Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1921 — Page 1

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J. ARMITAGE APPOINTED TO SAFETY BOARD Member Named After Mrs. Shank Declines to Serve. NEUTRAL POLICY Mayor-Elect to Take No Part in Senatorial Race. James Armitage, brother of William H. Armitage, has been given the appointment of Democratic member of the board of public safety, Mayorelect Samuel Lewis Shank announced today. Mr. Shank returned from his vacation at Hot Springs, Ark., by way of Memphis and Louisville at 9:45 o’clock last night. His arrival was not heralded until this morning, but before noon his home at 3547 East Washington street, was the rendezvous for politicians great and small. Mr. Shank also got off bis mind a long list of matters of Interest to the public ■which he has been thinking about during hi* two-week.absence. Among these was the announcement that his hands are absolutely off of the Indianapolis postmastershlp fight and the scrap for the Republican nomination for United States Senator. “Hands off the primaries!- he said. A monstrous sombrero, the gift of Joseph L. Hogue, appointee for city controller, who with Mrs. Hogue and Mrs. Shank, accompanied the mayor-elect, adorned a table in the Shank home. Mr. Shank will not let it get out of his sight, his friends said. DECLARES OPENLY FOR BOXING. Important decisions upon traffic, fire, police, and improvement matters were announced by Mr. Shank. Among other things he declared openly in favor of boxing. “We’re going to have boxing matches In Indianapolis unless the sheriff and Governor stop me.” he said. Announcement of selection of Mr. Armitage for the board of safety membership, came after all efforts of Mr. Shank to get Mrs. Shank to accept it had failed. He did not give up hope until this morning when she told him, once and for all that for her to take the J”b “would be too much Shank.' Although his brother, William, has become something of a power In the Republican party. James Armitage Is and has been a Democrat. Mr. Shank said. HANDS OFF OF SENATORIAL RACE. “I want it to be thoroughly understood.” said Mr. Shank, “that I am taking no interest whatever in the senatorial or postmaster fights. I have no interest whatever in any of the candidates. I have been elected mayor and that's all I'm going to be. One of the things I made my campaign upon was ‘Hands off the primaries,’ and, that’s what I intend to do. So I hereby serve notice that the boys are going to be turned loose. Let them go to it regardless of me. There's only one man I'll be personally interested in any primary and that's my brother Carlin who’s running for reelection as a county commissioner. Os course, I'm for him. But when I say ‘hands off the primaries' I mean it. I've got too many other things to look after.” The mayor-elect wanted to know “where In the devil” the newspapers got hold of the Idea that salaries of assistants In the cit ylegal department are going to be raised because “there's.not going to be any salary increases during my four years as mayor.” Taylor E. Groninger, appointee for corporation counsel, (Continued on Page Two.)

GOVERNOR O.K.S FUND CAMPAIGN, SO DOES MAYOR Community Chest Workers Hold Meeting at Columbia Club. Approval of the Community Chest campaign was expressed today by Governor Warren T. McCray and Mayor Charles W. Jewett at a meeting of the governmental division at the Columbia Club. Other speakers were Dick Miller, iu charge of the campaign: Fred Hoke, chairman of the Community Chest executive committee, and Robert E. Springsteen, chairman of the division. Present at the meeting were Robert H. Bryson, William G. Oliver. G. W. Williams, Miss Opal Ford, C. Claude Rosenbarger. Lawrence F. Orr. Roy Couch, Richard L. Lowther. J. C. Thurman, J. B. Reynolds. D. S. Ritter, E. V. Graff. E. H K McComb. Charles E. Rush, Milo H. Stuart, George Buck, C. W. Byfleld, J. F. Poe, A. M. Potts, F. J. Rickman and Arthur D. Grow. This division will have charge of the campaign in the Federal building, the Statehouse. the courthouse, the city hall and the school department. STORES AND OFFICES ARE ORGANIZED. Sol Schloss, chairman of the mercantile division, announced organization of the stores and offices and the chairmen of the inside soliciting units. According to the division’s plan the teams to obtain pledges from workers are headed by individuals chosen from the workers. The stores and officers are: Indiana Lumbermen's Mutnral Insurance Company, F. B. Fowler, chairman; Enquirer Printing Company, Clarence E. Crippen, chairman: Vaught Auto Company, K. R. Vaught, chairman: Barton (Continued on Page Six.)

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Forecast for Indianapolis and vlclnitv for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Dec. 8, 1921: Unsettled, with snow or rain tonight and Thursday, with temperature 2S to 35 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 27 7 a. m 27 8 a. m 28 8 a. m 28 10 a. m 29 11 a. m 31 12 (noon) 33 1 P. m 34 2 p. m. .. 34

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State Holds Killing of Carl Kiroff By Wife Case of Premeditated Murder

By WALTER D. HICKMAN. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 7. Branding the fatal shooting of Carl Kiroff as “premenitgted murder,” Deputy Prosecutor Sidney Miller of Marion County in closing the argument of the State In the trial of Nellie Kiroff, 20, widow of Carl, in Circuit Court today, asked the jury to return a verdict of guilty and to fix her punishment at imprisonment for life. The State took the position that the evidence of Mrs. Kiroff, the circumstances surrounding the shooting, and the dying statement of her husband all proved premeditated murder. Atorneys for the defense contended the evidence warranted a verdict of not guilty on the ground of accident. The court began instructing the Jury at 1 oclock and the jury retired half an hour later. Closing argument of counsel followed arguments by O. W. Smith, prosecutor of Morgan County, who made the opening argument for the State. He was followed by Paul Wetter, pauper attorney for Marion County, and J. E. Sedewlch of Morgan County, for Mrs. Kiroff, and

SINN FEINERS ARE RELEASED FROM PRISON King George Grants Amnesty to Irish Under Pact. ULSTER MAY BALK LONDON, Dec. 7.—King George today issued a decree of amnesty granting liberty to all Irish prisoners. It is estimated there are between 4,000 and 5,000 Sinn Fein prisoners in Britloh detention camps. Events are moving rapidly for setting up the new political machinery of the Irish peace agreement. Final plans were made for the meeting of the British and Sinn Ff'.n Parliaments to ratify the pact and the government began to arrange for the withdrawal of all British administrative officials from Ireland. King George presided over a privy conncll which approved the proclamation for summoning the British parliament into special session next Wednesday for approval of the peace agreement. It Is expected Dali Elreann at Dublin will approve the treaty without opposition. ULSTERITES MAY ANTAGONIZE. Antagonism is expected from the TTster Unionists. A special courier is expected to arrive from Belfast tonight, bringing the Ulster Cabinet's reply to the proposals contained in the Irish peace settlement. The keynote of the Ulterltes was sounded by their former leader, Sir Edward Carson. He declared. "I never thought I should Hr* to see a day of such abject humiliation for Great Britain.” The English press, without exception, hailed the settlement as one of the greatest achievements in the history of the British Empire. The agreement met with the warmest approval and Premier Lloyd George Is accorded a position equal to that of Pitt. Whether Ulster enters the agreement or remains under her present status. It generally is believed by British officials that the Irish Free State will step into her new “world position" on Dec. 6, 1922, (Continued on Page Eleven.)

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Humane Society Recommends Contributions for Vivisection Purposes. Suggestions that the Indiana Medical College case paying young school boys for cats i.nd dogs to be used for vivisection purposes have been made by officials of the Indianapolis Humane Society, according to reports made at a meeting of the society last night in the Chamber of Commerce. It also was reported that the college, conforming to public criticism brought about by the treatment of animals confined there for experimental purposes, now completely anaestheticlzes the animals and allows them to die while in an unconscious state following the operations. It was the policy of the college (Continued on rage Two.) 2 Women in Court to Determine Which Is Bortell's Widow NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Two women today started a court battle here to decide which one is the real widow of Frank E. Bortell. former president of the New York Public Service Freight Bureau, who died Aug. 18 last. Hattie N. Bortell of South Bend, Ind., has names of four witnesses, two of them doctors, to prove Bortell is her husband. She says she married him in 1893. Anna Bortell, former stenographer of the dead man, claims she was married to Bortell In 1917. She lives in New York and now has in her possession the letters of administration of Bortell’s estate. The case Is In the hands of Surrogate Cohalan.

He Didn't Know That the only refuge in Indianapolis for incurable tuberculosis patients is maintained by the Indianapolis Flower Mission which also supplies from one to two quarts of milk per day to tubercular patients who require this treatment and are unable to pay for it. East year 950 persons were furnished food, bedding and clothing, in addition to the other services named, because his contribution to the Community Chest helped the expenses.

by Mr. Miller in the final argument of the State. The instructions of the court were delivered after counsel exhausted a total of three hours, an hour and a half being allowed to each side. INSISTS SHOOTING WAS ACCIDENTAL. Probably never In the annals of criminal prosecution has so strange a case been heard. By Nellie Kiroff holding to a straightforwaid story that the shooting was an “accident,” she virtually tore down part of the compound theory of the defense that the tragedy was due to self-defense and to accidental shooting. So involved was the situation at the close of the testimony of Mrs. Kiroff in her own defense that Judge Alfred M. Bain, who is presiding in the case on a change of venue from the Marion Criminal Court, after the jury had retired last night, informed counsel that the court could not see the element of self-defense following the testimony of Mrs. Kiroff. Just as Nellie Kiroff started to leave the witness stand, after Mr. Miller had concluded the cross-examination on the part of the State, Judge Bain asked her

Congress May Allow ‘Bonus’ Before Long House leaders Give Hope of Award Before New Session Ends. WASHINGTON, Dee. 7. Soldier “bonus” legislation Is to be taken by the House Ways and Means Committee and a “bonus” will be authorized by Congress during the present session. Congressional leaders predicted today. With the return to Washington of Chairman Fordney of the House Ways and Means Committee, plans are expected to be perfected for early consideration of the “bonus” legislation and the form of the bill be drafted, together with a tax levy to raise the necessary money to pay the “bonus.” It is the general belief that the alternative plan, which Includes a maximum cash payment for overseas service of $025 and fer domestic service of SSOO, will be adopted. Friends of the alternative plan, which provides for cash, homes, farms and paid-up Insurance, estimated last year that about $400,000,000 would be required to meet cash “bonus” demands. It was stated that about 30 per rent of those entitled to a "bonus” would take cash, th others electing to take one or the other of the alternative “bonuses.” Dynamite Explosion Kills Sixty People BERLIN, Dee. 7.—Forest fires were burning near Stiarlouis, Rhenish Prussia, today following an explosion in a dynamite factory which killed sixty persons and injured many others. The explosion was set off by a bursting oil tank. Heavy damage was done to property. Hoosier Dancer to Face Serious Charge NEW YORK, Dee. 7—Miss Vera Swift, 23, dancer with the Winter Garden company, was held on SI,OOO bail today for trial on a charge of receiving two stolen automobiles and disposing of them in Fvansville, Ind., her home town. Miss Swift and her chauffeur, Robert A. Pazzuli, arraigned on an identical charge, were arrested in Evansville. Would Ban Traffic in Habit-Forming Drugs WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The conference on limitation of armament and Far Eastern policy Is urged to take steps to crush all traffic on all habit-forming drugs, in a joint resolution Introduced In the House today by Representative Kahn of California. The fourteen postoffices maintained by Japan In China are exchange mediums for the distribution of opium and morphine t<> the Chinese, the resolution asserts.

Edison Says Recent Find May Lead to Making Gold

BY ALLAN L. BENSON. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Thomas A Edison said a discovery made within the last two months marks a long step toward the process of making gold out of base metals, ne made this statement to me just before we left Muscle Shoals, Ala. “The chemical papers are full of It,” he said. "It has been discovered that lead, instead of being a single metal, as had been supposed, contains two ingredients. “The discovery of how to mnke gold artificially may be made any

ONE KILLED IN TRACTION CRASH Many Persons Injured When Cars Collide in Fog Near Dayton, Ohio. DAYTON, Ohio, Dec. 7. —One man was killed and a number of persons Injured in a collision on the Cincinnati & Dayton Traction line today. The injured were brought to Dayton hospitals in automobiles. The cars crashed In a heavy fog and wei > badly wrecked. Changes His Mind and Puts in Another Republican Mayor Because one man changed his mind an.l voted the Republican ticket instead of the Democratic tiaket, the city of Vevay will have a Republican mayor for the next four years, Frederick E. Schortemeicr, secretary of the Republican State committee, learned today. In the last election Charles Lamson, Republican, and Oliver Ourtay, Democrat, each received 37S votes. A special election wasiheld to decide the contest. The result wf| Lamson 379 and Ourtay 377.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1921.

if she pointed the revolver at her husband. She paused for a moment and answered : “I don't know how It happened.” SAYS HER HUSBAND ASKED FOR GUN. Then she continued: "Carl asked me to give him the revolver and I started to give It to him as he nsked.” "Are you sure?” the court asked., “Yes, I am sure of it.” That apparently desiroys part of the compound theory of the defense that the shooting of Carl Kiroff was done in selfdefense and was accidental. On direct examination In answer to questions put to her by Mr. Wetter, Mrs. Kiroff testified that she was preparing to go to bed and was eating an apple when her husband suddenly called for her to get his revolver. "He said ‘Get the gun. Get the gun,’ and I said, 'Where Is it?’ and he said as he ran to a back door, ‘Under the mattress or in the dresser drawer.’ I got the gun. He came into the room. I went toward him and he came toward me. His (Continued on Page Six.)

SOUTH CHINA HEAD SUBMITS HIS PROGRAM Dr. Sun Yat Sen Puts Plan Before Powers. DIFFERS SLIGHTLY WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-—Disaffec-tion within the ranks of the Chinese delegation to the Washington conference led Dr. Sun Yat Sen, president of the Canton (South China) government, through Ma Soo, his American representative, to submit to the powers gathered here anew program for the restoration to China of political, economic and territorial integrity. The Cantonese program d>es not differ fundamentally from that already proposed by the I’ekin delegates, but also seeks to bring to the attention of the conference methods by which China's hope for administrative autonomy may be realized. FIVE POINTS ARE SET OUT. “The principle of territorial integrity,” the Cantonese program declared, "affirms the indivisibility of the territory of the Chinese republic, inside and outside the great wall, and Chian's sovereignty in each and every pan thereof. “This involves: (l* Settlement of the Shantung question in terms of the cancellation of the China-Japan treaty relating to Shantung, and notes relating thereto, and the recognition of the validity of the abrignfion of the Kiao Chow convention of China's declaration of war against Germany. 2. Settlement of tbs Manchurian and Mongolian questions In terms of the cancellation of the China-Japan relating to South Manchuria and eastern inner Mongolia, and notes relating thereto, and the conversion of the railways in North and South Manchuria into Chinese Stateowned properties. TIBETAN QUESTION ALSO INVOLVED. 3. Solution of the Tibetan question In terms of the recognition by Great Britain of Chinese sovereignty and the grant of autonomy. 4. Relinquishment of leased territories. (5) Restoration of settlements and concessions to China, provided there is an interim period of a number of years when their administration shall be vested Ina council consisting of a Chinese chairman and members elected as to one-half by foreign taxpayers, and ns to the other half by Chinese taxpayers, and the withdrawal of foreign troops, whether their presence be sanctioned by treaties or absolutely unwarranted.”

day. I have said this for years. This new discovery is a part of the solution of the problem. ‘T always have felt that the gold clause in bonds is dangerous. This clause provides that the bonds shall be paid in gold of a certain degree of fineness. AVhat would the people who own railway bonds say If they should wake up some morning and find that gold could be manufactured as cheaply.as we make pfgiron? Well, that Is exactly what tvill happen some day—and it may happen any day.”—Copyright, 1921, by International News Service.

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FRANCE WON’T OPPOSE LOAN However, Germany Must Pay When Bills Come Due. PARIS, Dec. 7. —If Germany shows good will and sincerity in meeting her indemnity obligations In January and February, France will not oppose a foreign loan to Germany, said Louis Loucheur, French member of the reparations commission, today. M. Loucheur will go to London immediately to confer with Sir Robert Horne, chancellor of the exchequer in the British cabinet. This conference will relate to Germany’s financial position as affected by the indemnity obligations and the Weisbaden agreement, by which Germany is enabled to make large payment iu goods instead of gold. FRENCH TO DISCUSS REPARATIONS. PARIS, Dec. 7.—M. Louis Loucheur, minister for liberated regions, and a party of financial experts will leave for London tonight to discuss the reparations situation.

MELLON SEES SALES TAX AS AN EQUALIZER Would Make Further Slash in Income Levy. SURTAXES HINDER Treasury Head Holds High Rates Discourage Business. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The Government must make a further slash In existing income and surtaxes and adopt some form of sales tax to equalize the tax burden, lighten the load on the average taxpayer and help business go ahead, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon today told Congress in his annual report. Secretary Mellon said while economy measures of the Administration had effected a cut of $1,500,000,000 in Treasury expenditures during the current fiscal year, the American people cannot escape facing heavy Government expenditures for many years to come. SIMPLIFICATION TAX I.AW NEED. There Is urgent need that the tax laws be greatly simplified, and some of the existing complexities removed, Mellon said. The income tax must be retained for years to come, as a part of the American system, but the objections raised to the excessively high rates must be met by Congress by legislative action, scaling down the rates to a reasonable level, “especially in the surtaxes, which now discourage business,” he added. The taxation of people in proportion to their “ability to pay" Is the keynote of Mellon's proposals to Congress. Mellon, taking full account of the $500.000.000 reduction in the tax burden in the fiscal year, 1923, from the changes made in the revenue act of this year, asserts Congress must wield the ax again and said before the Job is completed other sources than those now tapped by revenue producers must be found. CONGRESS TO DETERMINE I ORM OF SALES TAX. The sales tax Is favored by Secretary Mellon. What form It shall take is left by him for Congress to determine. He refrained from specific recommendations on that point. It Is the view of the Secretary that by retaining the income lax, with reasonable surtax rates, which in peace timer ultimately should not rise above 10 per cent, the American people would be contributing to the upkeep of the Government according to their earnings. But he goes further, saying. “By placing a certain amount of tax on specific articles, or classes of articles or transactions at so low a rate that they could be readily borne without Injury, the Income tax would he materially simplified, the tax laws would be ad(C'ontlnned on Cage Six.)

TROOPSPUT ON GUARD DUTY IN PACKER STRIKE 400 Sent to Yards District in St. Paul to Keep Entrances Open. SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 7. Four hundred State guardsmen under the command of Adjutant General W. F. Rhynow are doing guard duty In the strike area of the Swift and Armour plants here today as the result of instructions from Governor Preus, following an appeal of the mayor here, and Sheriff James Dunn of Dakota County who declared they were unable to keep open the avenues of entrance to the various packing plants. According to a statement of the ad.lutnnt general, It will be the duty of the troops to open up the picket line now surrounding the plants, so ns to permit all workers to come and go without molestation. Armed clashes between packing house workers and National Guard troops seemed Inevitable when the adjutant general announced his intentiou of smashing the picket line. “If you have to shoot,” the adjutant general told the guardsman, “shoot to kill.” Determination to break the picket line was reached by the adjutant general after Sheriff Dunn and other officials said they were unable to cope with the situation. At the same time, union leaders circulated among the crowds with mega(Contlnucd on Page Six.)

GUNMEN KILL TWO POLICEMEN Los Angeles Officials on Hunt for Murderers. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 7.—Police authorities today concentrated in a manhunt for the gunmen who last night shot and killed Patrolmen William J. Britt and Harry Clester. A policeman’s ball in progress at the time of the double murder, broke up immediately. With both officers who participated in it dead and no other witnesses, nc details of the fight were available. Two policemen were found dying on the pavement, their guns beside them. It is thought Clester and Britt attempted to apprehend criminals who put up an unexpected fight. Clester, 30 years of age, leaves a wife and two babies. He came to Los Angeles from Konomo, Mo., Britt, 39, is survived by a wife and 7-year-old boy. Ills home was formerly Leavenworth, Kan. Community Chorus to Hold Rehearsal Ernest G. Hesser, director of the Community chorus, noW rehearsing to give “The Messiah” at Cadle Tabernacle next Thursday evening, Dec. 15, today asked all member* of the chorus and orchestra to be present for rehearsal in the tubernacle at 7:45 o’clock tomorrow night. In order to give thousands of people an opportunity to hear the oratorio, the tabernacle was seleetecLfor the presentation Instead of Toiniiiijlon Hall.

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We Now Are Aware of Lloyd George's Actual Intention? LONDON, Dec. 7.—Premier Lloyd George does not Intend to attend the Washington disarmament conference, a member of his diplomatic household in Downing street said here today. The presence of the premier is necessitated at the opening of parliament Dec. 14.

Texas Rancher's Son Roped; French Girl Is Awarded $200,000 DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 7.—Rita Jaichner, pretty French girl, who alleges she toured Europe with R. L. Slaughter, Jr., wealthy son of a pioneer Texas cattleman, was awarded damages in excess of $200,000 for breach of promise by Judge J. E. Gilbert here today. 4-POWERPACT TO BE KNOWN IN FEW DAYS Japs Approve Agreement, According to Reports. CHINA LEFT OUT WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The fourpower agreement to take the place of the Japanese alliance will bd announced to the world very shortly, according to authoritative quarters here today in touch with the negotiations of the “big three” which developed this understanding. It is understood preliminary reports have Ijcen received by the Japanese delegation here that the Tokio government has approved this agreement between the United States, Great Britain and France on the Pacific and the Far East. There is also strong reason to believe the Japanese government has decided to accept the 5-5-3 plan of the Hughes proposal for limitation of naval armament, along with the four-power agreement. A final reply to Baron Kato’s cable to the Tokio government Friday Dight is expected here any moment if It has not already bscn received. SUPPLANTS JAP ALLIANCE. The quadruple entente as a substitute for the Anglo-Japanese alliance will provide for "mutual discussion—mutual avoidance of difficulties," Britain's spokesman said. Some form of arbitration of disputes or provision for “breathing spells” before any hostilities in the Pacific could bo undertaken would be Its underlying principle. he indicated. While this is not definitely known, it is understood in some quarters that the agreement actually has been completed in writing and the only thing now necessary to be done is for the four great powers to affix their signatures. The British spokesman made it clear that the new entente would have termination of the Anglo-Japanese alliance as its self evident corollary and would provide for limitation of fortification on the point nearest Japan; for instance, Guam. CHINA NOT INVOLVED. China will not be Involved. The arrangements agreed upon by the “big three” last Friday and now awaiting approval from Tokio deals with the Facclfic Ocean rather than China proper. Nor will these arrangements involve guarantees of the powers “to etch other,” he said, though guarantees for Japan are afforded by the proposal for removing the menace of naval bases in the Pacific. Mutual avoiding of difficulties rather than “guarantees" is invilved. This is apparently to make objections which might arise in the American Senate should binding guarantees be undertaken.

Bootleggers’ Protection Rates in Muncie Varied From $lO to $82.50 Week

All but ten of the more than forty residents of Muncie indicted by the Federal grand jury last spring for alleged conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws, decided they were guilty between the time they were arrested and calling of the case for trial before Judge Albert B. Anderson today. Asa result the majority of the defendants will be used as Government witnesses before the case goes to the Jury. Although only a few witnesses were examined at tlie morning session the testimony was to the effect that a grand conspiracy for liquor law violations existed at, Muncie and in which bootleggers, blind tiger operators, constables, a justice of the peace, policemen, the prosecutor and possibly the city Judge are mentioned. The usual rate paid for protection was .$lO a week for the little fellows and this amount increased to as high as $82.50 a week in the Instance of one of the larger places. BROUGHT FROM JAIL TO GIVE TESTIMONY. The first witness 1 1 take the stand was James Mabrey, who was brought here from Newcastle where he was in Jail to answer to a State charge. He testified that in 1918 be was operating a liqnor establishment and du-ing this time he not only paid $lO a week for protection, but also collected money from a number of

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YEGGS CRACK SAFE, ESCAPE WITH $1,325 IN CASH AND BONDS -- \ Enter North Station Street Dry Goods Store Via Coal Chute and Use Drill on Strong Box . LEAVE MERCHANDISE UNDISTURBED Yeggmen early today entered the Cohen Bros, dry goods store, 2501 North Station street, forced open a small safe and escaped with $1,175 cash, three Liberty bonds totaling $l5O, a $3 money order and two checks for small amounts. A drill was used to open the safe. The burglars evidently had their work well planned and knew the situation at the store. The members of the firm are David Cohen and A. Cohen. David Cohen discovered the robbery when he reached the store at 7:30 a. m.

NEUTRALITY OF CHINA WILL BE RESPECTED Eight Powers Agree to Principle Asked by Republic. PARLEY RESUMED By GEORGE R. HOLMES. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The eight powers represented in the Washington conference today pledged themselves to respect China's neutrality in future wars. A resolution to this effect was unanimously adopted at today’s secret meeting of the Far East committee. The neutrality issue was one upon which China insisted in the "ten principles” presented t£> the conference several weeks ago. DELEGATES GET BUSY AGAIN. The Washington conference resumed its secret labors with the question of an “entente” or an “agreement between the principal powers Involved uppermost in the minds of the delegates. Rumors and reports of alliances and ententes and agreements have multiplied in Washington during the three-day recess, due iu large measure to the puzzling silence that Is being maintained by American officials over the proposals that are known to have been made In British and Japanese quarters. PROGRESS IS KEPT SECRET. What actually is going on behind the scenes of the conference in the way of Pacific and Far East agreement, remains a mystery which America's spokesmen decline to clear up. One member of the American delegation informed your correspondent positively that there would be no agreement come out of the conference which by any stretch of interpretation could be looked upon as an alliance or entente, between the United States, Great Britain, Japan. France or Italy. He admitted, however, that the question of a "gentlemen's agreement” or “understanding'' was another matter. Another member of the American delegation, in a position to speak authoritatively, contented himself with saying that nothing he had seen in print bearing on the reported entente ‘‘had any foundation in fact whatsoever." It was denied that there had been anything of a formal nature laid before the governments concerned. The conference resumed its sittings behind the closed doors of the Pan-Amer-ican building with a disconcerting situation prevailing in the Chinese delegation. During the three-day recess just ended, four of the high advisers to the Chinese delegation have resigned in protest (Continued on Page Six.)

others, which he turned over to Dr, Xene Y. Smith, a defendant In the case, who is now serving a term in prison for manslaughter. I>r. Smith, so the witness said, came to him and gave him a list of liquor dealers from whom he was to collect. “Tell them,” the witness said were Dr. Smith’s instructions, ’that they will be protected In anything they do if they don't kill nobody.” SAID MONEY WENT TO THE “HIGHER UFS.” j Mabrey said Smith told him the money ! went to “higher ups.” He also said the money, so far as he knew, was divided as follows: $5 to James Black and Adkins Knuckles, constables out of .the j co'urt of Justice >f the Peace Timothy ' Owens, and the balance to Dr. Smith. Black and Knuckles have pleaded guilty, j Ben Churchman negrb, now of Kokomo, I formerly a blind tiger operator at Munj eie, gave testimony similar to Mabrey’s, but more extensive. He dragged in the names of William Robertson, and of City I Judge “Red McClelland” as well as the others mentioned by Mabrey. “There were so many people grafting,” he said, “that we didn’t know whether or not we were getting protection A man would come a •ound and want money for one thiu'g, then somebody' would come and say he had to have money for Red McClelland, and that Is the way it went.” He also said an arrangement existed j by which the constables tipped off liquor ' raids to be made by the sheriff of DelaI ware County, who was “on the square.” Ora V. Pogue, a private detective employed by the dry forces, was in on the graft. Churchman testified. He said on occasions Pogue had “borrowed” money from him, and that all the police drank at his place of business and never paid [ for the drinks. , HE FINALLY GOT OUT OF BUSINESS. “Finally I got out of business,” he said, “after Red McClelland called me on the telephone and told me to come to his office. When I went there he said that he was not getting enough money out of my place and he wanted to get Ame out (Continued on Page Six.)y

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The burglars entered the store by way of a coal chute on the Twenty-Fifth street side. Reaching the basement, they went to the first floor of the building. The door at the top of the cellar stairway is doubled barred, but this was ‘■jimmied.” The building occupied by the store is anew two-story brick. The office where the safe was located is on the first door In the rear of the store. It is believed the outside door of the safe had been left unlocked. The Inside door, however, was locked. It was this door that was forced by the yeggmen. The money was in a strong box on the Inside of the safe. After securing the money the burglars left the safe door open, and the drill lying in front of the safe. They left the store by way of the rear door on the Station street side and this door was left open. No merchandise was stolen or disturbed. SO. BEND POLICE CHIEF RESENTS LAXITY CHARGE Says Remarks of Federal Judge Anderson ‘Unjust* and ‘Unwarranted.’ Ppecial to The Times. SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Dee. 7.—Branding the verbal charges of Judge A. B. Anderson in Federal Court at Indianapolis Tuesday as “unwarranted” and “unjust,” Chief of Police Peter B. Kline, supported by Mayor Frankiyn K. Carson, attempted today to clear himself of the charge of laxity here in enforcement of the liq'uor laws. Kline directed attention to the 125 liquor law violation charges “buried” on city court dockets as proof of his attempt to stop the flow of whisky here. Judge Anderson, in his criticism ot State officials failing to enforce prohibition expressed surprise at the failure of a Federal indictment against the “South Bend police chief.” Kline to the contrary takes credit for bringing before Judge Anderson a number of bootleggers who during the last week, have been found guilty and sentenced to prison by the jurist.

‘GO BETWEEN’ TO RECITE STORY Witness Expected to Tell of Burch-Obenchain Love Affair. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 7.—m and worried, Madalynne Obenchain waited at the county jail for news of what her friend, Louise Wilson, would tell on the witness stand at the murder trial of Arthur C. Burch. Mrs. Wilson was to tell of the love affair between Madalynne and John Belton Kennedy, the man Burch and Madalynne stand accused of slaying. Mrs. Wilson was expected to tell the whole story of the romance. She is qualified to testify as to the exact relations between the two principals in the love affair, according to the State, for she was the “go between.” When Kennedy’s parents began to Interfere seriously with the couple's plans, Mrs. Wilson is said to have taken over the task of arranging meetings, carrying notes and messages and In every way helping the lovers. She has a beauty parlor in a local office building and it was there, according to the State, that many meetings were arranged. Cory Resident Bound, Slashed and Robbed TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Dec. 7.—Bound, gagged and left for dead with his throat slashed by highwaymen, Henry Steuerwald today has a chance of recovery. Steuerwald was en route from his home at Cory, Ind., to rr erre Haute when he was attacked by bandits who robbed him and fled in his automobile.

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