Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled, probably rain or snow tonight and Tuesday. Rising temperature Tuesday.

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PARKING TIME CUT TO 1 HOUR IN PROPOSED TRAFFIC ORDINANCE New Rules Regulating Autos Embodied in Pact Prepared After Month’s Study by Safety Board. MEASURE BEFORE COUNCIL TONIGHT Limitation of downtown parking to one hour instead of the present hour and a half and flat-to-the-curb parking throughout the city excepting in the Circle and Washington street is provided in anew traffic code ordinance which will be introduced in the regular meeting of the city council tonight The ordinance was prepared by Assistant City Attorney William T. Bailey after a month of study by the board of public safety and city councilmen. Some of the recommendations of the mayor’s committee on vehicular traffic are adopted. City traffic regulations would be made to correspond with the State traffic law in several Important particulars, such as right-of-way and arms Bignals. The present ordinance has been out of plumb in these particulars since the 1821 Legislature passed a State-wide traffic law. Establishment of sections of Capitol avenue, Meridian, Illinois, East New York and East Michigan streets as preferential traffic Btreets, with vehicles approaching them required to come to a full stop. Is one of the important new provisions.

REGULATION OF PARKING TIME 8 A. M. TO 7 P. M. The bill leaves a 45-degree angle parking on Washington street between Southeastern avenue and White River and headon parking along the outside curb iu the Circle, as at present. In reducing the parking limit to one hour It makes this regulation effective from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m., Instead of from 8 a. m. to 8:30 p. tn., as at present, everywhere In the congested district, excepting the Circle. In the Circle one hour parking is made effective from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m., instead of two-hour parking from 9:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m., at at present. The only other places in the city where angle parking would be permitted, if the new ordinance passes, are the center of Market street between Pennsylvania and Delaware streets and the center of Kentucky avenue between Washington and Maryland streets, where the 45 degree position row Is used. PROVIDES FOR 9 NEW SO-LEFT-TI RX CORNERS. Nine new “no-left-turn” corners are designated in addition to the four at Washington and Illinois, Washing and Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Ohio streets now established. The new points named are Washington street and Capitol avenue, Washington and Meridian streets, Washington and Delaware streets. Maryland and Pennsylvania streets, Maryland and Illinois streets. Market and Illinois streets, Market and Illinois streets, Ohio and Meridlig streets, New YoTk and Meridian streets, and New York and Delaware streets. The ordinance wonld prohibit parking from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m., on the west side of Illinois street from Washington street to Court street, the east side of Illinois Street from Washington street to Pearl street, the east side of Meridian street from Washington street to Pearl street and the west side of Pennsylvania street from Washington street to Court street. No parking wonld be permitted In front of tbs- entrance of any hotel, theater, moving picture house or public meeting place. Present provisions for business houses to be issued "no parking” signs for marking reserved places in front of their buildings are unchanged. The police under Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank have taken up all such signs, but the ordinance permitting them never has been repealed. few EXCEPTIONS TO STATE TRAFFIC LAW. As provided in the State traffic law, the vehicle on the right would have, under the new bill, the right-of-way at all street inferscctions excepting In Capitol avenue. Illinois and Meridian streets from Georgia street to Maple Road, wherein north and south traffic would have the rlgbt-of-wav and except In East New York and East Michigan streets between Highland and Emerson avennes wherein east and west traffic would have the right-of-way. All vehicles approaching any of the five streets in the designated limits must come to a full stop before entering or rrossing such highways, the ordinance provides. The fire streets are specifically designated as “preferential traffic streets.” in accordance with the State law giving cities the right to make such distinction. The present city rlcrht-of-way regulations give traffic in all north and south streets the right-of-way with the following exceptions: All boulevards, the entire length of Washington street and Massachusetts, Kentucky. Indiana and Virginia avenues; East New York street between the Big Four Railroad and Emerson avenue and corners where silent policemen are located. At “silent cop” corners traffic on the righ has the right-of-way. Bird and Hudson streets from New York to Ohio streets and Chesapeake street from - Delaware to Ohio streets are added to the present congested district ene-wav thoroughfares. Movement in Bird and Hudson streets would be to the north only and in Chesapeake street to the west only. ARMS SIGNALS SAMTE AS STATE VROYIDES. Arms signals would be made to correspond wish the State regulations. From 8 a. ni. to 7 p. m.. all vehicles loading or unloading merchandise or materials in the congested district must stand parallel with the curb, according to the bill. They now are permitted to back to the curb, provided that if horses are attached they must be turned parallel with and facing the direction of the traffic stream. j The ordinance would prohibit the unloading of coal on Washington, Illinois, (Continued on Page Two.)

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B’oreeast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Fob. 21, 1922: Unsettled, probably rain or snow tonight and Tuesday; lowest temperature tonight about 25 degrees; rising temperature Tuesday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 0 a. m 33 7 a. in 32 8 a. m 33 9 a. m 33 10 a. hi SO 11 a. in 38 12 (noon) 40 1 p. m 42 2 p, in

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Federal Board Says Business Trend Upward WASHINGTON. Feb. 20.—The trend of general Industrial and business conditions as traced by the Federal board in Its report made public today points upward. This ,-eport, recognized as a barometer of industry, Indicates the bottom of depression was hit in the latter part of last year and tacitly predicts a gradual and substantial betrerment. The salient points In this official financial review of 1921 are: A favorable Industrial reaction has been manifest in banking conditions which will be reflected in every industry. The success of the Federal reserve system Is finally proven. The system has satisfactorily tided over the major Industries, particularly the farmers, through the period of depression. The depression era wag much worse than generally believed. Governor W. P. (i. Harding, reserve board head, analyzed every development. He refrained as much, as possible from predictions of the future, but his business charts clearly Indicate the expectation of a general revival. “The report will doubtless shed m”>'h light upon the unprecendented condit with which the credit and banking t ganizations of the country and more particularly the Federal Reserve system has bad to deal,” Harding stated. “The great economic reaction was not reflected immediately in the operations of the system for while the fall In commodity prices which began in the case of silk in March, IKK), had extended in a spectacular degree to practically ail commodities by October, the expansion of loans of the reserve banks continued until early in November.”

Recover Three Out of Five Stolen Autos Three of the Ore automobiles stolen last night were recovered by the police today. James W. Doty, 2331 Bhriver avenue, reported his automobile stolen from near the Public Library. Joy riders today returend It, deserting the automobile at the same place they stole It Saturday night. \Y. C. Le Feber, 440 North Rural street, told the police his automobile was stolen from Monument Circle. The automobile was found at 1001 East Michigan street. John Shea. 1454 Bates street, parked his automobile in front of his home. A thief stole the car and the police found it at Meridian and Merrill streets. Two automobiles which were not found by the police were owned by E. E. Radcliff, 1062 Reisner street, and L. A. Wilson, 31 North Warman avenue. Both cars were stolen from Peansylvanl and Market streets. Girl Plunges Five Stories to Death CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Depression, Induced by belief she had been unsuccessful in her chosen vocation, is believed today to have led Mis3 May Ginsburg, 22, of St. Paul to end her life by leaping from a fifth story window. She was the daughter of a St. Paul merchant and was graduated from the University of Minnesota last spring. She came to Chicago to eugage In social service work and Is sold to have told friends she felt depressed because she believed she was not “making good.’’ Plan Interstate Parley of Miners Spe< la! to The Times. TERRE H U'TE, Ind., Feb. 20 —An interstate ecnference of United Mine Workers will be called to formulate wage demands for various coal fields, it was learned officially today. The place and time of the meeting has not yet been decided upon, but the meeting is to be held immediately, it was said.

Pedestrians Think $22,000 Hold-up Is Merely Movie Stuff NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—William A. Russell, messenger of the Greenwich Bank, was held up and robbed of $22,000 by three motor bandits today. Pedestrians watched the operation under the Impression it was a movie plot being filmed.

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STATE PLANS NEW BARN AT FAIRGROUND Burned Structure to Be Replaced, Says Secretary. CAUSE IS SOUGHT Oil Stove Explosion Believed Origin of Fire. Anew barn to cost possibly 575,000 will be erected by the State board of agriculture at the State fairground to replace the building destroyed by fire Sunday, members of the board said today. The board met for a short time with Governor Warren T. McCray and then went to the scene of the Are in which 100 horses were burned. William Jones, financial secretary of the board of agriculture, said the \OSB to the State from the fire will be approximately $20,000, representing half the value of the building. The board carried $20,000 insurance on the building. The total loss Is put in the neighborhood of $200,000. An Investigation is being made to determine the origin of the fire. A number of men slept in the barns snd it is believed some of them heated their quarters with oil stoves. The remains of two stoves were found in the debris, one of them badly damaged as if It had exploded. Members of the board said employes had been ordered not to have oil stoves or torches In the barns. It is believed the board will be able to borrow money with which to pay for the new barns. The board has teen con(Continued on Page Five.)

G. 0. P. Wonders If President Harding on Eve of Bye-Elections Would Veto a Treasury Certificate ‘Bonus’ Bill

! Special to Indiana Dally Times : and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON. Feb. 20—A growing ! number of Republican Senator* are speculating seriously on the prospect of President Harding declining to veto a soldier ‘‘bonus'’ bill which would carry provisions for a treasury certificate authorization as a means of payment. They believe no other financing plan is likely jof adoption by Congress. They are wondering whether In the last analysis the President would not take that In preference to killing all “bonus" legislation on the eve of the bye-elections. The theory pursued by the Senate Republicans, as outlined by a leader of unquestioned intimacy with the White | House, takes Into account several possU billties. It contemplates first ths antagonism of the House to a general sales tax. The odds are so heavy against that proposal by the President as to all but rule It out of consideration. The Ways and Means Committee, it is argued, is , apt, therefore, to come ultimately to a form of taxation which leads ltsrdf most favorably to the vote catching purposes of the House members seeking re elec- j tlon. They would impose additional levies on the profits of corporations and on inheritances. SENATE WOULDN'T STAND FOR IT. It is argued that although the White House has taken a definite stand against the imposition of additional taxes, the ; President in the same message recom- | mended a sales tax—an added burden on the American consumers. They feel justified, therefore, in seeking the S3OO,- | 000,000 necessary for the first cash pay- ! menls from the pockets of wealth. Such a “bonus” bill going to the Senate ! would be scrapped almost Immediately according to the promises by G. O. P. leaders in the upper house. The Senate would discard the tax features and In- , serf some sort of bond provision, most ; likely the MeCumber suggestion for an j Issue of Treasury certificates maturing j In twenty years, but negotiable after five years. Senators favoring that scheme are trying to convince themselves additional certificates to the amount of $300,000,000 would not promote Inflation and would not disturb seriously any of the Treasury transactions. The Senate plan, taking cognizance of the certain conversion of the bonds into cash by the soldiers, thus would have the men themselves become their own bond salesmen Instead of having the Government undertake distribution. BRINGS I P A NEW THOUGHT. Such is the program now being talked over In cloakrooms of Senate and House. It presumes that the President has “passed the buck” to Congress, and that it shall go back to hhn. Some of his friends have expressed serious doubt that he would go through with his announced intention of vetoing any “bonus” bill al- ( though Senators who have discussed it J with him say he Is determined In his j opposition to any further Issue of bonds, j It is contended also tbut should the ! President abandon the stand taken In his Fordney letter of Thursday ho would have to give serious thought to the possibility of seeking anew Secretary of the Treasury. Old opponents of the "bonus” in the House, and they are few, profess to believe it is dead for this session—that postponement is inevitable since the President's statement of last week. They cannot conceive of the Ways and Means Committee hitting on any plan within the next few days that does uto come within (he category of the broad program already either abandoned as imp.ossH.le of passage or apparently “unalterably” opposed by the President. Chairman Fordney spoke the possibility of bis committee deciding up on again reporting a measure without provisions fox financ-

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ing it. He is known to be not unfriendly to such a proposition. But the President isAs for the sales tax, the one man designated by the Republican party to know vhat majority the House leadership commands on everything and anything, said it can not pass. His poll, admittedly of doubtful accuracy because of the number of members who are on the feuce, dla-

They'll Tackle It Again Tomorrow WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Consideration by a subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee of the various proposals to raise funds for the soldier "bonus” will begiu tomorrow, it was announced today by Representative Fordney, of Michigan, the committee chairman. The subcommittee will take up the sales tax recommendations of President Harding and will discuss other Suggestions, including direct taxation, re-enactment of the excess profits and payment of a “bonus” through savings effected in military and nacul expedltures. The American Legion, speaking through its nalional commander Hanford Macnlder, today made It plain lu a telegram to President Harding that it will strongly oppose any delay in granting the “bonus.” “The service men,” Macnlder wired the President, “do not understand first commitment and then retraction." "Had capital and labor been drafted when men's lives were drafted the present aggravated situation would not exist,” he said. "When it was a question of reimbursing manufacturers for war contracts never fulfilled, requiring some throe billion dollars, no such hue and cry was raised. It was an obligation and it was paid. Here is an obligation no less Just than that of the manufactarers, railroads and shipping interests. Certainly their services were not so much more patriotic than that of the men who offered their lives.”

Wins Dad’s Consent to Marry Swiss Groom MATHILDE M’CORM ILK, 16, TO WED MAX OSER, 57 Mature Wooer Must Quit His Fatherland

CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—The baby granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller has won Ihe right to marry the man she loved —a Swiss groom over thrice her age. Mathilde McCormick, 10, persuaded her father, Harold F. McCormick, multimillionaire head of the International Harvester Company, that her happiness depended on marrigae to Max Oser, Zurich, Switzerland. McCormick then made the announcement of the engagement. Only one string is attached to the consent of McCormick—Max Oser must quit his fatherland and come to America to live, friends of the family stated. This provision, it was said, was a concession to the world’s richest man, Rockefeller, the patriach of the family, who has prided himself publicly that fortuneseeking men of Europe never married Into his family. Mathilde, it was believed, will leave for Zurich to meet her horseman-fiance in May. She recently traveled the 6,000 miles from her bethothed to gain the consent of her father. Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who

• closes that the President's espousal of the sales iti changed a number of votes—- | but not enough votes. In his belief. Iu that connection, advocates of the ! saies tax are comforted by the telegrams and letters they ar# receiving from business meu who opposed the eight-point tax scheme and the bond issue plan. Many ' business men are opposing any tax and I many of them are opposing any cash j ’’bonus,” but the volume of protests against the sale* tax does not compare i with that against previous plans. And I farmers everywhere, of course, are opI posing the sales tax. I Reports that the cash feature of tho | “bonus” was “Imperilled” were denied by j prominent members of the Ways and ; Means Committee. Chairman Fordney | reiterated his prediction the old flve- | option bill, with a few minor change*. I will be ratified when It is placed before j the Republican members of the Com ; mtttee. —Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. • — 1 ■— Asks Brokerage Firm Be Declared Bankrupt NEW YORK, Feb. 20. —An Involuntary petition in bankruptcy was today filed against Kohler, Bremen &• Cos., brokers and members of tho Consolidated Stock Exchange, by the Gilbert O'Farrell Printing Company in the United States DisI triet Court. Judge Hand appointed Ajr- | thur F. Gotthold temporary receiver uni der bond of $25,000. The petition states that “or, information and belief" the assets amount to $150,000. Liabilities are estimated at approximately $500,000. Greenfield Reports Raid of Henhouses The Indianapolis police were asked today to bo on the lookout for thieves who robbed five hen bouses at Greenfield last night. According to the report to the police, Dr. Claude P. Wilson lost ten chickens, Ed Glasscock, 100; William Reeves, 15; George Reed, 20, ami Ollie Garrett, 25. The thieves ar e bolleved to have come to Indianapolis in an automobile.

To Guard Secrets , of Oser's Courtship ZURICH, Feb. 20.—Secrets of the courtship of Max Oser and little Mathilda McCormick are to be closely guarded If the McCormick millions can protect them. The manrgement of the Hotel Bauer, where the Swiss riding master wooed and won the affections of the Rockefeller heiress, today notified Its employes threatening with dismissal any servant who talked of the McCormick affnirs and doings while they were staying here. Many of the employes remember Mathilde only as an 11-yenr-old child.

recently divorced Mafhllde’s father, did not take part In the family council that ended in making the formal announcement, It was believed. She xema.l b<k In Mi Lake She** hem*

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POLITICS WILL PLAY PART IN HARTMANCASE Court Allows Defense to Ask Faith of Talesmen. STATE RETICENT Refuses to Reveal Word Concerning Accuser.

IT WOULDN’T DO It become known today that among the name* drawn out of the box by the Jury commissioners for the trial of J. Herbert Hartman was the name of Fred Hartman, a brother of the defendant, who also is Indicted In both Federal and the Criminal Courts. Although his name was drawn by the Jury commissioners. It was not certified to the Criminal Court in the special renire of seventy-five, it was announced at the clerk's office.

Holding that the defense has a right to know the politics of prospective Jurors in the case of J. Herbert Hartman, charged with receiving stolen goodß, Judge Alfred Murray Bain of the Circuit Court at Martinsville, sitting as special Judge in the trial which opened in the Marion Criminal Court today, opened the way for Hartman's counsel to make an exhaustive inquiry into the qualifications of prospective jurors. Hartman was the Republican nominee for judge of the City Court last year, hut was removed from the ticket after he had been indicted. Prosecutor William P. Evans objected to Ira Holmes, one of Harrman's attorneys, asking talesmen with what political party they wore affiliated. “This is not a political case,” Mr. Evans objected. Judge Bain ruled counsel for the defense had the right to such information In following tip this Hue of inquiry Mr. Holmes asked each talesmen if he took an active part in the last city primary and election and also 1/ any in the Jury box had served as precinct committeemen Before Mr. Holmes began questioning the prospective Jurors, he read the indictment charging Hartman with receiving stolen goods from another Slate. Mr. Holmes attempted to tell the Jury the defendant was Indicted following a “confession” mnde by Frank Francis, known as the “confessing burglar.” The State objected to such a statement on the part of Mr. Holmes, the court (Uontinned on Page Two.)

JAPAN PLANS TO SCRAP 24 SHIPS Navy Ministry Acts Under Washington Agreements. TOKIO, Feb. 20.—Announcement of plans to scrap a total of twenty-four ships in the .Tapnnsese navy was made by the navy ministry today as Japan's first step toward placing into effect the Washington arms limitation agreements. Tho ships to he scrapped, according to the announcement, include ten obsolete cruisers, sir battle cruisers now 1n course of construction and eight capital ships which have been placed, but keels for which have not yet been laid. Masked Men Take 3 Loads of Whisky VERSAILLES. Ky„ Feb. 2b.—Twenty masked men today held up, binding and gagging throe gunrds at the Old Pepper Distillery, near here, sud escaped with three large truckloads of bottled whisky. The value of the haul is variously estimated at between $30,000 and $40,000, bootleggers’ prices. PASSED FRAUDULENT CHECK. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 20.—Burton Cooley, 41, Columbia, S. C., alias Albert Coley, alias J. H. White, was held here today on fradnlent chock charges. Police say Cooley has oue wife in South Carolina and another in Tern* Haute, Ind. He passed a six 'dollar check hero but made it good before arrested.

where she has been living apart from her husband since she returned from a seven years' sojourn In Switzerland, and obtained a divorce. It was on this visit that Mathilde met and fell in love wlrh Oser, who used to rent horses to the McCormicks. Mathllde’s sister Muriel and brother Fowler, both In New York now, also held out against the marriage, it was said. From Emil Burgy, cousin of Oser who Is an Interior "decorator here, comes the story of the man who Is about to marry Into America’s wealthiest family. Burgy states Oser is 57, not 47 as formerly stated. “He Is my age,” says the cousin. "I know him Intimately.” Burgy said the father of his cousin Max was a German nobleman named Count von de.r Muehl. “Max took the name of his slep-father, who made $1,500,000 in the cotton business In America after the Civil War,” said Burgy. “Max Isn’t pennllgss. He has an Income (Continued *a I’Mf XnJ

PRESIDENT REPLIES TO RESOLUTION ON FOUR-POWER TREATY No Records Kept of Informal Conversations, He States —Add s It Wouldn’t Be Compatible Anyway. DECLARES ‘EVERYTHING’ IS IN TEXT WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. —It Is impossible to give the Senate the iiw formal conversations out of which the four-power Pacific treaty was evolved, President Harding informed the Senate today In reply to the Hitchcock resolution. In a brief letter to the Senate Harding said no records were kept of the conversations which were purely informal. Even if there were records, President Harding said, he would regard it as Incompatible with public policy to reveal them. He said he could reassure the Senate, however, that there were no secret understandings of any Bort,

SAYS TAYLOR HAD QUARREL WITH WOMAN New Witness to Tell of Trouble Involving Slain Film Director. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20— A woman who claims to know of a bitter quarrel between a woman and WlHiam Desmond Taylor a few days before he wag murdered was summoned to the district attorney's office today to tell her story, which was expected to furnish new clews in the investigation of the mystery slaying. Precautions were taken to keep the woman witness' identity secret, as she informed Chief Deputy District Attorney W. C. Doran she would not appear unless she was assured that she would be shielded from publicity and that her name would not appear la connection with the investigation. The woman told Doran that she knew both Taylor and the other woman with whom, she said, he quarreled several days before he was slain. The quarrel, according to the woman, occurred at Taylor's home and worried the director considerably. It was said that if the woman's story warranted the move, the other woman who quarreled with Taylor would be located immediately and questioned by District Attorney NVoolwlne. While the woman’s appearance at the District Attorney's office was awaited, police detectives were searching for a negro drug addict whom, they said, they will arrest on sight in connection with the investigation. Circumstances throwing suspicion on the negro, the officers said must be explained by him before he can be eliminated a* the possible slay- c. The detectives declare the negro for whom they were searching was not Henry Peavey, Taylors valet-cook, who report* to the officers daily.

SAYS BERGDOLL j LOST HIS RIGHTS Alien Property Custodian Fights Efforts of Mother to Recover Property. I WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Declaring 1 Grover Cleveland Bergdoll lost his rights as an American citizen by his conviction I as a draft dedger. Col. Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian, today attacked the right of Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, Grover’s mother, to recover property valued at $750,000 seized from her son under the trading with the enemy act. Miller filed an answer In the District Supreme Court to the petition of Mrs. Bergdoll to obtain return of the property. The alien property custodiin also attacked the right of Mrs. Bergdoll to bring proceedings for her son under a power of attorney, declaring the process lls void. He asked that her suit be dis- | missed. Four Lose Lives in Huge Slide of Snow DENVER, Colo., Fob. 20.—Paul Paulsen, assistant roadmaster, and three sec- . tlon workers were killed and the engineer : and fireman of a locomotive were Injured i when the engine was struck by a heavy j snow slide and carried several hundred f<>et over an embankment on the Denver j & Salt Lake railroad near Corona, Colo.. Sunday. The slide occurred near the “Top of the World.” 11,000 feet above sea level, after ' the engine had become stalled In a snowdrift and the workmen were melting snow to obtain water for the engine boiler*. Lloyd George Says Treaty Is Awaited LONDON, Feb. 20.—Premier Lloyd George announced during question time I In the House of Commons this afternoon : the cabinet will present the Washington treaty to Parliament for consideration as soon as the certified copy has been received from Washington. He declared the date of the Genoa conference still is uncertain, and .will depend upon the formation, of anew Italian ! government. Reports Loss of SSOO Diamond Shirtstud i Frank K. O’Toole, 82 North New 1 Jersey street, asked the police today to help him find his SSOO diamond shirt- | stud. He said he forgot to take It out of a short which he sent to the laundry and that when the shirt was returned the stud was gone. Oldest Woman Dies MUNCIH, Ind., Feb. 20.—Elizabeth | West Jackson, 97, oldest woman In Dela- I ware County and a resident of the county j for seventy-five years, died at her home | here today*.

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Just before President Harding's reply was received the Foreign Relations Committee, by a vote of 10 to 1, voted a favorable report on the treaty with Japan on the Island of Yap and Pacific cable rights. NO COMMENT ON r LETTER IN SENATE. The President’s letter was read In the Senate, bnt brought forth no discussion. Senator Hitchcock, moved that the letter be referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. This was done without opposition. Hitchcock Indicated that as he has to leave the city some other Senator will ask that Secretary Hughes bo asked to appear and give the desired information. Hitchcock stated, however, that he would first confer with other Senators before deciding whether to insist on Secretary Hughes’ appearance. The text of President Harding's letter follows: “To the Senate: “Responsive to Senate resotntlons 237, asking for records, minutes, arguments, debates, conversations, etc., relating to the so-called four-power treaty, I have to advise that It is Impossible to comply with the Senate request. “Many of the things asked for In tbo resolution. It is literslly Impossible to furnish because there were many conversations and discussions quite outside the conference yet vital to its success. Naturally these are without record. DECLARES THERE’S NOTHING SECRET. “I do not believe It to be compatible with public interest or consistent with the amenities of International negotiations to attempt to reveal informal and confidential conversations or discussions of which no record was kept or to submit tentative suggestions or Informal proposals without which the arrival of desirable international understandings would be rendered unlikely If not Impossible. “While I am unable to transmit the InformaMon requested I do, however, take this opportunity to say most emphatically that there were no concealed understandings and no secret exchanges of notes and that there are no committments whatever except as appear In the fourpower treaty itself and the supplementary agreement which are now in the hands of the Senate.”

TIGER OWNERS ARE CONVICTED Six Are Found Guilty by City Judge Wilmeth. Os ten blind tiger eases scheduled $• be tried in city court today six fendants were convicted and four were continued. The dates of the bearings continued follow: Roy Koerman. Feb, 24; Ralph Hyatt, Feb. 28; Charles Fiske, Feb. 24, and Harold Mattock, Feb. 28. Ivan Mclntire and Toney Cardinal, who were arrested Saturday when the yarrived at the garage in the rear of 29 North Arsenal avenue, pleaded guilty to a charge of operating a blind tiger. Police said the men were caught with an automobile in which there were fortyone gallons of “white mule” whisky. Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth fined each men SIOO and costs and added a sentence ot thirty days on the Indiana State Farm. John Dennis was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thirty Jays on the farm, Ira Lynn was fined SSO and costs; Rico Hayes, SSO and costs, and Leroy Jackson Glares, S3O and cost* on “tiger* charges. Pneumonia and Flu Death Rate Slumps Deaths from pnenmonla and influenza diminished somewhat from Saturday morning until this morning, as compared with any day last week. Five died from pneumonia and two from influenza over the week-end, the city health department reports show. As high as nine deaths a day were reported last week. Mac Sweeney Will Speak March 17 Edward F. Mac Sweeney of Boston, chairman of the history commission of the Knights of CAlumbus and a member of the Boston t/hool board, will be the principal speaker at the St Patrick's day mass meeting In Tomlinson Hall the afternoon of March 17, James E. Deery, head of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, announced today. The nsual St Patrick's day celebration will be held, with a parade preceding* the mass meeting.

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