Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Showers tonight and probably Wednesday morning, followed by fair weather.

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AMENDMENTS ROB PEOPLE OF INJUNCTIONS Courts Would Be Powerless to Grant Public Relief From Unjust Taxes. RALSTON SHOWS DANGER Former Governors Open Campaign Against Changes in Constitution at Newcastle. By HORACE M. COATS. NEWCASTLE, Ind., Aug. 2.—The idea of granting the Legislature unlimited power to enact tax legislation is not new in Indiana, but was tried out under the constitution of 1816, and found wanting miserably, declared Samuel M. Ralston, former Governor of Indiana, here last night, in the opening meeting of the campaign of the Indiana Taxpayers' Protective Association against the two proposed tax amendments. Mr. Ralston appeared for the first time on a platform with Col. Winfield T. Durbin of Anderson, also a former Governor, who is president of the association. Mr. Ralston is vice president. A crowded courtroom listened attentively throughout the addresses rtf both men. The meeting was presided over by Ray C. Morgan, representative in the Legislature from Henry County. Representative George Cooper. Hancock County. and Jacob D. Mlltenherger. Muncie, Delaware County representative, and secretary of the taxpayers' association, were present. Archibald M. Hall, Will H. Adams, reporter of the Supreme Court, and many other men prominent in the State were present. OLD CONSTITUTION* FILLS THE NEEDS. Owing to a case of throat trouble, Col Durbin was unable to make a lengthy talk, but Instead, read the announcements of the formation of the taxpayers' association, his acceptance of the presidency, and also read the thirteen proposed amendments to the State constitution which will be voted on Sept. 6. “No subject is of greater importance to the people of Indiana than is taxation,"’ Said Col. Durbin. *‘V\*e need a sure, safe and enduring foundation for our tax legislation, for stability as applied to business, applies equally as well to taxation.” 001. Durbin declared the old constitution of Indiana Is good enough, and that At Son 1 ' the men who wrote it four months In a constitutional convention, to complete the document. “I can’t think of a more unsafe proposition than to turn complete control over tax matters to the Legislature. 4 ’ he said. "What would be dene by one Legislature, would be repealed by the next. Doubtless our tax laws need changing, but the Legislature has power now to change them, with certain restrictions. There would be no restrictions provided by these amendments.” RALSTON* AGAINST THE AMENDMENTS. "Conceding the high motives of those adtoenting the amendments which I think should be rejected,” said Mr. Ralston, "still the fact should not be lost sight of that an Innocent error, in constitution tinkering, Is attended by the same consequences, as is a like error, committed with evil inrent.” Mr. Ralston explained for some time his reasons for opposifTg the amendment which woold make the office of State superintendent of public instruction appointive instead of elective. “The people are better able to select a school head than Is some Individual.” he said. "If I were Governor, I would not want this power taken from the (Continued .on rate Five.)

BANKER SPURGIN CAUGHT ‘AGAIN’ This Time Fleeing Financier Is Reported in Texas. CHICAGO. Aug. 2. —Warren G. Spurgln, alleged defaulting president of the Michigan Avenue Trust Company Bank, today was believed to have bean trapped at Marfa. Texas, a border town on the edge of the Big Bend country, for years a refuge for bunted murderers and bandits. A telegram was received at the State's attorney's office from J. Humphries and T. C. Crossen, said to be officials of Marfa, asking for Information at once as to the reward offered for Spurgln's capture. Pinkerton detectives have been rushed to Marfa from El Paso, where they have been conducting a search for several days.

Russian Famine Declared Greatest in World’s History

PARIS. Aug. 2. —Fifteen million persons In Russia 'will perish of hunger and disease this year if immediate aid is not extended, Alexander Kerenski declared today in an interview. “Never in the history of the world has such a calamity confronted a nation," Kerenski declared. ‘‘Never was there such a mass of people left without provisions, exposed to disease, famine and plague. "Even the great famines of China and India are not to be compared with that In Russia." The former premier returned today

WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Aug. S, 1921: Showers tonight and probably Wednesday morning, followed by fair weather; not much change in temperature. HOt RI.V TEMPERATURE. 8 a. m 68 7 a. rn 69 8 a. m ”2 9 a. m 73 It) a. m 7* 11 a. m 7.7 12 (noon) 76 1 p. m 76 2 p. in. 72

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Unscathed in War Man Is Killed by Shrapnel at Home

Frank M. Kinne Loses Life Trying to Unload Shell. After he had gone through the World War unscathed and after he had qualified as an expert in handling artillery ammunition. Frank M. Kinne, 20. 855 South Tremont avenue, an overseas veteran, was blown to pieces last night in his home by a three-inch shrapnel shell. The explosion occurred in the kitchen at 9 o'clock and Kinne died at the city hospital a short time later. In the little home on South Tremont avenue at the time of the accident was Kinue's mother, Mrs. Mirtie Kinne, a widow, and his sister Alma, 17, and brother Marlon, 10. Kinne served with Hospital Camp No. 4, and was in France one year. After the World War he relnlisted and served in the demonstrating squad which gave exhibitions of here) shells were exploded and load'd. The death of Edward Kinne, the father, caused Frank to apply for a discharge from the Army. That was six months ago but it was not until April that he obtained bis discharge from the Army and retnmed home. His mother needed bis support, and he worked as a machinist at the NordykeMarmon company and operated a drill pres*. A friend gave Kinne a three inch schrapnel shell Sunday and he brought it home. He told his mother that he would unload it some day and last uiglit he tried it. The shell, about twelve Inches long and three inch’s in diameter, contained besides the explosive a number of bullets. Kinne placed the shell on the kitchen cabinet and started to work removing the •‘nose" of the shell which is the 'brass time fuse. No one was In the room. In the bed. s>m adjoining the kitchen to the north was Marion Kinne, asleep. In another bedroom west of the one where Marion was sleeping was Mrs. Kinne and her daughter. Suddenly there was ua explosion. The little home shook and the windows of other residences in the neighborhood rattled. Kinne sank to the floor, his right hand blown off. part of his face torn away, and he was wounded In the chesl and leg. Some of the bullets pierced the wall and entered the room where Marlon was sleeping. One piece of shell

HATFIELD'S BODY HOME; SPIRIT OF FEUDISM FLAMES Rough Mountaineers, Gathered About Remains of Chieftain, Mutter Vengeance. j MATE WAN, W. Va., Aug 2—Sid Hatfield, picturesque Cumberland mountain gunman, came home today from his mst a conquered A*:’>.. ' j '.York la the mines wa* neglected, stores ! ciosed-jnd mothers and their babies clustered About the rickety littlo railroad station -here when the body of the fallen ’ chieftain arrived from Welch, where i "Smilin’ SWI" and his lieutenant, Ed j Chambers, fell In a pistol fight. There were ugly looks and deadly though soft spoken threats from women and men alike as the mob milled in the | dusty railroad yard while the body of j the leader in the Mingo County mine i war in a rudely constructed pine coffin ! slid down a plank to the station plat ! form. j Reece Chambers, father of one of the 1 rietlms, stirred about mingling oathe 1 and mutterde threats. His giant frame : quivered ns he glimpsed the body of his 22-year old son with a bullet hole In the forehead, but his eyes were clear, j The spirit of feudism Cashed again in j the breasts of the gaunt mountain folk, when they crowded about the two coffins an fit is said took a eilent oa*b /the score against the private de„4 and mine owners, whom tbij e for their woes. fie score will be evened at the first portunlty, many said.

FELTS MEN HELD FOR MURDER AVELCH, W. A'a , Aug. 2. C. E. Lively and "Buster” Pence, two o£| the Baldwin Felts detectives engaged wk yesterday's gun battle, were held oreA charge of murder for the kilting oAfSid Hatfield and Edward Chamber* .a preliminary hearing held bere today. Three others Felts men who had been arrested were released. There waa no demonstration during the examination in the courthouse. Jap Merchants Pay Expenses of Labor WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Two American tabor representatives from Hawaii who appeared before tho House Immigration Committee today to oppoas legislation which would permit Chinese labor to come into the sugar plantations of Hawaii, admitted under a set are crosseiam’natlon that Japanese march*ut* In the island had contributed' $1,500 to finance their trip to AA'asbington.

from Frague where he has been exhorting CsecUo-Slovnkians to aid the Russians. If* said refugees encountered there gave hlpi information on which his statements were based. "A minimum of eleven million tons of wheel Is necessary to save Russia." Kerenakl declared. Without betraying triumph in any way, Kerenski, who was driven from Russia bjr tho Bolshevists, declared tho famine will lead to the elimination of Moscow's radical leaders and the ultimate reorganisation of the government. Kerenski graphically depicted the “death march" across the Russian steppes. Oven ten million persons, hs aid, have joined the great caravans which toil over the dusty plains in search of food. Thousands drop by the wayside, he said. These caravans. Kerenski said, do not always follow the roads, but spread over the country. “It is a dust covered swarm," he said, “preying on the countryside, dying and causing d''Bth for the sake of food. There are innumerable fights as the invaders strip the homes of peasants they have encountered. The home owners vainly try to protect their small food stores. “The death march is worse than the invasion of the vandal hordes of the twelfth century, except that these ln(Continued on Page Eleven.)

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tore Its way through the wall and hit a brick flue and glanced upward through the ceiling of Marion's bedroom. The boy was sprinkled with brickdust an dplaster. A tin cup banging on a pump four f>-et away from where Kinne was unloading the shell had three bullet holes through it. One ballet went through the oak wall of a safe and tore through two pie pans there. • Other pieces of the shell broke the kitchen window, and the gluss from the door. Blood and bits of flesh were strewn In all parts of the kitchen. Kinne’s funeral sermon will be preached by the Rev. Itoscoe Smith, of the Morrfs Street Christian Church. The funeral services will he held at the home of his mother on Tremont avenue at ii o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Burial will he at Crown Ilill. Kinne will be buried with military honors and the American Legion will have charge of the rites.

COUNTY BUDGET TOTAL WILL BE NEARLY $700,000 Townships Tax Levy Likely to Stay Unchanged Next Y'ear. .V budget totalling approximately ifcVwi S.-JO ,<#:. 'TA lfira as the si bed tiled estimate of running the various office*, courts at.J instit'.tlons of Marlon County for 1922, will he presented to the Marion County Council at the annual meeting to he held ou the first Tuesday in November. "I will not know the Jeflolte sum for shout two weeks a* mos of the judge* are out of the city on their vacations.” Leo K. Fesler, county auditor, said. At the council meeting the fax levy for the county and the various townships will be fixed officially and approved. Indications are that the rati- for next year will remain the same as this year. County officers are exercising more care in making out their budget3 for next year than they have in the past because the State board of accounts has held that no money can be expended by special appropriations. That means the 1922 budget must contain the eatiniatM total e\peneos. In the past the county council has reduced materially the totals asked by the various county officers and iu.-ri tut lon*, it lias been the custom of the council to make additional‘appropriation* us needed during the year. ; The State board has supplied the county auditor with forms ou which the budget estimates must ho placed for all county offices and Institutions. The ruling of the State hoard does not affect bond issues or funds created by special tax levy. Mr. Fesler stated. The budget ruling of the State board will compel the county commissioners and the auditor to spend money from the general fund only as the budget provides. The budget will give the taxpayers of the county a definite idea of the way the county administration expects to spend the money of tho taxpayers for next year. It also is necessary, under the law, to advertise publicly the proposed budget so that taxpayers may have an opportunity to protest. Among the heavy items which will be in the budget are the following: Appropriations for the county primary next spring and the subsequent election next fall: janitor service at-4,he Court house; bridge building; up keep of the varionß Institutions: expenses of the county courts Sind the various county office* and salaries as provided tinder the new aalary law. fh* council also will decide on ft definite policy on Julietta and whether a special bond Issue will be made to build two annexes to the present building. Indications are that there will be lively argument if the counclluien attempt to cut the running expenses of the "various offices and Institutions.

FARMERS WANT TO SELL STOCK 1 Effort on to Have State Order Rescinded. Representatives of the Farmers’ Finance Corporation and the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations met this after noon at 2 o'clock, with members of the Indiana Securities Commission, iu an effort to Induce tho commission to rescind Its order of last Tuesday, whereby the Farmers’ Finance Corporation la prohibited from selling any of its stock In Indiana. The corporation is incorporated under the laws of Delaware, and efforts were to bo made to extend Us operations to tilt and other states. According t. the securities commission members, tht orporation does not comply with the laws of ludiana. It has *100,000.000 of preferred stock, and twenty-one shares of no par common stock. Efforts were to be made to sell $750.000 worth of preferred stock in Indianu. 2 Roasted to Death in Scranton Power Plant SCRANTON. Ta.. Aug. 2 Two men were roasted to death here at noon today by a an explosion in the power plant of the Laurel line. Several other employes barely esuiped a similar fate.

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EACH NATION PAYS OWN BILL AT ARMS MEET United States Will Not Give Party to ‘Powers’ at Washington. COUNTRIES GO ‘DUTCH’ Hughes Notifies Dawes to Include Cost of Conference in His Budget. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. The United States has no intention of giving the party when the principal powers of the world gather in Washington this coming autumn to reduce armament and settle the irritating phases of the far eaat and Pacific problems. This was made clear today when the question was put up to the State Department of how the expenses ol’ the forthcoming conference are to be met. It is the present intention of the administration, it was stated, that each of the participating powers will pay their own expenses. Already, It was learned today, Secretary of State Hughes has notified Charles G. Dawes, director of the budget, to Include in his reckonings the cost of the conference to this Government. Estimates are now being prepared, but are not suffclently advanced to warrant guessing at figures. They must be in, though, l>y Aug. 15 I.est it be thought, however, that the expense incident to such a conference of world powers are of small moment it was recalled today that the expenses of tbe American peace commission at I’nris "ran high Into the millions. The expenses incurred by President Wilson and his associates at Paris provided Republican ammunition on tho floors of both House and Henate for weeks While the expenses of the Harding autifmn conference will not be comparable to the Paris parley. they nevertheless will be considerable. The aggregate coat to all tho nations participating will be large If the conference is long drawn out. While no country has thus far Indlcat.'d the size of Its representation there have beeu reports that both England and Japan nre planning to send veritable young armies of representatives. LONDON, Aug. 2. Great Britain has definitely abandoned the project for a preliminary conference to discuss far eastern questions, it was learned from an authoritative source this afternoon. The British government has decided not to make any further overtures on the subject as a vault of the unfavorable attitude of Washington. JAPS BRIN GUP MEXICAN QUESTION lIONOT.FLU, Aug 2.—Japan will insist the disarmament conference proposed by President Harding discuss the Mexican and American immigration question In case these are not settled at a preliminary conference, according to a Toklo dispatch today to the JIJI, n Japanese language paper published here. The dispatch declared that Japan still Insists she must know the nature and scope of the questions to be discussed to fore entering the conference, according to the dispatch.

MAINE GREET? THE PRESIDENT Harding and Parly Arrive at Portland—Brief Speech Given. PORTLAND. Maine, Aug. 2.—Greeted by huge throngs, President Harding and his party arrived here at 10:30 this morning from Plymouth. The President Immediately proceeded to the public square, where he was to make a brief address be- ! fore motoring to the summer home o' i Secretary of War Weeks ut Lancaster, N. H. I “I’d like to restore in America the Industrial activities which made us famous." declared the President, speaking at the City liall shortly after his nr rival. He had Just expressed himself in favor of protection for the potato growing industry. "We are a government by law and 1 am glad to come to bespeak tho Interests <ln your State. I believe America draws ; Its strength from the many States and loot from sections.” said the President !"I want an America of good people. I want an America of one principle, one | pride and one purpose, and only one flag, the American flag," he continued. "There jare discouragements and though we are 'handling conditions that the world never i appraised, our confidence In America makes us know that we are coming to n better order. It will not bo long until j our America comes to the new established order." ! The President paid tribute to Senators Hale and Feruald and also to New Eng- \ land. | The President's objective is Mount j Prospect, the summer home of Secretary |of Wnr Weeks, at Lancaster. N. 11., a I motor journey of some 150 miles from I Portland. I At Mount Prospect the President hopes ito set himself In the mUlst of leisure ! for at least five days.

Des Moines Street Railway Line Will Re Auctioned Off DES MOINES, lowa, Aug. 2.—The Des Moines Street Railway Company Is to be put on the auction block. Service was continuing today awaiting tho "stop" order of Federal Judge Martin Wade, which is expected shortly. The action of the bondholders' committee in Chicago yesterday Instructing the Harris Company, principal bondholders, to bring foreclosure proceedings, was the last straw, It was said here today, and it will be only a matter of days until the sixty-five Des Moines trolley cars are ordered suspended. (''■■■t u-rnn cements for the conversion of Des Moines into a ‘‘motorized" city have t u ue and all transportation w.IH be provided by a swarin of improvised jitney busses inside of twenty four hours after the street cars are taken off the streets. RECORD HOT WAVE IN ITALY. ROME, Aug. 2. —Italy is undergoing a record hot wave. A score of persons have died of sunstroke within the past twentyfour hours, ten of them at Venice.

CARUSO DEAD AT NAPLES; FAMOUS TENOR SUCCUMBS TO SURGICAL OPERATION

ABSCESS. DUE TO FLU ATTACK, CAUSE OF END Singer Rushed From Pompeii on Seizure, but Fails to Rally From Shock. ENTIRE WORLD MOURNS NAPLES, Aug. 2.—Enrico Caruso, the world’s greatest tenor, died here at 4 o'clock this morning. His golden voice was stilled for- | ever when he failed to rally from a relapse following an operation for an abscess. The famous tenor succumbed to the Illness which attacked hitn In | New York last winter, the direct I cause of death being a subphrenic abscess following operation on his chest I. lay the famous tenor and I hi* former Dorothy Benjamin, j wei < tuury in the Pompeii val- ! b y e offered prayers or thanks ito t gin f"r the recovery of his voice, heard a mass and gave 20,000 francs as a thanks offering. i Afterward Caruso visited the excavaj timis ut Pompeii. 1 On Saturday he felt pains in his abj dornen. Those were the first warnings I that the fatal Illness was at hand, lie | culled a physician, who advised hint to go to Naples and consult specialists. Arriving at Naples on Sun Jay night Caruso called Professors Sergl, Carozanzusodo and Moseaii. i After a long consultation these spe elulists diagnosed his case as acute perl- '[ tonitis with a tendency to spread. They ; decided to operate. Caruso, whose fortitude when suffering groat pain was considered remarkable, ! continued to keep up his good spirits. ; However, he sank steadily. Uis agony ! Increased. Ills strength waned. Injections of camphor were used every two hours to stimulate hi* fluttering I heart. HU breathing wns difficult and 1 became increasingly labored. ! Ills wife, who also maintained her cour age, remained at the bedside for hours. She saw hei husband steadily drawing nearer to the gates of death, but remain boring the successful fight he made against whit „ w ■ r } whelming qidfis Tnirinfrhls prefiToui Ilf-' j ness In Nsw York, she maintained her ;. compoaut# and confidence that he again j would weather the storm, j The operation originally had been j planned for some time today. But otirI log the night the specialists saw Caruso i falling so rapidly that they feared he i could not survive until dawn. It was | decided to operate at once. I Followtug tho operation surgeons stated that Caruso's death was only a matter of hours. At 4 a. tn. his heart ceased to beat. REACHED ITALY I’ALE AND WORN. ■ Caruso arrived in Italy early in the summer. Pale and somewhat thin, he looked the part of a sick man, but he (Continued on Page Eleven.)

‘NOVELTIES’ TO BE SURE , BUT SCENT OF SLEUTHS KEEN Authorities Obtain Forty-Four Pints of Bonded Whisky in Seven Boxes. A raid on the Progressive Novelty Salesroom at 40V4 South Delaware street. Room No. 8, resulted In MotorpoUcemen Englebright and Bastion and a number of Federal agents finding forty four "novelitieS” today. Tho novelties were pint bottles of bonded whisky. Asa result of the raid Carl Alebahn was ur rested on the charge of operating a blind tiger. From four to six bottles were packed In the bottom of each of seven boxes and the remainder of each box was filled with calendars. Each box was marked “novelltles.” Federal Officer George AATnkler said A’lebahn admitted doing a big business In tha liquid bottled In bond novelties. A lebahn has been prominent In politics. He wns at one time chief deputy sheriff and lator, under the Bell administration, he was the head of the recreation department of the city. He Is a veteran of the Boer War. Harry Ettinger, 429 Abbott street, was arrested by Sergeant Sheridan and Patrolmen Muller anil O'Brien on the chicge of operating a blind tiger. The police say there was a trap door in the floor under Ettinger’s bed and after opening it they found four half pint bottles or “white mule" whisky and five empty bottles.

GIRL, 8, INJURED WHEN H IT BY AUTO Driver Said to Have Passed to Right of Wagon, Teza Marion. 8, living at 7 North West street, was injured today when she was struck by an automobile driven byTom Poparad, 30, of Ben Davis, ut Washington and West sereets. Motorpolicemon Englebright and Bautin investigated and arrested Poparad on charges of assault and battery and violating the traffic law. According to witnesses, Poparad, who drives a taxi, passed a wagon on the right side Instead of the left. The girl was taken to her homo by her father and a physician was called. She was painfully cut and bruised, but it Is believed the injuries will not prove serious. Two automobiles collided in front of 1100 East Washington street last night. C. L. Llnsley, 3918 Graceland avenue, was driving east and W. C. Robinson, 528 Warmaii avenue, was driving wets on Washington street. Both cars were damaged but uo one was Injured. Rain Prevents Game Showers of the early afternoon caused the postponement of today’s scheduled game between the Minneapolis and Indianapolis clubs at Washington Park. The game will tie played on the Millers’ next visit to Indianapolis late In September.

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Way to Stop War? Cut off Money Supply, Edison View Inventor Says Harding Disarmament Conference Will Win, Providing This Can Be Done.

By KARL A. DICKEL, General News Manager l'nlted Press. (f ;, P.'Tight. Pt2l, by the United Press.) UKLINGTON. W Vs. Aug. 2—Keep tho nations of the world from obtaining money to prepare for "the next war.” If this is done, and America has the power to do it. President Harding will succeed in the conference he has called for limitation of armament. In that manner the situation was summed up toduy by Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford and 11. S. Firestone, as they sat on the shady bank of a rippling West Virginia mountain brook, munched sandwiches, frizzled bacon and talked about disarmament, prosperity and golf They issued a warning that President Harding "must look out for the cars.” The enemb sos disarmament, they said, already are busy

2 NABBED AS SUSPECTS IN TRAIN WRECK ‘Fishplates’ of Track Removed Where Michigan Central Engine Derailed. DETROIT, Aug. 2—With one of the most disastrous railroad wrecks and collisions iu recent years narrowly averted, two man under arrest today on suspicion of having wrecked the 12:45 a. m. westbound Michigan Central all-Pullman train at Onskter, near here. Railroad detectives and police found that tho "fishplates" binding together the tracks hud been removed at the spot where the engine was derailed. Three persons were seriously injured and moro than one hundred others imperiled wheu six cars left the tracks Officials of tho Michigan Central here stated they a malicious attempt had been made to Wreck the train. Andrew E. Bcaumstark, a passenger of Atlanta, Ga., was among the Injured. Passengers were hurled from their berths when the train left the tracks. Tho engineer, Robert Block of Jackson, Mich., pinned beneath his cab, latighel and joked with rescuers as they cut the sloel away from him with acetylene torches. A catastrophe like the one at Porter, Ind., was narrowly averted when eastbound brain No. 20 leaving Chicago at 5:40 reached the scene. Although it brushed the side of the wreckage, it was stopped before any additional damage was done. The engine of the west-bound train turned over, pinning the engineer beneath the wreckage. Passengers and trainmen worker two hours to release him. The engineer of the east-bound train jumped when Ills engine brushed the wreckage of the west-bound train, lie sustained minor injuries. The tracks were torn up several hundred feet. The fireman of the westbound train received a slight injury to his hand when he jumped. The injured were rushed to hospitals before their names could be learned. Officials are Investigating to learn the cause of the wreck.

Automobile Bandits Rob BankJVtessenger CHICAGO, Ang. 2. —Automobile bandits held up Ben Zucherman, messenger for the Sixteenth Street State Bank, shortly before noon today and robbed him of a satchel containing $3,000 in cash and $340 in Liberty bonds. They escaped. Only 23 Billions WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The gross public debt of the United States on July 31, wps $23,237,008, the Treasury Department announced today. These figures show the national debt was decreased during July by $206,213,543, the Treasury said.

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The conclusion was that the success of the conference depends upon the foreslgl t. courage and determination of the President Six curs and two trucks of America's most famous camping party were stretched down a country lane. At the improvised camp stove. Fisher, the cook, was putting a permanent wave iu another batch of bacon and the aromatic smoke of the camp fire drifted over the heads of tho party as they talked. Edison leaned against the side of his car. Firestone sat upon the running beard. Ford moved restlessly about. “Do you think Harding can put his disarmament plan over?” Ford asked of Edison. "I don’t like to answer that offhand,” replied Edison. lie was the only man in the group who was smoking, and as he spoke slowly ho shook his head slightly. "I'd rather bear you say it offhand,” retorted Ford. The man who first envisaged the electric light was silent for a moment. Then ho sroke. “I think it will debend upon money,” he said. “If the money can be found to keep on maintaining armies and navies I think the conference will fall. Duly the absolute lack of money and the Inability to see where they can get any more funds to pay for the expense of war preparedness will force the military element to accept a real disarmament. If Harding can keep them from getting the money he'll succeed with his program. It pretty largely rests on hitn.” Firestone hadu’t joined in the talk until now. . “It’s America's great opportunity,” he said. "It all depends upon the quality of American leadership. There's all the difference in the world between the man who says, 'come on, boys, follow me,' and the man who says, ‘l'm with you; where shall we go?' I P TO HARDING, FIRESTONE SAYS. "l believe Harding has the courage to map a program and say. 'Come on, boys. - If he does, he'll win. If he doesn't, he'll lose, lie's going to have subtle opposition. They won't come out In the open. But they will be right on their toes to wreck the conference if they see the slightest indication of indecision.” “The motives of men,” said Edison, slowly, "are unfathomable.” “Thump,” responded Ford. “You said it.”

Six Sent Up From County to Seek State’s Clemency

Six persons, convicted In the Criminal Court of Marion County, will go before the State board of pardons at Its next meeting. Aug. 8 to 11, asking executive clemency. Twenty-eight other persons will seek to convince the board of their eligibility for clemency, and one case will be reopened, after being denied by the board at a previous session. The Marion County men who will seek leniency are: Charles Esick Roberts, sentenced in

Fire in New York Stock Exchange Delays Trading NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Fire broke out in the New York stock exchange today. The annunciator board at the north end of the exchange was ablaze. Several lines of hose were brought into the building. Smoke was so dense that after a formal opening at 10 o’clock the board of governors postponed all trading until 1 p. m. Crossed wires were believed to have started the fire.

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Stolen Securities Confront ‘Business Genius’ and Aide in Court. SWINDLE RING CHARGE Chicago Offices of ‘Securities Company’ Raided and Leaders Held. CHICAGO, Aug. 2. —Two suitcases bulging with $200,000 worth of securities, some of them identified with various mail robberies, confronted John W. Worthington, “business genius gone wrong,” when he and hia aide, Owen E. Evans, were arraigned in Federal Court today, as the “brains” of a gigantic swindle ring, which has been implicated in many of the recent large mail robberies and schemes to defraud the Government out of great sums of money. The two suitcases were seized in Worthington’s office, the Central Securities Company. They had been taJren In charge by an “under cover" man who had been planted in the office two weeks ago, it is said, and who knew of the correspondence which Chicago's "J. Rufus Wallingford” had with his New York and San Francisco confederates. Bonds for Worthington anl his aide were set at $50,000 each by Federal Judge K M. Landis. Both men declared themselves innocent of the charges. TOLEDO AND WALL STREET LOOT IN EVIDENCE. The bulging grip of evidence, according to government men, contained part of the loot from the Toledo mail robbery and the f'hicago Deaborn station mail theft. There was also among the securities some of the Sinclair Oil stock said to have been stolen in a bold raid on l\ull Street some time ago. A profusion of war savings stamps and a large amount of "washed" internal revenue stamps were among the grip's contents. "We have the goods on Worthington,” declared Col. John V. Clinnili, assistant United States District Attorney. Several well known business men of Chicago and New York are said to be involved in a gigantic "thieves' trust,” which is alleged to have looted the United States mails and banks of millions of dollars In cash and securities during the last year. The nrrest here of John W. Worthington. who, the police say, is the "brains” of the band, and Oweu E. Evans, said to be his assistant, revealed the fast that a blanket Indictment naming twenty-six conspirators had been voted hy the grand jury. Names of others accused iu the indictment are withheld pending their arrest. According to Federal officials a dozen robberies of t anks and of the mails during recent mouths have been planned by Worthington and his associates. Worthington, it is alleged, maintained the Central Securities Company in an elaborate suite of offices bere as the “selling organization” for the disposal of the stolen securities. Altering the numbers on bonds so that they might be disposed of more readily is one of the practices charged to the "trust." . TOLEDO MAIL ROBBERY LISTED. Among the robberies said to have been planned and executed by the band were the Toledo mail robtery of Feb. 17 last; the Pullman (111.) mall robbery; the Dearborn station robbery In Chicago last April, and a score of lesser robberies in cities of the Middle West and South. Government agents are examining books and papers seizeft with the arrest of AVorthington and expect to uncover new evidence of the operations of the "trust.” According to Assistant United States .Attorney John A*. Cllnnln, the investigation thus far has only scratched the surface.

CUT LEGS OFF VOTE MACHINES Women Propose to Make Devices Practicable. Are the voting machines to be used at the comlng clty. election too high for the average women voter to reach? That is a question which is concerning County Auditor Fesler. ”1 will go out and measure them,” Mr, Fesler said today. AYord has been received here that women voters in other cities have found the machines too high for them to operate freely and have asked the election commissioners to “cut off the legs” of the machines. The makers of the machines have advised against such action. In some cities a small platform may be built to enable the women to manipulate the machine* freely and by themselves as the law contemplates.

November, 1919, to the Indiana State Reformatory, for larceny. William H. Griffith, sentenced April 19, 1921, to six months on the Indiana State Farm and fined SSOO for contributing to delinquency. James L. Griffith, sentenced April 19, 1921, to six months on the Indiana State Farm and fined SSOO for contributing to delinquency. Raymond Renfro, sentenced Nov. 26, 1920, to a term of one to fourteen years In the Indiana Reformatory, on a charge of grand larceny. Frank Shelton, sentenced July 4, 1921, to a term of thlrry days In the county Jail, and fined SIOO on a charge of viola* tlon of the liquor laws. Henry Smith, sentenced in June, 1921, to six months on the Indiana State Farm, and gned $1 and costs, for petit larceny. Nick Doudovlteh, convicted in Lake County on a charge of murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair, is asking t.ie board for commutation of sentence to life imprisonment. Dondovitch was granted a reprieve early thlg gummer by the Indiana Supreme Court, pending a full Investigation. He Is to die in the electric chair at Michigan City, Oct. 12, unless the pardon board extends clemency. Dondovitch was convicted of murdering an Italian at Gary, following %n al-> (Continued on x*age Eleven.)

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