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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19

,us. Audrey Haskell of Cony street
extension is confined TO ner nome
e,,ts the mumps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19

Mrs. ~Ona' Glidden of Vassalboro
was in the city, Thursday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19

Carl Quimby of Cross street, is
seriously ill with bronchial pneu-
monia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19

,r.rren Malcolm was business
Wa, IN Pittsfield Wednesday,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19

be in charge.
A Costume party 10 to be given by
the Gardiner Club some time during
the month Of March: this will also be
a do As You Please" in which each
and every member may follow their
own diversion with regard to enter
tainment.
An old-fashioned candy pull is one
Of the events which members of the
Gardiner Club are looking forward to.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19
LOCAL NOTICE

LOCAL NOTICE q
...,., School PIT Association will
s,i,f food sale at Taber & Reds
s Saturday, Feb. 20. Sale opens at !, II
A. NJ.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19

Coombs and Mrs. Abigail Long vii
be in charge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19

Miss Maud Barker. vice president of
the Augusta Club, is sojourning in
Florida. She was accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Henry G. Barker. also Of
Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19

Misses Edith and Irene Tetreault of
the Augusta Club are members Of
that splendid musical organization, the
Augusta Symphony Orchestra.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19

The fourth in the series of the
whist parties to be given by the Gardi-
ner Club vii be held on Tuesday Feb.
%. Mrs. Edna Lander, Mrs. Maud
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05

ly un-American and an abuse OF per-
sonal liberty"
In a letter to the Tobacco Sales
mems Board, Charles M. Fillmore,
executive secretary OF the league,
said: I'VE affirm that the tobacco
business is one of the most un-
American institutions in our coun-
try, and is guilty of contravening
the principle Of personal liberty mil
lions of times daily"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05
MAY DEBATE
TOBACCO USE
Challenge Issued by Ma
tional Anti League.

A challenge to a debate on the
question of whether or not promis-
cucus smoking and chewing of to-
bacco is an abuse OF personal lib
erty has been sent the National
Bard of Tobacco Salesmens' Ascot
alton by the No-Tobacco League of
America, which has national head
quarters at AIS Occidental Bldg.
The challenge follows issuance of
a resolution by the tobacco sales
mems group, in which the No-To-
bacco League is assailed for asking
Vice President Dawes to discontinue
the use of tobacco. The action of
the league is characterized as "whol-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05
STATE TO GET
FORD AIR BASE
|I,400 Acres Purchased at
Hammond.
AZ rnited Preaa

Bu United Press
HAMMOND, Ind, Jan. 5.-Ham-
mond and the Calumet district today
prepared for an industrial boom as
the result Of the announced inten-
ton Of Henry Ford to establish a
flying field, warehouse and airplane
manufacturing plant near here.
The purchase OF a tract Of 400
acres to- be used as the site for the
flying field, the warehouses and the
plant was purchased by the Ford
Company Monday.
The warehouses will be used to
store Ford parts which will be dis
tributed to assembling plants in In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05
DEALERS TO GO
TO new YORK
Special Train Arranged by
Marmon Company.

A special train will carry more
than 300 Nordyke & .Marmon Com
pany automobile dealers attending
the seventy-fifth anniversary con
vention to the New York aptomo-
biles show Wednesdays
Tonight banquet. will be held
at the Columbia Club and an in
formal reception at the factory
Wednesday afternoon.
Increased sales over 1925, which
was a banner year, were predicted
by II. Fl. Brooks, sales manager, in
an address. He outlined sales
policies for the new Special line
of cars.
Walter C. Marmon, chairman of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05

dianaeolis, Duluth, Mimi Omaha,
Neb.. Memphis. Tenn. and Cincin-
natl.
Civic leaders claim to see in the
Ford announcement the biggest in
dustfial boom since the establish
ment of the United States Steel
Mills at Gary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05
W0MAN'S BACK BROKEN
Michigan City Victim Hurt When
Auto Overturns.

Bu United Press
PERU, Ind, Jan. 5.--Mrs. Agnes
Webb, 81, of Michigan City, lay in
a hospital here today with broken
back received in an auto accident
near here.
She was believed dying when
taken to the hospital, but was re-
vived and physicians are now striv-
ing to prevent her from being per-
manently paralyzed below the waist.
The auto in which Mrs. Webb was
riding to indianapolis skidded on
a slippery pavement and overturned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05
COUNCIL GETS ONTO IT

Although Ben H. Thompson. retir-
ing city council president, sat with
Boynton J. Moore, presiding officer
Of the new body, at its meeting
Monday night. hersaid he. found
Moore needed little assistance.
"And that goes all along the line, .
stated Thompson. Il never saw
new Nconucilmen snap into it so
fast"
Moore is happy in his work.
why 1 wouldn't trade jobs with
Mayor Duvall,' he told council meet
ing. 4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05
MAYOR TO BE sNIFFER
Announces Employees With Liquor
On Breath To Go.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
JEFFERSONvILLE, Ind, Jan. s..
gum and cloves faced 3
boom here, during the next four
years.
New mayor, Harry c.. ,Poindexter,
Methodist lay minister, has an
nounced that any city official with
liquor on his breath win be fired i'm
mediately.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05

when You Feel Cold Coming On
Take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tab
let's to work off the cause and to fortify
the system against an attack of Grip
or Influenza. A Safe and Proven Rem
edy. The box bears signature of e.
W. Grove Oc-Advertisement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05

directors, paid tribute to G. NJ. Will
liams, president, as an efficient
executive. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05

Instead of soda hereafter take a
little Phillips Milk of Magnesia" in
water any time for indigestion or
sour. acid, gassy stomach, and relief
will come instantly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05
S,;2'',t' s''s
W Of Ma8nesia

ton of bicarbonate Of soda, leaving
the stomach sweet and free from all
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TRY A Csc BOTTLE
Insist upon Phillips" Twenty
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re.-Advertisement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-05
BETTER THAN SODA

For fifty years genuine Philips
MIX Of Magnesia" has been pre-
.scribed by \ physicians because it
overcomes three times as much acid
in the stomach as a saturated solu-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31
"Peg Leg" Lonergan, Leader of the
White Horse Gang, from Police
Photograph Taken at Previous
Gang Fight.
Gang Fighi

way while the shooting was going on.
Three young women also were ques-
toned once by the police. Then they dis
appeared completely and, though the
police looked for them again, they looked
in vain. Helen Logan was the entertainer
at Jack's-Helen from Philadelphia-"she
was good girl" Jacks guests explain,
'but she fooled the men along for tips
she could get"
"Then May Wilson - she was Jacks
friend. Mays husband is in Sing Sing
and May is lonesome, while he's away.
SO she pals round with Jack" Last of
all, little Alva Callahan, though, as her
mother explains, in church, she was hris-
tened old-fashioned Margaret.
'Sure Alva, or Margaret by rights, she
was a good girl, too" says Miss Gala
hans mother. "But she had to make
living and she needed to make as much
as she could. At Jacks she made more
than forty week, tips and all, checking
the guests clothes. (Of course some of
the guests never checked their clothes
since they might need to leave in a rush,
But Mr. Stckem, or Stable, never toler-
ated any rough language before my Mar
garet-'hush' he used to say, Miss Gala
hans present."
These three women, the police proved,
were there, and others besides whom they
didn't identify.
Then there was Rose Adoleas, who left
her cigarette case with name .:ut no adj
dress, in the hands of the police. How
ever she was eventually found living on
the edge of New York's Chinatown, from
which she not only invades Brooklyn, but
once in a while for adventure takes a
trip on a South American ship. Having
some Spanish and Danish blood and
friends in foreign lands, Rose does not
consider herself a Brooklyn "gun-moll,"
and so she alone Of all those witnesses is
not afraid to remember.
"Sure / was there that night with my
gentleman friend" she says. "He is sec
ond officer on a steamer. There is al
ways something doing at Jack Stickem's,
gr.st pritair pf-tts u..er,.a
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31

Lieutenant Cavanaugh, the two men
broke in those black doors and their noses
were confronted with a hot, stale, COM
posite smell that gave the strong impress
sion that they were face to face with a
crowd of over-perfumed women and I'M
perfurned men, all drinking and smoking
heavily,
But the shafts of their flash lights re-
vealed nothing but the faint haze of old
tobacco smoke and that same uncanny
peace and quiet
Through the narrow entry they stepped
into the bar-room. Everything was in
order here, or seemed to be at the first
flash. "Merrie Xmas" greeted their eyes,
chalked on orange-colored streamers that
hung from the ceiling. "Merrie Xmas"
someone had lettered with piece of soap
on the mirror. Since prohibition, as some
people know. it has become customary to
soap bar-room mirrors that people may
not see certain things done by the bar
tenders hands, under the bar, which are
strictly private.
However. all was not quite right, be-
cause the bartender had left his bar towel
on the top Of the bar Just where MS hand
had stopped in the midst Of its eternal
polishing. Also that red trail ran along
the floor. past the brass rail Of the bar
10 the next room, the main room of the
place.
Before following the red line the off
Gers played their lights on the partly open
door and listened. Through the uneasy
silence came the cheerful ticking Of a
clock and then another sound, Of some
thing stirring, a soft, muffled thud. If
their ears had not been straining they
would not have noticed it, but instantly
their flash lights went into their left
hands and in their rights their revolvers
rose.
The cause Of the furtive sounds
presented himself in the door. looked
at the officers, stepped dantily over
the sticky red trail, and came for
ward, tail straight up in the air, in token
Of welcome. II was a reasonably clean
white cat The policeman pushed open
the door, flickered their flashlights about,
found the switch and flooded the scene
with light. They looked upon a battle
field where a decisive battle Of gangdom
had been fought to finish.
Not one chair or table remained right
side up. The grand piano still stood on
its sturdy legs, but it showed dents and
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31

there was a stir in the room with the b
outside. We all looked up. Five md
came crowding into the cabaret and u
knew all the five. There was RichaI
(Peg Leg Lonergan, Happy Malone
Neil Henry, Harms and one other.
"They were welcome. Don't ever
anybody tell you differently. There w
no bad blood between these members
the White Horse and the boys who we
to Jacks. So they drank the toast wi
the rest of us, and then there was mo
music, and after that everybody dane
with everybody else's girl, for it was
Merry Christmas, when hearts overflowe
But, still, after the five came in thin
were changed. Peg Leg and his pals we
jumpy.
What's up?' asked little Alva Call,
han. You seem so jumpy, Peg&eg.'
"'1ou never can tell what's up Lond
gan answered, laughing.
"What does Peg Leg do but reach Fl
that old song Consolation that Jack nd
just said not to play any more, because
was sad and weepy and no Merry Chris
mas about it.
"'Now for the soft and sentimental
he says. 1T may be lot of tripe, but ID
Christmas and feel that way, so sit dow
here, professor and do your stuff
IT'S my party said Peg Leg. M
Christmas party What'll you all have
Howard played, the White Horse Dol
sang, and everybody joined in excel
Jack, who looked sad like he had hunj
that song was bad luck. 1t sure wa
Pretty soon the singing in the other rod
stopped, and four birds that ] don't kno!
walked in the door, quiet like, and sci
arated, like they were looking for diffdl
ent people.
"Needes Ferry was the first to Sd
them and he yelled My -r Before|
hal time to wonder what he was cussiI|
about the guns began to go off. Say, yd
got no idea how much noise eight or I'd
automatics letting go in a small rooI
make. It's fit to stun you.
THE Callahan girl screamed, and so al
May Wilson, Stickems friend, and Bonl
venture, with the feathers in her hair,
Helen Logan, who kidded the men alonI
and the Leary woman, and all the othe
Bang-bang-bang! 1t looked to me iii
most everybody was killed at that fir(
volley, because everybody went 10 Ill
floor in heap, including my gentlem!|
friend.
"Just then hand reaches up from ti
Continued on Next Page)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31
Aaron Harms, Gunman and "Peg
Legs" First Lieutenant, Who Died
Fighting Back to Back with
His Leader.

but this is the first murder | ever heard
of. We landed in about eleven, and in an
hour or two things got pretty lively, TWEEN
ty or thirty of US squeezed into that little
back parlor cabaret.
"No dress suits that night, at Jacks,
bother Jacks on such night as Christmas.
But Bonaventure was there-the girl who
wears feathers in her hair in the evening
and dreams she is Gaby Des Lys, come
back in a reincarnation-thats Bonaven-
ture, when she's merry. Katy Leary was
there, too, with a captain just in from a
British merchant ship. And there was
Jacks friend, May Wilson, and that night
she was counting to herself handful of
gold pieces some one had given her for
Christmas. Counting them to herself, odd
spells, underneath the table.
"'As for me- said May Wilson, before
the trouble happened, 'as for me, | like
my presents in gold. Noisy in the pocket,
but real. Too much queer money about
these days
"Out in the front room, with the bar
the faucets flowed At Jacks the beer
was IN Ine ceildf, plped up IN an ordinary
lead water pipe. When one barrel ran
dry, Jack would go down and connect up
another. But in the cabaret room were
small wood tables, tight against the wall !;
in one corner was a grand piano and a
fifteen-fOot square of dancing space in
the middle.
zone of the tables was near the outer
alley wall. right against panel in the
wall. There was button in the mop
board-press the button, ths- panel would
give, and a man who knew the tricks of
Jacks place could disappear into a closet
in the wall and keep safe when his enemy
entered. There was a dope peddlar who
feared all men and, when he came to
Jacks, be fought for place by the panel.
At least, so I've been told.
'However Christmas night the bird in
the cuckoo clock piped off midnight and
between a drink and dance, Jack stood
up, as Helen Logan, the cabaret girl, sank
on a seat beside Joe Howard, who was
playing the piano.
"'Now,' said Jack Stickem, forget the
teary stuff. No more songs about your
ole nanny and all that. The next drinks
on the house and Wen drink 10 Merry
Christmas just passing - Merry Christ
mas and many more of them for all of US
$50 Jack said, though even as he spoke
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a crack in the floor by some heavy fleeing
foot, cigarette case marked Rose Ado
leas. A little rose turban lay where it had
rolled, showing that some girl had fled
into the cold night bareheaded. A score
Of coats and hats hung unclaimed.
Three PAGES from the grand piano lay
two men, just as they had fallen, their
heads on each others shoulders. They
had stood back to back and slid down to
death together, still fighting and snarling
defiance TO the last. One mans mouth
was still open in that last battle shout.
Under the others body was found an
empty pistol and in his hands a full one.
Being an automatic, of course it had
jammed in his hour of need.
The police Immediately recognized the
rather boyish features of peg Leg" Lon
crgan, leader Of a gang, known in earlier
days as the Red Onions but since prohbi-
ton a the White Horse gang, because
they specialized in handling a brand of
Scotch by that name. The man who had
died beside him proved to be one of "Peg
Legs" lieutcnants, the late Aaron Harms,
and the third, who had literally died in
the gutter, was another one, the late Nell
("Needles'') Ferry. All of the three
In regular warfare the winner remains
In possession of the field but in gang war
it is different. The winner removes his
own dead and wounded and retreats 50
that the police find the looscr's dead, such
Of his wounded as cannot move and such
bystandcrs as happen to be shot down.
To begin with the police had as witnesses
only the cat and the clock. Pretty soon
they dug up ten more who proved almost
a. dumb
A crawling wounded man was picked
up few blocks away who told fan
tastic yarn that three strangers had
opened fire on him from a passing auto
mobile without explaining what the idea
was. Ten people confessed that they had
b zen at Stickem's that night, but by
some miracle each and every one of them
had just stepped out, was in the other
room or happened to be looking the other
1925 bv American Weekly II
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need was. Were the
other doors also
locked? NJ ora n o
looked again at the
red trail and de-
cided that breaking
into Stickem's place
that morning was
no one man job.
Calling the station
bouSe And pettinp
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31

A 7 last they know the real story CT
~ how peg Leg" Lonergan, leader
of the White Horse gang, formerly
known as the Red Onion gang of Brook
Ign gun men and rum runners, was muir
dered in the midst of his Merry Christ
mas party.
At three o'clock Christmas morning, in
the old Bay section of Brooklyn's water
front. things were beautifully peaceful
and quiet. Suspiciously quiet it seemed
to Patrolman Richard Morano. who heard
nothing in the world but his own foot
steps as he passed along Twentieth street
toward Jack Stables cabaret at No. 154.
But to the members of the White Horse
gang Stables cabaret was better known
as Jack "Stickem's" place.
Behind the forbidding black double
doors Of Stickem's place there should be
much going on, this night Of all others.
officer Morano wondered that the squalid
street did not echo to the tlnkle OF
Stickem's piano and 10 maudln singing.
Just then he stepped on a human hand
and soon understood why his beat was
so unnaturally quiet. The hand belonged
tc a dead man, the rest Of whose body lay
in the gutter, where it had fallen face
down.
The officer snapped on his flash light
and turned the body face up. Those lips
would never tell who killed him-desth
had sealed them with stiffened blood;
but then they were the lips Of a gsngster
and wouldn't have told a policeman any
thing if they could have spoken. Morano
followed a dark red line several inches
wide. which glistened family in the light
of his flash lamp. from the body up the
steps and under the double black doors.
The doors We're locked and no answer
came 70 the patrolman's knocks.
There were other entrances to Stickem.
place. he knew Running off Twentieth
Street was long, blind alley. Up that
alley was a second door, narrow, with
bell and a peephole. Those who used it
slipped into the alley and rang and waited
until somebody looked out at them
through the ,7eephole and Jet them in.
Then further IN down the alley was an
cher pair of Aoors with the sign
"Ado-
mis- Sochul
Club"
Q These last doors led directly into the
eobaret. And in the rear was bulkhead
through which a man could be secretly
taken in TO Jack Stickem's through the
csIlar-or he gotten out from there, as
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scars, evidently from blows of
some of the smashed chairs,
and its veneer in one place
had been furrowed by the
course of a bullet. Almost
everything in that room had
been smashed, upset, spattered
with blood except those two
Unconditional. witnesses, oh e
clock and the cat.
Among the blood spots and
the general wrack and ruin,
there was ample evidence that
lovely women had graced the
occasion with their presence
but had departed in bad order.
There were women's hand
bags, vanity cases, powder
puffs, a lip-stick, crushed into
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31
mis- Sochul
- -

. These last doors led directly into the
robaret And in the rear was bulkhead
through which a man could be secretly
taken in TO Jack Stickem's through the
cellar-or be gotten out from there, as
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house Hnd getting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-25
CORRESPONDENCE CLASS is MAKING
PROGRESS, ALL URGED TO JOIN NOW

making
registering
Chicago who
registered
Friday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-25
LOOK-IN ON PAPER BOX MAKERS
AT HEADQUARTERS DURING STRIKE
BY FLORENCE GELLER.
worker correspondent)

After the days picketing is finished,
the workers gather il headquarters,
or, in other words, the home of their
union, seat themselves in the white
unvarnished chairs or on the benches
along the walls, make themselves at
home and have a good time," so to
speak. In one corner a group of
middle-aged men sit and discuss poll
tics, the cloakmakers' settlement, the
cops guarding their shops, the de-
licious soup they ate at Our Kitchen"
and other happenings of the day.
In another corner of the room are
gathered the younger element of our
union. Young men and women, boys
and girls, talking in loud voices. Every
few minutes somebody strikes up a
tune, such as "Ohl We Amt Going to
Work No More, No More," and others
join in and they sing until the song is
finished More talk. Suddenly
Charlie, a militant fighter in this
strike, calls out: Lets give three
cheers for the Paper Box Makers
Union. Hurrahl Hurrah! Hurrah!
Long live the union More songs.
A Plueky colored Girl.
Yeai Inez! Every eye is turned
toward the door as Inez, a colored
girl, paper box worker, comes in. She
related her experience on the picket
line that day. Says Inez: You know
that big, fat cop with the red face.
You know what he did? He gave me
such a push that after l could look
around found myself at the next con
ner. But l got up and began walking
up and down in front of the shop just
as before. Fellow workers, these cops
can't take away our rights as citizens
Of this country. We have the right to
walk around as much as we like, and
we'll do 1t, even tho We have to be
carried away on stretchers."
By then the group of middle-aged
men, as we'll as the rest of the people
who were scattered around the room,
draw closer to the excited youngsters.
Lena, in her young, almost childish
voice: Three cheers for Inez!" The
latest jazz song, bye, Bye Blackbird,"
is sung with much pep.
Jennie, little black-eyed, black
haired slip of a girl, jumps in and does
the Charleston. A few more join her.
Suddenly, almost in an instant, all