Iola Daily Register (Newspaper) - September 6, 1933, Iola, Kansas VOLUME THE No. 266. to Tba loU Dally uid lola WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6,1933. loU 187. SIX PAGES CROSS GIVES TO POOR OF THIS Cash Value sented in Distributed in BOLLINGER ELECTED J. Lee Releford Retires as of Relief Organization county taxpayers would had to contribute 8.194.60 to the relief of the poor last if they had the aid by the county chapter of the Red it was reveal ni by the given at the annual meeting of The chapter yesterday at which officers were The Rev. J. Lee retiring made public a statement which shows the work the agency has done in last 12 It the and winter of 1932- and 1933. the Allei county Red Cross distributed local in five carloads of amounting to 6500 sacks er ch 49 neary 320,000 pounds which would give very and in tlie county 16 From Gov eminent V flour of co cost to the recipients ground from wheat furnished the American Red dross from stocks of the farm authority of At retail this flour have cost yearly to the the relief agencies and the various chapters also distributed fear goods and other from cotton stocks held by the Jarm board and fabricated on of congress for free the American Red to the of 10,000 and at other the I ed Cross the year supplied the unfortunates of this county and clothing the extent of and reU the tax of contributing that i the tlie Roll Call oyer thie county brought in a total 0f in of which or in the treasuries of the subordinate chapters and for use In relief Chance to Help lie annual roll call will be held in and citizens of the should keep these figures in minq and take out their membership without y of i Releford gave credit for the and distribution of flour to the various in other They are W. L. of Mrs. L. O. Mrs. J. H. Mrs. Johy J. O. and Miss Lucy Mr. Rele ord himself was in charge of the lola Tbe new county chairman elected is C. O. lola To serve him George Mrs. R. L. second C. A. Thomas H. Miss. Dollie recording LJist year Mr. Releford was by Vosse as roll call Thompson who had of the Theta MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE FOR ' A warrant charging manslaughter in - the fourth was Issued today by County Attorney Frank Taylor against Eddie as a result of by the state Into the the automobile accident Sunday night near Humboldt which caused the death of William County Attorney Taylor said that the warrant had been served by Sheriff Bud Hurley and that had been Officers expect him to be brought to lola for arraignment today or himself was injured in the accident as was the third passenger in the Roberta Their are not expected to prove The sentence prescribed by law for conviction on a degree manslaughter charge is from six months to two Later today Taylor announced that had been brought before Justice H. B. Parker in Humboldt who fixed bond at for his appearance at a preliminary hearing to be held in Humboldt September 18 at 10 a. m. made Mr. and Mr. Dorsi were IN lOLA Ready to Accept ' person living in or near to make application to the government for a loan under the recently enacted home loan or wants information concerning it. should consult Miss Grace Petersen In the office of R. W. A. CUne of Mr. dine is for the home loan association in Allen Cline said that since the organization had started operation August 21, 80 applications have He more applications will be when persons in this part that they can get and adequate information froni Miss an assistant of WEATHER ROADS FOR Fair and not change In lor 24 hours ending 5 p. m. 89; lowest last 66; normal for excess 5; excess 0ncc January 1, 910 this last 91; Palpitation for the 24 hours ending At 7 m. total for to 28.21; deficiency January 1, Relative humidity at 7 a. m. per reduced to 29.98 5:^ a. sun 6:45 p. m. Weather and Dirt Vodsk MISTAKE MAY BE CRASH Error in Funeral Announcement Results Unfortunately An unintentional almost tragic because of its may have been the cause in part at least of the accident today which resulted in the wrecking of an almost new automobile belonging to the Rev. A. V. pastor of the lola United Brethren Mr. escaped without a In yesterday's edition of The Register appeared an account of the death of Mrs. I. E. Lineback at the home of a sister in together with plans for the Included in the account was the announcement that Mr. Howland was to conduct the This morning Mr. Howland drove to LaHarpe to learn if the family wanted his he had not been previously informed by Reading about it in The Register was the first notice he had Upon his return to Mr. Howland said that a truck suddenly turned in front of causing a collision in which the minister's automobile was badly When Mr. Lineback learned of the he called The Register to say that he had the reporter yesterday that the name of the minister was the Rev. Will of and not Mr. Howland of The reporter recalled today that he had understood Mr. Lineback yesterday to say - very natural in view of the similarity in the sound of the two in fact repeated the name to him and understood Mr. Lineback to answer in the It all goes to show how far a slight may If The Register is in any way to blame for the it is sincerely The funeral of Mrs. E. whose death occurred is to be held in the LaHarpe Methodist church tomorrow at 2 p. conducted by the Rev. Will Burial Is to be made In the MINIONS OF THE LAW CHALLENGE lOLA'S CLERICS Parsons Accept the Gage Thrown by Officers to Duel on Diamond TEACHERS INCLUDED Sunday School Instructors To Augment Ranks of The Ministers With the fats and leans on the shelf for a few seasons following two or three diamond appearances last the lola officers of the law and stepped forward with ai challenge to the preachers of the city for a baseball Officer Slim of the lola police force made the speaking for the The Rev. J. Lee representing the received the It was The game will be played next Wednesday evening at Riverside park and is to start at 5:30 p. m. An admission charge of 15 cents will be the proceeds to be given to the drum I said today the preachers on playing the game at 10 next Sunday but his side refused saying they Would be busy at that Sunday Releford at first believed he couldnt get his group together at any time other than 10 a. m. but finally consented to Just who and Releford will select to fill the various positions is not known yet but the lines have been said he would obtain his lineup from among those who have held a position with the law enforcement groups of the city and county in the past and from those now in the He said he would allow Releford the selection of Sunday school teachers in addition to will probably end up with two crack teams the players being selected from ever saw the inside of a church or anyone who ever fired a It was pointed out both captains might find performers who have had some baseball Otis and a former major league hurl for Earl B. Sunday school superintendent iand a former Twilight league pitcher may toss for Both sides began preparations today for the the Police cleaning their guns and the Preachers praying for YOUTH BACK HOME Charges Boy with Raymond the youth who made the mistake of trying to hold up Marshal James a few nights pleaded guilty to the charge of carrying concealed was fined in Bassett police which his friends and has returned with came to his relief to his home in Oklahoma A more serious charge might have been brought if Marshal Frederickson had But when it was that he is but 19 years of that he is that he has never before been arrested or accused of any and that if released he would attend the Indian School at for the next the Marshal decided that the boy ought to be given another chance to make good without having to overcome the stigma of a prison decision which does credit as much to his judgment as to bis HARLET GENE DENNING DIES Son of lols Couple After ShMi Harley Gene year-old son of Mr. and Harold G. died at the family home on North Chestnut yesterday after an illness of about two The funeral be held tomorrow at 2:30 p. In funeral conducted by the Rev. J. H. Burial Is to be made in the lola The child Is survived by his parents and a 3 years Also surviving are his grandparents and Mrs. M. who Vm north of his Mr. and K. former ndv m ft jpw la VERMONT VOTES REPEAL The Twenty-Fifth State to Ballot On Twenty-First Follows Lead of Sept. 6. Vermont was on record today as the twenty-fifth successive state to vote for repeal of the Eighteenth A light vote was cast yesterday by citizens of the Green Mountain long a stronghold of prohibition and by midnight the complete vote from the 248 towns and cities For 41.220; 20,631. A ticket of 14 representing each of the 14 will meet at Montpelier to ratify the twenty-first amendment by which the Eighteenth would be Only three all rural in were listed In the dry They were located in the north part of the Hi on the and Orange county in the west { Barely half the total in the lust general election recorded The comparatively little interest was attributed to a general feeling that the result in Vermont would have little effect either way in the country-wide repeal A state enforcement act prevents stronger than 3.2 per cent beer and wines and despite the action of the remainder of the Vermonters must be content with their the next meeting of the which is not scheduled to convene in regular session again 1935. Vermont was one of the earliest prohibition In 1852 a prohibition law was enacted after a statewide It remained in effect until 1902, when it was replaced by a local option act that lasted until the Eighteenth DEATH OF GEORGE FISH Former Service Man at St. John's George ex-service man and a native of died at St. hospital today after a short He was 36 years The will be held at home at 3:30! p. and burial is to be made In Highland Mr. Pish spent virtually aU his in lola and at the time of his death operated a garage at 424 North During the war he was a member of the 164th Depot brigade at Camp and later of Battery 30th Held Members of the Leslie J. Campbell post of the American Legion participate In the Include bis widow and two Mrs. Lena of and Mrs. Amy of BOs who Uret hapt Storm Takes Terrific Toll in Grande Valley Estimated At of Dollars Caused By Tropical Hurricane Which Abo Causes Deaths of at Least 32 Persons From Brownsville lUO Miles Sept 6. Driving far into the area of South rer lief and others today had accounted for only 11 much than first It was however that this number would be exceeded soon as a complete survey be the Sept. Thirty-two approximately 1500 injured and damage estimated at millions of dollars was the toll exacted by the great tropical hurricane which devastated beautiful and prosperous lower Rio Grande of Texas and Mexico Monday night and Crashing in from the of Mexico at the storm spread death and over one of the richest agricultural areas in the United and only the fact warnings had been LAWRENCE MAN Former in A. E. F. Sullivan Commands Kansas Dept. the Associated Sept. 6.-A corporal of the World War Frank T. Sullivan of Lawrence today heads the Kansas department of the American One of half a dozen candidates for the commandership prior to the fifteenth annual convention Sullivan was the unanimous choice for the post at the balloting here late During the war he served In the army artillery a division In the movement and control of ammunition dumps in Sullivan succeeds El W. who was named chairman of the delegates to the national Other officers elected Roy Ernest A. Dr. A. A. Hugh A. finance Rex and Kirke Resolutions adopted at the closing sessions included one calling for concerted opposition to any reduction under the national economy act of the compensation for service connected disabilities pf veterans and for the of widows and orphans of Another protested the removal of the veterans hospital from while another asked that the same age eligibility provision be fixed for veterans of the Spanish-American war and for veterans of the World District officers were chosen as First Rock senior and V. M. junior Second and Bruder Fort Third A. A. and Paul Fourth and Preston Fifth and L. P. Sixth Harrison and Clifton H. Seventh Lee Garden and John St. to the national iti addition to former Commander Commander Adjutant Wilford Ernest and Adolph - cast a week in advance prevented much larger loss of Despite the the hurricane caught many people unable to withstand its tremendous and fears were expressed the death list would grow as crippled made it possible to gather the complete story of the There were 20 known dead in Brownsville and ten in and two In Rio Six of the dead in area were for in just across tho Rio Grande from Whether the storm snatched additional lives from the many small towns and villages and agricultural as it raked a path of terror from the mouth of the great river toward the moving into was not known Calls for relief and even for institution of martial law went out from aome of the stricken and Governor Miriam A. a well as federal moved swiftly to bring them At least five trains hastily equipped to battle disease and allay thirst and threatened by the temporary destruction of plants ahd food and were rushed into the storm One train moved from the nearest available two from San one from Corpus which also experienced the destructive power of the and one from far to the on Page X 7.) To Death From A Yacht Party the Associated Sept. 6-In the midst of revelry aboard 45-foot cruiser off Belmont yacht harbor early today Miss Clara 24, of suddenly divested herself of her clothing and leaped Into the shouting to her companions that she was tired Of Her boiy was not and three other girls five men for an evening cruise to the World's fair and were j returning to the north shore two miles from Miss jumped from the after i a hell of a had shouted before members of Imported to coast guards the yacht reached The party wais given by Paul president of the confectionery The coast a guest told Capt. John there had been particular and he knew no reason for Miss Moore's Redel stated that there had been no drinking aboard the Immediately after the girl's body disappeared in the he said he put the boat about and searched for but she was never seen to Two of guests were A. E. firm member of the and John president of Kirkgasser & Redel said Drake or had invited the young women for the They Miss Moore as an red-haired Gundelach told this story to Capt. John of the gentlemen on board was entertaining some out of town They wanted some girls on the one of the fellows called a number and got four We went put on the lake to sec tlie and enjoy the About 12:30 a. this Moore glri suddenly began dancing around the duck and acting like She pulled off one piece of clothing after another and then she ran screaming to ihe side and dived into the whirled the boat around so as to get the moonlit of water between as and the place where she went But we never her TO CUBA UNDER CHIEFS ORDER Roosevelt Directs Secretary of Navy to Proceed to bland ATLANTIC FLEET IN Most of Warships to Be Concentrated Near Havana Port the Associated Sept. 6.-President Roosevelt today directed of the Claude to proceed directly to aboard the cruiser Swanson will sail from Annapolis at 4 o'clock today and will arrive in Havana Friday Leaving a White House conference on the Cuban Swanson said he would go directly to He added he had no specific At the same Admiral H. chief of flashed orders for a concentration of most of the warships in Atlantic waters Shunning It was emphasized at the White House that the president is withholding on intervention as the last step to be taken to restore A spread of the disorders throughout the Island to the far away points of Guantanamo and Santiago is causing the precautionary The battleship Mississippi was ordered from Norfolk this morning to take a station off of Key reported a regiment of marines was ready at for service If The New Mexico and Wyoming are stationed at Philadelphia and R. but they have not been ordered to Sept. 6.-Cuba's revolutionary confronted with the possibility that the rank and file of the army to which it owes Its might get oat of attacked the of setting the new state today by full representation for every revolutionary Although the army privates and GIRL HELD IN 3IAN'S MURDER Insurance Man Slain by Oklahoma Girt Says Oklahoma Sept. 6. - The girl companion of J. Justice when he was shot to death late last night on a lonely road north of the was held in jail today for Still suffering from bullet wound in her right she when a holdup man turned his pistol her after kilUng Ruth Terry was arrested on orders of Deputy Sheriff W. I. 23, secretary and treasurer of the Insurance was shot five Tlie girl said two men accosted them as they sat on a cushion from Justice grappled with one of the she and ' the man opened The two meii then escaped In Justice's car after robbing him of The car was found abandoned near the scene Terry was brought to the dty by a passing Justice's father is president of the insurance The family came here 18 months ago from Ala. ' Suicide in K. C. CdL Kansas Sept. 6. a charge of attempting to steal hogs from the stockyards Ernest 30, odl pea Us Mt. sy COUNTIES JOINED Consolidation to Make for Economy In Wheat ControL For purposes of Allen and Bourbon counties have been consolidated into one area for the administration of the government's wheat control Farm Agent Dan Braum announced Under the new Mr. Braum Bourbon county will be divided into two districts with directors and Allen county will be divided into three districts with three The northern tier of townships will compose the first district in this the middle tier the and the remaining townships the Each unit wiU elect a director and two The five directors will then meet and elect a a a and a will also elect an allotment committee of three who will receive all determine and make the Allen elections will be held September 11, 12, and 13, Mr. Sept. 6. 31, was fatally injured last night his motor car with a ear driven by his FMd Is toy bis and an In- officers who effected ousting of the De mingled during the night with civilians the governmental they did not get out of It was that trouble might The work of establishing the new state got under way within range of the guns of an American lying in the Although Havana was comparatively peaceful other parts of the island did not enjoy In Cienfuegos revolutionary demonstrators sacked hardware stealing Trade was at a Army and navy detachments protected As former Mayor Aragones of was boarding the Balre with his family he was All 4a Be leaders of the new government went into conference to discuss matters of Sergio one of the commission of five now heading the gave assurances that every faction would receive Curbo that the most Important thing to accomplish right now was to Insure public Ho said he was satisfied with existing American residents of the Isle of Pines sent a delegation to United States Sumner The purpose of this action waA not officially made but It reported that the delegation asked that a destroyer be sent to the as they feared an among the 3.000 Inmates of model prison The coup d'etat by army privates and officers resulted in the ousting of about 900 commissioned and they constituted another problem for the fledgling Nobody expected these officers to take the political overturn lying Among the factions to be recognized in the new Carbo are the women's revolutionary TALL GRASS STILL GROWS he got lost iri the It was so is a tale familiar i to many old timers in ' told to in their youth many times about men who supposedly lost their way riding horseback through I he prairie For the of legends The Register cannot but it can vouch for the fact that grass not only but does grow tall enough near lola to conceal a large man walking upright in it. Will a who lives northwest of lola and a descendant of pioneers who established a homestead of brought to the Farm Bureau recently a bunch of Blue And tall it Its uppermost blades more than eight feet above it is the big to the Blue grass which fattened cattle in parts Of for Mr. Heiman found the grass growing in a swale on the old In soil pf where the giant variety the smaller variety grows the ' MANY KILLED IN EASTERN WRECK Milk Train Crashes Into Erie Flyer On Main WATKINS GLEN DEER Animal Tram Ledge and Disappears Into the N. 6. Glen lost its latest attraction today with the of its celebrated deer from the rocky ledge it had occupied for the past ten Scorning the temporary and camouflaged bridge that bad been erected for its the under the gentle urging of two made Its way cautiously down the precipitous bank into the stream that flows through the crossed to the opposite bank on the south jumped to a small ledge and then ambled to the top of the bank on the south side of the It then trotted by of the tourist camps near the entrance to the reservation and headed for the near-by where It was soon lost to ' If yim Tbe Register call 8S0 or 978ni 7:00 ' ' the Associated Sept. 6.- Fourteen persons were killed and 25 Others some of them so seriously are expected to as a milk train traveling at a fast plowed tato a New Flyer of the Erie railroad at the city's eastern outskirts last The en route to New had been stopped by a switch engine at work All of the dead were taken from a wooden that sandwiched between cars of steel and cars from the end of the telescoped like an accordian in the hands of an enraged One moment before the coach had been with many of them returning The next it was a mass of splinters and twisted ' Every hospital in Johnson City and sent ambulances to the traveling On a state highway that skirts the tracks where they follow the Susquehanna converted their machines into carrying to operating M. H. King of engineer the milk running Homell and didn't see the signal light in time to It happened too We were coming a At the end of the Flyer a steel car with another and the wooden coach of the type to railroaders as old 1037," the one from which the dead were Ahead of that werfe other steel including Persons in the diner were from their seats in a of broken The impact of the collision split the wooden like kindling and Erie officials immediately opened investigation to Whether a signal light been set against milk and If so. why engine crew of that train did not see it In Whether of the passenger train had proceeded down the track to the rear of Ing Whether the milk train had received any previous notice of the halting of the The Harry 38, Donald Harry 44, EU M. 0. Mrs. T. M. Mrs. Mary Mrs. Frank Mrs. Arthur Anna 13, her all of R. and two WJlliam a who witnessed the gave a vivid of the ' had gonje back to my beside the track for my coat when I saw the passenger standing on the track with a train switching I said to myself that's That's the first time I ever saw number 8 held up by a saw the brakeman ris of and I him about the He muttered something kept on I heard the mpk train and I saw Its light shooting down the ilie brakeman Md a red He began like mad in the direction of the milk waving his I got off the track didnt hear any squealing of I said see I began to run as fast as I could away from the The next thing I knew there was an awful a mountain falling I ran back to the train Part of the can were piled like a heap of kindling I could bear people screaming crying for and yelling other people's ri began to pull people out of the One little boy was screaming his I dont know how many I pulled out J bavent lieen aUe to sleep 9 wink and guea Itll be a long ta out of air it LAMSON TELLS HIS STORY OF FINDING WIFE Care During Night of Illness Described to Jury In Murder Trial HOLDS HER IN ARMS Reason for Shirt Brought Out In Testimony the Associated San Sept. 6.-David A. Lamson took the witness stand today in his trial on charges of his young Starting his with the night the Lamson said his wife had a touch of Indigestion and he slept in the undressed in the bath he describing his clothes which he said he hung in the bath scene of the death of Mrs. Lamson a few hours 3 and 4 Lamson called me. She complained of I rubbed her back for a few and I think I got her a glass of lemon Later I got her some hot soup and a cheese She ate some and went to The defendant said he slept then until about 6 a. prepared his breakfast of Jam and coffee in and went out in the yard to He said he had dressed In the living room to avoid Mrs. Bonfire I cleaned the weeds about the About 8-o'clock I lit a ashes from which was taken an iron which the state contends was used to kill Mrs. 9 he prepared breakfast for Allene and drew her I awakened her and told her her bath was went Into the bath and I steadied her as she stepped into the I told her her breakfast was ready and I did not want to leave the Are for very long. saw Miss Vincent a come out of her Then Mrs. L. M. real estate who said she had a client for our I her to go to the front Lamson said his while in the included a shirt and He said he changed into more presentable picked up my pajamas In the living room and went down the looking into the bath first thing I recall he beginning to Then I saw Allene in the bath Held to pulled her up the best I could and held her to he went choking with pulled her up the best I he went then went to the door and liet in Mrs. I don't remember what I I remember seeing Mrs. Buford a I don't think I fainted but I couldn't I went out In the patio and remember seeing my Margaret Then something broke inside me and I and my sister you ever say did I ever marry asked M. defense said The accused man had speaking in little more than whitpen u he described the scene of but he got a better grip on himself as he finished the first phase it his and Rea began to question Between questions Lamson told of his being quizzed by Howard deputy Only Orange of the first things he said what I had to the night I think I told him orange He quoted the officer as having said be who killed Mrs. Lamson and how it was but could not understand Lamson then repeated his original story of denying to that he slew his Lamson said his wife's hair was in coiled braids when she went Into the bath Rea brought out a soiled shirt which Lamson identified as the one he donned in exchange for the bloodstained one he had on when he emerged from the bath There the defense turned Lamson over to the prosecution for Deputy District Attorney Herbert Bridges asked him how he went to the of Dr. and Mrs. R. Wright the night before the but with defense which were Lamson said he and his wife went to Wright home shortly after 8 p. m. and described how he was The state called for exhibits of his The exhibits were not In court and recess to 2 p. m. was Bidge Harvey Ridge is at liberty today after having furnished bond fixed by J. M. Lamer for bis appearance September M at a bearing on charges of degree murder in ttu or P. O.
