The Muscatine Journal from Muscatine, Iowa • 1

I A I -i'-X, i'i'U' f. i A A i i journal SCATI Older Than the 'it I I I ti Xi -i State of Iowa i. Associated Press and IVEA Seryice AND NEWS-TEIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1840 NO. 272 -1' A- MUSCATINE, IOWA; SATUBDAY, NOVEMBER 1 14j 1931 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE I CENTS Shoots Bandits Flees Prison amid. to thine se THE mu Ultimatum I Is Delivered Four! Held t.

i-'ISi-'f1 After Rum Raids Here jeacils Jlowa; h'Ajv'A ni i Lr- rrj Drake -1 Jap General Demands Three I I Woman f- Iowa Purdue Iowa Eleven Battles Powerful Boiler- Purdue Moss Poa. le i 'r Tt lh rh Iowa Clearman Fed ring Letxlnger Miner (C) Voinoff Boswell 1 Mera i Peele Risk Purvis i Tunevich J. Foster i Akin I Dolly Hantelmann Dellavedova Xoufek 'I II- Laws Klckman If Kria Sansen(c) Referee. James Masker, (North Id above, Bulldogs Have Edge But Arej Unable to Score. -F---i Drake: i I low SUtei Briley Templeton Blanck Dixon Bowers i Saddors McMichael Nagel Baker Ettel Olson Bauman Cless: We'll Lindstrom BoWen Brewer i i Grefe Seiberling Schafrth Lansrud Duesenberg i -ip I Ames, la.

(AP)4- Iowa State college of Ames and Drake university of Dea Moines were tied, 0 to 0. in the middle of the third quarter of i their football gain here this aftenjoon. The Drake Bulldogs showed bn expected powerj in the first half, and drove the jAmes. eleven deep into its own territory on several occasions, but they failed to take advantage oi their scoring chances. 1 1 I- i In the inattfer of first downs, the Drak iteam had a decided margin, but niost of them tvere made on drives between the! 20 yard lines, where big gains don't count so heavily.

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Lee Daniels, Loyola; head linesman. Perry Graves, Illinois. I a-j fx 1 Lafayette, Ind. -(AP)- Purdue's powerful took a 7 to 0 lead over Iowa's weak but fighting football team here this afternoon, and were leading by that margin at the end of the first half, The Purdue touchdown came early in the: second quarter. J) ill a': First 'QuarterJU 7 Just before the kickoff the sua broke through the I giving a warm setting.

Purdue won the toss and chose to defend the south goal. Sansen kicked off and Mera returned to his own S3 yard Una. Purvis lost a yard at his i left tackle. Risk's short pass to Yune-vtch was i Incomplete. Risk smashed his left tackle for ten yards.

Purvis punted with the wind and the ball dropped out of bounds on Iowa's 18 yard line. Laws swept' around Iowa's left end for 7 yards before he was chased out of bounds. Hickman bucked his right tackle for I two yards, mlssinsr a IUinOIS Itarm Youth Bound to Grand I i- 1 1 George W. Guile, Walter Shorty" I Phoebe Noble and w. H.

"Sy" Duncan were arrested by raiding squads of city and county officers Friday night after raids on their places; They all waived jl preliminary hearing examination in Justice H. Horst's court this morning and were bound over to the grand jury. ip' Sheriff Fred Nesper, Deputies Jack Pace, and Andy Ernst and Mark Taylor, chief Of police, 1 descended on the Greenleaf 1 cafe at 7:25 Friday night, the scene of three raids during the' past two months, and there officers say 1 they found a gallon of al leged alcohol land a number of empty ibottles. Guile was arrested at place. A.

The! squad then went to a cabin at the foot of Spring street where lit i arrested Beverlin after three gallons of alleged colored hooch. Deputy Sheriffs Jack of the same liquid were found. Officer I Harold Wickey was added to the squad for this raid, i The third swoop was made at a cabin boat near the McKee Button factory ori the river front where Phoebe Noble was arrested when the squad found a small quantity of alleged home brew and one-half pint of alleged hooch. Deputie Sheriffs Jack Pace land Andy Ernst made this I a i At another spot on the river front Chief Taylor and Deputies Ernst and Pace found Duncan and also one-half pint of alleged brandy and one-half gallon of alleged alcohol. Mrs.

Nyenhuis Taken by Death of Drury Township Succumbs; Funeral Serv- Bo Monday. "Amelia Victoria Nyenhuis, 58, died Hershey hospital at 10 o'clock Friday night after an illness of two weeka i Amelia Victoria Fry was born at Millersburg, Aug. 10. 1873. the daughter of John J.

and Barbara Melllnger Fry. She had been a resident of Drury township. 111., for 21 i years. She was married to WendeU B. Nyenhuis In 1891.

She was a member of the Foster, 111., Baptist church. 1 Surviving are her husband; two children, Mrs. Maura Ranke, i and Wendell J. Nyenhuis, Drury township; two brothers, Ira Fry; Muscatine, and David Fry, New Boston; one sister, Mrs. Mary Cassidy, I.

California; four I Funeral services will be conducted at the Fairbanks Home for Funerals at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon by the Rev Caleb Larson of Illinois City, i Burial will be In the Illinois City cemetery. The body will remain at the Fairbanks chapel until services. Wins Husking a- 1 I I first down by onej yard, Sansen smashed center for first down on his 29 yard line. Sansen tried the same spot! and failed to gain, around right end. Laws picket up a yard on a crack at i his left guard.

II If i Gregory, Dowllng, 27-year-old banker, is tired of having bank bandits hold up the Midland Savings bank of St Louis. It had! happened twice before, so two men walked in and demanded the nwiey the third time, Dowllng reached for his re volver instead of the cash. One bandit was killed and the other was wounded. Dowllng was shot three times. Born I 1 i After Death of Mo titer Columbus, O.

(AP) A baby girl was born alive 15 minutes after the mother died of Injuries received in an automobile acd- dent here Friday, night. I Struck by an automobile, the mother, Anna' Martin, 16dleden route to a hospital, victim of a fractured skull, and crushed chest. Physicians performed a caesarian operation e.nd the baby, weighing 7 pounds, was revived an hour after its birth of hospital, said quick attendlniTDhvsicians ac- counted for the success of the tare operation. Two Sandwich I 1,1 Stands Robbed Thieves Get $7 in Cash and Quantity of Cigars and Candy. Thieves took about J7 in money and a small quantity or cigars and candy In two robberies some time Friday night, i one at th Sandwich Isle 1 in the 300 i block on Cedar street and the -otherl at the Maide-Rite hamburger stand in the 100 block on the came street, according to a report; to police this morning.

ir At ithe Maide-Rite stand tne thieves took cigars and 1 candy after they had forced their way i I A door yielded to the efforu or the robbers at the Sandwich Isle and $5 in bills and 2 in pennies were taken. Kris punted and, Peele, who got the ball on his 35 yard line, ran It 1 Evacuation i of I Tsitsihar. I (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.) Cnlnese i reporta gay ocnerai commanding the Japanese In Mandhuria, haa i delivered a new ultimatum to Mah Chan-Shan, th Chinese gen eral, demanding that he evac uate Tsitsihar Japan will by Nov. 23 or take effective teps." iNew fighting than 40 were in which more reported killed, 7 has taken place near iKaiyuan In the Nonnl sector, the Chinese flankinsr movement 1a continu ing and there were prospects of i heavier fighting. A fresh brigade left Toyko to the cheers of the citizens, i and reports circulated that Heniy Pu-Yl, one time boy emperor of China, is on the way to Harbin to be enthroned under the Jap- anese protection, Instead of: to Mukden as 'wais previously re torted.

i A Moscow newspaper charg ed that "white'f Russians in! Si beria were plotting with Japan to provoke soviet Russia into taking- -a hand in the Manchu- rlan dispute, (Copyright, 19S1, by the Asso- i elated Press.) Tientsin AP) "We will i i Ilgnt lO me lasi man anu me imv bullet' General Man cnan-snan told Chinese newspaper men at Tsitsihar today lafter he returned from an inspection trip at tno front. "i "Our defense: plana are made in accordance with instructions irom Chang Hsueh-Liang. Judging from movements or ine Japanese it seems certain they plan i to launch an attack upon our lines before Nov. 16. I Fight! to End.

"We have made full prepara tiona and are! determined to de fend the territory to the last ditch. The moifale of, our troops leaves nothing to be desired and we will flght ai long as a single soldier remains I Chlneae telegraxna.froru Taltsi bar reported that Japanese caval tv made several attacks on the Wt of the Chinese front line Friday but were thrown back each time. i.j 1 id Additional Troops to Front. Tokyo (AP) A rresh brigade of Japanese army troops left for Manchuria today, I cheered by the Japanese people, and the war i office announced, XJenerai anigeru I Honlo. iManchurlan commander.

has been Instructed to demand the evacuation of the Nonai river area Continued On Page 2, Col. 6.) Bluebeard Trial Set for Dec. 7 Powers Enters Formal Plea of Not Giiilty to Charge of Murder. ICIarksburg, i W. Va.

(AP) Harry F. Powers, indicted! for the killing: of Mrs, Asta Bulck Eicher and her three children of Park Ridge. 111. and Mrs. Dorothy Press lef Lerake.

Worcester, en tered a formal plea of not guilty today to the charge that he killed and Dec 7 was' set as the date for his trial, i powers, accused of luring his victims here by promising to mar ry ithe was arraigned only on! the indictment charging him with murdering1 Mrs. Lemke, ve seperate indictments, one for, each of I the killings, were returned against him by the grand Jury last Tuesday. Defense counsel informed Judge John C. Southern that he would fll a petition seeking a change of venue early next week at a time convenient for the court Evi dence will be offered in support of! the motion sit a time to be fix ed by the court. i I i If a change of venue is granted, the trial date set today will not be effective, since Powers will be removed from the Jurisdiction of the Harrison county circuit court.

AUNT HET "I ain't all perfect house keeper, but I don't keep no shelf full o' i half -empty medicine bottles long after I've forgot what they was tOopycbit. tsan fSibtumers Bradw Here Is Mrs. Irene McCano. 20, who was. captured after escaping from the Missouri penitentiary prison farm.

She was found walking along a road toward Carthage, Mo, where, she said, she hoped to; obtain evidence to fre her husband, Albert, who Is under sentence of death; there for murder. I I Roomer Up on Larceny Count Here Preliminary examination of Alfred Cristy on a cnarge of larceny of $20 from Dan Caple, 937 Lucas street, was under way this morning for more than two hours and at noon was continued until 4 o'clock Oils afternoon when It will be resumed, Fur witgpsaes were fcalled to the stand this Mr. Caple, Mr, Cristy, Melba Faulhaber and Clifford Freyermuth. risty Just finished testimony when the court wa recessed Unl later in the day. 5f ReMod Caple Roms.

C. P. Hanley 1 represented the defendant and H. E. Wijson, coun ty appeared! for the state.

'aU. Mr. Caple testified that Mr. Cristy had approached) him Saturday regarding the renting of two rooms in the Caple house. Sunday morning Mrj and Mrs.

Cristy came to the house and aided Mr. Caple in furnishing the two rooms the Cristyf I were to occupy. 1 1 Mr. Caple said he left a purse containing i $31.33 iri a trouser pocket and! left the trousers on a couch In his kitchen; Saturday night. Sunday night about 6 o'clock he donned ths trousers and found a $20 bill missing.

Says Cristy Had 20 BiU. Miss Faulhaber testified that Cristy came to Freese Inn in South Muscatine Sunday after' noon. purchased a packasre of cigarets and an ice cream cone and tendered a $20 bUl in pay ment. Clifford Freyermuth said Cristy came to his fathers cloth' ing store, on Walnut street about 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon and bought a pair of trousers, a shirt. a sapper jacket and a I hat.

Cristy testified he1 had been (Continued On Page 2, Col. 5.) New U. S. Huge New Bridge Dedicated Largest Single Arch Span In World Of ficiaUy Opened at New York. i K-'- New i York AP Golden shears snipping a bright ribbon add a new bridge today to the engineering marvels bf the metropolis, a.

Arching the flood between Sta-ten Island and N. it Is a 116,000,000 single! arch' structure, longest of its )dnd in the world. i a 1 I Top-halOd officiala represent ing New fjork and New Jersey, several municipalities 'and the en gineering profession were on the list of notables invited for the dedication! ceremony this after VA 1: The rCaes shears employed In bridre open are to pe 1 sent 10 syoney, Ausiraua, where they will be i used next spring in dedicating an arch bridge in Sydney harbor, second largest of Its kind In the world. Then one blade of the scissors will be kept as a memento in Syd ney and the other sent back here. The structure here, an arch span 1.673 feet long, has been under construction since 1929.

The crown of the bridge is 327 feet above the water, and the clearance 150 feet at mid-span. From plaxa to plaxa, the length is about a mil and two-thirds. It is a toll with four traffic lane havinar a capacity of about 5,000 vehicles an hour. 1 Being Hoover Lavs! Plans lor 1 1 Football Scores aiJ Michigan Michigan 0. Washington and TJee, I THIRD PERIOD.

Carnegie TecSi 19 Temple Holy Cross 0 Harvard 7, I Fordham, 0 K. o. Syracuse, 0. Colgate, 14; Dartmouth, fU OrneU, 0. SECOND PERIOD.

1 Oklahoma Missouri 7. Minnesota, Cornell (Iowa 6. i I i GeorgetownJ West Virginia, a. it i Lafayette, IS; Penn State, Pennsylvania, 13; Oeorgla Tech, Three Held on Serious Counts Macklin, Worley and lilJe ieinan Arrested by Muscatine I 'j Police, Ray Macklin faced a charge of larceny of an automobile in aj preliminary hearing at 4 o'clock this afternoon, and JimjWorley widved preliminary bearing on a charge of driving intoxicated inJ Justice H. D.I Horst's court this afternoon.

Lv Hileman, who! gave! his address as Davenport; was arrested Friday night km a charge of jdriv-ing an automobile while and will be given al hearing Monday morning at 9 o'clock, Hileman and Macklin were arrested at 4:45 this morning by Officer Harry Eads and Bob Hunter, special officer, in the 600 block on West Front street. Macklin I is charged with taking Fred Roystera car4 i Macklin was recently released from Ft Madison penitentiary where be served a term on breaking and entering 1 charge, Davenport officers notified local police that Hileman also has prison recordi 1 1 National Poli 'i Secretary Ityde Calls Confer- ence to Be Held In Chi-, cago Nov. 19-21. Chicago (AP) After 150 years without! a land policy, the united states aprupt- ly faces the need for a program to protect the economic ana yoaai values or its acres in farms. To this end Secretary Hyde of the department of agriculture and the Association of Land Grant Colleges i and; Universities have called the first land utilization conference in! history into session here.

zvov. it to 21. States have studied the subject but never before has the national government moved so -broadly to regulate the use of public and pri vate From colonial days it has been assumed that all cut- tlvatable land was destined to be used to inrodnce food and fiber and that the sooner it could be put to that purpose the: better, Toe conference Is a frank refu tation of that an open ad mission mat too much land is be ing, cultivated and a signal! that farms not paying the: cost of production must be retired" if relief for agriculture is to be effective. The conferences recommendations are expected to form the base of state and national legislation to remedy overproduction, maladjust ment or: crops. tax delinquency and farm abandonment.

Sought cy If I I It Revive Home Building ontest CGEflS envt! Beverly Hills, Calif. Some body, foolishly Invited the news paper editors from all ever ta come oat here and now cant get rid! of 'em. lce President Curtis Is still prowling around here from one stndlo to another. I can't teur If I he want to get la the moviea, or is just trying to find a republican. I Th Japanese and the.

China men haven't officially declared war yet. au uus auung ana fighting Is Just rehearsing la case war should be declared. If yoa get killed now. It don't coantJ a lj r. 9 Names Added to Honor List Recheck Uncovers i More Names for Muscatine High School Honor Bon.

A new check at MuscaUne high school I Friday afternoon uncov ered the names of nine more stu dents who did work or better in studies during the past -1 0 weeks and are entitled to mention on the honor roll that was Issued Friday afternoon and published exclusively In The Journal. They are aa follows: Eights Harold 2B. Sevens Helen IB; Edgar I Tlmm. IB: George Moore, 1 3B; and Prank Ogllvie, 4Bi Fives Maryella FuHer 4B. Three Marian Smaller.

2 A Kutn Bpnngporn. 3A. IB. Weather Iowa Unsettled; showers prob able in east and central portions tonight and In extreme east por tion Sunday morning. Somewhat warmer in extreme northeast and cooler in southwest portkm to night.

I Illinois Unsettled, showers to night and probably Sunday forenoon; warmer In extreme north portion tonight; continued mild Sunday. i Weekly Weatker rerecaat. Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday, Nov. 16: Upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys Snow north and rain south portion first of week; fair middle, and rain or snow again about Friday; much colder first of week, temperature rising Thursday or Friday. Biver Stages.

Davenport 2.6, lis L0. 1 MuscaUne 2.6,1 rise 0.6. Keokuk 1A fall 0.2. St. Louis 1J0, rise OJ.

SF Orville Welch; Makes Good Record i in Contest; I Grundy Center AP)i From an Illinois i xarmhouse if Orville Welch, national cornhusklnsr champion 1831. will relen as king of the corn! celt his domin ion the cornfields of elgct states. The 26-year-old fanner from Monticello, who husks corn for fun, works barehanded And uses only a palm hoak. i Downing 18 oontestanfii In the eignLn annual nusxerr tourney, Friday, the new monarch turned in for the 80 minutes) I i A gross busker i ot pounds, to top the field at aa average of 49 tears perl minute, i With only seVen and -one-half pounds lef in his eighty rows of corn. And only 6.8 ounces of husks left for every 100 pourfds.

1 All for a net of 2,196.4 pounds basked, or SM7 bushels. I He is married, lives on a farm with his father and brother. He has husked in seven Illinois state contests and last year was fifth at tne national meet in Norton, Kas. inac it: was iFriday the thir teenth or: that there wai a crowd of 60,000, largest ever to follow a national husklnr meet dldn' bother the champion as Be plodded Hieaauy a own rae so rod rows. Second to Welch was i Theodore Balko, Minnesota champion last year and: runner up this year.

sneu. Iowa Champion Third. i Third in the I running. Iowa's champion Lee Carey. turned in 2,111.1 pounds, SO.

16 buAhels. Fol lowed by the largest group on the neia, nis small the end of the walked behind hands tired toward frayi His wife the wagon and watched him work. EL H. Hendricks, runner-un in tne lowa i tournament, covered the alloted 240 rods and was asslsmed to anotner his feat, however. cost neavuy in ears' left in the field.

Deductions of 154-4 pounds aroppea nun to; sixtn pnce berth. winner uets fioo. t-To the winner goes $100. award ed by farm papers sponsoring the contest Balko. second, took S50 ana the three next In line won lesser; amounts! 'i a uov.

Dan Turner walked a mile and a half to fire a shot run as a starting signal. Because of the traffic jam, the Iowa, executive was unable to get his car within Continued On Page 2. CoL 5.) 1 'i i I i i I I Quicklime Grave f.Mjiti.UiiMlTed j- I Chicago CAP) The qulckHme grave mystery of Mc Henry county was back where it started as far as the vlcuai as the missing wife of Stanley Stel- macnowsia was concerned, police said today. -j An anonymous telephone call to detective headquarters assured the police that Mrs. Stehnachow- skl was stm ahve, and; that ahe had fled front her husband, be cause he "had; beaten me, blackening both my eyes 4 Stelmachowski and hi sister- in-law had Identified underclothing, recently found in the shallow grave of a weed torn field near.

Woodstock. as being back to the -46 yard line where Kris downed him. Risk bucked his right side without gain. Kiaic tossed a pass to Feelle, (Continued On Pm: 11. OpL 5.) Robber Eludes Grandiew Man Searched at Point of Gail In Ills Iloma i'jj jf-M if H.

1 Joarnal New Service.) Orandview; -4 Sheriff George Oakes of Louisa county baa been unable to find any trace of an unidentified masked robber, who held up Will McDaniel in his home near this city at o'clock Thursday Mr. McDaniel had been at work In the field, returning to the house about 11 o'clock', i When be came in he saw the man loitering about the barn, but supposed he was Frank Hascher, who makes his home with him. A few minutes after be had en tered the house the robber, wear- I Ing a mask, and 1 carrying a gun, appeared at the door and demand- ed money. McDaniel told him he had none, and fearing violence consented to being searched. Finding nothing on his person the fellow disappeared and McDaniel called the sheriff, but no trace has been found of him.

I i' i A later tevestlratlon showed that the fellow had searched every room, as well aa the cellar, before Mr. McDaniel returned from work. Wapello Shenff Georre Oakes and his force is today continuing the search for the Grandvlew hold up man. The robber is described as roung, slender build, dark hair and dark, sharpj I He was carrying a rifle and wore a handkerchief over bis face as a mask. After leavinr the McDaniel home be disappeared In the woods, where au trace ot niai was lost.

The sheriff Is makinsr an In vestigation of the movements of two suspects, but so far found nothing conclusive. POOR PA Bt CLAUDS CalXAW -Ma was disappointed when Bettys' bean had that privata talk with me.) Ma thought he was aakln" for Bettv. but he was just tryin' to sell me life insurance. (Ooprrtflic WSa iMbOsrers Crsw ceta i 1 i 1 II' i Mrs. DeVore, 67, Taken by Death Death Terminates Extended Illness; Services at 2 p.

m. Monday. Mrs. Lizzie DeVore, 67, died at 11:10 p. m.

FridayJ after aa extended i illness at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. E. Miller, 1200 Isett avenue, with whom she" made her home. Mf Mrs DeVore was born Feb.

29, 1864, In Muscatine county, being a daughter of Benjamin 1 and Res becca Tice. She spent her entire life in this She was married-to Gerrie De Vore at Musqatine 1 March IS, 1882. Mr.f DeYore, a daughter Haule, and a son LeRoy, preced Surviving: are the I following sons and daughters: Mrs. P. D.

Leach, Mrs. A. F. Brown, Mrs. A.

I E. MUler, Will DeVore, all of Muscatine; Mrs. Ralph Siders of Tipton; Leonard DeVore of Cedar Rapids; Fred DeVore of West Liberty; 1 and John DeVore of Ballstone Spa, 'N. Twenty- nve grandchildren land 1 one great grandchild also survive. Funeral services will be con ducted Monday at 2 m.

at the MUler home by the Rev. Ira B. Hawley, of the United Brethren church. Burial will i be at the Overman cemetery near I Atallssa. The i.body will remain at I the Miller.

home. '1 1 a-A- The Wlttich 1 Funeral home is in cnarge' or runeru i arrange- Banks tt of Aims Blow at Frozen Home Building. Credits. .1 i I A I I Washington (AP) A 1 fl, 800,000, blast beneath the frozen home building credit jam is plan ned I by President Hoover through the creation of a nation-wide strine of new federal banks. The I "president announced, late Friday he would request congress to set up a dozen home loan dis count banks, capitalized at around $150,000,000 but capable of advancing 12 times that amount to institutions dealing in smau mori gait loans.

He expecU the re sults 1 to spread fan wise. Among those hoped, for be listed: 1, i ExpectatloBS listed. revival of home building and a resultant increase, in employ Mi It-; An emergency easing of finan cial, strain upon sound banks and associations dealing in home building' securities. A safeguarding against future building slumps. A long-time promotion of home ownership through the financial strengthening i of credit institutions.

A j. 1 Announcement Cause Surprise The chief txecutlve's sudden launching of his plan caused some surprise. 'Although he 1 has con ferred twice, recently with groups bankers, real estate and building and loan association men. still another such conrerence la scheduled for next week. r.

Then, early in December, he will meet a white house conference on home: building and home (Continued On Page 2, Col. that of Mrs. Stelmachowski. 'V- f'. fit 'it- I I x.

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