to to to to to to to to Wednesday ST. JOSEPH GAZETTE October 21, 1920 3 HOODED LEGION, OFFICIAL LINKED Affidavits Charge Michigan Prosecutor Was Initiated Into Terror Band. DETROIT, Oct. 20. -An 88- sistant state attorney general, aSserting that Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan Mccrea had taken the oath of the Black Legion, intervened, today in a common pleas court examination of twenty alleged night riders charged with criminal syndicalism.
Chester P. O'Hara, representing the state, presented six affidavits in support of his statement. O'Hara is the Republican candidate for the office of, prosecutor, to which MoCrea seeks re-election. One affidavit signed by Elvis Clark stated that in July, 1934, he "attended a meeting of the Black Legion and saw the said Duncan C. McCrea initiated into the Black Legion and- this deponent (Clark) took an active part in this initiation." McCrea was not present in the courtroom today and could, not be for.
comment. reached, affidavit continued, "The work. that was given and the oath that' administered to Duncan C. McCrea on this occasion WAS identical with the work and oath given to every candidate who was taken into; the Black Legion" McCrea, who first pressed the Inquiry into several crimes attributed to the hooded order after it was uncovered by the killing of Charles A. Poole, has termed charges he was a member "political bunk," but admitted he might have signed 8.
membership application unwittingly while he was campaigning for Roosevelt Heading for New England Continued From Page One. been made for next week other than those at Howard University, the Statue of Liberty and Madison Square Five speeches, which the aids said would informal and probably extemporaneous character; have been arranged for the two-day dash through New England. The president will talk in front of the state capitols at Providence and Hartford, on the commons at Boston, and also briefly from his automobile at Fall River and Now Bedford, tomorrow. There was a possibility the chief executive might speak briefly in other communities. Receives Envoys' Credentials, Except for a train run from Worcester to Hartford Thursday morning.
The New England trip will be made by motor, starting at Providence around 9 o'clock morning and ending. in Stamford, about 4:30 Thursday after noon. The presidents first appointment today was to enroll in the American Red Crows annual membership drive, Miss Hebe Reynolds, daughter of Surgeon General. Charles R. Reynolds of the handed him his membership card.
The chief executive. Told Admiral, Cary, T. Red Cross chairman," he hoped every American able. to do so" would enroll. Three cabinet members, Secretartes Roper, Ickes and Hull, called on the president but had nothing to say to reporters afterward.
Late in the afternoon Mr. Roosevelt received their credentials from the new Italian- and Spanish ambassadors and the Canadian minister. Mrs. Mary Eshelman, 77, Dies at Home of Sister Mrs. Mary Eshelman, seventyseyen years old, widow of David J.
Eshelman, died last night, the home of a sister, Mrs. A. L. ney, 2529 South Twelfth street, from a fractured left hip received in a fall at the Courtney home two and one-half months ago. Born in Brown County, Ohio, Mrs.
Eshelman had lived in St. Joseph twelve years. Mrs. Eshelman was member of the Christian Church, Mission. ary Society of the church, Relief Corps, G.
A. and Degree of Honor Association, Iowa Lodge No. 77, at Eldon, Town, where she lived for several years. Besides Mrs. Courtney, she is survived by a brother, F.
H. Moyer, Kansas City, Mo. The body is at Fleeman's "HARVESTER" AT CRYSTAL A dramatic story of romance among the characters traditional to the soil is told in "The Harvester," screen version of Gene StrattonPorter's novel, to be shown today and tomorrow at -the Crystal Theater. Alice Brady, Russell Hardie and Ann Rutherford head the cast. From the Records DEATHS.
Funeral services, for Mrs. Hester Bickerton, who did Sunday night, be at the H. Sidenfaden chapel this Afternoon and hot at the Westminster Presbyterian Church previously an-nounced: MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED. Lee P. Delanes.
Joseph Miss Ella May Gregory. Cornelius D. McDonald. Kansas city Miss Margaret Joseph Campbell. City Miss LAtHe St.
Joseph Donald H. twell. Valley Falls, Kan. MiRe. Dola Barrett, Valley Fails, R.
Nielsen. Houston. Texas Mrs. Helen Thayer. Ames, Tows DIVORCE PETITION FILED.
Ruby M. against Willis 1. Dawson. BIRTHS REPORTED. To Mr.
and Mrs. Robert W. Henderson, Union Star, Mo, Oct. 17, twin daughters. To Mr.
and Mrs. Bedford F. Pace Ba Oct. 16, a daughter. To Mr.
and Mrs. James Auxter. Clarkadale, Oct. 16, daughter. To Mr.
and Mrs. John W. 631 South Tenth atreet, 5, 4 soh. To Mr. and Leroy Meade, 2105 North Third street.
Oct. 14. a son. To Mr. and Mre.
William Adams, 1008 Douglas street. Oct. 15, a son. BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED. I ST.JOSEPH) Brief Representative, to his home, 1911 North Twenty-second street, yesterday with a Stock up and save.
Canned food sale through this week. A-G Stores, -Advertisem*nt. Richard M. Dun- Edward -Moseman, -twenty-one fined years $5 old, in 2614. police Monterey court street, was yesterday charge of: speeding.
Moseman was granted a stay of execution to pay within thirty days when he explained to the court he did n'ot have the money to pay the fine. Police Sergt. E. Jesse. and Patrolman Martin Shea arrested Moseman shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday morning in the 2300 block, Lover's Lane, and charged he WAS driving fifty miles an hour.
Important broadcast!" Wednesday, 11:45, KFEQ. Independent Coalition of American -Advertisem*nt, John S. Vashor, son of Martin L. Vashor of Union Star, and Woodrow Terry, ward of Sam F. Teaford, also of Union Star, enlisted in the field artillery and were sent to Fort Des" Moines, Iowa, last night.
Sergt. Charles Morris, army recruiting officer in the federal building. said, recruits were wanted. for artillery, cavalry and infantry units stationed at Fort Des Moines, Fort Riley, and Fort Crook, Neb. WPA workers at the new municipal airport have removed the new.
woven wire fence which surrounded Rosecrans Municipal Airport and today 'will begin putting it up around the new airport. A new fence made. of two strands of barbed wire strung on wooden posts is being erected around Rosecrana Municipal Airport to keep cars off the field, William Harlammert, airport manager, said last night. The Live Power Club, an organization of employer of the Oil Company, will, hold a dinner and dance at Hotel Robidoux Nov. 24.
A dinner and meeting of the AdClub, an of administrators of the school district of St. Joseph, will be night at 6 o'clock at the Pennant cafeteria. Lee Butler, Negro, thirty-five years old, 616 Corby street, was arraigned yesterday before Justice A. Buts charged with assault with intent to kill Wilena Campbell, Negro, thirty-seven, 616 Corby street. His bond was set at $3,000.
for a preliminary, hearing Oct. 30. The Democratic list of judges for the general Nov. 3 wag submitted to the county court forapproval yesterday by Frank D. Connett, county chairman.
Connett said that yesterday was the last day for filing the list of judges, but John Brendel, chairman of the Republican county committee, disagreed: with him. Brendel sutd there were four more days and that the Republican list WAS almost ready for filing, and would' be filed in a day or two. Dr. Arthur J. Francis of Chicago will speak Friday night at Republican headquarters, Seventh Edmond streets.
He was formerly a Methodist minister but is now engaged in business. He spoke last night at Savannah and will speak at Rock Port Maryville. today, representing the Republican national committee. Wilmer V. Neely has been appointed a member of the Negro division of the state Democratic campaign committee, representing the Negroes of northwest Missouri.
Claire G. Robinson asked $10,000 damages of James G. Campbell and Continental Baking Company in a suit filed yesterday in circuit court. She is the widow of Harold A. Robinson, who died April 23 at Craig, from injuries which the widow alleged were due to an automobile collision.
on U. S. highway No. 275 near Three men were given sentences yesterday in division -No: 3 of circuit court following pleas of guilty. Albert Wildberger drew two years each for second-degree burglary and burglarious larceny, and Roy Haynes and Wardlow two years each for stealing chickens in the nighttime.
The $2,000 damage suit of Harvey E. Lindley against Hambury, Elizabeth and Virginia Judah was" dismissed by the plaintiff yesterday in division No. 1 of circuit court. Lindley alleged injuries Oct. 4, 1935, in an rutomobile collision on U.
S. highway No. 71 in Andrew County. Damages of $15,000 were asked in a suit filed yesterday in circuit court by Oren Miller, fifteen' years old, against George C. Snodgrass.
The boy alleged Injuries, Sept. 18 when his bicycle struck by car. on the Bell road. ROUT ETHIOPIANS Italians Capture Fortress on Mount Giabassere After Five- Battle. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Oct.
20. -(P) tierce battle, involving an artillery duel, between the Italian division of General Geloso and an Ethiopian regiment under Dedjaz Abal was today in dispatches reaching Addis Ababa. The Italian division was marching southwest of Addis Ababa toward, Lake Margherita when it met the Ethiopians at Mount Giabassere, a natural fortress more than 3,000 -feet high. Geloso, whose column was moving in 1,000 first shelled the Ethiopian position: for several hours, reducing the cannon and most of the machine guns to silence, The battle lasted five hours, and the Ethiopian left between 300 and 400 dead, among them their I commander PARTIES FINISH COPYING NAMES Voters Still Can Register by Affidavit; Ballots for Absentees Available. Republican and Democratic workers yesterday completed copying names of the more than 6,000 per-, sons who registered at the supplemental registration last: week.
The will be copied into the permanent. registration books at the end of the meeting of the board of revision Friday and Saturday, H. D. Allison, county clerk, sald yesterday. Allison said some of the names might struck off by the board and that there would be several hundred names added through affidavits of registration.
He said that eligible voters could register at the board of revision session jonly through affidavits showing that they had been unable to register at the regular registrations because of. illness or absence from the city. He declared that no personal applications for registra(tions would be received the only registrations considered by the board would be those made by affidavit. Absentee ballots will be available Saturday and Allison announced that he had received an opinion from Roy McKittrick, attorney general, which stated that persons expecting to be out: of their voting precincts on election day. could up ply for absentee ballots not more than thirty days than five days before the election, and that 1 persons could vote their absentee ballots at the -circuit clerk's office in advance of election day.
Allison received proofs of the official The ballots are approximately two Inches and carry the labels of eight parties. Five different ballots will be used in Washington township on election day because of the two county court districts and three state representative districts. Dif-ferent ballots will be required for each of the townships as constables and justices will be- voted on in the townships. HUNT WITNESS Rice Trial Is Halted While Deputies Make Search in Kansas City. of Clovis La' Rice, Kansas City, electrician, charged with uttering a forged document, was halted yesterday while deputy sheriffs hunted Harry Haynes, Kansas City, a defense witness, on I writ of attachment issued by Judge Sam Wilcox.
Deputy Sheriffs George Watkins and Broder Frans late last night notified Sheriff George Moran they planned to spend the night in Kansas City hunting Haynes. Haynes yesterday informed Stephen K. Owen of defense council that his attorney had advised him not to appear, despite the fact that he had been served with subpoena. Rice took the stand in his owndefense and based his plea for freedom on testimony that he did not know that. anything was wrong with the $3,500 presented to the Missouri Valley Trust: Company and signed: "Minnie' V.
Katz by Isaac. Katz." He: testified that Haynes had induced him to come to Joseph to take over a roadhouse and operate it as a gambling joint and that Haynes had assured him the place he the financial backing of Katz. Aside from Rice. Leo. J.
McCormick, chief electrical inspector at Kansas City, Robert Easterly, deputy inspector; L. B. Phillips, Kansas City, and Dr. Neal: McCallum, Kansas City, took the stand for the defense and testified as character witnesses for Rice. The state put E.
V. Kirkpatrick and Al Schaff of the Missouri. Valley Trust Company; B. T. Andrews, chief of the police bureau of identification; E.
G. Armstrong. comptroller of the Commerce Trust Company, Kansas City, and Lewis Hoffman, son-in-law of Katz and his secretary, on the stand. BANK IS ROBBED Two Bandits Take $2,000 at Frontenac, Lock Group in Vault. PITTSBURG, Oct.
(7) Two unmasked bandits- -held up the Miners' State Frontenac, three miles north of here; today and escaped. with about $2.000 In cash after shutting two and two patrons in the vault. employes. The bandit car sped toward Pittsburg but. trace of it was lost along.
side streets here, Sheriff Leon Delamaide said tonight. Know Your Candidates I (Editor's note: This is the asth of daily series of blographical, sketches of the opposing candidates for office en the Democratic and Republican tickets in- Buchanad: COUNTY SURVEYOR Charles H. Torbett. Charles H. Torbett, Republican Raymond.
J. Waller. candidate, is a native of Illinois, Raymond J. Waller, Democratic candidate, was born on a farm near Hemple, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs, O.
Waller, both of whom are dead. He was educated in the public schools at Hemple and graduated from Christian Brothers College and Junior College and has been. a resident of St. Joseph since 1919. He has been engaged in engi.
neering work for eleven years. He was employed by the Leslie Englneering Company, and in the city county engineering departments, He went to work for the city. in 1925 under the late W. K. Seitz, then city engineer, and spent six years in the city's employ.
He was associated with Clayton Judson. engineer, county sure Veying work and is now. chief draftsman in the city engineering department. He has supervision over part of the PWA program for the city. He la single and lives at 616 South Seventeenth street.
G. O. P. Control of Court Urged the taxpayers. money." Continued From Page One.
sistance board, and of Larking' union labor record. vote for either Mr. Larkins or Wilbur Weisenborn will help George Gilpin carry on his good work for two years more," Goldman said. You -remember what happened two years ago at election time?" the speaker asked, renewing his tack. people rose up and didtheir duty and chased Harvey Boyle and Frank Gill from the courthouse.
They were thrown out of office by the good people of Buchanan County because they wasted Votes Than People. Touching state issues. Goldman launched an offensive against the Pendergast machine. In the first two wards of KanSEE City, the returns of the primary election last August were as follows: "For Stark, 35,000, Votes; Hirth, twenty-seven, Republican candidate, Barrett, received 3.000, making. total vote of a little -more 41,000 in the two wards.
The United States census shows only 000 persons living in the entire wards. That would mean that every. man and woman voted and that school children stopped on their. way to school and voted for Mr. Stark, and it did further mean that babies left.
their cribs and crawled to the polls and. voted, and that no person out of town. "Further, it would mean that 3.000 ghosta left their graves and wandered into the booths and voted for Stark, Says Hope Lies in Barrett. "Governor Park didn't do anything about the charges of false registration, because it really is Governor Pendergast: -his And Pender gast couldn't see own men shown up. Stark will be owned and controlled by Pendergast, A vote for Jesse W.
Barrett, the Republican candidate, is "a vote for man campaigning vote against for? graft and corruption; al clean government and a vote to clean up Kansas Mr. Gold-man asserted. Mr. Larking appeared at the rally in behalf of Mr. Weisenborn and pledged the Republican candidate for county court to a continuation I of the policies of the Gilpin-Neudorff court.
Arthur B. Neudorff, candidate for sheriff, promised "to go into office unfettered unbossed." That pledge was repeated by A. Kelley, candidate for coroner. James Selby, attorney, presided. PRIEST PNEUMONIA VICTIM.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. Rev. Peter J. Dempsey, pastor of St.
James' Catholic Church at Richwoods, Washington County, died at St. John's Hospital here today of pneumonia. He was fiftyone years old. In Mountains of Snow and Ice Two members of, Admiral Richard E. Byrd's last expedition are shown here exploring mountains in Antarctica.
Ssenes such as this will be shown in motion pictures and described by Admiral Byrd when he appears in 84. Joseph Oct, 28, under suspices of Molla Temple, DETAILED WPA RECORD ASKED G. Leaders in New Jersey Seek to Scan Expenses on Relief Projects. WASHINGTON, Oct. UP) Contending WPA funds "are: not being used solely for the, purpose of relief," group of New Jersey Republican leaders today obtained an order from the district court here requiring Harry federal, -Hopkins to show cause why his records should not be opened to The Republicans, including Walter E.
Edge, former United States ambassador to France, sought 8 writ of mandamus compelling the works progress administrator to make public the financial and. operating details of every WPA profect in the country. In to their petition, Justice Joseph W. Cox ordered Hopkins to show in his court. next Monday why such writ should issued.
chairman of New Jersey Republican campaign committee, and the other petitioners contended. WPA expenditures are "in part. influenced by political con-siderations." They said the information they sought concerned the entire country. TO PAVE PENN Preparing Plans for Final PWA Street Project in St. Joseph.
engineers preparing plane for paving street, Ninth to Sixteenth street, as the last project the city undertake under the present PWA program. Available federal funds for such work have been exhausted by projects adyanced by the city that now are under construction or in the proposal stage. Taking advantage of aid for street Improvement projects proposed by federal government, the city has paved and rebuilt streets in various sections of the city, using up all the funds allotted under the $200,000 program. here, Mayor Phil J. Welch said yesterday.
Virtually all the work has been done during his administration, In plans drawn! for the Penn project, the city had to ordering, choose between repaying the stretch of Penn street and paving. Olive street, Sixth to Ninth, enough federal funds could be obtained for both jobs. Also, the city had. to refuse to consider other projects because of the exhaustion of federal aid. Street improvement projects proposed now are being planned under WPA aid.
There are several: such jobs proposed. Mrs. Anna Heitman, 66 Years Old, Dies at Family Home: Mrs. Anna Heitman, sixty-six years old, died at the family. home, 1619 Dewey avenue, yesterday aft ernoon.
She was born in London: England, and had lived in St. Joseph since: 1887. She was a member. of the St. James Episcopal Church of London and the Security Benefit Association here.
She is survived by her husband, John H. Heltman. two, sons. Raymond and Arthur, Heitman, at home; four daughters Mrs. Della Z.
Cepp, San Antonto, Mrs. Lillian Wells, Mrs. Mabel Jones and Mrs. Pauline Dyson, all of St. Joseph; one sister, Mrs.
Mary Ellis London, one brother, Wit. Jam Key of San Francisco, Cal. body is at 'the Sidenfaden mortuary. Receiver Asks Court to Approve Bank Settlement C. co*ckrill, receiver for.
the Bank of North St. Joseph, yesterday asked Judge F. J. Frankenhoff, in division No. 3 of circuit court, to approve three proposals.
He asked permission to pay a dividend of. 15 per cent, amounting to $24,946.75, to claimants. A dividend of 50 per cent has already been He also asked approval of sale of stocks and bonds to the First Trust Company, The stocks and bonds have a face value of $8,000 and the bank offered $4,338.50, bidding par or over for all except bonds of the defunct Kansas City interurban and bonds of the Republic of Cuba, Permission was also asked to sell bank furniture and fixtures to the Bank of Rock Port for $250. Hospital Basket of Roses 50 STUPPY The TELEGRAPH FLORIST Eighth and Felix DUTCH GIRL BAKERY, Inc. 25th and Messante Suggests Wednesday 25c-Noon Day Lunch 25c Fried Spring Chicken Country Style Roast Prime Ribs -Beet Au Jus Vegetarian Plate Lunch Served With: Whipped Polatoes Buttered Lima Beans or Creamed Neg, Carrots Mexican, Coleslaw Hot Rolls and Butter We Feature Fried Chicken on Our 25-Cent Lunch Every Wednesday Complete Fountain and Sandwich Service Curb Service I CCC Boys Are Endangered by Hunters, Director Says Believing that CCC.
boys. in the St. Joseph. area need protection against overzealous hunters, Robert E. Fechner, director of the CCC, has ordered the boys wear red bands on their hats or caps, carry noisemakers to work projects and erect red warning signs.
Fechner also asked the Missouri state game commission, to co-opberate campaign to make hunters extremely, when in the vicinity of CCC camps. Camps in the St. Joseph area are located at Rock Port, Tarkio, Savannah, Maysville and Maryville, This Sale, External Treatment Helps END A COLD Quicker The 3-Minute VapoRub briskly on the throat, chest and back (between and below the shoulder blades). Then spread it thick over the chest and cover with warmed cloth. Almost before you finish rubbing, VapoRub starts to bring relief two ways at, once- -two direct ways: 1.
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Adolph Tarbett. He was educated in the Atchison public. schools and has been engaged since. in engineering work. He was employed by the 'Leslie Engineering Company for twelve years and WAS employed by the city for seven years as a engineer.
He served as county surveyor from 1928 to 1932 and was a date for county judge in 1932. He is married, has three children and lives at 2217 Messanie street. POOR TRUSTEE Woman Speaker Says Has Not Lived Up to His Responsibilities. America's president can be likened to a national trustee. On this basis, declared- Mrs.
Gehrig of Salis. bury, who addressed a meetthe Young Republican Woman's C. Association Franklin last night Roosevelt at has not lived up to his responelbilities. "Every four years," the speaker said, "we select a new, trustee to carry on the- heritage our country. This trustee is to see that we do not squander the benefits that our forefathers have provided but that we pass them on to posterity." Mrs.
Gehrig derided Franklin D. Roosevelt as a trustee who has not kept the trust and inheritance that -belong to America. "Roosevelt," she pointea out, brought the constitution into disrepute, He has Increased expenses. He has not aided unemployment. And he has not considered public money as a sacred trust." Alf M.
Landon was lauded as "the outstanding government executive in the United States who would preserve the liberty and freedom entitled to Americans. Mrs. Gehrig. was introduced by Mrs. Johni Wyeth, the national Republican committee.
In her introductory remarks, Mre. Wyeth said that young people have up under a system oft government that is wholesome. "We have a real responsibility in the coming exection," "We should consecrate ourselves to got to the polls to: express our disapproval of the new deal." Miss Mary Margaret Abercrombie, president of association, sided: at the meeting. and led munity singing of campaign songs, Following the program. a reception WAS held and refreshments were served: Automobile Club to Discuss: Lake Projects Today Widening Land Francis streets to relieve traffic the Pigeon Creek lake, congestion, Whether to send a local representathe American Automobile Association meeting in Detroit, Mich: will be discissed at the monthly meeting of the St.
Joseph. Automobile Club at' the Chamber of Commerce at noon. today, S. A. Moore, manager.
said last night. Following the general meeting, a committee: will select candidates for nine places on the board of directors of the club. Ballots bearing the names of the candidates will be mailed to the 1,200 members of the club who will vote by mail. Results of the election will be announced Nov. 6.
Four County Candidates Not Indorsed by Labor -All but four of the. candidates running in Washington township at the Nov. 3 election obtained the indorsem*nt of the Union Labor League, it was. reported yesterday. The league planning a rally: late next week.
Democrats, and. one Republican failed of indorsem*nt, it was reported. The report. was not made public, but was sent to the unions represented on the league. Those who were not indorsed are A.
E. Nash, Democratic nominee for county treasurer: W. P. McDonald, Democratic nominee for justice of the place; Louie Silverman, nominee for constable, and James E. Hunt, Republican nomE nee for state representative from the Second district: Olendorf Forecasts Early Start on Atchison Bridge Work on a new bridge across the Missouri River at Atchison will be started soon, according to the opinion.
expressed yesterday in St. Joseph by George Olendort, chairman: of the Missouri state highway commission. The Missouri supreme court has made permanent a writ which reI strains! the Cole County circuit court from enjoining the commission -from awarding contract to build the Missouri -approach. Permission -from the government to build the span must now be obtained. Such permission, granted once, was withdrawn due to litigation.
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