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POLICE HELPED BY WOMAN IN HUNT FOR MURDER CLEW Sergeant Is Told Girl at Clermont Knows Suspect , Called‘Dutch,’ Detectives today expected anew clew to the identity of the mysterious young man who fatally stabbed Robert Watson, 19, of 215 N. Richland St., Aug. 16. A woman told Sergt. Waltr Coleman that she knew a girl at the Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont who had chummed with a young man called “Dutch” who used to loaf in the vicinity of East and Washington Sts. Detectives several days ago obtained information that the murderer had such a nickname and had spent much time in this neighborhood. The woman told the sergeant that she would talk with the girl at the school today amd get “Dutch's” address, if possible. Two Officers Suspended Charges against Lieut. Arthur Melee and Patrolman Harvey Bedford, uspended late Thursday, were exected to be filed by Police Chief Herlan F. Rikhoff, today. McGee and Bedford Tuesday filed n the warrant book at police headuarters an affidavit charging murder gainst a young man at Colfax, Ind. he suspected proved a perfect alibi hen questioned at his home, where e had gone the day before the murer was committed. The warrant book at headquarters oday shows that the warrant still ■mains unserved or recalled and the ourt records shows it has not been ■ sniissed. Deputy Prosecutor William Remy ■ld that wehnever the warrant was smissed it would be in court under ■e regular before the dge and not in the prosecutor’s of_e. Called Before Chief McGee and Bedford appeared in ikhoff's office late Thursday after dng notified by Inspector Walter >'hite to report there and explain their ctlons on Tuesday. McGee and Bedford both are said to ’ave told the chief that they did not 1 now the names of the three men who ppeared at the home of Prosecutor ' temy early Tuesday and requested th 6 warrant. They were refused because hey wfere not police officers. After hey were refused they are said to ,ave left and returned later with the wo police officers who signed the warant. These men and several witnesses of the stabbing of Watson are said to have accompanied the officers to Colfax, where they were unanimous in their opinion the Colfax man was the wrong one.
GERMANY FIRM ON REPARATIONS (Continued From Page 1) back to work. She desires with all her heart to see the forges and mines of the Ruhr and the Rhineland In full bloom.' But work and freedom in this connection are inseparable terms. "If we again have disposal over the Ruhr In administration, traffic and the normal features of economic life and return to legal conditions in the Rhineland, then we can work and pay. "We stipulate, further, however, that the families driven into exile and the inhabitants of the Ruhr condemned by military courts, shall be restored to their homes and full freedom and that Germany shall be given a breathing spell.’ "Great Britain has already passed judgment on the legality of the Ruhr occupation. We now are ready 'to have judgment passed by an international court, for we feel such a court can only say we have done what is for our good, right and duty. "At this point I would like to make clear that any settlement which aims at tearing the Rhineland from the Reich will be rejected by Germany as by one man. “The Rhineland represents Germany’s soul; to tear it away from us would be to Germany what a foreign power's seizure of the New England States or Virginia or New York, hallowed by the footsteps of American pioneers, would mean to America. “And let me make clear a couple of more points. "One iiears abroad that Germany wants to dodge her obligations. That is a lie. We not only have offered until it hurts, but have agreed to let an international commission determine whether our judgment In this respect is correct. "I ask you, as a representative of a nation which boasts ‘fair play,’ is this not a sporting proposition? “Have we not gone the limit to satisfy our creditors? "We are still ready, however, to let an international commission based on the principles by Mr. Hughes set the limits of our paying capacity. "And I desire to answer the story that Germany purposely depressed her currency. “The answer is: Could any nation be so foolish a& to gamble with inflation knowing the inevitable end of this is disruption? / “Right now we are striving our utmost to correct at this late date some of the evils of inflated currency. “This Inflation is due to normal causes, not to bad will. We intend to raise a fund of foreign currencies and gold values here in the hope of stilling the flood of paper money and putting the mark on a more stable basis. "Further, we must devote a fund to the purchase of foodstuffs for we realize empty stomachs often drive people to deeds of desperation. "One cannot view the forthcoming winter without feeling of horror at best, for coal 1b very scarce and the fo(<J situation, even with a good harvest, gives cause for anxiety. Police Seek Assailants Police are searching for two men who attacked James Sheeley, 46, night watchman at First Nazarene Church. State Avp. and Washington St., In
1,000 Times Carriers Witness Big Variety Show at Palace Theater
By “HICK” A ukulele, a secretary of State, four vaudeville artists and two big round tin boxes entertained more than "■ 1,000 children this morning. JE than a thousand J e n n i n"gs. manHnH dally dosed the summer season of GEORGE MORTON fun for the little merchants of The Times. George Morton and his ukele after a tour of England, consented to get out of bed at his hotel this morning to give the boys a rare treat in song. He arrived at the theater without his breakfast. He explained that
HAMMOND SEES SUCCESS OF PLAN 10 PREVENT STRIKE Commission Head Outlines Government’s Policy in Coal Walkout, By Vnited Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 24.—John Hays Hammond, chairman of the United States Coal Commission, today expressed the opinion that the Government’s plan to supply the country with sufficient bituminous coal will prevent or break a strike in the anthradte industry. Hammond, in a press conference today. made a comprehensive statement of the Government’s policy and the plan depended upon by President Coolidge to bring about an eventual agreement between the operators and miners. The miners apparently Intend to stick to their demands. In the event of a strike resulting in the Government flooding New Eng land and the north Atlantic seaboard with soft coal it was pointed out that the operators would be the chief sufferers. Once the hard coal market had been lost to substitute fuels, officials said it might be hard to regain and a heavy' financial loss to the operators w-ould result. The miners, on the other hand, are not bound to the hard coal fields by any invested capital. With a labor shortage as an aid. union officials said they entertained little difficulty placing miners who wished to get into other lines of trade. Union officials denied emphatically today that the union bituminous coal miners would join the anthracite workers in a sympathetic strike. They declared the soft coal contract which runs until April 1 wiU be carried out to the letter. Following the announcement of Chairman Hammond" that no attempt would be made by the coal commission to fix the blame for a strike, if one comes, until Aug. 31, when the hard coal contract expires and the renewed hope of averting a strike altogether, there were increasing indications that the report may never be issued. Even in the event of a Strike several high Government officials expressed doubt regarding the pinning of responsibility on 'either side to the coal controversy. If matters come to a showdown, they believe the commission is most likely to set forth the facts, severely criticised both sides and assure the public that it need not fear for a fuel supply.
KU-KLUX KLAN IS RAPPED BY COURT Three Members Sentenced for Flogging in Oklahoma, Bv United Pre TUGS A, Okla.. Aug. 24.—An attack on the Ku-Klux Klan marked the sentencing of three men here last night to two years' imprisonment for participation in the flogging of Ben Wagner, 60, farmer. The three men—Ben F. Sikes. Grover C. Sikes and Earl Seek —admitted membership in the Ku-Klux Klan and pleaded guilty to charges of rioting before District Judge Williams. who saw the whippers while they were torturing him}* when his blind-fold slipped, said all wore the regalia of the Ku-Klux Klan. Edward Crossland, attorney for the men, in pleading for clemency, said: "It is not these three men who are responsible for lawlessness in this county. They have been misled and beguiled into an insidious organization.” Report on having Delayed John Elliott, city engineer, today said his report on Twenty-Ninth St. paving would not be ready for the. board of works’ consideration today. Elliott's report will be made Monday on fifteen openings of the pavement made last Tuesday. Only orie faulty place was found on the concrete base.
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he “didn’t want to be late." The three members of the Chunghwa Three, a splendid singing trio, were at the theater”when The Times’ boys and girls arrived. George made his big hit with his famous stuttering song while he played the “uke.” The Chinese singers, dressed in native attire, gave some of the best numbers on their regular program. Morton and the trio are appearing this week-end on the regular Palace bill. They donated their services to give The Times boys and girls a great hour of fun. George Kemp, organist and pianist at the Palace, gave his services so that the big show could have fine music. Ray Izar, movie operator, was at the machine to unreoj two great films for the boys and girls. Educational Film Company sent ever a Mermaid comedy, “Look Out Below,” and the Pathe Exchange, knowing how youngsters love Harold) Lloyd, sent over “From Hand to Mouth.” George Currens, acting stage manager, was back stage to see that the show went off all right. And the big show went off in great shape, just as Manager Jennings had planned it. .
FIGHT VICTIM IN HOSPITAL Wielder of in Jail on Serious Charge. Robert Bryant, colored, is at the city hospital today auffering concussion of the brain, and Pete Mobley, colored? of Cincinnati, Ohio, is held at the city prison on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill following a fight at a construction camp east of Ft. Harrison Thursday when Mobley hit Bryant over the head with a pickhandle, according to police. NEW ALBANYI924 CONVENTION CITY Lodges Elect Officers at Joint Meeting, The 1924 State convention of the Daughters of America and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics will be held in New Albany. This was decided today in joint session of the two orders at the Denison. Kokomo, Ft. Wayne, Terre Haute and New Albany had bid for the convention. New Albany won by a majority of ten. Both orders, in separate meetings, elected officers. Officers of the Daughters of America: Junior state councilor Bertha Fouts, Union City; associated junior past state councilor, Ollie Russell, Clinton; state councilor, Alma Hooper, Dillsboro; associated state councilor, Louise Goudy, New Castle; state vice councilor, Minnie Schuh, Ft. Wayne; associated state vice councilor, Frances Shelden, Florence: state secretary, Rose M. Unger, Marioff; state conduc- | tor, Leila Herhst, Milan; state warden, [ Martha Finan. New Albany; state Inside sentinel, Netta Bay, Indianapolis; state outside sentinel, Jennie Neal, I Rising Sun. GIRLSIiIEDAY JOURNEY HERE Denouement to Adventure | Comes as Law Intervenes, Sunburned, clad in “bandana-hand- : kerchief waists, arms and necks bare, | two bobbed haired girls came into the hands of the law at 3:30 a. m. today when Patrolman C. O. Johnson found j them at Meridian and Ray Sts. * Sleeping in shacks and eating whatever they could buy with the small sum they had. the two girls told police they had been “hiking” since Sunday. They said they passed one night in a haystack near Greenwood, Ind. They gave their names as Josephine Randall, 15, 1-523 E. Wayne St., and | Myrtle Case. 16, of 65 V 4 S. Eighth St., Noblesville, Ind. Noblesville authorities were notified while officers searched this city for the father of one of the girls.
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Ed Jackson, secretary of State, left his official duties at the Statehouse to talk to the boys for a few minutes on the valuh of considering their work from tho viewpoint of a merchant. “I was a newsboy once,” Jackson told the boys. “I was \ little older than most of you were when I delivered papers. Learn the things which are fundamental. Look not upon your work as a newsboy, but as a merchant, a business man. Consider your relationship toward the rest of society. “It is not what you want in life that makes you fat, but it is what you get,” he told the boys. The Secretary of State congratulated The Times on the large number of enterprising and well-mannered salesmen the paper had. The speaker, the vaudeville artists, Herb Jennings, and all who~took part in the big show were cheered by the Times carriers and helpers. “Gosh, that’s the best show ever,” cried one lad as he left the theater. One look at the faces of that crowd was proof that it was a great morning. LODGE APPROVES AIR CONFERENCE Other Senators Indorse Legion Proposal. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, today informed American Legion officials here of his approval of their plan to ask President Coolidge to call an international conference for the limitations of. military aircraft construction. "We ought to have limitation on the •onstructlon of military and naval airCTaft similar to the limitations imposed upon naval ornaments by the Washington arms conference in T 921,” he wrote legion officials. "Whatever is done must be done by international agreement, and consequently I favor the proposal." Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas voiced his "hearty Indorsement” of the project. Other letters approving the plan have been received from Sir Arthur W. Currie, former commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in France, and a number of Senators, etlltors and college presidents. 300 ARFUNDERARREST By V-ited P ess *- ATHENS, Aug 24.—Three hundred persons were under arrest today for trial by courts martial, following extensive Communist riots yesterday. U. S. Lesh, attorney general, and John McCardle, only member of the commission dissenting from the order, were present.
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CITIES COOPERATE WITH COMMISSION IN PHONE BATTLE Conference to Plan New Moves Set for Monday at Statehouse, New moves of Indiana cities affected by increased phone rates ordered by a temporary restraining order in Federal Court are to be made at a conference between a mayors’ committee ahd the public service commission at the Statehouse at 9 a. m. Monday. Ten cities perfected an organization to carry on the rate war, at a meeting _of city officials in the Severin Thursday afternoon. Mayor Eli Seebirt, president of the Indiana Municipal ' League, named Mayor Blanchard Horne of Anderson, Mayor John Quick of Muncie, and Taylor Groninger, corporation counsel of Indianapolis, as an executive committee to direct the fight. Grdninger said today the committee would take immediate steps with the public service commission toward employment of expert engineers, legal counsel, and accountants to present evidence when the permanent injunction hearing is held In Federal Court. Indianapolis has appropriated SI,OOO for the fight; Frankfort, SSOO, and the Bluffton Chamber of Comemerc, SSOO. Mayors or eity attorneys of ten cities, including South Bend, Mishawaka, Vincennes. Kokomo, Peru. Anderson, Noblesville, Shelbyville, Bluffton and Indianapolis, were present. Hartford City and Jeffersonville were not represented. “This is not a question of dollars and centes,” Mayor Seebirt said. “It is a question of whether a Federal Court* or our own public service commission will make the telephone rates. It is a question of whether our present utility law will stand, or whether we should revert to the competitive system.” Groninger called attention to the real fight, against the A. T. & TANARUS., Which he said was so powerful that the Federal Government should take a hand. A suggestion of Mayor John Grayson of Vincejnnes tfcat every city In the State aid in the fight was considered. Seebirt promised he would get in touch with other cities. “When $600,000 is added to telephone rates in addition to the $1,000,000 allowed by the public service commission, the people have a right to dedetermine whether It is called for,” said Seebirt. Man and Boy Held Miles M. Clevenger, 30, 720 N. Capitol Ave., and a twelve year old boy Were arrested by Detectives Brickley and Houlihan and sharped with vagrancy, when, according to detectives, a number of acrTSsories, believed to have been stolen were found In Clevenegr’s home.
VETERAN CHANGES OLD UNIFORM FOR SUIT OFFOREMAN W, N, Leonard, Former Mail Carrier, Tells of Many Changes in 41 Years, After forty-one years of continuous service as letter carrier. Walter N. Leonard, 1830 Holloway Ave., doffed his blue uniform today, turned over his carrier’s bag to-another man and became foreman of carriers. His promotion was announced Thursday by Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. “The volume of mail has increased tremendously and changed greatly in character in the years I have been in service,” Leonard said. “In the „old days one man could carry the wholesale district of 3. Meridian St. Now it takes two carriers for the Merchants Bank building. The volume of Insurance mail has increased at an astounding rate. This, I believe, is due to the coming of the automobile, and to the workmen's compensation act. “Then, too, there has been a great increase in the number of postal cards. I believe this is caused hy the fact that unions, organizations and clubs send out notices of meetings on postcards, a thing that was not done to any extentfyn the old days.” In point of service, Leonard was the oldest carrier in the postal service. For more than twenty-five years h 6 carried mail in S. Meridian St., in the business district south of Washington St. New Statehouse Directory Work has been practically completed on anew Statehouse directory, Charles Kettleborough, head of the legislative reference bureau, said to-
BIBLE BROUGHT VP TO DATE’
By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—The entire New Testament, including the Lord’s Prayer, has for the first time been translated and re-written in "Amerlcanese.” Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed, head of the New Testament department of the University of Chicago today announced completion of theCemarkable work which offers the Bibie to the public in the language of everyday life. Expressions of the ancient Greek and passages sometimes regarded as not clear are discarded. In their pta.ee place appear “expressions of the street.” Children are "born,” instead of being “begat.” How a policeman arrests i man or woman is told much as it is related in the present day in the daily press. ♦ In making public his new --version of the Testament, written with the aid of ancient papyri. Dr. Goodspeed asserted that it was his intention to
Long Service of Postman Rewarded - \ ..... ypf T' 1 Y WALTER N. LEONARD day. The directory will not be printed in book form, as formerly, but will be typewritten and distributed among various State officials in order that corrections may be made frequently. State Road Bids Received The State highway commission today received bids for grading 1.009 miles of the Dixie Bee Highway in Parke County, between Clinton and Lyford. C. Elmer Garrard of Jdonttezuma was low bidder, with an offer of $17,299.02. The engineer’s estimate on the project was $22,089.43. Speedway Incorporators The Bloomington Speedway Company of Bloomington today filed articles of incorporation showing capital stock of $5,000. Incorporators: Nat W. Hill, W. W. Carter and George K. Carter. .
make understandable to the “flapper or the bricklayer as well as the Biblical student and popularize the Holy Book so that it will be ‘shopworn’ instead of ‘shelfworn’. ’’ Probably the most striking of the translations is the professor’s translation of the Lord’s prayer. It reads: “Our Father in Heaven, Tour kingdom come. Give us today bread for the day, and forgive us our debts as we have forgiven our debtors and do not subject us to temptation but save us from the evil one.” Matthew’s description of Jesus walklag on the water is dealt with in the form of newspaper narrative. It ends: “When they got into the boat the wind went down. And the men in the boat fell~ before Him and said: ‘You are certainly God's Son.’ ” The beatitudes beginj “Blessed are they who feel their spiritual needs, for the kingdom of Heaven belongs to them. ,
FRIDAY, AUG. 24, 1923
K. OF P. TO SEND 1,000 TO MEETING HERE IN OCTOBER V Parade to Feature State Lodge Convention Oct, 2-3, The Grand Lodge of the Knights o£ Pythias of Indiana will meet at the Indiana Pythian Building Oct. 2-3. One thousand delegates, representing the 564 lodges in the State, are expected. A parade, in which all the lodges of Indiana will participate, will'be held on the night of Oct. 2. Officers of the Grand Lodge are Ralph W. Gaylor, grand chancellor* Mishawaka, Ind.; Elmer Bassett, grand viee chancellor, Shelbyville, Ind.; Dore B. Erwin, grand prelate, Decatur, Ind.; Carl R. Mitchell, grand keeper of records and seal, Martinsville, Ind.; William A. Morris, grand master of exchequer, Frankfort, Ind.; Nathan J. Lane, grand master of arms. Liberty, Ind.; Louis B. Elmore, grand inner guard, Remington, Ind.. and Dolph E. Farr, grand outer guard, Edinburg, Ind. Samuel E. Garrison, deputy grand councellor, seventh district, announced today that a meeting of the officers of the local district will be held Aug. 31 at lodge No. 56 to plan for the convention. Plans also will be completed for the Knights of Pythias picnic at Dietz’s grove, east of Irvington, Sept. 3. Lodges of Hendricks, Morgan .and Johnson Counties have been invited. Charles M. McCollum is general chairman of the picnic committee. A I baseball game and contests will be on the program.
“Blessed are the mourners, for they will be consoled.” A passage from the crucifixion: “Even the robbers who were crucified with Him abused Him in the same way. "Now from noon there was a darkness over the whole country until $ o’clock and about 3 Jesus called oui loudly: “Eloi.‘ Elol! Lema Sabachthanl? (My God! Why have you forsaken me.) “Some of the by-standers when they heard It said: ‘This man is calling for Elijah’ and one of them ran off at once and got a sponge and soaked it in s>. ur wine, and put it on the end of a stick and held it up for Him to drink. But the others said: “ 'Let us see whether Elijah welcome to have him’ ” Dr. Goodspeed declared that the Bible should be rewritten every so often so it could be revised to the language of the day.