Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1921 — Page 11

HALT IN NAVAL BUILDING LEFT v OVER FOR MAR. 4 (Continued From Page One.) tobacco and cigarettes and a Federal tax on nutomol iles were urged on the House aa a substitute for the excess profits tax by Representative Good (Jew a) chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Representative*Frank W. Mondetl, Republican leader of the House, announced that he had received an “ultimatum" from various farm organizations notify lng him that he could either get behind passage of the packer control bill in tbe House “or take the political consequences.” WITHHOLDS APPROVAL OF MEXICAN LOANS 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The United iStates will make no recommendations to KAmerican hankers to lend money to Mexico until the present Mexican government lias been recognized, it was announced the State Department today. The department has been informed by Thomas W. Lamont and other American bankers of an invitation from the Mexican government to go to Mexico to aid In readjustment of financial conditions there. IT ALTS ARMY NOW LARGEST IN WORLD WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—ltaly is the world's strongest military nation today In point of numbers of regular army and militia, Secretary of War Baker today informed the Senate Military Affairs Committee, in a communication on presenting data to aid in tho determination of the future size of the Army. SLINKARD HEAD OF DEMOCRATIC PRESS IN STATE (Continued From rage One.) surprised If another financial conquest does not arise In Washington.” Mr. Lewis flayed what he termed the unpatriotic strategy of the Republican leaders in conducting the campaign last fall. He praised the war record of tn, Wilson administration and analyzed the results by saying that the Republicans were “able to capitalize every grievance and every grudge in the country.” “Republican leaders derided their own country, debauched their own honor and belittled their country's achievements,” declared Mr. Lewis. “They summoned every foreign-born citizen to strike against his adopted country, that they might win a victory at the ballot box." Tbe speaker reviewed the tactics of the leaders in the years before the war and called attention to their —'“-‘sm of the National Government for nstltutlng a broader preparedness ey it was," he charged, “who sum--1 Germany to strike, for they eduher to believe that we were power - o defend ourselves.” URGES immediate START FOR CAMPAIGN. Mrs Olive Beldon Lewis of Indianapolis urged the Democrats of the State to start organizing at once for the next campaign. She pleaded for a more compact organization and urged the leaders to pay more attention to details. “Reaction from the rule of the reactionaries is bound to come,” she predicted. She also expressed the hope that the Democrats, in their position as the “party of opposition," will not be “guilty of the mean, vindictive sort of criticism” that characterized the Republicans when they were out of office. The name of Charles G. Dawes, who •wore so euphoniously in npholding the work of the A. E. F. in his testimony before a congressional “snooping” committee, was cheered when it was mentioned by the chairman, E. W. l’lckhardt. Other talks were made by State Chairman Benjamin Bosse and State Senator Joseph M. Cravens. Resolutions were adopted reaffirming fc the association’s faith in the principles ■|k Democracy. The resolutions alluded Wilson as “the world's statesman and leader." and Braised the records of Governors Marshall %nd Ralston.

SENATE FAVORS FOUR YEARS FOR STATE OFFICER (Continued From Pape One.) Tide for their Inspection by the board of State charities. Vote 41 to 0. S. B. BS—Providing S4OO a year traveling expenses for each Judge whose circuit contains more than one county. Vote 34 to 10. S. B. 103—Amending act concerning cemetery trust funds and Including churcft corporations among cemetery organisations for which grants may be made. Vote. 35 to 0. FAVORABLE PEFORT ON RENT BILE. The Moorfiead anti-rent profiteering bill was reported favorably out of committee. The bill provides a maximum return of 15 per cent on property worth less than $2,000 and 10 per cent on property worth more than $2 000. The Ratts bill providing that county commissioners may employ deputy sheriffs and pay them out of county funds was reported favorably. Senator Charles J. Buchanan, Indianapolis, Introduced the motion picture censorship bill recommended by a number of local organizations, making the board of education and board of censorship and providing for the licensing of films. The following other bills were introduced: Beardsley—Providing that firemen may become members of pension fund organizations regardless of age. Cities and Towns. Richards —Fixing a sliding scale for payment of police pensions. Cities luM Towns. Richards—Amending an act concerning (fiber in mines. Mines. HOUSE FAVORS NEWMAN BILL (Continued From Page One.) from three to seven, passed the nous* by a 72-to 13 rote. An attempt was njail to amend the bill and have the school trustees appointed by the city council instead of by the mayor as the bill provides. hpt t l e att-mpt failed. OTHER MEASURES GET HOUSE O. K. Other bils passed in the morning sesaion of the House were: Osborn bill, amending fish and game laws and providing penalty of $5 to S3O fine for use of certain methods of fishing. Osborn bill, clarifying proceedings In civil cases. Filbert bill, providing that township *t£istee* shall apportion emergency drainage funds for which there Is no further need, to the persons from whom they were collected. Rich bill, extending authority of stock fire Insurance companies in Indiana to write certain kinds of insurance, permitting Indiana companies to compete with companies of other State*. Willis bill, placing restrictions on flshfcag through ice and providing penalties ■ $3 to SSO fine for violation of the act.

In Cabinet Race 1 ••*’ — PlVvtirf TVil - --■* '■ ■■■—— • According to rumors in official Wash- ; ington, Senator Albert B. Fall of New Mexico will be Secretary of tile Interior in President Harding’s Cabinet. Senator Fall is now* with the Harding party in Florida. ELECTION NOW M’CRAY IDEA IN PRIMARY ROW (Continued From Fgc On*.) resentative Frank J. Noll, Indianapolis, has been asked to pilot the measure through the lower house. The supporters of the Swain move believe If they could force It past the House It would stand a fair chance of getting over in the Senate, but they admit there, will be little likelihood of it meeting a favorable reception if introduced in the upper bouse first. ALLDREDOE BILL MAY DIE IN COMMITTEE. It is considered doubtful if the Alldredge bill, which would extend the primary law to all State candidates, will ever be called from the Senate Committee on Elections. It is generally believed the pro-primary advocates will adopt tactics designed" to tack on amendments to the present law which would rntet their desires. Outstanding in the entire controversy Is the frankness with which both sides will admit that they can not get their respective measures over in their eutirity. It is this condition that has led to the compromise talk. One report is to the effect that the administration will offer to let the present law stand If the presidential prlmary features are eliminated. If this overture is made, it is said, the pro-primary men will make as their part of the bargain a demand that the delegates to the national convention be elected by primary. PROVISION FOR WATCHERS. One of the amendments that may be proposed by the primary supporters would give the candidates the right to install watchers in the voting places both during the balloting and during the counting. This, in their belief, would eliminate to a large measure the cry of fraud that has arisen after elections, such as In Marion County. Another would abolish the sheriffs, resulting in a net saving to the State of more than 150,000. This, it is said, would meet the objectin' of those who oppose the prlmarj use of Its cost. Still another idment under consideration would provide that a plurality voce would nominate, instead of the ma- ; Jorlty, as at present. I Other proposals likely to emanate ' from the anti-primary rowd would be I amendments calling for the safeguardi ing of State conventions.

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CALLS FOR TEN NEW PORTABLE SCHOOLHOUSES (Continued From Page One.) Intendent of buildings and ground*, | that It would take SIOO,OOO to modernize , the lighting systems In tlie schools was 3 surprise to several members of tbe ; board. The statement was made during ! a discussion of the situation at Short- : ridge High School, where some of the rooms, notably the chemical department, are so poorly lighted that it is necessary to dismiss classes on dark days. The matter of lighting for certain rooms at Sbcrtrldge was referred to the building and grounds committee. This same body qualified as a committee on trouble in general when two other matters were turned over to It for investigation, the proposed substitution of revolving ventilators for the stationary type now in use at school No. 72, where, under certain weather conditions, smoke is drawn into the classrooms In such quantity as to make dismissal necessary; and the placing of cinders on the walks at Technical High School, where it is said it is now almost impossible for pupils to go from one building to i another on account of the mud. i ASKS LIBRARY USE ! FOR BASKET-BALL. Tbe Rev. C. G. Baker, pastor of the West Park Christian Church, appeared , before the board and made a plea that the gymnasium of the Hawthorne branch library be left open for tbe playing of basket-ball for at least five weeks. It was reported to the board at a special meeting Saturday that basket-ball players at this place had caused considerable damage to property and had been Insulting to librarians. The Rev. Mr. | Baker said that the rowdyism bad not j come from boys on any of the teams ! represented by him. ! The whole matter of basket-ball In 11- i 1 brarv buildings was discussed and C. B. Rush, librarian, recommended that it ( be forbidden after Feb. 14- j Charles L. Barry, member of the board, ] favored permitting the teams to use the , building until the end of the season. The matter was referred to the library com- ; mittee. . _ Librarian Rush explained preparations I for the drive to obtain money and books I for the library, including a house-to-house appeal in March. NORMAL SCHOOL IN NEED OF SPACE. If the city normal school is to expand It must be given a separata building of ' eight or ten rooms, Superintendent E. : u. Graff reported. lie said that at pros- ! ent the normal school occupies three rooms at school No. 10 and that these I rooms are needed by the regular pupils. ; The normal school Is In charge of Ellsworth Lowry and has seventy-eight p*j pils. The matter was referred to the ; committee on bulMlpgs and ground*. The board authorized Mr. Graff to t---j tend the convention of the National Ed- \ ucatlonal Association at Atlantic City, jN. ,T., from Feb. 24 to March 3. Leave I of absence, but no expense money, will be allowed teachers who attend. George C. Hitt, business director, reported that the resolution of the board, adopted last month, borrowing SBOO,OOO from the school building bond fund foi the use of the special tuition fund to be used to pay teachers’ salaries until the next installment of taxes comes in, had j been approved by the State board of tax i commissioners and the State board of j accounts. ; The board granted the Gale Construe-

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1921.

Tafts Back Home Again

Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Taft, photographed on return to New York.

“We’re back from our second honeymoon,” said ex-President Taft, smilingly, when he and Mrs. Taft stepped off the boat at New York recently from a month’s visit In Burmuda. Taft looks well but considerably thinner than he

tion Company an extension to Feb. 13 to complete work at School No. 43. The following changes In the teaching force were announced: J. M. Johnson and F. W. Sumner, resigned.; leave of absence on account of health. Mary Hunter Alexander, from Jan. 19 to June, 1921; appointments ol Nell Shedd, Audrey Hettell and Nell Johnson Ramey. Hilda Kirkman, assistant in music at M. T. H. S.; Leona M. Knight, elementary schools; Louis A. Bacon, manual training. elementary schools; Lulubelle Buehler, assistant in vocational department; Adeline McCoy, part time teacher, sewing; Ruth Mull, part-time teacher, home economics; Beth Wilson, mathematics. 8. H. 8.; W. li. Davison. pßrt-tlme teacher, chemistry, 8. H. 8.; Ross R. Kennedy, physics, 8. H. S ; Opal S. Sigler. Latin, S. II 8; Elizabeth Trook, mathematic, A T. 8. i Isabelle Hesse, mathematics. M. T. FI S.; Mrs. M. E. Curie, cooking and allied subjects, M. T. H. S ; I-amma M. Wilson and Irene Hayden Jones, elementary schools; Anna Fitzbiggon, returned from leave of absence, transferred from cooking to vocational department; Elizabeth C Flench, returned from leave of absence, Feb. 1, 1921. Fred Landis to Speak Special to The Times FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 9.-Fred Landis. former Congressman from the Eleventh Indiana Congressional district, will speak on the life of Abraham Lincoln at the Trinity English Lutheran Church here, Thursday evening, under the auspices of the Men’s Brotherhood of the church.

did when America’s chief executive. His first work will be to serve on the arbitration committee In Montreal which is to settle the value of of apportlonately $64,000,000 worth of stock of th e Grand Trunk railway, which lias been taken over by tbe Canadian government.

Dress Suit Makes Debut at Process of Jury Drawing Meredith Nicholson, the author and one of the Jury commissioners for Marion County, whs ctt.led suddenly last night by County Clerk K.chard 81pe to draw fifteen additional names for the Jury In the oust* of Mrs. Inda Myers, charged with murder. Mr. Nicholson appeared at the clerk’s office about S:3O o'clock last night attired In an evening dress suit. Mr. Sipe looked surprised on seeing the commissioner attired In full evening dress. “I was Just going to a party,” explained the author. Mr. Slue st.es this is the first time that a dress suit was ever used in getting a Jury.

Wide flange of Egg Prices Follows Drop Despite the drop in wholesale prices of eggs yesterday to 28 cents, retail grocers are quoting eggs all the way from 45 to 36 cents. The Columbia Grocery <’ompany quoted a retail price of 45 centsThe Plggly Wlggley refused to give a price for publication, but told customers eggs were retailing at 56 cents.

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EVANS INSISTS ON FINDING IN FIRSTDE GRE E (Continued From Page One.) guilty of first degree murder Mrs. Myers turned In her chair and faced Mr. Evans. She watched him closely as the prosecutor retired to tue table for the State. DEFENDANT MAKES NOTATIONS. Mrs. Myers then made a few notations on a pad of paper on which she Is making notes. She appears to be very calm . and Is carefully watching ail the teati- j mony. Shortly after the Jury was selected I Mrs. D. J. McGrath of Chicago, divorced ! wife of the late Mr. Myers, and the mother of the two boys whose sympathies are aligned with their stepmother who is on trial, consulted with Prosecutor Evans 'in his office. Following a short conference, Mrs. McGrath entered the courtroom. “The evidence will show," stated Prosecutor Evans In his opening statement, “that the decedent and the defendant had been married fozr about ten years and \ that they often quarreled, as couples do who are not happily married. It will be shown that the defendant had filed a divorce actlim against Mr. Myers and one of her charges was adultery. This adultery was one of the causes of dissension between them.” DESCRIBES SCENE OF TRAGEDY. Mr. Evans then described the room on the second floor of the photo gallery at 1416 North Alabama street which was the scene of the tragedy on the night of Dec. 4 lust. He visualized the two desks in the room, one belonging to the defendant and the other to her murdered I husband. He also called attention to a ; “darkroom’’ which adjoined the big room. | “On the day of the tragedy," said Mr. Evans, “the decedent went to his home and ate supper. Mr. Myers atayed there, although he and Mrs. Myers were not living as man and wife following the filing of a divorce action by Mrs. Myers. “After supper Mr. Myers went upstairs. None was there but the defendant and Mr. Myers ac the time of the shooting and Mr. Myers can tell no tales. The evidence will show that Mrs. Myers obtained a few days before the tragedy a .38 caliber revolver. She got it from one of her stepsons, who, she claims, got it In a trade. She bought cartridges and loaded this revolver, which was not an automatic revolver, but one which required a separate and distinct pulling of I the trigger to get a discharge. SENDS BOYS DOWN STAIRS. “On the day of the shooting, Mrs. My- | ers in the darkroom and Mr. Myers was at hi* desk. Previous to that she had told the two boy* to go down stairs. They went down stairs with a neighbor ; boy. I do not know if Mr. Myers called • his wife from the darkroom or not, but i the evidence will show that she did walk I from the darkroom into the room where | Myers was seated at his desk. | “The evidence will show that she i pulled accurately and with careful aim \ the trigger of the revolver four times | Four bullets entered the body of Fredcrick Myers. One bullet was found in I the wall. i ‘ The evidence will show that one bnl- - let entered the back of Mr. Myers’ left , band, that two entered under the left ; arm pit and one under the right arm J pit. One of these four bullets pierced

the heart of Frederick Myers and death was instantaneous. "The officers were immediately called and they arrived In a short time. No one entered the room of the tragedy but Mrs. Myers until the police arrived. She ran out and told a neighbor of the shooting. MAKES VOLUNTARY STATEMENT. “The officers reached the place. In a statement made voluntarily by the defendant, she claimed that Myers was peeling an apple and that he had threatened to cut her with a knife, a white- ( handled knife. Tho police found no peelings or any apple. The evidence will show that Frederick Myers had no weapon of any kind on hla person. The evidence will show that the police found a paper knife with a bla.le two and a half or three inches in length on one of the desks. Gentlemen of the Jury, tae blade of this knife was thrust partly under a pad of papers. The blade of the knife was absolutely dry." Mr. Evans discussed the evidence which the police are expected to Introduce regarding a purported statement made by Mrs. Myers after the shooting. The defense, by Attorney Arthur Robinson, reserved the right to make the opening statement for the defense at the conclusion of the evidence of the prosecution. Dr. Walter S. Givan, deputy coroner, who conducted the autopsy, testified ns to the position of the four bullet wounds on the body of Mr. Myers. He was the first witness for the State. A Jury was obtained at 10 a. m. today after an entire day was spent In a fruitless attempt to get a jury yesterday. The State used twelve of twenty per emptory challenges and the defense seventeen. Not more than a dozen witnesses were sworn when the court ordered all witnesses for the Btate to take the oath. The second witness introduced by tbe State was Dr. Paul F. Robinson, coroner, and he was followed by Detective Sergt. Louis Fossatl and Emergency Sergt. Louis Johnson, who were among the officers dispatched to the scene of the tragedy. REVIEWS TALK IN AUTO PATROL. Sergeant Johnson probably gave the most convincing testimony so far introduced in behalf of the State. Sergeant Johnson, in discussing a conversation which he had with Mrs. Myers

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while riding with her in the auto patrol to police headquarters after the shooting, testified as follows: “Mrs. Myers said that she had engaged private detectives to watch Mr. Myers and that they followed him to a certain house and found him with a woman 4>y the name of Eva. She said she thought he had been crazy, as he was a chryetal gazer and was a spiritualist. She said that Myers told her that she didn't have any sense because sbe could not see things as he did. “I asked her where she got the revolver and she said thatone day Arthur, 1 12, her stepson, came in the room with a revolver and that she took it way from him. She said she bought cartridges for the revolver and always kept it in her pocket when she saw her husband after she had loaded the revolver. She said sbe went to see her father the afternoon of tbe shooting and stated that she decided to have a settlement with her husband that night," testified the officer. The defense began, cross-examining Sergeant Johnson when the case was resumed this afternoon. Indications are that the State will rest late In the afternoon. Among the witnesses sworn this mornfor the State was Mrs. McGrath, the first wife of Mr. Myers. It Is thought Mrs. McGrath will not be put on the witness stand by the State. Indications are that the case will go to the Jury late tomorrow. Makes Amendment Plea to Assembly A brief presented to the Legislature today by D. B. Johnson, superintendent of the Civic Union urges the Senate to reconsider its action in killing the proposed constitutional amendment, which would have made amending the basic law aa easier method. If the Assembly rails to reconsider Mr, Johnson warns that an agitation will be started for anew constitutional convention. Urges Road Coin Use CHICAGO, Feb. 9—Use of one billion dollars now available in sixteen States for road-building this year was urged before tbe American Good Roads Congress and the good roads show which opened a -four-day meeting here today.

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