Kokomo Tribune (Newspaper) - May 27, 1921, Kokomo, Indiana T OF THE THE m PAID WL 234 CENTS THURSDAY J 0 Henderson Passes Away There After a SET FOR SUNDAY Services At be ment To Be Made In Crown Point Cemetery at I O former owner and editor of Dispatch and former auditor of state JeS her late home North Meridian at 11 oclock Thursday night after on of more than a win held name Sunday afternoon after the funeral party will proceed traction tar to this city the Interment will IH made to Point was the of late Mr and Mm W NO MORE NEW ROADS THE HIGHWAY WAJT PRICES F MATERIALS May for road will be let by the elate highway until prices for Including atone gravel and are lower It was decided today by the in conference with Governor McCray Similar decision was announced some j Ome ago but since then Lawrence Lyons new director of the commission in conference with the ma terial men seeking a lower level of Some reductions have been or by some contractors It is under bot genera reduction U before undertaking any considerable construction officials said Pending lower material prices had decided to center at tention on the maintenance and repar of roads in the state highway system Md the completion of new work al ready under way WAY TO 11 S W of city She was born to Iowa March IB 185 A mail Child moved with her to Indiana where her In 1877 ito the home having established here Home time before Out In May she united In with Henderson ho WW brother sine late B Henderson in edit ing asd the Kokomo Dls their residence until when Mr Henderson WRS auditor of then With the exception of four tn France they have resided in and four Mbit Paul S and Arthur of Boston Balph W and Lloyd of India known In all the of Kokomo In Such these aa remain there will sorrow over the newa that is no more She was a woman who the charm of an engaging I sr circle She sunny affectionate wise in the ways that mate wo moat winsome endeared to nil whom her life touched Her spirit lost none or Its In nor long realized that Ihc WM approaching hut that knowledge bring dismay or dejection She It calm courage Life bad very sweet to her and she wis W leava It but when she she had the faith and fortl to be resigned To and and to all others who were of her circle she leaves the most tho most and most of all a radiant mem Of Mrs Hendersons brothers and Blazers two Ernest George and Mrs E A Simmons reside in this city A Dolman and George reside in a brother Fred K resides In Grand Michl Kan Ranch Is Sold At Public Auction Banta Barbara May to have been the largest parce rf land sold in California nt pub was disposed of today when historic Millwood ranch ol OBO sores was hid in for the time launch at Cooper one Return To Satisfactory Business Conditions Lies With Busi ness Men and Workmen MINORITY ARE TO BLAME An Abundance of New Business Waits For Ability and Inclin ation To Protect It 13 HIE MUG YET Y Fatality Occurred In Wildcat Creek While School Girls Were Picnicking 3 STEPPED IN DEEP Hazel Johnson and Jennie Gard ner Nearly Lose Lives Be fore Rescue Comes Mabel Edith Land aged 13 years daughter of Walter Land residing at 708 East Superior street was drown ed yesterday evening about 5 oclock n Wildcat creek near Learners Voods east of the city at a point known as Yard Hiss Land was a pupil in the Sixth grade of the Central school building and a member of a picnic party head d by Miss Maud Gates their teacher Miss Land and Miss Hazel Johnson of 3 East Jackson street and Miss Jen nie Gardner of 316 East Carter street became separated from the general party and wandered alone to the spot the creek where the tragedy oc curred The girls were all fond of wading Howard Huntsberger aged la stu dent at the Palmer school and resid ng at 804 South Lindsay street had gone to the creek FRIDAY MAY 27 1921 Uncle Sams Biggest SIXTEEN PAGES to will New York May return satisfactory business conditions be slow until the minority of business men and workmen who have ignored the principles of common honesty are aroused to tho of sound and decent standards of conduct accord ing to Elbert H Gary chairman of the United States Steel Corporation who is president of the Institute said the American people are not buying enough to supply themselves fully with the ordinary comforts of life although they have the means and the tion to do so This he explained was duo to the opinion of the public that there plete and proper If disarmament among the big nations becomes a fact this Big Barker may never talk Its one of Uncle Sams biggest mortars for coast guard defense At a test recently at Fort L L it hit a tar get five miles out at sea with a shell SCHEME WAS CLEVER to look after his small cousin John Downey who was a member of the party of school chil dren and passed the group of three girls who were wading Knowing they were near the stepoff at the old Wide swimming hole which s said to be from seven to fifteen feet deep and where at least three other persons have been drowned Howard warned them and asked them if they could swim One of the girls laugh ingly replied that they could Young Huntsberger proceeded up the creek for a short distance and turning to look back saw that the girls were in difficulty He jumped in with his coat on but was remove it In the waier a forced to it made commissioner of Califor nia On it he is said lo have grown ithe eucalyptus trees and the first avocado ever Planted ln the Suites The first olive oil in commercial quantities produced in this country also was said to have made on the ranch Asks Judgment On Verdict Prosecutor Forest Harness filed a motion this morning for judgment the verdict recently rendered Walter guilty of at Mrs Joe Hunt with in The matter has hung fire was ended and the that judgment be since the case asks handed It is that a motion for a trial will be made by the de fendants attorneys Broo Holt Special Judge A B will pass upon the matter shortly Both Haws Autos little roadster of Ben Wilson advertising expert will be by talented gentleman no longer He haa a Stude Harry M Lynch the well citizen and writer of ads has ateo purchased a car of the same Mnd Silt t is a much larger size than that of Citizen Ben and well Their numerous wishers are very of their Xana Anderson Seeks Divorce Anderson has sued Frank An for The plaintiff appears by Overson Manning her husband has treated Sber to falsely accusing liner whereas her has been hoard and that she has asso with people She says husband has committed frequent upon that once he sand stepped her and eyes has not been com readjustments of prices There is an abundance of new bus he said with both ability and inclination to place it waiting for fur ther adjustments which will put cost of living selling prices wage rates and other general Incomes on a rela tive parity Patience courage and a fair disposition will bring satisfactory conditions in due Present steel selling prices Mr Gary declared will not permit any re duction until wases are further de creased It would be unjust he said to further reduce wage rates before the costs of living are lowered Retail for many commodities are much too high declared Mr Gary adding that without justification wages have been advanced through so as to designate them as skilled men think he continued that there have bean and still are charged and collected for certain commodities un reasonable and unfair If not extor prices They apply to ular lines and persons The public is aware of the facts Different products lave been purchased from the farmer and merchants at lower prices and then passed In one way or another and linally sold to the consumer at out prices The vast majority of justness men and workmen are sin cere and fair bnt there is and per naps always will he a minority that ig nore the principles 05 common honesty They are sufficient In number to se affect the whole He urged that the observance and enforcement of law be insisted upon throughout the world as a necessity to the improvement of the general situa tion If laws shall be enforced and peace maintained added Mr Gary other questions relating to eco nomic progress and achievement will he solved If it should be deemed nec essary and wise to have governmental supervision over organized industry in order to protect the public interest I personally would not object provided the laws and rules shall apply alike to organized capital and organized The speaker asserted that one of the most hopeful signs of the times was the apparent disposition of the present administration nt Washington to aid rather than obstruct the natural anft legitimate progress of business Economy is the keynote of quick re covery of business said Charles M Schwab chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel company There must be economy in labor and above all else in transportation costs Mr Schwab declared adding that the steel busi ness would profit by the economy to which it was forced by business con ditions We are going to be forced so as to put our business here on a basis with that of the steel business in other he ex belief that the money shortage and business depres sion would end and that there would NEW TORK TRESS IS ARRESTED AS A SWINDLER 22 Indications Are He Will Hold the Postmastership Until His Commission Expires RULE OF THE DEPARTMENT Will Be Not To Disturb Regular ly Appointed and Confirmed P Except For Cause SUIT FOR ALIENATION REYNOLDS IS SEEKING DAMAGES FROM EDNA BROSIER swimming difficult Jennie Gardner had managed to reach a stump and hung on dived for Ha zel Johnson who had gone down the fourth time and she grasped him by the waist almost drowning him before he was able to break her hold and bring her to land After he had brought her to safety he assisted Jen nie Gardner in reaching the shore A man and a boy whose names not be learned were passing at the time and both dived repeatedly before the body of the Land girl was located by the boy and brought to the creek hank Undertaker K H Rich was sum and took the body to the home of the parents and prepared it for burial The death awakened wide sympathy of neighbors and friends and num bers of people called at the home to extend sympathy to the bereaved par ents In addition to the parents the deceased is survived by a brother Floyd and three sisters Flora Mar tha and Dorothy Miss Gates the teacher was shock ed beyond expression by the tragedy The teacher and main party were j about half a mile ahead of the three girls who had sought the fatal unknown to Miss Gates who had been Syracuse N May clever scheme to defraud mail order houses is revealed in the arrest here of Mrs Eunice H Edgar at Pennellville twenty miles north of this city Mrs Edgar thirty years of age and attractive is said to have Confessed having obtained through her scheme several hundred dollars worth of feminine wearing apparel Her plan of operation consisted of ng with an order a check with a fic signature The checks are said to been drawn upon Baldwins vine and Phoenix State banks With out awaiting the return of the funds on the check the mall order houses shipped the articles ordered which were received by Mrs Edgar at differ ent places sometimes at the post office in Syracuse and again in other nearby cities Recently a New York mail order house having received notice that a check issued by Dorothy Pierce had been returned as worthless instructed the Syracuse postoffice officials to hold a certain post package ad dressed to Dorothy Pierce About time Chicago mail order houses were heard from They too with other New York firms had been caught in A PInkerton detective was put on the job the arrest of Mrs Edgar following Mrs Edgars operations according to her confession have extended over a period of almost a year The charge against Mrs Edgar Is using the mails to defraud The pen alty Is a fine of five years in jail or both The action of Reynolds against Edna Brosler a suit for aliena tion of affections is on trial in the circuit court before a jury Judge W C Overton presiding The defendant is Mrs Edna Brosier and the plaintiff claims that her living with the Brosier family was rendered very unpleasant and in the end that her husbands af were turned her The plaintiff was employed for four years in the Max Bloom comedy musical company and has appeared In this city on the stage in that production she testified shortly after the noon hour today The jury was secured just be fore noon The case is from Marion where the principal parties to It reside The plaintiff is represented by Meade S Hayes who is assisted locally by J L Overson The defendant is resisting by former Judge J F Paulus who is aided by C C Shirley as local counsel MAKE CHECKS RIGHT SEIZE HIS PROPERTY ALIEN PROPERTY NABS DESERTER BERG DOLLS ESTATE Philadelphia May of the property in this city of Grover Cleve land Bergdoll convicted draft evader army deserter now In Germany valued at about was seized to day by Col Thomas W Miller alien property of the United states It consists of real estate and money on deposit in four local bank ing Institutions BERT THURMAN IS NOW REV COLLECTOR FOR THE INDIANA DISTRICT ma Pol checks remitted for tax payments should be payable to Mr roan These instructions are issued for the purpose of avoiding the additional handling required to get the proper endorsement explicit In giving strict instructions as the to care and danger of water The j George 3 Wheeler local deputy col picnic party had been formed as has received notice from head after school event and Miss Gates had quarters that it is necessary that all consented to accompany the pupils Coroner Bruce Lung began an ex amination and found the facts as out lined He will continue his taking of testimony today as the law directs and take the depositions of those knowing the details of the matter Miss Maude Gates school teacher who had taken a party of children to the woods for a picnic stated that Mabel Land Hazel Johnson and Jen nie Gardner did not po to the woods with her party did not eat lunch with them and came to the woods from a different direction Mabel Land and Hazel Johnson were students in Miss Gates room while Jennie Gardner is an eighth grade pupil The funeral will be conducted Sat afternoon from the Main street Christian church by the pastor Riv David H Shields Interment will be had in Crown Point cemetery BOTH ARE TAKEN BACK The property was held by Mrs Em n Grovers mother un i power of attorney The seizure Miller announced was by ion of the president and under the au of the trading with the enemy Many of the income tax payers in tho act it is the first seizure since June Logansport district continue to make 1919 out checks payable to W L Elder who has been replaced by M Bert Thurman as internal revenue collector for the district of Indiana and it is causing an extra amount of work in FLIGHT The opinion heretofore rather confi dently expressed that it will avail nothing to start a row over succes sion in the Kokomo postmastership before early autumn of next year has just received very direct and official confirmation In the Daily Postal Bulletin of Wed First Assistant Postmaster General Hubert Work addresses post masters concerning the Harding exec order providing for civil service examinations in all master appointment with selection of new postmasters limited to the three highest and among other things says You are advised that It Is In no sense the purpose of the department to disturb postmasters of the first second and third class who ivere regularly appointed and confirm ed by the senate during the term for which they were appointed except for Postmaster Havens was reappointed and confirmed by the senate in Sep tember of 1918 his commission bearing date of September 15 In that year and his term consequently continues until midSeptember of 1922 am no whimsically commented the ter this morning much of that delectable fowl I may have con politically The crow you know was killed for It is the postmasters who were re appointed late in the Wilson admin and who failed of confirma tion by the senate upon whom the exeat ax will he first to fall In the first assistant statement before quoted it is set out The terms of all postmasters now serving in these grades who have not been so confirmed by the senate have There are several thousand of these and arrangements for examinations to provide their successors nre now un der way In all offices where the sal ary is per year or more examinations will be held That to say one representative of the civil service commission and one of the postoffice department will appear in the city where the vacancy exists together with a stenographer A gen eral canvass covering the capability and character of all applicants will be made Heads of commercial bodies fiducial concerns and industrial and mercantile establishments will he questioned Report will be made lay agents to the civil service com mission who will grade the papers submitted and submit the three fst eligibles so graded to the postoffice department The department will sub mit the name of one of these three to president for appointment The rivil commission has advised congress that it has not sufficient FOUND GUILTY HE CHARGED WITH FOR BUYING WTO jury this in tha circuit court by which he had been tried on a charge of grand larceny in an automobile he knew had been found Charles Babe Bowen guilty The penalty of the offense is two to fourteen years Bowens attorneys Jump Marshall indicated that they would file a motion for a new trial Bowen in his testimony yesterday afternoon declared that the prosecution was based upon spite said that he and Charles Denman chiei witness for the state had had a dis pute over a money settlement and that Denman was sore at him and ho had understood that Denman vowed to send him to the penitentiary Bowen will be at liberty on bond until his motion for new trial Is disposed f The bond was increased by Judge W 0 Overton to which it is said he will be able to give In the event a new trial Is not given an appeal is to be taken to the higher court PICTURES PIONEERS AT THE LIBRARY Fine Likenesses of Mr and Mrs David Foster Presented By Their Daughter A GIFT WORTH TREASURING Pictures of the Man and Woman Who Were Real Found ers of Kokomo Special Services Will Be Held At Friends Church For the Typographical Union WILL DECORATE GRAVES War Veter ans Also Choose Have Special Program Omaha Keh May as n passenger funds for the work and has asked for moro money Where the district in which the va cancy exists is represented by a re left for j publican in congress it is understood that the congressman will be con or if otherwise the republican or national or some one else in It is taken Chicago at p tn in an air mail ce plane piloted by W C Hopson SHERIFF BUTLER RETURNS TWO PRISONERS TO JEFFER Sheriff Ora Butler took Charles Denman prisoner at back to that institution yesterday Denman was used here as a witness In the Charles Bowen prosecution The sheriff also returned Omer Zell to that institution Zell was given a parole by Gov McCray pend ing a decision of his case by the board of pardons but as the board has not vet acted Zell was taken to Jefferson ville to await its action Two Autos One License CharEe J L Moredock was cited for an appearance in city court this after noon on a charge of operating two cars on one set of license plates It is alleged that he had one plate on his Kord roadster and the other on his use of their ma to call Willis B Appeal for Autos Automobiles are wanted in which to convey members of the W R C and G A R in the parade Decoration day It will be necessary to have twentyfive cars and those persons who will give the chines are asked Lye at his office any time Saturday Father Has Son Kill Him Greensburg May Walter Tremain 35 a farmer liv ing eight miles northwest of this city killed himself today by hav ing his eight year old son who was in the house alone with him pull the trigger of a shot gun after he had placed the muzzle of the weapon against his heart Tremain is survived by his wife and three small children North Platte May Rickenbacker who left Redwood City yesterday in a night to Wash D left here at a m for Omaha Omaha May Rick American ace arrived here at a m in an air mail plane for granted that the recommendation of this person In control will have great weight if it is not the deter mining factor This rule will apply to all appointments of postmasters it is understood and in this district Con gressman Purnell will doubtless be a after man THE WEATHER Omaha May Rickenbacker will co his night to Washington de pends upon the question of obtaining an postoffice depart ment declined to permit him to use an air plane from here Cheyenne May Rickenbacker ace in the World war resumed his transcontinental flight from this city at 6 oclock this morn ins as a passenger in a mail plane piloted by C V Pickup Special Service for Legion Rev David H Shields pastor of the Main Street Christian church will con duct special services Sunday morning for the American Legion men All VOYAGE ROTARY The Kokomo Typographical union will observe Sunday May 29 as Me Day in honor of deceased mem bers At the invitation of the pastor Rev Lewis E Stout the unions mem bers will attend the Union Street Friends church in a body Mr Stout has prepared a special message for tha occasion Ceremonial services and decoration of the graves will take place Sunday morning A committee has been ap pointed for the purpose At 10 oclock members of the union will meet at tho K of P home on West Mulberry street and march in a body to the services at the Friends church The body will be headed by tho flag escorted by members of tho union who were in service during the late war The the following de ceased members will be decorated W F Jackson Dorsey Coate Lou John M Grant lan Dan and Hugh McLen non The first typographical union was organized in Kokomo about thirty three years ago and some of those whose graves will be decorated were members of that organization Among those at present living here are C H Havens postmaster and E E Goss now president of the local union The first organization failed because of insufficient membership to hold its charter and another union a few years later failed for the same reason The present typographical union was organized twenty years ago last April and has grown from a few in number to a present membership of about forty B C Nicholson has the distinction of being the only printer who has been a continuous member of the present organization since its institution The local post of the American Le gion named In honor of a former Kokomo typographical apprentice who was killed in action in France James DeArmond The War Veter ans will also hold their memorial serv ices on Sunday May 29 There are a number of the men whose fighting Through the thoughtfulness and generosity of Ida Foster Baker of Indi ana polls daughter of David and Eliza beth Foster founders of KoKomo ex likenesses of them in India ink have been provided for hanging In the Real library The pictures are of regulation portrait size In ebony frames and are protected by flawless glass As yet the wall spaces the pictures will occupy have not been selected but will be in the Immediate future When the pictures are in position they will no doubt be objects ot interest to all library visitors as well as objects of community pride The claim of David and Elizabeth Foster to being tha founders of Kokomo has never been challenged The fact is too well authenticated for it ever to be called into question It is a fine privilege therefore for the community to possess these excellent likenesses of tho man and woman who established the first home home from and around which a city of more than souls has grown It was a fine reverence for the mem ory of her father and mother and a fine regard for Kokomo as a community that prompted Mrs Baker to have the pictures made and present them to the city It goes without saying that her fine act will receive enduring preciation Mrs came to Koko mo Thursday evening to see to it that the pictures were safely delivered Is Partly to night and Saturday j with probably local thundershowers not quite so warm in south portion to night PART OF LOCAL ARGONAUTS ARE ON THE WAY TO ON PAGE 1 Ca Can you ber way back when the L E W was called The Natural Gas Route and they used a kind of trademark depicting a burning gas weH with flames leaping up to the high heav ens Useful hint for the day Dont pour gasoline out of a can t start your kitchen fire If your life isnt worth anything gasoline is Temperature readings today Noon 90 maximum for preceding four hours 90 minimum members of the Legion who are in tending to attend the services are asked to be at post hall west side the square promptly at oclock The invitation not only in cludes members of the Legion but all former service men All will go to the church in a Mr and Mark Brown left this afternoon for New York from where they will sail next week for Edinburg Scotland where Mr Brown will rep resent the local Rotary at the Inter national convention Judge C H Wills Indiana govern or of Rotary and J A Kautz both members of the Kokomo club and Don Elliott delegate from the Clarks burg W club are planning to leave for New York on Sunday Mr and Mrs Brown Mr Kautz and Mr Elliott will all sail on the same calls for returning the Receives Watermelon Mrs J W Jenkins received by ex press today a watermelon weighing thirtysix pounds which was raised in the Jenkins garden at Winter Haven Fla The watermelon was sent by Mr Jenkins who is in Florida for the benefit of his health Last week Mrs Jenkins received an alli gator from Florida Licensed to Marry Glen James and Pauline Stahl another ship Before party will visit points of interest in Europe WHATS DOING AND AROUND KOKOMO TONIGHT Legion meeting Post hall Real Estate meeting High School Alumni banquet Con church 7 oclock TOMORROW Poppy u guest at the home of her niece Mrs W J Webb in West Markland avenue She has left with the Tribune a statement in which she presents the pictures to the city through the mayor and library board They will of course make formal acceptance of them probably through a resolution of appreciation at the next meeting of the city council Mrs Bakers state ment follows Mr Mayor and Gentlemen ot the Library Board It is a great privilege and pleasure to present to the City of Kokomo through you the portrait of my good mother to be hung by that of my father who all Kokomo acknowledges the first white settlers In this locality and the founders of Kokomo The deeds of my father and mother of the early days and stand out more and more as the years go by The moral and religious foundation they laid will be everlasting In this beautiful city How little we as children walking beside our good parents in our early youths realize the foundations they are build ing for us to stand upon in the future I feel sure all will agree with me that my father and mother took the right step in founding this place for the site of Kokomo and starting it on its future by giving to It forty acres of land and a court house o transact the first business of the infant county in without one cent of debt upon it and it has in the intervening years led up to one of the very best towns In this splendid state of Indiana It was my privilege last year to travel in the states on the Pacific Coast and one day as we were sus pended midair on the way to the top of Mount Lowes in California with almost nothing but the realization that death was nearer to us than a long life and with nothing in sight but a danger rugged view a gentleman in the car said Friends I am now and here more willing than ever before to take off my hat and bow low to the pioneer who has developed our country from such as and in thinking over the early years of my parents life as well as all the others that gathered in the first few years that followed 1843 I fully agree with the gentleman that spirit was aroused when word j made that broad remark was received that the Maine had been sunk in Havana harbor and who an swered President call for volunteers who are still living in Ko komo and are although the hair of of them is beginning to be tinged with gray still full of the American spirit This spirit will be displayed Sunday morning when all of them with wives and children are expected to turn out and meet at the home of Mrs Alva Martin corner Elm and Webster streets at oclock The veterans and auxiliary will march from there with colors flying to the North Street Baptist church where Comrade Rev Felix Goldman has prepared the fol lowing special memorial program Song Sunday School children Battle Hymn of the Loyalty to Offering Song Solo America the James Simmons Felix Goldman Roll call of departed comrades Sounding of Taps by Comrade Ste phen Barnes On the Shore of Miss Gertrude Snider accompanied by Mrs Earl Walker two I remember as a youngster having heard told in cur my father had to cut away the underbrush and trim the trees for my mother to hang out her first washing and how my father carried the water that was used tu cleanse the clothes up the hill from Wildcat creek but people didnt mind a little work in those days I have heard my mother say there were just nine persons when she for the first time called them together ui her home to read the Bible pray and sin Praise God From Whom All Blessings and when I enter your beautiful Grace church my heart swells with pride and thanksgiving that all of this Is the outgrowth of my mother 3 religious heart and good work in the early days My mother was born in Bath New York in the year 1814 In the early days my grandfathers family journeyed West overland with horse and wagon and settled at Indiana where my mother grew to womanhood It was she met and married my father in They soon arranged to change their place of abode and when it became known to my mother s people that David was going to taka Elizabeth to the faroff Burlington Indiana the proposition was made to him if he would stay in ha could go on to the home farm and have half he could make during the year but the answer quickly came back 1 Answered False Alarm Central station trucks were called to 1333 South bnt you have Delphos street about 7 oclock last night on a false alarm grateful to your kind
