Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1920 — Page 1

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BRITISH RAIL MEN SLOW IN STRIKE ACTION Reach No Decision on Proposal to Join Mine Workers in Walkout. POLICE GUARD PALACE LONDON, Oct. 20. —Transport worker* and railway men marked time t-oday, refusing to msli Into a strike in support of the British miners. LONDON, Oct. 20. —Great Britain’s coal strike became more serious today. Minor disturbances were reported from different quarters; rumors of sympathetic strikes began to spread and the nation gradually felt the effect of a lessened supply of fuel. There were three meetings with a possible effect on the strike. k These were the meetings with the parliamentary committee of the trades union congress, the railway men's delegates and the transport workers’ executives. The railway men and transport workers, with the miners, form the triple alliance. In Parliament, it was hinted the miners will be joined in the Etrlke by the other wings of the alliance if the trouble is not adjusted quickly. After the meeting of the executive committee of the National Union of Railway Hen, W. J. Cramp, a member, said no decision had been reached. 'We considered the situation carefully and will meet again tomorrow,” said Cramp. This statement was interpreted as meaning that the railway men were awaiting the mediation efforts of .T. H. Thomas, leader of the conservatives, before taking final action. “I believe that negotiations for a settlement will be opened,” said Thomas. Police measures were taken today to guard Buckingnam Palace from attack by unemployed. Warned by the gigantic demonstration in Downing street Monday afternoon, Scotland Yard has concentrated a heavy force of policemen about the palace. This view of the strike situation was given out today at Premier Lloyd George's residence: , "The strike is no nearer solution than It was before the statements made yesterday in the House of Commons. “Tho debate there resulted only in a clearing of the atmosphere, showing the government’s firmness for a settlement based on a tribunal or provisions for Increased production if a wage increase is granted. “It also showed the miners determined to stand by their demand for an unqualified increase in wages.” No meeting between government representatives and miners Is scheduled. The government Is confident of the full support of Parliament, it was declared. Miners* representatives agreed with the Downing street view that a solution was no nearer. Railway service will be cut, beginning Monday, throwing large numbers of: workers out of employment. A small band of rioters late last night j caused a disturbance in the Strand, setting fire to an unoccupied building. The fire was controlled quickly. An unorganised procession of unemployed men headed for the jail to which (Continued on Page Two.)

MUNICIPAL COAL YARDS MAY COME Coal Commission Men Hold Conference Today. Further development of piano for mu. nicipal markets for coal in cities where , retailers say they cannot operate at a margin of $2.2.” are expected shortly by those In close touch with the coal situation, as a result of a conference today in which Chairman Jesse E. Eschbach <.f the special coal and food commission, t onnsels James W. Noel and Howard Young and Ed Fanner, accountant, participated. Consideration of statistics submitted to the commission consumed a large amount of time during the conference, which adjourned after 12 o'clock. Detailed plans of action to be taken by the coal commission in their conference have not been made public by Mr. Eschbach. The market, if operated, will be governed by the coal commission, which will install efficient methods of accounting and ohtline plans of operation on a plane far above the conditions sub(Continued on l’age Two.) RED MEN PLAN 12-STORY HOME Property at Capitol and Market Will Be Sold. Decision to erect anew State ‘'wigwam" at least twelve stories high and Fimllar to the buildings of the K. of P. and Odd Fellow lodges was reached at ** the great council of Indiana, Imperial Order of Red Meu. at Tomlinson Hall today. The site and cost of the building are to be determined later. It was decided, however, to sell property which the lodge owns at Capitot avenue and Market streets and-apply the proceeds on the new building. A net gain in membership in the State during the past year of more than 7,000 was reponted, as well as eplendid financial progress. James R. Stockdale, New Albany, was elected great junior sagamore on the fourth ballot over seven other candidates. James S. Wright, Vevay; Louis W. Otto, Crawford grille, and C. L. Bruce. Elweod, were elected great representatives. Other offices were filled by automatic advancement. The council closed this afternoon, but many delegates remained in the city to attend the reception and dance at Tomlinson ball at night by the Degree of Pocahontas. The degree will open its annual convention in the K. of P. building Thursday. WEATHER 1 1 Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m k Thursday, Oct. 21: Fair tonight and probably Thursday; little change in temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. f> a. m 63 7 a. m (S3 X a. m C3 !) a. m 60 ’d a. m 73 11 a. in 78 xi uioon) 80 . 1 p. m 81 2 p. m 81

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McCray Is Member of Board That Fixes Price of Corn; Farmers Lose $262,500,000

Up on the fifth floor of the Board of Trade Building is a little office through which much of the grain activities of Indiana are conducted. On one side of the frosted glass door is a painted sign reading: ‘‘Sawers Grain Company of Chicago," and on the other side is another sign reading: “Members of the Chicago Board of Trade.” Inside the office is a large blackboard covered with figures that have an important bearing on the price Indiana farmers receive for their agricultural products, and there each day may be seen a group of men whose financial interest in the fluctuating figures ore portrayed in their anxious fai^s. The office is a branch of the Sawers Grain Company, which operates on the Chicago Board of Trade, that great institution that controls the price of grain in the United States and to a large extent throughout the world. The stationery used by the Sawers Grain Company shows that Warren T. McCray, Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana,, is a vice president of the firm, and that another Kentland man, William Simons, is president. AND IN ADDITION TO THAT— In addition to being identified in an official capacity with a firm that deals in grain “futures,” Warren T. McCray of Kentland, Ind., is listed as being a

1 GIRL KILLED; 1 INHOSPITAL Two Men Held as Result of Detroit Automobile Accident. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 20.—Miss Agnes Waterman, 25, Chicago, was killed instantly; Miss Margaret Lassalioe, 23, Detroit, is in a hospital probably fatally hurt and two men are held as a result of an automobile accident early today at “Deadman’s Curve” in Grosse Point, a suburb. The men. Edward Gorman and John S. Sweny, Detroit, were uninjured. According to Gorman, Miss Lassnllne was driving his machine at thirty miles an hour when, failing to notice the sharp curve, she ran the car into the dit<-h. The girls were pinned beneath the machine when it turned turtle. CITY TO HOUSE 15,000 TEACHERS Indiana Educators Open Convention Tomorrow Night. Indianapolis was prepared today for the arrrival of 15,000 school teachers who will open their annual convention tomorrow night. The general sessions will oper Thursday night at 8 o'clock at Tomlinson BUI. Other meetings will be held the same evening at Caleb Mills Hall, the Meridian Street Methodist Church and the Masonic Temple. The program for tomorrow follows: I. Tomlinson Hall. Call to order. Horace Ellis, retiring president; invocation: special program prepared. Dean McCutcheon, De Pauw University School of Music; inaugural address, Mrs. E. E. Olcntt; address. "Learning How to Live,” Bishop Charles E. Woodcock; appointment of committees. 11. ( aleb Mills llall. (Vice President (. E. Behrens, presiding.) Noblesville double octette; address. “The Improvement of Teachers and Teaching Through Organisation.” Dr. David Snedden. Teachers' College, Columbia Unirerslty. 111. Meridian Street M. E. Church. (Vice President W. W. Carter, presiding.) Special program, the Franklin College Conservatory. Perclval Owen, director, organ, quartette; address, “The Challenge of the Soil,” Augustus O. Thomas, State superintendent, Augusta, Me. IV. Masonic Temple. (Vice President Glenn V. Scott, presiding.) Musical selections, music department Shortridge High School; play, Little Theater Society. Grammar grades and junior high school, Tomlinson Hall, 2 p. ru. Classical, Caleb Mills Halt, 10 a. m. Ward and village principals, Caleb Mills Hall. 2 p. m. English. Meridian Street M. E Church, 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. Indiana Association of Psychology and Education, Maaonic Temple, 10 a. in. and 2 p. m. Vocational education, assembly room of Claypool Hotel, 10 a. m, History, Hotel Severin assembly room, 10 a in. and 2 p. m. Primary, Murat Theater, 10 a. m. Kindergarten. Murat Theater. 2 p. m. County Superintendents’ Association House of Representatives, 10 a. in. and 2 pm. High school principals, K. of P. Hall, 10 a. m. Phi Delta Kappa. T. M. C. A . 10 a. m. Bible study section, assembly room. Y. M. C. A., 2 p m. Mathematics, Athenaeum. 10 a. m. Home economics, Second Presbyterian Church, 10 a. m. and 2 p m. Allied arts, vropsy Memorial H;.U, City Library, 2 p. m. Commercial teachers. Shortridge High School study ball, 10 a in. Biology section, Shortridge High School, room 22, 2 p. in. Indiana Association of Physical Education. Emmerich Manual Training High School gymnasium, 10 n. in. Physics and chemistry, auditorium Emmerich Manual Training High School, 2 p. in. Music, Senate chamber, 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. The convention of the Indiana ParentTeacher Association will be held In connection with the teachers’ convention.

COMEDY HAMPTON, lowa, Oct. 20.—A jury In District Court here today decided Dr. J. A. Hobson aid not slander Dr. C. J. Osborn, in an interview with a St. Paul newspaper reporter, in which he was said to have said that a Hampton Hospital was conducted *s a private harem for Dr. Osborne, and that illegal operations were performed in the institution. Dr. Osborne asked $73,000 damages. Dr. Hobson denied making the statements. t The verdict was reached after eight hours’ deliberation. CLEVELAND, Obio, Oct. 20.—Patrolman Mason Nicholas now has first-hand knowledge of how hold-np men operate. Four of them took bis watch, badge and soms change.

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member of the Chicago BoartJ of Trade. Mr. McCray Is making his campaign for election in Indiana on the ground that he Is a farmer, yet he has not lived on a farm since early boyhood. Judge Hanley of Rensselaer in rendering a decision in a case Mr. McCray was a defendant in found that the candidate was “a banker, elevator operator and real estate owner.” Every farmer in Indiana is cognizant of the influence the board of trade has over his marketable products, and especially grain. Takj for instance corn, in the production of which Indiana ranks among the leaders. The Chicago Board of Trade, of which the Republican candidate for Governor is a member, recently fixed the price foi December delivery of that staple product at about 80 cents a bushel. Professor Walker, formerly connected wtih the Agricultural Department at Washington, and an international expert on production costs, has figured that It costs the farmer in the great corn belt au average of $1.40 to produce bushel of corn in 1919. Os course, increased prices on farm machinery and othei things essential to crop production makes the costs as much, or more, this year. Manufacturers as a rule sell with a one-third profit and the modern day (Continued on Page Eleven.)

10 KILLED WHEN PASSING TRAIN WRECKS COACH Parlor Car Demolished at Erie, Pa., as Engine Hits Open Switch. ERIE. Pi., Get. 20.—Among those victims of the wreck identified late today are: Mrs. Rose Rodgers, Cincinnati; both arms broken. Mrs. <i. L. Serord, wife of a Chicago physician; face and head cut. Ida C. 'teyera, Chicago Beach; hrulsed. Mrs. Findlay Woods. Palestine, 111.; shock. WlLltatn < halllrntn. Sooth Bend, Ind., shock and slight cuts. C. C. Flagg. Markle. Ind., lacerations on head and hands. Mrs. Flagg, Markle, cut and bruised. ERIE. Pa.. Oct. 20.—Ten person* were killed and twenty injured when Lake Shore passenger tralu No. tiO, from Buffalo. was sideswlped here today by a passing I.ake Shore train No. 23. An open switch caused the accident. Every ambulance in the city was rushed to the scene of the accident and bodies are being dug from the wreckage. Six dead are already on the sidewalk betide the wreckage. The coach in which the victims were caught was the parlor car attached to No. iso at Buffalo. V*>. 23 ran into the open switch and completely demolished the parlor car. AU the police reserve* in the city are on the scene digging for bodlea of dead and injured. Every doctor and nurse available is being taken to the scene and Uaraon and St. Vincent’s Hospitals are making special arrangements to take care of the Injured. The Pullman was burled from the tracks and thrown on its side and the engine of No. 00 continued its dash and collided with the third Pullman. All of the dead and seriously Injured were In the second Pullman. The engine crew was not Injured. The bodies of three women, a glrj and a little hoy were taken to a morgue. Searchers were In the voerturned car hunting for other rictims. Three of the injured -In St. Vincent’s Hospital are not. expected to live. NINE HURT IN TRACTION MISHAP SIOUX CITY, lowa, Oct. 20.—Nine persons were seriously Injured when a Sioux City Traction Company car overturned when rounding a corner here today. The car, heavily loaded, came down a long incline and attained a high speed before it reached the corner. THREE KILLED IN TENNESSEE SMASH BRISTOL, Tenn., Oct. 20- Three men are dead and six others slightly injured as the result of a head-on collision between eastbonnd passenger train No. 14 an<7 westbound passenger No. 27, on the Norfolk & Western Railroad, near Rural Retreat, Va., early today. The desd are Engineer H. T. Pyerita of Bristol, ,T. IV. Julnkous of Roanoke, Va., and E. C. Beckner, fireman, of Bristol. No. list of those reported injured was available at noon todav. East bound train No. 14 Is believed to have broken the switch hear Rural Retreat and crashed into westbound train No. 27, which had been sidetracked. Several Burned When Fireworks Explodes NEWCASTLE, Pa., Oct. 20.—Several persona were severely burned in au explosion in’ a fireworks manufacturing plant east of Newcastle today. They have been removed to the Newcastle Hospital.

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FATE CIIEYBNNH, Wyo., Oct. 20.—Less than an hour after reaching here In n dazed condition from twenty-four hours’ exposure in a terrific blizzard following the collision of his mail airplane with a mountain. Pilot James P. Murray received word of the death of his father in Norwich, Conn. Murray left today by rail for the East to attohd the funeral. Murray, who was on an air mail trip from Salt Lake City to Cheyenne, had been missing since Monday. IV related a thrilling story of his eso'pe from death when his mail ship collided with Snow Mountain, 100 miles west i>f here. Muri4y passed Monday night on top of Sno\\ Mountain in a howling blizzard. Groplnk his way blindly through more than a foot of snow, finally be reached human habitation.

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Try, Try Again! CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. “0— Persistency cost Leo Englander $25 and a pair of trousers. The quality- of perseverance was exhibited by a burglar who worked on the front and back doors and three windows of the Englander home before gaining entrance through a fourth window. MACHINE LAX WHERE ITS PETS ARE CONCERNED Winks at Violations by G. O. P. Politicians While Others Pay Fines. DAVIS HITS FEE SYSTEM Pointing out numerous instances in j which the Republican administration In i Marion County and Indianapolis has over--1 looked law violations, Paul G. Davis, j Democratic candidate for prosecutor, addressed an apdlence at Columbia avenue I and Sixteenth street last night. Ho said: “The Republican machine in j charge of our city and county govern. ment has winked at the violation of law ' upon the part of politicians who bate kept It in power has at tho same time vigorously enforced the law for a lot of trifling offenses. “For Instance, It has permlttsd Roy Llngenfelter, who assaulted so many little girls that he cannot remember them all, to go free but at the same time it has compelled great numbers of Indianapolis residents to go to a remote Justice of the I peace court in Irvington to answer to ! such comparatively Inconsequential | charges as selling 7 cents’ worth' or* j kitchen cleanser on Sunday. OFFICIALS GET RICH AT PUBLIC EXPENSE, j “It has for its sole pnrpose the per--1 petuation of itself in power at the expense of the people. I “Under Its rule our public officials are I getting rich at our expense and all the | while our taxes are growing higher and : higher, I “In 1913. when it came into power in ! this county. It collected $6,000,000 in taxes and next year, as a convincing example of the reckless and extravagant | management of our public affairs under ! this Republican machine, the taxpayers |of Marlon County will pay $10,000,000 into the public treasury, j "The Marlon County Democratic plat i form contain* this provision: ’We <le. j mand that all offices he salaried and that all fees be abolished and wo condemn the j oppression of the people through the means of the prosecutor’s office, when ’ such prosecutions are Instituted simply | to rolled fees and not to vindicate the 1 law.’ “I approve of this statement, and I believe that the present fee system is Iniquitous and should be changed. HOW ANTIQUATED I FEE SYSTEM WORKS. “Let me Illustrate how the antiquated fee system works tvtth tho prosecutor a office. j “From Jan. 1, 1919, to July 1. 1920, the j records disclose that the Republican (Continued on Page Nine.) MOOTED QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED Orbison Prepares Information on ‘Dry’ Enactments. In order that the question of whether' , Indiana statutes regarding traffic In ; liquor were abolished with the going : Into effect of the eighteenth amendment | Slid the passage of th* Volstesd act, Jtt- | t reduced in many courts throughout the | State, may no longer be a source of ini qulry for Clrcifft Court Judges, Charles ] J. Orbison, Federal prohibition director j for Indiana, is preparing Information which will clarify the situation. ! The advice will be based on a letter ■ received from authorities In Washington, [quoting the decision of the Supreme I Court of Massm setts, which upholds i the validity of the Massachusetts statute, ■ making It a misdemeanor to sell liquor without a license. ! Because the offenders are prosecuted, I for the moat part, under the Indiana statute, the State law must be observed as long sa it does not actually conflict | with the Federal laws, according to 1)1j rector Orlbson. ENTER COURT TO PROTECT TICKET Colored Voters Demand Officials Put Names on Ballot. Dr. James R. Norrell and George M. T. Gray, leaders In the Independent Republican party, composed of colored voters, died mandamus proceedings in Superior Court, room 5, today asking that the court order the county board of commissioners to place the candidates ' of the new party on the ballots. The suit contends that the petition was filed In due time and that the commissioners seted unlawfully In removing the names of the candidates from the ballots. The suit also a*ks that, the elephant be made the emblem of the new party, despite the commissioners' objections. It Is stated that If the court believes the word “Republican” in the name of the new party will conflict with the Republican party they are willing to use another name. The defendants aro Richard V. Ripe county clerk; .Tacksou Carter and Woodburn Masson’. The date for hearing the petition has j not been set.

TRAGEDY DETROIT, Oct. 20.—Dow C, Watson, meat cutter, was stabbed fatally In a free-for-all fight between Watson and his brother and eight Chinese in a hotel here early today. Watson and his brother occupies a room adjoining that of two Chinese and asked the to be quiet so they could sleep. The Chinese uttered threats and the four met in the hallway where they were joined by four other Chinese and the fight followed. Sing Moy, 23, is said to have stabbed Watson. The eight other Chinese are held as witnesses. J Watson came to Detroit nine month* ago from Paducah, Kg.

MARKEY MAKES EFFORT TO SAVE LINGENFELTER Visits Witnesses Against Girl Attacker and Asks Them . for Leniency. ADMITS PART IN CASE Joseph T. Markey, former judge of the Criminal Court, to whom members of the underworld have been directing defendants in Criminal Court as the “strong guy” for several months, admits that he is the attorney who visited witnesses against Roy Llngenfelter nnd -isked them to agree to allow Llngenfeltol to eseqpe prosecution, although bo had confessed auuaultlDg more little girls than he could remember. Mr. Markey says: “Hoy Llngenfelter's parents aro nice people arid they are neighbors of mine. “They came to me nnd asked me to act as an attorney for the defense of their son when he was arrested a few months ago. INTERCEDED IN COURT. "When the esse was called in City Court there was no evidence heard, hut I asked Prosecutor Ralph Spaan and Judge Walter Pritchard lu open court if they would agree to continuing the charges indefinitely provided that Llngenfelter would Join the navy and remain away from Indianapolis. “Llngenfelter had Berved an enlistment In the navy once before and 1 thought it would be better for him to serve in the navy than to place the stain and disgrace on his parents of baviug the young man sent to prison. “Judge l*rltchard and Prosecutor Spaan refused to listen to the suggestion that Llngenfelter enlist In the navy which suggestion I made in open court, and then T waived examination for in> client In City Court and lie was bound over to tho grand Jury by Judge Pritchard under a boiyi of $2,000. “Mrs. Llngenfelter asked me vrhat she could do to help her son. “I told her that perhaps some of the parents of the girls who accused him would consent to Roy being permitted to Join the Navy. “I suggested that she might go to the homes of these people. VISITED RESIDENCE IN HARLAN STREET. “Bhe went to their homes and I understand was accompanied by Mrs. Laura Vance, a personal friend. “Mrs. Llngenfelter told me that the mothers of the girls seemed willing but that their fat hers would have to be seen. "She requeated me to call and talk to the fathers of the girls. “1 went to a residence lu Harlan street and slso to a residence on Langley avenue. and I was by myself when I went (Continued on Page Eleven)

BOARD OF TRADE SQUARE-GATES Grain Dealers’ Head Holds Canadian Crop Responsible for Price Drop. ( inCAOO, Oct. 20. Tr-tdln* In grain on the Chicago Board of Trade is on the square, F. I. Gate*, president of the board, told George Watkins, statistician for the Fedcrgi Trade Commission, here today. Watkins l* Investigating charges made , by Senator Capper and Governor Allen,* both of Kansas, that grain prices are manipulated by the board and that gambling In grain is conducted on an extensive seals. "There 1* no manipulation of prices or gambling on the Board of Trade," Gates said. Tbs statement ws* made in a private 'ntcrriew between Wntkina and the Board of Trade president. M ntklns will not conduct open hearing*, hut will Interview offielats of varioua Hoards o( Trade In cities \thcru they exist. . "A recent drop of 6 cents in the price of wheat was due to the large amount of Canadian grain coming Into the country." Gates continued.v "The price of wheat did not go below the figure guaranteed by the Government during the war. except on two days, until October, when it large amount of Canadian gralu started to go on the markets, of this country." Results of the present Investigation may supplement the report of the probe made by the commission three and a half yeura ago on orders of President Wilson. Jewett Spring 1 Pig BunchJ*rings $9,805 Forty spring pig*, sold Monday at the first sale at Arlington Place farms, owned by Major Charles W. Jewett and Elmer Wiggins, northeast of the city, brought a total off 9,805, Mr. Jewett said today. . The pigs were the offspring of Passport and Pioneer, the two champion hoars of the farm, and a number of leading sons. A boar pig by Pioneer out of Highland X-nns named Omnr topped the sale at $650, Breeders from twenty-one States attended the sale. , Arlington Place is regarded as one of: the most. Important Big Type Poluud Chiuu bneeding places in the world. Congressman Is Hurt RIVERTON, Wyo., Ort. 20.—Frank W. Mondell, Republican leader In the House of Representatives suffered a broken leg when a drag line of a steam shovel on which he stepped broke and caused him to fall.

ROMANCE Special to The Times. CONNEHBVILLK, Ind., Oct. 20.- After being separated for forty-seven years, when their sweetheart romance of youth was severed by a lover’s quarrel, Paul A. Feist, 66, and Catherine Morgan, 64, were married here Tuesday. Both are natives of Columbia TownShip, Fayette County. When their youthful engagement was hroken. Feist went west, was married and became a prosperous farmer in Nebraska. liis fiancee later was married. IVhen Feist’s wife died five years ago, sixteen years after the death of Mrs. Morgan’s husband, they began to correspond. Five, weeks ago Feist came to Connersvllle and tha reconciliation and marriage resulted. |

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Mayor Jewett and Vice Mayor Charles W. Jewett, late yesterday, telephoned the following statement relative to lawless conditions in Indianapolis from his hog farm northeast of the city: 1. “All I have to say is that we are making every effort possible to stop the violation of law in Indianapolis. 2. “There is nobody being protected and nobody is going to be protected. 3. “If anybody has evidence that any city official is protecting anybody from the law and will present it to me I will most certainly see that that official is removed. 4. “I venture to say that while it may be true that violations of the law of the character pointed out may be found in Indianapolis, it i3 also true that you will find the same true In cities of this size fill over the country and you will also find Indianapolis is the cleanest of them all. 5. “We stand ready to prosecute such offenders at all times. Our policy has never changed, A°d we will appreciate any ‘tips’ we can get from citizens or from your newspaper. If they are given to Chief of Police Kinney I am sure they will receive prompt attention.” In reply to which the Times desires to say: • 1. The law violations concerning which complaint is made happen In Indianapolis, not at the mayor's hog farm, and "every efTort possible to stop them” is not being made when the mayor spends his days and nights outside the city. 2. If no protection is being granted to administration pets who are openly violating the law in Indianapolis then law enforcement has been so weakened that these pets do not need protection In order to do that which indicates that they are protected. 3. Several times recently Judge Walter Pritchard has refused to convict negro gamblers on the charge of visiting a gambling house after having convicted the proprietor of keeping the gambling house. The judge has publicly stated that as long as the city issued licenses making these places public poolrooms he would not convict visitors on that charge. Are not the officials who permit these licenses to be issued and in force effectually protecting these law violators from the law? 4. Does the existence of law violations elsewhere make them any less reprehensible in Indianapolis and has the mayor done anything toward helping make Indianapolis the “cleanest of them all?” 6. The Times is in possession of six bottles of liquor, purchased from six different bootleggers. It also has documentary evidence that Stegemoier’s place is a place where gambling is openly tolerated. The existence of this evidence has publicly been called to the mayor's attention and a public offer has been made to deliver it to any official who dares to prosecute the offenders. Forty-eight hours have passed since this offer was made public. Neither Chief Kinney nor any other official has. made any attempt to avail himself of the “tip” the mayor says “we” will appreciate. What this community wants is not someone to “stand ready to prosecute,” but some official who DARES prosecute the lawless.

G. 0. P. CLAIMS FORECAST COX VICTORY-WHITE 1916 Statements Compared With Those of Rivals This Yeai*. CHICAGO. Ort 20 Before leaving Cbi cago for New York for the flnsl drive of the campaign at national headquarters. George White, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, discussed Republican Chairman Hays' recent claim of 395 electoral votes for Senator Harding. “This is just ten electoral votes undet the claims of the Republican managers for Charles E. Hughes in IMS,” said Mr. White "I congratulste Mr. Hays on his conservatism. Asa reward, he will not have as far to fall into the depths of false prophecy as his predecessors of 1916. "In that year the Republican managers* claimed vote* for Mr. Hughes. "He actually received 254. "Using ths same simple arithmetic. Senator Harding will have no more than 254 electoral votes this year, which about eolnetdsa with the real estimates at Republican headquarters. "To refresh the record, let me quota what Chairman Wlllcox of the Rtpublican National Committee said Just before the 1910 election: " The people have made up their minds in favor of Mr. Hughes, and that is all there is to it.’ "Among tho States which he claimed with the utmost assurance would give largo Republican majorities were California t went Democratic by .1,800); Kaunas (went Democratic ny 36,900); Uhlo (went Democratic by $8,500). "t'allfornia, Mr. Wlllcox asserted, would go Republican by 250,000, citing the fact as evidence that 307,793 Republicans had voted in the State primary and only 77,830 Democrats. "Charles W. Farnham, campaign tour (Continued on Cage Nine.) Gas Franchise Change May Be Heard Friday Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby snlif today that be has been Informed by officials of the Citizens Gas Company that it will lie imposslbla for tho board qf directors and the trustees to consider the proposed amendment to the gat, franchise, creating a priority list for service during the times of shortage, before Friday nfteruoon. Thin probably will preclude any possibility of the amendment reaching tho city council for ratification beforo early next week, it was said, because after the gas company approves it the board of works must pass upon it and the mayor attach his signature.

UNUSUAL NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Columbia University permitted Edward Harding, 12, to take the entrance examination, because "it would do no harm.” Harding made the highest grade on record. liis new skull cap denotes his fresh 4 manshift Special to The Times, GREENBBURG, Ind., Oct. 20.—George Voiles, gardener, of this city, is exhibiting a bunch of fine, ripe strawberries. The berries, which were of an unusual size and of a luscious quality, were gathered from his own patch. OGDEN, T'tah, Oct, 20.—Mrs. Maria I,ouisa,Covington, 67, died of shock when she found her son dead In a pool of blood from a otf4nfllcted wound.

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ALLIED NAVY PLANS SHOWING Demonstration to Be Given in Black Sea in Behalf of Armenians. PARIS. Oct. 20.—A naval demonstration •In the Black Sea is planned by the allies, the foreign office announced today. The demonstration, the nature of which was not disclosed, will be made off J Trebixons, Asiatic Turkey, in behalf of I the Armenians. BALLOTS FOUND ON CAPITOL LAWN 400 State Tickets Lying on Lawn Causes Stir. A package of election ballot* wa found on the Statehouse lawn last night and officials are trying to determine if some of the ballots are missing from the shipment that reached the city from ft. Wayne, where the ballots are printed. The shipment due to reach Indianapolis from Ft. Wayne last night was 740,000 ballots. The police were called to Room 213 at the Statehouse. where they met DirreUe* C’hsney, who informed them that he wa* in charge of the election ballots, and Richard Coleman, foreman of a gang of men employed to transfer the ballots from the traetlon terminal station to the Statehouse hPd found a package of ballots in the Statehouse yard. It is said the package contained 400 ballots, but the police were Informed that Chaney could not determine if there were any ballots missing in the shipment until the entire number had been rechecked. Chaney gave the names of the men employed in transfering the ballots as Richard Coleman, 601 West Tenth street, foreman; Edgar Glover, 107 North Enst street, driver; D. O. Whitesides, 6bi Blake street; James Buckner. 637 Blake street; C. Shellhorn, 232 Dorman street. Garland Brown, 347 East Washington street; Frank Douglas, 924 Paca street. Frank Bovd. 1636 Columbia avenue, and .Tames i'll Paca street. Mr. Chaney, after checking up the ballots In his possession, said no more are missing. The ballots were tied in such a way that- It is believed they must have been deliberately taken from a bundle and placed in the yard. Kills Girl; Hits Self NEW YORK, Oct. 20. —Dr. Max Rowe shot and killed Dr. Ruth Rubin at 328 Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn, today, according to the police. The physician then shot and seriously wounded himself.

INSTINCT KANSAS CITY. Mo., Oct. 20—The cal] of the wild sounded strong in the heart of Audrea Galloway, 13, adopted daughter of E. 8, Galloway. Audrea was returned home early today after an absence of three days and four nights. A barking dog led searching parties to a bench near a large wooded park. The girl was sleeping under the bench. She lay on the ground with a bundle of clothes for n pillow and an extra coat for covering. Reside her were a loaf of bread and a box of cookies. The girl explained that she had spent the time since she disappeared in the woods. Galloway said he adopted the girl at Lawton, Okla., and that she was a quar-ter-blood Indian. . Hs attributed her-actions to hsrf Indian instincta. “

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GOV. COX WILL DEMAND NAME OF SPOKESMAN Says Harding Owes It to U. S. and France to Reveal Identity. RIDICULES STATEMENT EN ROUTE WITH GOVERNOR COX, PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Oct. 20.--Governor Cox declared today he would demand that Senator Harding reveal the identity of the persons who gave him the impression France would look with favor on thfe Republican candidate’s proposal for anew association of nations. Cox attacked the French spokesman issue as vigorously as he went after the “slush fund” issue early in the campaign. Cox read the statement made In Marion in behalf of Harding by Judson C. Welliver. Republican publicity director, who charged Cox had deliberately sent Maurice De Kobra, a French humorist, to Marion with the intention of having him see Harding and represent himself as speaking for France. Welliver charged De Kobra never saw Harding and that the Democratic candidate’s “trap” was a failure. Cox ridiculed this statement. “I believe the American people and the French government are entitled to know who is consulting with Senator Harding ■informally regarding our international relations,’ ” the Governor said. Cox faced a busy day of speaking in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. He had nine speeches scheduled. The engineer of Governor Cox’s special train was compelled to Jump from the moving locomotive today when the flue’ : burst, flooding th cab with scalding 1 steatu. With great presence of mind the engi neer threw on the emergency brakes before taking the plunge, the train coming to a stop within a hundred yards of a regular passenger train close behind, flagged by a trainman. The accdient occurred between Woonsocket and Providence, on the New York, New Haven A Hartford railroad. After an hour’s delay the engine of tho regular train pulled the special into Blackstone, Mass., leaving the disabled engine and roach behind.' The engineer was not hurt.

TRIED TO SEE HARDING HERE Maurice De Kobra, French newspaper correspondent, who has been brought into the controversy resulting from Senator Harding's statement that he had bee.n i approached by spokesmen of Francq in regard to the formation of an association of nations, traveled with Governor Cox's special train in Indiana. In a conversation with a representative_of*the Times, who was on the train j the day be Joined the Cox party. M. De Kobra said he was acting entirely In the capacity of a newspaper correspondent and that he was hoping to ob ain both sides of the controversy over the League i of Nations. He said he had been sent to the United States by La Liberte, a Paris newspaper, | to interview Governor Cox, Senator Harding and Thomas Edison as three of tho leading figures in American life. * He said he merely desired to ask tho two candidates their opinions on tho League of Nations and that he was instructed to interview Edison on certain phases of scientific development. He said he was Intensely interested in the League of Nations and that he could not understand any opposition in this country and that he believed Senator Harding would be able to make clear what was, to him, the unexplainable atj titude of opponents of the league. He spoke very strongly in favor of the League of Nations and expressed the hope that the United States would eventually adopt the covenant as it stands. He said nothing about any other asso- ' elation of nations, but from the tone of his conversation Intimated that the Kreucjj people are opposed to any other form of association except the league, although he said they would not oppose reasonable reservations. During the conversation M. De Kobra asked for suggestions concerning seeing Senator Harding. | He was told that Senator Harding was not known to be adverse to seeing newspaper men and it was suggested that he see him in Indianapolis. Arrangements were made accordingly, but M. De Kobra was unable to see the Republican candidate. In a statement given out in New York M. De Kobra said he has not yet -been able to see Senator Harding. RECORD AIR TRIP ENDS AT MINEOLA Plane No. 4 Alights First After 9,000-Mile V<#yage. MINEOLA, N. Y., Oct. 20.—A recordbreaking air trip of 9.000 miles ended at 1 :S7 o'clock today when army plane No. 4 alighted here on its return flight from Nome, Alaska. Three other planes participating in the flight, followed a few minutes after No. 4, which was piloted by Lieut. Ross Kirkpatrick. Free Booklet Tells How to Save Coal Here is a Government bulletin which tells how to stoke a furnace, to arrauge its drafts, and how to leave it at night to get the maximum of heat from each ton of coal. The average householder gets about half the neat from his fuel that he should get. This bulletin will show him how to get the full return from every shovelful. Even the man who is furuaee-wise may get an idea here which will save him more coal. The bulletin Is free to all who send 2 cents in stamps for return postage* Use the coupon. (In filling out the coupon print name and address or be sure to write plainly.)

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