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THE WEATHER
Showers probably tonight and Thursday.
Moderate temperature.
vol. xxxm.
G. 0. P. LEADER VERIFIES COX’S CHARGE
THREE TOWNS
ARE WIPED OUT
BY BIG QUAKE
Scores of Persons Are Killed
and Hundreds In
jured.
DEATH LIST INCOMPLETE
ROME, Sept. B.—The casualties result
ing from yesterday's earthquake in north
central Italy were growing today as ad
ditional reports were received.
Relief parties sent word that the towns
of Quercia, Molassa and Tarasco had
been completely wiped cut.
The whole region around Spezia was
said to have been seriously damaged.
Signor Bertini, under secretary of pub
lic works, has left for the devastated
area to personally supervise relief work.
Scores of persons were killed and hun
dreds injured, according to scattered re
ports.
The property damage was said to be
enormous.
Owing to interruption of communica
tion details were lacking.
It was learned that Villa Collemandia
and Ftvizzano were completely destroyed.
The former, located in the province of
Massacarram, had 2,000 population.
In Fivizzano. twenty were known dead
and scores injured.
LEANING TOWER
badly damaged.
Fifty-seven bodies were said to have
been recovered from the ruins of Pisa,
where the famous leaning tower was re
ported to have been so badly shaken it
was in danger of falling.
Troops and volunteer workers have been
sent to the stricken area with medical
and food supplies.
The shock, which centered in the prov
ince of Massacarrara. lasted about twenty
seconds and was the most severe ever
felt In several towns In that zone.
Serious damage and many casualties
were reported from Pietro Fosciano,
Vagll, Camorgiano, San Donnino, Peazza,
Aleerchio, Poggio, Chstagnola. Fosoian
dera, Canigiano, Gallinara and Soliera
Monte.
CEILTM THEATER
IS DESTROYED,
At Calcinniana. a church and several
houses were razed.
Two persons were killed and many In
jured.
The phurcl - St. Paul at Via Reggio
was badly - 4 1 and a workman was
killed and -*.il injured.
The earthquake caused a panic among
the population of Lucca.
A church and hospital at Pltoja were
shaken down.
The churches of San Francisco and San
Lorenzo were damaged.
Additional casualties were reported
from Gavluania. PJgiiolo. Olivola, Peill.
Moglie, Virgoletta, Monte Castello Forno
and Villa Franca.
The famous Ceilini theater was de
stroyed at Castel Franco.
The entire population of Forte Marml,
near Florence, was said to have de
serted the town, camping in the open
country nearby.
The ceiling of the church of St. Pros
pero, at Molinoquosa, fell while wor
shipers in the edifice.
According to the Novo Giornale of
Florence the districts of Lungiana and
Gjrfagnana were the hardest hit.
Another Dies From
Alcohol Poisoning
BALTIMORE, Md.. Sept. B.—The death
of a civilian employe at Edgowood
arsenal today brought the total of dead
from alcohol poisoning to seven.
Lieut. Bartley, adjutant, denied re
ports that the alcohol used at the arsenal
had been poisoned to prevent the men
from drinking it.
It is poisonous, be declared. In the
form in which It is received.
Mexican Monte Carlo
Ordered Shat Down
CALEXICO, Cal.. S*pt. S.—Military
authorities have been ordered to close
the Owl elnb at Mexicali, Mex., one of
the largest gambling houses in North
America.
Troops are guarding the place and no
one is allowed to leave or enter. The
action la said to have been taken because
of minor disorders that have occurred
at the gambling since the advent of the
new military regime in Lower California.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.,
Thursday, Sept. 9: Showers probably
tonight and Thursday: clear during
Thuraday; moderate temperature.
HOCBLY TEMPER ATI RE.
6 a. m 64
7 a. m 65
8 a. m 67
9 a. m 69
10 a. m 71
11 a. m 74
12 (noon) 75
1 p. m 76
Home Canning by
Cold Pack Method
Anew edition of this bulletin is Just
eff the press at the government printing
office.
It aete forth the best methods of can
ning that science and practice have de
veloped.
It la Just in time to be used In putting
up that carpet of fallen fruit that now
covers the orchard lands.
The small amount of sugar needed for
canning by this method is now every
where available.
At last you can can all you can.
Do your share!
(Use the coupon. Write plainly.)
'
Indiana Daily Times Information
Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Frederic J. Haekln, Director.
I enclose herewith 2 cents in
damps for return postage on a free
eopy of the booklet, "The Cold Pack
Method.”
Name
Street
City
State
Published at Indianapolis.
Ind., Daily Except Sunday.
TODAY AT FAIR
IS GIVEN OVER
TO CITY FOLK
All Indianapolis Asked by
Mayor Jewett to Come
Out and See.
CROWDS BREAK RECORD
With more than 50,000 visitors attend
ing today, and with 17,000 persons in at
tendance yesterday, as against 16,000 on
the same day a year ago, the sixty-ninth
Indiana state fair today was given over
to Indianapolis.
Proclamation was issued yesterday by
Mayor Jewett, urging every citizen who
could possibly do so to attend today.
With the attendance of today and of
the two previous days fair officials are
expecting a record-breaking week’s at
tendance.
The fair weather yesterday, coupled
with the fact that it was children’s day,
brought out the larjre attendance.
Great interest was shown in the Judg
ing of exhibits, large crowds of farmers
bearing keen interest in the prize awards
on live stock and agricultural product*.
Many men joined with the large num
ber of women who packed the women s
building, where the exhibits of pies,
bread and cakes in the culinary depart
ment were being judged. t
Handiwork of the members of the girls
school of home economics also is ex
hibited in this building and the fine
specimens brought forth many expres
sions of commendation.
N'o serious accidents have been report
ed to the Red Cross first aid tent, which
1 is stationed adjoining the women's build-
I inf?- , ..
Tuesday a small boy became enthusi
astic about the monkeys, pulled one's
I tail, and in turn was bitten on the hand.
The injury was dressed at the Red
| Cross tent.
THESE HAVE
HARDEST JOB.
Dr. Ada Schweitzer. Dr. .Tames Carter.
Bernard Larkin and ,T. W. Carmack have
been conceded to have the greatest task
on the grounds. 1
They are the judges in the baby show,
and each day they examine many young
; Americans to test their physical perfec-
I tions.
' Friday the babies will be lined up and
‘prizes distributed to the healthiest of
! the lot.
The Purdue university exhibit is housed
| in the building of the Oliver Chilled Plow
! works, and dally draws hundreds of In
; terested visitors.
Modern farm inventions, bints to farm
ers’ wives and suggestions as to the best
manner of handling poultry to obtain
best results, as well as many other
phases of modern farm life are exhibited
by the Purdue ontlay.
One sittraetion is "Purdue's sensation,"
a single-comb White Leghorn hen, which
has laid 610 agzs in less than three years.
A special meeting of the Indiana State
Poultry association was held this after
noon in the Purdue building, where plans
for the annual fall meeting were laid and
discussion of the state fair poultry show
held.
One of the moat interesting of the
judging and awards of yesterday was
that of the boy's and girl's pig club ex
hibits.
Poland China—Frank Meeks, Shelby -
ville: second, Hubert Henderson,
Sbarpsvllle; third, Raymond Gaither,
Anderson; fourth, Ruth Williams Brv
ant; fifth, Frank Hay. Greensburg: sixth,
Arthur Gaither, Anderson: seventh,
Clarence Rlgers. Pendleton; eighth, Har
old Clawson, Hartford City; ninth. Shir
ley Donnell, Greensburg; tenth, Howard
Maxwell Morgantown; eleventh, Wilfred
Wene, Pendleton; twelfth, John Sno
berger, Ilockfield; thirteenth, Owen Ev
ans, Forest: fourteenth. Charles Claw
son, Hartford City; fifteenth, Howard
Harger, Pendleton; sixteenth, John P.
(Continued on Page Three.)
MAIL PLANES TO
MARK NEW TRAIL
Air Service, New York to
’Frisco Inaugurated,
MINEOLA, N. Y., Bept. B.—The first
transcontinental msil airplane left
Curtiss field at 6:42 o'clock this morning
for San Francisco, carrying about 400
pounds of mail, or 16,000 letters and
packages.
The machine —a DeHariland postofflce
plane—was piloted by R. G. Page of
Washington.
The weather was excellent with only
a light breeze.
A second mail plane, carrying about
16,000 letters, left at 7.28 o'clock.
It was piloted by William Hopaon.
Much of this mail wns consigned to :
San Francisco and other Pacific coast
points, but it will not be carried all
the way by air.
Airplanes and special mail trains will j
alternate In carrying this consignment. ;
When the mail was loaded Into Page's
‘‘ship*’ there was an overflow and some 1
of It was Stuffed into a suitcase which i
was strapped to one of the wings.
Among the letters were some from
Postmaster General Burleson and Assist
ant Postmaster General Praeger, ad- |
dressed to Ban Francisco newspapers.
Page's first scheduled stop was Cleve- ]
land, O.
Little Journeys to
the Mayor’s Office
A Times reporter dropped in at the
mayor's office as usual at It o’clock
this morning and found the mayor
out of town, but expected back some
time today.
Which latter also is "as usual.”
LINE DISPUTE OF
POLES ON DOCKET
League Meeting, Sept. 16. Will
Consider Application.
LONDON, Bept. B.—Poland's applica
tion for arbitration of her territorial
dispute with Lithuania will be taken up
by the league of nations at the meet
ing of the council in Paris Sept. 16, it
was learned today.
Officials of the league were believed j
unsympathetic with Poland, pointing
out that country had not conformed
with its league obligations and had
taken the initiative In the Russo-Fol
ish hostilities.
The political department of the league
has started an Investigation.
Peru and Bolivia have asked the league
to settle the Tacna-Arlca dispute.
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914. at
Postofflce, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3. 1879.
This being campaign year, politics is
entering into everything, including the
expositions at the state fair.
The democratic state central commit
tee, always endeavoring to garner every
possible farmer vote, is maintaining a
large restroom under a tent at the fair.
Here may come tired voters, women
DIRECTION OF
SCHOOL CITY IS
IN FOR SIFTING
Many Irregularities Are Un
covered by State Ex
aminers.
NOTORIOUS CASE IS HIT
Investigation of claim* of certain per
-1 sons as to reported illegal contracts and
| payments by the board of school eora
; inissiouera of the city of Indianapolis
; will be conducted by the state board
of account*. It wax announced today.
1 fotlowtng the r*ffhrt of the arcotmtauf*:
j on the vain* of improvement* and alter
ations on city school*, made public last
night.
Walter J. Twlname, field examiner and
| supervising architect of the board of ae
l counts, stated in a letter to the chief
; examiner of the board, Jesse E. Each
bach, that building operations of the
pchool board will be covered in another
' report to be filed soon.
The letter to Mr. Esehbach state*, In
part:
i "I do not believe that it would be fair
to tbe Indianapolis school board, It*
employes, or the state board of aeeonnt*
to make any kind of a report on such
| improvements without a very complete
investigation . . .
"If this assignment can be extended to
a later date we would have the opportu
nity of Investigating in addition to the
building operations the claims of certain
parties as to alleged illegal contracts
and payment*.
BELIEVES STATEMENT
YY’OULD BE INTERESTING
"I believe- that a complete statement
of the building operations of the school
city of Indianapolis would be very in
teresting to the citizens of Indianapolis
and may perhaps result in much aaalst
ance to the school board in the future
In similar operation*.”
The report, which cover* condition*
from July 1, 1017, to Dec. 31, 1919, re
peats many of the disclosures made by
Tbe Times following an independent In
vestigation of the affair* of the school
city several months ago.
While the hooks of the board were
found by the examiners to be In bal
ance many Irregularities in transaction*
we disclosed.
L„e of the principal parts of the re
port has to do with the notorious method
in which Improvement* at school No.
59, the school of the Indianapolis Or
phan*’ home, were made.
"So far as the records show,” the re
port says in this connection, "the
authorization of work done at school No.
59 was not sufficiently definite.
NO ESTIMATE ON
YVORK YY AS MADE.
"No really efficient survey and estimate
was made before the work was begun.
"The book of rule* of the board pro
vides that work not exceeding an ex
penditure of $2,500 may be done by em
ployes of the school city without adver
tising and asking for competitive bid*.
"it would appear from the records that
this procedure was uot followed.
"The records show that during the six
month* ending Dec-. 3t, 1919. there was
(Continued on Fuge Eleven.)
RIOTING RAGES
IN COAL STRIKE
Pennsylvania Troopers Quell
Pitched Battle.
WILKESBARRH, Pa., Sept. B.—Rioting
broke out today in the anthracite coal
strike district.
For half an hour a large number of
men battled at. Pittston before state
troopers with drawn clubs were able to
disperse them.
Many of the strikers received bruises
and cuts, but on was Injured se
riously.
The trouble started at the Pittston
station of the Delaware & Hudson rail
road, when strikers approached a sec
tion gang. Including striking employes of
the Pennsylvania Coal Company.
When they attempted to induce the
striker* to quit working with the gang,
both sides began fighting.
Stones were hurled and dubs were
used.
The seven days' strike in the anthra
cite field has been carried on with the
following result; Collieries idle, 150;
men Idle, 130,000; loss in wages, $4,375,000;
tons lost in production, 2,100.000; loss In
business $2,500,000; operators' loss,
$1,050,000.-.
Jnifemr II ailii (Times
State Fair Has Political Phase
Democratic State Committee Display at the State Fair Grounds.
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1920.
and men, and rest a* long a* they pleaso.
But they don't get away without being
given some political advice, as that is
the primary purpose of the tent and its
accoutrement*.
The place is well supplied with cam
paign literature, and voter* leave with
well-filled pockets or haudbags.
‘MAYOR STAYS
BEHIND BARS,’
SAYS PREMIER
‘Headed Death Conspiracy
and Must Answer to Law,’
Is Verdict.
LLOYD GEORGE IS FIRM
LONDON, Sept. .—The British cabi
net. In session today, hm reported *u
thoritatliely to be reconsidering It* de
rision not to relent* Lord Mayor Mne
swlney. In view of the overwhelming
pressor* of public opinion.
LONDON, Sept. 8. Terrene* MacSwl
ney, lord mayoY of Cork, who has been
on a hunger strike for twenty-seven days,
was In a comatose condition In Brixton
i jali and scarcely recognized his wife,
Muriel, when she visited him this morn
ing.
Mr*. MaoSwiney 1* breaking down un
der the strain of her long vigil.
She was on the verge of collapse.
Au official bulletin Issued at 7 o'clock
said the lord mayor's condition was
1 "unchanged."
Ma Swlney is suffering acute pain and
a fever.
A brief religious service was conducted
i *t the bedside by Rev. Father Dominic,
I personal spiritual adviser to the stricken
lord mayor.
"Terence dozed fitfully during the
| night, but was very weak," anid the
' clergyman.
Premier Lloyd George. In an lnter
i view given to the Daily News, Indicated
j he will Insist that MaeSwtney and ths
' other Irish hunger strikers be kept be
hind the bars.
“The Cork lord mayor wsa engaged
in a general conspiracy which resulted
In the death of eishty-flre policemen and
attempted assassination of seventy-eight
other*, and tho government certatnly
has a duty to perform toward it* poll-e
force,” the premier Wss quoted as say
ing.
MACSYVINEY CASE
18 DIFFERENT.
“It is not right to compare MaeSwtney
and the other Irish hunger striker* to
the suffragettes who never killed any
one,” he continued. "If we let them out
;no can not govern Ireland, Who is to
govern Ireland if not the British era
! plre? I certainly should not be rospon
| sible for tbe creation of an independent
republic In Ireland. If we had had that
during the late war the British empire
might have been destroyed by German *
submarine warfare. It was a tough go
as it was.”
The premier declared that dominion
home rnle for Ireland involved a separate
Irish army and navy and also n financial
question in the matter of payment for
tbe war.
“England must make up her mind
(Continued on Cage Eleven.)
LURES WOMAN;
TRIES ASSAULT
Woman Taxi Passenger Res
cued by Police.
Lured to n lonely place on tho Fall
Creek boulevard by a taxi driver who,
it is alleged, attempted to commit a
[ criminal assault, Mrs. Anna Kamp, 630
West Vermont street, wa* reacued by
Patrolman Whitfield, who happened to ;
; ho passing In another automobile and
| hears her screams.
Marcus Duncan, 28, 544 Warman ave- !
I nue, taxi driver, is under arrest charged j
| with attempting to commit a criminal '
| assault.
Mrs. Kamp got into the taxi at Wash- i
[ ington street and Elder avenue, request
ing the driver to tako her to her home
| on Vermont street.
The driver, however, failed to stop av
the Vermont (street address and drove
to Fall Creek boulevard not far from
White river.
Mrs. Kamp leaped from the automo
bile and sprained her ankle, but fought
her assailant.
Mrs. Kamp said she was dragged back
into the car but her screams attracted
the policeman.
Her clothing was torn and there were
marks on her neck, the police say. show
ing where she had been choked.
Duncan was taken to fire engine hous*!
No. 1, at Indiana avenue and Michigan
street, where a call was sent for a pa
trol wagon. While waiting for the pa
trol wagon he suddenly Jerked away
from tbe police and started ro run, but
Patrolman Whitfield fired a shot at him
and Duncan ballad.
MOORE AND U. S.
DISTRICT ATTY.
IN CONFERENCE
Report That Perjury Charges
May Come From Slush
Fund Investigation.
STATEMENT WITHHELD
CHICAGO, Sept. 8. —Edmund 11. Moore,
personal representative of James M. Cox,
and United States District Attorney
Clyne held a conference here today just
before Moore appeared at the senate com
mittee's "slush fund" hearing.
Neither Moore nor Clyne would dis
cuss the conference, but the fact that a
conference had been held gave rise to ru
mors that charges of perjury on the part
of witnesses before the senate committee
would be presented to the grand Jury.
Reports were circulated in the federal
building that Clyne was considering an
investigation into alleged conflicting tes
timony of some witnesses appearing be
fore the committee.
Clyne said he would make no state
ment regarding his plans before he bad
an opportunity of consulting with the
full committee conducting the investiga
tion.
He said he hoped to meet with the
committee following the hearing.
The Clyne Moore conference occured
while Dudley S. Blossom, Cleveland, was
telling the committee of the operation
in that city of a money raisirg plan
which democratic members of the com
mittee said exactly paralelled the "Blair
plun,” as outlined in a circular known
as form 101.
This is the plan which Chairman Will
Hays and Treasurer Fred W. I'pham of
the republican national committee told
the committee was rejected in favor of
a plan of decentralized giving evolved by
Hays.
Blossom verified Gov. Cox's statement
made In Nit* Pittsburg speech that Cleve
(Continued on .Cage Eleven.)
HARDING TALKS
AT STATE FAIR
OF MINNESOTA
St. Paul Speech First Away
From Front Porch Effort
Since Convention.
OUTLINES HIS ISSUES
STATE FAIR GROUNDS, BT. PAUL,
Minn., Bept. B.—America must stand on
her own feet, agriculturally, industrially
and politically, YVarren G. Harding de
clared In a speech at the Minnesota £tate
‘fair Tier* (Wfjr '
“We are, then, the guarantor* of our
own security,” he added.
"Agriculture Is menaced by evil* which
demand not quack remedies, hut careful
study and proper action,” the repub
lican nominee continued.
"Unless we deal more fairly,” he
warned, "there may eome a conflict be
tween the organized farmers in the sur
plus producing sfatos and those who in
alst on buying their crops below produc
tion costs.
”We need fewer land hog* who men
ace our future and more fat hogs for
ham and bacon," Hard’ng said.
"We ne*d less beguUemcnt in culti
vating a quadrlennlal crop of voters and
more consideration for farming as our
basic industry,
'We need rest and recuperation for a
soil worked out In agitation and more
and better harvest* in the inviting fields
of ruutnal understanding."
BEY BN PLANKS IN
AGRICULTURE PLATFORM,
Hardtng put seven planks in his agri
culture platform today: Farm represen
tation In government, right of farmers
to co-operative organization, ectenUfic
*tndy and action toward stabilising:
prices of farm product.*, cessation of at- j
tempts at price fixing on foodstuffs, ex- '
panaton of th federal farm loan act to ;
aid farmers to purchase land, most *f- :
flclcmt transportation possible, revision j
of the tariff to protect the American j
farm.
Harding's speech today wss the first
outside of Ohio since he beesme the re
publican presidential candidate.
Although induced to come to Mlnne.
sota partly because of the political situ
ation here. Harding made no reference
to it or the Farmers' Nonpartisan league
action here.
His speech was without direct refer
ence to partisan politics, n'thoiigh ho
scored the treatment accorded the farmer
In tho last seven years
“The government should do everything ;
possible toward restoring a balance be- j
tween live stock and graiu production!
to enc ourage a return to diversified farm- |
Ing," Harding said.
NO THOUGHT OF
ELABORATE SYSTEM.
."America must decide whether the
United States shall he a self-sustaining
nation or continue to explolnt ngricnl- j
tnrnl resources and leave to posterity the
task of finding food enough by Strong j
arm methods if necessary to feed the j
eomlng hundreds of millions," he do- |
clared.
"I have no thought of suggesting that j
the government should work out an ,
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
BROOKLYN TRAIN
IS FIRED UPON
Mayor Hylan to Meet Strikers
Today.
NEYV YORK. Sept. 8. A Brooklyn
Rapid Transit train operated by strike
breakers on the Culver line in Brooklyn
was fired upon by strikers or sympa
thizers.
Another attempt at mediation was
scheduled for today between Mayor Hy-
Inn and representatives of the trolley
men’s union.
T/indley M. Garrison, receiver for the
B. It. TANARUS„ Issued an ultimatum backed
by the federal court that all striking em
ployes who did not return to work by
noon would be treated as new men and
would have to apply for Jobs when (he
trouble is finally ndjusted.
Officials of tbe company claimed that
more than 3,500 old employes have signi
fied their intention of returning to work.
EXCUSE TOO THIN.
SOUTH BEND. Ind., Sept. B.—Telling
the judge that he was carrying a re
volver to the store for exchange did
not save John Galamhu* from a $25 fine
In municipal court for carrying concealed
weapons. K
Buh<rlT,Mnn JBy Carrier,
Subscription Rates: { By Mall> EOo Per ’ Month . | 5 00 Per Taar.
ADMITS HIS QUOTA
AS GIVEN BY NOMINEE
IN PITTSBURG SPEECH
Dudley S. Blossom, in Charge of Cleveland
Division, Says Amount Assessed There
s4oo,ooo—lt Tallies.
40 TEAMS COVER ONE OHIO COUNTY
CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 8. —Orgarization of the republican money raising
system in Ohio tvas described to the senate’s "slush fund” investigators
today by Dudley S. Blossom, Cleveland.
Blossom was one of two "divisional leaders” in Cuyahoga county
where Cleveland is situated.
He told the committee the county’s quota w’as $400,000.
Gov. Cox said in his Pittsburg speech that was Cleveland’s quota.
A. A. Pr&tzman was sent to CleY-eland by republican headquartefs in
Chicago, to organize and direct the campaign Blossom said.
Blossom said he and T. C. Brooks, the other divisional leader, organ
ized forty teams of six men each to cover the county.
A list of 3,000 known republicans in the county was made up, Blossom
said and these prospects were assigned to the teams.
Money raising began Aug. 16, Blossom said.
The money raising plan outlined by Blossom was that provided for
in form 101, the “Blair plan.”
Blossom said he didn’t know how the 3,000 names were obtained nor
by whom.
A certain number of the 3,000 prospects were assessed definite sums
which Bllssom said it was thought they should be able to pay.
Daily luncheon meetings were held, as provided for in the plan out
lined in Form 101 and the money raising project was inaugurated at a big
dinner.
Blossom said $74,000 had been raised by the teams up to Monday.
“Has the work been abandoned?” questioned Senator Reed.
"Not entirely,” Blossom answered.
Reed read to Blossom the Blair plan as outlined in form 101 and asked
if it had been closely followed.
Reed, i nreading the form, brought out that it called for an executive
committee of twelve men and Blossom said the Cleveland committee had
numbered twelve.
Form 101 fixd 3,000 as the size of the prospective list for a city like
Cleveland.
This was the number of names in *ho Cleveland list, Blossom said.
Estimating the amounts that a prospect should pay was done just as
suggested in the form, the witness testified.
Fred W. Upham, republican treasurer, and Will H. Hays, chairman,
have repeatedly denied that form 101 or the pla nit embodied was put in
use.
Blossom said a “cream list” of SI,OOO prospects was made out.
Such a list was mentioned in form 101.
i RENTON AND BOOK
OBJECT TO QlJggJHMi* „ *
A flareup occurred when Reed asked
Blossom who suggested to him tbe plan
“which tallies absolutely In almost every
respect with form 101.”
Senator Kenyon declared Ihe question
unfair and Senator Edge backed him up.
Reeil said ihe republican* were trying
to caution the witness *o be would not
answer frankly.
BJo**om finally was permitted to an
swer.
He *ald either Woodford nor Protzman
| talked with him of the plan.
Blossom said he waa not paid for hi*
work. -
Representative Fes*. Ohio, chairman of
[ the congresalonal campaign committee of
! the republican party, a<l dressed the first
| luncheon meeting, Blossom said, but did
! not mention money raising.
| Senalor Spencer said the essential fra
! fure'nf forti |Ol was not used in Cleve
land.
“Form 101 said subscriptions of $5,000
and more should be obtained," he said.
"Did you get any such V'
“None iver $1,000,” said Blossom.
Blossom said there were twenty-three
| or twenty-four subscription* of SI,OOO.
He denied, in reply to Spencer, that
any effort was madi to keep the plan
secret.
BLOSSOM PRAISES
MONEY RAISING PLAN
After Blossom had highly praised the
plan. Senator Pomerene asked:
"YVas there any reason why the re
publican national committee should not
have adopted the plan or should have
tried to keep It *erret ?"
“No renson I know of.”
DRAGNET FOR EVIDENCE
BRINGING IN RESULTS.
A dragnet hsi* been spread over the
whol* country for evidence of political
“money digging.”
The catch in this net la so great, ac
cording to E. H. Moore, star witnesa foi
Gov. Cox, he said today, that:
“PR have a lot more evidence today
than I had yesterday and tomorrow I'll
hare a iot more than I have today."
Moore has sent score* of telegrams to
democratic state chairmen and others in
many states, asking for information to
support Cox's charge that the repub
licans set out to gather a “slush fund '
of $15,000,000 or, as Moore says, $16,000,
000.
The responses to these messages Modre
has begun laying before the senate com
mittee investigating Cox’s charges.
CAN GET EVIDENCE
IF THEY YY ANT IT.
Moore has adopted these tactics in an
effort to convince the republican members
of the committee they can get evidence'
backing up Cox’s assertions if they
want to.
Their investigations he proposes to
show need not be limited for lack of
witnesses.
Another stormy set-to was in prospect
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LAFOLLETTE MAN
IN LOSING RACE
Lenroot Vote in 636 Precincts
Is 45,269.
MILWAUKEE, Wls„ Sept. B—lrvine
L. Lenroot, candidate for rononiinatiou
for United State* senator on the re
publican ticket at yesterday's Wisconsin
primaries, held a lead of approximately
10,000 votes today over James Thomp
son. backed by tho LnFollete arganiza
tlon, on Incomplete return*.
Returns from 636 precinct* out of 2,-
379 in the state gave Lenroot 45,2'i9 and
Thompson 33,391.
Ro.v I*. Wilcox, an (inti-Lafoll*tte can
didate, and John Blaine wen* runnlug
a close race for the republican nong.na
tion for governor.
Unofficial returns ffom 438 precincts
gava Blaine 29,525 and Wilcox 20,149.
John ,T. Esch, oongreasmau from the
(Continue* m Fnge Eleven.)
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FUND, COX SAYS
Greatest War Profiting Con
cerns Biggest Backers,
Candidate Asserts.
ABOARD GOV. COX’S SPECIAJ.
TRAIN, CULBERTSON. Mont., Sept. B.
Gov, Cox said today as he pushed his
stump campaign another step west Into
Montana that he is prepared to show
that those corporations that made tb*
greatest profits out of the war are
among the biggest backers of the re
publican campaign fund.
“The most notorious profiteer In
America, tho American Woolen Company,
YY’lUiam M. Wood, president, already
has made a large contribution to the
campaign book of republicanism which
William Barnes, Albany, N. Y., Is pub
lishing," he charged specifically.
Got. Cox recently had a survey made
of conditions at the woolen mill ano
It was understood his assertion was
based on this report.
He indicated In future addresses he
will name other corporations to which he
believes the same charges can be ap
plied.
TO SPEND TWO DAYS
IN MONTANA.
Indicating that democrats hare strong l
j hopes of carrying Montana, Cox will
! spend two days In this state.
Only two main addresses—at Havre and
at Great Falls—were ou the schedule to-:
diiy. although several rear platform talks:
' probably will be made.
Tomorrow Cox will visit the copper
mining section of Butte and Anaconda.
Even the governor’s close friends ad
mit his receptions in North Dakota were
rather lukewarm, but they attribrte
this to the influence of the Nonpartisan
league.
Cox, however, made a strong plea to
Independent progressive voters.
Cox was due to arrive at Havre at 2
p. m., and at Great Falls at 7:15 p. m.
Judge Lahr Asks
Rat Trap to Aid
Dignity of Court
Judge Frank Lahr, juvenile court,
appeared before the county council
today with a request for an appropri
ation for the purchase of a rat trap
to be installed in his courtroom.
He declared that marathon races
staged hy rodents during the course
of a trial do not add to the dignity
of the court.
McCulloch Speaks at
HartfordjCity Rally
Special to Tho Times.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Sept. B. |
Democrats of Blackford county are well
pleased with the opening of their cam- !
paign, Tuesday, when Dr. Carleton Me- j
Culloch, the democratic candidate for J
governor, made a tour of the county,
ending with a big rally here Tuesday
night.
Dr. McCulloch charged the Goodrich
administration with usurping the powers
of all state agencies and with attempt
ing to dictate to the court*.
W.-urm T. McCray, the republican can
didate for governor, approves this course,
he asserted. J
Miss Julia Landers of Indianapolis,
democratic national commit teewontan
from Indiana, addressed a meeting of
women In the afternoon.
She urged the adoption by America of
the league of nation* to prevent Autyre
wars. /
NO. 103.
TICKLE PALM
TRICKS OF G.O.P.
ARE SHOWN UP
Democratic Slush Fund
Charges Backed by Re
publican Report.
PARTY ‘SECRETS’ ARE OUT
The "crossing of the palms with
money” of the treasurers of the
various republican county commit
tees in Indiana was one of the ways
that the Indiana republican state
central committee spent more than
$245,922.66 in Indiana during the 1916
campaign.
The methods used by the G. O. P.
state central commmittee are re
vved in a lengthy report of cam
paign expenditures for 1916 now on
file In the county clerk’s office.
Frank D. Stalnaker. who was treasurer
of the state central committee during the
1916 campaign, tells In an itemized state
ment how $245,922.66 was spent out of a
huge campaign fund of $258,838.29.
Os this enormous campaign fund, ap
proximately $94,202.42 was dumped Into
the state by the republican national com
mittee in a manner similar to the way In
which Gov. Cox is charging there Is n
republican conspiracy operating now to
“buy the presidency.”
In addition to the big cash receipts
for the 1916 eampa.gn, Mr. Stalnaker’s re
port shows there were “other donations”
1 besides the cold cash.
OH. LOOK HERE—
! D’YCH SEE IT?
Among these “other donations” were
the following:
353.000 copies of “Workmen and
Wages” in each foreign language;
German, 100.000, etc.
Donated by Delavan Smith, Lake
Forest, 111., publisher of The Indian
apolis News; 372 inches of advertis
ing space and 100,000 pamphlets on
the Adamson law.
Donated by YYilUam B. Burford,
38 South Meridian street, $1,250 worth
of printing.
In the 1916 campaign Delavan Smith
! was regarded as the sole owner of the
Indianapolis News by the public and It
was not until recently that it became
j known that the estate of the late Charles
Warren Fairbanks, former vice president
of the United States, was three-fourths
owner of the News.
The sworn report of Stalnaker as to
the campaign expenditures of the re
publican state central committee throws
much light on the method used in un
loading more than $245,922.66 la Indiana
in 1916.
The report shows thousands of dollar*
were given with a lavish hand to the
various treasurers of the varioys re
! publican county organizations In Indiana,
i and that additional thousands were spent
a* salary to members of the republican
state committee, for headquarters at the
Hotel Severin, for telegrams, traveling
expenses, for newspaper boiler plate,
moving picture film, postage and for
hundreds of other reason*.
PALMS OUT IN
STATE TICKLED, TOO.
The tickling o' toe palms with money
of the republic-- casurers of the
various county i . rization in Indiana
is revealed by St&.naker's sworn report.
A few of ibese disbursements are listed
as follows in the report:
Sept. 20, 1916—Schuyler Haas, treasurer
of the Marion county organization, to be
used in "compliance with the laws to
advance the Interests of the republican
party"—sl,ooo.
Oct. 14—C. L. Fowler, treasurer of Lake
county organization, to be used in com-
? llano* with the laws of the state of
ndiana to advance the Interests of re
publican party—sl,soo.
Oct. 21 —Frank M. Boone, treasurer of
St. Joseph county committee, to “ad
(( ontlnued on Page Three.)
500,000 WORKERS
DEMAND SOVIET
Dispatch Says Strikers Are
Weakening.
LONDON. Sept. B,—Half a million
Italian workmen, chiefly in the Iron end
steel Industry, are engaged In a gi
gantic struggle against the mill owners
which threatens to develop Into a gen
eral revolutionary fight, according to ad
vices from Rome snd Milan today.
The Italian confederation of labor and-
Italian socialist party have decided to
continue their joint sessions indefinitely.
According to a Milan telegram, "Lead
ers of the workingmen contemplate a
general revolutionary movement unless
the metal workers settle their differences
with their employers by Sept. 10.”
The railway men id the dock workers
threaten to Join the movement inaugu
rated by the metal Yrorkers.
All of the great iron and steel mill*
in Italy may be nationalized if the ow
ers reject the demands of the local In
dustrial soviets.
Italian workmen who seized the plants
and formed workers' councils are waiting
reply from the -proprietors to the de
mands.
According to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Turin the workers In that
city are weakening. Many kavve re
fused to do picket duty, according to
the telegram.
BAPTISTS MEET SEPT. 14.
Special to The Times.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Sept. B,—The
Salainonle Baptist association, which in
cludes the churches in Wells, Jay, Black
ford. Delaware and Henry counties, will
hold Its eighteenth annual meeting at the
Liberty Center church, In Wells county.
Sept. 14 and 15.
V OPEN LETTER
TO HARRY S. NEW,
Bead Republican Speakers’ Bureau.
Dear Harry—There are a lot of us
Hoosiers who are pining to know
what Jim Goodrich thinks about
the lengue of nations and the ad
vislbiUty of re-electing Jim Watson.
Since Jim Watson indorsed the
Goodrich administration we have
been waiting impatiently for Jim
Goodrich to Indorse the Watson sep
arate peace with Germany.
Will you please arrange a speak
ing tour for Goodrich in the Inter
ests of Indiana democracy?