Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 1

NORTHWESTERN GREATEST NEWSPAPER 16 TWO CENTS 9 1 THE COURIER ESTABLISHED 1S3 1 LAAYETTE' THURSDAY EVENING JULY 24 1924 THE JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 1829 UNOLD GRIM TALE RANKS CRIME Japs Stage Anti American Day JAPAN ADOPTS LABOR BOARD I V' TERMS TOWARD IS IGNORED BY SOVIET RUSSIA UNION CHIES CAR OVERTURNS remains of the Expect Calumet District To the BULLETINS 11 (Continued on page fourteen) 1 J1O J3 1 Xll VI III LIIC July The conflict of construction 1 old Title Card Missing A 1 Chimney be conducted The Weather of victims Is in (MB July Mah the from will con later more wit no rail par the vernacular press here de that the cabinet fully ac Baron 'program was framed in such terms satisfy both the army an(l a fl title card in affidavit was sus sec Jongg into view brakes the sixty such a filled resulted and trampled to the witn de par to be treated the for hie at AUTO IS STRUCK BY STREET CAR tonight west and portions in south to make avenue had a her death to all her trical plafct buildings bovjl now under alsf the new wbArh is now In Richberg counsel for submitted a this decision In were riding warning sig directly into train witnesses am process of being executed discussed There will be the train said had whistled age of 84 1 illness included books and Myers companies have been at Yeoman and Oakdale during the past few days supervising work and speeding up details so that actual construction worK may gin soon Work has been started on construction of a power line Monticello to Oakdale which first carry current for the struction activities and will transmit the developed power ofthe dam when it is completed and in use POWER DISTRIBUTION Power from the new dam will it is stated be supplied to other pow er distribution plants of the In terstate company and will supply power to Lafayette Logansport Goshen Warsaw and to the La fayette ort Wayne and Winona interurban lines The announcement to begin work a oned1 comes aa a surprise since prospects of delay and post ponement of the project were made known only several weeks ago ami which will be covered by back water is now being pur chased No 182 Vol 5 Bandits Loot Bank VANCOUVER July 24 Three robbers escaped from a branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce here today with $19000 after one of them laid open the head of A Bon allie manager Bargain Rush Ry the Associated Press! NORRISTOWN Pa July 24 persons most of them women were slightly in jured in a bargain counter crush today when a new store advertised the sale of one cent bfooms Twelve of the women were taken to a hospital suf fering from cuts and bruises STATE DETERMINED TO SUBMIT ALL EVIDENCE The stieets of Tokio were thionged with demonsti ators on Anti America day Heie is a gtoup of Japanese citizens in a unswerving against the immigration law which excludes Japanese from the United States The demonstrators boasted 'that Americans in Japan fear to venture outside their homes at night 20 Children Die in Panic author of series of stories died today at Granby Quebec years atter a The more than a published from Ten Ton Tube Plunges Off Detroit Hotel and Crushes Occupants of Auto mobile Noted Author Dies NEW YORK July Pal mer Cox children home ir the short senes dozen 1893 to 1918 MINTON REPLACE BERT MORGAN and with party Senator Hoffman 14 Louis Vernlta Lepard 17 13 Margaret Heabler la all of Attica dispute with rail wages the enaineers the ground that the acting uiegany in to hold the Hear st reet was Wednesday mobile in with Glenn street and Pherson turned over in a four1 miles south of the city on the Mayflower road collar bone was fractured and he re ceived internal injuries when lie was pinned beneath the automo bile Sargent sustained a pain ful injury to his right arm and hand but McPherson escaped witli slight injuries The injured men were taken to the Home hospital where they were attended by Dr Thomas It is claimed passing truck crowded driven by Sargent off the road fl Democrats Discuss Issues of Campaign IBy the Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS July The democratic campaign in Indiana in behalf of both the national and state tickets was discussed today when the state committee state candidates met leaders Addresses by Ralston and Phomas Taggart im parted enthusiasm to the party workers who gathered at the state headquarters! Plans were made for a series of district meetings to be begun about August 10" crossing here late last night Henry Spangler driver of the truck on which twenty seven persons failed to heed nals and drove the path of the told police today Passengers on that the engineer several times for the crossing and that as the bus came the engineer applied his which failed to slacken miles an hour pace in Short distance BUS DRAGGED 300 The times feet along many The Purdue Board to Meet Next Week Purdue board of will have a special meet ing at the university next Tues day at which time business mci flentai to rne nuucitng progn now in will be business relating to the new Elec tribal Engineering and power and the athletic construction and poultry building use produced in court the dence for formal identifica included the I international News Service! OAK HARBOR July 24 Ten persons seven of them high school students aged under 18 are dead today four others are reported dying and twelve others are less seriously injured as a result of a New York Central flyer crashing into a high school picnic truck at a grade Brotherhoods Refuse to Tes tify Before Commission in Dispute With West ern Roads House Damaged The habitat of Harry Ogden 57 Alabama street was the scene of a fire at 11:15 trict 20 percent cheaper than Jal ening the entire business scctiorf Pittsburg organizations movement of Pocahontas Meeting Arranged for Trail Tawalla Council No 23 Degree of Pocahontas will hold an all day get to gether meeting at Te cumseh Trail Sunday It will be the first meeting of the kind ever arranged by the council in this district and plans will be perfect ed to make it an annual affair A basket dinner will be served at noon and will be followed by a program in the afternoon Repre sentatives will lie here from the councils at Lebanon Rensselaer Mulberrv rankfort Sfefeie Mills Monon 'Monticello Wolcott Mo non Rattle Ground Crawfords ville Boswell owler and Lo gansport State officers from Anderson Shelbyville ancj Indian apolis will be present and about three hundred jnembrf are ex pected ANB THBEE MEN GO TO HOSPITAL I work in this state A that a the car Steal $125000 tnternatirnal News Service DETROIT July Two armed bandits followed Joseph Mazer New York jewelry mer chant into the capital jewelry shoppe today held up Mazer Jack Wolfe proprietor of the shop and Matthew Donohue a clerk and escaped with $125000 in gems according to Mazer and Wolfe Most of the loot was in two bags be longing to Mazer nf fire at 11:15 Thursday forenoon which did $500 Qrnrl0 TY1 JI U(11H1JC Kjpai 4 set fire to the roof and the blaze was wcU under way before It was discovered and a fire alarm sound ed ire companies Nos 1 2 and 4 responded The loss is covered by insurance of 15 various ivory winds logical monsters as modern dollars The accused of gambling Prosecution Continues to Magnify Guilt of Leopold and Loeb in Hope pf Sending Them to Taped Chisel and Acid Bottle Introduced Evidence International News Service DETROIT Mich July Au thorities today opened an inves tigation to place responsibility for the death of four people who were killed when the ten ton steel and sheet iron smoke stack on the Charlevoix building broke oft flush with the root at 7 last night and plunged to 1he street In three sections Tn addi tion to four killed two others were Injured and two automobiles "were crushed beneath the wreckage The dead ware: GEORGfi LEHIGH 23 years old MRS MINNIE LEHIGH 68 years old mother of George MRS MARIE LOUISE MOREY 47 years old mother in law of Le high LINWOOD MOREY Jr 21 yesrs old son of Mrs Morey The injured: Mrs Lehigh wife of George Lehigh in critical condi tion tn receiving nospnai Wesley Morey 14 years minor injuries All were In one car which Motor Stalls and Crash Re sults Occupants Escape With Minor Injuries North End Mishap serious accident was narrowly ifteenth and Greenbush streets when a west bound Monon Shops Salisbury street car collided with a touring car owned by George Tay lor 1430 North Seventh street and driven by his son Harold The car was occupied by Mrs Taylor and five children and by several other small children none of whom suffered anything more than minor Injuries and bruises Mrs Taylor who is junior de partment commander of the A was gathering cakes from the homes of members of the organi zation to be used at an ice cream social Wednesday evening As the party reached ifteenth and Greenbush streets the approach ing street car was noticed and Harold Taylor the driver started to back the automobile from the rar tracks The motor stalled however and? the street car struck the left front 'section of' the auto mobile breaking the windshield and damaging the frontaxle fend ers and bending tha automobile frame A tire also blown out The street car was in charge of Operator John Wagner Bids Received for Alley Improvement William Jackson submitted the lowest tid to the' board of works at its meeting 'Wednesday night for the improvement of the alley between Eleventh and Twelfth streets north from Adams street His bid' was $1126 a nont foot Mr Jackson and II Moore submitted the same bid for the Improvement of the alley be tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets from erry to South streets The contract will be awarded August 4 The city clerk was" ordered to serve a five day notice on Sol Hartman to remove certain sheds apd outbuildings from the alley line in the alley between Scott and Thompson streets from Sherman to Sheridan streets HENRY SPANGLER 34 driver of the bus Willard MRS MABEL WOLE 26 MRS VERNON COOKE 45' ELOA OLDS 16 GERALDINE SCHEME 13 OLGA PRATT 15 HOLDEN OSSMANN 14 MILAN SCHAAN 16 OREST CROMINGIER 17 VIOLA CROMINGIER 15 All of Attica Oho The injured: Dalton Reichard 16 John Bounner 12 Mary Lepard14 Russell Wolfe 28 Rus sell Reichert 16: Marian Schmeltz 16 Helen Hoffman 14 Slagel 13 Neal Hoffman Bernard 16 Eva Vera Hoffman 15 Ohio orecast today for Indiana: Showers or thunder storms this afternoon or tonight fol lowed by gener ally fair riday cooler and in north and portion riday Local temper ature: High 92low 67 mean79 Sons of American Revolution ElectBy the Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY' July Maryin Lewis of? Louisville Ky was elected president general of the Sons of the Ameican Rev olution at the closing session of the thirty fifth an nual congress here He succeeds Arthur Preston Sumner of Provir dence I Boston Mass was chosen as the 1925 convention city the ses sions to start the third Monday May EET bus was rolled over several and dragged more than 300 The victims were strewn both sides of the track of them horribly mangled dead MlillAn Hf ni i iii tin aiTioiauu rector for Indiana said today that he would obey any proper order from Washington to take over ac tive direction of the enforcement Mr Aiinton statement followed Intimations from Washington that he might be ordered soon to relieve Bert Morgan the present director Mr Morgan has declared he will neith er resign nor accept a transfer According to special dispatches to the Indianapolis News from Washington Air Minton has been advised to be ready to take over the prohibition office in Indiana The dispatches add how ever that there may be a lapse of time before the actual appointment of rank Rowley of Angola Ind as Mr successor ALWAYS IN SEASON Journal and Courier fashion hints are especially helpful because 'they are up to date offering practical suggestions SMOKE STACK ALLS KILLING OUR PERSONS Highly Esteemed Resident Expires Mrs Clara Dienhart McDoniels wife of George McDoniels of this city died Wednesday nignt at 9:15 at St Elizabeth hos pital of a complication of diseases Born in Lafayette June 3 1888 she was a life long resident of the city and was held In high 'steem Mrs McDoniels was a daughter of the late Dr Dienhart her mother Mrs Mary Dienhart sur viving She was educated in St Boniface school and was a devout member ofr St Boniface church She also belonged to St society and the Mission circle On May 16 1918 she was united in manage to Mr McDoniels who survives together with her mother and the following sisters: Miss rances Dienhart and Airs Aschenburg of this city Airs Robert Rothrock Brimfield Ind and Airs 1 Clemens ort Worth Texas Mrs McDoniels possessed a pleasing personality and large circle or inenas proving a severe shock acquaintances The funeral will be from St Boniface church Saturday morning at 9 interment at St Boniface cemetery riends may view the body at the 'William McDoniels home 1413 Union street Both actions Are Unyielding On Guarantees Become Great Steel Center Abolishment of Pittsburg Plus System Will Have ar Reaching Economic Effect on Middle orecast Companies Wijl Spend $200000000 for jision ox 1 ihiits International News Service CHICAGO 'i July 24 The centering of the steel manufacturing and fabrication industries in Hie Chicago district instead of in burg and the immediate expenditure in district of morejthan $200000000 for the extension of present plants and the construction of additional ones was forecast by leading steel and iron men here today as a' result ol the federal trade commission ruling abolishing the "Pittsburg system of steel price fixing GET ECONOMIC THRILL Chicago Hammond Ind Gary Indiana Harbor and scores of smaller cities and towns in the Calumet district today were quick ening to the thrill of impending rapid development it was reported that the Jones I and I Aughlln Steel Co largest in i dependent steel 'manufacturing concern in the world was making ready to erect a $50000000 plant on a 1200 acre site purchased at Hammond several years ago This plant alone it was said will em ploy i2 000 men Only the pos sibility that there may be an ap peal from the trade nil ig reports in steel circles had it now stands' in the way of the Local officials of other steel companies admitted that construc tion looking toward the centering of their industry here would be started as soon as they became sure that was definitely dead i WILL BENEIT MIDWEST Steel men agree that steel can be produced in the Calumet diis Motorist Arrested Wesley1 Whittleberry employed on the new state road construction job east of the city was arrested Wednesday by Deputy Sheriff Wil liam A on a Charge of failure to display a liia a nfnmnhilft The filed by Ralph isher state highway officer Whittleberry pleaded not guilty and furnished bond in the sum of $50 for ap pearance at trial which is schedul ed for 2 Tuesday July 29 Explosion of ilm in Vera Cruz Movie House Re sults in Appalling Death Toll (By the Associated Press) i VERA CRUZ Alexico July 24 7 tvomiil Morocco Resident Dies at Hospital Edgar Moore 60 years old died at 6:10 Thursday morn ing at the Home hospital He had been at the hospital since July 8 and death was due to a complica tion of diseases The body was removed to the Shipps and Son undertaking establishement at Ox ford to he prepared for burial 1 Moore's homA was in Morocco 7 (By the Associated Press CHICAGO July Rail road brotherhood representa tives today declined to testify in the dispute with western roads before the rail labor board concerning wages and rules of the engineers and firemen on board was attempting ing Donald the brotherhoods statement outlining reply to the order to tes tify The employes insist that the board cannot deprive them of their constitutional rights of liberty of contract and their recognized legal right of collective bargaining and that the interference of the board is unlawful and an aid of the railroad program to delajfc negotia Air Richberg QUESTION POWER "The labor board is seeking to force the employes to become parties in the present hearings through the devices summoning them to appear as witnesses in behalf of the employes labor board has no power than a court to select nesses for parties and has more power to force either road or employes to become ties to proceedings before hoard employes refuse to submit their controversies to the so called decision of the board not' only because the action of the board is premature but also because the board is not an impartial tribunal The chairman has repeatedly and gratuitously made public attacks on representatives of employes and the policies of their organiza tion and has disqualified himself as acting as an rench and International Bankers Deadlocked on Proposed Loan to Germany By tha Associated Press I riNmriM in the view between the rench delegates to the interallied confer ence and the American and British financiers regarding the safeguards for the protection of investors iri the German loan proposed under the Dawes plan remained unrecon ciled today according! to well in formed persons ormal and in formal meetings of the delegates this morning produced no indica tion of a wav out of the impasse PREMIERS CONER The principal meeting was 'at Downing street where Premier Herriott of rance Premier Thcu nis of Belgium American Ambas sador Kellogg and Italian inance Afinister De Stefani had a two conversation with Afinister Macdonald BASE HOPES ON The greatest significance is being attached to the comings and goings of Secretary of slate Hughes and Secretary of the Treasury Alellon of the United States who are hav ing al most difficult task in con vincing London that their mission here is unofficial Such high hopes were raised at The outset of the conference by the participation of the United States that observers still are optimistic that the two members of the American cabinet can yet find a way despite the un official character of their good of fices to be of assistance in solv ing the deadlock between the finan ciers and conference delegates Two (averted Wednesday afternoon tne New Policy May Eventually Lead to Recognition of Communist Govern ment tion These taped cold chisel used in beating the boy to death the charred bloodstained automobile robe res cued from the ashes of a bonfire on lie lake front a portable type writer similar to that on which was written the ransom letter re ceived by father and paper and envelopes identified us of the same texture as sold to Leopold shortly befoijK he dis appearance of their vicirTr IDENTIIES ACID BOTTLE Introduced also by the state was a pint bottle identified by a drug clerk as the one in which lie had sold hydrochloric acid to Leopold on the date of the murder Throughout the morning session which more than 15 witnesses were by the stale the two young College students sat composedly behind their attorneys listening intently to the testimony and oc casionally whispering with their attorneys Bernard Hunt a neighborhood night watchman told of seeing the chisel tossed from a passing au tomobile about 1:30 o'clock in the morning of May' 22 a few hours after the slaying of young ranks BLOOD ON CHISEL "There was fresh blood on the chisel when I picked It said Hunt The relic was given to the court The chisel also was inspected by Albert Hubbinger hardware store clerk who said that Abe exhibit resembled a chisel he sold to Leopold and Loeb Hnhbinger also tofd of having sold rope to the young men Tiie rope claimed by the state to have been that with which the young victim was tied was intro duceed in Aaron Adler told Of having soiu a pint of hy drochloric acid to Nathan Leo wa's going "east on Elizabeth street and had slowed down to make the crossing at Bark avenue when the colossal tube with its heavily riveted steel jacket caught them Three of the bodies were horribly mangled A few yards west another car had stopped to permit the Lehigh machine to pass It was slow in picking up speed again and the tube fell 15 feet in front of it Two minutes before the acci dent Dr I Connelly 605 Char levoix building parked his car at the curb and had just reached the counter of a corner restaurant when he heard the cruch and the tearing of metal As he hurried out his eyes traveled from the catastrophe on the pavement to the top of the building Two oth er shorter' lengths of pipe wore following Connelly ran for the restaurant door His automobile was wrecked A crowded Pontiac bus pulled put from the corner just before Con nelly parked Coolidge Begins Task of Writing Campaign Keynote fBv the Associated Tress! WASHINGTON Jufy With notification ceremonies tor pres ident Coolidge exactly three weeks distant the republican presiden tial nominee began work today on the address he will make at that time sounding the keynote of the national campaign Much of the material for the ad dress has been in process of se lection for some time and the im mediate task before Air Coolidge is the drafting of an outline of the speech' The method of work determined upon is similar to that followed by him in writing his first message to congress and he form of the address to be deliv ered here August 14 is expected to be somewhat like that of the congressional message Governmental economy 1 ra Y'Ot 1 aUCLlUIl VL KXAVO nrnmnqf flnhlPrtJ the whole address primarily voted to an exposition of the 1 ty's record Several days ago It was an nounced that the company would soon begin work on the construc tion 'of a $2000000 dam at that point similar to the one already in operation at farther up oh the Tippecanoe but consider 41 a 1 ra It Jiy jargtri uiuii i hc rst completed project The Norwav dam develops 6500 kilowatts of electrical energy but the Oakdale dam will develop 3 500 kilowatts more than that at Norway Already a spur track is being built by the Alonon railroad from its main line it Yeoman jo the site of the dam work The spur will be used for the trans portation of materials and appar atus and will be about two miles lone As soon as supplies have By the Associated Press CHICAGO July Continuing the piling up of evi dence designed to send Nathan Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb to the gallows for the kidnaping and murder of Robert ranks Attorney Robert Crowe today exhibits the chain or evi Arrest 15 Chipese In Mah Jongg Raid (By the Associated Press WASHINGTON Washington's fust mid today resulted in the arrest Chinese and the seizure or ana mytno well as 15 were Several officials of the Interstate Twenty children were trampled To death and seventeen persons were injured in the Esiava theatre last night when the film of a moving picture caught fire and threw the spectators into a panic Those who were viewing the pic ture that was benig thrown on the screen believed when the film ex ploded that the house had caught fire A mad rush especially from the galleries which with little children many of them were death The exact number still unknown Illinois Girl Weds Prince Bolognitti (International News Service ROME July 24 Aliss elicity Oglesby of Elkhart Ill and Count Cencl Bolognitti were married to day in the historic Cenci church by ather rector of the American college at the Vatican ollowing the wedding the count and his bride motored to the Vat ican whern they received a bless ing from Pope Pius were in the McCloskey hotel and the South land hotil to escape Alany were removed from the hotel with lad ders while others jumped from the second and third story win dows None of the' dead have been iden tified Two bodies ware recovered from the burning buildings and two persons wno naa ueen taaca to the Hospital succumoeu bodies are known to be in ruins HHIg 2A3 avuil ouppiica utA been placed on the ground a 'foree of 300 men working in Xiiil time shifts will be employed in the con struction of the dam The lake that will be formed by the back water will extend for several miles north from Oakdale toward Alonticello and promises to be ideal for boating bathing and fishing Officials of the Interstate com pany and other interested firms held a conference last week ini Chicago and at that time a con i tract for the construction of the dam was let to the Myers Construction company of Chicago The cost is estimated at two mil lion dollars The dam will be lo cated at a point 1000 feet north of the Oakdale wagon bridge This is about 25 'miles northeast of La fayette BIG PROJECT Burch district manager for the Interstate company states that the new dam should be completed and ready for operation within a year There has been some ques tion as to the height 'of the Oak dale dam due to differences of opinion as to whether the back water should be permitted to af fect the small dam at Alonticello It Js likely that the new dam will be 44 feet high which will neces sitate the elimination of the Alon ticello dam It will be 1300 feet long and have a power capacity of 10000 kilowatts The Norway dam in comparisoh is 1000 feet long 30' feet high and has a capacity of 6500 kilowats Plans and specifications for the dam are being prepared by Roger reeman engineer of New York who also performed the same work for the Norway dam State Assistant Prohi Dir eetor Will Obey Any Prop er Order rom Wash ington (By ths Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS July Minton Owen Mull Worst Injured of Trio in Auto Accident Rescued from Under Upset Vehicle I Owen Mull 649 North Seventh seriously Injured late night when an auto which he was riding Sargent 1666 Main Percy (Speedy) Ale nitcn TEN PERSONS KILLED IN CROSSING ACCIDENT ast New York Central Passenger TrainDemolishes Auto Truck Loaded With High School Students Returning rom Picnic Bodies Thrown in Every Direction By the Associated' Press TOKIO July A new policy toward Russia in which it is be lieved the government would be willing to grant recognition to the soviet government was adopted by the cabinet at an extraordinary session today The new policy was presented by the foreign minister Baron Shide liara and is generally regarded as fixing terms toward Russia and as making agreement between the countries easier Negotiations to that end have been under way intermittently for several years and at present conversations at Peking between Al Carakhan recently naced soviet ambassador to China and Kenkichi Yoshizawa Japanese minister to that country stand in a condition of recess pending Air Yoshizawa's return from a visit to Tokio The government decision as taken today will forth the basis of instructions which minister will take back to Peking with him instructions which he will be able to interpret in the light of facts gained on an inspection trip through Northern Saghalien wlilch he made while away from his lega tion The elates cepted which as to the navy Hoopeston Hotel Proprietor Hurt In Odd AccidentInternational News Service DANVIETjE in July Wil li?) rn Huahea nronrletor of Hoopeston hotel in place was recovering today from injuries tained when the engine of the ond section of the I south bound Dixie limited threw a tire as the train was passing the Union Station Hughes vm knock ed down but sustained only a gash in the right knee Large Dam in Tippecanoe To Create Lake Near City Oakdale Project Much Larger Than Present Dam at Contract Let for $2000000 Work and Con struction to Start Soon City to Get Power When the new dam to be erected by the Indiana Hydro Electric Power company in the Tippecanoe river at Oakdale seven miles south of Monticello is completed it will develop 10000 kilowatts of electrical energy and create the largest artificial lake in the middle west one that will be easily accessible to the people of lAfayette and vicinity Six Lives Lost In Hotel Blaze Loss $1000000 Thirteen Persons in Hos pital and Boy Missing as ResulChf Ranger Tex ire By the Associated Press RANGER Tex July Six persons are known to be dead 13 are in the local hospital and one boy is missing as a result of a fire which early this morning de stroyed the entire McCloskey hotel block in the center of the business district with property loss esti mated at more than $1000000 GAS STARTS IRE 1 The fire started in the AlcClos 1 key hotel from a gas pocket formed in the building according to belief of fire officials 1 The flames seen first on the sec ond floor spread rapidly threat I i Heads of agricultural Hundreds of citizens here saw in aroused and aided those ne sreei inuuuy westward and the abolition the fictitious freight rate a direcre aetion for the benefit of tw er and cheaper living costS ep erally 1 A ft fA i 1.