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PT VICTIM
f|r MAY RECOVER
Harold Brown Declared
W in Serious Condition.
Sirs. Harold Brown, 38, who was acci
dentally shot yesterday, is in a serious
Condition, according to physicians today
Ibut has a slight chance to recover, phy
kicians said.
I Bhe is at the St. Vincent’s hospital,
f Mrs. Brown was in fropt of her home
when the bullet struck her.
An X-ray photograph shows the bullet
in ter neck is either a .44 or a .45-caliber.
This, the police say, gives strength to
the statement made by Mrs. Flossie N'ew
hart, Sangster avenue and Forty-fourth
street, that she fired the bullet that
struck Mrs. Brown. *
Mrs. Newhart was about 500 yards’ dis
tant and fired to frighten a horse that
was in her garden, and from where she
stood could not have seen Mrs. Brown.
The weapon used by Mrs. Newhart was
a .44-caliber long-bcrrel revolver.
(Which supported McKinney’s testimony,
asked the court for the privilege of ask-
McKinney a question.
Judge Anderson smiled and said, “You
have pleaded guilty. I will ask the
questions for you and will probably
answer them for you, too.”
Eli Harp, another defendant, was a
government witness and gave testimony
which supported the stories of Van
Pickerill and McKinney.
Phillip Veach, who was not indicted,
testified that he was the “gambling
partner’’ of Boner and that Boner took
out sums of money aggregating SI,OOO
from the partnership.
He stated that this money was “for
the old man’’ and explained that he was
under the Impression that Boner was
giving the chief of police that money.
On cross-examination, be stated that
he did not know whether or not Boner
gave Schmitt the money.
“If Boner did give the money to Chief
Schmitt it was for protection?” the court
asked.
“Yes,” said Veach.
He admitted that Boner brought cases
of whisky to the gambling house.
HELMRICH AFFIRMS
EARLY TESTIMONY.
Harry Helmrich, a defendant and a
former saloon keeper and a political
henchman, gave exhaustive testimony
which corroborated that given by Miller.
McKinney and Van PlcherllL
Helmrich admitted that he was In
structed by Chief Schmitt to “throw' 1 the
deal for the motorboat and paid Pete
Mingst, the owner of the boat, the sum
of S7OO, which was given him by Van
PickerlUl.
He stated that Schmitt never put a cent
in the boat, but finally obtained owner
ship of the boat.
Helmrich testified that he saw Van
Pickerill give Chief Schmitt the sums of
SSOO. S3OO and $l3O on three different oc
casions.
Peter Mingst, the former owner of the
"Fanolia,” testified that Helmrich gave
him S7OO for the boat.
Emory Kohlmeier, former deputy col
lector at the Evansville port, testified
that Mingst notified his office of the
tgnsfer of- the boat to the name of
ve Lamb.
Kohlmeier also testified that the boat
■was later put In the name of Chief
Schmitt.
Richard Pennington, a former saloon
keeper and powerful ward politician,
was the first witness for the govern
ment at the afternoon session.
Once during the cross-examination of
a witness by John W. Spencer, attorney
for Chief Schmitt, when the witness was
giving damaging evidence concerning
Schmitt in answer to questions of Spen
cer. Judge Anderson said: "I think that
it is about time that somebody objects to
this cross-examination on the part of
yonr client.”
FIVE MORE
CHARGE PLEAS.
The court then excused the witness.
Five more defendants changed their
pleas from not guilty to guilty.
They were Otto Klein, John James,
Charles J. Klein. William S. Perrott anri
Herbert Evans, the last two being police
officers.
Telling a story of how he claims he
was able to bribe Chief of Police Edgar
Schmitt of Evansville. lad., and so make
possible the importation of $350,000
of liquor from wet Kentucky Into
* Indiana, Van Pickerill, former
wholesale liquor dealer of Henderson,
Ky., laid the foundation of the evidence
on which the goverenment will ask the
tonviction of twenty-three Evansville
members of al alleged whisky ring.
The government today resumed its ef
forts before Federal Judge Anderson In
presenting evidence to support its con.
tention that a gigantic conspiracy was
successfully carried out in Evansville,
I>eginning in June, 131$, and continuing
until the spring of last year.
Pickerill testified that Chief Schmitt
voluntarily interested himself in the
whisky traffic by personally making a
visit to Pickerill in Henderson, Ky., and
testified that this meeting resulted in
a wholesale plan by which thousands of
gallons of liquor was transported in au
tomobiles and boats from the Kentucky
side of the Ohio river to Evansville.
COST PICKERILL
$12,000 TO $15,000.
In summing up the total amount of
1 money which he claims he gave Chief
Schmitt as privilege money, Pickerill
testified that it aggregated between
$12,000 and $15,000. besides whisky which
Schmitt ordered and never setttled for.
He estimated that a total of 70.000
gallons waa thus safely imported Into
Evansville from his place of business and
he fixed the value of the liquor at
$350,000.
Pickerill testified that Schmitt made
1 repeated demands upon htm for money
and that he generally met tile demands
of the chief for the ‘‘favors.”
In discussing the beginning of the
alleged conspiracy, Pickerill testified that
Chief Schmitt, accompanied by Richard
Pennington, a defendant, who has plead
ed gnilty, came to Henderson to gee him.
Before Schmitt left on the first visit,
Pickerill testified that Schmitt remarked
that Pickerill “was doing a big business
and that they boys In Evansville were
making lots of money, as everything was
wide open.”
. Pickerill testified that Schmitt made
nfeveral “friendly visits to Henderson be
fore any request for money was made by
the head of the Evansville police depart
ment.
About that time Schmitt came to Hen
derson with a government agent, who de
sired to obtain some information from
Pickerill, he testified.
"Schmitt returned without the federal
man and told me that the government
waa after me and that they wanted to
hook me,” testified Pickerill.
"About a week after that he catae to
me and said he had information that I
was going to be Indicted by the federal
authorities and by the use of some money
his friends in Indianapolis could take
care of it.”
Pickerill testified that after some argu
ments he made out a check for $523, tty>
amount which he claims Schmitt re
quested. cashed the check and gave It
to the Evansville police chief.
GOVERNMENT SHOWS
BRIBE CHECK. . !
The government Introduced the check,
Pickerill Identified as the one by
Evhich he made the first payment tt
r hmltt.
■ Pickerill stated that he was Indicted
By the federal court and pleaded guilty.
■ Pickerill related that some time after
piaklng the first alleged payment to
fecbmltt, Harry Helmrich called him by
[phone and notified him to come to the
chiefs office at Evansville, aiid after
being Informed by Schmitt that he was
letting the saloons run wide open in
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In Indianapolis
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When did Indianapolis first organize a band?
In IS4O. The leader was Abraham Protzmann. McCready, later
mayor of the city, played a bass trombone; D. P. Hunt, James G.
Jordan and Janies McCord Sharpe, the piccolo; Emanuel Haugh and
Thomas Baker, the B flat trombone; William Karne and E. S. A. Ty
ler, the E flat cornet; Louis Walk, John Gilliland and James Van
blaricum, the French horn; Aaron D. Obr and Nicholas Norwood, tho
clarinet; Lafayette Yandes and Thomas D. Miller played reed instru
ments, and James R. Nowland manipulated the brass drum.
What and where is the Coliseum?
The coliseum was built on the fair grounds in 1008 at a cost of $105,-
000. It was planned for a live stock pavilion show building, having
an area oi 120x270 feet, in which are exhibited all cattle and horses
during the fair. When used as an auditorium and the arena filled
with chairs, it will seat nearly 10,000 people. It has developed that
the building possesses wonderful acoustic properties to a marked de
gree.
In what does Nordyke & Marmon excel?
It Is the largest manufacturer of milling machinery In the United
States.
(Series Number Thirty-two.)
Evansville, thus making “business good"
for Pickerill, that ho gave Schmitt an
other SSOO.
In consideration for the payments,
Pickerill testified that Schmitt stated he
would keep the roads open and keep the
officers off of the roads.
At a later date Schmitt made another
demand for SSOO, and Pickerill agreed
io pay him SSOO a week for keeping the
roads open and not permitting any police
interference, he testified.
Pickerill. in answer to a question of
Judge Anderson, stated that he continued
making SSOO payments for a period of
about six weeks.
PICKERILL “TIPPED”
OFF BY CHIEF.
Pickerill testified that on certain
nights Chief Schmitt or one of his agents
would ’’tip” him off that officers would
be on the road and not ship any liquor
on those nights.
According to PlckeriTl's story, Bchmitt
then decided he wanted to get into the
whisky business and make some money,
so an arrangement, according to Pick
erlll, was made by which he was to pay
for a motor boat.
This motor boat was to be used as a
“blind” in order to satify the Y. W. C.
A. and other organizations which were
then raising a protest against the
traffic.
The motor boat was supposedly to be
used to round up boats carrying liquor
and cause the arrest of men bringing
liquor Into Evansville.
According to Plckeriil’s testimony, this
boat made trips to bis place at Hender
son and brought back many cases of
whisky to Evansville and that alleged
agents of Schmitt made arrangements for
ordering the whisky.
The boat cost Pickerill approximately
SSSO and the agreement was that Schmitt
would have a city employe operate the
boat. Pickerill testified.
Pickerill also claimed that Schmitt
at one time demanded SSOO to pay for
the chief’s trip to Hot Springs and de
clared that he gave Schmitt the money.
According to Pickerill, Schmitt said
that he wanted between three and four
hundred cases of whisky but only fifty
cases were actually delivered of this
order.
In telling of his alleged dealings with
Fred Ossenberg, a republican leader and
one of the defendants standing trial on
a plea of not guilty, Pickerill testified
that conversations with the G. O. I*,
leader resuited in him giving Ossenberg
SI,OOO in cash for the purpose of having
the sheriff keep his men off the roads.
Pickerill contended that Ossenberg
wanted $5,000, but after some discussion
the figure was reduced to SI,OOO and
the witness identified a check which he
claimed was the one on which he drew
the money for Ossenberg.
He testified that William Meinert,
known as “Puss,” hauled large supplies
of whisky from Henderson to Evansville.
Meinert has pleaded guilty In the fed
eral court to the charge.
During the cross-examination by coun
sel for the defendants an attempt was
made to force Pickerill to admit that he
sought to have Osesenberg corrupt Cir
cuit Judge Gould of Evansville to pre
vent. a former employe of Pickerlll's, who
was under indictment in that court, to
Involve Pickerill in his confession.
Pickerill firmly denied this, but the de
fense attempted to infer that Ossenberg
refused and said that no man would dare
to attempt to corrupt Judge Gould be
cause he was elected on a “cleanup plat
form.”
Counsel for the defense also sought
vainly to prove by Pickerill that the mo
tor boat, in question was not a fake or a
bluff and that Schmitt caught Pickerill
at one time aiding in bringing beer in a
boat.
Pickerill stated that he asked Schmitt
why he stopped the barge and that
Schmitt said it contained Anhauser-Busch
beer and not Cook's beer.
“I asked Schmitt if he was discrimi
nating against the kind of beer I was
selling and that if Evansville saloon
keepers had to use Cook’s beer instead of
the beer I was handling, I wanted to
know it,” testified Pickerill.
“Cook's beer was made in Evansville,
hasn’t It?” asked Judge Anderson, and
the witness answered in the affirmative.
Several times Judge Anderson told At
torney Spencer, former member of the
Indiana state supreme court and counsel
for Schmitt, that he “must move faster.”
At one time Spencer wanted to argue
with the court concerning a legal
premise.
“All right, then, let us talk a lilt of
law. If you know any,” Judge Anderson
said to Spencer. “I am trying to get you
to conduct yourself as you should.”
That remark ended the argument.
Indications are that the case will prob
ablv require from two to three more days
to complete it.
for interpretative reservations,"
while, condemning the “nullifying”
Lodge reservations.
He did not look for a fight over the
league In the convention.
The Nebraska senator did not be
lieve there would be a dry plank In
the democratic platform as the United
States supreme court has put an end
to bringing prohibition into party plat
forms.
The senator thought the Volstead act
should be liberalized.
FARMERS ANGERED
BY G. O. P. PLATFORM
WASHINGTON, June 13.—Thoroughly
angered by what he considers the be
trayal by the republicans of the farm
ers of America, Benjamin C. Marsh, sec
retary and director of legislation of the
Farmers' National council, today em
barked upon a campaign of publicity
planned to convince politicians tile
farmer vote Is a power to be reckoned
with at election time.
Mr. Marsh has Just returned from Chi
cago, where he presented the platform
of the Farmers’ National council to a
committee of tha republican national con
vention.
"The section of the republican plat
form on agriculture does not contain a
single declaration to reassure the farm
ers of America," said Mr. Marsh.
“While It expresses the belief of tho
republican party that the crux of the
present difficulty in the farming Indus
try lies in prices, labor and credit, and
that the situation can be Improved by
adequate farm representation in appoint
ment of government officials and com
missions, it docs not pledge this repre
sentation.
“Why not?”
Mr. Marsh asserted the platform men
tions several specific evils in the agri
cultural situation without attempting to
provide a remedy for them, and declared
no suffering patient could ever be per
suaded that a diagnosis is as good as a
cure.
MARSHALL DUE
AT FRISCO TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.—Vice
President Thomas R. Marshall was ex
pected to arrrive hero today to assume
leadership in the national administra
tion’s fight to have tho democratic na
tional convention adopt the league of
nations.
Chief opposition was expected from
William J. Bryan, inclined to reserva
tions.
Marshall was to arrrive by automobile
from Nevada.
His arrival was expected also to re
vive talk of “Marshall for President.”
Senator Robert Owen of Oklahoma
opened his campaign with a speech last
night declaring congress will not be dic
tated by bosses.
Others on the ground are Wilbur
Marsh, treasurer of the national commit
tee and national committeeman from
lowa, and E. H. Moore, campaign man
ager of Gov. Cox.
Five of the national committee’s sub
committee on arrangements, Chairman
Homer Cummings, J. Bruce Kremer of
Montana, E. G .Hoffman of Indiana, P.
H. Quinn of Rhode Island, Charles Boet
schensteln of Illinois are here.
Political observers predict the selection
of Bambridge Colby, secretary of state,
as permanent chairman of the convention
and Carter Glass for chairman of the
resolutions committee.
FEELS PARTY WOUNDS
WILL HEAL BY FALL
WASHINGTON, June 15- Senator
Harding is confident he will receive the
united republican support for president.
He stated today that ne will give no
consideration to rumors of disaffection in
republican ranks.
Time will be allowed for convention
wounds to heal.
Wounds that remain open will be
treated after permanent organization for
the campaign has been perfected.
Sine*. his nomination by the convention
last Saturday he has received congratula
tory messages from the unsuccessful can
didates and pledges of assistance from
them or from the managers of their
campaigns.
Within a few hours after the nomina
tion had been made, Gov. Lowden issued
a statement announcing his support of
the ticket.
Senator Hiram Johnson telegraphed his
congratulation.
He is reported in Chicngo dispatches
as declaring his Intention to support the
nominee of the convention.
Col. William Cooper I’rocter of Ohio,
general manager of the Wood campaign,
sent a congratulatory telegram to Senator
Hardlhg. v
Senator Harding accepts as sincere
these declarations from his leading op
ponents and their representatives.
Rumors that prominent republicans will
bolt the party because of the ticket, lack
of sympathy with the platform, or other
reasons are not disturbing him.
He also was pleased when he received
telegrams of congratulations from many
democratic friends, including Senators
Pomerene of Ohio and John Walter
Smith of Maryand.
Senator Harding appreciates that those
congratulations are personal.
He is himself a party man, a firm be
liever in party organization.
His attitude toward his party and his
course as president If elected! may be
summed up In this declaration:
“It takes inoro than one man to run
this country.”
The cultivation and perpetuation oi
peace with all foreign governments will
be the aim of Senator Harding, If elected
president, in directing the foreign policy
of the United States.
This wag Indicated early by the mes
sage he authorized sent to the French
people.
“If I become chief executive of this
nation I can .assure you I will foster
the spirit of friendship with France,”
he declared.
lie refused to enter at this time
my discussion of details of his foreign
policy, should he be elected, s
It is significant, however, that In his
telegram of congratulations to Gov. Cool
idge, upon his nomination for vice presi
dent, Senator Harding expressed satis
faction that a “truly great and trusted
American” was named for this office.
Harding will retain his seat in the sen
ate until his term expires March 4 next,
he announced.
He admitted that his petition for re
election to the senate, filed In Columbus,
0., last week, will be withdrawn.
Senator Harding finds that he can do
little work at his office in the senate
office building.
He is subjected to interruptions and
to interviews that he can not deny.
Night work is necessary, the senator
has decided, if he Is to get through with
the accumulated routine business of bis
office, meet bis visitors and keep up his
afternoon golf recreation to make him
physically fit for the strenuous weeks of
campaigning that are ahead of him.
Much of the detail work of his office
Senator Harding has turned over to his
secretary, George B. Christian, Jr.
The office staff has been enlarged.
An adjoining room, part of the suite
occupied by Senator McCumber of North
Dakota, and donated by him to Senator
Harding for temporary use, has been
made press headquarters.
Senator Harding sees the newspaper
correspondents in the forenoon and again
in the afternoon for general conferences.
Following eonferenees here, Harding
will leave early next week for some sea
side resort, where he will spend a week
or more before leaving for Marlon, O ,
to deliver what probably will be Ms
first formal speech of the campaign.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, JUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920.
Marriage Licenses
Michael J. Doody, 25, assistant man
ager, 1530 Garfield place, and Helen
Ryan, 22, 1531 Garfield place.
Joseph S. Dutton, 27, pipe fitter,
Beech Grove, Ind., and Gladys Mae Furr,
25, message operator. Beech Grove, Ind.
Alven M. Davis, 44, lathe operator,
1705 Central avenue, and Maude M.
Jackaon, 38, Bringhurst, Ind.
Otto S. Ogdon, 32, groceryman,
Hoopeston, 111., and Nelle Poland, 33,
1503 North Meridian street, Danville,
111.
Thomas W. Murray, 23, dentist, Day
ton, 0., and Helen O. Anderson, 21, 28
North Audubon road.
George Nunley, 29, porter, 625 Senate
avenue, and Mary Mackfee, 20, 625 Sen
ate avenue.
Noril Reeves, 43, laborer, 948 North
West street, and Laura Brown, 40,
North West street.
David Hurt, 32, laborer, city, and
Blanch Cuff, 30, 1037 North Sheffield
avenue.
Ray G. Dixon, 33, salesman. Plaza
hotel, and Edna Mae Braddock, 22,
Plaza hotel.
Ferris C. Myers 25, agent, Syracuse,
N. Y., and Evangeline O’Conner, 21, 3563
Central avenue.
John George Hendricks, 27, electro
tvper, 1818 North Alabama street, and
Mary Zinkand, 25, ISIB North Alabama
Vas’lle Vltllarn, 24, baker, 405 West
Ohio street, and Louise Harm, 24, 405
West Ohio street.
Walpole E. Albrecht, 21. timekeeper,
3349 West Tenth street, and Mary Agnes
Conway, 24, 1144 Centennial street.
Ernest P. Dixon, 36, general construc
tion, 347 Trenton avenue, and Geneva
Cecila Seller, 28, 347 Trenton avenue.
Omar Harding, 32, 639 Indiana avenue,
and Emma Green, 31, 2436 Cornell avenl
Claude 11. Mahan, 21, service man, 3152
Graceland avenue, and Ezena Irene Les
ley, 709 Yoke avenue.
Cornelius Fenton, 35, shget metal work
er, 1201 East New York street, and Marie
Hufnagel, 36, 758 North Tremont avenue.
Teddy A. Sarver, 22, brakeman, 1148
Calhoun street, and Audry La Rue, 18,
dancer, 406 North Alabama street.
Carl R. Graham, 28, auto mechanic,
1609 Massachusetts avenue, and Daisy
Engle, 327 1500 Massachusetts avenue. _
Ernest Hazzen Rambo, 29, painter, 1732
Sheldon street, and Georgia Steinbaugh,
39, 1703 Central avenue.
William M. Hodges, 26, nrai! carrier,
5041 English avenue, and Cecila Ellen
Cherry, 24, 1020 Sterling street.
Harry Boles. 26, soldier, Camp Taylor.
Ky., and Aroille M. Schneider, 21, Camp
Taylor, Ky.
Nathan H. Bavnes, 85. street car con
ductor, 3029 West Michigan street, and
Francis Cockrlel, 22, Huntington, Ind.
John W. Campbell, 35, laborer. 2230
Pleasant street, and Clara Curry, 25, 1216
Madison street.
William Simmons, 21, molder, 955 North
Elder avenue, and Anna Crumes, IS, 955
North Elder avenue.
Dorsie Sneed, 27, laborer 414 Senate
avenue, and Gertrude Martin, 25, 1509
Asbury street.
Early Goodrich. 30 .laborer, 25C Dear
born street, and Mary Dunkan, 29, North
California 'street..
Mason Miles Fcathcrstone, 25, me
chanic, 1842 Aaron avenue, and Eleanor
Mary Tachan, 22, 1945 North LaSalle
street.
Harlan Kern, 28. clerk, city, and Mar
garet Blanche Phillips, 27, 225 Kaat
Michigan street.
Curtis Walker, 43, painter, 723 East
Ohio street, and Iva Hiatt, 24, 723 East
Ohio street.
Rice Lambert, 27. retail coal dealer,
749 East drive. Woodruff Place, and
Florine Hite, 27, 105 East Thirtieth
street.
Vietor William Jones, 23, drayman, 1530
Columbia and Catherine Beeler,
20, 723 North West street.
Births
Jesse and Stella Bell, 1308 Columbia
avenue, girl.
Jaraea and Fern Baker. Ml Bates, girl.
Carl and Agnes Brodnlk, 73d W. War
man. girl.
William and Elsie Cawsev, 448 Ber
wick, girl.
Walter and Helen Lehman, 12 Carter
apartments, girl.
Vasllia and Elena Storan, 111 S. Cali
fornia, boy.
Herman and Daisy Makey, 88$ Udell.
boy.
Edmond and Regina Karlbo, 530 N. Ox
ford, boy.
James and Ruth Schnan, 220 N. Rural,
boy.
George trnd Gladys Caldwell, 426 E.
New York. girl.
Charles and Eltn Stout, 2010 S. Bel
mont. girl.
Cecil and Ethel Darbro, HOC W. Jones,
boy.
Harry and Lillian Neltor, St. Vincent’s
hospital, girl.
Ralph and Amelia Hart, 835 N. Capitol,
boy.
Perry and Jennie Featherstone, 1740
Morgan, girl.
Charles und Ina Gardner, 110 Euclid,
girl.
Earl and Clara Stonebreaker, 1009 N.
Alabama, girl.
Magnus and Mary Rnnden, SBO Fletch
er, girl.
Omer and Eva Mclntyre, 1202 Spann,
bey.
Lewis and Margaret Dawson, 5-12 W.
Abbott, boy.
.Samuel and Anna Barnhart, 1337
Oliver, girl.
Alonzo and Itheda Miller, 2352 Sheldon,
boy.
George and Nathellne Felts, 217 N.
Rural, boy.
Paul and Bertha Mills, 431 E. Market,
boy.
Charles and Myrtle Cowdou. 2117 Ring
gold, girl.
Everett and Lilly Mobley, .826 Hos
brook, boy.
Shirley and Nannie Brown, 1129 N.
Tremont, girl,
son. girl.
William and Louise Buscher, 1042 Nel-
Leslle and Jessie Brooks, corner Dra
per and State, boy.
Bennett and Ida Ramsey, City hospital,
girl.
William and Florence Smith, City hos
pital, girl.
James and Mary Canaday, St. Vincent’s
hospital, boy.
Eugene ami Jessie Ryan, St. Vincent’s
hospital, girl.
Cecil and Annie Stalneker, St. Vin
cent’s hospital, girl.
Ferdinand and Myrtle Meyer, St. Vin
cent’s hospital, boy.
Frederick and Daisy GuVant, St. Vin
cent’s hospital, girl.
Albert and Nella Westlund, St. Vin
cent's hospital, girl.
Robert and Ida McDowell, St. Vin
cent’s hospital, boy.
Noble and Edna Dale, 1146 Churchman,
girl.
Fred and Bessie Gorman, 2124 Ash
land, girl.
William and Lillian O'Day, 40 N.
Rural, girl. t
Deaths
Leonard William Piter. 44, 30 East
Pratt, acute dilatation of henrt.
Roily J. McCollum, 39, Methodist hos
pital, hypostatic pneumonia.
John Ennis, 68, City hospital, arterio
sclerosis.
Charles Newton Craig, 60, 1233 Reisnor,
chronic myocarditis.
Alice E. Stein, 55, Methodist hospital,
nephritis.
Mary A. Gilman, 51, 1122 South Shef
field, cerebral hemorrhage.
John C. Burton, 9 months, 413 North
West, lobar pneumonia.
Ada Margaret Willoughby, 3, 2001)
West Morris, ileocolitis.
- Anna M. Harris, 81, Fletcher sani
tarium, acute cardiac dilatation.
Infant Gallagher, 16 hours, 2404 Stew
art, nonclosure of foreman ovale.
Jane Rond, 86, City hospital, cerebral
hemorrhage. /
Laura Moosly, 44, Methodist hospital,
hypothyroidism.
Mnry'E. Hustotn, 19, Deaconess hos
pital, streptococic infection.
Anne. P. Youck, 2, 902 Haugh, broncho
pneumonia.
Margaret McKee, CS, City hospital,
chronic myocarditis.
Samuel Hilton, 48, City hospital, cere
bral hemorrhage.
Canning Time Sugar
Supply Plan Ready
WASHINGTON, Juno 15.—A. W. Riley,
special assistant to the attorney general,
will return to his New York office to
day to direct the campaign by which It
is hoped to supply the demand for sugar
during the coming canning season.
He will conduct the work through a
national sugar distribution committee,
composed of representatives of refiners,
sugar importers and industries consum
ing sugar and wholesale grocers.
The general plan la to allot tha avail
able sugar.
CITY PRAISED FOR
ITS CREDIT PLAN
Second Largest Class in U. S.
Enrolled in Course.
Indianapolis was especially commend
ed, at the annual convention of the Na
tional Association of Credit men, for the
work done in this city in organizing and
conducting a course in credits and col
lections, having had the second largest
in the United States, according to word
brought b3ck by Lawrence G. Holmes,
general secretary of the Indianapolis
Association of Credit Men, who has just
returned from the convention, which was
held at Atlantic City, and a trip through
some of the eastern cities.
Pittsburg was the only city to exceed
Indianapolis as to the number of stu
dents enrolled In this course, having an
enrollment of 144, while the Indian
apolis branch of the National Institute
of Credit had an enrolllment of 108
students, all of whom carried out the
full sixteen weeks of the lecture course,
beginning March 80, 1920; and it might
be added that a great per cent of the
Pittsburg students were taking the cor
respondence course.
During his attendance at the conven
tion and his trip to other cities, Mr.
Holmes found that the activities carried
out by the Indianapolis association com
pared very favorably with those at Chi
cago, Cleveland, Pittsburg, St. Louis and
other cities of large size.
The lecture system adopted in this city
brought forth many compliments from
nationnl officers and directors at the
Atlantic City convention.
It was brought out during the con
vention that there had long been felt a
need for the training of young credit
grantors in the fundamentals of finance
and credits and that the first step in the
direction of (safeguarding the future
prosperity of the country was in training
Hemstitch
ing, 10c
a yard
—Art Needlework
Dept., Sixth Floor.
Our Annual June Sale of
LINENS
Everything Reduced. No Regular Prices.
Savings of 15% or More on
Everything in Stock
—First Floor, Northwest.
Women's sl4, sls and $16.50
Pumps and Oxfords
ifik *5.75
\ “ Ipllfk' '' / OXFORDS
tl&MgpEjk , With high French heels
/ Brown calf. Black suede.
Black kid. Black glazed kid.
Brown kid. Black dull kid.
PUMPS OXFORDS
With high French heels With military heels and
Black suede, Egyptian style. Cuban heels
Black kid and suede. Black calf. Brown calf.
Egyptian style. Brown kld
Black calf. Egyptian style. Imltatlon brogue Band full
Brown kid suede Inlay, Egyp- brogues,
tlan style.
Black calf opera. OXFORDS
Black calf, suede inlay.
Brown calf, princess style. With baby French heels
Patent kid opera. Patent kid. Black calf.
Patent kid, colonial tie. Black kid. Brown calf.
THEO TIE PUMPS
With high French heels
Blue satin. Black glazed kid.
White kid, American vamp. Black satin ilnish kid, teardrop
White kid, French vamp. design.
Black satin, French vamp. Brown suede.
Black satin, American vamp, t Brown calf.
sl4, sls and $16.50 qualities, sale price, $9.75
T’ : o - —Third Floor.
Domestics and Beddings
PRINTED BATISTE,
34 Inches wide, beauti
ful designs and colors
for women’s and chil
dren’s summer dresses,
extra special,
PILLOW TUBING,
soft, heavy thread, 42
Inches wide, 59£; 40
Inches wido* 55C, 36
sar 49c
U N BLEACHED
SHEETING MUSLIN,
yard wide, easy to
bleach, good' quality for
sheets and cases; extra
special,
yard 17 G
the future credit grantors to guard
against inflation of the nation’s credits.
Mr, Holmes said the present excess
profits tax was condemned at the con
vention as being a vicious restriction on
the growth of business In the United
States. Resolutions were passed recom
mending to the next session of congress
the repealing of the present excess tax
law and the adoption of anew law that
would distribute In an equal way the
cost of the war over a longer period of
years, and provide for a single tax cov
ering the excess profits of the Indi
vidual and the corporation.
Two Felled in Homes
as Storm Hits City
A heavy rainstorm • swept Indianapolis
last night.
Lightning struck trees and telephone
poles.
Mrs. Sadie Hodson, 3021 North Gale
street, and Frank Mendenhall, living
across tho street from the Hodson home,
were both shocked by the electrical cur
rent and knocked down when they
turned off the lights In tjieir homes.
The fury of the storm was centered
on the east and northeast parts of the
city.
Lightning twice struck a pole at School
end Thirtieth streets.
Johnson Silent at
His Maryland Home
WASHINGTON, June 15.—Senator Hi
ram Johnson was at his home in River
dale, Md., a suburb.
At the house it was said it might be
a day or two before Johnson would go
to his office, and that he probably would
have nothing to say on politics in tbe
meantime.
Johnson himself refused any statement
as to his plans when he arrived in
Washington last night.
HIE WH. BLOCK C?
Indiana's Largest Assortment of HART SCHAFFNER iff MARX Clothes for Men
BLEACHED SHEET
ING, 2 % yards wide,
fine, even thread, extra
a yS lal : 89c
U N B LEACHED
SHEETING, double bed
width, smooth even
thread, specially
priced, r-Jf\
yard /y C
FEATHER PIL
LOWS, a splendid vari
ety of art ticking cover
ings. Size 17x24
S 6 *' 98c
Size 17%x2B<fl* A 1 A
Inches, each tjj) I.JL W
game was dull’ and told then of bis life
as a prospective champion, declaring he
supported his wife until she deserted him.
In 1917 Dempsey's ring earnings, he
testified, were about $4,000.
Thq next year, he said, he spent a large
part of his time at patriotic benefits, out
of which, besides traveling expenses, be
got “two wrist watches and a gold pen
cil.”
Explaining his boxing for nothing,
Dempsey said;
“I wanted to do the country some
good.”
Early in 1917, soon after his marriage,
Dempsey said, he left his wife In Ban
Francisco while he went back to Salt
Lake to box.
He returned ten days later to find her
gone, discovering her living with her
brother in an apartment house.
The boxing promoter then told him
he was worth “about 30 cents” to them,
because of remarks his wife had made
about his “laying down to Flynn,” the
witness said.
Soon after they went to Seattle, he
paying all the bills as usual, Dempsey
continued.
From Seattle his wife went to Yakima
to see her mother, the pugilist testified,
while he got a job in the shipyards, t>n
account of dullness In the boxing game,
but she failed to return to him and did
not answer his letters.
Dempsey told of his work as a govern
ment recruiting agent for the shipyards
late in 1918, saying he “guessed he got
300 or 400 men” to work in the Phila
delphia yards.
ACCOUNTANTS MEET THURSDAY.
The Indiana Association of Certified
Public Accountant’s will hold its an
nual meeting at the Chamber of Com
merce June 17. \
the; basement store
BLEACHED
SHEETS, size 81x90
Inches, “seamless,”
heavy, strong thread.
(No phone orders),
special, f) o/A
each
PILLOWCASES, size
42x36 inches, round
thread, deep /I Or*
hem, each tcYaG
COTTON FELT
MATTRESSES, 45-
pound weight., built up
with layers of fine cot
ton felt covered with
choice patterns of tick
ing; specially
priced, 1 Q
at j tjj) 1 O. / O
Our Annual June Sale of
SILKS
Everything Reduced. No Regular Prices.
Savings of 20 % to 40°/o on
Everything in Stock
—First Floor, Northwest.
FROM OUR MODEL
GROCERY
BACON
SQUARES, sugar
cured, 2 to 4 pounds
each, pound .25#
FLOUR, Wash
burn-Croßby's Gold
Medal flour, largo
24-lb. sack $2.19
BRICK CHEESE,
fancy Wisconsin Hol
stein, rich and‘creamy,
pound 35#
LEMONS, fancy thin
rind, juicy Messinas,
dozen 19#
PRETZELS, fresh
baked, star, finger and
fish, pound 19#
SWISS CHEESE, fine
large-eyed New York
State, pound 79 £
WESSON OIL, pure
refined, for salads and
mayonnaise, pint
can 39#
M A C ARONI OR
SPAGHETTI, Red,
White and Blue, long
cut, 10c quality (3 pack
ages, 20c), pack
age
GRASS RUGS-
For the porch, cottage or bedroom, two
color stenciled designs, in blue, tan or green,
good weight, with all edges bound —
18x36-inch size 490 6x9 feet f5.95
3x6 feet 91.T9 Bxlo feet $8.25
feet ....$3.95 9x12 feet $9.95
—Fourth Floor.
Men’s
Furnish ings
KNITTED TIES FOR MEN, of wood
fiber silk, plain colors, Qfi/>
special OyC
/
UNION SUITS FOR MEN, of large
plaid material, elastic band in back, sizes
40 to 46 (3 for $2.00), Afin
suit oyc
HOSE FOR MEN, "Wayne Knit” medi
um weight, black; other makes jQ.
in colors; sizes 9% to 11%. ..... 1 YaG
UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS FOR
MEN, of ecru, balbrlgg&n, shirt short
sleeves, drawers ankle length r7r\
(3 for $2.25), garment / Y/C
WICKED BATTLE
IN A. F. L. OFFING
Gompers’ Balk at Plumb Plan
Opens Hornets’ Nest.
MONTREAL, June 15.—Opposition of
President Samuel Gompers of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor to the Plumb
plan for government control and demo
cratic operation of the railroads has
stirred the railway onions to intense ac
tion and a bitter fight was scheduled
in the A. F. of L. convention today when
the committee on resolutions reports.
The report was expected to reject ths
resolution pledging the federation to sup
port the campaign for the Plnmb plan.
James Dnncan, newly appointed mem
ber of the interstate commerce commis
sion, Is said to have led the opposition
to the resolution. Dnncan Is chairman
of the resolutions committee.
Representatives of coal miners have
begun strong agitation to apply the
principle of the Plumb plan to the
mining Industry.
The miners control the largest num
ber of votes in the convention and the
railroad men are relying on their sup
port in the struggle over the railroad
question.
Republican and socialist adherents
predict a big fight when a report on
political policies is presented.
Gompers’ declaration that “the ques
tion of independent political action
probably will come before the conven
tion in concrete form,” was interpreted
as a challenge to the leaders of the
labor party movement.
Another matter fraught with the pos
sibilities of warfare that was scheduled
to come before the convention today was
the resolution demanding recognition of
the soviet government of Rnssla and de
manding the lifting of the Russian
blockade.'
Free
instruction
in beaded bag
maMng, la mp
shade making,
knitting and cro
cheting.
—Sixth Floor.
EGGS, strictly
fresh, large selected,
dozen in carton.4l#
CRACKERS,
CAKES and WAF
ERS, “Sun s h ine,"
best American made,
packages 2lc, 15c
and ......7^#
.
PEANUT BUTTER,
Sun-lit, made from fresh
roasted, refined, No. 1
peanuts, pound 274
S A L MON, fancy
Alaska pink,
pound _....19#
CORN, delicious,
sweet Evergreen (doz
en, $1.69), can ....14#
LARD, Sun-lit Spur®
open kettle rendered,
one-pound carbon.27#
G. WASH INGTON
COFFEE, instant solu
ble (large family size,
$1.29), small can ..39#
SOAP CHIPS, Peet’s
Crystal White, for use
tn washing machines,
large package ... .31#
—Fifth Floor.
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