Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 311, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1921 — Page 1

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TROOPS RUSHED ON ADVICE OF FRENCH LEADER Hero of Marne Looked to U. S. to Carry Allies to Victory. JOFFRE’S FAITH UPHELD BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS |,rmer Secretary of Navy — l9l3-21. ARTICLE 24. The early dispatch of American troops to France, and the selection of Gen. Pershing to command the American expeditionary force, were both dne in no small degree to the urging and advice of one man—Marshal JofTre, the hero of the Marne. Americans hold in admiration the military leaders of the allied countries. The name of Foch will be a source of Inspiration for many years to come. It Is synonymous with victory. But the name of JofTre will be loved as well as honored in America as long as there are men and women left who saw him and listened to him when he came to us in those stirring days of 1917. I doubt if ever in history has there been a great military hero, a winner of mighty battles, a commander of conquering armies, whose personality was so charming, so winsome, so provocative of confidence and affection as that of this French general. “THOICHT YOC WERE PAPA JOFTRE." The atory is told of a French private soldier who had laid a friendly* hand upon the arm of a French officer, onjy to be itlngingly rebuked for undue familiarity. "‘I beg your pardon, sir,*' said the private, saluting. “I thought you were Papa Jbffre.” The truth of that story will not be doubted by anyone who has seen “Papa Joffre.” There is only one word which 1 think of that is adequately apjHcable to him. I do not think I have Br used it before with reference to a Ban. The French marshal Is beautiful — In his complexion, In his simple and dignified bearing and, most of all, In the delightful spirit of his contact and conversation with his fellows. Now and then during the war when I saw an officer rigid and stern, overimpressed by his own superiority to all ordinary mortals, I wished all men In authority might have learaed manners from the man who saved the world at the battle of the Marne. One of the reasons why Joffre wiu \ always hold a distinct place In my mem' i ery, a peculiar place In my affection, is because, of all those who came seeking American cooperation, he, ttUfu ; -fy man, displayed bis faith In the American soldier, his desire to have American manhood at the front. JOFFRE ASKS TOR MEN. Men of the allied missions were thorsnghly convinced that we could be of immediate use in a very valuable way by providing money, food, munitions. It Iras on these things most; of them were mclinedt o lay the early emphaiss. , But Joffre from the first day asked for food, munitions! Yes, splendid, and thank you, but how soon can we have men? It Is passible we would have been several weeks or months longer in getting to France with our fighting forces If It had not been for the quiet insistence of loffre. Others talked of the long training that wonld be necessary to prepare men for tigtitlng in Europe; of the necessity of retaining our regulars at home In order lo train a great army that might begin to reach France six or eight months later. Joffre said: "I hope you can send troops this summer. Our sore need Is fresh soldiers—sturdy, vigorous Americans.” > Joffre had seen those “sturdy, vigorous Americans" On onr streets. In the throngs which had cheered him wherever he had gone. He believed In them. He believed in their capacity to learn quickly the art of war. He believed In their spirit

WOULD REVIVE FIRED ARMIES. And Joffre, with the memory of hl own war-worn soldiers and his tired, sometimes discouraged, fellow countrymen, knew what a tonic there would be for weariness and depression in the presence of even a few thousand American boys—enough to march through the streets with high, set chins, and firm, resilient step; enough to carry the flag of the Stars and Stripes, and to be the risible proof and promise of American participation. While other men were thinking in material terms, Jeffre was thinking in spiritual terms. He knew the imprale of France, of Great Britain, of Italy would bp stimulated the minute the news was gashed that American soldiers were on soil. He knew the morale of the enemy would be shaken the minute Berlin learned that its confident predictions concerning the impossibility of American soldiers reaching France had been disproved. This was the burden of his plea to Secretary Baker, with whom he talked freely bcause the Secretary of War was one of the few men in Washington official life who understood French. It was the thing which he stressed when he talked to the President. IMPRESSED BY WILSOS. Joffre later expressed to me his surprise to find that President Wilson bad snch a perfect mastery of the military Ttuation. He had expected to meet a ■eholar, a statesman, and an idealist; he had not expected to meet a practical strategist, fully conversant with all the military movements, and using accurately and freely the lingo of field and camp. "In answer to my question as to whether it would be feasible too send, (Continued on Fi| Four.,

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Stillman Children Will Go on Stand for Mother; Society Answers SOS

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An Interesting camera study of Mrs “Fifi” Potter Stillman wife of James A. Stillman, the financier, made after the recent secret session .of the hearing in the banker's divorce action at the Bar NEW YORK, May 9.—Counsel for Mrs. “Fifi” Potter Stillman began today to rearrange their entire plans In the counter suit against the divorce action brought by James A. Stillman, multimillionaire, former president of the National City Bank. They admitted that the revelations of alleged confidences between Mrs. Stillman to her former physician, and the publication of alleged ardent love notes to her by the Indian guide, Fred Beauvais, have forced them to undertake anew deal. In the reshuffling of the legal cards two of the Stillman children, James A. Jr., 17, and Anne, 19, loomed as “aces." Both, It was announced, will testify in behalf of their mother. Moreover, at least forty men and women prominent 1n society circles of New York, Newport, Paris and London are expected to give testimony for her. The original desire of Mrs. Stillman and her counsel was to spare her children and her society friends the ordeal of testifying in a divorce scandal, but, chafing under last week’s “disclosures,” which they denounce as malicious fabrications, they declared themselves ready to drop ail bars *nd_ tffltfpffflce scrap of evi b'Ve at their disposal to controvert the former banker’s charges. “Let the chips fall where they may.” STILLMAN AND SON ROW. Meanwhile society, which has been assiduously following the developments of the divorce action from the day it saw the light of type, is agog with gossip over the published story of the last encounter between young “Brd” Stillman, the 17-year-old son of the couple, and his father.

ORGANIZE FOR CIVIC SERVICE Fire Prevention Committee Names Officers at C. of C. Luncheon. Organization of the fire movement was perfected at a meeting of the fire prevention committee at the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon today. Frank C. Jordan, who was appointed temporary chairman of the committee by President Charles F. Coffin, was elected chairman; Mrs. S. E. Perkins was elected first vice president; Mrs. Curtis A., Hodges, second vice president; Mrs. Leo K. Fessler, chairman of the woman’s ward division; Mrs. Allen T. Fleming, chairman of the woman's club division; Miss Sarah Lauter, chairman of the woman’s industrial division; Miss Elizabeth Rainey, chairman of the women's commercial division; J. A. Hilkre, chairman of the extension and enforcement division; Russell Wilson, chairman of the speakers’ division; F. O. Belzer, chairman of the Boy Scouts' division; Mrs. Henry E. Hayward, chairman of the Girl Scouts’ division; Russell Willson, chairman of the men's ward division, and John B. Reynolds, executive secretary. Mrs. Fesler announced that the chairman for Ward 12 would be Mrs. H. Newman; Ward 10, Mrs. M. L. Reiffel and Ward 4, Mrs. Wolfe Sussman. Mr. Jordan said that returns from the invitations sent out for a dinner to be held at the chamber. May 18, indicated an attendance of between 400 and 500. Following this dinner smaller meetings will be held in each of the wards. It was announced at the meeting also that the cleaning up of the city In order to prevent fire would he taken by sections of the city. ATTEMPT TO END ' BUILDING STRIKE Trades Council and Contractors Meeting Scheduled. An endeavor to open negotiations between the striking members of the Building Trades Council and the Building Contractors Association was to be attempted this afternoon In a conference of representatives of the two organizations. Charles W. Kern, president of the Building Trades Council, and S. P. Meadows, secretary, were to confer with T. Barlow Hatfield, president of the Building Contractors Association, and C. C. Pierson, secretary. In the building contractors headquartera In the Chamber of Commerce. All of the men concerned‘professed to know nothing of new offers to be ad- i ranced by either side, but they admitted i there is a likelihood that the meeting ; may lead to new discussions. The work- ! men have been on strike for several j weeks and in the meantime practically j every building under course of erection j has been at a standstill because of lack of workmen. This was the first meeting between the officials of the organizations since April 15, when the last discussion In an effort to avert the walkout was held.

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Association, New York. Mrs. Stillman was calm and smiling throughout the session, even during the sensational testimony against her by Dr. Hugh Russell, prominent in Buffalo and in New York City. Not only did, the youth charge his parent with having “lived with other women,” but, according to the story, flatly passed the lie when the eider Stillman denied this. Then “Bud" dramatically took up the cudgels for his “kid brother," little Guy, whom Stillman decleared to be the child of the halfbreed guide and Mrs. Stillman. “1 11 tell you this, Dad," James A. Stillman, Jr., is quoted as having shouted in his father’s face, “Guy is my brother. He has always been and always will be. I want you to know that no matter what happens, he can always have half of everything I’ve got In the world.” Mrs. Stillman was present at this last Intrview between father and son, but said nothing. WILL RE FI TE SPY'S EVIDENCE. One trump card which Mrs. Stillman’s counsel expect to produce when the bearings before the referee are resumed will be refutation of the testimony of George Adams, one of the “peeping Tom" witnesses for Stillman, who has sworn that through a bole In a- window caKaiu he thaf went on in Mra. Stillman’s bed chamber In the cottarj at Grand Anse, Canada, for thirteen consecutive days. Mrs. Stillman intends to prove that on the occasion In question she stopped there only one nigh*, not thirteen. Against this and ether “peeping Tom” testimony, her daughter Anne is expected to prove a star witness for her. Desertion of Stillman’s cause by many of his Important prospective witnesses was given today as the reason for the (Continued on Page Two.)

JOHN M’NAMARA LEAVES PRISON Expects to Return to His Trade as Iron Worker, He Says. SAN QUENTIN, Cal.. May 9 John J. McNamara, former secretary of the Iron Workers’ Union, convicted of dynamiting the Llewellyn Iron Works of Los Angeles, gray and worn by his nine years and five mouths' imprisonment, was released from prison here today. His release meant parting from his brother, James McNamara, serving a life sentence for the Los Angeles Times explosion. After a visit to San Francisco, McNamara said he would visit relatives In Chicago and the East and then return to his trade as an iron worker. He said his first desire when free was to go to a motion picture show. 3 INDIANAPOLIS MEN ASK PARDONS State Board Considers Applications for Clemency. Petitions of three Indianapolis men were before the State board of pardons today for hea r ing. They are Clarence Walter, sentenced March 30, 1921, .to serve 10<> days for public Indecency; Henry Smith, sentenced Jan. 18, 1913, to serve ten to thirteen years for burglary, and Trivls Rawlings, sentenced March 23, 1921, to serve six months for contributing to delinquency. Other cases before the board are those of John Roby, sentenced In Orange County, April 16, 1906, to serve a life sentence for murder; Elmer Blakesly, sentenced in Elkhart County, Dec. 8, 1920, to serve one to fourteen years for larceny; James Martin, sentenced in Rush County, Sept. 23, 1920, to serve two to fourteen years for store breaking; Omer Zell, sentenced in Howard County, lu May, 1920, to serve two to twenty-one years for rape, and Jesse Slider, sentenced in Clay County, April 10, 1906, to serve a life sentence for murder. Senator xtatts Calls on Gr vernor McCray • State Senator Oscar Ratts of Paoli was a caller at the office of Governor Warren T. McCray today. Senator Ratts is said to be under consideration for an appointment on the public service commission to succeed E. I. Lewis, who w T as recently appointed a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Governor said he would announce his choice In a short time. Nab Navy Officer Who Left $75,000 Deficit WASHINGTON, May 9.—Lieut. F. C. Bennett, former supply corps officer of the United States Navy, who disappeared from Washington on Dec. 22, 1919, leaving, it is alleged, a deficit of $73,000 on bis was arrested In Galveston, 7 --x., today, according to a report to the naval Intelligensl bureau.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1921.

SILESIAN WAR CONSIDERED BY HIGH COUNCIL America Again Represented by Envoy at Request of Allies. NO DECISION REACHED PARIS, May 9.—The council of ambassadors took up the Upper Silesian strife today and made formal request to Polnnd to use all possible measures to calm the Polish population In Upper Silesia. A communication was sent to the inter allied commission in Upper Silesia asking it to Issue a formal statement to the Polish people denying that any formal decision has been taken upon the partition of Upper Silesia as a result of the recent plebescite. America participated in the meeting of the ambassadorial council, Ambassador Hugh Wallace acting as unofficial observer for the Washington Government. After the meeting it was learned Great Britain had proposed that those parts of Upper Silesia which are preponderantly German and Polish be awarded Immediately to Germany and Poland. The British representative argued that this would permit the concentration of allied troops in the disputed territory. France and Italy objected to this proceedure and there was no decision. UPPER SILESIA SCENE OF ‘WAR’ BERLIN', May 9.—A virtual state of war exists in uppex Silesia today, with hea'ty fighting raging at many points between the Poles on one aide and allied troops and Germans on the other. About 1,000 German military policemen have, been sent into the upper Silesian theatre of hostilities, but the reichswehr have not yet been ordered to the scene. Following the capture of Kreuzberg by Germans, It was reported from that city that wounded Polish insurgents, who bad been taken to the Pitschen hospital after capture, admitted they belonged to the 6th and 13th battalions of the regular Polish army which had been sent into upper Silesia to assist the Insurgents. Thera are now betweeu 25.000 and 30,000 allied trops In upper Silesia, but the (Continued on Page Two.)

HOUSE TO DELAY KNOX MEASURE Unsettled State of European Affairs Excuse for Holding Back Resolution. WASHINGTON, May 9—Action on the Knox resolution declaring the state of war with Germany at an end, will be delayed by the House until conditions In Europe at* wore settled* .KwirameuiaUve Morioell statd today after a conference with Prstdent Harding. Mondell made it clear that he was stating his own opinion and not Instructions given him by the Presided!. He said that he believed that a majority of the members of the House felt that passage of the Knox resolution at this time would add to the complexity of the European situation. Mondell discussed the general legislative position with the President, but would not discuss the conference in detail. FEDERAL CASES SLATED MAY 31 Speedy Trial Promised Jail Defendants. All Federal prisoners under Indictment will be brought to trial within the next month and will not be forced to lie In Jail through the summer months. Before leaving for Milwaukee Saturday Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger directed Noble O. Butler, clerk of the court, to summon all petit Jurymen for Monday May 31, when he will take up the cases of defendants not out on bond. United States Marshal Mark Storen is undecided a* to when he will take Federal prisoners sentenced by Judge Geiger Saturday to terms at the Federal prison at Atlanta to the penitentiary. A number of local young men sentenced to Atlanta for transporting stolen automobiles in interstate traffic are wanted by the State authorities for witnesses in the murder trial of Charles Bernauer which will begin at Shelbyvtlle May 17, and Mr. Storen is undecided as to whether he will send the prisoners to Atlanta in two installments or hold all until after the Bernauer trial. Iron Left on Shirt; Fire Loss, $1,000,000 MAXWELL, Ont., May 9.—Maxville, a town of 1,000 population, located forty miles from Ottawa, was practically wiped out by fire which originated in a laundry when the Chinese proprietor, a Christian, hurried out of his shop to attend evening worship. He left an overheated iron on a shirt. Light and water pressure failed. Damage was estimated at $1,000,000. No lives were lost. New Dry Agent Is Waiting Kramer O. K. Bert Morgan of Greensburg, will assume the position of Federal prohibition agent for Indiana next Monday, May 10, in the event the appointment is approved by John K*amer, national prohibition director. Mr. Morgan will succeed Charles J. Orbison who recently sent in his resignation. Mr. Morgan is chairman of the Fourth district Republican committee. At present he is employed in the office of the State superintendent of public instruction.

Goodnight Kiss Couple Charged With Carving Cop BOSTON, May 9.—James A. Duncan, young Harvard Instructor, and Miss Julia Thomas, his fiancee, both natives of North Carolina, were arraigned In Roxbury District Court today* and pleaded not guilty and were held for hearing May 18, charged with assault with a knife upon Patrolman Davlii H. Blair, coiored. Blair arrested Duncan tnd Miss Thomas In a doorway as they were kissing each other good night.

Slacker Bergdoll Sends Taunt to Committee Head Marked German Paper Reaches Kahn as Body Resumes Sift of His Escape.

WASHINGTON, May 9.— While a congressional committee sat in Washington today investigating the manner in which he escaped. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy Philadelphia draft dodger, sent a poorly disguised taunt to the committee from his safe retreat at a German health resort Just as committee was getting down to business, a marked copy of the Eberbaeher Zeitung was delivered to Representative Kahn of California, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. It was addressed to Kahn in tie handwriting of Bergdoll and contained on account of the release frem prison of Frank Neaf and Carl Zimmer, the two Americans, who attempted to abduct the slacker In the German health resort some months ago. HANDBILL DESCRIBING BEAUTIES OF EHKEBACH. The wrapper containing the paper was a handbill relating at some length the beauties and healthful aspect of Eber-

KILL GUARD IN EFFORT TO GAIN THEIR FREEDOM Two Prisoners Shot When Six Attempt to Escape From State Reformatory. Special to Th. Times. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., May 9.—Six prisoners of the State Reformatory here killed a guaid with his own gun and then made an unsuccessful attempt to escape late last night. Two of the prisoners were shot and one was near death today. All of the mutineers were retaken after a gun battle on top of the reformatory wall, where they had climbed for a last desperate effort to get out. The only other means of escape had been blocked by a trusty. A detail of guards had summoned the Jeffersonville fire department and with the fire ladders they scaled the wall to meet the prisoners. 'The mutiny apparently was the culmination of plans formulated by the convicts after each of the sextette had been refused a hearing before the State pardon board. None was more than 23 year* old and the youngest 17. John Grimm, a guard, was walking past the reformatory bakery where the six men were working, when they leaped on him before he could draw his revolver. When be tried to arise, he was shot through the head with his own revolver. Then the group rushed to the guard room, the leader flourishing Grimm’s revolver. SSftnau li-new saw—s ,Cai FtwSpa -<n : strapped him to a chair. Armed with tha two revolvers, they rushed a cage at one of the prison entrances where Harry Goldman, trusty, was atatloned, and commanded him to liberate them. Goldman moved as if to do so and then dodged out of gunshot range and sounded the alarm. The prisoners rushed for the wall and were stopped by the guards, who probably fatally wounded Herrick McCarty, 23, sentenced from Delaware County for forgery, and slightly wounded Fred Muilett, 21, convicted of rape in Randolph County. These two carried the guns. The others surrendered without fight. They were Nick Hnrrnker, 19, of l’ntuam County; Will Igipinskay, 17, of Elkhart County; William Denton, 19, of Huntington Coutity; Christian Knittee, 20, of Wayne County. CHARITIES BOARD TO LOOK INTO MUTINY Amos W. Butler, secretary of the board of State charities, and Iter. Louden A. Harrlman and Mgr. Francis H. (lavish, members of the board, went to Jeffersonville today to conduct an investigation in the attempted escape of six prisoners, in which a guard was killed and two prisoners injured. Governor Warren T. McCray said he had heard nothing about the affair since midnight last night, but that he was expecting a call from G. A. H. Shldeler, superintendent of the institution, giving further details of the affair. The first report of the mutiny of the prisoners was received by the Governor at midnight last night. Smoot Asked for Data on Bonus Bill WASHINGTON, May 9. —Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, as a member of the Senate Finance Committee, was called upon In the Senate today by Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, to indicate when the soldiers' bonus bill would be reported by the committee and was asked if “promises made to representatives of the American Legion for speedy action on the measure were to be kept.”

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bach. It was dated April 4. “I wonld make It a condiiton of peace with Germany that this rascal should be returned to the United States,” said Representative Kahn, disgustedly, as he read the German newspaper. The body of the article, translated freely by Kahn, evidenced that Bergdoi. is engaged in the dangerous propaganda of arousing hostility of Germans toward Americans generally. It Is stated in the publication that: “Many Germans are followed and condemned and martyred. We have witnesses who have suffered very terrible cruelties in America. Only a few days ago a terribly abused and unfortunately handled man came to oar office and told us about his many difficulties. Poor, unfriendly and terribly broken in body, he returned to his home glad and happy to be able to escape his antagonists and to again be able' to stand on his feet on German soil. Likewise an earlier i*uml(Continued on Page Two.)

SET FRIDAY AS TIME TO CLOSE CHEST DRIVE Workers Report Grand Total of $392,107 at Meeting at Claypool.

Filling the Chest Previous grand total, $382,853. Mile-square section. $4,052. Industries section, $4,600. Women's section, $602. Today's total, $9,254. Grand total, $392,107.

The campaign for funds for the Indianapolis community chest for funds to carry it through the fiscal year will end with the noon luncheon Friday, it was decided at the meeting today at the Claypool Hotel. The original plan was to terminate the campaign Thursday, but when it was learned that several factories will not have their canvass completed until Thurnday, It was decided to hold.the campaign over on day. No more noon luncheons of team workers will be held until the final day of | the drive. However, division generals j and team captains will call their worki era together at some point one day In | the meantime and will discuss the progress of the work up to that time. A re ! port Ic expected from each team on the ■ tlnnl day. Additional subscriptions were reported | today ftftri L. €. -Jlnesmwn and the i Crane Company of SSOO and $2200 respec I tlvely. It was also reported that 90 per | r-ent of the employes of the Udell Works ! had subscribed to the chest. Tbie I amount was raised in spite of the fact | that the men at that place are working only part time. In the interest of the compaign. meetings were held at noon at the following plants: Interstate Car Company, the Rev. F. S. C. Wicks, speaker; Allison Ex perlmental Company and Electrical Steei Company, Dick Miller, speaker; Hetberington & Berner, Alvah J. Rucker, speaker; Indiana Refrigerating Com pany, Albert It. Stump, speaker; Robert 1 llassler, Inc., C. H. Dreshman, speaker; Worm & Cos., Brown Bros. A Armour's, the Rev. George 8. Henninger, speaker; Van Camp Backing Company, and the American Can Company. A letter, with a check for SSO enclosed, was received by F. C. Jordan, from O. I’. Whltsett, formerly an undertaker of Indianapolis, the money to be given to the community chest. Mr. Whltsett is In southern Florida, and learning of' the | slowness with which the appeal for the j chest is being met, sent bis personal ! check along with an appeal to citizens j of Indianupolls to subscribe. Teddy Still Missing; 2 Bonds Forfeited The failure of Teddy O’Brien, Indicted on charges of grand larceny and assault and battery with intent to kill, to ap- | pear in the Marlon County Criminal Court today, resulted in Judge James A. Collins fiJrfeltlng two bonds totaling $2,500. On one bond, Frank Glenn Is listed as surety and the second bond o T $1,600 cash was delivered as surety. Last week the defendant failed to appear and her bondsman was given until today to get her Into court. Miss O’Brien stabbed a man when he pursued her from a hotel room seeking to recover some money she had taken from him. PREFERENCE TO VETS. WASHINGTON, May 9.—The Senate today passed Senator Gooding’s bill giving preference right of employment to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines in construction work on United States reclamation projects.

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Coming to This? . , The long full skirt Is coming back, according to leading Parisian designers, and mannikins are already displaying the newly created frocks at the Longchamps race track, neer Paris, where this photo was made. It shows a model displaying anew frock featuring the basque effect, the long full skirt and a wide collar of organdie. The loose cuffs are also of organdie. SLIM PICKINGS FOR BURGLARS Week-End Ransacking Profits Little—‘Hold-up Victim’ Is Arrested. Burglars were busy as usual in various parts of the city Saturday night and Sunday, but they obtained little of value. Charles Suesz’s storage house. 920 Biddle avenue, was entered by a burglar who broke upon a window, but nothing was stolen. Fred Hunker, 41 North Mount street, reported that his home was entered by a burglar who obtained a revolver, two rings and a lavaller. C. F. Fiugell, 126 North Oriental street, discovered two men trying to break in the shed in tbe rear of his home at 1:50 a. m. today, but the prowlers escaped before the police arrived. Mrs. Susie Williams, wife of the custodian of the Spink Apartments at 5345 East Washington street, reported that seven rings valued at SIOO were taken from bet room. A burglar obtained $2 at the home of George Schmidt, 1431 Pleasant street. Mariano Tataird. 2022 East Maryland street, appeared at police headquarters last midnight and told the police he had been held up by three white men at Noble and Louisiana streets, and robbed of S2O. Tbe police alleged he was under the influence of liquor and arrested him on the charge of drunkeness. The police say that he had sls in his pocket when arrested. Two burglars who were breaking into tbe borne of Lyman Graham, Sherman drive and Thirty-Second street last night, were frightened away by George Fisler, a neighbor. Nothing was stolen.

G. A. R. OF STATE CONVENES TODAY 42d Annual Encampment at Newcastle. Special to The Times. NEWCASTLE. Ind., May 9.—A1l plans have been comlpeted here for the entertainment of the forty-second annual State encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and associated organizations, which will be in session In this city today and continue until Thursday evening. National Commander William A. Ketcham and State Commander Robert Mcßride were to arrive from Indianapolis with their staffs at m>.n today and immediately the convention was to formally open. Headquarters for all organizations. will be the Bundy Hotel. State meetings of the W. R. C., Sons of Veterans. Ladies of the G. A. R. and Daughters of Veterans will be held during the time. Children of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home at Knightstown will be brought to Newcastle to participate In the big annual parade Wednesday. Five bands have been employed for the occasion. A ConnerSville delegation of 500 will be present to wage a campaign to secure the 1922 encampment for that city.

North Meridian street, Is secretary of the, federation, which maintains headquarters at 17 West Morris street, this organization deceives $36,000 a year from the Com‘munlty Cheat, having formerly been supported by public contributions.

NO. 311.

IRVING LEMAUX MADE MEMBER WORKS BOARD Acceptance Taken to Forecast Resignation as G. O. P. City Chairman. SUCCEEDS HIS FATHER Irving W. Lemaux was appointed a member of the board of public works to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, George Lemaux, by Mayor Charles W. Jewett today. He took the oath of office and attended the regular board meeting during the morning. Acceptance of the post, which requires considerable time to fulfill was taken to presage Mr. Lemaux’a resignation as Republican city chairman, which has been requested by Samuel Lewis Shank, Republican candidate for mayor. OFFERED POST SOON AFTER FATHER’S DEATH. Mayor Jewett offered the position to Mr. Lemaux a short time after the death of George Lemaux, suggesting that he would fit into the board admirably because of his close knowledge of his father’s policies and Ideas. George Lemaux was chairman of the board. It was reported that Irving Lemaux had declined the offer. The board of works ordered City Purchasing Agent Dwight S. Ritter to buy two gutier sweeping attachments for use on the street sweeping machines at a price of $750 each. Use of the attachments will eliminate the necessity of laborers following the sweepers to clean the gutters, it was stated. READVERTISEMENT OF BIDS ORDERED. Bids for the permanent Improvement of Burgess avenue, from Emerson to Butler avenues, and of Berkeley road, from Boulevard place to Sunset avenue, were ordered readvertised for when none were received. Bids for the permanent improvement of Webster avenue, from Washington street to Lowell avenue, and of Twenty-Eighth street, from Illinois to Meridian streets, were rejected because they were considered approximately 20 cents per square yard too high. PARDON BOARD GRABS THE COIN New Spoils System Inflates Pay Roll 600 Per Cent— Sudden Activity. Under the new system by which the State board of pardons meets once a month instead of quarterly and by which the members of tbe board receive 1 a per diem of $lO, the work of the board is costing more than 600 per cent more than under the old system when member! received S3OO a year each for their services. Figures in the office of the Auditor of State show that S4BO was paid out in April as sa tries to members, compared with $75 a month under the old system. According to these figures the three members worked a. total of forty-eight days during the month of April. The new system was inaugurated by the Legislature at the request of Governor Warren T. McCray. Adolph Seidensticker, secretary of the board, has worked nearly every day since the law became effective. The salary of the clerk of the board also has been increased from SBS a month to $105.16 a month.

TURNS UP SON, THEN REPENTS Mother Would Save Fugitive Son From Bars. A hearing on the requisition of Gorernor Small of Illinois for Dale Rawlings of Kokomo, an escaped convict from the reformatory at Pontiac, will be held In the office of Governor Warren T. McCray at 4 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. Rawlings was arrested several day* ago when his mother became angry vrith him and told the police he was a fugitive. His mother then repented and is now endeavoring to secure his freedom. Wearing handcuffs and accompanied by his mother, Rawlings appeared at the Governor’s office to plead for his freedom. His hearing was postponed until tomorrow because Governor McCray received a message from Governor Groesbeck of Michigan asking that no actlM be taken until he Is able to present further Information in the case. Governor Groesbeck recently refused to permit RawllDg’s extradition from Michigan When he was arrested there on the same charges. The requisition from the Governor of Illinois was brought to Governor McCray by Horace G. May nor, a representative of the Illinois reformatory. C. C. Bureau Begins Visits to Industries The first of the series of tourß of Inspection of new plants in Indianapolis was undertaken this afternoon under the auspices of the Industries Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce when a large delegation visited the Chapman Price Steel Mill, Troy and Shelby street*. The tourists will leave the Chamber of Commerce at 1:45 o’clock and the trip will be made In automobiles. Other inspection trips will be aranged later, as it is the purpose of the bureau to personally welcome tbe new plants to the city.

Coolidge Plays Hookey to See Circus Parade WASHINGTON, May 9.—Vice Fresident Coolidge served notice on everybody today that he Intended to play hookey. ‘‘What are all those children sitting on the curb for?” Coolidge asked when he reached his office today. "Parade,” said his secretary “What kind?” “Circus.” “Oh,” said Coolidge, brightening up. “That so?” Then he confided to a friend: “I enjoy a ball game, and I like to sea other sports, but when the circus comes to town, then I play hookey.”