Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 166, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled and colder tonight and Wednesday. Lowest temperature about freezing.

VOL. XXXIV.

Prince of Wales Endangered in Indian Riots

CITY PLANS TO SECURE BLOCK AS PLAZA SITE Separate Action to Be Taken by Works Board. COUNTY . DROPPED Site Desired South of State School for Blind. A request for the board of public works to adopt, a resolution for separate aequisftion by the city of one block of the proposed memorial plaza site at its regular meeting tomorrow will be made, Mayor Charles W. Jewett announced today. The city administration will proceed with all its vigor to get the plaza ground by itself before it goes out of office, Jan. 2, now that the county commissioners have definitely refused to proceed in conjunction with the city, the mayor said. The original plan, included in resolutions for joint procedure by the city and county adopted by the board of public works and county commissioners, was to buy the two blocks bounded by North, Meridian. Vermont and Pennsylvania streets. This resolution will be rescinded by the board of public works tomorrow and the one for procedure by the city alone will be adopted in its stead, Mr. Jewett said. The block to he purchased is just south of the State School for the Blind and is bounded by North, Michigan, Meridian and Pennsylvania streets. * SEES RIGHT TO USE MONEY. The bond issue of $1,600,000 authorized by the city council when it was thought the two blocks would be bought in conjunction with the county can be legally used for the purchase of the one block under separate city procedure, the mayor believes, since the ordinance authorizing the Issue states that the money is to be tied for purchase of plaza ground either ilfi the commissioners or separately. After the board cf works adopts the resolution for separate procedure the next steps will be the appointment of appraisers to make valuations of the property in the block desired and the advertising of the bonds for sale. The mayor ts. oe work. TdU he requested to name the appraisers immediately and the bond advertising will (Continued on Page Three.) POLICE ARREST MANY DRIVERS IN ‘TAXI WAR’ Deny Giving Aid to Oust Independent Owners of Business. In what Is said to be part of the "taxicab war” the police made a series of arrests today. The taxi drivers are charged with violating one or more of the sections of the Taxi ordinance which requires rate cards to be displayed, taxis to have taxi meters, and also to have the name of the firm painted in two and a half Inch' letters on the door of the taxi. Men familiar with the taxi business point to the conditions around the traction station, the Union depot, and the Claypool Hotel corner, and declare there is a “taxi war” in Indianapolis, and that the police department is being used as a tool by certain interests. One man whose taxi's are a familiar sight in tie Aity, declared that the police were belr ? by a company, strong politically, to squeeze out the individual taxi driver who depends on what he takes in each day to maintain his car and make a living for himself and family. This man asserted that his company always turned business to the independent drivers when the company's taxis were all in use. and that other companies did not like this, and were determined to put the “little fellow" out of business. The arrests today, however. Included drivers for big companies and also independent drivers. Those arrested were: Glen Whiting, 21, 2154 North Illinois street: Mart Kyons. 34. 325 Northwestern avenue: Max Selber, 30. 434 East Michigan street: Charles Albrecht, 42. 1300 North Tremont avenue; A. L. Baldwin, 34, 313 North West street, and James Mnlllkin, 62, 524 East McCarty street. “It’s not a raid on them, it is old ordinances that we have from time to time enforced,” declared Captain Claude Johnson, chief of the traffic department. “It is the rate card ordinance, the taxi motor ordinance and the ordinance requiring the name of the firm on the side of the taxi that we are trying to enforce. The drivers of the cars get careless on these three requirements of the ordinance and new drivers also appear and occasionally in order to make these men obey the law we must arrest them.” Captain Johnson denied that the police were is slsfing one or the other side in the “taxicab war.” STOCK BROKERS QUIT. VIENNA. Nov. 22 —The stock exchange was closed here today as a result of the government’s action in taxing stock brokers 100 gold kronen monthly. WEATHER 4 —i Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity' for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Nov. 23, 1921: Unsettled and colder tonight and Wednesday; lowest temperature alout freezing. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. .6 a. m 44 7 a. m '.. 45 8 a. m 45 9 a. 49 10 a. 52 11 a. ra 5 112 (noon) 58 1 p. m 59 2 p. ra 59

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STATE COUNTS ON TESTIMONY OF TWO SHOWGIRLS TO CONVICT ARBUCKLE OF MANSLA UGHTER

STAR WITNESSES TO LIVE LONG IN JURY’S MEMORY Both Dressed True to Type, but Make-up Left Off for Showing. By FREDA BLUM. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22.—Zeh rre von and Alice Blake, the two star witnesses for the State in the Arbuckle manslaughter trial, will stand side by side forever more in the memory of the Jury who heard their testimony yesterday. The five women Jurors will remember the two show girls in all their silken, feathered finery, their pale faces and frightened eyes. The men in the jury box cannot help but remember them in all their trimness of ankle, their shapely shoulders and ivory throats. For all this was too well displayed, too obvious to let observation pass it by. So true to type were both of them that they can be detailed together. Both had abandoned their make-up for the showing. Both have exquisite skin, like the complexion of white roses in bud. They have large, dark, beautiful brown eyes and blact hair. Their lips are full and red and sensual. WORE STREET SI ITS AND WINTER HATS. The two were dressed In street suits and winter hats. Both carried large beauty boxes, obviously containing the mascara, paint and powder, should It become vital to them as a last minute impulse. Their skirts were noticeably short. Zeh Prevost displayed her wellformed ankles in a pair of dainty black satin slippers with sheer hosiery to match, while Alice Blake saw fit to set her costume off with grey suede oxfords and pearl pink stockings. Though the day was dreary and cold, the two wore only the merest shadow of protection at the throat. This was. in both cases, only the flimsiest of ecru lace vestes, pinned to the coat at a very low angle and disclosing the soft contours of neck and chest. Be it said <*f the women sitting In the Jury box that they took no cognizance of the smile with which the girl witnesses answered to this and that. After tbelr first official appraisal the women Jurors centered their attentions solely on the testimony. One woman Juror, however, studied the girls intently from beneath her Inrge red hat. She had the puzzled expression of doubt about her and openly showed it. MEN ATTENTIVE AND WATCHFUL. The men were curious about the teatlmony, too. They were attentive and extremely watchful. But, in more than appearance, were the two witnesses sisters. Both were called

Girl Witness in Landru Trial Faints Under Gaze of Reputed ‘ Bluebeard ’

VERSAILLES, Nor. 22.—Terrified by a ferocious glance from “Bluebeard” Landru Mile. Fernande Segiet fell fainting in the witness box at his trial today on a chargt of murdering ten of h!s 285 sweethearts. Mile. Segiet was one of the fiancees who escaped after, it is alleged, “Bluebeard” had plotted her death. The girl, as she testified, avoided LanI dru’s gaze. Ho leaned forward over the i table trying to catch her eye. She became ; increasingly nervous. I COURT SUSPENDED WHEN WITNESS FAINTS. | Suddenly the girl began sobbing. She stared wildly arctund the room. Landru ! half rose from his chair. The witness looked toward him, gave a scream and fainted. Court was suspended and resjtoratives were given her. ! She toid the court of her life with ; Landru. how she had met him on a street j car and learned to love hitn. | “I conceived a real anil beautiful love [for him,” she said, “and he seemed to* have found a true affection for me." “I met him on a street car. I wns standing in the aisle when he glanced

Lou Wanted Heir f but Wifie Didn't; Now Divorce Suit NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—Geraldine Farrar, the grand opera singer, refused to become a mother, according to Harry Steinfeld, attorney for Lou Tellegen. This is Tellegen’s main reason. Steinfeld said, for the actor bringing a suit for legal seuaration. Steinfeld said the singer believed motherhood might Interfere with her career. Miss Farrar’s attorneys were notified today suit would be brought in this city and may be heard by a jury In December.

Gerard Minimizing Plea of Briand Sags Kaiser Sought French Alliance

BY JAMES W. GERARD. WASHINGTON. Nov. 22—After the Normans won the battle of Hastings in 1066 and thereby England, they invaded Wales and chased the native Celts into the fastnesses cf the mountains. Nearly nine centuries afterwards, Lloyd George, the Welshman descending from the same fastnesses of the Welsh mountains and armed with laws imposing taxes and supertaxes, chased the descendants of the Norman barons from the castles of xyhich they no longer could pay the upkeep. It will be a pity Indeed if this most famous of present day politicians, this sole survivor of the Versailles treaty, does not come to the Washington conference. There is a tendency to regard

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Flashes From the Courtroom SAN FRANCISCO, Nx>v. 22.—With the admonition of Judge Louderbaek on their heads that they are not to discuss the Arbuckle matter out of court or between themselves, the male members of the jury pa*s the time between sessions by playing cards. The women use the more soul-satisfying occupation of bead embroidery, - Now that the trial has reached its really vital stages, ail glances center upon whoever happens to be on the witness •land. Arbuckle Is entirely disregarded by the spotlight of public scrutiny. The courtroom was packed all through yesterday’s hearing. Spectators swelled all seating capacity and overflowed to standing quarters In the ante-chambers of the court and outside the corridors, wherever the doors happened to be open. From all Indications, the Arbuckle trial will he lnjeeted Into much future literature. Many prominent and pseudo authors are flocking to the hearing. Even crutches cannot modify or stay the process of the law and order maintained In the courtroom. A lame man with walking sticks was forcibly ejected by bailiffs at the hearing for causing a disturbance. Arthur C. Arbuckle, brother of the defendant, who Is In constant court session. Is the physical opposite of his famous kin. Arthur is tall, thin and dark. He wears tortoise shell glasses. upon to give lurid, morbid testimony, which during the pfMimlnnry Hioaring they had been allowed to whisper to the Judge. When It became time for them to say the word, for which a courtroom hungers, each In her turn cast an appealing glance all about the courtroom, sweeping the Judge, the spectators, counsel and finaily the Jury. They forgot they were show girls who are supposed to laugh the while their hearts break Like the gentle rainfall just beginning to come down from the clouded heavens outside, the natural modesty of all womanhood fell upon them suddenly. Each in her turn became ashamed, abashed. They wanted to cry. However, it finally came out, from both of them, the word that counsel Insisted upon. “I want to go home; I want to go home," moaned Zeh Prevon when it was all overt “I want to go home to my mother " Even then the women of the Jury saw and heard it all, UDmoved. But Just the same they are ne'er going to forget the spectacle.

toward me. ne arose and gave me his 6eat. “Then began n passionate courtship—the beautiful moment of life.” LANDJU’S EYES CAST STRANGE SPELL. Before the trial, she had declared to her friends that she still loved Landru and would attempt to save him. She is said to have tola them that Lnndru’s eyes cast a strange si ell over her every time she saw them and that she was unable to throw off the power of their fascination. “I did all the cooking while I stayed

City Pays Interest on Park Purchases Far in Excess of Principal

While the city of Indianapolis has been acquiring golf courses and buying and laying out millions of dollars’ worth of parks and parkways as well as expending and contemplating the expenditure of huge sums upon other improvements It has been paying interest charges upon bond Issues for the ground in some of the city's principal parks, which in one instance equals almost double the original purchase price and in another almost equals the original price, records in the city park department and city controller's office disclosed today. The city has paid $541,800 in interest upon five park properties and still owes the principal of $459,500. Interest payments equal almost twice the original cost of Garfield Park and almost the original price of Riverside and Brookside Parks and Highland and Indianola squares, while the city still

hhn as a clever, almost acrobatic politician. But the man who in the face of all England dared to Stand up for the Boers, as Burke in another generation did for America, is no time-serving politician. If he comes to America, after having first satisfactorily settled the Irish question, he will receive a welcome such as no foreigner and you may be sure lie will arrive at Washington nt the exact time when his powers of compromise will settle what are to be the final agreements. Meanwhile the conference is marking time. Possibly behind closed doors some progress is being made toward a settlement of the problem of the East—but greater would be madeA if (Confined on Pa so Eleven.)^!

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1921.

ALICE BLAKE , PUT ON STAND AGAIN , CLINGS TO STORY Chambermaid From St. Francis Hotel Also Called to Give Testimony. BY ELLIS 11. MARTIN. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22.—Alice Blake, .second of the State’s star witnesses In the manslaughter trial or ltoscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, again took the stand when court opened today. ; A statement she made shortly after the death of Virginia Rappe to Detective I Griffith Kennedy was produced by | Captain of Detectives Muthewson for the defense and was read into the record by the defense for the purpose, Attorney McNab announced, of “refreshing the memory of the witness.’ . The statement proved little different from her story on the stand late yesterday. The State endeavored- to introduce all statements made by the witness, but the defense successfully objected. \ The State placed Josephine Keza, a chambermaid at the St. Francis on Hie stand. She testified that between 2 and 2:30 o’clock on the afternoon of Sept. f>, she heard the voice or a woman scream in 1219: my God! No! No! No” A man's voice answere®, she said: “Shut up.” The witness was given a grilling cross examination, but held to her story. COMEDIAN'S WIFE DOES NOT ATTEND. For the fir*t time since the trial opened Mima Purfee Arbuckle, wife of the famous film star, was not in the courtroom when the day’s proceedings opened. A big crowd was again present, but alarge squad of officers kept them well in hand.. Admission was by card only. The State sprung a surprise by calling A1 Seinnacher to the stand. Semnacher was Miss Kappe's so-called "manager." and it was with him that she came to the St. Francis Hotel to the party. His testimony at the preliminary trial was given with n show of great reluctance. The Slate's case against Arbuckle prctl< ally Is in. Additional witnesses will be heard, but the manslaughter charge will stand or fall on the testimony already given. The case reached Its c'imnx late yesterday with the conclusion of the testimony of Alice Blake. When the Jury filed out after hearing Zeh Prevon and Miss Alice Blake tell their stories, it was a case of "evenStephen” between prosecution and defense. Inclined to smile a bit nervously and to answer a trifle too readily. Zoh Prevon, one of the State’s star witnesses, struck several blows to their case. The defense was able to develop that (Continued on Page Two.)

st the villa,” she told the court. “Did you see any human bones or skulls in the stove?” she was asked. “No.” “DM you sec any weapons about the pinre 5” “There wns a revolver and n shot gun." The girl described the “tender attentions” of Landru to her every whim. When she withdrew an alienist took the stand and testified that in 1904 be had examined Landru, who then seemed to be “on the frontier of madness, but did not cross because of his great intellectual activity.”

I owes every cent, of the principal in both : cases, the records show. SHANK SEEKS TO RETIRE THEM. i Samuel Lewis Shank, mayor-elect, called attention to this fact a few days ago, announcing that one of the things he hopes to accomplish in his administration is the wiping out of these ancient, taxeating bond issues. In 1873 a bond, issue of $109,500 was sold by the city council for the acquisition of land In whnt then was known as Southern Park, now the central portion of Garfield Park. It was to mature in twenty years and bear 4 per cent interest. It matured in 1894 and the council refunded the Issue at the same rate of Interest. This issue wns refunded In 1901 nt the same interest rate and will mature Jan. 20, 1924. At 4 per cent since 1 1574 the total amount paid in Interest upon this $10!),500 worth of bonds, which will have to lie refunded again in 1924 unless the city sinking fund can be built up sufficiently to finally retire them, equals $205,860. Land for the Riverside, Brookside, ! Highland and Indianola properties was | acquired in 1989 upon a 4 per cent bond issue of $350,000, floated in 1897 and ma(Continned on Page Three.) Willie Carey's Luck With Him; Serelda Absent From Court Willie Carey again had another lucky day. V Willie lmd an engagement to appenr In the Criminal Court today on a charge of violating the prohibition law. He appealed from tile city court March 22, last, when lte was lined SIOO and sentenced to thirty days on the Indiana State Farm, as tho result of his numerous clashes with the law. He didn’t go to trial,, however, because Serelda McSpadden, whom the State claims bought liquor from Willie, Is “missing,” the court was Informed. | So the case was continued.

BRYSON HOLDS ADVANTAGE IN PAY SQUABBLE Backed by Ashby’s Opinion on Election Bills. ASK HIGH FIGURE Election Commissioners Fight for Full Allowance. Through an opinion of Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby, City Conn oiler Robert H. Bryson today stood as -the victor, for the time being, in the controversy with the city council over the amount of compensation for members of the city board of election commissioners. The fight started Monday morning, continued through * the day, waxed warm in the city ' council meeting Monday night and was still on today. The trouble began when the city council and members of the board of election commissioner*, who are Maurice E Tennant, Thomas I*. McGee and City Clerk George (>. Hutsell. gathered in Mr. Bryson's office Monday morning to dis cuss passage o fan appropriation ordinance for $14,000 to make tip a deficit in the city elections fund. The controller said that this amount would enable him ,to pay Mr. Tennaut and Mr McGee $5<H! each as election commissioners prior to and on the day of the Nov. 8, municipal election and to pay these two men and City Clerk Hutsell SSOO each as members of the hoard of canvasjprs serving, after the Nov. 8 election. DEMANDS OF ( OMMISMONEBS. The two appointive commissioners tiesired $1,500 for their services as election commissioners and SSOO as canvassers. They received *1.009 last spring ns election commissioners serving during the primary campaign and on primary election day. The eouncllmcn who favored the demand of the commissioners, and the commissioners argued with Mr. Bryson without avail. He would riot recommend higher pay than SI,OOO for the two Jobs for Mr. Tennant mid Mr McGee and SSOO for the canvassing work of Mr. Hutsell. The council last night passed an ordinance appropriating $14,000 to th-- elections fund ami adopted resolutlor s fixing the pay of the two election appotnt.ve election commissioners at $1,500 each and (Continued on Fare Two.) GOVERNOR SETS TIME TO TAKE UP FARM FINANCING Corn Selling Proposal lo lie Discussed at State-Wide Meeting. Plans for financing farmers in order that they may sell their corn at a profit will be discussed at a State wide meeting at the Masonic Temple next Tuesday afternoon. Governor Warren T. MeCrav announced today. The Governor made the announcement ns chairman of thh corn belt advisory committee of the War Finance Corporation. The principal speaker at the meeting wii! be Eugene Meyers of the war finance corporation. The plan is for the corporation to supply batiks with money which can be loaned to farmers with their corn as collateral. Tfhe Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations and the State Bankers’ Association have been asked lo cooperate In the meeting. HARDING SOON TO OPEN CELLS Many So-Called War Prisoners in Various Penitentiaries to Be Freed. WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.—President Harding Intends soon to liberate many so-called political prisoners, now serving terms in penitentiaries, for violation of war time laws, it was announced at the White House today. It wns expressly stated, however, that those prisoners who had been convicted of overt acts against the United States, would not be included in the general opening of the prison doors. The President has asked the Department of Justice for the complete digest of the cases of all the so-called political prisoners. He will study each of them, it was stated, and afterward he will issue a proclamation proclaiming amnesty for those whose offenses were not “overt acts” against the Cnited States. Shoots Wife Five Times; jealousy GULFPORT, Miss., Nov. 22.—Mrs. Thomas M. Price, prominent society woman of Waco, Texas, is near death in a hospital here after being shot five times by her husband as she stepped from a train. last night. Price is being held without bail pending the outcome of his wife’s injuries. Jealousy is said to have prompted the shooting. Stefansson Will Make Arctic Dash DULUTH, Minn., Nov. 22.—Vilhjalmar Stefansson, noted explorer of the Poles, will make another dash to the North Pole in July, he announced on his arrival here today. Stefanson will seek data, he said, concerning the Polar regions north of Alaska and Siberia which jfretofore have not been explored.

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FIGHTING CENTERS ABOUT CLUB WHERE HEIR IS ENTERTAINED 20 Killed, 200 Hurt in Clashes Between Mobs and Police Following-Uprising of Nationalists at Bombay. BOMBAY, Nov. 22. —The Prince of Wales, who is paying a visit of empire importance to India, was endangered tonight by the rioting around the Bycullah Club, where a dance was held m his honor. The club was in the center of the riot district.

Twenty persons have been killed and 200 wounded so seriously that they had to be taken to hospitals, in renewal of rioting here between police and mobs of adherents of Mahatma Ghandi, nationalist leader. The first rioting here broke out five days ago, following .the arrival and speech by the Prince of Wales. Adherents of Ghandi, who has an immense following of Indians who demand self-government, agreed upou a series of demonstrations to bring home to the future ruli r of the British empire that India is dissatisfied with being a vassal state. New Jitney Law Not Effective Until Nov. 24 Enforcement Held Up Because of Mistake in Printing Text of Bill. Enforcement of the jitney elimination, passed by the city council more than a month ago Is being held up by the board of public safety because the ordinance was incorrectly published after passage by the council, it was learned tuday. City officials for several weeks have been explaining that the Jitney men were not being arrested fir continuing to operate in the face of the ordinance because it was desired to give them plenty of time In which to take out the new lit'enses and (lie bonds as required by the new city law. As n matter rs fact, it was discovered the ordinance will not become effective until Thursday, it was not until after the ordinance had been published on Oct. Sand Oct. 15, that it was discovered that the city legal department, in supplying the text of the bill to the city clerk so transmission to the newspaper which has (tie city legal advertising account had failed to rew-lte a section which was amended by the eity council on the night the bill was passed. This section pertained to bonds. The ordinance ns originally drafted provided that Jitney operators shou’d provide bonds of $!0,000 or $20,000, according to the carrying capacity of their vehicle. On the night of passage of this section was amended to make the amount* $5,000 and SU>,OOO. As the ordinance was published on Oct 8 and 15 the amounts were SIO,OOO and $20,000. This Invalidated the publication and it was necessary to start all over again. So the corrected ordinance was published on Nov. 10 and 17. Since the measure wns to t ecome effective after two weeks’ publication It will not be in force until Nov. 24, which Is Thursday. % Meanwhile the Jitney drivers drive merrily on and the street railway company officials claim the utility is losing $1,200 a day from bus competition. A. 1,. Taggart, president of the board of public srfety, announced that the police will 6tart enforcing the ordinance Frl day. OUT ON PAROLE, ENTERS HOUSE ON NORTH SIDE David Jackson, Caught Almost in Act, Believed Author of Recent Robberies. David Jackson, 30, 2366 Northwestern avenue, who was out on parole on a sentence of one to fourteen years, in prison for grand larceny, was arrested today after lie had entered a house at 2814 Ashland avenue occupied by Mrs. W. S. Kirby. He is charged with entering a house to commit felony and with carry concealed weapons. The police believe he Is the man who has committed a series of daring north side robberies. I According to Mrs. Kirby. Jackson at- j tempted to enter her room, but when she screamed he starfed to flee from 1 the house. Mrs. Kirby’s mother-in-law 1 held the back screen against him. and he made his escape by the front door. Jackson \vas caught at Thirtieth and Ruckle streets by a motorcycle officer.

Nine Killed, Scores Hurt as Rioting Grips Belfast Sniping From Roofs arid Hallways Completely Disorganizes Business Pursuits.

BELFAST, Nov. 22.—Armored cars at all street intersections and troops stationed throughout the city today failed to quell the factional rioting in the eastern section of the city which has resulted in the death of at least six persons and wounding of scores. Rioters fired a fusillade of shots at street cars carrying workers. Business has been completely disorganized on account of frequent sniping from roofs and hallways. A virtual reign of terror gripped Belfast as the Ulster government assumed ’the powers of home rule. Mobs attacked pedestrinns, bullets whistled down the half deserted streets and armored lorries laden with heavy machine guns scurried about the districts where gangsters were fighting revolver duels. Hidden on housetops and barricaded in dim doorways, snipers fired into the streets. In York street one was killed and several seriously injured. I

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JUDGE ASKS JURY TO FREE GIRL IN ‘SLAVE’ CASE Says Evidence Does Not Show Miss Spangler Was Guilty. t Because evidence introduced by the Government in the case against John W. Talbott, head of the Order of Owls of South Bend, and Pearl Spangler of the i same city, charged with violation of the Mann white slave act, had not connected Miss Spangler in any way with the transportation of Pearl Bagiev from Topeka, Kan., to South Bend, Judge Albert B. Anderson tn Federal Court today instructed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty In the case of the Spangler woman. However. Judge Anderson overruled a motion by Talbott's attorneys to instruct the Jury to return a verdict of not guilty in the case against Talbott. Presentation of evidence for the defense began this morning after the Government had rested and it is believed the case will not go to the jury until Wednesday. PHYSICIANS TESTIFY. The defense put a nnmber of South Bend Physicians on the stand to testify that the Owl Hospital had been used for ihe care of patients :nd that Pearl Spangler bad acted as nurse. This was to refute testimony of the Government that the establishment was a hospital in name only. The evidence was considerable weakned on cross examination t>y Frederick lan Nuys. United States district attorney, who brought out the tact that a number of these instances where , patients had received attention at tLie hospital had occurred after the return of the indictments in Federal Court against Talbott and Pearl Spangler. Mr. Van Nays also brought out from : Dr. E. G. Frlermuth that the board of health of Sonth Bend had rescinded Its order permitting the use of the Owl Hospital for contagions diseases. Miss Baglay, the star witness for the Government, was recalled to the stand this morning and testified that while she had been at the hospital she had beeir attacked in her room by a man. A damaging piece of testimony was that of Pearl Penwell, matron of the jail at Sonth Bend, who testified that after Miss Bagley had taken refuge there after leaving the hospital that the Spangler woman came to her and, told her: “f will pay yon well if you will take Pearl Bagley home." SAYS GIRL WAS CRAZY. Frank Bailey. secretary of the Order of Owls, testified that after the story of Miss Bagley appeared in the South Bend papers that he asked Talbott what it all i meant and Talbott said: | “It means we have a crazy girl on our I hands.” l’eter Kifne. chief of pollee of Sonth Bend, testified that he had been requested by Talbott to send Miss Bagley home with a police woman, but he had refused to permit this to he done. Just after the defense began the presentation of its case, Alva Clark was asked to identify some photographs of the Owl hospital. By mistake the picture of an adjoining residence was shown to the witness. A big laugh swept the courtroom when Judge Anderson remarked. “People sometimes get in trouble by getting into the wrong house.” ■ t Congress Not to Hear of Ford’s Offer Now WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—No recommendatlons will be made to Congress in the present session concerning Henry Ford's offer to take over the Government nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala., Secretary of War Weeks announced today. No action will be taken by-the Government, the secretary said, until Mr. Ford has made a trip of inspection to Mns-le Shoals and has returned to Wash- ! ington for another conference with the i Secretary of War and Secretary of Com- j merce Hoover.

The situation was rapidly becoming worse, despite efforts of military and police. A mob rushed the labor bureau, killed two members of the staff and beat numerous others. A policeman was killed during the attempt to stop a street fight. Authorities threatened to enforce a curfew rule at 8:30 p. m. < All streets of the city are being guarded by troops. LLOYD GEORGE MEETS CABINET LONDON, Nov. 22.—Premier Lloyd George returned from Bournemouth to confer with his cabinet on the Irish situation today. Ho will meet Sir James Craig tomorrow, hoping to convince the Ulster leader of the necessity of a /triangular conference between Sinn Jt’ein i Ulster and Britain.

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U. S. FORCED INTO ROLE OF EAST UMPIRE Uncle Sam, Behind Closed Doors, Acts as Referee. CHINA YS. JAPAN Sharp Conflict Develops Over General Principles.’ , WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. The United States has already assumed the role of umpire In th.e sharp conflict of opinion between China and Japan as to the general principles which are to govern the discussion of China’s case at the Washington conference. This was learned authoritatively today when the delegates of the nine powers assembled again behind closed doors to take up the Chinese question. The committee met at 11 a. in. in the Pan-American building. The committee adopted a resolution, offered by Senator Underwood and the American delegation providing for the appointment of a subcommittee to make a study of the customs of China. CUSTOMS TANGLED QUESTION. The customs question is one of the most tangled of the many difficult problems of China. It is assumed that the subcommittee will look iijto China's claims that she cannot raise sufficient revenue to run her government and taka care of her obligations because of the provision of the treaties between China, and other powers providing for a maxis mum of 5 per cent customs duty. The fact that the committee immediately decided to go into the question of China’s finances is but part of the plans of the American delegation to investigate thoroughly ail serious problems of the Ear East. It was decided today there shall be a meeting tomorrow morning of the full Committee on Limitation of Armaments and another meeting in the afternoon of the Far Eastern Committee. It has developed that the four “principles" brought out by Elihu Root and agreed to last night by the powers represented a virtual compromise between the far-reaching “principles” proposed by China and the - ultra-conservative “principles” favored by Japan. It was further learned that there was considerable acrimonious talk behind the closed doors of the Pan-American Building before the Root principles were aecepted. China insisted strongly that hex own program of ten principles be accepted as a basis for any action whirls the conference may take. Japanese objection to them ft under—stood to have been based on the fear that the Chinese proposals were too susceptible to bringing up old affairs, such a*’ Manchuria and Mongolia. Bairn Kato is understood to have voiced the opinion that the conference should confine itself to present and future issues and present and future conditions, leaving the “dead* past to bury its dead.” ALL AGREE TO PRINCIPLES. In the end it was agreed to accept th*. four “principles” drawn up by Mr. Root* as a foundatiou upon which future dis-! cushions of the Chinese questions will; rest. The Root principles are general in nature and the opinion was expressed by a diplomat today that a “horse and. wagon could be driven through, any of* them." Th net result has been to temporarily avert an open conflict between Japan and; China at the ontset, and to leave it to the future to determine just what can be properly brought up under the cem(Contiaued on Page Three.) 700 MINERS OUT NEAR CLINTON Discharge of Pumper Said to Be Direct Cause of Trouble. Special to The Ttmes. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Nov. 22.—About seven hundred miners of the Clinton Coal Company, in the Clinton fields, near here, today, were on strike as the result of the. company’s notion in discharging a pumper at one of the mines, it was learned here today. The discharging of the pnmper. which is contrary to the agreement between th® union and operators was the direct causa of calling of the strike, John Hessler, president of District 11 United Miua Workers said today. He stated that the company has until Saturday to make amends for their action in dismissing the pumper. Hessler refused to comment regardintf why the pumper was diseharged. None vt the other mines in the field were affected, it was said.

CYCLE OFFICER HURT IN SMASH . Suffers Broken Leg Second Time in Few Months. Erwin Earl McClain, ISSI West Wilkins street, a motorcycle policeman, was seriously hurt today In an accident at and Meridian streets. McClain was struck by an automebila driven by A. IT. Potts, 142S North Penn--sylrnnla street. The automobile-attempt-ed to dodge another cnr and struck McClain's motorcycle. One of the wheels Is believed to havo run over his leg and the ear stopped with one of the rear wheels against the policeman’s head. Ha was taken to the St. Vincent's hospital, where it was said he was suffering from a broken leg and deep scalp wounds, Mr. McClain was hurt about threa months ago whilo chasing a speeder In Morris stroat. He had been out of iha hospital only a short time,