Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Lowest temperature tonight, 30 to 35.

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FEAR ‘VICIOUS’ COUNCILS SEEK GRIP ON RATES Foes of Bill to Kill Service Commission Assail Local Influence. HEARING BY COMMITTEE Warning against returning the publi<utillties of Indiana to what was termed the vicious influence of city councils was sounded at the public hearing helit last night by House Judiciary A Cora roittee on the bill that would abolish tbo public service commission and revive the old railroad commission. The fate of the commission was by no means settled at the hearing and the question promises to agitate the House for some time. Sincere friends of the commission are working on the proposal to safeguard its future acts by an amendment to tne public utility law that would prevent the granting of emergency rate increases without a proper evaluation of the property involved. It was pointed out that the chief cause of complaint against the body has been its abandonment of that clause of the statute granting it the power to ascertain the value of property prior to deciding a rate application in favor of the emergency clause. Representatives of public utl ities. including officers and friends, and representatives of various municipalities of the State attended the hearing. Debate was limited by Chester A. Davis, chairman, to one and a half hours on each side. SPEAKERS IX FAVOR OF COMMISSION. Speaker* for the public service commission were Charles L. Henry, president of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company and president of the Indiana rtilitles’ Association; Henry Rarnhart of Rochester, president of the Indiana Telephone Managers’ Association; B. R. Inman, president of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce: Mayor Charles W. Jewett: Joseph Kebler, vice president of the Indianapolis Board of Trade: former Mayor Joseph E. Bell and E. B. Knight, president of the New Albany Veneering Company, New Albany. Those who spoke In favor of the bill to abolish the service commission were Col. Charles L. Jewett, New Albany; John C. Miller, city councilman, Michigan City; Representative Claude A. Smith, co-author of the bill to abolish the commission John F. Wiggins, Hancock Connty; Wayne S. Tucker, Grant County representative % Julius O. Artes. city councilman of Evansville, and I. W. Cripe. secretary of an organization formed at Delphi to work for abolishment of the commission. Mr. Henry spoke of the dependence of the people on public utilities. He recalled that the main reasons the commission was founded were charges that Utilities charged too much for service nd played favorites. "No State that has established a public utilities commission has ever abolished the institution,” he said. "The commission has done away with watered stock and on the value or the property alone. (Continued on Page Fifteen.) BURNS TO DEATH IN HOUSE BLAZE Man’s Body Found—Three Hurt in Thrilling Rescues. CHICAGO, Jan 28.—Albion Bryant. 26, an expressman, was burned to death, a young woman leaped from a third floor window and was Injured and two young children were hurt when their father dropped them irm an upstairs window in a fire that t* rtiy destroyed a rooming house on Garfield avetnue early today. More than a score of other roonera were saved In spectacular rescues Bryant was trapped in his room and his charred body was found after the Are bad been extinguished.

NEGRO GAMBLER GETS HEAVY FINE Terms at Farm and Jail Also Imposed. ' Fred Kirtley, negro, 714 Douglas street, today drew one of the heaviest fines ever given In city court In a Mind tiger case. Hi was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to serve ninety days on the Indiana State Farm for operating a Mind tiger, and fined $lO and costs and sentenced to serve ten days in jail for keeping a gambling house. A gaming charge was dismissed. James Morton Fercy Jackson and Chester McClain, negroes, caught in the Douglas street raid, were each fined $5 and eosis for gaming. The visiting charge was dismissed. Herbert Carpenter, negro. who testified he was in the yard catting wood, and William Baker, negro, who “Just happened through the alley,” but who the police said was the watcher, were dismissed after they had testified that the police grabbed them and pushed them into the house. Albert M. Heckman, a white man, said he was delivering malk and that he reached down to pick up 50 cents and that the police rushing through the door knocked him to the floor into the midst of the game. He claimed he was not gambling. The court fined him $5 and costs, but after the affidavit had been given to the bailiff it was recalled and stamped dismissed. This was the third time that Kirtley has been convicted of operating a blind tiger. On Sept. 9. 19JO, he was fined and costs and on Dec. 3,192 b, he was fined (50 and costs. He had a pint of gin in the kitchen of the house where the craps game was raided and two quarts of gin in a house across the alley to which he admitted ownership. Quakers to Visit Erin NEW YORK. Jan. 28.—Eight of the Society of Friends, working for the American Committee for Relief in Ireland, will sail for Ireland Saturday to learn the nature and extent of American aid required.

WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Jan. 29: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday: moderate temperature; lowest tonight 30 to 35 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 31 7 a. m 1 31 8 a. m 31 9 . m 32 10 a. m 34 11 a. m 35 12 (noon),, 37 1 p. in 39 2 p. m 40

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ROWS OF TENEMENT lIOISES WRECKED BY THE EXPLOSION AND GLIMPSE OF THE FIRE AT ITS HEIGHT.

A whole block of negro tenement houses were leveled to the ground, at least fifteen negroes killed and fifty injured when a gasoline tank car exploded at North Memphis, Tena. The blast

TAX LEVY FOR PURDUE FIRST ECONOMY TEST Funds for Experiment Station Considered by House Most of Day. RURAL MEMBERS FIGHT In practically the first real test of members of the House of Representatives as far as economy on appropriation bills are concerned, the House was sitting as a committee of the whole through the greater part of today, discussing House Bill No. 127, which provides for a levy of a Vz cent tax on each SIOO, tc be turned over to the agricultural experiment station at Purdue University. Opposition for the most part comes from the rural members of the Assembly. Th“ Dili was introduced by Representative David It. Johnson of Morgan County and was reported out of committee several days ago with a divided report. It was called down for consideration at 11 o'clock today. Representative Johnson stated that the bill carried an appropriation of only the amount needed by the institution. 11“ slated it was not excessive and declared the institution Is actually in need of -unds. Representative David N. Curry of Sullivan County, Democratic member of the Legislative Visiting Committee, opposed the levy of $4 a cent, declaring the amount raised would be excessive. He moved to reduce the levy to y, cent. A motion by Representative William R. Jlnett of Rush County to table Mr. Curry’s motion was lost and the House occupied more than an hour discussing the bill. Debate was resumed In the afternoon. Salaries of prosecuting attorneys in circuits ranging in population from 17..7)0 to 71,000 would lie raised under a bill introduced in the House today by Representative Jacob D. Rich of Newton, (Continued on Fage Fourteen.) Seeks to Restore Original Names of Two Streets Says Capitol and Senate Avenues Should Be Tennessee and Mississippi. William A. Ketcham, national comcander of the G. A. U., has appealed to Mayor Charles W. Jewett to have the city change the name of Capitol avenue to Tennessee street and Senate avenue to Mississippi street, the names originally given to these streets when the "mile square” was laid out. Mayor Jewett referred the letter to the hoard of public works today. The board instructed its clerk to notify Mr. Ketchet that it does not favor the change for the reason that it would inconvenience citizens residing and conducting business on the two streets and confuse tile public. "I beg to enter a protest against the grotesque parody on nomenclature* by which such beautiful names as Mississippi and Tennessee were discarded and in lieu of them such commonplace designations as Capitol avenue, Senate avenue and Boulevard place substituted,” Mr. Ketcham wrote. At the bottom of his letter he had a footnote explaining the asterisk after the term “nomenclature.” The foot note read, “as Mark Twain would say, this is 'ho slouch of an expression.' ” The board, on suggestion of Fire Chief John C. Loueks, instructed the city civil engineer's office to investlgat* the prevalence of overhead wiring in downtown streets, contrary to the city Are ordinance. Chief Louicks cited twenty-live places within the congotea district where there are overhead w-ires contrary to the ordinance. The ordinance provides that such wires shall be underground. The board may order the utilities owning the overhead wires to remove them.

Entered as Second Class Matter. July 25, 1914. at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.

Score Killed by Explosion of Car

I was followed by a fire which did a quar- ! ter of a million dollars’ damage. Gaso_ ; line vapor let loose when the cap of the car was removed shot into the air and i exploded forty five feet from the ground, It is said. The biast went off at 7:40

APPROPRIATION BILL TAKES UP SENATE’S TIME Measure Carrying 8 Amendments and $5,000,000 Total Reported. FAIL TO HIKE OWN PAY Meeting aa a committee of the whole, the Senate this arternoon took up the general appropriation bill carrying more than $5,000,000. The bill was reported out of the Finance Committee with eight proposed amendments. The Senate passed by a vote of 40 to 0 the constitutional amendment providing that the Legislature may prescribe qualifications for persons engaged in the practice of law. A spirited argument resulted from the second rending of the Masters bill providing a salary of SI,OOO for members of the legislature and S2,<K)O for the Lieutennnt Governor. Members of the Legislature now receive a per diem of $0 and the Lieutenant Governor receives a salary of SI,OOO a year. The bill was amended to provide that the increase shonld not apply to present members of the Assembly and at the rc quest of the Lieutenant Governor it was amended to provide that it should not apply to the present Lieutenant Governor. MOVE TO KILL IS DEFEATED. A motion to strike out the enacting clause and kill the hill, made by Senatoi Robert L. Moorhead of Indianapolis was defeated after spirited debate, in which the Senate Jokesters made much fun of their present salaries. Before taking up the appropriation bill the Senate was expected to take up the McCullough bill, providing penalties for robbery, burglary and murder. The bijl had been read a third time, but a motion to adjourn was carried while it was under consideration. The bill provides imprisonment for life for any one who enters a banking institution to commit a felony, Imprisonment for life for any person assisting in such an act, the death penalty for murder committed in attempting such an act or in assisting guilty persons to escape, and a penalty of ten to twenty years for (Continued on Page Fourteen.)

SCORNS PRESIDENCY; HAS TOO MANY CHILDREN ANYWAY

Man, 100, Framer of Hoosier Policy, Writes to Solons The legislature today received a reply to its congratulatory telegram to G. A. Gordon of Eureka, Kas., the only surviving member of the Indiana constitutional convention of 1850, who celebrated his tooth birthday anniversary last week. The letter, which is clear and legible, was written by Mr. Gordon himself, it fol lows: “To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Seventy-Second General Assembly of the State of Indiana : "It gave me great pleasure to receive your congratulations on my attaining the age of one hundred years. I thank you.”

Albert Theodore Koopman, 2755 Martindale avenue, a dairyman, today refused to give up his job to be the President of the United States. Koopman scorned the presidency wble being questioned as to his qualifications to become a citizen during a naturalization hearing before Judge W. W. Thornton of Superior Court, room 1. George Alaekay, naturalization examiner, was attempting to have Koopman explain that he never could be President because he was born in Holland. Mackay asked the applicant if he could lie President. “I have too many children,” answered who Is the father

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1921.

a. m. The men had gone to work from the tenement homes, but the women and children were pinned beneath the wreckage of their homes as -the cheaply built two-story buildings went to the ground like so much pasteboard.

PAVING DELAYS PULL TEETH IN CAR FRANCHISE Works Board’s Failure to Enforce Penalty Ruins Street and Results in Suit. POWER PLAINLY FIXED Had the board of public works exercised its power* in the franchises under which the Indianapolis Street Railway Company operates it might have avoided a suit to set aside final approval of the assessment roll for the resurfacing of a part of West Washington street, examination of correspondence in the board's c/fices and of the street railway company's contracts discloses. The suit was brought in Superior Court. Room 5, by sixty nine property owners and concerns resurfacing from Belmont avenue to a point 528 feet west of Harris avenue. The property owners are seeking either to hnvp the approval of the assessment roll set aside so they can remonstrate and obtain a review of assessments by the board of works or to have the court review the amounts charged against them. The complaint declares the board ot public works promised tbai if the property owners would not remonstrate against the resolution for resurfacing It would promise in return to force the street railway company to repair its tracks and resurface between and beside them from Belmout avenue to Hartis avenue at the same time. Relying upon this promise, the property owners say, they refrained from remonstrating. NO WORK YET HI COMPANY. The resurfacing work was completed early in July last year, but the street (Continued bn Page Fifteen.)

Mysterious Trips by 2 Men Under Suspicion in Murder Case Disclosed

MADISON, WJs., Jail. 28.-Mysterious trips by two men under suspicion in the "orange yellow diamond murder mystery” to the cemetery where the body of Richard S. Lawrence was burled early last spring, were seusutioual disclosures In the case today. According to evidence in the possession of District Attorney Theodore G. Lewis these two men made two trips after midnight to the lonely Forest Hill Cemetery. Drivers of the two taxicabs told I*ewis regarding the trips. They were made, they sold, some time before tlie body of Lawrence was exhumed. The body was exhumed when the widow of the aged miser charged murder and theft of bis wealth, estimated at $300,000. Lawrence also owned a diamond valued at SIOO,OOO, which disappeared. The diamond once was offered to Queen Victoria, but she rejected it, ordering the money which would

of f"ur children. “Why couldn't you be President?” persisted Mr. Mackay. “I don’t believe I care for it,” answered Koopman. The examiner then said: “Mr. Harding gave up the senatorship to become President and President Wilson resigned from the head of a university to become a Governor and then left the Governor's chair to become President. Wouldn’t you give up your job?” “No,” answered the applicant. Mr. Mackay suggested that the President's salary is $75,000 a year. “I wouldn’t have it,” answered Koopman emphatically.

BUCKNER FATE NOW IN HANDS OF SHELBY JURY Evans Makes Closing Speech in Trial of Negro for Murder. FIRST DEGREE ASKED BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT. BHELBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 28.—William P. Evans, prosecuting attorney oi Marion County, closed the arguments at noon today in the trial of William Buckner, Indianapolis negro, charged with the murder of Adam a par in, a deputy health inspector at Indianapolis. Following the instructions of the court, the case went to the jury. in summing up his arguments, Mr. Evans referred to "guntotiug,” the former troubles of the defendant and the statements he is said to have made on the night of the fatal shooting. He asked for a finding of guilty of first degree murder, which carries with It the death penalty. The defense contended the State hud failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Buckner fired the shot which ended Napariu's life. BASSETT OPENS A KOI ME NT. Elmer Bassett, prosecutor of Shelh.v County, opened the argument before the jury and outlined the law concerning reasonable doubt and circumstantial evidence. He maintained Buckner, ns wa ll as the six other defendants, had the "ability and means” by which to cause the tragedy on the West Tenth street rood. He declared BucknerV "gang" conspired to steal twenty gallons o> whisky from the N'aparlu crowd and maintained the evidence showed that Buckner was armed to “the teeth' tor the purpose of carrying out the conspli ncy. ,1. C. Cheney and George R. Tolen, of Shelbyvllle, counsel for Buckner, maintained In their arguments the State had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doub that Buckner tired the fatal shot and took the position that some of the men who were Indicted with Buckner, had "framed up” evidence against him to savo themselves. Prosecutor William P. Evans of Indianapolis maintained alt the evidence pointed to the guilt of Buckler and said it was proved by witnesses that a wooden handle, which fits on a .45 caliber revolver. admitted by Buckner to be the one he had with him on tho night of the tragedy, was found near the place where (Conti iiuhl on I’ugf Foiirt^rn.) M’CORMICK HOLDS NEW FOREIGN TIP Will Hays Reported Loosing Grip on Possible Cabinet Berth. PALM BEACH. Fin.. Jan. 28.—The pos*l) Buy of Will H. Hays appointed Postmaster Genera! under the Harding administration appears more remote to close friends of the President-elect today than at any time since election. Senator Hedlll McCormick of Illinois Indicated that during his recent tour of Europe, ho had acquired anew angle on International affairs, but believed that his views should not he pressed on the in xt administration at this time. Mr. Harding will do deep sea fishing for at least two days after his arrival at Miami. Police Told Janitor Tried to Attack Girl Sam Barrett. 48. Janitor Liberty building. Kentucky avenue and Maryland s;reet. is being held lyr the police on vagrancy charges under $2,000 bond. Police were told Barrett attempted to attaclr Jessie Clifford. 10. former ward of Juvenile Court, who lives with her father and aunt at 428 North Meridian street. The girl had gone to the building to do some cleaning. Her screams attracted tpe attention of some men in the headquarters of the Carpenters' Union in the hi,tiding, and they held Barrett until the police arrived. The girl left the building Sergeant Dean, with an emergency Squad, investigated the call. Falls Off Wall; Dead Special to The Times. MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. Jan. 28— Albert G. Hoeppner, 27. a guard at the State prison, fell twenty-four feet off the prison wall Thursday afternoon and was killed.

have purchased it to he expended for charity. The taxicab drivers said both men were in working clothes. It probably would be about this time that the alleged substitution of bodies was made. Mrs. 'Lawrence says that it was not her husband who was run down by a train and killed. She says the uiangled body of this man was buried as that of her husband and that lster the body of her slain husband was substituted. A pieeo of the sealp of the man who was killed by the train may be the means of settling definitely all discussion as to whether there were two bodies. The fiesh was taken from the body of the mutilated stranger and lias been preserved In a laboratory here for almost three years. When the body, now ia Forest Hill cemot' ry, is exhumed this piece of scalp will be compared with the body.

“The Government has no objections to Mr. Koopman being admitted,” stated Mr. Mackay with a smile. Judge Thornton chuckled as he instructed Miss Margaret Mahoney to administer the oath of citizenship. Others who received full citizenship are Eugene Kennerkneeht, 1754 North Talbott street: Ferdinand Bauer, 639 Parker avenue; Clemens Stoltz, 320 Harvard place; Wilhelm Knuth, R. It. F.; Emil Claus, 1340 Reisner street; Anton Welland, 1621 Lexington avenue; John T. Healy, 218 North Tremont street; Joseph Fuhrmann, 906 South New Jeisey street; Henry Johnson, 608 North *

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Grover Bergdoll Says He Visited in Indianapolis and Other Nearby Cities

BULLETIN. . BERLIN, Jan. 28.—Six Americans are In jail at Eberbach, following their spectacular attempt to capture Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. draft dodger, former Philadelphian, now an applicant for German citizenship. Leaders of the American party were Sergt. Karl Neaf, Maryland, and Franz Zimmer, a civilian of Denver, Colo. With them were four other civilians.' By FRANK E. MASON. (Copyright, 1921, by the International News Service.) EBERBACH, Baden, Jan. 28. —In a sensational interview, the first he had given out since his escape, Grtiver Cleveland Bergdoll, millionaire American draft dodger, today declared that arrangements were made to buy his freedom for SIOO,000 after he had been sentenced to five years’ Imprisonment by an American court-martial for desertion from the United States Army. •o>n Aug. 13, 1917, I was notified that I had been drafted into the Army at Philadelphia,” said Bergdoll. “But it was not until Jan. 7, 1920. that I was arrested at Philadelphia and later sentenced to five years by a military court sitting at Governor's island, for deser II on. At the end of the following April, or perhaps the beginning of May, arrangements were made to buy my freedom upon payment of SIOO,OOO in gold i was not told who was to receive the money, but merely ‘that is all, and you should tie glad to get your freedom.’ 1 said I haij SIOO,OOO In gold burled In the mountains in West Virginia, but that it would be impossible for any one else to hnd it. "Whether this was graft I do not know. I was told that all I hail to do was to go and dig up the SIOO,OOO. Major Hunt and Major Humphreys received the Order to allow me to go to Philadelphia.

PAROLE ABUSE EXPOSED AGAIN Youthful Violator Held in Jail Pending Removal to Reformatory. Another example of the abuse of the parole system which was practiced under former Governor James I*. Goodrich, came to light today as Cecil Rhoades, 19, a parole violator. Is being held In Jail pending his rernovel to the Indiana State Reformatory where he was sentenced to serve from one to fourteen years. Rhoades nnd Thomas Umphrey, 18, were Indicted on charges of stealing an automobile from George B. Mnxley, 101 East Fourteenth street. Umphrey was sentem eq In Criminal Court to serve from •. \ - ■ ‘:s ;. tne Ji nr*.i t ' fefoi ill 1tory. Judge Collins Imposed a heavier seutenc* on Rhoades because of violating a parole. Recently the police have produced former records and convictions against young men who have been arrested on charges of vehicle taking. Following attacks in the local press, Judge .tarries A. Collins is not suspending as many sen ten es as formerly he did, the records show. ,1. F. iTiuce, charged with issuing fraudulent checks, was sentenced from one to five years in prison by Judge Collins. John Traut. charged with grand larceny. was sentenced from one to fourteen years in prison. Elmer Montgomery, charged with second degree burglary, was sentenced from two to fourteen years at the reformatory. Carlin Rowlett, 19. charged with breaking into the home of James Showniter at 1110 North Sheffield avenue and stealing goods valued at $35 on Jan. 3, 1921, was sentenced from two to fourteen years. Federal Grand Jury Adjourns to Feb. 7 The Federal grand jury which has been In session for several weeks adjourned today until Monday, Feb. 7. Adjournment was taken, according to District Attorney VanNuys. In order to allow Federal officials to gather additional data In the coal conspiracy cases which have been under investigation. Frank E. Ennison, Vincennes, a member of the Jury who returned home sick several days ago, lias the smallpox, according to Mr. VanNuy|. Movie Theaters Plan European Aid Shows Every motion picture theater in Indianapolis. and most of the 450 theaters in Indiana, will give special performances from 10 o'clock Until noon tomorrow. the total receipts of which will be used in supplying food for starving children in eastern and central Europe. It Is hoped that at least 100,000 persons will attend the special shows lu Indianapolis theaters. While the shows will be primarily for children older persons also are urged to attend. An admission charge of 10 cents will be made and not one penny of the amount taken in will be charged to any expense whatsoever by the theater owners. It is pointed out that the special tickets ttiat have been distributed are for the special shows only. Oklahoma Assembly Urges Disarmament OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Jan. 28. A concurrent resolution introduced in tlie Senate of the Oklahoma Legislature, which urges Congress to agree to disarmament was scheduled to be considered by the upper house today. Tlie resolution was presented to the Senate late yesterday by Senator Simpson.

Keystone avenue; John Charles Phipps, 4507 Gilford avenue; John James Iloag. 526 Villa avenue; James Hodson, Jr., 637 North East street. The applications of Henry Wetzel, 2129 Applegate street, was Continued for further study. Applications of Henry Yeager, 2710 Stuart place; Blake Wright, 303 North Arlington avenue, and Martin Healy, 440 North La Salle street, were dismissed. In the case of Mr. Wright the evidence showed that he obtained exemption from the Army because he was an alien, the examiner stated. The court resumed hearing of the petitions of other applicants In the afternoon.

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It Instructed the majors to release me in the custody of two sergeants, who were subject to orders from my attorneys in Philadelphia. There was no mention of the length of time I could stay. "Sergeants Yorke and O’Hare took me to Philadelphia on May 20. I had been in communication with my chauffeur, ; Eugene Stecher. This was made possible by bribing the soldier guards on Governor's Island to smuggle our letters. “Stecher met use at the station in Philadelphia with an automobile. I went to my home, Fifty-Second and Winfield avenues, to stay over night with the two sergeants as guards. Sergeants Yorke and O'Hare requested tvhlsky. We gave them all the whisky they wanted. Sol-' ■ diers are thirsty over there, for they J cannot get anything to drink. I "We slept In my home that night and | the next morning the sergeants drank more whisky. Toward noon they were pretty well filled up. I had not planned to get the sergeants drunk. That was their own idea. I did not think It would be so easy. I had made other plans, but thanks to the sergeants’ thirst I did nto need' them.” Bergdoll paused to light a Igarette, and continued: “About 2 o’clock in the afternoon, i while the sergeants were busy playing the electric piano on the second floor, I gave Stecher a wink, bidding him go down and start the motor of the automobile. Just then the telephone rang. I told the sergeants I would answer the phone, but instead I went out and stepped into the motor car and we drove off. "The sergeants did not know anything about my departure, I understand, for half an hour later. We drove first to Baltimore, and then to Gettysburg, Pa., and thence to Chambersburg, Pittsburgh, Wheeling, W. Va., and to Cambridge, Ohio, where we spent the night. Tne next morning we continued the journey, (Continued on Page Thirteen.)

RECEIVE JOLT FORCAROUSAL Oshewitz Fight Participants Fined and Advised to Try Decent Living. "I advise you and these men to ge; some dbcigit occupation and cut out these all-night carousals,” said Judge Walter Pritchard as he accepted a plea of assault and battery from Walter Brunswick, charged with assault and battery with inteut to kill Harry Oshewitz, known m Jew Harry, during a fight a gambling game at an Indana apartment house Jan. 11. Brunswick was Bne.d $1 and costs and sentenced to serve 100 days on the State Farm. Oshewitz pleaded guilty to assault and battery and was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to serve ten days In Jail. "Your only hope to avoid serving the sentence,” the court told both Brunswick and Oshewitz, "will be to appeal. You cannot continue your midnight games and fights and become parasites on the public and expect the courts to condone it.” Clifford Oartnody, Joe Jacobs, Earl Leathers, Everett (Shiner) MiddaugU, Ed Spangler and William Laffev, all known to the police and who were In the apart(Continued on Page Two.) ♦ Negro Employe of City Seizes Cop’s Weapons Officer Now Knows Better Than to Question Administration Pets. BULLETIN. The board of public works today instructed Thomas Walters, superintendent of street cleaning, to suspend George Lee and S. G. Whitley, negro employes in the city ash-hauling department, pending their trial In city court on charge* growing out of the fracas in which l*atrolman Patrick Shea was robbed of his badge, revolver and club. The board indicated that it would discharge the negroes if they were found guilty. Patrolman Patrick Shea now knows better than to stop and question negroes who are city employes and political pets of the “good government administration,” for George Lee, 28, negro, 326 Furyear street, picked the policeman up, threw him down, stole his gun and club and then forced the “arm of the law” to surrender his badge. The scene of the little drama of real life occurred in the dry drink saioou and poolroom of Noah Fritz, 903 Ft. Wayne avenue, late Thursday. Patrolman Shea walked into the poolroom, which the police say is a notorious place and, obeying orders to question all men found there, he asked S. G. Whitley, negro, 27<H Columbia avenue, where he worked. Instead of informing the officer that he was employed as city ash hauler he answered, “It is none of your business where I work.” Then Patrolman Shea asked “Big” George the same question, as he d'd not realize that he was speaking to city eniirioyes, and George shook a pool cue hl the policeman and informed him it was “none of your business where l work.’’ There was some speed to subsequent events. “Big" George dropped his pool cue and grabbed the policeman s log, forcing him back toward the cigar case. Shea missed getting Strangler Lewis' famous headiock on his opponent and was tossed into the showcase. He fell with George on top. Before Shea knew what had happened the city employe took his revolver and club away from him. Tho** "Big” George covered the policeman with the officer's own revolver ami ordered him to stand up. Shea obeyed. “Now give me your badge,” ordered the negro. ‘I won’t,” replied Shea. “I’ll blow your heart out if you don’t,” declared George. The policeman surrendered the badge. Then the negro backed out of the toolroom and disappeared. The emergency squad arrested Whitley on the charge of vagrancy, drunkenness and interfering with an officer. Later Sergeant Tooley and a squad of policearrested George on charges of resisting an officer a'nd robbery. Patrolman Shea's badge, club and gun were recovered. The police made George's bond $2,500 and the city administration's professional bondsman did not take George out. George was exhibited at roll call to the patrolmen, who now know what a city employe looks like and, therefore, can avoid trouble by not asking them questions.

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‘SUGAR BATTLE’ CONTROLS FATE OF TARIFF BILL Louisiana Senators Press Schedule to Let Planters Recoup. CUT ARMY BILL SENT IN WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—‘‘The Battle of Sugar” continues today in the Senate on the twelfth day of the Harrison filibuster against the emergency tariff bill. The first on the measure centers on its provisions putting a tariff on sugar. These provisions, Senators opposing them say, will mean 16 to 20 cent sugar to the American consumer. Proponents of the bill insist that this is a' surd and promise the price will not go above 11 or 12 cents, and then only for a short time. They concede that in a year the proposed tariff would cast the American public $160,000.0 0. Foes say It would be nearer half a billion dollars. The sugar tariff, which Is to apply until raw sugar goes to 8 cents a pound and refined to iO cent wholesale, waa put in the bill by the Senate Finance Committee on urging of Senators Gay and Ransdell, Louisiana. They say Louisiana sugar planters lost heavily and the tariff is Intended U) let them recoup their losses. Western Senators are opposed to the sugar tariff, but say it is necessary to include it to pass the bill. They claim Michigan and Utah Senators want it, too. Smoot and King of Utah and Townsend of Michigan say they will not change their viewson the bill as a whole, no matter what happens to the sugar provision. Senator Harrison, Mississippi, had much filibustering material on hand today. Penrose and McOumber, in charge of the bill, said they would continue to let Harrison talk for the time being. No disposition to apply cloture exists, despite reports to the contrary. With a reduction in War Department estimates of $699,275,502.93, the Army appropriation bill, carrying a total of $3.71,222,612.62, was reported to the House today by the Appropriations Committee. The appropriation is based on an Army of 150.000 men, exclusive of the Philippine Scouts or the flying cadets. Provision is made for 14,000 commissioned officers, I.OJO more than are now in service. The bill shows a reduction of about $64 OuO.OOO as compared with appropriations for the current year. DANIELS TO BE ASKED OPINION WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.—Secretary Daniels and admirals of the Navy will be asked to tell the Senate Naval Committee -whether snspeft&ipu „of building for six months would be safe and expedient. The committee will meet soon to take up Senator Borah's resolution asking information on the point. Borah expects the Navy and the committee to report against a suspension. RIVERS AND HARBORS FUNDS REPORTED WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—A flat appropriation of $15,609,000 for rivers and harbors improvements, with $250,000 for surveys and esaminanons, is provided in the rivers and harbors appropriation bill reported today 'rom the House Appropriations Committee. It is stated there is a fund on hand of $47,149,006. SMOOT PROPOSES NEW PROFITS TAX WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—A flat tax on net incomes of all businesses to replace the. excess profits tax was proposed today by Senator Smoot, Utah, of the Senate Finance Committee. Smoot declared such a tax would be the fairest of any proposed and would produce the revenue which the Government must have. It would be levied regardless of capitalization. PLANNING FIGHT ON PACT WITH JAPS WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The State Department and California today were drawing the lines for a fight on the proposed agreement with Japan on the antialien land laws of California. Attentive agreement has been reached between Roland S. Morris. American ambassador to Tokio, and Ambassador Shidhiru, the Mikado's envoy here, on a means of settlement of Japan's protest against the California law prohibiting holding of land by her subjects, and this agreement Is now before Secretary of State Colby. Yf lowing a conference with Colby, Senator Phelan of California declared against the provision of the proposed agreement for ■ ir*aty guarantee of rights of the Japanese subjects already in the United States which would allow Japanese to have land. Save Money by Using Paint Although paint makes great improvement In the appearance of property. It is far more useful for protection than for ornament. A sina'l amotins of money expended in keeping a building or a piece of machinery painted adds greatly to the length of its life. Moreover, buildings and outhouses are rendered much more sanitary by the use of paint. Dirt works into an unpainted surface and sticks. It slides off a painted surface. Its use makes for economy, sanitation, and attractiveness. You can learn all about the use of paint If you send today for a Government publication oil this subject which our Washington Information Bureau will secure for any one who sends 2 cents in stamps for return postage. (In filling out the coupon print name and address or he sure to write plainly.)

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