Sandusky Star Journal (Newspaper) - April 7, 1926, Sandusky, Ohio GOOD EVENING STAR Jl. JOURNAL ITS FIN EDITION THE WEATHER Cloudy and colder Wednesday Thursday TONIGHT 2, M Today's 3. Head 5 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS SANDUSKY AND VICINITY Missing daughter Margaret in letter indicates she does not know of slaying of her Trial of Schade poned In federal court together William Ehrensberger until April 15, Authorities say Paul Evans has been identified as man seen near scene of shooting of GENERAL NEWS British former Inmate of Insane shot and Premier Bullet hit him in Not Rumor In Columbus Knight and Davis form coalition District Attorney Buckner says no made enforce prohibition in New Ohio bank robbed by four ODD J. A. N. saw the following on an electrical sign in D. C. reports seeing four signs from as many dealers on a While In the back room of a barber C- S. saw a fermenting bung used In place of a door J. A. N. wins the Plaza What have YOU CONGRESS Considers Brookhart senatorial Committee continues beer Committee considers music Committee continues investigation of tariff Agriculture committee considers farm relief Considers bills from agriculture Ways and committee and interstate commerce committee considers Mills alien property Interstate commerce committee considers coal Military committee considers council of national Agriculture committee considers farm LATh K F L A 6 LJ L 12 PAGES APRIL 7, 1926 I I 3 OKN I'd 55 A I Y S NUMBER 161.- BRITISH WOMAN SHOT ITALIAN PREMIER NO ATTEMPT TO ENFORCE DRY LAW IN NEW YORK April 7- Possibility of establishing the of David It. Marshall In the slaying of Anna May was revealed today with receipt of a note signed by Abraham Marshall's which declared chiropractor innocent and asserted two other men and a woman were In Marshall's office building when Miss Dietrich was after a sensational was found guilty of second degree murder two weeks April 7-David F. of New of later secretary of the treasury in the has accepted an invitation to participate in the League of Nations preliminary economic it was announced Houston is understood to replace Owen D. of the Dawes who declined to The economic conference will meet April 28^,t_Geneva. P. April 7--Ten Moros were killed and ten members of the constabulary were two when the r constabulary raided and captured two Moro strongholds in province ' 7.-A boiler explosion wrecked a celluloid factory in Dresden Seven persons are reported twenty in hospitals and two SAYS CABLE Dictator Mussolini Attacked As He Left Hall in Rome After Opening International Surgery Apr. Benk to Mussolini was shot in the nose by an elderly woman today as he emerged from a building in according to dispatches received His wound is believed to be The premier maintained his composure immediately gave orders to prevent public commotion as a result of the attempt against his A large crowd had gathered around the building to see the premier and the would-be assassin was among The would-be assassin gave her name as Violet Gibson and her age as 62. She said she was of Irish The woman confessed to the It Is understood she is the daughter of the late Lord former lord chancellor of OIL FIRE STARTED BY FL BAN LUIS Apr. -One of most disastrous fires in the history of the petroleum industry swept the Union Oil company tank farm near here The blaze caused by a bolt of which exploded four huge tanks each containing 250.-000 barrels of oil had caused at according to an estimate by Lafe general manager of the OH company Modernist Wins Village Election 7-Modem-,] elected their candidate J. In mayoralty election here in which the Virgin Birth of Christ waa an The fundamentalist L. j. drew only 255 yotes to opponents 385. formerly a Baptist aroused In. tense feeling when he announced during the campaign that he was a The election was one of the most fiercely contested the town has a retired was advanced because of his fundamentalist n at his boms in Charles Barthauer fell 40 feet and sustained three broken ribs bruised Assailant Was Insane ' April 7-The Hon. Violet daughter of the late Lord Who shot Premier Mussolini of Italy today in an attempt to assassinate was formerly an Inmate of an insane asylum in the Constance her said has been in Italy for the last 18 months or said the year ago she attempted to commit There is no political significance whatever in this British authorities do not expect the slightest international reaction from the attempt of a British subject to assassinate the Italian There will be no question of the United Press was informed Britain will express sympathy to the Italian and the British ambassador in Rome will convey the regret of the British people that a British woman the Wound Is April 7-Premier Mussolini was shot and slightly wounded by an aged woman today as he left the city where he had addressed the congress of the International Surgeons The bullet penetrated the cartilege oZ the premier's Leaping from the crowd which had gathered to see the premier the woman fired at short forward to seize but she was saved from summary punishment and was placed in The woman is about seventy years She fired point blank the distance being so short that Mussolini's escape seemed In the midst of the furious only Mussolini remained The attempted assassination occurred at the summit of the famous where the municipal palaces are situated on the scene of Rome's greatest Mussolini was passing through an applauding crowd when the woman The premier gave detailed instructions for preserving public order before seeking medical Despite police efforts to control the anger of a crowd of youths gathered and marched on the newspaper office of the Democratic To Woman Cashier Father Slugged and Customers Lined Up Against April 7-Four masked bandits held up the Bank of Trenton today and escaped with The holdup occurred shortly after Three men sprang from an automobile and rushed into the bank with drawn While forced several customers and bank employes io stand along a hands the fourth ber scooped up all' the cash in The bandits then made their way to their leaped into the vehicle and sped Before fleeing the robbers bound and gagged the woman cashier and slugged her who entered the bank as the robbery was The bandits escaped in a ' sedan towards according to who sounded a general alarm Premier of IS NOT IT FREED Judge After Reading Article in Magazine Decides Mencken Not 7-H. of the was vindicated to day when Judge William ' Parmenter returned a verdict of not guilty on charges of selling literature tending to corrupt the morals of the announced after a perusal of the alleged immoral article in the came as a surprise to the comparatively few persons who had gone to the courtroom to hear Mencken's Mencken had expected a verdict of In announcing his Judge Parmenter question which I have to decide is whether the article entitled is The magazine is quite obviously printed for the intelligent classes and is so devised as to have a particular appeal to those cannot imagine a child or any other person whom it might buying this expensive I find ho offense has and I find the defendant not The Rev. J. Frank secretary of the Watch and Ward who instigated the suppression of the April number of 1 the did not decision was a surprise to Mencken told the United Press as he left the I was so surprised that I I am sorry Mr. Chase of the Watch and Ward was not there to hear it. its barely possible he's sorry he started this not through with him and his Watch and Ward We have good lawyers and when we hit we're going to hit Mencken came here Monday and got himself arrested by selling a copy of the banned Mercury to Rev. A damage suit which the editor has filed against Rev. the Watch and Ward and a group of news is still pending in federal court TRIPLE TRAGEDY AT NEW ORLEANS NEW April 7-Grief caused by the losa of a son and daughter and a letter that a sister was on the verge of caused Mrs. Eugene to kill her Frank 37, Mrs. Ruby McDermott and then commit a Jury reported After turning on the gas in the Murphy Mrs. McDermott locked herself in another gas filled room and Mrs. Calvin a daughter of Mrs. died recently in and a son was killed in an accident in KNIGHT AND DAVIS FORM Neither Prospective Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Admits It but They Have BY HARRY W. Press Staff Apr. 7-A political coalition for the nomination of former Congressman Charles L. Knight of as a republican was being formed here this afternoon between Knight and former Governor Harry L. Davis of according to authoritative arrived here this morning from denied he and Davis had exchanged overtures as did who arrived last night after summoning influential political supporters here to confer with Both that they intended to a rumors that the two dominant republicans would form a coalition was received with open dismay in political circles Earlier in the day persons conversant with the situation scoffed reports that such a combination would be ' upon his arrival was reported prepared to announce his candidacy for the nomination * he can combine forces with a political machine for the nomination of a candidate acceptable to both whose way to the nomination has been paved by the withdrawal of Carmi of was reported to have such a machine and was quoted as favoring an alliance with political preferably one such as that dominated by Although Knight and Davis in past years have not been avowed they have opposed each other politically with Knight and his followers having the support of the Coolidge Knight was reticent about discussing his plans when approached by a representative of the United He refused to say definitely that he would become a will not enter the race if another candidate who can win in the November election is put he Strong candidates admittedly are both Davis and Knight Should Knight unfavorable to the it was reported and Davis would compromise on some possibly a dark horse yet to be Asked if he believed any of the candidates now in the race would receive such Knight laughed and Interest is centered in seeing a candidate in this race who can be nominated and win for the republican party in Davis made an almost identical declaring he has no of entering the but is desirous of seeing the party unite behind a candidate whom the nomination will be worth more than it is to Asked if he intended to oppose Senator Frank Willis for the republican senatorial Davis have nothing to say at this Davis admitted he regarded Knight as powerful gubernatorial The reason he called his political aides to he was to discuss the situation and perhaps reach some kind of an agreement that would contribute to republican ' It was generally conceded that Knight will be the official to 6. No. 4.) IS Prohibition Battle at Washington This picture was taken as the senate sub-committee began its hearings on The committee is Left to the members are Senators Reedf Means Walsh and Standing are four of the principal wet Left to they are Congressman John Philip Senator Senator Bruce and Senator CASTLE IN BERLIN TO Feme Actress Whom He Married in Charges Him BY MAURICE M. 8IEGEL, Press Staff Apr. 7-Even though Roy K. Bowman was a lowly rubber in a Turkish he still had the consummate suavity to pose as a butter and egg and marry two women with wonderful promises of fur castles in Germany and commodious motor But his glib tongue today had caused his according to It was on of Mrs. Theresa Conheiser Peterson Lesser that musical comedy prima today filed an affidavit in court here charging Bowman with Miss white appearing in Columbus with Ed Wynn in the was and intensively by Bowman who posed to her as a prominent and influential 3erlln promised to take her back to Germany and set her up as the mistress of his Berlin But Bowman is now in the county jail awaiting grand jury action on a charge of defrauding the hotel where he and Miss Rogers spent their brief out of room Mrs. Marie N. J. sister of Bowman's first today disclosed how Bowman was then known as courted her sister in another fast and furious represented himself os a rich importer from Berlin with es in New Missing Daughter of Margaret Brady Does Not Know of Slaying Thelma Letter To From Alaska Says She Has Not Heard From Relatives fbr Five Settlement of Held Up Awaiting Word From a inquiry to Thelma only daughter of late has been Dairy Broker Said To Have Sold State Animals That Developed April 7.-The investigation of state department became still more extensive today when State Tracy launched a probe of the state welfare this Attorney General Crabbe and State Examiner C P. MUler communicated with Charles dairy broker of in connection with sales of cattle to the welfare The attorney Deputy A Harry Silver and Miller conferred with officials at the London prison farm late yesterday and were expected to issue a statement today or later in the concerning the department's A for is said to be involved in the Wise negotiated the it and several of the later were with tu according to Tracy today temporarily suspend ed his investigation of the state high way and agriculture London and Bayer told called on my sister who was then Theresa Conheiser in her apartment in New York on June 1914." according to Mrs. then showered Miss Peterson with alluring promises of a ermine motor cars and told her of his big estate in Miss Peterson for his Mrs. Bayer but immediately after their the disillusioned wife went to live with Bowman in his which consisted of a furnished room in where he owed back Mrs. Bayer had to work as a restaurant and for eight years they lived Bayer further at Easter 1923, Bowman left his wife and made Columbus his stamping It was here he became a rubber and later blossomed out as the he pictured himself Feme Bayer was unaware of the Columbus affair in the amour of Bowman until she saw a New York To 6.) No Land Sighted In Long NEW Apr. 7 - George H. of the Detroit Aero club Polar a t h's pilot Carl Ben flew in their monoplane due north Point to 73 30 minutes without the North American per today announced it had been Wilkins arrived at Circle last night from Point The flight north of Point Barrow was made Maroh TRIAL UNI m. 15TH Federal Court Hearing of Also Put Over for Special to the April 7-Trial of son of a Sandusky city who is under federal Indictment on five counts of violating federal prohibition federal smuggling laws and the federal tariff which was scheduled in federal court here forf Thursday morning has been postponed to April 15 it was announced The specific charge against is that ho was u member of a rum running gang winch attempted to land the speed boat No. 1488-N with a cargo of Canadian beer and whiskey at Rye Beach on the afternoon of Nov. 10, 1925. The boat and liquor were by Federal Prohibition Agent J. M. Kegg and Internal Revenue Collector Roy M. both of Sandusky after Kegg fired shots at the The of and Jumes Oona of and Frank of Port Clinton also were postponed until April 15. SAY EVANS SEEN and she will learn for the first time of the tragedy on August 29, 1923, the murder of her Margaret proprietor of the Pullman hotel on was attacked by her estranged James who cut her throat and beat her over the head with a death resulting within two or three Brady was and sentenced to life Mrs. had sued for divorce a short time alleging cruelty and that her husband drank to He is now in penitentiary at the time of the tragedy no trace of the could be Relatives 6aid she had married a man named Herbert Other near relatives are a William and three The letter to the was written at on March 26, and signed Her address is given as Box 1276, am trying to locate my mother and she says the have not heard from them fbr five Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Marguerite McClure Brady or William B. will please notify their Thelma ' The estate of Mrs. Brady has not yet been settled In probate owing to up to this time to locate the An insurance policy of was payable to the who also is a share of the estate which included tho Pullman hotel property on The letter to the was turned over to Mrs. Myrtle a sister of Mrs. who will at onco communicate with the young woman in Thelma absence has to 1-i.gt) C No. 31 Alleged Slayer Identified in Jail by Authorities Paul Evans charged with the slaying of Sam Sandusky Co. has been f identified as one of the men seen near the scene of the shooting tin the night that Cole was fatally authorities declared Sheriff Cole has had several at the jail to see the prisoner and one of these declares he saw Evans the plant on night of tha Others who are not as say they believe they saw Evans that including William J. private detective in county have been working on the case based upon valuable information gleaned from the grilling of Evans by Sheriff deputies and King and his detectives Saturday night and a former employe of the packing Is reported to have left town shortly after Cole was shot from ambush as he was making his at tho Cole in a deathbed statement said he saw two men in the runway from which the fatal shot was About the only clue found was a piece of clothesline left behind by Cole's Circumstances were investigated and after months an arrest Evans has persistently protested innocence and has not broken down under gruelling cross fire of Evans was arrested In the Tennesson hills by King who went into the mountains to get He to Page 8. No. 6.) District Attorney Says Condition of Courts Prevents Trying To Enforce Volstead Law BY PAUL R. Press Staff Apr. 7 - Prohibition enforcement has yet been attempted in New i Federal District Attorney Emory Buckner of that told senate prohibition don't know whether v tion could be enforced in New Buckner is such that it cannot be tried * It was a startling picture he painted of conditions in the - He charged that trafficking in justice openly in tbi federal building In the course of a year at 50,000 and fixers pass through the dors of that he is an air of collusion there even in the civil parts of the have been told that have been in the - 0 the * i do you mean by mean who jus who hang around of the and jury and with money memory of severely criticized system whereby prohibition ' were promoted according tb ber of arrests a of inefficiency cannot equally Buckner The police York Is receiving 15,000 a from citizens against prohibition Buckner are mostly from he cannot be ed. But it takes a lot of men to lot 1 The committee held a whispered at this point aitd that night sessions should be beginning to permit the to present their Buckner said that 9.#}r> unha died cases were pending a took 3,009 Were tion The * totem years he ' fl think it is better to ai restaurant or a tp stead of arresting a ner 1 padlocked more than 60tt placet all ' ' - only way to enforce tion is to send the violators to Buckner sentences cannot he without a jury 'A not handle more than two jury a would take a year for to try the petty cases the up in one month now tried induce Buckner t estimate how violating the Reed suggested there were ' k Buckner declined to self but said there Ir portant violations a is only a fraction tbj cases when you include the he we as Is Number U Fred 1411 doesn't think The other evening he bated 13 homes hi the sold two of them in m many Did it pay hi in to run You too cau gei the same results by bringing or your auto MAIN 28 Want hi Newspaper of the dismissals juries say is a mue fellow man with money Is being by 1, Buckner said the calibre agents ought to be A living wage should paid t| he ought to be made to RADIO RAFFLES IS TO Patrolman Shot ious Burglar borough of mm mm in vain effort 1 The the Ml 6671 53 055
