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THE WEATHER
Tonight, fair with frost. Thursday,
partly cloudy, rising temperature.
YOL. XXXII.
WOOD BEHIND
IN OHIO; LEADS
IN NEW JERSEY
General Is Given Only Six
Massachusetts Delegates—
Coolidge Gets 29.
HARDING LEAD REDUCED
Final results of the most hectic
day in the preconvention campaign
were still in doubt toda.
Incomplete returns frt •* yester
day's primaries showed:
ZCEW JERSET.
Republicans—MaJ. Gen. Wood loading
Senator Hiram Johnson by 740 votes in
1.904 out of 2.005 election districts.
Wood appeared to have a majority of
the twenty-eight delegates.
Democrats —Gov. Edward I. Edwards
was practically unopposed for the state’s
Indorsement and apparently will receive
the support of the twenty-eight delegates
at the national convention.
OHIO.
Republicans—Unoffrtlal returns from
8,785 of the 5,892 • cinets showed Sena
tor Warren G. H-reding leading Wood
by 900 votes.
Harding's managers , claimed forty
of the forty-eight delegates, while Wood’s
supporters claimed eight.
Democrats—Gov. James Cox had no op
position for the democratic indorsement
and will receive the state’s entire dele
gation of forty-eight.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Republican-—Practically complete re
turns showed Wood probably would re
ceive six of the state's thirty-five dele
gates.
The others are unpledged but w-ill cast
their early ballots in the convention for
Gov. Calvin Coolidge. There was no
preferential vote. ‘
Senator Lodge leads in delegates-at
large race.
Democrats—The democratic delegation
of thirty-six will be unpledged. There
was no preferential vote.
WASHINGTON.
Republicans in a state convention yes
terday pledged their entire delegation
of fourteen to Senator Miles Poindexter,
“favorite son.’’
IDAHO.
Republicans meeting today were ex
pected to select Senator WilHnm Borah's
slate of eight delegates. He has been
campaingtng for Johnson.
TRENTON. N. J., April 23.—Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood again took the lead in
New Jersey’s presidential preference pru
mary today with unofficial returns from
51,804 5 1,804 election districts out of 2,005 re
ported.
The vote was: Wood, 48,390; Johnson,
47,650.
The contest was a see-saw affair from
the time the first returns were received.
Johnson led at first.
This lead was cut down when the vote
In the southern districts began to come in.
When 1,115 districts had reported the
general had a plurality of 1,157.
The California senator then again re
sumed the lead, latest figures showing
him 506 ahead.
. Returns from jiwu.half the district*
showed the vote for four delegates-at
large to be:
Senator Joseph S. Fcelinghuysen, 24.-
972- Senator Walter E. Edge, 24,701;
formeT governor E. C. Stokes, 22,922;
former governor William N. Runyon,
18.672; Thomas L. Raymond. 18,477; John
W. Griggs, 17,291: M. R. Ballard 16,390;
T. R. Layden, 16,109.
The two senators were unpledged but
had anounced their intention of Toting In
the convention for candidates who re
ceived the preferential vote.
Stokes Runyon. Raymond and Griggs
were pledged to Wood and Ballard and
Layden to Johnson.
The democratic “big four,’’ which will
Governor Edwards, was elected
without opposition.
it comprised Edwards, Mayor Frank
Hague of Jersey City, and Mayor Fred
erick Donnelly of Trenton, and James
R. Nuget.
LODGE IS LEADER
IN MASSACHUSETTS
BOSTON, April 28.—Massachusetts re
publicans will send twenty-nine un
pledged delegates to the Chicago conven
tion, according to returns today from
yesterday's primary.
Maj. Gen. I-eonard Wood will receive
the support of six district delegates, ac
cording to complete unofficial returns.
Senator Lodge leads the field with 75,-
000 votes for delegate-at-large.
The other three members of the “big
four” unpledged candidates were elect
ed by substantial majorities.
The unpledged delegates will Tote for
Gov. Coolidge on the first ballot.
Ex-Gov. Samuel W. McCall, pledged to
vote for Herbert Hoover, was defeated b-y
more than 10,000 votes.
He was nosed out by Ex-Lieut. Gov.
Frothingaam, Wood pledged candidate,
by 1,500 votes.
Russell A. Wood and Alvin T. Fuller,
the two remaining candidates for dete
gates-at-large, pledged to Gen. Wood,
were defeated.
McADOO LEADS IN
PURDUE STRAW VOTE
LAFAYETTE. Ind., April 28.—William
Gibbs McAdoo led the democratic candi
dates for the presidency in an “elec
tion” ct Purdue university.
The result follows:
Democrats —McAdoo, 22; Edwards, 10;
Bryan. 5: Palmer, 3; Cox, 3; Wilson, 2;
Hitchcock, 1.
HARDING IS CHOICE OF
REPUBLICANS IN OHIO
COLUMBUS, 0., April 28—Senator
Warren G. Harding and Gen. Leonard
Wood were running a neck-and-neck race
for the presidential preferential leader
ship in the Ohio primaries, according to
flgu res compiled in the office of the sec
retary of state this afternoon.
Based on returns from election boards
throughout the state, indications were
that Harding will have forty of the
forty-eight delegates.
Managers of Gen. Leonard Wood’s
campaign said he would have at least
eight delegates.
They also expressed hope of captur
ing at least one delegate at large.
Unofficial returns from 2,857 precincts
on tho presidential preferential vote
showed Harding leading Wood by less
than 900 votes, with Hiram Johnson
(Continued on Page Two.)
Rain Cloud Has
a Silver Lining
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo., April
28.—Thieves removed John Emmke’s
private stock.
Rain fell steadily.
Tho truck, liquor, family silver and
a kit ot Bafeblowcr's *iols were aban
doned where the truck skidded.
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Ind., Dally Except Sunday. Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March S. 1879.
Breaks Into Prison
to Beat High Costs
JOLIET, 111., April 28.—With the
high cost of living what it is today,
the only place for an honest, respecta
ble burglar to be is In prison, accord
ing to Robert Needham, who late last
night scaled a wall at the peniien
tlary here and returned to his cell.
“The only way to beat the H. C. Is
is to stay in prison,” he explained to
the guards.
Needham was sent to the peniten
tiary on conviction on a charge of
burglary, later broke a parole, return
ing to the prison in the midst of a
search being made for him.
Peace Meets New
Delay in Senate
WASHINGTON, April 28—The absence
of several republican members prevented
the senate foreign relations committee
from acting today on the peace resolu
tion redrafted by Senator Knox, repub
lican. of Pennsylvania. It was decided
to hold another meeting Friday.
U. S. Asks Rehearing
°f Steel Trust Suit
WASHINGTON. April 28.—The gov
ernment today filed with the United
States supreme court a petition for a
rehearing in its suit to compel disso
lution of the United States Steel Cor
poration on the ground that it is a mo
nopoly in restraint of trade.
Ship Returns With
253 American Dead
NEW YORK. April 28.—The transport
Mercury arrived here today with bodies
of 253 American soldiers dead aboard.
She also carried sixty-one sick and
wounded, forty-seven officers and nurses
and 734 casual troops.
She was expected to dock at Hoboken
this afternoon.
My Goodness, What’s
World Coming To?
ST. LOI IS. April 28.—Stenograph
ers without powder, rouge, vamp
curls, etc., sound unbelievable, but —
The next crop—about 1.000 of them
—turned loose upon St. I.ouis busi
ness houses by one school here will
bo that way, according to Miss M. E.
Ross, manager.
A strict code of business ethics
taught at the school ban all things
that swell drug store revenues. Miss
Koss declared today.
Wife Wins $4,000
in Alienation Suit
Mrs. Jennie Jordan is $4 000 richer to
day.
A Jury in circuit court awarded her
this amount in her alienation suit
against Neil Marquette.
Mrs. Jordan had asked $20,000. charging
rh.-it Nell Marquette enticed her husband
4J.. J’Luxlk-W. Ind..
July 28. 1919.
‘Practical Peace’
for Russians Seen
LONDON, April 28.—The decision*
reached by the allied premier* at San
Remo will result In ‘’practical peace”
with Russia by the end of May. it was
reported here today.
There will he, however, no forma! rec
ognition of soviet Russia, it was stated
in official circles.
Britain Refuses to
Free Irish Prisoners
LONDON, April 28.—A. Bonar Law.
government spokesman in the house of
commons, announced in the house that tho
government will not release the Irish
prisoners held at Wormwood Scrubbs
prison.
He said the government did not fear
the general strike of dock workers, which
is threatened by Irish sympathizers, un
less the government adopts a lenient pol
icy with regard to the Wormwood pris
oners.
President Names
Salvador
WASHINGTON, April 28.—Presi
dent Wilson today nominated Peter
Augustus Jay of Rhode Island, now
counsellor of the embassy at Rome,
to be miinster to Salvador, and Rob
ert W. Hclmgartmer, Canton, 0., to
be consul. Class 6.
The nomination of former Senator
Theodore E. Borton to be a member
of the United States tariff commis
sion was withdrawn at Mr. Burton's
request.
Chicago’s Catholic
Colleges to Merge
CHICAGO, April 28.—Merger of a score
of Catholic colleges in Chicago into what
probably will be the largest secular in
stitution of education in the United States
by grouping them under single direct >r
ship under the Oxford plan will be ac
complished in the near future, it was an
nounced today.
News of the contemplated merger was
revealed through a donation of $500,000
to the Institutions concerned by Edward
Hines, wealthy lumberman, in memory
of his son, Edward, Jr., who was killed
in France.
Obregon Captures and Holds City
Only 70 Miles From Mexico Capital
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 2S._Gen.
Obregon. heading a heavy revolutionary
! force, has captured Ouautala, important
i city in the state of Mora'os. and is oc
cupying that city.
This information was contained in au
thentic advices received here today.
Cuautala is some seventy miles distant
from Mexico City in the Zapatista coun
| try.
Its capture is taken as an indication
! that the Zapatistas have Joined the revo
i lutionary movement.
Two rebel generals, Porfirio Gonzales
and Oallegos, who revolted a few days
ago. were reported to have joined forces
and to be marching on Matamorns, oppo
site Brownsville, Texas.
One hundred federal soldiers from Mier,
eighty miles south of Matamoras, were
said to have joined them.
Gen. Candldo Aguilar, son-in-law of
President Carranza, was recalled to Mex
| ico City when he reached Saltillo, en
; route to Chihuahua.
| He Is reported to be on his way with
troops to relieve Murguia.
Jtitaia HaitQ ®iiws
GIRL’S SLAYER
IN DEATH CELL;
TRIAL, RECORD
Negro Ray in State Prison Few
Hours After One-Day
Murder Hearing.
TO DIE ON AUGUST 5
William Ray, negro, condemned to
die for the murder of Martha Huff,
14-year-old white girl, today Is mark
ing time in his death chamber at the
state prison, Michigan City.
Ray will be strapped into the elec
tric chair at sunrise on tho morning
of Aug. 5.
He was found guilty by a Jury in
criminal court last night.
Judge James A. Collins immediately
passed sentence.
ltav was taken on an early train today
to Michigan City.
He will be the second man to pay
with his life on the electric chair from
Marlon county.
Kelly Robinson negro, who killed John
Roe, a fanner, in Hammond's Grove on
the Allisonvllle pike, Dec. 20, 1915, was
the other.
Electrocution was substituted for hang
ing in Indiana in 1913.
FOUR PUT TO DEATH
IN STATE SINCE 1913.
Since that time four, including Rob
inson. have been put to death.
John Chirka of Lake county and Harry
Raslco of Vigo county were executed
Feb. 20. 1914, and Robert Collier of
Evansville on Oct. 16. 1914.
The jury, in deciding, Ray's fate, de
liberated only nineteen and one-half
minutes.
When the verdict w-ns read Judge
James A. Collins asked the defendant if
he cared to say anything.
Patrlman McGee, special guard for
Ray, grabbed him by the coattail and
escorted him to the bar of justice.
Ray was arrested two nights later,
tempted to mutter a few words.
“I —I, something pushed tne on, and I—
passion was the cause,” ho muttered.
“I didn't menu to do It. Have tnercy on
me Do not take away my life.”
ORDERS IMMEDIATE
REMOVAL TO PRISON.
“That is no legal excuse,’ -aid Judge
Collin* as he ordered Sheriff Miller to
take Ray at once to the Indiana state
prison.
Judge Collins fixed the earliest possible
date for the electrocution, as the statutes
require 100 or more days from the date
of the sentence.
Tiiere was no demonstration on jkirt
of the spectators.
Policemen were stationed all over the
courthouse.
Spectators were heard to express aatts
facton over the speedy trial
There mere words of prniae for fb
manner Attorney Frank A. Symmes.
counsel for the poor, defended Ray.
In his closing remaiks to the Jury he
said that lie- would do nothing to sway
the Jury from its duty.
When the Jury walked In to report, a
death-like stillness was broken hr the
sobbing es Mr*. Sarah ffmock, mother
of the murdered girl
A* the Jury retired they carried with
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ULTIMATUM SENT
RUSSIA BY JAPAN
Demands Withdrawal of
Armed Men From Siberia.
TOKIO. April 23 (Delayed).—Drastic
regulations compelling all armed Rus
siun* in Siberian territory occupied by
Japanese troops to withdraw from those
areas have been submitted to the Bus-
Man provisional government, according
; to war office communique issued today.
All Russian warships, arms, ammunl
! tlons and barracks must bo turned over
tc Japanese troops temporarily, the ul
timatum said.
Communications must be promptly re
stored.
The troop withdrawal order allows
only a email number of Russian police
lo remain within thirty kilometeis of all
pieces where Japanese troop* are sta
tioned, the communique said.
The demand also includes withdrawal
of armed Russians from certain strategic
points on the trans-Siberian railroad.
The Japanese warships Mikasa and
Mlsflma yesterday landed troops at
Alexandrofsky, a Siberian port, about
400 miles north of Vladivostok, accord
ing to a war office communique today.
Russian troops retreated without re
sistance, the official report said.
Japanese residents of the city were
taken on board the war vessels.
WASHINGTON, April 28.—Under eg
cert of the warships Mikasa and Mi
sblma a contingent of Japanese troops
was landed at Alexanderofshl, In Si
beria. on April 22, and have taken over
the district, according to advice* re
ceived by the state department from tho
Japanese foreign office today
Carload of Sugar
Reaches Indianapolis
One car load of sngar arrived in In
dianapolis today, according to Stanley
Wvekoff, fair price commissioner.
This sugar will be distributed among
retailers In fifty-pound lots.
Wyckoff may pot on sale in a few
days two car loads of potatoes which
have been refused by consignees.
He haa telegraphed the shippers for
permission to handle them.
Passengers arriving here declared they
were on the last train to get through
from Monterey and that the railroad line
was cut behind them.
No mail or telegrams have been re
ceived here from Mexico City for two
days.
HERMOSILLO, Mex., April 28.—The
revolution against President Carranza
continues to grow hour by hour, accord
ing to reports received at general mili
tary headquarters of the secessionist
state of Sonora.
During the past forty.eight, hours, to
day's advices state, nine federalist gar
risons have revolted and Joined tbe "lib
eral constitutionalist'’ forces, the name
chosen for (he armies of secession.
Among the forces thus throwing thalr
fortunes with Sonora’s cause, it is re
ported, are 4.000 men under Gen. Mo
rales, and 2,000 soldiers, in the states of
Durango, Naynrlt and Guerrero.
Sonora troops, comprising the advanc
ing army of Gen. Flores, are reported as
being within iorty-elght hours of tho
Important port -of Mnation.
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1920.
We Have With
Us Today
THE TIMES has prepared a ques
tionnaire consisting of ten ques
tions, which it submits each day to
some well-known Indianapolis per
son.
Introducing
Eli Schioss,
Clothier.
Q. What is your name in full?
A. Eli Schloss.
Q. Have you ever bad a nickname?
A. No.
Q. What was your favorite sport
when you were a boy?
A. Work.
Q. What athletics did you engage or
excel in when you were in school?
A. Never had time for any.
Q. How did you happen to meet
your wife, and where did you
meet her?
A. While working in Chicago.
Q. What is your hobby today?
A. Golf.
Q. What was your ambition when
you were a boy ?
A. To be a lawyer.
Q. What event tin your life caused
you to choose your present pro
fession?
A. Weak eyes and necessity.
Q. If you had your life to live over,
what. profession would you
choose?
A. Lawyer.
Q. What would you do with a mil
lion dollars if you had it to give
away ?
A. ÜBe it for vocational education
work.
FREIGHT TIEUP
HAMPERS PLANTS
Manufacturers Here Operate
on Day-to-Day Basis.
Railroads are still far behind in the
movement of freight to Indianapolis, but
manufacturer* here have been given re
lief sufficient to keep most factories In
operation at least part time, according to
George M. Dickson, president and gen
eral manager of the National Motor Car
and Vehicle Company, whose plant was
seriously threatened with a shortage of
material and supplies
Many manufacturers are depending on
small shipments of materials which en
able them to operate their plants from
day to day.
Lo<al freight offices reported no ma
teria! change in embargo rules today, tint
the embargo on outgoing shipments at
the stockyards nns tightened.
Chicago consignments are entirely cut
off.
2 HURT, 1 BADLY,
IN TRAFFIC CRASH
Street Car Rams Into Wagon
Loaded With Brick.
Two persons were injured, one per
haps fatally, when a street car crashed
Into a wagon loaded with brick at Wash
ington and Alabama streets at noon.
(Horge Cathrell, 38, negro, son West
Walnut street, driver of the wagon, wi
ent about the head, his leg* were
■ rushed and it is believed he Is hurt
internally.
He was taken to the City hospital.
Patrick Donohue, 511 Dongiass street,
motorrnsn of the car, sustained an in
jury to the hack and was lacerated and
hrnished by flying bricks and glass.
REFUSES TO GO
TO HOSPITAL.
He refused to go to the hospital and
was taken borne
Cuthreil was lodged the wag
on and the front vestibule of the street
car which was crushed in
The wagon was partially overturned
and bricks were strewn for some dis
ta nee.
The car was an East Washington, west
bound, carrying about thirty five pas
sengers.
Ail were shaken up.
Mrs. G Conk, 5809 Beeehwood avenue,
one of the passengers, told Motorcycle
Policemen Morlarlty and Harris, who In
vostlgated, that ah'* rang the bel!
for Alabama street, but the car failed
to stop.
BAYB AUTOMOBILE
SKIDDED INTO HIM.
John Llebhart, 50, was found in his
room at Erie and Pearl streets by Dr.
Richard Poole, suffering from a possible
fracture of the leg.
He told tbe doctor tbnt an automobile
skidded into him at Meridian and Wash
ington streets at 8 o’clock last night.
He said the driver stopped and picked
him up, but that he was able to hobble to
his room.
James M. Earles, 663 East Twenty
fifth street, reported to fha poltce this
morning, before the injury to Llebhart
was known, that his machine skidded
and knocked a man down at the place
where tbe man was hurt.
Ho said the man refused to give him
his name and said he could go home
without aid.
Fuller Pension Bill
Passed by House
WASHINGTON, April* 28.—The Fuller
pension bill Increasing to SSO a month
general pensions of civil and Meilcan
war veterans as agreed in conference
between the two houses, passed tho
house today.
Revenue Clerks Don
Jeans and Gingham
Employes in the internal revenue office
at the Federal building will blossom out
in overalls on May day, they declared
today.
Clerk* in the office formed an overall
club which met yesterday and completed
arrangements for wearing khaki shirts
and trousers during the summer in an
effort to combat the high cost of living.
Women employed in the .office are con
sidering plans to join In the movement
by wearing gingham dresses. About
flftv men are employed in the revenue
office.
Rates Up, Phones
Down
Telephone subscribers in Hazelton,
Ind., won a battle against the high cost
of living today when the Hazelton Tele
phone Company filed a petition before
the' state public service commission for
permission to resume a lower basis of
service charge, w’blcb was changed by a
recent order.
The commission allowed the company
a rata increase of 50 cents a month on
residence phones and 75 cents on busi
ness phones, effective March 5, 1920.
Immediately after the new rates went
into effect more than 100 telephone sub
scribers ordered service discontinued.
Rather than sustain the lots of patron
age tbe company wishes the old rata
rastered.
YOUTH ADMITS
CHOKING PHONE
GIRL TO DEATH
Michigan Degenerate Says Vic
tim, ‘Tired of Life,’ Asked
Him to Kill Her.
USED HANDKERCHIEFS
rONTIAC, Mich., April 28.— Allen Best,
24, of Flint, made a complete confession
of guilt in the murder of Vera Schneid
er 19, telephone operator, to authorities
here today, Prosecutor Gillespie an
nounced.
Best, said by authorities to be a de
generate with an obession ,fer women,
told n weird story under questioning.
MEETS GIRL FOR
FIRST TIME.
"1 met the girl on the street Satur
day night,” Best said. "I never met
her before.
“We walked along for a while and then
went up on the porch of the vacant
house.
“I smoked a few cigarettes while we
talked.
“Then she put her arms around iny
neck and asked me to kill her.
“She said she was tired of life.
r.'iOKES GIRL
WITH HANDKERCHIEFS.
“I took out a couple of handkerchiefs,
knotted them together and slipped the-n
over her head.
“1 thought they were around her
mouth, but. the noose must have slipped
farther down. •
“I drew it tight but she complained
it was not tight enough.
"Then I pulled lighter, she gasped and
then was still.
“I went away and washed my hands.”
SLAY 23 TRYING
TO ESCAPE JAIL
Strikers at Posen Try Getaway,
London Hears.
LONDON, April 28. Twenty-three
strikers have been killed at Posen in an
attempted Jail delivery, according to a
Central News dispatch today.
BERLIN TRIES TO
DODGE NEW CHARGE
BERLIN, April 28. The new allied
note, formulated bv the supreme coun
cil at ban Remo and charging the Ger
man government wi!h bad faith In its
execution of the treaty of Versailles, who
the rhief consideration in governmental
clrcirs today.
in upper Berlin circles the note is
lok>.n ns an indication of Kronen willing
tie*.* to j>ermlt G< rrasny to In-reuse her
>rnt*d forces beyi nd the set fi ft lire, of
1 on .000. .
1 nless Franco Is * ililng that tbit, be
dou*\ government cfLdals dec’.irel that
the French mllltirlita would find it !n>
possible to expla’ i th“ maintenance of £
I’.er'ch army of it'O.OOC as com fiat* I with
G. many’s ion axt,
WHAT BERLIN CLAIMS
HA* BEEN DONE.
The matter of reparation I* a chief
topic of discussion.
It is pointed out that Germany ha*
paid three billion marks (normally $750,-
OOO.OdO) for foreign occupation during
1919 and that materia!* have been de
livered under the terms of the peace
treaty to the value of thirty billion
marks (normally $7,500,000,000).
Furthermore, officials declared. Ger
many made apology and punished those
responsible for every Insult to allied
representatives that has been called to
the government's attention
MEMORANDUM TO BE
PRESENTED MA\ 10.
At the finance ministry it is estimated
the amount of reparation Germany will
be called on to pay during 1920 wLi be
5,000,000,000 marks (normally $1,200,000,-
000.
The German charge d'affaires at I‘ar s.
Dr. Mayer, will present to Premier Mil
ieraud before May 10 a memorandum of
Germany's financial condition.
Radicals are liriuging pressure to bear
on the government for the dismissal of
Gen. von Walter, who commanded the
relcbswehr forces in the Ruhr invasion,
because of hi* alleged ruthless measures
of suppression.
NOW IT’S‘PAY AS
YOU LEA VE’ CARS
New Plan for Rush Hours Is
Considered Here.
Ts an experiment Is successful citizens
may be paying their fares during the
rush hours as they leave street cars In
stead of contributing heir "Jitney”
when they get on.
A combination pay-aa-yon-enter or
pay-ns-you-leave car was being examined
by city officials today.
This type of car, it is said. Is a suc
cess In several large cities.
The plan la to permit passengers to
board the cars through front gates
which are operated by the motormnn and
to exit by the rear gates when the con
ductor will say In a familiar way, "fare
please.”
It is proposed to try this method out
durlug the rush hours only on outbound
cars.
On the trip down town the customary
rear entrance will be used exclusively,
according to present plans.
Polish Troops Send
Russian Lines Reeling
I/ONDON, April 'iS.-Pollsh troops
operating on a wide front have driven
deep into the Russian lines between Vel
hynla and Podolla, capturing Jltomtr
and takeu considerable booty, according
to a news agency dispatch from Warsaw
today.
Trial of Mrs. Tabor
End
PAWPAW. Mich., April 28.—Closing
arguments for the state were begun to
day lu the trial of Mrs. Sarah Tabor,
charged with manslaughter In connection
with the "hope chest” death of her
daughter, Mrs. Maude Tabor Virgo.
As the trial now stands the fate of
Mrs. Tabor will be placed in the hands of
the Jury without the state having pro
duced os a witness Joseph C. Virgo, bus
band of the slain young woman, and ac
cused by Mrs. Tabor of responsibility
for her daughter’s death.
Grandmother Held
on Kidnapmg Charge
DETROIT. April 28. Mrs. Kate Cu
sick. 60, Kalamazoo. w r aa arrested here
today with her little granddaughter.
Rosie Stitnar, whom she Is accused of
kidnaping.
Kalamazoo aiitboriUe* have been noti
fied.
n. lu . )By Carrier, Week, Indianapolis, 10c; El6ewhere, lie.
buDseription Kates. J By Matl 50c per MoDth . , 5 00 Per Tear .
Bill for U. S. Merchant Marine
Favored by Senate Committee
WASHINGTON, April 28.—An American merchant marine operated
under a reorganized shipping board is provided in a bill reported favorably
to the senate this afternoon by Senator Jones of Washington, chairman
of tbe senate commerce committee.
The bill specifies that the board es-,
tabilsh steamship lines and trade routes
to tbe world markets to promote and
develop American foreign commerce “un
der private ownership or through private
enterprise, if possible, and through gov
ernment operation, if necessary.”
”Preference in the establisment of such
routes through sales or assignment of
ships must be given to citizens who are
supported by communities primarily in
terested in these routes, or by those who
are already maintaining a service in the
general direction of the port to be served
by the new route,” it Is stated in the re
port accompanying tbe bill.
BRIGHTWOOD CAR
CHANGES COMING
City Officials to Inspect Lines
Before Ordering Needs.
Members of the board of public works,
in company with Frank C. Lingenfelter,
city engineer, will make an inspection of
tbe Brlgbtwood street car lines next
week with a view to ordering Improve
ments in service, according to George C.
Lemaux, president of the board. \
Flans for extensions and straightening
lines in Brightwood are now being con
sidered.
The board ordered the city engineer
to draw lip plans for tbe widening and
resurfacing of Delaware street from Six
teenth to Nineteenth streets, including
the cutting off of a corner at Sixteenth
Street.
Mr. Lingenfelter submitted a report to
the board on a petition to have East
Washington street from Woodlawn drive
to Audubon road resurfaced with as
phalt, saying that the experience of the
city with such surfaces will not Justify
the improvement.
The present surface of the street is of
brick, and it is maintained that should
It be resurfaced with asphalt the cost
of maietnance will be so great that there
would be little If any saving on the part
of the city.
The report was approve! by the board.
Bids were received on the following im
provements :
First alley east of Park avenue, from
Fairfield avenue to Thirfy-slxth street,
brick pavement. A. D. Bowen. 83.71 per
lineal foot; Graceland avenue, from
Forty-second street to Forty-third street,
bituminous concrete pavement. Union
Asphalt Company, $11: Webster avenue,
from Washington street to Lowel! avenue
bituminous concrete. Union Asphalt
Company. SIS; Tecumseh street, from St.
(’.sir street to Pratt street, cement walks.
Indiana Asphalt Company. $3.63.
No bids were received for the improve
ment of Centeunla! street, from Tenth
street to the first alley north of Twelfth
street.
BLUE? WELL, LET
~*mC> EXPLAIN
Sun Is Shut Off From Your
Brain , He Declares .
Ho hum. and a couple of yawns!
Old friend, “Doe.'* has let the secret
out.
He has gone and told us why a guy
feels blue in this kind of unseasonable
weather.
Here it goes:
"The therma center* of the human
mechanism located anatomically in the
medulla oblongata Just antero-posferious
to the crus pans and sympathetically
connected with the interna! lybriable and
o.slcals of the pinnia are. by virtue of
their extreme sensitiveness, directly af
fected by the Beta Bays radiating from
the *un.
"During cloudy weather the Reta Rays
necesary for the stimulating effect on the
therma centers are Insufficient to cause
temperature registration.”
By which "Doc” meant that there is
something like a thermometor located
back of the ear wfiich registers tho
weather and upon which depends one's
degree of gloom or Joy.
LAUDS IDEALISM
IN BUSINESS MAN
International Secretary Ad
dresses Kiwanis Club.
That the spirit of American business
men is esssentiaily one of idealism, and
not wholly the pursuit of pergonal profit,
as has been so often charged, was em
phasized by the address of O. Samuel
Cummings, international secretary of
Kiwanis clubs, at a luncheon of the local
organization in the Rainbow room of the
Severln hotel today.
Mr. Cummings was present as a guest
of honor.
The Kiwanis club, in about ten min
utes’ time, bad not only committed it
self to the erection of a $2,000 hut sot
Boy Scouts on the reservation adjoining
Ft. Benjamin Harrison, but had also.
In about five minutes more, pledged
SI,OOO for its maintenance -not to speak
of the deluge of offers to furnish the
hut with everything 1t could possibly
need in the way of equipment.
One member even offered to furnish
the snow and ice which so beautifully
surrounds a drawing of the proposed
But by Robert Frost Daggett, architect,
and member of the club.
The liberality and public spirit shown
by the local business men was pointed
to by Mr. ('umraings as an example ot
what the organization really meaus.
Explosion Rocks
New England Town
F,l ERETT. Mass.. April 29. Several
persons were seriously injured and many
others slightly hurt by a terrific explosion
which wrecked one of the buildings of
tbe General Electric plant in West Ever
ett this afternoon.
Scores of physicians and all the avail
able ambulances in that section of Ever
ett were rushed to the scene.
Banker to Speak on
Blue Sky Situation
w. D. Breed, of Chicago, member of
the firm of Breed, Elliott & Harrison,
will deliver an address on “The Blue
Sky Situation,” at a dinner of Group
Four of the Indiana Bankers’ associa
tion at the Chamber of Commerce this
evening.
Other speakers will be R. W. Akin, of
Sullivan, president of the bankers’ nsso
eition, and Merle Sidencr, of the Sidener
and Van Riper Advertising Company.
Group Four includes bankers of Tipton,
Hamilton, Boone, Hendricks, Mocgan,
Johnson, Hancock and Marlon counties.
More thus 360 are expected to attend
the dinner.
HOME EDITION
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This report is signed by Chairman
Jones and Senators McNary, Oregon:
Fernald, Maine; Calder, New York, and
Colt, Rhode Island, republicans; and
Fletcher, Florida ; Chamberlain, Oregon ;
Ransdell, Louisiana, and Simons, North
Carolina, democrats.
Provision is made in the bill for re
organization of the United States ship
ping board with a membership of seven
two from Pacific states, two from At
lantic states, one from a gulf state, one
from a Great Lakes state and one from
an interior state, no two to be appointed
from the same state.
‘OTHER WOMAN ’
NAMED IN PLEA
Mrs. L. G. Howard Files Suit
for Divorce.
Mrs. Snsan N. Howard, formerly of 608
East Twelfth street, and giving her oc
cupation as a social service worker of
this city, today filed suit in superior
court, room 5. for a divorce against Louts
G. Howard, an employe at Planner &
BuehJnan. funeral directors.
It is alleged Howard refused to sup
port. his wife and that he was intimate
with a woman known as “Mareee.”
Mrs. Howard asks that her maiden
name of Susan Noble be restored.
Mrs. Bessie Bridges of 1432 Olney
street, also filed a suit for divorce in cir
cuit court against John R. Bridges. 3027
North Illinois street, because he is al
leged to have refused to work steadily
and spends a great of his time playing
pool.
Mrs. Bridges claims she was compelled
to work to support herself.
SENT WARNING
OVER RAY CASE
East Side Man Threatened in
Anonymous Note.
A threatening note received by Charles
Roberts. 1662 North Arsenal avenue, as
a result of the case of William Ray,
negro murderer, was turned over to the
police todsy.
Roberts said the note, which was
rnonymous, threatened to “get him.”
"Yon’Te talked too much and you
mustn’t judge the whole colored race
by the criminal actions of one man,"
it read.
Roberts’ daughter Myrtle was enticed
to Brookside pjrk by Ray. but her
mother followed her anil Drought her
home.
The note was found es the Roberts
porch last night ny Myrtle.
Tbe handwriting and naming were
I oor.
COALMENFAVOR
ONLYFAIRPRICE
State Retail Dealers to Pay
Visit to Mines Tomorrow.
Indiana retail coal dealers today went
on record in (resolutions adopted at their
fourth annual convention as disfavoring
any attempt to secure other than a “fair
marginal profit” in that business.
Henry L Ditbmer of Indianapolis,
president of the Polar Ice and Fuel com
pany, chairman of the resolution com
mittee, made the report.
The raaolutlon expressed a desire to
help readjustment of conditions between
capital and labor, as a benefit to the re
tail coai business and badness in gen
eral.
Walter McDougal, of Indianapolis,
spoke on the need of dealing fairly with
the nation’s tax laws.
E. E. Heller of Indianapolis is presi
dent of the association.
Ellery B. Gordon, Philadelphia, and
Morton A. Gould, president of the In
diana Bituminous Coal Operators’ as
sociation, spoke at the afternoon session.
A banquet and entertainment will be
given tonight.
Tomorrow a special train will take the
party to ecal mines near Clinton and
Term Haute.
Sane buying of coal on the part of
consumers and cautious purchases by ro
ta !1 coal merchants to prevent a "run
away market.” were urged in the address
of the president.
About 500 are attending the conven
tion.
Righto, Prof., It’s
Matter of Taste
UHIOIAGO. April 2*.—Dignified
professors at the University of Chi
cago were bemoaning today their
failure to attend a co-eds vaudeville
show here last night.
It was shameful, said Rev. M. F.
Boynton, pastor of the W’oodlawn
Baptist church, and president of the
Illlnnin Vigilance committee.
“All a matter of taste; 1 wish to
thunder I had been there,” said
Fros, James W. Linn.
Ships Crash in Fog,
but No Lives Lost
NORFOLK. V*., April 28.—The United
Fruit steamer W. D. Noyes was struck
by the British steamer Barranca In a
dense fog near Tqimble Shoals lighthouse
early today.
A large hole was torn in the how of
(lie Barranca.
The collision occurred when the Bar
ranca attempted to pass the Noyes at
anchor in the roads.
The Noyes lowered boats, hut the Bar
ranca messaged that she did not need
them and was later taken in tow.
Real Estate Board
Condemns Nolan Bill
Resolutions condemning the Nolan bill,
pending in congress, which provides for
a federal tax of 1 per cent on real estate
valued at SIO,OOO or more, were adopted
by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board
at the weekly meeting today.
Copies of the resolution will be sent
to Indiana representatives in congress.
The Capitol Avenue Protective asso
ciation asked the support of the real
estate board In their efforti to keep
colored people from buying property
or. Capitol avenue between Sixteenth
and Thirty-eighth streets.
CONSCIENCE PROMPTS SUICIDE.
LITTLE FALLS, N. ,Y., April 28.
Conscience stricken because ot desert
ing ber husband and three children, Mrs.
Ftrank Bruno, Cleveland, 0., swallowed
mercury tablets at her heme in Frank
fort Sunday and dW last evening.
NO. .303.
CORONER FAILS
TO INVESTIGATE
JAIL BEATING
Records Show No Effort to
Find Out if Insane ?lan
Was Victim.
INDICTMENT JN CASE
Lester Mitchell, a former cell boss
at the Marion county jail, is under
Indictment for assault and battery
on Kirby L. Bowen, a man who was
confined in the jail, where the assault
is alleged to have taken place, and
who died shortly thereafter at the
Central Indiana Hospital for the
Insane.
Bowen, according to the finding of
Coroner Paul F. Robinson, died of
“mitral stenosis, chronic, interstitial.’*
which, in laymen’s language means a
chronic diseased condition of the heart.
No attempt by the coroner to ascertain
whether Bowen’s death was the result
of, or was contributed to, by the beat
ing he got iu the jail, is revealed by tho
coroner's report, on file with the county
clerk.
In the record of the autopsy made by
Dr. George R. Christian, it is stated that
outwardly the body appeared normaL
The record shows that only two wit
nesses were called in the cae.
The fir*t witness, F. J. Cayley, physi
cian at the Hospital for the Insane, tes
tified that Bowen was brought to the
hospital March 3. 1920, in a semi-comatoM
condition, and that he died at 1 p. m.
March 5.
ATTENDANT BATS
MAN NEVER RECOVERED.
The other witness, William Bennett, am
attendant at the Hospital for the In
sane, testified that he had been In at
tendance on Bowen from March 3, when
he was brought to rhe hospital uncon
scious, and that he did not regain con
sciousness.
He testified that Bowen died at 1
p. m.. March 5, after he had been at the
hospital about forty-five honra.
Neither witness was asked concerning
evidence of any outward injury to the
body of the man.
Testimony was given in the hearing
in federal court to the effect that an
insane man was beaten by attendant*
at the county jail so severely that ne
later died.
It developed that the man referred to
was Bowen.
Coroner Robinson is a candidate for
tbe republican nomination, to succeed
himself. He is opposed by Dr. Rich
ard A. Poole, and friends of Dr. Poole
<so not hesitate to declare that in tile
Bowen case Robinson demonstrated hta
unfitness to be retained in office.
They say fhnt had he made any effort
to ascertain the facts connected with th
death of Bowen he would have uncov
ered the scandal about the jail long
before it became necessary for the tod
oral court to mterVre in the manner ia
which the jail was conducted under
Sheriff Miller.
In another case, that of an insane
negro who died at the county hospital
for the insane at Julietta, the coroner
found that "while there is no evidence
a blow was the direct cause of deg;h,
there is a strong possibility that treat
ment caused his leath.”
Nothing further was ever done about
it, so far as the records show-.
This case was that of James Holder,
950 West North street, who died at the
hospital Jan. 21, 1919
The coroner found that death wa*
caused by dementia peretiea, while the
immediate cause was cerebral apoplexy.
The statement concerning the possi
bility of th' treatment received by the
man at the hospital being the cause ot
death follows the statements of these
ea uses.
SISTERS TELL OF
VISIT TO HOSPITAL.
Helen Romans, 814 Blake street, sis
ter of Holder, testified that on January
19, 1919. she and her two sisters, Elis
abeth Robinson and Tolly England, saw
their brother at the hospital.
She said a blanket was thrown over
him, his feet and ankles were bandaged
and he had an abrasion on the left side
of his face.
She said an attendant had at first re
fused to permit her and her sisters to
see him.
Elizabeth Robinson testified that on tbe
occasion of their visit the patient was
held up by attendants and that he
groaned and kept his eys shut most of
the time.
Polly England's testimony was vir
tually the same.
James Shelton, 516 North California
street, an undertaker, testified that there
was a bruise on the head, and another on
tbe left side of the stomach, a large dent
in the pit of tho stomach, as if it had
been made by a blow from a blnnt in
strument nnd a fresh scar on the left leg.
Loren A. Hyde, superintendent of the
hospital, testified Holder attacked an at
tendant named Edney and that it had
required four or five men to hold him.
He said the patient was not assaulted.
BELIEVED MARKS
CAUSED BT PATIENT.
Mr. Hyde said he believed the marks
on the body were caused by the patient
himself.
Joseph Seifert, a steam-fitter, who was
working at the hospital at the time, tes
tified that he saw an attendant repeated
ly kick Holder and that he was choked
to force him to take medicine.
it is well recognized that it is the duty
of the coroner to recommend a grand
jury investigation under such circum
stances as these and that the coroner haa
the ability to have persons held to tho
grand jury for investigation in such
cases.
There is no public record that Robin
son ever did anything of the kind. It is
a fact, well known to newspaper men,
that he interfered with efforts to wnk*
public the testimony in this ease.
Another case which the coroner inves
tigated, but about which nothing was
done was that of Lilly Fryman, 16 years
old. who died July 20, 1919.
The coroner's verdict shows that death
was due to internal hemorrhage and ty
phoid fever.
Joe Fryman, father of the girl, testi
fied that he believed Dr. E. E. Cabal
had called an ambulance to take his
daughter to the city hospital at noon
July 20, and that the ambulance did not
arrive until 8 p. in. and that thi girl died
at 7:45 p. m.
Robert Preble, ambulance driver, test
ified he received the call at about 7 p.
m. and that he answered it immediately.
Helen Newport, telephone operator at
the hospital testified that the call came
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Daily to Suspend
at Montpelier, Ind.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind* April 2&—
The Montpelier Herald, a daily news*
paper, will suspend publication to
definitely next Saturday because ot
the shortage of print papen.