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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SUNDAY. JUNE 23. 1029 'RALLY CALLED BY HOLY NAME ALLEGED FAKE OFFIGER HELD ALLEGED CAFE i BANDITS TAKEN ADVENTISTS OPEN MEETING TWO HELD AS CAFE BANDITS PART ONE it a Police Early Morning Raid, Nab Two More Suspects Woman Is Held. Persistent efforts by Canfleld avw 'J Suspect Charged With Forcing Payment of $25 After Accepting Drinks. John Angus Brown, charged with Impersonating a federal officer, was held for examination and his bond at $2,000 yesterday following his ar-arralgnment before United States Commissioner J.

Stanley Hurd. The alleged offense occurred June a when Brown and a friend are said to have presented themselves at a rooming house operated by George Wiegand, at 640 Plum street. Brown and his companion told Wiegand they had come for the possessions of a man who formerly roomed there. Wiegand could not recall the man mentioned by Brown a '-bJi 278 Branches to Be Represented at Diocesan Convention Here Today. Two hundred and seventy-eight Holy Name branches will be represented at the diocesan convention of the Holy Name society, which will be held today in Annunciation Community house, McClellan and Agnes avenues.

Besides the Detroit district. Bad Axe, Flint, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Monroe and Port Huron districts will send delegates. Tha convention opens with mass at 9:15 o'clock in Annunciation church, Parkview and Agnes avenues. This will be followed by the business session, luncheon for delegates, and the diocesan rally at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. At the morning meeting, reports will be given on the progress of the society in the nine diocesan districts, election of officers will be held, and an open forum conducted.

Rev. John J. Hunt, diocesan director, will outline Bishop Gallagher's plan for the formation of four additional districts. These will be created at once and the initial rallies will be scheduled for the fall. The latter half of the morning session will be devoted to boys' work, the program including an address on "High Lights In Big Brother Work." by Vincent F.

McAuliffe, director of the Big Brother assocla-inn of the diocese of Detroit: "The One of the features of the Seventh-day Adventist conference which opened this week-end at Holly, Is Bible study work. Eighteen Michigan young women are in charge of the classes. They are: Standing, left to right: Miss Okareda Ketterman, of Lansing: Miss Margaret Wagner, of Holly; Mrs. Donald Hunter, of Jackson; Mrs. H.

G. Jensen, of Holly; Miss Mildred Welch, of Holly; Miss Sadie Wlllette, of Jackson; Mrs. Josle Wattrous, of Lansing; Mrs. Leonard Lee, of Grape; Miss F.thel opp. of Flint Sitting, left to right: Miss Jody Ketterman, of Detroit; Mrs.

F. L. Abbott, of Lansing; Miss Kathrlne Lilts, of Holly; Mrs. John Z. Hottel, of Holly; Mrs, J.

F.Piper, of Holly; Mrs. Fordyoe Detamore, of Detroit; Miss Hazel Griggs, of Holly; Miss Dorothy Wooley, of Detroit; Miss Mlllicent Jordon, of Detroit. FRANK TOMALA AND BARNEY CARNECKL Tomala and Carneckl were arrested Saturday as bandit suspect. Both are held at the Canflrld avenue station on robbery armed charges. Canfleld station detectives picked them up in the course of their drive against the "cafe gang." 'I Three Ferndale Motorists Injured 8p-ial to The Free Prae.

Bay City, June 22. One woman was taken to Mercy hospital in a serious condition and another woman and her son, all of Ferndale, were badly hurt as the result of an accident three miles north of Standlsh, near noon today. The injured are Mrs. Ida Wicken-brag. 45 years old, of 131 Cam-bourne avenue, Ferndale; possible broken neck and lacerations.

Mrs. William McLaughlin, 52 years old, same address; fractured left leg and cuts. William McLaughlin, 9 years old, her son; fractured left leg and cuts. The car, driven by McLaughlin, was rounding a curve north of Standlsh when the front wheel on the outside of the road broke and the car was thrown Into the ditch. Army Men Study Status of Guard Chicago, June 22.

(A. Army officers from eight army corps areas met in committee here today to study means to make the national guards a component part of the United States army without removing them from state control, Major-General Benson Hough, of Columbus, chairman of the committee appointed by the National Guard association, declared members of the guards should not have to be drafted in time of war. The committee will present a report to the annual convention of the National Guard issoclation In Los Angeles next October. FOCR-CENT GASOLINE TAX. Oklahoma City, June 22.

fA. A bill Increasing the Oklahoma gasoline tax from to 4 cents a gallon was signed today by Governor W. J. Holloway and became effective immediately. nua station detectives to smash thej "cafe ganfc," a band of youthful holdup men alleged to be reapon-sible for a long series of robberies committed In recent months, re- i suited In two arrests early yester I day.

Three men. said by police trt i be members of the gang, have been, held in the county jail for two i months. Those arrested yesterday are I Frank Tomala, 21 years old, and Barney Carneckl, 21. both of 2340 i Commor avenue, Hamtramck. With, them was found Mildred LaRue, 27.

of the same address. She is held for Investigation. The arrests were made by Detective Lieutenant William Latrlelle and Detectives Stan-le Roberts and Claude White, and State Trooper Joseph Sheridan, who went to the Commor avenue address at 3 a. m. i According to Inspector Patrick; O'Grady, attached to the Canfleld avenue station, only one other man now Is hunted.

He says he is confident the men held are the thug sought, since there have been vir tually no holdups In the district where the gang operated since the first arrests. In the room where Tomala and Carneckl were picked up, were found four revolvers and a Quantity of Jewelry and watches. The men held on robbery armed charges in the county jail are Joai Smuskiwicx, 22; Joe Wonlckl, 23, and Walter Duda, 23 years old. Dawes Gave Arms Speech to Powers Washington, June 22. (A.

The speech of Ambassador Dawes, In London, on naval armaments, which has given freeh impetus to the discussions of that problem, was submitted prior to its delivery to representatives ot other nations apparently with a view of encouraging co-operation among the powers and preventing the question becoming strictly an Anglo-American affair. The nations which were given full details on the speech were Japan, Italy, France and Canada; CHICAGO AIR MAIL TIME CLIPPED AN HOUR Chicago, June 22 (A. An hour's time was clipped from the air mall schedule in Chicago today when a plane sped from the municipal airport to a new ramp on the downtown lake front, carrying 450 pounds of mall. The flying time for the transfer was fout minutes, and a postofflre truck took the cargo to the downtown mail depot In another four minutes. The usual time required for trucking mall from the air field to the postofflce Is one hour.

A similar service for passengers of Northwest Airways from the twin cities and northwestern points started today, tickets over the Northwest line giving passengers an option of an air transfer by amphibian from the lake front at Seventh street to the air port or a taxicab ride. Columbia, June 22. (U. P. Hugh Ray Brown and Thomas Whlteman, students at Missouri university, were reprimanded foe not reporting to the R.

O. T. It was later discoversd, however, that despite their names both student were girls. and while they discussed the mat ter, the visitors noticed a bottle ot liquor. They suggested a drink was in order and Wiegand hospitably drew the cork.

The pair departed, but returned shortly. Brown, federal officers say, displayed a badge and declared he was a prohibition agent He is said to have told Wiegand that unless he paid money he would be arrested for "giving an officer liquor." Wiegand, according to the charge, gave the men S25 and what remained of the bottle of liquor. Brown and his friend drank the liquor and became so intoxicated that they cut off the hair of Mrs. Lillian Sauer, Wiegand's housekeeper, according to testimony at the arraignment. Wiegand called the police and his unwelcome visitors fled.

Patrolman arrived In time to catch Brown as he climbed over a fence, however. His companion escaped. Plans Air Stunts To Restore Speech New York, June 22. (U.P.) Tfie American Society for the Promotion of Aviation announced today it would test the theory that stunting In an airplane sometimes enables a mute to recover the power of speech. Six persons who have lost their speech within the last four years will be selected and taken up in airplanes of the Newark Air Service.

The mutes will be put through a series of rolls, dives, spins and other maneuvers. Steps from Bust Killed by Truck Crossing the street In the rear of a bus, from which she had alighted, 10-year-old Hope Mary Bruehl, 660 Hamat street. Hazel Park, was struck by a truck driven by H. C. Rockwood, 2749 Doris avenue, Detroit, at Nine-Mile road and Stephenson highway at noon yesterday and died two hours later in the Lilly hospital, Ferndale.

She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bruehl. Vets Buy Cottage At Eaton Rapids Danville, 111., June 22. (A.P.) Illinois Veterans of Foreign Wars today made a $7,000 down payment on an Illinois cottage for the widows and orphans of the national V.

F. W. home at Eaton Rapids, Mich. The cottage, to be completed by fall, is to cost J12.000. THUG SUSPECT FREED ON BAIL John Kielian, Richmond Farmer, Taken With Alleged Aide of Jaworski.

Pending his arraignment Monday, John Kielian, 37 years old, held as a bandit suspect, was released yesterday under $1,000 bond when he appeared before Judge Arthur W. Kilpatrick on a writ of habeas corpus. Vincent L. Fitzgerald, Klelian's counsel, told the court his client is the owner of a large farm at Richmond, the father of two children and a man enjoying a high reputation in his community. Kielian was arrested on the farm at 4 a.

m. Friday by detectives of the crime and bomb squad, who acted on Information given them by John Luclan, alias Polack John, said to be the last survivor of the "Jaworski mob" and a man involved in at least two of Paul Jaworski's Pennsylvania holdups. Luclan was captured early Thursday in Dearborn. Detectives say they found firearms in Klelian's house and a stolen car parked on the farm when he was arrested. The crime and bomb squad is endeavoring to connect both Luclan and Kielian with the slaying of a watchman In Utlca, Mich.

With Luclan was arrested Syl-vestor Sywantck, 21 years old. He is charged with violating the federal code. PROTEST MADE ON TARIFF BILL Farm Bureau Federation Asks Rate Change; Brookhart Offers New Bonus Plan. Washington, June 22. (A.

The American Farm Bureau federation today added its plea to that previously made to the senate finance sub-committee by the National Grange for higher duties than proposed in the house tariff bill on approximately 75 farm products. Chester Gray, Washington representative of the federation, contended the house measure left a disparity wider than existing law in the average rate between agricultural and non-agricultural products, and insisted an analysis of the bill showed that party promises regarding tariff readjustment for the farmer had not been fulfilled. "Industrial rates have been Increased as much, If not more, than agricultural rates," he said, "and the disparity between these rates have not been lessened, but rather Increased." He submitted a long list of articles on which higher rates were asked. They included live cattle, milk and cream, butter, frozen and dried eggs, poultry, dried fruits, figs, dates, cherries, almonds, flaxseed, onions, potatoes, hay, canned tomatoes, dried beans and peas and alfalfa and red clover seed. Senator Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, issued a statement declaring the debenture plan offered by Senator Norrls, Republican, Nebraska, as a rider to the tariff hill "should not be offensive to the house," provided the export certificates were Issued to the farm board about to be set up Instead of to exporters.

CONFESSES HE SHOT BARBER Man Nabbed by Police Admits Shooting; Victim's Condition Is Critical. Henry Wilkle, 27 years old, 1926 Brush street, arrested at 3 p. m. Saturday, admitted shooting Morris Keshner, 28, a barber, as the latter stood before his shop at 3735 Cass avenue, Friday night, police announced. Wilke was arrested by Lieutenant John Hoffman and Detective Sergeant Andrew O'Day, of the homicide squad.

Keshner was shot In the neck and the bullet went through his back. His condition remained critical Saturday, Receiving hospital attendants said. Keshner's assailant escaped after the shooting. Held for questioning as police witnesses were six men who were in the rear of the barber shop when the shooting occurred. They gave their names as rover Misen-hamer, 3640 Cass avenue; Ben Shul-man, 3525 Cass avenue; Ralph C.

Gall, 241 East Forest avenue; Arthur Hall, 8559 Second boulevard; Moses Shabib, 3456 Cass avenue, and Henry Miller and Chris Mason, both of Walled Lake, Mich. Statements concerning the case were taken by Ralph E. Baker, assistant prosecutor. Optimists Pick Erie for 1930 Meet Tulsa, June 22. (U.

Erie, was selected today as the 1930 convention city of Optimists International in the closing session of the eleventh annual convention here. Officers named by the nominating committee were approved today. They were Nicholas F. Nolan, Dayton, president; Warren B. Bovard, Los Angeles, vice-president; Paul Farthing, East St.

Louis, Daniel B. Hayes, Lincoln, and Frank M. Pearce, Washington. Given 60 Days For Drunk Driving Birmingham, June 22. Found guilty of driving while drunk on Woodward avenue, early this morning, Bob Rodgers, 24 years old, 52 Tregsn street, Detroit, was sentenced to serve 60 dnya In the Oakland county jail without option of tine.

Police said his car was brand new and was not equipped with license plates. Arthur Harder, address not learned, paid a $25 fine for a similar offense. Welfare of the Catholic Boy," by Rev. Edward J. Hickey, Catholic spiritual director of Detroit council, Boy Scouts of America, and chaplain of Wayne county juvenile detention home and Ford Republic; "The Catholic Boy and by William C.

Greaney, member of the executive boards of the Detroit Diocesan union of the Holy Name society and Detroit council, Boy Scouts of America, and Scoutmaster of troop No. 194; demonstration by Scouts from troops sponsored by Catholic parishes; exhibition of scoutcraft work. The afternoon rally is expected to attract one of the largest Holy Name gatherings Detroit has ever seen. President John P. O'Hara will be chairman.

Music will be provided by the Catholic Boys' band, an aggregation of 75 youthful musicians, recruited from the parochial schools of Detroit, under the direction of J. W. Guinan. The feature of the rally program will be nn address by Rev. Patrick F.

Doyle, Ph. internationally known educator and orator, former superintendent of schools in the Springfield diocese, now vice-president and administrative head of the new woman's college. Our Lady of the Elms, at Chlcopee, Mass. He was one of the staff of professors that conducted courses at Mary-grove college during the summer session of 1928. He is returning this year for another series of lectures.

The convention will conclude with solemn benediction of the blessed sacrament in Annunciation church. PRINCE REFUSES COREY MARRIAGE Flatly Declines to Wed Ex-Wife of Steel Magnate. Paris, June 22. (U. Mrs.

Mabel Oilman Corey's matrimonial misfortunes reached an anti-climax today when her fiance, Don Luis De Bourbon, a prince of the Spanish royal house, returned unsigned the marriage contract which had been sent to him. Attached to the marriage document was a r.ote reading: "I will not marry Mabel Corey." Mrs. Corey, former wife of the American steel msgnate, William fc. Corey, insisted, however, that she possessed In writing many assurances from the prince that he would marry her. The trouble continues to center over failure of the prospective couple to agree on the financial arrangement of the marriage.

Don Luis Insists that Mrs. Corey deposit in an Italian bank 8.000,fHK) French francs in cash, to furnish him an Income of 250,000 francs a year, plus pocket money from Mrs. Cnrey of about 50,000 francs a year. The population of Holly has more than doubled over the week-end with the attendance of 5,000 persons at the annual camp meeting of Seventh-day Adventists, now being held on the Adelphian Academy grounds in that city. At the service held on Saturday, the Adventists' Sabbath, Rev.

J. W. Christian, president of the Chicago Adventist conference, addressed the large assembly, telling of the progress of their world-wide work. Tells of Growth. "Seventh-day Adventists," he said, "are conducting religious work in 127 countries and in 279 languages.

Last year they reported working in 256 languages, making a gain during 1928 of 23 new languages added. For the past six years a new language has been added every 22 days. "Throughout the world there are 146 organizations such as the East Michigan Conference, besides 211 missions. Adventists have 291 institutions, sanitariums, dispensaries, publishing houses, and advanced schools in different parte of the world. "Last year 159 missionaries were sent to various parts of the world.

The 1928 appropriation for the support of foreign mission work was $4,429,207.18. Publications are issued in 133 languages. Many Dctrolters Attend. "The world membership for the Adventists has doubled every 10 years. During the last decade there has been a gain of 120,207 members, making a total of approximately 300,000.

The Adventist churches of Detroit contributed last year for foreign mission work $29,485.85. Throughout the denomination for both evangelistic and institutional work a total per capita of $157.88 Is given each year. Hundreds from the Detrblt congregation are in attendance at Holly where the largest camp meeting ever held Jn the history of the East Michigan conference is now in progress. Fall May Be Fatal to D.S.R. Employe Catapulted to the pavement from a truck on which he was riding at John street and Wlndemere avenue, Highland Park, when the wheels struck sharply against the curb, Edwin O.

Roth, 67 years old, 2ti3 West Buena Vista avenue, suffered Injuries which may prove fatal. He was taken to Highland Park General hospital, where physicians said they believed his skull was fractured. The truck, owned by the Detroit Street Railway, was driven by William Gillett, 408 Ellen avenue, Ferndale, a railway employe. Gillett was taking Roth and John McDonald, 12039 Tuxedo avenue, also D. S.

R. employes, home from work. The front wheels struck the curb in turning Into Wlndemere avenue from John Street, and the resulting Jar, while not serious enough to injure the truck, hurled Roth from his seat, Gillett was questioned by Highland Park police and released, subject to call in the event of Roth's death. nfe World envies GIVES INSIDE VIEW OF GAMING BISHOP Senator Glass Declined to Use Bucket Shop Charge. Lynchburg, June 22.

(A. Senator Carter Glass has given the following statement, in pajrt, to the New York Herald-Tribune: "I have no particular concern, political or otherwise, with Bishop Cannon's alleged stock gambling operations through the medium of an alleged disreputable bucket shop In New York city. It is a fact that about 10 days before the recent presidential election certain affidavits were sent to me from New York, setting forth some of the facts of Bishop Cannon's transaction. I was not a little dismayed at the facts stated and Immediately notified Bishop Cannon of the charges against him. He appeared to resent the informs, tion.

and gave a rather curt answer to which I responded in kind. "Naturally, I declined to use the charges against Bishop Cannon of gambling In an allegedly unlawful bucket shop, wiring the parties who sent me the papers that If they desired the episode to be made public, they could themselves give out the facts. "As for the disclosures by the newspapers being an attack on the bishop's character that is no affair of mine. Moreover, I cannot comprehend how this can be. If Bishop Cannon's stock speculations with an alleged discredited bucket shop In New York were entirely proper and as far above criticism as the bishop Insists, how csn publication of the facts be regarded as an attack on his character?" TRACTOR INJURY FATAL TO LAKE ODESSA MAN Lake Odessa, June 22.

Lloyd Henney, 40 years old, died at St. Lawrence hospital at Lansing today of an injury suffered on his farm near here Thursday. He slipped from his tractor, the machine catching his leg and tearing it The leg was amputated and blood transfusion attempted In effort to save the man's life. He leaves a widow and one son, Forrest, 18 years old. Funeral services will be held here Monday.

WAlTINFOR9THTORK, SLAIN BY CRAZED MATE Grove City. Ohio. June 22. (U. Mrs.

Eva Wllklns, mother of eight children and about to become the mother of a ninth, was shot and killed by her husband, Fred, a laborer today, as she stood In the doorway of their shac, awaiting the arrival of a doctor. DUTCH MARIXF.S LAND. in rt Pr-aa aid CV'aeo Wllemntad. Dutch West Indies. June 22.

The Dutch destroyer Kortenaer entered this harbor of the island of Curaco today and landed marine reinforcements to assist In the maintenance of martial law in the city. ICopirtfht. ip; I TOWS CHANGES NAME. Bgnor. June 22.

(A-P This seaside town in Sussex has just obtained from the king permission to change its name to Brg nor Regis, as a perpa-tuaj commemoration of his majesty's long stay at Cralgwell house, just ou'nlde the town, while recovering front tils serious illneaa. nfi HDunsit-IWWo' Church Session Votes 'Bone Dry Rorkford, 111., June 22 (U. Complete prohibition of liquor was demanded In a resolution adopted today at tha concluding session of the forty-fifth annusl conference of Swedish Evangelical Free Churches of America. Deploring recently published attacks upon ths eighteenth amendment, the resolution urges teachers to Impress upon school children the dangers of Intoxicants. Next year's conference will be held In Denver, and the 1931 convention In Austin, Tex.

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