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No. 260 Entered second class mall matter at Mattoon, Illinois ILLINOIS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1928 Published every afternoon except Sunday Price 5 Cents $25.000.000 BLAZE IN FALL RIVER FLAMES SWEEP OVER BUSINESS DIST, OF CITY Many DIUCKS Ill chusetts Industrial Center Burn. BY WILLIAM A. CONSODINE. (1.

N. S. Staff Correspondent.) Fall River, Feb. Martial law was in effect in fire-swept Fall River today. Dead lines were established by: 600 armed militiamen and sixty state troopers.

around a mile square area in which sixtyfive buildings, large and small were destroyed in an all-night conflagration which was finally under control after causing damage estimated at 000. Ten firemen were seriously injured. Bared From City. All visitors were barred. Policing arrangements were in charge of Mayor W.

Party Monks, A majority of the population of 102,000 men, women and children was on the streets, hundreds milling about the police lines thrown up in the bustness district fire area. Relief agencies were at work caring for the scores of injured and those in need of food and shelter. Six banks damaged by flames were under heavy guard. In fire proof vaults rested currency and valuable papers. -five of the city's principal buildings were in ruins in an area bounded by High, Bank, Annawa and Durfee streets.

These included three hotels, two theaters, a club, two newspaper plants and a dozen' business blocks and mills. Among the mills damaged: were the Pocasset, the Union Mill and the Troy Chimney Company's mill. Firemen Labor in Rains. Ice sheeted and weary firemen from Massachusetts and Rhode Island cities and towns worked in the ruins: The national guardsmen on duty were commanded by Colonel Harry A. Skinner.

The state police were under personal command of Brigadier General Alfred F. Foote, state commissioner of public safety. The fire, which raged from 6:30 o'clock last evening until it was placed under control at 3 a. m. today, recalled the million dollar fire here I twelve years ago.

Many times during the hectic night the residential district was threatened as sparks and fire brands fell on roofs. Scores of families fled to the streets in the -zero ter perature carrying movable belongings. Bethel Synagogue on 1 Bank street was destroyed and 8 hundred families living in the vicinity of the blazing edifice left their homes. Newspaper Plants Destroyed. There were many homeless men, women and children to care for after the first excitement of the conflagration subsided.

A majority of these lived on. Bedford street. Their homes were in apartments above small stores. They were cared for in neighboring homes or in public huildings. The newspaper plants ruined were the Fall River Independent and the Fall River Herald-News.

The plant of the other newspaper, the Globe, was also badly damaged. Wire communication with the outside world was shut off for four hours, but engine companies 12, 26 and threw curtains of icy water over the telephone exchange and the telegraph offices, and service was resumed. Heroic telephone girls, near to exhaustion by handling a tremendous crush of business with fire sweeping about their building, resumed their tasks. All Men Lend Aid. Every able-bodied man turned to and helped the firemen with the stagtask of stopping the onrush of gering flames in the business district and extinguishing many smaller fires that started a mile or more away from the main blaze.

Thousands faced unemployment today as the result of the conflagration, but business men were making plans to rebuild and resume operations. The sixty -five buildings destroyed included twenty or more of the biggest buildings of the city, including hotels, theaters, stores, banks and the famous building on Main street. In granite -what it known as "Cotton A show was in progress in the Rialto theater when the fire reached a buildAng some distance away. The audience left the theater safely and in order. An hour later the theater was a twisted mass of smoking ruins.

Calls for Help Go Out. As one building after another was, clutched by the flames, the local firemen sent out calls for help. Fire apparatus arrived from Boston, New Bod- WHO IS IT? No. 122 The man whose picture is shown above came to Mattoon to live in 1884, was a native of the northern part of the state, and for many years was actively engaged in railroad work. He no longer lives in this city but comes here occasionally.

Picture No. 121, in yesterday's issue, wasn't so easy either, judging by the scarcity of replies sent in' as to its identity. It must have been those curls which threw the fans off the track, because only four hazarded a guess. No. 121 was Mrs.

Louis Katz, and those who recognized the girlish likeness were J. S. Hayes and Miss Mayme Hayden. Miss Kate Ballentine and C. A.

Fry thught it was a picture of Mrs. F. M. Beals, The picture of Mrs. Katz was taken over fifty years ago, shortly fore she came to this city as a bride.

She made Mattoon her home for -any years, but now resides in Chicago. MAYOR THOMPSON AT NEW ORLEANS RACES New Orleans, Feb. by Mayor William Hale Thompson and five hundred enthusiastic Chicago sportsmen, who arrived here on three special trains, thousands of turf followers gathered at the fourth renewal of $70,000 New Orleans handicap race here today. The track was fairly fast and almost all the 100 nominated had posted their $1,000 entry fee. The horses will go to the post at 3:30 for the mile and one-sixteenth race.

The winner of the race will receive a cash prize of $50,000 and the remaining $20,000 will be divided among the three followers-up. Mayor Thompson of Chicago will present the prizes. "Hello, big Bill," was on the lips of all New Orleans last night as the Chicago delegation arrived. Cannons boomed at the water front, sirens of water craft, fire engines and factories shrieked out a welcome unprecedented in the south. It was "Chicago day" in New Orleans.

STOVE EXPLODES: TWO MEN SEVERELY BURNED Lincoln, Feb. burned when the stove in their shack near this city exploded, Harm Rholfs, 50, and Axiver Croteau are fighting for their lives today in a hospitul here. Five men riding past saw the shack in flames, and discovering the pair lying unconscious, carried them to safety. ford, Taunton, Brockton, Newport, R. Somerset, Swansea, Westport, and other communities.

They rushed over snow -covered roads in a freezing temperature and arrived in the nick of time, for sparks were falling on roofs in the residential district. The fire was the worst conflagration in the city's history and compared with the staggering damage done by fires in Chelsea in 1908 and in Salem in 1914. The Pocasset Mills have been closed for two years. The largest stockholder is Louis K. Liggett of Boston.

He is now at Palm Beach, Fla. Workmen had been razing some of the buildings owned by the mills. The started near blaze of chips over which workmen razing a building of the Pocasset Mills were trying to keep warm, fire department officials stated today. An official investigation into the cause of the fire was begun today by Deputy Fire Marshal George Mansfleld of Taunton. Many of the seventy-five firms which were wiped out by the flames were not covered by insurance.

The fire loss meant financial ruin to quite a few of the smaller business men. BIG FOUR A. A. DANCE Saturday, February 4, at K. of 0.

hall. Music, Jones' Californians. Admission 50 cents. 2-4 STANDARD OIL HEAD DEFIANT OF COMMITTEE R. W.

Stewart Refuses to Tell What He Knows About Certain Bonds. BY WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON. (I. N.

S. Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Feb. a citation for contempt of the senate, Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, again today defied the senate public lands committee by refusing to reveal what he knew of the Continental Trading Company's $3,080,000 liberty bond fund. Stewart's refusal to testify on this important point was placed in the record for the second time in order to form the basis for contempt proceedings.

The question that Stewart refused to answer was: "Do you know anything about the Continental Company's purchase of liberty bonds?" Defiant Answer, reply was: all deference to you, I have to. repeat that I never made a dollar out of it, and that's my answer." It has already been established that the Continental Company purchased $3,080,000 in liberty bonds, and $235,000 of them have been traced to Ex-Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. The committee is endeavoring to determine who got the balance. There have been many rumors about these remaining bonds.

"Were you ever consulted about these bonds?" next asked Senator Walsh of Montana. Stewart did not answer. "Why do you hesitate?" "That's my business. I don't think that's a proper question," said Stewart. Walsh read the senate resolution ordering the inquiry into the bonds.

"Did you understand when I asked about bonds that I referred to the bonds mentioned in this resolution?" "I think I did." "When you declined to answer the same question yesterday, did you understand the bonds referred to were those mentioned in the resolution?" "I think I did." Walsh then read Stewart's statement yesterday that he had "never given any bonds to any political party." "What induced you to specify political party?" "I heard it from some source-possibly the newspapers, and I wanted to make it clear to you that I had never handled any of those bonds." "And what you do know, you decline to "Yes, I regretfully take that position," Stewart replied. Stewart's Anger Aroused. Stewart got into a clash with Senator Cutting of New Mexico while on the stand, when the latter told him there was a "possible assumption" that he was committing Stewart flared with anger, characterized the statement as an insult, and threatened to leave the committee room. Cutting withdrew the remark and peace was restored. Prior to Stewart's second defiance of the committee.

Senator Walsh had placed on the stand several witnesses who sat in at the New York conference which negotiated the purchase of the Humphreys Oil, among them former Senator Charles Thomas, attorney for Humphreys; Beman G. Dawes, brother of the vice-president, and A. E. Humphreys Jr. BULL PLEADS GUILTY AS CONFIDENCE MAN Tuscola, Feb.

G. Bull, one of the two men held by Sheriff Twiford on a charge of having operated a confidence game at the Standard Oil station north of the Tuscola city limits, through a fake punch board, appeared before Justice Albritton Monday and pleaded guilty to the charge. He was assessed a fine of $100 and costs which he was able to pay through having received the money from relatives. A. O.

Mitchell, the other of the two arrested, is said to be willing also to plead guilty, but up to the present has not done so, as none of the friends to whom he has written has as yet sent him the money for his fine. He told officers that he would have the money in a day or two, but several days have passed and the money is not here yet. INVESTMENTS OF MONEY. Our first mortgage farm loans are protected by large equities, by ample earning power, by the honesty the ability of the borrower to farm and manage and be prompt, and by time tried and legally tested safeguards that insure payment. They yield well.

We do the work. Call for details or send your naine and address. Phone 161. 2-4 TIVNEN CO. Let's Bring Him Back to Reason DER CHONK HON HONK -HONK JUST A -I WANNA ASK YOU A MINUTE FAIR QUESTION -WHERE, ARE BLAMED (F YOU TEARING GOING BIG IN SUCH HURRY A KNOW PORTO RICO SHOWERS MORE HONORS ON LINDY Ban, Juan, Porto Rico, Feb.

was another "Lindbergh day" as the joyous residents of Porto Rico showered honors upon the famous American aviator, who flew here from St. Thomas yesterday. On Colonel Lindbergh's program for today were visits to all the principal points of interest on the island, such as the cathedral, the forts and public buildings. The flyer will also be taken to Rio Piedras to visit the University of Porto Rico and the Insular Sanitarium. Colonel Lindbergh awoke after strenuous night which in turn culminated a day of such rejoicing and.

cheering as has never been seen here before. After being welcomed by 100,000 persons at the landing field and being hailed as a second Columbus and being officially feted by the government and other official bodies, Colonel Lindbergh was the guest of honor at a reception at the governor's palace. Later the young aviator attended the Porto Rican carnival where he was introduced to Edna Coll, queen of the carnival and one of the most beautiful young ladies in Porto Rico. As a special tribute, Miss Coll was garbed as an aviatrix. Colonel Lindbergh will hop tomorrow morning for Santo Domingo.

The colonel is keeping to his schedule, trying to arrive at each destination the exact minute he is due. Great crowds gathered in the street to cheer the "lone eagle" when he appeared on his sightseeing jaunt. Lindbergh grinned and waved his hand. CHICAGO KIDNAPERS COMMITTED TO JAIL Chicago, Feb. "Spider" Meyers and Frank Covelli, charged with kidnaping and beating Joseph stein and his wife, Betty, private dry sleuth, were a arraigned in court here today sentenced to serve one year in jail and fined $300, each, on carrying a concealed weapon charge.

On the charges of assault with intent to kill, robbery, kidnaping and larceny of an automobile, they were held to the grand jury in bonds totaling $500,000. MR. AND MRS. H. G.

ESTELL LOSE INFANT DAUGHTER Tiny Marie, three-weeks -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Estell, died at the family residence, 2816 Rich. mond avenue, Thursday night from infant disease.

There will be a brief funeral service at the graveside in Dodge Grove cemetery, Rev. Josph W. Kelley officiating. Mr. and Mrs.

Estell have four other children. DANCE MOOSE HALL Every Saturday night. Mack's. tt READ' PAGE 119. Saturday Evening Post.

"NEWSPAPER TRADITIONS UPHELD Fall River, Feb. -Traditions of, the "newspaper shop" were upheld today as fire surged about the plant of the Fall River Globe, Even the lowly office boys stayed on the job along with men and women of the staff. At one time the building caught fire. There was 1 no apparatus available at the moment. Publisher Edward Gans, Managing Editor Alan J.

Daniels, City Editor Frank Healy and others of, the staff manned hose lines along the walls and on the roof. When the fire in the Globe building was extinguished the work of getting out an "extra" was resumed. It was issued on schedule. FORMER HUMBOLT WOMAN PASSES AWAY Special to The Journal. Gazette.

Humbolt, Feb. body of Mrs. Winona Moore Halstead, aged twenty-one years, who died at Casa Grande, from tuberculosis last Saturday, arrived here Thursday night. Funeral services will be from the Methodist Episcopal church on Saturday at 10:30 o'clock, Rev. R.

C. Geyer officiating. Burial will be in the Odd Fellow cemetery. Mrs. Halstead was the wife of Harry O.

Halstead, a young Oklahoma lawyer, and World war veteran, who himself is said to be in the last stages of consumption, and could not leave Casa Grande to accompany his wife's body. He contracted tuberculosis in France during the war. Mrs. Halstead was reared in Humbolt and was a graduate from the Arcola. high school.

She went to Arizona about three years ago for the benefit of her health, but returned home after a year or more. After suffering a relapse she returned to Arizona, and there met and married Mr. Halstead, who was also sojourning there for his health. On January 31, 1927, they were married in Arizona. Besides her husband Mrs.

Halstead is survived by her father, Marshall C. Moore, of this village; three sisters, Miss Lois Moore, Miss Madge Moore and Miss Bettie Moore, and one brother, Robert Moore, all living with their father. CLAIMS DIPLOMATIC BUNGLING CAUSES 1 WAR Washington, Feb. -Assailing the "clumsy bungling of diplomats" as a frequent cause of war, Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican, of Massachusets, advocated today, in an address before the final session of the Women's Patriotic Conference on National Defense, the evolution of the world's foreign offices into "departments of peace." Miss Etta V. Leighton of New York, secretary of the National Security League, in a vigorous appeal for the suppression of internationalism, told the session: "Patriotism, the strong shield of nation's honor, has gone out of fashion, giving tionalism.

way to a internaRacial and national hatreds suppressed for centuries under despotism are bursting forth. Universal disarmament is not the way to bring peace." Secretary of the Navy Wilbur urged the women to enlist in support of the $700,000,000 naval building program now before the house. Future wars will be largely decided by navies, he predicted. BEYER FOUND GUILTY OF PETROFF MURDER Rockford, 'Feb. Beyer, 21, of Janesville, self -styled prohibition investigator, was found guilty late yesterday of manslaughter as a result of his fatal shooting of William Petroff, South Belott roadhouse keeper, last November.

Illinois justice moved swiftly in the prosecution of Beyer, who claimed he accidentally shot Petroff while obtaining evidence of violation of the liquor law. The jury returned a verdict less than six hours after receiving the case. Manslaughter, which carried imprisonment of one to fourteen years, was the lesser of four degrees of guilt which Judge Arthur E. Fisher instructed the twelve jurors they might assess. The other were degrees of murder and carry penalties of death, imprisonment for life and fourteen years to lite: MILK CHOCOLATE CREAMS 29C POUND 2-3 BIDWELL'S CANDY SHOP.

FOR RENT. Modern apartment, two blocks from Broadway. FRED GRANT, 2-3 Trust 'IM NOT INSANE' SAYS HICKMAN; NONE THINKS ou Mother Says Married Life Unhappy; Didn't Care to Live BY ARTHUR L. MAREK. (I.

N. S. Staff Correspondent.) Los Angeles, Feb. thinks I am insane. Nether do These are the own words of William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnaperkiller of Marion Parker, uttered today as he turned to his 195-pound guard, Deputy Sheriff Claude Peters, and concluded: "I don't think there are twelve persons in the United States who would say I was insane." Hickman was waiting to be taken from his cell at the county jail to the courtroom two floors below.

Dr. R. O. Shelton, who yesterday told the jury in the Marion Parker case that Hickman was a victim of dementia praecox, which he termed "the highest type of insanity? will be recalled to the stand when the trial is resumed today, Expert Testimony Dull. The testimony of the expert witnesses promised to be dull and tedious in contrast with the dramatic recitals and the play on emotions which climaxed the trial yesterday.

Dull and tedious, perhaps, but the dispassionate testimony of the experts, begun late yesterday, afforded tion to those who sat through the suspense which crowded the dramatic second act of the court drama. No one in the tiny room, with the exception of who sat unflinched, could possibly have stood much more of the gripping suspense. Jurors wept when they forced their eyes to look upon the ghastly photographs of Marion Parker's mutilated body, They shuddered when the longbladed, clasp knife which the slayer used to dissect the dead girl was flashed before them. The father of William Edward Hickman twisted his gnarled hands and 'sobbed aloud as he said that the woman who had been his wife had horror for bearing babies" and had told him that some day he would find the children cut up and piled on the floor." The little grey mother of. William Edward Hickman forced back her tears as she said that her unhappy married life had caused her to hate her husband and she "just didn't want to live any more." The brother of William Edward Hickman hung his head when he said that the horror of Marion Parker's death convinced him that his brother was insane.

Hickman, who called himself a when he lured Marion Parker away from her school room and later bartered her lifeless, body for $1,500 ransom money, alone among all of those in the' electrified courtroom, remained unmoved. Defiant R. W. Stewart, head of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, who refused to answer certain questions before the senate committee investigating the Teapot Dome oil scandal. MEN FILE PETITIONS FOR PLACE ON COUNCIL Thursday was the last day for filing petitions by candidates for membership on the city council.

Those who have filed petitions are: First ward--J. H. Owens, Democrat. Second ward-G. W.

Smith, Republican; F. H. Morrison, Democrat. Third ward-C. E.

Crane, Republican; J. M. Bolles, Republican. Fourth ward--C. R.

Plummer, DemoI crat; C. W. Haskell, Democrat. Fifth ward -James L. Warren, Democrat.

Sixth ward--Thomas A. Shull, Republican; Fred F. Harris, Republican; Ed Huckaba, Democrat. Seventh ward -G. A.

Kizer. The aldermen who are candidates to succeed themselves are: James H. Owens, Democrat, First ward; C. E. Crane, Republican, Third ward; C.

W. Haskell, Democrat, Fourth ward; James L. Warren, Democrat, Fifth ward; Ed Huckaba, Democrat, Sixth ward; and George A. Kizer, Democrat, Seventh ward. The date of the election of city aldermen will be Tuesday, April 17.

SPECIAL SHOWING Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning, new Hudson and Essexes, all models. This is a show you should see, consisting of sedans, coaches and coupes with rumble seat. New colors and lines. 2004 Charleston avenue, Mattoon Ill. 3-4 GARDNER BALL.

PUBLIC AUCTION SALE Of the 'Ernest B. Tucker home Lafayette Heights, Saturday, February 4, at 11 o'clock at the south door of the National Bank of Mattoon. FRED GRANT, '2-3 Trust Officer. Ex-Senator Ill Vienna, Feb. condition of J.

Hamilton Lewis, fo former United States senator from Illinois, continued serious today, according to reports this afternoon from the sanatorium at Auersperg, Jugoslavia, where Mr. Lewis was taken, following an attack of threatened pneumonia. The reports indicated the patient's condition remained about stationary. DISCUSS POLICING OF PAN -AMERICAN STATES Havana, Feb. Discussion of the report of the committee on public international law which virtually upholds the policy of troublesome LatinAmerican republics was the chief topic on the table session of the Pan-American conference.

It was expected there would be no amendment proposed which would prove embarrassing to the United States. The report was tendered by Dr. Victor Maurtua, of Peru, reporting secretary of the commission on international law. The report chiefly advocated; That every nation has the right to exist and to protect and conserve its existence, but this does not justify the commission of unlawful acts against innocent or unoffending states: That every nation has the right to independence provided it does not interfere with nor violate the rights of other states. COUPLE LOCATED.

Special to The Journal. Gazette. Charleston, Feb. Charleston police have received word that Miss Mamie Smith, 20, and Robert Maldeck, 35, who disappeared from here about three weeks ago, have been located at Louisville, Ky. The couple left presumably to be married.

Word from Louisville did -not state whether they had married or not. SUNDAY MOVIES Arcola theater, Areola, February Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender." 8:30 p. m. 10c and 25c. 2-3 KIDWELL HOME BADLY DAMAGED BY FLAMES Fully $1000 damage was done to the J.

A. Kidwell residence at 3108 Prairie avenue Thursday afternoon when a fire broke out in the attic shortly after three o'clock, and spread rapidly, burning a large portion of the roof of the house. The fire department worked more than an hour before the flames were entirely subdued. There was considerable water damage to the household goods. Insurance was carried: It is thought by Fire Chief Weaver that the origin of the fire 1 was in the electric wiring in the attic.

WEATHER Chicago, Feb. -Following are the weather indications for Illinois for thin ty-six hours endIng at 7 Saturday. Conerally fate night and Satura day; warmer tion tonight. LOCAL WEATHER TEMPERATURE (Temperature from 1 p. m.

Thursday 9 11 p. 250 Weather south west wind. Sun rises Saturday at 7:06 5:22. Moon sets Saturday 6:25.