Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1920 — Page 1

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STATE BOARD’S RULES IGNORED AT COUNTY JAIL Regulations Long in Force Met by Violation Rather Than Obedience. WHAT SECRETARY SAYS Investigation of the rules laid down by the state board of charities for the government of county jails, which Amos Butler, secretary of the board, says have been in effect for years, shows that they are more honored by the violation than the observation at the Marion county jail, even since the expose. -Rule No. 1 requires that every prisoner. received, shall be required to bathe and shall be furnished with clean clothing. Clean clothing is not provided at the Marion county jail and Sheriff Miller some time ago asked the county council for a large appropriation to buy clothing for prisoners, which the council refused. The rule also requires that the prisoner shall bathe once a week and for this purpose the jailer must provide soap and towels. This is not done in the Marion county jail It is also provided that “the prisoners old clothes, if good, shall be disinfected, cleaned and put away, to be returned ta him when he released. Otherwise they shall be destroyed." This is not done in Marion county. RULE ON SEPARATION OF PRISONERS IGNORED. Rule No. 2 provides that “prisoners who are young, who are self-respecting, and witnesses, shall be separated from hardened criminals and low characters. All women prisoners and boys shall be under the care of the matron, who alone shall have keys to their cells.” The Marlon county grand Jury reported that this Jail rule was ignored in the conduct of the Marlon county jail. Rule No. 4 provides that “under no rlrcumstances. except for purposes of cleaning it, shall Inmates be permitted In tbe jailer's corridor.” It Is reported to the county commissioners that the cells In tell Marion county jail are in such condition that the doors can not be closed to prevent prisoners from entering the corridors, and an estimate of the cost of repairing them recently obtained showed that it could be done only at an expense ol approximately $90,000. PTNISHMENT RITE ALSO VIOLATED. Rule No. 8 provides for the punishment of prisoners who violate the state board orders, it reading as follows: “For.the violation of any of the foregoing ‘rules, the sheriff shall, for the first offense, restrict the diet of the offender to bread and water for full twenty-four hours: for the second offense bread shall be withheld for a like period and in case of persistent violation of rules and breaking of fixtures or furniture, meddling with the gas or lights, threatening an officer or tampering with locks or bars, it shall be tbe duty of the sheriff to remove such offender from his cell to an unfurnished cell or a dark cell as he may -deem proper, and keep such prisoner without bed or food until such time as he may have reason to believe that the privileges may be safely restored." It has been disclosed In the federal court investigation and in the Marion county grand Jury investigation that many other forms of punishment than those prescribed were used in the Jail and that punishment was inflicted for many other things than the violation of these rules. It has also been shown that a woman was punished for refusal to clean the private apartments of Sheriff Miller, al(ConiJnued on Page Four.)

WEST SIDE SEES DANGER TO CITY Completion of Flood Prevention Work Is Urged. Citizens of West Indianapolis have a bit of advice for the rest of the city today. The flood-like conditions of yesterday having passed without danger to West Indianapolis proper, citizens of that section point to the necessity of the city completing the flood prevention work on the east bank of White river. “The downtown section of the city will be flooded before West Indianapolis proper is flooded,” said Dr. O. L. Deiteh, former president of the Enterprise Civic league, a west side organization. “The flood wall built on the west side of the river during the last democrat!city administration forever protects the people on the west side, of the river. “If the river should rise to a point It reached In 1913 West Indianapolis wouldn't be touched, but the water would pour over the east bank of the river and might even reach the downtown section.” When the west side flood prevention wocrk was carried out the plan contemplated the building of a wall on the east bank of the river afterward. The lowlands oi Big Eagle creek in the outskirts of the city were still flooded today, but danger of serious damage is pasaed. An investigation of sewage conditions in Indianapolis was ordered by the board of public works today as a result of the flooding of basements of several downtown business firms yes’erday. Thousands of dollars of damage was done by the water in basements. George Lemsux, president of the board, said previous investigations indicated the sewer on Kentucky avenue was too small carry off the volume of water resultfrom a heavy rainfall and this caused the flooded condition of downtown streets and basements when such rainfalls occurred. Plans for the widening of the sewer may be made.

Corn Drops 8 Cents on Chicago Market CHICAGO, April 21—Startling price drops were recorded on the Chicago Board of Trade today, when May corn dropped 8 cents from an opening of $1.72*4. Slightly smaller drops followed In July and September corn. Oats fell f2 to 8 cents. “Bad financial news,” particularly foreign, was the cause assigned by Chicago traders. Publishers Tackle Print Paper Crisis YORK. April 21.—Th° print paper was the main subject before the annual convention of the American News paper Publishers' association, in session here today. J Following committee reports the entire day was to be given over to discussion of the print paper situation. Five hundred publishers were here for the meeting. i

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We Have With Us Today THE TIMES has prepared a questionnaire consisting of ten questions, which it submits each day to seme well lknown person in Indianapolis. Introducing Robert E. Springsteen, Postmaster. Q. What is your name in full? A. Robert Emmett Springsteen. Q. Have you ever had a nickname? A. Bob. Q. What was your favorite 6port when you were a hoy ? A. Baseball and playing soldier. Q. AVhat athletics did you engage or excel in when you were in school? A. Jumping. Q. How did you happen to meet your wife, and where did you meet her ? A. Was properly introduced. Q. What is your hobby today? A. Bridge. Q. What was your ambition when you were a boy? A. To be a street car driver. Q. AVhat event in your life caused you to choose your present position ? A. Being a democrat. Q. If you had your life to live over, what profession would you choose ? A. Have always been satisfied with my condition In life. Q. AVhat would you do with a million dollars if you had it to give away ? .A. A million dollars Is too much money to even think about.

GOSSETT JURY FAILS TO AGREE Discharged After 16 Hours' Deliberations. After deliberating sixteen hours in an effort to decide whether Mrs. Anna Mary Gossett. 21, fatally stabbed her husband. Omer J. Gossett, tbe Jury was excused at noon today because of failure to reach a verdict. Members of tbe jury said they were unable to agree whether Mrs. Gossett stabbed her husband or if Gossett accidentally ran against the butcher knife during a quarrel with his wife. The courtroom was crowded when the jury reported. The Jury stood seven for acquittal and fire for conviction on the first ballot and on each of the following ballots the vote was six to six. MRS. GOSSETT SENT BACK TO JAIL. Several members of the Jury said after they were discharged that they could not agree as to Mrs. Gossett’s guilt or innocence and at no ttme did they consider if she was guilty of first degree murder or manslaughter. Judge James A. Collins remanded Mrs Gossett to the county jail, where she has been since the Indictment of first degree murder was returned. Since the jtiry failed to agree, Claris Adams, prosecutor, indicated in open court that nf Mrs. Gossett presented bond for $5.0)0 the state would not object to her release from jail pending her second trial. COUNSEL SILENT ON BOND QUESTION. Counsel for Mrs. Gossett refused to make a statement concerning the probability of giving bond. The state insisted that Mrs. Gossett be found guilty of fatally stabbing her husband on the morning of Dec. 26 last and asked that she be given ilfe imprisonment. Albert Stump, one of the attorneys for Mrs. Gossett, asked tbe Jury in his closing argument to acquit her on the testimony of Mrs. Gossett that her husband ran against the knife during a quarrel. The case went to the Jury at 8:20 o’clock last night. AA’llliam P. Evans, deputy prosecutor and a candidate for the republican nom inatlon for prosecutor, conducted the case for the state.

WEAR OLD DUDS AT SHORT RIDGE Patched Pants and Overalls Donned by Many Boys. Overalls and old clothes were promt nent articles of dress among Shortridge High school students today. More than fifty boys appeared either in overalls or old. patched suit*, following tbe pxample set yesterday by Bailey Fesler. 2126 Central avenue, and Horace Prunk. 1514 College avenue, high school students. "The students asked my permission before they did this." said George Buck, principal of the school, “and I replied that I was in sympathy with the movement to wear out their old clothes, but would not approve of It If they donned overalls in the spirit of fun, or If they spent money for new overalls." Girls of Shortridge are to have a mass meeting totnight, at which a proposal will be made that the girls wear gingham dresses. Some of the girls wore gingham dresses today. WASHINGTON, April 21.- Overalls today supplanted fancy frocks among a number of tbe stenographers to congressmen. Nearly a dozen girls iu the house office building appeared in blue denims. Representative Upshaw, Georgia, the "overall congressman." resumed wearing his blue denim costume In the house. Letter carriers may wear overalls, according to instructions issued by J. C. Coons, assistant postmaster general.

Chamber Will Send Two Men to Paris Chpries F. Coffin, president..and Felix McWhirter. treasurer, of the Chamber of Commerce, will represent the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce at the first meeting <>,’ the International Chamber of Commerce, to be held in Paris. France, the week of June 2L They were selected by directors at a meeting today. The international conference is being sponsored by the United States Chamber of Commerce. {lntroducing Era of Overall Weddings ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 21. Frank L. Coblwe and Lillian Traces will start wedded life protesting high cost of living. She will wear gingham and he will Sear overalls at the ceremony Thursty, they announced. v

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REBEL RAILMEN REFUSE TO VOTE TO STOP STRIKE ‘Walkout’ of Mass Meeting Called by Leaders in Chicago. GRUNAU DOESN’T SHOW CHICAGO, April 21.—Striking railway switchmen refused to vote an end to their “outlaw” strike today. Called to mass meeting by three leaders, 4,000 men left the hall five minutes after the meeting had been called to order. Failure of John Grunau, chief of the Chicago Yardmen's Association, to appear, caused the bolt. About 600 men remained In the hall. The bolters remained in the street to jeer those* who desired to return to work. LEADERS TAKEN F.Y SURPRISE. R. S. Murphy and Shannon Jones, who called the meeting, anticipated opposition. but were not prepared for a wholesale “walkout.” . Grunau, who had been jailed, was exs pected to be released long enotign to advise his followers to return to their work. District Attorney Clyne announced 'bat regardless of the switchmen’s action, prosecution of strike leaders arrested op charged of violating the I-ever act would proreed. RAILWAY MEN STILL HOPEFUL. The meeting was thrown into an uproar followed by the walkout when Jones, in a keynote address, apologized for the nonnppearanre of Grunau, but said he personally was willing to fight | the switchmen's battle so long as he did, not have to fight the government. A few scattered “AA'e want Grunau*” grew to a roar and a short ttme later the hal! was emptied. Railway men and a few strikers predicted most of the men will return to work pending wage adjustments.

SEE STRIKE HERE OYER TOMORROW Indianapolis railroad officials predicted today that the yardmen's strike will end tomorrow. The predictions were based on reports received from Chicago and other points where many men were said to be returning to work today. Frank J. Peters, president of the Indianapolis Aardmen's association, re Iterated his declaration that he attended a conference with representatives of the Railroad General Managers' association in Chicago yesterday, at which the of fieials agreed to recognize the new labor organization in alt yard* where it held th“ allegiance of the majority of workers. Local railroad officials vigorously denied that oft-repeated report and declared they were in hourly communication with managers in Chicago and that no thought of recognizing the "outlaw” organization had ever been entertained. The Pennsylvania line today Joined the number of railroads which hsTe Issued ultimatums to the strikers. The following notice was Issued by J. AV. Coneys, division superintendent: ''A'ardtnen and others who have recently failed to report for duty will be marked out of the service of this company If they do not report for duty at tbe regular hour Thursday, April 22. 1920." M. A'. Hyuiz general superintendent of the C.. I. A W, said today that Chicago advices received at his office led to tbe conclusion that the strike would end by tomorrow- night. “The leaders are able to hold the men out only s by the dissemination of false (Continued on Page Two.)

WOMEN LET IN ON BONUS PLAN Democrats to Make Fight for Equality and Profits Tax. WASHINGTON. April 21.—Extension ol the benefits of soldier aid legislation to all men and women who served In the army, navy or marine corps during the war will be demanded by democrats in the house, Representative Gardner, Texas, democratic whip, declared today. The democrats will also fight for the plan of raising the revenue by heavy levies on war profits, he said. Gardner asserted that the democrat* are opposed to the program of republicans on thp tngsp ways and, means committee which would limit the aid to about 3,000,000 of the 4,800,000 soldiers. Republican leaders of the house have agreed to call up soldier aid legislation May 3, it was learned today. Plans are to push tbe bill through under suspension of rules, to prevent amendments to the republican plan ol raising necessary funds by a sales tax.

$15,000 Bail Keeps ‘Yeggmen’ in Jail Arthur Welling and Edward Stevens, alleged “yeggmen," are held in city prison under $15,000 bonds today. Attorney, for the two men asked Judge Pritchard, in city court, to reduce the bonds, but he refused. Welling and Stevens are suspected of blowing the safe of the Western Oil Refining Company, North Meridian and Twenty-fifth streets. No Percolator, but Flat Iron Would Do Someone once said necessity Is the mother of Invention. When the young wife living in an apartment on North Illinois street overslept she found the g3s pressure so low she eouldn't warm tier coffee. She didn't have n percolator. Zing—an idea struck her. The electric flat iron did the rest. Plan to Make City Motor Truck Center About a hundred representatives and members of the Indiana Transfer and Warehousemen's Association met today in the Chamber of Commerce building to discuss ways ar.d means of making Indianapolis the greatest motor truck center in the United States. Tom Snyder, of the Chamber of Commerce, presided at the afternoon meetin e • The transfer men feel that with the cooperation of every force, civic and industrial Indianapolis can be boosted as the hub city of the nation for motor transportation. Plans sos bringing this result about were discussed by the members.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1920.

Purse Does Quick Disappearing Act Amelia Myer3 of Terre Haute stopped off in Indianapolis en route to Richmond today. She was using a telephone in the Traction Terminal station. She laid her purse down. Presto, It was gone. There was S2O in it. Liberty Bonds Set New Low Records NEW YORK, April 31.—Liberty bonds continued to slump In value on the bond market today and new low records were made In a number of Issues. Liberty second 4s fell SO cents to 85.30; the second 444. M cents to 85256; the third 4445, 60 cents to 90.70, and the fouitli 4445, 74 cents to 85.60, the lowest prices these issues have ever touched. Liberty first Is opened $3.80 lower at $87.00. Charge Cudahy Man With Profiteering NE44' YORK. April 21.—Department of justice agents today arrested Leroy AA'. lioss, manager of the Cudahy Packing Company plant in Brooklyn on a charge of profiteering. He pleaded not guilty before Commissioner McCabe and was held under $2,500 for examination. , A retail dealer charges the company sold the same meat for 29 and .31 cents a pound on successive days. * Three other packing company managers were arrested Monday. i

LIST OF FIRE TRUCKS FILED Plan $600,000 Improvements, Including Stations. A list of equipment needed to complete the motorizing of the Indianapolis lire department, compiled by John C, Louoks, fire chief, was submitted today to the board of public safety and the board of public works by Dwight 'S. Ritter, city purchasing agent, as a baste for figuring on two new fire stations, which it Is proposed to build in the city. In order to completely motorize the department and build two new fire stations It will cost the city approximately $600,000. The propose,! operations will dlspla e horses, the chief *ald. PLANS TO BE READY IN NEXT TWO WEEKS. Flans for the improvement probably will be completed during the next two weeks and place! before the city council at the next meeting in the form of an ordinance. Apparatus necessary to motorize the department was recommended by Fire Chief Louoks as follows . Eighteen triple combination hose obem leals and pumpers of 600 gallons, which would replace sixteen horse drawn hose wagons; six horse drawn steamers, two horse-drawn chemical engines, equip two new attrrinn* and replace forty eight horses. HOSE CHEMICALS TO BE INCLUDED. Triple combination hose chemicals and pumpers of 730 gallons' rapacity, which will replace five horse-drawn hoae wag ons. two hoiirse-drawn steamers and two old motor hose wagons, discarding fourteen horses. Two slxty-flve-foot aerial trucks, one olgbfy-flve-foot aerial truck. Aten service trucks, one auto supply wagon, one auto fuel wagon and two tractors. No action was taken by the board of works today, as it will be necessary t,o locate the two new- fire stations and estimate the cost of their construction.

Need City License? Get One ‘Toot Sweet’ Police are out so make persons pay their city license fees. More than eighty persons have been arrested for failure to display chauffeurs' licet ses, truck licenses or other vehicle licenses. Twenty-three men, arrested yesterday on charges of failiug to display chauffeurs’ license, were discharged in city court on promise to procure them. Ship Vanishes After Air Call for Aid BOSTON, April 21..- Search for the American wooden steamer William O'Brien, reported in distress fiOO miles east of Philadelphia, has failed to reveal any trace of the vessel. A radio early Monday morning from the O'Brien, outbound from New- York, said her hatches had been blown off and that she was liking water rapidly. Rubber City Stretches Past 200,000 Mark WASHINGTON, April 21.—Tbe census bureau announcement of 1920 population results today Included. Akron, 0., 208,435; Increase, 139,868, or 201 .8. Wichita, Has., 72,128; increase, 19,678, or 37.5. Mansfield, 0., 27,821; Increase, ISB, oi Wyckoff Says Sugar Is Higher Elsewhere Answering complaints against the high \ price of sugar, Stanley Wyckoff, fair price commissioner, today asserted that sugar was being sold In other middle western states at higher prices than In I Indianapolis. “1 received word that<sugar Is selling from 30 to 31 cents n pound wholesale in Ohio and 29'(, epnts a pound in Chicago,” he said. "And they haven't got any fair price commissioner In Ohio, either." Enough sugar arrived in Indianapolis today to permit a distribution to each grocer in the city at 22.95 cents a pound, wholesale, Wyckoff said. Records of sales are being kept to prevent retailers from buying allotments from several different Jobbers. Wholesalers will meet Wyckoff on Friday to discuss sugar prices. Tipping of Hat Is Good as a Salute WASHINGTON, April 21.—1n greeting their friends, officers and men of the army may raise their hats or caps under orders issued today by the secretary of war. A regulation of 1913 requiring that the greetings be by salute only was rescinded. J

LAWYER’S CASE HELD UP AGAIN BY DALLYING State Obtains Continuance Be- . cause ‘One Bensinger’ Is Absent. SUBPOENAS NEGLECTED The state of Indiana, as represented In the courts of Marlon county by Claris Adams, exhibited the second phase of Its unwillingness to grant Charles AV. Rolllnson a speedy trial on the charges It has made against him. In city court today. By representing to the court that a necessary witness was In the state prison at Jeffersonville and could not be here today, the state succeeded ip getting Rollluson's case continued until Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. , Yesterday the state obtained a continuance by the failure to summons any witnesses Into court. Today It obtained tbe continuance by making unsupported representations to the court. Friday the state la expected to svoid a trial In the city court by having an Indictment returned against Rolllnson by the grsnd jury. AA'llllam I*. Evans, deputy prosecutor and organization candidate for the republican nomination for prosecutor, was picked by (’laris Adams to pull his rheitnnts out of tbe fire in tbe proceedings today. The selection created the impression that Adams was trying, by sending a candidate into the court, to gain the support of the political organization in his proceedings againat Rolllnson. Evans came Into court and told Judge Charles E. Cox that the state was not tead.v for trial because “one Bensinger'' mentioned In the affidavit was a material witness and was not present. TIME NEEDED TO BRING IN PRISONER. Evans said that he understood Ben singer was In the state prison at JeffrrsonvlUe and could be brought here without any difficulty if time, were allowed for that purpose. Evans said he did not know “one lienslnger.” and. In fact, knew nothing tbout the case. Investigation among the police offlcera who handled the case against Harry and Benton Parsons, out of which grew the Rollinson case, revealed that the “one Bensinger" referred to In the affidavit Is Edward Bensinger, a business man of Jeffersonville, who has never been accused of any crime In Marion county, and within the knowledge of th* police Is not In the penitentiary and never has been. Evan* disclaimed any information on the subjpet other than wbat fcte said had been given him by “a man In whom he had confidence " The efforts of the state, as directed by Claris Adams, prosecutor, to prevent Rolllnson from having a trial of tbe charges made againat him were generally regarded In tbe courtroom as indicating the lack of faith of the prosecutor tn the charge made against Rolllnson. who hat been ready at ail times to go to trial, either on thia case of the contempt proceedings which Adams is presumed to be preparing In accordance with the order of the criminal court. POLITIC* AND NEGLECT HOLD I P JUSTICE. AA'hlle Charles W. Jewett, mayor, and Claris Adam*, prosecutor, attended the Johnson meeting and held a cenferen-e in the Columbia club yesterday, the city court waited for hours because the state had neglected to eubpoena Its witnesses. Rolllnson. accused of taking money from hi* client, Harry Parsons, under false pretenses, following a sensational statement made by Parsons before Judge AVslter Pritchard, was ready for trial. He was represented by Eph Inman, J. J. Roehford and Dan Brown. Jr., and (Continued on Page Two.)

NIGHT WASTERS HIT GAS SUPPLY Rail Official in City to Speed Coal Shipments. Indianapolis folk sst up last night to use gas because the pressure had been slightly increased ands crimp was thereby put in the company’s scanty stock, J. D. Forrest, general manager of the Citizens' Gas Company, said today. The present pressure of one pound between meal hours and fire pounds at meal hours will be maintained, however. R. C. Buchanan of the committee on car service of the American Railway association. ciroe to Indianapolis today at the request of the Interstate commerce commission to assist the gas company In getting coal shipments through the closed gateways of the Chesapeake A Ohio and Norfolk A Western railroads. Mr. Buchanan conferred with Mr. Forrest and will visit railroad officials in other cities to obtain relief for indtanaplis. No reports of coal consignments now en route were received by the gas company today. Bedridden Tot Leads Armenian Aid Work Little Frances Elizabeth Bernard. 7, lying on a bed of affliction at her home. 106 North State avenue. Is collecting pennies for the starring babies of Armenia. The HttJe girl who is alert and cheerful although suffering from spinal trouble, read about the homeless chll* dren of the near east in The Times, and j at once started a bedside campaign. Her parents, the doctor, the nurse and all callers are asked to contribute. Yesterday Mrs. Bernard brought a bag of pennies to headquarters, 403 C’it.v Trust building, which is the second errand she lias made for her little daughter. Legion Men Warned on Western Lands American legion fnombers ore warned In a bulletin Issued front national headquarters, against settling on revested railroad lands i\t California and Oregon, which have been opened for settlement. "Far from being rich agricultural or valuable timber lands, the major portions of the tracts ore rocky and unattractive," says the bulletin. Many legion members have gone west to settle on these lands and have come back disappointed, it is said. Boy Runs Into Auto, Auto Runs Into Curb Billy Meshy. 6. ran into an automobile and broke his nose today. Carl ,1. Addison. 305 North Davidson street, driver of the automobile, trying to avoid the boy, ran h’.s car into a curb, badly damaging it. Billy was taken to hit home, 641 East Miami street.

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Slain Girl, Her Home and Folks iff' it— ■ ■■imwim ( A recent snapshot photograph of little Martha Huff, who late yestetday was found murdered, her body being taken from tbe flood waters of Big Eagle creek, is shown on the extreme left. It Is from a picture made when she attended school near Brownsburg. The Huff home, 420 Bank avenue, Is shown at the top. Mrs. Smock, her mother, and Hugh Smock, her step-father, respecth-ely, are shown in the lower middle; while Nora Smock, a younger stepsister of the murdered girl, who was with Martha when she was lured away, is shown on the extreme lower right.

GIRL’S SLAYER PREYED ON TOTS Two Others Escape Trap Fatal to Martha Huff. Martha Huff - * slayer Is a negro fiend from whose *nare at least two other •chool girls have been snatched during the last ten days. With bis Identity virtually established the detectives are confident he will be taken into custody before many hours Scores of detectives are working on the murder, which is regarded as one of the most hideous In crime history here. One suspect has been questioned. None of the persons who saw the Huff girl being led to her death could identify him as the man. He Is st the City hospital, where be appealed for medical treatment Tuesday morning. His name has not been divulged. Th* body of the 14 year old Huff girl was taken from the swollen waters of Big Eagle creek late yesterday. Her clothing had been ripped from hi r little form and the neck and head showed! thirteen small knife wounds. She had been assaulted. Martha, who was the stepdaughter of Hugh Smock. 420 Bank avenue, wag playing with her stepsister. Nora Smock, near her home shortly after 4 o'clock Monday afternoon when the negro approached. He stopped and talked to them. LI’RF.D BY PROMISE OF GOOD CLOTHES. “If you'll come with me I'll get you acme new clothes," he told Martha. He said he was a janitor at a parochial school and that a charitable woman waa giving little girls dresses. .Toyo isly, the Huff girl ran home to tell her mother. The Smocks are In meager circumstances. Mrs. Smock told her daughter she could go with the man. "I’ll be back In about fen minutes—wait for me," she told her stepsister, who went as far as the Michigan street bridge with her. t She never returned. When Hugh Smock, the girl's stepfather, returned home from work he was told Msrtha was missing. He searched all night for her. Detectives Dugan and O. Simon were assigned to the case and obtained information yesterday that the negro and girl were seen walking west on Michigan street. Their course waa traced to Tibbs avenue. HOW THE BODY WAS FOI ND. I,nte In the day the detectives went south on Tibbs avenue to Little Eagle creek, where they found Alvin Alexander, 13, living In Salem Park, fishing. He told them he saw the negro and girl late Monday afternoon. They had crossed the Danville interurban trestle over Big Eagle creek and headed upstream along thejiank. he told them. With the detectives only a short distance away Thomas Newsofne, 39, ot 3615 AA'est AYashingfon street, who had joined them in the search, saw the head and one shoulder of the body being tossed about by the current. Only the stockings and shoes remained on the body of the child. That Martha was slain at 4:45 o’clock Monday afternoon Is established by a statement made by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph AA'hlttnker, who told the defectives they heard screams at that t They made no investtgrt n, they said, believing it was the cry o a small boy playing. DEAD WHEN THROWN INTO STREAM. Dr. George R. Christian, deputy coroner, who conducted an autopsy at the City hospital last ntght, said the girl was dead when she was thrown Into tbe strenm.

There was no water in her lungs. He found thirteen stab wounds in the right side of the child’s neck. A small pocketknlft was used. Two of the stab wounds penetrated the Jugular vein and two struck the trachea, or windpipe. The other wounds were the full depth of the knife blade, Dr. Christian said. “The child bled to death," he asserted. The supposition is that the slayer was trying to assault Martha when she fought him and be pulled his knife. It is believed she had been knocked down when he began stabbing her. One of her eyes was slightly discolored, indlcstlng she had been struck a felling blow first. Big Eagle creek has overrun its banks at the point, about half n mil* north of the interurban bridge, where the body was found. High brush hides the stream on either side. The detectives believe the slayer threw Martha's clothing into the water and it floated away. 'Vigilance of two mothers, police believe, saved their daughters from a similar (Continued • Page Six.)

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SENT MARIE S2O; CAN’T FIND HER Farmer Searches Chicago for Missing ‘Fiancee.’ CHICAGO. April 21, Louis R. Xiendorf, young DeSoto, la., farmer, hak waited here for three days for the girl who answered his request In a matrimonial paper for an "honest and true” wife. He is still waiting, his faith in Marie Corroll, his expected wife-to-be,, unshaken. Niendorf wired Mario S2O to come to lowa. £he wrote that she didn't rectdve the money. So he came to C'hicngJ to met her in a railway station Sunday m<.ruing. For three days he has compared Marie's photograph with throngs of young women. “A girl with a face like that wouldn't fool no man,” he declared. Lured by Fake Call and Beaten by Thugs Albert Brown, 57. of 3622 East Michigan street. w.:s brutally beaten by two holdup men who lured him from his home with a telephone call. Brown met one of the men and walked with him a half-block when they met another man who hit Brown four times with a “blackjack." while the first man covered Brown with a revolver. They searched Brown's pockets, but he bad no money or jewelry with him.

STYLISH WIFE , 87, ASKS AID OF LAW Hubby of 52 Sleeps in Shirt and Collar, She Declares. CHICAGO, April 21.—Mrs. Albert Ropp, 87-yeor-old bride, in a large picture hat, rippling around her face, today told of her ruined romance and of her 52-yeax-old husband, “a terrible person who sleeps in bis shirt and collar.” Mrs. Ropp told the court that she married Ropp to referm him and limited his liquor allowance to half gallon of whisky, a week. “After 1 married him he said I was ‘too derned stylish!' and finally he left me. “He said he liked women with big feet who wore little hats." The court was asked by Mrs. Ropp to find Albert. f ‘l thought it would be a good joke to make him support me. But oh. my dear, you don t know- how terrible it is to be married to a man who wears a collar and shirt to bed," she concluded. All Circus Attaches Must Wear^Overalls The “overall movement” Is to receive impetus through the medium of the Ha-genbeck-Wallace circus, which will give two exhibitions in Indianapolis next Saturday. A representative of the circus arrived today to arrange for delivery of fifty dozen pairs of overalls for distribution, beginning with the entrance into the city of the first section of the show train. Tbe overalls are intended for circus attaches who have in the past been attired in ordinary civilian clothes. Ferforiners, ticket sellers, managers of departments and even women employes of the circus are to be Included, and will bo fined $2 for appearance In public without overalls.

Oppose Governor on Sunday Movies Gov. .Tames P. Goodrich's own Presbytery is at odds with him on tho question of Sunday “movies.” Resolutions adopted at a meeting of the Presbytery of Indianapolis, at Edinburg, condemn Sunday movies and ask the legislature to express itself in opposition to them at the next-session.. The governor recently declared he saw no harm in properly conducted Sunday movies. * What's Slap in Face to $2,000 in Pocket? CLEVELAND, April 21.—Benny Bendowski got slapped in the face and was relieved of sl7 when three strong men hopped on him, but Jbe wears a glad smile today, for tljey overlooked $2,000 in an inside pocket. 'w-

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WOOD SNOWED UNDER IN VOTE OF NEBRASKANS Early Returns Indicate Johnson Will Carry State by From 25,000 to 30,000. BRYAN RUNNING WELL LINCOLN, Neb., April 21. —Thai Senator Hiram Johnson will carry Nebraska in the state primaries by from 25,000 to 30,000 was practically certain when reports received today from 432 precincts out of 1,849 gave him 18,618. Wood was second with 12,862 and Pershing third with 6,909. Gen. Wood apparently carried Omaha, returns from 143 of Douglas county** 173 precincts giving him a lead there of almost 300. That William J. Bryan, who has stumped the state for a 'tdry” slate of delegates against Senator Hitchcock, Is polling a good vote in his race for delegate to the national convention was indicated when early reports gave his opponent only a small majority. Btyan ran third In 354 precincts, two anti-Bryan men leading him by only 300 votes. Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, who ran as the democrats’ presidential candidate without practically any opposition, polled a heavy vote throughout the state. AA'omen voted for the first time in this state in a general party primary, though limited to presidential candidates, delegates to the national conventions and county and municipal officers. Many women wrote in names of William G. McAdoo and Herbert Hoover for the democratic presidential nomination. PALMER LEADS IN GEORGIA ATLANTA. Ga.. April 21. —Returns today from Georgia presidential preference primary yesterday show Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer leading Thomas E. Watson, with Senator Hoke Smith, third. Incomplete returns, delayed in some sections of the state on account of stormwrecked wires and washed out roads. Indicate the attorney general has carried forty-eight counties with 140 convention rotes; AA'atson fifty counties with 120 Totes. Later returns may charge the figures or even the standing in the running, but the result certain that neither candidate wilt have a majority which means the state democratic convention will be deadlocked. Palmer carried Fulton county, including Atlanta by about 200 plurality with Watson 105 votes ahead of Senator Smith.

REPUBLICANS VOICE FEAR FOR COUNTY The prospects of democratic success 19 Marion county have become so bright la the last few weeks that the republican organization heads are openly admitting. | them and making final hear-to-heart pleas to the voters. Charles 0. Roemler, republican chairman of the Seventh district, is the latest "alarmist" to attempt to rally the republicans by special personal appeals to republican leaders. In a letter which is now being circulated to a selected few over his signature appears the following significant sentences. "It now seems assured that Mr. McCulloch, a resident of Indianapolis, will receive the nomination for governor pa the democratic ticket. “Tom Taggart, who has a greater political influence in Marlon county than any democrat In the state, will be tbs democratic nominee .for senator. "This means that the democrats will have one of the strongest organizations in Indiana they have had for years. “Therefore, the republican party must nominate its strongest man for governor.” This letter, coming from the district chairman at this time, is generally regarded as indicating the desperate plight in which the republicans have been placed by the utter collapse of the administrations of Charles Jewett as mayor and Bob Miller an sheriff, and the general disgust with the Goodrich administration. Taken in connection with the recent declarations of supporters of J. W. Fesler for governor that unless Fesler is nominated the republicans will lose Mariom county by at least 10,000 votes, it is significant as being an admission of weakness coming directly from headquarters. The situation in Marion county Is rapidly reaching the stage where th* republicans will be compelled to place ail their hopes of the county on the appeal Fesler will be able to make aq a Marlon county man.

PICK DR. HODGIN TO LEAD ‘ANTIS’ Dr. E. E. Hodgin, 2645 Central avenue, is the choice of the “anti-Jewett’’ and the “anti-Goodrich" faction of the republicans for chairman of the Marios county organization. At a conference held last night Hodgin was selected to lend the forces that axe opposed to the present, organization In Mat ion county and every effort will be made by them to select only precinct committeemen who are pledged to support him ns against either Chairman Harry Henrickson or any other candidate who may be supported by what Is known as the Jewett-Lemcke crowd. AGAINST FRIENDLY MILLER PROSECUTION The people of Marion county do not desire to see Sheriff Miller prosecuttul by his intimate friends and political associates. Pnul G. Davis, candidate for the democratic nomination for prosecuting attorney, said at a meeting at 441 North Gray street last night. Mr. Davis said that if he is elected he will see to it “that there are either iewer Indictments or more convictions.” He said he would not conduct preventions merely for the sake of the fees resulting. Sheriff Miller, five former deputies and a foimer federal prisoner who served as a cell boss at the jail will bs arraigned In criminal court May 3, Judge James A. Collins has announced. HA RDING DENIES DOLLAR WHEAT STORY RICHMOND. Ind., April 21.—An appeal to farmers was made by Senator Warren G. Harding, candidate for thp republican nomination for the presidency, who was the principal speaker at a meeting here last night. Senator Harding denied statements being circulated in Ohio to the fcffect that he had said dollar wheat is enough for American farmers. He said this waa a misquotation % (Continued on Page Pony.) i