Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1920 — Page 16
THE IXDIANAPOLIS NEWS, FBIDAT, JUNE 18, 1920.
BINDING. SAYS OPINION
*go. but it Is not known whether the injury caused his death. The widow and two sons. Junius, of New York, and George \V.. of New Jer-
sey, survive.
8TANSBURY ANSWERS AN INQUIRY FROM JACKSON.
WITH STATE INSTITUTIONS
Kle Stansbury, attorney-general, has submitted an opinion to Kd Jackson secretary of state and member of the state printing board, which set* forth that the Thornton-Levey Company, of Indianapolis, holder of one of the contracts for state printing, can not relieve itself from that part of it* contract which calls on It to do printing for state institutions. The company wishes to give up that part of it* contract as unprofitable, but the attorney-general say* that the contract Is binding. In his letter of Inquiry Mr. Jackson wrote; "The company acknowledges that if the price of paper were Sower, and if it were making a profit it would raise no objection to doing the printing." Governor Goodrich, another mem-: her of the printing board, wa* of! the opinion that the act creating the itaJe Joint purchasing committee repeated that part of the law under which the company contracted for the Institution'* printing along with the other part of the work. He believe* that the stats purchasing committee now hm the power to contract for the institution work. Ths attorney - general does not agree with tlhls interpretation and wrote In his opinion that the action of the printing board in letting the contract as it now Ntands wa* done with the approval of the purchasing committee at. the time.
CORNER TO COME OFF.
FlfiSTDEMIONS
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was of .3l-cal> killed Klwell
there by Doollng.
iber. The bullet that
was of .fH-callber.
Marly Morning Visit Inquiry. A ft a. m. visit by a man and a woman to the Klwell horn# the morning of his murder was under Invest!-
gallon by the police.
Police and members of the district attorney's office were unwilling to admit they attached great significance to the report of this early morning vleit because of Its vague origin. The story was vouched for by Joseph Wagstaff, a ta*l driver, who declared It had been told him by another and unnamed chauffeur, who is said to hava declared he drove the couple to
Btweli'e home *t that hour.
According to Wagstaff'e version of the story he said was told him, the second taxicab driver watted outside ths Klwell house, which he said ths couple entered, until s moment later the screnm of a woman Inside the house frightened him and he drove sway without watting to collect his
fare.
Trying to Trace Couple. The police also are trying to trace a man and woman said to have been driven by Wsgstaff himself long before dawn on the morning of Monday, June 7. The records of the taxicab company employing Wagstaff showed that a r, Mr. Alweir of Joseph B. Klwell's West Seventy-second street address, telephoned for a cab at 2:90 o clock that morning to go to a Madison avenue house. Wagstaff Is said to have responded and driven a man and woman from there to Seventy, sixth street and Park avenue, where they paid him. alighted and disappeared. Mrs. Larsen, under vigorous questioning, told Assistant District Attorney Doollng that a young woman had gone to the Klwell houee shortly after the whist expert was discovered dying from the bullet wound In his head. Mrs. Larsen said this woman had visited Klwell several times befor# and was the repute I owner of the pink silk lingerie found In Elwell's bedroom. , llent on Getting Garments. District Attorney. Swann admitted his belief that the young woman was bent on getting possession of the garments and other evidence of female oecvupaney of the sportsman's apartments. Ha said, however, that he had no reason to bellevs she was more Intimately connected with the shooting. Mrs. Larsen also told of how ehe "tidied up" Elwell's bedroom nftor the dying man had been removed to a hospital. Her gtlence on this subject during the early days of the Investigation caused detectives to work under the belief that Elwell’s bed hati not been occupied the night before the ahootlng.
MXFLA!S» KtAVELL KRIE.YDgHIP. Versailles fKy.) Young Woman Makes Public Statement. LEXINGTON, Ky.. June'iV—Anne Russell Grlffy, daughter of Porter Utiffy, of Versailles, Ky.. prominent socially throughout "the Blue Grass region'’ and wnon local police believe is the ‘’Annie" mentioned by New York authorities In their announcement Tuesday night that detectives were coming here In connection with the murder of Joseph It El well, made public yesterday a statement explaining her relations with Elwell. It was the note of thanks from Miss Grlffy that brought about activities by New York authorities, police here
believe.
•’My father’s name Is Porter Grlffy," says Miss Griffy’s statement. “He is a resident of Woodford county and his postofflce Is Versailles. My brother’s name la Norton Grlffy. and he resides Ip Akron. <X Neither my father nor my brother knew Elwell or had any knowledge of my ac-
qua ntance with him.
”1 was Introduced to Mr. Klwell at a social function In the Lexington spring racing season. There were a number of entertainments during that time, many of which he attended. I saw him three times In Lexington and once at the Louisville raoea, this latter meeting being
merely by chance.
*T last saw him In I^xlngton on the night wf May 28. He had come that evening, he said, from Louisville by train. I had attended a lawn fete with a number of friends, and came upon Mr. Elwell in the lobby of the Phoenix hotel, and my ieompanlons and 1 conversed with him a few minutes It was during that conversation 1 told him I was going to a hospital the following week for
an operation upon mv tonsils.
"While I was at a hospital he sent flowers to me. My sister wrote a note of appreciation for the flowers and sent it to his New York address, which accompanied the flowers. lie replied, expressing hops that I was recovering. When I was well I wrote personally thanking him for the Mowers and his note. I received a response the day after his death. The correspondence was impersonal, and doubtless this last note never would
have been answered by me.
"I am making this statement because the newspapers have requested It. and to set at rest reports asso-
ciating me with this affair" DIES IN NEW YORK CITY.
1>». J. E. Craven* Formerly Practiced
Dentistry In Indianapolis.
Dr. J. E. Cravens, for many years a dentist of Indianapolis, died at his home In New York city Thursday night, according to word received by his nephew. Charles Maxwell. Fiftynixth street and Central avenue. Dr. Cravens practiced In this city until •bout five years ago, when he went
to New York.
For nearly fifteen years before Dr. Cravens left Indianapolis, he was a lecturer in the Indiana Dental College. He came to Indianapolis from Madison. Ind. His office for manv .was in the Marion block, and ved at Pennsylvania and \>r-
Cravens was kicked in the a horse in a street aecl'•ew York nearly a month
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Board WoaJd Leoaen Danger at Capitol Arcane and Sixteenth Street. Fcr the purpose of lessening the traffic danger at Capitol avenue and Sixteenth street, the board of public works has adopted a resolution to cut off the aoutbwdst corner of the intersection. The corner, which will be made part of the street, run* thir-ty-two feet on Sixteenth street and forty feet oa Capitol avenue. The board awarded the contract for the paving of Capitol avenue from Georgia street to Mobile street to the Marion County Construction Company on its bid of 17.0ft a lineal foot, total
bid price, $3,720.
Preliminary order* were made designating asphalt as the material to be used In the resurfacing of Massachusetts avenue* between Ohio street and Cornell avenue and North street between Ft. Wayne and Massachusetts avenue*. Bid* for paving Boulevard place between Fortieth and For-ty-second street were rejected and
the work will be re advertised. SOTSIOT
OPIDMESMH
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seemed for a time to meet with the approval of the candidates for election this fail. This plan was to have the candidates underwrite the risk to Otto L. Klaus*, auditor of state, attendant on the bar* possibility that the next legislature, as yet unelected for the most part might not legalise advance drawing on th* general fund for additional money for the state institutions, This plan, however, for some reason failed. Mr. Klauss said he wa* agreeable to It. The necessity of calling the legislature has been declared by some to be dependent on the need of state institutions for more money. Whatever money they are to get must come from the general fund, but under ordinary circumstances the money Is not taken from the fund until after It Is appro-
priated by the legislature.
gdMjmo Needed.
Frank P. Ldtschert, secretary to the Governor, and John Williams, audit clerk in the state auditor's office, have checked up on the needs of the state Institutions and found that they will need approximately StSfl.OOb more than now is available. Estimates roughly made Thursday In the office put the total at a little less than $300,000. but it was apparent that the figure is too low. Fifteen of the nineteen state institutions will need aid. The figures were arrived at by comparing their balances now with what they used last year between July 1 and the end of the fiscal
year, September 30. Governor Absent.
Beseigsd Thursday by persons who wish to talk with him about special session matters. Governor Goodrich has disappeared from his office and according to Frank P. Lltschert, his secretary, he probably will not be back until Monday. It was said that the Governor had gone to his
horns in Winchester.
The time of the convening of the •pedal session is still indefinite. The Governor had intended to issue the call for some day next week, but Thursday he said the call would not be Issued for several days, and that the date of the convening Is yet un-
decided.
There are some who say that the assembly can not be prepared for meeting before week after next and consquently reason that the session will begin about Monday. June 2*. Secretary Lltschert, however, said he knows of nothing to substantiate such a theory. The aeaalon may begin late next week, ae the Governor
originally intended. , Probable Cost.
A legislature costs the state about $1,700 a day, based on the last legislature coat, which was the lowest In many years. If the session is shorter than a regular session, and a special session la limited to forty days whereas the last one ran for sixty-three days, the cost will he proportionately greater, it was said at the stage auditor's office, because the mileage expense Is the same for a abort session as for a long one. The one-day special session in January cost $5,768. but many of the members served without their per diem. Members of the state purchasing committee met In the Statehouse today for consideration of the needs of the state institutions in preparation for the special session. Coal supply is regarded as one of the committee's most serious problems. Options on coal mines and coal ears, which the state may buy to enable It to get coal for state institutions were considered. Observations and recommendations are to be presented to Governor Goodrich, A hill may he proposed at the session to admit of county clerks, in counties of 30.000 population or less, hiring additional clerks or authorising them to spend approximately $1,200 a year more for hire of assistants. The County Clerks' Association of Indiana is behind the bill.
1| All New Business.
There Is no unfinished business to cpme before the session. All the business will be new. Vetoed bills and matters of the kind left over from ths last regular session with the secretary of state were taken care of at
the firat special session.
This is the first time in the history of the state that two special sessions were called between the time a regular session adjourned and the next regular session convened. Governor Morton, the war Governor called two special sessions but regular sessions
Intervened.
Would Consider Five Measures. (Special to The Indianapolis New#)
RICHMOND. Ind.. June 18.—Walter H. MoConaha. state aenator from Wayne county, who served as chairman of the finance committee of the senate during the last two sessions of the legislature, said today that he believed a special session of the general assembly should consider only five matters—appropriations of state institutions, correction of the road law. amendments to the tax law, amendment to the election law to provide for the voting of women
and the soldiers’ memorial.
Senator McConaha said that if some such program for the special session was provided he believed that both Republican and Democratic members would forset politics for a few days and agree to push necessary legisla-
tion through.
COLBY MAY PRESIDE. Regarded as Likely Choiee far Democratic Convention Chairman. [By the Associated Presa] WASHINGTON, June 18.—Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state, is regarded by most Democratic leaders in Washington as the most likely choice for permanent chairman of the Democratic national convention at
San Francisco.
Mr. Colby was elected a delegate to the convention from the District of Columbia last week, heading an administration ticket in opposition to that put in the field by the Bryan
Democratic Club.
Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas. and Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic national committee, who is expected to be temporary chairman of the convention, also have been mentioned in connection with the permanent chairmanship. Mr. Cummings's friends say. however, that he does not desire
the place.
Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia, who drew the platform adopted by the Virginia Democratic convention, end since indorsed by President Wilson, probably will be chairman of the committee on resolutions. The league of nations plank of the platform to be adopted at San Francisco is expected to follow closely that In the Virginia
platform.
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ing season, and by rail and automobile when the conditions are right. A very large ^jaotity is sold in Cleveland. The fine run* to Akron. O, where, it is *aid. the traffic In drugs is very heavy. Kokomo. Muncie. Richmond, Indianapolis are important station* on the narcotic line. St. Louis is a great distributing point for the
1 RAILWAYMgggnm DOES BIG BUSINESS IN WAR ESSAY C0N1EST
drugs from Detroit, what is not used in St. Louis being tent from thst city through the south and southwest. The
Louis being tent from that city
, member
force, '■ ,of the turned
r of the Indianapolis poll ha* arrested thirty vtolatt Harrison act at Detroit a
most important point between Detroit and St. Louis, according to government records. f» Terre Haute, where until lately a very strong nar-
cotic ring existed.
Arrest* and Csavtetlea*.
The United States authorities have made many arrests and obtained numerous convictions of members of this international narcotic ring, but It has not been able to break ft up except In certain localities. Much of this work was done by four men— Inspectors Keene. Long. Ewing and Braughton. working out of the office of William L, Eider, internal revenue collector at Indianapolis. Guy Braughton, who was formerly a f Yk au# , S e L* a i a «* at 4sa ;
or* and
in close to $500,000 worth of
drugs captured in his raida Keene and Long captured a St. Louis outfit. and Ewing has made a number of important arrests In different parts
of the country.
The arrest of Aaron Lowrey In the Boody House at Toledo was made by Braughton, who captured a suitcase loaded with drugs, but missed two other suitcases thst Lawrey had brought from Canada. Lowrey was about to start on a trip to South Bend and other points when the Inspector captbred him and took from the suitcase $10,b00 worth of morphine and cocaine. Lowrey was to have gone to Muncie. 8L Louis and Terre Haute, a trip that was prevented by the shrewdness of tho
inspector.
William Woodridge was arrested in Detroit by Braughton with $«6.000 worth of narcotic drugs stolen from Parke. Davis Sc Co. This stuff had been turned over to Carl Baumer, a dealer who was to land it in various parts of the country, the disrtlbutton to be made in this city. Braughton made the raid alone, capturing Woodridge first and marching him to an apartment house, where he used him as a shield to arrest Baumer and two other*, at the point of revolvers held under
Woodridge's arms.
Worked Front Indianapolis.
The most successful "bootlegger*’ of narcotics In large quantities was Carl Morey, alias Earl Corbett, who supplied many points In Ohio. Kentucky and Indiana, doing most of hfs distributing from Indianapolis. The federal authorities say that Morey obtained In Canada and Detroit about *00 ounces of morphine and cocaine a month, making the purchases every two weeka Braughton arrested him and found a great quantity of narcotics [n his valises and hidden In his
clothing.
Doremus Wells was arrested by the police at Newcastle, Ind.. and gave the federal .nspectors information that led to the arrest of a number of dealers, including Jim Crouch, alias Diamond Jim, a negro dealer, who peddled his stuff among his race from a big automobile in different states, and who made many sales in Indianapolis, Evansville and other points, where there Is a large negro population. When Claude Coak was arrested by the police of Muncie he named Clair L. Smith, of Hoopeston. 111., who Is under bond in the federal
court at Danville, 111.
While working In Terre Haute. Inspectors Keene Long and Ewing learned that a large part of the stuff sold in that city came from St. Louis, and they finally found the headquarters In St. Louis at the room of Frank Smith, alias Broken Arm Frank. In Chestnut street. Smith aot hls supply from Harry Ryan, alias Jew Harry, who lived in a respectable part of the city, and was an accredited agent of the international ring. As prospective dealers, the inspectors visited Smith’s room. It was a dark, poorly ventilated and dirty place. In the room were a chair or two. a table and a bed—it was a "rough Joint" as one of the in-
spectors described it. System That Was Used.
Smith and Ryan worked a perfect system. The would-be buyer must make hls deal with Smith at 9 o'clock in the morning. He must deposit the money for the purchase in a sealed packet. At 4 o'clock In the afternoon Ryan would appear with the stuff, properly marked and sealed. By tapping the telephone wires running into Smith’s room the inspectors were able to learn all the details of the deals between Smith and Ryan and when the latter appeared with the drugs they arrested both men and found on Ryan the marked money with which
they paid for the stuff.
The Inspectors from Indianapolis also had a hand in breaking up of a local ring in St. Louis. Several doctors In that city formed an agreement to write prescriptions for $2 for
PRIZE
OF $50 IS AWARDED TO DAISY BYRAM.
OTHER WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Daisy Byram. 311 Drexel avenue, won the first prize offered by th« state historical commission, and state department of public Instruction for the best war essay. She is a pupil at the Arsenal Technical schools. The prize is $50. She wrote on "What Our Community Needs as Shown by the War” Mildred Grace Hall, of the Union City High School, won the second prize of $40. She wrote on "The Soldier*’ Entertainment in Union City.” Philips Lehman, of Warsaw High School, won the third prize of $30; Waiter J. B. Bosse. Evansville Central High School, fourth prize. $20. and Kemp Moore, Terre Haute Wiley High School, fifth prize. $10. More than 200 essays were submitted. The judges were Charles W. Moores. Indianapolis: J. A. Woodburn, Indiana University; L N. Hines, state superintendent of public instruction; Charity Dye, of the Piqfieer Mothers* Memorial Association; Harlow Lindley. Earlham College; 0- H. Williams, state supervisor of tealcher training courses, and Demarchus C. Brown, state libsanan.
CAPTAIN REPENTS
RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT
Continued from Page One. vote of 23.097 to 13.841. Tlfis action prevents the election of four additional vice-presidents. Labor Memorial Sunday. The fourth Sunday in May of each year was designated as labor’s memorial day, on which labor throughout the country will be called on to pay a tribute to the memory of its dead. The churches also will be called on t to co-operate in the observanco of labor Sunday the day preceding Labor day In September. The national steel organizing campaign headquarters at Pittsburg will not be abandoned. It was announced today. While the activities of the headquarters staff will be limited until a new national committee is organized, It will keep up propaganda work among the steel workers. Despite the protest and desires of Gompers, the convention increased his salary as president from $10,000 to $12,000 a year. In making an appeal to the delegates not to give him an Increase, Gompers declared that "$10,000 is all sufficient for a man living In the ordinary modes of life to satisfy him and his needs.” The salary of Secrtary Frank Morrison also was increased from $7,500 to $10,000 a year. Organizers' wages were increased from $48 to $60 a week and their traveling allowance from $6 to $8 a day. This was declared necessary owing to the high cost of living. The convention called on the congress to enact “necessary legislation to establish the United States employment service as a permanent bureau in the department of labor. w4h ample appropriations." New Steel Plans Approved. The federation’s national committee for organizing iron and steel workers has been disbanded, and a new committee will be organized by the executive council with plans for a new organization campaign in the Iron and steel districts, it was announced at the convention yesterday. All organizers and field representatives of the national organizing committee will be called In by July 1 and its money will be transferred to the federation’s executive council. A conference of “interested” international union heads to be called at Washington will precede the new
campaign.
The federation called for congressional investigation into the “tyrannical, brutal and un-American supression of free speech” in Pennsylvania. It also extended to the President of the United States invitation to address a meeting in Duquesne. Pa., on the subject of free speech and free assembly. under . the federation
auspices.
A. A. of I. A S. W. Withdraw*.
The action of the national committee came as a result of the withdrawal of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers from its organization campaign in
the iron and steel districts.
J. L. Davis, assistant president of the amalgamated, announced that his organization would co-operate in the new federation steel campaign when the executive council has authorized
... . . , . , i i a new committee. The amalgamated pddlcts. Certain druggists filed the and other unions will keep their or-
ganizers at work until a new com-
mittee is functioning.
The executive council was instructed to render all possible assistance to ’’abolish present unreasonable speed tests, time-measuring devices and the unreasonable standards of personal
efficiency in the postal service.”
. The council will also aid civil service employes to obtain “the right to a hearing and to appeal from the judgment of officials in cases involv-
ing demotion or dismissal.”
Right* of Free Speech.
The federation decision that the rights of free speech and free press nd assembly are inalienable ones.
Continued from Page One. the chief had ever told him to wink at
law violators.
"You know, don’t you,’* said the judge, “that what you hawe done you oughtn’t to have done, and that it makes you a participant in the
crime.”
Freidle repeated testimony previously given that he had worked on the police boat in an effort to capture liquor runners, and said he had
stopped five or six.
Tell of Chief* Instruction*.
James Trautwein and William Fuchs volunteered to explain in more detail to the court how the chief of police had instructed them daily in regard to the apprehension of law violators, particularly transporters of liquor, so that they were not able to do their duty as they de-
sired to do it.
Trautwein said the chief had told him not to plead guilty, but to “stand pat.” He said the chief would tell him and Fuchs to close all gambling houses and sporting houses and that they would do so. whereupon the proprietors of these places would troop into the police headquarters and confer in private with Chief Schmitt, after which Schmitt w'ould say, “let them run so long as they are quiet and there is no complaint.” This arresting and “fixing” went on so regularly, he said, that Anally he and Fuchs were regarded as jokes and the law violators laughed at
them.
Wrong Flash Light. Eii Harp, fisherman, told how he had hauled whisky across the river. One nigh^ in February. 1919. he was coming across from Henderson with a load, he said, in response to a flash light signal from the Wabash avenue landing and when he landed he found the signa 1 had been made when Charles J. RuhL deputy sheriff flashed a light to find his way through the mud at the landing. Harp said that when he landed at the feet of the sheriff he was arrested, with Gred Schroeder and Jim Boner. The liquor, he said, had been ordered by Eugene McKinney, member of the
police force.
Harp said he had paid $200 to Anchle E. Gore, a lawyer of Evansville, who promised to get him out of the trouble. The district attorney informed the l*>urt that Gore had sought to obstruct the government officers in their investigations at Ev-
ansville.
“Well, if I can get proof of that Gore will stop practicing for a while,” said the court. He then expressed contempt for lawyers who take mdney
son for ordering the discharge of the men. Defendant* Are Flayed. Arguments fo»- the prosecution were opened Thursday afternoon by L. Ert Slack, special assistant to Frederick VanNuys, United States district attorney. Mr. VanNuys closed for the government after defense arguments had been made by Eph Inman for the Klyman brothers; by Joseph Duncan, of Evansville, for Schmitt, and by James V. Noel, for Ossenberg. Freidle was not represented by legal counsel. The district attorney said that like Joseph’s coat the conspiracy was of many hues but of only one piece. Schmitt he referred to as a corruptionist and a perjurer. He scoffed at the statement of counsel for the Klymans that they did not know the destination of liquor they sold. He said the Klymans had been wholesalers in Evansville until the state went dry. when they moved across the river and continued to sell in gunny sack iota to persons they knew to be liquor dealers in Evansville. The speaker declared Ossenberg was a powerful politician, to whom congressmen, judges, mayors and many others went for patronage and protection. The most natural act on the part of Van Pickerill, when he desired the privilege of shipping liquor into Evansville, said Mr. VanNuys, was that he should first arrange with the chief of police and then with Ossenberg. the political boss. Ossenberg, he said. wa~ a much shrewder man than Schmitt. Van Pickerill, wholesale liquor dealer, of Henderson. Ky, who has been a prominent prosecuting witness in the trial, was referred to as
an unscrupulous man who would not hesitate at anything to obtain his own ends, by counsel arguing in behalf of the defendants Mr. Inman declared that the evidence against the Klyman brothers had been insufficient to warrant conviction. All the evidence, he said, has been based on statements made by co-conspirators with Pickerill. who was a business competitor of the Klyman brothers. He said that. In view of the fact that Pickerill sold nearly all the liquor transported into Evansville, it was unreasonable to believe he would permit his competitors to have a share in the illegal business. Mr. Duncan declared that all the conspirators, having found themselves in the clutches of the law, are making a concerted effort to shoulder all their troubles on the chief of police, who, he said, has done all in his power to uphold the law. Mr. Noel based his argument on the assumption that no evidence had been introduced to show that Ossenberg had done anything to further the conspiracy. Andersen's Instructions. Judge Anderson, in his instructions to the jury, explained in detail the elements entering into the offense of conspiracy. Referring to the defense that Chief Schmitt had been governed by the injunction of the Vanderburg superior court restraining him from enforcing the prohibition law. the judge instructed the jury not to take into consideration evidence as to the Importation of liquor prior to June 28, 1918, when the state supreme court dissolved the injunction and held the state law constitutional. He explained that he did not recall evidence of Importations prior to that date.
FOURTH U. S. CITY
Continued from Page One. Buffalo, as well as attaining the honor of being the largest city west of St. Louis. San Francisco retained eleventh rank and Buffalo dropped from tenth to twelfth, while Milwaukee was forced into thirteenth place. Washington. D. C., moved from sixteenth to fourteenth position, displacing Newark. N. J.. which dropped into fifteenth position Cincinnati, thirteenth largest city in 1910, now ranks as sixteenth. New Orleans, through the advance of Los Angeles and Washington, was forced from fifteenth rank to seventeenth. while Minneapolis retained its rank as eighteenth largest city. The ranking of the cities below Minneapolis can not he determined until the populations of Kansas City, Mo.; Providence. R. L. and Rochester. N. Y’.’. have been announced. Other reports given out by the census bureau. Included; Lynchburg. Va.. 29.956; Marblehead, Mass.. 7.324; Fairvlew. Mo.. 378; Park City, Utah. 3,393: Oconto. Wis.. 4.920. Increases since 1910—Lynchburg, 462 or 1.6 per cent; Fairvlew. 108 or 40 per cent. Decreases since 1910—Marblehead, 14 or .02 per cent.; Oconto. 709. or 16.6 per cent; Park City. 46 or 10.t per cent
prescriptions at exorbitant figures. At the trial of one of these doctors It was In evidence that in the month of November. 1919 he wrote 9,000 prescriptions receiving $2 for each one. He was fined S5.000 and sent to the penitentiary for two years. It also was shown in this man’s trial that a large percentage of these prescriptions were filed several times, thus the druggists made much money from
them. ^
BRITISH FLEET BACKS
an
and
beyond the power of any
judge, court, legislative body or administration official to qualify, mod-
ify, abrogate or suspend.”
The proposal of James Duncan, of Seattle, for an “Initiative and referendum” clause in the federation’s constitution was defeated after a
lively debate.
Military training in the schools was condemned as “the first step in the development of mechanical and unquestioning obedience which results in the killing of initiative.” Compulsory military training was also declared "unnecessary, undesirable and
un-American.”
"The moral support” of the federation was voted to the 10,000 striking fur workers in New York city. A resolution to elect the officers of the federation by the "popular vote of the membership** was defeated. Oppose* Removal of Color Line. ASHEVILLE. N. C.. June 18.—At a special meeting of the local Typographical Union resolutions were adopted denouncing the American Federation of Labor for admitting negroes to equal privileges with whites and instructing its representative to the meeting of the International Typographical Union at Albany, N. Y., in August to oppose the action of the national body. If the American Federation of Labor insists on this policy, the resolution says, and does not rescind its action on the negro question, the local delegate is instructed to ask that the international union withdraw from the American Federation of Labor. HEN’S EGG BROUGHT $70.50 Selling and Reselling Resulted Profit to Society. (San Francasco Chronicle] SANTA CLARA—A hen’s egg has brought $70.50 into the treasury of the supreme council. S. E. S.. and this amount represents only a trifle compared with the amount expected next
year.
At the annual fiesta a year ago, one of the members presented the society with some chickens to be auctioned for the benefit of the celebration. On the morning of the fiesta one of the hens laid an egg and when the hen was sold the egg was also sold and It was given back to the society. The egg brought $30.50. Frank Vierra took It to his home and. after carefully marking it. placed it under a sitting hen. In time a chick came forth. When many of the members
Continued from Page One. forces, which also hold the mountains north of the gulf a short distance from Constantinople. Inmates of the Armenian orphanage at Isjnid have been brought to this city under the direction of Miss Sophie Holt, an American worker, on the railway, which is still operating. A large number of other refugees have also reached Constantinople from the Aslan side of the Bosporua ALBANIANS SLAY ITALIANS. Take Revenge on Prisoner* for Harder of Essad Pasha. GENEVA, June 18.—Three hundred and thirty Italian prisoners have been killed by infuriated Albanians at Tirana, according to a telegram from Belgrade quoting reports reaching that city. It is said the Albanians were aroused by news of the assassination of Essad Pasha, former provisional president of Albania, in Paris early this week, and attributed his death to Italian intrigue. More than a score of Italian prisoners en route to Tirana were taken from a train and killed at Krachar. it is asserted, and anxiety is expressed concerning the fate of more than 2.000 Italian officers and men captured by Albanians in the Jgliting before Avlona. where the struggle is still going on. PENALTY IS INCREASED.
O'Donnell Loses Appeal From City
Court—Youth 1* Convicted.
Arthur O’Donnell, a junk dealer, was sentenced to the Indiana State Farm for four months and fined $100 and costs by Judge James A. Collins in criminal court today. He was convicted of running a “blind tiger.’ O’Donnell had appealed from a conviction in the city court, where he was sentenced to the State Farm for sixty days and fined $400 and costs. Witnesses testified he had sold “white mule” and had boasted that he was “too slick to be caught by
the police.
James Dixon, age nineteen, was
1 ten dmys and assembled at the hall recently'to~en-
of petit larceny U ' H * Wa8 convIcted 4 oy •- barbecue. the chicken was sold
from poor clients and do not deal
squarely with them in court.
Compared to Robber*.
“I think myself,” he commented, "that the man who breaks into a house and steal* $200 Is a better man.” Cap Jones, colored, volunteered the Information that Gore had solicited him as a client, naming his fee as
$100.
“YVhat did he promise you?” the
court asked.
“He promised me a $100 fine and
thirty days,” Jones replied.
“And what did you get?”
“Well. Gore got the $100, and I got
a $200 fine and sixty days.”
William Devault told the court that he was not engaged in the liquor business and had transported some for hls own use and to store for his own use. He said every one else
seemed to be doing it.
“Then you transported liquor because the police were winking at the law?” Judge Anderson asked. "If they had even partly enforced the law you would not have taken part in the
violation?”
Devault said he would not have done so. and the court replied he would consider hls case.
Admits Violation*.
Amil E. Geiss, a former saloon keener, who Inherited a saloon from his father, admitted violating the law until the supreme court gavq its decision. but said he had pot been connected in any other way with the Evansville violations. “So you were brought up in the business, and your father was in it ?^. er ®J nce y° u could remember anything, the court commented. "It seems you are not much to blame for being in the business.” Geiss was the last of the defendants to make comment before the court adjourned at noon. The court was convened this morning to pass judgment on the sixtyseven men who have pleaded guilty or been found guilty of the charge of conspiracy to violate the Reed amendment by transporting liquor from Henderson, Ky.. to Evansville. The forenoon session was taken up with preliminaries to the actual sentencing. It was expected sentences would be pronounced in the afternoon. Schmitt and Five Others Guilty. Of the seventy-eight men Indicted by the federal grand jury on the charge of conspiracy to violate the Reed amendment, five were found guilty by a Jury in federal court Thursday evening, sixty-two have pleaded guilty and nine were found not guilty on the instructions of
Judge Anderson.
The five found guilty by the jury were Edgar Schmitt, chief of the Evansville police department; Andrew Freidle, police captain; Fred Ossenberg. political boss of Baptisttown, the colored district of Evansville; Abe and Moses Klyman, wholesale liquor dealers of Evansville and
Henderson, Ky.
Those Who Pleaded Guilty.
The defendants who pleaded guilty
when arraigned were:
Van Pickerill. formerly a wholesale liquor dealer in Evansville, and then at Henderson, Ky.; John W. <Cotton7 Miller, formerly a deputy United States marshal; EH Harp. Clarence Wilhelm, Richard Pennington. Harry Helmrich, Caulder McCoy, Clarence Bullock, Elmer E. Kappler Harvey Boyd. Eugene McKinney, John Arnold. Benjamin Roberts, Cal D. Pickerill. David Wolf, George Peters, Walter Pelz, Harry Brinkman, William Devault, Matt Ohlinger, Frank J. Diehl, Charles Thompson. Gustav Naubling. Ernest Reiger, R be Becker. Abram Cohn. Oeore* Schnarr, Lloyd Buttermore, Amos D. Riggs. Herschell Burris, colored; Cap Jones. William Wimberg. Louis Schmitt, Charles Rothschild, Henry Deig, Joseph Killian. Jake Skipper, Emil E.
Geiss.
PL a* Changed.
After the trial began the following defendants changed their pleas from not guilty to guilty: Clem Goedde, Ollie Woodruff, William Oehlman, James Boner, Ave Lamb, William C. (Puss) Meinert, Sam Campbell, Charles Sihler, manager Louie Hotel; Otto Durre, Louis Heberer, Gilbert Roy, William Schoepflin. Herman Steinhilber, manager Vendome hotel; Fred Haffendorfer. Sol Cohn, Otto Klein, Charles J. Klein, John James, William S. Perrett. Herbert Evans, John W. Heyns. secretary Vendome Hotel Company; Joseph Barnes, James Trautwein and
William Fuchs.
The defendants w-hose business is not specified are nearly all proprietors of soft drink places and formerly proprietors of saloons. 'Some of the defendants have been members of the police department and of other city
departments.
The case, taken up for trial Monday, went to the jury at 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon. The jury returned the verdict of guilty at 9:20
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GARRETT &. COMPANY, INC
STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE
STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES BRANCH OF
Northwest Corner Charles and Lexington Sts., Baltimore. Md. On the 31st day of Dec., 1919. EDWIN WARFIELD, President. ROBT. S. HART, Secretary.
Amount of capital paid
up $ 3,000,000 00 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY.
Cash In banks (on Inter-
est and not on interest).$ 1.346.921 10
Real estate unincumbered) Bonds and stocks owned (market value) Mortgage loans on real . estate (free from any prior incumbrance).... Accrued securities (interest and rents, etc.).. Premiums and accounts due and in process of collection Accounts otherwise secured
2,489.538 56 6.953,639 81 % 9,500 00 6.823 84
930.055 26
92,439 47
Total net assets $11,878,918 03 LIABILITIES. Reserve or amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks $ 2,948,454 22 Losses due and unpaid; losses adjusted and not due; losses unadjusted and in suspense 2,076,852 19 Bills and accounts unpaid 51,070 08 Other liabilities pf the company 475.320 29 Unpaid claim expense... 52.840 00
Only two hours and fifteen the time was occupied in
gnd. wan given back several -times.
o’clock,
minutes of
actual deliberation of the cases.
The maximum penalty provided by law is imprisonment for two years
or a fine of $10,000. or both. The nine men for wnom the court
ordered a verdict of not guilty were: Arthur B. Booth. Carl Dreisch, William Morris, alias Butch Hayhurst. colored; Charles Smith. Enoch Weir. Herbert Males, sheriff of Vanderburg county: Charles Ruhl, deputy sheriffCarl Schulz and Adam Hausman. Lack of sufficient evidence to warrant a verdict of guilty was the rea-
Total liabilities. $ 6,604.536 78 Greatest amount in any one risk $ 3,000,000 00 State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of
State:
I, the undersigned, auditor of state of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1919. as shown by the original statement and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof. I hereunto subscribe my name and af[SEALJ fix my official seal, this 17th day of March, 1920. ' OTTO L. KLAUSS, — Auditor of StaJft,
STATEMENT OF CONDITION
THE GUARANTEE
I TTI
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59 John Street. New York. N. Y. On the 31st day of Dec., 1919. CHARLES H. NEELY. Manager and Attorney for the
United States.
Amount of deposit capital $ 800,000 00 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY. Cash in banks (on In-
terest and not on in-
terest) $ 542,887 16 Bonds and stocks owned (market value) 12,163,334 78 Mortgage loans on real
estate (free from any
prior incumbrance).... 87,000 00 Accrued securities (interest and rents, etc.).. 156.046 82 Premiums and accounts due and in process of - collection 1,906,844 66 Accounts otherwise secured 448.963 20
Total net assets...
4.152,944 47
7,294.844 99 697.214 87
.$15,305,076 62 LIABILITIES.
Reserve or amount necissary to reinsure outstanding risks $ Losses due and unpaid; losses adjusted and not due; losses unadjusted and in suspense Other liabilities of the company Voluntary reserve for
contingencies 1,800,000 00 Total liabilities $13,945,004 33 State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of
State:
I, the undersigned, auditor of state of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 3lst day of December. 1919. as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file n this office. In testimony whereof. 1 hereunto . subscribe my name and af[SEAL] fix my official seal, this 17th day of March, 1920. OTTO L KLAUSS, Auditor of State.
285 Beaver Hall Hill, Montreal, Canada. On the 31st day of Dec., 1919. HENRY E. RAWLINGS, President. RICHARD B. SCOTT. Secretary. Amount of capital paid up $ 304,600 00 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY. Cash in banks (on interest and not on interest).! 228.363 46 Real estate unincumbered 342.650 00 Bonds and stocks owned (market value) 1,927,158 00 Accrued securities (inter-
11.896 12
est and rents, etc.) This company’s equity in funds held by New York Excise Committee Premiums and accounts due and in process of collection
54,216 07
32.444 $4
Total net assets $2,596,727 99
LIABILITIES. Dividend declared payable January 15. 1920...$ 10,380 00 Reserve Or amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 168.300 66 Losses unadjusted and in suspense 82,751 00 Bills and accounts unpaid (including taxes) 21.801 00 Contingency provision... 255.000 00
Total liabilities $ 538,232 66 Greatest amount in any one risk $1,200,000 00 State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State: I. the undersigned, auditor of state of Indiana, hereby certffy that the above is a correct copy of thp statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1919, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony w’hereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and af(SEAL] fix my official sea!, this 17th day of March, 1920. OTTO L. KLAUSS. Auditor of State*