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VOL. XXXII. NO. 234.
NEW BELT LINE
PROPOSED FOR
INDIANAPOLIS
Movement Under Way to Build
System Which Will Develop
Rural Districts.
KINNEY BACKS PROJECT
Indianapolis has today another belt
line of transportation—on paper—a pre
liminary plan for the expansion of the
city’s Industrial domains.
This fact was admitted by H. B.
Kinney of tbe H. E. Kinney Grain Com
pany, one of the leaders in the dreams
for a “Greater Indianapolis.”
The proposed second belt line has been
carefully surveyed by John Shaffer, an In
dianapolis engineer, who supervised the
construction of several of the Hoosier
interurban lines and other extensive rail
road building.
“The outer belt line will extend from
near Ben Davis, swing southward just
north to Southport, east of Irvington,
and loop up north of Broad Ripple, map
ping out for Indianapolis a gigantic
manufaeturing field holding out an
expansion schedule that is wonder
fully alluring." declared Mr. Kinney.
OTHERS INTERESTED
IN PROJECT.
About twenty local business men and
financiers have been consulted in the new
transportation line project, Mr. Kinney
explained. Eastern capitalists have been
consulted, and their representatives have
visited Indianapolis. Final details of
financing the plan is under way, he says.
That manufacturing Indianapolis needs
widening out is evident, Mr. Kinney
pointed out, in the prices demanded for
suitable industrial sites, as well as the
growth of the city's residential sections.
The new transportation line will be a
combined electric and steam road ar
rangement, it is said, enabling the out
lying residence districts to become acces
sible to each other without congesting
the downtown sections.
O. D. Haskett, president of Mars Hill
association, and also head of the O. D.
Haskett Dumber Company, also admitted
that he had been consulted on the project
and was heartily in favor of the prelimi
nary plans.
SEES INDIANA POMS
CROWING UNDER PLAN.
“It will enable the outlying districts
like Mars Hill to grow, and that means
a Greater Indianapolis,” Mr. Haskett
said.
The promoters of tho second belt line
are said to be planning to secure the co
operation of the city in an effort to put
the scheme over.
“It’s a plan that Is worthy of the un
qualified indorsement of the people.” said
Mr. Haskett and Mr. Kinney, “and we
feel that when the people realize the ad
vantages of the plans they will support
the plan in every way.”
The outlying belt line will probably
be constructed about eight miles from
the Circle, extending the manufacturing
and industrial sites over an area more
than twenty-four miles in circumference.
No data has been made public concern
ing the extent of the financial iuvolve
ment, Mr. Kinney said, but it has been
estimated that the project will cost sev
eral millions of dollars to “put it over.”
In connection with the present expan
sion program of southwest Indianapolis
it is known that a large manufacturing
concern, has acquired eighty acres of
ground near Mars Hill on which to con
struct a big manufacturing plant.
WILL PROVIDE
SHIPPING FACILITIES.
This project, together with other ne
gotiations under way for the develop
ment of territory outside the present
belt railroad will necessitate improve
ment in switching and shipping facili
ties. and will be added reasons why the
new transportation program of Indian
apolis should be built promptly.
Officials of the new Lafayette Motors
Company, located at the old Stenotype
plant, Mars Hill, emphasized the need
of improving the present interurban and
street car service to that plant in order
to enable the company employes to get
to work on time.
D. McCall White, one of the heads of
the Lafayette Motors Company, insisted
that Indianapolis must not slumber in
bringing about necessary improvements
In transportation problems.
NO TIME FOR
HOT AIR, HE SAYS.
“Talk has-been widespread,” said Mr.
White today, “and it is time that action
was crystalized out of the hot air. We’ve
got to get better co-operation from the
street car companies in order to get un
der way here at our plant. We’ll begin
to produce within a few weeks and we
must be able to get our workmen, our
womem clerks and officials out here with
out so much handicapped traffic prob
lems. We’ve got to secure from the
board of works and the street car com
panies special traffic arrangements in
order to handle probably thousands of
employes.
“And as far as the now proposed belt
plans are concerned,” he continued, “I
am glad to hear of it. I have not been
consulted yet in the matter In any way,
but anything that will enable Indian
spoils to develop is the thing to take up.
I've got faith in the possibilities of this
city, and If we can have an awakening
we will be able to put over the Chamber
of Commerce program of industrial
growth. Yet It will never be done 11
selfish real estate interests and narrow
minded traffic officials can not see far
ther than the end of their noses. T’m
not a knocker, that is, a pessimistic
knocker, but we must do some knocking
/while the iron Is hot and shape out
la substantial improvement in order to
; bring order out of a temporary chaos.
|Em for a big expansion program in
lour present transportation facilities.”
Collegians to Give
Skin for Operation
GOSHEN. Ind., Feb. 7.—A number of
Goshen college students today prepared
to provfde skin for grafting on the legs
of R. Throckmorton, a photographer, who
has been hovering between life and death
for several weeks following a fall Into a
steam vat at a faetorV. Each man was
expected to give not less than two square
inches of skin. Ten dollars an Inch was
the remuneration offered.
Chemists Examine
Alleged Corn Booze
City chemists today will examine the
liquor found in three poolrooms by Sergt.
White and Patrolman Feeney, Friday.
The officers arrested Chris Thomas, T7S
Ketcham street; Dennis Nick of Arnold
avenue, poolroom proprietors, and Nick
Charley, owner of a barber shop on
Arnold avenue, in the raids, charging
them with violating the prohibition law.
The police say they believe the liquor Is
corn whisky colored with brown sugar.
OVERCOMES TROUBLESOME HABIT.
KEARNEY, Neb., Feb. 7.—George H.
Harris found a way to heat old H. C. L.
i He has just completed a twenty-eight
kday fast.
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Dally Except Sunday.
Find Auto Used by
Enright’s Slayers
CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—The automobile
which carried the gunmen who killed
“Mossy” Enright, Chicago labor leader
and gunman, Tuesday night, was In the
hands of police today.
The machine was found in a south side
garage. Ralph Buliuo. the owner of the
j automobile, was sought by police today,
j Authorities do not believe Buliuo was in
! the car when Enright was slain, but be
i lieve he can give information which will
aid in tracing the murderers.
Fifteen men and women were taken by
police in a raid on a saloon, following
a tip that several men connected with
the slaying, were In the place. The
women were released, but the men were
held for further questioning.
TUG RESCUES 32
PASSENGERS OF
STRANDED SHIP
New York Police Boat Goes to
Aid of Vessel Off Rock
away Point.
GOTHAM DIGGING OUT
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—The police tug
i Patrol started to remove the thirty-two
: passengers from the Old Dominion liner
Princess Anne, stranded off Rockaway
i Point, shortly after 11 o’clock today.
They will be landed at the Battery in
this city, it was said.
The transfer was being made by two
' boats, a police launch and a coast guard
power boat. The police craft was the
first to reach tbe stranded liner and was
greeted with cheers by the benumbed
| passengers and crew, who had been
wtibout heat or warm food since the
Idler room was flooded yesterday.
BLIZZARD DIES
DOWN IN EAST.
The Wizard which In two days turned
much of 1 the eastern part of the country
into a great white desert today had
blown itself out to sea.
Isolated communities, many of which
were thrown into the primitive through
interruption of traffic, began literally
digging themselves back to civilization.
Snowbound railways and traction lines
started to function once more.
New York City, probably the hardest
hit of any of the centers of population,
| was still without surface street car serv
ice and there was a general embargo on
all but essential traffic. About 3,500 of
j the 20.000 men needed to clear away the
snow are working.
The weather bureau reported a heavy
snowfall in New England today, with
lighter precipitation extending as far
west as the Great Lakes region and Ohio
valley.
In response to Mayor Hylan's proelama
j tion, thousands of privately owned trucks
[ and privately employed laborers were
j placed at the disposal of the street clean
| ing department. A determined assault
was begun at daybreak throughout the
entire city to clear the principal streets
that are covered by mountainous snow
drifts.
The mayor has appealed for a three
day embargo on private passenger motor
! cars, such as was put into effect in the
“gasoline saving” days of the war. The
embargo this time, however, is to prevent
the streets from being cluttered by auto
mobiles.
Railroad schedules were completely dis
arranged and street railway traffic in
the city Is absolutely paralyzed.
The main power houses supplying elec
tricity fear a tieup tomorrow because ot
i the fuel famine.
SHIPPING BOARD
VESSEL IN DISTRESS.
I The United States shipping board
: steamer Polar Bear is disabled at son
'and in immediate need of assistance,”
said a wireless message picked up by
the naval communication service today.
The Polar Bear was due here Thursday
, from Bermuda.
| The radiogram from the Polar Bear
: was apparently garbled and efforts were
made to get in communication with her
; to learn her exact position so a cutter
could be sent to her aid.
STEAMER GROUNDS
OFF MAINE COAST
OTTERCLIFFS, Me., Feb. 7.— ! The
| steamer Polar Bear went aground off
Machiasport last night and Is In a sink
ing conidtlon, according to word re
ceived here today.
According to the message the crew of
the stranded steamer has been taken off
by the United States destroyer Cushing,
which is standing by.
No further word had been received
j from the vessel up to noon today.
‘ROYALTY’SNUBS
EX KING NICHOLAS
Gives Up Hope of Throne and
Turns Artist.
PARIS, Feb. 7.—Nicholas, the aged ex
king of Montenegro, who Is now living
I in Paris, has been sent to Coventry by
“other members of European royalty’
who are spending the winter here. Nicho
las has given up efforts to regain his
throne and has Burned botanist and
amateur painter. He spends much time
in his garden or amusing himself with
Ia child’s set of water colors.
Nicholas is greatly depressed at being
I snubbed by royalty. He attempted to
| call upon former Empress Eugenie and
j former Queen Amelia of Portugal, but
both refused to see him. The young
! shah of Persia passed Nicholas by with
1 a now of the head when they met on
the street.j The young Prince Feisal,
son of the king of the Hedjaz, In Ara
bia, Is the only member of royalty who
would promenade with Nicholas.
Trainman Killed;
Snow Causes Wreck
JERSEY CITY, N. J„ Feb. 7.—One man
was killed and three others were serious
ly injured today when a passenger loco
nictlve and a switch engine collided in
the Pennsylvania railroad yards. The
fireman was killed when the switch en
gine overturned. The accident - was
caused by the snow, which obscured the
view of signals, officials stated.
Noted Canadian
Physician Dead
OTTAWA, Ontario, Feb. 7.—Sir James
Grant, 89, sole survivor of the first Ca
nadian parliament anM eminent physician,
died late yesterday following injuries re
ceived when he fell on the street two
weeks ago.
Sir James was the first Canadian physi
cian to receive the title of K. C. M. G.,
the honor having been bestowed by the
late Queen Victoria
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 28, 1914, at
Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.
CALLS SMITH
AND EDWARDS
PERIL TO U. S.
Commoner Asserts Executives
of New York and New Jer
sey May Kill Party.
FEARS FOR DEMOCRATS
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 7.—Charging
Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York
and Gov. Edward I. Edwards of New
Jersey with having “entered upon
the task of burying the democratic
party in the grave with the saloon,”
William Jennings Bryan, in a state
ment today, answered the Smith and
Edwards speeches made at a dinner
given to National Democratic Chair
man Cummings in New York Thurs
day night.
Replying to a request for a statement,
Bryan said:
“Who will not accuse me of doing in
justice to Mr. Cummings? He shows no
Interest in the democratic party. His
chief business seems to be to act as a
sounding board for the champions of the
liquor traffic. He lends official sanc
tion to the political progress o a criminal
business, which has been outlawed by
the conscience of the nation.
“Gov. Edwards aifd Gov. Smith, both
of whom owe their election to a lawless
business, which conspires against public
morals, have entered upon the task of
burying the democratic party in the
grave with the saloon. If their fight
rests upon their individual merits, it
will be a farce. If tbe brew-ers and dta
tlllers finance it, the preconvention cam
paign will make the Newberry campaign
look like e Sunday shool picnic.”
ADMIRAL SIMS
PRO-BRITISH,
DANIELS SAYS
Secretary of Navy Regrets He
Recommended Officer for
High Rank.
CITES ARMY CRITICISM
WASHINGTON. F“h. 7. Evidence
aimed to show that Admiral Sims was
pro-British was presented to the senate
subcommittee investigating medal awards
by Secretary of the Navy Daniels today.
Secretary Daniels said lv- would not
have recommended Admiral Sitns for a
permanent rank of Admiral “had I known
iconditions which 1 now know.*’
Secretary Daniels read a statement by
I Representative Byrnes (deni., S. C.) de
ic’aring that Sims told him (Byrnes) that
Pershing was “unable to break through
tlie German lines and that the United
states navy had done little to combat
tho submarine." He said one officer of
'the army bad told firm'-’- that otirhy Ad
miral Sims would have made the State
ment. "which was British propaganda.”
MENTIONS WRITINGS
'IN MAGAZINE.
Secretary Daniels gave as a second rea-
I son why he would change hi< recotn
imendation that statements attributed to
Slins that “the United States should not
develop a merchan marine, nsf'Jt should
be controlled by Great Britain because of
geographical position.”
“The third reason is based on Sims’
writings in a current magazine. ’’ Secre
tary Daniels said.
“There was a wide difference of opin-
I lon between the secretary of the navy and
Roar Admiral Sims with reference to
| medals or decorations conferred by for
i eign governments.” Secretary Daniels
J said. “I did not believe men in the
! American naval service should accept
! decorations or medals from foreign gov.
j ernments, holding that It was contrary
j to American ideals, laws and traditions.
| The rear admiral was made acquainted
I with the fact that this view was the pol
, icy of the navy department.”
SIMS ACCEPTED
BRITISH DECORATION.
Admiral Sims accepted a decoration by
! the British government before authorized
to do so by the navy department. Secre
tary Daniels told the subcommittee.
He explained that Sims acted under the
authority granted by the act authorizing
“officers of the military” to receive such
honors. This was against the will of the
department. Daniels said. The law since
has been accepted to sustain Sims’ con
tention.
DENY BRITISH
BAN ON COTTON
Only Parliament Could En
force Embargo Against U. S.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Great Britain
today Informed the United States govern
ment through the state department that
the British government has not put Into
effect an embargo against the importa
tion of cotton.
In connection with the cotton embargo
matter, the state department issued the
following stateemnt:
“In connection with the recent sensa
tional fall in the exchange value of the
pound sterling, there have been various
press statements to the effect that im
ports of American cotton to Great Britain
had been embargoed or banned.
“While It Is possible that the condition
of the exchanges may rednee Importa
tions from the United States, and may
lead to voluntary agreements of private
Importers to stop importations tempo
rarily, the state department was informed
today that no embargo on cotton Imports
has been put into effect by the British
government qnd that such a measure
would, under a recent court decision, be
impossible of execution except by act of
parliament.”
Illness Seizes Woman
Who Married Prince
GENEVA, Feb. 7.—Tbe American bride
of Prince Christopher of Greece, formerly
Mrs. William B. Leeds, Is sick in bed
with ironchitis at a hotel at Caux. She
becart t 111 three days after her wedding.
Mrs. Leeds and Prinee Christopher were
married one week ago.
Niagara Falls Shy
Water; Citizens Howl
NIAGARA FALLS, Feb. 7.—Citizens
here are protesting against Inadequate
water supply and planning additional
facilities for service.
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920.
LAND TAXED ON
VALUE ABOVE
PRICES PAID
Johnson County and Town
Property Owners Indignant—
Those Who Appealed Won.
INCREASE 15 PER CENT
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.
By FELIX F. BRUNER,
Staff Correspondent of The Times.
FRANKLIN, Ins., Fen. s.—Both farm
and city property in Johnson county is
assessed at more than its true cash
value, a comparison of assessments wtib
real estate transfers reveals.
Tbe unfairly high assessment is due
to 15 per cent horizontal increases in
the valuations of nil real estate, ordered
by the state board of tax commissioners.
To this increase also was due, to a large
extent, the fact that farmers will pay
greatly increased taxes while banks will
pay taxes which are much lower than
last year.
A total of 108 farms were sold In
Johnson county during 1918. The tax
valuations were made early In 1919 and
the prices at which these farms were
sold Is taken as a fair Indication of
their value when the assessments were
made.
VALUED ABOVE
SELLING URICE.
A total of 7.194 acres wore sold in
Johnson county in 1918. They sold for
a total of $175,350, or an average of sl3s
an acre. By ordering horizontal In
creases the tax board brought, the valu
ations of this property up to a total
of $193,170 or an average of $149 an
acre. All but. thirty-seven of the farms
are valued for more than the price at
which they were sold.
The same thing is true of the valua
tions of property in the city of Franklin.
During the period from Jan. 1, 1919, to
Oct. 1, 1919, a total of 118 pieces of city
property were sold. The figures show
that of these seventy-four were assessed
at a price higher than the price for
which they actually were sold. During
101S a total of fifty-one pieces of prop
erty were sold In the city of Franklin.
Os these, thirty-nine are valued by the
tax board at prices higher than those
for which they were actually sold.
CHANGED PERSONAL
PROPERTY VALUATIONS.
The horizontal Increases did not apply
exclusively to real estate. The tax board
ordered 30 per cent increases on all per
i sons! property. This was done despite
the fact that a careful check of persona!
property was made by local assessing of
ficial.., and that the valuations of stocks
of merchandise were bused on Invoices
which every merchant without exception
turned over to the county assessor.
Two eoucerns Appealed to the state
tax board for a redos in
In both these cases fne tax hoard ad
: mltted It had been wrong and changed
| the valuations to those originally made
by the assessor. The concerns referred
to are tlie Farmers Elevator Company
and the N. J. Yorls Company. The latter
operates a drygoods store. The valua
tion of the Farmers' Elevator Company
was decreased from $112,530 to $94,600
, and the valuation of the N. ,T. Voris
Company was reduced from $61,880 to
$47,400.
It apparently Is possible that If the
tax board made mistakes In the only
two assessments appealed to It, It made
mistakes In other assessments. Despite
this fact, all other taxpayers must pay
on the basis of the Increase in the valu
ations of their persona! prope-ty.
When the tax board reduced these and
other valuations In the state it was enre
ful that no inkling of what It bad done
should escape until after the time for
filing appeals had passed. This evi
dently was to prevent other persons
from demanding treatment similar to
that accorded those who appealed.
The tax board has recently had a
man In Johnson county Investigating the
situation here, probably for the purpose
of making an explanation. It Is too
late now to make corrections. It was
explained by taxpayers here that this*
representative received a cold reception.
This condition and the fact that banks
are paying less taxes than last year
while farmers are paying more has led
to tbe present concerted opposition on
the part of Johnson county citizens to
the tax board and to the Goodrich ad
ministration.
JEWETT BACKS
‘GOOD TURN ’ WEEK
Asks Citizens to Join Boy
Scouts in Carrying Out Plan.
The observation of the tenth anniver
sary of the Boy Scouts movement as
“Good Turn” week was advocated by
Charles W. Jewett, mayor, In a proclama
tion issued today.
Every citizen in Indianapolis Is urged
to observe “Good Turn” week next week
by following the Boy Scout habit of
doing at least one good turn to someone
each day. ,The following proclamation
was Issued by the mayor:
"The Boy Scouts of America is just
now completing the first decade of Its
noteworthy history as an organization
devoted to the welfare of boys and mak
ing of good citizens.
“It behooves us both as Individuals and
as a community to aid, encourage and
supprot by every means within our pow
er, an organization wffiich has such a
splendid record of progress and service
as the Boy Scouts of America has as a
result of the ten years of Its existence.
“It is fitting that we at this time give
due recognition to this great organiza
tion.
“I, therefore, Charles W. Jewett, mayor
of Indianapolis, do hereby recommend the
period making the tenth anniversary of
the founding of the Boy Scout movement
Feb. 8 to 14, be observed In this city as
“Good Turn” week, and I strongly urge
that every man, woman and child In the
community for that period at least adopt
the Boy Scout habit of doing a good turu
to someone each day.
CHARLES W. JEWETT, Mayor.”
Car Shortage Hits
Indiana Coal Mines
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 7.—Non
production in Indiana mines today -was
reported as having reached 60,695 tons
as a result of the car shortage. Eighty
one mines are listed as idle.
PRESIDENT SA YS HIS STAND
ON TREA TY IS UNCHANGED;
RR YAN RAPS WET GO VERNOR
WILSON WRITES
HIS VIEW TODAY
TO HITCHCOCK
Insists on Ratification With
Nothing More Than Inter
pretative Reservations.
LETTER CAUSES A ROW
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.—President
Wilson has outlined his position on
he treaty situation in a letter which
nay be laid before the conference of
lemocratic senators it was learned at
he whitehouse this afternoon.’
The letter, which was addressed per
sonally to Senator Hitchcock, sets forth
the president’s position as unchanged,
insisting upon ratification of the treaty
with nothing more than interpretative
reservations.
Senator Hitchcock will be allowed to
use his own discretion in using the let
ter with the conference or making it
public, it was stated at the whitehouse.
LETTER PROVOKES
“A ROW.” REPORT.
President Wilson's letter was read to
the conference, and according to one sen
ator who left shortly afterward, it
caused "a row.” Those of the democrats
who favor steps toward a compromise
attacked the president's policy which was
vigorously defended by Senator Hitch
cock.
After more than two hours senators
began leaving the conference whiehwas
still in session, and stated that uo head
way was being made
REAFFIRMS WILSON
JACKSON DAY STAND.
In the letter the president indorsed the
position taken by Senator Hitchcock in
opposition to tlie reservation on Article
10, It was learned. The president’s let.
ter. It was said, largely reaffirms the po
sition which he took in ibs message to
the Jackson day dinner of the democrats.
The whitehouse today took the view
that Viscount Grey’s indorsement of res
ervations to the treaty has aided the
president in his fight against reserva
tions. Whitehouse officials declared that
there is evidence of a sweep of senti
ment against the reservations as the re.
suit of what Is termed outside interfer
ence by a member of the diplomatic
corps. .
RAIL MAN DIES
UNDER TRAIN
J. O. Budd, Switchman, Is
Crushed to Death in Yards.
J. O. Budd, 27, a railroad switchman,
was crushed to death shortly after 9
o’clock today when he fell beneath the
wheels of a freight car at East street.
Budd was a member of the switching
crew of a Big Four train. It Is believed
that he slipped when the train was being
stopped. The train was stopped within a
half car length after the man was struck.
It was in charge of Engineer R. P. Wolf.
1835 Arrow avenue, and Conductor TANARUS, O.
Shea, 702 East Georgia street. The body
was sent to the city morgue.
Budd lived in the Hazel Dell apart
ments, 1201 Park avenue. He was a civil
engineer by profession aud came here
from -Colorado about two years ago. He
v-as married only a few weeks ago.
FOUR DIE AFTER
EATING OLIVES
Another Reported Dying and
Sixth Seriously 111.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 7.—Three
•women and one man are dead, another is
Reported dying-, and a sixth is seriously
ill as a result of eating ripe olives at a
social function at the home of Mrs. Max
E. Yunkanuan.
Mrs. Vunkannan, the hostess, was the
first to die. The deaths of Mrs. Horace
B. Hammon, Mrs. S. Crofford and Uztill
K. Ivy followed in rapid success at a
local hospital.
Mr. Vunkannan is reported to be dying
and Mrs. Ivy is seriously ill.
The olives were served at a meeting of
•the Women’s Thursday club, which met
at the Vunkannan home. Mrs. Vunkan
nan died before she could tell where the
poisoned olives had been purchased.
The nature of the poison is believed to
be that of the botulismus germ, which
has cnused deaths at several points over
the country.
Dolmetsch Funeral
Held This Afternoon
Rev. H. 0. Peters of the German Evan
gelical Zion's church will officiate at the
funeral of Eugene C. Dolmetsch, ,Tr.,
which will be held at the Dolmetsch
home, 3122 College avenue, at 2 o’clock
this afternoon. Ruria! will be in Crown
Hill cemetery.
Mr. Dolmetsch, who died Thursday,
was for more than twelve years con
nected with the E. C. Dolmetsch com
pany, wholesale dealers In druggist and
stationery sundries. He was a member
of the Landmarks lodge No. 319, the
Commandery and the Shrine. The de
ceased is survived by the widow, Mrs.
Mabel Stehlin Dolmetsch; a daughter,
Elizabeth; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
C. Dolmetsch, Sr., and a brother, Walter
K. Dolmetsch.
Mrs. O'Connor Dies;
Funeral Monday
The funeral of Mrs. Mary O'Connor,
62, widow of former policeman Timothy
.T. O’Connor, will be held Monday ntorn
iing from the late home at 606 South
West street. Mrs. O’Connor had been
ill with pneumonia only a few days,
death resulting last night.
Surviving are four sons, Rev. Maurice
O’Connor of SS Petter and Paul Cathe
dral, John, Charles and Joseph, and three
daughters, Miss Florence O’Connor, Miss
Julia and Mrs. Jeremiah Warren, all of
this \city
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Newberry Fears He's Getting Fat
as Vote Fraud Trial Cuts Exercise
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Sketch of Senator Newberry in the federal courtroom at Grand
Rapids, where Newberry and 134 others face trial on charge of election
fraud.
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., Feb. 7.—lt is
exasperating to be tried on the charge
of gaining his senate seat through vio
lations of the federal corrupt practices
act.
Senator Truman H. Newberry, rall
, licWjfcV', on tr'al with 13+ of hU bench
ticre, In federal court. for alleged
■conspiracy to spend hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in his election, is a
study in exasperation and cheerfulness,
compounded with avoirdupois.
“The worst thing about it is I can't
find time for exercise," Senator New
berry complained to a friend at the hotel
dinner table. “It s exasperating.” This
complaint is due to the fact that Senator
Newberry is no longer quite young, and
is thickening a bit at tbe neck and widen
ing at the waist, as it were. However,
losing a figure need not mean losing a
sweet disposition, and “the charming Mr.
Newberry,” as his lawyers say, is proving
tbe fact.
WEARS NIFTY
STRIPED SUIT.
Senator Newberry is cheerful, even
though exasperated and gaining in
weight. He is an upstanding, stocky
little man, with small plump hands and
small feet not so .plump. The senator
THREE DIE IN
INDIANA MINE
Trolley Hits Shaft Supports,
Burying Workers.
Special to The Times.
BICKNELL, Ind., Feb. 7. —Three men
are dead todiy and several are suffering
from serious injuries as the result of an
accident In American mine No. 1. near
here, last night.
The accident ooeured when a trolley
swung loose, striking the props of the
slate roof, causing it to fall into the
shaft on top of the men at the bottom
of the shaft.
The dead are:
Nolan Smith, 35, mine boss and city
clerk of Bicknell.
Fleet Speers, 19. of Bicknell.
Elvie Weaver of Bicknell.
Weaver was killed instantly, while
Smith lived only a few minutes. Speers
died in a hospital five hours later.
The more seriously injured are
Lucien Moore, Bicknell, cut about head;
George Myers, Bicknell, broken right
ankle and mangled right hand; Taylor
Cargal. Vincennes, foot crushed and pos
sible internal injuries; Fletcher Wamp
ler, Bicknell, cut about head.
The men had stopped in the bottom of
the mine while waiting for the cage to
hoist them to the top. The motor ap
proached, the trolley pole in some man
ner switching to the trolley over the
parallel track. The pole left the trolley
and swung about with great force, strik
ing the roof supports.
Open Fight for War
Money Given Kaiser
BERLIN, Feb. 7.—Long before the
Versailles conference decreed there
should be practically no German army
or navy, Herr Knorr, Pan-German and
true to the kaiser, passed away and left
A will.
Under the terms of the testament,
Knorr gave most of his fortune, consist
ing of property and securities, to the
kaiser to be used for military purposes.
Now the widow of the old man and her
half-brother have gone to the courts to
demand their share of his worldly
goodß.
The Knorrs argue the man would never
have given the kaiser his property and
ooney if he had known it could not have
been used in the furtherance of German
military policies. The former emperor’s
Interests are represented by an attorney.
DON’T PUSH THINGS, PLEASE.
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—" Funeral will be
held later.” “Quite true," remarked
Henry Plneau, diamond setter, reading
his own death notice In the papers. He
fainted on the train.
must have worn a naval uniform well
when he was a lieutenant commander in
New York, but now at his trial he wears
a simple business suit of blue serge with
a wide-spaced white stripe.
The senator is up early in the morn
ing and chats and laughs with his al
' tegefi co-conspirators in the hotel lobby
| before he walks to court. He and Fred
> erick M. Cody, his friend, and the gev
j eminent says, chief political manipulator
j In tbe Newberry camp, sit together at
the eDd of a row of seats several benches
from the front.
! “HIS B<)\ s”
LIKE HIM.
Senator Newberry appears well liked
| by “his boys."
There is always a scramble for the end
seat. It’s great to sit beside a real
■ live senator, not to say a millionaire,
and particularly If there's n common
bond of fellowship like a grand lurv in
i dictment charging you both with a
fleiony.
"The boys” are glad to have the sena
tor sit beside them. Two of them talked
of him in a corridor.
“Newberry's a regular fellow," said
one." He's a commoner, he Is. This
(Continued on Page Nine.)
‘OTHER WOMAN 9
NAMED IN PLEA
Wife of Expert Mechanic Says
Spouse Untrue—Asks Divorce.
Alleging that her husband led a gay
life with another woman while she was
left at home without food and compan
ionship, Mrs. Flora E. Hamilton, 21SO
North Pennsylvania street, filed a di
vorce action in the circuit court against
Arthur O. Hamilton, an expert automo.
bile mechanic.
Mrs. Hamilton in her complaint names
a “Nettie Beaver” as the co-respondent
and alleges that the two have traveled
together by train and motor from state
to state. Among the cities named by
Mrs. Hamilton where her husband and
the alleged co-respondent motored to
w’ero Columbus. 0., and Muneie, Ind.
The complaint indicates that the regis
ter of the Hartman hotel at Columbus,
0., will play a prominent part in the
divorce action if Mr. Hamilton contests
(he case.
Mrs. Hamilton asks for $2,000 alimony.
The Hamiltons were married Dec. 24,
1914, and separated Feb. 6 last.
Yarmouth Tells of
Jonah_the Second
LONDON, Feb. 7.—From Yarmouth
comes the true story of Jouah the Sec
ond.
Jonah No. 2 is a fish.
Stanley Wating of the Anchor hotel,
Coltisbail, Norfolk, says his son hooked
a twenty-pound pike on Barton Broad.
Several hours later, when the pike was
cleaned and apparently dead, bream
weighing three-fourths of a pound was
found inside the pike. When examined
the bream’s tall was seen to quiver.
“Thereupon,” said Mr. Watllng, “I
poured a drop of brandy down Its throat
and fixed it up in a bait can so it
couldn’t turn over, changing the water
every twenty minutes. It soon began
to revive and in two hours was wimmlng
about In the can.”
Jonah is now living a quiet life in
a nice pond at Scratby hall. Normeshy.
Five persons corroborate Mr. Watllng’s
story.
Sell Family Plate
WhenjSilver Rises
BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 7.—Because of the
high price of silver, thousands of fam
ilies all over the Midland counties are
selling their family plate, much of it
generations old. They get from sl.lO per
ounce downward, according to quality,
from manufacturing jewelers. One local
athlete disposed of $3,000 worth of silver
cups he had won. Many Victorian period
silver trays and teapots weigh 2,000
ounces and upward.
Home
edition
TWO CENTS.
ALLIES TO TELL
GERMANS PACT
MUST BE KEPT
British Delegate Withdraws
Objections to Certain Names
Listed for Trial.
DELIVER NOTE TONIGHT
PARIS. Feb. 7.—Lord Birkenhead, the
British lord chancellor, today withdrew
his objections to certain names contained
in the official list of Germans wanted
for trial by tbe allies, and the council
of ambassadors voted uanimously for tho
immediate delivery of the list to the Ger
man government.
A French diplomatic representative will
present the list of nearly 900 names to
the German chancellor.
The allied governments, according to
the announcement, regard it as Impera
tive that Germany recognize her obliga
tion to carry oilt all the terms of tha
treaty, and will not, for the moment,
modify article 228, the clause specifying
ithat Germany “recognize the rights of
the allied and associated powers to bring
to military tribunals persons accused of
having committed acts In violation of the
laws and customs of war.”
Text of the covering note, which bad
been held up, was approved by the coun
cil and will be telegraphed to M. De
marcilly, French diplomatic agent in Ber
lin. The French representative probably
will present the list and the covering
note to Gustav Bauer, the German chan
cellor, this evening, it was said at the
French foreign office.
The text of the covering note was not
made public.
The council of ambassadors, it wai
learned, will not meet again until after
the coming conference of Premiers
I-loyd George, Millerand and Nitti In
London.
Among the naval officers on the allied
listed of wanted men were Admiral von
Mueller. Admiral von Schroeder, Ad
miral Bachman, Admiral Koch, Admiral
Hippel, Admiral Tapken, Commander von
Bnelow of the German submarine fleet,
thirty-two commanders of U-boats and
the captain of the German sea raider
Wolf.
LONDON PRESS
FOR MODIFICATION
LONDON, Feb. 7.—Serious possibilities
are seen by the press today in the situa
tion created by the allies’ demand for
German military and officers of state for
trial before a war guilt court.
“The German proposal for triala be
fore an International court in a neutral
country offers the allies escape from a
situation fraught with peril to the whole
of Europe.” said the Daily News.
The Chronicle holds that Insistence
upon the surrender of German war crim
inals is possible only If the list is rea
sonable.
“We do not know yet if the list given
out in Berlin is genuine or not,” con
tinues the Chronicle. “But in any case
it is utterly preposterous.”
The Chronicle believes that the list
should be expurgated.
"If we want peace we should not
plunge Germany into confusion, bnt we
will do that If we continue to insist
upon such impossibilities as the war
criminals stunt.” said the Daily Mirror.
GERMANS STRIKE
DEFIANT ATTITUDE
BERLIN, Feb. 7.—The German govern
ment ho-pes to reach a compromise with
the allies on the question of war cul
prits. based upon German guarantees to
punish the in German courts
without surrendering them to the en
tente, it was declared in semi-official
circles today.
The “covering letter,” which was to
have accompanied the Hat of German
officials demanded by the allies la ex
pected to arrive during the day.
The premiers of the German states
will meet here Monday to consider th
allied demand.
German army and navy clubs have
adopted a resolution “to forfeit their
lives rather than to give up the army
and navy officers wanted by the allies.”
The nationalist socialist convention
will open here Monday and it is expected
the delegates will take up the question
of surrendering the wanted officials.
Signatures to Wood
Petition Reach 5,000
A total of 5,€00 signatures to peti
tions asking that the name of Gen.
Leonard Wood be placed on the presi
dential primary ballot in Indiana, have
been obtained, according to Frederick M.
Joss, head of the Wood campaign com
mittee in Indiana.
The committee has a system of making
public each day a statement from some
prominent citizen in support of Wood.
The most recent statement was made by
Dr. Henry Jameson, president of the
board of directors of the Indianapolis
Street Railway Company.
Dr. Jameson points out that Gen.
Wood was personal physician for Pres
idents Ceveland and McKinley, and tells
of his work In Cuba following the Span
isb-American war and of his service dur
ing the recent war as evidence of his
versatility.
Health Supervision
Subject of Lecture
E. U. Graff, superintendent of city
schools, gave a lecture on “Health Su
pervision” at a meeting of city school
teachers yesterday afternoon at the Y
W. C. A. The talk was one of a series
being given by Mr. Graff under school
management.
ggTHE WEATHER
Local Forecast—Unsettled tonight and
probably Sunday; not much change in
temperature; lowest tonight, near freez
ing.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m , 33
7 a. m 33
.8 as m 32
9 a. m 38
10 a. 33
11 a. 38
12 (noon) - 83
Sun sets today, 5:11; rises tMMMWI,
6:47; sets. 5:12.