Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1922 — Page 1

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‘SO-50,’ SHANK IDEA OF PLAN FOR COLISEUM Mayor Tells Chamber of Commerce Committee City Will Match Reasonable Sum. ESTIMATE OF COST MADE Possibility of Stock Sale Will Be Investigated—Prospective Sites Discussed. If the city council will pass necessary ordinances, the city will match a reasonable sum raised by sale of stock for erection of a five-story exposition building. Mayor Shank today told a Chamber of Commerce committee. The mayor thought from sl,600,000 to $2,000,000 a reasonable total cost of the project. The committee decided to find out how much stock it might sell and report to the mayor. , Sites Discussed Several sites were discussed, one in Greenlawn Park, owned by the city along White River, a short distance north of Oliver Ave., being dwelt upon. Land cost would be eliminated fcy this. The proposal is for a building to contain an auditorium to seat 20,000 and smaller rooms where manufacturers could permanently display their wares and all lines of industry hold expositions like the automobile shows. Process Legalized. An act of the 1913 Legislature permits the city to share equally with private capital in such an enterprise. O. B. lies, president; John B. Reynolds, general secretary: James A. Daugherty, chairman of the coliseum committee; Henry J. Raymond, chairman of the manufacturers' committee, and Fred Millis of the Chamber of Commerce conferred with the mayor and City Attorney James M. Ogden.

FORESEE BATTLE Authorities May Order Attack on International Rum Runners Off Jersey Coast. By Vnited Press SEABRIGKT, X. J„ June 7.—High seas battle between a Federal flotilla and fifteen international rum runners may be staged off the Xew Jersey coast at midnight tonight. Authorities are believed on the point of ordering an att ck against the smuggling fleet, reported to have $6,000,000 worth of liquor. Mobilization of an inshore fleet of auxiliary vessels to ran the contraband liquor through the Federal lines was in progress. PROBE SUBWAY PANIC Officials May Order More Exits as Result of. Three Investigations. XEW YORK, July 7.—With three investigations under way today in the Lexington Ave. subway accident, in which scores were “gassed’’ by fumes and the lives of hundreds were im periled, it was indicated further safeguards in the way of emergency exits will be ordered. URGES CONFERENCE IN CHINA Chen Would Make Sun Delegate for Unification of Provinces. CAXTOX, China, July 7.—As a peace measure Chen Chung, southern military leader, is urging Sun Tat Sen to call a conference in Shanghai of the eight southern and central Chinese provinces to elect Dr. Sun a delegate to Pekin to negotiate for national unification. Sun indicates he is not interested in this proposal unless is restored to the presidency of Canton. M’CRAY WILL STAY OUT Governor to Take No Sides in Scrap Between State Department Heads. Govenor McCray said today he would take no part in the dispute between Amos W. Butler, superintendent of the State board of charities and Dr. George F. Edenharter, superintendent of the Indiana Central Hospital for the Insane, over the conduct of the institution. MOLLA AND SUZANNE MEET American and French Girl to Clash in British Net Finals. By Vnited Press WTMBLEDOX, England, July 7. Molla Mallory, American tennis queen, defeated Mrs. Beamish in the semifinals of the Wimbledon All-Comers’ tournament here this afternoon, 6-2, 6-2. Suzanne Lenglen, European woman champion, won her match with Mrs. Peacock. 6-4, 6-1, and will meet the American in the finals.

EVERYTHING PROMISED The weather man promised nearly everything In the book today. His prediction started with unsettled weather continued, with probable thunder showers, and wound up with fair- and cooler tomorrow. The unsettled weather and showers arrived on schedule. Bismarck, N. D., reported winter weather with a temperature of 44 degrees. At the same time high temperatures of 80 degrees were reported at Mobile, Ala., and at New Orleans. The temperature for Indianapolis at T o’clock, when the temperatures throughout the country are recorded, was 71 while that at Tampa, Fla., was only 7 degrees higher.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: People who long for the good old days * \ would hate to drive a horse. I We think the best j looking girl in the % movies is selling tickSIMS. ets. If overwork caused baldness some men would never have to shave. If you don’t pay as you go, you are gone. Men who think they are sharks usually forget sharks are big fish. Every now and then a writer turns out to be a wronger. When in Rome do as the Romans do; but when in bad don’t do as the bad ones do. Most of big movie salaries are stage money. Looks like a woman’s work is hunting a husband. She does it before and after marriage. There is a happiness shortage. Don’t lose any. Tourists in Europe say they are overcharged. Well, they went over to hit the high spots. Health hint; Show the fly swat’s swat. Think of the money you save by not eating so much in hot weather. What’s in a name? Will Hornblower is a California legislator. It’s a wonder some of these celebrities don’t forget and marry the same man over again. Xearly everybody is willing to give away advite except a lawyer. Very few ice men know the difference between cantaloupes on ice and ice on cantaloupes. Strange things happen. The prince of Monaco, owner of a gambling joint, died a natural death. Ohio man cuts off his wife’s thumb. Perhaps she kept him under it. Xowadays a pitcher's ambition is to pitch a no-home run game. L. A- Boomer lives up to his name. He is the French open golf champ. In Detroit a man married a gir! the first day he met her. Give him the loving cup.

WOULD BAR SUBS Britain Will Call New International Conference to . Abolish U-Boats. LONDON. July 7.—Lieut. Col. L. S Amery, parliamentary secretary to the, British Admiralty-, announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that Brita-n intends to seek another international conference to extend results of the Washington conference and abolish the submarine in warefare. FINED ON TIGER CHARGE Abe Kain and Wife Caught With the Goods. Abe Kain, 825 Lexington Ave., was fined S2OO and costs today on a blind tiger charge. Police making a raid at the home of Charles Jourdan, 241 W. New York St., arrested Kain and his wife, who were caught delivering a gallon of white mule. SINCLAIR PLANT ABLAZE Each Chicago RefP cry Ddmaged $25,000 by Fire. By Vnited Press CHICAGO. July 7.—Fire which threatened to consume the plant of the Sinclair Refining Company at East Chicago, Ind., today was checked by a large squad of firemen. The damage was under $25,000. HOLD-UPS GET PAY ROLL $29,000 Taken from Messenger by Two Armed Men. MONTREAL', July 7. —Two armed men robbed the messenger of the Dominion Textile Company of the $29,000 company payroll here today. MORNIN’, JEDGE! By Vnited Xeics NEW YORK, July 7.—Charles Mason, negro hod-carrier, was five minutes late for business, so he stepped on the perol pedal and whizzed by a motorcycle cop lurking in a covert, waiting for just such as him. "I wished to be punctual at my employment; this is my busy day,” said Mason to the court. Bond was fixed at $25, which the prisoner peeled from a turgid rolL

Guard Mobilized After' Outbreaks in Illinois

CHICAGO, July 7. —In Chicago and several other sections of Illinois disturbances growing out of the strike of railway shopmen prompted mobilization of seven companies of the National Guard. At Decatur two guards at the Wabash Railroad shops were beaten, and trouble is feared at the Wabash shops. Extra police details were on guard in Chicago today as the result of attempts of a mob of 1,500 shopmen, led by more than thirty women, to destroy the homes of two Illinois Cen-

PRESIDENT MAY USE WARTIME FUEL MEASURE Fear Expressed That NationWide Mine Strike Can’t Be Settled Soon. ESSENTIALS COME FIRST Priority Rights May Be Invoked to Prevent Suffering if Plan Is Used. By HERBERT W. WALKER, United Press Staff Correspondent. COLUMBUS. Ohio, July 7,—Fearing that the Nation-wide mine strike Cannot be settled soon, President Harding is formulating a plan for protecting the public against the fuel shortage it was learned as he left here today. A virtual revival of the policies of conserving fuel put into effect by the fuel administration during the war is being considered. Under the plan, priority rights to obtain coal would be given to those users of fuel upon whom the people depend. First would come the Government, the railroads and the public utilities, then the essential industries, the private users of fuel and finally the non-essential industries. Only 53 Days’ Supply By Vnited Press WASHINGTON. July 7.—Only fiftythree days supply of coal is available for public utilities, a canvass of June 15 of coal stocks of electrical and artificial gas public utilities showed, F. R. Wadleigh. chief of the newly organized coal commission of the Department of Commerce, announced today. ‘BLACK’SOX SUE Comiskey Ordered to Appear in Court—Echo of Baseball Scandal. By Vnited Press MILWAUKEE, July 7. Charles Louis Comiskey, owner the Chicago White Sox was ordered to appear In court here July 12 examination under the State, discovery statute today by Circuit Court Judge John J. Gregory. The court acted on appeal of attorneys for “Happy" Felsch, “Joe" Jackson and “Swede” Risberg, who are suing the White Sox for- back pay. The Comiskeys are not in Wisconsin and the writs cannot be served until they return.

ONE-SIDED ‘Twins’ Acknowledge Unique Distinction as to Their Ancestry. An Indianapolis young woman who has been teaching school in a Mormon settlement of Utah is home for the summer with this story. In her class were two girls about 10 years of age. "Are you twins?” she asked them. “Only our father’s side,” was the immediate response. WOULD PURCHASE ROAD C., L 4 \V. Files Petition to Obtain 26 Miles. The C., I. & W. Railroad today filed a petition with the public service commission to buy twenty-six miles of the Chicago & Indiana Railroad. The company is operating the section it seeks to buy, from Brazil northward. BAGS DESTRUCTIVE WOLF Government Man Makes Sixteenth Catch Recently. GILLETTE, Wyo., July 7.—ln capturing his sixteenth wolf in the Pumpkin Butte country, A. G. Hanson of the United States Biological Survey, bagged "Black Dog,” a notorious wolf, that has ravaged range herds in that section for several years. FORK IS USED TO KILL Daughter, 12, Tells of Mother’s Death Following Quarrel. EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 7.—Using a fork as a weapon, Ed Williams, 33, negro, murdered his wife, Alberta, here last night. Police found Wil Hams, Intoxicated, in one room and the dying wife in another. A 12-year-old daughter explained the quarrel. One Dead in Flood LINCOLN, Neb., July 7. —One dead and SIOO,OOO property (Joss is the damage estimated toddy from last night’s storm. Wyle Colbert was killed by lightning. Houses in a district covering more than fifty acres today are surrounded by water.

tral Railway employes who had refused to join in the strike. At the home of Theodore Haas, an inspector in the safety appliance division, every window in the house was broken by missiles hurled by the mob, and an attempt to set fire to the dwelling was made. From the Haas home the strikers went to the residence of John Gabel. There Mrs. Gabel, warned of their approach, met them with levelled revolver and promised ,to shoot the first person who threw a stone. She held the mob at bay for twenty minutes until tho police arrived.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1922

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MRS. TROTTER MEL TROTTER GRAND RAPIDS, July 7.—The Rev. Mel Trotter, admitted to his wife he was the father of a child born to his secretary, Mrs. Trotter testified today. The evangelist, who is contesting the suit, denies the allegations made by his wife. " ABSENCE By Vnited Xetcs CHICAGO, July 7.—lsadore N. Beck, “the most beautiful man in Chicago,” will be away from Michigan Blvd. and other Chicago promenades until he can furnish a SI,OOO bond guaranteeing support of his wife. Judge Adams told Beck he was afraid to turn him loose until he had furnished a bond to support Mrs. Beck, because some lonesome woman might kidnap him. V ) SHIP AHOY! How Rough the Sea for New Nav-ee About to Be. Indianapolis •will have a “navy" within the next two weeks. Word was received today by Comfander F. R. Payne, in charge of the local naval reserve organization, that eix navy cutters and two whale boats ■will be shipped to Indianapolis immediately. The boats, it was announced, •will be launched on White River within the next two weeks. Crews will be assigned at the next meeting of the organization next Monday night. OH, FERDINAND! Wet Spot About 150 Miles Almost Due South of Federal Court. Ferdinand, Dubois County, is wetter than in the pre-prohibition era, Valentine Flelg, Charles Olinger and Mike Pebelhaer told Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal' Court today. The three entered pleas of guilty to manufacture, sale and possession of liquor and to maintaining a nutsance. They were arrersted on Federal warrants, after Dubois County officials refused to issue or serve warrants, Bert C. Morgan, Federal prohibition director for Indiana, said. Judge Anderson took the case under advisement until the November term of court.

IS CHURCH ORGAN WICKED? The Rev. Book Will Tell Tennessee Minister It Is Not. By United Press COLUMBUS, Ind., July B.—Rev. W. H. Book, pastor of the Tabernacle Church of Christ, is going to tell a fellow pastor in th.,t denomination in Tennessee why he thinks a church organ is not wicked, he said today. The Tennessean sent a challenge to Rev. Book to debate upon the subject of whether instrumental music in churches violates scripture. TWO DIE IN FOREST FIRES Six Missing and Much Property Loss in Washington. By United Press SEATTLE, Wash., July 7.—Two known dead and six missing, hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of homes and mills destroyed and more than $5,000,000 worth of timber is the toll of forest fires raging in western Washington, from British Columbia to the Columbia River. KEEPS UP LONgIiGIL Sailor’s Sweetheart Waits—Comes Here From New York. Police today ape searching for Frank Faulkner, an ex-sailor, to notify him his sweetheart, Agnes Cameron, 16, 598 E. One Hundred and Thirty-ninth St., Bronx, New York, is In the city waiting for him. She waited all day at the Union Station and was taken to the detention home overnight.

WALKED AWAY Detectives are searching for a thief with a wooden leg. The McLain Artificial Limb Company, now located at 209 E. Ohio /St., formerly occupied a room at 22% W. Ohio St., and at that place had an artificial limb as a sign. It disappeared. k

MEN OF LONG SERVICE STAY ON JOBS £ SHOPS Pennsylvania Lines Say 84 Per Cent of Veterans Did , Not Strike. LIMITATIONS FOR RETURN All Over 45 Once Marked Off Can Not Regain Their Places. Eighty-four per cent of the union men who have been in service twenty }-ears or longer did not join striking shopmen, Indiana diviison headquarters of the Pennsylvania railroad announced today. In a day or two strikers who do not return will be marked out of service, losing company rights thereby, it was stated. Men over 45 years old, thus marked off can not get their jobs back under any circumstances, officials said, becaus company rules prohibit hiring of anew employe over this age. A total of eighty-seven new men have been hired by the Pennsylvania on the Indiana diivsion and eightytwo old men have returned to work, the general office said. Half a working force is on duty in local shops. Trains are running normally. The Big* Four announced its strikers will be paid at the north end of the Delaware St. freight house Saturday. Strikers who have company property must return it before getting their money or pay its value, the company said. Loyal employes will be paid at the usual time and places, the announcement said. Mayor Shank refused to address a meeting of wives of shopmen in Machinists' Hall this afternoon. Ha said he is “neutral." Big Four employes were reported returning to work in small numbers at Brightwood, Anderson. Ansonia, Ohio and Sharonvllle, Ohio. Local officials said they did not know howmany were returning. They said they still are employing “lots of men," to replace strikers. JAIL BEST CURE Dope Addict Doesn’t Like City Hospital, She Tells Federal Officer. Jail is preferable to the city hospital as a “dope” cure, Effie Dean, alias Julia- Beasley. 15 S. Pine .St., said at a. hearing before Charles W. Moores, United States commissioner today. During the eighteen days she was at the City hospital Dr. R.chard A. Poole, superintendent, gave her two “shots” of morphine a day, she said. “If I had been in Jail I would have been cured," she told Commissioner Moores. At her own request Effie Dean was sent to Jail under bond of $2,500.

FIGHT GOES DN Shank Says He Will Ask Courts, if Necessary, Into Park Theater Issue. Mayor Shank today continued his campaign to save the Brookside and Garfield Park open air theaters from the ax in the city council’s hands. Several thousand people in tho audiences last night signed cards urging continuance of the shows, after the mayor, Archibald M. Hall and T. Ernest Maholm spoke, it was said today. Approximately 3,000 were at the opening of the Garfield Theater. If the council passes the ordinance prohibiting* expenditure of public funds on professional theatricals in parks over the mayor's veto he said he may test it in the courts. TENNIS PLAY IS DELAYED Rain Interferes With National Matches at Woodstock Club. The national clay court tennis championship play on the Woodstock Club courts was postponed this afternoon because of rain. The junior finals between Lott and Reed were to be played on the covered court at the home of Carl Fisher. The men’s finals will now be played Sunday if weather permits, and the 'boys’ finals tomorrow. The management was insured against rain. INCENDIARIES CAUSE LOSS Baseball Park and Pumping Station Damaged SIO,OOO. By United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., July 7. The grand stand in a baseball park and buildings of the city water works pumping station were damaged $10,005 by fire last night. The blaze is believed to* have been of incendiary origin. PRIVILEGE IS LIMITED Swimming at W’illard Park Pool Attracts Big Crowds. So large were the crowds at the Willard Park swimming pool, open today, that Edward Mcßride, director of recreation, is considering limiting the time each person may swim to half an hour. No one over 18 is allowed in the pool.

Arrest 156 in Twenty-four Hours During the twenty-four hours ending at 6 o’clock today the police arrested 156 men. Only thirty-three were in the cell rooms for breakfast. The others were out on bond or had been ordered to court and not required to give bond. Ninety-two were arrested for not displaying truck license.

SMITH GOES TO LOGANSPORTON STRIKE PROBE Adjutant General Seeking Facts Before Calling Out State Troops. GOVERNOR RECEIVES CALL Local Authorities Will Be Expected to Maintain Order, He Says. Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith went to Logansport today to investigate the situation which led Sheriff John Miller of that city last night to ask Governor McCray for troops. Both the Governor and General Smith said troops would not be ordered out unless It Is shown they are necessary. General Smith said no steps had been taken to hold troops in readiness. Sheriff Miller today told the Governor the situation was quiet. The Governor said he told the sheriff he believed thereiare enough law abiding citibens in Logansport to handle the situat.on without the aid of the State. GUARDS PATROLLING SHOPS Special Deputy Sheriffs Sworn in to Prevent Trouble. By Vnited Press LOGANSPORT. Ind., July 7. Guards patrolling the Pennsylvania railroad shops here were reinforced today and special deputy sheriffs were sworn in to prevent repetition of attacks against strike breaking shop workers. Sheriff John Miller said he would not press his demand for State troops now. Unless more trouble develops. “Everything seems to be in good shape this morning,” the sheriff said. “These strikers have been going from house to house and ordering the men not to go to work. They’ve been tsoning some who didn't Join in the strike. “The fight is bitter here. Only part of the men left their work. A pretty large percentage still Is working. This makes the men fighting each other while the strikers also fight the railroad.” REBELLION OVER Last Stronghold of Brazilian Insurgents Falls After Grim Defense. By MILES VAUGHN, United Press Staff Correspondent. RIO DE JANEIRO. July 7—Ft. Copacabana, last stronghold of Brazilian insurgents, capitulated after a severe bombardment, and the rebellion is at an end, the United Press was officially Informed today. The insurgents, who held out grimly for two days against overwhelming odds, surrendered unconditionally, it was announced. Some insurgents in Ft. Copacabana entrenched themselves and fought until the last man fell, according to one report.

GIFTTO MINERS Garment Workers Add SIOO,000 to Strikers’ War Chest. By United Press NEW YORK. July 7.—The Ladles’ Garment Workers’ Union today dumped SIOO,OOO into the war chest of striking coal miners. The announcement of the gift was made following a conference between members of the union. President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, and John I. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. WANTS CITY RATE BOOST Union Traction Company Asks 10Cent Rate on Interurban Cars. The Union Traction Company of Indiana filed a petition with the public service commission today for permission to charge 3 cents a mile and a minimum of 10 cents a ride within the Indianapolis city limits on all Its interurban cars, exclusive of those operating to Broad Ripple and Ft. Harrison. A similar increase was granted other traction companies recently. COOLIDGE GIVES WARNING Vic© President Asserts Ills of World Not to Be Cured in Moment. By United News FREDERICKSBURG, Va., July 7. —A warning to the credulous to beware of those who would cure all ills In a moment was sounded here on Thursday night In a speech by Vice President Coolidge. “The world today Is filled with a great impatience,” Mr. Coolidge said. “Men are disdainful of the things that are, and are credulously turning toward those who assert a change of institutions would somehow bring about an era of perfection."

Women Leading Fight of Striking Shopmen

By United Press CHICAGO, July 7. —Women took the lead today in the fight of striking railroad shopmen against strikebreakers. Wives and sisters of strikers directed a mob of 1,000, which stormed through streets of Burnside, 111., in a demonstration at homes of workers.

WOMEN WITH BABES IN ARMS ON PICKET DUTY AT RAIL SHOPS * , Children Tagging at Mothers' Heels Point Pudgy Fingers and Shout Vile • Epithets at Laborers TAUNTING PARTIES' DAILY PROGRAM t Leader of Group Declares Husbands 'Need Work’ and Substitutes Are ‘Robbing Us r By Vnited Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 7. —A women’s and children’s crusade aimed at the morale of strikebreakers was launched here today by relatives of the 2,000 striking shopmen of the Pennsylvania lines. The women, carrying babies in their arms, picketed the shops as the strikebreakers made their exit. I The Pennsylvania, which has been operating on a twelve-hour schedule since the strike began, will be the center of dally taunting parties, until the strike is ended, the women declared. Children, tagging at their mothrr's heels, pointed pudgy fingers at the exiting strikebreakers and shouted vile epithets at them.

WAY ODTSOUGHT German Financial Men Claim Country Is Near Bankruptcy —Many Rumors Afloat. BY CARL D. GROAT, United Press Staff Correspondent. BERLIN. July 7. —Germany is about to declare herself bankrupt. It was authoritatively announced today. Complete collapse of the mark has brought the republic to the verge of financial ruift. Trustworthy sources confirmed the report that Germany must refuse to pay the reparations installment due July 15. The IVirth government will ask a moratorium and suspension of monthly cash reparation payments. Marks reached new lows on the exchanges today, according to services reaching Berlin, and German financiers declared voluntary bankruptcy the only solution. DRY IN 25 YEARS Prohibition Director Estimates U. S. Has Supply to Last That Long. By United Press ■ KVA SHI X GTON. July 7. The United States will not be dry for twenty-five years. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes today estimated for the United Press. The country- can not reach a state of complete aridity until all liquor supplies are exhausted. Appproxlmately 38,000,000 gallons of liquor remain in Federal warehouses, and at the present rate of consumption for medicinal purposes it will require twenty-five years to exhaust the supply.

GAG REJECTED Republican Effort to Speed Up Tariff Bill Meets With Failure. By Vnited Press WASHINGTON, July- 7.—Gag rule on the tariff was defeated in the Senate today, 45 to 35. Republicans failed to secure a twothirds vote needed to pass cloture over solid Democratic opposition. Five Republicans voted against cloture, Borah of Idaho, Brandegee, Connecticut; La Follette, Wisconsin; Moses. New Hampshire, and Norris, Nebraska. COHEN HAS NEW JOB Dismissed from City Yesterday, Hired by County Today as Road ‘Wiewer.” Aaron Cohen, 902 S. Illinois St_, Republican precent committeeman, dismissed from the city employ yesterday, has anew job. Cohen, Scott Gehring and Walter Morris were hired by the Marion County- commissioners today at $2 a day to act as viewers for the Mathews road, from Bethel Ave. to Sherman Dr.

CHILDREN CHICAGO. July 7.—" Our children’s future is at stake. We will win.” This is typical of telegrams received from scores of women auxilaries of the striking railroad shop workers, according to Bert M. Jewell, president of the union. "This particular telegram was from Mrs. W. J. Johnson, San Bernardino, Cal.,” Jewell said.

They attempted to burn one home of a worker. I Women were on picket duty in all shop centers. The women believe the future of their children is at stake, Bert M. Jewell, union president, told the United Press today when asked lor an explanation of the part taken by the wives and sisters of strikers in the rioting and picketing.

UNSETTLED Showers and cooler. 6 a. m 69 11 a. m 80 7 a. m 71 12 (neon) 82 8 a. m........ 72 1 p. m 81 9 a. m 75 2 p. m 71 10 a. m 78

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Will Be No Violence, She Says. “We won’t be violent,” said Mrs. Emma Berkovitch, a member of the picketing party, "but our husbands need work and we want these men to see how they are robbing us. “Yes, we women are behind our husbands in this strike. We know they are right.” INTERFERE WITH U. S. MAILS Strikers Will Be Prosecuted, Postoffice Department Announces. By United Press WASHINGTON. July 7.—Railroad strikers at Marshall, Texas, and Do* qulncy. La., will be prosecuted on charges of interfering with the Government railway mail service, it was announced today at the Postoffice Department. Strikers in these places tampered with the air brakes on trains carrying mail, the department stated. PLOT TO DESTROY BOX CARS Fire Captain Says He Found Evidence of Use of OiL CHICAGO, July 7.—A plot to burn hundreds of freight cars of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in the Chicago manufacturing district was charged today by J. C. Molter. chief special agent for the road, after flames had partly wrecked one of a string of cars standing on a siding. Prompt arrival of the firemen prevented a spread of the fire. Fire Captain Hubert Classen told the police he found evidence of oil having been poured over rubbish in the car.

Wife Won’t Let Him. EVANSVILLE, Ind., July T.— Union workers, investigating the reason why one of 1,500 Evansville raidroad shopmen did not walk out found his wife was forcing him to stay on the job. All shops here were being picketed quietly. * 95 Per Cent on Strike. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., July 7. The strike of the five shop crafts of the entire Pennsylvania System, including all divisions, is 95 per cent effective, according to official figures compiled here today by local strikers. The strike at the local Pennsylvania shops, where 1,500 men were employed, is 98 per cent efficient, the strikers announced. Only Forty on Strike By United Press ALTOONA, Pa., July 7.—Officials of the Pennsylvania railroad stated today that only forty of the 11,500 men normally employed in the railroad shops here were on strike. Clash Is Prevented By United Press DENNISON, Ohio, July 7.—Deputy sheriffs were sworn In today by Sheriff George W. Shonk to prevent a clash between 1,500 striking shopmen of the Pennsylvania lines and nonunion workers imported froca MtaMf c.ties. 800 Turn in Cards ' NEW YORK, July of the Long Island Railroad said today, 800 men, who went out on strike at Jamaica, were paid off today and turned in their cards. Officials said that if these men were rehlred they would 1 have the status of new employes.

WHAT DID YOU SEE? E. F. IL saw a traffic policeman post a notice on a car, left within the safety zone, after another policeman had assisted the owner of the car la pushing it there. R. R. saw a woman lift her drew to see if the wrist watch, which above her ankle, were running. will R. E. D. saw two drunks start an automobile eight they succeeded when they saw & pw liceman coming. L. L. B. saw a man In the city mar-' ket sell a hen to a girl, about 16, charging her 35 cents a pound and 10 cents for dressing it, while other stands were charging 28 cents a pound and doing the dressing fren • —' ll 1 D. C. saw a traffic policeman, throw a banana peel into the safetx gone at Ohio and Feaasyivaai* 6tn