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VOL. XXXII. NO. 216.
M’ADOO SURE TO RUN
FOR PRESIDENCY, SAYS
WASHINGTON DISPATCH
INDIANA WILL
BACK HIM UP
His Helping Indianapolis on
Track Elevation Project
Made Many Friends.
William G. McAdoo, according
to a Washington dispatch today,
will be a candidate for the presi
dency.
This positive assertion was made
in Washington by a friend of the for
mer secretary of the treasury and
director general of railroads, accord
ing to the dispatch, which was signed
by William Philip Simms and sent
over the wires of the International
News Service. The friend is de
scribed as one of the ‘‘inners’’ of the
McAdoo circle in New York.
“McAdoo,” said this friend, “is merely
playing good politics in keeping his
boom deflated. His name will be
brought forward in due time, never fear,
and the San Francisco convention next
June will have ample occasion to pro
nounce it. You can bet your last cop
per on that.”
GOOD NEWS
FOB INDIANA.
Anything in the nature of information
tending to clinch the general belief that
McAdoo, at the proper time, will run for
president on the democratic ticket, is es
pecially pleasing to the people of Indi
ana, and especially Indianapolis, where
Mr. McAdoo’s help in putting through
work on the track elevation project here
in 1918 is well remembered. His prompt
'decision to complete the elevation of the
railroad tracks after the situation had
been presented to him personally by W.
D. Boyce, publisher of The Indiana
Daily Times, and through news stories
and editorials in The Times in March,
1918, has resulted in great benefit to In
dianapolis.
The track elevation work here had been
dragging on for twenty years and nearly
one-third of the city had been cut off
through work started and never finished.
At the time McAdoo took hold of the
problem Will H. Hays, now republican
national chairman, was chairman of the
Indiana state council of defense and was
in favor of further postponing the eleva
tion project “on account of the war.”
But McAdoo decided otherwise, and
wisely so.
BLOW TO
WILL HAYS.
As expressed by Mr. Boyce in The
Times there was no doubt that the In
diana republican organization, headed
by Hays, was willing to cause immense
loss of time to the men, women and ehil
kfen of Indianapolis, great financial loss
vast business Interests of the mer
chant and manufacturer of this city,
and to delay the transportation of war
material and the army through delay
ing trains passing through Indianapolis
if they could only put the national ad
ministration and Mr. McAdoo in the hole.
They failed, and the Indianapolis Cham
ber of Commerce and the many civic
organizations of this city won.
“It was a great victory for the city,"
said E. N. Smith, then secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, commenting on
.McAdoo’s order that the work go on. “We
had always felt that If those in author
ity would take time to investigate they
would find that national necessity would
best be served by the completion of track
elevation work here.”
And it was McAdoo, despite his press
ing duties as leader of the Liberty Loan
campaign and director of railroads, who
took “the time to investigate.”
WHAT DECISION
HAS MEANT.
Today, while there is considerable
freight tracks to be elevated a great deal of
progress since McAdoo issued his order
t* go through with the work has been
made, as passenger service is about com
plete and the station itself is practically
finished. The work was considered a
five-year program by the Chamber ol
Commerce and other civic organizations
behind the movement to get the task ac
complished. The program included the
elevation of the tracks in and near the
Union station and took in the elimination
of the Virginia avenue viaduct. The work,
engineers estimated today, is now two
thirds to three-fourths complete. They
said the work at the Union station and
between Pennsylvania street at the north
end of the station and Kentucky avenue
should be finished by Jan. 1, 1921.
The city of Indianapolis then expects
to carry the elevation north to Mass
achusetts avenue, part of the work now
being under way. The engineering plan
also includes elevation at Kentucky ave
nue and the Belt railroad, Washington
street and the Belt, and ultimately the
elimination of all dangerous street level
crossings on streets on which there Is
heavy traffic.
INDIANA W r ILL
BACK M’ADOO.
McAdoo, by virtue of his efforts in be
half of Indianapolis, will derive con
siderable strength from Indiana, where
his position in relation to the continua
tion of the track elevation work, after
Will Hays and other had consented to its
delay until after the war, has won him
the friendship and earnest support of
many who realize the importance of this
;work to the state capital.
When attention of Indiana politicians
was called today to the Washington dis
patch giving positive assurance that Mr.
McAdoo would run they asserted that the
reticence of the former director general
of railroads in announcing his intention
to contest for the nomination has beet,
to his disadvantage in Indiana and,
they contend, will continue to be to his
disadvantage. However, it iis known,
that McAdoo has very good reasons for
not making a definite announcement, es
pecially in view of the fact that Presi
dent Wilson’s position on a third term
proposition has not yet been Ueflnitaely
announced.
STRONG M’ADOO
SENTIMENT HERE.
Indiana politicians readily assert that
there is a strong McAdoo sentiment lr.
this state but, unfortunately, his follow
ers are without leaders for the reason
that those accustomed to starting such
movements and to taking the vanguard
in them have deterred by a lack of posi
tive information as to whether their
choice for the presidential nominee
would be available.
Immediately on receiving assurance
that McAdoo will iqake a campaign for'
delegates in Indiana there will be a
strong movement in hiß favor. It will
spring from the railroad men, who have
high regard for their former chief, from
others who became acquainted with his
character during the period he was di
recting the railroads and from those who
have since been pleased by bis attitude
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Daily Except Sunday.
on the big economic questions of the
day.
McAdoo’s friend, who today made the
positive assertion that he will be a can
didate throws some light on McAdoo’s
position on the big questions of the day.
This friend, so-called, is described in
Simms’ Washington dispatch as “a man
who has the reputation of knowing more
of the inside of what is going on in
New York and Washington than almost
any other man. He is not, and never has
been an office-seeker, but is a wealthy
New Yorker who has for years wielded
considerable influence in the east.”
WHAT M’ADOO
STANDS FOR.
This friend is quoted as saying that
although McAdoo declined the invitation
of the democratic national committee to
attend the Jackson day dinners in Wash
ington on Jan. 8 on the ground of being
an exceedingly busy man, it was he who,
perhaps more than any one else, who
sounded the “keynote” at the banquet.
Merely read out as it was by the toast
masters at the two dinners, *it failed to
get the attention it deserved and is bound
to get later. For McAdoo’s message from
Wichita Falls contained a whole platform
for the party, complete from domestic
policy to foreign relations. McAdoo stood
for these things:
Reduction of war taxes; prompt restor
ation of world peace; effective legislation
on Internal, financial and economic ques
tions; improved relations between capital
and labor; protection of the public
against needless industrial disputes; pro
motion of the welfare Os our soldiers and
sailors; freedom of speech and of the
press in time of peace; progress by ballot
instead of by bullet; law and order;
prosecution of profiteers; nonpersecution
of legitimate business; protection of
American citizens in every land and
America as a dominate influence for good
in the world.
SPEECH TO
THE COUNTRY.
“It Is surprising,” said McAdoo’s
friend, whose name was withheld at his
own request, “how nearly everybody
overlooked that speech—for that is what
it was. A speech by wire, not to the
democrats at the rally, but to the mil
lions of voters scattered throughout the
land.
McAdoo’s absence from the Jackson
day dinners was considered by the
same authority as masterful politics.
“Another thing,” he added, "although
McAdoo had too much business on hand
a week ago to shift a date and be present
at the Jackson day rally, he and Barney
Baruch left Washington day before yes
terday for the south, where they are
squeezing a few days of ’shooting.’ Some
of these ‘shots', I venture to predict,
will carry so far that the seventy-mile
efforts of the big Bertha firing on Paris
will be made to resemble the puny do
ings of a puny paper cap pistol.”
LEGION WANTS
POST HOSPITAL
Favors Treatment Here of Tu
bercular Ex-Soldiers.
The American legion wants the base
hospital at Ft. Benjamin Harrison re
opened for the treatment of former serv
ice men suffering from tuberculosis.
Charles F. Sheridan, head of the serv
ice division of the legion at national
headquarters, Meridian Life building, this
city, today addressed a letter to Surgeon
General Rupert Blue at Washington on
the subject.
The letter is in answer to a request
made recently by the United States pub
lie health service that the legion aid in
the location of sanitoria for the treat
ment of tubercular former service men.
The base hospital at Ft. Harrison,
which was abandoned a few months ago,
can accommodate 800 patients.
“There has been called to my atten
tion the immediate need for at least
a temporary tuberculosis hospital in the
immediate vicinity of Indianapolis,”
wrote Mr. Sheridan. “I am informed
by your very able representative, Dr.
C. A. Stayton, that there are large num
bers of tuberculosis patients in the state
of Indiana, who are receiving no hospi
tal treatment.”
He says that investigators have report
ed that the Ft. Benjamin Harrison base
hospital would be satisfactory for the
purpose of treating tuberculosis cases
which can be transferred to other points,
and particularly for those arrested cases
which are simply awaiting physical im
provement sufficient to enable them to
take up vocational training.
“There appears to be a most urgent
need through the United States for
prompt action relative to the treatment
of tuberculosis patients,” Mr. Sheridan
said.
SIPE MILITIA
HEARING OPENS
Arguments Start in Attaek on
Legality of Organization.
A legal opinion which will determine
the status of the Indiana state militia
will be given by Judge Louis Ewbank
of the circuit court, following the hear
ing of argument on County Clerk Rich
ard Sipe’s petition of a writ of habeas
corpus.
Argument began today on a motion of
Slpe that the answer of the officers of
the state militia to the return of the
writ is insufficient because sufficient facts
are not stated to show that the militia
is organized according to law.
Sipe seeks In this motion to throw the
case out of court and so escape serving
a sentence of five days on the Indiana
state farm and dishonorable discharge
assessed by a court-martial for failure to
report for duty when ordered.
Counsel on both sides was prepared tc,
make lengthy arguments on the legal
points raised by Sipe.
Father of 9 Kiddies
Killed by Fast Train
Special to The Times.
ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 17.—When he
stepped back on the railroad track to re
move torpedoes from the rails, after he
had flagged a train, Ri pert F. Morre, 47,
of Richmond, flagman ■ with a bridge
crew of the Pennsylvania railroad, lost
his life at Frankton. noiSh of here, yes
terday afternoon. Moore jiad flagged the
train and it was when he‘ stepped back
on the track that he war! caught He
was killed instantly. Tlie body was
brought to a morgue here on the train
that struck him. Moore is survived by
a widow and nine children.
Ito&tatra Hail® Unites
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 26, 1914, at
Poetoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.
TWO CHILDREN
BURN TO DEATH;
THIRD MAY DIE
Parents, L.idly Injured and
Scantily Clad, Drive Two
Miles for Aid.
NIGHT LAMP EXPLODES
Special to The Times.
KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 17.—Leaving
behind two children burned to death,
a third perhaps fatally burned, and
with his clothing scorched off of him,
Walter Goyer, a fanner living three
miles southeast of here, early today,
in a dazed condition, drove two
miles in an automobile with the
nude, unconscious form of his wife
draped across him to his father’s
home.
Goyer fell unconscious with his human
burden as he hammered at the door to
awaken his parents.
The dead children are Robert, 4, and
Henry, 2, while Kenneth, 9, is not ex
pected to live. Mrs. Goyer is reported in
a serious conidtion from shock and ex
posure. Goyer himself is seriously burned.
AWAKENS TO FIND
ROOM A FURNACE. *■
An explosion of a lamp in a bedroom
occupied by the children is believed to
have started the fixe in the Goyer home
soon after the family had retired.
When Goyer was awakened the room
was a blazing furnace. The door was
locked. From within he could hear the
moans of his sons. When he had bat
tered bis way into the room the flames
drove him back. Glen, 7, another son,
escaped without injury. He was in an
other room.
So rapidly did the flames spread that
it was with difficulty he saved Mrs.
Goyer. Half crazed as he sa whig home
turned Into a charnel house, he grabbed
his wife and rushed out to the shed
where he kept his automobile. Hurling
her nude form into the maeh'ne, he
started on a mad race over snow-covered
roads to the home of his father, John
Goyer.
ANOTHER RACE TO
SCENE OF FIRE.
Twice the machine swerved from the
road, but Goyer righted it and sped on
ward with his wife limp and freezing
in his lap.
At his father’s home, he had difficulty
In arousing any one. Frantically he
pounded, remembering during lapses of
his memory, the kiddies he had left in
the ruins of his home. When the elder
Goyer had reached the door it had al
most been battered in. His strength
gone, Goyer fell prostrate on top of Mrs.
Goyer.
When he was revived and provided
with clothing, another mad race was
started back to the farmhouse. The red
glow of the blaze on the black sky
warned him anew of the story the ruins
would tell.
Robert and Henry, his two youngest
sons, were burned almost to a crisp.
DISCUSS PLANS
FOR CONVENTION
Democratic Leaders Confer
With Chairman Cummings.
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Homer S. Cum
mings, chairman of the democratic na
tional committee, conferred here today
with party leaders on arrangements for
the national convention in San Francisco,
June 28.
Mr inters of the committee on arrange
ments who will have luncheon with Cum
mings at the national democratic club
are:
Mrs. George Bass, Chicago; May Foy,
Los Angeles; J. B. lvremer, Montana;
Wilbur M. Marsh, Iowa; Edward G.
Hoffman, Indiana; Clark Howell, Geor
gia; Norman E. Mack, New York; Fred
B. Lynch, Minnesota; E. H. Moore, Ohio;
Arthur F. Mullen, Nebraska; Dr. John
W. Cangblln, Massachusetts; Isadore B.
Dockweiler, California; J. T. Barnett,
Colorado; Patrick 11. Quinn, Rhode
Island, and Rober tH. Elder, Idaho.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, candidate
for the republican presidential nomina
tion, arrived here last night for a con
ference with his managers. He was to
be the guest of Otto H. Kahn at a lunch
eon today and will address the Chamber
of Commerce in Providence, R. 1., to
night.
George Wood, Lincoln, Neb., one of
the three brothers who are nursing a
republican boom for Gen. Pershing, said
today that Pershing headquarters would
be established here next week.
Reports were circulated today that a
boom for Gov.-elect Edwards of New
Jersey for the democratic nomination
would be launched at a dinner in New
ark on Tuesday .
MANY MEXICANS
GO TO HEARINGS
Warning of Carranza Official
Generally Discounted.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 17.—Little
attention, it Is expected, will be paid by
Mexicans here to the warning given by
M. Hilario Medina, in charge of the for
eign office at Mexico City, not to testify
before the Fall senate subcommittee In
vestigating the Mexican situation.
Representatives of practically every
faction in Mexico are in San Antonio and
swarthy faces are conspicuous in the
audience of each of the sessions.
Those who might testify will not be
greatly affected by threat of a charge of
treason which might be brought against
them by the Carranza government.
Witnesses who testify today probably
will be heard in executive sessions with
the exception of ,C. L. Gardiner, a rail
road man from Arkansas.
75 Local Credit Men
to Attend Meeting
Seventy-five delegates will represent
Indianapolis firms at the state conven
tion of credit men in Muncie next Fri
day, it was announced today.
The conference will nring together
protbinent credit men of Indianapolis,
Evansville, South Bend, Mancie, 3'erre
Ilaute, Ft. Wayne and other cities. John
C. Rugenstein of the local association
says that reports from over the state
Indicate that former attendance records
will be broken.
Joseph A. Keblpr of Indianapolis will
speak on “The Mercantile Agency Re
port.” J. Edward Stllz of Indianapolis
is chairman of the 1021 convention com
mittee.
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1920.
Grim Reaper
and Air Mail
in Long Race
Serum Rushed from Illinois to
New York to Save Olive
Poison Victims.
CHICAGO, Jan. 17.-Q1 United States
mail plane, carrying a quantity of
serum with which it is hoped to save the
lives of three poisoned members of the
Deleben family in New York left here
at 11:30 a. m. today in a life and death
race with time.
The airplane was four hours late In
taking off here. The serum was pro
duced in the laboratory of the University
of Illinois, rushed here on an express
train and put aboard the airplane.
Pilot Knight hoped to make Cleve
land in three hours.
FOURTH VICTIM
OF OLIVES DIES
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Another mem
ber of the Delbene family was dead to
day as a result of eating ripe bottled
olives that were poisoned. Four mem
bers of the family have died and three
are still critically ill in a hospital. They
are Angele, 26; Coehnette, 19, and Domi
nick, 22.
Dr. John Reigeiman, medical examiner,
was notified today- that a serum has
been discovered at Illinois university
which will counteract poisoning from
bad olives. He asked that some of it
be rushed here at once, by aeroplane,
if necessary, in an effort to save tLe
lives of the remaining members of the
family.
Officers located tbe stores from which
the olives were purchased and seized the
supply of bad olives. They are being
examined.
AD CONVENTION
TO SETRECORD
World Gathering Here in June
to Be Greatest Ever Held.
The 1920 convention of the Associate.!
Advertising Clubs of the World, which
will be held in Indianapolis June 6 to
10, will be the greatest convention in the
history of the organization, Park S.
Florea, secretary and executive manager
of the organization, said today.
Mr. Florea, who formerly lived in In
dianapolis, came here today from New
York City to confer with the local con
vention board in charge of arrangements
for the coming convention. Detailed
plans for the convention were gone over
at a meeting in the convention headquar
ters. Chamber of Commerce, at noon.
“Advertising men throughout the
United States are looking forward to the
Indianapolis convention as the greatest in
the history’s organization." Mr. Florea
said. “The men and clubs are especially
interested in view of the fact that E. T.
Meredith, president of the Associated Ad
vertising clubs, has announced that the
foor-diy session will be a strictly adver
tising, sales and ditributlon convention.”
Truth as the foundation of success in
business—truth in advertiing in every
phase of business will be one of the pre
dominating themes at the convention here,
Mr. Florea said.
HOMES LOOTED
ON NORTH SIDE
Police After Burglar Who Is
Handy With the ‘Jimmy/
When Pierson M. Rhodehamel, 2830
Washington boulevard, early today re
ported to the police thnt his home had
been entered and ransacked by a burg
lar, and Jewelry taken, detectives re
doubled their efforts to find the burg
lar who has robbed many north side
homes during the last few weeks.
The Rhodehamel residence is only a
block from the home of Charles A.
Borchers, 2936 Washington boulevard,
which was entered yesterday afternoon.
A front window was “jimmied" at each
house. The robberies were committed in
the absence of the families.
At the Rhodehamel home the burg
lars obtained two gold neck chains, each
valued at $25, a cameo broach, SSO, two
gold braclets, S2O, a gold ring with an
opal set, S3O, two other rings, each S2O.
a broach, $5; two gold shoulder clasps,
$5, and a lady's watch and chain. Every
room in the house was ransacked.
Bicycle officers Finney and Seifert in
vestigated.
Mrs. Borchers told the police that a
diamond necklace worth more than $235
was taken from her home. Other articles
missing are a gold purse, valued at $35,
a purse containing $5, and a leather
purse valued at $2.
Burglars ransacked the home of Mrs.
Arthur .T. Berlaut, 522 Wallace avenue.
Mrs. Berlault was unable to tell what
was taken.
Gertrude Hackney, 505 North Illinois
street, reported to the police that a
diamond lavallier was missing from her
apartment. Mrs. Carrie Vann, 343 North
Pine street, reported the theft! of a
small bank containing $1.55, from the
kitchen of her home.
The Ferger drug store, corner Illinois
and Market streets, was entered during
the night and $35 taken from the cash
register, the manager reported to the po
lice.
GERMAN REDS
SEIZE ARSENAL
Bloody Clashes Follow At
tempt to Spread Strike.
BERLIN, Jan. 17.—Spartaclsts have
raided the government arsenal at Span
dau on the outskirts of Berlin, captur
ing a large quantity of munitions.
Bloody clashes have followed the at
tempt of Spartacist chiefs to start a
general strike. Many persons were in
jured in fighting at Essen.
Quiet has been restored in this city
following 260 arrests in connection with
the rioting on Tuesday.
Strikers have cut some of the telegraph
wires leading to western Germany hin
dering communication with that district.
Frenzel to Attend
Financial Meeting
John P. Frenzel, Jr., vice president and
cashier of the Merchants National bank,
will leave for Washington tonight to at
tend a conference of financial men from
various parts of the country, called by
the treasury department. The conference
will tvegin Monday and conclude next
Friday. Many questions of Latin Amer
ica will be discussed, it 1* expected.
FRENCH ELECT
DESCHANEL AS
NEW PRESIDENT
Retirement of Clemenceau
Makes Race Easy for
Senate Head.
PROCEEDINGS ARE BRIEF
PARIS, Jan. 17.—Paul Deschanel,
veteran president of the chamber of
deputies, and political enemy of Pre
mier Clemenceau, was elected presi
dent of the French republic today,
succeeding Raymond Poincare. M.
Clemenceau had withdrawn his can
didacy when It became apparent that
factions of the radical and conserva
tive parties were determined to op
pose him and support M. Deschanel.
Deschanel received 134 votes.
Paul Eugene Louis PeKobnnel Is In Ills
sixty-fourth year and has been in pub
lic life for forty years. He was elected
vice president of tbe chamber of depu
ties in 1896 and two years later was
made president. He held the pest four
jears, but relinquished it for another
post. He was again chosen president
of the chamber in 1902 and held the
office up to the time of his elevation
to the presidency. He has written a
number of books on political economy.
LONG AT ODDS
WITH CLEMENCEAU.
M. Deschanel and M. Clemenceau have
been at odds over political matters for
many years. It was just revealed a few
days before the election that they bad
fought a duel in 1894 over a newspaper
attaek made by Clemenceau following an
incident in tbe chamber. M. Deschanel
was slightly wounded.
The French president is elected for a
term of seven years. It is a national tra
dition that he does not succeed himself.
Voting began shortly after 10 o'clock.
Following withdrawal of Premier Clem
enceau. even the most experienced poli
ticians admitted “anything may happen.”
Several strong candidates were expected
to come forward when the two bodies
convene in the small royal theater inside
the Versailles palace. M. Pams, home
minister, was considered one of the
strongest of the "dark horses.” Clemen
ceau was in consultation with him last
night.
BRIAND RESPONSIBLE
FOR CI.EMENCEAU’S STEP.
The retirement of Clemenceau, who an
nounced he would not serve even if
elected, was Interpreted as a victory for
former Premier Brland. who managed
Deschanel’s candidacy. In event Des
chanel is elected, It was considered likely
he will appoint Briaud premier.
The royal thoatpr was crowded when
the voting began It seats only 8.86,
while the joint membership of the senate
and chamber is 940. Chairs were placed
in the nlsles.
The balcony, which seats 69, was re
served for the diplomatic corps and high
state officials.
Leon Botiregois. president of the sen
ate. presided at the voting. Preceded
by uniformed ushers and surrounded by
high chamber and senate officials, he
entered the theater and took his seat In
the center of the stage, where he read
the presidential decree, convoking the as
sembly.
BALLOTING INVOLVES
FORMAL PROCEDURE.
When the roll call began each sena
tor and deputy proceeded toward the
stage as his name Is called and receive
a small rosewood ball. He mouuted the
stage, voted and the descended, return
ing the ball when the voting is fiulshed.
The number of balls given out must
correspond to the number of votes cast.
Every bail must be returned and the
total number checked against the num
ber given out.
Following the election, the successor
of President Poincare received congratu
lations and was then escorted through
lanes of troops to a waiting automobile,
which carried him to Parts.
Tomorrow the newly elected president
will call upon President Poincare, wbo
later will return the call. The new pres
ident will take np his duties Feb. 18.
Premier Clemenceau has announced he
will retire entirely from politics, devot
ing his time to writing his memoirs.
THOUSANDS OF TROOPS
SURROUND PALACE.
In anticipation of the crush about the
Versailles palace thousands of troops and
police were on guard around the build
ing bolding back tbe crowds. It was
a motley assemblage with prominent per
sonages rubbing elbows with obscure
chauffeurs. The tiny restaurant near the
palace was crowded nearly all day, while
many persons who were unable to gain
admittance ate lunches of sandwiches in
the streets.
Thoroughfares leading to the palace
were lined with limousines. Society
made n holiday of the occasion and scores
of prominent; men and women made the
pilgrimage to Versailles for the cere
mony.
SOCIALIST CAUCUS
ELECTS DESCHANEL.
The socialists held a caucus before the
balloting began and decided to support
M. Deschanel. Premier Clemenceau had
represented one faction or another of
the socialist party throughout all the
latter years of his public life.
M. Deschanel attended the meeting of
the national assembly, but refused to
cast a vote. M. Clemenceau was absent.
The count of the ballots began at 15
minutes after 3 o’clock.
3 MEN DIE IN
CINCINNATI FIRE
Fourteen Firemen Injured in
$150,000 Conflagration.
CINCINNATI, .Tan. 17.—Three firemen
■were killed, and fourteen Injured In a
fire that swept the five-story building
of the Newton Tea and Spice Company
here early today.
The fl:re caused damage estimated at
$150,000.
A wall of the building collapsed when
tea and spice dust exploded, burying
the -victims.
VEATHEC
I.oral forecast—Fair and colder to
night, with lowest temperature tonight
10 to 15 degrees; Sunday fair and colder.
HOI RI.Y TBMPKBATURE.
(1 a- m 14
7 a. m 13
K a. 11
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SIMS SA YS HE WAS TOLD
NOT TO ALLO W BRITISH TO
PULL WOOL OVER HIS EYES
SECOND SPFXIAL
SESSION CERTAIN
SAYS GOODRICH
Only Question of" Time Before
Call—No Tax Law Changes
Planned.
SUFFRAGE BILL SIGNED
A second special session of the leg
islature will be called for the purpose
of taking up necessary legislation,
Gov. Goodrich said definitely today.
The governor was asked if he had
given members of the assembly any
assurance that there would be a sec
ond session.
“I don’t like the word assurance,’ he
said. “There is no doubt about a second
special session being called. It is in
evitable. The only question is when it
will be called.”
Legislation suggested by Gov. Good
rich to be taken up at the proposed
second special session includes a pro
vision for a war memorial and head
quarters for the American legion, changes
in the county unit road law, a law pro
viding for the disposition of money re
ceived for prison-made products and a
"blue sky” law.
MUST CHANGE
VOTING LAWS.
The second special session will prob
ably be rilled upon to enact legislation
providing that women shall vote. The
republican state committee has an
nounced plana to take up this question.
It is the opinion of some that little
change will be necessary in the Jaws be
cause the change in the federal constitu
tion would automatically include women
in the provisions of the Indiana statutes,
although they specifically refer to male
voters.
Women in both parties are jubilant
over the outcome of the session. The fact
that Indiana bad ratified the amendment
was wired Immediately to nat'onil suf
frage headquarters. Indiana women hope
that the ncilcn of this state will spur
other states to action. They expect the
amendment to be a part of tae constitu
tion by Feb. 15.
The work of thp Indiana Franchise
league does not end with the ratifica
tion of the amendment, according to
Helen Benbridge of Terre Haute, presi
dent of the league. She declared the
object of the league will now be to make
every woman an intelligent voter by the
fall election.
The executive committee of the Fran
chise league adopted a resolution in
which It expressed Its appreciation of
the work done by the governor, the mem
bers of both houses, both political state
committees, a rut newspapers which made
suffrage possible.
SION’S RESOLUTION
WITH TEN* PEN’S.
Although Gov. Goodrich had repeatedly
made the statement that it would nqt be
necessary for him to sign the ratifica
tion resolution, he affixed his signature
to it at the request of suffragists. He
used ten pens which he distributed
among the women.
Efforts were made following the rati
fication of the suffrage amendment to
prolong the session and to take up other
measures. These efforts were made in
the senate and became the subject of
long discussions,awhile the house marked
time waiting for the consent of the
senate to adjourn.
Following his avowed intention Lieut.
Gov. Bush proceeded with the regular
order of business until an adjournment
was forced. Following the passage of
the bill appropriating SIO,OOO to pay the
expenses of the session, the lieutenant
governer ordered the secretary to pro
ced with a roll call for the introduc
tion of bills.
When the name of Senator Cravens of
Madison was reached on this roll call
he attempted to introduce a bill pro
viding for the appointment of a com
mission to purchase land and erect a
memorial building which would house
the headquarters of the American legion.
(Continued on Pag© Three.)
URGE HIGHER
TEACHERS’ PAY
Schoolmen’s Club Members
Put Selves on Record.
Any program for the extension of edu
cation in Indiana should Include a ma
terial increase in the salaries of school
teachers.
This was the emphatic expression of
members of the Indiana School Men’s
club, who discussed school problems here
late yesterday.
L. N. Hines, superintendent of public
instruction, presented his own educa
t onal program for Indiana, which in
cludes an increase in salaries of teachers
of not less than 50 per cent, organization
of an inspection department of grade
schools, compulsory employment of school
physicians in every township and in
creased financial’aid for universities and
colleges. v
The educators debated the Smith-Towne
bill, pending in congress, which would
provide federal aid to states for educa
tion. R. W. Hlmelick, Ft. Wayne school
superintendent, presented a committee
report declaring the bill would subject
education to politics and too strongly
federalize education.
GETS SIOO FOR
LOSS OF WIFE
A jury verdict in Judge Louis Ew
bank’B court today awarded Ashvelle
Fentz, a locomotive engineer, SIOO dam
ages from Harry C. Nagel, former owner
of the Dream theater, Brightwood, In
the fomer’s suit for alienation of his
wife’s affections. Fentz sued for SIO,OOO.
The jury got the case at 4:15 yesterday
afternoon and returned a sealed verdict
at 10 o'clock last night. It was read
when court convened this morning.
NEW INFLUENZA MEASURES.
CHICAGO. .Tan 17. Dr. John Dill
Rol>ertson. health cqfnmi&sioner, prepared
today for aggressive war on the new in
fluenza epidemic gripping Chicago. Six
hundred and fifty cases were reported
yesterday, bringing the total to 1,200.
Eighteen persons have died from the dls-'
mu here In tie last week.
PAROLED 3 TIMES,
BOY HAS LAUGH
ON GOV. GOODRICH
Special to The Times.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Jan. 17
Somewhere Herbert L. Cummings of An
derson is laughing up his sleeve at the
expense of Gov. Goodrich.
Herbert is supposed to be serving his
third term as a parole violator at Jeffer
sonville. But he isn’t, mainly because of
the “graciousness of the governor.”
The young man, it seems, knew of the
governor’s liberality with paroles. After
twice being freed from the penal insti
tution, only to be returned, he decided
he wanted another parole. So with the
co-operation of his father in Anderson
and the known proclivities of Mr. Good
rich he left the reformatory Dec. 26.
The governor “sprung” him on a ten
day parole on that date when a com
munication was sent to the executive
stating that his fatter was dying.
Whether there was any investigation of
his case is not known, but when Cum
mings continued to remain away from
his cell someone took it up.
Before the “investigation’’ got under
way a letter was received from Cum
mings’ father saying, “I only wanted to
see the boy before I died.” It has not
been learned here when Mr. Cummings
expects to die. Neither is the where
abouts of Herbert known.
SECOND TREATY
CONFERENCE ON
Republicans and Democrats
May Reach Compromise.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 17—Democratic
and republican senators met in Senator
Lodge’s office today in tbe Becond bi
partisan conference on treaty com
promise. No progress' has been reported.
The same nine senators who made un
the first conference Thursday at
tended. They are Lodge. Lenroot,
New and Kellogg, republicans, and
Hitchcock, Owen, McKeilar, Simmons and
Walsh, Montana, democrat*.
Republicans were prepared to give the
democrats a definite answer on the Mc-
Kellar-Kendrick reservations, which
form the basis of democratic sugges
tions for changes in the Lodge reserva
tions. The republicans prepared a state
ment of their position at a long session
late yesterday in Lodge’s office. They
all maintained silence regarding the
trend of discussion at this meeting. Len
root and Kellogg observed as they left
the conference, that there is hope of
something growing out of the bl-partlsan
discussions.
POLL OF COLLEGES
FAVORS COMPROMISE
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Results of the
“intercollegiate treaty referendum," in
which faculty and students of 329 Ameri
can colleges voted on various proposals,
for settlement of the league of nations
and peace treaty situation, today showed
a preponderant vote in favor of a com
promise between the Lodge and demo
cratic reservations. Returns follow:
Compromise between the Lodge and
democratic reservations to facilitate rati
fication of the treaty—Faculty, 4,352;
students, 40,4.37.
I Ratification of the league and treaty
without reservations or amendmeaita—
Faculty, .3,945; students, 33,499.
Ratification of the treaty, with the
Lodge reservations—Faculty, 1,244; stu
dents, 19,917.
Opposition to ratification of the league
or treaty in any form—Faculty, 486;
students, 11,073.
RATIFY PACT ygi
MINISTERS URGE
Ratify the treaty.
This is the demand made upon con
gress by ministers in session at the
aunnal council of the Indianapolis dio
cese of the Episcopal cburcH at All
faints’ cathedral.
Two resolutions were adopted, one In
dorsing the principle of the league of
nations and the other urging speedy
ratification of the peace treaty with Ger
many.
Bishop Joseph M. Francis, addressing
the ministers, declared the failure of the
United States senate to ratify the peace
treaty is costing America her place as
the leader in world affairs.
Regarding the league covenant, the
ministers said that they based their at
titude upon the principle of the league,
leaving out the question of reservations
or interpretations.
SINN FEIN WINS
CORK COUNCIL
Spring Surprises by Victory in
Unionist Stronghold.
CORK. Ireland, Jaq. 17.—Eight Sinn
Fein aldermen were elected in this city,
according to unofficial returns made pub
lic today. Two Irish Independents were
elected, but none of the Redmondites
were successful.
Berry, which has been unionist for 300
years, elected only one unionist candi
date.
Waterford, Limerick, Clonmel, Dublin
and Shaw all elected a majority of Sinn
Fein candidates. Independents slipped
into office at several places, causing sur
prises.
Canadian Province
Without Newspapers
WINNIPEG, Jan. 17.—Manitoba was
without newspapers today.
All dally papers suspended publication
with yesterday’s issues because of the
refusal of the Ft. Frances Pulp and
Paper Company to supply papier on order
of the news print controller at Ottawa.
Officials were preparing for seizure of
the mills unless the company recedes
from its attitude by next Saturday.
Portuguese Cabinet,
3 Days Old, Quits
LISBON, Jan. 17.—The cabinet of Pre
mier Costa, which was formed Wednes
day, has resigned.
Home
EDITION
TWO CENTS.
FAILS TO TELL
WHO GAVE HIM
SUCH ORDERS
Declares Big Destroyer Fleet
Would Have Prevented
U-Boat Menace.
LAUDS CHASER CREWS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—“ Don’t
let the British pull the wool over
your eyes. We would as soon fight
the British as the Germans,” was the
parting instructions given Admiral
William Sims as he left for Europe
to command American naval forces
there, he told the senate committee
Investigating naval awards today.
Sims did not disclose who gave him
these Instructions, but left the Impression
that they were from someone in author
ity in Washington.
Sims was reading from his official re
port on naval lessons of the war. His
disclosures created a sensation In the
crowded room.
"When I was ordered to go to London
in 1917,” Sims said, “I was told ‘don’t
let the British pull the wool over your
eyes; we don’t want to pull their chest
nuts out of the fire. Remember that we
would as soon fight the British as the
Germans.’ ”
DESTROYER FLEET
WOULD HAVE HELPED.
If the United States had a larger de
stroyer fleet when the war began uiere
would have been no submarine menace,
Sims told the committee. A fleet of 500
destroyers thrown in when America
joined the allies would have made the
undersea boats harmless, Sims said.
The 110-foot submarine chasers, he
added, “were one of the misconceptions
of the war.’’ These light boats were
built on the theory that submarines would
stay in still wafer close to the shore.
Admiral Sims charged in the report
that the “department demanded the im
possible" before they approved any ac
tion. “No policy was extended until
three months after we entered the xvar,”
he said.
Admiral Sims denied he favored officers
to the detriment of enlisted men in the
recommendations for naval awards. Ha
denied he favored “land officers” over of
ficers on the sea in the recommendations.
ISSUES LETTER
SENT BAGLEY.
Admiral Sims made public a letter sent
Commander Bagley, brother-in-iaw of
Secretary Daniels, following the Bagley
award by the secretary. *
“I am sorry that you should be placed
in such an unfavorable light after your
fine destroyer service in the war zone. I
feel if you had been consulted in this you
would have avoided this,” Admiral Sims
wrote.
Answering a question by Senator Tram
mell, the admiral said he served on land.
“My office was on land, as was the
headquarters of every high commanding
officer of the allies. It was impossible
to establish headquarters on the sea,” he
said.
“The enemy would not come out. Had
he wished to fight we all would have
commanded on the sea,’’ he added.
Admiral Sims said the anti-submarine
campaign was conducted on the patrol
system when he arrived in France. The
convoy system was introduced soon after
the United States entered activities.
CONVOY SYSTEM
IS TOO SLOW.
“The loss of time caused by the con
voy system is such that it is not wise t*
begin the convoy system when speed is
required,” he said.
“If the white people of the world had
believed that a nation would attack mer
chant ships we would have built enongfc
destroyers to make such attacks impos
sible. The submarine can not combat
with the destroyers.
“There were very few naval officers
who believed the submarine could do
what it has done. We thought the sub
marine could operate only in closed wa
ters. When we found the large ones
could stay out three months, we knew
that the sub-chaser was not effective.
"We then adopted listening devices,
which located the submarine.”
Sims paid a high tribute to the “col
lege boys” who manned the sub-chasers.
HAD NO HELP
FOR FOUR MONTHS.
Aid was denied him for four months,
Admiral Sims said.
“It was only after my only aid was
broken down that three officers were sent
me,” he said in his letter. “I was forced
to take men from ships to make the ad
ministration of the fleet effective."
“It would have been difficult to con
ceive of a greater misunderstanding of
the situation abroad,” the letter said.
“We will have to go to the committed
or the senate to investigate the entire
naval operations” Senator McCormick,
tepublican, of Illinois, interjected dur
ing the reading of the ’etter. “It Is a
terrible state.”
Senator Hale, chairman of the subcim
mlttee, said he would ask the naval af
fairs comraitte efor further authority, in
view of the serious charges.
Senator Pittman said the letter should
not have been read because “it had noth
ing to do with our investigation.”
COMPLAINTS MADE
BY ADMIRAL.
The complaints against the department J
by Admiral Sims were cited as follows
No policy.
Did not have policy for three montbfl
after war started. During critical
of submarine warfare campaign
ment violated principles of defense.
Navy department did not support
resentatlves in allied councils. jfv*ips
Tbe commander unable to
aides. Jgjgf
Instead of relying on those
actual experience the navy dej^Kent
continued its uninformed *
Vincennes Toy Plant
to Resume Work
Special to The Times.
VINCENNES, Ind., Jan. 17.—Tbe Ju
venile Manufacturing Company, succes
sors to the Marsh Manufacturing Com
pany, with increase! capital stock, will
start operations in a few days, accord
ing to announcement by the secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce. Tbe com
pany will manufacture toys, and ha*
sufficient orders booked to operate Vn
tlnuously with a force of 169 people tw
the next twelr* month*.