Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled. Probably rain tonight and Saturday. Colder Saturday afternoon.

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GERMANS TO REVIVE SPA PROPOSALS AT LONDON CONFERENCE Decide to Revise Scheme Once Rejected by Allies and Seek New Basis for Indemnity Negotiations Opening Feb. 28. WARN OF RED ALLIANCE IF PRESSED BERLIN, Feb. 4.—Germany has decided to participate in the indemnityconference which will open in London Feb. 28 to enable the German government to submit suggestions as to the method of payments, it was learned from a semi-official source today. .

Despite press reports from London and Paris that the allies will refuse to reopen the Question of the amount Germany 1s to pay, having axed it at 226,000.000.000 gold marks, German industrial experts are busy preparing counter proposals. Dr. Walter Simons, foreign minister, announced that Germany will accept these counter proposals as the only basis of a solution. From a former Cabinet member It was learned that the proposals which were prepared for the Spa conference, hut were not published because the allies refused to accept them as a basis of deliberations, are being broaded and will be presented by the Germans at London as "the groundwork for further discussions.” A warning that revolutionary disturbances may break out in Germany if the allies insist upon imposing the terms decided npon by the supreme council was sounded by Minister of Labor Brauns. Germany Is desperate. Under consideration are plans for: An alliance with the Russian soviets. A throwing up of both hands, bidding the allies'to do what they will. A strong effort to convince the allies thatyhe reparations demanded will wreck the country, thereby damaging the allies. The allied demand was denounced from street corners, in street cars and in the gathering places of all groups. Union laborers and capitalists agreed with communisms. Newspapers reiterated the declaration that Germany will not pay. ISSUES WRIT IN HAAG CASE Clerk of U. S. Court Directs Execution for $21,459.37 With Interest. A writ of execution for $21,45? 37, with interest at the rate of 6 per cent from June 23, IfCO, was issued against Louis E. and Julius A. Haag today by Noble C. Butler, clerk of the United States District Court, on a precipe from Frederick Van Nnys, United States district attorney. The warrant was turned over to Fred T. Cretors, chief deputy United States marshal, with instructions to serve It immediately. The sum named in the execution represents fines of $10,600 impose-d by Judge Albert B. Anderson on each of the Haags last June after they had been found t guilty in Federal CeUrt of conspiracy to Tiolate the Reed amendment, plaa costs amounting to $260.37. MOVE FOB PARDON Ok WAY EAKLY. Judge Anderson, in addition to imposing the fines, sentenced the brothers to serve eighteen months at the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. Even before they began their sentence -a movement looking toward obtaining a pardon for them was started, and later a petition for executive clemency was signed by fortyfive residents of Indianapolis. Both of these moves were resisted strenuously by Frederick Van Nuys, United States district attorney, and Judge Anderson Joined with him in his action. Jan. 81 the Haags, having served onethird of their sentence, became eligible for parole, and yesterday it was found they had been parolled on that date, al- j though Mr. Van Uuys was not consulted. ; as is generally customary In these cases. Meantime the fines and costa had not ben paid and on coming to his o%ce Mr. Van Nnys Immediately issued a praecipe for a writ of execution. PERSONAL PROPERTY COMES FIRST. The law requires that personal property be levied upon before real estate is I touched and for that reason It Is prob- j able that one or more of the Haag drug ! •tores will be seized, constructively, by Deputy Marshal Cretors. In the event of ; non-payment of the fine and costs, together with the Interest, the property will be advertised for public sale. Mr. Van Nuys said the only chance the Haags have to avoid the payment of the money is to have the fine and costs remitted by the President of the United States. Fines he said can be remitted only by the Preside**: and the Federal Judge before him the case was tried in the latter case only in the same term of court in which the trial occurred. As ! the Haag trial was held In the May term j of court which ended last November, Judge Anderson couid not now remit the fines even if he were inclined to do so.

WOMAN DRIVES CAR IN ESCAPE Three Bandits Rob Clerk In Streets of Noblesville. A clerk at the Carson dreg store. Ninth and Connors streets, Noblesville, -wag held np and robbed shortly after noon today by three armed men who escaped In the direction of Indianapolis In an automobile driven by a woman. Police emergency squad. In charge of Perge&nt Johnson, detective squads and a crew of bicycle officers from the Indianapolis police headquarters scoured roads leading into the city from the north for several hours In an effort to apyrehen and them. The bandits left Noblesville amid a shower of bullets on what Is known as the Klmberlln road. When they reach Fishers Station they will find all roads but one Impassable, according to city policemen.

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RAIL WORKERS SAY MANAGERS HAVE MOTIVES Charge Efforts to Break All Unions Save Four Big Brotherhoods. TEN BODIES CONCERNED WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Efforts to win support of Government officials and Congress today brought from each side in the railroad controversy charges of ‘‘sinister motives" against the other. Representatives of the railroad unions charged I the managers with trying to break all j the labor organiatlzons except the four ! big brotherhoods. And the managers [said the men were trying to bring about i Federal control. I “Behind the plea of the railroad managers to the rail board to abrogate the ■ national agreement lies the wish to break all the unions except the four big brotherhoods,” said William H. Johnston, head of the machinists. There are ten unions besides the brotherhoods, most of which gained their ! greatest strength during the Federal con- ! trol. All of them are affiliated with the i American Federation of Labor. Supporting their charges that the unions want Federal control, representatives of the managers point out that most of the union lenders were either nierabers j or officers of the Plumb Plnn League. ( Johnston is affiliated with the league and is an open advocate of Government controL While these efforts to win officials and eong.-essional support were being cari ried on there were indications that the ! present Administration and the present Congress would leave their bands off the railroad situation unless it threatened a i strike and tleup of transportation in which case Federal control will come. President Wilson, who has revived several telegrams from the unions and managers, is confident that the railroad labor board will handle the situation, it was leerned today. A railroad investigation has been discussed also among Congressmen and Senators Inclined to be friendly to the rail unions, but it was tentatively decided that the time was not ripe for such a move. BROTHERHOOD HE A D SAYS STRIKE REMOTE CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—Organized railroad labor will stand solidly against any at tempt by railroad executives to cut (Continued on Page Two.)

MOTHER CLEARS DEATH MYSTERY Says Girl Took Own Life— Husband Is Vindicated. LAWTON, Mich., Feb. 4.—Lying on a bed In the room formerly used by her daughter, with the closet still filled with the daughter's articles of clothing and her personal effects scattered about the place, Mrs. Sarah I. Tabor, mother of Maude E. Tabor, today solved the much discussed Lawton trunk murder mystery and declared her daughter a suicide. Barah I. Tabor, according to her statement made today to a Chicago newsper man, watched her daughter drink a bottle of chloroform, placed the girl’s body In a ‘‘hope chest” and herself carried it to the basement of the Tabor home to carry ont the dying wish of the daughter that the mother keep tn body always near her. Miss Tabor took her life, th# mother said, because she brooded long over her marriage to Joseph Clow Virgo. Tbe mother’s statement vindicates Virgo, repudiates her Jail statement accusing him and dentes the much-discussed “suicide pact” of tho triaL Coast Guards Fear Schooner Crew Lost NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 4—Coast guards at Hatteras and Creed Hill today expressed fears that the entire crew of tho five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering, ashore on Diamond Shoals, bad been drowned trying to reach shore in small boats. The schooner was commanded by Captain Merritt and carried a crew of sixteen. Senate Meets March 4 WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. President Wilson late Thursday Issued a proclamation calling a special session of the Senate to meet at 12 o'clock on March 4.

A GUILAR ’S HAND SEEN IN MEXICAN UNREST

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4.—Plans to unite sporadic bandit operations Into a nationwide revolt were uncovered by the Government today. It became known that letter* from Candido Aguilar, son-in-law of the lato President Carranza, were Intercepted. Aguilar now la In Guatemala. Officials declared there were Indications he was Implicated In plans for a rebellion. . No less than five bandits are operating in various parts of the country. Secretary of War Estrada in an exclusive Interview described them as small bands devoting themselves to petty banditry. They were also widely separated, he said. Nevertheless government forces were watching their operations and strengthening outposts. It was feared the Individual bands would concentrate suddenly at a glvsn point, recruit their forces with dlssstleflsd elements and start a

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SIMS OPPOSES ANY PACT FOR REDUCING NAVY Declares Fleets Must Not Be Included in World Agreement. WITNESS AT HEARING WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Rear Admiral W. 8. Sims, who commanded the American naval forces from the White Sea to the Adriatic during the war and came Into intimate contaot with the world’s great naval figures, appeared today before the House Naval Affairs Committee and set bis face absolutely against any plan of naval abandonment as a part

REAR ADMIRAL IV. S. SIMS. of any 'disarmament understanding between the notions of the world. A declaration by Chairman Butler that President-elect Harding planned to call a disarmament conference marked the resumption of tbe hearings. RECOGNIZES NEED OF IUNDERSTANDING. Rear Admiral Sims, whose controversies with Secretary Daniels after the war attracted wide interest, recognized the need and desirability of an International understanding to stop competitive arming. But, like General Pershlag, he considered that In view of the unsettled condition of the world It would be both unwise and unsafe to disarm completely. Admiral Sims thought the world powers are ready and anxious to reach an armament understanding that will stop the terrific expenditure caused by competitive building “I came Into contact with the leading figures of the British, French, Italian and Japanese navies,” said the admiral, “and we frequently discussed these things. “One of the commonest expressions heard was: ‘lf, efte- we get done with (Continued on Page Two.)

Ash Collection War Patched Up by Works Board Walters and Colling Told They Will Have to Work T oyether. There was war In the city ash collection department until the board of public works stepped in today and compelled a temporary truce. The conflict Was on acho of the ousting of Henry Fleming, colored, assistant superintend ent of ash collection, from his Job by Mayor Charles W. Jewett last Friday The board of public works, following the requested resignation of Fleming, Instructed Thomas Walters, superintendent of street cleaning, under whom th# ash superintendent works, to take charge of the ash collection work until a successor for Fleming could be appointed. Walters went on with the work until Inst Wednesday, when th® board, again acting In accord with th® mayor’s wishes, appointed Harrison Collins, colored. then n rodman on the city civil engineer’s stiff, to fill the vacancy. Colling is a protege of Dr. Btunnor A. Ftmilss, negro member of the city council, and It was ’lr. Furniss who prevailed upon the mayor to see that Collins got the job. Walters, It Is said, wanted a white man as bis assistant and when Collins was appointed he was highly displeased. Collin'S got his appointment and started out to find out what his Job would be. The war started. First, he could not find Walters and then when he did Walters declined to have much to do with him, it Is said. Collins, apparently, sent word to Dr. Burniss that he was not getting along at all and the councilman got busy. Today Thomas A. Riley, Democratic member of the board of works, who supervises the ash collection department, called Walters and Collins before the board a ndthe whole matter was thrashed out. Dr. Furniss anxiously hovered about the outer rooms of the board’s suite while the conference went on in an inner office. Tb board, fct Is said, told Coning and Walters that they would have to stand for each other. The pair came out of the conference and walked to the municipal garage In doep and earnest conversation. Dr. Furniss also departed. Then a member of the board, stated that Collins and Walters had been told they must keep the ash department up to the high state of effliceney It now enjoys. Henry Fleming, at tbe time he was discharged, had the department functioning so that an average of only seven complaints per day were being received. Queen to Get Degree LONDON, Fob. A —Tbe degree of doctor of civil luw will be conferred on Queen Mary by Oxford University, March 11. The queen will visit th® university for the ceremony.

full-fledged campaign against the government. For tho time being the War Department has left to department commanders the task of running down bandits In their territory. Additional forces are sent this morning by the Federal Government when required, Estrada said. The Arlesta uprising In Durango Is nnder negotiation. Cavalry Is still chasing portions of that band but has not established contact. Another bandit In Durango Is Lucio Blanco, wbo has avoided the troopers thus far. Estrada said Blanco has no following outside of Durango. In combination with other rebels, however, it was believed he would present a formidable front. General Mugrla Is known to bo operating In central Mexico bnt hs has not been located, Estrada said. 4

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1921.

Holds Up Negro's Return to Sound Mob Sentiment

Before Governor Warren T. McCrav will sign extradition papers for Macey Glddens, 18, negro, who is wanted In Sylvester, Ga., on a charge of murder, he intends to Investigate the sentiment aronnd the Georgia town to determine whether the boy will receive a fair and impartial trial. The Governor announced today, following a conference with a number of negroes from Gary, where the youth was apprehended, that he would send a personal Investigator to Georgia at once. The Governor said that as soon as he selected the emissary he would start him on his way. According to the story the negro delegation told the Governor, Glddens was wanted on a minor charge and a posse went to arrest him. The boy declares,

RILL PROVIDES FOR REPEAL OF PRIMARY LAW Second Move of Session Made to Wipe Out Existing Voting Method. WILLIS BACKS MEASURE The Indiana primary law would be repealed by the provisions of a bill introduced in the House today by Representative Herbert G. Willis, DeKalb County. The* bill provides only for tho repeal of the primary statute with no substitutions offered. This Is the second move In the present session of the Legislature to wipe out the State-wid* primary law. The first came in the Senate, sponsored by Senator A. H. Beardsley of Elkhart, and backed by the McCray administration. It was killed by a narrow margin when the Senate voted for its indefinite postponement. Governor McCray announced after the failure of the Beardsley bill that he would not attempt to have the movement to kill the law revived. Mr. Willis declares he Introduced the present bill on his own initiative, but there is little doubt but that It will have the support (Continued on Dag* Fifteen.)

Claims Sinn Fein Invention Sank Sub in Which 57 Died

NEW YORK. Feb. publican government is now conducting both land and sta warfare against th® British. The flr®t "naval victory'* wa* the sinking of the British submarine K-5, with th® losa of fifty-seven live®, according to a story published today in the S!nn Fein, American organ of the Irish republicans. Tbe story was printed in the form of a dispatch from Dublin saying that tho K-5 had been destroyed by an electrl- j tally-controlled projectile Invented by an Irish engineer. Tho K-8 was lost on or abont Jan. 20 while en rout* with a Britlah squadron j to tho Mediterranean. Bbe submerged in th* English channel j

MICHIGAN CITY THEATER BURNS ItAPORTE, Ind., Feb. 4.—A telephone meaeage from Mtchlgan City at 2:15 p. m. stated that tho Garden theater, the largest play house in that city, was being gutted by fire and woald probably be a total loss. The Garden theater seat* 1,800 persons and last week was purchased by Jacob and Abe WaUergtein of this city. BACKS LINDSEY IN DEFYING LAW Noted Criminologist Condemns Contempt Sentence. BERKELEY, Cal, Eeb. 4.—" Judge Lindsey is being penalized for inculcating higher Ideals into the child delinquent.” This ts the statement of August S. Vollmer, Berkeley’s police chief, lecturer at the University of California and nationally known criminologist. Judge Ben Lindsey la under sentence to serve a year In jail and pay * fine of S3OO for contempt of court. He refused to divulge information given him in confldeneo by a Juvenile delinquent. “For Judge Lindsey to recant would mean tho faith young America has in him would be destroyed,” said Vollmer. “Judge Lindsey epitomizes all that is constructive in the building of high class citizens out of children who, through environment, have drifted into court.”

Bank Bandits Escape With $45,000 in Loot READING, Pa., Fob. 4,—Eight bandits leaped out of an automobile In Wyomlailng, a suburb, shortly after noon today and, entering the Peoples' Trust Company, held up bank employes, escaping with 645,000. Senate Jumps Wheat Tariff; Reconsiders WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Senators favoring tho emergency tariff bill caught Its opponents napping today and got two amendments adopted before Its opponents discovered whnt was afoot. One amendment increased the House provision for a 80-cent tariff on wheat to 40 cents a bushel and the other related to rice. By a vote of 88 to 28 the Senate voted to reconsider the wheat amendment which wus passed In the morning with only a few members present. AWARDS ROAD CONTRACT. The county commissioners today awarded a contract for the resurfacing of the Evans road In Lawrence township with gravel on a bid of $34,400 to George W. McCray. The McCray bid was the lowest of nla* bids, which ranged from 0 to HHM.

according to the negroes, that he thought a mob was after him and fired in self defense. He escaped and fled to Gary. It was later learned thnt a white man in the posse was killed. It is said the negro admits having fired the shot. Pending the report of his special Investigator, Governor McCray will allow Glddens to remain In the Gary Jail. He declared that he had not made up his mind what course to pursue if tbe result of his investigations convinces him the youth will not receive Justice at the hands of the Georgians. In event Governor McCray refuses to sign the extradition papers for Glddens he will be free from arrest on the murder charge while In Indiana and the State will rapidly acquire a reputation as a safe haven for men accused of crimes in other States.

DEFEATS STRIP MINE CONTROL BILL IN HOUSE Vote for Postponement Kills Move to Require Replacement of Soil. MOVIE BOARD PROPOSED

The House, by a vote of 41 to 32, today adopted a minority report, favoring indefinite postponement of the Sherwood bill t„ make It compulsory for strip mine companies to replace soil removed in mining operations. A spirited fight was put up by the friends of thn bill for the adoption of the majority report favoring passage. Opposition to tbe measure was led by Representative Claude A. Smith of Gibson County, who declared that the bill would throw out of employment about COO men in bis county engaged in strip mining, 110 declared the soil in widen the mines wore located wus not worth anything for agricultural purposes and that the cost of replacing It would make tbe price of coal almost prohibitive. Representative Einser IV. Sherwood of Green County, author of the measure, declared it was designed to protect the soil and to aid In the fight for public health. The bill was Indorsed, he said, by the (Continued on Cage Two.)

off Land’s End and never rose to the surface again. CLAIM RIDICULED BY ADMIRALTY LONDON, Feb. 4.—The claim that Irish republlcnus sank the K-5 was ridiculed by tho Admiralty today. “The K 5 was mlbis from the Sciliy Islands when slie was destroyid,” said th* statement. “Thera is no known electrical vibration capable of doing such harm at such a distance. No strange craft was in the vicinity at the time. We hope that this report will not be cou sidored eerloutiy, for it would einibtter th* men of the navy against the Sinn Falner*.”

ORDERS BIDS IN BOARD’S NAME Public Works Body Raises Former Controversy. Instructions to advertise for blda for two tractors, one light and one heavv motor truck and one road oiler for addition to the street commissioners' equipment were given to City Purchasing Agent Dwight 8. Ritter by tho board of public works today. Tho board said It desires to buy tho equipment as quickly ns possible In order that tho street commissioner may have It to begin work on unimproved streets as early this spring as tho weather permits. A .poasibillty for tiie continuance of the controversy between tho board and Mr. Ritter, which cam® to a head with the refusal of tho board to act upon the recommendation of the purchasing agent that two White trucks b bought for tho ash hauling department several weeks (Contlnned on Page Fifteen.) SOLDIER HELD FOR TRYING TO GET BERGDOLL

BERLIN, Feb. 4.—Charles Neaf of Baltimore and Frank Zimmer of Denver, who attempted to seize Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the millionaire American draft dodger, at Eberbach, Baden, have been indicted on the charge of attempted manslaughter, according to a dispatch from Eberbach this afternoon. Several shots were fired during the attempt to arrest Bergdoll, one of which wounded a girl tw the ana, >

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JUDGE BRANDS LOCAL LAWYER AS ‘PERJURER’ Tells J. W. Haley in Open Court Case Will Go to Grand Jury. ASSAILS LAW ‘BROKERS’ Declaring that the practice of “brokering” in law must stop, Judge Solon J. Carter of Superior Court, Room 3, today referred to the grand jury a charge of perjury against Joseph W. Haley, president of the Indianapolis Finance and Savings Corporation and a practicing attorney at 415 People’s Bank Building. Judge Carter also announced that the court would appoint a local attorney to Investigate Mr. Haley's affairs to determine whether he should be cited for indirect contempt. He also declared the court would refer the entire matter to the Indianapolis Bar Association to determine whether disbarment proceedings should be instituted. Probably there never has been a more dramatic scene in a local courtroom than when Judge Carter made a positive declaration of the court's opinion concerning matters which bad come before the court while Mr. Haley was arguing a motion for a trial in the case of Maxwell C. Lang, a jeweler, against the Indianapolis Finance Corporation. A jury had previously returned a verdict In favor of Mr. Lang in a suit growing out of the purchase of a sale from the corporation. SAFE INVOLVED WAS NOT DELIVERED. The court entry holds that the Jeweler Is entitled to Judgment of $73. which represents the first cash pament on the safe, as well ns being entitled to receive from the defendant six notes for $23 each. The evidence showed that th* safe was not delivered to Mr. Lang. Mr. Haley claims that an attempt was mads to deliver tho safa and when permission wus refused at the building where Lang Is located the safe was stored iu Lang's name. Mr. Haley, In arguing for anew trial, contended that he desired to introduce three experts to testify that a contract he had with Mr. Lang had not been altered, as charged during the trial. Mr. Haley contended that he forgot to iutro((enllnuaj on Page Two.)

General Dawes Not Sorry for ‘Cussing ’ Critics Adds a Few Dashes to Emphasize Position in Army Inquiry. CHICAGO. Feb. 4.—Brig. Gn. Charles 1 G. Dawes, president of the Central Trust I Company, was still profanely militant i when ha arrived in Chicago today from i Washington, where he testified before the I congressional committee investigating ! his activities as General Pershing's purj chasing agent in Franc®, i General Dawes without hesitation con- | tiuued the use of aky-blue words which | charaterlzed bia statements Thursday be- ! fore the investigating committee and I submitted to newspaper men who met him that “I stand on every damned word 1 said.” “I don't cars to he interviewed,” General Dawes said. “I have nothing to retract from wh4 I snld yesterday In Washington—not a damned word.” Asked how the committee took ht® “square-toed” answers, General Dawes resorted again to his favorite expletive: "X don’t know and don't care,” ho said. “I am satisfied they have lnjectad politics into the hearing and I had a few things to tell them. I think It's a damned sham# that partisan politics has been Injected Into the hearing and l took my own good wny telling them. I was glad to get It off my chest.” Carl Wanderer Faces Murder Jury Again CHICAGO, Feb. 4.--Carl O. Wanderer, sentenced to prison for twenty five years for slaying his wife, went on trial again | today hero for the murder of John Doe. “John Doe” is the ragged stranger ; whom Wanderer Is charged to have hired : to stage a fake hold-up so that he would j kill his wife, Police alleged that Wanderer double crossed the ragged stranger and killed him also. Wanderer claimed the Rigged stranger murdered his wife. Man Arrested for Harboring Blind Pig Edward Beatipre, 41, 2135 Prospect street, was arrested tills afternoon on charge of "blind tiger” harboring, after police had made a raid at 040 East Washington street, where Beailpre conducts a stove repair company. Police Lieutenant Woollen and Patrolmen Lee and Marlott, who made the raid, said they found anew still In the basement. Beaupre denied knowledge of the still, saying it belonged to a man whose name he didn’t know, but police say persons in the neighborhood told them they saw him carrying a heavy box to the basement. The still evidently had Just been set up according to tho police.

DAWES OUT OF RACE , REPORT FROM YACHT

PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 4.—No com ment regarding the recent declaration of Charles G. Dawes that he Is not In politics and Is not going In, was forthcoming today from the houseboat Victoria, with President-elect Warren G. Harding aboard. Men in close touch with the President-elect, however, declared the Chicago banker seemingly has been eliminated as a Cabinet possibility. Many, however, were insistent that this fact did not necessarily mean tha race for Secretary of the Treasury had been won by Andrew W. Mellon of Pittsburgh, one of the moat prominent contenders, It Is well know n that former Senator Weeks of Massachusetts would prefer the treasury post to any other Cabinet position and he may yet be the men selected. She next Pseeideal arrived here 2a the

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SENATE BILL PUTS SALARY OF SOLONS AT $1,009 PER YEAR Alldredge Measure to Limit Campaign Expenditures Killed After Argument by Vote of 27 to 20. SCHOOL TEXTBOOK QUIZ IS ORDERED The Senate went to work with a vim this morning and by noon had killed the Alldredge measure, amending the corrupt practices act to restrict primary campaign expenditures to $3,500, and had passed a bill increasing the pay of members of the Legislature. The Senate also voted for an Investigation of the school textbook contracts recently awarded by the State board of education. According to Senator Howard A. Cann, Frankfort, sponsor of the bill for investigation, the contracts will cost the taxpayers SIBO,OOO above tbe present price.

BARNETT SAYS BOOZE IS NOT HIS PROPERTY Claims He Is Only a Victim of Circumstances in Police Whisky Raid. COPS TAKE BIG SUPPLY T am a victim of circumstances, and I know nothing about the wKsky found j by the police in the house at C 52 East | Fifteenth street,” declared Samuel J. | Barnett, S3, of 1652 Bellefontalne street, today, In explaining bow he happened' to be in the Fifteenth street residence I late yesterday afternoon when the place I was raided. Lieutenant Cox and a squad of police found Barnett in the Fifteenth street resj idet.ee and they also captured 29C gallons ;of corn whisky, a number of barrels of \ mash, bottles. Jugs, barrels and other equipment, Including a large Jug of earj mol coloring matter, and a fifty-gallon ! still, which was la operation in an up- ’ stairs room. As the police entered the building a | man ran from the rear of the house to ,an automobile In an alley and Patrolj man Gaither fired five shots at the man, but the fugitive escaped. Iu a statement to the Times Mr. Baxnett said: "I know nothing about the whisky found In the house. I have been a business man In this city for eleven years and am a victim of circumstances. Besides my regular business I buy and sell merchandise. I bad two trunks filled with silks, laces and other merchandise I which was in storage at Lew Shank's | storage lious®. More than three months i ego I met s man who said his name was John Brown. He was about 35 and appeared to be a gentleman. I had a garage rented across the street from 052 East Fifteenth street, and Mr. Brown often stopped at the garage and we bei came acquainted. | "One day about three months ago I told Mr. Brown that I had some merchandise stored In Shank’s storage house and he suggested that he bad a vacant (Continued on I'a*e Two.) SENATE FAVORS EXPENSE BOOST Increase of $28,437,415 Recommended for Sundry Appropriation Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. of $28,437,415.50 in the sundry civil appropriation bill was recommended by the Senate Appropriations Committee in re- ; porting the measure favorably to the | Senate today. The bill as it passed the House provided for a total of $352,453,C2.4L The total of $410,921,107.91, provided In the bill reported by Senator Warren, Republican of Wyoming, chairman of tbe committee, is $C4,727.6'J9.10 less than provided for the same purposes for the current fiscal year, and $303,8)8,721.93 less than the amount asked for the next fiscal year in the Treasury Department estimates. An approprirtion of $17,500,000 for additional hospital facilities for sick and maimed American soldiers of the World War Is provided In the sundry civil ap- ] propriatlons bill reported favorably to : the Senate today by Senator Warren, j Warren said he Intended to call up tbe bill as soon as the Senate reconvenes tomorrow. Southern Hotel Is in Ruins From Fire NEW TORE, Feb. 4.—The Hotel Bonalr at Augusta, Ga., was burned to the ground early today, according to a private dispatch received here today at a broker's offten. The hotel was a famous winter resort and many prominent persons had stopped. There was ao loss of life, the dispatch said. Girl’s Charges Stand SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 4.—John D. Barnwell real estate and Insurance agent at Littlefield, will serve a fourteen-year sentence in prison, ar. a result of the Supreme Court's action In refusing a rehearing of his case. He was convicted of improper relations with Miss Stella Rule, 17.

middle of the morning, after having covered only sixty-six miles In the last two days. The Victoria was again the victim of low water and obstructing dredges in the Indian River. The party was aground for several hours lato Thursday. 3. Leonard Replogle of New York went to the rescue with his power yacht Sea Robin, and after dragging the Victoria off Into deep water piloted her to berth In Lake Worth, ten miles off Palm Beach, for the night. Mr. Harding played a round of golf on the Country Club course here this morning and expected to leave afterward for his Journey north. He is now a full day behind his schedule and must press on without delay If he Is to reach St. Augustins by Monday morning. It tat possible 4 part of th* Journey may be jnaOm by aruisatobUa t trxlix

NO. 231.

The Senate vote! down the AUdredg® bill by 27 to 20. The placing of the bill on Us passage created considerable stir and a number of outsiders, including Lawrence Lyons, who u. naged Governor Warren T. McCray's campaign, rushed to the floor of the Senate and conferred with some of the members. The principal opposition to the amend', ment came from Senator Oscar Batts, ; Paoll, Republican floor leader, who char, notarized it as “ridiculous.” He declared It would be Impossible for a man to run for State office and obey the law. Ho damanded to know tow a candidate would be able to tour the State with the proposed expenditure Bruit. He declared tbe $3,500 mark would not cover postage. Senator IV Infield Miller, Indianapolis, spoke In behalf of the measure, declaring a man who runs for Governor should already be acquainted with th® voters. Senator C. Oliver Holmea, Gary, moved : to recommit the amendment to the Com. : inlttee on Elections, but the motion was tabled on a motion by Senator William M. Swain, Pendleton. | ROLL CALL SHOWS STAND. The roll call -showed the following dl vision: AYES. (RepubUcsm). ! AEdre**® Mc-Conaba ! tsainuin , j Buchanan R ‘ er j Cann Master! Dunn -Miller Hartzell Moorhead Rime Nejdl Lindley Strode (Democrats). Arnold j Decker Henley Hays Humphrey! NOES. (Republicans). Adams Hoggten Baxter Holmes Beardsley Kiper Behrner Leonard Bowers Meeker ; Brown Batts . f Cleveland Richards Duncan oouthworth | English Steele j Fitch. bweln Furnas Tagu® Hill Tan Orman (Democrats). Craven® Hepleg ! McCullough i LEGISLATORS FAT PUT AT $:,0OO. I By a vote of 32 to 14 th* Renat® parsed the Masters’ bill providing that 1 members of the Legislature shall be paid SI,OOO a year, the lLeutenant Governor $2,000 a year and tho Speaker of th® House of Representatives $S a day during session*, in addition to his salary cf SI,OOO a year. Members of the assembly now receive a per diem of SO. | The passage of the bill was opposed iby Senator Oliver Kline, Huntington. ! Senator Harold Van Orman, Evansville, I spoke in behalf of the measure. Those who opposed its passage are Senators Balnum, Baxter, Beardsley, (Continued on Page Ten.)

MEMPHIS MARKET FOR BOND BANDITS Effort to Sell SIOO,OOO in Securities Arouses Police. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 4.—Disclosure of the attempted sale of a third batch ■ of SIOO,OOO worth of Liberty bond* was announced today by Inspector of Detectives William T. Griffin, who said his men were seeking a prominent Memphis attorney to question him In connection with a New York stolen securities cate. The police were working on the theory that not only was the whole batch of nearly half a million dollars In Liberty bonds, stolen In New York by autmmo* bile bandit*, brought to Memphis for disposal, but that a “fence" exists in this city, through which probably millions of dollars worth of other loot has been dumped and sold to banks and Individuals. Says America to Have Equal Rights in Oil LONDON, Feb. 4.—America win b# given equal rights with other nations la the Mesopotamian oil fields, the Dally Chronicle declared today. The newspaper predicted the British reply to Secretary Colby’s oil note will state that pre-war concessions to the i Turkish petroleum company must be re- ! speeted, but that otherwise there will be | no discrimination. Minister, Admitting Robbery, Gets Bail CENTRALIA, HI.. Feb. 4.—The Rev. Guy Kyle, former minister of Mt. Vernon, who recently confessed to complicity lx the $185,000 mall robbery, is free on } $20,000 bond. The bond was fnrnlahed by five prominent Mt. Vernon business men who were persuaded to become the surety for tho former pastor by members of his congregation.

Man Eats Too Much; Hoover Fund Gains Because he ate more food than he needed and conscience brought forcibly to his mind the ml l ions of hungry children who have no food at all, an Indiauapoils man will support two children through the Hoover fund. The man Is a guest at a local hotel. He visited the Hoover headquarters at 117 North Pennsylvania street today with a substantial contribution, *T ate two much dinner last night and ooald not sleep,'* he explained.