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THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Wednesday. Rising
temperature Wednesday.
vol. xxxm.
CITY HALL ALSO
IN LIST OF HIGH
PRICED SERVICE
Custodian’s Fund Increased
From $16,640 to $19,140 for
Next Year.
SIXTEEN ON PAYROLL
The Marlon county courthouse is not
the only republican controlled office
building In Indianapolis where janitor
service comes high.
Glance at a- payroll of the custodian’s
force of the Charles W. Jewett bossed
City hall.
Not counting the engineer and two flre-
who rtffi the City hall heating plant,
the city would pay in salaries alone this
year some $15,660 for the custodian's
format the rate of pay noted on the cur
reotpOroll in the office of the board of
public works.
Tha county pay -a custodian and fif
teen Janitors $17,10.) a year, figures from
the county commissioners show.
PAYROLL, LIST
AT CITY HALL.
The city pays its $15,660 for a cus
todian, ten janitors, one assistant cus
todian, two elevator men, one telephone
operator and one night watchman.
Contrasted with the amounts paid by
the city and county are the figures given
by the manager of a downtown office
building of 210 rooms, where thirteen
janitors and janitresses and occasional
extra helpers kept things spotlessly clean
during the fiscal year ending May 31 for
$7,904
Th# city hall is a smaller and more
modefrn building than the court house.
It is also true that none of the various
boards which meet in the city hall has
found it necessary, like a jury in the
courthouse not long ago, to call public
attention to the filthy condition of the
\rooms in which it was compelled to
congregate
EMPLOYES
NOT SATISFIED.
Negro Janitors and elevator men at the
City hall are paid SSO a month.
This is not considered enough by
many of the custodian's force, one of
whom remarked yesterday:
“This is a republican administration
and I can't see why when they're rais
ing the salaries of all the white boys
in the city hall that they can't do some
for us colored employes.’’
The answer may lie in the fact that
the estimate of the board of works of
the appropriation needed for the cus
todian’s fund for next year is $19,140, re
compared with $16,640 appropriated this
year.
RAISES ORDERED
IN 12 COUNTIES
Personal Property Only Af
fected by Tax Board Action.
Horizontal increases in personal prop
erty valuation* were ordered by the
r*te board of tax commissioners <n
twelve counties today.
The percentage of increase in the coun
ties ranges from 3 to ‘JO per cent.
The increases In per cent are as fol
lows: Boone, 5; Daviess, 5; Fountain,
JO; Gibson 5; Jackson. 7; Johnson, 20;
Montgomery. 5; Newton, 10; Posey. 5;
Switzerland, 10; Vigo, 10, and Warren,
3 per cent.
The Increases, according to Fred Sima,
chairman of the board, are to be artde!
only to personal property assessments.
Real estate assessments were not
changed this year.
County-wide horizontal increases have
been ordered by the state tax board on
Assessments in Clarke county, according
Mr. Sims.
Personal property assessments are in
creased 40 per cent and real estate Is
‘lncreased 34 per cent by the order of
the board.
Clarke county bad rejected the hori
zontal increases originally.
Jasper county notified the state board
that the action of the Jasper county
board of review In rejecting the horigpu
tal Increases of the state board had been
rescinded and that the increases had
been approved.
Franklin. Gibson and Scott counties to
day stated the horizontal Increases have
been approved by their respective boards
of review, and the state board has ap
proved the reports.
Nine out of the ninety-two counties re
main to act on the horizontal increases.
It is expected that within a few days
the work will be entirely cleared up and
all county boards of review will have ad
journed.
Three counties that originally rejected
the horizontal Increases yet have taken
no further action toward rescinding their
action.
They are Jackson, Posey and John
son.
Putnam county, which rejected the
horizontal raise?, was expected to re
scind its action today.
30 Days and SIOO on
Blind Tiger Charge
Clifford Capps, 1950 Ludlow avenue,
was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to
serve thirty days on the penal farm by
Special Judge John Robbins in city court
today, after be was found guilty on the
charge of operating a blind tiger.
gSM.’apps was arrested yesterday when the
police found him in a stalled automobile
in front of 412 West Vermont street with
six gallons of whisky.
Capps said that he was taking the
whisky to a fishing party.
The charge against Tony Perno, 1950
Ludlow avenue, who was with Capps at
the Jjme of the arrest, was dismissed.
Report Several Dead
in Traction Wreck
CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—A report received
by a train dispatcher of the Lake Shore
railroad here, from South Bend, stated a
South Shore electric car overturned at
Aydick, Ind., and killed several people
■a;.
containing nurses and doc
■h have been sent from Michigan City
■h South Bend, according to the report.
dispatcher's report said twenty-
H; people were killed.
Hrbe report was without confirmation.
WEATHER
for Indianapolis and vicinity
the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.,
Bl; rising temperature Wednesday.
■ HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
■ 6 a. m 67
■ 7 a. m 68
ra 8 a. m 73
9 a. m 79
10 a. m 78
11 a. m 80
V 12 (noon) 82
B 1 p. m 82
2 p. m 84
Published at Indianapolis.
Ind., Dally Except Sunday.
Goodrich Coal and Food
Commission Act Butt
of Federal Court Suit
Charging that Sections 7,8, 9, 10 and 13 of the special coal and food
commission act, passed by the special session of the legislature are uncon
stitutional, suit was filed in federal court today by the American Coal
Mining Company, Brazil, against the coal and food commission £nd
against James P. Goodrich, Jesse E. Eschbach and Otto L. Klauss, as
members of the commission, for a temporary injunction to prevent the
carrying out of the provisions of the act.
Twenty-one paragraphs set forth the argument of the plantiffs, in
which they allege that these sections are unconstitutional.
The plaintiff prays “that the special
coal and food commission of Indiana,
James P. Goodrich, Otto L. Klauss, Jesse
Eschbach and their successors, employes,
clerks, assistants, examiners, etc., be en
joined and restrained by, order and de
cree of the court,” from demanding that
the coal operators be compelled to pay
license fees and otherwise comply with
the provisions of the act.
A temporary injunction to be in force
during pendency and untU the final bear
ing of the suit is asked.
Included in the introductory part of
the complaint Is a statement of tonnage
produced by the mines of Indiana during
the first seven months of the years 1917,
1918, 1919 and 1920.
PROBLEMS ARE
SET FORTH.
Detailed statements regarding the coal
Industry of Indiana, giving a few of the
problems which coal operators have been
called on to solve, including miners’
strikes, car shortage, and other causes of
nonproduction, also are contained In the
petition.
Two pages of the complaint, are devoted
to a table showing time lost In mining in
recent months, due to various causes.
A copy of the act creating the coal
ami food commission in the state is at
lached to the complaint.
The petition is a bnlky document con
taining approximately seventy-five pages
Twenty-four paragraphs are devoted to
statements of the coal mining Industry
iu Indiana.
Paragraph 25, the first paragraph of
the part that declares certain sections of
the coal and food commission act uncon
stitutional, sets forth tha seclon 7 of the
act is unconstitutional and In Tlolattton
of the constitution of the United States,
in that it deprives the plaintiff of its
liberty and property, without due process
of law, and denies the plaintiff the equal
protection of the laws, for the reason
that a license fee of $25 is required for
coal mining, which is to be paid the
state treasurer for paying salaries and
expenses of the coal and food commis
sion.
The fee of $25 is in excess of the cost of
issuing the license, and this money will
be used to carry on the Investigations of
food profiteering, the petition says.
EXPENSE ALL PTT
ON COAL MEN.
No part of the expense is levied against,
or assessed as a license tax or direct tax
on the commodities dealt in by handlers
of food products. *
Paragraph 26 declares section 7 of
the act further la unconstitutional bo
cause it requires the plaintiff to pay a
license fee for the privilege of exercis
ing the right to mine and sell coal for
one year, which is beyond the period
You're Classed as
Soon as You Steer
for the Marble Slab
Autocratic Jerker * of Soft
Suds and Liquid Lolly pops
Knows Exactly What You'll
Order.
By KATHLEEN McRZE.
Are you a whipped cream fiend or a
malted milk addict?
Perchance you are u sedate Individual
who takes plain cream?
Anyway, yon are no longer a htpnan
being with any feelings when saun
ter up to the revolving stool in front of
the marble slab or escort your best girl
to a table for two.
When you make that fatal stop you be
come an object for the psychological
study of the soda Jerker who classifies
you neither as he or she. but as an ‘tit”
who takes 'em “with" or “without."
Being of an inquisitive turn of mind I
started out to learn just why new dishes
of whipped cream make their appearance
on the blll-of-fare —I mean menus—at
periodica! Intervals.
An exclusive, well behaved ouija board
hasn't a single thing on the white
jacketed slave of cold drinks for telling
you Just exactly what you want before
you even think about it.
“They Just have It written all over 'em
what they want.
r- —■ you can't miss It
In a million
{■s-an years." he ex
plained to me.
Just then a
Sr* severe spectacled
- lady of the last
CiS)joßUk <£=? century prog
\V rested toward an
_\ ”iIV. "fine Hi empty table with
a pace like a
stiff-legged cake-walk.
SIRE, HE HAD
HER NUMBER.
In amazement I saw my friend dish
ing up spoonfuls of vanillin ice cream.
“What’s the great and glorious idea?"
I demanded.
In the meantime the new eustomer was
turning over the list of sundaes In a
vacant fashion.
“Give me a plain Ice cream,” she said
in stage fright when the waiter ap
proached her, and my Instructor gave
me a triumphant look.
A little lady arrayed In a georgette
waist, a polar bear, and a hat perched
over one eye appeared, on the scene, and
my friend was busy opening up the
(Continued on Page Nine.)
‘We Have and We Will/ Says *Goosie 9
When Harry "Google” Lee, negro,
president of the Pioneer clnb, an
Indiana avenue republican organ
isation, was asked If Ellas W. Dul
tierger, president of the Oriental
club, the south side republican or
ganization, had sent him congratu
lations on hlg arrest for keeping a
gambling house. Lee said.
“I haven't seen or heard of Dul
berger. I don’t know nothing about
his Oriental club, but I do know
we have gambled and we will gam
ble on Indiana avenue, In spite of
anything the police can do. Go and
write that for The Dally Times and
tell them I said It.”
The big negro political power of
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 26, 1914, at
Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March S. 181.
fixed by the legislature for the expira
tion of the act.
March 31. 1021, was the date set for
the expiration, unless the law should be
continued by subsequent legislation.
Thus, according to the complaint, the
coal operators would be paying for the
right to mine coal beyond a period of
any Inspection or regulation of the busi
ness of mining coal by the commission.
Section 7 of the act Is Invalid and
void, says paragraph 27, because it de
nies the plaintiff equal protection of the
law in that approximately 43 per cent of i
the coal consumed in the state Is sold to
consumers, and to wholesale and retail
dealers in the state, by persons, firms
and corporations engaged in mining coal
without the state, in interstate commerce,
on which the Indiana legislature has no
power to assess a tax or a license fee,
and because It imposes on Indiana coal
firms a license fee, and a tax on the coal
produced In Indiana, which is not im- j
posed on Anns dealing in eoa! outside of
the state, thereby granting immunity of
tax and license fee to foreign coal firms.
SAYS EQUAL
PROTECTION DEMANDED.
Paragraph 28 declares section Sos the
act invalid because it denies equal pro- ,
tectlon of the law in that the special coal i
and food commission is given the right '
and power to regulate and fix the price
of all coal In Intrastate commerce which
shall be sol dto shippers, wholesale and '
retail coal dealers and to the public, i
thereby depriving the plaintiff of the Mb- |
erty to contract for the sale of its prop- !
erty.
Further complaints in the parsgrapb
charge that the commission in fixing the
price of coal would deprive the plaintiff
of the right to sell its coal at its market
value.
Paragraph 29. regarding section 8 ol
the act. sets forth facts further sup |
porting contentions made In section 27
regarding the granting of immunity tc
coal operators outside the state.
It is charged in paragraph 30 that
section 9 of the coal and food commis
sion act I* unconstitutional because it
would grant the defendant power and
make It their duty to require cool opera
torsto produce and sell in Indiana a ;
sufficient quantity of coal to supply do- j
mestlc demands at a price to be fixed
by the coal commission.
The paragraph claims also that this de
mand Is not made on owners of other
commodities, and that it prevents coal
operators from selling cool at .a price
t he agreed on betweeu seller and
buyer y.
Paragraph 31, continues the complaint,
sets forth In paragraph 30 and states
that the eoal In a place owned by the
(Continued on Page Nine.)
TAX RATE MAY
REACH $2 FOR
INDIANAPOLIS
Budget for County Council
Will Be Largest Ever
Submitted.
The totsl KUO tax rates for Center
township and Indianapolis may exceed
SI.BO and thrc Is danger that It will
reach $2. it became known today upon
reliable authority.
County Auditor I.eo K. Feeler stated
that the, tax rate would exceed the pres
ent rate of SI.OO for Indlatiapolia and
Center township. %
The present' city rate Is sl.l# and It
is said recent loan-making In behalf of
the city will necessitate the boosting of
the rate.
Mr. Feslpr adroit* the county sinking
fund rate will probably Jump from 4
cents to 8 or 9 In order to take care of
$300,000 worth of bonds.
Taxing officials appear to be unani
mous in the opinion that the total lirju
tai rate for Center township, which In
cludes the city, county, state and town
ship, will exceed SI.BO.
The total valuation for Marlon county
Is estimated by Mr. Fesler as $702,000, •
000, which is about five millions over
the last valuation.
The fixing of a tax levy is the most
embarrassing work republican officials
have to perform, as they realize the
citizens about have had their fill of taxes
and the illegal horizontal Increase mud
die, now succtsgfully placed upon the
citizens of the county by the board oh
review.
Because of tlds tax muddle and the
recent selling of bonds by the city and
county It Is Impossible for the taxing
officials at this time to dodge the re
sponsibility of saddling a higher tax
rate on the citizens of the county and
e)ty as well,
BIDGET WILL
BE LARGEST.
It is understood that the budget which
the county council will be asked to con
sider at its meeting Sept. 7 will be the
largest ever submitted.
Nearly all of the county institutions, aa
well has the courts and county officers
have asked and received additional ap
propriations to carry on the work for
this year, as it was impossible with the
present management and high prices to
continue until the money from next year’s
budget was obtainable.
Supplies for the various county offices,
as well as for the institutions, are higher
than ever, and the present republican
(Continued on Tag* Two.)
"de ave-noo” stepped Into a large
touring car in front of police head
quarters and drove away.
Lee Is said to be the president of
the Pioneer club, 509% Indiana ave
nue, raided at 3 o'clock Sunday
morning by the morals squad.
He and eighteen other negroes al
leged to have beeen shooting crnpg
were taken to police headquarters.
The raid on the' Pioneer club
came just a week after the Oriental
club was raided by the same squad,
but. Mr. Dulberger, the president,
proved that the morals squad did not
know a poker game when they saw
one, and the charges against the
south side republicans were dis
mised.
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1920.
Here's One of Things
Wrong With Our
City Market
The register of market stand own
ers in the office of the city controller
gives a dear insight into one of the
things that Is defeating the purpose
of the market site donor to provide
a place whero consumers and produc
ers might meet.
It also reveals why actual produc
ers have. In the paet, encountered so
many difficulties In obtaining stands
that they have practically abandoned
the market place to the more fortu
nate commission and wholesale dealers
who now control It.
Among those who are listed as op
erating stands on the market are:
J. P. O'Mahoney A Cos., one stand.
P. J. O’Mahoney, three stands.
Mary A. O’Mahoney, one stand.
Taggart Baking Company, four
stands.
Stanley Wyckoff, two stands.
G, M. Rubens, one stand.
George Rabin, two stands.
James M. Sowders, one stand.
James L. Sowdsrs, two stands.
R. Sowders, two stands.
Mrs. James Sowders, two stands.
Max Well, three stands.
H. Tutewller, one stand.
P. Meeilll, four stands.
R. Meeilll, two stands.
Jose Meeilll, two stands.
Sam Veiona, five stands.
Thus it will be seen that seventeen
individuals, some of whom are doubt
less "dummies,” control thirty-eight
choice stands In the market for “pro
ducers only."
Only one guess is permissible ae to
who will profit most by the proposed
expenditure of $125,000 to make these
stands more alluring to consumers
who patronise them on the theory that
they are dealing directly with “pro
ducers.”
TWO POLICEMEN
DISCHARGED BY
SAFETY BOARD
Charged With Intoxication and
Auto Theft Impli
cation.
Robert I.enlhan and Obe Craig, pa
trolmen. were dismissed from the In
dianapolis police force by the board of
public safety today following a bearing
In which testimony was given tending
to show they bad been close to nier
whom the police believe stole at least
seven automob'les from garages In thelt
dlslrlcts.
Evidence was introduced which Indi
cated that Craig was implicated with his
father In the operation of a gambling
house at his father's farm, south of the
••lty. while a taxicab driver testified that
he hauled I-enlhan and a man named
Jack Bannister to the Illinois Central
railroad yards, where they took a suit
esse load of whisky off of t train one
day last summer.
Lieut. William t. C6x of the police
department testified that early on the
morning of July 28 he received Infor
mation from persons residing south of
the city on Harping street that a bakery
wagon driver had said he had picked
up two policemen, apparently Intoxi
cated, early In the morning.
Investigation disclosed, the lieutenant
said, that Umihan and Craig had gotten
stalled in South Hording street when the
rear axle of Craig’s automobile broke,
and had hailed Harry U Brown, driving
a hakery truck, and induced him to drive
them to Craig's father’s place.
A senrch of Craig’s father’s premises
disclosed elaborate gambling outfits on
two floors, the lieutenant added.
The bakery wagon driver testified that
the tnen had hailed him about 5 o’clock
on the morning In question and that be
had taken them to the place described
as Crnig-e father’s.
He said he smelled a strong odor of
liquor on their breath and that one of
them pulled a police badge from hit
trouaers pocket and showed It to him.
As he left the Craig farm. Brown said,
oge of the policemen told him to tell two
men who were a short distance down the
road to mine on up, that was
all right.”
Dixon H. Bynum, assistant city attor
ney, attempted to msko Lenlban admit
that these two men were men Charged by
the police Vlth the theft of several auto
mobiles, but Lenlban said he bad not
told Brown to hail them and. In fact, had
hardly noticed any tnen being In the road.
4 KAIG CHANGED
HIS STORV.
Chief of Police Jerry Kinney testified
that when he called Craig Into hIR office
(Continued on Page Nine.)
INDIANA ROAD
LOAN APPROVED
Railway Touching This State
to Get 86,000,000.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Approval of
a loan of $6,000,000 to the Chicago k
Western Indiana Railroad Company, to
aid the carrier in meeting Its gold trust
notes due Sept. 1. was announced today
by the Interstate Commerce commlaalon.
The road Is required to finance on a
basis satisfactory to the commission, the
remninlng $8,000.000 of Its maturing obli
gation of $16,000,000.
The road Is a terminal line serving
twelve trunk lines at Chicago.
Requests for loans of approximately
$200,000,000 of the $300,000,000 government
revolving fund for the railroads, provided
b yttae Cummins-Ksch bill, have been
mad*by the association of railway execu
tives, the interstate commerce commis
sion announced today.
The use of the money Is asked for in
creased equipment for the movement of
freight.
No recommendations have been made
for the extension of loans for passenger
equipment. ,
The association has recommended that
the following loans be made to the
railroads under the provisions of the
Cummlns-Esch bill: $8,317,000 for re
building freight cars, $78,380,000 for ad
dirlons and bettermemts to equipment;
for expeditious movement of freight,
$29,054,323 for the construction of loco
motives, $52,830,493 for the purchase of
freight cars, $28,800,875 to meet maturi
ties.
Galveston Strike
Awaits New York
GALVESTON, Tex., Aug. 17.—Settle
ment of Gatveston’a longshoremens’
strike was expected to hinge <nu a meet
ing scheduled to take place In Now
York this afternoon between shipping
representatives and union heads.
Should an agreement be reached at
New York, it wan confidently believed
here that a similar agreement could be
effected at this port.
FATE OF POLISH
CAPITAL CITY IS
STILL IN DOUBT
Wireless Picked Up by London
Tells of Occupation by
Reds.
REPORTS ARE CONFUSED
LONDON, Aug. 17.—Admission that the
Polee lost ground “in front of Warsaw,"
although In other sectors of the front
they pushed the bolsbevlkl back over con
siderable distances, is contained In a
statement by the Polish legation here at
5 o’clock this afternoon.
The sector “In front" of the Polish capi
tal is that immediately to the north.
LONDON, Aug. 17.—Whether the Rus
sians have penetrated Warsaw, the Pol
ish capital, occupying part of the city,
was in doubt this afternoon.
The Polish legation and the British
foreign office united In a denial that any
part of the city has been captured by the
soviet army.
At 1 o’clock the British war office
gave out the text of a Russian wireless
dispatch in the form of the regular
soviet war office communique, saying.
“The heart of Warsaw has been oc
cupied.”
A few minutes later the real Russian
war office communique was issued, but
it made no mention of the occupation
of Warsaw.
The British war office explained this
mystery by saying that a mistake had
evidently been made in confusing a wire
less communication passing between Rus
sian field headquarters and Moscow for
the formal communique which is re
ceived from Moscow dally.
The British wireless station picked up
all available messages sent by the Rus
sian station, although only news of mili
tary operations Is given ont to the
public.
The message referring to the "heart
of Warsaw” may have been code, It was
pointed out.
MUCH CONFUSION
OVER REAL SITUATION.
Much confusion over the real military
situation on the Warsaw fighting front
had arisen earlier in the day as a result
of a Central Newg dispatch Issued at
10.50 o'clock saying:
“A bolshevik official statement an
nounces that Warsaw bfl* been occu
pied.”
An Immediate Investigation brought no
official confirmation of the fall of War
saw.
British military experts offered the
•explanation” that the official state
ment hail come from the Vilnu command
in sou them Lithuania, near the Polish
frontier.
British army officers who ire In clna
touch with the Russq-Pollsh military
situation aald that the “official state
ment" carried by the Central Neve*
sat not to be credited.
Formal announcement by the soviet
war office that the Russians had bro
ken through the Polish lln-s snd en
tered Warsaw came as a surprise for
all unofficial dispatches from the Rus
so-Polish wsr thealer duriug the night
had emphasised the fact that Polish
resistance had stiffened and that the
ititaalan advance had been stemmed at
the suburbs.
The Russians have been making a tre
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JUDGE COLLINS
BACK ON BENCH
Finds Alford Has Done Every
thing He Failed In.
Judge James Collins of the criminal
court, who hiked off on his vacation be
fore a grand Jury waa obtained to inves
tigate important jail cases this summer,
today returned from the east.
The court immediately w-eat Into con
ference with Prosecutor Claris Adams
and during the conference the doors tend
ing to the courtroom were closed.
While Judge Collins has been away
Judge Fremont Alford presided and not
only obtained a grand Jury without de
lay but completed all work demanding
attention before the grand Jury.
Judge Collins soon will begin making
his docket for the next term of court
which formally begins Sept. 6.
He staled that be visited with Gov.
Coolldge. republican nominee for vies
president, last Thursday and had s pleas
ant chat.
The eourt announced that arraignment
day will be Tuesday, Sept. 7, and follow
ing the case of Dr. Joseph Adams, in
dicted on a charge of performing a crimi
nal operation which is said to have re
sulted In the girl’s death, will begin.
Operators and Miners
Try to Adjust Views
CLEVELAND, 0., Ang. 17 Unable to
reach an agreement upon anew wage
scale, miners and operators of the Cen
tral competitive coal field comprising
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and western Penn
sylvania, again met at 10 o’clock this
morning In an effort to adjust (heir
divergent views.
It la considered probable that both
sides will ask President Wilson to re
convene the coal commission or appoint
anew body to settle the controversy.
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Issue Is Progressivism
Against Reaction —Cox
Party Leader Defines
Stand Before Meet
ing of Ohio Demo
cratic Convention.
COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. 17,-James M.
Cox, democratic nominee for president,
In bis keynote speech before the state
convention of his party here toda& de
clared progressivism as opposed to reac
tion is the Issue of the hour and pic
tured Senator Warren G. Harding as
continuing in national affairs the reac
tionary leadership which the governer
said the republican candidate* had held
throughout the fight for progress in Ohio.
The governor reviewed the history of
Ohio since 1912 and pointed to “the rec
ord of progpes*t v 'e accompilshmenttV”
under the new constitution.
He charged that the party headed by
Senator Harding had put every obsta
cle Into the path of advancement and
quoted the senator as having denounced
the order as socialism.
DEFINES STAND
OF PROGRESSIVES.
“In every contest between progress and
reaction, whether state, national or In
ternational, you will find that the for
ward step Is always surrounded by
articulated misgivings, sincere in some
instances, but ordinarily the evidence of
selfish desire or political design,” the
candidate said.
“In world affairs the progressive
would now bring an end to Interna
tional anarchy.
“He would re-establish orderly gov
ernment.
“He would take from the potentate the
power to declare war over night
"He would merge governmental en
titles into a righteous association.
QUOTES FROM
HARDING SPEECH.
On the morning after the election at
which the constitution was adopted Gov.
Cov aald Mr. Harding made this state
ment:
"Ohio, by a majority, has turned from
its old organic law and Us safeguards
nnd voted for radicalism. We have end
ed political conventions and their de
liberations. We retain the legislative
body atmply as a form and have sub
stituted lawmaking at the ballot box.
We hare declared property rights sub
ject to the law of those who have none
and opened the way for socialistic .rule
and reign In municipality and state. The
revolution In Ohio dates from Sept. 3.
Our own notlou is that the radical vic
tory of Tuesday will be followed by con
flict after conflict until a socialistic rulo
Is thoroughly established. Ohio has bro
ken her moorings. The revolution is
on. Mr
Senator Harding, Gov. Cox charged.
Might ’a Been a Hog!
A north side citizen is telling one on
himself today In tbli wise:
” kept hearing a fun
| {O/ ny noise under the
IfJP’ jL \r hood of my car.
■Hy ' JP "it didn’t sound
r/ l\-l like anything I
H n . *l/, had ever heard In
the old engine be
■Blf force and I was
■Bf considerable cu
"Wlven I slowed her down the noise
became louder.
"Finally I shut off the gas and It be
came louder etlll.
"Then I opened the hood and what do
you think I found?
"A cricket." a
Man Fatally Wounded
Thought Danish Count
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 17— A man be
teved to be Count Christian von Knuth
of Denmark was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded when he attempted to enter the
home of Milton IV. Armour late yester
day.
According to Mr. Armour, who Is man
ager of a hotel grill room. Von Knuth
followed him to his home in an automo
bile.
When he reached home Mr. Armour,
suspicious of the stranger, who parked
his car In front of his home, armed him
self
He said that he shot when the man at
tempted to break Into the rear door.
Sergeant’s Murderer
Reaches Leavenworth
LEAVENWORTH. Kas . Aug. 17.-John
Mosher, credited with being the most
dangerous prisoner in the Aniertenn over
seas army, was safely lodged behind Iron
bars at the military prison here today.
Mosher was brought here from Coblenz,
Germany, where he was convicted of mur
dering Sergt. Lester Call, who attempted
to place him under arrest.
He waa sentenced to ninety-nine years
at hard labor.
Little Journeys to
the Mayor’s Office
Mayor Charles W. Jewett arrived at his
office at 10:25 o'clock this morning to
find a Times reporter waiting for him.
The mayor remarked that If there could
be a downtown curb market he saw no
reason why the women of the south side
should not have one In Fauntaln square.
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continued to head the forces of reaction
In their bitter fight against the enact
ment of the legislative reforms made
mandatory by the new constitution.
“We should be reminded,” the governor
said, “that at the very outset we were
fought at every step. Paid lobbyists
were at work. At times we fought with
our backs to the wall. The opposition
was of financial creation.”
The reactionary forces Gov. Cox said
were unable to gain support of news
papers and therefore established their
own organ, which was distributed free.
ALL PROMINENT
LEADERS ON HAND.
Virtually every prominent democrat Is
here for the convention, the main pur
pose of which !s to give the campaign
Impetus.
Secretary of War Baker, Vic Donahey,
candidate for governor, and M. A.
Daugherty, key-noter, also were sched
uled to speak.
The business before the convention
was the framing of a platform and the
election of the presidential electors.
Cox. after several conferences with
state leaders, said he had received “most
encouraging reports’’ as to democratic
chances in November.
Caucuses of congressional districts and
meetings of convention committees were
held and the convention proper opened
at Memorial ball at 1 o’clock.
Cox plans to eat breakfast in Chicago
Thursday morning on his way to South
Bend, Ind., where he will address the
democratic editors of the state.
BAKER PLEADS FOR
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
COLUMBUS, 0„ Aug. 17.—1f the United
States is to play a “lone hand” In world
affairs "It must be a strong hand,” Sec
retay of War Baker asserted In a speech
before the democratic state convention
here today.
His address was devoted entirely to a
vigorous argument for the league of na
tions.
“If we do not go In the league we
must continue to arm,’’ he said.
"We must build a greater navy; we
must keep pace with the improvement In
arms, constantly rearming our forces
and building up greater reserves of the
most modern, most ingenious and cost
liest Implements of defense and offense.”
Baker sharply attacked Senator Har
ding’s peace plan, asserting the repub
lican candidate "was holding up a pious
hs”d and asking everybody to be good.”
The secretary indicated he will jump
Into the national campaign on league
Issues, stating that he hopes to take the
issue straight to the American fathers
and mothers In advance of the decision
to be made by the nation’s electorate this
fall.
FEED PRISONERS
FOR 30 CENTS
Former Jail Inmate Asks
WTiere Money Goes.
The following letter of complaint whijh
has been received by The Times is re
spectfully referred to the state board of
charities and corrections, the Marion
county grand Jury or any other of the
many agencies that are presumed to be
looking after the welfare of Marlon coun
ty prisoner*.
No delusions are entertained to the ef
fect that the letter will receive any more
consideration than did letters made pub
lic before the federal court disclosed con
ditions In the jail that made them appear
mild by comparison.
“I was unfortunate enough to be kept
in Jail for ten days In an assault case.
"I found the Jail food uneatable —thin
soup twice a day, no coffee but some col
ored warm water for breakfast, about
ona ounce of bread, one ounce of cooked
rice—this waa the breakfast.
“Thin soup and dry bread for dinner;
thin soup and dry bread for supper, and
very little.
“Oh, my, but the poor devils In the
jail are a hungry bunch.
"I, too, was awful hungry.
"1 had a little money and by paying
a tip was able to send out once a day
and get something to eat.
"How the poor devils do lose in weight
when they have been long In the Jail.
"I lost nearly twenty pounds in ten
days.
"When my meals were brought in from
outside how the poor, starving fellows
did beg me for Just a bite of It to stay
their craving hunger, and of course I
could not refuse them.
"I have bee if a cook and know what
foodstuffs cost and the foodstuff fed the
prisoners, at the high prices, does not
cost 30 cents each per day.
Who keeps the other 30 cents which,
with many prisoners to feed, soon
amounts to thousands of dollars.
"Will your paper have the bravery to
ask to have this cruel wrong Investigated
and righted?
“A LATE PRISONER.’’
2 Thefts of Clothes
Reported to Police
Earl Goldy. 328 Middle street, today
reported to the police that a suit val
ued at $52.50 had been stolen from his
home.
Mrs. Catherine narrlson, 716 West
Wabash streets, reported to the police
that wearing apparel had been taken
from her home.
NO. 84.
SUFFRAGE WINS
IN FIRST BRUSH
OF TENN. HOUSE
Vote oh Clearing Floor Called
by Antis Shows Ma
jority of Six.
GALLERIES ARE PACKED
NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Aug. 17.—Th#
house adjourned late this afternoon un
til 10 o’clock tomorrow morning with
out taking action on the nineteenth
amendment.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 17. —The
suffragists showed 51 to antis’ 45 on the
first test.
Antis moved to clear the floor of the
house of all but representatives.
However, suffrage floor leaders said
there was no reason to ask America to
get out.
It was moved to suspend the rules.
On ayes and noes, a roll call was de
manded.
The vote was 51 for and 45 against let
ting them stay.
A two-thirds vote was required, the
speaker ruled, bo the house was cleared.
The test showed a suffrage majority
of six.
T. K. Riddick, Shelby, moved that the
house concur in the action of the sen
ate In ratifying the nineteenth amend
ment. j
Favorable action would, result In Ten
nessee being the thirty-sixth state to
ratify.
NAMfcir THOSE
FAVORING SUFFRAGE.
Riddick gave the name of national and
state leaders who favor suffrage, lnclud -
19th Amendment
The proposed nineteenth amend
ment to the constitution reads:
“The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied
nor abridged by the United States or
by any state on account of sex.”
It was drawn by Susan B. Anthony,
pioneer of the suffrage In America
la 1575 and was Introduced In the
United States senate three years later
by Senato- Sargent, California.
The amendment was submitted to
the states in June, 1919, and a few
later Wisconsin ratified.
ing President Wilson and the presiden
i'al candidates, challenging his opponents
to name leaders of the opposition.
He charged “subtle influences” are op
erating against suffrage and Mid he
would be ashamed if suffrage was de
feated.
Aisles were jammed and galleries were
packed as the house went Into session.
Hundreds of women wore the red and
yellow flowers, emblems of the opposing
factions.
Suffragists had placed yellow flowers
on the desks of members.
A motion that newspaper men be
permitted to remain on the floor at their
accustomed desks was carried by a
vKa voce vote.
COX WILLING TO
GO TO TENNESSEE
WASHINGTON. Ang. 17.—Gov. Cox ia
wiling to go to Nashville to plead for
suffrage.
Advices to this effect were received to
day by the national woman’s party.
Democratic leaders in Tennessee ad-
Tised him yesterday not to come.
On the other hand the suffragists are
pleading with him to go, Invited or un
invited.
Only three votes now stand between
ratification and defeat, Alice Paul an
nounced today.
Wlthput three more votes the nf
fraglsts can not hope to win.
“Only Gov. Cox dhn save the situation,”
Mias Paul said. "His appearance before
the legislature and the making of a per
sonal appeal would have a tremendous
effect. Even if his appeal failed the wom
en of the country would be immeasurably
grateful to him.”
RALEIGH. N. C.. Aug. 17.—The North
Carolina senate today began debate on
rntlflcitlon of the federal woman suf
frage amendment with expectation of vot
ing before adjournment for the day.
Both suffragists and anti-suffraglsta
crowded the galleries during debate.
Suffragists predicted the senate Tote
would be close with chances slightly In
their favor.
Their opponents claimed a majority of
ten In the house.
YOUNG BANDITS
MAKE 8 RAIDS
Bind Chauffeur, Steal Auto
and Go on Rampage.
ST. LOUIS, Ang. 17.—Practically the
entire police force of St. Louis was
searching today for four youthful ban
dits who are charged with having stolen
nn automobile and the chauffeur of
which they left lying bound on a coun
try road, committed eight holdups during
the night and early this morning, then
fought a running battle with an auto
mobile loaded with detectives and police
men armed with riot arms.
In the high powered machine’ which
they had hired, the bandits were able to
on’.distance the police in a race over the
streets of the south section during the
early morning hours.
A short while later the bandits crashed
Into a guardhouse at the city workhouse
and the bandits exchanged a score of
shots with workhouse guards.
-They then abandoned their machine and
slipped through a cordon of 150 police
men thrown around the district.
CROWD ATTRACTED BY FIRE.
A large crowd was attracted by a fire
In the rear of the building occupied by
the William Laurie Company, 15 North
Merlldan street, at 6 o’clock last night.
The fire started In a pile of kindling and
rubbish and did little damage.
OPEN LETTER
TO LUCIUS SWIFT,
Sanitary Commissioner.
Dear Sir—Your zeal to make the
most of the bad bargain the mayor
droTe vrith Jim Goodrich leads you
to overlook the fact that the pri
mary purpose of a garbage reduc
tion plant is to take care of the
garbage of the city.
Os course, the plant could be more
profitably operated if you could con
trol the diet of the citizens and
thereby select the garbage to re
duce. but such paternalism smacks
too much of Goodrich centralization
to be possible right now.
If you do not want corn husks In
the garbage cans why not send word
to the city market to raise the price
of sweet corn?