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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
SPECTACULAR
ROBBERY NETS
BAND S50,537
Robbers Escape in Two
Motor Cars With Loot;
No One Killed
CRIME
so Bank Employees and DOz-
en- Customers Forced
To Lie Down

KANSAS CITY, Feb. "a R)--Armed
with two sub-machine guns, three
sawed-off shotguns and several AS
calibre automatics, band of bank
robbers, estimated at 10 to is in num-
ber, today shot up the City Bank here
and escaped with $5O,737
r. c. Kemper, president, said the
amount was covered by insurance.
More than a dozen shot were fired
by the seven unmasked men who en-
tered the bank Several of these were
fired point blank at officials and
clerks, but it was believed the first
shot were blanks fired to intimidate.
No one was injured.
: Later the robbers employed real
cartridges, bullet marks showing at
several places in the new building. A
sharp shooting bandit placed six bull
let's within three inch area in a
post near the telephone operator, who
was attempting to summon police
The men escaped in two motor cars
after robbery conducted SO syste-
matically that police believe it had
been perfectly rehearSed.
The robbers rushed into the bank at
9:15 a. m, and under the direction of
leader, they scattered at once to
various vantage points. All entrances
were covered by shotguns, The so
bank employees, all working within
plant sight of the bank lobby, and
dozen customers, were forced to lie
down
Two bandits vaulted into the CASH
ier's cages and scooped up currency
and cash.
Mr.. Kemper, who served in France
in the World war, described the holdup
as like trench raid. 1.-THE bandits
were cursing, shouting and yelling, yet
the raid was perfectly staged"
Mr.. Kemper said the bank was
thought virtually holdup-proof, but
that the raid, conducted with such
speed and system and by so many men,
nullifieS all safety devices.
Employees, working within reach Of
revolvers, were forced to the floor be-
fore they could grab the guns.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
GASOLINE TAX Is
UNLAWFUL SAYS
i'll. HIGH COURT
Supreme Court Finds Law
Is Discriminatory and
Unconstitutional

SPRINGFIELD, Ills, Feb. "a P)-
Illinois gasoline tax of two cents a
gallon, under which 100000 to $1,000
900 month has been collected from
motorists, since August l, 1927, was de-
clared unconstitutional today by the
state supreme court.
The measure was sponsored by Gov
ernor Len Small and was passed ir
the last regular session of the legisla-
ture only after it had been on the
brink of defeat repeatedly.
While the iaW provided only two
cent tax, in effect the tax became
three cents gallon, since the fue
companies generally added an extra
cent to defray the cost of collecting
and turning over to the state.
The decision was on test case car
ried up by the Chicago Motor club
which began it's fight against the Law
even before it was introduced as a bill
before the legislature.
j. H. Braun, counsel for the club
saw in the supreme court decision nc
possibility of refund to those who
have paid the tax. Any refunds prob
ably would go to the gasoline distri-
butors, he said.
1.-THE tax was indirect so far as the
motorist was concerned said Braun.
In declaring the law unconstitution-
al, the supreme court found that il
also was discriminatory.
There was discrimination against
motorists because the gas tax did not
apply to users of gasoline for other
purposes, because it differentiated lr
the treatment of kerosene and gaso-
line, both fuels, and because it did not
affect electrically propelled vehicles.
The high court held the Law violat-
ed the fourteenth federal constitution
al Amendments, which guarantees equal
protection to all, and that imposed q
double tax, the license tax being the
other.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25

LOS ANGELES, Feb. "a P)-Dr.
Charles M. Mcmillan, middle aged
physician accused of the murder of
Amelia AppIeby, today was found
guilty by a jury Of eight women
and four men in superior court
here.
The verdict carried with it a
recommendation of life imprison:-
ment.
Given the case a few minutes
after IL o'clock this morning the
jury returned verdict at l;SO
o'clock this afternoon.
During the reading of the ver-
dict, the doctor, who has displayed
no emotion during the entire trial,
sat motionIess and gave no evi-
dence of being visibly effected by
the prospect of life behind prison
walls. Confinement in the peni-
tentiary on this verdict viii place
the physician behind the bars a
second time, since he was once
convicted of narcotic charge and
served sentence.
Date of sentence was fixed as
next Tuesday at $3.50 a. M, by
Judge Douglas EdmOnds. Under
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
HOOVER, WILLIS
LOCK HORNS in
OHIO PRIMARIES
Finish Fight for Control of
Delegation to COnyen-
ton Promised

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. "a up =
United States Senator Frank B. Willis
and Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover today declared it finish fight
for control of Ohio's delegation to the
Kansas City convention and for popu-
lar endorsement of Ohio'S voters.
Both not only filed formal declara-
tions of candidacy with the secretary
of state, thus entering them in the
presidential preference primary, April
ID, for popular endorsement of the re-
publican voters, but also entered a
complete slate of delegates in the pri-
mary contest.
Secretary Hoover, by his action in
entering the presidential preference
contest, thus made the first formal
announcement of his candidacy. He
previously had authorized candidates
for delegates to pledge to him, thus
informally announcing his intention.
Both Hoover and Willis headquar-
tiers held off decision to enter their
candidates in the preferential contest
until late today. Announcement OF
Mr.. Willis entrance was followed i'm
mediately by word at Hoover head
quarters that their candidate also
would enter the race for popular en-
dorsement. Regardless of which can
didate receives a majority of the popu-
lar vote, the result will not be binding
on any delegate. The delegates are
elected individually.
Heading the list of Willis delegates
at large is Colonel Carni A. Thomp-
son, Cleveland, the senator's campaign
manager and former United States
treasurer, while Congressman Theo-
dore E. Burton, Cleveland, heads the
list of Hoover delegates at large.
Each side also selected a woman on
the at large slate. Hoover chose Mrs.
Hugh Clark of Steubenville. Each side
also gave representation to the negro
race on their list of delegates at large.
While all the Hoover delegates are
pledged second choice to James R. Gar
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
OPPOSITION TO QUOTA BASIS
FOR MEXICAN LABOR is VOICED

Of absolute necessity as labOrer
to cattIemen. Americans, he add
ed, do not take up ranch life as
they once did and it is difficult
to obtain any but Mexican help.
Fred III. Bixby, of Long Beach,
Calf, representing the National
Cattlemens' association, also argu-
ed that Mexican labOrerS are in
CiiSpensabIe and law abiding. The
Mexican, he said never causes
trouble except when he indulged
in intoxicantS bought in the
United States.
Bixby argued that placing a ban
on Mexican immigration would not
be a fitting sequel to Lindbergh's
good will flight to the Mexican
capital. adding that the New York
to Paris flier had done more than
any one else toward getting a
friendly feeling" with Mexico.
"YOu are going to ruin that,
that's cineh," he declared.
The witnesses directed their
testimony solely to the Mexican
border problems and did not touch
upon the Canadian phase of the
Box proposal.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a QP -
Opposition to the Box bill to
place western hemisphere nations
on quota basis was voiced today
before the house immigration COM
mittee by a number of witnesses
who took the position that eX-
clusiOn of the Mexican labOrer
would work economic hardship on
the agricultural industry in the
southwest. The hearing was the
second allotted by the committee
to opponents of the bill.
A. Able, of COluSa, president of
the California Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, urged a thorough investi-
CATION of the Mexican labor situa-
ton throughout the country be-
fore any action by congress, while
Dayton Moses of Fort Worth, at
tOrney for the Texas and South
western Cattle Raisers' association,
declared that but few MeXicanS
were involved in the many cases
of horse and cattle stealing that
he was called upon to prosecute.
Moses contended that the Mexi-
can was law abiding person and
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
Arrangement
Is SET FOR
NEXT MONDAY.
Dry Agents, Arrested On
Bench Warrants, Are Re-
leased On Bail
CHARGES SECRET
Federal Grand Jury Urges
Care in Issue of Search
Warrants

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. "a QP-Four
of the five Arizona prohibition Off
GERS recently suspended by Secretary
Andrew Mellon of the treasury de-
partment were indicted here this
morning by the federal grand jury.
Bench warrants for their arrest on
charges not yet made public were
served later. A fifth bench warrant,
understood to have been issued in
the same connection, had not been
served at a late hour tonight.
The agents named in the indict-
mentS as defendants all furnished
sureties for their appearance in court
Monday, when they will be arraigned
on the charges contained in the in
dictments. They are:
Frank A. Bell, two indictments,
$4,000 bail, arrest at Tucson.
M. P. Cosby, three indictments, $4,
500 bail, arrested at Tucson.
AL Fredericks, one Indictment, $500
bail, arrested at Phoenix.
W. B. Lewis, one indictment, $500
bail, arrested at Phoenix.
All that became of open record to-
day was an intimation contained in
the report of the grand jury to the
court which recommended greater care
in the audit and approval of expense
accounts and the utmost care in the
issuance of search warrants. Refer
ence to the search warrants was con-
strucd to refer to the alleged false
warrants supposed to have been sworn
out during the course OF a series OF
prohibition raids, while mention OF
expense accounts was taken to bear
on recent activities of the prohibition
force while at BiSbee.
That W. S. Lynch, sometimes en-
ployed by the prohibition office as an
informer, was not indicted was at
tributed to the fact that the court
earlier this week sustained as suffic-
lent a perjuryt complaint sworn out
agas..-t him by Assistant United
States District Attorney Guy Axline.
Lynch is now at liberty in $4,000 bail.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
DIR. NC MILAN Is CONVICTED OF
MURDER OF WEALTHY L. A. WIDOW

California law the sentencing of
the doctor will be but a fOrmality.
the recommendation of the jury
is automatically the penalty,
The doctor was charged with the
murder of Mrs. AppIeby, widow of
Chicago inventor, after her body
was found, last December, in the
San Fernando valley near here,
tied in canvas sack.
Bits of canvas, which the prose-
CUtiOn claimed were identical with
that in which the body of the
wealthy widow was wrapped, fig
ured prominently in the trial,
which started Feb. Is.
The doctor pleaded not guilty,
but he did not deny the charges
from the witness stand, although
he had previously steadfastly pro-
tested his innocence to officers who
arrested him.
Testimony of a Los Angeles
couple revealed that the doctor
and Mrs. AppIeby had Travelled to-
gether as man and wife, having
registered at an Arizona hotel as
Mr.. and Mrs. AppIeby.
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
Four Suspended Arizona Prohis are Indicted
Catholic Priest And
Five Others Arrested
By Police In Mexico

X MEXICO CITY, Feb "a F-
4 A Catholic priest named Jose
y Vivas Suarez and five other men
X have been arrested in private
y house in a suburb of the city
y where the secret police claimed
y to have found another headquar-
* ters for the preparation and dis
X trib ution of anti-government
4 propaganda supporting the So
4 called Catholic revolution.
y The prisoners we're taken to
y police headquarters where they
X we're locked up with a score. of
X others. including seven priests,
X who have been arrested from
\ time to time in and around Mex
+ leo City on charges of violation
y Of the religious laws or of sedit-
Y ious activities. Others arrested
Y on similar charges in recent weeks
y have been released after payment
Y of fines.
y. X 81 * 81 y * y - * 81 81 * *
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
Col. Lindbergh Tests
New Plane POwered
By Electric Magnetism

X DETROIT, Feb. "a tF The
y Detroit Free-Press will say to-
X morrow that Colonel Charles A.
y Lindbergf and Major Thomas G.
y Lanphier, today tested new
F type OF motor at Selfridge field,
Y which is powered by electric
y magnetism instead of gasoline.
X The Guggenheim interests are
4 declared by the paper to have
Y arranged for an immediate con-
y ference with Lindbergh, Lam
Y phier and the owners Of the
Y model, which, it is predicted, will
Y revolutionize the whole theory of
\ aeronauticS.
\ The paper further declares that
X today'S test was successful in
y every respect and that Lindbergh
\ and Lanphier have identified
Y themselves with the promotion of
X the motor.
+ * y y * * y * ). * * * y -
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
GASOLINE TAX TOTALS
NEARLY A MILLION

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. "a R-Col-
lections of the four cents gallon
gasoline tax in Arizona for the five
months period beginning August II,
1927 enc ending January 81, 1923,
totaled I924,222.73, according to a
statement issued today by E. M. Whit
worth, superintendent of the motor
vehicle division of the state highway
department.
OF the total collected, $547, ,427.05
went to the state highway depart
ment, $328,45624 were apportioned to
the IA counties.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25

Saturday and Sunday fair;
little change in tempera-
ture.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
HOovER- AND LINDBERGH.

EVERETT, Mass, Feb. "a (P)-
81 would like to place before you
for consideration the ticket of
Hoover and Lindbergh," Governor
Fuller told the state federation OF
Women's clubs today in an address
in which he urged greater partici-
patton of women in politics.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-25
MARRIED 100 YEARS.

GUTFIWISKA, Poland, Feb "a
R-Having completed 100 years Of
married life, Leib Field, Foland's
oldest Jew, is dead, aged 125. His
widow is III years old.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-19
GOSLIN HAD USE 0F ONLY ONE ARM
Goose. Won q Hot Race Against
 Heinie Manush

With only one good arm. ooose Goslin. Washington outfielder, belted his way into the 1928 American League batting cham pionship. according to tho official averages. Goslin won a hot race against Heinie Manush and his average of .s7s was just one point better than the .S7s earned by the St. Louis outfielder.
 In winning the highest honors for oatsman and joining the Be- lect company of Delehanty, La- jote. Cobb. Speaker. 6isler, Ruth and Heilmann, 0oslin owes some thanks to Bucky Harris until re- gently the manager of the Wash ington club.
 It Is doubtful that any other manager in baseball would have allowed Goslin to play fin enough games to win the title. From the first game of tho season until the last few weeks Goslin, with . dead arm. couldn't throw the ball 10 yards and the infelders had to 90 out. take the ball and throw it in whenever it was hit to Cos lin's field. It never has been made known what happened to the Goose's arm but it was re- ported that he threw it out trying to show some college boys in the south how they should put the 16-pound shot,
New Britain herald., 1928-12-19

The old man of the bike" they call him.
 He is Reggie McNamara, dean of the six-day bicycle racers. who at e is still competing in the saucer.pounding classics. Just re- gently he complsted his fifty-sixth six-day grind at Madison Square Garden.
 He and his partner. Van Nek, were not tho winners. but Reggie demonstrated there are many more pedaled miles in his gnarled old legs. He supplied the thrills of the race.
 In his brilliant career of the squirrel cage" McNamara seldom finished out of the money. Thir- teen times hs pumped his mount over the line . victor. Seven times he finished second. nine times ran third and four times he grabbed fourth money.
 On every part of McNamara's frame are scars that show the yeav he pedaled . bike on the boards. Many a time has the Iron man" pushed his face along tho pine saucer. But he always came back for more.
 Since his triumph in Paris two years ago Reggie has been pur- sued by . jinx that camps on the trail of all riders at various times in their career. Spills robbed him of several meets in the past two years. but his riding in the last six-day affair makes him confident he has the hoodoo on tho run.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-19
 
CHURCH MANAGERS
 PLAN FOR SEASON
Six Team Basketball Lsaeue ol
 New Makeup Likely

Only the definite securing of . playing floor remains to insure what is expected to be the most success full season of the Inter- Church Bas- ketball league. plans for which were made last night at a managers' meeting at the Y. NJ. c. A. A six- team circuit is expected, but its con- position will be radically different from that of previous years. two new churches being ready to sup port basketball for the first time. It is hoped to begin tho season on Saturday night. January 5. and bring it to close on March 3.
 Four teams have definitely enter ed. These are the two-time cham. pion South Congregational church, the twice runner-up St. Matthews German Lutheran church, tho ex- champion First Lutheran church. and the St. Marks Episcopal church. The Stanley Memorial church is also believed almost a cer. tainty, while the sixth team will probably be drawn from either the Swedish Bethany or Trinity M. E. church. The Center Congregational church is unlikely to be represented this season. This will be the first effort of the Stanley Memorial church at basketball. while it will mark the entry of St. Marks church into any field of inter-church sport
 Virtual assurance has been given that the league can secure the "" floor for Saturday nights It is planned to have three games . night the first ono starting at 7:30 o'clock. Season tickets will be issued along the lines of those now used by the Industrial league, and 1t is hoped that this plan will result in . successful season from the financial point of view.
 Each team will be uniformed in . different color. The South church will wear red. the First Lutherans white. St. Matts black, and St. Marks orange. The other teams have not yet selected their schemes.
 Another meeting of the board of managers will be held at the Y. M. c. A. on Sunday afternoon at ? o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-19
H0PPE WILL MEET
 LAYTON TONIGHT
Has Chance to Win Only Title
 He Never Yet Has Held

Chicago. Dec. 19 R - Willie Hoppe, who, for almost a quarter of a century, has been winning bil- Hard titles, tonight gets a chance to win the only one that has escaped him-the worlds three cushion crown.
 Steady and yet spectacular, Hoppe has stroked his way to two triumphs in the championship Round Robin tournament at Orchestra Hall. win- ming the right to meet the defend. ing titleholder. Johnny Layton. se- dalia. Mo-, in the deciding match tonight.
 Ralph Greenleaf, New York, has clinched at least tie for the pock- ct billiard championship. which he is defending at the two-title tourna- ment. Victorious in his two matches Greenleaf alone remains undefeat- ed. Should he be upset tonight by Frank Taberski. Schenectady, N. r.. in the final match the least he can get is a tie. Taberski. Pasquale Na- tniir' dili bi VIII IsuuolpH. HIS CIldI- lengers. have been defeated.
 Tn meeting Layton for the title. Hope has an opportunity for re- venge. In the championship tour nament here last spring. Hoppe came 10 the championship finals with the Sedalia fisherman but was defeated.
 The defeat Of Taberski by Pas- quale Natalie. Baltimore. s7 to 125. last night. was the upset Of .he three cushion play Conceded 10 he the only one seriously to threaten Green'eaf's crown. Tahersk fell be- fore Natalie's great shots and was behind all the way. The upset makes possible triple tie for the rocket billiard title. IT Ia herski de- f"ats Greenleat and Natalie defeats Rudolph who is out with two do f"ats tho three will be fled with two victories and one defeat each
 In inc final matches today and tonight, Reiselt meets Copulos for third place. and Hoppe clashes with Layton in three cushion, while in pocket billiards. Rudolph meets Ma talie and Greenleaf meets Taherski
New Britain herald., 1928-12-19
NEW TALENT TO ATTEMPT
 TO BREAK INTO MAJORS
At Least 100 Ambitious Young Baseball Players to Be In Training Camps Next Spring - Boston Braves Have Chance to Make l9 Changes In Personnel Chicago Cubs Recall Number of Untried Players Cardinals Stand Nearer Pat Than Others

lumbus.
 Brooklyn reached out to Atlanta for Third Baseman Gilbert, Out fielder West and Second Baseman Rhiel. The Robins recalled Short stop Bader. Catcher Lopez and Out fielders Lee and Tremper from Ma con where all were 300 hitters. Frederick, outfielder. was bought from Memphis. Neitzke. an out fielder, recalled from Pueblo. and Rosenfeld, outfielder, bought from Birmingham.
 N. w. Ballou. former American league pitcher, was drafted from Milwaukee. w. W. Moore was pur- chased from Macon. and C. E. Dud- ley from Atlanta
New Britain herald., 1928-12-19
MONTREAL SEXTET
 DEFEATS OTTAWA
Maroons Retain Second Place in
 Hockey League

Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 19 Rl-The Montreal Maroons retained second place in the international group Of the national hockey league by SCOT ing a hard earned to victory over the Ottawa Senators here last night.
 Harold Hicks celebrated his re- turn to his home town by scoring the winning Montreal goal with just ten seconds to so in the final period. Hicks grabbed the puck from face off. tricked his way through the Ot- tawa defense and followed up his shot to bat the puck into the net. The Maroons held the edge in the third period after Ottawa had set the pace through the first two frames. Clancy opened the scoring for the Senator's near the end of the second period but Ward equalled the score in short order. The lineup: Marnons Ottawa Benedict ...... Conne!l
 goal
 lyuttou JoOu1 HOt
 right defense SlebeiI '...... ..'.',. Ni<aiCS
 left defense IT. Smith Nighbor
 center
 NdFO Il0HlSaH
 right wing sltwdIt '......' ......... AliIed
 left wing
 Maroon spares: Lamb, Phillips. Trottier, Hicks, Robinson. Ottawa spares. A. Smith, Halliday, Touhey. Elliott. Shields. Summary: First period: No score. Penalties, H. Smith. Touhey, Clancy, Lamb. Sec- ond period scoring: 1. Ottawa. Clancy. 15:35. 2. Montreal, Ward (Dutton) c.25. Penalties, Finnigan, kilrea. Third period scoring. 3. Montreal. Hicks. 1850. Penal ties, none.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-19
STARTS ID PLAN
 NEXT FIGHT CARD
Matchmaker GiCkstein Matches Ray Dolan and Johnny Clinch

Ray Dolan, clever Waterbury welterweight. will be matched with Johnny Clinch, local amateur ace, in the first amateur boxing tourna- ment of the New Year to be con- ducted by the Stanley A. c. at the Stanley Arena, according to the an- nouncement of Matchmaker Paul Glickstein today.
 Because of the heavy sport pro- gram in this city over the holidays. the officials of the club have decided to stage the next amateur fight fest in January instead of during the holiday season. The club also plans to change the fight nights from Fri- day to Monday in order that the fans may have a rest in between heavy sporting nights.
 Matchmaker Glickstein had figur- ed on using Dolan against Clinch on the last card staged here but the Brass City battler reported in with an injured hand. Then Frank Nicho- las of Hartford was secured as an opponent for the local boy. The night before the fight here, Nicholas met a Philadelphia battler in New Haven and he was badly fouled twice 70 that the referee was forced to stop the bout. Examined by 6 doctor. Nicholas was ordered to cease fighting for at least a week. This put him off the local card.
 In the final minutes. Matchmaker Glickstein signed up Charlie Stevens of Hartford. negro boxer. who holds . decision over Clinch. Stevens, though out of shape, put up a corking good battle but Clinch's hard punches were too much for him.