Newark American Tribune (Newspaper) - December 24, 1926, Newark, Ohio Good News for Gas War Fight Or Be Bj fcr In The United Member Is The American American PAPER THAT GOES INTO THE o IS THE WEATHER Partly cloudy and much er cold wave in west portion and snow flurries in Northeast partly cloudy and EIGHTEEN PAGES DECEMBER 24, 1926 NINETY-NINTH YEAR PRICE TWO CENTS It's really a prosperous try we live and the prosperity has only Arthur able Chicago says our prosperity will last through 1927. It will also last through 1927 and if we give it a really and do not cheat each other too o o o Revised government reports on crops put corn for this year at two six hundred and forty-five million wheat at And forty million bushels of for- million bushels of bales of boxes of and you have a slight idea of what O O O And unlike those crops are not go on for- Land in France to wheat for centuries produces more bushels per acre now than it did 200 years The pity is that when farmers have big they get small Combination sales and voting could help but ers do yet know o o o Other good news for all is Tie lake cities will be connected with the the gulf and all ports of the navigable Many Repaired Dead in Collision of Trains Land U. S. Marines at Port of ields Two Fast Passenger Heavily Laden with Holiday Crashed Headon in a Driving One Was at a the Arrival of the Other Which Missed the By V Dec. ern Railroad today officially placed the number of dead in the Royal Ponce de Leon wreck at 16 and the In- jured at 29. By Dec. fast passenger heavily laden with holiday crashed head-on in a driving rain here last The death list stood at IS with twice that many The Royal southbound from with passengers for Florida was awaiting at a switch for the Ponce de northbound from The latter traf n. running at high speed on a down missed the switch and crashed into the bound Most of the dead and injured were in the diner and first Pullman of the Ponce fie aboard Palm escaped in- At an early hour today only four of the dead had been A freight train occupied part the siding and obscured the of the engineer on the Ponce de It. IT. road foreman of en- who throttle of the STATE PRESENTED EVIDENCE IN CASE Steve Took the Stand to Deny He Was Responsible for Mellett STENOGRAPHER TOLD OF WOMAN'S STORY Shows by His Notes That Her Statement Before the Grand Jury Was McDermott Left Her House Early Day of Dec. state today rested its rebuttal testimony by calling Steve the to deny that he was responsible for the mid- night murder of Don R. for which Pat McDermott is on trial here for his answered the accusations to fatally a who was McDermott made told of the porters and waiters toppled over the top of Miss explaining she was in the dining car at the jumbled and I found under a table with es and silverware on of me. The lights were- chairs broke like were so fast at the which made things The next thing I knew I was lifted out through a broken E. LEWIS Staff Correspondent Dec. all in drizzling rescue workers today had brought the bodies of 16 dead from the wreckage of the fense by stating he was in Ihe night the crusading publisher was in his testimony charged that he had been by a. playmate In his childhood days in Pa. The state then presented other re- buttal Fred court who testified to the statements made before the grand pass this from lakes to the Atlantic also seems if an ar- rangement can be mads Canada for joint use of the St. O O O The right plan would be an American waterway from the lakes through York stated and that will But it will cost five -or six hundred millions more than the low cost of the St. Lawrence which probably win come Fanners are deeply interested in these canal for which Secretary Hoover de- serves greatest He is a The Canals WlU CUt an a e average Of twelve Cents from the Royal Palm as the Roval Palm stood the and ordering him to the f i j. j home sent by an jury by Mrs. Hattie chief alibi witness for said Mrs. Gerhard told the grand jury left her house at 4 o'clock the day before the der last July 1C. In testifying in trial in Pat's behalf she said Dermott had been home and in bed when the editor was The defense began its rebuttal timony with the calling George Koyal Palm Limited and the Ponce te Leon Approximately thirty handwriting expert of in had j in an effort to refute The Ponce de bound from late yesterday that a telegram received by McDermott the day after freight on export and add twelve cents to the er's Harnessing the Colorado river seems not far thanks to a. number of earnest ing Senator Hiram Secretaries Work and and The remaining seems to be arranging an agreement between nia and The dam would be in a great part of the irrigation would be used in The of one state is reflected in all California cannot thrive without benefitting ida and o o o the great state of climate and the will prove itself the state of brotherly The thing desired is to use the country's water and power and thus build up the entire Arizona not unwisely withhold from development and use that at the she herself not O O O having had a ant price war among gasoline is now to see side of the From sixteen and a half to eighteen and a half cents gallon does not seem Only two but means ar year profit in Southern California alone with cars using gallons of o o o Eastern States will wish that some fairy would give by a switch last The second coach of the Ponce de Leon telescoped its way through the which was the third It mowed down crushed the kitchen crew against their stoves and cabinets and turned the into an of the dead were that Xo one was killed on the Koyal The accident occurred on the out- skirts of nurses and townspeople turned out to give A rescue train was sent from Atlanta fifty miles By p. two hours after the temporary dressing established at the roadside caring for the approximately thirty Bodies began to come from the tangle that the dining car and second coach of the Ponce de mechanics from garages and small factories swarmed over the home sent by Ben one of the alleged conspirators in the There will be no Christmas recess of court and a verdict is possible The state completed its case after Judge E. refused to permit officials of to on I that had been a oner prosecution today recalled Steve the He denied he had his friend McDermott or that he in ton the night of the After an attempt to show that Mrs. Hattie chief alibi witness for the had given ent testimony before the grand the defense rested its Defense attorneys closed their case after calling a handwriting expert to refute testimony of an expert day that Ben Rudner had wired in- cutting their way with lene Investigation developed that ably misunderstanding or failure to re- member orders caused the At station between At- lanta and S. J. en- gineer of the Police de had left his cab and turned over the throttle to road foreman of en- who was making an inspection Keith retired to the baggage Railroad men said that the change of was made orders were explained and both Pierce and his firemen said they understood Palm palled up to await the Ponce de as it approached the switch and was not moving as the Ponce de Leon roared down the A freight train occupied a portion of the siding and it was not until the Ponce de Leon was close upon the Royal Palm that the engineer could see that his track ahead was not The brakes were The train careened and slid as the wheels locked and sparks flew from the rails when the head cars were halted too late to avert the The front ends of the engines were caved In with the terrific The top of the Ponce de Leon's tender was hurled forty feet into a Elsie Baker was granted a divorce from Clark C. dance hall on the grounds of gross neglect and Baker under unusual circumstances last March 10. to McDermott Arguments of counsel began at this tava side will have two hours under an agreement previously Henry assistant opened the mation to the He made a plea that the murder was and that a second degree verdict not be Harter declared that the young tor was killed cold the man whom the defense calls a. sitting Patrick was one of the he Calling men indicted for the Louis Mazer and Ben Harter were pledged to the vilest of all the the Patrick Eugene on trial Is the jackal who did the dirty the assistant prosecutor the wolf scurrying around the talking to the chief of police passing by the Mellett little did he or the fox and realize that must is a great principal involved in this freedom of the press without which the progress of this nation would be at R. 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American hitherto used in to occupy the Port of employed further today at near Bluejackets landed at that point The nature of the tion their presence created was still but tho state department anticipated Admiral In of waters would send ad- Information before In some quarters It was anticipated the landing of coupled with other Central American ments of the past 4S would tend the question of American policy In Central The outstanding developments be- landing of men from Rochester afterward proceeded to the rebel capital Puerto Refusal of the United States ment to permit export from California to Mexico of ten This step may be significant of future ments in view of changes that rebels have munitions to carry on their against the Diaz conservative reel me. Reports from Nicaragua that urgent in the eral Diaz informed the Press he would be unable to cope alono with the liberals and he reported ing on the east coast was more WILL TONIGHT II WHITE It Begins Officially When dent Coolidge Throws the Switch Lighting Yule Tree on Roland Inlow Wanted Here Was Captured in New Will Send Newark Officers After Him Roland much for J on the Pennsylvania train tomorrow OK PACK his alleged part in the tragical fight between the Inlow brothers and Dewey the ter having been killed at Buckeye about last June 8th. was cap- yesterday at New and will be brought back to this This information was revealed at police headquarters this morning by acting Chief of Police Jack who obtained a tip recently that In- low in the city in which his brother A wire to the lice department requesting arrest sent and late yesterday afternoon a wire came that the man had been arrested and is locked in jail The necessary extradition papers have been ed and Officers Dush and Berry will leave tomorrow morning to bring In- low The other mend was arrested a short time after the shooting and has been in jail but although several forts have been made to capture Ro- proving until this A charge of grand ceny and shooting with intent to wound will be filed against Duph and Berry will leave morning for Dover to bring back the IN IS KILLED ON TRUCK inn MR TOMORROW LIKE Dec. older generation of Ohioans can re- call the days when more severe ters were experienced and when any thought of Christmas always con- a mental picture of a side with will ably awaker this Christmas morning to find another According to the weather forecast of today only occasional snow ries can be tomorrow with the temperature a little below freezing and not much colder than the weather of Expect a White Christmas Dec. cold wave was sweeping in from the Far is ex- to bring a white Christmas to the The prediction for today 13 clouded skies and some Tomorrow is expected to be fair but Hy Dec. 24. mas in the House and in. American homes will officially l gin when President Coolidge throws a switch tonight lighting the Yule tree in the executive Hut as far as tiie House ia it will not be the Christmas as was when Garfield was or when Dolly held the keys to the larders Once House was asi famous and as as tha House The re- cipe of G rover Cleveland con- one of the Some time of the still re- call and Tonight the huge once for House will empty nnd the walls of old sion will not ring with the solemn toast the President ot United After his choir mas Mr. plans stay within doors with his family and retire at his usually early Tomorrow there will be no House Mr. and Mrs. and son John will be in the White Victor was instantly killed there at an easy hour Friday He attempted to cross a grade crossing abend of Pennsylvania train number The man was well with the crossings j House and they will only emerge to in He lived within a block Uttend church services in the of the place where he met his death perhaps take a stroll in tha and was twenty-three years of Perfectly well acquainted with the surroundings it is supposed that his engine died as he was crossing the He was alone in the which was completely Ayers Gets Life Sentence r United Dec. E. of convicted of killing his wife with a stick of wood on November 20, was sentenced today by Common Pleas Judge dee to life imprisonment in the Ohio Hunters Find Man's Body By United Dec. The body of Charles R. with a bullet hole In the was found early today on the road near hunters ered the The 13 untarnished except for three undecorated spruce saplings tbat Mrs. Coolidge i erected In the blue parlor with a miniature nativity tableaux sot up under the green CITY PIS WILL It was announced this mornin Prison Turnkey Howard A. liams that the prisoners will have tha following of fare for Christmas Roast mashed bread and pumpkin mince and
