1 0 0 0 THE MUNCIE MORNING STAR, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1924. STATE INSPECTOR VISITS PORTLAND Charles F. Woodco*ck Tells City Council Insurance Rates May Be Raised. Portland, Feb. F.
Woodco*ck, of the state Inspection bureau, was in this city, this afternoon, attending an inquiry, held in the new office of the Knocker shirt and overall factory, definitely to determine the cause of the destructive fire which destroyed the factory here Sunday morning. Defective wiring was assigned as the cause of the blaze, the damage from which will probably exceed the first estimate. Mr. Woodco*ck, while here, Inspected the equipment at the fire station, and found it inadequate. A special meeting of the city council was called for tonight, at his request, for the purpose of having the council grant the petition of the local fire chief, presented at the regular meeting last night, and calling for additional fire fighting apparatus consisting of a 55-foot ladder, one deluge set with tips, one one and one-fourth inch play pipe with nozzle, two gas and smoke masks.
one six-inch reflector search light and one life net. The council received the petition of the fire chief last night and referred it to the fire committee to report at the next regular meeting. two weeks hence. Mr. Woodco*ck stated that in all probabilities the fire Insurance rate would be raised here unless the new equipment is purchased at once.
C. C. Cartwright and sOn, Earl, stockholders in the Knocker factory are on their way back here from Florida, having been apprised of the fire. C. W.
Headington, another heavy stockholder in the company, arrived here from New York City, this afternoon. Plant to He Rebuilt. Announcement was made today by J. A. Long, one of the principal owners of the factory, that plans would be made immediately for rebullding the been Knocker ordered plant.
New- machinery has and will be set up in the Portland Body Works for operation until the new Knocker building can be erected. A one-story structure will be built at first and later other stories will be added, it was said. Offices of the factory have been en established in the rooms occupied by the Omar Rowland insurace agency In the Long Building, corner of Walnut and Commerce streets. All the books of the company, which were in the large iron safe, were saved. Arrangements have been made with the overall and shirt factory at Berne to take care of the unfilled orders of the plant.
The Hartford City factory has also offered aid in this respect. Auto Skids From Levee. Mrs. Stella Kohler, and step-daughter, Miss Hettle Kohler, of Flint, visiting here with the former's parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Long, had a narrow escape from serious injury last sedan. night, owned by when Mr. the Long large and driven Buick by Mrs. Kohler, skidded from the levee, near the twin bridges, southwest of here, and went down a steep embankment.
Fortunately the machine did not turn over, but narrowly averted going into a big creek. The last will and testament of the late George H. Perkens, photographer, who died suddenly in his studio here last Sunday, a week ago, was filed for probate in the Circuit Court here today. The will was made on December 20, 1922, and was witnessed by Erma Findley and Attorney C. E.
Schwartz. The estate of $3,000, all personal, 18 left to the wife. Aged Man Is Dead. Martin McLaughlin, 87, died at the county infirmary this morning about 8 o'clock. He was the son of Vincent and Sarah C.
(Singer) McLaughlin and was born In Ohio. He has no living relatives, 80 far as is known. An Illustrated lecture on "Communicable Diseases" was given in the auditorium of the court house here tonight by, Dr. Memberships Mc Kane, of In Indianapolis. the Jay County Business and Professional Woman's Club are increasing rapidly, the last report of the membership committee showing seventy-five names on the roster.
A meeting will be held Wednesday night, when officers will be elected. Bids to Be Received. Bids on the improvement of West High street, from Meridian street to the line, distance of 4 about corporation. will be received the flio. council on Monday night, March Herbert Smith.
divisional chief of the internal revenue department, with headquarters at Muncie, WAS speaker at the weekly session of the Kiwanis Club at the Presbyterian Church at noon today. infirmary Jacob Foutz, 80, died at the county Sunday afternoon. He had been ill for a number of years from cancer. He had been an Inmate of the infirmary since 1919. At obe time, the late 8.
A. D. Whipple, author of "St. Clair of Old Fort Recovers." wrote a story. "The Ginseng Digger." in which Mr.
Fouta was used the character. The widow. Katherine, main one sister, Mrs. Lewis Stolder, of and Montpeller, survive. Dies of Tuberculosis.
Mrs. Mollis Jane Glassford, 35, wife of William Glassfofd, died yesterday afternoon of tuberculosis at her home here. Besides the husband, she leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hicks Hunt, of this city, and two half brothers.
Ralph Hunt, of Muncie, and Lucian Hunt, of near Lynn. Miss Nevo Bergman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Bergman. of East Main A street.
has returned to her home from during sojourn which of the past year in Europe, time she visited many, Italy, France and other countries. She studied piano music in Germany. DAY IN WASHINGTON The quarantine in California counties against -mouth disease was extended by Department of Agriculture. Senate passed Interior Department appropriation bill. White House announced that President Coolidge regards the numerous bills in Congress calling for large appropriations as disturbing to prosperity.
Western senators Informed by PresIdent Coolidge that government stands ready, provided to local assist conditions banks in Northwest, warrant. Senator Moses (Republican, New Hampshire) read in Senate the attack of Senator Reed (Democrat, Missouri) on William G. McAdoo and stirred up a political debate. Senate oll committee spent two hours looking over telegrams sent from Washington to A. B.
Fall and E. McLean while they were In Florida. A series of conferences. Including two between the President and the Attorney developments -General, in failed the to row show over sur- Mr. Daugherty, but indications pointed to a definite decision soon.
House placed a gift tax in pending revenue bill and approved section repealing the 10 per cent tax on theater admissions of 50 cents and under. FIVE FROM DEAD, POISON TWO SAUSAGE Sterling, Feb. death toll of persons who were stricken after eating poison sausage was Increased to five today with the deaths of a man and a child. Hope for the recovery of two other victims has been abandoned. Physicians have diagnosed the malady as botulism poisoning.
Three persons died yesterday and eleven others who ate the sausage a are confined to their homes. Samples of the meat were taken to Denver today. All of the victims were members of a prosperous Italian farming community near here who had gathered at the home of one of their number for a "sausage making." A large quantity the food was served at a meal and during the night the participants became ill. DUNKIRK GLASS PLANT SUFFERS HEAVY LOSS Molten Contents of 80-Ton Furnace Drop Through the Tank Floor. Dunkirk, Feb.
Indiana glass factory suffered a loss of several thousand dollars this evening, when the molten contents of the elghty-ton furnace in the plant dropped through the floor of the tank Into the pit below. The accident happened while the eleven- shop of the largest tank in the factory was operating. This was the second night turn that the tank had been operated since It was put in commission on Monday, as the neck of the crown had just been rebuilt. there are large number of orders on hand, it had been planned to make a long run. The men will now be employed part time on the other two tanka now operating.
"SILLY." SAYS PALMER OF PINCHOT'S CHARGES Washington, Feb. made by Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, in an address in New York, that the fallure of A. Mitchell Palmer as Attorney General to carry to the Supreme Court the government's land suit against the Southern Pacific Railroad company, was a case of infidelity to publicity, were characterized 28 "silly" 1n a statement tonight by Mr. Falmer. The ex-Attorney General declared that after the lower court had found "all the facts" in the case against the government all the government counsel had recommended against an appeal.
Preeident Wilson, Mr. Palmer said, had approved his decision. GIRL, 19, GUILTY Continued From First Page. was arrested for another crime and astounded the pollce by asserting that he killed Lehman. He involved Katherine, his wife, as his companion, and declared Eric Noren drove them to the scene.
Noren was arrested and Katherine surrento be her baby. She also confessed, buten named Malm as the slayer. The case was submitted to the grand Jury, Noren. which indicted both couples and Malm and Noren pleaded guilty and the Beck girl and Bockelman were released after she admitted that her confession was untrue. Only One to Stand Trial.
Katherine Malm was the only one of the five to stand trial, and on the witness stand she declared that she was with Malm the night of the slaying, but did not know that robbery was the motive when she consented to accompany Malm and Noren. Malm fired the shots, she said. The young woman, characterized by the police as "the wolr girl," appeared in court quiet and demure and spent much of her time watching her baby until the court ruled that the child must be removed, when she collapsed. When the verdict was read tonight she screamed and Malm and Noren, collapsedded guilty, were not sentenced. pending outcome of the trial of the Malm girl." POLICE SEEK WM.
ENGLEKE IN DUFFY MURDER MYSTERY Chicago, Feb. today added the names of Louise Raglin and Michael Cronin, of Louisville, to their list of persons wanted for questoning In connection with the mystery surrounding the slaying last week of John Duffy and Mabelle Lean Exley. who lived with him AB his wife, and continued their search for William Engleke. After several additional persons were questioned, Harold Levy, tant state's attorney, announced tonight that Engleke had the key to the slaying. The authorities said they had information that the Raglin woman and Cronin also knew Duffy well.
Favored the Same Girl. Some of the persons questioned said Duffy and Engleke had showered attentions on the same girl. Others told of hearing Engleke say, the day Duffy's body was found in a snow bank at Argo, and the woman's body was found in Duffy'a flat, that "there 18 going to be explosion at Duffy's flat soon," and one witness told of 8 hurried attempt by Engleke to borrow money because he had to "beat it" on the day the bodies were found. Detectives left today for New Orleans to bring Mr. and Mrs.
Orlando Horton and Mr. and Mrs. Morris Curtia, under arrest there in connection with the slayings. Warrants charging them with being accessories the slayings were carried by the officers. COUNTY MEETING OF LODGE Knights of Pythias lodges of Dela- ware County will hold a county meeting at Albany in the castle hall of Valentine Lodge, No.
378. tonight. The Albany degree team will confer the rank of page on a class of candidates. A social session will follow. Members of Welcome Lodge wishing to go are asked to meet at their hall at 7 o'clock.
KEMP'S BALSAM Don't cough! cough! cough TAXI DARK BROTHERS CAB CO. Phone 8466 Prompt Service Day or Night 121 E. ADAMS TO HOLD DEBATE AT WINCHESTER High School English Club to Choose Between Heredity and Environment. Winchester, Feb. The High School English Club will meet Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Christine Hinshaw.
In South Main street. The subject of the debate will be "Resolved, that heredity plays a larger part in the making of character than environment." The speakers will be Miss Florence Reynard, Bernice Watkins and Gordon Williams, affirmative: Elizabeth Reed, and C. R. Schmitken, negative. New students of the senior English classes are eligible for membership.
Those who wish to enroll are requested to notify Frank Kennedy before this week's meeting. Meetings for Farmers. Meetings for the discussion of the co-operative marketing of wheat will be held by the farmers of Randolph County. as follows: Tuesday, 7:30 p. West River Township, at Huntsville School: Wednesday, 7:30 p.
Monroe Township, at trustee's office, Farmland; Thursday, 7:30 p. Green Township, at Green High School; Friday. 7:30 p. Township, at Saratoga High School. Real Estate Transfers.
Martin E. Coats et al to John A. Frazier et al, south half lot 12, northeast square, Winchester; W. $3,250.00 Fred S. Caldwell Company to Martah Clarke, lots 13 and 14, Carter Addition, Winchester: W.
750.00 Thomas Moorman to Elvira Moorman, lot, Washington street. north side public square, Winchester: W. $6,000.00 Harley L. McCartney to Oscar Fields. 13-21-14: W.
$1,800.00 Otho Day to Ida May Platt, lot R. Addition, Winchester, W. 450.00 Ferman C. and Mary A. Focht to Frank A.
Focht, acres, 7-18-14, W. $9.193.63 Bee Keepers to Meet. The bee keepers of Randolph County will hold a meeting in the court house at Winchester on a Saturday, March 1, at 1:30 p. for the purpose of completing plans for the bee inspection for the year. C.
O. Yost, of Indianapolis. chief inspector, will deliver an address. Winchester Short Notes. Miss Sarah Leavell is at the home of her brother, T.
J. Leavell, in North Main street, suffering from a broken arm which she received Sunday evening when she slipped on the icy sidewalk near her home in East Carl street. Complaint to quiet title was filed today in the Circuit Court by Levi F. Lucas against Estella Retz, Hattie Estella Retz Clark et Suit divorce was lilled today by Frances C. Hope against Herbert H.
Hope. Cruel el and Inhuman treatment is charged against the defendant. Besides a divorce, the plaintiff asks for the custody of Thelma G. Hope, the 13-year-old daughter. 0.
O. H. Greist. county superintendent, and R. Baker, superintendent of the city schools, left last night for Chicago to the National Conference of Superintendents.
ST. LOUIS BANDITS TAKE THOUSANDS AND ESCAPE St. Louts. Feb. bandits today herded employes of the Citizens Bank of Maplewood, a suburb, into a back room and escaped with $8.500 in a hail of shots from watchman.
Payroll bandits Monday netted $4,600 here in three successful holdups. WABASH RAIL SHOPS BURN Decatur, Feb. large buildings of the Wabash shops here were destroyed by fire early today with an estimated loss of $750,000. ASPIRIN Beware of Imitations! BAYER mana Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" on package the or on tablets you are not getting genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians over twenty-three years for Colds Headache Toothache Lumbago Neuritis Rheumatism Neuralgia Pain, Pain Accept "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" only. Each unbroken package contains prover.
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4 MEN ESCAPE DEATH IN TWO EXPLOSIONS Warsaw, Feb. -Four men narrowly escaped death here this afternoon when two explosions partially wrecked the building occupied by the storage battery and vulcanizing shop of Bruning and McKibben Company. Heat. caused by the explosion of small gasoline tank in the vulcanizing department, caused the explosion of a large air tank. The workmen were found in the midst of the wreckage uninjured.
Fire which started was extinguished with chemicals. FLAMES CAUSE $30,000 LOSS AT FOUNTAIN CITY Richmond, Feb. estimated at more than $30,000 resulted from fire which destroyed considerable business property in Fountain City, nine miles north of Richmond, early today. Much other property threatened was saved by the efforts of the fire departments of Richmond and Lynn which sent apparatus and men in response to a call for assistance. The fire started.
it in the Knights of Pythias Hall on the second floor of a frame building. The flames spread to smaller structures on elther side of the lodge building. BANKER TRICKED Continued From First Page. of her. and when later she Informed him by telegraph from Kansas City that she was ill and wanted him he joined her a and married her next day.
Time came when the of their temperaments caused them to separate. Attorneys said the husband told one his friends in Memphis he was sorry. "I'm truly sorry that we have separated." Mr. Harris was said to have told the friend, "for she is a daughter of Stacker Lee and a fine Never Had a Daughter, The friend than informed Mr. Harris that Stacker Lee never had a daughter, and upon this information Mr.
Harris started an investigation in Memphis that led to his efforts to annul his marriage. He declared that he learned that she had been supported by Eli Raynor, who "never had done a lick of work in twenty-five years, save playing cards and engaging in other games of chance." Raynor had been represented to him. the banker asserted, as his wife's uncle and a man of wealth and social standing. Placed in an Orphanage. Denying the contention of the plaintiff that his wife had been a woman of the underworld, Mrs.
Harris's attorneys said she was born in 1895 or 1896, and that soon after her mother died she was placed an orphanage, SO that at the time she was said to have been in the underworld of Memphis she was only 14 or 15 years old. Raynor, the defense said, had befriended the girl's mother and promised to take care of her, and she had known him as her uncle. They charged that Harris had conspired against his wife to be rid of her. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION FOR INDIGESTION IN 25 CENTS 6 BELL-ANS Hot water DELL'ANS Packages Everywhere GRIPPE coughs, colds and other ailments leave a trail of weakness. SCOTT'S EMULSION is recognized everywhere by its power to nourish and restore the weakened system.
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ler, leader of the Bavarian fascisti, and seven other defendants were placed trial for their connection with the "putsch" of last November. All of the defendants except one are charged with high treason. The friendly atmosphere in which the trial began was noticeable. Hitler and Ludendorff chatted animatedly together, while the other accused men seemed not to take the trial seriously. Indictment Is Read.
At the morning session the indictment against the accused was read. The president of the court also read a statement of the career of Hitler, who stood and replied to questions put to him. The president laid particular stress on Hitler's war career. saying he had voluntarily joined the Bavarian army and had been wounded twice and gassed once. Hitler corrected the president by declaring he received only one wound.
The afternoon session was taken up by Hitler's statement to the court in which he related his share in the of treason. He denounced conduct putsch. He declared he was riot guilty of Dr. Von Kahr, the Bavarian dictator at the time, and of General Von Lossow. commander of the Bavarian reichswehr.
After Hitler had concluded his statement an adjournment was taken until tomorrow. ALICE ROBERTSON WOULD BE A DELEGATE-AT-LARGE Muskogee, Feb. Miss Alice Robertson, former member of. Congress for this district, has announced herself as a candidate for delegate-atlarge from Oklahoma to the national Republican convention. JOINT HARDING MEMORIAL Washington, Feb.
Senate and House will pay respect tomorrow to the memory of the late President Harding at a joint memorial service attended by President Coolidge, his Cabinet. Supreme Court Justices and members of the foreign diplomatio corps. Secretary Hughes will deliver the eulogy. A GLASS OF SALTS CLEARS PIMPLY SKIN Says Indigestion Results from an Excess of Hydrochloric Acid. Undigested food delayed in the stomdecays, rather ferments, the same as food left in the open air, says a noted authority.
He also tells us that Indigestion 18 caused by Hyperacidity meaning there is an excess of which acid in the stomach hydrochlorie prevents digestion and starts food fermentation. Thus thing eaten sours in the stomach every- much like garbage sours in a can, acrid fluids and gases which inflate forming the stomach like a toy balloon. Then we feel a heavy, lumpy misery in the chest; we belch up gas; we eructate sour food or have heartburn, flatulence, water-brash or nausea. He tells us to lay aside all digestive aids and instead get from any pharmacy four ounces of Jad Salts and take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast and drink 1t while It is effervescing. and furthermore, to continue this for a week.
While relief often follows the first dose, it is important to help neutralize the acidity, start remove the gas-making mass. the liver, and stimulate the kidneys and thus promote a free flow of pure digestive Juices. Jad Salts is Inexpensive, and is made from the acid grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia and sodium phosphate. This harmless salts is used for many stomach disorders with excellent GIFT TAX PUT IN Continued From First Page. bile trucks and wagons, the chassis of which sold for less than $1,000, and for a cut in half of the 5 per cent tax on automobile tires and accessories.
Almost a Personal Clash. The second extended row of the day broke out at this juncture, when Representative Clancy (Democrat. Michigan) rushed to leaders on his side with the cry that he had been "doublecrossed" in not obtaining time to speak. Representative Garner took the declaraton as directed at him and rushed resentative toward Mr. Clancy, when Garrett.
of Tennessee, the Democratic floor leader, intervened. An agreement had been reached to end debate on the automobile tax subject at 6 p. m. Representative Clancy had not obtained time to speak that hour was reached and efforts of both sides to prolong the session resulted in A parliamentary tangle, provoking both noise and confusion, and adjournement was decided upon as the only way out. All speakers, however, had declared in favor of some reduction in these taxes.
Green and Mills in a Tilt. Earlier in the day Republican ranks were split by a sharp exchange between Chairman Green of the ways and means committee, and Representative Mills, of New York, a member of the committee, during which Mr. Green charged the New York representative with "usurping the powers of the chairman." and Mr. Mills characterized Mr. Green 88 "the nominal chairman of the committee," pointing to Representative Garner as "the actual leader." Mr.
Mills declared he would not vote for the bill as it had been amended, opposing the gift tax, and warned that "It may never become law." Representative Garner Immediately dared other Republicans to follow Mr. Mills in opposing the entire bill and Representative Treadway, Republican, Massachusetts. said he would accept the dare as the bill now stood. VALPO WINS ITS 22ND STRAIGHT BASKET GAME Valparaiso, Feb. -Valparaiso University won its twenty-second straight basketball game here tonight, defeating Columbia College of Dubuque, 26 to 21.
Harris, Valparaiso forward, was the individual star of the game. Child's tongue shows if bilious, constipated GIVE "CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP" Dependable Laxative for Sick Baby or Child Harmless! Hurry Mother! Even constipated, ach and starts the liver and bowels bilious, children feverish, love or sick, colic babies without griping. Contains no narcotics and to take genuine or soothing drugs. Say to "California Fig Syrup." No other your druggist and avoid counterfeits. laxative regulates.
the tender little Insist upon genuine "California Fig bowels so nicely. It sweetens the stom- Syrup" which contains directions. KLANSWOMEN! of Delaware County AND ELSEWHERE are all invited to attend a meeting of Klanswomen to be held in The Klan Hall Third Floor, Anthony Block TONIGHT Wednesday, at 7:30 This meeting will be addressed by a representative of The Klan of the North. Disregard threatened banishment and suspension. Meet with us and learn the attitude of The Klan of the North toward Klanswomen.
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