Linton Daily Citizen (Newspaper) - August 13, 1924, Linton, Indiana WEATHER BULLETIN and Thursday some what Thursday in northwest LINTON CITIZEN VOLUME NUMBER AUGUST SINGLE THREE LINTON IS though industrial Conditions are be low normal Linton has held her own and proven her 50000 LIVES LOST Thousands of Towns and Cities Are Literally Wiped Off ENORMOUS LOSS OF PROPERTY ALSO Great City of With Big Foreign Is INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE death toll in the terrific floods that have swept vast areas of North China is extremely heavy possibly reaching fifty thousand reports from devastated provin ces Millions of persons are home In the Kalgan district it Is estimated lost their lives in the breaking of Thousands of villages are inun dated and great tracts of farm land Two thousand villages in thu region are wholly or partly Authorities fear pestilence or Sol diers are being used for relief The damage is greatest in the provinces of Hu nan and Tremen dous damage done to crops and The monetary loss is a report The river is in flood and the city of with its foreign is in dan WILL SIOP Checks Boxing Match in East Chicago in Which Ex Champion Figures ernor Branch announced yesterday that he had asked Mayor Frank Cal of East to stop a boxing contest scheduled for that city Friday in which Jack champion of the has been advertised ab The governor indicated that he has instructed Adjutant General Harry Smith to assist Mayor Callahan in preventing the affair in the event the promoters should not wish to aban don the In a statement issued by Frederick secretary to tlv the executive made it clear that he deams the bout not because of the color of the par but for reasons the public will very well Johnsons while holding the heavy weight crown and haa had a rather checkered He served a term in the federal prison at after being convicted on a white slavery While on a motor trip through Indiana after his release From Johnson was arrested for violating liquor Johnson has been making an effort stage a comeback in the sports world by engaging in a number ol fights It is reported he would try for a bout with arry colored or Luis of if success ul in the proposed East Chicago STATES EXPERT IS OF Noted First to Testify for State in Big GIVES REASONS FOR HIS OPINION Unless Every Man Who Com mits Murder Is Menially Dis eased Defendants NEWS testi this morning for he in the noted Chicago gave his opinion in a half jocular fashion and even Leopold and Loeb tittered when he said even golfers have In Patricks the things he alienists for the de fense pointed to as indicative of in the two defend arc no more than common place events and conditions in the lives of perfectly normal young ADVERTISING BANDIT IS SHOT BY EMPLOYE OE After He Had Held Up the Bank and Secured More Than Sometimes a laymans idea of newspaper advertising values is more than ordinarily The lya man looks at advertising from his own of the Once a year Ren of the Advertising hangs up a prize for the best short essay oh newspaper adver tising and his students of the Xa vier College of commerce class arc eligible This year the Mulford Special was awarded to Edward Lysaught a young civil engineer of municipal His brief size up is worth running in bold face for the enlightenment of mortals who are not yet awake to the real place per advertising holds in business Lysaught writes Newspaper advertising is un doubtedly the best form in present day Keen competition and modern science have developed it into an which combines brevi ty and Skillful application of this art is used to attract create de sires and facilitate Entering every nook and corner of public and private newspaper advertising serves as a constant in dex for the purchaser and reduces to minimum the necessity for shop It is now recognized as an essen as success jf bank of more than lone bandit whose identity haw not beert was shot by LONE DESPERADO ESCAPES IN AUTO But Later His Wrecked Machine and a Part of the Loot as After holding up three employes of the Citizens State bank in Farmers burg about 4 oclock yesterday after noon and after robbing the counters WEATHER VERY MAY DELAY AIRMEN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Weather conditions off Greenland are bad today and Lieutenants Smith and Nelson may not hop off to morrow for as DESPONDENT FORMERLY OF ATTEMPTS SUICIDE NEWS TERRE and pretty wife of John of is in a hospital here she may die as the result of gunshot She had been visiting her Elmer of and was en route The act was committed in hotel She said her husband did not believe in divorces and that she had been married and before she married I love him and would rather die than destroy hta love and she FORMERLY LIVED Thresia moth er of Harry suffered a fracture of her left arm at the wrist about oclock Monday aft when the a Ford in which she being driv en to Vincennes in company with her soninlaw and and was thrown against an embankment after striking a road drag in the state highway five and a half miles east of Washington LOCAL MOVIES HELD UP BY LABORATORY DELAY BETTER MAIL SERVICE FOR LINTON SUNDAYS Postmaster Homer Hart has suc in getting the approval of the department for mail service on Illinois Central railroad on Mail deposited in the post office Sundays up to 5 oclock will be dispatched that making it possible to get letters to Indian apolis for Monday morning Incoming Sunday mail will arrive on the at This is even better Sunday service than Linton had be fore the Sunday mail trains were POLICE COURT Local police court has a number of minor cases set for hearing and ses sions of the court are promised for the next three All these cases have heretofore been reported and they have been The cases of Emerison Ora Kirkly and Hunt are set for another case growing out of n misunderstanding between women on Roosevelt street isset for tomor row night and the Abe Crom case for Friday Films Could Not in Time For Showing This he were to assume that every man who commits a coldblooded murder by that very oe mentally Hugh Pat the states first alienist called to the stand late yesterday couldnt find anything in his exam of Nathan and Richard Loeb to indicate psycho pathic And he made it ever so without just saying holds no such plus the and the the Chi cago specialist in nervous and mental believes the murderers of Robert Franks are not mental in Honored ly Many This according to the man who from a list of to have been at one lime or of pretty neat every psychological and society in the United was made in States Attorney Robert Crowes office June a few hours after the youths This assumption wax presented to Chief Justice John Caverly yester day afternoon in this wise Patrick had outlined the detail of his Juno r n of Leo pold and lie is the first witness so to designated the de Patrick had given bis opinion that Richard and Nate no of dis Then Assistant States Attor ney John directing the asked the witness Will you state your for that opinion Reasons for The doctor The reasons for that opinion are these That unless that every man who commits a planned murder must by that fact be mentally there was no evidence of any mental dis ease in any of this communication or in any of the statements the boys made regarding or their earlier There was nothing in the examination to show There were no mental obliquities or peculiarities shown except their tack of appreciation of the of the deed which they had com This was the doctors based on his three or hour visit with Leopold and Loeb in the attor neys office that Sunday cashier of the as he leaped into an automobile waiting along the curb to make Seriously the bandit out of the A half hour later he lost control ot his machine two miles northeast of Farmersburg and drove it into a wrecking the Salv aging a little more than of the the gunman fled into adjoin ing corn leaving in a sack in the rear seat of the Search A posse cf 150 men which collected immediately after the robbery and beat the countryside in a systematic chase after the wounded man but he has not been Lucille McNab and two employes of the were in I he front part of the bank when the ban dit They were forced at tin muzzle of two guns to kneel in a cor When Sharpe came into the front room he was forced to join As the bandit with the Sharpe leaped into the came out with a shotgun and shot the bandit as he got into the The believed to have been was wrecked in a ditch near The abandon ment of the greater part of tin money leads the authorities to be CONTINUED ON PAGE D Ether Waves Although the local moving pictures featuring the Darling of Linton were to have been ready for the in presentation a tele gram from Director Lynch states that the laboratory in which is making the has been delayed in the work and it will be to put them on as previously I order to be certain that the will be ready when the next date for their showing is of the Grand opera announces that they will be present ed next Wednesday and Thursday August 20 and The delay is to be but the pictures will certainly be ready next WARSHIPS HEADED FOR EGYPT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE British war ship squadron left Egyp tian waters as the result of clashes between Egyptians and British o Scorns Those Who Put Up His Name Without Consulting Him in a telegram from South which was verified late yesterday by Charles secretary of Ford withdrew his name from the Republican senatorial race in Earlier in the day Deland had stated that Fords with others to he certified to go on the pri mary would bo mailed to county clerks at 4 oclock yesterday The telegram from Ford was received shortly before that Jn tho message Ford said that his name bad been placed on the ballot by parties unknown to him and that while he failed to understand he believed that it could not be a He said he repudi ated the whole undertaking and was in no son so a candidate lor any of fice at Text of The said It has been brought to my attention thai parties unknown to mo without consulting me in any way and for purposes 1 amat a loss to have made un warranted use of my name for sen 1 fail ID understand their motive but believe it cannot bt a good and repudiate whole understanding and withdraw my as I am in no sense a MAYFIELD SAYS HE WAS RING LEADER who lives south west of I he and who was arrest ed along with eleven other his for alleged ille gal in near Oak wax in the city today and told i Citizen reporter that he was the ring leader of the crowd who had gone down there to have a little sport and recreation after hard farm The bearing is set for 25 before a justice of the peace ai Five of the twelve pleaded guilty and it cost them about The other seven arc going to fight the They believe thai public sentiment is with them and that most and game are I TO TREE AFTER Bold Robbery of Tom Rob bins Between Pleasant ville and TWO MEN STOPPED FOR WATER FOR CAR They Searched the Se cured in Cash and Plun dered Every Michigan Couple Confess Today to Choking Girl to Death in INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I BENTON the county jail today factory and Florence a farmer confessed to the murder of Cora rival of the McKinney girl for Zupke confessed he choked the civl to death as she rode be in an automobile driven by Tin girl said Zupke told her he dad the Raber girl in a delicate condition and that she had asked him to marry her or get her out of her He told her he loved Flor and that another girl he knew in was in a similar condition as HIGH TENSION WIRE KILLS LINEMAN TODAY I SERVICE was instant ly killed today when he carne in con tact with a high tension line at Zioni ELKS LADIES The Elks Ladies will play bridge tomorrow afternoon in their club looms at the Elks One of the boldest holdups fever staged around here occurred last when Uncle Tom aged was held up at his country home near here by three bandits and robbed of a sum ofm Uncle who is past seventy nine years lives alone on the about four or five miles from Free Along about 8 oclock three men drove up in a and ping in front of the farm they all alighted from the car and came into the asked Uncle Tom if they might have some water for their He told them they were welcome to the water and that they would find the well in the rear of the they did riot in a hurry to get the and one of the men remarked to Uncle Tom that they were having car trou He told them he was sorry but he could not help them in that re spect for he was not acquainted with the mechanism of an Were you ever held up one of the men asked the aged I never have you are going to be said another of the Tied Him to Grabbing Uncle one of the bandits tied a wire about his wrists and fastened him securely to a Then they cut the telephone wires leadin gto the house off all outside as the houso was too far away from neighboring farm houses for neighbors to hear it person calling for The three then entered the where they ransacked every throwing furniture and other articles promiscuously about as they plunder ed for In their search they found fifty dollars in which they and which was the only thing of value Leaving the house they tore up the front thinking perhaps they might find some valuables hidden Returning to the yard they sat down for a smoke and leaving their prisoner still tied to the Moved Prisoner to After several minutes rest they un tied the aged prisoner from the tree and taking him to the house again fastened but this time to the door They left the wire tied securely about his wrists and took another piece to fasten him to the door Then they left the house and got inthe car and drove away as unconcerned as though they had paid Robbins a friendly Alone there in the the old man gained strength enough to loosen himself from the door but was unable to get his wrists untied from behind Too venture out into the darkness of the when he could not see Uncle Tom re mained there with his hands tied until early Then he went to the home of a Richard who untied his hands and learned of his harrowing Both his hands and wrists were badly swollen from the wire being wrapped so tightly about Uncle Tom said two of the men were rather tall and one of them of a slighter No trace has been of them as i and of In who have been in this city the guests of and have returned AQ They were accompanied by Miss Blanche will bo
