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THE WEATHER
Tonight or Tuesday, cloudy, probably
showers. Temperature about same.
'■VOL. XXXII.
CHARGE MUNCIE
LAWYER ACTED
AS U.S. OFFICER
Gene "Williams to Be Brought
Here for Arraignment on
Indictment. .
RECALLS BUNCH CASE
MUNCIE, Ind., May 10.—Gene Wil
liams, prominent Muncie attorney,
was arrested her© today by federal
officers and is held in Jail without
boi^.
will be taken to Indianapolis late
today for arraignment before a United
States commissioner.
Williams, according to Howard Ellis,
a revenue officer, is held on a warrant,
charging the Impersonation of a lederal
officer.
Will lams, when a deputy prosecuting
attorney for Delaware connty. was con
victed of soliciting bribes and was sen
tenced to imprisonment.
The decision was reversed by the su
preme court.
Dr. Rollln Bunch, former mayor of
Monde, who la now in the federal prison
at Atlanta, Ga., was also a defendant in
the Williams case.
His jury disagreed.
Williams was arrested recently on a
grand jury indictment charging grand
larceny.
Other arrests are expected to result.
Williams, according to reports. Issued
search warrants which resulted in the
confiscation of liquor.
He U said to have been “the brains”
of the gang.
MEDICINE ADS
BRINGARRESTS
Indictments Charge Fraud in
Northern Part of State.
Patent medldne venders in the north
ern part of the state are under the cus
tody of federal officials today on charges
included In Indictments returned by the
grand Jury here.
Gabriel R. Summers of South Bend,
In<L, was placed under a bond of SI,OOO
by C. E. Whicker, deputy United States
marshal, on a charge of violating the
pure food and drug act.
It Is alleged that Summers sold cer
tain patent medicine's known as Mrs.
Absorbent Pile Remedy and
brands In violation of the law.
The advertisements were fraudulent
nd made with “wreckless and wanton
llaregard for truth.”
Nellie M. E'.lis of South Bend was
placed under a bond of SGOO.
It Is alleged that, while operating
through the Olive Branch Remedy Com
pany, she sold remedies for women’s dis
eases. using fraudulent testimonials.
Marshal Whicker also arrested Eimiua
Birger, Elkhart, Ind., on a charge of
rlolating postal laws.
It was charged that she sent an ob
leene letter and picture through the
mails addressed to Mrs. Frank Zone,
Sorth Second street, Elkhart.
She was placed under a SI,OOO bond.
Floyd W. Koenig, Mishawaka, was
placed under a SI,OOO bond on a charge
of fraudulently indorsing a navy pay
check to r St'S. 12.
The check was made out to William
Koenig.
NEW AUTO ROAD
DEDICATED HERE
tejdy Trail Presented to City
**by Hoosier Motor Club.
A large number of motorists will mako
he tour of the Dandy trail n*-xt Sunday
a result of reports made by a path-
Inding train yesterday, It was announced
oday by Hoosier Motor club officers. ,
The trail was formally defeated yes
erday. when members of the club drove
Ver the eighty three mile route, which
Ircles the city and passes through some
>f the most beautiful countrysides in In
liana.
Ceremonies In University park pre- :
e-ded the start of the tour.
Mrs. M. B. Xoblet posed with her
r*ae Pomeranian, Dandy, for whom the
rail was named, and presented the trail
o the city In the name of the Hoosier
ifotor club.
\ Mayor Jewett accepted the gift in a
tw words, motion picture cameras ;
mazed and the start was made.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. T. Henderson of
he Chicago Motor club. Mr. and Mrs.
[. F. Blppus ond party from Hunting
on and other out-of-town motorists
iarticipated In the expedition.
lound Up Thirty-Four
in Gambling Raids
Thirty-four men face charges of gam
bling today as a result of week-end ac
tivities of the police morals squad.
Edward Harvey, 2025 Madison avenue,
ind Walter Winning, 2033 Webb street,
were arrested at Harvey's home.
Roy Tyler and four others were ar
rested in a raid on Tyler's poolroom, 752
Colton street.
James Ballanger, proprietor of a pool
room, 717 Blake street, is charged with
keeping a gambling house, and thirteen
men found In the place are charged with
gaming.
In a raid on an open air craps game
|± 712 South Capitol avenue, two men
WCTe arrested and about a dozen escaped.
Two men were arrested In a raid on
i craps game at the Belt railroad and
St Clair street.
Elzie Kennedy and six others were ar
rested in a raid on Kennedy’s place, 1115
Krelger street.
Sergt. Russell was in charge of the
raiding squad.
I West Point Academy
Under Fire in House
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10.—An In
▼estigatton of the educational system at
West Point academy by the house mili
tary affairs committee Is provided In a
resolution Introduced Into the house to
day by Representative Britten of Illi
nois.
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeri
tus of Harvard, recently criticised the
West Point system and declared West
Point graduates were inefficient, as proved
by their performances in the recent war.
for Sympathy Strike
PARIS, May 10.—Efforts of the con
federation of labor to win the railway
strike through a sympathetic strike of
Street railway, subway metal and air
plane workers, apparently failed today.
Only a few of the men ordered ont
l work.
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Dally Except Sunday.
Arms Herself for
City Job —Arrested
NEW YORK, May 10.—Margie
Burke, 15, heard about the wicked
ness of the big city before coming
.here from Orange, N. J., to get a
job.
She armed herself with a revolver
for protection, but was arrested for
carrying concealed weapons.
V ~ )
Suffragists Now
Watch Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La-, May 10.—The
Louisiana legislature meeting in regu
lar session today was expected to im
mediately take up consideration of a res
olution ratifying the woman suffrage!
amendment to the federal constitution.
Furniture Workers
Out in Shelbyville
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., May 10.—Skilled
workers In local furniture and cabinet
factories walked out today.
They demand an eight-hour day with I
increased wages.
George Oris of Indianapolis Is said to
have lead the walkout.
Common laborers are still on the job.
It Is estimated that 1,000 men are idle.
Indiana Figures in
Day’s Census Report
WASHINGTON. May 10.—The census
bureau today announced the 1920 popu
lation figures for Indiana as follows:
Schneider, 1nd.—258. no comparison
available.
West Creek township, Bake county, In
diana —1,482; gain, 176, or IXS.
Cedar Creek township. Lake connty, In
diana—2,3Bl; gain, 60, or 3.
Man, Held for Attack
on Small Girl, Sane
A sanity commission composed of Paul
F. Robinson and W. E. Mendenhall, doc
tors, reported to the criminal court to
day that Joseph M. Dletrick, being held
in the Marion county jail on a charge
sos criminal assault on a small girl, is of
sound mind.
Dietrlck will be tried soon in the crim
inal court.
Trail in N. Y. Bond
TheftsJLeads West
CHICAGO, 111., May 10.—Detectives to- !
day planned to quiz* a wealthy widow
here regarding her associations wtth A.
C. Ecrement, arrested early Sunday morn- j
lng In connection with “Nicky” Arn
steln $2,500,000 securities thefts.
Ecrement Is wanted nl New York city
on a charge of passing securities, al- '
leged to have been stolen by Arcstein
and Nick Cohn.
He Is also wanted In Montreal. Canada, j
for a $1,250,000 swindle.
3 Killed When Car
Crashes Into Auto
Special to The Tim**.
UIPTON, Ind., May 10- The bodies of
Miss Jessie Knee, Miss Martha Belle ;
Porter and Mrs. Mary E. Weaver were ,
brought here early today for burial.
They were killed yesterday afternoon ;
when a Union Traction car crashed Into i
an automobile lu which they were rid- .
lng. a mile north of Marlon.
According to witnesses the machine
had held up for a Big Four freight train :
and when It had passed was driven di
rectly in front of the traction car, which
runs parallel to the railroad.
George Knee of Tipton claimed the
bodies.
He is the father of Mias Knee, who
was 45 years old. brother of Mrs. Weaver,
who was 75, and grandfather of Martha
Porter, 14.
8 Killed, 70 Hurt
in Oregon Wreck
PORTLAND, Ore., May 10.—The local
hospitals are filled today with the in
jured from Sunday’s train wreck Just out
side the city limits, in which eight per
sons were killed.
The Injured numbered seventy, nine
teen being seriously hurt, six of whom
are believed fatally injured.
The majority of the dead and injured
are women.
The accident occurred at a sharp curve,
where a high bank prevented the motor
men of the Southern Pacific electric trains ;
from seeing each other until it was too
late.
t
Tax Board Approves
Teacher Bonus Loan
A bonus of S2OO far Indianapolis aclool
teachers was assured today, when the
state board of tax commissioners ap
proved a loan of $260,000 to bo floated by
the school hoard for the purpose of pay
ing the bonus.
contracts for the remainder of the
teacu. >g year Including the additional
pay will be prepared.
Contracts for the general increase In
teachers’ pay will be placed In effect for
the school year of 1920-21.
L t
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Indianapolis is the home of what authors of wide reputation?
It is the home of Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, Elizabeth
Miller Hack and of the late James Whitcomb Riley,
What parochial and religious schools are In Indianapolis?
There are seventeen Catholic parochial grade schools, with an en
rollment of 5,228 pupils, two academies for young women and thrae
Catholic high schools for boys. The enrollment for the academies
and high schools Is 205 pupils. These school buildings are valued
at $600,000. The Lutheran church conducta five parochial grade
schools. Talmud Torah is a religious school, held to stimulate the
studv of Jewish religion, history and ethics. Pupils attend this school
at hours following public school attendance.
For what was the Circle originally planned?
The Circle was designed to be the site of the governor’s residence.
Later a “$6,000 mansion” was built there, bnt because It was so pub
lic, prominent and exposed, it was abandoned as a residence and used
for public offices.
(Series Number Eight.)
3taMana Haifa States
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25. 1914, at
Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.
AMERICAN LIFE
SECONDARY TO
SIMS—DANIELS
Secretary Begins Defense Be
fore Senate Naval Inquiry
Committee.
‘BRITISH SHIPPING FIRST’
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Protection
of the lives of American soldiers from the
German submarines while en route to
France was held secondary to the* pro
tection of British merchant shipping by
Rear Admiral Sims, Secretary of the
Navy Daniels today told the senate sub
committee Investigating the navy's con
duct of the war.
“He seemed to accept the views of the
British admiralty as superior to any
thing that would come from America,”
Daniels charged in outlining “six impor
tant particulars In which Admiral Sims
did not measure up to expectations dur
ing the conduct of the war.”
“Admiral Sims lacked vision to see that
a great and new project to bar the sub
marines from their hunting grounds
should be promptly adopted and carried
out,” Daniels continued.
"COULDN’T SEE rAST
THE BRITISH VIEWS.”
“He urged the views of the British ad
miralty, even when the navy department
proposed plans that proved more effi
cient. *
“In public speeches and In other ways
he gave a maximum of credit to British
efforts, and minimized what his country
was doing.
“He coveted British decorations and
seemed to place a higher value on hon
! ora given abroad than honors that could
be conferred by the American govern
ment.”
"He aspired to become a member of the
I British admiralty and wrote complain
! ingly when the American government de
| dined to permit him to accept such
tender by the king of England.
I “He placed protection of merchant
shipping, with concentration of destroy
ers at Queenstown, as the main operation
! of the forces abroad, failing to appreciate
| that the protection of transports earn
ing troops to France was the paramount
Inaval duty until T felt impelled to cable
him peremptorily that such was our main
mission,” Daniels continued.
“CARRIED Ot T I’BAN
AT BRITISH ORDERS."
The secretary declared that Admiral
1 Sims accepted the British view that the
North sea barrage against the submarine
j was not necessary, and that Admiral
Mayo was sent abroad to presa Its adop
| tlon.
I After the British accepted the barrage
ss necessary. Admiral Sims carried out
I the plan. Daniels explained.
| “Though without precedent, this giant
project, conceived by officers of tbe
American navy In Washington, was car
ried out with brillant success,” Daniels
! said.
Daniels said Sims was endeavoring to
' discredit the American navy by “trying
to ferret out molehills of mistakes, exag
| perilled into mountains.”
He referred to former charges made by
naval officers that have been Investigated
! by senate committee*.
"Admiral Sims was perhaps the leading
spirit of a small group of offlesrs who
i made the charges at that time,’ Daniels
; said.
HF. TOUCHES ON
OFT-REPEATED CHARGES.
i “The American people will not forgive !
' Admiral Sims for disclosing the con- j
tents of bU letter to me of Jan. 7,” Dan- ,
leis declared. .
j The detter referred to was the one j
I containing the explicit admonition Kims
! alleged he was given as he left for
! England before wo entered the war “not t
i to let the British pull the wool over your |
! eyes.”
“It was either his evtdont purpose to j
! convey to our associates in Great Brit- I
aln the Impression that responsible naval
authorities In- Washington had such ;
prejudice ngainat Groat Britain ns to de- i
ny out Immediate anil wholehearted con
tribution to victory, or to permit any
critic or enemy of the United Slates, to |
(Continued on Page Ten.)
STREET FORCES
ATTACK RUBBISH
City, in Cleanup Drive, Seeks
to Get Done This Week.
Tom Walters, superintendent, turned
over the entire street cleaning equipment
to the hnulttig of rubbish today, except
for one truck and twenty-seven men used
j in the dowmown district.
The trucks regularly ‘employed in the
northern, southern and eastern sections
| of the city began their collection today,
j while four teams were assigned to
I Brightwood, live to Irvington, four In the
i Fifth tward, four In Haughvllle and three
| in West Indianapolis.
! The city la now assisting In the clean
lup campaign, being conducted under the
auspice* of the Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce, to the utmost, with twenty
teams and wagon*, five live-ton White
trucks, five one-and-one-half-ton trucks
and twenty-four trailers.
With this equipment, under direction
of sixty men, Superintendent Walters ex
pects to finish the Job this week.
All rubbish and yard sweepings should
be placed In containers and put where
it can be easily obtained by the ash haul
ers.
No paper should be included, since
many dump grounds have a prohibition
against the placing of paper thereon.
What’s What
In Indianapolis
“Know Tour Own
Home Town ’
(By the Reference Department, Indianapolis
Public Library, C. E. Rush, Librarian)
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1920.
Plant Gets Sugar
for Its Employes
Sqirharose!
Wednesday will be the sweetest day
of the year at the Nordyke & Mar
mot! plant.
On that day the employes’ grocery
of the factory will sell to Its regular
workers two tons of sugar.
The huge consignment,of the “sweet
stulf” reached the plant today from
New York.
It will be distributed in from five to
100-pound allotments at 25 cents a
pound.
J
LIFE TERM FOR
NEGRO SLAYER
Robert Noles Sentenced for
Killing Woman in Quarrel.
Ilobert Noles, 10. negro, tills morning
was sentenced to life imprisonment when
he entered a plea of guilty to second
degree murder for the slaying of Mrs.
Jennie Sawyer.
Noles was indicted for first degree
murder, but when his case was called
Deputy Prosecutor William E. Evans
asked that he be permitted to plead
guilty to a second degrop charge.
Evans pointed out that the women had
quarreled with the slayer and had tried
to cut him.
Sentence was then pronounced.
IRISH BILL AGAIN
UP IN COMMONS
Asquith Joins Fight for Single
Parliament.
LONDON, May 10. —The government
was expected to encounter Its first seri
ous opposition to Prime Minister Lloyd
George’s bill for home rule In Ireland
when the measure came up for debate In
the house of commons this afternoon.
The commons will begin consideration
of whether Ireland shall have two par
llaments—as the bill now provides for
only one.
IT. 11, Asquith, opposition leader, has
joined the laborltes In favor of the sin
gle parliament Idea.
One of the Mount Joy hunger strikers
—a Finn Felner named Redmond—who
was released from the prison April 15. j
died yesterday following an operation. |
Forty-two of the Wormwood Scrubbs :
hunger strikers and twenty-two of those
in prison at Belfast have been released, j
Disorders were reported In several dls- j
trieta during the week-end.
SPEED KING WINS
DIVORCE BATTLE
Charley Merz’s Cross Com
. plaint Brings Decree.
Special to The Times.
I GREENFIELD, Ind.. May 10.—Charley
I Mem, known as an automobile "speed
j king" several years agt>, was granted a
j divorce on the cross-complaint tiled to \
' the petition of his wife. Ethel, here Mat- j
! unlay.
Ira Holme* of Indianapolis appeared j
I for Mere.
j The case was venued to the local court I
i from Marlon county.
The domestic difficulties of the couple
[caused a mild sensation In Indianapolis
I late last summer.
BRITAIN TO TAKE
UP JAP ALLIANCE
Australia, New Zealand and
Canada May Be Consulted.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Australia,
Nw Zealand and possibly Canada will he
consulted by the British foreign office be
• fore the Britlsh-.lapanese/defensive u III
j ance is renewed, it was learned today.
I The date for notification of termina
tion of the pact Is July j.
j There has been anti Japanese feeling
jln Australia and New Zealand and on
j the western coast of Canada, but It. is
considered virtually certain the alliance
will be renewed.
The treaty provides that should either
Great Britain or Japan become Involved
i In war through "unprovoked attack or
I aggressive action” In defense of its “ter
ritorial rights or Interests'’ in the rcgloiiß
of eastern Asia or India, the other na
tions “willpt once come to the assistance 1
of Us ally and will conduct 'the war in
common.”
WOMEN DESIRE
TO BE PREACHERS
Lively Debate Forecast in
M. E. Conference.
DES MOINES, la., May TO.—Methodist
women want to occupy the pulpit.
The general conference of the church,
meeting here, was scheduled to pass on
; their demands probably today follow
ing presentation of a memorial urging
i women bo admitted to the ministry.
j The memorial was prepared by Miss
i M. Madeline Southard of the Southwest
I Kanaas conference.
| One of the liveliest debates on the
| conference is expected to follow pre
j sentatlon of Miss Southard’s memorial.
UNION SPEAKERS
SENT TO JAIL
Get 30-Day Terms for Street
Meeting in Steel Town.
j PITTSBURG, May 10, Sentences of
| thirty days in Jnil were imposed upon
| six men arrested while attempting to
: speak at the street meeting of the Ameri
can Civil Liberties union and the national
■ committee of Iron and steel workers at
| Duqueane, a steel town near here, yea
' terday.
Those sentenced were R. W. Riley, sec
retary of the national committee of iron
and steel workers In the Pittsburg dis
trict; Baza Daralch, organiser of the
United Mine Workers; John 01chon, a
general organizer of the American Fed
eration of T/abor; J. S. Reaghen, or
ganizer of the Bricklayers' union; James
S. Sause, organizer of the Boiler Makers'
union, and W. M. Flnck, Katonali, N. Y.
Pen Scbwartzwelder, business agont of
the Bakers’ union, who was arrested on
a charge of attempting to take photo
graphs without a license, wms discharged.
The men were charged with attempting
to hold a street meeting without permis
sion <ft the authorities, und?r an ordi
nance made operative during the etrlke
of ateel employee last fall.
FRICTION FACED
BY CONVENTION
OF STATE G. 0. P.
Deadlocks in Sixth and Ninth
Districts Enhance Doubts
Over Chairman.
WASMUTH’S TIGHT FIX
Lines are being closely drawn today
for a series of the warmest contests ever
waged In the republican party of Indi
ana as the hour grows nearer for the
state convention In this city Wednesday
and Thursday.
Deadlocks in the Sixth and Ninth dis
tricts have contributed to the doubt
concerning the chairmanship race in
which E. M. Wusmuth, present chairman 1
and close friend of Gov. Goodrich, Is ar
rayed against the combined forces of
Senator James E. Watson and Warren
T. McCray for governor.
Whatever result comes out of the
state committee balloting ea,rly Wednes
day morning fuel for contention in the
convention will remain in the division
of sentiment concerning Instruction of
dclegntes-at-large for Gen. Leonard
Wood, the tax law issue and struggles
between candidates for the nominations
for lieutenant governor and treasurer of
state.
CAUTION OBSERVED
TO AVOID BREAK.
Obalrmam, Wasmnth is profiting In his
fight by tne moral lupport of Will H.
Hays, national chairman, and Senator
Harry 8. New, but both these supporters
hare made it clear that their friendship
for the present chairman will never lead
them to such a rash step aa a break
with Senator Wataon or Mr. McCray.
Friends of McCray have said that ho
will not originate a fight on Mr. Was
muth, but that in case a contest is
started he will favor some other leader
for the place.
Inasmuch as Senator Watson I? known
to be gathering his forces to qrscat the
state leader, Mr. McCray's qualified neu
trality doean't mean much.
M. Burt Thurman of New Albany,
chairman of the Third district, or Law
rence E. Lyons of Brook, McCray's cam
paign manager before the primary, will
bp the choice of the Watson-McCray
crowd for the state chairmanship.
Many republican leader* are putting
forth strenuous efforts to bring about a
compromise In the Interests of party har- :
tnony, but It seems unlikely that the is- j
aue can be kept out of the state couven- ‘
tlon organization meetiag.
SEES FAVOR FOR
WOOD INSTRUCTION*4.
Harry G. Hogan, manager of Gon.
Wood's campaign, who makes a specialty
of mathematical calculation in politics, ,
has arrived at the conclusion that 75 per
cent of the convention delegates will be
favorable to instructions for Wood.
A total es 755 of the 1,509 delegates Is
needed to instruct for any candidate. . j
Letters have been received at Wood
headquarters from 900 delegates, of whom
655 declared themselves favorable to In
struction of the “big four” for Wood,
according to Mr. Hogan.
If the same ratio Is maintained among
tbs delegates yet to be heard from the
general gll! have the needed votes, and
Mr Hogan confidently predicts such will
be the case.
Chairman Wnsrnuth has Issued a
statement favoring the placing of women
on the delegation to the national con-c
ventlon.
“The fact that the state has granted ;
them the right to vote for presidential
electors certainly carries with It the ;
righ to participate in the presidential j
nomination” he said
The Hotel Severin, which will be re
publican convention headquarters, bnstled
with activity this morning.
By 10 a. m. W. Q. Oliver of Franklin,
candidate for the nomination for state
auditor, had hts headquarters In suite
314 in full swing.
MaJ. Emmet P. Branch, seeking the
nomination for lieutenant governor, \
opened headquarters la suite 311.
David C. Scott, Linton, candidate for j
treasurer of state, opened for business in ;
suite 305 and 30*5.
For the accommodation of candidates .
who want additional rooms, fifteen booths :
have been erected on the mezzanine floor, j
Charles \V. Bans, after the treasurer of
state nomination, has headquarters In;
booth 10.
Mrs. John Glover South of Kentucky,
who Is to address the state convention
Wednesday, will arrive tomorrow.
Mrs. South Is chairman of the woman’s
division of the national republican com
mittee.
PLAN DEMONSTRATION
IN DEBS’ BEHALF
NEW YORK, May 10.—The socialist
convention here today formulated plans 1
for a gigantic demonstration In Washing
ton on Saturday In protest against the j
"political imprisonment.” of Eugene V.
Debs, who will he the party’s 1920 pres- ,
hlentlal candidate.
It Is planned to adjourn the conven- 1
tlon, composed of nearly 200 delegates, j
here on Friday, and the convention will
reconvene at Washington on Saturday,
(Continued on P*ge Ten.)
1919 DEATH RATE
FALLS OFF HERE
City Health Records Show It
13£ Per 1,000.
Indlanapolts is Improving In .health,
according to records compiled in the
office of Dr. Herman G. Morgan, sec
retary of the board of health, today.
The death rate for 1919 was 13.9 per
sons out of each 1,000, according to Dr.
Morgan.
In 1918 the death rate was 19 01.
In 1908 It was 12.40 and in 1900, 12.07,
two of tho lowest death rates on record
for the city.
During the year of 1919, 5,800 births
were recorded In the city and 4,158
deaths, while in 1918 the number of
births was 6,159 and deaths 5,201.
The birth rate for 1919 was 19.04 and
for 1018 20.5.
During the month of April 408 births
and 574. deaths were recorded.
Henry Smith Leaves
Estate Worth $60,000
The estate of the late Henry Smith,
former saloon keeper and restaurant
owner of North Illinois street, today wa*
opened In the probate court.
' The real estate was estimated at $60,-
000 and the value of the personal estate
can not be fixed until a box in a local
bank Is opened. ,
Stores Cut Prices
at Trenton, N. J.
TRENTON, N. J„ May 10.—Half a
dozen of this city's largest stores hk|e
followed the example of tho
stores In New York and
announcing reductions of from 20 JsJffA
per cent otx their stocks-, m&lum
V ■EkvSh
IBy Carrier, Week, Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 12c.
Subscription Rates. Ma „_ 60c Per ' Month . 00 Per Vea-r.
Weds and Deserts Four Women
While Loyal to One 18 Years?
Charges Against R. M. McKnight, Who Was in Business Here
as George Russ, Bring Extradition to Texas, Where
Alleged Victim Was Robbed.
i The story of a man, who, while living with his wife for eighteen
years, is alleged to have married and deserted four other women, came
to light here today with the issuance of extradition papers for R. M.
McKnight, alias William Reid Murray, alias George Russ, who is wanted
in Brownsville, Tex., on a charge of bigamy.
Extradited
T. '' ' r '
GEORGE HI 88.
GIRL BURNS AS
JOY RIDERS FLEE
Men Abandon Young Victim to
Flames After Crash.
NEW YORK, May 10.—Helen Murray,
23, of Newark, N. J., perished in agony
beneath iv burning automobile which had
i turned turtle early this morning at
QueCus boulevard and Old MU! road,
Queensborough.
She was said by witnesses of the
, tragedy, aroused from bed by her
screams, to have been abandoned by two
men, who dragged off the other girl who
had been with them lu the car, despite
her screams.
“For God’s sake, save Helen; she’s
burning to death!” the girl was said to
have pleaded.
But she was dragged from the scene,
thrust Into another car and driven away,
witnesses said.
The girl who vainly pleaded for her
friend wa* Frieda Bartel*, alao of New
ark.
The driver was John Daly. 23. and the
police are seeking the Identity of the
second man. Daly, who Is now in cus
tody, denied the witnesses’ *tory of the
: girl victim being abandoned while
screaming in death agony.
Frieda Bartels has also been questioned,
but the police declined to reveal what
' she told them.
3 COUNTIES FILE
BOND PETITIONS
For Road Work With Total
Cost Above $300,000.
Tetitions asking approval of nearly a
, third of n million dollars’ worth of road
j bonds were filed today with the board of
j state tax commissioners by county com
missioners of White, Fountain a'nd Hunt
ington counties.
From the White county commissioners
; came a llat of eight roads, totaling SIBB,-
• 160, including the following roads; Rob
ert Bahler road. Westpolnt township,
$37,500; Jacob Delter road. lilg Creek and
Honey Creek townships, $21,000; Thomas
C. Wilson road. Prairie township, $10,600;
William Gross road, Honey Creek town
ship, $8,500; Eldon Bostick road, Monon
and Honey Creek townships, $18,000;
George, B. Brock road, Monon townablp,
I $9,500; Gewell F. Ward road, Liberty
township, $22,000, and L. T. Kent road,
Prairie township. $61,000.
Huntington county asked approval of
bonds for the Shnffer-Bluffton roHd, Sal
ninonle township, to cost $16,000.
The remainder of the list of petitions
! submitted by Fountain county comprises
the following roads: Byron Frazier road,
Richland and Cain townships, $25,600;
Alonzo Jones road, Richland township,
$25,600; Jonathan Cunningham road,
Jackson township, $37,600, and the Sam
i Boatman road, Shawnee township, $12,400.
Traction Freight
Ca se Set for May 20
The public service commission today
set May 20 as the date for tho rehearing
of a petition of the Terre Haute, Indiau
.r-olls & Eastern Traction Company the
Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Com
pany and the Indiana Union Traction
Company for an increase In freight
rates.
The commission denied a petition for
an increase last March.
The city of Laporte petitioned the
commission to compel the Laporte Gas
and Electric Company to supply addi
tional service. ,
The Royal Center Telephone Company
of Cass county petitioned for Increased
rates.
Frank Carter, Actor,
Dies Crash
HAGERSTOWN, Md., May 10.—Frank
| Carter of Henry Savage's production.
I ‘See-Saw,” husband of Marilyn Miller of
Ziegfeld’s Follies, was killed In an auto
I nccldefit in the mountains.
These Conventions Come High
CHICAGO, May 10. —Claims for spectators’ seats at the republican
national convention here In June are flowing In in Increasing numbers.
Committee members, accustomed to the handling of large sums
cf money got a sensation when they found the cost of arranging the
Coliseum here for the convention will run over $50,000.
In ,1916 it cost $36,000 for remodeling, chairs and other alterations.
It was believed the committee will compliment Uncle Sam’s fight
ing men by assigning them places on the doorkeepers’ and ushers’ staffs.
Brigadier General C. A. Ryan of Pershing’s staff Is expected to serve
as ohlef doorkeeper with a number g-doughboys under him.
The chief unher was expected to be Capt. Ames, the first American
officer to enter Berlin after the armistice.
HOME EDITION
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i The extradition papers were issued by
Gov. Goodrich In the name of McKnight.
The prisoner lived In Indianapolis and
conducted a business here for two years
as Russ.
He and his wife, with their son and
daughter, live at 2L50 North New Jersey
street.
ARRESTED WHEN HE
GOES TO POSTAL STATION.
Russ was &’ Tested by Detectives
Larsh and Stewart May 2, when he called
for his mail at a postofflce substation in
the 5300 block on East Washington
street.
He was arrested on a capias issued by
authorities at Brownsville, Tex., where
he is wanted by both state and federal
authorities.
According to Sheriff W. T. Vann of
Brownsville, who will take the prisoner
back to that city tomorrow, Russ mar
ried four women, leaving them after
swindling them out of their possessions.
According to Sheriff Vann, Russ posed
as the owner of mines in Chihuahua,
Mexico.
He Is said to have obtained large sums
of money from each of his wives and to
have told them that he was going into
Mexico, then failing to return.
LETTER OF BRIDE
TELLS OF SI,OOO LOSS. •
Four days after Russ was arrested, De
tective Chauncey Manning received a let
ter from a Mrs. George A. Adams, of
Far Itockaway, N. 5'., who claimed she
married him August 15, 1918, and that
he left her In Eagle Pass, Tex., taking
with him $4,000 of her money.
He is alleged to have swindled another
woman In Brownsville out of SB,OOO.
While in Indianapolis Russ conducted
a business in Texas oil lands, according
to the police.
Mrs. Russ told the police that she and
Russ were married eighteen years ago
in Brownsville.
They eaZ-ie to Indianapolis two years
ago.
Mrs. Russ has informed the police that
she will accompany her husband to
Brownsville and that she will employ
attorneys to defend him.
WEEK-END AUTO
THEFTS TOTAL 12
—t
Butter and Chickens in Car
Taken From City Market.
Twelve automobiles were reported to
the police as having been stolen Satur
day, Sunday and early today.
Charles M. Davidson, living on the La
fayette road, told the police that his auto
was stolen fropi the city market and it
contained thirteen dressed chickens and
240 pouuds of butter.
Within a few hours after “Joy riders”
took three automobiles the cars were re
covered.
E. E. Alderman, 1227 Park avenue, re
ported his car stolen from near his home
and It was found in front of 704 North
Pine street.
Henry A, Mansfield, 2-50 North Merid
ian street, told the police hts automobile
was stolen from Illinois and New York
streets.
The car was found on Washington
boulevard.
J. M. Dunkef, 1017 North Delaware
street, reported his car stolen from near
htg home and a few hours later It was
found near St. Vincent’s hospital.
Other week-end automobile thefts
were reported to the police by Albert
Oglesbee, 321 North Hamilton avenue,
car stolen from Market and Pennsyl
vania streets; Dr. Harry Mackey, 1401
Union street, car stolen from Sixteenth
street and Capitol avenue; T. P. Sex
ton, 1406 Sturm avenue, car taken from
near his home; Rufus Mumford, 902
East Forty-second street, car taken from
122 North Delaware street; E. E. Staffer,
1604 North Delaware street, auto stolen
from Meridian and Washington street;
Louis Simon, 1326 East Market street,
auto taken from Illinois and New York
streets, and Stanley Hill, 3312 Ruckle
street, auto taken from 2029 College
avenue.
Marshall Cotton of South Bend, who
is a guest at the Hotel English, on
Friday of last week reported to the po
lice that a leather traveling bag and
contents had been stolen front his auto
in front of the hotel, and on Saturday
night his auto was stolen from the same
place.
DRINKS GASOLINE;
SLASHES THROAT
Noblesville Farmer Still Has
Chance to Live.
Special to The Times.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 10 J.
H. Thompson tried suicide by
drinking a half-gallon of gasoline.
It didn’t work.
Then he slashed his throat with a
razor.
This proved more effectual, but
doctors still think they can save him.
He Is a 50-year-old farmer.
His health has worried him.
Veniremen Too Busy,
Jury Trials Put Off
Because farmers claimed It was impos
sible to serve on Juries at this time, and
business men made the same representa
tions, Judge Solon Carter of superior
court, room 3, today excused a jury in
his court.
There will be no more jury trials in
this court the present term, (which closes
July 1.
NO. 313.
3 CARRANZA
CHIEFS PUT TO
DEATH,REPORT
Chief of Staff Among Those in
Flight Taken by Rebels
and ‘Executed.’
$
PRESIDENT IN HIDING?
CARRANZA SLAIN,
SAYS AGUA PRIETA
AGUA PRIETA, Mayw
10. President Venustiano
Carranza and his son-in-law.
Gen. Candido, have been as
sassinated, according to an
unconfirmed report reaching
here over the military tele
graph from the state capitol
at Hermosillo.
The message states that
Carranza’s picked body
guard of supposedly loyal
men, under command of
Gen. Aguitar, during the
night declared for the revo
lution, the double killing fol
lowing immediately there
after.
The scene of the assassina
tion appears to be northeast
of Vera Cruz.
MEXICO CITY, May 10.—An un
confirmed report said Gen. Juan Bar
ragan, Carranza’s chief of staff;
; Gen. Murguia, commander of the
garrison of Mexico City, and Gen.
Urquizo were captured en route to
Vera Cruz and executed.
The same report said Candilo
Aguilar, foreign minister, and Gen.
Dieguez were killed in battle with
the revolutionists.
Other reports said President Carranza
escaped to the mountains when his spe
cial train was captured. The report said
he was now a refugee, with armies scour
ing the hills for him.
The program of the flight of the presi
dent’s party was hampered by the rapid
spread of. the revolution.
* The revolutionists claimed a victory in
an engagement with Carranza’s fleeing
forces.
REBELS IN POWER
IN MEXICO CITY
EL PASO, Tex.. May 10.—All of
Mexico today is in the hands of rev
olutionists, with Gen. Obregon the
dominaitng power in the affairs of
that unhappy republic.
Official confirmation of the fail of
Mexico City was received early today in
a message sent by Gen. Obregon to
revolutionary headquarters at Hermo
silla stating that his troops were in full
possession of the national capital.
The message was dated from Tacubaya,
a suburb of Mexico City.
The last official act of the Carranza
regime in Mexico City was the cold
blooded massacre of political prisoners
In Santiago prison, including fifteen
generals. It is stated in advices from the
first rebel troops to enter the city.
The city is reported to have fallen
without a battle, only two skirmishes on
the outskirts being offered in an attempt
to stay the onrush of the rebels.
Officers who will take part with Ob
regon In establishing the new Mexican
government are expected from the outer
strongholds tocay.
Gen. Antonio I. Villareal, mllitaiy
chief of Xuezo Leon and Coahnila; Gen.
Francis S. Serrano, chief staff and Gen.
I'rbaleuo, Yaqui chief, were among those
departing from El Paso.
The Ojlnaga garrison joined the revo
lutionists late yesterday. CoL Calim.s
and Lieut. Col. Thorres fled to Presidio,
Tex.
Carranza’s trouble began brewing in
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STOP ACTION TO
WIDEN STREET
Property Owners on Ohio Pro
test Present Resolution.
All action on a resolution to resurface
and widen Ohio street from Delaware to
East streets, was postponed by* member*
of the board of works today after a com
mittee of property holders remonstrated
against the provisions In the resolution.
They requested the board to widen the
street and order the street car company
to place a line in operation on Ohio
street with a double track.
It was suggested that property owner*
not fbe required to have an eighteen-foot
strip in the center of the street resur
faced, bnt that this should be left open
for parking space until street car tracks
were installed. '
George Lemaux, president of the
board, said he favored the suggestions
qnd was of the opinion that, the street
car line should be installed.
It was brought to the attention of the
board, however, that plans are now un
der consideration by Mayor Jewett for
the establishment of a cross-town line on
Michigan street to take care of interur
ban traffic and It was thought that this
measure will relieve the necessity for the
Ohio street line.
Action was postponed until May 26 in
order to give the board an opportunity
to consider all phases of the Improve
ment.
The board ordered plans prepared for
the improvement of Tacoma avenue, from
Michigan street to St. Clair street; the
first alley east of Central avenue, from
Thirty-eighth street to Fortieth street,
and the improvement of Tacoma avenue,
from Cruft street to Shelby street.
HARVEY SENT TO
PRISON FOR LIFE
California ‘Bluebeard’ Drives
Bargain With State.
LOS ANGELES, May 10.—“ Bluebeard”
! Harvey, alias James P. Watson, con
-1 fessed murderer ‘of probably nine
' "wives,” was sentenced to life imprison-
I ment today.
The state had no other course. It was
pointed out. “Bluebeard,” cunning, care
ful, sure of his advantageous position in
the law In that positive proof of any of
his murders could not be made, drove a
hard bargain fur his life In order him
self to forge the connecting link of evi
dence to his