Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1922 — Page 1

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NAME TAYLOR NEW LEADER OF BAPTISTS First Church Pastor Elected Without Contest. HONOR IS GREAT Secret Ballot Used as Required by Rules. Dr. Frederick E. Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Indianapolis, today was elected president of the Northern Baptists to succeed the retiring president, Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery. Asa secret ballot was taken, as provided by the by-laws of the convention, several hours will be required for the tellers officially to canvass and announce the Tote. Mrs. Montgomery stated that as Hr. Taylor had no opposition his election was assured. This great honor being bestowed upon Dr. Taylor will not necessitate his resignation as pastor of the Indianapolis church. His duties will be more numerous, but it is announced he will retain his pastorate. EFFORT TO DISPENSE WITH SECRET BALLOT. An effort was made before the secret ballots were distributed to dispense with the secret ballot and to instruct the secretary of the convention to cast a vote for all of the candidates nomisiated by the nominating committee. Dr. J. C. Masse<?, leader of the Fundamentalists, declared from the platform that the Fundamentalists did not object to such method, but the choir held the . This indicated there was no organized opposition to the election of Dr. Taylor or to any other candidate named by the nominating committee. The following officers were chosen: First Vice President—Corwin S. Shank, Seattle. Wash. Second Vice President—The Rev. Frank M. Goodckiid, Fundamentalist, of New York. Corresponding Secre'ary—The Rev. William C. Bitting, St. Louis. Mo. Recording Secretary—The Rev. Maurice A. Levy. Pittsfield, Mass. Statistical Secretary—The F.ev. Charles A. Walker, Philadelphia. Treasurer —Frank L. Miner, Des Moines, lowa. Executive Committee—Mrs. J. A. Lichty, Philadelphia; the Rev. .T. A. Earl, St. Paul, Minn.: Mrs. ,T. M. Brough. Los Angeles, Cal.; George Earl. St. I’aui, Minn.: the Rev. J. c. Mazen, Peoria. III.: E. J. Steinberg, Milwaukee: V.. W Ever ett. District of Columbia : Mrs. E C. Herrick, Fall River, Mass., and George Prescott. Tawas City. Mich. PASTOR OF HARKING CHI RCII HONORED. The Rev. W. S. Abernethy of Washington. who is pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, attended by President Harding, was elect"! president of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. The convention administered another defeat to the Fundamentalists when the delegates supported the report of the executive committee, recommending that (Continued on Page Twelve.)

PAID S4OO EACH MONTH OUT OF SALARY OF $360 Bickford Death Is Subject of Investigation by Insurers. The existence of conditions under which Frank L. Bickford, who, according to the verdict of I)r. Paul F. Robinson, coroner, committed suicide March 30. paid *250 monthly premiums on six insurance policies amonntlng to *87,500 and paid monthly installments of *l5O on the purchase of a house, ont of a *3GO a month salary, were revealed today when a suit to cancel and have declared void one of the insurance policies was brought In Superior Court, room 1. against the widow. Lena D. Bickford, by the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. The complaint states that Bickford took out a *5,000 policy from the plaintiff June 23, 1021. and paid one premium of *02.45. at this time, he stated he was insured only to the extent of *15.000, In two companies. Instead, the suit asserts, he was insured in several companies for amounts varying from *5,000 to *20.0*10. It is alleged also that Bickford falsified his statement as to what di- a*'s he had been treated for. Bickford's wife, the defendant, presented proofs of death of her husband to officials of the company and claimed accidental death from gunshot wounds. No coroner's report was submitted, as is required. The insurance company notified her they had declared the policy void and sent her the one premium Bickford had paid, with G per cent interest. She returned this and has signified her intention to bring aeiten on the policy the complaint relates. It was asked the policy on which the action was brought and another of *lO.000 be declared null, void and canceled. It Is asked in addition the defendant be enjoined from entering Into litigation to recover the amount of the policy. Heavy Earthquake Shock Is Recorded WASHINGTON, June 17.—Heavy earthquake snock was recorded early today by the seismograph at Georgetown University here. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-fonr hours ending at 7 p. m.. Sunday. June IS: Generally fair and somewhat cooler tonight and Sundav. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. G a. m 7* 7 a. m so 8 a. m 81 ! a. in 8.: If a. m Sfi 11 a. m SS 12 (noon) 88 1 p. m Si 3 p. m 88

Coppess, Who Did Not Cop, Refunds Pay Mrs. Georgians C. Murphy, 1130 Fletcher avenue, has paid Chief of Police Herman E. Itikholf S*IIS.US, representing salary she collected as a policewoman from Jan. 2, until this week, it was announced at police headquarters today. The board of public safety hail charged Mrs. Murphy drew her salary but did not work. Chief Rikhoff reimbursed the city, saying Miss Murphy had refused to do so. Mrs. Murphy said she had not refused. She said she had the money in a bank ready to be returned if necessary. She thought she had taken the money honestly because she was formally appointed policewoman and held herself ready at ail times for assignment to duty, she said. Shoivalter Wins First Times Prize IC. B. Showalter, 34*1 South Emerson avenue, has won the first weekly prize offered by The Indiana Daily Times for the beet described auto route out of Indianapolis. requiring a day or less to traverse. Mr. Showalter selected the roan from Indianapolis to Bloomington as ono that presents typical Indiana scenery to the motorist. His description follows: "The most interesting and atiractive auto route which I have found out of Indianapolis which may be covered in little more than three hours, making the trip both out and back in less than eight hours, with plenty of time to stop along the way, is that from Indianapolis to the State University at Bloomington. "Starring from the Monument, the road is out Kentucky avenue, past the Marmon motor car plant, through Maywood, from which it is only a few blocks to the big factory where the La'ayette cars are made, then back on to the State road to Mooresviiie, an attractive small town. Continue the road thr ugh Brooklyn, passing by the tile factoiy and clay mine at this p 'int. Between Brooklyn and Martinsville the road passes Blue Bluffs, where a magni.lcent cliff borders the river. Continuing on to Martinsville, one may visit the factory where ‘Old Hickory’ furniture, a nationally known product, is made. "Beyond Martinsville the road tiegins to wind upward along a ridge, from where a wonderful view of the country on either side may be had. At one point, about half way between Martinsville and Bloomington, there is a dirt road descending from the main road, where a panoramic view of the di-rant bills may be seen flint is as beautiful as any in the Middle West. The country on into Bloomington is hilly and picturesque, and at the end of the journey the town of Bloomington and the State University buildings and o a i n _ pus are worth spending several hours itj viewing. “The road is plainly marked along the -rttire dis tan e, paved partly with brb' and r.snhi ' And ptirtly with gravel, and, except for a short stretch near Blue Bluffs, Is in excellent shape." The Indiana Daily Times will give ten gallons of Red Crown gasoline to the nutoist sending in the best description of an auto trip out of Indianapolis requiring n day or less to traverse. Routes that are r.ot ordinarily traveled are sought for the benefit of the motoring public The award of the prize will b*.- based on terseness and clarity of the des. ription, as well as the nature of the country traveled. Send your urticlea in to the Route Editor, the Daily Times.

HAYNES ASKS IF BOARD RULE FOLLOWS COURT Prohi Agent Makes Formal Demand for Decision on Ship Booze Issue. WASHINGTON, June 17— Formal demand that the Department of Justice rule upon the status of Government vessels as carriers of liquor, so that the issue may be clarified under the latest decision of the United States Supreme Court, was made upon Attorney General Daugherv today by X’rohlbltlon Commissioner Haynes. The attorney general wns asked to settle the dipute between the Treasury Department and the Shipping Board, arising out of Chairman I.asker’s opinion that tho sale of liquor on American ships is legal and to state If the Department of Justice ruling of the I’aimer administration is to be superseded by the Shipping Board opinion. TWO MASKED BANDITS HOLD UP FAST TRAIN Ransack Express Car, Taking Everything in Safe, Then Rush to Escape. PITTSBURGH. Pa , June 17.—The New York Central flyer between Pittsburgn and Fairmont, \V. Va., was hekl-up by two masked bandits today betweeu Monessen anil Webster, Pa. After the train was stopped the express messenger anil the hnggagemaster wero overcome and the rubers ransacked the express car taking all available papers and everything iu the safe. The bandits then hepped off the train, walked up the track a short distance, entened a waiting automobile and rushed away. The amount of the loot has not been revealed.

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Cleveland Plan Solves Labor Puzzle

" X R. ; .td 1 an, county an 1 Eleventh Dtstt S chairman. charge! Jointly with V f'*' .‘'’ ' v - - Williams, brother of u county coma f: x w sneer, in a report of the State board / S'-ronum, with overcharging Grant (uu \ ur si,7im.4<>. \ Jr. ,-Jjf 9 ihe money ts alleged due the cou ■ m\f ■ Jf" f lor stone w hich was to have been u T? M 1 te J ,n construction of roads and wl V . I f |r the State examiners claim was not ut \ \ ;<f f lu another report. Ferile (i. McCracl

Above —Board of referees which guides the “Cleveland Plan” of unemployment insurance. Below Miss Mary Styblo, Cleveland garment worker, who tells how the plan works.

CLEVELAND, June 17 —The first basic solution of the seasonal employment problem has been proved in the women s garment Industry in Cleveland. Two year* of trial, through the difficult period of readjustment, has shown that the 'Cleveland plan" Is workable anil satisfactory both t ■ employer ; ii employe Tli* plan .us worked • In conhe'-tintt with a wage decrease of 10 per cent The question of the reduction was placed before a board of referees Their decision allowed manufacturers to put the reduction into effect provided they set aside weekly 2o per cent of the new wag- scale as an unemployment fund. Acceptance of this p'an was optional with the employers, those not accepting It to continue at the old scale and to set aside 7 1 - per cent weekly for an unemployment fund. This was to t ike care of the smaller manufacturers. UNEMPLOYED ABE PAID, TOO. The working year was considered on a basis of forty-one weeks a year, and any one not employed this length of time, might draw the whole amount of his minimum weekly wage from the * fund during unemployment periods. If a manufacturers provided the full forty-one weeks’ work to bis employes he couid, at the end of the year, recover the amount of the employment fund. The pinu was worked to the entire satisfaction of both employers and era-

Weather Man Says Better Brand Coming Cooler weather is promised for tonight and Sunday by the United States Weather Bureau, although the thermometer was expected to record higher than 90 degrees today before the better brand of weather which Is headed this way from the West- arrives. Cities in the extreme western pari of indlann reported temperatures today of from six to ten degree* lower than yes terday, according to J, H Artning.o.j, Meteorologist, but In Indianapolis the moderating influence of the western breezes had not yet become effective and at 1 o'clock the official thermometer at the weather bureau recorded 88 degrees, as against 91 for tho same hour yesterday. According to Mr. Armiugton, Indianapolis has hnd much less extremely hot weather so far this year than was the ease in 1921. Up to this time last year there were seven days on which the mercury had reached 90 degrees or higher, as against only four days this year. MAYOR TAKES STEP TO SAVE LIVES OF TOTS Says Something Must Be Done to Prevent Little Ones From Running in Streets. Accidents to two little boys, whose bodies were mangled in automobile accidents this week, influenced Mayor Shank today, he said, to launch a campaign to keep children out of the streets and tench the general public to he more careful. The mayor offered a prize of $5, to be paid out of his own pocket, for a slogan, such as "Watch Your Step,” with which he said, "we can plaster the town.” "We've got to do something to keep the kids out of the street,” said the mayor. "They dash out in front of automobiles and street ears so that they keep motorists and motormen on the edge of heart failure, all the time.’ The mayor said he might hold a mass meeting for children to tell them the dangers of playing In the streets. Suggestions for the slogan should be sent to the mayor's office, not later than next Saturday noon, when the contest closes. The mayor named three newspapermen on a committee to select the winner. In case of a tie the $5 wdll be divided.

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ployes. It has stimulated production and avoided Btrikes and lockouts. For It is to the benefit of both that as much work be done as possible; of benefit to the manufacturer because he does not then have to pa.’ from the unemployment fund; of benefit to the employe be muse, employed, h* can earn -.are thar he would otherwise get from the unorn ployment fund. But tiie main good of the plan ha* been tliat it lias relieved the workers of the fi-sr of starvation through unrtaployment. Such four Is detrimental to the employer us well, bringing as it does a desire to get sufficient during good times to tide over leau times. It Is this that causes disagreements, strikes and lockouts. And the garment industry is highly seasonal, un industry whose demand tat workers varies considerably with the tt.ue of the year. "LIVING MAGE ( AISKS WRANGLE. Workers and manufacturers under the former plan were in a constant state of argument as to what was a decent living wage. A manufacturer would say: “Fifty dollars a week is a good living wage." "Ves,” the worker would reply, "but owing to the seasonal nature of the work, 1 expect to be let out at the end of thirty weeks, thus making my total income for the year $1,500, or less than S3O a week." The attitude of the workers toward the “Cleveland plan" is well exemplified by the story of Miss Mary Styblo, a Cleveland garment worker. Miss Styblo made her first entry In the garment trades at the age of 10. She began as an apprentice, working ll l A hours a day for 50 cents a week. Eater Miss Styblo was put on the operating machines at $3 a week for an "outside tailor." When she got a position with one of the faetorles "Inside" the Manufacturers’ Association, her wages were increased to $0 a week. What does she think of the garment industry ? “VERY FINE NOW," SHE MILL ADMIT. "Oh, It’s all right now,” she says, “There haven’t been any strikes for more than three years and the new girls don’t know what It was like." Miss Styblo knows something about strikes. She went through those of mil and 1918. She tells of the Rtrikc of 1911 : "Tliero were guards all around tho factory, at the first floor windows," she says. “They were always having fights with the pickets outside. There was aclil thrown and rotten eggs. There was a man killed in one of those fights. ”111 1918 practically everybody went out on strike,” she continued. “There was no minimum wage and the girls got just what the tailor In their section wanted to give them. "It. was then that the Government referees stepped in, settled the strike and there haven’t been any strikes since. You don’t hear the people talk about striking now. It’s all under the agreement now, you know.”

Names Heif Thirteenth Child Polly anna MRS. THOMAS RIVALS PHILOSOPHER OF NOVEL Says She’s Something to Be Glad About

Tin* original Pollyanna of Eleanor Porter’s book was no more of a philosopher than is Mrs. P. S. Thomas of 4450 Baltimore , who has Just become a mother for the thirteenth time in twen-ty-five years,and who wns so pleased with the most recent addition to a family which most people would regard ns somewhat of a burden that she has given the diminuitire young lady the name of “I’ollyauna"—"because she was something to be giad about,” Mrs. Thomas said. When asked how she managed to care for all of her family, Mrs. Thomas insisted it wasn't at nil hard, as the older ones looked after the younger ones. “The first four were really harder for

JONES, LEADER OF G. 0. P., HELD FOR SHORTAGE State Committeeman Named Jointly in Report. MARION, Ind., June 17 John A. Jones, Republican, county and Eleventh District chairman, is charged Jointly with Will Williams, brother of o couuty commissioner. In a report of the State hoard of accounts, with overcharging Grant County $1,704.40. The money is alleged due the county for stone which was to have been used in the construction of roads and which the State examiners claim was not used. In another report, Ferlle G. McCracken, an assistant highway superintendent, anil Merle Blinn, contractor, are charged with $1,723, shortage for the same reason.

LENIN SAID TO HAVE SUFFERED SECOND STROKE Solicit IV nier Reported in Care of Era in Specialists, Who May Operate. RIGA, Juno 17.—Nicolai Lenin has suffered a second paralytic stroke, it was learned today from an auihoritatlve source close to the Russian soviet government. He Is reported to have undergone nr operation during which part of his srinal cord was removed The specialists in attendance are discussirg the advisability of performing a brain operation. POLICE ARREST MANIAC BROWN OR‘GUS GRIMES’ Fugitive, Wanted for Holding Two Women Prisoners, Sent to Hospital Wounded. MEDICINE BOW, Wyo., June 17. Fred Brown, "maniac," who, under the alius of Gus Grimes, held two women prisoners in Omaha and toyed with police in his escape, was shot and raptured today. Brown was taken to a hospital at Rawlings, M'yo. JUDGE DENIES PLEA OF THREE IN LABOR WAR Murphy, Bader, Shea and Four Others Go to Trial Joint- / ly Monday. CHICAGO, June 17.—Seven of the eight persons indicted for conspiracy to murder in connection with the death of Police Lieutenant Terrence Lyons, during the recent "reign of terror" in Chicago, will be arraigned for trial Monday. The eighth person, a woman named in the Indictment as "Mrs. Miller,” will be given a separate trial at a later date. Judge Taylor today refused a separate trial fur “Big Tim" Murphy, Freil Milder, “Con" Sea and other labor leaders named In the indictment.

me to care for, because they were all babies at the same time, but after they got old enough to help, the younger ones weren't any trouble at all,” she said. “Anyhow, there are only seven of them at home now, as the others are grown anil married, so it isn't really hard to manage at all. All tho children help with the work, you know." Mrs. Thomas explained, cniling attention to a little girl about 10 who was acting as housekeeper. The helpful efforts of a brown-eyed, yellow-haired youngster, who hnd been the baby until the arrival of the thirteenth, almost resulted disastrously when he attempted to swat a few flies that disturbed the baby’s slumbers, and just missed swatting young Pollyanna. Asa result of hi* misdirected kindness

JUDGE ASKS GAS COMPANY ITS INTENTION Orders Attorney to Get in Touch With State. DISLIKES DELAY r Action Allowed to Drop After GettingInjunction. When attorneys for the Citizens Gas Company presented a motion to Judge Albert B. Anderson In Federal Court today asking that the temporary Injunction recently granted the company against the Indiana public service commission be modified, they started something. For Judge Anderson immediately demanded why no steps had been taken to bring tne case up on final hearing. a-id ordered Paul Y. Davis, who presented the motion, to get in touch with the office of the Attorney General of Indiana, and be In court at 2 o’clock this afternoon. "I will not entertain this motion until I find out about this case," Judge Anderson said. He then told Mr. David to get in touch with U. 3. Lesh. attorney general of Indiana, and haYe him appear in court at 2 o'clock. When he learned Mr. Lesh was ont of the city, he told Davis to get in touch with form* one else in the office, but to be back at 2 o'clock. Apparently Judge Anderson is dissatisfied with the deluy in the case. The gas company made a hard fight to get the temporary injunction anil since that time has taken no steps towards having the matter settled on final hearing. The motion which brought the whole busluess to a head this morning was a relatively unimportant one, asking the temporary injunction be modified as to the bond of $73,000 which the company is required to give monthly to cover the excess of rates collected over 90 cents In order that customers may he reimbursed if the case is decided against the company on final hearing.

START ARRESTS OF MINERS IN VIGO COUNTY Twenty-Four in List of Union Men Wanted for Riot- _ TERRE H AUTE. Tr.d . June 17 Arrests of 24 Vigo Count j urine miners wanted in Ctay County for rioting was started today by (Sheriff Wolfe after receiving the bench warrants. Dave Jones, board member of District 11. 1‘ M W.; Harry Lentz, a leader of the nnfon miners, and David Robb, who recently figured in the West Virginia riots when he was wanted for murder there, were included in the list. It is understood fifty-six others in Vermilion and Clay Counties are also wanted. The warrants were sworn out by oper ators of Clay County mines following recent disorders in the mines there. District 11 was comparatively quiet today, pending a mass meeting at Iticknell this afternoon and a Joint meeting here Sunday of Vermilion and Vigo County union miners. According to word received here today, engineers, pumpers and firemen of twelve mines In the Bicknell region have been taken from the mines when the operators refused to "check off their duos." BOND FINED AT SI,OOO BRAZIL, Ind , June 17.—Twelve of the hundred or more striking coal miners, who were charged with inciting riot when they closed nou-unlon mines west of the city Wednesday, were arrested ly Sheriff Wallace and arraigned In Circuit Court today. Bond was fixed at SI,OOO for their appearance Monday and an offort Is being made to give bond. The twelve strikers were Edgar Hallmark, John Weber, Paul Smith, Oakley Hadley. Ralph Hadley, Ilersehell Crabb, Robert Gailbraith, John Hardman, Ross Ehrlich, Herman Weber, Richard Ilarroll and Claude Gailbraith. JAPS OCCUPY RAIL JUNCTION Violation of Inter-Allied Ruling Reported to Oflicials. WASHINGTON, June 17— The Japanese have occupied the Important railway Junction of Pogranlchnaya. on tho Chinese Eastern Railway, in violation of the ruling of the Inter allied railway commission, and the consular corps at Vladivostok has protested, ncordlng to a dispatch received today by the delegation of the Far Eastern Republic here. The consular corps at Vladivostok consists of representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, China, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Sweden. The advices indicate that tho American representative joined in the protest, according to M. Skvirstky, spokesman for the Far Eastern delegation.

he was sent away to play with “Rags,” a shaggy white dog, which the boy declared “wouldn’t bite unless you pulled his tail, and then he bitted a little girl." “Another nice thing about a big family," declared Mrs. Thomas, ‘‘is that when they get sick they usually all get sick at the same time, so I Just put them all in one bed nnd tend to them all at the same time. “I wish I conld get up on platforms and make speeches against those folks who think people shouldn’t have more than a couple of children.” Mrs. Thomas said, "but, since I can’t, I'm going to do the best I can to show how I feel about children by having a plenty of them myself.”

HEAT KNOCKS OUT FIREMEN AT BIG BLAZE Fifteen Fire Laddies Fall Victims of Excess Warmth—Two Go to Hospital in Serious Condition When South Side Box Factory Is Destroyed. LOSS IS ESTIMATED MORE THAN $50,000 Fifteen firemen were overcome by heat and smoke In fighting a fir© ‘hut destroyed nearly all of the factory of the Commercial Box Company; 1418 South Capitol avenue, shortly after noon today. The loss is estimated by Emil Schmitt, owner of the property and of the business, at between $50,000 and $55,000. The firemen in the most serious condition are Ed Felton and Williani Esselbom, 824 Chadwick street. They were carried, unconscious, to nearby houses, where first aid was administered. They were later taken t© the city hospital.

RAIL-MINE AGREEMENT IS SOUGHT Would Commit Both Factions to Stay on Strike. BUSY! CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jane 17.—John I-. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, announced today he would not be a candidate against Samuel Compere for the presidency of the American Federation of Labor. Arriving here today to attend the Federation convention, Lewis said: "I positively am and will not be a candi late. I have a job in hand, in the shape of n strike, and I can see no further than that.” \ j CINCINNATI. Ohio, June 17.—Agree- ! meat that a “separate peace" will not be made by either the striking coal miners or the rail workers who are about to strike, is to be sought at the forthcoming conference here of rail union ; executives and leaders of the United Mine Workers. Such action if agreed on, would commit both miners and rail workers to stay , or. strike until tu.th had won. The move for joint action of the two great labor organizations stirred labor circles as nothing else since the convention of the American Federation of Labor met here oti Monday. The possibilities are "vast and far reaching.” a federation leader said today. Federation officials will closely follow the conferences. The possibility that the mine workers and rail unions might run foul of the Federal court a on the charge of conspiracy to set at nought a Federal law, was being discussed in American Federation circles. The rail onions are frank- : !y out to "get" the Each-Cummins law and the United Slates Railway Labor Board. Tuesday night was set this afternoon for the conference. The meeting will be held in Cincinnati. The convention, after a heated fight on the old controversy of whether it had been made compulsory for all international unions to force affiliation of all local unions with State or central bodies, voted the resolution down, 171 to 55. By unanimous vote, the federation instructed its executive council to issue charters direct to groups of women in any oei eupatlon if the local or international union of the trade declines to admit them to membership. Recess was taken until Monday at 9:30 j o’clock. IRISH TROOPS UPRISE AGAINST BRITAIN’S ARMY Make First Try Since Being Driven From Ulster County. BELFAST. June 17.—Defying British troops stationed along the Ulster frontier, Sinn Fein armed bands during the night massacred four men and a woman, burning five houses of Protestant farmers in the Bessbrook district. This was the first attack by Sinn Felners in Ulster since British troops drove them from I’ettigoe and cleared all the invaders from the northern side of the border. RIOTS HAMPER ~ COUNT OF VOTE DUBLIN. June 17.—Count of the votes oast in the Irish election for members of the constituent assembly was hampered todaj’ by seizure of ballot boxes, raids and other disturbances by opposing factions. When the results were announced at the National University, showing these candidates favoring the treaty with Britain had been elected and only one antitreat.v man. fifteen officers of the Republican army, led by Gen. Rory O'Connor, entered and seized the ballot boxes. There were many other similar instances. NUMEROUS CASUALTIES DUNDALK, Ireland, June 17. —Numerous casualties were reported today in a violent three-hour battle between constabulary and Republican irregulars near Dromintree. Smoker Is Cause of Downtown Fire A lighted cigaret butt was dropped on the awning above the picture gallery operated by Charles Harmon. 119 South Illinois street, shortly before noon today. Asa result all of the downtown fire apparatus was summoned to extinguish the blazing canvas.

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The other thirteen men were overcenuy for only a short time. They all re-entered the fight against the flame*. Two of the men who were overcome for only a short time are E’rank Milbttrn of hose company No. 20 and David Bramlet*. 9 East Palmer street. The names of othe* Sufferers could not be obtained, as fir© department officials did not take them.. LIRE STARTS FROM DRY CRASS. The fire started when dry grass In R field next to the factory was ignited, post sihiy by a carelessly thrown cigarette. The flames spread rapidly to the factory buildings which are large frame structures covered with sheet iron. Much of one of the numerous building* was in flames when the first fire company arrived. A second alarm was immediately sent in and a large number cf companies responded. BUILDINGS FILLED WITH WOODEN BOXES. The buildings, filled with wooden boxeS r were rapidly consumed, in a spectacular i blaze. The heat was terrific, as the Came* : and smoke swept skyward. | The blaze communicated to the warehouse, the barns, the machine room and the office, all of which were destroyed. The only part of the factory remaining is a part of the north warehouse where much damage was done by water. Fire Chief O’Brien took personal charge of directing the fire fighters. He said that despite the useof pumpers, the 1 fire fighters were greatly handicapped ' because of low water pressure. He said the Indianapolis Water Company is repairing mains and has been forced to | reduce the water pressure. [HIGH TENSION WIRES* BROKEN. | High tension electric wires near the fire were broken by the heat and a number of firemen narrowly escaped la--1 jury. j The wind was from the west and It I swept the fiames across a field to the | eastward, for the space of two block*. ; The- fact that there is a large open space 1 cast of the site of the factory prevented the fiames, carried by a comparatively l high wind, front destroying a large part ! of the southern section of the city. Firemen poured water on houses on Arizona street, south of the plant. At one time, when the wind shifted, the firemen were forced to desert the hose and the hose was destroyed. Three of the men overcome, according to fire department officials, were new men in the department. They were taken to their homes in automobiles. After about an hour of fighting the fire was reported to be under control. MILBURN OVERCOME WHEN WIND SHIFTS. When the wind shifted the flame* and smoke which were shooting for nearly a hundred feet into the air, enveloped the firemen who were fighting the fire and overcame Frank Milburn of hose company No. 26 and he was left inside the area swept by the flames. One of the comrades, Davis Bramlett, rushed into the flames, rescued Milburn and carried him to safety. Bramlett was overcome himself. After first aid was administered, both went back and resumed fire fighting. , The inside of the building, where some of the firemen worked, was made all the hotter by the fact that the roof and walls were covered with sheet iron and progress was impeded by barrels and boxes strewn over the floor. A squad of firemen tinder the leadership of Lieut. Harry Landers, Hose Company No. 3, entered through the north end of the building. Ed Belton, one cf the squad, became lost and wandered around inside the building groping for * way to get out. He was seen by policemen and firemen aqd rescued. He declared for a time he was in such a condition he did not know where he was or how he got out.

Strike Casualties in Mexico City MEXICO CITY, June 17. —Two person* were killed and more than half a dozen injured in strike disorders here today. Twenty-three arrests were made. Wha’ D'y See? R. L. M. saw a man giving a marvelous demonstration of sharpening safety razor blades, but when he bought the device for $2 50 and took it home he was unable to duplicate the performance ot the salesman. Ed T. saw Loute Brown taking his noonday nap in the city clerk’s office. H. J. A. saw a man on Virginia avenue wearing suspenders. L. L. saw a he-flapper wearing powder and rouge, lips painted, hair cut bobbed fashion, bell bottom trousers and wrist watch, on Illinois street trying to flirt. F. C. P. saw a pair of white silk gloves hanging out to dry on a string stretched across an upper window in the Fletcher American Bank building.

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