Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Shc;vers tonight and Thursday. Somewhat warmer tonight.

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ATTORNEYSTRY TO IMPLICATE 3 DECKER BOYS State Deals With Final Scenes of Tragedy in Closing Case. NEIGHBORS ON STAND Special to The Times. WARSAW, Ind., June B.—Drawing its evidence to a close in the insurance mur- | der trial, the State dealt largely today i with the final scenes of the tragedy in which Leroy Lovett met his death. The evidence was intended to prove be- j yond doubt that Fred and Calvin Decker were Involved in the crime along with Virgil, their 18-year-old brother who is now standing trial. The State has spent nearly all Its time trying to show the jury that a conspiracy existeu between the three brothers and their mother to collect 124.000 life insurance by falsely identifying the body. William Guy, a neighbor of Fred Decker, who first notified Fred that a young man's body, presumably Virgil s, had been found by the Pennsylvania track at Atwood, testified. Fred acted queerly then, Gny said. FRED DECKER ms QUESTION'S. “When I told him of what we thought was Virgil's death, Fred's first remarks were, 'Will Virgil ever recover? Will he ever be able to talk agaiu?'” Guy testified. “Fred went to the hospital to see the body, but be didn’t even stop in the room where it was. He just took one short look and walked from the room. “That night I went home with him and his first Inquiry on reaching his home was about an incubator. We went to the barn then and found his horse with full harness on." A buggy without a horse hitched to it was struck by a Pennsylvania train and led to the discovery of Lovett's body. The buggy was said to have been placed across the track and the body laid nearby to give the death the aspect of an ac- I cldent. WITNESS TELLS OF IISIT TO DECKER FARM. John Norris, who lives a quarter of a mile from Fred Decker's farm, told about 1 gaing to the Decker farm the next morning after Fred and Calvin and their 1 mother had Identified the body as that of Virgil. “I asked how badly Virgil was cut j np,” Norri3 said, "and Fred replied "His ; head was crushed, his teeth were knocked out, his back was broken and his clothes , were wet and he was dirty as a hog.' ” George Guard, the grave digger of Etna Green,,testified regarding the overtures Calvin and Fred made to him for funeral arrangements. , “Cal told me the funeral would be at 10 o'clock Monday,” Guard said, “but Sunday evening, Cal and Fred told me It had been put off.” Lovett was killed on Saturday. A blood-stained horse-blanket was brought Into court as evidence in the insurance murder trial. It was the blanked -••DomalfT Burt, a neighbor boy, found In a decaying stump near “the murder cabin” on the Tippecanoe River back of Fred Decker's farm shortly after Leroy Lovett was slain. Prosecuting attorneys tried to prove Lovett was wrapped in the blanket after his skull had been crushed with an iron bar. The State probably will close Us evidence late today or early tomorrow. The defense has retained many of the State witnesses Including Sam Decker, uncle of Virgil, who told about surrendering his nephew to police after the newspapers at his home in Marlon proclaimed the “murder of Virgil Decker.” SOUTH’S FOWER CUT BY G. 0. P. Committee Approves Decreasing Number of Delegates in Conventions. WASHINGTON, June B.—Over the strenuous and eloquent protests from southern members, the Republican National Committee today adopted a resolution changing the basis of representation in national nominating conventions for the States of the ' so-called “Solid South.” The power which southern delegates have been able In the past to exert in national conventions Is cut down through diminishing the number of delegates allotted to them. Under the plan for realignment of the representation at national conventions the Southern States will lose twenty-three delegates and Northern States will gain. The new plan, framed by a subcommittee authorised by the Chicago convention, makes total delegates 1,037 of which the South will have 144. John T. Abrams of lowa was elected chairman of the committee and Ralph Williams of Oregon was made vice chairmen. Postmaster General Will IT. Hays, the field marshal of the 11120 campaign, presented his resignation as national chairman soon after the committee met and the election of Adams was accepted forthwith as a matter of course and without opposition. Head Waiter, Slayer of Negro, Bound Over Nicholas Rice, negro, 1015 North West street, who, until May SO, when he was arrested on a charge of murder, was head waiter at the Hotel Severln, waived preliminary hearing in city court through his attorneys today and was bound over to the grand Jury by Judge Walter Pritchard. Rice will be held in the Marion County Jail until his case is called in Crimnal Court. Bond was denied by 'he city judge. Rice, tt is charged, shot and killed Lucius Jones, a negro waiter in the kitchen of the hotel. BIG DRAINAGE BILL. SOUTH BEND. Ind., June B.—The owners of 4.000 parcels of land In St. Joseph County will have to pay $70,146 as their share of the cost of the Dixon W. Place drainage project, which calls for reclamation of the Kankakee basin. The total cost of the drain is $426.00, to be borne by seven counties in this section. WEATHER . ast for Indianapolis and vicinity twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.. I&9QMO, 1021 : Showers tonight and Somewhat warmer tonight. KI.V TEMPERATURE. a. tu 64 a. m 63 iOnfw9 a. m 62 a. m. KfiLilMfx*. m 64 (noon) 64 p. m 66 p. Hi-........... ............. 67

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WHILE ON YOUR VACATION Don’t fail to let the Daily Times accompany you. Call Main 3500 for short term subscription rates. - At Last They Meet—Lemaux, Shank —Tonight Political Opponents Will Attend Platform Session at Marion Club. Unless one or the other changes his j mind today Samuel Lewis Shank. Uepub- j liean candidate for mayor, and Irving W. ! I.emanx. Republican city chairman, whose j resignation Mr. Shank has demanded, will meet tonight at last. Both intend to go to the meeting of Republican city candidates with the Re- ! publican city platform committee at the Marion Club. Mr. Shank goes as one of the candidates. Mr. Lemaux goes as a guest, Invited by Walter W. Wise, chairman of the candidates’ organization, without objection from Mr. Shank. Mr. Lemaux a few weeks ago refused to accept an invitation of the candidates to meet with them at Mr. Shank's home. The two never have met. Actions of both the candidate and the chairman were to be carefully watched by other politicians tonight. The NewsJewett wing of the party, which the Shank faction Is kicking out of control, was particularly anxious that something happen which would help Mr. Lemaux retain his position as chairman. The Shank people, however, were pointing out that Mr. Lemaux’s position was not at all enviable in that he comes to the meeting not as a participant but as a mere onlooker. This Is the position In which the ShaDk forces intend to hold him in case he stands upon his refusal to resign. General discussion of the platform will be the chief business at the meeting. Five people will be chosen from the thirty-five men and women on the general platform committee, to draft the document. It Is not expected that it will be finally prepared for several weeks. On the ground that he is opposed to Mr. Shank's election, Charles J. Lynn, 3819 Washington boulevard, refused to accept Mr. Wise’s Invitation that he become a member of the platform committee. Mr. Lynnn said he is going to vote for B. M. Ralston, the Democratic candidate. Organization of a Shank machine to function for the candidate In the November election in case the regular city organization remains with the NewJewett city chairman at its head or f> work with the organization In case it in purged of New-Jewett influence sufficiently to assure Mr. Shank that It s leaders are not working for the elec tlon of his opponent, was well under waj today. The center of activity was at the Shank for Mayor Club, opened st 223225 Indiana Trust building. Tuesday. Shank leaders expressed surprise at the interest shown this early In the campaign. They were particularly en couraged, they said, by the number of Democrats who are making application for membership in the club. Among those who came to the headquarters on the opening day were Robert K. Sloan and James Quear, both prominent south i side Democrats. It was stated by Shank manager that Quear predicted that eight of every ten Democrats on the south side will vote for Mr. Shank. SAY ANDERSON TO BE BOOSTED Reports State He Wouid Follow Baker, Who May Go to High Court. CHICAGO, June 8. —Reports were current here today that Judge Francis E Baker, presiding judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, will be elevated to the United States Supreme Coutt by President Harding to fill the late Chief Justice White's vacancy. The reports state President Harding had had Judge Baker under consideration for some time. Judge A. B. Anderson. Indianapolis, It was added, will be named to succeed Judge Baker on the Court of Appeals. Judge Baker's home is in Goshen. Newberry’s Brother Slated to Testify i WASHINGTON, June B.—John S. New- : berry, Detroit, brother of Senator TruI man Newberry, and manager of his eatn- ; paign against Henry Ford in 1018 for the Senate, was scheduled to take the i stand today at the opening of the Senate Elections Committee in continuation |of Its inquiry into the election. Frank W. Blair, Paul King, Ilenry Joy and I others who assisted in Newberry's eam- ; paign. also have been summoned to tesi tlfy today.

Drama of Primrose Path Opens as Mrs. Orthwein Trial Starts Under Way

CHICAGO, June B.—Chicago’s "empty pockets" tragedy was aired in court today. Mrs. Cora Orthwein, who h; s sold her luxurious apartment to secuie funds to fight for freedom, went ot; trial for murder. She is charged with slaying Herbert P. Zeigler, $25.000-a-year Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company executive, who had only a few dollars at the time of his death. Zeigler's wife has sciught employment to keep her 17-year-old daughter In , school. As the trial started Lloyd Heth, assistant prosecutor, threatened to give pitlPss publicity to men and women high in \ Chicago financial and social life, if they refused to testify for the State. Heth intimated he would bare the early morning capers of the Orthwein -Zeigler ! clique. Most of the witnesses, most of them “holdouts,” notified Heth shortly afterwards that they were ready to appear for the State. Heth’s witnesses appear Ule a cast of characters torn from s summer fiction number.

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SAYS AMERICA SHOULD BECOME WORLD MODEL Harding Tells Graduates Their Diplomas Are Service Commissions. TALKS AT AMERICAN L. WASHINGTON, June B.—America should be a model for the nations of the world. President Harding told graduating students at American University here todt.y. The President urged the thousands who are graduated from colleges this month to realize the obligation of service placed upon them and to regard their diplomas not as certificates entitling them to special favors, but as commissions of service. He admonished them to accept their full share of civic responsibility in order that the Nation may live up to its high ideals. “Hold true to those ideals which your own country and its institutions represent," the President said. “We Americans will best help mankind at large if we most earnestly sustain men immediately about us. Let us make our America the best place on earth in which men and women may dwell. Let us make It an example ot all others, an inspiration and a model. DIPLOMA NOT A SPECIAL SERVICE PERMIT. “I would feel that I had performed well the part that has providentially fallen to me if I could impress upon every one who goes out this year with a diploma the thought that it it' not a certificate of right to special favor and profit in the world, but rather a commission of service,” Harding said. “Men immediately about you will need the best you can give them. You of the next generation of leadership will live in a time of readjustment and reorgaul zation. Much that has been esteemed elemental has been swept aside. Almost nothing remains that we may safely think as sacred, as secure from the attacks of the iconoclasts. “Nothing remains with us that Is not queried. Therefore we need, for the leadership of the coming generation, an open minded willingness to recognize <Continued on Page ’teven.) ‘POSTPONED’ IS WORKS BOARD’S FAVORITE MOVE Several Matters Brought Up Are Held Over for In .estimation. Final action on two Important street projects were postponed until nex* Wednesday by the board of public works today afer property owners and business men asked that the pavements he laid In a manner different from that originally proposed. Large delegations were present on these and other matters. Including a number of citizens who presented a petition with approximately five hundred signatures asking for the elevation of the Belt Railroad at Tenth and Sixteenth streets. Tho resolution for the widening and tesurfacing of Ohio street from Delaware to Alabama streets, which has been a bnn of contention beforo the board for almost two years was up for confirmation. More than twenty five property owners and business men, led by Janies S. Cruga, real estate man, appeared to say they were in, favor of widening and resurfacing but they thought space ; should be left in the center of the street for car tracks, which tho board many I months ago ordered the Indianapolis I Street Railway Company to extend there. AUTO PARKING jSPACE FAVORED. They favored either leaving the space, ( and gTa veiling It so ns to make tt suitable for a parking place for automobiles, ior deferring action on the resolution j until it is definitely decided whether the city is going to be able to force the street railway company to carry out track extension and street paving orders. Final action was postponed a week. Suggestion that it would bs cheaper to lay a surface of asphalt over the present brick pavement In Maryland street, between Illinois street and Virginia avenue than to tear up the bricks and go through the regular asphalt resurfacing process was made by ,T. S. Holliday, president of XV. J. Holliday & Cos., when the resolution for resurfacing this street j came up for confirmation. City Civil Engineer Frank C. Llngenfelter took Issue with hlrn. The board decided to take a week to Investigate. Calls on Sims to Verify Quotations WASHINGTON, June B.—Secretary Denby today cabled Rear Admiral William S. Sims to inform the Nevy Department immediately If he had been quoted correctly In an address last night before the British Speaking Union.

They nre: Violet Dockery, pretty, young and vivacious; she Is alleged to have told Mrs. Orthwein that Zeigler had been 1 dancing and kissing another woman at the cabaret party that preceded the shooting of Zeigler in Mrs. Orthwein's apartment. Mrs. Charlotte Lewinsky, beautiful and admired by many wealthy and socially prominent Chicagoans. She is the “kissing blonde” said to have danced and kissed tho ill-fated Zeigler at the cabaret party. “Handsome Jack” Barry, alleged society gambler, who is said by authorities to have had several beautiful “lures" to lead men to his gambling house. Ho was a close friend of Zeigler's. Today was given over to the selection of a Jury. , Mrs. Orthwein's defense will be that she killed Zeigler during a brainstorm and in self-defense; the State will charge that jealousy over the "kissing blonde” was the motive. Heth will not ask the extreme penalty—hanging—but will urge long imprisonment.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1921.

JUDGES MUST PROVE WORTH TO GET RAISE County Commissioners Seek Justification tor Increase Allowed by 1921 Legislature. WILL REPORT DUTIES In speaking for the members of the Marion County commissioners relative to the increase of the Marion County judges’ salaries, as provided for in an act passed by the last Legislature, Carlin Shank, president of the commissioner's court, today asked the Superior Court Judges, the Circuit Judge, the Criminal Court judge and the judge of the Probate Court to furnish written information relative to the amount of business, time spent on the bench and whether the legal business of the courts is increasing. President Shank Indicated that the commissioners favored an increase as provided by law, but before taking such action the commissioners wanted written evidence to show that the proposed increase was warranted by increase of legal business in the courts. TAXPAYERS' RESOLUTION FAVORS INCREASE. A committee composed of Elmer I}. Stevenson, president of the State Bar Association; Larz A. Whitcomb, president of the Indianapolis Bar Association, and Bernard Korbly of the State Bar Association, presented 4o the -commissioners a resolution signed by approximately 150 taxpayers of the city and county asking that the salaries of the judges be increased. The committee showed the commissioners that the increase would cost the county a total of $3,400 a year. At the present time the Circuit Court judge ts getting $3,500 from the State and $1,500 from the county, and the same applies to each of the Superior Court Judges. The judges of the Criminal and Probate Courts are receiving $5,000 each from the county and nothing from the State. Under the new law, the State agrees to pay each of the Judges, with the exception of the ju vetiile court Judge, $4,200 and the county will be asked to pay $2,800 to each of those judges, the juvenile court Judge excepted. DECLARES SALARIES ARE NOT SUFFICIENT. “The Governor signed the bill and said that the Increase was delayed Justice," Mr. Whitcomb said. “That's what the Governor said about the connty commissioners' salary increase bill, hut he didn't sign it,” said Commissioner Shank. Mr. Whitcomb pointed out that the Judges in Marion County are not receiving enough salary to compensate them for their work and that the present salary was too low for them to maintain their position in life as they should and also educate and support tbelr families. The commissioners asked that the judges appear and Judge James A Col line of the Criminal Court, Judge Harry Chamberlin of the Circuit Court, Judge Solon J. Carter of Superior Court, Room 3; Judge Arthur J. Robinson of Superior i Court Room 4, and Judge Mahlon Bash of the Probate Court appeared before the | commDslotiera. "There has been some complaint by some people that tho Judges were not al ways present to conduct business,” said Commissioner Shank. “Before increasing the salaries, the board would like to have some knowledge ns to the amount of time put In, number of cases filed and tried and the like. The commissioners have decreased tie snlary of the road men and if we Increase the salary of the judges without having something to base our opinion on, It will be said we lowered the little fellow's salary who works on the road and raised the big gun. We wnnt to know If foe Increased araonnt of work In the courts justifies the raise. 1 am sure that the commissioners feel that the Judges should get what the law allows.” Tho Judges agreed to furnish the desired Information within the next two days to the county commissioners. ACCEPTS CHAIR, SHIPPING BOARD Lasker of Chicago Is Ntw Chief—Complete Slate Announced. j WASHINGTON, June B—A D. Lasker ! has agreed to become chairman of the | Shipping Board, it was announced today. ! John Callan O'Loughlin, former :.ews- ! paper man and later official of tht New I York Export Company, will be assistant | to tho chairman of the board, Lasker announced. Other members will be Admiral Benson, present chairman; Frederick I. Thompson, of Mobile; Meyer Llssncr, of Los Angeles; T. V. O'Connor, Buffalo; ExSenator Chamberlain, of Oregon, and E. C. Plummer, of Bath, Maine. The President appointed I.asker for the full term of six years, O'Connor for five years, Chamberlain for four years, Plummer, two years; Thompson, two; Lissner ami Benson, one year, I.asker, the new chairman was closely associated with Harding during the campaign and contributed his experience ns an advertising nrfin. Before Harding’s nomination, he was a supporter of Hiram Johuron. Lasker is part owner of the Chicago Cubs. Admiral Benson vrus former chief of naval operations, tho biggest Job in the Navy. Lissner, a Los Angeles lawyer, has been active In Republican politics In California, for many years. Thompson, a Mobile, Ala., publisher, was nominated to the board of President Wilson, but was never confirmed. He is one of the Democratic nominees. Chamberlain, another Democrat, has long been a close personal friend of President Harding. Plummer for many years has been an attorney for Eastern shipping interests and Is familiar with maritime afafirs. O'Conner is president o the International Longshoremen. McCray Approves Camp Knox Plans Approval of the plans for a summer military training camp at Camp Knox, Ky., was expressed today by Governor Warren T. McCray. The Governor In a statement concerning the camp, urged Indiana men to enroll. Indiana, he said, is the only State which has hot met Its quota. The camp will start July 21, and will continue for four weeks. The Government will pay all expenses including transportation. Th ecommanding officer of the Fifth Army Corps, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, haw charge of the enrollment!.

Ships Fail in Race With Law; Immigrants Suffer / Three Nationalities Overrun Quota With New Act Only Five Days Old .

NEW YORK, June B.—Jammed in the holds of twelve ships In New York harbor today were thousands of Immigrants who must live for weeks like penned-up cattle, defenseless against threatening disease. Feeble old women from Italy, half-clad children from Czecho slovakia, refugees from hunger stricken central Europe—all ill kept and without a bath for months—are packed In ships where they must be held because of the new Immigration tangle. Commissioner Fred A. Willis has appealed to authorities In Washington for immediate assistance. He asked that Congress pass an amendment to the r.ew immigration law providing for care of these immigrants. CONGESTION COMES WHEN SHIPS LOSE RACE. The congestion has been caused by ship companies that failed in the race for New York with thousands whom they hoped to push through before the new law restricting immigration to 33 per cent of the resident population of nationalities in the United States went into effect. With the law only five days old, three nationalities already have overrun their quota. Ships continue to arrive, piling up the immigrants unable to land. Five thousand who have arrived since the law

NATION-WIDE RAIL STRIKE THREATENED Veiled Warning Made Before Railway Board by ‘Big Four’ Leaders. CHICAGO, June B.—The “big four brotherhoods today threatened the United States Railroad Labor Board with a nation-wide strike on July 1. The threat of calling a strike that would paralyze rail traffic from coast to const, was made during the second hearing on rail reductions. Open declarations of the strike threat were made by 1,. G. Sheppard, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, and by W. G. I.ee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. The threats startled the board end rail officials gathered for the hearing. “If it comes to a case where the men must assert their only weapon and stoppage of traffic results, it will be the responsibility of the railroads first and then of this board,” said Sheppard. “If placed under conditions where their sense of Justice re olta, no one can foreteil wbat Is ahead.” He declared the brotherhoods would meet In Chicago July 1 to pass upon the wage reductions. He. also declared In favor of Government control of railroads. “If 4ve receive fair treatment." he added, “we have no desire to see Government control. J appeal to this board to save the railroads from themselves and the public from catastrophe." Lee declared his brotherhood was composed of “loyal rough citizens" who were fully aware of the petiod of readjustment. "Tho question of this wage reduction goes to the men personally July 1 because I have been the goat long enough. I'd hate to predict in advance the action they will take," he concluded. KRAMER’S NOTE READY, WAITING Successor to Prohibition Commissioner Due Within 24 Hours. WASHINGTON, June B.—Prohibition Commissioner Kramer has written his resignation and his successor probably will be named within the next twentyfour hours, Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair announced today. Kramer has been ready to resign ever since the advent of the new Administration but he held his post pending tho appointment of a successor. RULES AGAINST COP’S TESTIMONY Judge Frees Three Women and Two Men. Ruling that tho police must submit evidence that they caught persons arrested In an overt act, and that, the court will not convict defendants on testimony from the police officers that woman had violated the law, resulted in Arthur .Tones, special Judge, dismissing charges against three women and two men In city court today. Stella Foltz, 410 West Court street, was charged vvilh keeping a house of ill fame; Francis Miller, 421 East New York street, and Ruth Smith, 515 North Meridian street, were charged with a statutory offense; Cleo Hinsley, 1410 Naomi street, and Clarence Barnes, 731 North King avenue, were charged with associating. The Smith woman was not in court but her attorney read a physician's statement that she was at a hospital seriously ill. All the women have been arrested before. and the police say have been con victed. Lieut. Fred Winkler and his sqund raided the house at 410 West Court street, which they testified had the reputation of being a resort, on tho Saturday night before the Speedway races. 2 CALL TO URGE APPROPRIATION Mayor Asked to Intercede for Fourth of July Fund. John E. King an dllenry E. Harry, Republican candidates for city councilman. called on Mayor Charles W. Jewett today to urge that the city appropriate $8 500 for the use of the Marion County Council of the American Legion in staging the Fourth of July celebration at the State fair ground. An ordinance providing for this is pending in the city council. The council refused to pass it under suspension of rules Monday evening. The candidates said they made their plea to the mayor as citizens interested in the Americanization movement and not as nominees.

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went into effect, have not yet been examined. Most of them will he rejected. Meanwhile, they are held on ships which they probably will not leave for weeks, until they arrive back In the port in Europe from which they embarked. A woman and two little children, eaten by ringworms, were rejected and thrown back on the ships, where they must mingle with the others, many of whom have been found diseased and mentally defective. An aged Italian woman, lugging only a bottle of water, fainted as she attempted to climb the steps to be inspected. FAVORS PENALTIES FOR STEAMSHIP COMPANIES WASHINGTON, June B.—ls additional leglslatio l is necessary to meet situations such as that created by the thousands of Italian Immigrants held in New York, Chairman Johnson, chairman of the House Immigration Committee, declared today he will introduce a bill to penalize steamship companies for bringing over more iimneigrants than the 3 per cent restriction law allows. “The present law is perfectly clear on the number of immigrants to be admitted and there is no excuse for mistakes,’ he said.

Peggy's Hubby Braves Court Under Disguise Escapes Detection When Trial Halts in Search for Him. CHICAGO, June 8— James Stanley Joyce, lumber prince, went into Judge Sabath's courtroom today in disguise to hear in public the startling revelations of pretty l’eggy Joyce's career In matrimony and millions. Joyce broke his seclusion of months to attend the hearing of Peggy's petition for $120,000 a year temporary alimony. He was under guard of a private detective. but mingled with the hundreds of curious spectators. Counsel for Peggy once halted proceedings in an effort to find Joyce among the spectators. They failed, however. Peggy. U was announced by her counsel, will not appear in court until the actual trial of her divorce case next fall. Attorneys devoted themselves to arguments on the granting of temporary alimony auii SIOO,OOO for solicitors' fees and suit costs. From his hiding place In the crowd Joyce heard Peggy's attorneys term her a “faithful wife.' lie also heard the “other woman'' named when counsel read Peggy's reply to ids suit for divorce. Joyce's attorneys retaliated by reading the lumber prince's answer to Peggy's cross bill. In it Joyce declared his bride had “trapped him” Into parting with money and property on the theory that she was an “honest wife." Joyce also charged Peggy had entered into a conspiracy with other persons to “rob him" of his property and had murrled him to obtain ‘‘unlawful ends."

3 TRAINMEN DIE IN WRECK Two Others Badly Scalded When Freight Piles Up at Medora. Special to Tha Times. SEYMOUR, Ind., June B—Three trainmen were killed and two were badly scalded by escaping steam when a fast Baltimore & Ohio freight train was wrecked at Medora. west of here today. All of the trainmen lived In Seymour. The dead: ENGINEER HUGO FEISTER. FIREMAN TOM HILL. BRAKKMAN HARRY McCULLEY. Engineer Medford Downing and Fireman William Harding, on the second engine of the train were scalded by the steam and are in serious condition. The train, which is the fastest freight between Cincinnati and St. Louis, split a switch nt Medora and seventeen cars of merchandise, including five cars of live stock, were piled up in the wreckage. MANUFACTURERS OF STATE GATHER Busy Session Planned With Banquet Tonight. “The Open Shop” was to be the subject of an address by William 11. Barr, of Buffalo, N. Y., president of the National Founders Association, at this afternoon's session of the annual convention of the Indiana Manufacturers’ Association. which opened today at the Claypool Hotel. Another subject for discussion, by Dean A. A. Potter of Purdue University, was the value of an engineering school to manufacturers. One of the features on the program for the meeting is the seventh annual banquet of the Indiana Manufacturers’ Association, In the Riley room of the Claypool hotel this evening, begining at 6:30 o’clock. The principal addresses will be given by Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and William C. Cornwell, editor of the Baelie Review, with Senator Harry S. New presiding. In addition to speaking nt the banquet of the manufacturers, Mr. Roosevelt will speak this evening at the meeting in Monument Circle in the interest of the civilian training camp at Camp Knox this summer. Mr. Roosevelt will speak from the Hotel English balcony, but In case of rain the meeting will be held In the hotel ballroom. He Finds No Mercy in Criminal Court Tom Doloff, who appealed from a fine and sentence imposed In city court for operating a blind tiger, failed to find the mercy he expected in Criminal Court. Today the jury that had heard his ease yesterday reported that it had found him guilty and had fined him S2OO and costs and had sentenced him to sixty days in Jail. The city court had only fined Doloff SSO and cost# and had sentenced him to thirty days in Jail. The Jury was out all night.

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RE-ELECT TODD PRESIDENT OF STREET CAR CO. Officers Are Re-elected at Annual Meeting of Local Company. REPORT ON FINANCES Robert I. Todd was re-elected presi- j dent of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, at the annual meeting of the j directors of the company this morning, j and other officers of the company were . re-elected as follows : Chairman of the j board of directors, Henry Jameson; vice j presidents, Henry C. Thomson and John | J. Appel; secretary treasurer, Joseph A. j McGowan; assistant secretary treasurer, 1 W. F. Milholland and auditor, L. J K. Foley. The following directors were re-elected at the meeting of the stockholders of the company. Mr. Jameson, Mr. Todd, Mr. Thomson, Henry H. Horubrook, Mr. Appel, Walter J. Ball, Winfield T. Durbin, R. K. Willman and Mr. McGowan. The executive committee also was reelected as follows: Mr. Jameson, Mr. Thomson and Mr. Durbin. James J. Tretton was reappointed su- i perintendent of the company. The stockholders ratified and approved , the action of the directors of the com- j pany in surrendering the franchises ot the company and obtaining in lieu there- ; for an indeterminate permit from the public service commission. SUBMIT FNANCIAL REPORT FOR YEAR. In the financial report of the company for the year ending Dec. 31, 1920, total gross earnings of $5,367,936.36. and a balance deficit of $264,715.86 were shown. The total operating expenses was shown to be $4,067,883.20, and total net earnings, less taxes, $700,582.06. Under the head of bond interest, total deductions of $628 ,631.26 were made, leaving a surplus of $161,950.50, from which was deducted a total of $426,066.66, consisting of Indianapolis Street Railway Company sinking fund not paid but expended for construction year 1920, $66,666.06; Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company sinking fund not paid, but expended for construction year 1920, $60,000; dividends paid on $5,000,000 preferred stock, $300,000, leaving a balance deficit of $264,715.86. Under the bead of liabilities, in the general balance sheet, total capital stock is shown to be $7,500,000, of which $5,000.000 is preferred $1,000,000 common and $1,500,000 common held In trust. Total current liabilities are shown to be $710,184.81. Among other items included under the head of liabilities are $487,273,62 for total deferred liabilities, and $168,091.93, reserve, for injuries and damages. POINT TO NET LOSS OF $288,354.93. Under the head of “operation,” the report states that “the consolidated Indianapolis Street Railway Company (incorporated 1919) was eighteen mouths In operation on Dec. 31. 1920. In our report for the year 1919 we gave tho result of ! operation of the constituent Indianapolis j Traction and Terminal Company, lessee of the old Indianapolis Street Railway Company, for the six months ending June 30, 1919, and six months’ operation, July 1, to Dec. 31, 1919, under the new consolidated Indianapolis Street Railway (Continued on Page Two.) SAYS SOLDIER FUNDS WASTED Robinson Refers to Heavy Overhead in Rehabilitation Work. WASHINGTON, June B.—Charges that Federal funds are being wasted “by the shovelful” by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, In its soldier rehabilitation work were made today by ; Representative Robinson (Rep., Kan.), j If the present policy is continued the i Government could give every disabled soldier SIO,OOO In cash and then more | soldiers would get the money than will be rehabilitated by the present board, he said. Under present practices the rehabilitations bill will exceed $1,000,000,000, Robinson said, stating that already $265,000.000 lias been appropriated. The Congresruan said he favored aiding the disabled men, but that although $145,000,000 already had been actually expended, only i 3,000 men have been rehabilitated —a cost of $45,000 a man. Overhead exI penses of the board are extremely high, ■ he charged. In claiming that in April, 1921, the board paid $8,000,000 to the wounded men and $3,000,000 in salaries. Robinson claimed that the board is allowing “mushroom" schools to Ipe organized over night for the training of men and large sums given their promoters Instead of sending the wounded to State universities and established schools. OCCUPANTS NOT TO BE REMOVED Present Tenants on Plaza Site May Remain—Jewett. Owners of property in the two blocks bounded by Meridian, Pennsylvania, Vermont and North streets, need not fear they will* be ousted in favor of other tenants if the city takes over the section as part of the site for the proposed State plaza and war memorial building. Mayor Charles W. Jewett today assured W. C. Bobbs of the Bobbs-Merrill Company, whose plant is in the affected area. Mr. Bobbs came to the mayor’s office to Inquire whether reports he had heard to the effect that as soon as the city takes over the two blocks some tenants are to be driven out In favor of others is true. The mayor told him the report Is erroneous and the present occupants* will be permitted to remain as tenants of the city until It Is necessary to begin actual wrecking operations to make way for the plaza and building. Although the time limt for filing a remonstrance which would necessitate the calling of a special election before the city and county could proceed jointly in the acquisition of the two blocks for presentation to the State is not far off. nothing further has been heard from the half dozen men who expressed opposition a few wee.ks ago. If a remonstrance is being circulated the fact Is being carefully guarded from the public. YEAR’S JAIL TERM SUSPENDED. KOKOMO, Ind., June B.—Mearl McDowell, charged by the Indiana Railways and Light Company with embezzlement in having knocked down fares totalling $10.50, was fined S4O by Judge W. C. Overton in the Circuit Court, and sentenced to a year in JalL The sentence was suspended during good behavior. a

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STREET CAR CO. WILL COOPERATE ‘ON CONDITION’ Agrees to Hold Contract Sacred, but Can’t Shoulder More Burdens. LEFT TO ‘LEGAL STAFF’ When Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby notified officials of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company in a conference in Mayor Charles W. Jewett’s office today that the city expetets to insist upon Its retention of all rights to control the company, excepting that relating to the rate of fares, despite the fact that the company has surrendered its franchise, the representatives of the utility agreed that under Section 110' of the public service commission law the ii.y has such a right and that the company expects to cooperate in its enforcement. Dr. Henry Jameson, president of th* board of directors of the street railway comp my, however, served notice that the company will submit to the city facts and figures to guide it in imposing burdens upon the company. He insisted that the company can stand just so many burdens under a 5-ceut fare and indicated that he personally believes that point has been passed and relief from some source will be necessary. REFERS ASHBY TO COMPANY’S LEGAL STAFF. When Ashby asked Dr. Jameson If ha was ready to tell the city whether the company intended to negotiate a contract with the city agreeing to do all the things it was found to perform in tho surrendered franchise or whether it would force the city to pass compulsory ordinances Dr. Jameson answered in the negative, stating that this was something which Mr. Ashby should discuss with the company's legal staff, the chief members of which could not attend the conference because of business elsewhere. The conference broke up with ths city and Dr. Jameson having stated their respective positions in a general way, the only definite agreement reached being that, pending final settlement of the question, the company will continue to take orders from the board of public works as it did under the franchise and that Mr. Ashby is to call another, conference to discuss details of an agreement os soon as Ferdinand Winter and H. H. Horubrook, traction attorneys, can conveniently attend. MAYOR IS TOO LATE FOR CONFERENCE. For the city, Mark H. Miller, president; Irving W. Lemaux and Richard A. Shirley of the board of public works; Jesse E. Miller, Louis W. Carnefix and Jacob P. Brown of the city council; Samuel Ranh, president of the board of park commissioners, as well as Mr. Ashby, appeared. Mayor Jewett, who has been out of the city since Friday, did not return until shortly after the conference was over. Dr. Jameson, Robert 1. Todd, president and general manager of the company, and C. N. Thompson, attorney, represented the company. ASHBY OUTLINES FRANCHISE PROVISIONS. Provisions of the surrendered franchise were outlined by Mr. Ashby section by section, stress being laid upon the.fiuy| that the city especially desires to the right to compel the company to make extensions of tracks, bear both the initial and upkeep cost of paving between tracks and pay the five remaining annual installments of $30,000 and seven remaining annual installments of $50,000 franchise tax to the board f park commissioners. The company has declined to pay the $30,000 installment for the current year, which fell due May 1, although formal demand has been made by the city. On these points the traction officials refused to commit themselves, but Mr. Jameson was careful to show It to be his general conviction that while the company Intends to cooperate with the city by carrying out Its orders, it can-, not make extensive Improvements, which he termed "additional burdens,” unless it receives greater remuneration from passengers. DODGE BROTHERS CUT CAR PRICES Reductions Ranging From S3BO to S2OO Announced. Reductions, ranging from S3SQ to S2W, in the price of all models of Dodga Brothers cars, is announced today and effective immediately. The greatest reduction in price is In. that of the sedan, which Is dropped from $2,290 to $1,910. Accompanying the decrease In price of cars, the company announces a change in tire equipment on all open cars, touring and roadsters, from 32 by 3% fabric, to 32 by 4 cord, a retail difference of over SIOO. Changes In the prices of other models of Dodge cars, are as follows: Touring cars, from $1,385 to $1,073; roadster, $1,335 to $1,023; sedan, $2,290 to $1,910; coupe, $2,030 to $1,702.50; panal business cars, $1,405 to $1,205; screen business car, $1,340 to $1,105. HONEYMOON CUT SHORT BY POLICE I Memphis Couple Taken Here on Orders From South. A honeymoon of a newly wedded couple starting at Memphis, Tenn., and planned to extend to Montreal, Canada, ended In Indianapolis today when Kyle W. Leake, 30, and his wife, Edna, 28, were arrested on the charges of being fugitives from justice and vagrancy. They were married at Memphis June 1, according to the wedding license exhibited by Mrs. Leake. .T. B. Burney, chief of police at Memphis, telegraphed the Indianapolis department to arrest Leake, who, he says, Is wanted at Memphis on the charge of bigamy. Leake admits that he was married before, but declares that he obtained a divorce from his first wife. Mr. and Mrs. Leake, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tiller, of Memphis, started to motor to Mrs. Leake’s former home In Montreal, in Mr. Leake's automobile. They stopped at Oil North Alabama street, in this city, en route. Thei money becoming a little short, they told the police they decided to sell the automobile and purchase a smaller car or possibly continue on their journey on a train. The automobile dealer, fearing It was a stolen car, instated that Leake go to police headquarters with him and if the car was not reported on the stolen list he would purchase It. Leake went to the detective office and proved that the automobile was his own, but, Detectives Stone and Efferson arrested him as the man wanted la Memphis.