Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled, probably showers tonight and Saturday. Somewhat cooler.

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OMAHA DOING BETTER THAN BOOSTERS SAY Spillane Finds Business Conditions in Good Shape. UNIQUE METHODS Social Trips by Merchants Prove an Asset.

Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By RICHARD SPILLANE. OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 16.—Twelve men representative of Omaha’s varied interests met at the Chamber of Commerce and reported to your correspondent on the business situation in this city. The men were: C. O. George, real estate, director of the Chamber of Commerce of the United St C ! H. Pickens of the Paxton Gallagher Company, one of Nebraska's largest wholesale concerns, dealers in groceries, hardware, automobUe accessories, sugar, coffee, etc. O. C. Walls, manager Armour & Cos. Paul Kuhns, president Chamber of Commerce anil president Conservative Building and I.oan Association. John L. Kennedy, president United States National Bank. E. M. Reynolds of Eldredge-Reynolds Company, dry goods and men's furnishings. A. C. Scott, manufacturer heavy road machinery. D. P. Hogan, president Federal Farm Bank. Roy T. Byrne of Byrne-Hammer Dry Goods Company, wholesale dry goods. E. T. Rector of Fairmont Creamery Company, which operates in many States and pays out §25,000,0C)0 a year for cream alone. ' C. rt Wright, president Grain Exchange. A. B. Currie, wholesale coal HOUSING SITUATION COULD BE IMPROVED. Air. George said the housing situation was by no means good and rents were from 50 to 100 per cent above the prewar level. At the same time there was many empty warehouses which indicated there was no surplus of materials or goods in hands of distributors. Mr. Pickens reported the first eight months of this year snowed quite an increase in groi’ery -ales over the same months last year. Hardware sales were about CO per cent of normal, but steutly and increasing improvement in tn's Hue was evident. The whole outlook in the various lines of goods he handle! was more promising than earlier In the year. Collections good. Mr. Willis explained that his business was affected by international conditions. The man with the dinner pail cut a big figure in the consumption of Armour's products. For the first six months of this fiscal year the business had been poor. Then there had been a b ! g Improvement only to be followed b 7 slump in the last three or four weeks. Packers' products were not moving freely today and prices were not satisfactory. Mr Kuhns explained that the building and loan associations of Nebraska covered practically the same field as mutual savings banks In Eastern States. In no period over the last twenty or thirty years had they made a backward step, although for a little more than a year they had shown little increase in deposits, until recently. There was some building of small houses in Omaha, and he was quite optimistic as to next year.

FARM AND LIVESTOCK PROSPECTS LOOK VP. Mr. Kennedy said farm and livestock Interests had suffered more than any other Industry. Cattlemen were not willing to sell at present very low prices. He thought the whole situation better and looked to the future with a lot of confidence. A good change had come in the condition of the country banker. He used to be afraid of asking a statement from his client, but not now. Mr. Reynolds reported the sales In dry goods and men's furnishings greatly in excess of last year, but less in dollars. The public today was getting better goods but at a lower price than formerly. The merchant today had to give to the public what it wanted at a price it could pay or he would not be able to sell goods. Ninety days ago there had beeu a slump in collections. Why, he could not understand. Now they were satisfactory. Mr. Scott explained that he was Interested in a great variety of businesses. His tent and awning company was one cf the largest in the world. In sales this company showed 33 per cent increase over last year, but its prices have been cut In half. He made clothing for packing house men. This was slow Just now as it was governed by the state of the packing house industry. In road machinery his business showed 20 to 23 per cent increase: this would be cheering but for the fact that State governments all around Nebraska were not paring their bills. He anticipated a big amonnt of road work for next year. He also handles Packard cars. This business had picked np wonderfully. In the last few weeks his sales had been in excess of the previous six months. FARMER LOANS IMPROVING. President Hogan said the farm loan situation was improving. This bank now was lending about 51.000,000 a month to the farmers. There wag a large demand. Farmers, he said, were inclined to criticise the railroads sharply for the prevailing high freight rates. Mr. Byrne said there had been steady improvement in wholesale dry goods since May. Now it was 85 per cent of last year In volume and 65 per cent In price. In some articles there was a famine. Ordinarily he would have 10,000 or 12,000 dozen work shirts on hand now. Today he did not have a dozen. Not 2 per cent (Continued on Page Seven.)

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Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.. Sept. 17, 1921: Unsettled weather, probably showers tonight and Saturday: somewhat cooler .Saturday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 66 7 a. m 67 8 a. m *9 9 a. m. 70 10 a. m. 71 11 a. m. 71 12 (noon) 73 Ip.m. .........67 2i*. xa.

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‘FATTY’ FACES TRIAL FOR MURDER

Makeshifts City School Board Is Forced to Resort to as Result of Bond Objectors

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Here is a sample of the kind of "accommodations” the school board has been compelled to provide for children in Indianapolis, owing to the unwillingness of a group of citizens to permit bond issues la sufficient sums to provide decent schools buildings. This particular school plant consists of one "portable” house and two garages which have been transformed into out-

GEN. MENOHER, 11. S. ARMY AIR CHIEF, RESIGNS Follows Months of Wrangling in Flying Service. DIFFERS_VVITH AID WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—The discord and dissension which for months has been smoldering in the Urited States army air service lesulted today in the resignation of Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher as chief of air service. General Menoher has sent his resignation to the Secretary of War. It has not been acted upon, but it is understood it will he accepted and the army air service will have anew head within the next few weeks. Back of General Menoher's resignation Is a record of months of dissension and discord over policies and personnel which was featured a few months ago by General Menoher demanding that his first assistant, Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, the only ‘‘flying general” In the Army, bo removed. General Menoher at that time sent a letter to Secretary of War Weeks demanding Mitchell's removal. The Secretary of War mediated the differences between the two officers and the result was that General Menoher remained chief of air service and General Mitchell remained as nis first assistant It was a “patched up peace,” however, and subsequent events revealed that the causes of friction had not been removed. Recently it had become more pronounced. The differences between General Menoher, who is not a flying officer, and General Mitchell, who is a flier of note, first arose through. Menoher's policy of putting non-flying officers in high administrative positions in the air service. General Mitchell objected to this policy as detrimental to the morale of the air service and insisted flying officers be given recognition in administrative positions. Their differences hinged on an interpretation of an article of the national defense act, which stipulates the number of non flying officers in the air service. The differences became so pronounced that the matter was put up to the judge advocate general of the Army and ho gave a decision favorable to General Mitchell’o side of the controversy. General Menoher's demand that Mitchell be (Continued on Rage Six.)

BANDITS KILL 1 AT POKER PARTY Stage Raid at St. Paul Hotel— Escape With S3OO ‘Pot.’ ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 16.—Three masked bandits shortly before noon today held up a poker game. In a downtown hotel, shot and killed one of the players and seriously wounded the proprietor of the botei. The bandits escaped with S3OO, the amount on the table.

Rush City Clerk’s Office to Settle Up Stayed Fines

There was a wild scramble among professional bondsmen In the city clerk's office today to pay np certain stayed fines and also to find some of the persons for whom fines had been stayed. Prosecutor 'William P. Evans started something when he slid fine* must be paid when due or defendants must go to Jail, following the expose in the Times of thousands of dollars’ worth of unpaid fine* being overdue in Criminal Court. It Decame known that Claude Worley, special Investigator of the Criminal Court, was investigating coadi-

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side toilets. It is located rt Thirtieth street and Fall Creek boulevard and is one of ten buildings of a similar kind which the school board has beeu forced to buy siuce remonstrators blocked bond issues for real buildings. The J. F. Cantwell Company, which began handling these “portable” build ings at about the same time opponents of the present school board succeeded in

HEALTH REPORT ON FAIRGROUND GIVEN MORGAN Effort to Obtain Record of Saturday’s Inspection Fails. City health authorities were not anxious to be Interviewed about what steps. If any, they had taken to prevent the flybreeding nuisance caused by (Jie indiscriminate scattering of garbage on the ground and in open, insanitary containers such as barrels, caus, boxes, baskets and paper cartons at the State fairground since Saturday afternoon when standholders began to close up their places. C. Tom Johnson, chief, inspector, ea'd three ci:y health imispectnrs were assigned to the fairground. inspector Ed Young was iu charge and was presumed to be on the ground throughout the wtek, he said. Under bitn were asdgeed two men each day. Different inspectors were cent each day in order thut uo man would be off his regular district more than cne day. ACCESS TO REPORTS DENTED. When a request was made for permission to examine the reports of Mr. Young and his assistants, Mr. Johnson replied that the Inspectors had been assigned by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board of health, made their reports directly to Dr. Morgan and were responsible directly to him. Mr. Johnson said that for these reasons he could not permit examination of the reports. Dr. Alorgan has been out of the city all week so the reports could not be obtained from him. It was particularly desired to learn whether the city inspectors were on the Job Saturday afternoon and evening when, according to State fair officials, standholders in closing up their places, threw garbage around indiscriminately, causing the fly breeding conditions, but Air. Young refused to be Interviewed. REPORTED FAIRGROUND HAD BEEN CLEANED UP. Mr. Y'oung is the Inspector who Wednesday morning was sent to the fairground by Air. Johnson, following a revelation by the Daily Times of the condition in which the place had been left for several days. Mr. Young reported to Air. Johnson that the fairground had been cleaned up. all paper baled and that there were “no flics to speak of.” In the face of this report the Dally Times Wednesday afternoon discovered that much of the filth complained of as having been on the ground Afonday afternoon wag still there. Men working under Forrest Neal, superintendent of the fairground, had cleaned a considerable portion of it, but had not reached the point where conditions were the worst.

Dead Man Called to Trial in Court of Judge Collins A dead man was culled to trial In Criminal Court today. When Robert Froxell was called to appear to answer to a charge of speeding, it was learned he had been killed in an automobile accident near Richmond some time ago. The charges were dismissed. Froxell had appealed from a fine imposed in city court. James Cardinal, charged with speeding, was fined $37 and costs by Judge James A. Collins. Harry Fear was fined $3 and costs on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. Roy Willis, charged with keeping a , gambling house, was fined $lO and costs.

tlons of a similar nature In the city clerk’s office. Worley was looking over the records to see what fines had not been paid and the news of his visit spreads rapidly. There was a general rush on the part of professional bondsmen to find their delinquent clients and to dig up some cash. One of the deputy city clerks stated that by the time that George O. IlutseU, city clerk completes hla term of office •/♦most all" the fines will be paid, r

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blocking a bond issue before the State tax board, is to furnish ten of these structures for $4,11)0.35 each, which price does not include any plumbing. The C'aatwell company Is now conducting a campaign to sell these buildings to school trustees and corporations tuiough the same medium in which the reinon'fiators against permanent school buildings have been conducting thjir fight.

FINDING JOBS FOR 3 MILLION IS CHIEF TASK President Anxious to Bring Quiek Relief. IDEA ON CONTACT WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—President Harding's unemployment conference, scheduled to open In Washington ten days hence, is going to concern Itself primarily with tho task of finding jobs for some 3,000,000 Jobless before cold weather sets in, rather than seek to discover the whys and wherefores of unemployment, according to those familiar with the conf9ronco plans. The President and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover are completing preparations for the conference after a week's consideration of tho whole problem during the vacation trip. Acceptances from nearly all of the thirty persons to whom invitations were addressed have been received. The administration plans to have tho forthcoming conference deal entirely with the task of bringing the Jobless in immediate contact with the Jot, leaving to a loss critical time the more ambitious undertaking of finding a permanent cure for unemployment. Great case will be exercised it was said to keep the conference harmonious and to exclude from Its program such controversial subjects between capital and labor as the open shop, wage reductions, living costs and similar matters. In this respect, administration spokesmen emphasized that the conference is to be an "employment conference" and not an "industrial conference.” What the President desires the meeting to bring forth is a number of concrete measures to bring relief before winter adds to the grief of the Jobless. The ultimate aim of the President and Secretary Hoover is to evolve if possible some remedial measures which can be applied in the future for tbe avoidance of just such a condition as the country finds itself in today.

Judge Moll Holds Abuse of Privilege in Relation to Divorce Greatest Evil

[EDITOR’S NOTE—This Is the tenth of n series of articles dealing with the divorce evil, it* problems and Its remedy, as reflected in the official records anil opinions of the local Judges.! By WALTER D. HICKMAN. The writer approached Judge T. J. Moll of Superior Court, room 5, and sought his views on the “divorce evil.'’ The Judge took exceptions to the expression “divorce evil” and insisted that divorces are not of necessity an evil, but that when properly controlled and administered are a benefit to society. The abuse of the privilege of divorce is a very decided evil, he declares. When asked if he liad been following the scries of articles on the subject of divorces that has been appearing in the Times, Judge Moll replied that he had read each article and that in the main he heartily agreed with the views of his brother Judges. “It seems to me,” he commented, “that my associates deal too much with the controversies of the immediate parties and uo not emphasize enough the more Important Interests of tho public In such eases.” INTEREST OF SOCIETY GIVEN PROMINENCE. Judge Moll called attention to the fact that in many instances the higher courts of this and every other States in the Union, have assorted that in every divorce controversy the State, that is the public or society,- is a party. These courts say that the bone is the foundation of society, of civilisation, to the ex-

WEST SIDERS OPEN WAR ON NUISANCES .13 Affidavits Are Filed Against Sellers Farm Haulers. CITY SUIT LOOMS Leaders Say Battle Will End Only With Results Sought. A legal battle which leaders said would end only when West Indianapolis Is rid of the nuisances of which the section has complained for several years was launched with the filing in city court today of thirteen affidavits against drivers and owners of vehicles and other equipment used in hauling refuse to Sellers’ farm. The affidavits charge violation of Section 2443 of Burns’ Revised Statutes of 1914, which provides a fine of $1 to SIOO for the dumping of the contents of vaults and other offensive

matter upon public grounds and a number of other specified places. The affidavits were signed by John C. Miller, 640*2 East Washington street, who, with George E. Harris of the same address, was employed by the Enterprise. Civic League, the organization which has been working to clean up West Indianapolis, to obtain evidence of violation. Mr. Miller is the man whom the city drove off of Sellers farm as a squatter after a suit in local courts which had hung fire for several years. Attorney Frank I*. Baker Is in charge of the legal fight. Father Joseph P. Webber, rector •of the Church of The Assumption, 1105 Blaine tyenue, assisted iu the preparation of the affidavits. ACTION AGAINST CITY THREATENED. Although he said he believes tho members of the board of sanitary commissioners era liable under the statute no action is being taken agaln&t, them at this time, Mr. Baker said t “However, if this thing isn't stopped and stopped at once we will start legal sctlou against the city and the sanitary board and all others who have any thing to ds> with the nuisance," said Air. Bakor. "This is Just the beginning of a crusade to stop thla thing, and we say it is going to be stopped by everybody before we get through." At the same time Mr. Baker and Father Weber announced that notice to stop operations of nuisances have been served upon a number of businesses in West In(Coptlnaed on Page Eleven.)

IRISH HOPE TO AVERT BREAK IN PEACE PARLEYS De Valera Calls Advisors and May Put Question to Vote. LONDON, Sept, 16.—A demand for anew conference that shall not bo hampered or 11 in I ted by any conditions was telegraphed to Premier Lloyd George In Scotland today by Esmonn De Valera, prelsdent of the “Irish republic,” according to word received from Dublin tonight. DUBLIN, Sept. 18.—Eamonn De Valera conferred with the Sinn Fein Cabinet here today in an effort to find a way out of the difficulties into which the Irish peace negotiations have fallen. News that Premier Lloyd George had called off the proposed peace conference (Continued on Page Eleven.)

tent that when the home Is broken up, is Impaired and civilization is taLa tened. “Therefore, the granting of a divorce should, for social reasons, be the last alternative and not granted lightly or merely for convenience,” he declared. The court added that these were unequivocally his own views and the final consideration in deciding divorce cases. “Are you in favor of a domestic relations court?” I asked Judge Moll. He answered that he was not, so far as it applies to a separate court to hear divorce complaints. “Cases of this sort, especially when heard in bunches, are quite distasteful and nerve-racking,” Judge Moll stated. “I am not in favor of creating any new courts to hear such cases alone. Such a plan would have serious obstacles as well as a few advantages. “Mind you,” he said, “I am not discussing the regulation of marriages at aIL I have not studied nor considered that aspect of tho situation. 1 merely say that I do not favor separate divorce courts. Some time ago, 1 suggested that each of the present courts be assigned for a definite period to attend to such cases. We then would have a variety of Judicial temperments, a more nearly average view of the subject itself and no one Judge would be surfeited for long with m itrimonial controversies. But my proposition has not met with much response.” “If a* you say, Judge, the public Interests are so Important how would you (Continued on **e Two.)

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This Administration Will Keep Mules on South Side

Mrs. Afartln L. Relffel and a delegation of other members of the Original South Side Women’s Club were told today by Aiark H. Miller, president of the board of public works, that the street cleaning and ash hauling mules can not be moved from the city barns at 1134 Shelby street before the end of the present city administration, which comes Jan. 2. The women have been fighting for almost two years to get the mules moved out of the south side. They came today to ask the board when, if ever, the change was to be made. Mr. Aliller told the women the barn

‘COUNTY WENT OUTSIDE LAWS TO BUILD ROAD’ Accusation Is Made by Examiner for AcBoard. $14,660 AT ISSUE Illegal expenditure by the Marion County commissioners of $14,660 in the construction of a concrete road and the repair of a bridge is charged in a report of A. L. Donaldson, an examiner of the State board of accounts, filed today. It is charged the cost of building the road and of repairing the bridge •was paid out of the gravel road repair fund, which cannot legally be used for this purpose. The road in question is the Haverstick road, about a quarter of a mile long, and the bridge which was repaired is on this road. Tho paving of the road, according to the report, cost $10,5(50 and the repair of the bridge $4,100. Air. Donaldson stated in the report that tho road had been declared a public utility and that Leo K. Fesler, county auditor, had informed him ho had asked the State highway commission to build It and the highway commission had refused. lie said Mr. Fesler told him that after the commission refused to build the road tbe county decided to go ahead and build it from the gravel road repair fund. The attitude of the board of accounts is set out in a letter to Hence Orrne, of the Marlon County council. The letter says: “We call your especial attention to the fact that this report shows that Aiarion county has been constructing roads and bridges with funds taken from the free gravel road repair fund. "This is a flagrant violation of the statutes of Indiana and can not be approved nor tolerated by the State board of accounts.” County Auditor Fesler said Mr. Donaldson had a wrong Impression that Marion County had been paying for bridge repairs out of the free graved road fund for a long time. “Only this year have we paid for (Continued on Page Eleven.)

Solans Begin to Realize U. S. Is Talk Tired Returning From Vacations Anything but Satisfactory. WASHINGTON, Sept., 10.—The people want the high cost of living reduced and business revived with a bang, according to the message Republican loaders are getting today from Congressmen returning to Washington from sojourns at home. Congress is held strictly accountable for present conditions by many constituencies and complaints that Congress has not enacted * tariff bill nor revised taxes could not be silenced. Congressmen declared. The people’s legislative program, according to the consensus of opinion among returning Congressmen is as follows : Prompt revision of taxes. Tariff protection from cheap German products. Reductions of freight rote*. Sound business men realize that. America is suffering from war reaction, said Representative Bland, Indiana, “but it is hard to tell that to farmers, who are selling calf skins for 42 cents and paying $lO for shoes.” Congressmen from tne Middle West declare farmers in their districts are the hardest hit by present conditions and are the loudest in their complaints. They admit the farmers told them to go back to Washington and get busy with taxes, tariff and freight rates.

Now Policemen Needn’t Dig for Campaign Funds

Following close on tho announcement by A. L. Taggart, president of the board of public safety, that the police department “again” had been taken out of politics, another letter from Mr. Taggart was read at roll call to the police last night. This letter stated that “it is not only unnecessary, but inadvisable for members of the police department to eoatriute to any political fund.” It is known that much soliciting has been done among the police officers for campaign funds and that each policeman wns “expected to pay S2OO, and high ups were to pa"y more.” Mr. Taggart's letter came es a surprise to many policemen who have not forgotten the active part taken in the city primary by certain high police officials who wished to see Mr. Thomas A. Howe, the new-Jewatt

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unit of the municipal yard, to which the animals were to have been -transferred, would have been erected and in operation at Kentucky avenue and Drover streets if the women had not "gone to the newspapers and got so much publicity for yourselves that the people of West Indianapolis got the idea the barn was to be something horrible.” Opposition of West Indianapolis has blocked the construction so long it would be impossible to finish the barn unit now If it were to be started by this administration, he 3aid. • A heated dlstussion followed.

JUDGE SCORES ‘BRIBE’ CASE DEFENDANT Lee Woods Convicted of False Pretense Charge. RELATIVES ‘BLED’ Holding the crime for which Lee Woods was indicted as one that struck at the “very foundations of society” and one that “breeds revolt,” Judge Solon J. Carter of Superior Court, Room 3, who sat as special judge today, found him guilty of obtaining money on the pretense that it was to be used to bribe county officials to sign a petition asking for the parole and pardon of Clifford Tate, 19, who is serving a sentence on the Indiana State farm for grand larceny. DENUNCIATION OF COURT SEVERE. In a bitter denunciation of tho attempts of Woods and a man named Arthur Hill, who was indicted Jointly with Woods but who now is a fugitive, to "bleed” the father, mother and other relatives of young Tate of more than S2OO for the purpose of bribing oflclals to sign a petition asking the State board of pardons to paroio Tate, Judge Carter said: "It is a most serious offense. The evideuoe showed that Woods not only accepted money under false pretense but that he was planting seeds of revolt against Institutions of the Government. "There are two theories possible in this case. One is that Woods might have been the tool or the dupe of Hill, or that Woods was part and parcel of the conspiracy to defraud. Aiy finding is that of guilty. I am sorry that Woods has dependent children. Woods, by the evidence, is striking at the very foundation of society and degrading the courts and public officials.” EVIDENCE SHOWED PAYMENT OF If 188. The evidence showed the following essential facts: That Fuller F. Yanderhoof, 3519 East Twenty-Second street, who is the father-in-law of Clifford Tate, paid Woods a total of SINS under representations of Woods and Hill that they "could tlx” certain officials, including Judge James A. Collins of the Oiminal Coart. Prosecutor William P. Evans, County Clerk Richard V. Sipe, County Treasurer Ralph Lemcke, Sheriff George Snider, County Engineer John ,T. Griffith, Cornty Recorder John W. Castor and Assessor James C. Douglas and get their signatures to a petition asking tbe State board of pardons to parole Tote from the Penal Farm. That John Tate and Airs. Maud Tate, 4450 Aianlovo avenue, parents of Clifford. (Continued on Page Eleven.)

NEGRO, 32, HELD FOR ATTACK ON 4-YEAR-OLD GIRL Arrested and Bound Over to Grand Jury at Special Court Session. Gabe Moss. 32, negro, was bound over to the grand Jury under a $3,000 bond by Judge Walter Pritchard after evidence offered to the court showed that the negro had attempted to entice a 4-year-old child into an alley-like street with the intentions of criminal assault. Tho hearing was at a special session of the city court last night.. Testimony of three children caused the court to order Moss held to the grand Jury. One child was. 4 jears old and the others were 11 years old. The testimony was that Moss offered the little girl money to accompany him to Tippecanoe street. There Moss is alleged to have seized the child and she screamed. Two sisters of the little girl witnessed the alleged attack and told their mother. The negro was pursued and arrested by Patrolman Dailey.

“good government machine” candidate, nominated. Mr. Taggart’s letter follows: “J. E. Kinney. Chief of Police, City: “With the approach of a municipal campaign there is generally an unrest in yonr department that seriously affects its efficiency. Among the most serions offences against the efielency of the department is the practice of soliciting funds from the policeman for campaign purposes. The many new members of the department wil be undecided as to what they should do ard we, therefore, wish you to inform all members of the department that it is not only unnecessary, but Inadvisable to contribute to any political fund.” It was pointed out by Interested officials that Mr. Taggart's letter contained no mention of the conduct of therfjmlice department after the close of present administration. -

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PROSECUTOR REFUSES TO DROPCHARGE Arbuckle Loses Hope of Being Freed on Bond. CROWDS AT COURT smash in Locked Doors in Effort to Hear Testimony. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 16.—R0coe “Fatty” Arbuckle must face a charge of murder. At 10:45 he was led into the courtroom of Police Judge Sylvian Lazarus and the bailiff droned: “Roscoe Arbuckle charged witlj murder.” District Attorney Mathew Brady then announced: “The State is ready to proceed with the prosecution of the charge.” Arbuckle had waited cheerfully twenty minutes in the chambers of the judg* before facing the crowd of women that packed the courtroom in the expectation that the State would drop the charge of murder, and permit his release on bail, pending a trial -on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Virginia Rappe, film actress who died following a gay boo*e party in the rooms of the film comedian at the St. Frances hotel. At one time a crowd of men that numbered more than a thousand and Ailed the corridors of the Hall of Justice overflowing into the streets below had broken the locked doors of the women’s courtroom where Arbuckle appeared and* surged iu. They were forcibly ejected. Tho announcement of the prosecutor fell like a bolt from the blue to th* defendant and his attorneys, ATTORNEYS ASK. FOR SHORT DELAY. Immediately Frank Dominguez, chief of counsel, was on his feet demanding a continuance of the case for ten days. District Attorney Brady opposed snclu a long continuance, but agreed to flvdays. Judge Lazarus finally continued th* case until next Thursday at 1 p. m. Dominguez fought hard for the tea, days’ delay. "Certainly,” he said, "if the defendants Roscoe Arbuckle, i3 willing to remain its Jail ten days to permit his attorney to* gather evidence in his behalf, the StaM of California can be magnanimous amu grant him that period of delay. "We have nothing but praise for th( energetic manr r in which the officials! of the State are conducting this case and) we appreciate that they are doing theixt duty, but in view of the fact that theraj is much important medical testimony tea be presented here with, which we are atj present unfamiliar, we feel :hat ten dayal is not too long delay to grunt us.” BRADY WANTS qUICK. JUSTICE. t District Attorney Brady told the that the only reason the State; in opJ posing the ten days’ eon tiff uance, was its desire for speedy justice. Judge Lazarus spoke along the samai rein and announced the continuance until next Thursday. , Arbuckle was Jed out of court almost! immediately following the contlnuanced He was taken up a side elevator to th3 city jail from which he confidently had! expected to be released when he enterdj the courtroom. With the startling change In expected plans, announcement came that arraign-j meut on the manslaughter charge beforeJudge Harold Lauderback in Superior Court would not be held until tomorrow at 10 a. m. Thus ended Arbuekle's court' scenes for today. But for the absence of the strideafr megaphoned orders of a director, Ar-, buckle might have believed himself “backs on the lot" during a police court scene. Not long ago he played the title rel of "The Life of the Party,” in (Continued on Page Ten.)

NAVY MEN MEET 15 ZR-2 BODIES Tug Carries Representatives! to British Cruiser Dauntless. NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—The naval tngj Pentucket left the Brooklyn navy yarS shortly after 2 p. m. carrying lives of the United States Navy to the British cruiser Dauntless, which arw rived off Sandy Hook today with bodteH of fifteen American victims of the ZR.-21 dirigible disaster. The Dauntless, convoyed by battleships, destroyers and from the naval base at Newport, wll£ dock at the Brooklyn Navy yard at ff D. m. About fifty naval officers were aboard the American tug Pentucket. As the Dauntless proceeded up th<% harbor this afternoon she fired a salute when passing the fort at L. 1., which returned In kind. The work, of removing the bodies was to start aa soon as the British warship could bi berthed. , The Dauntless Is being accompanied to New York by American seaplane* an j destroyers. Upon arrival of the Dauntless at that Navy yard, the bodies will be taken a specially prepared building where will be surrounded by a guard which will stand watch until tomorroWj afternoon when naval services for tbaj dead will takn place. Secretary of Navy Denby and othei* distinguished personages are expected att the services. COMMISSION HOUSE ROBBED. The wholesale commission house of James L. Keach, 107 South Delaware street, was broken into and robbed of a, small amount of money some time this morning. Chaster Roman, 1521 Montwsin* street, reported to the police today thauf he was robbed of clothing of ibaKg&M of $108.75 last night.