Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1919 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. WILL FACE COURT-MARTIAL R. V. Sape, Jr., of Indianapolia Hald for Failing to Report for MilitaryDuty In the Strike Zone. Hammond, Oct. 24. —Harry B. Smith, adjutant general of Indiana, who is commanding the state companies of militia on duty in the strike zone in tba Calumet district, announced that there will be a general court-martial next Friday to try Richard V. Sape, Jr., of Company C, Indianapolis, and clerk of the circuit court in that -city, on charges of falling to report for duty when called. The military companies are stationed at East Chicago, Hammond and Gary. Repeated calls are said to have been sent to Sape for duty at East Chicago. He is said to have finally arrived and is held as a military prisoner. It is known that General Smith was in communication with Governor Goodrich at Indianapolis over-the telephone, but the subject of the conversation was not made public. It is believed, however, that it had to do with the removal of part of the men who are members of the state troops stationed in this district. General Smith departed soon after for Indianapolis to confer with the governor. Following the announcement that a court-martial-had been called for next Friday, it was announced that Merle N. A. Walker, a private in Company C and former judge of the probate court at Indianapolis, had been discharged without honor from the service of the state. It Is understood that Walker sent a letter to Governor Goodrich touching on affairs In this district, which was detrimental to military discipline. A few men of each state company on duty in this district are permitted to visit their homes on brief furloughs, but there is no plan, so far as known, to send an entire company home.