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VOL. XXXII. NO. 228.
FARMERS PAY
WHO DID NOT
KICK ON TAXES
Those Who Did Got Reduction,
but Those Who Didn’t
Didn’t.
TAX BOARD TO BLAME
t ~
The Constitution
‘•The general assembly shall pro
vide by law for a uniform and equal
rate of assessment and taxation; and
shall prescribe such regulations as
shall secure a just valuation for tax
ation of all property* both real and
personal.”—Constitution of Indiana.
In order to obtain a Just valuation
of their land it was necessary for all
owners of farm property in Center town
ship to appeal to the state board of tax
commissioners for revaluations, examina
tion of the books today revealed. Ceuter
township farm owners who did not ap
j eal must bear an unjust burden of
taxation.
A comparison of the valuations of
land in other townships indicates valua
tions about on an equality of those
made in Center township by the state
tax board after property owners had ap
pealed.
Taken as a whole, farm land appraise
ments in Center township, after the hori
zontal Increase was made by the tax
board and before the assessments on
most of the property were lowered, aver
aged about SSOO an acre.
In other townships, after the horizon
tal increase had been added, the valua
tions averaged about S3OO an acre. In
cases where appeals were taken the valu
ations of Center township property were
lowered to a figure approximately equal
to those of other townships.
HOW THE MIXUP
WORKS OCT.
This means that if the valuations as
they stand today are correct, noue of
♦he valuations In Marion county, except
possibly those in Center township, were
correct before the horizontal Increases
* were added.
It means that the valuations in all of
the townships, with the exception of
Center, were lower than the correct val
uations and that those In Centex town
ship were nearly correct.
Then the state tax board ordered hori
zontal increases in every township, even
including Center, where the valuations
were nearly correct on a basis of the
present figures.
This action resulted in bringing up the \
valuations in the outlying townships to
their correct figure and of making the
valuations in Center township much too
high.
CORRECT INCORRECT;
INCORRECT CORRECT,
Thus, instead of the tax board in
creasing the valuations that were too
low and permitting those which were
correct to stand, it increased all of them,
making those which were originally in
correct correct and those which were
originally correct Incorrect.
Under these circumstances, the taxpay
ers had but one recourse. It was neces
sary for them to file with the tax board
an appeal for a revaluation. This was
dene by most of the owners of farvo
f property in enter township, but in a
few cases it was not done and these
taxpayers must bear the burden of un
just valuations.
In other words, in order to obtain
1 Justice from the state board of tax com
missioners it was necessary for every
owner of farm property to appear and
make a claim for a revaluation, where
upon a just valuation was fixed.
It is apparently necessary for every
taxpayer to watch every move of taxiDg
officials if he expects to be treated fairly
and to be assessed his Just share of the
taxes paid in the taxing unit in which
his property is situated.
BANK BANDITS
WIN REPRIEVE
Supreme Court Sets Aside
Death Sentences of Four.
Four Lake county bank bandits, who
were under sentence of death for the
murder of a bank cashier at Tolleston,
today hare anew lease on life. The
supreme court of Indiana has granted
them anew trial.
The men were to die in the electric
chair at the Michigan City state prlion
April 23. They are Thomas M. Bachelor,
Albert C. Bachelor, James H. Parker and
Dan Trkulja.
The supreme court reversed the cases
on the ground that the defendants
entered pleas of guilty without having
full knowledge of their rights under the
law and did not appreciate the conse
quences of their actions. The men plead
ed guilty without being represented by
attorneys and filed motions to withdraw
their pleas of guilty and stand trial by
Jury after they had been sentenced. They
were sentenced in the Lake county crim
inal court.
The four bandits were originally sen
tenced to die Nov. 1, 1010. This was
stayed by the supreme court until Jan.
1.4 1920, and later it was stayed until
April 23.
Actress Says Lawyer
Gave “Some Party”
“It was some party,” pretty Miss Anna
L,Laßne, actress, told the police, “and it |
was some dramatic ending.’’
Aa a result the police today are search- !
ing for Henry B. Krug, an attorney, who
has offices in the Hurae-Mansur build- j
ing. Miss Laßue told the police that '
Krug threw her downstairs and drew a
butcher knife and threatened her. The
affair occurred, it is said, at 901 North j
New Jersey street, where Krug hag an |
apartment, in which Miss Laßue says he ■
gave a party, at which she and another j
young woman were among the guests.
Miss Laßue told Motor Police Lansing |
and Finney she lived at the Plaza hotel.
Krug had disappeared before the police
arrived.
Million New York
Voters Registered
NEW YORK, Jam 31.—The board of
elections last night announced that near
ly one million voters, more than half
of them democrats, are enrolled in this
city. The democratic enrollment shows
645,967 registrants, republican, 382,903;
socialists, 54,671; prohibitionists, 5,941;
blank, defective, missing, 88,596.
* BULGAK DIPLOMAT SLAIN. ,
SOFIA, Jan. 31.—M. Takeff, former
minister of public works and minister so
the Interior in the Mallnoff cabinet of
1918, was assassinated at Pescera, near
Philippopolls, Jan. 24. The assassin es
caped.
Published at Indianapolis, Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, isi.4, at
Ind., Dally Except Sunday. Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 8, 1879.
BELIEVES 2 HELD
BLEW UP TRAIN
Logansport Pair, Caught With
Nitroglycerine, Under Fire.
Special to The Times.
LOGANSPORT, Ind., Jan. 31.—Rail
road officials here are making an effort
to connect Ray Layton and Jack Cough
lin, the two alleged safe blowers ar
rested here Monday with explosives in
their possession, with the train wreck
at Hercules, near Stoy, 111., on the morn
ing of Jan. 21. A train was wrecked
when it struck a botttle containing nitro
glycerine which had been left on the
track. It is supposed that the robbers,
who stole ten quarts from the round- j
house at Hercules the night before, had !
left the bottle on the tracks in theii !
flight.
Layton refuses to talk while Coughlin
denies having any connection with th*
wreok, the officers say. It is said that
Coughlin claims that the nitroglycerine !
found in the possession of the two men !
had been stolen from near Terre Haute j
about the first of January.
Officials who have interviewed Cough- j
lin say he claims to have beeu assoc!- j
ated with Layton only fluring the last j
few weeks, and that he has taken no
part in any robbery. Coughlin also
states that he understands that Layton j
has been in prison in Illinois and has
been arrested on several occasions, the
officials states.
CRUSADE NIPS
SUGAR GOUGERS
U. S. Attorney Says 110 Crim
inal Charges Have Been Made.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—While the
justice department today denied that
sugar profiteers were escaping punish- !
ment, Senator McNarv of Oregon declared
that evidence of enormous profits were
'being made in sugar—running as high as
100 per cent in some cases—had been re
ceived from many sources.
Assistant Attorney Figg, in charge of
the government’s campaign to reduce liv
ing costs, announced that in the last
sixty days 110 criminal cases have been
started against sugar profiteers. These
resulted, he said, from approximately 500
investigations of alleged profiteering cases.
Figg predicted a drop in sugar prices.
McNary said today he had written the
department of justice about the profiteer
ing situation. F'resh evidence, he said, j
“comes to my office every day.”
Accused of Seizing
GirPs Pocketbook
Mrs. Susan Schmidt of 526 Patterson j
street sent her little girl, Susie MeCal- |
lister, with a $5 bill to the grovery to
buy $1.85 cents worth of goods.
After buying the groceries Eusie placed [
the change in her little black pocketbook
and started home. Charles Gibson, 12, j
and Buford Branch, 13, both colored, i
happened along. They spied the pocket- \
book.
The lads, according to charges filed I
against them in the juvenile court, tossed I
an empty pocketbook right In Susie's |
path. She stooped to pick it up and :
then one of the boys snatched Susie’s j
little black purse, according to juvenile j
court officers. Gibson and Branch are !
today in the Detention home waiting a I
hearing
Tentative I. W. W.
Jury Completed
MONTESANO, Wash., Jan. 31.—The
jury for thj trial of the eleven alleged
I. W. W. charged with the murder of
Warren O. Grimm, American legion mem
ber, at Centralla last November, is now
complete tentatively.
Rfforts will be made today by both
sides to oust some of the selected venire
men. Two additional jurors will be
passed upon by the court to act as sub
stitutes. The taking of evidence is ex
pected to begin next Tuesday.
JMiimra Hail® Sitncs
HEARIN’ THINGS
Wife Angel to
Rival and Baby
in Love Triangle
Helps Husband Shield Pair
from War Country in Fight
On Deportation.
NEW YORK. .Tan. 31.—Miss Emily
Knowles, an English girl, and her 3
months' old baby, are held at Ellis
Island today and immigration authorities
declare they must be sent back to Eng
land because the mother is classed, under
the immigration laws as “immoral.”
Mrs. Cora M. Spiker of Baltimore is
resisting the deporation order of the
immigration officials. She declares she
knows that her husband, Perley R. Spik
er, is the father of Miss Knowles’ child,
but that she wishes to adopt the infant
and that she knows the morals of both
Miss Knowles and Mr. Spiker are “above
reproach.”
Guy Spiker, a brother of Perley Spik- j
er, has come forward and made affidavit j
of his willingness to marry Miss Knowles j
and “throw the cloak of protection about j
her.”
MOST DAMAGING
ETERNAL TRIANGLE.
And in the foregoing three paragraphs j
are set forth the facts in the most nmaz- j
ing instance of the "eternal triangle" that
Immigration authorities here have ever
had presented to them.
The solution of it is now up to the de j
partment of labor at Washington.
Miss Knowles, according to an affidavit \
filed by Mrs. Spiker, came to America with j
funds supplied by Mrs. Spiker after she
had learned of her husband’s relations
•with the English girl. Spiker and the
girl became acquainted while he was a
student aviator at a training camp in
England.
“I have been thoroughly informed of
all the conditions of ray husband's friend- j
ship with Miss Knowles,” says Mrs. j
Spiker’s affidavit. I know the moral j
character and tendencies of my husband
and I know them to he above reproach.
Miss Knowles is not immoral under the
rules laid down in the immigration laws.
She is a lovable, gentle, refined girl. I
would welcome her in my home.”
BEGS TO ADOPT
BABY AS FATHER.
An affidavit filed by Perley Spiker
begs that he be able to adopt the child,
stating that he is earning SIOO a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Spiker met Miss Knowles
when she arrived here Jan. 15. As soon
as they learned of the action of the
Immigration authorities they retained
counsel and began a fight to have the
deportation order set aside.
Immigration officials here assert that j
legally there is little ehanci of the girl ;
being admitted. A declsior by the de
partment of labor Is expected, however,
In a few days.
Says He, Not Sister
On Trial, Slew Man
MARYSVILLE, Cal., Jan. 31.—Fred
erick A. McCormick, formerly of Des ;
Moines, la., testified today in the trial
of his sister, Mrs. Gertrude Wilson,
charged with the murder of Charles;
Brown, a rancher, that be shot Brown. !
T
Millerand Voted
Confidence 510 to 70
PARIS, .Tan. 31.—The chnmber'-of dep
uties. late yesterday, voted confidence in
the government. 510 to 70.
IggniE WEATHER.
Loral Forecast—Generally fair tonight
and 8 inday, lowest temperature tonight, ■
about 15 degrees; rising temperature
Sunday.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE,
6 a. m 13
7 a. m 12
8 a. m 11
9 a. m 13
10 a. m 1 +
11 a. m... 10
13 (noon) 30
Sun ' sets today, 5:03; rises tomorrow,
6:54; sets, 5:04.
One year ago today, highest tempera
ture, 48; lowest, 29.
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920.
BEGIN ROUND UP
OFSINNFEINERS
Many Elected in Recent Poll
Arrested in Raids.
DUBLIN, Jan. 31.—A new series of
raids against the Sinn Fein throughout
all Ireland was begun today by the B*4t
isb military authorities.
Many Sinn Felners who were elected
to offices In the recent locfl
Irish elections were arrested.
British warships are due to arrive in
Dublin bay tonight to carry the pris
oners to England Jails.
A meeting of fifty members of the
Dublin corporation (council) was raided
at 4 o'clock. Some were arrested, but
others escaped.
Sinn Fein officials from Thurles were
arrested while on their way to partici
pate in a meeting.
The new repressive measures by the
British government did not come as a
surprise. They are regarded as the gov
ernment’s answer to the republicans’ de
fiant action in nominating Sinn Fein
sheriffs. Only soldiers were used in the
raids. The prisoners, it was said, would
he sent to Wormwood Kcruhbs prison in
England, where many political prison-
from Ireland have been confined in
the past.
FIND 5 BODIES
IN FIRE’S RUINS
Bunk Houses at Pennsylvania
Steel Mills Destroyed.
PITTSBURG, Jan. 31.—Five bodies,
charred beyond recognition, were await
ing identification today while search was
being made of the ruins of fifteen fire
swept homes at Clariton, near here.
Scores are homeless and hundreds,
thinly clad, were forced into the zero
weather by the blaze last midnight.
The houses, occupied mostly by ne
groes and foreigners, were used by em
ployes of the Carnegie Steel Company.
N. Y. Labor Protests
Assembly's Action
ALBANY. N. Y., Jan. 31.—Labor organ
ization representatives of practically
every city in the state were to meet here
thie afternoon to protest the suspension
of the five socialist assemblymen, investi
gation of whom will take up at least an
other week’s time of the assembly judici
ary committee.
It is generally believed that the state’s
evidence will be concluded by Wednesday
of next week. Counsel for the suspended
assemblymen declared, however, that they
will require two or three days for the
examination of witnesses in rebuttal.
Americans Invest
in Foreign Bonds
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—More than
four billion of foreign securities have
been sold to American Investors since
May 4, 1914, according to a report to
day or the treasury department In re
sponse to a senate resolution.
Os this amount approximately one bil
lion and a half were offered by the gov
ernment of Great Britain and Ireland.
The department, in making the report,
says the figures are not official, having
been obtained from private sources.
Chicago Flu Toll,
122, Breaks Record
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—A1l records for
influenza deaths in this season’s epidemic
here were broken today, when official
reports showed 122 persons died during
the past twenty-four hours. This record
was reached despite the fact that the
number of new cases dropped from 1,101
Friday to 860 today.
An order prohibiting public funerals
and wakes went Into effect here today.
SHOE WORKERS GET RAISE.
CINCINNATI, Jau. 31.—More than
9.000 shoe workers la Cincinnati were
granted Increase In pay today from 13
to 25 per rent, with back pay dating to
Nov. 1, K 9.
INDIANA GIRL
WITH GUN LET
GO, BUT WARNED
Jersey Justice for Attractive
Schoolma’am Who Went
“Gunning” for Fiance.
SHE’S ORDERED EXILED
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Jan. 31.
Jersey justice moved quickly today in
freeing Frances Johnson, the pretty
schoolma’am accused of “going gunning”
for her former fiance, wealthy young
Clarence K. Llddle.
Within the space of a couple of hours
she was indicted by the Middlesex county |
grand jury, charged with carrying con- I
cealed weapons and “placed on proba
tion for the full legal limit of three
years.’’
Under the terms of the sentence she is j
to leave this section of New Jersey and
not return, “except in so far as it may j
be necessary for her to do so to protect
her legal rights.”
The grand jury recommended extreme j
leniency. It is yet to hear the young j
teacher's charge against Llddle.
“CHARACTER” LETTERS
PROM NEW AND BLAND.
Miss Johnson's career and romance I
with the Perth Amboy youth were re
vealed by her attorney, Waite- C. Sedam,
who presented also “character’’ letters
from United States Senator Harry New
and Congressman Oscar E. Bland of In
diana, former United States District At
torney Charles Houts of St. Louis, the
girls’ uncle, and others.
Mr. Sedam told the court that Miss
Johnson was horn In Indiana and was
graduated from the hich school and nor
mal school at Vincennes, later studying
psychology in the New York university
and in Columbia. She was for a while
an instructor in the New Jersey State j
School for Mental Defectives at Vineland.
HERE’S STORY OF
THE ATTACHMENT.
The attorney said she met Llddle in
1917, and that from September of that j
year until April, 1918, they entertained
for each other very great affection.
During a part of this time, the lawyer
said. Miss Johnson lived at the home
of Llddle’s parents, and it was the un
derstanding that they were soon to be
married. Later, he said, Miss Johnson
went to Honolulu to accept a position.
While there, he said, Llddle sent her
four cablegrams urging her to return
and marry him, and also sent her S2OO j
with which to pay her passage home, j
When she returned from Honolulu, Mr.
Sedam said, Llddle met her in New
York and they went to Newark,
they spent a day before going home.
BALMY BREEZES
TO RETURN SOON
Arctic Blasts Only Passing
Phase — Prediction.
After giving Indianapolis a timid smile.
Miss Spring Weather took to her heels
during the night and early today, but
•he's coming back, the weather wan
assures.
Her fickleness was according to the
weather tnau’s best guess. For after a
balmy afternoon the mercury started
downward and continued until It stopped
at 12 atbove zero at 6 o'clock this morn
ing. Then the mercury started up and
Miss Spring Weather again appeared in
the distance.
The cold area which brought a zip
into last night's atmosphere and which
will bring zip into it again tonight la
spread over the Ohio valley but It is j
moving eastward, according to the j
weather bureau. While the far west lsj
having mild temperatures the ther
mometer is playing below zero in the I
northwest.
The weather man predicts balmy
weather Sunday.
No low temperature records were bro
ken during January, According to the i
weather bureau’s monthly review of the ;
weather conditions. There has been snow
on t'e ground every day this month, !
however, and the mercury has risen high I
enough to cause a thaw on but few oc- i
casions.
The average for the month is about |
21 degrees, while the normal average is
28 degrees. The lowest point reached j
was 1 degree above zero. The snowfall
for this month has totaled about eight,
inches.
New York Herald
Passes Into History
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—The New York i
Herald, established by the elder James :
Gordon Bennett early In the last cen
tury, lost its identity today through
merging with the Sun. The first issue
of the combined paper tomorrow morn
ing will be called The Sun and New York
Herald.
Old-time reporters of the Herald, now j
engaged In other business, held a re
union last night and wrote “copy” for
the final edition of the paper.
Japanese May Renew
Pact With British
LONDON, Jan. 31.—Negotiations for a
renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance
are under way, said a press dispatch from
Toklo today.
Viscount Uehida, the Japanese foreign
minister, was quoted as saying that
Japan had decided to renew the pact be
cause of the nation-wide demand for such
action.
Wife‘Wed for Gold’
Draws $lO Month
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 31.—His wife ac
cused him of marryjng her for mercenary
motives. Her income was $lO a month.
She and her mother nagged, too, so Carl
J. Warden got a divorce without contest.
Portland Oregonian
Raises Sunday Price
PORTLAND, Ore.. .Tan. 31.—The Port
land Oregonian has increased its Sunday
retail price to 10 cents, effective tomor
row.
Chicago to Pay Cent
More for Its Bread
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—The price of
bread will go up one cent a loaf Monday
to the consumer. The price of milk will
drop 25 cents a hundred pounds—to the
wholesaler.
HUNGARY'S TIME EXTENDED.
PARIS, Jan. 31.—Hungarian peace rep
resentatives today were granted an ex
tension of time until Feb. 12 to present
their counter proposals to the treaty re
cently submitted to them.
0,. ) By Carrier, Week, Indianapolis, 10c;
Subscription Rates. I Rise where. 12c. By Mail. 50c Per Month.
Beveridge to Be Put Up by
G. O. P. for U. S. Senatorship
A report was in general circulation
in Indianapolis today to the effect
that Albert J. Beveridge, former sen
ator from Indiana, would be an
nounced tomorrow as a candidate for
the republican nomination for sena
tor, in opposition to the candidacy
of James E. Watson.
The report was generally received
as probable for the reason that the
most industrious circulation of it was
traced to the Goodrieh-Jewett-Lem
cke adherents in the city.
It was known that during the holi
days the Goodrich supporters threat
ened Watson with Beveridge in event
Watson did not line up for the pres
idential aspirations of James P.
Goodrich. Watson is reported to have
told .Goodrich that lie was not op
posed to lvis efforts to become a can
didate for president, but that he
could not control the attitude of his
folowers toward a Goodrich boom.
FIGHT JEWETT
CONTROL IN TWO
G.O.P. MEETINGS
County Republican Opposition
to Ma3'or Develops Critical
Situation.
SHANK CROWD RADICAL
Two separate meetings of republicans
who are opposed to the domination of
the republican organization in Marion ,
county by Charles W. Jewett are called j
for tomorrow.
One will be held at the Shank store- j
house by the crowd that supported Lew i
Shank, under the name of “Home Rul- j
ers,” in the last city campaign.
The other meeting is to be held in the !
recently opened headquarters of what is
commonly known as the “anti-Jewett’ j
crowd, at 108 North Delaware street. A i
banner, bearing the words. "Ileadquar- j
ters Marion County Republican Work- !
ers," has been erected over this place. |
It is nineteen feet long and fifty-two!
inches wide, and the leaders of the or- ;
ganization say “no republican can miss i
it.’’
GIVES RISE TO
DELICATE SITUATION.
The situation among the opponents oi
Jewett control of the organization is a
delicate one There are enough oppon
ents to insure the defeat of Jewett’s con
trol of the party organization, provided
they can he brought together. The Shank
crowd is, of course, the most radical and
there is some talk of trouble between it
and the other* organization.
However, the meeting at Shank’s store
house is generally regarded as simply
a demonstration of the ability of Shank
followers to muster a crowd and it is
said that the extent to which this meet
ing is attended will guide the “anti-
Jewett" crowd in their treatment of it.
While both organizers insist on the
same object there Is a rivalry between
them as to which is the simon-pure
“anti" organization.
The more experienced politicians of the
party say that the two groups will get
together on organization candidates and
present a solid front to the Jewett group
when the time comes to vote for a county t
chairman.
STATE CAMPAIGN
CONSIDERABLY AFFECTED.
This division in the county on the or- ]
ganization is affecting the state cam- |
paign considerably. Jewett and his
friends are linked with J. W. Fesler ,
for governor, and because of Jewett’s
friendliness to Goodrich the adminis- j
trntion is regarded as a part of the
Goodrich faction which the Watßon crowd
recently whipped to a frazzle in the i
preaideutial fight.
McCray is reported to be the real
choice of the antis, and this report is
based on the beliefe that McCray will
eventually have the support of the Wat
son element in the state. Watson men
are prominent in the antis camp.
Shank and his followers are not yet on
record relative to the governorship, but
it is fairly certain that they will not be j
behind Fesler. Edgar Bush is gener- 1
ally conceded to have a great many
friends among them.
Clews and Booze Go
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—Burglars passed
up the precious in Edward Perlmutter’s
basement. Now he has police after pri
vate detectives who, he said, got away
with liquor as well as clews. *
FINDS WIFE DEAD.
SELMA, Ala.. Jan. 31.—Mrs. B. S. Tal
made, wife of Banks S. Talmadge, local
manager of the Southern Bell Telephone
Company, was found dead late yesterday
evening in the bathroom of their home.
EAGLES TO GIVE DANCE.
A dance will be given Monday night
by Indianapolis aerie No. 211, Fraternal
Order of Eagles, for members, their
families and invited friends, at the
Eagles' temple, 43 West Vermont street.
NOTED POET COMES TO U. S.
4>k.v.c q.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3y.—W. B. Yeats, noted poet, and his wife, ar
rived reoently In New fork. Yeats plans a three months’ lecture tour
through the United States.
When the Goodrich boom cllapsed
the talk of Beveridge for senator
grew apace, and In the last few days
the Star, always an enthusiastic
Beveridge supporter, has been giving
the ex-senator a lot of publicity.
Watson's friends regard this as pre
liminary to an announcement of Bev
eridge’s candidacy, which they say Is
being fostered by Goodrich, with the
assistance of Jewett and Lemcke fol
lowers.
The Watson faction in the party
does not regard the Beveridge boom
as dangerous. They say that they
have sufficient support in Indiana to
defeat any candidate who can be
linked with Goodrich, and that all
that is necessary to link the two is
general circulation of the story re
garding conferences between Good
rich and Beveridge at Beveridge’s
Indianapolis home several weeks ago.
18 IN LIFEBOAT
SAVED FROM SEA
Twenty-Two Others of Tank
er's Voyayers Missing.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—One lifeboat
containing eighteen members of the crew
of the tanker Mlelero, which broke in
two and sank off Tybee river Jan. 26,
was picked up by the steamship Ozette,
according to official naval radio dis
patches received here.
Another lifeboat containing the captain
and twenty-two of the crew is still
adrift.
The Mlelero was owned by the Cuban
distilling company and carried a cargo of
more than a million gallons of molasses.
REACH DECISION
IN PACKERS’CASE
Statement from Palmer Ex
pected Early Next Week.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Final agree
ment for the dissolution of the unre
lated businesses of the five large packers
has been reached and a coutr decree will
be entered early next week, it was an
nounced at the department of justic this
afternoon.
Attorney General Palmer will make a
statement as to the final agreement next
week and will announce the city in which
the decree will be entered, it was stated,
Cincinnati Liquor
Shippers Fined Here
John Wolfe, formerly a wholesale
liquor dealer of Cincinnati, 0., was fined
S2OO and costs, and Jesse Cook, garage
owner of Cincinnati, was fined SIOO by
Judge A. B. Anderson lh federal court
today on charges of causing liquor to
be imported Into the state.
Both of the defendants were found
guilty of the charge in federal court Nov.
18, 1919. James Gordon, to whom they
were alleged to have sent liquor, pleaded
guilty to a charge of violating the Reed
amendment at the time and served five
months in Jail.
Only One Identified
in Cleveland Murder
CLEVELAND, Jan. 31.—A bloody
handprint on a telephone post and a bat
tered brown derby were the clews police
today hoped would lead to the solution of
the mysterious killing of two men here
yesterday. One of the victims was iden
tified as Salvatore P. Russo, a New York
artist. The identity of the other victim
is still a mystery.
Revenge was believed the motive in the
ca se.
Congress Agrees on
Set Return for Roads
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—The principle
of a guaranteed return has been agreed
to by house and senate conferees work
ing on railroad reorganization legisla
tion, Chairman Cummins of the senate
committee announced today. The con
ferees are still divided, however, as to
whether the guaranteed rate of return
should be prescribed by congress in the
bil lor whether the interstate commerce
commission should fix the figure.
lOWA BANK ROBBED.
DES MOINES, la., Jan. 31 —The Dee
Moines police were notified that the stato
hank at Sully had beea robbol of SI2.OCW
in Liberty bonds.
PERU PLANS AIR SERVICE.
LIMA, Peru, Jan. 31.—Negotiations be
tween the Vickers companay and the
government for the establishment of a
regular airplaee service between Lima
and Payta and Iquites, on the eastern
slope of the Andes, are under way.
FOUR HELD AS PROFITEERS.
DES MOINES, la., Jan. 31.—Four men
were arrested, accused of having charged
100 much for sugar.
HOME
fj. EDITION
4c TWO CENTS.
BOY MURDERER
PRAYED NIGHT
BEFORECRIME
“May God Save My Soul,” Hf
Said During Revival at Tiny
Home of Parents.
MINISTER HEARTBROKEN
Francis Marion White was on his
knees praying to God for remission
of his sins the night before he fiend
ishly battered in the skull of John
Parry Aughinhaugh, aged west side
grocer.
“May God remove me from tempta
tion and preserve my soul,” he mat
tered as Mrs. V. W. Johnson, wife of •
-Methodist Home Mission minister, led
prayer in the carpetless little home of
the Whites at 2239 Wilkins street.
Rev. Johnson sobbed piteously as he
: visited the home late yesterday upon
j hearing of the 16-year-old boy’s confes
sion to the gruesome slaughter of the
1 old shopkeeper.
“I can't understand that poor boy,’’
he said as he wept.
PRAYS WITH HIS
I MOTHER AND BROTHERS.
It was 8 o'clock Tuesday night, nine
hours before the crime, that Francis
knelt with his mother and two younger
brothers as Mrs. Johnson led the prayer.
“My wife told me he appeared so de
vout in his prayers,” said the minister.
“And to think he could commit such a
crime—lt’s too horrible to imagine.”
When the minister’s wife called at the
I White home that night she was doing
; as she had often done before in the com
-1 munity. Mrs. Rosie White, the accused
slayer's mother, had just Joined Itev.
Johnson’s church. She had come to “give
counsel” to other members of the fam
ily as a missionary of her husband, who
was out of the city.
Francis was not home when she got
there. He was at his victim’s little store.
His brother ran to the corner and called
him.
“The minister's wife is here and ma
wants you to come home," the younger
boy told him.
LEAVES“GANG”
AND HURRIES HOME.
He broke away from the “gang” and
walked home, greeting Mrs. Johnson as
he entered.
“We’ll now have prayer,” she said.
Francis threw off his cap, and, placing
his bands together, knelt in the from
room of the tiny cottage. The cervices
were short and the boy assured the min
ister's wife he would go to church.
Mrs. White did not know her boy had
confessed to the crime until the minister
told her.
“Oh, that poor boy," she sobbed. “How
did he ever do it—l can’t stand it.”
Mrs. White had often befriended Ang
inhaugh. She was known to cook food
for him and it to him at his store.
The father, J. H. White, arose tens*
with emotion from his sick bed as he
heard the news. He is confined with a
! serious attack of influenza.
TRIED TO BRING
HIM IF RIGHT.
“I tried to bring him up right," he
said.
The other two boys, 11 and 7, re
spectlvely, did not quite understand what
it was all about.
The White home shows the Inroad Os
| poverty. The few small rooms are poorly
: furnished and there are almost signs of
i destitution.
Behind the iron bars today young
; White did not seem to realize the horror
of the crime.
Tears did not rush to his eyes as he
related to newspapermen and officers the
I story of the tragedy. Neither does he
appear to fear punishment-
Clad in an old army uniform, which
he claims he bought from a military
store, White eooly related the details of
the murder of the aged and respected
j store keeper. *
Emotionless, the lad retold to a Times
reporter, just ns he is said to have con-
I to the detectives.
White admitted !, ‘while he played with
the buttons on bis ill-fitting army uni
form that he had been in jail once be
j fore in Danville, 111., on a charge of
, forgery.
He claims that he has been in Inaian
! npolls about two years.
! DOESN’T THINK
HE’D DO IT AGAIN.
Surprised at the calm composure of
| the youthful murderer, the reporter
asked:
“Are you glad that you killed the
old storekeeper ?”
After a pause the lad answered:
“No. I guess net. No, I am sorry."
When he showed ho emotion the re
porter asked:
“Would you do the deed over again
under similar circumstances?”
Again White paused and said:
“No, I never would.”
Then his thoughts ran to his uniform
and where he bought it.
“Guess you would call it a soldier’s
uniform,” he said. “I got It at an army
store."
He then held out his hands, the hands
that clutched the Iron bar which so bru
tally pounded the old man to his death.
“Did you fold the arms of Auginbaugh
over his breast before you left the scene
of the murder ?’’ White was asked.
DIDN’T FOLD ARMS
OF VICTIM, HE SAYS.
"No, I did not,” he answered calmly,
as he looked straight into the eye of the
i reporter.
The confession of the lad has brought
the local authorities face to face with
the ever preplexing problem of youth
ful criminals.
“Great goodness,” said a policeman
looking at White, “Is that the mur
derer?”
Ralph Spaan, city court prosecutor, left
the cell after the strange exhibition of
calmness on the part of the confessed
murderer.
White’s confession is signed In the big,
free band writing of a school boy.
Does the boy understand the terrible
deed to which he confessed ? Does he
realize that he Is a self-confessed mar
derer?
Those are the questions uppermost In
the minds of local authorities.
GRAND JURY SOON
TO ACT IN CASE.
The Marion county grand Jnry la pre
paring to consider the case at once.
There is no doubt, Mr. Sp&an said, that
White will be indicted for murder.
The lad’s confession win probably play
an important part In the trial.
The statutes define murder In the first
degree as the killing of any human “pur
posely and with premeditated malice."
Mr. Spaan doubts that there was any*
premeditated malice in the murder as
expressed in the confession. This offense
on conviction carries with it “death*
or life Imprisonment.
The statute defines murder ta the fee
end degree as purposely and maßeteuOt
hut without premeditation." That *
what Mr. Bpaaa thinks the confession
implies. This carries with It life Im
prisonment at the state prison.