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VOL. XXXII. NO. 211.
NEVER SOUGHT
\ TO AID SOVIETS,
SAYS HAPGOOD
George Harvey’s Charges
‘Sheer Lies,’ Declares For
mer Envoy to Denmark.
VISITING BROTHER HERE
(•denouncing allegations that he
was friendly with the soviet govern
ment of Russia and that he sought
financial aid for it in New York as
“sheer lies.” Norman Hapgood, for
mer minister to Denmark, today
made a statement to a Times re
porter in reply to a second attack
on him by Harvey’s Weekly.
Mr Hapgood is visiting at the home of
his brother, William P. Hapgood. 1321
North Meridian street. Mr. Hapgood
not reappointed ’when his interim appoint
ment as minister to Denmark expired.
This fact caused considerable comment.
He explained that he did not seek reap
pointment because he believed that any
additional controversy at Washington
should be avoided for the public wel
fare. ' '
In bis first article George Harvey,
writing in Harvey’s Weekly, said that
Mr. Hapgood was a “plenipotentiary of
Lenine and Trotsky,’’ that he had made
the American legation at Copenhagen a
“trading post for the soviet government,
that he made repeated overtures to Wall
street to finance the bolshevikl, and
that it was on these grounds that the
senate commitee failed to ratify his nom
ination.
NEVER DEALT
WITH SOVIETS.
Tfb the charges that he was a “plen
ipotentiary of Lenine and Trotzky,” and
that he conducted a trading post for
the soviet government, Mr. Hapgood
simply makes flat denials. He says he
never had any dealings with any repre
sentatives of the soviet government. Mr.
Hapgood said he has been opposed to
communism all his life.
Mr. Hapgood said he had some dealings
*shfth Alexander Berkenhelm, an anfi-bol-
Bhevik Russian, representing the Russian
co-operative association. He said that
Mr. Berkenhelm opposed the blockade
nnd wished to establish credit with
private firms in this country.
“His belief was that the best way
to overcome bolshevism was to restore
trade,” Mr. Hapgood said. “Agreeing
In this view, I gave Mr. Berkenhelm cor
dial letters to officials of our govern
ment”
Mr. Hapgood also told of dining at
9 New York club with representatives
jf the Guaranty Trust Company and of
discussing with them his views of the
Russian trade situation. In his second
article Mr. Harvey refers to this and
to the fact that Mr. Hapgood
had traveled to Paris with William H.
Hamilton of the Guaranty Trust com
pany. He also publishes the letter given
Mr. Berkenhelm.
SECOND ATTACK
RENk/TH NOTICE.
Mr. Hapgcod’s statement in reply to
this last article follows:
(t‘, George Harvey’s second attack is
ffdly worth answering. The statement
iat I sought the meeting with the
aarantj Trust company is a sheer lie.
Se invitation to dine with them was
lephoned me several times before I r.c
pted It.
“The point about France is particularly
tmusing. Everybody knows that pass
port lists follow certain formal rules.
The formality that put me'on the French
li>U “as that I traveled to Paris in
1916 vri h William H. Hamilton now of
the Guaranty Trust company and that
Hamilton afterward went to Germany.
Nobody who understands passports in
wartime will be surprised at the fact
that every French vise from that time
on was accompanied by the questions
whether I had traveled with Hamilton
and whether it was true that he had sub
sequently gone to Germany.
“Concerning the letter published by
Harvey, it is the same one of which
the substance had already been made
public by me.”
Mr. Hapgood said that his views on
bolshevism had nothing to do with the
action of the senate committee, but that
hostility developed before the dinner
with representatives of the trust com
pany.
“I believe that bolshevism is strength
ened by the blockade not only In Russia,
but elsewhere In proportion as Europe
suffers from the inability to get raw
materials and food from Russia and to
send her manufactured articles in re
turn,” Mr. Hapgood said. “There will be
no recovery In central Europe until
Russia Is opened. More people are com
ing to realize that the best way to kill
bolshevism is to stimulate trade of every
kind.”
AGAINST U. S.
FOOTING BILLS
Europe Able to Stand Alone,
Hoover Declares.
WASHINGTON, .Tan. 12— Except for a
comparatively small area, Europe should
feed herself this year, Herbert Hoover
told the house ways and means com
mittee today. Hoover expressed himself
as emphatically against the United
States footing the bills for political con
ditions In Central Europe caused by the
peace terms.
any countries over there want to
maintain such conditions they shonld pay
for them, not the United States,” he said.
Teachers on Strike;
Town Schools Close
LEBANON, 111., Jan. 12.—What threat
•ns to become a widespread strike of
Bchool teachers began today when thj
9ntlre teaching force of the Lebanon
schools, from superintendent down,
walked out. Every school building in
the town is locked up and the 400 pupils
are enjoying an enforced holiday.
Teachers In practically every town In
St. Clair county are threatening to join
the strike, with the exception of those
of MarrUsa, who threatened a strike two
weeks ago and were granted an increase.
Nebraskans Prepare
Boom for Pershing
-i
NEW YORK. Jan. 12.—George, Mark
and Frank Woods, brothers and business
men of Lincoln, Neb., are here to open I
■Mrfapaign headquarters for the “Pershing
Tor president” boom.
Although the brothers admitted Persh
ing Is not now a eapdidate for the nomi
nation, they expressed confidence be
would accept if public sentiment di
rected.
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Daily Except Sunday.
Marie Warren
Sent to Prison
on Guilty Plea
Local Woman Sentenced in
New York Court for Slay
ing Friend.
MINEOLA,• L. 1., Jan. 12.—Mrs. Marie
Warren of Indianapolis was sentenced
to not less than twenty years or more
than life in the Auburn state prison by
Justice Steven Callaghan here today
after she had pleaded guilty to the mur
der of Mrs. Clara Branch at Valley
Strain, L. 1., on Nov. 29 last.
Mrs. Warren pleaded guilty to a charge
of murder in the second degree. She
admitted slaying Mrs. Branch with a
hatchet. She told the court she had
taken $135 from the murdered woman.
The woman was very pale when ar
raigned in court and answered faintly
in the affirmative when the judge asked
her if she realized what she was doing
in pleading guilty to a murder charge.
She gave her age as 31 and said she is
a widow and formerly was Mrs. Marie
Strauss. Her occupation, Mrs. Warren
said, was that of an investigator.
Orders Repatriation
of 4,000 Germans
PARIS, Jan. 12.—Premier Clemenceau
has ordered immediate repatriation of
the 4,000 German prisoners still held in
France.
Violent Storms Rage
in Northern France
PARIS, Jsn. 12.—Violent storms are
raging in northern France and tele
graphic communication was seriously
crippled today.
Texans Get Jag
on Spirits of Niter
DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 12.—A tin dipper,
a wash basin and a spoon may be con
vincing evidence of “moonshining,” po
lice said after confiscating a set. Sweet
spirits of niter is a jag producer, they
said, when properly mixed.
Lenine Demands
New Ukraine Rule
LONDON, Jan. 12.—Nicholai Lenine,
the bolshevik premier of Russia, has sent
a manifesto to Kiev, demanding that the
Ukranians form anew soviet government,
either independent in itself or subsidiary
to Moscow, said an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Vienna today.
Dodge Brothers 111;
Stricken Same Time
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Horage Dodge,
millionaire anutomoblie manufacturer, ill
with pneumonia at the Ritz Carlton ho
tel, was reported out of danger today.
His brother, John Dodge, suf. ring from
grippe at the same hotel, was said to be
In a serious condition, but confidence
was expressed In his recovery.
The brothers came here from Detroit
a week ago to attend the automobilo
show. Both were taken ill Wednesday.
Democrats Will Run
Smith for Congress
LAPORTE, Ind., Jan. 12. —Announce-
ment was made hel'e today that Paul
N. Smith of Laporte will visit the sev
eral counties of the Thirteenth district
this week, preparatory to formal an
nouncement of his candidacy for the
democratic nomination for congress.
Practical assurance that he will be un
opposed for representative In the pri
maries has come from party leaders, it
was stated.
Chicago Threatened
With Water Famine
CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—Chicago faced a
serious situation today when huge
masses of ice in Lake Michigan backed
into three intake cribs and cut off the
water supply of the north and northwest
sides of the city.
Institutions and homes were able to
draw enough water for drinking but
there was none for other purposes. Boats
were sent out with great quantities of
dynamite to try to destroy the ice packs.
Hotel Woman May
Appeal Heavy Fine
Released under a bond of $1,500, E'llza
bet Maybew, manager of tbe Federal ho
tel, at 206% North Meridian street, was
at liberty today until she appears
Wednesday in criminal court to be sen
tenced on a verdict of jury. She was
fined S3OO and given six months at the
women's prison on a charge of contribut
ing to the delinquency of a 16-year-old
girl. Ira M. Holmes, the woman’s attor
ney, provided the bond. He Informed the
court that the defendant would probably
seek an appeal.
Labor Heads Decry
Gompers Ouster Talk
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Labor lead
ers here today were somewhat perturbed
at published reports that there is a
movement under way to oust Samuel
Gompers as president of the American
Federation of Labor. They declared the
reports were simply propaganda by his
enemies in the federation. .
Admitting that there are differences
of opinion between Gompers and Warren
S. Stone of the railroad brotherhoods,
leaders said that there was more chance
of a secession from the federation than
of ousting Gompers.
Good! New Jersey Booze Dealers
Lose Attempt to Block Dry Law
WASHINGTON, Jan, 12.—Hope of delaying the inaugural of con
stitutional prohibition vanished today when the supreme court denied the
application of the New Jersey Retail Liquor Dealers’ association to in
stitute proceedings in the high tribunal that would test the validity of
the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law enforcing it.
sThe court refused to issue an injunc
tion restraining the enforcement of the
law and sustained the contentions of the
government and the state of New Jersey
that it had no jurisdiction to hear the
original presentation of the case. This
means that a suit of this character must
be instituted in lower courts then
Entered aB Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at
Postoltice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.
INDIANA U. HEAD
DECRIES LACK OF
SCHOOL MONEY
Dr. Bryan Says State’s Failure
in Financing Education
Is Shameful.
MAKES ARDENT PLEA
Special to The Times.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 12.—Decry
ing the fact that Indiana ranks forty
third In the forty-eight states in the
amount of money appropriated for higher
education for each SI,OOO of wealth, Dr
William Lowe Bryan, president of Indi
ana university, today declares “this is
wrong; It is worse than wrong, it is
shameful!"
Citing statistics, Dr. Bryan shows that
the cost of operating the colleges h?.%
increased more than 100 per cent ana
enrollment at Indiana university has in
creased 50 per cent, the university head
aids: “At the very time when the young
people of the country are, as never be
fore, seeking an education, it is less
than ever possible to provide adequate
means of education for them. The worst
of the situation is that teachers in all
grades and schools are being compelled
to leave the profession in order to make
a living. In like manner the brilliant
younger men of the university' faculties
are being forced to leave the university
career and go Into business The fight
for national business and for world busi
ness must be won first in the universi
ties, and it can not be won at all If
the universities are allowed to degene
rate.
WHY SHOULD STATE
I.OSE GOOD EDUCATORS?
“Why should Purdne lose a dean to
Illinois? Why should Indiana lose a
professor to Missouri?
“They are taking our men. Every year
they take our men. I say that there
are no men too good for Indiana. I say
that no price which Illinois university
will pay for an Indiana man is too
much for an Indiana college to pay him.
I say that Indiana must march in edu
cation where it marched on the field of
battle—at the head of the trout line.
“It is a year since the great war closed
—a year filled with uncertainties. But
one thing is certain; our children must
■be educated. We must save our schools.
No country is greater than lts schools.
In referring to the fact that Indiana
university is preparing to celebrate its
one hundredth anniversary the coming
spring. Dr. Bryan showed that in the
100 years of its history the school has
had gifts and bequests amounting to
$1,000,000. Showing the growth of the
school, It is pointed out that Jn 1800
there was an enrollment of 321, with an
income for that year of $96,963.11. In
1919 the enrollment was 3,000 with the
income $999,077.86. Ten schools, twelve
departments and fourteen buildings have
been added to the university In that
time.
MAKES APPEAL FOB
SUPPORT OF ALL SCHOOLS.
Dr. Bryan's statement makes a vigor
ous appeal for the support of all col
leges, especially Indiana colleges. “They
have rendered a priceless service,” de
clares Dr. Bryan, “and I will gladly Join
a movement for a vigorous appeal In
their behalf.
Indiana university’s foundation day
comes on Jan. 20 and the actual cen
tennial will be celebrated at the uni
versity Jan. 19 and 20. Dr. Jacob Gould
Schumann, president of Cornell univer
sity; Gov. James P. Goodrich and college
heads of Indiana will speak at the uni
versity exercises and later In the tyeek
Indiana alumni associations in every
county of Indiana will hold meetings to
celebrate the centennial. In June the
colleges will stage an elaborate pageant
and celebration during which a reunion
of the alumni will be held at Bloom
ington.
NEW DEFENSE
ARGUES CASE
Jury to Begin Deliberations
Wednesday or Thursday.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.—Defense at
torneys presented their arguments today
in the trial of Harry S. New, charged
with the murder of his fiancee, Freda
Lesser. Coqrt attaches expressed the
opinion thafc the case would be given to
the Jury late Wednesday or Thursday.
The condition of the juror whose ill
ness caused a recess over Saturday has
improved. The court’s instructions to the
jury will be long, attorneys for both
sides believe. They said that there were
many points on which they wished the
jurors fully Informed as to the law, es
pecially that applying in cases in which
insanity was the defense.
STRANGE MALADY
MENACES TOWN
500 Out of 2,000 in Skiatook,
Okla., Seriously 111.
TULSA, Jan. 12. —Five hundred per
sons, one fourth of the population of
Skiatook, sixteen miles from here, are
reported by physicians to be seriously
ill with a strange malady which baffles
the state health department. Several
deaths have occurred.
A physician expressed the opinion that
the disease was a mild form of cholera.
The sickness begins with an attack of
dysentery, the patient losing weight rap
idly, according to the report. *
Wood Outlines His
Cure for Radicalism
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Maj. Gen. Leon
ard Wood in an address at the Passaic
(N. J.) Y. M. C. A. yesterday advocated
deportation of alien reds and trial of
the 'citizen radical element.
appealed to the supreme court. The
liquor interests hoped to prevent this
delay by Instituting the proceedings in
the supreme court.
The application was made in the name
of William Duhne, a liquor dealer of
West New York. N. J.
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1920.
\7?Aymed7ie\//ev/s\
\of/Recent Afeiwrl
1 V'-nres 6y DAWD SOfOCW j
There’s a Russian bird named Martens,
Who got news that quite disheartens;
They have told this bolshevik busy bee
To await his walking papers,
For his propaganda capers,
Are unpopular in Washington, D. C.
Foreign literary blighters.
Poets, dramatists and writers
Have been visiting these shores and
reaping fame.
They are full of high discussion,
And the ladles are a-gushln'—
But we’ll bet they’re reading love tales
Just the same.
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Eva Balfour, British cutle,
Has come here to show her beauty
In some Yankee-manufactured photo
plays.
After pleasing dukes and viscounts
And such other titled discounts,
She has come to play to Pennsylvania
Jays.
TICKETS *2O.
Ruth, the Red Sox home-run sonny.
Has been sold for lots of money
To the Yankees—and the figure sure
was tall.
Now they’ll pull the hocus poc.ns
Os their rising costs and soak us
Twenty dollars to attend a game f
ball.
leather sandals and no stockings
Are tbe latest fashion shocklngs
That the ladies are receiving out of
Paris.
Come on, ladies, don’t be churlish!
Be provocative and girlish;
Take your stockings off—and see if It
will scare usl
RADICAL PROBE
TO HIT HIGHUPS
Unnamed Senator Hints Aid to
Soviet From Financiers.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Tbe senate’s
Investigation of Russian propaganda was
broadeened today when Senator Moses,
chairman of the probing committee, an
nounced a large number of subpoenas
would be immmediately issued.
1 It was learned the committee bad
struck “the trails that lead Into queer
places.” In the words of some members.
Some financiers may be Involved, accord
ing to a senator who refused to let his
name be used In connection with this
prediction.
The hearing of L. C. A. K. Martens,
"ambassador” from the Russian soviet
government to the United States, will not
be held until Wednesday or later. Coun
sel 1 for Martins asked for a postponement
of the hearing until consultation on the
matter be held.
GERMANS BEWAIL
LOSS OF CITIZENS
‘Don’t Forget Fatherland
Word to Annexed People.
BERLIN, Jan. 12.—The government has
issued the following proclamation to tho
German inhabitants of the territories
which ytfre being separated from Ger
many :
“The unhappy Issue of the war has
left us defenseless to the arbitrary will
of an opponent who is Imposing upon
us In the name of peace the heaviest of
sacrifices, the first of which Is the re
nunciation of German territories in the
east, west and nuorth, without regard
to the principleh of self-determination,
by which hundreds of thousands of our
German countrymen are being placed un
der foreign domination.
“German brothers and sisters: Not
only in the hour of farewell but forever,
mourning for our loss will fill our
hearts. YVe vow that we will never for
get you. You on your part will not for
get your common German fatherland.”
Wine Car Stalled;
Town Takes Spree
ELLBURN, 111., Jan. 12.—This town
awoke this blue Monday morning”
with a headache and a don’t care
attitude about the impending catas
trophe next Friday, when the whole
country goes dry. There is a reason.
Saturday a tank car of port wine,
en route from California to tbe east,
developed a hotbox here and was
sidetracked. Seven hundred gallons
vanished. Yesterday four revenue
agents appeared and 500 gallons came
back. The other 200 never can. And
this a small town, too.
TREATY CAUCUS
AROUSES HOPE
OF COMPROMISE
Democratic Senators Believed
to Have Paved Way to
an Agreement.
JOINT MEETING PLANNED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—The next
forty-eight hours will develop a final
showdown in a situation unparal
leled in political annals. The dead
lock in the senate will be broken and
the treaty put definitely on the road
to ratification, or the dispute will be
irrevocably projected into the poli
tical campaign for the people them
selves to settle.
A caucus of democratic senators, held
at the residence of Senator Owen of
Oklahoma last night, was regarded ns
having paved the way to an agreement
with republican senators bent on ratifi
cation.
“The treaty situation looks better than
It has for months,’’ It was stated today
at the whitehouse. There was no dis
position to be concerned at the meeting
of senators last night at Senator Owen's
residence. That meeting was not con
sidered a breaking away from the pres
ident’s leadership.
A definite program of democratic con
cessions, based on the Lodge reserva
tions, was worked out which will be
submitted to Senator Lodge of Massa
chusetts, the republican leader, and to
the “mild reservatlonists” on the re
publican side today.
JOINT CONFERENCE
NOW SCHEDULED.
A conference between leading repnb
llcans and democratic senators who dj
slre ratification with substantially the
Lodge reservations was scheduled which
nay lead to both sides getting together
before the democratic conference on
J hursday, at which a minority leader is
to be chosen to succeed the late Senator
Martin of Virginia.
One purpose of last night's democratic
caucus was to eliminate the treaty from
Thursday’s conference, if possible, It
was said, as the supporters of Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, and Underwood
of Alabama, the rivals for the minority
leadership, are boht desirous of keeping
the treaty out of the contest for leader
ship.
HITCHCOCK AND rNDEKYVOOD
BOTH AT CONFERENCE.
It was considered significant that both
Senator Hitchcock and Senator Under
wood were active participants in last
night’s caucus, into which abouty twenty
leading democratic senators were called.
All of those who took part in it were
pledged not to reveal the definite pro
gram arrived at, until it was presented
to the republican side.
That “definite conclusions” were
reached was stated by Senator Hitchcock
and other democratic senators who were
present. , The situation was described
as "progressing favorably” by Senator
Hitchcock, although he added be ex
pected “more protracted discussion” be
fore an agreement was reached between
the democratic and republican leaders
that would develop the two-thirds of the
senate, or the sixty-four democratic and
republican votes essential to ratifica
tion.
PEACE BRINGS
GERMANY GLOOM
BERLIN, Jan. 12.—The German press
today took a pessimistic view of Ger
many under the peace treaty, the terms
of which became effective on Saturday.
The Junker newspapers are dying hard
and the leader of this section of the
(Continued on Page Five.)
BUILDERS OPEN
4-DAY SESSION
National Convention Faces
Many Important Problems.
Indianapolis today officially welcomed
Reveral hundred delegates to the annual
convention of the National Association of
Builders’ Exchanges which 'began a four
day convention at the Claypool hotel.
Delegates from every state are expected
to attend the convention.
Charles William Bernhardt, president,
and Dan Carey, secretary, have arrived
here from their homes at Atlanta, (la.
Delegates from Savannah, (la., headed by
John N. Davis, have opened headquarters
at the Claypool and are boosting that
city as the next convention city.
Among the Important business to be
considered by the convention Is the form
ing of a national policy regarding the
methods of negotiating contracts be
tween builders’ trades and the labor
unions.
Albert J. Beveridge, former United
States senator, will be the principal
speaker at a banquet Wednesday night
at the Claypool.
ROBS WINDOW
TO GET IN JAIL
Man Forces Arrest and Wants
to Serve Thirty Days.
Fred Clemmer put up a hard fight to
get Into Jail —and today be succeeded.
Clemmer, 30, appeared at police head
quarters yesterday and wanted to be ar
rested. There was no charge against
him, and the police turned down his re
quest.
Today Clemmer walked into police
headquarters, handed a brown shirt and
•blue sweater to Detectives Hanks and
Winkler and asked that he be arrested.
Detectives confirmed bis story that
about 9 a. m. he broke a showcase in
Jacob Singer's store, 430 East Washing
ton street, and stole the articles;
"Now, I guess you’ll give me thirty
days.” said Clemmer.
‘‘Why didn’t you rob a bank so you'd
get a real sentence?” queried Hanks.
“I don’t want a long one. I just want
thirty days, and I’m going to have it,”
Clemmer replied.
He was slated for petit larceny. Hs
said he had been run out of Chicago and
St. Louis and had been In Indianapolis
two days. Asked his address he an
swered, ‘‘None."
He explained that someone had
stolen his overcoat and his clothes were
of summer weight He figures it would
be warmer In thirty days, he said.
ROITMANJA MARES DENIAL.
PARIS, Jan/ 12.—Formal denial Is
made by the Roumanian press of the
report from Prague that several military
representatives of the allies had been
arrested by a Roumanian officer In oc
cupied Hungary.
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World League
to Begin Work
Friday Morning
Executive Committee First to
Be Formed by Eight Mem
ber Nations.
PARIS', Jan. 12.—The executive council
of the league of nations will be organ
ized Friday at 10:30 a. m., it was
learned today.
Because of the failure of the United
States to become a member of the league
the council will'have but eight members,
instead of nine originally planned.
The delegates will include: France,
Senator Leon Bourgeois; Great Britain,
Earl Curzon of Ivedleston; Italy, Vit
torio Scialoia, foreign minister; Japan.
Baron Matsul; Belgium, Senator La Fon
taine, and Greece, M. Politls.
The Spanish and Brazilian delegates
have not been named.
SMALLER NATIONS
TO lIE REPRESENTED.
Spain, Brazil, Belgium and Greece have
been ap'polnted to represent the interests
of all smaller nations.
The cqnncll’s first action, it was said,
will he to organize administrative com
missions for the Danzig and Saar plebe
scite areas.
Solution of the Fiume situation by tbe
conference of allied leaders here was
confidently expected to be reached by
Wednesday. An agreement by that time
is essential, so Premier Nittl may re
turn to Italy with a project acceptable
to the Italian government, it was said.
ITALY DEMANDS
FIUME SOLUTION.
Italy, in the opinion of peace con
ference leaders, will not enter into the
proposed Anglo-I'r nch-Italian alliance
until Fiume has been satisfactorily dis
posed of.
The new alliance, it was understood,
is bound up In the recently created
interallied military body, of which Mar
shal Foch will be the head. This body
Saturday replaced the interallied grand
general headquarters.
/
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—President
Wilson’s call for the first meeting of the
.eague of nations, in Paris next Friday,
is expected to be issued at the white
house today or tomorrow.
It is understood the president has pre
pared the call which Is very brief, nnd
will make It public as soon as he gets
lhe official word from Ambassador Wal
lace that plans are complete to have the
league meet Friday. The United States
will not participate in tbe session.
Wilson Is to issue the call, despite the
fact this country Is not a member of
the league, because it was agreed when
(ho peace treaty was being drafted that
he should perform that duty.
ACT TO SAVE
SILVERDOLLAR
House Committee Takes Up
Recoinage Measure.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Efforts to
correct the sliver situation were started
today when the house banking and cur
rency committee began hearings on the
bill Introduced by Representative Mc-
Fadden of Pennsylvania, amending the
Pittman sliver act of 1918, and reducing
the standard of our subsidiary coin from
90 to 80 per cent.
The Pittman act authorized the sec
retary of tbe treasury to melt or break
up 300,000,000 standard silver dollars, sell
the bullion nnd repurchase a like amount
of silver bullion at $1 an ounce.
Representative McFadden's bill amends
the Pittman act by requiring that all
standard sliver dollars shall be melted
and sold as bullion, and repeals the re
purchase clause.
He pointed out that the rise of silver
prices Is driving the silver dollar out of
circulation through the demand for bul
lion.
“In the debate In the senate bill It
was shown that silver, under ordinary
labor conditions, could be produced at a
profit of 50 cents an ounce; yet the Pitt
man act requires the government to re
purchase a like amount of silver at $1
an ounce. It Is my purpose to repeal
this vicious clause of the Pittman act,”
said MeFadden.
20 FACE COURT
AFTER 2 RAIDS
Fourteen Men Charged With
Gambling; 3 Women Held.
*
Fourteen men charged with violating
the gambling laws, and three men and
three women charged with statutory of
fenses, were slated to appear In city
court this afternoon. They were arrested
by members of the morals squad in raids
Saturday and Sunday nights.
Sergt. Russell and the morals squad
raided the Williams hotel at 2 o’clock
Sunday morning. Those arrested were
released on bonds signed by an attorney
who is prominent in republican politics.
They gave their names and addresses as;
Edith Wilson, 3012 North Illinois street;
Marian Morris, Marion, Ind.; Pearl Gray,
420 YVest Twentieth street; William
Dixon, Marion, Ind.; Walter Moore,'
Grand Rapids, Mich., and Leo.n Edwards,
Lorraine hotel.
Bud Malone, negro, owner of a soft
drink place at Miley avenue and Tenth
street, was arrested on the charge of
keeping a gambling house. Sergt. Rus
sell and the squad that raided Malone’s
place also arrested seven other negroes
charging them with gaming.
Chris Mello, proprietor of a poolroom
and coffee house at 552 West Washington
street, was arrested, charged with keep
ing a gambling house. The police say
the “watcher” went inside to get warm
and that they rushed the place and sur
prised the alleged crap shooters. Five
other foreigners were arrested.
$15,000 Blaze Sleeps
Plant in Spiceland
*
SPICELAND, Ind., Jan. 12.—The plans
of the Stlgleman Manufacturing Com
pany was almost entirely destroyed by
fire early today. The loss Is estimated
at $15,000.
U. S. Bests Roads
in $50,000,000 Suit
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The railroads
of the country today lost their suit In
the supreme court to collect additional
compensation from the government
amounting to more than $50,000,000.
FRANCE FAXS IN TAXES.
PARIS, Jan. l%tFranee in 1919 raised
bj taxes U,Oj>Oj*&o.ooo franca.
ONE-DAY SESSION CAN
PASS NO LEGISLATION
UNDER CONSTITUTION
“What’s the constitution among friends?” —Republican Politicians.
The ratification of the resolution for woman’s suffrage can not be
enacted in accordance with the constitution of the state of Indiana at a one
day session of the general assembly, even if the rules are suspended by a
two-thirds vote and the resolution passed under suspension of the rules.
The constitution of Indiana, Art. 5, Sec. 140, says:
“Every bill which shall have passed the general assembly shall
be presented to the governor. * * * But no bill shall be presented
to the governor within TWO DAYS next previous to tbe final ad
journment of the general assembly.”
CLEMENCEAU TO
BE PRESIDENT,
VOTE INDICATES
French Elect Seats Favorable
to ‘Tiger Man,’ Early
Reports Show.
PARIS, Jan. 12.—Premier Clemeneeau’s
election to the presidency practically has
been assured as a result of yesterday’s
election to the French senate, it was in
dicated today.
A majority of the premier's supporters
were successful, election returns showed.
The chamber of deputies and the senate
will meet Jan. 17 to name the new presi
dent
Returns up to early today Indicated a
general defeat for the socialists. In the
Seine province, It was said, the socialist
defeat was overwhelming.
A majority of the cabinet has been
re-elected and President Poincare, while
not a candidate, has been elected to the
senate by a plurality of 547. Voters in
the Meuse district wrote his name on the
ballot.
Stephen Pichon, foreign minister; M.
Clementel, minister of commerce; M.
Pams, home minister, and Senator Du
bost have been re-elected, according to
early returns, while Senator Humbert
probably has been defeated.
BRITISH ENVOY
GOESTOBERLIN
Lord Kilmarnock First Repre
sentative Since 1914.
LONDON, Jan. 12.—Lord Kilmarnock.
Great Britain's diplomatic envoy to Ger
many, left for Berlin today.
Lord Kilmarnock will be the first
British envoy in the German capital
since August, 1914, when England en
tered the war He formerly was secre
tary to the British embassy at Toklo.
Plans for the resumption of diplo
matic relations between this country and
Germany were rushed to completion tm
mediately after the treaty became ef
fective Saturday.
The sending of Lord Kilmarnock to
Germany immediately after the treaty
of Versailles became effective, late Sat
urday, Indicates the British desire to
resume full relations with Germany at
once.
Kilmarnock (Victor Alexander Sereld
Hay) Is an experienced diplomat He
has been secretary to the British em
bassy at Toklo.
BERLIN, Jan. 12.—Diplomatic rela
tions between Germany and France will
be formally opened tomorrow, when the
French charge d'affaires will arrive from
Paris. It is understood he is M. DeMar
cilly and that he will be supplanted by
a regularly credited ambassador within
a few months. M. Dutasta or M. Loch
eur are mentioned as the first French
ambassador.
Paul Dutasta was secretary of the
peace conference and It was his duty to
hand the German delegates the various
documents they were to sign. L. P.
Locheur was the French representative
on a number of Important- peace con
ference commissions, including that of
reparations.
CHINESE KIDNAP
U. S. MISSIONARY
Dr. Shelton Held for Ransom.
Says Washington Notice.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—A. L. Shel
ton, an American missionary doctor of
the foreign Christian Missionary society
of New York, has been kidnaped by Chi
nese brigands and is being held for Tan
som, the state department was advised
this afternoon by the American legion
at Pekin, China.
Carry Dynamite Out
of Blazing Building
Special to The Times.
MUNCIE. Ind., Jan. 12.—Rushing
through flames which enveloped the of
fice and engineers’ building of the Gen
eral Motors Company early today, work
men carried out a large quantity of
dynamite, probably saving the plant from
disaster. The monetary loss was small,
probably not exceeding $6,000.
Attack Will of Man
Who Died in River
Special to The Times.
WASHINGTON, Ind., Jan. 12.—Suit to
break the will of the late James Har
per, ferryman at Elnora, who disap
peared on the night of Nov. 10, ana
whose body was found Dec. 4, has been
filed in the Daviess circuit court. The
suit was filed by Mary Terrell, daugh
ter of the aged ferryman, and Lourln
Lucas, his stepdaughter. The complaint
alleges Harper was of unsound mind
when he drew the will and that he failed
to appoint an executor.
Druggists Change
Name of Store
Harry Eeery and John W. Brown, who
have conducted a drug store at Blake and
Walnuts streets under the firm name of
J. W. Brown & Cos. for three years, an
nounced today that the name has been
changed to Beery and Brown.
ITALIAN LOAN SWELLS.
ROME, Jan. 12. —Subscriptions to the
Italian loan have already passed the
8,000,000,000 lire mark, and It U believed
tbe total wIU exceed 15,000,000,000 lira,
the goal.
tIOME
1 EDITION
TWO CENTS.
It has been proposed by Gov. Good
rich, who has been sore beset by the
women of Indiana, who are insisting that
he call a special session of the legisla
ture to ratify the federal suffrage amend
ment, that tbe legislature meet, suspend
its rules, pass the ratification bill and
adjourn without transacting any other
business. *
COURTS’ ACTION .
ERECTS BARRIER.
This bill will. In accordance with the
constitution, have to be presented to the
governor for his approval or his veto. If
the general assembly passes this bill and
adjourns on the sime day it will be im
possible to present this bill to the gov.
ernor “two days next previous to the
final adjournment.”
Procedure, such as is proposed by
Goodric hand urged by the Franchise
League of Indiana, will not necessarily
invalidate the passage of the ratification
bill. The courts, by persistently refus
ing to enter into a review of tbe manner
in which bills are enacted by the gen
eral assembly, have erected a barrier to
a proceeding having for its purpose the
overthrow of laws which have thus failed
of enactment in accordance with the con
stitutional provisions.
PROCEDURE GENERALLY
HAS BEEN WINKED AT.
But no court of this state has ever
decreed that this failure to comply
with the requirements of the consti
tution is either morally or legally
justifiable.
In fact, the courts of this state
have, in their decisions to the effect
that bills so passed are valid, dis
tinctly admitted that the constitu
tion had been violated and have Im
plied that the presiding officers of the
bouse and the senate have failed, in
such Instances, to protect the public
against improper conduct on the part
of the legislature.
For many years It has been customary
for tbe of Indiana to pass
bills up to the final moment of adjourn
ment. These bills have been sent to tbe
governor regardless of tbe provision that
“no bill shall be presented to the gov
ernor within two days next previous to
the final adjournment.” Condoning this
violation of the plain mandate of the
constitution, governors generally have
elqgted to “exercise a privilege” to re
ceive such of these illegally presented
bills as they desired and refused to
receive others. Having so received these
bills, presented in contravention of the
constitution, tbe governor may either
sign them, veto them, or allow them to
become lawa without his approval by the
mere process of falling to send them
to the secretary of state with his ob
jections thereto within five days after
the adjournment of the general assembly.
GOVERNOR
NO EXPLANATION.
A bill so presented to, and received by.
the governor thus becomes a statute of
the state for the reason that the courts
have declared It contrary to public wel
fare to inquire into the methods by
which the statutes were enacted by the
legislature. The courts of Indiana have
declared they can not look beyond the
enrolled acts of the legislature to see
that a bill was presented to the governor
within the time fixed by the constitution.
Therefore, taking advantage of this
barrier raised by the courts to protect
the statutes which the legislature has at
tempted to enact, Gov. Goodrich pro
poses that the members of the general
assembly, by agreement with him, vio
lates the express provisions of the con
stitution of Indiana and ratify the suf
frage resolution in a manner that Is ■
plain violation of the constitution.
The governor advances no reason what
ever for the immediate adjournment of
the general assembly after the passage
of tbe ratification. He admits that there
are matters of grave importance *pendlng
in Indiana requiring legislative action.
He promises to call another session later
in the year to attend to these matters.
But today he insists that, as the price
of suffrage ratification, which he has
promised the women, they must assist
him in gagging the legislature in a man
ner contrary to the constitution and for
a reason which he has not and will .not
make public.
WHERE’S INDIANA?
LOUISVILLE. Jan. 12,—When Kentucky
ratified the federal woman suffrage
amendment, the record of the states of
the Union on the issue became as follows:
Number necessary to carry amend
ment. 36.
Number that stand in fa’or, 24.
Number that stand against, 1.
Number needed of those yet to vote, 12.
States that have ratified, with date:
ILLINOIS—June 10, 1919.
WISCONSIN—June 10, 1919.
MICHIGAN—June 10, 1919.
KANSAS—June 16, 1919.
NEW YORK—June 13, 1919.
OHlO—June 16. 1919.
PENNSYLVANIA—June 24, 1919.
MASSACHUSETTS—June 25, 1919.
TEXAS—June 27, 1919.
lOWA —July 2, 1919.
MISSOURI—JuIy 3, 1919.
ARKANSAS—JuIy 28, 1919.
MONTANA—JuIy 30, 1919.
NEBRASKA— Aug. 2, 1919.
MINNESOTA—Sept 8. 1919.
New HAMPSHIRE—Sept 10, 1919.
UTAH—Sept 30, 1919.
CALIFORNIA—Nov. 1, 1919.
- MAINE—Nov. 5. 1919.
NORTH DAKOTA—Dec. 1, 1919.
SOUTH DAKOTA—Dec. 4. 1919.
COLORADO—Dec. 12, 1919.
RHODE ISLAND—Jan. 6, 1920.
KENTUCKY—Jan. 6, 1920.
State that has refused to ratify, with
date:
ALABAMA—Sept. 17, 1919.
WEATHER.
Local Forecast —Mostly cloudy and
warmer tonight and Tuesday, with lowest
temperature tonight near freeslng.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. in..... 16
7 a. 15
8 a. m 16
9 a. m 15
10 a. 20
11 a. m 34
12 (noon) 28
Sun sets today, 4:41; rises tomorrow,
7:05; sets. 4:42.
One year ago today* highest t—npsgo
turn, 27; lowest. 17.