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THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Friday. Little change
in temperature.
VOL. XXXIII.
TEACHERS OPEN
67TH ANNUAL
STATE MEETING
Thousands of Educators In
vade City to Participate
in Convention.
PLAN MANY SESSIONS
The sixty-seventh annual convention of
the Indiana State Teachers’ Association
opened today with sectional meetings in
various halls throughout the city.
Teachers were arriving in the city all
day and it was estimated that the total
number attending the conventicn would
be near 15,000.
The first of the general meetings will
be held in Tomlinson hall tonight.
The business meeting will be held to
morrow afternoon instead o" Saturday
morning as was originally announced.
These will continue 'all day and
evening tomorrow, and Saturday morn
ing. provided a change in program, which
Is being considered, is not made.
Because of the great attendance it ia
necessary to hold the general meetings
at a number of places simultaneously.
SPEAKERS OUTSIDE
EDUCATIONAL WORLD
The unusual interest in the general
meetings is due to the prominence of
speakers and the fact that they are from
professions outside the educational
world.
These speakers were listed by the pro
gram committee with the purpose of
bringing to the teachers a broader vision
of world problems, it being recognized
that the pedagogical profession must
take a more active part in ail affairs of
public import.
At the first general session this after
noon all members will be notified of the
places of meetings by congressional dis
tricts.
Each district will then select a vice
president of the assoclatlon'and a mem
ber of the nominating committee.
A successor to Mrs. E. E. Uleott, North
Vernon, president of the association. Is
to be chosen at the general business ses
sion. which is scheduled for Saturday
morning but may be moved up to Friday
because of demands from all over the
State that this be done in accordance
with a resolution adopted at last year'a
convention,
i FOl'R GENERAL
! MEETINGS TONIGHT.
J Four general meetings will be held at
I 1 8 o'clock tonight as follows:
Tomlinson Hall—Special musical pro
gram prepared by Dean MeCuteban of
the school of music of DePauw Univer
sity and an address on "Learning How
to Live," by Bishop Charles E. Wced
i' cock.
Caleb Mills Hall—Music by Nobles
ville double octette and nddres on "The
Improvement of Teachers and Teaching
Through Organization." by Dr. David
bnedden, head of teachers' college, Co
lumbia University.
Meridian Street Methodist ChurCh —
Special musical program, by the Frank
lin College Conservatory, with Percivai
Owen directing, and address on "The
Challenge of the Boii. -i by Augustus O.
Thomas, State Superintendent of Edu
cation of Maine.
Masonic Temple—Concert by mnslc
department of Shortrtlge High School*
and a play by the Lstttie Theater Soy
ciety.
General sessions at 10 o'clock Friday
morning will be as follows:
Tomlinson Hall—Addresses on "Why
Indiana Is Seventeenth In Education,” by
1.. N. Hines, State superintendent of pub
lic Instruction; "A Constitution for the
(Continued on Page Two.)
BANKING SAFETY
TRACED TO FARM
Commission Head Asks Finan
ciers to Encourage
Husbandmen.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 21.—“ The safety
and prosperity of the banking business
depends on the safety and prosperity of
farmers." Joseph Ilirsch, chairman of i
the agricultural commission of the
American Bankers’ Association, said in (
his report >o the hankers’ association to
day. ■ ‘
The--report asked the bankers’ influ
ence to maintain properly the Departmenti
of Agriculture and to help the farmer la i
marketing his products by encouraging
cooperative warehousing and selling or
ganisations.
Hirsh’s report aroused especial Inter- !
eat here because of the recent plea of
farmers to the Treasury and Federal Re
serve board for eld In crop marketing.
They declared they were losing millions
because they were forced to sell at low j
prices.
Hlrsch urged support of the Federa- '
tion of Farm Bureaus, which is studying
co-operative marketing.
In another report submitted to the |
convention, W. A. Sadd, vice president!
of the savings bank section of the as- j
Boclation, declared against Federal aid !
to States, localities and individuals. >
On the, same ground Sadd declared I
against the Smith-Towner bill, which i
would create a Federal department of!
education and calls for Federal aid to
States.
He declared the measure “represen’s
an effort not only to federalize, but to
sovtetlze the entire educational system of
the United States."
How Many Rats
Do You Feed?
It costs the United States $200,000,000
a year to feed Its rat population.
In return for our hospitality they |
waste our substance, bring us a choice
assortment of diseases and scatter filth. !
Haphazard trapping and poisoning
are not effective. The war against them
must be systematic, organized, scientific.
The Department of Agriculture has
made an exhaustive' study of this subject
and has printed the resuits In a twenty
four-page booklet with Illustrations.
Bend for this authoritative bulletin
and learn how to get rid of these an
noying and destructive pests.
There is no charge except 2 cents in
stamps for return postage.
(In fllling out the coupon print name
and address or be sure to write plainly.)
Frederic J. Haskln, Director,
Indiana Dally Times
Information Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
I enclose herewith 2 cents In stamps
for return postage on a free copy of
the Rat Booklet.
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ELMER C. DREAVES.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21.—A former
intimate friend of Elmer C. Drewcs,
murdered Dartmouth student, was be
ing sought by police today for question
ing in connection with the < ase. -
This, friend, whose name the police
withheld, disappeared about the time
Drewes was found dead.
Ills family also is missing from their
home here.
HOOSIER KILLS
MAN HE BRANDS
HOME WRECKER
Former Partner of Tri-State
Bakery Prince Gives Up
at Newport, Ky.
WIFE WATCHES SLAYING
CINCINNATI, Oct. 21— Howard Phil
lips, 34, part owner of a chain of patent
bakeries In Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky,
"as killed instantly last night at New
port, Ky., near here, by J. R. Murray,
GO, Evansville, Ind.. his former partner.
Phillips was with Murray's wifg when
thq shooting occurred.
Following the shooting, Murray en
tered a taxi, drove to Newport police
headquarters, and, laying his automatic
on the desk, said, to the officer In charge:
"There it is. I Jut shot a inaq, ll#
broke up mv home.”
The principals to the tragedy, accord
ing to police, formerly lived at Ma
quoketn. lowa.
The Murray# liaTe a 5 year-old aon at
Evansville. v
Mrs. Murray's suit for divorce on the
grounds of cruelty is pending in Ken
tucky.
Her husband, according- to his attor
ney, sought a reconciliation.
Last Sunday police said Mob Murray
went to Evansville to see her Mi a who
is in Mtrrff a custody.
Hoping for 'a reconeiliatldn, Murray
followed her to Cincinnati when she re
turned.
Last night he went to see her at a
boarding house in which ahe was stay
ing in Newport.
As he reiched the place Phillip# waa
leaving. Mrs. Murray accompanied him
from the porch to his automobile.
Murray stepped from the shadow of a
taxi and fired eight times, witnesses said.
Six of the bullets lodged In* I*hllllpa’
abdomen. j
Mrs. Murray ran screaming into the
house.
Murray formally wa charged with
murder after a preliminary hearing to
day.
JILTED SUIT an
DIES OF WOUND
NEW YORK, o<t. 21—Dr. Max Howe,
dentist, who shot. Dr. Ruth Rubin, a
woman dentist and his college chum, and
theTT shot himself in the head, died to
day.
The shooting followed the woman’s
rejection of bis proposal to marry him.
FOUR MEN SOUGHT IN
MESSENGER MURDER
CAMDEN, N. ,1., Oct. 21. -A mysterious
telephone rail from a woman who with
held her identity gave detectives a clew*
today in the murder of David S. Paul,
aged bank messenger, whose body was’
found In the woods southeast of here
after he had disappeared while on his
way to a Philadelphia bank with $40,000.
The detectives have picked up the trail
of four men In an automobile who
speeded from the place -.There the body
was discovered toward Atlantic City.
OIL OPERATOR
CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE
VINCENNES, Ind.. Oct. 21.-NV. H.
Rogers, an oil operator, Is held today for
the slaying of Clyde Gillespie, a wealthy
farmer at Bfldgeport, 111., near here.
Rogers siays he shot in self-defense.
seek man With
CHOKING MANIA
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Oct. 21.—A man
with a mania for choking women was
sought by police here today aa a result
of the finding of the l>ody of Mrs. Ruby
Allen of Mobile, Ala., in a local hotel.
She had been strangled to death.
Police believed the same murderer
killed Miss Ula Carlson at Piedmont two
months ago by choking.
MYSTERY SHROUDS
MURDER ON BEACH
KAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21.—The print
of a woman’s slipper in the sands of the
ocean beach near the Son Mateo County
line was the only clew detectives could
work on today In their efforts to solve
the puzzle presented by the finding of
the body of a man with a bullet hole In j
the head, lying dead-on the beach.
Tho scene revealed the tracks of a man
and woman walking about two feet apart,
leading from the nearby cliff to within
thirty feet of the water’s edge.
There the tracks merged Into a tangle
;of foot prints, which showed plainly
there had been a struggle.
Then the man's tracks led down to the
water’s edge, but the woman’s were lost.
Police believed the man was killed by
the woman.
Woman, 83, Hangs Self
at Daughter's Home
Sirs. Elizabeth J. "Parsons, 83, ■* hung
j herself in a shed nt the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Nellie Parsley, 3222 West
Thirty-First street, today. *
Mrs Parsons had been Acad only a
few minutes when her daughter returned
from downijown aud found the body.
Mrs. Patsons is said to have been
brooding ovet the death, two years ago,
of her husband, James M. Parsons.
Entered ac deeond Class Matter, July TS, 1914. at
Postoffice. Indianapolis. Ind.. under act March 8. 1879.
BRITISH RAIL
WORKERS SET
STRIKE DATE
Only Government Capitulation
Will Save Sympathetic
Walkout Sunday.
TRANSPORT MEN WAIT
LONDON, Oct. 21.—The third demon
stration of unemployed this week oc
curred this afternoon in the Hackney
district, when a procession marched upon
York House. Leaders announced theii
Intention of "breaking into York House.”
Police were rushed to the scene.
LONDON. Oct. 21.—The British cabinet
went into session late today, following
announcement that railway workers have
voted a sympathetic strike with the coal
miners.
LONDON, Oct. 2\.—Orders have heen
Issued for British railway men to strike
Sunday at midnight in sympathy with
coal miners.
Under the orders sent out today rail
way men throughout the United Kingdom
j will walk out Sfinday midnight, unless
i specific Instructions to the contrary are
i issued in the meantime,
j Announcement of the strike order fol
lowed the statement of ,T. IT. Thomas,
secretary of the railway workers and a
i member of Parliament, that an ulti
matum will be served on Premier TA&yd
George today.
The ultimatum will demand granting
of the miners' wage demands or reopen
ing of negotiations with the alternative
of the sympathetic strike.
If Lloyd George capitulates the rail
way strike will be called off.
The decision of the railway delegates
added to the seriousness of the situation,
since it was believed these workers would
not call a strike until everything possi
ble had been done to settle the miners’
controversy.
f Transport workers, the other division
|of the ‘‘triple alliance.” announced
; through their secretary. Robert Williams,
I that If negotiations were not reopened
'within twenty-four hour# the issue would
'be clearly drawn between the govern
l merit and the workers.
DAVIS DENIES
IRISH REPORT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Under Se<we
tary of State Davis today denied a state.
, ment which Sir Ilamar Greenwood, chief
I secretary for Ireland, Is reported to have
j made In the House of Commons yesterday
to the effect that America no longer wel*
j comes immigrants fronii reland.
The United States has taken no action
j to stop or discourage Irish immigration,
Mr. Davis said, and Irish immigrants who
j can meet the entrance requirements are
; welcomed.
CONSIDER PREMIER S
EMPLOYMENT PLANS
LONDON, Oct. 21.—With the govern
ment’s position strengthened by the par
liamentary vote upholding I’remier
Lloyd George’s Jr*b policy, the House
of Commons tertied to the troublesome
ytnent roWen today.
The Premier's solution for ftils que*
tlon bad already been outlined.
He suggests that the trade unions co
operate with the government and hear
part of the- expeuse* of putting unero
ployed men nt work on construction of
home\and new roads in all parts of Eng
land.
The violent demonstration by unem
ployed on Monday, followed by a lesser
outbreak on Tuesday has brought this
menacing question sharp- before the pub
lic and he government.
A. Bonar Law. spokesman for the gov
ernment, announced that the govern
ment was ready to hear any suggestions
that might be made for relief In Com
mons this afternoon.
22 SUITS NOW
ARE WITHDRAWN
Eschbach Says Large Fund Is
Had by Litigants.
Three additional suits, making a total
of twenty two; against the special coal
and food commission will be with
drawn upon the authority of the retail
ers- who stated In letters to Jesse E.
Eschbach, chairman of the commission
that no one had been authorized to file
suits In their name.
The firms are: 8. J. Fisher & Cos.,
and W. M. McClure A- Cos., of Union
City, and Fuel and Sup
ply Company.
Records at the courthouse -show that
formal action has been taken to withdraw
only fourteen suits.
Chairman Eschbach announced today
that ho understood the retailers’ associa
tion had levied a tax of SL3 per retailer
as a fee to cover expenditures necessary
to the filing of suits Hnd for legal
services. /
Eight hundred retailers are Included
In the list referred to by Chairman Esrh
bach, which would provide $18,400 as the
retailers’\oost of fighting the commis
sion's orders.
The State will receive about s\£,ooo in
coal licenses from dealers, operators and
wholesalers, and that amount, according
to Mr. Eschbach, will not pay the expense
of the State for the coal hearing.
NO I* UOVISION
FOR COMPENSATION.
The members of the coal commission.
Governor Goodrich, State Auditor Rlauss
and Mr. Eschbach, according to the spe
cial coal and food law, are not provided
any compensation for their work under
that law.
Clerical forces, the expenses of ex
aminers, telegrams, office Incidentals,
etc., are included In the State expense,
together with foes for the comttalsslon’s
counsel, Howard Young and James W.
Noel.
A force of Investigators from the coal
commission Is traveling about the State
at the present time, testing eviden-e
submitted in the hearings and examining
books of retailers who have filed suits.
The examiners are men who have com
pleted thHr field duties of the State
board of accounts and have been tem
porarily transferred to the service of
the coal commission.
LETTERS TO BE ,
BENT RETAILERS,
Letters to retailers who have with
drawn suits against) the coal commission
were to be sept today by Chairman
Eschbach.
The letters read:
“On behalf of the coat consumers of
Indiana the special coni and food com
mission extends to you sincere thanks
for the splendid spirit of cooperation
and support you hove shown in dismiss
ing your action in the Marion Circuit
Court.
“Y’ou have relieved many of our as
sistants from service In your community
and afforded'them the opportunity to as
sist the commission in its task of get
ting coal to She consumers before there
is actual suffeArg.
“Personally, < can assure yon that no
coal producer r>r distributor tu Indiana
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INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1920.
‘Tricked/ Moans
M’Swiney Who
Is Fed
AND ON 7ATLI HAV FAST IS
the /Win UAI ended
LONDON, Oct. 21. —Terence MacSwiney,
Sinn Rein lord mayor of Cork, was still
living on the seventieth day of Ms
hunger strike.
■ He was fed for the first time by the
Brixton jail staff physicians late
Wednesday afternoon, when he lapsed
into unconsciousness.
A small amount of brandy and essence
of beef were administered.
Previously to being fed MacSwiney hnd ;
lost his sense of taste, but the food j
revived It.
When he regained consciousness he
turned to his sister, who was seated at
his bedside and whispered:
“I have heen tricked.”
The paroxysms of delirium left Mac-
Swiney weaker, but he seemed to revive
slightly after the administration of beef
extract and brandy.
DUBLIN, Oct. 21.—The town of New
cester was raid'd early today l y a hand 1
of men wearing British military police
uniforms. A woman and a gill were
removed forcily from their home, which
was burned. ,
BELFAST, Oct. 21. Fighting broke
out here today between mobs of Orange
men knd Sinn Feiners. There was flr.ng
with revolvers and volleys of missile#
thrown before the soldiers, in an armored
car, dispersed the rU-ters. The fighting
centered in Queen street.
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‘Communion of
Devil * Gets Boot
| GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 21— > !
! Grand Rapid# W. C. T. U., in Joint '
! annual session with the Kent County
ij W. C. T. IT., adopted resolutions con- jj
i demnlng the “devil'# communion.”
This, they said, was hard cider, ;i
j mooushiue whisky and near-beer cou- J
coetlons.
Raids on all cider mills in the county j
were advocated to stump out the hard !
I cider industry. 1
TRAIN HELD UP
BY 3 BANDITS
Sleepy Passengers Robbed as
Guns Are Fired Through
Roofs.
BUFFALO, N Y., Oct. 21. —Three
bandits, firing revolvers Into the air,
robbed passenger* on New York Central
passenger train No. IS tn the East Buf
falo yards early today.
George Sinclair, Geneva, Ohio, a train
man, was shot and wounded.
The train wns standing In the yards
i when the bandits Jumped on the plat
form of the Inst Pullman car.
Sinclair tried to bar their way.
They fired at him.
He fell wounded.
Entering the coach the bandits fired
several shots Into the roofs awakening
passengers In their berths.
The passengers were marched to one
end of the car, two of the men threat
ening them with revolver* while the
third man searched clothing and looked
under pillows for money and watches.
Thirty minutes sfter the hold-up the
police arrested John Depka and Stanley
Depka. brother*.
EDWARD SAYS
HELL REDUCE
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 Edward
Roche Hardy, 12, Columbia fresh
man. wended his way sadly to hie
classrooms today, his 143 pound bulk
surrounded by an aura of gloom.
His first essay Into growuup ath
letics had been attended by defeat.
This youngster, whose prodigious
mental equipment suddenly has
startled the educational world, par
ticipated la the annual tug of war be
tween the Columbia freshmen and
sophomores.
The freshmen lost three out of
flvo trials.
"They said they wanted weight;
that was tho reason I Jumped In," Ed
ward explained,
"But I deduct that what really was
required was brawn.’’
In addition to becoming a mission
ary to the Near East—a future
he mapped out for hlmsi If years ago—
Edward Intends toMovote inuqh of his
life to writing.
"Du® to my very recent expe
rience with reporters I am a bit In
trigued by the Idea of taking up
newspaper work,? he said, "hut I im
agine It would interfere with my
other work and I probably will de
vote most of my writing to! areh
aelogloal and theological subjects."
Edward’s favorite study is - his
tory, *
The only study he does not like Is
mathematics.
He laughed j n hts piping treble at
the suggestion of one reporter that
he knew all about ths fourth dimen
sion.
"I know positively nothing about
the fourth dimension,” be said. “But
as no one else doe*, either, I to em
ploy a colloquaiUsm should worry.’’
Rob Girl of $4,000
CHICAGO, Oct. 21. Auto bandits to
day held up and robbed Miss Dorothy
Pallman, 22, who was taking $4,000 In
cash to the bank for her employer.
The robbers drew up alongside Miss
Pallman, who was waiting for a street
car, grabbed the money and drove away.
WHITE PLAGUE BODY TO MEET.
The Marion County Tuberculosis Asso
ciation will hold its seventh annual meet
ing at the Bunnysicle sanitarium north
east of the city next Wednesday after
noon.
DON’T BLAME BALD HEADS-IT’S WOMEN!
CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—Who, of all
theater patrons, love best to see a
shapely calf, a perfect knee, i trim
ankle—to say nothing of a rippling,
curved feminine back covered with
nothing more beclouding than a
scant dash of powder?
All who answered, the men, may go
to the fbot of the class on the word
of Ann Pennington, famous dancer,
and expert on dimpled knees, etc.
She’s got 'em herself and knows.
“No, no” said Miss Pennington to
day.
“t's the women, bless ’em.
‘ Don’t blame the men—the poor
DAVIS TELLS OF
TAX INCREASE
BY G. 0. P. RING
i .
Calls Attention to Board of
Accounts’ Report on
Spending.
ADAMS * SCOUTS ACTION
. |
Colling attention to the enormous in
crease in taxation since the Republicans
came into power in Indiana, Paul G. .
Davis, Democratic candidate for prose
cutor, spoke at the League of Nations
headquarters on North Pennsylvania
street ’ast night.
lie said :
In 11(15, since which time the Republic
ans have been in charge of our county
government, $6,030,000 was paid into the
jfublic treasury by the taxpayers or
Marion County.
Next year this same Republican ma
chine will collect over 816,000,000 from
Marion County taxpayers.
In 1015, the county debt was less than
$4,000,000.
Last year It was more than 16,000,000
This enormous increase in the amoui.l
collected in taxes, accompanied by tht
unparalleled increase in the public debt,
is due to. w-hat the Republican State
Board of Accounts calls a "free ham)
spending of the public fund# * * *
with 'entire disregard of law and good
business Judgment.” V
NO DENIAL OF
E.V T K V V AGA N (, E.
It Is, a fact which cannot be and is
not denied, that great sum# of the tax
payers' money has heen spent in ajlavish
; and extravagant manner.
\ I*o you know that thoe Republican nf
| Ocials are spending $5,000 a year of the
| public’# money for the operation of auto
\ mobiles for the running of which there
is no provision ir law?
Do you know that they are paying ap
-1 proximately $20,000 a year under the
; guise of Janitor service for the conrt
! house, and that it costs less than SB,OOO
a year to pay for (he janitors lu the
Beard of Trade building?
! Do you know that they have paid qnt
more than SBOO to put less than S4O worth
of paint and hardware on election booths?
Do you know they paid SII,OOO a tell# to
build three miles of road from the store
of County Coninlisaioner Lewis W. George
to Valley Mins, without letting any con
i tract and without any competitive bid
-1 ding ?
These, and many other Instance# of
the outrageous management of the county
finance# are charged in the published re
ports of t h Stato Board of Accounts.
The Republican prosecuting attorney
i does not raise his hand iu protest.
, .VITKOV KS ACTIONS
OF ASSOCIATES.
He approves the action# of hi# political
| associate# and l# himself a party to the
practice.
Me petitioned and prevailed upon the
'county to pay a lawyer $1,700 for assist
ling him in the trial of the Haag per
jury case when, under the law, he should
have paid this out of hts own pocket,
which hai been, well filled by fees paid
by the unfortunates of the community,
nr.d he flatly refuses to collect the bal
ance of $1,600 due the State upon judg
ments ngaiunt hl apparently good friend,
•Fop” Leppert of blind tiger fame.
Do the people if Marlon County in
dorse this administration of their affairs?
Is it (he kind of management they
would tolerate in their own business?
Isn't the fact that our taxes are now
! top high am! are growing higher suffi
cient to interest the voter# of this county
!i the county government?
■tteja'rdices of petite*, aren't the tax
payer# intcrest-d la ousting the erbwd
which has placed these heavy burden#
upon them?
It Is an election which we ere entitled
to win.
The more the people know snout the
facts the more votes we will get.
The voters are Insisting upon knowing
the truth, and it is the truth which we
want them to know.
Wis arc right and, because we are right,
we v.dli v*ln.
HOGS AT LOWEST
LEVEL SINCE WAR
Local Market Price Drops $1
Over ISight.
Flog prices paid In Indianapolis to
farmer* were the lowest level today since
the United Spates entered the war.
The bulk of sales for 12,000 hog* at
the local stock yard* were quoted at
$13.25, a drop or $1 since yesterday.
There was a decline of about 25 cents
In the prices of hogs Monday, the open
ing day of the market week, and declines
ranging from 25 to 50 cents were sus
tained Tuesday and Wednesday.
Commission metl say they are doubt
ful as to whether there will be a rally
In hog prices, and are not attempting
to console the farmers, who are won
dering how far prices will drop.
In view of the fact that they have
little promise of a rally In prices, farm
are shipping their hogs to the market
as swiftly as possible.
Newspapers in Texas
Are Threat Objects
DALLAS, Tens, Get. 21.-Editors of
seterul Dallas and Kills County news
papers have received letters threatening
destruction of their plants If the pub
lications fall to support demands for
40-cent rotton. F. M. Bpenfer, head of
the Department of Justice Investigation
Bureau, announced here today.
Farmer Hangs Self
in Doorway of Barn
Special to The Times.
NORTH .run SON, ind., Oct. £l.—Gus
tave Stolt, 47, farmer, near here, com
mitted suicide late Inst night by hang
ing himself in tne doorway of his barn.
Financial worries were given as the
cause by his wife, wjfio found the body.
Guard Against Bomb
KANT A ROSA. Cal., Oct. 21.—Heavy
guards were thrown around the Sonoma
County courthouse here this morning
when telegraphic Information was re
ceived from Sacramento, Cal., that nn
alleged anarchistic plot', to dyhnmlte the
Santa Rosa courthouse had been uucov
tred.
*3,500,00ft HOI* DAMAGE,
■ LONDON, Oct. 21. Fire damaged the
hops exchange at Southwark today with
abont-^53,500,000 loss. Many thousands
bushels of hops were stored on the upper
floors the building.
old bald heads—for the increasing
nudity ,on the stage.
"The women Insist on It.
“The skinny old maid loves to go
to the theater and see beautiful legs
and soft, white .irms and wonderful
backs.
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MRS. IDA McGLOXK GIBSON.
The last week of the. campaign will
see Indiana favored by a number of
women speakers of national prominence,
among whom will be Mrs. Ida McGlone
Gibson of Chicago, author and speaker.
Mrs. Gibson, who made a number of
speeches in the State early in the cam
paign. will make a return engagement
Oct. 25 to 30 inclusive.
Her itinerary is as follows: Anderson.
Oct. 25, night; Muncie. Oct. 26, night;
Lafayette. Oct. 27, afternoon, Delphi,
night; Logs Deport, Oct, 28, night;
IVabash, Oct. 2D, night; Decatur, Oct. 30,
night.
Mrs. Alice Foster MeCollocb, Demo
cratic Women’# State chairman, will
speak at Napoleon Oct. 23.
Mrs Grace Julian Clarke will address
Democratic women - # rallies at Ottowa
the night >)f Oct. 25, and at St. Mary’s
the night of Oct. 20.
Her subject will be phases of the
Longue of Nations at both meetings.
Mrs. Olive Beldon Lewis will speak at
Fremont, Oct. 25, night.
Mrs. llortensegTTapp Moore will speak
*t Sycamore (?< night.
M’CRAY FAILS
HIS PARTNER
IN LAWSUIT
Railroad Deal Causes No
Little Worry to G. 0. P.
Candidate.
Why did Warren TANARUS, McCray. Repub
lican candidate for Governor, break with
his partner, Bayard Taylor, and refuse
to take legal steps to recover what he,
Taylor and f*. C. Kent had put Into a
project whtch afterward materialized into
a railroad built by tha New York Central
Line# through Kpntland?
TIH {* the question that run# through
out the proceeding# in cause 22,440, Su
preme Court of Indiana, a suit brought
by Bayard Taylor against the Chicago,
Indiana & Southern Ballroad, McCray
and Kent.
It is a question that is not answered
in the record# of the case as they are now
available to the public.
It is a question that might be an
swered by the missing interpleader whtch
has disappeared from the files of the
Jasper Circuit Court at Ren#aiaer or it
might be answered by Warren T. McCray
himself, or it might have been answered
by Will Adc, brother-in law of McCray,
before he died,
Kntnor has it that Ade did answer the
question in an affidavit which was given
to representative# of James W. Fesler in
the primary in which McCray defeated
Fesler.
But the Fesler adherent# now decline
to make public any of their data con
cerning tlds case, although they declared
during the primary race that their data
was such as to make them believe that
Warren T. McCray was not fit to be the
Republican nominee for Governor.
Two court# decided that the Chicago,
Indiana A Southern Railroad was in
debted to Bayard Taylor and a judgment
of $11,261.67 was actually paid by the
New Y'ork Central.
McCray V gen -ally regarded as a
"good business man.”
He bad a contract with Taylor and
(Continued on Page Five.)
TAGGART TALKS
TO KINGAN MEN
Says Watson’s Record Speaks
for Itself.
Thomas Taggart today reviewed his
career before the employes of the Kingnn
A- Cos. plant ami also gave a few* pointers
on the League of Nations, taxation and
labor conditions.
Mr. Taggart told of the tirnp when he
worked in a restaurant and''served em
ployers with the same faith and good
will as that of the audience before him.
In referring to Senator Watson’s state
ment that others should have a chance
to accumulate money, Mr. Taggart said
Senator Watson Uad spent twenty-three
years in the service of his country and
now should he given a chance to do
something for himself.
"His record in Congress speaks for
itself," said Mr. Taggart.
"In speaking of my wealth, every dol
lar I have I got by strict attention to
duty, and working early and late,” said
Mr. Taggart.
"It is impossible for an efficient man
or woman to hide his ability continu
ally,” continued Mr, Taggart, "and sooner
or later he will be rewarded accordingly.
“The working world knows no hours,
and I have great sympathy for thoso
who are struggling through life, the
same as I had to do when I was a boy,"
said Mr. Taggart.
Mr. Taggart urged livings, through
the dep: iving of litlie pleasures, until
such a time when all pleasures will be
enjoyed thoroughly;
“Capital and labor are indispensable
to the welfare of society,” he raid.
more applause a* a matinee than I
do at an evening performance."
Miss Pennington is amply bached
up by "La Sylphe," an Oriental
_daneer, who wears, in her own words,
"an excuse for a couple of straps."
“A man likes a shapely lag- leg,
not limb—” she testified, "but he
doesn’t care for it for Its own sake.
"He wants to see you do something
with it.
“Pep, that’s his dislu
"But a ffornn, to be contented/
must shape,
'"'Si-' Ba L ,JU '
LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
Ready to Claim
Harding Reward
BALTIMORE, Md„ Oct. 21.—Gov
ernor Cox upon bis arrival here this
afternoon stated he would claim the
reward ,wlilch Senator Harding offers
to any one who can show “any incon
sistency or change of position” In his
campaign speeches.
‘‘l can shove that within the last
■lghteen months Senator Harding has
assured thirteen Xposttions o n the
cague of Nations Issue," Cox said.
“That ought to win the reward.”
V>
PJtf) LEAGUERS
CONVERT MANY
PACT ENEMIES
Noted Speakers Cause Swing
ing of Republicans to
Democracy.
HOLD THREE MEETINGS
Prominent advocates of the League of
Nations, most of whom are Republicans,
spoke at three meetings in Indianapolis
last night, one at the Propylaeum, one
at the Masonic temple and one at Sanders’
theater in Fountain Square.
Crowds jammed the Sanders theater at
1106 Prospect street to hear Secretary of
War Newton D. Baker, Col. Charles W.
Whittlesey of the famous ‘‘Lost Bat
talion.” and Capt. George H. Gillln of
the Disabled Soldiers’ League.
The speakers made statements which
aroused the gathering, so far as to con
vert Republicans to Democracy.
Captain Gillln said that at one time
three disabled veterans of the war ap
peared before Congressman Warren and
asked him to provide relief for wounded
m en—one had lost a leg and the other
two were blind—and that Congressman
Warren's answer to the disabled veter
ans waa “Go to hell.'’
“You don't have to take my word for
it.” said Captain Gillln, “it is on record.”
“Now, I want to know if you Repub
licans in this audience are- going to
vote for Senator Harding, who is sup
ported by pro-German# ueh as that
great objector v.erick, and men of the
type of Congressman Warren.
"If you Republicans want to align
yourself with that type of men and cast
your votea-rivlth them, and for such poli
cies. I want to fall In line with my
‘huddle’ and vote for bis good and in
memory of those who helped save this
world for the greatest of all Ideals —that
for which they fought and died—peace.”
“You Republicans who want to vote for
such men remain seated, and you., Repub
licans who want to vote for fair treat
ment and the preservation of that ideal,
(Continued on rage Five.)
RAILROAD MAN
DENOUNCES BILL
Pleads for Election of Spaan
and Taggart.
John F. McNamee of Cleveland. Ohio,
editor of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Englnemen's Magazine, in an
address to a large gathering last night,
urged all railroad employe* and all other
workers and, as he put It, "all citizens
who believe in a government of, fpr and
by the people,” to support Henry N.
Spaan In this district for Congress and
Thomas Taggart in the State for United
States Senator.
Mr. McNamee declared that If the peo
ple generally could understand how the
public treasury has been plundered
through *the passage of the Esch-Cummlns
law every member of Congress who voted
for that law would be overwhelmingly
defeated and repudiated.
He said that the Esch-Cummlns law
simply meant the validating and Indors
ing by Congress of eight billion dollars
of fictitious or watered stock which was
Included in the twenty billion dollar val
uation put on the railroads by tbelr pres
ent owners for rate-making purposes and
accepted under the Esch-Cummlns law by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
He also called attention to the rate
making, which meant the fixing of freight
and passenger rates which will guaran
tee per cent returns to the owners of
all railroad securities and % per cent
additional for betterments and exten
sions.
He said the Esch-Cummlns law im
posed Involuntarily servitude on the rail
road workers while handing billions of
dollars over to the railroad owners and
that the Government would be Just as
much Justified in guaranteeing returns
to automobile factories, department stores
or any other industry or business.
He said It was a bounden duty the
people owe themselves to defeat every
one of the Indiana congressmen who are
seeking re-election and to elect Thomas
Taggart to the United States Senate, and
he urged upon his hearers to put forth
their very best efforts In Marlon County
to elect Henry N. Spaan to Congress.
Judge Takes Heart
Out of Lever Law
PITTSBURGH, Pa.. Oct. 21.—Judge W.
H. S. Thomson In United States District i
Court today read from the bench an opin
ion declaring the fourth section of the
Lever act, the very heart of that law,
'■unconstitutional, and dismissed the Gov
ernment's petition for au order of re
moval so that George W. Yount, George
A. Howe and William O. Taylor, Pitts
burgh railroad men, could be taken back
to Chicago, where they are under indict
ment for conspiracy to violate the sec
tion the court ruled unconstitutional.
2 Women, Pistol and
Curtain Pole Figure
Lida Hutchins, 53. 1234 Harland street,
was arrested today on a charge of shoot*
. Ing with Intent to fe: 11 after she is said to
| have fired two shots at Mrs. Mary Mc
| Intire, 39, of 1525 Harlan street, colored,
j said to have attacked her with a curtain
j pole.
j The Mdntire woman was arrested for
! assault and battery.
3 Die in Explosion
BATAVIA, N. TANARUS., Oct. 21—Three mem
bers of an engine crew were killed when
the boiler of an engine standing in the
New York Central yards here exploded
today.
Tho erosion blew the bodies high
into the air and dropped them 200 feet
from the wrecked locomotive.
DEBS IN PROPOSED TRADE. \
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Release of
Eugene V. D?bs from prison is one of
the conditions which soviet Russia has
named as desirable before Americans now
held In Russia are released, Under Sec
retary of State Davis today disclosed.
NO. 140.
ARTICLE 10 CURB
ON ‘NATIONAL
CUPIDITY-COX
Brands Attacks of Opponents
as ‘Deliberate Misrepre
sentation/
2 TALKS IN BALTIMORE
’ EN ROUTE WITH GOVERNOR COX,
WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 21.—Article 10
of the League of Nations covenant today
occupied Governor James M. Cox to the
exclusion of nearly everything else.
Hf branded a# ‘‘deliberate misrepre
sentation” the contentions of opponents
of the league who seek to prove that,
the constitutional right of Congress to
declare war Is abrogated by that provi
sion of the covenant and quoted freely
from various “authorities” to prove hi#
points.
“Even Senator Harding, on one of those
rare when he has been per
mitted to stray away from the front
porch unchaperoned, admitted the League
of Nations could not call the United
States into war without the,consent of
Congress,” Cox declared.
Defining article 10 as a statement, “In
parliamentary language” of the Biblical
injunction, “Thou shall not steal,” the
Governor said it was put into the league
as a curb on “national cupidity” and in
sisted it was vital to the league.
“Territorial grand larceny,” he asserted,
“has been one of the most prolific cause#
of war.”
He then took up in detail the proc
eases of the league machinery and sought
to show that rarely, if ever, would it b
necessary for the league to resort to
“drastic measures” to enforce its decrees,
and then only with the consent of the
constitutional authorities of the member
nations.
QUOTES OPINION OF
BAB ASSOCIATION
1 To say that the league could declare
war is to say that it is in violation of
our own. <”0051113(100 and those of most
of the forty-three nations which are now
members of it, Cox contended.
Then he quoted from an opinion of the
American Bar Association that “article 10,
“Is hot in violation ■of the Constitution
of the United States for to de
clare war is not delegated.”
“Some say that if the council has no
authority to order military forces into
the fields in defense of the covenant," Cox
continued, “the peace of the world would'
be no better secured with the league than
without it. Snch an inference would b*
entirely at variance with experience.
"Earl Grey, at that time the British
secretary for foreign affairs, said in 1911
that if in the critical days of July and
August he eeuld have got the statesmen
of the great powers around a table in
conference for nine days or nine hours,
the world war would have been averted.
“In case of a serious diipute between
two nations, the council of the league
would endeavor to. have the disagreement
presented to the permanent ciurt of In
ternational justice, the parties to the dis
; pute agreeing to abide by its decision,
j “If the matter were urgent they would
I attempt to settle the question' byr con
ciliation, the council acting as mediator.
“Failing this, all members of the coun
! cil, except the disputants, would attempt
I to reach an unanimous agreement as
Ilic cou.*?: of action to be recommended.
'No recommendation would .v !
however, without an unanimous vote."
PROVIDES PUNISHMENT
FOR OFFENDING NATION.
A# a punishment for the offending
tion. Governor Cox said, the
might send a joint diplomatic note
demnlng (ha action, might break o's
loinatle relations, or, as a last resoßil
might insr'tute an economic block ida^B
“It Is extremely doubtful.” he
“If any na'lcn would have the
to fly In the face of the outraged
opinion of the whole word, and it is
moral certainty that no nafio i woTid fe
so foolhardy as to try to live, let alone
carry on effective werfar? in isolation.'’
In caae of such a crisis as that of
1914, he eaid, the council would sit in
special conference, and if the council
were unanimously agreed that drastie
action was necessary it would b eaa
(Contlnned on Page Two.)
COUNCIL RELENTS
ON MOTORIZATION
to
Hold ‘Harmony* Conference to
Discuss Plans.
Complete harmony reigned at the con
ference last night of the board-of public l
safety with members of the city council
upon the bids for the supplying of ap
paratus necessary In the complete motor
ization of the fire department, City Pur
chasing Agent Dwight S. Ritter, who
was present In an advisory capacity, re
ported today.
Early in the year the council indicated
it would refuse absolutely to ratify a
contract for the purchase of the appa
ratus if the board of safety did not
act upon bids received at that time.
From expressions of councilmen last
night, however, Mr. Ritter said he was
led to believe the council will ratify the
contracts this time.
Because Councilmen GustavG. Schmidt,
Sumner A. Furniss and Lee ,T. Kirsch
were not present for the whole conference
another will be held following the special
meeting expected to be held Monday eve
ning to ratify the amendment to the Cit
izen's Gas Company's franchise.
The purpose of the conference, Mr.
Ritter said, was for the board of safety
to lay before the council all the Infor
mation It has about the bids which have,
been received to ascertain in advance
how far the qpuncil will go in ratifying
the contract award the board makes.
Various points of discussion in the
meeting were not disclosed but It is
known that city officials have been In
clined to favor the awarding of the con
tract to the Stutz Fire Apparatus Com-,
pany because it ,1s a ’x’al concern and
can supply parts for i lairs quicker and
more conveniently than an outside eon- .
cern.
Board members A. L. Taggart and
Henry Dithmer and Oounclltnen ML B.
Peake Lou!* W. Carnefix, Russell Willson,
O. B. Pctttjohn, Jacob P. Brown aud
Jesse E. Miller were present.
The apparatus which th* board pro
poses to buy consists of eighteen 690-
gallon~pumpers, seven 750-gallon pumpers,
two tractors for steamers, two (55-foot
aerials, one 85-foot aerial and ten hook
and ladder trucks.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.,
Friday, Oct. 2?: Fair tonight and Fri
day ; little change in temperature.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m , 62
7 a. m... ...Vi (52
8 a. m 65
9 a. m 70
10 a. m 74
11 a. m... 76
12 (noon) 90
1 p. m... 81
2 p. m 82