Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1921 — Page 1

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BOCHE REVOLT ON INDEMNITY IS NOT FEARED British Officials Not Apprehensive, Despite Pessimistic Forecasts of Huns. DROP KAISER TRIAL IDEA LONDON, Feb. 16.—British officials have no fears that the allied indemnity question 'will lead to a revolution in GeAnany, despite the pessimistic forecasts of German political leaders. Even should German unrest be fomented to a dangerous degree and the monarchists and former adherents of the ex-Kaiser attempt to take advantage of it, the allies will not seek to reopen the question of bringing William to trial before an international tribunal. This information w.is given out today from an .official source— E\ an Davies! parliamentary secretary to Premier Lloyd George. XO FEAR FELT BECAUSE OF SIZE. "British officials do not fear a German revolution as a result of the size of the Indemnity the allies decided to impose on Germany,” declared the official. “The German delegates are coming to the London conference on March 1 with full powers and we have every reason to believe that everything will be settled in a satisfactory manner.” Belief is held In certain quarters that If an outbreak should take place in Germany the monarches might attempt to take advantage of the situation, and furthermore, might attempt to persuade the ex-kaiser to return to Germany. BRITISH OFFICIAL OUTLINES VIEW. On this point the British official sa'd: “Under no circumstances will the allies seek to reopen the kaiser trial question. Such a thing has never occurred to the officials concerned with this phase of the situation. We are perfectly satisfied to let things rest as they are. The 'kaiser trial’ issue is dead and never will be revived.” The foregoing was the first official declaration that the alii* s had decided to abandon the question of bringing members of the Hohenzollern family to trial . for "war crimes.” SEES IMPROVEMENT IN IRISH SITUATION LONDON, Feb. 16. —Premier Lloyd George, speaking late yesterday, declared ths Irish situation is much improved and that crown forces hair gained the upper hand. He declared their power was recognized and that recruits to the forces now were being offered in Ireland Itself. The premier definitely a’serted that there will be no report on the burning of Cork’s business section. Ills reply to Inquiries indicated military forces bad been more guilty than was' nf admitted. He said a number of men had been dropped from the rolls for lack of (Continued on Page Nine.)

SAYS HATFIELD SEIZED MONEY OF SLAIN MAN Witness Testifies Marshal Remarked ‘?.luch Obliged. Mr. Felts.’ WILLIAMSON, W. Va., Feb. 18.—Ad- j dressing the dead, Sid Hatfield, one of nineteen defendants in the Matewau battle trial, bowed and said: ‘Much obliged, Mr. Felts," when he found a number of bills in a pocketbook of the leader of the detectives after the fatal fight last May, Allen Johnson testified today. Johnson, on cross-examination, tes*ified, however, he "supposed Hatfield, being chief of police at Matewau, intended turning the money over to the district attorney. “Felts was lying on his back and Hatfield pulled him around.” the witness said. “I saw him with Felts' pocketbook In his hands. Hatfield opened it and 1 saw some bills, how many I do not know.” The defense's attempt to have John- j son's testimony excluded wus overruled. Mrs. Kenner Hatfield, witness of the ‘ shooting, Identified Reeve and E 1 Chambers as among armed men she saw In Matewan a few minutes before the revolver fisht began. Sid Hatfield, Ed Chambers and otherran down the street, when the battle died down, she said. They came from the scene of the fighting. “Almo-t every one I saw was armed," Mrs. Hatfield said. Margie Washington, negro, said she was working in the home of Bert Wil- i Hams, one of the defendants, in Matewan on the day of the shooting. Williams took a pistol from the house shortly before the battle, she said. Hear Motor Officers in MailJVlisuse Case DALLAS, Aexas, Feb. 16.—Taking of * testimony against officers of the Litt’e Motor ICar Company, under In livtment for misuse of the mails, continue today after the case against J. H. Crow, oue of the officers, had been dismissed by Federal District Attorney Taylor. Evidence against Crow, Taylor said, was insufficient. Press Plant Is Bombed HOCK ISLAND, 111., Feb. 16.—A bomb exploded at the plant of the Rock Island News, a weekly paper here, early today, caused but little damage. A similar explosion occurred at the plant three years ago. The paper has been published while the editor was serving a year in jail on a criminal libel charge.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16.—Superior Judge Graham today approved the method of determining parentage of children devised by Dr. Albert Abrams, when he ordered Paul Vlttorl to pay his wife $25 a month for support of her baby. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 16.—1f Superior Judge Graham grants SIBO back alimony to Mrs. Paul Vlttorl when Vittori Is called before the court today a stamp of legal approval wili be placed on anew “sesame of science." That will moan that the courts have accepted the method of Dr. Albert Abrams, late of the University of Heidelberg and for twelve years professor of pathology at Stanford University, Cali-

SENATORS SEE HARDING HAND EVER ON WHEEL Solons, Returning From Conferences With PresidentElect, Give Impressions. 1-MAN RULE FORESEEN WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—The foreign policy of the new Administration will be as distinctly a ‘ Harding policy” as that of the present Administration is a “Wilson policy,” Senators back from conferences in Florida said today. The next President has made up his mind about the line he will pursue, Senators said, remarking also that his mental attitude on foreign policies is much different today than when he was in Washington after his Pan-American tour. Then he seemed not to have settled on anything definite; now he has agreed in the opinion of those who have been close to him. Returning Senators have offered a standing bet with no takers as yet, that he ever wili be In the Cabinet holding one ot the portfolios in the unfilled list. They are further quite certain that action on the peaoe treaty with Germany by the special session of Congress wiil be put off for some weeks after his entering office. He has been urged within the week by influential Senators to call the session promptly and charge it with passage of the Knox peace resolution ns its first duty. To this recommendation he has replied, it is stated, that he intends to give himself three weeks or a month to get settled before he tackles the peace question. The Japanese question has been brought to Harding's attention in detail. Harding is not worrying sbout if. he indicated to his callers. Frankly, he is said to regard it as a “polifleal” issue in California, close to the interests of the statesmen from that State and properly, but not of snob moment or magnitude that it cannot be easily and speedi'y adjusted by a treaty.

FINAL WEEDING OUT ON FOR CABINET ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.. Feb. 16 —The j conferences in progress this week be- j tween President-elect Harding and Ite publican party managers hre constitute (Continued on Page Nine.) TO REPORT ON JAIL SATURDAY Grand Jury Sees Records of Improvement Orders. The Marion County grand jury Is ex- J pected to make a report Saturday on i conditions at the Countv Jail, as well as j to submit recommendations for necessary [ improvements. The county commissioners today in- ! speeted the Jail, the grand Jury having spent several hours going over the place ; Tuesday. The grand jury was instructed by ! Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court to make the investigation alt‘*r Sheriff George Snider sent a written request to the court asking that certain improvements be made and that new plumbing tie installed. It is known that records of the couutv ' commissioners showing the granting of certain improvement contracts at the Jail i last year have been taken before the j grand Jury. Certain contracts, such as Installing j anew locking system for the cells, have i been let and the records were submitted ! by the commissioners to Show what work j already has been contracted.for. It is thought the recent escape of a ] man from the Jail prompted Sheriff Snider’s request for a grand jury investigation. Judge Collins Is expected to Instruct the county commissioners to carry out all I recommendations made by the grand ! Jury.

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fornia, for determining the parentage of children. Dr. Abrams maintains not only that by the use of the “oseollophore,” which, he explains. Is very simple when you understand It. he can deteriNlne parentage of a child, but also approximate age. race, ancestry and sex with its many personal characteristics become known. •'EleetMinlc bibrations” of the blood form basis for this new phase of science. In the case of the Vlttorl bnhy the man denied parentage. A drop of blood from the baby and one from the father showed “electronic vibrations'’ which synchronized, according to Dr. Abrams, proving Vittori the father.

PASSES PURDUE STATION LEVY Senate Sends Measure Back to House With Slight Increase. The bill providing a tax levy of twofifths of a cent on each SIOO of taxable property for the Purdue agricultural experiment statton, was passed by the Senate today by a vote of 42 to 0. Under the present valuation of approximately six billion dollars, the levy will produce $240,000 a year for support of the station, hut tt is estimated this will be cut with the new valuation of personal property. The bill now goes back to the House because of a Senate amendment changing the amount from three-eighths of a cent to two-fifths of a cent. The change was made, it was explained, to make bookkeeping easier for employes of th“ offiee of the Auditor of State and for the various county auditors and treasurers. TELLS OF WORK DONE AT STATION. In speaking for the bill. Senator Estes Duncan. Cloverdnie. told of the work of the station. Senator Oliver Kline of Huntington, while he said he would favor the bill, declared lie did not believe It would do all Senator Duncan claimed for It. He defied professors of agriculture at Purdue to operate a 160-acre farm and make an annual profit of 6 per cent. The Senate also passed without amendment the pure seed bill which was recently passed by the House. The bill provides tha seeds sold in the State must be labeb-d to show the percentage of germination and the percentage of for elgn seeds The vote was 42 to 0. The Senate passed five other House bills and killed one. The following were passed ; H. B. 110, providing for change in lav. for election of members of school board in Terre Haute, to make law conform with last census; 40 to 0. U It. 61. reoealing an act concerning procedure of Supreme Court, wh'eh the (Continued on Page Nine.)

H. C. L. BLOCKS MINERS* SPREE 21-Pound Gold Nugget Stowed Away in Hank. SAX FRANCI CO. Cal . Feb. HU—The high cost of living has taken Its toll of romance out of the mining game. Joe Miller and Johnny Stein blew Into town with the biggest gold nugguet since the days when gold dust took the place of Uncle Sam's coinage in California, it came from Notion Creek, Shasta County, welg led twenty-one pounds and was worth approximately $5.0 rt “See the white lights.'" Miller responded when asked what lie was going to do. "Well. I guess not. Living’s too high, nowadays. That money is going into a San Francisco bank and then we’re going out for some more.” The nugget finders are stopping at a house where rooms are 35 cents and up. TOT’S LISP LAYS KILLING ON MAN ‘Papa Shoot Mamma’ Causes Arrest of Parent. CHICAGO. Feb. 16.—Four year-old Sammy Buis today is the lone accuser of his father. Hoy Buis, who police found with the body of his w fe, Helen, last night She had been shot. "Papa shoot mamma,” the child lisped to the police. The father, two brothers and a sister-in-law. however, declared Mrs. Buis committed suicide. Buis is being held. Several Hurt When Train Jumps Track MOBILE, Ala., Feb. 16.—Fast mail tr a ln N'o. 1 on the Mobile & Ohio, St. Louis to Mobile, Jumped the track at Skooha, Miss., today. First reports say none was killed, but several Injured. Two or tluec coaches are In tile ditch.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1921.

W. F. G. HARDING HOISTS CREDIT DANGER SIGNAL Reserve Board Report Warns Congress to Conserve Resources. CITES EUROPE’S ERRORS WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. —Congress was warned today that the Government's credit must be conserved and the basis of American prosperity protected if European economic pitfalls are to be avoided. The danger signal was hoisted by Governor \V. P. G. Harding of the Federal Reserve Board in submitting to Congress his annual report on the operations of the Federal reserve system. He traced the commercial reactions of the past and present and the upsets due to the war load now being borne by tho Government. Governor Harding told Congress that, although the entire world has been shaken by commercial and financial up heavels, with disturbances still pronounced in many countries, the United States is much stronger In financial resources and "much more self-contained today than any other country on the globe.” The industrial crisis has been passed and there Is no apprehension about the future, the report said. ' The public has regained a more normal state of mind, which is of first Importance In working back toward normal conditions,” it explained. The reports quote wholesale price lndeces to show that th cost of living Is lower in the United States than in any of the other principal countries. "However great the economic s'rength of the United States may tie.” the report says, "it should he remembered that the country’s expenditures during the war and the very profound modifications which have occurred In Its economic system have had such fir reaching results as to make It imperative that the utmost care be taken to eonserve our credit arid protect the basis of our prosperity, If we are to avoid the extreme conditions which prevail In other countries." Governor Harding said the solvency und financial stability of many countries depend in large measure on the United States. He pointed the way to a more vigorous handling by this Government of some of its foreign debtors. His intimation was strong that the great need abroad at the moment is the adoption of national measures of “self-help.” TESTIFIES WILSON APPROVED CREDITS WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—AM credits extended to foreign governments by the Treasury Department le-fore and since the armistice were made with the approval of President Wilson, Nicholas Kelley, Assistant Secretary of the Treasnry, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Secretary Houston Informed the committee that two loans granted Czecbo Slovakia, o?ie for $8,000,000 and another for $6,330,000, were made since the armistice was signed. Houston and Kelley appeared before the committee when it resumed consideration of the bill sponsored by Senator Iteed, Democrat, Missouri, to prohibit (Continued on Pago Nine.)

‘SPY’ NOTE BODY IDENTITY MADE Corpse Found in Irish Field That of Cork Merchant. DUBLIN, Feb. 18.—The body of a man found In a field near Cork, with the inscription “A Spy” pinned to the breast, was identified today as that of .1. C. Renle, manager of a firm of wine merchants In Cork. He had be'en shot to death. An unoccupied farmhouse on Ballycotton Bay. in County Cork, was blown up l>y Crown forces. The military authorities at Cork said that Sinn Felners had used If as a storehouse for arms and ammunition. CORK, Feb. 16.—A secret Sinn Fein munitions factory was believed to have been destroyed at Ballyeotton Bay today, when a farm house was blown up. Fails to Stop After Accident; Arrested James McCormick,* Sturm avenue, was arrested by Motor Police Englebrlght and Bastlan this afternoon on charges of failure to stop his automobile after an accident. Police were told that McCormick was driving south In Noble street, anil at Harrison street. In trying to dodge a dog, struck a light truck driven by Morris Biddle of the Southern Hotel, driver for a dressed meat concern. A wheel was torn from Biddle's truck, but McCormick kept on. Witnesses took the number of McCormick's machine and bis arrest followed. Family Nearing U. S. When Hoosier Dies Special to The Times. NEW ALBANY. Ind.. Feb. 16 - Frank Ossoffsky, 82, owner of a shoe repair shop here, died Tuesday. Ills wife and four children are on the way to America, lie came to this city seven years ugo and recently seut money to bring his family. For the last week he had been waiting a message saying they bad ar rived at Ellis Island. President Now Ready to Account for Fund WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. President Wilson has already prepared to render a final accounting of the funds placed at his disposal during the war, it was stated at the White House today. The resolution passed by the House Tuesday asking such an accounting will find the President prepared to render a complete account, it was said. * Shop Fire Loss SIOO,OOO ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 16.—The Missouri Pacific Railroad machine shop at Montrose and Chotenu avenue, was destroyed by fire this morning with a loss estimated at SIOO,OOO. Laughing Kills Baby BALTIMORE. Feb. 16. “Laughing spasms” caused the death of the 5 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Schnltleln. Thirty minutes after being stricken the infant literally laughed Itself to death.

NIGHT SCHOOL BILL KILLED BY HOUSE ACTION Measure to Require Foreigners to Acquire English Put to Sleep. LAKE COUNTY OPPOSES The House, after a stormy debate today, killed Senator Robert L. Moorhead’s hill requiring all foreigners in Indiana who can not read, write or speak English to attend night school, when it adopted a majority report of the Education Committee favoring indefinite postponement. The Senate already had passed the hill. "Either the Senate is passing measures without consideration or its members dont know the fundamentals of our government.” declared Representative Oscar A. Ahlgren, Lake County, in attacking the measure. He charged tiiat the bill savored of bureaucracy and was a stigma l on the American system of government. He called attention to the conditions in the Calumet district, where mauy foreigners would be placed under distinct | handicaps, he said, if the bill passed. ! "You can t legislate Americanism into foreigners,” said Representative Ahlgren. i ‘‘l don’t see how the bill ever got past the Senate.” The Lake County delegation was solidly opposed to the measure. The minor- ; ity report, signed by Representatives Haworth, Sherwood and Malott, favored | passage with an amendment so that it would compel persons more than 21 i years old to attend the schools. WIKT I9 SI E IN DISCUSSION. in supporting the minority report Representative Haworth declared William E. Wirt, superintendent of the Gary schools, who attained a national reputation in educational circles, favored the passage of the bill. Representative J. Glenn Harris of Lake County replied that while he had a high regard for Mr. Wirt, yet he felt that the latter s support was no recommendation for the J merits of the bill. Some time ago, he said, Gary Fpent enough money in placing incorrigible boysand girls In a special school to have sent u similar number of students through Yule or Harvard. He said this was one of Mr. Wirt’s plans that hail failed. A divided report on House bill 204, ! the garnishee bill, was returned by Judiciary A Committee. The majority favored passage and the minority Indefinite postponement. The majority report was accepted after the minority report was defeated, 47 to 21. Representative Henry Abrams of Marion County supported the bill. He said that a similar measure had received ; sixty five voles In the 1919 session, but was lost In the final rush In the Senate. “It you can make a man honest by law j the bill should pass and If a man Is i honest (lie law won’t touch him,” said : Representative Sam Benz. Crawford and ! Washington Counties. raise )B,i::rTiONs TO GARNISHEE BILL. Some of the members raised objections J because they said the bill would cause additional bookkeeping for manufacturers and employers. "There is no reason why we should oppose a bill that seeks to make a dis(l ontlnued on Page Nine.)

TONG WARFARE OPENS AGAIN Pacific Coast Cities Report Chinese Murders. PAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 16. Tong warfare among the Chinese of the Pacific coaat was on In earnest today. Believed averted by a tentative truce brought about by Chief of Poliee O'Brien, open warfare broke out with the wounding of a Hop Sing Tong member nf Stockton. No sooner had the word been flashed Pt Chinatown than the Hop Sings took the warpath. Asa result Go Fein, notlrlous highbinder and gunman. Is dead and three other Chinamen are In a hospital suffering from wounds sustained In a battle In which twenty shots were Bred. From I,os Angeles came word of the killing of two Chinamen and the wounding of a third, bringing the total of the first night's warfare to three dead and five wounded. Additional police precautions were taken in all Pacific const oltles, while both tongs were busy recruiting for a long and murderous campaign. ABANDON HOPE FLIER IS ALIVE Airmen Comb Border for Pearson’s Body. SAN ANTONIO, Texas. Feb. 16.—A big Capronl, assisted by forty planes from the border and Kelly field, today is combing a 100-mi lie strip of land lying between the Pecos river and Howard creek In Crockett County, to establish whether Lieut. Alexander Pearson, Jr., is dead or alive. Army fliers admitted unofficially they had practically given up hope of finding Pearson alive. They are in reality now searching for the wreckage of his plane or his body. Passengers Undergo Tests for Typhus NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—I*aNeng;er arriving: here today from Boston, where they landed yegterday from the Hteamship (unoplo, were forced to undergo a rigid examination before being allowed to enter the city, because of the fear that they might be typhus carriers. Tlie health department has established stations at ail railroad terminals and coastwise piers to exumine Kuspei ts. Four Believed Dead in Coal Mine Blast Special to The Times. PRINCETON, Ind., Feb. 16. —Four men were reported killed today in a gas explosion which wrecked the New Liberty coal mine near Oakland City. Advices from Oakland City said Wesley Bilderback, Orman Davis, Ray Coehrum and Clyde Rinehart were in the mine. Two mangled bodies have been found. A rescue party is at work in the mine •haft

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Records Show Other Cases of Delay in Criminal Court

Other examples of the delay in passing on cases in the Marion County Criminal Court, were revealed today when the cobwebs literally were brushed off the records because the cases have been pending so long. According to the records in Criminal Court, Bert Thomas on March 17, 1919. appealed from the city court where he was sentenced to serve thirty days In Jail and fined SIOO on a charge of operating a blind tiger. The records in Criminal Court show that Thomas pleaded guilty on Dec. 9, 1919, and that Judge James A. Collins took the case under advisement. No action was taken In this case until today when Judge Collins fined Thomas SIOO and costs, but gave him no days. In a delay of nearly a year Thomas not only was at liberty, but he has

Enrico Caruso, Thought Dying, Rallies Quickly Extreme Unction Administered When Singer Suffers Sharp Relapse. BULLETIN. NEW YORK, Feb. 16—“ Air. Caruso 1* holding Ills own,” It was stated by an attendant In the apartment of the noted singer at noon today. Caruso was able at one time to recognize his friend. Antonin Seoul, but too weak to talk to him. NEW YORK, Feb. I(U—Enrico Caruso, grand opera singer, who is critically lli of complications following a virulent attack of pleurisy, "was resting us easily as possible" this morning, it was an nouneed by attending physicians at the Vanderbilt Hotel. Caruso suffered a sharp relapse early in the day and two priests were called into the sickroom to administer extreme unction. The last rites of the Roman Catholic Church were performed when the great tenor seemed to be dying. Although his vitality was fast ebbing, Caruso was conscious and was not suffering acute pain, according to his secre tury, Bruno Zlrato. Mrs. Caruso was with her husband and the singers son by a previous marriage, Enrico Caruso Jr . had been Hastily- summoned from his sc hool in Culver, Ind. Caruso bore up bravely and said farewell feebly to friends who were admitted to the sick room. Just before daybreak the patient seemed to rally and to brighten. Three doctors were in attendance at the bedside throughout the eutire uight and two others were in consultation. Oxygen wag administered at intervals. Caruso was originally stricken on the night of Dec. 9 while sinphig In "l’agliacel.” Two operations were later performed and the lungs were drained. Both were said to have been successful. SON LEAVES FOR TENOR S BEDSIDE Special to The Times. CULVER, Ind., Feb. 16. Starting a race with death, Enrico Caruso, Jr., left shortly after noon for the bedside of his father, seriously ill in New York. The youth, who has been attending Culver Military Academy, is confident his father will recover.

WOMEN OFFER MARKET PLANS Report Takes Issue With City’s Scheme. Rcommendations for improvement of the city market Investigated by the market committee of the community welfare department of the Department Club were read by Mrs. Rowland Evans yesterday at the business meeting of the organization. •'lt was impossible,” said Mrs. Evans, “to divorce the architecture plan from the conduct of the market. The plan for the emergency room for both men and women is advisable, the rooms to be designed not for lounging places, tint for people overcome with fatigue or illness.' The committee made mention of the fact that, although a year ago an appropriation for the salary of a market mistress had been made, such a person could not be located nt the market unless the woman who cleaned the washroom was such. There was a general discussion of this point and the dub women were Indignant concerning such misappropriation of the sura. Resurfacing of all floors, with the cement extending high up on all side walls and partitions to ward off the rates, an! the sealing of all low unused windows were looked on favorably by tho committee. One point recommended was that new stands be of uniform size, based in enamel and raised on supports, and that these stands as well as the floor space be owned by the city and leased to the merchants. A public comfort station in the basement wus opposed. The report declared the net Income from the market for 1920 was $32,000, which legally only could be used for "operation and maintenance of the market," but the largest sum spent yearly has been $j12.000, and thousands of dollars that lawfully should be spent only on the market have gone Into the general city fund. The law further states that "no city may conduct a business for profit," yet “both parties of the past city administrations have flagrantly disobeyed this law in conducting the market,” said the statement. “If the affairs of our market had been managed efficiently," said Mrs. Evans, “there would have been no necessity for an appropriation for the new mnrket, as the revenues would easily have paid the hill.” The committee on the market included Mrs. Ira Holmes, chairman, Mrs. W. H. Hart and Mrs. Evans.

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NEWTON, 111., Feb. 16.—Police today are seeking the motive for a tragedy In which F. 11. Robertson, wealthy teal estate man, shot and killed Charles Hutton, a grain broker, and then shot himself, the wound proving fatal four hours later. The only clew has been found in the hysterical sobbing of Sutton's wife “I knew it would come,” she sobbed. “He’s been brooding over it for weeks." Mis* Mollie Hall, a attendant In the

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succeeded in escaping a thirty-day sentence which he received in the city court. Seeraon Cook, a woman, was fined *IOO and sentenced to thirty days In Jail in the city court. She appealed to the Criminal Court on April 7, 1920. On Muy 7, 1920, she filed a motion for a Jury trial and tile case did not get under way until today. Tlte case probably will go to the Jury late this afternoon. She is charged with selling two pints of whisky. Jake Taylor, who was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to ten days in jail in the city court on a petit larceny charge, received better treatment in Criminal Court, where he was fined $1 and eosts and sentenced to one day in Jail. Judge Collins suspended the day, the recoid shows.

WOMAN TELLS OF BURIAL IN GERANIUM BED Says Interment of Mother’s Body in Secret Great Act of Love. DOES NOT FEAR OUTCOME CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—1n a police detention home Airs. Ruth Townsend today corroborated the confession of her daughter Marian and g.*ve in detail the story of the death and secret burial of her mother, Mrs. Nancy M. Chamberlain, whose body was exhumed from beneath a geranium bed in the rear of the Townsend studio apartment on tho south side early this morning. With a long, black cloak about her and staring rigidly at police who questioned her Mrs. Townsend suddenly announced a "message.” “Mother just spoke to me,” she said. “She told me not to be afraid—to speak. She said she is with me every moment and will protect me. I am ready to talk.” According to her statement her mother “just stopped breathing.” “It was a great Job,” she continued. "At last I felt that I was able to do one of the great acts of love for my mother. It was a sacred thing to me. It was the most beautiful act of my life. TELLS OF Bl RIAL. "You cauhot understand my feelings unless you understand the oneness of things., There is no dullity. Everything is infinite. There Is no fear. That is why 1 know there will be protection. “I don’t remember how long she was with us after she stopped breathing, but I think it was about two days. Then Marian and 1 made ready for the one blessed act. "It was all done by direction. It was 1 o’clock in the morning. There was not a sound. Just after sunset we had made the spot ready, it was by the geranium bed, where mother aud I had spent so many happy, beautiful hours. She played her chimes there. "Not a tear was shed. Be certain of that. We were both very happy—Marian and I. And mother was happy, too. "Not a word was spoken. We Just carried her to where she could rest and (Continued on Page Nine.)

GOVERNOR FIRES PROHI OFFICIAL Wisconsin Senate Opposition Fails to Defeat Move. ! MADISON, Wis., Feb. 16.—T. T. Hazleberg, prohibition commissioner, was ousted from office by Governor John Blaine today just before the State Senate was called on to confirm the appointment of W. Stanley Smith of Ashland as successor to llazlehcrg. Administration leaders anticipated a move on the part of the Senate opposition to call on the Secretary of State to supply the list of appointments made In vacation. This move would have submitted the name of Ilazleberg to the Senate for confirmation. The Governor acted under a statute permitting him to oust the commissioner before the Senate convened. RESCUE 387 ON WRECKED SHIP Tugs Take Passengers From Vessel on Rocks. NEW BEDFORD. Mass , Feb. 36.—The transfer of the 200 or more passengers remaining on the steamer Suo Vincente, leaking and hard fast ashore on Packett Rock, in Buzzard's Bay, was resumed by tugs today. One hundred passengers were landed at the State Immigration pier here. All of the twenty six cabin and 361 steerage passengers, who hail from Lisbon. Madeira end the Azores, received a clean bill of health from Port Physician Frazier. Another attempt was to be made at high tide to pull the vessel off the ledge. Postoffice Will Be Closed on Tuesday The postoffice will be closed Tuesday. Feb. 22. Washington's birthday, and there will be no delivery by carriers on that date, according to Robert E. Springsteen, postmaster. Collections and evening deliveries to hotels will be made as on Sundays. Another Mill Resumes WEIR TON, W. Va., Feb. 16.—The tin plato department of the Weirton Steel Company, comprising twenty-six separate mills, has resumed full operation, company officials announced today.

off ce of Dr. J. IV. Hutton, where the shooting occurred, was the only witness. Robertson entered the office while Sutton was waiting the arrival of the physician. Without speaking he fired two shots from an automatic pistol, but neither took effect. Sutton sprang up and called to Robertson not to shoot, but he fired again and Sutton fell dead. Robertson then crossed the hall to another office and shot himself. Ho died la a hospital at Effingham.

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SUIT BY STATE CONTESTS U. S. RATE INCREASE Denies Right of Commerce Commission to Hike Intrastate Charges. INJUNCTION IS DEMAND Charges that the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission in issuing an order, dated today, by which passenger and freight rates for intrastate traffic in Indiana are to be increased March 24 to a point equal to interstate rates for similar classes of traffic, is unlawful and an arbitrary exercise of its powers are contained in a suit for injunction filed by the public service commission of Indiana against the United States in Federal Court today. The complaint is drawn in eight paragraphs and alleges that Oct. 17, 1920, tha Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company and other common carriers filed a petition with the Interstate Commerce commission asking that the intrastate rate* for Indiana be raised to a level with the Interstate rates. It is alleged that at the hearing before the commission no investigation was made as to the cost of Intrastate transportation of rassengers and freight for Indiana compared with interstate rates and charges of a similar character except as to certain particular points and in a general way. It also is contended that no evidence was adduced as to tha value of the property owned or used by the carriers In Indiana traffic or its cost. INSUFFICIENCY NOT SHOWN. It also is charged that no evldenea was submitted to the commission that the rates then in effect did not yield a fair charge for the service given; neither was any evidence offered to show that the rates established by the public service commission for intrastate-traffice imposed an unlawful burden on interstate commerce. The complaint then goes on to say l that the order issued by the commission today was not based on the theory that the rates of the public service commission were an unlawful burden on interstate traffic in any sense other than tha assumption that any rates other than the interstate rates would constitute a burden. It is eonended that the order was issued on the arbitrary theory that the interstate commerce commission had the power to prescribe and regulate rates for intrastate passenger and freight traffic, when, as a matter of fact, the commission has no such power and therefore the order is unlawful. The complaint insists enforcement of the order will entail a great and irreparable damage to citizens of Indiana. The complaint says that the effect of the order will be to produce rates, fares and charges which will be unjust, unreasonable and unlawful. PROPER REMEDY NOT SOUGHT. It is also charged that if the carriers believed the rates fixed by tire public service commission were unjust, unlawful or unreasonable they had an adequate remedy under the laws of Indiana, and they should have brought suit in the State courts asking that the public service commission be enjoined from enforc(Continued on Page Two.)

BRYDON AGAIN PROVIDES SURETY Much Record Made in Keeping Man From Jail. It is taking a lot of record-making to keep Ray M. Brydon out of jail. He has been waiting trial for nearly a year on three indictments, charging grand larceny, false pretense and failure to pay wages. The records in the Criminal Court show that Brydon gave anew appearance bond today for $l,lOO, with his father, W. B. Brydon, as the only surety. When Brydon failed to appear last Saturday for final disposition of the case in which he is charged with grand larceny, the court ordered Brydon's bond, with Charles C. Clark, his attorney, and hit father, as surety, forfeited. About an hour later Brydon appeared in court and the forfeiture was set aside. Brydon was sent to jail Saturday morning and remained there until in the evening, when anew bond, which was signed by W. C. Brydon and Mr. Clark, was accepted, Sheriff George Snider stated. For some unexplained reason e new bond was given today with only Brydon's father as surety. Judge Collins has not passed judgment on Brydon. Girl Shot by Lover for Re|usal to Elope Special to The Times. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Feb. 16.—Irene Bailey. 26, was shot and seriously wounded at her home here early today by Benton White, who is said to be her lover. Three bullets from a .32 caliber revolver took effect in the young woman's body. The tragedy is said to have resulted from the young woman’s refusal to elope. White succeeded iu making his escape. Three Fast Drivers Fined by Pritchard Three men were fined for violating the motor speed laws by Judge Walter Pritchard in city court today. Paul Berbly, 4202 Ailisonville road, and O. J. Hendricks, 509 West TwentyEighth street, were lined S3O each. On account of bis youth, Harry Bernstein, 17, 927 South Illinois street, was fined only sls. Two Sentenced in Child Neglect Case As the result of being arrested together at a local hotel, Charles A. Brumfield, 927 North Pennsylvania street, and Marie Davis, Marion, appeared in juvenile court. Brumfield was sentenced to six months in jail and fined SSCO by Judge Frank Lahr on a charge of child neglect. The woman was fined SSOO and sentenced to six months nt the Indiana State Woman’s prison. Fire Sweeping Town MADISON, Wis., Feb. 16.—The business section of the village of Fennimore, Grant County, is being destroyed by fire. The postoffice, telephone building and several •tores have been destroyed.