Dixon Evening Telegraph from Dixon, Illinois • Page 1

Three-Day Free Fail Festival, Begins Tomorrow ixon vening elegraph Seventy-eighth Number 257 DIXON, 1LLINO IS A CITY OF OPPOR1 UNITY ON THE HUDSO OF THE WEST TELEPHONES: 4 and 5 ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY, OCTOKER ms 12 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS WOMAN SAYS SHE BURNED SELF: TEST SPIRIT LOVE GRAF REACHED FRENCH COAST OVER NANTES Will Probably Not Get to Home Hangar Until Tomorrow Sec. of State During War Died Suddenly Tuesday ALL SET FOR DIXON'S FESTIVAL Leg of the Graf By the Associated Prct-s i Eastern Standard Timet MONDAY, OCT. 1:54 a. m. -Loft Lakehurst, J.

3:15 a. over New York! City. 5:00 a. Passed over Block Is- land off Rhode Island coast. 6:15 a.

lit and headed out to sea. 7:15 a. by trawler Widgeon 75 miles northeast of Chatham 10:15 a. by steamship Laconia 90 miles southwest of Cap? Sable. Nova Scotia, 2:00 p.

position to Get- THREE DAYS OF FUN. SPORTS ARE PROVIDED Most of Stores to Remain Open Evenings of Fall Festival That Farm Help Problem AijociAreo -aesi ROBERT LANSING Who directed diplomatic relations of United States just prior to and many as latitude 43 north longitude thfi War a( hls a8 west- aOO to GOO miles at sea from home in Washington Tuesday after- Chatham, noon a.s the result of a heart attack. 4:00 p. position as 42.30 gD completely had Mr. Lansing north, 54 50 750 miles withdrawn from public life, following east of Chatham.

his break with President Wilson, position as 250 which brought about his resignation miles northeast of Cape Race, New-j a.s Secretary of State, that few knew foundland. I of his sickness. He was an authority (on international law TUESDAY, OCT. 30 7:00 a. Mauretania about 500 mile east of Cape Race in communication wptli Zeppelin sum Broken Cck CciilSC what to the north.

1 :00 a -Sighted Of I UWCTl Death Capulin about 730 miles northeast of i Mrs. I). L. Palmer has received a Cape Race. newspaper clipping telling of the 12:40 p.

m. Steamship Biairesk re- tragic death of her sister-in-law. Mrs. ported Zeppelin while in position! Gladys George Owen of San 890 miles northeast of Cape formerly of Dixon, which was Race mentioned briefly in The Telegraph Passed over cable ship The newspaper stales that Dominia about 950 miles northeast of walking with a inend. Mrs.

Kramer. Mrs. Owen was nt i knocked down by a big collie dog, 5:00 p. m. 1 1 led.

i. wJlich dashed from a yard in chase Germany, a.xet. of an automobile, suffering a brofcim Pa.stnet I Cork whk.h Uu! 7:15 p. Sighted by steamship; following day, lour days after the Westw'erdijk about 550 miles west of dcath of her father, Charles Henry Lizard Head, Cornwall, England George, also formerly of Dixon. Mr.

Midnight -Gave position about 430 George was 73 years of age at the miles west oi Lizard Head. Cornwall, time of his death, Oct. 19. England. WEDNESDAY, OCT.

31 5:30 a. m-Sighted by steamship Boulder Pool about 500 males west of Bordeaux, France. 6:21 p. over the Bay of Biscay. 10:30 a.

Eastern standard time 40 miles west of the Gironde Estuary on the central French coast. 12:55 p. m. Eastern standard time, Zeppelin notified Lr Bourget flying field she expected to strike French coast at Nantes about 2:00 p. m.

S. WEATHER BULLETIN Oct. The homeward bound dirigible Graf Zeppelin leached the French coast from Lakehurst, N. J. late today flying over Nantes at 6:43 p.

m. (1:43 p. m. Eastern Standard time.) At that time the huge ship, which completing the first round trip commercial trans-Atlantic air voyage, had been in the air 59 hours and 49 minutes. She still had about 900 miles to go before reaching Friedrich.shafen, her home port where she was expected at tiie earliest at 3 tomorrow morning.

Ill LLETIN Le Bourget, France. Oct. The dirigible Graf Zeppelin informed the Le Bour flying field late today that she expected to strike the French coast, the vicinity of Nantes about 7 p. M. Greenwich Meridian nine 1 2 M.

Eastern Standard time. The great air liner, rapidly approaching the end of homeward flight from Lakehursf. to Friedrichshalen, notified the flying field that she was traveling at a rate oi 60 miles an hour. The boisterous weather over the Bay of Biscay was abating. Nantes midway between Bordeaux and Brest on the western coast of France, and is on a direct line to Friedrichshafen.

Aviation expert expressed the opinion that the Graf Zeppelin would fly over central France, passing ever the cities of Nantes. Lyons, Dijon and Basel with the likelihood that she would rea Rriedrirhshafen about daybreak tomorrow morning. WEDNESDAY, ()( T. 31, Forecasts Fill 7 M. Thursday For Chicago anti 'rain beginning late tonight or on Thursday: slightly warmer tonight; gentle to moderate winds mostly southwest to southeast.

For cloudy, probably rain beginning late tonight or slightly warmer tonight southeast portion Thursday; colder Thursday in extreme northwest portion. For in south, mostly cloudy in north portion tonight; Thursday rain; warmer in extreme south portion. lor probably light snow beginning tonight or Thursday in north portion and rain oi snow in south portion; colder Thursday in south and central I tions. or beginning late tonight or Thursday; slightly warmer ton ght and in extreme southeast portion Thursday; colder Thursday west and extreme north por- tions. For rain beginning tonight or Thursday, possibly changing to snow in west and north portions; slightly warmer in extreme southeast, colder in extreme northwest portion; colder Thursday cl Thursday night.

Dixons first annual Fall Festival sponsored by the retail merchants starts off tomorrow morning at 11 with a band concert by the i St. Charles band. The merchants will finish decorating their business places by tonight and every is giving this feature of! the festival his best efforts. of the display windows are very pretty. Scattered about the downtown streets are shocks of fodder and pumpkins everywhere.

All is in readiness to handle the thousands that will visit Dixon Thursday, Friday and Saturday. School children are bringing in their essays; farmer boys and girls are bringing their ten ears of corn for exhibit at the corn exhibition. A large amcfunt of splendid advertising has been done and the country for fifty miles around has been made acquanilsd with Hie1 details of the big festival. I If the weather man is good the Festival promises to be a wonderful success. It Is hoped that he will co- operate With the merchants in doing everything he possibly can to make the affair a success.

Numerous Parades. School children in the city are making big plans to get into the parade Friday afternoqn The school parade will be worth while seeing. The Grand Parade for to- I morrow night is forming now and many inquiries are received at the Chamber of Commerce as to how to I enter cars and what to do in order to make the parade a success. There will be many very beautiful floats; many of the participants are expend! ing quite a lot of money in order to make a good showing in the parade. It is expected that many thousands of people will fill the down-town streets while the parade passes through the loop district of the city, i The Chamber (if Commerce that people obtain programs and keep them ready so as to follow each event as it is pulled off during the three days of the festival.

Mardi Gras Friday. The Mardi Gras celebration will feature Friday program of the Fall Festival. There is no en- try list for contesvmts, all who de-: sire to compete being invited to don their costumes and mingle with the! crowd which will throng the streets! the business section. Prizes will Chicago, Oct 31 Slumped be awarded for both the most com- in the seat of his own cal and most original costumes automobile, the body of Vinci Sig- worn norelli, 50. a grocer, was found to- The judges will be on the streets I day with a bullet hole through th i observing the merry-makers and Terse Items of Newj Gathered in Dixon During Day OI I to mo hi i All Scouts are to mobilize for the i Fall Festival to report at the Dixon Parking Station at.

4 30 in full uniform. This is a very important, civic affair and all scouts Humid be there. 'Those who cannot there; in the aitcmoon arc to come at 6 30 SPOKE Ail Attorney Martin J. Gannon gave a very interesting address at regular weekly meeting of tin Dixon Kivvanis club Tuesday noon, taking subject. The Dungei nt Door The remark, dent; with the injection of communistic ideas into United States, and added that fifteen of ihe states would vote upon a ticket launched by this party at iha general election EXPLANATION DISBELIEVED BY OFFICERS Eifrieda Knaak Quit Talking When She is CHICAGO GROCER SHOT TO DEATH IN AUTOMOBILE TRIO FAILED TO AQYQ DIXONJTFS GETCOMBINATION rt0I'L' OF SAFE TO GET NUMBER WomanOne of Robbers Who Held Cashier of Bank at Bay OF LOW FLYER iidfp ISTOPA OCTOBER 31 115.3 Washington commissioned to bear a message to the French from the governor of Virginia 1754 -A royai charter lor K.ngs College 'Columbia; granted.

-internal revenue yielded the government SI .000 000 a day 1.764 -Nevada admitted to the Union. bridge across Niagara river at Buffalo completed those who will be considered as (Cint.nued on page 9) CHATMAN TRIAL SET FOR FRIDAY MORN, NOV. 9TH Negro Arraigned Today on Murder Charge Keeps Silence Ira Chatman, alleged murderer of Isaiah Jarman, in an argument at a Negro labor camp in Cc-mpton shortly before midnight on; Saturday, appeared before Judge Harry the Circuit Court th. morning at 9:30 to be arraigned. Attorney Mark Keller asked the court for an early trial date.

attorney asked, for time to the indictmpm and prepare hi; case Judge Edwards ting the case for trial Friday morn- ing, November 9. Chatman had nothing to say ar.d after being furnished with a copy of the indictment and a I of the jurors. was taken back to his cell in the county jail by Sheriff Miller, where he is held without bail. The progress thus far in an effort to secure an immediate trial in the! case has met with no delays. The trial date would doubtless have been set for next week, had it not been that the national election falls on Tuesday ar.d the court docket is! rFIf until the following Friday, i which rend ted in the date for trial mg set for November 9 head Police made discovery after residents of the neighborhood re- portcd an automobile had parked an alley all night with the motor running it was the car, killers apparently having Signorelli before driving the car in tTie alley to abandon it and i him.

A year ago Signorelli wa shot and wounded in St Loui, He wa visiting a daughter at the time and reused to tell police anything about the shooting. I ound Blood Stains. Signorelli was identified by tracing the number of Wte automobile. Blood stains were found on the handle? to the front doors of the 1 car and on the front An examination of the body disclosed three bullet wounds in the head There were four old bullet scar on his abdomen, one of them still jpandag'd and apparently the wounds inflicted when the grocer was shot several months ago in St, I Louis, The shoe isbelieved to have taken before 8 o'clocklast night. A 1 resident of neighborhood toldpolice si le had seei i the automot file in the a dley as she went out for evenini i and it Argyle, Mich.

Oct 31 -(AP) Two men and a woman enured the home of Henry Preritis: cashier of a private bank here last night, held Mr. and Mrs Prentiss captives more than hull the night while thev attempted to 1 him to open the hank and finally shot the banker in the leg, fracturing the when he attempted to While the woman-bzndit watched over Mrs Prentix the men marched to the bank where he told them he did not know the tion. they him home when tie- five partook of an early morning breakfast prepared by the woman Under quo Honing Prentiss told the robbeis that Mr Don Herdell, A tunt Ca h.er, knew the combination of the bank and they then cortid him to the Herueil home. r- dell Answered the door bell. When one of the robbers shoved a.

revolver in hr: face, Herdell hit him and slammed the door. Prentiss taking advantage of the situation, also struck the anti fled He wa shot through the right leg as ran Returning Prentiss home the two men joined their woman companion and They obtained only $13 from tie home. 'Today Prtntiss was in a hospital and his wife was under the of a physician a- a result of nerve shock. stiU tht when she returned home later A number of caneelled k. were a pocket of the automobik Ail had been rnade ont to cash, except one payable to the indorxed by Pietro Piaei for $100 The body removed to an un- dertaklng establishment whert an inque'- wa.s to heid Chicago police ci ici Signoreili iiad ourl Adjourned Springfield.

Li, Oct 31 The Supreme Court adjourned until December today withou'. passing upon the case involving the validity of Cook rial grand been a grocer in was driven out ir. a bombing Louis until after The unidentified pilot, of an airplane which has been flying perilously low over Dixon morning and evenings for pa: vend weeks, is in tor some trouble if the number oi the plane obtained, and United States District Attorney George I. Johnson of Chicago in a letter tu Attorney George Dixon of this city a ks that Dixon make a special effort to ascertain planes painted on the underside oi the wings, and ic- port it at once. Realizing the filer practice of driving his plane over this city at a height which narrowly misses trees and chimm ys on taller dwellings was exceedingly dangerou Attorney Dixon wiote ral attorney, asking the provisions the Air (tomrnerce Act.

Attorney Johnson if plied by saying had a copy of the )ixon complaint, to the m- peetor of nt ol Corn- rce at the Municipal Airpoit. Chicago. and al.su giving the provisions of federal Air Act This over and other re of taking off from or landing on an established landing anpur'. oi on property ig- atrfi for that, purpose by the owner, aircraft shall not flown Over the led part Of or except at a heigh? -ufficient to permit of a emergency landing, hleh no than' 1,000 feet, Elsewhere at a height than 500 feet, except where indispensable to an industrial flying opet atlon." The law prescribed a civil penalty of $500 for violation of these regulations. Attorney Johnson adds that if, upon investigation, it develops that the plane is an air mail plane, air ice will see to if that the flying does not recur.

lake Bluff, Oct, 31 Self-torture by to prove her faith in a was advanced today to explain the strange case of Miss Eifrieda Knaak. 30 year-old Sunday school teacher and book agent. It was a wierd, uncanny explanation, full of holes and wide open to practical-minded police skepticism; but it came from the lips of Miss Knaak herself, Iving near death from burns mysteriously inflicted in the basement of the Lake Bluff police station sometime Monday night Physicians were unconvinced. believe her said Dr. A Rismger, attend ng her.

would have to behove these facts: she first placed one foot, then the other, in the furnace and kept them there for some Uttle time: This charge that she thrust in head and arms the minor and held them there under what certainly must have been terrific pain. The fire box is only 12 by inches. Sfrms Impossible does not seem possible that a person even In a trance, could do that, Muscular reaction alone would cause her to Jump back from the flames." The name of Charles Hitchcock, 45 years old. married and the father ol tour children, was brought into the by Miss Knaak, who during wood of which the frequently cried out: hts younger brother oh Why you come to I "Who did said the State's Attorney, bending over the girl's cot. I "1 did it myself, for faith, lor was the response.

At intervals, the officers obtained her story. She had known Hitchcock four years, she I said, having studied elocution and salesmanship in classes he conducts here. Material Love" few months ago I got to know him she was quoted as saying. was no material love affair. Advanced psychology made me understand him.

For weeks I been hearing his voice saying, faith; have had an appointment with him Monday night. He did not keep it, (Hitchcock, who besides being a teacher is night policeman of Lake Jilulf, has been confined to his home with a broken leg lor a week. When he did not appear, 1 again heard his voice, urging me to have faith. "To prove my faith, I thought of the fire. I removed my clothes and burned them.

I burned myself. survived. I proved my faith, and of this; I knew I PAID FINE OI Mi) Andrew Iiotjansl.y of SummUt, 111. was arraigned before Police Magistrate A E. Simonson this morning uid paid a fine of $10 and costs assessed against him on a charge of disorderly conduct preferred by Elmer Underhill of this city, Botjansky was arrested in Summitt last, and brought back to Dixon on charge of driving an automobile In mi intoxicated condition was withdrawn and preferred, Botjansky standing the amount of damages to the Underhill ear which figured in a wreck Amboy in September.

AR B.ADI,V WRECKED A Ford coupe driven by Joseph Lubrick, who resides east of the city i the Black Hawk Trail, son of Mr. mul Mrs. Stete Bubrick, was almost completely demolished In a wreck In front of Adam Fassi store this morning about 7 o'clock. The body of the car was a mass of twisted 1 and splintered the driver and his younger crawled with only few minor cuts, cratches and bruises. The car was coming toward Dixon and crashed into a truck which was turning off road.

The coupe had to hauled to a garage. HOW JURY STOOD During a recess in the special grand investigation into Saturday fatal shooting in the Negro labor camp nt Compton yesterday nftcm on, one of the members suggested that straw vote be taken on presidential candidates. Robert former Sheriff of Lee county and Dixon resident, was not missed in the straw vote which resulted as follow: Hoover, 16, Smith, Phillips, 3. 1104 BE Destructive Hallowe'en pranks in many parts of the city were reported to the police last evening, in some of which property was Down town display windows which had been especially trimmed for the Fall Festival celebration, disfigured this morning with soap streaks, the work of one element that from all i ppearances was quite active. Ml live.

Be sure Steps have been taken to make would tins Hallowe en a safe and sane one. Hitchcock, his leg in a cast, was bv addition of tin-named special unable to clear up the story, officers to the police force, who will girl if she hud a crush on be on duty throughout tonight. me, I certainly know it," he Evi ry part of the city to be patrol- iRftjd. led and officers have been ordered to arrest any persons who may be destroying or damaging property in any way. The defacing of downtown decorations and windows will also receive the close attention of all of officers.

Depredations committed last evening are responsible for the order which has been issued by Chief Van Bibber and violations vill be prosecuted regardless of LOST nie Johns Walnut unusual RIGHT EYE a farmer v.a. the victim aceid nt la: Sought His Advice Hitchcock said Miss Knaak came to him four years ago to study salesmanship and elocution. Since finishing the course she has occasionally i communicated with him, Hitchcock seeking his advice on problems confronting her. Hitchcock conducts his classes in the morning hours, working as lught policeman from P. to 1 M.

One theory under investigation that Miss Knaak, not knowing of his odmg h)jury, had gone to the Mice station of evening to await his arrival mug his official rounds. The station right eye. Mr 13 closed at night, but Miss Knaak In splitting was presumed to have had a key, as itick iaid many other persons. It is possible, police said, that she may have gone to the furnace room tor warmth, and that she may have been attacked by some vagrant who himself had gotten into the basement to keep warm during the chilly night. Physicians said the burns probably were inflicted shortly before the young woman was discovered by the Damaged in Mishap rw 5Wwtay Found Standing I The janitor found Miss Knaak up, her face and body (blackened by the fire.

Her forearms ere burned to the bone, her hair was burned from her head, and the had seared the flesh of her fore- head through to the skull. She Mt: near most which cost him hls Johnson was kindin.K at lu struck him squarely the right eye After receiving first aid, he was taken to the Dixon bub! hospital, where an examination disclosed that the sight had be. destroyed and it was necessary to remove the optic. Sgt. Kempsters Car Sergeant uck Kempster's Chrysler coupe was badly damaged Friday night while he was patrolling the highway near Champaign-Urbana Three Chicago men in a Lincoln touring car enroute to the university city to attend the homecoming, applied the brakes too heavily on their car while making a in'the lu inr was way and thp skidded and crashed -Panm7 against a pipe by the into the nocal ol car.

Fortun- an janitor saw her, and no one injured I 'Continued or: pag?.