Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fair aud colder tonight and Sunday

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HpZEN EX-SOLDIERS W ACCUSE MAJOR OPIE | OF MURDERING TWO ■enators Plan to Widen Scope of Investiu gation as Watson Evidence Continues to Pile Up. VIRGINIAN TELLS OF ONE KILLING WASHINGTON*. Dec. 31.—Many Senators were prepared today to increase the scope of the senatorial investigation into charges of murder and cruelty to American doughboys while in France, if Senator Watson can prove that Major M. L. Opie, Staunton, Va., killed two of his soldiers. "The accusing fingers of a dozen doughboys point to Major Opie as the murderer of two of his men in action in France,” Watson declared. Senators were thoroughly aroused as charges from war veterans against Opie continued to pour in to Watson, whose sensational accusations are under investigation.

PROOF Wit.l. MEAN SWEEPING IN \ F.STIG \TION. If the ' barges against Opie are borne out by the testimony. Senators declared, a sweeping inquiry into rb" charges that c-wards and mentally deranged soldiers were shot down in action by their of-ti'-ers, made on the floor of the Hou-c b> Representative Royal Johnson. South Dakota, should be started immediately. The latest accuser of Opie is Charles Fox of Richmond, Va., who declared be saw the former A. E. F. major kill a runner ia the Argonne driv.-. Watson has asked the committee to ••all Fox to testify when the investlgai ion is resumed Wednesday. Opie has denied the charges against hitn and declares he can vindicate him self. Senator Eracdegec. chairman of the • ommitiee. has indicated that <'pie will be called and given .veiy opportunity to do so. In bis telegram Fox named not her maD. "i-ergt. Charles Kane of New Jersey," as a witness to the killing of the runner by Opie. An effort will b" made to locate Kane and ever-.- other man who says h has knowledge of the charger, against tb officer, members of th>* committee - <i*l. ONLY HALF BLOCK AWAY AT TIME. "I w,sh to state." said Foi "ib.it t was standing within half a block of Major Opie was standing io the Argonne forest north of Verdun when I saw a private, ona of the liasor men. approach Major Opie and deliver a lues sage. This was in the drive which started Oct. S, and ws either Oct. s •*r 9. I am not positive of the date "The private turned to leave and Major Opie drew his automatic from his holster and shot the man in the back. The man fell dead. Two other men standing near m>* saw the killing." The charge that Opi killed two of 1. - men in action was originally made be fore the committee by Henry 1.. Scott of Akron, Ohio. Eleven other <x-service men who declare their willingness to testify to the truth of these charge,. Senator Watson said, have been added to the list. May Attend Irish World Conference James E. Decry, national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, has r- • eived an invitation to attend a world congress of representatives of the Irish race in Faris during the week or Jan. 21 To 2S. Mr. Deery, however, was obliged to decline the invitation. Sixty-seven delegates from the Fnited States will leave New York next Tuesday for the conference. COURT THROWS OUT ACTION TO PREVENT PLAZA Judge Moll Dismisses Mandamus Proceeding of Miller. Judge T. J. Moll of Superior Court, room 5, today dismissed tho mandamus action brought by \V. G. Miller, asking that the plaza bond Issue of $1,000,000 be submitted to a referendum for approval or rejection. The court threw the suit out op <* <• petition of Samuel Ashby, corpora;:..counsel; Thomas D. Stevenson, city ; - torney, and William H. Thompson attorneys representing the city of Indianapolis. The ciiy already has sold the bonds, which are to be used in acquiring the north block of the plaza site. Mr. Miller was among the most active opponents of the plaza scheme and circulated a remonstrance against authorization of the bond Issue. Following the court’s ruling. \V. Byron Waddell, an attorney, declared an appeal would be taken and thirty days was allowed in which to file a bill of excepi ions. Mr. Miller was not in court. After Corporation Counsel Sam’nel Ashby was informed bidders upon the plaza bond issue would consummate the purchase late today the board of public works this afternoon meet the fourteen property owners in the block which the eity intends to buy foe plaza purposes. The board expected to sign contracts for the delivery of deeds with each of the owners before the end of th* day. To do this the board is remaining in adjourned session from yesterday noon until midnight tonight. The bidders on the bond issue are the Indiana Trust Company and the National city Company of New York. They were awarded the Issue by City Controller Robert 1!. Bryson and since that, time the legal firm of Smith. Itemster, Hornbrook v Smith have been investigating the legality of the bonds. Mr. Ashby was told they would finally approve the issue and the bidders are prepared to place the money for the bonds in the bands of City Treasurer Ralph l.emeke and receive The bonds at once, it is understood.

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U. S. RAILWAY BOARDOFFICER SENSES PEACE Sees Good Relations Between Roads and Employes. CHICAGO. Dec. 31 -Industrial peace will prevail ou the railroads of the country in 11*22, Ben \V. Hoop er. vice president of the fnited States railway labor board, predicted in an interview today. "The future trend of economic events i- .i uncertain that any prediction max se. m rash." said Mr Hooper ■ Y"t 1 hazard the opinion that th. coming year wiil be marked by uninterrupted good rela ions between the railroads* and their employes.” II op-r san.l his optimism was based upon three factors: 1 There hasn't been a serious Interrupfion >.f traffic in iw>> years, .-bowing that a large degree of mod • ration and good sense prevails on tioth sides. IT The people h.iv- been educated to a luor ■ enlighten.-I understanding of t o pr bierns before Th- lal or board, and the board f**els that the public is tij.-W of it. 3 The board is determined to use 'extraordinary exertions." in reaching just and reasonable decisions of the disputes submitted lo it. IMTUKT \NT QUESTION'S TO BE DETERMINED. Hooper said in masting his optimistic prediction that he would not have It thought that the hole ill the doughnut is not just as visii.lt, to him. a- be <*xl.r —eu it, as the "encircling c-ttiess ’ of the doughnut itself. "It is quite plausible for a pessimistic spirit to visualize in ibis situation th* portent of approaching evil," lie said. "Many sharply contested questions <>j great importance, affecting the carriers and the men, v.i.l be presented to the board during the coming year. "Either the railroads and their employes will at quiesce in the decisions of the board and give the efficient and uninterrupted transportation which both parties owe to th- American public or one or both of them will undertake to evade or over-ride the board, and in so doing destroy the continuity of a public service indispensable to the common welfare. "It is possib’e that the treatment of this situation by the roads and the employes may be unfavorably influenced by the fact that a heated congressional election will be in progress.” Airs. Simmons Tells Story at Inquest Mrs. Florence Simmon*, who shot and killed her husband, James Ewing Simmons, Dec. 28, went before Coroner I’aul F. Robinson today and made a voluntary statement concerning tlie shooting. The statement, according t a the coroner, was identical with the one she made to the police. Afterward Mrs. Simmons was taken back to the county jail. MILL HE KEEP PROMISE? NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—“1f I had a million dollar- I would heln the poor,” Morris Jacobs odd his friends. Now he has inheriteu 53.000,000 and he says he is going to help them five times as much as he had planned.

4 not her Accident Claim , Fourth in 10 Days . Paid by Times Another claim, the fourth to lie paid within a period of ten days under the terms of tlie Daily Times’ travel accident insurance policies, was settled today when Ernest K. Hampton, 1435 North < upito| avenue, received a cheek f..r $11.43. The payment was made for disability of .1 little more than a week following tin automobile accident in xvbieh Hampton was injured. Owing to weather conditions of this season of the year automobile and other vehicle accidents are more liable to occur than tn warmer weather. Even when the streets are not made more dan gerous ly ice, the presence of view-obscuring side curtains makes driving more or less dangerous. < olliriuns 'at corners are not an uncommon occurrence, and every man or woman who drives an all tomoblie or rides in one. should be protected from accidental injury or death with a Daily Times travel accident policy. The Daily Times policy pays, subject to its terms, 51,0<(d for accidental death while riding on a train, street car or other public conveyance as a fare-paying passenger or while riding in an automobile of your own or in that of a friend. For injuries which disable the polii y holder the com pany pays 510 a week, not to ex <i thirteen weeks, -during the time of disability. Every sijns.ril.er of the Dally limes io cnlilied to this insurance, and tuny obtain a policy by calling at the Daily Times office <>r hy telephone notification. Tho.-.- who are not taking tin* Daily Times may arrange lo have the paper tie Jivercd and a policy issued by telephoning Main 35tX.

M’CKAY ASKS QUIZ ON COST OF ROAD WORK Demands an Airing of New Highway Specifications. BETTER QUALITY Seeks to Make Indiana Pavements to Stand Wear. Governor Warren T. McCray has j asked the State highway commission lo look into the contention of the ! Indiana Paving Brick Manufacturers’ ! Association that, the new highway i specifications will increase rather ithan reduce the cost of brick roads j and to report all the facts to him. i The commission will meet Monday I and, while the discussion of specitica ■ tions was not (he purpose for calling j the meeting, the matter probably will j be takeji up at that time. | The Governor reiterated his former j statements that, his sole object in a-K iug for a change in specifications was { to tiring the quality of concrete and brick , read nearer together and to permit fair ' competition between the two types of roads. He said he was convinced that I when th" specifications were mad** they | accomplished this purpose and he is nut j yet convinced they do not. He displayed a number of letters from btilk inunni faeturers approving th" new speeiflea- ; tions. sl'Et It It \ I IDNs W OFI.D INC I; KX s 1 los | . I Robert It McKinley, s.-. T.-ta- of the Indiana Paving Brick Manut icuiters' A- ; sociution. contends that th" price pci mile of brick roads will be slightly increased because us the new specific* ! ioji ~. ri ' r • I:an red ' ' 1 V ' t - : time Lawrence Lyons, director of the , highway commission, has made the state trout that the 0"w brick sp<-< -ill • aliens wail reduce the cost "t bri'k pad; ap proximateiy ss,Om> a mil" .'cording to Mr. McKinley. ; to- new concrete base lor brick roads, because of I i's additional thickness will cost St "'> a ! square yard Instead of S5 cents a squ.tr> card as under Id specifications. II" ; s:ibl the sand cushion provided in the specifications will cost 13 cents a square t '...rd as compared with j cents under tin* ; old specifications; that the asphalt tiller will cost 32 cents compared wi’h to cent, for concrete as war provided; that the brick will cost 51.37 compared with $t.A i: laying brick on a solid bn so will cost 7 ! e-nts compart'd w ith 12 cents; that rolling the solid base will cost 2 cents coin | pared with H <-eni<; that -hauling would cost ju cents compared with 13 cents This would make ;l total or #2 !j as compared with $2 S3 under the old specific.* tions. This would mak- an extra cost of .Sl.tttki a mile for an eighteen foot pave Ulelll. COMMISSION DOt BTS ASSOCIATION FIG CUES. At the highway commission office there was a tendency to doubt the accuracy of these estimates. It was pointed out that the brick under the old sijeeiflentions ; must have wire lugs, while under the new speeifi a tions the bricks are not required to have lugs. Ir is pointc 1 out at the commissioner’s office that this will great ly reduce the cost of the I.ricks and add • provision that the bricks are to be laid on their sides instead of vertically. JUDGE OF CITY COURT RESIGNS FOR SUCCESSOR Pritchard Vacates Position to Forestall Action by Hartman. i Judge Walter Pritchard of the city 'court today presented his resignation to j Major Charles Jewett to take effect at ;12 o’clock noon and the resignation was I accepted. ; Delbert O. Wilmoth, judge-elect of the city court, who was appointed by the mayor lo fill the unexplred term of Judge Pritchard, was.sworn In by Judge Solon : Carter of Superior Court at noon. The ceremony was witnessed by only a few i persons. The resignation of Judge Pritchard and | the appointment of Judge Wilmeth, ac- | cording to attorneys, is evidently to forestall any legal aetiin that might lie taken 1 by attorneys of Herbert Hartman, who was nominated ns a candidate for the jplace on the Republican ticket at the primary election last May and who was | put off the ticket, by court action after a large amount of stolen loot was found ■ in tils home, following the confession of Frank Francis, burglar, who is now under prison sentence in Louisville. I The attorneys point to the taw in the case o’ a judge of city court re 'signing, as follows: i "In case of a vacancy in the office of .city Judge, the mayor shall appoint a ; successor who shall hold such office dttr ' ing the unexplred term.” : Tho law further states: "The eity judge shall be elected by legal voters of such city at the time and in such manner as the other eily officials are elected for : tlie term of four years, and until hi I successor is elected and qualified.” On Monday Judge Wilmeth again will bo sworn in as Judge of tin* city court by Judge Arthur Robinson, of Superior l Court. Wilmeth Suspends Fine in First ( use to Come Before Him "IV* will both start tlie new year right,” Delbert O. Wilmeth, sitting as judge In city court, today, told Neal Alexander, wlio gave Ids address as 430 B est Thirtieth street, as be suspended a line of St and costs lie bad just given Alcxanl <ler on a ptea of guilty to a charge of j drunkenness. Alexander was found asleep in tlie giitI trr at Wes.t- and IV ashington streets by I Patrolman Hillman. It was Judge \\ it moth's first case, following his appointment to tlie office.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1921.

New Year’s Greeting TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA:

The Old Year with its trials and disappointments, its joys and sorrows, its successes aud failures will soon bo passed and the New Year full of bouyant hope aud expectancy will be ushered in. 4TT Let us all make the most of the experiences of the year just ending anti apply the lessons taught to the problems of the future in such way as to make their solution easy and satisfactory. gtt I trust that the New Year will witness tlie steady dc- \|| velopmont of the many important State activities that will indicate enlightened and rational progress. The road building program, the erection of additional capacity for the proper care of the epilepti: and the insane, the locating and building of the new reformatory, th** survey of our educational system are all big questions which must be met ami solved in an intelligent and economical w a y * # * ||T Indiana has won her enviable position of honor aud trust among tho States of the Union by her sensible aud practical common-sense way of doing the things that are to bo done and I trust that the record made during th* coming year will confirm our reputation for sober, intelligent and honorable performance of duty. With the birth of the Now Year so laden with respom i >l] hilitios. yet so full of promise, I wish to express to the people of Indiana in> heartiest greetings and best wishes for a year abounding in good deeds, good health, abundant prosperity and all other things that contribute to the happiness and contentment of our citizens. ■>,' Z~ y. ' - T/Ct t ■ rj--s • <* e• , - /y

Assassin Used Bare Hands in Ending Life of Local Chinese Laundryman, Claim

I All Oriental mystery rivaling soma oft | the weird stories of fiction fared the po* | lice today !;i Hie death of Pang Sal Hue, j in t hlnese laundryman, whose body was! I found In his laundry at 2l' West Maryland streeP The mystery deepened when I'r. George K. Christ inn reported after an autopsy that the man bad been killed by an nsinilnnt who used his bare hands. ; The Chinaman undoubtedly m.-t death by strangulation. Dr. I'liristb.n de. laretl, i rather than from the effects of a blow! ,on tho lead, as was the police theory. The doctor said Mood clots showed he! Iliad been hit on the head, tmt that the ; | blow had not been of sufficient violence 1 o kill him. ! Kobehry, according to the authorities, 'was the motive for the murder, j A loyal little white poodle (log stood guard by bis master's body and barked 1 [ and cried when I.leut. Philip Kile of ; the fire department forced the lock on ' the door > t the laundry, enter-si and ; ! found the Chinaman's body, j Dr Paul F. Robinson, coroner, said :lhe Chinaman had been dead at ’east

Child Spurns Father Who Left Family

** 1 '(1 rather go to ’fire’ than leave my papa and five with that man," Is the uncompromising attitude of little 11year old Mary Netech, whoso real name is Minnie Pel-arson, and who, along with Louis, her 15 year-old brother, has been traveling over the country with a cosmopolitan band of roving gypsies for tbe lasi nine years, in the controversy regarding possession of the children. By !o-r “papa” Mary means John Netech, rover. Roumanian, who has given her love and a home for till except iwo years of her life, and who kept her and her brother out of (lie poorbouse. “That man” is her lawful father, Tom Peterson, of Newark, N. J, According to stories told to attaches of Ihe juvenile court department, Peterson. who theu lived in Peoria, 111., ran away from tils wife and deserted the two children nine years ago. His wfi'n later remarried. Tho step father refused

“I'd rniher go to Tire’ than P-ave my i.apa and ll\e with that man,” la the mcoinprotnlslng attitude of little 11- f • car "Id Mary Netech, whoso real name ' > is Minnie Peterson, and who, along with I ...iii.--. h.-r 15 year-old brother, has been ® raiding over tin* country with a cos UK.;. ..titan band .*f roving gypsies for ' in 1 yarding I tin: children. SK* By li’-r ’’papa - ' Mary means John Netech. rover. Houtnanian, who has given tier aHEK ''iAlL' love home two years . >;' her life, and who kept her and her i'W V rther out of the poorbouse. “That f : inan” is tier lawful father. Torn Peter- : * Min. of Newark, N. J. % : A. s, According to stories told to attaches \U - —‘"fj'tjyff .I the Juvenile court department, Peter- >; *aj*T-’ji* -on. who then lived in Peoria, ill., ran .way trom Ills wife and deserted the f : J . [wo children nine years ago. IDs wi’V Jjtm a 1 *•* remarried. The step father refused j JHBt a JMm ** v ’ X * 1101 Minnie Peterson and her brother, Louis Peterson.

to keep the children and threatened to place them in the care of some charitable institution. II was to prevent, this, Netech says, that he took the children. He claims that he was legally given pos session of them through a court it. Akron. Ohio. The mother subsequently died in Arizona. Both of the children were taught to speak the Roumanian language. They say that they attended school tn Cleveland. Netech says. “Now that I have raised

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eight hours. Information obtained by , Sergt. Louis Johnson, who conducted the 1 police investigation, indicates Pang probably was murdered about 10:30 p m., Thursday. Pang bn! Hue was known as George Pang. ONLY I’KNMEft EEl") IN MONEY DRAW IK. An open money drawer .is empty >-x eept for two rolls of pennies. IVoo Kee, 28 South Illinois street, -aid I lang Goon, 142 North Delaware street, told him he had niado a number of visits to 1* tig’s laundry yesterday. He said th lights were hurtling In the office, but that Pang would not open the door. Kee ; went to the fire department house across the street from Pang’s and asked Lieu j tenant Kile to investigate The fireman forced the lock and found Pang's body on the floor in a rear room A blue shirt, upon wlib-h he evidently had been working. was grasped in one hat'd. Motor policemen M uddle and Reilly answered the first call to police headquarters. Sergeant Johnson, Detectives Glenn and (Continued on l’age Two.)

the children and they love me like a father, and I love them as son and daughter, Peterson comes and demands them. He didn't want them when they were kids. Ho wants them now that they are grown." Netech showed that he loved the children all through the time they were in the police station and juvenile court, offices. The little girl would burst Into tears at the slightest suggestion that she leave her “papa" (Netecbi to whose

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STARTS PROBE OF TELEPHONE RELATIONSHIP Groninger Demands Light on Union of Firms. ASKS FULL FACTS Questions Cover Almost Everything. An explanation of the relationship between the Indiana Bell Telephone Company and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is sought in an interrogation filed w ith the State public service commission today by Taylor E. Groninger, select ed to be corporation counsel under Mayor-Elect Satfniel Lewis Shank. Cqjnmissloner Glenn Van Aukeri, will In ir th" Bel I company pI"U fee au in crease in rates Jan. t Mr. Groninger hopes to learn bow much "f the local ‘ouipany's gro.-;.- receipts are turned over to the American Telephone x telegraph Company; whaamount of its stock is ntv tied by tie present company, and whether the In diun.apolis company pays any of the bills of th. other companies associated xvltli the parent company, according to the interrogation. The questions which he seeks to have answered by the officials of the company are; t. W ho complied the schedule-’ of rates shown in exhibit ”B ’ of petitioner’s ji-t; - : on. filed with the public service com-mi-stou of Indiana June 2*. ECU: ; \HIBIT U tONT\ t\ N PROPOSED KATES. 2. Who made the estimate for the rates set out in exhibit ’‘BY’ 3. What relation is there between the {x’itioncr and the American Telephone •and Telegraph Company: 1 v. hat amount of the petitioner " s(,,ck is owned by the American Telephone aud Telegraph < ’onipany ? Who own-, the Valance of t tjpetltloner’H stock : •5. Wb-it cut of the petitioner's gross lc "ipts is paid lo such American Telephone and Telegraph Pditpar:j ? 7 I lie percent.ig" inquired about m th" proceeding question fixed by written contract between the to>> companies': s If answer t> the proceeding question is in the affirmative petitioner 1s nskeq (( outlnued on Page Two.) FIRE CAPTAIN ( RASH VICTIM Driver of Truck Hits Pole (o Avoid Collision With Auto. W iih a choice between h'fting an automobile or pob- supporting trolley wires, • 'tin RUffcusteln. driver for I'lr*- I’oui pany No. e, today *c|<vted the pole, with lit.* result of t'apt. Thomas J. I'utosn of Company Vo j was Injured. Duncan was • .ken to the city hospital, where It was said his injuries were not serious. The lire truck was going cast in Six teenth street, responding to an alarm at 1(2.3 North Delaware street. Harry B Griff-, giving his address as 53ti l.emeke building, turned into Sixteenth street, running head-on toward the truck. Rugcnst.dii crashed Into th" pole and avoided hitting Griffe One wheel was torn from the truck and it was otherwise damaged. Other firemen riding on the truck were Herbert Wald, Ernest Fox and Ralph Biileter. The fire to which they were going was a small roof blaze. Griffe wks slated on a charge of improper driving anil for failing to stop tit the approach of a fire department vehicle.

hand she clung. Stic does not remember Peterson. The hoy knows his father. The children were located here through a letter which Netech sent to Peterson. Peterson came hack from Newark and will attempt to regain possession of I he children. MARY BKCOMES UKAJ, NOMAI). Mary lias every appearance of a nomad. Her complexion is a dark olive hue. Her eyes arc large, wistful brown. Yesterday they were reddened by weeping. She wore a pair of women's shoes, run over at the heels. Her coat was "slightly large." Her neatly coiled l rown hair was partially hidden by a carmen tam-o'-shanter which sat awry atop her head. Her face was grimy with the dirt and smoke of days in a gypsy camp | When she and the other figures In the case were taken to the offices of the juvenile court Mary was "scared they would put her in jail.” Miss Ruth ltisinger, 1414 North Alabama street, who is an attache of the juvenile department, soothed the child and washed some of the smoky dirt from her face and hands. Mary graciously thanked Miss ltisinger, making the remark, “Gee. but it feels good to be clean. Sometimes when 1 take my gum out. of my mouth and my bauds are real dirty, ray brother Louis says, ‘l'll give you a dime If you wash those dirty hands.' She said she did not wash much in camp. but. that two "put-anear-American” girls with the band occasionally bathed her. She ascribed her disheveled condition j to the fact that she “didn't have time I to dross" before coming with Police Offi- I cers Hague and Heller, who made the j Investigation. Mary took a fancy to the! officers. Regardless of what Mayor-elect i Samuel Lewis Shank does to these men, she graced them with ttio title of “Cap.” LIKES LIFE OF GYPSIES. When the officers went to Keystone avenue and Twenty-Fifth street, where the gypsies were encamped in a wood, Mary hid behind her brother, Louis, So that they would not see her. She emphatically ! declares that she likes a nomadic life and Fords. She says she travels in the' latter. When told (hat she might have to spend the night in a house tflie detention home* she nearly cried and declared I hat it made lmr sick to sleep In a house i because there was not enough air. The children spent last night in the j detention home. The case to decide who | will get the children will be tried before j Judge Frank J. Labr in Juvenile court' today.

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FIREBUGS CONFESS JOBS CAUSING LOSS NEAR HALF MILLION :] Youthful Trio Admits Complicity in Rialto and Liberty Building Fires in Additional Statement. WAIVE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS The fires in the Liberty building, Maryland street and Kentucky ava nue, and in the Rialto building, 22 North Pennsylvania street, which occurred almost simultaneously, were set by the three firebugs under arrest at police headquarters, according to additional confessions made today by Donald Sample. 20, GOG Hamilton avenue, and Harry Wilsou, 21, 510 North Beville avenue. The other member of the trio is William Miller, IS, 331 North Beville avenue. . The loss ;n the Liberty building fire, was estimated at $75,000 and In the Rialto building at $150,000. This brings the property damaged to which the prisoners confess up to approximately $450,000. WILSON FIRES LIBERTY BUILDING. According to the confessions, Wilson told the other two he set fire to the Liberty building. The thr e appeared in eity court and waived preliminary examinations on the charges of arson. They were bound over to the Marion county grand jury under bonds of $15,000 each.

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Front Top to Bottom —Harry U Ilson, William Miller, Donald Sample. Fires which caused damage amounting to approximately 5450.000 were set by Harry Wilson. William Miller and Donald Sample, according to confessions they have made to detectives. The tires include those in the Liberty and tlie Rialto Buildings, which occurred almost simultaneously; the Brannum-Keen Lumber yard, the Broad Ripple lumber yards, and numerous smaller blazes. The youths are being held for grand jury investigation under 515,000 bonds each. 90-CENT GAS TO STAY FOR TIME Citizens of Indianapolis will continue to pay 00 eents for every thousand feet of gas they use until the further order of the public service commission. Commissioner Glen Van Aukeu said today. When the company was granted an increase of from 00 cents to 00 cents a thousand cubic feet of gas tlie order said "to be effective until Dee. 31, or until the further order of the commission.” An investigation into tlie earnings and expenses of the company will he made by the commission early in the new year, Mr. Van At ken said. 23 Die in Ship Crash STOCKHOLM. Dee. 31.—Twenty-three were drowned when the Ksthontar. ship Sarema sank after colliding with the Soviet ice breaker Vinga, off the Finnish coast today. The vessels crashed without warning and the Sarema went to the bottom before passengers could reach the life boats.

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j Other tire> to which they ha'e confessed follow: ' Br iucum-Keene Lumber Company, Dec. 12, loss 5150.000. Broad Ripple Lumber Company, July 1(5, loss 550.000. Home Lumber Company, July 12, loss 55.400. Capitol Lumber Company yard at Tenth street aud the Bett railroad, Oct. 17, loss small. Capitol Lumber Company yard at For-ty-Ninth street and the Morion railroad, loss small. Michigan Lumber Company, Sept. 22, loss 513,852. I.auric Building, at out a month ajo, atteui] ted explosion from escaping gas, no loss. Circle Building. Nor. 4, small loss. Garage in 1800 block ou Broadway date uncertain, garage and automobile destroyed. Argyle apartments, North aud East streets, several months ago. loss small. ALSO CONFESS ROBBERIES. The young men also are said to hare ' confessed to committing robberies in the Knights of Pythias Building, the Board ! of Trade Building, the State Life Building. the l.emeke Building, the Indiana Trust Building, the Kahn Building and the Hume Mansur Building. Some of th<- tires, according to the confessions, were set merely for the excitement. This, the confessions stated, is true of all the lumber yard tires. Tb® downtown fires, according to the confessions. were set In order to attract persons away from their offices so robberies could be committed. This was explained in detail by Wilson, who at first refused to admit any connection with the tires or with the other two prisoners, but who iuter confessed. ONE MEMBER WEAKENS. According to the confessions, the threo youths agreed to set fire to the Bran-cura-Keene lumber yard, but, when tho time catne. Miller refused to do his part. The three then lert the yard, according to the confession, and Wilsou and sjamplts returned later. The confessions say Wilson placed a lighted candle on a pile of lumber and that tie and Sample then left, Jointug Miller outside. They walked some dlsi tance anil then saw the blaze of the burning lumber piles. They returned to the yard and stayed until the fire wu i under control, the statements say. . W ilson. according to Miller, suggested to him that they start a fire in tbe Circle building. Nov. 1, vi:l> robbery as a motive. Wilson said he stole a purse from the Ivahn building before the Circle building fire, then went to the third floor of the Circle building, placed the pocketbook on the floor, piled some cardboard around it and placed a lighted caudle tn the midst of the pile. He confessed he then committed other small robberies. In the Laurie building a number of gas ! jets were turned on and a lighted candle ! tbeD was placed in the room. Wilsou is said to have admitted turning on tbe gas and placing the candle on the table. Miller and Sample told the police the thefts were committed under the leadership of Wilson. They say purses were stolen in most cases from downtown offices, that they were looted aud theu left lb the washrooms of office buildings. Most of them were left in a washroom of the Bankers’ Trust building and one was left in a washroom at the Federal i building. GIRL REPUTES SUICIDE PLAN Poisoning of Pretty Showgirl Proves Mystery—Tried to End Life. CHICAGO. Dec. 31.—Mystery today surrounds the circumstances under which Miss Mary T.ygo, pretty showgirl, came to be in Columbus Hospital suffering from’ an overdose of veronal. Miss Lygo denied she attempted suicide. i.ast spring Miss Lygo attempted sui eide in a local hotel. It was reported at that time her act was prompted by a quarrel with Gordon C. Thorne, wealthy young Chicago society man. Mrs. Thorne subsequently divorced Thorne. According lo Miss Lygo, she and Thorne tre to be married soon. Mrs. Katnerine Thorne-Camp, mother of Thorne, denied her son iutends to wed the showgirl.