Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1922 — Page 2

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MERIDIAN WILL BE WIDENED AS CITY ADVANCES Plan Commission Sees Big Business Growth South of Sixteenth. WARNING TO BUILDERS North Meridian street eventually must be widened to 120 feet and persons contemplating building in the rapidly growing business section south of Sixteenth street might well keep this in mind. Members of the city plan commission expressed this unanimous opinion informally in a discussion at a special meeting yesterday. The commission formally went on record as opposing the subdivision of plats into lots of less than forty feet width. The commission was told that an apartment building, for which excavation has been started in Meridian street near .Sixteenth street, is to be built to within five; feet of the sidewalk. This provoked the discussion, which resulted in every memher present expressing the belief that the street will be practically doubled in width aDd the property owner who builds close to the property line will have to remodel his building eventually. J. Clyde Hoffman, attorney for the commission, was instructed to confer with the owners of the apartment under erection in an effort to get them to build a reasonable distance tack. COMMISSION'S FINANCIAL STANDING. Mr. Hoffman also was instructed" to look into legal phases of the commission's financial standing. The commission has an appropriation of $24,000 available for Its work this year. There is not enough money left in the city treasury to meet any of the commission's bills, however. Members thought that this would be taken care of when City Controller Jo- j seph L. Hogue gets the temporary loan , of $500,000 for the general fund au- i thorlzed by the city council Wednesday evening. Mr. Hoffman questioned this, j saying that as one of the framers of the city plan law he had tried to prevent i the commission from becoming a depart- i ment of the civil city and make it rather a separate department. If the ; commission is a separate department it will be necessary for it to have a separate temporary loan of enough to run It until June taxes come in.

NEW MEMBERS TAKE SEATS. New members of the commission, who have just taken their seats, were appointed on committees in the places left vacant predecessors. Charles E C made chairman of the zoning Clrarles A. Bookwalter was the public parks committee, Elliott on the public health and committee and Lloyd I>. Clayon the transportation committee. HFILING station PERMITS REUSED. Permission to erect a filling station at Michigan street and Tibbs avenue was refused the Polar Ice and Fuel Company and it was decided that permission for a filling station would be refused William Brannum at the northwest corner of Sixteenth street and Central avenue unless it Is placed twenty-five feet back of sixteenth street and thirty feet back of Central avenue. The Western Oil Refining Company’s location of a filling station at Capitol avenue and North street was approved as was the proposed erection Stf a one-story automobile sales buildiws at St. Clair and Meridian streets. Hasry C. Stutz will put up the sales-

SMa'LL case goes OVER UNTIL JAN. 14 Continuance Granted at Request of Governor's Counsel. WAUKEGAN, 111., Jan. 7—The ease of ( overnor Len Small, charged with conspiracy to embezzle State funds, today was continued until Jan. 14. Attorney Herman Licbtfleld, Waukegan, appeared before Judge Claire C. Edwards, Lake County Circuit Court, vhn the case was called, and, in behalf of the Governor, asked that the defense bo given more time to study the bill of particulars now on file. Edward Pree, assistant State’s attorney of Sangamon County, made no objection and the judge continued the case. C. C. Laforgee the Governor’s chief counsel, remained in Chicago. NePher Small nor Verne Curtis, Grant Park banker and co-defendant, appeared in court. Next Saturday, the defense will offer any objections it has to the bill of particulars which sets forth the specific charge that the defendants conspired and embezzled $535,000 of State funds. This was done, the State alleged, by depositing State funds in the Grant Park State Bank, controlled by Curtis, at 2 per cent interest and afterward loaning It to Chicago packers at from 5 to Sjo per cent. Motions for separate trials for Small and Curtis will be made when the case comes up again.

BODY OF STUDENT FOUND IN RIVER Search on for Two Others Lost in Canoe Trip. firteoifl! to The Times. EVANSVILLE. Ind.. Jn n. 7. Farmers today found the body of Clyde Crow, 18-year-old high school student, in the back-water of (he flooded Ohio River. Search was continued for the bodies of Leo Wininger, Purdue University student, and Thomas Fruchfe, high school student, who have been missing since last Saturday, when they accompanied Crow on a duck hunting trip in a canoe. Crew's clothing was found in the branches of a submerged tree yesterday. Names State Fair Department Heads Appointment of department heads for the next State fair were announced by Thomas Grant, of Lowell, president of the State board of agriculture, today. They are G. R. Kemper, manager of the horse speed department; W. V', Wilson, In charge of grand stand : Harry Mohberly, mechanical; E. W. Pickhardt. amusements; E. J. Barker, cattle: Guy Cantwell, agriculture; Mac M. Cuffing, poultry; E. E. Phillips, swine: Samuel ,T. Miller, concessions; Lin Wilson, horses; G. Y. Hepler, gates; Charles S. Smith, parking and police: y. C. Brouse. sheep: John Isenbarger. woman’s building, and S. W. Taylor, horticulture. The executive committee of the -fair will be composed of E. J. Barker and Harry Mobberly. HEAVY SENTENCE SUSPENDED. Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth today gave an exceptionally heavy penalty in a case where a man and woman were charged with a statutory offense. George Dickson, 28, negro, and Nora E. Humes, negress, botli of 411 West North street, each was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to serve ninety days in jail. However, the city clerk’s records show that the court suspended the heavy jail sentences. Statutory charges against Charles Huffman, 4(5; Robert Wasson, 21; May Harris, 22. and Goldie Vennard, 23. caught in a raid last night on 5)32 Massaavenue. wc conti:. ’ ■! to Jan. I*,.

LARGEST STILL EVER TAKEN IN MARION COUNTY

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—l’boto by Gravelle. This still, which the police say, is the largest ever captured in Marion County, wns found in a barn in the rear of a house at Emerson and Fletcher avenues yesterday. The still has a capacity of 300 gallons. Mike Blsesi, 017 East Merrill street, who rented the barn, and Lodvic Vinco, living at the Clinton Hotel, were arrested. Beside the still the police found seventy-five gallons of white mule, fifty barrels of mash, a large number of empty barrels and Jugs and other bootleggers' equipment.

IRISH KIDNAP NEWS REPORTER London Correspondent Released After Trial by Army Heads. LONDON, England, Jan. 7. —The kidnaping of A. B. Kay, London Times correspondent at Dublin, resulted from articles he had written about the Irish Republican army, and not from his accounts of proceedings in Dail Elreann, said a dispatch from Kay today. After being kidnaped in Dublin and taken to Cork, Kay was placed on trial before a court-martial composed of Irish army officers. They charged him with publishing unauthorized news which did not represent the views of the army members in Cork. Kay was allowed to go, after signing a statement that he had not interviewed any members of the army staff and had not secured auy information from members of the army. The Irish officers warned him if he claimed to have secured information from members of the army he would be deported. HOPE FOR IRISH PACT TO PASS VOTE (Continued From I’agc One.) trip, took a leading part .u the tight against the treaty. GRIFFITH, FOUNDER OF SINN FEIN, SPEAKS. A luncheon recess was taken at noon. The chief speakers at the afternoon session were Cathal Brugha, one of the mainstays of the Irish Republican army, and .Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sinn Fein. It was expected De Valera would address a few words to the house after Griffith and that the motion for a yote upon the treaty would follow. De Valera got the floor following Boland at the morning session, and hotly denied he was trying to split the country. In the windup of his speech Boland told of his financial activities in America. He said that for the purpose of Impress ing the American Government he had conducted concentrated campaigns for funds In the District of Columbia and Illinois. In a year, he said, he collected $397,000 at B cost of SBO,OOO In Illinois. In the hist three weeks of his stay in America he said he collected $572,000 in various States and cities at 1 cost of SBO,OOO. When Dail convened, forty-five members had spoken against the treaty and forty-one in favor of it. Several were uncertain. One and perhaps more will not vote.

BIG STILL CASE OVER TO JAN. 11 Trial Date Set by City Judge Wilmoth. CharLs of operating a “blind tiger” against Mike P.isesl, Oli East Merrill ; Street, and Lodvle Ylnco, Clinton Hotel, j who were arrowed yesterday afternoon at a house at South Emerson ami Flecher avenues, where they had one of the largest stills ever found In Indiana, were continued In city court today until .Tan. It by Judge Delbert O. WUmeth. The men were arrested by police who had been in waiting for them. The house was partially furnished. In the barn was a twenty-four burner stove under a 300-gallon still, fifty barrels of mash, and a number of empty barrels and jugs. Also nearly seventy-hive gallons of “white mule.” , Federal authorities sav the bootleggers rented the house because of its proximity to good roads. Neighbors of the men f.ay they have been selling ‘white mule - for about six weeks. They say trucks and automobiles came and went at night. At the time the nrrests were made, a fruit truck belonging t > Bisesi was found near the barn. Tn the car, | covered with straw, were many jugs. Bisesi is a commission merchant at 215 East Maryland. Bisesi admitted, arresting officers say. that he had been convicted previously for violation of the prohibition laws. He was convicted on a "blind tiger” charge in 15(15) in Criminal Court receiving a fine of S3OO and a thirty day jail sentence. He appealed the case and was at liberty for two years. It was (hen discovered that his appeal had not been perfected and he was ordered to Jail, j Police say Bisesi also served a terra of I six months imposed in the Federal i Court on a charge of violating the FedI eral prohibition laws. Texas Town Swept by Fire; 9 Buildings Burn | LITTLE ELM, Texas. Jan. 7.—Practically the entire business section of this town was in ruins today as the result of fire which destroyed nine buildings last night. The only means of fighting the blaze was a “bucket brigade,” which saved several houses in the path of the tire. ORDERS IIEAT CHARGE CET. The public service commission today ordered the Indiana Gas and Electric Company of Lafayette, to decrease its rates (ftr hot water from forty-one to' nVrtv- 'Ve cents per square foot of radiation.

ILLNESS REPUTED CAUSE OF FAILURE TO REACH ALTAR John P. Cudahy's Marriage to St. Louis Society Girl Fails to Materialize. LOS ANGELES. Jan. 7.—John J. Cudahy, alleged “balking bridegroom” who was nowhere to be found on the day set for his wedding is in retirement due to illness, his brother, Gerald, announced today. Cudahy was to have married Miss Louise Cheuire Francis, Nt. Louis society girl. When rumors gained credence that the bridegroom to-be dropped from sight on his wedding eve. Miss Francis and her mother, Mrs. Arthur G. Francis, also quietly "disappeared.” At the Miramar Hotel, In Santa Monica, it was said the Francis party had gone “touring.” Last night newspapermen ascertained that the tonring had been confined to the Inner recesses oi the Francis apartment at the hotel. “John has not been well during the two years he has spent in California,” Gerald said in explaining his brother's narrowly averted wedding. “He has had two operations recently. H'.s doctors advised him he hadn't recovered sufficiently to marry, so he didn't. That's all there is to it.” Arthur O. Francis, father of the bride-to-be said Miss Francis and her mother would finish a brief vacation here and return to St. Louis.

DOUBLE PHONE SYSTEM COSTS MORE, IS PLEA (Continued From Tnge One.) balance in “red ink,” Mr. Wampler said. The balance in “red Ink,” to which Mr, Wampler referred, was a deficit of about $S° CIS G 2 which, he averred, the company’s books show for the ten months preceding Oct. 31, 1921. The company asks that the valuation on its property be increased from $6,109,f157 to $11,834,523.5C and that it be allowed rates such as would guarantee a re turn of 7 per cent on the Investment. Ninety eight per rent of the company’s stock Is owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the parent company of the Indiana Bell, Mr. Wampler said. The remainder of the stock is owned by the officials of the company, according lo Mr. Wampler, who declared he owned only one share of the stock. OFFICIALS ARE ALL lIOONIF.RS. During the past year all of the officers of the local company have been Indiana men. Previous to this time, the president and other officers have lived outside the State, Mr. Wampler said. DISCUSS SELLERS FARM PROBLEM Civic League Members Consider Criminal Action. A suggestion that West Indianapolis could get its fight to rid Itself of nuisance industries at Sellers farm into the Su preme Court faster if its citizens were to follow the plan of bringing criminal no (ion against city officials responsible for the conditions at the farm rather than through civil suits such as are now pending was made at a meeting of the Enterprise Civic League at 1195 Blaine avenue last evening by Heydon W. Buchanan, cit yrounrilman. Mr. Buchanan cited a city ordinance making it an offense to allow the carcass of a dead animal to lay inithe open, inside the city limits, for more than twentyfour hours. He said this frequently is done -at Sellers farm. New officers of the league were elected as follows: Frank Turner, president; Noah Beck, vice president; .Miss .Maymo Shearer, secretary; O. F. Stiorwait, financial secretary; Harvey Cross, treasurer. Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank and other city officials will be presented with a set of demands for improvements at a meeting of the league next Friday evening. A committee is circulating petitions for the following improvements; removal of the (Jessica! lng plant of Kingan & Cos.; elevation of railroad tracks, improvement of Khodius park, extension of water mains and improvement streets all over West Indianapolis. ELECTED HEAD OF CIVIC CLUBS New Federation Plans for Good of City. E. O. Snetliens, attorney, was chosen as temporary chairman of the newly formed Federation of Civic Clubs of Indianapolis at an organization meeting in the Indiana Trust building last night. W. J. Cramer was elected secretary. The object of the federation is to get all bodies working for the good of Indianapolis to function en masse on various istfues of civic interest. A committee is working now on the details of the organization. By laws and constitution are to be drawn up at an early date.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY <1, 1922.

ELEVATOR HEAD BADLY INJURED Skull Crushed In Attack by Former Employe. Special to The Times. LA TORTE. Ind.. Jan. 7 —C. O. Gifford. manager of the Chatterton Elevator Company at La Cross, near here, is in the Christian Hospital at Valparaiso with a fractured skull the result of an attack late yesterday afternoon by Charles Coleman, a discharged employe who struck Gifford twice lack of the head with a hammer, according to eyewitnesses. An operation wns performed on Gifford last night. Hospital authorities today reported his condition as favorable. Coleman is in jail here to await trial, being unable to furnish SIO,OOO bond.

BAN USE OF POISON GAS IN WARFARE (Continued From Page One.) away. Just as did the opposition to the | banning of submarine attacks on com- ; merctal vessels. Tt appears that three distinct steps toward “humanizing" warfare will be taken by the powers here In the closing days of the conference: 1 Restriction# on submarine warfare. 2. Banning poison gas. 8. Restrictions upon the nse of aircraft over cities and noncombatant areas. Elsewhere the conference moved steadily ahead toward adjournment. The hope wns expressed in some quarters that the last of next week will'seo the conference adjourning slue die. Members of the British delegation are booked to sail on Jan. 14, oin- week away, and they see no reason for eanI celling their accommodations. The naval and drafting experts are placing the finishing touches on the fivepowered naval treaty. It probably will bo presented to the full committee on Monday, ratified and then a pienary ses sion ananged for announcing it to the world early In the new week, j lids will leave Siberia the only Item on the agenda and (hat can be disposed of quickly, according to the conference lenders, by the adoption fcf a general resolution defining tho alms of the pow- . ers concerned. The status of the Shantung controversy j was left In some doubt as a result of I breaking off the private conversations here between the Chinese and the Japanese. There were Increasing Indications that the Chinese delegation is not In accord with the new cabinet In I’ekin. ilt is known that on Thursday the Chinese delegation received dispatches I from Pekin to the effect that the new I cabint had accepted the settlement pro-j j posed by the Japanese—return to Shantung to China, with Japanese financial and operative control of the Kiao ChowI Tsitianfu Railway. This drew an energetic protest from the delegates here, who notified Pekin j that such notion nullified all ths efforts they had made here, and marred the pro# pects for the driving of a better bargain hero In Washington. The Chinese hurriedly pot the conversations under way again here, .somewhat against Japanese wishes. Now they have been broken off again and the Chinese intimate they are ! going to solicit the mediation of Secretary of State Hughes and A. J. Balfour, j While the situation stood in some conj fusion, the belief still prevailed in responsible conference quarters that the i reported settlement between I'c-kin and | Tokio will ultimately prevail.

BONDSMEN SUED BY PROSECUTOR Evans Files Against Men Who Signed Appeals. Prosecutor William P. Evans tn behalf of the State today filed two suits against bondsmen who were surety on appeal bonds from the oily court. One case was directed against Nathan Lynch and Gordon Donaldson on a SIOO appeal bond given for Lynch who was found guilty in the city court. It Is charged Lynch failed to appear in tne Criminal Court for trial. A suit was also filed against James Yarbongh and James 11. Scott because of Scott’s failure to appear In the Criminal Court for trial after he had been found gullt.v in the 10-.vor court on n charge of carrying concealed weapons. The bond in this case was SUO. Makes Appeal for New County Nurse Tn a written communication to the j Marlon County commissioners today. Dr. Mason P. Light, county health officer, recommended the appointment of j an additional county nurse to aid the i present county nurse and tuberculosis j nurse in administering to the health of • the children in (he forty-six township j schools of (he county. Dr. Light also recommended that a central county health office be established j at the eourthousif* vith an office clerk In ! charge.

HOUSE TO REST AS ‘REWARD’ FOR BILL Treasury Appropriation of $169,000,000 Was Hurried Through. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—As a reward for “good behavior” in sticking on the job to get the treasury appropriation bill passed late yesterday, members of the House were permitted to take a rest today. When, this bill, carrying approximately $169,000,000, was taken up by the House Thursday, it was the plan of leaders that its consideration would run into Saturday. Rapid progress was made with the measure, however, and Chairman Mat len of the Appropriations Committee held out the promise that if the members would stay on the job and complete the bill before deßnanding the closing of the session for the day, he would help get the adjournment. The scheme fell in with the plans of Democrats, who are fighting to delay action as long as possible on the Dyer anti-lynching bill and they lined up with Madden. PERU BANKER SENTENCED TO 4-YEAR TERM Former Cashier Released Under Bonds Pending Appeal Plans. Sentence of four years in the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., and a fine of $2,000 were imposed upon Charles M. Charters, formerly cashier of the Citizens National Bank at Fern, by Judge Albert B. Anderson today, upon each of two counts on which he was found guilty by a jury In Federal Court almost two months ago. The court ordered that the sentences should run concurrently, which makes the punishment the same as if he had been sentenced on only one count. The case will be appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago and Charters was released on bond of SIO,<X)O, signed by Frank Bparss of Peru and Otto Ilettig of Greenfield. Charter# was charged with misapplying funds of Giles M. Tilletts of Peru, which had bene intrusted to the bank for the purchase of Liberty bonds. Before sentence was passed Judge Anderson overruled a motion in arrest of judgment after hearing argument on the motion.

OPPOSITION DEVELOPS TO R.H. BRYSON (Continued on Page Two.) three certified, end to a town in this State where they say President Harding i appointed a man who had been given only seventh place by the post office lnI specters. No official word that he had received : the highest grade had been received by ; Mr. Bryson today. “Ail I know is what I have read in the ■ newspapers and heard unofficially,’' Mr. Bryson said. “But 1 certainly consider lit a.high honor that from among nlne- ! teen candidate* of undoubted ability that I was given the highest grade by the civil service commission." The three certified and their grades are : Robert Tl. Bryson, Republican, former 1 postmaster and city controller under the Jewett administration, 80.20. Charles W. By field. Democrat, many years In the postal service, and at presj ent assistant postmaster. 82.40. Ernest G. Cox, Republican, formerly | treasurer and supervisor of accounts of the Indianapolis plant of the Falrbanks- : Morse Company, 71.C0. One of the throe will be recommended by Representative Merrill Moores, and because of the fact that Mr. Byfleld is a Democrat he is believed generally to ho out of the running. This will bring the choice down to Bryson and Cox, and although Cox is a personal friend of Representative Moores, Bryson is believed to have the inside track for the appointment. Considerable surprise was expressed orer the list, ns it did not contain the name of Mr. Shortemeier, secretary es the Republican State central committee, and formerly secretary of Senator Harry S. New. When Mr. Scbortemeier announced that ho had filed his application it was the general opinion that he would not have done so unless he had been given assurances that he stood a fine chance of receiving the appointment, and political gossip has been that ho filed at the express request of RonrespntatlT* Moores. , SPRINGSTEEN NAME NOT CERTIFIED. No little comment has bt*on occasioned hr the fact that the name of Robert E. Springsteen, present postmaster, is not on the list certified. Mr Springsteen Is looked upon as an unusually efficient postmaster, thoroughly qualified for the office. There ere many who do not hesl-t-iti to siiv that ttie absence of Mr. Springsteen’s name and those of a number a old and trusted postoffice employes, proves that the civil service commission was not oblivious of the political aspects of the situation when the list Was compiled. In addition to the three candidates whose names were certified to the Postoffice Department applications were received from the following sixteen : Postmaster Springsteen, Mr. Schortemeier, Willis S. Blutchley, William F. Cleary, James L. Kingsbury, John T. Snulter, Robert 11. Acre, Leslie D. Clancy, Henry M. Cochrane, Arthur W. Hamilton, Richard Lowther, Jacob F. Poe, Arthur M Potts, Frank J lilchinann, Donald F. Roberts nnd Charles B. Showalter. In the present postmastership race Bryson has led a stormy career of ups and downs, starting out as the leading candidate, then dropping almost entirely out of consideration, only to come back stronger than ever In the final rush. Last spring before the mayoralty primary Bryson was the candidate of the Jewett faction of the Republican party for the office nnd had not Thomas C. Howe been defeated by Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank, it is generally believed Bryson would have had the office long before this. After the nomination of Shank the present mayor frankly and openly stated that under no circumstances should Bryson receive th e plum, and his fortunes sunk to a low ebb. However, he Jumped into the Shank campaign with the same vigor that had marked his efforts to secure the nomination of Mr. Howe and by bis efforts to harmonize discordant elements and unite them in support of Mr. Shank, he gained the favor of the mayor who is now as strong for his appointment as he was firm against it after the primary. Representative Moores has given no Indication of when he will make his recommendation in the mutter and it is understood that he will take a little time to consider it. RESINOL .Sooihinq and He&linq Reli&bleskmTrea4ment

Ministerial Crisis Threatened in Spain MADRID, Jan. 7. —A ministerial crisis is threatened here as a result of the Moroccan war and reports here of Regularities in the army. It was reported today that the present cabinet will be succeeded by a conservative ministry. COURT ALLOWS CHECK WORKER A NEW CHANCE Collins Suspends Two Terms, but Three Others Are Not So Lucky. Wilbur L. Quellholst, 24, charged with issuing a fraudulent check, was sentenced to from one to five years at the Indiana State Reformatory today, but Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal Cdurt suspended the sentence during good behavior. Quellholst was found not guilty cn two other charges of issuing fraudulent checks. George Graham, a negro, charged with assault with intent to rape, was sentenced from two to fourteen years at the Indiana State Reformatory. James L. Brough, petit larceny, was fined $1 and sentenced to one day In Jail. Karl Brown pleaded guilty to assault and battery with intent to murder, Snd was sentenced to from two to fourteen years in the reformatory. James Scott, charged with attempting to steal the poeketbook of Mrs. Inez M. Millet 1209 East Pratt street, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to six mor th ; at the Indiana State Farm. Russell Owens, 21, negr.o charged with petit larceny, w r as sentenced to a year on the Indiana State Farm, but the sentence was suspended. Judge Collins said that Owens had a splendid record as a soldier.

CITY TO GET BACK PART OF JUNK PROFIT (Continued From Page One.) the purchasing agent can #ell obsolete property for city departments without approval of the council where the total appraised value is less than S2OO. JUNK DEALERS REFUSE OFFER. Mr. Ritter said he had had two or three Junk dealers look over the junk and wire and offer him a bid on it, but they did not care to buy It. Then Cohen offered to buy it. He said he took Cohen’s word that there was only five tons of the Junk, appraised at $7 a ton urd 1,800 pounds of the wire, appraised according to whether it was covered or uncovered at 6 and 10 cents a pound. On this basis he authorized payment to Cohen, who billed the city unde r the name of “Harr)'” Cohen of $33 for the Junk and slls for the wire, the total of which amounted to less than S2OO Mr. Ritter said he thought he waa entirely Within the law In so doing. Cahen was called before Mr. Ogden and City Claim Agent YV. S. Henry today and confronted wiih evidence that, after he had purchased the material from the -.lty, he had sold to Julius Sagalowsky, another wholesale Junk dealer, thirty-two tons of Junk and 4,675 pounds of wire. According to the evidence Cohen received from Sagalowsky $214 for the Junk and $479 19 for the wire. He stoutly maintained he had received only five ton? of Junk and 1.900 pounds of wire from the city as be had informed Mr. Ritter. COHEN SAID TO ADMIT FRAUD. Mr. Ritter and Mayor Shank came into the conference and after further questioning Cohen admitted he had received the larger amounts of both Junk and wire from the city, having misinformed Mr. Rlrter as to :he weights. When this admission' was made city officials said Mr. Ritter promptly said further investigation was not necessary and that since the mistake had Involved his office be would see that whatever amount was agreed upon should be paid to square the matter. The amount agreed upon was S4OO. Meanwhile the entire transaction cannot be cleared up without action of the city council. Since (fee amount involved was more than S2OO there should have been an ordinance from the council authorizing the sale. The junk has passed out of the hands of the man who originally received it. Mr. Ogden was of tho opinion that, if it is agreeable with the city council, the matter might be straightened out by tho passage of an ordinance approving the appraisals and authorizing the sale. After a conference with Dr. E. E. Hodgin, president of the board of public health, Mr. Shank said the State fire marshal will be asked to inspect the middle of the three units at the city hospital to determine whether it should be condemned and replaced with a tire-proof structure.

ASKS U. S. TO KEEP HOLD ON PLANT Tinkler Confers Wiih Weeks in Muscle Shoals Deal. WASHINGTON, .Tan 7.—Semi Government control of the nitrate plant and water power projects at Muscle Shoals, Ain., were among suggestions made to Secretary of War Weeks today by Charles C. Tinkler, president of the North American Construction Company of San Francisco, when he presented his formal proposal for taking . .-er the Southern properties. Tinkler and his chief engineer. F. C. Hitchcock, after a recent inspection of the Muscle Shoals property, went into conference with the Secretary of War prepared to answer questions concerning the plans for operating the nitrate plant. The conference lasted almost an hour, and at its conclusion Secretary Weeks requested Tinkler and Hitchcock to impart to the Army engineers all the technical phases of their offer. Weeks alfco asked them to be prepared for further conferences after they conclude with the Army engineers.

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NEGRO SHOOTS AND WOUNDS POLICE OFFICER Fires Three Times as Woman He Threatened Appeals for Aid. HIS HURTS NOT SERIOUS | Douglass Johnson, 33, negro, shot I Patrolman George G. Mueller in the right arm when a negress, Madeline Sandifer, 30, appealed to the policeman for protection early today. While Johnson was en route to police headquarters in the patrol wagon he cut and seriously wounded the woman, who also had been detained as a witness. The trouble occurred shortly after midnight In Illinois street, near Sixteenth street. Both Johnson and the woman said they lived in the rear of 1522 North Illinois street. The woman, who was slashed twice by the negro, is In a serious condition. She is at the city hospital. Two long knife wounds across her left breast were inflicted by Johnson before he could be disarmed by YVagouman YVUliam Mellen and Chauffeur Lee Hensley. “He is going to kill me,” screamed the negress as she ran up to Patrolmen Mueller, and Maurice R. Wilkerson, as the officers were walking in Illinois street. Before the officers had time to turn around they heard three shots and a bullet struck Mueller in the right arm. Wilkerson seized J vhnsoa and twisted the gut. from his hand. Captain Ed Schubert was notified and sent police officers from headquarters to the scene. The wounded patrolman was sent to the hospital, where it was found his injuries are not serious. The negro was placed in the patrol wagon and chained after, it is said he had been searched. Chauffeur Hensley was driving and Wagonman Mellen was guarding the prisoners, when, suddenly Johnion drew a knife and made two slashes at the Sandifer woman. She screamed end Mellen struck Johnson with his "blackjack.” Then followed a battle between the desperate negro and the policeman. Hensley stopped the patrol and went to Mellen’s assistance. The police got the knife away from Johnson and then took the wounded woman to the city hospital. She was weak from loss of blood. Johnson was charged with snoonng with Intent to kill, assault and battery w!h Intent to kill, and operating a blind tiger. The latter charge was placed against h m when the police found a bottle that contained "white mule" whisky in his pocket. Captain Schubert started an Investigation to determine who was at fault for the failure to find the knire on the prisoner. YVagonman Mellen, in his report says he asked Wilkerson and Mueller, and also Detective William C. Brickley if Johnson had been searched. He stated they told him the prisoner had been searched and that a bottle of whisky and a gun had been taken from him. Then Mellen says he chained the negro in the patrol wagon. Mellen was unable to state where Johnson had the knife concealed. He said, however ,he believed the negro had the open knife hidden in his coat sleeve. Johnson is an ex-soldier. He was a member of Company G, 812th Pioneer Infantry and was at Camp Grant for a few months. lie formerly lived in Owensboro, Ky. Detective Brickley said he was standing at Sixteenth and Illinois streets when he heard the negress run to the two patrolmen and plead for help. Immediately afterward, he said, Johnson appeared and fired, then Brickley seized him from behind and the negro dropped the revolver. The detective said he searched the prisoner and did not find a knife, but did discover a bottle of whisky. According to the police Johnson was released from the Michigan City penitentiary about ten days ago, after having served a two-year sentence for cutting up the Sandifer woman.

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