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SENATE REBEL
LEADERS MAY
VISIT HARDING
Word of Possible Insurrection
Reaches President-Elect’s
Ears.
DISLIKE LEAGUE STAND
MARION, Ohio, Dec. .15.—Rumbles of
possible Insurrection among Republican
lrreconcilablea In the Senate were reach
ing President-elect Harding through va
rions channels today.
He may call some of their leaders to
Marion shortly with a view to nipping
any Insurgent movement such as wrecked
the Taft administration. Primarily the
lrreconciliables fear Harding Is leaning
too far In favor of the League of Na
tions. according to advices reaching here.
Among other aonrces of apprehension
is the new Cabinet, and the belief that
Harding Intends to appoint Herbert
Hoover; another Is the fear that he is
not planning a sufficiently progressive
domeatlc program.
Harding la In closest touch with the
Senate position, often by long distance
telephone, and knows of every shift In
the line-up almost as soon as it oc
curs.
Raymond Robins, Chicago, a progres
sive, was to be here today to lay before
Harding the views of his own wing 01
the party, especially as to domestic legis
lation and the labor situation. Should
hit advice be acted upon there would be
little complaint from the progressive
Republicans. Reports that Robins is be
Ing considered for Secretary of Labor
were strengthened by his appearance her*
tc-day. He has always been friendly to
organized labor.
Harding addresses a bonference on
child welfare here tonight. Tomorrow
Governor Calvin Coolidge comes and Fri
day Harding will see William J. Bryan,
Senator New (Indiana), and Chairman
Will Hays of the Republican national
committee. He appeared to be optimistic
today regarding the conferences held so
■far. They Indicated, he said, that It
will not be as difficult to reach a common
ground as some had thought.
ASSESS GOODRICH
MINE PROPERTIES
Commissioners Boost Valua
tions in Some Cases.
Increases for several of the large cor
porations of the State have been made
In the fourth session assessments by the
State Board of Tax Commissioners, ac
cording to assessments given out today
for several counties. Corporations in
sixty-five counties of the State were re
assessed by the State board, while no
appeals were made from twenty-seven
counties.
Assessment of the property of the Ca
lora mine and the Lenoir mine. In Greer*
County, the latter being the mine In
which Pierre Goodrich, son of Governor
James P. Goodrich, holds stock, and the
former being one in which Governor
Goodrich is interested, was placed at
SIOO,OOO and $148,950. respectively. In lieu
of former assessments.
Some of the assessments made by tbe
board In the various counties are;
Delaware County, Muacie Star, assessed
by county board at $90,000; reduced by
'ifate board to $72,000.
Gibson County, Bosse Coal Company,
assessed by county board at $9,00); raised
by State board to SSI,IOO,
Kosciusko County, Sandusky Portland
Cpment Company, assessed by county
oard at $207,250; raised by State board
$323,200.
Lak County (in which many steel
ndnstries are located!, American Bridge
i’ompany, as essed by county board at
raised by State board to sl.
"52,673; American Sheet and Tin Plata
Company, assessed by county board at!
'■105973, raised by State board to sl,-
198,975. Other large industries of the
ounty were raised proportionately.
In Lawrence County small advances
were made In the assessments of the
stone companies located there.
Approximately $70,000 was taken off the
assessment of the Oliver Chilled Plow
Works of South Bend.
Claypool Foundry Is
Wrecked by Wind
Special to The Time*.
WARSAW, lnd.. Dec. 15.—An immense
foundry building in course of construc
tion at Claypool, was partially wrecked
by a wind storm that swept over this
section Tuesday. The total damage is
estimated at SIO,OOO.
The storm was the most severe that
has ever struck Kosciusko County. Trees
were uprooted, telephone poles were
blown down and plate glasa windows
were broken out of several Warsaw
stores.
Hundreds Attend
Dodge Funeral
DETROIT, Dec. 15.—Hundreds of De
troiters, privateand official, attended the
funeral services for Horace E. Dodge,
millionaire atitomohile manufacturer,
this afternoon. Following the services
the body was taken from Rose Terrace,
•the Dodge home at Crosse Polnte. to its
final resting place beside the body of
the late John F. Dodge, In the family
vault in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Dodge died In Palm Beach, Fla., last
Friday.
Czecho-Slovakia
Revolt Reported
LONDON, Dec. 15. —A revolution has
broken out in Czecho-Slovakia, according
to a Central News dispatch from Vienna.
A military dictatorship is reported to
have been set up in the industrial dis
tricts, while in other areas the "dictator
ship of the proletariat" is said to have
been proclaimed.
Serves Notice of War
on Colombian Treaty
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Notice was
served on the Senate today that any at
tempt to get the Colombian treaty rati
fied this session will be blocked. Sena
tor Poindexter, Republican, Washington,
made this statement during discussion
of the treaty provoked by Senator King,
Democrat, Utah.
Talk School Bills
Members of the committee of legisla
tors appointed recently by Governor
elect Warren T. McCray, to confer with
Indiana school officials relative to edu
cational legislation met today with L. N.
Hines, superintendent of public Instruc
tion.
Proposed legislation for relief of the
educational Institutions and for changes
In the educational system was given to
the legislators, who will present the bills
to the educational committees of the
Legislature.
Assemblymen who attended the con
ference were: Senators William M.
Swain, Pendleton; Clem J. Richards,
Terre Haute and Joseph M, Cravens of
Madison. Representatives A. O. Le
k Long, Azalia; Henry L. Hnmerick
kouaer, Plymouth; Chester Davis, Penn-
Bllle and Sherman Hall, Crothersrllle.
Woman Steps on Rat,
and—Behold, Drive
Gets Its Inception
Mrs. W. H. Hart Tells of
Striking Rodent in City
■ Market While Shopping.
The campaign to exterminate rats In
Indianapolis being conducted this week
by the Women’s Department Club and
the United States Public Health Service
had its Inception, so far as the local club
was concerned, when Mrs. W. H. Hart,
former chairman of the community wel
■ fare section ar.d
V now at bead of
mflflll rx the rat drive com-
mittee, stepped on
a large rodent in
the city market,
V fr'Tj \ statement by her.
(/l\ f The incident, as
Atl related by Mrs.
Hart, is illuminat
ing ns pointing to conditions in tne
market which the Department Club re
peatedly has decried and which the Daily
Times has often pointed out.
The rat was stepped on while Mrs.
Ilart was shopping in the market build
ing one morning some time ago. Mrs.
Hart said she got out of the rat’s way
as quickly as possible and saw It run
under a nearby stand. She passed on
to another stand and was talking to the
standholder there when she saw a wom
an, evidently the owner of the stand
under which the rat had taken refuge,
start to go behind her counter, Mis.
Hart said.
SOUNDS FUTILE
WARNING TO OTHER
“ ‘That woman ought not to ge behind
there. I Just saw a big rat. run In there,’ ”
I told the standholder with whom I was
talking,” Mrs. Hart said.
“The woman to whom I spoke called
to the other standholder and told her:
“ ‘You’ve got company over there.’
“‘What do you mean?’ the other wom
an asked.
“ ‘Why, this woman says a big rat
ran under your stand.’
“ ‘Oh, that’s all right, we’re used to
them,’ the standholder replied.
“You can be sure I don’t buy anything
on the market any more that I can t
wash,” Mrs. Hart concluded.
The incident recalls the fact th’at the
Women’s Department Club has been try
ing to have city authorities clean up the
market for several years without suc
cess. It was thought some progress
would be made when the board of
safety’s special market commission,
headed by Stanley Wyekoff, former Fed
eral food administrator for Marion
County, and including in its membership
Mrs. Rowland Evans, representing the
women's organization, made extensive
recommendations. The commission inves
tigated every pi-ase of the market and
its report advised that the board of
safety take immediate steps to make the
place sanitary.
NOW CALLED
PARADISE FOR RATS.
As the place is now operated it is a
paradise for rats, statements of health
authorities prove. Many of the stand
counters have wooden fronts and sides,
forming dark recesses within which rats
may hide and grow fat. It is no secret
that standholders let refuse accumulate
beneath their counters. While some at
tempt frequently is made to keep the
premises clean, the refuse need not be
left long for the rats to get all the food
necessary to enable them to have a
sleek, well-fed appearance. Health au
thorities state that the only way to pre
vent the evil is to have the counters set
on legs 30 .there will be wide open
spaces beneath. Itats do not reside nor
frequent places Vbere they may he easily
seen and driven ouL
EVIDENT VIEW OF
THE ADMINISTRATION.
No one in the present administration
seems to think anything would be gained
by thoroughly flushing the market and
scrubbing It as was don-* under previous
marketmasters ev ry week
There is of course, the possibility that
rats would be discouraged if every
standowacr were required to make his
own stand sanitary by removing all re
fuse. but orders.to this effect are ab
sent and there is little disposition to
enforce what regulations have beeen
made for the market.
The Department Club plans to reopen
its fight for better market conditions at
an early date. It Is understood. Mean
while. Mayor Charles W. Jewett has an
nounced that remodeling of the city
market Is part of the city’s 1921 buiid
tng program, and it is quite noticeable
that ever since the city administration
adopted tbe new market project, sanitary
conditions in the market have l>een per
mitted to grow worse.
Expected to Name
Committee Soon
Col. L. R. ’Gignllllat, commander of
the Indiana division of the American Le
gion, is expected soon to name five mem
bers of the organization to serve a= a
legislative committee to cooperate with
the State War Memorial Commission in
arranging legislation for the proposed
American Legion memorial. The appoint
ment probably will be made by the end
of this week, when Colonel Gignllllat
comes from Culver.
Authority was granted Colonel Gignll
llat to appoint the committee by the
executive council of the American Legion,
in session here lest November. Follow
ing the announcement of the war me
morial commission that no recotnmenda
tions would be made In the coming ses
sion of the Legislature the work of push
ing the project probably will be placed
In charge of the legion committee.
Request to Remove
Troops Not Received
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The State
Department has not received the resolu
tions reported to have been laid before
the Central American Union, asking
withdrawal of American troops from
Nicaragua.
The State Department announced that
the only American troops now In Nica
ragua are Marines, a small detachment
forming a legation guard and placed
there with the consent of the Nicaraguan
government.
Assessors Meet
One hundred fifty county assessors
and their deputies met today in v the
House of Representatives chamber of
the Statehouse for their annual confer
ence with the members of the State tax
board. Addresses were made by Fred A.
Sims, chairman of the tax hpsrd; W. C.
Harrison, secretary of the tax board;
Governor James P. Goodrich, Governor
elect Warren T. McCray and W. N. Cox
of Parke County.
Thursday, the second and last day of
the conference, the assessors will hear
talks by Philip Zoercher and John G.
Brown, tpembers of the hoard of tax
commissioners, and other tax authorities
of the State.'
The general misunderstanding of the
tax law and various problems which con
front the assessors of the State in deal
ing with the law were to be discussed
by the members, according to Mr. Sims.
COLLINS SPEAKS AT FT. WAYNE.
Judge James A. Collins of the Marlon
County Criminal Court left today for Ft
Wayne to address the Ad Club of that
city, tonight.
Cold in One Dny
Take GroBftt&XAXIYE BROMO QUI
NINE genuine bears tbs
eignntu ;',oe. Advor-
TRAPPERS SEE
LITTLE DEMAND
Few Animal Furs to Be Sold
This Year.
Many trappers in Indiana will not
follow the business of taking fur this
season because the hard work It en
tails offers very little remuneration, Re
cording to George N. Mannfeld, super
intendent of fisheries and game of the
State Conservation Department. Mr.
Mannfeld basea his opinion on numerous
letters received from fur takers all over
the State who claim that an exceedingly
weak market for pelts is no inducement
to continue. The situation existing in
Indiana is to be found in other States,
and it is expected that as a result of the
market slump and no active demand for
pelts, thousands of animals which other
wise would have fallen victims to hunters
and trappers will escape this season.
The unusual slump in the price of fur
is attributed to n strike among work
ers in the fur garment industry In the
East. This tie-np has been in force since
last May with 10,000 skilled employes re
fusing to resume operations. Dealers
were forced to hold vast quantities of
furs which, had they been worked up
Into articles ready for the consumer,
would have found a ready market. The
expense of holding over last season’s
fur forced some dealers to borrow money
in order to retain their stocks. In view
of the large stocks on hand dealers are
not not bidding actively for this season’s
catch, and the market has declined until
a mink pelt which last year commanded
S3O now brings only about $4. Musk
rats a year ago sold for $4.50 and today
the price is around 40 cents. A skunk
hide that last year was worth $0 and $7
today sells for about $1.50. Opossum
hides are selling for 50 cents each where
last year they sold for $2.50.
In view of unstable market conditions
which make it impossible for a trapper
to realize any large amount of money
from this season's work, many trappers
will quit taking fur this year. While
the situation is a genuine hardship to
hundreds of men who last year made
hundreds of dollars from the sale of
furs. In the Interest of conservation it
will give the fur bearing animals a
chance to reproduce in numbers that
will make fur taking profitable in the
future. Trappers who contemplate a
busy season and look forward to a rich
reward for their labor, should investi
gate the market before devoting much
time to an enterprise which at the best
will bring them but small remuneration
this year. Mr. Mannfield estimates that
more than a million dollars’ worth of
fur was taken in Indiana last season.
MIDDAUGH JURY
SELECTION SLOW
After spending most of the morning in
an unsuccessful effort to obtain n Jury
in the case of Charles Middaugh, known
as "Big Shiner.” who is charged with
violating the prohibition atatutes, coun
sel this nfternoon resumed their efforts
before Sfa*c!al Judge James M. Leathers
of the Marlon County Criminal Court.
Atorney Ira Holmes attempted to have
the affidavit on which Middaugh was
fined S2OO and sentenced to sixty days in
the City Court and from which Mid
daugb appealed to tbe Criminal Court,
dismissed on the groupda that the
State “had negatived the exceptions on
the affidavit.”
Prosecutor Claris Adams produced a
Supreme Court decision In another case
In which Mr. Holmes had represented n
Uent by the name of James and that
the Supreme Court had decided this
point against Mr. Holme*.
Judge Leathers then refuse-1 to dismiss
the affidavit uud ordered the ease to
trial. Mid-laugh pleaded not guilty.
The case probably will last another
dajT
DANGERS OF RAT
HANDLING ‘SAFE’
(Continued From Page One.)
the community promiscuous handling
of rats or rat tails would be a severe
menace to the healthy individuals
who handled them, but If one thor
oUglily washes and cleanses the hands
after tills procedure there 1* no more
danger than tn handling any other
unclean object.
Q. Isn’t It true that more harm will
be done and more disease spread by
the widespread handling of rut car
casses than by the unrestricted ac
tivities of the rodents themselves?
A. Positively not. for the reason
that rats In public buildings and
around restaurants and food-producing
establishment* at time* eat off of food
or run over It and contaminate It.
This food goe* Into the stomach* of
patron* and I submit the following
argument: That there 1* o great
difference between eating food con
taminated from direct contact with
rats and handling rat carcasses when
the hands are washed afterward. A*
a matter of fact, I don't know of
any disease that can b# contracted hy
handling a rat, providing the hands
are washed and cleansed after the
procedure.
Q. Does not the doctor believe that
he owes It to the public at least
to issue a warning that the handling
of rata la very dangerous, and should
never be done without afterward
thoroughly sterilizing the hands and
such other partß of the body or cloth
ing as may have touched tho disease
laden bodies?
A. It ought to bo accepted a* an .
axiom that anybody who handles a
rat will wash his hands.
Thus are the skeptics and the "sin
ister Interests” that would interfere wltn
whatever the city board of health is
reported to be doing driven to deep
coTer!
It might be dangerous to handle rats
If the bubonic plague were present.
But the bubonic plague Is not present
Rata would be a *erlou menace .to
the community If the bubonic plague
were present and consequently all their
tails ought to be amputated.
But the bubonic plague la not present
and the tails ought to be amputated
anyhow.
It is against the law to leave food
stuffs offered for sale unprotected bo
that rats may run over It, but It Is
a lot easier to catch the rate and ampu
tate their tails than it la to inforce the
law concerning unprotected foodstuffs.
Every one ought to wash one’s hands.
Especially after handling rats or rat
tails.
Craps Loan Not Legal
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—The Appellate
term of the Supreme Court has decided
that when a person lends money to
another with the knowledge thnt the
money is to e used in a craps game he
cannot recover if the borrower does not
repay the loan of his own accord.
Girls Robbed of
‘Courting Parlors *
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Housing condi
tions have ( robbed young girla of
“courting pnrlore,” according to Mias
Mary Bartelme, assistant to the Juven
ile judge, who today advocated estab
lishment of meeting rooms in every
school.
“Invite the parents to come to ths
school parlors and meet the young
men ylsitlng their daughter*,” she
said. “Provide some games and a
piano in one room and leave two or
three rooms free for private discus
sion.”
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15,1920.
Take Office Jan. 1
WILLIAM I>. LVAN S.
j. bi rdettb'littlk.
JACKSON CARTER.
When William P. Evans assumes the
title of prosecuting attorney of Marion
County on Jan. 1, he will have associated
with him three of the best known young
er attorneys of the city. Sidney Miller
will be the chief deputy, and J. Burdette
Little will succeed Ralph Spnan as City
Court prosecutor. Jackson Carter will
take the place now occupied by Ralph
Jones, the grHu-1 Jury deputy prosecutor.
Mr. Evans announced his appointments
yesterday, and they Indicate that he is
determined on a thorough house - leaning
In the office now occupied by Prosecutor
Claris Adams. Although Mr. Ev'nns, who
Is a former service man, has been chief
deputy to Adams, he has let It be known
that he will conduct the office on a rad
traliy different plane.
Transportation Club
May Change Its Name
The annual election of the Indianapolis
Transportation Club will take place at a
dinner to be held at the Hotel Severin
Thursday night when the membership
will vote on a change of name of the
organization to the Indianapolis Traffic
Club.
A special committee on by-laws will
recommend tbe change of name as well
as tin increase In the annual dues. f.
B. llumston, president of the club, will
preside. During the dinner a SIOO Lib
erty bond purchased by the club during
the world war will be sold to the highest
bidder. B. W. Kredenburg of the Illinois
Central lines, is chairman of the arrange
ments committee for the dinner.
Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but a few cent*—Larger package*.
Aspirin 1* the trado mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcacldester of Satlcyllcaeld
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Rooms SI.OO to $2.50
Corner Market and New Jersey Ste. Weekly Rato on Application.
7 YEARS HIS LIMIT
WITH ONE WOMAN
Wife Seeks Divorce in New
York High Court.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Mrs. Augusta
Pollock, whose suit for separation from
Martin D. Pollock, president of ths
Union Dyeing and Finishing Woiks, was
pending In Supreme Court, appeared be
fore Justice Hendrick and said her hus
band wrote that seven years was the
limit he could live with any woman.
The Pollocks were married In 1912.
Pollock is 41 and his wife is ten years
younger. She told the court her husband
had been attentive to other women and
had neglected her. Mrs. Pollock sub
mitted n letter, which read:
“I no longer love you. I no longer care
for you. Name the time when I can
give you evidence for a divorce. You
are a young woman and can get a fellow
-and get married again. Why stick to
me? I am through with you. Seven years
is the longest I can live with any
woman.”
VANTAGE HELD
BY AMERICA IN
NAVAL RATING
(Continued From Page One.)
England has cancelled some of these ves
sels recently.
Thus the United States and Japan are
the only two nations active today in ex
tensive naval construction.
At the present time, however, Britain's
first-line strength Is estimated at 964,650
tons, nearly twice that the United States.
The tonnage of the entire British navy
today is placed at 2,345.712, which em
braces 595 ships of all classes. The
Uniter States has 347 ships in service
today, totaling 1.137,914 tons, but 12-
American ships are either building or
projected, with a combined tonnage of
890,439. Prospective American vessels
are said to represent newer types and
greater gun power.
Japan’s future provision for smaller
craft Includes nine light cruisers, forty
seven ocean going destroyers and forty
six submarined, most of them more then
800 tons.
The United States has provided for
the construction of 11 auper-dread
nnughts, 8 dreadnaugbts, 14 of the pre
dreadnaught period, 6 battle cruisers. 10
cruisers, 45 destroyers and 54 subma-
M’CVMBER RAPS
SOLDIER BONUS NOW
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15— Granting of
a sold er bonus at present would lnllct
a great hardship on taxpayers, Senator
McCumber of North Dakota, acting
chairman of the Senate Finance Commit
tee, declared today.
The fight to have the Senate adopt
the bonus act passed by the House Inst
session was opened today before the Sen
ate Finance Committee by representa
tives of World War veteran*.
A decision or the bonus will be
reached at this session of Congress, Me-
Cnmlier predicted.
”1 hav„ no doubt Congress eventually
will grant a liberal bonus to veterans,"
said McCumber, “but the principal ques
tion now ts whether It would bo wise to
grant It at the present time.
•*We are now providing for the war
disabled.” ho said.
BRITISH ALARMED
FOR SEA PRESTIGE
LONDON, Dec. 15—The British are
taking serious alarm over the possibility
of losing their maritime prestige to
America. The Globe In a leading article
\today said ;
“Britain’s supremacy on the sea, upon
which our existence has depended for 806
years, appears to be very seriously men
aced. As poor as we are at the moment,
we will begrudge no expenditure that
1* required to preserve mastery of the
seas. We would rather scrap every
other department of Whitehall than to
see that.”
The newspapers gave conspicuous dis
play to dispatches from Washington rc
gard'ng Senator Borah* resolution to
bring about an agreement between Amer
ica, Great Britain and Japan to limit
thetr armaments, but the morning papers
printed no editorial comment.
“Can the nations disarm?” asks the
Fall Mall Gazette In Its headline over
the Washington ilapatch.
The Imperial defense committee, which
met yesterday to consider the future na
tal policy, Is continuing Its sessions to
day with great secrecy.
Sir I’ercy Scottt, famous British navr.l
expert, Is leading a strong movement
against the continued construction of
-Ireadnanghts. In a letter to the Times
and an Interview In the Evening Standard
Sir I’ercy Scott pleaded the cauae of
the submarine against the capital ship
He argued that the submarine of thr
future will not only use twelve and four
teen-inch guns, but will be fitted with
machinery for the projection of poison
gas.
"The use of depth bomba against sub
marine* will become unsafe when (lie
underwater craft are equipped with poi
son gas,” argued Sir I’ercy Scott. "The
destruction of a submarine would le
loose the deadly gas fumes which would
envelope the warship on the surface. I
believe it will be possible in the future
for submarines to put down a barrage
of poison gas, bottling up the surface
ships of a navy In the harbor, where
they fRy be anchored at the time.”
DESTROY HUN MONUMENT.
BRUBKELB, Dec. 15.—The monument
which .was erected by the Germans at
CoulUet, near Charleroi, Belgium, In
commemoration of the battle of Charleroi
was blown up with dynamite by order
of the municipal authorities. An at
tempt to destroy the monument recently
was made by private Individuals.
Wished to Catch
‘Rare* Car, Mistaken
for Burglar Crew
Fleeing Men Inform Emergen
cy Squad They Were Only
Stockyards Bound.
The police emergency squad almost
! caught three burglars at 6:30 o’clock this
1 morning.
1 “There is a burglar In the Severin ho
| tel,” stated n voice over the telephone to
; the desk sergeant at police headquarters.
1 In less than a minute an emergency
squad was on its way to the hotel and
; as the big automobile halted on Georgia
! street near Illinois three men sprinted
around the corner of the building.
It looked like a pursuit and three po
licemen Jumped from the automobile and
halted the runners.
“What’s the matter?” demanded one.
"What you running for?” demanded
the cop.
“T saw a stockyards street car and I
wanted to catch it, for I think it’s the
only one on the line,” explained one of
the “suspects.” The other two admitted
they planned to get on that same street
car.
The burglar call proved to be a fake,
and tbe three suspects watted on the
; corner for the stockyards car.
GRANDJURYCALLS
MYERS CHILDREN
Prosecutor Expects Report in
Case Saturday.
The two stepchildren of Mrs. Inda
Myers, who is being held In the Marlon
County Jail on a charge of the murder
of her husband, Frederick A. Myers, a
I former photographer of this city, ap
-1 peared before the grand Jury today when '
that body resumed an extensive Invest!- ,
gatlon of the tragedy.
Arthur Myers, 12, and his brother,
Byron, 14, appeared In the waiting room
of the grand Jury at the Courthouse.
The boy* were accompanied to the Court
house by an officer of the Juvenile
Court. After the grand Jury adjourued
at noon the boys were returned to the
home of Mrs. Margaret Hildebrand, a
policewoman, in whose custody they have
been placed pending u hearing Satur
! day before Judge Solon J. Carter of
I Superior Court, room 3, in which Mrs.
D. J. McGartb of Chicago, the divorced
wife of the late Mr. Myers and the
| mother of the two boys, seeks to have
| a divorce decree modified so *be can
j have the custody of the children. Mrs.
j Myers ha* instituted action In the Juve
i nile Court, seeking to have the boys
made wnrda of the court to prevent tho
! mother from obtaining custody of them.
Mrs. McGarth wn seen in the ante
| room of the grand Jury room this morn
| ing and It was not announced If she
had been called ns a witness Her sonn
I occupied pUc e * on a bench some little
i dUtunce from her. It ts said that the
i boy* desire to remain with their step
! mother.
Deputy Prosecutor Baiph Jones stated
| that the grand Jury would not be ready
! to report on the Myer* case probably un
j til Saturday.
Say Aged Boston Man
Stole $300,000 in Cash
BOSTON, Dee. 15, -Edward Davla
Bice, a TUtyear old dyestuff merchant
i with offices on Atlantic avenue, was ar- ,
; rested today by police inspectors armed :
' with an indictment w arrant charging
| larceny of $150,000 from the National
\ Shaw mu t Bank and a like amount from
(the Nr# Truat Qmipnny.
STOMACH SO BAD HE
HAD TO GIVE UP JOB
But Mr. Myers has his old job
back now, and has gained
30 pounds.
“Over a year ago my health got so bad :
I had to give up my work as coal miner. 1
Had n very bad caae of stomach trouble. !
j 1 felt so bad thnt I could not eat any- j
I thing, and therefore, was too weak to
: work. I had been doctcring for a long ]
time, blit did not Improve any.
“T finally started to take Milks Emul
slon und theo went to a farm near here
to work. I carried my Emulsion bottle
with me all the lime, took It regularly
1 and gained in strength and flesh e.very
day, and was able to work the entire sea
son through on the farm, and now I am
back at my work la tho Greeuridge Coal
i Mine.
“When I started taking Milks Emul
sion I was down to 135 pounds but now
1 weigh 165, and am as strong and
healthy as I ever was.”—Lem Myers, Ylr
den. 111.
Thousands of people who have suffered
for years from stomach and bowel tron
lues have found relief, almost from the
tirst dose of Milks Emulsion. And It is
! real, lasting benefit.
Milks Emulsion Is a pleasant, nutritive
j food and a corrective medicine. It ri
j .-.tores healthy, natural bowel action, do
ing away with all need of pills and phy
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puts the digestive organs In shape to as
similate food. As n builder of (leah and
strength. Milks Emulsion is strongly
recommended to those whom sickness baa
weakened.
This la the only solid emulsion made,
and so palntatdo that It Is eaten with a
epoou like ice cream.
No matter how severe, your case, you
nre urged to try Milks Emulsion under
this guarantee—Take six bottles home
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and If not satisfied with the results, your
inone.y will be prompely refunded. Price
75c and $1.50 per bottle. The Milks
Emulsion Cos., Terre Haute, Ind. Sold by
druggists everywhere.—Advertisement.
Catarrh Will Go
Help Comes in Two Minutes—Com
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Don't go on hawking yourself sick
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Breathing Ilyomel is a very pleasant
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It relieves stomach misery, sour stom
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DENMAN TELLS OF
BRITISH EFFORTS
Cites Attempt to Dominate
American Ship Building.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—British ef
forts to dominate American shipbuilding
affairs in the early days of the war,
even went to the extent of getting Brit
ish agents elected to Important admin
istrative positions In the United States
Shipping Board, according to William
Denman, first ehatrman of the shipping
board, testifying today before the Walsh
Congressional Committee.
“In April, 1917,” Denman said, “after
the arrival of the British mission, I left
my office in New York one day for a
conference with some shipbuilders. I ex
pected to be gone about three hours.
“At this time we were Just getting the
shipping administrative board organized.
We we.-e anxious to organize on a purely
American basis, and not Insert any for
eign Influence until we were organized
and knew where we stood.
“When I returned to my office I found
that in the three hours I had been awuy
a meeting of the board had been held
nnd a resolution passed making Conan
Guthrie and three or four British gentle
. men members of that board,
i “How those men came there during
I my absence and how they were elected, I
| don’t know. I do know, however, how
they got off.
j “There was a very warm session of the
[board; the action was reversed.”
; Denman said he was willing and anx
ious to cooperate with allied interests,
1 but lie was convinced of the wisdom of
organizing America’* shipbuilding pro
j gram on a purely American basis.
Girls Say They Were
Prisoners; 8 Held
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Peter Piccolo, aa
i loon keeper at 1031 Orleans street, and
1 seven other men are held over for. trial
on Dec 21, in West Chicago Avenue
Court as the result of a story told by
two girls less than 16. Tbe girls said
they were lured to the saloon and held
there by force for three weeks before they
could escape.
BAD BLOOD
Impure, Thin, Weak, Afflict* the
Great Majority of People
Whether in scrofula, sores, bolls, and
eruptions; or as rheumatism with
agonizing pain* and aches In limbs,
Joints or muscles; as catarrh with its
dliagreeable Inflammation and dia
; charge: in disturbed digestion, or drag
ging down debility and tired feeling—it
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i cnratlve power. When a cathartic Is
! needed, use Hood’s Pills.—Advertise
ment.
FRIENDS TELL OTHER
That’s How Fame Spreads
H. H. Von Schlick of 210 Third ave
: nue, Pittsburgh, Pa., has received
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he has done so much good — one letter
tells how his Bulgarian Blood Tea
broke up a bad cold quickly; another
tells how It saved them from the
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No wonder It Is being used by mil
lions of people praising its great
worth as a reliable flrSt-aid family
medicine. It will pay every reader
of this Item to apply at once to their
druggist for a box of Bulgarian
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to tell the good news to others.—Ad
vertisement.
Tired Out?
* Do you know that Unguidnc**, that
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my kidneys were restored to healthy, normal
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My recovery is entirely due to Folay Kidney
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“Gets-It”
For Hard
or Soft
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“Gets-It,” the never falling, guaran
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ffildsteinS
Cured
His Piles
Now 88 Year* Old But Work* At
Trade of Blacksmith and Feel*
Younger Since Piles
Are Gone.
Tbe oldest active blacksmith in Micbl
bau is still pounding his anvil In the
town of Hamer—thankz to my Internal
i method for treating plies.
Mr. Jacob Lyon, Homer, Mich.
I wish that you could hear him tell of
his many experiences with ointment*,
salves, dilators, etc., before he tried my
: method. Here Is a letter Just received
j from him :
j Mr. E. R. Page, Marshall, Mich.
I Dear Sir: I want you to know what
I your treatment has done for me. I had
suffered with pllen for many years and
i used suppositories and all kind* of treat
ments, but never got relief until I tried
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my letter any way you wish and I hope
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Yours truly,
J. L. LYON.
There ere thousands of afflicted people
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No matter whether your case 1* of long
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—TODAY.
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y The Laxative
pi Internal Cleanser
ForQulck Relief
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Grapolo does not contain calomel, or
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