Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1922 — Page 1

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TO EASE LOAD UPON NATIONS OF SAD WORLD Genoa Meeting Most Important Since Versailles. 31 JOIN PARLEYS Absence of America to Have Dampening Effect. Jfote —The Daily Time* presents herewith the first of three Interpretative articles on the Genoa conference. The facta were cabled to London from every country that will attend the conference. The next article will deal with the clash of propram and Interests when Bolshevist statesmen confront Lloyd George and Poincare at Genoa. By ED L. KEEN. LONDON, April 6.—Statesmen ot thirty-one nations are arriving in Genoa for the economc conference ■which opens Monday, April 10. East meets West, Communism confers with Capitalism, and lead'ng diplomats of the old vvorld face spokesmen of the new, In preliminary parleys in the ancient Italian port city. Rehabilitation of war-racked Europe is the aim that has brought over 1,000 delegates, advisers and exports to the council table of the most ambitious international gathering since Versailles. Failure, the creation of fresh rivalries and international complications are predicted as the gathering comes, but most astute statesmen of Europe, including Premier Lloyd George, are confident much good will be accomplished. For the first time since the war. Bolshevist leaders recognized as representatives of Russia, confer with allied statesmen, and nations neutral during the war, as well as those born of the world conflict, have a voice in deliberations concerning the welfare of Europe and Asia. The United States will be absent and already that absence has prejudiced success of the conference. But for the following reasons the United States can not remain disinterested in the Genoa conclave committee: Accomplishment of its avowed objecteconomic restoration of Europe will open up trade cha-nels to America. This alone will make 1 1 possibl-. for Europe to pay her debts ,o the United States. 2. Establishment of a base for foreign exchange, to be one of the first considerations at Genoa, will mrke possible American export trade. It will have an imme(Contlnued on Page Two.)

BORAH PLACES BLAME ON JAPS FOR CHITA RIOT Senator Sees Dangerous Complications Ahead in Far East. WASHINGTON. April 6.—Dangerous complications are brewing in the Far East which may lead to war and Involve the United States because of Us ratification of the four-power Pacific treaty. Senator Borah (Idaho) soon will Inform the Senate. , _ , The recent Japanese-Cbita clash is indicative of the situation and Borah will ciiarge Japan with responsibility for this trouble. _ .. . Senator Borah holds that Japan stirred np the row with Chita republic, which culminated in the rout of the Chita red troops with fairly heavy casualties. Toklo messages claim the Japanese ordered the “reds" to retire. Refusing to retire they were shot down. The Chita representatives here say the Japanese acted in bad faith: that they have put “agents provocateurs” in Chita to stir np trouble, and thus furnish a pretext for longer Japanese occupation ""senator Borah, who will undoubtedly be Joined by other treaty opponents, will indulge in • bit of “I told you so.’ He will argue that Japan’s course in the Russian territory more than likely w.ll spread to Pacific island territory, thus calling for action under the treaty almost at its birth. If Japan pursues It3 Chka tactics extending them to Sakhalin, or otherwise seeks to tighten her grasp on Russian land, then naught but warfare can result Senator Borah believes. And warfare In the East, he feels, cannot but involve Japan’s allies of the racific pact. He feels that trouble between Japan and Russia Is inevitable under Japanese methods, and holds that the Japanese are now applying to Russian territory tactics which they long applied to China Seeks to Recover Labor Day Funds Salt charging failure of a surety companv to pay the bond of an absconding official of the Marion County Labor Day Committee was brought today in Superior Court. Room 5. by officers of the committee against the Republic Casualty Company. Judgment of SOOO was asked. The complaint says the Labor Day Committee paid the casualty company to place a SSOO bond on Howard M. Robbins. financial secretary of the body. Robbins is eatd to have absconded about April IS, 19-1 with $535.50.

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BROWNE CLAIMS BIG INTERESTS CAUSED STRIKE Railroads and Wall Street Charged With Coal Control. SEES POWERFUL GROUP HOPE ABANDONED WASHINGTON, April 6.—A1l hope of affecting an early settlement of l| the Nation-wide coal strike through ij a peace meeting between operators j; and 6trikln miners, ns proposed ly the House Labor Committee, was ij definitely abandoned this afternoon. ; Rejection of the Joint conference q invitation by a majority of the op- I erators in the central competitive field 1 11 was announced by Chairman Nolan | ! of the congressional committee. NT— —r“r-r==: 9 WASHINGTON, April o.—Big financial interests are back of the mine operators, making them “powerful and arrogant enough to defy the Government itself In the present coal dispute. Representative Browne of Wisconsin, charged today. He asserted that the railroads and the United States Steel Corporation own 75 per cent of the coal mines of the country and that the railroads, in turn, are dominated by twelve large financial institutions. Representative Browne's charges have been placed before tbe House Labor Committee which Is making an investigation of the coal strike and seeking to bring about a conference of the operators and miners here next Monday to end the walkout. Representative Browne charged that “a super corporation" of financial interests, dominates the industrial life of the country, through their "control of the banking system, the railroads and the coal mines.” "A group of twenty-five men.” Representative Browne said, “control elghtytwo per cent of the country's steam transportation system, operating 211,2' , 0 miles of railroad. These twenty-five men divide among themselves one hundred ninetythree directorships. They sit on the board of ninety-nine class one railroads.” Representative Browne charged that the following financial Institutions make up (Continued on Page Two.)

MRS. LIBBY, WHO STEALS BABIES, MAY BE NEGRESS Strange Mania of Woman for Giving Away Children. WABASH, Ind., April A unique story of the strange mania of a woman, supposedly white, but declared to be a negress, for obtaining white children from a Chicago hospital and, it is alleged. giving them away as her own, to negresses, was revealed here today. The revelations followed Investigation into the alleged child trading activities of Mrs. Helen Libby, now held in jail at Logansport, Ind An investigator from Chicago and officials from Logansport have been conducting the probe. Charles Boltes, Wabash chief of police, sets that Mrs. Hazel Rickman, negress, told the investigators Mrs. Libby is her half-sister; that Mrs. Libby is a daugh ter of Henry and Mary Jefferson, Wabash negroes, and bes real name is Mabel Jefferson Libby. Irene Firgerson, negress, informed the investigators, according to Chief Boltes, that she worked eight days at Logansport for Mrs. Libby and that in return for the work Mrs. Libby gave her a child, which she told her husband was her own. This Infant, now 5 months old, is at a hospital here in custody of a police matron and will be taken back to Chicago, it was stated. Three or four other children, alleged to hare been brought, illegally by Mrs. Libby from the Western Hospital at Chicago, to this State, are being sought by the Investigators. These children, according to the investigators, are believed to have been turned over to negro families The probe followed the latest alleged removal of children from Chicago by Mrs. Libby, in which she represented to her husband that the two children In her arms were her own. Mrs. Libby has been declared sane ami her husband Is said to accept the children as their own. but she is being detained pending completion of the investigation. Dr. Charles Virden, special agent of the department of public welfare, Chicago, and Walier I’oskett. special prosecutor, and Oren Campbell, probation officer of Logansport, are the investigators.

City Judge Says Hell Fine Speeders Dollar-a-Mile Up to 35-Mile Limit

The faster you drive the more it will cost you. Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth of the city court has figured out a system of fining persons found guilty of violating the motor speed laws and he says he will stick to that system. “The qotoroygio police do not bring persons tuC<V- const on speeding charges whose speed,.jig* Jess ..than thirty miles an hour.” explained Judge Wilmeth. 'll lenieiu y* shown ’it Is probably best fop Jhiojuptitocycle policeman to show It at the*’ome.t|j overtakes a speeder for he can see s traffic is heavy ot light where the spuid law has - been violated and he can dettyyulne if the .danger to others has been or small. However, when an arrest .is made it is tha rule to maka It. white a raal violation

‘What’s SI,OOO Star in a $lO Film Drama ?’ He Asks Screen Has Too Much, Looks and Too Little Brains, Says W. D. McGuire.

“What is the matter with the movies?" According to W. D. McGuire, executive secretary of the National Board of Review, this is the question most frequently on people's lips today. Mr. McGuire, who was In Indianapolis to address the convention of Fhotoplay Indorsers, said in his opinion the answer to this question is two-fold—first, too big stars on the screen and too little brains In tile studios; second, too many knockers end too few boosters lu the theaters. The first situation, he believes, will be remedied when tbe picture producers realize that, as Shakespeare expressed it. “the play's the thing.” Putting a thou sand-dollar-star in a ten-dollar-story will not make the public like it, no matter how much is spent on the sets, he declared. Neither will they be entertained merely by a seeing a beautiful star or a movie stunt, he said. The things which appeal to them are the fundamental, everyday human emotions, according to Mr. McGuire. If In the development of these it Is necessary to picture some elements of evil in order to develop the Interest of the story, it ought not to meet with the censor's disapproval because of his fact, Mr. McGuire said. The second trouble with the movies, he thinks is too many reformers cry for State censorship without realizing that forty-right sets of censors, each with their own ideas of what Is proper for the public to see, would do more harm than good, by “cutting and expurgating at will In order to prove to the tax paying public that they are earning their salaries.” If the pictures do not Improve In dramatic quality and entertainment value, It Is because the women of the country do not use their power to bring the change about,” declared Mr. McGuire. OTHER SPEAKERS EXPRESS VIEWS. Mr. McGuire was one of tbe speaker* on the program at the luncheon which closed the session of the Indiana Photo Indorsers’ convention. Among the others who addressed the delegates were G. AY. Erdmann, representing the Associated Producers of Cleveland, Ohio; I)r. Holly, chief of the Bureau of Commercial Economics in Washington, D. C.; Monte Blue, Indianapolis movie star, and Eugene O’Brien, motion picture actor. Mr. O'Brien brought with him from New York a letter of greeting to the Indiana Photo Indorsers from Will H. Hays. Mr. Hays wrote: “I extend to you at your meeting this year in Indiana a few words of congratulation for the splendid and constructive work you have been doing on behalf of thd motion pictures. One of the /Irst things called to my attention was that such an organization ns yours existed in my own State, and you had taken the lead In matters in which we are all Interested. You may count upon our most earnest cooperation." Mr. Blue spoke briefly of the need of cooperation with those engaged in the picture industry if the best films are to be made In America. He protested against what he declared the practice of

‘COME ACROSS!’ ORDERS NEGRO; VICTIM OBEYS Householder Awakens to Find Muzzle of Gun Poked at His Face. “Come across or I’ll kill you," were the words which awakened Earl Burk, 448 Bell street, shortly after 1 o’clock this morning. Oberving the ultimatum was backed up by a six-foot, rough-looking negro, armed with a revolver. Burk hastily climbed out of bed and “came across” with a purse containing S3O, which was under his pillow. Motor Policemen Wilkinson and Engelbrigbt found a kitchen window open when they investigated. Burk described the negro as about six feet tall, age about •*? weight about 160 pounds, roughly dreo'od, unshaven and wearing a soft hat. Miss nattie Clements, night telephone operator at the Merchants Heat <& Light Company, called poiice headquarters and reported someone was prow lng around through the building. The emergency equad rushed to the place, and searched the building thoroughly. No one was (Continued on Page Two.)

has occurred ar.d the traffic officers agree with the court when an automobile is driven faster than thirty miles an hour there is great danger of accidents. When it Is driven at a higher rate of speed than thirty m'les an hour this danger increases. Thtrefore the fines should be heavier where the speed is greater. COURT DESCRIBES GRADUATED SCALE. “Should the evidence show the defendant is guilty of driving thirty miles an hour (he fine is $3 and costs. If the speed is greater the fine is Increased $1 a mile up to and including thirty-five miles an hour. From that speed on up to the point where the limit is reached the fine is increased at the rate of $2 a mile. For example, it is $5 and cost* for thirty miles an hour; $lO and costa

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passing foreign films of doubtful moral standard and barring films of American manufacture which are less open to criticism. In addition to the guest of honor, Mr. O'Brien and other out-of-town speakers a reading was given by Miss Martha Pettljohn, a vocal solo by Miss Melissa Jane Cornelius and addresses of greeting by Mrs. Chic Jackson, Mrs. 8. R. Artrnan and Mrs. David Ross, former president of the Indiana board of indorsers. The convention closed Wednesday eve ning with the showing of two first re lease pictures, Guy Bates Post in “The Masquerader" aud Norma Talmadge's picture, “Smilin' Through,’’ In tho as sembiy room of the Clnypool Hotel. Del- 1 egates to the convention and their friends were the guests. HIGHWAY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE LOWER BIDDERS Reliability of Contractors to Be Considered Before Work Is Awarded. Contracts will be awarded by the Indiana State highway commission for roads and bridges on State highway projects to lowest bidders In each in j stance where bidders have been found to j be reliable, it was announced today. An investigation is being made of the com panics offering the lowest estimate, to j determine their nbtllty to handle the j contracts. When the road and bridge contracts are awarded it is expected that contracts for tho furnishing of approximately 200.000 barrels of cement to be used In the hard surfacing program will be let. Members of the highway commission are expected to choose anew director to succeed Lawrence Lyons, whose resignation is expected in a short time. The: power to choose hi* successor according to the law rests entirely with, the tnem j bers of the commission, two of whom are! Republicans and two Democrats. Demo- ' cratlc members, however, are not expected to cause friction In the choice of Lyons’ successor as they both owo their | appointment to a Republican Governor. | whose wishes they probably would accede to. In case there should be an even split 1 among the members of the commission in i naming Lyons' successor, no way of set- j tllng tho question is provided by the law. I The Governor has no legal powers to exercise in event of a tie vote, although that contingency Is not thought likely by j those acquainted with the situation. In speaking of his contemplated resig 1 nation, Lyons said he was in tho midst of some Important work which ho wished to complete, lie said business affairs! demanded his attention and his continuing as State highway director ts at a ; pecuniary sacrifice. Lyons is art avowed candidate for the State chairmanship of j tiie Republican party. He is Tenth dis- j trlct chairman and cites tlie Tenth dis- | trlct record of party success ns one of the reasons why he believed consideration j Is due him as a candidate for State chair- j man. Tho Indiana Highway Commission law states no candidate should he appointed except for fitness and ability and politics should not be considered. Many applications for the place have been received despite the fact that Lyons’ resignation has not been given Governor McCray. Governor McCray said the choice, would rest with the commission entirely and he has no legal authority to Interfere.

To Be or Not to Be Flapper; Judge to Decide for Co-eds CORNING, Ark., April 6—The crucial question of whether a schoolgirl may rouge her lips, powder her nose and wear silk hose, short skirts and gauzy waists will receive Judicial consideration here today. Pearl Pugsley, 18 years old. Knobel, Ark., schoolgirl, Is suing for a writ of mandamus compelling the school honrd of her home town to set aside their rules prohibiting girl students from assuming these out' ward garments of the flapper. The case has been pending for months, and the girl students of the State are awaiting with bated breath Judicial definition of their rights in the matter of dress.

for thirty-five miles an hour; and S2O and costs for forty miles an hour. You see it doesn't pay to drive too fast. Although the police as a rule, make no arrest of automobile drivers where the speed Is under thirty miles an hour, Judge Wilmeth pointed out, should the law be strictly enforced, the following rate of speed would govern the motorists: cars could be driven at only ten miles an hour in the business section, fifteen miles per hour In the residence section, twenty miles an hour beyond the thickly built-up residence section and twenty-five miles an hour in the country. Judge Wilmeth. when asked what would be the fine should an amtoniobile driver be convicted a second time for violating the speed laws, stated he (Continued on Fags Seven.)

AGREEMENT IN SMALL CASE; TRIAL APRIL 17 Method of Selecting Jury to Try Governor Has Been Found. CLERK TO DRAW NAMES WAUKEGAN, 111., April o.—Opposing counsel today reached an agreement for choosing a jury to try Governor I.en Small and tho case was continued until Monday, April 17. The agreement followed a conference of attorneys with Judge Clair E. Edwards. Method of selecting a Jury to try Governor Small which has delayed the case since Monday, Is as follows: Albert McDermott, court reporter, will pick every fourth name on the poll list of Lake County for the presidential election of 1920. The cotmty clerk will then draw names for the Small venire in tho usual way. Following adjournment of court Governor Small made the following statement: “I believe that when the women of Illinois were given the right to vote. It was intended that they should be given all the rights and privileges of full citizenship, including the right to serve on Juries, and l had hope that such a decision might have been brought flyout in this case; but I realize that the opinion sent out by Attorney General Brundage some months ago to all the counties in the State, holding that women could not sit on Juries, complicated the decision of that matter in this case.”

RUMORS THAT MELLON MAY QUIT CABINET Administration Family Row Said to Have Such Possibility. WASHINGTON. April 0— An Administration family row of such proportions that It may lend to the resignation of Andrew W. Mellon, as Secretary of the Treasury, Is In full swing In Washington today. The retlremen' of the multi-millionaire Pittsburgher from the Harding Cabinet, has been rumored a dozen times in recent months, but the rumors have always proved groundless. Today, however, the reports revived with such persistence as to convince many of his friends and op ponents alike that Mr. Mellon’s retirement Is Imminent. When brought to tho attention of the White House and the Treasury Department tho reports met with the usual denials today. It was not denied, however, that tho most serious family row so far developed In President Harding's official family Is In progress, over tho shake-lips already made and contemplated in the Treasury Department and its various bureaus. The shaking up Is being actively directed by Elmer Dover, personal friend of the President's, recently appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The shake-up in the engraving bureau with the ousting of thirty divisional chiefs by executive order, was to be followed, Mr. Dover said, after a conference with tho President, by the re organization of tin* Customs Service, the Bureau of Internal Revenue and tho prohibition unit. MELLON DENIES SHAKE-UP FLAN. The frank announcement by Mr. Dover, Attorney General Daugherty and other Administration leaders that the Treasury Department was to be given a "complete overhauling and reorganization In the Interest of efficiency” was offset today by Secretary Mellon himself. He caused to lie circularized among Treasury employes, of whom there are some 20,000, nn official notice that no such reorganization now or has ever been under contemplation.” “Such reports,” said Secretary Mellon's circular, "do not emanate from any official source and are absolutely without foundation.” There tho situation rested today with nil parties to tho controversy with frequent consultation with the White House. Friends of Secretary Mellon said today that liis position is “rapidly becoming untenable." Mr. Mellon has met with frequent rebuffs at the hands of Congress and for his department now to be undergoing an overhauling "over ills head” is leading to nn embarrassing situation, his friends said. The aggregate of Mr. Mellon's difficulties is such that official Washington would not be surprised should his retirement from the Cabinet be forthcoming In the near future.

Husband Kills Wife in Company of Man BRISTOW, Okla., April 6.—Mrs. M. K. Dobbs was shot and killed by her husband, it is alleged, while in the company of another man early today. Dobbs is an old oil field worker and has lived in Bristow about two months. ne gave himself up to the police immediately after the shooting. The Dobbses have a daughter aged 10 years and a son 15. South Side League Republicans Meet The South Side Republican League held an all-eandidate meeting Wednesday evening in Fountain Square Hall at which all the candidates present were introduced to the league by Charles A. Book waiter, Mr. BoOkwalter, Charles Yoke, Mrs. Elizabeth Kuhns, Mrs. C. H. Jose, D. L. Reedy, Carl Hayes and Alex Alexander were in the receiving line. Several of the candidates who were unable to be present had representatives at the meeting.

POLICE NAB TEN JITNEY BUS PILOTS Charge Drivers Loaded Cars in Prohibited Territory. FREED ON BOND All Have Complied With License Fee and Ordinances. Ten jitney bus drivers were arrested at Meridian ami Pearl streets today on charges of violating the Jitney regulation ordinance by receiving and discharging passengers ou streets where street car tracks are located. Frank I*. Baker, attorney, signed their bonds as fast us they were brought to police headquarters and they were released. All of the arrested drivers, have compiled with the jitney ordinance by paying special license fees, tiling bonds, routes and schedules, according to the city controller’s office. IV. L. Wlenke. 25, 1507 Pleasant street; Pen Popp, 4-1, 800 South Illinois street; John T. South, 24, 271 East rainier street; Joe J. Churuklan, 30, 507 South Meridian street; Claud B. Maudlin, 3-'i, 1542 Bouth Alabama street; Winfield C. Anderson. 42, 2100 South East street; Leo Welsenberger, 28, 1246 Union street; Morris Ouker, 01, 1149 South Illinois street; Dan J. Meyers, 30, 1021 Broadway, and Roy S. Wright, 38, 1213 Beville avenue. The Jitney drivers operate on what ! Is known ns the Madison avenue route, j with a terminal in Pearl Ftreet between i Meridian and Illinois streets. There : would be no violation of the ordinance i if they received or discharged passen- ! gers In Pearl street, because there are jno car tracks there. Patrolmen Dennis | and Brown, who made tho arrests, said, j however, that the drivers took on and i let off passengers in Meridian street, where there are tracks. The effect of the raid was practically to stop jitney service, since there are : only fifteen licenses In effect, and the i drivers taken into custody said three j were not operating today. | Mr Baker said that Chief of Police ! Rlkhoff, who ordered the arrest on complaint the drivers were violating the ordlnan -e, told him the drivers would be arrested again if they attempted to continue to operate. The ordinance compels each driver to give a $5,000 bond. The chief said he would Invstigat* to determine the value of I the bonds given. | Men who were arrested said It costs ; them an average $525 a year to comply with all the provisions of the ordinance. 500 AVIATORS FORCED TO QUIT, WALSH ASSERTS Scores of Experienced Fliers Must Take Unjust Exams, He Says. SERVICE THREATENED* WASHINGTON, April 6.—Five hundred j naval airmen, including scores of expe- ' rlenced fliers, are being driven out of the | service through unjust examinations, it jis charged today by Senator Walsh I (Democrat) of Massachusetts, before the j Senate Naval Affairs Committee. He asked the committee to call on Secretary j Denby to correct the situation. | "The whole future of the American air i service," continued Secretary Walsh. “Is i being threatened by the forcing out of I the service of hundreds of experienced dyers, through trick examinations.”

Texas Congressman Threatens to Beat Up Tu o Colleagues WASHINGTON, April 6.—Representative Thomas L. Blanton, Democrat of Texas, caused a stormy scene on tiie floor of the House today when he threatened to “whip” two of his Colleagues, Representatives Garner and Sumners, both of Texas. Following a speech by Blanton. in which he Utterly assailed the House members for what he called their "petty graft” in obtaining various supplies at cost from the Government, Gardner took the floor and declared Blanton had lied. Ship Subsidy Plan at $52,000,000 Year WASHINGTON, April 6.—Adoption of President Harding's ship subsidy plan would ultimately cost the Government $52,000,000 a year, It was declared today by A. D. Lasker, chairman of the Shipping Board, in testifying before a joint congressional committee. Says Soviet Menace Is Affecting Army WASHINGTON, April 6.—ived influences are trying hard to breed disloyalty in the American Army, Secretary Weeks charged in a statement today. His statement followed a similar one by Secretary of the Navy Denby regarding Bolshevism In the Navy. Blackmail Charge Joy Ride Charged with blackmail and petit larceny, Ralph Hills, 22, 428 Irvin Place, and Herbert Boyce, 30, 423 Irvin Place, were urrested last night and the wives of the men, Harriett Boyce and Gladys Hills, are held on vagrancy charges, pending investigation. According to the story told the police by two men. whose names have not been made public, they took the women for an automobile “joy ride” last night but soon noticed that they were being followed by another car. The men say they then brought the women back to the city and let them out of the automobile. The second car, which they say contained Hills and Boyce, then approached and the husbands of the women demanded S2O each. It is said they were paid $5 each. Hills and Boyce deny the blackmail charges and insist that their wives were criminally assaulted by the two men •who took them riding.

DEATH CLAIMS ROBT.A.BROWN, K. OF P. LEADER Former Clerk of Indiana Supreme Court in Final Sleep. HAD UREMIC POISONING . ' > ROBERT A. BROWN. Robert A. Brown, for eight years clerk of the Supreme Court of Indiana, and grand keeper of records and seals of the Indiana Knights of Pythias, died at 3:30 o’clock this morning at a sanatorium at 5033 North Illinois street. Mr. Brown's home was at 136 West Forty-Fourth street. His death was ascribed to uremic poisoning, with which he had been sick since Monday. At that time he lost consciousness and never regained it before death. Mr. Brown is survived by the widow, a daughter. Mrs. Charles J. Adams, and two brothers, I. Newt Brown of Franklin, Ind., secretary of the State board of agriculture, and Charles Brown, also of Franklin. Mr. lirown was born in Hopewell, Ind., Nov. 27, 1858. He was graduated from Frankiin College and later became editor of a Franklin paper. It was in Franklin that he became affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. He Joined Hesperian Lodge No. 12. Later, he came to Indianapolis and was made grand outer guard of the order in 1909. He went through all of the degrees until in 1915 he reached the grand chancellorship, the highest position in the order. Mr. Brown was a member of the building commission which planned the present Knights of Pythias Building at Massachussetts avenue and Pennsylvania street. He had been grand keeper of records and seals since 1915. Harvey M. Thompson, grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, with whom Mr. Brown was associated for many years, said today. “Mr. Brown's love and affection for the order should tie an Inspiration for every member. He was intelligent and a sympathizer. Mr. Brown was elected to the clerkship of the Supreme Court of Indiana In 1899 and was re-elected In 1902. Funeral arrangements have not beeD made.

HAVE DESIRE TO COOPERATE, SAYS COUNCIL Members Say Fault Lies With the Administration, Not Them. “The reason why the council does not want to provide money for the erection of anew public comfort station at Pennsylvania and Market streets is that the present station at Kentucky avenue and Illinois streets has been permitted to be come little more than a place where city employes loaf, bootleggers ply their trade on the men’s side and street walkers change their clothes and doll up on the women's side,” declared Theodore J. Bertid, president of the city council today. The statement was in reply to an r.sserlion of Mayor Shank that he had not started to carry out his campaign pledge to erect the new comfort Station because the council was not in a mo.id to cooperate with the administration on anything. “Some of the men employes even loafed on the women’s side before we got police powers for the women employes and broke it up,” continued Mr. Bernd. Although eouneilruen insist that they are “not bucking the administration,” bad feeling between the two bodies has existed since immediately before the administration opened. At a meeting at the Lincoln Hotel a few nights before the new officials took office a majority of (Continued on l’ngo Two.) BRITISH SHIPS TO STOP PIRACY Irish Rebels Have Been Stealing Arms From Vessels. QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, April 6. Four British destroyers arrived here today. It Is assumed they were ordered here to prevent further acts of piracy by Irish Republican army mutineers. The rebels have been seizing British arms and ammunition from vessels, and In some Instances have seized the vessels themselves. THREE WOUNDED IN BELCOO AMBUSH BELFAST, April 6.—A detachment of the Ulster constabulary was ambushed by Republican or Free State troops at Ilelcoo, County Fermanagh, today and In the fight which followed three constables were wounded. Reinforcements of constables have been sent to the scene. The situation along the Farmanagh border is again becoming threatening. The situation in Belfast continues quiet. GUERILLA WARFARE DUBLIN, April 6. —Guerilla warfare has broken out between the mutinous faction of the Irish Republican army and the troops supporting the Irish Free State. Free State troops were ambushed and attacked in County Wieklowe early today. The Republicans, concealed behind hedges, opened fire upon a troop detactment that was on patrol duty. The Free Staters sustained no casualties. The Republicans fell back after tiring several volleys, pursued by the Free Staters. All the attackers escaped into the Wieklowe hills. The situation in Dublin la most tense.

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BOTTLES AND UNIFORMS IN DAY’S PARTY Slaying of Officer Beck May Cause Shakeup. WIFE IN DENIAL Jurist Agrees to Tell * Coroner’s Jury of Killing. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 0 Through the tangled web of conflicting stories, shadowing the alleged accidental slaying of Lieut. Col. Paul Ward Beck, commandant of Post Aviation Field, Ft, Sill, by Jean P. Day, former Suprema Court justice and millionaire oil man, authorities today visioned disclosures which threatened to rock the Army post to its very foundation. For, while brother officers of the slain airman sought to defend Beck, Forrest Hughes, prosecuting attorney, announced he was on the trail of a “series of gay; parties in which the glamor of the uni. form mixed with the brew bottles” would be revealed. Hughes, it became known, based hia investigation into the killing of Beck on reports that “the Day home, in the hours preceding the tragedy, resembled a military post.” STRIP INSIGNIA FROM UNIFORM. While the investigation proceeded, brother officers of the dead airman, visited the body in the morgue and stripped from Beck’s uniform, all insignia of rank and decoration. The action was taken upon orders of Major Thomas B. I.anther, commanding officer of the military court investigating the killing. That officers other than Beck and Major R. J. Paddock, relative of General John J. Tershlng, were present at the party which preceded the tragedy, was denied both at Ft. Sill and at the Day home. Day’s story of the tragedy, according to Hughes, has been disproved in the finding of the bullet lodged in Beck's brain. The mushroomed pellet entered bacit of the airman's head, splitting against the skull and penetrating every part of the head in a dozen fragments. “How a man could be facing another and then shoot him in the back of the head is beyond me,” Hughes said, commenting on Day’s story. DEMANDS RIGHT TO TELE STORY. Mrs. Day has demanded the right to tell her complete story before a coroner's Jury Saturday. “I want to tell my story—tell It all,” Mrs. Day said. “I have nothing to hide —I did no wrong. “My husband is the only man I love.” Mrs. Day is expected to come to the defense of the military men of Ft. Sill. “It is silly to say (fur home resembled an Army post.” she said. "We had many Army men as guests—chiefly friends of Colonel Beck, but our home was never the scene of gay military parties in which liquor played a part." "Since my wife will testify, I too, will tell my story to the coroner's jury Sat(Contlnned on Page Two.)

CHARGES OFFER OF BRIBERY IN SHOALS AFFAIR" f ‘ Alabama Farm Bureau Makes Sensational Accusation. WASHINGTON, April 6.—A sensational charge th.it the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation has been offered a virtual bribe of $2,500,000 if it would seek to obtain from the Government the leasing of Muscle Shoals n'trate plant No. 2 and thus defeat the efforts of Henry Ford to lease the entire project, was made in documents made public today by tha AmeiJeau Farm Bureau Federation. Mer chandise of SSOO Value Taken Burglars broke into the Globe Store, S3O West Washington street, last night nnd stole merchandise valued at SSOO. Entrance was gained through a rear window. Tho burglary was not reported to the police until 3:SO o’clock this morulng. No Record Found of Ford's Refund WASHINGTON, April C —The Govern* ment has fully investigated statements credited to Henry Ford that be has paid back $29,000,000 in war profits and has found no record in any of its departments of the receipt of any money from Mr. Ford, it was stated officially at tha Treasury today. Dismiss Charges of Lottery Ticket Sales Claude AY. Miller and H. Fletcher Campbell, who were in city court on charges of selling lottery tickets, were discharged by Judge Wilmeth today. They were in charge of the bazaar being planned for the National Soldiers League and were alleged to have sold tickets that included a coupon good for a chance on an automobile.

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