Evening Independent (Newspaper) - January 14, 1921, Massillon, Ohio PENULTS WMt County Can Its Wants Supplied THE RECEIVED PRESS WIRES THE EVE VoL XXXIII No 194 FINAL EDITION DRUGGIST FIGHTS CHARGE OF LAW VIOLATION Morris Coren East Main Street on Trial Today Morris Coren Bast Main street druggist today was on trial in mu court on a charge of unlaw fully possessing Intoxicating liquor filed against him on December 29 1920 when police officers searched his place of business and are alleged to have uncovered a quantity of whiskey Attorneys representing Mr Coren were attempting to show that the li found in his place of business was held by the druggist under a per mit issued In 1919 by federal authorities granting him the privilege to having whiskey for me purposes Officers testifying In the case said that when they searched the drug store they found a half pint bottle lied with whiskey which had been Placed on a shelf In an elevator shaft in the rear of the store A number of empty half pint bottles bearing the same labels as the bottle containing the whiskey also the officers said Corens store was searched on De cemper 29 1920 testimony snowed but Coren was not taken into custo dy until that evening when he re turned from Columbus The case is probably the first of Its Wnd tried here and a great deal of interest was manifested in its out come William C Hineman of Columbus federal prohibition inspector and as to J A Shearer director in for the state said that Coren had been given a permit to havo whiskey for medicinal purposes on October 15 1919 and that this permit had been revoked on March 1920 He said that Coren had filed application for a new permit on March 24 1920 but bat no permit had been granted Mr Hineman said that Coren had nr operative permit in his possession al lowing him to have whiskey on De cember 29 1920 He also testified that no application was now pending for a new permit During his testimony Mr Hine man said that while the permits were issued by the federal prohibition com at Washington the district and his agents had the pow i or to revoke such permits Attempts of attorneys defending Coren to show the arrest of on a charge of violating the li law was due to a malicious at tack by a competitor as alleged hy Coren in a statement after his ar rest were overruled by Judge Kaley The case was expected to consume the greater part of the day Four wit had testified up to noon Cor en was expected to take tho stand In his own defense some time this after noon R H HIckck safety director who was acting chief of police at the time Coren was arrested told the court that the liquor and evidence secured In Corens store had been placed by him in a safety deposit vault in a lo cal bank for safe Coren was represented by Attor neys Elson Wefler and T C Davis while J L Hilton attorney for tho AntiSaloon league of Canton assist ed City Solicitor 1 E in the prosecution of the case FOR THE FAST 53 YEARS THE NEWSPAPER OF MASSILLON AND VICINITY OHIO FRIDAY JANUARY 14 1021 INDEPENDENT Cloudy and Saturday WELLKNOWN MAN DIED THURSDAY SEE ADJUST By Associated Washington Jan CHARLES F SNYDER Hill 5 MIL By Associated Washington Jan of congressional lobbyists Is ed for in a to be introduced in tho senate Monday Senator William S Kenyon of Iowa announced Thursday that he propos es to present a measure then not only for registration but to compel a statement from lobbyists as to their employers of and an itemized statement of the expenses Incurred by them In the entertainment of legislators No person who has ever been a member of either house of congress shall ast as a legislative IB one provision of the Kenyon It haa reached a stage said Sen ator Kenyon Thursday when nearly every senator and congressman who s defeated for opens up xn office here for the general prac of law and becomes a lobbyist at the capitol for one interest or an US F SNYDER ILL Well Known Retired Man Succumbs Af ter Long Illness HEAD OFF By Youngstown Jan fied man was Instantly killed this morning by Michael Hessman who told that he awakened this morning und found someone vas try Ing to force the door of his home A key was in the lock of tho door Hessman blew the side of tho mans head oft with n shot gun Five er men fled Hessman said ALTON PACKARD PLEASES LARGE AUDIENCE HERE Alton Packard a well known Am erican humorist and cartoonist pre sented the fifth number of the lar Lecture course programme evening at Washington high school to a largo appreciative audi ence Mr Packard presented one of the host programmes given here this season Intermingled with drawings and cartoons was a monologue entitled Balm o He also sang sev eral of his compositions The next number of the course will be given Thursday evening Jan were pressing their inquiry today to develop the complete facial In connection with the fatal shooting by a Japanese sentry at Vladivostok of Lieut W H the Uniti ed States cruiser Albany latest re ports on the incident reaching here were understood to have gone far toward promising an early and satis factory adjustment of the situation SHEET MUSIC We have just received a fine ship ment of all the latest numbers in Whisper and many others GEO C WILLE 200 W MAIN ST J The Charles F 70 of 2021 East Main street well known manufacturer died at his residence Thursday afternoon at 4 40 oclock after n long illness which had Inca him for nearly 10 yoara Mr Snyder was a lifelong rosi dent of and was bora De cember 2 1850 Ho was well known In business and industrial circles having been for many years with The com pany of South Erie street Besides his widow Mrs M Snyder ho is survived by a son Floyd C Snyder of 111 Pine street four Jacob and Benjamin all of this city and four grandchildren The funeral will hr held Saturday afternoon at oclock from the residence In East Main stroot and the body will be placed in n vault In th cemetery Tho Rev Robert II Kirk of tho Presbyterian church will officiate Mr Snyder in his life left school and started to work He learned several trades and later he and his brothers went into business and later combined with tho Hess brothers the partnership forming the present company Mr Snyder was connected with The company until ho re tired from active business his service with pany he became well known and served as a director in several other corporations Ho also was an active worker in the Presbyterian church Business places In the downtown district will close Saturday after noon from oclock until oclock In honor fo Mr Snyder It was announced today SIXTEEN PAGES RED GROSS AIDS FAMILIES IN THIS DISTRICT WEST BROOKFIELD RESIDENT ILL 13 MONTHS DIES John L Klefer GO proprietor of a cigar store and soft drink establish ment at Brookfield died thla morning at oclock at res idence at Brookfield He had been ill 13 months Ho Is survived by bin widow Mrs Catherine Klefer n daughter Mrs John Warner of Canton four sons and John Kiefer of Canton Carl Akron and Conrad Klefer at home a sister Mrs Nicholas Martin of Thayer and throo grandchildren The funeral arrangements have not been completed and will be an later MINER INJURED BY FALLING SLATE Joseph Burger of State stroot BUB minor Injuries to his head and back Thursday afternoon when hy falling slate In Mine 27 west ot Ho was taken to the city hospital in C Arnolds am bulance where ho was attended hy Dr L D Zintsmaster His condition Is Improved today IF YOU HAVE NOT a Stemmer Artistic Phono graph do the next best thing and play Emerson records on the ma chine you have Both are sold ex at the C U Arnold 109 North Erie TAXI SERVICE Hecks to Hotel every 15 min utes White Top Taxi Both Phones DO IT NOWI Do not forget to Join one of the Christmas Savings Clubs of The Peoples Building Loan Co In terest 101 S Erie SOMETHING DELICIOUS That newly made Ice Cream at the Sugar ASTHMA BRONCHITIS HEAD ACHE GOITER STOMACH KID NEY TROUBLE YIELD TO CHIRO PRACTIC METHODS CONSULT O B CHIROPRACTOR 400 E MAIN Sf OFFICE ON Two half pound boxes of choco lates for at the Stores A WORTH WHILE SALE Linde and Warths StoreWide Clearance which begins at Sat morning See the page ad for JANUARY HITS Hear them at Oscar The Piano Man 208 N Mill BROADWAY ROSE That new song hit in sheet at the C L Arnold Music 109 North Erie THE BEST YET AMERICAN BEAUTY BREAD Adv MRS W J LIST Any Winter Hat in the store for 1 Friday and ADDING MACHINES Buy the beat from your home dealar who gives local service when you need it The Barrett Is besL Bell 745 State Ideal through the store special moneysaving prices page 8 TUTTIFRUTTI ICE CREAM It makes the Sunday dinner com plete Order now from the Sugar ALL RINGS REDUCED Solid Gold Set and Emblematic Rings sold at lowest L East Main ARMY RECRUITING MAY BE STOPPED Washington Jan Is on the eve of topping all army re until such time as tho strength of the service is reduced hy of enlistments lo not more than men At the same time legislative pinna contemplate an appropriation for the fiscal year Juna 30 1921 to June 30 1922 to provide for an army not to exceed The appropriation wll probably be nearly a quarter of a billion less than ban hy the war department Tho Homo section of tho local chapter of tho Cross dur ing a period of sir months which ended December 31 1920 come In contact with families mado ad on insurance to tho amount of and to tho extent of according to Iho report mode by Miss Dorothy secretary at a meet ing of tho Home section com Thursday Tho work of the Red Cross at present la equally 03 great as dur ing tha war according to the report The Homo sections responsibilities to tho es soldier havo not ceased and until claims for allotments allowances compensation and vocational train ing have boon given Individual atten tion or disposed of tho ties will continue In tho past year the number of men In tho army has about threefourths the ity of the Homo section has continued without Many mon discharged from tho World War army for disability wore unable to secure compensator mining or medical care ignorant of tho stops to ho taken Through tho Home Service many who would be lost wero placed In touch with the government agencies which could aid hem Misa Ora Miller County health visiting In this district mado a report to the committee on tho work since sho bo gan hor duties December 27 Health STH OFFICIAL HONORED BY surveys were in tho McDonalds vUlo and firewater schools At tha school fifi J pupils wero Ton wove found normal having tooth Throo tive and worn weigh pupils tonsils pupils of the first ami second grades at and six woro found normal had tooth BO Von thirty enlarged ton sils and nino underweight O W Kalp of Justus public health supervisor of contagious diseases In this district mudo a monthly report Miss Miller had mado M for typhoid fever two for small pox nud one for diphtheria Misa C Monko who last Mon day began hor duties as homo of the Homo section reported that homo had been organized In fivo rural high schools oC Urn district and a special class at Tho schools In which havo boon organized tiro Beach City Navarre Justus and Canal Pulton high schools Two havo boon or In he Roach City school Tho course covers a of 15 weeks Ono hour anil thirty minutes is given each week lo tho work each school At Uio of tho course the classes will be examined and those tho examination will bo qualified for home hygiene work In addition tho members of classes will bo given a half credit In their school work Frank Booth Elected President of State Asso Special 10 Tha Jan president of the county com missioners first president of association of commissioners which closed its nn minl convention in Columbus Thurs day Booth took an active part in the convention and one of tha lead ers in n fight to oppose Issue of bonds on tho of this counties THREATENS FAMILY FA THERMS ARRESTED Canton Jon 14 John P of frightened members of his family by telling them ho had sot a mine under the homo and In R fraction of a second could blow tho house to smithereens 1C tho mine did not explode ho said ho carried a shotgun to blow their heads oft Those aro tho allegations of his TWO CENTS MAY QUIT CONGRESS SEES COL ROOSEVELT By Marlon Jan Hardings today covered a wide variety of public questions Three members of tho houso of rep were among his callers and he also had an appointment with Col Theodore Roosevelt By Youngstown Jan steol plants hore bogan operations today for the last half of the week on a schedule further reduced and estimated at about 35 por cent of capacity FIVE INJURED E BLAST By Associated Wost Frankfort Jan men woro Injured in a mine sion hero early this morning None Is to havo boon fatally in jured TEST VALIDITY OF MASSILLON LIQUOR RULING Canton Jan will hand down opinions Monday in a number of casen which wero ar gued In his court thin wook Included In thu number are n suit attacking tho validity of enforcement and one liability for tho Bale of Jamaica ginger SPECIAL SALE on Koo our Window Tho Brunswick Cigar DROP IN and hear the January Player Rolls A fine list to select from GEO C WILLE ZOO W MAIN ST AT POPULAR PRICES These big hits in sheet music Do You Ever Think of Songs of Coral Some and C Ar nold Music North Erie Street opposite HATS This Friday and Saturday we will sell any Hat in the store for Store open Saturday evening until fl oclock Mrs E W Vogt Lincoln Theatre last DO IT NOW iJo not forget to join ono of the Christmas Savings Clubs of The Peoples Building Loan Co In terest 101 S Erie NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT to stock ap on Dress Shirts since Dougherty Hill 1719 North Mill street aro offering them at 13 Adv SPECIALS ON SAFETY BLADES rlozen Geme pack and EverReady M I East Main Street Ad v WHEN YOURE GONE I WONT FORGET Q R S ROLL NO 1306 GEO C WILLE CO 200 W MAIN ST Av LEE SPECIALS TOMORROW HOME DRESSED BEEF FINE CHUCK STEAK BOo SHOULDER STEAK VEAL STEW VEAL ROAST OF CHUCH OH SHOULDER FRESH BEEF LIVER PICKLED PIGS FEET PICKLED PIGS EARS HAMBURG STEAK BEEF ROAST PORK FRESH SAUSAGE SMOKED PORK CHOPS EXTRA FINE 8WEITZER CHEESE FRESH PUDDING WIENER WURST MINCED HAM LARD 5 4 GROSS WT GROUND LEE 100 E MAIN NO 7 GOTH PHONES AND 806 W TREMONT BELL 481 STATE JUST RECEIVED ANOTHER SHIPMENT OF THAT GOOD MED WEIGHT SUPREME BASHT ADVANCE CLASS on onestep fox trot from to Weekend party from to nines orchestra W A PORTAGE MEAT SPECIALS Everybody pays cash that Is how we can Bel for less Head tha prices in the ad on page CHOCOLATE DROPS LB Saturday Candy special at the Busy Beo AUTO STROP RAZORS Regular value This Is a very special price for this week M L Neiman Eaat Main LOCAL GREEK DEFENDANT IN Jan Finis a prosperous confectioner waa accompanied by hla German war bride whon ho camo into Judge Days court Friday to an action brought against him by a former om Crook wan with tho American army and met while ho was with tho army of pation Ho returned to hut went a short time later brought her to this country IH ailed for by Tom who nays tho money ID duo him for rendered DRAW JURIES FOR TWO LOCAL CASES the father In Justice court late Thursday Afternoon WOMAN DIES AT HOSPITAL Mrs Blanche 25 died at oclock this morning at tho city hospital following nn operation BOV ura days ago had boon ill to days Her husband Senate a daughter Rinker two sons Haymond and Honry her par ents Mr and Mrs H W a als ter Dorothy Krler and a brother Raymond all of thla city The funeral arrangements havo not boon completed and will bo ed Inter ALLDAY SUCKERS QUIET COUNCILMEN By Jan John A nichter of tho finance committee has solved the problem ot a too noisy city council lio A box of allday suckers was pawed around by tho chairman when ho opened a meeting of tho Mid for an hour tho woro with licking tho candy sticks Tho of at Two jurlen aro to ho drawn In ot clerk ot tho municipal court this afternoon It announced to day A Jury to hoar the civil of Tho Huebner Toledo vor HUH Louis anil which will bo next will bo drawn nw will a jury In tho caso of J H colored of South Canal who will lo tried In court January 21 RECORDS Old From Mary Opera Co Tho Night Light Opem Tlie Naughty Wulu Kline Alabama Moon Mammy t i i My Sahara HOBO Stop H Metro My The Sally Green Murray Ive Got the Murray GEO C WILLE 200 W MAIN PLAYER ROLL BARGAINS Many of lato two for and for C L Ar nold 0 North wrio Stocka and nonda A T Under hill of Lincoln Theater Building Repre Otia GROCERY Starit N fiOn SATURDAY SPECIALS Coffee per pound for Saturday and ail nert woek Hitters Baked cann Mixed Vegetables for BOUP per Be Corn largo cans Oil Sardines 4 Cocoa Macaroni 2 pounds Hammer Laundry Houp 21 bars P O White Naptha Soap for Michigan Navy Beana pounds Head Fresh Rolled 4 Adv LOCAL MAN WRITES FOURTEENTH DRAMA H H record breaking completed hiH Paddy which will bo pro early next month at St Marys hall hy tho Dramatic Clu of Bt church It was announced to day The cast boon selected and parts hayo been assigned aro now tindor way CLOSES SALOONS Jan of with a property of havo boon cloned for out yoar hy Mindia tho fill a had Hold In violation or thoin further of lawn MEATS FROM THE PORTAGE Aro and can hn for siti Son tho on I for I WONDER IF SHES WAITING Q R 8 ROLL NO 1214 GEO C WILLE CO 200 W MAIN Adv chairman of the Houso Committee on retire from tba Mr haa of a la a law firm in Chicago and seriously considering acceptance Is Premier dead A communication from Moscow an nouncing tho death of M member of tho supremo economic council of soviet RUBS In Js quoted in a Berlin dispatch to the Exchange here received by war of Paris Thursday The Moscow con tain B no person named Karpoff Which Is an old pseudonym ot Nikolai tho soviet premier Some of hts publications bear that namo The Jewish News Bureau January 10 made public wireless advices trom Berlin stating that Nikolai Lenine premier of soviet Russia was 111 in Moscow as result ot a general breakdown accentuated by recent vio lent attacks inacio Upon him by ox In the Communist party who accused him at having sold out tho In his dealings with for eign Including Washing ton B of Log Angoles Cal Tho message from tho bureaus Berlin correspondent follows I have spoken this morning to a man who stands Victor Kopp tho representative of tho soviet gov at Berlin ho wan circumspect ho admitted tho re port of was in part and gavo tho Impression that it was Kopp who had ordered throo specialists to go to Moscow according to him Is a vic tim of i breakdown na a result ot tho ho hns undergone dur ing tho past three years The Immo dlato cause of tho breakdown ar to ho a violent attack lov him recently by tho ex In tho Communist party who arc assorting Unit ho ban betrayed Iy and K with HIt IH known that itt n moot ing of thr orod an impassioned in ho Thin how did not hush vip and ox mich as out tho boon about frooly witb to that granted tt H promoter ft oniH that way ho ot Tho In Now York that It him received no word of i IS FEUDED London Hears Disquieting Reports From Great Dependency in East By Associated Premo London Jan Official an that famine exists Ir several districts in India made yes torday Rt the India office hns concern in Tig present scarcity of food in Greal mighty dependency In the comes at an Inopportune time for the government which Is the serious among I ho natives ami it is realized hera no other single thing could cause greater disquietude ih India than a ot grain Mere men tlon ot famine in India is freighted with terror for the natives of country who look back to times when scores of thousands of their follows from starvation has often been attended Little meat is eaten by the 000 people in tills vast Empire wnc subsist mainly on grain Yesterdays official statement Bald that crops In In the extreme northwest cm part of the Indian Peninsula arc poor The greatest stations In all India aro situated in this province the population ol which has often been attended by local famine would cause intense suffering and If the whole should bo affected the bo terrible especially in the thickly populated cities ROTARIANS MAKE READY FOR ANNUAL DIST CONVENTION The will conduct a unique campaign in an effort to serin a largo delegation of the local club to tho annual district meeting at Cleveland March 21 and 22 The plan was formulated at a meeting following the regular weekly lunch eon today at Hotel Tho membership has been equally divided into two the Whites and the Blues The Divis ions will campaign to secure the largest enrollment at the district convention The division losing wilt be host to tho winners at Tho Whites will be under the leadership of Stanley L V Beamer and J O Eoster Meok A W Inman and F G son will direct the drire of the LATEST NEWSPAPERS PERIODICALS AND MAGAZINES At any of LINDE AND STOREWIDE CLEARANCE Sue ho ad for thn low Wearing Dry and Notions are WOMEN OF CONTENTMENT aro who havo the done at the Wet Wash a Institution Phono 1073 pr State 180 and auto will call DANCING At hall Monday Thursday and Saturday of week Adv JUST RECEIVED ANOTHER SHIPMENT OF THAT MED WEIGHT SUPREME OIL ADV PO IT NOWI Do not forget to join one of tho Christmas Savings Clubs of The Peoples Building Loan Co In terest 101 S Erio Adv LONGER MEN does the high price of Shirts stand you and the noteworthy col lection of Dougherty Hills Theyre offered at 13 oft Sco the DR OSCAR KRING CHIROPRACTOR MOVES TO 312 EAST MAIN STREET Tho offices of Or WISO will ho closed ul noon tory to moving to his now location lit in thr millo of rooms until recently by Tho Agency Co Ur will lo to earn for nil at his now location lie will maintain tho office bourn nn Adv SPRING HATS at of Halln mid In all UK on wain at to S 00 0 Canal Ht Adv Broad 11 eta a loaf and 3 for SO els Billy Cash and Carry HATS This and Saturday we will aoll any Hat In the for Storo open until li oclock Mrs M W Vogt Theatre last door Dalton Adding Listing and lating Machines E P Young Phono MEATS FROM THE PORTAGE aro better and can bo bought for See tho ad on page 6 for BUSY BEE SPECIAL Home Made Chocolate Dropa Saturday GILLETTE RAZORS Everywhere else you pay 5 for this razor M I East Main BURY VETERAN OF WAR The funeral ot Charles Yemen Brown son ot Mr nnd Mrs Charles G 3202 Duncan street a ma who died of wounds In tho Iti Franco in 1918 was hejd afternoon nt the of his parents at oclock and at oclock at the Wesley Methodist church Tho Grant officiated I A detachment of the marine corps of served as pall bearers and had of the military Interment wan made in the cemetery JANUARY PLAYER ROLLS At W Tho Piano Man 208 N Mill WAIT FOR THE PRICE SLASH ERS SALE AT THE SCHWARTZ DEPARTMENT STORE IMPORT ANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON PAGE FOR SUNDAY READING Call In at any of Stores PORTAGE MEAT Everybody canli that Is how we can sell for JOHB Read the prices In tho ad on LATEST RECORDS lust received by Oscar The Piano Man 208 Adv SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY V South Shore Tomatoes large 13c can two for Pure Pork Sausage Fresh Shoulders Hams whole or half Capital City Hams and Head Cheese Pudding ISo GRABER BENSON 207 W Main r r 801 W Tremont SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE Ehrets Hall per couple Gents extra lady Ady U R K OP P Regular U R K of P Dance day January 14th Smiths Ira Adv AFTER CHRISTMAS SACS Mens Watches and Wrist Watches All sold at very l I East THE PRICE SLASHERS STARTS SOON AT SCHWARTZ D E P A R t M E N T STORE IT WILL BE MASSILi LONS BIGGEST WINTER SALE READ THE IMPORTANT t
