Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1921 — Page 1

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INDICT WOMEN IN DEATH PLOT TO SLAY OHIOAN Grandmother, Daughter and Grand-daugliter Held for First Degree Murder. SILENT FOR TWO YEARS CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 7—Mrs. Mary Brickel, 69, mother of Mrs. reiva Catherine Kaber, pleaded not guilty before Judge Bernon here today to the charge of first degree murder on which she, Mrs. Kaber and Mrs. Kaber’s daughter, Miss Marian McArdle, were indicted in connection with the slaying, two years ago, of Mrs. Kaber’s husband, Daniel F. Kaber, a wealthy Lakewood publisher. Miss McArdle, 20, Lakewood High Sc bool graduate and Smith College student, was charged with participation in the slaying of Kaber by the county grand Jury yesterday, under direction of Edward C. Stanton, county prosecutor. Mrs. Brickel Is said to haTe made the confession that linked the girl with the tragedy. She. too. was charged by the Jury with a part in the crime. "Mrs. Kaber, my daughter, told me ahe wished to see me, to come to her house and do some "dirty work.' She said, "1 m going to have Dan killed."" That was the indictment of her daughter that came from the lips of Mrs. Brickel, as ahe told her story to the Jury Mrs. Daniel Kaber. 50, under arrest In New York, already has been Indicted In the first degree for the slaying of her husband. , Marian was arrested in New York when she went to see her mother at a police court. Mrs. Brickel sat in Prosecutor Stantons office while Indictments were being made ready and soon after was arrested. STOOD TOGETHER FOB TWO TEAKS. For two years the three women have stood together In common defense —each professing the innocence of herself and *he others. It was the aged grandwho broke. While she was revealing to Prosecutor Stanton here what •he says were carefully laid plans for the murder. Mrs. Kaber and the girl in Xew York were repeating their protestations of innocence, with the declaration that the arrest of Mrs. Kaber would prove to be “a mistake. In her confession, said to have been made first Sunday night, to Prosecutor Stanton and Tollce Chief Christensen at Lakewood Police Station. Mrs Beikel said her daughter. Mrs. Kaber. told her she Intended to slay her husband. She admitted, also, the prosecutor says, that the Kaber home on I.ake avenue, where the murder was committed, had been ransacked purposely by Miss McArdle as a ruse to lead police to believe the murder was done by burglars. Extradition papers for both Mias McArdie and Mrs. Kaber were taken to New York today by Police Chief Christensen. After making her alleged confession at Lakewood police headquarters Sunday night Mrs. Brickel returned home, and two police officers were placed on guard there Early Monday morning her other daughter, Mrs. Harry J. McGinness,, of kthls city, talked to her mother. ■FIKST DENTES HER "r.ARI.IER CONFESSION. A short time later Mrs. Brickel, in custody of two officers, was taken to Prosecutor Stanton’s office. There she denied every statement credited to her In the alleged confession. She denied that Mrs. Kaber had come to her and had vowed she intended to have her husband killed, and that she had asked her (Mrs. Brickel) to come over and “do some dirty work.” But finally she yielded under the prosecutor's questions and is said to have admitted that her earlier confession was true. In her alleged confession Mrs. Brickel •said that Marian McArdle knew the murder was being planned at least three days before the killing took place. Questioned concerning the disappearance of Kaber's diamond ring, the aged woman declared Mrs. Kaber told her she took it from his finger while he lay helpless in his bed before the murder. As the two indictments were being voted here Mrs. Kaber, pale and worn from two nights In a Harlem prison, still protested her Innocence and again declared she would waive extradition. She declared she was “gratified that it was all over. I have nothing to fear,” she insisted. “When the time comes I shall be cleared of this horrible charge." Since her irrest In the home of Verona Smith, late Saturday night, Mrs. Kaber has wept almost constantly. Confronted In New York with het grandmother's alleged confession. Marian McArdle named a fourth woman who, she said, talked over the murder with her mother before the crime was committed. This woman, according to Prosecutor Stanton's Information from New York, hired the actual slayers for Mrs. Kaber Mrs. Brickel also named the fourth woman. AIDED MOTHER TO FAKE BURGLARY, SAYS GIRL NEW YORK, June 7.—Qllsa Marian McArdle. who with her mother and grandmother, have been indicted for the murder of her step-father in Cleveland, was alleged to have admitted after three hours' questioning that she was compelled by her mother to rearrange the furniture in their Cleveland home “to make it look like burglars had ransacked it." According to Police Captain Arthur Carey, who with other policemeih-condueted the questioning, the young girl wept continuously and repeatedly cried: "For God's sake, please don't make toe testify against my mother." Three times she broke down and the questioning bad to be postponed. Once she fainted and a matron was called to revive her. Afterward she was taken to the Tombs' Police Court where she will probably be held for extradition to Cleveland with her mother who also Is in Jail here.

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Forecast for Indianapolis and rlclnltv for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., June 8. 1921: Partly cloudy weather, with local thunder showers late tonight r&r Wednesday. Somewhat warmer tonight. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. ft a. m 60 7 a. m .. 64 8 a. m 68 8 a. m 74 , 10 a. m 77 It a. tn 78 12 (noon) t 78 1 p. m S3 2 p. m 84

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Man Who Went ‘Through ’Frisco Quake and Mine Blast’ Jests About Flood

PUEBLO, Colo., June 7—Blind Harry Wade, on a cot In the Emergency Hospital at the courthouse here, today Jested about his narrow escape from drowning In the flood. “I was through the 'Frisco earthquake, lost both my eyes in a mine explosion seven years ago, and got a .game leg,” said Harry, a young-spirited, gnarled giant of 53. His face Is leather-skinned from the world's hard knocks In a varied career of miner, farmer and globe-trotter. "I lived at 328 North Union avenue," continued Harry. “Doris Keaber kept the rooming house there. She was saved, I hear, but how gets me. She screamed something frightful when the house caved in on us.” Harry has not been told that the body of his landlady lies in a local morgue. “I’m bruised black and blue, and skinned on my arms and legs whore planks and other things hit me,” Harry continued, “but I guess It simply wasn’t my turn to cash In. TV HOLE BUILDING FELL IN ON THEM. “I’d heard that the river was rising, but didn't think our place was In danger until the Paris restaurant block next door started to cave In. I went Into Doris' room and told her we'd better beat it. The rear porch had gone down when the Paris collapsed. “Just then the whole building seemed to fall on us. We were on the second or top floor. “ ‘We're gone,’ I yelled to Doris. “1 was caught under a mass of stuff. I felt around and recognized pieces of

SWAILS LOSES IN RULING OF STATE BOARD Confirms ‘Election’ of Devericksand Decrees Incumbent Is Disqualified. Although two men are claiming election as superintendent of the Marion County schools as a result of the meeting of the county board of education yesterday, tbe State board of education has recognized the selection of Robert Deverlcks and has ruled that the other claimant, Lee E. Swalls, present superintendent, Is disqualified for the position. This action on the part of the office of the State superintendent of public Instruction gives Dr. Deverlcks, who is head of the manuscript division of the State superintendent’s office, a lead in the legal battle that is expected to result from the election yesterday. I.EO K. FKSI.KR CAST DECIDING VOTE. In the fight over the superintendency the board of eonnty commissioners abolished Pike Township and Included its area in Wayne Township In order to prevent Clements Purdy, trustee of Pike Township, from casting his vote for Mr. Swalls. The vote without the Pike Township trustee stood four for Mr. Swalls and four for Mr. Deverlcks. Leo K. Fesler, county auditor, then cast the deciding vote for Deverlcks. The State board of education held that Swalls did not receive a majority of the votes, and added that he was not quali fied for the place, because in his last examination, he failed to qualify for a three-year license, which Is necessary before a person is eligible to the county Superintendency. SWAILS SAYS HE WILL HOLD OFFICE. Mr. Swalls announced today he would continue In office after his present term expires, Aug. 16, this year, proceeding under the theory that the action of the county board of education in abolishing Pike Township was illegal and fraudulent. Mr. Swalls is backed In his intentions by Emsley W. Johnson, attorney for Mr. Purdy. Mr. Johnson Is preparing for a legal battle to show that the action of the commissioners In abolishing Pike Township was fraudulent. Residents of Pike Township also are incensed at the action of the commissioners in abolishing their township. They held a meeting at New Augusta Monday afternoon, protesting against the action, (Continued on Page Two.)

SHERIFF SEIZES HIS FIRST AUTO Alleged Beech Grove Men Used It in Carrying Liquor. Sheriff George Snider today seized for the first time under the new State law an automobile in which it was alleged, intoxicating liquor was being carried. The car taken in custody by tbe sheriff was in the possession of Thomas Turner, who was bound over to the grand jury with his father, James Turner, by a justice of the peace at Beech Grove. The Turners' had a preliminary hearing on a charge of violating the State prohibition law yesterday following the discovery of an aUeged still on the Turner farm by the sheriff. Gregory & Appel filed bond for the safety of the car because the firm contended that Turner was paying for the machine on installments.

Jitney Bus Decision Holds Back Report Subcommittees of the advisory board of the Democratic city committee were not ready to report at the weekly luncheon held at the Indiana Democratic committee today Since the public service commission launched a movement to drive Jitney buses out of business, with a consequent uproar from many citizens who have grown to like this mode of travel some Democratic leaders believe the party shoul come out on the side of the buses in the platform. Others believe the subject should be ignored. American Rail Man in Mexico Wounded GUADALAJARA, Mexico, June 7.—J. H Hunken. one of the widely knpwn American railroad men in Mexico, was shot and probably mortally wounded by a maniafe today at Irapunto, according to advices from that city, lie was superintendent of the Durango divlgion of the Mexican Central Railroad. He was attacked by an Insane man interned in a private car, according ,to meager information here and in the battle which followed waa shot twice thrcugh the head. i

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the roof, a stove, the ceiling and wall partition. “The water was flushing around me. I was down on the street level under the wreckage. “I could move a little, the timbers apparently protected me from the stuff piled up. “I felt around my head, thinking, ‘Old timer, you’ll be lucky to get out of this.' TOO BUSY THINKING TO CALL FOB HELP. “I couldn't get far beyond where my head lay. I next fell to one side of the stove. There was 'an opening and I crawled along. I climbed down over wreckage until I struck the full force of the flood in the street. "I never called for help. It -didn't occur to me Just then, I was so busy thinking what a fix I was in. I was standing in three feet of water and was getting hit every second by something. “I kept going up town. I know the district perfectly. A block down 1 heard some men yelling at me to come toward them. I had been knocked down a dozen times. When 1 heard them yelling I began to think of getting help. “When bowled over another time I was almost too weak to get up. I rolled over and over with the flood, getting half way up and then going down again. “Then I yelled for help. I hollered I couldn't make It to the corner where stood several men whose voices I recognized. "One of the boys, a mailman—l don’t know his name—waded in and grabbed me. And here I am. I’m glad Doris Is saved.”

PEGGY SPRINGS LITTLE EXPOSE OF OWN MAKING She Says Millionaire Hubby, Trying to Free Himself, Also Has ‘Secrets.’ CHICAGO, June 7.—Feggy Hopkins Joyce, the twentieth century “Cinderella," today bared a hidden chapter In the life of Janies Stanley Joyce in a sensational reply she filed to his answer of her SIO,OOO monthly alimony petition. v She charged Joyce with confessing the maintenance of a “mistress" prior to their marriage, and slurs his war record. She further denied being guilty of intimacy with the I'rirfce do l’leury of Albania, the Due de Unreal of Paris or with Joe Paul, the New York restauer. Peggy's wrath was aroused, she said, by Joyce’s statement that he was an unsophisticated youth when he met her and that he was seduced into marriage by her feminine wiles. “He was nqt the possessor of this certificate of character which he had issued to himself," her reply read. “While in Miami. 11a., and after h!a marriage he told his wife that Charlotte Johnson had been his mistress, but that after meeting your petitioner (Peggy) he had paid Charlotte Johnson a sum of money and had gotten rid of her," read her startling statement. “He said he un(Uontinned on Page Two.)

ELECT HINES NORMAL PREXY Dr. W. W. Parsons, Connected With State Institution Half Century, Resigns. Special to The Times. TERRE HAUTE, Ind . June 7—L. X Illnes, State superintendent of Indiana public schools, was elected president of the Indiana State Normal School, to succeed Dr. W. TV. Parsons, who tendered his resignation to the board of trusters at the regular meeting here today. Dr. Parsons has been connected with the Indiana State Normal School since 1870, more than fifty years, at which time he entered the school ns a student. He has been president of the institution since 1885. He first, entered the school as a student, was a member of the first class, numbering eighteen or twenty, when the faculty was composed of only three members—lhe president and two professors. In ISBS. when Dr. Parsons was elected president, the school had grown considerably. the faculty at that time numbering eighteen. The school was progressing well, when In 1888, the building was destroyed by fire. Undaunted by this calamity, Dr. Par sons went to work at once to secure appropriations for anew -structure, which was erected In the following year. Since that time many new buildings have been added and for many years the institution has been a fully equipped teacher-train-ing school, Including high school, science and Industrial arts. Dr. Parsons has not limited his efforts to the school exclusively, but has been a factor In many Terre Haute institutions, serving on Various boards and committees. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and an enthusiastic booster for big native city.

Kenosha Shaken by Earth Disturbances KENOSHA, Wls., June 7.—Kenosha was severely shaken at noon today by a series of earth disturbances. Six shocks were felt about 11:43 a. m, followed by,six more at noon. People rushed Into the streets from homes stores and buildings, while windows and doors were rattled. No serious damage was caused iu the downtown district. The cause of the disturbances was unknown. It was though they might have been caused by explosions at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station or Ft. Sheridan. Anti-Fire Crusaders Inspect 984 Homes City firemen acting as fire prevention inspector looked into 5)84 homes In the First ward In the first day of the crusade to search out fire hazards yesterday, the city fire prevention bureau reported today. There are twenty-three uniformed men covering the ward. The work will be finished today. They move to the Ninth ward Wednesday and Thursday and the Tenth ward Friday and Saturday. The Inspectors found 746 places in the First ward that had been cleaned up so as to merit O. K. slips. Orders to clean up were Issued to 238 places. Unless these premises are put in satisfactory order in thirty days prosecution will be resorted to, the Citizens iFr*> Prevention Commute has threatened.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1921.

June Loses Favor as Bride's Month; Divorcees Take It NEW YORK, June 7.—Tho Jnne bride Is becoming extinct, according to telegraphic advices received here today. Retrogression of the same rate as the first five days in June as shown by the New Y'ork marriage license bureau would mean the complete disappearance of the species in ten years. June divorces are increasing. Statistics from sections of the country told practically the same story—a decrease in the number who whisper their vows In rose bowers, an increase of those who take their oaths in court. Marriage license clerks haTe fonnd a number of reasons for the decline in June business. Summarized, they are: Lack of reverence for the superstition that June is the real marriage month. Increasing business Independence of women. Unemployment.

JUDGE CREATES NEW OFFICIAL; NAMES DUTIES Collins Ignores Law by Transferring Authority of County Clerk to Appointee. By a court order. Judge James A. Collins of the Marion County Criminal Court today delegated, to William Kaiser, newly appointed chief clerk, the duty of keeping and supervising “all of the recordsh,kept In tois court" which tho statutes expressely ptovide should remain In the custody of the Marion County clerk. Judge Collins in virtually wiping out the duties as prescribed by law for the county clerk. Issued a lengthy order defining the powers of (he newly appointed chief clerk. ACTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH 1921 ACT. The court elevated Kaiser, who has been the deputy of the county qlerk for six years in the Criminal Court, to the position of chief qjerk with a salary of $1,300 a year. The order presumes that the court bn) this authority by an act of the 1921 Legislature. which is as follows: "* * * '-'hut the Judge of tne Circuit Court and the judge of the Criminal Court, respectively. In counties having a population of 300,000 or more, according to tbe last preceding United States census, may appoint In each of said courts, a chief clerk whose salary shall be fixed by said Judge and which salary shall not be in excess of $1,500 per apnnm, the same to be paid out of the county treasury." TOLLIN'B DELEGATES POWERS {IN CLERK. The Legislators did not define tho duties of the chief clerk nor did It provide that any of the pow rs delegated to the county clerk, should be taken away from tVint official. Judge Collins In his order delegated the following powers on the new chief clerk : “ —to have supervision of all of the records kept In this court. " —be shall have full and complete charge of the order books and make all the entries therein; to take the minutes of the court a proper record of the same In the clerk’s docket and In the order book; that lie shall receive all Indictments, number them and see that they are property entered In both the Judge’s docket and the clerk's docket; that ho shall receive ail recognizance bonds and see that the same are properly entered In the bond record; he shall have supervision over and see that all Judgments are entered In the Judgment record and that a proper record is kept of all persons committed to penal Institutions; It shall be his duty to see that a proper capias is Issued for each defendant against whom an Indictment Is returned; keep a record of all persons appointed ns special Judges or pro tern and he shall perform suck other duties as tho court shall designate from time to time.” Under section 1597 of Bums' Annotated rndtann Statutes, revision of 1908, the law states that “the clerk of the Circuit Court and the sheriff of tho county shall be clerk and sheriff of such criminal court, etc.” Section of No. 9415 of tho, statutes specifically prescribes the duties of the clerk (Continued on I’age Two.)

TAX A TION QUESTIONS LEAD DISCUSSIONS ON STATE AMENDMENTS

Contention on one hand that the present system of taxation in Indiana should be changed and on the other that the Legislature should not be given unlimited power over matters of taxation, marked the opening of the State conference on proposed constitutional amendments at the Claypool Hotel today. The conference was called by a number of civic organizations to discuss the thirteen proposed amendments to the constitution which will be voted on at a special eletdon Sept. 6. The taxation amamlmefnts, however, were the principal subjects of discussion. The meeting was opened with a brief address of welcome by Governor Warren T. McCray. Other speakers were Senator William E. English; Eben H. Wolcott, president of the State Savings and Trust Company; Henry Dowllag, an Indianapolis attorney; Hite Huffaker of Louisville; Thomas E. Lyons, chairman of the Wisconsin tax commission. J. A. Van Osdol of Anderson, president of the State Chamber of Commerce, presided. In opening the meeting Governor McCary spoke in favor of a change In the taxation system. “We in Indiana have long felt there should be something done about our tax laws.” he said. “We have many industries and acres of fertile land of which we are proud, but when we cotne to assess this valuable property we have a sum of 0n1y*55,800,000,000. This figure shows something is wrong with the taxation system.” GOVERNOR ASKS JPOR FAIR DISCUSSION. The Governor asked for a fair discussion of the question without thought of politics. He pointed out that while he believes a change should be made should be no radical departure' and “we must keep our feet on the ground.” Senator English rend and explained each of the amendments. Including the two taxation amendments, one of which provides that the Legislature shall establish a system of taxation and the other providing that the Assembly may levy an income tax.

COUNCIL’S RIGHT TO MONEY ALSO DEPENDS ON IF Rooker’s Version of 1920 Tax Law Powers Would Nullify $202,000 Appropriations. ONE FOR WORK AT JAIL The appropriating power of the Marion County Council virtually would be destroyed, if the contention made Saturday in the Circuit Court by Attorney W. V. Rooker that the 1920 tax law abolished the socalled general fund and established a budget system, is upheld by the court. The contention of Mr. Rooker, if confirmed, would render null and void appropriations totalling about $202,000 which wree made by the Marion County Council at a special meeting May 19, last. At this meeting the council appropriated $95,000 for improvements at the Jail and also for remodeling the abandoned power house to accommodate the women prisoners at the Jail. Part of this amount was appropriated last year, but was not spent. Under the practice of the council, the amount which was not spent reverted to the general fund and could be renppropriated this year. Under Mr. Rooker’s contention, such an act is Illegal because tho county auditor did not include the amounts in his budget for 1921 on which the tax rate is fixed and also because the 1920 tax'law abolishes the general fund, according to Mr. Hooker. FESLER' WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE. If Mr. Rooker's view of the tax law is applied to tho last appropriating act of the Marion County council, the $15,000 appropriated to Julietta is illegal and County Auditor Leo K. Fesler will act on his own responsibility In paying out any of the money so appropriated. The township trustee of Center Township made a request for a large appropriation for the care of the poor, but the council appropriated a smaller amount. At tbe meeting of the council it was contended that the fund for the care of the poor la raised by a special tax and that the council was not appropriating any money from the general fund, but was merely permitting the township trustee to have the use of funds collected under a specific tax. The council curtailed the amount by limiting the amount of money which the township trustee could expend from a specific fund. According to Mr Rooker’s interprets tlon of the law the county council has nothing to do with this fund, because it was contained In the budget under which the tax levy was made for the year that the fund was created. TAXPAYERS HAVE RIGHT TO BIKIiUT EAPENDITI REST Mr. Ropker's Uiastef Hie law actually gives the taxpayers the right to direct as well as approve of the manner In which county funds are expended. I’art of the tax law under which Mr. Rooker bases his opinion is as follows; “ • • • Tbe several tax levies shall (Continued on Page Two.)

ALLEGED SPOUSE SLAYER LANDS Woman, Charged With Murdering 4 Husbands. En Route to Idaho for Trial. PORTLAND, Ore., June 7—Tbo liner Matsonia from Hawaii, arrived at this port at 10:15 o'clock today, bringing back Mrs. Lyda Eva Southard, accused of the murder of four of her husbands. In charge of Deputy, Sheriff Ormsby ami bis wife of Twin Fails, Idaho, Mrs. Southard, after landing here this afternoon, will be hurried to Idaho for arraignment on the specific charge of having poisoned her fourth husband, Ed Meyers, prominent Twin Falls rancher. Mrs. Southard waived extradition when arrested In Hawaii and readily consented to accompany Mr. and Mrs. Ormsby back to face trial. Paul Vincent Southard, her fifth husband, a chief petty officer of the Navy, Is following on board a naval collier.

Senator English was followed by Mr. Wolcott, who spoke in favor of the proposed changes' relative to taxation. “No one is satisfied with tho present tax law unless be Is able to evade its provisions,” he said. “Therefore, the only objection to passing the proposed amendments Is the fear that a situation worse than now existing may he created. We all want a change, but no one cares to step from the frying pan into the fire. The frying pan condition is here. It is painfully apparent, and I trust to be able to show you that the fear of the fire is ill-timed and unnecessary In the light of the experience* of other States in amending that part of their constitutions relating to taxation. Some twenty-two States have already taken this step and no State has ever attempted to change back to the old condition.” SAYS GREAT FEAR •‘CONFISCATION.” Mr. Wolcott declared that the one fear seems to concern the possibility of socialistic or confiscatory legislation. He pointed out in this connection that the Legislature already has the power to ruin business if it should so desire. The speaker then went on to review taxation experience in Indiana, showing how, under the system restricted by the Constitution there has been Wholesale evasion of taxes. He then compared the condition in Indiana to conditions in other States, setting out in detail the experiences of some. He showed that in some States under the classification system the number of taxpayers had been Increased many times. “A vote favorably upon these amendments will give the State power through the Legislature to enact laws regarding taxation such ns experience, knowledge and trial have proved effective,” he suld. “The change we seek will adjust and rearrange this burden of taxation so that It will be more equitably distributed and should lighten the load upon certain classes of property now overburdened. “To lesson our taxes, we must stop spending, cut out useless and extravagant (Continued on Pago Two.)

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Riley Rivals ‘Speed King’ in Cinching City Contract Gets Ordinance for Free Employment Agency Passed Under Suspension of Rules.

Tommy Milton, king of the Bpeedway, worked no faster In winning the Decoration clay classic than did Tommy Kiley, member of the industrial board of Indiana and new head of the Indiana free employment service in getting a contract for the establishment of a free employment agency made with the board of public works and an ordinance ratifying it rushed through the city council Monday. Tommy Milton finished up his little Job In something like four and a half hours. It took Tommy Riley a trifle longer, but Tommy Riley had farther to go. To carry the analogy to the proper conclusion It might be said that the king of the brick oval had no more provocation for being highly elated over his success than did his contemporary of the political arena, for by breezing under the wire when his contract was ratified by the council under suspension of the rules Mr. Thomas A. Riley obtained the powder to hire and fire five members of the office staff of tbe employment agency and a Janitor. As further evidence of the Riley claim on the medal for fast work It may be pointed out that ratification of the contract means that in a bare two weeks he has climbed from a position on the board of public works where he was the minority member with small means of winning personal political advantage to a point where he can form a neat nucleus of a Riley organization which might some day carry him higher in State politics. Toward all of which the city cf Indianapolis Is bound by contract to pay as

PROMISES NOT TO DRIVE ANY MORE , CASE CONTINUED Ralph C. Dodd, 2011 A’. Delaware, Up for Numerous Traffic Violations. Charges of assault and battery, driving on the left side of the street, and falling to stop after sn accident against Ralph C. Dodd, 2011 North Delaware street, were continued Indefinitely by Judge Walter Pritchard in city court yesterday afternoon on Dodd's promise that be would quit driving an automobile. Dodd has been arrested numerous times within the last Yew weeks for violation of the traffic laws. He was fined $lO and costs In Greenfield recently and he was sentenced to three days in Jail here on a charge of indirect contempt of court when he failed to report In city court on three traffic law violations. Dodd was arrested last Friday night by Motorpollcemen Hague and Heller, following an accident at Seventeenth and Meridian streets, where his machine struck one driven by Edward L. Etter, 1810 South Talbot avenue. The police say Dodd was driving on the left side of the street, and that he disappeared after the collision. John Richey. 836 Park avenue, was fined sio and costs on a charge of violating the muffler law by Judge Pritchard. Charges of speeding against him were continued indefinitely. Joe Osborn, negro. 809. Paca street, and Charles Merlnnos 470 West Michigan street, each were fined $1 and costs on a similar charge. Robert Lockrldge, 1409 North Tennsyl- j vnnln street, was fined sls and costs on a charge of speeding. Motorcycle Officer Halstead made the arrests.

STEEL AT LOW EBB’-SCHWAB Bethlehem Chief Optimistic, However, on Future in South Bend Talk. Special to The Times. SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 7.—After stating that the steel Industry was in the worst slump it had been in forty years. Charles M. Schwab, president of •the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, voiced an optimistic prediction for the future at a dinner given In honor of A. R. Ersklne, president of the Studebaker Corporation here lust night. "The present industrial depression," Mr. Schwab said, “is the best thing that has ever happened to the United States. It has ended a long period of manufacturing without considering costs. “We* must build a now Industrial fabric anil that fabric must be built up on a basis of economy. Germany is organized industrially and never before have German workmen been so willing as they are now to give a full day's work for a full day's pay. “Capital and labor must work hand In hand as It has never done before and this will result In a greater prosperity than we have ever had before." Governor Warren T. McCray spoke briefly, paying a tribute to Mr. Erskine. The Governor also stated his dally prayer was that God would give him the strength and courage to put the government of Indiana on a busii.ess efficiency basis. Bishop John Ilazen White presided as toastmaster.

THINGS BOOMING AT SHANK CLUB Mayoralty Nominee Opens Downtown Quarters. With Dr. E. E. Eodgln, choice of Samuel Lewis Shank, Republican candidate for mayor, for city chairman to replace Irving W. Lemaux, whoso resignation Mr. Shank has demanded, in active charge, headquarters of the Sbank-for-Mayor Club were opened in Rooms 223225 Indiana Trust Building today. Political workers by the dozens were in and out at all hours. Activities of the Shnnk-for-Mayor Club are to be conducted along the same lines ns was the Harding Club during the national campaign. The club is to be continued regardless of whether Mr. Lemaux resigns and a Shank chairman is elected in his place. , according to Taylor E. Gronninger, one of the Shank managers. Likewise, the regular Republican organization of ward and precinct committeemen will be invited to come to the club headquarters and work in conjunction with it for the success of the Republican ticket, regardless of whom the regular city chairman is. With an initial membership of 25.600, carried over from the primary campaign the shank-for-Mayor Club is expected to become one of the strongest political bodies the city ever has had. /Elffe headquarters had not been open jth hour before men of all parties were /oming In to make application 1 for mem/ership.

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high as SB,OOO a year and the State of Indiana a similar sum. Lap by lap the history of Mr. Riley’s feat is as follows: 10 a. m. Monday, Mr. Riley appears at the city hall and is seen In the board of public works office. 10:30 a. m., Mr. Riley is in conference with Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby. Says that he is interested In seeing a free employment agency opened In Indianapolis because of the large number of men out of work. 11 a. m., or thereabouts, confers with the board of public works and Mr. Ashby in the board’s private office behind closed doors. 8 p. m., the employment director shakes hands with councilmen in tho city council chamber. 8:15 p. m., the ordinance ratifying tile contract and appropriating $2,500 as tbe city’s shore of the expense of carrying on the employment bureau for the remainder of 1921 Is discovered on the city clerk's table. The , contract comes to light for the first time. 9:13 p. m., ordinance is introduced. 9:30 p. m., ordinance is read a second time, rules suspended on motion of Councilman Lee J. Kirsch, and unanimously passed. 9:32 p. m., congratulations are extended Mr. Kiley and homage paid to him as the new wizard. Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby, who tried three months to get the coun(Contlnued on I’age Two.)

DECKER’S CHUM TELLS OF TALK DAY OF MURDER Says He Saw Virgil at Atwood Postoffice in Muddy Clothes. Special to The Times. WARSAW, Ind.. June 7.—Harry Sutherland, a bosom friend of Virgil Decker, aided the State in weaving its web of circumstantial evidence around young Decker in the Insurance murder trial here today. The two boys ran around the countryside together before Virgil was IndictecY for the murder of Leroy Lovett, their mutual friend. Sutherland told the Jury he saw Virgil at the Atwood postofflce on the day Lovett met bis death. It was an odd place for the youth to be at the time or the day, he said, and his clothes were greasy and muddy. - “ 'What's the matter with you,' 1 asked him," Sutherland testified. “Virgil said: T don't give a damn what happens to me.' ” EFFORT TO IMPLICATE DECKERS IN PLOT. Other questions were put to Sutherland by State attorneys in their efforts to implicate Decker and his mother and two brothers in a plot to identify Lovett's body as that of Virgil, and collect $24,000 life Insurance which Virgil, a S4O a month farm hand, carried on himself. Richard Funk, a fisherman, testified he was going down the Tippecanoe River In a boat and as he passed “the murder cabin" on the rear of tbe Fred Decker farm, he saw Virgil running at top speed from the home of his brother toward the cabin. Virgil circled the cabin once, he said, and then when he saw Funk In the middle of the river he sat down on a stump. As Funk passed on his way, Virgil followed him for nearly half a mile, the fisherman said.

DOCTOR WHO ATTENDED LOVETT TESTIFIES. Dr. George L. Marshall, who cared for Lovett when he was found dying on the Pennsylvania right-of-way at Atwood, was called as a witness for the State. He said he found that Lovett's skull had been fractured by a blunt instrument and that his jaw had been broken. The body was rushed to a hospital under his care, he said, and an operation was started In an effort to save his He. At that time, the impression prevailed, he said, that the body was that of Virgil Decker. Fred Decker brother of Virgil entered the operating room and watched the operation without emotion, the physician said. John Harmon, who has known the Deckers forty years, told of their life in the neighborhood. He was summoned for Jury duty, but was excused when he told the court he was well acquainted with the defendants. Defense attorneys declared then they would want him as a witness, but the State sprung another surprise by calling him for testimony against the^Deckers. LISTENED IN ON TELEPHONE. Another of Virgil's sweethearts entered Into the case when Gladys De Ford, a farmer girl, came in to testify regarding some conversation she overheard on a telephone between Virgil and Miss Violet Barth. Miss De Ford picked up the receiver on a party line and said she heard Virgil make an engagement to meet Miss Barth at the end of the Barth lane on the nighttthe murder was supposed to have been committed. Men and women fought for admission to the little court room. The trial was resumed at 9 o’clock and long before 7 :HO, when the doors were opened, a crowd was standing down the court house corridor. As the doors swung open, the crowd rushed in and there was a scramble for standing room.

FORD ANNOUNCES NEW PRICE CUTS Won’t Reduce Workmen’s Pay, Statement Says. DETROIT, June 7. —The Ford Motor Company today announced another reduction in the list price of all types of Ford cars and the Ford truck, to take effect immediately. The list prices, F. O. B. Detroit, now are as follows: Touring car, $415; runabout, $370; coupe, $695; sedan, $760; chassis, $343; truck chassis, $495. A statement accompanying the reduction says: “The big reductions last fall were made in anticipation of low material costs which we are now getting the be® fit of. and this fact, together with increased manufacturing efficiency and the unprecedented demand for Ford cars, particularly during the last three months, permitting maximum production, ha*e made possible another price reduction immediately.” Wages of Ford workmen will not be reduced, the statement says.

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PLANS TO LIFT CITY’S BAN ON PUBLIC DANCE Ordinance Introduced Would Allow Pastime at Places Where Meals Are Served. BUSY COUNCIL SESSION Ten ordinances and two resolutions were introduced at the regular meeting of the city council Monday evening, one of the ordinances and one of the resolutions being passed under suspension of the rules, two being designated for action at a special meeting probably to be held later in the week and the remainder referred to committees for the regular routine. The number is unusually high. Purposes of the measures range from appropriations to the regulation o! public dances and the location of junk yards. The ordinance passed under suspension of the rulog was that appropriating $2,500 to match a like sum to be given by the State for the operation of a free employment agency in Indianapolis during the remainder of 1921 and ratifying a contract for the continued operation of such a service. The resolution upon which immediate action was taken which was introduced by Councilman Gustav G. Schmidt, invites the women’s auxiliary of the American Legion to hold lts'flrgt annual convention in Indianapolis in August. PROPOSE TO AMEND DANCE ORDINANCE. Amendment of the ordinance prohibiting public dnnees and appropriation of SB,SCO to defray the expenses of the Marion County Council of the American Legion In its Fourth of July celebration at the State fair ground are provided in the measures to be included In the call for the special meeting. • For several years there has been in the municipal code an ordinance absolutely prohibiting the holding of and attendance at public dances as well as the renting or leasing of rooms or buildings for such a purpose. It never has been serionsly enforced, nlthough the police department from time to time has promulgated rules which in a way are based upon its provisions. Recently the police have been closing all publio dances, which by sufferance have been allowed to be held upon the securing of permits from the city controller at 11 o'clock. The dancing public's protest has been without result. The amendment to the ordinance was Introduced by President Russell Willson to afford a measure of relief, it w-as stated by some. He would add a clause which provides that permits for public dancing without restrictions may be obtained In case the dance hall is operated |in connection with an establishment which has a public dining room or rooms where meals are served. HOT DISCUSSION ON ELECTION EXPENSE. Compensation of Maurice Tennant and Thomas D. McGee, appointive members of the city board of election commissionsrs in the recent primary election, is fixed at (Continued on Page Two.)

MANAGER PLAN UP IN 6 CITIES Anderson, Kokomo, Michigan City, Muncie, New Albany and Princeton Vote Today. Six cities in Indiana voted today on whether to adopt the commission-man-ager form of government. In nearly every case the special elections were the culmination of bitter fights, in which bi partisan organizations were opposing other bi-partisan organizations. With the optimism of political campaign managers each of the opposing sides claimed victory, as the early ballots were cast. Th places where the fate of the new government was being decided were Anderson. Kokomo, Michigan City, Muncie, New Albany and Princeton. Marion rejected tho plan a week ago today 5,745 to 1,552. Last Saturday it was defeated at Connersvllle, 3,635 to 482. Special to The Times. MUNCIE, Ind., June 7.—Despite predictions that a light vote would be cast hero today, indications are that a total of ten thousand will be marked at the polls to decide whether Muncie is to adopt the new city manager form of government. Both sides had automobiles scouring the city in an effort to get out a full vote and special efforts were being made to get the factory workers to the polls. Women were active on both sides. Advocates for the city management plan are predicting a victory by a small majority while those against the proposed change declare they will carry the election by a vote of 3 to 1. PRINCETON, Ind., June 7.—With both sides predicting victory, Princeton went to the polls today to vote on the question, of adopting city manager government. Indications were that a two-thirds vote would be cast. KOKOMO, Ind., June 7.—The city manager form of government was the subject of a special election here today. The early vote indicated light balloting. MICHIGAN CITY. Ind . June 7—Voters of Michigan City went to the polls today to decide whether this city shall adopt the city manager form of government. ANDERSON. Ind., June 7—A bitter fight over whether Anderson shall adopt the city manager form of government culminated today in a special election on the question.

GOV’T THREATENS TO MINE COAL Fall Promises Drastic Action to Cut Prices. WASHINGTON, June 7.—Sharp warding that the Government may enter the coal business in order to reduce prices was given to coal operators here today by Secretary of the Interior Fall. The warning came at a conference between Secretary Fall, Secretary of Commerce Hoover and representatives of the anthracite and bituminous coal industry and after the coal operators had voiced their opposition to proposed legislation which would make It Incumbent upon them to furnish the Government with statistics showing production and costa.