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KTenerally fair, except probably thunder
storms; cooler Wednesday.
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JK)CIETY GIRL’S
LINGERIE CLEW
INELWELLCASE
New York Combed for Missing
Woman in Slaying of Noted
Whist Expert.
FOUND DEAD IN CHAIR
NEW YORK. June 15.—As the mystery
surrounding the death of Joseph R. El
veU, noted whist and bridge expert and
popular horseman, deepens the number
of so-called clews Increases.
Mr. Elwell was found seated in a
chair In his apartment early Frldaj
morning with a bullet wound in his head
and died shortly after being taken to
hospital.
WX shell of a .45 caliber bullet was
found at his feet, but the pistol from
which it was fired has not been located.
The last known persons to see Mr.
Eiwell were Sir. and Mrs. Walter I.ewi
sobn and Viola Kraus, a siter of Mrs.
Lewlsohn, who made up a theater party.
MANY ANGLES
TO MYSTERY.
Among the mrny angles of the mys
tery confronting the police and relatives
of the dead man are:
1. The discovery of a set of wom
an's undergarments bearing initials
which the police refuse to disclose.
2. The denial by William Banin,
Mr. Elwell's secretary, that his em
ployer owed Rhodes, the chauffeur,
two weeks’ salary, as the latter had
stated.
8. The denial by Barnes of his
former statement that several women
had keys to the Elwell home.
4. The alleged connection with the
i-aae of Y'iotor von Eehlegel, former
husband of Viola Kraus, once pro
nounced the most beautiful woman
In New York. The district attorney
wishes to interview him.
5. The connection of three or more
women with the case. They have al
ready been questioned.
6. The whereabouts of Elwetl be
tween the time he left the theater
party and the hour he reached home.
7. How the slayer got access to
the house without disturbing the vlc
tlm.
a. The disappearance since Friday
of two men, one well known in so
ciety and both familiar with the race
track.
9. Why, after undressing, did El
well go downstairs to the drawing
room?
10. Did Elwell know who mur
dered him?
Some of these are clews which are
!>eing followed closely by the police;
others are unsolved questions to which
they would like to have the answers.
FENDING OF
JHE LINGERIE.
Bnfeg- chief development so far has been
Be discovery of the woman s garments
Hn Elwell's apartment and an admission
Jof Marie Larsen, his housekeeper, that
she knew the name of the owner.
After questioning by Assistant District
Attorney Joyce Miss Larsen took the
police to Elwell's bedroom, where a com
plete outfit of lingerie was found.
The garments bore Initials which the l
police refuse to disclose, but are said to
be those of a specially prominent young
woman. The police believe that she or a
relative shot Elwell.
The new woman in the case had dis
appeared by the time detectives reached
her home and she was not to be found in
places she was in the habit of visiting.
Deputy Police Commissioner Lahey and
District Attorney Swann personally di
rected the search for the missing woman.
GIVES STARTLING
INFORMATION*.
Like a bolt from out of the blue sky
came Miss Larsen’s information.
Assistant District Attorney Joyce had
been questioning her without much suc
cess, when she suddenly broke Into tears
and furnished Mr. Joyce with the name
of a young woman who, she said, had
been a frequent visitor late at night In
apartment.
Hernia young woman had not been sns-
Ipeeted in connection with the case. Miss
[Larsen then led Joyce to a corner of
rXlwell’s bedroom where a complete out
fflt of expensive lingerie was found.
In the belief that the leaving of the
j lingeries might have been accidental, and
1 wishing to protect the young woman's
name, Mlaa Larsen withheld the informa
tion until today. The police consider it
o important that they are convinced they
have received a clew which will result
In the arrest of the person who com
mitted the murder.
CXABLE TO
LOCATE WOMAN.
When detectives called at the young
woman's home a maid answered the door
and said: "Madam is out.
“She has gone riding In her auto
mobile.”
Then the search for the woman began
in earnest, but she has not been located.
How thousands of dollars changed
hands nightly In the home of Elwell was
related to Mr. Joyce by Wilbur C. White
head, an Intimate friend of the dead man
snd a banker associated with Breitnng
A Cos., 11 Pine street.
For Elwell to lose more than $30,000 in
a single night's session of auction bridge
whist with friends was not uncommon,
Mr. Whitehead said. Wealthy men, some
of them internationally known financiers,
were accustomed to play for high stakes
there.
Men Lead Race for
Divorces in Britain
.- LONDON, June 13.—Men have outdis
tanced women nearly three to one in the
divorce rush which has followed the war.
The June list in divorce courts contains
divorce petitions from S3l husbands,
.against similar petitions from 38 wives.
restitution of conjugal rights as a pre
liminary step to divocce.
Pope Forced to Drop
Some of His Work
BOMB. June 15. —Upon the advice of
the papal physician Prof. Battistini.
Pope Benedict IV, has relinquished many
of bis pontifical duties and has begun
a semi-vacation.
The pope was said today to be suf
fering from excess of uric acid,
hereditary goat and rheumatism.
He suffered one rheumatic attack in
the right arm. which necessitated hypo
dermic injections and massage treatment.
Thieves Leave Bather
3 Rings and Watch
BItKSAS CTTY, Mo.. June 15—Mr*.
Crawford of San Diego, Cal., had
three diamond rings and a wrist wnteh
left to wear wiien bathing pool burglars
finished looting her bathhouse.
The pool management allowed her to
keep the bathing suit she wore.
-They loaned her an apron.
Wearing these and her rings and wrist
watch she was able to reach her hotel in
a motor car.
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BOARD REDUCES
ONE, PROMOTES 2
McGee and Hanlon on Traffic—
Belch Now Patrolman.
Police Sergeant John Belch was re
duced by the board of public safety to
day to the rank of patrolman and two
members of the police force were pro
moted.
They are Arthur McGee and Lawrence
Hanlon, who
were promot
od from ihe
lie man.
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formerly ser-
Sergt. John Belch. geant under
the Bell administration and was noted
bis activities among the colored pop
ulation of Indiana avenue.
Sergt. Belch has been stationed at the
city barns for some time.
According to Chief of Police Jerry Kin
ney, the board of safety decided it was
unnecessary to use a sergeant at the
barns and that Belch is not physically
able to perform the duties of sergeant
elsewhere.
Sergt. Belch, known to every member
of the police force as “Get ’Em,'’ has
always been considered an efficient po
liceman.
When Lew Shank was mayor Belch
was a desk sergeant and answered the
telephone calls at headquarters, and
when bicycle police would call in after
making an emergency run he would al
ways ask, “Get em?”
It was that question that won him
his nick name of “Get ’em.”
Martin L. Flish, of Engine Company
No. 9, who was reported absent from
duty without leave for several days,
was reduced to the rank of a substitute
and his name placed at the foot of the
list.
Harry A. Miller, of Engine Company
No. 12, was confirmed as a regular mem
ber of the fire department upon the
recommendation of Capt. Frey of that
company.
James Helm was appointed hostler
In the police barns.
BOY, 9, KILLS
CHUM IN DUEL
Shoots Playmate, 13, After
• Capture of a Rat.
PEORIA, 111., June 13.—A battle to
the death between two boys, weapons be
ing a potato masher and a revolver, was
disclosed today with the arrest of 9-year
old Raymond Herath, the slayer, son of
John H. Herath. a wealthy grocer.
His victim was 13-year-old Oddie Par
ker, son of Mrs. Harriet Maddox, a
widow.
They fought their strange duel alone,
in a bedroom of the home of Mrs. Mad
dox, who was downtown shopping.
The Maddoxs and the Heraths have
been neighbors for years.
The two boys grew up chums.
The story of the duel was contained
In a confesssion made by Herath, whom
the police found in a box car in the
railroad yards, after a three-hour search.
Raymond and Oddie, playing in the
Maddox barn, captured a rat.
An argument ensued as to ownership,
both claiming the lion’s share of glory
for the capture.
They carried it into the home.
The argument developed into fisticuffs.
The rat escaped. Raymond, who had
been holding it, accused Oddie of re
sponsibility for the escape.
Oddie, according to the confession,
seized a potato masher and felled Ray
mond.
The latter fought back and they rolled
about the kitchen floor.
Raymond’s right eye and face were
lacerated and the floor was soon stained
with blood.
Still they struggled.
Finally Raymond freed himself.
He ran into the bedroom and opened
the top bureau drawer, where be knew
Mrs. Maddox kept a .32-caliber revolver
as protection against burglars.
He leveled It at Oddie who, be says,
was again charging him with the po
tato masher, and bred.
The bullet penetrated the right temple.
Death was instantaneous.
Another Booze Bond
of SI,OOO Forfeited
Another surety bond of SI,OOO, signed
by Lorenz Leppert, today was forfeited
in criminal court by Judge James A.
Collins in the case of Mike Veraskey,
charged with operating a blind tiger.
Judge Collins recently declared two
other bonds signed by Leppert forfeited
in liquor cases.
Veraskey in police court was fined S2OO
and costs and sentenced to serve sixty
days in jail.
Robert Farrell, also charged with op
erating a blind tiger, was found guilty,
fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to
serve thirty days at the penal farm.
Harry Rtissie, 34, charged with embez
zlement of $742 from his former employer.
M. F. Brobst, 134 North Pennsylvania
street, pleaded guilty to the charge.
David Miles, indicted for grand lar
ceny, and William Lingo, indicted on
charges of burglary and grand larceny,
entered pleas of not guilty when ar
ragined.
‘More Employes Get
the Less They Work’
—PROF. TAPY.
The solution of present day evils, will
come when the people learn to live to
gether and feel for each other. Prof.
George F. Tapy of Wabash college said
today in speaking before the Indiana
Retail Dry Goods association at the
Hotel Severin.
The high cost of living, tbe speaker
said, is the price the nation pays for
prosperity.
He asserted that the profiteer is not
the cause of high prices, but the re
sult of them.
“The higher prices we pay our em
ployes tbe less work we get out of them,”
he declared. * -
“This is not from a perverse spirit, but
it is human nature.”
F. A. Turner of Crawfordsville and G.
A. Efroj mson of the H. P. Wasson Com
pany also adddressed the convention.
The retailers will have a smoker to
night In the .Sqverin grill, where the
general topic will be “Store PffOlems.”
Jttfrtatm ip ait® Slitrt
INSIDE AID IN
WHISKY RING IS
AIRED IN COURT
Testimony Reveals Naming ol
Friendly Workers to Po
lice Berths.
BUY BOATS FOR WORK
Revelations concerning the power of
James Boner, a gambler and politician
in Evansville, to have a confessed
“booze runner” appointed to the Evans
ville police force to ntd Chief of Police
Edgar Shmitt in operating a police boat
for the alleged transportation of whisky,
were made in the Evansville whisky ring
cases in the federal court today.
Eugene McKinney, who admitted in
the federal court that he aided in trans
porting liquor both in boats and auto
mobiles, testified today that “Jim”
Boner, for years known as a gambler
and the ring leader of the game, suc
ceeded in having Chief of Police Schmitt
appoint McKinney as a member of the
police department.
LIQUOR DEALER
MADE OFFICER.
Prior to McKinney’s elevation to a po
lice officer, he told Judge Anderson, he
was employed in transporting large
quantities of liquor to the Lottie hotel
on the solicitation of Charles Sihler, who
is a defendant to the alleged whisky con
spiracy and has pleaded guilty.
After making many successful trips for
Sihler from Kentucky to Evansville, Mc-
Kinney testified that Boner caiue to
him and asked him if he wanted to get
on the police department.
McKinney testified that Boner at that
time was operating n gambling house
In Evansville, and that Boner had Chief
Schmitt to appoint him to the force.
McKinney maintained that Schmitt or
dered him sworn In as a policeman about
Jan. 12, 1919, but was not assigned to
active duty for several days.
McKinney testified that on the orders
of Chief Schmitt he and Ave Lamb, a
defendant who has pleaded guilty, were
placed in charge of “The Fanolia,” a
high powered motor boat, which is said
to have been used under the direction
of Chief Schmitt to transport whisky
into Evansville.
FIFTY' CASES
ON FIR-8T TRIP.
According to McKinney, he and Avs
I.amb operated the boat on the first
night and that, under the directions of
Harvey Boyd, another defendant, who
has pleaded guilty, about fifty cases ot
whisky were successfully brought to Ev
ansville.
McKinney said that John W. Miller,
a former roadhouse keeper, and Harry
Helmrlch aided in transfering the liquor
from the boat to a vacant house near
Miller’s roadhouse
After the whisky was placed in the
vacant house, McKinney related how
Chief Schmitt took him to task because
twelve cases were missing and declared
that McKinney had to make the loss
“good.”
On the evening of that conversation
McKinney testified that he and Jim Bo
tier, on the chief's orders, moved the
whisky from the vacant house to McKln-,
ney'i home.
“OLD LADY”
CALLED HALT.
“My wife was not at borne when we
put the whisky in the house,” testified
McKinney. “That evening I called Bo
ner up and told him that my old lady
wouldn't stand for It, and that we had
to move the whisky again.”
Judge Anderson said: “And you
were a member of the police department
at that time because of Chief Schmitt
appointing you?”
McKinney answered in the affirmative
and then related of siding In bringing
two boat loads of whisky to Evansville
for Fred Schroeder, Jr., of Evansville
and for Boner.
According to McKinney, EH Harp, a
defendant, aided in bringing the whisky
to Evansville and after landing in
Evansville. Sheriff Herbert Males and
Deputy Charles J. Ruhl arrested them
and took them to Jail.
McKinney claimed that when Boner
rame to the Jail to give bond for Mc-
Kinney and the rest of the ’’boys,’’ that
Boner was arrested.
McKinney claimed that Sheriff Males
told him that he “hated to make the ar
rest, but that he wanted to get Boner."
McKinney testified that he and Ell
Harp served time on the penal farm after
being convicted in the Vanderburg cir
cuit court for bringing in liquor.
CITY PAID ,
EXTRA "HELP.”
McKinney testified that Chief Schmitt
paid him once personallly for his "work”
on the force and that the city controller
made the other payments.
On cross examination, McKinney tes
tified that Captain of Police Andy
Freidle operated the police motor boat
and while engaged in bringing whisky
to Evansville his machine broke down
and was overtaken by Officers James
Trautwein and Herbert Evans, who did
not see the “whisky” but advised him
to have his tire fixed.
In answer to a question put to Mc-
Kinney by Trautwein, the witness de
nied that he was “fired” by Chief
Schmitt for bringing whisky into the
state after being seen by Trautwein
in the act.
DENIES HE SAW
FREIDLE WITH BOOZE.
In answer to a question of Capt.
Freidle, the right hand man of Chief
Schmitt at Evansville, McKinney stated
he never saw Freidle in charge of the
police boat when whisky was being
transported.
John W. Miller, a defendant who has
pleaded guilty and today gave evidence
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ACCUSE FIVE OF
STEALINGGOODS
Express Company Employes in
Federal Net.
Five employes of the American Rail
way Express Company were arrested to
day by Deputy United States Marshal
Keters, charged with stealing from In
terstate shipments.
The men are John W. Stevenson,
Charles Bray, J. B. Lambert, Henry
Lotz and George Batts, all of Indianap
olis.
According to the charges, the men
stole silk hose consigned to J. C. Hart
o * Indianapolis valued at $1,153 and va
rious other articles of merchandise.
The men are all under bond to appear
in city court on charges of larceny.
The men were sent to the Marion
county jail pending a hearing before
United States Commissioner Moores to
morrow.
Deny Revolt Report
for Autumn in India
LONDON, June 15. —India officials to
day discredited reports that a widespread
uprising had been planned in India for
next autumn. It was reported bolshevlkl
agitation bad fanned the flame of revolt
and that preparations were being made
for a religious uprising.
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920.
German Royalty
Has to Go to Work
LONDON, June 15. Scions of
royal houses in Germany are hav
ing rough sledding under the re
public and four of the kaiser's young
nephews have Just gone to work,
said a Berlin dispatch to Dally Ex
press.
They are the sons of Princess
Margaret of Prussia, the former
kaiser's youngest sister.
One has become a farm laborer
and he works from 5 a. m. until
8 p. m.
Another Is working in a steel mill
and studying engineering at night.
The third has apprenticed himself
to a firm of architects, while • the
fourth is a clerk in the demobiliza
tion department.
BULLET CLEW IN
AUTO THEFT CASE
Leads to Arrest of Two Youths
by Detectives.
A bullet in the shoulder of Christie
Thorp, 20, of 334 Beauty avenue, gave
the police a clew which led to the ar
rest of Thorp and Michael McGlynn, 19,
of 109 Blake street, early today. Both
men are charged with grand larceny
and vehicle taking.
Thorp, it is said, was shot while
stealing an automobile Saturday night
at Capitol avenue and Pearl street.
Detectives McMurtry and Irick and a
private detective agency operative saw
two men acting strangely in the vicin
ity of automobiles parked on Capitol
avenue.
The men saw the detectives who de
cided to walk away.
But when the suspects stole an auto
mobile owned by Clarence Flick, 1500
Barth avenue, the detectives made a run
for them and opened fire on the auto
mobile.
The thieves turned into Pearl street
and, deserting the machine, ran.
Four builets had bit the car, two go
ing through the windshield and two
through a side curtain.
One of theae is said to have hit Thorp
in the shoulder, and when arrested he
was in such serious Condition that he
had to be taken to the City hospital.
Detectives McMurtry and Irick ob
tained a "tip” that Thorp had been shot
and this information was given to De
tectives Stewart and Haley, who are as
signed to night duty at police bead
quarters, and the latter pair of detec
tives made the arrest*.
POLK LEAVES
DEPT. OF STATE
Last of That Branch Who
Acted During War.
WASHINGTON, June 13.—With the re
tirement of Frank Lyon Polk as under
secretary of state today, the state depart
ment was stripped of all the high of
ficials who conducted American diplo
macy throughout the war.
Next to former Secretary of State Lans
ing, wbo was s member of the original
American peace cotnmisalon, Ffcifc fees had
the gresfNPt experience in negotiating for
settlement the various intricate and tan
gled problem* incident to tho conclusion
of the war of any officials of the state de
partment during the war period
Polk was succeeded today by Norman
H. lavls, until recently assistant secre
tary of the treasury iu charge of foreign
loans.
Besides Lansing and Polk, other war
time officials who have left the state de
partment are William Phillips, a* as
sistant secretary of state, and Breckin
ridge Long, aa third assistant secretary
of state.
Phillips some time ago was appointed
minister to the Netherlands, and Long
has Just resigned to push his campaign
for United States senator from Missouri.
Three American diplomats here on
leave are regarded ns possible successors
to these posts.
These envoys are Hugh S. Gibson, min
ister to Poland: Roland 8. Morris, am
bassador to Japan, and Ira Nelson
Morris, minister to Sweden.
Although Gibson is known to be de
sirous of returning to Warsaw,
be may be chosen to fill the Tacancy
of assistant secretary of state because of
bta knowledge of western European af
fairs over which Phillips had jurisdic
tion. *
Long's special work was on far eastern
questions and Ambassador Morris is re
garded as qualified to take up these
duties.
2 DEAD, 4 HURT
IN FEUD BATTLE
Esserville (Va.) Families Fight
on City Street.
BRISTOL, Tenn., June 13.—Two men
are dead and four wounded as the result
of a pistol battle arising from a feud he
tween members of the Berry and Fee
families nt Esserville, Va., it was re
ported her today.
Those killed were Robert Fee and
George Polly.
The wounded were Dewitt Fee. Thomas
and George Berry and a baby struck by
a stray bulletls
The pistol fight occurred on the streets
of Esserville.
Water Power Bill
Evidently in Morgue
WASHINGTON, June 15.—Announce
ment was made at tbe whltehouse today
that no word has been received from the
president as to his action on the water
power bill, which, under Attorney Gen
eral Pulmer’s ruling regarding the
pocket veto, should have been signed be
fore midnight last Friday night in order
to become effective.
Bids Received for
New City Bridge
Bids were received today by the
Marlon county commissioners for tho
construction of the new concrete bridge
over White river on Northwestern ave
nue.
The National Concrete Company sub
mitted two bids on separate specifica
tions, $298,000 on class A, and $292,000
on class B, two different types of con
struction.
The A. J. Yawger & Co.’s bid of $274,-
998 was the lowest.
The commissioners were to hold a
conference with the bidders this after
noon before awardng the contract.
‘Pussyfoot’ Will
Talk Here June 23
William E. ("Pussyfoot”) Johnson will
apeak at Tomlinson ball June 23 under
the auaploea of the Anti-Saloon league.
PROCTER FLAYS
‘OLD GUARD’FOR
WOOD’S DEFEAT
Dr. Butler Also Rapped by
Soap King, Who Sunk Half
a Million.
BRANDS STATEMENT LIE
CINCINNATI, 0., June 15.—William
Cooper Procter, millionaire soap manu
facturer and admitted contributor of
$5(0,000 to Gen. Leonard Wood’s presi
dential nomination campaign, here today
issued a statement flaying the “old
guard” and Nicholas Murray Butler, New
York, for Wood's defeat.
Procter was particularly incensed at
Butler for the latter’s alleged statement
that Wood's campaign was backed by
“financial gamblers.”
“That statement is maliciously false,”
said Procter.
“No contributions were made to Gen.
Wood’s campaign besides those L men
tioned In my testimony before the l*hlted
States senate investigation committee.
“Dr. Butler is trying to square the ‘old
guard' for what they did to Wood.
"Harry Daugherty, Warren G. Hard
ing’s manager, was a good prophet when
he said that the candidate would be nom
inated at 2:11 o’clock lu the morning be
fore the delegates actually voted on the
nomination.
"That Is the way Gen. Wood was de
feated,” Procter said.
Procter was asked whether he would
support Harding for the presidency.
"I can not say what I will do at prea
ent,” he said.
HAYS'LL BE FREE
TO RUN ’ THE PARTY
CHICAGO, June 15.—One of the hot
test statements in connection with the
republican presidential campaign whs
looked for from Gen. latonard Wood to
day as a reply to the assertion of Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler that "a motley
group of stock gamblers, munition mak
ers and oil and mining promoters start
ed out to buy the republican nomina
tion for Gen. Wood."
From all sides in the Wood camp
came bitter denunciations of Dr. Butler,
and It was declared Gen. Wood, wan
was reported to be intensely angered,
was dipping his pen In fireproof Ink
and writing a sizzling reply to Dr.
Butler's accusation*.
"So long aa Dr. Butler kept quiet,
Gen. Wood was willing to take hi* de
feat like a man, but be now will teU
the truth about Dr. Butler and bis cam
paign. and It will be redhot," said one
of the Wood supporters.
"Butler does not even understand the
language of such men as Roosevelt and
Gen. Wood and other real progressives.
"And his war record will have a hatd
time standing the light, of publicity.”
A conference of G. O. P. leaders I?
to be held here on Monday to pick
ft manager for Senator Harding's cam
paign.
Although It has been customary in the
past for national chairmen to be se
lected as the campaign manager for the
candidate, it is understood Chairman
Will H. Hays will be relieved of th:s
work, so he can continue to devote bis
„i;me to running the regular republican
bt'eiuces organization.
The cnmpslgn manager to be chosen,
it is stated, will be the "confidential
man" for the candidate.
PICKS McADOO,
PALMER AND COX
BOSTON, June 13.—A deadlock in the
democratic national convention, with Mc-
Adoo, Palmer and Cox, the lending can
didates in the balloting for the presi
dential nomination, was predicted to
day by United Staten Senator Hitchcock,
who la visiting here.
The democratic stable Is full of “dark
horses,” he said.
Senator Hitchcock pre i cted the plat
form at San Francisco would back the
league of nations, but ‘leave the way
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MORE FIRST YEAR
BABIES LIVING
Census Figures Show Mor
tality Is Decreasing.
WASHINGTON, June 13 -Approxi
mately 1)15 out of every 1,000 Infnnts
born alive live beyond the first year,
say census figures announced today.
Infant mortality, the figures show, has
decreased 14,9 per cent since 1915.
New York showed a decrease In mor
tality of Infants of 18.2 per cent, com
pared with 1913 %vhen the ratio was 99
to 1.000.
The decrease was most marked in
Washington, D, C., where 111 lnfnnfa a
1,000 died In 1915, compared with 85 In
1919.
Baltimore was second In decreases
with 19.7 per cent.
Three cities, Pittsburg, Buffalo and
Milwaukee, show Increases In the num
ber of deaths of 2.2 per cent.
The ratio of mortality for every 1,000
Infants In the eleven largest cities In
10X9 follows:
New York 81, decrease 18.2 per cent;
Philadelphia 91, decrease 12.5; Cleve
land 95. decrease 12.8; Baltimore 9.8, de
crease 19.7; Pittsburg 114, Increase 3.(1;
Buffalo 110, Increase 1.9; Milwaukee 101,
increase 1.06; Washington 85, decrease
23.5 per cent; Cincinnati 88, decrease
not given; Minneapolis 05, decrease 5.5
per cent.
‘Cave Man’ Methods
Get Decree for Girl
’’Cave Man” methods on the part of
her husband obtained a divorce for Helen
May Tharp from Willard Tharp in cir
cuit court today.
Mrs. Tharp, a pretty dnrk-haired girl,
told Judge Louis B. Ewbanks that her
husband not only beat her and cursed her
frequently when he discussed domestic
affairs, but on one occcaslon he threw
her down, eat on her body and took a
ring from her hand.
The Tharps were married Feb. 26, 1919,
and formerly lived at 1531 Wilcox street.
Former Inspector of
Police Goes to ‘Pen’
NEW YORK, June 15.—Dominick
Henry, former police inspector, found
guilty of perjury, today was sentenced
to serve from two to five yours in Sing
Sing prison by Justice Bartow S. Weeks.
Two Rings Stolen
From Doctor’s Home
A burglar entered the home of Dr. A.
A, Sharp, 2250 North Illinois street, last
night, and stole two rings.
Jack Lovers, 2139 Boulevard place, told
the police a negro stole $48.70 from the
pockets of bis trousers last night sad
fled.
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Subscription Rates. ( By 6 ’ oc Per ’ Month; s^o o Per Year.
New Officers Head Trade Board
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Left to right—Tom Oddy, Edward D. Evans and Joseph A. Kebler.
At the annual election of the Indian
apolis Board of Trade last night Edward
D. Evans was elected president; Joseph
A. Kebler, vice president, and Tom Oddy,
treasurer. These three officers were
elected without opposition, as their
names headed both the regular and the
independent ticket.
Mr. Evans has been a member of the
governing committee since 1913; Mr.
Kebler has been a member of the govern
ing committee since 1904. and Mr. Oddy
has been treasurer of the board since
1905.
FIGHT OPENED
ON WAREHOUSE
North Siders Protest Building
on Thirty-Eighth Street.
A delegation of property owners from
Blrchwood avenue and South Fairfield
avenue, headed by James L. Z.lntz, 3638
Blrchwood avenue, asked the board of
safety today to take some action to pre
vent the Jose-Balt Lumber Company
from building a warehouse on the Monou
railroad, near Thirty-eighth street.
Mr. Zlntx said nowhere in Indianapolis
could an eqnal area be found with any
more fine homes and that the people of
that district did not care to have fac
tories built near them to cheapen their
property and bring in an undesirable
class of people.
A. L Taggart, president of the board,
told Mr, Zlnt* he knew that such a tiling
should be prevented, but that the beard
had no legal right and could not stop
the board of works from Issuing a build
lng permit to the Balz Company.
INJUNCTION ONLY
PROCEDURE I.EET.
The building permit had already been
Issued, be said, and he advised tbfm
that the only thing that could be done
was to file a suit for an injunction to
stop the building of the warehouse.
The Balz Lumber Company, Mr. Zlntz
admitted, has done much to build up
the residence district around the Maple
Road boulevard and Blrchwood and
South Fairfield avenues, and that they
tid made an agreement that the pro
posed building would way be used
for .a factory.
The building will be used exclusively
for a warehouse, they said,
W. A. Keteham, 4142 North Illinois
street, came before the board as the re
sult of a letter sent him by the board
concerning the upkeep of his property at
Nineteenth street and Capitol avenue.
The board requested that five houses at
that location, which have no resident*,
should be boarded up and the yards kept
clean.
SAYS AGENTS HADN’T
CARRIED OC T ORDERS.
Mr. Keteham told the board he had
ordered his agents to board up the wall*
of the houses and keep the grounds in
shape, but that they had not done so.
He said he was either going to build
an apartment house on the site or make
duplexes of the present buildings.
The board had no right, lie said, to
tell him that he had to do a certain
thing with bis property, namely to put
in shape for human habitation, hut he
said that he would do the best he could.
Mr. Tnggart told him many of the
property owners of Capitol avenue were
objecting to the condition of the prop
erty.
The building reports to the board for
the week ended June 12, showed 155 per
mits Issued with a valuation of SS4 211.
Fifty-nine elevators were Inspected
during the week and repairs wete or
dered on two.
LTncover Vein of Ice
With Mercury at 88
MT. CARMEL, 11!., .Tune 15.—With
the thermometer S8 degrees In the
shade workmen excavating at the old
Black Diamond colliery here ran Into
a vein of ice hurled at least thirty
years.
Claims He Allows
Only $8 for Expense
Lillian G. Tyler, wife of Lambert D.
Tyler, Indianapolis furniture dealer, to
day filed suit in superior court, room 3,
for limited separation from her husband,
charging him with failure to allow her
and their daughter sufficient food and
clot ties.
Mrs. Tyler also alleges that her' hus
band was cruel and not companionable.
She declares that, while her husband
has an income of from SSOO to SI,OOO a
month froffi his business, he cut: clown
the family allowance for food and other
household necessities from sl6 to $8 a
week.
The Tylers live at 1207 North LaSalle
street.
Mrs. Tyler asks the court to grant her
an allowance of SSO a week pending the
settlement of the case.
Now They're Naming
Babies After 'Em
NEW YORK, June 15.—Henry
Ford Maloney will be the name of
a baby born in a tin lizzie here.
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, Members elected to the governing com
l mlttee were Edward B. Raub, George H.
! Evans, Charles C. Perry, William J.
! Mooney, I. E. Woodard, John E. McGettl
gan. Frank A. Witt. E. Clifford Barrett,
! Mark 11. Miller, Linton A. Cox and Otto
IP. IJeluse. All of those elected to the
I governing committee, with the exception
| of Mr. Deluse, were on the regular ticket.
The newly elected officers will be in
! stalled at the next regular meeting of
; the governing committee, and the elec
; tion of a secretary will be held at that
1 time.
SHOOTS HIS BRIDE
OF FOUR MONTHS
Southerner Then Attempts to
End Own Life.
NEW ORLEANS. June 15.—Mrs.
William A. Sullivan, bride of four
months, was seriously wounded by
her husband today on the gallery
of her mother's home, in Third
street.
Sullivan fired two shots at her,
one of which took effect in her body.
He then fired two shots into his
own breast.
The bride may recover, but physi
cians nt the hospital state Sullivan
sfill die.
Miss Ethel Aline Rirhtor, maiden
name of the bride, and Sullivan were
married last March while she was
still in high school, being only IS
years of age.
They agreed to keep the marriage
a se-ret for a number of years.
Sullivan broke faith and publicly
announced the marriage In May.
His bride filed suit for divorce,
claiming aince her husband had
broken their agreement she could no
longer remain hia wife.
Slie charged in her petition that the
marriage had never been consum
mated since she had never lived with
Sullivan. It is believed that this ac
tion temporarily deranged the
groom.
Sullivan also shot at the girl’s
mother, whom he blamed for the
trouble, but missed ber.
COLORADO WRECK
COSTS TWO LIVES
Several Others May Die as Re
sult of Train Crash.
LA JUNTA, Colo., June 15,—Two per
sons were killed, seven were Injured and
others slightly when east-bound train No.
4, the California Limited on the Santa
Fe railroad was wrecked south of here
today.
The train was running at a high rate
of speed when the wreck occurred and
reports say that a broken axle on the
locomotive caused the wreck.
A wrecking train with nurses and
doctors was rushed from this city.
Most of the Injured passengers are be
lieved to be from California and Chicago.
Idaho Democrats
Select Delegates
LEWISTON. Idaho, June 15.—Demo
crats of Idaho gathered here today to
select delegates to the national conven
tion.
The delegation will be uninstructed but
favor W. G. McAdoo, It was expected.
Suffrage Lost by 23
Louisiana
BATON ROI’GE, June 15—The
Louisiana house today rejected the
resolution ratifying the woman suf
frage amendment by a vote of 67
to 44.
E. W. Backus, Former
U. S. Diplomat, Dead
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 15.
Edward W. Backus, United States ambas
sador to Brazil under Presidents Hayes,
Garfield and Arthur's administration. Is
dead today at his home at Tarpon
Springs, Fin., at the age of 86.
Mr. Backus was one of the financial
backers of Marconi in the development
of wireless telegraphy.
He was knighted by the king of Portu
gal in 1905 for valuable services to Brazil
in connection with the development of
the Amazon.
Chief Garrity Asks
Liquor Charge Proof
CHICAGO, .Tunc 15.—John J. Garrity,
chief of police of Chicago, today defied
Gov, S. R. McKelvie of Nebraska to sub
mit evidence substantiating his charges
that policemen of Chicago openly sold
liquor during the republican invention.
Fie declared that Gov. MclUL.ie should
make good his allegations Vr retract
them, m
NO. 30.
JACK DEMPSEY
NOT SLACKER,
JURY’S VERDICT
Found ‘Not Guilty 5 of Evading
Draft Shortly After Case
Is Submitted.
TELLS STORY ON STAND
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.
William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey,
heavyweight champicn ol the world,
was found not guilty of conspiracy
to evade the draft law, shortly after
his case was submitted to a federal
jury here today.
The case went to the jury at 10:20
this morning.
“I’m the happiest bid on earth,”
Dempsey said when the verdict was an
nounced.
Dempsey and his manager. Jack
Kearns, were indicted on conspiracy
charges after Dempsey’s former wife,
Maxine, claimed she had been Influenced
to falsify his questionnaire.
The case of Kearns will be called to
morrow, attorneys announced following
Dempsey’s acquittal.
Maxine Dempsey was a witness against
her ex-husband and contributed sa
lacious bits to the hearing.
Arguments were waived by both side*
and the Jury spent less than thirty
minutes in reaching a verdict.
Maxine Dempsey was a witness
against her ex-husband. She testified
her earnings had tided Dempsey over
some difficult periods, that he had
struck her and that he failed to sup
port her.
Dempsey, in reply, told a straight
forward story which cross-examination
failed to shake In any detail.
He denied charges of nonsupport and
cruelty made by his former wife and de
scribed himself as having been the prin
cipal support of his family since he was
14 years oIL.
.MAXINE GOOD WITNESS
FOR THE PROSECUTION.
Maxine Dempsey made a perfect wit
ness for the prosecution.
She testied that Dr. Joseph Fife had
treated her at the Hotel Gibson in May,
1917, for a dislocated jaw.
Dr. Fife previously had testied that
the patient whom he attended at the hotel
on that night had told him she had
fallen down stairs.
“What were the circumstances by which
you received that dislocated jaw?” Mrs.
Dempsey had been asked.
”1 hadn't made any money that night,
so Jack struck me.”
Mrs. Dempsey told of her marriage to
Dempsey in October, 1916, and their mar
ried life thereafter.
She said they went from Salt Lake to
Salida, Cal., then to San Francisco,
where they stopped for a time at the
Adena hotel.
Later she lived for a time in Forty
eighth avenue, Dempsey going to Salt
Lake.
He returned and a week later they
went to Seattle.
SAID HE LEFT lIEP.
WITH ONLY 50 CENTS.
“What were you doing during thiß
time?” she was asked.
The answer was, “Practicing prostitu
tion.”
Finally, she said, Dempsey left her in
June, 1917, in Seattle, with only 50 cents
in money, a railroad ticket, one suit of
clothes and a traveling bag.
From Seattle she went to Yakima,
Wnsb., where she entered upon a life of
shame, which she pursued at various
points, including St. Louis and Cairo, IIL
In November, 1917, she returned to
Seattle.
Dempsey later sent her first S2O. then
sls and $25 and a railroad ticket to Salt
Lake, she testified.
Under cross examination the witness
admitted Dempsey paid their hotel bills,
transportation and for their meals.
The last time she saw Dempsey, shs
said, was in Los Angeles in February,
1820.
Dempsey refuted his former's wife’s
charges.
He denied he had broken his wife’s jaw
by a blow while they were living in a
hotel here, because as she had said “she
had not earned any money for him.”
‘I never struck my wife,” he said.
‘The fracture of her Jaw was caused by
a fall.”
Demrsey detailed bis experiences as a
farm hand, miner, carpenter and boxer,
including reverses when “the boxing
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REALTORS REVIVE
CAR REROUTING
Ask Mayor and Trolley Men
What Has Been Done.
The question of rerouting downtown
street cars so as to make the loop larger
and thereby enlarge the business district
of Indianapolis again was called to the
attention of Mayor Jewett today by the
Indianapolis Rea] Estate board.
At a joint meeting of the officers of
the street railway company, street car
committee of the real estate board and
the mayor, on March 4, assurance was
given the real estate board and the pub
lic that this matter would be taken
' care of this spring.
| Since then nothing has been beard ro
! gardlng the situation.
Secretary Harry G. Templeton of the
real estate board wrote letters to Mayor
Jewett and Dr. Henry Jameson, presi
dent. of the board of directors of the car
company, asking for a report as to why
this work had not been done and when
the car company expected to start on
the project.
1 The members of the car rerouting
committee of the board are Bert Essex,
chairman; E. L. Cothrell, ,T. Edward
Morris, J. S. Cruse, Charles H. /Badger,
John R Welch, Fred Sillery, Thomas F.
Carson and Harry G. Templeton.
Seven five-minute talks on subject*
discussed at the national convention of
real estate associations, held last 1 week
at Kansas City by local realtors, wbo
attended that convention, are on the
program for tomorrow’s real estate
luncheon.
Several of the talks proved very In
teresting to the local men who attended
and they In turn are going to pass the
good points on to those who did not get
to go.
It is expected a large number will
attend the luncheon to learn the tactics
used by successful real estate men of
other cities.
Workman Injured
as Fumes Explode
Roy Lane, 2646 Northwestern avenue,
•was seriously injured today when turpen
! tine fumes in a steel drum which he was
welding exploded.
Lane was at work In the Indiana Na
val Stores, 403 West Seventeenth street,
when the explosion occurred.
He was removed to the Methodist hos
pital, suffering from burned bands and
a broken leg.
The fire department was called, but the
fire that followed the explosion caused a*
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