Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1921 — Page 7

SOUTH BEND MEN FAIL IN PLEA TO RECOVER BOOZE Admissions of Guilt Cause Judge Anderson to Order Whisky Destroyed. Attempts of Carl Zimmer, Eugene I>e:nbacher and John Xicholine, all of South Bend, to recover possession of 103 cases of whisky which were seized from them almost two years ago when they were arrested for violation of the Reed amendment prohibiting transportation of liquor into dry territory, failed utterly in Federal Court today. Their claim for the whisky was based entirely on a plea that the liquor had been illegally seized. However, when Frederick Van N'uys, I’nited States district attorney, stated that the three men had entered pleaa of guilty to charges of transportation and had served jail sentences for the offense. Judge Albert 15. Anderson quickly brought the proceedings to a halt. “What! Give this liquor back to these convicts!'’* he exclaimed. “Well, I should say not. I am going to enter an order for the marshal to destroy this Honor.” “I take an exception,” the attorney for the petitioners said. “Take all the exception you want.' Judge Anderson answered. Then turning to Floyd J. Mattiee. assistant district attorney. he said: "See that the marshal destroys this immediately.” So it looks very much as if the three South Benders will get nothing more than their exception, and. according to Federal Court officials, the alcoholic content of an exception is exceptionally low. During the hearing Mr. Matrice created considerable amusement when he said that originally there had been 131 cases of the whisky, but there had been a shrinkage of twenty-eight cases between the time it was seized by Sonth Betid police officials and the time it was taken over by Federal authorities. — MAN DISCHARGED AS GAME WARDEN IS UNDER ARREST Charged With Impersonating an Officer and Attempt Blackmail. When he attempted to collect a "fine" today from a man whom he discovered without a buntinr license. James Shafftall. XT, of 767 Pershing avenue, was arrested on a charge f blackmailing and impersonating an officer. Reagan Lewis, 2331 Broadway, was the intended victim. Lewis to!d the police h-> wore a hunting coat and carri.d a shot gun when he got on an interurbin car coining from Clayton to Indianapolis last night. He said he met Shafftall on the car and that Shafftall told him he was a game warden and demanded to see his license. When Lewis could not produce his license is said to hive told him to meet him at the Claypool Hotel today and pay iiim ?I*>. When Lewis epp-ared at rhe Claypool he was accompanied by detectives and the arrest was made. Shafftall insisted he wa> an officer. but when he was taken to the office of the fish and game service at the starehouse it was found he had he-n a game warden but that he had been discharged two years ago. DISCOVERER OF 1-LUNG PEANUT SUED FOR S2JWO Neic York Baseball Magnates Declare They Need Money. NEW YORK. Dec. 27.—The two colonels —Rnppert and Huston—owners of the Yankees, have just filed another suit in court here to recover $2,000 from flurry Stevens, Polo grounds caterer, inventor of the one-lung peanut, the hirn-wbat-am-not sandwich and the synthetic hot dawg. Filing of this suit is not news, because this is only the most recent time the colonels have come to the conclusion that Harry owes them $2,000 and that they need the dough. With rhe loss of Babe Ruth, Piercy and Meusel, the Yankee magnates are looking forward to some hard times, and these two thousand iron men look like forty thousand to them. The facts about these $2,000 suits Against the peanut artist are as obscure is a woman's age and nobody knows what they are all about. As near as can be learned, Harry made ■ n agreemen* with the two colonels away back in 19115, before the inquisition, under which Harry could peddle pop and peanuts at the Polo grounds. Out of bis meagre profits the two colonels were to receive $6,000. But somebody gummed up tlia works The best Harry could do. aa he claimed, was $4,000 a season. So he became desperate and invented a butter which he patented and which had the quality of vanishing the minute it was spread on bread. Harry explained that thus a hungry man never got any grease on his lingers, and if the roof fell from the sandwich the buttered side never fell on the floor, like buttered sides always do. Still faciug bankruptcy, Harry hit upon the idea of the doublejointed peanut with one end empty. You had one guess as to which end the nut was In. This was gainb’ing, and the police nnt a crimp in it right away. Harry sold his ham sandwiches for 10 cents—with ham, 15. Meantime, Harry was In a terrible mess with the colonels, who insisted upon their pound of flesh. Harry’s life was a riddle, and he envied his own hot dogs, who had solved this riddle on the griddle. Now, a lot of you probably attended the games of the world series here last fall, and you will bear us out in saying that Harry did his level best to economize. One day, when there was an unusually big crowd at the game, i tiooked for a while as if Harry would have to cut into a second loaf of bread for his sandwiches. But this was the last game here, and Harry was saved from ’ ruin. However, h managed to break even. Then the Yankee colonels came along and put in another bid .’or the jack that Harry owned them. A:id poor Harry hasn’t got it; that is, he hasn't got it to spare or rather, he hasn't got it to spare for the two colonels. By devious means Harry managed to scrape together SI,OOO, and this he paid to the two colonels. Harry says he will fight this latest suit to the limit, because he can't feed his hot dawgs if he Is forced to pay these two thousand bucks that he hasn’t got. Harry says he don’t like to be hounded, even if he Is a hot dog vender. Movies Will Reveal Telephone Progress Motion pMnres portraying the development of the telephone industry in Indianapolis, from its beginning to the present day. will be shown at a meeting of George Dewey Post No. 3. American Legion in tee Chamber of Connneree dining room tomorrow night. A special feature will be demonstration boards on which operators will show how telephone calls art he lulled. The demonstration will be give* hy the Indiana Bell Telephone •rayamy.

TRAFFIC POLICEWOMEN GUARDING PUPILS AT CROSSINGS

II p l jijjjj jjv p A? .v v' ■ || ‘ Ftjß 1 ij.XZ.V lilies lib 1K...10ns on submarine" anil Jetonrive j| It VASHINGTON AWAITS YORD FROM EUROPE WASIIINGTON, la BARNES, be Armament Conference are again tie- COMMANDING 1 V th i*- u,i r b> *r! attorneys. ;g delayed by foreign capitals while the Major, •*->ijWC > —— , , 1 ' Mtl.t: T< GET elegates in Washington cool their heels GIVING ORDERS to HER. - IM OIMIATIOX. waiting word from abroad which will ADJUTANT Major- ROSE LEAVT mayor, -rporation counsel and I

FRENCH STICK TO DEMAND FOR BIG SUB FLEET (Continued From rage One.) concessions on submarines and defensive i cruisers. WASHIXGTOX A WAIFS WORD FROM EUROPE WASHINGTON, Dec. ”7.—Decisions In . the Armament Conference are again t>eI lng delayed by foreign capitals while the ' delegates in Washington cool their heels ! awaiting word from abroad which will permit a resumption of activities. The fate of tie submarine, so far as the present conference goes, rest largely j with Carls and Tukio. I pon their In structions to titcir respective delegates i- ; Washington depends to a considerable degree whether the submarine con trov.-rsy v.ill c settled here within the not four weeks or whether ih-- whole controversial question will lie permitted to go over until another conference, to ; be held some years hence. MF.AMV lULE NOTHIN*. !> DONE. Meanwhile, developments are held-up j and activities suspended in Washington. It had ! .on intended to have a meeting I of the naval committee today, but the confer. . ... leaders reluctantly ordere<l a postponement niter it became apparent , that neither the French nor Japanese delegari. : s were in a position to give a fluai answer to the American compromise proposal advanced on Saturday. If both Paris au.i Tokio decree that the American figure of r.l.tmo tons of undersea cruft tbit acceptable, then It appeared entirely probable today that a formal proposition will he laid tiefore the conference to leave submarines In status .p;:<I and settle their ultimate fate at f , itur # * conferfn**^. If the replies from the rren'-h and Japanese governments do not have an air of fiminify about them, then It is more ; than lik*dy that "'diplomatic trading" will be resumed In Washington to fix the sub ■ marine strengths of the various powers ; along the lines already agreed upon In ' the matter of capital ships The suggestions for passing over the - submarines here and dealing vlth them . later are emanating entirely from foreign quarters. The American delegation is very reluctant to accept such a decision, believing that the limitation of auxiliary .-raft is part and parcel of the whole gen*-rous naval program whh-h this Government put forward on Nov. 12. Thr" is nothing rigid, however, about the American position and It was *aid ithat if the foreign delegations Insist on 'the submarine question going over this Government will bow lo the will of the j majority. American dislike for such a course, however. Is apparent. DELEGATES ARE EAGER TO GET HOME. 15-hind the suggestions for passing up | submarines in the present conference lies {the frank desire of the foreign visitors to go home as quickly as possible. The conference Is now in Its sixth week. Most of the delegates here have been absent, from their home posts for more than two I months, and unless there are some unlooked for quick decisions, the Washing- ; | ton conference cannot possibly end before the last of January, or even later. Ahead of the conference and yet to be disposed of are numerous questions relatj lng to China, including the two llg i questions of Shantung and the twentyone demands, and the whole question of i Siberia. THIEF ENTERS HOTEL ROOM. Eight, on dollars in cash were stolen from the pocket of J. 11. Sanders. 2314 ‘ Ashland avenue, shortly after midnight from his room in Die Oneida Hotel, uc cording to his report to the police today. See New Parley to Make Further Arms Iledu ction s WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—A second arms conference within the next decade to make greater cuts in the world's armament than will be agreed upon by the present parley now seems probable. Continuation of the work of the present conference' through other meetings already has been formally ; discussed by the delegates and is saiil i to have met with general approval. Limitation of land armament probably would be the outstanding question before the next conference. Battleship armament might in: cut further and should the present con- } ferenee fail to reaca agreements on submarines and auxiliary craft, these matters again could be brought up. One group would have another msetlng In ten years; another in six or seven. Hughes is reported as wanting it in six or seven years, so many revisions or replacements can he undertaken in good season. That a decision actually had occurred within the conference has become known during a further recess of live-power chairmen dealing with the perplexing topic—submarines. \ .

To meet the serious problem of protection for the school children on their way to and from school 2.200 women police reserves have been called <>ut In New York City They wear blue sup sand c.tlv r round felt hats or blue overseas -aps. They have been carefully trained and equipped both with authority a..d whistles. They arc on duty from S t > 9, 12 to 1 and 3 to 3 30.

FLOOD MENACE IN OHIO VALLEY ABOUT ENDED Water in Cellars Berms 10 Recede and Danger Is Believed Over. CINCINNTI. Dec. 27 The flood . rest in the Ohio Kivu at Cincinnati has be-u r-achid. The water* have h-gun to slowly r-ci i|.\ but it will be sun* days before flood.*! —-liars, basements and homes are again In condition f. r occupa tion. The stage early today had reached 55.!) feet but at that llgure the water became stationary and is u<>w falling. lu Newport and I'ovingi.-n residents in many instances were forced to abandon the first floors of their homes and move upstairs The Centra! I'nlon station has been abandoned temporarily, the last train to leave there being one at 2 a in. today All but one tr.e-k Into the station is under water. The Baltimore A- Ohio trains, both dlvisions, will ase the Cincinnati, Hamilton <V Payton depot at Fifth street and Bay miller. The Indiana division of the Big Fnu*. ineluding trains going through Indiana, will use Storres station, on the Seda marine street car lire. Cincinnati division of the Big Four, including trains for Dayton. Columbus and the north and trains of the Southern Hallway will use the Eighth street stn tlon. Two trains only were operated out of the main depot today Louisville A Nashville local, leaving at 7:05 a. m. and Chesapeake & Ohio local, leaving at 2:15 a. m., their tracks being above the water line. Canada Is Second Among Car Owners WINNIPEG, Man., Dec. 27 —Canada stands second to the United ,States ns the greatest automobile-owning nation In the world. The United States has 9.211,21)5 motor vehleles, or one to every eleven Inhabitants, acordlng to statistics, Canada has one to every twenty-one Inhabitants: New Zealand one to forty-one; Australia, one to sixtyfour; Cuba, one to ninety-four; British Isles, one to 110. I,lberia, with one to every 230,000 people, Is at the bottom of the list. Tiie figures show that S3 per rent of the world's antes and motor trucks are In the United States. South Dakota leads the Stales In proportion to population, with one to every five persons, while the farming States generally average one to every ten persons. Canada, like the United States, has a large percentage of automobiles on. farms. In eastern Canada there are more In the cities, but In the prairie provinces farmers own considerably more. There are prosperous regions along the Canadian National Railways where Si!) per cent of the farmers hav automobiles, and in many other districts at least 75 per cent of the farmers I own machines. Tractors and trucks are j now in common use on the farms throughout western Canada. HINES HEADS TWO SCHOOLS. L. N. Hines, former State superintendent of public instruction, will be in'nugurated president of the State Normal School at Terre Haute Jan. f5 and the Muncie school Jan. 13, it was announced today. Mr. Hines succeeded Dr. W. W. Parsons, who resigned. He is now acting bead of both institutions. LABORATORY IS BURNED. MENDOTA, Win., Dec. 27 Fire early today destroyed the laboratory building of the PajchlaetTfC Institute, causing an estimated loss of SIO.(X>O. Materials used In treating disabled soldiers composed a large part of the loss. FARMER CLAIMS BANKRUPTCY. Harry H. Bills, farmer living in Jay County, near Portland, tiled a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court today. He scheduled liabilities of $3, 607.35 and assets of

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1921.

/ N ! MacSwiney Says Debs Is Greatest Living American WASHINGTON. I>c 27. "You ar- 1 ti e greatest Uvil g Abler'; an • Peter Ma-Swim-y, brother of the firmer j ! lord mayor of Cork, told Eugene V. > i Debs here today. i, M'icSwiney called op Debs at his ‘ hotel here and pme-nted him with a I; photograph of his brother, the late Terence MaeSwiney, with aa Inscription on it. . “you are tiie greatest living AuierUun I and the working people of Ireland be- j l'.eve the same. ' ;\ ) j CHRISTMAS SEAL WIDELY USED Thousands Are Returning Checks This Week. To Christmas holiday was us.-d by hundreds of citlzetm of Indianapolis and the country as u time for sending In their i 11*21 donation* to the minus! Christmas ■ | Seal sale, according to reports given out ! at the sale headquarters today bv the Marlon County Tuheretilosls Association. ■ Thousands of citizen* returned checks or rash soy Christmas Seals to the tut-er * ulosis association today In the mails and Indications were that the after Christinas purchase* would continue to he heavy, according to May A Meyers, executive secretary of the local anti , l utier. ulosla assn j;Uon Information coming to the Tuberculosis Association indicates that the seal was used this year on Christmas mail and Christmas packages more widely than ever before in the county and that ( many thousands of the little holiday stickers are to be used on Now York's remembrances. Miss Meyers said that j thousands of citizens now holding their j allotments of the seals will send in rheeks or money for them this week and In that way avoid unnecessary expense for the association in following up those ! seals not accounted for. Coup de Grace by Girl Prelude to Own Death I PARIS, Doc. 28. Mile. Marie Chaussls fell In love with her music master, M. Paul Scrvnis. lie returned her affection, luit gave her up on the demand of Ills wife. Angered by the rebuff. Hie girl ; went to his studio at Bateau and shot him six times. Returning to her home, i she tld tier mother of her deed, and j the two women then went to the Kervais | home. Finding her victim still alive, , Mile. Chuussis shot him again, killing | him. Then she fled to tier own home | and shot herself through the heart. STEAL HOTEL TELEPHONE MONEY. I Two telephone eoin containers were ' “jimmied” from (lie walls of telephone i booths in the Clnypool Hotel, a report |to police headquarters said today. The i burglars got between $8 and $lO in j change. I r n Cancr Death Rate in United States Has Upward Trend WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.~The trend of the cancer death rate in Die United States is upward, according to figures made public today by the Census Bureau. It was situated that 73,000 deaths were due to cancer in the death registration area of the United States In 1820, and if the rest of the country had as many deaths from this cause in proportion to tlie population, the total number of deaths from cancer in the entire United States for li)20 would have been SO,OOO. The estimated deaths from cancer in 1010 were 84,000. X

CITY AWARDS PLAZA BONDS ON LOW BIDS (Continued From I'uge One.) and I. after several conferences, arrived at a decision to accept the bid of the In dlana Trust Company un i the Natioiiu! City Company of New York and award the war memorial bonds to them for the reason that their bid was definite and certain with specific directions as to what attorney to deliver the transcript to, and these wen- local attorneys, t N \ ItLK TO GET IN FORM VrtON. "The mayor, corporation counsel and I endeavored Friday and until lap’ Satur day night to get definite Information ato who and where their attorney* would | from the other bidder, without avail, j for the reason that inns much as It was j the desire to eoiiipb-te this transa- tlon ! during this administration. W<* coticlud ;-d as i matter of time It would be im I possible to -end the trans ript to foreign attorneys and give them - at!!- but time to I examine it, r port and * lose the matter ; up before the end of this administration. I "My etperieti e has been that wmoevei a traps -rip* was s-lit to foreign alter ,H"- . it has un-ent delay, in one case as j tna- !, . - >! v w e.-ks." Ill"* EXPECT!* *)l l< K V* I lON. ; 1 he city officials expect the sucetnsfu. > bidder to receive an opinion upon the Issue within the next two or three days un-l that the proceeds of tho sale will lie : forth oiulng to the city immediately thereafter. President Miller of the board "f works said he expects tic- valuat.ons of the fourteen pieces of property in the ; block bounded by Meridian, North, Michigan anil Pennsylvania street*, wlii li are to be bought with the •i omi *>, will be made public at the regular meeting of the board Weduesdai morning. The final step 111 acquiring the prop erty will l*> the payment of the money aiiowed cu h owner and receipt of deed* therefor. The officials expect to haw two or three days left late this week in which to complete the acquisition lief r<the end of Mr. Jewett's regime, which will bo next Monday nouu. All eyed Murd erer f Sent Up for Life , May Re Innocent MADISON Wls. Dec. 27. Martin 1/. licnibt-rger charged with killing 111* daughter Anne in 1911 for which crime ; John A. * Dogskin) Johnson is serving a life sentence was given a preliminary hearing today before Judge A. Hoppinan of the Superior Court. Thu hearing is to determine whether there is u flic lent evidence to bring ls>mlierger to trial before a Jury. The testiI uioiiv was devoted to establishing the background of the affair. Collins Releases Automobile Driver John Hill, charged with failing to atop his automobile after an accident, today was found not guilty In the Criminal Court and was discharged by Judge James A. Collins. Walter A. .Taylor, alias George W. Evans, charged with Issuing a fraudulent check, today appeared In court and the evidence wts concluded. The finding was taken under advisement. Judgment was withheld by Judge Coli lins In the case of Leonard Robert Ray, | charged with contributing to delinquency. | The case was venued from the juvenile court. soothmq and He&linq Aids Poor Complexions EfS For over 35 years the standard Era riff family cough medicine for clul- spj dren and grown persons. Led J "Actual experience taught me Jral JJS Foley’s Honey and Tar i9 ate p-j ora doubtedly the best cough rem Lvi Agj edy. It has been worth $50.00 f|Jj jjjP o bottle to me." Wn. Barnes, ||ja

CUSTODIAN IS AMBITIOUS TO GO HIGHER UP Courthouse Official to Have Shank Support tor Recorder. Benjamin Pierce, custodian of the Marion County courthouse, who is slated to be replaced when the county commissioners announce their New Year appointments, will boa candidate for county recorder and he can consider Samuel Lewis Shank as his friend, Mayorelect Shank announced today, after a conference with his brother, Carlin Shank, who is a candidate for renomination for county commissioner. Carlin Shauk has been talked of as a candidate for recorder instead of commissioner. it is understood that Mr. Pierce will have the support from (he Shauk city organization which otherwise would have gone to Carlin Shank had he been a cundidale for recorder against John Caster, present incumbent. BEGINS FIGHT TO FREE HOWAT Attorney Attacks Constitutionality of Industrial Court Law. TOPEKA. Kan., Doe. 27.—Habeas corpus application to free Alexander Howat, ousted insurgent Kansas president of the miners union and August Dorchey, his vice president, from jail at Columbus, Kan., was filed In Federal Court here today !>> I’hll Callery, attorney for th - district “rump” union. The petition alleges the Kansas Industrial Court law. under which Howat and |. ;ohv were sent to jail for six months for calling a strike, Is unconstitutional. The petition will result in a test in Federal Court of the Kansas laws, attorneys declared. I‘ollock is exported to hear argutnei ts in the case next week, llowat’s convictioc. on a charge of violating tin- law Is the elimax of a two-year tight against it. After he was sent to jns] his loyal followers In the Kansas mine fields struck as a protest. The strike culminated in the mines being mo lilted recently by women relatives of

niH ; EiIISISIM STORE Starting the Week with Great Price Reduction on Men’s Suits-—Rogers -Peet ! and other good Price Redaction ma keS sl2 and $i3.00 $55. S6O Values values, now $9.90 * $lO values, now TXQXAs $8.90 $8.50 values, now Iff H $6.50 values, ikv $4.90 Other Saits $35 and S4O Values $23.50

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May Succeed Dawes Brigadier General Herbert H. Lard, finance officer of the War Department, who, according to reports from Washington, is slated to become Federal budget director when Charles G. Dawes resigns. General Dawes will leave office on or before July 1. the strikers who formed an “amazon army” of .7,000 and drove men who had returned to work from the mines. State troops quelled the disturbance. Proposal to Reduce Jap Army One Half WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. —A sweeping proposal that the Japanese army be reduced by one-half will tie presen .ed to the Diet when It reconvenes in January by the Kokuninto (Nationalist; party, according to Foreign Office advices received by the Japanese delegation here today. American Envoy Goes to Cannes LONDON, Dec. 27. —American Ambassador George Harvey and his wife left here today for Cannes, where Harvey will sit at the meeting of the allied supreme council which opens Jan. and.

I. C. C. NOT ABLE TO HOLDUP SALE OFC.&E.LROAD Operation of Railway Line Depends on Finding of Anderson. No suit to prevent the receivers of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company from abandoning the road in Indiana can be filed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, Commissioner B. H. Meyer said in a letter to George W. Barnard of the public service comtnission today. It is beyond the authority of eitheT tlie local commission or the interstate commission to file the suit, Mr. Mayer said. In the event that no purchaser of the road was found by the State commission before the receivers were to sell the road at auction the local commission hoped to enjoin the receivers from abondoning the property or selling it. Commissioner Barnard is in Chicago today, where he will attempt to find another purchaser. Frank B. Alfred, president of the Pere Marquette railroad, refused the invitation of the local commission to purchase the road on the ground that it never made a return which covered the operatI ing expenses of the road. U. S. Asks Approval of Envoys to Berlin and Vienna Powers WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—1 t was stated officially here today that inquiries will go forward to Germany and Austria next week regarding the acceptability of proposed American diplomatic representatives to those countries. Upon the re- . turn of satisfactory replies, it was stated, 1 nominations for these two posts will be sent to the Senate by the President. It was stated also that no formal advances have yet been made to either of these countries for the promotior of closer commercial relation. Bandits Get §5,000 Worthof Diamonds j ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 27.—Three bandit* obtained $-',OOO worth of diamonds and S7OO in casli when they held-up Henry Holtz in Ids jewelry store here today. One of the highwaymen bound Holtz while the other two helped themselves.

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