Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1921 — Page 1

weather and cooler tonight. Probably light W frost. Tuesday fair.

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VANCOUVER’S Plumber mart WORLD-WIDE 4 Sections of Earth Now Buying, Says Exporter. HAIL RATES HIGH City Orderly, Clean — Money Seems Plentiful. Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By RICHARD SPILLANE. VANCOUVER. British Columbia Oct. 3. —H. R. MacMillan, one of the principal exporters of lumber on the coast, says his business this month has been the largest in six years. Four sections of the earth now are buying. Rarely has be known more than two or three to be purchasers at the same time. His market is world-wide. He says Africa, India and the west coast of South American are not doing much in the lumber line. He indicated Australia, China. Japan, New Zealand and the united kingdom as being the present purchasers. If this lumber demand maintained Vancouver will not have much of an unemployment problem this winter as otherwise. Aside from this sudden Improvement in the lumber situation Vancouver is difficult to gauge. Retailers acknowledge they are doing well now. but predict much unemployment this winter. Manufacturers say conditions have improved decidedly and the outlook for the winter is much better than last year. They are a bit critical of the retailers, asserting their prices are too high. Some manufacturers threaten if retailers do not cut their prices they will establish retail •tores in opposition to them and teach a lesson to them they will not forget. In justice to the retailers It must be said rents are high, seemingly too high, and their overhead excessive. Various of them are reducing their forces. In fact, salaried people seem to be the ones who have the most reason to worry. THERE SEEMS TO BE PLENTY OF MONEY. There Is no evidence of lack of money. banks deposits are high. and motion picture houses are well patronized. Stores are crowded. A race meeting has been going on here which ha drawn an average of five thousand persons a day. Admission charge is $1.50. The pari mutuol iaa(C'ontlnued on Page Four.) APPARATUSFOR FIGHTING FIRE PUT ON DISPLAY Municipal Parade Passes Over Downtown Streets. CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY More than 350 pieces of city apparatus, Including many of the latest models of fire fighting machines, paraded through the downtown streets this afternoon ushering in the fire prevention campaign. City officials, civic leaders and others Interested In the crusade to cut down the depredations of fire reviewed the pnrade from the balcony of the English Hotel. Every department of the city was represented In the procession as all agencies of the municipal government are working with the fire prevention committee of the Chamber of Commerce to remove fire risks from the city. STREETS TO BE ®Ll'he line of march was south In aleridian street from St Clair street to Monument Circle, to the right aroui and the Circle to East Market street, east in Market street to Pennsylvania street, south In Pennsylvania street to Washington street and west In Washington street to Missouri street At the head of the apparatus representing the Indianapolis fire force was John C. Loucks, chief of the force, and following him were Simeon Hoyle, first tssistant chief; Jacob H. Hilkene, second issistant chief, and the following battalion chiefs: Harry E. Fulmer. Harry E. Voshell, J. A. Hutsell, Jacob Petty, James F. Aldrich. John J. O Brien, John W. Blackwell, Harry Johcson nad William H. Gray. Asa part of the general clean-up which has been planned for Indianapolis as a part of the fire-prevention campaign, the Indianapolis sanitary board began today to haul away trash of every kind which accumulates during the week os s result of the removal of rubbish and waste material from houses and yards throughout the city, according to Lucius B. Swift, president of the Indianapolis sanitary board. SANITARY EQUIPMENT USED FOR FIRE PREVENTION. “The whole equipment of the board will be put Into service at once.” ?aid Mr. Swift, “and every day this week will be engaged In cooperating with the fire prevention campaign in removing trash of every kind. Ashes and ’.ubblsh can be placed in the same receptacles, as both are carted away by t ! ie same vehicle,” he said. “It Is imports it, however, that the accumulations of refuse be put In containers of some sort so that U will not scatter about"during the week. (Continued ou Page Nine.) m— —— WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending tft 7 p m., Oct. 4, 1021: Fair and cooler tonight, probably light frost; Tuesday fair. HOURLY TEMPERATURE j 6 * “■ 52 / 7 a. m 63 8 a. m ,M 9 a. m 5 10 a. m 57 11 a. m 58 12 (noon) 58 1 p. m 58 2 q. m. 59

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HAROLD F. M’CORMICK AND WIFE SEPARATE -I- -I- -I- -I- -I- -J- -I- -I- -I- -|- -I- -I- + -I* --1- -I- -I- -IRockefeller’s Daughter to Open New School of Thought in Chicago

WIFE'S DESIRE FOR CAREER IS THOUGHT CAUSE Studied Psychology While Abroad and Returns to Reform Americans. | CHICAGO, Oct. 3. —Harold F. Mcj Cormick and his wife, the daughter of ; John D. Rockefeller, have separated. It j was announced at the millionaire's Lake | Forest home today. McCormick, who is he’d of the International Harvester Company. In a statement Issued through his secretary, definitely confirmed rumors that have been afloat ever since Mrs. McCormick exiled herself in Switzerland eight years ago. “Mr. and Mrs. McCormick are living apart.” said the statement. “It is not known whether there will be divorce proceedings. No steps toward legal action have been taken.” The statement concluded : "Mr. McCormick has nothing further to j give out.” The secretary to John V. Rockefeller’s j son-in-law then smiled, “I don't know ; where Mr. McCormick is now. Perhaps 1 I will not know nil day.” Mrs. McCormick who came back to Chicago after her exile n h road in a j psychologists retreat, evaded all interviewers. She arose early —soon after | dawn- according to reports and slipped j out of the servants entrance to her ; palatial town home on the Gold Coast. ! It was reported she had secreted herself } In a nearby hotel, but the hotel manage, nient '*nied all knowledge of her whereabouts as did her servants and the detectives guarding the grounds. MRS. MCCORMICK MADE DENIAL ON SUNDAY'. Mrs. McCormick, in her last public statement made Sunday, denied there had been a break with her husband. "Such talk Is absurd,” she said. “We are very happy Indeed.” Muriel, tb,- pretty 19-year-old daughter of the wealthy and socially prominent family, is understood to be with her j mother “What broke up the McCormick home'?” 1 is the question on every lip of Chicago's 1 400. Mutual friends of the McCormicks, who i would not allow their names to be used, said they believed the desire of McCor- ) miek. Mrs. McCormick and their daughter, Murial, for careers of their own, caused j the rift. Mrs. McCormick studied under promi- : nent psychologists while abroad and has ! been quoted since she returned to Chicago i that she was about to establish an Institution for anew sehool of thought. McCormick has devoted a great deal of bis time and money In recent years to (Continued on Page Nine.)

SENATOR NEW SWINGS OVER TO SALES TAX Comes Out in Favor of Smoot’s Change in Revision Bill. PLEDGES FROM 59 WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Supporters of the pending tax revision bill received a Jolt today when Senator New of Indiana, one of the Republican leaders of the Senate closely associated with the Harding Administration, declared himself unqualifiedly in favor of the adoption of Senator Smoot’s sales tax plan. Senator Smoot has received assurances from more than the fifty-nine Republican Senators that they are strongly Inclined to vote for his proposal of a manufacturers’ sales tax of 3 per cent. He Is confident even more of them will support It before the pending revenue revision bill is disposed of. * It is acknowledged the Democratic side now holds the "ace In tta" bo’e” In the taxation game being played In the Senate. With the Republican side the thirty-six Democrats are in a position to dictate a course of tax action and if they were to swing behind the sales tax. In a -ommunlcatlon with more than a half ot the Republican side, even Republican leaders do not question, but that It would be adopted. In their prediction that In the pending measure they are supporting "would be passed eventually, with some modifications,” Senator Penrose, Republican. Pennsylvania, and his Republican associates, admit they are banking upon their opponents, Republicans and Democrats, falling to agree on , substitute that would command a majority vote. But Senator Smoot and his adherents are driving hard to force the adoption of his sales tax plan ns an amendment to the ponding bill, even though the other provisions of bis substitute bill which he has also offered as amendments are not accepted by a majority of the Senate. WM.H. TAFT NOW CHIEF JUSTICE Former President Assumes New Duties Without Ceremony. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Without ceremony. William Howard Taft, former President of the United States, this afternoon became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The oath of office was administered by Associate Justice McKenna at the opening of the fall session of the court. Chief Justice Taft listened while the oath was read and responded with .a hearty “I will.” ”1 congratulate you,” said Justice McKenna and the simple ceremonies were over. The Chief Justice then recognized Attorney General Daugherty who presented to the court James M. Beck, new Solicitor General. The Keystone Watch Company antitrust suit, which has been pending before the Supreme Court of the United States for more than three years, is to be dismissed at the request of the Department of Justice.

Entered as Second Clan* Matter, July 25. 1914. at Poetofflce, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3. 1371

j^rCormtcfe Miss Muriel McCormick, heiress to two fortunes, granddaughter of the world’s richest man, John I). Rockeffer. Her life's ambition is fame in the theater. Whether it be opera or drama, she does not know, but Miss McCormick hopes it is opera, She attends the opera every night In its season and goes to every rehearsal. Her dress is black and white, for she believes one's colors should express one's personality. Miss MeOirmlck said she planned to make her debut last year In the Burgh theater. That is as famous in Vienna as the Corned e Fran raise is in Paris. "Rut the newspapers published about two lines on my work and my study and almost a whole page on who my parents were and who my grandfather was. I was disgusted. I determined that I should never appear on the siage if I could only be 'sent off’ by my family.” *

JAPAN ARMS FASTER THAN OTHER POWERS, SAY U. S. EXPERTS

WASHINGTON. Oct 3—Figures being prepared by Government experts for use during tin forthcoming armament limitation conference show Japan Is arming at a furious pace, a rate many times faster than any other world power. The figures are authentic so far as possible to make them. They represent the wonk of American observers abroad, the combining of statistics here, and are supplemented by such special information as has been obtained through special channels. From a fourth-rate naval power before .he World War, Japan has crept up until she soon will be on even footing with the United States snd snapping at Great Britain's heels for naval leadership uness checked. The figures being prepared here for use of the American delegation at the armament conference show the Japanese people now are staggering under a burden of naval armament nearly three times greater in proportion than that of any other peoples. cents out of MRS. STILLMAN SPURNS OFFER OF HER HUSBAND Declares She Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Less Than Court Decision. NEW YORK. Oct. 3.—" On one condition,” James A. Stillman, multimillionaire banker, Is ready to drop charges of Infidelity against his wife, Mrs. Anne Potter Stillman, to acknowledge the legitimacy of little Guy Stillman, and to resume life with Mrs. Stillman. This condition, It was learned from advisers of Mrs. Stillman, Is that both Stillman and his wife issue public statements. Banker Stillman's statement would be an ac knowledgment of error and Mrs. Stillman’s would be to this effect: "My husbar.d admits be was in error when he dragged our affairs into a public forum. But he was deceived by alleged evidence presented against me and eur boy, Guy. Any one could have been deceived by the 'facts’ presented to Mr. Stillman before he took court action.” Mrs. Stillman has rejected the proposal. She inforirted her husband via attorneys, that she was "through with him forever, had no use for him and no desire to see him ever.” She further informed Banker Stillman that she would not accept, anything short of a court decision for herself and Guy. The latest "reconciliation offer” was made to the accused wife through John A. Garver, confldent'sl attorney for Still man, and the spoke aan, it was said, was Clifford A. Roberts. CITIES PROMISE AID TO JOBLESS Five Mayors to Push Public Works. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 Mayors of five cities today notified the National Unemployment Conference they would cooperate in the work of solving the national unemployment problem. The cities are Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Boston and Portland, Ore. The mayors promised to push public improvements and interest civic organizations and business men generally In an effort to find Jobs for the unemployed.

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every dollar of Japaneae taxes go for the upkeep of the present navy and the tremendous new fighting idnctaines now under construction. A table ot national budgets and naval expenditures being prepared for the use ot American delegates shows: Total, Budget. Naval Bud. Pet. Japan .... f778.14f1.312 $273.3(11,305 32 Gt. Brit. .. 3.fio-i.5<r,.7.59 4 25,K4.'.(17'J 12 U. S. ..... 8,1)05.838,432 410.C73,2ri> 3 France ... 5,620.264.430 LM,500.95fl 3 Italy ; 5,151470,000 81,0,743 15 Although these figures show that Japan 1s spending less actually thnn the United States and Great Britain, though more in proportion to her national Income, American experts said they were wholly misleading. If Japan's expenditures were multiplied by three, the experts say, they would more nearly reflect the actual conditions, for Japan can maintain her navy and build new battleships at about onethird what It costs the United States Cqolle labor, cheaper materials and domestic conditions generally permit Japan to outstrip the world In economical naval construction. Japanese workers receive about tne third what American labor receives, while the rate of pay for Japan’s official class and enlleted strength is about one-fourt i whnt America officers and men received. The total of Japanese budget also is ‘‘camouflaged,” according to American experts, in that it does not contain the cost of military and civil government In Korea, Saghalem Island, Formosa uud shantung. American observers and experts have experienced considerable difficulty in arriving at accurate figures on Japan s naval and army expenditures because of the close secrecy which the Tokio government takes In tho matters. Many close Items of naval and military expenditure are not Included under their proper headings, but instead hidden away under headings of colonial administration, etc. ft ' ' , ' Times Circulation Over 47,000 (and going up) The average dally net paid circulation of the Indiana Daily Times for the week ending Sept. 30, 1921, was 47,406. This was a gain of 5,1712 over the average cf the jast week of August. Since August 1 the Times circulation in the city of Indianapolis has increased 5,023. Os the above Increase 4,470 is in home delivered circulation. And The Times home delivered circulation continues to show a steady gain each day.

STATELOOKS INTO MILK CONTRACT Attorney General Sifts City Hospital Supply Deal. RESULTS HELD UP * Lemona Dairy Ownership Question Raised. Investigation as to the financial side of a contract for the milk supply of the city hospital, made several days ago by the office of the Attorney General of Indiana, was to be followed today by an Investigation of the purity of the milk, through the office of Dr. H. G. Morgan, secretary of the board of health. U. S. Lesh. Attorney General, said that his agents had investigated the contract with the city by which milk ia supplied by the Lemona Dairy to the city hospital. He declined to make public the results of his inves tigation, saying that the information obtained might be disclosed in the bearing of the action brought by him against the so-called "milk trust.” Dr. Morgan stated that he was interested in asivrtaining whether the dsiry compiled with the requirements of the city board of health under which it might be permitted to furnish milk without the product being pasteurized as Is required by ordinances governing the usual commercial dniry. RAISE QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP. Meanwhile, there is some question, which Is understood to have figured In the investigation by the attorn) y general, a* to the exact ow nership of the Lemona dairy. Dwight 8 Ritter, city purchasing agent, said he understood the dairy ua* owned by H. F. Ostroni, brother in law of Felix M. McWhirter, of the board of safety and | F. C. Tucker, a superintendent in the employ of the Peopl"s state Bank, of which ! Mr McWhirter Is president. I County and State records fail to dis- , close any registration of the lemona dairy (Continued on Page Nine.)

JAPAN FIRST IN CONCRETE NAVAL PLAN Proposes Fleet in Ratio of Two to Three With U. S. SCHEME FIGURED to Indiana Daily Time* and Philadelphia Public I/ed^ar. By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. WASHINGTON, Oct 3.—While the United States Government seemingly Is still groping for a practical formula for effecting limitation of armaments, Japan has come forward with a concrete proposal regarding future naval strength. High Japanese authorities suggest that Japan would be content with a fleet In the ration of two to America's three and Great Britain's four. The projected formula would apply primarily to battleships and battle cruisers and presumably to other units of sea power. It is learned by your correspondent that while President Harding snd Secretary Hughes have called upon tho Navy and War Departments for comprehensive data regarding nrroaments at home and abroad, the Administration has not indicated what specific objective it seeks at the forthcoming conference. It would therefore appear the Government is as yet without a definite program. American aims and purposes regarding the Far East are clear and defined ~w< seek the open dor and a square ,]p M i for all nations everywhere in the Pacific. But Just now, whore and when America thinks there can be a limitation of armaments is in Administration secret, which remains still to he communicated jo the experts who eventually will bavo to evolve a scheme. There is an Influential school of civilian thought In Washington which thinks a direct cut In financial expenditure the only feasible plan. Its exponents say the United States, which now spend® DO per cent of its whole Federal outlay on “wars past, present and future,” might for example propose that henceforward nations bind themselves to devote no more, sny, than 50 or 75 per cent of total national expenditures to armaments. American naval and military experts op- J pose the financial limitation idea. They j (Continned on Page Nine.) RECEIVES KNIFE WOUND IN FIGHT Jason Manuel Reported in Serious Condition From Injury. .Tason Mannel, 34, 514 South Meridian street, is In a serious condition at the city hospital today as the result of a knife wound near the heart, said to have been received during a fight with Spence Ball, 32, 328 South New Jersey street, last night. Ball formerly roomed at the ! South Meridian street address and went there yesterday morning and quarreled with Mrs. Mary Wells, owner of the room ■ Ing houso, the police say. Bull was put 1 out of the house by Albert Bowers, 430 Erie street. Last night he returned and said he wished to see Bowers. Manuel told Ball that Bowers was not there and the fight followed.

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Fires Shots to Call Police When Family Next Door Gets Noisy Nick Yaslloff, 45, 147 Bright street early today fired four revolver shots Into tho air Dear his homo. He was arrested on tho charge of shooting in the city limits and unlawful possession of a revolver without a permit. VasilofT explained that tho family next door was milking so much noise that no could not sleep and that be fired the four shots to call the police so they would make the family next door keep quiet. SHANK OUT TO BEAT JEWETT, 5,000 ARE TOLD Republican Candidate Denies He Is ‘Tied Up’ With Mayor. TO ENFORCE LAW Denying that he is "tied up” with Mayor Charles \V. Jewett in any way, Samuel Lewis Shank, Republican nominee for mayor, in his keynote speech at Fountain Square Saturday evening, linked Boyd M. Ralston, Democratic nominee, with the old News-Jewett crowd. Mr. Shank was the center of a remarkable demonstration, including a 1 parade of several hundred autonio- ! biles and a crowd estimated by Re- ' publicans of from 5,000 to 10,000 peo- | pie at Fountain Square. So insistent were the people at the rally upon hearing Mr. Shank that an elaborate ; program of preliminary speeches had to be cut squarely in two. Part of Mr. Shank's address was delivered from manuscript. In this he again promised the strictest enforcement of the law without encroaching upon the i constitutional rights of citizens, pointed out that men who have been convicted in ! city and Federal Court for violating tho I liquor law s were on a list of vice presidents of the opening rally of Boyd M | Ralston'; campaign, reviewed the record jof the former Shank administration at length, promised an economical admin- | istration If he is elected and specially j stated he Intends to work for a better 1 city market, rerounting of street cars so as to enlarge the business district and to get some cross- town lines established if possible Tho crowd listen'd patiently while Mr Shank read his manuscript and then got I warmed up to cheers when Mr. Shank lit j into things extemporaneously. MINK SET ON | BEING ELECTED. I Mr. Shank declared that now that he ; has the Republican nomination his heart and soul are set upon being elected j may or. I "And do you know why I got into the | race and wanted that mayor s office for?” he Inquired. “I wanted it because I didn't want Charley Jewett to run this town another four years,” "Now Just recently some fellows havo been coming to me and saying they thought I was tied up with (,'harley | Jewett, all because Charley Jewett hapI peued to drop Into Republican headquarj ters. j “Charley Jewett probably is going to i live In Indianapolis for a long time and be one of our best citizens but let me tell you this —l am not tied up with I Charley Jewett or any other man.” Earlier in his extemporaneous discussion Mr. Shank had linked his Democratic | opponent with the News Jewett ring by referring to a speech which Edgar A. (( ontlnued on Page Eleven.) LEWIS DEFEATS OPPONENTS IN ANOTHER VOTE Convention Sides With Mine Union President on Appointing Organizers. John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers of America, won another victory today when the convention voted, 1,121 to 790 in adopting a committee report recommending that the present system of appointing organizers be continued. Opponents of the international administration have demanded that organizers, fipld workers and traveling auditors be elected. if has been charged in some quarters that appointive employes have been used by officials for political purposes. The committee pointed out that organizers must have special qualifications and must be of varied nationalities in order I to appeal to the various elements, a rej (Continued on Page Two.)

Ex-Officer Asks Pardon; Didn't Know it Was Wrong to Murder, He Says in Plea

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—One of the strangest pleas for pardon ever received by the War Department was brought to light today. It reveals Haider E. I’erry, former lieutenant of the 81st Infantry, U. S. A., as "the man who never knew.'’ Perry Is in Leavenworth prison. He admits be killed the captain of his company in cold blood, but makes the remarkable plea he never knew it wns wrong to kill until he was tried and convicted. He draws a picture of his life as a mountaineer boy in Shell Creek, Carter County, In eastern Tennessee, with a Winchester^rifle as his toy and where, he gays, "folks don't kuow It's wrong to kill.” In this environment he grew up until he was 17, when be enlisted in the Army. And in the Army, he says, he again wns taught to kill, but In a scientific way. So illiterate as to be unable to write his own name when he entered the Army, Terry won rapid promotion through his

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HARTMAN DECLARES HE’LL MAKE RACE ON G. 0. P. CITY TICKET City Committee and 8 Other Candidates Ask City Judge Aspirant, Named by Louisville Burglar, to Resign. EVANS WILL MAKE INVESTIGATION Developments brought about by the confession in Louisville of Frank Francis, admitted burglar, that J. Herbert artman, Republican nominee for city Judge, had received stolen goods from him, moved thick and fast today. The outstanding features are: 1. Declaration by Mr. Hartman that he will not resign from the ticket 2. Adoption by the officers of the Republican city committee and the other eight candidates of a resolution asking Mr. Hartman to resign from the ticket. 3. Decision of Prosecutor William P. Evans to investigate Hartman’s connection with Francis and also to determine If liquor said to have been stolen from Louisville was used to further Hartman's candidacy in the city primary last spring.

Hartman Asks Prosecutor for Investigation J. Herbert Hartman, Republican nomine** for city Judge, in affirming his decision to remain on the ticket until the “people determine’* the facts, today made public a letter to Prosecutor William P. Evans in which he asks for a complete investigation of the charges made by Prank Francis, held iu Louisville for, housebreaking. Hr rtmaut* letter follows: “Aw lain now the target of an al!>gel confession of Frank Francis, now under arrest In Eouisviile, and am charged with complicity in his unlawful acts, 1 desire a full and complete Investigation of the whole matter. I have not seen the purported confession and have no firsthand information of the charge# against me. The newspapers, however, have published the story of the Katterhenry robbery, and this Is said to have o*ciirred in this jurisdiction l ask 3on for a speed.; investigation of this affair. “My being a candidate for the city Judgeship on the Republican ticket, entitles the voting citisene of this city to the truth. home of the advisors and member* of the dry committee have a*ked that I withdraw from the ticket ivs a candidate, regardless of my Innocence. After mature deliberation I ha>e definitely decided that I will not withdraw as a candidate, but will let the people determine whether I am to be branded a* a felon without a trial. I am the victim of designing persons, as I have no guilty knowl<lge of any unlawful conduct on the part of this man Francis, and must fight to protect my reputation. I have substantial proof of my Innocence of these charges and am willing to wai\e grand Jury Investigation and go to trial immediately so that a jury may determine tny gnllt or Innocence that the people may know before election. if possible, my side of the case. “This matter Is of such Importance to me. as well as all others concerned, that I will waive all formalities and technical <|ue*tions in order to have a speedy trial/* PRISONERS ARE MOVED TO AVOW BEING L YNCHED Sarah E. Knox, Nurse Accused of Love-Murder, Maintains Her Innocence. FREDERICKSBURG, V.v. Oct. S.—Extra guards were put on the county jail here today to safeguard Roger D. Eastlake and Sarah K. Knox, who are Jointly accused in connection with the brutal murder of Bust lake's wife at Colonial Beach on Friday. The prisoners were rushed here for safe keeping after a crowd bent on lynching had appeared at the Montross Jail. The body of Mrs. Eastlake, horribly hacked and mutilated, was found in the Kastlake home Friday morning. Miss Knox, a trained nurse, gave the alarm. She has been unable to give a satisfactory explanntlon of her presence In the vicinity of the East-lake homo, although it has been established she spent the night close by. It is charged by the authorities that Eastlake and the nurse were infatuated and conspired to get Mrs. Eastlake "out of the way.” COLONIAL BEACH, Ya.. Oct. 3.—Authorities here today were investigating a new angle of the Identity of Miss Sarah Knox, a nurse, who is held in The l' red - erieksburg Jail with Roger Eastlake, In connection with tho murder of Mrs. Eastlake here last week. Sheriff I‘ayne of King George County Saturday Informed authorities sere that last March he received a bulletin from Baltimore authorities asking the apprehension of S. K. Knox, wanted for murder and describing the woman ns 47, a trained nurse of dark complexion, five feet seven inches tall and weighing 100 pounds.

diligence, and Just before America entered the World War was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned as regimental signal officer of the 81st Infantry, stationed in Honolulu. A few months later he killed Capt. Abram Posner, commanding officer of his company. He says he could not stand Posner's treatment of him, and adds: “Under the abnormal conditions created by the late World War I yielded to an impulsive passionate anger and just about ruined everything." He admits the murder was deliberate. "But," he writes, "consider my childhood environments and the military edu cation I received. What other result could be expected 7” “Since my incarceration I have for the first time learned it Is wrong to murder." “The man who never knew” Is now 25, and he asks for freedom to continue his education and “to make the foundation lor be teethings.”

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Adoption of the resolution asking for Hartman's resignation came after the city committee officers and the rest of the candidates had tried for more than two hours to locate Hartman and ask him to come personally before them and Present his side of the affair. Hartman did not appear. They met at city headquarters. B HANK MAKES A STATEMENT. * Samuel Lewis Shank. Republican nominee for mayor, at the close of the conference at 12:45 gave out the text of the resolution, after he had made the following statement: "Iu all fairness to Mr. nartman I asked Ira Holmes, attorney for Mr. Hartman, last night to have Mr. Hartman come over here (Republican city headquarters) and meet with us. Mr. Holmes said he had advised him not to talk with any one and that he would not come over here and talk with any one, but that if I wanted to talk wtih him he would talk with me. I simply said that if that was the stand he was taking I was-done with him. "At the suggestion of one of the candidates this morning, Mr. Hartman was invited to come to this meeting so that he could personally be asked for his resignation, but upon the statement of his atorney, Mr. Holmes, that he could not come to these headquarters or meet with any one of the candidates he did not come and the candidates and city committee officers passed unanimously the following resolution: "Without attempting to prejudge the charges publicly made against .1. Herbert Hartman, tandidate for city : judge on our ticket and without mak- ! ing any Insinuation against him. but) j solely for the purpose of removing the cloud caused by such charges from the other candidates on th> ticket, and in a spirit of abr-cluta fairness and justice to the voters of lodAnapolis. "It is hereby resolved by the undersigned candidates on the Republican ticket and the officers of the Republican city committee, that Mr. Hartman lie and he hereby is requested to resign from the Republican ticket as candidate for city judge.” THOSE AT TIIE i CONFERENCE | City Chairman Irving W. Lemn’nx, Vice j Chairman Ernest L. Kingston, Secretary i Leonard M. Quill, Treasurer Riley C. ; Adams. Mr. Shank, John \V. Kbodehnmel, j nominee for city clerk, and John E. K ng, ) Theodore J. Bernd, Walter W. Wise. : Lloyd I). Clayeombe, Henry E. Harris and , Ben U. Thompson, eouneilmanic candidates, attended the conference. It was understood details of the Francis eonfesI sion were laid before the meeting. I The prosecutor’s decision to sift the 1 matter with the probability that the fact# will be presented to the grand Jury came after he had held a conference with Chief (Continued on Page Two.) WASDEATHFROM GOD S WRATH, OR PRIESTS HAND? Medical Science Asked to Solve Mysterious Tragedy in Church. NEW TORK, Oct. 3. —Medical scletic* was expected to determine today whether I the mysterious death of Nicholas Varzakakos at the altar of St. Nicholas Grek Catholic Church yesterday, was , murder. Friends of the dead man told tbs police he was struck down by a heavy a brass candlestick in the hards of l## priest, the Rev. Kyrillos 1 during an altercation. Other witnesses denied the report priest struck Verzakakos and held to belief be because he profaned church. A hasty investigation by police geons led to the belief the man been a victim of heart disease. : cident in the church, which is located j in the down-town financial district, occurred during special memorial services for a Greek soldier who had died under j tha American flag. I The Rev. Vatiadakis criticized “misman- \ agement of the financial affairs of the j church.” adding that “unable to pay its debts, the church will close its doors tomorrow.” Varzakakos. a wealthy fig merchant and member of the board of trustees, ran forward to the altar crying that he wanted to contradict the priest's statements. The merchant and priest are alleged : to have grappled. The sexton, Xenophon ; Reskakis. is said to have gone to tha • prist's aid. There are conflicting ver- ! xions of the encounter. When Varzaka- ■ kos sank to the floor his wife and 15i year-old son, George, a choir boy, became I hysterical. Policemen restored order in the church. The priest, sexton and a number of witnesses were to be examined by the district attorney today and an autopsy was to be performed on Varzakakos' body. CUT BY NEGROES WHO JOSTLED HIM Man’s Objection to slumping Met by Knife Thrust. Fred Warman, ,4", 227 li/watha street was attacked last night it Court and i Liberty streets by three degrees one o! j whom cut him with a krfle. Warman'i | wound was not serious! The negroet ; bumped into Warman, wife was walking |in Conrt street and whin he objected | they attacked him. The negroes escaped. I Warman d'.d not notify,the poliqa until {he reached his home, <

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