Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Generally fair and colder tonight. Saturday, fair.

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POINCARE PREPARES CABINET SUBJECT TO MILLERAND APPROVAL

New Regime to Exact Full German Reparations. STERN IN POLICY m Former French President to Hold Two Posts. PARIS, Jan. 13.—Raymond Poincare, former president of France, formally accepted the French premiership tonight. He succeeds Aristide Briand, who resigned yesterday. * PARIS, Jan. 13.—Raymond Poincare, |former (.resident or France, who was designated by President Milierand to form a new ministry to succeed the resigned Briand cabinet, was unable to complete his task today. After a forty-flve-minute conference with President Milierand, M. Poincare stated tonight that he could not announce the formation of a cabinet. M. Poincare lunl met with difficulties in securing ministers, but lie was still ootiferring with both friendly and hostile groups in parliament in au effort to create a government suitable to the various factions. * SI. Poincare refused to say whether he would confer with Premier Lloyd George in Paris tomorrow. PARIS, Jan. 13.—Raymond Poincare, former president of France, who was designated by President Milierand to form a cabinet to succeed the resigned Briand miinstry, was engaged today in au effort to create a strong nationalist government which will exercise a policy of the utmost sternness toward Germany. M. Poincare was engaged in conferences with political colleagues throughout the morning. He went to the Elyse-e Palace this afternoon to report to President Milierand. CABINET SPATE SUBMITTED. As M. Poincare went into conference with President Milierand it was reported the cabinet slate virtually was as follows : Premier and Foreign Minister —Raymond Poincare. Justice—M. Do Selves or M. Raiberti. Interior—General Maunoury. War—M. Maginot. Marine—M. Landry. Finance—M. De La Steyrie, Commerce —Francois Marsal. Put lie Instruction—M. Beraud. Agriculture—Jean Durand. Colonies —M. Sarraut. Public? Works — M. Le Troquer Labor —M. Darriac, M. Jourdaiau, or M. Colrat. Opposition to the proposed Ppipcare ministry already has been expressed in the. radical Socialist group in the Chamber of Deputies. The Democratic left in the Senate decided that none of its members should enter the new ministry. It was understood the PremierDesignate planned to retain two exministers, one of whom is Minister of Colonies Sarraut, acting head of the French delegation in the Washington conference. POINCARE TO TAKE OVER TWO POSTS. M. Poincare himself proposed fco take over the two posts of Premier and Foreign Minister. Poincare has been one of the most consistent leaders of the French political faction, demanding: ✓ . Strict execution of every clause of the Versailles treaty and subsidiary documents by Germany. Further military occupation of Germany if the Berlin government defaults in its indemnity obligations. A receivership for Germany with an allied control commission in Berlin if Germany fails to make the indemnity payments due this month and next. A close alliance between France and Poland. Refusal by France to recognize the Moscow soviet government unless it (Continued on Page Two.) MRS. SIMMONS FREE ON BOND Woman Who Slew Husband to Plead Self-Defense. Mrs. Florence Simmons, 21, 1417 St. Peter street, who shot and killed her husband, James K. Simmons, has been released on bond of SI,OOO, signed by George Hubert, 1235 Harlan street, grocer. Mrs. Simmons yesterday waived examination in city court and was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of manslaughter. Dr. Paul F. Robinson, coroner, recommended the charge be changed to manslaughter, which charge made it possible for Mrs. Simmons to be released on bond. Her attorney says she will plead self defense when the case is tried in Criminal Court. The shooting was the climax of domestic troubles which had lasted many months. Simmons was alleged to have beaten his wife on numerous occasions and she declared he was about to- attack her when she shot him. Four bullets from an automatic gun hit Simmons.

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Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 I>. in., July 14. 1022: Generally fair and colder tonight;; lowest temperature about 15 degrees. Saturday fair. HOURLY TEMPKKATLIti:. <> a. ni ill 7 a. in 24 S a. m 23 9 a. m 22 10 a. m 22 11 a. _n. 22 12 (noon) .... 22 1 P. m. 23 ** P- m. ~, 22

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Friday , 13, Famous in Sony and Story , Tempts Fate Today late was sorely tcanpted in Indianapolis today. * * This is Friday and the thirteenth day of the month. On top of this a driving snow storm presented the city with a web of slippery pavements. Despite this combination of the elements and the coincidental arrival of Friday and Jan. 13. a majority of the autoists tried their luck by driving about without skid dial ns. Few of the taxicabs were equipped with eliains, which in most cities aTe mandatory whenever danger of skidding is brought on by inclement weather. REPORTS EXCESS SALARIES PAID 2 UNDER JEWETT Auditor Says City Hall Eiuployes Draw Sums in Excess of Allowances. The board of public works discovered today that the Jewett administration paid excess salary to the chief engineer aad day fireman of the city kali for one year and ten months during 1920 and 1021. Hendricks Kenworthy, track elevation auditor, uncovered the overpayment lit checking salaries of city hall employes against amounts allowed by city ordinance. Kenworthy investigated city hall maintenance pay roils, signed by Charles W. Brawn, Sr., .CDfJodian of the hall throughout the Jewett administration, and found that from March 10, 1020, to Dec. 31, 1021, the city had paid Charles L. Clark, etiief engineer. $555.00 more than lie was allowed by ordinance; that from March 10, 1020, to Aug. 10, 1021, an excess of $175.65 was paid to William Dupee, 1701 Yandes street, day fireman, and that from Aug. 10, 1021, to Dec. 31, 1021, William Prather, 1701 Yandes street, who succeeded Dupee. received $46.07 excess pay. MATER REFERRED TO LEGAL DEPARTMENT. v. Ttie board referred the matter, to the legal department for nu opinion as to whether or not- the city can exact repayment of the excesses. An investigation of city salary ordinances revealed General Ordinance No. 10, 1020, was approved by Mayor Charles W. Jewett, Feb. 22, 1020. It amended Section 2 of General Ordinance 76 of 1010 The amendment raised the salary of the chief engineer from SIOO to $125 per month and that of the day firemen from sc-9$ c -9 to SOO per month- However, this amendment did not legally increase those salaries, since (Continued on Page Twelve.)

Jobless Family Head Will Swap Still for Employment

Indianapolis, Tnd., Jan. l'J, 1932. .Editor of The Times: I have fully read the papers in regards to the meeting of-. State and Eederal officers. Now f have a little still In which I can make about two gallon of white mule a week. I do not make it from choice. I have no work and day after day 1 walk looking fur a job. Sly rent is several days paid due, and at each knock of the door I expect the constable to serve a notice on me to get out. My daughter Is in the last gyade of high school and I intend to keep

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CONFERENCE ACTS WISELY ON AIRCRAFT Development for Commercial Purposes Encouraged. WAR LIMIT URGED More Easily Controlled Than Uses of Chemicals. # By COL. EDWARD M. HOUSE. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13.—The Washington conference is acting wisely in not precipitately restricting the use of aircraft in war. So long as war is a possibility it must be prepared for and there is no more reason why aircraft ihouWi mt be used than battle ships, ordnance or rifles. What should be done is to prevent aircraft from bombing behind the likes. The fact that cities are fortified does not warrant their .being bombed by high explosives or gas, unless they are within the actual tightNl area. Aircraft are certain to play an important part, perhaps the most important \ part, in our civilization during the ira mediate future. Plans are even now under way to link up Europe with America by the use of dirigibles, wbi-h may, if earired through revolution! passenger transportation. Every and tail regarding safety has been or is Uit j worked out. and it lias been stated that 1 Lloyd's will give an insurance rate 1' ss • ban for merchant ships If helium pas I can be secured in sufficient quantii.es and cheap enough to be used in craft for commercial purposes. DISHES COMMERCIAL i SE DEVELOPED. Therefore, no brake should lie pi i ed upon the development of lighter-than-air ships or airplanes What Is needful is to Emit their activities in time (Continued on Page Five.) Ford Awaits Final Muscle Shoals \Vord WASHINGTON, .inn. 13. Henry Ford, was hero today to receive the Administration's final word on his hid for the Muscle Shoals nitrate project. Soon after the conference of the auto mobile manufacturer and. Secretary of War Weeks, the War Department will announce its acceptance of the Ford hid by sending it to Congress, which will oe called upon to make the appropriations necessary to complete the project. KIDDIES MEET OLD FOE WHILE DRAGGING SLEDS

Gloom Supplants Joy When Snow Prospects Fade Before Youngsters. Youngsters wiio dragged out their sleds when they awakened nnd found enough snow on the ground this morning to arouse hopes of coasting, are doomed to disappointment, according to J. if. Armington, official dispenser of Uncle Sam's weather at the local weather bureau. Ac cording to official figures only two-tenths of an inch of snow fell last night and there is no prospect of any great increase in the amount. In fact fair weather Is in sight nnd by evening the skies will be clear in all probability, he said. At present Indiana is in a w arm pocket, as iL is colder both to the east and west, but the effects of the cold in adjoining States is already making itself felt, as the temperature at 9 o’clock was 22 tie (trees above zero, a drop of 2 degrees in two hours. However, no real cold wave is in sight. Mr. Armington says the temperature will drop to about 15 degrees above zero tonight, lint by Saturday night it will be considerably warmer. New York Post Sold by Thomas W. Lamont NEW YORK, Jan. 13. The sale of the New York Evening Post by Thomas W. Lament to a syndicate was announced today. There will be no change in management or policy under the new ownership. WILL ATTEND ROAD CONFERENCE. County Commissioners Carlin Shank and Harry Tutewller are planning to attend a road conference in Chicago next Turned ay and Wednesday.

her there. It is all I caa give her. That still is all I have to depend on, and there is no money in that, and for a job I Will gladly destroy it. I do not want to steal; I wish to be honest, but we must eat, pay rent and have tire. I voted for Shank, but he lias about 200 men after him who are in tlie same condition I um in. Now if there is a person, a member of any temperance or prohibition society who will give me employment where 1 can make .a living, I will gladly destroy or surrender my still. Now who is willing to trade a job for a white mule outfit? A BOOTLEGGFB.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1922.

Convicted Bandit Aids in Recovery of $1,325 Stolen From Beech Grove Bank

One thousand three hundred and twenty five dollars of the $23,000 in cash and Liberty bonds which were taken by bandits from the Beech Grove State Bank Sept. ‘.I, was delivered today in open court to Judge James A. Collins by Capt Claude M. Worley, special investigator for toe prosecutor’s office, who recovered the money in a barn in West Indianapolis after Glenn Stout, one of the convicted band bandits, had revealed its hiding place. Mr. Worley and Sheriff George Snider were taken to a barn in West Indianapolis late yesterday by Stout, who had 1 een brought to Indianapolis from the Indiana State Reformatory to reveal the hiding place of the money. Mr. Worley did not give the exact 1j cation of ttie cache, I ait stated that it was ; secreted in a barn in West Indianapolis. The money was wrapped in a newspaper and was in five, ten and twenty dollar , bills. 'l’h" money was placed in the barn a few days before Stout was arrested last fall. It is thought Stout's share of the bank loot exceeded $5,000. After producing the money in court, Mr Worley turned it over to the bank authorities. At the same time the S!O.O<M) , bond of Mrs. Erma Stout, the bandit's wife, held in jail oq a conspiracy charge, was*reduced to SI,OOO. it i* expected she will b released as“’soon as bond can be obtained. STDI T BROt GIIT TO CITY Till KSD.W . Stunt was brought from the reformatory at Jeffersonville by Worley and Sheriff Snider about 4 a. in. Thursday He was taken to jail and kept there until he was taken to the billing place of the money. He will lie returned to the reformatory late tliis evening. Evidence at ti • trial of George W. Miller, one of the convicted batik robbers, showed that the Liberty bonds were bidden in a drawer In dresser at t lie ! oine of one of the bank bandits and itiat the mom*v v.a divided among them. Mr. Worley w* rin i on the theory that stout had knowledge that at least part of the loot w i buried. Mr. Worley visited the Indiana .State Reformatory, wlier stout D serving his sentence, and ■following a c'iferenee, the prisoner told (Continued on Page Thirteen.)

Aged Woman Starts Long Hike to Call on Harding Will Ask Pardon for S on Who Used to Carry President's Paper.

PAYTON, Ohio, Jan. 13.—Mrs Margaret. Anderson, tin. of Sioux City, lowa, left hero today on her long walk to Washington to ask President Harding to pardon a former newsboy on his Marlon paper—ther son. "We used to live in Marlon and I knew Florence Harding when she was employed In the/business office of the Marion Star.” Mrs. Anderson said, after walking here from Sioux City "I know if 1 can only *>•• her I will get to lay the whole matter before the President and that ho will intervene, for Joe used to carry the Star.” Weary from her two weeks' Journey, Mrs. Anderson sot out with a prayer that she would not bo too Into to remove the stigma of “deElopement of Couple Halted by Girl's Father Alice Bishop, lb, Declines to Return to Barents' Home After Her Apprehension. Charles Bishop. 302 South Harris street, today halted tlio elopement of his daughter, Alien Bishop. lti, who wished to be married to Kay Harnett, 21, 940 West Thirty-Third street. Bishop followed t lie young couple, who wore accompanied by Elbert Bishop, 20, brother of Alice, and at Washington and Illinois street la* appealed to a traffic ofliecr to halt the “elopers.” The policeman detained the couple and called police headquarters. Two motor police were sent to Investigate and they t-'ok all Interested parties to tlie office, of Miss Clara Burnsides at Juvenile court. Miss Bishop declared sho loved Barnett and was determined to marry him, and she exhibited a blue taffeta, dress, li r wedding gown, which she said was P irehased by Barnet t. She told of how Barnett had called to seo her at her home ever since she was 14, and did so with permission of her parents. Then the young couple started to talk of getting married, 'flint was last Juno and Mr. Bishop decided to break love affairs. but seemingly! hv failed. Ills daughter refused to return to her home even if she could not get married. She told Miss Burnside that her father’s objection that she was “too young" was all wrong, for she declared that her father was IS years old when he married her mother, who was then 14 years old. She told Miss Burnsides that she was employed and she did not care f Barnett was out of work at the present, for he had some money saved. However, the court officer urged Miss Bishop to delay the marriage and arranged for her to stay at the Y. W. O. A., and Barnett went In search of employment. Bishop In <1 halted the wedding, but he returned home without his daughter. Hays’ Resignation Now Set for March 4 WASHINGTON'. Jan. 12. —Postmaster General Hays "very probably” will resign on March 4 from President Harding’s Cabinet and become legal adviser to the motion picture industry in the United States, it was learned here today on the highest authority.

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CAPT. CLAUDE M. WORLEY. With $1,325 of the stolen money of the Beech Grove Bank, Capt. Claude M. Worley, special investigator of the Ma rion County prosecutor's office, appeared In the Marion County Criminal Court today ami delivered the stolen tbot which he had recovered iu a barn in West Indianapolis Glenn Stout, one of the convicted bank bandits, guided Mr. Worley and Sheriff George Snider to the hiding place of the money.

sertion” from her son. reported slowly dying at Ft. Leavenworth prison from being gassed in France. Another sou. Don, was killed in action iu the Argonne fighting. Joe's desertion was tho result of an unbalanced mind caused by the war, Mrs. Anderson believes. He reenllsted when he returned from France. Granted a furlough because of illness, he started home, became confused and reached a military hospital In Denver, which he ’‘deserted” and went to Ft. Russell and enlisted under another name, the mother says. “When tho President hears my story and checks up tho record, I am sure justlco will be done," she declared. GERMANY MUST ARRANGETERMS Supreme Council Allows 15 Days for Counter Proposal. CANNES, Jan. 13.—A provisional moratorium for Germany was decided upon by tiie reparations commission of the supreme council bes >re its adjournment, it was announce ‘‘day. Germany will . have to pay the 500.000,000 to 700,0(i 900 gold marks originally demanded on Jan. 15, but must present anew plan for payment. The reparations commission decided to give Germany fifteen days to submit methods of payment or to make counter proposals. Premier Lloyd George may stop over in Paris and continue the pour parlers with former Premier Briand and PremierDesignate Poincare, {regarding tho proposed Anglo-French treaty with Italy. The German economic experts, headed y Dr. Walter Kathenau, have gone to Paris.

It 13 Really Is Unlucky, Arbuckle Is Good as Gone Chubby FihmComedia n, However, Inclined to Chuckle at Superstition.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13.—Again the thirteenth figures in the Arbuekle case. The possibility existed as the third day of the famous film star's second trial opened that a Jury would bo completed on this date. Thirteen has figured through the entire case. It was on the thirteenth of September the Indictment on which Arbuekle is being tried was returned. Th% figure! of the room Number 1219, which the cimeilau occupied at the St. Francis added together make thirteen, it was on Oct. 13 that Fatty was arraigned in Superior Court and thirteen jurors wire sworn it; the first trial. And strange to say, Arbuekle is not superstitious. “Funny, eh Y”.chuckled Arbi cklc, when bis attention w&s called to th? string of coincidences. * “Well, I guess thirteen is as good as any other number. Maybe it will bring me good luck."

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SHANK NAMES DR. FOREMAN NEW MEMBER Third Health Board Appointment in Two Weeks. SISLOFF REFUSES Council Ordered at Once to Consider Conditions. For the third time since Jan. 2 Indianapolis had anew Democratic member of the board of public health this afternoon. This time he is Dr. William H. Foreman, 4343 Broadway. Dr. Foreman was named by Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank shortly after noon when Jesse S. Sisloff, 1631 Bellefontaine street, came to the city hall and told the mayor he could not afford to serve on the board. Mr. Sisloff’s appointment had reached the point that he had been sworn in, only his certification to the city clerk remaining. Immediately after Mr. Shank announced the name of Dr. Foreman for the board membership, Dr. E, E. llodgin, president of the board, said that there • would be a special minting at once to consider the advisildilty of putting some of the contagious disease inspectors, discharged in the interests of economy two weeks ago, back on the pay roll to take care of an increase in communicable ailments which have risen in the last two or three days. MARKS END , OF SQUABBLE. Appointment of Dr. Foreman marks th. end of a squabble over the Democratic membership which started on the morning of Mayor Shank's inauguration day. Mr. Shank had named Dr. Kar! it. lluddell for the appointment several weeks before, but on the morning of Jan. 2 he annon.'ici and he would give the place to Dr. Foreman. Dr. Hodglu raised such strenuous objection tc the change that Mr. Shank said he would not name anybody for the place for a while. Tho throe otbpr members of the board, Dr. llodgin. Dr. Goethe Link and Dr. Arthur Guedel, met on the afternoon of Jan. 2. and named Dr. Hodgln president. I>r. Richard A. Boole, superintendent of the rity hospital: Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board, and made other appointments and orders. For several days the wrangle over whether the appointee should be Dr. Ruddelj or Dr. Foreman, raged until early this week. Mr. Shank got an opinion from his legal department that a layman could serve on the board and named Mr. Sisloff for the place, remarking that if the doctors “couldn't agree he would juit a nondoctor in the place. MK, SISLOFF GIVES' REASONS. in refusing to accept the appointment. Air. Sisloff said that Mr. Shank had tried to prevail upon him to take it and he thought the mayor was sincere in his desire for a layman to be a member of the board. "However, I have given the matter careful consideration in the past two days and i have decided 1 cun not afford to take the appointment,” ho said. "I feel that a doctor ought to have the appointment.” IX llodgin said that the experiment of using policemen for health inspectors has proven unsuccessful. The board of health had the board of public safety to assign ten policemen to tho health department to take the place of discharged Inspectors. The policemen, not betng specially trained as i tn> health department men were, have not been able to cope with the situation created by the increase in contagions diseases. Dr. Hodgin said. There are seven regular food and seven regular contagious disease inspectors left on the pay roll. Tho regular complement of contagious inspectors is fourteen. Dr. llodgin said that the present force may I>o built up almost to the normal figure if the emergency deniands it. Mayor Shank has sent the board a letter embodying ids suggestion that the superintendent of the city ' hospital be required to pass an examination. I)r. Hodgln said the board would consider the letter. Transport Due in Port Saturday or Sunday NEW YORK. Jan. 13.—The leaking transport Crooke, with 1)00 men of the army of occupation aboard, but in no danger, will reach New York Saturday or Sunday, it was said at transport service office today.

The State had four peremptory challenges left when court convened and the defense had all of the their thirteen unused. The jury box was filled with tentative jurors just, before court adjourned last night. Each one ofthe twelve lias yet to run the gantlet of questioning for cause. There was every Indication the defense planned to question Mrs. Mary Nagel now In the Jury box further today. Just before" adjournment Gavin McNab asked hey if she had made n statement after the first trial, that she would like to get on the jury at the next trial, to do the same as Mrs. Hubbard hang the jury. She denied having made the statement, but it is understood the defense plans to pursue further their inquiry. Eight men and four women were in the Jury box today. But twelve names remain in the Jury box of the present panel. - ,

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THREE BADLY HURT ARE RESCUED AFTER SCRANTON ACCIDENT Fear Others Buried Under Tons of Earth May Not Be Reached for Many • Days. - HOUSES SHAKEN, STREETS CRUMBLE SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 13.—Sixteen men are entombed this afternoon by a cave-in at the National Collinery mine cf the Glen Alden Coal Company in South Scranton. Three men. each believed to be badly injured, have been rescued and taken to hospitals. It is feared all the entombed men are dead. Belief is that they are all buried under tons of coal and rock. From present indications the men may not be reached for many days. The cave-in came without warning and cauied panic among the miners’ homes in South Scranton. Buildings were shaken and families of miners hurriedly fled from their homes. Street pavements crumbled as the earth gave way beneath them. Hurried calls were sent out for doctors, nurses and ambulances. Rescue parties were formed and the work of dinning out the imprisoned men started. •

Newberry Case Will Be Issue in Campaign Democrats to Carry Record Into Every Slate Holding Senatorial Primaries. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—The Newi berry ease today is a political campaign Issue. So far as the present Senate Is concerned the case was settled last night, when on four roll calls, each resulting 46 to 41, Republican leaders repelled all assanlts on Senator Newberry’s title to his seat. That record will be carried Into the 'senatorial primaries and the genera* i elections in every State which nominates I and elects a Senator this year. The • Democrats count on the Newberry case ! to win them control of the Senate. So far as the Senate’s record is concerned, Newberry now Is’ fjrily entitled to his seat, though bis colleagues condemned the excessive use of money In political campaigns. The resolution seating Newberry declared that the use o? as much uiouey as Newberry's friends spent in his behalf was against public policy and thratened the perpetuity of the Republic. Then they went ahead and seated him. NEWBERRY ACCEPTS VOTE OF VINDICATION. j “My heart Is filled with thankfulness ; that the three years and four months of persecution have ended in complete vindication and exoneration of myself and all concerned,” said Newberry when he learned the vote. The “uncertain” group of Republican Senators decided the issue. MeNary, Oregon, who was “clubbed" into voting for Newberry bj Administration threats to block his reclamation bill; Poindexter, Washington; Willis, Ohio; Cummins, lowa, and Kellogg, Minnesota—they provided tho votes to seat Newberry. Nino Republicans, Borah. Capper. I.add, I,a Follette, Norris, Norbcok, Kenyon. Jones, Washington, and Sutherland, voted against Newberry. LA FOLLETTE THREATENS TO REOPEN CASE. Senator Ea Follette, Progressive, Republican of Wisconsin, threatens to taketho same stand relative to the status of Senator Newberry, that he took in the case of former Senator “Bill” Lorlmer, Republican, Illinois. Lorlmer was seated by a vote of 40 to 40 on March 1. 1911. Lorlmer was uuseated after La Follette forced tlie reopening of his ease by a vote of 55 to 28. July 13, 1912, little more than n >ear afterward. . La Follette related these facts In denouncing the Newberry case as “far worse” than the Lorlmer case. LORIMER PRACTICES HELD OUTRIVALED. Follette said: “Four Republican Senators who voted to unseat Loximer voted to seat Newberry—Lodge. Massachusetts; Page, Vermont; Poindexter, Washington, and Townsend, Michigan. “With full knowledge of the Newberry ease and of the issue presented to the Senate, I assert without hesitation that the corrupt methods and practices revealed in the Michigan primary of 1918, which resulted In Newberry's nomination were infinitely more reprehensible and were far more Injurious to popular government thau were those employed In behalf of the elect ior of Lorlmer. “I assert that the personal knowledge and guilt of Newberry have been established more conclusively than were the personal knowledge aud guilt of Lorlmer.”’ “I believe I,orimer today would be more entitled to a seat iu the Senate than is Newt erry," concluded La Follette. Senator Kenyon of lowa, another Pro greesive Republican, who voted against New’berry being allowed to retain his seat, said bo was “in thorough accord” | with the views of La Follette.

Says He Stole His Own Watch to Fool Trusting Helpmate Another case where a house was ransacked and a watch stolen was cleared up today when I.ee It. Joyner, 2406 East I Sixteenth street, confessed to the police i he robbed Id* own homo. Joyner, who then sailed under the name of E. K. Jones, called the police on the night of Jan. 6. and showed them bis ransacked house and said Ids watch was missing. On Jan. 11, he was ar"*sted on a charge of issuing fraudulent checks and admitted Ills right name was Joyner. Today he confessed he hud stolen the watched and had pawned it. He said lie ranstieki I the bouse In order to make his wife believe the watch was taken by a burglar. -t ATTORNEY GETS DIVORCE. Judge I’ro Tem. Russell Willson in Superior Court. Room 2, today granted a divorce to Alfred N. Cave, a local attorney, from Sarah E. Cave, on grounds of infidelity.

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BAKER LET OUT OF JOB WITH CITY SCHOOLS New Superintendent of Buildings, Grounds Discharges Old Employe. George H. Bickes. superintendent of buildings and grounds for the board of> school commissioners, is a fast worker. It developed at a special meeting of tho board today. Mr. Kickes was elected to? succeed C. W. Eurton at the regular meeting of the board Tuesday night. He took office Wednesday morning and his very first official act was to apply the official “can” to George W. Baker, superintendent of janitors and an employs of the board for tho last twenty-seven years. This fact came to light w hen Mr. Baker appeared before the board today to demand tho hearing to which he is entitled under the law. The hearing will bo granted, according to Charles L. Barry, president, at the next regular meeting of the board, Jan. 3L Mr. Barry says , the matter must be taken up at a regular meeting. However, when Mr. Baker left he said he would be back Monday, when another special meeting will be held. The enmity between Rickes and Baker dates back to almost two years ago, when the former was discharged as superintendent of buildings and grounds after the board had refused to uphold him in attempting to discharge Baker. “1 wanted to be fair with Mr. Baker, so I gave him a day in which to resign." Mr. Rickes said today. “In order to bring about harmony in the school system it is necessary to make some change* an.l l discharged Raker wholly that this end might be attained.” Baker is in a fighting mood and some fireworks are expected when the case (Continued on Page Twelve.) FARM CONFAB PLANS READY Well-Rounded Program Prepared, Says Secretary Wallace.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—A wellrounded program for the national agricultural conference to be held in Washington, beginning Jan. 23, was outlined today by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. More than 250 representatives of agricultural and business interests* have announced their acceptance of invitationa to the conference, the Secretory stated. Following the formal opening of the conference by President Harding a resume of the agricultuial situation in various parts of the country is to be given by leaders in the farm Industry. DETECTIVES SUE FOR BIG AMOUNT Defendant Former Wife of James J. Hill’s Son. ST. PAUL. Minn., Jan. 13.—Suits to collect $22.V)0 from Mrs. Dorothy Barrows Hill, former wife of Walter J. Hill, son of the late James J. Hill nnd new residing In California, were filed in District Court here by investigators who unearthed the evidence upon which Mrs. Hill was recently granted her divorce. The Investigators. Robert W. Hargadine and M. J. Murray, allege that this amount is due them for their services in trailing Hill through several States collecting evidence in connection with Hill's “moral conduct," which they claim was of great value to Mrs. nill In obtaining her divorce. Mrs. Hill brought suit recently in California and the decree was granted there, following a cash and property settlement said to be $1,000,000.

“SAY IT WITH A TIMES WANT AD” HENRY GEORGE WAS AN ECONOMIST He believed that neglected, tintenanted land should be sold to people who would improve it. Whether they will IMPROVE it, we cannot say, but we do know hat people will BPY jour property through an Ad in the Times Classified columns i MAin 3500. Classified Adv. Defct.