Kokomo Tribune (Newspaper) - December 24, 1919, Kokomo, Indiana MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE KOKOMO PAID VOL 93 OCLOCK EDITION KOKOMO TWELVE PAGES CENTS CHRISTMAS TO BE FAIR READY TO REAL WEATHER PROM ISED FOR THURSDAY is la the Closing Stage of Big gest Holiday Trade in Citys History TRUE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON Snow This Afternoon and To night Is Prediction ot the Weather Bureau Homeward Bound Pervades of Christmas Cheer In Every Home weather will greet Santa he makes his rounds tonight in Kokomo Up to a late today for a white like those for a wtt to depend on the stocks la to be slim According to the wea ther bureau there were no indications of more either on Christmas eve Christmas day for the portion of the United cant of the Mis jpf river But all that has been are forecast for this i afternoon and tonight in tho middle New England and middle states according to the wea ther bureau Fair weather is ed to here tomorrow Tem will continue low over most of the country but no where is cold expected A Hi jf there is no more snow Ihle evening the curtain will be lt to anything those of last and vicinity are all set for At the of Mrs Pearl T Morgan Is Fatally Stricken While to Work In Forest DEATH B SHOCK TO FAMILY Left Home Apparently In Best of Known In Russiaville down on by tor the biggest ever known here When Christ morning dawns the entire com munity will be too much engaged ex to think of doing anything elm j Tin trade which been j for a fortnight cloud with an j of buying today All j and were crowded The tion ot all of them WM that tho rush would continue until late in the night Job of all that of the for it up to them to that nil are delivered be fore the work closed no matter bow lute they were bought It is a hard but the are managing to perform it In the main business will In Kokomo Thursday Mont of Becoming suddenly HI while on a traction car from Kokomo to Forest where she Is employed as sta which were general throughout tlon agent for the Indiana Railway the wrst have not melted ow Light company Mcs Pearl Talbert 1015 South street died AT none being to their who have been worked to the limit for u to enjoy with other folks The factories will knock off work this evening and only enough men to up steam and do other chores will be on duty Tho regular routine of op will be maintained only in those that rount of necessity be kept going There will be of course the usual number of dinners tions and The nodal enjoy tho holiday season will be in full flower Tho always lire doing their best by the children of the Sunday schools and of each congregation whoso are meager arc being pleasantly remembered The of marked liere in Kokomo Iho people of the i 1 rural abundantly Christmas than evf r before It in Improbable that there U n homo anywhere within the confines of Howard county that will not have j have a chance to try out his Christm th of her father Charles Taibert I R L agent at Russia ville oclock this morning Dn Bruce D Lung county coroner has announced that was due to cere hemorrhage Mrs Morgan boarded the car leaving Kokomo for Frankfort at oclock this morning feeling well in every re Ry the time the car had reached jWcst she began to feel an of illness coming on and sum the conductor Before ho could reach her she had lapsed into The car arrived in Russia ville at oclock and she was re moved to the interurban station where she died of an hour later Mrs Morgan never re gained after being re moved from the car Her as a great shock to her family and host of friends in Ko and She had al been In perfect health and never what It was to bo ill She never had the least warning of such an at tack until sho was suddenly stricken while on the car Her friends believed her to be facing many years of perfect activity Mrs Morgan was born In Russiaville in 1897 and lived in that until n short time ago when Jury Sustains Impeachment Pro Against County Commissioners WETS FULL Santa Clans Starts Annual Pil grimage In Trucks Among Needy of the City NOBODY IS BEING MISSED HOUSE HOLIDAY BE RAISED AS OWING TO PRESIDENTS ILLNESS THERE WILL BE NO PARTS President Will Have Dinner In His Tree But the Usual Christmas Decorations Deo Fuel Companies Announce In Everyone Who Wants Is Getting Food Clothes and Toys From Fund Today The busiest spot in Kokomo today is Day at the White House will be a quiet Owing to President Wil sons Illness his grand children will not come to Washington and conse there will be no Christmas tree The White House however will be decorated as Mrs Wilson to day directing the placing of tias holly mistletoe and evergreen The president will eat his Christmas dinner in his room It will be served by Mrs Wilson Bear Admiral Gray crease of Thirty to Thirty Five Cents a Ton KANSAS MINERS RETURNING Men In Pittsburgh Field Await Word From Howat Before Ending the Strike Washington Dec Wll OF DOWN CIRCUIT COURT IS OVER ADVANCE OF OXE KOKOMO BAK ER LASTS TWO DAYS CHARGES ARE UPHELD Case Was Outgrowth of chase of Truck In Which Premium Was Paid Dec 24 S and John Jack Koch from the Honey Creek township schools and attended the high school them for two years After i leaving school she was employed in this city for two About seven engaged by the months she county cir cuit court Tuesday night after less than hours deliberation A ver dict of guilty on eight of the accusa and not guilty on the other eight excellent service i The deceased was one of Howard Competition of Others at Lower Level 1 and Public Is tlic Cause of Action Another happy thought for Christ mas made its appearance this morn ing with the announcement of W H Mohler that the price of bread raised on would revert to its former price today The schedule of advanced prices were in effect only two days According to the announcement the old prices under which Mohler sold tis bread prior to the of this week will prevail and will be maintained in definitely The change was made be cause of protests of the public on ac be cause other bakers of the city who pos sessed sufficient flour purchased un to Kokomo She was grad count the brides Sometime during the Bprine of 1918 she was married to Morgan a highly respected h of cheer Even at j WM returned by the of which W vou man of tnis cny the county and county Jail jA Carson local manufacturer was mar solemnized shortly before he For a onc tt there will bo certain that will It Is expected that an order remind the Inmates that Ir In the season by the court will be issued removing he a even from the mem of Peace on Earth Good Will Toward j the men from office Ibers of her own family After being 1 The principal in the mustered out of the military service All In It n Uin entire community for ot on which and his wife made their found guilty concerned home in Russiaville they being to he something of trite the buying of a Diamond T motor to secure a house in Kokomo A short spirit of the beautiful nnd tor tnB county from n Chicago time ago they came to this city where mm in tho heart of every individual concern more than is by the Kokomo Rubber the and turmoil and lt Hnd al the anu turmoil ana lt was Hnd al anguish the world hns tno a Position w been Christmas finds the and in this deal and rode pie singularly also by the state Kol that the happy and nnd were the wiry implies Out of work nnd for tho company that sold the nand weariness of the a was on this transaction that Wc by grand Jury that has begotten a little toward one another In nil And who shall say that there ia not hack of thh Umt be for a Mrs Morgan retained her Ith tie I R L the traction cars daily bc and Korest Mrs Morgan was known to the Rus sia vine Infancy They will say a finer girl never lived a kindly word for everybody was ever ready to sacrifice anything I find it way back nnd hap pier days Viewed from whatever wishes It must be admitted that the hS sr Sm Neither of the defendants nor their sue possessed to make life more pleas attorney Durre was in the ant for those about her and lived the verdict was beautiful Christian life She was said he did not know an active member of the Lynn Friends whether he would make n motion Hers is a place that can not be a new trial until after he had conin tied by another She leaves a mem suited his clients lory more precious than gold to those This Is tie first time in the history j wno knew her of county that a public on and der the old prices felt themselves still able to sell at former rates Mohler stated that sometime ag bakers of the large supplies of h purchased in large quantities at th time that the great demand fo his bread had exhausted this suppl and that he was now to buy h materials at greatly advanced The advance on flour alone he said amounted to one and onethird cent on the loaf the time he advanced his price to the public he believed many of th other bakers of the city to be in muc the liame condition himself It de however that other baker had not felt the demand for bread s keenly as himself and so had large re serve stockson hand which would en able them to continue at the old price for some time For this reason Mr Mohler to make a further effort to sell at th giving the public as much a advantage over the increased Jprice o flour as possible In hopes that thes prices would soon be lowered again t him MORE SESSIONS THERE UN TIL JANUARY 12 Kokomo Creek Case However Will Continue to Grind Down City Hall are the husband the par ents Mr and Mrs Charles Talbert of Russiaville five brothers Dewitt of any kind j Koch are republicans and their and Elmer Russell Herbert i wn be named by Louis Winana Arthur of and Miss that the com the other member of Talbert a student in Cleve lly anl bonro of county commissioners and jand Ohio She was a granddaughter rtin do S Copeland auditor oj the Rev Samuel Talbert pastor of no moro becoming than are republicans I the Russiaville church a wish for nil thI Williams took office January 1 1919 church man of the state of thf world A Christmas was appointed to succeed Fred arrangements been v I a P J n nnd o Happy New At the the stamp divisions will had opposed the of NEXT WEEK frhm 7 ru m to n n m Albrt J Veneman ns county Jie on of mall Koch ted j New Dec than j members democrat who resigned a few j completed and will be announced later tomorrow months ago After 100 returned soldiers j 3 asked for hls I because TO HOLD will ie on of mall i was ui throughout the residence districts Of and Is scheduled to take office for this j Op the and thp carriers will j term January 1 but it is said i whn tKo who have followed nis impeachment will brary association summoned the to a national conference be held iii incur January 1 2 and S it was the districts Carriers in these him now from taking office for the full here today Measures of obtaining wider distribution of pub libraries throughout the country also will be discussed cover their routes as usual There will be no of mnl in case that districts Vlll have their holiday term for which he mas and the residence districts the day following when there I The impeachment of Williams will be of mail to followed a legal battle All will be made and out going mail dispatched ns usual that WAV BLESSING In the circuit a week ago last Monday Mr Durre for the fense pleaded fora of not guilts saying that the charges were not sufficient to warrant from office and that feeling against the defendants had been largely stirred up Lane B Nash Reed Asks Divorce Nash B Reed Myrtle Reed for a divorce this afternoon the complaint being filed by Attorney Lloyd B Mc Clure The defendant it is alleged has become sullen and morose Andin different toward the plaintiff and no John Wl said that the each of the slx a wife shehad n tor him and wishes that he were dead Mrs May Blessing that an in justice was done her in comments tention to alleged frauds inroad conj that were made In court when her and in the purchase of the j plication for divorce was turned down truck for the county It was alleged asserts that no one had any right in the accusation that Koch and Wili to intimate that she was no better as liams had allowed bills for work that than Blessing was as a been done without contract that band and that the people who had advertise for bids known her In Kokomo for the last that they had permitted certain road twelve will sustain her on the contractors to ose toots that belonged j question of reputation She says that to the that they had bought a j the comment has been road plane county when it was to cast a cloud on her name most not had let unjustly and that this fact canbe esto other than the and by inquiry among her they had financially profited in j the purchase of the T for a years Of NEW YORK Hf BEHALF OF PO PRISONERS For Amnesty to Carrol lers Dressed In Prison Garb on Tour of New Tork Dec for Christmas Day demonstration were completed by the League for Amnesty for Political The program calls for organization of flying Squadrons to convey carollers dressed in prison and with wrists manacled on a tour ofthe citys churches from pd Trinity in Lower Broadway to St Patricks cathedral in Fifth avenue There also will be walkers who will act as pickets when congregations leaving the will carry ban ners reading i There are prisoners behind bars for conscience have died Ten political prisoners for their opinions Eighteen free Eng lish conscientious It was announced at league head quarters that carollers and walkers would be met at the church of the Ascension Rev Dr Percy Stick ney Grant rector who attracted at tention by criticising the action of the government in deporting a cargo of reds on the Buford THE CHRISTMAS TRIBUNE order that Tribune employes may share in the Christmas holi day Thursday issue will be sent to press at 11 oclock This enable the carriers to complete the distribution by noon or shortly thereafter Minister to Haiti Coming Home Washington Dec Ball American minister to Haiti is enroute home on leave of ab sence Secretary Belden is in charge of the legation THE WEATHER I Generally fair tonight and I day somewhat colder tonight RIs temperature In portion Thursday The September term of the Howard circuit court Is over Except for the fact that the Kokomo creek improve ment case which is being heard at the city hall and which will continue to grind there will be no further sessions of the circuit court until the next term opens which will be on Monday Jan uary 12 Judge Overtoil made the order adjourning the September term except as to the Kokomo creek case Wednesday evening The September term covered a period of nearly four months A considerable amount of business was transacted In the period a goodly cases being cleared from both the civil docket and the state docket number of cases still pending espe on the civil docket is quite large insuring plenty for bar to do When the January term opens one face long familiar in the court room missing C E who so long presided at the clerks desk will have retired from the position anil taken up his duties with the Kokomo Trust company Henry will take over control of the clerks office on the first of the new year i son tho presidents physician will spend most ot the day at home with his family and there will be virtually no restrictions in the menu to be pre pared for Mr Wilson Tho president will spend some time out of doors in his wheel chair Tomorrow morning Mrs Wilson will Santa Glaus headquarters on the west distribute presents to friends of tho i son today issued a call for a meeting side of the courthouse square Here famil and to who live on here Monday of tho special commission t the country side along the route to the it is that hundreds of bushel in Virginia i are being filled with a variety of good where thc president has played golf things that will bring gladness joy since he has been in the White House and comfort to as many homes in the i Hundreds of presents and cards have j been received at the White House i The baskets not only have to number being delivered today HIDES HARD LUCK STOUT SOUNDS FALSE Is Well Pleased With dations and Would Like to Remain Sheriff Ora is holding Earl Hide under observation at the county The man claiming to be a re soldier claimed that he was without funds and applying first at the police department was directed to the sheriff for food and shelter He was unable to produce his discharge ut said this and his clothing were at 1337 South Delphos street Inquiry of the young mans parents disclosed that they had neither and that two weeks ago hehad left home they knew not where and they were surprised to learn t his return Hide Has been riding the bumpers As he claims to have been d from Camp which seems unlikely for an Indiana soldier Sheriff Butler is making inquiries of the ers It that Hide suffered in an automobile accident while in the ervice in Prance this may affect his reliability at times He is well pleased situation and has given the sheriff that e would like to remain all winter with lim But that the young man should come to the county jail rather thin to his home for lodging is o the sheriff a matter he does not un erstand packed to overflowing with tho big re serve stock of eatables and wearables books and toys but each one has to be tagged with the recipients name am address loaded into a motor truck and delivered at its destination Any one of the baskets when laden arid literally they are packed so full that it is hard to keep the objects on top from failing as heavy a load as one man wants to stagger under This may give some Idea of the magni tude of the task which is further aug by the expedition with which it has to be done Here is an inventory of the contents of one of the baskets just as it was sent out this morning One dressed Potatoes sweet and Irish Coffee and sugar Two kinds of breakfast cereals One bag cornmeal One pound butter substitute Bread One dozen oranges Cake One dozen bananas Candy Two pairs stockings Two pairs gloves Dolls and other toys Books Other wearing apparel The contents of the baskets vary In some respects The comestibles form of every one needs of families are considered and met as far as practicable For Instance where the size calls for it two chick included and more of the sub stantial eatables Perhaps Ings are put in another basket and so on But in as far as it is possible to do so the actual needs of each Individual case is met And then the actual labor is beset with unexpected vexations For a time this week the distributors were up in the air not knowing whether the heaps pf stuff ordered could be delivered within a month It was discovered in ample time that the baskets required could not be procured in Kokomo so Kent Blacklidge ordered a sufficient number to be shipped direct from a basket factory at Plymouth Ind The order specified be shipped by When they did not show up by Monday night Some anxiety was felt and take any chances the FOR HOLIDAYS appointed to investigate wages and prices in the bituminous coul industry ilie commission at that time Is ex to lay plans for its inquiry which probably will continue several weeka Chicago Dec With Son Will Spend Christmas at the Home of His Sisters HE ONCE LIVED IN THAT CITY His Visit There Warmly Wei corned and He Will Be Much Entertained Licensed To Marry Raymond Harrell and Viola Pres on Harry Abresch and Lucile Grinsley Marion G Porter and Flora Taylor and Lena Stillwell Paul Bessie Peters Edward Isley Syrns and Martha Stokes Allen Lytie tod Esther Lytie manager of the factory was got by long distance Yep hed shipped the consignment freight In all likelihood they would have ar rived in time 1920 From this end of the line the consignment of baskets was located en route and the Lake Erie agent at Rochester prom ised to intercept the car at that city and have the consignment transferred from freight to express Meantime however Mr Blacklidge was taking no Practically every grocery in the city was visited and every bushel basket commandeer with the promise that it should be replaced with a perfectly new one when the shipment arrived With the sup ply thus acquired the work of pack ing Then Tuesday afternoon the carload of baskets ordered from the factory came In by express as the Its a safe bet that he is the father of a flock of kiddies of his own The actual work of breaking open the original boxes barrels crates and cartons and transferring their con tents to the baskets is being done by the district committees of the Social Welfare Department The chairmen of the six districts into which the city is No 1 Mrs Sam Bartlett No 2 Mrs Will Finch No 3 Mrs Anna Aaron and Mrs Otis V Mrs Joe Klein No 5 Mrs John CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO Harry Jackman Asks Divorce his wife neglected her ome and children and treated him ruelly Harry O Jackman has Esther Jackman for divorce He also asks the custody of the two chil en George Wendell aged four ears Sherman thre years t age last June At orney Lloyd McClure brings the suit GLAUS FUND Following is a report of the Santa at noon today Previously Virginia Congressman Dead Washington Dec Allen Watson of Virginia died here today Mary Katherine Reeder Rebecca Fredrick O M Myers One of the Phil H W C Purdum Robert Mr and Mrs D R Morgan Jane Fletcher Owen Mrs A Total The fund closes today with am ple In bank to do ail the ot the Welfare Lincoln Dec John J cameto Lincoln to day for a holiday visit with memoers of his family More than a a century ago he made this city his home Then he was a at the Univer sity of Nebraska and commandant of he university cadets and was known as Young Lieutenant He today an international figure some friends declare they are bent on drafting him as a re presidential candidate General with his ten year old son Sergeant Warren Pershing and the latters aunt Miss May Per shing arrived shortly after ten oclock this morning Laclede the generals birth place They were ac companied from Omaha by Governor Samuel R Mayor J F Miller of Lincoln and a state reception committee From the railroad depot where he was given an enthusiastic ovation arid where he was met by former serv ice men General Pershing rode in an automobile through crowded and flag bedecked streets to the residence of his sisters Miss May Pershing and Mrs D M Butler with whom the general son makes his home The boy rode with his father Although a rest was on the generals program for his visit he will be busy much ofthe time meeting old friends and attending club dinners and other functions including a public reception at the state capitol on next Friday evening He will remain here about ten days before resuming his tion tour of army posts On his way westward from Chicago General Pershing will arrive at vari other points as follows Rock ford January S Des Moines Jan uSry 7 Omaha January 8 enworth January 10 Fort Riley Jan uary 12 Cheyenne January 17 Ogden January 16 On his return to Washington Gen eral Pershing will prepare from data gathered during his tour a report for Secretary Baker containing his recom as to camp posts or de pots which should be retained perma for use in future military emer consumers today were In receipt of announcements Irura several fuel companies notifying them ot an increase in the retail price of between thirty and cents a ton on all mined since meiu of the recent bituminous minera strike to make up for the fourteen per cent wage Increase the workers gained inis does not mean no coal will bo sold at the government one dealer said but the order Is not retroactive on contracts executed before it was issued and all contracts contain a clause providing for the pass ing along of any increase in cost Those who have no contracts for coal will get it at the government price However most operators have their entire output sold under contract so the price increase will be pretty gen Pittsburg Dec miners in the Pittsburg fleid awaited word to day from Alexander Howat president of district fourteen United Mine Workers of America before deciding whether to end tho strike begun last July In the Central Coal and Coka mines Union officials hero declined to discuss the probability of a return to work until they hear from Howat Miners officials on the other hand are ot the opinion that miners irv near ly a score of mines who went on strike yesterday because President Howat had been imprisoned at the order oi Judge A B at Indianapolis will return to work within a day or two and that there would be no more sympathy strike A meeting of the mine union officials with operators of the Missouri Kan sas Oklahoma and Arkansas districts to settle wage scales is to be held in Kansas City today Terre Haute Dec of tho central competitive field will not block the coal settlement under the plan proposed by President Wilson but on the contrary will abide by the deci sion of the commission appointed by the president to work out the settle ment It was indicated in a statement issued by Phli H Penna of Terre Haute spokesman for the opera ors in their miners negotiations with tha IS Frost Upon Trees Gives Way to Black ening Imprint of Soot The landscape has undergone a transformation for Christmas Fop three days the frost hung upon the trees forming a picture for artist or photographer Wildcat creek looking east was as beautiful a scene eye would dare view but now all is changed Christmas will be greeted with barren limbs smutted with black coal dust and thoroughly In his statement Mr Penna said that the operators in a joint meeting with the miners on offered a resolution providing for the creation of a commission composed of men repre equally the miners operators and the public The resolution ha said is in perfect accord with the presidents although the latter differed in some details about which the operators feel they should have been consulted In advance At the November 27 meeting Me Penna declared the operators repre all states in the central field voted yes on the resolution This attitude of the the statement concluded has not been changed in any particular by any per son or persons In Indianapolis Dec officials in Indianapolis today awaited developments Kansas coal fields before determining their future course in court action against Alexander Howat of Pittsburg president of district number fourteen of the United Mine Workers of America Howat was released from jail here yesterday where he had been sentas the result of charges of contempt of court for alleged violation of thein junction issued by United States Dis Judge A B Anderson against furtherance of the coal strike His lease and subsequent departure for his dome was effected by agreement on ills part to cooperate with interna tional union officials in ending a strike of employes of the Central Coal I and Coke company the continuation of which formed the basis for court action against him It was indicated today that if the local strike is ended hear ing of the charges of set tor next Monday probably will be coni agreement to use his in ending the in Kansas came during a session of the federal court yesterday and followed a prom The Christmas will be white but Green international snow is dirty says the pessimist The of the mine work day may be joyous but the atmosphere j to a telegram to the Kansas will not be the snow beautiful should descend within a few hours Churchman Dead St Paul John Wright rector emeritus of St Pauls Episcopal church died here late last night Dr Wright was eighty three years old and was considered an international authority on Egypto fore Kansas Howatt wired a call for a of the executive board of the district on Friday at which steps will taken to end strike Pittsburg Dec w ports show that hot all of coal miners who CONTINUED ON PAGE M
