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THE WEATHER Tonight, cooler, probable showers; Saturday, probable showers. ■VOL. XXXII. UNION FORCES | OF CITY ACT TO BREAK STRIKE I Railroad Brotherhoods, Aided I by Organized Ranks, Point Error to ‘Rebels.’ I BIG MEETING TONIGHT ■ Leaders of the railroad brother- I hoods in Indianapolis, taking the ■ stand that a union-against-union ■ struggle is a blow at organized labor. ■ today were engaged in a big effort I to end the switchmen's strike in In- H diatapolis. labor officials, outside J of the railroad brotherhoods, lent I aid to those who sought to convince B the switchmen that their failure to ■ return to work is not in accord with I principles of organized labor. B Grand lodge officials of brotherhoods ■ and representatives of other union ■ crafts will address a meeting of broth ■ erhood members in Moose Hall, 133 ■ North Delaware street, tonight. I The meeting is to be open to the ■ public. ■ Most of the striking switchtrtPii are ■ members of the Brotherhood of Railway ■ Trainmen and strenuous efforts will be ■ made by loyal members to persuade ■ them to attend the meeting. ■rxioNs opposed Hro OITLAW STRIKES. B "We aim to show misguided railroad- that union craftsmen generally are favorable toward ‘outlaw’ strikes.” E. H. Steward, a brotherhood “The sustaining prineiple of trade nu- is involved in this struggle." John F. McXamee. editor of the Fire Journal, a former Indianapolis Hmsn. will be one speaker. gjgH Meetings were held by the strikers in labor temple today. ■ Officials of the strikers denied that had been any evidence of weaken- among the ynen and declared thv remain firm in their stand until demands were granted. KVXSY ABLE TO Hbaxdle business. JjP J. W. Coneys, superintendent of the B Pennsylvania, announced that the com- B pany was working fifteen engine crews the local yards and rhat all business Biran being handled easily. yards of the Pennsylvania be sadly in need of more work overs. as forty-five crews are used normally. strikers have returned to work on ■ theTbtnnsylvania, it was reported. H No outside help has been employed, Mr. ■ Coneys said, trainmasters and other em ■ ployes having volunteered to help in the ■ emergency. 3§ Conditions in Indianapolis factories, regard to the coal end material ■ shortages remain unchanged. ■ Officials of the Citizens’ Gas Company r.o prospect of receiving coal before the strike is ended has been discovered, ■ but that a saving had been effected by of gas pressure so that a con- of service f<. r ten days or more fftreiired. ■generally WELCOME Bnt.w labor board. SB Satisfaction was expressed by striking at the news that the railroad board had met to tak* up the strike but leaders '.-aid the men would return to work until their wage de- were actually granted. Forty-five trains moved out of here on Big Four In the last twenty-four but no change occurred in the umber of men at work in the yards or the embargo rules of the line. IS The Big Four accepts only car load for local points in Indian polls. Pennsylvania line announced the of its complete embargo to the of accepting less than carload for local points on the p., C.. ■r & St. L. The 1.. E. & W. embargo was raised permit shipments of carloads to points the main line west of Tipton to Peoria points beyond, not under embargo, also to points east of Tipton to San ■taikj. ■ Carload and less than carload ship- for points on the Michigan dtvi- not Including Tipton, have been a<-- eptable on the L. E. A W. since Monday. ■ The C., I. & W. was accepting ship- of carloads and less than carloads local stations only. ■ The Monon md Illinois Central em- remain the same. pO MOTOR TRI CKS IKING IN FREIGHT. Three hundred motor trucks are bring ing fifty tons of freight into Indianapolis tally. Tom Snyder, secretary of the jotor transport division of the Chamber Commerce, said. Truck operatprs are ready to place .000 trucks in the trade on twenty-four lours’ notice if shippers desire it. Rates worked cut at a meeting of hlppers- and track operators will be horoughly classified later, as shippers ontend they are too high, out for the resent emergency a satisfactory ar angement has been made. HThe rates now are; Ten miles or less, ■cents a mile per hundred pounds: ten ■ fifteen miles. 2'i rents a 100 pounds: H een to twenty-five miles. 2 cents a pounds: twenty-five to fifty Sw miles and over l l £ cents a hundred DENYING Hcago stories. ■t strike headquarters 1n the I.abor speakers were engaged In deny stories of the situation in Chicago, John Grunau, strike leader, was as having split with other lead ■ Hon the “one-big-union" point, were received from national headquarters advising local iead- HMto deny ai! stories in the newspapers Grunau. hundred l>rotherhood mem!>ers. ng in Moose hall last night, passed ■Bsolutio’. urging all strikers to re- j IHE to work at once and to impose in the brotherhoods. S-lP'flumber of striking switchmen at- i the brotherhood meeting. ■The resolution follows: ■ “Whereas. Our brotherhoods have been ' ■ successful as any human agency could B In protecting and advancing our in- Hstria 1 and economic interests, and ■‘Whereas. They have completed ar- Hngements for an early conclusion of ■r wage demands, and ■“Whereas. Onr best interests require Hat they be given our undivided snp ■ (Continued on Page Four.) ■ —s Ujl&sh Rushes Yega s, fßut He's Ouirushed MINNEAPOLIS, April 16.—Harry Bush, rushed into his home to find two burglars rushing out Finding a revolver Rush rushed after them, but they iushed faster than Kush rushed. Published at Indianapolis, Entered as Second Class Matter. July 28, 1914, at Ind., Dally Except Sunday. Postoffice, Indianapolis. Ind., under act March 3, IST9. Indianapolis Singer Wins New York New York is paying homage to another Hoosier. Mrs. Claude Everett Morris, formerly of Irvington, won approval off critics when she sang the leading soprano solo role in the closing musical of the twenty sixth season of the Musical Art society at Carnegie ball. Mrs. Morris, who is a daughter-in-law of Rev. W. E. Morris, pastor of the Emerson Avenue Baptist church, began 5 BOYS ATTEMPT TO BERN SEW SIP Wild West Play of Ohio Lads Leads to Detention Home. LANCASTER, 0., April 16— Fire juve nile disciples of nickel novels and 10- ce.nt movie thrillers languished in the detention home here today, while the j police were investigating their efforts to | burn at the stake Charles Kneller, 10. I newsboy. Kneller was saved from being badly burned by Don Moorey. 10. Kneller was distributing newspapers *n4 bad oticasioo. to. pass-a-(nelv w*d. The five boys, playing "wild wet," lurked behind trees and bushes, on the alert for victims. A rope whirled from behind a tree and the noose settled over Kneller's shoulders. He v#as dragged and tied to a tree. His own papers were piled at his feet. On top of them was dumped branches and leaves. The pile burst into flames while the boys retreated, to watch their victim from a distance. Moorey happened along just in time. He scattered the blazing branches and : released Kneller. Even Our Senators May Don Overalls WASHINGTON, April !.—The overall revolt may spread to the sen ate. Senators, who today applauded the spirit of the organizers of overall dlubs to war on clothing profiteers, said congress ought to give aid and comfort to the clubs by organizing one at the capital. Senator Capper. Kansas, said the movement was a sign of democracy and public health. KANSAS CITY. April 16.—City of ficials are organizing an “overall club” here. Plans were for charter members to "blossom out” in their "work clothes” today. *■ PEORIA, 111., April 16.—County courthouse employes here have agreed to wear blue jumpers to work in an effort- to lower the cost of liv ing. HIGHLAND PARK. 111., April 16. —Twenty-six of the local leading citizens joined In the drive against the high cost of living today with the formation of an ‘‘overall” club. NEW YORK. April 16.—Overalls made their first appearance on Broadway today when members of the “Cheese elub," an organization of writers, press ageents and editors of theatrical papers, staged a dem onstration against the high prices for men’s apparel. Skull of Murdered Man Shown at Trial lONIA, Mich., April 16.—The skull of John Binary was exhibited to u Jury hen today in the trial of Warren Atier, who Is charged with the old man's mur der. Display of the grewsome evidence was made in an effort to show that Smary died from a blow on the head. New York Does Vertical Walk NOT DANCE! PUFF! PUFF! LIFT OPERATORS QUIT NEW YORK, April 16.—There’s a —putt! puff!—elevator strike in whew! New York today. Tens of thousands of workers who daily commute between—puff!—the earth and top floors of the sky scrapers on lower Broadway were thrown back several eons in civili zation by the walkout of scores of elevator operators and s-aled th'> heights to tbelr eyris in tae moun tains of steel and granite to an al titude that no self-respecting cliff dweller ever attempted. A reporter thought it would be funny to swipe a ride on one of the few elevators operating in the City Investing Company building and—puff! puffl—watch from a van tage point on the seventeenth floor Jttirtatm Jmihj Uimm MRS. CLAUDE EVERETT MORRIS. her musical education under Prof. Ed ward Nell. Metropolitan School of Music of this city. She studied two years with Oscar Saenger. the musical godfather of scores of the- world's best singers. Chosen as one of the best church so loists of New York. Mrs. Morris reflects rredir upon her Indianapolis teacher*. She is a member of the Morning of Flatbush. and sings in one of the largest churches In Brooklyn. 637 MEN DIE IN RUSS-JAP CLASH London Hears of Battle at Habarovsk, Siberia. LONDON. April 16.—1n a violent bat tle at Habarovsk 237 Japanese soldiers and 400 Russians were killed, said a Central News dispatch from Toklo to day. • Fifteen hundred Russians were made prisoners by the Japanese. o>r Khabarovsk is an Lw ‘portant Siberian city, n littie more than 300 miles north of Vladivostok. it lies on the Vssurl branch of the trans-Siberian railway and has a popu lation of 16.000. It is a large trading center. PHYSICIAN HELD UNDER DRY LAW Dr. Crum Accused of Shipping Liquor Into State. Dr. Frederick Crum, who maintains physician's offices at 2847 Annette street, was arrested today by Deputy United States Marshal Frank P. Ream on a charge of violating the war-time prohibi tion act. He is alleged to have shipped liquor from Cincinnati to Indianapolis. The indictment waa returned by the federal grand Jury last June. At the time he could not be found, nnd the capias became misplaced. It was found In the marshal’s office a few days ago and the arrest followed. Dr. Crum was mentioned in the Haag liquor trials as a physician who bad written many prescriptions for whisky. Recently he announced his candidacy for the democratic nomination for coro ner. Dr. Crum pleaded not guilty when ar raigned before Judge A. B. Anderson. His mother signed a SI.(XO bond and he was released. Armored Prisoner Feared Blackhand NEW YORK, April 16.—A bulging chest caused a Judge to order Ernest DeCuti examined. He was found wearing a corset of wood and tin “to protect him from knives and bullets of the black band.” Bedford, Ind., Boasts Population of 8,963 WASHINGTON, April 16.—Preliminary population figures Issued today by the census bureau included: Bedford. Ind.. 1920 population. 8,963; Increase since 1910, 247. or 2.8 per cent. Polly Stirred Up by Booze Explosion NEW Y ORK, April 16.—" What the hell! What the hellshrieked a parrot In an east side tenement, where a home-made .-till had explod <d as firemen dashed into the flat. Nobody answered. the newly created mountaineers la bor by. He rode up all right, but—b’gosh —he walked down. NOBODY GETS SORE; TREAT IT AS JOKE. The City Investing building is thirty-four stories high end has twenty-three elevators. All of the operators walked out, leaving 10,000 persons stranded in the lower corridors—and an over flow meeting on Broadway. Now. New York is used to walk ing—horizontally—with street car, elevated, subway and tail strikes, but walking straight up was anew experience. Hundreds stormed the narrow, (Continued on Page Pour,) INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1920. GRAND JURY’S PETITION ADDS TO EXPOSURE More Discrepancies Revealed by Citing of Times on Contempt Charges. RECORDS TELL STORY - Members of the Indianapolis bar and other attorneys and judges In the city who were amazed at the story of grand jury procedure told by Charles Rollin *on were swept off their feet when they perused the petition filed with Judge James A. Collins by five mem. tiers of the grand jury. Prosecutor Adams and Deputy Jones, asking that The Times and Rolllnson be cited for contempt. For they found, In the petition of the grand jury, statements that not only bear out the story told through Tito Times by Rollinson but also additional disclosures that were equally as star tling. For example, in one part of the pe tition It is disclosed that Judge James A. Collins had knowledge of the en trance of Rolllnson Into the grand Jury room with his client and still the affair was not treated as sufficient to Justify formal court action. Concerning this part of the incident the petition says: “As you honor well knows, this mat ter was presented to this court several weeks ago and the court made an In quiry of the grand Jury and the deputy prosecutor as to Rolllnson appearing hefore the grand Jury, and that upon a statements of the facts as set out in this statement, this court censured the grand Jury and the deputy prosecutor for per mltting this to bo done and warned them that it was improper and should never occur again.” ACTION tVITIIOI T PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. No public action on the part of Judge Collins was ever reported In tills mat ter, and persons who spend roost of tbelr time in the criminal court on business expressed surprlre that any such pro eeedlng should hive been held without the public knowledge Persons who read the petition of tho five grand Jurors and the prosecutors commented freely on the seeming con tradictions therein and expressed won der as to how they might be reconciled. The petition declares that Rolllnson first sought nermtsslon of *ho prose cuting attorney to present testimony (Continued on Page Eight.) BANDIT TAKES HIS FOLKS ALONG He Holdß the Revolver While *Wife ’ Picks Pockets. FAN FRANCISCO. April 16.—Introduc ing the motor bandit who fares forth with the wife and family. Hagan Hammen. shipyard worker, was confronted by a man who alighted from an automobile and levelled a revolver at him. * Than a woman stepped out and ex tracted #173 and a gold watch front hi* poeketa, ald the victim. While the holdup was tn progress, nc oordltig to ITaroman's report, a baby be gan squalling in the closed ear. "I remarked to him, ’You must (have the family along tonight.’ ” asserted Hammen, ’’but he got mad, told me to ’shut, up' and then drove nway." SUGAR SHIPMENT DUE TOMORROW Wyckoff Expects Relief in Situation Here. Several cars of sugar, which have been tied up at eastern points, may reach In dlampnKs tomorrow, temporarily reliev ing the scarcity, according to Stanley Wvckoff, fair price commissioners. With the railroad strike materially cutting sugar shipments, I<-e cream manufacturers of Indianapolis are dis cussing methods of meeting the eituation. The ice cream manufactured* met with the state dairy products assoclat'on at the Claypool today. Sugar Is being sold at Now Orleans at 25.75 cents a pound, wholesale, and at Michigan points for 26.75 a pound, ac cording to reports receive 1 here. Local sugar Jobbers also met to dis cuss the rising sugar prices. Rome candy manufeaturera are said to he offering .Vi cents a pound for sugar. Local Jobbers two days uso adopted a wholesale price of 21.45 rents a pound. The egg and butter market was a lit tle stronger here today because storage stocks are being depleted in the east. Mr. Wyckoff said that reports that eggs had sold as low 1 ns P. cents a dozen and butter as low as 5 cents a pound in lowa, Nebraska and Kansas, due to the strike, are incorrect. MARY LEE IN LIST OF MISSING GIRLS Police Seek 13-Year-Old from Virginia Avenue Home. Where is Mary I.ce? The police are searching ail over the city today for Mary, who is 11 years old and has disappeared from homo a: 625 Virginia avenue. In the lust month police women have located eleven missing girls. Oecilla Barnes, 16, 1040 Mount street, and Mary Bailey, 16, 1114 North Pennsyl vania, both Technical High school girls, are still missing. They disappeared more than a month ago and were believed to have run away to Join a moving picture company. Policemen say they have obtained Infor mation that the two high school girls remained in this city two weeks after they were reported missing, and then left for parts unknown. STRUCK BY AUTO BUT SAVES BABY Mrß. Mann Clings to Child as Car Runs Her Down. < Knocked down by an automobile, Mrs. Anna Mann, 1247 South Persh ing avenue, clung to the baby in her arms and saved it from possible in jury at Meridian and Washington streets today. The woman was waiting for a street car inside the safety rone when a machine driven by C. .1. Lindsay, lit) IS Graceland avenue, skidded. She held to the bumper of the machine with one arm and kept the baby elevated In the other. Mrs. Mann Buffered an injury to her hip and was braised. The baby escaped tin scratched. Suitcase Vanishes as Couple Weds CHICAGO, April 16.— Chicago’s en tire police force was upset today in a search for a suitcase belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn C. Downing. While the couple was getting married Thursday someone got away with the suitcase. It was explained by the frantic coupla that everything in the suit case except two garments belonged to the bride. The two garments comprised a pair of pajamas. V J 12 'WIVES’ WILL FACE PRISONER Said to Re 13 Others, but They Can't Be Found. LOS ANGELES, April 16.—The world’s greatest lover was the name police gave to Charles N. Harvey of Shelbourne, Mass., today on discovery of a list of twenty-flve young women alleged to be a list of prospective flnancees for Harvey. Harvey is held here on a charge of bigamy. Police claimed they have evidence showing that he was married twenty flve times and that the list contains the names of more than twenty-fie woipen whom Harvey Intended to marry. Harvey is in the county hospital recovering from a second at suicide. According to police. Harvey ha# done all his alleged marrying in the lust fifteen years. At least five of the wives vanished without leaving a trace, police said. Seven are missing, but may he found. Twelve of his alleged wives will confront him when his condition Is improved In an effort to startle him into making a statement. Flood Knocks Out Plantain Alabama JACKSON, Ala., April 16.—This city ha* been without light and power for four days as a result of the high waters of the Tomblgbeo river. The fireboxes of the power plant are submerged. All river farms iu this district are in undated. The crop damage is enormous. BASEBALL POOL OPERATOR FINED Harry B. Shea Pleads Guilty to Selling Lottery. Harry B. shea, 337 South Delaware street, was fined $25 and coats by Spe cial Judge Symnes In city court today on a charge of keeptng a gambling de vice. He was arrected lat# Thursday when his place tn the rear of a barber shop at 22fl South Illinois afreet waa raided and a quantity of baseball pool para phernalia was confiscated. Shea entered a plen of guilty. Judge Symnes dropped the change of pool selling against Sben. With the opening of the baaeball sea son Chief of Foliee Jerry Kinney he* Instructed his men to arrest any one ought selling acor# lotteries. SEEK INDIANIAN IN GIRL’S SLAYING 20-Y'ear-Old Wife Slashed to Death in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, April 16. Police today are searching for Tony Williams of West Terre Haute, Ind , believed to be the husband of Reba Newman. 20 years old. of Paris, 111., who wsa slashed to death on the street here last night. Although refusing to connect Williams with the killing, the police think he might be able to throw some light on the affair. They are also seeking a Greek, for merly employed in a Paris (111.) pool room, whom Police Chief Bates of that place said over the telephone tallied with the description of the man who at tacked the girl and slashed her throat. In the meantime, Harry R. Spangler, a chauffeur, is belug held by the coroner as a witness. Rpnngler told the police he had an engagement to meet the girl at 8 o’clock last night. The, girl wag silled at 7:30 by a man who walked up to her as she was cross ing the street and, according to wit reases, spoke a few words, then cut her throat and ran so quickly that bystanders did not realize what was happening until the girl fell to the pnvemeut. The girl formerly liTed with a sister in Terre Haute, Ind. Leffingwell Quits Treasury Position WASHINGTON, April 18. —R. C. Leffingwoli, assistant secretary of the treasury, lias restgned and his resigna tion hn s been accepted by President Wil son. It was annouuced at the whitehouse today. Liberty Bonds Drop Continues on Change NEW YORK. April 16 - Depreciation of values In the Liberty boul market con tinued today, the first 3Vis dropping to 93.30, off 1 99 from yesterday close. The first 4s sold at 90.00, off 40; second 4s. 86.78, off 10: first 4%, 90.20, up 10; fourth ii/is, 86.68. off 8; Victory 3V,s, 96.08, off 8. and Victory at 90.00, off 4. BAYH WIFE WAS NAUGHTY’. CHICAGO, April 16. Mrs. Dolly Clark indulged excessively In intoxicating liquors, smoked cigarets and bugged one Edward Escli In public, her V,jsbwnd charges in a cross bill to her divorce suit. Boycott Cuts $3.25 Off Spuds in 4 Days DETROIT, April 10— On Tuesday of this week potatoes were selling at $7.50 per buehel. On Wednesday, the Detroit Federa tion of Women’s Clubs and the De troit Stewards’ club instituted a two weeks’ boycott against the purchase or use of vegetables and the principal hotels and restaurants banished the tuber from their menus. Today potntoes are quoted at $4.25 per bushel and the boycott leaders declare they will force the price to $2.50 before they end their campaign. Eggs will be the next food article boycotted. Sahscrintinn R „„. ) Carrier, Week, Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 12c. bUDscrtption Kates, j By Mal , 50c Per MoDth; J 5 00 Per Year. T. N. VAIL DIES IN BALTIMORE, HEART VICTIM World Famous Telephone and Telegraph Magnate in Hospital Week. CAREER BEGAN IN 1878 BALTIMORE, April 18.—Theodore N. Vail, chairman of the board and former president of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company, died at Johns Hop kins hospital here today. He suffered from heart trouble and complications. He spent the winter at .Teltyll island, off the coast of Georgia, and a week ago, when his condition became serious, was taken to the hospital. Mrs. Vail and a niece were present at the hospital when he died. Vail was n pioneer in telephone and telegraph organizations and was known throughout the world He was born in Carroll county, Ohio, July 18, 1843. ani educated in Mor rlstown, N. J., academy, and studied at Dartmouth, Mlddleburg college, Prince ton and Harvard universities. Vail married Mabel Rutledge Sander son of Bostou In 1007. His home was I‘sted officially as Lyu dnnvllle, Vt. He maintained iffices in Boston and New York. Beginning |‘fe ns a medical student. Vail soon branched into general science, with a particular bent for electricity. He was a friend of Thomas A. Edison. Vail first entered the telephone busi ness in 1878. He Introduced the American system of electrical street railways in Buenos Ayres •In 1806 and installed telephone systems in the principal South American cities. He became president of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company in 1007. He was also a director in several European electrical enterprises, and was widely known in London, where he was a member of the Royal Automobile club. He was a member of the American Academy of politics and Social Science, tho American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Geographic so ciety and many social clubs, and was a director of the First National hank of New York, Fidelity Surety Company or New York. American Surety Company, United States Rubber Company, National Shoreham bank of Boston and other con cerns. CAN’T REAR BOY ON $6,000 YEARLY Mother of ‘Silver Spoon ’ Y’ouths Asks More Allowance. NEW YORK, April 16. —Youth, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, can not be supported on less than $7,500 a year under the present 11. C. I- (high cost of luxury), according to Mrs. Leonie M Scott. She had a petition before the surro gate's court today to giant an allowance i of $15,000 a year for the education of her Hw# sons, Robert, 18. and Harold. 15. The boys, she said, can not lire or be educated in a manner befitting their sta tion In life on less. They are heirs to the SIOOO,OOO estate of their father. Robert A. Scott and are now lltlng on an allowance of $6,000 each a year. ROBBED OF RING IN CITY PRISON So Says Kokomo Man and Chief Kinney Investigates. Harry Kline, 26, of Kokomo, today | complained that he had been robbed of a diamond ring worth $390 and a five dollar bill in the cRy Jail. Chief of Police .Terry Kinney ltnme | diatelr began an investigation to sscer -1 tain why Kline had been permitted to ! keep his valuables when he was locked j up- J Kline was picked up by Bleyclemen Trlmpe and Kltzmlller at 9 o'clock last 1 night at Pratt and West streets and locked up on a charge of being drunk. He reported this morning that his ring i and money were missing. Praises Balkans MADAME SI.AVKO f.ROIITCH. People who thiuk of the Balkau coun tries “as the abode of fleas, short skirted brigands and chocolate soldier heroes” are mistaken, Madame Slavko Grouitch, wife of the minister of the Serbs, Croats and Klavenes In the United States, told members of the Chamber of Commerce, following a uoon luncheon today. Jugo-Slavia, the new Balkan state, presents an enticing field for foreign exploitation, she said, 'being extremely rich In natural resources. Serbia is destined to become an im portant live stock producer in Europe, with the Introduction of modern uieth ods, she said. Vast copper, coal and gold deposits ! enrich the country, site added. Discussing the Flume controversy, she said that Italy wanted Fiurne because j the country that controls that port will control the greater part of the trade of Crotia, Slovenia, Serbia, Batchka, Benat, Hungary and to some extent Bosnia, and Herzegovina, and parts even 1 of Czecho slovakia and Rotunania. HOME EDITION 2 CENTS PER COPY ALLIES PLEDGE BREAK WITH BERLIN UNLESS PACT IS CARRIED OUT France, Belgium, Italy and England to Join in Demand That Germans Disarm as Pro vided in Peace Treaty. PARIS, April 16. —The foreign office today authorized the statement that France, Belgium, Italy and England have agreed upon the demand that Germany at once take measures for immediate disarmament of her army as provided in the peace treaty. If Germany refuses, the allied powers have agreed to suspend diplo matic relations with Berlin. ILLNESS DELAYS SLAYING TRIAL Juror Myers Unable to Report in Mrs. Gossett’s Case. The eye# of Anna Mary Gossett, on trial in criminal court on a charge of murdering her husband, Omer J. Gossett, sparkled today. The state will not ask the death penalty. The first point scored by blue-eyed Anna Mary came with the announcement of the state that the Jury will not be asked to send her to death in the electric chair. Confident of acquittal, the pretty 20- year-old girl was a trifle impatient when the trial was delayed this morning by the sickness of Juror William I*. Myers. SWOLLEN TONSILS SEEP HIM AWAY. With his tonsils badly trwollen Myers was too feeble to sit in the jury box. The case was delayed until this after noon when a physician can report on his condition. Myers said today that he had not been In good health recently, but did not seek to excuse himself yesterday be cause he believed it the duty of every nan to respond to a call to Jury duty. If Myers is relieved of Jury duty to day an effort will be made to select another juror and continue the trial. The opening statement of the state is the only step taken outside of the se lection of the Jury. Mrs. Gossett was to be confronted by Deputy Coroner George R. Christian to day. He investigated the death of her bus band. whom Mrs. Gosset is alleged to have stabbed to death with a butcher knife. BASES PLEA ON SELF-DEFENSE. Her plea Is self-defense, her attorneys say. In his dying statement. Gossett, trying to shield bis wife, said he was attacked outside of his home in the Chalfant apartment. North- Pennsylvania aud Mi'-higan streets. The Jury selected last evening follows; Zora E. Kolp. Clermont; John C. Raab, R. K. J. 2; Michael E. Enoch. 1361 Dear born street; William I*. Myers. R. R. A 1; Charles W. Momery, Lawrence; William A. Holler, Acton; Ernest W. Smith, U. R K 2; Christ H. Muesslng, R. R. G 2: Michael Ciosse.v, Maywood; Albert Tatt, Castleton: Shurman Grlffen. Maywood, and Roilyn T. Hail, 3736 East Market street. HOUSE THIEVES NIP JEWELRY Two Homes Ransacked and Two Private Rooms Entered. A series of burglaries, reported to the police during the last twelve hours are being investigated by detectives. At the home of Peter Nutz, 2826 North Delaware street, burglars broke the glass from the door, unlocked it and entered. Jewelry and clothing valued at SOOO is missing. This Included a mink far cape, valued at $300; a lace drees, valued at $75; a beaded purse, worth $65; a pearl pin and an opal ring and fifty old coins. Mrs. Benjamin Kohn, 2206 North Me ridian street, reported the disappearance from her home of a diamond valued at SOO, but later reported that it had been found. A thief atoie a purse containing $97 from the room of Charles Floyd, 915 North Canitol avenue, some time last night. Walter Cogswell, room 107, Colonial ho tel, reported that a purse containing sls disappeared from his room. IRVINGTON ASKS BETTER STREETS Committee Before Board of Works Seeks Improvements. Extensive street improvements were asked today by Irvington citizens who appeared before the board of public works. Since New York street is in bad con dition. East Washington street is the only thoroughfare available for heavy traffic to Irvington, the board was tol'l by Hilton l". Brown, who acted as spokesman for the delegation. Board members promised action. The following estimates of costa for street improvements were approved by the board. South street, resurfacing from Alabama street to Virginia aventie, $12,103.20; Gladstone avenue, paving from Michigan to St. Clair street, $16,537.75; Garfield avenue, paving from Walnut to Pratt streets, $17,242; Ohio street, resurfacing id widening from Delaware to East streets, $59,446.02. GIRL DOES WORK OF LUMBERJACK She's Pretty, but Handles All Tasks Like Man. GRANDON, Wls., April 16.—Here’s one spot in the United States that is not suffering from a labor shortage. Lumberjacks are flocking here by droves to see Florence Tyrell, the “girl lumberjack,” tear into the country’s natural resources. Miss Tyrell claims the distinction of being the only woman lumber jack In the world. She has been employed at a camp at Newell. She skids logs, harnesses and cares for her team just like a man. Miss Tyrell not only does a man's work, but wears their clothes. Her attire is that of the regulation lumberjack. During the winter she drove four horses most of the time. Miss Tyrell Is pretty and her moth- f er chaperons her. 1 NO. 293. > Furthermore, the allies are united upon the proposal to put anew blockade in force if anew German militarist coup is successful. It is understood the agreement wilt he put in writing when the Inter-allied supreme council meets at San Remo, Italy, next week. Dispatches to the French foreign office from Germany said heavy detach ments of troops were concentrating in Pomerania. A coup d'etat, similar to the Tor Kapp movement, was expected. Reports of the impending coup wera partly confirmed by advices by British officials from tbeir governments’ rep resentatives in Germany. The allied decision will be imparted to representatives in Berlin for com munication to the German government. Many of the leaders were said to be men prominent in the Von Kapp move ment who escaped arrest when that In surrectionary group was driven from , control by the general strike. The United States will aot be repre sented at the conference unless an American representative is invited to at tend as an observer and thus far no such invitation has been received, ac cording to a report the from state de partment at Washington. This meeting probably will be the moat important since the conclusion of the peace conference because of the vital Is sues that will be under deliberation. In addition to the German situation the allies’ program includes: The Flume dispute between Italy and Jugo-Slavs. Russia’s offensive against the Poles and ; the question of opening commercial rela tions between Russia and the allies. Turkish terms and the grave situation in Anatolia, where Mustapha Kemal Pasha has massed an anti-allied army of nationalists. The Hungarian situation. BERLIN. April 16.—Fearing anew military coup, the government has taken extensive precautions to guard itself. Districts around government buildings j were barred to the public. Fifteen tanks, twenty armored' cars and a number of machine gun companies were brought Into the city and placed on guard.— CHAMP SAYS HIS HAT’S IN RING Will Bea Democratic Candi date at Frisco Convention. WASHINGTON. April 16—Champ Clark, minority floor leader and former speaker of the house, is a candidate for the democratic nomination at the Sa* | Francisco convention. Following an editorial announcement entitled. “Speaker Champ Clark the Strongest Nominee for Democracy,” ap pearing in the New Orieana Item, pub lished by James M. Thompson, the democratic leader's son-in-law, the for mer speaker today said he stands ready to accept the nomination if it is tendered him. Clark declared he would make no pec sonal campaign to secure the nomination. He was aware, he said, that his friends had started organizations in several states with his nomination in view, and If they succeed in bringing abont bts nomination he will run. The former speaker declared his op position to instructed delegates. He said he preferred an open conven tion with the various state delegations left perfectly free to express their choice In caucus assembled. It was because of this, he said, that he had refused to allow his name to go into the primaries. CARRANZA ASKS U. S. TO HELP HIM Wants to Send Troops Through New Mexico. WASHINGTON. April 16.—The Mexi can government has asked the state de pnrtment to permit transportation of Mexican troops through United States territory to fight the rebels In Sonora, it was learned today. Carranza wants to send his troops on American railroads, across southern New Mexico and Arizona from Chihuahua to Sonora. Under the Mexican plan, Carranza troops would go to El Paso on the Mexi can Central railroad, thence across Amer ican territory to Douglas, Aria., by the El Paso & Southwestern railroad. From Douglas the troops would expect to proceed into the revolting state of Sonora and the result of the movement would likely be a battle on the border, it is believed. High officials of this government have the Mexican request under consideration. Two Local Hotel Men to Operate Denison Negotiations are under way by which the Denison hotel will operate indefinitely instead of closing Sunday, as planned, it was announced today. Crawford Fairbanks said the hostelry would remain open unlit his lease expire* on May 1. After that time it is expected it will be operated by Waller B. Smith and Hubert J. Smith, owners of the Loralne and Stubbins hotels, who are now en-, dearorlng to get possession of the build ing and who have arranged to purchase the hotel equipment. Definite plans have not been com pleted. Cincinnati Papers Cut to Eight Pages CINCINNATI, 0..’ April 16—Be cause of news print paper shortage, due to the railroad strike. Cincinnati afternoon papers have limited all regular editions to eight pages and extras to four pages. The extra edi tions carry no advertising.