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Show THE DAILY HERALD THE HERALD rtt ii Lnra aaetbf THIRTY-EIGHT- t4M haw in taw Try mm next time H "H. tr4 net. ar y" First in news, first in circulation, first in advertising, NO. 226. YEAR. THE WEATHER fair tonight IT A II (.em-rolland Tuesday ; colder northwest tonight with frost. y and first delivered in the homes. PROVO, UTAH, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1924. PRICE TWO CENTS. bbed Haired Girl. Ban dit Arrested. e e $ 0 9 $ $ o o 0 0 0 0 0 c 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Men Injured In Steel Plant Explosion Saturday Improving REBUILDING THE DESTROYED FOR PUNISHMENT 1R0NT0N CHEMISTRY PLANT Tiny Victim of Brutal Torture Isaac Palmer, master mechanic of the Columbia Steel corporation; Alfred Richans, 690 N. Fifth West street, and Martin Kimber, 671 E. Fifth North street, all of whom were injured at the explosion in the chemistry and laboratory building at the Ironton plant Saturday evening, are gradually improving, according to reports given out at the Aird hospital. None of the men were fatally injured. coke oven plant, Supt. C. T. Keigley of the and Darrell Yancey, who were also slightly injured in the explosion, are able to be back to work again. Preparations were begun early Sunday morning for the Workmen were reconstruction of the chemistry building. the debris of and all up Monday clearing day Sunday busy the explosion and getting the site in condition so that the erection of the building may be commenced immediately. It is understood that masons will be building the walls within a mm . It J or - 7 Orders for the new laboratory equipment have already been sent to Salt Lake City, Chicago and New York. During the construction of the new chemistry building the necessary tests for the operation of the plant will be made in one of the other buildings at the plant. The force of the explosion was so severe that there was nothing left EXPLOSION NEWS. of the $8,000 brick chemistry buildThe first news of the exploing but the concrete foundation. All sion in the chemistry building of the apparatus and the equipment at the Ironton plant came into of the laboratory, said to have been The Herald office just as the valued at more than $20,000, were Sunday edition was going to destroyed. Since the reports were press. The entire building was lifted not authentic and since diffifrom the foundation, the walls and culty was encountered In obthe roof thrown a distance of more taining any information conthan 50 feet. Windows In adjoining the accident, the Suncerning buildings more than 100 yards dis-taday edition was completed bewere shattered. fore the . news of the accident Bricks and other missiles hurled was gathered. iu the air by the explosion struck It was for that reason that the five men who were near the The Herald did not publish building and caused their Injuries. the news .of the explosion in The explosion took place after the the Sunday paper. men working in the laboratory had The account of the accident left for the day and the building was published in The Herald exhad been locked up. Although the tra, 424 copies of which were cause of the accident may never be sold on the streets. definitely known, It is believed by company officials that an open gas jet had permitted gas to escape In the building. According to some of those Injured a fire had started In the laboratory about 5 :'M o'clock Saturday evening. They rushed to the building to assist in extinguishing the blaze but found the door locked. While they were standing on the porch, the explosion blew up the building. The lire burned for a long time in the wood and flammable material The chemistry department of a until the Provo fire department was steel plant is a highly important called to the scene by Sheriff J. D. part of the plant. Figuratively Boyd. The Injured men rushed to the speaking It Is the eyes, ears and Aird hospital where Drs. II . G. Mer- nose of the plant. Indeed, as one rill, I j. W. Onkes, J. W. Aird and Iron manufacturer indicated, "it's Arnold E. Robison bandaged the In- the taster." . The chemistry laboratory of an juries. For a time it was feared that G. iron or steel plant "tastes" the Von Plank, head chemist at the products, raw and manufactured, of plant, was in the building at the the plant. It tests the iron ore, time of the explosion. These fears the coal, the lime, and all the other were allayed, however, when he was raw materials used in the production of iron and steel. It tests the located lit his home. . the gases that come The destruction of the chemistry coke ovens. It building will not interfere with the off the activities which have already begun tests the coke itself to guarantee at the plant, according to officials that it will be the right sort of of of the company. It may delay the coke for the melting and fluxing It tests beginning of the blast rurnace, while the iron ore into plgiron. the operations of the the flow of iron to definitely fix coke oven will continue as heretof- the standard of the iron as to posore. session of carbon and other factors. Without a chemistry department Orders for new enninment to re place that destroyed were made a manufacturer of iron or steel Monday by Mr. Von Planck. It is would be at sea. He wouldn't know wpected that the new equipment what sort of Iron or steel he was But with a chemistry Jf ill be here about the time the new producing. building is completed. department at his elbow the manu wnat graae The accident will not delay the facturer knows exactly step day celebration to be held of iron or steel he turns out Hence the need for the immediate J'ine 7, according to E. S. Hinckley, chairman of the executive com- rebuilding of the chemistry laboramittee of the celebration. tory at the Columbia Steel corporation plant EMIGRATION CONDIIONS Gordon von Planck, chief chemist DISCUSSED BEFORE CLUB of the Columbia Steel corporation, superintended the building of the SPANISH FORK, April 21. up Saturday laboratory blown rne Immigration Laws the equipment Pending evening. He installed wfore Congress" and "The Immi- said to be worth some $20,000. Fourteen years ago Mr. vongration Conditions." hv Jnmes Christinnson, were the main topics Planck superintended the buildr the Kiwanis club luncheon given ine and equipping of the Columma the Cottam cafe Steel company's chemical laboratory Friday night. Mr. Christianso the mem-wr- s at Pittsburg, Calif., coming irom nurged to support the bills before that plant to this. C. H. Allred, forest ranger, WW of "forest itnME. Anril 21. (INS) Roman protection" week and its observance, also the was today conferred upcitizenship necessity r Protecting the natural waters- on Premier Benito Mussolini, whose heds. home is in Milan. F- J. Faux of the music depart-jnen- t of the high school told of MOTHER SEEKS SON. national musical observance" Mrs. Paul F. Laue, 201 Heml-lebeginning May 8, and reconi-D,'dthat the week be fittingly street of Macon, Gfl., is seeking information regnrding the whereabouts of her son, GIRL ARRIVES. V. A. Lntic. In a letter to the Provo Chamber of Commerce A pound baby birl arrived at the last known address of her "r Mr. and Mrs. Charles son wns four or five years ago ; ",' ,!'" when he was in Provo. Friday nfternoon. Mother uur.y are doing nicely. " Chemical Laboratory Iron Factor con-8res- s. - l. y By HAROLD MATSON. NEA Service Staff Vrit-r- . BOSTON April 21. A four year-olboy, strung up by his thumbs, beaten with a hroomsteik until black welts covered his white little body, struck so hard that the bone iu his left arm split Strung tip by the thumbs until (he cord cut away the flesh, baring the bone! It is (he unbelievable story of His Billy Mehegiin, but true. bruised and battered body is the evidence. Billy, naturallv a lively bov, is happily surprised to find Unit this sort of treatment is not the regular way to handle little boys. Ho is lying in the city hospital here. his broken arm in splint his welted back healing tinder salve and bandages, his raw thumbs beimr soothed with more salve and soft thitiKs like cotton and the hands of d day or two. d NOTED WOMAN AUTHOR DEAD DEATH OF BABY HUNG BY THUMBS PREPARATIONS BEGUN FOR kind nurses. illiam Mehegan. agtd 4. recovering from the effects of bein-- r huns un by the thumbs, the fashion of ancient methods of torture. He wan welts covered his body. Mrs. A blrms"-- l unti' Ruby U mmms. Maw., in whose care the child had been placed, is under arrest charged with mistreating the chilj. CONFISCATED LIQUOR SENT TO DAUHGERTY HOME, CHARGE International News Service. WASHINGTON, April "Four or six ouarts as I remit now." . , , Liquor confiscated by government "How was it delivered?" officers In enforcing the national "In an automobile, a department prohibition act was delivered to the II. street home of Former Attorney of justice car," said Boucher. "The General Harry M. Daugherty in always delivered the liquor in bui Washington, H. M. Boucher, a form eau cars." Under further examination by er department of justice agent testified today before the Wheeler-Brookha- Senator Jones, Republican, Washcommittee. Boucher guid ington, Boucher admitted he could not tell whether the liquor evei he made the delivery himself. "You delivered this liquor to reached Daugherty or Jesse Smith, Daugherty's house?" Senator Brook-har- t who lived with Daugherty. asked. Liquor seizures by department ot "I acted as guard, some other justice agents, he said were sorted for good and bad liquor. men carried it." "How did you get this liquor?" "They kept the good liquor in the "It was kept in a safe in the chiefs office and the poor liquor "They al- was sent down to the basement or office," said Boucher. back to a warehouse," the witness ways had a big supply there." added: "I saw them sort it in the "For what purpose?" "Principally, it seemed to pass out chief's office." "Who did the sorting?" to visitors." 'The chiefs secretary and an "What was the quality of the agent named Alden." liquor?" "The best." "How much was it?" WASHINGTON, April 21. Rep resentative Frederick H. Gillet, of Massachusetts, speaker of the house of representatives, appeared today combefore the Wheeler-Brookhamittee to defend himself against the charge that he received confis cated liquors from department of I 21. rt UST CURTAIN; rt DUSE IS DEAD "And I'm going to play games," he confides to Herbie, a little boy lying in the next bed. "Out of doors !" It is almost incredible to Billy out of doors ! He couldn't play out of doors before. He could only watch other boys play from the window. And that was tiresome so he. would Invent his own games to play But they were noisy and he would be whipped if he was noisy in the house. So his little head finally came on the great delight of making paper "irplanes to shoot out of the win dow. Then that too was forbidden There was nothing to do but to be "seen and not heard." He dared to play the airplane game again. I he temptation was too strong. And for this little prank Billv paid dearly. He was suddenly tied bv the thumbs to a long cord, and then lifted until the cord looped over a heavy screw-eye- . Thus strunir tip, so that he could not touch the floor with his feet, Billy hung helplessly while a broomstick was brought down on his body, blow after blow. Once It struck his arm and there was a terrible pain. Finally the blows were stopped, but Billy hung there for a half hour. Then he was let down. He doesn't remember more, but accord ing to the confession to the police Billy was again strung up for a half hour. But it is not the sort of punishment Billy will ever suffer again. The nurse is in jail. The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children will prosecute her. And Billy, lying safely In a hospital cot, will go back to his father, Edward of Roxbury. "And play out of doors!" Billy reminds you. SEARCH FOR justice agents. Gillet branded the story as "abfalse." He was permitted solutely Famous Actress Passes Away to cross examine H. L. Seaife, formWith After Battle er department of justice agent, who had made the charge. Influenza. Gillett demanded to know where Scaife got his information that the Police Looking for Someone International News Service. PITTSBURGH, April 21. ine confiscated liquor was sent to hts to Claim Ownership to curtain went down for the last time- office. "From Representative Woodruff, i in the life of Eleonora Duse, tne wStray Casket. famous Italian tragedienne (Republican of Michigan.))" Scaife1 vear-olnr. 2:30 o'clock this morning wnen said. FOUND An unused coffin, somewhat soiled on the outside. "Did Woodruff tell you I received she died at a local hotel here, after Owner may have same by callliquor from the department of Jussuffering two weeks from influenza. Dr. Chas. J. Barone ana tne won. tice," Gillett demanded. ing at the police station. "Yes and from other persons," Catherine Onslow, the actress' comthe when The police station Monday mornsaid Scaife. panion were at the bedside "What did Woodruff tell your end came, according to hotel at ing took on the semblance of a secon"Mr. Woodruff told me you had d-hand taches undertaking parlor, when , "Le Duse s" death was unexpected the receipts to show the disposition police officers carried into the office a casket about four feet long. as it had been reported late yester- of this liquor." im Onee upon a time it had been white, "Did you see them?" day that she was somewhat "No, Judge Daniel T. Wright said but its present appearance bespeaks proved. the records of the department a closeness to coal. Madam unse s last appem had been The before the public was in this city showed a trunk of liquor was sent April 5, when she appeared in "The to your office," said Scaife. "Do placed against the door of a Center street business office sometime Closed Door" to an emuusiasm: you deny that?" "I certainly do," said Gillett. nudience that packed the theater. early Monday morning and was When Scaife attempted to ques- found there by the proprietor of the It was a few days after this performance that the actress was tion Gillett further, the speaker establishment Having no particuuse for the coffin, he called the lar stricken with Influenza and was said: "I'm not on trial here. I thought attention of the police officers to it forced to cancel the rest of her engagements In the United States. She vou were going to answer the ques- nnd asked that they remove it from his place of business. showed some improvement and tions." How the casket happened to be seemed to be out of danger when worse. BABY DIES. left in the place where it was found last there was a turn for the near Miss Beth Juanita Bird, or where it came from originally Madame Duse was born daughter of Mr. and has not been learned by the police Vigevano. Pavia, in a wagon that carried strolling players from place Mrs. Orson Bird, died at the family department. Inquiries at the two after an undertaking establishments of the residence this morning, to place In Italy. sho first, appeared on the stage illness of four days. city did not shed any light as to in minor -- hon 12 venrs of nee. The child is survived by her pa- the ownership of the coffin, accordrents, one sister, Mary, and six ing to Chief Wilkins. As far as parts. At the aire of 20 she won recogni brothers, LnMar, Vaughn, Stanford, the proprietors were able to deter no tion in Naples as an nefro of great Weston, Ralph and Lynn. Funeral mine irom a nasty inventory Madame Duse came to announcements will be made later. casket is unaccounted for at either power She married establishment. America In 1893. v BATTER INSPECTION, Signor Chiccl, a member of her In MonC be will from who she separated BILBAO, April 21. (INS) The inspected Battery John J. visiting Uruguayan football team to Month America some years later. day evening by Major when Chiccl abandoned the stage to Waterman of t'. o regular field ar- - day defeated the Bilbao athletic club to Argentine.tuiery. l 2 to 1. become COFFIN OWNER d death-remind- com-n.in- consul-genera- BE ENFORCED SAYS SHERIFF Several Auto Speeders Ar- rested by City and County Officers. WILL ENDEAVOR TO REDUCE ACCIDENTS State Highway in Utah County to Re Patrolcd by Traffic Officer. With the presence once more of warmer weather and a clear blue sky, traffic officers throughout the county are again zealously watching for the auto driver, who, filled with the exbilirating spring air and the bouyancy of rejuvenated energy, steps too hard on the gas Ten speeders were arrested In Provo and in various parts tit the Thousands of aucouuty Sunday. tomobiles traveled over the state highway Sunday. To protect life and property the traffic officers kept constant vigil for those who were inclined to drive faster than would be safe for themselves and others. Deputy Sheriff George H. Davis, who patrols the Utah county highways on a motor cycle, arrested four for speeding and Traffic Officer Ed Van Wagonen notified six to report at the police station for breaking the speed laws. Those arrested by Deputy Davis were: Joseph Rupper of Salt Lake City, A. Bmnort of Salt Lake City and W. I). Edy of Heber. Dennty Sheriff Karl Boshnrd arrested Waiter Lawson, C2S South First West street, who was speeding between: Provo and Spriugville. Among those a rrested by Officer Van Wagonen were Attorney Henry C. Allen of Salt Lake City, Elmer Lovoridge of Provo Bench, Clifford Olson of Lake View, Ferris e of Magna, B. W. Foote of Salt Lake City and C. B. Allred of Provo. "We intend to enforce the traffic ordinance throughout the county," said Sheriff Boyd in- commenting on the number of arrests made. "We do this to prevent accident both to the man arrested and other autoists who do not drive at a rapid Culli-mor- speed. "Too many accidents' occured on the Utah county highways last sutn- mer and we are going to do every-- 1 thing in our power to reduce the ac-- . cident list this year. There is no on our necessiry ror speeding. roads which are extensivelyl travelled every day It is extremely dan gerous to drive at a rapid rate of speed. Some of the men who were ar rested complained that they did not know that the county had started to pick up speeders and thought that notice should have been made in the newspapers to that effect liefore That is any arrests were made. pure child's talk and nothing more than- a straw by hich the speeders are trying to save themselves from a fine. The traffic laws have been in ex istence for a numlier of years and suouio. oe Known to an auto drivers, iu emureiug luese iws we are jusi as much interested in the lives of the man arrested and those riding with him as we are in those whom he Is constantly meeting on the road. The speed laws and all the laws regarding the lighting of the car as well as the conditions of brakes, will be enforced in Utah county. This should be welcomed by the auto drivers since they can rest assured that traveling on the state and county highways of Utah coun ty will be safe." Some of the speeders arrested Sunday appeared before Judge James B. Tucker Monday morning and were fined $15 each. Judge Tucker, in passing sen- teme, served notice that after Monday the fines would increase to $25 where they would remain until it became necessary, in the interest of safety, to increase them. "The city court .will cooperate with the officers in every way possible to decrease the accidents on our highways," said Judge Tucker. e are going to begin early to give large fines for the violation of the traffic ordinances so that of fenses of that kind will be very rare as the traffic Increases with the warmer weather." SELL NINE FORI) TRUCKS. The Anderson Garage and Machine company. Ford dealers in Provo, have sold a fleet of nine Ford ton trucks to the Reynolds Ely Construction .company of Spriugville. The trucks will be used in road construction work in Sanpet" county Hiis summer. This is the second large order on Ford trucks being sold bv the local dealers during the past two months. STHATFORD ON AVON, England, April 21. (INS.) Marie CoreUl. one of the best known and widely read women novelists of the present day, died at her home here today after an illness of six weeks. Miss CoreUl was (HI years old and of mixed Italian and Scot- FOLLOWED BY GIRL'S ARREST "Robbed-haire- d tish pareutage. In her childhood she was adopted by Charles McKay, well known song writer nnd novelist. She was educated iu a French convent. Her first book, "A Romance of Two was an immediate Worlds," OFFICERS OF 17 success. Among Miss Corclli's oilier novels are : "Worm"Vendetta." "Tliolm,-i,wood." "The Young 1 liana," "My Little Bit," The Soul of "The l.ilith," "Harabbas," Master Christian," and "The .Murder of Dclicin." ACCUSE HER CASES STICK-U- P Girl, Game to Last, Holds Up Her Captors With Revolver. (iIRL CONFESSES Girls' Joy Ride End In Bandit," Mourning Raby's Death, Confesses Robberies. Jail CRIME. JACKSONVILLE, Fin., April over (INS.) Mourning the death of her baby which was buried only a few hours before her rapture, Cella Cooney, New York's "bobbed haired bandit" today confessed to taking part in 14 robberies iu that city, according to police, and said she was "glad it's all over." Surrounded by a guard of officers, she and her husband, Edward Cooney, boarded a train at noon for New Tork City. They waived extradition. 21. International Newi Scrrice. Julia Fields and Clara Reagon, JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 21. two Ogden girls, had a Shaking her short hair, Celia real joyride Sunday. It started Cooney, known in New l'ork as the out early in the morning at Ogden "Bobbed-hairebandit," today and ended late In the evening in the juvenile room of the county Jail smiled and declared she was "glad" nt Provo. The day's enjoyment when police snid she nnd her husincluded an unexpected ride in the band would be returned to New county automobile from Thistle to Provo with Deputy Sheriff Otto Tork tonight. The two were captured here hist night. Birk as the chauffeur. While walking along the state When arrested, the girl bandit highway at Riverside Sunday was mourning over the loss of her morning, so goes the story the girls baby which was buried told Sheriff J. I). Boyd and Deputy ouly a few hours before her capture. Officers said, after following her Birk, the girls were picked up by a young man driving a Buick road through 13 states, they finally loster. The auto passed through cated the two in an apartment here. rarmington, Knit Lake City and they entered and found themMurray nnd continued on through selves looking into the barrel of a Provo and other Utah county cities. revolver held by the girl. The young man is said to have She demanded that they stop and tried to persuade the girls to go they did. Eyes swollen from weepwith him to Sanpete county and ing the girl ordered them to "forCedar City. When the auto party get your guns. She then turned her reached Thistle Sunday afternoon head and In an instant the police the girls began to become alarmed pounced ujion her and took the and decided that they must be weapon. niKen oacs nome it rne r hp-- . Edward Cooney, the companion-husbanfound gentleman friend, said today they would Pressing business engagements make no attempt to fight extradiapparently made such an undertak- - tion. One of the officers who made the ing impossible, and instead the driver gently let the girls out of arrests said they are wanted for his car at Thistle while he sped on "seventeen stick-ucharges and the his way through the canyon towards shooting of a National Biscuit comSoldier Summit and his Sanpete pany employe in New York alone." destination. At Thistle the girls told their plight to Mrs. A. L. Pace, who telephoned the sheriff's office and in a few minutes Deputy Birk was on his way to Thistle to bring the girls d d, p THREE INJURED IN AUTO WRECK to Provo. The Fields girl gave her address as 2104 Reaves avenue, and the Reagon girl as 347 Twentieth Car Destroyed As It Turns street. Turtle Near Page School In response to the call from in Pleasant View. Sheriff Boyd an Ogden police offi cer came to Provo today and took the drls back to their home. Three young people were badly shaken up and bruised in an automobile accident V, near tl school at Pleasant View Sunday afternoon about 3 o'clock. Nellie Elliott, daughter of Bishop Robert Elliott, received a cut ear and bruises about the face, Leland Ivers had his face and arms scratched and Merlan Peay sustained a Sheriffs and Police Officers cut on the head. The car, which belonged to the of Utah to Meet in Provo of company Liberty Cleaning in June. Magna, was totally destroyed. According to Deputy Sheriff Otto R. H. Wooten of Ogden- and H. L. Birk, who investigated the accident, Bauer of Salt Lake City, president Ivers was at the wheel. In an efnnd secretary, respectively of the fort to turn the car from one side Utah Mte Division of the Interna- of the road to the other, one of tiona. Association for Identification, the tires came off and the car turned arrived In Provo Monday morning upside down. to make arrangements for the state The injured were taken to the convention of the association to be office of Dr. J. C. Clark. held in Provo some time during the Peay, who is employed by the latter part of June. cleaning company, had been given Details of the convention were permission to take the car while be discussed with the local executive was visiting with friends in Provo. committee in charge of the affair at the office of the Provo Chamber ENGLISH LORD TO SELL LADIES' GOWNS AND HATS of Commerce Monday afternoon. The Provo committee Is composed of Sheriff J. D. Boyd, County Attorney International Newi Service. LONDON, April 21. Lords and Martin M. Lnrsen, Judge Ellas Hansen. Judge James B. Tucker. Mayor Dukes are pretty well engaged in O. K. Hanson and Chief of Police the business world in England these days, but the Earl of Halslmry has Wren Wilkins. given t he clubmen something to talk about by entering the millinery and JAPS HEAR REPORT THAT HUGHES RESIGNS dressmaking business. Lord Hulsbury, who Is 43 years International News Service. old, is a director of "Lascelles, TOKIO, April 21. A report was Limited." carrying on a fashionable circulated in Tokio today that Sec business in Hanover Square. Is the mother-in-laretary of State Chariest E. Hughes Lady would resign his cabinet post prn of Lord Hulsbury, who has vider (lie Japanese immigration bill made a reputation for himself In the was finally approved. legal world and Is also an amateur ARRANGEFOR CONVENTION I Duff-Gordo- |
