Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

HOOVER'S ARMISTICE DAY ADDRESS TO BE GIVEN WORLD TONIGHT FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT BY THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE There probably won't be a stock- served by Illinois gas companies. a gunnysacks this Christmas; THE DAILY not equal the number of people Little Willie may, have to hang JOURNAL the union whose population does There are forty-three states on the place. AND COMM Entered as second class mail matter at Mattoon, Illinois MATTOON, ILLINOIS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1929 Published every afternoon except Sunday Price 5 Cents ifty-Fifth Year No. 190 DEVASTATING FIRE SWEEPS TRILLA PROPERTY LOSS Mattoon Man Slain in Daring Champaign Holdup FROM SABBATH BLAZE IS $46,400 only Three Business Buildings Left Standing; Start Clean-up. By Staff Correspondent.

Trilla, Nov. rilla like the fabled Phoenix bird of old -toay began to arise from own ashes, the ashes a disastrous conflaration that practically riped out the business istrict of this village arly Sunday morning. When the flames were rought under control at five Sunday morning, by the ombined efforts of the Mattoon re department, a bucket brigde formed by Trilla residents ad rain which had started fallg at 3:30 o'clock, the. resients stepped back and took lock. -Loss Is $46,400.

They found: 1- The fire demon had wreaked deruction to property valued at $46,400. That of the business district, once best pride of equipped the of any in a town its village as the largest only three buldings remained anding. 3 That insurance and saivage leav- hounts to approximately $23,500, total loss of approximately The flames, believed to have been of Icendiary origin, were discovered at 25 o'clock Sunday morning by Clark who was returning from a visorgan, in own the Neoga. village Mr. Morgan streets drove sounding up his and atomobile horn until practically every sident in the place was awake.

Notifying Henry Brimberry, who arm impleted by the pounding work of on the doors and broadcasting the Ailing people to come to the fire scene, organ and other residents attempted with the fire which had started cope the empty building at the south end Main street owned by Robert olph, who recently closed out his pool to om in the structure and removed lattoon. Fanned by a strong west wind, howrer, the flames rapidly became unconollable and spread to the other frame hidings in the block with devastat; effect. Barber Shop Destroyed. From the Randolph structure, a one ory frame building, the fire demon imped to the Herschel Richards arber shop, 'next door, in 8 one story lame building owned by Glen Titus. this time, every one of the 300 By esidents of the village was on hand ad squads were formed to carry goods om other threatened buildings.

All he time, however, it was belleved that he blaze would soon be brought under ontrol and for this reason, many hings later went up in smoke when he flames advanced so rapidly that alvagers were forced out of the buildags. From the Richards barber shop he flames marched into the Fred cals general store, occupying the lowfloor two story building, owned partnership between Mr. Beals and he Modern Woodmen lodge, the second floor. Here, as before, structure burned to the ground. A he mall portion of Mr.

Beals' stock was aved, and some paraphernalia from he lodge rooms above. In addition to. he Modern Woodmen, the Royal eighbors and the Rebekah organizaons used the hall. Each of these oranizations suffered some loss. While the Beals building was burnhg It was found that the Methodist hurch, located several hundred feet orthwest across the Nickel Plate, racks, had caught fire from a flying bark.

This structure, also frame, was pon only a heap of ashes. Most all the church furnishings were carried ut before the flames gained too much leadway. Next door to the Beals store stood he one-story frame building formerly ccupied by the Trilla State Bank, and hich before the fire housed only the trice of Dr. N. A.

Jones. The vacant ank room had been used considerably of a banquet hall by the Cumberland hurch, a table, dishes, stored here went up in smoke. Jones Bargowned this structure. From the bank building, the flames Over Radio President Hoover, who tonight will deliver an Armistice Day address to the country dealing with the relations of this nation with the nations of the world. He will speak via monster radio hookup.

STOCKS DROP 1 TO 22 POINTS BY International News Service. New York, Nov. prices dropped from one to twenty-two points on the New York Exchange today in a mar, ket that was orderly throughout but weak. The three-hour session, from 10 a. m.

to 1 p. was devoid of substantial ing support. General Electric showed the most pronounced weakness, slumping to 193 at the close, a decline of twentytwo 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 down American Telephone and Telegraph closed thirteen points lower at 209. 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 physiclans who 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 February 4, 1868, near Wakefield, Ill. He took employment with the Illinois tral at Peoria in 1893 and came to Mattoon a year or more later. He had railroad experience before taking employment with the Illinois Central, this having been in the northwest and west. His last runs on the Illinots Central were 295 and 296, local freight service between Mattoon and Olney. Mr.

Taylor was married twice. leaves his widow, Mrs. Mabel Matheny Taylor, formerly of Newton, whom he married eleven years ago in Evansville. There are no children. Mrs.

Lucille Hill of Granite City is a Mrs. Joseph Ingle of this city is his stepmother. roared unabated into the Jones Barger store building next door, a twostory structure, and wiped out this structure, occupied on the lower floor by the general store business and upstairs by the Masonic lodge. Bickel Establishment Burns. Jumping across the street the fire attacked the John Bickel hay, grain and (Continued on page, five.) NOTICE ELKS Fish fry and important lodge meeting Nov.

12. Attend. 11-12 PRESIDENT IS TO SPEAK OVER RADIO HOOKUP Address to Close Washington's Armistice Day Program. BY International News Service. Washington, D.

Nov. 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 will take part will be held from 7:15 to 8:30, central standard time. Other speakers will appear on the program, and it is not definitely known at just what time in that period the President will 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 relations of the United States with other countries and will be carried to all the states over a gigantic hook of radio stations. Wreath On Unknown's Tomb. At eleven a. m. the hour the pact of peace was signed -the President placed a wreath at the unknown's tomb, symbolte of the nation's reverence for those killed 'during the war.

Then Mrs. Hoover placed a flag on the sisters white slab for the mothers, wives and 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 Seven." "The Seven" is a committee of representatives of peace-time organizations who served in unheroic capacities during the World war. They are: The Y. M. C. Jewish Welfare Board, of Welfare Salvation Army, Conference Y.

W. C. and National the War Catholic Knights Columbus, Camp Community Service, American Library Association and the Boy Scouts of America. All the American war mothers were led this year by Mrs. William Hamilton Bailey of St.

Louis, whose son 1s buried in the Suresenes cemetery, near Paris: 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.

Wilson was unable to be present. She is traveling in the orient. General John J. Pershing, leader of the American troops, now abroad, will give his Armistice Day message to the Legion meeting tonight over the transAtlantic telephone. His voice will be amplified to the audience.

FAYETTE CO. CATTLE BREEDER TO PRISON Vandalia, Nov. Francis, twenty-five, prominent Fayette county cattle breeder, was given an indeterminate sentence at the Southern Illinois penitentiary Saturday after pleading guilty to a charge of stealing cattle. Francis was arrested at his home near Altamont, October 19, by Sheriff Green, 'after a chase which led' the sheriff over a tract covering the entire state of Illinois and part of Indiana. He has confessed to cattle thefts in Fayette, Effingham and Bond counties.

LAND SALE Will sell at auction on December 3, 1929, at Lerna, Illinois at 1:30 p. m. the 700 acre estate of Ann M. Jeffries, deceased. Good grain and stock farm, with two sets of improvements and adjoining the village of Lerna, with first class school.

Located on prospective Lincoln trail. Will be sold by Master in Chancery, Auctioneer: Fred Gardner. 12-2 Where Here is what remained of the plant wrecked by a gas explosion and five heard for miles, rocked the city and machinery that was hurled into a tree ATTEMPT LIFE OF MUSSOLINI London, Nov. alleged attempt to assassinate Premier Mussolini on October 10 was revealed today in a dispatch to the London Daily 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 Ostia from Rome, He was riding in the last of a procession of 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 Signora Guinta, 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.

Ostia, investigating archeological excavations recently made there. Premier Mussolini has escaped 80 many attempts upon him that he has often been said to bear a "charmed life." He still bears the scar of a bullet which pierced his nostril, MARION T. CASH DIES AT AGE OF NINETY- SIX. Special to The Journal- -Gazette. Charleston, Nov.

T. Cash, said to have been the oldest ident in Coles county, passed away at 5:45 o'clock this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Adaline 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 Rosedale cemetery. Mr.

Cash 'was born ninety-six 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: Cash, Decatur; W.

R. Cash, Indianapolis; Claude Cash, Columbus, Verne Cash, St. Petersburg, Mrs. Tena Rutherford, Oakland, and Mrs. Adaline Hendrix, Oakland.

N. E. HAWKINS DIES AT HIS HOME NEAR OAKLAND Special to The Journal -Gazette. Charleston, Nov. 112-N.

E. Hawkins 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 California. Mr. Hawkins was seventy years old.

Gas Explosion Killed of the Timms Spring Company, at persons were killed and a number of broke windows for a great distance. top some distance from the plant. WOMAN ADMITS HAVING SLAIN LITTLE CHILD Gladys May Parks Confesses at Spot Where Burial Occurred. Philadelphia, Nov. -Gladys May Parks, South Jersey's "stone" woman, crumbled today under twenty-four hours wot merciless police grilling 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. Between sobs, she told in bits, how she dug a shallow hole, 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 a admitted in slaying the girl a with a blow of 'her hand and hiding her body near National Park, N.

J. The body of the child's twenty-months-old1 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 holding her without bail for the grand jury. It was during repeated accounts of the death of the little girl that she admitted che 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 22. The girl had died on August 7. She hid the girl's body under some bushes after keeping it in her home until the neighbors began to question her regarding the pecullar odor about the building, she told the police. Six men, all 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. These men paid heavy sums after the woman told them the children were theirs, said Shaw, DRESSED HOG STOLEN.

Shelbyville, Nov. 11 Mr. and Mrs. Carl Delp, living between Windsor and Gays, butchered hog last week and placed the meat in their smokehouse. Friday morning they discovered that some thief had called in the night and had taken the meat, wrapping it evidently in some newspapers that had been conveniently near.

Five Elyria, Ohio, after the building had been others seriously injured. The explosion, The smaller picture shows some of the CAMPAIGN RIOT IN MEXICO CITY Mexico City, Nov. efforts were being made by authorities today apprehend ringleaders of an election campaign riot staged on the avenue Juarez, one of this city's principal thoroughfares, resulting in the death of three persons and serious injuries to fourteen. The clash occurred when a procession of 20,000 supporters of Jose Asconcelos were marching toward the ed by traffic at a street intersection national palace. The parade was when suddenly a hail of brick and stones descended upon the marchers from rooftops.

This was the signal for a fusillade of pistol and rifle firing, and for a few minutes thousands of men and women fought tooth and nail against political opponents. More than 500 shots were fired, but comparatively few took effect. Fears 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 Ortis Rubio. While the rioting was at its peak, supporters of Vasconcelos set fire to the headquarters of Rubio, nearby, and when the fire department arrived staunchly refused to allow the firemen to extinguish the blaze.

MASTER'S SALE Notice is hereby given that I will offer for sale in front of the National Bank of Mattoon, in the city of Mattoon, 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 in 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 of which is now under cultivation except the land upon which the improvements are located.

The 1m- provements 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 ten foot driveway; and also one hog house. All of the said improvements are in good condition and repair. This farm is located on a good ofted 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 farm is well drained and anyone who is Interested in a fine farm of 160 acres of good, black land, that is un surpassed in this county, will do well to look this place over. BERT B.

COLE, 11-12 Master in Chancery. "COCKEYED WORLD" "COCKEYED WORLD" The greatest laugh provoking picture of the season, the picture you have been waiting for is now here for three big days at the Fox Mattoon theaIter. 11-11 BRITAIN AND FRANCE HONOR THEIR WAR DEAD 11th Anniversary of Armistice Fittingly Observed. BY FREDERIC K. ABBOTT, (I.

N. S. Staff Correspondent.) Paris, Nov. 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 developed 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 countrymen in inaugurating the Armistico yesterday, An impressive ceremony is scheduled for eleven o'clock today at the tomb of France's unknown soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. Britain Does Honor.

London, Nov. a reverence and solemnity sublime in its the million Englishmen who "never simplicity, Britain, today remembered came back." At the Cenotaph, the nation's unified war memorial in London, where the Prince of Wales, in the name of the British empire and in the presence of vast crowds, paid tribute to the fallen, in cities and in country hamlets, the eleventh anniversary of the signing of the armistice was fittingly observed. Mothers and widows again proudly wore won by long-dead sons and husbands, veterans 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 I. 0.0 0. F.

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. He 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, WEATHER Chicago, Nov. 11.

-Following are the weather indications for Illinois for thir-six hours ending at seven p. m. Tuesday: Increasing cloudlness, probably rain in south portion tonight and Tuesday and in north portion Tuesday; somewhat warmer in south and central portions tonight. LOCAL WEATHER TEMPERATURE. (Temperature from 1 p.

m. Sunday to 1 p. m. today.) 3 ...,40 .57 6 ..39 6 p. ..51 9 9 p.

.47 11 11 p. ...47 p. Weather conditions at noon: Clear: east wind. Barometer reading at noon 29.95. Sun rises at 6:44 and sets tow night at 4:46, Moon sets at 12:19 a.

m. C.W KATCHMAN SUCCUMBS TO BULLET WOUND Bandits Invade Harris Home and Rob Assembled Guests. Champaign, Nov. 11. -(INS)C.

W. Katchman, brakeman of Mattoon, member of a bandit gang of four which held up sixty guests at a dance party here Saturday at midnight, died in the City Hospital today of wounds inflicted by police. NEA Champaign, 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 party, holding at bay, guests. One bandit, C. W. Katchman, I. C.

brakeman of Mattoon, was fatally, wounded when shot by Patrolman Gilbert Brown, while Harold Smith, said to be from Charleston, is in jail. The two other members of the bandit party escaped with the loot after a gun battle with police, during which shots were exchanged. Harris and a number of his guests received minor injuries in scuffles with the bandits before 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, in the first floor lounge, some 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 rooms 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 in currency" was taken by the bandits in addition to approximately, $50,000 in diamonds and other jewelry. W. K.

Leach of Boston, eral manager of the General Alloys Company of Boston, of which Harris the president, succeeded in reaching telephone. He called police headquar(Continued on page five.) Complete outfit of used furniture: good condition. Priced right to sell quickly. May be seen at N. 15th St Call for appointment, 949 11-9t O.

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