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WORLD HOPES CENTERED ON NAVYPARLEY Five Nations Seek Way to End Mad Contest for Sea Supremacy. MANY BARRIERS RISE Diplomats Face Perilous Shoals Before Goal Is Reached. Ihfai is thr first nf a notable series of stories on the coming I/ondon Naval Conference, written by one of the world’s authorities on International affairs. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrlpp.-Howard Forrlfn Editor The eleventh anniversary of the armistice which brought to an end the bloodiest war ever fought by men finds five of Germany’s former opponents on the eve of a conference to head off a naval race which, unless stopped, again may upset the peac e of the world. The conference has been called for the third week in January. The place is London. Present will representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy.

The third naval parley since the World war, it promises to be not only the most important event of Its kind since Versailles, but one of the most significant milestones in history. The gathering should likewise prove decisive. If it succeeds, as its sponsors hope it will, it hardly can fail to pave the way for further negotiations and a gradual reduction of all armament.

But should it fail, the whole cause bf arms limitation will be given a setback of incalculable proportions, leaving the world once again facing the peril which rivalries in war machines inevitably mean.

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Nor Is success by any means assumed. The rosy glow' which the dramatic meeting between Premier MacDonald and President Hoover, on the banks of the Potomac and and Rapidan, cast over the project, naturally led most of us to jump at the conclusion that it was all over but the shouting. But that is far from the case. True, the road is clear as far as London, but the London bridge must be safely crossed, else there may be a wreck involving more or less serious consequences. There are many loose planks in the London bridge and the failure of any one of them might bring disaster. Even the accord reached by President Hoover and Premier MacDonald, as between America and Britain, was of necessity only along very general lines and it remains to be made specific at the coming conference. before the agreement is final. Not only that but the agreement, in treaty form, must undergo ratification at London and at Washington and this process is notoriously hazardous.

Others to Satisfy Then there are Japan, Prance and Italy, all with demands of their own to satisfy, some as far apart as the poles. However, just as Britain and America have managed to reach a basis of compromise, there is room to hope the others may do likewise. Here are some fundamentals which may cause trouble: 1. Shall the London decision be final, as America, Britain and Japan w ant, or must they depend upon later action of the League of Nations, as France and Italy want? 2 Shall warship limitation be*by categories, as America, Britain and Japan desire, or* shall It be global, as France and Italy wish—meaning that should a nation not want so much cruiser tonnage, for example, It could convert the surplus into submarines? 3. What about battleship replacements due in 1931? Shall they be discussed? Shall they be reduced in size? And armament? 4. Shall the Washington treaty nations—giving Japan, France and Italy less tonnage than Britain and America—hold good for cruisers, submarines, etc. These three powers say no, with emphasis. 5. Will France accept parity with Italy, or will France insist on a bigger fleet and thereby block agreement? (5. Shall submarines be outlawed, as Britain and America suggest, or not. as Japan, France and Italy contend? 7. If France and Italy lock horns over parity, shall the other three nations go ahead with a threepower agreement? Other Hard Problem The foregoing are merely some of the concrete problems the five powers face. In addition there are others on which it is not so easy to place a finger. What, for instance, would happen should the other powers at the conference get the impression that Britain and America had met and stacked the cards against them in advance in order to wield a sort of Anglo-American hegemony over the world? This already has been charged. Nothing, of course, could be more fatal than that this notion should stick. * • .....

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LIBERTY SONG MOCKS WAR VETS IN JAIL Behind the Iron Bars the Fifty Sit ; With Only Memories Left

BY ARCH STEINEL MY country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing ” The notes of the Indianapolis Police and Firemen band blared out under a soft Armistice day sun in front of the Marion county jail on Alabama street today. The parade was forming. Flags shifted lazily in the breeze. Billy clubs had been traded for

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j nuusanas oi spectators witnessed the Armistice day parade through downtown Indianapolis today. The top photo shows seventeen members composing the Indiana American Legion Auxiliary drum corps, with Mrs. F. T. McClarey, drum major.

TRY ACCUSED KILLER George McManus Faces Bar in Rothstein Case. B'l United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 11. George McManus goes on trial in general sessions court Tuesday on a charge of murdering Arnold Rothstein, Broadway’s most notorious gambler. Rothstein was shot fatally a year ago in the Part Central hotel and although he lived for some time after being wounded, he refused to discuss the case with police. About 100 witnesses will be called and the trial is expected to last three weeks. Woman’s Purse Snatched A footpad snatched a purse containing S3O from the hand of Mrs. Mary Swain. 81, of 624 East Georgia street, on Virginia avenue Saturday night.

PULLS ‘JESSE JAMES’ ACT AFTER WRECKING FLIER

Pit 7 'nif rtf Prrs* SAUGUS. Cal., Nov. 11.—A bandit who followed the traditions of the old west when he wrecked the West; Coast flier of the Southern Pacific line two miles north of here and robbed passengers Sunday, was sought by sheriff's posses today. R. C. Ball, engineer, was scalded seriously when the locomotive and three cars were derailed as the train struck a loosened rail. Tools had been stollen from a nearby tool house, revealing the manner the bandit chose to effect the holdup. A WTench and hammer lay beside the track. As the train ground to a stop, the train robber, masked with a blue bandana handkerchief and carrying two revolvers, swung aboard a coach and poked a gun acainst the ribs of Conductor 6. L. French. "A relief train will be right out from Saughs," the bandit .said ps

the martial cornet, the chasing of liquor sellers and other law violators deferred for a parade of stalwart men offering a tribute “Land where my fathers died—,” echoed the band’s notes up and down the street, echoed even in .the bullpens of the county jail where the Fifty sat; in the laundry room where George, the Gassed One, ironed a suit of over-

In the center is pictured a detachment of sailors from the recruiting stations of the United States navy, marching near the head of the parade, and below, a section of the Eleventh infantry battalion under the command of Colonel Horace P. Hobbs.

TWO MEET DEATH IN CAR ACCIDENTS Traffic death toll, resulting from accidents in and near Indianapolis over the week-end, today was increased by the death of two men. Clifford Swiegert, 27, of 714 North Illinois street, was killed when his auto overturned on the National road east of Indianapolis Sunday morning and David Philips of Danville, died in the Methodist hospital Sunday after an auto-train crash at Maplewood. Several persons also were injured in a series of auto crashes, police and hospital records showed.

Swiegert was driving to Newcastle to visit his wife and children w'hen he lost control of his auto. The car crashed into a telephone pole and slid, upside down, more than sixtyfive feet. Swiegart's skull and chest were crushed. He was employed at the MaddenCopple Company, Inc., garage. He formerly lived in Newcastle but had worked in garages here five years. Burial will be in Newcastle. Phillips w r as injured fatally when

he took $2 from the conductor. Other passengers gave up money in unidentified amounts. The robber made no effort to enter the mail car. He fled in the darkness when he reached the other end of the coach. Passengers on the train, which had been en route from Los Angeles to Sacramento, were transferred to other trains. *

WAR VETERAN, BESIEGED BY POLICE, SHOOTS SELF

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 11.—Edwin Bannon. 35, World war veteran shot himself in the head shortly before noon today after he had held off policemen for more than fifteen hours in the barricaded attic of his home in Elliott, a suburb. He was taken to a hospital ip 4 serious condition.

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alls; filtered through the cell of Murray with the D. S. C. (the one who saw Joyce Kilmer, the warpoet, die). For the Fifty are World war “vets”—one-sixth of the county jail’s population—the ones who are hunted when the band trades back its drum for a "billyclub.” “Land of the pilgrim’s pride—" drummed the band’s notes on air, in brain.

his auto was wrecked by a B. and O. locomotive at Maplewood, in Hendricks county. He died at the Methodist hospital Sunday night from loss of blood and skull fracture. Jasper Fisher of Maplewood who was riding with Phillips also is in the Methodist hospital suffering from serious injuries. Police today identified a 60-year-old woman who hurled herself under the whels of a taxi in the 900 block, West Twenty-fifth street, Sunday night as Mrs. Anna Dempsey, 2630 Burton stset. Mrs. Dempsey suffered severe head injuries after the cab struck her, although Louis Penny, 306 South Audubon road, taxi driver, drove the cab over the curb and sidewalk in an effort to avoid striking her. When taken to the city hospital Mrs. Dempsey at first refused to give her name. After revealing her identity she refused to give any reason for the act. Fraternity to Give Dance Phi Gamma Sigma fraternity will give a dance at the Crystal dance palace, 729 North Illinois street, Tuesday night.

Bannon lodged himself in the attic Sunday night after he had shot at several members of his family, policemen and passersby who attempted to quiet him when he was under an hallucination that a Detroit "gang” was after him. While Bannon’s comrades were

“ Lost in action,” shouted one of the Fifty. “Where were you eleven years ago today, Murray’?” “Taking the town of Sedan,” replied the buddy of Joyce Kilmer’s. “I was a machine-gunner. Just fifteen feet from Kilmer when they got him. We went to Columbia university together. He wrote Trees,’ you know.” Sure! Murray, stories and "poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.” “I’m a three-time loser. Blame the war—what for? It made a roamer of me, yes! Did I get decorations —only a D. S. C. Where? Let’s not talk about it,” and Murray the ex-convict waved his inquisitor aside. The band’s notes gained in volume, “From every country side, let freedom ring.” On through the Jail past Fred, who got a shrapnel wound at Belleau Wood and now is doing a sentence for selling liquor; where Carl of the Thirty-seventh division rubs a knee-scar out of the Argonne, to where Joe stands Joe was an inventor at the start of the war. His searchlight invention brought a warrant gun-

VETERANS SAVE FLAGPROFANER Legionnaires Arrest Man and Avert Riot. A riot was believed to have been averted by members of the American Legion at the World War Memorial plaza today when part of the crowd watching the Armistice day celebration threatened a man, who is said to have torn down several foreign flags. Two uniformed legionnaires arrested him and took him to police headquarters. He gave the name of Rollin James, 50, of 839 Broadway. When questioned concerning his motives in destroying the banners, James only said: “They were British, French and Italian flags. They didn’t belong there.” The crowd beliveed he had torn away the Stars and Stripes, the legionnaires informed police. James was held on charges of malicious trespass and vagrancy, pending investigation. CITE SUPREME JUSTICE Pierce Butler Defendant in Suit Against Brother’s Estate. Bv United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 11.— Jierce Butler, associate justice of the United States supreme court, was named one of the defendants in a suit on file in Ramsey county probate court here today which involved the $2,731,733 estate of his late brother, John. The suit was brought by Mrs. Louise Margareta Fletcher of Goldfield, Nev., who claimed in an affidavit that she was an illegitimate daughter of John Butler and his rightful heir by law.

$64,000 BANDIT LOOT Trio Halts Auto and Escapes With Fortune in Jewels, Cash. Bn United press ST. LOUIS, Nov. 11.—Three bandits waylaid the automobile in which J. Frederick Byers of Pittsburgh, president of the A. M. Byers Pipe Company, and Mrs. Byers and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Johnson of St. Louis were riding early today and robbed them of $64,000 in jewelry and cash. A country road near here was the scene of the holdup. Most of the loot was in jewels. The bandits took SI,OOO in cash from the men and sped away. OFFICER FOILS HOLDUP Detective Wounds Bandit and Captures Accomplice. Bn United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 11.—Quick action by a passing detective today frustrated the holdup of Attorney Lawrence Kevin and his fiancee, Miss Julia O’Gara, caused the serious wounding of one bandit, and the capture of his accomplice. The battle occurred on a crowded north side corner and pedestrians scurried t-o cover as the bulllets flew. SUCCEEDS STRESEMANN Dr. Julius Curtius Named German Foreign Affairs Minister. Bv United Press BERLIN, Nov. 11.—Dr. Julius Curtius, minister of economic affairs, was appointed foreign minister today, succeeding the late Dr. Gustav Sttesemann.

marching in an Armistice day parade, the former soldier, who never saw active service, but was shell-shocked in a training camp, brandished revolvers at patrolmen who surrounded the house and attempted to dislodge him. He paid no attention to the fumes of tear gas bombs that were hurled

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ner’s ratling in the navy. He helped mount the big 14-inch navy guns they used on the' various fronts. “I’m in the same place I was on Armistice day eleven years ago—in jail. It was a brig in France then. Went A. W. O. L., got tanked up. I'm in here for the same thing—booze—they say I sold it,” joked Joe. Down the corridor to Cdravko, the Serbian. He was wounded at Saloniki. He left “Amerika een 1917” to enlist in his nation's army. “Maybe I go back some of these here days. My mutter, she leeve on a five-acre farm. The government geeve eet to her when I get shot.” Cdravko sold something, something there’s no harm in selling in Serbia, booze. They gave him a county jail sentence. The band’s notes—a song not of Cdravko’s nation —but of the nation that sentenced him to jail —reverberated in the cellhouse from the street below. Cdravko’s heels clicked together just as the brogue toes of George, the Gassed One, tapped the con-

Guest at Booze Dinner Refuses to Give Details Railway Head Says ‘Sense of Propriety’ Prevents Any Statement. Bh WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—President E. E. Loomis of the Lehigh Valley railroad w r ent before the District of Columbia grand jury today to be questioned concerning the Wall Street booze party, previously described to the senate and the grand jury by Senator Smith W. Brookhart of lowa. Loomis was a guest at the party and, according to Brookhart, drank of the liquor given guests in a silver hip flask. Asked what he intended to tell United States Attorney Leo A. Rover about the party and whether he would comment concerning it, just before he went into the jury room, Loomis said: “You don’t expect me to tell the public what happened at a private dinner at which I was the guest, do you?” Loomis spent ten minutes with Rover and then walked into the grand jury room. Four minutes he emerged and reported that his experience was “short and sweet.” “You’ll have to rely on the smelling propensities and laboratory experience of Mr. Brookhart,” he told reporters who asked him about the party. Brookhart told the senate that his laboratory experience and sense of smell made him certain that it was liquor that Loomis, sitting at Brookhart's side, drank at the dinner. “I have some idea,” Loomis said, “of proprieties. I was a guest at the dinner.” Loomis then was excused by Rover. This was regarded as indicating the railroad head had been a willing witness and was not in conflict with the district attorney.

STRIKE TRIALS TO OPEN Rioting Case Against Textile Workers Begins Tuesday. It u United Press MARION, N. C., Nov. 11.—Trials of 119 citizens of a wide range of charges in connection with a textile strike battle here, in which six lives were lost, will begin Tuesday, with interest enlivened by the fact that eight of the group have been dismissed from their church here, allegedly because of the charges against them. The first case to be called before Judge V. G. Cowper will be that against eight men charged with “rioting, inciting to rebellion and conspiracy against the state.’’ The eight were tried in September but a mistrial resulted when defendant J. Hugh Hall escaped from court during the proceedings.

AMERICAN MISSIONARY IS HELD BY CHINESE BANDITS

Bu United Press SHANGHAI, Nov. 11.—The Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-Shek, menaced on two sides by mutiny and rebellion, was faced with another problem today in the renewed outbr t sos bandits, who have burned and looted the town of Hwangihkang, fifty miles south of here, and carried off several merchants as captives. Advices from Hankow said that

through the windows. Two revolvers, a German Luger and a police service pistol, belonging to his late father, Chief Joseph Bannon, of the Ingram police force, and many rounds of ammunition were found when police entered the attic to remove the wounded veteran. *

crete in the basement as he ironed out a pair of jail overalls. George didn’t have to go. He had a wife and a baby. He went, you know how it was! They played patriotic tunes, they said the Germans would come over here and kill his wife, his child. His company occupied the town of Conservoy. The Germans had evacuated it shortly before Nov. 9, 1918. Rain, rain, forty-five days of it and on the ninth the sun came out. The Germans had left mustard gas in the town. The sun brought the gas out. Thirty-seven of George’s company died before they could get them to a hospital. On Armistice day George lay unconscious in a base hospital. He came back. He found a second child had been born to him, while he was gone. Work as cement-finisher was hard to get. He started to aid in the transportation of liquor. He was arrested and given a year in jail. George's iron moves back and forth with the beat of the band’s drum, he hears as the ‘Fifty hear “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of three I sing.”

CONDITION OF COFFINWORSE Republican Chairman May Be Taken to Hospital. George V. Coffin, city and district Republican chairman, who has announced his intention to resign, shows no improvement in his illness of the last ten days, members of the family said today. Coffin’s condition was • slightly worse over the week-end than it has been since he was confined to his bed a few .days before the city election last Tuesday. For more than a year the political leader has suffered from stomach ulcers. At his home, 3330 College avenue, it was indicated that Coffin may be taken to an Indianapolis hospital if his condition grows worse. While Coffin is ill at his home, city and county political factions are split over selection of his successor. Meeting of the 1 Republican organization to select his successor will not be called until Coffin is able to announce the date and place of the session. TUNNEL WORK PAUSES Men in Depths of Earth Pay Tribute to War Dead. By United Press LIVERPOOL, Nov. 11. —Two minutes of silence in honor of the war dead was observed in the depths of the earth today by 250 men clad in oilskins, rubber boots and sou’wester hats, working on the tunnel being built under the Mersey river. The sputtering electric drills, the roaring compressed air and the blasts of dynamite ceased suddenly. It was the first time, day or night, that work had ceased in the tunnel for a year. A chaplain conducted service in the tunnel.

WILL WOOD ELECTED Indiana Man Named Head of House Appropriations Group. Bv Times Xnerial WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Representative Will R. Wood of the Tenth Indiana district unanimously and formally was elected chairman of the house committee on appropriations by the house today. He had been acting chairman for a year, in place of Daniel R. Anthony of Kansas, who has retired from the house. COALITION IS DEFEATED Democratic-Independent Republican Group Loses Senate Battle. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. The Democratic-Independent Republican coalition in the senate was defeated for the first time in many days today when it failed in an attempt to reduce the duty on tungsten ore 50 to 45 cents a pounds.

Father Ulrich Kreutzen, a Franciscan missionary from Calumet, Mich., was being held by kidnapers and faced death unless a ransom of 10,000 Mexican dollars was paid within four days. The American missionary was abducted by bandits near Weiyuenkow in Eastern Hupeh, and is being held without food and exposed to the cold, the reports said. His servant was sent from the bandits’ camp with word that, unless the ransom was paid within four days, the missionary would be killed. Father Kreutzen is the second American kidnaped by bandits within a few days. Aaron Brenner, New York fur dealer, was kidnaped from Tientsin Thursday and $500,000 demanded for his release. Hourly Temperatures Ba. m 45 11 a. m 54 9a. m 47 12 (noon).. 56 10 a. m..... 51 Ip. mi.,.. 59

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CITY HONORS WAR DEAD IN FITTINGRITES Eleventh Anniversary of Armistice Day Signal for Celebration. THOUSANDS IN PARADE Eight Sections of Military, Civic, Fraternal Units Form Marchers. Citizenry of Indianapolis joined hands today with the rest of the world in celebrating the eleventh anniversary of peace. Although the echo of the World war's last cannon fire on a distant battle front has died long since, Armistice day was observed on a world-wide scale, and in Indianapolis with a spirit of reverence for the thousands of .soldiers who gave their lives in the conflict. The sound of the bugle and the rattle of drums in a giant parade through downtown Indianapolis marked the city’s rejoicing over the end of the war, while ceremonies honoring the city’s war dead held a plea for continued peace among nations. Fortune Is Speaker William Fortune, president of the American Peace Society, spoke from the Circle monument. His address, broadcast from radio station WFBM, enumerated events of the World war and sounded a plea for world peace. “The world has striven, these eleven years to find a basis of mutual understanding,” he said. "When the armistice came it found a demand for revenge and a hatred. Little by little vision cleared. Hearts were cleansed of hatred, and the desire for revenge against people who had been mislead, became fainter and fainter each year. “As the victors went back to peace pursuits, they discovered that a black trail of disaster follows victory no less than it follows defeat. The cost in men and misery no human mind can compute and thus we have been more eager during the succeeding decade, to resolve it must never happen again.” Panel of 400 Pieces Ceremonies began at 10 a. m. as the parade passed down Meridian street from jpt. Clair street to the Monument Circle. There, at 11:20, exercises were opened with the martial air "Stars and Stripes Forever,” by a massed band of 400 pieces. Invocations were pronounced by the Rev.'Michael W. Lyons, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church. Loud speakers were used around the Circle, permitting thousands of spectators to hear the ceremonies. At a reviewing stand on the south steps of the monument where the parade passed in review, were Major-General Dennis E. Nolan, commanding officer of the Fifth army corps area and former head of the intelligence division of the A. E. F. With him were Mayor L. Ert Slack, James F. Barton, national adjutant of the American Legion; Major-General Robert H. Tyndall, commanding officer of the Thirtyeighth division, and Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, chairman of the committee on distinguished guests. Benediction By Rabbi

Memorial rites following the review were conducted by the Rev. Thomas R. White, pastor of the Meridian Heights Presbyterian church. The Rabbi M. M. Fcuerlicht of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation pronounced benediction. About five thousand persons participated in the parade, which was divided into eight sections, the first in comir .nd of Police Chief Claude M. Worley, and headed by Colonel A. J Dougherty, chief of staff of the Eighty-fourth division, and Bowman Elder, chief of staff. Police post, American legion, with a motorcycle and mounted detachment, broke path for the parade. In the second section, under command of Colonel H. P. Hobbs, was .the Eleventh infantry band, United States marine detachment, United States navy detachment, a provisional battalion of the Indiana national guard and the United States reserves. In the third section were members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Disabled War Veterans, American War Mothers, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughter of the Confederacy, all conveyed in autos. A drum corps and the Indiana Central college band preceded the section. Fraternal Groups March Colonel Robert L. Moorehead commanded the fourth section, composed of fraternal organizations. Uniformed bodies of De Molay, Eagles. Masonic order, the Moose and Red Men were among the particpating orders. Following was the civic section, commanded by Felix M. McWhirter and led the Butler university sixtypiece band. Floats of business houses and civic organizations were included. R. O. T. C. sections from Indianapolis high schools, with the American Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls and Girl Reserves composed a remaining section. The day’s ceremonies were to b concluded with an American, Legion ball in the Indiana ballroom tonight.

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