Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1920 — Page 1

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PUT MILLION IN HOME BUILDING FOR WORKERS 0 Officials of LaFayette Motors Company Aim to Relieve House Famine. WIDE EFFECT LIKELY Articles of incorporation for a million dollar housing corporation to erect homes for workers at the new LaFayette motors factory were filed with the secretary of state this afternoon. The company is to be known as ♦he LaFayette Building Company. Elmer W. Stout. M. J. Moore and L. C. Huesmann signed the incorporation papers. This is the first definite step toward re- ' eving the houstng situation In Indian•’Polis and the men behind the project expect It to have a far-reaching effect on the future of the city. When the LaFayette Motors Company s-. ings into full production the plant will ♦•ring hundreds of skilled workmen to he city. They must have homes. Actuated by civic Impulse as well as for the welfare of the factory, the LaKnyette company, after a survey of housng conditions, decided on the home building project. property near FACTORY BOUGHT. A beautiful tract of property just west of the factory in the southwest portion of the city has been, obtained and here will be established the LaFayette com niunity. It is proposed to erect substantial homes which will be available at minimum costs for the workers. Here •they will find easy access to their place of employment. It is expected the plan will make that section of the city one of the most attractive for new manufacturing enterprises. Associated with the LaFayette Building Company In the housing program are the Fletcher-American Company, MeyerKlser bank, Breed Elliott and Harrison, the City Trust Company and the Hauetsen and .Te"ett Company. The company itself has taken SIOO,OOO worth of stock. The company will go Into the building project substantially, with an initial issue of $300,000 common and $300,000 preferred stock. Orders soon will be placed for materials and work will be started without delay in building houses. The LaFayette company came to the ■ ity in September of last year, with a paid-in capital of $4,000,000. Already much progress has been made toward turning out LaFayette cars in great numbers.

\IX CONTRACTS J OR 1920 LET. Officials of the company reported today that all contracts for ma'/riais for 1920 bare been let. all forging dies are ready, vlrtnally all machinery has been installed and tools and other equipment purchased. One of the designer's models, which was exhibited at the New York and Chicago automobile shows, attracted wide Interest. As the result there has been a clamor for agencies for the product throughout the country. Already many agents and distributors hare been contracted with. Hundreds of applications have been received by the company from skilled workmen who are willing to move to Indianapolis If they can be assured housing accommodations, according to M. J. Moore, secretary and treasurer of the company. It is the plan of the LaFayette Building Company to erect homes that may be sold to employes at cost-plus, the actual carrying charges of the money involved in the building of the houses. Tt is estimated that about 350 homes will be needed and It Is proposed to build at least 150 of them as soon as possible. The Fletcher American Company and other companies have agreed to underwrite the issue of preferred stock, which will return 7 per cetft annual dividends, payable quarterly, under the condition of the issue that, for every dollar of preferred stock issued by the corporation, there will be $1 of actual value In common stock, so that the preferred stock will be issued only as the common stock is paid in in cash or In land at an actual appraised value. PAYMENT PLAN FOR HOUSES. It is expected that upon the construction of the houses the company will be liquidated within seven years by the completion of all installments on sales of houses to members of the LaFayette organization. Upon completing a house the company proposes to sell it on the basis of a substantial down payment and a monthly payment equal to 1 per cent of the unpaid balance. In this way the purchaser will have the house half paid for within four years, and then can make a straight mortgage and pay off the company if he wishes: or, if he prefers to continue ids payments, the entire debt will be liquidated in approximately seven years. This is virtually the plan followed liy successful building and loan associations throughout the country. There are already approximately fifty homes in the neighborhood of the plant, but the new homes to be built will be of modern type, embodying all of the which will be appreciated by the skilled type of men which the LaFayette company will attract. “Knowing that men who appreciate fine Work also appreciate fine homes,” said E. C. Howard, vice president of the LaFayette company, ‘‘lt Is our hope and intention that the community center to lie developed in tl!e vicinity of our plant i-hall be better than the majority of subdivisions, in attractiveness of layout and irohitecture and wholesome living conditions. In no sense of the word will it be v 1 it is commonly known as an *indus- ' ual community.’ It Is the Intention of son e of the officers of the company and division heads ultimately to make their I ’< ■> in thi.-i section. 'Ye have many applications from men ’ the cities in the million population ess who are anxious to come to IniContinued on Page Five.) fc bid SIOO,OOO Bonds in Chicago Pig Sty CHICAGO, March 16.—A waterI soaked sack containing approximately l SIOO,OOO In Liberty and other bonds T was dug up in a pig sty on the farm j of Guy Wadsworth by detectives. It I was believed the loot was the result of ten Indiana robberies.

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1 DENIES MURDER Hnr * • v .7 •’ PRANCIS MARION WHITE. Facing Judge Collins on a charge of murdering John P. Aughlnbaugh, a grocer, Francis Marion White, 17, pleaded not guilty today. His defense will be insanity. Aughlnbaugh was beaten to death in his store Jan. 28. HAAG ACQUITTED ON TIGER CHARGE Woman, Next Up, Given SIOO and Thirty Days. Louis E. Haag, one of the proprietors of a string of drug stores, was discharged as a blind tiger operator in city court today. Haag smiled as the court ruled there was no evidence of a sale of whisky and an air of relief came over the Judge. Haag was arrested two weeks ago when a negro, who had been picked up, said he obtained the bottle of whisky he carried from the Haag store on North Pennsylvania street. Twenty-three half pints of '•Old Darling” was found in a cabinet in the stroe. •‘What do you think of the case?” asked Judge Pritchard, turning to Deputy Prosecutor Spaan. “The state has nothing to say,” answered Spaan. evading the question. “Do you thiuk the evidence supports the conclusion that Haag had the whisky for sale?” the court Insisted. “I won't answer that,” responded the prosecutor. After this bit of discourse, Pritchard wrote “discharged” across .he affidavit. Haag contended that the twenty-three bottles of whtsky were in the store without his knowledge. Immediately after Haag, who has been In court numerous times for liquor violations. walked out of the courtroom Lovle Thomas, negress, 635 Hast Wabash street, was found guilty of having sold three driuks to Mose Ryber. She was fined SIOO and costs and given thirty days by Judge Pritchard. Attorney Ryan, in pleading for Haag, said the latter had been “through a pretty tough mill during the last year.”

VOTES RAISES IN MINNESOTA Light Vote Cast in G. O. P. Primaries. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 16 Gen. Leonard Wood is the winner of the republican preferential presidential caucus held throughout Minnesota Monday. Later returns Indicate that he won In almost every section of the state, although the vote was extremely light everywhere. In Minneapolis 20,000 votes were cast, about one-third of the normal number. With twenty-one out of 160 precincts In the city still to be beard from, the vote was as follows: Wood, 6,819; Johnson, 5,740; Hoover, 4,113, and Lowden, 2,465. Many v-omen voted. BISMARCK, N. D., March 16.—Interest In the North Dakota primary today centered in the nifming of delegates to the national conventions. Senator Hiram Johnson, republican, and William J. Bryan, democrat, v are the only presidential candidates on the official ballots. There were two republican and two democratic slates for national committeeman, national delegates and presidential elec tors. One of the republican tickets is in dorsed by the National Nonpartisan league.

Men, They 'll Be Wearing Trousei s Tighter This Year Without Cuff The best tip Indianapolis clothiers and haberdashers have for the young man about to bedeck himself with a raiment consistent with the gladsome j season of spring is “Let your conscience be your guide.”

The übiquitous arbiters of modes for the male have contented themselves this year with the addition of fastidious detail to various fashions. Nearly every variety of suit designs, seen in the last five years, will be good even In extreme models. If one wishes to bundle oneself in a short and shapeless English coat of the peajacket type one may find the real thing direct from England. It will have as many as four buttons and will button up tightly nearly to the throat. When buttoned the front edges will curl back under the armpits displaying the vest, which may be a fanciful futurist creation or a sweet looking thing of delicate shades. ENGLISH MODES MUCH IN VOGUE. English fashions have had a prodiiund influence of American clothes for ten years or more, but the imitation has usually differed from the original in being made better. The English run to more extreme fashions than we do. If one doesn’t fancy an Englishman’s idea of a suit of clothes the spring market offers a variety American inven-

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BOY TREMBLES AS HE HEARS MURDERCHARGE Francis White, 17, Nervously Pleads Not Guilty of Killing Grocer. INSANITY IS DEFENSE Francis Marion White, 17-year-old alleged slayer of John P. Aughinbaugb. aged grocer, stood before Judge James A. Collins in criminal court today and pleaded not guilty to murder. He was nervous while his attorney. Judge James E. Decry, told the Judge that the boy would stand trial by jury. Dressed in coarse, brown clothes, the boy was pale from weeks spent In jail. His face twitched as he told his age. The crime was committed on (he morning >t Jan. 28, and he was 17 on March 10. He said he had lived three years in Indianapolis, coming from Danville. Ind. Jailers who brought the boy to. court declared he was a model prisoner. He never complains and talks but llttlenever about the crime, they said. INSANITY PLEA TO BE DEFENSE. It was reported than an insanity plea wonid be made in his defense by Judge Decry. Aughlnbaugh. known in the neighborhood as “Uncle Charlie.” and was es pecially idolised by children who lived near his little grocery store at 1102 South Sheffield avenue. White, according lo his purported con fesslon to the detectives two days after the murder, went to ‘‘Uncle Charlie's - ' grocery for some pressed ham on the morning of Jan. 28, 1020 At first the aged grocer is said to have refused the hoy credit, because of an unpaid bill. The kind heart of the old man softened after an argument with tiie lad and he consented to give the boy the meat on credit. White claims that while Aughlnbaugh was weighing out the meat, the grocer taunted him about his father not paying his hill. White asserts that this so angered him that he lost his self-control, picked np an iron bar on the counter and struck the grocer over the bead. VICTIM ROBBED. ACCORDING TO POLICE. According to the police the hoy struck Aughlnbaugh after he had fallen to the door. White admits, according to the police, that he took some small change from the pocket of his victim. The murder was committed early iiTthe morning and White easily made his escape. The mystery was cleared a few days later. When the lad was placed behind Jail doors he was dressed in an ill fitting army uniform. In talks to newspapermen lie appeared unable to realize the enormity of hl crime. The grand jury returned an indictment charging first degree murder.

NECKLACE GOES IN HOTEL LOBBY Marion Woman Doesn’t Know if Lost or Stolen. A pearl necklace valued at sl*oo via 10-d or stolen in the lobby of the Hotel Lincoln, Mrs. Michael L. Fwaytee of Marlon, Ind., told the police today. immediately after Sergt. Sheehan telephoned the information to police headquarters at 2 o’clock this morning, detectives were assigned to the case. No clew could be given by Mrs. Swayzee other than to say she was sure she had the pearls about her nock in the hotel lobby. There are 197 pearls on tha string, according to the description given detectives. Mrs. Swayzee refused to talk about them other than to confirm their disappearance.

DENIES EVIL * ID FOR NEWBERRY Attorney for Defense Holds 45 Should Be Freed. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 16—A corrupt pu/pose and an evil Intent must be established beyond a reasonable doubt beforq eighty-five defendants In the Newberry'election fraud case can be declared guilty. Attorney Nichols declared today In addressing the jury. Nichols went through a list, of fortyfive of the defendants, analyzing the testimony against each ofle, and declared the government had failed to show an evil Intent Attorney Hal A. Smith followed Nichols, representing Fred W. Blair, treas. urer of the Newberry campaign. "The question of a large sum of money being spent Is not the issue here,” he said. "There is no charge of corruptfon of tbc bnllot box. The sole question 1r whether there was a conspiracy to spend more than the law allows.”

tions. The long coat is to be conspicuuous in contra distinction to the English short coat. The home product will be leas bisb-waisted than of yore, will have tight sleeves and flaring skirts and broader shoulders. The old custom of padding out a gentleman's physical deficiencies is coming back. Vests will be concave where possible, which is mostly among the extremely youthful. Trousers will be tighter, if possible, and cuffs will be eliminated. The bottoms will be flared a trifle. Whether this Is the result of sailor suit influence or Just' a throwback from the tight pants era of the eighties and nineties is not established. At any rate It will be easier to get the trousers on over the feet. N OTHER WORDS, 'AKE YOUR PICK. Thus in clothing it is seen one may strive for the long and willowy, hevamplsh effect or the cosmopolitan and fashionable stuffiness of Engltsh clothes. Belts have been relegated to sport clothes and will not be worn ion the (Continued on Page Five.)

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1920.

Mrs. Richards Had Her Say Year Ago; Now Hubby Asks For His! MRS. VIVIAN D. RICHARDS,

Most people like to have their weddings put In the papers and their divorce* kept ou:. An exception, however, was Mrs. Vivian D. Richards. When she started a dlv-<-action a year ago against H. Virgil Richards, manager of the Long-llel! Lumber Company, w th office* at itj*>> Merchants Hank building -he waqte.l t!> • world to know It. Pretty Mr*. Richards was oven willing to go to the trouble of visiting the newspaper office. And the reporters are so impressionable! She was heartbroken, she said. A manicure girl, among others, had come between her and her husband, she went on. Y**s, she had plenty of time to t-l all about it. And the details were duly related. And now. a year to the month, her husband makes his appearance, lie walked Into The Times editorial department this morning and asked for the city editor. ‘‘MV TURN NOW," HE WAVS. “You gave my wife all the publicity she wanted a year ago and now it’s my turn,” he said. Mr. Richards said that he had filed an answer to his wife’s petition asking for S2OO a month in Judge W. W.

Mysterious Thug Beats Terre Haute Girl JJnconscious TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 16.—Miss Ruth Abellng, writer of feature stories for the Terre Haute Post, was unconscious and In a serious condition today from the effects of a mysterious attack by an unidentified man Just ns she left the street car to walk ii few stops to her home last night. She was beaten about the head and choked and lay In the street unconscious {or a short time. Recovering slightly, she crawled In her home, but lapsed again into unconsciousness. No motive has been assigned to the attack. When the man confronted her. Miss Abettng offered him SSO, which she had In her purße, thinking his intent was robbery. He threw the money in the gutter, saying he didn't want that and then grabbed her throat. After choking her, he beat her over the head and ran. Miss Abeltng had an airedaie terrier which always went to the car to meet her. A week ago the dog was beaten over the back and last night its throat was cut. The dog’s enreass was found lying not far from the home. The attack occurred early In the evening. Miss Abellng left the office of the Post shortly after 6 o'clock and It Is thought that her assailant met her Just after the car had gone In the dusk. South Illinois Body to Boost Ad Week Members of the South Illinois Street Merchants’ association, in an enthusiastic meeting bold in the Broadway theater today, decided to make elaborate decorations during the convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World hero in June. The merchants were notified that a contract for street paving under the track elevation bad been let by the city. Several new members were added.

Get Your Tickets for City Concert Tickets for the community concert to be given at the Caleb Mills hall Sunday afternoon will be distributed frefe at the Edison Shop, 122 North Pennsylvania street, Wednesday, according to James H. Lowry, park superintendent. Arthur Middleton, bass-baritone singer of the Metropolitan Oner Company, New York, will ippear on the program.

Thornton’s court of superior court No. J. The reporter who handled the trisls and tribulations of Mrs. Richards a yeni ago trotted oti-.r to the superior court to find out what Mr. Richards vrauteo the world to know. The reporter found that County Clerk Richard J. Sipe was Just in the act of sending .the papers In the support case to Morgan county on Richard's motion The reporter also found that Mrs. Richards bad told the world some more things about Mr. Richards in her petition for S2OO n month ns support. Mr. Richard now claims thst her husband deserted her on .Jan. 23 last. She claims that Richards makes at least SO,OOO u year. SAYS HE’S LIVING WITH ANOTHER WOMAN. In her new recital of grievances Mrs. Richards alleges that her husband i* living with a woman by the name of Irene Ren*, and that he buys her expensive and costly garments, that he maintains for her a fashionable and luxurious apartment or accommodations at sash ionable hotels. Mrs. Richards also claims that her has band takes Irene to theater box parties and also gives dinner parties for (Continued on Page Two.)

ARREST THREAT TURNS ON HEAT Humane Officer Takes Hand in Apartment Row. Threatening Louis ITarboush, a grocer, with arrest, Kamuel Gaddis, Humane society officer, forced Harboush to provide heat for tenants in an apartment at 322 Mi East Washington street. Gaddis had received a call from Edward Phelps, the tenant. Going to the flat he found Mrs. Phelps in bed with a 3-weeks-old baby, covered with blankets, and a 12-year-old daughter seeking warmth under cover. The officer learned that the Phelps family, which paid S4O a month rent, had been notified to move on March 5. Unable to get another place, they had stayed on. Their rent was paid to March 12. When the Phelps family was ordered to move the baby was only a few days old and Mrs. Phelps was unable to leave her bed. Harboush told the officer he turned off the heat, which was included in the rent, under advice of his attorney, Col. Russell R. Harrison. Gaddis visited the attorney and the attorney advised Harboush to turn on the heat. He said court proceedings had been started to force the family to vacate the fiat.

Tug Takes Disabled Coast J>hip in Tow NEW YORK, March 16.—The wrecking tug Relief today was believed by officials of the Clyde line to linve taken in two the coastwise steamship Mohawk. The Clyde liner reported herself disabled with 185 passengers.on board .about fifty miles northeast of Wilmington, N. C., late yesterday. IgfelHE WEATHER, Loon! Forecast—Fair and colder tonight and Wednesday; lowest temperature, 25 to 30 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. 45 7 a. m 46 ft a. m 49 9 a. m 50 10 a. m 46 11 a. m 44 12 (noon) 47 t p. ?n 47 2 p. m 48 Sun sets today, 5:53; rises tomorrow, 5:54; sets, 5:54. One year ago today, highest temperature. 62 ; lowest. 66. Additional weather reports on page 10

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BERLIN SEETHES WITH STRIKES IN FULL SWING Hindenburg Advises Kapp and Ebert to Agree and Call , Election. AIRPLANES KEPT BUSY BERLIN, March 16.—Street fighting broke out in Berlin during the night. Nine persons were killed in clashes between the revolutionary soldiers and crowds. The number of wounded is not known. The lighting started when troops, porting the Von Kapp revnlut ionary movement began dispersing crowds of strikers. The general strike continues in full swing. Field Marshal von Hindenburg has written a letter to Imperial Chancellor von Kapp advising him to withdraw his troops from the city and abide by the new German constitution. He has sent another letter to President Ebert at Stuttgart, Informing him of the communication to von Kapp and advising Herr Ebert to reach an Immediate compromise with Von Kapp on the calling of a general election. Pendtng negotiations via airplane between Pr.> Kapp and Ebert, both side* gain strength. The revolutionary government Is holding its troops in readiness for action. One of the demands from President Ebert was that the revolutionary soldier* he disarmed and turned over to the Ebert government for trial on the charge of treason, but Von Kapp rejected if. The military censorship has been ordered Intensified, but the telegraphers defied Von Kapp and have been sending out messages and press dispatches uncensored. The streets have been flooded with proclamations. Immediately following the announcement that a cabinet of ‘‘experts” would be appointed another manifesto appeared In which the revolutionary chancellor and he would appoint a ministry “until the result of-the deliberations with Stuttgart are definitely known.” Herr Von Hamlel has been carrying on state business.

POLITICIAN UP IN COLBY QUIZ Herbert Parsons Summoned by Senate Committee. WASHINGTON, March 16. Herbert Parsons, New York lawyer and political leader, was a witness before the senate foreign relations committee today when it resumed consideration of the appointment of Bainbridge Colby as secretary of state. Parsons, republican national committee man from New York, was subpoenaed to appear before the committee in connection with objections raised in New York City to Colby's confirmation, it was stated. Ask for Increased Commutation Rate The Union Traction Company filed a petition with the state public service commission today asking authority to increase rates on forty-ride commutation books from the present rate of IV* cents a mile to a sum approximately twentyfive times the one-way fare for the distance designated, or* forty rides for the price of twenty-five. Pardons Board Hears Armstrong Petition Hearing on a petition for parole of Day Armstrong a parole in 1919, but Armstrong for the kiting of a woman in a South Bend resort in June, 1907, occupied the time of the state pardons board today. Former Governor Marshall granted Marshall a parole In 1909, but Armstrong rhose the same day to escape from the state prison at Michigan City. He was apprehended in Michigan nine months later. University to Run Local Dispensary A contract for the operation of the city dispensary during the coming year was renewed with the medical department of Indiana university by members of the board of health, i* was announced today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the hoard. The university agreed to operate the dispensary and provide supplies for $.823 per month. It costs about $1,209 now to run the’ Institution. The board of health met last night and considered the financial condition of the City hospital. The resignation of Mrs. Blanche Bailey, a school nurse, was accepted.

Two Evansville Men Held Under Mann Act James Marshall and Artie Barnett of Evansville are In the custody of government officials today on a charge of violating the Mann act. They were arrested in Evansville yesterday by Louis Bender, deputy United States marshal, and brought to Indianapolis. It is alleged the men caused Margaret Broekried of Evansville to be transported to St. Louis for Immoral purposes. Harry Welch, charged with violating the Harrison naroctic act, was brought to Indianapolis today in custody of C. M. Mikesell, depnty United States marshal, following his arrest in Terre Haute, where he Is alleged to have been peddling cocaine and morphine. Rent Raised , Film Actress Files Suit LOS ANGELES, March 16.—Mrs. Ruth Storer, film actress, has flle-.l suit for $5,000 against her landlady, declaring the landlady caused her that much mental suffering when she raised the rent.

FIGHTING IN 3 CITIES; 60 DEAD War Spreads in Frankfurt, Leipzig and Berlin as Peace Fades STUTTGART, March 16.—The “constitutional government refuses to negotiate with the heads of the revolutionary regime at Berlin, ’ ’ said an official announcement today. It follows in full: “The heads of the Berlin regime are trying to make the people believe that they are negotiating. The constitutionalists refuse to negotiate with Von Kapp. “Negotiations can only occasion distrust and confusion and prolong the disorders. The only solution is lor Von Kapp, who has proclaimed himself chancellor, to resign unconditionally.” All ministers were present at the cabinet meeting except Eugene Schiffer, minister of justice and vice chancellor. Gen. Maercker, the Ebert representative, is en route to Stuttgart from Berlin with the compromise proposals of the revolutionists. THE HAGUE, March 16.—Sixty persons have been killed and 1.30 wounded in sanguinary street fighting in Leipzig, Frankfurt and Berlin, according to a report from the latter city this afternoon. At Dresden the spartacists stormed the postoffiee building, but were defeated by armed socialists belonging to three different factions of the party. The socialists at Dresden joined forces with the Ebert troops and supported the local police and the garrison soldiers in restoring order. Numerous violent encounters are reported from south Germany, where the authorities generally are adhering to the Ebert government.

LATEST NEWS FROM GERMANY BULLETIN. LONDON, March 16.—Dr. Wolfgang von Kapp, leader of the new German revolution, has offered to resign as chancellor, thus opening the way to negotiations with the Ebert government, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company. BULLETIN. LONDON, March 16.—Mathias Erzberger, former German minister of finance, has been arrested by the revolutionary German government, said an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Berlin this afternoon. A warrant was issued for Erzberger Saturday charging him with treason. BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, March 16.—Official information from Berlin is that the new revolutionary government of Von Kapp has ‘‘only a short time to last,” it was learned here. It is believed the Von Kapp regime will be overthrown and that the old government will return to power. BULLETIN. LONDON, March 16.—The allies are determined to prevent the restoration of any member of the Hohenzollern family upon the German throne or the “re-Prussianization” of Germany.

TWO LOW ROAD BIDS DEFEATED County Board Awards Contracts for 5 Improvements. In awarding contracts for improving of five roads today. County Commissioners Joseph Hayes and Carlin Shank accepted two bids that were not the lowest. The commissioners awarded two con tracts to Tlinherlake & Cos. for the improvement of the Roberts road, from Keystone avenue to AllisonvUle, and the Wright or AlUsonville road to Ravenswood. The Timherlake company's bid on the Wright rdad was $119,000 as against a bid of $118,940 by A. J. Yawgey, and the bid on the Roberts road $33,242 against $32,740 by A. J. Yawger Company. County Surveyor Griffith stated that the Yaerger company was understood to have many other contracts and was doubtful that this company could start work at once. The American Construction Company was granted the contract for improving Rinnie road, which extends from the canal to Snnset avenue. The contract for the Behrmau road, which is known as the Liberty road, was awarded to the Timherlake company for $25,259, the only bidders, while the Borchert road, extending from Prospect street to the city limits, was awarded to Harrold and Butler on a bid of $55,320. MINNESOTA HIT BY SNOW STORM MINNEAPOLIS, March 16.—Raging in from the northwest, one of the worst of the winter's blizzards today partly tied up rail transportation, seriously crippled telegraph service and caused many thousands of dollars’ worth of damage in Minnesota and the Dakotas. The blizzard was driven by a fifty-mile gale. In Minneapolis one death, scores of windows smashed and many telephone poles blown over were the storm's toll.

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‘SOVIET DEMANDED' BY SOVIET REVOLUTION PARIS, March 16. -The workers’ federation In Stuttgart has demanded a soviet dictatorship and will submit the plan to a vote of all workers today, a Berlin dispatch states. Serious disor- \ ders have occurred In large citie* , throughout Saxony, the dispatch Street fighting was reported in Dresdeiw The Ebert cabinet has called a meet-7 ; ing of the national assembly at Stott* gsrt for tomorrow. -y The German peace delegation in Pamt? has denied that a compromise had been* reached between the revolutionary government at Berlin and the old government headed by President Frederich Ebert at Stuttgart. f Official advices were received-' from Suttgart that Herr Ebert is "not considering negotiations with the Berlin regime.” Herr Mayer, the German charge d’affaires. today informed Premier Millerand officially that no compromise has been reached between the revolutionary forces in Berlin and the Ebert government. A Berlin dispatch says that the comI promise terms proposed by Dictator von Kapp demand amnesty for all persons concerned in the revolution. Meantime Berlin dispatches indicated i growing opposition to the revolution in the capital. Violent fighting has taken place in Berlin. Fifteen persons have been killed and many wounded. Both the nationalist and popular parties were reported to have repudiated Von Kapp. The fact that the revolutionists' compromise terms were f ported to include a demand for amnesty was taken to mean the Von Kapp group realizes that its period of control may be short lived. T nit.v of allied action was never more necessary.” said Le Matin today. It adds: "What is to be thought of the action of Great Britain, who is apparently willing to enter into negotiations with the German party most likely to come into power?”

COXGRESS MAY ACT ON GERMAN CRISIS / M ASHINGTON, March 16.—Congress may take steps to determine whether the 15,000 I nited States troops now in Germany are to be used sgainst the revolutionists. in the event that allied leader* order such action. Chairman Kahn of the house military affairs committee today is preparing a resolution calling on Secretary Baker to inform congress of the exact status of American soldiers on German soil. Under the state of war existing between the United States and Germany, the president can use the troops as he sees fit, but some congressional leaders, it is understood, want it made plain that no action should he taken by the president until congress has passed an authorization resolution. ' REBELS CAPTURE HAMBURG SUBURB COPENHAGEN, March 16.—German revolutionary troops have captured Altona (a suburb of Hamburg and part of the port of Hamburg), according to information from that town today. Armed workers bad occupied the public buildings before the troops occupied the town. Sparticists are reported to be in control of all of the city of Hamburg. Crane Favorably Reported to Senate WASHINGTON, March 16.—The senate foreign relations committee today ordered a favorable report on the nomination of Charles R. Crane of Chicago to be ambassador to China. The senate la expected to confirm the nomination late today. The nomination of William P. Joyce, Berkeley, Cal., to be a member of the farm loan board, and Wallace S. Murray, Columbus, 0., to be secretary of embassy, class 4, also were favorably reported t£ the senate. GROOM-TO-BE ARRESTED, HOUSTON, March 16. —The announce* ment that R. J. Barton was to marry was printed here. Then the Bsy City police knew where Barton was and pinched him. They said he casbttl • checks.