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'TO 3 TO i jJllfeliil am Hfiieil ULaUU UU VL7 UU FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT BY THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE LllUe Willie may hare to hang a gunnyaack Uita Christmas; era probably won't be ft stock- nf on the place. AND COMMERCIAL-STAR 7ty. Entered second class, mail nutter at Mittoon. lUtooU 1 MATTOQN, ILLINOIS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1929 every tfternoon wept Sunday PricBcIIu MtoonMMi Daring Champaign Holdup Where Gas Explosion Killed Five BRITAIN AND THEIRWAR DEAD llth Anniversary of Armistice Fittingly Observed. BY FREDERIC K.

ABBOTT, (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent.) Paris, Nov. 11.

The war that was fought within its borders was brought back In all its glory and all its horror to France today, as this nation Joined with its former allies throughout the world in celebrating the eleventh anniversary of the signing of the document which stilled the roar of guns along the western front. And In -spite of the fact that Armistice anniversary was a national commemoration, in Paris at least It devel oped Into an Anglo-American celebration. There was scarcely an event upon the Impressive program which did not Include some Americans or American organizations. The American Legion and the various American clubs and societies in Paris all participated In the ceremonies. General John J.

Pershing, commander of the American expeditionary forces during the World war. led his country men in inaugurating the Ar- mUUco services yesterday. RANCE HONOR Over Radio President Hoover, who tonight will deliver an Armistice Day address to the country dealing with the relations of this nation wKh the nations ot the world. He will speak via monster radio hookup. STOCKS DROP 1 TO 22 POINTS BY International Newt rvle.

New York, Nov. 11. Stock prices dropped from one to twentv-two Dointa on the New I i Here Is what remained of the plant of the Tlmms Spring Company, at Hyrta, Ohio, after the building had been wrecked by a gas explosion and five persons were killed and a number of others seriously Injured. The explosion, heard for miles, rocked the city and broke windows for a great distance. The smaller picture shows some of the machinery that was hurled into a tree top some distance from the plant.

PRESIDENT IS TO SPEAK OVER RADIO I100KUP Address to Close Washington's Armistice Day Program. BY International Nawa Servlea. Washington, D. Nov. 11.

While Washington joined the world today in observing the eleventh anniversary of the armistice with almost continuous ceremonies at the tomb of the unknown soldier, it will draw the nation's attention tonight with a radio speech by President Hoover. (NOTE The program in which President Hoover wUI take part will be held from 7:15 to 8: JO, central standard time. Other speakers will appear en the program, and it not definitely known at Jast what time In that period the President wlU begin his address.) Mr. Hoover will speak to the country from the monster service arranged by the American Legion at Washington auditorium. His address will deal with the relations of the United States with other countries and will be carried to all the states over a gigantic book-up Wreath On Unknown's Temb.

At eleven m-the hour the pact of peace was signed the President placed a wreath at the unknown's tomb, sym bolic of the nation's reverence for those killed' during the war. Then Mrs. Hoover placed a flag on the white slab for the mothers, wives and sisters whose loved ones did not return from France's battlefields. At noon a second service was held at the tomb, with Rev. John J.

Burke, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, as speaker. Simplicity also marked this ceremony, held annually by "The 8even." "The Seven" Is a committee of representative ot peace-time organizations who served In unherolc capacities during the World war. They are: The Y. C. Jewish Welfare Board, Salvation Army, National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Knights of Columbus, Y.

W. O. War Camp Community Service. American Library Association and the Boy ScouU of America. All that American war mothers were led thlsTear by Mrs.

William Hamilton Bailey of St. Louis, whose son Is buried in the Suresenes cemetery, near ParlsT She was delegated to place the order's wreath on the unknown soldier's tomb. Wilson Memorial. The eleventh hour, which brought the President to Arlington, also marked a prayer and thanksgiving service before the crypt of Woodrow Wilson, the war President, at Washington Cathedral. In the afternoon a special Wilson memorial service was held.

Mrs. York Exchange todayjn a marJ01 J110 UUon An Impressive ceremony is scheduled i sixty guests, une Dan- for eleven o'clock today at the tombllif f) lflffrirriT1 ROPERTY LOSS FROM BLAZE inly Three Business SuUdings Left Stand- ing; Start Clean-up. By SUIT Cormpoadent Trilla, 111., Nov. like the fabled hoenix bird of old to- av bewail to arise from ts own ashes, the ashes a disastrous confla- ration that practically dped out the business istrict of this village krly Sunday morning. When the flamea were tought under control at five clock Sunday morning, ty we mbined efforts of the Mjjttoon re department, a backet brig-le formed by Trilla residents id rain which had started fall- at 30 o'clock, the.

stepped back and took ock. rrhftt found: a I The Art demon wreaaea ao- t-wctlea to property valued at fe400. ef the bnsioew district. pride ef the vllUn as the largest a best eqnlpped of any in tow iU ec, only three bnldiaga temalned 3 That fauoraaee and aaivage Muts to approximately teav a total loss of approximately The flames, believed to haw been of 'wmdlarT orteln. were discovered at 123 o'clock Sunday morning by Clark organ, wno wu reimuun -in Neon.

Mr. Morgan drove up and Iwn the village streets sounding hla ttomoblle horn until practically every sldent In the place was awake. Notifying Henry BnmDerry, wno mnleted the work of broadcasting the arm bv pounding on the doors and bllng people to come to the fire scene. organ and other resinenia aiwmpieu cope with the fire wmcn naa iw the empty building at the south end Main atreet owned by Robert Ran who recently closed Out his pool om in the structure and removed to attoon. Fanned by a strong west wind, how- the flamea rapidly hecame uncon- wifthie and (oread to the other frame llldtags to the block with devastat- effect.

Barber one vemvjva. Trxa the Randolph structure, a one ory frame building, the fire demon mped to the Herschel Richards Liber' shop. 'next door, In a one story ame building owned by men nius. By this time, every one oi we aw ridenls of the village was on hand id squads were formed to carry goods om other threatened buildings. All ie time, however, it wu believed that ie blaze would soon be brought under fcntrol and for this reason, many inira later went up in smoke wnen le flames advanced so rapidly that tlvagcrs were forced out ox uve ouua- gs.

From the Richards barber Shop he flames marched into the Fred eals general store, occupying the low- floor of a two story ouueung, ownea oartnershlD between Mr Beals and le Modern Woodmen lodge, occupants the second floof. Here, as before, ie structure burned to the grouna. a nail nortlon ot Mr. Beala' stock was ived, and some paraphernalia from ie lodge rooms above. In addition to ie Modem the Royal etehbors and the Rebekah OTganua- ons used the halL ISach of these or- knlcatlons suffered some loss, While the Beala bunding was burn-iff It was That hurch, located several hundred' feet orthwest across the Nickel Plate tacks, had caught fire from a flying bark.

TWS structure, aiso irame, was bon only a heap of ashes. Most all the church furnishings were carried Jut before the flames gained too much Next door to the Beals store stood lie one-story frame building formerly Iccupled by the Trilla State Bank, and Hitch before the' fire housed only the Ice of N. A. Jones. The vacant ank room had been used considerably pt a banquet hall by the Cumberland hurch, table, dishes, etc- stored here went up In smoke.

Jones tt Barj- owned this structure. Front' the. bank building; the SMATII mm C.l' KATCDl SUCCUMBS TO BULLET WOUND Bandits Invade Harris Home and Rob Assembled Guests. Champaign, 111., Now 11. ins) C.

W. Katchman, brakeman of Mattoon, 111., member of a bandit gang of four which held up sixty guests at a dance party here Saturday at midnight, died in the City Hos pital today of wounds inflicted by police. Champaign, 111., Nov. 11. Loot valued at more than $50,000, consisting of diamonds and money, was obtained Saturday at midnight by four masked bandits at the home of Henry H.

Harris during a dance iT i. Draiceman oi mar-toon, 111., was fatally wounded when shot by Patrolman Gilbert Brown, while Harold Smith, said to be from Charleston, 111., is in jail. The two other members of the bandit party escaped with the loot lifter a gun battle with police, during which shots were exchanged. Harris and a number of his puests received minor injuries in HOuffleH with the bandits lieforc the arrival of police. The job is thought to have been engineered by two experienced bandits, while the two others in the party were amateurs.

In Aristocratic Section. The dance party at the Harris home, located In the aristocratic section of the city, was Just getting under way with about half of the guests present. The guests were scattered about the house, some In the first floor lounge, some walking about on the second floor and others dancing in the ballroom on the third floor, and guests continued to arrive during the holdup, which lasted for fifteen minutes. Three bandits gained entrance by telling a negro doorman they were playing a Joke, but at the same time pressing a gun to his body. A fourth bandit was left In a car outside the house.

Dividing, the bandits went Into different rooms downstairs, two locating Harris and forcing him to precede them upstairs. Harris uttered a warning to his guests that it was a real holdup, but it was not until fully five minutes later that the guests realized a holdup was actually in progress. Herded to Wall. Many guests were herded into bedrooms and corners of the dance room) and after being ordered to face the wall, they were searched and Jewelry and money taken from them. At least 4.000 to currency was taken by the" bandits In addition to approximately, $50,000 in diamonds and other Jewelry.

W. K. Leach ot Boston, Mass, gen eral manager of the General Alloys Company ot Boston, of which Harris Is) the president, succeeded in reaching a telephone. He called police EeadQuar (Continued on page five.) DANCE K. G.

HALL Thursday night Decatur's Best Band. the Metropolitans 80e person. ll-It FOB SALE. -r 1 Complete outfit of, used fumituref good condition. Priced right, to sell May be seen ftt 113 N.

15th St. Call for appointment, U-9U a WOMAClt ket that waa orderly throughout but weak. The three-hopr session, from 10 a. in. to 1 p.

was devoid of substantial buying support General Electric showed the most pronounced weakness, stamping to 193 at the close, a -decline of twenty-two points from Friday's close. Saturday was a holiday. Johns Manville closed at 95, down twenty points. United States Steel also showed surprising weakness, closing at 159, down llio. American Telephone and Telegraph closed thirteen points lower at 209.

STEPHEN A. TAYLOR DIES AT EARLY HOUR Stephen A. Taylor, Illinois Central railroad conductor, passed away this morning at two o'clock at the family residence, 1004 South Seventeenth street, from heart ailments and hardening of the arteries. He. had been falling in health for about a year, but worked until about a month ago.

He returned a week ago from the Illinois Central hospital in Chicago, where he was a patient two weeks. At the suggestion of the railroad company physicians rho treated him, he was preparing to retire on a pension. The funeral arrangements have not been completed. The rites will probably be held on Wednesday. Mr.

Taylor, a son of the late James W. Taylor, whose death occurred in Florida six years ago, was born on Feb-. WOMAN ADMITS HAVING SLAIN Gladys May Parks Confesses at Spot Where Burial Occurred. Philadelphia, Nov. 11.

iNS-aiadys May Parks, So'ith jersey's "stone" woman, crumbled today under twenty-four hours of merciless police grill ing and admitted the slaying of one of the two little Rogers children, Dorothy and Timothy, for whose murder she was sought through half a dozen states. The battered skeletons of the two little tots were found In South Jersey wastelands. Woman Breaks Down. The woman later broke down beside the grave which she had dug with her own hands for the child's burial. Miss Parks was taken to a clump of bushes near a vacant lot.

"Is this where you buried the body?" Prosecutor Clifford Baldwin asked. "Yes," she whispered, breaking Into sobs. "Tell us Just.how you did it." "Oh, I don't remember," cried Miss Parks and went into hysterics. aUow ole. and placed the child's nude body In it.

"I covered It with leaves," she said. A large crowd followed the prisoner to the death spot. Her stone-like composure broken by the continuous grilling the woman admitted slaying the five-year-old girl with a blow of her hand and hiding her body near National Park, N. J. The body of the child's twenty-months-old brother was hidden in a thicket near Absecon.

Startled at the sordid details of the crime Camden authorities broke all precedents and convened a Sunday court holding her without bail for the grand Jury. It was during repeated accounts of the death of the little girl that she admitted die child died at her hands. The boy fell down the cellar steps of the home where she was living in Camden and died from the effects of. the fall, she said. He died August The girl had died on August 7.

She bid the girl's body under some bushes after keeping It In her home until the neighbors began to question her regarding the peculiar odor about the building, she told the police. Six men, ail of good standing In their communities, today gave written statements alleging 'that the Parks woman used children to blackmail them, according to Detective Sergeant Louis Shaw. Diese men paid heavy sums after the woman told them the children were theirs, said Shaw. DRESSED HOG STOLEN. Shelbyvllle, -81, Nov.

11Mr. and Mrs. Carl Delp, living between Windsor and Gays, butchered hog last week and placed the meat In their amoaenouse naay morning tney discovered that some thief had called in the night and had taken the meat, ow hiw wqwepa peri that had bees conveniently sear. LUTLEJP IT wrHiuiimui IN MEXICO CITY Mexico City, Nov. 11.

MS) Extraordinary efforts were being made by authorities "today -Id apprehend ringleaders of an election campaign riot staged on the avenue Juarez, one of this city's principal thoroughfares, resulting In Jie death of three persons and serious Injuries to fourteen. The clash occurred when a procession of 20,000 supporters of Jose As-concelos were marching toward the national palace. The parade was halted by traffic at a street intersection when suddenly a hail of brick and stones descended upon the marchers from rooftops. This was the signal for a fusillade of mtk a pistol and rifle firing, and for a few minutes thousands of men and women fought tooth and nail against pollti cal opponents. More than 500 shots were fired, but comparatively few took effect.

Pears were expressed today the outbreak presages greater violence when Mexico goes to the polls In the presidential elections next Sunday. There has been Considerable rivalry between Vasconcelos and his principal opponent, Pascual Ortla Rublo. While the rioting was at its peak, supporters ot Vasconcelos set fire to the headquarters of Rublo, nearby, and when the fire department arrived staunchly refused to allow the firemen to extinguish the Notice Is hereby given that I will offer for sale in front of the National Bank ot Mattoon, In the city of Mat-toon, Illinois, at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, the fourteenth day of November, A. D. 1929, to the highest bidder, the following described real estate, situated the county of Coles and state of Illinois, to-wit: The northeast quarter of Section 31, Town 13 north, Range 7, east of the third principal meridian.

This Is a No. 1 tract of black land, every foot ot which Is now under cultivation except the land upon which the Improvements are located. The Improvements consist of a good house, containing seven rooms; one barn; one corn crib, sixty feet long, nine feet wide, built upon a good concrete foundation, and has a teri foot driveway; and also one hog house. All of the said Improvements are in good condition and repair. This farm is located on good oiled road one mile east and one-half mile north from market at Coles, Illinois, and five and one-half miles northwest from the market at Mattoon, Illinois.

This arm is well drained and anyone who is interested In ft fine farm of 160 acres of good, black land, that is unsurpassed In this county, win do well to look this place over. BERT a COLE, 11-12 Master la Chancery. "COCKEyEDWORLD" The greatest laugh provoking picture 0f the Mason, the picture you have been waiting for is now here for three iDig aays ftt me Fox Mattoon thea- iter. onunninii nir bfl ATTEMPT LIFE OF London, Nov. 11.

INSV An alleged attempt to assassinate Premier Mussolini on October 10 was revealed today in ft dispatch to the London Dally Chronicle from its correspondent at Nice. The fact that a new attempt was made on the life of the Italian dictator is said to be confirmed from Rome, Turin and Milan. The 'Rome report declares the attempt occurred while the premier was motoring to Ostla from Rome. He was riding in the last ot a procession ot three automobiles. Three rifle shots were fired, one of the bullets striking the engine of the second car and another narrowly missing the wife of Slgnora Gulnta, a member of the cabinet.

A total of 200 persons were arrested in the subsequent Investigation, this report declares. The Turin report confirms the above story in its major details, but adds a member of the police escort was seriously wounded. According to the Milan version, however, the attempted assassination occurred while the premier was at Ostla, investigating archeologlcal excavations recently made there. Premier Mussolini has escaped so lUr Ttli i VI VCU tCU (Malt lVCM araacM mvu life." He still bears the scar of a bullet which pierced hla nostril. MARION T.

CASH DIES AT AGE OF NINETY-SIX Special to Tha Journal-Qaiatta. Nov. 11. Marlon T. 5:45 o'clock this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs.

Adallne Hendrix, near Oakland, after a two weeks' Illness from general debility. The funeral will be held at the Hendrix home at two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon and burial will be in Rose-dale cemetery. Mr. Cash 'was bom nlnety-slx years ago In Virginia. At the age of thirteen he moved with his parents to Indiana, coming shortly afterward to Illinois, settling In Coles county.

He" was a casket maker by trade and made the first casket used in Oakland. His wife, Mrs, Elizabeth Jane Ashmore Cash, died twenty-six years ago. He leaves the following children: W.JL Cash. De catur; W. R.

Cash, Indianapolis; Claude Cash. Columbus. Verne Csah. St. Petersburg, Mrs.

Tena Rutherford. Oakland, and Mrs. Adallne Oakland. N. E.

HAWKINS DIES AT HIS HOME NEAR OAKLAND Spatial to The JottrnaNOaiatte. Charleston, HL, Nor. Ha-N. E. Haw kins passed away this morning at five o'clock at his home near Oakland.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Mr. Hawkins leaves his widow, Mrs-. Laura- Hawkins, and a son, Hervey Hawkins, living on the home farm. He also leaves a sister, Mrs, Flora, Brown, In Calif ornla.

Mr. Hawkins was seventy years old. MUSSOLIN of France's unknown soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. Britain Does Honor. London.

Nov. With a reverence and solemnity sublime in its simplicity, Britain today remembered the million Englishmen who "never came back." At the Cenotaph, the nation's unified war memorial in London, where the Prince of Wales, in the name ot the British emnlrft and in the Dresenca of vast crowd ld wb to t0 th In cities and in country hamlets, the cleventh anniversary of the signing of the armistice was fittingly observed. Mothers and widows again proudly wore medals won by long-dead sons and husbands, veterans again donned grimed uniforms and displayed decorations, and thousands gathered at memorials to pay homage to the memory of the war dead. At eleven o'clock a. m.

the entire country observed a two-minute silence, during which every form of transport except the railroads halted. WILLIAM E. COLEMAN OF OIF, HOME DIES William E. Coleman, a member of the Old Folks' Home since 1922, passed away In the Home hospital on Sunday morning about five o'clock from myocarditis, ile had been In the hospital only a short time. The funeral service was held this afternoon at the Home chapel, with Rev.

Arthur Bell officiating. The body will be sent to Chicago for burial Forest Home cemetery. So far as is known Mr. Coleman had no relatives. He was a member of Congress House lodge of Odd Fellows In Chicago.

Hi Chicago, Nov. 11. Following are the weather indications for Illinois tor thirty-six hours ending at seven m. Tuesday: Increasing cloudiness, probably rain In south portion tonight and Tuesday and in north por tion Tuesdays somewhat warmer In south and central portions tonight. LOCAL WEATHER TEMFEBATCBE.

(Temperature from 1 p. m. Sunday to 1 p. today,) 1 59 3 a. 5 p.

8 ft. 6 p. 9 8 p. 11 ft. 11 p.

I p. -Weather conditions ftt noon: Clear; east wind. Barometer reading at noon 29.99. Sun rises at 0:4 and sets to nlght.ftt Moon sets ftt 13:19 ft. m.

Wilson was unable to be present. She! cash, atd to have been the oldest res-Is traveling in the orient. ldent In Coles county, passed away at ruary 4, 1888. near Wakefield, HI, He give hi Armistice Day message to the took employment with the Illinois Cen- Legion meeting tonight over the trans-tral at Peoria In 1893 and came to Mat- Atlantic telephone. His voice will be General John J.

Pershing, leader of i the American troops, now abroad, will amplified to the audience. FAYETTE CO. CATTLE BREEDER TO PRISON Vandalla, Nov. 11. Glen Francis, twenty-five, prominent Fayette county cattle breeder, was given an In-determinate sentence at the Southern Illinois penitentiary Saturday after pleading; guilty to a charge of stealing cattle.

arrested ftt his home near Altamont, October 19, by Sheriff Green, 'after a chaat which led -the sheriff over ft tract covering the entire state of Illinois and part of Indiana. He has confessed to cattle thefts In Fayette, Effingham and Bond counties. LAUD SALE WIS sell at auction on December 1929, atJLema, Illinois at 1:30 p. m. the TOO acre estate of Ann M.

Jeffries, deceased. Good grain and stock, farm, with two sets of Improvements and adjoining the village ot Lema, with first class school. Located on prospective Lincoln trail. Will be sold by Master in Chancery, Auctioneer; Fred Gardner. 12-2 toon ft year or more later.

He had railroad experience before taking em' ployment with the, Illinois Central, this having been in the northwest and west. His last runs on the Illinois Central were Nos. 295 and 298, local might service between Mattoon and Olney. Mr, Taylor wu married twice, He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mabel Matheny Taylor, formerly of Newton, whom he married eleven years ago In Evansvllle.

There are Lucille (Hill of Granite City Is a stepdaughter. Mrs. Joseph Ingle of this city is 'his stepmother. roared unabated Into the Jones At Barger store Building next door, ft two-story structure, and wiped oa this structure, occupied on the lower floor by the general store business and upstairs by the Masonic lodge. Bicfcel Establishment Burns.

Jumping across the street the fire attacked the John Bicfcel hay, grain and (Continued on page NOlEtlS Fish fry and important lodge meet- ing Nov. 12. Attend. 11-12.