Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 111, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1921 — Page 1

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KANSAS CITY MAKES WORK FOR CITIZENS 21,200 Out of Work in January Only 13,000 Now. GETS OFF EASIER Feels Depression Less Than Eastern Centers. Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By RICHARD SPILLANE. KANSAS CITY Mo., Sept. 17. Kansas City is doing today and has done in the last year and a half a greater amount of construction work proportionate y than perhaps any other city of its size in America. This work is widespread, covering municipal, industrial and housing structures, and it probably explains the reduction of unemployed from 21,200 in January for the whole metropolitan district to 13,000 today. Kansas citizens declare they have not felt the depression so much as ha 9 the East. This is true only because the construction work has been such an offset. Analysis shows that in merchandising the aame general conditions prevail here as in. Eastern cities only not to so marked a degree Despite the large amount of . new residential building, the housing shortage is acute. Furnitaire storage warehouses are crowded with household goods while many families are forced to live In cramped quarters. Kents are high, very high, a”.d employers, while insisting that labor has not been liquidated, declare it cannot bear its share of the cut until rents are reduced. The anomaly of much dwelling construction ,aad much crowding can be explained only by the belief that the city is growing faster than the authorities appreciate. While warehouses have much household furniture in them they are bare of general merchandise. Stocks of goods in department stores and general supply houses are scant. About three hundred men active in the city's affairs met your correspondent at the Hotel Baltimore and later fifteen gentlemen, representatives of the major lines of business, gave In deAtl reports as to the conditions in their fields. Among these were E. O. Faeth, wholesale hardware: R. F. Hayes, manager Armour & Cos.. C. C. Peters, general manager Emery Bird and Thayer department store, O. J. Sehmelzer, largest sporting goods dealer west of the Mississippi: W. S. Ifickye, clay products and newspaper proprietor: G. L. Jennings, lumber; J. C. I.ester. president Ridenour Baker Grocer Cqmpsny. Also there were reports made by represenatives of the railroads, the intemrban and local traction companies, bankers, real estate men and others FIGURES APPLY TO METROPOLIS PITY. It must be understood that such figures as are given here apply to metropolitan Kansas City and not to the portion of the municipality in Missouri/ Kansas City is a young whale. It Is voracious in its business appetite. Its factory output approximates $2,000,000 a day. In this line packing house products are pre-eminent, making up more than two fifths of the total, but there Is a big output of dairy products, confectionery, flour and gra‘n mill articles, crude and refln:7 oil, soaps and chemicals, automobile supplies together with iron and steel products, mill and cabinet work, steel metal good 9 (particularly tanks and barrels) paper boxes, bags, tents, awnings, etc. The jobbing business, spreading as It does over a wide territory, Is big. Last year It reached $882,000,000. Grain and livestock play a big part in shaping the city's business. Millions of cattle, calves, sheep and hogs pour through this gate each year to market, while the receipts of grain approximate 100.000,000 bushels. One of the things on which nearly all the representative* of large business here agreed was that there had been a noticeable improvement in the last sixty days and particularly the last thirty days. This did not apply in all lines, but the large majority. There was general agreement That the costs of doing business were tUo high and must be reduced, that workers were more efficient; that the costs of transportation were throttling and that bulk commodities could not move freely until railroad rates were adjusted. Fuel, labor and transportation had to bear their share of liquidation before conditions could be healthy, but despite the handicaps of their heavy cost today there was a steady and increasing improvement all along the lines. NEEDS LOWER RATES TO THE SEABOARD. Kansas City needs lower rates to the seaboard, it was declared. It wants the rivers made navigable to the fullest degree and it wants canalization prospects that are worthy taken out of dusty pigeonholes and pushed to completion. It wants cheaper and better transporta tion so the products of the West can get to market without excessive cost to mhe consumer. It wants the Nation to do a larger business on a smaller cost of distribution. It wants America to realize that marketing expense has been atrociously high in wholesale and retail and it must be reduced. Lt wants the whole country to see clearly that the American railroads are on an eight-hour basis and American industry is on an eight-hour basis while a good part of Europe is on a twelve or fourteen-hour basis and America cannot maintain Its predominant position against world competition unless it has the highest efficiency in labor and the lowest costs in its marketing process. These people of the Middle West don't dodge confession of their own shortcomings. While they inveigh against marketing costs nationally they are studying ways and means of reducing costs of distribution locally. There was a generai discussion as to prices whole(Contlnned on Page Seven.)

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TREATED GIRL FOR ‘TOO MUCH HIGH LIFE’

HOUSE SESSION DOESN’T IMPRESS DEPUTY MAYOR OF ENGLISH CITY

Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. —Isaac Foote, deputy mayor of Plymouth, England, and a prospective member of the British Parliament, attended a session of the House of Representatives when in Washington in August. Here are his impressions, as recorded in the Western Morning News of Plymouth:

“Whilst In Washington I visited tlie House of Representatives. I do not know If this sitting was at all representative, but to me the proceedings seemed unworthy of a great country. It may be that America almost makes a ceremonial avoidance of eeremi nlal, just as Jefferson tethered his own horse when he came to make Ids inaugural speech. About thirty members were present In the largest legislative hall in the world, half of whom were reading newspapers. "The speakers I heard would have compared rather unfavorably w.lth the gentlemen who settle International and social problems in Hyde Park. One of them raised his voice so effectively that his appeal seemed to be to the vast outside rather than the few who lounged before him. His complaint was that ths previous government had failed to pass the simple

STOKES DENIED DIVORCE FROM HIS YOUNG WIFE Millionaire Loses Suit in New York Supreme Court. SHE GETS SEPARATION NEW YORK. Sept. 19. -The sensational legal battle between W. E. D. Stokes, capitalist, and his pretty young wife. Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, ended in the Supreme Court today when Justice Edward R. Finch denied the suit of the millionaire for a divorce and granted Mrs. Stokes an interlocutory decree of separation on her counter suit. The question of alimony was not settled in the decision handed down by Justice Finch. Stokes' divorce aetkm has been under consideration in the Supreme Court since the taking of testimony was finished, several months ago. The case was one of the moat sensational in the history of New York courts which have been the scene of many world famous divorce suits. Stokes, owner of several big hotels, demanded a divorce naming a number of co-respondents. He produced witnesses (Continued on Page Eleven.) 3 STREET CARS HELD UP; LONE BANDIT AT WORK Man Gets on Car Alone, but Pal Follows in Automobile. Hold-up men. burglars and automobile thieves held a carnival of crime in Indianapolis over th week-end. Street car conductors seemed to have been singled out as a 9perinl mark by the bandits, three being held up and robbed. Charles Klraerly, 2.33 South Summit avenue, conductor on West Indianapolis street -car No. 950. was held up and robbed of $2035 last midnight at Pershing avenue and Howard streets. Kimerly said a man got on at Morris and Division streets, and said he wanted to get off at Pershing avenue and Howard streets. When thi car reached that place (Continued on Page Eleven.)

Former Slave Says Miners in West Virginia Treated Same as Slaves ‘Befo’ Wah’

WILLIAMSON, W. Ya.. Sept. 19 Senators Kenyon and Shortridge todny questioned West Virginia constabulary and county authorities concerning the troubles which led to the recent civil war between union miners a. u deputies Questioning of miners atul their families already has brought out the union side of the case. The alleged refusal of coal operators properly to check the coil mined and to pay upon a basis either of weight or measurement and the insistence of operators that miners and their families trade at company owned stores were the prim-tpal grievances put forward by the miners. After examining offleers of the State constabulary in Williamson and hearing an account of the shooting at the Lick Creek tent colony last night, the members of the special committee of the United States Senate, who are conducting an investigation of the est Virginia industrial war, left for Matewon, union stronghold of Mingo County, and scene of a bloody battle between forces of former Chief* of Police Sid Hatfield and Baldwin-Felts detectives. Major Davis, local commander of the West Virginia State police, was examined behind closed doors by Senator Kenyon, but a stenographic record was taken of the testimony. The investigation committee motored to the village of Kermit near here during the morning to prove reports of the recent killings there. Inital 'activities of the investigating Senators was confined to tile famous Lick Creek colony. After a perilous motor • trip along roads rendered doubly dangerous by torrential rains, the committee arrived at a point about a quarter of a mile from the colony—the quarter of a mile was as the crow flies —and straight up. Led by Senator Kenyon, the party scrambled up the slippery bank to a little group of dirty tehts forming a sort of suburb. The first man encountered was a colored preacher, the Rev. George E. Echols. "Ah, was raised a slave," he said, giving the first testimony, "but Ah, thought that when Marne Lincoln gave his mancipation he had made every man free and equal.

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bill making strikes illegal on the railways during the war. He Ufted both arms to heaven, smote his open palm as if It were an anvil and in the end his voice broke under the strain. “All the speakers 1 heard were interrupted and sometimes the interruptions were such that it was difficult to know who was really addressing the House, the speaker or the intervener; in faet, some times they both addressed the Honse together. “I was told before I went to the House that the proceedings were not likely to put ary undue strain on my meptal apparatus, but I certainly expected something better from the governing legislative body of a country believing so strongly In representative institutions. Personally. 1 thought the American Parliament might with advantage attend a course of sittings of the Plymouth council.”—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

PROFESSIONAL FINE STAYERS HIT BY NOTICE City Clerk to Refuse Acceptance of Bondsmen if Fines Are Overdue. MORE MONEY POURS IN When the professional bondsmen appeared at the city clerk * office today they were greeted with a ‘‘notice'' posted on the glass window near which they are supposed to pay overdue fines. I his notice included a list of names of men who will not be permitted to sign “stays” of flues and costs until after “all old accounts are settled in full.” The notice bore the signature of George O. Hutsell, city clerk. The scramble to pay the delinquent fines and to clean up the “stayed docket followed the exposure lu the ’’lines that nearly $5,000 is due the city and lhat some oi the “stays" dale back to 1910. Mr. Hutsell pointed out that his action in barring the men named in his notice as surety until “all old accounts were paid in full.” did not in any way inter sere or siop the suits that will hr filed by Prosecutor William P. Evans, against the men who “stayed" the fines and costs of defendants convicted In city court (Continued on Page Eleven.) CHICAGO POLICE CHIEF ON TRIAL Charged With Contempt as Result of Remarks on Wanderer Case. CHICAGO, Sept. 19.—Chief of Police Charles Fitzmorris went to trial here today on a charge of contempt of court. The trial is the outcome of remarks attributed to the chief concerning the casc of Car! Wanderer, sentenced to hang for murder. At the time insanity nearings in the Wanderer case were In progress before Judge Joseph David Chief Fitzmorris was quoted as saying “Wanderer was not half as crazy as a lot of coppers will be if they continue letting these men out on a plea of insanity." Judge David cited the qhitf for contempt.

"But gentlemen us union minohs, l lack or white, is treated jes like us slaves wua befoh the war. "All us union men wants is jes to be lef alone, but them ‘atabularics won't allow us no peace. They cut up our tents and shoot at us and drive us into town to Jail Jes like they used to herd us black men to market in slave times. An - every time any of us goes down to town of our own free will to buy food (Continued on I’uge Six.) MINERS RESORT . TO OLD TACTICS Sixty Men Order Bosses to Leave Glendora. Spe< la.l to The Times. SULLIVAN, Ind., Sept. 19.—Miner vigilantes went on the warpath here igain last week in their fight against mine bosses and the employment policy of the mine operators, it was learned today. Sixty men visited the Glendora mine Saturday night and told the firemen and engineer, who were manning the property during a strike, to leave the mine. The workmen picked up their too's and departed. As they were leaving the vigilantes told them to “.stay off the Job until the strike is ended.” It was also learned a similar raid was made Thursday night on the Peerless mine which also is tied up by strike. Here the invaders threw a number of electric switches through the window of the engine room before going to the doorway to tell the fireman and engineer to abandon the mine. Denver Collector Robbedj)f $9,000 DENVER, Colo., Sept. 19.—George C. Lourey, collector for a chain of grocery stores, was held up by an armed bandit today as be was entering the company's headquarters and robbed of $9,000 in cash. Lourey had just completed his collections from a dozen stores in the city.

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HOWAT OUT TO ‘GET’ LEWIS IN MINE MEETING Scrap Feared Within Ranks of United Mine Workers. KANSAN NOT HERE Frank Farrington of Illinois May Join Lewis Opposition. Internal strife in the organization of the United Mine Workers of America, which opens its convention in Tomlinson Hall tomorrow, was freely predicted today by the delegates who were gathering in Indianapolis by the hundreds. In fact, the question uppermost in the minds of the delegates and the most frequent subject of discussion was that of what Alex Howat of Kansas, leader of the radical w ing of the organization, can be expected to do. Mr. Howat had not arrived in the city, but his arrival was expected almost any time, and with his arrival things were expected to happen. Ft Is generally understood that Mr. Howat is out to "get" John L. Lewis, international presi dent of the organization, and that he can be expected to tight almost anything Mr. I.ewis may propose. Much depends on the opening address i of Mr. I.ewis. aoiording to some of~the 1 delegates to tlie convention. If Mr i.ewis sees fit to criticize the “left wing" of the organization to any extent a fight is ex pected to break loose, according to some of the delegates. Mr. Lewis has never been known to mince words on this sub- j ject and few expect bim to do so in this ] case. One of the things which Mr. Howat is j expected to advocate Is the election of organizers. Organizers are now appointed by the International president, 'and his opponents contend that they do much to keep the miners in Hue for the ad ministration. There Is slso much speculation as to ■ what can be expected of Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois miners. Mr Farrington opposed Mr. Lewis in the last election and has been associated by sotne with Mr. Howat as a radical. Mr (Continued on I’oge Eleven.)

UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE TO OPEN SEPT. 26 Secretary of Commerce Hoover Announces Date Set for Confab. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—President Harding's conference on unemployment will open here next Monday, Sept. 20, Secretary of Commerce Hoover announced today. Plans for the .conference were completed by Harding and Hoover during their recent vacation trip, and it is expected the personnel of the conference will be announced shortly by Secretary Hoover. There will be more than thirty delegates, Hoover said, but there will be no class or group representatives In the conference. The agenda for tbo conference ha* been prepared by the economic advisory commission of the Department of Commerce. A number of prominent experts voluntarily gave their services.

SELECTING JURY IN OSBURN CASE Woman Begins Fight for Verdict in Arson Charge. Eerna B. Osburn today began her fight for averdlct of not guilty of a charge of arson before a jury in the Marlon County Criminal Court. By her counsel, Robert Dalton and Henry Winkler, an examination of talesmen began this morning which continued for three hours. When court began this afternoon the defense had not passed the Jury to the State for examination. Indications are that the actual introductions of evidence will not begin until lata tomorrow morning. The State alleges that tbe defendant set fire to a house occupied by her at Bridgeport, for the purpose of obtaining about $1,500 iu insurance carrie- on her furniture. Both the State and the defense have summoned many witnesses. The defend ant has been in jail for several months awaiting tidal. The court room has been packed with spectators since the trial began. This is the first jury trial to be tried by Judge James A. Collins since the summer vacation.

Two School Boys Hold Officers at Bay for 7 Hours PITTSBURGH, Pa„ Sept. 19.—Two high school boys barricaded themselves behind the counters of a gun store here today and held a cordon of police and detectives at bay for more than seven hours. They were arrested finally after shots fired by the boys shattered a plate glass window. The two were held on a charge of entering a building. Police Any the boys, Peter Bonkow ski, 13, and Walter Kulbain, 15, students at the Schenley High School, know something of a series of thefts in sporting goods stores.

KNEW NOTHING OF INJURY, SAYS FIRST ON CASE Admits Examination Was Superficial and Had Her Sent to Hospital. NOW ON WAY TO ’FRISCO SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 19.—“T00 much high life.” This was the diagnosis of Dr. Arthur Beardalee, who attended Miss Virginia Rappe the first night of her illness that followed the party given by Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, motion picture comedian, and from which she subsequently died, according to a statement made by the physician‘to Sheriff A. E. Dolan of Mono County before he left Bridgeport today (o hasten to San Francisco in response td a summons from District Attorney Brady. Dr. Beard-vice told me he knew but little of the case,” Sheriff Dolan stated over the telephone. —He said be treated her for ‘too much high life' and knew nothing of any injury. He declared his examination was superficial and he recommended she be taken to u hospital.” According to advices to the district attorney s office. Dr. Beardsiee will not reach here until tomorrow. Dr. Beardslee's testimony is regarded as highly important by both the State and the defense. It is understood both sides are anxious to learn full details of 1 his diagnosis of the esse and the medical treatment accorded tbe patient. What was his diagnosis of Miss Uappe's illues ? What treatment was given? Dr. Beardsiee is understood to have attended Miss Itappe much of Monday night two weeks ago. It has been rumored that the defense counts heavily upon bin testimony, although so far as Is known they are as ignorant of Its nature as is the State. District Attorney and his assistants. Isidore Golden and Milton Cohen, had In mi ld a complete re-enactment of the scenes which attended the party which was followed by the death of the pretty film uctrvss. piecing togeliXr tbe story as told by the partj's drffinatis personae They dramatically rehearsed the events that led up to the alleged attack. l'he rehearsal took place behind closed doors, tut it was learned that it had provided tbe State with valuable leads. Other over Sunday developments included : The arrival cf Mlnta Durfee Arbuckle, I wife of the prisoner, in charge of Ar j buckle's attorneys who refused to per- ! mil her to talk; District Attorney Brady wired Salt Lake authorities to Intercept Lowell Sherman, tnember of Arbuckle’s party and (Continued on Cage Eleven.)

CONNECTICUT MAN IS STEEL SOCIETY HEAD Officers Named by Referendum Announced at Opening Session. F. r. (tllligan of Hartford, Conn., was elected president of the American Society for Steel Treating, in the recent referendum, according to a report made at the opening session of the society's third annual convention and exhibition at the State fairground today. The election resulted In the selection of other officer* as follows: First vice-president, F. C. 1 4iu. Chicago; second vice-presi-dent, H. J. Allen, Springfield, Mass..: treasurer, J. V. Emmons, Cleveland, Ohio; and member of the board of directors, J. J. Crowe, Philadelphia. The retiring president. A. E. White, director of research at the University of Michigan, automatically becomes a mem ber of the board. The new officers will assume their positions at the clone of the present convention. The term of office of the secretary of the society, W. 11. Eisenmnn of Cleveland, Ohio, continues for another year. SOCIETY DELEGATES GIVEN WELCOME. The program for the opening session, which was. held in the Manufacturers' building at the State fairground. Included an address of welcome by W. K. Chaplin, chairman of the executive committee of the Indianapolis chapter of the society; an address of welcome by Mayor Charles W. Jewett; a response by the president of the society, A. BJ. White; the report of tellers of the election, by R. T. Bayless of Cleveland, Ohio, chairman; the report of tbo secretary, W. H. Kisemnan: the report of the treasurer, W. S. Biddle of Cleveland, and an address by the president, Mr White. In his nddress President White touched upon various features of the work during the past year, and also upon the local chapters of the society throughout the country. In referring to the local chapters he said: “Your national officers fully np(Continued on Page Eleven.)

OWNERS PROTEST WORK ON STREET Claim Southeastern Avenue Needs No Resurfacing. City Civil Engineer Frank C. Lingenfeller reported to the board of public works today that the rein on st m nice against the resurfacing of Southeastern avenue from Washington street to State avenue bears the signatures of more than forty per cent of the property owners and therefore must be certified to circuit court before further action can be taken. The property owners object on the ground thnt the improvement is not necessary, its cost would be excessive and (hat the board had no legal right to order it. A request that Dearborn street in the vicinity of school No. 54, Dearborn and East Tenth streets and California street in front of school No. 5 from Washington to Market streets be dosed to traffic during play periods while playgrounds are being constructed was received from the board of school commissioners. No action was taken. The resolution for the permanent Improvement of Sherman Drive from Twen-ty-First to Thirtieth street wai postponed ujttll Sept. 21.

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Virginia Rappe Is Buried; 6,000 People View Remains

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LOS ANGELES, Cat., Sept. 19—They burled Virginia Rappe today. The film actress who died following the fatal parly staged by Roscoe "Fatty'' Arbuckle in San Francisco, was given a simple but impressive funeral from an undertaking parlor iu Hollywood. Thtf Rev. Frank Hoc,debush. an Episcopal clergyman, officiated. There were a number of beautiful floral offerings, the most pretentious belog a blanket of 1.000 tiger liller, sent by Miss Rappe'* fiance, Henry Lehrman

MAY COMPLETE WORK OF FIXING STATE TAX RATE Governor to Meet With State Auditor on Tax Board This Week. The State tax rate may be fixed the latter part of this week, according to Philip Zoercher, a member of the State board of tax commissioners, who returned today from a national tax convention at Brecton Woods. N. 11. The other members of ihe board went to Washington. where they will confer on matters of tax legislation before returning to Indianapolis, possibly Thursday. Tho tax rAte Is fixed by the tax board, the auditor of State and ihe Governor. The present rate is 20 cents and the Legislature fixed rates 4 cents higher than those previously fixed. The. rates to be fixed by the State offieials are for general purposes, the highway department and benevolent Institutions. If these rates are left as they are the State rate will be 24 rents. It is probable, however, that it will be even higher. Mr. Zoereher said also that the board probably will take up the appeal of the ten M*rion County taxpayers against the county rates early uext week. He said also that the board probably will hear an appeal from Vigo County next week. These are the only appeals tiled thus far. Mr. Zoercher refused to comment on the latest statement of the Indianapolis board of school commissioners in the school building bond controversy, saying he had not had time to read it.

SCHOOLS GAIN 1,153 OVER 1920 Shortridge Enrollment Is 27 Below Figures Last Year. Enrollment figures for the schools of the city show that last Friday, Sept. IC, there were grade school pupils and 7,209 high school pupils In school. This is a gain of 351 for the grade schools and 802 for the high schools over figures for Sept. 16, last year. However, for the first time in years a high school showed a decrease in enrollment, Shortridge having 1.877 pupils listed as against 1,904 a year ago, a falling off of twenty-seven. Arsenal Tech 1 ideal High School figures jumped from 3,060 to 3.669, a gain of 600, while Em inerich Manual Training High School figures showed ti galu of 220. the enrollment being 1,663 as against 1,443 a year ago. Tota, figures will l>o increased, school officials say, by ‘ late arrivals and when all these are in it is believed Shortridge will have at least as many pupils in school as in 1920. The falling off at Shortridge is not due, school officials say, to any, decline in popularity of a classical course, but is wholly due to the obsolete budding and crowded conditions at that school. "Give Shortridge a modern building with adequate equipment, and 1 will guarantee that it will be tilled regardless of how large the building is,” Superintendent Graff said. The board of school commissioners in its last budget provided for sufficient funds to pay for the preparation of plans and 'he beginning of excavation work for a ,new Shortridge on the north side high ft'hooi grounds at Pennsylvania and Thirty-Fourth streets.

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cf New York. There was also a pillow of roses from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hardebeck, of Los Angeles, her adopted uncle and aunt. A throng estimated at from 6.000 to 7,000 persons viewed the body of the actress, known as the "Best dressed woman in the movies,” as it lay in state from 10 to 4 o'clock Sunday. Throughout the six hours the chapel of the undertaking establishment was open the crowd came silently and in single file. As they passed tbe silver-gray, flowerbanked casket and looked at the beautiful actress' face, there were many who shed tears. Schoolgirls who had lost their usual smiles, came with bowed heads and handkerchiefs to their eyes. A little boy, walking on crutches hobbled past. He glanced down at the closed lids, saw the white satin shroud, then turned away. His lips trembled and he sobbed as he made his way to the street. Today's funeral arrangements were under the personal direction of Norman raurog, a close friend of Henry Lehrman. Interment was made In Hollywood cemetery, the body being laid* to rest beside Miss Helen Morrison, secretary to I.ehr in an, who died two years ago of influenza.

SAY ONE ADMITS BOMB OUTR AGE Chicago Police Arrest Five and Seize Quantity of Explosives. CHICAGO, Sept. 19. A terrorist plot was unearthed here today, aecordiug to police, when James Smith confessed to Implication in several bombings here, i Smith, together with four others, was J arrested early today by police. More than fourteen hundred sticks !of dynamite and 100 sticks of i TNT were seized by detectives today in a raid on the rendezvous of an alleged gang of bombers that followed the bomb lng of David Kremen's shoe repair shop in Soulh Halstead street. Five men, declared by the police to have hurled the bomb, were pursued, toe alleged bomber was wounded and two others captured. Two others were seized lgter in the raid on tlie dyuqmite cache. The bomb, which was hurled at Kremen's shop, wrecked the front of It, hurled Kremen and his four children, llv.ng In the rear out of bed and shattered windows in adjoining buildings. FORMAL OFFER TO GENERAL WOOD WASHINGTON. Sept. 19.—Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood will be appointed governor general of the Philippines, Secretary of War Weeks announced definitely today. Weeks said that the formal offer of governor generalship will be sent to ■ Wood when he returns soon to the Phillp- | pines from Chinn. According to Weeks, ! Wood has agreed to neeept the post. i

Order for Fees Prompts Impecunious Lawyers to File Separation Suits

[EDITOR'S NOTE—This Is the eleventh of a series of articles dealing with the divorce evil, its problems and Its remedy, as reflected in the official records and opinions of the local judges.] By WALTER D. HICKMAN. The procedure is divorce cases is largely statutory and proceedings of this nature, when brought by the wife, are among the few instances where the court grants attorney fees and enforces their payment by court orders, Judge T. J Moll of Superior Court stated iu discussing the various phases of the divorce question. “This doubtless prompts many, impecunious lawyers to file separation suits, hastily, without attempting to effect a

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HOME EVENTS MAY CHANGE BRITISH PLANS Irish Situation Bound to Be Reflected at Arms Parley. INDIA, EGYPT RIOT Garrisons in Battle Array on Constant Guard. Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By F. W. WILE. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Greal Britain's role at the armaments conference is bound, in the opinion of acute observers to be seriously in fluenced by prolongation of strife with Ireland. The absence of Lloyd George from the British delegation will be the first, but not the only re suit of the continuing menace of a British-lrish war. If there is no peace by Armistice day the prediction is hazarded that the entire British attitude toward reduction of armaments may have to be altered. Not even the mighty British empire, authorities say, could afford to unfix a bayonet or dismantle a ship with Irelind In rebellion and India and Egypt aw titInga propitious moment to take advantage of Britain's woes. In his last communication with Eamon De Valera Lloyd George Gw the first time made public mention of the real fear that inspires the British mind when Irish independence is under discussion, namely, that a "sovereign" Erin might ally itself with a foreign power for the destruction of the empire. Much is beard of Ireland's determination to cast off the British yoke, bnt little or nothing of the equally bi’ter eagerness of India and Egypt to achieve their independence. In both the realm of the Rajahs and the land of the Nile, sedition is avowed and rampant. Open rebellion is all byt officially existent. In both countries im-‘ mense garrisons of British troops are maintained, armed to the teeth in preparation for warfare on a vast scale. The (Continued on Page Eleven.)

SINN FEIN WILL MAKE ANOTHER REPLY TO NOTE Document May Be Delivered to Lloyd George This Evening. DUBLIN, Sept. 19. —Eanionn De Valera sent a cablegram to Premier Lloyd George late today virtually amounting to a demand for a "show down” on the British government's position. The Sinn Uyin chieftain asked the premier in his cable whether Mr. Lloyd George would state if his letter of Sept. 7 wa sa "declaration of war or an Invitation to a free conference.” Do Valera also added to this inquiry that he never asked that any conditions be stipulated before the conference was held. DUBLIN, Sept, 19.—Sinn Fein’s reply to the latest note from Lloyd George probably will be sent to the British premier at Fairloeh this evening, it was announced today after a meeting of the Dull Eireann Cabinet. RADICALS TO STAND PAT LONDON, Sept. 19. —The deadlock In the Irish peace situation was unbroken today. The firm attitude taken by Premier Lloyd George in his notes of Saturday and Sunday led to the prediction in some quarters that Eamonn De Valera might withdraw his demand for a republic, but advices from Dublin quoted the Sinn Fein radicals as saying they Intended to stand pat. De Valera was expected to reply at once to the latest noto of Premier Lloyd (Continued on Page Eleven.) ‘Dead Rat,’ ‘Wild Cow’ Bring Charlie Sleep PARIS. Sepl. 19.—Crowds gathered on the Champs Elygee today waiting to catch a glimpse of Charlie Chaplin. The Arbuekle affair apparently dampened French enthusiasm for film stars in general, as "Chariot.” as he is known here, visited the "Dead Rat” and the “Wild Cow," Monte Marte cabarets, and slept today, disappointing those who stood in front of his hotel this morning.

reconciliation, and not infrequently !m----providently, Judge Moll said. "This, of course, has a tendency to Increase the number of suits filed but has only slight effect on the. number of decrees actually granted. Th°se same considerations prompt young attorneys, just entering the profession, to file divorce complaints but it Is fair to say that the better class of young lawyers soon outgrow this condition and become conscientious peacemakers and sue only exceptionally. CASES DISTRIBUTED AMONG SIX COURTS. “Under the rules of our local courts, the divorce cases as filed are distributed equally among the six civil courts and in regular order. But many of th# (Continued on Page Four.)

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