Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1920 — Page 1

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ADAMS SHOWN UP AS AIDING BOOTLEGGER IN $1,500 BOND DEAL Democratic Candidate for Marion County Prosecutor Exposes Incumbent’s Relations With Notorious Pop Leppert. PAUL G. DAVIS TURNS JO ORDER BOOK Row Prosecutor Claris Adams, “for value received,” has attempted, through the medium of a negro deputy, to 'relieve a notorious bootlegger and professional bondsman from the payment of $1,500, judgment on a forfeited bond, was told last night by Paul G. Davis, Democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney, at a meeting of the young men’s Democratic organization at the Indiana Democratic Club.. Mr. Davis cited Order Book 219. page 70. of the county clerk’s records in support of his charges that Adams, through his deputy, had attempted, without any authority jit law, to relieve Lorenz Leffert, alias Pop Leppert, notorious bootlegger, of the necessity of paying $1,500 on a' forfeited bond, as directed by the court.

He'shows that, according to the order book. Pop Leppert was able to "satisfy” two judgments for SI,OOO each by the payment of $250 on each judgment, and ho discloses this remarkable entry as now standing on Ihe books: “June 11). 1920. for value received, this judgment is hereby fully paid and satisfied. Claris Adams, prosecuting attorney, per R. L. Bokenburr, deputy prosecutor, attest Richard V. Sipe. clerk.” Tracing the affair- from its origin to the pleasant •‘finish" which the prosecutor made of it, Mr. Davis discloses a di- , rect connection between the offices of the prooecutor of Marion County and the bootlegger whereby the state of Indiana is the loser of $1,500 and the bootlegger,, who owned property which could have been seized to satisfy this judgment, is $1,500 to the good. CALLS OX ADAMS FOB MOVEY. In conclusion, Mr. Davis calls on the Republican prosecutor to expurgate the attempted release to the bootlegger of the $1,500 and to proceed In his official capacity to collect the $1,500 as the law says he should. The instances cited by Mr. Davis are typical of the administration of the prosecutor’s office by Mr. Adams'. They disclose that this bootlegger, with a Police Court record, was accepted as a bondsman for two others accused of bootlegging. It is shown that the two others failed to appear when their trials were set and the bonds were forfeited. However, as in many similar cases, the prosecutor there ceased to be interested In the affairs and no attempts were made to collect the' forfeitures. After the last primary, in which Leppert and his bootlegging associates were “strong” for the nomination of William P. Evans, a deputy of Claris Adams, steps were taken to relieve Leppert of his liability to the State of Indiana. “For value received,” Mr. Adams, through his negro' deputy, attempts to reduce the judgment of the Circuit Court In these forfeited bond cases, thereby saving for this bootlegger $1,500. which had been forfeited to the state. “VALLE RECEIVED”— YOIK OWN DEFINITION. Whether the "value received” to which reference is made in the attempted release to Leppert was Leppert's services In behalf of his race for the Republican nomination for prosecuting' attorneys is left to conjecture. This Is about the oßly kind of service that a bootlegger of Leppert’s type coul.l render the prosecuting attorney’s office without other violations of the law Mr. Davis states the facts as disclosed by the records in this affair as follows: “On Jaiuary of 1920, two suits were commenced In the Marlon Circuit Court against Lorenz Leffert by the State of Indiana ex rel. Claris Adams, prosecuting attorney, one being cause No. 32114 and the other being No. 32118. “Each suit sought to recover for the state of Indiana one thousand dollars for the forfeiture of a bond given by the defendant Leffert in two blind tiger cases. In one of which Caret Osborne was the defendant for whom the bond was given and In the other Dave Crenshaw was the defendant for whom the bond was given. “On March 31, 1920, judgments were taken against the defendant Leffert In each one of these cases for SI,OOO and both of these Judgments appear in order book 219. page 70. “In each case the attorney appearing for the plaintiff wa*s Robert Lee Brokenburr, a colored deputy of the Republican prosecutor. “On June 19, 1920, the defendant Lessors paid to the clerk of the Circuit Court $250 In each case. “On the same day these judgments for $2,000 were satisfied by this colored deputy prosecutor and the judgment docket (Continu-d on Page Four.)

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URGES VOTERS TO FORGET THE WAR Senator Owen Speaks for Pact at Rensselaer Meeting. Special to The Times. RENSSELAER. Ind., Sept. 14.—Declaring that Americans of uermau extraction should whole-heartedly support the League of Nations, and with an appeal that the recent war be forgojtten and , all nations turn now to a peace progiam, Robert L. Owen, United States Senator from Oklahoma, last night addressed voters of Jasper County. Senator Owen denounced the Idea or Senator Harding that a separate peace be established with Germany, declaring that the people of the United States and of Germany can best be served through the operation of the league. Senator Owen said: “While the war was going on, I thought American citizens of German extraction were, as a whole, entirely loyal to the United States. “They bought Liberty bonds and their sons fought with our troops, Just as other good Americans did. RECALLS REASONS FOR ENTERING WAR. “It was but natural that men born in Germany, remembering those who loved them during childhood, should carry tender memories of those who contributed to the happiness of their youth. “Naturally, such citizens did not wish the United States to go into war in which the Germans, under the Khiser, were on the other side. “After the United States was compelled to enter the war, I think our citizens of German birth realized that the war was a war against Kaisertsm, against milirary autocracy, against government by divine right, against imperialism, and against a system of government. The German leaders who declared war made It impossible for the citizens of Germany to refuse to enter the war. "The German people were compelled to go to war by the military machine of the Kaiser and it is a great b!ei*in? from Heaven that the German people are now free to govern themselves. “It is a great blessing to the German people that they will no longer be under the head of a military despotism. "The war was proven to have been precipitated by the military machine of Prussia. “Ihe heads of Hohenzollem and the Hapsburg.' were pledged to the secret treaty of Verona of 1822, to the overthrow of the democracies of the world, as I set forth on the floor of the Senate many times by inserting the treaty itself where every one could see It. "The war Is finished, the military autocracies are destroyed, the principle of (Continued on I’age Lour.) MINER CONTRACT TO BE ENFORCED Men May Go to Work With Proviso, It Is Said. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Sept. 14.—United Mine Workers of America, meeting In Hazelton to determine a policy, are agreed that their contract must be honorably enforced and the mine workers in Districts 1. 7 and it sent back to work, but they are undecided as to whether the “back to the mines" 01-der will be with provisos. District officials said the strike will be called off. District 7 leaders have taken a similar view. District 9 chieftains want the order to return to work issued with the proviso that when all men are hick President Wilson will reopen the mine workers' case. Expectations are that a program will be mapped out at a meeting today and general indications are that ilie declaration will be to return to work. After all men are back the union leaders are expected to appeal to President Wilson for a reopening <?f the case. ALABAMA MINERS FIRED UPON. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Sept. 14.—Miners returning from work in the Rayview mines, near here, have been fired upon near Fairfield by unidentified persons. No one was injured. A train made up of four ranches was bringing the miners in from their work when the tiring began. All of the assailants suereded in escaping after the attack. Police and deputy 'sheriffs are searching the woods about : Fairfield for some clue to the attacking I party. Judge W. I. Grubb of the Federal i Court has issued an injunction restralnj ing the union miners from picketing the i gates of coal mines and attempting to i intimidate non-union workers. • • Production in the .Alabama coal fields j continued to improve, operators report--1 ing their mines running normally. Democrats Announce Additional Meetings A number of additional meetings for this week were announced today by the Democratic County Speakers’ Bureau. The meetings are listed as follows: Tuesday NlgJit —McCarty and Meridian streets, Henry N.fSpaan, Frederick Van Nuys and Miss J®ia Landers, speakers. Wednesday Noon Hetherington A Berner Iron Works, E. E. McFerren, speaker. Thursday Noon Dilling Candy Company, Mrs. Wiliner Christian antFChalmer Schiosser, speakers. Tbrusday Night—l 4-14 Roosevelt avenue, Thomas D. McGee, speaker. Friday Noon—Brown Bros. Meat Packing Plant : Joseph R. Williams, speaker. Friday Night—Churchman avenue and Prospect street, Dick Miller, Miss Landers and Mrs. Martha Yoh Marson, speakers.

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OBREGON PLANS TO SECURE NEW CREDITS IN U. S. Declares Financial Problem Is Greatest Confronting New Regime. FOLLOWS HUERTA IDEAS MEXICO CITY. Mexico. Sept. 14. President Elect Alvaro Obregon, in his first interview since his election today, declared national finances would be his big problem. Obregon satd he hoped to reach an agreement with American and other foreign Wnkers whereby Mexico could show her good faith by beginning payments on her national debt or $400,000,000. The President Elect entered Mexico City for the first time since his election, returning fro mhis campaign in southern Mexico. TO FOLLOW EXAMPLE SET BY PREDECESSOR. Mexico must adjust her finances so as to discontinue spending what does not belong to ns," Obregon said. “I hope to reach an agreement with foreign basing It on acts rather than words. “It would be impossible for me to dls charge all her obligations Immediately, but she can show her good faith. “I may depart in minor details from General Huerta’s administration,” Obregon sajd, “but his work In the main will serve as the basis for my own. “The Huerta government was well bandied considering that It covered a period of transition.” Obregon said he would uphold the constitutional regulations regarding foreign holders of property, but that he would apply interpretative measures which “will not Injure vested Interests more than necessary. lie referred to the development of oil fields by foreign capital. OIL COMMISSION TO BE APPOINTED. A commission to study the oil problem will be appointed before lie takes office in December. His will not be a one man government, he asserted, announcing he Intends to appoint cabinet members capable of running their own departments. There are not any matters affecting the United States and Mexico which cannot be adjusted amicably, Obregon said. Danger of a revolution by Carranzista.-. was discounted by Obregon, who said there would be no excuse for it unless the government were violate Its own laws. FLAGS RAISED AS GUNS BOOM Salute Ushers in 106th Anni- " versary of Anthem. The salute of twenty-one guns at University Park between G and 7 o’clock this nornlng ushered in the lcth anniversary of the writing of “The StarSpangled Banner” by Frauds Scott Key. The firing of the first gun was foi lowed by the raising of Hags in various part* of the city. All day long patriotic exercises were being held In commemoration of the birthday of the national anthem. Numerous factories held patriotic exercises and all the public schools held special exercises' which Included the singing of “The Star Spangled Banner.” At noon there was to be a salute by the factory whistles and church bells, and red, white and bine balloons were to be released from the Monument. Airplanes from the Speedway were to fly over Monument Circle, dropping small paper red, wit tie and blue flags annonni ing the night meeting at Tomlinson Hall, which will be held at 8 o’clock. Charles F. Coffin, president of the Chamber of Commerce, will give the addfess and Judge J. Carter will make an introductory address. , A tableaux “Columbia” will be pre sented and the audience will slug the national hymn. STREET CAR RUNS WILD; 4 INJURED Policeman May Die as Result of Louisville Accident. -LOUISVILLE, Sept. 14—Traffic Policeman Roy Britton is probably fatally injured and three others tire hurt, two seriously, following the wild ilash of a runaway street car through crowded streets, here today. The cur overrun a switch at Fourth and Walnut streets, struck the traffic officer, crashed Into a brewery truck and overturned the truck upon two unidentified men, Injuring them seriously. The driver of the truck, John Stnckinburger, also was hurt. The runaway car was stopped only when the trolley was jerked from the wire.

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The National American Woman Ruf frage Association has passed out of existence, and its place has been taken by the National League of Women Voters. Their new organization, which already has many hundreds of thousands of members. has divided the country into seven districts, each of which is In charge of * league.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1920.

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M., E. Foley, member of Governor Goodrich’s Board of Control of the north prison, and counsel for the street car company, which Is seeking increased rates from Governor Goodrich's Public Utility Commission, has been mis/juoted by the Dally Times, and for obvious rea> sons feels he should be set right before the people of Governor Goodrich's pnrlsh. Iu an account of_a meeting held Sept. 13, at the Denison Hotel, Mr. Foley wasquoted as having referred to the indefensible deal by which his friend, Jiin Goodrich, and other unloaded a SIO,OOO garbage plant on sh sanitary district of Indianapolis for $175,000. Os course Mike never did anything of the .kind. He could not do so and remain with the pardoning Governor's Board of Control of the prison and he could not talk about such matters and retain his usefulness to the street car company. Mr. Foley is now engaged In making speeches in accordance with the NewsHoltzman bureau directions, confining his attention to the League of Nations and such other campaign Issues as will not in any way trespass on the feelings of his Republican friends. Several persons who were in the audience at the hotel are stilt of the opinion that Mr. Foley did make this reference to facts which have never been denied by the persons Involved and the truth ot which is not even contested, but Mr. Foley hastens to disavow any reference to them In the following language: Sept. 14, 1920. Editor Indiana Dally Times —In the issue of the Indiana Daily Times of Monday, Sept. 13, in referring to a political speech made by me at the Denison hotel, in this city, you say: “He referred to the’mile at Indianapolis of the SIO,OOO garbage plant for $175,000 by Gov. James P. Good rich and othera as one of the features of thp State administration.” I take this method of Informing you and the general public that I made no such statement. In fact, 1 did not refer to Governor Goodrich personally or mention his name in connection with the garbage plant, ! nor did X speak upon that subject. In ray political speeches 1 haTC always refrained from making a personal attack on any person or officer and try to confine myself to the Issues as I see them In the campaign. Yours truly, M. H. FOLEY. FORCED FOOD IS, PLANFOR MAYOR British Government Said to Await L’nconsciousness. LONDON. Sept. 14. The British gov eminent plans to rush Lord Mayor Terence MacSwlney of Cork from Brtxton jail to a hospital for forcible feeding the moment he becomes unconscious. It whs reported at the jail this afternoon. There is no confirmation of this report. Two Irish women from. Cork, who gave the names of Miss Williams and Miss Jordan attempted to force 'heir way Into Brixton Jail by sliding down drain pipe, after they had been refused permission to enter the gate*. The police intervened LONDON, Sept. (4. Terence Mac Swiney. Sinn Fein lord mayor of Cork. whv.has been on a hunger strike since his arrest on Aug. 12, passed a bad night in the Brixton Jail Infirmary, but his tnlnd was active. The Key. Father Dominic, personal spiritual adviser to the lord mayor, said that MacSwlney was restless and suffered considerable pain. Despite his anguish, MacSwlney la determined not to give in. the clergyman ar.ld. , * LONDON, Sept. 14.—The Sinn Fein government pref.-rs to <-*rry out Its own | reprisals for the exported death of Lord Mayor MacSwlney, ou hunger strike lu Brixton Prison, rather than entrust them (Continued on I’age Ten.) POLICE NET OUT FOR 4 BANDITS Chicago Guards Roads to Catch Bank Robbers. CHICAGO, Sept 14. Telephone information to Chief of Detectives Mooney led to the placing today of armed squads of detectives at practically all roads lead ing into Chicago from the west In the hope of Intercepting four bank robbers believed to be on their way here. The Rank of Franklin Grove, ninety miles west of Chicago, was wrecked last night In an unsuccessful assault by the four bandits. Five, attempts were made to blast (lie doors from the bank vault anil al! fixtures were smashed. The blasting operations aroused the town and the robbers were forced to • leave without getting any of the Institution’s funds.

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League directors and officers are shown in the photograph. Left to right row: Miss Katherine l juiington, Hartford, Conn., director firs*, region; Miss Richard Edwards, Peru, lid., treasurer; Miss Della Dortch. Nash ville, Tenn., director third region; Mrs. George Ueljfcwm, St. Louis, Mo., vice chairman sixth region, Mrs.

EARLY RETURNS GIVE MAINE TO REPUBLICANS Plurality of Nearly 70,000 Piled Up in State Voting. PUT WOMAN VOTE 6Q,000 NEW YORK, Sept. 14—The Republicans “planned, labored and paid for” their victory iff the Maine elections yesterday, George White, Democratic National Chairman, said in a statement today. “This is the Republican day of rejofeing,” he said. “They planned, labored and paid for it, and I would not, by any utterance of mine, rob them of any of their meed of joy.' “With a splendid organization and with the expenditure of every effort possible to great financiers, they prepared the Republican State of Maine for its state election in the hope of persuading the country that the trend is heavily Republican in the national race. “Had the Democrats been presented the same opportunity in a state where the trumpet call of Democracy means as much as the clarion of Republicanism means in Maine, we should have made as nearly the same efforts as possible with the same psychology in mind. We shall get votes for the league in November from thousands of the men and women who supported Col. Parkhurst. On a certain morning in November, our time for rejoicing will come; and in the meantime we gazfc cheerfully upon today’s Republican demonstration and 1 do not begrudge it to them at all.” AUGUSTA, Maine, S?ept. 14. Maine went Republican la the State /lection yesterday by the greatest plurality In j lta hlatory. / F.arly return* Indicate that the Republican plurality will be nearly 70.000. In 1596, the first Bryap year, the Re, publican plurality In Maine was 48,000. Two years ago Portland gave Mclntyre a majority of !,<* for Governor. Yesterday the Republican majority In that city was approximately ",500. Bangor, which went Democratic by 1.200 in 1918, was Republican by almost as much. The Republican* swept the entire State, hardly a Democrat getting in. The O. O. P. Congressmen, three of whom were seeking re election. were su'-eessful by tdg majorities. PA RK lit RUT'S VOTE NEARLY HIM BI K RIVALS. Frederick H. Parkhurst, Republican candidate for Governor, had 133,817 vote*, while Bertrand G. Mclntyre. Democrat, polled 09,5t58, ou the basis of the latest returiis. The gubernatorial vote lu the last presidential year gave Milliken, the lie publican candidate, f*,014 as against tid,dSlt for the Democratic candidate. Congressman Wallace If. White, Jr., wa* elected by a majority of more than 3.000. Congressman John A Pef?rs and Ira G. Ileraey woiSs-wlnnerw In the Third and Fourth districts, whke Carroll L. Beedy won over Frank 11. Haskell by a majority of nearly ten thousand The Legislature is almoat wholly Republican. according to latest returns. Indications were the State Senate will be composed entirely of Republican*. Although the G. O. P. victory In the rural districts was great. It was surpassed in the cities and town*. It Is estimated at least sixty thousand women voted for the first time. Approximately 90.000 women and 150.000 men bad registered In 1916 Hughes U 1 Wilson by only 5,475 vote*. The Republican mtjorlty for Governor (Continued on Page Ten.) COLLEGE BOOZE CASE IS SIFTED Dartmouth Killing Is Investigated by Grand Jury. WOODHVII.I.E, N IF, Sept. 14.-The case of Robert T. Mead* of La Grange 111., junior at Dartmouth College, so cused of killing Henry E. Maroney, n senior, during a quarrel over smuggled liquor last June, was presented to the grand Jury today. If an Indictment Is returned the trial will begin Sept. 20. Meads admits the shooting, but con tends he shot in self-defense. •Senres of witne(kes have been railed to lie questioned regarding alleged rum running at tho college. I*-

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CALIFORNIANS SOUND HARDING ON JAP PROBLEM Candidate Declares for Only Immigrants Who Can Be Assimilated by This Country. UPHOLDS SENATE STAND MARION, Ohio. Sept. 14.—Recognizing that there exists between the United States and Japan frlftlon over the Immigration question which might lead to grave consequences. Senator Warren G. Harding promised a .group of Californians today that the federal government | would stand behind the Pacific coast j state* in every manner consistent with national honor to help them solve their problem. “No one,” said Senator Harding, “can tranquilly contemplate the future of this Republic without anxiety for abundant provision for admission to our shores of only the Immigrant vybo can be assimilated and thoroughly Imbued with the American spirit " Senator Harding addressed the Californians, about thirty tn number, from his front porch. PRESENT PACIFIC COAST PROBLEMS. They ’came across the continent to lay before the Republican candidate some of the Pacific coast’s particular problems. Their spokesman was Gov. William D. Stephens. Rnd Included in the delegation were representatives of every big ini dustry on the coast. “Our people," said Governor Stephens, addressing Senator Harding, "are practli cally unanimous in opposing the further , Immigration Into our republic of uaassimllable aliens. “Standing at the the Orient we are first to feel the <wvts of this Immigration and we beileve it our duty to warn the Nation of the dangers which beaet it as well as our State from this source. “We look to the Federal Government for negotiation o£ treaties and legislation which will Ve#p from our borders oriental Immigrants impossible of lelng assimilated Into our national life and whose increased presence would prove disastrous to the American mode of living.” In reply, Senator Harding said he realized the position of the coast states. 1 BAYS PROBLEM MI ST BE MET. ' ’’There la abundant evidence of the dangt rs which lurk In racial differences,’ | he aald. “These differences, without raiaing any question of Inferiority, superiority or . inequality, msy create, as I believe j they have created In our Pacific coast states, without blame on either aide, a ; friction that moat be recognised, “The nation owe* It to the Pacific coast states tn stand behind them In necessary treasure* consistent with our national honor to relieve them of tbeir | difficulties. “The problem must be adequately met for the future security adn tranquility of our people. “We have learned during the anxieties of the world war the necessity of making our citizenship not only American iu heart and soul, but American in every : sympathy and aspiration. “A* a people and ft nation we have the moral, nut Oral and legal international (Continued on Page Ten.) ORGANIZE DAVIS, DECENCY CLUB Clean (lovernitient Purpose of Young Democrats. AriffiKM to a high stage of indignation by the revelations of what has been transpiring In the covinty government, as it is being told by Paul G. Davis. Democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney, a group of -young Democrats of Marion County lust night organized the Davis and Jiecency Club at the ludiana Democratic (.’tub's home. Thomas McGee was named president; J. Olias Vanier, vice president; James Mellen, secretary, and Smiley N. Chambers. treasurer. The purposes of the club are to arouse the public to a proper realization of the mismanagement and rhiproprlet.v that have marked Uie present administration and to Impress upon the citizens the fact that the prosecutor’s office Is the key to good government and such things as the returning of forfeitures to bootleggers, the waste of county money and the subsequent high tax levy can be prevented only when the prosecutor acts as a curb on politically “gleeful spend Ing.” Mr. Chambers said of the club: “The Davis and Decency Club was formed because of a demand for a decent administration of county and city affairs. “Men and women of both parties have approved the direct and clean manner in which Paul G. Davis has been bringing to light the many instances of malfen 'hpnee In office by the Republican machine. "The purpose of the club Is to keep the spotlight focused upon the workings of the machine. ‘ “We have opened/headquarters at Room j 70, the Denison Hotel, and we expect 1 to enroll thousands of men and women 1 ! who put decent government ahead of | party politics.” 100,000 STRIKE; INDIANAPOLIS HIT CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—One hundred thousand inen, employed in plants of the American Can Company at San Francisco, Seattle, Indianapolis. Baltimore. Kansas City and Waukegan. Maywood and .Toilet, 111., affected by a strike order issued in sympathy with striking machinists of the company at Newark. X. J. Between 5.000 and 0,000 men employed by, the company here walked out at 10 a. in. today. The Newnrk machinists have been out for two months, dotnindlng abolishment of the bonus system of payment and a minimum wage scale of !H) cents an hour be put in force. No wage demands were made by the Chicago men, their strike being a sympathetic walkout. Local officials of the American Can , Company said that only the machinists, thirty in number, have quit in Indian- I Apolts In sympathy with the striking | Newark pinehlnists. They insisted that the 500 other men j employed .in Indiifhapnlls are n .f affected, t The company has two plants in I mil - j anapolis, one on South East street ami j one on South Meridian street. *

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Starched Collar Deflects Razor Carl Engel, 570 Tacoma avenue, says he owes his life to a “starched” collar. Crossing the Big Four tracks at Oriental street and Southeastern avenue, Engel saw a razor blade flash under a dim street light. Looking closer he discovered a big negro riding the form of a white man to the ground. The razor waS~ approaching the white man’s throat. Engel leaped upon the back of the negro and hit him a staggering blow. The other white man ran and the negro turned on Engel. After one slash of the razor, which shredded Engel's collar, the negro ran east along the Big Four tracks.

Little Journeys to the Mayor's Office “Will the mayor be in this morning?” the Times reporter who keeps score on Mayor Charles W. Jewett’s days in and days out of his office, inquired at 10:52 o'clock this morn Ing. . The mayor was not in Because he was out making a couple of speeches at'conventions. He was In at 11:38 o’clock. Look Where He Was! “Don't shoot. I’ll come out,” and from beneath a fodder shock In a field near the home of Reason, living southwest of the city on the Harding road, crawled a man wearing an army officer’s uniform. It was 5 o’clock this morning when Reason found his automobile pushed into the barn lot, where the would-be automobile thieves had been unable to start It. Reinforced by neighbors, who carried shotguns. Reason started a search, and when he saw the fodder shock move, shouted “come out or I will shoot.” The man wearing an officer’s uniform, with a button Indicating the 162d Infantry, crawled out, holding up hts hands. The stranger said his name was Thomas Curry, 25, that he roomed at 24 South Illinois street, that he came to this city from Kentucky and that he bought the unform for $1.30. The police arrested him on the charge of vagrancy. , Splash, What the — Splash, splash! Paper bags containing water struck a ■. > - 7 - ! street car and splat- - .s/’rfiCf tered over a condoctor and some of - - —the passengers. No, caring for the —*! bath, the conductor had Inspector Tuey report the inctdent to the police, / „ but by the time —— jJ-J ihe officers reached Washington and Rural streets the boys who bad bombarded the street car had disappeared. SECY'. WILSON TO TALK IN INDIANA 4 Days’ Tour of Southern Part of State Opens Sept. 29. William R. Wilson, secretary of labor, will enter Indiana Sept. 29. on a four days’ speaking tour of the southern part of the state, in behalf of the national Democratic ticket. He will speak Sept. 29 at a town to be selected later. In the First Congressional district. Other dates arranged by Bert Hendren, assistant chairman of the state speakers’ bureau are Sept. 30, Bleknell, 5 o’clock; Linton, 8 o’clock; Oct. 1, at a city to be selected in rhe Fifth district; Oct. 2, place not yet selected. Other speaking dates arranged by the Bfate speaker’s bureau are as follows: Henry Spaan, Ratesville, Sept. 17, night; Chares J. Orblson, Bluffton, Friday night. Sept. 17; Oapt. Sherman Minton of Evans.iville. Sept. 25, Loogootee and Shoals; Oct. 1, Rising Sun; Oct. 2, Vevny; Sherman Steele of La Grange, Sept. 18. at Walkerton; George T. Ragsdale," Sept. 18, English.

SOLONS CALLED IN CONNECTICUT Governor Holcomb Acts in Behalf of Suffrage. HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. ll.—Governor Holcomb appeared before a joint session 6( the House and Senate of Connecticut today and issued, a personal call for another special session of the Legislature to meet at 11 a. m.. Sept. 21, to couside.r ratification of the suffrage auiendfnent. ( The Legislature met in special s?ssion. Suffragists sought to bring ratification before the legislators to clinch the ballot. even if Tennessee's fatiflcatlon Is thrown out by the courts. / Holcomb’s move was unexpected. “ Leaders in both houses resisted it, urging that ratification be taken up at once. ALA IfA MA GO VERNOR DELAYS MESSAGE MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Sept. 14.—Governor Kilby yill not deliver bis message to the special session of the Alabama Legislature which convened at noon, until both houses have organized for bust- . ness and the new members have been sworn In. S. A. Lynne, floor leader for the administration forces In 1019, Is practically assured of being elected speaker to succeed Henry P. Merritt. The extra session will Consider bills for a state constitutional convention and laws regulating the suffrage of women. HOOSIER TOCRISTS RETIRN, HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Sepf 14. The party of Hartford Fairraount and Mitneie people who have hee,n on a tour of England, France, Belgium and Germany for the last three months, under the guidance of I)r. Nyce, Mnncle minister, arrived in New York City Monday, according to word reaeived bar iff

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TALKS FROM REAR PLATFORM, BREAKS RULES Inroads Made on Republican Strongholds in Northwest, Is Verdict. BORAH’S STATE VISITED EN" ROUTE WITH GOVERNOR COX, WEISER, Idaho, Sept. 14. Gov. James M. Cox today was completing his stump invasion of the far Northwest, confident that during the last week he has made big inroads into Republican strongholds. “The result is already being felt at Marion,” he said today, “and I expect an announcement* any time that Senator Harding is to follow in my footsteps.” * Information on Cox’s train was that from nearly every large city in which he has spoken an appeal has gone out to Republican headquarters for a complete abandonment of the Harding “front porch” campaign. Those close to the Democratic nominee are confident he will carry Montana and Washington. OREGON MAY QUIT REPUBLICAN COLUMN. They claim Oregon is doubtful, t although It has been considered a Republican rtronghold of the Northwest, i The situation In North Dakota Is considered uncertain because of the nonpartisan league. “I think*the Northwest is now certain j that it Is not a Republican ‘cihch year,' ” ' he said. DOCTOR’S RULES GO BY BOARD. Gov. James M. Cox, Democratic presidential nominee, started in today breaking his doctor's rules, warning against I outdoor speaking, because of the throat , affection which has been acute during | the last three days:’ He yielded to the demands of crowd* which gathered round the rear platform and made brief speeches kt Baker, Huntington and Ontario, Ore., just before he crossed the state line into Idaho en ’ route to Boise, where he will deliver * 1 set speech tonight. The throat specialist, who is accom- ! penying him, protested^ vigorously when i the governor, hatless and without au ; overcoat, although the weather was damp and chilly, went to the rear platform to , greet the crowds. The rapid Improvement in h!s voice ! during the last twenty-four hours, however, gave the candidate absolute eonfl-de-nce. “My throat went back on me for a j minute,” he told the crowds, “but it's ■ alright now and I am not going tspare myself in carrying my message to the people." PERSONAL ADMIRATION FOR SENATOR BORAH. Gov. Cox's invasion of Idaho today took on a special significanse because it Is the home htate of Wiliam E. Borah, ieadnr of the irreconsillable group In the Senate fight against ratification ot the treaty. The effect that Gor. Cox will have In fighting the cause of the League of Nation* within, as now- politicians put it, the very shadow of Senator Borah's front porch. Is being keenly watched iu this ipetion of the country. Gov. Cox has great personal admiration for Senator Borah and Is making no secret of it. He believes that Borah la absolutely sincere in his opposition to the treaty as not playing politics as he accuses other Republicans of doing with regard to It. “I like a man who will take a position and state It, whether that position be right or wrong,” the Governor said. “Senator Borah, for one, has not taken eight different stands on the treaty, as my Republican opponent, hU colleague in the Senate, has done.” Governor Cox, In his speeches today, expected to tell the miners of Idaho of hts record In Ohio in obtaining 12.1U* (Continued on Page Ten.) PREMIER LAUDED BY FRENCH PRESS Return to Clemenceau Policj Meets With Approval. PARIS, Sept. 14.—The French press today generally lauded Premier Millerand for the results of the Franco-1 taliau conference at Aix Les Bains, but he sot his little' old two-century “The most Important result of tho meeting is the return to the policy of former Premier Clemenceau, demanding strict execution of the treaty of Versailles," said the newspaper L’Homiae Libre. / "There remains Premier Lloyd George, but he is clever enough to change his policy when it is necessary. "Undoubtedly, we shall have from him within the next month a speech condemning concesßons to Germany.” Former Premier Clemenceau .owns L’Homme Libre. It Is understood Premier Lloyd George will come to Paris soon, possibly *t tho end of this week, to confer with Premier Millerand on issues that were involved In the Alx Les Balna conference. 1 One of the chief objects, as thfe British premier sees it, Is to secure a united declaration by the allies toward soviet Russia. German operations also will be discussed at the meeting.

OPEN LETTER TO FELIX M’WHIRTER, Slember Board of Safety. Dear Sir —W'bHe you were in Europe the police department issued a statement warning parents to keep their children off the streets to prevent accidents. At the same time riders of bicycles and motorcycles were allowed to ride on the sidewalks without! molestation In many parts of lujlianapolis. Recently auto drivers who find themselves cramped in parking places have been resorting to the sidewalks as Uroper places to turn to get out of the jam. Did you observe anything jn your travels that might indicate how It would be possible to make the sidewalks safa for mere pedestrlansf