Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 84, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1920 — Page 1
THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday. Rising temperature Wednesday.
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CITY HALL ALSO IN LIST OF HIGH PRICED SERVICE Custodian’s Fund Increased From $16,640 to $19,140 for Next Year. SIXTEEN ON PAYROLL
The Marlon county courthouse is not the only republican controlled office building In Indianapolis where janitor service comes high. Glance at a- payroll of the custodian’s force of the Charles W. Jewett bossed City hall. Not counting the engineer and two flrewho rtffi the City hall heating plant, the city would pay in salaries alone this year some $15,660 for the custodian's format the rate of pay noted on the curreotpOroll in the office of the board of public works. Tha county pay -a custodian and fifteen Janitors $17,10.) a year, figures from the county commissioners show. PAYROLL, LIST AT CITY HALL. The city pays its $15,660 for a custodian, ten janitors, one assistant custodian, two elevator men, one telephone operator and one night watchman. Contrasted with the amounts paid by the city and county are the figures given by the manager of a downtown office building of 210 rooms, where thirteen janitors and janitresses and occasional extra helpers kept things spotlessly clean during the fiscal year ending May 31 for $7,904 Th# city hall is a smaller and more modefrn building than the court house. It is also true that none of the various boards which meet in the city hall has found it necessary, like a jury in the courthouse not long ago, to call public attention to the filthy condition of the \rooms in which it was compelled to congregate EMPLOYES NOT SATISFIED. Negro Janitors and elevator men at the City hall are paid SSO a month. This is not considered enough by many of the custodian's force, one of whom remarked yesterday: “This is a republican administration and I can't see why when they're raising the salaries of all the white boys in the city hall that they can't do somefor us colored employes.’’ The answer may lie in the fact that the estimate of the board of works of the appropriation needed for the custodian’s fund for next year is $19,140, re compared with $16,640 appropriated this year.
RAISES ORDERED IN 12 COUNTIES Personal Property Only Affected by Tax Board Action.
Horizontal increases in personal property valuation* were ordered by the r*te board of tax commissioners <n twelve counties today. The percentage of increase in the counties ranges from 3 to ‘JO per cent. The increases In per cent are as follows: Boone, 5; Daviess, 5; Fountain, JO; Gibson 5; Jackson. 7; Johnson, 20; Montgomery. 5; Newton, 10; Posey. 5; Switzerland, 10; Vigo, 10, and Warren, 3 per cent. The Increases, according to Fred Sima, chairman of the board, are to be artde! only to personal property assessments. Real estate assessments were not changed this year. County-wide horizontal increases have been ordered by the state tax board on Assessments in Clarke county, according Mr. Sims. Personal property assessments are increased 40 per cent and real estate Is ‘lncreased 34 per cent by the order of the board. Clarke county bad rejected the horizontal increases originally. Jasper county notified the state board that the action of the Jasper county board of review In rejecting the horigputal Increases of the state board had been rescinded and that the increases had been approved. Franklin. Gibson and Scott counties today stated the horizontal Increases have been approved by their respective boards of review, and the state board has approved the reports. Nine out of the ninety-two counties remain to act on the horizontal increases. It is expected that within a few days the work will be entirely cleared up and all county boards of review will have adjourned. Three counties that originally rejected the horizontal Increases yet have taken no further action toward rescinding their action. They are Jackson, Posey and Johnson. Putnam county, which rejected the horizontal raise?, was expected to rescind its action today.
30 Days and SIOO on Blind Tiger Charge
Clifford Capps, 1950 Ludlow avenue, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to serve thirty days on the penal farm by Special Judge John Robbins in city court today, after be was found guilty on the charge of operating a blind tiger. gSM.’apps was arrested yesterday when the police found him in a stalled automobile in front of 412 West Vermont street with six gallons of whisky. Capps said that he was taking the whisky to a fishing party. The charge against Tony Perno, 1950 Ludlow avenue, who was with Capps at the Jjme of the arrest, was dismissed.
Report Several Dead in Traction Wreck
CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—A report received by a train dispatcher of the Lake Shore railroad here, from South Bend, stated a South Shore electric car overturned at Aydick, Ind., and killed several people ■a;. containing nurses and doc■h have been sent from Michigan City ■h South Bend, according to the report. dispatcher's report said twentyH; people were killed. Hrbe report was without confirmation.
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for Indianapolis and vicinity the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Bl; rising temperature Wednesday. ■ HOURLY TEMPERATURE. ■ 6 a. m 67 ■ 7 a. m 68 ra 8 a. m 73 9 a. m 79 10 a. m 78 11 a. m 80 V 12 (noon) 82 B 1 p. m 82 2 p. m 84
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Goodrich Coal and Food Commission Act Butt of Federal Court Suit
Charging that Sections 7,8, 9, 10 and 13 of the special coal and food commission act, passed by the special session of the legislature are unconstitutional, suit was filed in federal court today by the American Coal Mining Company, Brazil, against the coal and food commission £nd against James P. Goodrich, Jesse E. Eschbach and Otto L. Klauss, as members of the commission, for a temporary injunction to prevent the carrying out of the provisions of the act. Twenty-one paragraphs set forth the argument of the plantiffs, in which they allege that these sections are unconstitutional.
The plaintiff prays “that the special coal and food commission of Indiana, James P. Goodrich, Otto L. Klauss, Jesse Eschbach and their successors, employes, clerks, assistants, examiners, etc., be enjoined and restrained by, order and decree of the court,” from demanding that the coal operators be compelled to pay license fees and otherwise comply with the provisions of the act. A temporary injunction to be in force during pendency and untU the final bearing of the suit is asked. Included in the introductory part of the complaint Is a statement of tonnage produced by the mines of Indiana during the first seven months of the years 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1920. PROBLEMS ARE SET FORTH. Detailed statements regarding the coal Industry of Indiana, giving a few of the problems which coal operators have been called on to solve, including miners’ strikes, car shortage, and other causes of nonproduction, also are contained In the petition. Two pages of the complaint, are devoted to a table showing time lost In mining in recent months, due to various causes. A copy of the act creating the coal ami food commission in the state is atlached to the complaint. The petition is a bnlky document containing approximately seventy-five pages Twenty-four paragraphs are devoted to statements of the coal mining Industry iu Indiana. Paragraph 25, the first paragraph of the part that declares certain sections of the coal and food commission act unconstitutional, sets forth tha seclon 7 of the act is unconstitutional and In Tlolattton of the constitution of the United States, in that it deprives the plaintiff of its liberty and property, without due process of law, and denies the plaintiff the equal protection of the laws, for the reason that a license fee of $25 is required for coal mining, which is to be paid the state treasurer for paying salaries and expenses of the coal and food commission. The fee of $25 is in excess of the cost of issuing the license, and this money will be used to carry on the Investigations of food profiteering, the petition says. EXPENSE ALL PTT ON COAL MEN. No part of the expense is levied against, or assessed as a license tax or direct tax on the commodities dealt in by handlers of food products. * Paragraph 26 declares section 7 of the act further la unconstitutional bo cause it requires the plaintiff to pay a license fee for the privilege of exercising the right to mine and sell coal for one year, which is beyond the period
You're Classed as Soon as You Steer for the Marble Slab Autocratic Jerker * of Soft Suds and Liquid Lolly pops Knows Exactly What You'll Order.
By KATHLEEN McRZE. Are you a whipped cream fiend or a malted milk addict? Perchance you are u sedate Individual who takes plain cream? Anyway, yon are no longer a htpnan being with any feelings when saunter up to the revolving stool in front of the marble slab or escort your best girl to a table for two. When you make that fatal stop you be come an object for the psychological study of the soda Jerker who classifies you neither as he or she. but as an ‘tit” who takes 'em “with" or “without." Being of an inquisitive turn of mind I started out to learn just why new dishes of whipped cream make their appearance on the blll-of-fare —I mean menus—at periodica! Intervals. An exclusive, well behaved ouija board hasn't a single thing on the white jacketed slave of cold drinks for telling you Just exactly what you want before you even think about it. “They Just have It written all over 'em what they want. r- —■ you can't miss It In a million {■s-an years." he explained to me. Just then a Sr* severe spectacled - lady of the last CiS)joßUk <£=? century prog\V rested toward an _\ ”iIV. "fine Hi empty table with a pace like a stiff-legged cake-walk. SIRE, HE HAD HER NUMBER. In amazement I saw my friend dishing up spoonfuls of vanillin ice cream. “What’s the great and glorious idea?" I demanded. In the meantime the new eustomer was turning over the list of sundaes In a vacant fashion. “Give me a plain Ice cream,” she said in stage fright when the waiter approached her, and my Instructor gave me a triumphant look. A little lady arrayed In a georgette waist, a polar bear, and a hat perched over one eye appeared, on the scene, and my friend was busy opening up the (Continued on Page Nine.)
‘We Have and We Will/ Says *Goosie 9
When Harry "Google” Lee, negro, president of the Pioneer clnb, an Indiana avenue republican organisation, was asked If Ellas W. Dultierger, president of the Oriental club, the south side republican organization, had sent him congratulations on hlg arrest for keeping a gambling house. Lee said. “I haven't seen or heard of Dulberger. I don’t know nothing about his Oriental club, but I do know we have gambled and we will gamble on Indiana avenue, In spite of anything the police can do. Go and write that for The Dally Times and tell them I said It.” The big negro political power of
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 26, 1914, at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March S. 181.
fixed by the legislature for the expiration of the act. March 31. 1021, was the date set for the expiration, unless the law should be continued by subsequent legislation. Thus, according to the complaint, the coal operators would be paying for the right to mine coal beyond a period of any Inspection or regulation of the business of mining coal by the commission. Section 7 of the act Is Invalid and void, says paragraph 27, because it denies the plaintiff equal protection of the law in that approximately 43 per cent of i the coal consumed in the state Is sold to consumers, and to wholesale and retail dealers in the state, by persons, firms and corporations engaged in mining coal without the state, in interstate commerce, on which the Indiana legislature has no power to assess a tax or a license fee, and because It imposes on Indiana coal firms a license fee, and a tax on the coal produced In Indiana, which is not im- j posed on Anns dealing in eoa! outside of the state, thereby granting immunity of tax and license fee to foreign coal firms. SAYS EQUAL PROTECTION DEMANDED. Paragraph 28 declares section Sos the act invalid because it denies equal pro- , tectlon of the law in that the special coal i and food commission is given the right ' and power to regulate and fix the price of all coal In Intrastate commerce which shall be sol dto shippers, wholesale and ' retail coal dealers and to the public, i thereby depriving the plaintiff of the Mb- | erty to contract for the sale of its prop- ! erty. Further complaints in the parsgrapb charge that the commission in fixing the price of coal would deprive the plaintiff of the right to sell its coal at its market value. Paragraph 29. regarding section 8 ol the act. sets forth facts further sup | porting contentions made In section 27 regarding the granting of immunity tc coal operators outside the state. It is charged in paragraph 30 that section 9 of the coal and food commission act I* unconstitutional because it would grant the defendant power and make It their duty to require cool opera torsto produce and sell in Indiana a ; sufficient quantity of coal to supply do- j mestlc demands at a price to be fixed by the coal commission. The paragraph claims also that this demand Is not made on owners of other commodities, and that it prevents coal operators from selling cool at .a price t he agreed on betweeu seller and buyer y. Paragraph 31, continues the complaint, sets forth In paragraph 30 and states that the eoal In a place owned by the (Continued on Page Nine.)
TAX RATE MAY REACH $2 FOR INDIANAPOLIS Budget for County Council Will Be Largest Ever Submitted.
The totsl KUO tax rates for Center township and Indianapolis may exceed SI.BO and thrc Is danger that It will reach $2. it became known today upon reliable authority. County Auditor I.eo K. Feeler stated that the, tax rate would exceed the present rate of SI.OO for Indlatiapolia and Center township. % The present' city rate Is sl.l# and It is said recent loan-making In behalf of the city will necessitate the boosting of the rate. Mr. Feslpr adroit* the county sinking fund rate will probably Jump from 4 cents to 8 or 9 In order to take care of $300,000 worth of bonds. Taxing officials appear to be unanimous in the opinion that the total lirju tai rate for Center township, which Includes the city, county, state and township, will exceed SI.BO. The total valuation for Marlon county Is estimated by Mr. Fesler as $702,000, • 000, which is about five millions over the last valuation. The fixing of a tax levy is the most embarrassing work republican officials have to perform, as they realize the citizens about have had their fill of taxes and the illegal horizontal Increase muddie, now succtsgfully placed upon the citizens of the county by the board oh review. Because of tlds tax muddle and the recent selling of bonds by the city and county It Is Impossible for the taxing officials at this time to dodge the responsibility of saddling a higher tax rate on the citizens of the county and e)ty as well, BIDGET WILL BE LARGEST. It is understood that the budget which the county council will be asked to consider at its meeting Sept. 7 will be the largest ever submitted. Nearly all of the county institutions, aa well has the courts and county officers have asked and received additional appropriations to carry on the work for this year, as it was impossible with the present management and high prices to continue until the money from next year’s budget was obtainable. Supplies for the various county offices, as well as for the institutions, are higher than ever, and the present republican (Continued on Tag* Two.)
"de ave-noo” stepped Into a large touring car in front of police headquarters and drove away. Lee Is said to be the president of the Pioneer club, 509% Indiana avenue, raided at 3 o'clock Sunday morning by the morals squad. He and eighteen other negroes alleged to have beeen shooting crnpg were taken to police headquarters. The raid on the' Pioneer club came just a week after the Oriental club was raided by the same squad, but. Mr. Dulberger, the president, proved that the morals squad did not know a poker game when they saw one, and the charges against the south side republicans were dismised.
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1920.
Here's One of Things Wrong With Our City Market
The register of market stand owners in the office of the city controller gives a dear insight into one of the things that Is defeating the purpose of the market site donor to provide a place whero consumers and producers might meet. It also reveals why actual producers have. In the paet, encountered so many difficulties In obtaining stands that they have practically abandoned the market place to the more fortunate commission and wholesale dealers who now control It. Among those who are listed as operating stands on the market are: J. P. O'Mahoney A Cos., one stand. P. J. O’Mahoney, three stands. Mary A. O’Mahoney, one stand. Taggart Baking Company, four stands. Stanley Wyckoff, two stands. G, M. Rubens, one stand. George Rabin, two stands. James M. Sowders, one stand. James L. Sowdsrs, two stands. R. Sowders, two stands. Mrs. James Sowders, two stands. Max Well, three stands. H. Tutewller, one stand. P. Meeilll, four stands. R. Meeilll, two stands. Jose Meeilll, two stands. Sam Veiona, five stands. Thus it will be seen that seventeen individuals, some of whom are doubtless "dummies,” control thirty-eight choice stands In the market for “producers only." Only one guess is permissible ae to who will profit most by the proposed expenditure of $125,000 to make these stands more alluring to consumers who patronise them on the theory that they are dealing directly with “producers.”
TWO POLICEMEN DISCHARGED BY SAFETY BOARD Charged With Intoxication and Auto Theft Implication.
Robert I.enlhan and Obe Craig, patrolmen. were dismissed from the Indianapolis police force by the board of public safety today following a bearing In which testimony was given tending to show they bad been close to nier whom the police believe stole at least seven automob'les from garages In thelt dlslrlcts. Evidence was introduced which Indicated that Craig was implicated with his father In the operation of a gambling house at his father's farm, south of the ••lty. while a taxicab driver testified that he hauled I-enlhan and a man named Jack Bannister to the Illinois Central railroad yards, where they took a suit esse load of whisky off of t train one day last summer. Lieut. William t. C6x of the police department testified that early on the morning of July 28 he received Information from persons residing south of the city on Harping street that a bakery wagon driver had said he had picked up two policemen, apparently Intoxicated, early In the morning. Investigation disclosed, the lieutenant said, that Umihan and Craig had gotten stalled in South Hording street when the rear axle of Craig’s automobile broke, and had hailed Harry U Brown, driving a hakery truck, and induced him to drive them to Craig's father’s place. A senrch of Craig’s father’s premises disclosed elaborate gambling outfits on two floors, the lieutenant added. The bakery wagon driver testified that the tnen had hailed him about 5 o’clock on the morning In question and that be had taken them to the place described as Crnig-e father’s. He said he smelled a strong odor of liquor on their breath and that one of them pulled a police badge from hit trouaers pocket and showed It to him. As he left the Craig farm. Brown said, oge of the policemen told him to tell two men who were a short distance down the road to mine on up, that was all right.” Dixon H. Bynum, assistant city attorney, attempted to msko Lenlban admit that these two men were men Charged by the police Vlth the theft of several automobiles, but Lenlban said he bad not told Brown to hail them and. In fact, had hardly noticed any tnen being In the road. 4 KAIG CHANGED HIS STORV. Chief of Police Jerry Kinney testified that when he called Craig Into hIR office (Continued on Page Nine.)
INDIANA ROAD LOAN APPROVED Railway Touching This State to Get 86,000,000.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Approval of a loan of $6,000,000 to the Chicago k Western Indiana Railroad Company, to aid the carrier in meeting Its gold trust notes due Sept. 1. was announced today by the Interstate Commerce commlaalon. The road Is required to finance on a basis satisfactory to the commission, the remninlng $8,000.000 of Its maturing obligation of $16,000,000. The road Is a terminal line serving twelve trunk lines at Chicago. Requests for loans of approximately $200,000,000 of the $300,000,000 government revolving fund for the railroads, provided b yttae Cummins-Ksch bill, have been mad*by the association of railway executives, the interstate commerce commission announced today. The use of the money Is asked for increased equipment for the movement of freight. No recommendations have been made for the extension of loans for passenger equipment. , The association has recommended that the following loans be made to the railroads under the provisions of the Cummlns-Esch bill: $8,317,000 for rebuilding freight cars, $78,380,000 for ad dirlons and bettermemts to equipment; for expeditious movement of freight, $29,054,323 for the construction of locomotives, $52,830,493 for the purchase of freight cars, $28,800,875 to meet maturities.
Galveston Strike Awaits New York
GALVESTON, Tex., Aug. 17.—Settlement of Gatveston’a longshoremens’ strike was expected to hinge <nu a meeting scheduled to take place In Now York this afternoon between shipping representatives and union heads. Should an agreement be reached at New York, it wan confidently believed here that a similar agreement could be effected at this port.
FATE OF POLISH CAPITAL CITY IS STILL IN DOUBT Wireless Picked Up by London Tells of Occupation by Reds. REPORTS ARE CONFUSED
LONDON, Aug. 17.—Admission that the Polee lost ground “in front of Warsaw," although In other sectors of the front they pushed the bolsbevlkl back over considerable distances, is contained In a statement by the Polish legation here at 5 o’clock this afternoon. The sector “In front" of the Polish capital is that immediately to the north. LONDON, Aug. 17.—Whether the Russians have penetrated Warsaw, the Polish capital, occupying part of the city, was in doubt this afternoon. The Polish legation and the British foreign office united In a denial that any part of the city has been captured by the soviet army. At 1 o’clock the British war office gave out the text of a Russian wireless dispatch in the form of the regular soviet war office communique, saying. “The heart of Warsaw has been occupied.” A few minutes later the real Russian war office communique was issued, but it made no mention of the occupation of Warsaw. The British war office explained this mystery by saying that a mistake had evidently been made in confusing a wireless communication passing between Russian field headquarters and Moscow for the formal communique which is received from Moscow dally. The British wireless station picked up all available messages sent by the Russian station, although only news of military operations Is given ont to the public. The message referring to the "heart of Warsaw” may have been code, It was pointed out. MUCH CONFUSION OVER REAL SITUATION. Much confusion over the real military situation on the Warsaw fighting front had arisen earlier in the day as a result of a Central Newg dispatch Issued at 10.50 o'clock saying: “A bolshevik official statement announces that Warsaw bfl* been occupied.” An Immediate Investigation brought no official confirmation of the fall of Warsaw. British military experts offered the •explanation” that the official statement hail come from the Vilnu command in sou them Lithuania, near the Polish frontier. British army officers who ire In clna touch with the Russq-Pollsh military situation aald that the “official statement" carried by the Central Neve* sat not to be credited. Formal announcement by the soviet war office that the Russians had broken through the Polish lln-s snd entered Warsaw came as a surprise for all unofficial dispatches from the Rus-so-Polish wsr thealer duriug the night had emphasised the fact that Polish resistance had stiffened and that the ititaalan advance had been stemmed at the suburbs. The Russians have been making a tre(('•ntinoed on I’age Two.)
JUDGE COLLINS BACK ON BENCH Finds Alford Has Done Everything He Failed In.
Judge James Collins of the criminal court, who hiked off on his vacation before a grand Jury waa obtained to investigate important jail cases this summer, today returned from the east. The court immediately w-eat Into con ference with Prosecutor Claris Adams and during the conference the doors tending to the courtroom were closed. While Judge Collins has been away Judge Fremont Alford presided and not only obtained a grand Jury without delay but completed all work demanding attention before the grand Jury. Judge Collins soon will begin making his docket for the next term of court which formally begins Sept. 6. He staled that be visited with Gov. Coolldge. republican nominee for vies president, last Thursday and had s pleasant chat. The eourt announced that arraignment day will be Tuesday, Sept. 7, and following the case of Dr. Joseph Adams, indicted on a charge of performing a criminal operation which is said to have resulted In the girl’s death, will begin.
Operators and Miners Try to Adjust Views
CLEVELAND, 0., Ang. 17 Unable to reach an agreement upon anew wage scale, miners and operators of the Central competitive coal field comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and western Pennsylvania, again met at 10 o’clock this morning In an effort to adjust (heir divergent views. It la considered probable that both sides will ask President Wilson to reconvene the coal commission or appoint anew body to settle the controversy.
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Issue Is Progressivism Against Reaction —Cox
Party Leader Defines Stand Before Meeting of Ohio Democratic Convention.
COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. 17,-James M. Cox, democratic nominee for president, In bis keynote speech before the state convention of his party here toda& declared progressivism as opposed to reaction is the Issue of the hour and pictured Senator Warren G. Harding as continuing in national affairs the reactionary leadership which the governer said the republican candidate* had held throughout the fight for progress in Ohio. The governor reviewed the history of Ohio since 1912 and pointed to “the record of progpes*t v 'e accompilshmenttV” under the new constitution. He charged that the party headed by Senator Harding had put every obstacle Into the path of advancement and quoted the senator as having denounced the order as socialism. DEFINES STAND OF PROGRESSIVES. “In every contest between progress and reaction, whether state, national or International, you will find that the forward step Is always surrounded by articulated misgivings, sincere in some instances, but ordinarily the evidence of selfish desire or political design,” the candidate said. “In world affairs the progressive would now bring an end to International anarchy. “He would re-establish orderly government. “He would take from the potentate the power to declare war over night "He would merge governmental entitles into a righteous association. QUOTES FROM HARDING SPEECH. On the morning after the election at which the constitution was adopted Gov. Cov aald Mr. Harding made this statement: "Ohio, by a majority, has turned from its old organic law and Us safeguards nnd voted for radicalism. We have ended political conventions and their deliberations. We retain the legislative body atmply as a form and have substituted lawmaking at the ballot box. We hare declared property rights subject to the law of those who have none and opened the way for socialistic .rule and reign In municipality and state. The revolution In Ohio dates from Sept. 3. Our own notlou is that the radical victory of Tuesday will be followed by conflict after conflict until a socialistic rulo Is thoroughly established. Ohio has broken her moorings. The revolution is on. Mr Senator Harding, Gov. Cox charged.
Might ’a Been a Hog!
A north side citizen is telling one on himself today In tbli wise: ” kept hearing a fun- | {O/ ny noise under the IfJP’ jL \r hood of my car. ■Hy ' JP "it didn’t sound r/ l\-l like anything I H n . *l/, had ever heard In the old engine be■Blf force and I was ■Bf considerable cu"Wlven I slowed her down the noise became louder. "Finally I shut off the gas and It became louder etlll. "Then I opened the hood and what do you think I found? "A cricket." a
Man Fatally Wounded Thought Danish Count
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 17— A man beteved to be Count Christian von Knuth of Denmark was shot and perhaps fatally wounded when he attempted to enter the home of Milton IV. Armour late yesterday. According to Mr. Armour, who Is manager of a hotel grill room. Von Knuth followed him to his home in an automobile. When he reached home Mr. Armour, suspicious of the stranger, who parked his car In front of his home, armed himself He said that he shot when the man attempted to break Into the rear door.
Sergeant’s Murderer Reaches Leavenworth
LEAVENWORTH. Kas . Aug. 17.-John Mosher, credited with being the most dangerous prisoner in the Aniertenn overseas army, was safely lodged behind Iron bars at the military prison here today. Mosher was brought here from Coblenz, Germany, where he was convicted of murdering Sergt. Lester Call, who attempted to place him under arrest. He waa sentenced to ninety-nine years at hard labor.
Little Journeys to the Mayor’s Office
Mayor Charles W. Jewett arrived at his office at 10:25 o'clock this morning to find a Times reporter waiting for him. The mayor remarked that If there could be a downtown curb market he saw no reason why the women of the south side should not have one In Fauntaln square.
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continued to head the forces of reaction In their bitter fight against the enactment of the legislative reforms made mandatory by the new constitution. “We should be reminded,” the governor said, “that at the very outset we were fought at every step. Paid lobbyists were at work. At times we fought with our backs to the wall. The opposition was of financial creation.” The reactionary forces Gov. Cox said were unable to gain support of newspapers and therefore established their own organ, which was distributed free. ALL PROMINENT LEADERS ON HAND. Virtually every prominent democrat Is here for the convention, the main purpose of which !s to give the campaign Impetus. Secretary of War Baker, Vic Donahey, candidate for governor, and M. A. Daugherty, key-noter, also were scheduled to speak. The business before the convention was the framing of a platform and the election of the presidential electors. Cox. after several conferences with state leaders, said he had received “most encouraging reports’’ as to democratic chances in November. Caucuses of congressional districts and meetings of convention committees were held and the convention proper opened at Memorial ball at 1 o’clock. Cox plans to eat breakfast in Chicago Thursday morning on his way to South Bend, Ind., where he will address the democratic editors of the state.
BAKER PLEADS FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS
COLUMBUS, 0„ Aug. 17.—1f the United States is to play a “lone hand” In world affairs "It must be a strong hand,” Secretay of War Baker asserted In a speech before the democratic state convention here today. His address was devoted entirely to a vigorous argument for the league of nations. “If we do not go In the league we must continue to arm,’’ he said. "We must build a greater navy; we must keep pace with the improvement In arms, constantly rearming our forces and building up greater reserves of the most modern, most ingenious and costliest Implements of defense and offense.” Baker sharply attacked Senator Harding’s peace plan, asserting the republican candidate "was holding up a pious hs”d and asking everybody to be good.” The secretary indicated he will jump Into the national campaign on league Issues, stating that he hopes to take the issue straight to the American fathers and mothers In advance of the decision to be made by the nation’s electorate this fall.
FEED PRISONERS FOR 30 CENTS Former Jail Inmate Asks WTiere Money Goes.
The following letter of complaint whijh has been received by The Times is respectfully referred to the state board of charities and corrections, the Marion county grand Jury or any other of the many agencies that are presumed to be looking after the welfare of Marlon county prisoner*. No delusions are entertained to the effect that the letter will receive any more consideration than did letters made public before the federal court disclosed conditions In the jail that made them appear mild by comparison. “I was unfortunate enough to be kept in Jail for ten days In an assault case. "I found the Jail food uneatable —thin soup twice a day, no coffee but some colored warm water for breakfast, about ona ounce of bread, one ounce of cooked rice—this waa the breakfast. “Thin soup and dry bread for dinner; thin soup and dry bread for supper, and very little. “Oh, my, but the poor devils In the jail are a hungry bunch. "I, too, was awful hungry. "1 had a little money and by paying a tip was able to send out once a day and get something to eat. "How the poor devils do lose in weight when they have been long In the Jail. "I lost nearly twenty pounds in ten days. "When my meals were brought in from outside how the poor, starving fellows did beg me for Just a bite of It to stay their craving hunger, and of course I could not refuse them. "I have bee if a cook and know what foodstuffs cost and the foodstuff fed the prisoners, at the high prices, does not cost 30 cents each per day. Who keeps the other 30 cents which, with many prisoners to feed, soon amounts to thousands of dollars. "Will your paper have the bravery to ask to have this cruel wrong Investigated and righted? “A LATE PRISONER.’’
2 Thefts of Clothes Reported to Police
Earl Goldy. 328 Middle street, today reported to the police that a suit valued at $52.50 had been stolen from his home. Mrs. Catherine narrlson, 716 West Wabash streets, reported to the police that wearing apparel had been taken from her home.
NO. 84.
SUFFRAGE WINS IN FIRST BRUSH OF TENN. HOUSE Vote oh Clearing Floor Called by Antis Shows Majority of Six. GALLERIES ARE PACKED
NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Aug. 17.—Th# house adjourned late this afternoon until 10 o’clock tomorrow morning without taking action on the nineteenth amendment. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 17. —The suffragists showed 51 to antis’ 45 on the first test. Antis moved to clear the floor of the house of all but representatives. However, suffrage floor leaders said there was no reason to ask America to get out. It was moved to suspend the rules. On ayes and noes, a roll call was demanded. The vote was 51 for and 45 against letting them stay. A two-thirds vote was required, the speaker ruled, bo the house was cleared. The test showed a suffrage majority of six. T. K. Riddick, Shelby, moved that the house concur in the action of the senate In ratifying the nineteenth amendment. j Favorable action would, result In Tennessee being the thirty-sixth state to ratify. NAMfcir THOSE FAVORING SUFFRAGE. Riddick gave the name of national and state leaders who favor suffrage, lnclud -
19th Amendment
The proposed nineteenth amendment to the constitution reads: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied nor abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” It was drawn by Susan B. Anthony, pioneer of the suffrage In America la 1575 and was Introduced In the United States senate three years later by Senato- Sargent, California. The amendment was submitted to the states in June, 1919, and a few later Wisconsin ratified.
ing President Wilson and the presideni'al candidates, challenging his opponents to name leaders of the opposition. He charged “subtle influences” are operating against suffrage and Mid he would be ashamed if suffrage was defeated. Aisles were jammed and galleries were packed as the house went Into session. Hundreds of women wore the red and yellow flowers, emblems of the opposing factions. Suffragists had placed yellow flowers on the desks of members. A motion that newspaper men be permitted to remain on the floor at their accustomed desks was carried by a vKa voce vote.
COX WILLING TO GO TO TENNESSEE
WASHINGTON. Ang. 17.—Gov. Cox ia wiling to go to Nashville to plead for suffrage. Advices to this effect were received today by the national woman’s party. Democratic leaders in Tennessee adTised him yesterday not to come. On the other hand the suffragists are pleading with him to go, Invited or uninvited. Only three votes now stand between ratification and defeat, Alice Paul announced today. Wlthput three more votes the nffraglsts can not hope to win. “Only Gov. Cox dhn save the situation,” Mias Paul said. "His appearance before the legislature and the making of a personal appeal would have a tremendous effect. Even if his appeal failed the women of the country would be immeasurably grateful to him.” RALEIGH. N. C.. Aug. 17.—The North Carolina senate today began debate on rntlflcitlon of the federal woman suffrage amendment with expectation of voting before adjournment for the day. Both suffragists and anti-suffraglsta crowded the galleries during debate. Suffragists predicted the senate Tote would be close with chances slightly In their favor. Their opponents claimed a majority of ten In the house.
YOUNG BANDITS MAKE 8 RAIDS Bind Chauffeur, Steal Auto and Go on Rampage.
ST. LOUIS, Ang. 17.—Practically the entire police force of St. Louis was searching today for four youthful bandits who are charged with having stolen nn automobile and the chauffeur of which they left lying bound on a country road, committed eight holdups during the night and early this morning, then fought a running battle with an automobile loaded with detectives and policemen armed with riot arms. In the high powered machine’ which they had hired, the bandits were able to on’.distance the police in a race over the streets of the south section during the early morning hours. A short while later the bandits crashed Into a guardhouse at the city workhouse and the bandits exchanged a score of shots with workhouse guards. -They then abandoned their machine and slipped through a cordon of 150 policemen thrown around the district. CROWD ATTRACTED BY FIRE. A large crowd was attracted by a fire In the rear of the building occupied by the William Laurie Company, 15 North Merlldan street, at 6 o’clock last night. The fire started In a pile of kindling and rubbish and did little damage.
OPEN LETTER
TO LUCIUS SWIFT, Sanitary Commissioner. Dear Sir—Your zeal to make the most of the bad bargain the mayor droTe vrith Jim Goodrich leads you to overlook the fact that the primary purpose of a garbage reduction plant is to take care of the garbage of the city. Os course, the plant could be more profitably operated if you could control the diet of the citizens and thereby select the garbage to reduce. but such paternalism smacks too much of Goodrich centralization to be possible right now. If you do not want corn husks In the garbage cans why not send word to the city market to raise the price of sweet corn?