Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER , Partly cloudy and unsettled tonight and Friday. Not much change.

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RAIL BUSINESS NORMAL AFTER 4 DAYS’ RUSH Travelers Take Advantage of Old Rates Before New Become Effective. FUTURE TO TELL EFFECT Business at the consolidated railway ticket office today iyas normal following | a rush during the last four days before higher Interstate rates became effective. Employes at the ticket office said hundreds of persons took advantage of the low rates during the last four days before the new rates became effective. They expressed the opinion that it is too early to say what effect the higher rates will have on passenger business. 31 INDIANA ROADS ASKING INCREASES Hearing on the petition of thirty-one railroads operating in Indiana for increases in rates equal to those granted by the interstat ecommerce commission, which was begun Monday, will be completed late today or early Friday, according to statements of members of the commission. # Hearing of protests against increased transportation rates on brick and coal were heart! yesterday, and at the resumption of the hearing today, protests against increases on logs, straw, str-twboard, newsprint paper, fertilizer and dairy products were to be heard. Should the hearing not be completed today, sufficient time will be allowed tomorrow to complete arguments, it was ■stated. Facts regarding the discrimination in rates on logs between Indiana and Illinois were presented to the commission. It was stated to the commission that because of the wide difference in . rates, that Indiaua shippers of logs suffer to the benefit of Illinois lumber men. The effect that the difference In rates produces on finished material was also pointed ont to the commission by representatives of the lumber interests. GRAND RUSH FOR LAST RIDE AT OLD RATES CHICAGO. At:g. 26.—The going was Larder today. v The goer was charged 2f< per cent more 'for his railway fare end 50 per cent more whatever accommodations :ie obtained from the Pullman Company RailwtN traffic fell off today,because of the increase. The fall vis more apparent because of the grand rush for the last rid? at the old rates. ' Tourists skipped under the rope by ] purchasing tickets at the last minute. ' There _was u great lack ot aecomnio- j dntion for ill w liq wanted to go. The regular trains had been sold out days in advance and extra equipment was scraped up wherever possible to , eke out. Pecans* of the demand from al! railway centers, the extra equipment was fard to find and hundreds of passengers started from Chicago occupying standing room only. • Reports here were that o.lter centers } had similar rushes. ' Fieight rates advanced uj?o at mld•nght. In the Chicago district they rose "4.71 per cent. It was higher or lower in other sections. Intrastate rates remained unchanged in many instances Among those so favored was Illinois. RAILROADS TO MAKE BIG IMPROVEMENTS WASHINGTON, Aug. "6.- Plans, of 142 ,railroads to spend gpproxlmately $1,000,000,000 in improvements and betterments were disclosed today in a report submitted by the interstate commerce eomraisson by ihe Bureau of Railway Economics. • The flotation of $400,000,000 in new railroad securities within the next two weeks was also announced. Later a second issue will be floated. Director l'armelee of the bureau reported that 122 railroads have signified their intention of spending *762,2-sfi.loS in improvements and betterments before Jan. 1. and that reports from several railroads, including the principal souths rrn carriers, are yet to be received.

LEROY SUSPECT DENIES CHARGE Man on British Ship, However, Will Be Held. RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 26.—Because ;here is no extradition treaty between the United States and Brazil, the sailor believed to be Eugene wanted in connection with the trunk murder mystery of Detroit and New York, will be >aken to Buenos Ayres when -the British steamer Dryden leaves for that port. The men, who shipped under the name f "Morris Fox,’’ was placed tinder arrest on the Dryden, at the request of American authorities, before it reached th’s port. He is confined in a steel cage and is rlosely guarded. “Fox" denies any knowledge of Mrs. Katherine Jackson, whose mutilated body waa found in an dnciaimed trunk in New York several weeks ago, and also | declares he was never in Detroit, from , where the trunk was shipped. Mr*. Jackson was believed to be Leroy’s wife. Ponzi’s Liabilities Jump Over $5,000,000 BOSTON, Aug. 26 Charles Ponzi’s liabilities, as shown by the records in the attorney general's office today, passed the $5,000,000, mark, it Was announced, the total at the present time being $5,014,(*2.54, j And This Species Is Almost Extinct NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—There's a race on earth among whom lying, stealing and polygamy are unknown, says Dr. Leonard J. Vanderberg, missionary. It's a race of ape men in the Congo, almost missing links. WEATHER i - X Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Aug. 27: Partly cloudy and probably unsettled tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURES. 0 a. m Gi 7 a. m 65 / 8 a. in 70 ft a. m 73 to a. m 73 11 a. m.... 76 12 (noon) 77 1 p. m. ..v 77

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£ 17,500 Janitor Fund :Not Big Enough for* G. O. P. County Ring Among the various discrepancies disclosed in the state board of accounts' report on the conduct of Marion county affairs, which was recently suppressed by the board and Leo K. Fester, county auditor, is the fact that- the appropriation of $17,500, made for the janitor service at the courthouse, was not sufficient to meet all on it as made by the republican'county ring. In view of the fact that a downtowu office building containing 210 rooms obtained janitor service for a year irt a little more than $7,000, this high- cost of janitoring helps explain why taxes in Marion county have increased so enormously in the last few years. The suppressed report of the field examiners of the state board of accounts is as follows: SALARIES OF COURTHOUSE EMPLOYEES. Salary of custodian $ 1,037.50 Salary of watchman 887.50 Salary of file clerk (In bunt room) 867.50 Salary of matron 747.50 Salary of elevator man 927250 Salary cf head janitor 927.50 Salary of janitors 1L196.78 Salary of chauffeur for commissioners 710.00 Total *18,061.78 Appropriation 17,500.00 Appropriation overdrawn $ 561.78 Beginning April 1, 1919, John Apple, chauffeur for the board of commissioners, was added to the custodian's pay roll at a salary of SBS per month, and lir creased July 1 to S9O per month, by reason of which the appropriation was overdrawn. There was no specific appropriation for this employe and it is therefore an illegal expenditure. The records show- that warrant No. 34012 for $079.50 was erroneously posted by the auditor of the Julietta Asylum for the Insane account, consequently the above overdraft does not appear upon the ledger account of courthouse employees. CALLS MURDER VICTIM WIFE Subway Conductor Points to • White Way for Clews. NEW YORK, Aug. 26. — Frank Schulz, a subway conductor, today positivelyidentified the girl found murdered in a thicket near Palisade, amusement pary yesterday as bis wife. Blanch, who had been missing since last Saturday, aci cording to the police. Identification was established through the girl's clothes and a mote. Twice before' the girl wife had left Schulz, he told the police, to join the chorus of Broadway- shows. The husbnud declared he believed his wife had gone to Palisade pack with some one interested in theatrical work and that there she had been attacked and murdered. This conflicted with the opinion of police, who said she bad been slain in an automobile and the body hidden in the thicket. A sister, Mrs. Clara Winner. -Key-port, N. J., was said to have made nn identification also. The sister also stated, according to the police, that five diamond rings and several hundred dollars**which Mr*. Schultz bad with her when she left home L- si Sunday were missing. After an autopsy. County Physician William E. Ogden announced he found the girl’s throat had been cut from ear to ear, that she had been struck a severe blow over the left temple and that several teeth had been knocked out, one lodging in the windpipe. Alter he had identified (he clothing and described a mole on hip wife's back, which led to the positive Identification, Schulz told of his wife's dissatisfaction with -domestic conditions and her aspira- ! tion to go on the stage. Twice ,hc said, she left him to take a place In a chorus. On another occasion Schulz snM a man acquaintance obtained for his wife a passport and arranged a trip to Cuba for her, but she gave up the idea when he (Schulz) objected. The name of this man, as welt as another with whom the dead woman was friendly, is known to the police. The husband related his story while waiting at the morgue until he could compose himself sufficiently to view the body. Finally he was conducted to the body, where he broke down. 'lt’s Old Saying NIAGARA FALLS, X. V., Aug. 26.—Fifty thousand 'wish you were here” cards are mailed here every Sunday, estimates Postmaster Williams. Vicksburg Loses; . Richmond on Gain WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Preliminary population figures were announced today by the census bureau as follows: Vicksburg, Miss., 1920 population, 17,931; increase since 1910 2,883, or 13.9 per cent. Richmond, V*., 1920 population, 171,667; Increase since 1910 44,039, or 34 5 per cent., Daughter Is Lured Away byJMarried Man George A. Dowell of Spencer is in Indianapolis today searching for his daughter, Martha, 17, who, he says, disappeared from her home yesterday after leaving a letter statijig she- had gone to Vincennes to be married. The man whom Dowell said bis daughter planned to marry is a stock salesman who has lived in Indianapolis a number of years, and who has a wife and two children living at Swiss City, Ind. The stock salesman and Miss Dowell are said to have left Spencer yesterday and to have gone to Terre Haute, aud from that city to Indianapolis in an automobile.* ,

‘ Kinney 9 Hiatt Host to Judge Pritchard Following the publication exposing tbe operations of professional bondsmen, said to have received special privileges through the. efforts of men in power in the city administration,. Judge Walter Pritchard yesterday afternoon took an automobile ride with “Kinney” Hiatt, a professional bondsman. Hiatt is a republican worker in the eastern part of the city, and has been active as a bondsman in and around the city prison since the present “good government” administr: tion came into power. The bondsman was seated in his automobile in front of police headquarters loudly,declaring that he welcomed the exposing of the operations of the bond.Anen at police hdaiVquarters as it advertised his business. __ / At that moment Judge Pritchard walked from the building ami was invited by Hiatt to take a ride in his automobile, and the judge of the city court accepted. \

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He Found Solution, hut Law Intervened NEW YORK, Aug. 26—What would you do if your wife- made you eat out of a tub, while tlte "star boarder’’ ate at the table? George Lynch, 42, found a solution, but the law called it bigamy and asked George to explain. After promising to support his .first wife and his mother, George was given a suspended sentence- by County Judge McMahon. **

COUNTY COSTS FOR NEXT YEAR TO BE HEAVY r „■ i Increase of $188,129 Is Estimated by G. O. P.* Administration Officials. The republican administration of Marlon county estimates It will cost approximately $1,580.477.50 to operate the county offices and institutions next year. This total is $188,129 more than that of last year. At the annual meeting of tho county council early in September, that body will bo asked to approve the budget for the year beginning Jan. I and ending Dec. 31, 1921. The criminal conrt. which in presided over by Judge Jarne* Collins, asks for an"" appropriation of approximately $22,112. The appropriations which are asked in the budget for the criminal court are given as follows: Salary of judge. $5,000; espouses of Juries, which Includes meals, per diem and bailiffs of all juries, $7,000; per diem of official reporter, $!,800; salary of bailiff, $1,200; salary of assistant bailiff, $576; per diem of special bailiff, $100; per diem of riding bailiffs, |3.12(); salary of page. $416; expenses of return of fugitives, $1,000; expenses of indigent witnesses, $luo; expenses of expert witnesses, $100; per diem of special judge. $150; miscellaneous expenses ot the court, $250; fees foreign sberiffs, SIOO. and probation clerk, $1,200. 111,616 FOR CIRCUIT COt RT. A total of $11,61t5 is asked for the circuit court; for superior, room 1, *10.9*9); for superior, roofn 2, $9,266; for superior, room 3, $9,316; for superior, room 4. $9. 316; for superior, room 5. *9.216; for probate court, $12,768; for the juvenile court, *19,300, of which SIO,OOO Is asked to sup port dependent children in foreign Institutions. Listed under tho head of assessing Center and other townships. In-'UMing salary of assessor, per diem *>f office deputies, per diem of outside deputies, and other items, is an appropriation totaling approximately *92.545. * Among other Interesting appropriations asked are tile following: I.NSTILL FOt NTAINS. For three drinking fountains at the coifrthonsp, $1,200. Expen v* of heat, light, water and power at courthouse. Jail, garage, powerhouse and street, $85,000 C.ire of tfie |mor in the entire county, *19,400. Expense* of Sunny-side, *TO>,oo<). Expenses of insanity and epileptic Inquests. clothing and the like, SIO,OOO. Expenses of county bonds for payment* on principal. $125,000. and for payment* on Interest, $143,375. For expenses of county auditor's of lice, approximately $.16 070, It is thought that the county "Council will reduce many of the requests at the next meeting. Gordon Woodbury Is Roosevelt’s Successor WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 Appointment of Gordon Woodbuhy of New Hampshire as assistant secretary of the navy to succeed Franklin D. Roosevelt was announced today at th>- navy department. The appointment watt made py President Wilson. Youth Is Thrown From Wagon; Badly Injured John Anderson. 17.*0f 605 East Market street., was severely injured today when a horse hitched to a wagon he was driving at Kentucky avenue and the cLty dump, rau atfay, throwing him from the wagon. lie was taken to (lie City hospital. Rate Increases Wil l Apply on Reductions WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Rnilrrmds will be permitted to apply the increased freight rates to reduced rate orders issued by the commission since Aug. 10, the Interstate commerce cottfinisslon ruled today. The reduced rate I orders arc special permission granted fne railroads to meet competition and to equalize the rates on specified commodities -between specific pbiuts. Change Is Asked in Acton Grade Crossing Petition has been filed with the public service commission for the separation of grade crossings at-a point where the Big Four railroad crosses the road at the west side of Acton. The petition was signed by about twenty citizens residing in the vicinity of Acton. I £ Soldier Leaps From sth Story to Death CHICAGO, Aug. 26.—8 y leaping from a fifth-story window J’rivate Otto Semper, 31, a patient at the United States Base hospital, committed suicide early today. Semper had been under treatment for injuries received during the war. His , home is in Joliet, lU.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1920.

Now Ordered to Put Stop to Munitions Trains Into Poland w Up Xrewg&A vaflraftSS w'KW' SIR REGINALD TOWER. LONDON. Aug. 26.—The railway board at Danzig has ordered the shipment of munitions to I’cluiid stopped and only provision and sanitary trains may now go forward, said a dispatch from Danzig today. London advices on Wednesday quoted Btr Reginald Xo*er, high commissioner lor the league of nations at Danzig, as saying he had reached an agreement with the labor element aud that the shipment of ail war and relief aupi flies again was in progress. LORD MAYOR OF CORK GIVEN 24 HOURS’ LIFE Appeal to King Held Only Hope of Staying Hunger Striker’s Death. LONDON, Aug. 26. Terresice MacSwiney. lord mayor of Cork, wa* given only twenty-four hours to live by physicians at Brixton prison today. Interest in the condition .of the Irish ’ official, who la near death from hunger strike, wax tit white heat throughout j England and Ireland. The majority of British papers tit-usd ■ tne government to release him. doclar- ; ing it would be "a fatal blunder” to al- ! low him to die. They pointed nut thit the situation In ; Ireland rapidly is nearing an Irreparable i breach, ami that MacSwiney** dramatic death would fan the flitnes into veritable anarchy. Hope for MaeKjrlney’a release, abandoned yesterday, with receipt of Premier I Lloyd George's message from Lucerne i declaring it would be impossible to unties ; an exception to the law in the lord 'mayor’s axe. wn- revived today by King ; George's reply to a commrminlcutlon to Redmond Heivard, nephew ot the late | John Redjnond. I Howard urged MacSwiney’s release, j Tin* king "gfatefully acknowledged” the r Redmond family's regard for the country ami added "your appeal will receive my Immediate and careful consideration.'' Thirty thousand Irish sympathizers etapeii a demonstration outside the I prison last night. The police dispersed them after ar- ' resting several. Members of the British labor party participated in the demonstration. British officials in Dublin issued a statement denying that MacSwiney was arrested while peacefully performing hla civil duties, j The statement said that on the other hand he was attending a meeting of officers of tho "republican array,” in which he held the rank of brigadier general, when he wag taken in a raid, "This is characteristic Sinn Fein ' strategy,” said tho Post editorial today. \ “Where there is murder afoot they poke as belligerents engaged in legitl- j mate warfare. y "When captured they are peaceful citizens, flaimlug indulgence of the law. 'Vln their own pretensions, MacSwiney, is n prisoner of war, with no more claim to escape Internment than the Germans had in war time." BROTHER LIVES IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—A gray-haired man sblW in a little room on the east side today and tried to speak bravely of his "kid brother's" slow suicide by starvation in an English prison. He was torn between patriotism and brother love. His lips trembled and tears filmed his eyes. His hands shook from the nervous strain he had been under for days and every move betrayed the fact that the nearness of his brother’s death had brought him to mental and physical collapse. His friends have almost employed force to prevent him from unwittingly emulating his brother’s “hunger strike" through sheer absence of a desire for food. But patriotism finally triumphed over filial love—- “ Terry’s right,” he aald. "No true Irishman could have done anything, else. "It's hard to know your brother--your kid brother—ls dying, but it’s great to know that his Sacrifice has centered the eyes of the world on the greatest cause of the times—the cause of Irish freedom.” - The gray haired man was PeteF MacSwlney, brother of Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, who is near death from the effects of a hunger strike in Brixton prison, England. l'eter has been in this country ten years, following his trade as a shoe cutter. Million-Dollar Smile Wasted on Taxi Driver CLEVELAND, Aug. SO.'—Thelma May Thaw's million dollar smile wasn't worth $75 when she flashed it on a liard-sheil taxicab driver with the result she started serving thirty days In the workhouse here today. • Thelma May Thaw Is an actress and smite, so she told Judge Beebe in police court, is the thing that "lures ’em in and packs the house.” - Site hired the taxicab man to drive her from Toledo to Cleveland, placing the figure at $75. When she arrived she confessed she had no money.

4 STERN NOTES SENT TO POLES TO EASE UP WAR New Republic Warned Against Anti-Russian Aggressions. PEACE AT ONCE IS l RGED LONDON, Aug. 26. —Four stern -and j emphatic notes have been sent to rolnnd l by the United States, Great Britain, I France and Italy, warning the new re-! public in the cast against anti-Russian aggressions and a continuation of the war, it Wsb learned this afternoon. The Washington note Is said to have pointed out that the bloodshed should be stopped, now that Poland's military victory is assured. Tho Poles are warned against breaking off peace negotiations with soviet Russia and are urged to make peace at the earliest possible' moment, adhering rigidly to the principles of the treaty of Versailles. The British. French and Italian notes are said to be couched in even stronger language than the communication from the United States. It Is understood in semi-official circles that Polftnd/wiU reply immediately to tile American note glviug assurances that the Polish government will continue its efforts for a peace agreement with soviet Russia and pledging Itself to comply with the treaty of Versailles. It is reported that Poland will suggest the .Immediate transfer of peace negotiations to Riga. WASHINGTON, An H. 26.—Whether or not Poland’s statesmen wish to do so, they will probably be son-ed to Issue a ileclaastlon that they will carry on no war /f Aggression against Russia, it was confidently believed here todny. This government has requested such a declaration and on its issuance depends whether or not Poland gets material assistance from America, according to authoritative opinion here. r Great Britain and France were reported to entertain views simitar to those held by this government. i The American attitude was marie known to Poland In a note sent through the American legation at Warsaw. The state department that "informal assurances" had been received that Poland jrould abide by this expressed attitude. PARIS, Aug. 26.—Poland has decided to tone the Initiative-ill the Russo Polish negotiations and propose new peace terms to the t-ovlet that conforms with the-pres-ent military situation on the Polish batfte front, said a Warsaw dispatch to the Matlu today. According to an unofficial report from Warsaw, detachments of the Bcg<-nd Polish brigade Tuesday eurtred Grodno, hut the Polish legation has no official ad vices confirming this report. It was admitted at the Polish legation that Gen. Budenny's red r-avslry army had reachet) the outskirts of I.etnberg In Galicia, before being driven back by a Polish volunteer army. ATTACK ONIIRiTISH REPORTED RED PLAN LONDi'N, Aug. 26. With the AngloItalian ultimatum to Russia scheduled to expire tomorrow evening, uuronrtrtned reports were circulated here today that the bolshevik! were planning to attack British possessions In the east. The Pali Mall Gazette -aid It had learned from authoritative sources Ui.it Moscow had ordered Leo Knmcneff, li*lshcvlk trade commissioner, to leave Lon<Continued on Page S our.)

Tennessee Solons Go Home, Await Antis* Return NASHVILLE, Trim., Aug. 26. Unable to proceed with the trannetlon of business because of the lack of n quorum in the house, members of both houses of tho Tennessee legislature have arranged to go to their borne* and await the return of the house filibusters. Only a sufficient number of members will tie left here to meet and adjburn from day to day until it is possible to secure a quorum. It is understood that Gov, Roberts is prepared to call a rceopii extra session of the legislature at the expiration of the present one, so that certain general legislation applying especially to women and qualifying them for the general election in November may be enacted.

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COLBY SIGNS; . SUFFRAGE NOW AN ACTUALITY Secretary’s Signature Is Attached to J9th Amendment in Absence of Women. PARTY *HEAD IS PEEVED WASHINGTON, Aug. 86.—Mrs. Carrie Chapman Citt, suffrage leader, and Miss Helen Gardner, woman member of the civil service commission, will confer with President Wilson at 3:30 this afternoon It was announced at the whitehouse today. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-Suffrage for women became an actuality today when Secretary of State Colby signed a proclamation of the nineteenth, amendment to the constitution The proclamation of the amendment, giving the vote to w'omen, followed receipt of u certificate of ratification of the amendment by the Tennessee legislature and brought to a conclusion one of the longest and most bitter legislative fights in the history of the United States. • Secretary of State Colby, arriving at the state department shortly before 10 o'clock, announced that he had signed the suffrage proclamation at 8 o'clock this morning at his home. SUFFRAGE DELEGATION AT STATE DEPARTMENT. A delegation of suffrage leaders was waiting at the state department when Secretary Colby arrived. The secretary immediately Informed the delegation that the suffrage proclamation hadTieen signed, and their enthusiasm was somewhat dampened by the fact that they had not been permitted to be present at the signing. Secretary Colby announced that the Tennessee certificate had been delivered to him at hla home at 3 o'clock this morning and that he had immediately turned it over to Solicitor Fred K. Nieli sen of the state department for examination. Secretary Nielsen returned the certificate and the proclamation early this morning and at 8 o'clock, in the presence of Solicitor Nielsen and Charles Cook of the diplomatic bureau of the state department, the proclamation had been signed. Secretary Colby stated that he had promised he sign the proclamation as soon as possible after receipt ot the Tennessee certificate and for that reason he had affixed bis signature at his home before going to his office. It was generally believed that Secretary Colby had acted to save erabarressment by signing the proclamation at his home, as there had been some evident conflict between suffrage leaders * to who should arrange for the ceremonies. V!KB. ABBY StOTT BAKER voice* it Hu Opinion. “I think it a very great pity that on an occasion so momentous to millions of American women, that no women should have been with Secretary Colby when he signed this proclamation.” said Mrs. Abb* Scott Baker of the national woman's party. "Representatives of all tbe suffrage gtoupp should have been present.” Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. who was due to have arrived in Washlngten this morning, was not even at the state department when Secretary Colby announce.t his signature. "We an? confident that the signature of Secretary Colby completes the suffrage struggle,” said. Miss Alice Paul, following announcement of the signature of the proclamation, "In spite of every obatacie that ou* (Continued on l’nge Four.) \ ILLINOIS AWARD SAME AS INDIANA Day Men Get §1.50 Raise and Seem Satisfied. CHICAGO. Aug. 26. Day men in Illinois coal mines will be grant/d nn increase in wages of $1.50 per day, making a sente of $7.50 for eight hours work, and it is believed today the coni wage controversy In Illinois has been ended. The agreement of the sl.soHncreiiße will be reported today to the full scale committee of eight operators and eight union men. It w(i3 reached late Inst night- by a suhscnle committee, which was authorized to arrive at. aNdeflnlte basts for settlement of the wage controversy. H. C. Searl*. representing the operators, said he believed the award would be satisfactory to the men, although the miners originally asked an increase of $2 per day. Frank Farrington, head of the Illinois miners, was uncommunicative. '

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To Wed, Army Man 1 MISS CHARLOTTE CAPERS. The engagement of Miss Charlotte Capers of Washington, D. C., daughter of the late John G. Capers, commissioner j*l internal revenue, to Maj. Ralph Stover Keyeer of the marine corps, was recently announced. The wedding will take place early in September. PROBE BRINGS COAL DOWN $5 Government’s Activities Have Tremendous Effects. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—C0al speculators are running to cover in the face of punishment for Lever law violations, and 'the bituminous coal market has broken with sharp declines of several points In eastern territory within twen-ty-four hours, with continued drops In retail prices predicted by the department of Justice today. Assistant Attorney General Mitchell, directing the coal probe, today asserted that prices of soft coal In the Baltimore and Norfolk markets Were descending rapidly. - Reports to tbe department of Justice showed of about $4 a rpn on bituminous coal in Baltimore and Newport News. Former prices approximating sl3 a ton had slumped to below $9 a ton in scores of sates. "The department of justice will break unlawful speculative practices and punish the guilty.” Mr. Mitchell warned. Tbe sharp drops already noted will l*e followed elsewhere by steady declines, he declared. Grand Juries are to lie Impaneled In ninny jurisdictions immediately. In West Virginia and Kentucky the forces of federal attorneys were said to be ready to proceed at once, on the basis of proof already gathered. Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania and Ohio were reported to be pushing their investigations speedily with a view to an early submission of evidence on violations to grand juries. Vigorous investigations were ordered todny to be made, of operations of dealers in Philadelphia. DEATH PROSPECT ONLY APPETIZER Negro Mjtrderer to Eat Big Chicken Dinner. OSSINNING, N. W, Aug. 26. Watermelon, fried chicken and biscuits will help Frank Kelly, negro t murderer, feel more optimistic as he climbs into the electric chair here tonight to suffer penalty for the kill-, lng of Elizabeth Dunn, Brooklyn* house maid. The largest watermelon on the New Y'ork market was obtained by Sing Sing authorities at the negro's request. For his last meal he ordered fried chicken, fried potatoes and biscuit. Kelly will die with John Egan, Bronx bandit, \vl*t> has a wooden leg. \

Wilson, Agriculture Head 16 Years, Dies TRAER, la., Aug. 26.—James Wilson, for sixteen years lTnite4 States secretary of agriculture, died at his home here today. He was 86. Death came after a protracted illness. Wilson represented lowa during three terms in congress and was secretary of agriculture - In the cabinets of Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Believe It or Not—- - Here It Is in Type _ NEW YORK, Aug. 2C.—This is a long story: Eugene Arceau arrived here from France in the steerage of the liner Olympic. He is EIGHT feet six- inches tall. They didn't have a berth to tit him, so he slept iu an alleyway. On the same ship was Miss Gerty Mills, eight feet one inch in height. Women’s Verdict for Newly-Wedded Couple AKRON, 0.. Aug. 26.—A newly wedded couple here today have a jury entirely composed of women—the first of ita iflnd in Ohio—% thank for being saved from evirtion from their heme. When only two male jurors were available for the case Judge A. P. O’Neill asked a dozen women, meeting in an [adjoining court!oom, to serve. They were accepted by both sides. After deliberating five minutes \they returned u verdirt in favor of the newly- ; weds. Little Journeys to the Mayor’s Office A Times reporter made his regular call at Mayor Charles W. Jewett’s i office at 11:20 o’clock this morning 1 and was informed the mayor was not J in, but had been in and would be j back again before long. The mayor showed up at 12:13 I o’clock.

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GOV. COX’S TWO * TALKS IN STATE INSPIRE FAITH Hearers Confident Nominee Will Prove Charge of G. 0. P.Eund. TONIGHT AT PITTSBURG

Additional Speaking * Dates for Gov. Cox NEW YORK. Aug. 26. —The following additional dates for Gov. Cox’s western speaking trip were made public today by the democratic national committee. Sept. 13, Portland, Ore.; Sept. 14, Huntington, Ore., and Boise City, Idaho; Sept. 15, Pocatello, Idaho, Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah; Sept. 16, Reno, Nev.; Sept. 17, Sacramento and San Francisco, Cal.; Sept. 20, San Diego and Los Angeles, Cal.; Sept. 22, Phoenix, Artz.; Sept. 23, Albuqeurque, N. M.; Sepc- 24, Pueblo and Danver, Colo., and Sept. 25, Cheyenne, Wyo.

Asking Indiana voters to wait until tonight when he says he will present evidence at Pittsburg, which will reveal the existence of a “conspiracy to buy the presidency of the United States," Gov. James M. Cox passed through Indianapolis early today er, route to the .eastern city on a special train. Gov. Cox appears to be confident that he has evidence that will substantiate his often-repeated charge that there is be lng raised an enormous republican fund with which to elect SenatorHardlng as president this fall. "You know what my charges have befen and you know the replies that Chairman Hays and his associates have given," said Gov. Cox in his farewell utterances before southern Indiana voters yesterday. "I ask yon only to wait until tonight,” said Gov. Cox earnestly, “and I will produce evidence that convicts every mother’s son of them—evidence of a deliberate plot that has been curried into every county in America, a ; plot and a conspiracy to buy the presidency of the United States, but It | can't be done.”. With those words Gov. Cox caused 1 the voters of Gibson bounty at the Princeton fair grounds to cheer for several minutes and before an audience that tilled every nook and comer of the big <dty coliseum at Gov. Cox repeated his pledge. •CARRIES CONFIDENCE INTO HIS TRAIN. Gov. Cox carried that confidence Into j his special train, which is carrying him across ndiana, Ohio and into Pennsylvania. Speaking slowly and earnestly to tho voters of Gibson and surrounding counties. Gov. Cox said: "I am not an apostte ‘ of disaster, but I want to leave upon your miuds the firmest, the most deep-seated impression that I can —that the most dangerous symptom which has been manifested In’America ii the last fifty year* is the attempt of th senatorial oligarchy to reach out and take possession o<our government. "Another svinptom Just as dangerous is the creation of a campaign fund and when that is revealed it will stagger the sensibilities of our people,” said the governor. Every time Gov. Cox put his right arm into action and allowed it to shoot out as if punching the enemy, the voters who heard him appeared to have confidence that "Jimmie" Cox would "convict every mother’s son of them." Any utterance concerning Senator Harding's "front porch campaign" brought not only applause, but bowls of approval during Gov. Cox's addresses yesterday. In the Evansville address. Gov. Cox created the biggest demonstration of tho evening when he said: "The senatorial" oligarchy spoke and said to the republican candidate, ‘Speak where we tell you to speak and stay at home/ ” “HAMPERED BY NO PROMISES.” “Men and women, I bring my cause to you.and I don’t ask yon to come to my front porch.” and applause was so loud Gov. Cox had to pause for about a minute. Continuing, he said: “I am under no promise, not even to the appointment of a postmaster. \ I “The place is not mortgaged, and 11 will have a clear title. | "No senate oligarchy can tell me to stay on my front porch. “Am I not right?" asked Gov Cox. and in answer the big audience at Evansville cried out with approval. Gov. Cox said several months ago the republican leaders were saying that "this is a republican year." “But you don’t hear very much of that sort of talk the last few weeks,” he added. One of the most noticeable things of Gov. Cox’s trip through southern Indiana was the genuine way in which the citizens welcomed the visit of the democratic nominee. "We do not have to go to his front porch,” and similar statements were heard on oil hands, as the voters started to the coliseum at Evaflsville. INTERESTING TO OBSERVE NOMINEE. There is no denying the fact that Gov. Cox can draw) the crowds and*it is stlii more interesting to^see the democratic nominee Jump into his subject and talk face to face with- the men and women voters. Just as the governor began to speak last night n white-haired mother walked near the speaker's stand but discovered that there were no vacant seats, v "Give this lady a seat,” said the governor looking down to the men A the press stand and in an . instant the newspaper men were offering her a chair. When she was seated. Cox said: "Our meetings are not complete unless the mothers of America are there and I want to see - everyone of them comfortably seated.” \ Mothers and fathers. white-haired grandmothers, young men and women attended the meetings yesterday sud it was (Continued on Pago Four.)

OPEN LETTER To Robert Bryson, city controller: Deer Bob—ln the compilation cf your budget did yon take Into consideration the interest on that half million of Barrett law fnnds that Ralph Lemeke, city treasurer, promised to turn into the city treasury? In these days when citizens aro discovering that althongh tha assessed valuation of Indianapolis property has been increased 54 per cent the tax levy will only be reduced 11 per cent over 1918 ths Interest on half a million Is not an insignificant Item. Os eoitrse, Mr. Lemeke will carry out his pre-election promise soma day, although he Is a bit tardy about It.