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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-25
Engineer Dies As Railroad
Holds Him Guilty for Crash

ROCKMART, Ga, Dee. 24.--(P)-
Robert Nj. Pearce, engineer, died in
hospital late today about the
same time Southern Railway Off
ciaIS announced that his failure to
take a siding had wrecked two
crack trains last night and cost 10
lives besides his own. More than
80 persons were injured, but it was
believed that most of them would
recover. A body, mangled beyond
recognition, was found in the
wreckage tonight.
Pearce, a road foreman or travelling
engineer, had relieved S. J. Keith, reg
ular engineer, at point just 12 miles
from where his train, NO. 2, the Ponce
de Leon crashed into No. 101, the
Royal Palm. The Ponce de Leon was
loaded with people coming home from
Florida for Christmas and the Royal
Palm was bound from Chicago to
Florida.
A statement issued at the chief dis
patchers office in Atlanta said that
the wreck "was apparently caused by
the engineer of No 2 overlooking the
order to take the siding at the south
end of the passing track at Rockmart
for No. 101. 1t was also stated that
Pearce and his fireman, II, r.. Moss,
who also was killed thoroughly un-
derstood the orders. Pearce was un-
conscious for half an hour before his
death, ii was said at the hospital in
Rome, where he died. Whether he ex-
planned why his train did not go on
the siding could not be learned here.
He was badly injured and in great pain
when taken to the hospitals where it
was planned to amputate his left arm
and left leg.
All of the dead had been identified
tonight. except two. One woman and
the bodies of most of the victims were
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after leaving Paris, as he did not
want to enter the train at the Paris
terminal. Yet, there are friends of
Carol who say he was seen in Mont.
martre resorts early this morning
dancing to syncopated music, bur
that Nine. Magda Lupescu, who
came with him to France from Ru-
mania and who has been his con.
stant companion was not with hll...
These friends are certain that the
prince has separated from Nine.
Lupescu and that she now is living
about mile from HIS villa. They
describe the demeanor of Carol for
the past three months as that of n
man who has seen a great light ana
that he appears DESTROYS of having
the public at large. and especially
the people of Rumania, forget the
past.
King Ferdinand, although he
agreed to the renunciation of Carol
at the time, now is anxious that he
come back to Rumania.
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> MoMEN ON JURY

CANTON, Ohio, Dec. "a R.-Pat-
rick Eugene McDermott was found
guilty early tonight of first-degree
murder for the death of Don r. Mel,
lett, Canton publisher.
The jury of ten men and two
women returned it's verdict with a
recommendation of mercy after de
liherating but one hour.
The case was, delivered into the
hands of the jury just as dusk of
Christmas eve fell over the city,
where the crusader-editor a few
months ago launched HIS attack OH
the underworld and it's alleged police
protection. From the time Mellett
was shot down i'm a fusillade of
shots discharged from ambush early
On the morning of July. l6, there
has been one predominant theory
that he was slain by the underworld,
McDermott, the state charged, wae
''the underworld's hireling picked to
do the job" When the verdict was
DiehI at 5:55 p. m. today, McDermott
appeared calm and composed, al
though the sealed envelope might
haVe dispatched him to the electric
chair.
Defense counsel announced il
would appeal the case. Frequently
throughout the trial Attorney E. l..
Mills had testimony read into the
record out of the jury's hearing for
the purpose of appealing on error if
an unsatisfactory verdict were re-
turned, and announced his intention
to appeal from the verdict tonight
Sentence was deferred by Judge
Diehl until after Christmas" All
cay long Mrs. Florence H. Mellett
widow of the publisher, and her four
children, the Oldest of whom is Il
sat in the court room. When Mills
SPOKE of Christmas and then painted
a picture of the death chamber IN
the Ohio penitentiary, Mellett wept.
Little Mary Jane, fou-, was asleep
in her lap at the time. Suddenly
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WOMAN SLAIN
BY A STR ANGER /
In IOWA Home
Husband Returns Home to
Find Wife Murdered
Strangled to Death.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Dec.

d
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Dec. "A
GA mysterious stranger was
sought tonight in an effort to solve
the death of Mrs, John Berard, Al.
wife of the Burlington railroad pas
senger agent here, whose body, with
a shirt twisted around her neck, was
found wedged between the furnace
and wall in the basement of her
home.
County authorities said the case
was one of the most puzzling which
had confronted them in years They
suicide theory nor can they discard
suspicious Of murder. AS the inves-
tigatfon progressed, however, detec-
tives said they were almost con
WINGED it was murder.
The mysterious stranger angle was
given by Robert Moore, railroad fire
man and roomer at the Berard home.
Moore said as he left about 2:50
2. m. yesterday he noticed Mrs.
Berard was in the parlor talking to
a man whom she introduced as "Mr
Williams Moore said he had never
seen "Williadns" before and did not
know the subject of conversation.
The man, Moore said, was rather
poorly dressed and appeared between
&c and 40 years old.
when Mrs. Berard introduced me
to me, I thought nothing of it and
did not stop to talk Moore told
police. -T thought he probably was
some worker in the Seventh Day
Adventist church, Of which Mrs.
Berard was an active member"
Members Of the Berard family
could shed no light on the strangers
identity.
The body was discovered by the
husband when he came home from
work at $50 yesterday afternoon.
The house was in perfect order,
Gerard said. There were no bruises
On the body. an examining physician
reported Berard advanced the theory
that an assai1ant may have come to
the house to answer a room-for r-rent
sign.
A daughter, Evelyne, 10, student
nurse, said she had found evidence
in the basement that the assailant
had attempted to stuff the body into
the furnace.
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Mrs. Coolidge Assists
In Distributing Food
And Gifts to the Poor

WASHINGTON, Dec. "a P.-
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, carrying out
her annual custom today helped
two charitable organizations dis
tribute Christmas gifts and food
to the poor of Washington.
In the morning, she personally
handed out toys and candy to
hundreds of children at the cen
traI union missions Christmas
party. fondling each child as shr
gave away the presents.
IN the afternoon she distributed
hampers OF food to 45O poor fam-
'iieS nj the salvation headIuar-
ters.
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COURT HOUSE CAN

COURT HOUSE CAN
TON, O., Dec. "a (AP)
Patrick Eugene McDermott
tonight was found guilty
Of the first degree murder
Of Don R. Mellet with
recommendation of mercy.
McDermott took the verdict calm,
ly and shook hands with defense
counsel, Homer Durand. 1t had re:
quired just one hour to reach YER
6ict. Sentence was not passed, in4
asmuch as defense counsel has three
days in which to file motion for.
appeal
Assistant Prosecutor Henry w.
Harter. who is prosecutor -elect, said
the case of Ben Rudner and Louis
Mazer. indicted jointly with McDer
mott, viii be pushed. One of the
cthcrs will go on trial early in Feo,
ruary Defense counsel did not in.
dictate its intention concerning ap-
peal.
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ROBERT MALLORY ACQUITTED OF
NUMBERING LON GUY. AFTER A
STRONG PLEA OF SELF DEFENSE.

BIsBEE of nlurde
Lon a in a bee
Mallory
couns motion dismiss the objected
of being
which the
Of his liberty.
he
court.
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OUII5I 6s5 ttIIUIIdtI CII TUT OII'T
Not all of the evening could be given
by the Coolidges and their son, John,
to singing, for three Christmas trees
awaited decoration at their hands. Ar
ranged in the blue room, they Will be
heaped about in the morning by hun
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EMPEROR YOSHIHITO.
OF JAPAN, dies; Son
'HIR 0HIT0 SUCCEEDS

TOKYO, Dec 25 (Saturday) (AP) - Yoshihito,
Japans invalid emperor, died in the early hours Of this
Christmas morning Hrohito his eldest who since
November 1921, had ruled the empire as regent inn
mediatelY became Japan's 124th emperor
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-25
M'DERM0TT is GUILTY
OF MELLETT MURDER

BOOtegger Found Guilty of Staying Canton Ohio, Pub
lisher-Takes Verdict Calmly Prosecutor Declares
Trial of Two Other Defendants Will be- Pushed by
the State-Jury Took Hour to Reach Verdict Recon-
mending Mercy.
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WHERE TIT STOPS


When the police searched the home Of promi
nent lawyer and politician and found few bottles
of whisky, the charge under the Wright law was
that of sale and manufacture" of liquor.
Under that law the possession was presumed to
be evidence that the who had it intended to
sell it.
The indictment by the grand jury of this county
followed this legal absurdty.
The circumstances leading up to the arrest we're
peculiarly illustrative of the spirit of the law.
The lawyer had hired workman who had seen
the liquor, so he testified. He did not rush from
the house to call the police and did not resent the
alleged violation until there had been quarrel.
His interest in furnishing violator of the Wright
law seemed to have been born Immediately after the
dispute.
The law is peculiarly designed for the purposes
of those who want revenge through the arrest and
humiliation of those they dislike.
The law puts a weapon into the hands of the
snooper the vindictive and the revengeful.
1t so happens that this indictment is the first
to strike at a man of power, political prestige,
wealth.
That law has been applied to those who do not
live in exclusive residential sections, whose social po-
sition is not among those of wealth.
The ruling of the judge a technical point re-
lieved the victim of the necessity of making de-
fense-and it is intimated that he had very good
Defense excuse which would appeal to the SYM
pathy of any not lost to all human feeling, that
he had saved human life, not his own.
It is unfortunate that the defense was not pre-
sented for then there would have been given to the
people of the State perfect picture of the Wright
law in action.
1t would have shown residence invaded on in
formation given by personal enemy.
1t would have shown that in order to save a hui
man life he yielded to the plea Of friendship and
that in order to do so, brought himself in contact
with that provision of the Wright law which forbds
physicians to give the whisky which they wanted in
desperate crisis.
AS long as the Wright law stands and makes
possession of any amount Of liquor in a home a
crime as long as it makes private homes public
nuisances and opens the way TO the snooper and the
personal enemy to obtain revenge, courts will go to
extreme lengths to protect sembance of private
rights.
But until that law is enforced, in all strictness
against the rich and the powerful as we'll as the
without money, until it is enforced bouevards
as well as in tenements, it will increase disrespect
law and encourage the spirit of unrest end lack
of confidence in all our institutions.
The law has found one place where it stops. 1t
is apparently unable to operate against the rich. 1t
should not operate against those who have no wealth
or position defense.
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DARE WE SAY YOUTH is
WRONG?
: By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

We call this the jazz age. Daily there goes up a
chorus of CONSERVATION the activity Of young
and long pages written about bad boys and girls
Let turn attention in the other direction
moment.
The other day Lincoln Ellsworth, who is heir to
great wealth and could if he wished speed his limou-
sine over paved highways and purchase struggled
champagne, scared the north pole with Amund-
SEN Young in years he is already seasoned explorer
and his knowledge of aerial travel is deep.
But fewer editorials have been written about Ellis
worth than penned Loeb and, Leopold
1t has become habit to strike at. the mental
innovations of youth. We deplore the changes their
brains making and the things their hands fashion.
But let us remind ourselves that modern youth is
doing something 1t has rid itself of many foolish pi-
cites and prohibitions. and is setting about fashion
for itself sensible mode of life. Youth
freely and beautifully than the bygone genera.
lions.
And dare say that youth is wrong? will
look about us we can many boy with the dreams
and ambitions which spurred Lincoln Ellsworth on
boys who ponder over science and life and who
long to make progress.
Youth these days, may not always be going in
the right direction but it is going somewhere that
is much. Out of the weller of confusion into which
we have thrown them by the betrayal Of our ideals
when we plunged world into war, there emerging
thousands of eager young and women who will
accomplish more and better things than have ever
alone Sometimes I wonder how we, who helped to
throw civilization into anarchy dare find fault with the
rising generation who obliged pick up the pieces
after have accomplished destruction. S.
The greatest marvel Of this decade is the fearless
way greets lifeandS its responsibilities
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THE REAL LESSON

Today at Arlington, across the Potomac from
Washington President Coolidge is paying his
tional tribute to the Nations dead.
Elsewhere throughout the United States Ameri-
cans will kneel in reverence beside myriad mounds
that cover the Wondering dust of men who in
offered their lives for their country.
No day in all the year should be more sacred
to us than this For while all love is divine, is
so nearly so as that which leads man to give up
his life for his kind.
But the full significance of this day would be
lost if allowed it to pass without registering a
vow, each of us, that will do what hui
manly can to make the war graves of the future as
few as possible.
There are two ways by which We as private
citizens contribute:
First can urge upon our national govern
ment that it must cooperate in every legitimate way
possible with the other contries of the earth in a
worldwide effort to prevent future
Second we give our backing to preparations
for national defense without which we not only in
vite attack but expose boys to useless slaughter
when it comes.
One of the finest things about our country is it's
sincere devotion to peace. War, beyond any doubt,
IS utterly abhorrent to the vast majority of Ameri-
cans. Yet, despite love of peace and aversion
against and our chronic unpreparedness to fight,
we have plunged into major average Of
every twenty-five years since the birth OF our
Nation.
1t is therefore, quite obvious that it was not the
possession of a great war machine that got into
var And it is equally plain that unpreparedness did
not save us from it.
What unpreparedness did do for was to swell
the number of those piful little green mounds which
today we are garlandng with flowers from sea to
sea and from the tropical jungle of Luzon to the
poppy fields of France.
There would be thousands of graves less to dec
crate today had our training been what it should.
knowledge of the rudiments of military train
ing makes militarist of one. But lack of this
experience inevitably "costs streams Of blood" and
digs long windows of soldier graves for grateful
people annually to decorate this day.
Flowers for dead soldiers and sailors by all
means, yes. But they will wither in vain and with
out meaning concentrate them with VOW that
henceforth such graves shall ever be less.
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LOT OF GRASS HERE

The 'Keith-Albee New York Hip
podrome closed for the season last
Sunday after thirty-eight record
breaking weeks. The seasons re-
ceipts reached we'll over $1,000, 900.
The total attendance for 1925-26 was
2,542,659 persons. The largest week
ly gross was $4,000, during the
seven days commencing Dec. %.
Five hundred and eighteen acts
played the immnese playhouse; 1888
new acts and artists were presented
for the first time in America, and
there were thirty one exclusive
features including Percy Granger,
Anna Case. Paul Whiteman. Ross
German and many other distinguish
ed artists of the music hall and con-
cert field. 451, $40 children registered
in Toytown and notables from
seventy-one countries outside of
North America, were entertained as
guests Of honor.
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THE
VERY IDEA!
BY Hal Cochran :
Play Safe

When yer feelin' kinda groggy
and yer pep begins ia droop. an the
path va tread is soggy. an va just
don't give a hoop, you had better
pay attention to yer system. Lissen
here, you will pardon if I mention
that there's somethin' outa gear.
1t amt natural for a fella to go
suffin' through the day. and it ain t
because he's yella, cause most men
'er not that way If, in anything
yer doin', it IS fought TO go along
Watch yer step. There's sumpthin'
brewin', an that sumpthln's frankly
wrong.
Now and then we all get lazy
Feel like loahn' as we please. but
when every outlook's hazy-well.
yer FIRTH with disease. Maybe
overwork has done It. Too much
toll and little play. When a fella's
once begun, comes tho time when
he must play.
After all. the road to travel is the
one Of go-between. Mix your work
with play-unravel brain that might
grow over-keen. Undertaking, over
doing. always at your own expense.
Breakdown is the thing that's brew
ing. Why not use good common
sense?
No one minds n person with a
mind that minds its own business.
The reason so many people never
get there is because there" is a
place they always wish they were,
no matter where they are.
A wife can usually tell a husband
where he is going 10 say he has
been-and it isn't because she knows
where he was.
We don't need TO worry, any
more, about that famous riddle,
"Why does a chicken cross the
street," because, in these days Of
autos, It doesn't.
The only way the summer IS
short Is in connection with skirts
and hosiery.
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VOTERS MUST NOT SLEEP

When the voters 60 to sleep strange things hap
pen at the polls. Popular and efficient candidates
often go down in defeat because the public had
thought everything settled.
Nothing is ever Settled" in politics and Knox
vile, Tenn, is one example The people Of Knox
vile supported the city manager plan Of government
and put in a manager who paid dividends in the form
of 10 per cent tax rebate about two years ago.
But today the manager is out, and politics rides
in the saddle again. 1t all happened because the vo
mapped the job, while the politicians didn't
The politicians forced recall election certain
councimen The voters refused to take the recall
seriously and politicians plan to weaken support for
the manager within the council succeeded.
A manager cannot work II he is fought at every
turn He must have the councils backing The
manager at Knoxville had broken lis health in
fighting the peoples battles without reward, so he
did the only thing feasible when he resigned.
When the voters doze there queer quirks at
the polls.
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TldlIIlOUu IIlONlO 4uCd 10 q
radical departure
from the old line. And yet it is a
good deal like two people playing
an entire two>hour and a half legiti-
mate play on the stage.
Harold Lloyd made himself to a
great extent by wearing rims of
glasses. Griffith hass developed the
high hat idea He will ride to
fame, in fact, has, on this idea.
The story idea Is centered about
Grifith's efforts to get wife. When.
he Is turned down by his sweetie, he
decides to marry the first woman
that he meets. This results in a lot
of shooting and an automobile acct
dent.
The general success Of this movie
will depend upon ones own appre-
citation of Griffith's individual line of
fun. He does different things and
I always get the impression that
Griffith thinks up lots of things that
the movie writer never dreams of.
"Wet Paint" has been well direct
ed although the automobile accident
scenes occupy foo much time and
space. More and different action
would have helped it, I think.
Helene Costello and Bryant Wash
burn are chief in support of the star.
Bill includes the Patricia Trio in
program and an Impetial comedy,
"a Rare Bird" At the Ohio.
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FABLES IN FACT

MOTHER WANTED TO KEEP
A BUDGET COMMA AND FATHER
DIDN'T PERIOD HENCE THERE
WAS MUCK ARGUMENT PERIOD
HOWEVER COMMA AFTER "A
FEW DAYS COMMA MOTHER
DASH DASH AS MOTHERS SOME
TIMES DO DASH DASH WON
THE ARGUMENT COMMA AND
FATHER WAS TOLD TO BUY A
BOOK THAT WOULD ANSWER
THE PURPOSE PERIOD NOW
COMMA FATHER WAS NO DUMB
BELL COMMA SO THE BOOK HE
FINALLY PURCHASED HAD
TWO WORDS PRINTED ON THE
COVER DASH DASH DASH
SCRAPBOOK PERIOD FATHER
WAS RIGHT PERIOD
Copuri0ht. 1926. NEA Seruice
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Movie Verdict

APOLLO-"The Torrent" s
a fine example of what a great
writer may write and what
brilliant case and a big direc-
tor may do.
COLONIAL Wages for
Wives" is light, chummy do
nestle entertainment. The wom-
en- will love 1t.
CIRCLE-Richard Barthel-
mess is not we'll cast in Ran
sons Folly" The screen YER
sion is faulty.
OHIO - Raymond Griffith
again gives an example of the
movie monologue in wet
Paint"
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/ Red Hot Love Making Is Done by Carlo
and Cortez in Ibanez's The Torrent

gusted with the way her father
treated her mother in money matters
that she decided to call wife strike
of herself, her mother and another
young married woman.
The husbands fatty refused to
turn over said one half of their pay.
The three wives vanish to the
country and the three husbands de-
eide to play poker in the front room,
do their own cooking and throw
cigar butts anyplace they want to.
i works for awhile until the
kitchen sink runs over with dirty
dishes. And the beds are never made
and the three houses look like a
British strike was on.
And the wives-they thought they
were going to be gay. They had
mourning on from the time they
landed in the country. So before
long the wives are ready to return
without no salary at all and the
men are ready to give EN- every red
cent.
And so the foolish wives come
trooping home and the more foolish
husbands take 'em back. All is so
happy, mushy and sweet.
All this happens in Wages for
Wives" built in defense Of wives
who want part Of the pay check.
The wives are played by Jacque.
line Logan, Margaret Livingston and
Zasu Pitts. The husbands by Creigh-
ton Hale, Earle Foxe and Claude
Gillingwater. I think I am right on
who are the husbands. Mighty good
cast with Gillingwater and Miss
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warm love SceIleS
in to h S n e w
story, THE Tor
rent" These love
scenes are really
a part of the
story because it
is chiefly con-
cerned with the
theme Of how
cold hot love may
become when it
does get cold. If
/ am not wrong,
G re t a G. ar b o,
S W e dis h star,
makes her debut
in an American
made movie in
1.-The Torrent" a
Metro Goldwyn-
NJ a y er picture
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Raymond Griffith, the high hat
comedian, is developing his own
brand of comedy.
lie is developing what I call the
monologue movie. meaning that he
generally does his big scnees by him
self or another person.
This he does in wet Paint" his
latest Paramount comedy. In addi-
ton to this he uses a black and
xr-t,ff.~ oefoos
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By Walter d. Hickman.

Red hot love-making is INDUCED
in by Ricardo Cortez and Greta Gar
DO, Swedish movie star, in THE Tor
rent"
Vicente 1banez, Spanish author,
certainly knows his Spain and how
the men and women of his country
act when they are in love.
And it is not surprising that this
author has written several pretty