Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature.

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COUNTY A TOWNSHIP SHY, BUT NOW HAS 2 HEADS OF SCHOOLS Pike Abolished and Made Part of Wayne to Prevent Re-election of Lee E. Swails as Superintendent. EACH FACTION OF BOARD NAMES MAN # —— Marlon county lost a township and gained two superintendents of schools today. Pike township was abolished and its area included in Wayne township by action of the county board of commissioners who thus sought to prohibit Clements Purdy from voting for the re-election of Lee E. Swails as county superintendent. Swails then was elected superintendent by one faction of the board of education and Robert Devericks, who is connected with the office of the state superintendent of public instruction, was elected by the other faction.

This arbitrary act of County Commissioners Lewis George. Carlin Shank and Harry Tutewiler resulted in County Auditor Leo K. Fesler playing into the plans of the commissioners by refusing to recognize Mr. Purdy as the duly elected trustee of Pike Township and who was present to vote for Mr. Swails. The result was that two chairmen were appointed. One chairman after putting the question of the superintendency to a Tote declared Superintendent Swails reappointed and the other “chairman - ’ declared Mr. Devericks appointed as County superintendent of schools for four years. MAY RESULT IX COSTLY BATTLE IX COI'RTS. This scheme to abolish the office of the Trustee Purdy of Pike on the part of the commissioners probably will result in a fierce legal battle which will cost the taxpayers of Marion County a tidy sum. At times the meeting of the board of education of Marion County resembled a prize ring, challenges to come" out and fight were exchanged. Mr. Swails invited Mr. Fesler out into the street and Fesler refused. Hot shots were exchanged by mem >ers and outsiders who directed the fight An exactly 10 o’clock the nine trustees of Marion County assembled in the room of the Marion County commissioners. Mr. Fesler. who announced that he was an ex-officio member of the school board, declared the meeting open Fesler cleared his throat and began reading a communication from the Marion County commissioners, which was as follows: “The board of county commissioners of Marion County. State of Indiana, met In regular session Monday morning, June 6. 1921. pursnant to adjournment. ' The board having under consideration the matter of changing certain township boundary lines in said county, now finds that the township of Pike, in said county, should be abolished, and it is further ordered that that portion of Marion County heretofore known as Pike Township. and embraced within the boundaries of said luwnahip, shall become • part of Wayne Township, of waid County of Marion, and the boundaries of said Wayne Township are hereby extended and changed to include the territory heretofore embraced within the said township of Pike.” SIGNED BY THREE COI’XTY COMMISSIONERS. This order bore the signatures of the three county commissioners who viewed the school board meeting from the side lines. Mr. Fesler adjusted his glasses and proceeded to call the roll. Mr. Fesler did not call the name of Mr. Purdy, who is the duly elected trustee of Pike Township. “I, Clements Purdy, a duly elected trustee, am present and ready to take part in the transactions of business,” declared Mr. Purdy when he was thus Ignored. Fesler made no effort to record Purdy's tender. Emsley Johnson, a local attorney, who represents Mr. Purdy, took a seat next to his client and began coaching him. Fesler then asked for nominations for chairman of the meeting. Edward J. Heeker, who was lined up with the county commissioners and Fesler, was. nominated. Charles P. Wright also was nominated. The two groups then declared both selected as chairman. When Fesler called the role on the chairmanship vote, Purdy said, “Purdy votes for Mr. Wright.”

ADJUSTS GLASSES BEFORE REPLYING. Auditor Feslor, adjusting his glasses, replied. “I am sorry, Mr. Purdy, you are not a trustee and have no rote.” “I am a trustee,” Insisted Purdy. ••The county auditor has no legal right to pass upon this question," broke in Johnson. "Mr. Wright take charge of the meeting.” Wright arose and stated that he was chairman of the meeting. "Go right ahead.” Johnson told him. Trustee Hecker arose from his seat and the action of Trustee Wright. Ag Wright stated the order of business and refused to yield to Trustee Hecker. Superintendent Swails and some others applauded. Fesler, who seemed to forget that Hecker was attempting to function as chairman, assumed to direct matters. "Mr. Swails, you sit down. Do you hear me?” he called. “Shut your mouth," yelled Superin-, tendent Swails. “I will not," replied Fesler. “Come out on the street,” challenged Swails to Fesler. Auditor Fesler sat down and proceeded to actually vote. "Fesler has a right to vote," exclaimed Hecker. “No he hasn't.” directed Johnson. “Proceed with the nominations.” THEN CALLS FOR NOMINATIONS. Wright asked for nominations. Both Swails and Devericks were placed in nomination. Johnson cried for paper, grabbed some from a reporter and handed it to Trustee Wright, who distributed the paper as ballots. Then Hecker. under orders of Fesler, received nominations. "Appoint your tellers and count the rote." Johnson instructed Wright. right announced that live votes were cast for Superintendent Swails and one for Devericks. “As chairman of this meeting,” said Wright, "I declare Superintendent Swails (Continued on Page Two.)

WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., June 7, 1921: Generally fair tonight anil Tuesday. Not much change iu temperature. HOURLY TEMPER ATI RE. ... 6 a. m 56 7 a. m 60 8 a. m 64 9 a. m 69 10 a. m 72 it a. m 73 12 m 75 1 p. n 77 2 p. m. 78

Published at Indianapolis, Ind., Dally Except Sunday.

Uses Barn fer Bank and Loses S2OB Wesley Ballinger, 963 West TwentySixth street, owner of a number of houses adu wagons used to deliver ice. was afraid to carry money home with him for fear he woult) be held up and robbed. He hid the money in his barn at 713 Roanoke street. Today he found that a thief had broken the lock from th barn door and $206 was missing from the place where Ballinger had hidden the money. 2 American Soldiers Killed by a German PARIS, June B.—Two American soldiers attached to the American Army of Occupation on the Rhine were killed by a German civilian at Andernach. said a dispatch from Coblenz today. The killing took place while the Americans were being mobbed by a crowd of quarrelsome Germans. The murderer escaped.

ACCIDENT VICTIMS TOTAL NINE DEAD, TWENTY INJURED ‘Many Are Due to Carelessness,’ Declares Coroner Who Is Making Sweeping Investigations. Nine dead and twenty injured is the toll of accidents which occurred Saturday afternoon and Sunday in and near Indianapolis. "Many of the accidents were due apparently to carelessness,” Dr. Paul Robinson, coroner, declared today. The coroner is making a complete Investigation of every accident in which a person was killed. One accident on Madison avenue resulted In four persons being killed and one injured, when an interurban car struck an automobile in which they were riding.

The death of Charles McMahon, early today at the city hospital, brought the total neek-end fatalities to nine. He was injured in an accident on Massachusetts avenue, and hla name at first was given as W. P. McMahon, but the hospital authorities today stated that W. P. McMahon appeared at the hospital and said the man injured in the accident was his brother Charles. The home of both men Is on Edison street. The dead. In Saturday afternoon accidents. ROGER KLEIN, 25, 1318 Prosper* street, killed at Linhurst drive when Big Fonr passenger train No. 14 struck the automobile he was driving. GENERAL L. SMITH, tenrnt of the farm of Carlin 11. Shank, county commissioner, killed while walking on Newcastle Interurban tracks between stops 4 and 5, northeast of city. He was hit by Interurban in charge of Motorman J. E. White. In Sunday accidents. CHARLES McMAHON, 913 Edison atenne, died at 3 a. m. today, at the city hospital, as result of injuries received when street car hit automobile In which he was riding. Arthur McClain. 44, 640 Warren avenue, kilted when tnternrban hit his automobile at Madison avenue and Dudley street. MRS. BERTHA McCLAIN, 46, wife of Arthur McClain. ROY’ McCLAIN. 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McClain. HARRY BHEVETT, 43, roomer at McClain’s, died at city hospital last night. (All were in McClain's machine.) JOHN B. VANLOVER, 67, Zlonsville, Ind., died from fractured skull received when he fell while getting out of lus automobile at 4600 North Meridian street. JAMES C. BAYLESS, 59, Clayton, Ind., died at Deaconess Hospital yesterday as the result of Injuries received when he fell under the wheels of an interurban at Clayton, Saturday. The Injured: THELMA McCLAIN, 10, 640 Warren avenue, at city hospital, condition serious, but will probably recover. GEORGE COWLIER, 807 North Capitol avenue. THELMA BROWN, 13, 3822 East New Y'ork street, slightly Injured.. LACK A McNEELEY, 14, 3909 Moore avenue, slightly Injured. MRS. ZELMA ANTHONET, 23, 116 West Michigan street. LCCILLE DILLING, 19, 131 East Michigan street. GILBERT SIDER, Oneida Hotel. MRS. GILBERT SIDER. FRED CONROE, Spencer House. MRS. FRED CONROE, Spencer House. I. B. GORDON, 430 East Michigan street. * Ill'KL NICHOLSON, 35, 532 Myrtis street. J. E. MCDONALD, 103 East Sixteenth street. JOHN M. POPP, 919 English avenue. EDWIN 51. POPP, 919 English avenue, son of John M. Popp. FRANK HOY', Sheridan, Ind, not serious. ALFRED HANCOCK, Sheridan. Ind, not serious. EDWARD STAHL, Sheridan, Ind., slightly injured. MRS. FLOY' KIRKHAM, 1308 North Olne.v street, slightly Injured today In automobile accident at Massachusetts and Commerce avenues. ROBERT WILKINS, 4, 1020 South Keystone avenue, burned on face and hands, not serious. The Occident that coat four lives occurred at 4:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon when McClain’s automobile In which (Continued on Page lea)

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Catholic Bishop of La Crosse, Wis., Dies LA CROSSE, Wis., June 6.—The Rt. Rev. James Schwebaeh, bishop of the La Crosse Catholic diocese, died here early today. He had been ailing for several months. He had been appointed bishop in 1892. Harding Returns From Valley Forge WASHINGTON, June 6.—President Harding arrived at the White House at 12:45 p. m. today after a long motor ride from Valley Forge, Pa., where he spent the week-end at the home of Senator Knox of Pennsylvania. Sustains Burleson’s Ban on New York Call WASHINGTON, June 6.—Tho District of Columbia Court of Appeals today sustained the action of former Postmaster General Burleson in excluding the New York Call from the mails and reversed the decision of the District Supreme Court, which had granted a mandamus to compel the reinstatement of the paper as second-class matter. The Appellate Court held that the excluded copies of the Call contained articles which impeded the Government in its conduct of the war and were of a “character tending to invite arson, murder and assassination.” Postmaster General Hays has since readmitted the Call to the mails. State Will Handle Liquor Auto Cases Hereafter all cases of a purely local character where automobiles have been seized in the transportation of liquor will be left to the State authorities to handle, according to Frederick Van Nuys, L'nited States district attorney. Mr. Van Nuys says that this action has been taken because of the enactment of a law of forfeiture by the last Legislature exactly similar to Section 26 of the Volstead act, under which the Federal authorities have been seizing automobiles. This new State law went into effect May 81 and will have the effect of taking a big vc lume of work off the shoulders of the Federal authorities.

EDITORS TO MEET AT TURKEY RUN Prominent Speakers Will Address Democratic Publishers of State. Frederick Van Nuys, United States district attorney, Samuel 51. Ralston, former Governor; Benjamin Rosso, Democratic State chairman: Evans Woollen, Jr.; Mrs. Hortense Tapp Moore, of Rockville: Mrs. Lillian Somers, of Terre Haute, and Miss Grace Julian Clark, of Indianapolis, will be the principal speakers at mid-summer meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association which will open Friday, June 10, at Turkey Run. The political end of the meeting will take place Saturday afternoon. The business session will be held Friday evening. The program is as follows: FRIDAY EVENING. Music. Address of Welcome—John R. McFadden, Rockville, Ind. “Classified Advertising” Mr. Bonner publication representative, Chicago, 111. Music. ‘•Booster Newspaper Organisation"—J,W Price, chairman Republican committee, Clinton, Ind. ■‘National Newspaper Association"—John C. Locbner, vice president for Indiana, Auburn, Ind. Music. ••Illustrated Talk on Interesting Places in Indiana” —Edward Barrett, former State geologist, Indianapolis, Ind. Music. General talks by Democratic editors. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. duslc. Address—slrs. Hortense Tapp Moore, Rockville, Ind. "Revamping Ourselves"—Hon. Frederick Van Nuys, Indianapolis, Ind. Music. ‘•Politics Begin at Home"—Mrs. Lillian Bomers, Terre Haute. Indiana. “Public Service, Best Service”—Hon. Samuel M. Ralston, Indianapolis, lud. 51 u sic. “Women and the League of Nations"— Miss Grace Julian Clark, Indianapolis. Ind. "Democratic Editors”—Hon. Benjamin Bosse, Evansville, Ind. Music. "Young Democracy”—Evans Wooten, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind. Specially conducted tours to points of the park will be made Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Police Probe Strange Auto Pilgrim age George Talkington, 132 West Nineteenth street, heard an automobile stop in the alley beside his home at 12:45 a. in. today. Talkington looked out of the window and asked the man what he wanted. Ha received no answer. The man Jumped out of the automobile and ran. The police were unable to find the driver of the car which bore an Ohio licence 202U83. At 6 a. m. two men appeared ana started to take the car away. Talkington notified the police and Sergeant Sheehan arrested them on charges of vagrancy. They gave their names as, Tlarry York, Lafayette, and James Jackman, 130 West Nineteenth street. Yer'i said he purchosed the automobile some months ago. The police are investigating. Newsprint Price Cut NEW YORK, June 6.—The International Paper Company today announced a reduction in newsprl.'t prices from sllO to $93 a ton. The price is for car load lota, for delivery' In the third quarter.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1921.

ROOKER CLAIM, IF UPHELD, OF WIDE BEARING Contention Makes Handling of Public Funds Over State Illegal. Appropriations of a total of $11,585.20 in two ordinances to be Introduced In the city council will be illegal if the contention mode by Attorney W. V. Rooker in Circuit Court Saturday to the effect that the tax law of 1920 abolished socalled general fund* of cities and counties and established a budget system under which all public money is divided into separate trust funds which can be spent for no other purpose than that set forth in the tax levies, is upheld. The point, which if upheld, will embroil the fltanclal system of practically every city, county and township in the State in such chaos that it probably will take further legislation to bring order, was raised by Mr. Rooker in a suit to enjoin Marion County from paying examiners of the State board of accounts for auditing the county's books out of the general fund. Mr. Rooker contends that there can be no general fund because the new State tax law. passed in 1919 and not amended in this particular by subsequent attempts of Republics*! Legislatures to iron out its numerous snarls, abolished the general fund by providing that tax levies shall be made upon the basis of a budget, which is advertised and subjected to public hearing before adoption lie argues that no taxing unit may appropriate one penny in addition to that appropriated in the budget and that the various funds, having become inviolable trust fuuds by the adoption of the budget setting forth the specific purposes for which the money in them may bo spent, may not be disturbed by having sums transferred from one to another. The ordinances provides for $8,500 for the use of the Marlon County council of the American Legion in meeting expenses of the Fourth of July celebration at. the State Fair Grounds, anil $3,085.20 for the Art Association of Indianapolis. Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby said today that he had been prevented by a rush of other city business from investigating Mr. Hooker's contentions and tbelr application to municipal flnaloial affairs and therefore could not exprea an opinion on them. 1

WESTERN UNION WINS DECISION Supreme Court Upholds Contention Company Not Liable Under U. S. Control. WASHINGTON, June 6.—The contention of the Wertern Union Company that it cannot be held responsible for rallure, delay or error in the transmission or messages during the period of Federal vrar time 1 ** upuelrt by the l'nited States Supremo Court today. The cases Involved a suit for damages Instituted againrt the Western Union by 3. B. Poston for alleged delay In the transmission of a message filed by him. The Supreme Court of South Carolina held the Western Union liable and the company appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, which reversed the decision of the lower court Abandonment of the Government’s sntt to dissolve the American Can Company, charged with a monopoly in the manufacture and sale of tin cans was indicated when the Government moved for tho dismissal by the Supreme Court of the United States of its appeal from a decision favorable to the company in the lower courts. Tho court banded down a decision that inheritance and estate taxes may be allowed as deductions in the computation of net U. " 00168. Thousands cf income tax cases arc Involved in this decision. The court's ruling will deprive the Government of immense sums collected under protests from estates The court directed that briefs In the dispute' between the United Stntes and the Western Union Telegraph Company with respect to the landing of a cable from the Bnrbadoes at Miami, Fla., be filed with the court before the opening of the fall term in October. Court adjourned until Oct. 3. 1 Gets Jail Term for Gaming, Others Fined Otis Smith, 532 South Alabama street, who was arrested Sunday with three other men after a raid on his home by Motorcops Drlnkut and Bernnuer, and charged with robbery, drawing deadly weapons, keeping a gambling house and gaming, was fined $5 nnd costs and sentenced to serve fifteen days in jail on I the latter charge by Judge Walter Prltch- | ard in city court today. Roy Hall, 1018 j East Georgia street; Charles I'nyne, 211 North East street, and Austin Kelly, j Terminal Hotel, arrested with Smith, were each fined $5 and costs on a charge of gaming. The raid was made when Roy Hall complained to the police that Smith was winning all his money. Tie said he had lost sl2, nnd when he attempted to pick up the money ho had lost, Smith threatened him with a cast iron pipe. CARRY LOOT IN WAGON. Robbers knocked in the rear doof of a grocery operated by John McNeils, 1030 Bates street, last night and carried away nearly n wagon load of groceries and meats. The loss was reported to the police today.

Farmers Are Working Under Full Steam Since Congress Gave Its Aid

CHICAGO, June 6.—Congress took the panicky streak out of the American farmer and he now has his sleeves rolled up and his feet squarely on the ground. The farmer who some months ago threw his rake in the marsh and shouted "What the use!” has been given a real incentive for going back to work. Tillers of the soil, many of them on the verge of bankruptcy for a long, long while and unable to borrow running capital, believe they have started on anew era of prosperity. A survey of the agrarian districts of the country completed by the American Farm Bureau Federation today showed a vast cha.ige of conditions among farmers during the first week of the new emergency tariff law. A real back to-ths-farm movement by the boys who left during the days of fat pay envelopes In the factories added to the peace of mind of the agriculturist, the survey also showed.

FLOODS AND FIRES LEA VE PUEBLO IN CHAOTIC STATE; NO ACCURATE ESTIMA TES OF LOSSES POSSIBLE

CLOUDBURSTS PUT S. PLATTE OUT OF BANKS Residents of Denver Suburbs Warned to Flee to High Lands. RAILROADS HARD HIT COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June Pike’s Peak is covered with two feet of snow today. A mile of tho famous cog rood has been washed out by the l&rce volume of water running down tho mountain sides. Manitou, at the foot of Piko’s Peak, Is threatened with destruction from heavy rain fall and rise of mountain creeks. The mayor has issued a proclamation (-idling upon all ablebodied citizens to report immediately and make an effort to stem the menacing flood. WASHINGTON June 6.—Additions! Instructions were forwarded from Washington today to the commanders of two Army corps areas to render every possible assistance to the flood-stricken regions of Colorado. Similar instructions had previously been sent, but Secretary of War Weeks reinforced them today with further orders. Supplies from the Army posts at Ft. Logan, Colo., and Ft. D. A. Russell, in Wyoming are being sent into the flood areas tinder orders from the War Department. DENVER. Colo.. June 6.—At 10 o'clock loday the waters of tho South Platte River were rapidly rising and squads of Denrer police were hurrying along the bortoms warning residents to leave their homes. Two bridges went out about 9 o'clock, one at West Third street and Eighth avenue, the other at West Eteventh avenue. The city highway department supplied trucks to aid scores lof families lu removing their household furniture. There was little danger of loss of life, 1 officials said, but the property damage would be beayy. Scores of families in Denver’s suburbs | were driven from their homes into last j night by high waters that burst over the banks of South Platte following ! cloudbursts in the foothills of the i Rockies. Englewood and GlobevUlo, suburbs of Denver, were the first to feel the effects of the downpour Isom the mouutalus Hons.-S, bArnWnff'tfnces 'were torn loose and in many cases carried away by the i torrents. The tracks of the Colorado A Southern and the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe Railroads were endangered In the Denver yards. Where tho river cuts through Denver proper the water was kept in its channel.

LITTLE HOPE FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF WASHINGTON, June 6. The Daily Bulletin of tho United States Weather Bureau today held out little hope for immediate relief from the torrential rain and flood conditions which have taken a terrible toll of life and property in the Colorado district. "Additional heavy rains have fallen over the central ltocky Mountain district and eastward Into western Kansas, thereby prolonging the flood conditions over all rivers of those sections." said the report. Additional warnings were issued Sunday for the Rio Grande and Arkansas Rivers and extended to the Pecos and Upper Canadian River. FLOODS SWEEPING WESTERN KANSAS TOPEKA, Kan., June 6.—The Colorado flood was sweeping over the western plains of Kansas today, according to reports being received by local railroad officials. Santa Fe general office officials here with only one telephone line remaining intact in the flooded district, were trying desperately to keep in touch with the situation. No trains were being run west of Dodge City and California passengers were being routed via Amarillo, Texas. More than one hundred miles of Santa Fe tracks were said to be under water between Ihieblo and the Kansas line. Dodge City was expecting the flood waters to reach t'.K re this afternoon. Hutchinson probady would not get flood waters before Tuesday night, It was said. 24 Enter Pleas Twenty-four defendants, who were recently indicted by the Marion County grand Jury, today appeared before Judge Janie* A. Collins of the Marion County Criminal Court. Most of them pleaded not guilty. Jake Wiggens. Indicted on a charge of forgery, pleuded guilty. Lem Rouser and Berua Osborn, both charged with arson, pleaded not guilty. The others who appeared for arraignment were Indicted on charges of grand larceny, receiving stolen goods, rape, bigamy and other charges.

Farmers, according to reports, are securing plenty of help at wages much below last year’s. The farming industry is now on an equal footing with other American industries, said J. W. Cloverdale, secretary of the American Farm Bureau Federation. “Farmers realize that the new tariff will act on price deflation and will prevent the dumping of cheap foreign crops on the American market*. "The opportunities of the farmers will be equalized with those of foreigners who secure their labor at a cost vastly below that in this country. There has always been a feeling among farmers that they were discriminated against because most other Industries were protected nLd theirs was not. The feeling has now been removed ; anew era has started." Cloverdale said that 18.000,000 bushels of corn were exported last year and 10,000,000 imported. The Imported corn, he said, served as a leverage to break prices leaving losses Instead of profits.

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Heroism Marks Acts of Stricken Pueblo People Scenes in Flooded City Told Graphically by Fugitive From Maddened Waters .

(The following exclusive story was written by W. W. Pries, capitalist of Colorado Springs, who made Ms way up from Pueblo in an automobile over the treacherous railroad beds from which many miles of track had been wiped out. The forty-four mile Journey required eight hours. It was on the strength of information brought by Mr. Price that local citizens organized committees for emergency relief for the stricken city and a gang of 250 men set out to start restoring the roads.) By W. W. PRICE. Copyright, 1921, by International News Service. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 6 A veritable, swishing, sucking, Styx, bearing in its yellow muck houses, cattle, horses, huge trees and timbers, smashing everything in its path, and here and there limp bodies whirling with the current, to appear for a moment and swoop down, going through a window of a house to be again sucked out, on their silent Journey of death, down into the mud of the roaring Arkansas River on the worst rampage of its turbulent career. Such were the scenes that I witnessed in Pueblo from late Friday night until my escape from the turmoil. in all my wildest dreams I have never Imagined such an experience possible. Silent, yet swishing—forever swishing—waters holding in their grip a city of 50.000 couls, and under the eerie light of a score of fires in all parts of the flood

WORD PICTURE OF LOVETT’S MURDER PAINTED BY STATE

Special to The Times. WARSAW, Ind., June 6.—State attorneys s*t out systematically to paint a word picture today showing tho jury how the Insurance murder was comrnittMl. They endeavored to show how Leroy Lovett, !9-]r*ar-oi4 Kikhart boy, was beaten over the bead with an Iron bar, how hi* blood saturated clothing was burned and the prostrale body clothed In the outer gartnehta of bis chum, Virgil Decker, how he was left to die on the floor of a river cabin, and finally at night, after hours of anguish, how he was loaded in a buggy aud placed in the pnth of a Pennsylvania train. This story did comrne out ns eyewitness testimony, but was developed piece-meal through the circumstantial evidence of persons testifying ia the triul

NEW EFFORT TO MAKE PEACE Struggle Looms in Both Branches at Capitol on This and Disarmament. WASHINGTON. June 6.—Congress today entered upon a turbulent week. Fight was in the air on both House and Senate sides at the Capitol. Two of the expected battles oddly enough were in prospect over the making of peace with Germany and the Ilorah. plan for disarmament. both most pacific measures. Here are some of the Items in Congress’ trouble list for the week: The peace resolution to bring about a technical state of peace with Germany. The Senate passed the Knox resolutl >n repealing the war declaration; the House this week is to debate and pass the Porter subresolution which does not repeil the war declaration, but simply declares the war at an end. The Ilorah disarmament proposal which House Republicans are determined to broaden to include land disarmament as well as naval and all the principal nations Instead of Just the United States, Great Britain and Japan as in Borah's amendment to the Navy bill. The Army bill in the Senate which provides for 170,000 men at a cost of $15,000,000 higher than the House appropriation. The shipping board and other items in the deficiency bill. May Denied Change by Bloomington Judge Special to The Times. BLOOMIN'TON, Ind., June o.—John G. 51ay of lndiunapolis, charged with an attempt to murder Dr. Joseph Friteh at Unionville a few weeks ago, failed in an effort to have his case tried In another court on a change of venue, when Judge A. L. Rundell today overruled the motion on May's attorneys and ordered a special term of the Monroe Circuit Court to convene June 20 to try the case. Attorneys for May claimed that the publicity given the ease by the local newspapers would preclude the possibility of obtaining an importial jury here. Grand Trunk Rail Decision Affirmed WASHINGTON. June 6.—The Conrt of Appeals in the District of Columbia today affirmed the action of the District Supreme Court in denying a mandamus asked by the Grand Trunk Western aßilway Company against the secretary of the Treasury to compel Issuance of a warrant for $500,000, part payment of tile railroad guaranty from the Government. The case grows out of the refusal ol the treasury to make part payments of guaranties until final accountings have been render’d. Since the action was started. Congress has authorized partial payments. THREE HURT AT PORTLAND. PORTLAND, Ind., June 6.—ln an automobile accident here late Sunday, Carl Goff sustained a fractured rknll, Van Schook suffered a broken leg and fractured knee cap and Vernor Crakes received severe cuts and bruises. Goff and Schook were taken to a local hospital.

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areas men moved like ghosts during the black night when Pueblo walked In the valley of the shadow. MANIACS PRESENT PITIABLE SIGHT. Perhaps the most pitiable scene was at the Colorado asylum for the insane, situated in tho flood area, surrounded with the waters, and filled with maniacs. When the waters began to get Into the grounds the insane, who had been at the windows, became frantic despite the efforts of nurses and men attendants to take them back. Screams filled the air and many beat themselves into insensibility in an effort to escape from their bars. But all were removed safely to the second and third floors of the hospital. Marooned by the waters and with their supplies of food destroyed, drinking only of tho muddy waters, they were In a pitiable plight, until supplies were brought to them by men In rowboats. “Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink.” Terrible situation, Disease lurks In the yellow mud that floats In the streams. The city’s water works was early out of commission and will be for many days. SIRENS GIVE DANGER WARNING. When the warning sirens tolled Friday night, I, like many others, curiously want toward the river front, not expecting any rapid rise. I left my motor car and was walking and then saw men run(Contlnoed on Page Eight.)

of Virgil Decker, 18-year-old farmer boy charged with the crime. The witnesses were those who visited "the murder cabin" lmediately after the tragedy and those who uncovered bits of bloodstained cloth throwing light on the murder mystery. The State has directed all its attention so far to prove that the murder was the culmination of a conspiracy between Virgil. his mother and two brothrs to collect $24,000 life Insurance which Virgil carried on himself, by identifying the dead youth's body as that of Virgil. Now the State seeks to fix responsibility for the crime. Hundreds of persons eager ts hear testimony in the climax of the trial were turned away from the courtroom after Judge Royse issued orders that no more be admitted.

LOOK INTO HOMES FOR FIRE TRAPS Uniformed Inspectors at Work in Brightwood. Inspection of private premises for fire hazards as part of the crusade of the citizens fire prevention committee was started in Brightwood by twenty-three uniformed inspectors of the city fire prevention bureau today. Orders were given the inspectors by Jacob H. Hilkene, chief of the bureau of fire prevention, and Capt. Albert A. Judd, who will be in charge in the field, to dig into attics, cellars, bams and outbuildings. Persons whose premises have been cleaned up in accordance with Instructions Issued by the fire prevention campaigners for the past several weeks will be issued "O. K. slips.” while those who have not complied will bo given orders to clean up within thirty days or face prosecution. The Ninth ward will be Inspected Wednesday and Thi rsday and the Tenth ward Friday and Saturday. The board of sanitary commissioners is cooperating through removal of trash in the city ash collection equipment. TWO CITIES VOTE ON GOVERNMENT Muncie and Michigan City End Strenuous Campaigns. Special to The Times. MUNCIE, Ind., June 6.—The city manager plan of government under the new Knapp law will be defeated by a vote of at least four to one in Muncie, was the prediction made today by Clarence Barth, in charge of the campaign against the city government plan, which will be voted on here tomorrow. Joseph Meredith, manager for the advocates of the city management plan, predicted that the new plan would go over by a comfortable majority, declaring that the church vote and the vote of the women would prove the deciding factor. MICHIGAN Several hundred citizens were in line today when the polls opened in the special election to determine whether the city would adopt or reject the commission manager form of government. The campaign ended with large turnouts to the adherents of both sides of the question. A vote equal to that polled at the presidential lection here is predicted. slichigan City is the third city in the State to vote on the commission manager form of government,, 51arion and Connersville already having rejected the plan. Both sides predict victory. GIRL SERIOUSLY INJURED. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., June 6. Miss slargnret Irey, 17, daughter of Edward Irey, living northeast of the city, may lose her left leg as the result of a severe fracture Saturday. The bone penetrated through the flash. PAID $lO TO LET .MOTOR RUN. J. Carter, 1253 Cameron sireet, arrested yesterday by Mounted Officer Kegrels on a charge of allowing l)ls motor to run while he was absenifitom his machine, was fined $lO and ccflfej by Judge Walter Pritchard la city today. •

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FEAR EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA AND TYPHOID More Than 100 Bodies Recovered From Slimy Mud That Covers City. MUCH WATER REMAINS PUEBLO, Colo., June 6.—A thin line of military and Red Cross workers today sought Pueblo’s flood dead in a three-foot layer of slimy yellow mud. The city, coated wit hoozing dregs of the flood, was fighting against pestilence with every available facility. Still waterless, its greatest peril came from threat of typhoid and diphtheria epidemics. The sun broke through during the forenoon. It was taken as a good omen by the beleaguered city. More than one hundred bodies had been recovered up to that hour. They were in temporary morgues with workers making little or no attempt at identification. The bodies were all coated with mud and unrecognizable in their present state. A great black scar marks its business district with soldiers and volunteer exservice men beginning the work of rehabilitation. Tho flood level is as high as It was Saturday noon, bnt the Sunday flood has partially subsided. More than one hundred blocks are still inundated with little hope of the waters subsiding for at least forty-eiqht hourg. 8,000 HOMELESS BEING CARED FOR. Approximately eight thousand homeleM persona are being cared for In Red Cron stations and improvised barracks. There is practically no suffering except among illiterate foreigners who lost everything and are still too bewildered to avail themselves of relief measures. The search for dead began at daybreak whenever the waters permitted. It ia believed scores of bodies have floated on down the Arkansas and will be found buried in Kansas. The principal work of relief now la la obtaining fresh water. Warnings aw posted everywhere against drinking tha yellow ooze which comprises the Arkansas and Fountain Rivers.

Colonel Hamrock issued a military order for all able-bodied men to report to the numerous relief stations. "I have twenty thousand shovels an 4 every person who is able must get to work immediately and clear up this terrible wreckage,” Hamrock said. That such a flood was possible was greeted with laughs when the warning was sounded in the blasts of a siren whistle that could be heard for miles. Hundreds from the upper parts of the city hurried to the bridges to see the fun. The police had to use force to make many families move from “Peppersauce Bottoms.” and "The Grove.” In their i hurry, the officers did not always stop to !do more than yell to them to get out. It was meal time and several families refused to leave their homes until supper was over. The result in some cases was tragic. Other families scurried away when they found their homes lifting under them. The crowds on the bridges defied the police and one bridge went out with nearly two-score Mexicans standing, looking over the rails. OTHERS GO QUIETLY ABOUT USUAL AFFAIRS. Many residents went quietly about their usual evening tasks and pleasure* until the light3 went out and then retired early. The calmness, the fidelity to accustomed ways was In reality the only way the city could display the emotion that stirred it. All night long many men and women worked, but always quietly and with a touch of ennui. They were not affecting calmness: they were merely too moved to trust themselves to give vent to their feelings. Dimly they realized that one of the most terrible floods in the history of the West, and in many ways, of the country, had suddenly selected their city as Its scene. They could not grasp it. It was unbelievable that in the torrents of water from the skies and the sticky brown river surrounding them there was no water to drink. They could not believe what they saw—great piles of lumber in a great blaze floating down the stream and setting fire to the water-soaked building, against which they lodged. BEGIN TO RECOVER FROM DAZED CONDITION. It simply could not be and so they set about doing relief work or nothing, in a dazed condition. From this they are beginning to recover. There is more of a stir among the workers than there was at the height of the flood by those who were caught In the trap of the water* and who are now, the fortunate ones, refugees. There is more of a semblance of organization, and with aid rushing from all the surrounding cities and towns, the authorities are working feverishly to restore order and a normal tranquility. The women, who have worked witk ceaseless energy through the entire tfff moil, are beginning to display an excitement born of the realization of what hflft happened. The bankers and other bust* ness men are beginning to consider wligit Is to be done and the swarms of volunteer and police patrols are now giving actual relief. There is awakening some of the normal energy and enthusiasm of the city. ESTI3IATES OF DEAD FROM 100 to 1,000. The estimates of the number of dead vary from less than 100 to mor* than 1,000 and the evidences for one set of figures is as good as the other. Tha rush of water carried everything before it and any person who was caught was swept down stream for many miles- In some eases and may never be seen again, even as a skeleton, unless in some distant era when archeologists find heir bones. It is impossible to count -he number of persons who are relying on the Red Crons, the Elks Club, the Y. M. C. A., the Salvation Army, the Knights of Columbus and like organizations for their food and shelter. The schools, churches, the courthouse and other public buildings (Continued on Page Twfc) J