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VOL. XXX. NO. 270.
NEWBERRY AND 16 OTHERS GUILTY
[DEAD PILING UP IN BATTLE OF RADICALS FOR BERLIN
FTHOUS.ND FALL
AT KIE!; LEIPZIG
TOLL HJNDREDS
Soviets TakdVhole Ruhr Dis
trict am Start Army
foriapital.
DEFENDER DIGGING IN
LONDON, IVrch 20.—More than
1.000 persons ive been killed and
wounded in figting at Kiel, accord
ing to an Excange Telegraph dis
patch from Bern this afternoon.
The whole Ihr district of West
Prussia is saido be in the hands of
armed reds.
Several hundil persons were killed
and wounded ateipzig when a squadron
of army planes imbed the city, said an
Exchange Telegyh dispatch from Ber
lin this afternoe
Lord Kilnarnk. the British charge
d'affaires at Bein, has issued a state
ment that no sullies nor credits will be
extended to Getany unless order is re
stored at once, id a News Agency dis
patch from Bert this afternoon.
AVY FORCE.s' BERLIN
SCBI RG “DIGiNG IN.”
The naval Sgade, commanded by
Capt. Erhardt, as camped at Chariot
tenburg, a sub'b of Berlin, where en
trenchments ha been dug and barbed
wire entanglemts thrown up. Patrols
were sent out watch for any armed
, movement agaitt the fortified positions,
w The Baltic tr-ps were said to be un
willing to witlraw any farther from
Berlin because ey might not be able to
get food.
The general rike continues, said the
Berlin dispatcl with the spartacists
gaining ground.
Negotiations Uween the workers and
the Ebert govement continued Friday
Sight, but the citation is more aggra
vated than ever
In the Ruhr strict, especially at Es
sen, Dusseldorf.Elberfeld and Barmen,
the strikers areefuslng to obey the cr
iers of their lesers to return to work.
BED ARMY PL.VS
TO MARCH ONBERLIN.
A red army iseported to he preparing
to march upon ijrlin (presumably from
the Ruhr mini! and industrial belt),
headed by HeriCottens.
Twenty-five tbasand red troops have
been massed atioepenicfe, on the out
skirts of Berlfn the foreigD office an
nounced this moling.
All the avalhle government troops,
supported with -tillery, have been or
dered to take u positions on the high
ground between Berlin and Koepenick
to defend this cif.
Rain is fallingiere and is keeping the
usual crowd off -e streets.
The goverumet holds out hope that
the railways ma be running again by
tcnight. but thesparticists are making
desperate effortsto keep the strikers
from returning. Communist? are dis
tributing thonsats of handbills urging
a continuation o the general strike.
The bolshevist threaten to blow up
the factories whes the men return.
ft is reported n Cologne that Presl.
dent Ebert of Genany has asked Philip
F heideman. the sclalist leader, to form
t new cabinet, sid an Exchange Tele
graph dispatch fnn that city this after
noon.
CLASHES TEPORTED
ALL OVER (ERMANY
BERLIN, Marcl2o.—Violent disorders
growing out of atempts by radicals to
Institute a soviet government were re
ported from manjparts of Germany to
day. Armed worloen were reported to
hare captured Esar. after two days' hard
fghting with cio! than 30C persons
killed and many ■•hers wounded. Social
democratic artillery was reported moving
toward Sups. Trcpg armed with ma
chine guns and flme throwers, a dis
patch said, were t TTnteiklrchen, near
Stuttgart.
The situation wa: reported acute with
armed conflict lmiinent, In Muenster,
Bremen, Thurmlngliand Meoklenbnrg.
One apparently relable report said that
President Ebert anved secretly in the
capital last night, acompanled by Philip
Scheidemann, the majority socialist
leader. Scheidemant it was said, was to
be trusted rerganization of the
cabinet.
The Hotel Adlon headquarters for
most of the foreign missions and resi
dence of the America< correspondent, to
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STATE WOMEN
BOOST TRADE
‘Speed Up Procuction’ Topic
at Indiana Gathering.
Business women weß urged to join a
nation-wide speed-upproductlon earn
paign by speakers win appeared today
before several hundred delegates to the
third annual eonventioa of the Indiana
■Woman's Association of Commerce, at
the Claypool hotel.
Miss Ida M. Anderson, president of
the body, urged ecoiomy among the
members and aid to the government's
campaign for greater thrift. ,
The delegates were velcomed by Walter
P. Pfaff, representinf the Chamber of
Commerce. Miss Edih Henderson of
Elkhart responded In behalf of the dele
gates.
A telegram was read from the offices of
the National Federati*#of Business and
professional Women’s Club In New York,
In which the Indiana association was con
gratulated. TUere am thirteen business
women’s organizations affiliated with the
state body.
Mrs. Edward Fra”klln White of In
dianapolis told the delegates thiß aft
ernoon of the battles which women have
made for good legislation in Indiana, and
declared that women in the future would
have an enormous Influence upon the
kind of legislation enacted, both by
national and state bodies.
Merle Sidener. Miss Helen Sinclair
and Mies Isadora Kessler spoke this aft
ernoon.
Miss Jessie Ackerman of Pekin, China,
•will speak on “The Psychology of Mobs”
at the banquet to be held in the IJaln
bow room of the Hotel Severin tonight,
which will close the convention.
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Daily Except Sunday.'
MAXINE’S LOVE
FOR JACK TURNS
TO BLACK HATE
Dempsey and Manager Enter
Pleas of Not Guilty to
Slacker Charge.
PHOTO DOES THE TRICK
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 20.
—Maxine Dempsey, a wisp of a
woman—the government’s chief wea
pon in its attempt to brand Jack
Dempsey as a slacker —has seen her
love for Jack turn to hatred, she
said today.
Dempsey, world’s heavyweight cham
pion. today pleaded not guilty in Fed
eral .Tmlge Bean's court to indictments
charging evasion of the draft and con
spiracy to evade the dr if'. .1 iVk Kearns.
Dempsey’s manager, also under indict
ment for conspiracy ir assisting Demp
sey to evade the draft, made a similar
plea.
Trial was set for April 2 by Judge
Bean. Bonds of SI,OOO on each of the
two indictments were furnished by
Dempsey and Kearns.
TOKEN FROM DEMPSEY
FIRED HER HATRED.
Strange to say, a token from Demp
sey was the match that set fire to Max
ine's hatred.
Maxine had been playing a piano In
Wells. Nev., a freight division point of
200 inhabitants, while Jack was posing
for the camera in Los Angeles, before
ttap admiring gaze of movie queens.
"Those who criticise me for telling the
truth about Jaek should picture me sit
ting in the town of Wells, neglected,
while Jack got easy money and fame,"
she said.
"I had assisted Jack while he was a
‘ham and egg’ fighter. He lived off my
money. Then, \\ lien he knew he was
about to whip Willard. h divorced me.
STIRRED TO ACTIVITY
BY LEGION’S CHARGES.
"Did I get automobiles and pretty
clothes? No! I was playing a piano for
the amusement of freight handlers and
miners.’’
Maxine said she did nothing until the
American all over the coun
try began to attack Jack's war record.
"I knew they didn’t have the goods on
.Tack, and that I did." she said. "But I
didn't do anything. Then i)ne day, about
a week after the American Legion got
busy, I got a package from- Los Angeles.
"What do you suppose was in that
package? It was Jack’s photograph. He
sent It with 'love.' Jack was afrnld I
would testify against him and he
thought he could win me back to him
that easy.
"I sat down and wrote a letter to a
newspaper saying I had the goods on
Jack and that he was a slacker. That
started things. Jack tried to phone me.
Men began to arrive in Wells to see me.
I wouldn't phone Jack and the men had
no luck.”
ONCE GAVE HIM
A BLACK EYE.
Life as the wife of a fighter has its
drawbacks, Maxine said. She testified
to Jack's fighting spirit and said that
for days before a fight he was sullen and
savage. She explained she had once
i blacked Jack’s eye herself.
“It was after ho had a bad fight with
Willie Meehan. Meehan had cut his eye
i open. Jack and I were quarreling. lie
I pushed me. I struck at that bad eyo
i and missed it and hit the other. Oh,
what an eye I gave him!”
She paid Jack Kearns the tribute of be
ing the only man who could handle
Dempsey, and Imparted a ‘‘hot tip” to
Georges Carpentler. It was “ge£” Jack
in the fourth or fifth round. Those are
his bad ones—especially the fourth.
“KNOWS ALL ABOI'T
THE FLYNN FIGHT.”
“When they get him filled up with
strychnine and past those rounds, he's
a bad man to beat,” she said.
“I know all about the Flynn fight at
Murray, Utah, Feb. 13, 1917,’’ she said.
“For days before the fight Jack prac
ticed flopping before a tight to the Jaw.
He told me after the fight that when
Flynn bit him It was- so light lfe nearly
forgot to lie down.”
Dempsey divorced Maxine Feb. 1. 1919.
They had been married about four years.
Dempsey won the world’s championship
five months and four days after that.
Maxine did not hear from him again
! directly until after the American legion
attacked his record, she said.
BROUGHT BACK
IN FRAUD CASE
New Yorker to Answer Wom
an’s Charge of Swindling.
William Smith, 53, of Now York City,
who was returned to Indianapolis today
by Detective Winkler, will be arraigned
In the criminal court next week on a
grand jury indictment charging em
bezzlement, grand larceny and obtaining
$2,000 from Miss Anna W. Cuyler,
Park avenue.
It Is alleged that Miss Cuyler became
acquainted with Smith c-n route Bos
ton in July, 1917, and that he represented
himself as a bank president and so im
pressed Miss Cuyler with his ability to
sell stock that she purchased $2,000 j
worth.
The Indictment alleges that Smith gave
hts note to assure the deal and that the
note has twice been presented to the
banks for payment, which has been re
fused, authorities state. It is also al
leged that Miss Cuyler has received no
returns from her investment.
Detectives say that Smith claims this
Is an attempt to collect payment on a
note covering a business deal. It Is
said that he is now engaged in promot
ing a big copper mine enterprise in the
west.
Death Rides in Fire
Razing Courthouse
STEUBENVILLE, 0., March 20.—Ed- ‘
ward Still, 40, was killed and several per
sons were injured in a fire which de
stroyed the New Cumberland (W. Va.) •
courthouse, seven miles from here, today.
Police suspect incendiarism.
Juiiiana Haihj Lillies
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914. at
Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March I, 1879.
FOUR MORE COAL MEN
HELD ON INDICTMENTS
Logsdon, Tobin and Neal of Indianapolis and W. M. Zeller
of Brazil Give SIO,OOO Bond Each for Appearance May 4.
Four more coal operators were arrested today on capiases from the
federal court under the Indictment recently returned by the coal grand
jury in which 125 coal operators and miners with conspiracy
under the Lever food and fuel control act.
They are E. D. Logsdon, Indianapolis; William M. Zeller, Brazil, Ind.;
W. H. Tobin, Indianapolis, and Banus E. Neal, Indianapolis. Tobin and
Neal were arrested by C. M. Mikesell, deputy United States marshal.
> GIVES UP
\ <■* Si: i
*
WILLIAM M. ZELLER.
William M. Zeller, who lives in Brazil,
Ind., is president of the American Coal
Mining Company, which has its main
offices iu Indianapolis, and is known as
an influential coal operator in IndiAna.
The American mtne No. 1 in the Bickuell
field is said to be the largest coal mine
in the United States.
He was one of four coal operators ar
rested today. Zeller walked Into the
United States marshal’s office and gave
himself up.
CHARLIE'S CIDER
BRINGS 2 KICKS
First Is 6 Per Cent, Police
Make Second; He's in Again.
Back to bootlegging to pay a SIOO fine
on a blind tiger charge.
Police say that’s what Charlie Blanken
ship did. He's in Jail again. With him
the police took half a barrel of "high
powered” cider. It’s 6 per cent stuff,
'tis said.
Charile Just got through serving sixty
days on the state farm. He was given the
chgtoreary parole with the understand
ing he’d pay the SIOO fine and costs hang
ing over him. Charlie assured the state
farm keeper he’d rather pay the fine than
work it out.
Patrolman O’Rourke walked past 558
East Washington street, where Charlie
used to have a restaurant, last night.
There’s a second-hand store there now.
O'Rourke sniffed. He sniffed again.
It didn’t smell like a second-hand store.
He told Patrolman Hostetter and Hos
etter told Sergt. Johnson. Lieut. Thomas
and four “cleanup men” visited the place
early today.
They say they found several men
drinking Charlie’s cider.
When Blankenship was arrested two
months ago the cider was examined by
the city chemist. *lt was found to contain
6 per cent alcohol.
Blankenship told the police at that
time he proposed to have the cider “made
over into vinegar." He said he had per
mission from federal agents to do this.
Police suspect the cider, aged an addi
tional sixty days while Charlie was on
the farm, has even more kick.
Blankenship is 61 years old.
PASTORS CANT
LOCATE MAYOR
Unable to Push Plea for 12-
Hour Day for Firemen.
A committee of Methodist ministers has
been unsuccessful In obtaining an audi
ence -with Mayor Jewett to ask him to
institute a double platoon system In the
Indianapolis fire department. They were
unable to find him yesterday or today.
The ministers want the system In
stalled so that the firemen can have more
recreation, spend more time with their
families and have tftne to attend church.
Under the present system firemen are
off duty one day in five. Under the pro
posed double-platoon system they would
be on duty twelve hours each day. City
officials generally are understood to be
opposed to the introduction of the sys
tem because of the added cost.
The committee which sought the audi
ence with the mayor is composed of Rev.
Elmer St. Clair, Heath Memorial church:
Rev. Ray Ragsdale, Brlghtwood M. E.
church, and Rev. Harry O. Kisner, Foun
tain Street M. E. church.
Seven Rescued After
4 Days in Open Boat
NEW YORK, March 20.—After drifting
for four days and nights in an open boat,
Capt. J. G. Peterson and six members of
the crew of the American schooner Jere
miah* Smith, which sunk 250 miles off
Sandy Hook, were landed here today by
the American steamer Hatteras, which
picked them up at sea. The Jeremiah
Smith was bound from Newport News,
Va., for Cuba, with coal.
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1920.
Logsdon and Zeller walked into the
United States marshal’s * office, saying
they understood they had been indicted.
Carl G. Fletcher of Indianapolis, the
first coal operator to be arrested, gave
bond yesterday afternoon after he had
learned that he was indicted,
W. H. Tobin is known as the "right
hand man” of Gov. James P. Goodrich iu
the latter's coal distribution organiza
tion.
He was one of the organizers of the
Globe Mining Company, which gave Gov.
Goodrich a block of its stock “for serv
ices,' 1 and the company which later
opened a "stripper mine" in Pike county
by the use of convicts sent there from the
penal farm. Mr Tobtn, according to an
affidavit made by incorporators of the
Globe Mining Ccmpanf. first interested
James P. Goodrich in the Globe company
Tobin was secretary and treasurer of
the Consumers Coal company, the com
pany to which the state purchasing com
mittee first announced a contract had
been let for supplying the state instl
tutions with eoaL When the relation.,
ship of Tobin to the governor und the
fact that Gov. Goodrich's brother, P. K.
Goodrich was a director of the company
was made public, the state committee
held up this contract, later awarding it
to the Aetna coal company, another of
the organizations composed of friends
of the governor.
Tobin came to Indianapolis from Mun
cle and has been interested in several
coal companies, through the most of
which the Goodrich Interests could lie
traced. He was made an executive of
it he committee which was formulated by
Gov. Goodrich to deal with the state coal
situation when the trtnke of miners
•topped production in Indiana.
LOGS DON MEMBER
OF WAGE COMMITTEE.
E. D. Logsdon is interested in the
Knox County Coal Company and the
Indian Creek, Blackburn and Little
mines. Mr. Logsdon's offh-e la in the
Traction Terminal butldlng He was
a member of the coal operators’ wage
scale committee at the Buffalo Joint
conference of operators and miuers on
Kept. 25. 1819. Many persons believed
that the indictment returned was based
largely on negotiations between oper
ators and miners ut the convention. Mr
Logsdon appeared in the office of United
States Marshal Mark Storen In company
with William Zeller, operator, of Brazil,
Ind.. who is president of the American
Coal Mining Company of Indiana) oils,
and Attorney Larz Whitcomb of the
law firm of Whitcomb A Dowdeo. Mr.
Zeller is a member of the Indlani Bi
tuminous Coal Operators’ association and
operates mines near Brazil and in the
Blcknell field. The American mine No.
1 at Blcknell is said to be the largest
coal mine In the world.
NEAL BAID TO BE
LOGSDON ASSOCIATE.
Banus F. Neal Is treasurer Hnd sales
manager of the Indian Creek Coal Com
pany. with offices in the Traction
Terminal building. He is said to be as
sociated with E. D. Logsdon.
All of those arrested furnished bond for
SIO,OOO to appear on arraignment day,
May 4.
Logsdon's bond was signed by Charles
B. Sommers and Charles C. Perry of In
dianapolis.
“I do not know what I am arrested for
and naturally can not discuss the case,”
said Mr. Zeller and others operators.
“We will not have an opportunity to
see the indictment until after arraign
ment day or until aU those charged have
been arrested," said Attorney Whitcomb
in discussing the arrests. "We do not
know definitely what the men are charged
with.”
INDICTMENTS AFTER
3 MONTHS’ INQUIRY.
The indictment under which the ar
rests were made was returned last week
by a special grand jury, which apent
three months investigating the coal in
dustry in the United States. The in
dictment charged 120 coal operators and
miners with conspiracy to limit the pro
duction of coal and to fix the price of
coal In violation of the Lever act.
John F. Brown and Thomas H. Mcßea
of Brazil, Ind., signed a bond for the
appearance of Mr. Zeller. Tobin’s bond
was signed by the United States Fidelity
and Guaranty Company and Neal's by
Charles B. Sommers and Emerson W.
Chaille.
It was said today that several more
coal men of Indianapolis will be arrested
as soon as they can be apprehended by
deputies from the marshal’s office.
The operators arrested today did not
care to discus the indictment.
PUBLISHING PRICES
PROBABLE OFFENSE.
It was reported today that one of the
counts Included In the Indictment charges
the operators and representatives of their
associations with conspiracy on the
ground that prices were controlled by
the publication of quotations by those
associations. A charge of this nature
probably would include officials of the
Indiana Coal Trade Bureau and similar
organizations operating in coal centers.
Practically all of the members of the
wage scale committees of both miners
and operators attending the Buffalo joint
conference are said to lie included in
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i^THEWEATHE&j
Loral Forecast—Fair tonight, with low
est temperature about 30 degrees; Sunday
fair and warmer.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
0 a. m. 28
7 a. 29
8 a. in 33
9 a. m 37
10 a. ni 40
11 a. ill 43
12 (noon) 40
1 p. m 48
2 p. m 50
One year ago today, highest tempera
ture, 65; lowest, 40.
Additional weather report* on pace 9.
SENATE KILLS
PEACE TREATY
BY 49-35 VOTE
Pact Returned to President
With Word That It Can’t
Be Ratified.
GOES INTO CAMPAIGN?
WASHINGTON. March 20.—The treaty
is now up to President Wilson. The sen
ate washed its hands of the pact last
night when by u vote of 49 to 35 it re
fused to ratify It and then 47 to 37
voted to send it back to President Wil
son with word that it could not be
ratified.
The treaty was delivered to secretary
Tumulty at the white-house shortly lie
fore 10:30 this morning by George San
ders secretary of the ““uati. '
After u conference with the president.
Secretary Tumulty announced that the
president had no statement to make as
to the defeat of the treaty or his fu
ture course with regard to it.
An . agreement of modus vivendl be
tween Germany and the United States
and the United States and th allies
by which the United States might con
ttnue to take of terms of
the treaty of Versailles without ratifying
the treaty is being considered by ad
ministration officials, it was learned to
day. Under such an agreement the armi
stice terms would be ended and the
United State* would maintain troops
iri Germany and carry out other provi
sions of the treaty by agreement, but
at the same time not being bound to
any of the terms of the treaty.
Such an agreement of modus vivendl
would h'-ve i o binding power but would
be virtually a gentleman’s agreement be
tween this country and Germany and
the allies.
SPECULATE AS TO
; COURSE lIT WILSON.
President Wilson can send the treaty
back to the senate. In that case Lodge and
other republican leaders as well as some
democrats declared that no action what
ever, would be taken until the issue
of treaty or no treaty had been fought
out and decided tn the campaign.
The president can go to the American
people in a •'solemn referendum” as he
said in bis letter to the Jackson day
dinner, on the question of ratification,
! as au issue in the national campaign of
1820.
He can drop the treaty and begin nego
tiations with Germany for restoration of
a state of peace.
SECOND COURSE
MELD LIKELY ONE.
The general expectation among sena
tors ! that he will take the second
course and ask the democratic party to
make the treaty the paramount laiue In
: the campaign, V
Whatever Wilson does about the treaty,
It was generally agreed here today that
the country faces another long siege of
treaty oratory, with the difference that
Instead of being In the senate, it will be
delivered from every stump in the land.
Borah, Johnson, Reed and Poindexter
are “besting Wilson to It” as one of them
said ou his wsy from the senate chamber
to board a train for a speaking tour
against the leagne. By that he meant
that the senate "lrreconcilabies’’ haring
again killed the treaty tn the senate are
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MARSHALL OFF
STATE BALLOT
Uninstructed Delegates to Go
to Frisco.
j William I/. Elder, acting ns ageqt for
I Thomas It. Marshall, today withdrew the
: petition which he filed to place Mr. Mar
' shalt's name on the democratic primary
' ballot as a candidate for president.
The petition filed by unauthorized rep
i rpsentatives of Gov. Edwatd Edwards of
I New Jersey has been withdrawn from
j the files and the withdrawal of the
1 Marshall petition leaves no candidate
J in the field fur the presidential rote of
| the democratic party on the presidency.
Mr. Elder nmde the statement that
his actlou was taken in accordance-with
! the expressed wish of Mr. Marshall that
| the Indiana delegation go to the Ban
Francisco convention without instructions
and without being bound to vote for any
one.
At one time it appeared that three
names would be before the democratic
voters, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Edwards and
William G. MeAdoo. An agreement was
made between the McAdoo and Marshall
forces not to enter the primary when
Edwards’ friends entered hts name, Mar
shall was entc-ed solely to prevent Ed
wards from capturing the delegation by
default. The Marshall forces followed
out completely their pledge to the Mc-
Adoo representatives to avoid pledging
the delegation unless it became neces
sary to prevent Edwards from pledging
it to him.
Study of Spirits Keen in City
9j OH, NO, NOT LIQUID, BUT OF OTHER WORLD
Indianapolis folk are conducting dili
gent inquiries Into this business of spirit
ism, librarians of the public library
said today.
Works dealing with the recondite find
ings’ of the ouija board and other popu
lar mediums are vying in Interest with
fiction founded on occult phenomena. No
phase or school of spiritualistic research
Is being neglected.
“Some read to find comfort in new
knowledge, others read to scoff,’’ said
Miss Mairy Dyer Lemon of ihe library
staff. "But nearly all readers are delv
ing into mysticism In some form. Sir
Oliver Lodge’s’ “Raymond, or Life After
Death,” has been the most popular book
in the library for two years.”
MAR CREDITED WITH
REVIVAL OF INTEREST.
During last month more than 324 books
on metaphysical subjects were borrowed
from the library here. That la more than
twice as many as were borrowed in
February of 1914. The war is credited
with the revival of spiritualistic interest.
The books on spiritism being loaned by
tlio library now comprise about 3 per
„ . ... „ . ) By Carrier, Week, Indianapolis, IC-c;
Subscription Rates. j Elsewhere, 12c. By Mail, 50c Per Month.
Spring Here; Early
Due to Leap Year
Spring!
It's with ns.
Arrived at exactly 3:59 this after
noou. At that time the suiA passed
directly over the equator.
Ordinarily spring begins a day or
so later. Old Sol took advantage of
leap year this time.
J. H. Armington, weather observer,
says it takes, the earth exactly 36514
days to complete Its orbit.
Hence it will be four years be
fore we have such an early spring
again.
In seeping with the spirit of the
new season Mr. Armington says it will
be "Fair and Warmer" Sunday.
Sounds good. Let’s have it.
V
$250,000 Fire Visits
Pennsylvania Town
DUBOIS, T*a . March 20.—Three budd
ings were destroyed and one was badly
damaged in a fire which for a
time threatened to wipe out tile whole
-business section early today. The loss
is estimated at about $250,U00.
Electric Goes Off,
Tieing Up Plants
Burning out of a motor generator set
caused a twenty-minute suspension of
activities at plants served by the Indi
anapolis Heat and Light Company tills
morning. Elevators in a number ot
buildings were tied up.
Lemp’s Daughter
Commits Suicide
ST. LOUIS, March 20.—Mrs. ELsa I.emp
Wright, prominent St. la>uia society
woman, who retnurried her divorced hus
band, Thema* T. Wright. In New York
about two weeks ago, shot and killed
herself in her home here today. She was
a daughter of William A, I.emp, the St.
Lcuia brewer.
Print Paper Relief
Boosted in Congress
WASHINGTON, March 20.—Suspension
for one year of the tariff on wood pulp
is provided In a bill tavornbly reported
today by the house ways and means
committee.
This legislation has been urged by
paper manufacturer* ass means toward
relterlng the acute shortage of paper.
Judge ‘Recognizes’
‘Republic of Ireland’
riiK’AdO, March 20,—Ireland has been
recognised formally In Chicago. Judge
Marcu* Kavanaugh performed the cere
mony in completing the naturalisation
of Patrick King, late of the onld sod.
Kavanaugh added “the republic of Ire
land" to the Hat of foreign influences
King meet forswear.
Judge Kavanaugh said he wanted hla
action interpreted as recognition of Ire
land sovereignty.
Professor and Wife
Settle Difficulties
The alleged domestic troubles and trib
ulations of Mrs. Vivian Davies and her
husbsnd. Prof. F.nrl C. H. Davies, a
professor at Butler college, have been
settled and the couple is again living
together, according to Judge T. J. Moll,
superior court, Room 6.
Counsel for Mrs. Davies appeared be
fore Judge Moil today and dismissed
her suit for support against Prof. Davies
At the same time Mrs. Davies dismissed
an alienation suit against her mother-in
law. Mrs. Sarah Davies.
It was explained to newspapermen
that Prof. Davies has attempted many
times to arrange a settlement with his
wife and has always supported her.
Senate to Frame
Shipping Policies
WASHINGTON. March 20.—Permanent
legislation for the upbuilding and main
tenance of an American merchant ma
rine will be framed by the senate. The
house, despite its ambition to be the
originator of reconstruction legislation,
has lost out to the senate on this most
Important constructive work, leaders ad
mitted today.
Realising the Importance of holding
the coastwise trade solely for American
shipping, the seuate commerce commit
tee is understood to be drafting laws
more strict and exclusive than the orig
inal coastwise law In order to prevent
foreigners, through American dummy
corporations or otherwise, from break
ing into this trade.
cent of all loans, which Is striking when
it Is considered that more than 60 per
cent of all loans are fiction. Spiritism
ranks ahead of all established sciences
and history in that connection.
The dilettante in spiritism seldom goes
back of the ouija board. He or she—
usually she—half believes In the wisdom
of ouija, but never quite overcomes the
the unworthy suspicion that some mortal
hand Is consciously pushing. It Is pos
sible the ouija board will never come
into the good repute Its devotees say it
deserves, because of the ease with which
It may be Imposed upon by "rascally
mortals" and also because of the inabil
ity of mortals to trust one another.
NOTED AUTHORS
WIN ADMIRERS.
Authors like Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir A.
Conan Doyle and David Belasco have
enlisted the interest of many intellectual
persons in metaphysical speculation on
the life after death. Maeterlinck also has
won admirers In Indianapolis.
One of the leading books of the library
now Is “The Law of Psychic Phenom
ena,” by Thomas Hudson, a spiritualist.
JURY GIVES VERDICT
AFTER 42 HOURS;
68 ARE ACQUITTED
Men Found Guilty Were Accused of Conspir
ing to Exceed Expenditures Allowed by
U. S. for Campaign Purposes.
/ GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 20.—United States Senator
Truman H. Newberry was this afternoon sentenced to serve two
years in federal prison and fined SIO,OOO following his conviction
on election fraud charges.
Sentence was passed by Judge Clarence W. Session of the
United States district court.
Just before Judge Sessions pronounced sentence Attorneys for
the denfsen moved for a stay of judgment and also for anew trial.
The motions were denied,
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich ,'March 20.—Truman H. Newberry, United
States senator from Michigan (republican), was found guilty of fraud }n
obtaining his election in 1918 by a jury in United States district court
here today.
The jury reported at 11:20 o’clock thrs morning after deliberating sfnee
5 p. m. Thursday.
CONVICTED!
TROIAN H. NEWBERRY.
CAPPER SCORES
COURT DECISION
Calls Stock Dividend Decision
o Outrage.
WASHINGTON. March 30 —The recent
supreme court decision by which corpora
tion* may issue dividends In the form
of “new stock" free of income tax. was
scored by Senator Arthur Capper, re
pubUcan. Kansas, In a statement Issued
today.
“This decision of the supreme court
adds Insult to injury," Senator Capper
declared. “It legalizes a bald and brazen
subterfuge by which these proflt-goug
,ng corporations that have bled the peo
ple unmercifully all these months and
years may hold them np by a tax evasion
for not lees than $500,000,000 more. To
the great public which haa been looking
to those it has dared In authority for
deliverance from this den of thlevee and
relief from the high cost of government,
it can only come as a great discourage
ment."
Senator Capper said the decision “virt
ually amounts to doubling or more than
doubling the capital stock of these
corporations thereby compelling the pub
lic to pay these concerns about twice
as much In profits.”
“Half a billion dollars has that been
added to the $30,000,000,000 of war ex
pense that the common people, who" did
99 per ceo: of the fighting, have had
saddled on to them by the slackers of big
, business.” he declared.
Boys at ‘Y’ to Hear
of Life in India
A. E. Rassman. who spent several years
| in Inert a, will appear in native costume
! tomorrow afternoon when he addresses
the Boys’ Big Meeting at the Y. M.
|C. A. The doors will open at 2 o'clock.
I Ralph W. Hills will sing, Isabelle Mc
| Donald will give a reading and Stanley
' Trneblood will render a cornet solo.
House Votes Inquiry
on Carej>f Wounded
WASHINGTON, March 20.—The house
today, by unanimous vote, ordered an
investigation of charges that the federal
board for vocational education is not
taking proper care of wounded soldiers.
The inquiry wili be made by the house
education committee.
How That Chicken
Thief Could Run!
“He wag the fastest runner X ever saw,"
said Jessie Morgan, 2122 Gent avenue, to
day In describing the speed of the chick
en thief who attempted to rob his hen
house last night.
Mr. Morgan’s son Cecil fired two shots
at the fleeing man, whom he discovered
breaking the lock off of the henhouse
door. The thief hurdled the rear fence.
Sues Second Time
to Divorce His Wife
H. Virgil Richards, manager of the
Long-Bell Lumber Company, with of
fices at 1608 Merchants Bank building,
today - filed divorce proceedings against
Mrs. Vivian D. Richards, 1422 Broad
way, In superior court, Room 6.
The suit Is an answer to his wife’s
petition for support. He aUeges that
she la a spendthrift, entertains other
men at her home and has threatened his
life.
The Richards were divorced In supe
rior court, Room 2, on March 4, 1919,
and remarried Dec. 19, 1919.
SCHOOL ETCHINGS FATHER DEAD.
CHICAGO. March 20.—Albert Rouilller,
nationally known as an authority on
etching and originator of Its teaching
In public schools, la dead here. He was
born In Franco in 1858.
Home
EDITION
TWO CENTS.
The jurors found that Newberry
conspired with his associates to
cause the expenditure during the
campaign of a sum of money In ex
cess of the amount allowed under the
federal corrupt practices act.
The maximum penalty provided for
the offense la two years’ imprisonment
and a fine of SIO,OOO.
SIXTEEN OTHERS
FOUND GUILTY.
Sixteen others were found guilty with
Newberry. They all were leading de
fendants.
The remainder of the eight-five defend
ants were acquitted on the charge of
conspiring to violate the corrupt prac
tices act.
All of the defendants were found not
guilty on the sixth count, charging con
spiracy to use the United States mails
to defraud.
The others found guilty follow:
Paul King, Detroit, who managed the
Newberry campaign.
Frederick Cody, New Tork City, legls
latiy agent and Newberry’s right-hand
man.
Charles Floyd. Grand Rapids, manager
for the Newberry campaign.
Allan Templeton, head of the Detroit
' Chamber of Commerce.
Hannibal Hopkins, publicity agent for
the Newberry campaign.
B. Frank Emory of Detroit.
Harry O. Turner, Detroit
E. V. Chiison, former secretary of state,
Lansing.
Roger M. Andrews, publisher, Menomi
nee.
John 8. Newberry, brother of Senator
Newberry, who furnished $99,900 for the
campaign. .
Milton Oak man, Detroit, manager of
the Wayne county Newberry committee.
William J. Mictorl, Oshkosh, Wis., New
berry worker.
Richard Fletcher, state labor comsala ■
aloner.
alias J. McGregor, Delta.
Fred Henry. Flint
George S. Ladd, s*tnrbridge, Maee, a
good road* lecturer.
Immediately after aentence la passed a
motion will be made for anew trial., de
fense attorneys announced.
The jury's drat ballot was on the
question of whether or not there was a
conspiracy. It stood 8 in favor to 4
against. Within a few minntea the vote
was unanimous in deciding that there
was a conspiracy, according to juror re
ports.
Jurors went down the list, debating
and balloting on each man to decide
whether or not he was a party to the
conspiracy.
Martin Block of Charlevoix wax fore
man of the jury.
VERDICT SHOCK
TO CONVICTED.
The verdict was a great shock to Choee
found guilty, as they were expressing
confidence of acquittal a few minntea
before the verdict was read.
Senator Newberry sat as if in a J
when bis name, the first to be read,
was followed by the word -‘guilty.”
Mak Newberry, sitting at his side,
patted hie hand ao if unconsciously.
His son, Phelps, on the other side, put
his arm around his father’s shoal dors
and blinked to keep book the teXML
Tears of Joy and tear* of sorrow
came to the eyes of the wives of ths
defendants In tbe courtroom as the
last of the seventeen names were read.
Eyes of many of the men were red as
tigav died slowly out of the < uni It euai
Senator Newberry later issued the fal
lowing statement:
•’There is nothing in the jury’s
verdict that will cause me to hang
mv head. Until my conscience and the
supreme court decides that I hove
wronged the people of Michigan, I
will retain my seat in the United
States senate."
Mrs. Sherwood, wife of one of the de
fendant a. stood ontslde and wept quietly
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Prosecutors From
Indiana Bring Woe
to Newberry Crowd
The chief Newberry prosecutori are
Indiana men. Frank C. Dailey and
W. H. Eichhorn, who led the fight
against Newberry, fought each other
at the bar in the Wells county circuit
court at Bluffton before Dailey came
to Indianapolis to practice law. Their
sons were playmates.
When Dailey was chosen as sped*!
assistant United States attorney gen
eral in charge of the prosecution, he
asked Eichhorn, a former Judge in the
Wells circuit court, to assist him.
Dailey first came into prominence
in prosecuting election fraud triale in
bringing abont the conviction of Donn
Roberta and other Terre Hante poli
ticians in federal court here.
Earl Hauck, the chief lnveatigator
for the government, cornea from Terre
Haute. He uncovered much of the
evidence used against Newberry and
the other defendants.