Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1920 — Page 2

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SENATE REBEL LEADERS MAY VISIT HARDING Word of Possible Insurrection Reaches President-Elect’s Ears. DISLIKE LEAGUE STAND MARION, Ohio, Dec. .15.—Rumbles of possible Insurrection among Republican lrreconcilablea In the Senate were reaching President-elect Harding through varions channels today. He may call some of their leaders to Marion shortly with a view to nipping any Insurgent movement such as wrecked the Taft administration. Primarily the lrreconciliables fear Harding Is leaning too far In favor of the League of Nations. according to advices reaching here. Among other aonrces of apprehension is the new Cabinet, and the belief that Harding Intends to appoint Herbert Hoover; another Is the fear that he is not planning a sufficiently progressive domeatlc program. Harding la In closest touch with the Senate position, often by long distance telephone, and knows of every shift In the line-up almost as soon as it occurs. Raymond Robins, Chicago, a progressive, was to be here today to lay before Harding the views of his own wing 01 the party, especially as to domestic legislation and the labor situation. Should hit advice be acted upon there would be little complaint from the progressive Republicans. Reports that Robins is be Ing considered for Secretary of Labor were strengthened by his appearance her* tc-day. He has always been friendly to organized labor. Harding addresses a bonference on child welfare here tonight. Tomorrow Governor Calvin Coolidge comes and Friday Harding will see William J. Bryan, Senator New (Indiana), and Chairman Will Hays of the Republican national committee. He appeared to be optimistic today regarding the conferences held so ■far. They Indicated, he said, that It will not be as difficult to reach a common ground as some had thought. ASSESS GOODRICH MINE PROPERTIES Commissioners Boost Valuations in Some Cases. Increases for several of the large corporations of the State have been made In the fourth session assessments by the State Board of Tax Commissioners, according to assessments given out today for several counties. Corporations in sixty-five counties of the State were reassessed by the State board, while no appeals were made from twenty-seven counties. Assessment of the property of the Calora mine and the Lenoir mine. In Greer* County, the latter being the mine In which Pierre Goodrich, son of Governor James P. Goodrich, holds stock, and the former being one in which Governor Goodrich is interested, was placed at SIOO,OOO and $148,950. respectively. In lieu of former assessments. Some of the assessments made by tbe board In the various counties are; Delaware County, Muacie Star, assessed by county board at $90,000; reduced by 'ifate board to $72,000. Gibson County, Bosse Coal Company, assessed by county board at $9,00); raised by State board to SSI,IOO, Kosciusko County, Sandusky Portland Cpment Company, assessed by county oard at $207,250; raised by State board $323,200. Lak County (in which many steel ndnstries are located!, American Bridge i’ompany, as essed by county board at raised by State board to sl. "52,673; American Sheet and Tin Plata Company, assessed by county board at! '■105973, raised by State board to sl,198,975. Other large industries of the ounty were raised proportionately. In Lawrence County small advances were made In the assessments of the stone companies located there. Approximately $70,000 was taken off the assessment of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works of South Bend.

Claypool Foundry Is Wrecked by Wind Special to The Time*. WARSAW, lnd.. Dec. 15.—An immense foundry building in course of construction at Claypool, was partially wrecked by a wind storm that swept over this section Tuesday. The total damage is estimated at SIO,OOO. The storm was the most severe that has ever struck Kosciusko County. Trees were uprooted, telephone poles were blown down and plate glasa windows were broken out of several Warsaw stores. Hundreds Attend Dodge Funeral DETROIT, Dec. 15.—Hundreds of Detroiters, privateand official, attended the funeral services for Horace E. Dodge, millionaire atitomohile manufacturer, this afternoon. Following the services the body was taken from Rose Terrace, •the Dodge home at Crosse Polnte. to its final resting place beside the body of the late John F. Dodge, In the family vault in Woodlawn Cemetery. Dodge died In Palm Beach, Fla., last Friday. Czecho-Slovakia Revolt Reported LONDON, Dec. 15. —A revolution has broken out in Czecho-Slovakia, according to a Central News dispatch from Vienna. A military dictatorship is reported to have been set up in the industrial districts, while in other areas the "dictatorship of the proletariat" is said to have been proclaimed. Serves Notice of War on Colombian Treaty WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Notice was served on the Senate today that any attempt to get the Colombian treaty ratified this session will be blocked. Senator Poindexter, Republican, Washington, made this statement during discussion of the treaty provoked by Senator King, Democrat, Utah. Talk School Bills Members of the committee of legislators appointed recently by Governorelect Warren T. McCray, to confer with Indiana school officials relative to educational legislation met today with L. N. Hines, superintendent of public Instruction. Proposed legislation for relief of the educational Institutions and for changes In the educational system was given to the legislators, who will present the bills to the educational committees of the Legislature. Assemblymen who attended the conference were: Senators William M. Swain, Pendleton; Clem J. Richards, Terre Haute and Joseph M, Cravens of Madison. Representatives A. O. Lek Long, Azalia; Henry L. Hnmerick kouaer, Plymouth; Chester Davis, PennBllle and Sherman Hall, Crothersrllle.

Woman Steps on Rat, and—Behold, Drive Gets Its Inception Mrs. W. H. Hart Tells of Striking Rodent in City ■ Market While Shopping. The campaign to exterminate rats In Indianapolis being conducted this week by the Women’s Department Club and the United States Public Health Service had its Inception, so far as the local club was concerned, when Mrs. W. H. Hart, former chairman of the community wel- ■ fare section ar.d V now at bead of mflflll rx the rat drive committee, stepped on a large rodent in the city market, V fr'Tj \ statement by her. (/l\ f The incident, as Atl related by Mrs. Hart, is illuminating ns pointing to conditions in tne market which the Department Club repeatedly has decried and which the Daily Times has often pointed out. The rat was stepped on while Mrs. Ilart was shopping in the market building one morning some time ago. Mrs. Hart said she got out of the rat’s way as quickly as possible and saw It run under a nearby stand. She passed on to another stand and was talking to the standholder there when she saw a woman, evidently the owner of the stand under which the rat had taken refuge, start to go behind her counter, Mis. Hart said. SOUNDS FUTILE WARNING TO OTHER “ ‘That woman ought not to ge behind there. I Just saw a big rat. run In there,’ ” I told the standholder with whom I was talking,” Mrs. Hart said. “The woman to whom I spoke called to the other standholder and told her: “ ‘You’ve got company over there.’ “‘What do you mean?’ the other woman asked. “ ‘Why, this woman says a big rat ran under your stand.’ “ ‘Oh, that’s all right, we’re used to them,’ the standholder replied. “You can be sure I don’t buy anything on the market any more that I can t wash,” Mrs. Hart concluded. The incident recalls the fact th’at the Women’s Department Club has been trying to have city authorities clean up the market for several years without success. It was thought some progress would be made when the board of safety’s special market commission, headed by Stanley Wyekoff, former Federal food administrator for Marion County, and including in its membership Mrs. Rowland Evans, representing the women's organization, made extensive recommendations. The commission investigated every pi-ase of the market and its report advised that the board of safety take immediate steps to make the place sanitary. NOW CALLED PARADISE FOR RATS. As the place is now operated it is a paradise for rats, statements of health authorities prove. Many of the stand counters have wooden fronts and sides, forming dark recesses within which rats may hide and grow fat. It is no secret that standholders let refuse accumulate beneath their counters. While some attempt frequently is made to keep the premises clean, the refuse need not be left long for the rats to get all the food necessary to enable them to have a sleek, well-fed appearance. Health authorities state that the only way to prevent the evil is to have the counters set on legs 30 .there will be wide open spaces beneath. Itats do not reside nor frequent places Vbere they may he easily seen and driven ouL EVIDENT VIEW OF THE ADMINISTRATION. No one in the present administration seems to think anything would be gained by thoroughly flushing the market and scrubbing It as was don-* under previous marketmasters ev ry week There is of course, the possibility that rats would be discouraged if every standowacr were required to make his own stand sanitary by removing all refuse. but orders.to this effect are absent and there is little disposition to enforce what regulations have beeen made for the market. The Department Club plans to reopen its fight for better market conditions at an early date. It Is understood. Meanwhile. Mayor Charles W. Jewett has announced that remodeling of the city market Is part of the city’s 1921 buiidtng program, and it is quite noticeable that ever since the city administration adopted tbe new market project, sanitary conditions in the market have l>een permitted to grow worse.

Expected to Name Committee Soon Col. L. R. ’Gignllllat, commander of the Indiana division of the American Legion, is expected soon to name five members of the organization to serve a= a legislative committee to cooperate with the State War Memorial Commission in arranging legislation for the proposed American Legion memorial. The appointment probably will be made by the end of this week, when Colonel Gignllllat comes from Culver. Authority was granted Colonel Gignllllat to appoint the committee by the executive council of the American Legion, in session here lest November. Following the announcement of the war memorial commission that no recotnmenda tions would be made In the coming session of the Legislature the work of push ing the project probably will be placed In charge of the legion committee. Request to Remove Troops Not Received WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The State Department has not received the resolutions reported to have been laid before the Central American Union, asking withdrawal of American troops from Nicaragua. The State Department announced that the only American troops now In Nicaragua are Marines, a small detachment forming a legation guard and placed there with the consent of the Nicaraguan government. Assessors Meet One hundred fifty county assessors and their deputies met today in v the House of Representatives chamber of the Statehouse for their annual conference with the members of the State tax board. Addresses were made by Fred A. Sims, chairman of the tax hpsrd; W. C. Harrison, secretary of the tax board; Governor James P. Goodrich, Governorelect Warren T. McCray and W. N. Cox of Parke County. Thursday, the second and last day of the conference, the assessors will hear talks by Philip Zoercher and John G. Brown, tpembers of the hoard of tax commissioners, and other tax authorities of the State.' The general misunderstanding of the tax law and various problems which confront the assessors of the State in dealing with the law were to be discussed by the members, according to Mr. Sims. COLLINS SPEAKS AT FT. WAYNE. Judge James A. Collins of the Marlon County Criminal Court left today for Ft Wayne to address the Ad Club of that city, tonight. Cold in One Dny Take GroBftt&XAXIYE BROMO QUI NINE genuine bears tbs eignntu ;',oe. Advor-

TRAPPERS SEE LITTLE DEMAND Few Animal Furs to Be Sold This Year. Many trappers in Indiana will not follow the business of taking fur this season because the hard work It entails offers very little remuneration, Recording to George N. Mannfeld, superintendent of fisheries and game of the State Conservation Department. Mr. Mannfeld basea his opinion on numerous letters received from fur takers all over the State who claim that an exceedingly weak market for pelts is no inducement to continue. The situation existing in Indiana is to be found in other States, and it is expected that as a result of the market slump and no active demand for pelts, thousands of animals which otherwise would have fallen victims to hunters and trappers will escape this season. The unusual slump in the price of fur is attributed to n strike among workers in the fur garment industry In the East. This tie-np has been in force since last May with 10,000 skilled employes refusing to resume operations. Dealers were forced to hold vast quantities of furs which, had they been worked up Into articles ready for the consumer, would have found a ready market. The expense of holding over last season’s fur forced some dealers to borrow money in order to retain their stocks. In view of the large stocks on hand dealers are not not bidding actively for this season’s catch, and the market has declined until a mink pelt which last year commanded S3O now brings only about $4. Muskrats a year ago sold for $4.50 and today the price is around 40 cents. A skunk hide that last year was worth $0 and $7 today sells for about $1.50. Opossum hides are selling for 50 cents each where last year they sold for $2.50. In view of unstable market conditions which make it impossible for a trapper to realize any large amount of money from this season's work, many trappers will quit taking fur this year. While the situation is a genuine hardship to hundreds of men who last year made hundreds of dollars from the sale of furs. In the Interest of conservation it will give the fur bearing animals a chance to reproduce in numbers that will make fur taking profitable in the future. Trappers who contemplate a busy season and look forward to a rich reward for their labor, should investigate the market before devoting much time to an enterprise which at the best will bring them but small remuneration this year. Mr. Mannfield estimates that more than a million dollars’ worth of fur was taken in Indiana last season. MIDDAUGH JURY SELECTION SLOW After spending most of the morning in an unsuccessful effort to obtain n Jury in the case of Charles Middaugh, known as "Big Shiner.” who is charged with violating the prohibition atatutes, counsel this nfternoon resumed their efforts before Sfa*c!al Judge James M. Leathers of the Marlon County Criminal Court. Atorney Ira Holmes attempted to have the affidavit on which Middaugh was fined S2OO and sentenced to sixty days in the City Court and from which Middaugb appealed to tbe Criminal Court, dismissed on the groupda that the State “had negatived the exceptions on the affidavit.” Prosecutor Claris Adams produced a Supreme Court decision In another case In which Mr. Holmes had represented n Uent by the name of James and that the Supreme Court had decided this point against Mr. Holme*. Judge Leathers then refuse-1 to dismiss the affidavit uud ordered the ease to trial. Mid-laugh pleaded not guilty. The case probably will last another dajT

DANGERS OF RAT HANDLING ‘SAFE’ (Continued From Page One.) the community promiscuous handling of rats or rat tails would be a severe menace to the healthy individuals who handled them, but If one thoroUglily washes and cleanses the hands after tills procedure there 1* no more danger than tn handling any other unclean object. Q. Isn’t It true that more harm will be done and more disease spread by the widespread handling of rut carcasses than by the unrestricted activities of the rodents themselves? A. Positively not. for the reason that rats In public buildings and around restaurants and food-producing establishment* at time* eat off of food or run over It and contaminate It. This food goe* Into the stomach* of patron* and I submit the following argument: That there 1* o great difference between eating food contaminated from direct contact with rats and handling rat carcasses when the hands are washed afterward. A* a matter of fact, I don't know of any disease that can b# contracted hy handling a rat, providing the hands are washed and cleansed after the procedure. Q. Does not the doctor believe that he owes It to the public at least to issue a warning that the handling of rata la very dangerous, and should never be done without afterward thoroughly sterilizing the hands and such other partß of the body or clothing as may have touched tho diseaseladen bodies? A. It ought to bo accepted a* an . axiom that anybody who handles a rat will wash his hands. Thus are the skeptics and the "sinister Interests” that would interfere wltn whatever the city board of health is reported to be doing driven to deep coTer! It might be dangerous to handle rats If the bubonic plague were present. But the bubonic plague Is not present Rata would be a *erlou menace .to the community If the bubonic plague were present and consequently all their tails ought to be amputated. But the bubonic plague la not present and the tails ought to be amputated anyhow. It is against the law to leave foodstuffs offered for sale unprotected bo that rats may run over It, but It Is a lot easier to catch the rate and amputate their tails than it la to inforce the law concerning unprotected foodstuffs. Every one ought to wash one’s hands. Especially after handling rats or rat tails. Craps Loan Not Legal NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—The Appellate term of the Supreme Court has decided that when a person lends money to another with the knowledge thnt the money is to e used in a craps game he cannot recover if the borrower does not repay the loan of his own accord.

Girls Robbed of ‘Courting Parlors * CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Housing condi tions have ( robbed young girla of “courting pnrlore,” according to Mias Mary Bartelme, assistant to the Juvenile judge, who today advocated establishment of meeting rooms in every school. “Invite the parents to come to ths school parlors and meet the young men ylsitlng their daughter*,” she said. “Provide some games and a piano in one room and leave two or three rooms free for private discussion.”

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15,1920.

Take Office Jan. 1 WILLIAM I>. LVAN S. j. bi rdettb'littlk. JACKSON CARTER. When William P. Evans assumes the title of prosecuting attorney of Marion County on Jan. 1, he will have associated with him three of the best known younger attorneys of the city. Sidney Miller will be the chief deputy, and J. Burdette Little will succeed Ralph Spnan as City Court prosecutor. Jackson Carter will take the place now occupied by Ralph Jones, the grHu-1 Jury deputy prosecutor. Mr. Evans announced his appointments yesterday, and they Indicate that he is determined on a thorough house - leaning In the office now occupied by Prosecutor Claris Adams. Although Mr. Ev'nns, who Is a former service man, has been chief deputy to Adams, he has let It be known that he will conduct the office on a rad traliy different plane. Transportation Club May Change Its Name The annual election of the Indianapolis Transportation Club will take place at a dinner to be held at the Hotel Severin Thursday night when the membership will vote on a change of name of the organization to the Indianapolis Traffic Club. A special committee on by-laws will recommend tbe change of name as well as tin increase In the annual dues. f. B. llumston, president of the club, will preside. During the dinner a SIOO Liberty bond purchased by the club during the world war will be sold to the highest bidder. B. W. Kredenburg of the Illinois Central lines, is chairman of the arrangements committee for the dinner.

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7 YEARS HIS LIMIT WITH ONE WOMAN Wife Seeks Divorce in New York High Court. NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Mrs. Augusta Pollock, whose suit for separation from Martin D. Pollock, president of ths Union Dyeing and Finishing Woiks, was pending In Supreme Court, appeared before Justice Hendrick and said her husband wrote that seven years was the limit he could live with any woman. The Pollocks were married In 1912. Pollock is 41 and his wife is ten years younger. She told the court her husband had been attentive to other women and had neglected her. Mrs. Pollock submitted n letter, which read: “I no longer love you. I no longer care for you. Name the time when I can give you evidence for a divorce. You are a young woman and can get a fellow -and get married again. Why stick to me? I am through with you. Seven years is the longest I can live with any woman.” VANTAGE HELD BY AMERICA IN NAVAL RATING (Continued From Page One.) England has cancelled some of these vessels recently. Thus the United States and Japan are the only two nations active today in extensive naval construction. At the present time, however, Britain's first-line strength Is estimated at 964,650 tons, nearly twice that the United States. The tonnage of the entire British navy today is placed at 2,345.712, which embraces 595 ships of all classes. The Uniter States has 347 ships in service today, totaling 1.137,914 tons, but 12American ships are either building or projected, with a combined tonnage of 890,439. Prospective American vessels are said to represent newer types and greater gun power. Japan’s future provision for smaller craft Includes nine light cruisers, forty seven ocean going destroyers and fortysix submarined, most of them more then 800 tons. The United States has provided for the construction of 11 auper-dread-nnughts, 8 dreadnaugbts, 14 of the predreadnaught period, 6 battle cruisers. 10 cruisers, 45 destroyers and 54 submaM’CVMBER RAPS SOLDIER BONUS NOW WASHINGTON, Dec. 15— Granting of a sold er bonus at present would lnllct a great hardship on taxpayers, Senator McCumber of North Dakota, acting chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, declared today. The fight to have the Senate adopt the bonus act passed by the House Inst session was opened today before the Senate Finance Committee by representatives of World War veteran*. A decision or the bonus will be reached at this session of Congress, MeCnmlier predicted. ”1 hav„ no doubt Congress eventually will grant a liberal bonus to veterans," said McCumber, “but the principal question now ts whether It would bo wise to grant It at the present time. •*We are now providing for the war disabled.” ho said. BRITISH ALARMED FOR SEA PRESTIGE LONDON, Dec. 15—The British are taking serious alarm over the possibility of losing their maritime prestige to America. The Globe In a leading article \today said ; “Britain’s supremacy on the sea, upon which our existence has depended for 806 years, appears to be very seriously menaced. As poor as we are at the moment, we will begrudge no expenditure that 1* required to preserve mastery of the seas. We would rather scrap every other department of Whitehall than to see that.” The newspapers gave conspicuous display to dispatches from Washington rcgard'ng Senator Borah* resolution to bring about an agreement between America, Great Britain and Japan to limit thetr armaments, but the morning papers printed no editorial comment. “Can the nations disarm?” asks the Fall Mall Gazette In Its headline over the Washington ilapatch. The Imperial defense committee, which met yesterday to consider the future natal policy, Is continuing Its sessions today with great secrecy. Sir I’ercy Scottt, famous British navr.l expert, Is leading a strong movement against the continued construction of -Ireadnanghts. In a letter to the Times and an Interview In the Evening Standard Sir I’ercy Scott pleaded the cauae of the submarine against the capital ship He argued that the submarine of thr future will not only use twelve and four-teen-inch guns, but will be fitted with machinery for the projection of poison gas. "The use of depth bomba against submarine* will become unsafe when (lie underwater craft are equipped with poison gas,” argued Sir I’ercy Scott. "The destruction of a submarine would le loose the deadly gas fumes which would envelope the warship on the surface. I believe it will be possible in the future for submarines to put down a barrage of poison gas, bottling up the surface ships of a navy In the harbor, where they fRy be anchored at the time.” DESTROY HUN MONUMENT. BRUBKELB, Dec. 15.—The monument which .was erected by the Germans at CoulUet, near Charleroi, Belgium, In commemoration of the battle of Charleroi was blown up with dynamite by order of the municipal authorities. An attempt to destroy the monument recently was made by private Individuals.

Wished to Catch ‘Rare* Car, Mistaken for Burglar Crew Fleeing Men Inform Emergency Squad They Were Only Stockyards Bound. The police emergency squad almost ! caught three burglars at 6:30 o’clock this 1 morning. 1 “There is a burglar In the Severin ho- | tel,” stated n voice over the telephone to ; the desk sergeant at police headquarters. 1 In less than a minute an emergency squad was on its way to the hotel and ; as the big automobile halted on Georgia ! street near Illinois three men sprinted around the corner of the building. It looked like a pursuit and three policemen Jumped from the automobile and halted the runners. “What’s the matter?” demanded one. "What you running for?” demanded the cop. “T saw a stockyards street car and I wanted to catch it, for I think it’s the only one on the line,” explained one of the “suspects.” The other two admitted they planned to get on that same street car. The burglar call proved to be a fake, and tbe three suspects watted on the ; corner for the stockyards car. GRANDJURYCALLS MYERS CHILDREN Prosecutor Expects Report in Case Saturday. The two stepchildren of Mrs. Inda Myers, who is being held In the Marlon County Jail on a charge of the murder of her husband, Frederick A. Myers, a I former photographer of this city, ap--1 peared before the grand Jury today when ' that body resumed an extensive Invest!- , gatlon of the tragedy. Arthur Myers, 12, and his brother, Byron, 14, appeared In the waiting room of the grand Jury at the Courthouse. The boy* were accompanied to the Courthouse by an officer of the Juvenile Court. After the grand Jury adjourued at noon the boys were returned to the home of Mrs. Margaret Hildebrand, a policewoman, in whose custody they have been placed pending u hearing Satur- ! day before Judge Solon J. Carter of I Superior Court, room 3, in which Mrs. D. J. McGartb of Chicago, the divorced wife of the late Mr. Myers and the | mother of the two boys, seeks to have | a divorce decree modified so *be can j have the custody of the children. Mrs. j Myers ha* instituted action In the Juvei nile Court, seeking to have the boys made wnrda of the court to prevent tho ! mother from obtaining custody of them. Mrs. McGarth wn seen in the ante- | room of the grand Jury room this morn- | ing and It was not announced If she had been called ns a witness Her sonn I occupied pUc e * on a bench some little i dUtunce from her. It ts said that the i boy* desire to remain with their step- ! mother. Deputy Prosecutor Baiph Jones stated | that the grand Jury would not be ready ! to report on the Myer* case probably unj til Saturday. Say Aged Boston Man Stole $300,000 in Cash BOSTON, Dee. 15, -Edward Davla Bice, a TUtyear old dyestuff merchant i with offices on Atlantic avenue, was ar- , ; rested today by police inspectors armed : ' with an indictment w arrant charging | larceny of $150,000 from the National \ Shaw mu t Bank and a like amount from (the Nr# Truat Qmipnny. STOMACH SO BAD HE HAD TO GIVE UP JOB But Mr. Myers has his old job back now, and has gained 30 pounds. “Over a year ago my health got so bad : I had to give up my work as coal miner. 1 Had n very bad caae of stomach trouble. ! j 1 felt so bad thnt I could not eat any- j I thing, and therefore, was too weak to : work. I had been doctcring for a long ] time, blit did not Improve any. “T finally started to take Milks Emul slon und theo went to a farm near here to work. 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DENMAN TELLS OF BRITISH EFFORTS Cites Attempt to Dominate American Ship Building. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—British efforts to dominate American shipbuilding affairs in the early days of the war, even went to the extent of getting British agents elected to Important administrative positions In the United States Shipping Board, according to William Denman, first ehatrman of the shipping board, testifying today before the Walsh Congressional Committee. “In April, 1917,” Denman said, “after the arrival of the British mission, I left my office in New York one day for a conference with some shipbuilders. I expected to be gone about three hours. “At this time we were Just getting the shipping administrative board organized. We we.-e anxious to organize on a purely American basis, and not Insert any foreign Influence until we were organized and knew where we stood. “When I returned to my office I found that in the three hours I had been awuy a meeting of the board had been held nnd a resolution passed making Conan Guthrie and three or four British gentle- . men members of that board, i “How those men came there during I my absence and how they were elected, I | don’t know. I do know, however, how they got off. j “There was a very warm session of the [board; the action was reversed.” ; Denman said he was willing and anxious to cooperate with allied interests, 1 but lie was convinced of the wisdom of organizing America’* shipbuilding proj gram on a purely American basis. Girls Say They Were Prisoners; 8 Held CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Peter Piccolo, aai loon keeper at 1031 Orleans street, and 1 seven other men are held over for. trial on Dec 21, in West Chicago Avenue Court as the result of a story told by two girls less than 16. Tbe girls said they were lured to the saloon and held there by force for three weeks before they could escape. BAD BLOOD Impure, Thin, Weak, Afflict* the Great Majority of People Whether in scrofula, sores, bolls, and eruptions; or as rheumatism with agonizing pain* and aches In limbs, Joints or muscles; as catarrh with its dliagreeable Inflammation and dia- ; charge: in disturbed digestion, or dragging down debility and tired feeling—it 1* corretced by Hood 1 * Sarsaparilla, that most economical and reliable blood remedy and bnlldlng-up tonic. Thousands use this medicine and praise h for wonderful relief. Made from the most valuable remedies that physicians know, and unparalleled In character, quality, taste and i cnratlve power. 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