Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature.

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STATE BOARD TO BUILD BINS FOR REFUSE? Question of Sanitation to Be Discussed at Next Meeting. REMOVE REFUSE Steps to eliminate the oreeding places for flies by the manure piles outside the stables at the State fairground, which have been a oource of danger to the health of residents of the neighborhood for several years, are being taken by the State board of agriculture, William X. Jones, member of the board, stated today. The manure, which formerly was allowed to lie for long periods, now is removed every day or two before fiie.3 have an opportunity to hatch, Mr. Jones declared. To make the possibility of fly production even less remote, Mr. Jones announced, a proposal that tightly covered concrete bins be constructed to hold the stable cleanings will be laid before the State beard at its next meeting. The proposal is in line with a recommendation whin Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the cite board of public health, said his body made to the State hoard of agriculture two years ago. The city board never has taken drastic action to force a sanitary solution of the problem at the stables. It Is contended by residents who have suffered from the flies bred at the stables in the past that the city board, having jurisdiction in territory three miles outside the city limits could have done something if it had cared to lofk horns with the State authorities. The fairground is just outside the corporation line. The stables are located nt the extreme end of the fairground, directly south and across Forty-Second street from the State School for the Deaf. City health authorities say they were interested in eliminating the fly-breeding condition because of the hundreds of boys and girls .gathered at the school from all parts of Indiana. having their heAlth endangered ly the great swarms of flies which flew from the stables to the tables of the State institution, a distance of about five hundred feet. FLIES WORSE THIS YEAR. O. M. Plttinger, superintendent of the State Bchool for the Deaf, said the Institution always Is troubled with flies after the fair, the pest remaining until cold weather, but they are worse this year than usual. Ke said he thought this condition exists everywhere. He knew of no other place than the fairground from which the flies could come, he stated. Residents of the section of the city to the south, west and northwest of the fairground say that so far the annual fly pest following the State fair has not been af bad as usual. This, they believed, was due to the fact that during the fair gar bage was kept In tightly covered containers. Race horses are kept In the stables, of which there are ten. Only five are In use at the present time. The stable refuse is thrown out the windows of the stall t. Mr. .Tones stated the matter of properly handling the manure was taken up with the F*ate board of health some time ago and the plan of moving it frequently was put Into effect. He said he had been Informed by the State board of agriculture that It takes eleven daya for flies to hatch. Since the frequent collections were started there “has been no time when the refuse was permitted to accumulate longer than two or three days, excepting during and immediately after the fair, when the rush of other business made it necessary to dump it in a central pile in an isolated spot until it could be removed by the persons who use it for fertilizer. Installation of the concrete bins depends upon whether or not the State fcoard of agriculture finds the cost within its financial limits, Mr. Jones stated. “There are many improvements the board wanted to make long ago.” said the board member, “but we always have had to go slow because of lack of funds. Our only source of revenue has been profits from the fair and the SIO,OOO per year which the State gives us to help out on premiums. This year we realized a profit of about $25,000 and if the cost of the improvement at the stables Is not too great It may be made. “The board should be able to do a great deal more on the grounds than It has In the past after it starts to receiving funds out of State taxes In 1924.” The tax levy of 1923 will include provision for the State fair fund, under a new State law.

IRISH NOTE NOT SATISFACTORY Cabinet Members Discuss De Valera Terms With Premier at Scottish Retreat. INVERNESS, Scotland, Sept. 22. Premier Lloyd George at his holiday retreat at Gairloch again conferred with members of his cabinet _ today on the Irish situation. It was reported that the cabinet members who have already consulted with the premier, regarded the latest note from Eamonn De Valera as unsatisfactory. ' Although the premier is hopeful that an Irish conference can be arranged it ia impossible to forecast the date of it. According to one current of opinion .here will be two conferences, the first of a preliminary nature. The premier is expected to send, another note to De Valera early next week, possibly tooner.

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Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 “p. m„ Sept. 23, 192 1 : Fair tonight and Friday: not much change in temperature. HOLULY TEMPERATCRE. 6 a. in 58 7 a. m 59 8 a. m 65 9 a. m 69 10 a. m 73 11 a. m 76 12 (noon) 78 1 p. m 79 2 p. m 80

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THIS CONDITION WONT EXIST AFTER 1922 FAIR

This scene Fhows the piles l of refuse outside of the stables at the State fairground which heretofore have been allowed to accumulate indefinitely, but which the State board of agriculture Is removing. The State expects to build concrete bins for this refuse in the near future.

GERMAN BLAST DEAD NOW 1,200, INJURED 2.000 Damage From Chemical Plant Explosion Up in Millions. PARIS, Sept. it.—Tho explosion that wrecked tile Oppan plant of the Badisclie Anilln Fabrik Company Is thought by some to have been the result of experiments with new war gases, telegraphed the Oppau correspondent of I.a I.iberte this afternoon. BERLIN, Sept. 22.—The entire medical staff of the French army of occupation on the Rhine has arrived at Ludwigs hafen to assist in treating numbers of persons who were Injured In the gigantic explosion which wrecked the plant of the Badische Anilinfabrik Company at Oppau with total loss of life estimated at 1,200. Abont 2,000 persons were mjnred. All the hospitals In Ludwtgshafen and Mannheim are crowded and score# of public buildings and private houses have been converted into hospitals. General De Gouette, commander lnchief of tho French army of occupation, and a deachment of French troops have arrived on the scene to assist the GermangMn relief work. Hundreds of families are homeless. Following an Investigation Officials of the company Issued a statement saying the blast had occurred In a warehouse containing 200 tons of ammonium sulphate. The exact cause Is not known. The little suburb of Oppau, on the Rhine, was a scene of desolation and woe, while the whole countryside for mileß around bore witness of the terrific force of the explosion. Thousands of workmen, volunteers and soldiers are engaged in searching the wreckage of the factory and the homes for more bodies. Temporary morgues have been erected nil around the scene of the explosion and they present scenes of pathos. Frantic (Continued on Page Three.) NEIGHBOR IS HELD IN CLUB MURDER Said to Have Been on Bad Terms With Monroe. DOWAGIAC, Mich., Sept. 22.—Herbert Smith, a neighbor, is under arrest today as a suspect In the murder of William Monroe, his wife and 17-year-old daughter, who were found clubbed to death in their home here. William Kenney, a former neighbor of the Monroes, also is being sought. Smith, according to evidence obtained by Deputy Sheriff E. J. It ussy, is known to have been on unfriendly terms with Monroe. They are declared to have quarreled several times and two years ago Smith is said to hnve fired a shotgun In the direction of the Monroe home. Iln claimed the shot was fired at Monroe’s chickens, which were foraging in Smith's garden. Smith was arrested at the Baldwin sanitarium here, where he was undergoin treatment for asthma. He asserted his innocence. He was removed, under heavy guard to prevent to lynching, to tho jail at Cassopolis. Kenney, it is claimed, quarreled with Monroe a year ago over his attentions to 17-year-old Neva Monroe, one of the victims of the slayer. Kenney Is declared to have paid a hurried visit to Monroe last Saturday and to have had a conference with Monroe. Inquest into the deaths was to be held here today. Clothes bearing dark red stains, believed to be blood, which were found in the home of Smith, are to be shown at the Inquest and the stains chemically analyzed to detertuino their nature. Ardith Monroe, 12. who was the only surviving member of the family. Is still alive, although in a serious condition. Anti-Beer Bill Gets Clear Way in Senate WASHINGTON. Sept. 22—Supporters of the ‘‘bone dry” search and seizure section of the anti-beer bill forced the Senate today to take up the conference report of the measure. The Senate's action gives the anti-beer measure tho right of way over all other pending legislation.

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26 of 59 G. O. P. Senators Absent; Lodge Is 'Mad'

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Senator Lodge Is dlsplMiwerl ut tlve apparent Indifference of many kepuhlioan Senators toward the big and Important tank* opon which the Senate ban beg tin work. This Indifference, Lodge thinks, was clearly Indicated by the absence from the opening session yesterday of twenty-six Republican Senators of a total of fifty-nine. Asa result of the large (vloentee list, it is likely, unless rive missing ones return within a d-y or two, they will receive polite but firm notes from Senator < urtls Lodge’, rhlef lieutenant, urging them to “get on the job.” Lodge’s leadership has been under fire recently. Furthermore, Xawlge has factions and groups within Ids own party that can’t be properly controlled if a large number Os “regulars’’ arp absent. FURTHER QUIZ NEEDED IN W. VA. Senate Committee Says Truth Can Not Be Learned Without Investigation. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. -Realizing ns never before the seriousness of the lndustrinl situation in tho West Virginia coal fields, but still at a loss to know what steps the Federal Government should take to bring the civil war in that State to an end, Senator Kenyon’s special Investigating committee, consisting of himself and Senator Shortrldge, returned to Washington today, after a four-day personal survey of the disturbed ana. If the Inquiry among miners, operators and State and county officials in Mingo, Logan and Kanawha bounties accomplished nothing else, it has convinced the Senate investigators that their efforts to got to the bottom of the bloody mountain wars In this region will not be completed until further investigation is undertaken cither here or in West Virginia. PERSHING CALLS ON MILLER AND Accompanied to Official Residence by Herrick. PARIS, Sept. 22.—General Pershing accompanied by Ambassador Herrick today ipaid a formal call on President Millcrand. .After being warmly greeted by th French president and spending a h ,f hour in frieudly chat, Pershing went alone to call upon Louis Barthou, minister of w-ar. Tonight, Ambassador Herrick Is giving a dinner In honor of the American Coinmander-in-Cbief. POLICE TO GUARD VALUED EXHIBIT Exposition Has Cooperation of Board of Safety. Cooperation has been assured the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce in the policing of the Indianapolis Industrial exposition to be hebl in the Manufacturers’ Building at the State fairground Oct. 10 to 15 by the board of safety, which, according to a letter received by Claude S. Wallin, the exposition director, from George W. Williams, executive secretary of the board of safety, has Instructed Chief of Police Kinney, to cooperate with the exposition organization and to give necessary police protection in every way. “The exposition organization will have its own watchmen and caretakers on the job twenty-four hours a day." said Mr. Wallin. “But with at least five million dollars’ worth of products to be placed in the building it will be necessary for us to turn to the regular police department for the protection that must be given to this great amount of property." The policing of the exposition will be no little job since it will take several dayß to instill the exhibits and as many mori to dismantle them.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22. 1921.

W. C. T. U. FAVORS SEARCH OF CARS WITHOUT PAPER Convention for Use of Warrants in Going Into Homes. Following a talk by Mrs Martha Gipc against the “lid tilting ’ possibilities of the Stanley amendment pending In Con | gress, which provides that no person. ! premises or property can be searched without a warrant, the W. C. T. U county convention today adopted a reso- j lutlon that a tel 'gram be sent to Sen | ators New and Watson asking thorn tc j support tho Willis Campbell bill now in j committee in the Senate. It was pointed out that the Stanley ■ amendment prevented tho search of auto- 1 mobiles or homes without a warrant, white the Willis Campbell bill provides a warrant only for the seirch of homes Other resolution# which were Indorsed by the union included the urging of teaching of scientific temperance In the public schools; the pledging of the union s support to no tobacco league in disseminating facts about tobacco and !u having the tobacco laws in this State enforced; the emphasizing of the single standard of purity for both men and women; an. appeal to the churches to Join the \\ C. T. I*, in demanding that the Sunday laws he enforced; the supporting of the President’s world disarmament policy, and one of thanks to tho school board and county superintendents for their cooperation in having the Bible read in the schools. Mrs. Ina Jay Foreman and Mrs. Carrie Stlre with Mrs. Gipe composed the resolutions committee. Mrs. Minnie N. Bronson was re-elected president of the union yesterday at the afternoon session of tho county convention, which opened yesterday morning in the Friends Church. Other officers chosen include Mrs. Grace Alvater, vice president ; Mrs. Fva Baker, corresponding .-■rretary : Mrs. Ada Lancaster, recording secretary; Mrs. lona Jay Foreman, treasurer; Mrs. Edith Cowglli, secretary of the I.oyal Temperance Union, and Mrs. Elizabeth Arbnekle, secretary of the Young Peoples Branch. AWAIT RALSTON ‘NOTE’ TONIGHT Interest Centers in Attitude on Jewett Rule. Chief Interest in the keynote speeches with which Boyd M Ralston, nominee for mayor, will open the Democratic spenking campaign tonight, centered In whether he will attack the Republican administration of Mayor Charles W. Jewett. Democratic speakers thus far hnve carefully avoided statements which would anger the mayor's friends. Mr. Ralston will speak first, at tho South Side Turners Hull, going from there to Stower's Ilall nt Clifton ond Udell streets. Practically tho same speech will be made at both places, the only differences planned being on points of pure ly local Interest to the south or tho north side. John W. Iloltzman and L. Ert Slack will be other speakers at the north side meeting and Joseph E. Bell, Albert Snhm and Henry Seyfrled will appear with Mr. Ralston on the south side.

Education and Religious Principles May Help Curb Divorce, Judge Carter Says

(EDITOR’S NOTE—This is the fourteenth of a series of articles dealing with the divorce evil. Its problems and its remedy, as rejected in the official records and opinions of the local judges.) BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. A man cannot rob a woman of the best years of her life and then seek to discard her for another by means of a divorce unless the husband “pays.” That is the theory of Judge Solon 3. Carter of Superior Court, Room 3. who has presided in many important divorce cases since he assumed the bench a little over a year and a half ago. In one case In this court, the alimony

POLITICAL ROW ON IN LEAGUE TUESDAY EVE. Both Parties Fight Over Claycombe Resignation. ATTACK RECORD Democrats and Republicans in the Ex-Service Voters League were squaring off today for a battle royal at the meeting Tuesday night over whether or not Lloyd D. Claycombe, Republican nominee for councilman of the Fourth district, should ho ousted from the league its support of him withdrawn. Claycombe’s resignation was requested in a {notion put by Democrats at the league luncheon Wednesday, but he refused to resign and raised the point of order that only the full membership had the right to make such a demand upon him. Observers of the battle tay both sides are attempting o get control of the league. The two factions differed yesterday as to what caused the fight. Claycombe said the Democrat-# were demanding that lie openly Indorse Thomas E. Garvin". Democratic nominee for city judge, whom the league also is backing, and repudiate J. Herbert Hartman, Republican nominee Humphrey C. Harrington, one of the Democrats who Is leading the tight on Claycombe, said tho trouble arose when Claycombe tried to get Byron C. Young, president of the league, to resign and let a strong supporter of Samuel Lewis Shank. Republican nominee for mayor, replace him. Young Is .'or Hoy(1 M. Ralston, Democratic candidate for mayor, it is said. BOTH SI OEM PREPARE TO FIGHT. With the question before the entire membership Tuesday night friends of Claycombe planned to get their full strength out and tho Democrats were doing the same. Harrington said Claycombe admitted before and after the primary he owed a debt of gratitude to the league because It practically assured his nomination. Harrington today issued a statement In which tie- length of. time Claycombe was In the army "is set ofU. The statement conflicted materially with a reply which Ciaycoiube gave "Claycombe said to Young, president of the league, ‘if I don’t Join with the full Republican ticket they are going to wage a tight on my soldier record because I only had three weeks in the armV-' ” claims Harrington. Young told Claycombe at that time. Harrington said, “that regardless of any throats of that kind that if he (Clay (Continued on Page Three.) DEATH PENALTY ASKED BY STATE Boonvilie Boy, 17, Admitted Slayer of Mother, on Trial. Special to Th* Tl men BOONVILLE. Ind. Sept. 22.—Willie Deffendoll, 17-year-old confessed slayer j of his aged mother, went on trial In the j Warrick County Circuit Court here today. Prosecutor Youngblood asked the denth penalty for the youthful murderer, who j iu one of several “confessions” accused : his elder brother, Dollie, of the crime, ’ and later admitted he hnd blown his j mother’s head off with a shotgun, j The shooting occurred in a wood near | tho Deffendoll farmhouse, a few weeks I ago, and tho body of the missing woman was not discovered until two weeks later, when carrion birds led a searching party to the spot where tho Deffendoll’s hound kept vigil over the decapitated corpse. Not until after the body had been found did Willie drop his indifference and admit he killed his mother after she had “fussed at him.” Even then he maintained he had shot her accidentally while | squirrel hunting and “up and shot her I again because he didn’t want to seo her j suffer.” To Lay Tariff Bill Aside for 2 Months WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—The Repub llcan tariff bill will be laid aside for at least; two months while Treasury exl peris work out the details of the AmerI lean valuation plan adopted by the Sen j ate Finance Committee, Chairman Penrose announced today. I) KltS REPORT COMPLETED. | WASHINGTON. Sept. 22.—Attorney General Daugherty announced today that ho had practically completed his report and recommendations to the President in the Debs case. The nature of the recommendations will not be disclosed until they nro reviewed and acted upon by the President.

and financial settlement amounted to $89,000, which is said to ba the highest alimony and property settlement ever made in any court in Marion County. In numerous cases heard by this Jurist, evidence has shown extreme physical cruelty on the part of the husband who has made the life of his wife a night mare. Judge Carter carefully considers the actions of the husband toward the wife and this aids the court in deciding questions of alimony and support. Some lawyers have argued before Judge Carter that under Indiana Statutes a Judge cannot legally allow an alimony degree to be larger than the wife would (Continued on Page Four.)

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Planes and Deadly Gasses Weapons of Future Wars

“The war of the future will be a battle of planes," declared D. B. Bradner, chief of the chemical warfare service, in a pa per read at today's session of the third annual convention and exhibition of tho American Society for Steel Treating at the Stute fairground. He outlined the Immense strides that have been made in perfecting deadly gases and declared their use with a highly developed aerial service will be the deciding factor in the next conflict Mr. Bradner asserted the United States is inviting disaster if it does not make Itself safe from this form of attack. “I do not believe that nations will often use gas against cities of an enemy,” he said. "The thr jatos Its use coupled with the power to use it, should force the defeated nation to peace terms without an actual attack.” He pictures the battle of the future as being carried on by airplanes showering deadly gas over the foe like rain. "There are several vesicant gasei now known which will produce severe pain or death when one-half gram is applied to tho skin of a man.” he said. "The

‘DO NOT LOOK FOR TOO MUCH FROM PARLEY’ Expectations Running High Over U. S., OsHear. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Fears that the American people, in common with the other peoples of the world, are being led to “expect too much” to result from the forthcoming November conference on armament are being voiced openly in Washington by highest officials of the Administration. Members of Congress returning from their contact with “home folks” have reported to officials that interest in the November conference is tremenduus throughout the country and that the impression apparently exists the conference is going to do away with armies and navies. CONSIDERING PLAN OK EDUCATION. Officials are frankly perturbed about it. If the ho|ies of the people run too high, it is easily conceivable disappoint merit will follow, they believe, and th v are considering wavs and means of “educating the public mind” to the true state of affairs. France can lie expected to oppose anr effort to reduce lor present standing army unless guarantees are given of protection of her frontiers by Great Britain and the United Mates. Similarly Great Britain is not inclined to look with favor on reduction of h’’ present naval forces, raising the old contention that her far flung dominions make necessary her continued mflval supremacy The most easily foreseen result of the conference, therefore, it was pointed out, is an agreement Umlting the size of present military and naval establishments and the curtailing of future building operations. TWO THINGS HOPED FOR AS A RESULT. The most optimistic of the President’s advisers here do not hope for disnrmaI ment or anything approaching it. Neither Ido they consider It likely that the pres- | ent armies and navies will be materially ! reduced. What they do hope will result from the I conference is; 1. I.lmitation of future building operations and '2. Removal of Abe causes of friction in the Far East That might conceivably lie the cause of future wars. World’s Series to Start on Oct. 5 CHICAGO. Sept. 22. —The first game of the world’s series will be played Wednesday. Oct. 5. at 2 p. nt., at the park of tho National League pennant winners, it was decided by a flip of a coin here late today. The decision was reached at a meeting in the offices of Judge KcncsaV M. Landis, commissioner of baseball. Two games will first be played in the National League park and then two in the American longue grounds. The series will consist of eight games. In case of a tic. u coin will be tossed to settle the "play-off.” The team winning five games will win the championship. Bleacher scats will be sold to the fans for sl, prewar prices for the baseball classic. In the event both New York clubs win the pennants in their respective leagues, the teams will alternate in the use of the home benches and home uniforms. Three Murders in Illinois; Jsfo Clews ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Sept. 22.—Three men were found brutally murdered and robbed in southern Illinois today. Mffc souri Pacific freight crews found one body in a lumber car at Dupo, another at ~ olfe Lake and the third at Halsey. Skulls of two of the men were crushed. A piece of blood stained lumber was found near one of the bodies. The other had been shot through tho heart. Two of the victims wore army uniforms. None has been identified. Borah Blocks Action on German Treaty WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—N0 action was taken today by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the German. Austrian and Hungarian peace treaties. Opposition voiced by Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, to the German-American pact prevented the committee from getting beyond a preliminary discussion of it. The Austrian and Hungarian pacts were not reached.

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same weight of vapor has approximately the same effect. This means that one-half gram per square foot should be enough material to practically destroy an unprotected army occupy) \g the ground so sprinkled. PLANES CAN CARRY TWO TON. “Already we have aeroplanes which will carry two tons of such a material. Such a plane could effectively cover an area 100 feet wide by seven miles long in a very few minutes. It may be possible to so protect an army with gas proof clothing and masks that they could survive such an attack. If the area wers small, but If several thousand tons were used it would be almost impossible. “Suppose, however, that an army could be entirely protected, what about your munition works, cantonments and cities'? Do you think that a nation which would drop high explosive bombs on cities would hesitate to drop gas? Do you Dunk that Germany is the only nation in the world that would resort to such tactics? It may be that no nation in the future would use such methods, but tContinued on Page Three.)

GRIEVANCES GIVEN VENT AT MINE SESSION Farrington Defends Illinois Refusal to Itemize. Pent-up feelings and grievances which have been held in check for the last two days broke loose today in the convention of the United Mine Workers of America. The cause was the report of the committee on officers’ reports which favored every part of the report made by President John Ij. Lewis. It was taken up item by item. The first item was the denunciation by Mr. Lewis of what he termed the “defiance" of the officials of the Illinois union in not obeying the order of the international union officers to itemize a $27,000 expenditure fur putting down a so-called “wild-cat” strike in that State The committee recommended that the convention uphold the decision. District President Frank Farrington of Illinois gained the floor and opened (Continued on Page Three.)

E. C. RASSMANN, REALTOR, DEAD For Years Active in City and Political Affairs.

EMIL C. RASSMANN. Emil C. Rassmann, Sr.. 62, 2851 Sutherland avenue, died at his home today as the result of an attack of heart disease. Mr. liassmanu, one of the oldest real tors in the cii.v, was president of the Emil C. Rassmann, Die.. Lemcke Annex. He had been in excellent health until a week ago, when ho complained of pains near his heart. He was at his office each day and yesterday said he was feeling better. Mr. Rassmann was born in Indianapolis. Dec. 22, 1859, the son of Charles A. and’ Doretha Rassmann. He had lived in Indianapolis all of his life and was educated at a German-American school iu this city. Mr. Rassmann learned the insurance, real estate, and rental business while in the employ of the old firm of Cleveland A- Adams. Later he became a bookkeeper for N. N. Morris and when Mr. Morris retired purchased his interests. At that time he became associated with 8. M. Dyer and the firm of Dyer & Rassmann for ten years had offices on Monument Circle. Falling health caused Mr. Dyer to retire and Mr. Rassmann continued in the real estate business for twenty-eight years. Air. Rassmann took an active interest in public affairs. He was a member of the city council in the late eighties and was a member of the board of school commissioners from 1914 to 1918. It was during that period that the city library was built. He was married in 1880 to Miss Carrie L. AVolff. He is survived by the widow, j three sous, Fred \y. Rassmann. Albert ] E. Rassmann and Emil C. Rassmann. Jr., i and a daughter, Blessing Rassmann, all of Indianapolis. , The funeral will be held from the home at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon and will be private. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Friends may view the body at the Rassaunn horns Friday after 3 o'clock.

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BARES ORGY IN ‘FATTY’S’ ROOM BUT IN SECRET Says Evidence Against Arbuckle Will Collapse at Trial. HEARING OPENS NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Lowell Sherman, actor, and a member of the Arbuckle “party” in San Francisco at which Miss Virginia Rappe sustained injuries from which she subsequently died, made a deposition before District Attorney Edward Swann this afternoon In which he declared he had not seen Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle use any violence toward the girl, or even put his hands upon her prior to going Into a bedroom with her, or afterward. Sherman said he saw Miss Rapps writhing in pain upon a bed in Arbuckle's sleeping chamber, but thought she was suffering from indigestion or from too much drink. This was Sherman's first official statement. Sherman's statement to District Attorney Swann follows: “I was a guest of Mr. Arbuckle on tho occasion In question iu rooms 1219, 1220 and 1221, St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, on Monday, Sept. 0 (Labor day), 1921. Mr. Arbuckle and Frederick Fish- 1 back occupied a bedroom at one end of the suite and I had a bed at the other end. There was a living room between the two bedrooms referred to. “\Ve had breakfast about 10:30 o'clock that morning. Between 1 and 2 o’clock that afternoon the guests began to arrive until there were about a dozen people in the livnig room. Miss Virginia Rappe came with Mrs. Eambina Delmont. Tha men present weie; Mr. Fishback, Mr. Semnacher, a man named Fortrouis (who I think, is a traveling man for Hickson's, the dressmaker), and myself. Tho names of the ladies In the party have been published from time to time in the newspapers. VERY FINE LIQUORS SERVED. “The refreshments consisted of a fhv> quality of Scotch whisky, an equally fino quality of gin, which were partaken of quite freely by every one present. Eventually every one felt the influence of tho liquor. “There was a phonograph on the livingroom table, which played constantly — first one person and then another would put on a record. “At the beginning of the party I had received telegrams from a manager requesting me to play in a play in San Francisco on the 26th of September. (Here Sherman tells of putting in long distance telephone calls which necessitated his being absent from the room where the party was being staged.) SAID MISS RAPPE WAS HILARIOUS. “During the course of this bnsiness of mine, while the party was goln gon, I saw Miss Rappe sitting on thtf sofa in the living room. “I was Introduced to her when she came in. I noticed the young lady waz rathpr hilarious, evidently from the effect of the liquor. "The next I heard or saw of Mis* Rappe was when I came from my room and Mr. Arbuckle said to me that the young lady was ill. His words were: ‘That Rappe girl is sick.’ “She was then in Arbuckle's room. “I wont to Air. Arbuckle's bedrooto and looked in the door and saw this young lady in one of the twin beds, tearing off her clothing, clutching at her (Continued on ruge Three.) SUGGESTS LAKE AT FA IRVIEW PARK Lieber Says State Might Join in Project. A suggestion that the State department of conservation might cooperate with tlie city park department in the damming of White River at Northwestern avenue and the formation of a lake extending, north through the bottoms back of Fairview park was made yesterday by Richard Lieber. head of the State body, to’ the city board of park commissioners. He also suggested that the two departments work together In the establishment of camping spots at points outside the city but within five miles of the city limits, in which territory the city body's Jurisdiction extends. No action was taken. Six bids for the Pleasant Run Parkway bridge over Pleasant Itun.east of Ritter avenue were received. A remonstrance of 200 members of the Brookside Civic League against the establishment of a plant by the Victor Bearings Company at Steel and Massachusetts avenues, within 500 feet of Spades Park was received. No building permit for the plant has been requested so the board took uo action.

Collins Lets Three ‘Tigers’ Off Easy T.ight sentence# were given by Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal Court in three blind tiger cases today. The following defendants were treated as follows by Judge Collins; Abraham Izazas, SIOO anil thirty days in jail; John Stokes, SIOO and ten days In jail, and John Pash, SIOO and thirty days In Jail.

Registration for G. A. R. at Capitol Registration of G. A. K. veterans will begin at 10 o’clock Sunday morning in the north corridor, first floor of the Statehouse, the Junior Chamber of Commerce announced today. A committee headed by Berne Friedman with Harry E. Morton, Ralph Bradford and Carl Otto as members is In charge for the Junior Chamber. The veterans will be registered alphabetically according to State* and organizations.