Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 82, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Showers tonight and Wednesday. Slightly warmer tonight.

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"The Story of Ninette” A New Serial By Ruby Ayres

CHAPTER /. A Waif Is Born. - Ninette was bom in cheap lodgings in a doll road in the worst part of Balham. The road ended In a cul-de-sac. and the cheap lodgings, which were at the back of the house, overlooked a yard belonging to a veterinary surgeon, where dogs howled and barked all day and most of the eight, making sleep impossible to anybody but a woman as 111 as was Ninette's poor little mother. She was so 111 that nothing, not even Ninette’s piteous walling, could waken her from the stupor Into which she had fallen, so ill that when the landlady, who meant well, but whose heart had grown hard from too much work and too little joyousness. came and bent over her aad said sharply: "Goodness: rouae your •elf. my girl, yon can’t die here!” she did not even trouble to raise her eyelids, nor reply; so til that when the last sunset ray faded and slipped away out of sight behind the slated roof of the veterinary surgeon's stables Ninette's mother slipped away with It, leaving her baby wailing aloue in the shadowy room. There was a flue to-do in the house when It became known; the landlady wrung her hands, and ran screaming to her neighbor, and the police came, and a doctor was fetched, and half the street gathered about the gate, and someone searched hurriedly through the dead woman's belongings for means of identification. but nothing was found be yond an old book of poems with the name ’ Ninette’’ written <m the flyleaf. The landlady tossed it contemptuously aside—she had no sympathy w-lth “poetry and steb,” as she called it, and broke into fresh lamentations. It all came of being too kind hearted and taking the poor thing in her trouble: she ought to have known liettrr. that she ought! There was no gratitude in the world, or would the woman have died and landed her In for this: But that the woman was dead there was no denying, and that she had died without friends seemed an equal certainty, and late that night rthe was parried away from the house in a cheap cofTin, and the world knew her no more But the baby walled, and walled, and wailed. It lay on an Improvised bed in a corner of the* landlady's kitchen, and gave her no peace. Someone had suggested sending it to the workhouse, bur some far away memory of her youth had stim-d in the har dened heart of the landdaly and she said brusquely: “Let It be for a bit—and we’ll see." But she was tired, and the lusty crying of the motherless Infant began to get on her nerves, and she was on the verge of wrapping It In a shaw'l snd taking it off to the workhouse herself, when someone creaked down the stairs and knocked at the kitchen door. The landlady said: “Oh come in." exasperated’.y. and her frowning face did not dear at all when the door opened and a tall, thin young man of uncertain age. with mournful eyes and a rale face, entered. He shnt the door behind him and hesitated a moment before he said nervously: “The baby cries a good deal. Mrs. Burton.'' Mrs. Burton frowned more heavily “HaTe you only Just discovered that. Mr. Wheeler?" she asked with sarcasm. “Where have you been, may I ask. that you haven’t heard her yelling for the past four hours? The young man came farther Into the room till he stood besire the improvised cradle wliene Ninette lay. Even then she was a pretty baby, with quantities of soft dark hair, a rosebud of a mout'a and perfect little dimpled hands that were waving wildly in the air The young man put forward a cautious finger and Ninette’s diminutive fist dosed about it. “I shall have to take her to the workhouse after all.” Mrs. Burton went on curtly. “Not that I’ve any opinion of the workhouse, poor mite, but w'hat can 1 do? I slave from morning till night and night till morning as It Is, and the Lord knows I can only just keep body and soul together. Folks should be more con-siderate-bringing babies Into the world, poor lambs, as aren’t wanted, and not so much as leaving a penny piece to keep ’em with. I've no patience with auch things, that I haven’t.” The yonng min cleared his throat twice, nervously: then he turned round snd looked full at Mrs. Burton. “If you—ls its possible to find someone who w.ll—will look after her till—till she’s able to rough It a bit," lie said jerkily, “I shall be pleased to—delighted to—nay.” , His pale face was red enough by the time he had finished speaking and his mournful eyes were fierce ns they dared Mrs. Burton to scoff at him. But after the first amazed stare, the landlady burst Into tsars. "I’m sure I never wished to send the pretty dear to the workhouse.” she sobbed nolsllv. “It went to my heart to think of it, that It did; but what can r J do? I’m that poor meself:" The young man interrupted ruthlessly. “I have said that I will ray. There must be—surely there are —women who would take her and look after her.” Mrs. Burton dried her eyes on her apron and wept afresh. “It’s making a burden for yourself you are.” she said. “And it 'ud be fcr*ter to let her go to the workhouse right from the first, rather than bring he.- up in comfort, so to speak, and then, when she was getting big enough to look round and understand, to throw her back on charity.” “I have said I will pay.” said the yonng man again quietly. “So if you'll make arrangements—” He paused for a moment, looking down at Ninette who had Momentarily stopped (Continued on Page Three.) | WEATHER j Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.. Aug 17. 19-1 : Showers tonight and Wednesday; sllghtiv warmer tonight. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. - 0 a. m 59 7 a. ra Cl * a. 7<* 9 a. m 71 10 a. m 70 11 a 70 12 (noon) 79 1 p. m 7H 2 p. in. 79

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HUMANE SOCIETY IS RULED BY IRON HAND Chief Has Power, and Uses It, to Smother Results of Investigations of Officers. Further investigation into the affairs of the Indianapolis Humane Society, as it is conducted by a self-perpetuating board of directors w ithout a roster of members reveals:

1. That neither the mayor, the hoard of safety or the chief of police of Indianapolis has any control over the enforcement of the statutes of Indiana or the ordinances of Indianapolis pertaining to cruelty to children or animals. S. That the taxpayers of Indianapolis pay the salaries of four police sergeants and the maintenance costs of a headquarters for these men and the Community Chest provided a stipulated sum per month for the society without requiring a report of Its activities and without having any Jurisdiction over It. 3. That the four police sergeants are under the direction of an appointee of the society who acts a* their chief and directs whether prosePRISONERS QUIT RUSSIA Relief Society Estimates Only Twenty-one to Sixty Left in Country. LONDON, Aug. 16—All the American prisoners now are out of Russia, according to advices by Russian headquarters of the American Relief Society received today. The first prisoner to be released more than a firtnight ago was Mrs. Marguerite Harrison. Baltimore. Last week six more Americans crossed the Russian border and arrived at Reval. There was some doubt as to the actual number of Americans remaining in Russia, the estimate being from twenty one to sixty. London relief headquarters said the only question reraainng to be adjusted at Riga by Walter 1.. Brown, American representative, and M Lltvlnoff, Russian representative, was the personnel of the relief staff. Dll UCt LTIES BEING ADJUSTED. The Ruslans objected to the presence of any Americans or Russians on the relief staff who were in Russia at the time of the revolution. It was understood the difficulties were being adjusted With the remaining Americans out of Riga, the shipment of food, medicines and clothing into Rusia can begin immediately. Se< rotary Hoover has cabled a brief outline of principles of Russian relief which constitutes his first official order since h and Dr. Nansen were put in chsrge of the world wide relief organization. Secretary Hoover said the famine was beyond complete relief from private sources and the rehabilitation of Russian industry and Russian transport was beyond private charity. YEARLY CMCE It RENTES BATS HOOTER. “Such famines will be yearly occurrences until the economic system of Russia Is changed," said the American official. Director Brown of the American relief administration in Europe has ordered vtrtualiy the entire staffs of the Budapest and Vitnna headquarters to Riga. There are 300 trained relief workers here and 500 at Riga to assist in the work. A Riga dispatch to the Daily Express (Continued on Page Eleven.) King Peter of Servia Takes Turn for Worse WASHINGTON, Aug. 16— King Peter's condition has taken a turn for the worse, it was reported in a cable received today by the Serbian legation from Belgrade. When the cable was dispatched yesterday the king's temperature was 102, with a pulse of 124. King Peter is suffering from a complication of diseases brought on by old age.

America’s Oldest Train on View at Union Station

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The oldest locomotive In the United States and the fastest locomotive In the world vero expected to arrive simultanenously In Indianapolis at 4 this afternoon. The oldest locomotive will be polled Into the city by the fastest one, the former riding In state on a flat ear. The oldest locomotive Is the IV Witt Clinton, which was manufactured In IS3I and which Is tb second locomotive to t>e built in America. The fastest is the l:i----mous •1*99," which was built in 1893 for exhibition at the Chicago world's fair and which attained a speed of 112 miles an hour In a test run. The oldest train will be placed on • rack N'o. 1 at the Union Station along with the fastest locomotive, and they will remain on exhibition until 4:15 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The exhibit was to he brought here by the Big Four from Chloago, where It was displayed at

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rations shall or shall not bo brought, but is not, himself, under bond, nor is he responsible for his actions to any one. The manipulations through which there has been established in Indianapolis a pptit police force wherein regularly com - missioned officers of the law are directed and controlled by a man outside the police force, who is not even compelled to report to the board of safety dates back several years. DIRECTORS EI.ECTEI) BT DIRECTORS. In a previous article It has been shown that the board of directors of the humane society are presumed to he elected, five each year, by the members of the aociety Itself, bnt that In the absence of (Continued on Page Two.) ONE TRIAL IN MURDERCASE Accused Woman's ex-Husband to Head the Defense Attorneys. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 10. - Madalyun* Obenchaln and Arthur C. Burch will be tried together for the alleged murder of J. Belton Keunedy and will be defended by the same lawyers, it was revealed here today. Ralph Obenchaln, former husband of the accused Madalynne. is in charge of the corps of attorneys, including Leeompte Davis and Warren Williams, criminal lawyers of note. Davis was retained at first to represent Burch, but following a conference of lawyers today, it was decided to merge the trluls. A secret love note received by Mrs. Obenchaln was sought today as new corroborating of her story The note, written by Kennedy, was #a!d to have been slipped into Mrs. Ohen- ; chain’s hand and read by her while she still wore her bridal gown, only a few minutes after she and Obenchaln had been wedded—“for better or for worse." That such a not# was sent by Kennedy to Mrs. Obenchaln on her wed dug day was revealed by Mrs. Thelma E." sra?th. Los Angeles, Mrs. Obenchaln’s cousin. Mn. Smith said It was known to her and several others that Mr*. Obenchaln received the letter, which was sent by special delivery The love note, now missing, became an important new plement In the case. tie. cause. R was claimed, it will be a substantiation of Mrs. Obenchaln'a story that, her love for Kennedy was roelproeated and denial of the prosecution's theory that she pursued the man who was slain. Whether Obenchaln. who Is in Los Angeles to direct Mrs. Obenchain's defense, knew of the note sent to his wife by Kennedy on the day she was married was uncertain. Obenchaln has been quoted ns (Continued on Pge Eleven.) Falls Off Bicycle; Hit by Street Car Carl Shackel. IS, 1395 Linden street, was painfully injured about the logs today when he fell from a bicycle in Virginal avenue at Fountain Square and was struck by a south bound Minnesota street car In charge of Motorman A. B Dalpy, 25 North Capitol avenue. He wa* removed to the city hospital. Motorpolicemen Hyland and Msngus investigated. THIEF GETS 50 PENNIES. When Mrs. Frank L. Ilartsock, 117 Weat Twenty Third street, returned home today she found her bouse had been ransacked and that fifty pennies had baeu taken. The thief gained entrance byusing a skeleton key.

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the Pageant of Progress exposition. The first trip of the Re Witt Clinton was made o.a the Mohawk & lludson Railroad in 1831 from Albany to Schenectady, N. T. It was planned to make the trip, using an English locomotive, the British railroads having been Just a step ahead of those in tae United States, but the Imported locomotive failed to fanctioij and the Re Witt Clinton was substituted. train consisted of stage roaches on which the ordinary wheels had been replaced by flanged wheels. The locomotive . burned wood and twice on the trip it was found necessary to stop and cut j down trees for fuel. | The old locomotive weighs only 0.758 j pounds, the tender 5,340 pounds and each coach 3,420 pounds. The englua Is twelve feet ten inches long, the tender ten teet eight Inches long and the entire train eixty-flre feet nine Inches long. This Is (Continued on Page Ten.)

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1921.

R. K. DEVRICKS FILES SUIT TO OUST SWAILS Formal Demand for Possession of County Superintendent’s Office Rejected. INCUMBENT HOLDS SWAY Claimant Reviews Election, hut Makes No Mention of Pike Township. Marion County today js experiencing the sensation of having two superintendents of schools with Supt. Lee E. Swails refusing to va- 1 cate the office and with Robert K. Devricks, not only claiming the otlice but asking in a suit filed before Judge Linn Hay of Superior Court, Room 2, that Swails be “ousted." Formal demand in writing was made upon Superintendent Swails to vacate the office by Thomas Stevens of Adams & Stevens, counsel for Devricks. At the time of the demand for the surrender of the office. Superintendent Swail# wa# surrounded by many friends, both men and women being present. SWAIL.H REU SES TO SI It KEN DEB OFFICE. After rending the demand, Mr. Swails put the paper down on hi# desk. “You will refuse to surrender the of floe?" Mr#. Stevens asked. "I do," Superintendent Swails replied Mr. Stevens advised Mr. Swails to re tain the written demand Mr. Stevens, who wa# accompanied to the superintendent's office by Mr. Devricks. left as peacefully a# he entered It. Mr. Derricks and hi# counsel then pro reeded to the office of County Clerk Richard V. Slpe where quo warranto proceedings were filed in Superior Court. Room 2, by Mr. Derrick# agaiu#l Mr Swails. The suit alleges that Mr. Swails "has wrongfully aad unlawfully kept the re lator out of poaeaalon of said office since said time, wherefore the plaintiff prays that the defendant be ousted from said office and that relator have possession thereof, recover his costa in said action and all other proper relief.” NAMES ONLY EIGHT TBI STEE9 The suit I# in four paragraphs. One allegation is that on Juno 6. 1921, Marion County wa# composed of only eight townshirs and with as many trustees. The complaint claims that William Evans wa# trustee of Center Township; Joseph Hill man for Wayne; James Burk for Decatur ,J. Ed. Wbeatly for Franklin; Daniel M. 1,. Voylcs for I’erry ; Ed. J. H<*ck er for Warren; Guy A. Hamilton for Lawrence and Charles P. Wright for (Continued on i’nge Two.) DEPARTMENT OF THEFT COSTLY New State Bureau Has Expended $66,000 —Collections Total $172,000. The State Au'.omoblle Theft Depart ment Is proving to be one of tho most expensive In tl.e State, according to j figures in tho office of the auditor of State. in the few week# of it* cxistance the department ha# spent a total of $06.4-C and has turned over in collections a 1 total of *172,9*1.30. The figures show that up to and including the month of July the department turned over *04,258.76 in receipt* ' from the sale of certificates of tittle and that the expenditure# totalled s4l. 943.42. Os the amount snout $25,104.42 came out of the highway fund for the organlza- ] tion of the new- department before tho collections started, and this amount was turned back to the highway fund under the provisions of the law under which the automobile theft department was created. For the first fourteen days of August the disbursements of the department totaled $24,458.81. The department is engaged in the issuance of certificates of title to the owners of automobiles and in the main tenanee of a police force to enforce nu- ! totuobile license and title laws. CAN SEE NO HOPE FOR PENROSE BILL Administration Abandons' Chance of Passage. WASHINGTON, Aug. IC—So widespread ha# become the opposition to the ! Penrose hill, concentrating power in the - Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate ! settlement of the $10,000,000,000 allied indebtedness that the Administration has given np hope < f passage of the bill before the contemplated recess of Congress, j it was learned today at tho White House. ! Meanwhile all negot'ations with for j elgu governments concerning their in- 1 debtedness to the United States are held i up making it virtually certain that when ahe world powers assemble in Washington in November they still will be indebted to the United States in largo amounts. Rich Man’s Son Held on Bad Check Charge CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Roland Joseph Munster, son of a retired millionaire packer, today was remanded to the sheriff for incarceration In the county Jail after be had confessed in an affidavit that he had passed a number of worthless checks. Munster set forth that he was penniless, that he was unable to pay lbs divorced wife alimony and that Ms penury forced him to puss the checks, CHINA AYON’T, WHATEVER IT IS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—China win not be internationalized, reports to the contrary notwithstanding, It waa made known today at ths State Department.

England Amazed at De Valera*s Speech LONDON, Aug. 16.—British officials in Downing street were amazed this afternoon when informed of the contents of Eamonn De Valtra’g speech before Dail Eireann in Dublin, reiterating his demand foil an Irish republic and announcing that the Sinn Fein could not negotiate further with the British cabinet. It was learned tbal however provocative Dp Valera’s words might he considered, the British cabinet would not reply to them in Commons or elsewhere pending a formal communication from Dail Eli.eann. De Valera s speech was interpreted as an apparent rejection of the English peace terms. Officials commented with amazement upon the tenor of the Sinn Fein leader's address. It was regarded as most significant that English soldiers on leave at l’aruboro and Aldershot have been ordered to rejoin their regiments immediately. The war office this evening officially confirmed that all troops on leave from Ireland aro be ing recalled as a precautionary rueas ure. Otherwise, It was pointed out, It would be impossible for the soldiers to return to Ireland quickly enough, should an emergency arise.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN SUICIDES Climbs to Railing of Washington Street Bridge, Hesitates. Lets Go. A man believed to be about 35 committed suicide by Jumping from the West Washington street bridge Into White River this afternoon. The police, summoned by employe* of the Acme-Evans Compuny, who witnessed the fatal plunge, are dragging the 'river for the oody. while hundred* of spectator# line the bridge railing and the banks of the river. Although the bridge was crowded with traffic ut the t me, no one could he found who actually saw the man clamber on the railing and make the Jump Numbers of witnesses, however, saw the man struggling in the water. The pollee nl#o are searching for a young boy who Is said to have seen the man clinging to tlit# rail evidently debating whether to let go. Adam Neely, 1501 Coffee street, said he saw the man struggling in the water, which la not moro than five to eight feet deep under the bridge. He sold be heard a boy describe how the man crawled up on the railing and how ho let himself hang down on the outside. the boy said, according to Neely, that th“ man drew himself up once, hesitated and then let go. Albert Douglas, negro, 962 Dole street, said the w*.t '-nine tip four times after dropping into the water. Charles Sills, 3416 West, Washington street, a driver for the Pentecost wagon, said he estimated the man to be about 36 years old. He said w hem he saw him when only his fa-w was above the water. When tho alarm was given several persons attempted to reach the water, but were prevented by tho flood walls which are steep at that point, other* tried to obtnln a boat which was tied several hundred feet up the river, but desisted when they found It was locked. The victim’s black cap was floating down tbo river a# tlio police grappled for the body. The man Jumped freen the middle of the second span of the eest end of the bridge, which Is about forty feet above the surface of toe river. It 1* believed he was Injured a* the water hardly had depth enough to break Ms fall. KANSAS CITY IS SHOCKED; 'VICE ORGIES* CAUSE Names of 111 Business Men, Society Women, Students Listed in Apartment. KANSAS CITT, Mo , Aug 10.—Orgies of a "school of vice," which rivals the "rovels of Belshazzar” and in which Innocent high school girls and boys were the victims, were revealed today following a raid upon a luxurious apartment in an exclusive residential district and the arrest of R. W. Harrod and Albert W. English, 36. The men confessed * > on astounding story of immorality rnd gave police a list of thirty names cf high school students who had been lured to their apartment. When these were questioned by the police the names of a score of othp-% were revealed who had tnkeu part in the "parties.” A book found in tho apartment contained tho names of ill men and women, many of them prominent in business amt society, who, It 1* alleged, took part in the orgies. Upper Silesian Huns Asked to Keep Cool BERLIN, Aug. 16.—The German government today appealed to the German residents of Upper Silesia to keep cool and not start anything, pending solution of the Upper Silesian issue by the council of the League of Nations. It is understood Adalbert Korfantyf Polish commissioner in Upper Silesia and lender of tho Polish insurrection, will attend the League of Nations meeting as representative of the Polish population of the disputed territory. Confesses Murder ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Aug. 16.—Mike Wren, taken Into custody at Gower, nine miles from here, today confessed, according to officers, that he murdered Ross Hammond near Bradyville, Jowa, a week ago and burled the body in a shallow grave in a cornfield. Hammond was shot twice. Wren is said to have deedared. #48,700.000 RILL O. K.’d WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—The deficiency appropriation bill carrying $48,500.000 for the United States Shipping Board and $200,000 to defray the expenses of the disarmament conference, was ordered favorably reported to the Senate today by ths Appropriations Committee. i t

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DE VALERA FOR FIRM STAND TO GET REPUBLIC ‘President of Ireland’ Takes Uncompromising Attitude for Independence. ENGLAND IS PREPARED Would Declare Martial Law if Negotiations End and Use Troops to Rule. LONDON, Aug. 16.—The British government i3 fully prepared to deal instantly with Ireland in the event the peace negotiations collapse, it was officially stated this afternoon. The government has outlined the following two alternatives in the event the armistice is ended; 1. If the Sinn Fein does not attempt violence, Great Britain will institute crown colony rule in Ireland under the home rule law. 2. If the conflict is renewed, all Sinn Fein Ireland will be put under martial law and all eviil governments will be abrogated. Sir Nevll Maclleady, commander-in-chief of the British forces in Ireland will be given a free hand with all the men, guns and equipment he desires. DUBLIN, Aug. 16. —“We mean to fight for our principles and we mean to die for them if necessary,” declared Eamonn De Valera, head of the Sinn Fein government in Ireland, in opening the session of Dali Eireann (Sinn Fein parliament) here today. De Valera quote-1 from a speech by Premier Lloyd eGorga regarding the freedom of small nations “These are our principles, too," continued the Slcn Fetn chief. "They are now and always will be." Silence so deep one could have heard a pin drop reigue.l while De Valera was speaking. The Sinn ielners declared it was the best speech their >ader had ever made. A# De Valera ceased the audience ros; In their seat# and cheered lustily. IRELAND MIST HE HEP t BMC. De Valera declared Ireland must be a republic. "It 1# practically impossible to negotiate with the present British govern meat, he said, "because it is unprincipled. It 1# like negotiating with a man with a pistol to your bead. We are fighting for human progress and civillbation. "The Irish republic has been sanctioned by the will of the people. "The Irish people recognize only the Stun Fein ministry and Dail Eireann as tlielr government." De Valera continued: "Premier Lloyd Georgo told the American soldiers that they were fighting for the principle of independence and that when they canto to Europe they were fighting for the liberty of small nations. The principles that Lloyd George expressed on that day are ours." Dail Eireann will consider the English proposal# In private and then will communicate the decision at a public session. Da Valera said Dail Elruann would formulate a reply which would be sent to London. De Valera declared that, “only on the (t’ontlnurd on Page Eleven.)

AGREEMENT ON UPPER SILESIA Lloyd George Says Trouble With France Has Been Settled Satisfactorily. LONDON, Aug 16.—Questions menacing the solidarity of the alliance between France and Great Britain have been satisfactorily settled, Lloyd George declared in commons today. Reviewing the recent actions of the supremo council, the British premier declared ha was gratified to be able to announce a settlement of the ipost troublesome questions. He characterized the French belief that the appropriation of coal, tin and Iron mines in Silesia was essential to French security as a delusion. Fire Breaks Out on Ship Carrying Smuts LONDON, Aug. 16.—Fire has broken out In the coal bunkers of the British steamship Saxon, which is en route for Sierra I.eone, but is under control, suid n Lloyds dispatch tills afternoon. Among the 500 passengers on board Is Gen. .Tun Christian Smuts, premier of South Africa.

Swish of Hays ’ Brush Is Stilled by Last Pay Check Doubtful How Long Job Might Have Lasted, but Then, Primary’s Over.

The swash of Hays Wilson's merry wall cleaners no longer breaks the dignified calm of the city hall. Long would the classic walls of the municipal headquarters, could they talk, tell of just how diligently and bow fruitfully (for themselves) Hays and his merry mural moppers stuck on the Job. In language understood only to themselves, and dlscernable only whpn they are aroused to echoes by the heavy footfalls of some unwitting citizen not equipped with the regulation gum shoes which tradition requires be worn around all governmental centers, the tall columns In the rotunda will discuss how painstakingly wr their neighbors, the wails and ceilings, caressed wtth Hays Wil-

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HENRY CABOT LODGE. HOLDS PEACE ENDANGERED IN PROPOSAL Writer Says Adoption Would Make Negro Obstacle in Unnecessary Way. BOSS TWEED OUTBOSSED [EDITOR’S NOTE—This is the tenth of a scries of articles ou the constitutional amendment# which will be published in the Daily Time# with a view to giving readers information and opinions such as will assist them in determining how to vote Sept. 0.) lty JACOB r. m N.N. The twelfth proposed amendment on the ballot will be that admitting negroes to the militia. The Times already has printed my objections to this; that it will inevitably cause race rioting and engender race hostility. These objections are axiomatic in character, and do not admit of much argument. The reader either realizes that these results would follow, or he does not realize it; and there is no way of proving what will happen in the future. As to the past, I take this opportunity to make a correction. In the printed copies of my speech of June 17, on the amendments. 1 added a footnote stating that John "Bob” Forcztal, who was shot In West Indianapolis on June 26. while attempting to kill a police officer, was a negro tough. I made the statement on information that I supposed at the time was reliable, but learned later that he was a white tough. For the purpose of illustration, however, 1 will substitute for this affair the robbery and criminal as sault of a city hospital nurse by negroes, on July 15. which Is equally applicable to tho point I was making. This amendment has a peculiar distinction as an example of politicians making the negro an obstacle to good government. It was proposed, not from any consideration of public welfare, or welfare of the negro, but. on the theory that it would cause the solid negro vote to be cast for all of the amendments, without regard to their merits. This scheme has (Continued on Face Seven.)

CONGRESS’ JOB NOT NEAR DONE Five Measures Must Be Finished Before Solons Get Rest. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Legislates tasks set for Congress by President Harding before It can take a rest today appear impossible of completion before the middle of next week. Unfinished measures which must go to the President before Congress gets away are: The Canper-Tincher anti-grain gambling bill; the $1,000,000,000 farmcredits bill; the resolution extending tho emergency tariff and the defltclency bill carrying $4.8,500,000 for the shipping board and $200,000 for the disarmament conference expenses. The tax revision bill must pass the House and go over to the Senate. Destroy ‘Evidence’ COOLIDGE, Texas, Aug. 16.—The body of Alex Wlnu, negro, was taken from an undertaking establishment early today by a mob and burned. Winn was hanged by a mob yesterday at Dafure. He was accused of assaulting a 17-.vear-old girl.

son's sponges all through the balmy days of spring ond of course the primary and darned noar through the whole summer. THE BIG BROWN BOOK KNOWS A LI.. Meanwhile a big brown book called the “allowance record" down in the office of the board of public works will chuckle over the true account of the extent of Hays’ long and fruitful labor which It carries. For the city ball walls are cleaned at last—that Is, roost of the walls. The board of works finally stopped Hays before he got done. The columns In the rotunda also probably will comment (Continued on Fug* Seven.) v ak

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APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED BY WHITE HOUSE Senate Leader Second Member to Be Selected for U. S. Commission. COST AT LEAST MILLION Unofficial Estimates Say $200,000 Requested Is Only a Starter. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. —Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican 1 leader of the Senate and chairman’ of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will be a member of the American commission at the coming conference on disarmament and Pacific policies, it was officially announced at the White House this afternoon. Senator Lodge is the second mem-; her of the commission to be named, 1 the President having announced, previously that Secretary of State. Hughes would head the commission.' The ease of Korea, now smarting un- : der Japanese domination, will be pre-[ seated to the conference by Dr. Syngmanl Rhee, president of the provisional gov-j eminent of Korea, it was announced. Dr.i Rhea is due to land in San Francisco! today. He was educated in the United State*, 1 having been graduated from Harvard and Princeton. The conference will cost the United! States at least $1,000,900, according to conservative unofficial estimates here to-, day. Ths $200,000 appropriation requested by Under Secretary of State Fletcher i! regarded as merely a start on the total bill which the United States will be re-, quired to foot after the last delegate bo# started home. Hut even should the expense run far over the one million dollar rough estimate, this would be only a fraction of the cost of one battleship, officials point out. The decision of Premier Briand to attend in person undoubtedly will result In a similar decision by Lloyd George, officials here believe.

FRANCE SENDS ACCEPTANCE PARIS. Aug. 16.—France's official acceptance of the invitation to participate in President Harding's proposed disarmament conference was submitted to tbo American embassy today for transmission to Washington. The message said Premier Briand himself will attend the conference. GIANT STILL TAKEN IN RAID Officials Get Whisky Plant o£ Unusual Capacity in Farm House. A “giant" whisky still of one hundred) gallons capacity and a “baby” still of] fifteen gallons ability were discovers#}] today by a raiding party headed byl Sheriff George Snider, Federal and cltyj polico officers. J The stills were found in the basements) of a deserted farmhouse on the Gordozß road. The officers also recovered nine-] teen gallons of “white mule,” thirteen! barrels, containing 750 gallons of mash,] and two oil stoves. The "mystery house” is a half mil® north of Flackvllle on Rural Route, A-la Tho "moonshiner’s” residence is a large] modern farm Louse. All the furniture theg house contained was a bed. Sheriff Snider, Deputy Sheriff Jesse; Colderbead, Patrolman Frank Conway, ant Federal prohibition enforcement agents) visited the house late at night. For) hours the party kept watch on the house) in the hopo that the “moonshiner” would] return. He failed to make his once and has not been arrested. Offi-j cers think that the man in question hast fled from the county. At midnight Sheriff Snider and the. other officers left, the farm house and the task of watching tho house was then undertaken by Lieutenant Houston, Sergeant Hudson, ratrolmen Giles and Evhns. The watch was again taken up by Sheriff Snider. 1 Federal prohibition enforcement agents declare the hundred-gallon still is one of' tho largest unearthed by local officials.! It is thought that the stills have been in operation for many months. The po-j lice believe that the man who has been! operating the still came from Kentucky. Industrial Condition in Steel District Good SHARON. Pa., Aug. 16.—Business in the great Sharon-Youngstown steel districts Is rapidly Improving with many men going back to work. The Sharon Steel lloop Company has put more mills and furnaces in operation at its various plants In the district and Svcrn P. Kern, president of the company, said today tho volume of business is the greatest this year and expects a further Increase in September. The Greenville, I’a., car works is running at full capacity.

New Bill in House Would Aid Credits WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Ten years’ imprisonment and SIO,OOO fuie for any person offering for sale or purchasing at less than face value any Government hond or obligation is provided in a bill introduced in the House today by Representative Herrick, Oklahoma. The bill is offered as a means of bringing Government securities to par and preserving the national credit.