Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 2

i Take the Lincoln Journal with you on your vacation. Phone B3333, Circulation Dept. (AND LINCOLN DAILY NEWS) THE WEATHER. For Lincoln and Vicinity: Partly cloudy unsettled tonight and Tuesday; Tuesday. For Nebraska: Partly cloudy and somewhat unsettled tonight and Tuesday; cooler tonight and in east and south portions Tuesday.

KORTY THFR!) YEAR. LINCOLN, MONDAY. AUGUST 2, 1926. TWO QUIZZES MURDER WITNESSES MEXICO IS WATCHFUL Both Sidei Arc Waiting for Public Reaction. DIED IN OMAHA SEIZE SEVEN MORE IN PLOT Oirl Believed at Head of Conspiracy Againit Executive.

Additional Guards Surround Calles After Arrest of Nine for Scheme Against Life of President. MKXICO CITY, 2 Spvph morr perdons were arrested today In connection with the plot to assassinate President Calles. now believe the matter was nut as serious as at first that the plot principally was the idea of an hysterical, over- leiigious gill. The Inquiry, which ahead.N ceAuiled in ar- leHiH will he howevei. unv.

2 With aulhurities t)l' church and stHle watdiinK public Me tradifoinalD devout o- hcKHii the liisl vvcek of life under tiic new icllglous laws. Nddiiiunal guards surroumied afier arri'st niue cliaiged with ling to lake lii.s Mora Dol Kio, heading the church iciiii.iiied ill his liuioc, ill. I lie cii) (julci. There was much loniin II' on (he lack of in- icitsi when tU.UUO jc on. pai.olcd 'olcrday in a great laUoriic iu favor tor (iie guvci SiHtlU.

percent ul liiose who iiarad were The men were uiciiihers uf union.s joined in the C. 11. U. or regional confedera lion oi labor. The lew on ihe watched apalhet.icai- l.v, quiet prwaiicd.

and ilie several -quadiuiLs oi police, armed with ts. who rod beside thr ar weie noi l-aio iu the Attorney li lo ral Ortega declared that mcs- wnich had been received troiu parts of Ihe reported all tranquil. No marked gatherings at the illa Guailalupe, Catholic shrine, a It ho disorders had been feared there. City'is major excitement eame when xplodiug firecrackers tixed to hinting balloons above the city, cau.sed many iu residential districts to believe that machine gun tire was under way. Casualties to date iu the crisis are: Tliree killed and thirty-two wounded in riots in Mexico City last week, sixteen babies dead from exposure in the past athedral Jams; six killed at Pachuca in disorders there.

I he feature of the labor parade liere was in the banners which mart hers carried. Among the in- were: wp Mexicans or subjects of "Clergy, rich people, poor; by (t onrtnucd on Ten.) J. A. (ART) FENLON. Former athlete who died In Omaha Saturday.

This fure wa.s taken w'hen Fenlon played baseball with the Idncoln Western league team along in 1907 and 1908 under Halmea management. He wa.A an outfielder and very fast Ketchem played centei- fleld, Davidson left field and Oag- nier playing shortstop at the time. Fenlon played with Topeka In 1909. GOVERNOR IS HOME AGAIN FENLON TO ASK INQUIRY BROTHER OF DEAD MAN DEMANDS INVESTIGATION. Former University Football and Baseball Star Died in Jail at Omaha, After Arrest for Intoxication.

OMAHA, August 2 iU.R) An investigation into the death of John Arthur Fenlon, superintendent of schools at Minto, N. who died in county jail here Saturday will be demanded by his brother. Thomas E. hVnlon of Sioux City. Fenlon, arrested on a dninken- nes charge Friday night went to Jail when fined 110 in police court because he had left his money, 1175, a hotel clerk who was too sick to tell the officers about it.

The death was caused by acute dilation of the heart superinduced by acute gastritis, caused according to Me Leneghan, by poisonous alcohol The body will be sent to David City, boyhood home for burial. Services will be held from St. Catholic church in David City Tuesday morning. Fenion was a graduate of the University of Nebraska and played on football and base- bill teams. After his graduation he became a member of the Lincoln team in the Western league.

George L. Fenlon, superintendent of schools at Dawson, N. other brother, is en route here, and decision as to what action to take will be reached after a conference of relatives after his arrival. I confer with George we may press formal charges of criminal Thomas Fenlon said. are urging that request formal Investigation from Douglas county When arraigned in police court, Fenlon told Judge Neble that he was "more sick than Policemen, however, testified that the former athlete was very much in-, toxicated when they removed him from his hotel room.

PROSECUTOR Alexander Simpson, state senator and noted lawyer, was named special prosecutor of Mrs, Frances Stevens Hall, acciused of perpetrating the famous HalTMills murder. Int. Newsreel. PROVES FIZZLE. A murder alann which sent Captain Anderson and Police Secretary Gohde racing to a rooming house near Ninth and streets proved a fizzle.

Mrs. C. W. McCartney, a roomer, was in a state of high agitation when the officers arrived, declared that she had heard shooting In one of the rooms adjoining hers and had seen and smelled burned gun powder issuing into the hallway. Rushing to a back window she had shouted to Ell Hudson, a farmer, lying his team in the alle.v.

demanding that I he run to the folleo station with i thv( word that a man had been shot. Police searched the place but without result. Other roomer.s declared they had heard no shot WARREN IS A PRIVATE BACK IS BROKEN MAEBELLE TURDY, HAVELOCK, ON WAY FROM LADY ASTOR IN AMERICA BOSrON. Aug. ing incognito.

Lady Astor, first woman member of the English parliament, arrived in Boston on the S. S. Samaria early today. Charles Dana Gibson, brother-in- law of Lady Astor, met her here and they left soon after for the Gibson home at Dark Harbor, where the distinguished visitor will remain for a month. CLOSE WATCH OVER SPLASH BEGINNERS Red Cross Sees to It That All Juniors Go in With Expert Instructors and Come With Them.

Splash week, water festival at muny ikio I under the auspices of the Lincoln chapter of the Red Cross, offers an opportunity for Juniors to learn to swim while surrounded by expert teachers. These junior classes are taught each morning at 9 a. m. Those from eleven to eighteen years of age ahe eligible. The swimming lessons each day constitute but a part of the program leading up to the big junior water carnival on Friday night and the senior carnival on Saturday, last day of splash week.

Life saving classes Inaugurated Saturday and carried on Sunday, will be continued each evening, 6 p. to 7:30 p. to Saturday when a class will be conducted at 1 p. m. Twenty-fllve are now registered for life saving.

Emblems will be given to those meeting requirements. Swimming to seniors will be given at the same time the life savers are showing their wai-es, from 6 p. m. to 7:30 P. m- Juniors must meet ten require- beiore they receive life ing emblems.

Seniors must meet oiaeteea Teauiiemeaifl. DANCED WITH INDIAN PRINCESS AT CHEYENNE. Had Requested Lightweight But Found Himself Paired With a Lady of Large Size. Governor McMullen has returned from Cheyenne where he attended the annual conference of nors. He accompanied the governors as far as Cody on their Journey to Yellowstone park and then came home on account of press of ofticlal business.

he paused from his labors as chairman of the state board of as sessment to talk to reporters about the conference and his experience in a country that w'aa the frontier only a few years ago. A little frontier life was put upon the stAge in front of the capitol at Cheyenne one evening during the conference. Dancing with Indian maidens was one of these. Several Indian princesses had expressed a desire to dance with governors of states. Governor McMullen of Nebraska and (tovernor Pinchot of Pennsylvania weer selected by managers of the affair to glide about the floor with the Indian princesses.

Governor McMullen as the challenged party asked the privilege of having a slim and slender princess for his dancing partner. Whoever received this request misunderstood or the request was muddled in relaying. The result was Governor McMullen found be was to dance with an Indian princess whose weight was estimated at SuO pounds. They danced and danced for possibly half an hour. The governor was showing signs of exhaustion but as the princess could not understand his utterances there was no way to stop.

The Indian music, with its tom-tom beating indicated no place to quit. The dance stopped just when the princess appeared to be commencing to like the exercise. The governors at the conference discussed two matters, state finances and rights. All were for law enforcement and none for modification of prohibition. Governor Smith of New York was not there.

Governor McMullen incidentally discussed farm relief. No one else did. Governor and Mrs. McMullen will go to Omaha Tuesday to meet a few of the returning governors and to give them a dinner at the country club. The governor and his wife accompanied the gubernatorial party from Cheyenne to Casper, Thermopolis and Cody, but did not go into Yellow.stone park.

They visited the Shoshone dam and bathed in the hot waters that flow from the earth at Thermopolis. Governor McMullen was made vice president of the con- rerence and presided at the last session. He had ample time to visit his old friend of Nebraska football dajs, oGvernor Deru of cull. Son in Company K. Citizens Military Training Camp, Fort Snelling.

SNELLING, Aug. Pershing, seventeen- year-old son of Gen. John J. Pershing. today was a buok private in Company of the citizens military training camp here.

Young Pershing went thru the receiving and examination procedure Sunday. He said he did not intend to follow a railltary career, but refused to state what profession he plans to follow. When the camp is over he plans to attend the boys' school at Exeter. N. he said.

QUAKE FELT IN LUZON Tremor at 1:03 p. m. Continued for Several Minutes, Doing Little Damage. MANILA, Aug. earthquake of sharp intensity, felt over a considerable section of Luzon, was reported today.

The tremor started at 1:03 p. and continued for several minutes. Local seismographs indicated the quake was not widespread, and was accompanied by little If any damage. THINKS CUSTODIAL HOME TOO LENIENT Girl Writing From Lincoln to Dr. Chapman at York Declares Rules Should Be More Rigid.

YORK. Aug. Alma Chayman, superintendent of the state custodial home for women here, which has been the subject of an investigation by the state board of control, following the walkout of twenty-two inmates in protest of mistreatment, presented a letter from one of her former charges today. believe the rules of the home should more the writer who signs her name as and who is now working in Lincoln, says. trouble with most of the girls who come to the home i.s an effort to make a living without she writes.

have always treated the girls with a motherly rare, and as for food, I believe the records wfill show that the majority of have gained considerable weight during their there. have two wonderful children now. Dr. Chapman, both well and happy, and my mother Is happier now than she been since I was sixteen years old. thanks to your the voluntary testimony read.

Dr Chapman denied statements concerning the York officers, attri- i buted to her. Pinned Beneath Car at Bridge "With Melvin Burgess, Bethany From Road by Glaring Lights. Glaring headlights on a car which did not stop are blamed for the serious injury of Maebelle Turdy, eighteen, Havelock, was pinned beneath a Ford roadster with her escort, Melvin Burgess, Bethany, while the pair was enroute to Lincoln from Lloma Beach near Ashland shortly after Sunday midnight. The injured pair was picked up by passing motorists and brought to Lincoln. The girl sustained a broken back and other serious injuries, according to Dr, J.

Murphy who attended her at St. hospital, while the boy was severely lacerated on the left leg. He was taken to hl.s home. The condition Is critical, the physician said. The light car was crowded off the approach to a high bridge between Ashland and Greenwood on the D.

L. D. highway and the pair was pinned beneath the machine. Both were rendered unconscious, the boy recovering first. He w-as unable to extricate himself or companion and passing motorists noticed their plight and lent assistance.

The otber car did not stop, it is believed. Burgess declared -Monday that the lights on the offending car w'ere so bright he could see nothing ahead of him as the machine came over the bridge. Before he could stop, car crashed over the approach and wa.s overturned. The pair had been dancing at the pleasure resort. FASTEST REVOLVING WHEEL.

WASHINGTON. (By The fastest revolving wheel in the world, according to estimates of experts, is the turbine w'heel on the special supercharger of the airplane used by Lieut. John Mac- Ready in his recent attempts to better the. altitude record. It revolves at the almost inconceivable speed of 40,000 revolutions a 700 a second.

This is about twrenty times the highest speed of an automobile crankshaft. PUSHES WITH WATER distribution center soon TO BE HARNESSED. Department Head Buys Two Lots in Connection With Northeast Unit and Will Lay Big Trunk Main. Commissioner Schroeder. hurrying the process of pushing w'ater production and distribution to a satisfactory point before termination of his current administration next spring, on approved a deed to property 90 by 142 feet at Thirty-second and stieets.

He is purchasing the property from Chester Kay at 13.500. The nt-w 1,000,000 gallon reservoir to be constructed at the Northeast Lincoln unit of the water department, will be immediately to the north of this property and the pump hou.se will be located on the land being purchased. This will afford inlet and outlet to the resei-voir without interference with actlivtles in the playground. A house occupies a portion of the property and this, according to Mr. Schroeder, will be rented for the time being.

Two wells, in operation long enough to convince the water de- partJtient head that they are going concerns, will flow into the leser- voir to be constructed this fall. Two more wells will be in harness at the new water supply unit before spring. Commissioner Schroeder will start at once the construction of a 12-lnch main to connect with the proposed reservoir and extend ing to street. He also will build a 12-lnch trunk line along street east to Thirty-seventh to feed into branch mains. "I guess that will be about all till my term expires next he said.

The veteran councilman exhibited no enthusiasm when asked whether rnot he will be a candidate in the spring to again succeed himself. Another water department project to go on thru the fall or until it la completed, Is the big coal storage vat now under construction at the A street station. Mr. Schroeder hoped to have it ready In time for coal occuapncy Sept. 1.

One year ago when the city awarded the contract for 15,000 tons, more or less, for the water department, he expressed the desire to be done with contract letting. With adequate storage facilities he expects to buy upon the open market when and where he pleases. This apparently will not come for another year. Coal bids were scheduled for the opening at Monday's council meeting. BOOZE CALLS FOR GRIEF Men Who Were Happy Face the Court and Hear Ihe Penalties Assessed.

Twelve drunks in a court room, or twelve arrested in that condition, consumed most of Acting Municipal Judge time Monday morning, Bookert Dickey and Albert Vanhagerman, both colored, were singing in the street in the early morn when Leonard Boughman, white, stopped to listen and enjoy It. A friendly scuffling match was followed by more singing, Each was fined $10 and costs. George Wright, colored, whom the officers claimed to have seen leaving the musical, denied guilt and was dismissed. Others fined for alleged intoxication: One wfio gave his name as J. Bacon, $10 and costs; Frank McDougal.

$25 and costs; Olive Meyer, $10 and costs; Patrick Ryan, $10 and costs, and Mark Dermody, $10 and costs; Ed Curtis and Earl FVakes, arrested by Deputy County Sheriff Ward, $10 and costs each. COUSIN HENRY MYSTERY CLEARING IN HALL-MILLS CASE Fawt Moving Development to Bring Out Three New Witnesses. FAHM HAND IS SUMMONZDo- Girl With Him in Parked Auto Also Called. "PIG WOMAN" NOT NEAR Henry D. B.

Carpender, the cousin of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, declared he had an alibi that would thwart any attempt to link him to the Hall-Mills ADMITS WILL TO PROBATE NEW CHAPTER WRITTEN IN THE CASE. TAX ON HOOCH. WASHINGTON, Aug. The bootlegger and home to be taxed heavily hereafter for their illegal business.

The treasury department, carrying out tax provisions mapped by Assistant Secretary Andrews, has issued regulations calling for taxation of stills and for a heavy revenue tax upon diverted alcohol tilled beverages and the like. Failure of bootleggers properly to list their incomes lays them open to further taxes. Andrews is known to believe the new penalty tax system will make the prohibition service virtually self-supporting. 0RM15T0N ADMITS AFFAIR WITH GIRL Radio Operator Makes Affidavit That He Occupied Carmel Cottage With Her, to Clear Mrs. McPherson.

CHICAGO. Aug. neth O. Ormiston, radio operator the Angelus temple In Los Angnles, in an affidavit made public today admits having occupied a cottage near Carmel. May 21 with a mysterious The affidavit was made in order to clear Almee Semple McPherson whose disappearance and later return is now being investigated by California of any suspicion In connection the renting of the cottage by a "Mr.

and Mrs. Ormiston said he left San I'ran- cisco May 19 with toured thru he claims to have learned of the disappearance of the then rented the cottage on May 21, introducing the girl as Mrs. Mclntire. The affidavit was made in Chicago altho it is unknown whether or not Ormiston is still here. Relatives Not Given Equal Share Fought Admission Alleging Testator Was Not Capable of Making Will.

After hearing objections to probate of the will of Michael nor, Judge Reid of the county court Monday morning admitted the will to probate and Bernard H. Garden City, Dom inlc G. of Lincoln, Patrick W. of Omaha and Alice A. Brown of Lincoln, contestants of the will, appealed to the district court from the decision of Judge Reid.

Bernard H. is a brother and Dominick and Patrick W. are nephews and Alice Brown a niece of the deceased. The four contestants alleged that the purported will of Michael who died on May 26, 1926, la not the last will and testament of the deceased; that the instrument was not drawn according to law and that Michael did not bave testamentary capacity at the time the will was drawn on May 6. 1926, or if it is his will was the result of force, deceit and undue influence of Ellen Keating, a sister of Michael She was for some time housekeeper for Michael near Davey before he was removed to the home of Mr.

and Mrs. George Carey near Sixty-eighth and Vine. It Is alleged that he was in a weakened capacity and that Ellen Keating took advantage of his con dition. He was seventy-eight years old when he died and had suffered from a paralytic stroke some time before his death. The contestants of the will were cut off with one dollar each.

Three of the heirs named in the will were given (Continued on Ten.) TAKE YOUTH WITH HOOCH Ted barber, 240 North Thirty-first, was arrested near his home oMnday forenoon on charge.s pertaining to hooch and his Dodge coupe and three pints of alleged liquor siezed by State Oiflcers Dudschus and Strawn. He is being held at the city jail. Sheriff Dudschus said that charges of possession, transportation and sale of hooch would probably be placed against the youth and his car confisacted. He had been arrested before on hooch charges, according to police records. Fie is married.

Testimony Believed to Show That Mrs. Jane Gibson Not at Murder Scene as She Professes. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. Aug. moving developments today in the Hall-Mills case will bring three new witnesses before State Senator Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor, who will begin his investigation into the murder four years ago of Rev.

Edward W. Hall and Eleanor Mills. The new witnesses are: Robert Erllng, farm hand, whose testimony is believed to show that the Mrs. Jane Gibson was not near the murder scene on ihe night the two lovers were killed, as she professes. An unnamed girl, who is said to have been with Furling in a parked auto and to have seen the pig woman ride by on her mule.

An unidentified woman. She was in New Brunswick on the night of the murder, according to Erllng, and told him she found bloodstained leaves near the murder spot. The message from a Milwaukee woman, Mrs. Hoard Harding, who told of being accosted on a road near where the two bodies were found by three men, is being Investigated. William Phillips, night watchman at the New Jersey college for women at the time of the murders, was released from the jail today under bail of $2,500.

He had been held since Thursday night as a material witness. He Is alleged to have told authorities he saw Mrs. Hall return to her home the night of the crime at an hour considerably earlier than that given by Mrs. Hall when she told her story at the first investigation. FOG COVERS NEW YORK Lower Skyscrapert Lost Half Way up, as Result of Soppy Mist.

NEW YORK, Aug. weather again afflicted Knickerbocker today. I It was a white saturation which felt its way into every east side 'alley and uptown apartment. Reek- jlng with 100 percent moisture, the mist clung soppily to clothes and meddled with machinery. were lost half way up and from their upper floors the city was visible save for a dim tentacle of a tower here and there.

The and heaviest that has enveloped the city in years persisted as noon came. STATE LEVY REDUCTION ONE-HALF MILL LESS THAN LEVY LAST YEAR. DECLARED DEAD; ALIVE. ALMA, Saturday, Robert C. Johnson, who had been declared legally dead after an absence of eight years from the county came to Alma and read the probate proceedings had in his estate.

It seems that one Godfrey Wodum who had threatened him in 1918 was tried for blackmail but Mr. Johnson left the county. His horse was found in Holdrege with no trace of him. Recently a search was made for his body on the old home pace. BOY STRUCK BY AN AUTO Son of Leroy Baker Injured While Riding Bicycle Near Home Sunday Night.

The small son oi Mr LeRoy Baker, 340 North Twenty- seventh, was painfully bruised and lacerated on one leg Sunday night when the bicycle he was riding was struck by a car driven by J. H. Riddell, Park avenue, near the home. Mr, Riddel stopped and assisted the boy to his home. He was not seriously hurt, it was believed.

James Casey, charged with exceeding the speed limit by going at a forty-five mile clip, said thirty was his best. Acting Municipal Judge Stout fined him $10 and costs and ordered that he stay away from the steering wheel of a car for ten days between the hours of 6 p. and morning business hours. T. B.

Spurtgin was fined $1 and costs for operating a car without a muffler. T. J. Burns, away from Lincoln most of the time since arterial stops were installed, was excused for passing one. Paul Ohlevers, charged with parking without tail light visible, was dismissed as was Joe McGoue, Beatrice, charged with parking on a yellow line.

G. B. Dent paid $1 and costs for parking more than one hour In a restricted area and C. E. Dowling paid a like sum for staying too long in a two hour district.

Ed F'oster, charged with failure to support his wife and children, denied guilt when arraigned in municipal court Monday. The case was continued one day, appearance bond named at $200 and recognizance taken. RECORD 126 KNOWN DEAD Nassau Checks up on Casualties of Tropical Storm Finds 400 Missing. MIAMI, Aug. sau.

today checking up on her dead, left by the fury of the tropical hurricane, recorded 126 known dead and 400 persons missing according to a message received by the Tropical Radio station. All fishing boats of the sponge fleet, with 350 aboard, have een given up for lost. Not one has been sighted since the storm struck a week ago. Earlier reports on the sponge fleet indicated fear was felt only for fifty to seventy-five vessel.s which left Nassau the day before the storm roke. It is now believed the entire fleet of 175 vessels which had been anchored off the sponge 1 fields for several days before the storm also destroyed.

Total Estimated by Board at 1.80 County Cited for 8 Percent Increase on Lands. The state board of assessment was in sessiua late Monday at ter! noon endeavoring to close up the work of equalizing assessed land values as between counties. Final figures had not been made up but I it was stated that the levy would I be reduced .33 mills. I The levy as finally determined by the board is 1.58 for the general fund and .22 mills for the capitol fund, making a total of 1.80 mills, which is the same as the total state levy In 1924. The general fund levy will raise $5,077,252 ari the capital levy $706.959, a total of The amount raised by the state levy in 1924 was $5,736,510.

The amount raised last year was $7,482.542. The following proposed Increase in land values were disapproved and t.incelled by the board: Antelope, 2 per rent; Boyd, Cherry, Dundy. 10; Frontier, Holt. 10; Keith. Keya I'aha, Pierce, Bed Willow, 10; Sioux, 10; Washington, 3.

The proposed increases for the following counties were approved and ordered made: Buffalo, Custer, Dakota, 15; Dawson, Dodge, Hooker, Knox, Richardson, Saunders, 2. Proposed increases for the following counties were changed by the board and adopted: Box Butte, 25 changed to 10 Brown, 5 to Burt, 8 to Chase, 10 to Cheyenne, 4 to Dawes, 10 to Dixon, 8 to Garden, 16 to Garfield, 13 to 10; Greeley, 5 to Hall, 10 to Lincoln. 10 to Rock, 10 to Sheridan. 10 to Thurston, 8 to 4. Douglas county which reported assessed valuations after the formal hearing, is to be given an increase of 8 per cent on lands and a hearing has been set for Saturday morning.

In increase 8 percent would about bring the in Douglas up to an average of $146.09, the amount of the assessed value last year. Douglas this year returned lands at an average of $136.56. TWO CHANGES ARE MADE IN COUNTRY CLUB LIST Two changes in the fourth flight pairings of the Lincoln country club tournament, published on the sport page, were made by Norman Sommers, club professional, Monday afternoon. Dr. J.

E. M. Thomson takes the place of R. J. Greene and C.

V. Traphagen replaces E. B. Grainger In the corrected list. Fix Time, the Destroyer, is always with us.

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