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THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Saturday. Not much
change in temperature.
vol. xxxm.
WALL STREET BOMB TOLL, 38; DAMAGE, $2,500,000
VANGUARD OF
EN&tMPMENT
CITY
Housirifcof G. A. R- Visitors |
Wilf Be Big Problem for
Committee.
VETERANS TO REGISTER
More than fifty Civil war veterans were
aaigned rooms in private homes by the
G. A. R. housing committee today for the
annual national encampment of the
Grand Army, which opens Sunday, and
the committee will open headquarters
early Saturday morning at the Union sta
tion. where all assignments will be
made.
Scott R. Brewer, chairman of the
housing committee, announced today that
accommodations have been obtained for
the housing of approximately 25,000 per
sons.
In addition the hotels of the city will
house approximately 6,000.
The headquarters at the Union station
will be under the elevated tracks at Il
linois street and a corps of workers will
be stationed there night and day, start
ing early tomorrow.
The first large delegation of visitors
is expected to arrive Saturday.
COMPLETE ROLL OF
O. A. H. MEN' DESIRED.
Albert J. Ball, adjutant general of the
Grand Army of Indiana, lit, a statement
issued today, urged that all veterans who
already have arrived in the city and are
staying with relatives, register imme
diately at the Statehouse, Where, it is
hoped, a complete roll of the Grand Army
men attending the encampment will be 1
made up.
He also urged that residents bousing
veterans remind them to register at the
Statehouse.
According to Edward A. Kahn, chair
man of the executive commute for the
encampment, all preparations will have
been completed by Saturday for the en
campment.
The first meeting to be held in con
nection with the encampment will be at
4 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Clay
pool Hotel, national headquarters of the
Grand Army and the Woman's Relief
Corps.
The meeting will be of all national
presidents of the organizations ailed with
the G. A. R. and one delegate from each
organization.
HOTS OF ’6l
NO LONGER YOUNG.
Although John B. Orman, chairman of
the automobile committee for the en
campment, has sent 2,500 post cards to
automobile owners asking them to lend
their machines for at least one afternoon
or day of the encampment, only a very
few persons have responded, Air. Orman
said today.
“The ’boys’ of .'6l are no longer boys.”
Mr. Orman said. “Today the distance
from the monument erected to their
memory to Sixteenth street is longer'
than the red road from Sumter to Ap-
Ipomattox.
“Our Indianapolis pavements are hard
and the blocks are long.
“The soldiers need care to ride in and
it is our duty to supply them."
Mr. Ormaa pointed out that the auto
mobile. dealers of Richmond are going
to bring a large number of veterans to
Indianapolis in automobiles each day of
the encampment, taking them back again
In the evening.
Announcement also is made by E. U.
Graff, superintendent of Indianapolis
public schools, that all schools will not
open next Wednesday to allow the school
children an opportunity of viewing the
Grand Army parade, which will be held
In the morning at 10 o’clock.
Work was being rushzd today on the
grand stands in front of the Statehouse,
where officials of tne Grand Army, mem
bers of the executive committee' and
members of the city council will view
I the parade.
1 TRADE BODY HITS
‘BIG FIVE’ SCHEME
New Plan for Dissolution of
Subsidiaries Killed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—The Fed
-1 eral Trade Commission today recom
mended to Attorney General Palmer that
the plan advanced by the five large
packers for the dissolution of their un
related businesses be disapproved.
The plan "would result in an even
greater monopoly,” and would not ob
tain the object sought in the litigation
for the dissolution of these unrelated
businesses, the Federal Trade Commis
sion report declared.
The plan of the packers calls for
the sale of the large stockyards to
a holding concern, organized by If. H.
Prince dt Cos., of Boston.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.,
Saturday, Sept. 18: Fairer tonight and
Saturday; not mnch change in tempera
ture.
HOURLY temperature.
6 a. m 63
7 si. m 56
8 a. m.................... 60
9 a. m * 66
10 a. m 70
U a. m 71
12 (noon) 72
1 p. m 73
How Other
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different sized families with various In
comes should spend on rent, food,
clothes, education, recreation, etc.
It contains complete tables and blanks
for record keeping.
Find out how other thrifty people get
ahead and profit by their example.
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Ilublished at Indianapolis,
*ln<L, Dafly Except Sunday.
Investigation Shows Cases
of Indianapolis Keep Prices
Up Despite Low Food Costs
With the wholesale price on certain vegetables and fruits at the low
est level they usually touch during the year, because this is the season of
plentiful supply, Indianapolis restaurants and hotel cases are serving dishes
of them at prices which range from 100 to 1,500 per cent in excess of cost,
a survey conducted by the Daily Times during the past two weeks Bhows.
The investigation disclosed beyond possibility of refutation that res
taurant and hotel keepers almost without exception have not reduced their
charges materially since the wholesale prices have fallen to the lowest
point.
The outstanding example of this lies
in the fact that the Lincoln Hotel aerved
a portion of sliced tomatoes, consisting
of not more than three whole vegetables,
at BO cents.
The highest wholesale price quoted on
tomatoes of any variety during the past
two weeks on Commission Row was $1.50
per bushel. ♦
Commission men say that the average
number of tom.Uoes in a bushel is 100,
which makes the.-wholesale cost for one,
1 cent.
Granting that the Lincoln serves three
tomatoes for BO cents, the margin over
the wholesale cost Is 47 cents, or 1,566 2-8
per cent.
For purposes of best comparison can
telonpes, watermelons, tomatoes, peaches,
potatoes and sweet corn were priced.
In every instance cited the lowest
charge at each restaurant or case has
been compared with the highest whole
sale price.
As Is well known the highest retail
prices are to be found in those estab
lishments which furnish musical or
cabaret entertainment, part of the higher
charge being cheerfully assumed by most
patrons because of the frills, which, of
course, include better service.
However, it was found that cafeterias
where the self-jerve custom is in effect
were not universally the cheapest places
to eat, indicating that some places are
able to provide good food and service and
sometimes entertainment at reasonable
prices and yet make a fair profit.
SURE, MIGHT
USE ’EM THEN
The city purchasing agent’s office
reported today that a well-known
company wants to sell the city 54,-
000 packages of a popular brand of
smoking tobacco for 3 cents a pack
age.
Nobody around the city hall could
imagine what earthly use the city
might hare for 54,900 packages of
smoking tobacco, until It was sug
gested that it might be used dur
ing the municipal campaign next
year for distribution among the
"roll their own" cigarette smokers.
The tobacco company might dec
orate the sacks with a photograph
of the Jewett administration can
didate for' ah extra penny each, it
was further suggested
HEIER SUCCEEDS
IN STALLING CASE
Old Methods to Delay Trial
Meet With Success.
When Fred Heier, former saloon keep
er and at one time cell boss over other
prisoners at the Marlon County Jail,
wants a continuance of bootlegging
charges against him in the Marion County
Criminal Court, he simply files various
methods to cause delay.
The record* in the Criminal Court show
that Heier was scheduled to go to trial
yesterday, but the case was continued by
Judge James A. Collins until next Tues
day.
Today the records show that Heier
made a motion asking for a change of
venue, which was overruled because it
was not filed within the time limit pre
scribed.
Then Heier asked for a Jury trial, which
was granted.
It was explained by the clerk of the
court that the case would not be tried
“next Tuesday," beoause it was a Jury
case.
Announcement had been made previous
ly that, court would be practically sus
pended next week because of the G. A. R.
encampment.
But Heier fete hie continuance Just tbe
same. *
And Them New Skirts
Many fire-plugs In Indianapolis go
from one month to the next without
being used.
But an Indian
"" apolls “copper" will
1 swear *■ n * w use
has been found for
t w a on North ll
i/7 llnola street.
A fat man ap-
Vl \ \ proached the ping,
A I \ 1 stopped, placed his
* /H / / foot on top and
'tied his shoe
strin gs.
Behind him another man waited and
followed the actiop of the fat man.
A few minutes later a woman ap
proached the same plug, and—
Bandit Takes Watch
While Fighting Pair
A hold-up man covered Van Edwards,
619 Jefferson avenue, and William P.
Myers, 856 North Pershing avenue, with
a revolver last night as ''they stopped
their automobile at Tenth street and the
Big Four Railroad tracks.
The thief ordered the men to get out
of the automobile and they obeyed, but
Edwards struck the man a hard blow
which drove him against Myers.
The two men struggled with the man
until he fought himself free and ran.
Then Myers discovered that the thief
had taken his watch.
Oh —They’re Women!
Scene —Illinois street movie house.
Time—Bast night
Young man slt
rfS*. O ting en< * seat
'j * with half a dozen
other seats in the
,'jf Yflm \‘9 row un ° ccu P' e d-
Jg/ \ .\y ( Two women with
JTV five children enter
and stand beside
nr 1-5?-* J said young man.
k jTfV iA Lm Y. M. gets up to
—a—a . .. let them pass.
They they teok every seat
in the rovr^^^^^.
Entered as Second Class Matter, July J 6, 1914, at
Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March S, 1879.
Taka the good old-fashioned "Mur
phy” variously listed by commission men
ax "Fancy Eastern Cobblers," "Fancy
Minnesota,’’ "Early Ohio” or “Fancy
Michigan Round White” potatoes.
Fancy Eastern Cobbler potatoes reached
their highest peak of the last two weeks
on Sept. 9, when they were selling at
$5.50 per 150-pound sack.
Potatoes will average four to the pound,
which would mean 600 to the 150-pound
sack. f
The average coct per "spud” then would
be slightly more than nine-tenths of a
cent.
At most of the cheaper places they will
serve usually one and never more than
two potatoes.
At the more exclusive places the allot
ment Is more generally two and some
times three par portion.
Pass up the cafeterias, where potato
prices are more or less reasonable and
enter the Bamboo Inn to strains from a
competent orchestra.
There your two humble nine-tenths
of a cent potatoes prepared under the
title of "cottage fried’’ cost 85 cents.
Housewives say that It would take at
least 2 cents worth of lard to prepare
a dish of this size and style, so that the
total cost for materials, exclusive of heat
would be 3 8-lb cents, making the mar
(Continued on I’uge Nine.)
ILLINOIS TOGA
HEAT RESULTS
STILL IN DOUBT
McKinley Leads in Republican
and Waller in Democratic
Contests.
CHICAGO, Sept. 17.—Republican and
Democratic nomination* for United State*
senator from lUtnola remain In doubt
today as the count of ballcta east lu
Wednesday's primaries nears completion,
The issue as to other nominations for
major offices In the State apparently is
settled.
Congressman William B. McKinley of
Champaign holds a lead today over Con
gressman Frank L. Smith of Dwight lot
the Republican senatorial nomination.
Returns from 5,200 precinct* out of
5.737 In the State girt McKinley 322,91*
votes and Smith 317,005, a plurality foi
Ms Kin ley of 5,217 votes.
An official count may be necessary to
decide this tight.
The Democratic senatorial fight Is even
closer.
Latest available returns show that
Peter A. Waller, wealthy manufacturer,
holds a lead of 172 vote* ever Robert
Emmett Burke, the only Democrat who
cast a vote against President Wilson's
renomlnatlon at St. Louis In 1910. '
Burke ran rut an out and out anti-
League of Nations candidate.
With James Hamilton Lewis, former
United States Senator, safely the Demo
cratic nominee for Governor, It is prac
tically assured that Len Small of Kan
kakee, will be his Republican opponent
In the November election.
Returns from 5,056 preclnts give Small
358.268 votes to 325.840 for Lieut. Gov.
John G. Oglesby.
Small's plurality le 13,422
Chicago gave Small a plurality of ap
proximately 90,000 votes and Oglesby's
strength In the "downstate" districts ap
parently wag not sufficient to overcome
this lead.
Only one Republican Congressman
from Illinois has failed of renomlnatlon
on the face of returns today.
William E. Mason and Richard Yates,
Congressmen-at-Large, were renominat
ed, but Congressman Neils Juul was de
feated by M. A. Mlchaelson, a former
Chicago alderman.
“Uncle Joe” Cannon defeated TO. B.
Coolley in the Danville district after one
of the hottest Jlght* in the veteran leg
islator’s career.
Stanley H. Kuna, a former Chicago
alderman, won the Democratic nomlun
(Continu'd on Page Two.)
BOOST NURSES’
HOME ESTIMATE
$600,000 Proposal Comes Be
fore Board Tonight.
The board of health will hold a spe
cial session tonight for further considera
tion of plans for a nurses’ homes at the
city hospital.
Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of
the board, stated that a resolution asking
the city council for authority for a SOOO,-
000 bond Issue will be offered.
Since the council has been unable to got
together for the conference heretofore it
is likely that the resolution will be dis
cussed immediately before the opening of
the regular council meeting Monday
night.
The estimate of $*100,(100 la SIOO,OOO
higher than the original because of in
creased prices and freight rates. Dr.
Morgan said.
SULTAN’S QUEENS AND MURA T DRILL TEAMS TO RICHMOND
The "luscious Queens” of the Sultan's
Harem were safely piloted to a special
Pennsylvania train bound for the fair
city of Richmond, by hundreds of Murat
Shrlners today.
Oriental music, such as that heard in
the streets of Cairo, served to keep the
“Queens” In step, although the step was
as Oriental as the music.
The famous dancing beauties were ac
companied by Mizpah’s Patrol, the No
mad Murat, the Dervishes from
Murat, the Gun Squad, the Hejaz's
Rahouls, the Chanters, the Murat Patrol
I and many Illustrious gentlemen In eve
; cing clothes.
More than five hundred members of the
Shrine marched to the station, when they
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1920.
GOV. COX SAYS
REACTION WILL
STOP PROGRESS
Senatorial Oligarchy and De
signing Interests Given
Severe Jolt.
TOURS JOHNSON’S STATE
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 17.—Speak
ing in the home city of Senator Hiram
Johnson, Gov. James M. Cox today pre
dicted If the “reuetionary senatorial
oligarchy gains control of tha Govern
ment in this campaign, It will so manip
ulate the power of patronage that pro
gressive Republicans will soon be com
pelled to join another party or form one
of their own."
Cox asserted if progressive Repub
licans "inclining naturally to tbe Ideal
ism of Roosevelt," were to stay In the
party they would be compelled "to sur
render to official representatives of big
business."
PARTY OBLIGATED TO
DESIGNING INTERESTS.
"Never were so many obligations to de
signing interests being assumed by the
party of reaction as In this xampalgn,”
he aald.
It was Cox’s first speech of his four
day tour of California.
He declared that on many questions
other than international relations John
son and he had a “common view."
He praised Johnson's progressive and
straightforward attitude, stating he and
the senator fought reaction In Ohio and
California.
"The best guarantee to the future of
the country will be the prevalence of
progressive principles In the policies of
the two leading political parties," Cox
declared. t
“But Senator Harding himself has said
that if Progressives of 1913 came back to
the party they would have to come on
their hands and knees."
Cox then quoted Johnson as hsvlng
said after the Chicago convention that ho
preferred defeat to nomination in a hotel
room by representatives of big business.
"Roosevelt,” he saidt "msdo the same
fight In 1912 as Johnson did in 1020, but
both were humiliated.” ,
He added: "I am unable to see bv
what process of reasoning a political
party which has given to Ross Barnes
<>f New York distinct status.of leadership
lu this campaign can expect progressive
friends of ltoosevelt and Johnson to
give it support.
"In the language of Roosevelt he was
the connecting link between crooked
business and crooked politics.
GOING BACK
TO “NOHMALITT."
"Doubtless the return to Barnes Is an
other evidence of going back to ’nor
mality,' to the times of Hanna and Boss
Tweed, when public officers vurreue.ered
themselves as puppets to financial Inter
est* because of service rendered durtn*
tbe campaign.
’•(,'nder ths belief that disturbed eon
ditlons following war make political
vl.-tory certain methods are followed at.
blusbingly and without concealment ”
"It is true," continued Governor Cox,
"and It would be futile to deny It, that
there are many Cranes, Smoots and rep
resentatives of Morgan A Cos. who abro
gate to themselves the right of selection
of candidates, nothwtthstandinr srnst
| may be decreed by the people them
selves.
Governor Cog stated Mr. Johnson
(Continued on Page Two.)
TAGGART’S CLUB
PICKS CHAIRMEN
Other Plans of New Marching
Organization Laid.
Commute chairmen bars been an
nounced by Jerry Foley, president of
the Tacgart-for-Senator Marching Club,
as follows:
Finance committee, James E. Berry i
speaker's committee, J. F. Barrett; pa
ri.de commltteo, John D. Shea; organisa
tion. E. J. Sexton; uniform and parade
committee, J. T. Ryan.
These chairmen met last night with
President Foley, Charles P. Tlghe, sec
retary, and W. M. Fogarty, treasurer,
to lay plans for a meeting to be held
nt 8 o’clock Tuesday evening. Sept. 28,
In the dining room of the Deulson note].
Ward chairmen In each precinct of tn
city will be named soon by Mr. Foley.
It was announced that since the organ
ization of the club last Sunday, 850 ap
plications for membership have been re
ceived from the workmen at the Beech
Grove shops.
Registration committees of from five to
ten persons will be named in each pre
cinct of the city by Mr. Foley soon, for
the purpose of assisting in getting out
all of the Democratic voters on registra
tion day, Oct. 4.
WILSON READY TO
ENTERCOX FIGHT
Assistance Is Confined to
White House Messages.
WASHINGTON, Sept. IT.—B. H. Moore,
the “Colonel House” of the Cox campaign,
has reached an understanding with Pres
ident Wilson, It was learned today.
Asa result the President may be ex
pected from now on to be an active par
ticipant In the Democratic campaign.
The President Is ready to get Into the
fray. His work will be devoted to the
typewriter, as his health will not permit
going out on the stump.
Conferences this week between Moore,
Fred Lynch, former Michigan national
committeeman; Joseph Guffey, assistant
to Chairman White of the Democratic
national committee, and Secretary Tu
multy were said to have effected an un
derstanding with the White House.
boarded the train, the camels being too
dry for the long Journey, for Richmond,
where they will be responsible for most
of the fun of the Zem-Zem Club's presen
tation of “A Night In Zem-Zem.”
One of the features will be the ap
pearance of "Shesherazade’* In a terp
slchorean fantasy known as the "Dance
of the Seventh or Last Veil.”
The last veil was carried In a jewel
case, It was rumored at the station.
One of the Shrlners, who appeared to
be very warm In his dress suit, said:
“I am going to have a dress suit made
out of paper for the next trip."
The Murat Shrlners were to contribute
the following features to the great fun
feet at Richmond<
Identify 32 Dead
in N. Y. Explosion
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Following Is
the J!st of dead in the Wall street explo
sion !
Alexander Leith. Manhattan.
W. L. Gillies, Pelham, X. Y.
John Welr r Manhattan.
Louis K. Smith, Hempstead, N. Y.
Matgarot Bishop, Brooklyn.
Robert Westday, Manhattan.
Charles Hanrahan. Brooklyn.
William Hutchinson, Garden City, N. Y.
Rudolph Fortong, Jamaica. S, Y.
Charles TV. Llnroth, Great Kills, Staten
Island.
Bernard J. Keqnedy, Brooklyn,
Margaret Drury, Brooklyn.
Collin N. Barr McClure, Yonkers, N. Y.
Caroline M. Dlokenson, Elmhurst,
N. Y.
Thomas M. Osprey, Brooklyn.
Joseph Arranbaray. Manhattan.
Bartholomew Flannery, Manhattan.
Joseph Schmitt, Bayslde, X. Y.
John Donovan, New York.
Mildred Alexander. Manhattan.
Reginald Ellsworth, West Orange,
N. J.
Worth Bagley Ellsworthy, Washing
ton, D. C.
John Johnson, Manhattan
William Joyce, Brooklyn.
——— McArthurs.
Frank Miller, Manhattan.
Raymond Miller, Manhattan.
Col. Charles Neville, Manhattan.
L. L. Roberts. Manhattan.
Benjamin Soloway. Brooklyn.
E. A. Sweet, Huntington. X. Y.
Jerome 11. McKean, Bronx.
Alfred Mayer, .Manhattan.
John Donohue of Morgan A Cos. died
of burns.
Four unidentified.
CHICAGO TAKES
PRECAUTIONS
Guards Ruildinirs and AH
Federal Property.
CHICAGO, Sept- 17.—Armed guards
today continued to pa-e the entrances
of the Rookery and Board of Trade
buildings hers on orders from Chief or
I’ollc* Gharrlty, snd will continue ihetr
vigil until all danger of s bomb plot,
such as wrecked the offices cf the Mor
gan firm In New York snd killed nt
least thirty persons, has definitely
passed.
Advices to ths police here that the
New York bomb outrage might be found
to be of national significance led to
ths piaelng of guards around Chicago's
financial district.
Secret forces ebout ths sub-treasury
is the Federal building hsre have been
i doubled as to extra precaution.
BOMB OUTRAGE?
YES, YESTERDAY
Business Resumes Stage Cen
ter In Wall Street Today.
NEW YORK, Sept. IT.—lt was "busi
ness as usual" in Wall street today.
The nation's money mart resumed op
watlons Just as though the explosion
which spread death and destruction at
; the corner of Bfoad and Wall afreets yes
| terday, bnd .never occurred.
A human tide of men and women—
office bound —flowed past ths street ln
| tersection where boarded windows.
I chipped stonework and a big crowd of
' policemen stood out as grim remluders of
i what had happened.
There was a steady sbuf shuf of feet
| over the pavements from which the blood
. stains had beeu washed.
| The J. P. Morgan bank opened on time
with clerks at their desks on the first
floor, where flying missiles Injured many.
The shattered windows hsd been re
placed with cheese cloth screens, rein
forced with lath.
Like the Inhabitants of a cyclone swept
western village getting back to work la
1 temporary shelters, the thousands of Wall
street clerks, bankers and accountants
resumed their tasks in offices which were
lu some cases practically open to the
atroet and In which the ceilings were
cracked and the walls pitted with the
nibtal slugs that ehowored death and In
jury.
BEGIN TRADINO
ON TIME.
In the Stock Exchange the brokers be
gan trading on time.
Workmen were busy replacing the win
dows.
One hundred and fifty policemen were
assigned to duty at Broad and Wall
streets, where they kept the crowds mov
ing and formed a cordon before the as
say office, the subtreasury and Morgan’s
office.
There were many mounted
In the squad.
Numerous plain clothes men stood
about the big banking bouses, carefully
scrutinising passersby.
Admission was denied to the Morgan
bank, except on business.
Visitors also were barred from the
spectator’s gallery at the Stock Ex
change.
Building Inspectors were busy examin
ing structures to learn whether they
were safe.
The Morgan Bank dome was held up
with wooden braces.
The Stock Exchange Building was de
clared —'e.
An examination of the new StocH
Exchange Bui\dlng, in course of con
struction, showed it Is safe and work
on it was resumed.
Inspectors went ir.to manholes in the
vicinity as a precaution to assure that
another bomb had not been “planted”
timed to explode today.
Murat's Chanters In Sweet Harmonies
of the Desert.
An Oriental [Mystery Number from
Mlspab.
The Boy with the Bones —George Gill
of Murat. /
Mizpah’s Patrol In Desert Drill Ma
neuvers.
The Star of Araby in an Eastern Od
dity, “Caravan,” by Otto Krau.ss of Mu
lat and Chorus.
Bang! Boom! Murat’s Gun Squad
produces an acrobatic, Intricate and un
equaled gun drllL
Then a little Egyptian Magic, with all
the Black Art of the Far East —Roltare
Eggleston presents his Mystifying Maze
of Mazoollum.
Frank Holland and Baud.
HuhocrtnMnn SBY5 B Y Carrier, Week. Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 12c.
BUDscripuon Rates. ( By 50<J Per M(mth . 00 Ptr year.
GUARD ALL U.S.
BUILDINGS; NEW
ATTACK FEARED
Federal Agents Abandon All
Theories of Accident in
Gotham Blast.
RED ROUNDUP STARTED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Federal spe
cial agents today were convinced the ex
plosion in the New York financial district
was the result of a bomb plot.
The conviction, it was learned, was
based on the character of the explosion
and on evidence and fragmentary warn
ings coming to officials for some time
that some such attempt was expected.
Theories that the explosion may have
j been an accident have been abandoned
here and officials today had taken steps
to hunt out the perpetrators of the dis
aster and prevent a possible repetition.
The Department of Justice was check
ing up on radicals throughout the coun
try and one man here was questioned.
The treasury, White House and other
public buildings have been put under
i extra guard.
Many of the Government departments
were lending aid to the Department of
Justice in Its investigation.
The Military Intelligence Bureau is in
j ves tigat:i:g and the Department of Agri
culture has assigned its explosives expert
!o work of finding the character of
the blast.
The military intelligence, it was under
stood, has intimation that an outbreak
of some sort might be expected along
v.ith radical demonstrations In European
countries.
These intimations have also been com
municated to the Department of Justice.
" ken William .T. Flynn yesterday re
| reived word of the explosion, be is said
to have remarked:
! “What we expected has happened ”
’ f*r as known tbe man questioned
j here, a waiter, is the first to be taken
' in tbe radical hunt.
Federal officials did not consider
there was sufficient evidence to hold the
man, but he Is being carefully watched.
A small quantity of explosives would
have been sufficient to produce many <
• deaths in narrow Wall street. Dr. Charles
E Mt.uroe, Interior Department expert,
pointed out here today.
' The high building walls on either
side tnagnifi&l tbe force of tbe explo
sion,” said Munroe.
BLACK ART PART
. IN BOMB BLAST?
Fischer's Brother-in-Law Ad
vances Mental Telepathy
Theory.
HAMILTON, Ontario, Sept 17—Men
tal telepathy was offered as the expla
nation of Edward P. Fischer’s warning
jof the Wall street explosion in New
York by Robert A. Pope, Fischer’s
brother-in-law, who caused bis arrest
j here today.
Pope declared Fischer was not In New
| York yesterday when the explosion oc
-1 curred.
| Pope had Fischer arrested on a charge
of insanity sftr their arrival here this
morning from Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Fischer was arrested in the offices of
attorneys in the Bank of Hamilton Build
ing.
Pope, in a statement to authorities, said
Fischer’s mental condition was not nor
mal, and for three weeks during which
Fischer sent out warnings of the Wall
street disaster his mind was In a pe
j cnliary receptive condition.
With his mind thus sensitized, Pope
| said, be was especially receptive to men
; tal suggestion from others.
His mentality Intercepted the thought
waves of those guiltily connected with
the explosion, according to Pope's theory.
With ills mind filled with these inter
ceptlve thoughts. Fischer worried about
friends who might he harmed and warned
them. Pope believed.
Pope said Fischer predicted the dis
aster to him three weeks ago, and st
that time wrote friends in the financial
| district of New York, warning them of
what was to take place.
Pope supplied the police with the story
jof Fischer’s activities during the last
three weeks. He had been subject to
1 spells of mental depression, Pope said,
j and hl relatives feared he was on the
1 Terge of a nervous breakdown,
f They sought to persuade him to go to
| the North woods for a rest, but he re
!fused.
Pope asserted Fischer did not come in
contact with anarchists and he did not
| believe It possible he had met any per
' sons who would have had knowledge of
the bomb plot.
He then advanced the theory of mental
| telepathy. \
Spirit of 1776
Draws Crowd to
Explosion Site
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Good na
tured crowds, whistling, cheering and
yelling, participated today in ths
133rd anniversary of tbb Constitu
tion on the spot where the explosion
occurred in Wall street yesterday.
Twenty-four hours after the blast
three figures, dressed as colonial sol
diers and representing “the spirit of
1776,” appeared where the disaster
happened.
Such a tremendous crowd gathered
about the statue of George Washing
ton at the place where he was first
inaugurated first President that po
lice were overwhelmed.
Captain Ous Haller's SIO,OOO Challenge
Arab Drill by Marat’a Patrol.
Shesberazade in the Terpalchoresn Fea
ture known as the Dance of the Seventh,
or Last Veil, exactly aa produced be
fore the Sultan of Bagdad, Introducing
the Hejaz Rahouls, the luscioug Queens
of the Sultan’s Harem and Pearl Allen
of Murat.
Again a few moments with Murat's
Chanters.
Concluding with an Oriental Ensemble
by all the Faithful and a Quick Return
trip to Dear Richmond through “Tha
Star-Spangled Banner."
After the Dance of the Last Veil Is
staged by the “Queen,” the Shrlners
will board their f**cUl for a fast ran
to Indianapolis.
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CLOCK MECHANISM
IS PRINCIPAL CLEW
IN SLEUTHS’ HANDS
Federal, State and New York City Authori
ties Work Desperately to Run Down
' Infernal Machine Plotters.
ARREST MADE BY CANADIAN POLICE
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Part of the mechanism of a clock, found In a
heap of debris in front of the United States Subtreasury today, provided the
principal clew on which the Federal, State and city authorities are work
ing desperately to run down the plotters who exploded the TNT bomb in
Wall street, wrecking the offices of J. Pierpont Morgan & Cos. killing and
fatally wounding 38.
Secret service agents and officials of the police department and the
district attorney’s office said the finding of a pars of clockworks confirms
the theory that terrorism by anarchists was responsible for the blast.
With all public buildings and churches and the residence of J. P. Mor
gan in this city under heavy guard, a nation-wide search is being made to
run down the plotters.
The clockworks are being studied by j
experts to determine their manufacture
and source.
An arrest has been made, the New
York police department announced at
1:30 o’clock this afternoon.
Police officials said they had been
advised that Edward Fischer, whose
name was signed to a warning received
by a brokerage firm employe on Wednes
day, had been arrested at Hamilton,
Ontario.
ACCOMPANIED BY
BROTHER-IN-LAW. |
Fischer was accompanied to Hamilton,
Ontario, from Niagara Falls by his
brother-in-law, Robert Pope of New
York.
According to the police. Pope asked
the authorities there to take Fischer
la charge.
Fischer la being held for deportation,
the police announced.
Ha is said by the Canadian authori
ties to be of unsound mind, and. conse
quently, Ineligible to enter the country
or remain In it under the Canadian
emigration laws.
After. more than twenty-four hours
the best detective brains of America are
baffled in their search for the terror
ists held responsible for the explosion.
Tbe United States Secret Service joined
bauds with the police and detectives from
the District Attorney's office in the
greatest manhunt tbe United States has
ever known.
The autboriiea now agre that the ex
plosion was caused by a time bomb
which exploded a vast qunntit yof TNT
and possibly au auxiliary bomb of picric
acid.
Experts reported to Chief Police In
spector William J. Lalley that the in
fernal machine must have contained from
200 to 500 pounds of TNT. ,
The heavy iron slugs, which spread
$2,500,000 damage to property and wound
ed from 200 to 300 persons In addition
to those Instantly killed, are believed to
have been fastened to the outside of the
infernal machine in a sort of Jacket.
METAL FOUND
ON ROOF.
Some of the metal was picked up today
on the roof of the United States Sub
treasury Building, across Wail street
from J. P. Morgan & Cos.
A grand Jury investigation of the
outrage was begun this afternoon. Judge
Wadhams issued special instructlous to
the September term grand Jurors to In
vestigate every phase of the disaster.
"I have established to my own satis
faction that a bomb arranged with mech
anism to explode at a fixed time caused
the explosion," said Chief .William J.
Flynn of the Secret Service, this after
noon.
“We have learned that a man who an
swers the description of the driver of the
bomb wagon waj seen four blocks from
the disaster at the time of the blast.”
This was the flret revelation that the
Government authorities have a descrip
tion of the wagon driver. V
It dispelled a report that one of the
unidentified dead men probably was the
driver of the explosives wagon.
NO LITERATURE
IS FOUND.
After a thorough search of the debris
the police and firemen announced that
no trace of any anarchistic literature
had been found.
The two men who drove the one-horse
truck, carrying the most powerful In
fernal machine ever devised in this coun
try, disappeared in the Wall street
crowds as completely as though the earth
had opened and swallowed them.
Other Important links have been forged
In the chain of evidence to prove that
conspirators carefully planned the out
rage.
Ths police have learned that warnings
of a catastrophe In the financial district
wers received by at least two persons.
One- of these came to Lieutenant
Arnaud, chief of the French High Com
mission, on Wednesday.
The other was received by George F.
Ketchledge, an employe of the brokerage I
firm of B. F. Schwartz & Cos., at No. 2 j
Broadway, also on Wednesday.
While soldiers, with fixed bayonets, j
paced up and down In front of the United ;
States Sub-treasury Building throughout !
the night, feverish search was made cf I
the debris In and around the Morgan i
offices for additional dead and bombs.
The original estimate of twenty-four
dead was Increased to thirty-eight, and
It was expected this total will be In
creased as some of the Injured are In
serious condition.
The property damage from the blast Is j
put, at $2,500,000.
On the assumption that the Wall street
explosion wag the beginning of a wave ;
of red terrorism, public officials havo
been warned to employ bodyguards.
HOMES OF OFFICIALS
UNDER GUARD.
Picked men from the police depart
ment are guarding the homqa of public
officials.
Wall and Broad street, the “financial
capital of the world,” la like an armed
camp with soldiers, policemen and spe
cial armed guards.
The stock exchange building and the
great banks in the Wall street district
are picketed. „
Anew police dead line has been es
tablished.
Every person who crosses It Is closely
scrutllnized, as/ well as every vehicle.
A general afilice alarm has been seal j
out for mlsA’ig or stolen one-horse
trucks, such as that In which the time j
bomb was carried to the Morgan bank.
Tha broken parts of >he wagon, which j
was demolished by jm explosion, have
boas plays wall as peyplbte
NO. 111.
Bomb Rewards Up
NEW YORK, S<pt. 17.—A reward of
SIO,OOO was offered by the board of
estimates today at the request of
Mayor ITyla.n, for information leading
to the arrest of persons who caused
yesterday’s Broad and Wall streets
explosion. *
An additional SSOO was offered for
information leading to the discovery
of the owner of the “mystery wagon.”
and the police are trying to find the
owner of It.
Thar the plotters have an efficient or
ganization, with secret sources of infor
mation, is indicated by the- fact that
the explosion Occurred just twenty-four
hours after the special bomb sqnad oper
atives of the police department wer*
withdrawn from the financial district.
Lists of all the known dangerous an
archists In the United-States are being
checked over carefully by government
sleuths,
The Federal end of the inveatlgs’lon
is directed by William J. Flynn, head
ot the United States secret service, wh
is on the ground In person.
LINES OF POLICE
INVESTIGATION.
Police Commissioner Enright ha# di
vided thd'~police investigation along the
following, line*;
1. Tracing the writer of the warn
ing letters, which are io tbe posses
sion of the police department.
2. Searching for the owner of the
cne-horse truck In which the bomb
was carried to Wall street.
3. Hunting fer an automobile in
which the two men who drove the
wagon arc said to have fled a few
moments before the explosion.
4. Tracing tbe source of the clock
which was u*ed to set off the bomb
at one minute after 12 o'clock Thurs
day noon.
5. Hunting the source of the
TNT or other explosive used in the
construction of the Infernal ma
chine.
• 6. Ascertaining where the bomb
was constructed and how many per
sons were involved In th*, conspiracy.
The warning letter sent to Lieutenant
Arnatid did not arrive through tha
United States mail*.- It was dropped
through the slot in the door of the com
missioner’s office at 65 Broadway. (
The letter was written wth pen and
Ink and opened with the word “Greet
ings.”
It was contained In a small white en
velope.
Arnaud did not take the warning seri
ously.
After reading It he tore the letter into
bits, dropped it into a wastepaper bas
ket and forgot all about It—until after
the Wall street district by
the most ghastly explosion in New York’a
history.
Then he hunted up the tatters, pasted
them together and gave them to the po
lice. t "
The letter Intimated that “certain per
sons" who had grievances would get re
venge by setting .off a high-power bomb
between 2 and 2:30 o'clock, but the exact
date of the explosion was not given.
The writer said he had the kindest
feelings for France and for members of
the French High Commission, which ac
counted for'his warning.
He suggested that the commission’s of
fices be closed and that the officials stay
away from Wall street.
The letter received by Ketchledge was
mailed from Toronto, Canada.
Ketchledge at first refused to make It
public, but later gave it out.
The contents. In brief, follow:
"Greetings: Get out es Wall street
on the gong stroke of S o'clock
Wednesday, the 15th of September.
Good luck to you, Ed Fischer.”
"I knew Fischer well, but 1 did not
put much stock in his warning,” mid
Ketchledge.
“He was a lawyer by profession, but
was unable to practice his profession for
many years because of recurring at
tacks of paranoia. He had been com
mitted to institutions, but was released
when cured.
"He had an Intense hatred for Wall
street. That was the fofm his mental
illness took. So far as I know ne never
suffered any financial reverses In Wall
street.
“I do not believe Fischer has any
Intimate knowledge about this dreadful
disaster. He was not a member of any
radical organization. It Is probable that
he was suffering from of his periodic
mental aberrations when he sent the
(Continued on Page Nineteen.)
OPEN LETTER
TO CHARLES J. OR BIS ON,
Prohibition Agent.
Dear Sir— You are drawing a sal
ary from the Federal government aa
an agent for the enforcement of the
prohibiton laws.
It is neither a part of your duty
to write statements prsising officials
whom the records show are not do
ing their duty nor 1a It a part of
your duties to make campaign
speeches in Indiana.
It is time you took a little Interest
In the disappears noa of confiscated
whisky in Indianapolis or get off
the Job and let someone function
for prohibition that has prohibition
at heart.