Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1920 — Page 1

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COUNTY JAIL GUARD, ONCE HELD AS BANDIT, IS GIVEN IMMUNITY Court Records Show Van Cleave Was Indicted for Stealing S2B From Pocket of Man at Old ‘Bungalow’Roadhouse. Further Investigation into the character of the men hired by “Honest Bob” Miller to conduct the Marion county jail for him reveals that among them was a man who had been charged with highway robbery, relieved of the charge by the “good citizens’” league of office holders and later taken care of” in flrsf one job and another until he finally landed in the fo unty jail as a guard.

The Adrian Van Cleve, whose name! sas figured in the federal court exposes of the last few days. has a court record acquired several years ago, which record itself needs some attention from the grand jury that Judge Collins has just instructed to investigate the jail conditions. Van Cleave was arrested June 22, IJtG -. id charged with highway robbery. He was bound over to the Marion county rand Jury by Judge James Deery in ‘he sum of $2,000. J!e nevpr was required to give the Van Cleave was indicted by the Marin county .grand jury and on Sept. 22, ''ll" the Indictment was nol prossed by \!vah J. Rucker, then prosecuting atrney. TIMES’ STORY -LLB OF CASE. The Times on June 25, 1917, printed lilt- following story concerning this af“Adrian Van Cleve. 24, of *527 West Michigan street, who says he has ecu employed since Jan. 1, 191*5. as n •‘invest:! gator" to assist Claude Worley, special investigator for the.Marlon county criminal court, was pound over to the grand jury by Jiulge Deery in police court toda.v under $2,c00 bond on a charge of Itighwav roi;*ery. He Is alleged to have robbed Omar Clark, VJI6 Mar_ t'ndale avenue, of between S2B and >:JO on the night of June 19. "According to Clark’s testimony, ue drew hi s week's wages that day and started ont to have n gqod time. He says that at 8 p. m. he met Van Cleve and smother man on Indiana avenue. He said they visited several aloong and then went to the "Bungalow" on Fall creek, northeast of the city. He .said Van Cleve at first protested, saying as he was an ‘investigator’ for the criminal court he might / be known out there. The others ' finally prevailed upon him to go, he "At the ‘Bungalow,’ Clark testified, they each had a bottle of beer. The 'Bungalow' has no saloon license and Is supposed to sell only 'near beer' and other soft drinks. Clark Insisted, in spite of close questioning, that it was real beer they bought. He declared it was a simple matter for the Initiated to buy booze at the ‘Bungalow.’ “According to testimony, the oien left the ‘Bungalow’ in a taxicab for which Clark paid. Clark declared that when they left the tax! the man with Van Cleve held him while VanCleve went through his pocket*. He -aid be did not know Jnst where the alleged robbery occurred, as it was in a part of town strange to him. Investigation of the records at the city clerk's office and in the police department. show that Van Cleve was the recipient of many favors while vest lug under the charge of highway roblfry. . . . Contrary to the usual custom, his picture was not taken for the Berttilon

hies. Contrary to the law and usual pro- >: dure, he was not compelled to give i s2.oo<* bond which was ordered by Judge Decry. And finally, after he had been Indicted h>l the grand Jnry in criminal court he not required to stand trial. “ ,'IKF.R SAYS HE ! EM EMBERS CASE. Alvah J. Rucker says he has a clear r. olleotion of the case against Vani leave and says It was dismissed be- . use the prosecuting witness came, to An and declared that he could not : '"taffy Van Cleve as the man who >d robbed him. Rucker says that Van Cleve "as <•( employed as an investigator to as- . : Worley, but was employed by the Marion county commissioners as an lni Aigator. Rucker also says that he had a per. onal acquaintance with Van Cleve and ad at one time made his home wyh the Van Cleve family. Following Van Cleve’s release from . ie -harge of highway robbery in the •hnlnal court, he is reported to have .fen employed as an “Investigator” by ie state board of pharmacy and later till hy the Mate fire marshal, ever.tuRv taking the job under Miller at the Mtrty Jail, where his conduct and that the others was such as to bring him ~ tight In the federal investigation. antleave in TATEMENT. Van Cleave came to The Times office bis afternoon and said he wished to •nuke a statement in reference to his case He said he has never harmed a priser In the county jail or any jail for ‘hat matter. He asserted that he went to District torney VanNuys and Prosecutor Adams ■ ■ and requested them to allow him to ap- _ car before the federal and county grand rtas. VanNuTS was noncnmmital, he said, bile Adams promised to give him a a ring before the county grand Jury. Van Cleave said be became a deputy eriff under Miller following his return rom the navy and that he later served ■ ; prison guard and outside deputy, ing to various state institutions. R TSDERAL JURY M PANELED. The federal grand Jury was lmpanneled v Judge A. B. Anderson this morning. No reference to the Marlon county Jail andai was made by Judge Anderson tiring his instructions to the grand Jury, which has twenty-three members. Action by the grand Jury on dia ■’osures concerning the county jail will ■Upend largely on the provisions of a ontract between Sheriff Robert F. Miller ind the United States government, a •opy of which has been requested from he office of the attorney general. Judge Anderson merely gave the usual astructlons to the jury today and they mmediately went Into session which is sxpected to last three weeks. ■SA-JAII, EMPLOYES AAN T TO TESTIFY. Former Marion county jail employes, .enerally considered proper subjects for ndictment, today asked Prosecutor Adims to be admitted Into the county grand ury to tell “their side” of the jail scanla 1. These men are Charles Kemp, former jaiard. and Adrian Van Cleave, who has 'Tcourt record and who has received immunity at the bands of the “good citizens’ league” of office holders. Adams said he told Kemp he “would tonslder the matter.”* Kemp was not admitted to the juiy tocm this morning. The grand Jury was occupied all rnorn(Contlnued on Page Two.)

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What Young Indianapolis Thinks of Indianapolis “Are you boosting Indianapolis," demanded Maurice Kerr, 13. 3206 Roosevelt avenue. In writing the best essay for the 7B grades of the Indianapolis public schools the dianapolis Is a . Great City to Live and Grow- In.” The city school [■ children of the jr upper four grades fe&a were asked to en- i#*-- Jf J ter the essay Jr ' . BOOST INO IX - SHHP DIANAPOLIS. MAURICE KERR. If the advantages of a splendid public school system and being a center of distribution and Industry can make a city progressive, then Indianapolis is certainly one of the most progressive cities of the world. Coupled with seventy-two grade schools and three high schools, we have a wonderful public library, with branches In every part of the city. Indianapolis is located In the very center of Industry and distribution. It is possible to reach more cities of more than 3.000 people In a night's ride from Indianapolis than from any other city la America. v Are you boosting Indianapolis?

MORGAN WARNS CITY ONJVIEASLES Health Secretary Gives Advice on Care of Victim#. *

An epidemic of measles hi if gripped Indianapolis. _ -v*. ?**'• . ...j Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the city board of health, has issued a warning regarding care of patients. “Do not permit children who are victims of the measles to get out of bed too early,” he said, “for the epidemic this year will nndobutedly be followed by Increased pueumonla ca'ses. “Don't contract cold. “Watch any ear troubles. “Don’t consider measles a trifling or unimportant disease.” Dr. Morgan reported 230 cases of measles in the first Lx days of this month.

WOMEN PICKETS AGAIN THWARTED Four Arrests Follow Renewed Capital Demonstration, WASHINGTON, April o.—Four arrests checked a renewal of picketing of the Pritisb embnesv by women sympathizers for the Irish republic. Mrs. Honore Walsh, Miss Elaine Barrie of Germantown, Pa.; Miss Helen O’Brien of St. Louis, and Catherine O’Brien of Philadelphia, were arrested. Miss Mollie Carroll of New York, one of the women leaders In the pro-Irish demonstration here during the last week, announced that she will fly in an airplane over Washington and bombard the whitehouse. the state department and the <apitol with lltei tore asking the United States recognize the Irish republic.

Danjels Predicts Pacific Air Flights WASHINGTON, April 6.—Seaplanes able to fly across the Pacific ocean will be developed wdthln two to five years. Secretary of the Nanvy Daniele told the senate naval affairs- committee today.

Tooting Saxo the Rage OLD KING JAZZ INVADES THE HOME

Family jazz bands are all the rage, according to Indianapolis music bouses. “It's anew way to keep the boys borne nights,” said A. Sering of the Carlin Music Company. “So many young Jazz bands have sprung up over the country that saxophones have been bought off the market almost entirely. “We can't get C melody saxophones in less than ninety days from manufacturers.’* The squealing violin and the vociferous banjo are almost as hard to get as the saxophone. OLK KING JAZ7. NOW RITES HOME. A few months ago it was freely predicted that the exuberant Jazz would fade into obscurity with the jubilee case, prognosticators basing their views on the assumption that a dulling of the aesthetic sense by use of alcohol is essential to the enjoyment <4 such elemental themes. But they erred. Old King Jazz, driven from his cabaret domain, retaliated by an Invasion of the American home. Musical folk have steadfastly refused to allow the jazz any merit whatever, but Mr. Sering says its devotees are paying no mind to academic arraignments. “Jazz music may not be artistic, but only gifted persons can play it well,” said he. In that connection it is recalled that '■ertain unconventional tendencies of Chopin caused ridicule of his tions and that only a small coteH^^H admirers recognized his genius His influence on the best^^Bd in;. •••bud

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ABE YOU READING “Puss in Boots” TO THE KIDDIES? A Wonderful Fairy Tale, Appearing Daily in The Times.

BOARD WANTS GOVERNOR TO FREE M’NULTY

Former Saloon Keeper Claims Technicality Put Him in Jail on Booze Charge. Charles O. McNulty, formerly proprietor of the Bull and the Bear saloon In the Board of Trade building, who was sentenced to the state farm by the Marion county criminal court, last February. was recommended for parole by the state board of pardons today. Results of deliberations of the board’s last session were laid before Gov. Goodrich today at noon. The governor seldom deviates from the custom of approving all recommendations •made hy the board. McNulty was arrested last February when a quantity of whisky was found In his possession. He denied having acquired the whisky for purpose of sale, explaining that It was to have regaled a large company of Marlon club members at a party he was planning A state farm sentenc of ninety days and a fine of S2OO was Imposed In the county criminal court. McNulty appeared before the pardon board In person at his hearing three weeks ago and prior to that time had never been incarcerated. McNulty appealed the case to the state supreme court on the ground that the city court’s finding was laid before a jury In the county court contrary to law, but proper proof of this technicality being lacking, the supreme court upheld the criminal court. McNulty spent about two weeks at the state farm and paid his fine. Edward “Wildcat" Norwood, negro desperado, who terrorized motorists with a series of robberies on roads north of Indianapolis In 1915, was denied a parole by the board of pardons, notwithstanding that the minimum term of bis sentence had expired. Norwood confessed In his trial that he had assaulted a number of. white women after robbing them, and Judg> James A. *' Mins, the trial judge, bad (Continued on Page Eleven.)

WOUNDED MEN ABUSED, CHARGE Sent From Hospital ‘Uncured,’ Says Letter to Congress.

WASHINGTON, April 6.- llnudred* of „ex>kervi'e men are being discharged from the public health service hospital in Chicago as “cured.” who are not restored to health or made lit for work, 11. J. Margolis of Chicago, charged In a letter to Representative Madden of Chicago, which the latter read to the house today. MargolLs is an official of the “Returned soldiers, sailors and marines organization” and says he has taken the matter up with the American legion. His brother, he charges, was one who suffered from lack of proper and adequate treatment, and he has Interrogated personally fully 15,000 other former patients at this hospital.

Illinois and Kansas Miners on Strike CHICAGO, April 6.—Numerous coal mines In Illinois and Kansas were Idle today as the result of strikes hy miners protesting wage awards. It was estimated that at least 5,000 miners were out, 3,000 miners in Madison and Macoupin counties, Illinois, quitting yesterday at twenty mines and 2.000 em ployeii at ten mines in Kansas throwing down their tools. The miners’ leaders and coal operators have been summoned to appear before the Kansas state Industrial court at Pittsburg, Ktts. Report Asks Peace Pact With Germany

WASHINGTON, April (s.—On the third anniversary of the declaration of war against Germany by the United States, Chairman Porter of the house foreign affairs committee today filed with the house n report supporting a resolution declaring existence of a state of peace with Germany. The resolution Is to be called up In the house Thursday for debate and a vote on Its passage Is to be had Friday.

The saxophone provides the only new element in modern jazz music. The screaming reed instruments, the weird violin effect and tbe flaring trombone flights of the jazz are old. very old. The same effects were produced with different instruments by the orchestras of Congo Square, New Orleans, for the slave dances more than a hundred vears old. Voodoo worship was common in those days, and it was customary for dancers to work themselves ipto ecstatic frenzies, Induced partly by the syncopated strains of th eweird and barbarous music from which jazz was evolved. Such students of Creole history as George W. Cable and Lafeadio Hearn have described the unmistakable resem blance between jazz and voodoo music. Voodoo devotees disported themselves to the Jungle tunes until they fell frothing at the mouth. JAZZ MUSIC TAKES HOLD UPON WHITES. It is not surprising then that tbe elemental appeal contained in music of the jazz school is felt by white folk of today. New Orleans has been hearing jazz music tlrte out of memory, but it started progress north through Mem phis about a dozen years ago. In of the emotional origin of jr.zz 1 1 is not surprising that many cabn ret cut off from their oht end Its joy waters, ar> studying how to coax In - .ffiufjQ ll -r melody from the saxophone kindled. CQjßaßr froln -’etroit. Chicago, Ml 1 - fan’ and other mid w >sc-r i Sg&A&Cjfcrlbc the spread of jazz.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1920.

WOOD SWAMPED BY JOHNSON IN MICHIGAN RACE Primary Votes About Half in and Californian Has Lead of 44,303. LOWDEN LEADS HOOVER DETROIT, Mich., AffrU 6.—Hiram Johnson has won the republican presidential nomination in Michigan by the greatest vote ever piled up by a candidate i nany primary election in the State. With 1,165 precincts out of 2,421 In the state already counted, the Californian Is leading by 44,303 votes over Leonard Wood, his closest opponent. Johnson swept the city of Detroit clean. Here he beat Wood by more than four votes to one. His majority over Wood In the 319 precincts of the city proper .was 52,801. This gave him a lead that Wood Is not expected to approach by 30.000 in other parts of the state. Wood’s lead in 83*5 precincts outside of Detroit was less than 10.000 votes. GOV. LOWDEN AHEAD OF HOOVER. Gov. Lowden was trailing 30,<VK) votes behind Wood when half of the state Lad been counted. Hoover was bringing up the rear. The vote in 1.1G5 precincts including Detroit complete, was an follows: (lohnson, 103,786, Wood. 59,483. I-onden, 83,288. Hoover, 29,782. In a veritable , blizzard of ballots De troit hurled Johnson so far out In the lead that it. was evident early In the count that, Wood could not hope to overtake him. The complete vote In Detroit’s 319 precincts follow: Johnson. 69,004; Wood, 16,143; Hoover, 12.555; Lowden,* 11,00#; Pershing, 2,779. WOOD’S WEAK ON UPPER PENINSULA. In 846 precincts outside of Detroit the vote was: Wood, 43,430; Johnson, 34,782; Lowden, 22.280; Hoover, 17,224. This Includes a large slice of the upper peninsula, which was Wood’s one redoubtable stronghold. In other parts of the s*ate Johnson was running neck and neck with his chief opponent. * Representative Louis Cramton, Johnson’s state manager, announced this morning that Johnson’s majority over Wood in the whole state would be close to 30,000 votes. Gov. Edwards of New Jersey led Hoover by such a wide margin In the city of Detroit that there Is a possibility tl.at he may have won the whole state. The latest figures on the democratic race follows: Edwards, 7,142; Hoover, 4.977. McAdoo, Palmer and Bryan are following In that order. McAdoo did not enter the race and the use of his name was unauthorized.

JOHNSON SAYS •VERY WONDERFUL’ NEW YORK, April 6—“Very wonderful” was Senator Johnson’s comment when called out of bed today to re"elve the Information that he was leadings Gen. Wood In the Michigan primaries by more than 41,000. He laughed heartily when told IToovr was leading the democratic candidates. DEFEAT DRIVES WOOD THIS WAY With Michigan apparently lost, the Leonard Wood fJroes will concentrate more than ever on Indiana in the hope of preventing tiie same kind of calamity in this state. It la becoming more and more apparent that no candidate for president will be able to obtain a majority here, , Continued on Pttgr Two.)

WANTS U. S. NAVY SECOND TO NONE Secretary Daniels Appeals to Senate Committee. WASHINGTON. April Advocating a navy second to none In the world and asking that appropriation he provided to make such n force possible. Secretary of the Navy Daniels appeared today before the senate naval affairs committee, considering the annual naval appropriation 1)111 in executive session. The program submitted by the secretary Includes the completion of the threeyear program authorized in 191(5 and partially postponed because of the .war; the construction of additional ships to make the United States fleet balanced In every respect and authorization of additional vessels of grades "to make the navy of the United States second to none.” One point emphasized by the secretary was tbe need of additional provisions for the navy on the Pacific. He said that for the first time In its history the United States Is maintaining a fleet on the Pacific and is not prepared to care for those ships in “home porta.” The navy yard facilities of the coast, he declared, are “Inadequate.” The house In passing the naval appropriation bill provided for the com pletion of the formerly authorized program and some additional departments but did not do all the secretary desired. In an effort to have his full program authorized the secretary addressed his appeal to the senate committee. The creation of the league of nations and tho possible part the United States will have In it; the result of the proposed or alleged agreement the British government desires to make relative to naval armament and the future manpower for the navy were questions taken up by the secretary.

Revenue Office Here Near Top Efficiency The Indianapolis Internal revenue office stands fourth In an offieency list of the sixty-four districts of the United States, compiled In Washington, according to a copy of the list received • today by William L. Elder, collector. The first district of California stands first, having sixty-two employees, while Grand Rapids, with tnventy-four employees, and Tacoma, Wash., with fortynine employes stand second and third, respectively. The Indianapolis office has seventyeight employes.

Paper , 60 Years Old , Has to Quit ST. PAUL, April o.—Two more Minnesota newspapers, the Cambridge Press and the St. Peter Tribune, have suspended owing to the print paper shortage. The Tribune had been published continuously for over sixty years.

LEMCKE FAILS TO KEEP PLEDGE, RECORDSSHOW No Interest on Barrett Law Fund Credited to Public Since He Took Office. WHO GETS THE BENEFIT? More than three months have elapsed since Ralph Lemcke, republican organization boss, became treasurer of Marlon county, and no effort has been made by him to carry out his pre-election promise of giving the people of Marlon county the Interest on funds of which he Is the custodian. “If I am nominated and elected treasurer of this county I declare it to be my firm Intention to see evil corrected and that all interest that accrues on prepayment money on Barrett law assessments shall be credited to the Barrett law fund, thus saving the city of Indianapolis between $5,000 and $6,000 a year," said Mr. Lemcke In a speech he made on April 28, 1919. Continuing on this subject., he said: "I consider and shall consider all public money coming Into my possession from the above fund as a public trust and will in no wise use this fund for | my private gain. “I consider this statement due tha people of Marlon county as indicating my future action In regard to holding public office." WHAT PI BLIP RECORDS SHOW. Public records show that when Mr. Lemcke became treasurer, Jan. 1, 1920, there was turned over to him a Barrett law prepayment fund of $401,283.63, and a straight Barrett law balance of $186,621.04, making a total of Barrett law money amounting to $587,9#4.07. The records in the office of the city controller and in the treasurer’s office do not show that Mr. Lemcke haa ever credited these funds with a single dollar of interest during the quarter In the course of which this large sum of money has been under his direct control. For more than three months Mr. Lemcke has had In his personal possession and control the balances of these two funds, amounting to more than $500,000. In spite of his pre-election promise he has not turned over to the people a cent of Interest on these funds. Someone has had the use of this money during this Interval. Someone has profited by having It. Someone has collected Interest on It. Mr. Lemcke publicly pledged himselt to see that th< taxpayers get the benefit of this Interest. NEWSPAPER HACKER'S ATTITUDE LAST YEAR. His promise has not been fulfilled. On April 20, 1919, the Indianapolis News, which was then engaged in a desperate effort to win the republican nomination for Mr. Lemcke, said editorially : '•Whatever the local aspects of the case, there. Is no question that the practice of the Marlon county treasurer In keeping for his own use the Interest on Barrett law prepayment money la unfair to the tax pay ?r and represents LOCAL GOVERNMENT AT ITS WORST. “By all the ordinary laws of right, and reason, the Interest on public money ought to go to the benefit of the public i nml not to the ej -0.-hment of the Individual.” Mr. Lemcke Is now seeking renotnlnatlon on the republican ticket and ha* lbe Indorsement of the organization (Continued on Page Two.)

URGES INDIANA’S WOMEN TO VOTE Suffrage Worker Makes Appeal as Old League Dies. Confident that woman suffrage soon wilt he granted to ail women by federal amendment, suffrage workers of Indianapolis met In convention here today to outline tho future activity of the organization in politics. It is the Inst convention of the Woman’s Franehlse League of Indiana, which will be succeeded by anew organization, probably to be called the League or Women Voters. After reviewing the long battle for suffrage, the throngs of women from every part of the state heard Mrs. Richard E. Edwards of Peru outline the program of tho League of Women Voters, a national organization, this afternoon. “The object of the league shall be first of all to foster education In eitlzenshtp and to support Improved legislation,” said Mrs. Edwards. URGES ALL WOMEN TO JOIN A PARTY. She urged all women to Join a political party, but declared that the League of, Women Voters shall be non-polltleal and that the women shall stand together, regardless of partisan lines when vital subjects of legislation make this advisable.

Miss Helen Benbrldge of Terre Haute, president of the Franchise league, also reviewed the work of the organization In its long fight for suffrage Telegram* from national officers of the League of Women Voters and prominent suffragists were read. Canrie Chapman Catt, president of the league, sent this message: "Ratification Is as Inevitable as the rising of tomorrow's sun. “Do not let your courage falter. “The nation needs the League of Women Voters, equipped with votes and viston of a better and happier land.” Miss Stanley McCormick of New York, sent a message urging the suffrage workers not to slacken their efforts to make women a potent factor in politics, now that the suffrage battle has been won. SEES MOST SERIOUS DIFFICULTY IN SUCCESS. “Our most serious difficulty now faces us—success," said Miss Benbrldge. “Men leagues say our work Is finished, but our work ir not over. "Our very failure may come in our success. “If the women do not turn out to the polls we nre a failure as citizens and the leagues must get together and show the stay-at-home woman why she must go and then see that she Is there to cast her ballot. “Everything depends on the size of the woman vote at this first trial, more even than the wisdom with which she uses It.” Tonight the “Pageant of Pioneers” and “Procession of Suffrage Victories” will be shown at the Claypoot. The convention wil end Thursday.

Burglar Flees as RoomerjCalls Cops A burglar was interrupted while ransacking the home of Mrs. Missouri Dlls, TIC Middle drive, Woodruff Place, when Irvin Morris, a roomer, returned to the house late last night. The burglar escaped while Morris was telephoning the police. George A. Brown, another roomer, re ported S2B and a stickpin, clgaret case and gold cuff links missing. The home of Mrs. G. F. Hannah, 40 Hendricks place, was entered and $l5O worth of Liberty bonds and sl4 In cash stolen.

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MRS. EARL PATTISON AND BABY 808.

Today the Pattlsons are happily reconciled. And a chubby-faced, smiling, gurgling baby of four months brought back this domestic calm. "We have made up and are happy," explained the young father. The Pattlsons are living at 927 North Delaware street. A week ago Saturday the father disappeared with Baby Bob. The mother appealed to the police after receiving a note from her husband that if she notified the police he would kill himself and the child.

CAR HITS TRUCK, KILLING 2 MEN Interurban Turns Over Near New Bethel After Crash. George Cornforth. 40, and T. M. Wheeler, 30, both of Shelbyvllle, were killed almost instantly shortly before noon when an Interurban crashed Into a truck 4n which they were riding a halfmile west of New Bethel. The bodies were crushed almost beyond recognition an. l It whs with difficulty they were extricated from the wreckage of the truck. The car, which wag a limited over the' rails of the Indianapolis A Cincinnati Traction Company, was thrown off the tracks by the impact Len Cregar of Shelbyvllle, student conductor, who was operating the Interurban was slightly cut None of the passengers was Injured. TRUCK HEADED FOR INDIANAPOLIS. The truck was headed toward Indianapolis. The car was bound for Shelbyvllle. According to Bert Glover, regular motormnn, who was standing near Cregar In the front vestibule, the truck turned to the north, directly In front of the lnterurbat. Both men must have been killed Instantly, passengers say. Some of the wreckage was tossed 100 feet. Coroner Paul F. Robinson srnt the bodies to the J. C. Wilso nundertaklng parlors, 1230 Prospect street. He said there was unnecessary delay in notifying him about the accident. DRIVER BLINDED BY SNOW. Wheeler was driving the truck. There Is an a<rle In the road near the crossing and It is believed he did n--t the approaching Interurban because of the snow. The car crew says the customary signal was sounded for the crossing. Cornforth was the proprietor of a motor trucking service company. The truck was loaded with wrapping paper.

YAQUI RAID HITS AMERICAN MINE Lawlessness on Increase in Sonora and Sinaloa. AOUA PRIETA, Mexico, April 6.—The Baltimore mine, near Tonichl. Mexico, operated by New York capitalists, was raided by a band of Yaqui Indians Saturday and damage of $25,000 inflicted, tt was reported here today by Carl Ltstner, engineer for the Chicago Exploration and Development corporation. Mr. Listner said raids by Yaquls and outlaws are on the increase throughout southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa and that federal commanders are making no effort to stop them.

Rejected by Girl, Boy Tries Suicide SOUTH BEND. Ind., April o.—Despondent because his sweetheart. Miss Musa Fellen of Bloomington, Ind., had transferred her affections while he was in service in France, Harold F. Wood, 21. son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wood of this city, attempted to commit suicide in a Kansas City hotel last week. A bullet penetrated the boy’s breast a few inches below his heart.

This Was Too Much for Wood

CHICAGO, April 6.—Presidential Candidate Leonard Wood is somewhat wrathy today over arrangements which wore made for his Illinois campaign tour. On leaving Chicago Monday he discovered that a train of six Pullman ears had been provided for him and Ills party of thirty-six. When the imposing train, carry : ing with it the hint, o i a display of campaign expenditure, arrived at the country towns en route to Springfield, there was much questioning

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Last week Mrs. Pattison learned her husband and son were In Chicago. With a friend she went there and seized Baby Bob on Friday. Pattison tried to follow her to Indianapolis, but a policeman blocked him at the railroad etatlon gate. lie got on another train and traUed his wife and child to this city. Events led to juvenile court and Patti son was locked up. . The Pattlsons later talked it all over. They "forgot" everything. Baby Bob and a mother’s love did it.

PRICES -. . .♦ CHEER NEWS. Packers dropped the price of veal 3c pound, wholesale. Asparagus down $1 case to $5, wholesale. GLOOM NEWS. Potatoes advanced to $6.70 per 100 pounds or $10.50 sack of 150 pounds, wholesale. Strawberries up to 90c quart box, wholesale, for test quality berries. SNOW SHATTERS APRIL RECORDS Weather Man Says It’s Only Frozen Spring Shower.

One of the heaviest April snowfalls in recent years visited Indianapolis today. The snow began falling early In tbe day and Increased in volume until it bad reached real wintry proportions later In the day. Street cars experienced some delays because of clogged switches and slippery rails. Had the atmosphere been a few degrees warmer the moisture would have descended In rain, according to J. H. Arrnlngton. weather observer. The thermometer register 27 above at (5 o’clock and at 10 o’clock the mercury had climbed to 32. The storm which Is hovering over Indianapolis Is part of a disturbance growing out of Sunday’s unseasonable siege. It developed In tho far northwest and descended on the Mississippi valley, its left wing reaching into Indiana. Parts of Illinois also are embraced. Mr. Arrnlngton looks for the precipitation to cease by nightfall, with Wednesday clear and colder. He says snow is nothing nnusual for April, the “white and beautiful” having even visited Indianapolis as late ns May 2. On that day. In 1897, two and fourtenths Inches fell. ATLANTA, Ga., April 6.—The weather gave a fair imitation of winter today, with the thermometer registering 28 degrees above zero, coatings of ice on water and a heavy frost in the low-lying sections. It is feared fruit, especially peaches, has been heavily damaged.

ATTEMPT TO FIX NEW SUGAR PRICE Wyckoff Says Speculation’s Going to Cause Advance.

Wholesale grocers and jobbers of the city conferred with Stanley Wyckoff. fair price commissioner, this afternoon in an effort to establish a staple wholesale price for sugar. Sugar prices probably will increase in the near future, according to Mr. Wyckoff, who blames speculators for buying a large part of the Cuban crop and forcing up the price. Indianapolis wholesalers are having to pay 17 to 18 cents a pound for sugar at the refineries, the average contract being 17% cents, according to Mr. Wyckoff. To this freight will be added to the loenl price. For the last month the wholesale sugar price in Indianapolis has been 17.20 cents a pound. Anew fixed wholesale price for Indian-v-polls was to be agreed upon this afternoon.

comment among the assembled farmers, who wanted to know all about it. , - Gen. Wood heard about it and was considerably angered. It. was explained to Gen. Wood that the size of the train was due to the fact that all the members of the party had insisted on having lower berths. This did not appease his ire, however, and on reaching Springfield he ordered the train cut In half. j

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FOCH DIRECTS ADVANCE INTO RUHR DISTRICT Frankfort, Darmstadt, Hornburg, Dieburg and Hanau Taken Over. DECLARE STATE OF SIEGE , BULLETIN. LONDON, April 6.—A Paris dispatch to the Westminster Gazette this afternoon said official information had been received there that the Berlin government had ordered the evacuation of the Ruhr district. PARIS, April 6.—French troops, under orders from Marshal Foch, moved swiftly in the German neutral zone today and occupied five German cities. Frankfort and Darmstadt were entered at 5 o’clock. Homburg and Dieburg were occupied at 9 o’clock. The French took, over Hanau at noon. Early reports indicated that the various occupations were accomplished without any opposition from the Germans. The German reichswehr garrison# had withdrawn during the night. They were reported to have retired to a point ten kilometers to the east of the occupied cities. Gen. Degoutte has issued a proclamation declaring his troops are not conquerors and that there will be no fighting. providing absolute order Is maintained. A state of siege has been proclaimed In Frankfort, Darmstadt, Offenbach, Hochst, Koonigstein, Dlsbnrg, Frassgerau, Langenschalbach and Wiesbaden, It was set 1 forth. Operation of German publfc service will be continued under French controL STRICT CENSORSHIP IS ESTABLISHED.

Strikes and gatherings of more than five people have been forbidden. Newspapers are not permitted to publish. Telegraphs, telephones and malls have been placed under military censorship. The proclamation declares that all weapons must be delivered Immediately to the city hall, except those of the regular police. All infractions of Gen. Degoutte’s orders will be punished by court-martial. Developments indicate that Marshal Foeh. foreseeing allied opposition to the French troop movement, ordered ’-*mm French forces to advance immediately. The occupation of towns in the neutral zrne have already led to important diplomatic exchanges. It is understood. German relschswehr troops advancing against the communist rebels In the Ruhr valley have reached a line about tifteen miles north of Essen, according to advices to the French foreign office. The reischswehr had not captured Bottroh (ten miles northwest of Essen) the foreign office said. It quoted advices from allied military missions which had inspected the country to the north of Herne. Advanced elements of the German troops were reported holding a line from Dotteln to Werop and eastward outside the neutral zone. COVERVMEX'T'S losses COMPARATIVELY SLIGHT. In the region of Unna and Naaf (northeast of Essen) Bavarian and Wuertembnrg troops were concentrated. Strong resistance was expected In Ihe Gelsenkirchen, Wanne district north of Essen. Although there has been considerable scattered fighting, advices to the foreign offices indicated the casualties slight. - The government troops advanced be hind strong artillery and machine gu fire where resistance was encountered. The reds' losses were reported heavy. Reischswehr were taking no prisoner*. They used tanks to rout nests of communists offering particularly stubborn resistance.

GENERAL STRIKE AT WIESBADEN COBLENZ, April 6. —A general strike was called at Wiesbaden, capital of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, today as a result of the news that the French had started an advance from the Rhine. LONDON SAYS U. S. PROTESTS LONDON, April 6. —It was reported In authoritative quarters that Washington has protested against the French occupation of towns tu the German neutral zone. The protest was said to have been made in “dear terms." It is regarded as significant that the Daily Express, which is close to A. Bonar Law. stated today that France would not move her troops from the Rhine without allied approval. F*rom a reliable source It is learned' that the advance ordered by Marshal Foch took the cabinet by surprise and may result In a tense diplomatic situation. Numerous reports were current. One of them was to the effect that Great Britain had reversed her former opposition to the French advance, having become convinced that Germany had (Continued on Page Eleven.)

VOTES $350,000 FOR SUNNY SIDE County Council Insures Good Care for Tuberculars. The proper care of tubercular -patients of Marlon county was assured at-noou today when the Marlon -county council .-.ppropriated $330,000, and ordered a bond issue of that amount for the purpose of improving Sunnyside sanitarium, a county hospital for the care of tubercular patients. A unanimous vote put over the appropriation after citizens and various organizations had appealed to the council to make adequate provisions for enlarging and improving Sunnyside. The ordinance first called for an appropriation of $300,000, but Conncilmen Russell Byers and Frank Brown msc- ed this did not meet the program originally (Continued on Page Two.)