Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1922 — Page 1

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GIRL FROM WITNESS STAND KILLS MAN SHE HAD ACCUSED Sends Three Bullets Into Body of Texan Up for Second Trial on Criminal Assault Chaige. COURTROOM IS CROWDED AT TIME WACO, Texas, Feb. 24. —While a crowded courtroom looked on in horror, J. S. Crosslin, on trial for criminal assault, was shot and killed today by the girl whom he is alleged to have wronged. The shooting occurred shortly after Miss Mareie Matthews, 17, the complaining witness, had taken the witness stand to tell her story of the wrong. Trembling and almost hysterical, she drew an automatic pistol from a pocket and shot Crosslin three times. He fell from his chair, dead.

It was Crosslin’s second trial for the alleged crime. At the first trial he was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison, but the conviction was reversed by the ( riminal Appeals Court and anew trial granted. With a smoking revolver in her hand, the girl stood over the body of her alleged betrayer after the shooting and explained : "I thought I ought to.” Three bullets took effect, one in the stomach, one in the back and one In the left arm. In the sheriff’s office where the girl was taken following the shooting, she exclaimed : ‘‘He ruined my health, knocked me out of school and disgraced me, but he will never ruin another girl.” Crosslin was a prominent real estate man, having lived in Waco many yearß. He was married and had several children. The shooting took place while four Texas rangers were on duty In an adjoining courtroom where the Ku-Klux damage case is being tried in which Mrs. Inez Crowe Is suing for $50,000 for the death of her husband, Louis Crowe, which occurred when Sheriff Boh Buchanan tried to stop a Ku-Klux Klan parade at Lorena, near here. The offense Is alleged to hare been committed at the home of Miss Matthews In Waco about a year ago. The Matthews family since has moved to Falls County. Will Matthews, her father, and a young brother are here attending the trial. Deputy Burton declared murder charges had been filed against the girl. DEMOCRATS OF STATE AWAIT TAGGART WORD Former Senator Expected to Give Definite Decision in Senatorship Race. Developments tomorrow are expected to determine whether Thomas Taggart will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, or whether the field is to be thrown open to a number of other Democrats w-ho are ready to step In If Mr. Taggart refuses. According to the best information, Mr. Taggart was expected to return to French Lick this afternoon, following bis sojurn in Louisiana, and to come to Indianapolis tomorrow. Upon his arrival he Is expected to say definitely what he will do. A quick decision is Imperative because petitions of Senatorial candidates must be field by next Thursday. What Mr. Taggart will say Is still a matte* of speculation. No one has heard R*D> In a politicril way since his departure from the city some time before the Democratic State Editorial Association banquet Some apprehension has been felt over Mr. Taggart's physical condition, but it is understood Mr. Taggart has made the statement, within the last few days that he never felt better. MYERS URGED FOR STATE CHAIRMAN. Should Mr. Taggart consent to become a candidate, the friends of Walter Myers of Indianapolis are urging that Mr. Myers be made State chairman. Anew chairman will be elected following the primary and it is believed that there would be little opposition to Mr. Myers. Should Mr. Taggart refuse to become a candidate, Mr. Myers probably will enter the senatorship race. Petitions for Mr. Taggart's candidacy have come from ail parts of the S ate. Similar petitions have been circulated in behalf of Mr. Myers. Petitions also have been circulated in behalf of Dan Sims of Lafayette and in behalf of Samuel O. Parker of South Bend. These possibilities and Bernard B. Shively of Marion, who is already in the race, would indicate at least a five-cornered race in the Democratic ranks. This might result in throwing the nomination into the State convention. REEL OUT SENTIMENT TOR MARSHALL. Another development on the Democratic side within the last few days has been the efforts on the part of some of the close personal friends of Thomas R. Marshall to feel out the sentiment in the State concerning his as a senatorial possibility. The movement has the earmarks of having been inspired and it is understood the results have been disappointing to those who undertook it. The State campaign, as well as the senatorial campaign, is coming in for some attention in Democratic ranks. It was reported that Dr. F. O. Bolzer of Newcastle, vice chairman of the State committee, will be a candidate for secretary of State. Robert Bracken of Frankfort, another member of the committee, also Is expected to be a candidate for the office, Mr. Bracken formerly was State Senator.

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BOARDS CAVIL OVER QUESTION OF CONCERTS School and Park Heads End Hopes of Municipal Music This Year. Refusal of the board of school com- ’ missioners yesterday to pay Its half. share of $793.18 worth of bills for mu- ! nlcipal concerts given since last September, occasioned considerable amuse- j ment among members of the board of park commissioners, who pay the other half, today. The city administration in j general was highly pleased with the school hoard's stand. None of the con- \ certs have been held since Jan. 2, Mayor : Samuel Lewis Shank highly disapproving of them. They were the “chiid'’ of the Jewett administration wholly. GAVE NINETY CONCERTS IN 1921. The board of school commissioners and board of park commissioners each appropriated $3,000 last year to pay the expense of bringing nationally know-n artists to participate in the municipal recitals. Approximately ninety concerts were given in 1921 and the former ad ministration pointed to the fact with pride. Yesterday, however, Charles L. Barry, ’ president of the school board and political bedfellow of the News Jewett people, contended that the board should not pay the pending bills because $359.25 of them represent amounts due the Enquirer. Printing and Publishing Company of which Clarence E. Crippin, member of the school board last year, Is president. The board referred the question of the legality of the payment to its attorney. Then the school board decided to take no further part in municipal concerts this year, Mr. Barry explaining thnt in the past the board haß borne half the expenses while it has had no voice in the preparation of the programs o.‘ any part in the formulation of policy. He said the board of park commissioners had done ail this and that high salaried soloists had been hired without notice to the school board, even the dates of concerts net been sent to the school board mem-, bers. MANY CROSSSTATEMENTS. This statement called for many smiles at the city hail because only two weeks ago Ernest Hesser, director of music in the public schools accompanied an official of the Indianapolis Community Chorus before the board of park commissioners lo urge that the city continue to share with the school board the expense of bringing noted artists to the city to appear at the three annual concerts given by the cboru9, as it had for the past ten or twelve years. The park board did not at first want to grant tiie request. Mayor Shank had decreed some weeks ago that the city was not going to ! spend any more money on high salaried musicians. Commissioner Sarah Shank was outspoken in her disapproval. However, the community chorus official, with Mr. Hesser of the public school staff right at his elbow begged heartily, asserting that the school board was going to cooperate and everything would be ruined if the city did not. Finally at last week's meeting Mr. and Mrs. Shank gave in and the board promise*! its cooperation, only to discover yesterday that the school board was going to “take no further part in municipal concerts this year.” Regarding Mr Barry’s statement that the school board had no voice in arranging the concerts given last year, persons who had opportunities to observe say that Alfred Bailey Birge. dlreetor of music for the school board, until he resigned last summer to become head of the department of music at Indiana University, was one of the moving spirits with former Superintendent of Parks James H. Lowry in launching tka municipal music plan two years ago and that the park superintendent always sent a block of tickets to the school board for each concert. FUND LACK TO CLOSE SCHOOLS Vocational Classes Will Be Discontinued April 15. Exhaustion of the budget for part-time schools in the vocational training department of the Indianapolis public schools will make it necessary to abandon a number of these schools about April 15, It. C. Lowell, director of vocational training, said today. The cuts will affect the classes for women, as the classes to be closed will be those in nursing, millinery, cooking, sewing and general academic work. At the last meeting of the school board, $5,000 was transferred from the special fund to the vocational training fund to enable these classes to be continued. However, the money will be insufficient to carry the schools to the end of the school year, and will result In them being cut about eight weeks short of the time originally alloted. Mr. Lowell said the attendance at parttime schools has Increased about 100 per , cent tbit year over that of a year ago.

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RELIEF COMES WITH DELAY IN GENOA PARLEY Administration Will Evade Flat Turn Down. PROJECT MAY END Lloyd George Meeting With Poincare to Have Bearing. LONDON, Feb. 24.—1 t Is seml-offtcially announced that the opening of the International Economl Gen one, called for Marcii 8, lias been postponed, said a Router dispatch from Rome today. The postponement was said to be due to the Italian cabLvet muddle. Washington] Feb 24.— The long-awaited announcement In Rome of the postponement of the Genoa 1 conference beyond March 8, has re- ! lieved the American Government of j the necessity of either accepting or rejecting the Italian Invitation There were signs of relief in Administration quarters today for neither Presi- ! dent Harding nor Secretary Hughes desired to give the Italian invitation a flat turn down, and yet both were opposed to this Government's participation in a \ conference sc wholly European. WOULD DETERMINE AM ERICA N PA RTICIPATION. In subsequent events, it would determine finally the extent of America's participation in the conference at some future date to be agreed upon by French and British premiers. It was predicted in some quarters that the whole Genoa project may be called off following the Lloyd George-I’oincare conference. The reluctanec of America to enter the conference is now fully known to both premiers, and it is a question whether the Genoa meeting could accomplish a great deal without American participation. It is known that Lloyd George is disappointed keenly at the turn of events. ADMINISTRATION TO FIND OTHER REASONS. It Is likely that many more reason* will be found by the Administration for nonparticipation. The Government's attention will be riveted shortly upon the re- ‘ funding of foreign loans, negotiations for ' which are soon to begin with all countries indebted to the United States. In addition to the difficulties which the Administration Is experiencing in getting the conference treaties through the Senate is likely to mitigate against the undertaking of anj future international conference at this time. PREMIERS PLAN TO MEET IN SECRET LONDON, Feb. 24. —Premiers Lloyd George and Poincare will meet in secret session tomorrow some along the channel coast. Correspondents are barred and the customary retinue of experts and secretaries will be left behind by the premiers. Every effort has been made to keep the place of meeting secret. The fate of the proposed Genoa conference bangs upon agreement between the premiers.

COUNTYGRAND JURY RETURNS 36 TRUE BILLS New Charges Filed Against Former Beech Grove Bank Employe. Thirty-six Indictments today were returned by the Marlon County grand jury to Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal Court. Among the counts was an additional indictment against Henry Schoenrock, former employe of the Beech Grove Slate Bank, charging him with the embezzlement of a SSOO Liberty bond belonging to Henry C. Weise of R. R. P. Schoenrock, w r ho is now In jail, was Indicted some months a o after the State bank examiner ordered the institution closed. Since then the bank has been reopened. Several indictments are pending against Schoenrock. Others inditced are Charles Smith, robbery; Shirley Spencer, assault and battery with intent to murder; Eugene Allen and William Bowden, forgery; Harry Porter, assault and battery with Intent to murder; Charles Lyle, forgery; John Weaver, bringing stolen goods into the State: Charles Rankins, manslaughter, resulting from tho alleged fatal striking of Jacob 11. Bush; Homer Ray, murder, second degree, following the alleged shooting of Robert Johnson; Herschel Dorsett and Carl Dorsett, robbery; Theodore Griffin, vehicle taking; Frank Sanders, burglary; Joseph Doe. Frank Gray. Howard Hall and Arden Todd, charged with entering the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul and stealing sll2 belonging to the Rt. Rev. Joseph Cbartrand; Aaron Jordan, burglary; Douglas Johnson, assault and battery with intent to murder Madeline Sandefer, living in rear of 1522 North Delaware street; Leo Dykes, assau't and battery with intent to murder Robert Hollis, 135 Spring street; Joe Hill, vehicle taking; Harry Pierpont, assault and battery with intent to murder Edward P. Devine, 514 North Bancroft street; Howard Lustig, vehicle taking; Robert Boble, grand larceny; Harry Graves, 329 South East street, entering a house to commit a felony; William Lacey, 1240 East Sixteenth street, burglary; Robert Manley, assault and battery with intent to murder Elmer Williams, 1424 Yandes street; Rosa Fully, 436% Washington street, charged with assault and battery on Harry Penn, and Alonzo Mayes, 5005 East Sixteenth street, grand larceny. Judge Collins did not make public tho names of other persons Indicted, because they ox* not arrested or under bond. L.

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Senators Find Money to Themselves WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—A personal inspection of the Muscle Shoals power project by the Senate Agriculture Committee was authorized by the Senate today. Provision also was made for other Senators who desire to accompany the committee members to the power plant, subject to a limitation of $2,000 for the total expense of the Journey. CHINESE, SAID TO HAVE FIRED SHOT, MISSING Detectives Comb Oriental Quarter in Quest of Accused Man. NATIVES ‘NO SAVVY* I.OS ANGELES, Cal.. Feb. 24.—Mabel Normand, famous film comedienne, is near death as a result of worry and sickness following the murder of William Desmond Taylor, picture director and her close friend and companion. Three physicians were at the side of the comedy star using every effort known to medlca! science to save her life Miss Normand's Illness reached its crisis today. Physicians wro sti'l hopeful her life might be saved although they- ionsldered her condition —avc. LOS ANGELES, Feb 24—Wong Lee, named by Harry M Fields, held in Jail at Detroit, as the slayer of William Des mond Taylor, movie director, has been missing from about the date of the murder, detective* established today. Officials threaded their way through the crooked passages of Chinatown here in the half light of early morning seek- > ing to confirm clews given by Fields. I They found man* men who admitted the ; hunted roan was a denizen of Ferguson ; Aliev, Los Angeles' Chinatown. ‘'Where is he?” the detective* barked as they singled out assistants of thv ! alleged dope peddler, as the combing of j the Llttlo Orient progressed. “No, savvy,” was the bland answer on all sides. “Long time no *ee. What for yon want j ’ti tn ? ” EVIDENCE BEARS OUT FIELDS’ STORY. The district attorney’s office announced ! It had corroborative evidence tending to j support the “confession” of Harry Field*, l arrested in Detroit, who ay he drov* j the murder party responsible for the slaying of William Desmond Taylor, te b. 1. Investigators have found a bank clerk who recoil# changing a thousand-dollar tiili for a stranger who appeared nervous and acted suspiciously. Authorities are: wondering if Fields obtained his infer- ! motion through the mysterious under- j ground channels of the drug world and : although he was not here and the actual driver of the death car, as he asserted, has the general outline of tbe murder story In fact and not fancy. DRUG ANGLE OF CASE INVESTIGATED. So important has the drug angle of the investigation become, Federal, State, city and county officials ail are engaged in the inquiry. Two operatives of the State board of pharmacy have Joined in the probe, devoting ail their attention to Investigation of the activities of the drug ring. Friends of Mabel Normand expressed anxiety over her condition. She was striken with influenza lust Monday and her condition has grown steadily more serious since that time. Iter physicians believe she will recover, but are watching her condition anxiously. Coming so closely upon her nervous collapse at the funeral of Taylor, her friends say the new attack is taxing seriously her re- ; serve strength. Every precaution is be- ' ing taken at her new home In the Alta- 1 dena foothills to obtain quiet and se(Continued on I’age Fifteen.)

CAR COMPANY FIGURES TO BE GIVEN PUBLIC Street Car Officials Aver Concern lias $200,000 Annual Deficit. Figures which may constitute the basis for a public Investigation of the financial situation of the Indianapolis Street Railway will be brought to the mayor’s conference of citizens and street railway executives at the city hall tomorrow afternoon by President Rol ert I. Todd and Dr. H.-nry Jameson, chairman of tho executive committee of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. The company has lnviteu an examination of its books. The conference, which will begin at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, la the outgrowth of tho meeting to discuss the utility’s finances, held at the mayor* invitation last Saturday. Each of the twenty-two civic organizations has been Invited to send one representative to the conference, the Central Labor Union will send five delegates and railroad unions, not represented in the C. L. U., one. The street railway company contends It is losing approximately $200,000 a year under present conditions and therefore can not raise approximately $3,000.000 of new capital required to Improve the equipment for adequate service. Its executlvos have asked the public to point the way to relief. Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank said, as a private citizen, he believes a two-cent Increase In fare will be necessary. Tho Southeastern Civic Improvement Club proposed the city underwrite a $3,000,000 bond issue of the utllfy to provide money for the necessary improvements. This suggestion wdll be taken up at the conference. 5 Die of Pneumonia, 1 Victim of Influenza Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board of public health, announced thav five persons died of pneumonia and one of influenza In the twenty-four hours ending at 10 o’clock this morning. No abatement in the influenza epidemic is looked for by Dr. Morgan before the end ot AUrefc* u

Sales Tax for ‘Bonus’ Downed in First Test House Subcommittee Votes 5 to 3 Against Plan to Raise Funds.

HA! HA! HA! WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Award of a medal to men declining to take a soldier “bonus" has been suggested among House members. The proposal, however, has met with much disapproval In American Legion quar ters so there will lie no attempt to “pull across” the provfvion.

, WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—8 y a rote of 5 to 3, the Republican subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee today voted against a sales tax as a means of raising the soldier “bonus.” The subcommittee members decided to report the outcome of their voting to the full Republican membership and it was held likely the full group would concur. Pro-sales memb.*s said the matter probably will have to go back to President Harding. Representative Houghton, New York, an expert on insurance, suggested to tbo committee a scheme whereby service men would obtaiu unemployment, sickness and old age insurance—but without cash. This met considerable favor within the committee, but it was stated no definite alternative or compromise is ready for the full Republican membership. Fordney, In keeping with his pledge to the farm “bloc” leaders appeared against the sales tax. The only pro-tax men were Longworth Watson and Bacharach. Representative Frear, farm “bloc” man, was understood to have told colleagues his group was so opposed to the sales tax it could uot pass. COUNTY SEEKS BOND ISSUE FOR ENGLISH AVE. Remonstrants Fail to Appear at Hearing Before State Tax Board. Efforts to convince the State board of ta i commissioners that It should permit Marlon Countv to Issue $89,000 In lond* for paving English avenue from Southeastern avenue ta the Brookvlllo road as a county unit highway were made at a bearing before the commission today. The road would be 2.03 miles In length. The Issuance of the bonds, which has been agreed upon by the county commlssioners, wn* protested by eleven remonstrants, who carried the case to the tax board. When the hearing started not a remonstrant of the representative of a remonstrant was present. Leo K. Fesler, Marion County auditor, however, undertook to protest the Issue. Mr. Fesler pointed out to the board that the bonded Indebtedness of Marlon County, including the municipalities, already amounts to $25,000,000 on which $1,000,000 In Interest Is being paid annually. He said that with war memorial bombs and other bonds this would be in creased by the county government about $2,200,000 within the next six months. Ho expressed the opinion that it is ttmo to cal! a halt in incurring Indebtedness. BOOK WALTER SPEAKS FOR IMPROVEMENT. An appeal for the improvement of the road was made by Charles A. Bookwalter, president of tho board of park commissioners. “This road I* necessary for the development of Indianapolis and Marion County,” he declared. “It is the logical south side drive to Irvington.” Mr. Bookwalter said he appeared be-fn-e the tax board as a representative of the park board because of the fact that the proposed road leads directly to tho Wlimer Christian I’ark, which was recently presented to the city by Dr. Wiliner Christian. He said that park could not be used until the road i3 constructed. Mr. Bookwaiter also declared thnt tho section of the city through which the road runs is “mud locked” and appealed to the tax board to dig that part of tho south side out of the mud. The fact that the remonstrants did not appear at (he hearing also wat stressed by Mr. Bookwalter. He demanded to know where they were. In the course of his speech i.o declared it Is easy to obtain a remonstrance and that he could “secure cloven signatures to a petition to abolish the tax board within fifteen minutes. He referred to the Shank demonstration as “Coxey's army led by my superior officer” and said thnt if given forty-eight hours he could get an ‘‘3rmy” of 8.000 persons to protest against the tax board. PROPOSAL FOR PROJECT OUTLINED. The proposal for the road and the history of the project was outlined by W. W. Spencer, an attorney. Mr. Spencer explained that there are to be two strips of roadw-ay, each eleven feet wide, and that an eighteen-foot strip is to be left In the center for street car tracks. The road, he said, is to be constructed of asphalt. The original petition for the road, Mr. Spencer explained, was filed Jan. 22, 1919. Members of the tax board Indicated that they believed the proposed cost of the road to be too high. TEACHER TRIES TO END LIFE Miss Emma Bain, 34, Has Chance to Recover. Miss Emma Bain, 23, 3104 Sutherland avenue, is In the city hospital suffering from poisoning ns the result of taking a quantity of iodine today. It Is believed she will recover. Miss Bain, who has been a teacher in the public schools of High Point, N. C., came to Indianapolis about four weeks ago suffering from a mental nnd nervous breakdown due to overwork, the pollco were told. Since then she has been at the home of her mother, Mrs. Laura Watson, at the Sutherland avenue address and has been under the care of two physicians. She Is a graduate of Greensboro Normal College, Greensboro, N. C., and was active la rsllglou* work.

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COURT HOLDS LIST OF LOOT STATE’S RIGHT Defense Insists Hartman’s Connection Must Be Shown. SALESREVEALED Detectives Say Defendant Surrendered Goods. Holding the State In the case of J. Herbert Hartman, deposed Rep iblican candidate for the city judgeship at the last city election and now on trial in Marion Criminal Criminal Court on a charge of receiving stolen goods, had the right to interrogate Herbert R. Fletcher, a city i detective and former Inspector of detectives, relative to the vast amount of goods recovered from the Hartman home following the confession of Frank Francis, "confessing burglar,” Judge Alfred Murray Bain of Martinsville, presiding Judge, today permitted the State to read into tho records long lists of goods recovered from the defendant’s home. Ira Holmes, counsel for Hartman, vig- ] orously opposed the introduction of such i testimony from police officers unless it | was shown Hartman had knowledge the goods were stolen property. The court overruled a motion of the defense to j strike the evidence from the record, holding tho State had the right to present : suebmattersto the jury as Francis had testified he had stolen many articles, many of which had been taken to Hartman's home. FT,ETCHER TELLS OF CONVERSATION. Mr. Fletcher testified that William De- j Forrester, chief of the Louisville, Ky„ detectives to tho home of a Mrs. Mullen on River avenue where a trunk, containing a wedding dress, underwear and other wearing apparel was recovered and brought to headquarter*. Tho trunk was fi led with articles which Francis asserted he had stolen. He testified he sent for J. Herbert Hartman and asked him about a sealskin cape, a shotgun and a saophone which was supposed to be In the trunk, but was not tbero. “I asked Hartman what had happened to the rape, shotgun and saxophone and he told mo he had received an order from Mrs. Francis directing him to get then: and dispose of them, sending the money to her,’’ Fletcher testified. “He said hr j sold tho fur coat to his sister-in-law for $lO9, the saxophone for SSS to a musician ] and had kept the shotgun. He also told me lie had bought some honsehr Id goods j from Francis which first were stored In ! his basement but later used at the Hurtman home.” SAYS HARTMAN TOI.I) OF PURCHASE. On cross-examination. Fletcher sated ; Hartman volunteered the infonnatiot regarding the furniture and also s.ateo Hartman said he paid Francb* SIOO nr tho goods and that he (Hartman) had \ bill of sale for it. In answer to qnei tlons by Eph Inman, counsel for Hart man, Fletcher stated Hartman said bt would bring all the household goods tc headquarters because he “didn't want ' any stolen good©." Fletcher on direct examlnatlonteetiflel, between Sept. 24 nnd Oct. 4, 1921, be (Continued on I’age Fifteen.)

ASK COUNCIL TO TIGHTEN ROOF REGULATIONS Fire Department and C. of C. Representatives Plan to Lessen Hazards. Tho city council w-a* asked to make five shingle roof replacement ordinance more strict nnd roofing dealers were asked te cooperate in a campaign to eliminate the non-fireproof roof in Indianapolis In the next few years at a meeting called by the city fire department and the fire prevention committee of the Chamber of Commerce at the Chamber today. Both eouncilmen and roofers promised cooperation. Chairman Frank C. Jordan of the fire prevention committee. Chief John J. O’Brien of the fire department; Capt. W. J. Curran of the salvage corps, and Capt. Jacob L. Reidel of the bureau of fire prevention, urged the elimination of the shingle roof because it has caused more than SOO fires since Jan. L Mr. Jordan pointed ont thnt in New Orleans there were only twenty-four roof fires during the entire year so 1921. in Cincinnati, fltysix, nnd St. Paul, ninety-nino. Tho Indianapolis record is disgraceful, he said. Tho present ordinance requires that whenever a shingle roof Is 50 per cent or more destroyed it must be replaced with fireproof roofing. This should be amended to require replacement when 25 per cent is destroyed nnd the elimination of all non-fire-proof roofs In a definite number of years required, th* fire authorities said. Some of the eouncilmen said they favored elimination of shingle roofs but believed eare should be exercised in exacting this because landlords might use the ordinance as a pretext for raising rents as they say house owners have used the anti-open vault law. EDMUND VANOE COOK HERB. Edmund Vance Cook, poet, addressed the students of each of the Indianapolis high schools today, giving readings of some of his poems. He was scheduled to appear before the teacher* of Indianapolis In Caleb Mills Hall at 4 o'clock this afternoon,

Will Ask $5,000,000 to Helium Gas WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Appropriation of $5,000,000 for development of helium gas Is to be asked of Congress by the Interior Department shortly, it became known today. Failure to use this non-inflammable gas Is believed to have been partly responsible for the large death toll in the Roma disaster. 9 LIVES KNOWN TO BE LOST IN FURIOUS STORM Six Northwestern States Are Struck by Typical Blizzard. TRAIN CRASH KILLS VIVE

Press Receives News by Wireless During Blizzard MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Feb 24. _ Storm bound newspapers, unable to obtain the telegraph news by wire or telephone because of the blizzard that swept the northwest for three days, got the news by wireless It is the first time this had been done In this region. Amateur wireless operators and the wirelss station at the University of Minnesota picked up the news from the Arlington Government wireless station and turned It over to the press.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 20.—The death toll from the storm that buried half a dozen States of the Northwest and completely Isolated some sections for the past seTenty-two hours, today was known to be at least nine, and it is feared when wire communications are restored, reports from other towns and cities wlli bring the number to at least fifteen dead and fifty Injured. Four of the known dead were burled under snow drifts and fl.e were killed and eleven Injured when the Great Northe-n's crack Winnipeg flyer bound for Minneapolis, and running hours behind its schedule, collided headon with a rotary snow plow near Montrose, Minn., thirty miles due west of Minneapolis. MANY HURT IN COLLISION j Seventy-fire passengers who had been | transferred from two other trains stalled in the snow, were in the coaches of the flyer when the accident occurred. Many of these were only slightly Injured, and because of the lack of physicians, the Injured were brought to Minneapolis for treatment. Both the passenger train and the rotary plow were equipped with two engines each, and of the four engine crews only one man escaped alive. He was uninjured. When the trains struck each other head-on, two engines of the passenger train were hurled from the tracks twenty feet over an embankment, pinning their crews nn-ier them. SNOW PILED TWENTY FEET HIGH. Improvement In condition* Is expected shortly. Train service on the main lines Is expected to be opened up. Railroads today were making a determined fight to move the malls. In some places, how ever, snow was piled on the tracks twenty-five feet high. Telephone and telegraph officials said it would be many days before normal traffic conditions would be resumed. Fair and warmer weather was forecast for late today and tonight. It was feared that a thaw would result la flcoding many communities. The Twin Cities are digging themselves out from under heavy snowdrifts. Traffic is badly hampered. Thousands of automobiles have been abandoned in the snow-plied streets. BIG DAMAGE BY FIRE. Property damage from fire caused by lightning that accompanied the storm will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many fires were fought by bucket brigades, the fire departments being unable to reach the scene. The Northwest storm was part of a gigantic whirlwind extending from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, which rotated at the rate of approximately forty-five miles an hour. Duluth and Minnesota Iron Range towns were hit hardest ot ail, according to reports. FINDS BIG DEBT UNPROVIDED FOR Cily Administration Sees Financial Rocks Ahead. Although It had been planned for several months prior to budget making time to Issue the bonds, the Jewett administration overlooked provision for the SIOB.000 Interest due on the $1,600,000 war memorial bond Issue In 1922, Ci*y Controller Joseph L. Hogue has discovered. The bonds were sold late in December, bear 0 per cent interest and mature In five years. Approximately $900,000 of the money derive! from the bond sale has been spent in acquiring plaza property. Mr. Hogue said that since there was no provision In the tax levy to raise the Interest tbero Is not enough money In the general fund to pay It and meet the city’s ordinary running expenses. The administration foresees financial distress before the end of the year because of almost SIOO,OOO worth of debts Inherited from the Jewett regime. Tho additional blow from the discovery of the necessity of paying $'.08,000 out of funds raised to meet the city's necessaty governmental functions, will make the mone tary problem something of a mountain to climb, the controller said. Girl Dies From Serious Burns Special to The Times. HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 24.—Miss Evelyn Gregory, 16, high school girl, died at St. Margaret's Hospital here today from burn* received when her skirts caught Are while she vu standing near a *;ave.

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AMENDMENT IS APPROVED BY PRESIDENT Harding and Senator Brandegee Work Out Problem. CLASH IS SETTLED U. S. Relieved of Binding Clauses by Provision. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. A compromise reservation to the fourpower Pacific treaty was agreed upon today by President Harding and Senator Brandegee of Con* necticut. Republican “irreconsilable” member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The new reservation Intended as a substitute for the one offered orlg inally by Senator Brandegee to which President Harding objected, wa* worked out at a conference between the President and the Senator at the White House prior to a meeting of the Foreign Relations Committee. The text of the compromise reeerva* tion aci-epted by Harding follows: AMENDMENT RELIEVES U. a “Th* luitad States nnderstxiufs under th* statement of the preamble and under the term* of this treaty there is no commitment to armed force, no alliance and no obligation to Join In any defense.** This contain* part of Brandegee’* original reservation and part of the one Hardlug yesterday suggested to the committee through Senator Lodge. It omit* that portion of the Harding reservation which provided there was obligation that con* flirted with the Constitution. The compromise reservation said noth* ing about congressional sanction for adjustments reached under the treaty. Thl* constituted a victory for Harding, who contended an expression of that ort would constitute an assertion by the (Senate of too much authority with reipect to the making of treaties. Affer but half-an-hour's session, th* committee reached an agreement fa vot* finally tomorrow on the Pacific pact. and on nil reservations, or amendments, offered thereto. AGREE TO VOTE ON TT TOMORROW. It was first proposed the flnrl action on the treaty should be taken today, but Senator Johnson of California, ooa of the Republican “irreconcllables,” urged that it be deferred. Senator Pomerene (Dem.), Ohio, thm made a fennel motion that a final vot on the treaty and all matters pertaining to It be taken tomorrow. Pomereno’s motion was una nlm o*slj agreed to. The compromise reservatlo* *H **. gardeil by Administration Senators ts promising an early settlement of the controversy c rer the Pacific pact. It was pointed out by them that th* reservation merely expressed what th* Presllfsnt nnd Administration spokesmen had contended ail along, that th* treaty does not commit the United States to employ armed force, or to allU—ance, or to an obligation to Join in th* defense of Pacific possessions not It* own. By Republican “Irreeonllables" the reservation was considered an admission by treaty supporters that the United States was not properly safeguarded against such a commitment by the treaty I ts self. Senator Johnson, who led th* fight against the Harding-Lodge reservation, strenuously opposed the proposed Har-ding-Brandegee compromise. When Brandegee suggested withdrawal of his original reservation and the substituting for It of the one agreed upon by President Harding and himself, Johnson served notice that he would offer tb% original if Brandegee abandoned it, and Insist urou Its being ‘Noted up or voted down.” Johnson also declared he would fight the Hardlng-Brandegee reservation Just as vigorously as be had the HardingLodge reservation. Senator Williams. Democrat, ©f Mlssl*. tdppi, also was understood to have denounced the resolution as “not ringing true” and as being Insincere. RAWSON SWORN IN AS SENATOR Kenyon’s Successor to B 4 ‘Farm Bloc’ Member. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Cbarle* A. Raw-son, Pee Moinee, was sworn In to* day as Junior Senator from low*, no ceedlng William S. Kenyon, resigned. Kenyon and Governor Kendall of low*, saw Kawson’s Induction Into office. Rawson was to be Initiated later Into the farm bloc.” Rawson will serve only until after the election next November when lowa will select a successor to Kenyon. Kenyon will leave Saturday to become Judge of the United State* Court of Appeals.

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