Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 275, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1920 — Page 1

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WE’RE AT WAR,’ HARDING CRIES; WHY? ‘WILSON’ Ohio G. O. P. Presidential Candidate Says U. S. Ought to Have Army. RAPS SPECIAL PRIVILEGE President Wilson for 'what he termed his policy of "my will or none,” which he declared is responsible for the fact that the |pnited States and Germany are still lechnically at war. Senator Warren ■r. Harding of Ohio, candidate for Bhe republican nomination for the ■residency, addressed the Columbia llub at noon today. ■ “Everybody wanted formal peace and ■nr understanding,” Senator Harding laM. “Europe was ready and America Kgs eager. ■ “But a president, unmindful of the Senate and the sentiment of our country, Insisted on a battle of rhetorical Hens, for the glory of a personal victory. Hnd defiantly bartered our nationality, Khieh the senate was sworn to presrve. Hnd has preserved. Ihept I S oft If peace." H“A president who told us he kept ns Hut of war has literally kept us out Hr peace—forma! peace duly covenanted Hid the American people and the world Htay charge it to presidential usurpation H power and attempted dictation, where Karty counsel and eo-ordlnated governHent would have led to instant understanding.” H Senator Harding said he welcomed an Hsue between “nationality and its inHplratlons on the one hand, and interHationality and its surrenders and Iparalysis on the other. W The country must never again be unftnindful of the national defense. Senator ■Harding said. H “We ought to have an ample navy as Hpr first line of defense,' 1 he said. ■ "We ought to lead the world in the development of aviation and be stronger Hi the air than we are on the sea. I“Wp ought to have an army and we t° have all the young manhood m the republic know the benefits of and physical betterment that of military training, but it ought be voluntary, not compulsory: supby the government in camp, in national guard, in sehools and colsaid that military training should HI made so popular that it would he rather than accepted as a comHulsory requirement. Hakes shot at ■bureaucracy.” H Senator Harding flayed what he termiNJ ■bureaucracy'' and declared that the high lost of government “is the first cause of ■he high cost of living, about which we ■ll complain.” ■ Class consciousness was condemned by |vn,a tor Harding. HBfpeclal privilege belongs to no man,” “and to no body of men. whether might is wealth or knowledge or in numbers. Ar.d Influence isn't but a perversion of It. dreamer who experts an old time cost of living and present day wages is In need of waking. "But Increased efficiency, added pride In production and earnest endeavor for a better order will contribute toward reduction, and still the restlessness with which the world is threatened.

"The world needs production. It needs work, more work and still more work. Production will stabilize the world's exchanges.” FAVORS SELLING U. S.-OWXED SHIPS. Senator Harding advocated the selling of all the government-owned merchant ships to buyers who are Americans and who will pledge themselves to operate under the American flag with a view to building up a merchant marine under private control. He also advocated government aid in the operation of this proposed merchant marine. A reformed system in the operation of the financial affairs of the government also was advocated by Senator Harding. "Call it the budget system or call it applied common sense, we need the change which either contemplated,” he said. Senator Harding was introduced by Arthur R. Robinson. He is the third change which either contemplate,” he speak at the Columbia club. The morning was spent by Senator Harding, who arrived in Indianapolis last night, in conferences with ills managers at his state headquarters in the Clay pool hotel. He will leave Indianapolis for bis home at Marlon, 0., at 6 o’clock thin evening. BANDITS STRING UP AMERICAN Victim Tells Senators of Treatment by Mexicans. WASHINGTON, March 28.—Evidence of mistreatment at the hands of Mexican bandits was given today before the senate subcommittee investigating Mexican conditions, by William A. Garrett of Tulsa, Okla., owner of a ranch In Mexico. The bandits entered Garrett’s Mexican ranch during, one of his trips there, der landing $5,000. After giving all he had, the bandits, aot being satisfied, knocked me unconscious,” Garrett said. "When I returned to consciousness they placed a rope around my neck and lifted me from the ground twice,” he added. Coal Dealers Wait Conference Reports Retail coal dealers today are awaiting the outcome of the Joint wage conference between union mine leaders and operators and announcements of price Increases by operators. Some operators already have announced marked increases in coa! prices, effective April 1, and further increases are expected. Some have made no announcement. The Polar Ice and Fuel company has received notice from a Weßt Virginia company of an increase of $1 per ton at the mtne of coal on April 1. Notice of an advance of steam coal of 25 cents a ton also was received. Printing Apprentices y to Get New Scale I Marsden G. Scott, president of the InTypographical Union, is after attending a meeting in CleveHnd of the joint conference council of Hue union. ■ He said recommendations were made J Providing for a scale of 30 per cent of la journeyman's pay as salary for appren- : I Ucet In commercial shops.

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Hohenzollern Sued for sll Laundry Bill PARIS, March 26.—Prince Joachim of the Hohenzollern family of former war lords can not pay a sll laundry bill, it Is revealed by the French authorities at Strassburg. A Strassburg laundry secured a judgment In the local courts against “Siener Joachim Hohenzollern,” w r ho is supposed to be the same German noble who recently created a scene In the Adlon hotel at Berlin when he and his companions attacked French officer s. Prince Joachim lived at Strassburg for a time before the French occupied Alsace and Lorraine. V : Forms World’s League Against Alcoholism LONDON, March 26.—The world's league against alcoholism is “Pussyfoot” Johnson’s latest organization to make England and all the rest of the globe a “Sahara.” Johnson has returned from his vacation in Africa. Tell Irish Mayor ‘Prepare for Death’ WATERFORD, Ireland, March 26—'The lord mayor of Waterford has received a letter warning him to “prepare for death." The letter, It was said, was similar to the one sent Lord Mayor Mac Curtain of Cork before he was assassiuated. CHARGES I<ACK OF MEN IK NAVY Warnings Before War Unheeded, Plunkett Says. WASHINGTON, March 26.—“1f we had been up against Germany at the beginning of the war we would be paying the indemnity today instead of them," Rear Admiral C. P. Plunkett today told the senate subcommittee Investigating Use eondnet of the war by the navy. "The reason would have been the lack of men,” Admiral Plunkett said. “The reason for the lack of men was none other than Secretary Daniels”. Admiral Plankett was in charge of naval gunnery during the war and os tablished the naval railway battery In France. “I argued with Secretary Daniels for two years to provide sufficient personnel, but made no impression on him,” Plunkett said. “In 1015 we woke up to the fact that we had ships and no way to fight them. “A fire control board was named. “It was then we found what was needed to properly man the guns. “The report almost upset the navy. “At the request of Admiral Benson, chief of operations, I went to the secretary to plead for men," Plunkett said. “Admiral Benson was unable to do anything with the secretary.”

GARVIN QUITS COUNTY RACE Can Not Run for Chairman Because of Business, He Says. Thomas E. Garvin, who announced some time ago that he was a candidate for democratic county chairman, withdrew today. His withdrawal was announced In the following letter to The Times: "It is with regret that I wish to announce, through the columns of your paper, that I will be forced to withdraw as a candidate for democratic county chairman. For gome time I have had under consideration an unusual business opportunity which has Just recently developed and it proves to be too great a temptation to not accept it. "My greatest regret, however, is that I will be required to be absent from the city the greater port of the time In connection with this business enterprise which would of course not permit me to accept the chairmanship "I regret It more especially because I feel that this year more than any other, the democratic party has one of the greatest opportunities since its organise tlon, for victory next fsll, because of its magnificent record both in the commercial world and on the field of battle, and it is my belief that the men and women who accomplished this great military feat will demonstrate in unmistakable terms ' that they do not look with favor upon I being mere puppets and having forced I upon them a treaty of peace that Is not I in accord with their sentiment nor the ! purpose for which they made their ! sacrifices. I "I believe they wish to send to Washington, as their representatives, men who ; will represent the people and not strategic I political factions, as bag been demonj strated recently.” Terre Haute Negro Killed in Brawl Special to The Times. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 26. j George Evans, negro, known as a gamj bier, was slain here last night in a brawl i In his saloon in the old tenderloin disI trlct. Albert Belay, negro, is held for the crime. He surrendered to the police. Belay, it is claimed, cut Evans’ throat during a fight. The dead man is reputed to have made $50,000 during the last year gambling. Thieves Lay in Supply of Easter Fineries They’re getting ready for Easter. Someone smashed the plate glass front in Goldatein's annex, 138 East Washington street, early today. He carried away eleven silk shirts, valued at $132. and three dozen soft collar pins valued at $lB. A chivalrous thief stole three Easter hats from the show case In front of the Be Hive dry goods store. 406 West Washington street, at 5 o’clock this morning, after smashing the glass with a brick. He was seen to run west, but has not j been caught. i s N Sleeper's All Right , but Not as Husband MILWAUKEE. Wls., March 26.—As grounds for divorce, Mrs. Henry Nietsche deposes that her husband sleeps twenty-four hours a day and boasts he can sleep eight weeks at a time. I 1

MYSTERY VEILS CHANGING OF VOTING PLACES Records Disclose No System Followed by County Commissioners. LAW LIMITS IGNORED On what basis was the new division of precincts made by the Marion county commissioners? An examination of the total vote for secretary of state in each precinct in the county in 1918, reveals no particular system followed by tho i commissioners, nor reason changes were made in some cases and not in others. In some cases precinct* canting a large number of votes tc. 1918 were changed while other precincts containing an equally large number were not changed. The changes could not have been made in anticipation of woman suffrage, because the law provides specifically that changes shall be based on the vote cast at the election last preceding the date of the changes. Here is the law on the subject ns quoted in section 104 of the official compilation of the election laws of the state: “The county commissioners of each county in this state shall, at their first session after the taking effect of this act, divide the townships of their various counties into election precincts, and establish the boundaries of the same. LA IV CAREFULLY DEFINES PRECINCT. "Kueh board of commissioners shall designate at least one place of holding elections in each precinct, and every township In which only one place of holding I election is designated shall constitute a precinct. “Each precinct shall contain, as nearly as practicable, 150 electors, based on the i number of votes cast at the last eiee- ; tlon for presidential electors, but no pre- | cinct shall contain more than 250 elec--1 tors. “If at any election thereafter 250 or more votes should be cast at any voting place It shall be the duty of the inspector in such precinct to report the snine to the board of county commissioners, who shall at their next regular rueeti lng, divided swen precincts as nearly ns possible, so that the precincts formed thereof shall contain 250 electors as nearly as practicable, but no precinct shall contain more than 250 electors, and report such division to the clerk of the circuit court of each county and to the governor of the state, together with the estimated votes of each of the new precincts." MACHINES MAKE ROOM FOR 000. An act of 1903 provides that In precincts where voting machines are used as many as 600 electors may be included. Tho-law does not. however, Increase the minimum number of electors In each precinct where voting machines are Installed. On page 736. Section 3. Acts of 1919, it Is provided that the division of precincts shall be accomplished not later than the i March session of the board. These various provisions of the law reveal the fact that tho commissioners are given considerable leeway In the number of voters to be included in precincte where voting machines are used. They do not explain, however, some j of the things done by the commissioners. It Is evident that the commissioners did not divide the precincts on the basis ! of 250 voters to the precinct, for in many (Continued on Page Seven.) FANCY CHARITIES ‘BUST’ TOWNSHIP Trustee Reported for Giving $8 Shoes to Poor. Shades of the Good Samaritan. Jesse Eschbach, examiner of the state board of accounts, today doesn’t know if Alex Rheinlander is decidedly almsgiving or a decidedly poor bookkeeper. A report filed with the board of accounts by A. L. Donaldson, a field examiner. shows that Rheinlander haa his accounts in a bad way. He is trustee of Ferry township, Vanderburg county. The township is "busted” financially, It is said. Donaldson'r report shows that Rhetnlauder’s books contain such Items as “pair of $8 shoes for poor,” “pair of $3 gloves for poor,” “dollar socks for poor." But there are other things In Rhein lander's conduct of office which have ben brought to light in Donaldson's report. He has credited the township with using 4,032 lead pencils, ninety quarts of Ink and 106 brooms In fourteen months. Donaldson cites other alleged irregularities from Jan. 1, 1919, to March, this year. He says Rhinelander Is $793 70 short in actual money. Rhinelander paid his four sons $1,167.75 for “hauling" since the first of the year, his records show. He has no fees for the teachers, Donaldson claims. There are many unpaid bills In tile township. He has issued warrants for funds without funds, it is further alleged. Rheinlander will be given a hearing before the board of accounts late today.

British Ship With 360 Aboard in Distress LONDON, March 26. The British steamship Ortega,, with 360 pass<>ngers on board, is in distress at sea, according to n message received by the Land’s End wireless station today. The British steamship El Faraguayo is rushing to her assistance. The Ortega sailed from Liverpool yesterday for Valparaiso. The wireless said water was pouring into her hold/ Slays Wife, Baby * and Then Himself MILWAUKEE, March 26.—Joseph Martin, 26, early today murdered his wife and five-months-old baby by shooting them and then committed suicide by turning on the gas. The condition of the room showed that Mrs. Martin had put up a desperate str tggle to save the lives of her l*by and herself. No motive for Martin’s act has been disclosed. Aha! Worm Turns LOS ANGELES, March 26.--Mrs. C. Piper was granted a divorce here after testifying that, among other things, Piper reversed the usual order of procedure by going through hear pockets when he wanted change.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1920.

Why Not Get Married? JUSTICES OF PEACE SAY IT’S CHEAPER NOW

BIRTHS and deaths and other vital happenings involving family, financial obligations cost much more today than ever before, but marriage Is as cheap as ever—cheaper if we accept the views of Indianapolis justices of the peace. A poll of local squires, who are wont to assist at the fulfillment of love's young dream, today disclosed a bearish condition in the marriage *mnrt. MARRIAGES SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. Half a dozen ministers gave opiaion that the number of uyirrlages this season Is a little above normal and that bridegrooms are about as liberal as formerly. From which it may bo deduced tbßt the prevalence of prosperity is causing- a more conventional attitude toward weddings since the young folk are going in for church affairs Instead of the quiet little transactions in magistrate's offices.

SCHOOL WORK DONE ON COST PLUS SYSTEM $17,000 Expenditure Involves Simple but Illegal Handling of Funds. • This is the sixth article giving iui Insight into the methods under which the school city of Indianapolis has been spending thousands of dollars every year. The end Is not yet in tlth ; They used the “cost plus” basts, too, in the expenditure of that 517.0U0 spent on school No. 69, for which the school board authorized the expenditure of $2, 500. 05 course, the state law says that whenever an expenditure of more than S2OO Is to be mr.de there shall be bids advertised for and a contract let, but the scnool city did not follow the law In this work any more than It followed it In many, many other Instances. The “cost plus” basis of doing construction work was a product of the war. It was adopted first by the government for the purpose of expediting construetion that could not he delayed. •TORT ri.rs" IN WAR CACHE OF "HOLLERING.” Asa war measure It got certain construction -work done at a very high cost and there has been more “hollering" about that one feature of the way the war was conducted than any other one thing. Gov. Goodrich uved the "cost pins" basis in remodeling the sfntehouse, and the Job smelled so badly when it was completed that Goodrich’s own state board of accounts turned against him and made a report In which the method was roundly eondemned. The remodeling of the statebous* was not a war measure. Nor was the remodeling of Hr hold 69 *0 PER CENT ADDED IN PHRHBNTING HILLfI. Harry W. Cramer, who did the work. ► ays that he supplied tho material and lebor for plastering the building, and that he added 20 per rent, to his costs when he submitted his bills to the bust ness manager of the school board. Harry W. ‘ ranter was psld S6OO 96 on Sept. SO, 1919, and $637.01 on Oct 14, 1919. When asked concerning the method by which he nhtnlred the work Mr. Cramer explained that be was asked to do the work and (he contract was arrsnged afterward. “I met Mr George Rickes of the business department of the school board by accident.” Mr. Cramer said. "He asked me if I would do s Job of plastering for him at school No. 59. and I told him I would. He asked me what my (Continued on Page Two.)

CHARGE ROADS FAVOR PACKERS Shippers to Carry Grievance Before Interstate Body. CHICAGO, March 28.—Alleged discriminations by railroads In shipping facilities in favor of the big five meat packers and against wholesale groeers Is contained In rbsrges by grocer.* who will appear before the Interstate com inerce commission here today, it was announced. Grocers, railroad men nnd packers are expected to testify. In a letter seut members of the National Wholesale Grocers association by Clifford Thome, counsel, an attack Is made on Attorney General Palmer’s agreement with the packers whereby they promised to dissolve all subsidiary companies. Thorne claims that the agreement does not remove discriminations, which are said to be given the packers by railroads In shipping faeilltcH. The charge is made that pnckers are now organizing other corporations to handle “unrelated” businesses for them through loopholes allowed in the govern inent decree and that the packers will continue to enjoy their special railroad privileges In direct competition with grocers.

MAKE NEW DASH FOR NORTH POLE Amundsen and Two Companions Leave Sweden. LONDON, Mnrch 26.—A new dash for the north pole, led by Raould Amundsen, the famous Norwegian explorer, Is under way, said a dispatch from Christiania to the Daily Express today. Amundsen Is said to be accompanied by only two companions. The explorer has been engaged for some time fitting out the ship Maude? No news Is expected from him until spring. Mexicans Arrest Three Americans AGUA PRIETA, Mexico, March 26. Three Americans, giving the names of Edward Fitzgerald of Chicago, and Ernest Walter* and Rudolph Schumacher of Kansas City, were arrested south of Guaymas while making a landing from a sailing vessel in a boat containing twenty cases of ammunition and cans of opium valued at SIO,OOO, according to dispatches received here today. The three are beilivod to be draft dodgers and leaders of an opium and ammunition smuggling ring.

It might also be inferred that the bridegroom of today, if he considers the higher cost of living at all, thinks of it in its personal application and not as it may effect the judiciary or the ministry. JUSTICES SOMETIMES GET *C FEE. "We get all the way from 25 cents to ss once in a while there’s a five,” a Justice of the peace replied to an inquiry on marriage fees. Another Justice said the marriage business had fallen off until he no longer carried such receipts on his books. Still another said he usually gave the bridegroom's offering to the bride as a wedding present —a return la kind, as it were. Courthouse runners for "marrying squires” are said to he greatly decreased in numbers and survivors have to subsist on meager commissions.

Stage Folk Cherish Caterer as Friend ‘ Pop ’ June Knows the Oysters and ‘ Hams' Too. By WALTER 11. HICKMAN. Oysters and actors have a real friend in George W. “Fop” June. • “Fop” June has the reputation of having opened more oysters and closed more shows titan “gjjgggggggjjl in §Sr* ;■ forty years in 1 theatrical friend of June's ™wwaswsaßßß*aßsi said: “‘Pop’ i u knows more oyW. •Mill* _ aters and hams than any other man In the world.” Not only can "Fop” recall many closa ncqrtatntnnces with some of the biggest stars, who are now dead, but he receives greetings from U"h stars as Oil* Mdnner. Mclntyre and Heath and Thurston, who always drop in to see him when they are In town.

LITTLE MAUDE ADAMS’ DAYS RECALLED One of “Pop" June’s sweetest memo ries is the time when he was business miinag* to Miss Charlotte Thompson Ip "lane Eyre,” In 1S8”, when Mrs Annie Adams and her little daughter. Maud* Adams, Were members of the company. "In those days Maude Adams was billed t. ‘Little Maude Adams’ and to day iie Is the greatest drawing card or the stage." * K fd “Pop" w|*h pride June caret,,l!y keeps „ printed on Feb ih, ikk giving tb* sc*, for “Jane Eyre" when the show was presented at the Tark theater Newark, N. .T. Another valuable remembrance of the old days Is a copy of the famous "Perfumed Programme,’ printed on Tues day, Dec. 21, I<USJ). giving the program of the Peak family Swiss hell ringers for their appearance at the old Morrison opera ball In Indianapolis. Morrison’s was the chief place of amusement In Indianapolis following the civil war and was located on the corner of Maryland and Meridian streets. One of the advertisements on this aged program reads: “Look here. Change of time on the Junction It. K Two trains dally. Leave the union depot at 7 a. m. and 3:45 p. m. Merchants and others visiting Clncinnatf have four hours In that city and return the same night.” HEADED MARY PRESCOTT fN "THE COUNTESS.” June ,-an remember way back when he WHS “abend” of Mary Preaeott in "The Countess,” "East Lynne," “Black Crook.” "Around the World In Eighty Days," Thomas W. Keene. Eddie Foy In ‘Off the Earth." "The County Fair" and Ous Williams as well as many others. Those were the good old days when tho name of the star counted and scenery and big productions were very scarce, lu fact unheard of In those days. “We used the stock scenery of the house and It was the play and the actor that the people paid to see and h%Hr,'’ said “Pop.” The writer asked June how he got the name "Pop.” “They always called my father "Pop” nud when he opened up this place he put the name 'Pop' on the window and said at the time that everybody would tnke It for a sarsaparilla Joint,” said June. “And even to this late day. strangers come In and ask for a glass of pop," chuckled "Pop" June.

SENATE TO GET TREATY AGAIN Wilson Believes Public Opinion Will Force Action. WASHINGTON. March 26,—President Wilson will send the treaty of Versailles back to the senate again if a favorable opportunity is afforded. This was learned today from administration ofllclnls close to the president. For the present the president Is content to let the treaty rest without action and will take no steps to patch up a temporary peace, it was asserted. The president holds the belief thst public opinion will bring the senate to final ratification of the treaty and he is awaiting the formulation of such opinion. Escaped Leper Sent Back to Milwaukee LANSING, Mich., March 20- Marshal F. Truax, 40, a leper, was npprehended by city health authorities here Wednesday and returned to the national. home for volunteer soldiers at Milwaukee, Wl„ from which be had escaped, it became known today. Truax was said to be In the first stages of leprosy. He is a native of Lansing. Minneapolis Bank Robbed of $7,000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., MarcS 28 Four armed unmasked robbers entered the Minnehaha State Bank today and, after locking three employes and a customer in the vault, escaped with 17,000.

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KIDNAPED BOY FOUND IN HOTEL AT LEXINGTON Eludes Captors and Calls Parents, Who Rescue Him From 6th-Floor Suite. LOCKED IN BATHROOM LEXINGTON, Ky., March 26. Paul Little. 12, son of E. R. Little, wealthy oil man, kidnapped from the federal building here late Wednesday, was found by his mother in a room in the Phoenix hotel here early today. The boy was unharmed and he. himsetf, made a telephone call which resulted in his rescue. The kidnappers escaped, one of the two men whom the boy said had held him prisoner for two days going down one elevator as the mother and a number of friends came up another. RANSOM MONEY I EFT UNTOUCHED. A package containing $25,0:10 was left by the boy's lather Thursday night in a garbage can in the heart of Lexington. It was untouched. The Little telephone rang early today. Mrs. Little answered. “This is Paul. I am In the Phoenix hotel,” he said. The mother, with her other son. Keller, 14, dashed out of the house, followed hy her husband. They hailed an automobile and were rushed to the hotel. "Is my boy here?” she cried as she entered the lobby. No one had seen the child. Inquiry at the telephone switchboard showed a message had been telephoned from room No 651.

Friends had gathered In the lobby and a part.v started for the sixth floor in one of the elevators. As they started, the other elevator started down. One man was the occupant of the car. He is believed to have been one of the abductors. Room 651 was .locked, but was opened without difficulty and Paul rushed into his mother's arms. HAD BEEN HELD IN ROOM 2 DAYS. The hoy said he hnd been held in the room ever since he had left the Lexington poatofflee with one of the kidnapers Wednesday; Paul said he was guarded by two men. Hotel records show the room was occupied on Sunday by a man who registered as J. P. Cox, Cincinnati, O. Chief of Police J. J. Reagan immediately gave orders to his men to comb the city for the kidnapers. The hoy gave an excellent description of the men and their arrest was thought to he a matter of a few hours. After the niau took me to the postoffice he told me to go to the Phoenix hotel with him.” Pan! said. "He s.iid the inan who was going to give me the package to deliver was there "Hut there wasn't nor one with a package there., so he an vs ’Lets go upstair*.' “So we began walking up, but when are were two stories up, I thought there was something funny doing and 1 got wared and started to go back. “ 'No you don't,* the man said. “'You couie witp me.’ “Then lie put his hnud over my mouth and pushed me up to Ills room and into the bathroom and locked uie up. NEVER HEARD 4 OI( K OF THE OTHER MAN. "He stayed in the room and in a few minutes I heard a knock at the door and he said: ‘Hello. Jack. Well I got him.' "The other fellow didn't say anything and I never beard his voice. “Then 1 knockedv-at the door and began to holier. “The man opened ‘he door and said; ‘lf you don't keep still 1 will kill you,' and he waved a revolver. “Later the man brought me an apple and he said: ’Here’s your supper.’ "After awhile he told me to ‘come out,’ and he asked he a lot about my father. “He said he was going to write my father a letter telling him if he gave S2O ,100 he would let me go. "He said my father owed him $20,000 for a horse. FINALLY TOLD HIM TO GO TO BED. "He talked to me about an hour and then he says: ‘Now, yon can go to bed.’ "I couldn't sleep. You can't sleep or eat anything when you’re that s"ared. “The next morning he opened the bathroom door and gave me a banana. “I asked him: ‘When are you going to let me go home ?’ “And he says ’My partner is going to meet your father today and go to Mount Stewing with him and get the money. I think you'll be out, by 2 o’clock.’ “Then when he left the room and I found the bathroom door opeu I just rushed to the phone and called the house.”

FIREMAN SEES AUTO KILL WIFE Rain Causes Tragedy in Front of Station in Chicago. CHICAGO. March 26. -William Fits gernld, fireman, today Is a grief-stricken widower and his four small children are motherless. I*ost night, Fitzgerald from his fire station here, saw a woman crossing | the street carrying an umbrella which ! obscured her vision of a big touring I car bearing down on her. The motorist failed to -see the woman ] because of gusts of rain. In the light of the station Fitzgerald looked at. the face of the dying woman he bad picked up and carried tu his arms. It was his wife. FAIL TO FORCE SUFFRAGE VOTE Action Set Monday Held Favorable to Women. DOVER, Del., March 2C.—All efforts by anti-suffraglkts to force a vote on ratification of the federal amendment failed today and neither house will take action before Monday. The delay was generally looked on as favorable to the suffrage cause, notwithstanding the fact that more than half of the members of the lower bouse hare agreed to vote agalnat the measure. Gov. Townsend Is still hopeful for ratification. BALTIMORE, March 26,—1n answer to Inquiries by a Baltimore newspaper, the j governors of both Vermont and Connecticut have replied that they will refuse to call special sessions of their respective legislatures to act on the federal suffrage amendment.

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Coat Pocket Hound Latest Thing Here A man wearing a big coat got on a Broad Ripple car carrying something wrapped in a newspaper. The package wiggled into his lap. As the man registered consternation, a tiny dog stuck a friendly face out of the newspaper. “Here comes the conductor.” said another passenger in hushed tones. “The man took the dog in his hand, quickly threw the newspaper on the floor and stuck the dog in his overcoat pocket,” said Frank Quick of Broad Ripple, who related the incident.

Scarlet Fever Shuts Brown University PROVIDENCE, R I, March 26. Brown university was closed ;oday liecause of a scarlet fever epidemic. The decision was reached at a conference between city health officials and the university authorities. ‘Enforce Law' or We Enter Raceway Drys CHICAGO, March 26. —Prohibitionists may put a candidate in the race for the presidency unless one of the major parties can give strong guarantee that its candidate will lie for prohibition enforcement, It was stated at national prohibition headquarters here today. SAYS EUROPE’S ‘LAYING DOWN’ Cause of Financial Stress, Reserve Board States. WASHINGTON, March 26. European governments are “laying down” on the job of rehabilitating their own countries, financially and commercially. Substantially lifts is what the federal reserve board holds to be the true reason for erratic foreign exchange and the lassitude which marks efforts in resumption of Industrial activity. In one of the most remarkable utterances it has issued for many months, tile board, today, in a bulletin, sharply criticised governmental methods, respecting slowness in the adoption of what are deemed proper methods to hasten rectification of the exchanges. “The rectification of the exchanges now adverse to Europe lies primarily in the hands of European governments,” the bulletin said. "The normal method of meeting an adverse international balance is to ship goltS. “A refusal to ship gold prevents the rectification or stabilization of an adverse exchange. “The need of gold embargoes for these countries lies in the expanded currency and credit structure of Europe. “Relief would be found in disarmament, resumption of industrial activity, imposition of adequate taxes and the issue of adequate domestic loans."

MURAT TEMPLE IN GALA EVENT Parade Precedes Ceremonial for 400 Neophytes. Shrine, resplendent in glittering uniforms and with two brass bands, marched to the Cla.rpool hotel this afternoon to meet W. Freeland Kendrick, imperial potentate of the Shrine in North America, and escorted him to the temple to attend the Shrine ceremonial. Included in the parade formation were the temple patrol, the chanters, the Gatling Gun club, the patrol band, the Nomad band and the Gatling Gun club bugle, fife and drum corps. 400 WILL TROD HOT SANDS. Four hundrvd neophytes will be taken on the Journey across the hot sands In the ceremonial session of Murat temple before the session closes tonight. Distinguished visitors beside W. Freeland Kendrick, imperial potentate for North America, will Include: William H. Ward, marshal of Lu Lu temple. Philadelphia; Dr. 11. Ghee. Lu Lu temple; Col. Etching J. Sand, past potentate of Ansar temple, Springfield. 111.: Dr. Harry E. Sharrer, past potentate of Drake temple, Hammond, Ind : Henry Lansherg of Adams temple. Washington. D. C.: listen A. Fletcher, past potentate Damascus temple, Rochester, N. Y., and E. H. Merritt of Mlzpah temple. Ft. Wayne. The ceremonial work will continue from 3 o'clock this afternoon until II o'clock tonight. TO HONOR KENDRICK AT BANQUET. After the ceremonial a banquet will be served In honor of Imperial Potentate Kendrick at the Cla.vpool hotel. Elmer Gay. potentate of Murat temple, has anew group of agitators for initiation work and many new tests have been conceived, go neophytes are assured of a thrilling evening. Mr. Kendrick will deliver an address during the ceremonial describing the growth of the order throughout the country, as he baa found it on a recent tour.

Guard 7 Suspects in Murder of Ohio Girl STEUBENVILLE, 0.. March 26. Seven suspects rounded np In the hunt for the slayer of Frances South, 11, near Adena, 0., were being hurried to this city today to avoid heavily armed posses of miners and farmers who threatened to lynch the killer. The child’s body was found In a woods about two miles from her home late yesterday. The South girl had been sent to a drug store by her mother. When she did not return after several hours a search was made and the body was found behind a tree. Footprints indicated that at least two men and probably three attacked her. The clothing was torn away from the body, which was badly mutilated. PRICES CHEER NEWS. Hogs at local stock yards doovn 28c, cattle, 2KX\ and calves SI.BO to $2 a 100 pounds. May be able to buy meat oftener than once a week for Sunday dinner. Homegrown green stuff coming to market. Means a crimp to high prices for the shipped in southern produce. GLOOM VkWS. Dealers predict another rise in potatoes to SO/8 a bag of 150 pounds. Southern gTeen onions 30c dozen bujrches higher at $1.50, Head lettuce 50a crate higher, up to g to $8.50. \ .

MONEY POINTS TO UNDOING OF GENERALWOOD, Public Getting Impression ] That Will Be Feared in Convention. i BORAH WORDS ALARM#* BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, March 26, Charging that the managers of Leonard Wood’s campaign for the republican nomination for president have set out tc control the republican national convention through the use of money, Senator Borah, Idaho, today created a political sensation In the senate. In a speech on campaign exs ditures, Borah declared that a saturnalia of corruption had been brought about by the use of money by candidates. His speech may result in a congressional investigation of the campaign funds of all candidates. By H. N. RICKEY. Staff Correspondent of the Newspaper Enterprise Association. WASHINGTON. March 26.- The fact that there seems to be no limit to the funds at the command of the managers of the campaign to make Gen. Wood the republican nominee for president, is pretty apt to be the general's undoing. This is entirely aside from the question as to whether or not the money is being spent corruptly. Conceding that Wood will go to the 1 convention with more delegates than any other candidate, but not enough delegates to nominate, the influential men in the party who are not committed to him will do everything in their power to prevent going before the country with a candidate who will have to explain who put up the money. The Newberry incident has not left a very pleasant taste in the mouths of the vo'ers. It is not at ail unlikely that before the campaign for republican delegates has progressed much further, at least one. if not several, of the eandidates who are in the contest with Wood will cause such a row about the alleged Wood money-spending that the general’s usefulness as a candidate will be destro> ed. Senator Johnson, for example, is not so keen about party regularity that he will hesitate to go the limit in an effort to bring B oorl s financial backers into the open when it seems wise to do so in the interest of his own candidacy. JOHNSON FIGHTING MONEYED OPPONENTS. Johnson has more reason to feel bitterly about the money aspects of the campaign for republican delegates than any one of the other candidates because he is the poorest of the lot, both lo terms of himself sand in tbo*e of Mg backers. * If Gen. Wood and his managers are al all sensitive to impressions they mast have shivered a bit when they read a statement given out a few days ago by Senator Borah, one of Johnson's leading supporters, which said: "The use of money in elections "has reached a point where the people will hove to take bold of it and In m.v Judgement the people will do so. "It is nothing less than a national peril that two months before the convention the use of money In the attempt to control the convention haa reached the point of a scandal.” The statement drew from Norman J. Gould, eastern manager of the Wood campaign, the deuial that a million dollars had yet been collected in the general's interest, but Gould was very care* fnl not to say how much had been col* lected or from whom. COUNTRY TH’'KS WOOD HAS i: N ; FUND. Whatever the jacts may be as to the amoniit of money being spent to make Gen. Wood the republican candidate ot hat motive inspires those who are potting it t:p, the impression seems to 1> pretty general throughout the county that the amount is large and that some motive less disinterested than patriotism inspires at least some of the large subscribers. It is perfectly well known thst no considerable sum of money conid be raised through small subscriptions for this purpose.

POLICE HUNTING | TWOTECHGIRLS Drop Out of Sight After Leaving Home for School. | Cecilia May Barnes. 13. and Mary : Bailey, 16, Technical high school girls, I today are sought by the police. ; They left for school yesterday morn- | ing, but never reached their classrooms. J. L. Barnes, 1030 South Mount street, father of the Barues girl, said his daughter had about S4O and took a suitcase with her. The other girl's home is in Brightwood. Lillian Reed. 24. who ran away from the Sisters of Good Shepherd home, has been returned to the Institution. Marie Roach, 17, who fled with her, has not been found. PRICE BURDEN ON LUXURIES Plan to Make ‘Fancies’ Pay for Cut in Necessities. A “deadline” between lnxnries and necessities will be drawn by a committee of Indianapolis merchants and gone over by the fair price committee, Stanley Wyckoff, fair price commissioner, said today. When this “deadline' is drawn, merchants will be asked to slice the margin of profit on articles classed as necessities to less than Is Justified by overhead expense, and make up the lost profit on articles classed as luxuries. “This method Is being used in several states." said Mr. Wyckoff, “and is regarded as eminently fair. ‘‘lt enables people who can afford to buy necessities only to get them cheaper by reducing the price to them and Increasing it to those who buy luxuries/ The campaign to increase the consumption of cheaper cuts of meat will be, extended two weeks, Mr. Wyckoff said. School children are being taught the value of different parts of a side oi beef or pork and food demonstration kitchens are to <be established to encourage the buying of less expensive portions oX meat. (

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