Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1921 — Page 15

I. S. CITIZENS SHOT IN MEXICO LOIL FIELD RIOT Birther Trouble May Result ■From Arrival of American *5 Warship at Tampico. YORK, July In response to ■ Inquiry as to the real state of affairs ■ Tampico, as viewed through' the eyes ■ Mexican officialdom, rresident Ohre Be sent the following telegram to the ■nrnatlonal News Service today from Bxlco City: ■SThere is notn’.ng abnormal in the BxPPlco situation with the exception ■at some of the oil companies hive susBnded operations while others are workmore Intensively.” ■fEXICO CITY. July B. Several AmeriKs are reported to have been k illed or ■iunded in an outbreak of violence at Bunpico. This was the first disorder B c the Tampico district since some of Be big oil companies closed down In Botest against ... .sand petroleum taxes, ■towing thousands of laborers out of lork. ■ The trouble was precipitated Thursday ■ght at Camp. Zacamixtle. where a numBr of discharged laborers are concen■ated. The men deman.led thr.e months' wiiich, they claimed, was due them Mexican law, and also railway to leave the oil fields. Bjnly meager reports have been rebut it was rumored that a numof men were ki'.iei and wounded, inBudlng some Americans. EXICAX TROOPS ESTORE ORDER. Mexb an troops intervened and were ported to have restored order. Tampico was said to be greatly alarmed •hr the outbreak, as It. was feared olh s would follow. Claude I. Dawson, the American cnn--1 at Tampico, sent a mesage to Mexico ty, saying that trouble had occurred, it did not give the details. The government has sent troop relnrcements Into the Tampico district. Opinion is expressed In official circles at American warships are not needed Tampico. governor Caesar Lopez Lara of the Ate of Tamaulipas. who conferred with resident Cbregon Thursday, returned ►roe bearing orders to preserve order at 1 costs. (ARSHIP CAUSES ICH EXCITEMENT. 4t is reported from Tampico that ofdals of the idle oil companies declare ley will remain closed down at least x months nnless the petroleum export |X (which was Increased July 1) is relcejjk Three Canadian war craft have been ; Salina Cruz for a week, and it is Muted out that their presence caused > comment, although the arrival of one Kited States warship at Tampico has eated great alarm.

&RSHIP MAY TART TROUBLE MEXICO CITY. July S.—The situation i the Tampio oil fields already critical s the' result of unemployment, was resrded in semi-official circles today as iving been aggravated by the pretence I the American gun boat Sacramento f that port. Further trouble may be precipitated by |s presence of the war-shin, it was tinted out. If so any torce the Sacraento could land would be Insufficient restore order. Actual famine In the oil districts Is centered imminent The railway has been It between Tampico and San I.uis I’otoei r a wreck, tttributed to a washout. This rs had the double result of decreasing unpico's food snpply and completely ittfr.g off shipment of fuel oil to Mexico Ify an dother industrial -'centers, kreatening a suspension of work. [Oil shipments have fallen off 78 per tent since the new Mexican export tax lecame effective, according to unofficial iatunates.

GOVERNOR AND EX -GOVENORS DEBATE TAXES (Continued From Pace One.) lat the Legislature could not be trusted > devise a fair system of taxation. '**l blleve you can trust the Leglslaire," he said. ‘We trust It to spend nr money. Why not trust It to raise Hfce Governor was followed by Mr. oei, who spoke for the proposed amendlent. He said that when the constltuion was written conditions were differnt from those which now exist. He de- j ■ 1 It Is Impossible profitably to own ■ mortgage In Marion or Lake counties. ■ “Taxation In Indiana Is not uniform,”. Ba said “The provision In the constltu- j ftion making it uniform Is a dead letter. Bio one need hesitate about striking a Bead provision from the constitution. The Provision cannot be made operative.” •a> T PAY TAXES; Leave Indiana. ■ Mr. Noel said he knew of a number of j Braalthy persons who are leaving the State because they can not afford to pay ■ndlana taxes under the present system. Mr. Smith was the first speaker against he taxation amendments. He said that rren In Kentucky, which has frequently een referred to as a State with an unfestricted taxation system, taxation must j >• uniform within classes. .“Indiana Is not proposing to do what ither States have done,” he declared. I ‘These other States have not given their j legislatures unlimited power In matters >f taxation.” He declared that under a system sim- ! lar to the one proposed for Indiana, ; Connecticut collects an annual tax of only SOOO,OOO from its intangible prop- > rty. “Indiana would pay the enormous price >t givl ig the Legislature full power over 1 matters in return for such an ■significant addition to the tax collecions.” he said. He declared that should the amendment >e adopted various classes of taxpayers vould storm the Legislature for special j exemptions. Former Governor Goodrich Interrupted it this point ttf say that in addition to i ntangibies. Connecticut requires banks list their deposits for taxation. Mr Wolcott, who spoke next, declared hat the present deplorable condition of ho taxation system in Indiana is due o the general property tax. .‘‘The thought that the Legislature will wn wild is not even to be considered.” ; ie said “The members of the Legisla* . re will be levying taxes on their own Property. The Legislature already has a mmber of unrestricted privileges which t could exercise, but which It does not. Vs things are now. you are being penalised for living in Indiana.” Mr. Wolcott said he did not believe [lasses of property should be exempted. Itclnring that ‘ lhe biggest curse In this ■ountrv today is tax exemption.” RALSTON' AGAINST THE AMENDMENT. Mr Ralston replied with an argument sr opposition to the proposed amendHe recalled that he bad advo- j rated a constitutional convention and j declared he still believed this to be a mare satisfactory way of solving consti- ; tulionsl problems. 3*l shall not support the tax amendment because It strikes down all constlajtonal limitations on property matters,” ae said. “The proposal is absolutely * revolutionary. “This amendment proposes to let every

Senator France in Russia to Restore Friendly Feeling BERLIN, July B.—The communist newspaper Rote Fahne, today printed a wireless press despaten rrom Mosco quoting Fnited States Senator France as follows: “My object In coming to Russia was not to help bring about commercial arrangements, but to restore friendly relations between the two republics—Russia and America.” According to the despatch the interview was printed In the bolshevlst newspaper, Novi Mir, at Moscow.

Legislature be a law unto itself. I don’t believe we have reached the point where we can treat constitutions trivially. Under this amendment there would he no power on earth to enjoin the enforcement of any tax law the Legislature might enact. “How would you like to strike from the constitution the section which gives the right of religious freedom, or the right of trial by Jury, or the right or 1 habeas corpus? This amendment seeks |to strike out property rights. The Fedj eral Constitution itself provides for a ; uniform rate of taxation.” • Mr. Ralston in answer to a question j from a member of the committee, said he ! would approve a plan of making securi- ! ties uncollectable if the taxes on them are f not paid. In answer to another question he said he favors a State income tax. Mr. Goodrich In replying to Mr. Ralston declared that taxation should not be classed with such human rights and those of religious freedom, trial by jury or habeas corpus. "This question is merely a question of dollars and cents with a matter of principle underlying it,’\ he said. "I would not underestimate such questions or the question of property rights, but I would not class them with fundamental human rights.” Mr. Goodrich said that most of the opposition to the proposed amendments is based on the fear of what might result. He declared that this fear is groundless and stated that In no state where there is a similar lack of taxation provisions In the constitution has there been any movement toward socialism or the confiscation of property. He said that If income Is confiscated hy taxation, money will be driven into hiding or taken to other States. He said he is not afraid to trust the people of Indiana on taxation questions. He said that so far as the fear of a single tax Is concerned, the State- is now fast approaching that condition with real estate paying 60 per cent of the taxes. He declared that If the present system is continued real estate soon will be bearing SO rer cent of the burden. In returning again to the opposition to the amendment on the ground that the Legislature would “go wild,” he said that there Is still the check of the Governor’s veto. Mr. Goodrich’s talk was frequently interrupted by questions from persons who either disagreed with him or sought further information on his viewpoint. Mr. Bosson spoke against the proposed amendment and Mr. Chambers for it.

Plan Rehearsals for Entertainment Members of the degree and drill teams of the Knights and Ladles of America will meet In P. H. C. Hall. East and Michigan streets, rrom 3:30 to 6 o’clock Sunday for rehearsal of the "Night in Honolulu” entertainment, which is to be given In the hall on Thursday evening. July 14. The members of the degree team who will take part in the entertainment include H. G. Johnson, William Sims, Bennett McKibben, Harry Johnson, May Cunningham, Mabel Rose. Ella Tbomnsa, Stella Short, Emily Utterback, Josephine Bock, Evelyn Nixon. Mattie Johnson, Thelma Nleman, Maxine Stelnmeyer, Mrs. Schllly, Myrtle Andrews, Ruth Hornbeck, Esther Ilornbeck, Sophia Cookus, Caddie Harnsworfh. Marguerite Sims, Betsy Harper. Marlon Myers. Lena Fitch, May Rice, Van Baxter, Anna Bruce and Hazel Weehler.

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ATTACKS NEW BURGLARY ACT Attorney Asks How 1921 Law Can Amend 1907 Enactment, Repealed in 1915. The validity of the new burglary statute, making the crime punishable by ten to twenty years in prison, which was passed by the last Legislature, today was attacked In the Marlon County Criminal Coukt by Paul Wetter, pauper attorney, who represents Virgil Davit and Cecil Turner, charged with burglarizing a store. i Mr. Wetter contended that the 1907 : burglary statute was repealed by the ! statute, which created first and second degree burglary. He declared j that the 1921 act seeks to amend the 1907 act. “How can the 1921 act amend' the 1907 act, which was repealed by the 1915 act?” Mr. Wetter asked. Judge James A. Collins allowed the State two days to prepare their answer to the question. Dorsey Horney, who is said to have i been one of the prisoners who escaped from the jail a year ago last July 4, was sentenced from two to fourteen years at the Indiana State reformatory on a i grand larceny charge. ™ Mike Riley, who was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to ten days in jail : In city court, was found not guilty and ordered discharged on a hearing of his j appeal by Judge Collins. Clifford Davis, charged with forgery was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced from two to fourteen years at the Indiana State prison. I Thomas Short was sentenced to a year ; on the Indiana State farm on a charge | of petit larceny. Lemaux Ready for Peace With Shank? Irving IV. Lemaux, Republican city 'chairman, returned at 9:?0 o’clock this j morniug form Alanson, Mich., where he has been spending a two weeks’ vacation. A settlement of the controversy between him and Samuel Lewis Shank, I Republican candidate for mayor, over 1 the latter’s demand for his resignation, is expected to be reached within a week, j Republican leaders said. It is generally thought that in some I manner it will lA agreed that Dr. E. E. j Hodghi, Shanks campaign manager, shall take charge of Republican c}ty i headquarters, either as acting or actual city chairman.

Dangerous Trees Ordered Removed Orders to remove dead trees and dangerous limbs will be issued to 103 property owners residing along West and Illinois streets, Capitol and Senate avenues, between North street and Fall Creek, as a result of a survey of the district today by George H. Morgan, head of the special service department of the city park board. Mr. Morgan ia In spectlng the entire city In a campaign to eliminate timber which is In such condition that it is likely to fall across streets or sidewalks. Speeds 75-Mile Rate to Get ‘Brew* Recipe MINOT. N. D. July B—Speeding at seventy-five miles an hour Chief Prohibition Officer Watkins overtook an alleged whisky car and arrested A. C. Block and wife of Omaha and .1. Roller. 2732 Fulton street. Los Angeles. They are being held for transporting liquor In the ear which they did not own. In the car was found a recipe for home brew and also necessary Ingredients for making moonshine, It la alleged. TEGGS BRUISED AND CUT. Hurry TeggS, 42, 3608 West Tenth street, was taken to the Methodist Hospital at about 12:30 o’clock, where It was found that ho was badly bruised and cut about the bead. Tcggs was In an automobile truck which was struck by an I. 8, C, infernrhan car at Stop 9.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1921.

‘Dead Man 9 Bums Way From West to Wabash Home Woman, Who Had Vision of Her Sailor Son Floating in Sea, Swoons. Special to The Times. WABASH, Ind., July B.—Believed dead because of a dream In which his mother “saw” his body floating In the sea. and with h.s father In California to claim the supposed remains of the son, William J. Beaver, Jr., today walked Into his home here. He had bummed his way from California. Beaver's home-coming was carefree and nonchalant, but his mother, shocked by wbat she believed to be an apparition, swooned. A few weeks ago Mrs. Beaver had a vision in which the body of a youth in sailor's uniform, was floating near the shore of an ocean. Knowing that her son was stationed aboard the U. S. S. Grosby, off San Diego, Cal., Inquiry was mnde of naval officials. Beaver had disappeared from hts ship last January and was on the deserter list; and an unidentified sailor, drowned, had been taken from the water and burled. So closely did the Identifications tally that Wiliam Beaver, Sr., departed last Saturday for California to claihi the body. • It is supposed that he either has started for Wabash with the body or Is preparing to bring it 'here. Young Beaver was placed under arrest early this afternoon as a naval deserter. He served during the war as a Marine.

DEMAND GREEKS LEAVE SMYRNA LONDON, July B.—The Turkish Na tionallst government at Angora -has officially demanded the evacuation of Smyrna ty the Greeks, thus making it improbable that thnre will be another conference between General Hnrington and Mustapha Kemal Pasha, leader of the Turkish Nationalists, said a Central News dispatch from Constantinople today. Announcement was made in the British House of Commons that General Haring ton was empowered to transmit any peace proposals from the Turkish Nationalists to the allies, but was not au thorl.’ed to enter Into peace negotiations. Screen Vampire’s Marriage Reported NEW YORK, July B.—Theda itara, vampire of the screen, was today reported to have been secretly mkrrled at Greenwich, Conn., last Saturday to C. J. Brabtn, Fox Film Company picture director. • At the picture star's home the story was denied. Efforts to locate either Miss Bara or Brabln proved futile. Brabln was divorced a few months ago. Prisoner in County Jail Makes Escape While working at the power house of the Marlon County Jail this morning. In company with several other prisoners under a guard. Claude Beasley, one of the prisoners, escaped from the survetlance of the guard, and took "French leave.” Beasley was sentenced In Juvenile Court, April 18, to serve 180 days for child neglect. TO CLOSE SATX’RDAY NOON. Beginning Saturday, July lfl, and continuing for five weeks thereafter, the commercial offices of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company will he closed at 12 o'clock noon each Saturday. COAT, VEST AND *fl STOLEN. William 11. Hussey, 526 East Market street, reported to the police that bis coat and vest were stolen from his home. The clothing was valued at $23 and there waßlfilnth^pocke^ofDiejne^U^^^^^

LEGION POST TO ATTEND BURIAL Service Men Pay Military Honors to Lieutenant Killed at Marne. Attended by members of Robert E. Kennington Post. American Legion, six of whom will act as pall bearers, military funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the residence o,f Lieut. Robert E. Kennington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Kennington, 2544 North College avenue, who was killed In action In the second battle of the Marne, Aug. 4, 1918. The funeral service will be pronounced by the Rev. A. B. Philputi, pastor of the Central Christian Church, and the legion service will be in charge of the Rev. George VV. Allison, chaplain of the Marlon County Council of the American Legion. Ex-service men are requested to attend the funeral, regardless of whether attired in uniform. Transportation to the cemetery will be furnished, and music will be provided by the Marlon County Council band. I Lieutenant Kqyinington was attached to the 58th Infantry, 4th Division. Regular. Army, as liaison officer. He left fur overseas April 28, 191S. Lieutenant Kennington was born in Indianapolis May 25, 1893, and lived here all his life, being educated in local schools. He attended Butler College, took a leggl course in the University of Michigan and the Indianapolis I.nw School. He was a member of the I’hi Delta Theta fraternity and of the Columbia and Marion Clubs. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for city Judge In 1916, being defeated by Walter Pritchard, the present Incumbent.

Strawboard Plant Will Work Special to The Times. NOBLE SVILLE, Ind, July B.—Fay Kerr, manager of the local plant of the American Strawboard Company. received a message last night from the general offices of (he company In New York to start the mills in this city next Monday with a full force of men. It is said enough orders nre on the way here to keep the plant in operation for the next six months. The local mills have been Idle practically all of the time since the middle of Inst winter, due largely to the general business depression throughout the country. The resumption of the plant will give work to 200 men. College Head Goes to New York Meeting Special to The Times. RICHMOND, In!., July 8— Allen D. Hole, vice president of Earlham College, left yesterday for New York City to at-* tend a meeting of the commission on International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Connell of the Churches of Christ In America. Dr. Hole Is a member of tills commission, having been appointed as representative of the Friends of the United States amp Canada. Claims Husband Tore Off Her Clothes; Sues Special to The Time*. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. July B.—Asking alimony of SI,OOO. Wreaths Ferguson, prominent woman of this city, filed suit this morning for divorce from Noah 11. Ferguson. She allege* her bushand tore her clothing off and drove her away from home. FORTY-SIX ILL AFTER PICNIC. BRISTOL, Tenn., July 8. persons who attended the Salvation Army picnic yesterday at Beech Grove school near here, were treated for ptomaine poisoning today, while physician* examined food served at the picnic.

Store Closes Tomorrow, Saturday, at 1 O’Clock : \ STORE HOURS FOR JULY AND AUGUST—On Saturdays Store Closes at I—On Other Days At 5. The Wm. H. BLOCK CO.

OIL ORDERED TO PLEASANT RUN

Board of Public Works Makes First Effort to Alleviate Stagnant Conditions.

-A ten-year lease upon a triangular plot of ground north of Washington street on the west bank of White River was given by the board of public works today to the Western Oil Refining Company at an annual rental of $1,112. The city originally purchased the ground for part of the boulevard system. The tenyoar rental will repay the city the purchase price, Mark H. Miller, president of the board, stated. A filling station will be constructed upon it. The street department was ordered to haul oil to Irvington where the park department will spread it upon stagnant pools in Pleasant Run to kill mosquito larvae, said t obe developing alarmingly.

A petition of several hundred citizens who attended the Brlghtwood Fourth of July celebration at Thirty-Second and Dearborn streets to the board asking that it urge the board of park commissioners to take over sections on both sides of Dearborn street between Thirtieth and Thirty-Fourth streets for pjirk purposes was referred to the p*irk department without recommendation.

HOWAT APPEALS JAIL SENTENCE Six Months’ Imprisonment Given Mine Leader. COLUMBUS, Kan., July B.—Alexander Howat, president of District 14, Unitie J Mine Workers, and August Dorchy, vice president, today were sentenced to six months In Jail and fined SSOO each by District Judge Boss for violating the Kansas industrial court law by calling a local strike over a wage controversy. Immediately after he was sentenced, in a courtroom crowded with miners, who refrained from demonstration, Howat. answering the Judge, declared he was witnin his right in calling tho Mackey strike, for which he was prosecuted, and that the Industrial court law was unfair. A meeting of all southern Kansas miners has been called for late todny at the park here and Howat and Jnka Sheppard, th<- mine leader's attorney, will make addresses against the court law, Howat said. Mine union leaders declared that about 2,500 miners will attend. The Frontenac labor band was summoned to furnish music, R was declared. Prior to sentence, motion of Howat's and Dorchy’s attorneys for anew trial •cas overruled. After sentence they were released on $4,000 bond each, pending their appeal to the Supreme Court.

Universalists Hold Sessions at Waldron Special to T4ie Times. SIIELBYVILLE, Ind., July B. A nam>r of persons from this city are attending the sessions of the annual convention of the Unlversallst Church of Indiana, being held this week at Waldron and which will continue over Sunday. Large crowds are attracted to the afternoon and evening services. Rev. leather Riley Robinson, of Chicago, is inr charge of the services this year and is being assisted by Rev. R. O. Pearson of the Waldron M. E. church. The music Is In charge of Miss Hazel Silvery, of Indianapolis and Earl Haymond, of Waldron. Sunday the Oaklandon band will give n concert In the morning and eventng in connection with the program. CAMBRIDGE CITY BRIDGE ASKED. RICHMOND, Ind., July B.—A petition for anew bridge over Martlndale Creek at the east edge of Cambridge City Is being circulated in Cambridge City and Jackson township. The petition will no presented to the county commissioners at their meeting tomorrow.

Cops Blush—Their Own Uniforms Thin CHICAGO, July valiant police of Evanston are blushing furloui.ly whenever one mentions the word “uniforms." The new summer attire, all white, has Just arrived. But—well, if you must know, the trousers are much too thin.

The valiant police are thinking of a requisition for barrels.

ATTEMPT MADE TO WRECK FLYER 21 Spikes Taken From Rails Near Muncie. Special to The Times. MUNCIE, Ind., July B.—An attempt to wreck the eastbound New York flyer which passes through Muncie shortly after midnight, was reported to the police today and search is being made for a man seen loitering along the Big Four tracks just east of the city, where it was discovered that twenty-one spikes had been drawn from the ties and the rail plates loosened with a wrench. Discovery of the damage done was made when an automobile was wrecked near the track. The stranger suspected of pulling the spikes is described as a man of middle age and poorly dressed. He was seen loitering in that vicinity for several hours and begged food at a nearby chouse. Railroad detectives, who say It was a miracle the train was not wrecked, | can assign no cause for the attempt. B. & 6. Shops Add 125 at Washington Special to The Times. WASHINGTON, Ind., July B.—Approximately 12a men have been returned to their Jobs at the B. & O. Railroad shops here, after several months of Idleness. They Include ear repairers, painters, helpers, machinists, boilermakers and laborers. It Is said that the movement of the wheat crop from the Mid Western States Is responsible for the men being called to work. It Is not knon how long they will be kept busy. The return of these men Increases the number employed In the shops to 575. War Risk Bureau Investigators Here MaJ. Max R. Walner of Washington, representing the office of Director Charles It. Forbes of the war risk bureau; W. M Coffin of Cincinnati, district manager of the bureau of war risk insurance, and Dr. E. O. Little of Cincinnati, of the Federal board of vocational education, were in the city this afternoon to discuss the possibility of leasing headquarters In this city for the consolidated bureaus. John B. Reynolds, secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, met them at the train, and this afternoon showed them available places for headquarters and discussed the matter with them. SHELBY COUNTY MAN HELD INSANE. SHE LB Y VILLE, Ind., July B.—Recommendation has been made that Albert W. 11111, 68, be committed to the Central Hospital for the Insane, following the holding of a sanity inquest at Waldron Thursday. Application was made for his admission to the hospital. He was arrested Tuesday for cruelty to an animal, residents of Waldron charging that he beat bis horse until the animal became exhausted. REFORMATORY DISCUSSED. Members of the reformatory removal commission met with Governor Warren T. McCray this afternoon. The Governor was expected to issue a detailed statement of the reformatory situation following the meeting.

BANKERS PLAN FOR EXAMINER Clearing House Association Adopts New Rules— Names Officers. A clearing house committee consisting | of Frank D. Stalnaker, president of the i Indiana National Bank, and president of the Indianapolis Clearing House Association, as chairman; Otto N. Frenzel, president of the .Merchants National Bank, and Evans Woollen, president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, was elected at a meeting of the directors of the Indianapolis Clearing House Association this morning, and new rules were adopted, chief of yhlch Is the institution of bank examinations by a clearing house examiner. It was stated that the examiner probably would be selected by the clearing-house committee. Such a system has been put Into effect In a number -of cities, it was explained, with most satisfactory results. The committee will have active supervision of all clearing house activities, working under direction of and by authority of the association as a whole. The date for the new rules to go Into effect has not yet been decided upon. New articles of association also were adopted and the old officers re-elected. The old rules that had been adopted years ago when the clearing house was started had been amended and changed from time to time, it was explained, but the basic plan of the association had remained substantially the same as originally, and, patched as they were, were far from modern. Banking usages have changed and new devices In bank management have been put Into effect, and so it was decided that what was needed was an entirely new body of rules rather than a further attempt at amending and changing the old ones. Dying- Statement of Judge Is Ruled Out TULSA, Okla., July 8. —Two serious blows to defense hopes in the trial of Goldie Gordon and Mrs. Jessie James, charged with the murder of Judge John Devereatix were delivered today by Judge Redmond S. Cole. The court again held the death statement claimed to have been made by Judge Devereaux, in which he is quoted as saying he fell from his bed and hit his bead against a radiator, was inadmissable as evidence. Attempts by attorneys for the two women to have the court throw out the most damaging evidence presented by the prosecution were overruled by Judge Cole.

Woman Fined for Receiving Liquor Nora Armstrong, Rural Route D, Box 158, arrested by Sheriff Snider, June 3, on a charge of operating a blind tiger, pleaded guilty to receiving liquor from a common carrier and was fined SSO and costs by Judge Walter Pritchard in city court today. A charge of operating a blind tiger agalnkt,Albert Teagarden, in the employ of Mrs. Armstrong, was dismissed on motion of the State. - Sheriff Snider said he found thirteen quarts and twenty-two pints of homemade beer in Mrs. Armstrong’s home. Fined for Violation of the Muffler Law In city court Thursday afternoon. Abe Reznik. 942 Maple street, was fined $lO and costs on a charge of violating tho muffler law and a charge of speeding against him was dismissed by Judge Walter Pritchard. Two other men were fined S2O and costs each on charges of speeding. They gave their names and addresses, when arrested by Motorcycle Officer Brooks, as Thomas Rnhne, Rural Route E, Box 88, and Charles Bohn, city.

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