Sandusky Register (Newspaper) - January 2, 1920, Sandusky, Ohio LEA GO EIS Widow and Victim of Michigan Automobile Murder Mystery i Opponents Ask G. 0, P. to Give Their 1.-intention of republican senators opposed to the league of nations to request all republican presidential candidates to place themselves on record as to issues involved league was disclosed by Senator republican made public a letter addressed to Gov. of an aspirant for the Gov. Lowden was asked to say whether he favored policy league of partnership to abandon our traditional foreign policy and neter into Understanding and combinations which us in all European conflicts and for I Senator Borah no of confining these and similar questions to Senator Borah charged In his loiter that powerful European and American Interests were to draw the 1'nltcd States j European affairs through the league nations If and If not secret and V tacit 1 Declaring that the questions and Involved must come before administration regardless of t America's entrance into the the senator said the views of presidential should be No Entangling nearly 150 said the i senator's have in this country regardless of parties adhered to a distinct foreign entangling alliances * or partnerships with foreign powers and no interference toy foreign powers in American If you should he nominated and elected president would you ex- 13 Mt. demons authorities aro investigating the slaying of J. Stanley wealthy Detroit whose body was found in his automobile on a lonely road near Mt. Mrs. Brown who is shown here in outing was being sued for divorce at the time the slain man's bOdy was found abandoned in his She is 19 years * IS IN BIG RED RAIDS AS PALMER BALKS CHARGE S. ATTORNEY IS PLAYING POLITICS Jan. in the arrest of lie Workers of the communists and other radicals were carried today the direction of State's Attorney tonight in a statement attacked Attorney General Palmer for the failure of department of justice agents to Agents from the military intelligence branch of the central department of the army aided the Hoyne said the raids had been timed for U p. m. New Years He mid he recently to Washington to confer with government officials At noon today after receipt a personal letter from asking him not to proceed with tlie federal department of justice Hoyne Atty. or some of his friends are playing petty with the situation ana are pursuing a pussyfoot poU asserted the state's my opinion as a and 1 do not believe Nero or any other fiddler can be elected president of the V. The prosecutor asserted that daily in Chicago members of radical organizations addressed meetings their hearers to the one big and that their purpose was nothing less titan overthrow of the Hoyne declared that the 1. W. the communist party and the communist labor party members and anarchists and syndicalists were distributing tons and tons of seditious He said today's raids were only the beginning of which he declared was intended to drive all radicals from Cook Hoyne declared his men had been armed with 200 search and that in number of warrants charging Conspiracy had been issued by Judge Hugo of the criminal Four men were arrested on the latter warrants them was George an 1. released on bond some time ago from Leavenworth pending decision on the appeal of 6i W. convicted of violation of the espionage Anne 8k years was the only woman She and 27 men were taken from 1. W. W. James secretary of the 1. W. also was SISTER HASTENED MUNDER Weary Cecil Brown's Jealous Wife Murderer LOS Jan. the lips of his devoted Miss Edna came the answer that Harry on trial for the murder of his Freda has asked himself over and over did Freda change her mind? Miss visibly holding with me after she had heard tin control with considerable 1 told frankly from the witness I that unwittingly and precipitated the tragedy in which Freda Lesser was killed on the night of July 4. * ' told Freda a few days before the shooting Harry should never that he was not fitted to have a wife and a and Freda agreed MT. Jan. 1.- weary she by ' Cecil Beatrice one of the many mentioned as having figured in the life of J. Stanley who she is charged with shooting to death near on ert your influence and the influence of the night of December 23, told for the your administration to maintain this second time in twenty-four hours a or would you consent In any story which she expects will shift the way to Its abandonment or Its sub- blame for the murder from her to widow and her Lloyd forces in this country 1 ' operating with equally powerful and Mrs. sought by detectives fof persistent forces In are three was surrendered to local to draw the U. S. in authorities yesterday by two and partnership with European paper The reporters had embroil us in all Euro- her and succeeded in keeping Ho do with It pean turmoils and conflict to utilize her whereabouts secret until our young men the her and Che and Seated on a in the county dynastic battles of the old world and she sobbed out her version placing upon our the den of the financial and economic life of both Europe and Asia and will prove that Lloyd Prevost and these things after the they cannot it in | Mrs. Prevost Brown participated in the murder of She Detectives have as evidence against Mrs. Vester a telegram she is said to have sent asking for money with which to go from to Mt. trie scene of the am mighty glad Lloyd Prevost did not send me the fare I wired for on December 2Z," she he had I would have been in Mt Clemens and my efforts to prove that I had nothing to do with the crime would have been As it is I can prove absolutely that I had nothing to do with it. And can lead the ties to those who did have something have intimate with thought would to Brown because of the intimacy which existed between wife arid * Husband Die From Gas Fumes LOS Jan. bodies of George B. 61", inventor of musical and his Margaret 58, were found m tlie breakfast room of their home Apparently they luid died from inhaling fumes emitted by a gas heater in an adjoining Sinclair came here about six months ago from where for years he ivas vice-president of the Choral Cello Manufacturing The house was tightly closed and every room with the deadly mixture of gas and Food was found on the Police said an analysis of this would be made to determine whether poison other than gas had not been by a possible Told Of New's Pressed for she went step by step into the Intimate events of Harry NeW's clouded life to substantiate her opinion that her half-brother was unfitted to take a wife or father the child that was expected the girl he She went first to Harry New himself to tell him all and to make him realize the hopelessness of his plans to marry she but New declared that he would marry Freda at she Then Miss Clancy went to the girl to tell Harry's past rather than Bee both her half and the girl's lives they will do it in If they cannot succeed by open agreement they will endeavor to succeed by secret or agreement Many of us that we would to know ybor views oh this problem and what it will be your purpose to do should an election as Senator Borah said operations In Russia were in violation oft DEFENSE IS CONTRADICTED BY 2 WITNESSES f Jan. 1.-Damag- the constitution and again t the wishes of the American but In to alibi ot Dr. anco of secret agreement made who is accused of the murder is but an of pretty Elizabeth Borah what is to his former was should we conclude to don our traditional foreign two new witnesses at the enter into and tor's preliminary C. R. a dentist friend of and Mrs. a both testified they saw Schott in front of his office at 2:30 p. m. on the day the girl was found shot to death Deputy Coroner Singer testified when Chhin he had viewed the body at 3:30 p. occurred an hour Consumption News Greater and Cost Much Blames - Brown often locked herself in her room so that her husband could not was ready the other Mrs. Brown was i commission reported in a summary jealous of me. On one she 1 The average cost of newsprint rushed Into my looking for at mills at the December with a i was a the commission know also of a time she as against ed to buy poison which she intended 1916 the price was the lowest giving to her The thing in NEW YEARS AT CAPITAL QUIET Jan. 1.-New Years Day was observed so quietly in Washington today that it was much like an ordinary There were no public and church services were not different from those In hun President Wilson's forced abandonment of the customary white Surrounded by members of his the President spent two in a wheel chair in the sunshine on the south away from the and later Jan. 1. greetings from heads of many exchanges of calls were diplomats and members of the cabinet entertained at luncheons and combinations which us in all European and Republicans in Charge Jan. keys of the city government were turned over today by former Mayor John M. to C. E. republican and C. C. republican Coroner Singer said Schott started to cry while he was there and threatened to commit A crowd that filled the court room to suffocation heard the preliminary and E. W. took A woman fainted at office as treasurer and auditor the sight of the murdered girl's new mayor appointed soaked Felix service Asked If her sister commit Ernest safety The latter just completed a term as city The city council stands gix republicans and one Must Get More For State Dealers Jan. 1.-Declaring they cannot get along with the present margin of local dealers today announced they will ask the city and county fajr price committee to grant them permission to raise the price They then will appeal to the department of Soviets New Year's Greeting Jan. soviet wireless message received from Moscow today Year's greetings to the Tho after celebrating 1910 as a year of victory for the 1920 we shall attain a victorious end of civil the the Don region and the Caucasus desire There also will he Soviets at I'm is and Soviet authority will be supreme throughout Katie May tho dead girl's She was killed by an insanely jealous The last chance he would ever have to do Six Per Cent Cider Offered at Hotels International News NEW Jan. 1.-Cider with the 6 per cent kick guaranteed is being offered in hotels as the - Majestic and it has become Printed circulars with the names of dealers selling it at 50 cents a gallon have been guaranteeing the kick and calling attention to the fact that it is just as attractive as the 6 per cent but does not carry the Coasting Accident 1,- When their sled a coal truck on the Knoxville north of the 10, was instantly killed and his cousin Lloyd 12, seriously It was the the second fatal coasting accident this S. RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IS VERY NEAR TOTAL STANDSTILL brought this about is one that re families do not am perfectly willing to tell all I know to the but no more this case is solved I know that I will be cleared of all participation in and I also that the persons I have mentioned will be Bring Hack A summons was issued today for the return here of Miss Gladys of Battle whose story to authorities implicating her Mrs. on Page 2, Col. 1.) High prices to cut down and the commission that in 1919, 14 per cent more newsprint svna used than In 1918. During the fourth quarter of 1919, newsprint consumption was running up and the commission said that the increase then oyer the similar period in 1918, would be between 25 and 30 per cent. December figures have not yot tures from the present He In 1919, the 727 publishers reporting to the commission used 161,602 tons of compared with 123,844 tons in 1918. Census Enumerators to Start Work Will Ask You Many Questions Cincinnati Becoming Says Mayor 1.-Mayo'r John of in his annual message to council revealed the fact that the city's funds for 1920 would fall short of the budget requirements by One of the salient points of the message was the declaration by the mayor that Cincinnati is entering the new year with no hope of meeting the current If n or should call at your homo this to ask whether you aro deaf and and whether have attended whool since Sept. 1, 1919, deal gently with him or for he or she will ho au agent of In the Your to the person who calls on you should bo increased by the knowledge chat he or she is at that particular in rents or partly owns and partly rents the land ho the value of the machinery and implements belonging to his the quantity of all crops raised on his farm during the year 1919; and many other questions which cover all possible farm An absolutely accurate and complete census vitally concerns the welfare of this community and every living in it. The for the next ten years will said the cost of running the city gov Would be more than greater than it was last year while the would considerably The mayor expressed the view that the state legislature does not provide some relief to meet this Cincinnati and all other cities of the state must necessarily face TREATY CONTEST Unconditional Ratification Ideas Discouraging to Many Democratic Jan. 1.-President Wilson has broken his leng period of inactivity over the peace treaty and has assumed charge of fight to bring about by the He sent Secretary Tumulty to the to confer and other senators in the administration group to ascertain the exact The immediate effect of visit was to cast an atmosphere of gloom upon the democratic It has been bending energies for a compromise by means of which they hoped the president would be willing to accept The impression these senators received was that the president is more disinclined than ever to yield to any sort of ratification except But disappointment was written plainly upon face when he stated that Tumulty no message from the president and that he carried no message It has been the hope of administration Better Many Are Small NEW I which has taxed the of Ellis Island delayed unloading or steamships at ' Is only presages no great influx of that will affect tho lahor of the United in the opinion of immigration authorities ' 1 They estimated today that next year's immigration through York will be only 800,000 as compared figures from 800,000 to 1,000,000 Few of the thousands of arriving here dally from abroad are coming to this country unless have been here or unless tives are already Probably 60 v per cent of the arrivals are mostly who the United States to fight s I Many American - Many of them are American about those g no The balance rivals is composed largely of wives and children of Poles and grated the war and are bow well The arrivals include a large sentation of native-born who had been unable to earlier because of war 1 Some of them are from As evidence of this is the fact that many arrivals have steamship | tickets sold them abroad four or five years The character of the present influx is considered by Isaac a member of the house | as higher Many of the m thousands of representing In some cases the conversion % in their native land or the of prosperous mercantile or s business damaged or by The monetary 1 requirement for admission is who are the i war thousands had little more * ' tha v conviction that ratification kind more than the minimum the president demands is that when the president spoke he would bestow upon them some sort of approval of their earnest efforts for the best terms ' Literary Test It is believed the new will reduce immigration by 40 upon which the estimate of Further tiTe is but the s difficulties for any passenger to ob- tain passports and of other ports such as Philadelphia and The vise of an American abroad is necessary on an Immigrant's Each consul has a taboo for his of residents earning 4 That is the sum determined by the census of 1920. to an enumerator for each resident he Ten rears ago only 2 cents was paid for each as one of census employees said 4 cents isn't much more than that To reassure who are chary about giving personal it is stated that all data given to enu be Be ready with your answers when the census man calls at your Traveling Backward entire crew of a dining car of an east bound are confidential under the Pennsylvania railroad train were most outside thermometers registered 10 degrees above or At street thermometers registered from seven to nine degrees - above * A cutting wind prevailed throughout the day and effect of the cold more Pair and continued cold was the prediction for with slightly warmer weather in sight for Million Illiterates Were in War News Jan. ures compiled by tho statistics branch of tho general staff on Illiteracy in the emergency army tha probably 7.6 per cent jof the entire was illiterate and 17.4 relatively Tho figures are based on a total of 4,000,000 this total 211,000 are classed as wholly illiterate and 712,000 as relatively an aggregate of 1,023,000. Railroaders Die Jan. 1.- Jan. of New an and Thomas was killed in an automobile badly crushed In a this city early With two end collision on the Big Four railroad she was returning from a New here this morning that both died in a Year's celebration to the home of hospital A light engine she was visiting when the lng up to push tho train into the yards motor car In which they were riding struck the caboose in which the men skidded and ran into tho railing of a were with such forco as to Miss was catapulted crush it. over the She fell a distance of sixty feet to the ground Miss who was 24 years had just returned from a six Young Actress Dies In Automobile and cannot be used against any for any purpose District 0f Census Sta ley and his John E. Bragg locked in the car and returned west last night the conductor was taken seriously ill near A engagement in have for the past supervised the case final preparations for the start of the The fifteen days allowed for it will bring it to a on the day when prohibition is finally clamped on this country by the Eighteenth Leaves Cantonment Jan. 1.-Major General E. F. retiring enumerators are j of Camp left the supposed work from 9 to 5 every j cantonment Toledo will be his Jan. 1.-Railway statistics compiled hy the railway age show that the year 1920 begins with the development the railways of the States nearer a complete than at any time elope the first railway laid in the year 1919," the ager total mileage of new lines built in the United States was 686 This is the smallest figure which has ever been recorded by this it does not represent a net increase in mileage of country was steadily although tho rate at which It was had been diminishing for some years and especially since 1910, The available statistics indicate since 1916 the mileage of lines been substantially greater thg new mileage During the three years from 1917. to 1919 our statistics that operation was abandoned cm 3,319 miles of while in the same perT lod only 2,386 miles of branch and other new lines were it appears that during During the year m utiles of main line the last railways were for actual 933 mills in the mileage in the U. to year tke g. except Among the bits of information which you will have to give the enumerator are your whether you are the head of your family or your relationship to home for the Must 1-"All forms of gambling must said Mayor E whether you own or upon taking of- fice includes punch if the whether it is your whether you are widowed or your Whether you can speak your place oi mother the place of birth and mother tongue of your mother and ' ' Census enumerators also will call at every farm in this community to secure the information to fill out the questions contained on the Each farmer will bo asked questions concerning the acreage and value of his boards and everything that is against the Jan. 1 John W. 88 years father of supreme court Judge James E. of and a wealthy retired died He was a native of Darby and is survived By three sons and two THE WEATHER coM Saturday slightly Stove Molders Agree With Manufacturers Jan. 1.-Announcement was made today at the headquarters in Cincinnati of the International Molders union that a new national agreement had been concluded between the stove molders and tlie manufacturers for the coming The agreement provides for a straight 10 per cent increase for day men and 20 per cent for piece Other concessions to material and its handling were ateo made to the piece Arrest 18-Year*Old Burglar in Dayton Jan. 1.-Harry 18, tonight surrendered to police and is held on a burglary Police say he had made damaging lute Wed. night surprised two young men who were ransacking a residence in the northern part of the They but Floyd 17, was His leg was broken by a bullet from a policeman's Police say Poffenberger was Coleman's Police are also holding Howard 20, who they say they caught in the act of ransacking another o. Harry D. Davis today entered upon third term of COLD WAVE HITS Sandusky last night and this moaning was in the grip of one of the coldest waves of the winter iUl oi -in the day the temperature started who are suspected of dropping and by 8 o'clock | enemies of the allies the such is permitted to emigrate to ii the United This has resulted abnormal number of stowaways in ships bound for New in one recent week the number of fifty was caught and NAME CAPTAINS FOR FUND DRIVE Will Appoint to be Held This Everything is now complete for the final canvassing of the city in the Jewish Relief Fund drive except the appointment of the who will assist the twenty team captains who were The following have been as captains of the J. P. Be A. Leo Charles C. G. Oscar B. ' James It. C. Carl J. S. Mrsr Jacob Mrs. H. Mrs. Arthur Mrs. G. H. Mrs. David Mrs. J. H. and Mrs. Garry ' Each one of will have three workers on his or These will be announced at the Reference to meeting tonight is made oh another page of The * Headquarters will be established during the drive at the C. of It ia planned to hold luncheons for the workers on Monday and Tuesday of nest The names of the scribers to date will be made the dinner this Accidental Firing is Cause Death NEW Jan. 1. accidental discharge of his shotgun while he was returning home after hunting rabbits is believed to have caused the death of 45, who had been missing since His body was found on his farm near Sugar Creek by his brother Jan. Irish republic loan of has been although the allotment will not close until February 1, It Is In some districts the loan was oversubscribed three Fire Razes Landmark 1.-Scott Brothers flour said to have beep more than 100 years old and a landmark Miami was destroyed by fire Several hundred barrels flour were The mlU occupied a quarter of a square The loss is estimated at Congressman Begg Hits Legislation For Class What la needed is legislation with justice iu it for every Jan. 1.-(Special) Congressman Jim talk here to day before the a political speech can This why the speaker made a big hit with the meanest and moat arrogant the members of the the world has ever less of party I The of the is drifting into class been only under the republican he 'The and of Under democracy the business the autocracy the world has Stood the professionals and other years ago we groups are organizing publican with the tallow ftfc And each one insists on and the stage selfishly for itself no are * matter what happens to the After Begg asserted Class legislation is in government could bf rm m saddle and the devil take the third the money expended at the 97
