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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-02

in the past told him it was "the
driest and most orderly observance
of the holiday that they had ever
seen He complimente2 cafe and
hotel owners OH their cooperation
with his men. OF course, federal au-
thorities admitted, there was some
drinking, but they said it was con-
fined to private rooms.
The streets were crowded until an
There were 20 questions comprising
vailed. The mild weather doubtless
accounted, in part, for the unusual
crowds.
A five year old negro girl was
killed as a result of stray bullets
from guns fired to greet the New
Year.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-02
JUAREz MAYOR INSTALLED

Ell PASO, Tex, Jan. 1.-Alberto Al
media, brother of Governor Jesus A.
Almeida, of the state of chihuahua,
was installed as mayor in Juarez to-
day, as mounted police stood guard
about the city hall and federal troops
were ready for immediate service.
Marcus B. Flores, defeated candidate
was declared mayor by supporters in
another section Of the city. The elec-
tfon contests have been appealed to
Mexico City by them.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-02
AMERICAN WOMAN ROBBED

NICE, France, Jan. An Ameri-
can woman, Mrs. George Osbourne,
who was Miss Helen Mason, and who
has been established at Nice for six
years reported to the police the theft
of 250,0O0 francs in cash and jewelry
worth 100000 francs. Mrs. OsboWrne
says she had concealed the money
behind shelf in her library. After
an absence yesterday, she found the
money had disappeared together with
the jewels.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-02
MlNER LOSES LIFE.

GLOBE, Jan flames Kidd, Al,
miner, was electrocuted in the Old
last night when he came in contact
with a trolley wire while climbing
over cars in the 18th level. He is
survived by a wife and two chill
dren. The inquest will be held Sat
urday.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-02
WOMAN KILLED by FALL

PASADENA, Jan. 1.-Mrs. G. W.
Bowen, of Pasadena was the woman
killed in fall from a second story
window during the tournament of
roses pageant here today.
The out of town injured include
Mrs. Montague Glass, wife of Mon
tague Glass, the author, and Mrs.
R. E. Duvall, 81, of Fruita. Colorado,
who suffered severe shock.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-02
FAILED TO GET EUROPE

DENVER, Colo, Jan. 1.-Radio sta
tion KOA of the General Electric
company here picked up the Ameri-
can part of the world radio program
tonight and rebroadcasted it to thou
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-02
SIX OF 1s ESCAPED


HOUSTON, Tex, Jan. 1.-Six Of 13
prisoners who overpowered and dis
armed a guard and made break for
liberty on the Harlem state farm,
near Richmond, shortly before noon
today, were captured within two
hours. c. II. Owens was captured
after an exchange of shots with r.
j. Flanagan, manager Of the I'M
peral farm at Sugarland. Flanagan
shot Owens gun from his hand after,
the prisoner had fired first. No
trace of the other fugitives has been
found The break came While the
prisoners were cutting wood on a
plantation near the prison. The
guard was struck over the head and
knocked from his horse and then
disarmed by the convicts.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-02

sands Of receiving sets throughout
the Rocky Mountain region. Efforts
to get the foreign program failed
Operators of KOA said they could
hear some foreign signals but too
indistinct even to tell where they
were from.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-14
Former Khan Head
Appears Before Grand
Jury i'm Indianapolis

Indianapolis. Oct. 1S-(Pl-D. C.
Stephenson, former grand dragon OF
the Indiana Ku Klux Khan, who has
been named as a source from which
proof of recent charges of alleged
political. corruption in the state
might be obtained, was brought here
today from the Indiana State Pris-
on, where he is serving a life SEN
tence for murder, appeared for an
hour before the Marion county grand
jury, later refused to testify in a civil
suit in superior court and was
whisked back to the prison at Mich
igan City before nightfall.
The brief duration of Stephenson
stay in the grand jury room is re-
garded by persons following the case
as indicative that he volunteered lit
tie if any information regarding al
legations of misconduct by public
officials which have been made by
Thomas II. Adams, publisher of the
Vincennes, Und.) Commercial.
Coincident with Stephenson's re-
turn to the prison, Adams issued a
statement in which he quoted Floyd
Christian, an attorney who was of
defense counsel in Stephenson's trial
for the murder of Madge Oberholt
ger, as saying that he had seen In
Stephenson's cell, check which was
payable to Ed Jackson for $4,000"
The check was issued by Stephenson,
he said.
Governor jackson tonight denied
emphatically that he had received
such check as that described by
Christian in his statement. ID. C.
Stephenson never, at any time, gave
me check for $4,000 or any sum as
a gift or for campaign purposes and
any statement that he did is abso-
lutely false"
Adams has recently declared that
from Stephenson would come evil
dence in support of the corruption
charge. However. when Stephenson
was brought here today from the
state prison. where he is serving a
life sentence on the murder charge.
he made no revelations when he ap-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-14
$3.50 RECEPTION
ACCORDED BEN
Pines CHALLENGE

Halifax, N. g., Oct. 1s.--(P)-There
may be an international fshermen's
race off Gloucester the week of Oct.
rs, and then again there may not. 1t
depends upon who wins the Canadian
sflshing fleet races of Halifax satur-
day
Captain Ben Pine, victorious skip
per in the Gloucester fishing fleet
championship races yesterday, sent a
challenge to the victorious canadian
skipper, whoever he might prove to be.
Captain Moyle Grouse of the Hall
gonian, who will, attempt to wrest the
Canadian championship from the Blue
nose, Captain Angus Walters, on Sat
urday, received the challenge with
open arms.
Race Ben Pine Off Gloucester he
said. sure: why not?'
But Captain Walters gave the chal-
lenge more dour reception. Under
no circumstances. he said, would he
race Captain Pine off Gloucester. Off
Boston. perhaps. Off Halifax, maybe;
but off Gloucester, never.
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KAY JAY
SPORT
CHAT

That giant colored man, Harry
Wills, has passed rather comnle1.iy
out of the picture. Jack SharEev.
who may or may not be in the cIas,
OF Gene Tunney, rather decisiyeiv
pasted the negro into oblivion,
To lose over the foul route was n
poor way for the Senegambian to
make his final showing. The negro,
realizing he was beaten, took the at
tltude that the least punishment he
took for the money was good bust
ness. His showing against Sharksy
seems to bear out the statement of
Tex Richard that Wills was, and is,
just good second rater.
But Wills hasn't got to 20 to the
poorhouse even II he did lose to
Sharkey. Managed by Paddy Null
Inns the so-called uncrowned king Of
the heavies earned something like
S450,000 and he hasn't wasted 1t in
riotous living. While he has been
bounding the promoters for a bout
with Dmpsey he has gathered UP his
share of glory, sympathy and little
pieces of green paper with pictures
of past presidents printed all over
them. With his retirement the only
thing left for boxing fans to talk
about is a return Tunney Dempsey
bout-maybe
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Underworld King
Of Chicago Processes
Desire for a Peace

Chicago, Oct 13.-(Pl-Al Scar.
face Capone, reputed king of tine Cic-
ero underworld and beer runner extra
ordinary, wants to see the end of gang
murder in Chicago because there is
enough business for all of us without
killing each other like animals in the
Streets"
While police were investigating the
wide ramifcations of Mondays ma
chine gun battle which took the lives
of two North Side beer barons and
wounded three other men, Capone, a
27-year-old emigre from Brooklyn,
calmly told reporters in his modest
Cicero hotel room of his adherence
of butchery, and his efforts to bring
about peace in the booze running un-
derworld.
81 don't want to die in the street
punctured by machine gun fire." said
the Cicero vice lord, leader of the fac
ton opposing Hynie Weiss, slain
gangster and North Side booze over
lord. But while police suspicion i'm
mediately was directed Cicero-ward for
an explanation of the latest gang kill
ing there was no direct evidence and
Chief Morgan Collins said it was a
waste of time to arrest Capone.
"Capone, Of course, has an alibi,"
he asserted. HE was in Cicero when
the shooting occurred. If we bring
him in it will be because we have the
goods on him cold, but there is no use
putting him on the grill until we do"
The chief declared it is his opinion
that tbs killers Of Weiss and Paddy
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Mrs. Wiseman-Sielaff
Tells of Plot to Put
Over kidnapping Story

Los Angeles, Oct. 13-(P(-Guarded
by a squad of private detectives and
staring on the witness stand before a
group of movie stars, Mrs. Lorraine
Wiseman- Sielaff, continued today her
testimony that Mrs. Aimee Semple
Mcpherson, evangelist, conspired to
manufacture evidence supporting her
kidnapping story.
The detectives were on hand at
the evangelist's preliminary hearing
a sthe result of several letters threat
ening Mrs. Wiseman. co-defendant
with Mrs. Mcpherson and the princi-
pal witness for the prosecution.
The film celebrities, so often the
object of stares, were interested
spectators at the hearing.
Mrs. Wiseman resumed her MARIA
tive of the coaching she said she
had received at Angelus Temple, Mrs.
McPhersons headquarters. to play
the role of the woman in a cottage at
Carmel last May and thus refute
charges that the evangelist lived
there several days with her former
radio operator, Kenneth G. Ormiston,
now a fugitive from justice.
The witness testified that on Aug
ust g. Mrs. Mcpherson called atten-
ton to the similarity in appearance
between herself and Mrs. Wiseman.
She told her If she would put her
hair up high on her head. people
would mistake her for the evangelist.
At District Attorney Asa Keyes'
request, Mrs. ANiseman removed her
hat and exposed her hair, which was
light brown with a reddish tinge.
Mrs. Wiseman then said she met
Bernice Norris, secretary to the late
r. A. Mckinley, blind Long Beach
attorney, also an accuser to the evan
gelist, on September 10. At that time
the evangelist and her mother were
present.
Mrs. Mcpherson introduced her as
the Little. Lady with Orniston' at
Carmel Mrs. Wiseman testified Miss
Morris said she wondered about Mr..
Mckinleys death, whether 1t had
been on purpose.
(The lawyer was killed in an auto
mobile accident recently near Long
Beaclf).
Miss Morris told them. the witness
said, that the persons who had COM
municated with Mckinley, represent
ing themselves as the evangelsts
kidnappers. wanted $500 for a map
showing the location of the Mexican
shack where Mrs. Mcpherson deciar-
ed she was held captive.
Mrs. Wiseman said she practlced
copying the grocery slips found al
the Carmel cottage, Mrs. McPher-
son writing them also. She sub
mitted them to handwriting expert
who reported it was evident the
handwriting on the slips was NOT
Mrs. Wisemans and told her not 10
write any more, ''for 1t Is the dead
Hest weapon you can use against
Mrs. Mcpherson"
Mrs. Wiseman told of the outline
of second affidavit prepared In Mrs.
McPherson's handwriting " h
named Mrs. Wiseman as one OF the
party Of three at the Carmel cot
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-14
SEVERAL FUTURE
COLBY STARS IN
FRESHMAN MEET

waterville, Oct. 13.-Ths Colby
freshman track squad turned cut
for the first meet Of the year today
at Seaverns field this afternoon, aft
er which they turned In some very
creditable performances. Bobby
Brown Of Fairfield, younger brother
Of Rus Brown, last years track
captain, looks as If he will follow
in his noted brothers footsteps.
Young Brown was tied with high
point man of the day, furnishing
two first places. In the dash Brown
was pushed all of the way by Ber-
nard Shaw, a likely looking Splinter,
with Quinton but step behind. The
second event, the 600 yard run, was
very close race. Burr took the
lead from the start and opened up
what seemed like a commanding
lead, but tied up on the home stretch
and was passed by Treworsy, with
Harlow taking third place.
Bob Brown COPIED the lead At
the start of the 500 yard run and
was never headed. n he keeps up
his present pace he will be a strong
contender for the varsity In the
spring. Quinton placed second In
the race and McLeary finished third.
The 120 yard hurdle race was
easy for AGcLeary. Waterville boy.
He took the lead right from the
start and increased 1t at every bar
I rier to win by about seven yards.
Upper and Treworgy battled 1t out
! for first honors in the high jump,
but Topper showed his superiority
by jumping 4 IT. 10 in, at which
Treworgy failed. Constant placed
third. Shaw easily won the broad
jump by leaping more than q foot
better than his competitors. The
shot put was closer, with Turner,
McAllister and Treworey finishing
in that order.
| The other two events on the pro-
! gram, the javelin and the mile run,
were for upperclassmen. The battles
| in both of these contests were for
second places. Jimmie Bruno won
the mile by quarter OF lap but
! Gilman Hooper surprised everybody
by fighting Leroy Johnston, a vet
eran distance runner, every step OF
the way. Johnston was forced to
the limit to win, passing Hooper 10
yards from the tape.
| Cobb, a transfer from Bates and
former State record holder, won the
Javelin easily. while Sprague ana
Jordan fought it out for second hon
| ors. which went to Sprague.
| The most versatile performances OF
the afternoon was turned in by Ire
Worgy, who gained first, a second,
and two third places.
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SPORT TABLOIDS

New York, Oct. 13-(P-A green
clad figure from the far south and a
battering ram from the middle west.
with touch of scarlet In his football
costume, doomed tonight as distanct
menaces on the football horizon for
two New York elevens Saturday Tu-
lane University was moving north
from New Orleans with Johnny Men
vile, back with good control, pre-
pared to attempt to throw bullet like
forward passes past the New York
University secondary defense. At the
same time Columbia University view
ed with alarm the towering figure of
Marty Karo, who showed a blue and
white year ago how ducking can be
used to the best advantage, when
Ohio State won at Columbus.
Halifax, n. s.. Oct. 1s-P)-The
Halifax owned fishing schooner Hal
igonian, has arrived for the series of
races with the Lunenburg schooner
Bluenose, to be started off this port
next Saturday.
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BABE LAPIDUS TO
| START FOR HEBRON
AGAINST PITTSFIELD

Hebron. Oct. 13.-The Hebron pig
skin chasers had their heavy mid
week workout today. The workout
consisted Of a little signal practice
and then long hard scrimmage.
Coach Dwyer was assisted by Edgar
curtis and DR.. Allen, both of Port
land and graduates of Hebron.
Df. Allen has big job ahead for
next Saturday when they take on NJ.
Z. l., at Hebron and it will be the
nrst of the championship series, and
the Big Green is anxious to put a win
over on the boys from Pittsf1eld. M.
=. l. has already defeated kent's
Hlll and If Hebron should be beaten
they would be out Of the champion
snip race entirely. Brint Mcclellan,
an old Hebron backfield star, will be
In the lineup, for M. c. l., and will
be a bad man if he shoule get. loose.
hebron has however. a wonderful
defensive machine and is doing very
little worrying along that channel
Hebrons objective is to work up a
powerful offense. She will be i'm
pared to a great extent because of
injuries. Capt. kinsley, Hebron's
scoring ace, is still nursing some
Bridgton game. Milt Wheeler, the
regular pivot man will be on the side
ilnes due to twisted muscles in his
leg handed. to him by the Bowdoin
trosh last Saturday. Haskell. one
of the guards is suffering from a
sprained ankle.
The scrimmage against the seconds
brought out many faults which were
quickly adjusted by Coach pwyer
and his assistants. Winer showed his
old form and the Maroon jerseyed
lads Will have a tough time stopping
him.. The halfback positions are well
Illled Tor the coming fray, with
Norty Lamb and Babe Lapidus
Friday the Hebron Freshmen have
a game with Frye Grammar of Lew
lston and have high hopes of dupli-
eating last Saturdays results.
The seconds will play Pennington
Normal at Hebron Saturday morning
and although the teachers held them
TO scoreless tie two weeks ago.
student Coach Anthony is optimistic
over the outcome of this game. The
seconds will be greatly strengthened
by the return of Bullet Haskell who
Is once more in the good graces of
the Hebron profs.
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Caldwell, Yale Star
Halfback, Hurts Ankle

New Haven, Conn, Oct. 13-(P)-
Bruce Caldwell, Yale's star halfback,
sprained his ankle in scrimmage here
this afternoon and his place in the
first eleven was taken by Larry No.
BILE. In both of Yale's games this
season, Caldwell has been the out
standing figure and the most consis-
tent ground gamer and forward
passer. 1t is not definitely known
whether the sprain is serious enough
to keep him out Of the Dartmouth
-game Saturday.
The Dartmouth team will leave
Hanover. Thursday night: reaching
here Friday morning. Headquarters
will be established at the Hotel Clark
in DerbyS Dartmouth will practice in
the Bowl for two hours Friday after
noon.
Many Dartmouth graduates are ex-
pected to attend a reunion here, FRI
day night and following the game on
Saturday the members of the Dart
mouth team will be given a dinner by
the alumni.
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Murray were imported. probably from
New York.
Capone, who has taken the name
| of Brown, gave his version of the
| gang feuds in small hotel room
! which he said had been his home, Of
| flee and shelter for IA months. 1t
contained only a bed, dresser and
three chairs, the one object indicating
the affiuence of the man, who is report
ed to have made mere than two mil
| lion dollars in the booze game, being
magnificent diamond brooch tie pin
with four carat amethyst In it's center.
Holding a photograph of his seven
year old boy in his hand and speak
ing of his love of the youngster and
his relatives, Capone declared he had
| begged those fellows to put away
their pistols and talk sense to me.
| They've all got families, too. What
| makes them so crazy to end upo on
slab in morgue with their moth
ers' hearts broken over the way they
! died,
IF anyone will get those fellows
| together--w hats left of the North
Side gang, and anyone else that
| thinks they're bucking me in bust
ness, and take their guns away and
| sit them down to listen to me, I'll
! make peace with all of them. And
I'll keep it, too.
'Pll tell them why | want peace
| because | don't want to break the
hearts of the people that love me
and maybe l can make them think of
their mothers and sisters, and if
! they think of them they'll put up
! their guns and treat their business
like any other man treats his as
q n iYNfr %
| when he goes home at night"
Capone saw the genesis of gang
killings in the breaking away of
| members of his own organization, in
Guiding Weiss, "Schemer" Drucci.
and Dean O'Banion. Capone set up
here seven years ago with johnny
Torrie and Nails Norton.
Finally these fellows began to
| make a little money and forget we
were the ones who put them in BUSH
ness. They began thinking they were
bigger than we were. Then they
told US they were going in for them
selves. Well, that was all right with
us. We figured there were customers
for all the beer in the world, and they
were welcome to those they could dig
up.
But pretty soon they began to act
-".iiS anu " Damon haQ Deen
killed and the other guys were feel
ing chesty. Finally we had to talk
10 them about 1t and tell them to
stay In their own yard and behave
themselves"
soon after, however, Torrie was
attacked, but according to Capone,
was willing to forgive and forget.
Il talked to 'Hymie' Weiss and the
others, saying:
"What do you want to do-4die be-
fore you're 80? / don't
I'VE started oyer. We Kept ogE
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bargain but they broke theirs.
sent word to those fellows to stop
while some of us were left alive.
They wouldn't listen. A couple of
weeks after that II cars drove past
this hotel at noon and gave us a
machine gun fire that made this
street LOOK like battlefield"
Then followed another peace con-
ference which broke up when Ca
pone said he refused to offer up for
assassination the two men who had
fired on Drucci and Weiss on Mich =
gan avenue.
Police Investigations Of the Weiss
Staying, while it failed to bring to
light any clues to the actual slayers,
uncovered a mass of related details
that kept all agencies employed in
an extensive quiz.
One inquiry was started into
charges that the murders had un =
covered a gang plot backed up by
at least 100000 to corrupt witnesses
and jurors in the murder trial of Joe
Salts, a Weiss henchman. Stimuli
taneously Federal authorities start
ed an investigation of report of a
plot to bomb the home of United
States Senator Deneen and other
Federal officials because gangsters
believed them responsible for start
ing grand jury quiz into Cicero
vice conditions.
Police also were giving some at
tention to a theory that the Weiss
Staying was a double cross engi-
neered by his own henchmen. This
was based on testimony given at a
coroners inquest that Sam Peller
and Ben Jacobs, two of the men
wounded in the machine gun assault,
were seen to fire pistols point blank
at Weiss.