Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 7 January 1926 — Page 2

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Fellow Convicts Buy Grave for Good Pal Auburn, N. Y. — Because he was good to his pals in prison, Chester Y r ates (not his real name) rests in a grave in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Connected with a respectable family, the former convict died recently. His body remained unclaimed and would have gone to a medical college had not the convicts themselves saved it by contributing to a fund to give him burial. Yates escaped seven times from various prisons. His last big offense was the robbery of Aaron Ba icroft, an aged broker, from whom he stole $87,000 in § the lobby of the New York ProW duce Exc ange In 1912.

PASSED MISSING MOTHER DAILY

1—Simeon Radiff, the new minister from Bulgaria to the United States. 2—Walls of Mukden, which city Japan is protecting from the warring Chinese factions. 3—Ready-built lunch wagons being loaded on steamer at New York for Miami, where it is difficult to get meals.

Parents Separated 20 Years, Sc- Finds Them.

NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS

President Likely to Accept League’s Invitation to Disarmament Parley. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT COOLIDGE is desirous of accepting the invitation of the League of Nations to participate in the preliminary discussion of a world disarmament congress, and with that in view he has conferred with congressional leaders, asking whether it is necessary to obtain the permission of congress and an appropriation. Among others, Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee was called to the White House. When he left he said he was in complete accord with the President on the subject, and it was indicated that the Chief Executive intended to submit the matter to congress. Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin also talked with Mr. Coolidge, and he said most of the senate would favor accepting the invitation of the league. Former Secretary of State Hughes was a guest of the President at luncheon and this led to the belief he would be named to head the American delegation to the congress, which was held to be quite fitting since he is given large credit for the vv ashmgton armament conference of 1921. Hugh Gibson, minister to Switzerland, will represent America in the preliminaries. According to information from the White House, the President has considerably modified his idea that the United States might appropriately participate in a conference for the further reduction of naval armament, but that inasmuch as the limitation of land armament is almost solely an European problem America should not take part in the discussion of that matter unless invited in to compose differences of the European nations on the question. Whether it will be necessary to obtain the consent of congress to acceptance of the league’s invitation is a matter still undetermined. The Knox reservation to the Berlin treaty apparently is not applicable, but the act of 1913 forbids acceptance of an invitation to an international conference without specific authority of law. Senator King of Utah has introduced in the senate a resolution authorizing the President to accept the invitation, and Representative Hamilton Fish of New York has introduced a similar resolution in the house. The matter probably must await the reassembling of congress on January 4. Another matter upon which Mr. Coolidge sought the advice of Mr. Hughes was the appeal by Chile from the decision of General Pershing delaying the Tacna-Arica plebiscite until April 15.

/CONGRESS adjourned Wednesday L-J for a 13-day holiday recess. The house had passed the tax reduction bill—which will not have such an easy passage through the senate—and had made ready to take a vote on the treasury-post office supply bill immediately after reconvening. It also adopted a resolution calling for an investigation of the alleged manipulation of crude rubber prices by the British colonial government. While considering the treasury appropriation measure the representatives found an opportunity to give old John, Barleycorn another hard jab. Mr. Tucker of Virginia, a dry, sought to amend the bill so as to restrict the use of funds in the purchase of liquor as evidence of law violation. The proposed appropriation for this purpose is $250,000, and Mr. Tucker’s amendment would have provided that no portion- of this might be used “to induce any person by fraud, deceit or falsehood to violate the prohibition law.” The argument was long and warm, embracing the merits or demerits of prohibition, but when it came to a vote only 17 supported Mr. Tucker, while 139 were against him. This being in the committee of the whole, the votes were not recorded.

/COLONEL MITCHELL may well Lj pray to be saved from his friends If those who arose in congress in his

behalf are representative of the men who believe in the suspended officer. Nothing could harm his cause more than the action of such men as Blanton of Texas, La Guardia of New York and Tillman of Arkansas, who have been abusing the court-martial and its verdict and seeking ways of undoing what it did. Secretary of War Davis, it is said in Washington, Is going to try to restore harmony between the various branches of the army, and at the same time Is determined to take drastic measures if necessary to maintain absolute discipline. He knows no reason for delay in bringing the significance of the Mitchell case home to any other branch of the service where there has been evidence of open disagreement with settled departmental or national policies. Representative Bloom of New York has proposed to Mayor-Elect Walker that Colonel Mitchell be appointed police commissioner of New York city. He said he believed congress would enact any legislation necessary to make the appointment possible. r>RIG. GEN. SMEDLEY D. BUTLER -L' resigned from the marine corps in order to continue as director of public safety of Philadelphia. Mayor Kendrick then, in a stormy interview wdth Butler, told him he did not want him in his cabinet “as a resigned officer because he did not want any other action misunderstood by President Coolidge,” who had refused the general a further leave of absence. He demanded that Butler resign, and this being refused, he dis missed hi.m from his position. It was understood that General Butler’s resignation from the marine corps would be withdrawn. Concerning his plans he said: ‘Tm going to my home In Overbrook and I’m going to drive there in a car of the United States marine corps. The marines can take care of me, and I’d rather be in the marine corps than in 15,000,000 cities like Philadelphia.”

■pvlSSATISFACTION with President Coolidge’s farm relief legislation policies was voiced at Des Moines by the executive committee of the American Council of Agriculture and the Corn Belt Committee of Farm Organizations. The joint committee, which claims to represent more than a million farmers of the Middle West, criticized Mr. Coolidge’s recent address concerning agriculture, denied that the Fordney-McCumber tariff is of great benefit to agriculture as a whole, and announced that an export measure would be submitted to congress. A resolution adopted notes “with a degree of amusement" that the new measure sponsored by Secretary Jardine is to prove a means of salvation to the farmer by supplying him with an expert fund of Information about the “mysteries of co-operative marketing.” Farmers, the resolution says, have more information than they need —in fact, have but little else, and need “a fair price rather than more information.” Congress is warned in another section of the joint committee’s resolutions that industry “should not blame the farmers if they invoke the principle of self-preservation and declare war on the protective tariff.” This “war” is promised if industry insists that it cannot exist without the tariff and refuses to grant agriculture like protection. High up in the Republican party, too, there are those who believe that the President’s plans do not go far enough. Among them are Senator Capper, Former Governor Lowden of Illinois and Vice President Dawes. Mr. Capper has his own program, the main features of which are: 1. Legislation providing machinery for segregating the surplus of any crop, selling it abroad for what it will bring, presumably at a price below that of the home market, and distributing the loss among the producers. 2. Development of co-operative marketing with the assistance of government agencies. 3. Liberalization of the farm loan law and amplification of the farm credit system. 4. Tax relief for the farmer, to be accomplished by rigid economy in national and local governments and by a constitutional amendment prohibiting issuance of tax-free securities, the present and increasing volume of which is becoming an unbearable tax burden to agriculture.

T Y 7TIAT was characterized as one VV of the most sensational crop reports in the history of the country was Issued Wednesday by the government and caused prices of wheat, corn and oats to skyrocket on the Chicago board of trade. The shorts were forced to cover without being able to force prices back materially. The figures released by the government were its final estimate on the 1925 yield of grains, which showed a downward revision somewhere in the vicinity of 30.000. 000 bushels. This indicated that the country had used some 15,000,000 bushels of last year’s carryover. Total yield of all wheat Is fixed at 669,365,000 bushels, or a decrease of 193,262,000 bushels, as compared with final figures a year ago. The total crop tTnd carry-over amount to 756,000,000 bushels. Of this the people consume in bread and seed 640.000. 000 bushels, leaving a surplus of 116,000,000 bushels. Exports to December 1 total approximately 50,000,000 bushels, making a 66,000,000-bu-shel carry-over, or a reduction of 22,000,000 bushels, compared with last year.

^"'VNE of the Middle West’s sensational murder trials has ended with a verdict of guilty. John Looney, who used to be called the “king of the underworld” of Rock Island, 111., and who formerly was editor of the Rock Island News, was convicted of killing William Gabel, a saloonkeeper who, according to the charges of the state, had betrayed Looney and eight others in a blackmail conspiracy. Looney was sentenced to 14 years In the penitentiary. The Gabel killing was an upshot of vice and factional feud conditions in Rock Island for several years during which Looney’s son, Conner, was killed as he sat in an automobile in front of a hotel, and Looney fled to the Southwest and for a long time successfully fought attempts to return him for trial.

\ T THE insistence of Prime Minxjl ister Baldwin, the British parliament accepted the League of Nations council’s award of the Mosul vilayet to Great Britain’s mandate state of Irak, before recessing for the holidays. The Labor members protested and left the house in a body. Mr. Baldwin and his cabinet at once opened negotiations with Turkey which it Is believed will remove the danger of war over the oil lands. The prime minister held a long conference with Ahmed Ferid Bey, the Turkish ambassador, and it was understood the latter left, pleased with the hope that Turkey would receive compensation for its loss. Paris correspondents assert that in case Turkey should remain recalcitrant and start hostilities, the British have planned for an attack on Turkey by the Greek and Italian armies and a naval demonstration by the British, French, Italian and Greek fleets. The western powers also have been moving to induce Russia to withdraw her support of Turkey.

HpHERE are signs of early peace in both Morocco and Syria, though some bloody engagements have taken place in recent days. Abd-el-Krim has sent an emissary to France to receive the French and Spanish terms, and the Druses in Syria are inclined to accept the offers of M. Jouvenal, the French high commissioner. Ali, king of the Hedjaz, has abdicated because the Wahabis under Ibn Sand captured the city of Mecca after defeating the army at Jedda.

npHERE was fierce fighting in China 1 last week between the troops of Chang and the people’s army, and the victories alternated, if dispatches can be credited. The last report at this writing is that the Manchurian has defeated his foes and occupied strong positions. Meanwhile the Japanese forces continue to hold Mukden to protect the city and foreign interests there from the warring factions.

U'RANK A. MUNSEY, millionaire ^ publisher of newspapers and magazines, died in New York after an operation for appendicitis. He was a bachelor and left no direct heirs, and the disposition of his estate is a matter of interested speculation. His fortune, including the New York Sun and the Telegram, is variously estimated at from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000.

Battle Cr^ek, Mich.—Harry Lee Harris of Adrian, tree surgeon, recently learneu that a woman whom he has passed on the street nearly every day for seve: al weeks is his mother They have been separated for more than 20 years. The discovery was made after he located his father, who had believed for 25 years that the son was dead. Separated from his parents in childhood Harris became successively a Detroit bootblack, a college graduate, a World war veteran and a business man. All of his achievements, he declares, were made possible by the kindness of Gov. A. J. Groesbeck, who paid his expenses at Purdue university. Harris was born 28 years ago in Kalamazoo county. When his parents separated a few years afterward his mother sent him and his sister to the Michigan Children’s Home at St. Joseph. Later the two were adopted by different fanplies. He was taken by Mrs. Anna Mowen of Sherwood, Mich. Several weeks ago he came to Battle Creek on business and took up quarters In Marshall street, in which his mother’s home is located. He passed her ca the street 'regularly. While at Battle Creek he learned that in Texas township there was a man by the name of Charles Ray who once knew a family _ v the name of Harris. That supplied ^ he key by which he solved the wh. reabouts of his parents. His father s been employed for 20 years a* - ^^Vyd E. Cook -5airy farm 1° S’ , Comstock. His mother was reraa*-i«d. Her name is Mrs. Cora Fuller. The sister, now Mrs. Violet Har wood, is living in Goshen, Ind. Actress of Many Wigs Jailed as Shoplifter New York.—Detectives from the Stores Mut ual Protective association rubbed their eyes in amazement when a good-looking, slender, bobbed-hair brunette stepped up to the bar in the Court of General Sessions when the clerk called “Mrs. Anna Stewart.” This wasn’t the woman they had arrested in Bloomingdaie’s store September 5 for having stolen 1€: pairs of silk stockings. Or was it? It was. “But she looks quite different,” the detectives said. They then told Justices Herbert, Edwards and Mdnerny that the young woman, who said she was twenty and an actress, had had a bag with her at the time of her arrest, and In this bag they had found several wigs. “We tried the wigs on her and we recognized her as a shoplifter who had escaped us after thefts in several other stores,” the detectives said. “Sixty days In the workhouse,” said the justice. Whiskers Cost Hindu Hope of American Wife New York.—Whiskers are no assistance in the seh etion of an American wife. Nand Singh, Hindu professor of business adraini dration at the Jesuit College of Milw ukee for the last six years, admitted lefore sailing for his native land on tt j liner Aluna that this was the reason 1 e had not married an American girl. “Many Ameri ‘an girls liked my eyes; some liked my smile; some spoke well of my voic i. But my whiskers were my undoing,” Singh said. “No American girl admired ray whiskers and my Indian caste would not permit their removal. For that reason J never married here.”

Train Kills Nine Blyetheville, Ark. — Nine persons were killed and one injured, probably fatally, when St. Louis-Francisco passenger train No. 801 struck an automobile in which the ten persons were riding at a crossing. All of the dead and the injured, a child, were members of the families of Clem Oxford and his brother, Lawrence Oxford, farmers.

Fall Is Fatal Chicago.—Ezra Nail, 28 years old, a carpenter, was crushed to death when he plunged twelve floors into an elevator shaft of the new Jeweler’s building, which is being erected at East South Water street and North Wabash avenue.

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Surprises Robbers at Work and Follows One in 20-Foot Plunge , New York.—In the most approved movie thriller manner, Patrolman Stephen McCormick of the Brownsville station, Brooklyn, got his man early one morning but not until he had faced possible death from bullets or by a fall from the edge of a roof where he grappled with an alleged holdup man. His prisoner, who said he was Harry Price, twenty-four, of No. 14 Grafton street, Brooklyn, was held in $50,000 bail by Magistrate Fish in New Jersey avenue court. Even Price’s suit was taken from him, for police said it was one of several stolen from Isidore Snider, a tailor, No. 898 Rogers avenue, Brooklyn. Price appeared in court in borrowed clothes. Caught in Act. McCormick, only seventeen months on the force, was beating his hands together shortly after midnight to keep them warm w r hen he saw a red

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taxicab stop suddenly in front of the drug store of Jacob Rutes at Howard avenue and Prospect place. Two men slid out of the cab and entered the store. McCormick followed through a side entrance. He was greeted by two shots fired by a stocky man who held two automatic pistols. Behind the counter stood Rutes with his hands above his head. A second armed man was backing Jacob Ogup, sixteen, a clerk, into a corner. Before the patrolman could draw his revolver the man who had fired dashed to the street, leaped into the cab and gave an order. The machine sped away in Prospect place. When the second robber darted to the side door McCormick fired one shot, which went wild. Plunges After. Up the dark stairs of an adjoining four-story tenement went the second man, closely followed by McCormick. On the roof the policeman fired and missed again. The man leaped out into the dark, landing heavily twenty feet below on the roof of No. 450 Howard avenue. McCormick plunged after him and fell on top of him. A score of pedestrians, attracted by the shots, screamed and shouted as McCormick and his prisoner, wrestling and fighting, teetered almost on the edge of the two-story building. The two were still grappling when detectives arrived and ended the struggle.

Stole Ice for Private Route; Goes to Jail New York.—Leroy Stevens, iceman, who prospered so greatly that suspicions of neighbors were aroused, was sentenced to from six months to three years in the penitentiary in the Bronx Court of Special Sessions. He was convicted of petty larceny on complaint of the Knickerbocker Ice company. For ten years his income has been $36 a week, but Stevens, fifty-eight years old, employed a maid, a chauffeur, had a costly car and sent his wife to Florida for the winter. It was discovered he made short deliveries to the large customers, among them the Seton hospital in Spuyten Duyvil, and for his own account sold such ice to 130 customers of his own.

Find Ancient Egg Bellingham, Wash.—An egg, burled three and a half feet under the ground for six years, has-been uncovered here and declared to be “as clear as if it had been in the ground only six days” by H. G. Smith, manager of the Washington Poultry association’s station. No one, however, volunteered to eat it.

Student at 76 Boston.—Aberdeen R. King, seventysix years old, retired business man of Wellsville, N. l r ., has enrolled as a freshman at Boston university. “Just wanted to brush up on several subjects,” King explained, “but thought I might as well sign up for the regular first-year program. One is never too old to learn, you know.”

IMPROPER FEED IS CAUSE OF BIG LOSS

One of the greatest losses in the poultry business is caused by improper feeding of baby chicks. There are many people who still fail to consider that a chick when hatched does not require food for several days and that it will live more than a week without food. Most poultry raisers who hatch their own chicks have learned this, but many who buy chicks are still inclined to overfeed at first. Great care should be taken to start feeding the chicks gradually. This applies regardless of the feed that is used. Chicks should be at least 56 hours old when given their first feed. Before this they should be allowed to run on sod or good, clean litter of chaff or finely cut hay. After the chicks are 56 hours old we give them the first feed. A clean board with strips projecting about onehalf inch around the edges, should be provided. This board should be large enough to accommodate all the chicks at one time—several boards being necessary In most cases, as a board 1 by 2V& feet is about the right size for 75 chicks. A little of the feed should be sprinkled over this board, and the chicks allowed to eat for about ten minutes. Then the board should be cleaned off and a little sand sprinkled on it. This in turn should be removed in a few minutes as grit should not be used too freely until the chicks are ten days old. Water should be supplied in small fountains at the same time food is placed before the chicks, but not before. Sour milk or buttermilk may be used in the place of water for the first feed. Milk is very beneficial when fed properly, but it should be borne in mind that it is necessary to keep up the practice once it Is started, and that milk must be fed in galvanized vessels. It is also important that it have the same acid content at each feeding—alternately using sweet clabber and buttermilk or very sour milk is injurious. Water should be kept before the chicks continuously after the first feed. It is best to supply fresh, clean water at least three times daily and to temper or remove the chill wdth a little hot water. Some authorities insist that the baby chicks should be fed five times a day, but w r e prefer to feed three times a day. In this way we can start by leaving the feed before them only ten minutes and gradually increase the time until we have the mash before them all the time when they are ten to twelve days old. In mixing one’s own feed, w r e suggest the following mash for the first feed and until the chicks are ten days old: Two-thirds rolled oats rubbed fine and one-third soft wheat bran. This is fed on the boards as mentioned before, and should be increased gradually as described. A little sand and fine charcoal should be added at each feeding or just after. When the chicks are ten days old the sand or fine chick grit can be left before them. Some form of animal protein should be provided. If sour milk is used, this is supplied. Otherwise it is best to use hard-boiled eggs that have been grated fine. About three eggs per day should be used for each 100 chicks. So far we have considered only the “chick starter” or mash feed. After the chicks are four or five days old we begin to use a little commercial chick grain or finely cracked corn and wheat. This grain should be used to keep the chicks exercising and should be fed with that idea alone in mind. It should be fed in the litter, just enough being used to keep the chicks busy. After the chicks are ten days old a mash composed of the following should be added gradually, allowing about a week to change feeds: Twelve pounds soft w r heat bran, 12 pounds white shorts, 15 pounds corn meal, 5 pounds rolled oats, 5 pounds screened meat scraps, 2% pounds bone meal, 1 pound fine charcoal and % pound fine salt. This mash should be mixed thoroughly.—Noel Hall, Extension Specialist, Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station, Mountain Grove.

Protect Meritorious Breed A meritorious old breed should be recognized and protected to the limit; at the same time, a new breed or variety should not be condemned until its status has been established. This is the safe and sound w ? ay domesticated races of fowl can be properly classified and established. By commercializing the new at, the expense of the old breeds we undermine the foundation of the standard-bred poultry industry built up by fanciers in this country as well as in all other countries.

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