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NEW GIVEN 10
YEARS TO LIFE
FOR MURDER
Reputed Son of Indiana Sen
ator Gave Self Up After
Crime.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 30.
ator Harry. S. New of Indiana, yes
terday was sentenced to from ten
years to life imprisonment for the
murder of his sweetheart, Freda
Lesser.
The court overruled a motion for a
new trial. New’s attorneys gave notice
of appeal and obtained a stay of execu
tion until next Tuesday.
New’s expression did not change. When
the proceedings were over he turned and
followed the bailiff out of the court as
If nothing had happened. Neither his
mothfer nor his sister was with him
when sentence was passed.
The court in sending New to San
Quentin entirely ignored the note which
the jury sent along with the verdict ask
ing that New be sent to an insane
asylum for observation before being
ordered to San Quentin.
The scene when New was sentenced
wag not dramatic. Judge Craig made
a formal statement overruling the mo
tion for anew trial and called to the
defendant to arise.
With his attorneys and the bailiff
standing beside him, New arose and
looked squarely at the judge.
Judge Craig recited, according to the
legal formailities, the steps which had
been taken in the case and simply pro
nounced that New was sentenced “to the
term prescribed by law for such an of
fense In San Quentin, Cal., prison.”
New was arrested when he drove to the
Los Angeles central police station early
on the morning of July 5, last year, with
the body of the Lesser girl in his au
tomobile.
He then told a story of rejected love.
He said Miss Lesser was about to be
come the mother of his child and that he
killed her because she refused to marx-y
him.
Mrs. Lnlu Berger, young New’s mother,
was in Indianapolis when she learned
of the crime. She sped westward as soon
as she could and has stood loyally by her
son through the courtroom ordeal.
New’s trial, which lasted several weeks,
attracted national interest because of the
defendant’s contention that he was Sen
ator New’s son.
Counsel for the young man based their
case entirely upon the theory that New
was insane because his love had been
spurned by the woman whom he loved.
The jury was out about two full days
before a verdict was reached.
DISPUTES ARMY
BILL ESTIMATE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Senator
Wadsworth, New York, chairman of the
senate military affairs committee, will
carry the fight to the enemies of uni
versal military training, he said yester
day, Wadsworth Issued a statement
replying to the claim of Representative
Mondell, republican leader In the house,
that universal training will cost a billion
dollars a year.
Wadsworth quoted figures prepared by
the war department which show that
universal training under the senate bill,
just reported by the committee, will cost
$645,379,000 in 1921, increasing slightly
I each year until 1926, when the estimated
Icost will be $692,753,000. These figures.
(Wadsworth said, represent annual
Imaximums.
1 Senator Wadsworth pointed out that
it will be necessary to enlarge present
' camp facilities and declared that whereas
It "costs approximately SI,BOO a year to
support a soldier of the regular army
today,” the cost in 1921 under the new
system will be $509, and In 1926 will
have dropped to $l7O.
CLAIM FARMER
SLEW MOTHER
STEVENS POINT. Wis.. Jan. 30.—John
Busa, farmer, was charged with the mur
der of his aged mother, found dead on
the stairway of the family home, by the
rerdlct of the coroner’s jury here yester
day.
Mrs. Mary Winkler, a neighbor, testi
fied that she found a club 18 Inches long
and 3 inches thick covered with matted
hair and blood near the Busa house after
the tragedy.
Busa’s wife, who is suing him for di
vorce, testified that he had repeatedly
quarreled with his mother over the own
ership of the farm.
Eat Plain Food
Cut Out Candy,
Dr. Wiley Says
Plain foods are necessary to good
health, Dr. Harvey W. 'Wiley, noted pure
food expert, told Indiana tomato growers
and members of the Indiana Asspciation
of the Baking Industry in speeches be
fore their conventions at the Claypool
hotel yesterday. Dr. Wiley was pass
ing through Indianapolis and consented
to speak at the two meetings.
“I was brought up on cornmeal mush,
milk, sorghum molasses and the Bible,”
he said, “and they have brought me a
long way. I am bringing my children
up the same way. I won’t permit them
to eat candy and they take it as an insult
if any one offers them candy."
In speaking to the farmers Dr. Wiley
told them that they can perform a great
service to the country by co-operation
with those with whom they work and
,-nssociate.
SHOWS LOGIC
OF CO-OPERATION.
“Every man must realise that his pros
perity depends on the prosperity of
every one else,” he said. “The farmer
must look to the interests of every class
of society.”
In speaking to the tomato growers he
told of the great value of the tomato
as a food.
“It is true,” he said, “that the to
mato is mostly water, but our bodies
without water would be at about the
same place the saloons are today.”
He said that tomatoes contain the
necessary vitimines to counteract the
lack of this necessary material in other
foods. He predicted the increasing use
of the tomato as a food.
The meeting of tomato growers was
held under the auspices of the Indians
Federation of Farmers’ associations.
Lewis Taylor, secretary of the organi
sation, presided. There was an informal
discussion of the problems of the to
mato grower at the morning session.
GIVES ADDRESS
ON ADVERTISING.
On the bakers' program were speeches
iby J. M. Bell of Chicago t-n “Reciprocal
Insurance for the Baker,” by Fred Mll
lis of Indianapolis on “Advertising” and
by Frank Middleton of Marion on “Zone
Meetings.” The bakers entertained dele
gations from New York, Kentucky, Till
nols and Ohio who attended the con- I
ventlon to learn of the operation of |
Indiana laws as applied to bakers.
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GLASS PLEADS
TO AID EUROPE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Picturing a
scene of starvation and disease that
threatens the stability of all government
in western Europe, Secretary of Treasury
Glass made an appeal yesterday to the
ways and means committee for an appro
priation of $125,000,000 for food relief for
these countries.
“This is a reduction of $25,000,000 from
the original estimate,” said the secre
tary. “It is based on estimates made by
Herbert Hoover, who says that a smaller
sum, such as $50,000,000, as suggested,
would be hurtful and a menace Instead
of helpful.
“It would not be sufficient to relieve
the general starvation and would render
those not fed more desperate and en
courage them in acts to overthrow all
government. One purpose of this relief
is to allay resentment."
“If that is the purpose, why demand
securities, why not give the money out
right,” demanded Representative Garner
of Texas.
“That would not be good policy,” said
Secretary Glass. “I might say that if a
comprehensive plan of relief is worked
out by us, Great Britain, France, Canada
and Argentina have notified us of a
willingness to help. Argentina will give
$2,000,u00; Canada possibly $10,000,000:
England the necessary tonnage. Our plan
of help does not contemplate a drain
on the treasury. The grain corporation
has the money.”
Secretary Glass said that late reports
from Austria stated that women and
children were dying by the thousands
from lack of food.
OFFICER DIES
IN PLANE FALL
NEJW YORK, Jan. 30.—Lieut. Bernard
Bekhout was fatally Injured Wednesday
morning when a plane in which he was
flying over the Guanttanamo naval radio
station fell, according to a wireless re
port received by the naval radio station
here today.
Bekhout was taken to a hospital ship,
where he later died, the dispatch said.
The plane was wrecked.
1,159 Ships Added to
U. S. Board in 1919
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Vessels con
structed for the shipping board during
1019 numbered 1,159, totaling 6,229,323
deadweight tons, it was announced to
day by the board.
There were 741 steel, 12 composite, 403
wood and 3 concrete ships.
MUCH FETED IN CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 Miss Celia and Miss Rebecca Claro,
daughters of Samuel L. Claro, a member of the Chilean delegation to
the financial conference held in Washington, have been much feted
during their visit in the capital city. Among the many functions given
in their honorj was a dance at tbe Argentine embassy.
ORDERS PROBE OF
LAWYER’S HANDLING
OF CLIENT’S MONEY
An investigation by the Marion county grand jury into the way In
which Adolph Seldenstlcker, attorney and member of the state board of
pardons, handled SI,OOO procured by friends of his client, Carl Schmidt, in
dicted for embezzlement, was ordered yesterday by Judge Collins of crim
inal court.
Scumidt had been Indicted charged with embezzlement of $3,285 be
longing to the Independent Athletic club while lie was manager of the
club. Nine Indianapolis business men and one Toledo man had advanced
SI,OOO to be paid back to the club for Schmidt. This money was placed in
Seidensticker’s hands, it is Baid.
GLAZER AGAIN
GRANTED DELAY
P. P. Glazer, Gary. Tnd., yesterday was
instructed in United States district court
to appear in court next Thursday morn
ing to complete his defense to a charge
of contempt of court and present evi
dence that a mortgage held against Karol
Michlaski has been cancelled. Hearing
on the contempt charge againsf Glazer
was continued. ,
Glazer was cited for contempt two
weeks ago, following the trial of Felix
Miller, Karol Michlaski and Alex Gorski
on charges of theft. It is charged that
he accepted money to defend the men and
advised them to plead not guilty to a
charge of stealing from interstate ship
ments. although he knew they had made
written confessions of their guilt.
The defense introduced Georg*. B.
Shere, attorney of Hammond, Ind,, and
B. N. Balegrozn of Gary, Ind., as wit
nesses today. Glazer said two of his
witnesses had not been subpeonaed and
asked that the case be delayed until they
were heard.
Attorney Swan Johnson, defending
Gxtizer, filed an answer to the charge
and moved to demur. The demurrer was
overruled.
It as brought, out In the examination
of witnesses that Glazer. at one time,
operated a Russian legal bureau in Chi
cago, and sold # books for a Bible school.
“No member of this bar can come into
this court, violate the rules of practice
and expect to escape tho conclusions
that follow,” said Judge A.,8. Anderson
sn summing up the case.
A petition nsking that the citizenship
certificate of Glazer be canceled is stilt
pending in court. In this petition the
defendant is alleged to advocate prin
ciples of tbe communist party and to
oppose organized government
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1920.
Schmidt was called upon to produce
the money. He could not do so, tho
judge said, and left the courtroom, re
turning with two checks, one for $950
and one for SSO. It developed that Sel
densticker had put up Liberty bonds to
secure the payment of the checks, tbe
judge said.
In court yesterday he demanded of
Seidensticker why it was necessary to
secure the cheeks when he already had
been paid the SI,OOO. He then told Dep
uty Prosecutor Evans, who was present,
to take, the mater up before the grand
Jury.
Schmidt pleaded guilty and sentence
was suspended to give him an opportu
nity to pay back the. rest of the money.
Scales 17-Story Hotel
in Ten Minutes
Jack Williams, a “human fly,” scaled
the seventeen-story Washington hotel
building yesterday, while thousands of
people in the street looked up In umaze
rnent.
Williams climbed the outside of the
building in ten minutes, using ropes only
to go over the cornices. He then went
to the top of the flag pole. Williams
was brought here by th*> Gatling Gun
club, which is staging “Slippery Gulch”
at Tomlinson hall.
SPATS NOT LUXURIES.
LONDON, Jan. 30. -Magistrate Chap
man, in a Westminster court, has de
cided that spats are not luxuries and
fined a Ivuitsbridge haberdasher $250
for selling a pair at $3.75. He over
ruled the argument advanced on the
dealer's behalf that only the fastidious
wear white spats.
PREVENTION IS BEST
CURE FOR INFLUENZA
SAY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES
Every Possible Fffort Is Be
ing Made In Affected Lo
calities To Stop Further
Spread Os Disease
OUNCE OF PREVENTION
WORTH POUND OFCURE
Persons Who Catch Colds
Easily and Who Are In
Run-down Condition In
Greatest Danger.
Influenza continues to spread; and the
disease is now prevalent over many sec
tions of the country.
It hfit baffled the medical .skill to an
unusual extent, and although it has been
held in check in most localities it has
gotten beyond control in other#. The
germ has eluded bacteriologists, and
medical men now agree that the best
cure is prevention.
The surest prevention is to build up
the bodily powers of resistance, and to
get the system Into the best physical
condition possible. It is now universal
ly agreed that It Is possible to perfect
the powers of resistance of the human
system so that it can throw- off almost
any infection, not excepting influer-a.
WYOMING GETS
RICH FROM OIL
LAND RENTALS
State Earns $2,800 Per Day in
Royalties From Petrol
eum Wells.
SCHOOLS PROVIDED FOR
CHEYENNE, Wyo, Jan. 30.—Although
Wyoming is deriving a revenue of $2,800
a day in royalties from state-owned oil
lands and the amount is rapidly increas
ing, there Is no stable foundation for the
altruistic prediction that this may be
come a taxless state. That Utopian sit
uation will never be achieved by Wyom
ing as a result of oil royalties or other
forms of income from state-owned lands,
for the reason that all such lands are en
tailed and the proceeds from their sale
or lease can be applied only to clearly
specified purposes. There may come a
time—this appears probable—when the en
tire expense of conducting the educational
system of the state may be financed with
out taxation and there Is a much less
probable possibility that state penal and
1 charitable institutions eventually may be
supported entirely from land grant in
come, but the financing of Other forms
of governmental activity must continue
as at present to be based on taxation.
When Wyoming was admitted to state
hood in 1890 the federal government gen
erously provided it a splendid endow
ment by giving it title to 4,200.000 acres
of public lands within Its boundaries.
The value placed on these lands at that
f.ime was $42,000,000 —It now Is. much
greater. The value of state-owned oil
rands, in fact, now is estimated at a
figure greater than the original valuation
of the whole grant. Attaching to the
gift were certain provisions and these
rhe state can not now avoid. The Act
:of Admission provided that the ln
| come from the sale and rental of 3,532,800
| acres of the grant should he devoted in
| perpetuity to the common public schools
\ and that the Income from the remainder
| of the grant should be devoted to the
! support of other public institutions, as
follows: State university, 46,000 acres;
rrtate capitol, 112,000 acres; state agricul
tural college, 90,000 acres; state hospital
for the insane, 30,000 acres; state penal
and reform institutions, 290,000 acres,
with an additional 30,000 acres spe
cifically for the state penitentiary; state
fish hatchery, 5,000 acres; support of
deaf, dumb and blind, 30,000 acres; state
poor farm, 30.000 acres, and state hos
| pital, 30,000 acres. The Act of Admission
; set forth that neither the lands nor the
| Income from them ever might be
! alienated from the purposes to which
fhev were dedicated.
Because of the immense area of “school
| lands.” as compared with that of other
I institutional lands, the bulk of the $2,800
daily which the state Is deriving from
Teased lands Is applied to the support of
the common schools. Rapidly though the
Income Is Increasing, however, the time
fs far in the future before Wyoming
may finance its schools entirely from state
owned land proceeds. At present several
times the amount derived from lands
annually Is raised by taxation for the
support of the schools. The lnndgrant
Income of the state Institutions other
than schools represents a comparatively
(small proportion of (he expense of con
ducting these Institutions.
Under the state's Interpretation of the
act of admission only the Income from
land rentals and royalties may be ap
plied to current expenses. Funds derived
i from the sale of state lands are preserved,
only the Interest thereon being devoted
to current expenses. Asa result of this
| Interpretation the land grant endowment,
which otherwise might be dissipated, be-
I comes perpetual.
The school land grant, consisting of
5.520 sections of 640 acres each, Is so scat
tered that there Is not a proven or pros
spectlve oil field In the state In which
] there Is not a considerable area of school
lands.
Backs Up Clubhouse
Plan for JSx-Soldiers
BOSTON, Jan 30.—Wbat a great club
| house for the Yankee division would do
| for the boys who fought In the war
against Germany Is told by Brig, Gen.
j Charles H. Cole, who Is leading the cam
paign for funds with which to erect
Buch a structure.
“These men have come back to their
friends, their before-tbe-war friends, and
their old friends mean just aa much to
them,” he said. “But there Is a ‘bud
dlesblp’ which grew up in France that
Is not satisfied; a friendship that is
I unknown and Inconceivable to any ex
cept to those who have shared it; a
comradeship of the highest and truest
Bnd finest, order.
“Such ‘buddieships’ must live. Thetfr
life means better Americans, better citt
zens. But to keep them alive the ‘bud
dies’ must have a place to meet. The
Yankee Division club will furnish anch
n place. And so the spirit of the hoys
will be perpetuated through their live*
and in the lives of their children—our
future citizens.”
It has been observed that persons who
are weak and run-down are more sus
ceptible to the: disease than persons who
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disease germs. This is a statement of
fact and is supported by the recognized
authorities and reference works, includ
ing the IT. S. Dispensatory, the Encyclo
pedia Britaniea, and also by standard
text books used in the schools of medi
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Tanlac is also an Ideal strengthening
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In connection with the Tanlac treat
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Tanlac is sold In Indianapolis by the
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$75,000 Jazz Wedding Has Thrills
Like Those That Come in Movies
thay AtA/earY ‘
THEY PAJAT
CANTON, 0., Jan. 30.-~Was the jazz
time wedding of William Bennett Hoff
man to Miss Ida E. Hinton, the $75,000
inheritance Hoffman talked of and the
bridegroom's disappearance after forty
eight hours of supposed bliss all parts
of a plan to boost the pair to celluloid
fame ?
The deserted bride has dry eyes. She
says they never were wet with tears
Mjueezed from a pain-wracked soul.
“There’s the movies,” says she, ”1
have au offer already. You know how
much movie actresses get. T shall ask
for SIO,OOO a week.”
Consider the sub-titles already flicked
by on this fast moving “reel of real
life."
.“Hodman, gay young steam-fitter In
a railway shop, will enherit $75 000 un
der his mother's will if wed by. Feb. 1.
He writes a newspaper advertisement
* *’•
“Ida, Canton's popular waitress, sees
the ad. ‘Free heart * * * loving dis
position and * * * money!’ she reads,
'l'm for him'!”
“Love In a lobby. The couple meet
at 6 a. m. at Hoffman’s hotel and • *
• are wed at 9 a. m."
“Two days Inter—vamoosed! Oh,
where, oh, where hath the bridegroom
hied?”
IS SHE PASSING UP
GOOD OPPORTUNITY ?
Now, Canton’s movie fans insist, Mrs.
Hoffman is passing tip a good chance
for some flue emotional work. She should
weep. She should beat her bosom •ind
tear her hair. Her. face should regis
ter drawn and haggard.
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She should smile Theda smiles of sweet
revenge to come, with a throat slitting,
or else, say the cinema critics, weep Tish
tears of a “maiden busted heart.”
Hoffman tried to charge newspaper
men far taking his picture the day after
the-wedding and he said then that he
was “negotiating" with a moving pic
ture company.
Now some of the 150 other Canton
girls were neglected by him for Miss
Hinton, are saying that they “always
did think the whole thing was a frameup
for the movies.”
Mrs. Hoffman, they point out, appar
ently will win, “win, lose or draw.”
MAY’ COME BACK
WITH CAN OF GOLD.
Hoffman will come back with a can
of gold—maybe.
Hoffman will come back without the
gold. The couple w-ill be given star’s
contracts by some movie producer—
maybe.
Hoffman may not come back at all
and Mrs. Hoffman enter a silver screen
career at SIO,OOO a week —maybe.
Anyway as she journeys between the
counter and coffee urn In the lunchroom
she left when she married, Mrs. Hoff
man drops no tears.
“He left a hotel bill,’* she says, “and
of course I must 'pay that. Also he
said my $45 watch was broken and that
be would take it to be fixed. I haven't
found it yet."
“I married him for love alone,” she
says. “Not for his money and If he
doesn’t come bnck I'll easily make $75.-
000 in the movies and selling my pic
tures. I may make him stay away two
years as punishment if he does come
back.
And so the question is, say the disap
pointed leap year lassies of Canton, will
the movies fall for this?
SAYS INDIANA
REDS SCARING
UP WITNESSES
Bomb Exploded Near Home of
Vincennes Woman, U. S.
Officer Reports.
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Attempts have been made to intimidate
witnesses against alleged reds taken in
the raids of Jan. 3 .according to evi
dence presented to C. 11. Paul, Unitei 1 .
States immigration officer.
Mr. Paul returned to Indianapolis
yesterday after hearing cases of men
now being held for deportation In Yin
cennes. Ind., and Clinton, Ind.
It was at Clinton that Indications t
attempts being made to Intimidate wit
nesses developed, he said. During the
examinations a woman, who had pre
viously made a sworn statement In Um
case of Felix Mezalis, denied her former
testimony and told the officers that her
life had Deen threatened.
“If I would talk they would kill me,"
she Is alleged to have said.
WOMAN’S STORE
VISITED BY FARMERS.
The woman conducts a small store,
which is frequented by foreigners, ac
cording to Clinton officials. A few nights
ago a bomb was exploded near her 1 house.
Fragments of this explosive were pre
sented as evidence to the immigration
officer by the Clinton chief of police.
The bomb was exploded in a neighbor
hood inhabited by the majority of wit
nesses against the alleged reds of Clin
ton, according to the police there. Thei'*
is no trace of the man who threw it.
In Vincennes, Ind., government of
ficials also met with difficulty In getting
testimony from witnesses. This was
especially marked in regard to wives of
men now being held.
Miss Margaret Sedelmeyer, secretary of
the association of organized charities in t
Vincennes, presented evidence to Mr. ,
Paul, which she had obtained from the
women when they asked for charitable
aid. According to Miss Sedelmeyer she
was told by the women that their hus
bands had been affiliated with the com
munist party and bad received orders j
from Chicago to destroy all literature
in their possession.
WOMEN WOULD GO
WITH HUSBANDS.
She said that with the exception of
two cases the wives of the men now held
said they wished to accompany their
husbands if deported.
When confronted with this evidence
and asked to tell the same story to gov
ernment officials the women were said
to have denied making such statements
and to have attacked Miss Sedelmeyer.
The wife of Aloys Krewett. one of the men
held, tried to kill the social worker, but’
was prevented from doing so by gov
ernment officials, It was said today. Tlxa
wife of Robert Pressler also became an
gry and heaped abuse on Miss Sedel
meyer, according to government officials.
The men whose cases were heard in
Vincennes were Albert Dzoble, Karl
Trader, Mike Dara, William Nowisitski,
Aloys Krewett and Robert Pressler.
Two men were arraigned for bearing
in Indianapolis yesterday. Five cases
were heard in Terre Haute and Clinton
Wednesday.
Ah, Bad Weather
Troubles Spirits, Too
LONDON, Jan. 30.—Spirits are handi
caped by the weather. That’s the latest
bit of information from that wide class
of experimenters who have been mak
ing spiritualism a topic of daily discus
sion in England.
“That Is why all the best mediums of
the direct voice come from America,” one
prominent spiritualist explains. “A
heavy, foggy day is almost fatal; a clear,
frosty day is best.”
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