Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 177, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled Saturday. Probably rain. Colder Saturday.

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RIDGEVILLE STATE BANK IS ROBBED BY 6 MASKED BANDITS They Drive Up in Broad Daylight , Force Workers Into Vault and Imprison Them . CASH AND LIBERTY BONDS TAKEN MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 3. —Six masked bandits entered the Ridgeville State Bank at 10:30 o’clock this morning forced the cashier and several members of the bank’s force into the vault, where they were imprisoned,/ and made away with three sacks of money and a quantity of Liberty bonds.

The men drove up before the bank in a large bine automobile and while one remained In the machine with the engine running the others entered the bank. The exact amount of money taken has not yet been ascertained. According to the cashier. Tom Brooks, the bandits obtained in cash, and an undetermined amount of Liberty bonds and securities. Will Ward, president of the bank; Tom Brooks, cashier, and Miss liiddlebarger, assistant cashier, were the only persons In the bank at the time of the robbery. Tom Madden, garage owner, seeing the robbers enter the bank, attempted to interfere, but was knocked unconscious by one of the robbers. The bandits left on the road to Deerfield. $5/)00 ROBBERY AT OHIO BANK COLUMBUS, Ohio,-Dec. 3.—A quintet of unmasked auto bandits today held up employes in the First National Bank at Grove City, near here and got away with $5,000 in cash. HELP IN ARREST; ARE TAKEN, TOO Then Confess Complicity in Robbery, Police Say. Ralph Charers, 23, and Emmet Headsavenue, assisted In getting themselves arrested today and after landing in Jail confessed complicity In a $2,000 clothing store robbery at Spencer. Detective Sneed had arrested Allen Williams, 19, negro, at Ohio and Illinois Btreets, who is wanted for bicycle stealing. Just as he had taken the man in custody he saw Chavers and Headspatch approaching and knew that they were wanted. He asked them to hold Williams while he called a patrol wagon. They obligingly consented. They were astounded, however, when the wagon arrived and the detectives bundled all three In. Cbavers and Headspatch had on clothes which were identified as part of the loot taken from the Spencer store. They also admitted having stoleij an automobile which was used to tra..sport the clothipg from Spencer to Indianapolis. The police are now searching for th“ cache of stolen clothes, which the negroes said was near this city. Manual Teachers to Gather Here Dec. 9-11 Instructors in the tratning of teachers In manual arts and Industrial education in the Mississippi Valley States will gather In Indianapolis Dec. 9. 30 and 11, to attend a conference at the Hotel Severln, called by the United States Bureau of Education. 1 Indiana. Ohio, Illinois. Michigan, Wisconsin. Minnesota, lowa, Kansas. Missouri. Kentucky, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia will be represented at the conference which will be presided over by William T. Bawden, assistant” commissioner of education of Washington, D. C. The conference will be held in eoorperation with educators from Indiana University. I>epartments of education in the States mentioned have been asked to send delegates to the meeting.

SHOTGUN mtS; CHILD KITTED. DUBUQUE, la., Pec. 3.—Mabel, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael S?eger of RJckardsville, near here, ■was killed at her home when a shotgun standing In oue corner of the kitchen was knocked over and accidentally discharged. RAISIN MASH INDUSTRY HIT Roumanian Pastor, With Side Issue. Under Arrest. Special to The Time*. NASHVILLE. Ind.. Pec. 3.—Federal authorities. assisted by Clinton Moore, sheriff of Brown County, placed - under arrest the Rev. Archlp Slrbu, at hi* farm near here, on a charge of violating the Federal prohibition amendment, when two sftJls of twenty-gallon capacity and about 300 gallons of raisin mash were found on his place, which is about six k miles east of this city. Slrbu’* two nephews, who were with him at the time and whose names were not given, were also taken in custody. Rev. Slrbu is pastor of the Roumanian Orthodox Church, Market and Blackford streets, Indianapolis, and his home is at 204 North Blackford street. Officers obtained the information that Slrbu brought, the stills from apolis and concealed them among furniture which he had bought for his farm home. At the time of the arrest three men were found working at the stills when the arrests were made and a fourth ran when he saw the approach of officer* and was not apprehended. The Reverend Slrbu lived alone at the Indianapolis address and his neighbors expressed surprise at his arrest, saving bis reputation dur.ng the period of his pastorate has been good and he comtranded the respect of Lis congregation. Members of the church say he will be asked to resign as a result of his arrest, If he does not do so voluntarily.

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C.,M.&ST.P.MAIL TRAIN LOOT MAY REACH $1,000,000 Three Robbers Bind and Gag as Many Clerks, Then Open Pouches. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 3 —Jhree young masked bandits this morning held np and robbed the mail car bn the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul train No. ti, Mobridge, S. D., to Minneapolis on the Hastings & Dakota division and, after binding with wire and gagging the three mail clerks, escaped with a pouch of registered mail and other packages, estimated to contain currency and papers worth between $500,000 and $1,000,000. The bandits elltnbed aboard the tank of the engine at Hopkins, Minn., forced an entrance to the mall car while the train was speeding toward Minneapolis and left the train within the limits of this city. One of the main clerks, who had worked partially free of his bonds, saw the three men leave the train to join a fourth confederate who was waiting in an automobile. Police and Federal officials are baffled by the case and it is believed the bandits will not attempt to leave Jhe twin cities. When Ray M. Ensch. mail clerk, went to fasten the chain on the door of the mail car as the train was leaving Hopkins he was confronted by the three men. Each of the men carried two revolvers. They forced him to step back to the center of the mall car and ordered the too other mall clerks. F. C. Tousley and A. E. Ustnian, to hold up their bands. Later investigation showed that there was a defective lock on the front door of the mail car. The bandits ordered the three mail clerks to turn their face* to the side of (Continued on I’age Fifteen.) VOTERS LEAGUE OUTLINES PLANS Shepard-Towner Bill Is Expected to Head List. Twenty thousand deaths among women and Infants each month is sufficient proof to the women of the country that the Shepard-Towner maternity-infancy bill is the big national issue to back in the coming short session of Congress, and it was expected that the board of the League of Women Voters, meeting In the Claypool Hotel today, would head their national legislative plan with this proposal. Miss Betaey Edwards oL Peru of the State League, and Mrs. H. Beardsley, president of the Indiana league, will go to Washington tomorrow to assist in havlug the bills enacted. A bill for State legislation, which the league expects to indorse in the coming January session, is one pertaining to citizenship, namely, that a man or woman in Indiana must be a citizen before they can vote, thereby taking Indiana from the (Continued on Page Fifteen)

Princeton Triangle Club to Play Here PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 3—Two tours of the Triangle (Tub of Princeton University were announced here today. The club will present “They Never Come Back.” The Itinerary Includes Indianapolis. Chicago and (Teveland. Ft. Wayne Girl Leaves Home for Stage, Belief CHICAGO, Dee. 3. —Declaring be believed his daughter, Helen, lured by the stage spotlight, had come to Chicago to get work with a chorus. Harold McConahy, 2120 Florida street. Ft. Wayne, Ind., today appealed to the police to aid in the search for her. McConahy told police his daughter, a high school girl, had bought a ticket for Chicago. She studied dancing and singing and bad ambitions to go on the stage, he said. HUNGARIAN CABINET RESIGNS. BUDAPEST, Dec. 3.—The Hungarian cabinet has resigned.

Sow/ Scars Revealed in Diary of ‘Sweetheart 9 Sought in Hamon Murder

CHICAGO, Pec. 3. —Revealing the secrets of a tortured soul, long pursued and finally trapped by “the colonel,” who she alternately terms “ the demon” and “the living devil,” the diary of Mrs. Clara Smith Hamon, reputed slayer of j Jake L. Hamon, multimillionaire poll - | tician and oil magnate, become public j here today. The diary was found in the trunks belonging to Mrs. Hamon which were shipped here from Ardmore, Okia., after the shooting of Hamon. “In the form of a man there was a demon (often referred to as the ‘colonel’) who tried to • • • terrorise me,” say* the diary, “and, although my life hung by a slender thread • * I did not show the slightest weakness and • • * should I be found stabbed or choked or beaten to death I want the world to know I made a clean | fight for my rights and that I have never been a coward or a sneak—or ! guilty of unfair play. “TEAKS AGO TRIED TO QUIT.” “Some years ago I tried to quit—before all my dreams of life’s golden treasure were shattered—but he would not let me. I swear here before the AllKnowing -God that I would never have beoome hi* sweetheart Jf ha had net

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BOOZE SCANDAL JUST SCANDAL IN RICHMOND Press Agents in Van of Rum Investigation in Quaker City. ARMED HOLD-UPS WORK By a Staff Correpondent. RICHMOND. Ind., Dee. 3.—The boose sdandal which has been agitating this quiet Quaker city for a week apparently will end in being nothing but a scandal. This does not mean that law violations have not been open and flugralit here, for they have, but it does mean that the problem of stopping them has been approached from Its offside and the results hoped for now appear to be impossible of accomplishment. in the first place, despite reports to the contrary, no subpoenns have been served here for the Federal grand Jury, which convenes in Indianapolis next week. Federa lagents, however, have been active. About a week ago three Federal men came to Richmond to investigate the booze traffic. The business was largely because Richmond Is on a main traveled road leading to Indianapolis and of the booze Is said never to have reached Indianapolis. Their arrival was heralded from the house tops. They immediately became the center of public interest and the investigation thenceforth was conducted like a circus with an audience of several thousand and press agents on the Job. The result was that the bootleggers' wares were spirited away. It is said, and the Federal men found one of the dry (Continued on }‘age Seven.) ARTICLE 10 FACED ' BY AMENDMENT Measure Said to Be Fathered by Canadians. GENEVA. Dec. .Article 10, fought over in the United States, faces amend raent in'he League of Nations. Events here today and In the last few days indicate other nations thaif the United States are desirous of remodeling that part of the covenant. The trend in this direction was indicated by Lord Robert Cecil’s declaration . that th“ article does not guarantee any member ita territorial integrity. An amendment was said to he under preparation by the Canadian delegation. N- W. Rowell served notice that the Canadians intend to present several cove, nnnt amendments. It was expected these will not pass at this sitting of tho assembly, hut the delegation hopes to force sufficient discussion of them to determine the league's attitude. A further light on the attitude toward Article 10 was believed to have been shed by Denmark’s notification that the government desired to seed troops to aid in the Vlina plebleite, but was compelled to await parliamentary approval. The league agreed the Danish I’arlln meat had full power to determine the matter and ihat Denmark could not he compelled to Join the expedition over the heads of the lawmakers. DELAY IS SOUGHT IN COLLAPSE CASE Investigation May Wait Till January Jury Meets. The postponement of a Marlon County grand Jury investigation of the collapse of the ICmmcrich Manual Training High School annex, which proved fatal to two workmen and injured twenty others, until ■ January is living considered by I'roae- | eutor Claris Adams and Ulr, deputies. I Coroner Robinson has referred the case | to the grand Jury with Tils finding Deputy Prosecutor Jones, who fs in i charge of the grand jury, stated that he favored delaying the investigation until anew Jury is empaneled in January. It has been the practice of the Judge of the Criminal Court to excuse the grand Jury on or about Dec. 13, because of the holiday season. Anew grand Jury will be obtained on the first of tiie year. Mr. Jones stated that the Investigation would necessarily lie a lengthy one and that the present Jury is busy investigating police and Jail cases. The grand Jury adjourned after holding a brief session. Says Wilson to Act as Private Citizen WASHINGTON. Dec. 3. —President Wil son's offer to act ns mediator between Armenia and the Turkish Nationalists was made in his personal capacity and not bis official capacity, according to the understanding of the State Department, it was announced at the department today. , The United Slates has been formally Invited by the League of Nations to name a representative to sit in a consultative capacity of the league's permanent commission on disarmament, the State Department also announced.

told—again and again that he was going to get his divorce anyway and promised faithfully to marry me. lie held out every possible alluring picture for a wonderful future until he had me j in a net from which I could not oxtri- | cate myself. | "The oil of his soul that fed the flame j of desire for cruelty must exhaust Itself land I was doomed to be the victim. “I can hear the public say, ‘Those’ who | brutally murder are worse,’ but I don’t bellevo God thinks so, for h.- have murdered me physically, besides murdering my soul, if He could have covered it up and shielded himself. But he has been too cowardly to do it with a fair chance to both cf us. | "Murder has no place in his insanityfaking life is abhorrent to him, hut to destroy Innocence —to kill virtue—to murder a soul—those are common to him and bis type.” s Apparently sensing thfe tragedy that was to come later, the woman wrote In her diary under date of May 12: “Befoie another day passes and ’ere my life is taken I want to leave this word of warning to any other girl or woman (Continued ea Page Berea.)

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1920.

Catholics in Favor of Any Move to Stop Violence in Ireland Two Flying Squadrons in War of Extermination Provide Elusive Element. DUBLIN, Deo. S. —Countess Marklewie*, M. P., prominent Sinn Fein leader, today was found guilty by court-martial of conspiracy to spread sedition and cause murder in Ireland. LONDON, Dec. 8. —Three civilians were killed in an outbreak of disorders at Bandon, County Cork, according to a Central Nows dispatch from Dublin this afternoon. DUBLIN, Dec. 3.—Archbishop .Walsh of Dublin today notified the British labor commission 'investigating reprisals that any effort leading to a cessation of Irish violence will receive the support of the Roman Catholic herlarehy in Ireland. Arthur Henderson, M. P., and William Adamson, M. P., of the labor commission, held a long interview at Mt. Joy Prison with Arthur Griffith, acting president of the “Irish republic." While the surface peace moves are under way a spectacular and dramatic battle Is being waged between two flying squadrons, one made up of black and tan policemen and the other members of the Republican army. These my* terious organizations are waging a war of extermination. The elusive police organization is acting Independently of the auxiliary police nnd the royal Irish constabulary and is independent of headquarters regulations. It holds a roving commission to go anywhere in Ireland nnd to strike without awaiting Instructions. Akbordlng to Sinn Fein officials, the police squadron is made up of volunteers, some of (hem aristocrats who have Joined the service fir excitement mid adventure. Some of the volunteers, the Sinn Feiners declared, might be hunting big game in Africa and Asia If they did not find roan-hunting lu Ireland more exciting and dangerous. For many week* the British authorities have been trying to trap the flying Sinn (Continued on I**ge 1 Iftes-n.)

Says Social Ostracism of Offender Is Divorce Club

Judge Thornton Advocates U. S. Law on Separation , Stales to Enforce It, By JUDGE IV. W, THORNTON. Mauy a divorce I* secured to enable the plaintiff to remarry ; and many a husband is glad his wife has secured a divorce from him whereby he may marry the woman with whom he has become infatuated, even to the extent of having mentioned an unfortunate relation with her. It is always a proper subject of inquiry concerning whether the plaintiff is seeking a divorce to 4’X.'enable him or her to W/KT ~XM| remarry; for iß| wrlght-dly affects V • witness I have had rj plaintiffs deny to me If that they were miltemple ting remarriage Kc, . or had i<l arrange incuts f r a remitr iff* ring • . and yet within HTa ’ lc* than twenty four ‘ hours enter 1A .. wp© the marriage relation vj| parties have | by* iildren, then ’■_£ gy ver -erlons questions *jT V? usually arise concern- ** big their custody nnd Judge Thornton, support. The father In still under a legal obligation to maintain them. Not infrequently neither party Is a fit person to have custody of them; and then the

U. S. Official Booze List Shows Names of 46.646 Persons WASHINGTON, Dor. S.-t nflf Sam's official lint of tvhUk.r ü benrn tho name* of 40.646 pmoni. Comnila•ioricr WlltHtma rcjiortfd that number on the roll today. f "And thorn aro probably 20.000,000 other** in tho Mime ulilm*. but not officially listed/' said another rrreiiua official who known. ••Permit* to line whisky cover* a wide range nnd Include* the multitude who have toiight relief from doctors legally permitted to prescribe for ailments known and unknown."

Call Millions Gift Shrink Report Guess PITTSBURGH; Dec. 3.—Announcement in the Princeton Alumni Weekly that Henry (Tay Frick’s $15.000, 000 bequest to that institution hud shrunk twofifths was not confirmed here today. Such an estimate was ehaeterized aa a “guess” by those well informed as to the affairs of the Frick estate. That there will be some shrinkage is admitted, but no definite amount has been set.

Dr. Coughlin, Notable in Polities, Dead FALL RIVER, Mass., Pec. B.—Pr. John William Coughlin, for many years Demoerntie national committeeman from Massachusetts, ex-mayor of this city, friend of Grover Cleveland, and for n quarter of a century a notable figure in National and State politics, died ;.t his home early today. He. had been declining since he underwent an operation recently. 110 was born hero In 1800. • Can’t Satisfy All ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dee. 3.—Timothy Kelly fell into the Genessee river and was rescued by a fireman as he was about to plunge over the falls. Kelly complained because the fireman did not rescue his bat. MAIL RODBEIt GETS 15 YEARS. DBS MOINES, Dee. 3.—Keith Collins, bogus army officer and “master mind” in the Omaha $3,500,000 mail train robbery, today was sentenced tn Federal Court to fifteen years In the Federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. He pleaded guilty to several lndlctment3,

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MRS. MURIEL MACSWINEY. NEW YORK, Dec. 8. -Efforts of 33,000 Irish sympathizers who turned out to give a rousing reception to Mrs. Muriel MacSwlney, widow of the lord mnyor of Cork, who died on a hunger strike In h British prison, were frustrated today when officials of the White Star liner announced the liner Celtic would be held at quarantine all night. The vesijsJ was dueto arrive at quarantine shortly after 5 o'clock. The fleet of tugboats which is to carry a number of reception delegations down the bay, will be held lu readiness to pro ceed to quarantine tomorrow morning and escort the Celtic to Tier 60, North river, where the liner Is scheduled to dock at 10 o’clock. The Irish sympathizers promised to be out In full force, to carry out the planned reception at the dock ami parade down Fifth avenue to hotel, where Mrs. MacSwlney will stop Mrs. MacSwlney came to the United State* at the request of Irish organizations here, Who desired her first-hand testimony in regard to conditions in Ireland.

court's trouble* begin. Asa rule the custody is accorded to one of them, for the court has no otner place to put them. Asa rule children prefer their mother's custody, but if she has been tbo party at fault it Is s hard proposition to give her the custody of her children; but In the case of very young children it is usually so.done Mm.\L conduct IK IMPORT \NT. In some esses neither parent wants the care nnd custody of their children, sometimes not even in the csss of very young children. In tbs assigning of the custody of a child the moral conduct of the parent to whom it la assigned is very important and quite lu fluent in 1. The wealth of the parent is not *o important; for the court has the power to hornpot the father to support his child, or in this county that power enu be transmitted to the Juvenile t’ourt. It is a very common Instance so long as the parent* live together and maintain a home the father can support hla wife and children by the aid of hla wife's labor In the house, ns long as the marriage relation remains and they live together; but after the divorce he cannot make enough money to support hts children at one place end himself at an oilier, and he cannot give them a home with himself because he cannot care for them. It is then the court's troubles again begin Many a wife and mother, when she bring* her suit for a divorce falls to contemplate such a situation or cannot appreciate it, and a calamity follows both to hers.-ls and children. She had better put up with some misconduct for the (Continued on i'age Thirteen.)

City Judge Relieves U. S. Agent of Gun Special to The Time*. I-’T. WAYNE, Ind.. Dee. 3 -Deputy United Slate* Marshal William H. Hagarty is without hi* "trusty weapon” today. When his ease was brought up in City Court under the charge of disorderly conduct. Judge Mungovun ordered Hagnrty's gun taken from him and placed in tho custody of the chief of police. Hagarty was arrested several weeks ago after hq had boarded a street car and is said to have pulled his pistol on the motorinan, whom Hagarty claimed previously had pushed him from the car.

Frank Webber Pulls Last Hat Check at End of Long Service

| After half a century of employment for j tlie Big Four railroad Frank Webber, 1811 Central avenue, retired from active service Tuesday when hts train pulled ;In from St, Louis. For thirty-nine years Mr. Webber made the run between Indianapolis and NL Louts as conductor. Telegrams and Tetters of appreciation and well wishing have been sent to him by many of his friends and heads of the road. B. T. White, division superintendent, has written his congratulations saying that Mr. Webber made a record which is n fino example to his fellow workers. Others who have sent their congratulations are F. if. Brine of Cincinnati, auditor of passenger accounts; 8. V. Bennington of Terre Haute, division truiu master, and B. A. Fawcett, assistant train master. During ids fifty years of service Mr. Webber never had a serious accident occur to ids train. He disclaims any credit for his successful career giving all the credit to an “efficient train crew.” “I first began my railroad work as brakeman on the old Beei Line, on the Indianapolis division, which ran to Gallion, Ohio,” he said. “That was In the latter part of December, 18110. C. C. GaSl was my division superintendent. 1 ‘broke’ on the freight, train two years (Continued on Page Fifteen.) Magic Goes Too Far WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3.—Walter Cruso, church festival .magician, could call up spirits in church, Judge Harrison ruled; but when he extracted more than one-half of one per cent from a bdttle the judge fined him for drunktnnesa.

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DEMOCRATS OF OHIO ACTIVE IN PARTY’S BEHALF Begin Work df Reorganization and Pledge Funds for Publicity. 300 SUBSCRIBE IN 1 HOUR By Staff Correspondent. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 3—Democrats of in session here yesterday, began active work toward carrying out reorganization plans such as were suggested for the Democrats of Indiana at their State meeting uearlv a month ago, but have not been carried out. Three hundred members of the party pledged themselves to contribute $lO a year to <i fund for publicity and organization work and it was agreed that sluO,000 would be raised in this manner. George I). White, national chairman, headed the list of subscribers to this fund and the three hundred names were obtained in less than an hour. Two plans of conducting the inter-cam-paign works were suggested, the one most favored being the appointment of a small board of strategy under which publicity and organization workers might operate. FAVOR COMPACT OKGAINZATION There was, of course, the usual objection that the State committee might not desire to allow any other body to direct the work, but the majority of those in the conference agreed that only ft smaller and more compact organization cteuld accomplish the necessary program. Running through the meeting was the sentiment that the Democrats did not wish to Imitate the bitterness of the Rs(Continued on Page Fifteen.) SIMS, ZOERCHER TO SIT STEADY Offer No Comment on McCray’s Statement. Fred A Sims, chairman of the State j Roard of Tax Commissioners, nnd Philip ; Zocr her. Democratic member of the board, declared today they had nothing to ! say regarding the declaration of Governor elect Warren T. McCray, that he would retain Mr. Sims *s a member of j the board until his term expires, and that | he would ask for the resignation of My. i Zoerrher as s--on as he take* office. Both Mr. Sims and Mr. Zoercher Indli rated they would “alt steady In the boat” until appointments are hnuded out by Mr. McCray following adjournment of the legislature. Meanwhile they will con- ; tlnno their work with the State board j and await developments. Mr. McCray has indicated he will ask i for Mr Zoercher * resignation as soon as he takes office. Mr. Zoercher was recently appointed for a four-year term on the tax board by Governor Goodrich. Mr. McCray has stated he will give the people anew deal in the administration j of tax affairs In Indiana, and he ha* In I dlwite.l that the artton of Governor Goodrich lu attempting to continue hla policies In State mnttsrs, by tho appointment of Mr Zoercher on the tax board . has displeased him.

U. S. GRAND JURY WILL SIT DEC. 6 Problems Expected to Hold Body at Least Month. The Federal grand jury will convene Dec 6 in what la thought will bo ono of the most important sessions since the war. Approximately 500 witnesses are understood to have been subpoenaed and the jury is expected to be in session at least a month. The principal business before the Jury pr bald) will be the Investigation of reports of tho existence of an organization for the illicit production, transportation and sale of liquor, invlovtng dozens of men tr various parts of northern Indiana and Including some county officials. Although Federal officials, adhering to their policy c.f secrecy, refuse to state what their Intentions are. It Is thought possible there will be an Inquiry into reported frauds in the last election. l’rlor to the election United States District Attorney Frederick Van Nuy* admitted ho had received reports of false registrations from Indianapolis. Gary, Evansville, Mnncie, Delphi and Jeffersonville and that these were being looked into by agents of the Department of Justice. It is known the department sent a special investigator from Washington to take charge of this work. The number of miscellaneous eases, which Include bank and postofflce robberies and embezzlements and the like, is unusually large, several having been left over from the last session of the grand Jury. Seek Coin for Bridge at Jeffersonville WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.-—Tho Interstate Commerce Commission today received applications from the Big Four Raiirond and the Jefferson Bridge and Railroad Companies for permission to issue obligations totaling $247,000 to bulltd a bridge across the Ohio River from Louisville to Jeffersonville, Ind.

Move to Protect Senate From Blighting Draft to Make Harding's Cabinet

WASHINGTON, Pec. 3. —Out of a series of conferences.with Ilarry M. Daugherty, political mentor to President-elect llnrding, has had with Republican leaders in Washington, it has developed that a number of Republican Seuator* have entered into what practically amounts to a “gentlemen’s agreement" not so enter the Harding Cabinet after March 4. This move has been taken not because Cabinet portfolios were unattractive, but because nearly all the powerful and -Influential Republican members of the Senate have at some time or other been reported as leaving the hill for the other end of Pennsylvania avenue. This was particularly alarming to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the G. O. P. leader In the Senate, and he, according t 0 reports, gathered about, him some of the most prominently mentioned and pointed out that the Senate shauld receive their primary consideration. LODGE STATEMENT ON NEW ONE RESULT. Senator Lodge’s public statement expressing the “hope” that Senator Harry S. New of Indiana would continue in the Senate, was the direct result of these conferences. Senator New Is not only one of Senator Harding's closest political

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FESLER GRABS OFF $5,115 FROM COUNTY AT 3 CENTS A VOTE \ ■ Claim for Copying Names Is Railroaded by Two of Commissioners While Third Is Absent. SHANK FINALLY ‘EXPLAINS ’ IT Three cents a head is the value of each name on the 1920 registration lists to County Auditor Leo K. Fesler. This became known today when inquiry developed that County Commissioners Lewis George and Carlin Shank paid $5,115 of the taxpayers’ money to County Auditor Leo K. Fesler as compensation for his duties relative to the two registrations and in the providing of a complete list of the registered voters to the county chairmen of the Republican and Democratic parties.

ONE OF FILLING STATION YEGGS REPORTED HELD Man Arrested With Two Others and Woman Confesses, Police Say. Fred Collier, one of the men arrested today in connection with robbery of Frank Losler at his gasoline filling station, 1706 South Harding street, Monday night, has signed a written confession, according to the police. Details of the admissions were not public, but it is believed Collier has made a clean breast of the hold-up and that he has implicated some of the others held with him. Two men and a woman arrested with Collier are held under $5,000 bonds. Losler was held up and robbed by two men who entered his filling station, covered him with a revolver, and removed about S2B from the cash register. They failed to find $45 hidden under an oil can. Detective* Roach, Fossati. Rsdamacher nnd X'eats arrested Frank Clark, 25. of Mnncle; Fred Collier, 26, of the Loraine Hotel; Arthur Wright, 32. of Rural Route C, Box 46, a farmer living near Ben Davis; Mrs Nellie Prados, 23 of the Occidental Hotel, who, before her marriage to a soldier now stationed at Ft Benjamin Harrison, lived at 1914 Madison nveune. According to the police the two holdup men who robbed Losler escaped in a taxi in which there was a woman and another man beside the taxi driver. The say Clark and the Prados woman w-ere in the taxi and had no (Continued on Page Fifteen.) WINDS DELAY HARDING’S SHIP Senator May Not Reach Norfolk Until Saturday. ABOARD STEAMSHIP TASTORES, Dec. 3 (By Wireless.) —Heavy head winds so delayed the progress today of the Psstores, on which President-elect Harding Is voyaging to S'orfolk that it was believed the ship couM not reach its destination before Saturday afternoon. The President-elect's vacation days ended while the Pastures was still 300 miles ont. At that time he retired to his cabin and set to work on the speech ,he expects to make at Norfolk. As tho Pa stores moved northward sharp -winds were encountered and the temperature dropped rapidly. Harry M. Daugherty and Edward B. McLean, friends of Harding, are expected to greet him at Norfolk. They will stay two or possibly more days with Harding at Washington. Daugherty was his j pre-convention manager. Paper Money Blamed for Epidemic of Grip PARIS, Dec. 8.-—The epidemic of Spanish grip in a milder form than the usual run of the disease, now sweeping through Franco, is blamed by the doctors on the recent enormous increases in paper money in circulation. Small Dills are especially condemned because they change hands so often that they becofne perfect germ carriers. Half Dozen Rob Bank BALTIMORE. Dec. 3.—Half a dozen armed men robbed the City Savings Bank of Baltimore, a small concern at Gay and High streets, in the eastern retail section of the city, Thursday, securing about $5,000, it was estimated. AWARDED SI,BOO DAMAGES. A Jury In Federal Court today reported a verdict of SI,BOO damages for Bernard Kenime, Cincinnati, who sued Albert W. Kilien of Mnncle, for $20,500 compensation for Injuries suffered in an automobile accident in the Ohio city. Kenime alleged that Kilien drove hts automobile into him as he alighted from a street car.

advisers, but also Is ono of his closest personal friends and one of the few “ortgiphl Harding men." It had been conceded that Senator New could have any Cabinet post ho desired. His name had been mentioned prominently in connection with the War Department and postmaster general posts. Senator Lodge's action has definitely set at rest all rumors that he himself is a Cabinc possibility. Along with KHhu Root and Senator Philander C. Ivuox of Bennsylvan'a, Lodge . had been prominently mentioned as a possible Secretary of State. FORECAST D YINDLE9 DOWN TO ON. .V TWO. Asa result of'these conferences there remains only one Republican Senator who could bo conskle ei-of more than passing prominence for Cabinet honors. This is Knox of Pennsylvania. Whether he will join his senatorial colleagues in voluntarily eliminating himself from consideration remains to be seen. Harry M. Daugherty has a conference scheduled with the Pennsylvania Akiator todu^^ The voluntary of her f Senators had as Republican ’ ’<rrsjfc;.■ffgWgg&i&l

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The commissioners decided the county auditor was entitled to 3 cents a name on the registration lists, and the voucher was made by Mr. George and Mr. l-Liank late one afternoon in the absence of Commissioner Joseph Hayes. Mr. Hayes did not know until yesterday that the other two members had fixed a 3-cent value on each name. Yesterday permission was asked of Bailiff John Carlisle of the county com-! missioners to see the claim which had been allowed as registration expenses. The records at that time did not contain the item of $5,115, which had been awarded to Mr. Commissioners Shank and George. SHANK ADMITS THE ALLOWANCE. Commissioner Shank admitted he and Mr. George had allowed Auditor Fesler three cents a name for each voter whose name appeared on the 1920 registration books. “Mr. Fesler wanted about SB,OOO, but Mr. George contended that the State Board of Accounts had given an opinion that three cents a name was reasonable,” explained Commissioner Shank. “There are 170.500 names on the registration lists and this multiplied by three would make the total $5,115.18,” he said. The reporter asked to see the order and Informed Mr. Shank that the rec(Contlnaed on Page Fifteen.) STREETJOGSNOW FLOATING IN AIR Works Board Drops College Avenue Straightening Proposals. The board of works temporarily aban- * doped the movement to eliminate bad truffle conditions due to the Jogs in College avenue between Massachusetts avenue and Tenth streets, today, when It rescinded all action on two resolutions designed to accomplish tbi.. One resolution called for the straightening of the section of street from St. (lair to Mary streets and the other for the opening of Edison avenue from Pomeroy to Eleventh streets. It was plan- , ned either to eliminate the jogs or take the street car lines out of this section of # College avenue and run them in Edison avenue between Massachusetts avenue and Eleventh street. George Lemaux. president of the board, said that ail action was rescinded because the board thought it unfair to push through an improvement of thia nature when property owners In the district, which would be assessed for it, are now untler heavy taxation due to the resurfacing of College avenue. Contracts were awarded for the construction of a sewer in Buckingham drive from a point twenty-five and onehalf feet east of Boulevard Place to a point twenty-three and one-half feet east of Cornelius avenue to the Columbia Construction Company on a bid of $6.29 a lineal foot, total, $3,176.45, and for a sewer in Belmont avenue from the first alley north of Michigan street to Tenth street to the Sheehan Construction Company on a bid of $6.73 a lineal foot, total. $13,892.70. The eit)’ civil engineer reported tha completion of the resurfacing of South street from Illinois street to a point 334 feet west of Senate avenue by the Premier Construction Company. The engineer’s final estimate of the cost of tha resurfacing is $21,733.44. Third Attempt to Kill Self Unsuccessful KANSAS CITY, Dec. 3 Dennie Chester. under arrrest in connection with the murder of Florence Barton, society girl, made a third unsuccessful attempt at suicide today. Chester attempted to butt out his brains against tho bars of his cell when his guards looked away for a minute. Chester, after being subdued, was chained to a cot. His injuries were not serious KILLS SHERIFF: GETS LIFE. PANA, 111.. Dec. 3.—Lotis Dayton was sentenced to life Imprisonment in Circuit" Court on his plea of guilty of having shot to death Sheriff Sidney Biggs at Cowden, near here, last May. Attention! Cooks! Get These Recipes Do you know how to prepare “little pigs in the blankets?" Can yo umnke a “shrimp wiggle? Or pea t.omales? Or lima bean loaf? Or stuffed beets? Or turnips au gratln? Or roquefort dressing ? Or Royal Anne salad? Or even a simple thing like apricot snow or brown Betty ? The specifications for ail of these and 200 more are contained in a book procurable only through the Washington law.l formation Bureau of The Daily Times. Anv one of these recipes may bo used am- day in the year. There is nothing in them that\can not be bought in a can. They are thought out with the Idea of . economy in mind —have been written since a certain constitutional amendment became a reality. (In filling out*the coupon print name and addffits or be sure to write plainly-* 1

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