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THE WEATHER
Fair tonight. Wednesday, fair and
cooler.
vol. xxxnx.
EIGHT WHITE SOX
STARS INDICTED IN
BIG SCANDAL PROBE
CHICAGO. Sept. 28
against eight members of the Chicago
White Sox for alleged crookedness in the
1919 world's series were voted by the
Cook County grand jury, has been
probing conditions in organized baseball
this afternoon. The men indicted are:
Chick Gandil, former first baseman.
Fred McMullin, utility intielder.
Oscar Felsoh, center fielder.
••Swede” Risberg, shortstop.
Eddie Cicotte, pitcher.
Claude Williams, pitcher.
Joe Jackson, left fielder.
Back Weaver, third baseman.
The true bills charge conspiracy to
commit an illegal act
Eddie Cicotte, star pitcher, was one of
the first witnesses before the grand jury
today and his testimony is helieved to
have been one of the factors that induced
the grand jury to return the indictments.
He is said to have made a compile oou
fesion and to have signed an immunity
waiver. His admissions are declared to
have verified the statement of Billy Ma
harg, Philadelphia pugilist, who accused
Cicotte ol' having been the principal in
the promotion of the ’•fixed" series.
*IOO,OOO SAID TO
HAVE BEEN BRIBE.
The plavers indicted are the eight men
said to have been implicated in the SIOO.-
000 bribe to "throw” the series and
whose bonus checks were held up by the
White Sox management while an investi
gation was made after the series closed
last fall.
McMullin, Gandil and Cicotte were
mentioned in several stories as the prin
cipals in the arrangements for the huge
bribe which Abe Attell. former feather
weight champion, is alleged to have un
dertaken to raise. McMullin had been
named as the chief paymaster for the
gambling clique.
Charles A. Comlskey, owner ot the
White Sox, announced immediately after
he heard of the Noting of the indict
ments by the grand jury, that ail eight
of the players would stand suspended
from the White Sox.
This move by Comiskey is virtually
the elimination of the White Sox from
the pennant race, as none of the eight
men. several of whom are bulwarks or
the club, will bo permitted to play in
any of the remaining games of the sea
son, it Is raid.
ONLY FEW SOX
(REGULARS.
I The action of Comiskey in suspending
■those indicted leaves Eddie Collins. Ray
Esebalk, John Collins and Amos Strunk
Cs the only regular fielders in good
branding and Hick Kerr and I’ed Faber
Es the only regular pitchers.
Comlskey issued the following state
fTuent addressed to each of the indicted
players:
“You and each of you are hereby noti
fied of yonr Indefinite suspension as u
member of the Chicago American League
Baseball Club. If you can prove your
Innocence you will be returned to the
(Continued on Page Six.)
‘RAY’ CARPENTER
STILL AT LIBERTY
Stolen Auto Complaint Shows
He’s Not ‘Doing Time.’ -
Ray Carpenter, 2420 North Alabama
street, today reported that his automobile
eras stolen from in the rear of his home.
It was -generally supposed that Carpen
ter was at the penal farm serving a Tbir
tyJday sentence following his conviction
In Criminal Court a few days ago on the
charge of operating a blind tiger.
It was Carpenter whose evidence con
victed Harry '‘Goosie” Lee, negro Repub
lican political worker, who Wss fined SIOO
and costs and sentenced to six months on
the penal farm.
A court official stated that he was con
fident that Carpenter's car had been
stoleu by one of the friends of the boot
legger gang, as a threat to warn Car
penter not to testify against other mem
bers of the gang who will be arrested.
’ Sheriff Miller stated he had never re
ceived a commitment for Carpenter, and
Inquiries at the Criminal Court brought
the statement that Carpenter had not been
committed to the penal farm, as he was
to be a witness for the State against Earl
Chapelle.
Chapelle. said to be a close friend of
“Goosie” Lee is under arrest, having been
indicted on the charge of violating the
prohibition law.
Strange Egg Makes
Hen Nervous Wreck
CORPUS CHRISTI. Texas, Sept. 28.
A hen owned by Dr. W. E. Wills Is
■uttering with nervous prostration.
Dr.. Will* found a nest of alligator
eggs while on a hunting expedition and
brought six home.
A sedate hen In the doctor’s barnyard
was determined to set, and although the
sun would have hatched the alligator’s
pg-gs, Dr. Wills decided to humor the
fowl and put the eggs under her.
Biddy waited for but one egg to
batch, according to the doctor, and then
left the nest on a dead run. cackling
wildly.
WEATHER
11 -i
'Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity:
or the twenty-four honrs ending 7 p. m..
Wednesday, Sept. 29: Fair tonight;
Wednesday fair and considerably cooler.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. 58
7 t. m 58
8 a. 62
9 a. m 88
10 a. m 72
11 a. m 74
12 (noon) 76
1 p. m 78
2 p. m 78
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‘I Got Mine,’ Said Eddie
CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—“T0 hell with
'em —I got mine,” is a statement made
by Eddie Cicotte to his brother .lack,
according to a statement made today
by Mrs. Henrietta D. Kelley, the
“woman of mystery.” in the baseball
scandal, who was a .witness before
the grand jury today.
•‘1 overheard a conversation be
tween Eddie Cicotte and his brother
•lack during tbe world’s series, Mrs.
Kelley said "It was after one of
the games lost because of Eddie's
pitching. I heard him say: ‘To hell
with ’em—l got mine.'”
TAGGART OPENS
TOUR WITH DEFI
TO ‘PARTY’ JABS
Muneie and Anderson Crowds
Told Record Shows Fight
for People.
By HORACE M. COATS,
Times Staff Correspondent.
MUNCIE. Ind., Sept. 28.—With a plea
for the adoption of tbe covenant of the
League of Nations and for business
methods in' governmental affairs, both
State and national, Thomas Taggart,
Democratic nominee for United Statp*
Senator, opened his campaign tour with
addresses here and at Anderson today.
No unusual methods were necessary in
attracting crowds to Mr. Taggart’s meet
ings and many of the voters in his aud-,
iences were women.
Following his speech hero, Mr. Taggart
departed for Hartford City and Blufftou
by automobile.
Accompanying Mr. Taggart and speak
ing at the meetings with him are Fred
erick Van Nuya, United States district
attorney for Indiana, and Mrs. Alice Fos
ter McCulloch, chairman of the Demo
cratic women in Indiana.
"The running of the Government is
nothing hut a big business proposition,”
Mr Taggart toid his andienoe.
"If I .am elected Senator I shall regard
myself as a director in a corporation
charged with the responsibilities of aid
ing its management in the interest of
ilie stockholders, the people.”
Mr. Taggart admitted he is a distinct
party man in his political life, but chal
longed anybody to point out anything
ever done officially by him during hi*
term as auditor of Marion County or
mayor of ndianapolis that was not for
the best interests of the people whom
he served.
The Goodrich State administration did
not fail to come in for its share of criti
cism.
He urged the election of I>r. Carleton
11. McCulloch as Governor in order to
curb what he declared would be a con
tinuance of waste of public fundff under
a Republican administration.
Mr. Van Nuya, in a short address .at
tacked the critics of the national admin
istration and denounced those men who
have been finding fault with the udrnin
i Continued on Pag* Two.)
SEES HARDING AS
DANGEROUS TOOL
Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke
Writes to Indiana Woman.
Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, prominent
writer and speaker, scores Warren G.
Harding heavily as the nominee “of the
most reactionary and dangerous lead
ers in political life today,” in a letter
replying to an Invitation from Mrs.
Richard Edwards of Peru, Ind., to vlait
Senator Harding at Marion ou Oct. 1.
She expresses scorn for Senator Har
ding because of “his wobbling position
on the League of Nations” and ”hl
cowardly attitude on woman suffrage
during the pendency of that question in
Congress.”
Mrs. Edwards, who haa been engaged
actively in club work In Indiana, is en
gaged In organization work tor the Re
publican party.
Mrs. Clarke's reply is as follows:
“Replying to your invitation to go to
Marlon to hear Senator Harding talk to
tho women, let me say that I have little
interest in anything Senator Harding
may say at any time on any subject.
“His wabbling position on the League
of Nations, the overshadowing and all
important issue in the present campaign;
his cowardly attitude on woman suffrage
during the pendency of that question in
Congress; the fact that hiß name has
never been connected with any great
constructive Government measure, added
to the further fact that he was nomi
nated at the bidding of the moat re
actionary and dangerous leaders in po
litical life today, whose wishes he is
absolutely bound to execute if elected,
these are sufficient reason* for my op
position to him.
"I am enthusiastically for the League
of Nations and for Cox arid Roosevelt,
who unhesitatingly, unequivocally and
emphatically declare for Its ratification.
“I should be for these candidates even
were the League of Nations not involved,
because they are up-standing, forward
looking men, who know their own minds
and possess the courage of their con
victions.
"Yours for universal peace, for better
living conditions for all the people, and
for saving the Government from the
clutches of T’enrose, Knox, Harding and
their confederates.”
41 Officials Charged
With Small Amounts
Shortages and over-expenditures -on
the part of forty-one Indiana township
and county officials were charged today
in examiners' reports made public by the
State Board of Accounts.
The amounts are all small, ranging
from $7.30 to S6OO.
The latter amount Is charged against
Clem T. Kain of Wells County.
No Marion County officials are in
volved.
Report 15 Plotters
Executed by Soviet
LONDON, Sept. 28. —Fifteen reputed
participants in an nntt-sovlet plot at
Archangel were executed by Russian
authorities, according to a Moscow, wire
less today.
An appeal to patriotic Lithuanians to
arm themselves with any sort of weapon
hoes, spades or pitchforks—-to prevent
a Polish' invasiqp of tlielr country lias
been issued by the government.
Polish forces were reported to bs with
in thirty-five miles of the Lithuanian city
of Vilna,
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25. 1914, at
Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.
BONUS QUESTION
STARTS LEGION
SESSION UPROAR
Florida Commander Hissed as
He Brands Appeal a
‘Money Grab.’
CLEVELAND, Ohio. Sept. 28.—Hisses
greeted Florida Commander Billingsley's
declaration against the bonus on the
floor of the second convention of the
American Legion in session here this
morning.
“We do not want the legion to go on
record in favor of grabblns money as
soon ns it gathers sufficient strength,”
said Commander Billingsley.
The convention had already reaf
firmed acceptance of the adjusted com
pensation committee's report favoring
the Senate's passage of House Bill 14137
tbe iegion fourfold optional plan, when
Benjamin W. Metz of Pittsburgh asked
for a roil call.
This set off the fireworks.
After a heated diseusston the demand
for a roll call was voted down.
it is understood that the chief lobby
against the hill now awaiting Senate
approval comes from the South, which is
said to fear the affluent and Independent
negro.
Kansas City won out in the light for
the convention next year, and the con
vention will meet there Oct. 6, 1921.
Atlantic City. Houston and Sail Fran
cisco were contenders.
The report of the committee on mili
tary policy contained the following rec
ommendations :
1. Compulsory universal training—
physical, military and educational.
2. Opposes large standing array.
3. Aid to National Guards of States,
4. College ami high school military
training.
,1. Formation of separate air service de
partment under anew cahlnet officer.
6. Steps to prevent any slump in gov
ernment Interest In military training.
7. Publication of names of ail slackers
and their speedy punishment.
The report was adopted unanimously
with an amendment advocating continued
allowances to tnen with families.
With refusal of Col. Milton J. Fore
man of Chicago to allow his name to be
nsed as a candidate for national coin
(Continued on Page Two.)
U. S. Census Reports
Show 4 States Gain
WASHINGTON. Sept. 28.—The Census
Bureau today announced the following
1920 population figures:
StHte of Illinois total, 6,485,098.
State of Louisiana, 1,797,798.
State of Montana, 547,593.
State of New Mexico, 360.847.
Increases since 1910:
Illinois, 840,507, or 15.0 per cent.
Louisiana, 141,410, or 8 5 per cent.
Montana, 171,540, or 45.0 per cent.
New Mexico, 32,940, or 10.1 per <’ent.
The population of Cook County, Illi
nois, which Includes the city of Chicago,
Is given as 3,058,017,
This is an increase since 1907 of 047,781,
or 26.9 per cent.-/
Spaan Speaks for
League Principles
Henry N. Spaan, Democratic nominee
for Congress, addressed employes of the
Nordyke & Marrnon Company ut noon to
day.
Spwtking about tho League of Nations
he said: “Every laboring man is di
rectly interested in this great covenant
of peace, because 93 per cent of our
Army is made up of men who work
In the factory and on the farm.
“Most of the taxes brought about by
war have t obe paid by the men who
labor.
“The man who pays an Income tax
or an excess profit tax simply adds such
tax?s lo the price of his goods, and the
result is that labor in the end pays lor
the war by way of increased prices.
“Most of the mothers in the land who
mourn the death of sons who died in
Trance belong to the laboring class,
and they should see to It that this great
horror of war is done away with by
voting for the League of Nations.
"Laboring men and women are deeply
interested in voting the Democratic ticket
for another reason, because that is the
only way to destroy the Republican ring
that has Its party by the throat and is
piling up taxes at a frightful rat*.”
BODY OF OLIVE THOMAS FIGURES IN LAST “FADE-OUT”
NEW YORK, Sept. 28. Gray shadows
filtering down from the high windows
softened the hues of great banks of
flowers and dimmed the lnster of the
gowns of richly-dressed women.
A silence pervaded the great church,
broken only by the solemn voice of a
rector, Intoning the Episcopal funeral
ritual.
From the street came the muffled hum
of traffic.
> The entire setting gave the illusion of
a silent drama.
This was the last “fade-out” of Olive
Thomas.
The/ funeral of the noted motion pic
ture a'ttresa, who died in Paris as the
result cf accidentally taking poison, drew
though tis of persona from all walks of
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INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1920.
PONZI RIVAL, 22,
HELD BY POLICE
Made $13,000 at Age of 13 and
Later Cleaned Up More
as Speculator.
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 28.—Frank J. Cooper,
22. self-styled "Boston's millionaire kid,”
today told a story of a meteoric career
In high finance and of a blasted romance
In which he claims the daughter fa
Boston millionaire was to have become
his wife.
Today Cooper alts in n cel! at police
headquarter* waiting t<> wtart back to
Boston, wbers he is under indie;men*,
‘with John Rock end Charles M. Bright
well of tho Old Colony Foreign Ex
change, for obtaining $1,700 from Bos
ton Italians through what the police
claim was a fraudulent scheme.
A get-rich-quick method of finance,
similar, ‘Cooper declared, to that of
Charles Ponzi, was tho rock on which
his bubble burst
Cooper declared he had worked for
Brlghtwell for two -week* at a salary
of S3O per week, but quit when "my
friend Tom Lawson toid me. 'Kid, It
can't he done; It's a swindle.'”
Fifty dollars profit on fIOO invested
In forty-five days is said to have been
the halt used by tiro three men under
Indictment to catch Investors.
Coopei earned his “Millionaire Kid”
title at the age of 13 he claim*.
“I hit the ticker for *l3,Ort then.'’ he
said. "But I lost i when I was 74.
Cooper waived extradition.
PLEDGES AUTO
FEE TO COUNTY
Nominee McCulloch Addresses
Audience at Anderson.
ANGOLA. Ind , Sept. 28. —Dr. Carleton
B. McCulloch, Democratic gubernatorial
nominee. In an address here this after
noon, spoke on that part of the Demo
cratic State platform which advocates
the retention of automobile license foe*
In th* county of origination.
"The Democratic party stands pledged
to a return to the counties of the auto
mobile license fee*,” ho said. “Thia 1*
a party platform measure.
“The counties themselves ghnnld Issue
the license and have the Income derived
therefrom, to be expended lu the upkeep
of their wn roads.
“It Is t.ufalr that the many thousand*
of dollars which the clvUenr of the
various counties psy In fee* should not
be expended on the maintenance of their
own roads.
“I have been touring the State In au
tomobiles and have therefore a first
hand knowledge of the way our Toad*
havo been neglected by the State and
allowed to go to rack and ruin.
"If the counties had tho Jurisdiction
over these road* and the funds derived
from licenses to expend thereon w
would see a very different condition of
affairs.
“I Invite any man who may he op
posed to this recommendation to make a
trip, lor Instance, up the Ade-Way or
on any one of a dozen roads that I
could mention.
“Regardless of politics be would be
convinced of the Justice and soundness
of this position. x
“The comfort, convenience and pros
perity of our cities and our agricultural
districts depends on good roads.
“It I* not enough to build them, they
must be kept up.”
Reports 13 Barrels
of Flour Stolen
Thirteen barrels of four, valued at
$l6O, were stolen from the Noblegvlllo
Milling Company's warehouse, last night,
it was reported to police headquarters
by Walter J. Kiate, an employe.
Ten days ago, he reported, a phono
graph, valued at SIOO, was stolen from
the warehouse, and on Sept. 26 someone
stole four ninety-eight-pound sacks of
flour, valued at S3O each, from a car.
MAYOR MaoSWINEY IS EXHAUSTED,
LONDON, Sept. 28.—Terence Mac-
Swiuey, hunger-striking Lord Mayor of
Cork, was conscious In the Brixton Jail
infirmary this morning, but was de
scribed as “extremely exhausted.”
This Is the forty-eighth day of his
hunger strike.
A message from President De La Huer
ta cheered the Lady Mayoress MacSwiney
today.
life to St. Thomas Church, In Fifth
nvenup. i
There Were millionaires and paupers,
stars and members of the chorus, friends
and the merely curious.
Hundreds of men and women, mostly
the latter, stormed tho church doors
when officials turned them away after the
edifice was filled.
The police lines were broken time and
again.
Order was not restored until long after
the services were completed and the body
hod been removed from tffe church.
The ceremony was simple.
Dr. Ernest M. Stlers, rector, conducted
the services.
Jack Pickford, husband of Miss
Thomas, sat with hi* moths*, hit*. -B. S,
SAYS TAX BOARD
USURPS PLACE
OF HIGH COURT
Attorney Thompson Raps
Solons Who Would Set
Aside Court Decree.
FIVE MORE SUITS FILED
Exposure of the menace in the manner
in which the Indiana State Tax Board
is interpreting the provisions of the
Tathill-Kiper act in an attempt to set
aside a final finding of the Indiana State
Supreme Court and of Judge Linn Hay
of Superior Court, room 3, in declaring
that the horizontal increase orders of
the State tax board of Aug. 28, 1919,
are void in Marion County, was made to
day by Attorney William 11. Thompson
before .Judge Hay.
Attorney Thompson launched an at
tack upon the action* of the State- Legis
lature passing a law which, as inter
preted by the State tux board, virtually
sets aside a decree of the highest court
of the State.
ARGUMENT
FOR PETITION.
The argument was made by Attorney
Thompson in supporting a petition of
the taxpayer* of Washington Township,
asking that an injunction be issued re
straining County Treasurer Ralph
Lem eke from collecting the horizontal tax
increases and preventing the tax board
from enforcing its so-called equalization
orders as based on tbe Tuthil)-Klpr act.
Prior to the argument of Mr. Thomp
son, counsel filed five additional suits in
behalf of the taxpayers of Franklin.
Wnrren, Wayne, Perry and Pike, seek
ing the an me relief as asked by the
farmers of Washington Township.
PLAINTIFFS
IN NEW CASES.
The plaintiffs In the rdciltional cases
against the tax board a.id Treasurer
Lemcke arc:
William J. Fink. John N. Gulleger and
Asa Mathis in Pike Township.
Charles McClain, Herbert List and
John 4L Smock in Perry.
John V. Carter, F. Marion Clark and
Allen Hightsblre in Wayne.
Ford V. Matson, Fred A. Wiese and
WillUm Gale In Warren,
Samuel Rabourn, Harry Leary and
Elsie l.eajry in Franklin.
Attorney Thompson pointed out that
the actions of the tax board after the
passage of the Tuthill-Kiper act in
meeting and certifying its findtug* to
the county board of review and the
latter board ordering the same horl
<Continued on Page Two.!
EX-COP IS HELD
AS BOOTLEGGER
Forty Gallons of ‘Mule’ Taken,
Police Records Show.
Harry Washburn, 1314 Ringold street,
ex policeman, Is under arrest on the
charge of operating a blind tiger
forty gallon* of whirs rani* whisky,
K ts said, were found In his home.
Efforts to obtain Washburn’s record a*
a pollcs officer at the office of the board
of safety failed, the clerk In that oflics
Informing th* reporter that he was too
busy to look at the records.
Policemen who know Washburn, how
ever, declare 4ie U a Republican and
was appointed as a policeman under the
Shank administration, and remained a
member of tho force until after the Jew
ett administration came Into power, but
no one could be found who knew under
what circumstances Washburn quit the
police force.
The white mule whisky, the police say,
was In kegs and two Juga, each contain
ing fire gallons.
The police also obtained 157 empty
half-pint bottles, two sacks of cork* and
three empty five gallon jugs.
Washburn wa released on a $1,600
bond signed by William “Kinney” Hiatt,
Republican political worker and profes
sional bondsman to whom Special privi
leges have been given by the Jewett
"good government” administration.
GIVES UP PULPIT
FOR JOB ONROAD
CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—UnaOU to
earn enough money to feed, cloth*
and educate his children and yet live
comfortably, the Rev. Phillip Yar
row has resigned the pastorate of the
Morgan Park Congregational Church.
Dr. Yarrow has accepted a posi
tion as traveling salesman, which he
said today will give him an Income
of $5,000 a year.
As pastor he was paid $3,200, he
aalil.
“It’a impossible for a man to live
on less than $5,000 under present con
ditions,” he said.
Yarrow formerly was general su
perintendent of the dry Chicago fed
eration.
“This doesn’t mean that I have lost
faith Iti the church,” he said. “I have
absolutely no bitterness against the
church.”
Assassins Hold Sway
in State of Yucatan
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28.—A wave of
assassination la reported from tho State
of Yucatan where turbulent political dis
orders prevail.
Dispatches today said that three more
persons had been assassinated as the
result of strife among the radicals in
Yucatan.
Women Take Part
in Naming Ticket
TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 28.—With
women at the polls in this Stater for
the first time, the voters of New Jersey
today were selecting Republican and
Democratic nominees for Congress, the
.State senate, the house of assembly
and numerous county positions.
Vnnklrk, and Mias Thomas’ brother,
.Tames Duffy.
Among the honorary pallbearers were
Owen Moore, former husband of Mary
Pickford, and Harrison Fisher, artist, on*
of the first to discover Miss Thomas’
beauty.
The coffin rested in the center of the
chancel under a blanket of pink flowers.
There was a floral piece from the Zeig
feld Follies, in which Miss Tomas began
her stage life, and one from Miss Pick
ford bearing a card inscribed, “From Sis
ter Mary."
As the floral pieces were carried
through the Rtreet to the waiting ve
hicles after the services many were torn
to pieces by women and girls who sought
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(By Carrier, Week. Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 120.
Subscription Rates: Mail, 50c p er Month; $5.00 Per Tear.
Alleged Thief Bound
Over to Grand Jury
George Johnson, 33. negro, and his
mother, Mrs. Belle Ayers, 60, 735 Indiana
avenue, were bound over to the grand
i Jury today nnder a high bond by Judge
i Pritchard in City Court.
Johnson is charged with having stolen
) approximately $2,000 worth of toilet arti
j cles, women's clothing and wearing ap
! parel from a dry goods store where he
1 was employed.
Mrs. Ayers Is alleged to have taken the
merchandise to Guthrie, Ky., to sell it.
Most of the stolen articles iave been
recovered.
PACT FAILURE
MEANS SLUMP
IN WAGES-COX
Nominee Says G. O. P. Con
spiracy Responsible fur Un
settled Conditions.
EN ROUTE WITH GOVERNOR COX,
SIOUX CITY. I S— One rea
; son for any reduction Jn wages that may
j come In "the near future will be the
, failure of the United States to enter the
League of Nations and to assist in the
reestablishment of international trade,
| Gov. James M. Cox asserted In brief
stump talks here and throughout South
! Dakota today.
It was announced today that Gov Cox
i will end his present speaking tour with
; tie address at Kansas City Saturday
evening, Oct. 2.
He will go direct to Dayton from Kan
| sas City.
i Conspiracy of the "Senatorial oli
j garchy” to hold up tbe treaty has con
' tlnued unsettled business conditions
j throughout the world much longer than
| necessary and the Inevitable results of
1 closed foreign markets because of lack
| of credit will be felt first by labor in
decreased wages and by the farmer in
| slumping prices for his products, the
j Democratic nominee said.
Big business, Cox charged, is planning
to take advantage of those circumstances
to prevent any decreases In price con
sumers must pay until it is forced to
j do so.
1 Cox is definitely on record today as
; opposed to elimination of article 10 from
the League of Nations covenant, which
was characterized by President Wilson
as "the heart of the treaty.”
In response to an inquiry the Governor
reiterated hts belief that thia feature of
tbe covenant was atraply tho application
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ITALIAN PREMIER
WARNSINDUSTRY
Seeks Peace While Labor Con
trol Bill Is Up.
ROME, Sept. 28.—Premier Giollottl h*r
warned all employers not to attempt
lockouts while the government 1* draft
ing it* proposed labor control bill,
Speaking before the Italian Senate,
Glollotti warned the owner* of plants they
would have no aid from the government
if, in reprisal for th* occupation of their
plant*, they should shut the workers
out.
Glollotti warmly defended his position
In settling the labor controversy during
which manufacturing plant* were seised
by workmen, who attempted to operate
them. Itrly's future depends upon the
solution of the present social crisis, he
told the Senators.
Reports from the “area of occupation”
today showed a majority of workmen
were in favor of returning occupied
plants to their owners.
An extensive fire in the Ottanlan muni
tion works at Naples Monday was be
lieved to have been caused by extremists,
who refused to evacuate the factory.
At Turin the Henry Schlacks lace fac
tory, which was to have been evacuated
today, was damaged to tho extent ot
2,000.000 lire by fire.
SAYS ODOR WAS
ONLY MEDICINE
Case of Policeman Taken
Under Advisement.
The board of public safety today took
the case of Patrolman Heurjr F. Hate,
3114 East New York street, charged with
conduct unbecoming an officer, under ad
vlsemeut, following testimony of several
superior officers that he was found In
n drunken condition at Oriental and
Washington streets on the night of
Sept 12.
Several witnessed testified that Hate
has always been an excellent officer and
declared that they had seen hlm on the
night In question and believed him to
be sober.
Hare said he had been taking medicine
for catarrh for several months and In
dicated that his superiors may have mis
taken the smell of It on his breath tor
liquor.
The board announced that since ade
quate water mains have been laid in the
vicinity that It will no longer oppose
tho Issuance of a permit to the Capitol
Lumber Company for the rebuilding of
Its yards at Forty-ninth street and the
Monon Railroad.
The yards were burned several weeks
ago and residents of the vicinity remon
strated against the rebuilding until fire
protection wng available.
The resignation of Harold R. Galloway
as clerk to the hoard of public safety
was accepted and Horner L. Barton ap
pointed In his place.
John Pitts and Clarence Taylor were
appointed substitute firemen and .Tames
O’Brien and Howard R. Ten Broeck ap
pointed patrolmen.
Resignations of Fireman John Dona
hue and of Bieycleman Joseph Gibbons
were accepted.
A charge of being absent \yithout leave
was preferred against Private Frank
Alexander of Engine Company No. 6 by
Fire Chief John C. Loucks.
The police tried to protect them but
were powerless.
Asa protection against the curious
tho burial place was kept secret.
When the coffin was carried through
the throngs to the hearse, several mo
tion picture machines nir the steps
clicked in unison.
Miss Thomas waa the central figure of
a film for the last time.
Over on Broadway, only a few blocks
away, a huge electric sign, grotesque in
the glare of daylight, announced the
featuring of Miss Thomas in a popular
film play.
Within the theater the wraith of the
famous actress smiled from the screen
in the bewitching wgy that has endeared
Ml to thousand*.
LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CUNTS PER COPY
WILSON LENDS AID
TO COX IN LETTER
ON IRISH PROBLEM
First White House Campaign Statement
Touches ‘Self Determination’ of
League’s Small Nations.
REPLY TO LOS ANGELES MAN’S QUERY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—President Wilson today took first active
step in the campaign to aid Governor Cox by issuing a statement on the
League of Nations as affecting the Irish question.
The statement, issued through Secretary Tumulty at the direction of
the President, took the form of an answer to a letter from Edwin M:
Swartz of Los Angeles, who wrote asking what could be done about the
Irish situation.
SOLDIERS PUT
IRISH TOWN OF
TRIM IN RUINS
Business Houses and Homes
of Sinn Feiners Are
Destroyed.
TRIM, Sept. 28. —A man* of smoldering
ruins marks the site of this town today,
following the attack by "black and tan”
policemen and soldiers during which two
persons were wounded and all of the
business houses and the homes of prom
inent Sinn Feiners were destroyed by
fire.
Eight motors, containing 200 soldiers,
descended upon the town and completed
the wreckage which had been started
by policemen.
The Inhabitants fled into the country
in panic.
Tbe soldiers opened fire as soon as
they arrived.
Two youths, Kelly and Griffin by nams,
were wounded.
Later three lorries drove up contain
ing policemen.
It is charged that.these policemen sys
tematically sacked the town.
They commandeered all the gasoline in
town and proceeded from street to street
burning houses.
At the height of the conflagration the
flames conld oe seen for ten miles.
Policemen were reported to have gone
from house to house warning the peo
ple that they would receive five minutes
to leave their homes.
TOWN BURNING
IS THREAT EX ED
DUBLIN, Sept. 28.—Placards threaten
ing to burn County Clare towns were
plastered over the city of Ennis today.
The placards bore the ultimatum that
the cities will be destroyed if Captain
Lenbrum, who disappeared while iu Kil
kee, la not returned unharmed within
twenty-four hours.
The places threatened were Kilkee, Eil
rush, Carrigahole, Doonbeg, Kilmlhll and
other west Clare villages.
In one of tbe Dublin riots last night
seven soldier* and civilians wore sent to
hospitals with revolver wounds.
The soldiers charged a mob, the threat
of bayonets dispersing It.
Member* of the mob retaliated by fir
ing into the troops. f
Citizens of Atheney, County Galway,
were forced to kneel In the roadway in
their night clothes last night until they
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Steve Takes No Risk;
Flees Two Strangers
ftf
Pete Steve, 2620 East North street, was
on his way home last night wh<" “ two
negros walked past him and Steve, '.link
ing they might be hold-up men, did 100
yards in 10 seconds.
Wi en he arrived home Steve notified
the police, who investigated, but could
not fiud the negros.
Steve admitted to the police that the
men had not robbed him or even at
tempted to hold him up, but then he
thought they might, so ho sprinted for
home and called the police.
Just Write Your Own
Ticket on This ‘Jag’
The police are looking today for some
one with an nnusually heavy jag.
J. S. Judy, vice president of the Crown
Chemical Company, 435 East South
street, reported that bad entered
the company’s plant and stolen a cask
containing fifty-three gallons of alcohol.
Here’s What He Said
A south side citizen awoke from his
slumbers to fiud the landlord showing
prospective tenants through the house.
He had been dreaming that he was
about ‘to be attacked by robbers.
That, he explained. Is why he sat up
in bed and yelled "Police”’
Justice Department
Rejects Packers’ Plan
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—The Depart
ment of Justice today rejected In tts
entirety the plan of the packers to dis
pose of their Interests in fifteen large
stockyards to a holding company to be
organized by F. H. Prince & Cos. of Bos
ton.
Irritating? Yes!
There were many
sleepy passengers
aboard a College
avenue car this
morning.
The conductor
little knew how I
near he was to j
■ scene when he I
/ whistled “Oh, How !
I Hate to Get Up/in the Morning.”
HURT s?v PETROL BLAST.
GREENSBURG, Ind., Sept. 28.—Claudel
Thomson, living near here, suffered serl- j
ous burns when a quart of gasoline ex
ploded. Ha was cleaning soma cloth*
NO. 120.
“It seems to me,” says the statement,
‘‘necessary for the peace and freedom
of the world that a forum be created to
which all peoples can bring other mat
ters which are likely to affect the peace
and freedoms of the world.”
Swartz wrote to President Wilson aa
follows;
"The forces supporting the Republican
ticket are contending that if we ratify
article 10 of the covenant of the Leagne
of Nations we would be bound to sup
port England in holding Ireland under
subjection.
WRITER GRASPS MEANING
DESPITE G. O. P. CAMOUFLAGE.
•‘ls it not a fact, and so understood
by the high contracting parties, that at
the time the covenant was drawn and
approved that article 30 was to pro
hibit one nation from grabbing any ter
ritory of another nation?
"And also is it not true that when
you said article 10 was the heart of the
covenant that you meant by- that the
European wars had nearly all been
caused by national land grabbers and
that this article would cure that evil?
(Signed) "E. M.‘ SWARTZS*
. Secretary Tumulty, by direction ot
President Wilson, answering the letter,
said:
"1 beg to say that the Identical ques
tions contained in your letter with ref
erence to article 10 and the right of
self-determination found in the cove
nant of the League of Nations were
placed before the President while he
was on hia western trip last year and
fully answered by him.
QUESTIONS AND ANS4VER3
OF LAST YEAR RECALLED.
“The President asks me to call your
attention to tbe following questions and
answers given by him to the presa at
that time, which I think satisfactorily
answers your inquries. The question*
and answers are as follows:
"Q. Under the covenant does the na
tion obligate Itself to assist any mem
ber of the league in putting down a re
bellion of Its subjects conquered peo
ples ?'•'■
"A. It does not,’”
”Q. Under the covenant, does this
nation Independently recognize a govern
ment whose people seek to achieve, or
have achieved, their Independence from a
member of the league?”
“A. Tne Independent action of the
Government of the United States in mat
ters of this kind is in no way limited or
affected by the covenant of the League
of Nations."
“Q. Under the covenant, are those sub
ject nations or people ouly that are men
tioned iu the peace treaty entitled to the
right of self-determination, or does the
•cogue possess the right to accord a sim
ilar privilege to other subject nations or
peoples?”
OTHER NATIONS INCLUDED
A8 MEASURE FOR PEACE.
“A. It was not possible for the peace
conference to act with regard to the self
determination of any territories except
those which had belonged to the defeat
ed empires, but in the covenant of the
league it has set np in article 11, a forum
to which all claims of self determination
which are likely to disturb tho peace
of the world or the good understanding
between nations upon which the peace of
the world depends, can be brought.
“Q. Why was the case of Ireland not
heard at the peace conference. And
what Is your position on the subject of
self-determination of Ireland?”
“A. The case of Ireland was not heard
at the peace conference because the con
ference had no Jurisdiction over any
questions of that sort, which dpi not
affect territory which belonged to the .
defeated empires.
“My position on the subject of self
determination for Ireland is expressed in
article 11 of the covenant, In which I
may say I was particularly Interested,
because It seemed to me necessary for
the peace and freedom of the world that
a forum should be created to which all
peoples could bring any matter which
was likely to affect the peace and freedom
of the world.
“I sincerely hope thßt the above ques
tions and answers satisfactorily meet
your Inquiries.
“Sincerely yours,
“.JOSEPH P. TUMULTY,
“Secretary to the President.”
Sheriff Promises
to Clean Up Again
‘T think there will be a cleaning, and
I will start it/’ declared Sheriff Robert
F. Miller today when asked if he knew
that one of his deputy sheriffs was cap
tured in an alleged craps game in an old
brewery bnilding at New York and
Agnes streets. Sunday.
Twenty-three were arrested In the raid
bnt their cases were continued in City
Court.
The deputy sheriff was released on
bond and gave an assumed name to the
turnkey.
Sheriff Miller said he had heard that
one of his deputies was caught in tho
raid,
“I pay the deputies good money,” de
clared the sheriff, “and then they go
uronnd and get in craps games.
"I certainly will start a cleaning."
WHY?
The Indianapolis News went out
of Its way considerably to obtain
and print a very personal attack
on Walter Myers because he criti
cised the Goodrich coal commission.
It had plenty of space to print
Mr. Esehbach’s statement relative to
the coal commission.
When Mr. Myers offered the News
a reply to Mr. Eschbach It was not
sufficiently interested either to print
the reply or, in fact, to receive it.
Why, if this newspaper of doubt
ful ownership is not a part of the
Goodrich-McCray machine In Indi
ana, should it fail to be ae courteous
tea Democrat as to a Republican ?