Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1922 — Page 1

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MILLIONS IN BOND FRAUDS, SAYSJOHNSON Representative From North Dakota Is Insistent. IN FACE OF DENIAL Clings to Charges of Duplications in Circulation. WASHINGTON. April 2s. Startling disclosures in connection with his charges of wholesale duplication of Government bonds -were promised today by Representative Royal C. Johnson, Republican, S. D. Johnson spoke with reference to insistent rumors of the duplication and circulation of between $250,000.0)0 and $400,000,000 worth of Government bonds. On the floor of the House he had charged that “hundreds of millions of dollar's worth” of such bonds had been duplicated. “With in a few weeks this matter will be the overshadowing piece of news in Washington," Johnson declared. This statement was made in the face cf the repeared denials of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon of reports of duplications of gigantic proportions. Johnson reiterated his charges of duplication and said he had placed the facts, as he found them, before the de partment of Justice. RECALLS PROBE OF PRINTING BUREAU. Attorney General Daugherty, accompanied President Harding on the trip to Point Pleasant, Ohio, and was due back here today. It was recalled that representatives of the Departmentiof Justice took part in the inventory recently made at the Bureau of Printing ar.d Engraving following the dismissal of twenty seven bureau chiefs. William -T. Barns, head of the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice, today denied reports that his meD were watching or had taken into ustody a number of men v/ho formerly held positions of trust w.th the Gov■rnment. t These stories of duplication already have had a bad effect on Government bonds, one Treasury Department official >tau-d. Holders of Government bonds ire becoming anxious -for fear they are tj possession of duplicates. IFKICt I.T TO TRACE FRAI DS. ir will h- extremely difficult to trace duplicated bonds because many of the issues, involved in the report*, do ■ - I ma- are for many years, and some not until 11)47. R -pr- sentative Johnson said he personally took to the Department of Justice ,-ariy in 1921, seven typewritten pages of numbers of Government bonds *hat had ben duplicated, most of th# numbers of ■he alleged spurious bonds running 100,000 higher than the bonds legitimately issued by the Treasury. The number of the alleged bonds and ■nformation said to show that they were duplicates, were furnished to him. Johndeclared, by J. W. McCarter. South Dakota, regitrar in the Treasury Department. during a part of the last Admlnistiation. McCarter was “fired,” Johnson asserted, because hs brought the alleged duplications to the attention of higher Treasury officials.

ROBBERS OPEN SAFE BY USING COMPANY TOOLS Knock Combination Off and Pry Doors Open—Loot Not Estimated. Robbers cracked a safe In the offices of the Modern Electric and Machine Com pane. 936 Ft. Wayne avenue, last night after breaking their way through a rear window and two shop doors to the front of the building. They knocked the combine? r -n off the safe and ransacked it of its contents. Tools from the shop were used 'to knock the combination off and to pry open the two outside doors. T. A. Meyer, manager and president of the company, said he was unable to state the amount of money taken. Postage stamps and checks were scattered around a rear room of the machine shop, where the yeggs opened the money box taken from the safe. Track Repair Done; Cars Resume Routes Columbia. Brlghtwood, Pennsylvania, South East. Lexington, English, Prospect and Minnesota cars will resume their regular downtown routes Saturday morning. the Indianapolis Street Railway Company announced today They have been operating over temporary loops for several days while tracks in Pennsylvania street south of Maryland street were rebuilt. 5 Killed in Auto Struck by Train HITE Oak, Ga. April 28.—Five perms w.-re killed ard two seriously Injured her? when a seaboard air lin mail train struck an automobile filled with children and adults. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p m.. April 29. 1922: Fair tonight and Saturday; not me t change in temperatire; frost probaole tonight. HOT KEY TEMPERATURE o a. m 37 7 a. m 38 ?! a. m. 42 9 H. m 44 -o m................... 48 11 a. m 30 12 (noon) St 1 P. m 51 2 f> 52

Corsets Scarce as Fish Whiskers CORSETIERS ARE FEELIN G PINCH Most Women Should Wear Them

CHICAGO, April 28.—" Let’s stay, let’s stay” was the battle cry of the corsetiera of America today American* ainiply aren’t wearing ’em, and consequently: Corsetler's bank accounts are getting slimmer and— Women are getting fatter. With the above trend of reasoning for a basis, corset clubs are being organised throughout the country to recoup the popularity of the “form preserver.” The ways of stays committee of the cluh-s will conduct Investigations and probes which they fear will confirm thetr belief that 55 per cent of the women are not wearing corsets.

BING! MADISON. Wl„ April 28 —Secret marriages will not be. tolerated among students at the University of YVisronsln. Announcement was made today that Robert Johonnot. a student of Heaver Dam. and his 21-year-old bride, formerly Miss Doris Moses of Delavan, had been expelled. They had been posing as single.

FRANCE HOLDS UP ACTION ON RUSSIAN NOTE Belgium Said to Stand With Ally Against Form of Ultimatum. SHARP CONFLICT ENSUES GENOA, April 28.—-France’s objection to the allied “ultimatum” note to Russia today caused another day's delay at Genoa. A draft of the note, prepared by allied experts v.as ready for consideration by the political commission of the conference. The French objected to it and prepared a counter draft. Belgium is said to side with France In this matter. M. Barthou. chief of the French delegation. will travel to Paris tomorrow for a conference with Premier Poincare and the cabinet and will return to Genoa on Wednesday, it is reported here. The note cannot be ready for the Russians before tomorrow. The Russian question Is only one of several held up pending action by Poincare. Lloyd George invited the French premier to come to Genoa for a meeting of the supreme council to discuss reparations. Poincare, according tc the French delegation bore, wired a categorical refusal. pointing out preparations were not to l>e discussed at Genoa. : LLOYD GEORGE’S OFFERS TO WAIT. I.loyd George indicated his willingness to halt the work of the economic conference temporarily while the allies met. Poincare has not given official reply to this proposal. The Bolshevist press agent declares Russia has been only one at Genoa to observe the Cannes resolutions. Progress towards the ten-year pact of non-aggression was made w ithin the past twenty-four hours. Several countries besides Germany expressed satisfaction with Lloyd George's proposal, and their willingness to join. it is understood to he Lloyd George's intention to postpone public action on this truce pact until the Russian question has been disposed of. DRAFT OF FEMES’ NOTE TO RUSSIA. A draft of the note as prepared by the experts for Russia provides: 1. A detailed method of procedure whereby restitution shall be made for private property of foreigners in Russia seized by the Bolshevists. 2. A preamble covering financial aid which will be granted the soviet govern ment. J. An explanation of the workings of a financial consortium in which England, France, Italy, Belgium and other3 will contribute for tlie purpose of favoring Russian exportations. 1. An Italian plan for resumption of commerce with Russia by way of the Black Sea. A preliminary discussion of this draft brought forth a sharp conflict ou the question of restitution of Confiscated property. 2,000 WOMEN IN VISIT TO CAPITAL MAKE DEMANDS Congress Hears From Delegates to National Meeting in Baltimore. WASHINGTON, April 28.—More than two thousand women from all pasts of the United States and South America swooped down upon the National capital to teil Congress what they want in the way of legislation They arrived on a special train from Baltimore shortly before noon after taking part in the Pan-American conference of women and the convention of the National League of Women Voters. Ray Gets Another Delay in Hearing Charges of assault and battery and improper driving against City Councilman Otto Ray were continued for a second time in City Court today. This time the trial was set for May 9. Ray ran down five persons with his automobile at Delaware and Washington streets. One of the victims, a woman, still is in the hospital.

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Ran Hey, chairman of the committee, said he couldn't reveal as yet Just how the investigation would be conducted. “The corset checkroom at dance hall* ha* about ruined the corset manufacturing buine*s,” Hey said. “Girls took ’em off for the evening and found they could do without them, *o left off wearing them entirely Corset checkrooms are loaded with garment* never called for.” LOSES CLOTHES AND GFN. William Bridewell, 1955 Yandes street, reported to the police the theft of a suit of clothes and a revolver.

OIL TIP NETS 30 MILLIONS -LA FOLLETTE Senator Tells About Wyoming Land Leases. SEES SECRET DEAL WASHINGTON. April 28. An advance “tip” given speculators on the New York Stock Exchange that the Government had leased the Wyoming Naval Oil Reserve to a private company caused trading in the company's stork to jump to more than $30,000,000 in three days, while official information was within id from the newspapers and the public, by Secretaries Fall and Denbv, Senator La Follette, of Wlnscousin, charged in the Senate today. “A thorough investigation by the Senate Public Lands Committee of the Sinclair Oii deal” and of ail the circumstances surrounding the leasing of the Naval OU Reserves In Caifornia and Wyoming to pr'vate interests was proposed by a resolution offered by La Folietfe. La Follette accused Full of having used his influence, as a member of President Harding's Cabinet to not only turn the r-aval oil reserves over to private interests. but to have naval officials opposed to that policy “ordered to sea or to other parts of the world for duty.” “1 have been informed upon high authority that these changes in the Navy's personnel were made after the present secretary had begun hi* campaign to secure the transfer of the naval reserve* from the Navy to the Interior Department.” With all Ills fiery forensic force Senator LaFollette tore into the “secret deal” by which, he declared, $500,060,000 naval oil reserve at Teapot Dome. Wyn . was turned over to the private oil company headed by Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil promoter, because of the contention that the reserve was drained by the drilling of wails on adjacent private oil fields. La Follette declared that the pica of Secretaries Fall and Denb.v that it was loaned to private interests to save them from ‘outside drainage” was contrary to. nearly ail the geological- experts he had aproaehed on the subject. President Harding and his Administration wer edenoi need by La Follette as having “repudiated and reversed” the policy of protecting the naval oil reserve which, he declared, former Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, had maintained “over an unbroken period of more than a decade.”

$1,000,000,000 STEEL MERGER IS FORECASTED Seven Companies on List to Be Examined by Manufacturers. NEW YORK, April 28. —Fourteen steel manufacturers, representing companies whose aggregate total wealth is estimated at. $1,990,000,000. will leave New York next Sunday on a tour of inspection of seven companies. When they re turn in ten days. Wall Street expects announcement of a steel merger rivaling the United States Steel Corporation. The seven companies whose property is to be examined are; Mill vale Steel and Ordnance Company; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Republic Iron and Steel Company; Ttrier Hill Steel Company; Lackawanna Steel Company; Inland Steel Company, and the Steel and Tube Company of America. Financing of this proposed operation is understood to be in the hands of Kuhn, Loeb & Cos. v Gets SSOO and Costs for Assaulting- Wife Orville E. Bailey, 1120 Lexington avenue, today was fined SSOO and costs and sentenced to servo ISO days on the Indiana State Farm, In city court for assault and battery on his wife, but Judge Maurice Tennant suspended the judgment, warning the defendant that if he ever molested his wife again the penalty would be enforced. Bailey on Feb. 8, attacked bis wife with a knife while she was on her way to work. He escaped after the stabbing ari l was found an hour later when he was run down by a switch engine. His right foot was cut off by the switch engine. His crippled condition was reason the court gave for suspending Judgment.

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No Grub Like Home Inspires This Pome for Lads Who Roam Mother's good home cooking looke* and tasted better toSay to three boys than the grub they had been able io obtain during an ‘ adventure.’’ Disgusted with school and suffering an attack of spring fever that made them yearn to travel and see the world, Vernon. Baldwin, 15, 5542 East Michigan street, Robert Speer, 15, 2812 East Michigan street, and Albert Zimmerlng, 14, living on North Temple avenue, disappeared mysteriously April 20. The police were requested to search for them. Worried and anxious parents made every effort to find them. Their mothers had just cleared the supper tables last night when the missing adventurers returned. , Anew supper was prepared in a hurry. The boys traveled j as far as Lebanon.

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LONDON, April 28.—Now that British women have the ballot, seat* in Parliament and any number of magistrate*, they're out fur equal rights along another lino—in tho horse racing field! They’re Invading the last ditch held ex eluaively by mere roan. Women always have been interest 'd In the races as spectators. But now they're appearing as ftwners of racing s ables. They’re training their own horses.

DESCHANEL OF FRANCE DIES OF PNEUMONIA Was President in H)2O, but Resigned Because of Illness. PARIS, April 2s.—Paul Eugene Dov chanel, former President of France, died today. The Immediate cause of his death, no. cording to physicians, was pneumonia. M. Hesehanel, who was 70 years old, was twice president of the Chamber of Deputies Imfore becoming President of France in 1920. He served only a short term, resigning because of illness. An attack caused him to fall from a train on one occasion and ho accosted a pedestrian on a country road, announcing to the man's amazement, that he was the President, of France. “Yes, I'm Napoleon,” the man said, only to discover later that the stranger was !u fait the President. Deschancl had been seriously ill for several days. Virginia Rappe’s Fiance Married LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 28.—Henry M. Lehrmann, motion picture director, today announced his marriage to Mary Alice Simpson, former ‘Follies” beauty, known to the stage as Jocelyn Leigh. Lehrmann’s name was identified with the “Fatty,” Arbuekle case. It was brought out In the trial that he teas the fiance of Virginia Rappe. Garden Association Will Give Free Seeds Ten thousand packages of free Government seeds will be distributed by the Patriotic Gardeners’ Assignation at the city hail Saturday morning, Harry Miesse, secretary, announced today. The seeds will be given away in the basemeut from 8:30 to 12 o'clock.

Colorado writer who was honored by the American Society of Arts and Science in the anm nouncement of the O. Henry Memorial Prizes for the year’s best short stories, will start in I j The Indiana Daily Times next Monday. Tt is unusual in theme, action, characterization and X setting. For the “desert” is not one of sand and arroya but of bleak white stretches atop the Continenal Divide where winter rules even in May and where the world is a stretch of blue-green ice. Here, on the backbone of the Continent, the author places his characters that they may work out their future and absolve their past in a novel of strength, swift action and constant suspense.

His Only Hoine_ on Bounding Wave HAS NO WIFE—AND WANTS NONE He Do esn’t Feel Safe on Shore

NEW YORK,' April 28.—The “man without a country." has been found. Ha arrived in New York today and signed his name to the ship’s papers of the R*eamer Esperta as Capt. C. O'Neil When he said he had signed that way for so long be didn't know what the \C” stands for, and did not fill in the dotted) line for bis “home port" because be has no home, the ships news reporters became interested, and this is what they learned : “My home Is the sea,” Captain O'Neil said. “I have had no other home since I was 10 years old.

They’re hiring Jockeys and putting them in their own colors. Take the Countess of Wilton, for in stance. She has her own extensive stable of racers Her Jockeys are clothed in an attractive mauve with silver braid and sliver cap. Other prominent women ra ing enthusiasts are Lady James Douglas, Lady Nelson, I.ady Nunluirnhoime, Lady Cunliffe Owen, Mrs. Hugh Feel and Mrs. Arthur James.

ORDERED TO STATE PRISON; 1 STOLE AUTOS Bigamist and Burglar Among Convicts” Facing Judge Colling. Six persons were sentenced in Criminal Court by Judge James A. Colllus today to serve prison terms. Four were convicted for vehicle taking and the unlawful possession of motor vehicle. Emil Martin and Harry Carney were sentenced to serve six months In the Indiana State Reformatory on a vehicle taking eharge. It was alleged that they stole an automobile valued ai S4OO from William Hannah, 2429 East Michigan street, March 18. They were fined $23 and costs. Walter Wright and Byron Davenport, charged with a similar offense, each received a sentence of three to fivo years. These men stole an automobile valued at $1,400 from Charles Taylor, 2225 North Alabama street. They were disfranchised for three years. John C. Lucas, alias Lewis, charged with ,bigamy, was sentenced to serve three to live years. William Robinson, charged with entering a house to commit a felony and with grand larceny, was given a one to four-teen-year sentence on tiie larceny charge. He stole three suits of clothing valued at $1,70 from Irvin Castleman, 515 North California street. Negro Slated for Assault to Kill In an argument over a taxi bill Frank Cameron, driver employed by the Indiana Taxi Company, early today was slashed across the upper lip with a knife in the hands of a negro. The fight took place at Senate avenue nnd Thirteenth sleet. The police arrested Edward Boldin, 23, negro, 13011a North Senate avenue, on the charge of assault and battery with Intent to kilL

“I have traveled 2,180 000 miles over the seven seas in thirty-six years as a seamon. “Married? I should say not! I wouldn't share my home— and my home is my ship—with any woman. And there ain’t a wife in every port for me. I don t go ashore any more. “A man's life ain't safe ashore any more with women going around the way they do. “That's the reason I gave up passenger ships. Too many women. No woman gets aboard my ship unless she has a husband, and she’s got to stick close to him or go ashore.”

SHANK SAYS POLICE WILL WATCH POLLS Mayor Resents Action of Hendrickson on Board. SAYS ’TIS UNFAIR Because of Harry C Hendrickson’s action in naming anti-Shank officials for Tuesday’s primary ejection in Marion County, Mayor Shank said today he was going to order Chief Rikhoff to have the police watch more closely tian ever for violations of the election laws. “It's the same kind of tactics," said Mayor Shank, “used in 1912, when Harry M allace and Bill Davis had control of the Republican party in Marion County. “They defeated the Kepullican party by an overwhelming majority by refusing to let the people have representation on tho e'ection boards. Many precincts wore corrupt in tout election and Theodore Roosevelt did not have representation on the boards. It looks to me like this outfit is t < ing to do the same thing. mm shank FEELS AIIOI T FT. “In other words they care more for seizing an organization than they do f<,r electing the Republican ticket in the fall. i believe that if they wanted to he fair they would have allowed each i-tdr in this scrap to have a representative on the boards. "Since they have done thi , I am going to go down to police headquarters and give orders to Chief Rikhoff to have the police on election day arrest any and every person guilty of any violation whatovi.-r of the election laws. We’ll lie looking out for them. So far as myself and my organization are concerned tve’re going clean.” IIfMIKK IiSUN TELLS MIDI r LETTER. In reply to the claims of the Shank forces Cli airman Hendrickson made pub lie the faet that he had received a letter from Joseph R Morgan, chairman of the Marion founty Bevortvfcic Clnh. asking for representation upon the hoards and made public his reply. In his letter to Mr. Morgan, the chairman said h<> had received requests from mniiy candidates for representation on the boards, but, since it was manifestly impossible to accommodate them nil, “I have therefore proeeeded to select the various boards without partiality to candidates."

POLICE TO STOP OFFENDING OF SCHOOLGIRLS Plain Clothes Men Assigned to Protect Students of , Shortridge. Three men, arrested after two of them had attacked a group of Shortridge High School girls, are scheduled to be tried In city court Saturday, the cases having been continued in order to avoid the necessity of keeping the complaining witnesses out of school. The arrests of the men are a part of the program to stop the offending of school girls attending Shortridge, by negroes and others This terrorization has been going on for some time. I’lain clothes men are still stationed around the school and on surrounding streets. No complaints were received today. Those who were to face the court are Jesse Powells, negro. 818 West North street; Jesse Glover. 412 North Delaware street, and Union Amos, negro, 525 Center street. Powells nnd Glover were arrested. the police say, after they at tacked a group of girls who were walking from a street ear line to the school. A policeman heard the screams of the girls and succeeded in capturing the two. They are charged with assault and battery and offending persons. Amos w r as arrested later on a vagrancy charge, after he was found loitering In the vicinity of the school. He was identified as one who “loafed'' around Pennsylvania and North streets. Town Threatened by Forest Fire HAZLETON,' Pa„ April 28.—A forest fire which blazed ail last night on Broad Mountain between Mauch Chunk and Hudsondale, destroying thousands of dollars' worth of property and timber, today is threatening tho village of Lansford. Careless sportsmen are believed to bare caused the blaze.

REPUBLICAN SENATOR GAINS FIRST VICTORY OVER BEVERIDGE MEN New Forces Control Machinery in County Primary, Ignoring Mayor Shank’s Crowd. CITY ORGANIZATION NOT ON BOARDS

Anti-Shank and Pro-New Republican forces ill Marion County were enjoying their first decisive victory in the war for control of the Republican county organization today. The advantage consisted of Iron-clad control of precinct election boards which will serve in the primary election next Tuesday, Shank leaders who are trying to elect William 'll. Freeman county chairman and William E. ‘Reilly district chairman and Beveridge workers in Marion County claimed that County Chairman Harry Hendrickson had knocked them down and then trod ruthlessly over their prostrate forms in his nomination of Republican members of the election boards. The boards were appointel by the county

HELD PRISONER, THEN KILLED BY FICKLE LOVER Theory of Police in Connection With Gertrude Hanna, Dead Choir Girl. SLAYER NOT IDENTIFIED HOOPESTON, 111., April 28.—Gertrude Hanna, choir girl, met death while her betrayer attempted to force her to undergo an illegal operation, evidence indicated today. Her lover, not wishing to carry ont a probable promise of marriage, held the girl prisosier for several days and admlnisteed chloroform, with the intention of performing the operation while she was unconscious, according to the theory of Chief of Police Bogart. Death was caused accidentally by an overdose of chloroform, Bogart believed, and the murderer hid’the body in the

EVIDENCE HOOPESTON. 111., April 28.—Gertrudf* Hanna's body was not In the basement a vreek ago, J. M. Strong, ft prominent citizen of Hoopeston, told the authorities today. "I went all through (he parsonage. seaMiiftff for a lawn mower which I had loaned the pastor a year ujjo,” Strong: said. “I searched the basement carefully and am sure l would have seen the body had It been there.*’

parsonage basement of the United Presbyterian Church, where it was found by carpenters Search was being made through Hoopeston and outlying territory for deserted houses, where officials believe the gir! had a rendezvous with her lover, and where she met death. Miss Hanna's body was found by J. C. McKibben. a carpenter, who In preparing the parsonage for the occupancy of anew pastor. McKibben noticed what appeared to be a bundle of clothing lying on a ledge. Investigation proved, it to be the body of Miss Hanna. Sheriff Charles Knox and Coroner John Cole were notified. An autopsy revealed the girl's condition. No marks of violence were found upon the body. Impressions in the flesh of the wrists indicated that her hands might have been bound for some time with a least of gome description, but otherwise the body was unmarked. Miss Hanna had been missing from her home for four weeks. She had left home late one evening and had not returned. Search for lior had been unavailing. The body, when found, was clothed in the garments that she wore when she left home. The parsonage where the body was fouud had been vacant for three months, the Rev. J. T. Melloy, former pastor of the church, having moved to Evanston. 111. It was located about two block from the home of Miss Hanna's parent* Mr. and Mrs. W. I’. Hanna. GENERALCHANG MOVING TROOPS TOWARD PEKIN Movement Cuts Traffic on Railroad to One Train Daily. PEKIN, April 28. —General Chang Tso Lin continues to move up troops to tho Pekin area. Traffic on Pekin-Mukden Railroad has been reduced to one train daily due to the ■shortage of cars as a result of the heavy troop movements of the Manchurian war lord. Maintenance of peace and order within the city was promised today by tne commander of the Pekin gendarmerie.

TWEET! Summer has come. Mrs. Earl 'Kingston, 645 East Eleventh street, reported to the police today a thief entered her home and stole an lee box worth §SO. Neighbors say they saw the man load it on a wagon and drive away.

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commissioners without deviation from the chairman's recommendation. Hendrickson was made county chairman by tne old Jewett-Lemeke Republican machine, which now„is striving to recover from the tidal wave under which Mayor Shank engulfed it last spring. The Shank leaders said that the Shank faction is absolutely without representation on any board in the county. Tbe Republican wings of precinct boards all over the county are packed with New and anti-Shank men and women, they said. It is the custom for county chairmen to nominate to the county commissioners for election board members, men and women recommended by the duly elected precinct committeemen. There is said to be a large number of precinct committeemen pledged to support the ShankBeveridge cause. These committeemen recommended to Chairman Hendrickson names of Shank and Beveridge sympathizers for nomination on the boards. Not a single one of the Shank-Beveridge people recommended survived Henrickson's blue pencil. Shank leaders state. He cut them off and put on JewettLemeke or Coffia-Dodson worker*, they sjate. CONTROL IS BIG * ADVANTAGE. Under the law the Republicans have the inspector, a judge, a clerk and a sheriff on each board. The Democrats have a judge, clerk and sheriff, giving the Republicans four to the Democrats’ three. The inspector is in command of tne polls. To control the board is a decided advantage for any party or faction. Disputes may be settled to the benefit of the side in control. Shank leaders said they discovered they had been treated particularly rfugh in the matter of Mr. Hendrickson's boards in the Fifth, Sixth, First and Twelfth wards. These are districts where political history contains a number of spots which are anything but snowy white. These are the wards Federal agents watch when they look for corruption. LEFT OCT ON EVERYTHING. Concerning the naming of precinct election officials, D. S. Milter, in charge of organization work of the Marion County Republican League, which is seeking to bring about the election of Shank candidates for county and district chairmanships, made the following statement: “They have turned us down in every particular. We have not been able to find a solitary instance where our recommendations were carried out. Men of the highest standing in their precincts, but known supporters of Mr. Freeman for county chairman, have been ruthlessly turned down as members of election boards and even as watchers at the polls after the vote is cast. “However, we will hare 175 Freeman precinct committeemen and the opposition will never come out in the open with a candidate because they do not care to expose their weakness. “The time for talk is past We are ready to vote.” The text of the letter Mr. Hendrickson sent to Mr. Morgan Thursday follows: “Tour communication of this date received. ”1 have selected the primary boards who will conduct the primary election in the various precincts In this county at the coming primary. They have been (Continued on Page Thirteen.)

EXPLOSION OF ACETYLENE GAS WRECKSPLANT Ten Men Injured, One Perhaps Fatally, in Body Works. DETROIT, April 2S.—Ten men were seriously Injured, one so badly that ha may die, and $23,000 damage was sustained today In a blast which partly wrecked the acetylene welding department of the west side plant, of the Fisher Body Company. Leigh Lynch, production manager, said the explosion had been caused by a workman throwing aside a tank of acetylene he believed to be exhausted and neglecting to close the valve. Anew tank was substituted and gas remaining in the used cyclinder exploded with a force that threw the men in the air, brought down shafting and machinery, and smashed practically all of the windows In the welding plant. Heiress’ Husband May Be Bigamist PARTS, April 2S—The Russian consulate here today announced it had certified a marriage certificate showing that Anatase Yonsiatsky, husband of Mrs. Ueam-Stephens, American heiress, had been married at Yalta on March 8, 1920, to a Russian girl here who claims to be his wife. A marriage license dated “Yalta, January, 1920,” is among the documents whereby Madame Liouboff Yonsiatsky, as she calls herself, hopes to establish her identity as the legal wife of Yonsiatsky. Would Endlm Tax Exemptions WASHINGTON, April 2S.—There would be no more tax exempt securhies issued by the Federal Government or by. State, county or municipal governments, under a proposed constitutional amendment introduced in the House today by Representative Green, lowa, Republican. Terpfic Storm on Bay of Bengal LONDON. April 2s. \ terriffie storm raging in the Bay of Bengal has caused many wrecks and resulted in heavy shore damage, according to a Central News dispatch from Bombay received this afternoon* .

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