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VOL. XXXII. PARAGOULD, ARK., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1922.
I VERY WISE MAN
I FROM ILLINOIS
I GETS IN JAIL
I P. G. Baker Was Determined
I to “Show Up” Esq. Kel
| ley and Deputies; Esq.
[Grooms “Butts In.”
(From Thursday's Daily)
1\ G. Baker, a recent arrival from
Illinois, is languishing behind the
bars at the county bastile under the
watchful care of Jailer Waldrum and
there he must remain for a period of
thirty days to satisfy a time end
of a fifty dollar assessment that was
registered against him in the court
[ of Esq. ('has. Grooms this morn
I'. ing. He was charged with obstruct
ing the process of law as a result
fyof an incident he staged five miles
least of the city the first of the
>' week when he interrupted a legal
i, action that had been scheduled in
I the court of Esq. W. E. Kelley of
I Hays township, by an extraordinary
1 exhibition of wisdom when he pre
| vented a deputy sheriff from arrest
| ing Boyd Gregory who was wanted
I upon a charge of carrying a pistol.
I He prevented the officer from en
<1 lering process against Gregory by
y representing himself to he a schooled
| lawyer, a former prosecuting attor
ney in Illinois, and informing the
yy arresting officer that he had no ease
! against the young man and that he
would jeopardize his official status
£ if he attempted to take the man into
S I'listndv.
f Mr. Baker ventured further and
informed Esq. Kelley that he was
not qualified to deal with violators.
In fact, he intimated that the peo
ple of Arkansas were so densely ig
norant that it was going to require
some “wise peekerwood” of Ilia rare
ability lo institute processes of the
higher, super-cultured order to get
them straightened- out upon the
path of literacy and intellectuality.
It is said he expressed himself as
^literally “eeching" to seize an op
^pP>rtunh.y to give the people of this
’ untutorad section of the United
States the benefit of bis superior
wisdom. Esq. Kelley and Deputies
John Quinn and Luther White de
cided to give him the reins of dis
played wisdom and let him go the
limit of expressed egotism. He did.
Now lie’s in jail.
According to impressions ex
pressed by the officials of Hays
township, tlie “wise man’’ is around
thirty years of age. It seems he
arrived in the county previous to the
holidays. According to statements
made, the stranger indicated that
ha was reared on Eagle Creek, in
Illinois, and that the people of that
section were very keen-eyed, alert
of brain, quick on trigger, up to
snuff and highly cultured in every
respect end all combined. He es
tablish'd tlie impression that lie was
tliq real, ring leader of that com
munity. It was claimed that they
also made liquor on Eagle Creek—
good old moonshine, squirrel climb
ing hooch, stout enough to “make
a rabbit spit in a bull-dog’s face."
Tl ie i-fntrxil lm 1'iirthnr I'hiimorl Hint
when a liquor case came tip in his
home section and the community
was not satisfied to take the process
inlo the court they just cocked their
pistols and shot the subject, to an
adjustment and to the pacification
of the vicinity. Hr claimed to have
jj been the big legal light of that
r community, former prosecuting at
torney and the fountain head ot
information generally.
Rut tlio wisdom displayed failed
to keep Royd Gregory out of trou
ble for toting a pistol. Esq. Groonu
decided to risk fining tlio young
SMALL STEAMER
IS GIVEN UP
AS BEING LOSI
Vessel V/as of Five Thou
sand Tons and Carried
a Crew of 44—Last
Seen oh Dec. 6.
(Ry The United Press)
Hamburg, Germany, Dec. 28.
—The five thousand ton steam
er, Hendrick Kayser, from New
York to Bremen, with a crew
of forty-four men, has been
given up for lost. The vessel
was last sighted on December
6tn, off Newfoundland where
she was reported to have had
a broken rudder.
1ST. LOUIS MAN
SHOOTS DOWN
A RELATIVE
Claimed Daughter Had Been
Attacked—Five Bullet
Holes Fired Into Body
Brother-in-Law.
(Uy The United Press.)
St. Louis, Dec. 28.—“I just
shot a man,” shouted Vinccnso
Margotta, forty-one years of age,
as he rushed into a local no
i lice station today. When his
excitement had been cooled by
the police he confessed he had
! killed his brother-in-law, Cale
gcro Scaturo, because the latter
had attacked Margotta’s daugh
ter, Dora, twelve years of age.
Margotta led the officers to
a butcher shon where they found
the bullet riddled body of Sca
| turo, thirty-five years of age.
He had been shot five times in
I the head and body. Margotta
I said his twelve-year-old daugh
ter had been attacked on sev
eral occasions by the slain man
I but had kept the attacks a ue
! cret in fear of death.
...
man in me sum ot imy uonars ami
the costs. The ’Squire then took
another chance at “tampering with
wisdom” and assessed a fine of fifty
dollars against Ilakcr with a thirty
day sentence to the county jail, upon
the charge of "obstructing legal
process.” The two cases were duly
entered upon the records and the
convicted immediately accepted the
verdict of the court.
EXPill
FROM SENATE
TO MR WILSON
Resolution Adbpted Instruct
ing Vice- President Cool
idge to Send Message
Former President.
(By The United Press)
Washington. Dec. 28.—The
United States Senate today
passed a Resolution instruct
ing Vice-President Coolidge to
express to Former President
Woodrow Wilson the “great
pleasure and joy with which the
United States Senate has heard
news of his recovery to good
i health.”
SHIP SUBSIDY
PET MEASURE
GIVEN REVIEW
Indications Point to a Final
Defeat of Measure—
Only Passenger Ships
Benefitted.
—
(Special Correspondence, t
Washington, I>. C„ Dec, 28.—Op
ponents of the President's ship bonus
bill now before the Senate believe
that its defeat or withdrawal hat
been assured by the showing, that
its chief beneficiaries would not be
the operators of cargo carriers but
powerful corporations operating pas
longer vessels, that on the basis ol
1 computing compensation fixed by the
Shipping Hoard ships going iighl
of cargo would receive the same
sums in subsidies as if they carried
I full cargo, and that the measure as
it stands "launches the government
upon a tea of trouble and enormous
expense." The Dill does not provide
compensation based upon tonnagi
’ carried, but upon size and speed o
ships.
These are only a few of the ob
jeetious urged against the Presi
dent's pet project Dy the Democratii
minority of the Senate Committee 01
Commerce, but they are regardet
as so vital that unless t'aey are re
moved a majority of the Senate, in
eluding “straight’* Republicans am
western progressive Republicans wil
[vote to kill or recommit the meas
lire.
Chairman Lasker and other offi
jeials of the Harding administratioi
lContinued yu Page Pour)
Deserted, Feet Frozen, 8-Year-Old
Lived on Wind-Swent Roof 3 Weeks
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New York, Deo. 27.—How much
is a friend worth? Eight-year-old
Johnny Miller can tell you, for
Johnny has four friends who stuck
“to the finish.”
Deserted by his stepmother, both
feet frozen, Johnny was found
crawling across a tenement roof on
which be had slept for three weeks.
“Only I didn’t sleeD much,” John-|
ny confesses. “My shoes had holes
and snow got in under mv feet. My!
feet would wake me up.”
From his warm bed in the Heck-1
slier Foundation hospital, where the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty j
to Children is now keeping him,1
Johnny sings a paeon of praise fori
his friends, Fishy, Natie, Johnny'
and Pashie.
“I got good friends, anyway,” he
beams. ‘-‘They told me about the
tank. Fishy fixed it for me to wash
in his hall with soap. Natie gave
me his pants. They got too small
for him. Fishy got me stockings.
In the tank I dressed all up with
the stuff to keep warm.
“Fishy got me an old mattress
. -. - ■'
out of the cellar. I told him my
feet was cold and the boys brought
me a box to put them in on cold
nights. They would worry about
me all the time. Natie sells frank
furters and all the time he asks me
if l want .one* -
“Once when my mother was alive
Santa came. She is two years dead
now. Not everybody i3 good like
her. When I grow up I make my
stepmother feel bad if I can find
her. But I don’t care.
“My friends I got, anyway.”
VETERANS IN
SENATE CLASH
OVER PROJECT!
_
Lodge and Borah Face Each
Other in F'ight About
the Arms Con
ference.
; Washington, Dee. 28.—Adminis
tration senators under the lead of
!Chairman Lodge of the foreign re
llations commission, begun in the
senate yesterday a determined fight
against the proposal of Senator
Uorah, Republican, Idaho, for a new
International conference in Wash
ington to discuss economic condi- j
tious and disarmament.
Senator Lodge, who was said by I
his colleagues to have ascertained
ithe views of President Harding and
j liis administration advisers, opened
i Ilia attack as soon as fhe senate be
gan work on the Uorah proposal,
I which is in the form of on anjend
jment to the annual naval bill re
;questing the president to call an
leconomic and armaments conference.
I The fight on the senate floor bo
gan after a score of administration
'senators had conferred ni Senator
| Lodge’s offices uuc: mapped out a
| program providing for a resort to
parliamentary tactics if necessary
. j to defeat the move hy Senator Uorah.
,i Part of. the senate irreconcilable*
who have voted with Mr. Uorah on
(many other questions of foreign
polidfT also wtts arrayed against his
amendment, while the altitude of
, the Democratic side of the chamber
seemed to be a waiting one, with
[ many members unUeeided whether
. j to support or oppose the conference
. plan.
j! Senator Lodge declared the amend
I ment’s proposal for an econetn’c con
ference was an entirely new subject,
(foreign to the provision put into the
I bill by the house for a further naval
J limitation conference, and was of
I “grave importance."
Reviewing the work of the Wush
I
ington arms conference, the Re
publican leader recalled that Pre
mier Brland had told the conference
that France could not consent to
my limitation of land armament.
“Of course, that put an end to
my further action by the confer
ence on the question of land arma
ment,” said Senator Lodge, “because I
no action could bo taken except by j
unanimous agreement. France may |
iiave changed her attitude within the j
year, but if so, l have no informa-J
tion to that effect. It would he use-,
less to call a conference on land
armament without knowing that
France was ready to withdraw her
objection. It would be futile unless
it was known that the other powers,
were not going to object at the very '
beginning.
WAR FLEET HAS
BEEN ORDERED
RETU AT ONCE
Great Britain Disturbed
Over Attitude of Turks
at Lausanne Confer*
ence Says Report.
(HjA-The United Press.)
London, Dec. 28.—The fleet
of British warships that left
Constantinople last week has
been ordered to return there
immediately as a consequence of
the Turkish attitude at the Lau
B sanne conference, according to
unconfirmed advices received
here today.
The British fleet is under the
Command of Admiral Brock and
will sail from Malta upon the
return voyage this afternoon, it
was announced.
Venezuela, is one of the few coun
tries of the world where there are
'no labor unions.
If snakes did not cast their skins
j they would not grow.
I
CRUEL FATHER
LANDS IN JAIL;
MANSLAUGHTER
Neglects One-Year-Old
Child, Declining to Provide
Medicine; Came to Greene
County From Corning.
(Prom ThurhUiiy’s Daily)
Gene Broshears, thirty-four years
of age, is in the county jail on the
charge of manslaughter, awaiting
action of the spring term of the
Greene county grand jury. A he
charge was set against the accused
in Esq. A. B. Hays court last Satur
day, the outgrowth of alleged neg
lect of a one ear-old child thul
dietj December l!Hh near Bard, on
the ' fa mi of F. W. Hathcock, foi
whom the accused had been pick
ing cotton. The man moved ti
Greene county October • 15th, com
ing from Corning, and he and hit
wife and one-year-old child occu
pied a tenant's house on the Hath
cock place, it was stated today.
The case against Broshears foi
lowed an attempt to procure i
death certificate from Dr. E. S
Baker, county health officer. Tin
doctor made the customary inquin
into tho deatii of the infant befon
issuing tho certificate and decide!
it was a case demanding iiivc>stiga
t ion. He and l)r. Ellington, tin
latter of the Bard section, foum
what tlicy regarded as being sub
stantial evidence that Hie infant'
death was due to gross neglect am
recommended a legal iuyestigatioi
with the result that a charge o
manslaughter has been lodge
against the father of the unfortun
ate child.
According to evidence introduce
at the-hearing, the child had bee
ill several weeks. It's body he
j came almost u mm;■< of sores, on
affected part of its body in particn
' lar becoming a most loathsome ai
Diction, the unchecked disease eui
: in^ its way into vital parts of tli
I
VANDALS ENTER
Ml CHURCH AND
RUIN PROPERTY
Sunday School Room and
Main Building Entered
—Locks Broken—Of
ficers After Culprits
(From Tlai rad ay'a n.aily)
An instance of vandalism that, in
/point of unadulterated cussodnessj
of spirit, compares very forcibly and
clearly with acts of sacrilege of
the dark ages and the barbaric re
gions of the earth of the present
day, was that conducted at the
First Methodist ehureh in this city
yesterday afternoon when the annex
and the main building of that house
of worship were broken into, ran
sacked and treated to other indig
nities that were of a most disgraceful
sort of conduct. Leaders of that
church and officers of the law are
upon the look-out for the culprits
who staged the episode, hoping to
bring them to justice.
Tile annex of (.lie church, sit
uated upon the north side of the
'ot—used as a Sunday school room,
was entered by breaking the lock
i nf the door. Sacred pictures that
^ ulorned the walls of the room were
Torn from their places and trampled
| into a soiled mass upon the floor,
j and other marks of vandalism were
I left to indicate the trail of the cul
i irits. The rear of the main church
building was then entered and one
>!' tlie large window glasses of I he
'uditorium on .the second floor of
he structure was broken and other
uischief done in that section of the
dilice. The lower part of the main
| building was then visited and locks
on the compartments used for keep
ing Sunday school and other chtirch
literature and supplies were broken
and the contents of the compart
ments scattered about the floor and
much of the stock destroyed or soiled.
It is difficult .to reajize that a
civilized community could lie pos
sessed of characters committing such
depredations, but the evidence left
by the culprits who invaded the
sanctuary yesterday afternoon sup
plies ample proof of the fact they
are really here. It is doubtful if
parental corrective measures would
prove ample in a case of this sort.
The more stern process of a trial
court, evidently, would come nearer
to measuring out the deserved de
gree of justice.
BOMB IS SENT
J. A. CHAPMAN
j - . ...... . J
.
Thought Package Was
Christmas Gift — Mrs.
Chapman Cannot Live
—House Wrecked.
(Uy The United rrcss.)
Marshfield, Wis, Dec. 28.V -
James A. Chapman and wife
were seriously injured last night
bv the explosion of a bomb.
The bomb was received through
the mails and was wrapped as a
j Christmas gift.
the wrapping was removed, re
leasing a rubber band con- ,
trivance which set off the blast.
The full charge of the explosion
was received by Mrs, Chapman,
striking her in the abdomen.
Attending physicians said this
afternoon that she cannot sur
vive the iniurics.
Mr. Chapman’s arm was so
badlv mangled it was ampu
tated. He also received nu
merous wounds about the body
and race which may prove fatal.
The bomb was filled with
slugs of iron, glass and nails.
The explosion practically
wrecked the house.
M infant’s body. It was stated that
11medical attention would have averted
• | tile ravages or the affliction hut
11 this was denied the helpless victim
I and it was permitted to romair
II ill a condition of misery and un
f[Cleanliness till death brought it re
1 lief. The mother of the child, ac
-, cording to impressions of thosi
! testifying, was helpless to afford
I her babe needed attention, only
II bathing it the best she could until
- death finally overshadowed its life,
ej According to the attending physi
- cians, tlie case against the accused
- lather is a most serious one and
will he pressed in the criminal divi
e sion of circuit court.
1
MR. ARMOUR IS
TO RETIRE FROM
THE PRESIDENCY
This Step Likely to Occur
When Purchase of Mor
ris Company is Final
ly Consummated.
< TSy The United l:reas.)
Chicago, Dec. 28.—The letire
mcnt of J. Ogden Amour from
the presidency of the packing
company bearing his name, with
the completion of the purchase
of the Morris Packing Company,
was foiccast in financial circles
today.
According to these reports
Mr. Armour would, in event of
his retirement from the presi
dency, become chairman of the
board of directors, and F. Ed
son White, at present the vice
president of the company, will
become president. Mr. White
has been with the Armour com
pany for many years and is |
largely known for his selling
ability. During the World War <
Mr. White bore the distinction
of being the world’s greatest
salesman, due to his successful
handling of huge government
orders.
UNITED STATES
MAKES PLAIN 1
ITS POSITION!
Supports Allies Against the
Turks at Lausanne--- * |
Conference May Break |
Up Any Minute. ’ ^
(By The United Pr«M.)
Lausanne, Switzerland, Dee.
28.—The United States sap
ported the Allies against the
Turks today at the Lausanne
conference as the session neared
the breaking point. Open defi
ance was issued by Marquis
Cursons in which he wanned
that if further efforts were '
made by the Turks to secure
the Mosul oil fields, would, lead
to a break-down of the parley.
The Turk’s position was voiced
by Ismet Pasha when the con
ference opened.
France backed Great Britain
in this matter, French minister
declaring he was amaaed at
Pasha’s declaration. Richard ,■* a
Washburn Child, Amerieaa ob
server, the voiced United 8tates’
support of the Allied demands
for proper guarantees. "The
United States,” Mr. Childs said,
“considers her rights under the
capitulations still exist."
The conference th» afternoon,
it was considered, is likely to
break any minute.
/I_1__. v
uictM ucituug Acaujr.
Athens, Greece, Dec, 88.—
The Greek government this sl
tcrnoon is planning to rush on*
hundred thousand troops to
Eastern Thrace to fight the
Turks in event of a break-down
of the Lausanne conference.
OSCEOLAF
THREATENED
BY BIG FIRE
Wide Swath Cut Through
Business Section in Heart
of City—Starts in
Negro Hotel.
Our. tola, Ark., Dec. 2R.—Fanned
by a strong south wind, a devastat
ing fire for two hours yesterday aft
ernoon threatened to wipe out the
town of Osceola, and after having
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COTTON MARKET
Quotations—Futures
---- ■ ■ • Magi
(Special to The Daily Press.)
New York—January; opened at
26.52; closed at 26.47.