Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 179

ss SWEEP CENTRAL STATES; HEAVY DAMAGE Loss of Property in Nebraska is Expected to Reach Total of $200,000,000. COMMUNICATION BROKEN Branch Trains Blocked and Transcontinental Lines Delayed. Hu Unite 4 Pres * OMAHA. iWb.. Dec. B.—One of the most disastrous sleet storms in years has taken a heavy toll of property through Nebraska. The damage may reach $2,000,000, it was estimated today. More than 3,000 telegraph and telephone poles are reported pros trated throughout the State. Wire communication to all out-State points wail at a complete standstill on Thursday. Service had improved somewhat today, hut it was still impossible to reach most of the principal cities and nearly all small towns by telegraph. The United Press is utilizing the radio in order to get its report to its clients throughout the State. Snow and Wind The storm, accompanied by snow and a driving wind, swept through Colorado. Nebraska. Kansas. Missouri, Oklahoma and into the Texas Pan Handle. In western Kansas, trains on branch lines were blocked by a heavy fall of snow which drifted badly. Trans-continental trains from the West were running from one to four hours lute. Fanners Happx Farmers were rejoicing as the precipitation over the belt will insure the crop for the winter. In many sections there had been no rain for weeks and wheat was suffering from lack of moisture The weather bureau here forecast clearing skies for Kansas and Missouri this afternoon. Northern lowa is suffering from the storm many points teing isoiated. Southern Minnesota and Wisconsin are being swept by a sleet and snow storm. CITY ESCAPES STORM Disturbance Passing Northeast of Hem, Says Weather Bureau. HOURLY TEMPERATURE o a. m 46 pi a. m 45 7 a. m 46 11 a. m 44 8 a. m 45 12 fnoent .... 43 3 n_ m 45 1 p. m 41 Sleet, snow and hieh winds which have swept the Middle YYest. are passing northeastward and will not strike this vicinity, G. K McDowell, assistant meteorologist at the local weather bureau, stated today. Indianapolis has already experienced its worst weather, he said. Unsettled weather was predicted for tonight and Saturday with moderate ; temperatures. Heavy clouds early today gave the j city prolonged darkness. The sun j did not break through until nearly j 9 a. m.

YOUTHS DiE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR Pay Penalty for Murder of Army Officer. By ’ tW Prenn STATE PENITENTIARY. CO- ! LI'MRIA. S. C., Dec. 5. —Fmnk ; Harrell and M< r'imer King paid the i death penalty today at dawn for the j murder of MaJ. Samuel H. McCleary of the United States Array. The youthful slayers marched j calmly to their death In the State's j electric chair, their tine! plea for a ; commutation of sentence having , been denied by Governor McLeod. Harrell died first, protesting to the I last that Kins: was the actual slayer j and that the crime was premediated. King was led from the death chamber at (5:36. Before seating himself in the death chair, he singled out an ex-Marine in the small group of official witnesses whom he recognized an'l addressed him briefly: * “Tell ail the boys I died like a man." ft ueiii akia 11 X. ** - * J . fa .... —,.... ... - —..

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‘A LINE IN TIME’ Nets Indianapolis Tailor SSO In Times Limerick Contest

By LIMERICK LARRY j-p lIE mystery is solved. L * : Perhaps you’ve often wondered what a tailor thinks about as he sits there silently all day long plying his needle. Now we know. Tailors think abou Limerick “Lost-lines.” At least T. \V. Fleming, 15(1 X. Illinois St., is one tailor who has been thinking about them.. And his thinking netted him the SSO award for Limerick Xo. 5. Limerick Xo. 5 was that thrilling little melodrama about the taxi-driver, William, also lyiown as Bill. It went : A young taxi-driver named Bill Ended up in a horrible spill; But he said, “Never fear, i'm just learning to steer— Then while putting a 20-inoh cuff on some trousers for a young sheik. Fleming had this SSO stitch come to hinu Gimme time,” and the judge said, “/ will.” Anybody who can think up as punchy and witty a line as that should devote all of his time to poetry. And Limerick “Lost-line writers are poets that don't starve like the poets do in stories. Not at SSO a line do they starve. “I never wrote anything before in my life,” Fleming said. “But the Limericks give me something to think about while at • Turn to Page 2)

S2OO in Prizes Tomorrow Going up! Writing Limerick “Lost-lines ' has become such a fine art in Indianapolis and vicinity that The Times lias fie cided to double the cash awards. Saturday’s Limerick, printed in Saturday’s issue of The Times, will carry with it S2OO in 25 cash awards instead of the usual SIOO daily awards. That means the first award will be SIOO, second award S'TO, three awards of $lO each and twenty awards of $2 each. Saturday’s Limerick. No. 12, will be the last one. Be sure and get a copy of Saturday’s Times and take a fling at this double money. Meam\bile don t overlook No. 11. which appears on I AGE 2 today, because it has SIOO in cash awards awaiting the best answers to it. < lean up on Xo. 11 today and then go after that double money of tomorrow.

METIS SOLVED indictment of Two Under Arrest Obtained Here, Indictments. charging burglary and grand larceny, were return*-,] today by Marion County g.ran-1 jury against Albert Henderson, colored, and Fred Giaham. and capias, s prepared for tie return of the men from Chicago, xvli.-r, th‘-v were arrested In connection with the alleged thef* here of $97,000 worth of bonds. own*-d by Byon E. Luudblnd, secretary and treasurer of the Central Indiana Coal Company, 1016 Merchants Bank building. The I>nnds wore taken from the vault of the Cent, U Indiana Coal Company Sunday. The fi -st tangible clexv eftme Tuesday when a telephone message xvan received from Frankfort, Ind., saying that boxes bearing tho company’s name had been found there This led to the belief that the bond thieves were heading toward Chicago. Lundblad sal 1 SIO,OOO worth of the bonds were negotiable. EATS HEARTY SUPPER CVmdemnd Negro Orders Big Meal Before Go’ng to Death. Hu t'nitut Prtkg coLUMBT S. < >hio. Dec. T —Gorged until he could hardly walk with the largest supper ever ordered hy a condemned man at Ohio penlteniary, James Ax-ant. 41. negro, was ,-xecuted in the electric chair early today for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Smittle in Youngstown lu.>t April. PRINCE WILL TESTIFY Kajalt, Who Was Dtij*e of Blackmailers. on Way to England. Hu Times Special LONDON. Dec. s—Rajahs—Rajah Sir Har! Singh, dupe of blackmailers, who extorted $750,000 from him after he had been caught in a I’aris hotel with Mrs. Maude Robinson, has left India for London, according to the Daily Herald. It is understood he is coming in response to a request from the British home office that he testify at trial of the men who blackmailed him. Three are under arrest. PROBE WILL CONTINUE Prosecutor Not Satisfied With Verdict in Furnace Death. Hu Unit'd Prcßs COLUMBUS. Ohio. Dec. s—Not satisfied with Verdict of the coroner that Mrs. Addle Sheatsley committed suicide. Prosecutor John R. King today declared hts lnx'estigation of the furnace mystery will jr> on. King declined, however, to Ift dicate what course his probe will follow.

CONGRESS SHOWS TEETH 10 CAL Ignores Economy Plea of President. By T ni*u>] J'ruK* WASIII.ViT< i.V, Dfe. 5. < > already Glows signs of bucking President Coolidge’s economy pro gram to an extent that may wipe : out the $57,0,m,.06a surplus expected this y-ar and threaten future tax reduction. Action by the House in dlregarding the President's recommendations before his message was a day old, by putting a $255.00'l appropriation for thirty nine land offices back in the interior bill, is regarded as an otYien of its temper. Secretary Work aim the House j Appropriation Committee recoin 1 mended that the offices },- aboil, bed as a means of saving money. ANTI-PICKETING UPHELD Supreme Court Rules ls*\al Ordinance Valid. The Indianapolis anti picketing ordinance was upheld by the State j Supreme Court today In four appeal j cases. Johnson County Circuit! Court was sustained in refusing | John R. Thomas and others an in- ! junction against the ordinance. The court upheld conviction of William Landnicier and others. A1 Moscman and others and Francis J. Dillon and others, in Marlon County. The- plaintiffs attempted to show the city of Indianapolis had no mi thority to prohibit picketing. They) were charged with picketing at the! C. & S. pattern works April 20, 1921. | GRAND JURY GETS CASE Two Alleged Hold-Ups Bound Over on $3,000 Bunds. John Reese, 24. and Kenneth Hardy, 27, both of 1539 Spann Ax-e., who xvere arrested Wednesday night, following the hold-up of Donald Stahl, 5016 Park Ave., at College Ave. and Fiftyeith St., xvere bound ovre to the Marion County grand jury today un der $5,000 bonds. Loot from their homo, which was brought to police headquarters, was identified by several persons who were held up on the north side. BRITISH VESSEL AGROUND Steamer Reported In Trouble Near Key West—Aid Sent. Hi> United Peers KEY’ WEST. Fla.. Dec. s.—British steamer. New Toronto, bound from Hull, England to Galveston. Texas, was reported aground today near American Shoals lighthouse. The coast guard cutter Saukee and a wrecking tug have gone to assist the vessel.

INDIANA POLLS, FRIDAY, DEC. 5, 1924

RUM SMUGGLERS URGED BY STONE Liquor Brought in for ‘Upper Strata' Is Cause of Most Trouble, Says Attorney General. (CONGRESS GETS REPORT (Declares Much of ‘Good Stuff’ Made in This Country. Hu I nited l’< <''* WASHINGTON. Dec. s.—“ Society : bootlegger*” and thus*- who oat>-r to an "upper strata” trade are responsible for most of the Federal Governments dlfflcultl'-s with rum run ring. Attorney General Stone tie (•hired today in his annual report t.> , Congress. Much of the liquor purveyed by the booth ggers as "g>„>d stuff, smuggled in.” is made right in this rout: : try. but "those who are aide to pay high for their drinks depend almost sobdy on Importations, since withdrawals from distilleries have teen brought under control," Stone salt “The importance, therefore, of vigorous and drastic action to bring, under control the smuggling situ at ion and reduce t. a minim <m the amount, of liquor unlawfully imported cannot be overestimated,” Stone; continued. "Federal courts are staggering ; under the load Imposed on them by prohibition legislation." Stone said. "Gases pending on dockets on Juno ?.n totaled 22.329. against 23.089 a year ago, t ;t the reduction, though encouraging, ts insignificant. "Sentences lm;„ ,s>.*d show a gratifying advance and the tightening up In onforeement !s reflected in the heavier punishments mated out by the courts," the report said. NINE POLICEMEN ARRESTED I’rle/t Starts < lean-Up Which Dlsi lows I,h|nor Hot. Hu United ** UTCHA WKKN. N. J., Dec 6. — s "Home guards" patrolled the Hudson County water front today to prevent further liquor smuggling, following arrest of nine policemen accused of aiding bootleggers in landing contra lx* nd valued at {50.000,090 from harbor craft. The clean-up campaign started by a priest is exp- *"d to "reach higher . up" than the police force. The priest. Rev G<- rge Rennett took a hand In the game when saloonkeepers re ar the water front refused to hoed his request that they I close down at midnight He went alor.e *<> the wafer front and threatened a foul-mouthed bootlegger wi.h personal violence. Following the piu-st's visit, two men. both of whom are held as tn.v ; terial witnesses, claim to have been thr.-aten-d with death when they ! went to scene of the liquor smug- j gllng operations alone at night j They -are John Dorsey and Thomas j Fganny. CREDIT UNIONS OUTSIDE ihi Not Need License to Sell Stock, I>esh Rules. Attorney General U S Lesh today gave an opinion to H. R. Gray, nd mlnlstrntor State securities conun's j ■don. that credit unions do not come within the scope of the securities commission licensing act. Credit unions are financial organizations usually within mercantile companies wh-re employes deposit money and borrow. When stock Is Issued by the unions the union does not have to be licensed, according to Lesh.

I POISONER’ IS CONFIDENT Mrs. Sxvoetin Buts Hope, in "Divine ; Providence"—-Nino Jurors Flchcd. Hp f tiit' il Press MT VERNON. 111., Deo. 6.—Court was recessed today until Monday after nine Jurors had been selected to try Igtwrenee M. lllght and Else Sweetln on charge of poisoning YVII- - ford Sweetln, the woman's husband. I A now Jury panel will have to be i called before the jury Is completed, i Ilight and Mrs. Sweet in appeared ! nervous today. Mrs. Sweetln still I speaks of her hope a "Divine Providence," will bring an acquittal ver diet. BANK CASHIER SUICIDE Found in Vault With Bullet Through Head. Rifle in Hand. H l! Unit'd Press PLEASANT HILL. Ohio. Dec. 5 —A bullet through his head and his left hand grasping the rifle with which he killed himself, body of Charles F. Perkins, 43, cashier, w.nfound In vault, of the Pleasant Hill Banking Company today. Two State bank examiners were to start checking accounts today.

Trail's End Hp Tinus Special SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Dec. 4. —YVilllam H. Barker, who had a golden wedding anniversary Idst month, has sued his xvifa for divorce. They were married In 1874. Barker alleges desertion.

REAL BOY HUSTLER **• * • • Messenger's Annual Trek Is Long

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Bennie Zinsmeister, wh o ii a s traveled 13,000 miles in six m o n t h s delivering telegrams.

“ IROUND the world in a year A anil n-ver outside the . ::y .: . *•[ tmita of Indian,'.;. -Its- T. at I is trie trip, from tin* mil 1 age star.-: ; point, taken annually by w me of f the busiest messenger biiys of the Western Union and I'-’Stal Telegraph Company here In Indianapolis old run it; the messenger vice have I been replaced by sh- hustling youngsters, the bioj ie, mot<-n y a* l and automobile baa- replaced foot and street oar delivery. Installation of the "pice work" system by which the boys are paid ho ord ;ng to the number of message*, ,h* , llvf-red has stimulated ambition and hastened deliveries Rennie Zinsmelster, U, of 4! 5 N. Noble St., a<’e of the Postal delivery f. rre. is typical of the t messenger Scorning slower methods of transport?': lon. R-nnie uses an nuNEW LIGHT RATES NEAR Commission Kxported to \Y ind X p Situation Today. The public service r< mini; top at Its xxeekly conference today wo? expected to attempt a wind up of elect rio light rate situation in I ban apotis which has been pend.ng for .Several Weeks. At a rcre.lt '-m it ho Commission p, J el:::,’.;, iof the demand charge and a re , tlon :n domestic rates i'hc cue- . in the hands of Samuel K. A r: n, chairman. HISTORY CONFAB OPENS State Sock dies Hold sixth Vniiuai Mod at ( lay pool. Coder ausp-lce.-j S wiety of Indiana Honours and Indiana Historical S> -lety. six’h itr.nual Indiana history confcren-e -p-n-d at Mi- i ‘i.-iy-pool with a luncheon today Feature was presentation f the society’s banner, awar ted the county having largest memhc--ship. Speakers arc The Rev. Louis A. Warren, Moi ganlltdd, Ky.; Dr. Logan Ksarey. Indiana University .Mrs. Isadora 11 Wilson. Newcastle. Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana, oils; J Wesley Whicker, Attica; Father U. McNitt, Slate library staff; W. W. j Sweet, I)o i’auxv University. GIRL AND MEN HELD Police Investieate Vll-ged Fight at j Home; One Hurl. Miss Mabel Pressley. 25, of 2343 S. California S: : Haver Chadwick, 42, of 130 F. McCarty Ht., and Wil : 11am Crumpton. 30, of 21"i Nap—- i icon St., are held today on assault I and battery charges, and Carl Mor- ' gnn, 14. of 138 Chudwlck St., Is i charged with vagrancy, following an alleged fight at the Pressley home ; early today. Crumpton sail that the two men } and Miss Pressley stopped him at Daisy St. and Bluff Rd., while hit was driving his machine, and one of the men threw a cup at him. In- I dieting slight head wounds. Miss Pressley said that she threw the; cup at him when he attempted to force his way Into her home. MYSTERY SHOT PROBED Pol b e Seek Person Who Fired fit C harles Cox. Police today sought the person f who fired a bullet, puncturing the hat i and singeing the hair of Charles I Cox. 2537 Meliefontaine St., ns he j stood it Morris St., and White Ittver j with J. A. Cox, 8628 Full Creek Rlvd. ! Charles Cox said he hat) been head j of Dilling Candy Company, Morris ! St. and White River, twenty years I and knew of no enemies. He said ho was leaving to become president of a bank at Rrownstown, Ind. Shank at Kendallvflle Mayor Shank has gone to Kendallvllle to bring his bride. Mrs. Shank, hack to their new homo In Golden Hill. They will return here Sunday Mrs. Shank was detained at Kendall xdlle following the wedding by the death of her father, Dr. Joseph Gilbert. Policewoman's Fail Stolen Miss Sadia Osborne, 105 Johnson Ax'©., policewoman, reported the theft of an electric fan x r alued at sl2, from her home today. /

ti‘mobile and delivers from sixty to r..: -i y m-ssav-s daily. Drawing pay on the basis of 3 cents a mos- , sag- ad 7 cents a mile for the ti.< s r dr ant delivery on each trip, he t: ik-s $125 or more a month. - might;.’ Interesting work, u Her.nie said "In six months I 1 tv. run up 13.096 miles on the !>•■> doin-ter, an average of 26.060 iii- i ft r the year, 2,-00 more than trim i the world. A fellow meets a lot . f Interesting folks—grouchy, i'lii’i rfu! and all the rest. Fots of rimes women will wring their hands and I s’gin to cry when I tab• tb.ei a telegram and won't op- u it *i >r a long time. Then w: : t! -;. dn, sometin.es the nt-is- ■ - - • ■ • just a gr-etlng of some fi-r f . ''Sometimes business men get axxf ;! sore at me when th-y get li-.; news Gee, you would think ft in the wax th-y set that I wrote the telegram n.vs.if."

INDIANA HIGHWAY BODY COMMENDED Stnte Implement Dealers Close Convention, "We commend the Indiana highway o-r.imhsslon for its efficiency .nd recommend that the present ■mmisston and director fie retained a-.i t fiat a -opv of this resolution be sent to G-vernor Branch, Oov•rt ■ - elect .1 t. kson ami the highway mm is si, >r " This resolution was adopted today by the Indiana Implement, Dealer*' Vssocintlon, in -losing session of its rvention at the (’lavpool \ V. P itch, general managtr of tho Vulcan Plow Company, KvnnsviJo, a m-mber of the nssiviatlon. is oi; ;h>, hlghxvay commission. Harry Gaines of <!r— nst'Urg was -'-.•ted president; Floyd Grannon. r.afayette. vice president, and Clay W Duncan of Bedford and K. 1,. Adams of Felts, directors. W. O. S-ott of Milford holds over as secret,’try treasurer. A m-vement was started to take up questions of the garnishee bill and questionable chattel loan companies with State represetnatives. Prof. G. I. Christie, Purdue University. spoke on "Cooperation for tiie Furtherance of Agriculture.” $50,000 JEWEL ROBBERY Three Bandits llold-Up Chicago Store and Take Diamonds. HU Unitiil Prmß CHICAGO, Dec. s.—Three bandits 1 held the South Side branch store of ; Olson and Ebann Company, leading j downtown jewelers, and escaped 1 with $50,000 In set diamonds shortly , after the store opened for business j today. Peter Christenson, the manager, and a customer were locked la a j back room. A negro porter was j beaten Into unconsciousness. CONFECTIONERY IS SOLD <l. YV. Craig Buys Deadlier Store at •4(1 N. Pennsylvania. C. YV. Craig, proprietor of the confectionery at. 6 F. Washington St.,| today purchased the confectionery j of the Louis Deadlier Cigar Com- ! pany at 40 N. Pennsylvania St. and ; will operate it ns a Craig store, It j was announced today. Craig said the Deschler cigar line would be removed and that he would put in the Craig line of candles and} operate the store !r> similar fashion to that on Washington St. WOMAN DRIVER IS FREED Charges Against Motnrman In Fatal Accident Dismissed. charges of irxoluntary manslaughter were dismissed In city court tolay against Mrs W. E. Fletcher. 35, of 4263 Guilford Ax r o., and Curtis Johnson, 28, motorman, 1012 YV. Twenty-Third St. On Aug. 3 at Fairfield and Guilford Ave., an automobile driven by Mrs. Fletcher was struck by a street car. killing one at her passenger*.

Entered an Second-class Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday

Federal Jurist Says He Is Going to Keep Track of “Reformed” Men Who Come Before Him Upon Law Violation Charges. FORMER CITY POLICEMAN IS SENTENCED ON DOPE COUNT U. S. Agent Scored Because He Laid Trap to Catch Chicago Man With $7,500 Consignment of Morphine Here. ■State reformatory systems were rapped repeatedly hr fudge A. B. Anderson today as young men who had been released from reform schools came before him on arraignment for otlmr law violations. Os fifty-three persons arraigned, fortyone pleaded guilty and twelve not guilty. “I want to keep account of these young men who have been reformed and who come up here for law violation.” said-the judge.

Robert Wilson. 10. of Dayton, | Ohio, who pb .i i-Y guilty of robbing The Underw, oil. Ind., postoffice, xvae ' sentenced to three years at Leaven- ; worth. Has. Federal Prison. "Are you ti- of these reformed • boys?" naked Judge Anderson. YVilson had been In the industrial school at Lancaster. Ohio, i Fugene Goff. 24, of I'lifty, who ; pleaded guilty to robbing the post 'office there, stealing keys from his mother-in-law to do it. sold ho had been in the Indiana State Re formatory. He x 1 m i ■ motived t two years Fletcher Given Term Raymond Fletcher, former Indianapolis policeman, who pleaded guilty to peddling morphine, was ! sentenced to eighteen months "There is not much to b said for you," said Judge Anderson. "You were paid by the public to proven: law violations find, you not only violated the law yourself, hut you did it for money. Eighteen months." Whether Federal Narcotic Aged R. H Gibson of Indianapolis violated the law bv arranging a trap to catch Orlando ,1. Horton of Chicago, who pleaded guilty to selling morphine, was tak> n under consideration by Judge And* 's'r.. Git,son arranged with Horton for the latter to go to Chicago rm.l t ring him $7,500 worth of morphine. Gibson and L. J. rimer, another agent, (Turn u> I’a go 191

MONUMENT TUBE FLOOD LIGHTED ■ Plan to Make Downtown Great White Way. T£he new city lighting system will illuminate the Monument with flood light Intensity, members of the hoard of works said today. IJghts I will be placed around the outer side | of Monument Circle, on standards | twenty feet high, each bearing' two ! incandescent lights of 1.600 candle power. Present lights around the ; Monument base will be removed. Final order on types of lights and poles to be used was expected to be ; made late today. General electric j incandescent lights on hollow metallic standards made by the Union Metal Post Company of Canton, Ohio, will be used, it was ln- ! dieated. Total of 5,522 bulbs will be required throughout the city, with 2,297 metallic poles and 3.000 of other design. Total cost of installation will be more than SIOO,OOO. Plans call for lighting the entire i mile square on the system, provid- ! ing 24.000 candle power to the block, | giving the city a great white way !appearance. COOLIDGE SPEEDS BACK | Concludes First Visit to West— Reaches Washington at S P. 11. I By Vnitcd Pretin EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT |COOLIDGE, GARRETT, Ind Dec. s.—President Ooolidge was speeding back to Washington today after a strenuous thirteen hours in Chicago, during which he made two speeches and inspected the International Livestock Exposition. It was Coolidge a first visit to the West since he became President. The President will reach Wash- j ington at 8 p. m. His route will take : him through Akron and Youngs- j town, Ohio. Connellsvllle. Pa., and i Cumberland, Md.

Forecast UNSETTLED weather today and Saturday. Moderate temperatures anticipated.

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HARDING’S SISTER MAY BE WITNESS AT FORBES TRIAL (Telegram Read to Jury— Mortimer Tells of Alleged ‘Deal.’ Hu United Press CHICAGO. Pec. s.—Mrs. Carolyn Y’otaw, sister of President Harding, may be summoned aa a witness in the Forhes-Thompson fraud trial here, following admission of a telegram containing h-’r name, and testimony linking her name with principals in the case. A telegram from John YV. Thomt'n. St. IjOul3 contractor, to Elias H. Mortimer, star witness for the povernment, and once a paid agent of Thompson, said in pert that Mrs. Votaw was uixiotis to hear front Mrs, Mortimer, who was in Californio. with Mortimer, Col. Charles R. Forbes, former head of the Y'eterans’ Purenu. and others. Mrs Vot aw was an intimate friend of Mrs Mortimer and xranted to make the California trip with the party Mortimer testified. But Forbes m i Thomps u did not want her along because they feared she might tell the President of certain affairs which they were anxious to keep secret. Mortimer said. He started to tell how Mrs. Yrotaxv's husband had threatened to throw Forbes out of a "ten-story window In YVashlngton” when he ; was stopped and the testimony orI derod stricken from the record. Mortimer is scheduled to finish : his direct testimony today and is ex- ; ported to make further rex-elations ; of alleged illegal practices by Forbes i and Thompson to swing hospitalisation contracts to Thompson's firm. Thursday Mortimer testified he heard Forbes agree to accept >150.000 for three Gox’ernment hos- ; pital contracts to be given the Hurley Mason Company on tha Pacific CSVLSt. GEM VALUE REDUCED !b'tccliv<"< Report Lost In Robbery at Trottner Store SIB,OOO. Ybiluo of items reported stolen from Tratfner jewelry store, 141 S. Illinois St., YVednesday night, was reduced to SIB,OOO, detectives .said today. ! lerbert Trattner and Bernard Trattner, brothers, are held on vagrancy charges in default of SIO,OOO bonds for questioning in the case. They a hold-up in the store. Re p resell tat lx r es of Mack M. Burnstine Company. St. Louis. Mo., conferred with detectives. The gems were first reported to be worth SIOO,OOO.

Deadline Set Police today were carrying out orders of Herman F. Rik hoff. chief of police, to arrest all persons xvith records as pickpockets. shoplifters and hold-up men found vlthin a “deadline” drawn around the business district. The order was issued t * safeguard Christ, mas shoppers. Boundaries are New Y'ork, East, Louisiana and West Sts.