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the church stood in which the sermon
was delivered which made upon Writ
such a lasting impression. Says Writ:
1.-The lips Of Plato were never more
worthy of a prognostic swarm of bees
than were the lips of this holy man.
1t was the day of the administration
of the Sacrament, and the subject. of
course. was the passion of our
Saviour. / had heard the subject
handled a thousand times. I thought
it exhausted long ago. Little did
suppose that in the wild woods Of
America | was to meet man whose
eloquence would give to this topic
a new and more sublime pathos than
had ever before witnessed" He
dwells upon the silence which followed
vivid description of the suffering
and death. and which was broken by
the preacher crying out, Socrates
died like philosopher, but Jesus
Christ like a Godi
THERE is a monument on the Jeffer-
son Highway. between Louisa
Court House and Gordonsville. show
ing where the battle of Trevilians was
fought during the Civil War, on June
II and II. 1864. The inscription sets
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maximum distance to Louisa Court
House, by way Of the Washington
Richmond highway and Ashland. Is
1873 miles, and the minimum distance,
over that highway to Fredericksburg.
is less than 125 miles.
Looking at the record of the period
since 1742, when the county was Gre
ated. there appear names and events
which contribute unexampled inter-
est to the region lying southwark
from the Potomac River. which in
cludes Louisa.
~ X y
TN March, 1865, in spite of the pro-
tests of Benjamin Franklin and
other Americans who were in London.
the English Parliament passed the
statute placing tax on all legal in
struments executed in America-the
stamp tax" Franklin, writing to a
friend, said he could no more have
hindered the passage of the act than
he could have hindered the sun from
setting. THAT" be said. 1--WE could
not DO But. since the sun is down
and it may be long before it rises
again. let us make as good night of
it as we can. We can still light the
candles"
The colonies were startled and full
Of apprehension. Some men were,
however. much less inclined than
Franklin to acquiesce quietly. But
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that county to the House in 1865, he
was elected again in 1865. 1857 and
1853. He was poor, and the house
which he occupied with his growing
family, several miles from the county
seat, was remarkable for nothing ex
cept for being very small and extreme
ly simple. 1t has been destroyed with
in the last few years.
X v X X
In 1881 the military activities of
CORVALLIS had compelled Gov.
Jefferson and the Virginia Legislature
to move from Richmond to Charlottes
Vile. In June of that year Lieut..
Col. Tarleton started on a cavalry ex'
petition to Charlottesville with view
to capturing the governor and mem
bers of the Legislature. He marched
as swiftly and as stealthily as posi-
BILE, and he would have been success
full but for the warning given by Jack
Jouett, young captain Of the Able
marie militia.
Jouett, happening to be at the
Cuckoo Tavern in Louisa on the night
Of June 3, heard of the plan and at
once. before midnight, mounted his
horse, said to have been "the best
bred and f1eetest of foot of any nag
in seven counties" and began his race
for the safety of his countrymen. The
distance over the rough byways and
trails which he traversed was approx
mately so miles, and he reached
Charlottesville a few minutes in ad.
nf 20 lnfo htY+ in N n.
able Jefferson to escape from Monti.
cello. and all of the members Of the
Legislature but six to make their
escape.
He travelled much faster than Paul
Revere and over a more difficult coun-
try, but he has been without the good
fortune of Paul Revere to have his
| midnight ride celebrated by a gifted
poet.
At Cuckoo, which is on the present
Jefferson Highway, a few miles south
Of Louisa Court House, and also In
Charlottesville, at the end of the ride,
are small monuments concentrating
Jouett's exploit. except for which the
author of the Declaration Of indie
pendence and three of the signers
who were members of the Legislature
Richard Henry Lee. Thomas Nelson.
| who succeeded Jefferson as governor,
and Benjamin Harrison. the ancestor
of two Presidents of the United States
would have become prisoners Of the
British.
II y
THERE Is still standing the house
i where lived the Blind Preacher"
James Waddel. Presbyterian min.
lister who was born In Scotland In
| 1899. and whose eloquence Is glorified
| by william Writ In one of the latter's
brilliant essays In the British Spy
| It Is located In the northern part Of
Louisa near the Orange County line,
and mile or so across the line II a
monument marking the place where
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worth a copper penny IL he entered
the cage and tried to dose the fierce
beast with medicine. Again animal
training resourcefulness scored a vic.
tory.
Mr.. Blackburn assembled to the top
of the tigers cage. The tiger had
fallen in agony on the floor. The
head keeper tickled the animals nose
repeatedly with the lash of long
whip. The maddened beast snapped
again and again at the leather thong.
Quickly, Mr.. Blackburn substituted a
stream of castor oil for the weaving
lash. Before he knew what was hap
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This is the first of a series of arti-
Giles about points of historic interest
in Virginia which can be reached in
a days trip from Washington and
return, based on data collected by
Representative r. Walton Moore OF
She congressional district in which
the counties dealt with are located:
Mr.. Moore has been taking prominent
Government officials on patriotic Dill
srimages to these shrines.
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treatment for several months until
the tiger became as sleek and glossy
as a grizzly bear. This "re-haired"
tiger lived to the ripe old age Of 80
years and was for many years a cen.
ter Of attraction at the Washington
Zoo.
X \
ON another occasion an infuriated
tiger large as Shetland pony.
was suffering from an acute attack
Of indigestion. The valuable animals
life was in danger, and Supt. Black.
burn knew that his life would not be
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v ted with historic shrines, 10
which the people are mixing
pilerima ges in increasing numbers as
good roads furnish an easy approach
and as their location and accessibility
are becoming more generally known.
Washing on2as. and the the tour
lists in our midst, are especially IA
vored in having. within a days auto
mobile run, so many places of inter-
esting and h4llowed memory. which
afford not only recreational jaunts but
educational, see America FIRST" pa
triotism stirring family outings.
Louisa County is the most remote
from Washington OF any Of the coun-
ties to be mentioned IN this series of
articles. and YET not rc"!y remote.
since the construction CT good roads
is making it ea'" OF access The
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MuaB CrTs of ipamu
DaHyS
Wants il Of Ynr-su dying M0ha Born ON
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VIRGINIA, birthplace of the Rev
! olution that gave the world
this greatest of nations. Is dot
ted with historic shrines, 10
which the people are mixing
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F you were assigned the task of
disposing of So baby boa constric-
tors, how would you go about the
Il job?
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TO SLAY
DALE PROBED
Dry Agent to Question Pair
on Conspiracy Charge.

George F. Winkler, deputy Fed
eral prohibition administrator, sent
Sanford Starks, special investigator,
to Ft. Wayne today to obtain a
statement from James Rose, 20, Ft.
Wayne" and Mrs. Helen Smith, FIT.
Wayne, regarding a conspiracy to
assaSsinate George Dale, Muncie
vice crusader.
Rose told Frank Conroy, Federal
prohibition agent, Thursday, that
he had been engaged by Eddie Duff
fly, Muncie police character, to
drive an automobile to Muncie from
F't. Wayne, carrying Dale and Mrs.
Smith, for the purpose of killing
Dale, editor of the Muncie Post
Democrat, and John Cox, Muncie
newspaper reporter. Roses arrest
on the day preceding the proposed
trip frustrated the plan, he said.
Duffy first disclosed the assassi-
nation plot in Muncie last Satur-
day. He said he was to have re-
ceived $500 from two Muncie police
officers for killing Dale and Cox.
Interviewed in the Marion County
jail Duffy said: They've got Rose;
make him talk. I'm afraid to say
anything"
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KNIGHT NAMED
CITY ATTORNEY
New Official Is Democrat;
Succeeds RuckeIShauS.

Edward H. Knight, 311O N. Penn
sylvania ST., with offices at 01-905
State Life Bldg, today was ap-
pointed city attorney by Corporation
Counsel John w. Hoffman.
Knight, a Democrat, has not been
active in politics. Holtzman stated.
He will succeed John K. Ruckel-
shaus, Republican, who has served
for twenty-three months, having
been one of the original appointeeS
of former Mayor John H. Duvall.
The resignation of Ruckelshaus,
effective Dec. IS, recently was re-
quested by Hoffman. In a reply,
Ruckelshaus asked that he be re-
lieved of his duties on or before Dec.
l. During his term Ruckelshaus has
averaged representing the city in
one damage suit a day, but has lost
only one case. That case involved
only $3.50.
Holtzman said he has not decided
who he will appoint to succeed As
sistant City Attorney Don F. Roberts
and Claim Agent w. w. Hyde, Ne
gro, whose designations, effective
Dec. Is, also were asked. -
Salary of the city attorney is
$4,000 year.
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entire Sunday afternoon, including
a trip to FIT. Wayne, in a search for
this medicine. located a personal
friend at Ft. Wayne, who in turn in
quired of his own neighbors until
he found a pint Of whisky in the
private home of neighbor.
II took this to Df Rayl at the
hospital at the end of a seven-hour
search. This is the only whisky
procured for my sister, and it was
procured under the circumstances
stated and for the exclusive purpose
of medicinal use, to be admins
tered by the attending nurse under
the supervision of the physician" l."
"I am informed that some Of this
whisky was used for my sister and
that it appeared to act as bene-
fetal medicine. How much was
used, and what became Of that not
used I do not know.
"I had absolutely nothing to do
with the whisky after I gave it to
the doctor, and the only relation
ever sustained to it was that /
already described herein"
Urges Honest Inquiry
"There has at no time been any
secrecy about this on my part. Any
brother of a sick sister who would
not have done what did would
not be normal human being.
my sister not only had a right
in her critical plight to expect Of
me that I do all things helpful to
her physician that might aid her in
her fight for life, but it was my alb
solute duty to do so. Nothing done
by myself, the physician or the
nurse violated any law.
"But I am informed that In
tolerant representatives of the Ku-
Klux Klan and of the Anti-Saloon
League are demanding indictments
because whisky was so procured and
so used. Believing YOU would desire
statement of the truth of the facts
under investigation, I am sending
you this statement for your use.
Wants to Show Truth
eff the name of the State Of In
diana is to be used at the instance
of intolerant bigotry, to persecute
anyone for cooperating in an effort
to save the life of a citizen, think
those asked to thus act for the, State
should at least be informed of the
truth before they do act.
MAY it be understood that this
statement is not made to discour-
age but rather to encourage an hon
est investigation into the truth Of
the facts"
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GOLDEN TRESSES WILL
BE ART BALL COSTUME
Lady Godiva Pose to Climax Chi
cago Pageant.

Lady Godiva Pose to Climax Chi
cago Pageant.
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 25.-Miss Rosa
lind Hightower, Detroit, Mich, has
been chosen to impersonate Lady
Godiva, the peeress of history, who
rode through the streets Of Co
ventry garbed only in her golden
tresses, at Chicago Arts ball to-
night.
Miss Hightower's hair has been
adjudged the proper length, and
she will pose in a gilt frame at the
tabIeau which will be the finale of
the pageant. Her golden hair will
be her costume.
Miss Hightower, who was once
Miss Detroit" is an artist, and re-
CARDS the nude figure as more
beautiful than the draped body. She
attended Breanu College in Georgia
and the University of Wisconsin.
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City Assembly Branch Will
Reopen Shortly After
Jan. |.

Resumption of operations at the
Ford Motor Company's local assem-
bly, plant, 1915 E. Washington St.,
shut down since June IL, with loss
Of employment to approximately
eight hundred worKmen, is prom
ised shortly after Jan. l." accord
ing to local Interpretation of a
statement issued by Henry Ford at
Detroit today.
G.. J. Steinmetz, manager of the
plant refused to discuss the Ford
statement.
Capacity production in the thirty
three Ford assembly plants will be-
gin soon after the first of the year,
was Ford's announcement. Friday,
Dec. 2. was named as the date for
the first public showing of his new
car at all Ford sales agencies in the
United States, Canada and England.
Ford Optimistic
Fourth fioor windows at the local
assembly plants have been dark
ened for several days.
"The greatest period of consump-
ton in the history of the automo-
bile business lies directly ahead;
Ford predicted in his statement.
Ford stated that he planned to
spend nearly $8O0O00,000 in 1923 for
labor and materials on the new
Model A" He revealed that 10000
men were employed in his Detroit
plant at present, drawing more pay
than 10000 did at the height of pro-
duction on Model T."
Four sets of sharp-eyed guards
helped Ford hold the secret of his
new car from unauthorized persons
at the Ford assembly plant, Oriental
and Washington Sts., today.
300 Dealers Meet
More than 300 authorized Ford
dealers from most of Indiana and
nine counties in Illinois responded to
the call for today's meeting.
The dealers gathered on the
ground floor, where they exchanged
greetings. as happy as boys waiting
for the Christmas morning rush to
see what Santa Claus brought.
They got their first glimpse of the
new car. One of tn enew models,
two-door sedan, was on exhibit.
Ford officials who know the deal
erS were on guard, in four groups, at
various levels on the spiral stair
way to the fourth floor.
AS the dealers passed to the fourth
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floor, where the meeting was held,
they were scrutinized. Now and
then a guard asked a question.
The call to the meeting indicated
the dealers were to see movie and
were to come prepared to take away
forty pounds of literature.
About l p. m. fifteen or twenty
dealers came out for lunch. The
remainder ate a luncheon prepared
for 300 in the plant. They refused
to discuss the new model.
Authorized dealers only were ad-
mitted at the meeting. Their sales
men were barred.
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WOMAN NOVELIST WEDS

Mrs. Nancy HOyt Wynne, Divorce,
Marries Boston Man.
Bu United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-Mrs.
Nancy Hoyt Wynne, young novelist
who recently won a London divorce
from Gerald Wynne, is now Mrs. Ed
ward D. Curtis, according to an an
nouncement by her mother, Mrs.
Henry M. Hoyt.
Mrs. Hoyt Thursday received a
telegram from her daughter, dated
Baltimore. 1t said she had been
married "in Maryland" Wednesday
to Curtis, member of Boston fam
lily, and that they will live in New
York. Curtis is connected with the
Guaranty Trust Company.
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FALL KILLS SOLDIER
Thrown From Rumble Seat
of Automobile.

Private Virgil Armstrong, "a, of
Valparaiso, Ind. stationed at FIT.
Benjamin Harrison, died today
after falling from the rumble seat
Of an automobile three miles east
of Indianapolis on the Pendleton
pike.
Armstrong was said by authori-
ties at Ft. Harrison to have been
returning to his post from the city
in an automobile owned by a civil
liam attache from the fort. He is
believed to have lost his balance
when the machine swerved around
another car on the road.
Coroner G. H. Keever began an
investigation.
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WARMER WEATHER FOR
SATURDAY IS FORECAST
1OWtO 12-Degree Rise Over Week.
End Is Expected.

There is more good news for cold
weather haters and bad news for
those who sell fur coats and such,
in Weather Man j. H. Armington's
forecast today.
We will have "soft" weather,
which means moderate to warm
temperatures, tonight and Saturday,
said Arlington.
Temperatures probably will be at
least 10 to IL degrees higher on
Saturday than today, he said. But
it likely will be cloudy.
Today's Z a. m. temperature of
81 was 2 degrees above normal.
Thursdays temperature average was
SO, 10 degrees above normal.
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Nine Are Dead, TWENTY-FIVE Wounded as Re
suit of Mutiny in California Pen;
Seven Ringleaders in SOL
FOIL DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE
Armed Prisoners Slay Guard, Then Barricade
Selves in Main Cell Block; State
Troops Called Out
BY HOMER s. ROBERTS

FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, Nov. 25.-The 200 barricaded
convcts who had deed National Guardsmen and prison off
cas for twenty hours in the main cell block prison
surrendered peacefully today The convc returned
their cells and normal prison routine resumed.
The rngeades who started the break which caused
the deaths of nine and injury of twenty-five more
placed solitary confinement Their not dvul"ed
Warden Court Smith announced that the daily routine
would begin if nothing had occurred
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LAYS PLOT TO PRIESTS
ObregOn Says Clerical Reaction
Caused Death Attempt.

Bu United Press
MEXICO CRY, Nov. 24.-Speak-
ing at political banquet today,
Alvaro Obregon. former president of
Mexico, said that clerical reaction"
was the cause of the recent attempt
to assassinate him for which four
men, one a priest, were executed.
One of his would-be assassins,
captured after hurting bombs into
Obregon's automobile, a week ago
Sunday, had confessed that he had
attempted the former presidents life
because Obregon was following
Gales policy in religious matters.
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BOOZE charge INSPIRED BY
KLAN and DRY CHIEFTA TAINS,
G|LL|OM STATES in LETTER
One Witness, Active in Demanding Inquiry,
Had Held Conference With Shu-
maker, Editor Says.
DEFENDS HIS PURCHASE OF LIQUOR
Bought Whisky in Effort to Save Life of
His Sister, and for No Other Purpose,
His Statement Declares.

Declaring that the investigation of the Of whisky for
sister death in Decatur hospital
prompted by representatives of the Ku Kux Kan and the Anti
Saloon League Attorney General Arthur Gom today sent
to Prosecutor John Kelly of Adams County letter giving
detail the facts.
The Giom showed that when he reached the hos
pital his sister in dying condition.
He offered any aid to the physician in charge asked whether
other physicians should be called in consultation suggested
oxygen blood TRANSMISSION might be needed and
physician asked him to procure whisky not obtainabe IN
Decatur
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game everybody Limerick Larry to town.
myself And it fun and prizes to the wnnes
Here is the plan
Beginning Saturday and continuing for three weeks going
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three best lines submitted will daily cash prizes of SIS for
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GlllIOm then rode to 1T.
Wayne, procured a pint of
whisky, and turned it over to
the doctor. Some of it was used
as medicine.
Two of the witnesses before the
grand jury Wednesday, who have
been active in demanding the in
dictment of Gilliom, are c. L. Wal
terS and A. L. Ray.
Former KIan Official
The "black book" of Stephenson
in which he recorded the list of all
officers of the khan during his regime
in 1923 contains the name of Wal
ters as the Klokard of the Klan
for that county.
It is known that Ray, three days
before the first public demand for
an inquiry into the Gilliom Incl
dent was made, drove to Bluffton
and conferred with DR.. Il. 3. Shu-
maker.
This information comes from an
editor to whom Ray made the state
ment concerning his activities.
Details His Case
Gilliom's letter follows:
Il became informed of the
necessity of serious major opera
ton for my sister, Emma Gilliom,
several days before DR.. G. c. Rayl
performed the operation" wrote
Gilliom.
II then kept in telephone COM
munication with relatives concern
ing the condition of my sister, and
was informed by telephone early in
the morning of Sunday, May %,
that she was in an. alarmingly
critical condition, which was
steadily getting worse.
II Immediately left my home at
Indianapolis and arrived at the
Decatur hospital by taxi from Bluff
ton about p. m. l found my aged
parents. several brothers and
sisters, some from distance, and
other relatives gathered in the re-
ception room Of the hospital, most
of them in tears.
"I learned my sister was in a
most critical condition, unconscious
part of the time, writhing in un-
Speakable agony.
Desiring to assist in any way
possible to save my sisters life I
asked to see DR.. Rayl, who was in
constant attendance. After learning
from him that he was contemplate
ing a further emergency operation,
I suggested that if he desired to call
a consultant specialist of his own
choosing, would gladly pay such
expense if necessary.
Doctor Asked for Whisky
Later in the afternoon he did
call in a consultant from Ft. Wayne.
1 also told the doctor that desired
to be useful in any way he could
suggest, I informed him of my ex-
perience in which blood TRANSMISSION,
oxygen, whisky and other last eff
fort means were employed to save
the lives of several of my children
the year before, and offered to get,
or arrange, for anything he might
suggest in the case Of my sister.
HE advised me he was equipped
with everything he needed, but that
whisky would be helpful if he had it.
He did not know where whisky could
be gotten and neither did I. But I
advised the physician that I would
make an effort to locate some.
"Under these circumstances and
for the sole and exclusive purpose of
attempting to supply a medicine
deemed helpful by the physician in
his vigilant and desperate effort to
combat death, I set about in a fran
tic search for a small quantity of
whisky.
"It became necessary to spend the
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