Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1920 — Page 1

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DETZER WARNED NOT TO GO TO INDIANAPOLIS! i Army Captain, Freed of Brutality Charges, Receives Threatening Letters. DEFIES DEATH NOTES Capt. Karl W. Detzer, United States army, unassigned, of Ft. Wayne, [nd., who was found “not guilty” at a general court-martial in New York ; 3f brutality to soldiers in France, has been warned to keep away from Indianapolis, it became known today. Detzer Is in the east, at Ft. Jay, and. according to dispatches, intends to com* to Indiana at once, despite the “death notes” he has received. The letters were postmarked Indianapolis, Chicago and St. Louis. In somewhat individual and more or less homemade spelling, the writers threaten Capt. Detzer with death if he ever appears in their cities. A few letters are illustrated. One from Chicago, addressed to “America’s Greatest Hun." informs the captain that although he is going to Leavenworth for life, he is going to ' get his” when he comes to Chicago. This is signed an “Ex-American Soldier.” ‘•KEEP AWAY FROM INDIANAPOLIS." Another note, written on a yellow sheet torn from a cheap account hook, contains the following extracts: “Your life is not worth two sents ether is your chums and the one who are defending you. You tried to kill all the Americans. From ex-soldiers and sailors of Fort Wayne, Ind., and of Hammond and Indianapolis. Don’t come back to our town.” “I think I know some of the people who wrote those letters,” Capt. /Detzer said. ‘I have obtained a short leave and I am going out first to my home at Ft. Wayne and then to Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago, "here I shall announce myself. I hope I shall meet these people, but I am afraid they will remain under cover, because they didn’t care to sign their names.” NOTIFIED OF EXONERATION. Detzer also has in his pocket his letter of exoneration. This was delivered to him at Ft. Jay Saturday with punctilious salute by an orderly. Tt was signed by Lieut. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, commander of the department of the east, and said in military but Otherwise correct English that the general courtmartial. which since the 10th of December has been trying the captain under twenty-eight specifications' ,of alleged cruelty to soldier* in France had found "on ail charges and all specifications, not guilty." Detzer’s trial was the first ever held in this country where an officer was tried on the grounds of cruelty to members of the American expeditionary force. The most notorious case, that of Lieut. Frank IL (“Hardboiled”! Smith, was tried at Tours, France, Smith, charged ueder more thirty j/hgQjflcqtlons. was found guilty under eleven and sen•eneed to eighteen months’ Imprisonment on Governor’s Island. The wide notoriety of the Smith ease, .charged Detzer’s defenders, encouraged a band of soldiers with criminal records, who terrorized the district around the American embarkation center at LeMans, France, to “frame” charges against Capt. Detzer. who was in charge of the department of criminal investigation at LeMans. The twenty-eight specifications against Capt. Detzer included striking prisoners, extortion of false confessions and inhuman treatment of military prisoners. A small army of witnesses, ranging from colonels to privates and Leavenworth convicts, were summoned from all parts of the country to testify In the case, which opened before a court of seven colonels and majors on Governors Island, Dee. 10. For six weeks the trial dragged on with a bewildering mass of testimony which all bnt swamped the court reporters. SOME RECORDS ARE LACKING. Deprived of the records of the 30Sth military .police company. Capt. Dctzer s command at LeMans, which were strangely missing after having been entrusted to a battalion of home-coming troops at Brest, Lieut. Thomas L. ITeffernan, Capt. Detzer’s counsel, was handicapped from the start through not being able to obtain names and addresses of men in the company who would testify for the defense. Step by step, despite continuous objections from Maj. William F. Kelly, the trial Judge advocate conducting the government’s case, Lieut. Heflfermen broke down the charges against his client. He obtained, with few exceptions, admissions from witnesses for the prosecution that either they had been charged with crimes varying from “A. W. O. L.” (absent without official leave) to robbery and murder, or, In the ense of members of Capt. Detzer’s company, they had been transferred from that organization for cause. The names of Clarence Lacey, Mareellus Gonzales and Fred Yates, former prisoners and complainants against Capr. Detzer, were linked with Sergt. Frank Hoyt, believed to be a deserter in France, by the defense in its endeavor to prove a "frameup.” After having deliberated less than ten minutes, the court of officers returned a verdict of “not guilty” on all the charges and specifications.

Editor Heller to Run McCulloch’s Campaign John Heller, editor of the Decatur (Ind.) Democrat, will manage the campaign of Dr. Carleton R. McCulloch, candidate for the democratic nomination for governor. Dr. McCulloch announced to- , day. Mr. Heller is expected to arrive in Indianapolis tomorrow and to take over immediately Dr. McCulloch's headquarters in the State Dife building. Mr. I Heller expected to pay special attention to newspaper publicity. Summer Colony Near Ft. Harrison Planned For the purpose of forming a summer colony near Ft. Benjamin Harrison, H. H. Friegley, state fire marshal, has bought a tract or' 360 acres of land near Fall creek for a consideration of $53,000. It is the plan of Mr. Friedley to organize a development company and sell the tracts as sites for summer homes of Indianapolis folk. The tract Is seven miles northeast of the state fair grounds. Four Hurt as Frisco + Train Leaves Rails FT. SCOTT, Has., Feb. 9. —Four porBons were Injured early today when ’Frisco passenger train No. 11l was derailed at Scammon, Kas., according to Dfflcials here. Six cars left the track, i

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Gotham Puts Ban on Unessential Traffic NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Police today were instructed to order off the streets pay vehicles not being used to haul milk, food, coal, mails and newspapers. This step was found necessary to enable the banks of snow and ice still blocking the streets of New York to be removed. More than 15,000 street cleaners working all day Sunday made little impression on the snow that still has the city’s surface traffic semi-paralyzed. Girl, 15, Tries Suicide; Expected to Recover Rebecca Hart. 15, of 826 River avenue, will recover from the poison taken Saturday night, physicians said today. Miss Hart is at the City hospital. Police officers were told that the poisou was taken with suicidal intent, but were unable to learn the cause. ALLIES WILL PROSECUTE ALL FOUND GUILTY No Amnesty Will Be Given Offenders, Say Letters to Germany. MANY URGE REJECTION BERLIN, Feb. 9.—The “covering let ter” from Paris explaining the allies’ demand for more than 800 German military and state officers for trial, which has just been received here, points out that not all of the Germans were included who/ are held by the allies to be guilty of war crimes, but only those bearing the greatest responsibility it was learned from official sources today. The allies made it plain that they do not intend to give amnesty to offenders, but reserve the right to prosecute all who are guilty. | German government officials declare j that the note is not an ultimatum but 1 opens the way to further negotiations. Tt was handed to Chancellor Bauer by M. i Marcilly, the French envoy. 0 n Satur lay night. SECOND NOTE CONSIDERED OFFICIAL- ! The “covering note” declares that the | allies have no doubt, that Baron Kurt: : von Lersner acted on his own respouj sibilitv when he resigned and refused to transmit the list of war culprits and that the German government was not. responsible. The note went, on to say that the allies believe that the German government intends to enforce the terms of the peace treaty, which is to be in full effect in less than a month. Two “covering notes” came to Berlin, hut the second is the only one the government is to consider as official and effective. The first was dispatched from Paris before the allies knew Von Lersner had resigned and unsuccessful efforts were made to recall It. The second wassent to take its place, after revisions had been made. Messages have reached the government from all parts of Germany demanding a rejection of the allies' demand. They came from heads of chambers of commerce and universities, from the presidents of the East Prussian and Bavarian assemblies and from officers of the old Baltic fleet. NOSKE WILL NOT ARREST OFFICERS. The premiers of the German states are scheduled to convene here tomorrow to take up the situation. “I will net attempt to arrest the officers who are serving under me, because I know that such an aggravating order of arrest would never be obeyed,” said Minister of Defense (war minister) Noske. “Nor will I forbid demonstrations protesting against the surrender of the officers." The minister of defense has addressed an open letter to the German nation saying that he “would guarantee that the ! extradition of any German officer dare not be considered.” There were unconfirmed rumors In official circles that France might withdraw her diplomatic envoy, breaking off relations with Germany in case of refusal to give up the wanted officials. Acj cording to the Tages Zeltung, M. Mer- | cilly. the French envoy, was still in Berline today. British and French officers and privates attached to the foreign mls--1 sions have been ordered to don civilian ; apparel when they appear in the streets.

Furniture Maker Dies at Age of 83 The funeral of John A. Wanee, 83, for many years identified with the manufacture of furniture at Connersville. Ind., will be held at the residence of his Aon, Robert L. Wanee, at 3335 Kenwood avenue, at 10:30 o’cloek tomorrow morning. Mr. Wanee died yesterday afternoon after a two weeks' illness. After retirement from business life at Connersville Mr. Wanee resided with his son in this city. He is survived by two other sons, Stanley C. and Robert L. Wanee of this city, and two daughters, Mrs. A. S. Benson of Indianapolis and Mrs. Charles H. Cle'well of Mays, Ind. Man and Wife Die of Flu; Son Also 111 A double funeral was held Sunday afternoon when Mr. and Mrs.’ Harold Allison,,soß Woodlawn avenue, were buried. Mr Allison . died Friday of pneuaponia and a few hours afterward pneumonia claimed another victim in Mrs. Allison. A son, Jackie Leroy Allison, who has been seriously ill from the same disease, is reported much improved. Rail Man 9 s Daughter Buried in St. Louis Miss Mary Hill, daughter of the late Joseph Hill, general manager of the Pennsylvania and Vandalia railroads, was buried in Bellefontaine cemetery, St. Louis, Mo., Friday, according to word received by relatives In Indianapolis. Miss Hill died Tuesday of Influenza. The deceased was well known here. Last Tribute Paid Mrs. H. J. Williams v Funeral services were held this morning at Kirby & Dinn’s funeral parlors for Mrs. Armilda Williams, 75, who died at her home. 960 North Dearborn street. Friday morning. She is survived by the husband, H. Jerome Williams; a daughter, Mrs. C. E. McGinnis and i’.wo sons. Interment will be la the CroWn Hill cemetery.

ONE KILLED, 18 INJURED, SCORE MISSING IN FIRE Fashionable Apartments in San Francisco Destroyed by Flames. SPECTACULAR RESCUES SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.—One life Is known to be lost, eighteen persons were injured, some seriously and a score are missing but believed to be safe ias the result of a disastrous fight in the fashionable downtown Berkshire apartment here early today, according to, latest reports of firemen and policemen conducting a thorough examination Into the blaze. Many who were believed dead have been found to be only injured. The fire started in a hallway on the third floor. It spread so quickly ni to trap occupants of apartments on the third, fourth and fifth floors. Firemen who penetrated to the fifty floo' feared still more bodies may be buried under the collapsed roof. LADDERS REACHED ONLY TO FOURTH FLOOR. Fire department ladders reached only to the fourth floor. From those windows many persons, clad In nigh* clothes, were taken down to fire escape tendings. An explosion after the fire had burnen for an hour blew out a portion of the fourth floor walls and shortly afterward the roof fell 1r The apartment dwellers were cared for In adjoining buildings. Their rapid disappearance handicapped checking the lists of missing. FIFTY-THREE FAMILIES OCCUPIED APARTMENTS. The Berk-hire was occupied by fiftythree families. Its windows wpre filled with screaming persons within a few minutes after the first alarm. They had been cut off from the stairways cuo elevator. Pcantilly clad men and woman leaned ' half way out of the windows, crying for help. Many jumped one or two stories and were injured. R. E. Doble calmly watched firemen spread a life net three floors below. When it was ready be pitched his wife info space. She landed safely. Dob! then leaped after her nud was caught without Injury. Every available apparatus was used to fight the fire. Many alarms were turned In and engines thundering down the streets at intervals in the early morning attracted an immense crowd. The rear of the building was a furnace of flames. This forced many of the guests out upon the narrow ledges of the front of the building, where they clung awaiting help. MISSING BELIE! KD | SAIE IN NEIGHBORHOOD. Utmost confusion reigned while the fire was in progress. First reports wore to the effect that the hallways of the Ber> shire apartment were piled with dead. Fire department officials, however, have I succeeded in making a thorough c urve --of the fire-swept building and announced their belief that 0.-ily one person had met death This body was recovered aud wa taken to the country morgue. The score or more ni ssing were believed safe in adjoining apartoieru houses, where they were gto'n shelter. A careful check is under way. No csti mat ou the damage has been made.

LABOR UNIONS ENTER POLITICS Open Campaign Against Men Held Unfriendly. WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.—The Ameriein Federation of Labor today annoum—d the appointment of a national nonparti san campaign committee, which will mobilize the forces of organized labor In an effort to defeat candidates Indifferent or hostile to labor. The force of labor union*’ 3,000,000 will be thrown into the campaign immediately. The efforts will lie carried through the primaries and into the general election. Samuel Gomners, president of the federation ; Frank Morrison, secretary, and James O’Connell, president of the federation’s metal trades department, were appointed as executive committee, cm. powered to obtain such assistants as necessary. Four women are included in the national committee. A national crisis, threatening the free Institutions of the country by the “reactionary” attitude of congress, It wss said, impelled organized labor to apply this year the nonpartisan policy formulated in 1906 and used in several subsequent campaigns. LABOR APPEAL SOUNDED HERE An appeal to labor men to break away from the republican and democratic parties and become associated with the labor party, was made Sunday afternoon at the Machinists' hall by C. 11. Kramer, business agent of the Plasterers’ union. A number of labor ward chairmen were appointed Sunday, consisting of: First ward, Hoyt Cline; Second, James Walters; Third, Paul Hockett; Sixth, Fred Eilbrandt; Eighth, Ralph Whelan; Ninth,. Charles Wheeler; Tenth, Melvin Skaggs; Eleventh, Ernest Suess; Twelfth, C. D. Brow'n; Thirteenth, John Schuster; Fifteenth, Harry Murray. Mr. Kramer also contended that government ownership of railroads during the war was not a fair test of the principles of government ownership. ‘Good Turn Week’ for Boy Scouts This is “Good Turn Week” for Boy Scouts In Indianapolis. Inaugurating the week scores of khakiclad Boy Scouts attended churches of the city last night and promptly at 8:15 p. m. the boys rose and repeated their vows under the leadership of their Scout mastere. WEATHER,) Local Forecast—Light rain tonight, probably turning to snow flurries Tuesday morning and followed by fair weather; colder Tuesday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 33 7 a. m 34 8 a. in. 34 9 a. m 34 . 10 a. ni 35 11 a. m 36 IS (noon) 38 Sun sets today, 5:14; rises tomorrow, 6:44; sets, 6:15. One year ago today, highest temperature, 29; lowest, 20.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1920.

KENTUCKY TROOPS FOIL L YNCHING; GIRL ACCUSES INDIANA MILLIONAIRE

THREE SLAIN BY GUARD AS MOB STORMS PRISON Court Sentences Negro to Death Amid Cries of 4,000 for Blood. MACHINE GUNS BARK LEXINGTON, Ky.. Feb. 9—Four persons were killed by Kentucky state militiamen this morning when a mob attempted to storm the Fayette county jail here to lynch Will Lockett, negro, charged with the murder of Geneva Hardemin, 10. South Elkborn school girl. While soldiers were driving buck the mob of 4,000 which demanded surrender of Lockett, the negro was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be electrocuted. The Hardaman girl's bodv was found In a field near her homp late Friday. Examination disclosed she had been attacked and murdered. Bloodhounds, put on the trail, led to Lockett. MACHINE GUNS SWEEP APPROACHES.

Rumors of the attempts at Ivnching spread rapidly through Fnyptte county and n company of state militia from Latonia was rushed to Frankfort Sunday to escort Lockett to the courthouse at Lexington. Machine guns were mounted to sweep approaches to the eourtheuse. and overseas soldiers with steel helmets were on guard when court opened The mob gathered slowly. When about 4.000 were in the square tn front of the courthou-o a voice shouted “Let's go now.” 7'hc erowd surged up th° steps of the courthroise. A deputy sheriff nrrr" ter] one of the leaders and led him away. Officers with pistol- threatened to shoot if necessary. The rioters came on and tr’ed to wTest guns from the militia. Then the order to fire was given. Three men fell dead ou the courthouse steps. Others carried them |i the rear. -V not her fell as tlm struggle continued Machine cans barked and the- crowd broke for cover Meanwhile the trial of Lockett was proceeding in the: courtroom. In fifteen minutes he was sentenced to death on March 7. T roops are being held here to> prevent further trouble. SAVED ONCE BY GOVERNOR’S ACTION. Lockett's life was saved last week when Gov. Morrow, hearing of the formation of a mgb in Lexington, took charge of the state prison at Frankfort where the nerro was brought for safekeeping. Or f 'Mig the sheriffs to guard all ap proaches to the prison. Morrow sotP Sheriff Bain of Franklin county toward :r!C!i with instructions to prevent 'hr mobs entering the state capital. The sheriff met the mob In automobiles on the outskirts of the city and on a hill overlooking the prison. Placing his own automobile crosswise in the street. Bain persuaded the crowd to return to Lexington, thirty miles away. MOVE TO AVERT I t RTHKR TRIM BEE. Enraged by tlie killing of three persons who took part in an effort to lynch Lockett, hundreds of armed mountaineers were on the way here with the intention of taking possession of the negro in spite of tlu- national guardsmen, ac- • ore!lug to reports received by the po lice. Gov. Edwin Morrow : s on route here to take charge of the situation. On his request, top regular army troops from Louisville, under control of Maj. E. C. Martin, left Camp Taylor for this city today. The soldiers are expected tliis afternoon. The dead ar John Thomas, Ver-atlles, Ivy.; R. F. Carrier, Lexington, and an unidentified colored girl. VIOLIN STRAINS WAKEN SLEEPER First Cure on Record of Person With Mystery Disease. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Rack from the “I,and of Shadows," where she lurked for 100 days and nights tn the coni” that “sleeping sickness” caused, Mrs. Dora Mintz, 29 years old, has been discharged from the Willard Parker hospital here as cured. And physicians say that tt was tile strains of a violin. draw: forth from the bow of M. Hoffman, a youthful violini-'t, that brougnt her back to life and understanding. Mrs. Mintz, physicians say, is the first person on record who has recovered from -the “sleeping sickness.” For more than three months scientists were baffled by the malady that kept Mrs. Mintz asleep. Every known scientific remedy was tried; every process of medical treatment that could be devised was undertaken. She failed to respond even in the slightest degree to the treatment of noted specialists. The case, which had attracted wide uttention, came to the notice of Hoffman, a student of the violin. Somewhere Hoffman remembered reading that “sleeping sickness” sufferers had been known to respond to the music of the violin. He asked permission to experiment on Mr. Mintz, and Dr B. Giddings, her physician, indulged his wish. For several days Hoffman played at Mrs. Mintz's bedside without results. lie persevered, however, and kept trying new' melodies in the hope that his treatment would prove effective. One day he. swung into the soothing, lilting strains of "Schubert's Serenade.” Mrs. Mintz smiled uncierstandtngly and nodded her head as though the tune had awakened somewhere within her a mood of recollection. Hoffman finished the melody and passed from it Into the strains of a Russian folk song. Again Mrs. Mintz betrayed recognition and responded with a smile. Gradually playing the tunes that he thought she would like best the youthful violinist won Mrs. Mintz back to permanent consciousness. His efforts were rewarded when the patient for the first time in months recognized and spoke to her husband and three small children. Mrs. Mintz xvas released from the hospital as cured a few days later, after physicians had kept her under observation for a brief period to determine the permanence of the cure and to allow her to regain her strength. The woman was stricken Oct. 1. 1919. With influenza and on Oct. 6 she lapsed into unconsciousness. From that date until she awakened on Jan. 20, 1920, she was in a state of coma, entirely unaware of what went on about her.

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CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—“Monda Rose’. Well, she sure had one swell time while it lasted.” Probably (hat is what Chicago's social sot is thinking today about Rose Schwelber,r. who hits played the dual role of cashier and society bud for the past year, and who Is now harged w ith the . inbezzteuient of many thousands of dollars. Rose, who is 27, was a trusted employe of the Slffi rmnrj & Biehl leather concern until Jan. 24 Itt her capacity as cashier she probably handled mu< h money. On that date she suddenly disappeared. And so did "Moods Rojo" ns she was known In certain so la! circles. Mystery ruled until Miss Reg-- was apprehended in Winnipeg, Canada. Brtudled tip In an expensive sealskin coat and bedecked with a small fortune in diamonds, she was arrested in front <f the Winnipeg post office. While she was still acting as a cashier LEGION FREE FROM POLITICS Franklin D’Olier Tells of Organization’s Aims. Although the American legion, an organization which numbers its members by millions and Is growing by leaps and bounds, could no doubt wield a great political Influence. It will now and always hold Itself free from partisan considerations of every sort, according to Franklin D’Olier, president. Mr. D’Olier was the dinner guest of *l-. University club of Indianapolis Saturday evening, xvhere he gave a talk cn the legion. Its Ideals a.ei i:.t|> tor the future. Other national officers of the legion were present at. the meeting, among them being Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant; Robert H: Tyndall, national treasurer; George 11. Rennick, assistant adjutant, and Russell G. (/revision, national organizer. Mr. D'Oller was introduced oy Samuel O. Pickens, president of the University club. That the American Legion stands for 100 per cent Americaism is. of course, axiomatic, Mr. D’Olier said in bis adddress. However, this is not to be taken to mean that thorough Americanism involves the curbing of any of the liberties and free institutions which form the basis of our national life, according to the speaker. GAMBLING NET DRAGS IN 45 Many Whites and Blacks Are Taken in Vice Raids. Forty-five alleged gamblers, whites and negroes, were to appear in city court this afternoon, as a result of raids made by the morals squad Saturday and Sunday nights. Roy Lane, 38, of 543 West Twentysevant.h street, was arrested on the charge of keeping a gambling house and gaming. Three other men caught in the raid on Lane’s home were charged with visiting a gambling house and gaming. They gave their names as; Henry King. 15, of 348 West Twenty-eighth street; John .Tones, 42, of 734 Highland avenue. and Stanley Seybert, 30. of 849 West Twenty-seventh street. The police allege the men were playing poker. Lee Warner, proprietor of a candy store. 2601 Shelby street, was arrested, charged with keeping a gambling house. The police caught ten men in the raid on Warner’s place and they are charged with gaming. The police say a craps game was in progress when the raid was made. A raid on a soft drink place at 1116 East Nineteenth street resulted In the arrest of Henry Crawford, proprietor and fourteen negroes. Ed Thomas, owner of a soft drink saloon at 19 North Liberty street, and five negroes found in his place were given a rkle to headquarters. Policemen said a merry poker game was in progress at the home of Bert Campbell, 313 South East street. Goes to ‘What Next?’ LONDON, Feb. 9. “Where are y<yi spending the eveningV” a friend asked Capt. Charles V. Coombs. “I don’t know yet,” said the officer. “I’m passing out tonight.” Thereupon he shot and killed himself.

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she lived in a’richly furnished apartment in a fashionable section of Chicago. Her friends were of the social set. By day she cashiered and by night she entertained and enjoyed the costlier oleasures of life. Three saddle horses and a chummy runabout were among her pleasure-giving possessions. The horses are being guarded by the police. One of them she had given to one of the gentlemen attentive to her and another to auother friend, according to detectives. Shortly after her disappearance a cbeeklpg up of her books was started and officials of the leather company, where she worked, say tlie accounts may reach as high ns $67,000 short. Acquaintances of the girl say they came to know her as “Diamond Rose," because she appeared at social gatherings in the evening wearing many diamonds. They said she spoke of her intention' to marry about two months befor she disappeared. WOMAN , 63, FINED AS SHOP LIFTER Jail Sentence of 15 Days Suspended by Judge. A pair of gloves cost Mrs. Lenna Logenceker, 63, of 552 Bradshaw street, sll, and also the embarrassment of appearing in city court today. Mrs. f.ogt necker. a heavy-set and fashionably dressed woman, was arrested a few days ago In the New York store by a woman operative of the Quigley-Hyland detective agency after, it is alleged, she stole a pair of gloves. She is said to have admitted the theft. Special Judge Abrams fined Mrs. Logenecker $1 and costs. Which amounts to sll, and also sentenced her to fifteen cays in Jail. The jail sentence was suspended because of her age. The charges of larceny against Lindy O. Dnnkle, 1003 Indiana avenue, were continued in city court until Thursday. The woman was arrested by an. operative of the Quigley-Hyiand detective agency who alleges the woman stole a corset cover and a silk waist at the William H. Block store, two pairs of gloves at Wasson’s store, and three waists at the New York store. The total value of the articles alleged to have been stolen is said to be $23.54. FRISCO TRAIN LEAVES TRACK KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 9.—Frisco passenger train No. 111, southbound for Ft. Worth, Tex., left the track today near Scammon, Ivas.. according to meager reports reaching railroad officials here. No word was received as to casualties. Local and Richmond Lodges in Contest Indianapolis is arrayed against Richmond in a lodge membership campaign. Arrius Court No. 5, Tribe of Ben-Hur of Indianapolis, and Richmond Court No. 42 of Richmond, Ind., are contending for a prize banner, which is to be presented to the lodge obtaining the largerst number of new members before May 1, the loser to furnish the banner. The local lodge membership teams are under the direction of Irving G. Cook. Twenty-five candidates will be initiated at a meeting to be held in Moose hall, 135 North Delaware street, Monday night.

Middle Class Forms Union With 100,000 Members; Asks Charter NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—The Middle Class Union of New York State, for which Incorporation papers have been filed, will have 100,000 charter members and will have as its chief purpose “securing of the rights and consideration due the middle class individual,” according to Wilmot L. Morehouse, Brooklyn, organizer of the union. “The middle class man doesn't get the consideration the ordinary laborer gets,” Morehouse said. “This union will mean fair play for all classes and will strive to make class tyranny impossible.” The union’s constitution declares it “an institution to organize the people of the state of New York into aneffeetive body to, demand and take all law prX means for "the enforcement of their constitutional rights against,Aggression of whatever nature.”

Robbers Relieve Man of Bank Roll Holdup men robbed Earl Warrick of j Covington, lud., of $165, he told the police ! today. Warrick said he was in a South 1111- ; nois street poolroom Sunday night. He admitted he displayed his roll of bills j and said he believed he was followed by two men when he left the place. At Capitol avenueand North streets he was relieved of his bank roll. 1 KILLED, 5 HURT IN INDIANA FIRE Flames Trap Many in Upper Floors of Logansport Hotel. Special to The Times. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Feb. 9.—One man is dead, a woman is dying and four others are suffering from injuries here today as the result of a fire which destroyed the Barnett hotel late yesterday. The dead man is Charles Finch, 70, master carpenter for the Vandalia railroad. Mrs. Alice Finch, 40, housekeeper in the hotel, lies at the point of death at the city hospital suffering from a supposed broken back. Others injured are: A. F. Rothstein, secretary of the Cass County Chamber of Commerce, skull fractured; E. G. Nash. Newark, N. J., salesman, arm broken, legs bruised; George Blake, city fireman, face lacerated by falling brick; William McClave, night clerk of the hotel, injured about head and neck. CLIMBS OUT WINDOW, THEN LETS GO. Finch was killed when he started to lower himself to the ground from the fourth floor with a life rope. The aged man had climbed out the window and had descended about fifteen feet wheu he released his grip and fell about three floors. His neck was broken. 1 Mrs. Boyles was lowering herself out of a window from a floor below when Finch fell, striking her. and carrying her to the pavement with him. The fire is believed to have started from a defective electric wire. It was discovered in the ejevator shaft and fanned by a draft spread to the roof of the building rapidly. The two persons killed were trapped In the upper floors. Many others caught by the flames and smoke escaped down the fire ropes. Rothstein was hurt when a portion of the elevator walls gave way, hurling him from the second to the first floor. He may tie fatally hurt. FLAMES ENVELOP ENTIRE BUILDING. The fire was spectacular. Tt gained such rapid headway that thick smoke was curling out of the windows before the fire department arrived. Soon many persons were seen dangling from ropes out of the windows. As soon as the firemen were satisfied that all of the guests were out they direeted m”st of their attention toward saving adjoining property. The Nelson theater, next door, was saved from heavy fire loss. The Barnett hotel was one of the landmarks of the city. It was built about forty years ago and for many years was regarded as the leading hostelry of the city. It contained 300 rooms. The hotel was under the management of W. K. Fry & Son, who came here from Wisconsin eight months ago. taking the place of Ward Brown and J. W. Sharriek, present managers of the Wheeler hotel In Indianapolis. WILSON AGAINST ARMY AS ISSUE Favors Universal Training, but Warns Congress Off. WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.—President Wilson today in a letter to the secretary of war approved a moderate and carefully conducted course of universal military training, but declared it should not be made a party Issue in congress. The letter was prompted by the action of house democrats in calling a caucus for tonight with the purpose of putting 1 the party’s representatives in the house |on record against universal military : training. The president urged the democrats to j take no stand upon the question befoTe ! the national convention frames a party j platform. The letter was sent by the secretary or war to Democratic Leader Clark to be read at the caucus tonight. Youth Arrested on Charge of Girl Elmer Sussman, 18, of 239 West Washington street, was arrested today by Detectives Haley and Stewart on the charge of having attempted to assault Helen Wall. 761 North Tremont avenue. The ar- ; rest was made on a w'arrant sworn to by I the woman. British Cabinet to I Take Up War Trials IXINDON, Feb. 9.—The cabinet was to meet today tp consider the situation growing out of the allied demands for delivery of German war guilty. It was learned authoritatively that. Great Britain's stand has not been modified as far as her own list is concerned.

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AMY O’CONNOR SAYS SHE GAVE HIM HER SOUL ‘lrish Rose’ Demands $500,000 of Allan Gray, Alleging Breach of Promise. LURED FROM LONDON? Amy O'Connor, “The Irish Rose,” sat with head bowed, sobbing at intervals, in federal court today as her attorneys told a jury how she is alleged to have “given her soul” to Allan Gray, Evansville millionaire, on his pretext of marrying her. Miss O’Connor, a native of Dublin, Ireland, is suing Gray for $500,000. She alleges breach of promise and la her complaint tells of an alleged illegal operation which, she claims, has permanently impaired her physically. The operation, Miss O’Connor claims, was performed on her after she had submitted to Gray’s overtures when she was lured to Nexv York from her home In London. She charges that she was led to believe by Gray that the doctor who performed the operation was to examine her nerves. „ ROMANCE READS LIKE FICTION. Miss O'Connor's romance with Gray and her subsequent charges against him have all of the embellishments of the rarest fiction. It goes back several years before the war when “The Irish Rose” was a bright eyed, vivacious little Irish society miss of 20 in London. —J SENATE VOTES TO RENEW PACT CONSIDERATION Coalition of Democrats and Republicans Prevails Over ‘Bitter Enders.’ History of Treaty June 29, 1919 Treaty signed at Versailles. , July 10, 1919 Presented to senate by President Wilson. Sej:t. 10— Reported from foreign relations committee. Nov. 19—Failed of ratification, 41 to 61. Feb. 9, 1920—Called up by Senator Lodge. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Reconsideration of tire peace treaty was agreed on by a majority of the senate this afternoon. A motion by Senator Lodge, the republican leader, providing for a suspension of the senate rules to permit a reconsideration, was adopted by a coali- | tlon of republican and democratic sena. j tors favoring ratification. A roil call was made necessary to secure the adoption of the motion when i Senator Norris, republican of Nebraska, objected to unanimous consent for a suspension of the rules. WILL SEEK TO EVADE CLOTURE. Senator Lodge stated it was his purpose to have the treaty recommitted to the senate foreign relations committee to free it from the cloture still attached to discussion of it The vote by which Senator Lodge's motion was carried was 63 to 9. The committee was to be instructed to ; report it back to the senate promptly. It was expected it would do so tomorrow. | Unlimited debate would then follow unless the senate decided to again invoke I cloture. j Senator Lodge’s action brought the | treaty before the senate again for the | first time since ratification was blocked i on Nov. 19. when the Lodge reservations : were voted down by the democratic side. The nine senators who voted against i the motion to reconsider are all repub licans. They are: Borah, Brandegee, ; France, Groanna, Knox, McCormick, 1 Norris, Poindexter and Sherman. Borah said early today that with PreS;i dent Wilson and Senator Lodge both re- ! fusing to yield on reservations. It was a : sheer waste of time for the senate to expend more words upon an apparently futile task. “In view of President G ilson’s determiination, expressed in his letter to Senator Hitchcock not to yield on Article 10, ; and in view of the equally firm refusal I to yield of those who support the Lodge reservations, It seems to me nothing is to be gained by bringing the treaty back,” said Borah. “It’s a deadlock from the beginning. AVhat we ought to do is to clean up the senate calendar, crowded with legislation and then go to the country with the treaty, for the final verdict on it must come from the country anyhow."

GERMANS FACE FINANCIAL RUIN BERLIN, Feb. 9.—Germany is balancing on the very edge of a precipice, above the abyss of national, economic and financial collapse, which is certain to be followed by far-reaching international reverberations irl~ the financial world. That is ’lie uneseapable impression one gets here in the vortex of the central European political-economic whirlpool. All indications here point to the Versailles treaty revenging itself upon Its makers with a rapidity that even the most vengeful German nationalists hardly anticipated. The most portentuous shadow coming events have cast before them is the new drop of the German mark, which touched the 1-cent here and went even lower In Cologne and in Holland, where It dropped to seven-eights of a cent. For the first time the confidence of the Germans themselves in their own money is beginning to disappear, as is shown by the wild scramble for foreign money at any price, especially American. Swiss, Dutch. Danish and Swedish. All the leading Berlin jewelers closed their doors yesterday, except one, which refused to sell diamonds, precious stones and jewelry of all kinds for Germany money, which in almost worthless.