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The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
GENERAL.

Loeb-Leopold trial ends in Chicago,
and verdict will be announced on Sep
TENDER 10.
Nations will be forced into birth
control policy, Professor Fairchild
tells institute at Williamstown, Mass.
Judge Caverly, while presiding.
sternly rebukes remarks made by
Prosecutor Grove os Franks murder
case closes in Chicago.
An attempt to organize mothers
club at the University of Pittsburgh
has failed because there are not
enough mothers among the 300 women
connected with the institution by mar
riage to become members.
Mail truck fire destroy 100000 in
cash and gems in New York.
Transmission of colored pictures
over telephone wires made possible.
World partnership between Amer
lea and Russia predicted at Politics
Institute.
William F. Fahy, post office inspect
or, who often has been described as
the best-known and shrewdest detec-
tive in the government service, was
arrested in Chicago by Earl Carr,
United States deputy marshal, on
charges of being the leader of the
$4,000 900 mail robbery at Rondout
ILL.,, on the night of June - last.
Chicago musicians became the high
est paid in the country under con-
tract with theatrical managers. The
new minimum scale is $72.50 and the
maximum $3.50, increases of from
seven and one-half to ten per cent
over the old scale.
On the peak of Mount Gellon, Colo
RADIO, from which he could obtain a
clear view of the peak discovered by
his former forebear and namesake,
Zebulon Montgomery Pike, declared
to be a nephew of the explorer, com
mitted suicide by blowing himself to
pieces by exploding stick of dyna-
mite.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

CHlcAGo.-state's Attorney Grove
pleads for death penalty for Loeb and
Leopold.
carbohydrates of Westmn-
ster sues duke to prevent eviction
from London home.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-Absecon
inlet, gateway for rum runners near
here, must be bottled up, coast guards
were notified.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in Great
Britain has been steadily growing
worse during the past few weeks and
last week the total unemployed was
estimated at 1,123,00O, an increase of
10000 over the previous weeks total.
LONDONDERRY million, not s,ooo,-
600, Russians in the district affected
by drought are now threatened with
famine.
PARASITIC adoption of the Dawes
plan, with the consequent Inaugural
ton of the F'ranco-BeIgian economic
evacuation of the Ruhr and Rhineland
railways to the Germans, will affect
109,876 civilian workers.
PARIS. - France is doomed in so
years as a first class power if she
leaves the Ruhr, in the opinion Of DR..
Charles W. MacFarlane of PhiladeI-
phia, formerly vice president of the
American Economic Association.
DALLAs.-Two armed unmasked
bandits entered the First National
Bank at Mesquite, forced President
Charles Tosh into the vaults and es-
capped with $4,000 in cash.
PARASITIC chamber of deputies
ratified the Lausanne treaty after a
fourteen hour debate. The vote was
410 to III.
CNDoN.-With the exception of a
few bars the entire 100000 pounds
sterling of gold bullion has been re.
covered from the sunken wreck of ths
liner Laurentic, which was torpedoed
by German submarine in world war
time.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
WOMAN EXPOSES IS
MILLION GEM ROBBERY
Husband and Friend Also Confess
When She Names Them and
Jewel Dealer in HoId-up Here.

New York.-The arrest of four per-
spiracy in connection with the rob-
berry of Alexander Feldenheimer, dia-
mond dealer Of ITO Broadway, by two
bandits, who escaped with unset gems
worth s75,0 900, followed by confessions
of three prisoners, inspired a police
declaration that evidence has been
obtained likely to lead to arrest Of a
director of criminal operations involv-
ing millions Of dollars annually.
James ]. Burns, twenty-five years
old, chauffeur. living at 335 East
Eighty-second street; his wife, Dot
Kelley, burlesque actress, and Har-
ry Chance, former dry goods sales
man, were taken into custody while
at dinner in a restaurant operated by
Mrs. Burns father at the above adj
dress. Later Max Violin, a Nassau
street diamond dealer, who was with
Feldenheimer in his store when the
robbers entered, was locked up in a
cell at police headquarters after the
three others had implicated him.
Mrs. Burns, after several hours Of
questioning by detectives at Old Slip
station, broke down and handed over
to them $4,750 which she carried in a
small handbag. The money, she ex-
planned, was all that remains of $4,000
paid by fence" on the proceeds of
the robbery. Mrs. Burns then made a
confession, duplicating Burns and
Chance, the detectives said.
Evidence pointing to the existence
OF thoroughly organized and ably
directed band Of jewel robbers, whose
ramification extend from coast to
coast with connections in the princi-
pal cities of Europe, is said to be in
possession of detectives employed by
Lloyd's agency. Millions have been
paid in insurance on stolen gems with
in the last two years, and, as result.
jewelry insurance has been raised to
almost prohibitive figures.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
WORLDS BUSINESS

Increase in steel orders indicated
by estimates.
Active employees on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad system August 15 to-
tailed $685. SOC, compared with 2070S9
July is, a decrease of $50. One year
ago employees numbered 248,5S8.
Former Federal Judge julius M.
Mayer, Robert C. Morrell, an attorney,
and Thomas E. Wilson, president Of
Wilson & Co., are appointed receivers
of Wilson & Co., in equity proceedings
based on a creditors bill.
The refund of Is per cent to those
who paid in full their income taxes
for the calendar year 1923 is being
made, according to David H. Blair,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, as
rapidly as the checks can be mailed.
The total yield of canning house to-
matoes this summer will be only so
per cent of last years crop. it is be-
lieved by DR.. T. B. Symons, director
of extension of the University Of
Maryland.
Directors of the Erie railroad ap-
proved the offer of thu Van Sweringen
interests of Cleveland to consolidate
the road with four others into their
nickel Plate" system.
Reports from northern and central
California, in which 95 per cent of the
California grape crop is produced, in
dictate that nearly all varieties are
maturing from ten days to two weeks
in advance.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04

'Margery" spirit tests to be con
tinued by Scientific American.
Breeding of smaller men urged to
offset peril of world oyerpopulation.
General Pershing to be honored at
Town Hall, New York, on retirement
La Toilette Wheeler ticket Endorsed
by New York State Federation Of
Labor.
immigration Commissioner ordered
to investigate Firpo at request of the
Rev. w. S. Chase.
Senator Couzens, who recently came
out for Coolidge, announces indefinite
delay in Mellon inquiry
Governor Bryan of Nebraska de
nounces War Departments "militaris
tic program" for Defense Day.
Governor Smith definitely refuses
to run for reelection.
Lieut., William Manning, U. S. N,
veteran of wooden navy" dies in
New York at eighty.
Whaling bark Wanderer, last sur
vivor of New Bedford's famous fleet
of square riggers, is wrecked on Mas
sachusetts coast.
Two prisoners were killed and
fifteen others were seriously injured
in the explosion of a large quantity
of confscated liquor in West Side
precinct police station at Detroit.
Senator Wheeler, Vice Presidential
candidate on La Toilette independent
ticket, is forced to cancel many East
ern-speaking engagements because OF
prospect of early trial in Montana
of misuse of Office.
Dawes and Coolidge hold two hours
conference at Plymouth.
Butler names strategy board for Re-
publican campaign.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
LATEST EVENTS
AT WASHINGTON

Coast Guards notified that Abracon In
let must be closed.
Sale of Hoboken Shore railroad prop
erty held up by order of President
Coolidge.
Liberia will not permit American coll
ored folk to colonize Africa and res
tabIish an empire under Mara S
Garvey, the Liberan government
notified the state department.
This government is expected to ac-
cept an invitation received from the
league of nations to send an official
representative to the proposed spe-
ciaI league convention on control of
traffic in arms.
The federal trade commission is stiIl
awaiting word from the United
States Steel Corporation regarding
compliance with the commissions
Pittsburgh plus order.
The Rock Island railroad Is seekino
authority from the Interstate Co n
merce Commission to purchase 1853
miles Of railroad in Iowa and to Isl
sue 100000 worth of notes.
The light cruiser Trenton, which will
bring home the body of Vice Consul
Robert Imbrie, recently killed by
Persian fanatics in Teheran, has ar
rived at Bushire, Persia, the navy
department announced.
Administration achievements in for
egn affairs stressed in Republican
campaign textbook.
Inspection of all United States vet
erans' bureau hospitals throughout
the country will be made this fall
by the house committee on world
war veterans legislation, according
to Chairman Royal Johnson Is. d..
The National Merchant Marine asso-
citation has voiced a complaint
against all the presidential candI-
dates for their failure to give
proper attention to the question of
the condition of the American mer.
chant marine.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
Bio Stories and Minor Events
Blue PenciIed Into Quickly
Read Paragraphs.
DoINGS AT NATIONS CAPITAL
Happenings That Caused Stir Briefly
Bulletins About the
Progress of Things In General
Throughout the World.
WASHINGTON

President Coolidge appoints Edgar
Addison Bancroft, of Chicago, Am
bassador to Japan, and James Rock
we'll Sheffield, of New York, Ambas-
sador to Mexico.
Elevation of the American Min
lister in China to the rank of Ambas-
sador, as a way out of the delicate
situation in Pekin where Russian Am
bassador Karakhan, as ranking for
eign envoy, becomes dean OF the
diplomatic corps, is not contemplated.
The national board of farm organi-
cations and the national cooperative
milk producers federation in letter
to President Coolidge urge opposition
to any reduction in duty on sugar.
Barred at Seattle from entering the
United States, Princess Emilia Brown
slava Islander, wife of Prince RizA
Kuli Miraba Islander, son of former
Persian shah, will be deported to ia
pan. where she must wait for next
years quota of Poland before being
admitted.
More than a quarter of million
dollars of Government money has
been saved in the administration OF
the bonus law, Director of the Budget
Lord informed Secretary Weeks.
Naval officers on duty near Green
land have been congratulated by the
Air Service Department and Italian
Legation officials at Washington on
the finding of Lieutenant Locatelli.
Italian flyer
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
ERIE DIRECTORS
ACCEPT MERCER
Vote to Consolidate System I'M
der Van Sweringen Proposal;
Other Roads to Follow.

New York.-Directors OF the Erie
Railroad Company approved the offer
of the Van Sweringen interests OF
Cleveland to consolidate the road with
four others into their proposed $1,500.-
100000 Nickel Plate" system.
"The action of the Erie Railroad
practically completes the merger
plans of the Van Sweringen interests.
which will result in unification of all
most $4,000 miles of railways in the
Eastern section of the country.
Directors of the present Nickel
Plate system have already approved
the merger, as have the Chesapeake
and Ohio and Hooking Valley systems.
The sole remaining undecided road is
the Pere Marquette. but it's directors
are said to be favorably inclined and
the Van Sweringen brothers also are
said to control large proportion OF
it's stock"
The Erie directors in approving the
Van Sweringen's offer followed the
recommendations Of the executive
committee, which reached an agree
ment last week after slight revisions
had been made in the plan. In an
official statement issued after the
meeting, President Frederick D. I'M
derwood said:
''The board will recommend to the
Erie stockholders that they accept the
proposal by Messrs. P. P. and M. ].
Van Sweringen therefor, and deposit
heir stock under the deposit agree
ment annexed to such proposal and
give to the committee provided for
the proxies therein requested"
Terms outlined by the Van Swer-
ingen brothers to the Erie board pro-
vided that holders of Erie first and
second preferred shares would receive
so per cent of their holdings in pre-
ferred stock of the new company.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
FEMALE "LANDRu" ARRESTED

Widow Charged With Staying Three
Husbands to Get Their Money.
Berlin.-Germany has female Lam
dru in the person of Marie Kruger, a
widow from provincial town near
Berlin, who has been arrested on
charges of marrying and numbering
three men in succession to obtain
their property.
Frau Kruger had becc me an 4ttrac-
tive matrimonial prize through the
wealth acquired from her three hus-
bands.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
LOCK BANK AGAINST BANDITS

Customers in MilIstadt, ILL.,, Must Rap
for Entrance.
Millstadt, Ill.-In an effort to pre-
vent possible holdup, officials of the
Bank of Millstadt here have taken I'M
usual precautions, inaugurating a
safety before business" policy.
Persons having business in the
bank are required to rap for admit
lance. After the cashier satisfies him
self as to the identity of patron, he
is permitted to enter, string releas-
ing latch being pulled.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
MEXICO BUYS $4,000 RIFLES

Obregon Also Orders Several Million
Rounds of Ammunition Her
Mexico president Obregon,
through the Minister of War, has or
dered the purchase of $4,000 rifles
from an American company with sew
eral million rounds of ammunition.
The Mexican army at present has
about $4,000 rifles in good shape.
These rifles were purchased in the
United States. With the new pur-
chase, the Mexican army will be COM
posed of $4,000 men fully equipped
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04

Washington.-Imm inspec-
tors from the Department of Labor
will meet the new navy dirigible
ZR-3 on her arrival from Germany to
inspect the German crew, just as 9TH
er ships crews are inspected.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04
HTS DRueLEss DRUG STORE

Speaker Tells Pharmacists Assocla-
ton They Are Menace.
Buffalo. N. Y. = 'Drugless drug
stores are menace to the profession
of pharmacy" President Frank E.
Mortenson Of the National Associa-
ton of Boards Of Pharmacy, declared
in opening the seyenty-second conven-
ton of the American Pharmaceutical
Association.
II there is such thing as a drug.
less drug store it must be put out,
President Mortenson said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-25
BOY AVENGED I YEARS
AFTER PAL BLINDED HIM

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-The story
of q twelve-year.cld boy who waited
seven years to wreck his revenge
on another boy, thirteen years old,
for binding him in one eye by
shooting him with an air rifle was
told in Children's Court when
Charles Butingara was arraigned
on a charge of juvenile delinquency
for the stabbing Of Leo Pope.
The Butfngara youth said that
when he was five years old the
other boy shot him in the eye, and
that thereafter the Pope boy en-.
couraged other boys in the neigh.
borhood to call him ''cockeyes."
Recently Butingara stabbed Pope
with penknife.
There. Your Honor. that is
what he did to me-" said the youth.
full prisoner to Justice Hoyt, show.
ing his glass eye. A further in
vestigation OF the case was ordered
by Justice Hoyt. Pope. who was
stabbed in the back, said he did
not remember shooting the other
boy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-25
.HERALDIC SIGNS
Of DISPUTED
ORIGIN
: Annoy Science Acquires
Distinctive ii Early
18th Century

The collecting Of bo0k-pIates, which
has become quite tad Of late
among boolish people and connoia.
seurs. suggests heraldry which, in
many cases Is used IN the ex Mbris
designs.
To those who have given attention
to the study OF ancient heraldry.
few things are more surprising than
the imperfect understanding Of III
true principles displayed IN their
works by SO many artists and
craftsmen OF every degree. Year
after year, in the architecture and
decoration Of churches and public
buildings, on monuments, on plate,
Jewelry, ornaments Of all kinds.
book plates, the attempt to introduce
armorial accessories, even by some
Of the best known artists, Is almost
always q failure.
It Is only fair to say that the
fault appears to be not altogether
that OF the artist or craftsman, but
should rather be ascribed to the
disregard Of the principles and the
usages OF true armory that pervades
50 much Of the printed literature
e which one naturally turns for In
formation.
40 eAtS OC6AAAAAAAA6 H6EdlQEY WAS
l much the same In most European
countries, but in the course Of fine
foreign arn0ry became complicated
by needless subdivisions and new
methods Of expression and combina-
ton.
Heraldry, or armory as It was
lanciently called; is symbolical and
pictorial language of uncertain and
disputed origin, which, by the be.
ginning Of the thirteenth century
had already been reduced to d
science with a system, classif ication
and nomenclature Of its own. The
artistic devices known as arms.
which may be formed by proper
combinations Of the c0lors, Orii-
naries and figures that represent the
letters Of this language, each had
Its significance, and soon came to
be regarded as the hereditary Dos
session of some person, family, dig.
nifty. or office.
The display OF arms was restricted
primarily to shields and banners,
4 and occasionally to horse-trappings
and such garments as jupes, gowns
and nantes. Later on, heraldry
came also to be used ornamentally.
often upon shields, in all sorts of
ways; in architecture and on monu-
ments, on tiles and In glazing, in
wood-earvings and paintings, in
woven stuffs and embroideries, in
jewelry and on seals.
The colors used in heraldry are
/ red. bue, green, purple and black,
or to give them their old names
guies. azure, purpure and sable;
combined with the yellow Of gold
and the Wilderness Of silver. Orange
was never used. probably on account
iof the difficulty Of finding e stable
pigment. II. was soon found that
for brilliancy Of effect, the use Of
gold or silver with q color was pre-
ferable to that of color with color
or metal with metal More about
heraldry later on.
THE CONNOISSETTR
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-25
/ DEAD, 36 HURT
IN THEATER
PANIC
Small Blaze Causes Hysteria
In Kentucky Playhouse.
Victims Are Crushed

NEW CASTLE, KY, Oct. 25.-
The shadow OF death fingers over
three Of the thirty.six persons
crushed in a panic when terrified
spectator cried ''Firer' in the New
Castle Theater. The .1laze, which
at no. time endangered the safety CT
the patrons, cost the life of ten
year-old girl and resulted in in.
Juries to thirty-five other persons,
three OF whom are in serious con.
dition.
Only a few Of the frantic spec.
tators thought to use a second exit
in the building. The main exit was
quickly choked. Some Of the per-
sons leaped from the stairway upon
the heads of those struggling below,
and at one time men, women, and
children were piled ten deep in the
passageway, It was reported.
A capacity house OF 250 packed
the, building. The blaze was con.
fined to a small projection room.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-25
TOKYO THEATiER
REBII|L | FINER
THAN EVER
commemoration Performance
Tonight Zimbalist Billed
to Appear Soon

TOKYO. Oct. .5.- More imposing,
more artistic, more modern than Il
was before, the Imperial Theater 10
emerging from the blackcned shell
which marked the trail OF the earth.
quake and fire of last year.
Today the lofty ceiling OF the
new structure Is echoing the inces-
SAINT rap-rap-rap of small army
Of carpenters; the auditorium, 80 Of
ten filled with the brightest and
gayest people Of the nations capi-
tai before the great disaster, Ii
filled with scurrying artisans.
The commemoration perform.
ance, for which Mel Lang-Fan, The
best actor In China, and nis troupe
have been secured, has been ar
ranged for tonight, when the IA
NOUS actor. who pIays only PEND.
nine roles, viii present THE Angel
Scattering Flowers" Mel Lang
Fan and his company will continue
at the theater until November 4.
He will be followed by the regu.
lar November plays, and these bv
Zimbalist, in December. The
vioIinist Is to include In his pro-
gram the Improvisation JAPANESE
Tune" dedicated to Prince Kuni.
Jr. Various attractions will con.
tinue through the winter until
March, when an Italian grand opera
company from Milan will appea :
for twelve days. In. May there
viii be series of concerts BY
Mary Garden, Of the Chicago grand
opera company.
A number Of changes have been
made in the theater by Professor
T. Yokogawa, who designed and
built the original theater end who
has had charge Of the rebuilding.
The auditorium Is no longer re-
splendent IN gilt, but is finished in
| oak panels instead; more Quieg.
more notwithstanding, perhaps, to
nave matured after the catastrophe
through which 1t passed. Striped
plush, In somber tones, uphoIstars
the seats, and the aisles are COW
cred with heavy carpets, which
muffle FOOTBALLS.
Only the two imperial boxes s.
one on each side OF the prosceniur1
arch and elevated to the level Of
the balcony remain OF the former
row OF boxes which lined the mez.
canine floor. ~
A new feature IS the spacious
garden on the front roof of the
building Decorated with trees ana
plants and lighted with numerous
artistic lanterns, 1t will accommo.
date those Of the audience who
wish to seek the open air and re-.
freshments between acts, A splen.
did birdSeye view OF the palace
grounds across the moat may be
had here.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-25
SOCIETY MATRoN is
HELD AS SHOPLlFTER

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Mrs. Jean
B. Cooke, member Of the JUNO.
League Of Stamford, Conn.,, was
convicted as q shoplifter In Special
Sessions.
Eta Kerwin, investigator for the
Stores Mutual Protective Associa
ton, who arrested Mrs. Cooke, ties
titled that she saw her take two
dresses from a rack in Macyis
store on June a.
After her arrest, said Miss Ker.
win, Mrs. Cooke told her that she
had to steal to support her first hub
band, whom she divorced in Nevada
five years ago. Mrs. Cooke denied
this. A score Of persons from STAN
ford were in court eager to testify
in her behalf. Only six of them
were called.
Sentence will be imposed on Mrs.
Cooke on Thursday. Her bail Of
$500 was continued.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-25
SAL US
MEX REVOLT
IS NEAR
Former San Luis Potosi Cow
ernor Predicts Angel Flores
Will Direct II

HOUSTON. Texas. Oct. 25.-
Jorge Prieto Laurens, former Gov.
ernor Of San Luis PotosI. who fled
here upon failure Of the de Ia
Huerta revolt. in which he took
z leading part, has said q new
revolt, backed by powerful agen.
cies and led by General Angel
Flores of Sonora. unsuccessful can,
didate for President against Plu-
tarco Elias Gales, was ready to
flame into life in Mexico and al,
ready was under way in Sonora
and Sinaloa.
Plans for the new revolution
were put under way shortly after
the collapse Of the de la Huerta
movement, he said. Oil and min.
ing operators in Mexico had con.
tributed large sums Of money, he
declared, and large shipments Of
arms, ammunition and airplanes
had been sent to Maratlan from
San Francisco.