Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1920 — Page 1

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FIFTH FIRE ATTACKS WEST MARYLAND ST. MILLINERY COMPANY

A spectacular early morning fire In the downtown. business district, which broke out at 6:45 o’clock, caused heavy damage to the Griffith Brothers Wholesale Millinery Company’s building, 24 to 32 West Maryland street, and threatened to spread to other buildings. The fire is beuered to have originated from defective electric wiring.

work by firemen while the* was but three above zero the flames confined to the top floor | the flve-story building. Vernon Griffith, president of the com j pany, said he could not estimate the loss until he had ascertained the water damage. He said it might be $20,000 or might reach SIOO,OOO. THIRD TIME FIRM HIT IN FIVE FEARS. It was the forty-seventh fire alarm answered by city firemen in twenty-four hoars. It was the third time the Griffith Brothers’ store had been visited by fire during the last five years and the fifth fire In the history of the company. Flames had burst through the windows of the fifth floor and reached half way across the street when firemen first reached the scene. The extension ladder was raised against the building, but heat drove firemen away from the fifth floor. Firemen also had dragged five lines of hose to the roof of the building by way of Are escapes. The water tower was reared in Maryland street, but was not need. NIGHT WATCHMAN DISCOVERS BLAZE. Thomas Darden, colored night watchman, 616 West Eleventh street, discovered the lire. He was on the fifth floor about 5 a. m., but found nothing amiss. About 6t46 a. m., when he was In the basement he smelled smoke. He started upward In an elevator. ‘‘When I got to the fifth floor it was all In flames,” he said. ‘‘When I got the Elevator down to the first floor the firemen were kicking In the door." skylights In the roof of the fifth IriMt were but flues through which the Bags hurst and towered high above the Jjjjpg. ■ People going to work stopped Miter cold to watch the spectacle, dripping down the front of the ’building froze, making the front of the building resemble a frozen water fall. Chief John C. Loucks, Assistant Chief Simeon Hoyl and Third Battalion Chief Walter Ripley directed the fire fighting. Hose was stretched aronnd on Meridian street, attached to a water plug in front of The Times building, to Washington street and Illinois street. BLAZE STARTS IN ' v TRIMMING ROOM. i The millinery company maintained a trimming room on the fifth floor, located in the middle of the floor, and was separated from other parts of the floor by rbeavy wails and metal doors. Charles jWebher, foreman, said the fire started in |the trimming room. The heavy walls and Idoors only Impeded, but did not slop, Bjthe progress of the flames. Metal ceilings prevented the fire from reaching ilower floors. | The first four floors are used as salesrooms. Thousands of hats, trimmed and Imtrimmed, and other millinery, were leaked with nw-tar-.waich poured down Ifrom the top floor. Salvage corps mfD forked desperately to save the stock. ‘ “It ij> Impossible to estimate the daniI age y this time,” said Vernon Griffith, the members of *be Arm which ■Ws' the Griffith millinery store. “We fully covered by Insurance, no matter what the loss should be I have no idea as to what could cause a fire on that floor. However, it Is the fifth time we have bad a STOCK HEAVIER THAN USUAL. “We had on hand an unusnally heavy stock for this tlpe of the year, because of the market conditions. Our. traveling men’s trunks were packed and in the building ready for\them to start today so take orders for the spring business. We don’t know if their samples are damaged.” When asked if he thought the damage to the stock would be $20,000, Mr. Griffith said. “It is impossibly to tell at rbte time. It might reach SIOO,OOO. It all depends on how quickly the stock was covered by the salvage corps before the water started to pour through. Wo are taking an Invoice and It will be some days before we can make any estimate of the damage." The Griffith Brothers Millinery Company is owndd by a firm the members of which are Vernon Griffith and Charles 8. Stone. Mr. Griffith said he was confident that the fire would not Interfere with business to any great extent, as the company had considerable undamaged stock and also bad arranged for other stock to be shipped immediately. TWO DIE, SCORE HURT IN WRECK Passenger Train Hits Broken Rail Near Savannah, Mo. —Goes Into Ditch. ST. JOSEPH. Mo., Jan. 3.—Two men were killed, three passengers were probably fatally hurt and at least a score suffered less serious injuries today when a Chicago Great Western passenger train struck a broken rail and was wrecked six miles north of Savannah, Mo. Complete details of the wreck are still lacking. Few of the dead or injured .have been identified yet. Rev. James C. Lnnps, pastor of a Baptist church here. to be among those badly in■urecL prohibition Scores Victory in Italy ■ ROME, Jan. 3.—Prohibitionists claim belr first notable achievement in Italy In ■the Issuance of a decree by which the I sale of liquor containing more than 20 I per cent of alcohol will be permitted only I between 8 a. m. and 3 p. m. on week days land .until 4 p. m. on Saturdays. Sales ■ must cease at noon on Sundays and are on holidays. WEATHER, Local Forecast — Possibly snow flurries this afternoon; generally fair, with rising temperature tonight and Sunday; lowest tonight about 10 degrees. . HOURLY TEMPERATURE. I o a. m 3 1 a. m 3 L 8 a. in 4 0 a. m 5 a. m 6 a. m 8 (noon) BsUKlßts today, 4:3?; rises tomorrow, ' °*° today, highest l-empera- ... &ss§*■•■*

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And Now She Wants Divorce, $2,000 Alimony and $75 Attorney Fees.

Church bells tvere one of the causes of the domestic unhappiness of Mary Baxter Allen and Moses Allen, it became known today. Mrs. Allen was a devout church member and played a church organ. Her husband, however, was not a church member and objected to her going to church and voiced his wrath in un-Christlan terms, according to Mrs. Allen’s petition for divorce filed in the circuit court. She asks for $2,000 alimony and $75 for attorney fees. The Allens were married on May 27, 1893, and separated in June, 1919.

DELAY SIGNING PEACE PROTOCOL Illness of German Envoy May Hold Up Pact Until After Jan. 13. PARIS, Jan. B.—Signing of the protocol and final exchange of ratifications probably will not take place sooner than Jan. 13, It was Indicated today. The plan to complete the long peace negotiations on Jan. 6 virtually has been given up, it was said, owing to the illness of Kurt von Lersner, the German emissary, and the fact that Premier Clemenceau is on a vacation. Interest In Paris had shifted somewhat from the treaty negotiations to the attitude of Clemenceau toward accepting tbe presidency. Latest advices here said he had consented to become an honorary member of the senate, but still refused to announce whether he would be a presidential candidate. BERLIN, Jan. 3.—No more peace notes will be Sent, to the allies by Germany, according to foreign office officials who declared today that this country has at last reached an understanding with the entente which precludes the possibility of future friction. Final details are being worked out by Baron Kurt von Lersner and Herr von Simon in Paris. It is understood here that tbe protocol of ratification will not be signed on Jan. 6. as originally reported, but that the signatures will be delayed until the middle of tbe month.

POLITICIAN HELD IN BOOZE CASE ‘Goosie’ Lee and Two Others Arrested Pending an Investigation. Harry “Goosie” Lee, well known on “de avenoo” as a republican political worker, and two other negroes are held by the police today pending further investigation into their alleged activities In selling drinks. Dave Oranshaw, 538 Roanoke street, and Garrett Osborn, 230 North Capitol avenue, both colored, were arrested after they left the back door of Louis Hoffman’s dry beer place at Michigan street and Forrest avenue last evening. The police say they left Lee’s automobile, in which were seventeen one-gallon jugs of fluid resembling whisky, outside the place. Lee a few hours later told the police his car was stolen and Immediately was arrested. The city chemist will analyze the drink. The cases against tbe three were continued until Jan. 9 in city court today.

End of World Scare Leaves Insanity Trail DETROIT, Jan. 3.—According to Dr. Henry F. Vaughan, health commissioner of Detroit, there are about forty cases of either temporary or permanent insanity in more or less violent form in Detroit as a result, he said, of the recent statements attributed to Prof. Porta to the effect that the world would end Dec. 17. Worry over the prediction, Dr. Vaughan said, has developed very acute mental conditions on those persons with tbe final results of insanity. Sniff! Trunk Leaks; Booze Cargo Taken Special to The Times. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jen. 3.—Sniff! Sniff! When a husky "baggage smasher” hurled a trunk off a Wabash baggage car to a truck this morning it began to leak. Police arrived while railroad men were eagerly Inhaling the fumes. A second trunk also was found to contain a cargo of booze supposedly from St. Louis. It is said the two trunks contained whisky valued at close to $2,000. No one claimed the stuff.

GIGANTIC LANDSLIDE HITS ALASKAN CITY JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 3.—A section of this city is today buried under the greatest landslide in its history, with a toll of one dead and seven injured, two probably fatally. Several are missing.

The precipitation of tons of flirt andi rock occurred yesterday, when the earth over the entrance to the Alaska-Juneau Mining Company crashed down into Front street, sweeping before it six dwelling houses and a large number of small cabins. Parties are today searching Ah* debris

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Mercury Fails to Hit Zero But It Comes Close Lowest of Winter Recorded With 1 Above at 1 O’clock This Morning. The lowest temperature of the winter In Indianapolis was reached about 1 a. m. this morning, when the merclury fell to 1 above zero. After reaching the low point the mercury started upward slowly, reaching 2 above at 6 a. m. and 5 above at 9 a. m. The weather prediction is for gradually rising temperatures .throughout the day. The lowest temperature predicted for tonight is 10 ab'vve. A bitinj wind iast night and early to/lay made pedestrians shiver as they berried nlona. The wind died down during the morning, and snow fell. (The depression existing in the northwest, causing higher temperatures there, ia coming toward Indianapolis bringing raief from near-zero weather. fThe coldest place in the United States, according to the weather bureau reports, isj Duluth, Minn., where it is 14 below’ zei-o. At Port Arthur, Canada, on Lake it is 16 below.

SENATE TO QUIZ TWO MEXICANS Reputed Secret Service Agent and Former Official Called by Subcommittee. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Two Mexicans have been subpoenaed to appear today before the subcommittee of the -senate foreign relations committee, investigating the Mexican situation. They are Amelio Lopez Figueroa, said to he bead of the Mexican secret service in this countin', and Rafael Martinez Carrillo, a Mexican lawyer and official under the Diaz and Huerta administrations. The subcommittee will cross-examine these witnesses with regard to the case of William O. Jenkins, American consular agent, who was held in Mexico, after being kidnaped, on chargel of conspiring against the Carranza government. The subcommittee expects \o showthrough these witnesses that arrangements for the bail and release of Jenkins were made after representatives of the Mexican government In this country had wired Carranza that such action was necessary to relieve the situation which was becoming acute. The committee will aim to show that .T. Salter Hansen, who furnished hall for Jenkins, was in conference with the Mexican minister of finance before taking the action. The examination will be conducted by Senator Brandegee of Connecticut and Francis ,T. Kearfut, counsel for the subcommittee. Senator F'all of New Mexico, chairman of the subcommittee is making an investigation on the border. Kearfut. said he expected the two Mexicans would answer the summons, but if they did not, steps would be taken to compel their appearance.

GUNMAN SOUGHT IN BROWN CASE Attorney General Directs New Effort to Clear Michigan Clubman’s Murder. MT. CLEMENS, Mich., Jan. 3.—Detectives working directly under the attorney general today began following a new trail in the investigation into the murder of J. Stanley Brown, wealthy young clubman, whose bullet-scarred body was found on a lonely road near here ten days ago. The attorney general ordered that search begin for a professional gunman, with whom it is believed Brown had dealings shortly before his death. Brown is reported to have carried on ’Us person at the time approximately $12,000 in traveler’s checks, payable to bearer and easily negotiable. This new angle to the mysterious case is looked upon with considerable interest as it leads entirely away from all those who are now figuring prominently in the case—Cecil Vester, “Cecil of the Auburn Hair,” who is in jail charged with Brown's murder; Lloyd Prevost, an intimate friend of Brown's, who is held as a suspect, and Ruth Prevost-Brown. the widow.

The inquiry so far has developed some incriminating evidence against Mrs. Brown, who is also Prevost’s cousin. The latest bit of this Is the assertion of Mrs. George Schwark, a local dressmaker, that Mrs. Brown came to her a week before her husband's murder and ordered a mourning costume. Mrs. Ruth Brown, whose rearrest was ordered by State's Attorney Groesbeck yesterday, was released on an order from that official after she had been examined by the authorities for the third time. Plays With Revolver; Child Shoots Mother Special to The Times. SHELBYVILLE, lnd„ Jan. 3.—Mrs. Frank Willis, living southeast of this city, is in a serious condition today as the result of a bullet from a revolver held by her 4-year-oid son, James. The boy found the weapon late yesterday, and aiming it at his mother, playfully pulled the trigger. The bullet struck her in the collar bone. Two Killed; One Hurt in Trolley Crash ELGIN, 111., Jan. B.—Two men were killed and another injured today when an east-bound third-rail train crashed into a derailed Great Western freight car at Prince Crossing, ten miles south of here.

for the missing ones. It is believed the landslides were caused by the melting snows and the warm rains, r The houses and cabins were carried a distance of TOT %et and were then crushed under the imU at earth.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1920.

BOLAND ARREST IS REALLY NOT WANTED, HINT Once Cornered, but Allowed to Geb Away and Now Hunt Is Regarded Suspiciously. INSIDE STORY* REVEALED Where is Thomas C. Boland, missing manager of the Permallfe Battery Company, who disappeared with over SIOO,OOO, and why set many conflicting stories concerning his possible whereabouts? This question only invokes smiles in certain circles of Indianapolis business men, and when the probability of Boland being captured and brought hack to Indianapolis to tell the whole story of his peculations is broached this smile grows broader. The reason-for it is, according, to wellfounded reports, that there are interests in Indianapolis other than those connected with the Permallfe Company that are not at ail anxious to see Boland captured. And there is a direct connection between these Interests and some of the alleged sleuths who are supposed to be hunting for Boland. Boland was in Ashland, Ky. Boland was seen in Cincinnati, O. He visited both places during the interval between the time he left Indianapolis and the time it was discovered that the federal authorities probably would want him. The contention is made that be could have been picked up before he left Indianapolis and shortly after he left : Indianapolis had there been a fraction of the determination to find him that certain persons are now declaring. That was before tbe federal authorities got interested in the case, and while there were financial interests in Indianapolis working at cross-purposes in the tangled affairs of the suave gentlemen. I BOLAND IN GRASP, ; BUT EVADES ARREST.

It has become known since Boland’s successful escape from the wide open loop that was pretended to be swung around him that at one time Boland was located in the offices of a firm of Indianapolis attorneys and the authorities were provided with a warrant for his arrest, based on a grand jury indictment, and directed as to where they could find Mm at that particular hour and moment. But Boland was not then arrested. It is declared that his arrest was delayed at the earnest solicitation of a local at- \ torney representing large financial interests, who declared such action would be • precipitate.” This attorney does not j represent the Permallfe Company, how- j ever. 801.-ind is declared to hare left Indinuapolis tbe next day, but not until after he made certain arrangements for tlie use of a bank balance over which he had control by a local man with whom he was very friendly from the beginning to tbe end of his career in this city. Now, county and city officials who arc said to be interested in finding Boland are circulating tbe report that they have secret information that Boland Is in Australia, although one of bis business associate* recogofcMA. Jtira la . Ashland.. Ki-a about a week ago and Boland was not known to be an experienced aviator or to be possessed of an airplane. It is also pointed out that the group of men who believed the arrest of Boland while he was in Indianapolis would have been “precipitate” are almost all of the opinion now that Boland is lu Australia and a great many of those who are really Interested in locating him seem to think that he is hiding within 300 miles of Indiana. FEDERAL OFFICIALS NOT BEING MISLED. It is becoming more and more appar- ! ent that if Boland Is caught he will be located by the federal authorities who have not publicly announced any dlspo-: sition to look for him in Australia. In connection with the stories that have been printed and told concerning Boland's connection with federal affairs there has been a misconception of some of the work he did In Indianapolis. Boland never “cut any ice” in the consideration of coal margins in Indiana. BOLAND’S WORK ON COAL DEALERS’ BOOKS. As an “accountant" of considerable experience, if not ability, Boland made audits of a number of retail coal dealers’ books in this city for the coal dealers themselves. The purpose of these audits was to obtain figures to back up a desire on the part of the retail coal dealers to increase the margin on retail (Continued on Page Five.)

Kansas Soil Yields Wheat Crop TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. 3.—The total 1919 wheat crop produced oy Kansas was 145,795,455 bushels of winter wheat and 813,737 bushels of spring n beat. It was from almost 12,000,000 acres, according to (he small grain report issued by J. C. /Jobler, secretary of the state board of ■ igrlculture. The average yield per acre was 12.56 bushels. The crop was the second largest harvested in any state this past year. Brother Recruits Brother for Army A brother recruiting a brother for army service is an unusual sight, but that is what happened when Kenneth P. Martin of Danville, 111., left the Indianapolis recruiting office station for Jefferson barracks at St. Louis, today. Sergt. Gerald J. Martin, brother of Kenneth, is on duty at the local army recruiting station. Kenneth saw eighteen months’ service In France and Is enthusiastic over army life. “When my brother does the recruiting I know I am recruited right,’’ said Kenneth in leaving for the barracks. Albany, N. Y. Papers Raise Price to 4 Cents ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 3.—Albany's four daily newspapers will Increase the price to 4 cents a copy on Monday.

Ad Men, Who Meet Here in June , Men Who Get Results By MAYOR CHARLES W. JEWETT. The distinct honor which Indianapolis enjoys on account of the selection of this city for the i9JO convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, Is deeply appreciated. We recognize the fact that this great assembly of men are shrewd, up io-date, wide-awake business men who accomplish results In the business world.

U. S. SEIZES 4,500 ‘REDS’; EXPECT ARRESTS HERE

SEEK RADICALS IN CITY; TAKE 13 IN INDIANA Warrants in Hands of Department of Justice Men—One itt Local Jail. DATE FOR HEARINGS SET Warrants for a number of Indianapolis radicals who are slated for deportation hearings or prosecution under the state anti-bolshevism law are in the hands of agents of the department of justice, Charles P. Tighe, special agent, announced today. Arrests are expected soon. Mr. Tlghe’s agents are scouring seven other Indiana cities today to serve warrants upon fifty leaders of the communist and communist labor parties in the nation-wide drive against the “reds.’ Reports received by the special agent this afternoon showed a total of thirteen in custody The agents are working in Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Gary, Andersoq, Clinton, Terre Haute and Vincennes. SIX MEN HELD IN' CLINTON, IND. Six of those seized are held in Clinton, three in Ft. Wayne aud three In Terre Haute, Mr. Tighe said. One is held in the Marion county jail. He Is Joseph Zimmerman, reported to have l>oen secretary of the socialist party in Indiana at. one time. He was arrested in Anderson late last night. Zimmerman was tried before Judge Anderson early In 1918 upan a federal grand jury indictment charging him with having obstructed en- ! listment in the army in South Bend, but was released because the government did not show that anybody actually had been stopped from going into the army by i Zimmerman's soap box speeches on the streets of 'the St. Joseph county seat. All of those caught tn the dragnet in Indiana, outside of th? Calumet region I were to be arraigned here before Immigration Inspector W. C. DeMiller at 10 o’clock next Tuesday morning. Those by Chicago federal authorities. j C. H. Paul, an immigration Inspector from Chicago, was in the city today : preparing to assist in the “hearings before Inspector DeMiller next Tuesday. He left the city this afternoon, but will return before Tuesday. Mr. Paul said he had been threatened by Chicago “reds” for his activities against them. -T’be government, according to Immigration authorities, will seek to deport all defendants who are not citizens of | the United States, The department of Justice and immigration agents have been preparing for , the red raids in this state for some time. ; Plans were completed several days ago and agents sent out to locate the defendants, pending the arrival of warrants from Washington. ARRESTS QUICKLY FOLLOW WARRANTS. i Warrants came late yesterday and the I signal to seize the alleged radicals was ! transmitted to tbe agents. It was understood that the government i would proceed against the radicals who are not aliens through the state authorities, invoking the state anti-red flag law. The section of the law applicable to thfi alleged radicals is as follows: "It shall be unlawful for any person to advocate or Incite or to write or with intent to forward such purpose to print, publish, sell or distribute any document, book, circular, paper, journal or other written or printed communication in or by which there is advocated or incited the overthrow by force or violence, or by physical injury to personal property or by general cessation of industry, of the government of the United States, of the state of Indiana or all government.” Italian Rail Men Deliver Ultimatum ROME, Jan. 3.—The railway men today served an ultimatum upon the govern- | ment demanding a forty-eight-hour week and a wage increase of 200 lire monthly. They threatened to strike if their demands were rejected. Jf the wage increase were granted it would add 450,000,000 lire to the government budget. Nature Study Club to Elect Officers Election of officers for 1920 will be held by tbe Nature Study club of Indiana at Its annual meeting In Cropsey hall, the public library, tonight at 8 o’clock. Henry R. W. Horn of Defiance, 0., will be a special guest. He will he a witness for Dr. F. B. Wynn, president of the club, who will be tried by members to determine whether he climbed Going-to-the-Sun mountain In Glacier park last summer.

The Inquisitive Reporter Every Day He Asks Five Persons, Picked at Random, a Question. TODAY’S QUESTION. Was it right for a Chicago jailer to arrange 200 prisoners in cells so they could watch a murderer be hanged? WHERE ASKED. In the Dennisor and English hotel lobbies. THE ANSWERS. 1. H. L. Carey, Real Estate Dealer, 1224 North Alabama street—l believe that was a good object lesson. 2. Mrs. C. V. Nue, Expert Siamstress. Springfield, 111.—T should think It would teach ttrem a lesson they would never forget. 3. S. D. Votaw, Salesman, Lexington, Ky.—l don't think any one of them would ever care to commit murder after watching a hanging. - 4. Cato Parker, Lawyer, East St. Louis, 111.—That was a good lesson. 5. D. Kumer. Farmer, Marion County —1 thJLak it was nil right.

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Ah! Ha! Revealed! What Makes Water from Faucet White It’s the *Globule'' Getting Excited, Explains Head of Company. Aha! It’s the globule that makes the water white when you let it run to get that cold drink, C. L. Kirk, general manager of the Indianapolis Water Company, explained this morning. Inquiries had been made by patrons who thought something might have happened. The globules get excited when they rash into contact with warm pipes indoors after being out in the cold mains, and their appearance is closely akin to milk until they calm down again. But holding the water glass a few minutes the patron will see the white disappear.

VACCINE ORDER KEEPS CHILDREN OCT OF SCHOOL COLUMBIA. S. C., Jan, 3.—Activities of the South Carolina board of health In enforcing the compulsory vaccination laws of the state are “about to break up the schools” of Lee county, according to statements contained In correspondence between J. T. Munnerlyn, county superintendent of education, and the office of the state attorney general. So persistent has been tbe effort to force vaccination that attendance in the public schools of the county have been seriously impaired. The trouble arose from an order of the state board of health requiring the revaccination of all public school pupils in Lee county. Mr. Munnerlyn addressed a communication to the state attorney general’s department seeking to learn whether tbe state health officials had authority. to compel the vaccination or rovaecination of both teachers and pupils without consultation with local authorities, or to compel them to discontinue school attedance for failure to be vaccinated. Morris C. Lumpkin, assistant attorney general, making reply to the county superintendent, cited existing statutes which he interprets as giving the state health authorities “absolute power among other things in the matter of vaccination of the citizens of the state." This power may be exercised, it was further declared, regardless of the inroads It may be making upon school attendance. It was cited also that a fine of SIOO or Imprisonment of thirty days ’’must” be Imposed upon those whp fail to comply with the orders or regulations established by the state board of health. Mr. Lumpkin added, however, “Os course, if the absolute power so vested in the state health authorities is abused, such officer or officers as abuse the lawwill be liable therefor when their actions are properly challenged and they themselves are brought to account in a proper judicial tribunal of the state, but until this abuse is shown, the good faith of their actions may not be questioned.”

Has Nice Business Running Butterfly Farm Near London LONDON, Jan. 3.—A butterfly farm sounds like the dream of a small boy, but at least one such farm exists in the neighborhood of London. It is run by L. W. Newman of Salisbury road, Bexley. “If 10 per cent of the butterfly eggs laid in tbe winter were hatched out. every tree and plant in England would be stripped of its leaves,” said Mr. Newman to a Daily Express representative. “As it is, only 2 per cent ere batched, but a successful butterfly farmer can raise 90 per cent Shrubs and small trees, covered with gauze veiling, form the homes at the Bexley farm of the caterpillars, which on their transformation into butterflies and moths are transferred to glass houses. “I sell an enormous number,” added Mr. Newman, “mostly the common white species, for experimental purposes for testing insect-killing 6prays. Butterflies of all kinds are also in great demand for educational purposes, but chiefly for collectors, who have increased in number. “Butterflies can sometimes be kept as pet. My wife used to keep peacock butterflies in a warm room during the winter, when they hibernated. They could bo trained to e>at honey from her hand.” Relic Society Gets Old Tribe Tom-Tom LAWTON, Okla., Jan. 3.—A tom-tom known to have been constructed and used by the famous Apache chieftain Geronlmo was recently presented by Frank Harrah to the Oklahoma Historical society. The tom-tom was given to Harrah by Gerontmo In 1909, while the chief was a military prisoner at Fort Sill. The tom-tom, a circle of rawhide about the size of a dinner plate, is decorated in bright red and green paints in a design symbolic of the compass and is fringed with feathers attached by rawhide thongs.

U. S. FORCE OF 280,000, SENATE ARMY PLAN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. —Provisions for a standing army of 280,000 enlisted men; universal military training; a system of national guard under state control and national supervision, and a merit system of promotion for army officers, is included In the army reorganization/bill proposed today by a subcommittee of the senate military affairs committee.

The provisions of the bill which willi be reported from the subcommittee on military reorganization to the military affairs committee next week are a; follows : Proper garrisons for our overseas possessions. EFFICIENT HOME lORCE URGED. A smaller but efficient home force available for mipor military emergencies. A universe] military training establlahaaat, including the required number,

WAR DRY SPELL CUTS ENGLAND'S PRISON FIGURES Records Show Big Reduction in Crime During Ban on Intoxicants. LONDON, Jan. 3.—The report of the commissioners of prisons and the directors of convict prisons for 1918-19, was Issued recently. It shows that the total number of prisoners received under sentence was 28,753, as compared w-ith 36,285 in the previous year, a decrease of 7,532, Reports from all prisons testified to the beneficent effects of restriction on the sale of Intoxicating liquor. The new instructions carrying out the Borstal system, the report stated, were working well. A marked feature of the system was a very considerable freedom from supervision allowed to those who successfully passed through the early grades, and could be trusted not to abuse the privilege. With regard to prison labor, it is stated that the manufacture of war stories had continued to employ every available inmate. The average value of labor per head, per annum, under manufactures, amounted to £l7 -6s 7d, as compared with £lB 13s 5d in 1917-18, and £2O 11s lOd in 1916-17. whilst the average for the combined work In connection with manufactures, farm buildings and domestic service amounted to £lB 13s 2d, compared with £l9 9s Sd in 1917-18, and £2l 3s 2d In 1916-17. Nearly 4,000.000 articles were made and distributed to tbe admiralty, war department, office of works, general postoffice and stationery office, for war purposes. Since August. 1914, war orders had been accepted for over 19,750 000 articles. Os these more than 19.500,000 bad been supplied. During tbe last four years and eight months the production of war stores had been equivalent to an average daily output of 11,523 articles. The commissioners, referring to the prison officers’ representative board, saw that they had been struck throughout with the loyalty, good sense and business capacities of tbe officers elected to serve on tbe board. Tbe demands of orison officers had been presented through the board tn a strictly constitutional wav and, so long as these methods x-ere observed, the commissioners were basis was likely to be an element or strength and concord in the department.

ENGLAND FEARS COAL SHORTAGES FOR TEN YEARS LONDON, .Tan. 3.— England expects to face near-famine coal supplies for at least ten more years. C. Easton-Grey, mine expert, points out that it takes twelve years to develop a British mine to production capacity of one million tons yearly, and that for five years during the war very few new mines were opened. Consequently, he says, mines now being worked soon will begin to ‘‘peter out.’ During the war there was neither labor nor capital available for keeping British coal mining up to standard. Even repairs and proper development of existing coal mines were retarded. Consequently, rational coal production fell off some 50,000 000 tons annually. Britain is relying to a great extent on coal exports to help pay off the war debt and to keep the pound sterling at the top of all European exchanges. To do this home consumption of coal has been restricted. And that's the future outlook also for homo consumers. Mr. Easton-Grey estimated that mine development work totaling $200,000,000 should have been caried on during the war, but was not. Summarizing the situation Mr. EastonGrey says: “When it is remembered that coal is among the two or three most important materials with which we pay our debts to foreign countries for the vest quantities of raw materials and food they send us, it will be readily seen that tbe supply and price not only of coal, but of other equally necesary commodities, will very largely depend on the rate at which we can now sink new pits and bring up the coal.”

Woman Finds Profit in Raising Turkeys GRANDIN, N. D„ Jan. 3.—Mrs. Alice Pudll, housekeeper on the P. A. Costello farm near this city, claims to be the champion turkey raiser of North Dakota. During November and December she sold 290 turkeys for $750 and has remaining a big flock of breeding stock for next season. Last year she raised and sold 192 gobblers for a net sum of $512. Beginning several years ago with a single setting, she has been so successful that next year she will move to her own farm near Cummings and devote all of her time tq. raising turkeys. Besides raising turkeys, Mrs. Pudll has been doing the cooking for the crew of twenty-two men on the Costello farm of 1.700 acres, and has boarded the district school teacher. Consequently she has had a lot of routine work on her hands, with the turkeys as a side line.

of trained men and officers to conduct the annual training. A citizen’s army including: (11 Organized reserves subject to miltary service only In an emergency de dared by congress. (2) A national guard composed of volunteers available for military service within the several states and for reinforcement of the regular forces in military emergencies not justifying the (ContinueA on Fug* Five.)

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LANSING TIPS CONGRESS ON WORLD PLOTS Bolshevik ‘Army* of 60,000 Listed in U. S. Roundup, and Munition Taken. GETTING ‘ARKS’ READY WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—A complete revelation of the dangerous workings of bolshevism throughout the world with the declining force at Moscow is in possession of congress, itw as learned today following the roundup of more than 4,500 red agitators. The report, which was compiled by the Russian affairs division of the state department, has been sent to the senate foreign relations committee and the house foreign affairs committee by Secretary of State Lansing and Is expected to be made public soon. The department of Justice has listed rames of nearly 60,000 “rels” and it was predicted that there wou’d be many more roundups. Complete evidence against more than 2,000 of those now held is in the hands of tbe department and their deportation will be made, it was stated, by Jan. 10. The opinion was expressed that 90 per cent of those held will be deported or convicted of criminal anarchy and the advocacy of violence to overthrow the government. BOMBS AND RIFLES TAKEN IN NEW JERSEY. Telephone Information from Newark this morning brought the story of the cache of twenty-five rifles and a large quantity of high explosive bombs found there. Several ships will be needed to deport the prisoners, who make up a veritable “red army,” It was stated at the department of labor. The majority of those arrested are foreigners. In the senate Senator Borah is preparing a speech on “lied Hysteria,” In which he will charge that government officials are the victims of a “bolshevik scare” and are resorting to repressive measures like the Russian government used In the old days.

Evidence in papers seized by the raiders indicated. It was learned, that the communist party was organized early In 1919 in Moscow, capital of soviet Russia. Agents slipped into this country and began organizing for the revolution, which would result in a svoiet government being established here. That the communist lei) flora in, ike. United Stacets were' fn communication with Lenine and Tfotzky it is believed. The recent New Years’ message front Moscow, sent by wireless, predicting establishment of a soviet government in Washington during 1920 was recalled today and great significance attached to it. In view of the plots unearthed in last night’s raids. ACTIVITIES STIR MANY CITIES OF IT. S. The arrests by cities included? New York, 059 (210 held); Detroit, 0W; Chicago, 162; Buffalo, 138; Cleveland. 100; Philadelphia, 200; Newark, N. J., 150; St. Paul, Minn., 15; Scranton, Pa., 43; Grand Rapids, Mich., 25; Ft. Wayne, Ind., 2; Baltimore, 37; St. Louis, 34; Milwaukee, 80; Toledo, 12; Erie, 35; Hartford, 3S; Boston, 57; Kansas City, Kas., 35; Omaha, 9; Bayonne, N. J. f 75; Passaic, N. J., 50; Jersey City, 25; Camden, 26; Trenton, N. J., 96; Bridgeport, 15; Ansonia, Conn., 15; Waterbury, Conn., 6; New London, Conn.; 4; New Britain, Conn., 2; Wilkesbarre, Pa., 25; Meridian, Conn, 6; Louisville, 20; Des Moines, 11; Oakland, Cal., 19; Denver, 5; Springfield, Mass., 15; Chicopee, Mass., 16; Lynn, Mass., 51; Chelse.-, Mass., 34; Lowell, Mass., 35; Holyoke, Mass., 27; Cambridge. Mass., 3; Nashua, N. H., 15; Haverhill, Mass., 21; Worcester, Mass., 71; Lawrence, Mass., 15; Manchester, N. H.. 65; Centra! Falls, R. 1., 8; Wellsley, Mass., 2; Berlin, N. H., 40; Pawtucket, R. 1., 3; Portsmouth, N. H., 7; Providence, P. I.; Woonsocket, R. 1., 2; Portland, Ore., 22; Fresno, Calif., 1; Seattle, 6; Youngstown, 25; Los Angeles. 2; Gary, 44; Minneapolis, Minn., 9; Jacksonville, Fla., 5; New Haven, Conn., 1. Federal detectives believe they hM| captured several of the men implicated in the May day bomb plot of 1919 and also persona who were Involved in a number of other “ ‘red’ offensives” against law and order. The government’* “counter offensive” of last night was launched Just in time to prevent a fusion of several radical groups under one leadership preparatory to the attempt at revolution, it was learned. The raids have shattered this plan and thrown ths bolshevikl into confusion, it is believed here. Palmer’s men are making every effort to get the big leaders this time. In previous raids the big men have slipped away and within a few weeks have managed to reorganize the “r d’’ forces. Documents taken, it was said, showed the anarchists intended to put forward candidates in elections next November. These men were to be supposedly reputable citizens whose bolshevik affiliations (Continued on Page Five.)

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