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INDIANA NEGRO
SLAYER ADMITS
KIDNAPING BOY
Serving Life Clears Up
Disappearance of Lad
Over Y'ear Ago.
SAYS ‘HE’S STILL ALIVE*
ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 26.—The
strange disappearance of Francis Reed,
12, here February 6, 1919, was prac
tically cleared up today by the confes
sion police announced they obtained
from A. C. Young, a negro, now serving
a life sentence in the Indiana state
prison at Michigan City, Ind.
Detectives said Young admitted kid
naping the boy, but denied he killed
him.
“Tell the poor mother that her boy
is alive,” was the message Young sent
back to Rochester by the detectives who
questioned him.
In spite of the negro’s statement,
)thorities today expressed little hope
.finding Reed alive.
was sentenced to Michigan City
ison for murder near Ft. Wayne, Ind.
The state board of charities, which has
a record of all prisoners admitted to state
institutions, has no reoerd of a prisoner
named A. C. Young.
Virginia Women
Walk Out on Speaker
RICHMOND, Va„ May 26.—When
Henry Raymond Mussey, editor of the
Searchlight on Congress, Washington,
stated the peace treaty was “a step in
the wrong direction,” ana “thoroughly
iniquitous,” and that Lafollette came
nearer meeting his views than any other
national figure, a number of prominent
Richmond women, attending Massey's
lecture before the woman's club here,
left the hall.
Following the address the chairman ol
the women's citizenship committee is
sued a statement declaring the address
in no way met the sentiment of the
organization.
Trial of Six Jail
Employes Next Week
The cases of six former jail employes
who were Indicted in connection with
the mismanagement of the Marion county
jail will be tried next week by Special
Judge James Berryhill, who qualified as
judge in the case today.
John Douglass, Frank Kemp, Adrian
YanCleave and William Melnert, charged
with permitting gambling at the Jail,
will be tried June Sand Charles Wlht
sell, Frank Kemp and Edward Morrow,
charged with assault and battery on Eu
gene Duvall, a prisoner at the jail, will
be tried June 4.
Both eases will be tried without Juries.
Ask $250,000 to Find
Gasoline Substitute
xWtSHINGTOX. May 26.—An appro
priation of $250,000 to enable the depart
ment of agriculture to conduct experi
ments looking toward discovery of a
new automobile engine fuel is provided
in a bill Introduced in the house today.
Marriage Licenses
Frederick Walters, 20, grocery clerk,
38 Hendricks place, and Mildred Adams,
18, 632 North Pine street.
John Backus, 39, railroad engineer, 45
Sheffield avenue, and Mary Ruhl, 35, 838
North Pershing avenue.
Leroy H. Bacon, 22, traveling auditor.
1326 Central avenue, and Orpha Royse,
19, clerk, 1619 Gladstone avenue.
Charles Barnett, 23, trucking. IKM East
Thirteenth street, and Maude James, 28.
rear of 526 North West street.
Harry It. Dillon, 21, farmer, and Bes
sie M. Diraick, 23. both of R. R. D.
John Stewart, IS, musician, 624 North
California street, and Amphalis Bell, 19,
710 West Tenth street.
Frederick P. Rugg, 31. showman, Ma
jestic hotel, and Gladys Layman, 26, Ma
jestic hotel.
Walter Ernest Lumpgford, 24, machin
ist, 1605 Cottage avenue, and Errean M.
Burckhart. 20. 1605 College avenue.
Jo&jpph E. Conley, 25, government em-
Evansville, Ind.. and Marie M.
TOherer, 26, Evansville, Ind.
Lewis E. Andrews, 26, salesman, 3237
Broadway, and Mary Jordan, 4326 Car
rollton avenue.
James R. Idleman. 24. truck driver,
Kansas, 111., and Wilma Irene Teel, 21,
Ashmore, 111.
Guy E. Whitaker, 33, electrician, New
castle, Ind., and Ethel M. Murray, 27,
nurse, 3033 Central avenue.
Wallace M. Huddleston, 19, mechanic,
25 South Summit street, and Bonnie G.
Surber, 18, 665 River avenue
John N. Green, 52, soft drinks, 303
Bright street, and Ollie V. Smith, 42, 303
Bright street.
Raymond H. Galbreath, 21, farmer,
Barnbridge, Ind., and Ruby E. Edwards,
19, 2220 East Tenth street.
Births
Boy and Odyne Lagenaur, 620 East
North, boy.
Harold and Mary Stanger, 523 Warren
Ctrl.
Andrew and Sarah Jarrett, City hos
pital, girl.
Homer and Hattie Blackwell, 4049 Cor
nelius, girl.
Ovid and Sophia McGill, 711 North New
Jersey, boy.
Thomas and Minnie Cnmmins, 803
North Jefferson, boy.
Walter and Agnes Blasemgym, Deacon
ess hospital, girl.
Callte and Minerva Glass. 2815 North
Gale, boy.
Herbert and Helen Reinert, 833 Roach,
boy.
Posey and Mattie Bower, 924 Highland,
boy.
Bishop and Isabella Tolliver, 1438
Reianer, girl.
Earl and Mildred Russell, St. Vincent's
hospital, boy.
hTancis and Helen Lyons, St. Vincent’s
hospital, girl.
Car! and Berta Ratliff, 2219 Lexington,
boy.
Harry and Flora Doughty, 331 South
Harris, girl.
Jesse and Lillian Brown, 342 Parkway.
girL
Deaths
Ruth Doughty, 2 days. 331 South
Harris, cerebral spinal meningitis.
Thomas Edwin McSoly. 5 days, St. Vin
cent’s hospital, nonclosure of foramen
•rale.
Anna E. Lewis, 5, 1432 West Market,
acute nephritis.
William Walker Tinsley, 69, 1520
Blaine, mitral insufficiency.
Edessa Walsh, 33, St. Vincent's hospi
tal. uremia.
Nancy Andrews, 24, City hospital,
hypostatic pneumonia.
Lois Irene Curtis, 1, 1402 Kelly, bron
cht pneumonia.
Ruth E. Woods, 7. 953 North Dearborn,
acute dilatation of heart.
Jinnie L. Broner, 38, 618 Barnhill,
ac-ote lobar pneumonia.
Thelma Marie May, 11 months, 1515
Dawson, broncho pneumonia.
Raymond Eurnes. 3 days, Methodist
hospital, acute dilatation of heart.
Civil War in Albania
LONDON, May 26.—Civil war has
broken out in Albania, according to an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Du
today.
Albanian provisional government
to be powerless.
Under agreements reached at Paris
northern and southern Albania were to
be partitioned.
Greece was to get a slice of southern
Albania, while Italy and Jugo-Slavia
were to benefit in the north.
WOMAN'S CLUB TO MEET.
The South Side Woman’s club will
meet tonight at the Greer street commu
nity bonse.
Wife of Blaine Elkins Names
Manicure Girl in Divorce Suit
WASHINGTON, May 26. —Although under the local law a final decree
cannot be signed within three months, Chief Justice McCoy of the dis
trict supreme court today indicated that he will grant an absolute divorce
to Mrs. Mary Kenna Elkins, wife of Blaine Elkins, son of the late Senator
Stephen B. Elkins of "West Virginia.
This announcement was made after
testimony given by Mrs. Elkins, her
brother, John Kenna, and servants iu
the Elkins household.
The suit for divorce was filed by Mrs.
Elkins in the fall of 1918.
“FRANKIE” NAMED
A8 CO-RESPONDENT.
“Frankie,” the co-respondent referred
to by the wife and other witnesses, was
not In court.
Mrs. Elkins told Chief Justice McCoy
that she had made strong but unsuc
cessful efforts to locate “Frankie” and
thought she was employed in some mani
curing establishment in the city.
Blaine Elkins did not appear in court.
In her original petition Mrs. Elkins
claimed her husband was worth close to
$2,000,006, and asked alimony of SI,OOO
a month. But it was denied that Elkins
had that much property. Counsel for
the husband and wife will confer later
NAVY WAS READY
IN 1915 DANIELS
Secretary Discredits Reports
of Under-Manned Ships.
WASHINGTON, May 26.—Ninety per
cent of the effective ships of the navy
were fully manned in 1915, Secretary of
the Navy Daniels today told the senate
committee investigating charges made by
Admiral Sims.
Chairman Hale cross-examined Daniels
on statements made before the committee
that a large number of ships were not
manned.
“The report of the bureau of navigation
shows 90 per cent of the effective ships
of the navy were fully manned in 1915,”
Daniels declared.
Senator Trammell of Florida said Capt.
J. K. Taussig, who made the charge of
under-manned ships, counted discarded
and useless vessels.
Daniels contended his statement made
at the beginning of the war that “the
navy was ready from stern to stem” was
founded on facts and “true In every par
ticular.”
Indianian, Dry Agent,
Held in Girl Affray
CHICAGO, May 26.—Leonard Ellis, for
mer Evansville, Ind., policeman, wilt
be tried before a jury here June 4 on
a charge of disorderly conduct.
Ellis was arrested Sunday night, when
he pointed a revolver at a hotel de
tective and demanded to know why a
“Miss Blum of Evansville” had been
ordered out of the hotel.
City detectives grabbed Ellis before
he received an answer.
Ellis is employed here as a federal
prohibition agent.
HA Meal-Time Delight j
Finely-flavored, toothsome Beans and r*
Pork of quality,—none but these fi.id
their way into the popular Phoenix
can ’ . - . 1
To their unrivaled nutritive quality jJ
is added the zest of a sauce that appeals M
to the appetite and induces a demand for ft
U more. ijj
jfej Their wholesomeness is due to the
jt£ superior cooking to which the beans
CgRraQQ M. That is the secret of the constantly
E increasing demand for Phoenix Pork f
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g If you want to know how good Pork
WiHiJ and Beans can really be, —ask your
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Get the Phoenix habit. Ask your grocer //
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on the amount of alimony to be awarded.
When Mrs. Elkins took to stand she
referred to “Frankie,” the alleged co
respondent, having been in her home
when she returned from an automobile
trip in the summer of 1918. She said she
saw “Frankie” rush out of her room,
leaving her night dress and other lin
gerie behind her.
When she asked Elkins for an explana
tion, the wife testified, he only laughed.
On this occasion, the witness said, her
husband escorted her to room below the
one occupied by "Frankie.”
There, she testified, he tried to detain
her by conversation.
Hearing a noise overhead, Mrs. Elkins
said she rushed upstairs, to catch a fleet
ing glimpse of “Frankie” as the latter
made a hurried exit.
"Frankie” often walked about in the
house clad only in a bath robe, servants
of the household testified.
HE’S INSANE , BUT
MAKES MONEY
Asylum Inmate's Fortune
Grows 2 Millions in 55 Days.
NEW YORK, May 26.—Despite dhe
fact that the estate of John William
O'Bannon has increased in value about
$2,000,000 during tbe last fifty-five days
and that it is estimated at more than
$15,000,000, he is compelled to remain an
inmate of the Riverside sanitarium, hav
ing been adjudged mentally incompetent
by a sheriff's jury.
The physicians who pronounced O'Ban
non incurably insane, in their testimony,
agreed, however, that he is £ remarkable
business man and possessed of unusual
memory,
O'Bannon, who is 60, admitted on the
witness stand that he began his business
life on a “shoestring.”
He is president of the Maxim Munitions
Corporation and well-known as an inven
tor and promoter.
The petition in lunacy and for the ap
pointment of a committee was signed by
Mrs. Ellen Rienke of St. Louis, O'Ban
non's mother.
Wilson Makes Shift
in Relations Bureau
WASHINGTON. May 26.—The presi
dent sent the following nominations to
the senate today:
Charles Eldred Herring, of District of
Columbia, to be first assistant director
of the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, vice Director R. S. Macelwee,
being appointed director.
Oliver Paul Hopkins, of Pennsylvania,
to be second assistant director of the
burea u.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1920.
50 REPUBLICANS
HALT BONUS BILL
Friends Fear Enemies Jockey
ing Will Kill Measure.
WASHINGTON, May 26—The lines of
the fifty republican members of the house
who are opposed to soldier compensa
tion legislation are holding firm today
and advocates of the bill are fearful that
attempts to block passage of the meas
ure will be successful.
Leaders of the fight for the bill ad
mit they are twenty votes short of
the required number to insure adoption
of a special rule under which the meas
ure could be brought into the house, safe
from amendment.
The bill will not be brought into the
house until it is certain that its friends
will have a sufficient majority to pre
vent it from being disfigured by the sub
stitution of forms of taxation that can
not be accepted by the republican con
gress.
To offset the votes of the fifty repub
licans who are opposed to the measure
drooping shoulders and the faltering step. To retain the appearance
of youth, a woman must retain health. Instead of lotions, pow
ders and paints ask your druggist for Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip
tion. This is the woman’s temperance tonic and nervine which has
had the approval of thousands of women for nearly fifty years. It
comes in liquid or tablet form, or send ten one-eent stamps to tho
Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. } for trial package of the tablets. The
“Favorite Prescription” is made without alcohol, and will dispel tho
pains and the weaknesses common to most women in different
periods of life.
Lafayette, Ind. —"Doctor - Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription is truly a ‘ boon ’ for women. Last
summer I just felt ‘down and out,’ was terribly
pained at times and had very little energy to do my
housework. My husband was quite concerned about
me, and one day brought me a bottle of ‘Favorite
Prescription.’ It is the finest medicine and tonic I
have ever known. I would advise other women who
suffer to at least give it a trial.”— Mrs. Myrtle Dilden, 622 Heath St
—Advertisement.
the republican leaders must get the
pledges of at least twenty democrats to
support the special rule.
Thus far only six democrats have been
pledged. *
Under these conditions it is not pos
sible for the republican leaders to bring
the compensation bill before the house
tomorrow as planned.
They do not know when they can bring
it out.
There is talk among the leaders ot wait
ing until the house goes under general
suspension rules which are applied to
facilitate legislation in the last six days
of a session preceding an adjournment
or a recess.
But it takes a two-thirds vote of the
house to suspend the rules and pass a
bill and the leaders are uncertain that
they can get this vote even for direct
consideration of the compensation bill.
All realize that with a little more
jockeying opponents of the bill will hava
it killed.
TO HOLD CARD PARTY.
Llederkranz Ladies will give a guest
euchre and lotto at 1417 East Washing
ton street Friday afternoon.
Every Woman
Be she working in factory, shop,
office or at home, is often a sufferer
from pains here or there, from
worry, despondency, and frequently
suffers from backache. Very often
the trouble is in the organs essen
tially feminine. Worry, sleepless
nights, headaches, pain3, disor
ders, irregularities and weaknesses
of a distinctly feminine character
in a short time bring the dull eye,
the “crow’s feet,” the haggard look,
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Nonunion Workers
in Union Men’s Jobs
It was announced at headquarters of
the Building Contractors’ Association of
xpdianapolls today that as a result of
the failure to reach an agreement as
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Marmon instruments are
grouped under one glass
O NE of the numerous improvements and re
finements which enhance the pleasure of
driving in the New Series Marmon 34 is the
grouping of all the instruments under one glass,
illuminated by indirect lighting. Oil and gas
gauges, ammeter, clock and speedometer are
readable at one glance.
This is a feature which is of such decided con
venience that it is sure to be copied. It is only
one instance of the careful thought which has
been taken for the safety, comfort and con
venience of the motorist who drives the new
Marmon.
In every detail of seating arrangement and
body design, the same intelligent forethought is
apparent.
Have you had a ride in the new Marmon? if
not, you have yet to realize true motoring com
fort. We shall be glad to arrange a demonstration.
; * Pennant awarded to
Not*. 1. 191 by l. SL Government, Bureau of
.3Br '3O Aircraft JYoduction, for October competition*
jP f wj Permanently Awarded November IS.
Hi MARMON 34
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Meridian and Eleventh Sts. Indianapolis.
Northern Indiana Motor Car Cos . Ft. Wayne and Munci: Dixie Motors C<x,
Evansville, Ind.; 11. It. Perry, Kokomo, Ind.; J. T. .1. Graves, Salem, Ind.;
C henowetli Auto Co-, Richmond, Ind.
NORDYKE & MARMON COMPANY Established ISSI INDIANAPOLIS
What V Autointoxication ?
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A PROMINENT physician recently said, “All data
shows that the ordinary individual over-balances
in favor of proteins by too great a consumption of
meats.” f’
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This clogs the system with im- Include today in your diet
purities and often toxein poisons. Nature’s correctives, fruits and
cereals in their proper propor-
Serious stomach disturbances tions—as are found only in :
rcsu l t- Fruited Wheat or Fruited Oats. ;
In fact, many diseases, includ-
ing mental and nervous troubles, They promote a natural action ' 1
are the result. of the digestive tract, therefore \
eliminating all such poisons that j
But why suffer? lead to Auto-Intoxication. -
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to wages with the union plasterers,
plumbers and steam fitters, who went
out April 1, nonunion plasterers, plumb
ers and steam fitters are beiDg employed
by the contractors who are members
of the association.
There are more than 125 building
contractors who are members of the
association. It was explained, and these,
who have heretofore employed union men,
were represented in the negotiatlona
with the unions concerned by the asso
ciation.
An agreement was reached some time
ago with the union hoisting engineer*
and cement finishers.
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