Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Cloudy tonight, fair Friday. Much colder with cold wave.

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Declares Chinaman Murdered W.D. Taylor

‘CONFESSING BURGLAR’ REFUSES TO REVEAL WORLD WAR RECORD Francis Says Statements Relative to Army Service Might Incriminate Him in Federal Action. J. H. HARTMAN TRIAL IN PROGRESS By hurling abuse at Attorney Eph Inman and refusing to answer any Questions relative to his world war record, Frank Francis, "confessing .burglar,” today blocked Inman’s attempts to successfully Interrogate him 'in the Marlon County Criminal Court during the fourth day of the trial of J. Herbert Hartman, deposed Republican nominee for the city judgeship at the last city election, now on trial on a charge of receiving stolen goods. In a vigorous attempt to 6btain information from Francis regarding his “entrance” into the Army during the world war, Mr. Inman hurled question after question in vain at Francis.

“Why do you refuse to answer those questions.” demanded Inman. “I refuse to answer any questions regarding my World War record,” declared Francis. “Wh?” demanded Inman. “Because it might incriminate me in Federal action,” stated Francis. “Asa matter of fact you were never in the Army,” said Inman. “You are a d —d liar,” screamed Francis. The State and the court objected to such encounters. "The witness can call me anything he wants to,” Mr. Inman said. “I am here as a gentleman defending this Case and I know what the witness is.” ’ , “I know what you are,” retorted Francis. Judge Bain ordered counsel to proceed. \ STORMY ENCOUNTERS \ MARK SESSION. The sessions today were marked witln several stormy encounters between Mr. Inman and Francis. The defense attempted to show by questions that Dr. Edwin H. Katterhenry, whose home Francis robbed, was a “kind friend” to Francis while treating Mrs Francis after the birth of a child. “Dr. KAtterheury was your friend and son robbed his bouse?” asked Inman. "No friend of mine,’ answered Francis. And before Mr. Inman coulu answer question, Francis loudiy declared, “The old gent bought whisky from me.” After the shock of the assertion died away, Mr. Inman said loudly, “You mean to say to the Jury that Dr. Katterhenry bought whisky from you ?” "I certainly do,” answered Francis in a voice as loud as Mr. Inman had used. Although Mr. Inman seemed able to lessen the weight of some of Francis' evidence against Hartman, yet it appears that counsel is unable to prevent Francis from emphasizing certain very intimate relationships which Francis claims existed between he and Hartman. The cross examination of Francis by Mr. Inman brought out the following allegations: That Jess Morgan, who Francis said is a professional automobile crook, slept t>ne .night in Hartman's garage and that Hartman knew he was there. That Francis had two stolen cars in the political parade before the primary -Instead of "about three’ as he stated on direct examination and that Hartman was in Francis’ car only a short, time instead of riding in the car during the entire parade. That there was no truth to the statement that on Francis’ first visit to Hartman's office that he mistook Attorney William H. Faust for Hartman. SAYS HARTMAN NOT PARTY TO WHISKY SALE. Francis today denied that Hartman received any of the S7OO from stolen whisky which was sold by Francis in Dayton. Yesterday Francis testified that some of the money was used in the primary campaign of Hartman. Today ho stated that Hartman had nothing to do with the selling of the whisky in Doyton. He insisted that some of the stolen whisky was delivered to Hartman’s home. Francis denied his wife was a professional dancer and a saxophone player. Mr. Inman succeeded in gaining some ground concerning the way Francis’ household goods were taken to Hartman’s home. Francis admitted that he asked Hartman where he could store the goods and also if Hartman had at place. Mr. Inman was able to bring out that Hartman said the only place he had In his house* was his basement. Francis stated Hartman arranged to have the goods moved from Francis’ flat to Hartman’s home on Francis’ request. Francis stated that some of the goods moved to Hartman's home were some which he had stolen from Dr. Katterhenry s home. The defense gained some ground when Francis admitted that he signed a bill of sale selling Ms household goods to Hartman for sK¥> with the exception 01 some Indian mgs, fur coats, a saxophone and the like. The defense also introduced a note which Francis claimed he wrote and gave Rartmnn. This is the note instructing (Irs. Francis to give Hartman a diaQind ring. , The note is as follows: 'Lera—This attorney will represent us and you teli him what they said and I (Continued on Page Two.) STEAL S4O SILVERWARE. Burglars entered the home of A. B. Cross, 1527 Norih New Jersey street last tight. Mr. Cross reported to the police that silverware worth $49 was missing.

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Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Feb. 24. 11)22: Cloudy tonight, followed by fair weather Friday; much colder, with a cold wave; lowest temperature tonight about '‘O degrees. 110 Cn L Y TEMPERATURE. 0 a. m 52 7 a. m 51 S a. m 40 9 a. m 49 10 a. m 4s 31 a. m 40 12 (noon) 37 1 p. m 34 2 p. m....... 34

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REFORMATORY SITE REMAINS TO BE CHOSEN Governor Issues Statement Following Visit to Pendleton. A site not now under consideration may be chosen for the Indiana Reformatory, Governor Warren T. McCray said < today. He made this statement following the inspection by himself and members of the relocation commission of the proposed isite near Pendleton. \l'he Governor explained the site at F%ndleton is still being considered and tb\ sites at Acton and Moeresville are alsi still -dieing discussed, lfe said the commission will Inspect the Actoa site aguirt tomorrow. “There Is no assurance the Institution wiir c* to any of the sites now under consideration,” the Governor said. "The are too high on all of them and they must come down.” The commission took up the consideration of the Pendleton site yestrday afternoon a T ’ter they had received a delegation of two hundred persons from Carmel insisting that the reformatory should be placed at their town. A committee representing civic and commercial interests at Pendleton and beaded b; Senator William A. Swain, was called before the removal commission twice during the afternoon. The P- udiJton site Is about two mile's south of the town on the Union tractiors interurban Hie and the Big Four railroad. It includes 1,030 acres of land, the average price if whh b is SIBO an acre. The Carmel Itdegallon which came to the city oc specdal interurban earsr was given a hearing before tho commission and left without any definite answer. The spokesmen fut the delegation were Asa Hodgin, trustee of Clay Township Hamilton County; Ari< ison Newlin. for mer State Representative from Hamilton County, and the Rev. Vli tor Hargett of the Carmel Methodist Church. All insisted that a majority of the citizens of the town wish the reformate v. They also declared that published reports to the effect that one thousand persons attended a meeting in the Carmel l.brary as a protest against the reformatory were untrue. They said the library will hold only two hundred persons. Their estimates of the size of the gathering ranged from forty-eight to seventy five. Commons Has No Time for ‘Gabfest’ LON DON, Feb. 28.—The treaties * rowing: out of the Washington confer* nr-e are not ot be debated by the Ifouae of Common*, wcordlnjf to u statement made today by Austen Chamberlain, government spokesman. He said that “Commons was unable to spare a day for discussion of the Washington conference/* Horatio Bottomley Faces Fraud Charge LONDON, Fch. 23.—Horatio Bottomley. M. P . former publisher of "John Bull.” notorious for bis anti American attitude has been summoned by the public prosecutor and will be arraigned on March 8 on a charge of misappropriate• five thousand pounds of public subscriptions to his alleged “fake” victory bond chins, Bottomley has been defendant in numerous suits of a similar nature.

Duke Avenges Wife’s Honor In Battle With Sculptor Duel Follows Nose Pu nchitw und Bas-Relief Causes It A lt\

ROME, Feb. 23. —The honor of Duchess Lorlonia, formerly Elsie Moore of Connecticut, was avenged on the field of honor here today when her husband, the Duke, wounded Count Filippo Lovutelll after eighteen minutes of furious dueling. The affair of honor, one of the first to be known publicly here since duelling went out of fashion, stirred Rome society. The Duke had engaged the Count who is a sculptor to make a bas-relief of his wife, who was the daughter of the late Charles Moore, a New England manufacturer. The Count asked for advance payment when the marble was half completed. The Duke replied the bas-relief was not worth much and sent one thousand lire, pleading the high cost of living. ,

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FIELDS TELLS HOW DIRECTOR WAS KILLED 1 Suspect Says He Heard Fatal Shot While Waiting in Car. HIRED AS DRIVER LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.—The confession of llarry N. Fields, alias ’’Harry the the Chink,” who told the Detroit police he assisted in tho slaying of William Desmond Taylor, was receded at the sheriff’s office today. Fields names At ong Lee, alias "Sammle Lee,” a Chinese, as the slay er. A woman known as Jennie Moore and a man known as Johnnie Clark were members of the “murder party,” Fields said.

DETROIT, Feb. 23.—Harry Fields, county jail prisoner, today told authorities he sat in an automobile outside the Hollywood home of William Desmond Taylor and heard the shot fired which resulted In the death of the film director. Two men and a woman, passengers in his car, has Just entered the bungalow when the shot was fired, be said. One of the men was a Chinaman, a wealthy leader In tong warfare and dopesmuggling. It was this Chinaman, ho declared, who fired the shot that killed Taylor. Fields said he could show Los Angeles officers the exact spot where the trio buried the revolver used in the shooting, in the alley a few blocks from the scene of the murder. y “They told me nothing about a murder when they asked me to drive them to the Taylor house,” Fields told au- I thorltles here. They did, however, say I they were going to kidnap Taylor’s daughter, to get revenge for his having come between the dope smuggling ring and a prominent actress, who had once before been a "dope” addict. AV.AITED WHILE GUN'WAS BURIED. “I drove tuem away fronjgpDhe Taylor bungalow after the shot was fired, waited for them while they burled the gun, anil ; then took them into downtown Los Angeles, where the Chinese handed me , S9OO without a word. "When I realized a murder had been committed I took the first train for Seattle. From there I telegraphed to Joseph Dederich, Fedgral narcotic expert, i in Detroit, and told him I was coming here. ’ Th s Chinamar, a white man and two white women hatched the plot to murder Taylor In a dope den the night of Jan. 31. Fields declared. W'hllo In tho den, Fields says, he overheard the Chinaman inquire for a man who could drive a Ford and declares he volunteered bis (Continued on Page Two.)

Mathilde to Visit Grandpa John I). to Tell Him About Max '■ DAYTONA, Fla., Feb. 23.—Mist Mathilda McCormick, grnnddaugliter of John D. Rockefeller, and her father, Harold F. McCormick, will visit the aged : oil king at his Ormond Beach home here “very soon,” according to a statement | by n close friends of the oil magnate today and will discuss the proposed marriage of Miss McCormick to Max Osor, , Swiss riding master. The aged multi-millionaire has not yet consented to the wedding, according to friends, although it wag reported in Chicago he has acquiesced. Man, Giving St. Louis as Home, Dies Here ; A (nan who gave his name as L. C. Murp/hy. 57. died at St. Vincent’s llo*j pltalj today. The man appeared at the ' hospiStal three days ago without money and paid he had no home. He was cared for all the institution until he died. When ho niipeared at the hospital he said he was (firiginally from St. Louis. ) Not Exempt! Divjidends received from building and j loan associations during the year 1921 are : not .exempt from the income tax, according t*> a statement issued today by M. Bert "Thurman, collector of internal reve- . cue. | "I hjave been informed that a number of | buildhug and loan associations have told their / stockholders,” Collector Thurman ; said. ! “that dividends of this character ! up tci S3OO may be deducted in making out 1(921 Income tax reports. This is in-corm'-’t. A law to this effect has been enacty-d, hut it became effective Jan. 1. | and (will not be applicable until the 1922 1 iucoiLe tax reports are made out.

Indignant, thte Count placed a purse, marked ‘T.OOO lisfe,” in the hand of his of the (Duchess and added the ducal arms with Ikn English Inscription of his own InventloJP: “I have my moneyy’ * This marble he exhibited In his studio. " • A j The Duke met the Coulnt at the benefit ball to raise funds for tlj)e Anglo-Ameri-can Hospital in Rome, and punched him on tin' nose in good American style. A challenge to a duel followed and the gallants met at dawn jin the (prescribed manner. It was no mock duel. After five furious assaults by tthe outraged Duke, he succeeded In pinning bis adversary In the arm and stalked from i tha field to tell the Duchess, *j

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23,1922.

Wed, Lost $2,000,000 I ICi’S'. dtbffojrv | - ■ i . :s. I Mrs. Preston Gibson, third wife of the New York society man and playwright, who lost an inheritance of $2,000,d')0 left her by her grandfather, the late Henry H. Rogers, by eloping In 1919, has started suit, in Paris, preparatory to demanding a divorce. She was married to Mr. Gibson In 1919 folio whig her divorce from Alexander D. B. Pratt She had violent quarrels with her father following her marriage, but finally they breams reconciled. N. Y. Sub-Postoffice Is Robbed of $3,100 NEW YORK. Feb. 23.—Flve*irmed i tmruitf# today robbed th© \\ tlllum*i biirjr Sub-Po*toffice* here of SB,IOO. Enter I n|r the drug; More in which tho nnb-poetoffire wn# located they barked it# occupant# Into the prescription room at the point# of revolvers and took their time rifling tills and feathering up stamps. They escaped In an Automobile.

MADDEN DECLARES HE’LL MOVE TO STOP FUNDS FOR AIRSHIPS Says Dirigibles of No Good in Warfare — ‘Accomplish Nothing but to Kill People.’ t ■■ ———— WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. —Construction of any other largo dirigibles by the Army qr Navy will be opposed by Representative Madden, Illinois, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Because of the Roma disaster. Madden, after a call at the White House, said he had decided definitely to take steps through his committee to Btop all appropriations for dirigible development. "Such ships accomplish nothing but to kill people,” Madden said. "They are of no value in war.”

Navy Doesn't Wish Zeppelin Unless It Be German Gif i WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 —Th© German government probably will be notified that the I'uitrd States doe* not want the now type Zeppelin dirigible, negotiation* for which have been in progmn for gome time, it developed today a* an aftermath of th© lloma disaster. Secretary of Navy Denby formally notified the Statu Department, which ha had the negotiation* in charjfo, that the Navy doe* not want the dirigible ‘'unk* It can be procured without cost’* to the ITnited State*. ‘Hold Roma Disaster as Own Misfortune 9 gKOMK. Feb. 3.- M We regard th© Boma disaeter a* our own miwfor♦"ii ue,’* dfHilared Signor Gaparr<vtto, war minister In <h Honorni cabinet today. “It was a tragic elrruinstance that news of this misfortune should come from the Gutted States. Italy mourns with America In her bereavement**' Congress Cleared WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—MaJ. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service, today formally absolved Congress from blama for tlie accident to the airship Roma because of alleged failure to provide necessary funds for the production of helium gas. Postpones Reception WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. Th© White Houne announced today that President Hard in ft hud decided to postpone until April 10 the Army and Navy reception, ucheduled for tonight, because of the Roma disaster at Hampton Hoads. City Craves Light °n Light Companies A request the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company nnd the Merchants Heat and Light Company, file detailed information concerning their affairs In connection with the rate hearing to he opened by the public service commission Monday, was filed with the commission today by Taylor E. Gronlnger, corporatism counsel for the city of Indianapolis. air. Gronlnger asks the companies set but their income account, their operating expenses, the amount of coal consumed In 1921 and its cost, the kilowatt hours of current generated In 1921, the unit cost of production of current, and the additions and betterments made in 1921.

LODGE STIRS UP COMMITTEE BY PROPOSAL Suggests Substitute for Brandegee Reservation. VISITS HARDING Four - Power Pacific Storm Said to Be Outgrowth. WASHINGTON, Fob. 23.—A reser-, vation suggested by Senator Lodge today as a substitute for the proposed Brandegee reservation to the four-power Pacific treaty provoked the stormiest session of tho Senate Foreign Relations Committee it has had since it began consideration of the armament conference treaties. It was understood the reservation was agreed upon by President Harding and Lodge at a conference they had previously at the White House. The purport of the Lodge reservation 88 describe*! by one committee member was that It provides that the Unit* <1 Stale understands that neither the - preamble nor the terms of the treaty 'icontemplate the foi mntion of on alliance,” and that the United States Is “not <-->minltted to tho defense” of any of the Island or dominion provinces or other powers signatory to It, “without the processes provided by tho Constitution.”

The financial loss to the Government because of the Roma disaster will be more than |2,000,000 officials said. The Mg ship cost slightly under $2,000,000 and Insurance claims will require at least $250,000. OFFICERS ANI> CREW TO ItE KXONERAATED. The Army air board of Inquiry probing the range of the Roma disaster will completely absolve the dirigible's officers and crew from all blame for the catastrophe, it was learned nuthoritatlvely. The board will make Its report to Lieut, Col. Arthur G. Fisher, commanding officer of the Army Air Station at Langley Field. It in expected to be rendered late today or tomorrow and will hold that a “broken rudder” caused the Roma to nose-dive until it crashed In a burst of tlame at the Army Supply base at Hampton Hoads. The board Is now seeking to determine what defect resulted In the breaking of the rudder. Officers and men of the Roma's crew. It was learned, will bo upheld as having done all In their power to prevent the disaster. The board, it was Indicated will point out that the tragic end of the nose dive occurred so quickly that the crew was unable to toss ballast overboard. Such action, It was believed could hardly have prevented the crash. It will be pointed out that had th< Roma not struck the high tension voltage wires, which caused (he explosion, there probably would have been but few cas unities. The soft envelope of the dirigible, It was said, would have acted as a cushion In the fall, saving the crew from dent h. nr FA ELAND’S BOD Y IS STARTED WEST NEWPORT NEWS. Va Feb. 23 America began to bury her air dead this afternoon. From this seaport town, now holding the charred bodies of thirty-four American ldrdmen who "crashed” In the Roma, the army started the first body on lts long Journey. Oapt. Alien I\-McFarland, slain in his observer's seat aboard the queen of dirigibles, was the advance guard of the dead. His body was sent to Danville, 111. Others soon to follow will Journey into twenty different Stntes. While Army planes droned softly overhead and a church bell tolled Its song to the dead near at hand, the body of Captain McFarland left the morgue in the first Roma funeral procession. Headed by time 1 honored military guard the little procession crossed the town to St. John's Church. There the glory of hisdeath was extolled by Army chaplains while mourner.) stood at the bier. A little later Captain McFarland began his journey to boyhood scenes In Illinois for the last Tong sleep. The flag-draped coffin was placed aboard the "day boat” en route northward, thence to be transferred at Baltimore for the rail trip across the continent. With .the body went his brother, Capt. Fletcher O. McFarland of Washington,

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PAYMENT FOR CONCERTS HELD UP BY BOARD School Commissioners Have Doubts About Legality. OTHER SCHOOL MATTERS Payment of the board of school commissioners’ sharo of a bill of $795.13, covering the cost of municipal concerts since last September, was held up at a special meeting of the board today, pending an opinion from Albert Baker, attorney for the board, as to the legality of making the payment. This action was taken because of the fact that $359.25 of tho amount is represented by bills due the Enquirer Printing and Publishing Company, of which Clarence E. Crippin, who was a member__of the school board until Jan. 1, Is president. CONTENTION OVER PRINTING. It was contended by Charles L. Barry, president of the board, that Crippin’s company had no right to bo Interested In any prlntiug for which the school board would be called upon to pay while he was a member of the board. Walter J. Twlname, business director, was Instructed to investigate former payments for municipal concert expenses and report if the Enquirer Printing and Publishing Company had been doing printing work for these concerts in the past. The hoard also decided to take no further part In municipal concerts this year. President Barry explained that this action had been taken because In the past the school board has borne half the expenses while It has had no voice In the preparation of the programs or any part In the formulation of policy, which he said had been done entirely by the hoard of park commissioners. High salaried soloists had been hired without notice to the school boyd. he stated, and even the dates o:f the concerts tad not been sent to members of the school board. “Later cn we may again parti ■ipat' in thefle concerts,” Mr. Burry said after the j meeting, ‘ !f some system of joint control ! If worked out whereby the school .board . Is given e me say in the matter.” FINAL PAYMENT ON ARSENAL TECH. I Although final Inspection of the shops and power house at Arsenal Technical ! High School has not been made, the j board authorized the final payment of $33,0<>0 on tho general contract today. ! The payment was made to the National I City Bank, to which It had been assigned | by Charles J. Wackcr, the contractor. ! It was for this purpose that the meeting ;of the hoard was called. It developed that Waiker, under the Impression that a regular meeting of the board would be held Tuesday night, had Issued checks : to cover payments to subcontractors and workmen anil those , h-cks would he worthless uniess a special meeting of the board was called to authorize final payment. President Barry explained ; that tlio bonds are more than sufficient to cover any Imperfections which may ; develop on final Inspection.

SOCIETY WOMEN OF WASHINGTON ARE THREATENED WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.3.—A sensation which lias kept Washington social circles In a furore l’or ten days came to light today when it was learned a number of the most prominent matrons In capital society have received letters threatening them with death unless they gave up sums varying between $15,000 anil $25,000. Among those who have received the Iteoers sro: Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, whose son is a United States Senator from West Virginia: Mrs. Hcnrjr White, wife of the diplomat and former member of rhe American peace commission at Parts, and Mrs. Scott Townsend. The letters were similar In each instance, it was said, and demanded tho recipient deposit huge sums of money at designated places around Washington on the pain of having their magnificent homes blown up “during social affairs." The missives were not of the ordinary “blaekhand" type, but on the contrary wore written on paper of good quality and In faultless English. In each case the writer gave explicit directions where the money was to be deposited and how the messenger was to take it to the spot.

‘ Worst Storm in 7 Years’ Is Sweeping Northwest Snow Hampers Rail and Wire Traffic Inch Fall in Duluth .

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 23.—The Northwest today was in the grip of a heavy snow storm. Transportation has been tied up at many points and complete Isolation Is feared. All train service to the West has teen abandoned and East-bound trains were ordered to proceed under “safety” signals with little hope of reaching their destinations within anything like schedule time. Reports from North and South Dakota said the “worst storm in seven years” was raging there. The storm extended as far West as the Rocky Mountains. The fall of snow was suld to be heavy in Montana. 1 The head of the Great Lakes country, including Duluth and the Minnesota ranges, reported a snowfall of tweutyj six Inches. In Duluth the telephone company was housing their employes in a downtown hotel. The Olympian, crack Milwaukee road coast train, was reported tied .up at McIntosh, Minn. Officials there said the

GETS S9OO IN BONDS, S6OO STAMPS, $25 AT 1012 N. ALABAMA ST. House Occupants Away About Two Hours, Leaving Front Door Unlocked. CASH WAS KEPT IN LOCKED TRUNK A daylight burglar today obtained $1,500 in Liberty bonds and war savings stamps and $25 in money from tb ehoma of Lee M. Cabby, 1012 North Alabama street. Mrs. Cabby left the house at 8:30 a. m., leaving the front door unlocked. When she returned at 10:-55 o’clock she discovered a burglar bad been In the house. The burglar had broken into the room of L. M. Teckler, a roomer, and took S9OO in Liberty bonds and S6OO in war savings stamps. He also broke into a trunk belonging to Mr3. Cabby and took $25 In money.

NINE DIE FROM PNEUMONIA IN 24-HOURPERIOD Influenza Epidemic Shrws No Real Abatement, Health Official Says. Nine persons died from pneumonia and one from Influenza between 10 o'clock Tuesday morning and the same hour today, city health department re-cords show. The Influenza epidemic has shown no real sign of abatement, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board of public health, said. While the situation still la serioua the death rate is not so high as it was early in the month. During the week ending Feb. 4, Indianapolis had the highest death rate in the country, according to United States Public Health Service figures. The rate was 28.7 per thousand population on an annual basis. The national report for the week ending Feb. 18 shows Indianapolis fourth with a rate of 22.8. Pittsburgh was hardest hit with 24.0, with Kansas City, Kan., at 23.6, and Albany, N. Y., at 23.1, following. The general mortality rate for the ■ country last week waa 18.4. Flap! Flap! Flap! the Boys Are Flapping! Boulevards Unsafe CHICAGO. Feb. 23.—The flippant heflapper wae blamed today tor the woes of Mr*. Constancy Carr, 23. and pretty, Just freed of cliarges of being a boulevard “vamp.” Constance galloshed out of moral* court and confided thusly to the whole wide world: “Blah! It Isn't the girls who do the boulevard vamping. It’s the men. These he-fllrts are the most despicable creatures In creation —the dirty tilings: Constance, the State sought to prove, attempted to vamp the owner of an automobile by parking herself In the bgck seat when he wasn't looking. “I'm not satisfied just because the Jndges said boulevard vamping was not breaking the law.” she said. "They blame everything on the girls and never say a word about the men. "The boulevards never will be safe for decent, respectable girls until the heffnppers run out of gas. “Tlie horrid things do their best to display themselves with perfume and then try to lure poor girls into their automobiles. “Give me the old fashioned man who wore suspenders and chewed tobaoco!” Asks Camp Grant Site for First^Offenders WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.3.—Attorney General Daugherty today announced he would ask the War Department to turn over to the Department of Justice a portion of the land at Camp Grant, 111., to be used as a place fer an industrial training school for first offenders among Federal prisoners. Daugherty believes such men should not be put into penitentiaries with hardened criminals where associations leave a lasting mark. He Still Blushes NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Samuel Weinstein, afflicted with chronic blushing, paid Dr. Thomas W. Edgar, monkey gland expert $ 15(1 for a gland to cure | him. He blushed in court as he sued the doctor.

storm In that region was growing in Intensity. W inter came back to Indiana today on a blast from the north. Adventuresome i robins were astounded, golf enthusiasts put back the clubs they had been polishing, and those short-sighted individuals who wore raincoats instead of overcoats were kicking themselves. The day started like a day In spring, ' hut it didn't continue that way. At 6 o'clock the thermometer registered 52 degrees* at 7 o’clock it had dropped to 31 and at 8 o’clock and 9 o'clock It w~as 49. The*- it began to drop In earnest. At 10 o'clock the mercury showed 44, at 11 o’clock 42, ami at 12 o’clock 37. The 1 weather man said it would continno to drop. The forecast is for cloudy tonight* foil lowed by fair weather Friday; much colder, with a cold wave; lowest temperature tonight about 20 degrees. The cold wave, the weather man said, will continue for “possibly a couple of days.”

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SUIT ATTACKS CONSOLIDATION OF COMPANIES Indianapolis and Kokomo Join in Action Opposing Merger. Asking the order of the public serrle* commission approving the Indiana Electric Corporation merger be set aside aa null and void, the cities of Indianapolis and Kokomo today filed suit against the commission, the seven utilities and the corporation Involved in the proposed combination In Mrrion County Superior Court, Rooom 2. The complaint also asks the defendant Merchants Heat and Light Company, Indianapolis; Elkht.rt Gas and Fuel Company, Valparaiso Lighting Company, Indiana Railways *nd Light Company, Kokomo; Wabash valley Electric Company, Putnam Electric Company, Greencastle, an-d Cayura Electric Company be perpetually enjoined from selling their properties to tho defendant Indiana Electric Corporation. The eompla>*-* xMyiews In detail the filing before >. denial by the public service commission of the original petition for the merger on a $21,000,000 capitalization basis; the filing and approval by the commission of the second petition on a $17,500,030 -capitalization basis and the commission’s denial of the cities’ petition for rehearing, then alleges the commission erred in granting the second petition for sixty-three reasons. The reasons are the saino as set out in the petition for rehearing before the commission, touching chiefly upon alleged Illegality of the merger. Attorneys for Indianapolis In the suit ~re Corporation Counsel Taylor E. Gronlnger and former Corporation Counse* Samuel Ashby, ts special counsel, and for Kokomo are Fred Bates Johnson, special counsel, autd Fred H. Jessup, city attorney.

PLAN TO HAVE THIRD TICKET Fusion Party Springs Up in Nebraska. LINCOLN. Neb.. Feb. 23.—Nonpartisan Leaguers and the “third party of Nebraska" today virtually completed plans for backing a Joint ticket in the fall elections. State conventions of both parties are la session in Lincoln. A. C. Townley, na-', tlonal head of the Nonpartisan League, Is attending the convention, and has indorsed the principle of the third party. Nonpartisan leaders of the State say their organisation will not name a ticket until after the third party slate has been selected. All third party candidates who meet with the approval of the nonpartisans, it was said, will be indorsed by the league. 14 Sailors Found Adrift in Boat NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23—Fourteen sailors believed to be the crew of a ship reported afire off South Pass yesterday were picked up by the steamer Sheffield, nccordirg to a radio message today. The Sheffield did not give her port of ■>'*. The nun picked np were Portuguese and had leen adrift only three hours. They were sighted in a small boat with their belongings and the ship's cat. $20,000 Gem Haul NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Two armed bandits today held up Jacob Wlsnack. a diamond broker in Brooklyn, forced him to enter an automobile, drove him a block and after seizipg a brief case containing $20,000 worth of diamonds, struck him on the head and threw him to the street. MAYOR KIWANIS GI'EST. Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank spent today at Hartford City, where he was the guest of the Kiwanis Club at a luncheon. He was scheduled to sjvak. He attended a wrestling match in Bloomington Wednesday evening.

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