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A NEWSPAPER FOB THE IIOME 111 fori nation and Entertainment tor Every Member oc tbe Family.ONE OF, [THE LEADING METROPOLITAN SMALL CITY NEWSPAPERS OF 'AMERICA'IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN• Full Leased Wire of th6 Associated Press—G reatest News Gathering Agency in the WorldESTABLISHED 184*IOWA CITY, IOWA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1925PRICE FIVE CENTSLatest Quotations By Wire From All the Principal Stock and .Grain MarketsYOUTH BLAMES SLEEP FOR MURDERPOPULATION OF STATE WILL I SHOW LITTLE INCREASE OVER 0. S. CENSUS TAKEN IN 1920Johnson County One of the Few to Gain; Iowa City Records Great Gain; Nearly Completed, but Unofficial Figures Show Decided Loss in Rural DistrictsDes Moines, la., Aug. 8.—Iowa's population, as gathered by the 1925 state census takers, may not show much change from the figures published by the United States government five years ago.Tills was indicated in an arti-ele published in tbe Des Moines Tribune-News, which gives the re* .suits of an investigation of figures collected by auditors from fifty-four counties.The figureB for these counties show that there are 1,331,145 people living in them now as compared with 1,337,874 in the same .•counties when the i920 federal taken. This is a decrease of 6,729 in the population hfor these fifty-four counties.* Rural Districts Lose Rural towns and districts lost the most heavily during the past five years, and if any gain is recorded over the state as a whole will be represented by increases in populations in the larger cities and towns, the Trib-une-News article points out Thirty-six of the fifty-four ’ties listed show decreases in pop-tulation. Increases were noted in Wapello, Webster, JOHNSON, pes Moines, Cerro Gordo, Clinton, Linn, CarroB, Davis, Dickinson, Dubuque, Fayette, Fremont, Hamilton, Mahaska, Marshall, Pottawattamie and Story.Official Figures Soon Lou F. Morgans, director of the state census, is quoted as saying that while the official returns will not be announced for some time, the figures as tabulated from reports of the county auditors probably are nearly correct. He said the only important classification the county officials ould miss would be county inmates at state institutions.Mr. Morgans indicated that official figtues will be released probably in about two weeks.The following list of figures represent the more important towns in the state with populations In excess of 3,000. Several 4wns under the 3,000 figure have Ibeen included because of special interest to local readers:CentervilleWaverly ..........Vinton ..........Belle Plaine .....Independence Boone .1925 . 8,541 . 3,433 , 3,207 , 3,527 , 3,327 , 12,68119208,4863,3523,3813,8873,62712,4512,1425,3294,25420,0652,8044,599TiptonPntic --------, 2,081 . 5,477Carroll ...........Mason City ......Clear Lake4,408 22,545 , 2,861 4,668Cherokee _ ......• 4,7645,824Clinton -.........26,30324,151Burlington ......., 26,50024,057'Dubuque40,73839,141Oelwein .........8,0277,455Iowa Falls ......4,1123,954IOWA CITY «...15,14211,*67Keokuk .........14,53914,423Fort Madison ....11,17612,060Cedar Rapids50,17945,566Marion K.........4,4855,0.604,1385.175Albia ..........5,1085,4705,0675,255Clarinda .........4,6224,511Davenport .......52,14256,727Marshalltown »-..., 16,71615,731Sioux City .......75,83271,227Fort Dodge ......21,54519,340Decorah4,0994,039Ames -...........9,3946,270GIRL TO TRYCHANNEL SWIMMiss Lillian Harrison, Argentine Star, to Try Feat TonightCinderellas \ Threaten to Return HomeNEW Y.ORK Aug. 8—(AP) Two bright-eyed girls whom Edward W. Browning has made happy by showering upon them all the luxuries money could buy were on the verge today of returning to tbe comparatively impoverished surroundings whence they came.Questioned for hours yesterday my authorities investigating adoption a few days ago of Mary Louise Spas, the millionaire real estate operator appeared worn pale. His secretary said that Mr. Browning was trying his level best’1 to find a way out.FAIL TO FIND FRIENDS OF UNKNOWN MANDES MOINES, Aug. 8—(AP)— Search for relatives and friends of an unidentified man found near a bridge here has so been fruitless, police said. The body was found Thursday night.BOULOGNE, FRANCE, Aug. 8—Mis3 Lillian Harrison, the Argentine girl swimmer, will begin her third attempt to swim the English channel tonight, it was decided here this morning.Sfie will enter the water at Cape Griz-Nez about 19:30 o’clock tonight. Weather conditions todayam very promising and the tern-, NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—(AP)— ,— ------ 1 Burleigh Grimes, Brooklyn pitching ace, today was fined $200GRIMES DRAWS SUSPENSION AND FINE OF $200CHURCHES MAY NOT BACK OWN INVESTIGATORWATERLOO, la., Aug. (AP) Criticisms of the district and municipal courts and of W. A. Coofc^ Blackhawk county attorney made by John B.Hammond, private investigator in services sponsored by churches, may be refuted at'' similar meetings. Rev. John Robertson Macartney, a Hammond supporter, sajd In reply to a letter from George W. Wood, a district court jjgdge.PRESIDENT OF COLE MOTOR CO.] DIES FRIDAYINDIANAPOLIS, Aug. S. (AP)—■ J. J. Cole, president and general manager of the Cole Motor Car company, died at the Claypool hotel here shortly before midnight last night.NEW RUMOR OF WHEAT CORNERRunaway Advances in Prices Keep Traders on Edge; Expect Big Movement During Coining WeekCHICAGO, Aug. 8—(AP)—Runaway advances in price have kept wheat traders nerves at high tension this week, and brought about renewed talk that speculators have cornered the market.Less questionable factors tending to give wheat values a radical upturn included sensational crop damage reports from Canada, tailed estimates of production in the United States, and advices of a wet harvest in Europe. Compared with a week ago, wheat this morning was 13 3-8 to 16 higher, with corn 5-8 @ 2c up, oats advanced 1 tg 1 5-8c and provisions showing 2 to 45 cents gain. Canadian Yie!d Hurt Heat and drought in Canada were represented as having made it doubtful whether that countr; would yield 325,000,000 bushels this season as compared with 365. 000,000 bushels forecast by the government a month ago. Unofficial estimates of the United States 1925 output of wheat indicated meanwhile that there had been a reduction of about 17,000,000 bush els from the figures current las4 month. Besides, the market effect of such developments was added to daily by trans-Atlantic reports of widespread stormy weathei spoiling to a more or less extent the final efforts of wheat growers especially in Hungary, Russia and France.Expect Big Shipments Expected big shipments of wheat out of Chicago by Lake vessels net week added to the prospect that traders who have contracted to deliver wheat here might meet with unusual difficulties before the end of September in particular This liklihood was increased by evidence of sharp demand from domestic millers and by remarkable smallness of arrivals of wheat at primary centers, the total frequently running below half the amount received at the corres-pondink time last year. Und** these circumstances, wheat sellta was for the most part confined to profit taking, and the setbacks price that were witnessed ail turn, ed out to bo transient.Com and oatB sympathised with the action of wheat, despite rain? beneficial to corn growth.Some enlargement of export demand helped to lift the provision market.CONSIDERATION OF ZONING LAW IS POSTPONEDCouncil, at Session Friday Night, Postpones Action on Big Problem Until August 17thZoning law amendments went “by the board” (and also the council) last night, when the aldermen^ its July session voted to postpone action on the big problem that is vexing the Interurban, the council-raen, and the people of Iowa City, at large.Especially are those citizens who live near the Interurban’s proposed new sites, on or near Benton street interested.The council, as soon as Mayer Carroll called the meeting to order, heard Alderman Charles B. Crain’t motion to postpone consideration of the question of changing the law, to the restricted district down south. Postponement was ultimately ordered until Monday # August 17th, when the council *will hold an adjounfed session. The council voted unanimously, and not a speech was made, by any outsider, although the auditorium was filled by one of tbe largest assem-ages seen at a council meeting in long time.EFFIE CHERRY IN POLITICSFamous Vaudeville Actress After Mayorship in Cedar RapidsCEDAR RAPIDS, la., Aug. 8—Ef-fie Cherry, of the famous Cherry sisters, remembered by two generations as a vaudeville actress, will be a candidate for mayor of Cedar Rapids in the March primaries, she announced yesterday. Effie was defeated two years ago in the primaries by a bare thousandV0t9S.The shifting sands of Cedar Rapids bathing beaches are engulfing the young with Immorality,” she said In discussing the campaign. “The hair is too short; the dresses are too ahort, and the sleeves are cropped above the elbow.” She added later, “If I am nominated and ele- ted, I shall brush aside the wave of infidelity which is seeking to crush the ideals of our children.”She declared she would take the lecture platform late this year .SQUABBLE ENDS IN FINDING OF BOOZE TRUCKSCOUNCIL BLUFFS, Aug. 8— (AP)—A trio of men arrested when they disagreed with farmers who werei helping them get a truck out of the ditch, were found to be transporting about $10,000 worth of alcohol and whiskey- on the truck. They were arrested when the farmers became suspicious regarding the load and notified officers.Principals in MysteryCharles H. Schwartz (upper left), Martinez, Calif., chemist, supposedly killed in a laboratory blast but believed by police to be still alive; his wife, who fight the murder charge pi against him; and Walter Gonzalez (lower), Schwartz’s night-watchman, whom Schwartz is said to have ordered away fiom the laboratory on the night of the explosion. 1IDENTIFY MYSTERY VICTIMCharred Body of Man Found in California Mystery Blast Identified; Chemist Wanted for MurderMARTINEZ, Calif, Aug. 8—(AP)-With the establishment of the identity of the murder victim whose body was found in the plant of the Pacific Cellulose company following an explosion and fire more than a week ago, the supposed plot of Charles Henry Schwartz, chemist, to realize on insurance policies totaling $100,000 today stood definitely shattered. Schwartz is sought on a warrant charging murder.Cooiidge Will Keep Hands Off Coal SituationSWAMPSCOTT, MASS. Aug 8.— (AP)—President Cooiidge holds to the view that industry^ including the coal business, shoulcl settle it3 labor problems and he is hopeful that industry will find its own solution.Secretary Hoover made thi3 state ment today after ha had discussed the anthracite situation with the president. It gave added weight that the administration has m tention of interfering in the wage scale dispute between hard coal operators and miners.POLICEREADY FOR KLANSMENReserves and Marines Will Watch Parade in Capital This Afternoon(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — The national capital was thronged with Ku Klux Klansmen today and Pennsylvania avenue roped-1 off for a parade of robed and hooded ranks in which klan leaders expected fifty, thousand would march from the capitol to the white house.Beginning in the early hours of the day, special trains rolled in to add thousands to the influx which set in yesterday. Dusty motor caravans brought In other hundreds to participate in the demonstration which will continue through tomorrow night. The capital police, on ‘duty /in full force, were under orders to clear Pennsylvania avenue of alj traffic thirty minutes before the scheduled start of the parade at 3 p. m.The visitors will wind up their program tomorrow night with the burning of a fiery cross. An eighty foot tree with a cross piece 30 feet long,The charred body, which at first was believed to have been Schwartz, was accepted by authorities as that of G. W. Barbe, wandering laborer and missionary and as such remains in the San Francisco morgue unclaimed. Mrs. Schwartz, however, still claims the corpse as that of he: husband.Cecil Barker, undertaker o Placerville, who had given Barbe employment on Several occasions made possible the identification of the victim. Letters and papers of the itinerant laborer left with Barker were compared with the handwriting in religious bpoks and letters found with the body and experts declared the writing to be identical.Th^ undertaker viewed the body in detail last sight and immediately said that it was that of Barbe.Earbe’s father is believed to be Rev. John Barbe, of Jersey Shore, Pa. The victim was about 35 or 40 years old.CONDEMNED MAN FAILS TO MOVE NEBR. GOVERNORLINCOLN, NEBR. Aug. 8,—AP— The application of Walter R. Simmons for a stay of sentence of electrocution for the murder of Frank Pahl was denied this «Ing by the eupreme court. Simmons is sentenced to be electrocutedSTOCK BREEDER FOUND GUILTY OF BOOTLEGGING‘ALTON, Aug. 8 (AP)—Dr. W. A. Hamilton, well known breeder of pure bred stock, Paullina, pleaded guilty to a charge ot illegal transportation of Iluuor today and was fined 11,000 and costs by Judge William Hutchinson.HEAD OF IOWA DRY OFFICERS GETS ORDERSDES MOINES, Aug. 8— (AP)—, A. Brunson, present director of the local prohibition office received order* to mova .28 Monuments in Cemetery Are WreckedKA30TA, Aug. 8-(AP)—Twenty-eight monuments in the Kasota cemetery were pushed down yesterday.Many of the atones were broken In several parts, entailing losses aggregating several thousands of dollars, according to Fred McIntyre, field marshal.A BertiUion expert has been dispatched by the Minneapolis police department to this city to take finger prints on the stones in an effort to trace the poisons responsible for the destruction.BOY DIES WHEN STRUCK BY CARDUBUQUE, iZTkug. 8—(AP)— Maurice Day, four years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rlchaid Day, was killed last night by an automobile driven by Donald Roschi. He ran from his mother to cross the street in front of his home and the mother witnessed the fatal accident. Roschi has been taken into custody.BOOST PRICE OF LEADNEW YORK, Aug. 8— (AP)-The Am-eSHcan Smelting and Refining company today advanced the price of lead from $8.75 to $8 90 cents per pound.CONFESSION TELLS TALE OF FAMILY TROUBLES; MOTHER OF YOUNG MURDERER MAY RECOVERMrs. R. J. Vandervoort, Wife of Slain Parkersburg Minister, Now Has Chance to Regain Health; Warren, 17, Who Killed Father, Will Be Barred From FuneralPARKERSBURG, Ia„ Aug. 8— (AP)— Mrs. R. J. Vandervoort, wife of the Methodist Episcopal pastor who was shot to death Thursday night by their 17 year old son, Warren, will probably recover from the two bullet wounds inflicted on her by the youth, attending physicians declared early today.FORD PLANS AIR FREIGHTFleet of Commercial Airplanes Will Cover the United StatesDETROIT, Aug. 8—A fleet of commercial airplanes to carry Ford Motor company freight to virtually all parts of the United States will be one of the results of the purchase by the Ford Interests of Stout Airmail Plane company.WILL NOT PROBE LYNCHINGMissouri County Attorney Believes Justice Accomplished by Mob in Hanging Negro at Excelsior SpringsEXCELSIOR. SPRINGS, Mo., Aug. 8— (AP)— Officials ot Clay county have Indicated that no investigation will be made of the lynching here yeBterday of Walter Mitchell, 33, negro, who taken from jail by a mob and hanged to a tree.Tbe negro had been placed injail following his identification by young woman as her assailant late Thursday night, while she and Leonard Utt, 19, were returning In i motor car to the girl’s home afte: a party. /The negro Jumped on the run nlng board of the car, the couplo said struck Utt with a flashlight, knocking him unconscious and then attacked the girl.No Inquest “There will be no inquest,” said H. W. Hill, coroner, as he signed the death certificate which gave the cause of death ks “strangulation.“We feel that Justice has been done,” Ray Cummings, county prosecutor said. ‘Of course, the thod was crude. I would have preferred that the negro could have been hanged legally and I convinced that it would have been done.1As they were preparing to hang Mitchell mob leaders asked him If he had anything to say.Admitted Guilt “Yes, I’m .guilty,” he replied4 ac cording to members of the mob. The rope was thrown over ths limb of a tree and willing hands soon lifted the negro high In tbe air.Fifty Kansas City policemen, rushed to the pipes armed with riot guns, arrived fifteen minutes too late. They recovered the body and turned him over to tbe coroner, Passengers on a train running between Excelsior Springs and Excelsior Springs Junction witnessed the hanging. The train was forced to stop when the mob swarmed over the track and passengers crowded the steps and windows.Negros Fleo Town The lynching caused an exodus of negros from Excelsior Springs. Last night it was reported many of the approximately one hundred negroes who lived in and near the town had gone to Kansas City. Authorities here, however say no trouble is expected between the races.YOUTH, GUILTY OF MURDER, IS TO PAY PENALTYSPENCER, *IaT Aug. 8-CAP)— Charles Craig, 22, convicted murderer who five years ago escaped from the Fort Madison penitentiary where he was serving a life term for the killing of Harry Peterson, Clay county farmer, in 1918, hanged in the California state penitentiary at San Quention, it has been learned here.Craig received a death penalty after a second murder. The killing of Samuel Herman*ch, state forest ranger, June 192, following a holdup of the bank at Tehoma, Caflf. ;POLICE HIT IN PICKFORD CASEDefense Evidence Tends to Involve Polioe in Publicity Plot(By Anflocln fcfd Prom)LOS ANGELES, Ajg—A thin: defendant in the Mary Pickforc kidnaping case, Adrian J. Wood, I3 scheduled to testify in hl3 own dc fense when court convenes Monda after the week-end recess.Claude Holcomb, second of th-three accused men to take thlt; stand, told his story to the Jury yesterday^ substantiating the tes*-of his co-defendants Charles Stephens to the effect that liquor supplied by a police informer had lubricated all the “kidnaping conversations” on which the state bases its contention that the trio plotted to kidnap Miss Pickford and hold her for $200,000 ransom, Holcomb was preceded to Stephens wife, Mrs. Pauline Stephens, who said her husband came home from an evening spent with Louis Geek, the police informer, plainly intoxicated and laboring under the effects of narcotics.She produced a partly filled bottle of liquor which she said he brought home with him and It Introduced in evidence.The defense contends that Geek wheedled and cajoled the three de fendant3 into discussing kidnaping ventures, as part of a publicity scheme for two detectives planning to give up police department work and set up a private detective agency.SLIGHTQUAKE FELTJN WESTSan Diego and Neighboring Towns Experience Temblors This MorningSAN DIEGO, Cal. Aug. 8 (AP)—A slight earthquake at five points In San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino counties at 2:15 a.m% today, The tremor extended over a 130 mile line northeasterly from San Diego, the southern extremity, to San Bernardino.Towns along the line which rereported the shake were Lamesa, 10 miles east of San DiegoGETS DIVORCE In the district court today, Judge Ralph Otto granted Alfred U. Maa* a divorce from Mary Maas.According to the rhyslciarjs, Mrs. VajBdowo'jit wan fi.lly ran-‘ulovs and pas3?d a resiiut night. Thrs tragedy In avhlrli her husband Jin ' death has dijt been discussed i'l* ! fcr since yes ter day :;»ors!ng Ahrn she told pci sous who w-uir to her aid that her son had shot her.Funeral service* will n.'r be he'd Tor Rev. Mr, Vandervoort until In stiuctfons are received lieie from two brothers of the dpnd pastor, E A. Vandenoort. Sidney, N. Y., and J. M. Vandorvooit, Sidney Center, N Y,Bar Boy At FuneralWarren who signed a confession that ho was led to shooting his parents by their continual quarreling, will not be allow ed to attend the funeral services for his father according to Shot iff H. W. Burma, According to the shenff, the young patricide slept fitfully last night.Warren is held at Allison without bond, charged iwith first degree murder,AP) — Warren Vandervoort, 17 year old Parkersburg patricide, today was busily engaged in his cell in the Butler county Jail here in writing, but whether it has to do with his slaying of his father, Rev. R. J. Vandervoort and the shooting of his mother, Mrs. Della Barber Vandervoort, he refuses to tell Jail officials.Officials here do not believe that Vandervoort fully realizes what he has done. They say they do not believe They Bay he does not know whether his mother is dead or alive. He does not ask about her, officials say.The prisoner was up when Sheriff H. W. Burma visited him at an early hour. Vandervoort does not have the appearance of grieving.Mdtlve for the crime has not been entirely established by authorities at Allison, and at Parkersburg where the shooting took place. The minister’s son in his confession said only that there had been numerous dissentlons in the family. He and his father “have always been good friends,” however, the confession stated, and in most of the disagreements the father and son stood together against the mother.According to the story told in the boy’s written donfesslon, he bought a rifle Wednesday afternoon, in line with previous plan* he and hi3 father had made. His confession did not say what the rifle was wanted for.Blames Sleep Taking the rifle home, he took It apart and hid the parts in a tent on the lawn, where he had been sleeping. Thursday about :30 p. m., he slipped into the house, up the stairs, and when his father, aroused ,by his entrance, came to the bedroom door and called out “Who’s there?” the boy fired, killing the minister. Mrs. Vandervoort, hearing the crack of the rifle came to the bedroom, door and her son alBO fired at her.He declares in his confession that “only then did I become fully twake;” that the crime had been lommitated while he was “half asleep.”IOWA I Mostly fair tonight and Sunday; slightly cooler tonight in •xtreme west portion.WASHINGTON, Aug.3—Weatheij outlook for the week beginning Monday.Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys: Fair at beginning and probably occasional shower* rhoreafter. Temperature* near normal moat of tht week.
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