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\ _ Mr. King's attorney, A. F. Beaw 'Bjen, took the position that while. all proper questions must be answered, \Be raised the point that such ques tions before a : grand jury must be ' ecompetent evidence--such as would . Ralph L. King, assistant city 644. tor of the:Daily Sun, today was gi¥en B0 days in the county jail for de elining to furnisbhe the grand jury 'the name of the person who told mamot that .graft, conditions bprevar¥Wt s Worth Chicago in con-- mection wifh the operation ' of blind be. admissible before. a petit jury. 'He pointed out that if the grand Efly is caught taking incompetent evidence it is the duty of the --court ?'to stop them. He stated that be-- @m the article in question was ad-- mittedty based upon rumor received ?\m a person who did not: claim to know whether there. was any graft mlx on in North Chicago it stould be regardéd as competent evi-- Assistant City Editor of the Sun " Given 48 Hours to Tell: Who STANDS | ON ° "PRINCIPAL" Attorney Beaubien also staied. S o o s C aeanan s t to tark s 1e S 0 on Pubh "Why doesn't King give the infor-- iegutdammapcinties mation? Because there's a newspaper : j s principal involved, and for mo 'other Science Has saved §tat8s3, **Mr.' Beaubien fur(her stated to the 000,000 by Changing Con-- r. Beaubien er -- struction :*Mr. King in his article l!iu.m mere Atntensamagen ly that rumors were put ie iss mo meormation of aay motii | EXPERIMENTS -- ARE OVER wal that pretended to know anything mm | about graft in North Chicago; he said Mendota, I!1., Feb. 2%5.--How Illinois: if he had such information he would | is now building its hard roads was be glad to give it out, but he has NO | gescribed to a LaSalle county audi-- 'mierely states it is a rumor; what be | yinois road building passed the ex-- said now is not inconsistent with what | perimental stage when résults of the hesaid when he wrote the article:| pates experimental road near Spring-- Huitogy MheX ie wos antvaaing | Attiere meiuost, the porerays eiginie x m who; _ , the P *'mnmm mebod; * i f e .' o k k e e l ts Coq: as a mere per cof Fi#| ~"A few' ypars~-- ~Mis profession:is that of & a".-.;; eto:: 14. .10 man, and he has no informatio® to| 16 feet : 5 to 6 ihch on --glutothecn--l:muwm, ts | the .outside," in 'to Ast $ inclt _ concerning graft in . North : | thickness in the center," . safd _/ he thinks that it would be just fur--| governor. "By the Bates Road tests nishing the Grand Jury witkh hearsay| and experiments it has beén demon-- 'evidence, and --be is sorry. on account| strated that roads break down first ----LIBERTYVILLE INDEPENDENT _ of the personnel of the@ Court and the Grand Jury that this cituation has been "brought© about, -- but 'he cannot answer the question." : Mr. King could escape the jail sen-- tence if ha were to go before the grand jury within 48 hours and fur-- nish them the name of the person who gave him the information which he used as the basis of his nows item, as the court gave him that privilege, but he prefers to serve the fime rath-- er than back up:on the principle that a nEwspaperman keep the identity of hi informants a secret. se w e SCHOOL SO HOLD the Sun declared today. * Kight schools, in the Half Day dis trict, will bold debates on the milk question, 'considering the views of "the producer, the big interests. and the consumer, it was learned today.' '"When Mr. King goes to jail his sAlary will be doubled," the editor of HOLD MEETING SUNDAY The debates are an qutcome of a meeting© that was held Sunday at Prairie View, in which it was decid-- ed that interesting the school chil dren would be a good manner to pre sent both wides of the case .to the varions communities. e Milk . producers, mambera . of -- the varlous locats throughout Lake Coun ty of the Milk Producers Association held a mass meeting at Prairie. View on Sunday at which various phases of the situation ware taken up. The prodvcers are getting ready for a clu"l: 31" may ta::u'::m 1 w a-- prasent An meeting --will; be m -- Whether the producers should or-- ganize and whether they should have greater 'pay for the .produce wil} be some of the questlions taken up in the debates. ie Th 4 2A The meeting held Sunday at Prai He View was attended by . several h""'" mm To ,o .m 0. lh Sianley, and Edward Conrad, were preosont from Waukegan. The hap peniags .at ~previous meatings were discussed at the conference, Judg: MILK PRODUCERS MEET ON SUNDAY NOL. XXXIIL.--NO. 9. Paden lalked. NG GIVEN 30 -- DAYS; REFUSED TO DEBATES ON MILA Tez CONTROVERSY mwlN;R!?F_{I{S_T},CE. ilet Considering the Plight | _ FOUND GUILTY Gave Him: Information. REVEAL NEWS LAKE*COUNTY INDEPENDENT | Late County's Big Weekiy WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN stated: GOV. SMALL TELLS _ LA SALLE PEOPLE OF ROAD BUILDING governor. "By the Bates Road tests and experiments it has beén deémon-- strated that roads break down first on the outside edges, and that roads 5 or 6 inches thick at the outer edge will break--under what is now the le gal weight limit. . 5 s "Our present plans and specifica: tions provide for 18--foot reinforced concrete, 9 inches thick on m side edges, decreasing to 6 | thickness in the 'center,. This de-- sign, adopted as a result of scientific research, has produced roads with a load -- cagrying capacity double that of the old roads. At the same time, it has effected a saving of over $3,-- 000.000 in contracts let-- during the past three years. "Illinois is fortunate that only a tow hundred miles of hard romds were built under the old specifica-- tions, because the cost of maintain-- ln:h' these roads is unreasonably high." 6 Officer from Half Day Convict-- ed in Federal Court of Steal-- --ing Automobiles. WAS NABBED IN OHIO John Farris, former justice of the peace at Half Day, was found gullty in federal court at Chicago Wodnes-- day of transporting a stolen automo-- bile across the Illinois state line. > _ Farris was convicted by a jury in the federal court, The case against him had been pending for six months or more. . He was arrested in an Ohio city last summer with a stolen auto-- mobile in his possession. It was a} leged that he was a member of a big ring which was disposing of stol-- en automobiles in Iilinold, Wisconsin and Ohlo. y . , C Farris has been mixed up in a series of alleged shady deals within the past year. Early last summer he got into a jam with E. J. Corber, a deputy sbherif from Cook county at Deerfeld, and is alleged to have shot that oficer in the log and then fRed in an automoblle. Several weeks later ho surrandered and was ar *"Wop! "That's an right, Th 'got tho raignod in Justics H. C. & eourt, As the case was not euted, the charges later were ) Fa. It was said that mmgfl orber's hospital and Aoctor bl Late in November Farrtis was ar-- rested in Oak Lawn, a Chicago sub urb, on a charge of stealing a whot: m!nnnruflmo(thl place. charges later woere dropped in that Case. : Notice the lines of deep worry on che features of Harry F. Sinclair, oll magnate, who returned to Néw Yorki from Europe. 'The Senate Committee investigating naval oil leases called . him to testify once more, Photogranhed on shipboard. Benlor: --*"Wop, that -- razor JOHN FARRIS, IS Worrying? SEOCTIOXN TWOLIBEBW' LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 19214. ¥r 0040 +o --._.. -- A fite truck, of the pumper. type, was given .a . tryout by the -- village of . Winthrop -- Harbor Sunday. . The m met . with . success and . the e is conkidering making a pur-- HAVE FIRE TRUCK chase. Two fires there of . recent date that cost residents considerable loss, is hastening the board in their decision, it is understood. « JESSIE REED, A FOLLIES STAR, IS WEDDED HERE It started with the hors d'oveuvres and ended with the dessert. A culinary coumhip--pgrham there was some-- thing in the demi--tasse. --At any rate, Mr. Flo Ziegfeld was not called in to referee and the decision went to Will}-- lam F. Young. aral es . tet Elope to Waukegan Sunday Morning and Marries Host After Dinner Party. Miss Jessie Reed, of Mr. Ziegfeld's annual flash of supple youth, became Mrs. Young early Sunday morning at Waukegan. They had motored 'here in --a taxicab from the Tent, North Btate street restaurant, and Justice of the Peace Louis Ekstrand united them in the bonds at hiw home, 730 Lenox DENIES COLT BETROTHAL They returned to Chicago from the elopement at 9:00 o'clock in the morn-- ing; and when the rest of the Follies checked out of the Hotel Sherman and the city Sunday, Mrs. Young, who had danced her way to stardom, stayed be-- hind. avenuc. if 1 want to be married, why, it's my own business!" y eg Aar "What will Mr. Ziegfeld say*" The dancer tilted a bit higher her slightly tilted nose: "What do I care what he says; I'm my own boss and Mr. Young is in the advertising bus-- iness, connected with the Poster Ad-- vertising service in the Wrigley build-- ing. Until yesterday he lived at the Webster hotel. He gave his age as 26. -- Miss Reed said she is 24. -- * Friends Of Mr. Young said 'the To: mance was a rapid fire one. They said he met the follies girl for the first time at 3 o'clock on Saturday a.ttoro} noon:; and that he did all his courting between the courses of an after--the theatre dinner at the Tent--wooaed so ardently that Miss Reed forgot all about Russell Colt and consented to * Mr. Young Sunday night however :m«: his brow and said this was un-- e. Met Her in East. "Now, now," he said; "I'm not such a fast worker. I met Miss Rooed--Mrs. Young--on Long lnll:d four years ago. W;hnvo been close friends ever since." . Mrs. Young, then Miss Reed, told] friends recently that she had received a seven carat diamond engagement ring from Mr. Colt. She did not dis-- play it, however, the friends said, pointing to the recent holdup--of--Gilda Gray, another Follies girl. But_Mrs. Young would not admit this last night. "I have never said I was engaged to Mr. Colt," she answered. "And I cor-- tainly have not received any seven car-- At the Great Lakes Naval Train-- ing Station the new--fangled psychol-- ogical method of increasing speed in code reception while prtly : trained ed gobs sleep is being used with as great success as met the initial sleep instruction tests at Pensacola. * One night, after sending at high speed to 11, -lrplu embryo opera-- tors, equipped in "earmuffs," a petty officer ended his watch with the sode message: "Hey, gobs! Get up! It's five4ifty!" Much to his surprise, the snoring céased, three of the men awoke, '[nfi in a few minutes the other 14 rolled out, asking what wis 'the Imm-. The officer now sadmits night code practice may increase receiving ta ring from any one." spesd, but he knows it will get the atudents up. RADIO CODE GETS _ GOBS OUT OF BED AT GREAT LAKES John L. McCabe, -- Harvard, stock and bond salesman, today announced W u"mu'c eng:uu fi:'l' atate rom uie tr Uecebe vialied in We KWegan today. Charles Hayes of Har-- wawrd and> 'Thomas (Giraham of Lake M'CABE IS OUT FOR LEGISLATURE Follies Leaves Her Behind. wWOMEN ATTENDING THE SMALL MEETINGS Accordingly It is Felt that a HE'LL TELL OF ROAD PLAN . Ag hteumthlnl in : connsection with Gov 's" initial and only meeting l' Waukegan on Wednesday, eyening promoters of the meeting have sent a special invitation to the women of Lake County to attend and hear what the' governor has to say ,q':: the good roads program and on the campaign of villification which Certain interests have pursued to-- ward him and his present campaign. The governor has folowed a very untiring ~plan~ of campaigning for some weeks past, working early and late for what he considers the most important constructive project before the people of lilinois today ana one which when completed will prove the most beneficial to the gr@atest num-- ber, namely the state bond issue sys-- tem of -- hard~ roads and therefore women and men alike are interested in what he is planning to do. F. R. MULLER HOME ROBBED, OFFER A . ~ REWARD OF $50 Despite the condition of the roads all over Lake County it is certain that the governor's meeting at the Armory on Wednesday evening will be-- largely attended for people have been anxiously awaiting his coming here to hear him discuss the present campaign issues his position in which have been misrepresented so vicious-- ly by Chicago newspapers who have been' trying to undermine him and his adm{inistration. The Elks Band has been hired for the occasion and will play down town shortly before the «meeting starts. The band then will proceed to the Armory where it will render a couple of selections in opening the meeting and will play during the progress of the evenings program. 4 The Governor speaks --at Wheaton Wednesday afternoon and will come by motor--from there to Waukegan accordingly it is not known what time he will arrive here and pend-{ ing definite information on his plans for. a reception to the governor are being held in obeyance. If it is {found he can get here in time to hoid a reception. it "probably /' will bear-- ranged for at the Clayton Hotel-- : In ~the" meantime t"'e.!m'n are* being rernor----can gat in to attend "the. #mds were: in ':'.: ter condition: the chances aro 'there would" be thousands of residents of Lake County who would come in to take part in what will be Gov. Small's only meeting in Lake County. Large Number of Waukegan Women Will Greet Gov. Take Radio Set Valued at $250 but Ignore Silverware and Jewels. Reward of $50 has been offered for the apprehension of thieves who entered the home of Franklyn R. Muller, Lake Bluff, and stole a radio valued at $250, by the village board,. it was learned today. -- _The robbery occurred . about two months ago. The reward was of-- fered last week. 0_ _ Mr. Muller, who heads the com-- pany bearing his name in Waukegan. became incensed with the way Lake Bluft. police were handling the af-- fair, and wrote them shortly after the robbery, scoring them for their inability to break up the. petty lthlovery that had been going on in Lake® Bluff for sometime. _ * MULLER SCORES POLICE The Muller home was entered by prying open the front door. 'The thieves ignored expensive silverware and other valuables, but took a radio set that had been purchased but four days before. The burglars, who Mr. Muller thinks were ama-- teurs, neglected to take the batteries or loud speaker, which carried the same value &s the radio set. The homes of William Watrous, and the late Mrs. Cardy, have also been burglarized rccently, Mr. Mul ler declares. Theso . robberies re-- main unsolved, he says. _ Their answer was the offer reward. _ _ _ _ &5A WILLIAM FRAZIER: IS JAILED HERE | William Frazier, negre, was brought : Waukegan courity jatl Sunday night Pittsburgh, Pa., by Deputy Shor-- ift Walter Stark, on a charge of wite desertion. _ w lUved in Waukegan until und made his home on Mar-- ket stroet. Me was to bo arraigned this after bavid home iA io C. B HOME IS SOLD one ALL OVER ST ATE HW. FOR $250,000 . avenue, %#@ "' Gaturdsy sold ~his The accompanying picture shows Miss Jessic Reed, popular Ziegficld Follies star, with Russell Holt, Cleveland boy millionaire, to whom, re-- port had it, she was engaged to be married. Miss Reed cloped--to Wau-- kegan 'Sunday morning with William F. Young of Chicago and they were married at eight o'clock by Justice of the Peace Louis Ekstrand. GUNMAN DRAWS _ {SUBPOENAE MANY _ A FINE OF $200 IN l'mms WIINESSES WAUKEGAN SUNDAY| -- _ TO GRAND JURY Steve Angelo, 23 years old, 628 'Tenth street, who was arrested and fincd--seyeral weeks ago on a charge of having been implicated in a se-- rlous stabbing affray, was arrested again Saturday night at 10:55 o'clock on a charge of carrying concealed weaponsc and with shooting inside the city limits. He spent the night in the city jail and on Sunday morning was fined $200 and costs when he was arraigned before Po liee Magistrate Walter Taylor. According to the evidence present-- ed Angelo insisted that Eli Margott, who also lives at 626 Tenth street, take a drink. Margott d¢clined, say-- ing he did not care for any, Angelo still insisted. > ~ oo a d LANDS AN THE--CITY JML ~--"Many a man has been shot for less than that," he is alleged to bhave replied. At the same time he is al-- leged to have drawn his revolver and fired several shots. All of them went wild. ' 7. wont wild. 4 A report was sent to the police and a short time later Angelo was under arrest and on his way td the police station. Margott * appeared against him at the trial Bunday morning. Angelo admitted _ being drunk but denied the shooting charge. FOSS IS STRONG CANDIDATE FOR SECY. OF NAVY FOSS HAS QUALIFICATIONS The name of George Edmauand Foss of Chicago, former congressman from the tenth congressional district which takes in Lake County, is being mentloned: prominently as a success-- or to Rdawin --Denby as secretary of the navy in President Coolidge's cab-- Inot. In fact It is said that Mr. Foss is one of the three men being consid-- ered for the position by the pres!-- dent. Jobhn Hays Raymond, engineer and inventor, and. former Represen-- tative :Kelly of Michlan are the two others bein favored. 'The fact that Mr. I\'.'Yu chairman of the house nwaval afftairs committ¢e for eight years is saidl to recommenad him w the position. Mr. has thousands of{riends : Lakea County and throughout the dixtrict which he served ofii> ' *and all would be pleased to Waukegan always has been grate ful to : Mr, Poss <for© obtaining the x'lm here: 1t was through ~afforta ~alto «that -- a ~now -- post-- Him as Successor to Denby; Three Men Considered. Jilts Suitor, Elopes Here; Weds Considering t.. An Practically all the justices of the peace and police magistrates in the county were summoned to appear be-- fore the special granf jury today as witnesses, indicating-- that body is out to find out if there are any irregu-- larities in other quarters than North Chicago or°Waukegan. The summons were served over the week--end by many deputies, who combed the county. These included the above named officials of the North: Shore as-- well as many of the inland villages. £00, From present indications the grand Jjury will be in session for some time. CONDUCT SWEEPING PROBE The "territory'" being covered by the grand jurors indicates that they are sparing no pains to get informa-- tion about conditions throughout the county. $ LOUIS SCHEUER, OLD WADSWORTH RESIDENT, DIES Louis Scheuer, 79 years old, . of aWdsworth, -- died at 3 o'clock this morning 'after an illkess of two months. -- Had Accident Two Months Ago and Never Fully Recovered from It His death, it is thought, was has-- tened <~by an accident he suffered several weeks ago when he fell and broke two----ribs. This injury was so .. serious that he never fully re covered, and had been confined to his bed continually. ~ Six children are left in the family besides his wife. All of the chit dren, two sons and four daughters, live in Waukegan. They are Frank and Louis Scheuer, Mrs. _ Alfréd Cashmore, Mrs. Anna Lux, Mrs. Hi+» HAD S$IX C H LL D R E N \"The decéased was a native of Germany, but came to this country many years ago, making his hoime at aWdsworth where he had lived about 40 years. oFr the past 25 years ho had been retired. & Yicto O. Woorts of the Glon Rook Bottling works has announced -- hi# candidacy for asuistant --supervisor abnd> wHl have his. petition in & filed within a few days.. The tions are out . now 4 algned and, it is oxpected . that tgo -cm] sary' number | of ' aigners will be viry. enaally,~Woarls was A Nor the. office at the--last 0 C only a ~tow > votes: WOERTZ IN RACE ©FOR SUPERVISOR Schimme! and Mrse. Lee Zilcriein $1.50 PER YEAR. IN ALV 4 him in the CAPTURE ESCAPFD MURDERER HERE IN MIDNIGHT RAYD »uriounding a house in the comored section in the northwest® part of Waukegan at midnight . Saturday night, Assistant Chief of, Police Lyon, Captain Kennedy, Captain Booth and a couple of other offices pounded on the door and, with their revolvers ready, awaited the response from within to see whether they were to have a gun fight or whether the negro they were after, an escmaped murderer, would put up a battle or would submil to arrest without & fight. Logan was placed in the Wauke gan jail and held there pending the arrival Sunday of a special guard from Joli¢t to take him back to the penitentiary where he wili now be placed and held for the balance of 'his life following a 75 year sen-- tence for murder of his wife several years ago in Peoria. ---- °/ 4 Clifford . Logan,: Who : Killed Wife in Peoria, But Who Es-- When the iesporse came, Ciifford Logan, a 200 pound negro, who es-- captd three months ago from the Horor Farm at Joliet, quietly sur-- rendered and the officers found no weapons in his possession, therefore there was no trouble as they had been <led to believe. might follow when they were about to make the arrest. a 7 f caped in Augt'_nst, Taken. : FINGER PRINT AIDS$: WORK He had behaved so well in prison that a year or so ago he was placed on the honor .farm and continued working there as a model prisoner. However, in November, he took it into his chead that: freedom was much desired and accordingly made his escape. --Since that time state authoriti¢és have been lookin@ -- for 'They gained no trace otf him al+ though a search was kept up. all over the state. Finally several days ago a Waukegan man who had been in Joliet, tipped it off to Elmer J. Green, state -- superintendent -- of prisons, that he believed Logan was in Waukegan.. Accordingly when Mr. Green went to. Joliet he procured a brought :h'o'm d«g Wau?ea:t.' ho'g ~ x she them > to {.N, man .who . had giv oi e Phacl o hy + n chont the strocls gen seen about the streets in Wau-- -- He did not chappen to see him again : but : Mr,. Green: managed . to get trmrdg'zho escaped -- prisoner and acco ly Saturday afternoon asked Chief Lyon to bring about the arfest. Hoe warned him not te Eo to Logan's residence until about midnight and to --go fully.. prepartd for a battle because Logan had & bad reputation before being placed in -- Joliet. Mr. Green had a talk with Logar Sunday morning at the Waukegar jail and Logan admitted that withim 34 hours after he had made his escape from the Honor Farm he re« gretted the act. He wished that he was back at the farm but was afraid to voluntarily return for fear that it would put him in bad and he would be given a severe repti-- mand for having broken the confi« dence placed in him.: . tm fli&éflnh immediately no-- tity --~Waukegan /police in -- case he saw :Logan: on the street. _ He declared that his freedom wasn't half so good after 'he got away as he expected before he left the place that it would be. Logan had bein working at the Tannery for the past several weeks. | Since being in town he had. behaved him-- self well so far as can be learned. Killed His Wite -- Logan, who assumed the name Of Frank Jamtison whilt living in Waukegan, killed his --wife in Peoria about a. decade ago. He was sen-- tenced to serve 75 years in ihe state penitentiary at Jolist. . Mr. Green recelved a tip that the negro might be hiding in Waukegan. He communicated> his: suspicions ~to the Waukegan police last Saturday. supplying them with Logan's photo-- graph and nnc.'cnflnt records. Sat«-- urday ugt lef Lyon and Capt. Thomas Kennedy went to the Tan-- nery hotel in Indiana avenue where they picked up Logan on susplicion that he was the man they wanted. Value of Fingerprints The Waukegan police are jubliant over the efficiency of their finger-- print system. Logan is the second criminal they have captured within a week as a result of It. . _ _ _ The negro was taken back to the penitentiary Sunday afternoon and will lose~all his freedom. He will be placed in stripes and will not be allowcd to live on the prison farm. He was taken to the police station, all the time denving that he was the . Chatites K.. Russelt, county -rb tendent. ot: highways, is . one of the most : unfortunate.men in Lake .coun ty. . After waiting eight yearts to take a reai vmuo:.ru'n' i.m as . auperin @ -- took an MN tLip o HMe was compelled to--wear, ah. over coat every day ':m- the two wouks ho was. there. lie calia Florida a HAVE OVERCOAT WEATHER IN FLA. have -- D. C. At the station his fingerprintas wore (TURKN TO PAGE H1X) 7 by + 29fi