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THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1928 DAILY EDITION; COPY, THREE CENTS City Would Ask for Water Softener of Water Company Merchant Chief Aged Engineer Weeps As He COMPANY HAS Tells Of St Francis Dam Brofft Draws Thousand Fine On His Second Dollars Court Debut HELLONSTANDS PAT AMD WILL NOT RESIGN If i Leads Demonstration I I if If Los Angeles, March 22. (AP) The cry of a city for water and hew it finally was forced to reach across 250 miles of desert to quench the thirst of its 1,000,000 residents was set forth today In the story of the St. Francis Dam disaster as a civic Impulse which Indirectly caused the loss of more than 400 live 3. This was the story told at the Los Angeles county corner's inquest yesterday into the deaths of 69 victims of the dam break. A parade of expert witnesses engineers, survivors of the deluge and other observers, was begun with the testimony of William Mulholland, agea chief engineer cf the Los Anhie: Aatcr system, who built the Weeping as he told of his fifty years of work In building the great aqueduct system, the engineer insisted that the he had done his best to ct'Wtruct a technically perfect Cam across San Frar'Cisciuito canyon but eventually learned that his "creation had certain defectsJ The site, he said, was a TURNER SAYS HE11 FORCE EARHARrS DRY LIST DONORS LIQUOR CASE BRIEF FILED Prosecutor McKenzie is Ready to Try Bonham Booze Case in Court of Appeals.

Prosecutor McKenzie filed his brief, today, in the appealed liquor case of Wilbur Bonham. It may be heard, this week, by the court of appeals at Portsmouth. Bonham, it will be recalled, was arrested with Ernest Mollahan after their auto had broken down out on the Cincinnati pike and they had hidden its cargo of fifty one maple syrup cans of booze in a near-by ditch. Each was found -guilty of possess ing liquor and fined $500. Their cases were then appealed.

Later, Mollahan got the money to pay out and quickly beat it back to West Virginia. Bonham's appeal is still pending. The case In the upper court In volves chiefly the question of the acceptability of the testimony of John Overstreet, of Charleston, Wv called to the stand after he had sat In the court room and heard all other testimony, although the attorneys for the defense, Gor don, of Charleston, and Day, of this city, had themselves earlier moved that the witnesses be separated. The defendants claim error in the court's ruling rejecting Over-street's evidence, that evidence being an assumption of the entire guilt of the offense charged against Mollohan and Bonham. Overstreet claiming he was the real owner of the machine and the liquor and that he had hidden the liquor in the ditch.

Judge Blosser called attention to the fact that Attorney Gordon, for the denfense, though stating In court that he had only a moment before decided to put Overstreet on the stand, had ridden with him all the way here from Charleston, and added, in rejecting the testimony, "We don't practice law that way In Ohio." Prosecutor McKenzie, of course, maintains the ruling out of Over-street's evidence was not an error in any respect. Legion To Make Street Survey Ross County Post No. 62, American Legion, at its meeting Wednesday night set the date of Sunday, April 1, as the time when members of the post will turn out to make a final survey of the requirements in placing street markers on all of the streets of the city. The matter of the Legion sponsoring boys baseball teams in the county, as recommended by the national organization, was referred to the athletic committee, of which Dr. B.

E. Oliver is chairman, to be re ported on at the next meeting. "GREGG'S SERENADERS" At O. E. S.

Association Dance, this evening, Crescent Club invita tion will be honored. O. E. Temple. William L.

Kevin, vice-president of the Wanamaker store In Phlladel-phia, who was elevated to the head of the vast business by the terme of the will of the late Rodman Wanamaker. Harding Had No "Oil" Bonds IS REPORT OF EXECUTOR OF ESTATE OF DECEASED PRESIDENT. Marlon, March 22 (API-Charles D. Schaffner, executor of the estate of the late President Warren G. Harding, today announced that an examination of his records by a special investigator of the senate public lands committee definitely established the late president possessed none of the worth of Continental Trading Company bonds involved in the Teapot Dome oil scandal, Mr.

Schaffner said that WU-iam F. Allen, acting as special investigator for the senate committee, completed the investigation of the late president's records yesterday and expected to present his findings to Senator Thomas J. Walsh in Washington late today. Mr. Schaffner said an examina tion of tho late president's records revealed he had only two bonds of the First Liberty Loan, and both of them were for denominations of $500.

All of the Liberty Bonds involved In the holdings of the Continental Trading Company were of the First Liberty Loan and were of $1,000 denominations. Serial numbers of the two bonds held in the Harding estate of the First Liberty Loan were given as 6520 and 6521. neither of which corresponded to the numbers of bonds held by the Continental Trading Company. Investigation of the Harding estate Liberty bonds revealed that the late president had $182,770 (Continued on Second Page) ANDM ALONG SAMEJINES But Under Its Charter Can Only Act By And With Consent of Its Stockholders. Instant Agreement Is Impossible SINCE POWER TO BIND IS NOT VESTED IN DIRECTORS SO LUTION OF THIS REQUEST WOULD COME SOON AS BEST ENGINEERING TALENT COULD WORK IT OUT AND STOCKHOLDERS CONSENT-COMPANY WOULD HAVE NEW RATES IN EFFECT APRIL 1st.

The water committee of council met Wednesday afternoon at the office of City Solicitor J. F. Cut-right to consider with the city's at torneys the recent decision of the Public Utilities Commission in establishing water rates for Chilli-cothe. The meeting resolved itself Into a discussion of a water softener for the city. According to Mayor J.

R. Gunning, tho city officials desire to come to some agreement with the water company in regard to the Installation of a softener before they will take final action on the question asking for a rehearing of the water rate case. While not a new question, it is but recently that the city attorneys have conferred with water company officials in regard to a softener. The plan of the city Is to secure the softener and then raise the rates proportionately, so that the company would be allowed the same rate of return, seven percent, on its new Investment that has been granted by the commission on the present plant. Philip Burgess, the engineer who prepared the city's estimate of the water company property valuation, and who has himself Installed a number of softening plants, has already indicated his opinion as to the probable cost of a softener for the local plant capable of taking care of double the present amount of water consumed.

Burgess" estimate, allowing for construction of the plant and operation for one year was In the neighborhood of $75,000. An allowance of seven percent return on this amount would mean the raising of the rates between three and fourj cents per thousand cubic feet. The rate established by the commission for the first 50,000 cubic feet was 33 1-3 cents per thousand, while the rate with a softener would be about 37 cents. It is pointed out that the saving in soap and plumbing bills would more than offset this increase. The company representatives when this matter was broached to them said that the company intended to modernize its plant Just as quickly as it was possible to do so, after securing the very best engineering talent In the country.

Their plans contemplated the softening of the water along with some other Improvements, such as con necting up dead ends and providing for continuous flow, etc. The company, however, was not In any position to make any promises at this time concerning these matters, because under Its basic organization conditions, such matters would have to be submitted to the (Continued on Second Page) Former Keystone Governor Sprout Dies Chester, Mar. 22. (AP) William C. Bproul, former governor of Pennsylvania, is dead at his home near here.

The end came last night after an Illness of more than a year from a complication of diseases. He was 67 years old. The apex of his political career came in 1920 when his name was placed before the Republican national convention In Chicago for the nomination to the presidency. After receiving 86 votes through seven ballots he withdrew to permit the nomination of Warren Harding and refused to consider the proffer of any other office. FRESH RIVER CATFISH Telephone Echn Bros, something that engineers could not impound.

Declaring the only ones he envied were those who died as his dam collapsed and sent a lake of water down on the sleeping Santa Clara river valley, Mulholland sorrowfully informed the coroner's jury that he could not tell they why the structure broke. Mulholland, builder of all 19 dams in the city's water system, and Stanley Dunham and James Phillips two of his assistants, all testified that there was not the slightest indication of a break preceding the disaster. Mulholland admitted having vis ited St. Francis Dam eleven hours before the break and told of finding a leak which he described as "bad very bad." Pressed for some explanation of the dam collapse, Mulholland said: "i nave a suspicion out it is a i very serious thing to make a charge that I don't even want to utter without having more to show for it." Columbus, March 22. (AP) Attorney General Edward C.

Turner today served notice on the Anti- Saloon League that unless It complies with his demand to make public the list of its contributors, he will "In due time by legal process compel its disclosure." The attorney has repeatedly charged collusion between the league and public utility lobbyists during the last legislative session. In a letter last night, Charles M. Earhart, counsel for the league, challenged Turner to prove his statements and brought a counter charge that the attorney general received "In one fee from a public utility, more than the total sum re- ceived from all sources by the Ohio Anti-Saloon League In the last two years." Replying to Attorney Earhart, the attorney general said he had cer-; tain duties "In respect to both the corrupt practice act and the anti-lobby law. I am strictly within my line of duty in demanding the list of the contributors to your organization. "I now notify you as the attorney for the Anti-Saloon League that if this is not produced voluntarily, I will, in due time by legal process, compel Its disclosure.

"in the meantime, may I assume that your organization will neither destroy nor alter its records?" Acknowledging he had been a utility lawyer and had received large fees "at times when I was not in public office," Turner said he never had tried to conceal the fact. "I cannot help making the deduction," he said, "that there are more or less sour grapes involved In my big Income matter because I did not share that Income with your organization." Troops To Necessary today requested that troops be sent into the county to aid him in maintaining order at Dil-lonvale. The governor told the sheriff that his observers in that district had advised him that the situation does not yet warrant 'the use of troops, and that he, the sheriff, has not used all the means at his disposal in maintaining law and order. The governor' reply to Sheriff Allison follows: "Your telegram of March 21st, asking assistance In enforcing law and order in Jefferson county, acknowledged. My observers report situation does not warrant use of troops which are the state's only police force.

Section twelve thou-send eight hundred eleven, Ohio Statutes, gives you authority to deputize such numbers of citizens as may be necessary to aid and assist in dispersing and taking Into custody violator of this section. Local authority as represented by you has not used all means at its disposal to malntan law and order. Until it is evident that local authority csn not cope with the situation, state forces will not be on Second Page). INCLINED TO THINK COURT WAS JOKING Until the Real Gravity His $1,100 Indebtedness to County on Booze Charges Sank in. Gunning Little Trap Door, WAS HIS UNDOING BROFFT! ATTEMPTED TO SHOW ILLIC-.

IT TOOLS FOR MANUFAC TURE OF LIQUOR DID NOT) BELONG TO HIM, BUT EU DENCE WAS AGAINST HDL A choice little fine of a thousand dollars was handed, late yesterday, by Judge P. J. Blosser to FrecJ Brofft, up before him the second. time within a week on a charge possessing liquor. "Was he Joking or did he realist mean it?" Brofft asked Deputy Sheriff Arthur Crago, who took hin back to the county JaU.

You'll find he meant It, all right," replied Crago. Brofft, It will be recalled, was fin- ed $100 on the first charge 'and warned at that time by Judge Blosser not to come back or he would! get a much stiffer dose. But, like the; cat, he did comeback, and learned that Judge Bloss erls not given to Joking -In aucfc matters. It was the discovery of a trap door leading from a room in Brofft'sj home in Huntington township to the basement and cleverly concealed under some linoleum that led tq Brofft's second arrest by Deputy Sheriff Crago, State Dry Office! Lucas and Federal Officer Davis. Denying strenuously that there, was any such door, Brofft had confessed and disclosed the door aftai Crago had threatened to take an axe and chop through the floor unt less Brofft showed him where th hidden door was.

In court yesterday, Brofft Iirsi declared not only that the part ol a still found In the basement be longed to someone else, but that tha liquor did also. Confronted, how ever, by Crago on the witness stand, Brofft wilted and admitted the liquor was his. There have not been so very manyj $1,000 fines here in liquor cases, bua there have been a few. Among them were: Blnns and Boden, nabbed here ot) their way with liquor to West Vlr glnia, got soaked with $1,000 each for possession, Blnns also getting an additional fine of $100 for tranj portatlon. Both went to Jail, but go) out within sixty days under the in- solvency act.

Phil Stewart didn't get a stralgh) $1,000 fine, but he got an aggregatq fine of that amount when in tbq form of two $500 fines, one for pos session and one for selling. SUES FOR DIVORCE. Mildrsd Ogle, by her attorney, W. M. McKenzie, has sued Chester Ogld for a divorce, for the custody ot their child and for alimony, alleging failure to provide and extremo cruelty.

HUPMOBILE SERVICE STATION I have purchased the entira equipment of Edw. Rost and ara now ready to service all HupmobUu cars. Work In charge of a competent mechanic. Rear No. 119 Main St.

Wm. Mettler, Hupmobild Sales and Service. TAKE YOUR RECEIVER OFf! THE HOOK- and your mind off our troubles. CaH 660 and ask for an ad-taker whenever you have a need that otic of our Classified nH can satisfy! Sends Word That Even Though Senate Requests it He Will Stay on. Gouzens Vents His Spite AGAINST TREASURER HEAD BECAUSE HE nAS QUESTIONED MICHIGAN SENATOR'S INCOME TAX ENS BITTER IN HIS ATTACK ON SENATE FLOOR.

I MELLON WILL NOT RESIGN. Washington, March 22. (AP) Regardless of the result ol the vote in the Senate on the resolution aimed to obtain his retirement from the cabinet, Secretary Mellon will not resign, It was made clear at the Treasury Department today. Washington, March 22. (AP) Urging adoption of his resolution declaring the senate in favor of the resignation of Secretary Mellon, Senator Couzens.

Republican, Michigan, today declared in the senate that the treasury head had proven himself "totally unfit" to hold office Taking the floor soon after indications had come from the treasury that Mr. Mellon would not resign, regardless of the outcome of the senate vote, unless requested to do so by the president, the Michigan Senator said Mellon had been appealed to by Will H. Hays, former chairman of the Republican National Committee to "help conceal" part of Harry F. Sinclair's $160,000 contribution to the Republican 1920 campaign deficit. He recalled Mellon had declined to accept the $50,000 Sinclair bonds brought to him by Hays to be exchanged for a campaign contribution but that the secretary had re fused to tell of the incident.

"Only death finally forced him to talk" Couzens said. "A note on a paper of a dead man, Mr. Pratt, eaylng 'Andy', brought out the story finally of how Mr. Mellon had been tendered these bonds." The Michigan senator who has quarrelled with the treasury for years on tax matters, then went into a detailed discussion of Mr. Melton's testimony recently before the senate oil committee.

Tried To Chisel Their Way Out MUTE EVIDENCE IN S-4 THAT IMPRISONED MEN TRIED TO PIERCE ITS STEEL WALLS, DISCLOSED. Boston, Mar. 22. (AP) Mute evidence that at least some of the 40 entrapped officers and men aboard the submarine S-4 had sought in vain to chisel their way out of their steel tomb has been uncovered bv the naval board of Investigation. The board Is Inspect Ing the craft, now In drydock at the Charlestown navy yard.

The oozy debris of the motor and torpedo compartment decks has clven ud an assortment of cold chisels, hand wrenches and other battering tools while the walls of the motor compartment, scarred and battered by heavy blows, attes ted to the use to which the instru ments had been put. One spot in the motor room, tthere 34 of the crew survived for many hours after the sinking of their ship after its collision with the coast guard destroyer Paulding off Provlncetown last December, showed clearly an attempt to chisel through the steel hull. One by one the dying men In the compartments fore and aft of the pierced and flooded battery room and disabled control compartment had succumbed to the deadly and ever mounting accumulation of carbon monoxide gas. Some fell In to the shallow water on the floor and drowned. Others met death In their bunks, the Investigators found.

PLAN PACKARD FUNERAL Warren, March 22. (AP) Funeral services for James W. rackard, 64, philanthropist and founder and president of the Packard Motor Company of Detroit, were planned here today. Mr. Packard, who was born iiere, Hied at a Cleveland hospital, Tuesday, after, illness of two years.

r4 Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, employee of the Indian Affairs Bureau at Washington, D. is so interested in helping workers that she led a big parade at the capital for higher wagea, Unnrimon Clmirioh IIUUUIHbll I IUUIIOM) Adopt 20 Candidates Modern Woodmen of America had class adoption of 20 new can didates at last night's meeting at Central Labor Union Hall over the Majestic Theatre. The initiation was followed by a banquet. Chilllcothe Camp No.

4111 has now over 600 members and W. W. Lappert, district manager, states that by January, 1st, 1929, the local camp will be 1,000 strong. Mr. Lappert has been district manager for the Madern Woodmen of America over twenty-nine years and the local camp la fortunate to have him with them.

The next class adoption and banquet will be held on Wednesday night, April 18th, at Central Labor Union hall. HOSPITAL NOTES. Mrs. Edwin Gunloch and little son were discharged from the City Hospital today. POULTRY HOUSE TO LOCATE IN THIS CITY The Brownell Company of Washington C.

will open a branch In this city. A deal has been closed for a room in the Clinton Block, on West Water street, it was announced by the Chamber of Commerce today, and the company plans to have its branch open for business on Saturday, March 31. Sherman Brownell will be charge. in Find Detroit Gleaner Shot Dead in Auto Detroit, March 22. (AP) Samuel PolakoiT, vice-president of a cleaners and dyers establishment, here, and former eneral manager of the Retail Cleaners' Union, was found shot to death today at the wheel of his automobile, parked In a street here.

Police attribute Polakoff's death to a price and labor war among cleaners and dyers which has flared up frequently in recent years. patients. Dr. Senteff was Introduced by Dr. Harry T.

Rapp, a member of the club, and a former president of The Ohio Public Health Association. The superintendent said, In "The fight against tuberculosis and against all preventable diseases should interest every one, Of all the blessings of mankind, there is one we should value above all others, and that is good health. However, owing to the perversity of human nature, this great boon Is not properly appreciated until it is either lost to us, or is slipping away, To one who Is well and strong and takes fairly good care of -his health, the question may reasonably arise: How much does any campaign against disease concern (Continued on Fourth Page) SIX MORE ARE NOW INVOLVED In That Bar Exam Tam pering- Half Dozen are Charged With Conspiracy. Columbus, March 22 (AP) Informations charging six Cleve- landers with conspiracy with-Ralph W. E.

Miller, former employe of the clerk of supreme court's office and now serving a seventy day sentence for contempt of court, to obtain a passing grade in the state bar examinations were filed today by At torney General Edward C. Turner, with the supreme court clerk. Roy H. Guilkey, named in the first petition filed, is alleged to have paid Miller $250 to secure a passing grade In the bar examina tlons. He actually received a grade of 72.6 which was raised by Miller to 75.6.

The information requests that liis certificate be revoked and that he be cited for contempt ol court. Minor Creid Is charged with paying Miller $50, but failed the exam ination. The information requests he be cited for contempt of court. Welcome T. Blue 13 alleged to have paid Miller $100 and also fall ed the examination.

It is requested he be cited for contempt of court NOTICE K. OF C. Regular meeting tonight. will not send national guard troops into the Jefferson county coal mining district until it becomes evident that local authorities can no longer maintain order, he advised Sheriff E. T.

Allison, who It will have accommodations for three passengers in addition to the pilot and will have a speed of 128 miles an hour. The pilot will have a clear view In contrast to the Splr It of St. Louis, The interior finish will be the last word In airplane luxury. The seats will be deep-cush ioned leather chairs and the instru ment board will be of mahogany. The nickel plated motor Is prob ablv the most beautiful thing of its kind ever built.

It Is a Wright whirlwind of 220 horsepower and was the gift of builders. Other parts of the plane were also gifts from their builders to Lindbergh. Donahey Refuses To Send Dillon Mine, Holds It Not DR SENTEFF TELLS RIVER CITY ABOUT T. HOSPITAL BRAND NEW ABOUT APRIL 1st. Sheriff's Request for National Guard Disregarded in Face of Col.

Caldwell's Report on Situation. Columbus, Mar. 22. (AP) Governor Donahey New York, March 22 (AP) A luxurious new airplane, with nlckle plated motor, self starter and other conveniences lacking in the Spirit of St. Louis, will be ready for Colonel Charles A.

Lindbergh by April 1. William Mankey, chief engineer for the Mahoney Aircraft Company, builder of the Spirit of St. Louis, has divulged the details of the new plane, which was designed by the flying colonel himself. It will have the same wing spread as his famous Trans-Atlantic plane and something of the same appearance, but will differ In other I LINDY TO HAVE AIRPLANE Explaining the service which Mt. Logan sanitarium at Chilllcothe is rendering the several counties In southern Ohio who have co-operated to build And maintain It, Dr.

L. H. Sentcff, ruperintendent of the Institution, told the Exchange Clu'). of Portsmouth, Wednesday night, that, If Scioto county did not have as many patients as its Investment in tho hospital entitled it, the fault was in that county and not in Mt. Logan, says the Portsmouth Sun.

"We have cared for every patient the commissioners of Scioto coun have sent us," the superintendent said. At the present time, Mt. Logan is at capacity and there are two patients from this county in the institution while, for example, Ross county, in which Chilllcothe and the institution are located, has ten.