Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight; Saturday unsettled. Moderate temperature.

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?AY MORE THAN $70,000 IN PRIZE MONEY TODAY >raft Horse and Mule Contests One of the Big Features. Thousands of Indiana citizens were attendance today at the fair despite e threatening weather conditions. The hotels were overflowing with out--town people last night. The Judges in all departments began mpleting their awards *t an early hour as to enable the paying out of more in premiums and speed (Pses. One of the features for the final day the annual county contests for draft rses and mule classes to be held in e coliseum. Another feature for the afternoon is a lard mount exhibit and dress parade the soldiers of the Twentieth and venty-eighth United States infantry, e Seventh field artillery and the First achine Gnn battalion on the rack track. Awards were to be made in the “betr baby” contest in which more than sty babies have been entered. Four harness races are on the aftefron card. At 7 o’clock in the evening the final •e stock parade will be staged In the liseum and a half-hour later the eleven t hippodrome bill will be presented. Af 8:30 p. m. the final presentation of e Battle of St. Mihiel, in the race track ena, will be staged. :to show JAWS HEAVILY. Probably the. biggest and most imrtant .feature for tonight is the ecial automobile show to begin at 7. There will be uo admission fee charged the gates after 0 o’clock. The auto show at the fair this year 3 been among the most heavily patrond of the exhibits and many orders for s have been placed as the result, ill exhibits will be held until 4 o’clock s afternoon. , lany of the exhibitors are elfpeoted to rt removing their exhibits late this ernoon to begin thp march home or to *r fairs. ine of the features of the f3ir has been exhibits of Tndianapolis-made goods. ST AWARDS READY MADE. he majority of awards have been ie and this work will be completed afternoon. ie “World at Home,” a carnival orization. has played to large business ?ite bad weather. housands of people have motored to ianapclis this week, esterday. as usual, was the heaviest ' of the fair from an attendance ndpoint, but the rains prevented the :ndsnce from beating the 57.000 atlance mark of last year, fficlals announced the total paid atiaace yesterday was 55.000; by 8 ock in the morning the attendance i more than 10.000. ho local hotels have been jammed •y night this week and some were ipeiled to place cots in the hallways Inesd y and Thursday nights to take i of the crowd. L4LIAN QUAKE I TOLL AT 14,000 Ht of Injured Leaps Into ■ Thousands. Sept 10. -More than 1.400 were killed by earthquake H:s in northern Italy on Tuesday an 1 and thousands were injured, grading to a Rome dispatch to the Post today. Hwp additional cnsualtiea and much was done by new earth tremors district about Reggio and Emi’ia morning, said a news agency from Home. news agency correspondent estithe recovered dead in Tuesday's at 352. many bodies were burled unruins and the complete death toll not be accurately judged. than 500 injured are under treatH in hospitals at Spezia and 300 arc treated at Lucca. Sputed Dips Nabbed It Ground ■n reputed pickpockets were arby detectives at the state fair Bid> last Bight and the police say recove-ed a number of pocket■S h suspects are negroes and they Bra their names as Henry Smith, 24, Hamilton. 22. of Cincinnati. - pointed them out to the deand charged they had stolen his A. Wiseman of Elnora. Ind., By ne j,lice he had L-ea* robbed by a at the state fair grounds. said his purse contained's6o WEATHER for Indianapolis and vicinity twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Sept. 11; Partly cloudy toSaturday unsettled, with probably moderate temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 m 04 7 a. m 65 m 67 ■' a. flu a. m 70 a. m 70 (noon) t 72 p. m s 74 I You Still Without W&alendar for 1920 The Indiana Daily Times Is pregive you one. There have been difficulties about paper, prlntdistribution that there are many who have had no calendar this j a supply at our Washington bureau. They are available gglps as a part of the free service The ] Dally Times renders to Its read- i sffigß_'se the ooupon Immediately while lasts. * the ooupon. Write plalnjy.) BBna Daily Times Information Washington, D. C. J. Hasktn, Director, enclose herewith 3 cents in return postage on a free calendar. i ia*>>teee *

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Olive Thomas Loses Fight For Life Against Poison Beautiful Motion Picture Star Dies in Hospital Near Paris.' - --• f t ■ MISS OLIVE THOMAS.

PARIS. Sept 10.—Miss Olive Thomas, famous motion picture actress, died in the American hospital at Neuilly at 10 o'clock this morning of mercurial poisoning. Her husband, Jack Pirkford. brother of Mary Pirkford, was at the bedside. The sensational rumors that have grown up about the incident have been denied from all sources. Dr. Joseph Choate of Los Angeles, who was chief physician for Miss Thomas, gave the following account of the incident : “At 4 o'clock Sunday morning Olive Thomas, by mistake, took a large quantity of an alcoholic preparation containing twelve grains of bichloride of mercury. It is estimated that she received at least six or eight grains of bichloride. Realizing the mistake she called her husband. It was only through the heroic efforts of Jack Piebford in giving first aid that Miss Thomas lived as long as she did. “The effect of the poison was most rapid because of the alcoholic solution. The usual nephritis occurred within twenty-one hours. The first specimen

NIPS PLANS OF . THIEF IN BUD Gets Man Just as He’s Stealing Automobile. Dressed in his night shirt, but carrying a revolver that the police say looked as big as a cannon, George B. Kenny, 1446 Lawton street, captured a would-be automobile thief in bis garage at 3:30 this morning. Kenny had not locked the door of the garage but he had a burglar alarm attached to it and when the buzzer buzzed he got busy. Kenny did not wait to dress or even don a pair of slippers, but securing his “gat,” and an electric flash light, he hurried to the garage, where be discovered a man just getting into his car. The man was there when the police emergency squad arrived and he was under cover of the weapon in Kenny’s hands. At first the stranger gave his name as Thomas Rar.son. 619 East .Morris street, but later he admitted his name was Thomas Cain, 21, of 348 Orange street. He was arrested charged with entering a house to commit a felony. Cain told the police he had heard that the detectives were after him and 'he was attempting to steal Kenny's automobile to drive to another city. RUSSIANS AT LENSA RIVER Violent Fighting Reported on 175-Mile Front. PARIS, Sept. 10.—A violent battle is raging on a 175-mile front in Poland and Galicia, according to a soviet war office communique wirelessed from Moscow today. It says: “North of Brest-Litftvsk, our troops have reached the Lensa river. There is violent fighting east of Hrublesof and along the Bug river. “In the direction of Lemberg we captured several British guns. In the sector of Vladimir Volynakl we smashed enemy attempts to force a crossing of the Bug river. “We advanced in the direction of Rohatyn.”

HICK TAKES LOOK A T ROOSTERS AND PIGS A T ST ATE FAIR .\. -|. -|. . -|- -|- -|- -|. .|. -|- -|. -|. -|. -|. -|- -|- -|. -|. -|- -|- -|- -|- -|- -|- -|- -|- -|- -|. -|- -|. -|. A Cock With Clay pool Corner Pants One of the Very Interesting B irds He Finds There

By HICK. Tailors, please take note. Bren roosters are wearing “panti” this Muon. Old Frank, a 2-year-old prize Brahma rooster, Is appearing with his “pants” on at the state fair. He is one of the most discussed features In the poultry exhibit. Frank's pants were not made by a tailor but they certainly follow the extreme In rogue. This prize rooster now tips the ecale at 12 pounds with his ‘‘pants" on and his owner, E. S. Boardman of 8233 Graceland states that Frank has weighed as much as 10 pounds. “Frank Is the biggest bird an exhibition here," said Mr. Boerdman. Frank's legs ana covered with tong'

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showed two and one-half grama of albumen per liter, and the second and third specimens each ten grams per liter, which constitutes a world’s clinical rec- | ord. Thereafter it was impossible to make test, there being a complete suppression for four days. "The very best medical talent was 1 called on the eas’, including Dr. A. A, Warden, the eminent English physician, and Dr. F. Widal, a specialist on poisons from the University ol Paris. Olive Thomas came from Charleroi, a suburb of Pittsburg, when she was 18 and made her stage debut in the Zlegfeld Follies. She was the first of the "baby vamps,” appearing in such a characterization in the screen version of “Upstairs and Down.” She was married to Jack Pickford in 4be latter part of 1010. Her record as a beauty Is fortified by the late Raphael Kircbner and by Harrtson Gray Fisher. Fisher in September, 1016, termed her girl In New Y.-rk state. Ivirchner gave her the title of the most beautiful girl in America.

Costs Only sll to Beat Grandmother f Special to The Times. MARION, Ind., Sept. 10.—It costs Jll in M“iriou to bent your grandmother. That was the n mount which Vps Quaekenbnsh, 18, paid after he was arraigned In Squire Sturgeon Watson's court charged with striking Margaret Props, 78, over the head with a player-piano roll. The boy struck her, it is said, because she refused to make a home In her five-room house for himself and tho girl he Intended to marry. 9 Brooklyn Strikers Indicted for Murder NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—Nine Brooklyn Rapid Transit strikers were Indicted on a charge of muffior today. Eight are already in custody. They are accused of responsibility for the death of Ferdinand Friedman, 17, killed by a stone thrown at an elevated train Aug. 31. Little Journeys to the Mayor’s Office The reporter who calls upon Mayor Jewett every day was more or loss hopeful of finding him in when bo went to the executive chamber at 11:30 o’clock this morning, but It was not to be. The mayor was not In and when the reporter returned at 12:10 o'clock tho door was locked. Murray Crane Shows Improvement Today DAT/TON, Mass., Sept. 10.—The condition of former Senator Murray W. Crane wag Improved today. t)r. Brace W. Paddock, family physician, said Crane’s circulation and heart action were stronger. Riverside Shaken by Slight Quake RIVERSIDE, Cal., Sept. 10.—Riverside was shaken at 6:13 a. m. by a slight earthquake. No damage was done.

feathers which flare out over hla feet In the modern fashion. This rooster is one of the beauties of the show, and he is city bred because he enjoys to pose before the camera. And there Is even some ‘‘scandal" In the hennery at tbe state fair grounds. Yesterday afternoon while hundreds of people were In the poultry house admiring the exhibits, a Plymouth Rock created all (he rumpus. A terrific noise started and soon the cackle was taken up by all tbe exhibits. It developed that a very demestlc ben had laid an egg in her apartment and tbs cackling tongues of all her sisters were soon spreading it. They gossip In hen lend, and any Juicy scandal spreads rapidly.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1920.

S. A. FLETCHER STARTS SEARCH FORDAUGHTER Girl Clips Hair, Dons Overalls and Disappears From Summer Home. BELIEVES IT IS PRANK All possible agencies for the location of missing persons were invoked today by Stoughton A. Fletcher, Indianapolis capitalist, to find his daughter, Louisa, 17. who has disappeared from the Fletcher summer home near Gloucester, Mass., after clipping her hair and donning overalls. Mr. Fletcher expresses the hope that the girl’s disappearance is a part of a prank in which a number of her young friends have participated, but In the absence of any authentic Information as to her whereabouts every possible step to find her is being made to eliminate, if possible, any theory of misfortune. Mrs. Fletcher has gone east to participate in the search, police departments in ali eastern cities have been requested to search for the girl and coast shipping off Gloucester has been notified by wireless to look out for a boat on the theory that the girl drifted out to sea in a skiff. AT SUMMER HOME WITH GOVERNESS. Miss Fletcher left the summer home near Gloucester, where she has been staying with a governess, and was seen by a fisherman near Hooky Neck, more than a n\lie from her home, where she stopped to don overalls and clip off treshes which have been the pride of herself and her family. The fisherman said after she had cut her hair she shouldered a pair of oars and walked in the dlrecttou of Rocky Neck, where she was seen later, but from which place her movemenls have not been traced. Mr. Fletcher said the girl and her mother had been spending the summer at the Gillette cottage at Grapevine Cove, from which place Mrs. Fletcher recently returned to Indianapolis. Miss Fletcher planned to remain there until late in the fall when she expected to enter art school at New York. THINK* IT MIGHT BE 80 ME PRANK. During the stay the cottage the girl and a number of others of her age bad been spending the time in outdoor sports, and for this reason Mr. Fletcher was of the opinion that her disappearance was a part of some prank concocted by the coterie of young people who had been together all summer. When her hair and the clothing she bad discarded were identified, local authorities started a search for her that extended even to the dragging of shallow waters in the vicinity on the theory that she might have met with an accident. Effort* to learn of a “lark” planned by the young people in the vicinity proved fruitless and finally a general alarm was sent out to all authorities In the east. ludianapolts authorities were asked to look out for her In the belief that she might return to Indianapolis. Mr Fletcher says her love of “outdoors” and athletic inclinations mads It unlikely that she would find difficulty In taking care of herself alone and the anxiety of her parents Is due principally to the possibilities of her having met with an accident which prevented her from communicating with them. BLAINE CHOICE SEEMS CERTAIN Wisconsin Primary Indicates G. O. P. State Candidate. MILWAUKEE, Wls., Bept. lt>—Virtually complete, although unofficial returns from Tuesday’s primary make certain the nomination of John J. Blaine, present attorney general, as the republican candidate for governor. With only three counties missing, Blaine has a lead of approximately 10,000. votes over Roy P. Wilcox, his closest rival. Ilettirns from the missing eonntle* are not regarded as likely to upset the standing of the candidates. Blaine bad the support, of the LaFollette faction of the party, while Wilcox was regarded as the candidate of the I.enroot forces. Although the LaFollette men apparently were victorious In the fight for the governorship, the Lenroot forces won In the senatorial fight. Senator Irvine L. Lenroot defeated James Thompson, the LaFollette candidate, by approximately 25,000 votes for the republican senatorial nomination. WATSON LEADING HOKE SMITH. ATLANTA, Sept. 10.—Complete returns from Wednesday’s primary make it certuln that Thomas E. Watson will be the next United States senator, succeeding Hoke Smith. The total unit votes are: Watson, 242; Gov. Dorsey, 1IO; Hoke Smith, 34, a majority oVer all for Watson of 08. ‘LUCKY 71’ HOPS OFF FROM ’FRISCO First Air Mail Sent From Western Terminus. BAN FRANCISCO, Sept, lo.—lnaugurating a transcontinental air mail service from the western terminus, Pilot Ray Little hopped off nt 6:15 a. m. today in “Lucky 71,” the first plane of the new service to be dispatched eastward. He carried 16,000 letters. Lucky 71 is a veteran plane of -the New York-Chlcago mail circuit, having 78,000 miles of air travel to its credit without an'accident. The first westbound plane is due here at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Federal, city and county officials will be on hand to welcome it.

“That Is the first fresh egg I have seen In ten years,” said a city bred person, viewing the egg with envy. One of the proudest fathers in Indiana Is K. 0. Canary of near Franklin, Ind., and he has reason to be, as his 17-year-old son Paul is one of the champion boar and pig raisers In the state. The boar that Paul has on exhibition this year Is one of the largest at the fair, and it Is necessary to take the “Conqueror,” as the boar is named, foi; a walk each afternoon. This lad Is a splendid example of wbat boys on Indiana farms are doing. “All the credit goes to Paul, as I had nothing to do srlth it.” said Canary Br., to many Indfenapolii people who *WU*d.

SAYS FLIRTING IS THING PASSE Takes More Than Demure Look to Snare Man. CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-!-Fllrtlng is a lost art. According to Alice Clements, veteran Chicago police woman, the delights and thrills of a pleasant harmless flirtation are matters of the past. Girls have run the “art” into the ground she said tsday. Where young women formerly would start a young man's heart beating fast by a demure look or a lifting of the eyelid, the girls of today have no time for such acting. “Nowadays girls Just let themselves be picked up,” said Mrs. Clements. “All a boy has to do Is to tip his hat and get a girl.” Girls, Mrs. Clements said, are more familiar with men now than in the past. “And I refer to respectable girls,” she said. MACSWINEY ON 29TH DAY HOLDS TO HIS FASTING Relatives Spurn Suggestion That Mayor Take Nourishment. GOVERNMENT STILL PAT LONDON, Kept. 10.—Terence MacSwiney, the hunger striking lord mayor of Cork, still lives. He spent a restless night In the Brixton Jail Infirmary and suffered considerable pain In his arms. This Is the twenty-ninth day of MacSwlney’s self-imposed hunger strike. Mrs. MacSwiney and biood relatives of the lord mayor continue their vigil. They have made no effort to persuade the lord mayor to relinquish his political principles and take nourishment. The suggestion was made to Mary MaeSwlney, a sister, but she spurned It. Doctors declared It was impossible to say how long MacSwlney would linger between life and death If he continues his strike. At times he appears to be dying, but rallies with unexpected displays of vitality. GOVERNMENT BTILL STANDING PAT. The British government is standing pat on its Irish policy and there appears little -likelihood that any of the Irish hunger strikers will be freed. Macßwlney was able to converse briefly at Intervals, although bis voice was so weak his whispers scarcely could be heard. Ills mind seemed to ramble slightly at times, but for the most part he was lucid. He dictated replies to several meesaget of sympathy received from the United States. These replies were taken by the Rev. Father Dominic, personal spiritual adviser to the lord mayor. REIGN OF TtfYiROR AT TULLOW DUBLIN, Sept. 10—A reign of terror prevailed at Tallow during the night when the town was shut up and partly destroyed by fire, etcotdlng to reports received here. Policemen were said ;to have exploded bombs in the streets and opened fire with rifle*. The inhabitants fled from the town in alarm. A fire brigade was cnllod from a neighboring town to extinguish the blase. PUBLIC HEARING OVER GAS RATES Civic Bodies to Participate in Discussions. Gas rates and means for the conservation of gas in Indianapolis this winter were to be discussed at a public hearing before members of the public service commission this afiornoon. Representatives of the city, . including Samuel Ashby, corporation counsel, and Gustav G. Schmidt, president of tho city councils representatives of commercial and civic organizations, individuals and officials of the gas company, were exacted to attend the bearing. One of the proposals for the conservation of gas that was to be taken up was that there be a sliding scale of gas rates—the first 2,000 cubic feet of gas used by the domestic consumer per month to be at the present rate of 60 cents a thousand cubic feet, with a higher ray> for the gas used per month above the maximum of 2,000 cubic feet. Schedules of proposed rates along .-is line and other data In connection with It have been submitted by the gas company In accordance with a request made nt a previous conference before members of tho public service commission relative to the gas situation and the probability Os a gas shortage in Indianapolis this winter. One question that has been raised Is 1n relation to the legal power of tho public service commission to increase the rates above the 60-cent franchise rate. Steamer Dewey Still On Rocks Off Graves BOSTON, Sept. 10.—The shipping board steamer Dewey was still oh the rocks off Graves light today. Efforts were to be renewed to rescue it. The Dewey went on the rocks in a dense fog yesterday. The Basaan, another whipping board steamer, is in troublp off the Newfoundland coast. The British steamer Portia has gone to her assistance.

Yesterday was Indiana day, and a jolly crowd,the Hooslers are. The sight of dignified city folk carrying homo booklets on “The Proper Care of Chickens" and on “The Indiana Collie Kennelß" was one of the features of the day. Never before In the history of the fair have city people been so Interested In the poultry and live stock and It developed that the high cost of things has resulted In hundreds of city dwellers raising tbelr own chickens. One of the jolllest was a big man, weighing easily two hundred pounds, who displayed a big button on his coat reading, “I am out for a good time, glad*.” *

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CORONER’S JURY SIFTS DEATH OF CHICAGO WIFE Florida Official Holds to Suicide in Steinhouse Case. I RELATIVES PRESS QUIZ TAMPA, Fla., Sept. .10.—A coroner's jury is investigating the death of Mrs. Ernest Steinhouse, who was fouqd dead, face downward, in a pool near the river | bank Tuesday at noon. The husband of the dead woman declared his wife had been morose lately and that she left the bed at an early hour in the morning while he slept and, clad only in a kimono, the woman presumably walked three-quarters of a mile toward the river. The bank at this point is strewn with flotsam and is muddy, yet her feet were unscratched and no mud nor sand spurs were found on her kimono. The physieian who made an examination of the body stated he found uo water in her lungs nor marks of violence on her body. When found by boys the body was in less than six inches of water. RELATIVES ASK INVESTIGATION. Chicago relatives of Mrs. Steinhouse, through the police department of that city, ask a complete investigation and, although the coroner is convinced the woman was a suicide, he will hold open the Inquest to complete the Investigation. Press reports from Chicago state that Steinhouse is being held by Tampa authorities in connection with thk death of his wife, but as there were no developments to warrant his detention no arrest was made. The dead woman was the second wife of Ernest Ewald Steinhouse. a Chicago chiropodist. His first wife was a suicide l>y gas in Chicago six years ago during an estrangement. They hpd been married only three months. The coroner Is working on the theory that the woman had a fatal heart attack and fell Into the pool. ESCHBACH RAPS SCHOOL BOARD Says Commissioners Are Guilty If Correctly Quoted. “If School Commissioner Charles Barry is correctly quoted regarding the manner improvements were authorized at school No. 50, every member of the Indianapolis school board and the business director are guilty of violating both the civil and criminal statute#, ’’ Jesae E. Eschbach, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, charges in a statement made public regarding the school situation as described in a report of examiner* of the board. Commissioner Barry had been reported Is saying: “The board authorized every step in the work at school No. 59. and the school board certainly hat a right to set aside its own rules by unanimous consent.” TAKES BOARD TO TASK FOR LAX METHODS. Mr. Eschbach said that if the statement of Mr. Barry is correct, then every member of the board, including the business director, are guilty of a violation of that statute which provide* that the board of education can not expend more than $2,500 withowt advertising for bids, and its members are liable to a fine of (Continued on Page Nine.) FAMOUS BUDGET ELUDESREPORTER Does His Best, But Can’t Disinter the Document. Examination of the city budget for 1921 is not the easy tssk which Mayor Charles W. Jewett promised it would bo during the public hearing on the document before the city council last Friday night. A Times reporter who tried to locate one of the two copies, said to be on file at the city hall, yesterday afternoon found the budget to be a hard article to get one’s hands or even eyes on. Curious to know how much the Jewett administration expects to spend for gasoline and repairs for city motor vehicles, at least one of which Is operated on Sunday, as is admitted by Street Commissioner A. O. Meloy, the reporter recalled the fact that Mayor Jewett recently said: “There Is a copy of the budget on file In my office and another In the office of the city controller. ''>~- "These are opera to the inspectioft of any citizen. “Come up any time aqd they’ll be there for examination.” MAYOR’S OCT —AS USUAL. So the curloua reporter went to the mayor's office, to find him, as usual, out. His errand was explained to an employe tn the executive chambers. The employe had been on vacation at the time the budget was being com(Contlnued on Page Nine.)

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Come On, Long Girls NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—Hey. you giantesses—here’s a chance. Eugene Arceau, altitude 8 feet 6H inches, is here from France hunting a wife. “A sweet thing whose head would reach my shoulders,” blushed the modern Goliath. 's J GOV. COX SAYS MONTANA VOTE WON FOR PARTY Enters Upon Strenuous Two Days’ Campaign Tour in State of Washington. SPEAKS TO YOUNG MEN V . SPOKANE. Wash., Sept. 10. —Convinced that his two days’ stumping tour of Montana will result in the addlton of the state's four electoral votes to the democratic total in November, Gov. James M. Cox arrived here from Butte and immeditely started upon another two days of strenuous speech-making which local democratic leaders predict will clinch the state of Washington. His first speech here was made shortly, after his arrival, to the First Voters’ league, an organization of young men who this fall will cast their ballots for the first time. Following this address the governor hurried to the Washington state fair grounds, delivered another speech, leaving shortly afterward for Walla Walla. SAYB YOUNG MEN ARE FOR LEAGUE. In his speech before the yonng men the governor laid special emphasis on the league of nations, declaring that the young men of America had won the world war, and were now eager to see the United States keep her pledge to the ex-service men and mothers of America by entering the league and thus gaining for civilization the full fruits of the victory. At the filr grounds, league of nations campaign fund, progresslvlsm, reaction and agriculture were discussed by the governor before a large gathering. STONE BRnSES ON BOTH HEELS. “1 am proud to say that I was raised on a farm and I have worn stone bruises on both heels at the same time," the governor said. Speaking of the disarmament which he said would follow our entry Into the league of nations, the governor repeated his statement that millions of acres of arid lands In the west could be reclaimed which would be saved when the construction of battleships and other armaments had stopped. Big business has been saying much about lawlessness, said the governor in his address at Butte last night, but in the last few days of campaign fund investlgaiioj, at Chicago big business stands convicted at least in the eyes of the public of the most flagrant kind of lawlessness. DEMANDS REMOVAL OF WILL HAYS. The web tightens each day around Will Hays, the governor said, and asserted he would demand every day from now to November that Hays be removed. The governor's plea for the league of nations received respectful attention ana at times enthusiastic applause. The governor repeated his pledge to bring the Irish question to the attention of the league of nations under article 11, "as soon after March 4 as possible." “If a people wants .its freedom it is entitled to It,’’ the governor asserted, and was vigorously applauded. The governor la scheduled to speak In Walla Walla this evening and in Bellingham, Tacoma and Seattle tomorrow. He also expects to make many brief rear platform speeches en route. CORRECT AGES MUST BE GIVEN Voter’s Birth Date Held Means of Identification. Women voters—and men. too—must give their ages when they register, the state election commissioners have decided. Many voters simply wrote Into their registration blanks the fact that they were “more than 21.’’ All such voters register again or they will not be permitted to vote, the commissioners have ruled. The ruling was made by W. W. Spencer, democrat, and William H. Thompson, republican. The commissioners contend that the purpose of the requirement that voters give their exact age Is to facilitate identification on election day. “We beg to state that it is our opinion that a proper compliance with the registration law in Indiana requires that an applicant for registration shall state in writing his or her age on the last preceding anniversary of his or hei birth,” the opinion of the commissioners says. “It is not considered as sufficient to state that the applicant, was 21 years or over on a certain date prior to the date of registration. “See section 10 of the registration laws of Indiana,” Men, as well as women, have been (Continued on rage Nine.)

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BRYSON GIVES INDIANA TOTAL QUOTA $450,000 Senate Subcommittee Takes Ujf Hoosier Part in G. O. P. Slush Fund. ‘SOMETHING TO SHOOT AT* CHICAGO, Rept. 10.—The senate subcommittee investgatlng Gov. Cox’s $15,000,000 “slush’’ fund changes today resigned its inquiry, into the “campaign quotas” of the various states, taking up the Indiana quota. John G. Bryson, chairman, of the republican state -ways and means committee of Indiana, told the committee National Treasurer Fred W. Upham of the* republican national committee had placed Indiana’s quota for the republican fund at SIOO,OOO. Questioned by Chairman Kenyon of the committee as to whether Indiana was assessed county quotas, Bryson testified he had seen no list of Indiana quotas by counties but had seen an assessment of quotas by districts. This list he said was at republican headquarters at Indianapolis. WHATEVER NECESSARY TO CARRY ON CAMPAIGN Questioned again as to Just whit the Indiana state fund was to be Bryson told the commission his organization was to “raise whatever we could." “No limit at all?” said Senator Kenyon. “Whatever was necessary to carry on the campaign,’’ Bryson replied. Bryson testified that approximately $200,060 had been raised in Indiana for the state campaign fund, making $300,000 in all for republican campaign purposes in his state. Bryson said his committee had raised to Sept. 4 a little less than $39,000 for both state and national campaign funds. Two thousand dollars, Bryson said, was ibe largest single contribution received to date in Indiana. Later Byysofi testified the $300,000' quota has been raised so that “it might total approximately $450,000.” “Wd knew we could not raise it,” he added, “we Just gave them something to shoot at." WILLIAM IRWIN CUES SB,OOO. During the testimony of Bryson, Indiana director, he was asked whether tho SI,OOO rule was followed. He said William Irwin of Columbus. Ind., gave $2,000, but that no other contributions exceeded SI,OOO. Charles Boeschenstein, Illinois member of the democratic national committee, said there is no democratic fund raising organization in the state, but that he is trying to collect some funds. He testified he sent twenty letters and telegrams to Illinois democrats asking them to co-operate, but has received no replies. No quotas have been fixed, and no limit put on individual contribution, Boeschenstein said. “We're going to raise all we can, but It won't be very much,’" said Boescbenstein. “All we can get usually means barely enough for our needs.” Boeschenstein denied that he knowingly solicited contributions from postmasters. UPHAM AGAIN CALLED TO TEBTIFT. Republican campaign funds for national, state, senatorial and congressional campaigns will total $4,879,000 if all the money Is raised which Is sought, Fred Upham, treasurer of the republican national commlttete, testified today before the senate committee investigating funds. That sum represents the absolute maximiim of republican fund raising plans, Upham stated. Usually he said the eastern portion of the United States provides the bulk of party funds. This year, he stated, the east has .given $438,000 and the middle west and west SBII,OOO. Upham asserted that the SI,OOO limit on contributions has been very closely adhered to. “I wanted the SI,OOO lid taken off,” said Upham, “but I was overruled. “I favored raising the limit to SIO,OOO. “Out of 18.000 contributors since June 12, there have been only thirty-nine of over $1,000." Upham also gave figures on collections and expenditures between Dec. 1, 1918, and the republican national convention in June. In that period, he said, $1,365,597.49 sm contributed for the use of the national committee and $469.45&21 for state purposes. The national committee spent In the same period $1,171,000, he testified, part of it to pay lecturers, who, he said, went about “spreading republican doctrines.” QUESTIONED BY POMERENE. Senator Pomerene questioned Upham regarding the increases on state quotas which state directors testified to. “In Ohio and Michigan the quotas have been largely Increased, and as a result you will get a lot more money, won't you?" asked Pomerene. “I don’t believe they will get the increases,” said Upham. “I know I won’t get them. "I wouldn’t take them: I won’t take from any state more than its quota." Pomerene asked about the seven eastera states concerning which no facts have been submitted. They include New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut. Delaware and the District of Columbia. Upham said that section was “doing poorly.” New York state, he said, had raised to date $727,000. Following Upham's declaration that he would not take from any state anything in excess of Its quota, Pomerea* asked t “But you have nothing to do wtffc any money raising in the state fiof their own use in campaign In excess of your quotas?" “Not a thing,” said Upham. “So that they can raise anything tShey . (Continued on Page Nln*.)

OPEN LETTER TO WILLIAM P. EVANS, Republican Candidate for Prosecutor. Sir—Your opponent 1b describing the administration of the prosecnor's office and telling wherein he would change its policies If elected to succeed Mr. Adams. You have not yet told the people of Marlon county whether or not you propose to continue tfio policies of the present prosecutor if elected. As you aye and have been for some time a deputy employed In the prosecutor’s office and have had a full knowledge of the affairs of that office, It Is reasonable to presume that you have some opinions on the subject. Are you ashamed to tell the sobers whsther or not yon approve of Adame and his math ode?