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JOUR BANDITS SENTENCED TO DIE IN

TWO IMPLICATED GET LIFE PRISON SENTENCE

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Judge Martin Smith, At Crown Point, Shows No Mercy for Ac* «:::'••. cuted Men Who Plead

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GART, Ind., July 13.—Sentences of ideath In the electric chair at MichiKg*n City were given four of the live bandits, who hold up the Tolleston State bank and murder&l the cashier,

Herman U. IJecker, here, aViout two

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ago, when the mon appeared beJudge Martin Smith in the crirnu court at Crown Point this afternoon. The men pleaded guilty.

Sentences of life imprisonment in /Michigan City prison were imposed by vthe Judge on two others implicated in lathe holdup and mufder.

The men sentenced to Tie electro^ «uted are Dan Trkulja, driver of the 1andit car and said to have been leader of the gang. Tom and Albert Bateheler and Red Parker.

Lee Spiers, who made the first concession, and "Jem Jan" Bielich, accessory after the fact, were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Nick Trkulja, atteged accessory te'"fore and after the fact, will plead in court Monday.

HI TO KEEP WATCH ON THE RHINE

PARIS, July 4.—"We will keep American troops in Germany as long as the American flag flies upon the Rhine and our flag will be there until many complies with the military 1 terms of the peace treaty and proves

Its intention to fulfill the other requirements," said Gen. Pershing today while conferring with newspaper correspondents at his Paris headquarters. **As long as the American flag flies foil the Rhine American honor is involved and it must not be thought either by the Germans or by the allies that now that the treaty is signed the

United States is packing up and going 'home without a regard as to prhether or hot Germany lives up to the condi-

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HELD. ON SUSPICION

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Auspicious circumstances surroundWilliam Schneider's making his

w w abode for Thursday night In a five passenger Ford taxicab bearing a $ Michigan, 1919, license, numbered .* 26,812, at Edgewood Grove, brought on his arrest by Motor Officers Vanosdall "'Sv'and Thompson and Patrolman Mur,i t.- phy, following the receipt of information from Harry Fisbeck.

At the police station Schneider was examined by Chief of Detectives Charles Cunningham and told a straight story to a great extent, but his bill of sale for the car showed that le purchase price had been one dol-

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And, before being sent to jail to

si await further examination, Schneider left 1252.60, a gold watch and chain, *1 knife, keys, letters and a pocketbook at Um police station.

THIS FOURTH QUIET

"This starts off as the quietest Fourth we have ever had," said Chief Evinger o£ the fire department Friday morning. "It looks like a good safe and sane Fourth, which the people will have no cause to regret."

AIRSHIPS SIGHT MINES.

,LONDON, July 4.—Sweeping up the thousands of mines which strew the •eas in the neighborhood of the British isles has proved such a costly and dangerous job when carried on by the ordinary methods, that the admiralty has turned to the airship for relief. Experiment conducted in the North sea, it is announced, have been successful, mines being located and exploded much quicker than when the usual mine-sweeping ship is used.

HThile the airship has the advantage "iieight In locating mines, the mere $,that an airship cannot hit a mine ,}»$ts° much to the element of safety

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Xaie County Court Hakes Quick Woris of Bobbers Who Murdered y Gary Bank Cashier.

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square miles of mine strewn I which remain will be cleared loss of lifa.

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TrWEltiltmE RECORD. Jl'LY 4. o a. 72 a. 80

LOCAIt CONDITIONS AT 7 A. 3d, JULY 4, 1019. Station pressure, 29.42 temperature, 78 highest temperature yesterday, 89 lowest temperature last night, 70 precipitation, .00 direction of wind, south velocity of wind, 4 miles per hour state of weather, clear relative humidity, 48 per cent.

Sunrise, 5:29 sunset, 8:11.

FORECAST.

TERRE HAUTE—Fair and warm tonight showers and cooler Saturday. INDIANA—Fair and continued warm tonight Saturday local thunder showers and somewhat lower temperature.

ILLINOIS—Fair and continued warm tonight, becoming unsettled with -local thunder showers. Saturday partly Uoudy Mid cooler.

OTHER LOCAL REl*OIlTS. River stage, 2.1 feet.

TAXPAYERS IN MANY APPEALS BEFORE BOARD

Doubt Expressed If Board of Review Can Complete Its Work In, Allotted Time.

GOODRICH TAX LAW HAS CAUSED UPHEAVAL IN VIGO

County Attorney of Optnfon That Present Appraisement Will .. Stand for This Year and.

Three Year* More.

Taxpayer*, apprehensive as to what will happen to them under the new state tax law, are daily crowding the corridors of the court house near the room where the board of tifeview is holding its sessions.

The board is supposed to sit for forty days, but men conversant with the situation say that they will hardly have begun the task of readjustments in that time. It is said that the appeals from the taxpayers in the city alone will take that much time.

These suggestions have been heard that the board of review will dispose of the whole business by ordering a new assessment, bringing about a general reduction, and that this assessment will be independent of the state tax board, the policy of which is said to be responsible foi the drastic increases which have been imposed here, and which the board of review is now trying to iron out.

County Attorney Louis Leveque said Friday that in his opinion the new appraisement is supposed to stand for four years, 1919, \920, 1921 and 1922. As to the point that the board cannot raise taxes any more than the assessment last year, Mr. Leveque explains that there is a provision in the law that this canpot be done "without the consent of the state board," but since the state board is directing the present drastic advances, it is fair to suppose that the tax increases will stand. At least that is Mr. Leveque's opinion.

Mr. Leveque's notion is that if the people accept the present appraisement it will stand, and as he says, the new law is intended to raise more money by raising the limit of the bonded indebtedness of many counties, it is logical to assume that the state board intends that the law shall operate exactly as is being witnessed at present.

CLEVELAND CAR MENTO SIR! SUNDAY

CLEVELAND, O., July 4.—Twentysix hundred motormen and conductors, of the Cleveland Street Railway. Co., voted late last night and early this morning to strike at 4 o'clock Sunday morning unless their demands for a twelve cent an hour increase in wages is granted.

SUBMARINE COAL MINES,

HALIFAX, N. S., July 4.—Submarine coal mining may be attempted in the areas north of Sydney Harbor, Nova Scotia, and for some distance south of Sydney Harbor, through proposed legislation now before the Nova Scotia lawmakers. Leases to certain submarine mining districts have been held by the Dominion Coal company and the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal company. For some time there has been a dispute between these concerns regarding leasing privileges. The proposed legislation would give mining rights In the submarine area to the Dominion company, with the. understanding that operations would start

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PLANS DRAWN FOR ADDITION TO HOSPITAL

St. Anthony's, With Proposed Uew Wing, Will Be One of State's Largest Hospitals.

IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED WILL AMOUNT TO $150,000

Terre Haute Country Club Has Plans Drawn for $50,000 Club House —Two Other Extensive

Improvements.

Margaret Lewis.

Plans have been drawn for an addition to St. Anthony's hospital, which when completed, will make this institution one of the largest in the state and the equal of any in the country in the matter of equipment. The plans as drawn by J, C. Vrydaugh, architect, provide for the expenditure of approximately $150,000 in the improvement, which will be undertaken at an early date. The building, which will form a south wing of the main structure will include 42 hospital rooms, a nurses' training school and a commodious dormitory for nurses and attendants.

With the aid of the sisters, Mr. Vrydaugh has studied the plans of all large modern hospitals of the country and has taken the good features from their construction and with a number of original ideas has consolidated them into a new plan which will be used in the design of the addition t© St. Anthony's.

The building will be four stories high, the first second and third floors will be yused for private rooms for the patients". There will be 42 rooms and one-half of this number will have private baths. The patients' rooms will be absolutely sound proof as will the hall, which will be made of a special sound proof tile floor. All corners of the rooms will be rounded instead of square fr sanitary reasons and all windows will be reversible. Inverted globes will be used for the lighting system and an automatic signalling system, throwing light into the nurses room at the pressing of a button by the patient, will be installed.

The rooms will be finished In msrble and tile and the walls finely tinted so as to make them more home like. Kach room will have a lavatory. A steam vacuum system of heating will be installed by which the heat may be regulated at every radiator. A splendid system of ventilation will also be used as each room will have a ventilation duct in the wall. Simple but exquisite furnishing will be used in the room.

Nurses' Training School. The erection of the nurses' training school for which the entire basement floor will be used will mean the establishment of one of the most completely equipped training schools in any hospital. One large room will be built for the lecture room and another for the laboratory and another for a diet kitchen. Other rooms to be included in these departments will be a private dining room and kitchen for ttye student nurses and several rest rooms.

The foiirth floor will be converted ir.to dormitories and general living rooms for the nurses. There will be one large living room from which doors of the sleeping rooms will open. No efforts will be spared to make the nurses' living quarters as pleasant and comfortable as could possibly be.

A feature of the construction will be a large sun porch on each floor, at the south of the building, which will be giassed in during the winter months and heated, and the glass removed and screens used during the summer.

Another feature of the construction, which, although it has not been defin-

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FIGHT RETURNS TODAY

The returns on the world's championship battle at Toledo will begin at 2 o'clock.

From that moment on every development will be megaphoned to the crowds in front of The Tribune building.

These will be the Associated Press reports. The big battle starts at 3 o'clock.

No detail will be missing. The crowds in front of The Tribune will receive the reports instantaneously, the Associated Press wire being located at the ringside in Toledo.

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THE TEBRE HAUTE TRIBUNE

yOL. XLIX.—No. 34. TERRE HAUTE, IND,, FRIDAY, JULY 4,1919. LAST EDITION—TWO CENTS

PLANNING TROUBLE

Bolshevik Element In Mine Workers Make Effort to Call Strike As Aid to Mooney and Debs.

Special To The Tribune.

CLINTON, Irid.\ July 4.—It has developed here jthat the radical, or bolshevik and I. W. \V. element of the organization of the local united mine workers, is quietly working to get through resolutions by their respective locals to bring mine work to.a halt soon after July 4.

The effort is founded on the resolutions demanding the new trial for Mooney and the release of Eugene V. Debs. The vote to strike unless the new trial for Mooney is granted was not acted on by tnost of the locals, but at locals where iny action was taken, save two, it was decisively voted down. An attempt was made by the trouble breeding element to cause a strike pending the release, but the more loyal element saw the danger of the action and brought about defeat of the move.

But the trouble makers have since been quietly, but industriously working. and it was whispered Thursday that in one or two locals the resolutions to strike were worked through. But the loyal men of the miners who were p,way when the vote was taken are at work and say th?y will be able to stop the move. The recent arrest

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E1VE WOUNDED AS

BISBEB, Ariz, July 4.—Five persons were wounded in a fight here between soldiers of the 10th United States cavalry (colored) and civilians at midnight last night.

The negro soldiers came here from Fort Huachuca under command of Col. George B. White for a parade today and the trouble is said to have started with a taunting remark to George Sullivan, military policeman for the 19th United States cavalry as he was passing a negro club. Sullivan was attacked, his pistol taken from him by nogro troopers and police and civilians then joined in the fight.

The negroes refused to disarm at the request of their officers who then started out for a general disarming of all negroes in the course of which nearly a hundred shots were exchanged,

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THROUGH THE FOG—NOW THE RAPIDS

ANARCHISTS

TO HALT OUTRAGES

Every Possible Precaution Taken Throughout the Country to Prevent Possible Outbreak.

WASHINGTON, July 4.—Every possible precaution was taken in Washington today to prevent possible anarchist outrages. All public buildings and the homes of public officials were guarded and individuals suspected of anarchistic tendencies were under close surveillance. .William G. Flynn, director of investigations of the department of justice, stated last night that while the department had no information that a nation* wide plot contemplated outrages nothing had been left undone to prevent a possible outbreak.

The city police, co-operating with federal authorities and augmented by members of the home defense league, planned to institute automobile patrols throughout the residential district.

New York on Guard.

NEW YORK, July 4.—Public buildings, power houses, telegraph and telephone lines, the homes of- officials who have incurred the Wrath of radicals and churches and synagogues, were being guarded 'today against bomb outrages. Every policeman in the city was on duty and in addition secret' service agents, state guardsmen and firemen were held1*la readiness in case of an emergency.

Homes along Fifth avenue, including those of former Senator W. A. Clark, Henry C. Ftick, Cornelius Vjinderbilt, Andrew Carnegie and the Astor residence, were given especial attention.

A special squadron of policemen and plain clothes men were thrown around the Prince George hotel headquarters of the Lust commission investigating bolshevism in the state of New York.

NEAR NEW EOUNDLAND

LONDON, July 4.—(By the Associated Press.)—The position of the British dirigible R-34, according to a report received by the air ministry at 3 o'clock this morning was 51.20 north latitude and 48.40 west longitude. This gives the position of the craft as just east of New Foundlar.d. A previous, •message eaid:

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PATROLMAN MAHANEY ENLIVENS CITY COURT

Lays Down to Attorney His Rule of Procedure In Dealing With. Law Breakers.

While everything was sizzling outside, some of it penetrated the City Court room Thursday afternon when Harry Lyons was In the role of the defendant, charged with violating the state liquor law, and it sort of sizzled into a hot session for Lyons when he received a fine of $100 and ft sentence of 30 days on the penal* farm after a finding of guilty.

It was averred by the defense that someone had driven the automobile Containing booze into "Jitney Bill" Wallace's garage and then departed hastily followed by the appearance of the officers. Attorney Miller in questioning Patrolman Larry Mahaney brought out some more sizzles when "\ie asked if the arrest hadn't been made because Mahaney was "soipr" at

Lyons and Wallace. Larry sizzled and wasn't backward In saying he wasn't backward in arresting anyone who broke the law and he would just as soon arrest him (meaning Attorney Miller) as anyone else if he found him going contrary to the dictates of the law.

After Lyons had received Ms sentence, Wallace entered a change of venue In which he stated that he "Immediately" found he could not obtain a fair trial from Judge Shafer. Business of more sizzling. On the stand Wallace told Judge Shafer he had signed the paper that morning, and had found out two months before that the court was "agin" him. All of which called for copious explanations from Wallace, for the court was reminding him what come out of perjury.

MIT STAND TRIAL

Charles Hull, who was declared to be sane after being confined In the colony of criminal insane at Michigan City, Ind., will be returned to this city to answer a charge of felony bySheriff Joseph Dreher, who left the city Thursday to take the man into custody.'

Hull escaped from the prison at one time and was declared sane. He was rearrested by the police, however, and returned, a reward for his apprehension being given. He will be tried on a charge of robbery when returned here and if convicted will probably I be gent to prison 9* ft felon, ,, .v.- i

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TOLEDO SEES i HUMAN FLOOD AT RING SIDE

Early Today Roads Leading: to Atarn, Were Congested With Masses of People

PARKING SPACE FOR 21,000 AUTOMOBILES ON THE SCEHB

Fire Department Stationed On Ground—Army

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BULLETIN.

TOLEDO, 0., July 4.—10 a. m.-# The original hour for the champion* ship fight to begin, namely 3 p. hl.,| remains unchanged, but promoter* and managers all have agreed thai

on account of announcements other delays it probably will be 3:30 before the bout begins i 1- /.

Jack Dempsey, of. Salt Lak^r

City, Utah, will meet in a i2-» round uoxing match here to de-i cide the heavyweight champion* ship of the world. T-.

Everybody had a bed last nlgbt, it was said, largely for the reason that' every Toledoan who would, went into, the lodging housS business for the occasion. 1

Crowds Start Early.-

The road to the park was alive fcnd «j bustling with the dawn, nor was it entirely asleep during the night.

Ralph H. White.

TOLEDO, O., July 4-—At 3:3c* o'clock this afternoon Jess Willard,4 of Lawrence,*- Kas., and

At the respective quarters th 2/ I morning it was stated that botu had slept well and were ready, for the contest. From managers-1 and principals came renewed expressions of confidence.

In the arena carpenters were ,atHV busy putting on the final touches to the vast amphitheater. Thousands of the seats were still on sale this morning. Every road leading into the city:? saw automobiles bringing their loaded ff of fight enthusiasts from nearby cities and gome from a distance. Many con- f. tained family parties from the coun-

try, coming to see, not the fight itself?*5" but the stirring, eager crowd attract-i ed to Toledo by the event.

Detectives from all th# principal! cities of the land were mingling la" the crowds while five hundred Toledo^ citizens were sworn in to aid the regular city police force In maintaining, orders.

Two hundred policemen were etn~i tioned outside the arena and flftyj within it. The greatest problem of the! guards, it was said, would be in pre-J venting a rush for the gates after the} match. How the vast throng was tol get back into the city was a problem! concerning which there was more hopethan confidence. It was admitted that the street cars were totally inadequate: to the task of bringing that crowd! back to town. Two main thorough-j fares were available for automobile*' and pedestrians, but great congestion! was anticipated and it was thoughfcf certain that thousands would, have toi

make their way back on foot. The street car company plarmed t* operate two cars a minute on one line! o a k u e s o n s e e i e n e i u such matters said it would be impossible to maintain such a schedule, as, delay to one car anywhere on four* miles of track would stall the whole line.

Sea of Automobiles.

Parking space for 21,000 automobiles at $2 each was available outside th* arena. The money goes to the city.

Willard remained favorite in the betting. One man paraded the streets with a sign on his automobile reading: "I will bet this machine against $1,000 on Dempsey."

Emergency ambulances and all po» lice patrol wagons were at police head*

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TODAY'S TRIBUNE

The regular tdition The Tribune today^ is printed at 10 o'clock a. m. *1

An extra edition will be issued after the Toledo battle, giving the full Associated Press* reports of this celebrated encounter.

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