Hamilton Daily News (Newspaper) - December 20, 1924, Hamilton, Ohio FOREMOST IN THE PEOPLE'S SERVICE ILTON ESTABLISHED 1879 Pull Associated Press COLD Thrills In Life of J E Campbell Felt in Hamilton of great men all remind us Wo can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footsteps sands of In the journey of the life ol Barnes Campbell there were tainly footprints that others Ing o'er life's troubled main seeing should take heart again He Inn came hard sailing in his ups and but he never gave up While distinguished in public he was roost notably an ex- f ception to rule of making a for- tune after he had passed the alloted score and ten years and after lie had been worse than bankrupt for over a quarter of a century Tht people here know of his remarkable for moral obligations how he tame here after accumulating End hunted up his creditors all of claims had long ago become hull and void under the statute of how he paid them cipal and interest and also others who had been indulgent to him in his long struggle with -ad- He was especially noted for tiever forgetting friends as well as Among his most al friends was one who never ported him Captain Jo W has been of the G A R in Hamilton for some forty years As is Dry in nil lodges those who do not their dues arc dropped from the of membership For many years Governor Campbell was so sorely that could not meet even the small dues of the G A R the quartermaster met thorn for years for his Comrade in arms Later on the Governor paid the quartermaster just like Om met ter obligations and the following letter explains what happened later Columbus Ohio April 6 1918 My Dear enclose my cheque from the Pension Office and do the with all cheques i Way hereafter receive I wish It Contribute this sum for tho benefit any needy members of Post jor for the Post itself I leave tho to your Judgment The amount will be after July 1 I mil willing to add something out- teide of my pension to any good cause the Old Boys may fawor James E Captain J W Myers Hamilton O This Post got from lior Campbell on every Memorial Day and when it came to the an- lural encampments all who attended We're furnished with new so the Hamilton would look well in the parade and who unable to pay their way were furnished with all from tha hand is now stilled by dentil In the whole Brotherhood of Man is there a record anywhere that can beat untold ex of fraternal feeling on the part of an absent comrade of Butler If there arc similar cases they ought to exploited as the world has those who need of The milk of human kindness Governor did not slop with the Old Boys as he called his comrades He thought also of the Old those who had been in society with him and his de- when they were among the folks in Hamilton iu shown in the gift of ten nnd dollars to Kie Hamilton Com- munity Home the Libby Gwens fund in memory of his wife In other ways he helped tho Cullens Mrs Sohn Mrs Oath and others in founding that roost worthy Homo As in the Brotherhood of Man in the Sisterhood of Woman where there another record like Governor Campbell had been with the Old Boys hero in former years build the Monument and at tended their meetings but he had nut been a resident of the city or county i for a score or more of when he j created the Owens Campbell i fund for present Community Home Although dead ht thus still lives in Hamilton They may build a shaft ct Columbia to his last resting place but ha no monument here He still in his home town HAMILTON OHIO SATURDAY DECEMBER 20 1924 24 PAGES TODAY HM Her IN HIT BY COLD WAVE GRIP RELAXES IN FAR WEST 15 ARE DEAD Traffic Tied Up For P By Radio BODY OF SAMUEL GOMPERS REACHES NATIONAL LABOR LEADERS PAY HOMAGE TO THEIR CHIEF The icy grip ly relaxing in I Oil CHICAGO Dec 20 of winter was the fnr west and Rocky Mountain region today while it tightened in the Middle West and began to en- the east Although nearly normal tures may be reached in most of the cold wave area within 24 hours days will elapse before wire and rail communication resume usual operations Meanwhile the toll of lives con- to mount as deaths from freezing were added to by fatalities in fires resulting from ing The total today stood at 15 Warm winds were forecast to bring relief to the Pacific coast Rising mercury and fair skies were i Montana and Colorado Three members of a family of four were burned to death at Wyo when an explosion was caused by lowered gas pressure that nut out fires in their homes The fourth a four year old boy was to die Eight deaths were reported in Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma One man was frozen to death and another died from injuries received in a fall on the ice In Chicago Trains in the middlewest were running from several hours to more than 21 hours late and four senger trains which left St Louis Thursday were somewhere in Southern Missouri today Train to move trees and poles felled across tracks by their burden of ice ber newspapers of the Associated Press were served by radio Wall St And Christmas NEW YORK Dec mas bonuses amounting to are being distributed by Wall street firms it is estimated by a member of one of the largest firms in the street His mate is admittedly conservative Some guesses are as high as Office boy clerk senior partner all will share QUIET CHRISTMAS AT WHITE HOUSE President's Son Home From j For Stearns to be Guests WASHINGTON Dec mas at he White House will be very quiet this year because of the death within the past twelve months of the younger son of President and Mrs Plans for the observance of the holiday season are most simple John son of the President who is attending Amherst College will ar- rive home Sunday and Mr and Mrs Frank W Stearns of Boston the Coolidge family's closest friends will come early in the week The choir of the First tional Church which tho President and Mrs Coolidge attend will sing Christmas carols from the north portico on Christmas eve as last year and Mr Coolidge at dusk will turn a switch lighting the big tional Community Christmas tree brought from the Adirondacks and planted in Sherman Park south of the Treasury The upper photograph shows the borne from the Union Station at ington to the American Federation of building whore the body of the late president or the ation lay in state before being taken to New York tor burial In the other photo ara seen left to right Duncan vice dent of the Federation Frank Morrison secretary and Matthew Well vico president and for fifteen head of the photo as they stood in front of the funeral car Says Ohio Chief Justice So Condemned Youth Gets To Live 19 Days More Got Confused In Names COLUMBUS O Dec C Kane Ynungstomi murderer gets to live nineteen days longer than the courts decreed because Norman S Kendall Cleveland theatre tor to pny a fino of for violation of tho child labor laws Kane was to have been executed at the state penitentiary early this morning but because of Kendall's in obtaining a stay of tion on his fine from the State Supreme court Kane to live un- til January 8 Harry L Conn of the court was entertaining com- pany last night when he picked up a newspaper and road how Was to bo executed shortly after midnight The story mentioned that the Supreme court recently had re- fused to review Kane's case Judge Conn did not recall having participated in passing upon Kane's case He called Justice Robinson who did not recall having participated in then became con- any case Justice Conn that there must have been a dl It's Jest about got no children sMn heard any more Th feller that a dollar only seven yearn must In jail or lived with More Holders of DAILY NEWS INSURANCE Are Paid With winter with us HAMILTON DAILY NEWS Travel and Pedestrian Insurance Policies become of more value to the holders of this splendid insurance With wet and icy slippery roads the liability to automobile increases and with this increase comes the possibility of more personal injuries This fs why every person who drives or rides in an automobile should enjoy the protection afforded by this excellent form of insurance To date considerably more than have been paid policy holders in claims for accidental injuries and a record that eclipses that of any similar policy issued under similar conditions in Hamilton and Butler County Only re- cently the following claims have been Joseph South Lebanon 0 was run over by an auto and his right arm and shoulder in- jured He disabled for one and his NEWS policy paid him O W Fudge Oxford 0 was driving his auto when it collided with another machine He injuries which disabled him for one week His NEWS paid him F E Blasingame West Carrollton 0 was ing to work in an auto driven by 0 Cook While crossing the track near Morain City the car was struck by traction car with the result that Mr Cook was killed Mr Simpson another passenger was injured as was Mr Mr wan disabled for one week and his insurance paid him Neither of the other two men had NEWS insurance You too should have NEWS One can never tell when an accident will be their Tho best plan is to be protected as woll as possible If interested and you should DAILY NEWS Travel Accident and Pedestrian In- INSURANCE THAT PAYS mistake and culled Chief Justice Marshall Yes we passed upon the case.but I allowed a stay of execution on application of Kane's at- for said Marshall Tho Chief Justice said he was tain must have been a He had Justice Conn call Clerk Seba H Miller who said that no stay of execution for Kano had been ed to him during the day Justice Conn then reported Miller's advice back to Chief Justice Marshall Tho Chief Justice was moro convinced than ever he said that something had gone wrong The hour of midnight was fast proaching and something would have to be done quickly if Kane were not to be only recourse was Gov He immediately got Governor on tho and explained tho situation to him that he had issued a stay of tion but stay never had betn served upon the warden or filed with tibe clerk Considering tha situation ly it concluded that the only method to stop the execution would be for Governor to grant a boy reprieve Thia Governor Donahey did and carried the reprieve personally to Warden Thomas at the ary shortly before midnight The Governor's reprieve was and Kane gets to live until January 8 Chief Justice Marsliall found day that the stay of execution which he had signed and which gave nineteen more days to live was not a stay for Kane but for Norman Kendall proprietor of the Nemo Theatre in Cleveland whose neys had asked for a rehearing and stay of execution which tlhe Chief Justice had granted Chief Justice Marshall explained that he had become confused in the names Kendall and Kane and that when Justice Conn called his tion to the Kane case he at once came to the conclusion it was in Kane's cose that he had granted the He said he was in n hurry when Kendall's attorneys presented their matter and had ills arms full of bundles to start home when they approached him was convicted of killing Paul Prologs aged 8 by kicking in the head after he had attacked tho John Tenor Denies Paying dl In Blackmail Plot REMUS CAUSES EXPLOSION AT ATLANTA PEN Violence Feared And He With 5 Others Is Removed Sought ATLANTA Ga Dec by George E Remus Cincinnati known as King of the five Atlanta Federal penitentiary prisoners today were held in the tie Clarke county jail Athene Ga for isolation purposes pending further developments in the government's in- of the United States prison The six convicts were described aa being among tho witnesses that fied before the Federal grand jury which yesterday returned indictments charging solicitation and acceptance of bribes to A E Sartain and L J Fletcher formerly Warden and Deputy Warden respectively of the prison Arriving in Athens last night the prisoners were rushed to the Clarke county court house where sheriff Jackson checked them in for the jail The men dined at a restaurant before going behind the bars W H Haar Savannah C Graham New York C C Tooten vannah Emanuel Kessler referred to as Gotham's millionaire EXPULSION OF FOREIGNERS THREATENED Amiens To Be Seized On Christmas Eve Paper Warns Dae of for a red on the eve of Christmas have been rite fnr the last few The are not so concerned the plotting as thi spreading of such and the prefecture ef police promises rigorous prosecution with expulsion for of those found guilty of disseminating them of toe into great detail about the plans for the statins the com- inhesion to the cause of the drivers of the attached to the Paris garrison The opposition press also continues to cownd warnings of communists activities La and others printing accounts of an elaborate plot for the of Amiens by the local communists supposed to have been discovered by the police Dis- patches from Amiens state that the city is as calm as usual and that the communists who are a small body there are surprised not to say gratified by the importance attached to them There is however a growing tice among the communists of ing meetings outside the factories when the men are leaving in the evening Prefect Morain has sent a circular letter to the police chiefs reminding them that while all zens have the right to meet they are not permitted to block the public highways with I STRUGGLES TO Former Pugilist Also Drags Out Skeleton of Hereditary Insanity LOS ANGELES Calif Dec The death of Mrs Theresa Mors was murder according to vannah Emanuel Kessler in nis behalf bootlegger and Morris Sweetwood so of New were the other besides Remus sent to Athens Alleging prisoners have been threatened and other unworthy employed by government of- to obtain information in con- with the investigation sel for Sartain and Fletcher issued a statement in which they suggested higher officials should inquire into these methods and administer proper discipline Fletcher who with Sartain is at on bond awaiting trial on Dec Thursday in Boston at the trial 6 expressed the opinion Remus rumors that for five years have in- the name of John the tenor in a vague story that he paid to blackmailers in ton after being maneuvered into a compromising situation in the Copley Plaza Hotel are branded as false by Mr McCormack The tenor revealed today that for five years the story had been going through the country so vague that they never j could be traced further than that somebody heard from somebody else of the blackmailers plot Then pn Win J Corcoran former district at- torney of Middlesex county and five others accused of conspiring to extort from Victor F Searles an davit referring to the story in- in evidence The affidavit was made by Mrs Abraham Levy who admitted having been used by the blackmail gang to lure its victims She said she had learned of the story of tho blackmail of John McCormack as the affidavit put it through a conversation among members of the blackmailing gang and the other prisoners were sent to Athens because it was feared they would suffer at the hands of other inmates if returned to the Christmas Gift Specials Feature Sunny Monday GOMPERS WILL FILED TOAY McCoy revealed the other aide of his two-fold defense in depositions de- scribing his father mother and younger sister as victims of unsound mentality He described in words at times supplemented with pantomime how he struggled with Mrs Mors when discouraged over her troubles and determined to end it all she took a bread knife and attempted to plunge it into her heart how she then de- spite his struggle to save her snatch ed a pistol from the table at which had been and fired a bullet into her head At first he tried to stop the flow of blood he said but at last realizing that she was dead gave up to bitter despair and determined to end his life He lay down beside the body and pre- pared to send the remaining bullets of the pistol into his own body Why he did not kill himself then McCoy did not remember He became dazed he explained to the jury and his mind Jeft him will lie the last Sunny j fers among other things dis- ml that only the minimum lefore Christmas and be- count nn amount allowed by law i Monday Monday before Christmas and be- cause of this the various merchants comprising the Sunny Monday group are offering unusual mas values Below we arc quoting a few of the items from tho but you will have to turn to the Sunny Monday page and read of the many other bargains hat are being featured Tho Shop presents Electric Heaters for American Beauty Irons for and Curling Irons at Either would be an acceptable gift The Strauss Clothing snrl Shoo is again featuring tive gift slippers In ladles fancy Chinese style for and beautiful flossed trimmed at Children's slippers are also featured at OOc and Tho Bros Company of- WASHINGTON Dee will of Samuel Gompers filed today for probate left the bulk of his estate to his sons and granddaughters count on Toilet and Manicure Sets trimmed Crepe Kimonas for Gauntlets at and that have been selling at and Fur Scarfs arc so offered at 4 price The Granil features er doll buggies at half price fancy Sport Hose for Women's wool gauntlet gloves for and adjustable Clamp Lamps at The Company of- fers Toys at half price Table ens at 25 per cent off the regular prices Chiffon Dress Velvets for and OOc Robe Flannels nt The W C Co in uring Dolls for Doll Carriages for Folding Tables at and 11.89 Tool for should ho paid the widow Under a cancelled will which had been executed Sept 21 1021 the labor leader after providing for a number of specific bequests left the bulk of the estate to his widow trude A Gompers The last will declared the payments allowed under the law should be made providing Mrs Gompers is my lawful wedded wife at the limo of my demise Should she not be it directed she shall not receive any part of my estate whether real personal or mixed SEEK OUTLAW IN BURNING OF TOWN FORT WORTH Dec Law forces throughout Texas and Oklahoma combined efforts today In a search for Otto Star notorious Oklahoma outlaw whose bandit gang is believed responsible for the ing yesterday of the town of Valley View 55 miles north a Fort Worth The bandits left tho two village tanks pillaged and burned orid ed a conflagration which razed the downtown section of the bank estimated their cash loss alone at A property loss Of approximately 000 was another result of the dils visit Illness of the engineer postponement of the trial of the crew in charge of the train which killed Miss Evn at the rel avenue crossing Weather In Detail Fair tonight and Sunday except for snow flurries near Lako Erie Slightly colder tonight Yesterday 24 23 22 Nor Highest temperature 63 27 42 Lowest temperature 22 34 6 42 44 18 Sy T 01 0 Today the nun rose at m Mid at p m
