committee investigating certain offshoots of the Teapot Dome oil reserve lease. Mr. Dawes Is chairman of the board of the Pure Oil company and the committee expects to question him in regard to any transaction this company may have had with the extinct Continental Trading company, of Canada, in which Harry F. Sinclair, who leased Teapot Dome, was Interested, "Others summoned by the committee to appear Tuesday In its efforts to learn of the final disposition of the nrof its of the Canadian comnanv in- ncceeded in making things too deep Into jungles. Page 2 HICKMAN JURY'S tank.

arm for them. Owner of One Way Horse Fined Fire Fighters Praised. Hendricks, the man known to have "If Chicago needs proof that the AU ADJUDGED HABITUAL CROOK Central and East high' fives take Wets and thieves are on the GUILTY OF RAPE easy victories here. Page IS. is mayor said, "I guess these bomb- been killed, was on top of tank No.

15 when it exploded, having just lifted STATUS IN DOUBT Mornlngside five meets N. D. Aggies ea ar in Police, Court batch to make a test. His body was here tonight. Page 13.

The mayor is certain that the Dispatch' to The Journal. imba 'were directed not at Dr. Reld Tunney soon to sign with Rlckard hurled some 80 feet into the air and fell back into the flames. It had not been recovered tonight. nd the city controller, but at his ad- for title bout.

Page IS New Tork, Jam 2 7 They could not Jury Convicts Farm Hand nlatratlon. This view was held, too. get Carl Tarter's horse In the Manhat Gives I cIude J. D. Clark, of Depver.

president Ladin s. a bowiers to compete in Leflral Tcchnicalitv Mav Minnesota Jurist Dolice. Uniformed guards have The McCamey volunteer fire depart Taik.T'. I B. I 9 tan traffic court today, but Carl appeared for him charged with driving of Attacking 17-Year- VVHUU.

wiuw; OU1IU.J, t. 1 placed about the homes of Mayor Harry Weldon Life ment received the praise of the townspeople for preventing the flames from itesuir in iiemovai President may take hand In Army- ompaon and members of his cabinet. 01 xne juiawesc neiimns company; a. L. Carlson, of Tulsa, secretary of the Sinclair Crude Oil company, and E.

G. Seubert. president of the Stand-ard-Oil Company of T. his steed east on a westbound street. Old Girl.

Navy grid dispute. Page IS. of Talesmen. "Dont you believe In' signs? asked tar magistrate. ir fSpcclat Dispatch to The Journal.) Indian acquitted of rape marries his "Sure do, but that horse of mine Los Angeles, Jan.

27CP) Nine "'f 1 rrhiriaffa. Jan. 27. iff When ttoti spreading and causing heavy damage to the The only theory advanced to account for the explosion was that a spark had been struck In the opening or recloslng of the test hole by Hendricks, Igniting the gas In the Sioux Falls, S. Jan.

27. After HAS NO USE FOR accuser. Page IS doesnt- Tou see he's a country horse Harry Weldon, alias Alvin West, who this afternoon that he had been men and three an In middle and he's not used to one' way streets. being out about two hours, a jury in Central H. S.

grads given diplomas subpenaed to appear before the sen $20,000 BEQUEST life or past, tonight held at least ten They all, look alike to him, for 5 have at exercises. Page 7. circuit court here returned a verdict ate oil Investigating committee, Beman G. Dawes, chairman of the n't been able to educate him to city tative places as Jurors the sanity; Omaha, Jan. 27.

CO Be Long time S. resident dies on the this afternoon of guilty in the case of ways yet. I guess he's a one way trial of William E. Hickman, with the west coast. Page II.

of the Pure Oil company and a broth EFFORT MADE TO Ijueatbed a trust fund of 120,000 Barnes W. Houeh. 83, a civil war vet- horse, and that way is his own Way.1 Lloyd Frisbee, charged with rape in connection with the 17-year-old daugh Robber found guilty twice In one prospect that their seats might be broke Into the Northern Pacific railway station at Perham and stole 124, today was given a life sentence In the' state penitentiary. He was sentenced under the new Minnesota habitual criminal act. After his convection yesterday, another Jury Tvas summoned to deter er of the vice president, replied that he knew nothing whatever of the Tea get him educated before you h-an who lives at a local hotel.

can day in court here. Pays 16 made permanent after a legal technl take him out advised the mag firare out any use for the money. pot Dome oil leases and did not know ter of a Minnehaha county farmer. Mayor Gilman tells of river proj-l ralitv. in-lected In the mln istrate.

"IH fine you SSL" The bequest was made to him in why he had been subpenaed. He said OBTAIN RELEASE OF OCEAN FLIER New Haven, Jan. 27. WV ect In radio speech. i.

the will of his brother-in-law. the late ntA odav. had ben settled Monday Judge L. L. Fleeger, presiding, set 9:30 o'clock Saturday morning as the he had not received the subpena.

t- 1 1 1 seven new saiety zones pianna rori mnniin Marvin Hughitt. former president of LAWYER SEEKS TO mine -whether he' was guilty of other offenses. The county attorney read a Sioux City streets. Pag 8.1 a disnute arose after legal sparring the Northwestern railway, filed In Cht- IOWA MURDER In an effort to obtain release of Bert A couta. trans-Atlantic flier, from the In which both defense and prosecution ago yesterday.

MAKE STEPFATHER time for passing sentence, -3 Frisbee, who had worked as a farm hand on the place where the attack record convictions of four previous it Hough draws two pensions, one from i 1 ft I '1 Hi 3 1 1- ii? 1 1 I i 1 it ivfi'T I BP; I' ll ii'. i 1 -r I'- i. 1 CHICAGO OPERA attempted to pass Its challenges. CASE TO REACH New Haven county Jail, where he is being held on a warrant from New the government, another from the was the state's turn and District At CARE FOR KIDDIES thefts and the jury found him guilty. The court then sentenced him in occurred for about a year, denied the torney Asa Keyes announced the Ipthwestern, totaling 113,5 a month, ENDS SEASON JURY TODAY Des Moines; accordance with the new law.

It was Jersey charging larceny of a plane, his counsel late today obtained a writ prosecution passed. Jerome Walsh lore than enough for his simple charge and counsel for the defense attempted to show that the girl had been intimate, with a number of other bill to amend the Iowa law on, child me uni worn it naa ever oeen ui-i rjnJMmn. To 57 UJUnn. (tit, he explained. of habeas corpus from Judge Walter WITH DEFTfUT young barrister from Kansas City, de- fending the accused slayer, of Marian voked here.

It Is understood his case lnar th lurv in th rt support by providing that a man aoesn cost me a dollar and a M. Pickett, of the. court ot common men. However, only a few of a large should assume the first palf a day to live." he said. wiu appweu on ie 'Srouuu-m wiurder trial of Emmet K3rbv.

(Special Dispatch to The journal.) Parker, astonished the courtroom by pleas. The writ summons Sheriff I have got more now than I know exaon. was noi menuxiea as me man charred with the murder of Charles Chicago, Jan. 27. Samuel Insull, I announcing he accepted the jury as number of defense witnesses subpenaed for the trial were called to the for' the care of stepchildren Is being prepared by District Judge J.

E. Mey James Gebbes to produce Acosta In to do with." and he displayed Who had been convicted Of Previous I Hoil were camnleted and with president of the Civic Opera It stood. court tomorrow morning to show by offenses under that name. er and Carl Burkman, assistant coun closing arguments scheduled In the stand and the lawyer confined most of his efforts to a long drawn out pocket fastened with a safety pin bulged with what he declared what right he holds the aviator. announced tonight that the company Caught unawares.

Keyes leaped to had flnished the Chicago season with his feet; and asked permission of a deficit of S400.000. The guarantors Judge J. J. Trabucco to use his re- ty attorney. morning, the case is expected to reach 'Attorneva tar Acoxta.

maintain that cross examination of the complaining IP" 1800 in currency. At present a man whose wife G. O. P. PROSPERITY the jury by noon tomorrow.

H. D. Cooney assistant county at Bat curiously enough he Is hoping witness, who was kept on the stand vhA E-iirnnt 1500.000 annuallv will I malning challenges when the trial obtained a divorce, remarried and has was resumed Monday, if the state so for nearly two days. DECLARED A MYTH taken her children with her is still be called upon for a SO per cent as Pet an even larger share of the on and a half dollars left by made the opening arguments for the state and was followed by elected. sessment.

liable for the support of the children, Confusion Exists. BY NEBRASKAN Frank D. Gilloon on behalf of the de- LENIENCY DENIED Mr. Insull his statement dur under the law. HagMtt.

He would not explain to re-pwtera. but said that "If things worked right" he would get 1200.000 or Walsh was not content to have the fense. Gilloon declared he had nearly ing the annual gala performance given "Hundreds of cases like that have Grand Island, 27. (JPh WIFE WHQ MAIMED before the guarantors. He said there I completed his arguments when ad- matter rest, however, and as a re "Republican prosperity is a myth.

1 4AnnMAvt r4si tob-n T7hatrA sult of his further argument as to the was no probability that the company former United States Senator Gilbert "IirA, But if he got this sum he would been tried on child desertion charges and the original father has been forced to support children living In the home of the mother and the new hus HER HUSBAND state's right to exercise its remain- would do better next year but when the M. Hitchcock, of Omaha, told an an- 5nair nK-irh pre It back, he declared. new opera house gets Into operation lng mandates and an attempt to re- St. Paul, Jan. 27.

Worn only want him fHiiehltt he and some of its obligations have been serve for himself a similar right, the band, declared Burkman. i9 to show that he Is a man. I paid off, he said, the guarantors may I third day of the trial ended Uhcon niuu uemwreuB uwcuiu allow Gilloon to wind up the defense here today. "Instead of prosperitya ptea was not reVealed tonight. County financial depression exists today," he Attorney A.

J. Kane will close the said. state's ease. xne stepfather enters his new Wt want the money." en who snoot ana wouna tneir nus-bands must stand trial in this county, even If the husband exonerates the look forward to relief. I fusion In the minds of many as to Just role as head of the family the New Jersey warrant charging larceny is not binding on the flier, from whom counsel earlier today had procured release from a five-day sentence imposed on him for flying low over Naugatuck, his former home town, on Wednesday.

Acosta's counsel today tiled the 1100 bond necessary for the release of the filer on that charge In the Waterbury common pleas court. The warrant under which Acosta la being held is from Sheriff H. C. Har- per, of Bergen county, N. and charges larceny of the plane in which he violated the Connecticut aviation laws in flying low over cen-.

ters of population. The governor's office today notified the Jail that Gov. John H. Trumbull had received a telegram from Commander Richard Byrd in Chicago of- fering to be of any service possible to Acosta. Acosta was Byrd's pilot In the trans-Atlantic flight of last Ourexoenses have been hieh.

said I what was the status of those in the Judge Meyer said. "Consequently he wife, the district court declared today. NE MURDERER "This condition has resulted from Taking of evidence In the case was Mr. Insull. explaining why the guar-1 jury box, Judge Hugo O.

Hanf set February a perversion, by the republicans, ot concluded this afternoon after the should be the first person liable for the support of the child. Under the an tors' call was 10 per cent higher! When court adjourned after remain- 6 for the trial of Mrs. Mabel Hawkins, than last year. "mainly owing to the! ing In session three-quarters of an suggested change, the -natural father HANGED TWO ARE GRANTED STAYS constructive legislation enacted by the state had presented' several rebuttal last democratic administration," Mr. witnesses.

1 4 Hitchcock; added. "During the seven The state charges' that the slaying increased rental of the theater and thej hour past the usual closing time, the loss that has fallen noon us as the! state had employed but 4 of its 20 27, who shot her husband, Herbert 11. Hawkins, November 17. She is could be called on to furnish aid if the stepfather was proven unable, to charged with first degree assault. result of our inablUty to get tenants! challenges and the defense IS.

of 1 lake Cha.rl. Tjl. Tan 27 years of so called republican pros-of Hos, which occurred in his garage perity, he said, 2,000 banks In the I the night of September 21, was the When Mrs. Hawkins pleaded not when we are not occupying the the-l similar quota. one of the 'three men who.

were ater. This Increase of theater exnensei unat tne attorneys in tne case mem United States have failed." I result of a conspiracy of a gang led IO7A EX-SENATOR I tang in Louisiana today went to death 9 MrfoaAntitA Vi A ntlJv fwft for the season Is about S82.000.' I selves were not wpouy certain or tne Among the causes of financial de-by Kirby, and was consummated in a guilty today, the, county attorney said he had received a letter from Hawkins asking that the charges against his wife be dismissed. Hawkins as pression hev attributed the republican hijacking attempt. Clark Troy, a mem- xegai status oz ine jury was eviaencea in the statement, by Keyes that he WS granted an indefinite stay of ex- TO MAICE RACE FLAMES DRIVE Buon through a decision of Attorney administration's method of Iber the Kirby gang, was convicted changes In the federal reserve bank of the actual shooting and Is serving did not consider its makeup definitely sumed the blame for, the quarrel OR CONGRESS neral Percy Saint that an appeal while on the other hand -Walsh avstent and federal tradA uie sentence. which led to the shooting and which "0 in thoir uhnir In fh insisted It had been.

onjf t1oH 1 ar1? a It tf Oa. kept him in a hospital for many AUDIENCE FROM MOVIE THEATER Des Moines, I Jan. 27. -CD An GOOLIDGE FINDS Pes circuit court rt a.ntMiila HTr- Boy Upsets Program. cratic measures have been perverted ANXIETY1 OVER extensive political campaign is prom- weeks.

'The said Judge Hanft Most of the lurora so far accented any action the state might have iFfrred taken. wed; by former State Senator I M. B. by, the he continued. Humboldt, Jan.

27. vr A fire I are residents of Los Angeles. Two or Pitt, of Crescent. Pottawattamie coun "The only democratic measure which decision ennnunred 40 mln- "would not entertain any motion for a -dismissal of this case if It were which was started by the explosion of three gave addresses in suburban dis FLAWS IN JONES SHIPPING BILL Washington Jan, 27. PresI- SAFETY OF YANK RELIEF NURSE if-i i i T.t-.;.

ty, who seeks to wrest a republican they have not perverted is the farm loan act," an oil heater In the Strand motion pic nomination ascongressman from Rep L'. nqfymKi. ww. Wnna, the mrulsmnait man war tricts. All three of the women jurors gave their occupations as housewives.

ture theater here tonight sent a large resentative William R. Green, of Coun made. The court cannot take lightly cases Jn which women take guns and shoot their husbands." I Six of the male jurors and two of the Vienna, Jan. 27. W7A message from the director of the near east re theater crowd and 24 guests of an ad cil Bluffs, In the Ninth Iowa district.

COLORADO SOLON dent Coolidge is not only determinedly opposed to the Jones shipping bill, but Mr. Pitt obtained nomination lief, under a Bagdad date, has been joining hotel scurrying into the streets and gutted the theater before it was Is convinced as well that if its provi papers the secretary of state. CHOSEN TO HEAD RUSSIAN PRINCE women were gray haired, creating a picture of age sitting In judgment over youth. This was enhanced on the one hand by the stern vlsaged and white received here reading: sion, requiring the unanimous ap brought under control ffnt the gallows at Derldder to hang B0' the murder in 1926' of J. J.

Bre-fi a Derldder taxt driver. Attorneys fighUng for the life of ipron Dunn, convicted slayer of Deploy Sheriff Sam Duhon, near the fr home of Vinton, In Calcassleu Jfi'h were not successful in last mln- Before becoming state senator, he served two terms in the Iowa house The crowd left the theater in order VARE VOTE QUIZ the of Miss Alice' Carr, near proval of the shipping board before any of the government merchant fleet haired jurist, and on the other hand by of representatives. ly fashion and no "one was Injured. Washington 27.rsU-spna fnr east relief Of Macrae, wno the rather boyish faced attorneys bat' Representative Green, opponent, of Guests of the: hotel were- forced to can be sold to private interests De-comes a law changes will have to be tling for the life of the 19-year-old waterman, of Colorado, todav was at- was lost in me ueueri ueiwetn oag- Mr. Pitt, is chairman of the ways and flee by jamoke invading their rooms.

Hickman. ana means committee of the nation ana uunn was nangea The' fire was confined to the theater. pointed chairman of a senate elections dad and Mosul while en route from subcommittee to count the ballots in! Smyrna. It is feared she may have The defendant started the day by made in the personnel of the board. Mr.

Coolldge's views were made at I house of representatives, and in point p. m. Dunn which, is in the aame building as. the hotel, from which it is separated by the contest brought against Winiam been waylaid by marauding tribesmen or service among Iowa congressmen. turning the program of his legal advisers Inside out.

ny VI cu 10 lne gaiiows protest- Wr his innocence to the last. 3. Vare, republican senator-elect from or bandits. has served his constituents. exclusive known late today at the White House after the senate had reached an agreement to bring the measure to a final thick fire walls.

Following, the trial of their client's Pennsylvania, by his democratic' op-j "Relief officials have appealed to ponent, William B. Wilson. the British authorities to help trace The local fire department put the of Representative Gilbert N.N Haugen. of the Fotrrth district, longer than Insanity plea, the defense lawyers had DIES FOLLOWING AN OPERATION New Tork, Jan. 27.

Prince Le-van Melikov de.Somhetie. claimant to the non-existent throne of Georgia, is "'The prince, whose family, ruled Georgia 125 years ago before It was annexed by Russia, died following an operation for acute appendicitis last night. He served as a captain the Russian Imperial guards during the world war. He is survived by his widow, the former Rosalia Hooker, daughter of a one time mayor of Hartford, Conn. Other' members of the committee I Miss Carr, who left Bagdad a week vote on Monday.

By a vote of almost two to one it had previously approved fire under control after battling more than an hour, and late tonight It was any other lowan at Washington, D. told him he would not be called to the witness box. In an ante-court conference, the prisoner informed bis attor SCAPED FRENCH CONVICTS HEROISM BRINGS PARDON are Senators Eteiwer, of Oregon, and ago by autoraobije." Hoses, of New Hampshire. the unanimous consent provision. The said danger of spread was eliminated.

POUTER ON Y7AY president was represented as of the H.H. Russell, owner of the build neys that he would take the stand, whether they liked it or, not. and tell tng.i said he could place no estimate his story of the killing of Marian opinion that since one member of the board has consistently voted against the sale of vessels, there would be lit on the loss, but that It would run Prance. Jan. tiAPhUn This subcommittee, in addition to EAST TO FILL ms nev post counting the ballots in the six coun rinto many thousands dollars." V- i- .1 11 i i ATGELES LANDS OH SHIP AT SEA Ww convlct a Frenchman named Js a Displays Interest.

tle protress under the Jones bul to ties In Pennrylvanla where Wilson has ti. was a passenger aooaru Des Moines. Jan. 27. "reamer Mosella, one of the ves- charged a conspiracy, win also hear Jerome Walsh and Richard Cantil- SPANISH AUTHOR Claude R.

Porter left tonight fcr "Washington, Jan. 27. iff) The evidence on the amended complaint In went to the aid of the ItaJ- ward the eventual return of the government fleet to private Interests, as advocated by Mr; Coolidge in his message to congress. lon. of defense counsel told, Hickman his decision would seriously injure Washington to assume his duties ai MEXICAN TROOPS dirigible Los Angeles succeeded today wUch Wilson has filed.

REPORTED TO BE In making a landing on the new airH their plans in his behalf, but the con member of the interstate commerce ccrmmiaslon to which he was The agreement reached today by the oft 1 juaiaiaa. sunn of co8 wItl lavy loss last October, has won a uH for ffom French authoriUes fuinll pIcuoua bravery and resource- SLIGHTLY BETTER appointed ty Pres' CocUirs. plane carrier Saratoga at sea off L- A brief radio message from the alr- senators limits debate after 5 p. m. fessed slayer defied them to keep him from telling his story under oath.

Judse Trabucco sisnallzed the opening of today's session of the trial with Menton, France, Jan. 27. WV-Vi Mri was advlstd tbzt tlz Monday to five minutes for each mem Under CLASH; FIFTY-ONE REPORTED KILLED "Nogales. Jan. 27.

CD William P. Blocker, American consul at Mazatlan. Mexico, who arrived at this commission to be Irsued tomorrow ahi-a to the navy, department said a ber wishing to discuss the measure. -V, and will to awaltl.iT him r.t cente Blasco Ibanes, the noted Spanish writer, whose death. was thought to be closeat hand today, was pro the announcement that he expected vote Is anticipated before adjoura- Jan.

27. The succer-ful landing bad been made at an'cnl'sntlfled n. but gave no details, except Atlantic, zen body of iljl a fleeds of daring he drew nn-rtfj enUon to himself when the tm Achd France. It was dlscov- ment. nounced slightly better tonight.

He Is 9Ut.C9 years oil was found underl to eay that. the was return counsel to tin the jury -box and be able to start taking evidence next Monday. The measure picked up additional border point today, told the Nogales still gravely CI. but the doctors, after railroad czi-hzZZ west Irr to Its Lakehurst hangar. 1 he had escaped from the Herald that 17 rebels, and 14 federal 1 here today.

The only clew was a The airplane carrier Is not equipped support in the republican camp today, when Senator Johnson, of California, settlement, ana ne was During the mornlnj session, Hick their visit, consiaereav mat mere was no Immediate danger. They left his reaches T7ashlngton. Ha his service on tie ccmlaslon Lime lately. present appointment, made to fltl'a vacancy." continues until 21. when the tcri tr Ccmmlssioner Hall, whom he suc-cccls, 4 expires.

soldiers ware killed In a heavy engage arrested. The glowing ae-j t. lea- ln Kowing rr a rr a nccrirr mart, but crrers. in Bnt i-T Ws self sacrificing courage entered a plea for the development ot man, for the first time, displayed enough Interest in the proceedings to rom shortly bfore midnight, prom Ia hit He ment at Txtlan. Nayaralt, Mexico, last Cjveral hundred, troops parti the nation's sea power, both commer ising to issue another bulletin tomor frer 'PS'ed the government, how- is about 5 feet 8 inches tall and has for the laiivlln today, went on the theory that the ship's deck was trTficient for a landing.

cial and naval. (Continued on Pas: Six) row morning. cipated. -v ui release was ordered. gray fcaix.

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