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THE WEATHER
Rain and warmer tonight. Wednesday,
rain or snow and colder by night.
VOL. XXXIII.
POLITICAL AX FALLS
ON SYMMES FOR DOING
SWORN PUBLIC DUTY
Big Two and Commissioner-Elect Give Boot to
Pauper Attorney for Action in
Stivens Case.
PLUMS RATTLE FROM COUNTY TREE
In the distribution of the easy berths
for 1921 at the bands of the Big Two of
the county board of commissioners and
Commissioner-elect Harry D. Tutewiler
of the Second district, the winners in
Vbe majority of the janitorship appoint
ments at the courthouse are the present
holders who were “faithful” at the polls
on election day.
The big surprise is the failure of the
commissiouers to reappoint Frank
Symmes as county pauper attorney and
Dr. William E. Mendenhall as county
jail physician.
Dr. Blanchard Pettijohn was appointed
to take the place of Dr. Mendenhall as
county jaiy physician and Paul C. Wet
ter, an attorney at SOS-80U Merchants
Bank building, was appointed pauper at
torney.
Wetter previously had landed a reap
pointment at the hands of Prosecutor
elect William P. Evans as divorce prose
cutor in Superior Court, room 4. He has
been nursing the pauper attorney ap
pointment for some time and was seen
walking up and down the corridors of
the courthouse while the Big Two of
the commissioners' board and the com
missioner-elect were considering his fate
behind closed doors In the office of Coun
ty Auditor Leo K. Fesler.
REASON ADVANCED
FOR SYMMES' FATE.
The “dope” is that Symmes' actions in
revoking the suspended sentence of Pat
SStivens. a convicted violator of the pro
hibition laws, thereby sending Stivens to
the penal farm, is one of the reasons un
derstood to be at the bottom of the re
cent “dissatisfaction” against him.
Symmes was a gpecial judge in the City
Court and revoked a suspension of a
sentence which previously he had given
Stivens. Stivens was taken to the penal
farm when Judge Solon J. Carter of
Superior Court refused to grant a writ of
habeas corpus.
It Is said Symmes’ action in the Stivens
did not “set well” in certain po
rjjtical circles. Also recently Symmes has
defended, as pauper attorney, a number
of negro gamblers who were sent to jail
by Judge James A. Collins. Symmes has
received the open blame for such a catas
trophe.
Wetter has been active in Republican
circles for some time and was very
prominent at political meetings during
the campaign. Since election he has
been busy playing his cards and has
done it so successfully that he has two
appointments.
Wetter's new job pays $1,200 a year
and the county jail physician gets $75 a
month.
HENDRICKSON IS
RE-APPOINTED.
At a salary of $.".400 a year, Harry C.
Hendrickson. Republican Marion County
chairman, was re-appolnted county at
torney. T here was "dope" that Auditor
Leo K. Fesler was “bucking" the re
appointment of Mr. Hendrickson, but
DAMPIER ORDERED
BROUGHT TO TRIAL
Judge Leathers Acts Follow
ing Physician’s Statement.
Refusing to permit further delay be
cause of the alleged illness of John D.-un *
K pier, charged with receiving stolen au
tomobiles. Special Judge Janies M. I.eath
era today ordered Special Investigator
Claude M. Worley to bring Dampler into
court to stand trial.
Dampier was bri ught into court after
Worley found Dampier in bed at his
home. Jlidge Heathers, without a min
ute's hesitation, ordered the case to trial
U pto noon today counsel was unable to
obtain a jury and efforts were continued
this afternoon.
Following the evidc ice of Dr. George
\f. Foxworthy that in his opinion
Dampier could safely appear In conrt for
trial and also because of the statement
of Prosecutor Claris Adams that he be
lieved that Dampier “had trifled - ' with
the court. Judge Leathers ordered
Dampier brought, into court. Worley
stated that Dampier was “in bed” when
he called at the home. Dampier. how
ever, walked rapidly Into the courtroom
and took his place by bis attorneys.
Dampier showed no ill effects from ap
pearing in court today and he paid close
attention to ail questions asked touching
the qualifications of the prospective jur
ors.
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STEEL STOCKS
PLUNGE DOWN
Decline Causes Unsettlement
for Industrials.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21. —A sensational
break of twenty-two points from the
high in Replogle Steel furnished
ihe fireworks on the stock market today.
There was nothing to account for the
vU*len; decline, the opinion being ex-
that the professional element in
their efforts to depress prices had un- '
Covered a weak spot in this issue. Vana
dium Steel slumped nearly 7 points to ;
2SV
These declines caused unsettlement in
the industrials and many sold off to new
low records for the year. Among them
were Baldwin Locomotive. International
Paper, Coca Cola, Chandler Motors.
Pierce Arrow and Sinclair Oil. Steel com
mon touched Its previous low of the year
at 78^4.
Immigration Aired
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—The mooted
question of whether Congress shall fur- j
ther ivstriet immigration, or shall merely
suspend it, pending an exhaustive In
vestigation of the entire immigration sit- ;
uation. was to be thrashed out today In
the Senate Immigration committee.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.,
Dec 22: Rain and warmer tonight:
Wednesday, rain or snow and colder,
much colder, Wednesday night.
1101 RLY T K>l PER AT IRK.
6 a. m 26
7 a. m 28
8 a. m VO
!) a. m r,ti
10 a. m SO
11 a. m til
12 (noon) 32
1 p. m 31
2 p. m. 31
Published at Indlanapolie
Ind., Dally Except Sunday.
this is denied by those on the inside of
the “ring.”
John C. Carlisle, who has been bailiff
of the County Commissioners' Court since
the first of 'the month, was appointed
for 1921. Already be has started several
“reforms" In the’ court which permits
newspaper men and taxpayers to see
what the commissioners actually arc
doing.
Dr. Walter George, related to Com
missioner Lewis George, was reappointed
secretary of the board of health at $1,500
a year.
John F. Engelke, whom the commis
sloners attempted to unseat as investiga
(Continued on l’*ge Eight.)
Pilgrim Fathers
Landed Just 300
Years Ago Today
Anniversary Celebrated With
Song and Story at
Plymouth.
PLYMOUTH, Mass., Dec. 21—The
bleak shores where the Pilgrim fathers
landed from the Mayflower. Dec. 21, 1t520.
were bright today with gay throngs and
decorations, as the three hundredth an
niversary of the landing was commem
orated.
More than two thousand persons
crowded into one of the modern build
ings which have replaced the barren
shelters of 300 years ago to hear the
virtues of the Puritan extolled by pres
ent day leaders.
“Plymouth and Jamestown were the
corner atones upon which the great
fabric of the United States has been
built,'' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge de
clared. Governor Calvin Coolidge assert
ed the origin of the Pilgrims cannot be
found. “They sailed up out of the in
finite," he said.
Representatives of foreign countries
attended the celebration, which was
staged in the midst of bright decora
tions, strewn across the streets. Pretty
maids dressed in Puritan costumes
added colors to the picture.
Scarred old Plymouth Rock which had
been moved to its original place at the
waters edge, was cracked. The relic
will be patched with cement and In
stalled In a granite shrine.
Hundreds of school children who were
to have participated in a pageant were
barred by health authorities who feared
an outbreak of scarlet fever.
A feature of the celebration was the 1
reading by Prof. Le Baron Russell ,
Briggs, Harvard University, of his poem,
“1620-1920,” In which he pictured the .
landing of the Pilgrims, their life and
their Ideals.
18 KILLED IN
BATTLE CLASH
Soldiers and Sinn Feiners En
gage in Warfare in Moun
tains of Tipperary.*
DUBLIN, Dec. 21. —Troop reinforce
ments were today rushed to the moun
tains of Tipperary, where elgbten per
sons were killed and many were woundeo
in a pitched battle between soldiers and
Sinn Feiner*.
A detachment of British troops was
ambushed near Mullinahone. The fire
of the attackers was returned and soon
an engagement was raging with the com
batants shooting from behind trees and
boulders. It was like a battle between
Indians and Colonists in the early days
of America.
According to latest accounts from the
scene the Sinn Deicer* lost ten killed,
forty prisoners aud many wounded. The
casualties of the (.Town forces were eight
killed and a few wounded.
The first accounts of the fighting re
ceived here were vague. They said that
a battle of magnitude was raging and
that the indications were that the casual
ties would be heavy. The scene was said
to be “an inaccessible mountain fastness.”
Ambulances were sent to the seat of
the trouble, as well as troops. One ru
mor said that thirty Republicans had
been killed, but this figure was later cut
down to ten.
Arthur Bowser, State
Senator, Operated On
Fpecial to The Times.
LA PORTE Ind . Dec. 21.—State Sena
tor Arthur J. Bowser Is 111 today at a
hospital here, following an operation. In
event of his recovery, physicians stated,
he will be unable to leave the hospital
before March I.
The Senutor from Chesterton, who
drafted the measure designed to create
a park in tho sand dunes of Lake and
Porter Counties, was to have led the
forces which will work for passage of the
bill. Senator Roowser's bill would call
lor the expenditure of $1,000,000.
Cry of the Job Seeker
Invades Headquarters
Senator Harding Continues Conferences De
spite Interruptions.
MARION, Ohio, Dec. 21. —Applicants to
the right of him. applicants to the left of
him, volleyed and thundered. Even above
the deep and important discussions on
the international situation now in prog
ress, the war cry of the job-seeker,
“Gimme.” resounds about Senator Hard
ing's headquarters.
Despite that undercurrent of interrup
tions, tiie conferences on international
and domestic policy are being pushed for
ward toward conclusion with the utmost
speed. Senator Harding’s days are full
from breakfast time until long after
dark in an effort to talk with as many
leaders ns possible before the holiday
season is concluded.
The conversion of Senator John Shields
of Tennessee, bitter Democratic opponent
of the League of Nations and the Treaty
of Versailles, to the Harding plan for an
international tribunal, confirmed by Sen-
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 19H, at
Postofflce. Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3. 1879.
JUDGE COLLINS
TO STEP OUT AND
ADAMS EASE IN?
Politically Wise Foresee Ma
neuver Before Governor
Goodrich Leaves Office.
TRACTION CO. HAND SEEN
The politically wise of Indianapolis,
who number a groat many, are expect
ing the resignation of Judge James A.
Collins of the Criminal Court and the
appointment of a successor before the
end of the year, when James I*. Good
rich will cease to be Governor.
Collins is reputed to have the opinion
of Ferdinand Winter, attorney Tor the
street car interests, and M. E. Foley,
attorney, and handy man for the street
car interests, to the effect that there is
no legal barrier to bis election as mayor
of Indianapolis.
This opinion is in direct opposition
to that of Judge Mahlon Bas-b. who
recently announced that he would not
be a candidate for mayor because he
did not believe the law permitted the
candidacy of a judicial officer for an
executive office during the term for
which the Judicial officer was elected.
It Is known that Judge Bash issued
Ida statement in an attempt to nip the
building aspirations of Collins, but it ia
also known that the nipping was not
effective.
Collins is to be entered in the Repub
lican race for the nomination for mayor
of Indianapolis by the traction interests,
which have long been “strong" for him
aDd who hope to see him in a position
where he will be better able to repay
their many favors.
The legal Question of his eligibility
does not worry the traction interests In
the least. Legal questions constitute ths
most glorious field in which the traction
interests perform. Ferdinand Winter is
regarded as the “master mind” of the
Indianapolis bar, and it is generally ac
cepted that when he expresses a legal
opinion be is certain of his ability to
back it up with a Judgment, eventually
if not at once.
And *o the stage is set for a perpetua
tion of the dynasty that is in control of
the affairs of Indianapolis and Marlon
County.
The question of a successor to Collins
on the criminal bench still is a subject
of considerable speculation. Judge Wal
< Continued on I’age Eight.)
PLAN OFFERED
TO AID U. S. TO
COLLECT DEBTS
Longworth Proposes Joini
Trade Agreement With
Allied Nations.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 21.—Reciprocal
trade agreement with the allies to aid
lit the payment of more than twelve bil
lion dollars due to the United States
Government and business interests In
this country was advocated in the House
today by Representative Nicholas Long
worth, Ohio, a member of the Ways and
Means Committee.
Such an agreement, ho said, should be
part of a general revision of the tariff
law-s which he estimated could be madt
high enough to raise $350,000,000 more
than the present customs, or about $700,.
000,000.
The. reciprocal trade agreement, he pro
posed, would give the allies advantages
over other nations in American markets
in exchange for similar concessions
granted the Unites! States abroad.
Attacking free trade proposals, Long
worth,said :
“I do not think it quite respectable for
the debtor cou-irrl.-s to assume that their
debts properly and honorably contracted
arc not to be paid in full. But If It
should eventuate that the only possible
wuy to Collect these debts would he to
surrender to the nations of the world
the home markets of America, I should
let us sacrifice every cent of the money
owed us rather thun sacrifice our indus
trial Independence.
"President Wilson proposes that we
take down tile bars against the world
In order to enable certain nations of
Europe to dispose of millions of dollars
worth of good* here. Against such a
policy the American people have recorded
themselves by an emphatic and tremen
dous majority as I interpret the recent
election.
“We have received specific instructions
with regard to the policy of the pro
tective tariff us laid down by President
McKinley, hut I believe it to be In no
wav Inconsistent that if we shall deter
mine to legislate so far as the tariff is
concerned with a view to making debts
of the allies more easy of collection than
It Is throngh reciprocal trade agreements
that we can most effectively accomplish
it.”
Furnace Roof Caves
in, Injuring- Three
Special to The Times.
GARY, Ind , Dec. 21.—tine man, a for
eign laborer, was seriously injured, and
two others were scratched when the
roof of No. 4 open hearth furnace of
the Gary Steel Works caved In while
fifteen men were working inside the fur
nace. making repairs.
The furnace was being reconstructed
and the men inside were masons and
laborers. Only one man was taken to the •
steel company’s hospital.
ator Shields' statement late yesterday, Is
regarded at Harding headquarters as a
distinct victory for the proposal.
Gen. Charles G. Dav.es, regarded by
many ns n possibility for Secretary of
the Treasury, advocated to Senator Har
ding a plan for using a trade body, such
ns the war trade board, ns a weapon of
offense and defense in International re
lations, it became known today.
Mrs. Harding is expected to leave for
New York shortly after Christmas for
the final fitting of the gowns she will
wear at the inauguration and the cere
monies which follow it. It is not ex
pected that she will again be within
reach of the metropolitan shopping dis
trict until after she becomes First Lady
of the Land.
Governor Edward Morrow of Kentucky
conferred with Seußfor Harding today.
(Continued on Page Thirteen.)
3 niii ana £la% Sant tB
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1920.
Modified Form
of Curfew Law
Tried in Gotham
NEW YORK, I>ec. 21.—A modified
“curfew law*' designed to aid the po
lice in comhatinf the “crime wave*'
had It a fir nt trial today.
Under oriler of Commissioner En
right uniformed policemen Mopped
pemmife traversing unfrequented
Mreets between midnight and day
light, searched them for weapons and
required them to account for their
prenence there.
Transfers Drop 12,000
Under 1 Cent Charge
For the first, twenty-four hours that
the I rent transfer was in effect, from
midnight of Sunday to midnight of Mon
day, approximately 57,000 transfers were
Issued by the Indianapolis Street Hall
way Company, according to information
furnished at the offices of the company
today. This would represent approxi
mately $570.
For the corresponding period of the
preceding week, when there was no
charge for transfers, the number l.isued,
it was explained, was about (50,000.
State Republicans
Meet Here Dec. 29
A meeting of the Republican Stale
committee was called today for the morn
ing of Dec. 20. The committee is ex
pected to take up plans for maintaining
the organization during the coming year
and activities connected with the coining
session of the legislature and with the
opening of the new administration in the
State.
IT. S. Will Play Santy
to European Children
VIENNA, Dec. 21. America will play
Santa Claus to more than 350,000 chil
dren of Vienna and Central Europe this
year. I'Ke American Relief Administra
tion will glre three garments and n
pound of rake made from white flour to
each child.
The American Ited Cross will distrib
ute clothing and condensed milk to
40.000 children In orphanages and hos
pitals.
President Miiicisehe will attend an
American Christmas tree celebration in
Belvidere Ualsce.
DEA TH TOSSES POT U’ GOLD
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Jobless Laborer Shunted to Rainbow End
If you hod i*een out of work for
days and the last work on which you
had been employed had been com
mon labor and you did not know
quite what you were going to do
about it, and then all of a sudden
you received n telegram saying a
rich uncle in the West hail died and
left you $30.i.i00 and. three ranches,
what would you do?
That’s wbat happened to Frank .
Greeson, 2400 Ka*t Washington
street. h(i*y. nceeaoh frankly ad
mitted he does not know what be is
going to do, but that be thinks he
will set up tu “some kind of busl-
STAND FOR STRIKE
FARM HEAD TAKES
Forecasts Other Measures in
Legislative Progression.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 31 Declaring
that farmers believe "strikes may be
uecepsnry to protect labor," George i*.
Hampton, of the Farmers National Coun
cil, addressed a letter to leaders of both
parties in Congress opposing the enact
ment of anti-strike legislation.
“Farmers, ns H body, do not like
strikes," Hampton declared in hls letter,
•‘but farmers do not blind themselves to
the self evident fact that under our pres
rnt Industrial organization otrikes, even
on railrondH, after due notice has been
given and negotiations have been held,
may l.e necessary to protect labor and
to enable labor to secure its Jut righiH.
“Fanners realize that if striking by
labor is made a felony the next step
logically would be to have the curtailing
of acreage or the commodity marketing
of farm staples, which is necessary to
secure a fair price for farmers, made s
felony as well. This would result In
enforced labor on the part of the fann
ers and render them helpless Under the
exploitation of monopolistic Interests.”
TIGER OPERATOR
GETS SSO FINE
Proprietor of Dry Beer Parlor
Convicted.
It was blind tiger day In City Court.
Several were convicted and others left
the courtroom smiling.
Fetor It. Schaffer, proprietor of a dry
beer saloon, chliei parlor and hotel at
2143 North Illinois street, and formerly
a bartender for Fred Holer, was con
(('out In tied on Tage Twelve.)
$lO and Ten Days on
Pool Selling Charge
Robert Douglas, who was arrested in
the cleanup raids of Dec. 9., drew a fine
of $lO and a sentence of ten days in
jail today from City Judge Walter
Pritcherd, on a charge of pool selling.
A charge of gaining, also lodged against
Douglas, was dismissed. He appealed.
Douglas, acordlng to the testimony of
the police, had u desk in a dry beer sa
loon at 40 South Capitol avenue, and was
recording bets at the time of the raid.
Lieutenant Houston, who made the ar
rest, said that while he was in the place
he answered a telephone call and a man
calling himself “Doc” warned Douglas
that “the bulls are about to call.”
Dnoglas denied the charges and pro
tested that he had nothing to do with the
form sheets and records which were in
troduced as evidence.
BONDSMEN TURNED DOWN
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U. S. Refuses Bail From 2 City Court Baxred
Kinney Illatt and Henry Winkler,
two of the seven professional bonds
men barred from giving bond for
City Court prisoners by City Judge
Walter Pritchard several days ago,
tried their luck in Federal Court to
day and found they had none.
Hiatt and Winkler called United
States Marshal Mark Storen and
asked if he would accept them ns
surety on the SI,OOO bond of John J.
Lennard, who was arrested In lUch
TRIAL LAXITY
IS SHOWN IN
STEVENS CASE
Reputed Safe Blower, Indicted
Last May, Still Free
Under Bond.
CROOKS PRIMED BY ACT
The robbery of the Indiana National
Bank and of Selig's store Saturday or
Sunday, served to recall to the memory
of Indianapolis citizens the fact that
James A. Collins, Judge of Criminal
Court, has not yet brought to trial Ed
ward Stevens, who was indicted May 22,
1920, for the robbery of a gasoline fill
ing stntion on Meridian street, on the
night of April 25, 1920.
Persons who are familiar with the rea
soning of the criminal mind point out
that laxity in the bringing to trial of
men accused of felonies is quickly sensed
in the criminal world and a place where
such laxity Is noted soon becomes n
favorite scene of operations for profes
sional crooks.
MYSTERY IN BOTH
TRIAL AND FREEDOM.
Why Stevens, who is at liberty under a
cash bond of $5,000, should not have been
tried long before this Is as much of n
mystery ns are the peculiar circumstances
surrounding his release from Jail after
he had failed to take advantage of the
opportunity afforded for escape In the
general Jail delivery singed last July.
The records show that Stevens and
Arthur Welling were arrested by detec
tives at the Hotel Severln aud a quantity
of explosives was found in the room they
are said to have occupied.
On May 22 two indictments were re
turned against them, one charging un
lawful use of explosives and the other
charging burglary and grand larceny In
connection with the blowing of the safe
of the filling station and the. theft of a
little more than $2,000.
On July 30, a petition for the reduc
tion of bond was tiled on behalf of
Stevens and on Aug 2. Judge Uolllns re
dueed the bond of Stevens on the burg
lary charge to $5,000.
SPECIAL Jl DOE
KELEAS EH PRISONER.
On Aug. 11, when Judge Fremont
Alford was on the bench in the absence
of Judge Collins, Prosecutor Adam* be
came to concerned In the continued In
carceration o' Stevens that he filed a
showing before Judge Alford to the of
feet that Judge Uolllns bad Inadvertently
omitted to reduce the bond in the un
(Fotftinued on lage Eleven.)
ness.” He said he didn’t think much
of running ranch.
The rich uncle was William Powell,
who had an automobile establish
ment In Indiunapolls about ten
year* ago. At that time, according
to Greeson, Powell went to ( 'a* per,
Wyo., to regain his health and there
gained not only health, hut it small
fortune- Greeson says he and his
wife will go to Wyoming to look
over their now (ifAjNVt;. Greeson hi
SJ anfi ha* 'no children.
He said his last employment was
with the Indianapolis Street Rail
way Company a a repairman.
EXPLAINS DELAY
IN KOKOMO CASE
Prosecutor Says ‘Belshazzar
Feast’ Awaits Grand Jury.
Lawrence Bock, prosecuting attorney
of Howard County, who called at the
! Federal building for the purpose of
I "looking after some Federal tHX mat
ters and incidentally to sec United
States District Attorney Frederick Van
Nays," today explained why the local
authorities at Kokomo have not started
any prosecution of tho persons involved
in the famous "Feast of Belshazzar"
booze party at the Kokomo Country
| Club. The Federal grand Jury w ill In
vestigate the party. District Attorney
Van Nuys lias announced.
Mr. Hock, who was also given consid
erable publicity lHet week, when lie and
Sheriff Ora Butler of Kokomo seized two
alleged bootleggers from Marshal F M.
Garrett, after they laid been ordered
brought to Indianapolis by the district
' attorney, was expe ted to attempt to
make hls peace with the I’cderal
authorities.
it has been reported In Kokomo that
Prosecutor llock nnsl other officials at
tended the famous booze party and were
refraining from prosecutions for that
reason. Mr Hock declared today that
he was not nt the party.
"We have not started prosecution* for
the reason that the nature of tho case
Is such that it naturally would have to
be a gmud Jury matter. 1 consulted
with Judge Overtoil of Circuit Court
on- the affair and we decided that it
should not tie taken up this term be
cause one member of the regular grand
Jury for the present term, which expires
In a few dayiv Is dead and another has
moved away. >Ve feared Hiut if we filled
up the Jury In the middle of the term
that the defendants could successfully
attack the indictments, so we thought It
best to let the whole matter rest until
are Jan. 1, when anew term, anew
grand jury and anew prosecutor will
be in force.”
Meanwhile Federal agents are Investi
gating the whole affair.
D’Annunzio to Resist
Treaty of Rapallo
MILAN, Dec. 21. —Gabriele d’Annun
zlo, commander of the insurgent troops
occupying Fiuine, today sent word to
the Roman government that he would re
sist the execution of the treaty of Ita
pnllo, which lias Just been confirmed by
the Senate.
General Caviglla, commander of tho i
government troops besieging Flume on
the land side, notified d’Annunzio of tho
ratification of tlie treaty. He asked d’An
nunzlo to accept the treaty and withdraw
from Flume. D'Annunzio said he would
resist the treaty to the very end, and he
asked General Caviglla to warn the Ro
man government to that effect.
mond, Monday, on a warrant charging
violatioi of the national prohibition
la w.
Lennatd is in the Marion County
Jail, where he was committed by
United States Commissioner Howard
S. Young failed to give bond
pending in of hls case by
the Federal jury.
The Hiatt ami Wink
ler he their sig
natures on bond.
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Subscription Rates. (By Mall, 50c Per Month; $5.00 Per Year.
Drastic Search Order Issued
by Board of Public Safety;
Shoe Store Is Robbed of S3OO
CLERK HELD AT
PISTOL POINT AS
SAFE IS LOOTED
Hold-up Staged After Pur
chase—Disappears in
Street Crowds.
PURSE SNATCHER WORKS
While the police have been halting
every suspicious person within the last
twenty-four hours In an effort to check
the crime wave that has struck the city,
a bandit plied his craft* with success
last right by bolding up Ernest Smeltzer
In his store at 151 North Illinois street at
9:15 o'clock.
The Job netted the highwayman, who
was a negro, S3OO, which he took from
the safe at the point of a revolver while
crowds were passing by the store. After
robbing tiineltzer, the robber calmly
Joined the pedestrians and made his es
cape.
The series of hold-ups and burglaries
reaching a high peak in the theft of
SII,OOO worth of fur coats from the Selig
Coat and Suit Company, and $12,000 from
the Indiana National Bank over Sunday,
has given the city a bad case of ' nerves.'
Wild reports gained wide circulation that
the Irvington State Bank. 5501 East
Washington street, had been robbed of
$25,000 during the night. Bank officials
and police who Investigated, declare the
report to be untrue.
Mis* Mabel Baker, ICO2 Rembrandt
street, an employe of the city board of
health, reported to the police that while
she was In a 3 and 10-cent store a purse
snatcher cut the handles of her handbag
and escaped with the bag. which con
tained $35 in money and other articles
valued at sls,
While the police were searching for the
roou who robbed the Smeltzer store, they
received a “tip” that may assist in solv
(Contlnued on P**e Eight.)
WIDOW OF N. Y.
CANCER EXPERT
MURDER VICTIM
Body of Mrs. John A. Lee Is
Found on Stretch of
Lonely Beach.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21. Though con
pletely mystified as to the circumstance*
surrounding tier death, police believe they
have Identified the body of the fashion
ably dressed woman found on the sand*
f I as Beach a* that of Mr* Job;
Lee. widow of a prominent physician of
Brooklyn. Mr I.ee, who was head of the
Kings County Medical Society, died about
six months ago. He was a noted cancer
expert.
The body of the woman, about 30, and
dressed In deep mourning, wua found on
a lonely stretch of sand She had been
shot through the right eye.
The police believe she was murdered
elsewhere and her body carried to the
beach.
There were no marks of a struggle
around the body. No revolver was
found.
There was a handbag near the body,
but It contained no cards or anything
else to identify the woman.
Police authorities have established au
tomobile patrol* In some parts of town.
The automobiles are fitted with men from
the strong arm squad who have been
withdrawn from Greenwich village, where
they were on duty agalnat gangsters.
South Bend Crime
Wave Increases
Special to The Times.
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 21.—This
city, although it Is experiencing nn un
precedented wave of hold-ups and other
crimes, takes no part tn the country wide
movement against lawlessness. Four
robberies and a brace of hold ups were
reported within twenty-four hours. The
criminals Include mere boys.
A 7-year old girl, who lost her 485
Christmas pennies, Is among the victims.
BLIZZARD GRIPS
CENTRAL STATES
CHICAGO, Dee. 21. The central
States from the Rocky Mountains east
ward to the Great Lakes region, was in
the grip of a blizzard today, according
to Weather Department reports.
Heavy snow falls were reported.
Freezing temperatures today, however,
served to diminish the tmov fall, but
according to Weather Bureau officials,
considerable snow will fall in the terri
tory within the next few days.
A drop in temperature to about 20 de
grees was predicted for tomorrow fol
lowed by a further drop to between 10
and 15 degrees by Thursday. There is
no danger predicted for lake shipping
by the officials who declared lake trans
portation for the year is practlcally
ended.
Accused Slayer Tells of
Hate for ‘Masterful Man 7
Pathos Strikes Through Story of Girl’s Love
and Fall .
(Clara Smith Hamon was found in Chi
huahua City. Mexico, by Sam Blair, staff
correspondent of the Chicago Herald and
Examiner. To him she told the story
of her life with Ilamon, the fatal shoot
ing and her flight. A continuation of
the article follows:)
BY SAM BLAIR,
Correspondent Herald and Examiner anil
l nlversal Service.
(Copyright, 19*0, by I'ntveriMU Service.)
EL PASO, Texas, Dee. 21.—Not all of
the story Clara Smith Hamon told me
Saturday night in the public park in
Chihuahua, Mexico, had to do with the
commingling of violence and bestiality
that climaxed in the night of Nov. 21 in
an 'Ardmore hotel in the fatal shooting
of Jake L. Hamon, financial and political
dictator of Oklahoma and northern
Texas.
There was a tMce of wistful regret
’LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
Board's Order
Is Emphasized
by Police Head
In a determined effort to stamp out
the wave of crime that has been
sweeping over the Chief of Po
lice Jerry Kinney, following a con
ference with the members of the board
of safety, today issued an order
which will be read to all patrolmen
and detectives.
The order is as follows:
It is hereby ordered that all
officers and patrolmen will make
diligent inspection of all pool
room*, hotels, lodging houses, and
other public places in their dis
trict for suspicious characters, or
persons carrying concealed wea
pons, In which case arrests must
he mode.
Attention also is directed to the
fact that in a majority of robbery
and burglary cases the use of an
automobile has played a part, and
all member* of the department are
directed to pay particular atten
tion to the parking of automobiles
In suspicious places.
See that the license plates are
clean and plainly discernable to
the officer* and citizens on the
sidewalk, and warn those opera
tors whose lights are not proper
ly adjusted and whose license
plates are not In a clean condi
tion that arrests will he made for
this offense Dec. 2(1, 1920.
TOLEDO BANDITS
CARRY AWAY SAFE
Hold Up Express Employes
and Get $16,000.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 21.—One of the
boldest robberies In the history of To
ledo was committed late yesterday after
noon when five masked bandits held up
employes of the American Express Com
pany and made good their escape with a
small safe containing SIO.OOO. Another
ssfe containing $55,000 had been removed
from the express office an hour earlier
and it is believed the bandits were after
this safe. As the employes of the ex
press company were about to place the
safe on a truck at the rear of the ex
press office they were met by the five
men with shotguns and driven back into
the building, while the bandits loaded
, the safe Into an automobile and made
; good their escape. No clew to the rob
bers has been found.
MAN HELD FOR
MURDER OF WIFE
Small Child Witness to Michi
gan Tragedy.
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Dec. 21.
Mr* Traea Baker, 24, is dead aud her
husband. William Baker, 38, an em
ploye of the Mount Clemens Gas IJght
i'ompany. i* held in jail on a tentative
charge of murder, following the diseov
iery by neighbors of Mrs. Baker's body
| today.
Baker, unmoved by bis wife's death,
maintains his Innocence. In a stnteineut
be said bis wife became violently ill
during the night and wnen he returned
from n neighbor's, where he went to
summon help and a doctor, he found his
wife lying on the floor dead.
A small daughter, however, told au
thorities a different story. She said she
was awakened by noises during the night
anil saw her father beating her mother's
head against the wall and it was she who
went for help.
Baker said he was intoxicated when he
returned home from work.
Posse Battles Bank
Robbers; 2 Caught
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Dec. 21.—A
posse armed with rifles, shotguns, revol
vers and pitchforks, early today frus
trated an attempt to rob the First Na
tional Bank at Milltown, near here.
The night watchman heard the robbers
and aroused a number of residents. They
surrounded the bank. A battle followed
when the robbers started to flee. Two of
the robbers were caught and two es
' oaped. About thirty shots were fired.
Kept Car Fares; Now
Is Held as Gunman
Special to The Times.
SOUTH BEND. Ind., Dec. 21.—Ralph
Mclntyre, ex-street car conductor, has
blossomed into a gunman, according to
his confession made when he was arrest
ed in Elkhart, and brought to this city
to face a man who charges he was robbed
of S3B at the point of a revolver by
Mclntyre.
Mclntyre was recently nabbed with
other car employes and brought into !
court on a charge of dropping fare money i
into his own pocket. On confession the
carmen were, nt the request bf the trac
tion company, let off with light lines.
in the story, an occasional touch of pride
in the looking hack upon the past, now
and then a bit of *he reminiscence that
was gently happy.
“Do you remember ‘sentimental Tommy'
and Tommy's bru al father, the ‘master
ful man?’” she asked me. “Well, he
(Hamon) was jus like that—a masterful
man.” She went on:
"He dominated me from the first time
I ever looked into hls eyes and noted
tlie strange glint in them.
“I was 17—worked behind the counter
in a little Lawton (Okla.) store.
“He got to coming in quite constantly;
would not r.llow any one to wait on him
but me.
“Sometimes I think that girls are pro
vided with a wonderful instinct planted
in their beings by God. This instinct
ought to guide them. It ought to have
(Continued on Page Eight.)
NO. 192.
POWER TO STOP
AND QUESTION
GIVEN POLICE
; Suspicious Appearing Persons
and Cars Regardless Are
Objectives.
COOPERATION IS ASKED
Orders to stop and question every sus
picious appearing citizen and every
! automobile about which there may be
some question or which has obscure or
hidden license plates have been issued to
members of the police department in an
effort to check the crime wave, the board
of public safety announced today.
I Citizens were warned that they will be
stopped and questioned indiscriminately
and that the best cooperation they can
give is to give quick and clear answers.
The public was urged to report to the
police department every suspicious
i character or Incident they observe, no
matter how minute it may seem at the
' time. Such cooperation is necessary if
| the wave of robberies and hold-ups is
! to be checked, it is said.
The stopping of citizens and automo
biles will be carried on as vigorously in
the day time as at night, the board said.
, Particular attention is to be paid auto
mobiles because it is thought crooks who
have made the big hauls of the last few
days are equipped with high powered
cars.
STATEMENT OF
SAFETY BOARD
i The boards statement is as follow*:
Active cooperation by the public in co
ordination with the efforts of the police
: department Is posiitveiy essential to the
successful suppression of the unusual
j crimes which have been committed re
cently in Indianapolis. Without this ef
fectlve cooperation the police department,
regardless of the strenuousness of the
efforts it makes, can not hope to obtain
the results obtainable with it. With the
view of acquainting the public witu
what has been done and to firmly estab
1 ish the need of the department of pub
lic cooperation, we are issuing this
statement.
Orders have been issued to the men in
the department to stop and examine every
suspicious looking automobile, and par
ticularly those which are equipped with
hidden license plates or are without
plates This order will be in effect night
and day. No discrimination will oe
shown This is necessary becai:e it 1*
the belief of the department that out
side criminals are using high-powered
automobiles to visit the city, commit
their depredations and escape from the
city before their crimes become known.
If the public will bear In tniud that the
average criminal look* and acts no dif
ferently trmn the average citizen and chat
(Continued on ry* Eight.)
POLICE POWERS
TO BE GRANTED
Safety Board Secretary Urges
Early Application.
Manufacturers and merchants were
urged by George Williams, executive sec
retary of the board of safety, today to
make application for police powers for
their watchmen for the year 1921 im
mediately in order that a last-minute
rush may be avoided. Mr. Williams said
the board of safety will begin issuing
new budges and police powers to appli
cants Jan. 27.
It is necessary to renew tire police pow
ers of watchmen and special police every
year, the secretary pointed out. Applica
tion must be made on blanks now avail
able at the beard of safety' office and tn*
badges used this year must be turned in.
More than Go<► special police badge*
have been issued this year.
BOARD REVISES
POLICE ROSTER
3 Quit, 1 Transferred, 2 Re
tires and 3 Promoted.
! The resignation of Patrolmen George
! L. Winkler, who was recently deposed
■ as head of one of the morals squads and
| reduced from the rank of sergeant and
: who was involved last Saturday morning
i in a shooting scrape on Schurmann ave
j nue, was accepted by the board of public
' safety today. The board made no com
j raent on the action.
The resignations of two other patrol
i meut and one fireman were accepted,
i Two policemen were retired, one trans
j ferred and three promoted.
; Patrolman Charles F. Dawson and
' Blcycleman James F. Burke were the
j other policemen whose resignations were
| accepted and Frank R. Stvtzel ot
Pumper Company No. 31, was the tire
j men.
Police Sergeant Cletus L. Weaver and
Patrolman James J. Cronin were retired,
having served a sufficient length of timo
to merit the action. Cronin and Daw
! son were involved in the recent shake-up
in the police turnkey’s office.
Trnfficman Janies Owens was trans
ferred to blcycleman. Patrolman Freu
Purvis was promoted to traffieman, pa
trolman- Michael Long was promoted to
traffieman and Blcycleman Patrick Sheri
dan was promoted to sergeant.
The report of Building Commissioner
Walter B. Stern for the week ending
Dec. 18, 1920, shows eighty-nine building
permits with a valuation of §178,296 is
sued.
CRITICAL JURORS
FINED $250 EACH
Muncie Judge Acts After
Denying Charges.
Special to The Times.
MUNCIE, nld., Dee. 21.—Fines of $250
each were imposed on the six members
of the Delaware Countv grand jury Dy
Judge William A Thompson, in Circuit
Court late today after the court had
read a lengthy statement denying the
charges made, against him by the grand
jury In its final report of the term
which was returned in open court Sat
tlay. No jail sentence was specified by
the court.
The jurors have prepared to appeal to
the Supreme Court, it is understood.
The grand jury, in its final report,
said Judge Thompson was incapable of
performing bis deties by reason of his
age; that he was in his dotage and too
easily Influenced by unscrupulous lawyer*.