Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Showers tonight and Thursday. Cooler Thursday night.

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STRIKE ACTION POSTPONED IN GREAT BRITAIN Triple Alliance to Await Outcome of Premier's Parley With Miners. ALLEGE SINN FEIN PLOT yfLOKDON, April C.—The "Triple alliance," after a meeting of the executive committees of the miners, transport workers and railway men this afternoon, decided to postpone action on a general strike pending the outcome of the conference between Premier Lloyd George and the miners’ executive committee. The rail men will hold another meeting tonight and the transport workers tomorrow. The premier's request for a conference, which was his answer to a request from the miners spokesman for another conference, came when the executive bodies of the Triple Alliance —miners, transport workers and railway men—were about to vote on the question of a general strike whic hwould have put a total o fmore than 3.000.000 workers Idle and threatened the very vitals of the British state. The transport workers had already announced their readiness to back the miners to the limit. . Asa result of I.loyd George's eleventh tour move the triple alliance postponed final action. SIGH OF RELIEF THROUGH KINGDOM. The dramatic get-together plea of the prime minister, voiced in a letter to the miners and owners and accepted first by the former and then by the latter, sent

Ammunition Boxes Found Near Dublin Bear U. S. Markings LONDON, April S. —Three big secret underground ammunition dumps have ween discovered in Dublin, according to a dispatch from that city today. Most of the ammunition boxes found bear markings of a Massachusetts tlrm. It is added, and as a result the authorities are working today on the theory of a system of gun smuggling to Ireland by American sympathizers through isolated ports on the Irish west coast, where the Sinn Felners hare wireless stations. Clews indicating gun-running operations from Germany also are being investigated.

a algn of relief through the length Rdn breadth of the kingdom. The situation is still tense and fraught with dangers, but valuable time has been gained. In a second letter to the miners, Lloyd George demanded that the miners guarantee before the conference can be held, kthat they will safeguard the eontinu vnee of the pumping of the mines to avert further flooding. demand was rejected by FreslJjjJit Hodges of the miners’ organization. FldH. added, however. C.at nona"'cptinw SJjHhis condition should not ho regarded bar to negotiations. IM.'k farrier the premier In his answer that the 35*%* desire a speedy settlement. da's volley of sensations had l>ewith the disclosure of an alleged Sinn Fein plot to set Ireland aflame with a great revolt at the moment the miners' strike broke out. The date fixed, it was charged, was April 13. American and German ammunition smuggling schemes were hinted at In revelations made by Scotland Yard. WAVE OF VIOLENCE CONTINUES TO GROW. Meanwhile the wave of violence that followed in the wake of the tie-up of all the kingdom's coal mines assumes more menacing proportions hourly. The. toll of casualties in riots and disorders at collieries, especially in the fields of Scotland, Is reported as heavy. Fresh re ports of clashes between armed miners and police are coming In with growing frequency. Thus far military intervention has not been resorted to, but the government has utilized every moment to Intensify its preparedness. London swarms with tlnbelmeted troops with war-footing equipment,. Destroyers are dashing to ports where shipping Is tied up and threatened with sabotage. Evan Williams, accepting the premier’s invitation on behalf of the mine owners, declared he did so assuming that the miners would take steps to keep the mines safe pending the negotiations.” BATTLESHIP AND TANKER COLLIDE Smaller Vessel Reported in Danger of Sinking. CAMDEN, X. J., April 6.—The L’. X. Battleship Connecticut and the tank Bteamer S. C. Folger, from Tort Arthur, Texas, collided off Point Breeze, four L tulles south of here at noon today. The was steaming up the Delaware River, when the tide caused the moorings of the S. C. Folger to break. The Connecticut was not badly damaged. but SOS calls said the Folger was In danger of sinking and aid was rushed at once. The crew of the tanker is In no danger. ‘Tiger’ Case Up Oral argument was heard In the Supreme Court today In the case of Harry Palmer of Vigo County, who has appealed to the court following a conviction for operating a blind tiger. Palmer’s attorneys are attempting to show that the Indiana prohibition law is not opera.lve as a result of the adoption of the Eighteenth amendment. WINKLER STEPS UP NOTCH. George Winkler, Federal prohibition agent, has been transferred to the "flying aquadron,” operating out of the Chicago office of the department. This squadron works from coast to coast. Mr. Winkler will leave for Chicago tonight. His successor has not been named. WEATHER for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. ni! April 7: Showers tonight and Thurs day; cooler Thursday night. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. a in 5S 7 a. m sft 8 a. m v 6*5 8 a. m 09 10 a. m 72 11 a. m 75 12 (noon) 77 1 p. m 77 2 p. m —... 79

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College Pays Truant Boy at Rushville to Collect Dogs for Its Experiments

. UNANSWERED A citizen of Indianapolis writes the Times to inquire if it is true that bullets are fired into the bodies of helpless dogs at the Indiana University School of Medicine in order that the students may see the effects of gunshot wounds. > The Times is unable to answer the question, for the reasons; 1. The township officials have failed to list and tax tiae dogs that are harbored at the college and there is no public record of the number taken there. 2. The city administration has not felt called upon to collect city licenses for the dogs harbored at the college and consequently there is no description of them available at the controller's office as the law requires. 3. The operations are all conducted in secret with the doors locked and no mere layman is permitted to know what the doctors do. 4. The bodies of the mutilated dogs are cremated so as to prevent any one from ascertaining just what tortures have been inflicted on them.

Thomas Kemp, a 16-year-old boy who has repeatedly been before tne authorities at Rushville for truancy and other Improper conduct, has been one of the most active of the "dog-snatch-ers" used by the Indiana University School of Medicine to get dogs for the dissection tables In the college near the Long Hospital. Kemp, who lives on West Third street, in Rushville. admitted yesterday that he collected dogs and held them for the college dog truck. He said he was paid “about one dollar apiece” for the dogs by the driver of a truck which came from the medical college for them. Os course, young Kemp Insisted that he does not steal dogs for the college. He says he Just “picks up stray dogs" and delivers them to the truck driver.

CALL VISIT OF VIVIANI BOOST TO KNOX PLAN Republican Leaders Convinced Senate Majority Will Support Resolution. WASHINGTON. April 6.—Republican j leaders of the Senate today expressed ' gratification that the visit of Rene Vlvl--1 ani. former French premier and now en- : voy to the United States, has resulted | in crystallizing the avowed purpose of i the majority of Republican Senators and | Representatives to support the Knox res- ! olution for peace with the central powers I by congressional resolution. ; Discussions Vivinni has had with Republican Senators regarding the Senate's f attitude toward both the League of ! Nations and the Knox resolution can have left no doubt in bis mind, they say, :>s to where the Republican leaders of t the Senate stand on them. Some of the Senators apparently resent efforts of Vivian!, as the accredited envoy of the French government, to Influence the foreign policy of both 'th' Administration and the Senate, and ! pointed references to his activities may be made by his senatorial critics in the Senate in the near future. BUSINESS PROPOSITION. It has been pointed out to Viviani that the Knox measure is a simple “business | proposition” entailing the resumption of American relations with the German and Austrian governments through regular diplomatic channels, as well as ending I the still existing technical state of war 1 between the United States and Germany and Austria, which is seriously hampering American commercial, business and financial interests. He has been asked by Republican Senators why the United States should be denied the right any longex of having Jan ambassador at Berlin and consuls throughout Germany to look after AmeriI can interests when the duly accredited j diplomatic representatives of France are doing business direct with the Germans I at Berlin and elsewhere in Germany. PROVIDES FOR PROPERTY DISPOSAL. To this he Is represented as conceding j there Is no answer. Vivian! has been informed that the I Knox resolution paves the way for the negotiation by the American Government of commercial treaties with Germany and Austria, and of reciprocal arrangements for the amicable disposition of the German and Austrian property held in this country and of the American property held in those countries. | How far these negotiations would pro- | feed or how soon they might be undirj taken by the State Department cannot I be determined until the Knox resolution 1 Is repassed by Congress, approved by President Harding and then accepted by both Germany and Austria. But Republican leaders declare they are convinced j the Knox measure, as the first step toward re-establishing this country on a ' genuine peace basis, will have a salutory affect, not only on this country's foreign ! relations, but on its existing domestic j conditions. Accident Victims Sue for Damages Judgment of $5,000 was asked today in Superior Court, room 5, by Ella Welborn Bader against William D. Kautsky for injuries said to have been received when she was struck by an automobile driven by the defendant on Jan. 30. 1021. Peter Russ In Superior Court, room 3* ' asked for the foreclosure of a mortgage, which was given ns security on a loan of $2,000. Nickolas Presecan is named as ! defendant. Damages of SIO,OOO is asked in a suit filed in Superior Court, room 1. by Grace i Bottoms against George M. Baldwin and jR. Wesley doing business under the firm name of the Baldwin Trucking Company, growing out of an accident on May j 24, 1920. Barber, Who Charged Too His Carlo Mazzo. 226 South Illinois street, ; employed at a barber shop at that num--1 her. was fined $1 and costs and sen- ; fenced to serve four days In Jail on • haraes of petit larceny by trick by | Judge Walter Pritchard in city court j today. Mazzo was arrested yesterday by Sergeant Cliff Richter and Patrolman Cummings. who received a complaint from Edward Poling of Lafayette, that Mazzo charged him $1 for a shave and a hair cut, when Poling said, Mazzo told him the price would be 75 cents.

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Investigation shows that Kemp, who has been a source of trouble for the probation authorities of Rushville for some time and whose case has been under consideration by Judge Will Sparks for some time, was a patient at the Long Hospital when the scheme of gathering dogs for the college was concocted anil he was induced to become a dog snatcher. Rushville dogs are not the only ones which be admitted gathering in for the college. He said that at one time he got “about eight dogs" that had come from Milroy, a small town near Rushville. Arvv Wllfong, chief of police at Hushvilie, has been seeking for some time to disrupt the dog snatching business in and about Rushville. Wllfong says that nearly every day he (Continued on Page Eleven.)

19 IS YOUNG FOR REFORM So Suspended Sentence Plays New Role of Farce in Criminal Court. Again the suspended sentence tree, which lias flourished in the Criminal Court for years, has yielded fruit. This time Joe Maloff, ID, Syrian boy, charged with stealing money front his uncle, received the juicy fruit. Maloff was sen tented from one to fourteen years In the reformatory and tins was promptly suspended by Judge James A. Collins. Dwayne Coleman, charged with false preteriße, was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to nine months In jail. Marshall to Accept Memorial Board Place LOCKHART. Texas, April 6 Former Vice President Thomas A. Marshall, here on a speaking our, today announced he i will accept the apolntment tendered him by President Harding to the vacancy on the board of trustees of the Lincoln Memorial, caused by the death of Champ Clark. Mate ‘Cleaned Out’ by Deserting- Wife John Flagh, 761 Wurman avenue, reported to the police today that his w|jre had “cleaned him out.” He said that when he returned home at noon from his duties at the Malleable Iron Company’s plant he found that bis spouse had decamped with: Their two children, one or 5 and on eof 8. All of their furniture, and A tin can which was hidden in the basement and which contained SI,OOO In cash. Held in Auto Theft at New Palestine Lester Hutchison, 21, of New Palestine, alias Clifford MeCampbeU of ShelbyvHle! was arrested here today by Detectives Irtok and Giles in the City Auto Parts and Tire Company. 519 North Illinois ! street and is charged with being a fugitive from Justice and a vagrant. The detectives say Hutchison Is “wanted" lti New Palestine by the police on a charge of vehicle taking. They also say Hutchison stole a machine belonging to Virgil E. Wilkins of New Palestine out of the garage on Aprily 5. Hutchison said he had just sold the machine to the Auto Parts Company for $360 when he was arrested. Custodian Hurt by Falling Window O. C. Raymond, 54. 3471 North Illinois street, custodian in charge of the Gipsy Smith tabernacle, sustained severe Injuries today when he pulled a window out of its frame In the tabernacle. The glass caused several serious cuts in Mr. Raymond's head ana face and he was taken to the city hospital. Asks S2lO for Hog Damages of $2lO was asked today In a suit tiled In Superior Court, Room 2. by Austin H. Sheets, raiser of fine hogs of near Broad Ripple, because of the loss of a valuable hog. The action was directed against the American Railway Express Company. Mr. Sheets claims that the hog was shipped from Columbia, Miss., and that he was not notified when the hog arrived last August at Broad Ripple. He claims it was placed In a warm room and died.

S2O Bills Dangle on Trees for One Spring Romeo EVANSTON. 111.. April 6—“ All the world loves a lover." a sage once remarked, but William Dabney, gasoline merchant, is particularly fond of one lover. This lover and the object of his affections halted at Dabney's petrol parlor and ordered two gallons. The sighing swain tendered a S2O bill In payment. "When I came back with $19.40 In change.” Dabney said, “they were a mile down the road. I'll bet that chap don't even remember wb.it he did with that $19.40. for he sure was Interested In the young lady.”

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1921.

PEONS CRY FOR MERCY, BUT GET RIVER GRAVES Negro Accomplice in ‘Death Farm’ Case Recites Weird Details to Jury. MODERN DEGREE’S TRIAL COURTHOUSE, COVINGTON, Ga.. April 6. —“The boys begged mighty hard, but Mr. John said throw them in the river. “Me and Charley Chisholm pitched them over the bridge.” This statement was made today by Clyde Manning, negro, to the jury in the case of John S. Williamson rial for the murder of eleven negroes killed on and near his Jasper county farm. Manning said "the hoys” he and Chisholm drowned, were Lindsey Peterson, Willie Preston and Harry Price, peon farm hands on Williams' plantation. Chisholm later was killed to keep him from talking, It is alleged. "Boss, 1 don' reeollec' the exact date” said Manning. “But It was on a Saturday night late In February or early In March. SAYS WILLIAMS DROVE TO RIVER. "Peterson and Preston were tied together anil thrown in the Yellow River. "They begged awfully hard, but we had to throw them In the water. "Price was drowned in the South River.” “Mr. Williams drove us to the river In i his automobile. "The three boys were killed the next week after Government agents had talked to us about peonage conditions." Attorney William Howard, special ! prosecutor, asked Manning where Price 1 was when Peterson and Preston were being drowned. “In the ear ” Here Greene F. Johnson, “country lawyer.” chief counsel for Williams, moved that Manning's testimony regarding Price's death be stricken from the record. The Jury retired while the point was argued. Judge John B. Hutchinson, presiding, overruled the motion. Resuming the stand after lunch. Manning continued his story. "We took Price In the car to the South River, about a mile and a half away. "He begged us not to throw him In the river, saying he would jump in himself. SACK OF ROCKS HUNG ON NECK. "Price had a sack of rocks tied around his neck. "I helped him climb on the bridge railing. "lie said. ‘Lnrdy, have mercy on my soul.’ ns he jumped into the wafer "Mr. John drove the car from Allen's bridge to the South River ” Manning said Williams told the three I negroes he was taking them to the sta ‘ tion when they started on the '* let-til i ride.” Manning knew, he said, two or three days In advance that the three npgroes were to he killed. I told Mr. John 1 didn't want to kill them. “He told me It was either my life or j their s. "I knew he meant it and I helped him j kill them.” CHICAGO PLANS RUM ROUND-UP Forged Withdrawal Permits Basis of Operations of $10,000,000 Ring. CHICAGO, 6.—Federal prohibition agents here' today are on the trail ! of a $10,000,000 rum ring, which they allege has been revealed through confessions of men under arrest. Politicians, liquor dealers and capitalises are said to be involved. According tb Government agents the ring operated exclusively through stolen or forged permits for withdrawal of I liquor from Government warehouses. Three men arrested In connection with the ring are Walter A. Sadler, New York I stock broker; Jack Covello. an actor. ! and James Shea, a private detective of ! New York. MOTORCYCLE COP SERIOUSLY HURT Sergt. McClain Thrown From Bike—Skull Fractured. Sergeant Henry D. McClain, chief of the police motorcycle squad, is in a serious condition at tho city hospital today ns the result of Injuries received when he fell from a motorcyela at Kentucky avenue and Maryland street last night. His head struck the curb and the motorcycle fell on him crushing his body. His Nktill was fractured and he suffered In- ! ternai Injuries. I Sergeant McClain and Motorcycle Officer Brooks, were returning from Bei- ! mont and Oliver avenues where they had i Investigated an accident, and became I separted en route to police beadquarI ters. As Sergent McClain reached Ken- ; tacky avenue the front wheel of the motorcycle became wedged In the frog iof the street car track. The tire vvas j torn off and McClain was hurled into ! the air. During the war Mc(3aln served as a • lieutenant in the United States Army, and after the war became a traffic officer at Meridian and Washington | streets. A few’ months ago he was made j sergeant of the motorcycle police. County Board Makes Provision for Insane I Announcement was made today by Carlin Shank, president of the board of county commissioners, tuat the hoard had decided to equip three padded cells in one wing of the jail 'or Insane male patients. held prior to commitment to the State Hospital for the Insane. There will be three similar cells built in the abandoned power house near the jail, which will be made into a cell house for women prisoners. The commissioners plan to give the insane patients the needed medical and nursing attention. TWO SPEEDERS ASSESSED. Glenn Lyons, giving his address as “city,” was fined S3O and costs on charges of speeding, in city court today by Judge Walter Pritchard. E. B. Able, 939 North Dearborn street, was fined sls and costs on a similar charge. Both were arrested by Motorcycle Officers E. Clary and Halstead.

EYES TURNED ON ROBISON IN PRIMARY RACE Politicians Question Whether Shank Lead Can Be Overcome. SPECULATE ON OUTCOME The eyes of the politicians of Indianapolis were today centered on the camp of Edward *J. Robison ana its preparations for the scheduled meeting Friday night. In the opinion of those who have watched the primary fight to date the outcome of this meeting will give a very good line on the question of whether Samuel Lewis Shank can he defeated in his race for the Republican nomination for mayor of Indianapolis. It is argued that to date the tide has been very deeidely toward Shank and ho is conceded to be tbe strongest of the candidates at the present time. Robison, however, has been laying plans for a vigorous finish of his campaign and the mooting Friday night Is generally regarded ns the opening of a line of strategy that will either swing the tide to Robison, or reveal that the Shank following can not he broken. It is generally conceded that the efforts of the Jewett-News machine to put Mr Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler College, In the lead, have failed, in spite of the coercion that has been practiced on the 2,0(10 employes of the city. Opponents of Shank are steadily turning toward Robison as the only hope of defeating Shank in the nomination add the wiser of the politicians are now watching to see how much strength Robison can develop as hts real efforts to land the nomination get under way. SHANK ENTERS LAST MONTH IN LEAD. Shank, It Is conceded, enters the last month of the campaign with a sufficient number of votes to nominate him. Whether Robison can cut into Shank’s support is the question thut Is uppermost In the minds of the politicians Many do nor believe that Robison will be able to weaken Shank, but they do expect bitn to make further inroads into the News Jewett combination for Howe. Both Howe and Robison's chances for nomination depend on Robison's ability to take away the Shank support of today. If Robison continues to gain at the expense of Howe as he has recently, the fight will resolve Itself Into a contest between Shank and Robison with the Howe machine helping Shank by every vote It gains. If Robison cuts Into Shank's support, the down hearted llowe backers may rally enough, to make him a real contender In the fliioL. In spite of a great deal of talk about “irrevocable opposition” to Shank, there has been no very real tight made against hltq. and the opinion of the Shank tuan,'frcrs that it is tm late t( stampede from him Is shared by many of the most practical of the political sightseers of the. campaign. CAMPAIGN KEPT AT BOILING POINT. The Republican mayoralty campaign was kept at the boiling point last night by the three rival candidates speaking In various parts of the city. While Shank was charging the Jewett administration with gross extravagance in the purchase of new fire fighting equipment Professor Howe was promising a rigidly economic administration and Mr. Robison was pleading for a clean primary. The sa redness of tho ballot box Was the subject of Mr. Robison's talk at a meeting at 729 North West street. He pointed out that attempts to tamper with the primary vote were a llrect challenge to the citizenship of the country. “American liberty centers around the ballot box and the ability to keep It free arid untrampled," Mr. Robison said. The duty of the American citizen at the polls was stressed by Professor Howe in (Continued on Page Two.) KILLS SELF ON WAY TO JAIL Minister Ends Life After Admitting Implication in Daughter’s Death. MARIETTA, Ohio, April 6.—The Rev. J. H. Mlndllng, 49, minister cf the Methodist Episcopal Church at Waterford, near here, committed suicide In the courthouse at noon today. He had Just stepped out of the courtroom, where an inquest was being held on the death of his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Mlndllng, 19, where he had confessed that he had performed a criminal operation that resulted In her dputh last Thursday. Sheriff Roberts had started for the jail with Mlndllng, but left him alone for a few minutes. When he returned he found the minister lying on the floor breathing his last. West by Southwest XT V - ' , All the kids in Maoriland, New Zealand, will do the haka dance for a penny each. They thrust out their tongues, roll their eyes and grimace after the manner of the ancient Maoris in their war dances. Good schools are provided for the .Maoris and the children show the effects. They talk excellently,, spell rapidly and are quick to learn. On the editorial page today will be found some pictures of Maori duncers which W. D. Boyce, owner of the Times, sent back from New Zealand. In tomorrow’s Times Mr. Boyce will tell of the Maoris of today and also describe some of their dances. 1 i 1

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Governor McCray f s Open Door Policy Really Closed Door Despite Governor Warren T. McCray’s announcement early in his term that his administration would be governed by an open door policy, closed door tactics continue in his office. The doors are guarded by Miss Adah Bush, the Governor’s secretary, and only certain individuals, J including persons seeking pardons, are j permitted to see the Governor. Former Governor James P. Goodrich called at the Statehouse to pay his respects to tbe present Governor. He was compelled to wait, but finally solved the problem by walking in without permission. Persons affected by the new proceedure are finding it difficult to adjust themselves to the new “closed door” policy because under the Goodrich regime the Governor’s office was open to the public at all times. COUNTY BOARD MAKESVERBAL OIL PURCHASE Price Higher Than Bid Offered —Nothing to Show for Deal. PROBED BY EXAMINER The Marion county commission, ers have purchased road oil on nothing but a verbal contract and there is nothing in their oulce to show for It but the claim of the Indiana Refining Company for $3,153.21, according to a report made today by A. L. Donaldson, an examiner of the State board of accounts. The account was finally settled by the deduction of $1,051.08 as representing an excessive price charged for the oil, the report shows. The commissioners, according to the re port, agreed in their verbal contract, which was made without receiving bids, to pay the company 13hj cents a gallon for the oil which was 4V) cents above the market price it was on the basis of this excess price that the deduction was made. "In the examination of this matter, I find nothing of record In the auditor’s office, except a claim filed by the Indian Refining Company for the sum cf $3,153.21.” reads the report. “However. | I am informed that on or about the first of May. 1926, the hoard of commissioners verbally entered into a contract with the Indian Refining Company for 23.357 gal lons of road oil at a stipulated price of 13, cents per gallon and on the 7th day of November. IP2O. the Indian Refining Company filed claim No. 5191.” At this point follows an Itemized statement of the claim showing charges for three carloads of oil. The report states that ’he claim w. s allowed soul evidenced j by the signatures of Commissioners t.ewl* W. George and Carlin H. Shank. ■REFUSED PAYMENT; PRICE EXCESSIVE.’ “Leo K. Fessler, county auditor, re- | fused to draw a warrant In payment of j said elalm ns allowed for two reasons: ( First, the hoard of commissioners did not j advertise for bids as the law required; second, that the price at which said oil | was purchased was excessive, and ln-1 formed the Indian Refining Company i that he would refer the matter to the j State hoard of accounts for investigation j and report Therefore, T have Investl- | gated the matter the best 1 could from verbal information in the absence of j record Information and submit the following result of such Investigation; “First. I find that the oil purchased ! contained n high percentage of asphalt , which made it of much more value than the ordinary road oil. and likewise more expensive. “Second, I find from personal investigation that the market, price of crude oil in May, 1920, was very Ugh ($3.77) per barrel. At tins price for crude oil the manufactured road oil should h.iTe been sold at about 9 cents a gallon which is 4b> cents per gallon less than j was charged for the oil in question ■ under the verbal agreement. “Just prior to the date on which this j oil was purchased the board of com- ] missioners advertised for bids on about j 56.006 gallons of rood oil ami the Texas Company hid for an equivalent grade ' o*6 cents per gallon .plus freight, which (Continued on Ftsge Two.) YEGG SUSPECT ESCAPES JAIL Stevens and Welling, Who Have Local History, Believed to Have Aided Pal. Arthur Welling and Ed Stevens, notorious yeggmen who have Successfully eluded the Indianapolis police department for many months, are believed to have been active in bringing about the escape of a pal, Joe Alexander, alias Coke Alexander, from the Taylorville, (111.) jail last night, according to word received by the local police. J. L. Cline, assistant chief of police at Taylorville, telephoned the local police j .today that Alexander, who was one of three alleged bank robbers held there, had been assisted to escape during the night by men believed to have been Stevens and Welling. The chief, in his conversation, referred to Joseph Roach, an Indianapolis attorney who appeared for Stevens and Well- ; ing when they were held here as yegg 1 man. Cline said that he had been in- 1 formed by the police of Decatur, 111., who captured the three robbers, that they had 1 searched the Chicago rooms of Rose Phillips, said to he Stevens’ wife, and that they had found a receipt there for j s(’>,ooo signed by Roach. The chief further* declared that Mrs. j Phillips had given Alexander S7OO a few j days ago In the Taylorvi*lle Jail. The j local police recalled a visit Mrs. Phillips paid to Indianapolis when Stevens and Welling were in custody heie. Stevens paid $6,000 to secure his liberty in Indiana, after he was caught In a police drag-net. He forfei ed $5,000 bond fixed in Criminal Court and SI,OOO bond fixed by the Shelby Circu-.’: Court, i Welling went out of the Jail when i twenty four other prisoners escaped last \ July, but Stevens remained in tie jail and afterward said he was too la re to squeeze through the bars. The police at Decatur have boon- Investigating the activities of tho roblers held at Taylorville and a few days ago , communicated with the Indianapolis officers in an attempt to link the men ; up with Stevens and Welling. Finger 1 prints taken here of the two men, how- I ever, failed to correspond with those j taken of the men M Taylorville.

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MUR AY TAKES CUE FROM GOODRICH AND PARDONS BLEIWEISS Man Convicted of Accident Fatal to One and Injuring Another Goes Free Without Serving Day. HIGH COURT CONFIRMED SENTENCE Following in the footsteps of former Governor James P. Goodrich by virtually setting aside a decision of the Indiana State Supreme Court and using the office of the Governor as a pardoning arm of the government for the favored few, Governor Warren T. McCray today remitted the thirtyday jail sentence of Maurice Bleiweiss, who was found guilty of assault and battery in which one man was injured and another died. Bleiweiss escapes from serving a single day in jail because-of judicial clemency and the failure of Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court to promptly put him behind jail doors after the State high court had upheld the trial court.

Dame Nature Plus Yeast Cake Equals Melon With Kick BURLINGTON, Cola, April 6. Dame Nature turned bootlegger today. V. H. Chandler, watermelon grower, who has made hundreds of experiments with melons, today claimed he had discovered a process to turn watermelons into natural stills. His process follows: Plug the young melon and put a cake of specially prepared yeast in it. Put plug back in and wax it. Wait until the melon grows up. Then shake well before drinking. Several business men here have contracted for an acre each of melons with a 10 per cent kick in them at $1 each. The Burlington Melon Growers' Association, and every one with a back yard, is testing Chandler's process.

CHURCH MUST * MAKE GOOD TO ROUT UNBELIEF Religion Stands or Falls by What It Does for Other Fellow, Gipsy Says. Before the church and the church people of the world can convince the unbelieving that they are fulfilling their mission, it is necessary for them to produce evidence 16 that effect, Gipsy Smith said today, speaking before an audience that packed Keith's Theater. The people in the olden days called on Jesus to produce His evidence, he said, and He did it In the presentation of the lame ipan who was cured, of the blind man to whom He restored sight, and in ills preaching to the poor. "The world is saying, 'You say you are the people of the Church of God.' Where’s your evidence? What's your answer. “Religion stands or falls by what It is doing for the other fellow. We must be ready to produce evidence that we are what we say we are. Y'our healed man must be produced. If you can't produce him, your religion doesn't arnouut to much. "GET OFF STILTS AND ON YOUR KNEES.” “The work of God is manifest today. The poor are hearing the reading of the gospel. When you go to church ten minufps late and find some poor persons sitting in your pew, do you stand in the aisle and sing the praises of God, or do you say to the usher, 'Don’t you know that's my pew?’ There are some places where the poor are not wanted in church. “You'll have to get off your stilts and get on your knees as a poor sinner. Does it make you angry to think that you have to get down on your knees before God? i “It's the only way.” The evangelist, following the theater ; meeting, was taken to the Hotel Severin, I where he spoke before the luncheon meet- . ing of the Kiwanis Club. He was given I (Continued on Page Two.) Man Who Says He’s Preacher Held by U. S. Bluffton Resident Charged With Sending Obscene Mail. With the arrest of L. O. Fisher, who | claims to be a minister of Bluffton, on j a charge of sending obscene matter j through the mails, Federal officials be- ! lieve they have run down one of the most j vindictive and persistent men of this type ever arrested in Indiana. Fisher was arrested by O. E. Whicker, deputy United States marshal, yesterday at Bluffton. and was taken to Ft. Wayne for arraignment before United States Commissioner Thomas J. Logan. In default of bond of SSOO, Mr. Whicker j brought Fisher to Indianapolis and ! placed him in the Marion County jail j to await action of the Federal grand ! jury. The case grew out of correspondence j with a woman clerk in the postofflce at ! Crawfordsville, which originated as a joke when she answered an advertise- j meat in a matrimonial bureau publication. 1 Her letter went to Fisher, who carrie.l j on a correspondence with her under the j name of “W. F. Watson.” Later he ! called upon her in person, and still later ; she requester him to discontinue his at- j tentions to her. When he refused she went to an attorney in Crawfordsville j and he wrote to Fisher, Insisting thaf, ho discontinue all correspondence with the j woman. Apparently this aroused in Fisher a j desire to “get even.” He wrote letters, j so the postofflce authorities say, to young i women in Crawfordsville, signing the name of the lawyer to them. These let- j ters were all of a scurrilous nature and j involved the lawyer in a series of un 1 pleasant experiences with irate fathers. ! Not content with this, Fisher is said to have written untrue and discreditable things about the woman with whom he ; had corresponded and then mailed them j tc her, telling her he had found them in railroad trains. To these letters wore signed fictitious names, supposed to be those of traveling men. The case was investigated by A. C. Gerrlgus, postofflce inspector. *

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The latest chapter in the ease received its final touch when Sheriff George Snider received the necessary papers from Governor McCray, which prevented the sheriff from compelling Bleiweiss to serve his sentence of thirty days. CONTAINED IN SECRETARY'S LETTER. The grant was contained In a letter from Adah E. Bush, secretary to the Governor, which is as follows: “At the request of Governor MoCray I enclose herewith remission of jail sentence in the case of Maurice Bleiweiss, which was granted nponthe recommendation of the State board of pardons.” Accompanying this little Introduction to the action of Governor McCray in virtually setting aside the actions of the- , State Supreme Court, was the official remission of the sentence. The first paragraph reviewed in several sentences the finding of guilty and the passage of sentence of thirty days in jail and a fine of SIOO on Bleiweiss by Judge Collins on May 22, 1917 MORE INFORMATION GIVEN BY GOVERNOR. Then Governor McCray gives this information concerning the freeing of Blelwelss: “The case was appealed to the Supreme Court where judgment of the loner court was affirmed. “Whereas, the fine and costs in this case have been paid. “Whereas, the said Bleiweiss was granted a reprieve Jan. 4, 1921, by Governor Goodrich and has since been at liberty. “Whereas, tbe trial judge and prosecutor all recommend that he be granted a remission of his sentence. “Whereas, the State board of pardons, after a careful Investigation and examination of all the facts in said case, recommends that the sentence of said Bleiweiss be remitted. “Now, therefore, I, Warren T. McCray, Governor of the State of Indiana. by the power and authority j vested in me by the constitution and laws of said State, hereby remit "the sentence of Maurice Bleiweiss.” SEAL OF STATE AND * GOVERNOR’S SIRXATI RE. Ibis treatise on clemency extended by Governor McCray bore the signature of the Governor and the seal of the State of Indiana. There are a few things that Governor M' ( ray omitted in his carefully-worded message of freedom for Bleiweiss. Governor McCray did not state that the records of the Marion County Criminal Court shows that Judge Collins ordered tlie fines and costs, amounting to *136.70, returned to Bleiweiss on June 6, 1917. Governor McCray did not state that he revived Bleiweiss in a private conference at the Statehouse several days ago. Governor McCray did not state why officials at the courthouse were given to understand that it was not necessary to bring Bleiweiss into custody after his reprieve expired last Monday. Governor McCray in his message which practically overrules the State Supreme Court did not state that Judge Collins failed to order Bleiweiss committed to jail when the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the lower court on Nov 26. 1920. Governor McCray failed to show that the "careful investigation and examination” of the facts in the case does not disclose why the Marion County grand jury indicted Bleiweiss for assault and battery instead of manslaughter. Governor McCray did not explain why tills case was given his consideration prior to acting on the recommendations in other cases by the board of pardons. INDICTED MORE THAN THREE YEARS AGO. Bleiweiss was indicted by the grand jury more than three years ago on a charge of assault and battery when his automobile is said to have collided with a motorcycle carrying two men. One man on the motorcycle was injured and one died from injuries, the records show. The grand jury started the round of favors that Bleiweiss has been shown by indicting him on the smallest charge possible. Judge Collins aided Bleiweiss in several ways, the records show, and Governor McCray admits that the trial Judge and the trial prosecutor recommend that the sentence be remitted. There was frank discussion going around concerning the reasons for the "big pull” that Bleiweiss has with certain officials, past and present. Samuel M. Ralston, former governor, was counsel for Bleiweiss and on one occasion Judge (Continued on Page Two.) Clean Up! Paint Up! Paint Is to your buildings and machinery what dentistry is to your teeth, It arrests decay, preserves them, gives you added years of use of them. It is the ounce of prevention, the stitch in time. Send to our Washington Information Bureau and get this free paint bulletin for use in spring cleaning. In filling out the coupon print name and address, or be sure to write plainly.

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