Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 133, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 133

RAINS SEND RIVERS INTO LOWLANDS Central Part of State Suffers Heavy Damage From Storm. CLOUDBURST IN CITY Crops Hurt and Transportation Held Up. A terrific storm which swooped down upon central Indiana, Wednesday night, sent rivers of the State, already swollen by unusual September rainfall, out of their bunks in many places, flooding the lowlands and causing heavy crop damage. Indianapolis experienced its heaviest cloudburst of the season, and one of the heaviest in history, the total rain being 2.86 inches. On Wednesday night of last week, 2.64 inches fell. Residents in some places, particularly along the west fork of White River, were expected to be forced from their homes by the continued rise of the waters. Crops generally have been dam aged by the rain, farm authorities state. Corn and unthrashed wheat and oats suffered greatly. The rain was general over central Indiana and western Illinois, J H. Armington of the United States Weather Bureau reported. Terre Haute's Cloudburst At Tene Haute, a cloudburst dumped 5.16 inches of rain in ' a short time. Martinsville, with 3.69 inches, had second rain lymors and Indianapolis was third. Terre Haute suffered the heaviest i loss in the State, damage there being estimated at half a million. The Wabash river there will go to 20 feet, 3% feet above flood stage, it was predicted, with the stream out of banks at many points. This morning the stage was 17 feet, or six inches above flood stage. Families living along the river were driven from their homes. White river was sent out of its banks above and below Martinsville and trains and interurbans were held up. Bloomington practically was isolated, traeks of the Illinois Central and Monon .Railroads being washed out. White river here stood at 15.1 feet this morning and may go over 17 feet, Armington said. Flood stage is 18 feet. Fair weather is predicted for tonight and Friday, with much lower temeratures tonight, according to Armington. Temperature will drop 12 to 16 degrees this evening- he said. Indianapolis streets and sewers were flooded by the terifflc downturn to Page 12)

ADVICE ASKED ON ENGINEEpiN Mayor Requests Recommendation From Purdue Mayor Duvall today wrote to President Edward C. Elliott of Purdue University asking him to recommend a man qualified to succeed George G. Schmidt as city engineer. However. It. Walter Dorsett, member of the city council majority faction. predicted that the Republican ticket would be slaughtered in the fall election if an “outsider” is named to the position. Dorsett is backing remote relations, M. N. Bebee, present track elevation engineer, and William Lacey, Marion County deputy surveyor, for the position. Duvall said that the resignation of Leslie Duvall as asphalt plant superintendent was not sought by the board of works and that Duvall resigned under a misapprehension that the board no longer wished his services. However, the mayor said Duvall would not be reinstated because the plant would be closed at the end of this year. CARSON CONTINUES FAST. Bn Uniti.l Press TEKEMAH, Neb., Sept. 9.—Ray Carson, young farmer who is scrv mg a sixty day sentence for prohibi tion violation—the first and last twenty days on a bread and water diet—today continued to refuse the bread offered him.

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Grown-Ups Bow to Skill of Boy Horseshoe Champ

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Notice the complacent visage of this 17 year-old horseshoe pitcher. He might, easily be dubbed the Bobby Jones of horseshoe, so indifferent is his mien as he flings ringer after ringer over the peg. He’s James Risk of Montpelier, holder of the Indiana boy’s singles championship, who is bidding for honors in the grown-ups' tournav at the State fairground.

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6. 0. P. Coffin Faction Hopes to Take Counsel Job From Rucker and Give It to Judge, Defeated in Primary.

George V. Coffin faction Republiccan politician, eager to place Superior Court Judge Clinton H. Givan in a favorable position, are casting longing eyes at the berth of corporation counsel, now held by Alvah J. Rucker, it became known today. Givan will retire from the bench at the end of this- year following his defeat for renomination at the primary. He was recently mentioned for a position on the State industrial board, but the movement was halted when the possibilities of the municipal position , were revealed. i Rucker has fallen fronj the favor of Mayor Duvall and other administration leaders because of his attack upon the system whereby the Marion County treasurer draws an emolument greater than that of President Coolidge. First Move Lost The first effort of Rucker to break up the system of diversion of interest on prepayments under the Barrett law to the private account of DEMOCRATS HEAR ABOUT FINANCES State-Wide Rally Culminates District Meetings. Democrats from all parts of the State met today at the Glaypool in a State-wide rally, the culmination of a number of district meetings held recently. State Chairman R. Earl Peters presented a report on the dollar-a-Democrat plan of financing the campaign to a joint meeting of the State central and finance committees. All district and county chairmen and vice chairmen, with State workers, will meet at 8 p. m. to hear addresses by Albert Stump and Evans Woollen, senatorial nominees; Thomas Taggart, veteran party leader; State / Chairman R. Earl Peters and Mrs. A. P. Flynn of Lo gansport, State committee vice chairman. This meeting will be open to the public. The Owen County Democratic male quartet of Spencer will sing. Members are Ltoyd Summer, Herbert I. Clemmer, Cleo Dean and Carl Abrell. CHURCHILL ASKS PEACE Invites Mine Owners and Strikers to Meet. ' Bit United Press LONDON. Sept. 9 Winston 1 Churchill, chancellor of the Exchequer, today invited representatives of the British mine owners to meet with the government and with representatives of the coal miners to seek a ‘business like and honorable settlement” of the coal dispute. "We cannot afford any further delay or long ceremonial procedure,'” Churchill said in his letter to the mine owners. “At least 1,700,000 families affected by the dispute are loqking for ar opportunity of regaining their dally wage.”

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Risk won -nineteen out of twenty games this morning. He played in the final matches for the championship this afternoon. The championship is determined on a percentage of game? won. Wednesday Risk shared second honors in State doubles’ contest, dropping only two games. His real test conies today in the opening games of the singles contest, which ends Friday.

the treasurer -was defeated when Judge Janies M. Leathers refused to force County Treasurer Edward A. Ramsay to turn over the "funds to a receiver. However, Rucker now is threatening to advance again upon the Barret ljaw stronghold through which Republican county campaigns are financed and by which some politicians, Including Mayor Duvall, have profited. Rucker is ready to contest an injunction which was granted in Federal Court many years ago to restrain paym?nt of the funds to the city treasury and also is considering filing another suif in one of the Marion County Superior Courts. Fallen From Grace Thus has Rucker fallen from grace. Judge Givan, on the other hand, must be taken care of the politicians say. It was through a hasty Injunction granted by Givan that George V. Coffin was able to remove enough committeemen to obtain control of the G. O. P. organization, which had been held by the Jewett-Lemcke faction. Although Rucker has contended he has no intention of forcing past county treasurers to disgorge the Barrett law "easy money,” Duvall and his close friends are said to be a trifle uneasy lest a favorable decision would apply to the past as well as the future. Also, Duvall Is backing with all his political strength the candidacy of Clyde E. Robinson, former business associate, for county treasurer. Robinson has as yet made no declaration that he would forego the emolument from the Barrett law. Should the system be declared illegal, Duvall himself might be forced to return more than SIOO,OOO to the county treasury. THREE ESCAPED MENICAPMD One Who Fled Richmond Jail Caught Here. Three men who escaped from the Richmond (Ind.) jail Tuesday night today are behind the bars again, one of them Edward Frame, 21, having been captured in Indianapolis early , today. The other two, Leland Phillips, 18. and Howard Davis, were retaken in Richmond, according to dispatches received here, Phillllps was asleep in an old dynamite shack when found by police. Lieut. George Winkler and Detectives Russell and Taylor captured Frame at the home of his halfbrother. Oscar Frame, 315 Villa Ave. He was hidden behind a door. Harry Wilson of the Villa Ave. address, said to have “tipped off” Frame that the officers were outside, was arrested on charges of harboring a criminal. Frame and Davis had been sentenced on vehicle theft charges. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 68 10 a. m 67 7 a. m 67 11 a. m 67 8 a, m 67 12 (noon) .... 66 9 n m 66

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1926

MM STOP PLANT EXTENSIONS Fairbanks - Morse Expansions Delayed by County Commissioners. DISPUTE ON LAND TITLE Legal Entanglements Prevent Development. A manufacturing plant the first ; unit of which would have cost $300.UOO, employed 200 men and had an annual pay roll of approximately $250,000 has been denied Indianapolis j for more than a year and a half be ; cause of politics. There is grave likellhool that indllanapolis’ eleventh largest Industry, employing 857 men, with a million j dollar annual pay roll and working ; day and night shifts, may be moved 1 from Indianapolis by reason of ina bility to expand, caused in great measure by Marion County's brand i of politics. Fairbanks, Morse & Cos., one of the largest manufacturers of electric I motors in the world and an Indian- • nnolis concern for many years, is the ' plant in question. Plans- five Years Old. A. W. Thompson, former manager of the Fairbanks, Morse & Cos. here, and the man who built a plant a mile square for the General Electric Company, at Erie, Pa., visualized the growth of the electric Industry and laid plans for expansion of the local plant more than five years ago. In keeping with this idea early in 1923, through the intervention of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com merce, negotiations were started by which the Fairbanks Company fin ally purchased the site of the old Marion County workhouse, located across the street from the present plant, at Twenty-First St. and Northwestern Ave. It was the only direction in which expansion could be made. Every possible precaution was taken to make the entire proceeding legal in every sense. Extreme pre caution was taken as there was no precedent available. In the negotiation Pickens. Cox & Cnnder. a local law firm, t represented Fairbanks. Morse & Cos. Valued at $70,000 by competent appraisers, the county council in naming an "upset price,” as required (Turn to Page 5)

TWO ARE BOUND OVER Alleged Auto Thieves Are Up In Municipal Court. Two alleged auto thieves were bound over to the grand jury today in municipal court. Font Brown. 1133 W. Thirty-Fourth St., charged with vehicle taking, burglary and grand larceny, is said to have stolen anew $2,000 car from the Armacost Automobile Company, 832 N. Meridian St. Fred Dodson. 1269 W. TwentySixth St., brought back from Ham ilton, Ohio, is alleged to have made away with a car belonging to the Klssel-Skiles Rent-a-Car Company, 14 N. Senate Ave. POLICE LOOK FOR GIRL Thought (■> Have Left With Youth. Parents Report. Police have been asked to search for Edith Manning, 14, of 938 E Georgia St., who, disappeared from her home The girl was reported missing by her father, Green Manning, who said he thought she had left with a youth, who has been at the Manning home for the past two weeks. Thelma Mae Fletcher, 13, of 902 E. Washington St., age 13 is also believed to be with the two, according to her mother, Mrs. S. E. Hooper. MAN, 69, HANGS FRIDAY “I’m Already Dead,” Says Slayer, Spared From Noose Twice. Bu United Preea SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Sept. 9. Isaac Wolfgang, 69 years old, will go to the gallows here Friday morning for the slaying three years ago of Oliver Dinsmore, policeman, who caught Wolfgang stealing a bottle of milk. Three times Wolfgan; has been sentenced to death and twice he has escaped death by court ruling. “They tell me I’ve got to die,'' Wolfgang said today. ‘“They’ve a! ready killed me. I’ve gone through all the anguish; I’m already dead.” K. of C. DRIVE STARTED Bu United Press NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Sept. 9. The Knights of Columbus today started their drive for a $1,000,000 fund to combat alleged persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico, the supreme headquarters here announced. FREIGHT TRAINS CRASH bULUTH, Minn., Sept. 9 Heavv fog banks which obscured vision were blamed for a rear end collision today between two freight trains of the Great Northern Railroad at Swan Lake, Minn., In Itasca County. Wallace Sample of Superior, Wis., a conductor, was killed.

LEGISLA TORS GUESTS AT STATE FAIR Governor Jackson and Lawmakers Gather at Fair , 9 round - Activities at the Indiana State Fair assumed an atmosphere of dignity today, with the formal reception of Governor Jackson and members of the General Assembly as guests. With the skies clearing after the tremendous downpour of Wednesday night, a monster crowd was expected by evening. Wednesday attendance total 37,800, according to the turn stile registers, but an even larger assemblage was expected today by fair officials. Most of the forenoon was given over to livestock judging. Belgian horses and Hereford and Jersey cattle were judged In the Coliseum The Judging of Shropshire, South down and Ozford sheep was staged in the Sheep Arena and. hogs. Spotted Poland China and Hampshire, were graded in the Swine Arena. Governor Jackson and members of the Legislature were guests of the girls’ home economics school at a noon luncheon in the Woman’s Bldg. R. C. Jenkins, fair board president; E. J. Barker, secretary-treasurer, and Levi P. Moore, publicity director, will he guests of the girls at dinner this evening. An especially good program of Grand Circuit racing : made up of four events, was scheduled for 2 this afternoon, with the $2,000 Pluto Water stake for the winner of the (Turn to Page 4)

MUSSOLINI ASKS SPAIN TO HOLD SEATINLEAGUE Canadian Says Millions in United States ‘Are With Us.’ Bm United Preta ROME, Sept. 9.—Premier Mussolini today took steps to prevent Spain from withdrawing from the league of nations. The premier instructed the Italian ambassador at Madrid to urge Spain to remain within the league and to retain her temporary council seat at Geneva. Bm United Preas GENEVA, Sept. 9. Germany’s delegation to the league of nations arrived today from Berlin. While awaiting Foreign Minister Stressemann and his colleagues to actually present themselves at the assembly door, representatives to the seventh assembly spoke today on some of the multitude of prob lems faced. __ War Guilt. There was speculation regarding; Germany’s intentions Kvith respective to certain explosive questions, es pecially that of "war guilt." Ger many has chafed for years under the direct accusation contained in the Versailles treaty that she was responsible for the war. This firebrand topic if brought up at an early date would cause trouble v and for that reason the Germans are expected to delay introduction of the various pro jects in which she would virtually demand modification of the Versailles treaty. ’ Meanwhile, Sir George Foster of (.'an. da. in a speech, declared that the United States was “with us through the sympathetic attitude of millions and millions of her individual citizens.” Sir George Said the first and greatest disillusionment in the life of the league, and one which convinced every one that the league would collapse. was the failtife of the United 'States to join. But, step by step, he said, the league had succeeded. Not Unimportant “It Is most important that a voice be heard here from a snot unimportant part of the North American continent,” said Sir George. “There was a time in the past when she attention of all the world in behalf of that continent was appropriated by the United States. But that .situation has changed. I purpose to say something in behalf of ourselves, hut without presuming to speak in behalf of the entire Cabinet. “Various hopes have failed, such as the project for mutual assistance and the procol for arbitration, security and disarmament. But .these were the high water marks of league idealism. Locarno has brought this idealism back to a practical basis with the result that the league now is appreciated by the entire world. The hague court especially Is one of the greatest instruments in. the league for the organization and maintenance of peace, while reconstructed Austria and Hungary add fresh laurels to the league’s crown.” KING SERIOUSLY ILL B.i United Press PARIS. Sept. 9.—King Alexander of Serbia, is In a very serious condition, suffernig from acute bronchitis, according to reports from Belgrade. REPORTS HOME RANSACKED Mrs. Ethel Crush, 264 Laverock Rd., reported to police today that while she was at her brother’s home at 6260 Broadway, during the illness and death of her husband, her home was ransacked. Bed clothing and wearing apparel valued at S2OO were taken.

ROAD TRIAL DATES NOT GIVEN OUT i No Provision for Highway Cases on Criminal Court Calendar. ALGER HEARING NOV. 29 Set by Collins After Consultation With Remy. With the announcement today of the new Criminal Court jury calendar for the next three months, it was disclosed that the cases pending against John D. Williams, director of State highway commission, and four other defendants, arising from alleged frauds in disposal of Government used war material.. have not been set for trial The calendar was arranged by Judge James A. Collins after consultation with Prosecutor William H. Remy. , The highw-ay cases have been set numerous times for trial, but were postponed each time at the date for trial reared. At the time the defendants were indicted in March, 1925, attorneys for the defendants requested early trials. Since that time Federal authorities have taken a hand in the matter, and it is undersftood results of two investigators will be presented before the Federal grand jury next week. Several Indictments Williams faces indictments charg ing conspiracy to embezzle and accessory before the fact. Co-defand ants with Williams on the accessory charge are Earl Crawford, former highway commissioner, and George Bartley, former superintendent State garage. Co-defendants with Williams on the conspiracy charge are Bartley, Crawford and Moses and Victor Goldberg, junk dealers. our grand larceny indictments are pending against the two Goldbergs and William Whaley, their former employe. All of the defendants are alleged to jjave unlawfully disposed of thou sands of dollars' worth of used war materials given the State by the Federal Government. They are all at liberty under bond, after pleading not guilty. Lee Case Not Set Another case not on the calendai is the first degree murder charge against Ralph Lee, notorious jailbreaker and alleged murderer of Abner Peek, Speedway City grocer. Lee is now held in the Indiana Re formatory and will be tried in Johnson Circuit Court at Franklin, Ind., to which he was granted a change of venue Remy said he nopes that case will be set for early this fall. The case of Gene Alger, 19, former Butler University student, charged w-ith the fatal shooting of John Buchanan, Negro traffic officer, July 8, wag set for Nov. 29. Judge Collins will rule Saturday on a plea to abate the first-degree murdercharge against Alger. Four other murder cases set for trial and dates were: Luther Jones. Sept. 22; Daniel G. Harris, Oct. 13; Lovey Thomas, Negro, Nov. 13; Charles Woods and James Lipscomb. Nov. 15.

BIG LUNCHEON TO BOOSTCIVIC WEEK Will Be Sept. 21 School Survey Planned. In preparation for Civic Week, part of the Indianapolis First move ment, a Joint gathering of luncheon clubs will be held at noon Sept, 21, in Tomlinson hall, Dick Miller, chairman of the campaign committee cf the boasting drive announced today. Civic Week begins Sept. 26. It is expected that all clubs will make this noon luncheon for the week. A nationally-known speaker Is being sought, and a committee to arrangefor the luncheon, headed by Nicholas H. Noyes, chamber president, has been appointed. A committee, with E. U. Graff, superintendent of schools, as chairman, has been named to arrange for a school survey to begin Sept. 15. Ideas of high school pupils on what Is needed to develop young people in Indianapolis,' will be sought. "TORTURE CHAMBER” CHARGED Bn United Press HEALDSBURG, Cal., Sept. 9. Charges that the world war vetetans’ hospital at Palo Alto had become a “torture chamber” and that the institution is “more like a penitentiary than a ward for disabled veterans” will be investigated immediately. Dr. John T. Slavich, State Commander of the Legion said here today. RUBBER EXPERTS MEET Bit United Press PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8. Faced by a world shortage of rubber, made acute in this country by the near monopoly held by Great Britain, a group of International experts gathered here today for a two-day symposium on raw rubber.

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CAR STRIKE COST SET AT $124,187 Report July Revenues Cut $62,303, Expenses Boosted $61,884. The strike of street car men cost the Indianapolis Street Railway Company at least $124,187, it appeared today from the company’s report for July filed with the public service commission. The street car strike started July 5. Total receipts from fares and transfers In July this year was $305,693, compared to $367,996 taken in during July, 1925. This was a decrease of $62,303. Operating expenses in July were $61,884 higher than in July of last year. Gross earnings for July were $371,002, a $49,152 decrease from the July, 1925, figure .according to President Robert I. Todd. First seven months of 1926 showed gross earnings of $3,262,099, an in crease of $38,376, or 1.19 per cent §j|in over like period in 1925, Todd's I report showed I Total operating expenses for July •were $384,839. For seven months the increase in operating expenses was $216,868, the total being $2,583, 422. According to the report on the special depreciation fund, total deficit of $218,994 was carried over to August, 1926. Spanish Dictator to Visit America Bu United Press HADRID, Sept. 9. —With peace restored following the revolt of artillery officers, Primo De Rivera, dictator of Spain, plans to sail for the United States Sept. 27, it was authoritatitvely. reported. The dictator, against whose policies the revolo was staged, will be in the United States fifteen days, visit-* New Yotk, Washington, Philadelphia and Niagara Falls. Martial law was suspended throughout Spain by royal decree yesterday after having been in effect more than seventy-two hours. Hposier Elephant Caught in Canada Bn United Press CRANROOK, B. C., Sept. 9. Myrtle, the elephant which escaped with four others from the Sells-Floto circus nearly two months ago. has been captured near here. The animal, which had been held at bay by Indians on a mountainside so; nearly a week, was in a weakened condition. Charlie, fifth member of the escaping herd, is still at large. The circus winters at Peru, Ind. SUPERINTENDENT UPHEL Charged That Man Feigned Insanity to Evade Prosecution. Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom today upheld Dr. J W. Millikan, superintendent, in refusing Calvin Dorsey admission to the Southeastern Hospital for Insane, at North Madison, Ind. It was charged that Dorsey was feigning insanity to evade criminal prosecution, the opinion stated.

STEPHENSON MAY FACEJRIAL HERE Arson Conspiracy Case Set for Nov. B—4 Charged. Possibility that D. C. Stephenson. ex-Klan chieftain, now serving a life sentence in Indiana State Prison for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, may be brpught here to face trial on a conspiracy to commit arson charge, was indicated today -when Judge James A. Collins announced the case against him had been set for trial before a jury on Nov. 8. Stephenson Is a co-defendant with Fred O. Butler, his secretary; and Earl Gentry and Earl Kllnck, his former aids. Prosecutor William H. Remy said he did not think he would request the presence of Stephenson In court at the time of the trial, but the de sense attorney, Ira M. Holmes, may. The four are alleged to have conspired to set fire to Stephenson’s former hrme in Irvington, McKinley recovering Continued Improvement Shown By Illinois Senator. Bii United Press MARTINSVILLE. Ind.. Sept. 9. Continued improvement was noted early today in the condition of Sen ator William B. McKinley, of 111! nois, ill In a sanitarium here ' The Senator passed another restful night and his temperature remained near normal. The periods of delirium were less frequent Wodnes day. G. 0. P. REGISTER VOTERS Republican county headquarters oh the sou. th floor of the Knights of Pythias Bldg, will register voters for the coming election beginning Monday, Wayne Emmelman, county committee secretary, announced today. STORE RANSACKED V Leo Tajesnigk, Apt. A. 24. 1116 N. Capitol Ave., owner of a store at 703 N. Senate Ave., today repotted the store entered when a was thrown through a front window. Store was ransacked, but loss was not estimated.

Forecast Fair tonight and Friday; much cooler tonight; warmer by Friday night.

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BOGGS SAYS HE GOT CAR CO. MONEY Head of Street Railway Union Admits He DoubleCrossed Mem RECEIVED SSO A WEEK Sentenced 120 Days In Jail by Judge Baltzell. Harry Boggs, president of the lo cal street car men’s union during its strike, told Federal Judge Baltzell today that he had been in the em ploy of the company during the st i ike and for two weeks previous to its calling. He said that he had been paid SSO a week for giving the company “valuable information.” The admissions came In response to questions by the district attorney and Judge Baltzell, who thereupon sentenced Boggs to 120 days in Jail for violating the injunction obtained by the street car company against ‘interference with its service.” Ernest Pflumm, assistant superintendent of the street railway com pany. testified also that Boggs htd been paid SSO a week by the com pany while he was acting as presi dent of the union and directing its strike. Double-Crossed the Men The startling admissions of Boggs that he had been in the pay of the company whose injunction he ad mitted violating brought from the judge the inquiry as to whether had not double-crossed both the com pany and the union. Boggs said he never double-crossed the company, Boggs was elected president of the union after it had been organized and a strike called. He was active in Its meetings. He suddenly fled the city and he was charged with contempt of the Federal Court in influencing men and advising vio lence. Found in West Virginia He was found in West Virginia on the day that the two interna tional organizers fov the union were before the court and pleaded guilty some days ago. His case is the last of the many charges contempt brought by the district attorney as the result of violence and the dynamiting of cars The injunction was obtained by the company warning all persors from Interfering in any way with the operation of cars. Boggs was charged, in the con tempt proceedings, with violation of this order. His statement to the court w•. that he was in the pay of the com pany during that time. Denies Blast • Order Boggs was quizzed regarding a ru mor that he had been told to ordei the men "to go out and blow up cars.” Boggs denied he had been told to order strikers to dynamite cars. v Street car officials stated Boggs had never received such lnstruc tions. , 9 Boggs was paid the weekly wag* during his presidency of the union to keep the company informed ns to progress of the union organization according to Pflumm. Judge Puts Question. When Boggs told the judge he wa? not double-crossing the street rail way Baltzell asked: “What were you doing when you directed pulling trolleys off wire and said there were too many cars run ning?” Boggs did not reply. , , Woman, 100, Freed \ on Drunk Charge Bu United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 9.—Mrs. Kate Smith was jailed here for "cuttin’ up” in celebration of her 100th birthday. “I never was drunk before in my life this is the first time I -have ever been in Jail,” the centenarian said when arraigned on charge of drunkenness. The case was dismissed. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS:

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