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VOL. xxxn. NO. 232.
MONEY BREAK’
FAILS TO STIR
CITY BANKERS
Otto Frenzel Says Prices Are
Due for Fall, but Sees No
Cause for Alarm.
.SOME SEE BENEFITS
American business ts on a firm busi
ness basis and there Is no cause for
alarm over the depreciation of the for
eign exchange recorded In the New
York market, according to Indianapolis
bankers today.
The unprecedented collapse of foreign
money yesterday caused little excitement
here. ’
“We’ve got to get away from infla
tion,” Otto N. Frenzel. president of the
Merchants National bank, said. “The
wise merchant is the one who will keep
his house in order. Prices are way out
of proportion to value now.
“Prices are coming down some day,
and they may drop suddenly. It must
come.
“We can Inflate and Inflate as long
as this feverish orgy of buying keeps
up, but some day the tension will be
come too great and the inevitable crash
will come. Money and the oft heard of
purchasing power of a dollar all de
pend on the final analysis on the value
of gold. And gold remains stationary.
Business needs a good purging and I
hope this foreign exchange situation will
provide the Decessary means.”
MUST REGAIN
NORMAL PRODUCTION.
Elmer W. Stout, vice president of the
Fletcher-American bank, thinks that be
fore any sudden drop in commodity
prices occurs we must get back to nor
mal production.
“I don’t think the action of foreign ex
change will of necessity mean a precipi
tate decline in the price of commodities,”
Mr. Stout said. “We must get back to a
normal basis of production. A decline
may come. That is all very true, but I
look for it to be orderly if it does
appear. The action of the federal re
serve board in raising the rediscount
rate was a mighty good piece of con
servative business and should have a
stabilizing influence on any frenzied ex
tension of credits. The keynote to the
whole problem of high prices and un
stable business is production. As soon
as we are producing more than we can
use, prices will automatically find a nor
mal level.”
J. F. Wild, president of J. F. Wild &
Cos. State bank, says that a break in
prices must come, but is dubious as to
whether or not the present status of for
eign exchange will form the necessary
medium for the journey towards lower
levels.
COLLAPSE SHOULD
KOT BE SURPRISE.
“There has got to be a beginning to
everything,” Mr. Wild said, “but I can't
say whether or not the low point ex
change has reached will be that start or
not. Speculation and inflation have been
steadily climbing until they have reached
a point where bankers and business men
generally realized a reaction was inevi
table. Everything is out of proportion
to actual-value. A readjustment is im
perative.
“I hope that the start -will be made
soon to a sane level of constructive busi
ness rather than the present period of
frenzied uncertainty and speculation."
J. W. Mclntosh, president of the Na
tional City bank, looks for the rule of
supply and demand to regulate com
modity prices.
“As long as money or its equivalent
substitutes, such as checks, drafts, etc.,
Is as plentiful as it is today, I don't look
for any materia! reduction in prices,"
Mr. Mclntosh said. “We must let the
supply catch up with the demand. There
might be a temporary break in sympa
thy witli market flurries, but no perma
nent decline is imminent that I can see.
This foreign exchange situation will be
settled satisfactorily. I think. The for
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SEE AGREEMENT
j IN RAIL PARLEY
Leaders Study Living Cost
Data Offered by U. S.
I WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—The railway
| parley between Director General Hines
and representatives of the brotherhoods
and allied groups today entered the third
day of negotiation, with the prospect
that the conferees were nearing a basis
for agreement on main points in dis
i pute. Over night the labor leaders bad
J had time to go more fully Into high
I cost of living data, offered as a supple
| ruent to the government’s program for
| effecting a remedy for the men's griev-
I ances.
Director General Hines, on the govern
> ment’s side, entered the conference when
1 that opened, prepared to combat the
claims of some of the group leaders
thnt the Increases given to railroad work
ers had not kept up to the level main
tained generally in other industries. Mr.
Hines takes ,the position that the pay
per hour to railroad workers makes a
reasonable comparison, on the average,
with the wages paid in private enter
prises.
Russ Red Troops
March on Persia
& LONDON, Feb. s.—The war office :io-
Miounced today that 2,(X)0 bolshevik
troops, led by officers of the old regime,
are advancing toward the Persian,a fron
tier. It added that a special train from
Moscow Is carrying officials. Including
Hermans, toward the Afghanistan fron<
tier. .
Gronna Wheat Bill
Favorably Reported
WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—The senate
agricultural committee today ordered a
favorable report on the* Gronna bill to
discontinue the United States grain cor
poration.
Local Forecast—lncreasing cloudiness
tonight and Friday; probably snow,
changing to rain; temperature tonight
near freezing; warmer Friday.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m 28
L < a. m 29
8 a. 29
9 a. ni 29
10 a. m 82
11 a. m 39
12 (noon) 34
Sun sets today, 5:09; rises tomorrow,
8:61; sets, 5:10.
One year ago today, highest tempera
ture, 30; lowest, 16.
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Visible—That’s All
WHO PAID IM CHOKE
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TERBE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. s.—Was
Robert Dearmond broke? He was not.
Robert had 4 cents and the judge
couldn’t “stick” him on the living-with
out-vislble-means charge.
‘Blind Death’ Booze
Again Hits Chicago
CHICAGO, Feb. s.—The “blind death”
epidemic again stares Chicago In the
face, according to Coroner Peter Hoff
man here today.
Over 100 victims lie seriously ill or
blind as the result of this substitute for
“booze,” Hoffman said. “The new’ dope,”
Hoffman said, “is a composition of ether,
wood alcohol and coloring. It is very
deadly.”
Coroner Hoffman ordered an immediate
investigation to apprehend sellers of the
dope.
Kentucky Governor
Game; Outfaces Mob
FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. s.—The
courageous action of Gov. Edwin P. Mor
row early today in meeting and dispers
ing a mob of hundreds of men deter
mined upon the lynching of Will Luekett,
a returned negro soldier, who had con
fessed to the brutal murder of 10-year
old Geneva Hardaman, quieted a situa
tion which for several hours during the
night, threatened to get beyond control
of the authorities.
Stansbury Rules on
Naming of Assessors
In cases where assessors are appointed
by boards of county commissioners to
fill vacancies they are appointed to serve
the entire unexpired term, according to
a ruling of Ele Stansbury, attorney gen
eral. The ruling was made in reply to a
question of the state , tax board. The
commissioners of Washington county ap
pointed an assessor and desired to know’
whether a one should be elected this
fall or at the regular county election
two years from now.
Shoots at Thieves;
Hits Neighbor; Sued
KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. s.—Mr. and Mrs.
Lonnie Ward have sued John Hedrick for
$1,750 damages. While they were walking
past Hedrick's home he fired several
shots from a revolver, one striking Mrs.
Ward in the hip, causing her a serious
illness, It Is charged. Hedrick claims he
heard his dog bark and, thinking some
one w’as stealing his chickens, fired to
frighten them away.
McAdoo’s Daughter Would Share
Supper With Hungry Kiddies
“I’d like my daddy to tell the poor little children that I wish I
could give them some of my supper, but they’re so far away.”
This is what Ellen Wilson McAdoo, granddaughter of the presi
dent, said to her father, William G. McAdoo, former secretary of the
treasury, when he told her about the plight of those other little chil
dren, not so very different from her, In central Europe today.
5,000,000 BABES
ARE STARVING
Only Aid from Outside Can Re
lieve Central Europe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. s.— Five million
children are face to face with starva
tion In central Europe. Three millions
of these are not merely within the star
vation line, but are right down at the
gates of death.
Only food —food Immediately—can pre
vent virtually the total extinction of
child-life in the larger cities of the hun
ger-swept districts.
This is the startling situation pre
sented in cabled reports here by the Red
Cross and the American relief adminis
tration from their representatives abroad.
In Vienna, which today shelters prob
ably more concentratod misery than ever
wag seen before in guy one city, 90 per
cent of the 337,000 children under 14
years of age are virtually without food
except such Inadequate rations as can
be supplied through operating charities,
according to Albert Halstead of the
American mission.
In Poland, however, starving children
are not numbered in thousands, but hun
dreds of thousands. Estimates made by
Capt. C. T. Ekelund of St. Paul. Mian.,
Red Cross representative In Poland, and
Palmer Fuller of the American relief
administration, agree that not less than
2,000,000 Polish children will die dur
(Continued oq Page Eight.)
Sumatra Hail® ibnes
FAMILY OF 8,
ILL WITH FLU,
SPURN DOCTORS
Parents and Six Kiddies Are
Members of “Church of the
First Born.”
HUMANE SOCIETY ACTS
James Ratliff, his wife and six chil
dren, all ill of influenza are without
medical attention and, according to of
ficers of the Indianapolis Humane so
ciety, refuse to permit a physician to
attend them. All the children are under
15 years of age.
The Ratliff family live in a cottage at
1204 East Georgia street! Humane So
ciety Officer Fred Gunsolus, who made
the investigation, has threatened the
parents with arrest unless medical at
tention is given the children.
Ratliff and his wife are members of
the -‘Church of the First Born.” The
members of the creed do not believe in
medicine and do not believe in physi
cians.
Humane Society Officer Gunsolus, ac
companied by a representative of the
board of health, visited the Ratliff home
and the board of health official declared
that the sickness with which the Rat
liff family was suffering was influenza.
He also said that the family was in
need of a physician
BOMBARDED WITH
SCRIPTURE TEXTS.
Gathered at the Ratliff home at the
time of the officers’ visit were five women,
most of them of advanced years. When
Gunsolus declared that a physician must
attend the children he was bombarded
with scripture texts by the women, who
said they were members of the “Church
of the First Born,” find that the chil
dren yere being cared for and did not
need a physician.
“We can spare you people who have
lived to an age of more than 21 years,"
exclaimed Gunsolus, “but we can’t spare
these little children and they must have
medical attention. If they are not given
medical attention withit} twelve hours I
will swear out warrants charging the
parents with child neglect.”
“That's what you think, that they
should have a doctor, but we know bet
ter,” responded a woman who was in
the house.
“No. that is not what I think," an
swered Gunsolus. “It is what I know.
The children must have medical atten
tion; it is up to the olfler folks to either
have a physician for themselves or do
without one.”
“The Church of the First Bom will
care for them. The church sent a half
ton of coal to the house yesterday
and the church has purchased food for
the family. The church will care for the
children," answered an elderly woman.
FRIENDS TAKE
IP PURSE.
James Ratliff, 38, and his wife Lucie,
32, have seven children. Thelma, 15, is
at the Indiana State School for the Deaf.
The other six, all of whom are 111 with
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
RETURNS MINUS
HIS PRISONER
Utah Governor Refuses Extra
dition of DeCamp.
Gov. Bamberger of Utah, refusing to
honor requisition papers for Ernest L.
DeCamp, formerly a colonel at Ft. Benja
min Harrison, who was indicted by the
Marlon county grand jury for wife deser
tion, Detective Deßossette, who went to
Salt Lake City, Utah, to get him, re
turned home today without his prisoner.
DeCamp, who Is said to have ob
tained a commission in an officers’ train
ing camp during the war and was pro
moted, is now said to be an oil pro
moter in Utah.
The governor of Utah declared the
charges looked like an attempt to get
a settlement, according to Deßossette.
Seize Man for Theft
of $300,000 Jewels
NEW YORK, Feb. s.—George Davis,
alias James Driscoll, was being held by
police here today, charged with being a
fugitive from justice after robbing the
Chicago jewelry firm of Heller and Rose
of gems worth between $200,000 and $300,-
000 in April, 1919.
Davis admitted his Identity and ex
pressed willingness to return to Chicago
for trial without legal resistance.
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1920.
DEMAND FOR HUNS STUNS GERMANY;
U. S. PROBES BOOTLEGGER ‘RINGS’
PLANTS SPRING
UP, SELL HAIR
TONIC,’ ETC.
Establishments Use Lurid
Signs and Stationery and
Operate in Many Cities.
MAY STOP PERMITS
WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—Enorm
ous withdrawals of whiskey from
bonded warehouses by alleged “fla
voring extract” and “hair tonic” man
ufacturers, upon such a scale that it
may reach the proportions of a scan
dal, led today to a probe by Prohibi
tion Commissioner Kramer as to the
validity of thousands of permits al
ready granted by the bureau.
The outcome of the Investigation prob
ably will be the revocation of large num
bers of permits issued by various col
lectors to embryo establishments that
have sprung up since national prohibition
went into effect.
Some of these establishments, with
lurid signs and stationery, have been
able to “put one over” on the enforce
ment officers by various methods of
evasion.
Most of the places being probed are
said to be factories in name only and
exist only as a means through which
the prohibited alcohol can be secured.
Discovery of “rings” of bootleggers in
New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburg.
Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis. Cincinnati
and a score of other cities of smaller
size developed well organized plots to
obtain liquor by fraudulent means.
In scores of cases now being investi
gated it is probable that large bonds
put up by so-called “manufacturers” as
a guarantee of good faith, will be auto
matically forfeited. Making of false af-
is covered by other penalties, In
cluding imprisonment.
MAY DISCLAIM
GREY LETTER
England Expected to Issue
Statement on Treaty.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—A statnent
from the British government declaring
that Viscount Grey spoke for himselt
alone when he wrote his famous letter
O' the-London Times, urging treaty rn 1-
tbution with reservations, may be forth
coming shortly, it was learned here to
day.
It is generally understood that such
a statement would be pleasing to Presi
dent Wilson. Although the whitebouse
was silent on reports that Wilson, an
gered at Grey’s letter, bad instructed
Secretary Lansing to protest to Britain,
it was reported elsewhere the adminis
tration felt ordinary courtesy between
governments should have, insured the
president being consulted before such
a letter was made public.
Secretary of State Lansing today de
nied current reports that he had ad
dressed a communication to Great Britain
on the subject of the letter. He further
denied that he had conferred on the mat
ter with either Secretary Tumulty or Dr.
Grayson.
WOMEN LEADERS
SEEK DEMOCRATS
Party Principles to Be Taught
by New Organization.
NEW YORK, Feb. s.—"lt takes a man
and a woman to make a home. There is
no reason why our national household
should not be on the same basis,” Mrs.
Mary Buffalo, said in an inter
view today.
Airs. Morse has just been named di
rector of organization of the newly
formed “women democrats of America,”
an organization of democratic women to
work “outside the party” In educating
women to party principles.
“For every male member of congress
there should be one woman seated," she
continued. “I believe that eventually
the day will come when women will have
equal representation in both state and
national lawmaking bodies."
Poet’s Fancy Flits
Too Far, Wife Says
CHICAGO, Feb. s.—Signora Lillian
White Bianzano, beautiful American wife
of Arture Binnzino, the Italian poet,
charged today in a divorce bill filed here
that her romance-seeking husband is car
rying on a love affair in Genoa with
Maria Faleo, an Italian girl, and related
many incidents which brought about her
gradual disillusionment during the ten
years she lived abroad with her poet.
Prior to her marriage Signora Bianzino
resided with her parents, wealthy resi
dents of Evanston, 111,
Everybody Must Have
Licenses by Feb. 12
If you haven’t got that license by Feb.
12 the cops are going to get you.
Chief of Police Jerry Kinney today In
structed his men to inform all persons
operating vehicles, theaters, poolrooms
or other businesses wherein a city or
state license is required to get busy.
“Feb. 12 will be the dead line,” he said.
“After that date peddlers, operators of
vehicles or owners of other business af
fected by the license regulations will be
arrested."
Coal peddlers also will be required to
pay a license this year.
State Convicts to
Make Furniture
Terms of a proposed contract for fur
niture manufactured by prisoners at the
state prison and at the reformatory have
been worked out by Gov. Goodrich and
A. W. Thwaites of the Thwaites Furni
ture Company of Grand Rapids Mich.
The Knrpens Brothers Company of Chi
cago, with whom a five-year contract will
be made, will pay on the basis of 60
cents an hour for labor. Both the state
and the company have a right to demand
a change in prices at the end of each
fiscal year.
IN CITY TO ATTEND EDITORS’ BANQUET
They Are the Three Democratic Candidates So Far Announced for Governor.
Left to right—Mason J. Niblack, Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, John Isenbarger, candidates for the
democratic nomination for governor.
Democratic editors will give three can
didates for the party nomination for
governor the “once over” tonight.
Each one of the trio already has made
many friends. Reposts have beeu circu
lated that the trio of candidate? will be
n quartet soon.
Dutch Cabinet
Break Foreseen
Over Allied Noto
THE HAGUE. Feb. s.—An unron
flrnied rumor was received from Ber
lin today that the cabinet may re
sign because of the serious situation
created by the allies’ demand for
alleged German war criminals.
State Near Finish in
N. Y. Assembly Case
ALBANY, N, Y„ Feb. s—The five sus
pended socialist assemblymen, whose eli
gibility is being determined by the Ju
diciary committee, are counted upon by
the “prosecution” to convict themselves
of the charges of disloyalty against them.
From an authoritative source it was
learned today that when the defendants
take the stand, the committee lawyers
expect to force from them damaging
admissions by cross-examination.
The suspended assemblymen, it is ‘be
lieved, will be called next week. Ac
cording to present plans, the committee
will complete Us case today. Seymour
Stedman, chief socialist counsel, said he
would “not. require more than five days,
and perhaps considerably less.”
British Would Put
Wilhelm on Island
LONDON. Feb. s.—ls Hollaed persists
in her refusal to grant the allied de
mand for extradition of the former kai
ser the British government will insist
that he be interned in sojne Dutch
island away from Europe, Sir Auckland
Geddes, minister-president of the Board
of Trade, declared last night in a speech
at Andover.
Valparaiso Claims
Oldest Elk; Age 90
VALPARAISO, Ind., Feb. 6.—Alfred
Brown, oldest Elk, has Just celebrated
his both birthday. Joseph Brown, his
father, was a neighbor who moved with
the Lincolns from Kentucky to Spencer
county, Itul., by flat boat. His mother
attended Mrs. Nancy Lincoln when Abe
was born.
“King of Con Men”
Has Day’s Freedom
CHICAGO, Feb. s.—John H. Stro
snyder, “king of con men," released from
Joliet penitentiary yesterday, was re
arrested here today on charges of operat
ing confidence games at South Bend,
Ind.. and Atlanta, Ga.
Arthur T. Mitchell, local investment
broker, charged that Strosnyder fleeced
him out of #O,OOO at South Bend and $5,-
000 more at Atlanta.
Strosnyder was held under #15,000
bond.
U. S. Sells 163 Ships
for $82,424,408
"WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.--The shipping
board this afternoon announced ttfat a
total of 103 vessels, with a total dead
weight tonnage of 610,684 tons, have been
sold for $82,421,408.(15. This statement
of sales of vessels is as of dale of Jan. 20.
Ohio Match King Dies,
Victim of Pneumonia
AKRON. 0., Feb. s.—Funeral services
of Ohio C. Barber, 79, millionaire match
king and founder of the first American
trust, probably will be held at Barber
ton, 0., Saturday afternoon. Barber died
late yesterday of pneumonia.
U. S. on Excellent Industrial
Status Now, Says U. S. Official
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. —Denial that labor plans a series of strikes
beginning May 1 was made today by Hugh Kerwin, director of the divi
sion of labor adjustment in the department of labor. He said there was
practically no labor troubles in the United States today, and he con
demned all reports of impending trouble as “malicious.”
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Mason J, NiWlack halls from near
Vincennes, Ind., and is well known as
a farmer and lawyer. He has served
as parliamentarian In congress and in
the Indiana state senate.
Dr. Carleton B. McColloch, Indianapo
lis physician, is in his first political
campaign as a candidate. He starts an
Indiana G. 0. P. in Bold Plot
to Use ‘Democrats’
The political manipulators of Indiana who control the republican state
organization and the republican organization in Marion county are in no
way alarmed by the revolt In the republican ranks, which is growing stead
ily every day.
They expect to maintain their party organization, it became known
today, and nominate a slate of their own making by the use in the
May primaries of voters recruited from the democratic ranks in the state.
EDITORS AWAIT
GOV. COX’S TALK
500 Democratic Press Chiefs
Expected at Banquet.
Hundreds of democratic editors and
party leaders arrived In Indianapolis to
day for the annual banquet of the
Indiana Democratic Editorial association.
The meeting this year holds unusual in
terest because it marks the opening of
(be democratic campaign in the state and
because it is expected that Gov. James
M. Cox of Ohio, a candidate for presi
dent, will make his keynote speech.
Reservations for more than 500 guests
have been made for the banquet at the
Claypool hotel tonight. Besides Gov. Cox,
the speakers will be Mrs. Idah McGlone
Gibson of Chicago, head of the publicity
department of the women’s national dem
ocratic organization, Qnd Dan. W. Simms
of Lafayette, who prill speak on the tax
law. ~
Many of the editors and others who
expected to attend the banquet tonight
arrived early today, although no meet
ing for today has been arranged. There
was considerable discussion of cam
paign plans and talk of candidates.
The business session of the editorial
association will be held tomorrow, when
officers will be elected and a place for
the midsummer meeting selected. John
Henry Zuver of South Beud and John
L. Clough of Indianapolis will speak at
the session tomorrow.
An informal reception and dance wore
given at the Indiana Democratic club
last night In honor of Mrs. tllbson.
Many Die, Loss Huge
in SouthJSea Storm
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5. —Many lives
were lost find much damage done to
Cocoa nut plantations by a hurricane and
tidal wave, which visited the islands ot
Makatoa and Morea, in the French So
ciety island group, on the night of Jan.
23, according to reports reaching here
with the arrival of the steamer Tofua,
In port today.
Tahlta suffered severely, the reports
said. Native and Japanese plantation
workers were the victims, according ta
wireless reports to American Const;.
Thomas B. I-apton, a passenger on tin.
Tofua.
ALL FOR $2.50 A SEAT
Gov. Goodrich came in for some comic
thrusts last night at the Murat theater
while J. Francis Dooley of the “Monte
Cristo, Jr.,” company was on the stage.
In the prison scene one of the comedians
said as a dlgnatary walked on the
stage:
“Well, here is Gov. Goodrich! Hello,
‘Gov.’ ’’
Then J. Francis Dooley replied, “Par
don me, Gov.” The governor came in
for another jab when Dooley quoted ,i
headline In The Times, “Cook Called
‘Crook,’ Replies to Governor.”
“And Cook says the Gov. is a tax
dodger," said Dooley as the audience ap
plauded.
active campaign, which he gave up tem
porarily because of the flu epidemic.
John Isenbarger of North Manchester
is known as a fanner candidate. He Is
interested In several business enterprises
and has been a prominent worker on the
state fair board for the develonment of
agriculture in Indiana for seveial years.
The bi-partisan combination by which
the machine of the republican party
will maintain itself is bard at work In
every city of this state, but it is par
ticularly active In Indianapolis. It is
supplying money and other assistance to
so-called democrats who are now en
gaged in pledging to themselves a limited
number of voters in every precinct. These
voters are men who have generally been
known as democrats, but who will vote
as they are led to think their best per
sonal interests will be served.
In order to make It less difficult for
the chosen representatives of these man
ipulators to take from the democratic
party a sufficient number of votes to
“put over” the machine slate and or
ganization candidates at the May pri
mary, they are studiously, and appar
ently with effect, seeking to prevent any
enthusiasm, any organization or any
contests among the democrats. A care
fully planted propaganda designed to
discourage democrats and to prevent any
contests among democrats that would
make it necessary for the democratic
party to "keep Its voters at home” has
been in circulation among the dem
ocrats for many months. It is being paid'
for and promoted by republicans and
its sole purpose is to prevent the dem
ocrats from creating enough interest In
thetr own primary to impel their own
voters to rote the democratic primary
ticket rather than the republican organi
zation slate.
SAY ORGANIZATION
CAN NOT LOSE.
Marlon county, the largest in the state,
affords the best practical Illustration of
what Is going on in politics today. The
republican organization controlled by
Mayor Charles W. Jewett Is facing a
determined lot of opposition, coming
from men who are against machine domi
nation. Is the organization worried?
It is rot. Its members will tell / you
that there is absllutely no possibility
of the organization losing to the antis.
When you ask them why they merely
smile, and if willing that you should
get an inkling of their plans they will
commence talking rapidly of the demora
lization in the camp of the democrats of
Marion county.
In the last months an organized ef
fort has been started by the republican
leaders to gather enough democratic vot
ers for the republican primaries to in
sure the success of the organization. The
work has been definitely apportioned and.
(he money provided for that purpose.
This organization has been placed in
the hands of one man, who knows wherv
lie can get the necessary votes, and is
busy doing it. He comes and goes from
they office of the Indianapolis News and
he boasts that "they step around for
me there." He is a man who was once
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
INDICTED MAN
PUT ON STAND
Witness Who Pleaded Guilty in
Newberry Case Testifies.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. s.—The
government exploded a bomb today In
tlie ranks ~of the 123 defendants in the
Newberry conspiracy trial by placing
one of their number on the witness
stand.
Allan Tv. Moore, a Grand Rapids print
er. who at the last moment entered a
plea of nolo eontendre. testified that he
received $5,500 for his services s a
Newberry agent among the railroad men
of the state.
He declared he had received $1,200 of
this amount for traveling expenses and
for twenty weeks was paid a salary of
$75. He paid out to his agents among
the railroad men, he testified, between
SBOO and SOOO.
He told the money was al
ways paid to him In currency, vitb the
exception of the first payment of SIOO,
for which he received a cheek. The cur
rency came to him, he said, from Charles
Floyd, manager of the Newberry branch
office ah Grand Rapids. On one occa
sion he/received money for distribution
from tie Detroit headquarters, he de
clared. j
H* ome|
EDITION
TWO CENTS.
HOWL GOES UP
WHEN GERMANS
GET TRIAL LIST
Cabinet Members, “Stunned*
by Names of Men Wanted,
Cry “Impossible.”
PAPERS APPLAUD ENVOY
Expect Demand for
Envoy's Punishment
PARIS, Feb. 5. —A second note
will be dispatched to Berlin short
ly demanding that the German
government punish Baron Kurt
von Lersner for his refusal to
transmit the allied list of German
war guilty, it was believed here
today.
A French diplomatic messenger
left for Berlin late last night, car
rying copies of the list and the
covering note. He will deliver
them to M. Demarcilly, French
diplomatic representative, who
will take them to the German for.
eign office.
BERLIN, Feb. s.—The fall of the
German government, with the ac
companying danger of bolshevism,
was predicted by the newspaper Vor
waerts today as a result of the allies’
demand for alleged German war
criminals. The newspaper points out
that, if bolshevism sweeps Germany
the allies would have no chance of
securing the execution of their treaty
demands.
The cabinet met In special session last
night to consider the allies’ demand for
SCO German military and officers of state,
who are wanted for trial, and also the
resignation of Baron von Lersner as head
ot the German peace delegation in Paris.
Von Lersner is expected to arrive from
Paris some time tomorrow.
The list of names of wanted Germans
was received telegraphically direct from
■ Paris.
BELIEVED ALLIES
WERE “BLUFFING."
Belief was expressed in circles close to
the cabinet that the government will
! claim it is impossible to meet the de
mands of the allies. There is high ex
citement here and the opinion is. ex
pressed that the next few days may de
cide the future fate of Germany.
Heretofore the cabinet had believed
that the allies were, to some extent,
"bluffing" and the determined demand
for the accused German officials threw
some of the members of the government
into complete confusion.
The demand for Field Marshal von
sHindenburg caused soma of the cabinet
eers to make the gloomy prediction that
'the troops would mutiny before they
would arrest the former chief of staff.
TWO SAY THEY’LL
RESIGN FIRST.
The first of the cabineteers to make
an open threat to resign were the demo
cratic members. Dr. Schiffer and Dr.
Roch.' They declared they would leave
the ministry rather than vote to de
liver the wanted officers.
Most of the German newspapers sup
port the stand of Von Lersner, and it
is also Indorsed by many leading poli
ticians.
The Lokal Anzeiger, in commenting
upon the developments says that a crisis
has been reached and that the fate and
honor of the German nation are at stake.
It adds: “This is a disgrace that will
not be borne. The German people will
rally their last strength and honor to
prevent It. But it is necessary to keep cool
to Insure success. There Is no question
that the German oficials demanded are
extraditable, but it must be remembered
that the destiny, honor and future of
the entire German nation are In the bal
ance now."
PAPER comments in
PESSIMISTIC STRAIN.
The general Impression is that the list
beats all expectations, said the Tageblatt.
This newspaper comments in a very
pessimistic strain.
Protestant church organizations have
united in a resolution to the government
appealing to it not to yield the German
officers.
It Is revealed that many members of
the ministry have received letters threat
ening personal violence if they decide to
give up the alleged culprits.
Some of the German eabineteers de
scribed themselves as being “stunned" by
the names included in the last. The first
received was that of Grand Duke Al
brecht of Wurttemburg, a former com
mander on the western front.
OTHER NAMES
ON THE LIST.
The list Included the following others:
The ex-crown prince; Field Marshal von
Hlndenburg, former German chief of
staff; Count von Bernstorff, former Ger
man ambassador to the United States;
Dr. von Bothmann-Hollweg, chancellor of
Germany when the war broke out; lit.
Zimmerman, former foreign secretary;
Count Bismarck; the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg; Gen. Falkenhayn, former
chief of staff who directed the Austro"
German drive into Roumanla; Gen. von
Gallwitz, commander of an army group
on the eastern front; former Crown
Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, commander,
of the northern German army gToup
on the western front; Prince Frederick;
Gen. Slxt von Arnim; Field Marshal von
Mackensen, chief German leader in the
east; Gen. von Moltke; Gen. von Hutier;
the Grand Duke of Hesse; Gen., Luden
dorff, former chief of staff to von Hin
denburg; Prince Eltel Frederick and
Prince Oscar, sons of the ex-kaiser; Gen.
Faulkenhausen; Gen. von Beseier; Gen.
von Kluck, who led the German drive on
Paris in 1914; Col. Reinhardt; Admiral
von Tlrpltz; Admiral von Cappelle; Ad
miral von Scheer; Gen. von Bulow, who
is now dead; Gen. von Llnsingen. com
mander of an army group on the eastern
front; Gen. von Quast; Count Waidersee;
Prince Ratlbor and Prince Ernest of
Saxony.
At least two Turkish officers are on
the list. They are Enver Pasha, who
was virtually In control of the Turkish
government when the war broke out, and
Talaat Pasha, who Is accused of being
a tool of Germany.