Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1920 — Page 3
FLETCHER OUT, MEXICO BREAK FORESHADOWED Ambassador Said to Have Favored Fall Resolution. SIGNIFICANCE IN STEP BY CHESTER M. WRIGHT, Newspaper Enterprise Association Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Acceptance of the resignation of former Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher, to Mexico, is the fruit of his attempt to help Senator Fall bring about war with Mexico. This is revealed through an Interim report made to the subcommittee of the senate committee on foreign affairs, by Senator Albert B. Fall, detailing his own work in examining Mexican affairs, the manner in which the resolution requesting withdrawal of recognition of Mexico was introduced in the senate has become known. This resolution was introduced by Fall during the height of the oil propagandists’ drive for intervention based on the Jenkins controversy. At that time it was thought by the interventionists that President Wilson was too 111 to interfere with the scheme to sever diplomatic relations. Ambassador Fletcher, who had not been at his post in Mexico City for some months, is shown by the Fall report to have been in full accord with the plan to withdraw American recognition of the Mexican government. Senator Fall’s report relates that tele grams reaching him in El Paso urged bis immediate return to Washington and that he arrived in the capital on Dec. 1, 1919, proceeding immediately from the Elation to Secretary Lansing’s office. CONFERENCE IN ACCORD ON NECESSITY OF ACTION. “While no definite, specific conclusion was reached at this conference as to the details of immediate, specific action, the steps thought necessary by both the secretary and myself to be taken concerning matters of dispute with Mexico were very thoroughly discussed, and, I am say, with no difference of opinion. “It was understood,” Senator Fall continues, “that possibly one or more resolutions concerning Mexico might be introduced in the senate- by senators other than members of your subcommittee, unless the committee itself, or some member of the committee on foreign relations, introduced some tesolution with reference to Mexico.” At this point Senator Fall, who is believed by a great many persons to be an apostle of forceful dealing with Mexico, though he denies' being an interventionist, describes the manner in which the famous resolution was framed. Says his report: “It was decided that the secretary of state should name a representative from his department to represent him in close Rnd continuous contact with myself, as representing the senate, through the chairmanship of the subcommittee of the committee on foreign relations dealing with Mexican affairs. FLETCHER ANSWERS TELEPHONE SUMMON.
“On the next morning a message by telephone from the secretary of state notified my office that Ambassador Fletcher had been designated by the secretary xo represent his department and to consult with, and be in continuous touch with your subcommittee and its chairman. “I at once telephoned to Ambassador Fletcher, asking him to come to my office in the senate office building immediately, which he did. Upon his arrival there. I handed him for his consideration a draft of two proposed concurrent resolutions to be offered by myself and. after consultation, we agreed upon the resolution to be so offered, which is in words and figures as follows: “ ‘Resolved by the senate (the house of representatives concurring), that the action taken by the department of state in reference to the pending controversry between this government and the government of Mexico should be approved; and, further, that the president of the United States be, and he is hereby, requested to withdraw from Venustiano Carranza the recognition heretofore accorded him by the United States as president of the republic of Mexico and to sever all diplomatic relations now existing between this government and the pretended government of Carranza.’ “In company with Ambassador Fletcher I proceeded Immediately to the senate chamber, while the ambassador proceeded to the diplomatic gallery thereof. I offered the resolution, and the same was referred to the committee on foreign relations.’’
SEEK AN ALIBI FOR KIMBERLIN Wife of Vote Defendant Takes Stand in Anderson Case. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 29.—With the defense getting well under way in the case on trial in circuit court in which Homer Kimberlln is charged with election fraud, witnesses, including Mrs. Winifred Kimberlln, wife of the defendant, were to be placed on the stand today to try and prove an alibi for Kimberlln, by tracing his movements on the night in November, 1918, when he is alleged to have been implicated with Forest Agnew in making alterations in ballots cast for superior judge. One of the principal witnesses for the defense yesterday was Joseph Essington, city clerk of Anderson, who testified that while he was watcher on the recount board there was no evidence found on any of the ballots to indicate that erasures or new markings had been made up to that time. Essington stated that the ballots were examined minutely near a window, with Judg* W. S. Ellis, democratic candidate for superior judge, one of the witnesses, and that there were no indications of alterations in the ballots at that time. Mrs. C. W. Orland, court stenographer, was placed on the stand by the defense and testified relative to impeachment of Forest Agnew, star witness for the state, in twenty questions. Agnew was alleged to have refuted his former testimony in the case in twenty questions. The case may reach argument tomorrow. Sugar Salesmen to Attend Meeting Flans are being made by five local representatives of the American Sugar Refining Company to attend a three-day meeting of the sugar company’s national sales force in New York City, Feb. 8 to 10. Hubbard M. Smith, A. C. Bradley, W C. McLain, F J. Boston and C D. Funk will represent the Hoosler capital. A two-days’ conference of the sales representatives of the country will be held at |the Hotel McAlpln. Morning Keep Your Eyes Clean -Clear •. Healthy Writ* fur fruu E/a Car* Beak Murioa Cos. Chicago. U.&
Mystery Friend of Pretty Wife Fires on Hubby Chicago Auto Man Wounded in Strange Attack After Being Lured by Photos. CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—Photographs said to have been taken of a pretty former art model while on a houseboat trip down the Mississippi river figured today as the key to solution of the mysterious shooting of her husband after he had been lured to a lonely spot by a stranger who claimed to have possession of the pictures. The young woman in the case is Mrs. Franc Kingsnorth Lake, who before her marriage to James Lake, sales manager here for the Reo Automobile Company, was known throughout the country as a calendar advertising model and for an episode in which she fainted after being posed with cadavers and skeletons for a photograph entitled “Asleep With the Dead.” Last fall she was a member of a houseboat party on a trip from Chicago to Vicksburg. Miss. Photographs were taken of her while on the trip. Last night a man giving the name of Albert Saier called up her husband and said he “would like to show him some pictures.” The husband made an appointment to meet him, but, suspecting a blackmail plot, took a policeman friend along with him. , “Saier” was disconcerted at finding a third party, and said that the pictures “were over on a houseboat on the drainage canal.” The three went to a lonely place near the canal, where “Saier” suddenly whipped out a revolver and ordered the other two to throw up their hands. Lake did not do so and the mysterious stranger shot him In the leg- After fighting a revolver duel with the policeman, he escaped. Child Drinks Poison for May Die Special to The Times. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 29.—Mary, ag<* 8, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Orland, accidentally swallowed an ounce of bichloride of mercury used In a disinfectant yesterday. She mistook the solution for water. The outcome can not be ascertained for several days.
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TRAFFIC LAW IS HELD VALID Judge Upholds Measures Except Two Sections. The new traffic ordinance, except for two sections, is valid, Judge Walter Pritchard of city court held in a ruling announced today. The two sections which the Judge says are invalid are Section 7, which seeks to made disobedience of an officer's directions unlawful and the section excepting doctors from some provisions of the ordinance. The law, however, can function even with these two sections Invalid, Judge Pritchard holds. The case, which was brought by four taxicab drivers, who were arrested for parking in front of the Claypool hotel for a longer time than the law allows, probably will go to the supreme court. Judge Pritchard's action was the overruling of a demurrer filed by attorneys for the defendants. Another case brought to test the validity of the law was brought in superior court, room 5, and venued to another county, where it is pending. Noblesville Swine Sale Brings $40,000 j Special to The Times. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. 29.—At three sales of thoroughbred hogs held in this city 100 sold for a total of $40,000. The Spotted Poland China sale of Benjamin Southard & Sons totaled $16,115. The highest priced hog was a sow purchased by Thompson & Struckman of Oakland City, Ind., for $4,500. Frank Howe & Son sold forty head of the same breed for a total of $17,000 and Claude Johnson sold the same number of Big Type Poland Chinas for a total of $7,000. Monument Workers to Ask $1 an Hour Men employed In the manufacture of monuments in Indianapolis will seek a forty-four-hour week, $1 per hour wages and abolition of piece work, according to George F. Asherger, chairman of a club of workers which ha 9 been organized. The men have affiliated with no union, it is stated. Charles F. Huggins is secretary of the organization.
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Home, Sweet Home 6£T nrvgp ST. JOHNS, N. F.. Jan. 28.—"A gentleman," says a daily newspaper here, “was fined in police court this morning for blacking his wife’s eye. The lady in question is alleged to have cursed and beaten her husband.” Prepare Petition for Brightwood Car Spur i 'The circulation of a petition for the building of a spur to the Brightwood street car line has been started, it was announced today following a meeting of the Brightwood Civic association, held in the Railroad Y. M. C. A. last night. It is proposed that the new spur run from the mein line north on Hillside avenue to Twenty-fifth street, east on Twenty-fifth to Dearborn street and north to Thirtieth or Thirty-four street. Plans for further improvement of Brightwood were discussed at the meeting. Miss Josephine K. Bauer, supervising principal in the public schools, addressed the association on public Improvements. Plans for building a fountain or community house and a memorial to the soldiers in the suburb were discussed.
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WOMAN’S BOOZE BONANZA ‘BUSTED ’ Say She Made S3OO to SSOO a Day Fighting Flu ” CHICAGO, Jan. 29. —“Colored trade, sl. Ordinary white, $2. Limousine trade, $5.” That was the prescription scale charged by Dr. Anna Schultz, under bond here today on charges of violating the prohibition laws. Prohobition officers said she made from S3OO to SSOO a day writing prescriptions in which the chief Ingredient was one pint of whisky. Dr. Schultz said she made “legitimate use 1 of the whisky In fighting the Influenza. NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Cheap whisky stills of one gallon capacity, manufactured and sold for “domestic use,” with tjie idea of making each individual his own distiller, have flooded the metropolitan district, revenue agents here have reason to believe. Files, books and other records said to have been tbe property of one of tbe firms distributing these miniature stills have been confiscated by government officials. The list of purchasers of these stills has been obtained and arrests are to follow. Bull Moose Bolt Nothing Like This CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—The biggest bolt here since the bull moose affair: Some one took seven and one-balf miles of gingham from a Madison street store. Value $4,206.
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Logansport Holds Pair as Cracksmen Special to The Times. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Jan. 29.—Jack Coughlin, 34, and Ray Layton, 34, alleged safe blowers, held in the Cass county jail, are believed to have had a well-mapped-out plan for work in several Indiana cities. The men were arrested at the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane a few days ago. On their persons was found material used by safe blowers. A package shipped to one of the men at Lafayette contained nitroglycerin, dynamite caps and fuse. This package is known to have been shipped
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Slavs Want to Know About London Treaty PARIS, Jan. 29.—The Jugo-Slav reply to the allied ultimatum of Jan. 20, which was banded to the foreign office last night, requests that the text of the treaty of London be communicated to the Jugo-Slav government, the Echo de Paris stated today. The Italians threatened to demand that the terms of the treaty of London be put Into effect at once if the Jugoslavs returned an unfavorable answer to tbe ultimatum. The Jugo-Slavs contend that they do not know the contents of the compact in question.
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