Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 174, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Rain tonight and Friday. Colder Friday.

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M’CRAY IS FOR CANDIDACY OF HARRY S. NEW Declares Himself After Conference With Senator. CLEARING EFFECT Blow to Friends Who Were Backing Albert J. Beveridge. Governor Warren T. McCray today declared himself as being favorable to the candidacy of Senator Harry S. New for the nomination for United States Senator from Indiana. This declaration was made following a conference between Senator New and the Governor, which lasted about an hour. As he left the Govoffice the Senator was asked what significance .his visit had. “We were talking over my affairs,” he replied. “The Governor is for me absolutely.” Following this statement the Governor was called on the telephone and asked his sentiments. He hesitated a little to make a statement, but finally said: “I am favorable to the candidacy of Senator New.” DISPOSES OF SPECULATION. This statement disposes of speculation as to where the Governor will stand in the expected contest between Senator New and Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge for the nomination. Mr. Beveridge has not announced his candidacy formally, but the opinion is general that he will be a candidate. The support of Governor McCray gives Senator New a decided advantage from an organization standpoint. This support carries with it the backing of the McCray administration and It is no smalt thing for any candidate to having the eupport of the administration ip power. Tut statement of the Governor will be a blow to the friends of Mr. Beveridge w’-o had reason to believe the Governor at least might not speak his mind publicly.

SEW FEELING OCT SENTIMENT HERE. Senator New is In Indianapolis feeling out the sentiment preliminary to his campaign in the spring. He plans to go to Chicago Saturday for the annua* Indiana Club dinner, then to Decatur, Ind.. to make what he said would be a nonpolitical speech. He then will return to Indianapolis and remain here for a week laying his plans before going to Washinj^on. Senator Is enthusiastic over the progress of the conference on the limitation of armaments, expressing the opinion that It will lead to great things. “No nation will dare to withdraw from the conference or to oppose the general plan.” he said. “To do so would make it an outcast among nations.” DISARMAMENT BEST GCARANTEE OF PEACE. “The best guaroutee of peace is disarmament. The nation that disarms, except for the armament that is absolutely necessary, shows Its good faith. There can be no better demonstration of good faith than this.” The Senator expressed the opinion that the successful conclusion of the conference will mean general improvement of business conditions. He then launched into an attack on the League of Nations, declaring it is a trouble maker and that the United States would be getting into trouble if it were a member. “Do you not think that some sort of an organization would be necessary to enforce the agreements of the conference?” he was asked. "An assoctaiion, yes; but not a league,” he said. “By an association I do not mean a league or an alliance. I mean simply an association together f the •ations through the signing of a treaty.” The Senator would not say with whom besides the Governor he had discussed or expected to discuss his candidacy.

REPORT 6 DEAD IN RAIL CRASH Trains in Head-on Collision on Union Pacific Main Line. PORTLAND. Ore., Dee. I.—Six persons ■were reported killed and twenty-two injured today when two passenger trains collided head-on near Celilo, Ore., on the Union Pacific main line. Only meager reports have been received. One of the trains in the collision was the Union Pacific Overland Limited. No. 17, from Chicago. The dead are: C. J. Tartough. porter on Train No. 12; Mrs J. \V. Waltin, Amity, Ore.; A. H. Mcßride, United States marine guard on train 12; L. J. Kirk. Joseph, Ore.; George Bristown, fireman on train 17, and Jack Code, Minnville, Ore. Owners of Gambling Device Are Fined Jerome Rubens and George Levinson, proprietors of a rooming bouse at 221 South Illinois street, were found guilty in city court today of having a gambling device- in their possession and each was fined $25 and -osts. Charges of renting rooms for immoral purposes were dismissed. Marie Wilson and George Karas, caught in the raid, pleaded guilty to statutory charges. The woman was fined $5 and costs and Karas was fined $lO. Jail sentences were suspended. . WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity foA the twenty-four hours ending at 7 Dec. 2, 1921: Rain tonight and Friday; colder Friday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 47 7 a. 48 8 a. m 49 9 a. m 50 10 a. 53 11 a. 55 12 (noon) 58 1 p. m 57 s 2 p. m. 67

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ARBUCKLEMAY KNOW FATE BY FRIDAY NIGHT Last 48 Hours of Suspense for Comedian Now Entered Upon. COST $150,000? By ELLIS H. MARTIN. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. L—“ Fatty” Arbuckle’s last lorty-eight hours of suspense were at hana with the convening of court today. The last nails are being driven in the masked structure that has been- reared jointly by prosecution and defense in the past three weeks. The afternoon wUI begin the unveiling speeches and then ..the jury will draw aside the hangings to show whether the structure bears aloft the figure of “Innocence” or whether “guilt” perches on the pedestal. The State, seeking to fix upon Arbuekle the charge of manslaughter, planned to call a few more witnesses. But their testimony pertained only to minor issues. PHYSICIANS’ REPORT LAST IMPORTANT ISSUE. The last important issue of the case was to be decided in the report of three physicians who, at the direction of the i court, made a microscopic examination cf the bladder of Virginia Rappe. The State has contended that the girl was perfectly healthy. The defense has urged that from her early youth she suffered from a chronic affection of the bladder that might have made possible her death from natural causes. Science is to decide this issue. Arguments are expected to be completed tomorrow afternoon. And with the close of the trial approaching. speculation as to its cost increased. The cost to the State was fixed somewhere between $4,000 and $7,000. The cost of housing, entertaining and dining the jury was placed n°ar $3,.'00. A special fund of SI,OOO was allowed District Attorney Brady for investigation. The State brought one witness from Chicago and many from Los Angeles. TRIAL MAT COST ARBUCKLE IN EXCESS OF $150,000. What has it cost “Fatty"? Probably even he does not know yet. Rumors place Gavin MeNab's fee as high as SIOO,OOO. Then tU-re are Charles H. Brennan am' Milton Cohen. Nat Schmulowltz and „osepli Mcinerney. Sehi.iUlowitz and Mcinerney are MeNab’s personal associates and their services are understood to be covered by their chief's fee. Brennan is reported to have been promised $lO.fXlO. Cohen is Arbuckle's personal attorney. Perhaps it is ail in the year's work for him—and perhaps not. Frank Dominguez, Arbuckle’s first attorney, is said to have received J20.0W for one week's work at the preliminary trial. Then there have been witnesses, medical experts and odds and ends. Statistical sharks add the-e all and get a sum in excess of $150,000.

Harding ‘League 9 Pleases Germans BERLIN, Deo. I.—Germany is entirely in sympathy with the Harding Association of Nations plan. Dr. Von Simons, former foreign minister, declared In an interview hero today. “The new slogan of the majority of German people is—‘lt slmU not be again,’ ’’ Von Simon* said. “For this reason Germany could not mobilize her forces for another war even if she wished.”

Seven More Daily Times Travel Accident Policyholders to Be Paid for Injuries

TRUCK DRIVER, HIT BY STREET CAR, GETS $35.71 Four weeks ago Peter Hoffman, 809 West New York street, was driving an automobile truck on West Michigan street. A street car collided with the truck, throwing Hoffman to the ppvement and injuring him so badly that for more than three weeks he was unable to work. Today Mr. Hoffman received a check from the National Casualty Company for $35.71. as compensation for the time he lost from his work. When the accident occurred he notified the insurance department of the Daily Times, in which he held a travel accident policy, and as soon as the number of days he was disabled was determined the claim was paid. SEVEN MORE CLAIMS PENDING. Seven more policy holders under the Indiana Daily Times travel accident insurance plan will receive returns many times their investment of 50 cents a year, as soon as their claims for injuries have gone through the necessary formality of investigation, adjustment and approval. Os the accidents reported none was so serious as to necessitate the amuntation of a limb, but two of the seven were so badly hurt they will be laid up for several weeks. Os the accidents for which claims are pending, one was caused by a runaway horse, three by automobile collisions, one by an automobile being struck by a street car, one by a wagon being demolished by an interurban, and one by a collision between an automobile and a motorcycle. One man, living a few miles from Indianapolis, was driving a team of horses hitched to a wagon when struck by an interurban. The wagon was demolished and the man was so badly injured ho probably will be confined to

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Medical College Agents Induce Boys of School 4 to ‘Steal’ Cats at $1 Each

Agents of the Indiana Medical College, in their effort to increase their supply of ai imals for vivisection purposes, induced at least six boys of the George Merritt public school No. 4, Blackford and Michigan streets, to “steal” a number of cats for $1 each, according to voluntary admissions made to Mrs. Lula Cobleigh Grove, principal of the school. This is the same college that encouraged the receipt of stolen dogs and persistently defied efforts to Burround the animals maintained there with humane care. Aroused over the influence such a practice was having over the pupils of her school, Mrs. Grove appeared before the children of the eight grades and pleaded with them to stop.

“You would not sell your own pets," | she told the children. "But if you continue this practice you would be selling someone else’s cat and probably a pet. It is stealing, that is what It is. This thing cannot go on among the children of my school." SIX BOYS CONFESS TO PRINCIPAL. Following the appearance of Mr*. Grove in the various rooms, six boy* went to the office of the principal and admitted “catching" cats and delivering them to the basement of the Indiana Medical College. According to the bays, the cat crusade began Monday and was continuing satisfactorily until Mrs. Grove stopped the chase. The boys confe.->ed to “catching” cats and delivering them to the college after they claim a sign soliciting cats had been placed in a window of the general store of Nick ICerz Company, 937-847 West Michigan street, near the college. Frank Judd. 13, 334 Ilanson avenue, declares-he actually received $2 from cats sold to the school and tbnt he had $1 still owing for a Tom cat he had delivered. On last Monday. 1 e declares, iie received $1 and on Tuesday he received 50 cents for a small s'/.ed cat. He said he and another bey "split a dollar two ways for another cat." BARNAMY BOY TELLS OF SPLITTING MONEY. Edward Barnahy, 12, 1033 West Michigan street, said he and Frank Judd took a cat to Fie college and delivered it to man by tJe name of Bradford. He said they were paid a $1 and divided the money. Arthur Jester. 14, o*o Maxwell street, said he took a cat to the basement of the college after the boys told him cats were worth $1 and also after seeing tiie sign in Kerz's window au.l gave it to a man who did not pay him, but told him to come back last night and get his

Destruction of $200,000 Worth of Liquors Ordered Judge Anderson’s Decree Covers All Stocks Seized in State Under Prohibition Act.

restruetton of liquor, mlu M under “m irfcet prices" prevailing under prohibition, at more than $200,000 was ordered by Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson today on petition of Frederick Van Nuys, United States District Attorney. The liquor represents accumulated stocks of whisky, wine, beer, cordials and even champagne seized by Federal authorities since the Federal prohibition law went into effect. The liquor is stored at Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, Covington, and Nprth Vernon. Some method of disposing of it other than destruction

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his b.-d several weeks. During the time ho ig disabled and cSnnot work, not to exceed thirteen (13) weeks, he will receive ten dollars ($10.00) a week from the insurance company. Another driver of a horse drawn vehicle was thrown front his wagon when his team ran away. lie was laid up by the injury and during the time he is kept from his work ho will receive compensation at the rate of ten dollars ($10.00) a week. A motorcycle driver was injured in a collision with an automobile, which re-

GIRL POSSESSED BY TWO PERSONALITIES

At Times She's Young Lady; Again Prattles Like Child of 4

HYPNOTIST CLAIMS HE HAS FOUND A CURE

COLUMBUS, Ohio., Dec. I.—Bernice Redick soon will have sole possession of her own body again Dr. H. 11. Goddard, psychologist declared today announcing existence of a strange case of dual personality. Bernice Rediek, 19, and Polly Redick, 4, total strangers until a few weeks ago—have been occupying the same hjnnan body. But science is slowly killing Polly in an effort to save the life of Bernice. Hypnotism Is working the cure In the peculiar scientific case. live girl, formerly a high school pupil at Lisbon, Ohio, was brought to the Juvenile research bureau here two months §;o for treatment.

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! money. Jester showed Mrs. Grove a ! piece of paper on which was written: j ‘‘One cat, George Heinlnger.” Bernice Mills, another pupil at the school, said he and Outer Miller, 918 Walnut street, took one cat to the college and that Bradford paid them sl. Omcr Miller said he. Mills and Earl Montgomery, 13, 645 Wilson street, caught a cat and delivered it to the college. Miller informed Mrs. Grove that he was to return to the college last night in the basement and get sl, which lie was to share with Montgomery and Mills. (Continued on Page Ten.) ; 'Love Tap * Sends Girl to Hospital and Man to Jail j Miss Betty Buckler, 725 East Michigan street, is in the city hospital today suffering from a broken arm alleged to have ben caused by a blow struck last night by Ralph Dlckison, Udell street. Dickison, who was arrested on a charge of assault and battery with in- , tent to kill, explained he just gave Miss j Buckler a little “love tap." Charges against Dickison were con- [ tinned in ciry court until Dec. 3. It was a lovers’ quarrel, the police 1 were told. Dickison called at the home of Miss Bulkier and an argument started which ended when Dickison gave Miss Buckler the “tap” which sent her to the hospital. Some hours later, Sergeant Chitwood attempted to arrest Dickison, who started to run. lie did not stop until the police officer had fired three shots at him. Following his arrest, Dickison declared he did not strike Miss Buckler.

was sought for by tfle Federal authorities, but it was decided that under the S’ate law no otuer method would be legal . In the list is all the liquor seized from the liaag drug stores at the time Loir-e noil Julius Haag were arrested. This stock alone was worth $40,000 at that time and now .would be worth far more if it could be put on the market. At Indianapolis alone there Is stored in the Federal building, 4,825 gallons of whisky, 450 gallons of wine and ten gallons of beer. This is by far the largest quantify of liquor ev*r ordered destroyed in Indiana.

calls the first compensation paid by this company in Indianapolis for a motorcycle rider. Finley B. Brown, 1118 Villa avenue, lost a leg when thrown from his motorcycle and was pnld five hundred ($500.00) dollars. The last motorcycle accident, however, did not prove to be so serious, and the injury will not keep the man away from his work more than a couple of weeks, according to present indications. Other accidents reported were of a minor nature, but were severe enough to cause the subscribers to lose from one to

“She was possessed of two distinct personalities,” Dr. Goddard said. “In a single day she changed back and forth eleven times from a 4-yoar-old girl, to her normal self, a 19-year-old girl. “The 4-year-old personality .said her name was Polly. She was normal in 'very way for a 4-year-old child. She could neither read nor write, nor distinguish between colors. The child gibbered in ‘baby talk’ and delighted in toys. “When Bernice got the upperhand, we would have a bright, alert, cultured young woman, who wrote beautiful letters, read good books and had ambitions to become a musician.

MISSING CHILD IS FOUND SLAIN AT NEIGHBORS Woman Who Lived Across Street, Throat Slashed, Dead in Bed. BODY HACKED TO PIECES CHICAGO, Dec. I.—Margaret Coughlin, 3, missing from her home since 2:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon, was founiT brutally murdered today in the basement of the home of Mrs. Ralph Pence—a neighbor living across the street at 1126 North Avers avenue. The child was decapitated and her little body hacked to pieces. Mrs. Pence, her throat stashed, was found dead in bed in a room off the dining room on the first floor. An all-steel bread knife covered with blood lay on the floor. The right hand of the deiM woman hung over the side of the bed, directly above the crimson knife. It was one of the most horrifying crimes in Chicago police annals. The theory Immediately was advanced by the police that Mrs. Pence, said to have acted oddly for some time, went insane, hacked the child with the bread knife, and then killed herself. The dismembered legs and one arm of the Coughlin baby wrapped in a blood stained newspaper were found smouldering on top of the basement laundry stove iu which a fire was burning. The head, one of the arms and the mutilated torso, were crammed into a tin wwshboiler which had been placed on the basement gas stove. The gas was not lighted. The cover had been forced down tightly on the boiler. Several pieces of black cloth protruded from under the lid. Mrs. Pence's husband, a carpenter, had gone to work and their two children, Dolly and Josephine, were at school when the bodies were found shortly before 10 a. m. Edward Coughlin, a park policeman, father of the slain child, was present when the mutilated body of his daugh ter was found. When a policeman opened the bundle and the legs and one of the arms of the baby rolled out on the cement floor the father covered his face with his hands. "Oh, God," he said, "who could butcher an Innocent little baby like this? God help her mother to bear up under such a thing.” The slain child's mother who had been searching for her baby for hours stood across the street In the raiu, a pathetic figure, her hands above her eyes, as she strained them to look over at the house of death. A policeman gently broke the news to the mother. She sank to the sidewalk. Later her screams could be beard a block away. She was reported In a dangerous condition.

Trio of Murders Shocks Chicago CHICAGO. Dec. I—A trio of murder® shocked Chicago today. Little Margaret Coughlin, 3, was found dead In the basement of a neighbor's home her body mutilated. Mrs. Ralph Pence, tenant in the house, was lying In bed, her throat cut with a bread knife. Samuel Roxford, 40, a chemist, was found dead in his room, presumably murdered by drug fiends seeking opiates. The proprietor of a South State street shoe store was found dead by a customer shortly before noon. He had been stabbed to death.

two weeks of work, for which they will get compensation of ten dollars, ($10.00) a week. The value of the Daily Times Accident Insurance is becoming more npparent as the list of nceident grows. One can not tell when an accident may occur, nor how serious it will prove, especially among those who make daily trips in street ears, internrbans, trains, jitney busses, or automobiles. The Times Accident Insurance Policies have given material assistance to many cases, where the money obtained was really needed.

"There was not a single connecting link between Polly and Bernice. When the girl was Bernice she had no recollection or aequaintacne with the Polly personality, and Bernice was a stranger to Polly.” Dr. Goddard found that when under n hypnotic spell the real self-pos-sessed the girl's body. In this manner he first “introduced” the two personages, and upbraided the girl for lapsing into infancy. “After each hypnotic treatment, we could see she was coming to have a better understanding of her other personality and with it a determination not to let the Polly personality possess her. Now we feel Polly soon will be eradicated entirely

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| POWER OF U. S. 'SENATE looms IN CONFERENCE; President Knows Spirit and Temper of Body. MEMORY LINGERS Fate of Past Treaties Exerts Potent Influence. Special to Indiana Daily Times axid Uhi’.adelphla Public Ledger. By COL. EDWARD M. HOUSE. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. I.—Last winter, Senator Penrose, with blunt directness, said it did not much matter who became Secretary of State, for the Senate would direct the foreign policies of the United States. . Whether this was a prophetic forecast remains to be determined after the disarmament conference has finished Its labors. Meanwhile, the consideration being given the Senate impresses the observer as one of the outstanding features of the conference. No one can remain in Washington for any length of time j without being conscious that in the 1 minds of both the foreign and Amer- | ican delegates the Senate looms | large in the background, and there is a constant threat of it hovering over the scene. This feeling is not caused by any ae- , tion which the Senate has taken or by j anything which recently has been said ty any of the members other than Mr. Borah but it Is the memory of what that , body has done in the past that is hav- | lug Its Influence today. Whut the President and the American delegates would like to do and what : they actually will try to do are two l different things. No one knows the temper of the Senate better than the President, and it will be interesting to Bee how a former Senator will act after as sliming the duties of the executive. The treuty making powers of the President are so wide that it is difficult for him always to keep in mind his limitations set by the Constitution. He has the right to make any kind of treaty, and in any way which seemji to him best. His only Jimitatlon in carrying out a foreign policy is the Senate’s right to reject his work after it is presented to the Senators for their consideration. If the Senate should change a treaty or an agreement which the executive may send to them and unanimously pass It In the changed form, the President can pigeonhole the document and not enforce it. But the fact that the Senate has the prerogative (Continued on Page Ten.)

Goal in Community Chest Drive Set at $605,412.92

The goal in the Community Chest drive, which will be held Dec. 12-19, will be $605,412.92. Announcement of the approved budget for 1922 ror the forty organizations comprising the Community Chest was made today at campaign headquarters, 205 People's Bank building. The budget follows: Organizations. Alpha Home Association .$ 2,100 00 Boys’ Club Association 7.515 95 Boy Scouts of America, Indianapolis Council r. 21.01*0.00 Camp Fire Girls . 3.000.00 Catholic Community Center and Day Nursery 20.000.00 Catholic Women’s Association 3.410.00 Charity Organization Society 63.000.00 Children's Aid Association 45.000.00 College Settlement Association 9.000.00 Cosmopolitan Community Center 1.800.00 Dispensary Aid 5.000.00 Faith Home 4.000.00 Finnner House 15.000.00 Florence Crittenton Home of Indianapolis 6.000.00 Immigrants’ Aid Association 1.80000 Indianapolis Board of Indorser of Motion. Pictures ‘ 300.00 Indianapolis Day Nursery Association 6.000.00 Indianapolis Flower Mission ’ 7.200 00 Indianapolis Home for Aged Women 0.576.95 Indianapolis Humane Society 3.000.00 Indianapolis Orphan Asylum 4.500 00 Indianapolis Travelers' Aid 2.400.00 Jewish Federation of Indianapolis 30.000.00 Knickerbocker Hall Association 21(118.00 Mothers' Aid Society 55J10000 Mothers’ Aid Society—Colored Branch 10.00000 Old Folks' Home 31000.00 Public Health Nursing Association 24.000 00 Salvation Army 20.000.00 Society of the Good Shepherd 5.000.00 Social Service Dept., Indianapolis Church Federation 5,000 00 Summer Mission for Sick Children elooo.oo Volunteers of America ) 12^000.00 Wheeler City Rescue Mission slonoloo Women’s Improvement Club 11.300.00 Young Men’s Christian Association 3415i8.50 Young Men’s Christian Association —Colored Branch 377.352 Young Women’s Christian Association 3<>looooo Young Women’s Christian Association—Colored Brnnch 4lt)00.00 Special fund for possible emergencies, epidemics, floods, shrinkage, etc 65.000.00 Campaign Expenses 21,500.00 Administration expenses ,nnd establishment of Central Bureau for Supervision of Welfare Work 25.000.00 $605,412.92 The amounts recommended by the directors of the Community Chest have been arrived at after careful investigation of the budgets submitted by the different organizations, bfit are subject to such adjustment as conditions may require.

High Cost of Living Due Mainly to Big Wastes in Distribution

Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By RICHARD SPILLANE. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 1. —One way to reduce labor costs is to reduce living costs. The reduction in commodity prices is not expressed fully iu retail prices and never can be unless wastes in distribution are curtailed. Living costs can be reduced decidedly if order and economy are introduced into city marketing systems, but not otherwise. It costs much less to live on the Pacific coast than on the Atlantic coast, primarily because there is little of the waste in the West that is so common to the East. v

SOME of the meat and vegetable markets of Pacific Coast cities are on the principal thoroughfares close to great department stores, specialty shops and the like. They are as clean, wholesome and a( tractive os any business place of the city. There are restaurants in theta—and very good restaurants, too. There are other markets where the venders of meats, of fish, of fruits and vegetables pay only a nominal sum—lo cents a day—for a stall. Tha displays

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Harding May Ask to Revise Tariffs by Executive Order WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—President Harding may ask Congress to authorize him to revise tariff rates by executive order as an emergency relief measure for American business. Harding is considering this in connection with his message to Congress next Tuesday. The message will deal emphatically with the need for immediate tariff legislation to pull American business out of its present depression.

OTHER TRIALS TO BE TAKEN UP IN BOOZE CASES Sentences in South Bend-Gary Liquor Conspiracy Withheld for Present. Final disposition of the cases of sixteen defendants in the “South BendGary” liquor conspiracy cases was deferred by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today until after the trial of seven residents of South Bend on similar charges next Tuesday. In the case that goes to trial Tuesday twenty-three persons were indicted. Os these three have never been arrested, five entered pleas of guilty and the rest entered pleas of not guilty.? However, eight of these latter were found guilty by the Jury yesterday iu the South BendGary case and will not be required to stand trial. CASES INTERLOCKING IN CHARACTER. Because of the interlocking character of’ the two cases, twelve defendants appearing in both eases, Judge Anderson decided to take up the matter of imposing sentence in both cases at the time. The seven defendants who will be tried Tuesday are: John Demus, Peter Manos, John Maculski, Joe Vardo, Stephen Crabb, Joseph Czigany, all of South Bend, and Peter Herron of Chicago. After being out less than thirty minutes a Jury in Federal Court returned a verdict of guilty late yesterday against nine residents of Gary and South Bend, charged with conspiracy to violate the Federal prohibition laws. The nine defendants found guilty by the jury together with seven others who pleaded guilty when the case was called appeared before Judge Albert B. Ander(Continued on Page Two.) Heifer Is Awarded Grand Championship of Livestock Show CHICAGO, Dec. I.—Woman's rights have been extended to the bovine world. For the first time in the history of the International Livestock Exposition here, a heifer has won the grand championship emblematic of the best animal of any breed or class of cattle raised in the United States. The grand champion is Lulu Mayflower, exhibited by the University of Cnlifor nia. She was bought by Sieboldt & Cos. of Cleveland for sl.lO per pound. Lulu Mayflower is a crossbred Angus.

in these markets are charming. All the fruits and vegetables are washed before being put on view. Neatness and cleanliness seem to be appreciated as adding to the attractiveness of the foodstuffs. A farmer bringing produce into town may hire ,one of these stalls and sell his stuff direct to the consumer or he can sell to a middle man, just as he pleases. Representatives of the city watch over the stallkeepers and see that they do not (Continued on Page Eleven.) 1

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ARMS PARLEY HAS REACHED TURNING POINT Will Stand or Fall on Events of Next 48 Hours. JAPAN HOLDS KEY Both Nippon and U. S. Stand Pat on Navy Issue. \ By GEORGE R. HOLMES. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. The armament conference has reached the stage where developments within next forty-eight hours may determine the success or failure of the epochal gathering. Success means the scrapping of almost half the warships of the United States, Great Britain and Japan and an end to the competitive building under which the burdened peoples of all three countries have been stagI gering for years. ; Failure means a continuance of the vast building programs, which will lead I to world naval supremacy for the United ! States and the possibUity of war in the i future. DECISION RESTS WITH JAPANESE. The decision rests with Japan. Upon her acceptance or rejection of the 5-5-3 naval ratio laid down by Secretary Hughes and accepted by the other great powers, hangs the world’s future naval strength and the success or failure of the conference. The decision in the final analysis rests with three men—Secretary Hughes, A. J. Balfour of Great Britain and Baron Kato, the diminutive leader of the Japanese conference staff. After two weeks of futile discussion, the experts and technicians of the three countries have failed utterly to reconcile their divergent views 1 and ha-'e turned the responsibility of I decision back to the three leaders. I Renewed assurances come from official ! American sources that there would be no i “backing down” on the part of this Government. The Japanese contention of a ratio of 10-10-7 instead of 10-10-6 was offlcially described as “utterly inadmlssij ble” and, so far as America is concerned, the Japanese can either “take it or leave it.” The American delegates are willing to see the conference go on or stop right now on the 5-5-3 issue. While the situation admittedly was tense, officials were not unduly perturbed. They are supremely confident that after | a brief period of bickering Japan will announce her acceptance of the American ratio in its entirety, STILL BELIEVE JAPS BLUFFING. i The feeling prevails in official quarters ' that the Japanese position is more or | less bluff. It is pointed out that Japan has everything to gain and nothing to | lose by accepting the American program. Japan will be relegated to a poor third ;in the naval strength of the world whether building stops now or whether it continues, as It surely will if Japan elects to go on. Enough American tonnage is completed on the ways today to insure American naval leadership of thn world within six years. The experts of Japan, who are holding forth against accepting the libera! program know this. The belief prevails in American and British quarters that Japan is maintaini ing a bold front in the hope of making a j trade on some other issues of the conference in which she is vitally interested |* —notably the fortifications of the Pacific and maintenance of her position In Manchuria and Mougolia. EXPECT ANOTHER PROPOSAL FROM JAPAN". The American spokesmen confidently are expecting a proposal from Japan that the 5-5-3 ratio will be accepted upon condition that the l nited States agree to raze the fortifications at Manila, Guam and Hawaii. Such a proposal, if it is actually made, will be immediately rejected. llte policy of this Government ia strongly against any “trading” of whatever character. Secretary of State Hughes and his colleagues believe the naval program laid down by the United States is fair enough to all concerned to stand on its own merits, and it will have to be accepted that way if it is accepted at all. The naval situation is hung high on the pegs of a deadlock, while the powers turn their attention to the famous Shantung controversy. The date of the next meeting of the naval committee ig uncertain. The call for such a meeting rests with Secretary Hughes as chairman. It was officially stated that no date has been determined upon.

1 Killed, 5 Hurt in Cellhouse Collapse JOLIET, 111., Dee. I.—One man was killed and five were seriously Injured today when the roof of one of the big new celihouses in tho new prison here collapsed. The workmen were buried under a mass of cement. Others are believed to have been turfed in the wreckage. The body of Charles Nelson, a carpenter living in Lookport, was recovered. Search is being made in the wreckage for additional bodies in the belief that others who are missing may have lost their lives. U. S. Will Take Part in Exchange Hearing WASHINGTON, Dec. I—The United States has accepted an invitation, extended by the reparations commission, to attend a conference to consider the stabilization of exchange In connection with the matter of payment of German reparations, Secretary of Treasury Mellon announced today. Two Brought Back A city detective today brought Billie Howard, 20, 902 Ashland avenue, giving his occupation ns mechanic, and Herbert Jones, 23, “city,” from Springfield, Ohio, to tills city. They are wanted on a charge of vehicle taking. It is alleged they stole an automobile belonging td Maurice Marcus, 821 North Illinois street, from a down-town parking space Nov. 28.*