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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02

.MISTRIAL MOVE
IN HALL-MILLS
TRIAL is DENIED

SOMERVILLE,N J., Dec. 1 Up
The states failure to have mis-
trial declared today in the Hall
Mills case allowed the trial to prog
ress to the speech making stage.
The first of series of extended
summing up speeches was begun this
afternoon with indications tonight
that the case would be given to the
jury Friday. All of tomorrow and a
portion of the next day are expected
to BE occupied with addresses to the
jury.
The application for a mistrial was
denied by the court without COM
ment.
Only part of the first speech was
delivered today, Robert H. McCar-
ter opening for the defense, hold
ing the floor at the close Of the
court day when he had spoken for
two hours and fifteen minutes. He
will speak probably for another hour
tomorrow, and will be followed by
Clarence E. Case, to continue the de-
fense summing up.
Special Prosecutor Simpson said to-
night that in the event of an ac-
quittal, he would ask for an i'm
aediate trial of the three defend
ants on a charge of numbering Mr.
Hall. He did not say what the state
expects to do about the case of
Henry De La Bruyere Carpenter also
under indictment on the charges his
cousins face
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
DECEMBER AND
WINTER GREE 7
MIDDLE WEST

CHICAGO. Dec. R.-December
and real winter weather arrived si-
multaneously in the midcfe ives
today. Old man winter, three weeks
ahead of the time set for his officiai
debut, sped eastward tonight with
prospects that by tomorrow the most
severe cold of the season will extend
from the upper Mississippi valley
tc the Atlantic seaDoard.
Temperatures tonight in the mid
ole west were expected 20 mover
from zero to around Is apove. a
little relief was promised by Thurs
day evening, when winds were ex-
pected to shift to northeast.
Today the front of the cold wave
advanced southwark into the middle
west and eastward over the upper
great lakes region with zero tenn
reratures extending through south
crn Minnesota, while even lower.
readings prevailed west of the
Rockies.
In Iowa a drop of nearly SO de-
grees in temperature was recorded,
since yesterday, when the mercury
stood around 60, and the entire
northwest fought the coldest wave
of the season, which was marked
principally by the presence of high
winds and sudden drops in tempera-
ture within a few hours. Crookston.
Mimi, reported &c degrees below
zero.
Reaction from in the wintry blasts
is expected TO be evidenced tonight,
appearing first in the extreme upper
Mississippi valley and gradually
spreading eastward.
Lake vessels were cautioned to re-
main in port because of the gale
ever the Great Lakes region. The
first fatality due TO the cold was re-
ported here today when poorly
dressed labore2 was found dead be-
SIDE the tracks of the railroad by
Which he was employed. Death was
attributed to exposure.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
POSSE WILL SEEK FOR
BODY OF WISCONSIN
GIRL BELIEVED SLAIN

PRAIRIE DUCHIEN, Wis. Dec. /
P).-An organized posse recruited
from the ranks Of farmers, business
men and former service men 5f this
city and surrounding country awaited
tonight for the dawn of Thursday.
when they will start an intensive.
search throughout the Kicakapoc
valley for Clara Olson, % years ole
missing girl.
Under the leadership of Sheriff
Harry Sherwood, of Prairie Du Chem
they will search the wild country of
southwestern Wisconsin, in the theory
that the girl is dead. Sheriff Sher-
wood said tonight that the posse was
organized and would start at z
O'clock from Stony Point, a mile and
half from the home of Chris olson
father of the missing girl.
The day brought no new clews as
to the whereabouts of the girl or
E,rdman Olson, 1S-year-old Gale coll
lege student, Sheriff Sherwood told
The Associated Press. The youth is
sought on murder warrant OBJ
tanned by the father of the girl,
who complained that his daughter
was slain on September 10 in Craw
ford county,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
RECORD STOCK
FOR
OF YEAR

NEW YORK, Dec. 1 H.-Goiden har-
hingers of rich Christmas In the
United States were the distributor
today OF December dividend cheeks
and interest Payments of nearly -four
hundred million dollars. This yellow
stream will be further swollen when
record breaking payments are made
of interest and dividends on January
l. Half a billion dollars may be
the measure OF the January dlsDurse
ments that will go to the security
holders of the nation, now said to
number 100000. Wall street an
ticipates that around a billion dollars
will be paid out within the next 80
days, for there are also large pay.
ments to be made on December Is,
as well as January 1. Over 200
corporations made payments today
an increase of about so compared
with last year.
Bankers were unable to estimate
today what proportion of this in
terest and dividend disbursement
would go for Christmas buying. 1t
WOu1u run lIIO HltlHy HlllllOHS, IL
was said. Reinvestment demand
would take large part, while the
remainder would go for living ex-
penses.
One of the heaviest payments to-
day was that of the Pennsylvania
railroad, which distributed to more
than 13S,000 stockholders checks ag-
gregating $S,655,OOO Another Iarg%.
distribution in few days will be
that of the Standard Oil company of
Kew Jersey, which has 10000, 900
shares outstanding. John D. Rookie
feller, Jr, will cut heavy slice OF
this coming Standard melon.
Some dividend checks run inco
small amounts. Recently the jade
Gil company declared a dividend OF
one half a cent Share, which has a
par value of 81.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
TESTIMONY GIVEN In
LANE MURDER TRIAL;
STATEMENT ADMITTED

PHOENIX, Dec. 1.-Dr. John Frank
lin Reed, Phoenix jeweler and optician,
asked D. G. Lane, on trial for first de-
gree murder in connection with Reeds
death last July, to forgive me for
what I've done,' Otis Cogdill, gas COM
pany employe, testified today.
The reference was to the charge
made by Lane against the doctor as
the latter lay on the floor of the auto
mobile camp occupied by Lane, riddled
with bullets from Lanes revolver, that
Reed had broken up Lanes home
through alleged intimacies with Mrs.
Lane
Eight witnesses were examined by
the state today, several exhibits were
placed in evidence and what were rep
resented to be two. dying declarations
made by Reed were read to the jury.
One of these, given by Reed to DR..
Charles S. Vivian, who attended him
following the shootinG on Vivian's
statement, was the subject of bitter
fight between counsel for the state
and the defense.
The statement was read into the rec
ord yesterday in the absence of ,the
jury, and this morning Superior Judge
NJ. T. Phelps ruled that it could be
read to the jury. The defense objected
to the admission of the declaration on
the grounds that DR.. Reed, almost i'm
mediately after having made the state
ment to DIR. Vivian at the hospital to
which he was taken following the
shooting told Harry S. Johnson, deputy
coun v attorney, and Ed Powers court
reporter, that he believed he would
pull through. Judge Phelps said he
| considered it dying declaration.
! Dan Jones, police officer, testified
! that he entered the Lane cottage fol-
lowing the shooting, and as he walked
from the house to summon an ambu-
| lance, met Lane at the door. The lat
F, ter, Jones said, handed him gun and
said, I'm the man who did this"
! On cross examination, Jones said he
observed blood spots in the middle of
! the room, but did not notice any in
other rooms or on the walls of the
room in which Reed was lying. Lane,
} he testified seemed calm throughout.
! HI G. Appling, merchant patrolman,
! testified that Reed told him he had
gone to the cottage in response to a
telephone call from Mrs. Lane, who
stated she was in trouble. Lane, he
continued, entered the hoom, accused
Reed of breaking up his home and
began to fire. Reed told him. The
state contends that Reed was lured to
the Lane cottage by a telephone call
trapped and shot by Lane, whose wife
formerly worked in Reeds store.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
Near SO Motorists Are
Arrested for Parking
" In Closed Street Area

Nearly so motorists were ar
rested Wednesday, by local police
officers for disregnrding the signs
placed to keep sections of G ave-
nue clear of cars while the work
of street painting was in prog
reSS.
Despite the fact that large
street closed" signs were placed
at the end of each block i'm which
the painting WINS in progress,
many motorists parked I'm the re-
stricted zones and are said Ia
have interfered with the work of
repaiRting the street parking lines.
Three motorists were arrested
for parking Immediately alongside
the 'nO parIxihg'' signs placed by
the Officers to all the nniniterx In
their work
warning was issued nt pOllce
headquarters Wednesday night
that while the painting Is In
nr0"Iess the blockade signs must
be repectected and that NIL Nio-
IatOrs will be arrested and fine0.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
SNOW ENTRAPS
AUTOISTS UPON
MOUNTAIN. PASS

TONOPAH, New, Dec. 1 N9.-Res-
cued from the fate which befeH the
bonner party in the winter of 1876.
1S47, man, women and children pas
sengers of II automobiles trapped in
snowdrifts in Montgomery pass In
the Sierra mountains between here
and southern California, were recov-
ering today from frost bite and hun
ger. Heroic measures of the old west
were resorted to in effecting the res
cue, but the telephone, unknown
when the Donner party was trapped,
was used to summon the rescuers.
OF the SO in the Donner party, AZ
perished in the deserts of Utah and
Nevada and the mountains of Cali
fornia.
Montgomery pass was sought py
the tourists because the Sierra pass,
above Trucllee, 200 miles to the
north, was blocked for the winter.
Huge drifts of snow trapped their
automobiles and the tourists set
about fighting off the cold and star
walton as best they could until help
SuOuIO COlHS.
Their plight was made known
throughout the mountain region BY
telephone.
Soon Dan Haskin, veteran stag.
driver, was on the way from Tonopai.
with four horses and an automobile
stage. He was accompanied by Bill
harrington, old time musher They
virtually dug their way to the sum-
nit of the pass, the snow blotting
out their tracks as they Tough
through the drifts.
They found the refugees bluI
from cold and suffering from two
day fast. The cars were pulled out
cne by one and sent along fairly
clear road TO the little resort of
Renton. where the tourists were
given aid.
The automoDillsts, journeying across
the desert lying east of the Sierra
Nevada range, We're caught in a sud
den storm that sw:rled snow upon
them and blotted out their view OF
the lofty peaks to the westward.
Similarly the wintry blasts of 1916
descended upon the Argonauts of the
bonner party making their way by
OK teams from Missouri across the
desert and countain to settle in Cali
fornia before gold was discovered.
These pioneers were caught October
% by a series of snowstorms at the
eastern base of the Sierra pass neal
which the railroad runs today, west
Of Trucllee, Calf.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
INDIANS STILL.
RICHEST RACE;
NOT VANISHING.

OAKLAND, Calf, Dec. / P).-The
idea that the American Indian is
vanishing race" or that the rec
men has degenerated into shadow
of his once picturesque g:ory is
wrong. He not only is increasing IN
numbers but he has more wealth,
per capita, than any other group,
race or tribe in the world bar none.
These statements We're made to e
meeting of the Oakland forum her.
today by Edgar b. Merritt, assistant
United States Indian commissioners.
The address was the most part =
denial Of criticisms o. the Govern>
ment's Indian service by Congress,
man James A, Frear, of Wisconsin.
THE truth of the matter is that
the Indians in the last 25 years have
been steadily Increasing IN popuia,
tion and are no longer a vanishing
race" Merritt said. For example,
in 1900 there were 270,544 Indians
in the United States, and TO-DAY VIZ
have 359,S76. The Indians are IN
ereasing in population at the rart
CT 1900 per annam, which is the re-
suit of the work of the Indian lureal
along educational and health lines
While thousands of Indians are pe,
ing released from the jurisdiction OF
the interior department and granter
complete freedom of action, tnt
greater percentage of them dlspos,
Of their land and other securities
and have fallen back on the depart
nlent for aid, Merritt said.
--latest reports show that the IN,
Gians own livestock and poultry
valued at approximately $3O,OOO,OO
Their livestock consists of OO,O0t
korses, 10000 head of cattle ana
e67 900 sheep.
Indian timber is valued at $780,,
coo, 10000. There were produced on
Indian reservations last year qi,907,
G21 barrels of oil and the Indians
received us royalties therefrom $12,-
711,296.
"The per capita wealth OF the
American Indian is nearly twice as
great as the per capita wealth OF
the other citizens of this country,
and is much greater than the per
capita wealth of any other people
in the world today. For example,
the per capita wealth of the coun-
tries involved IN the World war was
approximately $500. The per capita
wealth of the people of the United
States is less than $4,000. The per
capita wealth of the American Indian
is approximately $4700.'
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
FERGUSON AND VETS
WIN In THE ONTARIO
ELECTION WEDNESDAY

TORONTO, Ont, Dec. 1 R.-Pre-
nier G. Howard Ferguson's appeal to
the country on Il policy or liquor
sales by permit mas met with popu-
lar support in the elections for mem
bers of the Ontario legislature. F1naA
returns are likely to show that his
government has been returned with
a following equal to or more than
that accorded him in 1928, when the
conservatives came back with 76
seats as compared with 35 held by
all the opposition groups combined.
BY the enactment of q redistribu-
tion measure since the last election
one seat has been added and the
urban constituencies given a larger
representation.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
WELL ON WAY SOUTH :

MOBILE Ala, Dec. 1 (P.-A radio
message picked up tonight from the
United States coast guard cutter
Tallapoosa, cruising in the Gulf, says
that the officer of the government
vessel believes the rum schooner Ar.
sene J, with Federal Prohibition AC-
ministrator J. e. Matthews on board,
is well on her way to Havana or
Nassau Search was still being made
by the Tallapoosa, the cutter CO.
manche and several patrol Doats for
the schooner
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
CAPTURED RUN
SHIP E sc APES
DRYS KIDNAPPED

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1 B.-The
three -masted schooner Arsene be
lieved to be carrying two Kidnapped
prohibition men, tonight was the OBJ
iect of an extended search into the
Gulf of Mexico with all available
revenue cutters and patrol boats
called into service.
The schooner, an alleged rum run
ner,. disappeared from anchorage Oft
the Mississippi coast today after it
had been captured by a patrol boat
and J. b. Matthews, assistant pro-
hibition administrator of New Or
leans, and a machinist's mate had
heen stationed as guards while the.
patrol boat visited port to refuel.
When the patrol boat returned, the
ship was gone. Believing that It
had been recaptured by the alleged
rum runners, other cutters and pat
1ol boats were called from Biloxi,
Miss, and Galveston, Texas, to AID
in the search All shipping in the
Gulf of Mexico was asked to watch
for the ship and take the Kidnapped
men off if possible.
Shortly after the disappearance OF
the vessel was reported, C. J, jack
son, prohibition administrator at
New Orleans, said that he received
report through coast guard sources
that the vessel had been recaptured
by the Talalpoosa and taken in tow.
Later he asserted he received 4
second report from the same sources
that the vessel had broken tow ano
again was at liberty.
Radio messages received from the
revenue cutter Tallapoosa by tho
Tropical Radio company's Mobile
Station said that the Tallapoosa nan
not sighted the schooner since mel
disappearance.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
BREACH OVER
TAX SURPLUS
IS WIDENING

WASHINGTON, Dec. l
(AP)-The breach between
republicans and democrats
over how to tap the treas
ury surplus to the best adj
vantage to the taxpayers
pocketbook widened today
at the capitol.
This subject virtually ex-
cluded all other issues, and
drew into the vortex of dis
cussion practically every
recognized party leader Of
the house where revenue
legislation must originate.
House democratic leaders after a
conference came out in favor of an
immediate $3.50, 100000 cut in tax
rates, while republican party chief
tains @stoutly maintained that they
would oppose, as ill-advised, a new
revenue bill at the approaching ses-
sion.
The democratic program drafted by
minority members of the house ways
and means committee, is based on an
agreement reached between Repre-
sentative Garner of Texas, ranking
democrat on the committee, and Sem
ator Simmons of North Carolina, who
heads the minority membership of the
senate finance committee.
Under the democratic proposal, the
corporation tax, at present 1S 1-2
per cent, would be cut probably to
II per cent. The plan was made
public by Chairman Oldfield of the
democratic congressional committee
who said:
"The exact rate of the corporation
tax was left subject to determine
tion after further figures for which
the treasury has been asked, are
available II was the sense Of the
conference that the treasury will
have a surplus at the end Of the
present fiscal year approximating
half billion dollars and that further
relief to the taxpayers can we'll be
afforded and ought to be given with
out delay"
The democratic plan will encounter
the opposition of Chairman Madden
of the house appropriations commit
tee, who holds that the seventeen
congress would present the right time
for new revenue law, although in
his opinion the presidents proposal
should be enacted at this session.
Both Madden and Speaker Long
worth contended it was impossible
revenue act and that congress must
go slow for that reason.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
sEEK vENuE CHANGE

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Dec. L P1-
Senator Alexander Simpson tonight
said that he would ask for a foreign
jury to try FOR the murder of the
Rev Edward Wheeler Hall the three
defendants now on trial for the mur-
der of Mrs. Eleanor r. Mills at Som
erville.
Senator Simpson, special prosecutor
in the Hall-Mills case, said he would
go before supreme court justice in
Trenton and. ask for a jury other
than in Somerset county to try Mrs.
Hall, Henry Stevens and Willie
Stevens, as he felt that there would
be an acquitta1 in the present case.
Besides the indictments for the kill
ing of Mrs. Mills, the defendants have
been indicted for the killing of the
minister.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
"LONELY, PRETTY AND 10"
is $50 AND HOMELY'

WASHINGTON, Dec. l [P)-Clara
Hamrick of Waco, Texas, described
by herself as lonely, pretty and 10"
and by postal inspectors as about
80 and very homely," today was
barred from use of the mails under
a fraud order issued by the post
office department. The department
said Miss Hamrick accepted money
from various male correspondents on
promise of marriage, but always evad-
ed such commitments.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
WITTENIYEGt NAMED AS
COLORADO u. CAPTAIN

BOULDER, Colo, Dec. 1 (P-George
Wittemyer, bacllfield man. was elect
ed captain of the 1927 University OF
Colorado football team after the
Thanksgiving day game, it was an
nounced today by the athletic board
of the school. A vice captain will
be elected later.
Nineteen men were awarded letters
by the athletic board. They are
Wittemyer, Scoville, McGlone, Waite,
Yeigler, Wolff, Crompton, Bartlett,
Prator, Chamberlain, Connell, Bohn,
sheldon, Castetter Stapp, Brie ;en-
stein, Curlee, Witchers and Ramsey.
Thirty-three were awarded fresh
men letters.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
TO JOIN LABOR CoNGREss

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1 Especial to
The Observation-Disclosures are now
being made by the Mexican Confeder-
alton of Labor to participate in the
fifth american labor congress
in Washington early next year. No
special program has yet been out
lined, but it is understood that Mexico
will lend its efforts to a better CO.
ordination of the labor movement
throughout Latin-Amsrica,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
WOMAN'S VOICE WORTH
10000, JURORS DECIDE

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1 R1-A Jury
in common pleas court today decided
that Mrs. Elsie J. Topper's voice was
worth $4,000.
This was the amount of verdict
returned in favor of Mrs. Topper
who sued the Peoples Natural Gas
company because, she charged, its
employees turned off the gas by mis-
take at the home Of her mother.
The woman contracted a cold it was
set forth, which developed into laryn-
gifts, with the result that she lost
her voice.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
NORTH DAKOTA SENATORS
OPPOSE MARSHAL's APPOINT
WASHINGTON, Dec. i a.

WASHINtFTUN, Dec. II (H9--Appoint-
ment of c. F. Mudgett, by President
Coolidge as United States marshal of
North Dakota has aroused the states
two senator's, Nye and Frazier, re-
publicans, and they plan to protest
to the White House.
They hold that it is not fair to
appoint their outspoken political op-
ponent to one of the choice federal
offices in the state and that their
prestige as senator's has been inn
paired.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02
MAY nROP CAsEf

TRENTON, N. j., Dec. l P)-Report
was current in high official circles
here today that failure to convict in
the Hall Mills case would mean the
end of the prosecution of the present
defendants and that Henry Carpenter,
the fourth member of the group in
dicted, would not even be brought to
trial.
Governor Moore declined to com
nit himself on that phase of the case,
indicating that the decision rested
largely with Special Prosecutor Alex
ander Simpson.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02

This is Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont,
formerly Mrs. William X. Wander
bilt, whose name appeared prom
inently in the petition submitted
to the Vatican by her daughter
for annulment Of her marriage 80
years ago to the Duke of Mari
borough. Although she was in
love with Winthrop Rutherford,
the former Consuelo Vanderbilt
deposed, her mother, by making
continuous scenes" and other CO.
erc.ve measures, forced her into
the union with the British noble
man. 1t was on the grounds or
this coercion that the annulmenc
was granted>
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-02

N. Y, Dec. 1.--CR-Copper
quiet; electrolytic spot and
futures 135s. Lead quiet;
spot 500. Bar silver SO ".
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