Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - September 17, 1927, Waterloo, Iowa Abe Martin the truth In a way Edi Appearing In thla daily AND WATERLOO REPORTER THE IOWA Generally fair and cooler tonight Sunday Monday Mt Sunday Monday WATERLOO IOWA SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 1927 1 HOME EDITION r 0 DRY CHIEF BARES WATSONS AID IN DODGING JAIL In the of TODAYS News MACINTOSH FAILS Capt RobertH Macintosh and Commandant James C Fitzmaurice have failed in their attempt to f Jy from Dublin Ireland to New York After progressing about 300 miles over the sea the fliers struck heavy fog and were forced to turn the nose of their monoplane the Princess Xenia back east They were in the air a little less than hours They brought their shi down safe ly on Beale Strand near the mouth of the Shannon Captain failure may do than his success would and were perhaps better e eastwest transAt has preceded his of the flight of the la may deter less ex and navigators from Aviation ex and weather eed that the weather iat this time of year for itic flight from east to AMERICAN GIRL READT Ruth Elder the girl from Dixie who hopes tpi become the Lindbergh passed her physical an air pilots license tve that she can fly her three years of tain the necessary tank of her plane Lrl has been repaired instruments are flier and Captain will await nothing ince with the weath their transAtlantic Yesterday Captain Macintosh a pilot with 13 years experience cred with having carried over 10000 passengers was forced to return after a hopoff for New York from Dubr lin He had spent ovar 300 hours the air testing the motor before ginning the flight which is parable to the total number of HI Miss Elders experience Evidently her desire tor fame has somewhat numbed her appreciation of the odds against her flight LEGION HONORS DEAD General John J Pershing Marshal Foch high j of sa luted today at Suresnes cemetery 30000 American soldiers who died in the World war In addition to the two great war leaders Howard P Savage national commander of the American Legion Generals Gourad De Beney Rage nau and participated in the tribute to American dead No soldier would ask a sweeter resting place than the field of glory where he fell with two nations to watch over him with ceaseless solic said General Pershing Marshal Foch spoke in his charac brief manner The first act of the official legion delegation was to pay tribute to their dead French comrades at the Arc de Triomphe yesterday and then to their own dead comrades In Suresnes cemetery today Vive les Americans is heard ev The pleasure over the reunion is mutual FRANCE Ten special trains Havre and Cherbourg all arriving within a few hours landed 3500 American le their wives sisters moth ers and baggage at the Paris sta tion yesterday A crisis such as the French capital has not witnessed in years ensued No doubt the mothers wives and sisters were disillusioned as to the ability of their heroes to speak French with the fluency which they had exhibited previously Ou est a taxicab or moi but could you tell me where theres a bar mon homme was no doubt met with silence The majority of the legionnaires wrestled with their own baggage while friendly gendarmes scouted the neighborhood for taxicabs LOST WITH A LION Nothing has been heard since last night at 6 oclock of Martin Jen sen flying In a nonstop flight from Ban Diego to New York with a lion as his Kole passenger Jensen who finished second In the Dole Hawaiian race left Camp Kear ney Mesa near San Diego yester day morning with Leo the Metro studio lion As Jensens plane is equipped with a long distance wireless sending set his silence is causing some ap prehension The plane is also equipped with a feeder for the lion similar to an auto mat which Jensen works with lev ers The lion occupies a compartment in front of the pilot Enthusiastic prophets may now predict the transportation of entire circuses by air in the future Of course a dirigible will be necessary for the elephants AT THE BARRIER Twentytwo planes are at Roose velt Field N Y ready to go to the barrier Monday in the New York Spokane air derby Fiftyseven entries will compete for in prize money No entries have as yet arrived at the field for the nonstop flight from New York to Spokane altho 11 tries in the class B night making at Chicago and Mont arrived yesterday Interest in the air derby that in transoceanic flying temporarily at least Its tion to the progress of aviation prom ises to be fully great M a cross night Five airplane Inspectors from the department of commerce carefully entry Much valuable data M obtained concerning types of motors and construction of the race YET SEIZE REINS Hoover and Hughes Dawes and Lowden Might Block Each Other PLENTY OF TIMBER FOUND OUTSIDE Of FOUR LEADERS Watson of Indiana Is Good Looking and Willis of Ohio an string that not BJ MARK SULLIVAN Washington D C Sept four men to the front in the field of possibilities for the Republican presidential nomination are Hoover and Hughes Dawes and Lowden There Is really no qualification to that statement And yet any observ er of politics made cautious by long experience and many surprises feels obliged to call attention to the fact that much can happen politically in 10 months and that on many past occasions unexpected developments have thrown leaders to the rear No one of those four is any nearer the nomination at this stage than Gen eral Leonard Wood and Governor Lowden were in 1920 Indeed up to a month before the convention that year everybody supposed It would be mainly a contest between those two with the certainty that one or the other would be the winner The public had not heard and hard ly any politician paid any attention to the man who slipped in between person can say positive there are no in the tion and no other dark preconvention sit whose rela that Harding te put forward gambling leaders say generation will an other Harding episode be duplicated Nevertheless if one wished to be careful to include all the possible Hardings of 1928 and all the dark other one should mention Several names Gen Fershing Considered General Pershing flouts the idea that he should be in politics doss not want the Republican nomination and regards the idea that he should be given It as a joke if not an oc casion for irritation But the fact is certain energetic and very compe tent persons are making plans which assume that the four main candi dates will kill each other off that at just the right moment the right maneuver in behalf of Gener al Pershing would nominate him Speaker Longworth has a large number of friends strategically locat ed the country During the 24 years he has been in congress he has been friend or acquaintance of probably as many at 2000 men who are now Republican These are just the sort ol men who either have now or could readily seize key positions In the Republic an organizations in their respective districts who could have themselves made delegates to the convention One can Imagine a very quiet even secret club made up of Republican gressmen and others who by suf adroitness given the right conditions might do something sen Watson Is Good Looker There is Senator Watson of Indi ana Watson is a handsome man ac cording to his own Indiana stand ards Once in so often accident takes him past a mirror and as he sees his reflection he is moved to re flect as Harry Daugherty used to about Harding Lord what a hand some president hed make Wat son has been in politics all his ma ture life was a relative of the long powerful Uncle Joe Cannon knows the local Republican leaders in the southern states and elsewhere has affiliations among some quarters of the big business backers of the Republican party Senator Willis of Ohio has rather frequently demonstrated his capacity to carry that large and pivotal state Senator Willis has a voice that is like Senator Watsons face Often must Senator Willis feel what a waste it is that his voice does not speak from the highest platform in the iand which Is the White House In the chronological divisions of American politics there is repeated opportunity for use of that most euphonious combination in the Eng lish tongue the conjunction of the sounds of o and r Senator Willis recognizes the happy combina tion and haa the voice to take ad vantage of It To a person who takes pleasure in beautiful sounds it is worth walking many a mile to hear Senator Willis roll out Four years more and Pour years ago Think of the presidential speeches in which those phrases could be used as the thrilling ration speech the speech of accept ance the addresses to congress Mixed Situation in Illinois In Illinois there is a situation which makes it impossible for the Republicans to agree on either of the two sons of the state who are to the front as possibilities Low den and Vice President Dawes Cooled Off ftT E Tells Chattanooga Publisher He Will Leave Field in 1928 Clear MARSH DECLARES HE EXPECTED WITHDRAWAL Local Wan Sees Better Chance Now for Gov Smith to Be Nominated WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO Ten Trains Unload 3500 at Station and Taxi Crisis Is Result Paris Sept natured confusion reigned at St Lazar railway station today as 10 special trains from Havre and Cher bourg all arriving within a few hours landed 3500 American legion naires their wives sisters mothers and baggage at the station A porter and taxi crisis such as Paris had not experienced in years was provoked The majority of the legionnaires wrestled with their own baggage while gendarmes on duty scouted the neighborhood for taxicabs The legionnaires accepted the en suing delays in good nature plying one another with quips and jokes reminiscent of debarkation in war days of 1917 A drizzling rain greeted the new arrivals ON PAGE THREE The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5 SO oclock If thru error of the carrier boy or other cause you fail to receive your paper by that time please PIMM SIM and copy of the paper win bs tent Phone calls most reach before m Two Insane Girls in Auto Smashup Five Persons Hurt Centerville la Sept persons including two insane girls were recovering today from injuries received when an automobile over turned near as the girls were being taken to the insane hos pital at Mt Pleasant The girls Mary and Anna Swob Cincinnati la were being taken to the state Institution by Sheriff Earl Gaugenbaugh his wife and John a special deputy Near Bloomfield both girls became violent and because the officers wero having a hard struggle to control them the car was forced to top speed When a tire gave way the car overturned pinning the occupants beneath it Passing motorists lifted the machine All escaped with minor Injuries Court Rules Many Mortgages Are Void Moines Sept 17 INS Holders of mortgages on various par cels of property In Polk county were scrambling thru records today to check up on the wording of the of the notary public attesting the instrument Apprehension has been caused by a ruling of Judge Sellers in the Des Moines municipal court that a mort gage which failed to bear the words in the attestation for Polk county was void Judge Sellers In making his rul ing referred to an opinion of the state supreme court to that effect Burned Rock Island Wreck Cleared Up Washington la Sept Wrecking crews of the Chicago Rock Island Pacific railroad early today had cleared away the wreckage of nine cars of a freight train which left the tracks II miles from here last night Five cars of crude oil one of flour and one of lumber were destroyed by fire following the wreck No one was injured Trains last night were routed by the way of Ottumwa over the Mll The wreck was caused by a hot box and a broken journal Washington D C Sept William G McAdoo has informed his friends that he will not be a candi date for the Democratic presidential nomination In 1928 His decision has been communi to George P Milton publisher of the Chattanooga Tenn News in a letter sent in response to a re quest from Milton that he announce his candidacy Declaring that his chief concern was the supremacy of Democratic principles and progressive policies McAdoo said that perhaps I can do more to advance these objects as a private citizen than as a candidate for the presidency I prefer to stand aside he added in order that the field may be left clear so far as I can clear it for the development of a leader ship that can the more effectively gain these ends I shall not therefore be a can for the Democratic presiden tial nomination in 1928 Cites Last Convention In his letter McAdoo recalled the Madison Square garden convention of three years ago at which on 91 bal lots he led the field of candidates declaring if the Democratic situation should again develop in such a way as to cause a repeti tion of the inconclusive and dis fight in the New York con vention of 1924 it would be calami tous and the party would be reduced again to impotence in a presidential contest Everything possible should be done he continued to prevent the 1928 convention from degenerating Into a mere struggle of individuals for personal preferment at the ex pense of principles and policies of fundamental importance to party character and to the welfare of the nation Principles First Principles and policies must come first Personal ambitions however legitimate and every selfish purpose should be subordinated to them After declaring that he would not be a candidate next year McAdoo said But the struggle for the preser vation of the constitution in its in for the defeat of nullification for obedience of law and for the stern repression of crime for incor government for impartial justice social and economic must be carried on any every earnest patriot must see that it is carried on In an effort to achieve those things I shall as a private citizen be glad to cooperate with all those who deem them essential to the public welfare Smith Not Interested New York Sept I have nothing to say concerning it said Gov Alfred E Smith when asked today to comment upon the announcement of William GIbbs Mc Adoo that he would not be a can for the presidential nomina tion next year Gov Smith indicated by his man ner he had no interest whatever in announcement MARSH SEES AL SMITH AS EASY WINNER NOW Wilbur W Marsh treasurer of the Democratic national committee for nine years retiring in 1924 and for many years a prominent urer In Waterloo stated today that the formal withdrawal of McAdoo as a candidate for Democratic nomina tion was anticipated by him After reading the press dispatch epitomizing letter Marsh made the following statement to a Courier representative I am in hopes now that the Democrats of our state will give Governor Smith a unanimous in While I have been ab certain for some time that the governor would have the 26 votes from Iowa against any and all the candidates who have been mentioned this result would probably have had to come by the adoption of the unit rule It would be a very splendid thing for the party in the state and na tion if it becomes known early that Governor Smith will have 26 votes from Iowa without the appli cation of the unit rule It would tend to lead the party back to the principle of a broad toleration and it would be a rebuke to all those organizations which as pire to play the part of a I dont think there Is any candi date to whom the McAdoo people can rally and It looks to me now if Governor Smith would be nomi practically without n Says Al Should Follow Washington D C Sept think Gov Al Smith ought to follow example and clear the way for a new In the Demo cratic party Senator Duncan a Fletcher Democrat Florida declared today in commenting on the with of William Glbbs McAdoo from the 1928 presidential race After praising record Fletcher said By retiring from the presidential arena McAdoo has made a generous Continued on two column 1 State Will Prosecute Insane Man for Attempt to Murder Two Officers HUGH CRUMRINE city detective shot in right shoulder FRED escaped from Independence state hospital for in sane shot twice in abdomen and once in left arm Torrid Weather Comes Back to Stay Few Days After One Day Vacation Des Moines Sept weather vacating the corn belt for a single day came back with a vengeance yesterday and was sched uled to stay until tonight or tomor row Thermometers were expected to go above the 90 degree mark in Des Moines today after an oppressively warm night Yesterdays maximum temperature in Des Moines was 90 degrees Generally fair weather and cooler was the prediction of the state weath er bureau for Sunday Roads in the state were reported generally In good condition by the Iowa Automobile association altho rough in spots due to recent rains Cockburn Leaves Cell for Hospital Anamosa la Sept sell Cockburn Des Moines payroll padder was released from the state reformatory here this morning on a parole after serving three and one half years of a fiveyear sentence and planned to enter a hospital im mediately to receive treatment for diabetes parents Ms brother and sister met him at the prison gate and took him to the fam ily home which has been main here for two years while his relatives aided in the treatment for the disease Schlee and Brock Sailing for Home Tokio Sept F Schlee and William Brock sailed ftr the United States this afternoon on the Korea Maru Prior to the sailing the two American aviators were guests at a luncheon aboard the ship The airmen were presented with gold drinking cups by their Japanese hosts Schlee said their plane the Pride of Detroit would be ready to fly to Detroit when the ship docks at San Francisco He said they would takeoff for Michi gan just as soon as it was Felice Rent George Mar Un Havana Ribbon cigars WEATHER FOR WEEK Chicago Sept outlook for the week beginning Sept 18 for upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys Mostly fair weather northern portions week but show ers more likely In southern por tions seasonable temperature during first part of week fol lowed by rising by middle of week W P DILWORTH deputy sheriff shot in right abdomen Sheriff II T Wagner after conference with County Attorney F W Edwards said this after noon that information charging assault with intent to commit murder would be filed against Fred escaped from state hospital for the insane who yesterday shot anil severely wounded Deputy Sheriff W F Dilivorth and Detective himself seriously in jured by three bullets has a good chance of recovery The state will endeavor to have him ad judged insane by a jury in dis court committed to the department for the criminal in sane In the state reformatory at Anamosa Wagner said he thought this the only course by which so ciety could be protected against a recurrence of yesterdays near tragedy Condition of Deputy Sheriff W F and Detective Hugh Crum rine wounded In a gun battle yes afternoon with Fred Scheu fele insane farmer who escaped from the state asylum at Independence on Thursday was reported good at Al len Memorial hospital today The officers spent a comfortable night and it was believed will make a speedy recovery from their wounds Dilworth was shot in the abdomen and In the right shoulder Scheufele wounded three times by the officers In the gun fight was ex to recover altho his condi tion today was not as favorable as that of the officers Scheufele was the more seriously wounded having been shot twice in the abdomen and once in the left arm Two Women Rescued The shooting occurred at Scheu feles farm home six miles north of Waterloo when the two officers with Sheriff H T Wagner attempted to take Scheufele into custody The officers went to the Scheufele home in response to a call from neighbors that Scheufele was loose again The insane man skulking thru corn fields to reach his home in his flight was first sighted late yester day morning by W R Knapp a neighbor At about the same time Continued on page tuo column TO Detroit Millionaire Arouses Interest by Attempts to Conceal Identity Honolulu Sept INS With the arrival of Horace E Dodge jr Detroit millionaire in Honolulu his marital affairs took another sen turn today when It was learned that he was here for the os tensible purpose of acquiring custody of his two children The two children are now in pos session of his former wife who was recently married to Lieut Benjamin Franklin Manning here Dodge traveling incognito arrived here yesterday He left dressed In the dungarees of a mem ber of the crew and tried to throw newspaper men off his trail The Detroit man used the name of Hugh D McGaughy during the trip His identity however was discovered by fellow passengers before the ves sel was many days out BASEBALL TODAY St 9 1 Philadelphia 7 1 batteries and Schang Wal berj and Perkins First Detroit U 1 Boston 9 1 Billings and Bass ler Bennet Lundgren and Hofmann Moore First Chicago 001 000 8 J New York g l Fiber Grouse Shocker and Collins National League First Brooklyn 000 000 10 0 Pittsburgh 10 8 Batteries Petty and and First New York 100 000 8 1 Cincinnati 000 000 a 1 and Taylor Luque Koln and mm COURT TO 5 SENTENCE Flying Lion Passes Chicago in Nonstop Flight to New York New York Sept offices here this afternoon said they had picked up wireless messages from Martin Jensen flying from San Diego Cal to New York saying that he had passed Chicago Jensen has with him for com pany Leo a docile lion from the Al G Barnes circus who seeks the honor of being the first lion over to fly without stop from California to New York If Jensen completes the trip it will be the second time a nonstop transcontinental flight has been made Oakley G Kelly d John MacReady famous army fliers made the first flight PILOTS FLY INI IN OCE Macintosh and Fitzmaurice Forced by Head Winds to Quit Flight Dublin Sept perils of fog and wind that the north At holds for those who would fly westward over its restless wastes were described today by two men who turned back With defeat Inevitable Capt R H Macintosh and Commandant James reversed the course of the monoplane Princess after it had sped three hours from land and escaped the fate of their dar ing fellow airmen who sought In vain this summer to trace an aerial path from Europe to North America The Irish aviators encountered the same sort of heavy weather which doubtless overcame the crews of the White Bird and the St Raphael aft er they had passed out to sea toward tragedy Head Into Disaster Macintosh and Fitzmaurice hopped off from Baldonnel air Held Dublin at p m yesterday for New York Two hours later they roared over Galway bay and headed out over the Atlantic which never yet has been crossed in a nonstop flight from east to west Then into fog and rain and head was very close to the Fokker monoplane for two hours At length beaten the fliers elect ed to abandon their argosy They regained the Irish coast over the mouth of the River Shannon and cir cled for a landing place They shot up signal rockets from their Very pistol hoping that villagers would light the dusk to aid them They finally landed at p m bringing down the craft near Bally bunion on the western coast of County Kerry Meet Heavy Weather The aviators tired and weighed with the feeling that death had been near went to bed In a hotel In an interview with the press Fitzmaurice sketched the hardships faced In the brief night We had been over the sea be tween two and three hours when Ae encountered extremely heavy weath er he said Visibility was unutterably poor To top it all we ran into a down pour of rain that forced us frequent ly to fly only 30 feet or so above the water 5 oclock we found It impos fible to steer a true compass course and decided that to continue would be suicide Forced to Empty Tanks We were then running into a headwind and final ly were forced to empty some of our petrol tanks Both Macintosh and Fitzmaurice were lavish In praise of the perform ance of the Princess after the wife of William B Leeds principal backer of the flight The monoplane was a sistership of the illfated St Raphael and Old Glory and was the one in which Van Lear Black publisher of the Baltimore Sun Hew to and from the East In dies It was believed here today that no other attempt would be made from this side of the Atlantic to span the ocean this year Chicago Reformer Would Stop Fight in Soldiers Field Chicago Sept poenas were issued here today for Jack Dempsey Gene Tunney and Tex to appear Tuesday morning before Federal George A Carpenter in Rev Elmer Williams suit as a taxpayer for an injunction to stop the title fight scheduled for next Thursday Rev Mr Williams known M a reformer contends the Field stadium where the fight is to be held was dedicated u a memorial to the soldiers and sailors of the world war and that a prize or boxing exhibition U a tion Petition to Reopen Contempt Case Follows Disclosure of Senators Help DRY LEAGUE HEAD SAYS WATSON SAW JUSTICES Publication of Correspondence Brings Charges to Eyes of Prosecutor Indianapolis Ind Sept A petition for reopening the con tempt case against E 8 Shumaker antiSaloon league headin the In diana supreme court for the purpose of lengthening jail sen tence was filed today by Attorney General Arthur Gilliom The ground was newly discovered evidence to the effect that Shumaker solicited and received aid of U S Senators Robinson and Watson In diana to influence the court in his favor Shumaker was sentenced by the court recently to a fine and 60 days In Jail for criticising the supreme courts actions In liquor cases pub in literature of the Indiana antiSaloon league of which he is superintendent Sentence was sus pended pending an appeal to the U B supreme court Correspondence Published motion followed publica tion of correspondence between Sen James E Watson and Dr Shumaker and the statement by the dry leader that Sen Watson and Sen Arthur R Robinson were active in his be half before the supreme court an a decision In the contempt action i Shumaker charged that Watson told him of consulting three members of the court regarding the decision motion asked that Watson and Robinson Clyde Walb Republic an state chairman Henry Lane Wil son former ambassador to Mexico and Boyd of the In Times be called as wit the case It was in a telephone call from Wilsons home that Watson was de clared by Shumaker to have told him of approaching the supreme court justices Walb was chairman of the lican party at the time Correspondence Bared charge was backed by publication of correspondence ex changed between Dr Shumaker and Senator Watson in which it was declared that Senator Arthur R Robinson also of Indiana told Sen ator Watson he was exceedingly anxious for me Senator Watson to work in my own way t to keep you Dr Shumaker from being sent to jaiL This was in August 1926 when the court was considering the con tempt action against Dr Shumaker who was accused of threatening po ll tical reprisal against Justices whose decisions were not to the liking Wanted Early Action Commenting on the correspondence Shumaker said that he called oa Senator Robinson to urge early deci sion in the contempt action He made this request the dry leader explained to prevent it being held over his head as a club during the fall election campaign in 1926 Senator Watson later told him over the telephone he continued that he had conferred with the supreme court judges supposed to be unfriendly to Dr Shumaker and they gave him assurance that there would be no jail sentence In order to hear from Senator Watson in writing Dr Shumaker said he wrote to the senator the next day Aug 6 1926 tetter Waa Different The letter he received in reply Dr Shumaker said gave state ment differing from that over the telephone Senator Robinson informed of the statements of Dr Shumaker and the correspondence between Shu maker and Senator Watson admitted he had talked with Senator Watson but said It was only to express his sympathy for Dr Shumaker and to discuss the effect of the Shumaker case upon the Republican party Dr Shumaker was found guilty of contempt of court two months ago sentenced to 60 days in the Indiana state prison farm and fined Execution has been stayed until October Watson Denies Charges Rochester Minn Sept Senator James E Watson Indiana never did speak to a Judge of the supreme court about the Shumaker case he declared in a statement is sued from his hospital room here today in answer to reports published In Unking his name with the ease nor had he ever told Shumaker he would communicate with the courts the senator added Senator Watson does not recall the contents of the letter is said to have written to Shumaker Fonck Considers America Fly Field N Y Sept Rene Fonck French war today he was considering sub stituting for his proposed Yort flight a night MOM paint in South America in an at tempt to set a new The start he said might next week Rio de Janeiro Buenos Aires would be tat tive He will UM hit Uky
