Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1921 — Page 11

LIVES OF 8.000 INFANTS SAVED IN SINGLE YEAR Rate Shows Gradual Decrease, Though 1918 Struck High Mark. gain due to influenza NEW YORK. Auer. U.—The American Child Hygiene Association in its preliminary report for 1920, details what happened to the bames horn in 519 cities of OTer 10.000 population. The repo-t cows nil cities in twenty-one States. The total population of these El# cities, according to the 1920 census was orer $6. ,254.(XX‘, and the total number of babies born was nearly £70,000. It may be regarded as a fairly definite index of what the wastage of human life has been in the cities of the United States. Those who hare spent years studying and fighting the problem say that 50 per cent of the baby deaths are unnecessary; that they are due to ignorance, poverty and bad housing, and the greatest or these is#gnorance. The report is “Commended to the thoughtful attention of mayors health officers, editors, citizens, taxpayers, in the interest of the 2.500.006 babiee born in the United States each year.” The infant mortality rate Is the number of deaths under one year per thousand births. In this group of cities the rate is slightly higher than in l'.tl#, but it is lower than iu any other of the years given. In a general way, the groups o ft he very large and the very ■mail cities have the lowest rates. Putting the last line of figures into more striking form, if the rates of 19i6 or 1917 had prevailed last year, there would have been respectively (,9.:i52 or 6.044 more baby deaths, while if that of 1918 had prevailed, there would have been 1,265 less. The rate for 1918 is not fair for comparison on account of the Influenza epidemic that Taking the average rates for the previous Tour years for comparison with IDA) would make a more fair estimate.

There was. therefore, a saving of over 6.000 baby lives in 1820. The rates for individual cities In the three first groups In theft order are as follows: Population 1916 1917 1018 1919 1920 Over 25U.000 97.9 95.0 102.9 85.9 S*9 100,000-230,000 ...1070 104.0 116.1 92.8 94 1 50,000 100,000 ...1(18 0 100.3 105.3 59.7 93.9 25.0)0- 50,000 ...103.1 95 2 108.3 88.2 67.5 10.000 25.000 ..105.3 100 7 113.0 03 9 91.6 All cities in area. 10i 1 98.1 106.8 990 90.5 Average 1916 1919 1920 Change Over 250,000 95.7 SS.9 6 8 1(0.000 250.000 105.0 94 1 10.9 50.000 100,000 99.6 93 9 5 7 25.000- 50,000 87.5 87.5 10.7 10,00. >- 25,000 163.2 91.6 11 6 All Cities 93.8 90.5 8.3 CITIES OF OVER 230,000 POPULATION. 1918 1917 1318 1919 1920 Seattle. Wash 58 61 61 55 56 Portland. Ore 57 62 77 69 i0 San Francisco. Ca1..67 6.3 67 62 62 Minneapolis, Minn. 82 71 7.3 65 63 Los Angeles, Cal.. 69 71 77 67 72 St. Louis, Mo 89 85 93 73 77 Cincinnati. Ohio.. 98 88 104 88 82 New Orleans. La.. 94 112 121 91 84 Rochester, N. Y... 86 84 92 74 84 New York City .. 93 S3 92 SI 85 Newark, X. J 89 87 104 76 85 Cleveland. 0hi0... In 9 109 98 96 86 Philadelphia Pa.. 105 105 124 91 89 Washington, D. C. 106 97 112 85 90 Indianapolis, lad. 88 95 9.3 80 90 Milwaukee Wia. 114 100 106 101 #2 Boston, Mass 105 99 115 .7 101 Denver. Colo 80 82 110 98 101 Jersey City, N. J 10.3 91 119 102 101 Detroit. Mich 112 103 100 97 104 Baltimore, Md 122 118 149 9.8 104 Buffalo, N. Y 11l 104 121 110 104 Pittsburgh, Pa... 115 120 139 114 110 Kansas City, Mo 92 lhs 115 102 129 CITIES OF 100.000 TO

2.50,000 rOPLLATIOV. 1316 1917 19 IS 1919 1990 Houston, Texas... 127 82 102 99 37 Spokane. Wash... .59 62 77 65 71 Oakland, Qkl 64 71 73 6f 72 Salt Lake City, F. 77 67 66 77 73 St. Paul, Minn 68 74 87 68 73 Paterson, X. J.... 109 82 142 78 77 Reading, Pa 125 101 142 103 78 Albany. X. Y 97 109 115 81 73 Norfolk, Va 127 112 138 108 *2 Davton. 0hi0...... 100 98 87 80 83 Springfield, Maas 95 91 107 84 85 Louisville, Ks 103 97 112 98 83 Kew Haven. Conn. 88 84 90 73 87 Akron, Ohio 118 112 102 106 88 Yonkers. N. Y 90 85 104 B<> S3 Dallas, Texas 92 88 110 94 >9 Toledo, Ohio 109 95 94 90 ',6) Providence, R. 1.. 110 102 123 88 91 Omaha, Xeb 77 75 90 88 92 Bridgeport, Conn. 106 S’ 100 88 92 Columbus. 0hi0... 89 83 101 94 95 Youngstown, Ohio. 156 147 126 99 94 Trenton. X. J 113 103 118 105 7 G. Rapids, Mich. 75 83 86 S5 >9) Hartford. Conn... 101 103 118 95 I*9 Wilmington, Del.. 115 124 186 104 101 Syracuse. X. Y 100 I**2 118 91 105 / ::an'a. Ga 1.52 157 141 109 107 Kansr.3 Cltv, Kan. 71 112 136 103 107 Camden, N. J 135 187 I*3 123 108 Richm >nd, Va.. . 1.87 1.86 147 106 109 X. Bedford, Ma s 189 135 193 122 117 Scranton, Pa 131 88 141 99 120 Birmingham, Ala.. 105 143 134 97 125 Fall River, Mass. 173 159 180 113 m Nashville, Tenn.. 136 106 139 106 203 POPFI.ATIOX 50.000 TO 100,000. 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 Tacoma, Wash. ... 61 55 66 66 37 Berkeley, Cal 44 43 57 44 45 San Diego, Cal ... 75 54 92 62 52 Long Beach Cal. -.42-61 49 49 60 East Orange. N. J. 45 52 39 40 63 Somerville. Mass... 67 6 96 61 71 Racine, Wis 33 92 96 82 71 Bayonne. X. J 93 96 106 105 73 Bethlehem Pa. ...130 114 109 93 73 Lincoln, Xeb 81 77 82 65 75 Lansing, Mich 89 93 68 125 77 Springfield, Ohio.. 82 86 103 92 77 Lynn, Mass 87 80 S3 66 77 Ft Wayne, 1nd.... 73 67 86 7.5 79 Elizabeth. X. J.... 101 110 124 85 80 Rockford, IU 100 10l H 2 93 81 rtlca, X. Y 11l 101 120 89 32 Oklahoma Cltv, Ok. M 85 103 72 84 Sacramento. Cal... 87 91 88 74 84 Schenectady. X. Y. 79 97 101 79 85 Altoona, Pa. ..'....105 9 123 38 86 Atlantic City. X. J. 78 95 12*4 101 87 Topeka. Kan S3 111 94 73 87 Peoria. 11l 88 Binghamton, X. Y. 136 105 95 94 89 Covington, Ky 105 104 100 90 Hoboken. X. .1 90 99 97 70 91 Evansville. Ind. ... 90 117 97 89 93 Erie. Pa 11l 87 113 78 94 Lancaster. Pa 110 92 130 97 94 Cantn. Ohio 107 100 75 88 94 Niagara Fa11a.X.T.132 122 101 114 94 Wichita, Kan 74 81 85 91 94 Springfield, 111. ...100 95 io 97 95 St. Joseph. Mo 79 67 110 93 95 Flint. Mich 137 100 91 104 95 WUkest.arre. Pa. . 11l 103 118 85 96 Tampa. Fla 96 93 109 77 96 Brockton. Mass. ... 92 67 95 77 97 Roanose. Va 96 93 109 77 99 New Britain. Ct. .112 107 103 95 100 Troy. X. T 96 141 144 117 103 Sooth Bend. 1nd...110 102 94 87 103 Haverhill, Maas ..90 93 73 £6 103 Water ; urr. Conn. 139 105 115 113 103 Allentown, Pa .105 81 96 95 103 Manchester. X H 157 150 144 111 108 Jacksonville. Fla . 86 120 112 93 110 Harrisburg. Pa. ...105 81 96 93 lil Terre Haute. 1nd..112 89 107 36 112 Oarr Ind 152 142 131 102 112 Pasaaic. X. J 130 119 127 82 112 E. St. Louis. 111...104 153 157 112 113 Portsmouth. Vt. ...122 I**9 145 jot in Duluth. Minn 81 83 85 78 116 Chester!!. Pa 154 115 145 94 116 Knoxville, Tenn 139 116 Portland. Me 117 81 93 82 lIP Johns-own. Pa ...132 130 130 113 120 Mobile. Ala 106 127 127 116 120 Saginaw. Mk-h 11l 99 192 111 123 Savannah, Ga .. _ 166 Brumfield Reaches Portland; Won't Talk PORTLAND. Ore . Aug. 17 —Still preserving his almost sphynx like silence. Dr F M Brumfield, en route to Roseburg. Ore., where he will be charged for mallv with the murder of Dennis Rug sell, arrived in Portland early today with Sheriff Starraer of Douglas County snd was Immediately rushed to the Multnomah County Jail.

‘OTHER WOMAN’ NOW SOUGHT IN KENNEDY CASE (Continued From Page One.) munieation with her during the time tsbe was living with the Chicago lawyei ? 2. What strange Influence does she exert over Obenehain to force him to allow her to obtain a divorce so that she might fly to Kennedy? And now what powerful impulse leads Obenehain to give up his position, prospects of advancement and rush half way across the continent to her aid? 3 Wbat is her hold on Arthur C. Burch, that he should leave his business bankrupt and travel 3,000 miles “to help out a pal?” “The only explanation of Burch and Obenehain is that, "she Is innocent.’ ” Woolwine said. “That doesn’t explain the many puzzling circumstances of this ease. BEEKS SOLUTION OF “SILENCE CONSPIRACY.” “They have made no effort to help us arrive at the true solution of this crime, if they are innocent, why don't they do so? Burch doesn't try to explain the tracks of the automobile which we can prove he took from the garage. Why doesn’t he tell us where he went on that forty-four mile drive if he is innocent? lie hasn't told us about the package be rushed from the hotel with in answer to a call believed to have come from Madalynne; nor of Madalynne's visits disguised as a blonde, to his room, nor of his undoubted espionage on Kennfdy’s office.” “What was he doing here anyway?” snapped the prosecutor. Woolwine said he was going to find out “what these two are afraid will become publltv-so much afraid, if they are innocent, as they claim—that they will face the gallows before, they will reveal it.” The prosecutor declared if the two were innocent and they told the truth freely when questioned, "ways would have been found to substantiate their statements” and they probably would not have been indicted. Obenehain, one point of the strange triangle, sat in the office of Leeompte Davis, criminal lawyer, and participant In a hundred hard fought murder trials. Studying the law of crime. Obenehain, who is a civil lawyer, with not a criminal case to his record, endeavored to gain some knowledge of the California statutes on which his former wife's fate rests. HUSBAND’S FAITH

REMAINS UNSHAKEN. "I know she is innocent and I don't believe the stories I have heard shout her,” he said. “She never deceived me. She told me of everything she did. I knew of Kennedy. I knew of Burch. We talked things over honestly and dearly. “They talk of Madalynne about to become a mother. It's impossible. There is one doctor now in Evanston who knows that beyond a question. "Even since her divorce, Madalynne came to me for advice. I was her confidante. I knew what she did and I know Just what I am doing. I am going to find out who killed Kennedy and why. I am-going to bare his life to the world so every one will know Just the kind of a man he was. In that baring, I expect to find the solution of the murder.” A fight to release Mrs. Obenchatn for the murder of J. Baltou Kpnnedy, from ths county Jail on ball, pending her trial, will be started as soon as she enters her plea at her arraignment before Superior Judge Reeve Monday, it developed. The application for ball for Mrs. Obenebain will be based on the claim that confinement In the Jail will ruin her boalth because of her frail physical condition. it was stated. While the California law makes the question of ball in a murder case discretionary with the court, Vrm Angeles Judges have an unalterable rule against the re/easH of persons charged with murder. pending trial. Friends of Mrs. Obenehain declared that should the application for ball be overruled the court would bs asked to transfer her from the Jail to the county hospital, where confinement is less irksome.

SAYS 3D PARTY KILLED BELT OX KENNEDY CHICAGO. Aug. 17.—“ Theres a third party in this murder.” In these words, Harry Lawrence, attorney and special Investigator for the district attorney's ofioe In Los Angeles, today advanced a sensational theory In the fatuous Kennedy murder case In California, and expressed his belief that Madalynne Obencbain, beautiful divorcee, and Arthur C. Burch, did nut frame Kennedys death.” Some other woman, disappointed In love, killed the Western bon vlvant, Lawrence told E. E Wilson of Evanston, while he was In that city investigating anew angle of the mnrJer mystery. ‘ All Burch has to do Is to sit tight and keep his mouth closed and he will go free,” sVilson says Lawrence declared. "He told me it was his opinion Madalynne Obenchaln and Burch did not frame Kennedy's death, but that some other woman, disappointed In love, had slain him." Wilson said. "Lawrence wes of the opinion tills woman happened on the scene Just after Burch and Mrs. Obenchaln, who, however, had 'framed' to force Kennedy to marry the latter, had held an unsatisfactory conference with Kennedy. He thought the woman or her confederates then shot the man.” Lawrence left today for Los Angeles. Just what Information he obtained here concerning the "third party” he did not disclose. J. WORTHINGTON AS JEKYLL-HYDE ‘Honest' John Also Conducted Legitimate Deals. CHICAGO. Aug. 17. —“Honest” John Worthington, alleged brains of the "mail theft trust," Is n modern Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde, according to an amazing revelation announced today by Federal officials. At the same time he is alleged to have been directing the operations of a bandit gang stealing millions In securities In mail robberies. Worthington negotiated legitimate financial deals for some of the biggest bankers in America, the Federal oficers declare. v Owen E. Evans, former National Bank examiner and held as Worthington s aide in the "theft trust," gave the Government first-hand Information concerning the remarkable deception executed by "Honest" John. He is said to have made a “clean breast" of all bis associations with Worthington. He will be'released on bla own recognizance. ' Officials now believe Evans war. “hired by Worthington to lend an air of respect to Worthington's schemes.”

Name Publicity Man for G. A. R. Conclave Announcement was made today by John B. Reynolds, executive secretary of the executive committee in charge of the arrangements for the fifty-fifth encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which is to be held In Indiahapolls. Sept. 23 jo 29, of the appointment of Grier M. Shotwell as publicity director of the encampment. Mr. Shotwell, whose home Is In Indianapolis. served during the World War as an official Army photographer with the American expedition to north Russia He will begin his duties as publicity director for the G. A. R. encampment immediately, with headquarters in the office of Fred Millis. Inc., In the Chamber of Commerce building.

SITE OF FIRST HOUSE MAY RE PARK LOCATION \Vork3 Board Offers Ground to Board of Park Commissioners. QUIZ SAFETY OF BRIDGE Conversion of a plot of ground, on which the first residence in Indianapolis is said to have been constructed, into a public park, became a possibility today when the board of public works announced it has refused to sell the triangular tract located at the northeast corner of Blake and Washington streets to a private purchaser and is offering it to the board of park commissioners. The city acquired the land when it was buying ground for flood prevention purpose*. It is said it was on this plot that the McCormicks, one of the two families that was the first to settle In what Inter became Indianapolis, located President Mark H. Miller of the board, annouuced that City Civil Engineer Frank C. Lingenfalter. County Surveyor J. J. Griffith and J. W. Titus, bridge engineer for the State highway commission, will be asked to inspect the Kentucky avenue bridge and make a written report on its safety. The board has been discussing the ad visibility of closing the structure and asking the county council to make an appropriation, which with money from the city flood prevention fund, would be sufficient to erect anew one. BIDS RECEIVED BY TIRE BOARD. Bids were received as follows: Local sewer in Meredith avenue, from Rural to Gray streets, Columbia Cunitructlon Company, JG.3O a lineal foot; J. H. King A C., *4.50. Local sewer in Bpencer avenue from Burgess avenue to Brookville avenue, Columbia Construction Company, $3.30; J. H. King & Cos., $3.74; George \V. McCray, $3.50. , Local sewer in the first alley south of Michigan street from forty-nine feet of Alton avenue to ninety live feet west ol’ Berwick aveutie, J. H King & Cos., $5.04; George XV. McCray, $2.99, and Columbia Construction Company, $2.88. Local sewer iu Forty-Ninth street from Pennsylvania street to 370 feet west, Columbia Construction Company, $3.29. Local sewer in Forty-Muth street from Meridian stteet to 450 feet east, American Construction Company, $4.49; Columbia Construction Company, $3.11. Sidewalks and graded lawns in FortySeventh street, Bouth side, from Pennsylvania street to Central avenue: John Arnold & Cos., $1.40 a lineal foot; J. \V. A W. C. Martin, $1.19; Sohwert Brothers. $1.22; Hugh McDonald, $129; William J Welsh. $181; W. C. Halstead, $1.50; Krebay Concrete und Paving Company, *1.40; Frank Lawson, $1.17. Resurfacing with asphalt of Alabama street from Maryland street to 265.13 feet south, $16.30 a lineal foot. Resurfacing with asphalt of Sutherland avenue from Park to College avenues, American Construction Company, $374 a lineal foot; Indians Asphalt Paving Company, $3.81; J. N. Morgan A Son, $3.95. Resolutions were confirmed as follows :

Grading and groveling of Morgan street from Belmont to Pershing avenues: grading of Crescent street from Thirty-Fourth to Thirty-Fifth street*; curbing in Forty Ninth street from Illinois to Penaylvania streets; grading of Forty-Ninth street from Pennsylvania street to the Monon railroad; curbing in Forty-Ninth streets from College avenue to the Monon railroad permanent lmfroveuieut of Forty-Ninth street from lllnola street to the Monon railroad, and sidewalks, curbs and graded lawns In Crescent street from Northwestern avenue to Thirty-Fifth street. WILL RESURFACE SOUTHEASTERN AVENUE. A resolution for the resurfacing of Soiltbeastern avenue from \Va-,blngiou street to State avenue was adopted. Contracts were awrded as tollows: Sidewalks and graded lawn* in FortySixth street from Boulevard Place to Sunset avenue, William J. Welch, $1.39 a lineal foot, total, $1,647.78, and sidewalks and graded lawns in Forty-Fourth street, south side, from Boulevard Plar* to Sunset avenue, William J. Welch, $1.55, total, $1,839.77. Plan* were ordered drawn for the permanent Improvement of Btjclid avenue from Washington street to Pleasant Run boulevard. A petition for water mains in •everal streets between Southern avenue and the oity limit* was denied, and the petitioners Instructed to bring In separate petitions for ea'-h street In which the mains are desired. The original petition did not set out the nn - uw of any of the streets. All action was rescinded on a resolution for tne pormanent Improvement of Twenty Eighth street from Illinois street to Capitol avenue, because of a remonstrance against the improvement bearing the niima* of a majority of the resident property owners. Work will proceed toward the permanent. Improvement if Eastern avenue from Michigan to New York streets, since a remonstrance filed did not contain the names of a majority of the resident j property owners.

STRANGE DEATH PLOT CHARGED Woman Says Husband Tried to Murder Her and Indicate Suicide. CHICAGO. Aug. 17.—A weird plot to have her thrown into the lake and to leave a “suicide note" by some of her clothes on the shore, was charged today a gain't ter busbi nd by Mrs. Elizabeth Hefner of Chicago. She obtained warrants for the arrest of the husband. John M. Hefner, owner of a bakery, and Henry Davis, charging conspiracy to commit murder. Charles Johnson, held by the police as a material witness, said he had been approached by the baker and asked to write the note, but at the last minute he had weakened and, because of religiouß scruples, refused to carry out the plan. He was offered SSOO, be said. In unfolding the plot to Mrs. Hefner. Johnson is said to have told that Davis was offered SSOO to throw Mrs. Hefner Into the lake and leave the suicide clews on tho bank. The note was to bequeath all her property to her husband, it is charged.

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RAILROAD BILL GOES TO SENATE FOR ITS ACTION (Continued From Page One.) roads, as a witness and closed its hearings. The necessity for haste la helping the railroads out of their financial plight was given as the reason for refusing to hear further witnesses. The motion to grant a hearing to the railroad brotherhoods was made by Senator LaFollette Wisconsin. It met defeat by a vote of 6 to 4. L. E. Sheppard, president of the Order of Railway Conouctora and William Johnson, president of the international Association of Machinists, issued a Joint statement condemning the action of the committee. They declared the defeat of the motion to aura mens representatives of the brotherhoods was "a procedure of the most un-Americai-, tyrannical and autocratic nature that lt*has ever been our experience to meet with In appearing before congressional committee.” "We wish to protect the American people against this action of these Senators,” *heir statement said. "This is only one mors evidence of 'railroad ownership of Government’ as contrasted with our demand for public ownership of rail - roada.” The committee agreed to an amendment providing that the War Finance Corporation sbbuld not permit enforcement of the act to Interfere with the financing of agricultural exports. Several members of the committee feared most of the money now at the disposal of the corporation might go to the railroads and not to the aid of the farmers, as proposed in the pending agricultural finnee bill. A provision in the bill permitting the refunding of amounts de ducted by the railroad administration in in making final settlements with railroads heretofore was stricken out. ' Intention of House leaders to have the proposed legislation considered before a recess is taken was announced by Representative Winslow, cblrman of the House Committee ou Interstate and Foreign Commerce, at the hearing on the Winslow bill, which is similar to the Townsend bill Introduced in the Senate. Representative \Vinslow said tha program contemplated consideration of the bill within the next few day*. Director General of Railroads Davis resumed his statement before the House committee. Approximately $350,000,000 will enable the railroad administration to make final settlement's with all curriers, he aid. The administration ba about $149,000,000 for settlements and will need about $200,000,000 more, ha said Unsettled claims aggregating $850,000,000 he stated, would be settled for about *3so,ooo,ooo.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos.

MARION WORKERS AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS MARION, Ohio. Aug 17 Workers are resting on their oars.” said James A. Steele, former presMent of the Machinists Union, and publicity chairman if the various abop crafts at this triple division point of the Erie Railroad, today "There will be no further action until our status is determined by the United States Labor Board." Steel* said. Erie shop and roundhouse employes here claim the Federal law is being violated by reason of the Erie transferring control of its shops and round-house to the newly formed Railway Service Company. They maintain this transaction la done solely for the purpose of evasion, and have so informed the Federal labor body.

ROAD CONTRACT MUCH CHEAPER What is believed to be the first definite sign of the return of “normalcy” In construction work In Marlon County, wna apparent today when nine road contracting firms of this city and State submitted bids for the Improving of the Phillips road. The contract for Improving the three miles was awarded by the county commissioners to Smith Hawkins of FountalntowQ on a bid of $29,562 which was about 30 per cent cheaper than the estimates. "The fact tha tnlne firms submitted bids for this work indicate to me that we our getting bock to normal conditions,’' County Auditor L*o K. Fcsler stated after the bids had been opened. "For months, the commissioners have received only a few bids’for important work, lu some I'ases, In the past, only one firm submitted n bid, but now we have nine Anns submitting, all lower thsn the estimate*. This is a sure sign that we are getting back to prv-war conditions'' Others submitting bids were as follows : McClure-Jacobs, $32,043 53; McNamara Construction Company. $36,500: It. H. Scott, $33,6(58.09; Henley Construction Company, $34,324; Charles O'Hair, $33,G 32; R.-P. Construction Company, $34,331; E. F. Smith, $31,650 and HaroldButner. $35.53(1 The rhiUips Road is an extension of Thirty-Eighth street, a half mile east of the Pendleton Pike. The engineer's estimate for the work >vas $37,036.

Third Reduction in Hudson. Essex Cars DETROIT, Aug. 17—Officials of the Hudson-Essex Motor Company announced today a third reduction in prices this year. Reductions range from $420 to $703. RECEIVER FOR BODY COMPANY. Judge Solon ,T. Carter of Superior Court, Room 3. has been asked to appoint a receiver for the datrmont Reynolds Body Company, a corporation, having its principal offices at 139 South East street. The petition for a receiver was asked by Alva C. Robbins. FARMER IS BANKRUPT. Leroy Stults, farmer, Huntington, filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy In Federal Court today. He scheduled liabilities of $1,188.17 and assets of s6tX>. LEAVES 3fi DESCENDANTS. ROCHESTER. England. Aug. 17—Mrs. Mary Davies, who died here at the age of 94, left 14 children, 26 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. All her descendants are living.

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BUSY SESSION AWAITING IN FEDERAL COURT Preparation of Trial Calendar Begun by Frederick Van Nuys. Preparatory to one of the busiest sessions in the history of the local Federal COurt, Frederick Van Nuys, United States district attorney, today began the preparation of the trial calendar. Seventy-six cases, involving more than two hundred defendants, will be tried beginning, probably, about the middle of October. This number includes only cases where the defsndants are under indictment, out on bond and are ready for trial, it does not take into consideration the cases of about fifteen defendants now in jail aDd who have not been indicted. To take care of these cases Mr. Van Nuys said Judge Anderson probably will call a special session of the Federal grand Jury. It Is understood a majority of them Intend to enter pleas of guilty when arraigned. VAN BRIGGLE CASE TO BE UP. Among the seventy-six cases to be tried are a number of more than ordinary importance. The list of defendants includes L. H. Van Briggle and Henry Rominger, formerly officers of the Van Briggle Motor Device Company of this city, indicted for alleged vtolaion of the postal lawes in connection with representations made regarding the financial condition of the company to prospective stockholders; C. M. Charters, formerly cashier of the Citizens National Bank of Peru, charged with violation of the National banking laws; F. Diehl, president, and Charles E. Morrico, sales manager, of the I. X. L. Furuituro Company Goshen, charged with making false income tax returns for the company; John W. Talbott, South Bend, indicted for white slavery; Alpha L. Holaday, the “Jluncie Potizl,” indicted for using the malls in a scheme to defraud; Carl Heldt, an employe of an Evansville bank, and Mark B. Ingle and Theodore T. Hall, prominent Evansville attorneys, charged with consipring to defraud the bank. “810 SHINEB” NOT FORGOTTEN. Then there Is the famous Charles Mlddaugh, better known as "Big Shiner" Mlddaugh, charged with vioilatlng the liquor laws. A number oof conspiracy cases growing out ofo aollege liquor law violatioint will be tried. Including the cases involving more than forty Muncle citizens, ranging froom proinlnient residents to the lowest depths of the underworld. and from • wealthy manufacturer to negtno bootleggers; the Logansport liquor oases. Involving city officials and members of tho police force; the Indiana Harbor, Gary and South liquor conspiracy cases. All of which involve a large number of defendants. Judge Anderson Is at his summer home at Burt Lake, Mich., recuperating from an operation which he underwent several months ago. He will not return to Indianapolis until late In September or early in October. As soon as he returns District Attorney Van Nuys and Noble C. Butler, clerk of the court, will set definite trial dates.

BUREAU FINDS JOBS FOR MANY Since the establishment of the Indiana Free Employment Service at 33-37 South Capitol avenue. Thursday of last week, 2,600 men have been examined for poaittons; about 430 requests have been recoivtd for men and. 425 men have been ‘ placed in positions, officials of the bureau announced today. These figures do not include todsy's business. The men who made application for positions Include skilled and unskilled labor and men with technical and clerical training. In the women s department the number of applicant* for positions was about 2*o ; the number of position* offered was ; thirty-flv*. and tho number of women placed in positions waa thirty-four. It is pointed out that a number of the feminine applicants at tho office do : house work by the day. and thus constitute an efficient and readily available supply for housewives of the city who are in need of such service. Women for permanent domestic service also may b* obtain* <1 there. Other applicants arc trained in clerical work and others In sac- ; iory work. CITY WON’T OUST BEELER’S STAND Despite the fact that he has been convicted once of having a seine In his poseesMlon and now faces charges of violating the game laws In the Morgan County Circuit Court at Martinsville, Henry Beeler will continue to operate a curb stand on the city market, so far as city officials are concerned. Harry Libeau, market master, said no action to oust Beeler is contemplated and he does not regard It ae being necessary. Beeler operates a fruit stand and generally may be found a few feet west of Alabama street in the Market street section of the curb market. He was fined *26 and cents by Justice J. B. Mullane of Indianapolis following his arrest on a charge of having a seine in his possession Feb. 17, 1920. He was one jof the party, lucludlng seven members |of tho Indianapolis police department, which was caught using a seine in Morgan County several days ago by State game wardens. The charges growing out of this raid are pending in the Circuit Court at Martinsville. It was said at the time of the raid that Beeler operated a fish stand at the city ! market. "The statement regarding Beeler owning a fish stand was erroneous," said Market Master Libeau. “He operates a fruit stand on the curb. As such a standholder he has no lease, the curb space being rented to him by the day ns often as he appears. So far as we know he has no interest whatever in any fish stand in the market.” The board of public safety has taken no action against the policemen caught in the Morgan County raid. Chief of Police J. E. Kinney said nothing would lie done until tflie cases are tried.

SPECIAL JUDGE DELAYS RESORT CASE FINDING Takes Under Advisement Charges of Tilting ‘Red Light’ Lid. Charges of keeping a resort charged agalost Stella Foltz, and statutory charges against Ruth Smith, caught in a raid made about a week ugo on a bouse at 410 West Court street, in the heart of j tho west end red light district, were heard ! lu oity court today and taken under advisement until Saturday morning by Special Judge Harry E. Raltano. The case Is the first to be tried following a aeries of raids made by the police in tho notorious red light district in what appears to be an attempt by Chief of Police Jerry Kinney to clamp on the'lid. It attracted" the attention of a number of persons rather prominent in west end politic* and close to the Jewett “good govj eminent machine,” as the conditions in the notorious west end red light area are known to bo much the same as they were in the years when the “lid” was unheard of. Joe Mlnterman, 23. 923 North Meridian I street, said he was passing through Court street about a week ago when he saw two women at a window undone tapped on the glass and motional him ty come in. He entered. “One, he pointed to Ruth Smith, "askod me for $2. and when I hesitated she asked me for sl," he said. Then both women screamed. ‘Run, here comes the police,’ uand I ran out through the house and Into | the house of a negro, where the police grabbe dme." I Lieut. Harley Jones told the court the house was known as a resort and that he I had known it as such since March 4 of \ tlrls year. He testified the character of tho Smith woman was bad. The Smith woman on cross-examination admitted that she had been convicted before. The defense by Ira Holmee for the Foltz woman consisted of Introducing the court records to show she was arrested on May 31 of this year for keepi !ng a resort and that she was fits ! charged in city court June 8. Both ! women then denied the charges and the statements by the State’s wltnesses. The records allow Stella was eouvicted March 5, In city court for keeping a resort, and that she was fiued $lO and costs and sentenoed to ten days in jail. The case was apealed to criminal court and she put up a SSO cash bond with the city clerk. The case la still pending in Criminal Court.

COMPENSATION FOR VETERANS Bureau Gets Aid of Legion and Red Cross. Plans for handling the claims for compensation by former service men residing in this district outside Indianapolis wer considered at a conference of members of the clean-up squad of the United States Veterans Bureau today. It was decided that American Legion posts and American Red Cross chapters of the counties comprising this district will be consulted and definite dates act on which service from these counties will be given a hearing by the squad. Thl* district is compose dos Marlon. Hendricks, Hamilton. Hancock, Boone, Morgan, Shelby and Johnson Counties. Yesterday the cases of thirty-one service men were taken up and twenty-one men examined by the physicians of the equad, according to Frank H. Nolte. who is in charge of the adjustment work. In several instances hesfdtalizatiou of the claimant was authorized. The squad has established headquarters at 511 Meridian lAfe building TO ADDRESS TRAFFIC CLUB. “Proposed Constitutional Amendments" will be the subject of an address by Oscar H, Williams, State supervisor of teachers' training, at the weekly luncheon of the Indianapolis Traffic Club, at the notel I,incoin tomorrow. Mr. Williams formerly was professor of history at Indiana University,

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CHARGES ERIE WITH TRYING TO EVADE RAIL LAW (Continued From Page One.) leasing of shops under contract is a violation of the transportation act That is a question we must study.” ERIE CASE TO FORM TEST. At the same time other railroads are making ready to follow the example of the Erie, it was learned. If the labor board holds' that the Erie was acting within its rights it can be stated that at least four big carriers will follow suit Immediately. The New York Central already Is letting out considerable of Us repair work to private contractors and companies, it was learned. More than 3.500 cars are being repaired for this road by outside shops. The action of the Erie and the contemplated actions of many other carriers is the result of a long considered plan, according to several general officers here. H. E. Miller, vice president of the Santa Fe, said his road had considered the move and decided against it. B. B. Green, operating vice president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, said he could make no statement on the subject. “We have not taken up this question up to this time,” said President C. M. Markham of the Illinois Central. MOVE ROUSES UNION LEADERS. Union leaders are irate over the Erie's move which they consider a plan to defeat the purposes of the Railroad Labor Board and the transportation act. "The action of the Enle only affects the shopmen, but we Will take it up while in our conference here,” said Timothy Shea, assistant president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. "What action we will take I cannot say.” Leaders of tho “big four” and the Switchmen's Union of North America continued their conference with western railroad officials oven, the wage and working rules questions. The unions are asking the Western executives to put wages back where they were June 30, 1920; to stop asking for the abolition of time and a half overtime; and to not ask the railroad board for any further reductions in wages. OYIAITIME AND WORKING RULES DECISION AWAITED.

Eyes of the entire railroad world were turned toward Chicago in anticipation of the decision of the railroad board on the overtime question and the provisions of the new working rules. This decision is considered of the most vital Importance in both executive and union quarters. Whatever chance there is of a general railroad strike within the near future, it admittedly hangs on whether the men are granted their overtime schedules acl hourly rates of pay in the shops. It is to escape these hourly rates of pay in the shops that the roads are letting out their shops on contract. “There is a growing tendency on all railroads to let out their repair work now done in their own shops, and the maintenance of way work." said Samuel O. Dunn, editor of the Railway Age, and spokesman for the American Association of Railway Executives. "This is not done to defeat the transportation act, but in the interests of economy. If contractors can hire laborers at 25 cents an hour and we have to pay them 35 cents an hour through the ruilngs of the Labor Board, it is economy to do so and the transportation act directs the roads to run their systems economically.” MACHINIST SEES RATE HIKES AHEAD WASHINGTON. Aug. 17.—Passenger farer and freight rates will have to be Increased throughout the entire United States If railroads are permitted to follow tile load of tho Brie railroad lu Belling its repair shops to private interests.. Secretary Davison, of the international Association of Machinists, said here today. Repair of locomotives and cars In private shops is three times as expensive as when done by the roads themselves and means the wasting or millions annually. Davison charged.

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CONGRESS. MAY LEGALIZE BEER MAKING IN HOME House Adopts Provision Requiring Prohibition Search Warrants. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-—“ Home brewing” and distilling is in a fair way to hs virtually legalized, Government legal advisers said today, discussing the action of the House last night in. restricting ti e operations of dry law agents against home brewing. j The House adopted a provision in the 1 anti-beer bill prohibiting enforcement agents from entering private homes searching for liquor without search warrants. It is specified that even then, search warrants shall not be issued unlest "is shown the place to be searched is being used to manufacture liquors for sale. The Senate, having adopted the Stanley amendment, which prohibited search and seizure without warrants, is not expected ' to oppose the House home brew amenflmeu t. The action of the House came as a surprise to prohibition officials. The measure will radically curtail part of the enforcement program. A revision'of the rules governing enforcement officers, -will be necessary, it was said. Legal authorities, discussing the action of the House, interpreted It to mean that home brewers, making beer for thelk own personal needs, or to serve, to guests In their homes, need have no fear of interference by any Government officers. As the provision adopted by the House was weighed by legal sharps, it appeared no officer would secure a search ivarrant for any plan of seizure, unless the place to be entered was the base of operations of illicit liquoy makers, commercializing and profiting by selling their products , outside.

MORGAN PUNCTURES HOPES OF THE WETS Optimistic wets who see signs of a returning flood of liquor in the amendment to the Willis-Gampbell beer bill approved by the House of Representatives yesterday, are doomed to bitter disappointment, according to Bert Morgan, prohibition officer for Indiana. The amendment provides that Federal agents must have warrants before entering homes in search of liquor, but that no warrant shall bo issued “unless there is reason to believe such dwelling Is used as place In which liquor is manufactured for sal* or sold,” “Asa matter of fact,” Mr. Morgan said, “this is in accord with the proeeedure adopted by our office In Indiana. It never has been the practice of this office to search private homes unless there was evidence of sale. This phase of the is provided for satisfactorily by the State law. As far as 1 can see the amendment, should it become a lan, will have no effect whatever on the situation in Indiana." NEW BANK IN CITY OBTAINS CHARTER Forty-Second Street State Bank Opens Soon. The Forty-Second Street State Bank, to be situated in the new Masonic Temple, building at Forvy Second street and College avenue was granted a charter today by the Stara charter board. The bank will have a capital stock of $25,000. Armln A. Bohn, Jr., 3906 North Delaware street, will be president .and Harry R. Bash. 4034 Carrollton avenue, will be cashier. These two with the following compose the board of directors; Sumner Clancy, 4198 Carrollton avenue; Clarence Deupree, 4228 Broadway; Richard H. ITobbe. 4548 Central avenue; Lewis C. Holtegel, 4062 College avenue; Raymond B. Freeman. 4135 Carrollton avenue; Fred Profogle, 4140 Broadway and Henry Rosuer. 4090 College avenue. The bank Is expected to open within a short time.

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