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DEATH OF FIVE BABIES IN HOSPITAL PROBED
WORN BUT GRIM,
SEED CONTINUES
ME BATTLE
All-Night Session Runs
Through Day in Fight
Over Election Probes.
fl n United Press
WASHINGTON, March 3.—Worn
to exhaustion from twenty four
hours continuous session, but still
obdurate, Senator James A. Reed
(Dem.), Missouri, successfully re
pelled attacks in the Senate today to
displace his resolution authorizing
investigation of Republican elec
tions.
Senator David A. Reed (Rep.),
Pennsylvania, today threw the Sen
ate into consternation with presenta
tion of the credentials of* Senator
elect William S. Vare (Rep.), Penn
sylvania.
Reed played the trump card in
his fighting game against the Demo
crats by offering new credentials of
Vare issued several days ago by Gov
ernor John S. Fisher of Pennsylva
nia. He admitted he had buried in
his desk drawer credentials issued
several weeks ago by former Gov
ernor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, sug
gesting Vare had been only “appar
ently” elected. The intimation was
that the election was fraudulent.
The presentation offered anew di
lemma for Senators in the most com
plicated and dramatic legislative bat
tle of recent years—a battle raging
uninterrupted since 11 a. m. yester
day.
Senator Reed, Democrat, refused
to permit reading of the credentials,
and intimated he might move to re
fer them to the Privileges and Elec
tions Committee. If he made this
motion, however, it might lead to
debate which would in the end en
able Republican filibusterers to kill
his resolution and all pending legisla
tion. x
Sleepy-eyed Senators voted at 0:10
a. m., 33 to 24, to continue to con
sider the Reed resolution rather than
take up the deficiency appropriation
bill, although final adjournment of
Congress was only twenty-six hours
away from the deadlocked Senate.
The battle proper started at 0:10
last night, when the Senate passed
the Andrews prohibition reorganiza
tion bill by a vote of 71 to 6, thereby
killing the wet filibuster against that
measure.
Upon Senator James Reed’s motion
the Senate then took up the pri
mary resolution by a vote of 53 to 2 1.
Motions to adjourn and quorum
calls were frequent up to just be
fore midnight, when Senator Cam
eron (Rep.), Arizona, obtained the
floor and delivered a three-hour ora
tion on various subjects, including
almost everything but the Reed
resolution. He was the first of the
Reed resolution filibusterers to make
a long speech in the attempt to kill
[time to prevent a vote on the plan.
Cameron's voice gave out at 1:30
.a. m. and Senator Wadsworth (Rep.),
New York, another of the filibuster
ers, then took the floor and held it
sporadically until 5 a. m.
At 6 a. m. Senator Cole L. Blease
(Dem.), South Carolina, who fur
nished comedy relief from the grim
all-night battle, held the floor and
read the sleepy Senate an extra
neous lecture on parliamentary law.
DEARTH HIRES
ATTORNEY HERE
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will consider the legal phases;
further, but will lake no actior ,
until the impeaemnent charges ar >
presented to the Senate.”
Following the conference tje
Dearth party returned to Muncif
No judge in Indiana has been Ai
pea.ched since 1835 and the boat of 1
managers will study the proceed Mgs i
at that time as precedents f<- Jjfthe
course of action. / |
The vote to impeach Judge ' yarth
for suppression of the press and the
irregularity of jury panels was so j
emphatic that the board of man- <
agers v. r ill use unusual zeal and care- i
fulness in the preparation of the
articles of impeachment, so that no
technicality may block a complete
trial before the Senate oil the truth
or falsity of the charges.
No trial can be held before ten
days' notice. If the articles are filed
Thursday, it is not probable that
trial will be fixed before March 15,
with the Senate recessing untit that
time to resume as a trial court.
The board of managers of the im
peachment are also impressed by
the fact that this is the first time
any judge has been impeached on
the direct charge that he had used
his power to set aside the bill of
rights.
Broad Question Arises
Other impeachments, in State
Legislatures and before Congress,
have been based upon charges of
personal gain from official .acts cr
upon personal conduct incompatible
with the dignity of courts. The
Dearth impeachment re-raises the
broad issue of the inviolability of the
Constitution and the power of the
people, through the Legislature, to
safeguard the Constitutional guaran
tee of free speech.
The report of Judiciary A Commit
tee to the House upon which Dearth
was impeached follows:
This committee held a public hear
ing the chamber of the House of
Representatives Monday evening,
Feb. 28, 1927, and considered the
petition introduced by Representa
tive John W. Scott on behalf of cer
tain citizens of Delaware County,
Indiana.
Many witnesses came before this
committee and presented statements
in support of the charges made in
this petition. Clell Maple, a man
ufacturer of Muncle, Ind., stated that
Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth
had told him personally that he
would procure a grand jury which
report to him on such facts
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Representative John W. Scott,
(liep.), Gary attorney, whose one
sentence speech Wednesday before
the Indiana House of Represent
atives was the only argument
upon tiie impeachment of Circuit
Judge Clarence Dearth of Mutirie.
The House voted, 93 to 1, to im
peach Dearth. Scott presented
tiie petitions from Muncie citizens
which brought tiie impeachment.
which he wished. He stated that
this conversation took place in a
discussion of an , announcement by
Judge Dearth that he would secure
the impeachment of the sheriff of
Delaware County because of the lat
ter’s failure to enforce the laws, and
that a jury thereafter was called
which did return fourteen grounds j
of impeachment which were later dis
carded by the said Judge Dearth.
Francis A. Shaw, president of the
Muncie Bar Association, read to this
committee bis own written notes of
an incident in the courtroom of
Judge Dearth when a large number!
of newsboys were taken from the
streets and brought before the ;
judge. The judge at that time told j
these- boys that the papers taken I
from them would not be returned to !
them. He ordered each boy to give j
his name and address to the sheriff j
and release them with the threat j
that any further sale of the j
particular newspaper would result in
their being brought before him as
juvenile judge and placed upon pro
bation. The only reason given by
the judge for the arrest of these boys
and for the confiscation of those
newspapers was that the papers so j
confiscated contained a slanderous
article concerning himself and one
John Hampton, mayor of Muncie.
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That these boys had been arrested
upon the streets by policemen act
ing under the orders of the said
Judge Dearth and that their papers
were confiscated by the sheriff act
ing upon the judicial order of said
Judge Dearth.
Mr. Shaw further testified concern
ing irregularity in the drawing of
juries which had resulted in miscar
riage of justice. Ho stated that he
had seen the said Judge Dearth pre
pare lists of names from a telephone
directory and hand them to a jury
commissioner whom he had ap
pointed to office.
Lon A. Guthrie, an attorney of
Muncie, who had been called as
often a special judge by Judge
Dearth, stated that he had objected
to Judge Dearth as to the manner
in which juried had been drawn and
that the fact that many persons
were repeatedly called for jury serv
ice within the same year.
Prosecutor’s Story
Joe H. Davis, prosecutor attorney
for Delaware County, stated that he
had objected to Judge Dearth con
-yirning a jury commissioner ap
pointed by Judge Dearth and had
charged that he could prove at least
/twenty-five illegal acts by this com
missioner since Jan. 1, 1927. He also
stated that it was a matter of com
mon rumor that at the time of the
appointment of this jury commis
sioner by Judge Dearth the said
commissioner was not qualified free
holder under the law and that later,
did qualify as a freeholder through j
a deed to a small lot from said Judge
Dearth.
Youi\ committee also heard Johnny
Raines, a newsboy, who described
in detail his arrest by a policeman,
the confiscation of his newspapers
and his appearance before Judge
Dearth. The story told by this boy
is "convincing as to the charge that
Judge Dearth did on Feb. 19, 1927,
without warrant of law and without
charge, violating constitution of
the State of Indiana in the confisca
tion of property and, for the ad
mitted nurpose of suppressing a
newspaper, abused his official powers
in an illegal manner.
Your committee is left in no doubt
as to the conclusion that Judge
Dearth by this act set aside the con
stitution of this State because of
a personal grivance. Your commit
tee believes this act to have the
enormity of a high crime and cor
ruption in this: That he did set at
naught that guaranty of freedom of
the press and freedom of property
from confiscation. %
Your committe is convinced by
the testimony of witnesses quoted
above and by other witnesses that
the charge relating to the irreg
ular appointment of a jury commis
sioner and the irregular impaneling
of juries in the court of the said
Judge Clarence \V. Dearth are true
and that they amount to corruption
in office in that it is now impossible
for many citizens of Delaware Coun
ty to secure fair and impartial
trials in either civil or criminal pro
ceedings. Your committee, there
fore. begs to submit the following
resolution:
DEARTH BACK HOME
Return to Muncie After Hiring In
dianapolis Lawyers.
fir/ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind., March 3.—Judge
Clarence W. Dearth, impeached by
the House of Representatives
Wednesday, returned home this aft
irnoon from a flying trip to Indian
polis, where he employed the law
rm of Ralston, Gates, Lairy, Van
luya & Barnard to represent him.
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AS CRAFT DRIFT
Barges and Lignt Ships
Helpless in Atlantic Storm.
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NORFOLK, Va„ March 3.—Two
barges, two lightships and the
steamer City of at. Louis with forty
six men are adrift near the Ilatteras
shoals as the result of the fierce
northeaster whiclfi swept the At
lantic coast yesterday, according to
reports reaching here today. The
British steamer King David last
night went aground off CSipe Henry.
Later she was floated under her
own power.
The Firmore, bound for Baltimore
from Daiquiri, reported by radio
that she was ashore and asked for
assistance, but her position was not
given and lias not be reported.
Other vessels sending distress
signals were the Sulanierco, out of
San Pedro for Newark, N. J„ and the
Maracaibo, for New York from
Curaco. At noon today coast guard
headquarters had no reports as to
safety of the vessels.
11 ir Ignited Press
HAMPTON BEACH, N. IL, March
3.—A small hotel and one cottage
were swept into the soa shortly be
fore noon today by an abnormally
high tide that swept over the sea
front boulevard.
SNOW COVERS NORFOLK
Virginia City Visited by Heaviest
Fall in Twenty-Two Years.
Bn United Press
NORFOLK, Va.. March 3.—Nor
folk was snow-buried today. The
fall was unparalleled in twenty-two
years and traffic was disturbed.
High tides sweeping in before a
forty-mile gale flooded low sections
of the city. Schools and department
stores were closed yesterday after
noon.
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impartial trial because of the “queer”
complexion of grand and petit juries
in his court.
Within one week after The Indian
apolis Times printed its demand,
“Impeach this Mussolini of Muncie,”
and described the seizure of news
boys and their papers by Judge
Dearth because he did not like an
article the newspaper printed about
him, he faced trial before the Senate
on the impeachment charges of the
House.
Reporter Detained
A week ago Wednesday Judge
Dearth called his grand jury into
special session to indict the Muncie
editor whose paper he had sup
pressed the preceding Saturday.
That day The Times printed its de
mand, with the description of what
had happened in Dearth’s court and
the fact that citizens were organiz
ing to demand the end of Dearth’s
reign.
Ross H. Garrigus, staff correspond
ent of The Indianapolis Times, sent
to Muncie to observe what happened
when Dearth instructed the grand
jury, was seized by a bailiff at the
door to the courtroom and held pris
oner in the sheriff’s office until the
judge finally decided to let him enter
the court.
Fhotograplier Harassed
Ernest Pearson, Times staff pho
tographer, was ejected from the
courtroom, ordered from the court
house grounds and forced to leave
this public place by deputy sheriffs.
He returned anon and got his pic
ture.
Meanwhile Muncie citizens, muz
zled l'or months through fear of
Dearth, began to speak out in pub
lic. The Legislature heard from
them in the form of a petition for
the impeachment of Dearth.
Representative John W. Scott
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REPRESENTATIVES WHO WILL PRESS
IMPEACHMENT CHARGES IN SENATE
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Representative on the board of managers, who will prosecute before the Senate the charges on which the
Indiana House impeached Circuit Judge Clarence \V. Dearth of Muncie: Above (left to right), J. Glenn Harris
(Rep.), Gary: Delph L. McKesson (Dcin.), Plymouth; David 11. Byers (l)em.), Vincennes. Below, (left to
right), William Henry Harrison (Rep.), Indianapolis; Milton J. Sallwasser (Dem.), La Porte; Lawrence E.
Carlson (Rep.), Huntington. All except Sallwasser are members of tin House Judiciary A committee which
drew up and recommended tiie impeachment charges against Dearth.
(Rep.), Lake County, became the
champion of the liberty-loving peo
ple of Delaware County and intro
duced the petitions. Muncie's own
representatives did not come to the
fore. They even asked to be excused
from voting on the impeachment
resolution on Wednesday. They are
Lemuel A. Pittenger and I. N. Trent.
He’d Show ’Em
Dearth sat smugly on the throne.
Ho sent word to the editor of The
Times that he had better look out.
He put down in a notebook the
names of Times reporters sent to
Muncie, of Roy W, Howard and
Robert P. Scripps, heads of the
Scripps-Howard newspapers. He’d
show anybody who dared question
his authority to threaten little news
boys who sold papers on the street.
The impeachment resolution was
referred to Judiciary A Comipittee.
A public hearing was held Monday
evening. The committee, aghast at
some of the testimony as to the man
ner of choosing juries and the treat
ment of the newsboys as Prosecutor
Joe H. Davis, who had come to tell
what he had observed, to s;nd of
ficial data substantiating what he
said.
The Last Straw
This data arrived on Wednesday
morning. Chairman J. Glenn Har
ris, called the committee together.
The committee hack been told by At
torney General Arthur L. Gilliom
that it had no authority to impeach
a judge. Ralph Kane, attorney for
The Indianapolis Times, had given
an opinion that such authority did
exist. The Davis data was the last
straw. Among other things it cited
thirty instances where jurors drawn
for Dearth’s court since Jan. 1, 1927,
did not appear on the tax duplicates.
The committee unanimously voted
to ask Dearth’s impeachment. This
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The Resolution
The resolution for impeach
ment of Judge Dearth, adopted
by the House:
Whereas, it has been called
to the attention of this body
that Clarence W. Dearth, judge
of the Delaware Circuit Court,
the same being the forty-sixth
judicial circuit of the State of
Indiana, has been guilty of cer
tain crimes and misdemeanors
in office amounting to corrup
tion and other high crime, and
. Wherea ■, an investigation of
such crimes and misdemeanors
has been made by this body
and evidence relating thereto
has been heard and it is the
sense of this body that the said
Clarence TV. Dearth should be
impeached.
Be it therefore resolved by
this, the House of Represent
atives of the General Assembly
of the State of Indiana, that
the said Clarence W. Dearth,
judge of the forty-sixth judicial
circuit of the State of Indiana,
be and is hereby impeached.
Be it further resolved that
six managers be elected by the
House immediately, to prepare
articles of impeachment, pre
sent them at the bar of the
Senate, and prosecute the same
and do all necessary and proper
acts in relation to the prosecu
tion thereof.
word reached Muncie about noon
Wednesday.
Compromise Attempted
Dearth, for the first time, gave evi
dence of realizing that he was up
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against a body of men he could not
intimidate. A conference of friendly
lawyers was called.
An appeal for a compromise was
telephoned to Indianapolis. Friends
of Dearth proposed that the commit
tee refrain from asking impeachment
upon the promise that Dearth would
discharge his jury commissioner and
indulge in no more unacceptable ac
tions.
Quit or Take Medicine
The committee sent back to Dearth
this ultimatum:
“Resign within one hour or we will
ask for your impeachment.”
Dearth’s friends replied that ho
would not resign.
Within half rn hour the commit
tee presented its report, summarizing
the testimony of Muncie citizens
against Dearth and recomn|?ndmg
impeachment. *
The entire debate upon tig* im
peachment resolution consisted of
the single sentence by Representa
tive Scott, quoting The Times edi
torial.
Every Representative present ex
cept Ira Mendenhall of Washington,
who was the Ku-Klux Klan candi
date for Speaker of the House at the
opening of the Assembly, voted for
impeachment.
In Muncie, the dumbfounded judge,
who must lay aside his robes and be
come a citizen, just like tho little
newsboys, told newspaper'men:
“I have nothing to say.”
Reed Got Watson
“Comin’ and Goiri ”
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WASHINGTON, March 3.—Sen
ator Watson (Hep.), Indiana, was
drawn into the Senate controversy
over Senator James A. Reed's elec
tion probe resolution early today,
when Senator Gooding (Hep.), Idaho,
charged that the Heed committee
had attempted to show Watson was
a member of the Ku-Klux Klan.
Watson recalled that Heed had seen
him in Indianapolis before thf In
diana primary, and, according to
Watson, Reed said:
•‘Senator, you said in your state
ment one thing I had not expected
—that you were not a member of the
Ku-Klux Klan. I understand there
are between 350,000 and 400,000 of
the Klan in Indiana, and I had al
ways thought you were a pretty
shifty politician."
Watson said that the unfounded
testimony before the Reed commit
tee, charging that he was a Klan
member had lost him the votes of
the Klan and ‘‘those of the Catholics,
Jews and Negroes.”
CONDEMN OUSTER MOVE
Indianapolis Bar Association Adopts
Resolution at .'Meeting
Members of the Indianapolis Bar
Association at their meeting
Wednesday night at the Coiumbia
Club adopted a resolution condening
the action of Otto Gresham, an at
torney, in presenting a complaint
to the Indiana House of Representa
tives, asking the ouster from the
bench of Judge James A. Collins,
Marion County Criminal Court, and
Judge Lynn D. Hay, Superior Court
Room 2.
The complaint was presented sev
eral weeks ago by Representative
James B. Brewster (Dem.), Cory don.
Speaker of the House Harry G. Les
lie ruled the matter out and no ac
tion was taken. It was contended
that Gresham is a resident of
Chicago.
Leslie, Governor Jackson,* Attor
ney General Gilliom and others were
guests of the bar at the meeting.
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Chicago Authorities Incline
to Theory of Accidental
Poisoning.
BORIC ACID SUSPECTED
Possible Error Due to
Nurses' Mistake Cited.
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CHICAGO, .March 3.—Post-mor
tom examinations will be held to
day into the deaths of five infants
in a hospital yesterday from what
health authorities bellevo to have
been accidentally administered poi
son. Five nursee who were in at
tendance at the infants’ ward of the
hospital are to be asked to testify.
Dr. Herman Bundersen, city
health commissioner, said a number
of hours elapsed before reports of
the deaths were made by the hos
pital. Four of the babies were bur
ied, but Coroner Oscar Wolff Issued
an order preventing burial of the
fifth and the other four probably
will be exhumed. ■
After a short investigation Dr.
Bundersen issued the following
statement:
“After a most careful investiga
-1 tion of the records we can only con
clude that probably a solution of
boric acid was given in drinking
water to the five children who died
Every effort is being made to verify
this conclusion.”
The five infants ranged in age
from 7 to 14 days old. They were
listed as - Joan Frane Barhirl, 8
days old; Evelyn Kathryn Annglos
topoulos, 7 days old; Baby Gallants,
9 days old: Lillian Estella Steele
Cohn, 34 days old, and Baby Galltz,
14 days old.
The five were in the same ward
and died within a few minutes of
each other. Each became ill, had
convulsions and died within a few
minutes, doctors say.
It was pointed out that he boric
acid solution is kept In a botUo
somewhat similar to that containing
distilled water, which is given
babies. It is believed that perhaps
a nurse gave the babies the boric
acid instead of the distilled water.
Some doctors doubt this theory, say
ing that the boric acid solution,
which is used for washing tho in
fants' eyes, was too weak to cause
death.
OPPOSED ARMIES
CLASH IN CHINA
Forces Skirmish at Sun
Kiang, Key to Shanghai.
Bu Times Special
SHANGHAI. March 3.—The Can
tonese armies at Sun Kiang skirm
ished with Northern troops today as
Chang Cliung-Chang completed
preparations for an offensive againsi.
the Southerners.
Chang, tired of waiting for a Can
tonese attack, planned an attempt
to recapture territory relinquished
by troops of Marshal Sun. whom he
replaced, the United Press was in
formed.
Chang's army in the Shanghai
vicinity is large enough to crush the
Cantonese forces in a purely military
engagement, but politics rather than
armies controls the situation now,
it was reported by British sources.
Sharp dissension between ’’Reds”
and Moderatists in the Cantonese
forces was reported from Hankow,
where it was said a Nationalist ex
ecutive council session had been
postponed because of the split.
Bn United Press
TOKIO, March 3.—Two Japanese
cruisers with 500 marines aboard
were ordered to Shanghai today. The
Navy Department said its action did
not indicat/that the Shanghai situa
tion had become worse, but merely
was a precautionary measure.
Cleveland Times
Publication Ends
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CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 3.
Publication of the Cleveland Times,
a morning newspaper, was suspended
with today’s edition.
A front page announcement of to
day’s Times said that as a business
venture the publication failed after
extending over a period of five years.
The notice was printed over the
of the Cleveland Commercial Publish
ing Company, and stated that tlfte
signature of Samuel Seovil, president
good will and circulation had been
taken over by the Cleveland Plain-
Dealer, also a morning publication.
GROTTOS INVITED~HERE
An invitation to Indiana Grottos
to attend a State ceremonial and
banquet, March 29 in Indianapolis,
honoring Frank P. Walther, grand
monarch, has been extended by
Lawrence W. Drapicr, monarch of
Sahara Grotto. \
Monarchs of ten Indiana Grottos
comprising the State council prob
ably will accept the Invitation, Ray
mond F. Murray, past monarch of
Sahara and president of the Indiana
body, declared. The council meets
soon.
About 500 candidates are expected
for the ceremonial class, Charles G.
Walsh, Sahara chief justice in
charge of the program, said.
PLAN FIREMEN TESTS
Owing to the large number of ap
plicants for position in the police de
rartment who failed in the mental
examinations after passing the physi
cal examinations, the mental exam
inations lor firemen will be held first,
next Saturday at Shortridge High
School, A. J. Allen, secretary of the
civil service commission, announced
today.
About two hundred are expected
to tako the examination, Allen said.
A police examination for the promo
tion from patrolman to sergeant, the
second of Us kind, will be held Sun
day.
MARCH 3, 1927
M’CRAV IS SEEN 1
BY KOKH MAN
Ex-Governor Entertains
Blind Banker, He Says.
Bn Times Special
KOKOMO, Ind., March 3.—Duties
of Warren T. McCray, former Gov
ernor, now serving a sentence at the
Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., in
! elude reading for anil entertaining a
blind banker from New England, ac
cording to Walter J. Dixon, general
manager of tho Kokomo Asphalt
Paving Company, who visited the
former Governor upon his return
from Florida recently.
Dixon spent an hour and half with
tho former State executive. In
conversation, ho learned that Mc-
Cray feels he has not been given a
•square deal, but is not inclined to
be resentful.
Pardoning a former State official,
the former Governor feels would
lead to the belief that public of
ficials can always work a “pull.”
That is the reason, McCray believes
he is being kept behind the prison
walls.
McCray's wife and daughter have
never visited hint in prison, it belnju
his wish that they never see hhifl
behind prison walls.
To tho Kokomo man, the former
Governor expressed his desire to re
turn to Indiana, re establish his for
tune and pay off his creditors.
CITY MARKET HAS
NEW FOODSTUFFS
Peaches and Asparagus Are
Late Arrivals.
/This week affords unusual oppor
tunities to shoppers at the city mar-
Jtet. In addition to tho now food
tsuffs offered for the first time on
Tuesday, five more were received
today.
Argentina peaches, selling at 15
cents each or two for 25 cents, were
new. Stundholders said that nt no
time in a number of years has this
imported fruit been in tho city so
early in the season. Asparagus, one
of the new arrivals Tuesday, was
much earlier than usual. It sold for
23 cents a bunch. Fresh mint was
offered ut 10 cents a bunch at the
same time.
A second commodity was from Ar
gentine. Iloneydew melons, nt $1.25
each. The other new offerings wers
curly German endive, 20 to 25 cent.l
a head; pineapples, 50 cents each,
and sassafras, 5 cents a bunch.
The only price changes recorded
were tomatoes, which dropped to 30
cents a pound, and pear, which ad
vanced to 20 cents a pound, Spin
ach sold at 13 cents a pomd. nrti
cholt's 13 cents each, and Spanish
Bermuda oni&ns 5 to 10 cents each.
LOAN MEASURE READY
Bill Regulating Building Associa
tions Goes lo Governor
The Blackburn Senate bill regulat
ing building and loan associations
in the State and preventing exor
bitant “fee-grabbing” is ready for tin
Governor's signature ufter success
ful negotiations in the House
Wednesday. Tho vote was 80 to 7.
The bill modifies tho present law
so that organizers of building ami
loan associations can take a 60-cent
fee on every SIOO worth of stock
sold. The present lew enables 60
cents to be taken out for every flO
worth of stock.
FATAL SHOOTING PROBED
Coroner Investigates Heath of Worn
an; Accident. Says Husband.
Coroner Paul F. Robinson today
Investigated the fatal shooting of
May Bartlett, 30, Negro, 1434 Mill
St,, Wednesday night. John Bart
lett. 36, Negro, tho husband. Is held,
pending an inquest. Tho husband"
declared shooting was accidental.
George Travis, Jr.
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