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COST OF GOVERNMENT
IN U. S. A. IS GOING UP,
i NOT DOWN, SAYS HUNT
1% BY HARRY B. HUNT.
Staff Correspondent of the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. —Uncle Sam threatens to become the national
Kiendthrift. He is dispensing millions, yea billions, with as little care as
formerly gave to the expenditure of thousands.
The cost of government, in the second year after the 'war, like the
|cOfst of living, is headed up, not down. This is due in great part to ex
pansion of lines of activity already taken up and to the government enter
ing new fields of administration.
The government is urging the people,)
as the best means of combating the H.
C. of 1., to practice rigid economy, to
buy nothing but necessities. Meanwhile
the government itself is getting ready
to spend hundreds of millions more than
formerly.
<4,473,696,358 ASKED
lOR YEAR 1921.
Appropriations requested by the ex
ecutive, legislative-and judicial branches
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921,
to date amount to §4.473,696,358, almost
'four and a half billions.
Total appropriations voted by congress
for the current fiscal year, ending June
30, 1920, amount to $5,029,486,359.
This makes an apparent cut or “sav
ing” of $1,155,790,000 or ovc-r a billion
in the proposed expenditures for the year
ending June 30, 1921.
This redaction of $1,155,790,000 Is
achieved in spite of tbe lack of economi
cal methods. It is because certain largo
undertakings, due to the war, carried
through the present year, are not to be
continued into 1921.
EXTRAORDINARY FUNDS
IN 1918 BUDGET.
The appropriations for the current
year, for Instance, carried:
Wheat guarantee fund 51.000.000,000
European food reUef... 100,000,000
Railroad administration 750.000,000
These three Items, totaling $1,850,000,-
o<>o, were extraordinary charges and have
no counterpart in the estimates for 19'1.
These Rems In themselves are some
what deceitful, however. The Grain Cor-
which handles the wheat g-iar-
fund, claims to have made a profit
off wheat instead of spend-
Kthe guarantee fund. Herbe-t Hoover,
handled the European food reiief
IPid, has announced that he had saved
ftSO,OOO.OO of the $100,000,000 appropriated
by congress.
the total of the above ap
propriations, disregarding any saving
that Huiy have been made, we find that
government activities, con-
through regular departmental
■Knnels, the estimates for 1921, instead
Ibrtbeing $1,155,790,00 less than for 1920,
[are $694,209 963 greater.
'no pay raise
FOR EMPLOYES.
In words, the proposed increased
expenditure alone would equal the total
expenses of the government for any year
prior to 1999. Asa result of tbe Spanish-
American war, annual appropriations la
that year for the first time exceeded
$600,000,000.
i None of these estimates Include any
linereases in pay for government cm
f ployes. 4ny increase in pay will have
to be met by still further appropriations.
Tbe estimates figure all wages and sal
aries at. present, government standards.
items which may have to be
id to 1921 appropriations am:
9W'-.tal pay increases 30,000,000
SW-abled soldiers 80,000,000
deficit 75,000,000
total of items not included in the
of appropriations as compiled
Senator Smoot Is about $444,900,000.
Which, If all proposed appropriations
were granted, would bring the total to
$4,917,696,358, or $1,138,200,963 more than
corresponding departmental expenditures
for the current year.
MAY GIVE POST
TOTALKINGTON
Penal Farm Superintendent to
Take Charge of New Feeble-
Minded Colony.
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C. E. Talkington, superintendent of the
penal farm, may be appointed superin
tendent of the new colony for feeble
minded, according to indications at the
etateliouse toda; ♦
Mr. Tarkingto T . hr s had considerable
experience in conducting institutions in
the form of colon es and had charge of
the construction of the penal farm.
The new colony will be in Jennings
county. It will be necessary for the first
ruperintendent to construct the colony
argely with the assistance of the in
mates. The penal farm was constructed
by prisoners. There are a number of
farm houses on the property of tho
feeble minded colony which will be used
until other buildings are completed.
8 New York State
Dailies Now 3 Cents
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Eight New York
[state daily newspapers have announced
an Increase in selling price from 2 cents
a copy to 3.
They are the Knickerbocker Press and
Argus (morning), Albany; the Post
Standard (morning), the Herald and the
Journal (evening), of < Syracuse; the
Morniiig Post and the Journal (eve
nlng)i of Jamestown, and the Troy
Tlme__
Th Knickerbocker Press and the Ar
£us Jf Albany announced that the price
Sunday edition would be 7 cents
Increased costs of labor and materials
were given as the reason in each case.
Former Buick Head
Joins Willys Force
DETROIT, Jan. B.—Walter P. Chrysler,
former president and general manager
of the Buick Motor Company, and first
vice president in charge of operations
of the General Motors Corporation, has
become associated with John N. Willys
and all the Willys interests, according
to announcement here today.
Easy to Visualize
Men Whom Profit
From Ad Convention
By STOUGHTON A. FLETCHER,
k “That advertising can lie mode the
Btrivlng power behind a business is
Therefore, it is not hard
fvtsnalizo the men in Indianapolis
PPho will support, attend and benefit
.from the international convention of
advertising men, to be held here In
June.”
GIRL’S MOTHER
MAY AGAIN BE
PUT ON STAND
Sensational Counter Assault
on New’s Defense Hinted as
Trial Nears End.
WILL RECALL NURSE?
EOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.—So far as his
defense is concerned Harry S. New Jr.
is through today with hi3 fight, save for
the arguments of his attorneys at the
close of his murder trial for the shooting
of his fiancee, F"reda Lesser.
The defense has rested its case and
the prosecution, led by District Attorney
Thomas Lee Woolwine, was expected to
launch a severe attack for tbe death pen
alty when the trial was resumed.
RUMOR SENSATIONAL
COUNTER ASSAULT.
Intimations of a sensational counter
asault on the bulwark of New’s defense
i became evident when it was rumored
I that Mrs. Alice Lesser, mother of the
; murdered girl, would be put back on
[ the stand in rebuttal. Mrs. E. L. Sanders,
a nurse, who was the state’s star wit
i ness during the investigation of the case,
also was expected to be recalled.
New’s counsel regard their insanity
I case as impregnable. Indications point to
a conclusion of the trial Friday or Sat-
I urday.
THAW ALIENIST
LAST WITNESS.
The last witness for the defense was
Dr. Edward A. Williams, a noted alienist
who examined Harry K. Thaw in Mattea
wan asylum. New York.
Dr. Williams said New was Insane at
the moment of the murder, having been
in a condition of “Insane frenzy."
He diagnosed the slayer as feeble
minded and a paraphrenic, meaning that
New had “emotional dullness,” “a puz
zled stare,” and that his brain “was hit
ting on four out of six cylinders.”
He said the wo*rd “brainstorm," made
famous in the Thaw case, was taboo.
SPLIT NEAR IN
LABOR RANKS
Relations Strained Between
Rail Brotherhoods and
A. F. of L. Head.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Relations be
tween Samuel Gompers and the chiefs of
the four big railroad brotherhoods are
strained today to a breaking point. La
\ bor circles are expecting an open rupture
after the pending railroad legislation Is
out of the way.
It is no longer a secret that Warren
S. Stone, chief of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers, remained away from
Gompers’ conference of railroad union
heads last week to avoid a break. In
labor circles it is being predicted that
proceedings for the affiliation of Stone’s
organization and the Brotherhood of
Railroad Conductors with the American
Federation of Labor, now held up by a
jurisdictional dispute with the street rail
way men’s union, may not be consum
mated. Friends c-f Stone intimate his or
ganization may decide It does not want
affiliation.
BANK IS LOOTED
NEAR FT. WAYNE
Five Men in Auto Get $50,000
and Escape After Binding
Watchman.
FT. WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 6.—Five men
early today entered the town of Churu
busco, east of here, robbed the Gandy
State bank of possibly $50,000 or more
after binding the watchman and putting
him into another room. They gained an
entrance to the vault by the use of the
watchman’s keys and then used an
acetylene torch and secured all the safety
deposit boxes.
They weie frightened away before get
ting into a safe containing several thou
sand dollars in currency. They escaped
in an automobile.
Railmen Beat Costs;
They Buy Factories
DETROIT, Jan. 6.—War on the high
cost of living was officially declared by
the brotherhood of maintenance of way
and railway shop workers today with
the announcement of the purchase of sev
eral factories, the output of which will
be sold at “greatly reduced prices” to
brotherhood members.
The purchase included an underwear
factory at Ypsilanti, a glove factory at
Williamston, and a tubing factory in
New Y'ork, the announcement said.
Police Turn to River
in Search for Girl
CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—Police today started
a search of the banks of the Chicago
river in an attempt to clear up the
mysterious disappearance of Jeanne Ann
DeKay, 20. She disappeared Saturday
from the Hull house. Her wealthy Ameri
can parents reside in Lucerne. It is
faired she became despondent because
her beauty was marred by an acid burn
and by smallpox pits.
Union Men Attempt
to Kill Official
BARCELONA, Spain, .Tan. 6.—Presi
dent Ganpera, of the employers’ federa
tion, was seriously wounded here to
day whpn a group of union workmen at
tempted to assassinate him. Three oth
ers were struck by flying bullets.
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914. at
Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.
PROFITEERS TO
FEEL U.S. HAND
WITHIN 3 DAYS
Raids to Start in Washington
and Spread Through
Larger Cities.
SUGAR GOUGERS FIRST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The de
partment of justice within the next
three days will launch a nation-wide
campaign against profiteers who are
responsible for the high cost of liv
ing, it was announced today.
Practically the entire personnel of
the bureau of Investigation, which
has been released by the general
clean up of the reds, will be used
to make arrests of dealers who are
charging excessive prices.
Dealers, both wholesale and retail, who
are profiteering in the sale of sugar will
be the first to be taken into custody. It
is learned that there are dealers who have
been using the authorized high price of
Louisiana sugar to camouflage their deal
ings in Cuban and beet sugar, which
should sell for at least 6 cents a pound
less.
WASHINGTON USED
AS STARTING POINT.
The work of the department of justice
will begin in Washington, where a corps
of agents will begin work before the end
of the week rounding up sugar profiteers.
These investigators, following the com
pletion of the local “raids,’’ will be sent
to Philadelphia, New York and other
large cities, where they will be used as a
nucleus to build up permanent organi
zations of Investigators, who will carry
on the campaign against profiteers.
Howard E. Flgg, special assistant to
the attorney general in charge of the
department’s campaign, said that the
work would surely have immediate re
sults.
“Dealers who are to he arrested can
not claim they were not warned,” said
F!gg. “The newspapers have explained
the situation fully. Wholesalers and re
tailers both know what constitutes the
fair margin of profit which the law al
lows. We are now inaugurating an ac
tive campaign of arrests and prosecu
tions. and will see it through to a finish.
COMPLYINERS ASKED
TO CO-OPERATE.
“If those people who complain most
about the cost of living would give the
department their assistance in reporting
each case of profiteering, we would be
able to break up the practice. We must
have the co-oneration of the public.”
Figg stated investigators familiar with
the workings of the clothing and shoe
businesses would be used in making ar
rests of dealers profiteering in those
lines. Through state and county fair
price organizations, the campaign which
will begin this week will extend into
every nook and corner of the country.
District attorneys have received special
Instructions within the last few days to
co-operate with the department of justice
agents, who make arrests.
All details of the plan to bring profit
eers into court have been completed, and
results are expected by the department
Immediately.
SUGAR FAMINE
END IN Sit, HT.
M Ith rh Cuban sugar crop, amounting
to approximately 4.000,000 tons, now mov
ing into this country there shortly will
be an end of the sugar famine. It is
the intention of the department of Jus
tice to end profiteering also.
Consumers who pay above 18 to 19
cents a pound should report such trans
actions to their local fair price commis
sions for action.
Officials said they expected a decline in
the price of sugar us soon as the depart
ment’s campaign is well under way and
that a corresponding decrease would fol
low lu their lines of necessaries.
MEDAL AWARD
PROBEPLANNED
Senate Comimttee Votes for
Inquiry Into/Navy Deco
rations Dispute.
WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—lnvestigation
of the award of honor medals t.o naval
heroes by Secretary Daniels was ordered
by the senate naval affairs committee
today by a vote of 10 to 1. Senator
Walsh, democrat, Montana, cast the only
negative vote.
The committee on a resolution
adopted by Sentor Lodge to appoint a
committee of five to co-operate with the
house naval affairs committee, if the
house wished, to probe the methods of
honor awards. The Lodge resolution was
a substitute for one presented to the
committee by Senator King, democrat, of
Utah.
Convict From Here
FleesJPenitentiary
Patrick Henry Adams, who achieved
considerable notoriety in Indianapolis by
various activities before he was sen
tenced to the Michigan Citv prison on a
forgery charge, today is being sought
by prison authorities, according to dis
patches frdm Michigan City. He con
cealed himself on a train leaving the
binder twine factory of the prison and
escaped, the dispatches say.
While in Indianapolis Adams was em
ployed for a time as an orderly at the
City hospital. He tried to organize a
stenographers’ union, incorporated an In
dianapolis Democratic association, which
got little support, and then pleaded guilty
to forging -i ?300 check. He was sen
tenced on Oct. 21 to serve fr'm two to
fourteen years in prison.
Fuel Shortage Closes
Great German Plant
BERLIN, Jan. B.—The great Siemens
manufacturing establishment, employing
30,000 people, was forced to close today
because of the fuel shortage. Many
other industrial plants were threatened.
Ig&THE WEATHER,! 1
Local Forecast—Snow or rain tonight
and Wednesday; somewhat warmer, with
temperature near freezing.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m.. 22
7 a. m 24
8 a. m 24
9 a. m. .t 24
10 a. m 27
11 a. m 28
12 (noon) 31
SiAc sets today, 4:55; rises tomorrow
ago today, highest tcmpora
lowest, 12.
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BOSTON. Jan. Miss Laura Wlnde
ler, daughter of Mr. auu Mrs. Herbert
Windeler of Boston, stands ace high in
London, due to her wartime hospital
work in England. Her brother held a
commission in tbe Grenadier guards,'
and was killed at Cainbrai.
Beau Brummel
Bandit Sought
By Detectives
Fashionably Dressed Robber
Holds .Up Drug Store —
Polite to His Victims.
A “gentleman holdup man" is the ob
jeet of the police search today.
Detectives have spread the police net
over the city in an effort to capture a
fashionably dressed young bandit who
held up and robbed the Ilook Drug Com
pany store, Twenty-second street auii
College avenue, at 10:30 o'clock
night.
Charles Beckwith. 16, 2158 North Dela
ware street, and Bert Lock hard, 23, liv
ing at the Y M. C. A, clerks, were the
only persons in the store A lashicmably
dressed man, apparently under 20 years
of age, # entered the store. He drew a
flstol from his pocket and commanded:
“Hold up your hands, gentlemen.”
Both clerks laughed. The mau was so
polite and so well dressed they thought
he was joking.
"I mean it,” said the robber, abandon
ing his pleasant manner. "Hold them
up; there is no joke about this."
Up went the hands of the clerks and
the robber smiled as he walked to the
cash register. He took SBS. He over
looked part of the cash as he kept his
eyes on the two clerks. Then he said:
"Good night, gentlemen. I would sug
gest that you do not follow me, as I
have two friends waiting for me just out
side of the store.’’ Then he disappeared
through the front door."
The clerks notified the police and
Sergt. Murphy and a squad of police
went to the scene.
But the “gentleman holdup man” had
escaped.
MINERS STICK
BY AGREEMENT
Fuss Kicked Up by Radicals
Not Sufficient to Alarm
Ohio Session.
COLUMBUS. 0.. Jan. 6.—Conservatives
among the 2.000 miner delegates in ses
sion here at the United Mine Workers of
I America convention, were confident today
i that the strike settlement action of ln
| ternational officers would be Indorsed.
The radicals “kicked up” a fuss late
j Monday afternoon, but it was not suf
; flcient to cause alarm.
Many of the delegates are ready to
stand back of the agreement made with
the government by Acting President John
L. Lewis and William Green, secretary-
I treasurer, but they want some definite
j information to carry back to their
' locals.
I Some delegates voiced the belief that
| the miner officials should have gope to
jail rather than submit to the demands
of the government.
Putting Lewis and Green in jail would
not have gotten results, declared J. C.
Lewis, president of the lowa district. He
rapped Fuel Director Garfield as “an
autocrat and a tyrant.” Lewis urged
the unanimous adoption of the officials'
report.
A number of the delegates urged the
convention hold the report of the inter
national officers until President Wilson’s
commission has reported. They want the
miners’ convention to convene again to
consider the awards of the commission.
All of today and tomorrow are ex
pected to be taken up by the committee
in discussing the motion made by Dele
gate Philip Murray of tne Pittsburg
district to indorse the action, of miners’
officials In settling the strike.
Man and Wife Die
in Each Other’s Arms
NEW YORK, Jan. B.—A man and wife,
believed to be Mr. and Mrs. John H.
Sanderson, went to death clasped In each
other’s arms when fire swept the apart
ment house at 607 First avenne early to
day. They had Just moved Into the build
ing and the bodies were found on the
floor where they had been overcome by
smoke. There were several narrow
escapes and scores were driven out into
~the zero weather.
Raided, Raid Back
ROSEBUKG, Ore., Jan. 6.—Local boot
leggers. have been augmenting their
supply of marketable goods by making
systematic raids at nigh* on captured
whisky in the county jail here.
LAW SAYS YOU
CAN PAY TAXES,
BUT YOU CAN’T
And Maybe You’ll Pay Penalty
as a Delinquent, Though
Not Your Fault.
OFFICIALS GRAB FEES
Taxpayers of Marion county can not
pay their taxes.
Ralph Lemcke, who became county
treasurer Jan. 1, finds himself in the
unique position of having full authority
to pay out county funds, but utter in
ability to accept payment of taxes, other
than those which have heretofore be
come delinquent.
And that word “delinquent” is right
now the most important adjective that
applies to the taxpayers of the county,
for they have no assurance that their
taxes will not go delinquent, through
no fault of their own, and no assurances
that they will not be compelled to pay
penalties for delinquencies regardless of
their willingness, right now, to pay
their taxes.
A resident of Indianapolis who has
considerable personal property and a
disposition to get away from the rigors
of Indiana climate in the winter, at
tempted to pay his taxes before leaving
for Florida, where he expected to re
main until next June. He called at the
treasurer's office and offered to pay. The
employes of the treasurers office ex
pressed their regret. They did not know
how much money to take from him. They
regreted (hat they were under injunc
tion not to accept his taxes.
MUST WAIT l NTIL
THE COURT ACTS.
“When can I pay ’em?” asked the
taxpayer.
“The Lord knows," responded the clerk,
“you can not pay ’em until the court de
cides how much we can collect and you
may not be able to pay 'em for weeks
after that, for in event the court decides
against the state tax board, we are going
to have to wait until the auditor changes
the duplicates ngatn.”
“But all that may not be done until
the time for taxpaying expires,” objected
the taxpayer, “and then I suppose you'll
be trying to collect the delinquent penal
ties, too.”
"I don’t know what'll he done about
delinquents. Nobody knows when the
courts are going to get through with the
mess.” responded the tax clerk.
And a very decided air of "I should
worry” settled clown over the spacious
office of the county treasurer.
VN I> THOSE
MANY FEES!
Ralph Lem eke shonld worry about de
linquents. Throughout the years that
have passed, when Ed Sourbier was
treasurer and long before that the collec
tion of delinquent taxes has been a de
lightful source of additional revenue for
the county treasurer. There are fees
and other fees connected with It and the
sum total of the penalties that have
been collected from delinquents In the
past were generally measured by the
amount of money the delinquent was
willing to hand over without a fuss.
There was a fee for a notice, a fee for a
levy, a fee for another notice and in
eases where it was possible to collect It
a fee for the wagon driver who drove up
to the habitat of the delinquent and spit
tobacco Juice ov*r the left front wheel,
while his associate bulldozers ragged the
women of the household Into paying the
delinquency plus the fios they thought
the delinquent would pay.
Jesse Eschhuch, chief of the state board
of accounts, once investigated the law
and set forth a schedule of fees that
followed delinquencies. It was a good
sell, dale and appeared to be arranged
in accordance with the statutes made
and provided, but it lacked one thing.
It did not carry with it n death penalty
for extortion of any other fees and
nothing short, of such a penalty would
suffice to break up the custom of the
delinquent tax collectors of collecting nil
that the traffic will bear.
WHAT TAX BOARD
ORDER HAS DONE.
Under the state law, now and hereto
fore, taxes are payable after Jan. 1. But
you ran not pay them in Marion county.
The reason for this is that the state
board issued an order lhoreasing the as
sessments fixed by the assessors as the
"true cash value,” 30 per cent on im
provements, 20 per cent on real estate
and 50 per cent on personal property.
Certain tax payers who had not yet
been Inoculated with the peculiar kind
of virus that makes people believe any
thing the “Goodrleh-Hays” political ma
chine does i s absolutely all right, decided
that these horizontal Increases were not
proper. They asserted that when their
holdings bad been assessed at their true
cash value it was not legal to boost that
true cash value 20, 30 or 50 per cent,
and they went Into court, where they es
tablished their assertions.
There Issued an Injunction against
the treasurer of the county forbidding
him to collect the excessive taxes. And
the treasurer does not know what taxes
he should collect, so he has agreed to
collect none at all, pending the determi
nation of the appealed case, which is now
decorating the calendar of the appellate
court of Indiana and may, in the dim
and distant future, be decided in favor
of the taxpayers or the Goodrich ap
pointed tax board.
DELINQUENCIES GALORE
LOOM AS POSSIBILITY.
If this decision is forthcoming before
the first Monday in May the taxpayers of
Marlon county may be able to pay their
taxes before delinquent penalties are as
sessed against them. If it is not forth
coming in time to allow for the proper
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
The Inquisitive
Reporter
Every Day He Asks Five
' Persons, Picked at Ran *
dom , a Question.
TODAY’S QUESTION.
News Item —Indianapolis youth sen
tenced to penal farm for contributing to
delinquency of young girl,‘admits having
kissed 300 girls. What does this indi
cate?
W HERE ASKED.
At the Union station.
THE ANSWER.
1 Mrs. Barbara Hale, Business Wom
an, Cleveland—There isn’t strict enough
watch kept on young girls of today by
the folks at home.
2. F. V. Marmon, Farmer, Miami
County— lt indicates, the young man got
what was coming to him.
3. D. S. Singer, Commission Broker,
Louisville—That 300 seta of parents also
have been delinquent.
4. Dr. S. fe’.‘ Paxton, Physician, Paris,
111.—Girls are losing the modesty they
used to have. Some men have always
like that. v
5. K. O. Neville, Salesman, Clay pool
Hotel—lt indicates that something ought
to be done to curb modern tendencies of
(he sort.
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INDIANAPOLIS OFFICER
AS BACK OF “FRAMEUP”
Solution of Treaty Fight
In Sight; Bryan Gets Credit
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—A solution of the treaty controversy is
definitely in sight, mild reservation senators said today. They de
clared that by Friday of this week negotiations will have reached a
point of definiteness never heretofore attained.
They have promised Senator Underwood that if he will withhold
a call for action on his resolution for a treaty conciliation committee for
a few days longer they are ready to guarantee that the conciliation com
mittee will not be needed.
William J. Bryan, mild reservationists said, is likely to carry off
credit for the solution. His influence, brought to bear upon certain
democratic senators, is responsible for a change of front in the demo
cratic ranks, it was declared.
Reservationists are carefully guarding details of what they are con
fident will prove to be the acceptable compromise. It centers around a
new reservation on Art. 10.
Girl Slayer’s
Age to Decide
Life Sentence
St. Louis Prisoner Charged
With Murder of Step-Father
Three Years Ago.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. o.—Saved from
the possibility of a life sentence because
the state's attorney could not determine
whether her age fs 15 or 16, Miss Ursula
Broderick went on trial in juvenile court
here today on a charge of first degree
murder. The case was ordered trans
ferred from tbe crimiual court, where
the penalty is life Imprisonment, to the
juvenile court, where the penalty can
only be confinement in a girls' reforma
tory school until she is 18.
The girl is accused of shooting and
killing her stepfather, Joseph Wood
lock, 45, a plumbing contractor, in 1916.
Her defense wolll be that she shot him
to save herself after he had entered her
bedroom, picked her up bodily and car
ried her to his own room, where he at
tempted to attaek her.
A coroner's jury exonerated the girl
in 1916 when she stated that she shot
and killed Woodlock in defense of her
mother. At that time her age was given
as 10 years.
REVEALS NEW
MURDER CLEW
Witness Tells of Seeing Mt.
Clemens Youth Night He
Was Slain.
MT. CLEMENS, Mich., Jan. 6.—ln view
of new evidence, lsuance of warrants
charging complicity in the slaying of
J. Stanley Brown, eccentric Mt- Clemens
clubman, was doubtful today, according
to Attorney General Groesbeck, whose
secret Inquiry, which was in session un
til last midnight, will be resumed again
today.
Several witnesses of yesterday are un
derstood to have testified they saw Brown
and “one or two” other persons in
Brown's car in front of the Edison ho
tel as late as 10 o'clock the night Brown
was killed.
Another hit of evidence being given
considerable credence as a means to
ward the end was the testimony of Ted
Wilde, taxi driver, who is understood to
have told authorities that Lloyd Pre
vost, now held as a material witness, at
one time owned a gun.
Prevost previously denied ho ever
possessed any firearms.
Although Wilde did not testify as to
the caliber of the revolver Pevost Is
alleged to have owned, it is understood
he did tell investigators that a relative
of Prevost's took Lloyd’s gun from him
shortly before the shooting of Brown.
MOB THREATENS
EBERT IN BERLIN
Noose and Demands That He
Quit Address Fail to Deter
German President.
BERLIN, Jan. B.—Crowds started a
hostile demonstration > outside the hall
where President Ebert was speaking at
Stuttgart today, demanding be leave the
platform and come outside.
A crowd of men significantly carried a
coil of rope abound with them while
they made theii* demand. *
Ebert concluded his address, however,
without trouble.
Col. House Says He’s
Going Home for Rest
• NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—C01. K. M. House,
virtually recovering from the illness from
which he was suffering when he returned
from the peace conference, will leave for
his home in Austin, Tex., the latter part
of this week. . .
“I am going to see my friends and
attend to personal matters long neglect
ed,” he said. .“I have no intention of
discussing politics or taking any part in
nny political situation. What I want
more than anything else is a period ot
quiet, and I am going home to seel: It.”
Raiders Arrest 24
on Gaming Charge
George Abrams, colored, proprietor of
a cleaning and pressing establishment at
508 Indiana avenue, will answer a charge
of keeping a gambling house In city
court. Twenty-three other negroes taken
In the raid made by Sergts. Thomas and
Russell and members of the,morals squad
will answer charges of gaming.
Sinkers Sink Sinker
DENVER, Jan. B.— A. Sinker got be
yond his depth at his boarding house,
landing in Jail for beating the H. C. of L.
by “beating his bill” for many encores
of "sinkers and—”
FIRE DAMAGES
MUSIC CONCERN
Flames Attack Carlin Com
pany’s Storage Room With
SIO,OOO Estimated Loss.
Damape estimated at SIO,OOO was caused
by a fire that started in the storage room
of the Carlin Musi/c Company, 33 North
Pennsylvania street, early today. The
flames broke through the windows
on the second floor of the two-story
brick building and only effective work
of tbe firemen prevented destruction of
the building.
The. loss is entirely covered by insur
ance. An official of the company said
most of the loss was in musical instru
ments and phonographs stored on the
second floor near the repair room. De
fective wiring is said to have caused the
A fire in June, 1917, caused heavy
damage in the same part of the build
ing.
The fire today had gained great head
way before betng discovered and great
clouds of dense smoke hindered the fire
men in their work. The floor just out
side of the workshop was a mass of
flames.
Many phonographs of various makes
still uncrated were piled to the top of
the big storage room and the crating and
the machines furnished ready fuel for
the flames. The rafters of heavy tim
bers also caught fire, making the place
a veritable furnace. Firemen hurled
burning phonographs, crates and boxes
into a courtyard north of the building,
where chemical streams soon smothered
the flames.
Members of the salvage corps protected
many pianos on the first floor from heavy
damage from water.
The music company's business will not
be interfered with in the least, as the
fire and water did not reach the sales
room. Frank J. Carlin and William Car
lin are the members of the Carlin music
firm, while the building is owned by C.
F. Sayles & Company.
Since the year 1920 was rung in there
have been 157 fires in Indianapolis.
This total included the Carlin fire. A
fire occurred at the smokehouse at the
Kingan & Cos. plant at 3 o’clock this
morning, but only slight damage was
done.
INDIANA REDS
UP FOR HEARING
Preliminary Examinations of
Men Taken in State Begun
by DeMiller.
Hearings preliminary to the deporta
tion of the reds seized by the department
of Justice agents in Indiana working un
der Charles P. Tighe, special agent, be
gan before W. C. DeMlllev, immigration
inspector for Indiana today. The ar
raignments will continue for several
days, since a total of thirty-seven have
been seized by Mr. Tlghe's men.
Approximately fifty reds have been ar
rested altogether in Indiana, but those
taken in the Calumet region are being
handled by Chicago federal authorities
and so are not counted in Mr. Tighe’s
total.
The men to be questioned before In
spector DeMiller are all said to be mem
bers of the communist labor or other
radical parties. Membership in such
bodies is held by the government to be,
sufficient evidence to warrant the deporta
vtion of an alien. * -j „
Practically all of the seized men are
aliens.
Vonnegut New Head
of Business Bureau
Franklin Vonnegut of the Vonnegut
Hardware Company is the new president
of the Better Business Bureau. He was
elected at the annual luncheon and busi
ness meeting of the organization along
with other officers yesterday.
Elmer Stout of the Fletcher-American
National Bank was elected vice presi
dent and George E. Smith of the
Guardian Life Insurance Company,
treasurer. C. F. Olwin was re-elected j
secretary. The following board of di
rectors was elected: Mr. Stout, Mr.
Vonnegut, Mr. Smith, Robert O. Bonner
of L., S. Ayres & Cos., Arthur R. Baxter
of the Keyless Lock Company, E. W.
Stclnhart of the E. W. Steinhart Com
pany, George C. Forrey of Breed, Elliott
& Harrison; Henry C. Atkins of E. C.
Atkins & Cos., and Ernest Cohn of the
Hcmer McKee Company. Kenneth Bar
nard, manager of the Toledo (O.) Better
Business Bureau, : delivered an address
on the work of the Toledo bureau. Mr. j
Cohn, vice president of the bureau, in
the absence of A. L. Buck, president, 1
reviewed accomplishments of the bureau
in the last year.
All Aboard!
CHICAGO, Jan. B.—lt’s pie to drive a
pte oart. Under anew agreement made
by the bakers' union, pie cart drivers
will make as high as S9O a week.
ITALY TO LAUNCH LOAN.
) PARIS, Jan. 6. —Italy will soon launch |
anew 5 per cent loan, which will be
issued at 87% and is expected to reach j
16,000,000,000 lire.
Home
edition
★ TWO CENTS.
DEFENDANT IN
CRUELTY TRIAL
NAMES J. WEIR
‘Heard’ Several Times LeMans
Judge Advocate Planned to
‘Get’ Him, He Says.
COURT-MARTIAL HALTED
NEW YORK, Jan. 6—Capt. Karl
Detzer today named Capt. John Weir
of Indianapolis as the man back of
the alleged “frameup” to convict
him of inhuman treatment of military
prisoners while he was head of the
department of criminal investigation
in the American army camp at Le-
Mans, France.
Detzer’s statement came after
many intimatiohs by the witness that
charges against him were a “frame
up.” An immediate recess was or
dered while officers in charge con
ferred.
Weir, who Detzer said Is ..the son of
former Judge Clarence Weir of Indian
apolis and himself an attorney, is as
sistant judge advocate at the trlaL
JUDGE ADVOCATE
HALTS INTIMATIONS.
Maj. W. H. Kelly, trial judge advo
cate, told Detzer it was. time for him
to substantiate his intimations of frame
up and ordered the accused to tell any
thing he wanted to.
Detzer said bis troubles began at the
time the congressional committee was in
France investigating conditions in the
American expeditionary force. That was
iu March, 1919.
Agents of the committee questioner
many prisoners about treatment in the
prison camps, Detzer said, and as a re
sult the men got the idea they were
“martyrs.” He said fsom that time on
it was impossible to do anything with
prisoners.
JAILS HOTBEDS
OF ANARCHY.
“The guardhouses and Jails of the
American expeditionary forces became
hotbeds of anarchy," Detzer asserted.
The captain said he heard several timet
i that Weir, who was then ludge advo
' cate at LeMnns, was planning to “get”
him. He said Weir’s agents questioned
I prisoners In Detzer’s camp and took their
; statements as fact without giving him
a chance to tesify.
| . Detzer formerly was sporting editor
of a Ft. Wayne newspaper.
FATHER BELIEVES
SON INNOCENT
“Os course, I don’t believe there is a
word of truth In the charges made
against my son," said former Judge
i Clarence Weir of Weir, Ritter & Rich
| ards, 429 Merchants Bank building, when
i informed of the charges made by Capt.
Detzer.
Mr. Weir added that he had not heard
from his son, and that his son, like many
soldiers who served long in France, was
| reticent about discussing military affairs.
Capt. John Weir practised law in Indi
! anapolis, after his graduation from law
school at Deland, Fla. He entered the
first officers’ training camp at Ft. Ben
jamin Harrison, the camp at which
Capt. Detzer also received his com
mission.
Capt. Weir was given the rank of cap
tain at the conclusion of the training
camp. He went to France in Septem
ber, 1918, and remained until October,
1919, being stationed most of the time
,at LeMans. He Is 28 years of age.
COURT REFUSES
JENKINS’ PLEA
Declines to Nullify Bond and
Return Consular Agent to
Penitentiary.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. B.—The criminal
court at Puebla today denied the peti
j tlon of William O. Jenkins that his bond
■ be nullified and that be be returned to
'■ the penitentiary. ,
In handing down his decision the Judge
explained that, according to Mexican
law, an order granting liberty on baU
can not be revoked.
William O. Jenkins, American consular
agent at Puebla, htfs been at liberty on
bail following his 'arrest on charges of
collusion with bandits who kidnaped him
ami held him for ransom. Jenkins sa*3
when his release was effected that it
was without hlB knowledge and against
his wishes. He immediately started ac
tion to be remanded to the penitentiary,
declaring his release on bail would so
slow up action on the case *he charges
against him might never be dismissed.
Brightwood Plans
Hero Memorial
—————
The Brightwood Civic assertion will
discuss proposed plans for a Lnghtwood
war memorial at a meeting to be held in
the Brightwood railroad Y. M. C. A. to
morrow night. Proposals have been made
for the erectfdn of a fountain, a com
munity house *or the establishment of a
park. Other business will be before thor
meeting and all Brightwood citizens are
.urged to attend.
GRAVE DIGGERS WANT RAISE.
MADRID, Jan. 6.—Employes of uato
tnking establishments and grave diggers
threaten to strike for higher wages.
Police Chief Issues
Lock-Up Warning
“Lock your doors and windows be
fore you leave your house or flat,” is
the warning issued today by Chief
of Police Kinney.
There are burglars who will not
break Into a house, but search out
places where windows or doors are
unlocked and then enter, he added.
James Mowrer, 1124 Broadway, re
ported today that during his absence
a burglar gained entrance to his
house through an unlocked side win
dow and stole articles of considerable
value.