Evening Independent (Newspaper) - February 11, 1924, Massillon, Ohio THIS PAPER Is the favorite to almost every in stern Stark county complete V use The Independent WORLDS LATEST NEWS RECEIVED OVER ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRES THE FOR THE PAST 60 YEARS THE NEWSPAPER OF MASSILLON AND VICINITY Rain or snow tonight and prob ably Tuesday morning warmer tonight 269 MASSILLON OHIO MONDAY FEBRUARY 11 1924 TWELVE PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS AT COMMITTEE URGES PUNISHMENT Democratic Candidate for President Declares He Sev Oil Connection Disclosure of Professional Roll Was Made By Associated Press WASHINGTON Feb 11 Wil liam G McAdoo former secretary of the treasury and candidate for the Democratic nomination for president emphasized before the senate oil committee today that his profession al with E L Doheny re cently terminated were in good faith and had nothing to do with the leasing of naval oil reserves Appearing at his own request be cause of testimony given by Mr Do heny as to his employment in con with Mexican oil matters Mr McAdoo declared I think it Availability Of McAdoo Is Girls Faith in BulletProof Vest So Great She C V Powders Her Face as Policeman Fires Pistol t A Called Doubtful By Associated Press ST LOUIS Feb 11 William G association with the Doheny Oil Interests renders his availability as a presidential candidate doubtful according to H Johnston president of the International Association of Machinists Mr Johnston presided at the opening session today of the convention here of the national conference for political action may fairly be presumed that if my name were not prominently men in connection with a high of fice my private practice as a lawyer be of no interest to this com or to the Asserting that the faith of the peo ple in their own government is shaken because of the develop ments in the oil he de clared this question transcends po parties and partisan consider ation and that the first duty the imperative duty of the hour is mer to uncover and to bring to public view and scorn and punish ment every one has betrayed the public trust or who has been guilty of wrongdoing in this humili ating and dangerous affair be a crime against the he said if the dragging of innocent people into this affair should divert attention from the guilty to prevent the discovery of those who have betrayed the public His statement which was in the nature of an elaboration of his re in the presence of police from several states Leo Krause demonstrated his latest bulletproof vest In a test in New York City the inventor per mitted three of the officers to fire simultaneously with 38 and 45 calibre revolvers The bul lets flattened against the vest Then Miss Estrella Weintraub served as a target as shown by the photograph ORGANIZE FOR CHILDREN HERE Enough German children this win ter are facing death by starvation or illness from to late the state of Ohio at its present Such is the word sent back to Am erica by investigators for the Society of Friends which has out lined a relief programme based on the work done immediately after the war when over children were cared for Americas for the relief of these children undertaken by the American Committee for the Relief of German children is and of this the Massillon district has been assigned a quota of Headed by Frank Hess as chairman and S G Edgar as treasurer a meet ing of the local committee for the Relief of German children composed of members from the Rotary Kiwan is and Exchange clubs and represen from the will meet at the American Legion Home in South Hill street tonight at 8 oclock to outline plans for the campaign here The campaign in America to raise funds for the relief of German chil dren is the direct result of the re port made by Brigadier General Al len commander of the American troops of occupation on the Rhine now chairman of the American com on conditions he found in Germany These conditions have been care fully investigated and vouched for by Ambassador Houston M Niel son American Consul at Berlin C Training Camp Massillon boys who desire to join the 1924 Citizens Military Training camp which will be held for 30 days commencing in July at Camp Kuox may file their applications now with Mayor M P L Kirchhofer Mayor Kirchhofer today received a letter from army authorities an nouncing plans for the 1924 camp and the information that candidates for the camp could file their applica tions now letter to Chairman Lenroot Herrin Commercial Attache at Berlin Dr Ernest M Patterson pro of economics of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania and other in committee dealing with his serf as counsel to the Doheny com pany follows in part I am informed by your commit tee that already there has been in in the records the letter I ad dressed to him on February 7 last setting forth in the details the facts concerning the professional services rendered by my former law firm in New York Messrs McAdoo Cotton and Franklin and subsequently by myself in Los Angeles in connec tion with the Mexican properties of Mr company It is clear FA 9 riot GUN LAW LOOMS Four Thousand Bituminous Miners Employed In Coun ty Threaten Guardsmen Are on the Way By Press HEREIN Feb Mayor A T Pace was arrested today on a warrant charging murder after he had been sworn in as foreman of the coroners jury to investigate the killing Friday night of Constable Cagle dry raid leader Pace was charged with complicity in Cagles death Turbulent Williamson county scene lately of an internecine war fare between dry Ku Klux Klan and wet factions today faces the prospect of a declaration of martial law and a strike of ap proximately bituminous miners employed here It is believed that with the arrival of additional National guardsmen the countys law enforcement will pass into the of the military State troops enroute here today will bring the total in Williamson county to approximately 1700 EXPECTED Largest Attendance of Any Year Is Looked For at An Gathering Planned by the Y M C A Candlers Wife Leaves Home After Arrest At Wet Party BLAST GATE HEREIN Feb 11 John Ford chief of police of Herrin and Harold Grain a patrolman were brought back from Belleville by a group of S Glenn Youngs depu tized citizens Sunday afternoon aav admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan George Galligan declared Sheriff now under Fathers and Sons banquets will be held in 12 local churches this week and a 13th church will hold a similar banquet February 27 it was announced today by J A Wilson sec of the Young Mens Christian association under the auspices of which organization the are held Although under the direction of the Y M C A the programmes will vary committees of each church having arranged for the individual banquets Many of the programmes will con sist of talks on the relationship of fathers and sons and musical pro grammes Banquets in all the church es will be served at oclock by the ladies of the individual churches Those in charge of the banquets are expecting a larger attendance than ever before A year ago approximate ly fathers and sons attended the held in 10 churches three less than the number partici pating this year The first of the banquets will be held this evening at St Episcopal c hurch A programme of music and stunts will be carried out by members of the boys choir under the direction of Miss Marguerite Joseph Putman Ten other churches will hold their banquets Tuesday evening the an of the birth of Abraham Lincoln Banquets will be served charged with the murder of Consta ble Caesar Cagle kidnaped the of and spirited them away to Murphysboro in an adjacent county Tuesday evening at the Breth Galligan said he took the men away j Methodist First Re for their own safety after they had formed Faith Lutheran Presbyter charged a meeting of the Knights Pauls First Methodist of the Flaming Circle an Christian First Baptist and Friend Initial plans for the intensive stock subscription campaign to as sure Massillon of a new industry in the proposed Ohio Glass Container company will be outlined to the workers at a smoker this evening at 8 oclock at the Hotel Conrad organization at Rome hall last Thursday night Shooting as the re sult of this clash resulted in the death of Cagle and the serious wounding of John Layman one of deputies As Galligan was Murphysboro en route to Marion Saturday he was arrested at Car bondale by Chief of Police Cadis Adams He was brought to Herrin by a number of special police and Campaign officers committees presence of Young tele jors captains and workers are urged to attend This will be the final preparatory meeting cf the workers organization before the opening the in tensive campaign is held at the ho tel Friday evening The intensive canvass will begin February 18 and continue until February 26 when a search and returned to Herrin phoned Sheriff White at Murphys boro to release Ford and Grain Instead of White releasing the two officers young declared Whites deputies took them to Belleville ship Baptist churches The A M E Zion church will hold its banquet Wednesday evening and St Johns church Wednesday evening Feb ruary 27 MANY WOUNDED ITo Prisoners Escape During Fight Which Is Quelled by Police Interference Dynamite to Tear Hole In WaH DE BOUCHELLE MAE RAGAN umn By Grand Jury Investigation of the murder here over three years ago of William Quinn Massillon patrolman shot and killed early one morning while on in Clair county They were found i duty probably will be made by the there by about fifty of Youngs depu ties early today after an all night closing banquet will be held at the hotel Noonday luncheons of the workers will be held at the Second Presbyterian church during the cam An order for the immediate en graud jury which goes into session on Wednesday it was announced today Action to clear up the slaying which has remained a mystery was begun now training of two more national guard last fall and county authorities companies was issued late today by have throe persons two men and a Gen Carlos E Black Arrival woman in custody following their efforts to capture the murderer Pete Billis foreigner was the first Continued on Page 2 Column S When Train Hits Car In Akron Suburb By Associated Press AKRON Feb Brake fielder of this city and Eva and Helen Berks sisters of Cuyahoga Falls were instantly killed by a B and 0 train on a Cuyahoga Falls crossing late last night The car in they were riding was com demolished Elmwood Country club directors and applicants will meet at the Mc office 405 McCly monds Wednesday Feb ruary 13 P BOYS WAIST SALE Regular and val all sizes GOc each or three for Tuesday only at Tho Dough erty Hill store North Mill 60 Steps from Effective Sunday February 10 the following changes in the vania passenger schedule were made Trains IIS and 106 were consoli dated and hereafter will leave Mas sillon at p arriving at Pittsburgh p m Train 1405 due at Massillon a m will stop only to discharge passengers from Pittsburgh and to pick up passengers for Tiffin and beyond Train 628 due at Massillon a will run only to Alliance A new train No 638 will leave Al liance p m making no stops to Pittsburgh for former train No 106 WE WELD BROKEN PARTS OF FARM IMPLEMENTS THE OHIO DRILLING TWO a Floyd W Dunkan who pleaded guilty today in municipal court to a chargo of violating traffic laws was fined and costs by Judge Kaley Earl Myers charged with disorderly conduct was fined and costs THE BUILDING AND LOAN COMPANIES WILL BE CLOSED TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12 ON ACCOUNT OF LINCOLNS BIRTHDAY FIRST SAVINGS LOAN CO PEOPLES BUILDING LOAN AD CENTURY FURNACES Easy vacuum washers C J Shat rath 14 East Charles Special to Tho CANTON Feb police today working on a now clue in Hunter murder mystery Police Captain Ben Clarke Sunday interrogated W D Marshand a farmer living on the urban road who said that on the night Ruth Hunter was murdered January 2 he heard a machine in his lane and noticed that it was a closed car Ho told the Canton officer that after hearing of the murder he tracked the car to a wood near his residence and then down a byroad to the road where the rain had obliterated the imprints of the tires INTO STREET CAR of the companies the infantry of Chicago and the from southern Illinois will bring the total number of soldiers on duty in Wil county to Over people from Herrin and Williamson county assembled at the First Baptist church Sunday afternoon to attend the funeral of Constable Cagle Rev I E pas tor of the church and the Rev P R Glotfelty both admitted Klan load ers conducted the services From the church the body was taken to Carterville More than GOO automobiles many draped with American flags fol lowed the gray hearse from Herrin When the funeral cortege arrived at Cagles birthplace it was met by another delegation near ly as large as the one at Herrin Aside from the demonstration Herrin appeared peaceful Sunday to be arrested He was captured in ATLANTA Feb is Mrs Asa G Candler wife of the soft drink Mrs Candler Sunday left the home of the millionaire soft drink magnate whose bride she became last June and was reported to have spent the night at the apartment of the woman friend at which she was arrested yes by Police Chief L Beavers along with two prominent Atlanta business men Mrs Gaudier could not be located William J Stoddard president of the National Dry Cleaners Associa tion who also was arrested in the raid indignantly declined today to discuss the incident and no state ment was forthcoming from G W Keeling president of a brick manu company who was the third person arrested The next development in the ar rest is scheduled for Tuesday in police court when Mrs Candler Mr Stoddard and Mr Keeling will face charges of being occupants of a dis orderly which is the all embracive charge lodged by police By Associated Press PITTSBURGH Feb pri son officers were shot to death and a number of convicts were wounded more or less seriously today In a rio at the Western Aft er an hours fight during which riot guns tear gas bombs clubs and bricks were used the prison guards assisted by county and Pittsburgh police succeeded in quell ing the disturbance which started when the convicts used explosives in an effort to dynamite their way to freedom No prisoners escaped The dead are William assistant deputy warden and J an overseer Warden Egan reported that the plot was born in the mind of four or five bad men recently sent to the pris on here from the Eastern fary to be They had help from the outside the warden declared Prisoners num bering more than had just breakfasted when the blast ripped the main gate and a section of the wall and Coax were nearby They started on a run for the hole in the wall but were intercepted by 15 convicts who disarmed them beat them and then shot the officers with their own guns TRACKS UNDER In an effort to prevent serious ac or loss of life by collisions between street cars and automobiles underneath the Pennsylvania railroad bridge in South Erie street the police department has issued an order noti drivers to keep off the traction right of way underneath the bridge and keep to the east pass Safety Director Shepley an today The traction company has erected a sign at the bridge warning motor ists to keep to the east and the sign be illuminated at night All au except big trucks which against persons arrested in a place pass underneath the bridge on the roadway are prohibited from using the incline under the bridge where liquor is being drunk On the police docket Mrs Candler gave her age as 34 while Mr Stod dard gave his age as 44 and Mr Keal ing as 45 Mr Candler is more than seventy and has been married once before rowns By Associated Press AKRON Feb Pennsylvania and Brought back to of Falls was drowned at Canton and now is in tho county 3 oclock this morning in the east emergency tuberculosis hospital ncar Akron when a cnr ing been transferred from tho in which she and four others wore ty jail to that institution when his j riding skidded and plunged into the A truck driven by William Acker man of 1415 Bluff street crashed but there wasan atmosphere of tenseness in the air as grim faced as special police with revolvers protruding from their pockets and national guardsmen with fixed bayonets patrolled tho streets physical condition became alarm ing Miss Myrtle Atkinson a nurse who was arrested in Philadelphia a short j time ago and Claude Osterholt a Akron policeman are being held by county authorities Miss At kinson is being held as a witness while Osterholt is serving a of 40 days imposed following a plea of to a charge of adultery Quinn according to information county authorities was tho victom of a deliberately planned because of his n sainst law violators on Columbia lake The others were rescued FOR YOUR GOOD HEALTH Carload swoet Florida Riv er Oranges and Grapefruit pock into a car this morning Oranges contain those hen at the intersection of Main and Erie streets according to a police report No one was injured Ackermans truck was slightly damaged JOE GRAFS ORCHESTRA Strand Monday Tuesday Park Plan Admission lOc Elmwood Country club directors and applicants will at the Me office 405 McCly tli Coxey To Address The Kiwanis Club FOR NEW TRIAL where the street cars run Recently several automobiles have been badly damaged in collisions with street cars and tho police order was issued as a precaution against further accidents Safety Director said that if the order was not obeyed arrests might be made By Associated Press CRUZ Feb 11 Mexican government troops arrived in Yera Cruz this morning taking possession of the after its ation by the recent to Thp Independent Feb Roy Wil liams of Sanduky will be hero Tues day If to hoar tho motion of Lillian for sus ing Boris Again Active Cy SOFIA King Boris opened the Bulgarian parliament in person a fow days ago thus reviving a national custom that prevailed be fore tho war and also giving rise to the belief that it is tho policy of the present government to give full re cognition to the royal prerogative in Bulgaria PRICE IS CUT A reduction of from 10 to 20 cents a dozen in the retail quotations of lemons was quoted by local dealers today Choice lemons were offered at 40 cents a dozen as compared with the previous quotation of frim HO to 00 cents Celery retailed at from 13 to 15 cents a bunch a drop of two cents CARS COLLIDE villo Mr former pro bation officer of juvenile court was convicted on a forgery in a eat more Wheeling Lake Erie General J S Coxey will address tho club noon a luncheon at the Y HI C A caf i than a year a so nnd was sentenced to the reformatory for an I indefinite period Tho court of appeals and the Ohio supreme court affirmed her con viction Automobiles driven by Miss Ora Miller county nurse and Samuel L Lonas local garage man collided During fh regime of j this morning at the intersection ot onehalf years there were j Main and Erie streets No one was injured Both cars were slightly Entertain With For Electric Welding and general boiler repairs try at cnr nrr and Main streets Dial i ELKS VALENTINE GUEST DANCE FOR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS FEBRUARY ACCORDIAN DANCE At Gents Ladies free or Z furnished rooms in good location Dial SOUVENIR VALENTINE DANCE Academy Thursday night monds Building Wednesday Fobi ruary P i Bread 10 cts a loaf and 3 for 251 cts Billy Boyles Cash and Carry ELKS VALENTINE GUEST DANCE FOR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS FEBRUARY ACCORDIAN Elmwood Country club directors nnd applicants will meet nt tho Me office 405 McCly Building Wednesday Feb ruary in P MOVING Special for February Tho expert men per hour All modern j SIGNS equipment Call State Show cards dial Richards T G and THE UNDERSIGNED BUILDING AND LOAN COMPANIES WILL BE CLOSED TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12 ON ACCOUNT OF LINCOLNS BIRTHDAY FIRST SAVINGS LOAN CO PEOPLES BUILDING LOAN WANTED GOOD DRY OATS STRAW WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICE THE SAXON CHINA SEBRING many evidences that the peasant pre mier to eliminate King Boris from official or personal activity in affairs of state Tiie King was dis a subordinate figure He lived in retirement and there was never such a thing as a royal entertain ment In contrast King gave a diplo matic dinner recently in his palace at to a group of foreign min nnd commissioners and it is now reported that he is preparing for an extended trip to several of the European courts in January possibly with a view to marriage THE UNDERSIGNED BUILDING AND LOAN COMPANIES WILL BE CLOSED TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12 ON ACCOUNT OF LINCOLNS BIRTHDAY FIRST SAVINGS LOAN CO PEOPLES BUILDING LOAN BOYS WAISTS AND SHIRTS Tuesday sale of nnd values in all sizes GOc each or throe for Dougherty Hill store North Mill 60 steps from damaged V Dropped your stickpin in the dust You must in the want ads trust I
